Recaps

Yunyi overwhelmed Fifth High School’s contestants, securing First High School’s place in the Monolith Code final against Masaki Ichijo’s Third High School. As both teams prepared for the deciding match, Shinkuro Kichijoji took heart from the canyon’s two attack routes.

• Yunyi’s attacks caused the Fifth High School contestants’ spells to vanish, and he walked up to them as they failed to stop him.
• The match ended before Yunyi could attack, and First High School’s victory sent them to the final against Third High School.
• Masaki Ichijo and Shinkuro Kichijoji discussed Yunyi’s provocation, and Masaki planned to keep Yunyi occupied while Shinkuro and their teammate faced Tatsuya Shiba and Mikihiko Yoshida.
• Yunyi fell asleep against Mayumi’s shoulder in First High School’s support area, while Mikihiko went to the rooftop to view Mount Fuji.
• After Third High School learned the final would take place in a clear canyon, Shinkuro saw its upper and lower routes as an advantage for his team.

Yunyi dominated the Nine Schools Competition final, defeating Third High School’s contestants with flight and powerful magic. The match ended with First High School victorious and spectators stunned by how easily Yunyi had won.

• Retsu Kudou watched the final, hoping to see what Yunyi would do.
• At the start of the match, Yunyi flew over the ravine and surprised Masaki Ichijo and Shinkuro Kichijoji.
• Yunyi’s magic wolves knocked Shinkuro off the cliff and sent Masaki stumbling, while Yunyi struck down the contestant guarding Third High School’s monolith with lightning.
• Yunyi caught Shinkuro in a torrent of water and knocked him unconscious.
• Masaki’s barrage of magic air bullets vanished before reaching Yunyi, who mocked him and then struck him down with lightning.
• Yunyi’s victory ended the final, leaving the spectators stunned by his one-sided performance.

After First High School easily defeated Third High School, Katsuto Jumonji grew suspicious of Yunyi because he recognized the magic Yunyi had used during the match. Mayumi Saegusa restored the students’ spirits, then hurried to meet Yunyi as he left the arena.

• Katsuto Jumonji urged Mayumi Saegusa to address the stunned First High School students while he reconsidered Yunyi’s connection to the masked guard who had once protected her.
• Mayumi Saegusa announced First High School’s victory, lifting the oppressive mood in the logistics area.
• Mayumi Saegusa left to meet Yunyi, and the students began discussing his victory over Masaki Ichijo and his relationship with her.
• Yunyi complained to Tatsuya Shiba that Masaki Ichijo had lost his fighting spirit too quickly and suggested that they spar.
• Mayumi Saegusa appeared beside the players’ tunnel, and Yunyi collided with her as Tatsuya Shiba stopped with Mikihiko Yoshida.

Yunyi and Mayumi Saegusa publicly kissed after Mayumi joined him to draw attention away from his strength, prompting Retsu Kudou to reconsider his plans. Back in the logistics area, the group resumed business, while Mayumi noticed an unusual gaze but could not identify its source.

• Mayumi Saegusa joined Yunyi and explained that she wanted to draw some attention away from him.
• Yunyi kissed Mayumi in front of the spectators, then took her hand and left with her as the students watched in shock.
• After seeing the kiss, Retsu Kudou abandoned his idea of using Yunyi to counterbalance the Yotsuba Family and left the VIP room.
• Back in the logistics area, Mayumi pinched Yunyi and then punched him after he teased her, while Mari Watanabe told them to stop flirting.
• Suzune Ichihara brought the group back to business, and Mayumi noticed an unusual gaze before Shizuku Kitayama and Miyuki Shiba turned toward Suzune.

First High School prepared for the Mirage Bat event while Yunyi urged Miyuki Shiba to resist being treated as a pawn. After the celebration began, Yunyi infiltrated a No Head Dragon branch and confronted its leaders as they discussed targeting Mayumi Saegusa.

• Suzune Ichihara reviewed First High School’s lead and asked Yunyi and Tatsuya Shiba whether the magic they developed could be included in Mokuroku.
• Yunyi declined to submit his flight magic, while Tatsuya asked that his technique be credited to Shizuku Kitayama, prompting objections from Mari Watanabe and others.
• Yunyi privately warned Miyuki Shiba that enduring confinement could leave her a pawn, then intervened to end the dispute over Tatsuya’s magic.
• Suzune submitted Tatsuya’s magic under Shizuku Kitayama’s name, and Yunyi and Tatsuya disappeared after the low-key celebration began.
• After Haruka Ono revealed the location of a No Head Dragon branch, Yunyi went there while Tatsuya met with the Independent Magic-Equipped Battalion.
• Yunyi confronted No Head Dragon’s leaders as they debated targeting Mayumi Saegusa, then stepped out of the shadows.

Yunyi captured the four leaders of No Head Dragon’s Japan branch and joined Tatsuya Shiba and the others to discuss the next steps. He left the committee’s internal investigation to Mayumi Saegusa and Katsuto Jumonji, while keeping the captives for his own purposes.

• Yunyi subdued No Head Dragon’s Executors, captured the branch leaders, and tore off one man’s arm before transporting them away.
• Tatsuya Shiba reported that he had defeated the Executors at the exercise grounds, and Yunyi asked him to gather Mayumi Saegusa, Katsuto Jumonji, and Mari Watanabe.
• Yunyi appeared at the meeting and presented Mari Watanabe with the severed arm as a gift, prompting Miyuki Shiba to freeze it.
• Yunyi told Katsuto Jumonji he had captured all four branch leaders but would not hand them over because he had a use for them.
• Yunyi asked Mayumi Saegusa and Katsuto Jumonji to handle the infiltrators within the organizing committee.

Yunyi left Katsuto Jumonji to handle the terrorist infiltration of the Nine Schools Competition, then reassured Mayumi Saegusa and Tatsuya Shiba’s concerns about what he knew. A late-night call from a woman who called herself Yunyi’s mom startled Mayumi, who became curious about meeting her.

• Yunyi told Katsuto Jumonji what he and Tatsuya Shiba knew about the terrorists, then left with Mayumi Saegusa and Tatsuya left with Miyuki Shiba.
• Katsuto Jumonji sent Mari Watanabe away so he could think over the scandal alone.
• Yunyi told Mayumi that she would have to give up her Ten Master Clans status to stay with him, while she wished she could help Jumonji shoulder the burden.
• Tatsuya told Miyuki that Yunyi had taken Hajime Tsukasa from the abandoned factory and reassured her that Yunyi would not reveal the Shiba family’s secrets.
• Miyuki recalled Yunyi’s warning that people who only hid and endured would be treated as pawns, and Tatsuya wondered how much Yunyi knew.
• A woman angrily called Yunyi about an injured man in her lab, then called herself Mom after hearing Mayumi; Yunyi explained that she had cared for him as a child, and Mayumi wanted to meet her.

Mayumi Saegusa used a spell Yunyi prepared and a CAD tuned by Tatsuya Shiba to dominate the Mirage Bat preliminaries with a flight-like technique. She advanced with a little over seventy points, leaving the other schools struggling to respond.

• Katsuto Jumonji told Yunyi and Mayumi Saegusa that the committee insider had been caught, but the investigation had been postponed until the matches ended.
• Tatsuya Shiba handed Mayumi Saegusa her tuned CAD, and Yunyi encouraged her before she entered the arena.
• Mayumi Saegusa revealed a spell that let her soar through the arena and collect orbs far faster than the other competitors.
• Shinkuro Kichijoji recognized that Mayumi's technique was likely a spell made specifically for Mirage Bat, and Masaki Ichijo connected it to Yunyi.
• Mayumi Saegusa stopped after scoring a little over seventy points, then returned to the preparation area, where Yunyi praised her performance.

Yunyi confronted Koharu Hirakawa over her hostile attitude, then warned the organizing committee against copying the technique built into Mayumi Saegusa's CAD. Mayumi advanced to the finals, while the committee was left facing Yunyi's threat and a demonstration of the technique's danger.

• After First High School's other competitor was eliminated, Yunyi glared at Koharu Hirakawa until she stumbled and fell.
• Yunyi confronted Koharu and berated her for looking down on others, then stopped when Mari Watanabe intervened.
• Mayumi Saegusa returned from her match, heard what had happened from Mari, and said she would speak to Koharu later.
• Mayumi advanced through the final preliminary round and secured a place in the evening finals.
• When the organizing committee asked to inspect Mayumi's CAD, Yunyi warned them not to copy or distribute his technique and demonstrated its power by firing a pen tip through a wall.

Yunyi reassured Mari Watanabe that the dangerous technique he demonstrated to committee staff was not the weakened version he had prepared for Mayumi Saegusa, then took Mayumi back to rest and gave her a massage. That evening, Mayumi chose to wear the dress she had bought with Yunyi as she headed to the Mirage Bat finals, determined to win.

• Yunyi told Mari Watanabe that he had only used his own dangerous technique to frighten the committee staff and had given Mayumi a weakened, limited version.
• After the preliminaries, Yunyi took Mayumi to her hotel room, where he teased her before giving her a full-body massage and letting her sleep.
• Mayumi woke in the evening, changed, and met Yunyi outside the changing room before the Mirage Bat finals.
• Mayumi insisted on wearing the dress she had bought with Yunyi, which she considered their couple's outfit, and silently resolved to win the championship.

Mayumi Saegusa won the Mirage Bat final with Yunyi’s Flight Magic, while Retsu Kudou condemned the competition organizers for their handling of the technique and the terrorist infiltration. Afterward, Yunyi received news that Douglas Huang could not confirm Richard Sun’s current location, so Yunyi decided to reveal his secret forces before pursuing his next move.

• Mayumi Saegusa dominated the Mirage Bat final, while another contestant from Third High School tried unsuccessfully to keep up.
• Retsu Kudou reprimanded the organizing committee for pressuring Yunyi to surrender his Flight Magic and for allowing terrorists to infiltrate the competition.
• Mayumi Saegusa won the final, and Yunyi explained to Tatsuya Shiba that his technique suited the event better than Tatsuya’s general-purpose Flight Magic.
• Yunyi caught Mayumi Saegusa when she landed, and she chose to postpone giving him his promised reward until they returned home.
• Yunyi received a message that Douglas Huang had not met Richard Sun for six months and could not confirm whether Richard remained in the United Kingdom.
• Yunyi decided to bring his secretly developed forces into the open before acting against Zhou Gongjin and pursuing Gu Jie.

Yunyi invited Mayumi Saegusa on a vacation trip, then teased her before the Nine Schools Competition matches. Mayumi delivered the Ten Master Clans’ request to Katsuto Jumonji, who accepted the pressure to demonstrate their strength and warned her that Yunyi might be more formidable than he appeared.

• Yunyi invited Mayumi Saegusa to travel with him during vacation, and she accepted.
• The next morning, Mayumi Saegusa scolded Yunyi for leaving marks on her neck, while Mari Watanabe reprimanded him for his lack of restraint.
• Koichi Saegusa called Mayumi Saegusa and asked her to tell Katsuto Jumonji that the Ten Master Clans wanted him to display their dominance in the newcomers’ Monolith Code match.
• Koichi Saegusa told Mayumi Saegusa to bring Yunyi to meet the Saegusa Family after the Nine Schools Competition.
• Mayumi Saegusa passed the clans’ request to Katsuto Jumonji, who accepted the responsibility and cautioned her that Yunyi might be more dangerous than the intelligence suggested.

Katsuto Jumonji led First High School to victory in the Monolith Code final, securing the school's third consecutive overall championship. At the evening ball, Yunyi approached Masaki Ichijo while he was courting Miyuki Shiba and taunted him about their earlier match.

• Yunyi joked with Shizuku Kitayama and the others about having refused to enter Monolith Code, then apologized to Shizuku.
• Katsuto Jumonji used Phalanx to defeat all three opponents and win the Monolith Code final for First High School.
• First High School won the overall Nine Schools Competition championship for the third year in a row, and the contestants attended the awards ceremony and evening ball.
• Yunyi asked Tatsuya Shiba whether he would help Miyuki, then noticed Masaki Ichijo approaching her and went over with Mayumi Saegusa.
• Yunyi greeted Masaki and asked whether he had regained his confidence, wiping the smile from Masaki's face.

At the dance, Yunyi teased Masaki Ichijo and watched several guests invite Tatsuya Shiba to dance. After dancing with Shizuku Kitayama, Yunyi was surprised when Miyuki Shiba asked him to dance.

• Masaki Ichijo invited Miyuki Shiba to dance, and Tatsuya Shiba agreed to let her go with him.
• Erika Chiba prompted Tatsuya Shiba to accept Honoka Mitsui's invitation, and they danced together.
• Shizuku Kitayama asked Yunyi to dance to thank him for his magic, and he accepted before returning to look for Mayumi Saegusa.
• Tatsuya Shiba danced with several guests, including Mari Watanabe and Suzune Ichihara, while Yunyi waited with him in a corner.
• Miyuki Shiba approached Yunyi and invited him to dance, leaving him stunned.

Yunyi danced with Miyuki Shiba, who thanked him for his earlier advice, and he warned her to tell Tatsuya Shiba not to underestimate Her Majesty the Queen. After the ball, Yunyi and Mayumi Saegusa returned to their room, where Mayumi changed into a maid outfit and invited him to embrace her.

• Miyuki Shiba asked Yunyi to dance and thanked him for the insight he had given her and Tatsuya Shiba.
• Yunyi warned Miyuki Shiba to tell Tatsuya Shiba not to underestimate Her Majesty the Queen's methods.
• Yunyi danced the last dance with Mayumi Saegusa as Tatsuya Shiba and Miyuki Shiba danced nearby.
• Mari Watanabe teased Mayumi Saegusa for not returning all night, then left the pair to go to Suzune Ichihara's room.
• Mayumi Saegusa changed into a borrowed maid outfit and invited Yunyi to embrace his little maid.

After the Nine Schools Competition, Yunyi and Mayumi Saegusa returned to First High School and agreed that she would move in with him. Yunyi postponed visiting the Saegusa Family, then learned that Madam also wanted him to bring Mayumi for a visit.

• Yunyi and Mayumi Saegusa woke together, teased each other, and parted so Mayumi could pack her belongings.
• Yunyi took Mayumi's suitcase, and she sat beside him on the bus back to First High School with Mari Watanabe following them.
• The return trip passed without incident, and Mayumi slept against Yunyi until the bus reached the school.
• Mayumi told Yunyi she planned to move in with him and said her father had invited him to visit the Saegusa Family; they agreed to postpone the visit.
• After Mayumi left in the Saegusa Family's car, Yunyi's driver reported that Madam wanted him to bring Miss Saegusa for a visit.

Yunyi’s sister ordered him to bring Mayumi to meet her within three days, while Koichi Saegusa questioned Mayumi about Yunyi and then considered her request to live with him. The chapter ended with Koichi agreeing in principle but imposing a condition.

• Yunyi called his sister, who demanded that he bring Mayumi to meet her within three days and ended the call before he could respond.
• Koichi Saegusa congratulated Mayumi on her Nine Schools Competition results and questioned her about her relationship with Yunyi and his magic.
• Koichi said he would no longer oppose Mayumi’s relationship with Yunyi, though Mayumi worried that Retsu Kudou might try to recruit him.
• Mayumi asked permission to move out of the Saegusa Family home and live with Yunyi so they could spend more time together.
• Koichi agreed to consider Mayumi’s proposal but said she had to accept one condition.

Mayumi Saegusa moved into Yunyi's house with her younger sisters, Kasumi Saegusa and Izumi Saegusa, after Koichi Saegusa arranged for them to stay there. Yunyi told Mayumi to keep the next afternoon free so he could take her to meet someone, reminding her of the mysterious woman who had called herself “Mom.”

• Mayumi Saegusa arrived at Yunyi's house with Kasumi Saegusa and Izumi Saegusa, whom Koichi Saegusa had also sent to live there.
• Mayumi reassured the twins that she was with Yunyi willingly, while they kept their knowledge of what had happened secret from Koichi.
• Yunyi guessed that Koichi wanted the twins to observe him, then teased them before inviting the sisters downstairs for dinner.
• Yunyi told Mayumi that Grand Master Kudou had tried to recruit him through the Ichijo Family, but he had refused.
• Yunyi asked Mayumi not to schedule anything after school the next day because he wanted her to meet someone, and Mayumi recalled the caller who had called herself “Mom.”

Yunyi and Mayumi Saegusa settled into living together, while Mayumi’s younger sisters explored the house. The next morning, Yunyi rode a large motorcycle with Mayumi to First High School, where their classmates noticed he was becoming less secretive.

• Mayumi Saegusa organized Yunyi’s wardrobe, and he embraced her from behind and called her a good little wife.
• Kasumi and Izumi explored Yunyi’s house and agreed that Mayumi seemed to like him, while Kasumi said she did not want to provoke him.
• Mayumi and Yunyi went to sleep together after she asked whether they would always remain close.
• Yunyi gave the younger sisters an ID card before they left with Nagura, then took Mayumi to school on his motorcycle.
• Erika Chiba, Tatsuya Shiba, Shizuku Kitayama, Honoka Mitsui, and Leonhart saw Yunyi and Mayumi riding together, and Miyuki Shiba remarked that Yunyi was hiding less.

Liu Yunyi arrived at First High School with Mayumi Saegusa on his motorcycle and joined Tatsuya Shiba and the others for lunch. Their discussion of the coming election and leadership changes left them debating who could succeed Mari Watanabe as head of the Public Morals Committee, with Miyuki Shiba suggesting Yunyi himself.

• Yunyi dropped Mayumi off at school on his motorcycle, then waited outside the gates for Tatsuya and his group.
• Yunyi explained that he had stopped hiding his identity after the Nine Schools Competition, and Mayumi arranged permission for him to ride his motorcycle onto campus.
• Yunyi slept through the morning lessons and then went to the Student Council room with Tatsuya.
• Azusa Nakajo, Mayumi, and the others discussed Hattori succeeding Jumonji and Azusa taking over the Student Council.
• Mari complained that Yunyi would complicate the Public Morals Committee's work and worried about finding her successor.
• Suzune suggested Tatsuya as a possible successor, while Miyuki proposed making Yunyi the committee chair.

As Mayumi Saegusa and the others considered who should succeed Mari Watanabe as Public Morals Committee chair, Yunyi recommended Tatsuya Shiba instead. During practical skills class, Yunyi watched Miyuki Shiba defeat Shizuku Kitayama and gave Shizuku advice for countering Miyuki’s magic interference.

• Mayumi Saegusa and Mari Watanabe weighed Miyuki Shiba’s suggestion that Yunyi become the next Public Morals Committee chair, while Suzune Ichihara and Tatsuya Shiba discussed its merits.
• Yunyi ate Mayumi Saegusa’s fried shrimp, then suggested that Tatsuya Shiba succeed Mari and that Miyuki join the committee.
• Honoka Mitsui brought Yunyi to watch Miyuki Shiba and Shizuku Kitayama practice in a simulated area, where Miyuki had won their contest.
• Yunyi explained that Miyuki’s Zone Interference disrupted other people’s magic and advised Shizuku to stabilize her Calculation Area and concentrate her magic to break through at one point.

Yunyi guided Shizuku Kitayama through a magic match against Miyuki Shiba, helping Shizuku win by condensing her Psions and changing only part of the target’s information. He then challenged the students to consider why and how they learned magic, ending by explaining that he enrolled at First High School to learn magic that could improve his life rather than serve as a military weapon.

• Yunyi used his domain to guide Shizuku’s Psions during her match with Miyuki, helping her block Miyuki’s magic and take the victory.
• Shizuku said she understood Yunyi’s method but asked what advantage it offered, while Miyuki admitted she did not understand it either.
• Yunyi called Shizuku and Miyuki idiots and asked the students why they learned magic.
• Yunyi argued that magic was a tool meant to make life more convenient and criticized students for focusing on its power instead of its uses.
• Yunyi told Miyuki that he had enrolled at First High School to learn magic that would improve his life, not become a soldier serving the military.

Yunyi took Mayumi Saegusa to meet Shen Yi, his biological mother, after discussing his opposition to Japan’s military-focused education system. The chapter ended with Mayumi shocked to learn who Shen Yi was.

• Yunyi left First High School after criticizing its military-focused education system and vowing to overturn it.
• Mari Watanabe warned Mayumi Saegusa that Yunyi would need status, power, and influence to spread his ideas, but Mayumi said she believed in him.
• Yunyi picked Mayumi up after school, and they returned home to prepare dinner for the two little ones before traveling through the Gate of Transfer.
• Yunyi and Mayumi arrived aboard a ship in the Atlantic Ocean and went to a records room to meet Shen Yi.
• Shen Yi scolded Yunyi about his weight, and Yunyi introduced her to Mayumi as his biological mother, leaving Mayumi stunned.

Yunyi introduced Mayumi Saegusa to his mother, Shen Yi, who approved of her and invited them to dinner. Mayumi learned more about Yunyi’s plans and affirmed that she would give up her Saegusa identity to be with him, while Shen Yi believed she could keep it and take control of the family.

• Shen Yi teased Yunyi about Mayumi, then told them she was pleased with the girl and sent them to look around the ship before dinner.
• Mayumi scolded Yunyi for failing to warn her about meeting his mother, and Yunyi explained that Shen Yi supported his plans despite rarely seeing him.
• Mayumi asked whether Yunyi’s plan could succeed, and he admitted he lacked power, money, and influence while planning to deal with the Union’s hostile factions during summer vacation.
• At dinner, Mayumi told Shen Yi that she would give up her Saegusa identity to be with Yunyi.
• Shen Yi disagreed that Mayumi needed to abandon her identity and privately considered how Yunyi could help her take control of the Saegusa Family.

After returning home with Yunyi, Mayumi Saegusa relaxed from the strain of introducing herself as his girlfriend, then woke early to make breakfast. Over breakfast, Kasumi Saegusa and Izumi Saegusa questioned Yunyi about whether he truly loved Mayumi, and he asked Kasumi how she thought he had threatened her.

• Yunyi and Mayumi returned home to find Kasumi sprawled on the sofa with Izumi, and Yunyi reassured Mayumi that her sisters could make themselves comfortable.
• Mayumi admitted she had been nervous visiting as Yunyi’s girlfriend, and Yunyi comforted her before she rested.
• The next morning, Yunyi found Mayumi cheerfully making breakfast while Kasumi and Izumi wondered why their sister seemed to be in such a good mood.
• At the dining table, Izumi asked whether Yunyi was dating Mayumi because he liked her, and Kasumi said they feared he had tricked Mayumi.
• Yunyi asked whether the sisters thought he had threatened Mayumi, and Kasumi nodded, prompting him to ask how he could have done so.