Recaps

Tatsuya Shiba and his companions rushed to the library after learning terrorists were targeting its classified documents. Tatsuya stopped the theft and confronted Sayaka Mibu, who defended her ideals by asking whether he had also been judged against his talented younger sister.

• Leonhart told Tatsuya Shiba and the others that Chiba Yeyou had killed the terrorists he encountered by burning them to ashes.
• Haruka Ono revealed that the terrorists were targeting the library, and Tatsuya Shiba refused her request to spare Sayaka Mibu before rushing there.
• Tatsuya Shiba used Elemental Sight to locate the attackers, while Erika Chiba charged the two men guarding the stairwell.
• Tatsuya Shiba broke into the special reading room and destroyed the storage device, while Miyuki Shiba froze a gunman who aimed at her brother.
• Tatsuya Shiba called Sayaka Mibu a pawn of thieves and challenged the ideals she had been defending.
• Sayaka Mibu asked Tatsuya Shiba whether he had suffered from being compared to his outstanding younger sister, and Miyuki Shiba declared that she had never looked down on her brother.

Miyuki Shiba confronted Sayaka Mibu about her self-worth, while Tatsuya Shiba stopped the attackers and let Mibu escape. At the infirmary, Mibu learned that her belief that Mari Watanabe had rejected her because she was a Course 2 Student came from a misunderstanding, and someone who cared about her left determined to handle what came next.

• Miyuki Shiba told Sayaka Mibu that Tatsuya Shiba recognized her swordsmanship and appearance, urging her to stop despising herself.
• Sayaka Mibu activated the ring as two intruders released smoke and attacked Tatsuya Shiba, who defeated them while Miyuki Shiba let Mibu flee at his request.
• At the infirmary, Sayaka Mibu explained that she had joined Blanche after believing Captain Tsukasa's claims and interpreting Mari Watanabe's refusal to spar as discrimination.
• Mari Watanabe clarified that she had declined because she considered Sayaka Mibu the better swordswoman, and Mibu broke down after realizing she had misunderstood.
• A man who had listened outside the infirmary left, relieved that Mibu had not willingly fallen into depravity and resolved to take care of what came next.

Tatsuya Shiba and the others learned that Chiba Yeyou had gone after Blanche, and they rushed to rescue him at an abandoned factory. Chiba Yeyou reached the factory first and unleashed Flame Hell on the Blanche complex as the group saw him from their car.

• Tatsuya Shiba realized Chiba Yeyou might have gone to Blanche’s branch, and Haruka Ono revealed its location at an abandoned factory.
• Jumonji prepared a vehicle to reach the factory, and Takeaki Kirihara persuaded him to come along by explaining his concern for Mibu’s swordsmanship.
• Mayumi Saegusa, Tatsuya Shiba, Miyuki Shiba, Erika Chiba, and Leonhart joined Jumonji and Kirihara on the way to the factory.
• Chiba Yeyou forced a Blanche member to lead him through seven hideouts before the captive revealed the factory where Tsukasa Hajime was hiding.
• Chiba Yeyou used Flame Hell to strike the factory complex, and Mayumi Saegusa and the others spotted him from their car.

Chiba Yeyou demonstrated overwhelming fire magic and gravity-based flight while destroying Blanche branches, leaving Tatsuya Shiba and the others stunned. After the police took his statement, Jumonji privately asked Mayumi Saegusa to pursue Chiba Yeyou.

• Mayumi Saegusa and the others arrived to find Chiba Yeyou's blaze had reduced an abandoned factory to scorched ground.
• Chiba Yeyou descended using gravity manipulation and explained that his magic drew on his innate Quantum Domain, astonishing Tatsuya Shiba.
• Chiba Yeyou asked Jumonji to have the police handle the scene and report the Blanche branches he had destroyed.
• Chiba Yeyou identified anti-magic stone among Blanche's supplies, and Tatsuya Shiba said the Ukrainian-Belarusian reseparatist faction and the Great Asian Alliance backed them.
• After the police took Chiba Yeyou's statement, Jumonji told Mayumi Saegusa that Chiba Yeyou should join the Ten Master Clans and asked her to pursue him.

After Jumonji urged Mayumi Saegusa to pursue Chiba Yeyou, Mayumi became increasingly conscious of her feelings for him. As First High prepared for the Nine Schools Competition, Mayumi realized Chiba Yeyou might help solve the shortage of maintenance engineers.

• Jumonji encouraged Mayumi Saegusa to pursue Chiba Yeyou, and she blushed as she considered her feelings for him.
• On the way home, Mayumi recalled her recent time with Chiba Yeyou and smiled to herself.
• At the Student Council, Suzune Ichihara, Mari Watanabe, and Azusa Nakajo whispered about Mayumi and Chiba Yeyou's closeness while Miyuki Shiba watched them.
• Mayumi explained the Nine Schools Competition and said First High had settled its competitor lineup with Jumonji's help.
• Mayumi told the others that First High lacked maintenance engineers, then remembered that Chiba Yeyou tuned his own CAD and pointed it out to him.

Mayumi Saegusa and the others proposed making Tatsuya Shiba a technician for the Nine Schools Competition, and the group agreed to discuss it further at a preparatory meeting. During lunch, Mayumi and Chiba Yeyou exchanged food while Miyuki Shiba tried unsuccessfully to get similar attention from her brother.

• Mari Watanabe and Azusa Nakajo suggested Tatsuya Shiba could serve as a technician alongside Chiba Yeyou.
• Tatsuya Shiba warned that his status as a first-year Course 2 student and his negative image might cause competitors to reject his help.
• Chiba Yeyou, Mayumi Saegusa, and Miyuki Shiba supported giving Tatsuya a chance, and the group agreed to discuss it after school.
• Mayumi Saegusa offered Chiba Yeyou fried chicken, and he returned the gesture by sharing red-braised pork ribs with her.
• Miyuki Shiba offered Tatsuya food but was disappointed when he simply ate it without offering her anything in return.

Azusa Nakajo excitedly admired Tatsuya Shiba’s Silver Horn and asked about Taurus Silver, while Tatsuya hinted that the engineer was a Japanese teenager. As Mayumi Saegusa and Chiba Yeyou helped Azusa with her report on gravity magic, the conversation turned to why general-purpose flight magic had failed, and Azusa asked Chiba how he could use it.

• Azusa Nakajo recognized Silver Horn and enthusiastically praised Taurus Silver’s engineering, while Tatsuya Shiba privately reflected that someone had achieved Loop Cast before him.
• Tatsuya Shiba suggested Taurus Silver was a Japanese teenager, causing Miyuki Shiba to stumble over her computer work.
• Mayumi Saegusa reminded Azusa Nakajo about her unfinished assignment and offered help with Chiba Yeyou.
• Azusa Nakajo asked why general-purpose flight magic could not be achieved, and Mayumi Saegusa explained that repeated spell overwrites reached a limit.
• Suzune Ichihara said a British proof-of-concept experiment using spell cancellation had failed, and Azusa Nakajo asked Chiba Yeyou how he had achieved flight magic.

Chiba Yeyou explained why an experiment involving magic and gravity was flawed, then joined Tatsuya Shiba in a test to qualify as technical support for the Nine Schools Competition. Mayumi Saegusa tested Chiba’s manually adjusted CAD and found it unusually smooth to use.

• Chiba Yeyou said the gravity experiment would fail because its planners misunderstood how magic interference and countermagic worked, and Tatsuya Shiba agreed.
• Mayumi Saegusa recommended Tatsuya Shiba and Chiba Yeyou as technical support personnel for the Nine Schools Competition, prompting doubts about their abilities.
• Katsuto Jumonji proposed testing their CAD adjustment skills, and Mayumi Saegusa arranged for Chiba to adjust her CAD while Tatsuya adjusted Takeaki Kirihara’s.
• Tatsuya finished first, and Takeaki Kirihara reported that his adjusted CAD worked without discomfort.
• Chiba completed Mayumi Saegusa’s CAD adjustment and teased her for making the two CADs completely different; Mayumi said it felt unusually smooth to use.

Tatsuya Shiba and Chiba Yeyou were approved as technicians for the Nine Schools Competition after their skills won over the student council. Later, Tiffany warned Chiba Yeyou that an international criminal organization might target the competition, leaving him aware that he would need to stay alert.

• Jumonji, Mayumi Saegusa, and Mari Watanabe supported Tatsuya Shiba and Chiba Yeyou joining the technician team after seeing their abilities.
• Hattori Gyoubu defended the boys’ qualifications, and Kei Isori explained that Chiba Yeyou had optimized Mayumi Saegusa’s CAD.
• Mayumi Saegusa made the final decision to accept both boys as technicians for the Nine Schools Competition.
• Tiffany told Chiba Yeyou that suspected members of an international criminal organization had been seen near the Mount Fuji Maneuvering Area and might target the competition.
• Chiba Yeyou assured Tiffany that he would stay alert, and she offered him a reward.

Tiffany told Chiba Yeyou that No Head Dragon might target the Nine Schools Competition, but he felt there was little to worry about because he was only competing in Icicle Destruction. Tatsuya Shiba received a similar warning from Major Kazama, then completed a flight magic sequence and showed it to Miyuki.

• Tiffany identified No Head Dragon as a criminal syndicate from the former Hong Kong region and warned Chiba Yeyou to stay alert at the competition.
• Chiba Yeyou told Tiffany he was entering only Icicle Destruction, and they discussed how the syndicate might interfere with the competition.
• Major Kazama warned Tatsuya Shiba that suspected No Head Dragon members had been seen near the venue and said Yūzō Mibu was investigating.
• Tatsuya Shiba refined and completed his flight magic sequence while Miyuki Shiba brought him coffee in her Mirage Bat costume.
• Tatsuya Shiba demonstrated that he could float, and Miyuki congratulated him on completing sustained gravity-control magic.

Chiba Yeyou cheered up Miyuki Shiba before First High School held its Nine Schools Competition send-off rally. After the competitors received their badges, he joked with Mari Watanabe and Mayumi Saegusa about being assigned only two girls to supervise.

• Chiba Yeyou noticed Miyuki Shiba was upset and teased her until she smiled.
• Chiba Yeyou guessed Miyuki Shiba's worries involved her brother, then encouraged her to keep moving forward on her own path.
• At the send-off rally, Mayumi Saegusa addressed the students while Miyuki Shiba pinned First High School badges on the competitors.
• Chiba Yeyou, Kei Isori, and Tatsuya Shiba received their badges as the audience applauded.
• Chiba Yeyou complained to Mari Watanabe and Mayumi Saegusa that he was responsible for only two girls, then agreed that two beautiful girls were wonderful.

Chiba Yeyou prepared equipment adjustments for Mayumi Saegusa and Mari Watanabe, promising to boost their strongest abilities. Later, he sensed strange will-o'-the-wisps in the pharmacology lab and found Tatsuya Shiba and Mizuki Shibata there with a boy performing a ritual.

• Mayumi Saegusa said she would enter Speed Shooting and Crowd Ball, while Mari Watanabe named Battle Board as her main event.
• Chiba Yeyou dismissed the need for tactics and promised to enhance each competitor's strengths, reassuring Mayumi Saegusa and Mari Watanabe.
• As evening fell, Chiba Yeyou sensed a strange fluctuation and saw a Course 2 Student performing a ritual amid will-o'-the-wisps in the pharmacology lab.
• Chiba Yeyou encountered Mizuki Shibata peeking into the lab, and Tatsuya Shiba dispersed the will-o'-the-wisps when someone shouted.
• Tatsuya Shiba calmed the boy, whom Chiba Yeyou recognized as Mikihiko Yoshida, and Chiba Yeyou continued inspecting the will-o'-the-wisps.

Chiba Yeyou, Tatsuya Shiba, and Mizuki Shibata discovered Mikihiko Yoshida practicing Spirit Magic and learned why he had been keeping his ability quiet. Mikihiko realized Mizuki might have Crystal Eyes, a trait that made his family nervous, and the chapter ended with Chiba joking that he might kidnap her.

• Tatsuya Shiba explained that Mizuki Shibata had disrupted Mikihiko Yoshida's concentration, though Mikihiko blamed his own lack of practice.
• Mikihiko admitted he had been using water spirits to practice evocation magic in the pharmaceutical laboratory.
• Tatsuya explained that Spirit Magic was difficult to detect, and Mikihiko said he feared others would become wary of him if they knew he was a spirit magician.
• Mizuki described seeing blue and indigo lights, prompting Mikihiko to suspect she had Crystal Eyes and move close to inspect her.
• Chiba Yeyou stopped Mikihiko from crowding Mizuki, and Mikihiko apologized, explaining that Crystal Eyes were his family's bane.
• Chiba joked that Mikihiko might want to kidnap Mizuki.

Mikihiko Yoshida explained Mizuki Shibata’s Crystal Eyes and promised to keep her ability secret. Chiba Yeyou revealed that his special ability let him read precise information about spirits, magic, and physical phenomena, leaving Tatsuya Shiba and Mikihiko shocked.

• Mikihiko Yoshida apologized to Mizuki Shibata for frightening her, and she forgave him while asking him not to do it again.
• Mikihiko explained that Mizuki’s Crystal Eyes let her see spirits’ colors and made her a rare talent to Spirit Magic practitioners, then promised not to reveal her ability.
• Tatsuya Shiba and Chiba Yeyou also promised to keep Mizuki’s secret, and Chiba introduced himself to Mikihiko and Tatsuya.
• Chiba said he had come to investigate the unusual Spirit Magic he sensed in the laboratory, not because he had Crystal Eyes.
• Chiba revealed that his special ability let him read and analyze information about spirits, magic, and physical phenomena, prompting Mikihiko to grab and shake him in astonishment before Tatsuya calmed him down.
• Chiba explained that he had sensed Mikihiko’s Spirit Magic from three rooms away and had come to investigate the unusual activity in the pharmaceutical laboratory.

Chiba Yeyou explained that his ability could reveal information about any living or dead matter, alarming Tatsuya Shiba, who decided to add protection for himself and Miyuki. On August 1, the Nine Schools Competition participants prepared to leave First High School, and Chiba Yeyou helped organize the boarding before escorting the late Mayumi Saegusa onto the bus.

• Chiba Yeyou told Tatsuya Shiba, Mizuki Shibata, and Mikihiko Yoshida that his ability could reveal information about all matter, living or dead.
• Chiba Yeyou said he usually used the ability as an early warning system and did not normally read other people's information, while Tatsuya Shiba remained wary and planned to protect himself and Miyuki.
• On August 1, Chiba Yeyou checked the Nine Schools Competition roster as participants boarded buses and vans at First High School.
• Suzune Ichihara and Mari Watanabe helped or checked the preparations before boarding, while Chiba Yeyou had sent Tatsuya Shiba to rest.
• Mayumi Saegusa arrived an hour and a half late, showed Chiba Yeyou her dress, and he teased her before leading her onto the bus to rest.

Chiba Yeyou and Mayumi Saegusa grew closer during the bus ride, and Mayumi told him she had set her sights on him. Their conversation was interrupted when a sedan crashed over the guardrail and flew toward the bus.

• Chiba Yeyou took Hattori Gyoubu's blanket and covered Mayumi Saegusa with it as she rested by the window.
• Kanon complained to Mari Watanabe that the technicians' separate bus kept her from riding with her fiancé, Kei.
• Mayumi Saegusa asked Chiba Yeyou about their future, then declared that she wanted to pursue him herself.
• Kanon spotted a black sedan flying over the gap between two overpasses toward their moving bus.
• Chiba Yeyou warned Mayumi Saegusa to hold on and aimed his CAD at the approaching sedan as the driver braked.

A burning car threatened the bus carrying the students to the Nine Schools Competition, but Chiba Yeyou sent it skyward and Tatsuya Shiba destroyed it with Material Burst. After the bus continued to the dorm, Hattori Gyoubu struggled with his confidence, and Takeaki Kirihara urged him to compare himself with someone more ordinary than Chiba Yeyou.

• Mayumi Saegusa, Kanon Chiyoda, Shun Morisaki, and Shizuku Kitayama reacted to the burning car, while Mari Watanabe tried to stop their uncoordinated magic.
• Hattori Gyoubu asked Chiba Yeyou to handle the danger, and Chiba Yeyou used Constant Force Deflection to launch the car into the sky.
• Tatsuya Shiba used Material Burst to destroy the car, while Miyuki Shiba recognized her brother's magic and Jumonji lowered his hand without using Phalanx.
• Mayumi Saegusa praised Suzune Ichihara and Chiba Yeyou, and Mari Watanabe reprimanded Kanon Chiyoda for acting without coordination.
• After the bus reached the dorm, Hattori Gyoubu admitted to Takeaki Kirihara that the incident had shaken his confidence.
• Takeaki Kirihara told Hattori Gyoubu that Chiba Yeyou had once leveled a factory and advised him to find a more ordinary person to emulate.

Hattori Gyoubu and Takeaki Kirihara discussed the dangerous abilities of Tatsuya Shiba and other students, while Tatsuya explained to Miyuki that their apparent traffic accident had been caused by concealed magic. The siblings concluded that the driver was the most likely person to have cast the spells.

• Takeaki Kirihara told Hattori Gyoubu that Tatsuya Shiba had shown terrifying killing intent and warned him not to provoke Chiba Yeyou.
• Takeaki Kirihara said the distinction between Course 1 and Course 2 students mattered little, since several current students were exceptionally capable.
• Tatsuya Shiba told Miyuki Shiba that he and Chiba Yeyou had found traces of magic connected to the vehicle incident.
• Tatsuya explained that three tiny spells had burst a tire, spun the vehicle, and launched it off a barrier, with each spell cast from inside the vehicle.
• Tatsuya and Miyuki concluded that the driver had most likely cast the magic.

After the siblings discussed the confirmed suicide terrorist attack, Chiba Yeyou joined them at the Nine Schools Competition venue and teased Miyuki Shiba about her brother finding a sister-in-law. Later, he attended the social mixer with Mayumi Saegusa, where he ran into Erika Chiba serving drinks.

• Miyuki Shiba learned from Tatsuya Shiba that the crime was likely a premeditated suicide terrorist attack and condemned the attackers.
• Erika Chiba greeted the Shiba siblings and explained that she had come to cheer them on; Chiba Yeyou said Tatsuya’s duties could help him earn recognition.
• Chiba Yeyou told Miyuki Shiba that Tatsuya’s assignment could be a chance to find a sister-in-law, startling her before he clarified that it could earn Tatsuya recognition.
• Chiba Yeyou met Mizuki Shibata, who showed him to his room, and complimented her outfit, making her blush.
• Mayumi Saegusa invited Chiba Yeyou to the social mixer, where he arrived with her and joked with Erika Chiba as she served drinks.

At a military social gathering, Retsu Kudou used a large-scale illusion to test the students and gave a speech about refining their magical skills. As the gathering ended, Mayumi Saegusa and Mari Watanabe caught up with Chiba Yeyou and asked whether he had noticed the magic.

• The hall went dark, and Chiba Yeyou reassured the tense Erika Chiba that the military facility was secure.
• Retsu Kudou revealed that he had used Mental Interference Magic to disguise himself onstage, and Chiba Yeyou explained the trick to Erika Chiba.
• Retsu Kudou said only seven people had seen through his illusion and urged the students to refine their use of magic.
• Chiba Yeyou told Erika Chiba that Retsu Kudou had taught Miya Yotsuba, Maya Yotsuba, and Koichi Saegusa, and they recognized his address as the gathering's real purpose.
• As the event dispersed, Mayumi Saegusa and Mari Watanabe approached Chiba Yeyou, and Mari asked whether he had noticed the magic.

Chiba Yeyou discussed the weak mental interference magic detected at the military facility while the students prepared for the competition. Miyuki Shiba skipped the hot spring and visited Chiba Yeyou as he tuned Mayumi Saegusa’s CAD, asking whether he was adding a new spell.

• Chiba Yeyou explained that people had failed to notice the mental interference magic because they had relaxed their guard in the military facility, while the vigilant few had detected it.
• Mayumi Saegusa urged everyone to rest before the competition, and Miyuki Shiba and her friends discussed which events to watch.
• Eimi invited Honoka Mitsui, Shizuku Kitayama, and Miyuki Shiba to the hotel’s hot spring, but Miyuki declined, saying she needed Chiba Yeyou’s help.
• Chiba Yeyou worked on tuning Mayumi Saegusa’s competition CAD and adding a spell when Miyuki Shiba arrived at his room.
• Miyuki Shiba looked over Chiba Yeyou’s work and asked whether he was developing a new spell.

Miyuki Shiba asked Chiba Yeyou to teach her how to cast multiple spells simultaneously, and he agreed on the condition that she publicly acknowledge him as her teacher. She left to consider the offer without telling Tatsuya Shiba about it.

• Miyuki Shiba noticed Chiba Yeyou developing a new spell for the president's Speed Shooting and asked him how to use multiple spells simultaneously.
• Chiba Yeyou hesitated because the technique was one of his closely guarded secrets and considered the risks and benefits of teaching her.
• Chiba Yeyou offered to teach Miyuki Shiba if she was willing to call him her teacher in front of other people.
• Miyuki Shiba left Chiba Yeyou's room with a conflicted expression, and he returned to working on the spell.
• Tatsuya Shiba found Miyuki Shiba looking troubled, but she did not tell him about her request.

Chiba Yeyou watched Mikihiko Yoshida practice Spirit Magic and confront three armed criminals, while Tatsuya Shiba intervened to disarm them. Afterward, Tatsuya tried to build Mikihiko’s confidence and learned that Chiba had previously pointed out flaws in Mikihiko’s spell activation.

• Chiba Yeyou noticed Mikihiko Yoshida practicing Spirit Magic in a grove and watched him run toward a source of malice.
• Mikihiko Yoshida encountered three masked criminals, and Tatsuya Shiba used Decomposition to dismantle their guns before they could shoot.
• Tatsuya Shiba praised Mikihiko for incapacitating the criminals without killing them, then challenged his lack of confidence.
• Mikihiko Yoshida explained that Chiba Yeyou had criticized his Spirit Magic’s Activation Sequence, prompting Tatsuya to ask whether Chiba could read Magic Sequence information.

Tatsuya comforted Mikihiko after revealing that he could analyze Magic Sequences by sight, while Kazama observed them. At the Nine Schools Competition venue, Chiba Yeyou finished tuning Mari's CAD and added a speed boost as she prepared for Battle Board.

• Tatsuya admitted he could read Activation Sequences and analyze Magic Sequences by sight, leaving Mikihiko stunned.
• Tatsuya encouraged Mikihiko to refine his Spirit Magic, and Mikihiko went to fetch troops to handle the three criminals.
• Harunobu Kazama spoke with Tatsuya and suggested Mikihiko's difficulties reminded Tatsuya of his younger self.
• Chiba Yeyou tuned Mari Watanabe's CAD, increasing its operating speed and ability to interfere with phenomena.
• Mari tested the CAD, and Chiba Yeyou revealed an added half-second speed boost that she could use only on long straights.

Chiba Yeyou explained how Mari Watanabe could use his new Light Energy Pulse spell to surge through straightaways in the Battle Board competition, and Mari entered the race confident in her improved abilities. As the preliminary heat began, Mari took an early lead after a competitor disrupted the water behind the racers.

• Chiba Yeyou warned Mari Watanabe that Light Energy Pulse consumed enormous amounts of Psions and explained how to use it safely during a straightaway.
• Mayumi Saegusa worried about the spell’s danger, but Chiba Yeyou described its built-in acceleration and deceleration safeguards.
• The Nine Schools Competition began, and Mari Watanabe told Chiba Yeyou she was ready for the Battle Board heat.
• Chiba Yeyou introduced his older sister, Tiffany, to Mayumi Saegusa, and the two women silently scrutinized each other.
• At the start of the race, a girl in white destabilized the water, and Mari Watanabe surged past most of the competitors to take the lead.