Chapter Summaries

The chapter introduced the history of magic and the role of magicians before following Chiba Yeyou on the day new students enrolled at First National Magic University Affiliated High School. After falling from a rooftop, he was caught by a girl whose identity remained unknown.

• Magic became a scientific system, and magicians emerged as a major weapon amid resource conflicts and war.
• Miyuki complained that her brother had been assigned reserve status despite his high exam score, while he told her the school prioritized practical skills and magic activation speed.
• Chiba Yeyou overheard Miyuki and her brother and mistakenly interpreted their close relationship as forbidden romance.
• A girl spotted Chiba Yeyou on the rooftop and urged him to climb down because it was dangerous.
• Chiba Yeyou fell while distracted by the girl, who used her CAD to catch him; he thanked her and apologized.

Chiba Yeyou met student council president Mayumi Saegusa, then encountered Tatsuya Shiba and challenged the school’s separation of Course 1 and Course 2 students. As the new-student assembly began, he sat among the Weeds and met Mizuki Shibata and Erika Chiba.

• Mayumi Saegusa introduced herself to Chiba Yeyou, who joked about waking at noon and described a brother-and-sister drama that sent her searching for gossip before she hurried away in embarrassment.
• Chiba Yeyou met Tatsuya Shiba and shook his hand despite Course 1 students mocking Tatsuya as a Weed.
• Chiba Yeyou and Tatsuya Shiba headed to the auditorium and sat together among the Weeds, where Chiba Yeyou questioned why Course 1 students should sit at the front.
• Mizuki Shibata and Erika Chiba joined them, introduced themselves, and joked about the similar sounds of their names.
• Erika Chiba and Mizuki Shibata questioned why Chiba Yeyou, a Course 1 student, sat with them, and he inspected his seat before asking whether anyone had forbidden it.

At First High's entrance ceremony, Chiba Yeyou provoked Erika Chiba into reconsidering her concern about where she sat, then watched Miyuki Shiba deliver the incoming students' address. After the ceremony, Mizuki Shibata's ability to perceive auras drew Tatsuya Shiba's attention, while Chiba Yeyou noticed an unusual response from the psions around himself; the chapter ended with him teasing Mayumi Saegusa about taking responsibility after supposedly taking advantage of him.

• Chiba Yeyou challenged Erika Chiba's concern about her seat, and Erika reconsidered his words.
• Miyuki Shiba gave the incoming students' address while Tatsuya Shiba, Mizuki Shibata, and Erika Chiba listened.
• Tatsuya Shiba learned that Mizuki Shibata could perceive the expressions of auras, and Chiba Yeyou comforted her after Tatsuya reacted sternly.
• Mizuki Shibata noticed that the psions around Chiba Yeyou kept their distance and seemed to regard him with reverence and adoration.
• Miyuki Shiba reunited with Tatsuya Shiba, and Chiba Yeyou greeted Mayumi Saegusa as his dear president before teasing her about taking responsibility.

Chiba Yeyou amused Mayumi Saegusa and her companions while teasing Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori and Erika Chiba during Miyuki Shiba’s visit to the student council. Mayumi invited Chiba Yeyou to join as her secretary.

• Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori challenged Chiba Yeyou to a duel after Chiba Yeyou dismissed him, but Chiba Yeyou refused and continued flirting with Mayumi Saegusa.
• Erika Chiba, Miyuki Shiba, and Mizuki Shibata laughed at Chiba Yeyou’s antics, then Miyuki introduced herself and Erika befriended her.
• Erika Chiba tried to kick Chiba Yeyou, who revealed he kept a defensive spell active, then teased her by pretending to claim her as his own.
• Tatsuya Shiba asked Miyuki Shiba about her student council business, and Mayumi Saegusa said they could discuss it another day.
• Mayumi Saegusa invited Chiba Yeyou to join the student council as her secretary.

Mayumi Saegusa recruited Chiba Yeyou as her personal secretary after noticing his unusual magic, and their flirtatious exchange sparked rumors across the school. Chiba Yeyou accepted and went looking for his classroom, only to discover that rumors about him and Mayumi had already spread among the new students.

• Mayumi Saegusa invited Chiba Yeyou to become her secretary, ignored Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori's objections, and offered to hire him personally.
• Mayumi Saegusa privately told Chiba Yeyou that she had noticed the magic he had switched off, and he teased her while avoiding a firm answer.
• Mayumi Saegusa warned Chiba Yeyou that the school would spread rumors about them, and he agreed to join the student council before she left.
• Tatsuya Shiba comforted Miyuki Shiba, while Erika Chiba and Mizuki Shibata reacted to the affectionate scene; Chiba Yeyou then left to find his classroom.
• Chiba Yeyou heard students gossiping about his relationship with Mayumi Saegusa and cautiously questioned a group of boys who had stopped to speak with him.

Chiba Yeyou discovered that the school network was spreading scandalous rumors about him and Mayumi Saegusa, so he teased her about them during a message exchange. After falling asleep in class and mistaking Miyuki Shiba for a pillow, he was punched out a window, then used magic to float safely to the ground and decided to apologize.

• Chiba Yeyou found sensational rumors about himself and Mayumi Saegusa on the school network and messaged her about them.
• Mayumi Saegusa blushed and grew furious as Chiba Yeyou showed her the rumors and teased her about their invented stories.
• Chiba Yeyou entered Year 1, Class A and fell asleep at his desk while the other students watched him.
• Chiba Yeyou grabbed Miyuki Shiba's hand and pulled her onto his desk, then used her as a pillow without waking.
• Miyuki Shiba punched Chiba Yeyou through a window, but his defensive magic stopped the blow and his gravity magic let him float safely down.
• Chiba Yeyou realized Miyuki Shiba had been beside him, considered apologizing, and wondered whether Tatsuya Shiba would be angry.

Chiba Yeyou made peace with Miyuki Shiba, unlocked a hidden room at home, and spent the next school day sleeping through class before meeting Suzune Ichihara in the cafeteria. Suzune explained that the student council was overwhelmed with work and urged him to come help, just as someone interrupted their conversation.

• Chiba Yeyou met Erika Chiba, Tatsuya Shiba, Mizuki Shibata, and Leonhard Saijo at the school gate and explained how Miyuki Shiba had knocked him out of the building.
• Miyuki Shiba apologized to Chiba Yeyou, and he apologized to her in return, leaving them even.
• Chiba Yeyou activated Quantum Domain at home and opened a concealed room behind a wall.
• Chiba Yeyou slept through the next morning's lesson, then went to the cafeteria and let Suzune Ichihara sit across from him.
• Suzune Ichihara told Chiba Yeyou the student council was swamped with paperwork and asked him to come help before an unidentified voice interrupted them.

Chiba Yeyou helped Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba avoid an awkward confrontation in the cafeteria, then encountered Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori, who challenged him to a mock battle. The battle began when Hattori’s coin hit the ground and Chiba Yeyou activated his Quantum Domain.

• Chiba Yeyou used Suzune Ichihara’s name to invite Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba to his table, helping them avoid a group of students and giving Tatsuya time to finish eating.
• Miyuki Shiba thanked Chiba Yeyou, while Suzune Ichihara reminded him that he owed her a favor.
• Chiba Yeyou left the cafeteria, then met Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori, who warned him to stop pursuing Mayumi Saegusa and focus on studying magic.
• Hattori challenged Chiba Yeyou to a private mock battle, and Chiba agreed to fight without using a CAD.
• When Hattori’s coin hit the ground, Chiba Yeyou activated his Quantum Domain.

Chiba Yeyou defeated Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori instantly with gravity magic, then healed his injuries. Hanzou returned to the student council shaken but recovered after the others watched the recording, while Suzune Ichihara learned the attack had increased his body's mass twentyfold.

• Chiba Yeyou used amplified pressurization to increase gravity on Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori twentyfold, leaving him with broken legs and internal bleeding.
• Chiba Yeyou healed Hanzou and sent him away, while Hanzou left devastated by the defeat and Chiba Yeyou returned to class in a good mood.
• Mayumi Saegusa found Hanzou withdrawn in the student council room and asked Suzune Ichihara to investigate what had happened.
• Suzune Ichihara revealed that she had copied the simulation recording, then showed it to Mayumi Saegusa and Azusa Nakajo as they helped Hanzou recover.
• Suzune Ichihara asked Hanzou about Chiba Yeyou's magic, and Hanzou explained that it had increased his body's mass twentyfold.

The student council analyzed Chiba Yeyou’s defeat of Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori and concluded that he had used unknown original magic without a CAD. After Mari Watanabe explained how he amplified the impact using Earth’s gravity, Mayumi Saegusa decided to recruit him into the student council.

• Suzune Ichihara, Mayumi Saegusa, and Azusa Nakajo reviewed Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori’s defeat and concluded that the injuries could not have come from a mere twentyfold increase in gravity.
• Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori described his injuries and confirmed that Chiba Yeyou had not activated magic early or violated the rules.
• The girls identified Chiba Yeyou’s rapid attack and healing as likely original magic, with Azusa Nakajo estimating that the healing spell was at least A-rank.
• Mari Watanabe joined the analysis and pointed out that Chiba Yeyou had used no CAD; she proposed that he had increased the impact by manipulating Earth’s gravity.
• Mari Watanabe estimated that Hanzou Gyoubushoujou Hattori had endured at least thirty times the pressure, and the group realized why the floor had felt like a hammer.
• Mayumi Saegusa proposed recruiting Chiba Yeyou into the student council, everyone agreed, and she set off with the others to find him.

Chiba Yeyou finished designing a personal CAD and, while watching a confrontation involving Miyuki Shiba and her brother, flirted with Mayumi Saegusa. The chapter ended with him carrying Mayumi in a princess carry, leaving their companions stunned.

• Chiba Yeyou completed his CAD blueprint after extensive simulations and analysis of Tatsuya Shiba's designs.
• Chiba Yeyou watched Shun Morisaki's group confront Miyuki Shiba and Tatsuya Shiba at the school gate, while Erika Chiba, Leonhard Saijo, and others objected to Morisaki's remarks about Course 2 students.
• Mayumi Saegusa, Mari Watanabe, Azusa Nakajo, Suzune Ichihara, and Hattori Gyoubu arrived, and Chiba Yeyou stopped Mari from intervening so he could keep watching the confrontation.
• Mayumi Saegusa challenged Chiba Yeyou to take responsibility for calling her his, and he lifted her into a princess carry.
• Mayumi Saegusa blushed as Chiba Yeyou whispered to her, while Hattori and the others reacted with astonishment.

Chiba Yeyou and Mayumi Saegusa teased each other before turning their attention to a confrontation between First High’s Course 1 and Course 2 students. Mari Watanabe investigated the incident, but Mayumi persuaded her to let the students go, and Mari left remembering Tatsuya Shiba’s name.

• Chiba Yeyou carried Mayumi Saegusa until she surrendered, then she pinched his waist and teased him back.
• Mari Watanabe, Azusa Nakajo, and Suzune Ichihara intervened as students from two groups faced off over Course 1 and Course 2 status.
• Tatsuya Shiba claimed the clash had been a demonstration of the Morisaki Clan’s High-Speed Casting, and Mari questioned his account.
• Mayumi Saegusa asked Mari Watanabe to treat the incident as a misunderstanding, and Mari agreed to let the students go.
• Mari Watanabe asked Tatsuya Shiba his name and said she would remember it.

Mayumi Saegusa and the Student Council members invited Chiba Yeyou to a café to discuss recruiting him, and they revealed that they knew about his fight with Hattori. Chiba Yeyou recognized their interest but rejected the idea of joining the Public Morals Committee, leaving the Student Council invitation unresolved.

• Mayumi Saegusa led Chiba Yeyou to a café with the other Student Council members after he teased them about meeting her parents.
• At the café, Chiba Yeyou learned that the group had come specifically to find him and wondered why they were interested in someone he called ordinary.
• Mayumi Saegusa told Chiba Yeyou that they knew about his fight with Hattori, and he realized Hattori had told them.
• Chiba Yeyou recognized that the group was inviting him to join the Student Council, and he noted that the secretary position was intended for Miyuki Shiba.
• When Chiba Yeyou suspected they wanted him on the Public Morals Committee, he firmly refused and explained that he disliked the trouble the role would bring.

Chiba Yeyou recommended Tatsuya Shiba and Erika Chiba for the Public Morals Committee, prompting Hattori Gyoubu to object to appointing Course 2 students. The group agreed to test the candidates in mock battles, while Chiba Yeyou accepted that he would join the Student Council.

• Chiba Yeyou recommended Shun Morisaki, Tatsuya Shiba, and Erika Chiba for the Public Morals Committee, and Mari Watanabe added Tatsuya and Erika to her list of candidates to assess.
• Hattori Gyoubu objected to appointing Tatsuya Shiba and Erika Chiba, citing the lack of precedent and doubting their strength as Course 2 students.
• Mari Watanabe defended Tatsuya's analytical ability and argued that Course 2 representatives could help reduce the divide between the two student groups.
• Chiba Yeyou proposed mock battles between Hattori Gyoubu and each candidate, and Hattori agreed to the test.
• Mayumi Saegusa pressed Chiba Yeyou to accept the Student Council's invitation, and he replied that he had already begun acting like a member.

Chiba Yeyou finished a bracelet after running precise simulations and called his purple-haired friend Tiffany to ask about a shipment of materials. In Paris, Tiffany prepared to travel to Japan to see him after nearly two years apart, while dealing with an unwelcome visitor at her family estate.

• Chiba Yeyou said goodbye to Mayumi Saegusa, Mari Watanabe, and Suzune Ichihara, then returned home and completed a bracelet using his simulation results.
• Chiba Yeyou called his friend Tiffany to ask when the materials would arrive, and Tiffany angrily promised to send them within a few days.
• Tiffany ordered her subordinate to break the legs of a persistent visitor and throw him out, then relented when he hesitated and warned him not to question her again.
• Tiffany asked Fei'er to arrange a plane and itinerary so she could travel, then looked at a photograph of herself and Chiba Yeyou as children and recalled that they had not met for almost two years.
• Chiba Yeyou looked at the same childhood photograph from his bed and murmured that it had been two years since he had seen Tiffany.

Chiba Yeyou walked to school with Mayumi Saegusa, met Tatsuya and Miyuki Shiba, and was invited to a student council lunch meeting. In class, he met the newly transferred teacher Senbon Ye and saw how Course 2 students were excluded from the lessons and facilities Course 1 students received.

• Chiba Yeyou met Mayumi Saegusa on his way to school and carried her handbag while they walked together.
• Mayumi Saegusa greeted Tatsuya Shiba and Miyuki Shiba, invited them and Chiba Yeyou to lunch, and asked Tatsuya to bring Erika Chiba.
• Chiba Yeyou considered his lack of powerful backing and decided to focus on his work rather than worry about his future.
• Senbon Ye introduced herself as the new homeroom teacher and explained that she had been transferred in as a practical magic instructor.
• Chiba Yeyou observed that Course 2 students received none of Course 1's advanced lessons and had no access to the laboratories on their floor.

Chiba Yeyou accompanied Miyuki Shiba to the student council room, where Mayumi Saegusa discussed recruiting Course 2 Students and saw a possible way to ease the divide between Course 1 and Course 2. The chapter left Mayumi hopeful that Chiba Yeyou, Tatsuya Shiba, and Miyuki Shiba could help begin resolving the conflict.

• Chiba Yeyou teased Miyuki Shiba about being a third wheel, and she invited him to go with her to see Tatsuya Shiba.
• Tatsuya Shiba told Erika Chiba that Mayumi Saegusa had specifically asked to see her, and Chiba Yeyou led them toward the student council room.
• Mayumi Saegusa explained that she trusted Chiba Yeyou's recommendations and discussed letting Course 2 Students join the disciplinary committee despite the lack of precedent.
• Mayumi Saegusa and Mari Watanabe argued that admitting Course 2 Students could show the school valued them and help address the growing conflict with Course 1 Students.
• Mayumi Saegusa considered Chiba Yeyou, Tatsuya Shiba, and Miyuki Shiba a possible source of hope for easing the divide.

Miyuki Shiba accepted Mayumi Saegusa’s invitation to join the Student Council and pleaded for her brother, Tatsuya Shiba, to join as well, but regulations barred Course 2 Students. Tatsuya Shiba and Erika Chiba were then offered places on the Public Morals Committee, and Miyuki Shiba accepted on her brother’s behalf before he could respond.

• Chiba Yeyou arrived at the Student Council room with Tatsuya Shiba, Miyuki Shiba, and Erika Chiba, where they shared lunch and met the council members.
• Mayumi Saegusa invited Miyuki Shiba to join the Student Council, and Miyuki Shiba asked her to admit Tatsuya Shiba too.
• Suzune Ichihara explained that only Course 1 Students could join the Student Council, so Miyuki Shiba apologized and accepted a secretary position.
• Mayumi Saegusa and Mari Watanabe told Tatsuya Shiba and Erika Chiba that they had been recommended for the Public Morals Committee, which allowed Course 2 members.
• Miyuki Shiba accepted the committee position on Tatsuya Shiba’s behalf, leaving him surprised and asking whether anyone would seek his opinion.

Chiba Yeyou and Miyuki Shiba tested their magic in the school’s practice facilities, where Yeyou discovered the advanced two-layer Abyss Separation spell insulating the testing room. The chapter left him fascinated by the spell’s design and full of new ideas.

• Tatsuya Shiba and Erika Chiba questioned their disciplinary committee duties, then agreed to discuss joining after school.
• Mayumi Saegusa revealed that Chiba Yeyou had recommended Tatsuya and Erika, and Miyuki Shiba thanked Yeyou for helping her.
• Erika Chiba recognized Mari Watanabe as the woman she believed had seduced Tatsuya and hurried away after blurting it out.
• During magic practice, Miyuki Shiba cast Niflheim in a testing room while Chiba Yeyou investigated why the magic did not affect the glass partition.
• Chiba Yeyou used Situational Awareness to identify the glass’s two-layer Abyss Separation spell and praised its ingenious interference-canceling design.

Chiba Yeyou linked Miyuki Shiba’s senses to the microscopic world of psions so she could see and adjust Niflheim’s activation sequence. Miyuki began practicing with a reduced spell range, focusing on controlling its temperature.

• Chiba Yeyou and Miyuki Shiba reviewed data showing that her Niflheim spell nearly reached the state known as Extreme Low Temperature, though she struggled to control its temperature and coverage.
• Miyuki Shiba said she had declined Honoka Mitsui and Shizuku Kitayama’s invitation and explained that she had chosen to join Chiba Yeyou instead.
• Miyuki asked Chiba Yeyou how to improve her control, and he led her onto the circular platform to practice rather than rely on simulation.
• Chiba Yeyou activated Quantum Domain, Situational Awareness, and State Link, allowing Miyuki to see psions, spirits, and her spell’s activation sequence.
• Chiba Yeyou told Miyuki to shrink Niflheim to one square meter, and she reduced it to cover a single testing pillar before beginning to adjust its low temperature.