Chapter Summaries

Chiba Yeyou caught Hajime Tsukasa and rejected her invitation to join the Course 2 Student movement, recognizing that she had been manipulated. Hajime then recruited Sayaka Mibu instead and resolved to use Tatsuya Shiba and outside forces to advance the movement.

• Chiba Yeyou used Constant Force Deflection to stop Hajime Tsukasa as she tried to flee and confronted her about who was directing her.
• Hajime Tsukasa described the discrimination Course 2 Students faced and invited Chiba Yeyou to join their resistance.
• Chiba Yeyou refused, believing Hajime Tsukasa had been manipulated, and left her behind.
• Hajime Tsukasa approached Sayaka Mibu and urged her to join the movement, citing her swordsmanship as essential.
• Hajime Tsukasa decided to use Tatsuya Shiba in Chiba Yeyou’s place and bring in outside forces to secure respect and better treatment for Course 2 Students.

Chiba Yeyou returned home to Tiffany, and their playful reunion turned into a discussion of Blanche after he asked about the organization at his school. Tiffany explained Blanche’s criminal operations and warned that students connected to its subsidiary Égalité were likely active at the academy.

• Chiba Yeyou came home, joked with Tiffany as she cooked, and sat down to eat with her.
• Chiba Yeyou told Tiffany that Blanche had appeared at his school and asked her about the organization.
• Tiffany described Blanche’s theft, coercion, and memory-altering operations, including the crackdown she had taken part in in France.
• Tiffany said Blanche likely operated at the school through students who had joined its subsidiary, Égalité.

Chiba Yeyou agreed to teach Miyuki Shiba magic after she explained that she wanted to become strong enough to help her brother, Tatsuya Shiba. He began by teaching her to activate multiple compressed spells at once, using hostage rescue as an example of when that skill would matter.

• Chiba Yeyou asked Tiffany about Égalité, and Tiffany had Fei'er investigate the organization’s activities at First High School.
• Fei'er reported that Tsukasa Hajime led Blanche’s Japanese branch and that his younger half-brother, Hajime Tsukasa, attended First High School and showed signs of atavism.
• Chiba Yeyou praised Miyuki Shiba’s progress in controlling her magic and agreed to teach her after she said she wanted to become stronger to help someone.
• Chiba Yeyou explained that Miyuki should learn to use multiple small-scale spells simultaneously to protect hostages while separating them from criminals.
• Miyuki admitted that she could not yet activate even two spells at the same time.

Chiba Yeyou and Miyuki Shiba joined the student leaders outside the broadcasting room after the Alliance of the Willing occupied it and demanded negotiations. The leaders debated how to respond while the group barricaded inside remained unreachable.

• The Alliance of the Willing broadcast a demand for equal-footing negotiations with the Student Council and Club Activities Group, and Chiba Yeyou led Miyuki Shiba toward the broadcasting room.
• Miyuki Shiba suspected Chiba Yeyou knew her real identity as they joined the crowd gathered outside the room.
• Suzune Ichihara explained that the broadcast power had been cut, but the people inside had locked the door and barricaded themselves in after taking the key.
• Mari Watanabe and Suzune Ichihara warned that the occupiers’ actions were criminal, while Jumonji proposed negotiating peacefully and avoiding legal escalation.
• Chiba Yeyou told Miyuki Shiba that the situation would soon get livelier as Tatsuya Shiba and the others continued discussing how to handle the standoff.

Tatsuya Shiba arranged for Sayaka Mibu to leave the broadcasting room while the Public Morals Committee arrested the other students inside. Mayumi Saegusa then took responsibility for negotiating with Mibu through the Student Council and called for all Course 2 Students to gather in the lecture hall.

• Tatsuya Shiba called Sayaka Mibu and arranged for her to come out, while secretly limiting his promise of freedom to her alone.
• The Public Morals Committee arrested everyone who left the broadcasting room except Sayaka Mibu, who angrily accused Tatsuya Shiba of deceiving her.
• Jumonji explained that he had agreed to hear Mibu's demands but had not approved of the group's methods.
• Mayumi Saegusa asked that the students be released and took the matter over for the Student Council to negotiate with Sayaka Mibu.
• Mayumi Saegusa told the others to prepare for a gathering in the lecture hall and have every Course 2 Student attend.

Mayumi Saegusa prepared to represent the Student Council alone in a public discussion over the unequal treatment of Course 1 and Course 2 students. As Course 2 students rallied support, Hajime Tsukasa tried to recruit Mizuki Shibata.

• Mayumi Saegusa told Tatsuya Shiba and Miyuki Shiba that the negotiations had stalled and that she would face the public discussion alone.
• Mayumi Saegusa said she would consider incorporating Course 2 students’ demands if their arguments persuaded her.
• Course 2 students campaigned for support ahead of the discussion, while Chiba Yeyou dismissed their efforts and refused to join them.
• Hajime Tsukasa confronted Chiba Yeyou, then left after Chiba Yeyou regarded him with pity.
• Hajime Tsukasa decided to approach Mizuki Shibata because he thought Tatsuya Shiba would be difficult to persuade.

Tatsuya Shiba interrupted Hajime Tsukasa as she tried to recruit Mizuki Shibata into a group of students with Spiritron Radiation Hypersensitivity, and he suspected she was connected to his earlier attack. Meanwhile, Chiba Yeyou was ambushed by armed men, defeated them with his magic, and continued home after killing the survivors.

• Tatsuya Shiba approached Mizuki Shibata and warned Hajime Tsukasa to stop pestering her.
• Mizuki Shibata explained that Hajime Tsukasa led the kendo club and had invited her to join a group for students with Spiritron Radiation Hypersensitivity.
• Chiba Yeyou realized men were following him and deliberately walked into a quiet street where they surrounded him.
• The attackers opened fire, but Chiba Yeyou used Defense Countermeasure to send their bullets back and injure several of them.
• Chiba Yeyou used his A-rank magic Ashes to burn some attackers, then used Constant Force Deflection to pull the fleeing survivors back.
• Chiba Yeyou killed the remaining attackers with Ashes and left as a fire rose from a nearby tall building.

Tatsuya Shiba and Miyuki Shiba learned from Yakumo Kokonoe that Hajime Tsukasa was connected to Blanche and that Chiba Yeyou had an unusual, obscured past. Meanwhile, Chiba Yeyou learned about Yakumo from Tiffany and recognized the name Harunobu Kazama.

• Yakumo Kokonoe told Tatsuya Shiba and Miyuki Shiba that Hajime Tsukasa was likely involved in Blanche's plans at First High School.
• Yakumo reassured Miyuki that Chiba Yeyou had no ties to illegal organizations, then explained that Yeyou had been a talented young magician whose records vanished five years earlier.
• Yakumo said Yeyou had remodeled his villa and bought surrounding properties despite lacking the funds to do so through his parents' inheritance.
• Tiffany described Yakumo Kokonoe's background and influence to Chiba Yeyou.
• Chiba Yeyou asked Tiffany whether she knew Harunobu Kazama.

At First High School’s debate over discrimination between Course 1 and Course 2 students, Mayumi Saegusa exposed the divide and promised to propose ending a rule that barred Course 2 students from Student Council positions. As the audience applauded, explosions shook the auditorium, leaving the gathering under attack.

• Chiba Yeyou told Tiffany that Tatsuya Shiba was Special Lieutenant Tatsuya Ooguro, a strategic-class magician.
• A disguised white truck entered First High School as students gathered for a debate on Course 2 students’ treatment.
• Mayumi Saegusa argued that both Course 1 and Course 2 students perpetuated the divide and said she would propose abolishing the Course 1-only Student Council officer rule.
• Mari Watanabe hoped the applause meant they could avoid force, but Chiba Yeyou warned that force would be necessary.
• Several explosions sounded throughout the auditorium.

An armed attack disrupted the auditorium and spread across the school, prompting Mari Watanabe and the students to fight back. Chiba Yeyou cleared the eastern campus and left one attacker alive to lead him to the enemy’s hideout.

• Tatsuya Shiba recognized the attackers’ CADs, and Mari Watanabe ordered the Public Morals Committee to apprehend them while Hattori Gyoubu contained a tear-gas canister.
• Masked intruders entered the auditorium, but Mari Watanabe incapacitated them with MIB Field as more attacks erupted around campus.
• Tatsuya Shiba and his sister headed to the practical skills building, while Chiba Yeyou agreed to help Mari Watanabe clear the rest of the school.
• Chiba Yeyou killed armed attackers with his CAD, used Situational Awareness to locate more targets, and coordinated with Mari Watanabe to clear the eastern area.
• Chiba Yeyou spared one armed magician and took him out of the school to lead him to the enemy’s hideout.

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.