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- Christmas is a busy time for Yushi’s workplace. While delivering, he meets Yumi and George, dressed as Santas and on their way to a party; his delinquent former friend Takenaka, working; and his cousin Eri. Of course the apartment residents party on New Year’s Eve. Next to the waterfall, the landlord opens a portal to a snowy field filled with huts, where Yushi and Hase can visit various scenes from various pasts and futures. One hut sucks them into a dimensional rift; Yushi saves them by using the petits. (en)
- The culture fair is going well. The president and Tashiro have a secret plan for the festival finale. The apartment dwellers have come; Yushi introduces some human neighbors to his friends. But the ghosts are here too: the landlord gets his picture taken because people think it’s a costume; Ruriko sneaks into a food booth to help; other yokai enjoy snacks while hiding in the bushes. Akira, Reimei, and Mariko all make a splash, and Akine wins the eating contest. Some tough-guy students sabotage the power to interrupt the final assembly, but Yushi organizes the yokai and the petits to get light and sound going again. Chiaki thrills the crowd by singing rock songs. (en)
- A boy from Yushi’s class, Takenaka, turns up at Kotobuki-sō, with several delinquents who force their way inside to see the girls living in the apartment, and threaten to burn the place down. Yushi fights with all 6 of them until several other residents come to his defence, including several terrifying Oni. The delinquents are thoroughly beaten up by Akira for making a mess of the garden. At the farewell party to mark the end of Yushi’s stay he is given a necklace by Antiquary containing some of Ryu’s magical hair, which Akine says a prayer over. After moving into the student dorm with 2 other roommates Yushi finds no one seems willing to make friends with each other and misses his friends from Kotobuki-sō, deciding the student dorm feels too much like living at his uncles house. He later sees Takenaka and the delinquents being arrested for drug dealing and worries that if he had not turned down Takenaka’s offer of friendship earlier in the year, he might not have gotten involved with the delinquents to begin with. He rushes back to Kotobuki-sō but feels so guilty he cannot bring himself to go inside. (en)
- Yushi knocks Miura unconscious with a magical explosion then hides Miura to disguise the actions of the Id Monster. Fool congratulates Yushi on his progress since he and the other book spirits are now able to react instinctively to his desires. At Kotobuki-sō Akine suggests the Id Monster has fixated on Tashiro because her outgoing personality is the exact opposite of Miura’s misery and it became jealous. Yushi goes to the hospital and witnesses Miura attack Tashiro again, only as the Id monster awakens it is absorbed by a paper doll that had been pretending to be Tashiro and is sealed away by Akine. Despite being cured Miura continues to rant about how much he hates women. Realising that Miura will always be a misogynist Akine and Yushi walk away. The next day Yushi is lured away by Miura who attempts to murder him, forcing Yushi to use his explosion spell again, injuring himself and damaging the school. Yushi is unhappy with how the situation ended but is cheered up by the residents of Kotobuki-sō and Hase, who insists he train harder. A month later life has returned to normal with Yushi fleeing from delinquents and looking forward to summer. (en)
- As the culture festival approaches, Toshiro gives Yushi a lot of background on Yamamoto; she was a good student at her previous school but grew more and more angry and contentious as she tried to match her older sister's achievements. We see Yamamoto around town, grumbling and growling at everyone for not appreciating her. Yushi tries to talk with Yamamoto in the library, but she sarcastically sends him away. Meanwhile, Yushi realizes that Chiaki's relaxed attitude is a way of showing students that he trusts them; discipline has improved because Chiaki has befriended so many students. (en)
- Yushi catches Tashiro and stops her being injured while Miura runs away. Tashiro decides to learn more about Miura and leaves. Yushi learns from his book spirits that the energy inside the closet is the remnants of powerful emotions left behind by the author of the graffiti that have now manifested as an Id Monster, strong negative emotions that have possessed Miura and increased his already present fear of women. While talking to a female student, Miura has flashbacks to a traumatic event in his past, suffers a panic attack and is taken to hospital. Yushi considers whether an exorcism would help but after listening to the advice of Kotobuki-sō’s other residents decides performing an exorcism is too difficult. Yushi receives a call from Tashiro who had learned that Miura’s first teaching job was at a prestigious all girls’ high school but after an unspecified incident with the girls of the drama club his whole personality changed, his loss of pride and self-confidence making him a perfect vessel for the Id Monster. Yushi and Tashiro go to the hospital to visit Miura, but Miura, once again being controlled by the monster, attacks Tashiro with a knife. (en)
- Hase demands to know what Fool is but decides to wait until after the fight. Yushi summons a water spirit and a lightning spirit and manages to electrocute several delinquents while Hase beats up the others. The fight is won when a hippogriff Yushi summoned causes all the delinquents to faint from shock. Hase is surprisingly mature about Yushi being master to an actual magic book and suggests he learn how to use it more effectively. When Akine learns Yushi is now the books master she becomes convinced he has some supernatural potential that has grown since he first came to Kotobuki-sō. She warns him that summoning spirits costs spiritual energy and decides to begin training him to increase his energy so he won’t die accidentally, which mostly consists of chanting sutras that put him in magical trances for hours at a time, consuming vast quantities of food, and sleeping. After a week of training Yushi decides it is time to tell Hase the truth. Hase then telephones him and tells him he will visit Kotobuki-sō the next day. (en)
- Yushi is studying hard for midterms. Antiquary shows the group an "omnidimensional 3D projector", and they find themselves flying over a strange landscape with huge creatures. They're attacked by a man who calls Antiquary "a Heretic of the Far Reaches". He and Antiquary battle magically; Antiquary tells Yushi "farewell" and removes his eyepatch, at which point everyone finds themselves back at the apartments, with Antiquary and the projector missing. Furuhonya tells them the attacker was a "miracle hunter" from the "Secret Church", an agency that tries to hide the existence of magic.
Later, Furuhonya drags Yushi away from his studies to show the group a bottle of "the elixir of immortality" that he brought back from a trek. Dr. Fujiyuki from the yokai hospital analyzes the bottle and says the elixir is real, but the bottle is empty. When it's opened, the bottle is found to have one drop left; several of the group touch it and lick their fingers, and Fujiyuki says they have probably extended their lifespan by about seven months. (en)
- Yushi and others are stressing through midterms. Chiaki catches a student cheating with his cell-phone and gets really angry. Chiaki calls all the students to an assembly and announces that the old ban on phones will now be enforced; he stomps on the offenders phone and says the same will be done with any phone found on school grounds. Aoki steps up and says he has gone too far, and most of the students shout and chant against Chiaki. Yushi uses Fool to knock over the microphone, so that everyone is interrupted. This gives the student president the chance to call for order. She negotiates with Chiaki to allow students to have phones, but if misused they'll be confiscated instead of destroyed. Both Hase and Fool speculate that Chiaki overreacted in order to get the students to support the lesser punishment. (en)
- Yushi takes an interest in Kuri and Shiro and meets their adoptive mother, Akane, a spirit beast who guards the nearby Shinto Shrine. She explains that Kuri’s real mother was abandoned by her boyfriend when she became pregnant with Kuri and eventually came to hate him. The only love Kuri ever received was from Shiro, a stray dog. Kuri’s mother eventually murdered Kuri so Shiro mauled her to death before himself being beaten to death as a mad dog. His mother’s madness left a mark on Kuri that prevents him from going to heaven, and her soul keeps trying to attack him, but is kept at bay by the apartment’s barrier. That night the mother, whose soul has completely deteriorated into insanity, attempts to penetrate the barrier but is repelled by Akane and disappears. Yushi, who cannot understand why a mother would hate her own son, is overcome by wanting to see his own mother again and breaks down in tears in Akine’s room. The next day everything is back to normal but Yushi is embarrassed to learn he cried himself to sleep in Akine’s lap and was carried back to his room like a baby by Akira. (en)
- Yushi spends a three-day weekend at his job with Kenzaki Movers, where he is put in charge of two new part-timers: college men named Sasaki and Kawashima. The new guys are quiet and standoffish, and Yushi has to figure out how to direct and communicate with them. The new guys handle one package incorrectly and Yushi and his boss have to take responsibility; but in the end both the college guys and Yushi have learned from the job. (en)
- Yushi decides to stay at Kotobuki-sō and the residents throw him a welcome party. Yushi meets Akira Fukase, a human artist who owns a dog named Cigar, a man named Antiquary, a dealer of magical items, a drunken ghost lady named Mariko who states she has “reasons” for not going to heaven yet, and Ryu, a powerful psychic whom all the ghosts respect. The next day after school Yushi attends club activities with his classmate, Tashiro, and while walking home he appears to experience a psychic flash of Tashiro being injured. Tashiro is immediately hit by a motorbike. When Yushi holds Tashiro’s hand all her pain flows into him as a form of spiritual corruption, which is hurriedly exorcised by Akine. Akine explains Yushi has the ability to perform psychic healing by taking a person’s suffering into himself and healing their injuries, though the suffering must then be removed from him by an exorcist. The apartment chef, Ruriko, starts making Yushi boxed lunches for school every day. (en)
- After several weeks away from Kotobuki-sō, Yushi is finding it harder to believe his ghost friends ever actually existed and throws himself into his schoolwork and a part time job to distract himself, but finds himself still wishing to see them. He bumps into Sato, a Yokai from Kotobuki-sō and is relieved that he didn’t just imagine living there. Sato encourages him to keep moving forward, no matter how bad life gets. Yushi gets in touch with his best friend, Hase, who he has not spoken to in months and they reminisce about the past and their plans for the future. Yushi then gets a surprise visit from his cousin, Eri, who was worried he hadn’t visited since he moved out of his uncle’s house. It turns out Eri had never hated him, she was just uncomfortable living with him due to how he seemed to hate living with them, but the thought of never seeing him again made her sad. The two reconcile with each other and Yushi is motivated to move out of the student dormitory and back into Kotobuki-sō, where everybody welcomes him back, having known he would return when he was ready. (en)
- Yushi senses something, similar to his premonition about Tashiro's accident, and sees a girl who is about to jump off a roof. She talks about why she wants to die, but before she jumps, Fool appears before her. In her surprise and fright, she jumps back to Yushi. She's a sixth grader named Yumi Asada; she tracks down Yushi to thank him, talking more about the problems she has been having. Over the next few days, Yumi intercepts Yushi several times around town, until he finally agrees to let her come along with him to the Foreigners' Club social. At the party, Yushi gets drafted to help 'dub' an anime for the English speakers. On the way home, they meet the delinquents that Yumi had been hanging out with. Yumi tells them off, and when they threaten her, Yushi uses the Petit power to stun them. Yumi straightens herself out, deciding because of meeting the people at the party that she'd like to learn English. (en)
- Ruriko is making much festival food like takoyaki, cotton candy, and caramel apples. Meanwhile Yamamoto’s family are encouraging her sister but telling Yamamoto not to over exert herself. In the club, Yamamoto insults everyone, calling their play preschool-ish. She drops her resignation letter at the president’s feet and goes into an angry rant. Yushi sees her extremely negative aura. Aoki steps in to apologize to Yamamoto on behalf of “everyone”; the other students refuse, and Aoki leads Yamamoto out. Yamamoto joins the flock of girls who look up to and hang around Aoki.
The yokai are in festival mode; they even have goldfish scooping in the dining hall. At the school the night before the festival, Yushi senses evil intent similar to the suicide; he finds Chiaki has been slashed. He stops the girl who did it, who admits it was because she was offended that Chiaki doesn’t go along with Aoki. Chiaki is unconscious, and Yushi sends the petit Jin to retrieve the elixir bottle from his room. The last drop heals Chiaki’s wound and revives him. (en)
- Akine starts Yushi on more difficult training that leaves him unable to walk, requiring Akira to carry him to the bath to recover. This continues for a week until he gets used to the training, only to find he has lost weight and has to resist the violent urges he once felt while living at his uncle’s house. Akine insists he get some rest while Reimei assures him the changes to his body and mind are part of his training. Yushi feels better when he learns everyone at Kotobuki-sō acted the same while learning magic. Yushi rededicates himself to training and succeeds in astral projecting his spirit to experience Divine Inspiration, the act of overcoming mental limitations and improving one step further. Akine explains his weight loss and mental instability was the result of the training preparing him to handle higher level magic. As a reward for completing the training Ryu activates Yushi’s third eye, which will allow him to access supernatural intuition in times of need. Fool reveals that the increase in Yushi’s power has also increased the power of Fool and the other book spirits, though Yushi finds Fool's account of their improvement to be rather over exaggerated. (en)
- Summer vacation: Yushi considers putting off paying his rent, but the landlord's lecture convinces him otherwise. Hase returns from a luxury trip to Australia, as usual with gifts for everyone. Antiquary also arrives, and negotiates the sale of a unicorn horn to Hase. Akine decides that she needs a waterfall for Yushi to train under, instead of a hose; and it turns out that the landlord can create that, next to the baths in the basement. Yushi visits his parents' graves, and finds out that they'll have a new teacher when term begins again. (en)
- Despite Yushi’s fears, Hase accepts the ghosts and spirits quite easily and even brought most of them thoughtful gifts. Hase is invited to stay the night and Kuri becomes quite attached to him. Severed spirit heads escape from Furuhonya’s suitcase but are easily subdued by Furuhonya using a magic book similar to Yushi’s. He reveals he is a type of mage known as a Bookmaster, who draws magical power from the spirits of magical books he has made a contract with, which Yushi also has the potential to do. Later, when they are alone, Hase admits he has been terrified all day by the things he has seen but admits it is a good place to live. As they fall asleep Yushi accidentally wakes up Kuri who starts crying. Fool suggests he summon Sirene, a fairy who sings magical songs. With Kuri put to sleep by Sirene’s lullaby Fool says he and the other book spirits are proud of how much Yushi has improved in such a short time. Hase departs the next morning promising to visit again. (en)
- The two new teachers -- a man named Chiaki and a woman named Aoki -- are both young and attractive. Chiaki in particular is 'hip', acting casual and friendly with students. There's also a transfer student in the English Club, a overly serious girl named Yamamoto who is into foreign films and literature. Yamamoto is disdainful and insulting to the others. Yushi discusses her with his neighbors; but after an argument in club, Yamamoto stops attending. (en)
- Yushi becomes even more suspicious of Miura when he thinks girls are flirting with Yushi and reacts angrily. Fool, having heard about the schools haunted storage closet suggests Yushi investigate. Yushi summons fortune-telling Norns to learn about the closet but they turn out to be useless. While observing Miura Yushi is attacked by boys from his class who are jealous of Yushi’s popularity with the girls so Yushi uses magical thunder to knock them unconscious. Yushi is berated by Fool for using the books magic on meaningless nonsense like dealing with bullies since he had hoped that he would have higher aspirations. While investigating the closet Yushi meets Tashiro, a girl from his class, who is also investigating Miura. Inside the closet they find disturbing graffiti proving that years ago somebody with a powerful hatred of women used the closet to spy on girls during gym class and the negative spiritual energy left inside the closet led to the rumours it was haunted. Yashiro is suddenly grabbed by Miura, who appears to have been possessed by the spiritual energy of the graffiti, causing him to hate all women. He picks up Tashiro and violently throws her across the room. (en)
- When training and astral projecting, Yushi begins to see new visions. Reimei and Akine chat with Yushi about the meanings of the full moon, as the apartment dwellers prepare for a moon-viewing party. Akine talks about the hospital where she works; yokai patients from the hospital at join the apartment neighbors for the moon viewing, and several of the ghosts pass on from the party. (en)
- Yushi continues training but insists he has no intention of becoming a mage. After returning to school Yushi notices the new English teacher, Miura Katsumasa, seemingly observing a girls PE lesson and feels a surge of inexplicable anger towards him. He decides to stay away from Miura but Fool becomes suspicious of Miura as well. Hase begins spending all his free time at Kotobuki-sō, acting as Kuri’s father figure. Ryu returns and decides it is a good thing Yushi’s book is a weaker copy of the much more powerful original. Yushi notices a sword scar on Ryu’s shoulder and learns most of the adults have scars from their adventures, including bullet wounds, and that even Reimei was once attacked by a fan with a knife. Yushi and Hase decide the adults at Kotobuki-sō are worth looking up to. A giant Cyclops named Matajuro visits Kotobuki-sō from his village hidden in the mountains. Yushi learns such people are often driven away by humans who are afraid of them and thinks the world would be better if humans were more accepting. Fool decides he has something important to tell Yushi. Meanwhile, a dark aura appears around Yushi’s school. (en)
- Yushi meets Furuhonya for the first time, who has spent a year away from Kotobuki-sō collecting rare and valuable spell books. Akine notices one of the books, which contains paintings of Tarot cards, has had a power sealed away inside it and confiscates it from Furuhonya until she decides it is safe. Furuhonya explains that words in spell books can be dangerous due to the different imaginations of the people changing the words meaning as they read them. That night Yushi is visited by the spirit of the book, which calls itself Fool and insists Yushi is his master and can summon all 22 Tarot spirits from the paintings to do his bidding. Yushi summons several spirits but they prove to be so weak they are practically useless. The next day Yushi is at a diner with Hase and they are accosted by delinquents. Hase takes out the leader with one move causing the delinquents to chase them to a building site where they end up trapped inside with the delinquents breaking down the door. Yushi is contacted by Fool who offers help but is accidentally seen by Hase. (en)
- The apartment dwellers are excited about the culture fair; will they attend?? Students are still grumbling the cell phone rules and about Chiaki, who has been missing classes. For the fair, Yushi's class is running an oni-hunting game; English Conversation Club is writing a play; Yamamoto's class is holding a cafe. In both club and class, Yamamoto doesn't participate, glowering and grumbling. Antiquary returns, but won't explain what happened to him; he has seifu and other school uniforms for all the yokai. Yushi chats with Chiaki, and notices a black aura on his chest; he tries to remove the damage as he did with Tashiro. Chiaki tells him he has anemia, but he does feel slightly better. On the way home, Yushi passes out because he unknowingly took the damage onto himself. Akine makes sure he's OK. (en)
- Aoki is rather uptight: reading a bible verse in class, correcting Chiaki for being too familiar with students, and patronizing Yushi in several ways because he is "suffering" the loss of his parents. The English Conversation club president scolds Yamamoto for not helping the group plan for the Foreigners' Club social, and when she runs out crying, Aoki scolds the club members for "bullying". Chiaki reassures Aoki -- and Yushi -- that there's plenty of evidence Yushi is doing fine. (en)
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