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- Late March 2097, the Brazilian government's utilization of their strategic magician creates chaos and fear to non-magicians throughout the world, causing a political cold war to take place. The New Soviet Union mounts an attack on Japan's navy, forcing Tatsuya to intervene. As tensions between the world's superpowers rise, the USNA and New Soviet Union make plans to neutralize Tatsuya. (en)
- The thesis competition begins in Yokohama where an army led by Chen initiates their attack. During the battle, Tatsuya's power and military status is revealed to his close peers; the battle concludes with Tatsuya using matter detonation, a strategic level magic, to destroy the invading naval ship and subsequently an entire Great Asian Alliance harbor. (en)
- December 2095, following a black hole experiment in the USNA, deserters from the military flee to Japan. The Stars military unit pursue in order to execute the deserters and investigate the magician behind matter detonation. [[#Angelina Kudo Shields (en)
- Jiedo's plan succeeds, inciting several hate crimes towards magicians throughout the world. The master clans makes plans to quell public outrage as well as attempts to capture Jiedo. The volume ends with Miyuki and her friends defending themselves against a group of anti-magicians. (en)
- Tatsuya defeats Angelina while the Yotsuba clan forces Stars to stand down. Knowing that the eleven other parasites will attempt to retrieve Pixy, Tatsuya's group uses her as bait. Several magic clans attempt to capture the parasites resulting in a large-scale battle. This concludes with Tatsuya and Miyuki destroying nine of the parasites, leaving the remaining two in the custody of the Kudo and Yotsuba clan. As Tatsuya and Miyuki enter their second year, Maya has [[#Minami Sakurai (en)
- July 2095, the Nine School Competition is Japan's national sporting event which pits the nine magic schools against each other. Miyuki is elected as a contestant while Tatsuya reluctantly joins the team as an engineer. During the competition, an international criminal syndicate named No Head Dragon makes several attempts to rig the contest by sabotaging First High, which eventually injures their teammate, [[#Mari Watanabe (en)
- March 2097, Japan has recently completed an artificial island in Okinawa to mine resources from the ocean. In response, a rebellion cell from the Great Asian Alliance and the Australian military work together to destroy the island in order to keep the world's power in check. The Yotsuba send Tatsuya to pacify the saboteurs and to protect the island. At the same time, the senior class of First High's graduation party is taking place nearby. As the attack on the island commences, members of First High and Tatsuya quell and capture the rebels. (en)
- April 2095, the siblings, [[#Tatsuya Shiba (en)
- November 2095 & August 2092, [[#Maya Yotsuba (en)
- July 2096, the Kudo clan have managed to create androids powered by parasites. In order to test these weapons, they decided to place these androids as obstacles in the Steeplechase event of the Nine Schools Competition. Aware of the dangers these weapons would pose to Miyuki, Tatsuya infiltrates and neutralizes the androids before the other players arrive. Behind the scenes, Zhou attempts to sabotage the parasites to discredit magicians as a way to denounce the Yotsuba; fed up with his actions, the Yotsuba begin their manhunt for him. (en)
- The Tooyama clan, a magician branch loyal to the government, evaluate Tatsuya as a threat. Several black ops led by Tsukasa Tooyama are used to assess Tatsuya's abilities and to determine a countermeasure should he become an enemy of the country. In retaliation, Tatsuya is ordered by Maya to break into the Tooyama stronghold and to free the captured USNA soldiers based within Japan; he succeeds and Tooyama ends her operations, having discovered the Jumonji clan can stop Tatsuya. (en)
- January 2097, Tatsuya and Miyuki adjust to their daily life as their ties to the Yotsuba and engagement have become public knowledge. Meanwhile, a meeting between the master clans take place where they discuss three topics: possible members of the master clan, Tatsuya and Miyuki's marriage, and Saegusa's coalition with the deceased Zhou. Jiedo Heigu, the leader of the organized crime group and Zhou's boss, initiates several bombings against the master clans in order to discredit the magic community. (en)
- September 2096, Tatsuya is "requested" to participate in the hunt for Zhou by his aunt Maya Yotsuba. Several clues reveal Zhou is hidden by the traditionalist magicians. Tatsuya requests aid from the Kudo clan who are knowledgeable about the traditionalist. Led by Minoru Kudo, Tatsuya's group confronts the traditionalists in Nara but are unable to find Zhou, leaving Kyoto as the remaining location. Meanwhile, the Saegusa head sends an assassin to kill Zhou in order to destroy any evidence of their coalition. The assassin is killed instead, spurring Mayumi to request Tatsuya's aid in finding his killer. (en)
- Tatsuya and his companions investigate Zhou's whereabouts in Kyoto and eventually catch and corner him. Zhou then commits suicide, proclaiming someone else will resume his duties. Tatsuya's success forces members of the Yotsuba who despise him to allow Maya to proceed with her plans. (en)
- It is revealed No Head Dragon has placed bets on the competition and require First High to lose. Tatsuya, [[#Leonhard Saijo (en)
- Tatsuya garners the attention of an anti-magician organization called Blanche, who send a classmate named Sayaka Mibu to recruit him. After Tatsuya declines her invitation, Blanche invades First High to steal its research. Tatsuya and friends foil their attempt and attacks their headquarters in return. Learning that the head of Blanche used mind controlling magic on Sayaka and other student collaborators, Tatsuya was able to establish their innocence, absolving them of any crime. (en)
- October 2095, Tatsuya is asked to partake in the school's thesis competition. At the same time, his step-mother places an OOPart capable of storing magic into his care. Chen Xiangshan, a military captain from the Great Asian Alliance, leads a team in order to steal the OOPart. During the course of the novel, two First High students affiliated with Chen are detained by authorities after they were caught stealing information from First High's thesis project. (en)
- April 2096, Tatsuya and Miyuki's second year begins. A student named Takumi Shippou holds a displaced grudge towards the Saegusa twins, Kasumi and Izumi, causing conflict throughout the novel. Eventually, Takumi's arrogance is quelled by Tatsuya and friends. Meanwhile, [[#Zhou Gongjin (en)
- December 2096, Miyuki is summoned to the Yotsuba New Years meeting to commemorate her as the next head of the clan. Several bunke members of the clan attempt to derail Miyuki's attendance as her succession will elevate Tatsuya's status. Upon their arrival, Miyuki is appointed as the next head, and the origins of Tatsuya and Miyuki's birth is revealed. While they are born from the same gametes, Miyuki was genetically modified to act as a seal to his powers. In the next meeting, Maya announces Tatsuya's engagement to Miyuki. (en)
- Tatsuya arrives and neutralizes the anti-magician group. With Miyuki by his side, Tatsuya uses his full powers to search for Jiedo and relay the location to the Yotsuba. The master clans then assemble a unit to capture Jiedo, who is instead killed by the USNA during the mission. (en)
- Tatsuya deduces the deserters are possessed by sentient psychic energy beings which came from the magic dimension during the black hole experiment and are dubbed as parasites. When one of the parasites enters First High, it is defeated by Tatsuya's group and possess the android known as [[#Pixie (en)
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