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| - Two fairy soldiers, Nopht and Rhantolk, are on a mission to escort a group of salvagers to the surface. There, they met one of Willem’s friend, Grick. Pondering about the Beasts that are related to their own reasons of being, Rhantolk begins questioning about them to Grick. (en)
- Chtholly wasn’t sure if she can keep her individuality. Ithea came to her and revealed that Chtholly wasn’t the only one that had problems with memories from previous life. Ithea begun telling a story about “a certain girl” whose individuality was eroded by her past life’s memory. (en)
- Willem and Nephren pull an all-nighter in archives looking for a way for Chtholly to avoid death. Upon discovering them in the morning, Chtholly rebukes them for trying to alter her fate, so Willem takes Chtholly outside for a sparring duel. With both wielding Dug Weapons, Willem handily defeats Chtholly, explaining that the leprechauns' unrefined fighting technique and their lack of knowledge about the Dug Weapons is what prevents them from greater success. This angers Chtholly, as it would mean their sacrifices were for naught, only for Willem to suddenly collapse from internal bleeding. Nygglatho manages to stabilize him. Later at night, she explains to the girls that she found Willem's petrified state frozen in ice years earlier, and managed to thaw and cure him. With Willem using an universal translator, they were able to discover that Willem is the world's last human, now known as "emnetwihts" and ridiculed by all other hypersentient species; despite this, all the girls react to him with curiosity except Chtholly, who in her distress flies away and meets with the lizard-man, revealed to be named Limeskin. He reassures her that Willem is simply trying to push against her nature, but advises her to act as she desires. Chtholly returns to the island, where she discovers Willem performing maintenance on her sword, and he explains that Dug Weapons are made from people's wishes. She decides to accept Willem's offer of properly teaching her; at her request, she also asks for Willem to make her buttercake should she return safely, unaware that Willem had been promised to have the exact same thing by the girl who saw him off before he left to fight the beasts. Chtholly, Ithea, and Nephren then leave to go fight the beasts. (en)
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- Nephren, Rhantolk, and Nopht fought back against the swarm of Timere, but their overwhelming numbers gradually pushed the fairies into a corner. Willem enters the fray and fought the Timere with his wounded body. In her last moment, Chtholly asked one last request to Elq. (en)
- Willem met with Rhantolk and Nopht, and immediately provided maintenance for the venenum poisoning in their body. Even so, Rhantolk still cannot trust the sole survivor of the Emnetwiht who was wiped out by the 17 Beasts. (en)
- Over two weeks after Chtholly’s group left, Willem continues to watch over the girls, but begins experiencing nightmares that the trio have all died on their mission. Eventually, one of the girls, Tiat, has a special dream of her talking to someone unfamiliar; this dream, called a Harbinger Dream, requires a checkup immediately afterwards. To do this, Willem and Tiat travel to Corna de Luce, an island where human-like creatures and beastmen live in harmony, for Tiat to get checked at a hospital. As the island was the filming location for several romance films, of which Tiat is a fan, Willem and her go on a minor sightseeing tour of various film locales. After concluding their tour at a famous statue of the city’s founder, they witness beastmen attacking the shop of another beastman for an unspecified reason; Willem covertly intervenes, allowing the former to be arrested. While Tiat gets her checkup, Willem talks to the head doctor, who tells him that the Harbinger Dream is said to be an indicator that a Leprechaun has reached the age of maturity and can fight in combat. Tiat, like other girls, must receive the checkup to determine how to best prepare their body accordingly. Willem is privately distraught at Tiat being sent into battle at such a young age. Later, while spending the night at a military compound, Willem wakes up early and goes for a walk. He runs into a dog beastwoman, who reveals she is concealing a weapon and requests Willem deliver a message to Limeskin. Before he can confirm, they receive world from other officers that the battle has failed. Willem collapses in despair, only for Limeskin and all three girls to walk into the compound perfectly fine. Overwhelmed, Willem uses magic to run to Chtholly and hug her , only for her to slap him in return. (en)
- Still being a bit awkward due to the proposal from the previous day, Willem and Chtolly met up with Grick to check up the ruins of Willem’s birthplace, Gomag City. All of the sudden, a huge earthquake happened and a swarm of Timere appeared. (en)
- Willem was summoned to the military base on Island 49 regarding the situation with the salvagers on the surface. Much to Willem’s displeasure, he was ordered to send one fairy soldier from the warehouse to the surface. (en)
- Chtholly and the other fairies returned to the warehouse, while Willem went to meet his old friend, the Great Sage, Souwong. The two of them reminisces the past. (en)
- Willem introduces himself to all the girls, but they cower from him due to never having spent time around men. He eventually befriends two of the ones Chtholly's age, Ithea and Nephren, and manages to win the rest over by cooking for them. Ithea teases Chtholly for having feelings for Willem. While watching the girls play dodgeball, one falls off a small cliff and badly injures her head, only for everyone but Willem to act indifferently. Unnerved, Willem has a reluctant Nygglatho tell him who the girls actually are. Five centuries earlier, humanity created seventeen beasts which proceeded to exterminate humanity, leading their fantastical descendants to become the dominant species. Nygglatho explains that the girls are leprechauns, who have replicated human behavior and thus are the only creatures who are able to wield Dug Weapons, the only weapons able to kill the seventeen beasts; however, their bodies are subsequently built to be expendable and thus they have no fear of death. Ithea and Chtholly soon leave for several days to fight one of the beasts but return safely. Picking them up and encountering the lizard-man again, Willem tells Ithea that he intends to stay with the girls because they remind him of someone he knew in a similar situation. While tending to Chtholly, she warns Willem that in five days time, the beasts intend to launch a giant ball of energy which can be only be destroyed by a suicidal charge from the girls, with her being the one to do so this time. As a final request, she has him kiss her good night. Chtholly goes back to sleep, as Willem remembers that "someone", a red-haired girl named Lillia. (en)
- Eighteen hours earlier, Chtholly, Ithea, and Nephren fight against the beast, but when it takes on a new form Limeskin orders a strategic retreat, forcing the island in question to be abandoned. Chtholly attempts to disobey this and keep fighting, but she suddenly experiences a vision of a young girl speaking cryptic, haunting words that briefly turns her eyes red. In the present, while they update Willem on the events, Chtholly blames herself for not going through with the suicidal attack, but Nephren consoles her. They are interrupted by the dog beastwoman Willem encountered, revealed to be Limeskin’s friend’s daughter Phyra. She gives Limeskin evidence of death threats against her father, Corna de Luce’s mayor, due to his support of racial integration, by a group of supremacists known as the Annihilation Knights. She asks for military support at an upcoming rally, but everyone in the room, though sympathetic, declines due to military policy forbidding them from interfering in local affairs, and also to avoid escalating the conflict. Despite their rejection, Phyra still accompanies Willem and the leprechauns as they retrieve Tiat, then proceeds to treat them to lunch and take them on the sightseeing tour Willem earlier promised Tiat. During the tour, Chtholly continues to have the visions she experienced during the battle, but decides not to tell the rest. Later, Willem notices the Annihilation Knights are following them with the intent of kidnapping Phyra. He and the girls lure them into an alley, where he proceeds to handily defeat them by using magic to lethally flip coins at him, then has them arrested. Though grateful for defeating them, Phyra chastises him for using her as bait, then departs. As evening approaches, Chtholly pulls Willem to the side and makes him admit that he wanted a fight out of an innate suicidal desire. Willem then further admits that, though longing for death with the absence of the people he left behind, he has found a potential new family in the girls, explaining his earlier reaction and hug; hearing this, Chtholly realizes she is in love with him. Just as they are about to leave, Willem is approached by an officer who tells him that someone named Souwong would like to meet with him. Recognizing that name, Willem sends the girls home without joining them. (en)
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