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->''I don't know what to do,\\
I don't know what to say,\\
'Cause no one knows what she puts me through anyway.\\
I'm awake in disaster.\\
I can't seem to get past her.\\
I try and I try, but I can't get away.''
-->-- "Angel To You", by Music/TheClickFive
I don't know what to say,\\
'Cause no one knows what she puts me through anyway.\\
I'm awake in disaster.\\
I can't seem to get past her.\\
I try and I try, but I can't get away.''
-->-- "Angel To You", by Music/TheClickFive
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** When a summoning ceremony occurs, all the summoners and vessels involved also become invisible to electronic sensors.
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** When a summoning ceremony occurs, all the summoners and vessels involved also become invisible to electronic sensors. sensors.
* JustSoStory: It becomes clear near the end of the story that it’s like a mythological prelude, explaining [[spoiler:how the Material and human worlds reconciled, why the two kinds are equal in the present day, and how various Materials (including those who used to be human) worked together to create society as we know it.]]
* JustSoStory: It becomes clear near the end of the story that it’s like a mythological prelude, explaining [[spoiler:how the Material and human worlds reconciled, why the two kinds are equal in the present day, and how various Materials (including those who used to be human) worked together to create society as we know it.]]
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* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: Summoners and vessels who've lost a summoning battle temporarily fall to this level.
** Type 0: Normal humans.
** Type 2: Summoners and vessels who haven't summoned a Material.
** Type 3: Summoners and vessels who have summoned a Material; Regulation-Class Materials.
** Type 4: Divine Class Materials.
** Type 5: Unexplored-Class Materials, barring the White Queen.
** Type 7: The White Queen, [[spoiler:the Black Maw That Swallows All, Wisdom and the Colorless Little Girl]].
** Type -1: Summoners and vessels who've lost a summoning battle temporarily fall to this level.
** Type 0: Normal humans.
** Type 2: Summoners and vessels who haven't summoned a Material.
** Type 3: Summoners and vessels who have summoned a Material; Regulation-Class Materials.
** Type 4: Divine Class Materials.
** Type 5: Unexplored-Class Materials, barring the White Queen.
** Type 7: The White Queen, [[spoiler:the Black Maw That Swallows All, Wisdom and the Colorless Little Girl]].
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It's believed that reaching Award 1000 results in a transformation into a Material, becoming part of the other world. However, multiple summoners appear in the series who have reached this level but have remained human. [[spoiler:It's finally demonstrated in the Volume 8 finale, where Madam Professor reappears as a Divine-Class Material. Another example is Kyousuke's little sister, who seemingly managed to be reincarnated as the Colorless Little Girl.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.
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* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It's believed that reaching Award 1000 results in a transformation into a Material, becoming part of the other world. However, multiple summoners appear in the series who have reached this level but have remained human. [[spoiler:It's finally demonstrated in the Volume 8 finale, where Madam Professor reappears as a Divine-Class Material. Another example is Kyousuke's little sister, who seemingly managed to be reincarnated as the Colorless Little Girl.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The version of Kyousuke's backstory given in Volume 1 is quite different from that of later volumes. Discrepancies include [[spoiler:the White Queen manipulating him into permanently summoning her, implied sex between them, and Kyousuke letting his enemies die]]- none of which happened in "canon".
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking:
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Although the Siblings did nothing sexual while impersonating Kyousuke, their crime had the effect of a [[BedTrick rape by deception]]. Shigara describes the "painful, heart-breaking, and disgusting" guilt his girlfriend felt upon being deceived in such a way, and Kyousuke dealt with his feelings over it by [[BlamingTheVictim accusing said girlfriend of not truly loving him]].
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** For the latter half of Volume 2, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] provides information to Kyousuke on the villains' plans. [[spoiler: However this was part of her plan to have Kyousuke unwittingly voluntarily give up the chance to save someone and cause him to break]]
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** For the latter half of Volume 2, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] provides information to Kyousuke on the villains' plans. [[spoiler: However this was part of her plan to have Kyousuke unwittingly voluntarily give up the chance to save someone and cause him to break]]someone, which would break him]].
* InherentInTheSystem: The summoning system sucks for ''everyone'' involved (probably because it was formalized by Doctor S, an abusive douchebag). Summoners are forgotten by all {{Muggles}}, even their friends and family. Vessels are vulnerable to brainwashing and can be forced to lose memories against their will. Materials are periodically yanked from their own lives to fight for summoners who treat them like furniture. And summoning is so limited in time and effect that it can't be used for anything but battle.
* NewTransferStudent: Oddly for the genre, occurs at the ''end'' of the story rather than the beginning. [[spoiler:The White Queen acclimates to the human world by attending Kyousuke's school, taking the window seat [[ConvenientlySeated usually reserved]] for the MagicalGirlfriend]].
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** Kyousuke's ChronicHeroSyndrome is an attempt to atone for a past example of this. [[spoiler:He managed to summon the White Queen permanently, and got the idea of using her power to help fix the world. But due to various factors (others trying to usurp control of the Queen, Materials being summoned automatically by the Queen's presence) this led to the Queen turning evil and causing countless deaths]].
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** Kyousuke's ChronicHeroSyndrome is an attempt to atone for a past example of this. [[spoiler:He managed to summon the White Queen permanently, and got the idea of using her power to help fix the world. But due to various factors (others trying to usurp control of the Queen, Materials being summoned automatically by the Queen's presence) presence, etc.) this led to the Queen turning evil and causing countless deaths]].
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* BigGood: The White Queen is seen as this by everyone connected to the supernatural world. [[spoiler:The problem is [[SubvertedTrope that all of it is a facade]]]]. She's actually an insane EldritchAbomination who doesn't care about any humans, save Kyousuke because {{Yandere}}]].
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* BigGood: The White Queen is seen as this by everyone connected to the supernatural world. [[spoiler:The problem is [[SubvertedTrope that all of it is a facade]]]]. She's actually an insane EldritchAbomination who doesn't care only cares about any humans, save Kyousuke because {{Yandere}}]].her [[{{Yandere}} toy]].]]
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* ElementalMotifs: Most of the White Queen and Kyousuke's important interactions occur near water, like the canals of Toydream 35 and the beach above the Miniature Garden. Ironically, the flexibility that water usually symbolizes is absent from both of their personalities.
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* ExactWords: In the opening, the narrator informs us that "even a single love can bring an end to the world." [[spoiler:But it is not ''this one''!]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Materials are seen as no more than tools for the use of humans, reflected in their name. [[spoiler:Kyousuke once wanted to change this attitude, by summoning and befriending the White Queen, but it went horribly wrong]].
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Materials are seen as no more than tools for the use of humans, reflected in their name. [[spoiler:Kyousuke once wanted to change this attitude, attitude by summoning and befriending the White Queen, but it went horribly wrong]].wrong]].
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: A negative example. Many characters pressure the White Queen to be what ''they'' want from a supreme god, regardless of what she can or wants to do. The main reason Kyousuke tries to kill her (something he doesn't do to any other criminal) is because ''what'' she is makes him hold her to higher standards.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: A negative example. Many characters pressure the White Queen to be what ''they'' want from a supreme god, regardless of what she can or wants to do. The main reason Kyousuke tries to kill her (something he doesn't do to any other criminal) is because ''what'' she is makes him hold her to higher standards.
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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: The White Queen is seen the most beautiful of both Materials and Humans.
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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: The White Queen is seen as the most beautiful of both Materials and Humans.humans.
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** Kyousuke [[spoiler:was part of a project that took in children who'd witnessed the White Queen and raised them as summoners, hoping to have one of them summon the Queen so she could be killed. He eventually created and used a method of summoning the Queen permanently, but she (for reasons still not revealed) immediately fell in love with him. The overseers of the project eventually had the other children mimic Kyousuke's behavior to steal control of the Queen, but this went horribly wrong and caused her to become violently obsessed with Kyousuke. This led to the Secret War, in which countless summoners (including half of the project's children) were killed, destabilising the world]].
** Aika [[spoiler:was the grand-daughter of President Toydream. She became a summoner, hoping to impress him by being like one of the heroines of the fairy tales he wrote. However, she gained the permanent InvisibleToNormals nature of all summoners, causing all normal people to forget about her]].
** Aika [[spoiler:was the grand-daughter of President Toydream. She became a summoner, hoping to impress him by being like one of the heroines of the fairy tales he wrote. However, she gained the permanent InvisibleToNormals nature of all summoners, causing all normal people to forget about her]].
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** Kyousuke [[spoiler:was part of a project that took in children who'd witnessed the White Queen and raised them as summoners, hoping to have one of them summon the Queen so she could be killed. He eventually created and used a method of summoning the Queen permanently, but she (for reasons still not revealed) immediately fell in love with him. The overseers of the project eventually had the other children mimic Kyousuke's behavior to steal control of the Queen, but this went horribly wrong and caused her to become violently obsessed with Kyousuke. This led to the Secret War, in which countless summoners (including half of the project's children) were killed, destabilising the world]].
world]]. His situation before all this was even worse, as he was [[spoiler:abused physically and emotionally by his father, who murdered everyone else in the family once they no longer proved useful.]]
** Aika [[spoiler:was the grand-daughter of President Toydream. She became a summoner, hoping to impress him by being like one of the heroinesof in the fairy tales he wrote. However, she gained the permanent InvisibleToNormals nature of all summoners, causing all normal people to forget about her]].
** Aika [[spoiler:was the grand-daughter of President Toydream. She became a summoner, hoping to impress him by being like one of the heroines
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* TheGlomp: How [[spoiler:the White Queen]] first met Kyousuke. Since she was also OneHeadTaller at the time, it's also a case of MarshmallowHell.
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* TheGlomp: How [[spoiler:the White Queen]] first met Kyousuke. Since she was also OneHeadTaller at the time, it's also it was a case of MarshmallowHell.
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* NotDistractedByTheSexy. Kyousuke. In Volume 6, he holds a normal conversation with Aika while Lu Niang Lan and [[spoiler:Biondetta]] are pressing their bodies against him.
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** How Kyousuke, Aika, and Lu Niang Lan became friends. Given that they belong to rival factions and first met while fighting each other, it must be quite the story.
** What [[spoiler:Shigara]] was doing in between her ascension and return to the story in Volume 8.
*NotDistractedByTheSexy. NotDistractedByTheSexy: Kyousuke. In Volume 6, he holds a normal conversation with Aika while Lu Niang Lan and [[spoiler:Biondetta]] are pressing their bodies against him.
** What [[spoiler:Shigara]] was doing in between her ascension and return to the story in Volume 8.
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--> '''Lu:''' What are you saying, Kyousuke-chan? Pant… This was all your doing, Kyousuke-chan... Pant, I told you to stop, but you went for it anyway…
--> '''Lu:''' What are you saying, Kyousuke-chan? Pant… This was all your doing, Kyousuke-chan... Pant, I told you to stop, but you went for it anyway…
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'''Lu:''' What are you saying, Kyousuke-chan? Pant… This was all your doing, Kyousuke-chan... Pant, I told you to stop, but you went for it anyway…
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* ObliviousToLove: Kyousuke refuses to acknowledge that [[spoiler:the White Queen is in love with him]], despite her saying it with practically every sentence. Though from his perspective it's justified, seeing [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon what the Queen did]] in the Secret War]].
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* ObliviousToLove: Kyousuke refuses to acknowledge that [[spoiler:the White Queen is in love with him]], despite her saying it with practically every sentence. Though from his perspective it's justified, seeing given [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon what the Queen did]] in the Secret War]].War]] and his crappy childhood.
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* A vessel drinking a summoner's blood forms a contract between them and enables telepathy.
* Members of specific royal bloodlines make especially talented vessels, because they can control the Material they become more precisely.
** In volume 10, [[spoiler:the White Queen saves Kyousuke's life by transferring a drop of her own divine blood into him]]. Also counts as MagicKiss.
* Members of specific royal bloodlines make especially talented vessels, because they can control the Material they become more precisely.
** In volume 10, [[spoiler:the White Queen saves Kyousuke's life by transferring a drop of her own divine blood into him]]. Also counts as MagicKiss.
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* RealityWarper: The White Queen is this, even among other Unexplored-Class. Not only can she perform supposedly-impossible feats (like attacking summoners through a protective circle), but she managed to [[spoiler:defeat all of the other unexplored class - ''whose main purpose is to defeat her'' - and thus achieved complete control over the laws of the world, effectively making her totally invincible]].
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* RealityWarper: The White Queen is this, even among other Unexplored-Class. Not only can she perform supposedly-impossible feats (like attacking summoners through a protective circle), but she managed to [[spoiler:defeat all of the other unexplored class Unexplored-Classes - ''whose main purpose is to defeat her'' - and thus achieved complete control over the laws of the world, effectively making her totally invincible]].
** Volume 9 provides another example; Kyousuke assumes [[spoiler:Shigara]]'s been brainwashed just because of a single statement she made in the previous novel that killing the White Queen isn't the best way to deal with her.
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* ManChild: Well, Woman Child. [[spoiler:The White Queen]] behaves in an extremely childish manner, including destructive tantrums when she doesn't get her way.
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* ManChild: Well, Woman Child.Womanchild. [[spoiler:The White Queen]] behaves in an extremely childish manner, including destructive tantrums when she doesn't get her way.
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* TheCameo: The [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls Of the Week]] occasionally make small appearances in volumes after their initial appearance.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: It's eventually revealed that this is what Kyousuke and the White Queen's fighting boils down to. [[spoiler:Kyousuke is angry because the Queen has killed a lot of his loved ones, explicitly against his wishes, when she was more than capable of using nonlethal force. The Queen is angry because those loved ones badly hurt her, something Kyousuke doesn't really acknowledge, and he'd want her dead even if she sincerely apologized for her crimes and tried to make amends. When a third party finally manages to intervene in the fight, she tells them they're ''both'' being stupid.]]
* TheCameo: The [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls Of the Week]] occasionally make small appearances in volumes after their initialappearance.appearances, and all show up to help SaveTheWorld in the finale.
* TheCameo: The [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls Of the Week]] occasionally make small appearances in volumes after their initial
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** Early in Volume 1, Meinokawa Renge exploits one of the Taboos of the summoning ceremony to turn her opponent's Material into the Black Maw That Swallow All, which automatically kills its controller (an analogy would be that she forced her opponent to hit the 8-ball into a hole). [[spoiler:At the end of the volume, Kyousuke deliberately summons the Black Maw himself while fighting the White Queen. Since the White Queen [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou won't let anyone else but her kill Kyousuke]], she fights the Black Maw and is (temporarily) killed]].
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** Early in Volume 1, Meinokawa Renge exploits one of the Taboos of the summoning ceremony to turn her opponent's Material into the Black Maw That Swallow Swallows All, which automatically kills its controller (an analogy would be that she forced her opponent to hit the 8-ball into a hole). [[spoiler:At the end of the volume, Kyousuke deliberately summons the Black Maw himself while fighting the White Queen. Since the White Queen [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou won't let anyone else but her kill Kyousuke]], she fights the Black Maw and is (temporarily) killed]].
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** In a crossover, the White Queen easily swings around an [[LightNovel/HeavyObject Object]], a superweapon weighing tens of thousands of tons.
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** In a crossover, the White Queen easily swings around an [[LightNovel/HeavyObject [[Literature/HeavyObject Object]], a superweapon weighing tens of thousands of tons.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process
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* UncannyValley: The White Queen has a supernaturally enchanting voice, but her actual words and tone are childish, resulting in this trope.
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Immediately before the turn of the millenium, the Third Summoning Ceremony was discovered. This allowed the gods and other legendary figures of myth to be summoned at the convenience of humans, to do their bidding. But unlike the First and Second Summoning Ceremonies, summoning a being to take over one's mind, and summoning a being into a summoner's body to perform magic, respectively, this new method went further - it allowed beings beyond the gods to be summoned, and replacing someone's place in the world, allowing summoners to command the summoned beings to use any power at their disposal. The beings beyond gods became known as the Unexplored-Class, and at the apex of these stands [[TopGod the White Queen who Wields the Sword of Unsullied Truth]].
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Immediately before the turn of the millenium, millennium, the Third Summoning Ceremony was discovered. This allowed the gods and other legendary figures of myth to be summoned at the convenience of humans, to do their bidding. But unlike the First and Second Summoning Ceremonies, summoning a being to take over one's mind, and summoning a being into a summoner's body to perform magic, respectively, this new method went further - it allowed beings beyond the gods to be summoned, and replacing someone's place in the world, allowing summoners to command the summoned beings to use any power at their disposal. The beings beyond gods became known as the Unexplored-Class, and at the apex of these stands [[TopGod the White Queen who Wields the Sword of Unsullied Truth]].
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** The White Queen has her own unique Awards, outside of the main system: [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Loved by the White]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu White Slayer]]. [[spoiler:Currently, Kyousuke is the only person who possesses Loved by the White, and is the only person to earn White Slayer on his own]].
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** The White Queen has her own unique Awards, outside of the main system: [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Loved by the White]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu White Slayer]]. [[spoiler:Currently, Kyousuke is the only person who possesses Loved by the White, White and is the only person to earn White Slayer on his own]].
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Akura Taisaku, the creator of Operation March Hare, was killed by a copy of the White Queen when Kyousuke discovered and undid the deception in volume 5. A conversation in volume 7 reveals that the Queen killed him but allowed his cells to remain active so he lived on for more than 300 hours while splattered across the walls and ceiling]]
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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Akura Taisaku, the creator of Operation March Hare, was killed by a copy of the White Queen when Kyousuke discovered and undid the deception in volume 5. A conversation in volume 7 reveals that the Queen killed him but allowed his cells to remain active active, so he lived on for more than 300 hours while splattered across the walls and ceiling]]
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** Almost at the beginning of the first volume, the [[EldritchAbomination Black Maw That Swallows All]] is introduced, along with its summoning name and summoning conditions. One of these conditions is a summoner gathering Petals with an equal number of high, medium and low sounds. [[spoiler:The White Queen's summoning name is an anagram of the Black Maw's, and consists of an equal number of letters of each sound range. That's because she and the Black Maw are one and the same]].
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** Almost at the beginning of the first volume, the [[EldritchAbomination Black Maw That Swallows All]] is introduced, along with its summoning name and summoning conditions. One of these conditions is a summoner gathering Petals with an equal number of high, medium and low sounds. [[spoiler:The White Queen's summoning name is an anagram of the Black Maw's, Maw's and consists of an equal number of letters of each sound range. That's because she and the Black Maw are one and the same]].
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] gives off the impression of not thinking things through and being easily distracted. She herself even claims that she doesn't bother planning anything, since, [[spoiler:being the strongest entity in the universe, she doesn't need to]]. However, later volumes confirm that this is a facade. The seventh volume is a notable example: [[spoiler:she impersonates Aoi, Kyousuke's intended vessel for the volume, and is good enough to fool Renge (Aoi's caretaker). During this, she doesn't react to Kyousuke saying the names of other girls (something that was initially presented as her BerserkButton) and even manages to hold his head to her chest without losing control of herself. While Kyousuke figures out the deception, it's implied that she allowed him to do so, since her plan required him to successfully defeat her. And in the end, [[TheBadGuyWins she manages to achieve her main goal]]]].
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] gives off the impression of not thinking things through and being easily distracted. She herself even claims that she doesn't bother planning anything, since, since [[spoiler:being the strongest entity in the universe, she doesn't need to]]. However, later volumes confirm that this is a facade. The seventh volume is a notable example: [[spoiler:she impersonates Aoi, Kyousuke's intended vessel for the volume, and is good enough to fool Renge (Aoi's caretaker). During this, she doesn't react to Kyousuke saying the names of other girls (something that was initially presented as her BerserkButton) and even manages to hold his head to her chest without losing control of herself. While Kyousuke figures out the deception, it's implied that she allowed him to do so, since her plan required him to successfully defeat her. And in the end, [[TheBadGuyWins she manages to achieve her main goal]]]].
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* StarfishRobots: The Released Creations. Unlike other Repliglass technology, these aren't modelled after an existing living organism but instead have an original structure. The only example of this so far is a model of PoweredArmor that has five "wings" on the back. These wings can rotate like a helicopter rotor for flight, or unravel into CombatTentacles.
* StoryBreakerPower: The White Queen is by far the most powerful entity in the entire series, to the point that any Material that isn't another Unexplored-Class is too afraid to even attack her. She is also worshipped as a goddess by an enormous number of people. And she is [[spoiler:utterly devoted to Kyousuke]]. If it weren't for [[spoiler:her also being the most evil entity in the entire series, Kyousuke could easily have her bring about a utopia]].
* StoryBreakerPower: The White Queen is by far the most powerful entity in the entire series, to the point that any Material that isn't another Unexplored-Class is too afraid to even attack her. She is also worshipped as a goddess by an enormous number of people. And she is [[spoiler:utterly devoted to Kyousuke]]. If it weren't for [[spoiler:her also being the most evil entity in the entire series, Kyousuke could easily have her bring about a utopia]].
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* StarfishRobots: The Released Creations. Unlike other Repliglass technology, these aren't modelled after an existing living organism but instead have an original structure. The only example of this so far is a model of PoweredArmor that has five "wings" on the back. These wings can rotate like a helicopter rotor for flight, flight or unravel into CombatTentacles.
* StoryBreakerPower: The White Queen is by far the most powerful entity in the entire series, to the point that any Material that isn't another Unexplored-Class is too afraid to even attack her. She is also worshipped as a goddess by an enormous number of people. And she is [[spoiler:utterly devoted to Kyousuke]]. If it weren't for [[spoiler:her also being themost evil evilest entity in the entire series, Kyousuke could easily have her bring about a utopia]].
* StoryBreakerPower: The White Queen is by far the most powerful entity in the entire series, to the point that any Material that isn't another Unexplored-Class is too afraid to even attack her. She is also worshipped as a goddess by an enormous number of people. And she is [[spoiler:utterly devoted to Kyousuke]]. If it weren't for [[spoiler:her also being the
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** The First Summoning Ceremony is summoning a being to take over one's mind, like dressing in animal furs and then summoning an animal's mind to replace the summoner's own, or dressing like some mythical person and summoning a being to take over the summmoner's body and use the skills of that mythical person.
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** The First Summoning Ceremony is summoning a being to take over one's mind, like dressing in animal furs and then summoning an animal's mind to replace the summoner's own, own or dressing like some mythical person and summoning a being to take over the summmoner's body and use the skills of that mythical person.
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* UncannyValley: The White Queen has a supernaturally-enchanting voice, but her actual words and tone are childish, resulting in this trope.
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** Materials in general fight with animalistic instinct, and are barely-controllable by their summoner. Only very skilled vessels, like Olivia, can make them use even basic tactics like targeting the opponent's weak point.
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* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: The White Queen is seen the most beautiful of both Materials and Humans..
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[[caption-width-right:350:The ‘White’ Queen who Wields the Sword of Unsullied Truth (iu – nu – fb – a – wuh – ei –kx – eu – pl – vjz)]]
Immediately before the turn of the millenium, the Third Summoning Ceremony was discovered. This allowed the gods and other legendary figures of myth to be summoned at the convenience of humans, to do their bidding. But unlike the First and Second Summoning Ceremonies, summoning a being to take over one's mind, and summoning a being into a summoner's body to perform magic, respectively, this new method went further - it allowed beings beyond the gods to be summoned, and replacing someone's place in the world, allowing summoners to command the summoned beings to use any power at their disposal. The beings beyond gods became known as the Unexplored-Class, and at the apex of these stands [[TopGod the White Queen who Wields the Sword of Unsullied Truth]].
Two new professions appeared in the wake of this discovery: summoners and vessels. Summoners made use of two tools - the Blood Sign and the Incense Grenade - to conduct the summoning ceremony. Through this, they called in Materials, the denizens of the world of myth, and bound them to their vessels. The result? Beings of supernatural might, impervious to any mundane threat, and all under the control of the summoner and vessel. In addition, both summoners and vessels gained another quality: whenever they left the sight of ordinary people, they would fade from their memory. [[BlessedWithSuck This was just as much a curse as it was a blessing]], as it meant that they were fundamentally cut off from the normal world.
[[HumansAreWarriors As with many other discoveries in human history]], the summoning ceremony was inevitably used in war. Hidden from the outside world, summoners engaged in countless conflicts against each other. Three great factions formed: Government, an organisation of various nations and major corporations; Illegal, a motley collection of large criminal organisations; and Freedom, a group of summoners and vessels who followed their own paths. Each of these factions became associated with an Unexplored-Class Material. As a member of one of the factions fought and gained achievements in combat, they could be gifted with Awards by the Material that oversaw their faction. It became rumored that a summoner who could obtain a thousand Awards - who could become Award 1000 - [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence would transform into an immortal Material themselves]].
''The Unexplored Summon://Blood Sign'' is a light novel series by Creator/KazumaKamachi. It is complete at ten volumes. It follows the legendary summoner, Kyousuke Shiroyama, also known as "Alice (with) Rabbit". Kyousuke has managed to achieve Award 902, but has a critical weakness: he's unable to resist what he calls the 'cursed words', "help me". As the series begins, he plans on retiring from summoning... but the world isn't about to let him off that easily.
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* AbusiveParents: Doctor S, [[spoiler:Kyousuke]]'s father, could win an award for this. He controlled every aspect of his children's lives in an experiment to create an ultimate summoner, which included: beating his son regularly, beating his daughter and wife to further hurt said son, and eventually [[spoiler:murdering his wife and forcing his two children to battle to the death.]]
* TheAce: Kyousuke. He's a genius summoner, able to defeat almost any opponent, often using [[IndyPloy unconventional tactics]]. In addition to that, he also has a wealth of other knowledge and is a good physical fighter. To borrow a description from the first novel, he can save two hundred people when it should only be possible to save one hundred.
** BrokenAce: ...But he's also this. His summoning skill comes from being a {{Tykebomb}} and implied [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]]. His drive to save others is because of a past failure that caused countless deaths, as well as [[spoiler:receiving the White Queen's "love"]].
* AchievementSystem: The Awards, given out by the three Unexplored-Class Materials that oversee the summoning ceremony. Whenever a summoner does something that impresses one of the three, they are granted an Award. Each Award has its own name and is granted in return for a specific achievement. The number of Awards a summoner has is a sign of prestige, though it isn't always an accurate measure of skill. Once a summoner hits the 900 mark, they will have much more difficulty getting Awards.
** Each of the three overseers has a maximum of 1000 Awards to give to a particular summoner. A few characters have managed to gain over 1000 Awards, by being part of more than one faction in their lives. The highest number achieved is [[spoiler:3000, by Madam Professor]].
** The White Queen has her own unique Awards, outside of the main system: [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Loved by the White]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu White Slayer]]. [[spoiler:Currently, Kyousuke is the only person who possesses Loved by the White, and is the only person to earn White Slayer on his own]].
* AdventureRebuff: After Kyousuke rescues Higan at the start of the series, he refuses to have anything more to do with her. Needless to say, this doesn't last long.
* AliceAllusion: All over the place. The main character is based on the White Rabbit: his nickname is based on the character, he leads around various girls who are referred to as "Alices", and [[spoiler:his former codename was "White Rabbit"]]. Later on, it's revealed that he was one of fifteen children raised to be elite summoners, each of whom is also based on a character from the story. [[spoiler:The White Queen (although not one of said siblings)]] turns out to be the original "Alice". [[spoiler:Like Alice, she fell from her original world into another one, and was led around by a White Rabbit. Her alternative name is based on the name mistakenly assigned to Lewis Carroll's Alice, "Mary Ann"]].
* AlmightyJanitor: The highest-Award summoner so far is [[spoiler:Madam Professor, one of the members of the Fifteen Siblings Project, with 3000 Awards]].
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Akura Taisaku, the creator of Operation March Hare, was killed by a copy of the White Queen when Kyousuke discovered and undid the deception in volume 5. A conversation in volume 7 reveals that the Queen killed him but allowed his cells to remain active so he lived on for more than 300 hours while splattered across the walls and ceiling]]
* AnimalMotifs:
** The rabbit for Kyousuke.
** Members of the Magentarain family are often compared to birds of prey. Claude Magentarain even uses a bald eagle as a vessel.
* ApocalypseHow:
** The Secret War was a Regional example, causing Societal Disruption. [[spoiler:The White Queen became violent and called in a large number of Materials. Numerous high-ranking summoners were killed in the process of stopping her, breaking the balance of power between the three great factions]].
** The villain's scheme in Volume 1, if not stopped, would have resulted in [[spoiler:a Global example, causing Species Extinction if not Total Extinction of all life on Earth]].
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Repliglass, a silicon-based material used in all kinds of technology. It seems to often form the basis of technology based on animals.
* TheArchmage: Summoners with at least 900 Awards, especially those who've crossed the 1000 mark, are seen as this. The ultimate example of this is [[spoiler:Madam Professor, who has attained Award 3000. She's one of only two summoners to have a battle with the White Queen that wasn't an immediate CurbStompBattle, and that's ''without'' the personal advantages that Kyousuke has]].
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Renge turns out to be this. Her sister Higan was intended to be a summoner, but she happened to be born with the trait of a vessel (which makes it dangerous for her to be a summoner). Renge was thus created, as an ideal version of Higan that lacked the trait of a vessel]].
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It's believed that reaching Award 1000 results in a transformation into a Material, becoming part of the other world. However, multiple summoners appear in the series who have reached this level but have remained human. [[spoiler:It's finally demonstrated in the Volume 8 finale, where Madam Professor reappears as a Divine-Class Material. Another example is Kyousuke's little sister, who seemingly managed to be reincarnated as the Colorless Little Girl.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.
* BadassNormal:
** Both Kyousuke and Lu Niang Lan can fight and defeat summoners even without magic. The latter is by far the more skilled, at one point killing an Award 1000 summoner, [[spoiler:her former master]].
** A non-combat example in Open Bluff, the former leader of Illegal. He had an Award of 0, due to never summoning a single Material. He maintained his position through nothing more than reputation, hence the name.
* BalanceOfPower: One of these exists between Government, Illegal and Freedom. It's far from stable, due to many of the major figures in each faction dying in the Secret War.
* BatmanGambit:
** On several occasions, Kyousuke uses tactics that exploit his understanding of [[spoiler:the White Queen's mindset, especially her twisted love for him]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:she]] can do the same to him.
** During their rematch in Volume 6, Azalea performs one on Kyousuke. [[spoiler:She has recruited and brainwashed a number of girls to attempt suicide in front of him. As a result, Kyousuke has to knock them out to save them, giving Azalea the opportunity to kidnap the Meinokawa sisters]].
* BatmanGrabsAGun: [[spoiler:In Volume 5, Kyousuke decides to ask his former enemy Biondetta for help, despite it going against his ideals]].
* BattleHarem: Kyousuke's love interests include summoners, vessels, a BadassNormal, and [[spoiler:the strongest Material]].
* BedmateReveal: At the beginning of Volume 4, Kyousuke wakes up to find [[spoiler:the White Queen next to him. He immediately tries to kill her, but she easily stops him and knocks him out with a single flick to the forehead. She then comments that this is the 45th time that's happened]].
* BeyondTheImpossible: In Volume 5, the White Queen manages to defeat [[spoiler:all of the other Unexplored-Class, who were intended to be capable of defeating her]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:The White Queen]].
* BigGood: The White Queen is seen as this by everyone connected to the supernatural world. [[spoiler:The problem is [[SubvertedTrope that all of it is a facade]]]]. She's actually an insane EldritchAbomination who doesn't care about any humans, save Kyousuke because {{Yandere}}]].
** To a lesser extent, the three Unexplored-Class Materials who oversee the three factions.
* BlatantLies: In the Volume 8 prologue, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] claims that she isn't going to appear, but it turns out that [[spoiler:she's been acting as the vessel for the Colorless Little Girl for that volume.]]
* BlobMonster: The "Original _" series of Regulation-Class Materials, the blank space being a color such as yellow or green. With a cost of 1, they are the weakest Materials, essentially equivalent to Level 1 Slimes.
* BlueBlood: The Magentarain and Deltaston families.
* TheCameo: The [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls Of the Week]] occasionally make small appearances in volumes after their initial appearance.
* CapturedSuperEntity: The premise behind the Sewn Realm Summoning method, which summons a Material and keeps them on Earth permanently. The original version of this went one step further, by making it impossible for any other summoner to summon that Material.
* CatchPhrase:
** Kyousuke has "As you wish", used when he answers a call for help.
** [[EvilCounterpart Biondetta]] has "Yes, sir/ma'am", used when she answers a call for revenge.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Early in Volume 1, Meinokawa Renge exploits one of the Taboos of the summoning ceremony to turn her opponent's Material into the Black Maw That Swallow All, which automatically kills its controller (an analogy would be that she forced her opponent to hit the 8-ball into a hole). [[spoiler:At the end of the volume, Kyousuke deliberately summons the Black Maw himself while fighting the White Queen. Since the White Queen [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou won't let anyone else but her kill Kyousuke]], she fights the Black Maw and is (temporarily) killed]].
* ChekhovsGunman:
** The Government summoner Perfect Game appears briefly in Volume 1 as the first Government summoner defeated by Kyousuke. He later has a major role in Volume 4.
** Olivia Highland is also mentioned in the first volume as Kyousuke's most recent ex-vessel. [[spoiler:She reappears at the end of the sixth volume as an antagonist.]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kyousuke suffers from this, being compelled to help out anyone who asks for it. Deconstructed: it's also shown that this isn't remotely healthy, and is the result of [[spoiler:receiving the White Queen's 'love' (essentially, having his psyche mixed with that of an EldritchAbomination]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler:The White Queen]], to the point that she starts getting murderous if Kyousuke merely says another girl's name in her presence, regardless of context. [[spoiler:She's even this to herself: if there are multiple copies of the White Queen around Kyousuke, they will fight to the death until one remains]].
* ColonyDrop: In Volume 8, [[spoiler:Kyousuke and Olivia ride a space station from orbit down to Kingdom F.]]
* CompleteImmortality: All Materials are ageless, cannot be damaged by mundane means, and cannot be permanently killed even if their physical forms are destroyed.
* CosmicHorrorStory: [[spoiler:The White Queen is actually an EldritchAbomination who doesn't care about anyone not named Kyousuke, and she expresses her love for him by making his life a living hell. Kyousuke does manage to defeat her in each volume... because she never takes things seriously and enjoys letting him win]].
* CosmicPlaything: Kyousuke. [[spoiler:Being the former lover of a {{Yandere}} EldritchAbomination who sees no problem with inflicting suffering as a form of romance tends to do that]].
* CoversAlwaysLie:
** The cover of volume 1, which shows the White Queen. Anyone who's read a few other light novels would think that she's the main heroine, right? [[spoiler:Well, she technically is, but she's also the main antagonist]].
** A much bigger offender is the cover of Volume 4, which gives the impression that Kyousuke and the White Queen are willingly working together. To put it in perspective, [[spoiler:when he wakes up next to the Queen at the start of the novel, he immediately tries to kill her]].
* CrapsackWorld: The entire world is under the sway of three factions of summoners. Normal people can't do anything about them: [[InvisibleToNormals they can't even remember that summoners exist]], and said summoners can easily call in monsters invulnerable to human weaponry. Due to many important summoners dying in [[GreatOffscreenWar the Secret War]], the balance of power between the factions is unstable, and could easily tip over into open conflict. Internal discipline has also been weakened, so [[BewareTheSuperman if a summoner decides to take full advantage of their power over normal humans]], their higher-ups might not have the ability or inclination to stop them. And to top it all off, [[spoiler:the supposed BigGood of the setting is a ''psychotic EldritchAbomination who's responsible for all of this!'']]
* CripplingOverspecialization: The Colorless Little Girl Dedicated to a Single Goal has the sole purpose of [[spoiler:permanently destroying the White Queen]]. Because of this, she is unable to fight other opponents effectively. [[spoiler:Subverted, as the act of defeating the White Queen will apparently transform her in some way, similarly to how the Queen gained authority over the laws of the world by defeating the other Unexplored-Class]].
* {{Cult}}: Guard of Honor is a cult based around the White Queen. They are utterly loyal to her, [[spoiler:even though she doesn't care about them at all. Later on there's Bridesmaid, also dedicated to the Queen]].
* CurbStompBattle:
** Summoners with an Award greater than 900, like Kyousuke, Azalea and Biondetta, tend to deal these out.
** The White Queen almost inevitably inflicts this on her opponents.
* CuteMonsterGirl: [[{{Fanservice}} For some reason]], all of the Unexplored-Class Materials look like women and girls. [[spoiler:It turns out that all of them, except for the White Queen, are meant to oppose and counter the White Queen. Though this still doesn't explain why the Queen looks the way she does]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Kyousuke [[spoiler:was part of a project that took in children who'd witnessed the White Queen and raised them as summoners, hoping to have one of them summon the Queen so she could be killed. He eventually created and used a method of summoning the Queen permanently, but she (for reasons still not revealed) immediately fell in love with him. The overseers of the project eventually had the other children mimic Kyousuke's behavior to steal control of the Queen, but this went horribly wrong and caused her to become violently obsessed with Kyousuke. This led to the Secret War, in which countless summoners (including half of the project's children) were killed, destabilising the world]].
** Aika [[spoiler:was the grand-daughter of President Toydream. She became a summoner, hoping to impress him by being like one of the heroines of the fairy tales he wrote. However, she gained the permanent InvisibleToNormals nature of all summoners, causing all normal people to forget about her]].
** Lu Niang Lan [[spoiler:was the vessel of Government's former leader, Elvast Toydream. He didn't even treat her like a human, keeping her in a cage. Eventually, she stabbed him in the back and escaped]].
* DavidVersusGoliath: The main conflict in the series is between a (physically) normal human and [[spoiler:the most powerful being in the universe]].
* DawnOfAnEra: Each Summoning Ceremony is one, rendering the previous Ceremonies obsolete.
** The Fourth Ceremony enables Materials and summoners to fight together without loss of autonomy on either side.
** The Fifth Ceremony/Age of Awakening, reached at the end of the series, [[spoiler:brings all Materials into the human world forever]].
* DealWithTheDevil:
** A recurring theme in the series is that if Kyousuke just gives in to [[spoiler:the White Queen, she will give him everything he could ever want... or so she claims]].
** This is Biondetta's MO. If someone asks for help in carrying out revenge, she'll provide all the help they want... but she'll also encourage their revenge to a potentially deadly extent. For bonus points, she deliberately wears demonic horns and a tail as accessories.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Claude Magentarain grew sick of his family and their practices (such as tracking down illegitimate children and killing them), so he struck out and became an independent summoner.
* DelayedNarratorIntroduction: The narrator to the prologue of Volume 1 is initially unclear. After reading the next chapter, you might think it's Aika, due to the narrator calling Kyousuke "brother". [[spoiler:It's actually the White Queen. Future prologues are also narrated by her, with less ambiguity]].
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** Volume 1 ends with a double example. Both the White Queen and the Black Maw are considered to be unstoppable and invincible, the former being capable of defeating any opponent while the latter automatically devours its own summoner. [[spoiler:At the end of Volume 1, Kyousuke manages to destroy (one incarnation of) the White Queen, by summoning the Black Maw and having her fight it. The Black Maw wins, albeit heavily injured, and Kyousuke manages to transform it into another Material before it can kill him. As a result, he receives the rare Award "White Slayer"]].
** Elvast does this literally in Volume 6: he pierces through [[spoiler:an admittedly-weakened version of the White Queen]] with his arm, instantly banishing it. It's the only time in the entire series that a human has defeated a Material with nothing more than their own body.
* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Anyone who somehow manages to gain the love of the White Queen gains the Award "Loved by the White". [[spoiler:This is currently held only by Kyousuke, [[CosmicPlaything much to his misfortune]]]].
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu:
** Being unable to fight her head-on, [[spoiler:Kyousuke's battles with the White Queen revolve around this. It helps that due to the Queen's twisted love for him, she doesn't really care about being tricked]].
** Attempted in Volume 5, [[spoiler:in which the overseers of the Fifteen Siblings Project attempt to copy Kyousuke to gain control of the White Queen. [[GoneHorriblyRight It actually works]]... right up until the Queen sees the real Kyousuke, which kicks off a chain of events leading to the Secret War and causes the Queen to become evil]].
* DifficultButAwesome: Summoning the White Queen through the Blood Sign-based method. It requires a summoner to first summon 100 Regulation-Class and 50 Divine-Class Materials, which is rarely achievable in actual combat. Alternatively, they can knock the Petals representing her name into Spots - all twenty one of them, in the correct sequence, which is also nearly impossible in actual combat. But if she is summoned, she is guaranteed to defeat any opponent.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Lu Niang Lan has the talent of a vessel, but refuses to participate in summoning any longer, instead fighting with martial arts and hidden weapons. This stems from being treated like an animal by the summoner she'd previously partnered with, [[spoiler:Elvast Toydream]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Black Maw That Swallows All, described as a tornado of black slime, the center of which is filled with fangs. It appears if a summoner breaks certain taboos, and completely devours them. [[spoiler:The White Queen is also this, and in fact she and the Black Maw are the same entity]].
* EmptyShell: If a summoner and vessel lose a summoning battle, they become helpless for over 24 hours. The rationale behind this is that the destruction of one's Material causes a trauma comparable to seeing the death of a god. In this state, they can't take any actions of their own accord. They'll follow any (simple) orders given to them, even if that means walking off a cliff.
** A more extreme version occurs if a summoner is unlucky enough to summon the Black Maw. The Black Maw devours its summoner, then transforms back into the vessel. Said vessel will be physically intact, but their mind will be permanently destroyed.
* EnemyMine:
** For the latter half of Volume 2, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] provides information to Kyousuke on the villains' plans. [[spoiler: However this was part of her plan to have Kyousuke unwittingly voluntarily give up the chance to save someone and cause him to break]]
** At the end of Volume 5, Kyousuke makes a deal with [[spoiler:Biondetta to have her help him with revenge on the White Queen]], and they are currently in an uneasy alliance.
* EnemyScan: The Colorless Little Girl can analyse an enemy to determine their weaknesses.
* EnemySummoner: [[spoiler:The White Queen]], if summoned for a prolonged period of time, will begin to warp space-time itself. This results in countless Materials spilling over from the other world onto Earth.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time the White Queen is summoned. [[spoiler:She beats up Azalea and Fractal, despite them bowing down to her. She beats up Renge, her summoner, when she tries to interfere. Finally, she spends all of her summoning time flirting with Kyousuke]].
* EvilCounterpart:
** The Black Maw is this to the White Queen, both being incredibly powerful Materials that are outside of the normal sound ranges. Unlike the White Queen, the Black Maw is uncontrollable and kills its own summoner. [[spoiler:Subverted: they are the same entity. The White Queen is also uncontrollable and potentially dangerous to her summoner. The Black Maw's real form is identical to the White Queen, only colored black]].
** Biondetta, introduced in Volume 3, is this to Kyousuke. She is also a summoner with an Award greater than 900, but instead of saving people who ask for help, she helps those who ask for revenge, driving them down a self-destructive spiral. Though as she points out, she's not that different from Kyousuke: both of them follow particular ideals to their extremes. [[spoiler:They also come from the same summoner-raising project and received the White Queen's hatred and love, respectively]].
* EvilVirtues: Many of these are exhibited by [[spoiler:the White Queen]].
** Determination: [[spoiler:Just as Kyousuke swore that he would never rest until the Queen is destroyed, the Queen resolved to never give up until he loves her again]].
** Love: [[spoiler:The main trait of her character. [[UnreliableNarrator Despite what Kyousuke himself thinks]], she does genuinely love him, and is willing to put herself in harm's way to protect him]].
** Patience: [[spoiler:She doesn't mind if one or a hundred of her plans are foiled. Being immortal, she'll wait as long as it takes for her to succeed]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The White Queen wasn't always evil, as it turns out]].
* FantasticRacism: Almost all supernatural beings in the series are seen as nothing more than tools for the use of humans. The very name given to them, "Material", reflects this. The White Queen and the Three are the only real exceptions, with their intellect being recognized by summoners, but that doesn't stop them from being summoned like any other Material.
* FantasyKitchenSink: The gods and legendary figures from all mythologies can be summoned, in addition to the original Regulation-Class and Unexplored-Class Materials.
* FootsieUnderTheTable: Lu Niang Lan tries doing this to Kyousuke at one point, only for him to stomp on her foot and then trick her into stubbing her toe. She later does this [[LesYay to Aika]] with more success.
* ForegoneConclusion: Volume 5 is a flashback, so it's obvious from the start that it won't end well.
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** Almost at the beginning of the first volume, the [[EldritchAbomination Black Maw That Swallows All]] is introduced, along with its summoning name and summoning conditions. One of these conditions is a summoner gathering Petals with an equal number of high, medium and low sounds. [[spoiler:The White Queen's summoning name is an anagram of the Black Maw's, and consists of an equal number of letters of each sound range. That's because she and the Black Maw are one and the same]].
** Additionally, the Black Maw's ability to attack its own summoner foreshadows that the protective circle is not impregnable. [[spoiler:The White Queen can do the same thing, being the same entity as the Black Maw]].
** A very subtle example that only pays off after several volumes: In Volume 1, the White Queen makes several suggestions about her possible plans for Kyousuke. Among these is [[spoiler:making a contract with Kyousuke and becoming his vessel. This is exactly what happens in Volume 7, with the Queen disguising herself as Aoi Meinokawa (the one he was intending to contract with)]].
** In Volume 5, Madam Professor is mentioned keeping seeds in her desk. [[spoiler:They're to feed her squirrel vessel, as she's secretly a summoner]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:she created a card game with cards for all of the Materials, which (since Materials can't be seen by electronic means) would require her to have seen all of them in person, foreshadowing her high Award]].
* GambitPileup: There are three main summoner factions, each of which comprises many groups that have their own goals. Then there's the countless independent groups like Guard of Honor. And then there's the White Queen, who is involved in some way or other in many of the schemes and always finds some way to twist them into serving her own goal, [[spoiler:getting Kyousuke]].
** A good example is Volume 6. Kyousuke's group (which includes [[spoiler:Biondetta]], whose goals are different from the rest) wants to gain information that will help them destroy the White Queen. Bridesmaid wants to get the same information to protect the Queen. Claude Magentarain's group wants the information to [[spoiler:destroy all means of summoning the Queen]]. Then there's the fourth side, [[spoiler:Elvast Toydream, who already has said information. Instead, he wants to kidnap Lu Niang Lan, hoping to break his dependency on the Queen]]. Finally, the White Queen is involved as well, with the same goal mentioned above.
* GameBreaker:
** Summoning the White Queen is extremely difficult, and essentially impossible outside of mock battles, but she immediately guarantees victory [[spoiler:provided that it suits her own goals as well]].
** Summoning methods outside of the Blood Sign method are seen as this in-universe, as they would be free from the time limit. Methods of summoning the White Queen indefinitely, like the Sewn Realm Summoning, would literally make the user omnipotent, [[spoiler:again, subject to the Queen's whims]].
* GiantSquid: The DEC Tentacle, a Regulation-Class Material that resembles a giant squid but with chains for tentacles.
* GirlOfTheWeek: Invoked. Whenever Kyousuke has finished helping a girl, he cuts off ties with her to avoid further exposure to the dangers of the world of summoning [[spoiler:and to avoid provoking the White Queen's wrath]]. The Meinokawa sisters from Volume 1 are an exception, being a summoner-vessel pair of their own accord, and they make several more appearances.
* TheGlomp: How [[spoiler:the White Queen]] first met Kyousuke. Since she was also OneHeadTaller at the time, it's also a case of MarshmallowHell.
* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler:The White Queen, though this is unknown to her worshippers]].
* GodzillaThreshold: The Black Maw That Swallows All is an uncontrollable Material that instantly kills its summoner when it's summoned. It's usually a threat that forces summoners to take care to avoid meeting its summoning conditions. [[spoiler:But as another aspect of the White Queen, it's the only thing that can actually oppose her head-on. Kyousuke deliberately summons it in the final battle of the first volume, knowing that the Queen would fight it to protect him]].
* GoKartingWithBowser: Volume 4 could be described as [[spoiler:Go Dating With The EldritchAbomination Girlfriend]].
* GravityScrew: When an Incense Grenade detonates, the summoners and vessels involved will experience gravity oriented towards the surface on which it detonated. Additionally, if that surface is destroyed, then the next surface touched by the Grenade's user becomes the new "ground". Hayato's summoning strategy exploits this: he repeatedly destroys the ground, disorienting his opponents through the constant shifts in gravity.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While each novel tends to have its own antagonists, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] is almost always pulling the strings in some fashion.
* GreatOffScreenWar: The Secret War, responsible for the current state of the world. Eventually detailed in Volume 5.
* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] follows Kyousuke around during Volume 4.
* GunsAreWorthless: Against Materials, or summoners who have summoned one, all human weapons are useless.
* HijackedByGanon: No matter who the villains are in a particular volume, [[spoiler:the White Queen will always turn out to be involved]].
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The White Queen. The real form of the Black Maw, being a facet of her, is also this - it's identical to the White Queen save for being black]].
* HumansAreBastards: The gods and other legendary figures in this series have no will of their own - all of the misery in the world is brought about solely by human hands. It's even because of humans that [[spoiler:the White Queen is evil in the first place]].
* HumansAreGood: Downplayed. One of Madam Professor's beliefs is that deep down, every person contains at least some trace of good in them, and that they will refrain from truly crossing the MoralEventHorizon.
* HybridPower: Aika's pet and vessel is a five-metre long white liger (a hybrid of a lion and a white tiger).
* HyperspaceArsenal: Lu Niang Lan somehow has many weapons hidden on her body.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: In most of her appearances, the White Queen never uses anything close to her full power, as she can easily win regardless. Volume 7 features her going all out, revealing abilities that were never even hinted at before (like her ability to shapeshift into 512 different forms).
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: The final confrontation to Volume 4. [[spoiler:The White Queen stabs one of her swords into the floor, and proposes that Kyousuke use it to stand a chance against her. Kyousuke naturally refuses. The Queen knew that he'd refuse, and reveals that stabbing the sword into the floor caused damage to the building that would destroy an important reactor, killing the people Kyousuke was trying to save. Except Kyousuke anticipated even this, knowing that the Queen would never give him any way out. He also had knowledge that the Queen didn't have, that the entire structure of the building had deliberately been changed from the optimum, so the Queen's attack misses the reactor]].
* ImmortalitySeeker: The main goal of [[spoiler:the villains of Volume 2]].
* ImprobableAge: An implausibly-large number of high-ranking summoners appear to be teenagers or outright children. The biggest example of this is Humanism, who had attained Award 2799 despite being around ten years old.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Any skilled summoner. It's pretty much a requirement when the main method of summoning amounts to 3D pool, in an irregular environment full of obstacles.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: Since summoners will hit more and more Petals into Spots as a summoning battle goes on, the cost (and hence power) of their Materials will only increase. After a summoner successfully calls in 100 Regulation-Class Materials, they gain the ability to summon the more powerful Divine-Class. And if they still aren't defeated, and they can summon 50 Divine-Class Materials, they gain access to the Unexplored-Class.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The White Queen is the ultimate Material, guaranteed to defeat any other, and also the most difficult to summon. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she is uncontrollable and does whatever she wants when summoned]].
* InstantWinCondition: Summoning the White Queen is effectively this, as she is powerful enough to effortlessly defeat any opponent. [[spoiler:Subverted; she is unique among Materials in that she is the one in control, so will only follow her summoner's orders if it's in her own interest]].
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:The relationship between Kyousuke and the White Queen, though in the present it's purely one-sided]].
* InvincibleVillain: [[spoiler:The White Queen, being the most powerful being in the series. The only thing that can really injure her is her own power, and even that can't permanently kill her. While Kyousuke does manage to foil her various schemes, none of this really matters to her, as it just means she can spend more time with him]].
* InvisibleToNormals: When a summoner or vessel reaches Award 100, they gain a variant of this. They can still be seen normally by ordinary people, but the moment they leave their field of vision, the ordinary person will forget about them.
** When a summoning ceremony occurs, all the summoners and vessels involved also become invisible to electronic sensors.
* JustToyingWithThem: This applies to all of [[spoiler:the White Queen]]'s battles with Kyousuke.
* {{Kaiju}}: Larger Materials, like the Divine-Class dragons at the beginning of Volume 1.
* KidWithTheLeash: Summoners and vessels both function as this to Materials. The summoner calls in the Material from the other world and determines their form, while the vessel acts as a nucleus to create the Material's physical body and directly controls the Material.
** [[spoiler:Kyousuke is this specifically to the White Queen. However, due to her unstable and (by human standards) evil mentality, he doesn't dare try to exploit this]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: An ordinary person will lose all memories of a summoner or vessel once the latter leaves their sight. Unlike other examples, however, the memories will return whenever they see the summoner or vessel again.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: The White Queen and the Black Maw are the most powerful Materials. Below them are the other Unexplored-Class, each of whom is a particular color, and below them are all the other Materials.
** Played with by the Colorless Little Girl, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin isn't any color]] (being transparent). [[spoiler:She can defeat the White Queen (and by extension, the Black Maw), but would lose to any other Unexplored-Class. However, the Queen implies that by defeating her, the Colorless Little Girl will become even more powerful]].
* LightEmUp:
** One of the White Queen's attacks is a beam of light that disintegrates anything in its path.
** The Lady of Purple Lightning can shoot lasers from her finger.
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:The White Queen]].
* LimitedWardrobe: Kyousuke only wears the same brand of hoodie and pants.
* LittleSisterHeroine: The [[NotBloodSiblings non-blood related version]] is invoked by Aika, Olivia, [[spoiler:the White Queen and the Colorless Little Girl]]. The last of these actually weaponises it: [[spoiler:by behaving in this manner to Kyousuke, she can trigger the White Queen's BerserkButton to make her lose control]]. Ironically, it later turns out that [[spoiler:the ColorlessLittleGirl used to actually be his little sister.]]
* LoveHurts: And that's putting it mildly. The romance between [[spoiler:Kyousuke and the White Queen]] didn't just hurt those involved, but ''everyone else in the world''. It's succinctly explained in one line at the beginning of the first novel:
--> ''On occasion, even a single love can bring an end to the world.''
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:It turns out that the Queen wasn't evil to begin with, and even made a promise with Kyousuke to never hurt anyone. But during the Secret War, she was confronted with the dilemma of doing nothing to an attacking army, hence letting Kyousuke die in the crossfire, or breaking her promise and slaughtering them. She chose the latter]].
* MacGuffin: Volume 6 revolves around three of these, needed to find the Founder's Gallery: the Diamond Master Key, the Founder's Map, and the Golden Treasure Chest. The second of these is also a LivingMacGuffin, being inscribed on [[spoiler:Sekurtiti's back]].
* MagicAIsMagicA: The summoning ceremony is governed by an enormous number of rules. Not one of these is ever violated, and the characters often exploit loopholes in the rules to achieve victory.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Deconstructed. The inhuman supernatural girlfriend in this case is [[spoiler:a {{Yandere}} EldritchAbomination. But it's also reconstructed, as she only became like that because of humans]].
* TheMasquerade: Maintained by the fact that [[InvisibleToNormals ordinary people automatically lose their memories of the supernatural after experiencing it]].
* MasterActor: [[spoiler:In Volume 7, the White Queen spends most of the volume pretending to be Aoi Meinokawa. She's good enough that Renge (Aoi's caretaker) doesn't suspect a thing, and even Kyousuke only feels some uneasiness around her. It helps that Aoi already had the exact same appearance as the Queen. Played with, in that Kyousuke nevertheless figures it out - see SpottingTheThread]].
* MasterOfAll: Volume 7 shows the White Queen finally cutting loose with everything she has, making it clear that she's an example of this trope. She's an incomprehensibly-powerful LightningBruiser MagicKnight who can attack at any range, with any element, and has no weaknesses (except [[spoiler:Kyousuke]]).
* {{Miko}}: The Meinokawa sisters, Renge and Higan.
* MileLongShip: Pandemonium, the setting of Volume 4, is essentially a floating city shaped like a giant squid.
* {{Mons}}: All supernatural combat in the series revolves around summoning Materials to fight.
** OlympusMons: The Divine-Class and Unexplored-Class Materials.
* MookChivalry: Averted. It is entirely possible for multiple summoners to gang up on a single one.
* MortonsFork:
** The end of Volume 2. [[spoiler:Kyousuke can return to the present, leaving the Rainy Girl to be murdered and preserve the timeline, but also betraying his ideals. Or he can intervene in the past, completely altering the timeline with uncertain repercussions. He chooses the latter, since the timeline has already been altered anyway]].
** Also encountered by the White Queen during the Secret War. [[spoiler:Kyousuke was right next to her, and an army of elite summoners had summoned hundreds of Unexplored-Class, planning on defeating the Queen. If she did nothing, her physical body would be destroyed (inconsequential for her) but Kyousuke would certainly die. But to keep Kyousuke alive, she would have to kill all of the attackers, which she knew Kyousuke wouldn't want. As in the previous example, she chose the latter option]].
* MugglesDoItBetter: Played with. Materials are completely invulnerable to human weaponry, as are summoners inside a protective circle. However, summoners and vessels who haven't summoned are just as frail as any other human. There are several instances where technology and ingenuity alone have been used to defeat summoners, or to avoid needing to fight altogether.
* MyGreatestFailure: Kyousuke sees his involvement in the Secret War as this. [[spoiler:He summoned the White Queen indefinitely, and planned on using her help to stabilise the world. But he failed to notice others trying to take control of the Queen, which led to a battle between different copies of the Queen that ultimately turned her evil. She then attacked and killed an enormous number of people, trying to get to Kyousuke]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Black Maw That Swallows All.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Kyousuke's ChronicHeroSyndrome is an attempt to atone for a past example of this. [[spoiler:He managed to summon the White Queen permanently, and got the idea of using her power to help fix the world. But due to various factors (others trying to usurp control of the Queen, Materials being summoned automatically by the Queen's presence) this led to the Queen turning evil and causing countless deaths]].
** In the first volume, Renge attempts to save her sister Higan by [[spoiler:taking advantage of the enemy's setup to summon the White Queen herself. Normally, [[InstantWinCondition the White Queen would immediately win the battle for Renge]]... except that she had no idea that said enemy was in fact working with the Queen, nor did she know of the Queen's relationship with Kyousuke. The Queen injured Renge herself, and left Higan with a poison in her body that would eventually kill her]].
** Possibly the biggest example is in Volume 7. Kyousuke is so obsessed with defeating [[spoiler:the White Queen]] that he doesn't consider anything else a threat in comparison. He [[spoiler:creates an artificial Unexplored-Class, the Colorless Little Girl, to permanently destroy the Queen. The Girl actually succeeds in this, and because of her CripplingOverspecialization, Kyousuke doesn't think that she will be a threat herself. But it turns out that the Queen somehow survived, and she reveals that, due to defeating her, the Girl will be transformed into an even bigger threat to the world than the Queen was.]]
* NighInvulnerability:
** Materials have the Made of Diamond variant against ordinary threats. No matter how powerful, nothing that isn't also supernatural can damage them. And even if they are damaged, they can always be summoned again.
** When they've summoned a Material, a summoner and vessel pair gain a similar form of invulnerability. The summoner is surrounded by a protective circle and the vessel transforms into the Material, giving them immunity to both external threats and internal ones (such as existing injuries). The protective circle even protects the summoner from attack by Materials. However, the transformed vessel can still be damaged by Materials, and contains a vulnerable core. If the core is breached, both summoner and vessel will lose all capability for independent action and become helpless for more than a day.
* NoodleIncident: The Secret War, which involved the deaths of countless important summoners and is responsible for many of the problems in the present, [[spoiler:such as the White Queen's current attitude]]. Eventually expanded on in Volume 5.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy. Kyousuke. In Volume 6, he holds a normal conversation with Aika while Lu Niang Lan and [[spoiler:Biondetta]] are pressing their bodies against him.
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** At the start of Volume 2, Aika runs across Kyousuke and Lu Niang Lan on her sofa, exhausted. [[spoiler:They had just escaped from a fierce battle at the airport]]. Their explanations don't exactly help the situation.
--> '''Kyousuke:''' Th-that was all… pant… Lu-san’s fault… She’s the one… pant… that suddenly knocked me out…
--> '''Lu:''' What are you saying, Kyousuke-chan? Pant… This was all your doing, Kyousuke-chan... Pant, I told you to stop, but you went for it anyway…
** Done again in Volume 7. Renge spots Kyousuke and Biondetta approaching her family shrine. They both smell of the same kind of soap, and on top of that, Biondetta is red-faced and panting with exhaustion. [[spoiler:They had just stopped at a hotel to wash before visiting the shrine]].
** And in Volume 8, Kyousuke and Olivia stop at a [[LoveHotels leisure room]] to change clothes, where Olivia innocently picks up a condom without knowing what it's for. Later, she accidentally drops it while in front of her mother Sinceria and her zealous bodyguard Rachel. Sinceria figures out nothing actually happened but acts like it did, while Rachel is furious.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] gives off the impression of not thinking things through and being easily distracted. She herself even claims that she doesn't bother planning anything, since, [[spoiler:being the strongest entity in the universe, she doesn't need to]]. However, later volumes confirm that this is a facade. The seventh volume is a notable example: [[spoiler:she impersonates Aoi, Kyousuke's intended vessel for the volume, and is good enough to fool Renge (Aoi's caretaker). During this, she doesn't react to Kyousuke saying the names of other girls (something that was initially presented as her BerserkButton) and even manages to hold his head to her chest without losing control of herself. While Kyousuke figures out the deception, it's implied that she allowed him to do so, since her plan required him to successfully defeat her. And in the end, [[TheBadGuyWins she manages to achieve her main goal]]]].
* ObliviousToLove: Kyousuke refuses to acknowledge that [[spoiler:the White Queen is in love with him]], despite her saying it with practically every sentence. Though from his perspective it's justified, seeing [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon what the Queen did]] in the Secret War]].
* OneManArmy:
** Summoners above Award 900, like Kyousuke, Azalea and Biondetta, routinely defeat large numbers of enemies with ease. The biggest example of this is [[spoiler:Kyousuke defeating a US army, armed with tanks, aircraft, artillery and Repliglass, ''while adhering to his no-killing rule''.]]
** The White Queen is famous for this - once she's summoned, she guarantees victory for her summoner, no matter the odds. Her greatest feat to date is [[spoiler:defeating an army of hundreds of Unexplored-Class Materials, [[BeyondTheImpossible even though her power should have been sealed by their combined presence]], and without allowing a single one of their attacks to even graze Kyousuke.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** A number of summoners are only ever referred to by their RedBaron, with their actual names never being revealed.
** Madam Professor does have a real name, Masami Shigara, but is more often referred to by said nickname.
* OurElvesAreDifferent:
** Sinceria, the Queen of Kingdom F, has pointed ears and superhuman beauty due to binding so many contracts as a vessel that it's changed her appearance.
** Elves in the usual sense have yet to appear, but presumably exist as Divine-Class Materials.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent / OurMonstersAreWeird: Unlike the Divine-Class, which are based on figures in real-life mythology, the Regulation-Class Materials are all original creations. They often combine traits of multiple organisms and/or objects, such as the DEC Tentacle (a giant squid with chains for tentacles), the Tree Hand (an enormous arm growing from the ground like a tree), and the Giant Hostile Eye (a giant eye made of barbed wire).
* PhysicalGod: Divine-Class Materials.
* PinkySwear: Kyousuke once made such a promise with [[spoiler:the White Queen]], to never leave her side.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: Lampshaded as early as the first volume. Kyousuke often encounters situations that only he can solve, because [[spoiler:of the White Queen being behind it all. The Queen's power means that that she's involved in every single villain's plan in some fashion, and her twisted love for Kyousuke means that he's the only one who can defeat her in any way]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: Ultimately, the main conflict of the series is a breakdown in communications between [[spoiler:Kyousuke and the White Queen.]]
* PoweredArmor: Several examples throughout the series, all made using Repliglass. They're often based on the body plan of a living organism, such as having grasshopper-like legs for jumping.
* PowerLevels:
** Among summoners, Awards are seen as this in-universe, though they're not always accurate. Summoners that abstain from fighting won't receive many Awards, but can nevertheless be skilled. It's also pointed out that no matter how high the Award, all summoners have to start from the very beginning with Regulation-Class Materials. That said, there are still clear divisions based on Awards: those with Award less than 900, those in the 900-1000 range, and those with an Award greater than 1000.
** Among Materials, there are the Regulation-Class, the Divine-Class and the Unexplored-Class, in ascending order of power. Within each class, the cost of a Material (the amount of Petals used to summon it) also determines its power. While [[TacticalRockPaperScissors sound range]] also has an effect, with a large enough cost disparity it's possible for a Material to defeat one with a superior sound range.
* PowerLimiter:
** All vessels wear something that symbolises restraint, in order to prevent Materials from hijacking their body. The exact nature of the limiter varies depending on the vessel.
** All of the complexity and restrictions of the Blood Sign ceremony act as a limiter on the Materials. Other methods of summoning have fewer restrictions, but are much more dangerous.
* ThePowerOfBlood: A recurring theme.
* A vessel drinking a summoner's blood forms a contract between them and enables telepathy.
* Members of specific royal bloodlines make especially talented vessels, because they can control the Material they become more precisely.
** In volume 10, [[spoiler:the White Queen saves Kyousuke's life by transferring a drop of her own divine blood into him]]. Also counts as MagicKiss.
* ThePowerOfLove: A rare villainous example. [[spoiler:The White Queen is motivated purely by her love for Kyousuke, to the point of achieving things which should be impossible for even her. At the climax of the Secret War, she fought all of the other Unexplored-Class - who should have the ability to seal her power when they're gathered together - and defeated them all, while preventing Kyousuke from being killed in the crossfire]].
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* RedBaron: All summoners receive a title, usually given to them by others once they begin to gain status in the world of summoning.
** Kyousuke has multiple such titles. Of special note are the ones "Alice (with) Rabbit", "Loved by the White" and [[spoiler:White Slayer]], which all relate to [[spoiler:his relationship with the White Queen]]. Volume 8 adds yet another major title after [[spoiler:killing the Queen: "Queen Executioner"]]
* RealityWarper: The White Queen is this, even among other Unexplored-Class. Not only can she perform supposedly-impossible feats (like attacking summoners through a protective circle), but she managed to [[spoiler:defeat all of the other unexplored class - ''whose main purpose is to defeat her'' - and thus achieved complete control over the laws of the world, effectively making her totally invincible]].
** Then there's the Colorless Little Girl, [[spoiler:who can counter everything the White Queen does, and can even completely remove her influence from the universe]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Renge was made as a copy of Higan without a vessel's trait]]. She is close enough to a human that she can use summoning magic, and [[spoiler:could potentially donate her organs to Higan with no risk of rejection]].
* RPGElements: In Volume 7, an RPG-style stat sheet is displayed for the White Queen when [[spoiler:the Colorless Little Girl analyses her]]. It literally gives numerical values for things like HP and MP, as well as a long lists of strengths and her one weakness ([[spoiler:Kyousuke]]).
* {{Ruritania}}: Kingdom F, officially known as the Frangild Permanently Neutral Kingdom, is a small country in Eastern Europe ruled by the Highland family. It is practically unknown to the rest of the world, because [[spoiler:the White Queen inserted herself into the country's history and destabilised its existence. This is no longer the case after the White Queen's defeat.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Kyousuke's philosophy in a nutshell.
* SelfDuplication: Almost all Materials can be summoned by more than one summoner at once, even if said summoners are fighting each other. The sole exception is the White Queen, who normally can only be summoned by one summoner. However, the Queen can duplicate herself in certain circumstances.
* SelfServingMemory: Whenever Kyousuke recalls his past experiences with the White Queen, [[spoiler:her real name, Mary, is censored]]. It's implied that he deliberately refuses to remember it [[spoiler:because he doesn't want to acknowledge that the current Queen is the one who broke her promise not to hurt anyone. It may also be that he's trying to dehumanize the Queen by dissociating her from such things as a human name]].
* {{Shapeshifting}}:
** A core part of summoning battles is rearranging and adding to the Material's name to transform it into new forms.
** The White Queen can transform into 512 different forms, such as an insect-like creature with an indestructible shell, a mass of gears and artillery, [[KrakenAndLeviathan a colossal aquatic monster]], or an enormous plant with burning flowers. She fully recovers from all injury when switching forms.
* SignificantAnagram: The official name of the Black Maw That Swallows All (nu – lp – eu – bf – zuh – ei – jkv – iu – a – xw) is this to [[spoiler:the White Queen's official name (iu – nu – fb – a – wuh – ei –kx – eu – pl – vjz)]].
* SiliconBasedLife: Repliglass technology is an artificial version of this. It consists of artificial cells with a silicon base, and is often given the structure of an existing animal.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: This is essentially why there are so many girls interested in Kyousuke. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that also includes the White Queen]].
* SizeShifter: The White Queen can freely change her own size, being able to grow so large that she can pull a helicopter from the sky with one hand.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted. [[spoiler:The White Queen appears in the very first volume, and in all subsequent volumes]]. The human antagonists of each volume also vary in strength.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The only magic other than SummonMagic that summoners can use is to construct and deconstruct a Blood Sign.
* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] impersonates [[spoiler:Aoi during Volume 7]]. However, Kyousuke figures it out for two reasons. [[spoiler:One, she retained her memories of him even when he was out of sight and prior to becoming his vessel (though this wasn't certain proof, since the real Aoi isn't a normal human). Two, she demonstrates a technique for shooting water with one's hands that Kyousuke remembered teaching the Queen in the past]].
* SquishyWizard: Played with. Summoners and vessels are inherently no more durable than a normal human being. However, when actually summoning, the summoner gains a protective circle and the vessel transforms into a Material, making them completely immune to normal attacks.
* StarfishRobots: The Released Creations. Unlike other Repliglass technology, these aren't modelled after an existing living organism but instead have an original structure. The only example of this so far is a model of PoweredArmor that has five "wings" on the back. These wings can rotate like a helicopter rotor for flight, or unravel into CombatTentacles.
* StoryBreakerPower: The White Queen is by far the most powerful entity in the entire series, to the point that any Material that isn't another Unexplored-Class is too afraid to even attack her. She is also worshipped as a goddess by an enormous number of people. And she is [[spoiler:utterly devoted to Kyousuke]]. If it weren't for [[spoiler:her also being the most evil entity in the entire series, Kyousuke could easily have her bring about a utopia]].
* {{Stripperific}}:
** The White Queen's outfit resembles a wedding dress, but bares her shoulders, cleavage, navel and thighs.
** Lu Niang Lan's clothing isn't much better, though in her case, it was originally a costume for a movie.
* SummonBiggerFish: Or rather, Summon Equal Fish. At the end of Volume 1, [[spoiler:Kyousuke commits a Taboo to summon the Black Maw on purpose, which would normally kill him. The White Queen refuses to let anyone or anything else kill him, so she fights against the Black Maw and is (temporarily) killed. Kyousuke then transforms the Black Maw into another Material to avoid being killed. It's an especially unusual example, since the Black Maw is actually another facet of the White Queen]].
* SummonMagic: The main form of magic that humans can use.
** The First Summoning Ceremony is summoning a being to take over one's mind, like dressing in animal furs and then summoning an animal's mind to replace the summoner's own, or dressing like some mythical person and summoning a being to take over the summmoner's body and use the skills of that mythical person.
** The Second Summoning Ceremony is changing the summoner's mind into a state that allows the use of supernatural knowledge, such as rain-calling or demon-summoning via grimoires.
** The main form used in the series is the Third Summoning Ceremony, also known as the Blood Sign-based summoning ceremony, which can essentially be described as Scrabble performed using a 3D game of pool. A ceremony begins when an Incense Grenade is detonated, creating an Artificial Sacred Ground in which supernatural phenomena can occur. A Rose is created at the centre, consisting of 216 floating red spheres known as Petals (analogous to the object balls in pool). Each summoner is accompanied by White Thorns (white spheres, analogous to the cue ball) and uses their Blood Sign to hit the White Thorns to knock the Petals into Spots (36 spherical holes in space, analogous to the holes). Each Petal is associated with a particular letter, and by knocking a particular combination of Petals into Spots, a summoner spells out the name of a Material to summon them.
** Summoning invariably requires two people, a summoner and a vessel. The summoner uses the method detailed above to call in a Material from the other world, who then possesses the vessel. The vessel's body transforms into that of the Material, gaining its invincibility and other powers.
** The summoner can change the Material they use by knocking more Petals into Spots. Doing so is necessary because different Materials have different strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, the Material's strength is proportional to the total number of Petals in Spots.
** The first Material summoned is always of the weakest Regulation-Class. After summoning 100 Regulation-Class Materials, the summoner can then summon the [[PhysicalGod Divine-Class Materials]]. [[SerialEscalation If they then summon 50 Divine-Class Materials]], they gain the privilege of summoning the Unexplored-Class Materials. However, a given summoning ceremony only lasts for ten minutes (barring certain exceptions), so they rarely progress to this level.
** Understandably, many efforts are made in-universe to simplify the summoning ceremony. Alternatives to the Blood Sign method include the Sewn Realm Summoning (analogous to throwing a fish back with a hook in its mouth, so it can be more easily caught in future), the Holy Key Women, and Pandemonium.
*** Pandemonium can do Projection Summon Bombing, which is basically a long-range attack on an area.
*** There's also Attach Saint Project, which is summoning godly weaponry for human use.
*** The Holy Key Women are living weapons. Vessels who contain a Divine-Class Material and then let loose to rampage on one's enemies.
** [[spoiler:The Fourth Summoning Ceremony is introduced in Volume 7. Not much has been shown of it, but it contains the new Unexplored-Class, the Colorless Little Girl. It still makes use of the Blood Sign and its associated elements. Instead of summoning a variety of Materials from the world's mythologies, it seems to revolve around using a single Material in a battle, swapping out its weapon to suit the opponent]].
* SuperStrength: All Materials have this to some degree. Even the most basic Regulation-Class Materials can break through concrete, and Divine-Class Materials can crush buildings just by throwing their bodies around.
** In a crossover, the White Queen easily swings around an [[LightNovel/HeavyObject Object]], a superweapon weighing tens of thousands of tons.
* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: Summoners and vessels who've lost a summoning battle temporarily fall to this level.
** Type 0: Normal humans.
** Type 2: Summoners and vessels who haven't summoned a Material.
** Type 3: Summoners and vessels who have summoned a Material; Regulation-Class Materials.
** Type 4: Divine Class Materials.
** Type 5: Unexplored-Class Materials, barring the White Queen.
** Type 7: The White Queen, [[spoiler:the Black Maw That Swallows All, Wisdom and the Colorless Little Girl]].
* SwissArmyWeapon: The White Queen's dress can change shape freely and transform into any kind of weapon.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: All Materials belong to one of three sound ranges (except for the White Queen and the Black Maw, which are outside of the rules). High has an advantage over medium, medium over low, and low over high. However, if a Material has a cost at least 10 Petals higher than its opponent, then it will have the advantage even if its sound range is inferior.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: It's common for characters to say multiple lines in the middle of battle, often [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy explaining what they're doing]], and not once are they interrupted.
* ThanatosGambit: In Volume 7 [[spoiler: the White Queen allows herself to be killed by the new Material Kyousuke made solely for the purpose of killing her. This would change said Material into something even more dangerous than the Queen was, forcing Kyousuke to work together with the Queen to stop it]].
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: The White Queen brings up this idea in the prologue of the third volume, with the two kinds being controllers and the controlled. However, she immediately mocks the idea.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: The White Queen thinks like this, [[spoiler:albeit in an extremely twisted manner. For example, she sees no problem with killing anyone in the way of a date. She also stages a BedMateReveal and thinks that tricking him into creating a bigger danger than herself so he'd be forced to work with her to stop it will make them a BattleCouple]].
* ThouShallNotKill: Kyousuke, to the point of being called the "Unkilling King". However, he has a very specific exception for [[spoiler:the White Queen]].
* TomTheDarkLord: [[spoiler:It turns out that the White Queen received the name of Mary Ann from Kyousuke. Doubles as a MeaningfulName]].
* TraintopBattle: At the start of Volume 7, [[spoiler:Kyousuke and Biondetta]] fight off an attack by Bridesmaid on (and in) a moving train.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The only date specified is that the Third Summoning Ceremony was invented in 1999. The present of the series can't be more than a few decades later than this, given that one character who witnessed this event (Doctor S) is still alive.
* UncannyValley: The White Queen has a supernaturally-enchanting voice, but her actual words and tone are childish, resulting in this trope.
* UnreliableNarrator: Kyousuke's perspective is subtly but clearly skewed when it comes to [[spoiler:the White Queen. He repeatedly emphasises that she isn't really in love with him, but sections from her viewpoint confirm that she is (albeit in a twisted, inhuman manner)]].
* UnskilledButStrong:
** Materials in general fight with animalistic instinct, and are barely-controllable by their summoner. Only very skilled vessels, like Olivia, can make them use even basic tactics like targeting the opponent's weak point.
** The White Queen. She even says that her power is so immense that no skill is necessary. [[spoiler:And due to her lack of morals, she doesn't see any reason for restraint]]. Though Volume 7 reveals that this actually isn't the case - she has incredible skill in every conceivable field, but just never bothers to use it.
* UnwantedHarem: Kyousuke never shows interest in any of the girls pursuing him, to avoid entangling them in his dangerous lifestyle. [[spoiler:And also because of his association with the White Queen, who might well destroy the world if she saw him going out with someone else]].
* UrbanFantasy
* VictoryByEndurance: Since a summoning battle automatically ends after ten minutes (unless prolonged via a Chain), it's possible to avoid losing by fighting defensively until the time is up.
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] saves Kyousuke on several occasions, such as from the zoo in Volume 6.
* VillainousValour: [[spoiler:The White Queen shows no fear no matter the situation. Even when she's about to be permanently killed by the Colorless Little Girl, she only feels happy that Kyousuke managed to understand her to that level. Though since she actually planned for this and somehow survived, it may be a subversion]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[OverlyLongGag Again]], [[spoiler:the White Queen]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] makes this offer to Kyousuke several times, often framing it in terms of working together to solve the problems in the world.
* WeirdnessCensor: It's believed that the reason summoners and vessels vanish from ordinary people's memories is that an untrained mind can't properly comprehend the supernatural.
* WhamLine:
** The White Queen's very first line:
--> [[spoiler:"Long time no see, brother. Have you been doing well since I last saw you?"]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Materials are seen as no more than tools for the use of humans, reflected in their name. [[spoiler:Kyousuke once wanted to change this attitude, by summoning and befriending the White Queen, but it went horribly wrong]].
* ManChild: Well, Woman Child. [[spoiler:The White Queen]] behaves in an extremely childish manner, including destructive tantrums when she doesn't get her way.
** Aoi Meinokawa turns out to be this as well.
* WorfBarrage:
** Any attack directed against the White Queen. A good example is in Volume 4, where she literally splits apart a bombardment using the Lady of Purple Lightning's power.
** The Colorless Little Girl can NoSell every single one of [[spoiler:the White Queen's attacks]].
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: The White Queen is seen the most beautiful of both Materials and Humans..
* {{Yandere}}:
** [[spoiler:The White Queen is this for Kyousuke]]. If [[Manga/FutureDiary Yuno Gasai]] can be considered the Goddess of Yanderes, then [[spoiler:the White Queen can be considered the ''EldritchAbomination'' of them]]. Though [[spoiler:Kyousuke]] claims that it isn't really love at all, but an obsession with the idea of love.
** The [[spoiler:Colorless Little Girl]] becomes a different version of this after [[spoiler:the White Queen loses to her on purpose]]. Unlike the example above, she is obedient to [[spoiler:Kyousuke]] and only tries to protect him, but is still dangerous as she causes significant collateral damage.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The prologue of Volume 6 has [[spoiler:the White Queen]] saying this to Kyousuke.
* ZombieApocalypse: In Volume 7, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] demonstrates the ability to infect and transform others with a bite, resulting in something very similar to this trope.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The ‘White’ Queen who Wields the Sword of Unsullied Truth (iu – nu – fb – a – wuh – ei –kx – eu – pl – vjz)]]
Immediately before the turn of the millenium, the Third Summoning Ceremony was discovered. This allowed the gods and other legendary figures of myth to be summoned at the convenience of humans, to do their bidding. But unlike the First and Second Summoning Ceremonies, summoning a being to take over one's mind, and summoning a being into a summoner's body to perform magic, respectively, this new method went further - it allowed beings beyond the gods to be summoned, and replacing someone's place in the world, allowing summoners to command the summoned beings to use any power at their disposal. The beings beyond gods became known as the Unexplored-Class, and at the apex of these stands [[TopGod the White Queen who Wields the Sword of Unsullied Truth]].
Two new professions appeared in the wake of this discovery: summoners and vessels. Summoners made use of two tools - the Blood Sign and the Incense Grenade - to conduct the summoning ceremony. Through this, they called in Materials, the denizens of the world of myth, and bound them to their vessels. The result? Beings of supernatural might, impervious to any mundane threat, and all under the control of the summoner and vessel. In addition, both summoners and vessels gained another quality: whenever they left the sight of ordinary people, they would fade from their memory. [[BlessedWithSuck This was just as much a curse as it was a blessing]], as it meant that they were fundamentally cut off from the normal world.
[[HumansAreWarriors As with many other discoveries in human history]], the summoning ceremony was inevitably used in war. Hidden from the outside world, summoners engaged in countless conflicts against each other. Three great factions formed: Government, an organisation of various nations and major corporations; Illegal, a motley collection of large criminal organisations; and Freedom, a group of summoners and vessels who followed their own paths. Each of these factions became associated with an Unexplored-Class Material. As a member of one of the factions fought and gained achievements in combat, they could be gifted with Awards by the Material that oversaw their faction. It became rumored that a summoner who could obtain a thousand Awards - who could become Award 1000 - [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence would transform into an immortal Material themselves]].
''The Unexplored Summon://Blood Sign'' is a light novel series by Creator/KazumaKamachi. It is complete at ten volumes. It follows the legendary summoner, Kyousuke Shiroyama, also known as "Alice (with) Rabbit". Kyousuke has managed to achieve Award 902, but has a critical weakness: he's unable to resist what he calls the 'cursed words', "help me". As the series begins, he plans on retiring from summoning... but the world isn't about to let him off that easily.
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!!Tropes found in this series:
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* AbusiveParents: Doctor S, [[spoiler:Kyousuke]]'s father, could win an award for this. He controlled every aspect of his children's lives in an experiment to create an ultimate summoner, which included: beating his son regularly, beating his daughter and wife to further hurt said son, and eventually [[spoiler:murdering his wife and forcing his two children to battle to the death.]]
* TheAce: Kyousuke. He's a genius summoner, able to defeat almost any opponent, often using [[IndyPloy unconventional tactics]]. In addition to that, he also has a wealth of other knowledge and is a good physical fighter. To borrow a description from the first novel, he can save two hundred people when it should only be possible to save one hundred.
** BrokenAce: ...But he's also this. His summoning skill comes from being a {{Tykebomb}} and implied [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]]. His drive to save others is because of a past failure that caused countless deaths, as well as [[spoiler:receiving the White Queen's "love"]].
* AchievementSystem: The Awards, given out by the three Unexplored-Class Materials that oversee the summoning ceremony. Whenever a summoner does something that impresses one of the three, they are granted an Award. Each Award has its own name and is granted in return for a specific achievement. The number of Awards a summoner has is a sign of prestige, though it isn't always an accurate measure of skill. Once a summoner hits the 900 mark, they will have much more difficulty getting Awards.
** Each of the three overseers has a maximum of 1000 Awards to give to a particular summoner. A few characters have managed to gain over 1000 Awards, by being part of more than one faction in their lives. The highest number achieved is [[spoiler:3000, by Madam Professor]].
** The White Queen has her own unique Awards, outside of the main system: [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu Loved by the White]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu White Slayer]]. [[spoiler:Currently, Kyousuke is the only person who possesses Loved by the White, and is the only person to earn White Slayer on his own]].
* AdventureRebuff: After Kyousuke rescues Higan at the start of the series, he refuses to have anything more to do with her. Needless to say, this doesn't last long.
* AliceAllusion: All over the place. The main character is based on the White Rabbit: his nickname is based on the character, he leads around various girls who are referred to as "Alices", and [[spoiler:his former codename was "White Rabbit"]]. Later on, it's revealed that he was one of fifteen children raised to be elite summoners, each of whom is also based on a character from the story. [[spoiler:The White Queen (although not one of said siblings)]] turns out to be the original "Alice". [[spoiler:Like Alice, she fell from her original world into another one, and was led around by a White Rabbit. Her alternative name is based on the name mistakenly assigned to Lewis Carroll's Alice, "Mary Ann"]].
* AlmightyJanitor: The highest-Award summoner so far is [[spoiler:Madam Professor, one of the members of the Fifteen Siblings Project, with 3000 Awards]].
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Akura Taisaku, the creator of Operation March Hare, was killed by a copy of the White Queen when Kyousuke discovered and undid the deception in volume 5. A conversation in volume 7 reveals that the Queen killed him but allowed his cells to remain active so he lived on for more than 300 hours while splattered across the walls and ceiling]]
* AnimalMotifs:
** The rabbit for Kyousuke.
** Members of the Magentarain family are often compared to birds of prey. Claude Magentarain even uses a bald eagle as a vessel.
* ApocalypseHow:
** The Secret War was a Regional example, causing Societal Disruption. [[spoiler:The White Queen became violent and called in a large number of Materials. Numerous high-ranking summoners were killed in the process of stopping her, breaking the balance of power between the three great factions]].
** The villain's scheme in Volume 1, if not stopped, would have resulted in [[spoiler:a Global example, causing Species Extinction if not Total Extinction of all life on Earth]].
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Repliglass, a silicon-based material used in all kinds of technology. It seems to often form the basis of technology based on animals.
* TheArchmage: Summoners with at least 900 Awards, especially those who've crossed the 1000 mark, are seen as this. The ultimate example of this is [[spoiler:Madam Professor, who has attained Award 3000. She's one of only two summoners to have a battle with the White Queen that wasn't an immediate CurbStompBattle, and that's ''without'' the personal advantages that Kyousuke has]].
* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Renge turns out to be this. Her sister Higan was intended to be a summoner, but she happened to be born with the trait of a vessel (which makes it dangerous for her to be a summoner). Renge was thus created, as an ideal version of Higan that lacked the trait of a vessel]].
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It's believed that reaching Award 1000 results in a transformation into a Material, becoming part of the other world. However, multiple summoners appear in the series who have reached this level but have remained human. [[spoiler:It's finally demonstrated in the Volume 8 finale, where Madam Professor reappears as a Divine-Class Material. Another example is Kyousuke's little sister, who seemingly managed to be reincarnated as the Colorless Little Girl.]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** The White Queen is the ruler of all Materials, and the most powerful one by far.
** The former leader of Government, Humanism, with an Award level of 2799.
* BadassNormal:
** Both Kyousuke and Lu Niang Lan can fight and defeat summoners even without magic. The latter is by far the more skilled, at one point killing an Award 1000 summoner, [[spoiler:her former master]].
** A non-combat example in Open Bluff, the former leader of Illegal. He had an Award of 0, due to never summoning a single Material. He maintained his position through nothing more than reputation, hence the name.
* BalanceOfPower: One of these exists between Government, Illegal and Freedom. It's far from stable, due to many of the major figures in each faction dying in the Secret War.
* BatmanGambit:
** On several occasions, Kyousuke uses tactics that exploit his understanding of [[spoiler:the White Queen's mindset, especially her twisted love for him]]. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:she]] can do the same to him.
** During their rematch in Volume 6, Azalea performs one on Kyousuke. [[spoiler:She has recruited and brainwashed a number of girls to attempt suicide in front of him. As a result, Kyousuke has to knock them out to save them, giving Azalea the opportunity to kidnap the Meinokawa sisters]].
* BatmanGrabsAGun: [[spoiler:In Volume 5, Kyousuke decides to ask his former enemy Biondetta for help, despite it going against his ideals]].
* BattleHarem: Kyousuke's love interests include summoners, vessels, a BadassNormal, and [[spoiler:the strongest Material]].
* BedmateReveal: At the beginning of Volume 4, Kyousuke wakes up to find [[spoiler:the White Queen next to him. He immediately tries to kill her, but she easily stops him and knocks him out with a single flick to the forehead. She then comments that this is the 45th time that's happened]].
* BeyondTheImpossible: In Volume 5, the White Queen manages to defeat [[spoiler:all of the other Unexplored-Class, who were intended to be capable of defeating her]].
* BigBad: [[spoiler:The White Queen]].
* BigGood: The White Queen is seen as this by everyone connected to the supernatural world. [[spoiler:The problem is [[SubvertedTrope that all of it is a facade]]]]. She's actually an insane EldritchAbomination who doesn't care about any humans, save Kyousuke because {{Yandere}}]].
** To a lesser extent, the three Unexplored-Class Materials who oversee the three factions.
* BlatantLies: In the Volume 8 prologue, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] claims that she isn't going to appear, but it turns out that [[spoiler:she's been acting as the vessel for the Colorless Little Girl for that volume.]]
* BlobMonster: The "Original _" series of Regulation-Class Materials, the blank space being a color such as yellow or green. With a cost of 1, they are the weakest Materials, essentially equivalent to Level 1 Slimes.
* BlueBlood: The Magentarain and Deltaston families.
* TheCameo: The [[GirlOfTheWeek Girls Of the Week]] occasionally make small appearances in volumes after their initial appearance.
* CapturedSuperEntity: The premise behind the Sewn Realm Summoning method, which summons a Material and keeps them on Earth permanently. The original version of this went one step further, by making it impossible for any other summoner to summon that Material.
* CatchPhrase:
** Kyousuke has "As you wish", used when he answers a call for help.
** [[EvilCounterpart Biondetta]] has "Yes, sir/ma'am", used when she answers a call for revenge.
* ChekhovsGun:
** Early in Volume 1, Meinokawa Renge exploits one of the Taboos of the summoning ceremony to turn her opponent's Material into the Black Maw That Swallow All, which automatically kills its controller (an analogy would be that she forced her opponent to hit the 8-ball into a hole). [[spoiler:At the end of the volume, Kyousuke deliberately summons the Black Maw himself while fighting the White Queen. Since the White Queen [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou won't let anyone else but her kill Kyousuke]], she fights the Black Maw and is (temporarily) killed]].
* ChekhovsGunman:
** The Government summoner Perfect Game appears briefly in Volume 1 as the first Government summoner defeated by Kyousuke. He later has a major role in Volume 4.
** Olivia Highland is also mentioned in the first volume as Kyousuke's most recent ex-vessel. [[spoiler:She reappears at the end of the sixth volume as an antagonist.]]
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kyousuke suffers from this, being compelled to help out anyone who asks for it. Deconstructed: it's also shown that this isn't remotely healthy, and is the result of [[spoiler:receiving the White Queen's 'love' (essentially, having his psyche mixed with that of an EldritchAbomination]].
* ClingyJealousGirl: [[spoiler:The White Queen]], to the point that she starts getting murderous if Kyousuke merely says another girl's name in her presence, regardless of context. [[spoiler:She's even this to herself: if there are multiple copies of the White Queen around Kyousuke, they will fight to the death until one remains]].
* ColonyDrop: In Volume 8, [[spoiler:Kyousuke and Olivia ride a space station from orbit down to Kingdom F.]]
* CompleteImmortality: All Materials are ageless, cannot be damaged by mundane means, and cannot be permanently killed even if their physical forms are destroyed.
* CosmicHorrorStory: [[spoiler:The White Queen is actually an EldritchAbomination who doesn't care about anyone not named Kyousuke, and she expresses her love for him by making his life a living hell. Kyousuke does manage to defeat her in each volume... because she never takes things seriously and enjoys letting him win]].
* CosmicPlaything: Kyousuke. [[spoiler:Being the former lover of a {{Yandere}} EldritchAbomination who sees no problem with inflicting suffering as a form of romance tends to do that]].
* CoversAlwaysLie:
** The cover of volume 1, which shows the White Queen. Anyone who's read a few other light novels would think that she's the main heroine, right? [[spoiler:Well, she technically is, but she's also the main antagonist]].
** A much bigger offender is the cover of Volume 4, which gives the impression that Kyousuke and the White Queen are willingly working together. To put it in perspective, [[spoiler:when he wakes up next to the Queen at the start of the novel, he immediately tries to kill her]].
* CrapsackWorld: The entire world is under the sway of three factions of summoners. Normal people can't do anything about them: [[InvisibleToNormals they can't even remember that summoners exist]], and said summoners can easily call in monsters invulnerable to human weaponry. Due to many important summoners dying in [[GreatOffscreenWar the Secret War]], the balance of power between the factions is unstable, and could easily tip over into open conflict. Internal discipline has also been weakened, so [[BewareTheSuperman if a summoner decides to take full advantage of their power over normal humans]], their higher-ups might not have the ability or inclination to stop them. And to top it all off, [[spoiler:the supposed BigGood of the setting is a ''psychotic EldritchAbomination who's responsible for all of this!'']]
* CripplingOverspecialization: The Colorless Little Girl Dedicated to a Single Goal has the sole purpose of [[spoiler:permanently destroying the White Queen]]. Because of this, she is unable to fight other opponents effectively. [[spoiler:Subverted, as the act of defeating the White Queen will apparently transform her in some way, similarly to how the Queen gained authority over the laws of the world by defeating the other Unexplored-Class]].
* {{Cult}}: Guard of Honor is a cult based around the White Queen. They are utterly loyal to her, [[spoiler:even though she doesn't care about them at all. Later on there's Bridesmaid, also dedicated to the Queen]].
* CurbStompBattle:
** Summoners with an Award greater than 900, like Kyousuke, Azalea and Biondetta, tend to deal these out.
** The White Queen almost inevitably inflicts this on her opponents.
* CuteMonsterGirl: [[{{Fanservice}} For some reason]], all of the Unexplored-Class Materials look like women and girls. [[spoiler:It turns out that all of them, except for the White Queen, are meant to oppose and counter the White Queen. Though this still doesn't explain why the Queen looks the way she does]].
* DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Kyousuke [[spoiler:was part of a project that took in children who'd witnessed the White Queen and raised them as summoners, hoping to have one of them summon the Queen so she could be killed. He eventually created and used a method of summoning the Queen permanently, but she (for reasons still not revealed) immediately fell in love with him. The overseers of the project eventually had the other children mimic Kyousuke's behavior to steal control of the Queen, but this went horribly wrong and caused her to become violently obsessed with Kyousuke. This led to the Secret War, in which countless summoners (including half of the project's children) were killed, destabilising the world]].
** Aika [[spoiler:was the grand-daughter of President Toydream. She became a summoner, hoping to impress him by being like one of the heroines of the fairy tales he wrote. However, she gained the permanent InvisibleToNormals nature of all summoners, causing all normal people to forget about her]].
** Lu Niang Lan [[spoiler:was the vessel of Government's former leader, Elvast Toydream. He didn't even treat her like a human, keeping her in a cage. Eventually, she stabbed him in the back and escaped]].
* DavidVersusGoliath: The main conflict in the series is between a (physically) normal human and [[spoiler:the most powerful being in the universe]].
* DawnOfAnEra: Each Summoning Ceremony is one, rendering the previous Ceremonies obsolete.
** The Fourth Ceremony enables Materials and summoners to fight together without loss of autonomy on either side.
** The Fifth Ceremony/Age of Awakening, reached at the end of the series, [[spoiler:brings all Materials into the human world forever]].
* DealWithTheDevil:
** A recurring theme in the series is that if Kyousuke just gives in to [[spoiler:the White Queen, she will give him everything he could ever want... or so she claims]].
** This is Biondetta's MO. If someone asks for help in carrying out revenge, she'll provide all the help they want... but she'll also encourage their revenge to a potentially deadly extent. For bonus points, she deliberately wears demonic horns and a tail as accessories.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Claude Magentarain grew sick of his family and their practices (such as tracking down illegitimate children and killing them), so he struck out and became an independent summoner.
* DelayedNarratorIntroduction: The narrator to the prologue of Volume 1 is initially unclear. After reading the next chapter, you might think it's Aika, due to the narrator calling Kyousuke "brother". [[spoiler:It's actually the White Queen. Future prologues are also narrated by her, with less ambiguity]].
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu:
** Volume 1 ends with a double example. Both the White Queen and the Black Maw are considered to be unstoppable and invincible, the former being capable of defeating any opponent while the latter automatically devours its own summoner. [[spoiler:At the end of Volume 1, Kyousuke manages to destroy (one incarnation of) the White Queen, by summoning the Black Maw and having her fight it. The Black Maw wins, albeit heavily injured, and Kyousuke manages to transform it into another Material before it can kill him. As a result, he receives the rare Award "White Slayer"]].
** Elvast does this literally in Volume 6: he pierces through [[spoiler:an admittedly-weakened version of the White Queen]] with his arm, instantly banishing it. It's the only time in the entire series that a human has defeated a Material with nothing more than their own body.
* DidYouJustRomanceCthulhu: Anyone who somehow manages to gain the love of the White Queen gains the Award "Loved by the White". [[spoiler:This is currently held only by Kyousuke, [[CosmicPlaything much to his misfortune]]]].
* DidYouJustScamCthulhu:
** Being unable to fight her head-on, [[spoiler:Kyousuke's battles with the White Queen revolve around this. It helps that due to the Queen's twisted love for him, she doesn't really care about being tricked]].
** Attempted in Volume 5, [[spoiler:in which the overseers of the Fifteen Siblings Project attempt to copy Kyousuke to gain control of the White Queen. [[GoneHorriblyRight It actually works]]... right up until the Queen sees the real Kyousuke, which kicks off a chain of events leading to the Secret War and causes the Queen to become evil]].
* DifficultButAwesome: Summoning the White Queen through the Blood Sign-based method. It requires a summoner to first summon 100 Regulation-Class and 50 Divine-Class Materials, which is rarely achievable in actual combat. Alternatively, they can knock the Petals representing her name into Spots - all twenty one of them, in the correct sequence, which is also nearly impossible in actual combat. But if she is summoned, she is guaranteed to defeat any opponent.
* DoesNotLikeMagic: Lu Niang Lan has the talent of a vessel, but refuses to participate in summoning any longer, instead fighting with martial arts and hidden weapons. This stems from being treated like an animal by the summoner she'd previously partnered with, [[spoiler:Elvast Toydream]].
* EldritchAbomination: The Black Maw That Swallows All, described as a tornado of black slime, the center of which is filled with fangs. It appears if a summoner breaks certain taboos, and completely devours them. [[spoiler:The White Queen is also this, and in fact she and the Black Maw are the same entity]].
* EmptyShell: If a summoner and vessel lose a summoning battle, they become helpless for over 24 hours. The rationale behind this is that the destruction of one's Material causes a trauma comparable to seeing the death of a god. In this state, they can't take any actions of their own accord. They'll follow any (simple) orders given to them, even if that means walking off a cliff.
** A more extreme version occurs if a summoner is unlucky enough to summon the Black Maw. The Black Maw devours its summoner, then transforms back into the vessel. Said vessel will be physically intact, but their mind will be permanently destroyed.
* EnemyMine:
** For the latter half of Volume 2, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] provides information to Kyousuke on the villains' plans. [[spoiler: However this was part of her plan to have Kyousuke unwittingly voluntarily give up the chance to save someone and cause him to break]]
** At the end of Volume 5, Kyousuke makes a deal with [[spoiler:Biondetta to have her help him with revenge on the White Queen]], and they are currently in an uneasy alliance.
* EnemyScan: The Colorless Little Girl can analyse an enemy to determine their weaknesses.
* EnemySummoner: [[spoiler:The White Queen]], if summoned for a prolonged period of time, will begin to warp space-time itself. This results in countless Materials spilling over from the other world onto Earth.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first time the White Queen is summoned. [[spoiler:She beats up Azalea and Fractal, despite them bowing down to her. She beats up Renge, her summoner, when she tries to interfere. Finally, she spends all of her summoning time flirting with Kyousuke]].
* EvilCounterpart:
** The Black Maw is this to the White Queen, both being incredibly powerful Materials that are outside of the normal sound ranges. Unlike the White Queen, the Black Maw is uncontrollable and kills its own summoner. [[spoiler:Subverted: they are the same entity. The White Queen is also uncontrollable and potentially dangerous to her summoner. The Black Maw's real form is identical to the White Queen, only colored black]].
** Biondetta, introduced in Volume 3, is this to Kyousuke. She is also a summoner with an Award greater than 900, but instead of saving people who ask for help, she helps those who ask for revenge, driving them down a self-destructive spiral. Though as she points out, she's not that different from Kyousuke: both of them follow particular ideals to their extremes. [[spoiler:They also come from the same summoner-raising project and received the White Queen's hatred and love, respectively]].
* EvilVirtues: Many of these are exhibited by [[spoiler:the White Queen]].
** Determination: [[spoiler:Just as Kyousuke swore that he would never rest until the Queen is destroyed, the Queen resolved to never give up until he loves her again]].
** Love: [[spoiler:The main trait of her character. [[UnreliableNarrator Despite what Kyousuke himself thinks]], she does genuinely love him, and is willing to put herself in harm's way to protect him]].
** Patience: [[spoiler:She doesn't mind if one or a hundred of her plans are foiled. Being immortal, she'll wait as long as it takes for her to succeed]].
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The White Queen wasn't always evil, as it turns out]].
* FantasticRacism: Almost all supernatural beings in the series are seen as nothing more than tools for the use of humans. The very name given to them, "Material", reflects this. The White Queen and the Three are the only real exceptions, with their intellect being recognized by summoners, but that doesn't stop them from being summoned like any other Material.
* FantasyKitchenSink: The gods and legendary figures from all mythologies can be summoned, in addition to the original Regulation-Class and Unexplored-Class Materials.
* FootsieUnderTheTable: Lu Niang Lan tries doing this to Kyousuke at one point, only for him to stomp on her foot and then trick her into stubbing her toe. She later does this [[LesYay to Aika]] with more success.
* ForegoneConclusion: Volume 5 is a flashback, so it's obvious from the start that it won't end well.
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** Almost at the beginning of the first volume, the [[EldritchAbomination Black Maw That Swallows All]] is introduced, along with its summoning name and summoning conditions. One of these conditions is a summoner gathering Petals with an equal number of high, medium and low sounds. [[spoiler:The White Queen's summoning name is an anagram of the Black Maw's, and consists of an equal number of letters of each sound range. That's because she and the Black Maw are one and the same]].
** Additionally, the Black Maw's ability to attack its own summoner foreshadows that the protective circle is not impregnable. [[spoiler:The White Queen can do the same thing, being the same entity as the Black Maw]].
** A very subtle example that only pays off after several volumes: In Volume 1, the White Queen makes several suggestions about her possible plans for Kyousuke. Among these is [[spoiler:making a contract with Kyousuke and becoming his vessel. This is exactly what happens in Volume 7, with the Queen disguising herself as Aoi Meinokawa (the one he was intending to contract with)]].
** In Volume 5, Madam Professor is mentioned keeping seeds in her desk. [[spoiler:They're to feed her squirrel vessel, as she's secretly a summoner]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:she created a card game with cards for all of the Materials, which (since Materials can't be seen by electronic means) would require her to have seen all of them in person, foreshadowing her high Award]].
* GambitPileup: There are three main summoner factions, each of which comprises many groups that have their own goals. Then there's the countless independent groups like Guard of Honor. And then there's the White Queen, who is involved in some way or other in many of the schemes and always finds some way to twist them into serving her own goal, [[spoiler:getting Kyousuke]].
** A good example is Volume 6. Kyousuke's group (which includes [[spoiler:Biondetta]], whose goals are different from the rest) wants to gain information that will help them destroy the White Queen. Bridesmaid wants to get the same information to protect the Queen. Claude Magentarain's group wants the information to [[spoiler:destroy all means of summoning the Queen]]. Then there's the fourth side, [[spoiler:Elvast Toydream, who already has said information. Instead, he wants to kidnap Lu Niang Lan, hoping to break his dependency on the Queen]]. Finally, the White Queen is involved as well, with the same goal mentioned above.
* GameBreaker:
** Summoning the White Queen is extremely difficult, and essentially impossible outside of mock battles, but she immediately guarantees victory [[spoiler:provided that it suits her own goals as well]].
** Summoning methods outside of the Blood Sign method are seen as this in-universe, as they would be free from the time limit. Methods of summoning the White Queen indefinitely, like the Sewn Realm Summoning, would literally make the user omnipotent, [[spoiler:again, subject to the Queen's whims]].
* GiantSquid: The DEC Tentacle, a Regulation-Class Material that resembles a giant squid but with chains for tentacles.
* GirlOfTheWeek: Invoked. Whenever Kyousuke has finished helping a girl, he cuts off ties with her to avoid further exposure to the dangers of the world of summoning [[spoiler:and to avoid provoking the White Queen's wrath]]. The Meinokawa sisters from Volume 1 are an exception, being a summoner-vessel pair of their own accord, and they make several more appearances.
* TheGlomp: How [[spoiler:the White Queen]] first met Kyousuke. Since she was also OneHeadTaller at the time, it's also a case of MarshmallowHell.
* GodIsEvil: [[spoiler:The White Queen, though this is unknown to her worshippers]].
* GodzillaThreshold: The Black Maw That Swallows All is an uncontrollable Material that instantly kills its summoner when it's summoned. It's usually a threat that forces summoners to take care to avoid meeting its summoning conditions. [[spoiler:But as another aspect of the White Queen, it's the only thing that can actually oppose her head-on. Kyousuke deliberately summons it in the final battle of the first volume, knowing that the Queen would fight it to protect him]].
* GoKartingWithBowser: Volume 4 could be described as [[spoiler:Go Dating With The EldritchAbomination Girlfriend]].
* GravityScrew: When an Incense Grenade detonates, the summoners and vessels involved will experience gravity oriented towards the surface on which it detonated. Additionally, if that surface is destroyed, then the next surface touched by the Grenade's user becomes the new "ground". Hayato's summoning strategy exploits this: he repeatedly destroys the ground, disorienting his opponents through the constant shifts in gravity.
* GreaterScopeVillain: While each novel tends to have its own antagonists, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] is almost always pulling the strings in some fashion.
* GreatOffScreenWar: The Secret War, responsible for the current state of the world. Eventually detailed in Volume 5.
* GuestStarPartyMember: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] follows Kyousuke around during Volume 4.
* GunsAreWorthless: Against Materials, or summoners who have summoned one, all human weapons are useless.
* HijackedByGanon: No matter who the villains are in a particular volume, [[spoiler:the White Queen will always turn out to be involved]].
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The White Queen. The real form of the Black Maw, being a facet of her, is also this - it's identical to the White Queen save for being black]].
* HumansAreBastards: The gods and other legendary figures in this series have no will of their own - all of the misery in the world is brought about solely by human hands. It's even because of humans that [[spoiler:the White Queen is evil in the first place]].
* HumansAreGood: Downplayed. One of Madam Professor's beliefs is that deep down, every person contains at least some trace of good in them, and that they will refrain from truly crossing the MoralEventHorizon.
* HybridPower: Aika's pet and vessel is a five-metre long white liger (a hybrid of a lion and a white tiger).
* HyperspaceArsenal: Lu Niang Lan somehow has many weapons hidden on her body.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: In most of her appearances, the White Queen never uses anything close to her full power, as she can easily win regardless. Volume 7 features her going all out, revealing abilities that were never even hinted at before (like her ability to shapeshift into 512 different forms).
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: The final confrontation to Volume 4. [[spoiler:The White Queen stabs one of her swords into the floor, and proposes that Kyousuke use it to stand a chance against her. Kyousuke naturally refuses. The Queen knew that he'd refuse, and reveals that stabbing the sword into the floor caused damage to the building that would destroy an important reactor, killing the people Kyousuke was trying to save. Except Kyousuke anticipated even this, knowing that the Queen would never give him any way out. He also had knowledge that the Queen didn't have, that the entire structure of the building had deliberately been changed from the optimum, so the Queen's attack misses the reactor]].
* ImmortalitySeeker: The main goal of [[spoiler:the villains of Volume 2]].
* ImprobableAge: An implausibly-large number of high-ranking summoners appear to be teenagers or outright children. The biggest example of this is Humanism, who had attained Award 2799 despite being around ten years old.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Any skilled summoner. It's pretty much a requirement when the main method of summoning amounts to 3D pool, in an irregular environment full of obstacles.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: Since summoners will hit more and more Petals into Spots as a summoning battle goes on, the cost (and hence power) of their Materials will only increase. After a summoner successfully calls in 100 Regulation-Class Materials, they gain the ability to summon the more powerful Divine-Class. And if they still aren't defeated, and they can summon 50 Divine-Class Materials, they gain access to the Unexplored-Class.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The White Queen is the ultimate Material, guaranteed to defeat any other, and also the most difficult to summon. [[spoiler:Subverted, as she is uncontrollable and does whatever she wants when summoned]].
* InstantWinCondition: Summoning the White Queen is effectively this, as she is powerful enough to effortlessly defeat any opponent. [[spoiler:Subverted; she is unique among Materials in that she is the one in control, so will only follow her summoner's orders if it's in her own interest]].
* InterspeciesRomance: [[spoiler:The relationship between Kyousuke and the White Queen, though in the present it's purely one-sided]].
* InvincibleVillain: [[spoiler:The White Queen, being the most powerful being in the series. The only thing that can really injure her is her own power, and even that can't permanently kill her. While Kyousuke does manage to foil her various schemes, none of this really matters to her, as it just means she can spend more time with him]].
* InvisibleToNormals: When a summoner or vessel reaches Award 100, they gain a variant of this. They can still be seen normally by ordinary people, but the moment they leave their field of vision, the ordinary person will forget about them.
** When a summoning ceremony occurs, all the summoners and vessels involved also become invisible to electronic sensors.
* JustToyingWithThem: This applies to all of [[spoiler:the White Queen]]'s battles with Kyousuke.
* {{Kaiju}}: Larger Materials, like the Divine-Class dragons at the beginning of Volume 1.
* KidWithTheLeash: Summoners and vessels both function as this to Materials. The summoner calls in the Material from the other world and determines their form, while the vessel acts as a nucleus to create the Material's physical body and directly controls the Material.
** [[spoiler:Kyousuke is this specifically to the White Queen. However, due to her unstable and (by human standards) evil mentality, he doesn't dare try to exploit this]].
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: An ordinary person will lose all memories of a summoner or vessel once the latter leaves their sight. Unlike other examples, however, the memories will return whenever they see the summoner or vessel again.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: The White Queen and the Black Maw are the most powerful Materials. Below them are the other Unexplored-Class, each of whom is a particular color, and below them are all the other Materials.
** Played with by the Colorless Little Girl, who [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin isn't any color]] (being transparent). [[spoiler:She can defeat the White Queen (and by extension, the Black Maw), but would lose to any other Unexplored-Class. However, the Queen implies that by defeating her, the Colorless Little Girl will become even more powerful]].
* LightEmUp:
** One of the White Queen's attacks is a beam of light that disintegrates anything in its path.
** The Lady of Purple Lightning can shoot lasers from her finger.
* LightIsNotGood: [[spoiler:The White Queen]].
* LimitedWardrobe: Kyousuke only wears the same brand of hoodie and pants.
* LittleSisterHeroine: The [[NotBloodSiblings non-blood related version]] is invoked by Aika, Olivia, [[spoiler:the White Queen and the Colorless Little Girl]]. The last of these actually weaponises it: [[spoiler:by behaving in this manner to Kyousuke, she can trigger the White Queen's BerserkButton to make her lose control]]. Ironically, it later turns out that [[spoiler:the ColorlessLittleGirl used to actually be his little sister.]]
* LoveHurts: And that's putting it mildly. The romance between [[spoiler:Kyousuke and the White Queen]] didn't just hurt those involved, but ''everyone else in the world''. It's succinctly explained in one line at the beginning of the first novel:
--> ''On occasion, even a single love can bring an end to the world.''
* LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler:It turns out that the Queen wasn't evil to begin with, and even made a promise with Kyousuke to never hurt anyone. But during the Secret War, she was confronted with the dilemma of doing nothing to an attacking army, hence letting Kyousuke die in the crossfire, or breaking her promise and slaughtering them. She chose the latter]].
* MacGuffin: Volume 6 revolves around three of these, needed to find the Founder's Gallery: the Diamond Master Key, the Founder's Map, and the Golden Treasure Chest. The second of these is also a LivingMacGuffin, being inscribed on [[spoiler:Sekurtiti's back]].
* MagicAIsMagicA: The summoning ceremony is governed by an enormous number of rules. Not one of these is ever violated, and the characters often exploit loopholes in the rules to achieve victory.
* MagicalGirlfriend: Deconstructed. The inhuman supernatural girlfriend in this case is [[spoiler:a {{Yandere}} EldritchAbomination. But it's also reconstructed, as she only became like that because of humans]].
* TheMasquerade: Maintained by the fact that [[InvisibleToNormals ordinary people automatically lose their memories of the supernatural after experiencing it]].
* MasterActor: [[spoiler:In Volume 7, the White Queen spends most of the volume pretending to be Aoi Meinokawa. She's good enough that Renge (Aoi's caretaker) doesn't suspect a thing, and even Kyousuke only feels some uneasiness around her. It helps that Aoi already had the exact same appearance as the Queen. Played with, in that Kyousuke nevertheless figures it out - see SpottingTheThread]].
* MasterOfAll: Volume 7 shows the White Queen finally cutting loose with everything she has, making it clear that she's an example of this trope. She's an incomprehensibly-powerful LightningBruiser MagicKnight who can attack at any range, with any element, and has no weaknesses (except [[spoiler:Kyousuke]]).
* {{Miko}}: The Meinokawa sisters, Renge and Higan.
* MileLongShip: Pandemonium, the setting of Volume 4, is essentially a floating city shaped like a giant squid.
* {{Mons}}: All supernatural combat in the series revolves around summoning Materials to fight.
** OlympusMons: The Divine-Class and Unexplored-Class Materials.
* MookChivalry: Averted. It is entirely possible for multiple summoners to gang up on a single one.
* MortonsFork:
** The end of Volume 2. [[spoiler:Kyousuke can return to the present, leaving the Rainy Girl to be murdered and preserve the timeline, but also betraying his ideals. Or he can intervene in the past, completely altering the timeline with uncertain repercussions. He chooses the latter, since the timeline has already been altered anyway]].
** Also encountered by the White Queen during the Secret War. [[spoiler:Kyousuke was right next to her, and an army of elite summoners had summoned hundreds of Unexplored-Class, planning on defeating the Queen. If she did nothing, her physical body would be destroyed (inconsequential for her) but Kyousuke would certainly die. But to keep Kyousuke alive, she would have to kill all of the attackers, which she knew Kyousuke wouldn't want. As in the previous example, she chose the latter option]].
* MugglesDoItBetter: Played with. Materials are completely invulnerable to human weaponry, as are summoners inside a protective circle. However, summoners and vessels who haven't summoned are just as frail as any other human. There are several instances where technology and ingenuity alone have been used to defeat summoners, or to avoid needing to fight altogether.
* MyGreatestFailure: Kyousuke sees his involvement in the Secret War as this. [[spoiler:He summoned the White Queen indefinitely, and planned on using her help to stabilise the world. But he failed to notice others trying to take control of the Queen, which led to a battle between different copies of the Queen that ultimately turned her evil. She then attacked and killed an enormous number of people, trying to get to Kyousuke]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Black Maw That Swallows All.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** Kyousuke's ChronicHeroSyndrome is an attempt to atone for a past example of this. [[spoiler:He managed to summon the White Queen permanently, and got the idea of using her power to help fix the world. But due to various factors (others trying to usurp control of the Queen, Materials being summoned automatically by the Queen's presence) this led to the Queen turning evil and causing countless deaths]].
** In the first volume, Renge attempts to save her sister Higan by [[spoiler:taking advantage of the enemy's setup to summon the White Queen herself. Normally, [[InstantWinCondition the White Queen would immediately win the battle for Renge]]... except that she had no idea that said enemy was in fact working with the Queen, nor did she know of the Queen's relationship with Kyousuke. The Queen injured Renge herself, and left Higan with a poison in her body that would eventually kill her]].
** Possibly the biggest example is in Volume 7. Kyousuke is so obsessed with defeating [[spoiler:the White Queen]] that he doesn't consider anything else a threat in comparison. He [[spoiler:creates an artificial Unexplored-Class, the Colorless Little Girl, to permanently destroy the Queen. The Girl actually succeeds in this, and because of her CripplingOverspecialization, Kyousuke doesn't think that she will be a threat herself. But it turns out that the Queen somehow survived, and she reveals that, due to defeating her, the Girl will be transformed into an even bigger threat to the world than the Queen was.]]
* NighInvulnerability:
** Materials have the Made of Diamond variant against ordinary threats. No matter how powerful, nothing that isn't also supernatural can damage them. And even if they are damaged, they can always be summoned again.
** When they've summoned a Material, a summoner and vessel pair gain a similar form of invulnerability. The summoner is surrounded by a protective circle and the vessel transforms into the Material, giving them immunity to both external threats and internal ones (such as existing injuries). The protective circle even protects the summoner from attack by Materials. However, the transformed vessel can still be damaged by Materials, and contains a vulnerable core. If the core is breached, both summoner and vessel will lose all capability for independent action and become helpless for more than a day.
* NoodleIncident: The Secret War, which involved the deaths of countless important summoners and is responsible for many of the problems in the present, [[spoiler:such as the White Queen's current attitude]]. Eventually expanded on in Volume 5.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy. Kyousuke. In Volume 6, he holds a normal conversation with Aika while Lu Niang Lan and [[spoiler:Biondetta]] are pressing their bodies against him.
* NotWhatItLooksLike:
** At the start of Volume 2, Aika runs across Kyousuke and Lu Niang Lan on her sofa, exhausted. [[spoiler:They had just escaped from a fierce battle at the airport]]. Their explanations don't exactly help the situation.
--> '''Kyousuke:''' Th-that was all… pant… Lu-san’s fault… She’s the one… pant… that suddenly knocked me out…
--> '''Lu:''' What are you saying, Kyousuke-chan? Pant… This was all your doing, Kyousuke-chan... Pant, I told you to stop, but you went for it anyway…
** Done again in Volume 7. Renge spots Kyousuke and Biondetta approaching her family shrine. They both smell of the same kind of soap, and on top of that, Biondetta is red-faced and panting with exhaustion. [[spoiler:They had just stopped at a hotel to wash before visiting the shrine]].
** And in Volume 8, Kyousuke and Olivia stop at a [[LoveHotels leisure room]] to change clothes, where Olivia innocently picks up a condom without knowing what it's for. Later, she accidentally drops it while in front of her mother Sinceria and her zealous bodyguard Rachel. Sinceria figures out nothing actually happened but acts like it did, while Rachel is furious.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] gives off the impression of not thinking things through and being easily distracted. She herself even claims that she doesn't bother planning anything, since, [[spoiler:being the strongest entity in the universe, she doesn't need to]]. However, later volumes confirm that this is a facade. The seventh volume is a notable example: [[spoiler:she impersonates Aoi, Kyousuke's intended vessel for the volume, and is good enough to fool Renge (Aoi's caretaker). During this, she doesn't react to Kyousuke saying the names of other girls (something that was initially presented as her BerserkButton) and even manages to hold his head to her chest without losing control of herself. While Kyousuke figures out the deception, it's implied that she allowed him to do so, since her plan required him to successfully defeat her. And in the end, [[TheBadGuyWins she manages to achieve her main goal]]]].
* ObliviousToLove: Kyousuke refuses to acknowledge that [[spoiler:the White Queen is in love with him]], despite her saying it with practically every sentence. Though from his perspective it's justified, seeing [[spoiler:[[MoralEventHorizon what the Queen did]] in the Secret War]].
* OneManArmy:
** Summoners above Award 900, like Kyousuke, Azalea and Biondetta, routinely defeat large numbers of enemies with ease. The biggest example of this is [[spoiler:Kyousuke defeating a US army, armed with tanks, aircraft, artillery and Repliglass, ''while adhering to his no-killing rule''.]]
** The White Queen is famous for this - once she's summoned, she guarantees victory for her summoner, no matter the odds. Her greatest feat to date is [[spoiler:defeating an army of hundreds of Unexplored-Class Materials, [[BeyondTheImpossible even though her power should have been sealed by their combined presence]], and without allowing a single one of their attacks to even graze Kyousuke.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname:
** A number of summoners are only ever referred to by their RedBaron, with their actual names never being revealed.
** Madam Professor does have a real name, Masami Shigara, but is more often referred to by said nickname.
* OurElvesAreDifferent:
** Sinceria, the Queen of Kingdom F, has pointed ears and superhuman beauty due to binding so many contracts as a vessel that it's changed her appearance.
** Elves in the usual sense have yet to appear, but presumably exist as Divine-Class Materials.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent / OurMonstersAreWeird: Unlike the Divine-Class, which are based on figures in real-life mythology, the Regulation-Class Materials are all original creations. They often combine traits of multiple organisms and/or objects, such as the DEC Tentacle (a giant squid with chains for tentacles), the Tree Hand (an enormous arm growing from the ground like a tree), and the Giant Hostile Eye (a giant eye made of barbed wire).
* PhysicalGod: Divine-Class Materials.
* PinkySwear: Kyousuke once made such a promise with [[spoiler:the White Queen]], to never leave her side.
* PlotTailoredToTheParty: Lampshaded as early as the first volume. Kyousuke often encounters situations that only he can solve, because [[spoiler:of the White Queen being behind it all. The Queen's power means that that she's involved in every single villain's plan in some fashion, and her twisted love for Kyousuke means that he's the only one who can defeat her in any way]].
* PoorCommunicationKills: Ultimately, the main conflict of the series is a breakdown in communications between [[spoiler:Kyousuke and the White Queen.]]
* PoweredArmor: Several examples throughout the series, all made using Repliglass. They're often based on the body plan of a living organism, such as having grasshopper-like legs for jumping.
* PowerLevels:
** Among summoners, Awards are seen as this in-universe, though they're not always accurate. Summoners that abstain from fighting won't receive many Awards, but can nevertheless be skilled. It's also pointed out that no matter how high the Award, all summoners have to start from the very beginning with Regulation-Class Materials. That said, there are still clear divisions based on Awards: those with Award less than 900, those in the 900-1000 range, and those with an Award greater than 1000.
** Among Materials, there are the Regulation-Class, the Divine-Class and the Unexplored-Class, in ascending order of power. Within each class, the cost of a Material (the amount of Petals used to summon it) also determines its power. While [[TacticalRockPaperScissors sound range]] also has an effect, with a large enough cost disparity it's possible for a Material to defeat one with a superior sound range.
* PowerLimiter:
** All vessels wear something that symbolises restraint, in order to prevent Materials from hijacking their body. The exact nature of the limiter varies depending on the vessel.
** All of the complexity and restrictions of the Blood Sign ceremony act as a limiter on the Materials. Other methods of summoning have fewer restrictions, but are much more dangerous.
* ThePowerOfBlood: A recurring theme.
* A vessel drinking a summoner's blood forms a contract between them and enables telepathy.
* Members of specific royal bloodlines make especially talented vessels, because they can control the Material they become more precisely.
** In volume 10, [[spoiler:the White Queen saves Kyousuke's life by transferring a drop of her own divine blood into him]]. Also counts as MagicKiss.
* ThePowerOfLove: A rare villainous example. [[spoiler:The White Queen is motivated purely by her love for Kyousuke, to the point of achieving things which should be impossible for even her. At the climax of the Secret War, she fought all of the other Unexplored-Class - who should have the ability to seal her power when they're gathered together - and defeated them all, while preventing Kyousuke from being killed in the crossfire]].
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* RedBaron: All summoners receive a title, usually given to them by others once they begin to gain status in the world of summoning.
** Kyousuke has multiple such titles. Of special note are the ones "Alice (with) Rabbit", "Loved by the White" and [[spoiler:White Slayer]], which all relate to [[spoiler:his relationship with the White Queen]]. Volume 8 adds yet another major title after [[spoiler:killing the Queen: "Queen Executioner"]]
* RealityWarper: The White Queen is this, even among other Unexplored-Class. Not only can she perform supposedly-impossible feats (like attacking summoners through a protective circle), but she managed to [[spoiler:defeat all of the other unexplored class - ''whose main purpose is to defeat her'' - and thus achieved complete control over the laws of the world, effectively making her totally invincible]].
** Then there's the Colorless Little Girl, [[spoiler:who can counter everything the White Queen does, and can even completely remove her influence from the universe]].
* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: [[spoiler:Renge was made as a copy of Higan without a vessel's trait]]. She is close enough to a human that she can use summoning magic, and [[spoiler:could potentially donate her organs to Higan with no risk of rejection]].
* RPGElements: In Volume 7, an RPG-style stat sheet is displayed for the White Queen when [[spoiler:the Colorless Little Girl analyses her]]. It literally gives numerical values for things like HP and MP, as well as a long lists of strengths and her one weakness ([[spoiler:Kyousuke]]).
* {{Ruritania}}: Kingdom F, officially known as the Frangild Permanently Neutral Kingdom, is a small country in Eastern Europe ruled by the Highland family. It is practically unknown to the rest of the world, because [[spoiler:the White Queen inserted herself into the country's history and destabilised its existence. This is no longer the case after the White Queen's defeat.]]
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Kyousuke's philosophy in a nutshell.
* SelfDuplication: Almost all Materials can be summoned by more than one summoner at once, even if said summoners are fighting each other. The sole exception is the White Queen, who normally can only be summoned by one summoner. However, the Queen can duplicate herself in certain circumstances.
* SelfServingMemory: Whenever Kyousuke recalls his past experiences with the White Queen, [[spoiler:her real name, Mary, is censored]]. It's implied that he deliberately refuses to remember it [[spoiler:because he doesn't want to acknowledge that the current Queen is the one who broke her promise not to hurt anyone. It may also be that he's trying to dehumanize the Queen by dissociating her from such things as a human name]].
* {{Shapeshifting}}:
** A core part of summoning battles is rearranging and adding to the Material's name to transform it into new forms.
** The White Queen can transform into 512 different forms, such as an insect-like creature with an indestructible shell, a mass of gears and artillery, [[KrakenAndLeviathan a colossal aquatic monster]], or an enormous plant with burning flowers. She fully recovers from all injury when switching forms.
* SignificantAnagram: The official name of the Black Maw That Swallows All (nu – lp – eu – bf – zuh – ei – jkv – iu – a – xw) is this to [[spoiler:the White Queen's official name (iu – nu – fb – a – wuh – ei –kx – eu – pl – vjz)]].
* SiliconBasedLife: Repliglass technology is an artificial version of this. It consists of artificial cells with a silicon base, and is often given the structure of an existing animal.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: This is essentially why there are so many girls interested in Kyousuke. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, that also includes the White Queen]].
* SizeShifter: The White Queen can freely change her own size, being able to grow so large that she can pull a helicopter from the sky with one hand.
* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Subverted. [[spoiler:The White Queen appears in the very first volume, and in all subsequent volumes]]. The human antagonists of each volume also vary in strength.
* SpontaneousWeaponCreation: The only magic other than SummonMagic that summoners can use is to construct and deconstruct a Blood Sign.
* SpottingTheThread: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] impersonates [[spoiler:Aoi during Volume 7]]. However, Kyousuke figures it out for two reasons. [[spoiler:One, she retained her memories of him even when he was out of sight and prior to becoming his vessel (though this wasn't certain proof, since the real Aoi isn't a normal human). Two, she demonstrates a technique for shooting water with one's hands that Kyousuke remembered teaching the Queen in the past]].
* SquishyWizard: Played with. Summoners and vessels are inherently no more durable than a normal human being. However, when actually summoning, the summoner gains a protective circle and the vessel transforms into a Material, making them completely immune to normal attacks.
* StarfishRobots: The Released Creations. Unlike other Repliglass technology, these aren't modelled after an existing living organism but instead have an original structure. The only example of this so far is a model of PoweredArmor that has five "wings" on the back. These wings can rotate like a helicopter rotor for flight, or unravel into CombatTentacles.
* StoryBreakerPower: The White Queen is by far the most powerful entity in the entire series, to the point that any Material that isn't another Unexplored-Class is too afraid to even attack her. She is also worshipped as a goddess by an enormous number of people. And she is [[spoiler:utterly devoted to Kyousuke]]. If it weren't for [[spoiler:her also being the most evil entity in the entire series, Kyousuke could easily have her bring about a utopia]].
* {{Stripperific}}:
** The White Queen's outfit resembles a wedding dress, but bares her shoulders, cleavage, navel and thighs.
** Lu Niang Lan's clothing isn't much better, though in her case, it was originally a costume for a movie.
* SummonBiggerFish: Or rather, Summon Equal Fish. At the end of Volume 1, [[spoiler:Kyousuke commits a Taboo to summon the Black Maw on purpose, which would normally kill him. The White Queen refuses to let anyone or anything else kill him, so she fights against the Black Maw and is (temporarily) killed. Kyousuke then transforms the Black Maw into another Material to avoid being killed. It's an especially unusual example, since the Black Maw is actually another facet of the White Queen]].
* SummonMagic: The main form of magic that humans can use.
** The First Summoning Ceremony is summoning a being to take over one's mind, like dressing in animal furs and then summoning an animal's mind to replace the summoner's own, or dressing like some mythical person and summoning a being to take over the summmoner's body and use the skills of that mythical person.
** The Second Summoning Ceremony is changing the summoner's mind into a state that allows the use of supernatural knowledge, such as rain-calling or demon-summoning via grimoires.
** The main form used in the series is the Third Summoning Ceremony, also known as the Blood Sign-based summoning ceremony, which can essentially be described as Scrabble performed using a 3D game of pool. A ceremony begins when an Incense Grenade is detonated, creating an Artificial Sacred Ground in which supernatural phenomena can occur. A Rose is created at the centre, consisting of 216 floating red spheres known as Petals (analogous to the object balls in pool). Each summoner is accompanied by White Thorns (white spheres, analogous to the cue ball) and uses their Blood Sign to hit the White Thorns to knock the Petals into Spots (36 spherical holes in space, analogous to the holes). Each Petal is associated with a particular letter, and by knocking a particular combination of Petals into Spots, a summoner spells out the name of a Material to summon them.
** Summoning invariably requires two people, a summoner and a vessel. The summoner uses the method detailed above to call in a Material from the other world, who then possesses the vessel. The vessel's body transforms into that of the Material, gaining its invincibility and other powers.
** The summoner can change the Material they use by knocking more Petals into Spots. Doing so is necessary because different Materials have different strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, the Material's strength is proportional to the total number of Petals in Spots.
** The first Material summoned is always of the weakest Regulation-Class. After summoning 100 Regulation-Class Materials, the summoner can then summon the [[PhysicalGod Divine-Class Materials]]. [[SerialEscalation If they then summon 50 Divine-Class Materials]], they gain the privilege of summoning the Unexplored-Class Materials. However, a given summoning ceremony only lasts for ten minutes (barring certain exceptions), so they rarely progress to this level.
** Understandably, many efforts are made in-universe to simplify the summoning ceremony. Alternatives to the Blood Sign method include the Sewn Realm Summoning (analogous to throwing a fish back with a hook in its mouth, so it can be more easily caught in future), the Holy Key Women, and Pandemonium.
*** Pandemonium can do Projection Summon Bombing, which is basically a long-range attack on an area.
*** There's also Attach Saint Project, which is summoning godly weaponry for human use.
*** The Holy Key Women are living weapons. Vessels who contain a Divine-Class Material and then let loose to rampage on one's enemies.
** [[spoiler:The Fourth Summoning Ceremony is introduced in Volume 7. Not much has been shown of it, but it contains the new Unexplored-Class, the Colorless Little Girl. It still makes use of the Blood Sign and its associated elements. Instead of summoning a variety of Materials from the world's mythologies, it seems to revolve around using a single Material in a battle, swapping out its weapon to suit the opponent]].
* SuperStrength: All Materials have this to some degree. Even the most basic Regulation-Class Materials can break through concrete, and Divine-Class Materials can crush buildings just by throwing their bodies around.
** In a crossover, the White Queen easily swings around an [[LightNovel/HeavyObject Object]], a superweapon weighing tens of thousands of tons.
* SuperWeight:
** Type -1: Summoners and vessels who've lost a summoning battle temporarily fall to this level.
** Type 0: Normal humans.
** Type 2: Summoners and vessels who haven't summoned a Material.
** Type 3: Summoners and vessels who have summoned a Material; Regulation-Class Materials.
** Type 4: Divine Class Materials.
** Type 5: Unexplored-Class Materials, barring the White Queen.
** Type 7: The White Queen, [[spoiler:the Black Maw That Swallows All, Wisdom and the Colorless Little Girl]].
* SwissArmyWeapon: The White Queen's dress can change shape freely and transform into any kind of weapon.
* TacticalRockPaperScissors: All Materials belong to one of three sound ranges (except for the White Queen and the Black Maw, which are outside of the rules). High has an advantage over medium, medium over low, and low over high. However, if a Material has a cost at least 10 Petals higher than its opponent, then it will have the advantage even if its sound range is inferior.
* TalkingIsAFreeAction: It's common for characters to say multiple lines in the middle of battle, often [[ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy explaining what they're doing]], and not once are they interrupted.
* ThanatosGambit: In Volume 7 [[spoiler: the White Queen allows herself to be killed by the new Material Kyousuke made solely for the purpose of killing her. This would change said Material into something even more dangerous than the Queen was, forcing Kyousuke to work together with the Queen to stop it]].
* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: The White Queen brings up this idea in the prologue of the third volume, with the two kinds being controllers and the controlled. However, she immediately mocks the idea.
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: The White Queen thinks like this, [[spoiler:albeit in an extremely twisted manner. For example, she sees no problem with killing anyone in the way of a date. She also stages a BedMateReveal and thinks that tricking him into creating a bigger danger than herself so he'd be forced to work with her to stop it will make them a BattleCouple]].
* ThouShallNotKill: Kyousuke, to the point of being called the "Unkilling King". However, he has a very specific exception for [[spoiler:the White Queen]].
* TomTheDarkLord: [[spoiler:It turns out that the White Queen received the name of Mary Ann from Kyousuke. Doubles as a MeaningfulName]].
* TraintopBattle: At the start of Volume 7, [[spoiler:Kyousuke and Biondetta]] fight off an attack by Bridesmaid on (and in) a moving train.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The only date specified is that the Third Summoning Ceremony was invented in 1999. The present of the series can't be more than a few decades later than this, given that one character who witnessed this event (Doctor S) is still alive.
* UncannyValley: The White Queen has a supernaturally-enchanting voice, but her actual words and tone are childish, resulting in this trope.
* UnreliableNarrator: Kyousuke's perspective is subtly but clearly skewed when it comes to [[spoiler:the White Queen. He repeatedly emphasises that she isn't really in love with him, but sections from her viewpoint confirm that she is (albeit in a twisted, inhuman manner)]].
* UnskilledButStrong:
** Materials in general fight with animalistic instinct, and are barely-controllable by their summoner. Only very skilled vessels, like Olivia, can make them use even basic tactics like targeting the opponent's weak point.
** The White Queen. She even says that her power is so immense that no skill is necessary. [[spoiler:And due to her lack of morals, she doesn't see any reason for restraint]]. Though Volume 7 reveals that this actually isn't the case - she has incredible skill in every conceivable field, but just never bothers to use it.
* UnwantedHarem: Kyousuke never shows interest in any of the girls pursuing him, to avoid entangling them in his dangerous lifestyle. [[spoiler:And also because of his association with the White Queen, who might well destroy the world if she saw him going out with someone else]].
* UrbanFantasy
* VictoryByEndurance: Since a summoning battle automatically ends after ten minutes (unless prolonged via a Chain), it's possible to avoid losing by fighting defensively until the time is up.
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] saves Kyousuke on several occasions, such as from the zoo in Volume 6.
* VillainousValour: [[spoiler:The White Queen shows no fear no matter the situation. Even when she's about to be permanently killed by the Colorless Little Girl, she only feels happy that Kyousuke managed to understand her to that level. Though since she actually planned for this and somehow survived, it may be a subversion]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[OverlyLongGag Again]], [[spoiler:the White Queen]].
* WeCanRuleTogether: [[spoiler:The White Queen]] makes this offer to Kyousuke several times, often framing it in terms of working together to solve the problems in the world.
* WeirdnessCensor: It's believed that the reason summoners and vessels vanish from ordinary people's memories is that an untrained mind can't properly comprehend the supernatural.
* WhamLine:
** The White Queen's very first line:
--> [[spoiler:"Long time no see, brother. Have you been doing well since I last saw you?"]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The Materials are seen as no more than tools for the use of humans, reflected in their name. [[spoiler:Kyousuke once wanted to change this attitude, by summoning and befriending the White Queen, but it went horribly wrong]].
* ManChild: Well, Woman Child. [[spoiler:The White Queen]] behaves in an extremely childish manner, including destructive tantrums when she doesn't get her way.
** Aoi Meinokawa turns out to be this as well.
* WorfBarrage:
** Any attack directed against the White Queen. A good example is in Volume 4, where she literally splits apart a bombardment using the Lady of Purple Lightning's power.
** The Colorless Little Girl can NoSell every single one of [[spoiler:the White Queen's attacks]].
* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: The White Queen is seen the most beautiful of both Materials and Humans..
* {{Yandere}}:
** [[spoiler:The White Queen is this for Kyousuke]]. If [[Manga/FutureDiary Yuno Gasai]] can be considered the Goddess of Yanderes, then [[spoiler:the White Queen can be considered the ''EldritchAbomination'' of them]]. Though [[spoiler:Kyousuke]] claims that it isn't really love at all, but an obsession with the idea of love.
** The [[spoiler:Colorless Little Girl]] becomes a different version of this after [[spoiler:the White Queen loses to her on purpose]]. Unlike the example above, she is obedient to [[spoiler:Kyousuke]] and only tries to protect him, but is still dangerous as she causes significant collateral damage.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The prologue of Volume 6 has [[spoiler:the White Queen]] saying this to Kyousuke.
* ZombieApocalypse: In Volume 7, [[spoiler:the White Queen]] demonstrates the ability to infect and transform others with a bite, resulting in something very similar to this trope.
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