Line #43 Literature/MagikaSwordsmanAndSummoner


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3	''Magika Swordsman and Summoner'' (''Magika no Kenshi to Shoukan Maou / Magika no Kenshi to Basileus'') is a light novel series written by Mitsuki Mihara and featuring illustrations by [=CHuN=]. The novels were published by Media Factory under their MF Bunko J label from 2013 to 2017 for 14 volumes, with a manga adaptation beginning in October 2013 in ''Magazine/MonthlyComicAlive''. The manga is licensed by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment in North America.
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5	The series is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture. Earth discovered magic as well as mythical beings (basically beings from various legends) in another dimension. Humankind learned to summon these dangerous mythical beings and use their power to great effect. Seven countries formed contracts with these "Diva" and gained their allegiance as a result. Diva will choose their summoners on their 14th birthday and give them a stigma. Schools have been set up to train summoners and magical swordsman (basically bodyguards that give the summoners time to cast their spell) as a result.
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7	Fifteen years later, Kazuki Hayashizaki, a young MasterSwordsman and [[TheHero our main protagonist]], is chosen as a summoner and given a stigma to indicate that. This is surprising since males aren't chosen as summoners due to their low amount of mana compared to females. As the first male to be a summoner, Kazuki is under a lot of scrutiny by almost everyone.
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9	To complicate matters, his sister Kanae (who's a magical swordsman) is against him going into summoner school to train there as a summoner, because summoners and magical swordsman have a cat-and-mouse thing going on where summoners look down on magical swordsman as inferior, so his sister naturally is against him going there. She'll stop him even if it means going to war.
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11	But Kazuki is determined to thrive in summoner school and to give it his all. Even if he's the lowest ranked student (ranked E) and his fellow students intend to ridicule him, he'll prove himself as the strongest summoner.
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14	!!This light novel series contains examples of:
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16	* AccidentalPervert: Less than you would think, but still present.
17	* TheAce: Kazuki is the best swordsman in school, having a record of 134 wins to 118 losses against his sister (the StudentCouncilPresident of the Sword Division), and can master others' SummonMagic faster than they can.
18	* ACupAngst: Kanae, when confronted with Kaguya.
19	* AdultsAreUseless: There are a grand total of three competent adults, Kazuki's homeroom teacher, Mio's adoptive father, and commander Yamagata, and the one in the middle needs quite a bit of "convincing."
20	** Somewhat justified because people hit their magic peak at the age of 20, and then slowly lose it afterwards.
21	** Unfortunately, most of them are [[ObstructiveBureaucrat obstructive]] towards Kazuki because they fear his status as king will threaten their authority.
22	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Japan is viewed as an outside country due to being one of the few secular democracies in a world full of theocracies.
23	* AllYourPowersCombined: Leme's ability. If a summoner possesses a high amount of trust or affection for her contractor, Kazuki, she can access their spirits' power.
24	** Emphasis on high affection. Just friendship won't cut it. Leme can tell the difference.
25	* AllWomenAreLustful:
26	** Once a girl falls for Kazuki, she tends to lose her inhibitions rather quickly.
27	** Kaguya invokes this because her summon is Asmodeus, the Spirit of Lust. If she uses her powers, [[LivingAphrodisiac she gets horny.]]
28	** Even Lemegeton isn't above wanting to get into Kazuki's pants, once ShesAllGrownUp.
29	* AlmightyJanitor: Kazuki is a rank E magician, the lowest possible, but he can keep up with rank A summoners with his swordsmanship and spell variety. Kazuha counts in the opposite way, being the weakest sword student while being an extremely powerful summoner. Both lose this status when Kazuki becomes the StudentCouncilPresident and Kazuha shows her improved swordplay in the election tournament.
30	* AncientArtifact: The Ring of Solomon was used by King Solomon when he contracted with Leme thousands of years ago. Leme gives it to Kazuki to make it easier for getting popular with the girls and its abilities makes it double as a RomanticWingman.
31	* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Shizuka]] commits suicide in Volume 5, [[spoiler:Lancelot, Mordred, Vera and Hrosvit]] die at the end of Volume 12, and [[spoiler:Gino and Ilya]] die in Volume 13. By the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Lancelot, Mordred, Vera, Hrosvit, Gino, and Ilya are all resurrected as humans]].
32	* AwesomeButImpractical: Aside from Kazuki's BladeSpam and Kanae's special anti-summoning techniques, which can only be used under very special conditions, there's a mystical metal called Adamantium in the world setting. Anything made of it is nigh indestructible. Even four summoners with access to level 10 spells, combined, can't break it. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to make, causing it to be quite rare, and it's so insanely heavy that it can't be used in weapons, armor, or vehicles.
33	* AxCrazy: Kaya goes absolutely ''nuts'' while under Loki's influence.
34	* BabiesEverAfter: At the end of the series, [[spoiler:Mio and Kaguya]] become pregnant with Kazuki's children.
35	* BackFromTheDead:
36	** [[spoiler: Phenex's last spell is a resurrection ability. Kazuki has to use it on Mio after she gets killed protecting him from Kaya. By the end of the series, Kazuki himself ends up being resurrected by the spell in order to survive Lucifer's strongest spell]].
37	** [[spoiler:Most or all of the combatants who died in Ragnarok are resurrected by Kazuki after he wins.]]
38	* BadassAdorable: All of the girls, though Kanae deserves special mention, being constantly referred to as a kitten and being a swordsman who can [[CurbStompBattle crush most Magicians]] in seconds.
39	* BadassNormal: The Swordfighting Division. They can only use normal magic and swords, but still manage to hold their own.
40	* BattleHarem: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Kazuki is supposed to gather the (all female) summoners of the Literature/ArsGoetia under his banner to fight the unknown threat, which turns out to be [[spoiler:Lucifer and Ragnarok]].
41	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Hikaru. This actually bothers her a bit, since she feels she's unfeminine because of it.
42	* BittersweetEnding: By the end of Volume 14, [[spoiler: Kazuki wins Ragnarok, the Atlantis disaster that would have wiped out Japan has been averted, the knight order has been reformed into the Japan Self-Defense Forces, Kazuki finally gets his harem, Tsukikuro has finally recovered from his vegetative state, and the deaths of the combatants in Ragnarok are undone. But the magic disappears and Caryatid's Sword and Magic Divisions are dissolved.]]
43	* BoringButPractical: Everyone has access to a series of non-summoning magic, which is far weaker than summon magic. However, they still have good utility when used wisely.
44	** Psychokinesis, or liquid manipulation, is very versatile and commonly used. Some examples include Liz Liza making blinding mists, Kazuki [[FlamingSword concentrating flames onto his weapon or fists]], and Mio manipulating oxygen to empower Phenex's fire spells. Kazuha dominates at this, mastering general magic faster than anyone on campus.
45	** Having a high aptitude in telepathy increases one's resistance to Asmodeus's painful spells.
46	* BrokenBird: Almost easier to list which of the girls in Kazulki's harem don't fall in to this trope.
47	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Kaguya. Her introduction has her sneak up on a boy she's never met and {{Glomp}} him because he's related to her FriendlyEnemy (who doesn't agree with the "friendly" part). She's also ridiculously powerful and an extremely capable leader.
48	* CantHaveSexEver: Contraceptives simply don't work in this world, and pregnancy with a summoner ensues 100% of the time. [[spoiler:In Volume 13, facing the fight of their lives on the morrow, Kazuki and his harem's main girls (Mio, Kaguya, Hikaru, Koyuki, Lotte, Kanae, and Kazuha) go all the way, with all that it implies. By, Volume 14 he has sex with two more harem members, Miyabi and Shinobu. By the GrandFinale, they all end up pregnant with Kazuki's children after all. It is known that Kazuki and Arthur do engage with each other sexually, though to what extent is unknown. Aisu joins the harem late, and is not known to have engaged Kazuki sexually. Other than that, the only harem members not confirmed to have had sex with Kazuki, only kissed him, are Beatrix, Shiori, Akane, Karin, Itsuki, Kohaku, and Liz Liza]].
49	** Of course, fridge logic sets in when one realizes that there are plenty of forms of sex, such as anal and oral sex, that don't result in children, so if he just avoided vaginal sex (coitus in scientific speak, "full service" in prostitution/street speak), then he could still have all the sexy times he wanted without having to worry about it.
50	* TheCasanova: Kazuki grows into a flirtatious young man as the series progresses.
51	* ChickMagnet: Kazuki, though with good reason. He's supposed to be to gather allies and the Ring of Solomon helps him.
52	* ChivalrousPervert: Kazuki, with emphasis on the "chivalrous" part.
53	* TheChosenMany: There are hundreds of Stigma users, who were chosen by Divas.
54	* TheChosenOne: The Kings (like Kazuki) are chosen by chief Gods to rule their subordinates. [[spoiler:Among the Literature/ArsGoetia Divas, once Kazuki comes into his own by defeating Ikousai in Volume 9, those of his BattleHarem whom he have very strong bonds with become "Favored Princesses". Each one becomes able to temporarily become TheChosenOne of her contracted Diva, concentrating the latter's powers into herself (and leaving the Diva's other contractors {{Depowered}}). In addition, there's Beleth, the most picky of them all, having chosen no one to contract with... until Kanae.]]
55	* ClaimedByTheSupernatural: The stigma system, at least among the Literature/ArsGoetia Divas, is essentially used by them to reserve for future contracting those people who they perceive as having magical potential, metaphorically "calling dibs" on them when they turn 14 years old.
56	* ClingyJealousGirl: The girls don't really fight over Kazuki or interfere with each other, partly because they know Kazuki literally ''has'' to be with all of them, and partly because AllWomenAreLustful and GirlOnGirlIsHot.
57	* ComboPlatterPowers: All Diva's have different spells, which inevitably leads to this for some of them. Special mention to Kazuki who has a combo platter of ComboPlatterPowers.
58	* ComingOfAgeStory: For Kazuki. He is selected to become a summoner and forms a harem to achieve his goal.
59	* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Divas have to spread their power among their contractors, which may explain why possessed summoners and King summoners are so powerful in comparison to others. After Kazuki proves himself as King in volume 9, the Goetia divas give the option to concentrate their power into one contractor at a time, as long as that contractor has a PL of 150+ with Kazuki.
60	* CoolShip: ''The Queen Kaguya'' a restored small luxury liner that they use to get to America and Atlantis.
61	* CoolSword: Dofou (Wind-Lit Path), Kazuki's [[UnbreakableWeapons unbreakable sword]].
62	* CoolVersusAwesome: Standard in a verse where CrossoverCosmology, but special mention goes to Literature/ArsGoetia versus Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
63	* TheCorruption: At first, it's shown that humanity is constantly at risk of being possessed by chaotic Divas who turn them into AxCrazy killers. Later on, it's revealed that the trope also applies in reverse because Divas are formed from the imaginations of humans, causing them to become far removed from their original legends, such as how in-universe, Taoist mythology got corrupted by Sinocentrism.
64	* CosmicDeadline: The last few volumes detailing the war in Atlantis go by rather quickly. This culminates in [[spoiler:Regina, Ikousai, Loki, Arthur, and Lucifer]] being defeated in the span of three chapters.
65	* CrapsackWorld: In any country that isn't an Advanced Magic Nation, presumably things are so bad that being conscripted into magic labor cleaning up after China is considered a ''mercy.'' Even ''in'' Advanced Magic Nations, there's "stigma hunters," people who try to outright ''kill'' their own soldiers and police purely because they can use magic, illegal magicians who are ''insane'' at best, outright murderous terrorists at worst, and Haunted Grounds due to the Astrum intruding on reality where monsters bent on wiping out humanity roam, and Haunted Grounds are specifically likened to tumors, in that they grow and consume the surrounding area if they are not stopped. Oh, and slavery exists everywhere with all the horrors and abuses imaginable.
66	* CrossoverCosmology: And they all have their own form of SummonMagic.
67	* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Kaguya is an extremely friendly girl, who is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} more than a little airheaded]]. She's also the most powerful magician in the school (bar Kazuki, and he cheats) and possess [[BadPowersGoodPeople powers most demons would kill for.]]
68	* CurbStompBattle: Kazuki versus Mio. Everyone except Kanae expected it to be Mio's win easily, since normally Magicians are considered superior (and the duel system is ridiculously skewed in favor of the Magician anyway). Kazuki finishes her in seconds.
69	* CuteBruiser: Why, hello there [[PintSizedPowerhouse Charlotte.]]
70	* DarkAndTroubledPast:
71	** Poor [[spoiler: Kaguya]]. Her father has [[BrainwashedAndCrazy controlled her]] repeatedly using Nyarlathotep's power for his own selfish ends since she was a child. Kazuki...[[BerserkButton disapproves]].
72	** Karin, [[ExtremeDoormat dear lords, Karin.]]
73	** Heck, it's shorter to list characters that ''don't'' have one.
74	* DarkIsNotEvil: Meet Kaguya, owner of {{LovecraftianSuperpower}}s and the [[BadPowersGoodPeople nicest girl you'll ever meet]].
75	* DeadpanSnarker: Kazuki does this every once in a while, mostly to Mio or Kaguya.
76	* DeathIsCheap: Just about everyone who dies doesn't ''stay'' dead -- [[spoiler:Kazuki]] and [[spoiler:Mio]] are both resurrected through magic, and the GrandFinale has [[spoiler:a whole ''bunch'' of people getting reincarnated]].
77	* DeathWail: Kazuki lets out a big one when Mio dies in Volume 1, mourning the loss of his closest friend.
78	* DealWithTheDevil: Basically the concept behind an illegal contract.
79	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: As a result of every major power becoming a theocracy based on ancient mythology, characters from outside of Japan tend to have BlueAndOrangeMorality to the reader and to Japan (which remained secular).
80	* DiagonalCut: Kazuki can do this so fast the human brain literally cannot register the attack.
81	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu?: Kazuki, by himself and with some lower level summoning magic, can break a god's barrier and kill him/her/it. Note, [[BeyondTheImpossible this is impossible]].
82	* DisproportionateRetribution: Thanks to dangerous Stigma hunters and conflicts between the pantheons, if someone gets an illegal contract or forms a contract outside of their country's approved pantheon, the government will place them under surveillance at best or execute them at worst. This is regardless of whether the summoner or diva breaks any other laws. Further Justification can even be found in Japan's recent history, as Loki and his group of illegal "Einherjar" basically committed long-running acts of terrorism, resulting in property damage and loss of life in Tokyo to make the collapse of the World Trade Center look downright tame by comparison.
83	* DividedStatesOfAmerica: The aftermath of the chaos brought to the world by magic has divided America diagonally. [[spoiler: "North" America's territory is the North West while "South" America takes the South East, including Washington, DC.]] They both hate each other for [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil the excesses involved in trying to assert their dominance.]]
84	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
85	** The persecution of Elves in the distant past is very similar to how the Jews and other minorities were persecuted in UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.
86	** Lucifer using Atlantis to [[spoiler:destroy Japan with a tsunami]] can remind some of the earthquake and later tsunami that occured of the coast of Tohoku in 2011.
87	* {{Dystopia}}: Most of the Advanced Magic Nations are this in one way or another, but America takes the cake. On the one side, the government makes a nice CrapSaccharineWorld where people, on the surface, live in wealth and prosperity, because his Diva's power depends on it, [[spoiler: while secretly making people who can't pay their ever increasing taxes slaves.]] On the other, the "King" of a pantheon devoted to the romanticized ideals of "American Indians" is out to utterly annihilate ''all'' forms of technology, no matter how beneficial, and views human lives as no better or worse than those of pack animals, with her entire population forced into complete communal living, and while publicly proclaiming the evils of slavery, at best, turns a blind eye to her own people being sold off into slavery, in exchange for food and medicine that her people can not make on their own because she's responsible for the destruction of the technology needed in its production.
88	* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Kazuki was already the best swordfighter around, and then he got [[AllYourPowersCombined Leme]].
89	* EndOfAnAge: By the end of the series, [[spoiler:the magic has disappeared, Caryatid's Sword and Magic Divisions are dissolved and the knight order has been reformed into the Japan Self-Defense Forces.]]
90	* EnemyMine:
91	** Kazuki eventually teams up with [[spoiler: Kaya]] due to aligning interests. It helps that his current enemy is an experienced LightningBruiser summoner who mastered level 10 magic.
92	** [[spoiler:There seems to be a bizarre alliance between China/Chukadou, Yamato (Chukadou's puppet state), Russia, and Loki's side.]]
93	** It's pretty much everybody vs everybody else by volume 11 with today's "friend" being tomorrow's "enemy" and vice versa.
94	* EveryoneHasStandards: Britain and Germany oppose slavery despite being theocracies where one's social status is decided by their magic power, since they believe even those with weak magic deserve opportunities in other fields.
95	* EvilPowerVacuum: Defeating [[spoiler:Mr. Otonashi/Nyarlathotep]] caused rival radical factions to rise in power.
96	* FantasticRacism: In the past, Elves were persecuted by most people. Miyabi and Koyuki weren't immune to it either.
97	* FightMagnet: You'd need a cool mutant hand to count the number of factions that formed an EnemyMine against Japan and Kazuki. Hell, even the Japanese politicians conspired against Kazuki in the early volumes and even now they only reluctantly side with him.
98	* FlirtingUnderFire: When Kazuki needs to raise Positivity Levels in the middle of battle.
99	* ForegoneConclusion: Kazuki building a harem of 72 summoners at a minimum.
100	* GodsHandsAreTied: The 72 divas of Ars Goetia can't directly interfere with the trial they secretly placed on Japan. It's implied that American Justice divas also don't directly guide their country's government[[spoiler:, since they're still aligned with North America after Clark gives up on her slavery system.]]
101	* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Accoring to Nyarlathotep anyway. Lack of faith in the Cthulhu mythos is apparently the primary reason why [[spoiler: the protagonists were able to completely obliterate it, even in the Astrum, the collective consciousness of mankind where the Diva live.]]
102	* GovernmentConspiracy: All over the place. The first example involves Japan's government allowing Germany's Beatrix to [[spoiler: target and kill Japanese students while they are on official quests so she could get at Charlotte.]]
103	* HaremSeeker: Kazuki himself is not this initially, but is sort of forced into it by Leme. In order to combat some nebulous and horrible threat, he has to gain the powers of the other Literature/ArsGoetia by forming a strong bond with their summoners. The easiest way to do this is to make them fall for him.
104	* TheHeroDies:
105	** Mio dies after rescuing Kazuki from Loki's Laevateinn slash, but this is {{subverted\|trope}} when Kazuki uses Phenex's Revive magic to revive her soon after.
106	** Kazuki, the definitive protagonist of the series, is killed by [[spoiler:Lucifer's strongest spell]] at the end of the series. However, this is negated when [[spoiler:he's resurrected by the Phenex spell]].
107	* HeroicBSOD:
108	** Mio goes into a brief one after her duel with Kazuki in volume 1.
109	** Towards the end of volume 1, Kazuki has a brief one when Mio [[TakingTheBullet takes Loki's Laevateinn slash meant for him]], mourning the loss of his childhood friend before he uses Phenex's Revive magic on her.
110	** Kazuki goes through another one when Hel [[spoiler: tries to hijack his mother's ghost and cuts their reunion tragically short.]]
111	** Koyuki suffers one when Headmaster Otonashi and [[spoiler: Nyarlathotep explain the meaning and results behind the experiment that produced the Elves]].
112	** Shinobu undergoes this in her backstory when Nyarlathotep transforms Miyabi into an elf and the latter is marginalized for it, so much that Shinobu [[IRejectYourReality rejects reality]] and is unable to connect with other people she meets. She eventually snaps out of it during the second half of volume 8.
113	* HobbesWasRight: Some of the antagonists, such as Regina [[spoiler:and Basileus]], believe humanity will destroy themselves and the planet if they aren't ruled by a dictator and/or Divas.
114	* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
115	** Turtle Oota attempts to ensure Kazuki's reputation is destroyed by publicizing a novel on him and also to help the China-Russia-Loki alliance start an invasion of Japan. However, it doesn't work out as [[spoiler:Turtle gets preemptively captured by the Knight Order for his actions]].
116	** Fu Shi stabbing [[spoiler:her subordinate in the heart to steal his life for a quick powerup]] is precisely what allows Ikousa and Hel to home in on her and [[spoiler:land the defeating blow, stealing her authority.]]
117	* IaijutsuPractitioner: The Hayashizaki Family practices this, and both Kazuki and Kanae are skilled with it.
118	* ItsAllMyFault: Shinobu is devastated about causing Miyabi to be turned into an elf. When Kazuki absolves Shinobu of guilt in volume 8 and they rescue Miyabi, not only does her hostility towards him completely evaporate, her PL meter starts working correctly.
119	* KnightOfCerebus:
120	** Loki was already bad enough, but then Nyarlathotep stole his Nobel Prize for Cruelty by [[spoiler:secretly performing experiments to turn randomly selected babies into elves, which killed many of them. And then he kidnaps many of the survivors and performs even more experiments on them, turning them into [[AndIMustScream eternally pained servants]] that need to be [[MercyKill Mercy Killed]].]]
121	** China in this series manages to be far more competent and threatening than in ''[[Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool Mahouka]]'' [[spoiler:when they successfully manage to start a civil war in Japan by manipulating the divas of Japanese mythology, thus splitting Japan into two factions]]. Worse yet, they're invading nearby countries and are using the citizens for forced labor.
122	** Italy, Russia, and even America wind up trying to make ''China'' look tame. [[spoiler:Though Kazuki convinces America to soften their methods and China is revealed to be enacting an AssimilationPlot.]]
123	* LevelUpAtIntimacy5: Kazuki must put in the work of raising his intimacy levels to get access to more spells. Then there is the FirstKiss bonus.
124	* [[LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards, Exponential Magic Knights]]: While Kazuki managed to curb-stomp Mio with only basic physical enhancements and swordsmanship, most other summoners require him to improve his magic skill or kiss for a level 10 spell to survive, especially if the other summoner is a MagicKnight.
125	* MagicKnight: There several summoners who can also fight at close range (Kazuki, Hikaru, Beatrix, Kazuha, etc), which is ironic considering the conflict between the summoner and sword division.
126	* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Kazuki has sex with his harem in very unusual places.
127	** Starts with Koyuki in Vol 5 in the hall of the Witches Mansion, she gets another session on the beach, pulls Kazuki aside to a grove by the Student Counsel Office as part of his anti-mind magic training, and on their date in volume 9, they do it during the movie on the way to the movie Kazuki is playing with her ears, which [[FantasticArousal given their sensitivity]] it can be argued they actually are doing it in the STREET with people ''watching''.
128	** Kaguya on a horse with chaperone/guide.
129	** Kaguya, Hikaru and [[spoiler: Kazuha]] in an igloo on Mt Fuji.
130	** Mio and Hikaru by the pool on the Queen Kaguya.
131	** Hikaru in a gondola in Las Vegas.
132	** Koyuki gets a couple of drive-by kiss and cuddle sessions in the hall again.
133	** [[spoiler: Kamimura]] on the Ferris wheel.
134	** [[spoiler: Kazuha]] in the changing room of the Hotel Bath
135	** [[spoiler: Kohaku]] During a sleepover at the Sword Department Female Dorm surrounded by about 100+ sleeping girls.
136	** Koyuki in the library of the Queen Kaguya, at least until Liz Lisa-sensei walks in on them.
137	** Kaguya, Hikaru, Mio, Koyuki, Lotte, [[spoiler: Kanae, Kamimura, Kohaku, Kazuha 'and' the Ryuutaki sisters]] (yes that's 10 at once O.o) in the bath on the Queen Kaguya.
138	** Mio in a Karaoke Room
139	** Koyouki in the Witches' Mansion hall ''again''. [[spoiler: they actual start in Kazuki's bedroom but as they are doing some animal fantasy play Kazuki decides to take her for a walk.]]
140	** [[spoiler: Alyssa Sutcliff aka Arthur and Kanae]] in the WM showers.
141	* MarryThemAll: By the end of the series, Kazuki ends up marrying [[spoiler:most, if not all, of his harem such as Mio, Kaguya, Hikaru, Koyuki, Lotte, Kanae, Kazuha, Kohaku, Kamimmura, Miyubi, Shinobu, and Karin]].
142	* TheModernGods: Unlike the other Pantheons in the world, The American Justice of North America represents "patriotic spirit" and have names like Super One and Frontier Spirit.
143	* {{MoodWhiplash}}: Like many light novels, the series constantly swings between hilarious, heartwarming, and nightmare inducing moments.
144	* MoreThanMindControl: Combined with ConditionedToAcceptHorror. The scary part about Diva possession is that the host will slowly be brainwashed into accepting the Diva's thoughts as their own, as shown by how Kaya, [[spoiler:Kaguya's father]], and Red Metallica started out reluctant to carry out their Diva's will before going along with it willingly.
145	* ANaziByAnyOtherName: {{Downplayed\|Trope}} with the Einherjar army. Their military uniforms bring to mind the typical Schutzstaffel uniforms, but their policies aren't as extreme as some other countries.
146	* NoBodyLeftBehind: Lucifer's Apocalypse spell can disintegrate the bodies of those caught in it.
147	* NowWhat: After the FinalBattle, when everyone has been BroughtDownToNormal, one of the big concerns is now what is everyone going to do for a living. Kazuki is especially concerned about how he's going to make enough to support all his wives.
148	* PoorCommunicationKills: One of Kazuki's advantages over most harem protagonists is his ability to avoid this due to his ring flat out telling him whether a girl is happy or unhappy at the moment. It is very rare that Kazuki has a OpenMouthInsertFoot moment. In early volumes, she instructed him when to push and when to back off. Mio later teaches him poetry to further highlight the good points of the girls he goes after.
149	* PositionOfLiteralPower: The King of a Myth (the summoner of the chief god) has access to all the powers of the others in that myth. This is especially apparent with the other kings, who are all more powerful than Kazuki by a large margin.
150	* PowerOfFriendship: Since his AllYourPowersCombined ability is based on the strength of the bond, and not romantic feelings, Kazuki points out he can do this instead of romancing the girls. Leme points out that it's harder to form friendships between the opposite sex than it is to romance them, but Kazuki insists because making them fall for him to gain their power seems dirty to him.
151	* PowerOfLove: Kazuki eventually realizes that keeping the relationship at the level of friendship isn't fair to the girls, and instead resolves to make them all as happy as he can.
152	* PrettyBoy: Kazuki is blatantly stated to be very well built and attractive as opposed to being HollywoodHomely.
153	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
154	** After his HeelFaceTurn, Mr. Amasaki takes over as headmaster and clears Kazuki of the false charges. He also plans on supporting fairer policies, like relaxing the restrictions on Sacred Treasures and allowing Kazuha to stay at the academy despite her non-Goetia contract.
155	** Given her sound judgment as the StudentCouncilPresident of the Magic Division, Kaguya Otonashi is perfectly willing to normalize relations between the Sword and Magic divisions.
156	** Despite her harsh actions, Westwood is actually acting in the best interests of her students. She provided asylum to Lotte, spoke out in defense of Kazuki on numerous occasions, helped them resist the treachery of Germany's Einherjar, and aided in defending the magic division from Nyarlathotep's schemes, among other things.
157	** {{Averted\|Trope}} ''big time'' with Takayoshi Takasugi. When Shizuka and her brainwashed "delinquents" broke the tournament rules, openly attempted to murder Kazuki and several other students, and Shizuka unleashed her InstantDeathRadius putting the entire campus at risk, including himself, he physically restrains Liz Liza-sensei to keep her from ending the match, acting like evacuating the campus is a trivial matter, forcing Kazuki and his entire team to risk "magic intoxication," in a situation where falling unconscious could easily become fatal, to stop Shizuka, and save his fellow students.
158	** Kazuki Hayashizaki also counts after winning the election tournament. And after the competition to become Japan's King against Yamato, he might gain power in his country's government as well.
159	* RingOfPower: The Ring of Solomon with its power to show the user how much a girl is in love with them can ''definitely'' be considered this.
160	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: When Loki is about to use Lævateinn on Kazuki, Mio steps in the way and takes the full force of the attack. Loki taunts Kazuki, but the latter snaps and overpowers him.
161	* RomanticWingman: The Ring of Solomon. Leme gives this to Kazuki so that he'll have an easier time romancing the girls and gaining their powers. It has the ability to give a numerical value to how much a girl likes the wearer and shows whether a girl is warming up to or shying away from them by making a heart or skull symbol appear by the girl after any interaction. The more hearts that appear after an action shows the girl's affection rising while a skull produces the opposite result.
162	* ShootTheDog: Kazuki is forced to kill the [[spoiler: elves controlled by Nyarlathotep.]]
163	* ShoutOut: To '''Overlord''' in volume 5. [[spoiler: Shizuka]] collapsed to the ground like a ''puppet with its strings cut.''
164	* SickeninglySweethearts: Lampshaded using the term "Bacouple" a portmanteau of "Baka" and "couple"
165	* SimultaneousBladeSpam: Kazuki's ultimate sword move, which can punch through a god's barrier. [[VillainousBreakdown Loki is suitably terrified]].
166	* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: The slavery system exists worldwide, and those taken into slavery are ''lucky'' to be useful enough to be considered a ''tool'' to be used and, if need be, thrown away. [[spoiler: North (west) America takes people too poor to pay their ever growing taxes into slavery and uses them like batteries. Those strong enough to become soldiers get conscripted instead.]]
167	* {{Stripperific}}: The divine dress worn by the summoners in the story leaves very little to the imagination. Even more so when they get wet.
168	* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Mio]] does this for [[spoiler: Kazuki]]. It kills her, but [[spoiler: Kazuki uses Phenex to bring her back]].
169	* TheTheocracy: Every magical superpower is associated with Divas from a mythology. However, all the Diva groups other than Ars Goetia, and presumably America's "patriotic spirit," are empowered by faith, which leads to every country except Japan becoming this trope, but with completely different religions from each other. Sadly, this ends up causing international relations, and often technology, to regress.
170	* ThroughHisStomach: The first thing Kazuki does to win the girls' affections is cook them breakfast.
171	* TransformationOfThePossessed: Illegal contractors will eventually have their flesh transformed into their Divas, allowing the Divas to roam free in the human world with [[FromBadToWorse far more power than their contractors]].
172	* {{Tsundere}}: Mio Amasaki, at least at first. Thanks to Leme, Kazuki manages to get past the tsun fairly quickly. It should be noted that Mio attempted to reach out to Kazuki several times in an perfectly friendly manner. However, Kazuki didn't recognize her, which set off her complex about being forgotten. Once they resolve that, [[DefrostingIceQueen she melts like butter, even calling him Kazu-nii again.]]
173	* UnstoppableRage: Mio's death at the hands of Loki sends Kazuki past his RageBreakingPoint and he goes into a CurbStompBattle with Loki.
174	* WhatTheHellHero: After being defeated by Kazuki, Mio calls him out on seemingly forgetting about him and how he hurt her before running off to her room in tears.
175	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The finale of Volume 14 depicts the character's lives years after [[spoiler:Kazuki's last battle with Lucifer]].
176	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The true reason that "illegal contractors" are so hated. It's not so much that the countries of the world setting are afraid of angering their pantheons, but people who contract divas outside their accepted pantheon, especially divas hostile to humanity, rather quickly go irreversibly, and violently insane, and that's not even taking into account those who wind up being remodeled into physical manifestations of said diva. In addition, illegal contractors tend to be ''far'' more powerful than those that contract divas legally. Charlotte is one of the very, very rare few exceptions to any of this.
177	* WorldOfBadass: Oh yes. Every major member of the cast has access to SummonMagic or is a BadassNormal.
178	* YouCantFightFate: Kazuki gathers the summoners of the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'' just like Lemegeton said. As for his harem, [[spoiler:Mio, Kaguya, Koyuki, Lotte, Hikaru, Kazuha and Kanae]] end up having his children just as history dictated.
179	* YourMindMakesItReal: To a certain extent, one's mental state can affect how magic works or even unconsciously activate it. One example is that sex now results in a 100% pregnancy rate with almost no effective form of birth control, simply because of the participants' desires.
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