Ryuji Sato was just trying to survive a bet he shouldn’t have taken, and now he’s stuck in the most prestigious magic academy on the continent. He encounters the usual things: spoiled nobles, a tournament for bragging rights, and a headmaster who knows too much. All that would be bad enough, but he’s also carrying the most inconvenient secret of all, a connection to the Lord of the Tower, the demon guardian whose last two transgressions toppled kingdoms. And the closer that secret pulls him toward the truth, the more dangerous the questions become. How do you dig up answers about a past you don’t understand when the truth might be the thing that burns the world down?