Third-year highschooler Mimiko Inoue has decided to become a professional chess player, but her mission to get a chess club at her high school has reached a stalemate. However, after an encounter with a member from an underground chess league, Mimiko will be thrust into the world of chess death ...

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Rei Kagami is Japan's most beloved idol and a four-century-old kitsune hiding in plain sight. When former idol turned journalist Aoi Mizushima sees through his illusions, a forbidden Resonance awakens between them, a spiritual bond that amplifies their powers while slowly killing them both. In...

A few days after the London incident, the chess club is once more faced with a crisis. Following a seemingly innocent stream by Iori and Carol, an American politician with presidential ambitions suddenly begins targeting them and their friends, calling for aid from the Broadstone family, a family...

Kei Nishima steps into his new life as a husband and stepfather after marrying Yui Kanade. Their home is calm, warm and welcoming. Yui’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Touko, greets him with perfect politeness, almost too perfect. Kei tries to settle into the new family rhythm, but small things ...

After her request to start up a chess club at her high school is shot down, 3rd-year Mimoko Inoue unexpectedly finds herself face-to-face with a member of the Desperado league, an infamous underground chess league. The Desperado attempts to kidnap her, but is stopped by Okisato Tanabe, a seemingl...

Nefertary is a 17-year-old, multimillionaire, and very popular girl at her school, Alpin Beau Soleil in Switzerland, who hides her true personality. Being the perfect, flawless girl - not even her only friend, Lucia, really knows her. Her mother always demands that she hide who she truly is. A...

Following the false maestro incident, the chess club decides to unwind and enjoy the beach. However, trouble won't allow them such reprieve. A trio of Desperados arrive, dragging Mimoko, Iori, and their friend, Carol, to London where Mimoko is held hostage by the infamous Fairy League, a radical ...

As Lacia and Mana focus their efforts on Lucifero, the struggle to halt Nertiia's revival officially gets underway while the final push to stop Ahzef and the Reverse Royalty becomes an effort to save not just the world, but everything that has ever come to be. With her friends by her side, Lacia...

Following the chess club's success at the Knightlife Classic tournament in Mito, everyone returns triumphantly back to Kawaguchi, with Mimoko reaping the most rewards. Now an instant grandmaster and star of the chess world, she decides to accept Himitsudono's challenge of seeking out and defeatin...