A month has passed since Ikki and Stella promised to cross swords again at the Seven Stars Battle Festival. But while they’ve won all of their qualifying matches in that time, their relationship hasn’t progressed one bit. To make matters worse, Ikki finds himself taking on a beautiful upperclassman as a disciple, making Stella lose her mind with jealousy. And to top it all off, he winds up challenging the infamous Sword Eater—a Mage-Knight who reached the quarterfinals of the previous year’s Seven Stars Battle Festival—to a duel! Things are heating up for both Ikki’s love life and his dueling career!

“Why does she get all the attention?!” Ikki and Stella continue to rack up wins in their selection battles, but despite their progress in battle, they’ve made little to no progress romantically. To make matters worse, a pretty upperclassman girl, Ayase Ayatsuji, has been taken under Ikki’s wing as his apprentice in swordplay, making Stella’s jealousy flare up more than ever. One day, Ikki finds himself tangled up in a conflict between Ayase and her fated enemy: the Sword Eater, Kuraudo Kurashiki! Will he be able to survive his duel with a student who reached the quarterfinals of last year’s Seven Stars Battle Festival? A battle with a student council member, the feeling of distance between him and his girlfriend, and a duel off school grounds with the ace of another school—the curtain rises anew on the second part of Ikki’s school-based, sword-action underdog tale as he cuts through yet more powerful foes! © Riku Misora / illustrations © WON / SB Creative Corp.

In a world where people with supernatural powers, called Blazers, manifest their souls as weapons, Kurogane Ikki dreams of becoming a Mage-Knight. It’s too bad he has no natural talent for it. The whole school ridicules him as the worst Blazer, so color everyone surprised when he suddenly defeats Stella Vermillion, a Rank A Blazer, in a duel. And so begins his fight to the top!

With only a few selection matches left to go, Shizuku finds herself up against her mightiest foe yet. In order to stand shoulder to shoulder with her beloved brother, she resolves to surpass her limits and defeat the school’s reigning champion—Toudou Touka, the Thunderbolt. Meanwhile, news of Ikki’s exploits has finally reached the ears of the Kurogane family, and they once again begin to interfere with his life. Will he be able to escape their cowardly machinations and make it in time for his final duel, or will his dream of reaching the Seven Stars Battle Festival end here?!

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“This fight will be the true test of my limits!” As the selection battles approach their final stages, the most accomplished students must now face each other in combat. In hopes of facing the future together with her beloved brother, Shizuku uses every last bit of strength at her disposal to challenge the most powerful knight in the school: Raikiri. Meanwhile, the Kurogane family is forced to bare its fangs as Ikki’s reputation continues to grow. Caught up in their dastardly scheme, he is taken prisoner, and the world threatens to tear apart his relationship with Stella. In the midst of it all, fatigue takes over both his body and mind, and his most powerful foe yet stands before him as his final opponent. The third and final part of the Selection Battle Arc has Ikki facing the final obstacles in his meteoric rise to fame! He continues his charge to the peak of the Seven Stars, slicing his way through every hardship that befalls him! © Riku Misora / illustrations © WON / SB Creative Corp.