We return to the motion within the Dead Rock’s college library, the place Yakuto is making an attempt to seek for a ebook which can reveal God’s weak point, within the hope that Yakuto can perform his plan of killing him. On condition that the library is magic, you possibly can simply consider no matter explicit ebook you need and it’ll seem on the cabinets. Nevertheless, issues change into troublesome when Yakuto and fellow scholar Zelecia the Black Wizard (the human guise of Chako, who is often in hen kind) meet the strongest scholar within the college, Cougar, who plans to kill them.

Whereas it seems just like the duo received’t be capable to take them down, fellow scholar Hien the Fenrir is ready to cease Cougar who, it seems, is aware of him. Each come from the identical stage of the demon world, with Hien learning at Dead Rock within the hope of turning into stronger and restoring his stage to normality, as it’s at the moment in fixed winter. Collectively Yakuto, Zelecia and Hien beat Cougar, however all of the combating attracts the eye of the college’s Vice Principal, Bren the Gigant, who very simply and easily squashes each Hien and Cougar straight away.

Yakuto and Zelecia are capable of steal a replica of the ebook they want with out Bren realising, however the ebook is magically sealed and Hien can’t be revived as there seem like no stays. Regardless, they and the remainder of the category are despatched out to do some extracurricular actions, specifically to go to a wizard who would possibly be capable to break the seal on the ebook. Nevertheless, Bren quickly returns to get the ebook again.

Having learn this quantity, my predominant response was certainly one of unhappiness over Hien’s demise, primarily as a result of he was one of many central figures in the beginning of the story, showing to have some tsundere qualities which might be becoming for an ice consumer, and now he’s gone in a flash. Whether or not any stays of him might be discovered later in order that Mikoto can consumer her necromancy to carry him again, we should wait and see, however for me it’s a disgrace to lose a personality that seemed to be so fascinating so early on. However, there’s nonetheless loads of typical motion to maintain you entertained on this quantity, as is clearly evidenced, provided that the gang are battling a literal big. On the draw back, in my evaluate of Volume 2, I discussed that it ended with the introduction of a model new character that I assumed we’d find out about in Volume 3. Seems he isn’t even talked about as soon as right here.

There’s but extra back-referencing from Hiro Mashima. We get to see Yakuto’s Acnologia transformation once more, albeit enhanced by the tip of this explicit ebook, and the return of Plue, the tiny snowman like creature when he seems on a canopy of a ebook within the library.

As soon as extra, the manufacturing on the collection appears good, from the interpretation by Erin Subramanian, the enhancing from Cayley Final, the letting from Hames Dashiell and AndWorld Designs, and the duvet design by Yusuke Ohno and Abigail Blackman. In contrast to the earlier quantity, we additionally get some translation notes. Volume 4 is just not due out from Kodansha till February 2026.

On condition that Dead Rock(*3*) is ready to pull some surprises relating to what occurs to its characters, it can nonetheless be fascinating to see how the story continues to progress.