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* SignificantBirthDate: Author Creator/BokutoUno listed off a number of the major characters' birthdays in [[https://vxtwitter.com/unobokuto/status/1775385388435280290?s=46 a 2024 tweet]], and several have noteworthy birthdays.
** [[TheLancer Nanao Hibiya]]'s birthday is the first day of the seventh month. This is another example of [[RuleOfSeven the significance of 7 to Nanao (and the series)]]: [[MeaningfulName her name is a version of the number seven]], [[spoiler:and she created the Seventh Spellblade]].
** Tim Linton's birthday is 2/14, i.e. Valentine's Day, which is deeply funny given he's a CampGay WholesomeCrossdresser with an unrequited crush on his senior Alvin Godfrey.
** Professor Demitrio Aristides's his birthday is 9/9. The number 9 is associated with suffering in (predominantly Christian) folklore, fitting into the suffering he first endured in his StartOfDarkness, then inflicted on Chloe Halford in her PlotTriggeringDeath [[spoiler:which indirectly caused her son Oliver to go through a horrific TraumaCongaLine]].
** [[TheLancer Nanao Hibiya]]'s birthday is the first day of the seventh month. This is another example of [[RuleOfSeven the significance of 7 to Nanao (and the series)]]: [[MeaningfulName her name is a version of the number seven]], [[spoiler:and she created the Seventh Spellblade]].
** Tim Linton's birthday is 2/14, i.e. Valentine's Day, which is deeply funny given he's a CampGay WholesomeCrossdresser with an unrequited crush on his senior Alvin Godfrey.
** Professor Demitrio Aristides's his birthday is 9/9. The number 9 is associated with suffering in (predominantly Christian) folklore, fitting into the suffering he first endured in his StartOfDarkness, then inflicted on Chloe Halford in her PlotTriggeringDeath [[spoiler:which indirectly caused her son Oliver to go through a horrific TraumaCongaLine]].
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* BadassTeacher: One of Kimberly's major purposes is to train the order of {{Military Mage}}s known as the Gnostic Hunters, who battle {{Alien Invasion}}s sent by [[EldritchAbomination the gods of other worlds]] and root out their cults. Consequently, every member of the faculty is a badass even by mage standards: several instructors are current or former Gnostic Hunters themselves, and they include among their number the wielders of at least two of the seven spellblades. At the top is Headmistress Esmeralda, [[RedBaron the Witch of Kimberly]], who is credibly believed to be one of the most powerful mages in recorded history.
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** {{Inverted}} with Alvin Godfrey, who is considered a possible suspect in the faculty murders based on his own fighting strength and the soft power he wields as head of the Campus Watch (i.e. FromACertainPointOfView he basically has his own private army). However, Esmeralda admits he's a poor suspect at best because he has no discernible motive; she's pretty much grasping at straws and tells him to consider his name coming up a compliment.
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** {{Inverted}} with Alvin Godfrey, who in volume 6 is considered a possible suspect in the faculty murders based on his own fighting strength and the soft power he wields as head of the Campus Watch (i.e. FromACertainPointOfView he basically has his own private army). However, Esmeralda admits he's a poor suspect at best because he has no discernible motive; she's pretty much grasping at straws and tells him to consider his name coming up a compliment.compliment.
** Played straight later in volume 6 when Esmeralda interrogates Oliver and Pete. She says up front that there's no possible way that two second-years were even physically capable of killing Enrico Forghieri; she instead thinks that, having visited Forghieri's laboratory,[[note]]Technically, Pete was kidnapped by Forghieri, and Oliver and Nanao pursued them to his laboratory.[[/note]] they might have unintentionally leaked information to the assassins and could help her identify them. [[spoiler:[[DramaticIrony Ironically, Oliver really IS the killer]], and spends the entire scene sweating bullets before Nanao rescues them both.]]
** Played straight later in volume 6 when Esmeralda interrogates Oliver and Pete. She says up front that there's no possible way that two second-years were even physically capable of killing Enrico Forghieri; she instead thinks that, having visited Forghieri's laboratory,[[note]]Technically, Pete was kidnapped by Forghieri, and Oliver and Nanao pursued them to his laboratory.[[/note]] they might have unintentionally leaked information to the assassins and could help her identify them. [[spoiler:[[DramaticIrony Ironically, Oliver really IS the killer]], and spends the entire scene sweating bullets before Nanao rescues them both.]]
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* ExpressDelivery: It's suggested in the early volumes and then confirmed in volume 10 that mage gestation is much shorter than that of {{Muggles}}. This is highlighted by the fact that Oliver's cousins Gwyn and Shannon Sherwood are in the same year at Kimberly but aren't twins ([[https://vxtwitter.com/unobokuto/status/1775385388435280290?s=46 a tweet by the author]] states Gwyn is only four months older than his sister).
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* TranslationConvention: Notwithstanding the rare flashback to Nanao's time in Yamatsu, all the dialogue in the series is in Yelglish ([[InventedLinguisticDistinction Fantasy English]]) but is rendered in the localization language. This leads to oddities such as characters in the original Japanese referring to each other with the English-language honorifics "Mister" and "Miss" transliterated into katakana, rather than using UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics (with the exception of Oliver calling his cousins/foster siblings "onee-san" and "nee-san").
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* DramaticIrony:
** In volume 2, the possibility that a student might have killed [[spoiler:Darius Grenville]] is suggested, and then [[VaryingCompetencyAlibi immediately dismissed as impossible]], even though that's exactly what happened. [[spoiler:In their defense, it ''shouldn't'' have been possible: Oliver only won because no sane mage would expect a first-year magic student to have a spellblade.]]
** In a {{flashback}} in volume 10, Chloe Halford hopes that her friend "Emmy", i.e. current Kimberly Headmistress Esmeralda, will become a CoolBigSis figure to her child even though Chloe turned her down romantically. Esmeralda was shown in the series' prologue striking the blow that killed Chloe.
** In volume 2, the possibility that a student might have killed [[spoiler:Darius Grenville]] is suggested, and then [[VaryingCompetencyAlibi immediately dismissed as impossible]], even though that's exactly what happened. [[spoiler:In their defense, it ''shouldn't'' have been possible: Oliver only won because no sane mage would expect a first-year magic student to have a spellblade.]]
** In a {{flashback}} in volume 10, Chloe Halford hopes that her friend "Emmy", i.e. current Kimberly Headmistress Esmeralda, will become a CoolBigSis figure to her child even though Chloe turned her down romantically. Esmeralda was shown in the series' prologue striking the blow that killed Chloe.
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* HormoneAddledTeenager: {{Reconstructed}}: the series is pretty straightforward about the fact that most of the cast members, school faculty excepted, are teenagers and young adults, so ''obviously'' they're going to be interested in sex to some extent, but mostly treats it as a normal part of growing up without being prurient or titillating about it. Oliver and Chela even give TheTalk to the other Sword Roses in volume 4, wherein Chela says that about four Kimberly students out of five will have had their first sexual experience by the time they graduate, and warns them to keep contraception handy at all times.
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* RivalsTeamUp: In volume 7, three of Oliver's defeated class rivals--Richard Andrews, Joseph Albright, and Tullio Rossi--team up for [[TournamentArc the combat leagues]], hoping for a rematch. Their wish is ultimately granted in volume 9 when they wind up the co-finalists opposite Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri Leik.
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* VillainTeamUp: [[DownplayedTrope Technically more of an Antagonist Team-Up.]] In volume 7, three of Oliver's previously defeated class rivals--Richard Andrews, Joseph Albright, and Tullio Rossi--team up for [[TournamentArc the combat leagues]], hoping for a rematch. Their wish is ultimately granted in volume 9 when they wind up the co-finalists opposite Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri Leik.
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* ResolvedNoodleIncident: That gag in volume 6 about Tim Linton once gassing the Fellowship? [[spoiler:[[CerebusCallBack Not so funny when we're told the context in volume 10]]: it was basically an attempted school shooting brought on by Tim being in a ''really'' bad headspace due to his DarkAndTroubledPast, and Alvin Godfrey saved his life from the attempted MurderSuicide.]]
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* ResolvedNoodleIncident: Volume 10 does this multiple times:
** Oliver's FlashbackEcho in volume 2 of helping heal a woman for pregnancy-induced mana disruptions? [[spoiler:It was his cousin Shannon, and [[ChildByRape he was the father]], after [[RapeByProxy being drugged by their great-grandfather into raping her]].]]
** That gag in volume 6 about Tim Linton once gassing the Fellowship? [[spoiler:[[CerebusCallBack Not so funny when we're told thecontext in volume 10]]: context]]: it was basically an attempted school shooting brought on by Tim being in a ''really'' bad headspace due to his DarkAndTroubledPast, and Alvin Godfrey saved his life from the attempted MurderSuicide.]]]]
* RivalsTeamUp: In volume 7, three of Oliver's defeated class rivals--Richard Andrews, Joseph Albright, and Tullio Rossi--team up for [[TournamentArc the combat leagues]], hoping for a rematch. Their wish is ultimately granted in volume 9 when they wind up the co-finalists opposite Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri Leik.
** Oliver's FlashbackEcho in volume 2 of helping heal a woman for pregnancy-induced mana disruptions? [[spoiler:It was his cousin Shannon, and [[ChildByRape he was the father]], after [[RapeByProxy being drugged by their great-grandfather into raping her]].]]
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* RivalsTeamUp: In volume 7, three of Oliver's defeated class rivals--Richard Andrews, Joseph Albright, and Tullio Rossi--team up for [[TournamentArc the combat leagues]], hoping for a rematch. Their wish is ultimately granted in volume 9 when they wind up the co-finalists opposite Oliver, Nanao, and Yuri Leik.
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** {{Implied}} with Alvin Godfrey: there's an {{flashback}} sequence in volume 3 where he used BehavioralConditioning to immunize himself to Ophelia Salvadori's perfume, via the expedient of casting [[AgonyBeam pain curses]] on his own genitals to [[GroinAttack simulate the pain of a good swift kick]]. Now factor in that Oliver explained in volume 1 that the pain curse can only inflict pain the caster has experienced...
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* CustomUniform: Kimberly seems to offer students a lot of latitude in their student uniforms. These range from minor changes like Guy skipping the necktie or Katie tying it in a bow instead of wearing it with a Windsor knot, up to large changes such as Ophelia Salvadori wearing a slinky purple ball gown slit to the hip and refashioning her uniform jacket into a bolero.
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* UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny: Nanao has a card in ''TabletopGame/WeissSchwarz'''s Creator/DengekiBunko run.
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* UnableToRetreat: On their second night at Kimberly Magic Academy in volume 1 ([[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E02SwordArts anime episode 2]]), Oliver, Pete, and Chela accidentally end up in [[MalevolentArchitecture the labyrinth under the school]] and are accosted by predatory upperclasswoman Ophelia Salvadori. They flee, only to be intercepted by another upperclassman, Cyrus Rivermoore, who conjures a fence of bones in their path, blocking their escape so that they may be victimized by whomever wins the ensuing WizardDuel between himself and Salvadori.
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* SuccubiAndIncubi: Rather than a kind of demon, succubi are said to be an extinct species of demihuman known mainly for two things: [[SmellsSexy they gave off a Perfume that made them sexually irresistible to humanoid males]], and had [[MotherOfAThousandYoung the ability to birth chimeras]] by [[HeinzHybrid mixing donor mana (harvested through sex) in their wombs]]. They used this in a SuperBreedingProgram to create a "perfect being", which has been carried forward by the Salvadori clan, [[UnevenHybrid a mage lineage with partial succubus ancestry]].
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* LetsWaitAWhile: [[spoiler:Oliver and Nanao's attempt at a first time in volume 10 gets scuttled by Oliver's PTSD from his RapeAsBackstory, so while they spend the night naked together in bed, they don't get as far as intercourse. They agree to try to take it slow and work their way up to "getting the pole in the hole", as Nanao bawdily puts it.]]
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** In volume 4, Oliver is suffering aftereffects of the previous volume antagonist's SexMagic. His friend Chela corners him in a restaurant bathroom after he has an episode, and informs him that, AsYouKnow, if he's still feeling the effects of [[SmellsSexy succubus Perfume]] this long after the incident, then the only way to clear it out of his system will be to satisfy the urge, and not by himself. After suggesting he try approaching his LoveInterest Nanao for sex without getting a response,[[note]]The two have admitted to their attraction at this point but aren't quite ready for a RelationshipUpgrade.[[/note]] she manipulates him into some IntimateHealing that amounts to a magic-assisted handjob through their clothes, to which he never clearly consents. To Chela's credit, she feels extremely guilty about it afterwards: [[LikeBrotherAndSister they're not attracted to each other that way]] and she worries she might have irreparably damaged their friendship by trying to help him.
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** In volume 4, Oliver is suffering aftereffects of the previous volume antagonist's SexMagic. His friend Chela corners him in a restaurant bathroom after he has an episode, and informs him that, AsYouKnow, if he's still feeling the effects of [[SmellsSexy succubus Perfume]] this long after the incident, then the only way to clear it out of his system will be to satisfy the urge, and not by himself. After suggesting he try approaching his LoveInterest Nanao for sex without getting a response,[[note]]The two have admitted to their attraction at this point but aren't quite ready for a RelationshipUpgrade.[[/note]] she manipulates him into some IntimateHealing that amounts to a magic-assisted handjob through their clothes, to which he never clearly consents. To Chela's credit, she feels extremely guilty about it afterwards: [[LikeBrotherAndSister they're not attracted to each other that way]] and she worries she might have irreparably damaged their friendship by trying to help him. (He does briefly criticize her for it in volume 5, but doesn't seem to be holding any hard feelings.)
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* RelationshipLabelingProblems: Oliver and Nanao have basically been attached at the hip since they fought a DeadlySparring match in volume 1. In volume 4, after he and Chela hold a [[TheTalk seminar for their friends on mage sexual and romantic relations]], Nanao asks him out of the blue if he wants to have children with her, then backtracks slightly and chalks it up to CultureClash. Oliver admits he feels attracted to her but refuses to elaborate; his InternalMonologue mentions not wanting their relationship "reduced to reproduction and inheritannce" the way it so often is among mages. For her part, Katie asks Nanao later if she's in love with Oliver, and Nanao replies that she feels very strong affection for him, but isn't sure she can actually call it love since she simultaneously hasn't been able to kick the desire for a DuelToTheDeath with him.
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* RelationshipLabelingProblems: Oliver and Nanao have basically been attached at the hip since they fought a DeadlySparring match in volume 1. In volume 4, after he and Chela hold a [[TheTalk seminar for their friends on mage sexual and romantic relations]], Nanao asks him out of the blue if he wants to have children with her, then backtracks slightly and chalks it up to CultureClash. Oliver admits he feels attracted to her but refuses to elaborate; his InternalMonologue mentions not wanting their relationship "reduced to reproduction and inheritannce" inheritance" the way it so often is among mages. For her part, Katie asks Nanao later if she's in love with Oliver, and Nanao replies that she feels very strong affection for him, but isn't sure she can actually call it love since she simultaneously hasn't been able to kick the desire for a DuelToTheDeath with him.
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* FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent: Pete and Chela both have much better relationships with the other [[TrueCompanions Sword Roses]] than they do with their birth families. This starts to get {{deconstructed}} towards the midpoint of the series, as the two of them begin to contemplate increasingly unscrupulous tactics to keep the group together.
** Chela's father Theodore [=McFarlane=] is an UpperClassTwit and EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher whose silly behavior constantly embarrasses her, and she resents him forcing her not to acknowledge her paternal half-sister Stacy Cornwallis as a sibling: they're officially cousins, courtesy of Stacy's status as the HiddenBackupPrincess. She's also started to become suspicious of Theodore's motives for rescuing Nanao from a LastStand in Yamatsu and bringing her to Yelgland to become a mage.
** Pete says in volume 10 that he has a terrible relationship with his birth family. He doesn't go into details, but he's a MageBornOfMuggles and there's [[FantasticRacism a lot of societal tension between the two]] so you can hazard a guess.
** Chela's father Theodore [=McFarlane=] is an UpperClassTwit and EmbarrassingRelativeTeacher whose silly behavior constantly embarrasses her, and she resents him forcing her not to acknowledge her paternal half-sister Stacy Cornwallis as a sibling: they're officially cousins, courtesy of Stacy's status as the HiddenBackupPrincess. She's also started to become suspicious of Theodore's motives for rescuing Nanao from a LastStand in Yamatsu and bringing her to Yelgland to become a mage.
** Pete says in volume 10 that he has a terrible relationship with his birth family. He doesn't go into details, but he's a MageBornOfMuggles and there's [[FantasticRacism a lot of societal tension between the two]] so you can hazard a guess.
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* IllFatedFlowerbed: The prologue of volume 3 ([[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E13NoisyForest episode 13 of the anime]]) shows a young Ophelia Salvadori deliberately stomping the flowers in her yard. The narration explains that she hates flowers: "Their eye-catching beauty and heavenly scents that attracted all manner of insects reminded her too much of herself," referring to the fact that she SmellsSexy to males because of her {{succubus}} ancestry.
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* MegaDungeon: Kimberly Magic Academy is built overtop of an ancient labyrinth containing at least five maze-like "layers", each of which is its own vast environment with its own flora and fauna and natural resources. Students at the school often build laboratories in it for degree research, a girl named Pamela Gorton has built a business supplying them with food from the surface, and some people even live down there full-time (Teresa Carste was born there).
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* BritsLoveTea: The series is set in Yelgland, a FantasyCounterpartCulture to England, so consequently tea is the beverage of choice for almost the entirety of the cast.
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** Oliver and Nanao are strongly attracted to each other from book one on. Katie also has a crush on Oliver starting in book one, and Pete starts to act like a {{tsundere}} towards him in volume five. As of volume 9, Oliver has only ever expressed any romantic interest in Nanao.
** Nanao also has her own suitors, notably Tullio Rossi. It's entirely one-sided: Nanao is 100% [[SingleTargetSexuality Oliver-sexual]].
** Oliver and Nanao are strongly attracted to each other from book one on. Katie also has a crush on Oliver starting in book one, and Pete starts to act like a {{tsundere}} towards him in volume five. As of volume 9, Oliver has only ever expressed any romantic interest in Nanao.
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* LoveConfession: [[spoiler:Nanao and Oliver]] trade confessions in volumes 9 and 10.
** First, [[spoiler:Nanao gets jealous of Oliver's rapprochement with Richard Andrews in the combat league finals, and essentially sexually assaults him the night after: she throws him against a tree for a ForcefulKiss, and after regaining control of her faculties and pulling away, tells him, "My heart lies with you, Oliver. For every moment, sleeping or awake, from now until evermore."]]
** Second, [[spoiler:Oliver corners her in their base, she thinks he's about to excoriate her for her behavior earlier, but he instead returns her ForcefulKiss and tells her, "You're not the only one who's been restraining yourself!" They spend the night in bed together, and he finally admits the next morning that he's in love with her.]]
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** {{Downplayed}} in volume 2 ([[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals episode 8 of the anime]]). Oliver confides in his cousins Shannon and Gwyn that he's attracted to Nanao, often finding himself looking at her when they're together, but he doesn't say the "L" word. Gwyn counsels him that the feeling of attraction means something to mages, and to just hold the feelings he can't name in his heart and allow events to happen.
** Shortly after Oliver and Chela give the other Sword Roses TheTalk in volume 4, Katie asks Nanao if she's in love with Oliver. Nanao admits she's deeply attracted to him, but isn't sure if she can call it "love" when [[LoveHurts she simultaneously wishes for]] a DuelToTheDeath with him.
** Chela to Pete in volume 10: she wonders aloud why he doesn't seem to mind the idea of [[RelationshipUpgrade Oliver and Nanao getting together]], taking it for granted that he's in love with Oliver. He replies that, just like her, he wants to keep the group together, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy if seeing the man he loves with someone else is what it takes, then so be it]]. He hasn't given up, though: he tells her he's come to envision the Sword Roses as [[{{Polyamory}} a potential polycule]].
** First, [[spoiler:Nanao gets jealous of Oliver's rapprochement with Richard Andrews in the combat league finals, and essentially sexually assaults him the night after: she throws him against a tree for a ForcefulKiss, and after regaining control of her faculties and pulling away, tells him, "My heart lies with you, Oliver. For every moment, sleeping or awake, from now until evermore."]]
** Second, [[spoiler:Oliver corners her in their base, she thinks he's about to excoriate her for her behavior earlier, but he instead returns her ForcefulKiss and tells her, "You're not the only one who's been restraining yourself!" They spend the night in bed together, and he finally admits the next morning that he's in love with her.]]
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** {{Downplayed}} in volume 2 ([[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E08Rivals episode 8 of the anime]]). Oliver confides in his cousins Shannon and Gwyn that he's attracted to Nanao, often finding himself looking at her when they're together, but he doesn't say the "L" word. Gwyn counsels him that the feeling of attraction means something to mages, and to just hold the feelings he can't name in his heart and allow events to happen.
** Shortly after Oliver and Chela give the other Sword Roses TheTalk in volume 4, Katie asks Nanao if she's in love with Oliver. Nanao admits she's deeply attracted to him, but isn't sure if she can call it "love" when [[LoveHurts she simultaneously wishes for]] a DuelToTheDeath with him.
** Chela to Pete in volume 10: she wonders aloud why he doesn't seem to mind the idea of [[RelationshipUpgrade Oliver and Nanao getting together]], taking it for granted that he's in love with Oliver. He replies that, just like her, he wants to keep the group together, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy if seeing the man he loves with someone else is what it takes, then so be it]]. He hasn't given up, though: he tells her he's come to envision the Sword Roses as [[{{Polyamory}} a potential polycule]].
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* SuperBreedingProgram: A lot of magic traits can be inherited, and the mage world customarily places pushing the limits of sorcery above all other concerns. This means that mage aristocrats frequently try to breed more powerful mage children and add new traits to their bloodlines: supporting character Diana Ashbury is explicitly a product of several generations of selective breeding to produce faster and faster broom-riders. Even Kimberly participates to an extent: the school tacitly encourages TeenPregnancy by explicitly permitting third-years and up to conceive children and supporting child-rearing. This also leads to Nanao and Pete being approached repeatedly for dates by other students starting in volume 4, since both are [[MageBornOfMuggles Mages Born of Muggles]] (and thus don't pose any risks of inbreeding) with rare abilities (Nanao's [[PowerDyesYourHair Innocent Color]] and proficiency with sword arts, Pete's [[SexShifter reversiism]]). Oliver himself comments in his internal monologue when he's [[LoveConfession forced to admit his feelings for Nanao]] that he doesn't "want their relationship reduced to reproduction and inheritance", and so declines to specifically answer whether he wants to have children with her.
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** A lot of magic traits can be inherited, and the mage world customarily places pushing the limits of sorcery above all other concerns. This means that mage aristocrats frequently try to breed more powerful mage children and add new traits to their bloodlines: supporting character Diana Ashbury is explicitly a product of several generations of selective breeding to produce faster and faster broom-riders. Even Kimberly participates to an extent: the school tacitly encourages TeenPregnancy by explicitly permitting third-years and up to conceive children andsupporting child-rearing.providing support to students who become parents. This also leads to Nanao and Pete being approached repeatedly for dates by other students starting in volume 4, since both are [[MageBornOfMuggles Mages Born of Muggles]] (and thus don't pose any risks of inbreeding) with rare abilities (Nanao's [[PowerDyesYourHair Innocent Color]] and proficiency with sword arts, Pete's [[SexShifter reversiism]]). Oliver himself comments in his internal monologue when he's [[LoveConfession forced to admit his feelings for Nanao]] that he doesn't "want their relationship reduced to reproduction and inheritance", and so declines to specifically answer whether he wants to have children with her.her.
** In volume 3, Miligan describes how the {{succubi|AndIncubi}}, Ophelia Salvadori's maternal ancestors, had the ability to mix donor essences in their wombs, and used it with the goal of creating a "perfect being". Pure succubi are extinct nowadays, but Ophelia's chimera research is an extension of this project, and the male students she's kidnapped are the fuel for it.
** A lot of magic traits can be inherited, and the mage world customarily places pushing the limits of sorcery above all other concerns. This means that mage aristocrats frequently try to breed more powerful mage children and add new traits to their bloodlines: supporting character Diana Ashbury is explicitly a product of several generations of selective breeding to produce faster and faster broom-riders. Even Kimberly participates to an extent: the school tacitly encourages TeenPregnancy by explicitly permitting third-years and up to conceive children and
** In volume 3, Miligan describes how the {{succubi|AndIncubi}}, Ophelia Salvadori's maternal ancestors, had the ability to mix donor essences in their wombs, and used it with the goal of creating a "perfect being". Pure succubi are extinct nowadays, but Ophelia's chimera research is an extension of this project, and the male students she's kidnapped are the fuel for it.
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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: {{Downplayed}} in volume 3 ([[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E12Possibility episode 12 of the anime]]). Oliver goes to his cousins for help when his friend Pete Reston is kidnapped by Ophelia Salvadori. The Sherwoods tell him they're joining the student council's posse hunting Ophelia, but flatly refuse to mobilize their comrades for him [[JustifiedTrope since it would risk their exposure]]: the group is reserved for Oliver's secret SeriesGoal alone. [[spoiler:However, Teresa Carste ignores the Sherwoods' orders and goes to help Oliver on her own.]]
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* JealousRomanticWitness: The main pairing of Oliver Horn and Nanao Hibiya attracts this from several characters.
** Their friend Katie Aalto has a crush on Oliver and tends to get a little irritable when Nanao acts too clingy (despite their otherwise close friendship). It's nonetheless clear pretty early that she's firmly the ThirdWheel, which becomes a significant source of angst as Oliver and Nanao's relationship gets more serious over the years. She's also a little jealous of Oliver's (affectionate but completely platonic) relationship with his cousin Shannon, getting worked up when Shannon greets him with a kiss on the cheek when they run into each other at lunch in volume 1.
** In volume 9, Nanao gets jealous of Oliver's rapproachment with his StockShonenRival Richard Andrews, and physically attacks him with a ForcefulKiss. This in turn triggers an incident with Oliver's follower Teresa Carste, who crushes hard on him: in volume 10 she tries to get him to kiss her, then when he doesn't realize she wants it on the mouth, she loses her temper and goes out and attacks Nanao--and then has to run away with her tail between her legs because [[UnderestimatingBadassery Nanao is so much stronger than she ever thought possible]].
** Their friend Katie Aalto has a crush on Oliver and tends to get a little irritable when Nanao acts too clingy (despite their otherwise close friendship). It's nonetheless clear pretty early that she's firmly the ThirdWheel, which becomes a significant source of angst as Oliver and Nanao's relationship gets more serious over the years. She's also a little jealous of Oliver's (affectionate but completely platonic) relationship with his cousin Shannon, getting worked up when Shannon greets him with a kiss on the cheek when they run into each other at lunch in volume 1.
** In volume 9, Nanao gets jealous of Oliver's rapproachment with his StockShonenRival Richard Andrews, and physically attacks him with a ForcefulKiss. This in turn triggers an incident with Oliver's follower Teresa Carste, who crushes hard on him: in volume 10 she tries to get him to kiss her, then when he doesn't realize she wants it on the mouth, she loses her temper and goes out and attacks Nanao--and then has to run away with her tail between her legs because [[UnderestimatingBadassery Nanao is so much stronger than she ever thought possible]].
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* AppealToForce: In volume 2 ([[Recap/ReignOfTheSevenSpellbladesS1E11Duty episode 11 of the anime]]), Joseph Albright [[SoreLoser refuses to accept his defeat by Oliver]] in a fair WizardDuel,[[note]]He has a FreudianExcuse: the last time he lost to someone, at chess, [[DisproportionateRetribution his father tortured him for most of a day and murdered his opponent's entire family]].[[/note]] and conjures up [[ScaryStingingSwarm a swarm]] of [[BeeAfraid giant bees]] to force everyone present to let him wipe the defeat from their memories so he can tell people he won. The protagonists are having none of that, and come up with a plan to destroy the bees so that Nanao can take Albright down in single combat.
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* DyingReconcilliation: {{Downplayed}} at the end of volume 10. [[spoiler:Oliver Horn]] can't bring himself to torture his dying enemy [[spoiler:Demitrio Aristides]] the way he normally does, [[spoiler:because the only reason he won is that the personality of his friend Yuri Leik, a SoulFragment of Demitrio, was FightingFromTheInside. In return, Demitrio tells Oliver what he knows about the motives behind the conspiracy to murder his mother and [[{{Foreshadowing}} warns him about how dangerous Headmistress Esmeralda will be to fight]], then allows Yuri to take control so that he and Oliver can say goodbye to each other.]]
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* DyingReconcilliation: DyingReconciliation: {{Downplayed}} at the end of volume 10. [[spoiler:Oliver Horn]] can't bring himself to torture his dying enemy [[spoiler:Demitrio Aristides]] the way he normally does, [[spoiler:because the only reason he won is that the personality of his friend Yuri Leik, a SoulFragment of Demitrio, was FightingFromTheInside. In return, Demitrio tells Oliver what he knows about the motives behind the conspiracy to murder his mother and [[{{Foreshadowing}} warns him about how dangerous Headmistress Esmeralda will be to fight]], then allows Yuri to take control so that he and Oliver can say goodbye to each other.]]
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* DyingReconcilliation: {{Downplayed}} at the end of volume 10. [[spoiler:Oliver Horn]] can't bring himself to torture his dying enemy [[spoiler:Demitrio Aristides]] the way he normally does, [[spoiler:because the only reason he won is that the personality of his friend Yuri Leik, a SoulFragment of Demitrio, was FightingFromTheInside. In return, Demitrio tells Oliver what he knows about the motives behind the conspiracy to murder his mother and [[{{Foreshadowing}} warns him about how dangerous Headmistress Esmeralda will be to fight]], then allows Yuri to take control so that he and Oliver can say goodbye to each other.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The club Carlos Whitrow founded for students with sex- and gender-linked magic disappeared from the story after [[spoiler:Carlos's death in volume 3]]. The bonus story included with the Blu-ray box, "Encore" confirms that it did continue on.
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As spring dawns in [[AlternativeCalendar year 1532 of the Great Calendar]], fifteen-year-old mages from all walks of life arrive at [[AcademyOfAdventure Kimberly Magic Academy]] to begin their seven-year-long [[WizardingSchool formal education in the arts of magic]]. An altercation with a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] at the entrance ceremony [[FireForgedFriends forges bonds]] between [[TheTeam six of them]] that will serve them well, for life at Kimberly is anything but safe.
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As spring dawns in [[AlternativeCalendar year 1532 of the Great Calendar]], fifteen-year-old mages from all walks of life arrive at [[AcademyOfAdventure [[WizardingSchool Kimberly Magic Academy]] to begin their seven-year-long [[WizardingSchool formal education in the arts of magic]]. magic. An altercation with a [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll]] at the entrance ceremony [[FireForgedFriends forges bonds]] between [[TheTeam six of them]] that will serve them well, for [[AcademyOfAdventure life at Kimberly is anything but safe.
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