Final Fantasy Type - 0 Side Story : The Reaper of the Icy Blade Final Fantasy Type - 0 Side Story : The Reaper of the Icy Blade is a manga that takes place around nine years before the events of " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " . It follows the story Kurasame Susaya during his time as a student of Akademeia and as a member of the Four Champions of Rubrum . It is drawn by Takatoshi Shiozawa and published in " " along with the game ' s manga version . Western manga distribution company Yen Press has licensed the manga for an English release , beginning with the release of the first volume in July 2015 . Story . Kurasame is a member of Class Third at Akademeia , but thinks his classmates are weak , immature , and unfit to be Agito Cadets . He strives to get promoted to Class First , the class of top tier cadets , and the only class that frequently partakes in military missions . With Kazusa ' s advice , Kurasame tries to be more friendly with the others , and befriends Miwa , Guren , and Oruto . One day , Class Third has a test of courage at a cave in Rubrum territory . A couple of mysterious Concordian outlaws wipe out the class except for five survivors : Kurasame , Miwa , Guren , Kotetsu , and Oruto , who defeat the Concordians and return to Akademeia . Unfortunately , Oruto dies shortly after their return . Akademia authorities decide to cover up the incident and treat it as an accident where Class Third was attacked by monsters . It is a political decision to maintain the relationship between Rubrum and Concordia , as they already have enough issues with Milites Empire as their enemy . Several weeks after the incident , The Cadetmaster orders the four survivors to take on a mission in Concordia territory , as a formal request from the royal family of Concordia . The four cadets don ' t want to take the mission at first since they still hold a grudge against the Concordians , but they change their mind as it might be an opportunity to get promoted to Class First . Kurasame and Guren fly to the Dragon Sanctuary on a Rubrumite airship . Miwa chooses to stay , as she blames herself for coming up with the test of courage game that led to her classmates ' deaths , and for being unable to use healing magics to save any of them . Kotetsu chooses to stay with Miwa , but Takatsugu , commander of Class First , encourages Miwa to fight for her living friends , and Miwa and Kotetsu follow Kurasame and Guren to Concordia . In Concordia , Kurasame and Guren meet an old Concordian woman who lives with a tonberry in an old cabin in the forest . The old lady changes Guren ' s attitude about Concordian people being evil , and tell him that Agito Cadets are not fighting only for Rubrumites , but need to lead all of Orience to happiness . Kurasame and Guren arrive in the town of Amiter , where Kurasame is later lured out alone to the forest . Yumemi , an Akademeia reject , ambushes Kurasame and stabs him in the stomach . She reveals herself as a Rubrumite living in Concordia who can still use magic with the power of the Vermilion Bird Crystal . Yumemi spots the old lady ' s cabin and attacks her . Kurasame tries to save her , but his wound is too severe . Miwa arrives and defeats Yumemi , but the old lady dies in the burning cabin . Miwa heals Kurasame ' s wound with magic that she learned after the cave incident . Meanwhile , Kotetsu arrives in Amiter , where the false mayor tries to mislead him , but Kotetsu exposes them . Guren returns to help Kotetsu , but they are outnumbered by criminals who fled Rubrum to live in Concordia , able to use the power of both Vermilion Bird Crystal and Azure Dragon Crystal , allowing them to use magic and to control monsters . Parts of Amiter are burnt down . Miwa arrives in the town with Kurasame . She declares they are " The Four Champions of Rubrum " and the four defeat the criminals and rescue the real mayor . The citizens thank the cadets and promise to remember the name " Four Champions of Rubrum " that would be passed on for generations of Concordians . The old lady ' s tonberry tags along with Kurasame , becoming his faithful sidekick . The four cadets return to Akademeia , and as the result of the successful mission , Kurasame and Guren are promoted to Class First . Two years later , the Four Champions are now Rubrum ' s strongest cadets , being called " The faces of the Dominion " , and said to be the strongest forces in all of Orience . One day , they are invited to a party where Kurasame meets Aoi Tomoshibi , the daughter of the Deputy Prime Liaison Fuyou Tomoshibi . An imperial assassin attempts to assassinate the dominion leader , but is caught by Kurasame . The assassin says that he ' s " not the only one " before committing suicide . The assassin ' s Knowing Tag proves that the man was a Rubrumite - born citizen who betrayed the dominion and worked for the empire . Commander Takatsugu orders the Four Champions to investigate the case and search for more traitors hiding in the dominion . Takatsugu assigns Guren and Kotetsu to accompany the Deputy Prime Liaison to Meroë while Kurasame and Miwa are deployed to protect Lady Aoi to attend a ceremony in Mi - Go . A group of imperial men ambushes Lady Aoi ' s entourage in the forest and captures her . Miwa decides to fight alone and tells Kurasame to go after Aoi . Kurasame rescues Aoi and gets out of the forest safely and they fall in love . The night after the forest incident , with help from Miwa , Kurasame confesses his feelings to Aoi on the terrace of the east tower at Akademeia and the two kiss . Kurasame is appointed as Aoi ' s personal bodyguard to protect her from assassination attempts . Matin , another traitor in Akademeia , ambushes them in the Ready Room , but Kurasame and Kotetsu arrest him . The traitor is later executed leading to the Consortium of Eight to strengthen the security in Akademeia by organizing a new intelligence committee to secretly spy on Akademeia ' s own people . Kurasame opposes the plan , believing that doubting their friends would tear the dominion apart . Commander Takatsugu disagrees , and warns Kurasame against trusting his allies too much . The imperial spies abduct half of the dominion researchers , including Kazusa ' s parents . Kurasame heads to Milites alone without an official assignment and entrusts his duty as Aoi ' s bodyguard to Instructor Urushi . The other Champions accompany him and meet Qator Bashtar on the way to Anson Stronghold . Qator is a Militesi and pilots a prototype Magitek Armor , the newest weapon of the empire , but he loses to the Four Champions . After Qator retreats from the battlefield , Kurasame wonders how he knew of their movement . He deducts someone from the dominion had leaked the information to the empire , and suspects Instructor Urushi . Kurasame and the other Champions return to the dominion to check on Aoi , but she is already back in Akademeia after Commander Takatsugu and his squad rescued her from the traitor Urushi . Takatsugu was taken by the empire while the others in his squad were killed . Kurasame is arrested for acting on his own and disobeying the orders and is placed in house arrest . Guren pays him a visit and tells him about the plan to rescue the researchers from Milites , but helping Takatsugu is not part of it since his capture was an anomaly and it would be too risky to change the plan . Kurasame asks Guren to release him so he can go to Milites to rescue Takatsugu by himself . Before leaving , Kurasame tells Aoi of his plans . Aoi doesn ' t want Kurasame to leave her again , but Kurasame claims he is the only one who can save Takatsugu , and would regret abandoning him for the rest of his life . Miwa , Guren , and Kotetsu lead the Rubrumite forces , now joined by the Lorican Alliance army who want to rescue the Lorican hostages from the empire , to engage the imperial troops in the front line . Meanwhile , Kurasame sneaks in the stronghold and releases Takatsugu from the underground base . On their way out they are surrounded by a group of imperial soldiers , led by a general who has a new weapon invented to nullify Rubrumite magic . Being outnumbered , out of a weapon , and unable to use magic , Kurasame surrenders . The imperial general offers Kurasame to join the empire to get his and Takatsugu ' s lives spared . Takatsugu tells Kurasame not to even think about it . The general executes Takatsugu on the spot and Kurasame unleashes his power as the Ice Reaper , conjuring a sword out of ice and slaughtering the imperial forces . Kurasame brings Takatsugu ' s body back to Akademeia . Kurasame becomes even more famous , people now calling him " The Ice Reaper " . He and Aoi conclude that despite their love for each other , their paths are too different . Aoi wishes Kurasame the best before parting ways . The Four Champions continue fighting the imperial troops . Kurasame encounters a powerful enemy , Morse , the former hero of the Milites who got his name erased from Milites ' history after betraying his homeland . Kurasame acknowledges how strong Morse is , but after crossing their swords several times , Morse tells Kurasame that they are the same before retreating . Weeks later , Morse appears in Rubrum territory and attacks Class Sixth members during their field exam . Kurasame saves them and cuts Morse ' s right arm off leaving him no choice but to retreat again . The Cadetmaster summons Kurasame , Miwa , and Kotetsu to inform them that Guren has betrayed the dominion by stealing top secret documents from the Intelligence department . She issues an order for Guren ' s arrest on charges of espionage , and authorizes his termination . The three of the Four Champions doubt that Guren would betray the dominion and decide to find him before anyone else . Meanwhile , the Cadetmaster also assigns them another important mission : to assassinate Marshal Cid Aulstyne of the Militesi Empire to stop his plan to mass produce a new type of Magitek Armor . Kurasame , Miwa , and Kotetsu , accompanied by Naghi ' s squad from Class Ninth — a newly formed class specialized in spying , collecting information , and assassination — head to Militesi territory to assassinate the head of the imperial army . Guren appears and ruins their plan by casting Firaga to expose their positions . Guren doesn ' t tell Kurasame about his situation , but says that " some things are more important than the Champions ' mission " . Guren retreats , and Kurasame ' s squad is forced to flee back to Rubrum . Akademeia has to reschedule the assassination plan . Kurasame , Miwa , and Kotetsu separately leave Akademeia on chocobos , but Morse , now with a mechanical right arm , attacks Kurasame again . After a long fight Kurasame destroys the mechanical arm and decides to stop , since Kurasame thinks Morse is just a delusional person living in the past , trying to make him end up a failure like him . Kurasame realizes that he ' s way behind the schedule , he ' s injured , and also lost his chocobo . Kurasame later arrives at the Imperial Hendon Stronghold , only to find out that this whole mission is a trap set up by both the empire and the Cadetmaster . The Cadetmaster agreed to trade off the Four Champions ' lives for the information of the empire ' s newest superweapon . Kurasame and Miwa successfully escape the stronghold but Kotetsu attacks them . Kotetsu reveals that he accepted a secret mission from the Cadetmaster ; to eliminate his Four Champions friends and then take his own life , in order to save the Dominion ' s future from the empire ' s weapon . Kotetsu stabs Miwa and then manages to kill Guren who came back to help Kurasame . Kurasame also got stabbed but he uses an ice spell to seal his wound in order to fight a little longer . He finally kills Kotetsu on a one on one duel but he also received a burnt wound on his face and starts losing blood from the wound . Miwa crawls to Murasame and use her last magic power to heal him . Kurasame regains his consciousness and find out that Miwa decided to heal him instead of herself . Kurasame asks why would she does that for him , Miwa replies " Because I love you " and dies in Kurasame ' s arms . Kurasame writes down all of his memories about Miwa and the other Four Champions on the ground with his blood before the crystal erase his memories . After returning to the Akademeia , Kurasame confronts the Cadetmaster . He wants her arrested and to tell the truth about her attempt to sell her own countrymen to the empire , which is a violation to the rules of the dominion but he doesn ' t want to tear the dominion apart with this incident so he asks the Cadetmaster to commit suicide so the memories about the case will be forgotten . The Cadetmaster ends her own life that night . Kurasame is appointed a commanding officer by the Chancellor . He starts covering his wound on the face with a mask since . Years later , Kurasame is a commanding officer of Class Zero and sacrifices his life for Lady Caetuna to summon the Verboten Eidolon Alexander . In his afterlife , he reunites with his Class Third friends and the other Four Champions of Rubrum . Extra Chapter : " If Only . . . " . Similar to the " What If . . . " scenario in " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " , the extra chapter is a parallel timeline where there is no war . The Akademeia is holding a school festival where the students from other schools including the Militesi Academy are coming to enjoy the event . All the characters are not dead in this timeline . Kurasama and Miwa seem to start falling in love while they ' re paired up on the dance floor . The young Class Zero members from the main game made an appearance as the newly joined Akademeia students . Tono Kagerohi ( Tiz ) , Lean Hampelmann ( Joker ) , and Miyu Kagerohi are also joined the Akademeia .