Maou Gakuen Rebel Light Novel Volume 3

This is the third volume of Maou Gakuen Rebel Series.

 Plot

### Part 1

The Lover's group take Reina to the hospital. Yuuto is horrified to learn that his knight will die in the next two or three days. Reina reveals she is not a devil nor a human. She is a homunculus. Doctor Monzenji informs Yuuto that Reina's core is not a good quality piece, and it cannot harvest energy to run correctly. When asked about a possible replacement, doctor Monzenji states if they were to manipulate with the parts of her core, the entire magical mechanism would collapse.

Elsewhere, Takakuzure Marios, devil king candidate of Tower, was about to finish his modelling project, his masterpiece. As he admired the fruits of his effort, a ringing caught his attention. A red-haired man and a pink-haired female were at his doorsteps. Mariose's suit card, Goryoukaku Basset stood in their way. Basset threw a figurine of a monster to the ground. Once it broke, a beast appeared. It was a fundamental ability of the Tower Arcana magic, to materialize artistic work. The intruders didn't seem to match the might of the beast, so Marios turned his attention elsewhere. As he was thinking about the devil king's war, another visitor ringed. Suddenly, his cameras went blank and only detected a voice.

The door to his room opened with a red-haired man and a pink-haired woman standing in them. The man went on to introduce his companion. Her name was Shimokadzuma Rinne, the devil king candidate of Fortune. Marios concluded the man must be Rinne's ace. To his horror, the man introduced himself as Joudougahama Lost, the Devil King candidate of Death. After coming through Mariose's traps through his mansion, Lost and Rinne were eager to see his might. Marios took his new masterpiece and broke it to pieces. He was traumatized by the loss. His emotions went into invoking Tower's unique magic, Babel Tower (Collapsing Pleasure).

Lost with Rinne were now on the top of the building, standing several hundred meters above the ground, surrounded by massive lightning. Marios victoriously declared the only way out is to die. However, he noticed the pair was still smiling and not terrified at all. Marios decided to finish them, but as the building began to collapse, Rinne stabbed her hand. In the next moment, they were back in Marioses apartment, and Marios was holding his masterpiece, still in one piece. Rinne used her unique magic, Revival Infinite Replay. Lost told Marios that they came to invite him to their alliance. They planned to deal with other devil king candidates, specifically against candidates they perform naturally weaker. The natural enemy of Tower appeared to be the Lovers. Due to his disinterest in the current events, Marios wasn't aware that Lover's candidate is a human. Neither he knew the Devil Mitsuishi Ibiza fell by Yuuto's hands, and Aspite of the World's arcana was hiding because of Yuuto. Marios decided to join Lost.

Back at Yuuto's, Lovers were coming to Reina's home. When they arrived, everyone was dumbfounded to see that Reina lived in a cramped, decaying house. Six years ago, Koiwai's daughter Reina died. She was a devil. The parents called a magician to create a homunculus, the Reina that we know. Later, a new Koiwai Aina was born, and Reina's parents gradually stopped paying attention to Reina. She left the house because she would become a bother to her family and sister.

Yuuto decided to arrange a meeting with the Koiwai family. Along with Lizel, they visited Reina's parents. They replied, the reason they created Koiwai Reina was to keep an image of their bloodline. The conversation was abruptly interrupted by Aina, Reina's little sister. Her mother rushed to take her away from any unnecessary influence that Yuuto and Lizel could have. After Koiwai's father thrown few insults at Yuuto's for his interest in homunculi Reina's well-being, Lovers went home. Back at home, Morioka Sakura declared she is going to adopt Reina. After a lengthy discussion, nobody from Morioka family was against the idea. Yuuto's parents were very enthusiastic about adopting Reina.

### Part 2

The next day, Lovers were eating at the cafeteria. Lizel announced they are going to perform the Himekami family ritual to refine a magic stone. At night, Yuuto, Lizel, and Yuugaoze Miyabi headed to a luxurious hotel. Lizel chose it as a place of the ritual. Girls began to prepare their room for the refinement.

 Once everything was ready, Lovers began. Lizel planned to draw a ritual tattoo painting on the body of each other. Then proceed with Healing Lovers and Infinite Lovers and sent the gathered mana into the stone. Lovers proceeded with the ritual. In the morning, Yuuto woke up to find a refined pink stone. Lovers were succesful. Now, they had to find a way to replace Reina's core with the pink stone. Yuuto tried to consult headmaster Gandou on this issue. However, headmaster replied that he is not allowed to back up a specific candidate. Neither he can disclose how the previous candidates used their arcana in the last war.

Elsewhere, six Devil King candidates, Shimokadzuma Rinne, Takakuzure Marios, Sannou Rikimaru (Strength), Kitakami Lunatic (Moon), Sansa Summers(Sun), and Joudougahama Lost, held a meeting. . They allied) themselves to deal with troublesome candidates. Everyone agreed to join, but Sansa Summers requested Hoshigaoka Stella would become their first target. Marios wanted to make Yuuto their first target. Lost offered Marios a solution to invite Yuuto to the alliance. He would lower his guard, and Marios would kill him. Marios accepted the plan, and Stella was the first target of the Death's Group.

### Reina's Core

Later, Yuuto was at school. He was still trying to figure out how to replace Reina's core. After the class, Yuuto went to a staff room. He finds out he didn't rank in the top 100. He met Geld there, who appeared to in a way brighter mood than the last time they spoke. Geld informed Yuuto that his former master Aspite is still in the war, but he has no chance to win due to his condition. Yuuto went to his palace, but he met Kouma Ruki on his way there. Ruki wanted to talk to Yuuto about Death's Group. Ruki didn't know who was part of the alliance and was nervous they could team up to kill him. Therefore, he proposed a cooperation pact between him and Yuuto to share information about the enemy. Their conversation was interrupted by Marios. Marios invited Yuuto to join Death's Group. Also, he demanded Yuuto to come with him.

However, due to his impatience, Marios decided to use force. He sent his servants Narihira, Shiba, Naniwa to lead the assault. From Marioses behaviour, he looked like the ringleader. Ruki assumed there could be more candidates waiting. Ruki and Yuuto chose to retreat. Suddenly, candidates of the Sun and Moon stood in their way.

To Mariose's displeasure, Luna and Sansa came only to fulfil their part of the alliance contribution and left almost immediately. They left only one card to deal with Yuuto, one of their weakest cards, Nihondou Swordia. It turned out Swordia possessed a more severe threat than the three Marioses cards combined according to the Lover's arcana. Yuuto and Ruki made a 180° turn and punched through the monsters created by the servants of Tower. Unfortunately, Rikimaru made her appearance with two of her servants. Yuuto decided to split with Ruki, hoping the enemy forces would split as well. The strategy didn't work out at all. Yuuto forgot he was their target all along. Reina came to help Yuuto, but her core hit the limit, and Reina turned to dust. Suddenly, Yuuto felt déjà vu, and he saw Reina appearing to help him again. It turned out to be Rinne's unique ability to rewind time. Marios delivered Yuuto ultimatum to join the Death's Group. Before he could even answer, Reina declined. The confrontation was about to take a drastic turn. Another candidate made an entrance. It was Neith, who rushed in her ancient chariot form to save Yuuto. Miyabi and Lizel arrived on the scene shortly after. Miyabi stole Marioses figurine. Lovers were in an advantageous position. Moments later, Marios ordered a retreat. Lovers won.

Later, Death's group proceeded with their plan to take out Stella. The group created a magic barrier that prevented the use of magic force around the building she was present, and they sent their cards to face Stella. To Stella's advantage, a confusion between the Death's group forces occurred, and Stella managed to slip past them. As she was nearing the waiting room, she noticed a red-haired person was standing there. When asked, the red-haired man replied to Stella that the Tower is the leader of the individuals attacking her. When she asked who is he, Lost replied, "The death god".

 Rikimaru decided to speed up the process and smashed the building. The building collapsed. Marioses cards, Naniwa, Karasuma, and Yamashita, ended up buried in the rubble. Lost was buried too, but he didn't seem to mind it at all. Stella managed to survive without difficulties. Rikimaru declared her job is done and left. Sansa and Luna appeared, and Luna challenged Stella to a battle. Knowing his attack would prove useless, Luna used his unique magic, Queen of Night (Beauty Under the Moon). Queen of Night wasn't a mind attack. Instead, it released the fears and trauma the target has gone through. Gradually, the target would lose sanity and eventually committed suicide. Luna's strategy seemed to work, but Stella managed to overcome his Queen of Night and kill Luna with a meteor using Star's unique magic Galaxy Zero (Celestial Body Dead Ball). Marios and Sansa retreated. Lost meanwhile got out of the rubble and invited Stella to join the group. Stella refused the offer. Lost bid her a scary farewell and left.

Marios was furious he lost three of his cards. Lost reassured Marios everything is okay, and from now on, things will go better. Marios realized Lost was taking away his fighting strength, making him vulnerable. However, it was too late for him to leave the alliance. Other candidates in the group would not let him go alive. Marios agreed to Lost new plan.

It was Sunday, Yuuto was still looking for a way to save Reina. Reina's condition was worsening. Suddenly, he realized he knows someone who can help Reina. Yuuto went to an abandoned mansion to find a man who can help Reina, Aspite.

 After their confrontation in the past, Aspite became depressed and pretty much gave up on the devil king war. After a lengthy therapy to liven up Aspite, he agreed to help Yuuto. Lizel chose Miyabi's mansion for the operation. To achieve better concentration, Lizel blindfolded Aspite. The plan was for Aspite to use World Revision to change the rules of the room. Then, Lovers would be able to manipulate with Reina's core. Yuuto would use World Fall to destroy the current one, and Lizel would apply the new core. Lastly, Yuuto would use Cutting Connect on Reina and his mother. Lovers proceeded with the plan. No significant issues occurred, and the operation was a success. Aspite informed Yuuto that Marios lost almost all of his forces. Aspite gave Yuuto advice, "Kill before you get killed", and took his leave. Lovers now knew they must deal with Marios. They decided to strike.
Lovers arrive at Marioses place. Lizel and Miyabi faced the remnants of Tower's forces, while Yuuto and Reina went for Marios. A large number of monsters were waiting for them. Reina managed to get hold of two Marioses figurines he wanted to break. Yuuto dealt with the foes and cornered the candidate of the Tower. Marios lost.

 As a last-ditch effort, Marios jumped out of the window and flew away with his last monster.

Marios arrived in the area of Ginsei Academy. He wanted to use his palace to recover. Lost was waiting for Marios to pick him up. However, he had enough. Marios couldn't put up with Lost anymore and informed him he researched his background and now wanted to know who he truly is. Suddenly, Lost aura completely changed, darkness surrounded Marios. The last thing he heard was a whisper, "Happy End Life Severance". Marioses existence vanished at that moment. Next Sunday, Yuuto went shopping. When he was shopping, his arcana signalled a danger is near. A red-haired man greeted him. Yuuto's arcana was going crazy, but Yuuto didn't know who is the danger. He decided to bid farewell to the man and leave. Once he attempted to leave, a man that greeted him revealed he is also a devil king candidate, candidate of Death. Lost told Yuuto it was he who killed Marios. When asked why Lost said Yuuto is the only person he can think of as a comrade, both of them are the "rebels of the devil king academy".

## Summary

* Reina is a revealed to be a homunculi.
* Reina is near death. She needs a new core.
* 1st appearance of the Tower candidate, Takakuzure Marios.
* 1st appearance of the Death candidate, Joudougahama Lost.
* 1st appearance of the Wheel of Fortune candidate, Shimokadzuma Rinne.
* Marios joins the Death's Group.
* Lovers refined a core to suit Reina, but they aren't able to install it.
* 1st appearance of the Strength candidate, Sannou Rikimaru.
* 1st appearance of the Moon candidate, Kitakami Lunatic.
* 1st appearance of the Sun candidate, Sansa Summers.
* Death's Group decides to make Hoshigaoka Stella their first target.
* Morioka Yuuto and Kouma Ruki create Lover's Group to protect themselves against Death's Group.
* Marios attacks Yuuto but fails to kill him, losing a few of his cards.
* Death's Group under "Marioses command" attack Stella. When Lunatic dies fighting Stella, rest of the group retreat. Marios loses more cards.
* Marios realized that Lost was weakening him, but is too late to escape.
* Yuuto employs the help of Aspite to install a new core on Reina. They succeed.
* Lovers assault Marioses hideout. Marios loses the remainder of his cards, retreating.
* Lost kills Marios.
* Yuuto and Lost meet for the first time.

## Characters

Major Characters:

* Morioka Yuuto
* Himekami Lizel​
* Yuugaoze Miyabi​
* Koiwai Reina​

Supporting Characters:

* Carnac Neith​
* Hoshigaoka Stella​
* Barbatos Gandou​
* Kouma Ruki​

Minor Characters:

* Koiwai Aina​ - Reina's younger sister
* Monzenji - Doctor

Antagonists:

* Takakuzure Marios
* Sannou Rikimaru
* Kitakami Lunatic
* Sansa Summers
* Shimokadzuma Rinne
* Joudougahama Lost

Minor Antagonists:

* Nihondou Swordia - Moon's Card
* Goryoukaku Basset - Mario's Card
* Narihira - Mario's Card
* Shiba - Mario's Card
* Naniwa - Mario's Card
* Karasuma - Mario's Card
* Yamashita - Mario's Card

## Chapters

* Prologue
* Chapter 1 – Alliance of Devil
* Chapter 2 – One Day Suddenly, A little Sister
* Chapter 3 – If Death Can be Redone
* Chapter 4 – The Confrontation of Star and Moon
* Chapter 5 – Death God
* Epilogue
* Afterword