The girl who suddenly appeared before Yuuto turns out to be none other than Sigrdrífa, the reigning divine empress of the land of Yggdrasil. Equally shocking for Yuuto is the fact that she bears an uncanny, twin-like resemblance to his childhood friend Mitsuki.
As she is traveling incognito, Yuuto welcomes her to stay in the Wolf Clan palace for the time being, and he soon learns information from her that may hold the key to his returning home to the modern era. But just as Yuuto’s hopes are rising, the Lightning Clan attacks once again, led by the Battle-Hungry Tiger Steinþórr!
Yuuto moves to intercept them with a new clever scheme, but...?!
Things heat up again in this volume with old foe Steinþórr challenging Yuto again to take revenge for his prior defeat. The confrontation ends with a big cliffhanger however, as other malicious forces seize the opportunity to rein in Yuto's growing influence and stature by nefarious means.
Yet again, the series shows its strengths in its depictions of ancient military warfare, given slightly modern twists with the MC's 'cheat' power of referring to our centuries of military texts thanks to his smartphone. It does still beg disbelief at parts, but overall the writing is exciting enough to smooth over them.
The initial half of the volume however, deals with another new love interest, Rifa, whom Yuto stumbles upon causing a ruckus in a bar one day and bails her out. Unfortunately this still remains the weakest part of the series, with Yuto steadfastly playing the role of the dense romcom protagonist at times which really gets irksome at points.
Still a pretty okay series overall, which some charming points but nothing that really stands out.