In the previous volume Teacher and Fran decided to travel to the Beastmen Kingdom on the continent of Chrome. The trip over land and the ocean is far from easy, and they meet friends and enemies, both old and new. The story is mostly an entertaining travel journal, slice-of-life with the occasional action and a for the series fairly typical rescue. I enjoy these kind of stories, and I find them more interesting to read then the tournament arc in volume 6. If you were looking for progress in the over-arching arc, whether the mystery of Teacher or the Black Cats, then you might be a bit disappointed with this volume though.