Chapter 74: Divine Revolte

Around the moment of the prior chapter, Stark comes back to the fire with a caught fish and offers Genau a late bite, which the first-class mage refuses out of respect for Methode's strict diet. Talk drifts to the raider that hit the settlement, and Genau names it: the Divine Revolte, a rare wielder of four swords and the killer of his former partner. He notes the blades were forged by magic to shift their own weight at will and borrow their name from a legendary weapon said to have shattered a mountain in the old myths, and that such craft reeks of a maker's bloodlust.

The enemy bursts in mid-talk and lunges without a word, reading the pair at a glance as Stark the warrior and Genau a mage of the first class. Genau spins up dark niello wings through Digardnacht to turn the strikes aside and tells Stark to dodge rather than block. Stark ignores him, takes a clean hit, and that lapse lets Genau lop off the demon's tail and split its torso.

Revolte places Genau as the companion of a mage he once felled and needles him over the comrade's last unheard words. The jab baits a trap: a small girl steps out, the demon flings a sword her way, and when Genau knocks it aside she runs him through, crowing that she is no child but a demon herself. He rises and halves her with a wing, owning that grief had fogged his judgment, since nothing that young could have outlived the slaughter. A memory surfaces of Serie at the partner's burial, calling the dead mage far too soft, naming Genau a charmless man with no warmth, and ordering him never to change.

Professing no taste for killing, Revolte moves to finish the wounded mage, but Stark hurls himself across the blades. Whoever stays standing wins, the boy insists, and Genau, branding him a fool, agrees to fight on beside him.

Genau pins the village's attacker as the Divine Revolte and lays out where its weight-shifting swords come from. The demon ambushes the pair, who hold firm while Genau wounds it using the Digardnacht wings. A demon masquerading as a young girl stabs Genau before he kills her and steadies his mind. Stark intercepts the blow aimed to finish Genau, and the two commit to fighting on as one.

Revolte draws its name from four magically forged swords, which themselves echo a blade rumored to have cloven a mountain back in the myths. The chapter establishes that magic can both shape weapons and conjure otherworldly matter. The child demon under Revolte goes nameless across the manga and anime, though the official anime site later tags her Jung once the matching second-season episodes ran. A flashback in Aussert captures Serie's farewell at the grave of Genau's old partner.