| |
|---|---|
| Negi Springfield | |
| Kanji |
ネギ・スプリングフィールド |
| Rōmaji |
Negi Supuringufīrudo |
| Alias |
Son of the Hero |
| Race |
Human |
| Gender |
Male |
| Age |
10 (first coming to Mahora- technically 9, as he uses the Kazowe system, where a baby is 1 year old when born) |
| Height |
140cm (4' 7") |
| Birthday |
May 2nd, 1993 |
| Zodiac |
Taurus |
| Blood Type |
AB |
| Affiliation |
Ala Alba |
| Residence |
Wales, UK (birthplace) |
| Occupation |
Mahora Academy Faculty |
| Status |
Alive |
| Likes(s) |
Studying, Antiques |
| Dislikes(s) |
Baths |
| Relative(s) |
Nagi Springfield (father) |
| Magic |
Wind Magic |
| Weapons |
Staff |
| Pactio |
Mile Vincula |
| Manga Debut |
Chapter 1 |
| Anime Debut |
Episode 1 |
| Japanese Voice |
Rina Satō (most media) |
| English Voice |
Greg Ayres |
Negi Springfield (ネギ・スプリングフィールド, Negi Supuringofīrudo), is the main protagonist of the manga/anime Negima!: Magister Negi Magi (魔法先生ネギま!, Mahō Sensei Negima!) and Negima!? (ネギま!?, Negima!?). He is a mage in training to become a Magister Magi (Master of Mana) and the homeroom and English teacher of Class 3-A (formerly 2-A) of Mahora Academy Middle School for girls. He is the leader of Ala Alba.
Biography[]
Note: The following biography is based on the original manga series by Ken Akamatsu. Events and details will vary in the other manga and the anime series.
Negi when he was 4 years old.
Negi Springfield is the son of master mage Nagi Springfield, famously known as the legendary "Thousand Master" and Arika Anarchia Entheofushia, the last Queen of Vespertatia, who fought alongside Nagi in the Great war and was instrumental in ending it. Early in his childhood, Negi came to live with his older cousin (whom he calls older sister, since they grew up together) Nekane Springfield in a small village in the mountains of England. Even as a small child, he lived pretty much alone in the guest house, with Nekane coming to care for him during her breaks while studying in Wales. While there, he befriended Anya, a little girl about a year older than him who helped him study magic, and even gave him his first training wand. Negi spent much of his time getting into trouble, hoping that if he were to get into enough trouble, the Thousand Master would come to save him. His antics ranged from being chased by large dogs to nearly drowning in a river. When Negi was four years old, his wish came true, with unfortunate results. A horde of demons appeared and attacked his village. Just as a demon was about to attack Negi, the Thousand Master appeared just in time to save Negi from receiving a fatal punch from the demon. With a few strikes and a powerful spell, he destroyed all of the demons but the village was already in ruins and most of the villagers had been already petrified. When the fighting was over the Thousand Master saw Negi and before parting, he left Negi his staff and a few words.
After the incident Negi, Nekane, and Anya were moved to a village of magicians in Wales, where Negi immersed himself into his studies. He graduated from Magic School at the age of nine at the top of his class of only five students to graduate that year. His certificate of graduation read that to become a error: {{nihongo}}: Japanese or romaji text required (help) he must take on the assignment of teacher in Japan as part of his training. The Headmaster sent Negi to Mahora Academy, a school run by the dean Konoe Mo who is a close friend of the headmaster. As part of his assignment Negi is now the homeroom and English teacher of Class 3-A (formerly 2-A) of Mahora Academy Middle School as the teacher of a class of formerly 31 girls, now reduced to 30.
Personality[]
Negi is a kind-hearted boy, with a very optimistic outlook toward life. Though he is just ten years old, he at times shows maturity far beyond his years much to the amazement and admiration of his older and rowdier students. On an emotional level, Negi is still considered as a child and he often does not realize the full extent of the feelings of the girls around him. He is also naive in many aspects of the world and his normally optimistic outlook on things does put him at a disadvantage when a more realistic approach is needed.
Negi cares for all the girls in his class, and out of his own interpretation of his duties as a teacher, and the parting advice from Nekane, and an overall liking of people in general, he often goes beyond what most other teachers would consider an acceptable level of involvement in the affairs of his students. Negi loves milk tea and hates coffee calling it muddy water. He described milk tea as the best way to drink black tea to Fate.
This, combined with his kindness, intelligence, unique maturity, and his unwarranted cuteness have earned him the respect, admiration, and even affection of the students in his class. His naive nature also seems to make him rather gullible as well as he seems to take relatively minor things very serious. Negi's one true character flaw is that he tends to push himself too hard, especially for a boy his age. Between teaching his classes, training in both high-level martial arts and advanced training in magic combat, his drive to match his father's achievements takes a heavy toll on him both physically and mentally much to the worry of the ones around him, particularly Asuna.
Synopsis[]
The Child Teacher Arc[]
Manga: Negi's teaching career at Mahora middle school got off to an extremely rocky start. As a ten-year-old boy in front of a rambunctious classroom full of 14/15-year old girls (the teachers even mention them being the most energetic class in the school), to his surprise and embarrassment was mob-cuddled by nearly the entire class as soon as he introduced himself. At the start he seemed to have exceptionally bad luck with Asuna Kagurazaka, the first of his students he met as he entered Mahora and also a student whom he not only managed to get on the bad side of before he even began, but discovered that he had to live with as well.
However, over time, Negi managed to prove his worth as a teacher to the class, showing them, much to their amazement and sometimes shock, that his maturity, reliability and natural charm are far beyond those of the typical adult, let alone a young naive ten-year-old boy. Negi came to teach class 2-A late in the school year, and as the girls prepared to take their exams, Negi was given his final test to become a full-fledged teacher at Mahora Academy. The test was deceptively simple: Ensure that all the girls in 2-A passed their final exam. Unfortunately, Class 2-A was the bottom-ranked class in the school, particularly the five lowest-scoring students in the class, which he had gathered into a study group dubbed the Baka Rangers (Asuna being part of this group as Baka Red).
As Negi searched for ways to improve the grades of his students, the Baka Rangers discovered a legend about a magic book in the Academy's main Library, which was supposed to make anyone who used it smarter. The Baka Rangers, along with their classmates in the Library Exploration Club, decided to make a journey into the depths of the library to find it. However, the Library proved to be far more than anyone would sensibly imagine a library to be. With Negi's magic voluntarily sealed away, the Baka Rangers, despite their additional studying and surprisingly formidable physical abilities, found themselves trapped in the deepest underworld of the library, where Negi convinced them to do some more real studying while they searched for a way out. While studying, they were attacked by the guardian of the book. The Rangers managed to not only get the book from it, but also found a way out with the help of an express elevator to the surface. But because of problems with the elevator, they had to sacrifice the book to get back to the surface and back to school, where they were just in time to take the test. Unfortunately, despite the added effort by the rest of the class, 2-A was still ranked at the bottom. Dejected, Negi prepared to leave, despite the pleas to stay. However, it was later discovered that the scores of the Baka Rangers hadn't yet been added to class 2-A's total score. Graded by the Headmaster himself, the scores were re-tallied. The combined scores of the Library Club, as well as the much-improved passing scores of the Baka Rangers, pushed 2-A's score right to the top of the school.
Shortly before the school year started up anew, Nekane sent him a letter, where she teasingly wondered aloud about Negi searching for a Ministra Magi yet. Negi was
Negi saving Evangeline from falling into the river.
explaining to Asuna about Ministra Magi, but was overheard (and misunderstood) by the Narutaki Twins who were eavesdropping through the door. They proceeded to tell the rest of the class, that Negi came to Japan to find himself things from a girlfriend, partner, fiancée, and even a princess (one of the rumors was Negi was actually a prince looking for a bride).
Evangeline Arc[]
As it turned out, the discussion was rather timely, as Negi began the new year by finding himself in a battle against two of his own students, a vampire named Evangeline A.K. McDowell and her android partner Chachamaru Karakuri, which was an impossible fight for him as he had to deal with their teamwork that never allowed him a chance to chant his spells let alone use them. At the same time, Chamo, a shady friend of Negi's from Wales, arrived with what he figured was the perfect solution: get a Partner of his own. However, Negi refused to get any more of his students involved in the battle. So he tried to take Evangeline alone once again in a valiant effort, actually holding his own with his collection of antique magical items, but eventually being overwhelmed by Evangeline and Chachamaru's abilities. The battle seemed lost for Negi until Chamo and Asuna saved him. Chamo convinced Negi that the only way they can win is to form a temporary contract with Asuna. With Asuna's help, and a timely sneeze, Negi managed to defeat Evangeline.
Kyoto Field Trip Arc[]
After the battle with Evangeline[2], Negi discovered from her that his father used to spend time in the Kansai area, particularly around Kyoto. At the suggestion of Asuna and Chachamaru, he scheduled a four-day class field trip to Kyoto. Unfortunately, the Headmaster informed him of bad politics between the Kanto Magic Association, which he was the head of, and the Kansai Magic Association over the use of Western-style Magic. A condition for allowing Negi and his class to go on the trip was he was tasked with safely delivering a letter to the head of the Kansai Magic Association, and beware of people who would want to interfere with the affairs of the Kanto and Kansai Magic Associations. However, his students managed to complicate matters,
Negi catches Fate in a delayed spell.
from the possibility of Setsuna being a Kansai spy, an actual Kansai rogue trying to kidnap Konoka, and Nodoka confessing to Negi that she liked him. Other complications would also arise as Kazumi nearly revealed his secret to the world and then scheming with Chamo to get the entire class embroiled in a game to get the class to make contracts with Negi. In the end, Nodoka managed to win the game, with help of Yue tripping Nodoka and her landing on Negi's lips. However, the group of Kansai rogues were still after Konoka and her slowly awakening powers. The enemy managed to infiltrate and attack the castle, kidnapping Konoka and petrifying everyone inside, along with Konoka's father. The Kansai Rogues used Konoka's latent magic power to summon a powerful demon. Negi, despite using all of the powers he could, couldn't damage the powerful demon and still had his hands full with another powerful mage named Fate Averruncus. The chance of victory seemed non-existent as Negi was face to face with two undefeatable opponents. Only with the intervention of Evangeline and Chachamaru was the demon able to be destroyed and forced the mage Fate to escape.
Training/Wilhelm Arc[]
Negi's training movements
After the Kyoto incident, Negi feels that he was still lacking the strength to protect those who are important to him. To improve himself, he enters an apprenticeship under Evangeline in order to learn magical combat skills, and asks Ku Fei to teach him martial arts, particularly Chinese kenpo. When Evangeline discovers this, she rescinded her agreement to train Negi, only agreeing to it if, with the help of Ku Fei's training, Negi manages to land a single blow on Chachamaru. Negi trains hard under Ku Fei's tutelage, Makie alternately helping and hindering along the way, but in the end, she manages to inadvertently give Negi the opportunity to hit Chachamaru and earn his training.
Negi's fight with Chachamaru.
Negi's training, in both magic and martial arts, progresses at a swift rate. This is partially due to the use of Evangeline's resort, an island in a bottle where time passes at a rate of one day for every hour in the real world. This allowed him to get in a full day's training without disrupting his duties as a teacher, although it did tend to wear him out. During this period, a man named Graf Wilhelm Josef Von Herrman came to the campus, kidnapping many of the students that had helped Negi in Kyoto, as well as Chizuru Naba, who had been uninvolved in the fighting. In Chizuru's dorm, Negi also discovered Kotarou Inugami, a boy whom Negi had fought with in Kyoto, who had made his way to Mahora to challenge Negi to a rematch. Kotarou had been injured and also lost some of his Inugami abilities after crossing paths with Herrman. Kotarou was eventually found and taken care of by Chizuru and Natsumi. Kotarou later gave Negi a demon-sealing bottle, stolen from Herrman, and went with him to battle Herrman and his minions, the Slime Sisters, to rescue the girls he had kidnapped.
Negi fight against Herman's true form
During the fight, Herrman revealed that he was actually a Demon, the same one who destroyed Negi's home village and petrified its people six years ago. While Negi's students managed to free themselves and seal away the Slime Trio, Negi was able to defeat Herrman with a powerful spell that Evangeline had taught him earlier.
The School Festival arc[]
In late June, Mahora Academy held the Mahora Festival, a massive, world-famous school festival celebrated by all schools. During the preparations, Negi was formally introduced to the other Magic teachers and students who also attended the academy, and was told a surprising secret: Every twenty-two years, the World Tree, a mountain-sized tree that dominates the skyline of the entire campus, would glow with power around the same time the festival was held. For some reason, the glow was coming a year early. This glow signified a sharp rise in the magical energy in the area, and at certain points around the tree, even a simple confession of love would have the same effect as a powerful charm or curse.
Negis Time Table
The mages of Mahora had to make it their duty to ensure that no such confessions took place in those areas during the festival. Unfortunately, Negi also had a very full schedule with seeing to his students, many of whom were counting on seeing him at the various events their extracurricular clubs were hosting, not to mention a fighting tournament at the festival that both Kotarou and Evangeline were expecting him to enter. At the same time, another problem comes up, with another of his students at the center. Chao Lingshen had gotten in trouble with the faculty for spying on them, particularly those who used magic. Negi managed to talk the teachers into allowing him to take care of her, and not to erase her memories. In thanks, Chao gave him a special watch called Cassiopeia. During the first day of the Festival, Negi, worn out from previous events, ended up oversleeping (along with Setsuna) when he intended to take a short nap.
Panicking that he had lost the entire day, the Cassiopeia watch activated, taking Negi and Setsuna all the way back in time to the beginning of the day. With a time machine at his disposal, his overstuffed schedule was much easier to handle, as he could always go back in time and take care of anything he did not have time to do before on the next go-around. Over the course of four "days", Negi would see the festival's attractions with Setsuna, go on a date with Nodoka (With disastrous results for Asuna), and help some of his students with the class' haunted house.
He would also see his other students at their club activities, patrol the festival for confessions, try out for the tournament, and even help Chisame win a secret cosplay contest, all within the first day. The second day, Negi participates in the Mahora Fighting Tournament, along with Takamichi and many of his own students.
Negi's final blow on Takamichi.
Between his training by Ku Fei and Evangeline, and his own intelligence, Negi makes it to the finals, defeating Takamichi, Takane D. Goodman, and Setsuna in turn. However, Negi lost in the final match to Albireo Imma, a compatriot of Negi's father Nagi, who used his Pactio artifact to become Nagi as he was shortly before Negi's birth. After the tournament, Negi discovers that the tournament is part of a plan by Chao to expose the "Inner World" of mages, demons, and monsters to the "Outer World." To this effect, she has leaked images and video of the tournament all over the world. Thanks to his impressive showing in the tournament, Negi becomes an almost instant celebrity. For the rest of the second day, Negi avoids the inquisitive reporters and others by using the age-disguising pills to make himself appear to be a teenage version of himself. During this time, He spends some time (and another trip through time) with Ako Izumi, another of his students, who happens to have fallen in love with his older-looking self. After attending Ako's
Negi's reunion with his father.(Before being hit by him.)
concert, Negi goes back in time again to attend the tour of the school's Library, where he finds himself in the middle of Yue's conflicting feelings between her friendship with Nodoka and her own crush on Negi. This is eventually resolved, resulting in a fifth Pactio with Yue, and Haruna Saotome also taking advantage of the opportunity to make a Pactio of her own.
He also tries to help Asuna that night with her date with Takamichi, but it doesn't go as planned. After hearing from Ku Fei that Chao plans to drop out of the Academy and return home after the festival, he confronts her to find out why she is trying to expose the mages, as well as her reasons for leaving. Chao responds by challenging him to a battle. If he wins, she'll give up her plans. but if he loses, he'll have to join her. Either way, she says that she'll also tell him the truth in the process. Chao gains the upper hand in the fight, unti Setsuna and Kaede intervene. They grab Negi and make their way to the school's roof, where Chao is ambushed by the entire class... who throw her a surprise going-away party.
After the party, Chao leaves, with the situation unresolved. At the end of the night, Negi gathers his partners, as well as Kaede, Ku, and Chisame, and brings them all to Evangeline's resort, to figure out how they're going to deal with Chao's plans. Unfortunately, when they leave to begin the final day of the festival, they find that they've fallen into a trap. Chao had rigged the Cassiopeia watch that Negi has to activate on its own during the third day of the Festival and send him into the future. Hence, with the activated Cassiopeia watch interfering with the magic of Evangeline's resort, it results in Negi and his crew being stranded there eight days in the future, where Chao has succeeded in her plans to expose magic to the world. Using an army of robots, Chao took over several key places around the campus, using the World Tree's power to unleash a world-wide "Forced Recognition Magic", removing the usual skepticism people would have to the revelation of magic all at once. With the evidence compile and leaked by Chao, this has caused a serious consideration of the truth all over the world, with worldwide acceptance projected to occur in only a few years. The magic teachers of Mahora Academy, Negi included, are being held responsible for their failure to stop Chao, and will likely all be turned into Ermines. Negi is arrested by Gandolfini and imprisoned in a magic-proof cell, as they await their punishment. However, Negi's partners rescue him, and come up with a plan. Although it's been a week since the festival, they believe the World Tree should still have some measure of it's power left. Delving deep underground, they find that the tree's roots are still glowing, with enough power to activate Cassiopeia one more time.
Negi activates the time machine, bringing them all back to the present... and several hundred feet straight up! Negi manages to create a soft landing for he and the girls, but the use of all this magic has worn him out, and he collapses. Forewarned with the knowledge of how Chao pulled off her plan, Chamo and the girls allow Negi to rest while they go off to set up Negi's plan to stop her: Using an old store of weapons designed to stop magically-empowered constructs, they arm a thousand of the festivalgoers under the pretense of the festival's new Main Event: A "staged" battle between mages and the Martian robot army. However, the presence of a second army is countered by Chao, who simply launches her attack an hour early. Mahora Academy quickly becomes a surprisingly non-lethal war zone, magic disruption blasts exchanged with clothes-stripping energy beams and time-displacement bullets.
During this battle, Negi finally recovers, just in time to have a seventh Pactio initiated by Chisame, who is needed to counter a cyberspace attack by Chachamaru. Once again, Negi found himself in conflict against his own students, as he found his path barred by Mana Tatsumiya and Chao's robot army. With the help of Kotarou and his other students, however, Negi fought his way to a final showdown with Chao atop an airship hovering high over the festival.
Negi sky-fighting Chao.
Negi managed to hinder Chao, forcing her to reveal her magical power (amplified by several symbols drawn to her body) with Fire as her elemental affinity-much to the surprise of all witnesses of the battle especially Negi. In the middle of the battle, Negi warned Chao of her disastrous power as it may endanger her life however, she ignored the warning and replied that this is for all or nothing and she had "killed" herself for 2 years for her purpose and ambition. When Negi asked Chao whether the 2 years she had spent with her friends is irrelevant and never existed, Chao paused for a moment and admitted that the factor mentioned was not counted on. At the climax of the battle, the magical symbol at Chao's head burst, rendering her open for Negi's final blow. Negi achieved victory against Chao but the battle left them both drained of energy, and several hundred feet in the air. Fortunately, they were saved by the timely intervention of their students/classmates. Unfortunately, the battle lasted long enough for Hakase to finish the spell.
However, Chao told Negi that she had ordered Hakase to alter the spell in the event Negi managed to defeat her in battle. The spell was changed to a very powerful wish for world peace for one day. While everyone celebrated the end of the festival, Negi confronted Chao again and asked about the magical seals on her body. Negi confessed that he believes they had something to do with her tragic 'past' but Chao doesn't answer. Saying there is nothing left for her there, she attempts to leave with the last intact time piece but is stopped by Negi. Several of her other classmates arrive and Negi says that there is something for her there and asks her to become a strong mage by his side. However, Chao persisted on leaving for her time, keeping her word for losing to Negi. To keep Negi and the others from stopping her, Chao revealed her most diabolical weapon yet: Her family tree, which would by definition contain just whom Negi eventually marries therefore, literally inflicting psychological damage to Negi's party.
Journey to the Magic World Arc[]
After the Mahora Festival, Negi and the others went beneath the World Tree to an appointed meeting with Albireo and Evangeline, where Negi finally received irrefutable proof that his father was still alive, even now. With the first term over, Negi is planning to spend the summer by going to Wales in hopes of entering the Magic Country and finding more information about his father. Asuna and several other girls are invited to join him, (either invited or Negi being coerced). They are now officially recognized as the English Culture Research Club and are given permission to travel overseas by the Dean of Mahora. Accompanying Negi when he goes on this trip are his Ministrae Magi (Asuna, Nodoka, Setsuna, Konoka, Yue, Haruna, and Chisame), Kū Fei, Kaede, Chachamaru, Kazumi, Sayo and Kotarou. Along with his students and Kotarou, Negi is also joined by his childhood friend Anya, who arrived in Japan 12 days before the trip to check on Negi. After a series of misunderstandings and some more training sessions, Negi and his associates head out to England. After arriving in London, they are soon found by Ayaka's group and meet up with Donet McGuiness. After a cheerful reunion with Nekane and a short tour of his hometown, including the Merdiana School of Magic where he and Anya graduated, Negi reveals his intent to enter the Magic Country to search for his father to Nekane. He is led to the basement of Merdiana and is shown the still-petrified remains of those who fought to protect his village. This only steels his resolve as he and the rest of the White Wing Club prepare to enter the portal to the Magic Country.
Negi stabbed by Fate's magic.
Negi's trip into the Magic Country starts smoothly, but immediately begins to go wrong. Due to the immigration laws, he must keep his Pactio cards, weapons and other magical items within a sealed container before entering the city. He is informed by Donet that four unauthorized people had also teleported along with the gathered mages. Sure enough, the people being detained are four of his students and one more unidentified, who is hooded in a cloak: Yuna, Akira, Ako, and Makie, who until now, had no idea of his magic abilities. But before he has the time to do anything, he is suddenly attacked by Fate Averruncus, whom he had also fought in Kyoto. Though gravely injured by Fate's initial attack, Negi manages to fight back after the release of his Pactio Cards and weapons from their sealed container. Konoka manages to heal Negi's injuries with her Pactio Artifact but Fate still delivers several attacks before leaving the scene with a parting blow which destroys the Gateport. The backlash of the attack scatters Negi and his students across the Magic World, hundreds of miles away. When the young wizard regains consciousness, he finds himself stranded in a large rainforest in the magical world with only Chachamaru by his side. She informs him that it will be a difficult journey finding the rest of the students that accompanied Negi when Fate Averruncus used 'forced teleportation magic'.Slowly, starting with Chisame, Negi finds out where most of Ala Alba and the four accidental stowaways are.
Negi at fifteen by use of the age deceiving pills.
He and Kotarou enter a tournament to free Ako, Akira, and Natsumi, who had also passed through the gate unidentified after wanting to know what Kotarou was doing. After an early battle, Negi is attacked outside the tournament and saved by Jack Rakan, although not before Negi gets his arm severed off.
Negi after defeating the bounty hunters.
After Negi recovered from his injury, he left to train with Jack Rakan. Rakan reveals his past to Negi as well as telling him some of Ala Rubra's history. Rakan also reveals that Fate Averruncus's power far exceeds Negi's. Rakan tells Negi there is a way to reach Fate's level, but Negi have to make a choice. He must choose one of two magical paths; embrace light magic and continue in his father footsteps, or choose dark magic and follow his teacher, Evangeline. Negi is told that once he chooses one of these paths, he can never go back to the other. In the end, after realizing he can no longer follow his father's past, he chooses dark magic to forge a new identity.
Negi then falls into a coma and fights a spiritual copy of Eva in a duel inside his mind. If he loses, he will either die or lose all of his magical abilities, but if he wins he will gain the power to defeat Fate Averruncus. After two days (10 days within his own heart), Negi is seemingly defeated by 'Eva'. But after remembering his friends encouragement, Negi finally understands the true meaning of the test; he must willingly and truly embrace the darkness. Negi takes a full blast from 'Eva' and absorbs the energy, and unlocks his dark powers. However, by the time of the Ostia Festival, Rakan pronounces that Negi is not ready yet. Runes or markings of some sort seem to glow on Negi's arms when he taps into the darkness.
The Ostia Festival Arc[]
During the rescue of Nodoka, Negi utilizes several techniques learned from Eva and easily defeats the bounty hunters. Right after the Ostia Tournament has started, Fate Averruncus shows up and confronts Negi with a deal; Fate would safely escort Negi and his friends to the gate portal in Ostia in return that Negi will leave the princess to Fate. Negi refuses the offer angrily and attacks Fate in the street, but he is blocked. Fate decides then that he does not need the princess and offers a second deal for the safe return of Negi and his friends: leave Fate and his companions alone with their plan to destroy the Magical World. Fates objectives are also to render Negi powerless, like the demon Graf Herrman tried to do when he came to the Mahora Academy, and which Setsuna attempts to reveal to Negi, with a powerful magical item that would force him to honor his word if he chooses to leave Fate alone, even if Negi lies when he says it. (The oath was that Negi should never interfere with anything Fate was involved with, and that somehow, would also involve Negi to stop the search for his father). The reason for this, about why it is one of Fate's objections, has not been released yet. Negi eventually refuses Fate's offer, so Fate officially declares Negi his nemesis. Fate then launches a physical assault on the group and Negi retaliates with Magic Erebus and the fight between him and Fate begins. This time, it seems that Negi is as powerful as Fate and to Fate's surprise, Negi easily punches Fate's stomach. Still, Fate seems to be more powerful and Negi can't defeat him that easily. During the fight, when Nodoka and Kotarou arrive, they learned Fate's real name is Tertium. Fate eventually escaped after Asuna and Rakan arrive on the scene.
After the battle, they have to leave because the security guards from Ariadne are coming. While Negi was escaping, he flew (actually, jumped) past Yue, who was in an Ariadne Royal Knight uniform. Negi recognizes her, but isn't really sure since Yue doesn't remember him. Soon, the rest of the guards catch up to Negi, but Yue lets him go, although she doesn't know why she did it. Back on Haruna's ship, he wonders if that was Yue and why she actually helped him to escape. Later, they have a meeting on what they have learned about Fate and his intentions. According to what Negi manages to read in Nodoka's Diarium Ejus, petrified by Fate, one of Fate's missions were to render Negi powerless. And more importantly, it says that ten years ago, Fate and Nagi defeated one another. Then Rakan starts to explain how the whole story started with a video to Negi and the Ala Alba (minus Yue, Anya and as it is later revealed, Asuna). The video shows Nagi and his comrades during the Great War 20 years ago. It shows how Rakan became a member of Ala Rubra, how and why Nagi became a hero, their fights with the enemies; Fate (who appears as a young man), with the secret organisation Cosmo Entelecheia who nearly succeeded to destroy the Mundus Magicus and how the world was saved.
Meanwhile, Asuna and Anya are captured by Fate's conspirators, and Shiori is currently posing as Asuna as she spies on Negi's group. No one in the party has realized this yet. Negi finds out that he has gotten stronger. According to Rakan's strength chart, Negi's former base strength was around 500 when he met Rakan, and his new base strength is around 730. This is multiplied by 1.5 in Negi's Magia Erebea base form into 1100, and doubles from there into 2200 when he uses Armationem; and by Negi absorbing elemental magic, he is able to augment his offense, defense, and mobility to overcome some gaps in power. Rakan told Negi that Fate's strength is more at least 8000, but he isn't sure.
Negi after training with Kotarou in Evangeline's scroll.
Later, Negi gets nervous when he finds out that Rakan has entered the Nagi Springfield Cup. Rakan tells Negi that as he is Nagi's rival and Fate has lost to Nagi, he and Nagi are on about the same power level. Rakan expands, saying if Negi cannot beat Rakan, he won't beat Fate either, and since Negi is after "true strength" (the level of power that Nagi, Eva, Rakan, and Fate have), defeating Rakan himself is Negi's gateway to that level. When Chisame tells Negi Rakan's power level, said by Rakan himself, was 12000, Negi flips out. Negi demonstrates a new spell he's attempting to learn; Khilipl Astrape (Thousand Thunderbolts), which has 10 times the power of Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens. That spell was previously the most destructive in Negi's arsenal. However, Negi's Khilipl Astrape isn't yet perfected with a lengthy incantation, but he intends to absorb the perfected spell to multiply his maximum strength by a factor of 5 or 6 (to at least 11,000, possibly peaking at 13,200, comparable to Rakan and in excess of Fate's estimated 8000). Even Theodora, Seras, Ricardo and an illusory Evangeline have come to help Negi (along with Kotarou) with some extra training in order to defeat Rakan. Theodora makes a temporary pactio with Negi, in which Negi is the minister and Theodora is the magister. Theodora says it will be their first "ace in the hole" in the fight against Rakan. Negi's final stage of training was mental, and took place inside of Evageline's scroll, where Negi's time perception was sped to the maximum of 72x normal.
Once Negi finished his training he and Kotarou began the fight against Jack Rakan. At first in the fight it appeared that Negi had the upper hand in the fight due to his artifact and use of Raisoku Shundou (instant movement in lightning speed), but as the fight continued, Rakan found weaknesses in the technique Raisoku Shundou and used them against Negi. After a barrage of devastating blows by Rakan, Negi was down for the count. However, he remembers his promise with Ako and miraculously stands up (after barfing up blood). Negi then asks Kotarou to buy him 43 seconds for his ultimate comeback in which Kotarou gladly accepts and turns into his ultimate shadow-dog form. Kotarou then buys him 38 seconds fighting both Rakan and Kagetarou. Kotarou manages to take down Kagetarou, but is defeated by Rakan.
Negi using Duplex Complexio
Negi then activates his ultimate spell, Duplex Complexio. After overcoating 2 chilpl astrapes he pummels Rakan with overwhelming speed, but sufficiently lacks the strength and power to finish it. This makes him trick Rakan into a strength contest by showing off his new spell, a unison lightning lance Titan Slayer and absorbs Rakan's attack. When he hits Rankan with the lightning lance and 2 chilpl astrapes, the fight appears to be over. But, somehow Rankan manages to get up. He declares Negi a man and wants to fight Negi further. They both know they have used up most of their magical power and cannot use any more. So, they revert to using common fist fighting. The battle is officially declared a draw.
Unfortunately, this comes with a split in the prize money, which leaves Negi not having enough to free his students, until Rakan gives him the other half, which is used to finally free Natsumi, Akira, and Ako from their slavery. On their way to preparing to storm Fate's base, Negi, along with Asuna and Nodoka, runs into Yue's group and, after a short battle, confirms it's her using the pactio card's telepathy function. They are then confronted by the governor general of Ostia, Kurt Godel, who insults his mother, Arika Anarchia Entheophysia, and wanting to use Negi's strength to take over the world. After exchanging blows and being pinned down by Kurt Godel, they are able to escape thanks to a smoke bomb diversion by Setsuna, Tosaca, and Craig. While briefing with Rakan about his identity he finds a letter for Godel telling him to attend the ball.
Governor's Ball Arc[]
During the ball he completes his Pactio with Chachamaru and Ku Fei and goes to meet Kurt Godel in a private room, with Nodoka, Asakura, and Chisame accompanying him. Kurt shows a flashback saying that the Megalomesembrian Council was responsible for the attack on his village causing Negi to be corrupted by
Negi being taken over by Magia Erebea
Magia Erebea and attempting to kill him. He is stopped by the girls and it is revealed that Kurt wanted to be killed in order to place him within his group in his attempt to "protect" humans against the various "evils" of the Magical World.
Kurt showed them a video in which Nagi and Ala Rubra saves Arika from execution, and asked Negi to join Megalo Mesembrian on one condition, that is to get rid of the bounties on their heads, however Negi refused when he found out that Kurt is trying to save only the human population of Megalo Mesembrian and not all the over 1.2 billion people in Mundus Magicus. Kurt got annoyed by Negi's words and they commenced in battle. Through the battle, Negi realizes that Kurt's fighting style is the same as Setsuna's, and, being a demon-slaying art, is the perfect counter to the dark art Magia Erebea. Using his knowledge of this he turns the battle to his advantage and nearly beats Kurt, but the spell starts to take over again. He is saved through the combination of Chisame using her artifact to shut down the projections in the meeting room and Asakura, via her artifact, informing Ku Fei of Kurt's coordinates. This results in not just Ku Fei smacking Kurt with her staff, but also for Kurt to confront Takahata.
After Takahata tells Negi he would take care of Kurt, his group made their way back to everyone else. Unfortunately, the members of Cosmo Entelecheia attacked, which results in Nodoka and Asakura being separated from Negi's group, while Negi and Chisame end up in possession of the Diarium Ejus, which Nodoka used to find out why Kurt doesn't want to save the rest of the citizens of the Mundus Magicus. After he and Chisame look inside the pages of the Diarium Ejus to discover Kurt's reasons for only helping only humans, Negi witnessed the end of Rakan and Fate's battle and watched as Rakan got erased. Negi, consumed by the darkness and with the urge to kill, went berserk and tried to attack Fate. However Rakan stopped Negi, telling him he couldn't beat Fate yet. He reformed himself only for a few moments to pass a few final words to Negi and to tell him that the Asuna who was with him was most likely not the real Asuna. Negi faints and awakes on a Haruna's ship. He is given a breifing on the overall situation and the final secret of the Magical World, that all people of the world with the exception of humans are illusions. He then deals with the situation about Asuna, unaware that Chisame, Mana, and Nodoka have followed him and are serving as back-up.
When Mana suggests using a magic bullet to see if the Asuna that's currently with them is real or not, Negi ends up getting in a fight with her, and instead opts to discover Asuna's true identity by kissing her. The kiss results in the imposter, a Ministra Magi of Fate's named Luna, not only reveal her true identity, but also, thanks to Chamo, make a Pactio with Negi. With her cover blown (and her part in Fate's plan finished), Luna reveals that the real Asuna was in the Gravekeeper's Palace. He is told by the fake Eva that because of the side effects of magica erebea he has the choice to either die or become a demon. If he didn't want this, then his only choice is to overcome the side effects of Magia Erebea and bend it to his will.
So Negi then began training to overcome the side effects of Magia Erebea by having Eva induce his demon form, thuse forcing him to try and overcome it. During his training his confidence begins to waver and after Akira tells him about the feelings of Ako and Makie he started to think he doesn't deserve their feelings until Akira tells him other wise. He attempts to make a pactio with Ako as Nagi but Ako stops him and tells him she wants to do a pactio with Negi. After forming a pactio with Ako, he forms one with Yunna and after regaining his confidence from a talk with Makie he makes a pactio with Makie as well.
Negi's answer
With Negi's training to overcome the darkness at his limits he recalls past things he had been through and things people have said to him. And he questions his own goals concerning Fate. Negi finally overcomes the darkness that was trying to consume him and finds his answer as he battles the fake Eva and gets faster and stronger as the battle goes on. He finally manages finds that answer to his questions on his own and manages to beat her (which she says is quite a feat even if the her in the stroll is greatly weaker than the true Eva). She asks what will he do if the darkness trys to consume him again what will he do, he replies by saving that he can rely on the members of Ala Alba to help him. Then when she asks him what was the answer he found, Negi replies "I want to become firends with that guy" (that guy being Fate).
Assault on Cosmo Entelecheia Arc[]
Later he gets a call from Kurt and Tamakachi and hurts tells him that the forces of the Magical World has unite once more to deal with the crisis of the world that is currently at hand. But, they are most likely no match for the main forces of the enemy and their own hope is Negi and Ala Alba. Negi alerts everyone else of the situation and they all agree to take on the task. He devises a plan based on their goals and objectives and prepare for war until Tsukuyomi appears and attempts to attack and kill them starting with Collete until Negi quickly stops her. She gives Negi a message from Fate "I'll be waiting" and leaves but not before using the Code Of The Life Maker to summon hordes of demons. Negi quickly goes out to fight the demons to clear a path for everyone else to Gravekeeper's Palace and is joined by Setsuna. They reunite with the rest of the team and head into Gravekeeper's Palace as they are quickly confronted by who appears to be Zazie.
She asks if he will stop from going down this path because it shall result in Chao's futurel Negi replies by telling her that he is aware of that and shall not stop. She then uses her artifact Magic Lantern Circus on all of Ala Alba. The only two who are not caught are Chisame and Makie because they are completely content with the life they have. This artifact is an imperfect replica Cosmo Entelecheia: "the eternal garden" that Fate is seeking to create. In this world Negi lives a life of being a teacher at Mahora Academy and has a loving relationship with his parents. It is a world where all the unpleasant things he has been through up until then including the incident that befell his hometown have never happened. A world where he has no enemies to fight, a peaceful life, his ultimate happiness, as Zazie tells him after she confronts him once he realizes the world is not real. She also warns him if he leaves he will never be able to have this type of life again. Zazie also warns and reveals to him that the person who he was facing was her sister Poyo Rainyday and tells him that she is strong.
He moves forward anyway and breaks Cosmo Entelecheia and systematically weakens it for everyone else in the process. Negi questions Poyo why she is so certain there is only one possible future. She replies by saying it is inevitable and that the Magical World when begin to collapse in nine years and six months. Negi shocks everyone by saying he has a plan that can save the magical world and prevent the future that is set to happen. He states he has carried out experiments to support his theory and that when he gets back to Mahora Academy he can even obtain some valuable help from Ayaka. Both Poyo and Fate are angered and in disbelief by this. Poyo then transforms and reveals she is one of the demonfolk and holds rather high status among them at that. She attacks, but is stopped by Ku Fei, Kaede, Setsuna and Mana all who were trapped by Poyo's artifact but broke free of it thanks to Negi weakening it. Negi prepares to battle Poyo but Mana stops him and convinces him to conserve his strength and believe in her as she faces Poyo while everyone else goes ahead.
As the rest of his group moves forward they encounter Dynamis and a few of Fate's girls. As battle gets underway Negi realizes that Dynamis has the same power barrier as Fate, but quickly breaks through it. However, he becomes unable to move as the girls reveal their powers and forms. Thankfully, Kaede, Yuuna, Ku Fei and Makie quickly back him up and aid him while Setsuna begins battling Tsukuyomi. An all-out battle between Ala Alba and Cosmo Entelechia begins. Negi, together with Kaede attacks Dyanamis. Kaede manages to stop and seal Dyanamis's movements and surround him with her special explosive tags while Negi uses the fire and darkness element spell Hellfire Conflaguration causing a massive explosion in unison with Kaede's explosive tags. Kaede tells Negi to go on ahead to Fate and she will fight Dynamis. However, as he is starting to leave Negi notices a crack in the fabric of space and quickly realises it is an attack. He takes the hit
Negi Impaled by Dyanamis' attack.
, realizing if he dodges it will hit Chisame and Nodoka. He loses control of his darkness and enters his demon form
Negi transforms into his devil mode after almost dying
which has seemed to have changed and somewhat evolved and battles Dynamis. As the battle goes on, Dynamis seems to have the upper hand, but Negi withstands his attacks and the battle soon starts to comes under equal standings. Negi's body then begins to appear to be cracking, yet he keeps battling and eventually overwhelms Dynamis and soundly defeats him.
Negi in his demon mode defeating Dynamis
Dynamis states Negi has the blood of the final descendant of the line of Vespertatia, the magical force of his hero father, sheer talent all his own, and a technique descended from the works of his own great master. He goes further to claim a "mere puppet" such as himself could never overcome such odds, and claims it is their victory because Negi will kill him and fall into the darkness forever. Negi rushes to attack Dynamis but Shiori switches to from Asuna to herself and stands in the way and Negi attacks her instead. Negi goes berserk after he sees blood and the girls try to hold him down until Chisame reveals he didn't kill her. Shiori then goes to states he moves his hand at the last moment so she only got hit on the side. In shock over everything the demon mode Negi turns to stone with cracks all over his body. Konoka attempts to heal him, but she is unable to and notes that his body temperature is low, his pulse and breathing are weak and he isn't regaining consciousness and concludes he is in a half-dead state.
Negi is stuck in the void, the space in between life and death. There he meets his father who asks him if he's sure he
Negi's dream
doesn't need to go, but Negi doesn't remember where he is supposed to go. Nagi comments he did well for a ten year old by saying, "This is good enough for a ten year old brat, you did damn well. There is nothing for you to be ashamed about." Despite saying this he asks Negi if it's okay to leave it like that. Negi replies by saying "I get the feeling that I can't just stay still. Not in a place like this." Tosaka appears and says, "If you're the leading role in the spotlight, there's a stage you just can't step down from." Jack Rakan appears and asks, "Didn't you have a rival's ass to kick for when you got stronger?" And finally Eva appears and asks, "You certainly have comrades who you yourself swore to protect even if you must risk your own life, did you not?" Nagi himself then asks if there was someone whom Negi risked his all to keep chasing, someone he kept looking for. These statements trigger a reaction within Negi and he begins to remember everything. Nagi comments that it just sounds like that Negi is following in his footsteps and is looking to surpass him. Eva comments after that there is a path that Nagi did not walk and that only he can walk. She tells him to "Set out on the gray path."
He then departs from the void and stops Sextum, The Averruncus of Water, breaks through her barrier and strips her bare, rendering her powerless in one blow and saving Chisame, Ako, Akira and Konoka in the process. Sextum attempts to regain her composure and attack Negi but is stopped by the Master of Gravekeeper's Palace. The Master of Gravekeeper's revealed to be a female, that Negi is a descendant, and that she will believe in Negi's plan. Negi begins to think that the Master of Gravekeeper's Palace is Asuna's mother but moves on. He then goes off to battle the Averruncus of Fire before moving on to Fate.
He quickly stops his attack from destroying "The Paru-Sama" and everyone on board. After he sees Chachamaru broken in two he becomes enraged and quickly destroys the fire demon that the Averruncus of Fire created. It is soon apparent that the Averruncus is no match for Negi, unable to hit him even once, having all of his hits blocked and evaded. An angered Negi states "Chachamaru is not a doll. And neither is anyone else in this world." Negi defeats him in one blow and destroys him, stating, "there is no need for you to keep being a disciple of god."
Negi and Fate's final fight
Negi rides "The Paru-Sama" up to the location of his final battle with Fate, where he is waiting. Fate says that he was waiting as Negi prepares for battle. Negi tells Haruna he cannot predict the aftermath of the battle so she must be on guard. He surprises everyone that is watching and releases his lighting form and meets Fate face to face.
Negi tells Fate that he wishes to decide everything by talking if possible, but Fate doesn't think he means it. Fate quickly delivers a powerful blow to Negi's face but Negi is unaffected. Negi then proceeds to deliver a powerful blow to Fate in return. They talk about their past encounters. In Kyoto, Fate said it would be impossible for him and yet Negi has finally come all the way here. In Ostia, Fate said that Negi was just a child that didn't know anything. However, Negi has now come knowing everything with an answer of his own. Fate states he won't accept his answer.
Negi then goes to say that he will make him accept it and understand it with his fist. The girls note that Negi must have overcome the side effects of Magia Erebrea and have most likely taken Magia Erebea itself and completely made it his own. Chisame notes that, that means Negi is just like his master now and is something that can't be called "Human". As the battle gets underway Negi and Fate attack each other with all their might. Negi displays a new level and degree of physical strength that is just as great as Fate's.
Negi's New Explosive Power
They test each other's power with one attack after another. Negi then gets caught within Fate's Senjin Kokuyouken, but blocks and deflects each blow until he breaks out of it.
Fate then unleashes a more powerful spell, Banshou Tsuranuku Kokkui No Enkan. This massive spell Jack Rakan endured and Fate begins to ask Negi how will he handle it. Before he can finish speaking Negi goes into his Raiten Taisou form and completely avoids the attack, striking Fate in an instant. Negi starts to overwhelm him with his Raisoku Shundo. Fate then counters Negi and reveals to him he saw his match with Jack Rakan so he knows the weakness of that form. Negi then transforms into his Raisen Taisou II form and battles Fate head on. Fate questions if he can shoulder the world with his softness. Negi, without hesitation, vows he can. As their battle rages on, Fate notes that his strikes now rival Jack Rakan's and that Negi has surpassed him in strength. Fate states that it is because his power of darkness that is the same as his master's. When Fate asks Negi if he is prepared for the cost, Negi states that he is. The Magical World and the Old World have started to connect and Mahora Academy becomes visible from the Gravekeeper's Palace and the Gravekeeper's Palace becomes visible from Mahora Academy. Everyone in Mahora is now watching as Negi and Fate battle. As the battle wages on Negi manages to overpower Fate and pushes him back into a corner. Fate claims their battle is nearing its end and surprises Negi by asking what his plan is. He then says he has changed his mind, but Negi says he wants to him to hear it anyway.
Negi tells Fate that he hated him and felt nothing but rage and anger towards him, using that for power because he wanted nothing more than to defeat him. But after talking to Shiori he learned of a different side to Fate. Negi asks him to be his friend because he likes and wishes to be friends with the Fate that Shiori told him all about during their talk. Fate calls him stupid and tricks him into a deadlock by asking for a hand shake. Negi likes the idea and they bottle release their physical power attempting to outdo the other. They then both use powerful elemental spells that rival each other. Negi uses Thousand Thunderbolts and Fate uses Tearing Earth. They attempt to push each other back and end the fight once and for all but, are an even match and at a standstill. Still trying to push the other back Negi somehow manages to see Fate's memories.
Repeat of the past
Their clash of power results in a massive explosion, and Negi somehow makes Fate see Nagi and Jack Rakan. He then apologizes and asks Fate to lend him his strength and in return he will lend him his, and to be his friend and comrade. Fate then gives up and states that it is Negi's victory. After Fate gives up, Negi tells him that his plan shall take ten years and he is needed for that plan. He asks if they can sit down for a cup of tea sometime, and Fate tells him that he told him he is a coffee person. As they shake hands and Negi helps Fate up they are shot by a blast from a far off distance, just like how the Mage of Beginning shot a blast through Primum to hit Nagi twenty years ago.
It soon is revealed that all fallen members of Cosmo Entelecheia that were defeated twenty and ten years ago have been revived, Negi tries to stand up to them but is overwhelmed and defeated with Fate only to be saved by his master Evangeline.
A bit after the backup from Mahora and the revival of Rakan, Evangeline casts what may be her most powerful spell. Just as Evangeline orders that Negi should be sent back to Mahora, the Mage of Beginning stops her, grabbing Negi by the neck. Negi is saved by Asuna, and together they proceed to attack the Mage of Beginning. It is then revealed that the Mage of Beginning is none other than Nagi. He tells Negi that he must kill him in order to end everything and then fades away. Afterwards Asuna, using the Grand Master Key to revive everyone who was erased, restores the Magical World, and a few days later everyone relaxes and enjoys a party celebrating their victory. With all of the magical world's citizens bearing witness, Kurt announces Negi as son of the Thousand Master, hero who saved the world twenty years ago, and the man who saved them all this time around as the new hero and saviour of the Magical World.
Return To Old World Arc[]
Afterwards, summer vacation ends with everyone returning to Earth and school begins again. However Negi has Fate become the substitute teacher of class 3-A. As he is putting his plan in action in order to save the magical world and is not at school enough to act as a teacher. When he returned to Mahora Academy, he invited Yue, Nodoka, Makie, Natsumi, and Fate for tea, but Fate draws Negi's attention by reporting him about a technical problem. After that, he reunites with Chamo, Asakura, and a daydreaming Chachamaru. Chachamaru soon immediately offers her help in his plan. He hesitated a bit and did not want his class involved in his plan when thinking about their school life and future careers but stopped due to Chamo's and Asakura's small interfering and Chachamaru's decision. Negi said that his plan will take a very long time and will be difficult but offered Chachamaru a chance to which she immediately accepts.
Later, he reunites with Chisame and give her a souvenir (which is Jack Rakan's idea), to which she easily gets mad and throws it back at him. She then ask Negi about what he said in the past event by being by his side, to which he is clueless and she immediately gave him a heavy punch. They later have a drink and as soon Negi reveals his plan, Ayaka takes over. It turns out that his plan is some sort of "space development". Later, Negi and Chisame are having a private discussion. He then remind Chisame about what she said earlier by "the point of no return", he said that he is satisfied and swear that he will succeed his father's intent because it is "a man's job". He soon being grateful to Chisame and getting closer to her. He suddenly sneeze (after a long time) and takes on his Raiten Taisou II form, to which Chisame is strip naked and she immediately gives him a major beating.
Negi and Kotaro (both disguised as Nagi and Kojiro) both later meet up with Fate who is also disguised in his older self (calling himself Feitas). Negi is approached by Misa about his relationship with Ako, and through hilarious circumstance, the six began a so-called "Triple Date" something only Sakurako and Misa called, and arrive at a nearby Karaoke bar. Both Negi and Kotaro are taunted by Fate's performance for singing at try to overthrow him, but fails. After Kotaro and Kugimiya leaves for the restroom, Misa is seen having a conversation with Negi while the girl berates over how innocent Negi is. Negi is then confessed to by Misa just as Kugimiya and Sakurako both confess to Kotaro and Fate respectively with Ako at the sidelines. At that moment, the three boys transforms back into their original and younger forms. After the transformation, Fate scolds the girls, which shocks everyone and Negi demands why Fate forced remedial classes for the three cheerleaders, which Fate says that he was having fun, confusing the boy.
Negi later seen with Fate and Kotaro, all in their "adult" forms again, meeting up with Ayaka and Asuna at an expensive restaurant. Negi is then scolded with Kotaro by Asuna on the "triple date" that Fate has mentioned. When Ayaka revealed that she has made a Pactio with Negi three weeks prior that day (using a very heated French kiss, and an almost reversed Pactio with Negi as a Ministra), the boys talk to each other about why Negi made the Pactio and how it would affect Negi's plan to save Mundus Magica.
Later, Chizuru revealed to Kotaro that she has also formed a Pactio with Negi, to the young boy's surprise and conclusion that Negi is indeed the "Enemy to all womankind".
The next day, Asuna and Negi both met with Evangeline and Setsuna, (who the former thought were "playing"). Evangeline then proceeded to ask (or demand) that Negi and Asuna come with her for their Final Lesson while Setsuna wondered on what "sacrifice" the two made. The four made their way to Evangeline's Resort where both Negi and Evangeline made preparations for battle. Before Negi got ready, however, Evangeline proceeded to strike first, much to the boy's annoyance and surprise. Negi, shouting how he didn't make preparations yet, proceeded to use Magia Erebea. Soon after, the two battled on par, before Evangeline decided to use Magia Erebea to show her thanks for entertaining her. Seeing the original and first user of Magia Erebea, Negi deducted that he had to prevent his Master from using the technique, using two Lightning spells to gang up on her and prevent her from using Magia Erebea. It proved to be futile when Evangeline came out of the explosion in her Magia Erebea form, known as Queen of Ice. Seeing this, Negi proceeded to use Raiten Taisou 2 to keep up to the Vampire's power.
The two then battled once more, showing equal strength. It was then that Setsuna realized the price her teacher made, when Evangeline sliced Negi's into (almost) half, before it quickly regenerated and healed, showing no scars whatsoever. The remaining Ala Rubra deducted that the "price" was that he [Negi] is now the same as Evangeline, a somewhat "Vampire" in a sense, having an immortal body. Although it is still unknown if this is true until a few years later. It was revealed that during his battle with Dynamis, Negi momentarily "died" after a blow through his body, and through that, Negi was "reborn" through Magia Erebea, to which Evangeline developed using an undying body such as her own as an experiment.
While the Ala Rubra argued whether or not it was a "Price" or a "Gift", Negi and Evangeline battled on. The two were at par and in a stalemate, but soon became a battle between experience, before Negi started to wane down in power. Negi was then impaled by one of Evangeline's Ice spell and before the Vampire could finish off the battle, Asuna intervened, stating that now the two will try something different, to which Evangleine accepted as a challenge. Negi, together with Asuna, was able to fight evenly with Evangeline. Evangeline then used Cosmic Cathasthrope, but Negi countered with Negica Magia Erebea: Circuli Absorptionis Extempore which surprised Eva. Before the two can land the final blow, Negi sneezes because of the ice, which stripped both Asuna and Evangeline, angering the former.
Magister Magi Negi
Following a Time Skip of 130 years, due to Asuna's slumber required in the Negi's plan to save the Magic World, it is shown that Negi's plan to terraform Mars succeeded and Mundus Magicus has been saved. After Asuna meets with a descendant of Ayaka she learned that Negi died on June 12, 2065.[3] With the exception of Evangeline and Chao the rest of the cast is already dead with Ayaka lasting the longest in their wait for Asuna's return dying at the age of 115 in 2104.
Following Asuna's awakening, through a promise that his time skip version made with Evangeline, a third timeline is created when Asuna is sent back to the time before she left. In that time line, Negi continues his goals with the difference that Asuna is now with him. One of the main concerns of Ken Akamatsu ending Negima! so abrubtly was that the readers never found out who it is Negi has feelings for. Haruna reveals that the reason she was so intent on forcing Negi to reveal his crush was because she's afraid that Negi is 'shaking off the feelings of the majority of the girls and flying off to the distant lands of masculine romance!'[4]
Negi does find his father and reunites with him. It's not certain who he really ends up with the changed timeline as well as it's not explicitly stated in the end. He was seen in the character epilogues with Fate alongside Asuna and Ayaka.
Appearances in other media[]
UQ Holder![]
Negi Springfield and his father in UQ Holder!
In Ken Akamatsu's latest manga, which is based in the same universe as Negima!, Negi Springfield is the grandfather of the series protagonist Touta Konoe. However, it's later revealed Touta is not really his grandson, but an artificially created clone.
At first believed to be dead, but it's eventually revealed that Negi is still alive and has been sealed away. Fate Averruncus claims he needs Touta's help to rescue Negi. Later on, Mana Tatsumiya informs Touta that somebody has signed up for the new Mahora Martial Arts Tournament using Negi's name using the old fashioned sign up system, the mail. Evangeline touches Negi's signature after confirming it is his handwriting and they are transported to a desert wasteland and confronted by Negi and Nagi themselves. But as they begin to talk to Evangeline and Fate, the communication is intercepted by the Mage of the Beginning.
Negi reappears with Yue, Nodoka, Albino, Rakan and Cutlass in the tournament
Much later, Negi is shown succumbing to the influence of the Mage of the Beginning and he goes to Earth, along with Yue Ayase, Nodoka Miyazaki, Jack Rackan and Albireo Imma to confront UQ Holder and take Touta. When he confronts UQ Holder, he introduces himself as the Mage of the Beginning but still exhibits some of Negi's old traits (such as a powerful magical sneeze when he's nervous).
Negi and Chisame married
It is revealed that Negi and Chisame finally got together after they defeated the Mage of the Beginning for good in the alternate timeline (The timeline where Asuna returned from the future.
Mahou Sensei Negima! Revival Special[]
Negi was captured and become a price of Miss Mahora championship, he has completely no idea why is he captured in the first place. When Asuna comes to save Negi, he is sneezed and caused every girls is naked. After Negi is saved by Asuna, he is sleeping at her legs, which Nodoka and Setsuna claimed Asuna won the Miss Mahora championship.
Pactios[]
Negi has performed many Pactios through out the series. So far in the Mahou Sensei Negima! Series he has performed Probationary Contracts with the following girls:
Negi's Ministra Magi
- Asuna Kagurazaka (Ch. 25)
- Nodoka Miyazaki (Ch. 37)
- Setsuna Sakurazaki (Ch.47)
- Konoka Konoe (Ch. 52)
- Yue Ayase (Ch. 128)
- Haruna Saotome (Ch. 128-129)
- Chisame Hasegawa (Ch. 149)
- Kazumi Asakura (Ch. 200-201)
- Kaede Nagase (Ch. 234)
- Theodora of the Helas Empire (Ch. 239) (as the Minister Magi; cancelled)
- Ku Fei (Ch. 261)
- Chachamaru Karakuri (Ch. 263)
- Shiori/Luna (Ch. 283)
- Ako Izumi (Ch. 289)
- Yuna Akashi (Ch. 289)
- Makie Sasaki (Ch. 289)
- Ayaka Yukihiro (Ch. 340)
- Chizuru Naba (Ch. 340)
- Akira Okochi (Ch. 349)
In both TV anime versions and Anime Final movie of Negima, Negi has contracts with all and only the 31 girls in his class. Meanwhile, in the live-action series and the Negima!? Neo manga, Negi has pactios with just Asuna, Nodoka, and Konoka.
Powers and Abilities[]
Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Negi has become an adept combatant thanks to his training with Ku Fei; his skills became sharper from actual combat experience with adversaries such as Kotarou and Fate. His skill was enough to allow him to defeat an experienced gladiator without having to resort to using magic with ease. Through the usage of his "Raiten Taisou II", or "Perpetual Lightning Form" has shown himself to be able to fight on par with Rakan, who is said to be unmatched in unarmed combat. Even with his magical abilities disabled and his physical abilities weakened, Negi was still able to counter an assault from Ku Fei while she was using her Pactio Artifact, despite the latter's own immense martial arts skills and fighting experience. It was revealed in the final chapter that Negi engages Ku Fei in fighting tournaments on a regular basis, implying that his hand-to-hand skills have improved even further in his later years.
Enhanced Speed: Even before learning Chinese Martial Arts, Negi has repeatedly shown himself to be a very agile fighter. Negi has demonstrated great reflexes in battle, able to quickly dodge a strike with no wasted effort and he can instantly counterattack right after. He is able to strike quickly without warning and in rapid succession. His speed also allows him to follow the movements of faster opponents to better analyze their movements or blocking difficult and otherwise fatal strikes. His speed improved even further after learning Instantaneous Movement (and its air step version, Void Movement) allowing him to easily outmaneuver and outpace most opponents. The second form of Raiten Taisou allows him to move and think at the speed of lightning (150 km/s), far surpassing the speed of even the powerhouse Jack Rakan, who is renowned for his legendary physical abilities.
Enhanced Strength: Negi's strength is admirable, he is able to go blow for blow against the likes of Rakan and Fate. Negi has shown to have surprising strength, even before training with both Kū Fei and Eva. In one instance Negi was able to break through Fate's magical shield during the Kyoto incident, albiet with his hand made of stone due to petrification at the time. He demonstrated the same strength in the magic world at the gateport, he, after recovering from a fatal wound was able to break through Fate's shield and land yet another strike on him, this time without any petrification, proving it was no fluke. After Negi acquired Magia Erebea, when in his “Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendio form”, his strength is increased to an inhuman level, allowing him to fight on par with Fate and even overpower him in some instances. At the Gravekeeper's palace, after Negi was nearly corrupted, and he made Magia Erebea part of himself, he gained a tremendous boost in strength (and all other abilities too), being able to send strikes that were according to Fate, able to rival Jack Rakan's.
Genius-Level Intellect: Negi has shown himself to be remarkably intelligent, analytical, perceptive, and deductive especially for a boy his age. This is shown by the fact that despite being 10 years old, he is able to qualify as a high school teacher. Negi is also capable of teaching advanced academic classes, despite his work as a mage in training. Aside from that, Negi appears to be able to determine the pattern of his opponent's battle methods and correctly deduce a proper counter-strategy to defeat his opponent's attacks. This was best displayed during his fight with Jack Rakan, when he managed to fight the latter to a draw thanks to a series of elaborate battle strategies that involved the use of numerous 'Trump Cards'. Negi's intellect is one of the key skills of his leadership abilities. It was Negi who came up with the plan to defeat Chao using the entire school in the Mahora Fest event using the Mars Attack Vs Mage Order event as a cover. Negi has also said that he has created a plan to save the magical world. Which no one else has been able to do, not even Fate or Kurt Godel who are both renowned for their great intelligence.
Swordsmanship Specialist: Negi has been shown using a short sword several times, and wields Asuna's artifact, the "Ensis Exorcizans," with sufficient skill to overmatch Rakan's "Ho Heros Meta Chilion Prosopon" in their fight, but it might just be because of the "Ensis Exorcizans"'s innate magic disruption/cancellation abilities. However, he is still shown to be skilled with a sword as he displays great use of his magical sword Ensis Exsequens. Though he has called his version imperfect and not yet mastered compared to his Master's (Eva). He is shown to skilled enough to battle Fate in an intense close range and high-speed sword battle.
Master Magic Spell Caster: Negi has shown time and time again that he is talented at using advanced spells and incantation like "Kiliape Astrape" and techniques like Magia Erebea. He is also an expert at developing new spells (thunder god spear: titan slayer) and new ways of using old spells (Ōka Hōken). He is also an expert at delayed spells, being able to use them as effective surprise attacks in combat, which is considered a highly advanced and difficult skill to master.
- Wind Element and Lightning Element Specialist: Negi has a strong affinity for wind and lightning magic. He is well known for using wind and lightning magic and can learn spells of these elements perhaps faster than anything else. And can easily become extremely efficient in using them. He mastered the high-level long-range spell Jupiter's Storm of Thunder which combines both wind and lightning magic before he had any combat experience or training. Also, his affinity for wind and lightning element give him speed and reflexes (respectively) beyond that of a normal human being.
Enhanced Physical Capabilities: Due to his recent transformation to "something that cannot be called human" Negi's physical abilities reached new heights, his strength surpasses that of Jack Rakan, his endurance is now so high that he no longer needs to enter his lighting form in order to take hits from the likes of Fate, his regenerative abilities now allow him to heal from any wound instantly the same as Evangeline, and finally his reflexes also evolved.
Pactio[]
Negi's Pactio Card
- Pactio: Magistrulus Magi: Negi's artifact, Mile Vincula (Latin: The Thousand Bonds), looks similar to a passport. One side contains the Pactio cards of every Pactio he's formed as the Magister, while the other has a slot for holding a single card. By inserting one of the Pactio cards into that slot and calling the word "Adeat" again, the Mile Vincula transforms into the artifact of that ministra. While transformed, it gains all the powers the original has, which Negi demonstrates in chapter 241 by using Asuna's Ensis Exorcizans in sword form in a sword clash with Jack Rakan and his artifact. With the blades against one another, Negi slowly pushed his through Jack's, proving its magic-canceling abilities are very real as Jack's began to melt like butter and was sliced in two with ease. Additionally, by calling the word "abeat" only once the artifact returns to it's original form, where Negi can swap the card in the slot with a different one or call "abeat" again to return it to card form. Negi received this by making a Temporary Pactio with Theodora, Third Princess of Hellas Empire. However, because the Temporary Pactio was meant only to last until the end of the Ostia Tournament, the contract has now ended and the Mile Vincula can no longer be used. Also due to the card's frightening power because the bonds he has the more equipment. Plus this pactio fits perfectly and is ironic to negi's views.
Spells[]
Basic Spells[]
- Sagitta Magica (魔法の射手（サギタ・マギカ）, Sagita Magika, Magic Archer): One of the most basic attack spells, but also very versatile. The caster creates a number of elemental magic missiles and fires them at the target. The number can vary from just one to at least one thousand and one arrows, but in the manga is usually a prime number. Negi primarily uses Light arrows that cause explosive damage, Lightning arrows that paralysis the target if they hit in addition to the damage they do, Wind arrows which usually do not inflict damage but instead bind the target and currently Darkness arrows which has the same effect has light arrows. Negi also realizes that one can use their entire body to cast Sagitta Magica, and combines this with a full-body tackle.
- Evocatio (Summon) is a spell used to summon spirits to aid the user in battle. This spell is similar to how Eastern mages utilize talismans in order to summon demons to assist them. These elemental spirits that serve the caster can be directed to attack or capture an enemy.
- Refectio (活力全快 (レフェクティオー), Refekutiō, Recovery): After studying non-stop for 3 days and escaping from Library Island, Negi's students were too tired and drowsy to focus. By using a flower as a catalyst, Negi casts a spell which refreshes their minds and made them more alert. This allows them to concentrate on the 2nd year midterm exams and help the class attain the highest average on said midterms.
- Fila Nigra Promissiva (フィーラ・ニグラ・プロミッシーワ, Fīra Nigura Puromisshīwa, Self Sealing Spell): This spell was used by Negi to disable his ability to use magic for three days, in order to help his students study for the upcoming final exams. It's probably possible to change the number of days (or possibly days to weeks, etc) by altering the incantation (changing tria into unum and tres into unus could probably seal the user's magic for only one day).
- Extrasensoria Perceptio (超感覚知覚, Extrasensory Perception): Also known as ESP, is basic cognitive magic to perceive the outside world. When referring to perception outside the world it means outside the realm of the "normal" senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste). This means telepathy, clairvoyance, perceiving future events among the various abilities.
Wind Spells[]
- Flans Exarmatio (風花 武装解除（フランス・エクサルマティオー）, Furansu Ekusarumatiō, Windflower Disarmament) is a spell that blows off, with a powerful wind, items attached to the opponent's body. Clothing and other light things are changed into flower petals. The sole purpose is to disarm an opponent of weapons, so no matter how strong the wind is, it will not blow away the opponent herself. When Negi sneezes and blows off the clothes of Asuna and friends, this is the explosion of this magic.
- Flans Saltatio Pulverea (風花 風塵乱舞（フランス・サルタティオ・プルウェレア）, Furansu Sarutatio Puruwerea), Windflower Dust Storm) - Causes a powerful wind to blow in the direction cast. First used by Negi to put out the fire spell cast by Chigusa Amagasaki when she kidnapped Konoka Konoe for the first time during the Kyoto Trip Arc. Later, he used it to create a smokescreen of water spray to reach Konoka.
- Deflexio (風楯（デフレクシオ）, Defurekushio, Wind Shield) is a simple anti-physical protective magic. While its actual defensive capabilities are low compared to Flans Paries Aerialis, it is much more long-lasting and can be maintained indefinitely.
- Flans Paries Aerialis (風花 風障壁（フランス・バリエース・アエリアーリス）, Furansu Bariēsu Aeriārisu), Windflower Wind Barrier) is a defensive shield spell which surrounds the mage and can stop a 10-ton truck. Usually, an incantation is required to disable the barrier.
- Flans Paries Venti Vertentis (風花旋風 風障壁（フランス・パリエース・ウェンティ・ウェルテンティス）, Furansu Pariēsu Wenti Werutentisu, Windflower Whirlwind, Barrier of Wind) is a defensive spell that creates a tornado around the mage, using the intense air currents as a protection against outside threats. This effect can last from two too three minutes.
- Vente (風よ（ウェンテ）, Wente,Wind) is a simple training spell that creates a sudden gust of wind. While lacking in force, it can, for example, reduce momentum while falling and soften landings, making it useful in unexpected situations – suddenly being transported four thousand meters into the air, for instance.
- Nebula Hypnotica (眠りの霧（ネブラ・ヒュプノーテエイカ）, Nebura Hyupunōteeika, Mists of Sleep) is a spell which creates a mist capable of making all opponents caught inside it to fall asleep.
Lightning Spells[]
- Fulguratio Albicans (白き雷(フルグラティオー・アルビカンス), Furuguratiō Arubikansu, White Lightning): A powerful blast of electricity from the caster's palm. It is very powerful against living targets, but not as effective against inanimate objects.
- Iaculatio Fulgoris (雷の投擲(ヤクラーティオー・フルゴーリス), Yakurātiō Furugōrisu, Lightning Spears): A spell that attacks by releasing electrically charged magical javelins. Because the projectiles released are javelins and not arrows, each one of them is stronger than an arrow of thunder, and has greater physical destructive power. However, because they mimic the shape of a javelin, they are easier to dodge than its direct version "Fulguratio Albicans".
- Iovis Tempestas Fulguriens (雷の暴風(ヨウィス・テンペスタース・フルグリエンス), Yowisu Tenpesutāsu Furuguriensu, Jupiter's Storm Of Thunder): This is one of the most powerful long-range magic attacks. The caster combines Wind and Thunder magic and unleashes them at the enemy in a massive storm of destructive energy.
- Dios Tukos (雷の斧(ディオス・テュコス), Diosu Tyukosu, Axe of Lightning): A medium-range but powerful Lightning-element attack that is invoked in Ancient Greek, as opposed to Latin. The caster makes a downward-sweeping motion and hits the target with a massive electrical attack.
- Chīliaplē Astrapē (千の雷(キーリプル・アストラペー), Kīripuru Asutorapē, Thousand Thunderbolts): An extremely destructive, wide-range spell, widely considered to be among the most powerful lightning spells in existence. A test of an incomplete version by Negi Springfield vaporized half of a floating boulder 100m long and reduced the rest to melting slag. Because of its wide area of effect, typically the Thousand Thunderbolts is reserved for use against entire armies at once unless focused.
- Lightning Decoy: Negi creates a clone of himself made out of lightning, that is able to fool the enemy.
- Thousand-Decoy Barrier: Negi creates a thousand lighting clones to attack, block or shield from attacks, and distract the enemy.
- Chiha Yaburu Ikazuchi (千磐破雷): An original spell created by Negi, achieved via Magia Erebea's Raiten Taisō form. This spell is used by Negi charge electrical energy around him and making a full body tackle with high destructive power.
- Byakuraishō (白雷掌, lit. "White Lightning Palm"): An original spell created by Negi, achieved via Magia Erebea's Actus Noctis Erebeae from. This is used by absorbing Fulguratio Albicans using Dextra Stagnans than releasing it using Dextra Emittam after making physical contact with the target.
- Dios Lonchē Titanoktonon (雷神槍 「巨神ころし」（ディオス・ロンケーイ 「ティタノクトノン」）; Diosu Ronkēi Titanokutonon; Thunder Deity Spear: "Titan-Slayer"): This spell combines the enormous magical power of "Kilipil Astrape" with the magical spear created by "Iaculatio Fulgoris," resulting in a gigantic magical spear crackling with the raw power of the greatest lightning magic. He used it as his 4th "Trump Card" against Rakan at the Final Round.
- Halebarda Fulgoris (魔杖雷鉾槍化（ハレバルダ・フルゴーリス）, Harebaruda Furugōrisu, Magic Staff Lightning Halberd): This spell allows Negi to channel lightning through his staff and change it into a Halberd of lightning which has the power to break through an army of demons.
- Kokuryū Raigō (黒龍雷迎, lit. The Advent of the Black Dragon's Lightning): An original spell created by Negi, achieved via Magia Erebea's beast mode which is used by Negi absorbing the Thousand Thunderbolts (Khiliarkhou Astrape) spell using Dextra Stagnans than releasing it using Dextra Emittam after making physical contact with the target, releasing black lightning that has enough power to damage the opponent and the surrounding area.
- Titanoktonon II: Iaculatio Vortices Tempestatis (巨神ころしⅡ 「暴風の螺旋槍」（ティタノクトノン 「ヤクラーティオー・ウォルティキス・テンペスターティス」）, Titanokutonon II`「Yakurātiō Worutikisu Tenpesutātisu」, Titan-Slayer II: Windstorm Spiral Spear): This original spell merges the magical power of Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens with the magical spear of "Iaculatio Fulgoris," creating a giant, electrified spiraled dart.
Ice Spells[]
- Ensis Exsequens (断罪の剣 （エンシス・エクセクエンス）, Enshisu Ekusekuensu, Sword of Conviction): A high-level attack spell used by Evangeline and Negi, so far shown to be uninchanted. When invoked, the caster's desired hand is wrapped with magical energy, which stabs outward in the direction of the outstretched fingertips in the rough approximate form of a blade. In terms of its effects, Ensis Exsequens causes damage by instantly converting matter from a solid (or liquid) into a gas, via a violent phase transition in order to attack its target; any living opponent caught within such an effect would thus be instantly vaporized and killed.
Fire Spells[]
- Incendium Gehennae (奈落の業火(インケンディウムゲヘナエ), Inkendiumu Gehenae, Hellfire Conflagration): A Fire and Darkness-element spell which appears to create a large explosion of black flames at the target area. It traps the victim in a tornado of the black flames.
Reinforcement Spells[]
- Cantus Bellax (戦いの歌（カントゥス・ベラークス）, Kantusu Berākusu, Song of Battle): A form of physical reinforcement used by a mage in preparation for close combat. Aside from providing a long-lasting anti-physical shield, this magic also exponentially increases muscle tension, allowing greater power, speed, and endurance; it also increases the flexibility of muscles and tendons to prevent the mage damaging himself from overexertion. In addition, the mage’s reflexes are enhanced by a moderate increase in the stimulation of the nervous system. Previously, Negi had to forcibly make a contract with himself to divert large amounts of mana back to his own body – magic based on the Pactio‘s mana supply system. This is the completed form of the technique which Eva taught him.
- Melodia Bellax (戦いの旋律 (メローディア・ベラークス), Merōdia Berākusu, Melody of Battle): A more advanced form of Cantus Bellax used to achieve extremely high agility by supplying mana to all parts of the body.
- Vis Maxima (最大出力(ウィース・マーキシマ), Wīsu Mākihima, Maximum Output): The spell to draw out the maximum performance of reinforcement magic such as Cantus Bellax. Due to the increase in mana upkeep requirements, the duration of this spell is fairly short.
Movement Techniques[]
- Shundō (瞬動, Instant Movement): A movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. This is used by concentrating ki or magic power into the feet to get from point A to point B in the least amount of steps. It's important that when going from point A to point B that you hold to the ground with the inside of your feet or you will simply trip.
- Koku Shundō (虚空瞬動, Void Instant Movement): A form of instant movement that allows the user to use instant movement on the air by bouncing off it.
- Raisoku Shundō (雷速瞬動, lit. Lightning-speed Instant Movement): An original spell created by Negi, achieved via Magia Erebea's Raiten Taisō form. It is a type of Shundo that enables Negi to move in the speed of lightning, which is relatively 150 km/s (about 93 miles/second). During his fight with Rakan, this was Negi's 2nd Trump Card.
Magia Erebea[]
Two of Negi's Forms
- Magia Erebea (闇の魔法 (マギア・エレベア), Magia Erebea, lit. Dark Magic): This is a forbidden technique created by Evangeline A.K. McDowell over a period of 10 years, in which the user absorbs offensive magic designed to harm the enemy into his own body, to the point where it fuses with their very soul. The technique feeds on the user's body and soul, but in return the user gains power many times that of any ordinary person.
- Actus Noctis Erebeae (夜と闇の型(アクトゥス・ノクティス・エレペアエ), Akutusu Nokutisu Erebea), Form of the Dark Night): This is the natural form the caster assumes when Magia Erebea is active. In this form, the caster's complexion darkens as their body generates a dark miasma. Glowing markings ripple throughout their body and, as the magic intensifies, the caster begins to turn into a monster. It's while in this form, that the caster can absorb and stockpile magical spells for later use.
- Agilitas Fulminis (疾風迅雷（アギリタース・フルミニス）, Agiritāsu Furuminisu, Lightning Speed): By absorbing Jovis Tempestas Fulguriens, the mage gains extreme agility in exchange for lower defensive capabilities. The mage’s movements become electrified, allowing for stunning physical attacks. Projectile attacks can be deflected by an air current magic shield.
- Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendio (獄炎煉我（シム・ファブリカートゥス・アブ・インケンディオー）, Shimu Faburikātusu Abu Inkendiō), lit. Hell's Refining Fire) is the form that takes the magic power from "Flames of Hell (Incendium Gehennae)" into one’s flesh and fuses it with the spirit. In doing so, the caster’s flesh gains powerful hardness and resistance to heat.
- Raiten Taisō (雷天大壮, lit. Thunder in Heaven, Great Vigor): This is the form that takes the power from "Thousand Lightning Bolts (Kilipl Astrapê)" into one’s flesh and fuses it with the spirit. In doing so, the caster becomes a mass of electrically charged particles.
- Raiten Taisō 2 (雷天大壮 2, lit. Thunder in Heaven, Great Vigor II): Powered by two "Kilipil Astrape" spells, this form enables Negi to assume a "constant lightning form" and grants an added bonus of accelerated thought processes and increased physical maneuverability. It was used as Negi's 3rd "Trump Card" during his fight against Rakan.
- Negica Magia Erebea: Shōheki Hakaishō Shisaku Gogō (ネギ流闇の魔法 障壁破壊掌試作伍号, lit. Negi-Style Dark Magic Barrier Destruction Palm, Experimental Version Five): An original spell created by Negi, achieved via Magia Erebea. This is done by Negi turning his hand into the one gained by Magia Erebea's beast mode, allowing Negi to break any barrier, even the barrier given to the disciples of the Lifemaker.
Mahōken[]
Mahōken (魔法拳, Magic Fist) is Negi's signature combat technique, which supplements his oriental martial arts with Western magic, creating the following magical-based fighting techniques
- Fūka Hōken (風華崩拳, lit. Crushing Fist of Majestic Winds): This technique supplements his striking hand with numerous wind-elemental Sagitta Magica that release upon contact.
- Ōka Hōken (桜華崩拳, lit. Crushing Fist of Majestic Cherry Blossoms): This technique supplements his striking hand with light-elemental Sagitta Magica for an electrified physical strike. This spell was strong enough to damage Takamichi considerably.
- Raika Hōken (雷華崩拳, lit. Crushing Fist of Majestic Lightning): This magic-based striking technique supplements with striking hand with lightning-elemental Sagitta Magica. This move is powerful enough to send Takamichi flying but it wasn't enough to damage him considerably.
- Ōkasōshō, Taikō Chōgyosei (桜華槍衝 太公釣魚勢, lit. Piercing Lance of Cherry Blossom Majesty, Archduke Angler Dominator): Similar to Ōka Hōken but Negi uses the lightning element Sagitta Magica's through his staff instead of his fist causing piercing damage.
Martial Arts Techniques[]
Negi learned to styles of Chinese Martial Arts from Ku Fei. First, Hakkeshō (八卦掌) an internal/soft style which specializes in free-flowing stances designed to maneuver around an opponent, and using full rotations of the body to deflect an opponent’s attack, using the same motion to increase the power of a counter strike. Second, Hakkyokuken (八極拳) an external/hardstyle that emphasizes simple, direct, explosive strength at close range. Together with the two of these together allow Negi to have a great balance in his fighting.
Hakkyokuken[]
- Tenshinkoda (転身胯打): A technique where Negi spins to avoid his enemy's punch to get with their guard. While turning towards them he sends a backhand towards their face.
- Rokutaikai Chō (六大開「頂」): A technique where Negi grabs the wrist of the opponent to drag them into close quarters with him. This easily allows him to launch another quick attack that will be difficult to dodge, like Kakuda Chōchū.
- Hachi Dai Shōshiki: Zesshō - Tsutenhō (八大招式 絶招 通天砲, lit. Eight Large Maneuver: Special Technique - Sky-Reaching Cannon): A technique, where Negi uses both his hands to knock his opponent's launched fist downward, then places their palm on their stomach before launching an upward punch that launches their opponent upward.
- Honshin Fukko (金剛八式 翻身伏虎, lit. Crouching Tiger Descend): A technique where Negi will begin to somersault. He then comes spinning down, performing a horizontal chop on his opponent from above, seemingly using the momentum gained in the previous fall to increase the force behind his strike. Originally named Honshin Kōryū (翻身降龍, lit. Flipping Dragon Descend) in Shonen Magazine release.
- Kōkaimon (硬開門, lit. Hard Open Gate): A technique where Negi smashes his elbow into his opponent causing powerful blunt damage.
- Haō Sekkō (覇王折江, lit. Tyrannical Crooked River): A technique where he attacks the opponent with a double-fisted strike. Negi used it with Magia Erebea's Raiten Taisō form by charging electrical energy around both fists to enhance the strike.
- Kyūho Chūken (弓歩沖拳, lit. BowStep Fist Thrust): A technique where Negi steps forward and with the thrust of his body initiates a hard punch. This technique can be enhanced by using one Lightning Sagitta Magica arrow to add considerable power to his punch.
- Kakuda Chōchū (鶴打頂肘, lit. Beckoning Strike, Pinnacle Elbow): A technique where Negi steps into the body of the opponent and sharply elbows them in the chest. Negi likes to enhance this attack with lightning through either a Sagitta Magica or Magia Erebea's Raiten Taisō form. With the lightning enhanced elbow strike into the targets chest, it discharges lighting causing piercing and blunt damage.
- Gaimon Chōchū (外門頂肘, lit. Outer Gate Elbow Thrust): A technique where Negi elbows his opponent in the stomach and enhanced with lightning.
- Sayū Kōkaimon (左右硬開門, lit. Left-Right Hard Open Gate): A technique where he holds his hands forward in front of him on top of one another in a manner that appears similar to a triangle, deflecting his opponent's strike, then he launches an elbow strike into his opponent's abdomen.
Relationships[]
Students[]
Negi seems to get along well with mostly all of his students. Their feelings for him can vary from friendship to love though Negi is oblivious to anything other than friendly relationships. Most of his students like him to which their interests in Negi progresses throughout the story; most have sizable crushes on him, some see him as a younger brother, a few act as mother figures to him, a few have fallen in love with him, while others think of him as a close friend.
- Asuna Kagurazaka: Negi and Asuna's relationship starts off on very shaky ground, as he was forced to live in the same room with her as a request from the academy's dean, but also happened to replace the homeroom teacher she happened to have a crush on. However, their relationship quickly improves as they get used to each other. Curiously, Asuna resembles Nekane a lot, so it was easy for Negi to develop a little brother/big sister relationship with her. Asuna was the first to find out about Negi's secret and was the first person that Negi made a probationary contract with, when his life was threatened by Evangeline. Her strength, determination and immunity to enemy magic proved to be invaluable in many dangerous situations.
- Konoka Konoe: Negi's other roommate, and the dean's granddaughter. She always acts as a mediator between Asuna and Negi when there is tension between them. As the heir to the "Kansai Magic Association", a powerful group of mages from Western Japan, she was attacked by enemies who wanted to harness her latent magical power, but was protected by Negi and his allies. Since then, she studies magic under Negi and Evangeline, and even made a probationary contract with him, gaining great healing abilities along with basic magic.
- Setsuna Sakurazaki: One of Negi's closest students and allies. She is a hanyo, or half demon, who has sworn to protect Konoka Konoe, and is an expert at Shinmei-ryu (lit. God-Crying Style). Though at first she stated that she was disappointed at Negi's so far performance during the Kyoto Field Trip Arc, Setsuna soon realized that not only was he a valuable ally, but a great leader and teacher as well. She also makes a probationary contract with Negi during this arc to better increase their chances of defeating a horde of yokai summoned by Chigusa Amagasaki. As the series has progessed, her relationship with Negi has grown to the point where she would even state she would not stand by if Negi were threatened, and would protect his life as she would do for Konoka. She highly respects Negi as both a teacher and a friend.
- Evangeline A.K. McDowell: A former enemy of Negi, she is a powerful true vampire criminal who had most of her powers sealed by the thousand master 15 years ago, being trapped in Mahora Academy since then. Nagi promised to release her from this curse someday, but Eva's hopes for it to happen were crushed by the news of his disappearance. When Negi moved to the Academy, she tried to attack him in order to drain his blood to obtain enough power to break free by herself, until Negi defeated her with Asuna's help. Later in the series, Negi decides to ask her to instruct him in magic as her apprentice, occasionally giving her a bit of his blood as payment. Just like she was in love with Nagi (and some chapters showed she still does), she seems to be developing some feelings for Negi as well, though she is reluctant to admit it.
- Kū Fei: Just like Negi sought Eva's aid to increase his magical abilities, he now trains under Kū Fei in Chinese Kenpo, hoping to be strong enough in both magic and close combat just like his father. She also develops feelings for Negi as the story progresses, stating that one day he can become her husband. She later confesses her love to Negi and felt that he has gotten stronger than her, therefore causing her to fall in love with him. She eventually made a Pactio with Negi during the trip to the Magic World.
- Ayaka Yukihiro: 3-A's class representative. She is the girl most overtly fond of Negi, though she stands by the position that she is only interested in Negi because he "needs a mother figure" or a "big sister". Actually her feelings for him are a mixture of physical infatuation and brotherly love, as she apparently still has not gotten over the loss of her younger brother, who died during birth the same year Negi was born. She is currently helping out in Negi's plan. According to her, she admits that her current relationship with Negi can now even referred to as "partners", at least in her perspective.
- Nodoka Miyazaki: Soon after Negi became her teacher, she developed a crush on him despite her nervousness around guys. Always supported by her best friend Yue (who has now developed her own feelings for him), she is the first one of Negi's students to properly confess her love to him. She is also the first one to have a real (non Pactio related) kiss with Negi. She is the second student to form a provisional contract. Obtaining an item that can give her access to the thoughts of anyone, Nodoka became an invaluable asset in his party.
- Chao Lingshen: The main antagonist of the Mahora Festival arc, she gave some trouble to Negi and his friends during the festival, claiming that she came from the future and is in reality a descendant of Negi. She also claims her true intentions are to change the world for the better suggesting that something happens in her time that was bad enough to want to change history to stop it. She was defeated by Negi in the end. Before she returned to the future, Negi wanted her to stay with him as his "partner" which she quietly agrees to, however she decides otherwise due to Negi practically "confessing his love to her" and being his blood relative. Chao then leaves back to the future believing one day the two meet again.
- Chisame Hasegawa: Originally seeing Negi as a bizarre brat, Chisame has slowly warmed up to Negi. Her opinion of Negi starts to change when she learns he is a fan of her homepage on the web. Negi also helps Chisame come out of her introverted shell into a more confidant individual. In Asuna’s absence, she designates herself as temporary guardian of Negi. This doesn’t happen until later volumes in the manga when Negi fulfills a promise to her saving her from a tentacle monster. Currently, she is one of the few girls that has a platonic relationship with Negi and does not have romantic feelings for him, however she does show signs of "jealousy" toward the other girls who express affections towards Negi, making her possibly "one" of them.
- Chachamaru Karakuri: Originally as Evangeline's partner through a 'Doll Contract', she eventually develops feelings for Negi as the story progresses. During Kurt Godel's party, Chachamaru wonders about performing a Pactio with Negi, despite that she is a robot and does not have a soul. However, Negi never gives up in succeeding performing a Pactio with her, and then her Pactio card finally appears. According to Evangeline, she thinks no one other than Chachamaru who would help him in his plan. Chachamaru is currently still not able to confess properly to Negi yet, but her feelings for him is on the same level as Nodoka's and Makie's. She is also Negi's Secretary.
- Ako Izumi: She had no interest in Negi from the start, but she falls in love with 'Nagi' (which is Negi in his disguise) during the Mahora Festival arc. She later had a hard time being a slave in the Magical World alongside Akira and Natsumi. After overhearing Tosaka's conversation with 'Nagi' which he reveals that 'Nagi' is Negi, she became heartbroken. However, she gotten over it and tried to persuade Tosaka to forget about Negi's true identity to which he immediately agrees with no second thoughts. After that, Negi meets Ako as 'Nagi' tried to apologize to her, but she does not mind and she soon give him a kiss and confessed to him. When she meets Negi in his Demon form, she became terrified but after seeing Makie did not hesitate to calm him down, she became impressed and soon tried helping Negi. When Negi tried to perform a Pactio with her as 'Nagi', she already found out and changed Negi back into his original age. After knowing it was Akira and Yuuna's idea, she tells him that she wants to perform the Pactio with Negi as his true self, and not 'Nagi'.
- Yuna Akashi: The two seem to get along quite well due to them being natural born Mages. Like most of the girls, Yuna thinks Negi is very cute, but as time passes she begins to see him as her little brother and even Negi referred to her as a surrogate big sister. She often shows distress when she notices Negi getting hurt or into trouble and wants to assist him in some way. Negi acknowledges Yuna as a Mage and as a friend since he seems to have a great deal of trust in her. Yuna believes that it was fate that made them become partners as she stated her mother and Negi's father, Nagi, were acquiantances. Her relationship with Negi is very simiar to his relationship with Asuna.
- Makie Sasaki: Like Ayaka, she is also interested in Negi because she thinks he is cute. However, it all changed when she went to the Magical World. After Nagi's (which is Negi in disguise) identity is revealed to Ako, she then gets very confused and very worried. It gets even worse after her discussion with Akira, to the point where she should let Ako and Negi be together (although she is still not giving up on him). After Negi is in his Demon form, she did not hesitate to hold his hands and tries to ease his pain. She finally confessed to Negi before completing the Pactio with him, which makes her the second/third one of Negi's students to properly confess to him.
- Yue Ayase: Yue initially remained in the background at the start of the story. However, when Kazumi organizes a special game to kiss Negi, she decides to join Nodoka to help her win the game. However, when she was approached by one of the Negi clones attempting to kiss her, unexpected feelings begin to emerge, making her feel guilty in possibly cheating out Nodoka. Yue had a small crush on Negi in the beginning which later becomes love.
- Kaede Nagase: When Negi had fled into the woods during his conflict with Evangeline, Kaede found him while training, and helped cheer him up. She saw Negi flying off the next morning, but kept this a secret even from him until she helped Negi rescue Konoka at Kyoto where she fought and defeated Kotarou. After making a Pactio with Negi, she declares him as her new master while at the same time declaring herself as his servant, though she might have developed a small crush on Negi. Kaede acts as one of Negi's guardians as well as a surrogate mother figure towards him.
Family[]
- Nagi Springfield: A powerful Magister Magi known as "The Thousand Master". He is Negi's father who was thought dead when Negi was born. Considered deceased by most, one night he mysteriously appeared before Negi to save him when his village was in danger, and gave him his staff. Negi believes his father is still alive, and follows every clue he finds about his whereabouts, determined to find him. One of Negi's reasons to work so hard is to become a master mage just like his father. Although several characters believe he is alive, no one knows where he is. In the end, Negi eventually finds and reunites with Nagi and introduces him to his students/comrades.
- Nekane Springfield: Negi's cousin (whom he calls older sister, since they grew up together). After his father disappeared, she and her parents took the orphaned Negi in. Her gentle personality is largely based on interpretations through disjointed flashbacks, so it is hard to identify precisely what she is like. What has been indicated however is that she took on more of a motherly role in his life, as at one time she even risked herself to protect him from harm. She is shown to be someone that Negi cares greatly for and respects a lot.
- Arika Anarchia Entheofushia: After the tournament in the magic world, it is revealed through an encounter with the Megalomesembrian Senator, that Arika (First mentioned during Rakan's movies of his adventures with Ala Rubra) is in fact, Negi's mother. Not much is known about her, other than she traveled with Nagi and Ala Rubra.
- Chao Lingshen: Assuming that what Chao Lingshen said about being a descendent of Negi Springfield is true, then it is certain that Negi has at least one child in the future and that one of his descendants gives birth to Chao Lingshen.
- Asuna Kagurazaka: She is somehow related to Arika, and is thus related to Negi. The full extent of this relationship is unknown.
- Touta Konoe: He is the vampire (former genetic template) grandson of Negi Springfield and is thus related to Negi. He from the uq holder timeline. The full extent of this relationship is unknown.
Friends[]
- Albert Chamomile (Chamo): Negi's pet/familiar. A perverted, lingerie stealing, chain-smoking, talking ermine that Negi freed from a trap five years ago. Since then, Chamo has been fiercely loyal to Negi and admires him very much. He cares strongly for Negi and will fight to protect him, but he is not above using him to try to make a fast buck when possible.
- Kotarō Inugami: A wolf hanyō whose first encounter with Negi was as an enemy of his. Kotarō was one of the mercenaries hired to kidnap Konoka in Kyoto. After he was defeated by Negi and co., he was under the custody of the Kansai Magic Association, where his abilities to transform and summon wolf spirits were sealed. In order to challenge Negi for a rematch, Kotarō escaped and set for Mahora Academy. There he discovered a plan by Wilhelm and the Slime Sisters against Negi and lend him a hand to defeat them. For risking his life to protect Negi and his students, he was pardoned and decided to live in Mahora as an elementary school student. Since then Kotarō became Negi's rival, and one of his best friends.
- Anya Cocolova: Negi's childhood friend from his original hometown who also attended the magic academy that he graduated from. She too has a crush on Negi, despite her many claims to the contrary. Due to her lack of development, she feels threatened by girls with shapely bodies, declaring them to be her enemies.
- Fate Averruncus: The former member of Cosmo Enthelecheia and another one of Negi's rivals. He started developing an interest in Negi after the Kyoto arc. Before his last battle with Negi concludes, he said that he will let Negi to start his plan to save the Magical World and annouced that it is Negi's victory. Negi tried asking Fate to be his friend, to which Fate reject his offers (however, they get along well later). After school begins, he becomes the substitute teacher of Class 3-A. His current relationship with Negi makes Nodoka, Yue and Makie consider him as a somewhat love rival.
Hakkeshō[]
- Sōtōshō (双撞掌, lit. Dual Striking Palms): A technique, where Negi breathes outward before striking his opponent with a dual palmed strike, which sent a slime backward.
- Gokuen Hozan Takutenshō (獄炎崩山托天掌, lit. Hellfire Mountain-Crushing, Heaven-Bearing Palm): A single heavy palm thrust to the chest of the opponent. Negi enhanced the power of the technique by using it in Magia Erebea's Sim Fabricatus Ab Incendio form. The spell hits the target with a close-range heatwave.
Trivia[]
- Interestingly enough since Negi's mother was once queen of Ostia, also known as the "Queen of Calamity", this would mean that Negi is royalty in the magic world. Which makes the rumors of the 3-A girls, that Negi is actually a prince, true.
- Negi's name is actually a pun: Negi in Japanese means scallion, also known as green onions, spring onions or, vitally, Welsh Onions, and are in the same family as the leek, which is a national symbol of Wales. He likes spring onion kabobs with grilled chicken, because his name is in it. His nickname, "Negi Bōzu", is another pun since while "Bōzu" can be translated as "brat", "Negi Bōzu" literally means "Onion Head". Evangeline, being a vampire, hates green onions.
- According to the character design discussions in volume one, he is stylistically inspired by the titular hero of Harry Potter, in that he is a young British Mage with bad eyesight who was raised without his parents. From thereon, his idealistic, upbeat and positive personality diverges from his troubled inspiration. Volume one also states his original name as Negi T. Silverberg.
- His birthday is on May 2, 1993 (Chapter 352). This would explain his age while he was in Mahora as approximately 9 and 3/4 (a reference to Harry Potter's 9 3/4 platform).
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