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Seirei Gensouki: Spirit Chronicles (精霊幻想記) is a Japanese light novel series written by Yuri Kitayama and illustrated by Riv. The story takes place in a fantasy-esque world where the protagonist is reincarnated as a young prodigal boy after getting involved in an accident in his previous life, yet with a twist; he retains the memory of his past life. However, he soon finds that his new life was far from perfect, and fate has more in store for him. Hobby Japan published the first volume of the light novel in October 2015. J-Novel Club has licensed the series for English releases in July 2018, with the first English-translated volume being published in August 2018.

Plot
Rio was only 5-years-old when he suddenly ends up as a callous orphan, forced to live in the slums after his beloved mother was murdered in front of him. Ever since then,.

One day when he was 7-years-old, he realizes he’s actually the reincarnation of Haruto Amakawa, a Japanese university student with a tragic past.

This is the story of Rio — a boy struck with the epiphany of his past life memories on earth and choosed to embrace it — as he embarks on a soul-searching adventure and to unravel the mystery of this fantasy world filled with twist at every turn. But little did he know that the journey he was about to embark on would lead to numerous intriguing encounters with new and familiar faces that would change his life forever.

Main Characters

 * Rio (リオ)

Rio is the main protagonist of the story, and also the reincarnation of Amakawa Haruto. In his previous life as Haruto, he tragically died after being involved in a traffic accident in Japan. Upon reincarnation, Rio was born as the only child to Zen (father) and Ayame (mother). He lost his father when he was just a few years old, presumed to have been killed by Lucius. Afterwards, he became an orphaned child at the age of five after his mother, Ayame, was raped and murdered cold-bloodedly by Lucius in front of him.

Since then, he begins living in the slums of the Beltram Kingdom capital until he became involved in an incident that changed his life after he rescued Flora — a Princess of Beltram's Royalty — when she was kidnapped. As part of his reward in rescuing Flora, he enrolled into Beltram Kingdom Royal Academy where he would meet Celia Claire — his teacher and also someone precious to him — but life in the academy was not easy for a commoner like him as he was constantly shunned by his peers, where majority was of noble backgrounds.

After a few years, his life would change for the second time when he was framed for an incident in which Flora was involved again, forcing him to flee from the Kingdom as a fugitive when he was just months away from graduating. As the story progresses, he discovered that he has latent power within him known as the 'Spirit Arts' which was fundamentally different than conventional magic, though he would only understand and unlock its full potential later on after he arrived at the Spirit Kingdom. Along the journey, he would finally meet his spirit contractor and partner — Aishia — as well as his adoptive little sister, Latifa.

Rio is also an unofficial royal member of Karasuki Kingdom through his mother's lineage as Ayame is revealed to be the exiled princess of Karasuki Kingdom later on in the series due to a certain incident.


 * Celia Claire (セリア クレール)

Celia Claire is a noble daughter of Earl Claire Household from Beltram Kingdom. She was also the teacher of Rio and currently a former professor at the Royal Academy. She is well known throughout the Strahl region and hailed as a genius magician due to her innate talent in magic. Physically, she is a natural beauty with the long silver hair being her primary trademark. Celia also has a gentle personality for someone who was born from nobility. Unlike other nobles, she does not look down on others.

At the Academy, Celia treated Rio with affection and respect. To Rio, Celia was his shining beacon in his moment of darkness while he was at the Academy, which earned her a special place within his heart. Aishia — Rio's spirit contractor and partner — admitted that Rio was able to grow closer to people he met around him despite his difficult circumstances primarily because Celia was the first person to show true kindness to Rio.

Due to the civil war in Beltram Kingdom as the story progresses, Celia almost wedded Sir Charles as his seventh wife as part of a forced political marriage. When Rio learned Celia was to be wedded, he immediately returned to Beltram to ascertain her feelings on the arrangement. Celia was eventually rescued by Rio during the wedding after Celia realized she loved Rio and promptly asked him to rescue her.

Aside from Aishia, Celia is one of the closest and dearest person to Rio. She is aware of Rio's upbringing and personal circumstances, including Rio's previous life which remained privy to most. Celia has romantic feelings for Rio as evidenced when she asked Rio to rescue her from her wedding that was forced upon her.

Aishia

Aishia is Rio's contract spirit and the series deuteragonist. She is an eminent high-ranked spirit, where their existences are incredibly rare. Aishia has been contracted to Rio when Rio recalled his past life memories as Amakawa Haruto at the beginning of the series. Prior to her awakening in her humanoid spirit form, Aishia spent most of time by sleeping and residing within Rio.

Before she manifested in her humanoid spirit form, Aishia would occasionally guide Rio out of his predicament by communicating to him in a form of inner-monologue. Aishia manifested herself in her humanoid spirit form after Rio rescued Miharu, Aki and Masato from the slave trader. She prefers to stay near Rio most of the time because it enables her to recharge her spiritual power and he provides a sense of security.

Aishia is considered the most beautiful female cast in the series. She sports an extremely long peach-coloured hair reaching down her knee and gem-like eyes of the same colour. Rio admitted that her looks is so divine that it felt completely out of this world.

Before Rio discovered the Spirit Kingdom and while Aishia was still residing within him, Aishia was the one who guided Rio on the basics and fundamentals of 'Spirit Arts' after Rio fled from the Strahl region after being framed for a certain incident. She is also very loyal to Rio and like other girls, seems to have feelings for her master.

Ayase Miharu

Ayase Miharu is a childhood sweetheart and crush of Amakawa Haruto (Rio) as well as one of the main heroines in the series. They grew up together and were very close to each other, but one day Haruto had to leave the town after his parent’s sudden divorce. Miharu begged Haruto to stay, but he promised Miharu that he will return to her someday and will marry her. Their feelings were mutual.

After Haruto returned to the town, he enrolled into the same school as Miharu. He made up his mind that he will surprise Miharu after years of separation and will confess his love to her once again. However, she mysteriously disappeared after their high-school entrance ceremony before Haruto even had the chance to make a move. When Haruto’s life flashes before his very eyes during the tragic accident, he admitted that his biggest regret was losing Miharu mysteriously without being able to do anything. Ironically, that feeling still lingers within him even after he was reincarnated as Rio, but fate would reunite Rio with Miharu later on.

As the story progresses, despite the discrepancy in the timeline between Earth and Rio’s world, it turns out that after the high-school entrance ceremony Miharu was caught up in the summoning circle and was transported to Rio’s world together with other characters of the series such as Sumeragi Satsuki, Sendou Takahisa, Sendou Masato and Sendou Aki. However, Miharu together with Masato and Aki were captured by a slave trader after being summoned. They were also separated from Satsuki and Takahisa. Rio would eventually rescue Miharu, Masato and Aki from the slave trader and brought them to the Spirit Kingdom to be put under the Kingdom’s temporary protection.

Miharu is a cute, gentle and a reversed girl. She is generally uncomfortable around boys, but she feels at ease when she is with Haruto back on earth and with Rio after she was forcefully summoned. Together with her long black hair, she gives off a very feminine impression and her proportions were all in the right place.

Miharu is unaware that Rio is the reincarnation of Haruto. As the story progresses, Miharu begins to falls in love with Rio, but became increasingly disillusioned and confused with her own feelings as she often overlaps Rio as Haruto, despite her intuition is correct.

Latifa

Latifa is a young fox beastkin girl who was born at Beltram Kingdom in the Strahl region. She is the reincarnation of Endo Suzune who was a Japanese elementary school student. She was involved in the same traffic accident with Haruto (Rio) and somehow retained her past memories after being reincarnated. In the series, Latifa is the adoptive sister of Rio and also one of the heroines vying for Rio’s affection.

Latifa was born as a pet slave under Huguenot Family, one of the prominent nobles in Beltram Kingdom. It is implied that she is bastard child of Gustave Huguenot. Her mother was originally an inhabitant of Seirei no Tami (Spirit Kingdom) and descendent of Ursula, one of the elders (i.e. village chiefs) in Spirit Kingdom. Under the Huguenot household, she led a horrid life; often abused as a ‘toy’ by her half-brother Stead Huguenot and was forcefully raised as a disposable assassin by her Father.

However, Latifa’s life turned over a new leaf when she met Rio, after failing to assassinate him under orders from her father and was subsequently freed from her slave collar. After being freed, Rio felt pity for Latifa, and agreed to let her accompany him on his journey. During that, they bonded with each other and managed to achieve a sibling-like relationship.

As a fox girl, Latifa has a fluffy yet cute appearance with a medium length bright orange hair, orange eyes, fox tails and big fox ears befitting her young age. Prior to her encounter with Rio, her mental state was frail, causing her to detach herself from her surroundings and become partially emotionless, which limits her mental growth.

As she spends more time with Rio and interacts more openly with others in the Spirit Kingdom, Latifa begins to recover mentally but also became more attached and clingy to Rio. She greatly enjoys being doted on and spoiled exclusively by him as she believes that she deserves his undivided affection and attention as his little sister. While she is aware of her own selfish desire, she secretly loves Rio, both as a little sister and as a woman.

Liselotte Cretia

Liselotte is the third child and the sole daughter of Cretia Household, a prominent Noble household from Galwark Kingdom in the Strahl region. Liselotte is also the reincarnation of Minamoto Rikka, a high school girl from Japan who was also involved in the same accident with Haruto (Rio) and Suzune (Latifa). Armed with the knowledge of the world in her past life combined with her high intellect, she skipped several grades before graduating from Galwark Royal Academy, and became a successful entrepreneur at just the age of 15 with her brand being prevalent in other neighbouring countries.

On top of running a successful enterprise, she is also the governor of Amande, a trading city that is flourishing and prospering under her governance within the Galwark Kingdom. Because she is the epitome of beauty with brains, Liselotte is prominent among the noble circles, never running out marriage proposal from various dignitaries.

When she first met Rio, she was the first one to reveal that she was from Earth in her prior life and admitted that her goods were deliberately named after Earth words to that she could reach out those who were like her (i.e. reincarnated or summoned). She was both surprised and ecstatic when she learned that Rio also came from Japan and was in the same bus with her when the accident occurred in their previous life. Like other heroines, she has romantic feelings for Rio.

Others
Reiss

Reiss is the main antagonist of the series and the natural enemy of Rio. Reiss is implied to be a non-human and is also able to manipulate spirit arts just like Rio. However, he has demonstrated that he is capable of performing more complex magic and even ancient magic of the past. He has used multiple aliases and identities such as being the Ambassador of Proxia Empire, posed as a member of Heavenly Lion as Lucius' subordinate, and claimed to be a noble from the Rubia kingdom named Jean Bernard.

While his primary motive are still unknown, he is responsible for most major disturbances that have occurred in the Stralh region with the intention of starting an all-out war between the four biggest countries across the region. However, his activity is not just limited to Stralh region, having attacked the Spirit Kingdom indirectly on one occasion

Lucius Orgueille

One of the main antagonist of the series and the source of unhappiness in Rio’s life, Lucius Orgueille is eldest son and former heir to the Orgueille house, a fallen low rank noble house from the Beltram kingdom. Prior to its collapse, Lucius was a candidate to the ‘King's Sword’, a title bestowed to the strongest and most trusted knight by the King of Beltram. After an unfortunate incident that led to his house's demise, he begans to harbor a deep hatred towards the kingdom.

After the collapse of his house and nobility, he begins to work as an adventurer. He later befriend Rio’s parents during his adventure, and after years of meticulous planning that started with Zen’s — Rio’s father — mysterious death, he would eventually raped and murdered Ayame — Rio’s mother — cold bloodedly in front of Rio, making him an orphan at just the age of five years old. Ironically, this incident changed Rio’s life for the better and gave Rio a purpose in life; that is to get his revenge on Lucius for his atrocity.

After the incident, he disappeared from the Kingdom and founded an infamous mercenary group named ‘Heavenly Lion’, also known as the Griffins, which comprised of a small band of elite warriors. The group would eventually became inactive in the later years but Lucius was still doing his mercenary works in secret. He would be a constant thorn to Rio’s side throughout the series, and Lucius even sided himself with Reiss by lending a hand in his malicious deed and disturbance behind-the-scene throughout the Strahl region

Beltram Kingdom
Christina Beltram

First Princess of the Beltram Kingdom and the older sister of Flora. She was also the former classmate of Rio when they were students of Beltram Kingdom Royal Academy. After the Kingdom lost a battle against the Proxia Empire, the Royal family influence diminished which led to the collapse of Duke Huegenot's faction and the rise of Arbor's faction. Her little sister, Flora managed to flee from the capital together with Huguenot's faction but she was forced to stay in the Capital. She is currently being monitored by the Arbor's faction.

Like her Flora, she felt awful and regretful for not standing up for Rio when Rio was discriminated against due to his commoner background throughout his time in the Academy. To make matters worse, Rio was framed for a certain incident yet she went along with everyone and did not defend Rio, thinking it was for the best interest of the Kingdom. Ever since then, she vowed to change her Kingdom someday so that what Rio went through will never happen again.

Flora Beltram

Second Princess of the Beltram Kingdom and the younger sister of Christina. She has a long history with Rio, back to the days when she was first rescued by him when she was kidnapped in the slums. Rio rose to fame thanks to that incident and was enrolled at the Royal Academy. A few years afterward, Rio would eventually ran away from the Kingdom due to a certain incident that befell Flora in which she became the victim. Despite being rescued by Rio again, she was powerless to clear Rio's name when he was framed as a scapegoat.

As a result, Rio had to flee to Kingdom and Flora was extremely sad for not being able to thank Rio and felt that no amount of gratitude would make up for what Rio had done for her. However, few years afterwards fate allowed her to meet Rio again in the Galarc Kingdom.

Shortly after the Kingdom was humiliated by the Proxia Empire, she fled the Kingdom together with her best friend, Roana Fontine and the Huguenot's faction after the Arbor's faction took control of the capital.

She is strongly in love with Rio, yet she felt regret at her own timidness and how powerless she was to prevent Rio from being framed due to the certain incident back then. Nonetheless, she refused to give up on him.

Roana Fontine

A noble girl from the Duke Fontine house, she has been Christina's and Flora's playmate since their childhood days. She fled the Kingdom together with Flora during the civil war.

Gustave Huguenot

A duke, he is the head of the Huguenot family and the Restoration faction. After losing his influence in the civil war that transpired after a disastrous war with Proxia Empire, he fled from the capital with his faction together with the second princess and is currently in exile. He has a son named Stead Huguenot. He was the one who dispatched Latifa to eliminate Rio after a certain incident before Latifa was saved by Rio.

Charles Arbor

Son of Helmut Arbor and the heir to the Arbor Family. Despite a turbulent start early in the series because of his blunder, he rose to power once again thanks to a secret pact he made with Reiss. He is currently the most influential in the Beltram Kingdom after the war with Proxia, making the Royal Family effectively his puppet. Due to a certain incident, Celia was almost wedded to Charles as his seventh wife as part of political marriage but Celia was rescued by Rio during the wedding in the nick of time.

Galwark Kingdom
Charlotte Galarc

Charlotte is the second princess of Galarc Kingdom. She used to be close with Liselotte where she would frequently drink tea with her, before Liselotte graduated from Galarc Royal Academy and moved away to Amande. Charlotte is also free-spirited in nature but her she has the tendency to be calculative and nasty, personality wise. She tried to befriend Satsuki after she was summoned as the hero of Galarc kingdom, but Satsuki kept her guard up around her and maintained a cordial relationship. She also has crush on Rio after she met him.

Aria Gavaness

Aria is Liselotte's most trusted aide and chief vassal. She is the strongest of all Liselotte’s servants and serves her as her great chamberlain and personal escort. Prior to her working as Liselotte’s aide, Aria was a daughter of Beltram’s nobility known as the Gavaness household. She attended the Beltram Kingdom Royal Academy as Celia’s classmate. Aria was known amongst her peers as the best at swordcraft, while in magic, she would only be bested by Celia.

However, misfortune befell upon her household while she was in the sixth year where her house has fallen from nobility, forcing her to prematurely quit the academy. She was subsequently employed as a maid at the Beltram’s Royal Castle for a short while before quitting after she was fed up in constantly dealing with harassment from her co-workers because of her fallen nobility. Ironically before she quit her maid job, she attended the young Rio just before his audience with the king for his great deed in rescuing Princess Flora.

Seirei no Tami (Spirit Kingdom)
Dryas

Dryas is the main body the world tree, erected in the middle of a lush forest of which the village are centered on. She is one of the rare high spirit capable of manifestating in humanoid form similar to Aishia, and is worshipped by the inhabitants of the village. She would occassionally give advices and share her wisdom with the village elders and inhabitants. Dryas is quite fond of Rio and Aishia.

Syldra (Chief of the Elder Council)

Syldra is a male elf and the chief of the Elder Council. The Elder Council is the representative body of Seirei no Tami (Spirit Kingdom) that helps to settle disputes, securities affairs and other matters mainly related to the village and its races. The council comprised of three representatives, each from a major race, except for human since the Spirit Kingdom is essentially a non-human country. The other two elders in the council apart from Syldra are Ursula — who represents the beastkins, and Dominic — who represents the dwarves.

Syldra and the other elders greatly respect Rio and considered him as an eternal friend and guardian of Seirei no Tami, despite Rio being a human. The elders and villagers also played a significant role in supporting Latifa’s recovery after Rio rescued her from enslavement and even provided shelter to Miharu, Aki and Masato after they were all saved by Rio.

Karasuki Kingdom
Karasuki Homura

He is the maternal grandfather of Rio, father of Ayame (Rio's mother) and King of Karasuki Kingdom, which technically makes Rio a royalty of Karasuki but his circumstances are kept private from the public, except to a select few due to the sensitive nature surrounding Rio's family history. He has a wife named Karasuki Shizuku (Rio's grandmother and Karasuki Kingdom's Queen).

Like his wife, they both loved Rio dearly and they always welcome him with open arms. They felt horrible when they learned the tragic and traumatic past of Rio. When he confirmed Rio's resolve to have his revenge on Luscius, he asked Rio to take several of his retainers; Gouki, Kayoko, Komomo and a group of ten anbus to help with his revenge but Rio refused.

Rio would occasionally visit his mother's grandparents from time to time.

Saga Gouki

Head of Saga family, one of the most ancient samurai families from the Karasuki kingdom, famous as the strongest samurai in the kingdom and its surrounding neighbors. He was the best friend of Rio's Father, Zen. Gouki

He has a wife named Kayoko with four children, but the only known named children are his eldest son (Hayate) and one of the daughters (Komomo). He and Kayoko were the former bodyguards of Ayame (Rio's mother) but because of a certain incident and Kayoko's pregnancy, they were forced to stay behind in the kingdom while Ayame and Zen made their escape from the Kingdom.

When he met Rio, he and his wife promised that they would do everything in their power to assist Rio as redemption for not being there at his darkest time and, when Zen and Ayame passed away.

Yuba

She is the paternal grandmother of Rio and mother of Zen (Rio's father).

Summoned Heroes
Sakata Hiroaki

A high school graduated from Japan who failed his University's entrance exam. Out of all heroes, he has the most troublesome attitude and overbearing personality. He was summoned by Duke Hueguenot's faction. His Divine weapon is a blade capable of summoning devasting water attacks.

Rui Shigekura

A 16-year old hero summoned by Beltram Kingdom. He was transported from his previous world together with four of his friends which included his girlfriend. His divine weapon is a white bow with yellow/golden decorations that controls lightning.

Sumeragi Satsuki

She is a hero summoned by the Galwark Kingdom.

Light novels
Hobby Japan first published the print edition as a light novel in February 2017. For the English localization, J-Novel Club acquired the rights for English releases in March 2019, with the first English-translated volume being published in May 2019.