Monica Everett, the Silent Witch, is the world’s only practitioner of Voiceless Magic, a veritable heroine who single-handedly fended off the Black Dragon of legend. However, the young prodigy is actually…super-duper shy! Yup, turns out she only learned Voiceless Magic to avoid speaking in public. Ignorant of this, the Seven Sages have placed her on a top-secret mission to guard the Second Prince. Can Monica keep it together as she contends with both social interaction and the evils targeting the young royal? (Source: Yen Press, edited)

**A prodigy with a wicked streak** After memorizing his first magecraft textbook in a single week, Louis is accepted as a scholarship student at Minerva’s Mage Training Institution. But surrounded by nobles, the rough and rowdy boy from a poor, remote village is treated as a problem child and feared for the way he mercilessly beats his opponents in magic battles. And yet Louis still finds teachers he respects and friends he can rely on as he grows into the man who will become a Sage. Learn all about the notorious Barrier Mage’s youth in this two-part prequel to Secrets of the Silent Witch. *Source: Yen Press, Vol. 1*