Negi Springfield

Infobox animanga character
color = brown
color text = white
name = Negi Springfield
series = Negima! Magister Negi Magi


caption = Negi as depicted in the manga
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creator = Ken Akamatsu
voiced by = Rina Satou (Japanese)
Greg Ayres (English)
oaux1 = Yukina Kashiwa
oaux1 name = Portrayed by
alias = Son of the Thousand Master, Prodigy, Negi-Bouzu, Nagi Springfield
age = 9/10
species = Mage
gender = Male
born = Sometime in 1994
relatives = Nagi Springfield (father)
Nekane Springfield (cousin/foster sister)
paux1 = 140cm (4' 7")
paux1 name = Height
paux2 = AB
paux2 name = Blood type
paux3 = Auburn
paux3 name = Hair color
paux4 = Brown
paux4 name = Eye color
divider = Resumé
aux1 = English teacher; Homeroom teacher - Class 2/3-A, Mahora Academy Girls' Junior High School, Mage
aux1 name = Current occupation
aux2 = Takamichi T. Takahata
aux2 name = Preceded by
aux3 = "incumbent"
aux3 name = Followed by

Negi Springfield (ネギ・スプリングフィールド "Negi Supuringufīrudo"), is the main character of the manga/anime nihongo|""|魔法先生ネギま!|Mahō Sensei Negima!. He is a mage in training and the homeroom and English teacher of Class 3-A (formerly 2-A) of Mahora Academy Middle School for girls. Rina Satou is his voice actress in both anime series, while Greg Ayres is his English voice actor. He is also portrayed in the live-action series by child actress Yukina Kashiwa.

Negi's name is actually a pun as nihongo|"negi"|葱 in Japanese means scallion, also known as green onions, spring onions or, appropriately, 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 nihongo|"bōzu"|坊主 can be translated as "kid" or "sonny", "negibōzu" literally means "onion-head".

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 two anime series."

Negi Springfield is the son of master mage Nagi Springfield, famously known as the legendary "Thousand Master". The identity of his mother is as of yet unknown.

Early in his childhood, Negi came to live with his cousin (thought to be sister because he always refers to her as "onee-chan") Nekane Springfield in a small village in the mountains of England. Even as a small child, he lived pretty much alone in his uncle's 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 most 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 blow 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 already been turned to stone. 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 "Magister Magi" (a "Master Mage") 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 Konoemon Konoe 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 and abilities

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 sometimes puts him at a disadvantage when a more pragmatic approach is needed. Negi cares for all the girls in his class, out of his own interpretation of his duties as a teacher, the parting advice from Nekane, and an overall liking of people in general. As a result he often goes beyond what most other teachers would consider an acceptable level of involvement in the affairs of his students. 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 youth and naive nature also seem to make him rather gullible and he seems to take relatively minor things very seriously.

Negi's one true character flaw is that, being as driven as he is, he tends to push himself too hard, especially for a boy of his tender years. 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 concern of those around him, particularly Asuna. Some other notable quirks he has include that he hates taking baths and that he has a habit of clutching any nearby person in his sleep, as he is unused to sleeping alone. This is due to the fact that he used to sleep with Nekane all the time.

Negi appears to be a 'sad' drunk, as characterized by his sobbing after a single drop of sake.

Negi specializes in wind-based spells and light magic and his command over lightning spells (his father's speciality) is growing as well. When Negi sneezes, he sometimes acidentally summons up a powerful gust of wind that can blow up skirts, or even blast off the clothes of anyone near him, especially Asuna's. Negi's sneeze has also shown that it can unintentionally strengthen some of Negi's attacks with the extra force of the gust. He demonstrates excellent marksmanship skills, and owns many magical antiques, including a rare antique magic gun. Recently, in preparation for the tournament in Ostia and to get stronger, Negi has chosen to embrace dark-based magic.

Even without magic, Negi has proven to be a talented warrior whose ability to master Kung fu equals that of Ku Fei, his teacher of Chinese Martial Arts. In Volume 7, she expresses with equal respect and jealousy that "This boy is truly talented; He is able to pick up in 3 hours, what most people take three months to learn. Life really is unfair." Coupled with a prodigious talent of melding and adapting Kung Fu with western magic, Negi's personal martial art is a formidable hybrid of eastern and western traditions that time and again proves to be more than a match for warriors more than twice his age and experience.

At present Negi has formed eight Probationary Contracts. In the first anime series, due to necessity, Negi had to make probationary contracts with every girl in the class. In the second anime series, Negi has completed a provisional contract with Evangeline and Chachamaru who were the last two students in his class with whom he did not have a contract, thus completing a contract with all of his students.

Recently, Negi has shown his use of Evangeline's Magia Erebia, a skill involving the absorbtion of offensive magic into one's body. Different elements evoke different effects when absorbed. As of chapter 220, Negi has absorbed lightning, wind, and darkness. Magia Erebia is, at the core, a dark magic, one that Negi has such affinity with that it threatens to consume him. The effects of the elements absorbed are as follows:

*Dark: A general boost to all of Negi's abilities, including speed and power.

*Lightning: Surrounds Negi with high voltage electricity like an aura, which channels into people as he strikes them. Also, the spell first used to activate this element (Iaclutio Fulgoris) is also evokable when Negi strikes an opponent, impaling the spear exactly where Negi had struck.

*Wind: An insane bonus to speed, which indirectly also increases the force of Negi's attacks.

Magia Erebia also has side effects, shown after the Negi's first fight using the magic. Dark energies look as though they are beginning to corrupt Negi, but he was stopped before any sort of further effect was observed. Several keywords are also connected to Magia Erebia, that of which are:

*Stagnet: Concentrates and compresses the spell into a sphere for absorption.

*Complexio: Negi crushes the magical sphere within his fist, thereby absorbing it.

*Supplentum pro Armationem: Caused the desired effects of the absorption process.

Relationships

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.

*Nekane Springfield: Negi's cousin, often referred to as his sister, although he sees her more as a mother. 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.

*Negi's Mother: There has been no mention of the current whereabouts of his mother, nor even her identity. It has been assumed that she died sometime in Negi's childhood, but this has yet to be confirmed.

*Chao Lingshen: Assuming that what Chao Lingshen said about being a descendant of Negi Springfield is true, then it is certain that Negi has at least one child in the future and that one of his subsequent descendants gives birth to Chao Lingshen.

tudents

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.

*Asuna Kagurazaka: Negi and Asuna's relationship starts off on a very shaky footing, not only as he is forced to live in the same room with her (and Konoka) at the request of the academy's Dean, but also as he happened to replace the homeroom teacher she happened to have a crush on. Their relationship very quickly improves, however, as they get used to each other. Asuna resembles Nekane a lot when her hair is down, so it was easy for Negi to develop a little brother/big sister relationship with her, although it seems, very occasionally, to show hints at eventually developing into something less platonic. One example of this is when Negi was talking to Asuna privately; thinking that Negi was about to confess his love for her, Asuna started to blush and talk a lot. Some of Asuna's classmates have suspected that the two might harbour romantic feelings for each other. One time that they questioned this was when Asuna and Negi were alone on the beach, with Nodoka and Yue spying on them. Yue then started to question whether their relationship was romantic or not, but before she could continue, she was interrupted by Anya's arrival. Unlike Asuna's classmates, she and Negi usually avoid such conversations about their relationship. Asuna was the first to find out about Negi's secret and was the first person with whom Negi made a probationary contract, when his life was threatened by Evangeline. Her strength, determination and immunity to enemy magic has proven to be invaluable in many dangerous situations. Asuna was Negi's shared their very first kiss, and also their very first "French" kiss, with each other. Both of these things happened in circumstances that couldn't be classified as normal: their first kiss was in forming a Pactio, and their "French" kiss was when Negi was being controlled by the magic of the World Tree during the first day of the Mahora Festival. After Negi "French" kissed Asuna, she ordered everyone "never to speak of this again" in embarrassment of the "incident".

*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 has even formed a probationary pactio contract with him, gaining great healing abilities along with basic magic.

*Setsuna Sakurazaki: Konoka's best friend from childhood, Setsuna kept distance from Konoka after the latter was almost drowned. Setsuna promised herself that she would become strong enough to protect her, after feeling that she failed her at that point. After the Kyoto arc, Setsuna was grateful that Negi had helped restore her close friendship with Konoka, and foster a growing friendship with Asuna, giving her a new happiness. Along with Asuna and Konoka, she is one of Negi's best friends in 3-A and a great help in combat. She made a promise with Asuna to protect Negi wherever he goes and, despite her "supposed feelings" for Konoka, sometimes, she shows signs of caring a lot about Negi too.

*Evangeline A.K. McDowell: A former enemy of Negi's, she is a powerful vampire criminal who had most of her powers sealed by the thousand master 15 years ago, and has been trapped in the Mahora Academy since then. Nagi promised to release her from this curse at some point, but Eva's hopes were crushed by the news of his disappearance. When Negi moved to the Academy, she attacked him to use his blood to obtain enough power to break free of the curse herself. 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 small amount of his blood in payment. She was in love with Nagi (some chapters show she still might be) and she seems to be developing some feelings for Negi as well.

*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. When Negi first sought her help, many of her classmates thought he was romantically interested in Kū, and even competed against her to win him. But despite a joke that "maybe you get strong, be my husband!", Kū seems uninterested in Negi romantically, though she does like him. On the other hand, she seemed to have a reaction (and was the only one to do so in that panel) identical to that of Chachamaru's when Chao explains that her family tree would list Negi's wife in it, though neither of the pair actually took part in the ensuing hysterics. Later, she and Chachamaru both helped destroy Chamo's Negi-love list, which resulted in the observation that only those who thought that they were high on the list would be so worried about it being seen...

*Ayaka Yukihiro: 3-A's class representative. She is the girl most overtly fond of Negi, though she maintains that she is interested in him only because he "needs a mother figure". Her feelings for him are actually more of a mixture of physical infatuation and brotherly love, as she apparently still feels the loss of her younger brother, who died during birth in the same year Negi was born. She does care greatly about Negi's well-being, since she once made it her mission to get her (seeming) arch-rival Asuna back on friendly terms with the boy teacher. In the second anime series, this infatuation on him goes as far as her family's firm shelling out various merchandise with his likeness on it.

*Nodoka Miyazaki: Soon after Negi became her teacher, she developed a crush on him despite her nervousness around the opposite sex. Always supported by her best friend Yue (who has now developed her "own" feelings for him), she was the first of Negi's students to confess to him. She was also the second classmate (after Asuna), to form a pactio contract with Negi, obtaining an artifact that can give her access to the thoughts of others, making her an invaluable asset to his party. Eventually they agree to be "friends," but did go on a date later on in which Nodoka clarified her feelings. She ended up giving him his first true, non-pactio, non-possessed, romantic kiss. Currently she ranks #1 on an Akamatsu exclusive list of Who likes Negi the most.

*Chao Lingshen: The main antagonist of the Mahora Festival arc, she causes a great deal of trouble to Negi and his friends during the festival, claiming that she comes from the future, is a Martian actually 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 finally defeated by Negi before returning to her own time.

*Chisame Hasegawa: Chisame had a spectacularly low opinion of Negi at first and was able to accept a ten-year old child as a teacher. She thought of him as yet another bizarre individual in a class full weird people. However, thanks to his constant efforts to make her open up to him and the rest of the class, Chisame has started, little by little, to reevaluate her views. This change culminated when she learned about his tragic past and his mage nature. Although she still sees him as a bizarre brat, Chisame has learned to respect him for his inner strength and to empathize with his problems. Meanwhile, Negi himself has a great respect towards Chisame. During the Mahora Festival he openly revealed himself to be a fan of her Chiu Homepage. Furthermore, he seems to greatly value her advice and opinion, clearly shown in chapter 168 of the manga when he quoted one of her counsels, crediting it to "a person that he admires" without revealing her name. More recently, in the Mundus Magicus especially, the dynamics of the relationship between the two has started to resemble that between Negi and Asuna (in her absence), with Chisame worrying about him whenever he is in a difficult position. She tries to protect him however she can, while at the same time denying having any deeper feelings for him, using the excuse of being Asuna's replacement. At the beginning of the series, Negi had addressed Chisame by her surname, ("Hasegawa-san") and once Negi had found out about her other life as Chiu, he addressed her as Chiu-san. And finally, when Negi saved Chisame from a monster in the magical world,(Therefore fulfilling a promise the two had made before traveling into the magical world) has addressed her by her first name. Chisame-san. This signifies the slow progressing relationship the two share.

*Kaede Nagase: Kaede helps Negi whenever he is feeling depressed or troubled. In chapter 21, she helped Negi gain more confidence in defeating Evangeline. She is also helping him in many story arcs, like the school festival arc, when she fought Mana Tatsumiya so Negi and his group can get through to Chao Lingshen. She also tried to defeat Fate Averruncus, when Negi was stabbed by Fate. This greatly shows that she has great concern for Negi whenever he is in trouble.

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.
*Kotaro Inugami: A dog hanyō whose first encounter with Negi was as an enemy. 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. Once there, he discovered a plan by Wilhelm and the Slime Sisters against Negi and lent 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. He currently lives with Chizuru and Natsumi under the guise of Natsumi's little brother.
*Anya: Negi's childhood friend from his original hometown and also at the magic academy that he graduated from.

Enemies

*Fate Averruncus: Negi's farmost and worst enemy and rival. Fate has defeated Negi various times. For example, the school field trip, which Evangeline had to help him defeat in battle.Negim tries to attack him on the street. But Fate says he has another plan if Negi would refuse; Fate will escort Negi and his companions back to the Old World in exchange that Negi won`t interfere with Fate`s plan to destroy the Magical World. Negi refuses and they start to fight.

*Wilhelm Josef Graf von Herrmann: Herrmann is a high-level demon and the one responsible for destroying Negi's village and turning his friends into stone when Negi was a child. He reappeared six years later at Mahora, when Kotaro Inugami was found by Chizuru and Natsumi. In his own words, though he bears the ancestral title of Graf (which is the German equivalent of a Count), he admits to be little more than a hired hand these days. He engaged in battle with both Negi and Kotaro and lost. Soon after, he disappeared back to his realm, his summoning cancelled by Negi's attacks.

*Chigusa Amagasaki: The main antagonist of the Kyoto arc. Chigusa kidnapped Konoka so she could awaken a demon to destroy all Western mages. She hired Tsukiyomi, Kotaro Inugami, and Fate Averruncus to help her kidnap Konoka. Her plan later backfired when Chachamaru and Evangeline destroyed the demon and she ran off into the woods, only to be defeated and arrested by Chachazero. She's currently held in custody by the Kansai Magic Association.

*Tsukuyomi: Tsukiyomi doesn't battle Negi but is a major threat to him and his class. At the Kyoto arc, she tried to stop Negi and Setsuna from rescuing Konoka and is currently helping Fate Averruncus with his plot. She was following he and Setsuna when Negi's class got separated.

Adventures at Mahora Academy

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 has managed to prove his worth as a teacher to the class and has shown to his class, 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 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, fiancee, and even a princess (one of the rumors was Negi was actually royalty looking for a bride).

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 Ministra Magi 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, Albert Chamomille, 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 School Trip

After the battle with Evangeline, 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 Kantō 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 Kantō and Kansai Magic Associations. However, his students managed to complicate matters, 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. With Konoka's great magical powers the Kansai Rogues used her 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. 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 defeated and resealed, forcing the outnumbered Fate to flee.

Training

After the Kyoto incident, Negi felt 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 rescinds her agreement to train Negi. Only if Negi is able to land a single blow on Chachamaru by using Ku Fei's martial arts training, will she teach him. 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 training, in both magic and martial arts, progressed at a swift rate. This was 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.

Return of the Past

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 Kotaro Inugami, a half-demon boy whom Negi had fought with in Kyoto, who had made his way to Mahora to challenge Negi to a rematch. Kotaro had been injured and had also lost some of his Inugami abilities, after crossing paths with Herrman. Kotaro was eventually found and taken care of by Chizuru and Natsumi. Kotaro later gave Negi a demon-sealing bottle, stolen from Herrman, and went with him to battle Herrman and his minions, to rescue the girls he had kidnapped. 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.

MahoraFest

In late June, Mahora Academy held MahoraFest, a massive, world-famous school festival celebrated by all schools in the Mahora campus. During the preparations, Negi was formally introduced to some of 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. 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 Kotaro 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. 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.It is at this point that Negi acquires a horizontal scar across his left cheek [Negima,Period 115] . However, Negi lost in the final match to Alberio Ima, 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 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 that 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, until 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.

The Trap

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. Usng 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 compiled 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.

Return to the Third Day of the FestivalThe 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, the World Tree should still have some measure of its 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 him and the girls, but the use of all this magic has worn him out, and he collapses.

The Battle of Mahora

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 Kotaro and his other students, however, And after only losing Nodoka in the battle due to her saving him from a TIme-displacement bullet, Negi fought his way to a final showdown with Chao atop an airship hovering high over the festival.

The Pivotal Showdown

Negi managed to hinder Chao, forcing her to reveal her magical power (amplified by several symbols drawn on her body), displaying 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 this factor was something she had not counted on.

The Battle's End

At the climax of the battle, the magical symbol on 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 at Mahora and asks her to become a strong mage by his side.

However, Chao persisted on leaving for her own 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, thereby literally inflicting psychological damage to Negi's party.

Aftermath and Search for Nagi

After MahoraFest, Negi and the others went beneath the World Tree to an appointed meeting with Alberio 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 Kotaro. Along with his students and Kotaro, 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 Donnett Mcguiness. After a cheerful reunion with Nekane and a short tour of his hometown, Negi reveals his intent to enter the Magic Country to search for his father to Nekane. He is led to the basement of the Magic Academy 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.

Into the Magic World

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: Yuna, Akira, Ako, and Makie, whom 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 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. The gynoid 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'.

Ala Rubra Training and Fate's Internevtion

After Negi recovered from his injury, he left to train with Jacobus Rakan. Rakan reveals his past to Negi as well as telling him some of Crimson Wing'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 much 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, Eva. 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'. 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. 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 has confronted Negi with a deal; Fate would safely escort Negi and his friends to the gate portal in Ostia. Negi refuses the offer angrily and attacks Fate in the street, but 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 party: leave Fate and his companions alone with their plan to destroy the Magical World. Setsuna attempts to reveal to Negi that Fate plans to use a spell to force him to honor his word if he chooses to leave Fate alone, even if Negi lies when he says it, but Negi refuses Fate, who launches a physical assault on the group. Negi retalizates with Magic Erebus and, is still challenged by Fate.

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