Raymond Sage Clark, one of the Seven Sages, releases a message revealing that the elusive magic engineer known as Taurus Silver is really Tatsuya Shiba, and the exposure reaches not just Japan but the world. With Tatsuya named, pressure builds behind the USNA-backed Dione Plan, which would effectively exile magicians from Earth, and the fallout follows him and Miyuki back to First High, where the two are in their third year. To counter it, Tatsuya unveils Project ESCAPES, built on the stellar-furnace research he has been quietly developing.