Before Monica's mission, Louis Miller is the feared problem student of Minerva's mage school: brilliant, rude, and determined to become someone worth marrying. The prequel follows the friends and teachers who stay with him, the selection that makes him a Sage, and the silent prodigy who appears at the end of that road.
Monica Everett, the Silent Witch, is the youngest of the Seven Sages and the only mage who can cast without a chant. A colleague pulls her out of mountain seclusion and sends her into Serendia Academy under a false name so she can guard the second prince without anyone learning who she is.
As transfer student Monica Norton, she tries to stay invisible among nobles who already know how to talk, dance, and make enemies. Numbers come easily; introductions do not. The second prince notices her anyway and appoints her accountant of the student council.
Council ledgers put Monica in the same room as the people she was meant to watch from a distance. A theft inside the academy forces her to act without giving away that the shy first-year is a Sage, and without losing the cover that keeps the prince safe.
Required dance lessons and a trip into town leave Monica with friends she did not plan to make, including a merchant's daughter who will not wait for her to finish a sentence. The prince's circle keeps growing, and so does the list of people who might mean him harm.
A tea gathering that should have been etiquette practice is a trap. Monica has to choose whether to stay quiet for her cover or step in for someone who cannot, while a classmate who has been watching her decides whether she is worth protecting.
Elective classes and a prickly noble classmate force Monica to share a workbench instead of a hiding place. The assignments look ordinary until cursed tools and family secrets start to surface, and staying silent stops being the safest option.
Serendia hosts a chess tournament among Ridill's three great schools, which brings Monica's old academy — and an old friend — back into reach. She disguises herself to play, then has to keep the board, the prince, and her cover intact when the event is attacked.
After the tournament, Monica's cover and her friendships are both strained. A night outside the dormitory, and a reputation she never asked for, push her to act like someone other than the Silent Witch while the people who care about her try to keep up.
Season 1 ends here
The academy festival is also the prince's public debut, so the guard mission cannot pause. A cursed item is reported on campus the same morning, and Monica has to protect Felix, recover the tool, and remain Monica Norton until the last performance ends.
Winter break is supposed to be a rest from the mission. Instead Monica is ordered to guard the prince in public as the Silent Witch, keep her school identity hidden from her most devoted fan, and survive a dragon raid that does not belong to the season.
Three young Sages and a transfer student who already knows Monica's face make the palace and the academy equally unsafe. The second prince starts looking for whoever left the festival with a wounded arm, and Monica has to live with both the injury and the doubt.
A kidnapping and a formal duel pull the mission into the open among students who still think Monica is only good at numbers. She has one thing she needs to say, and a hunt she cannot leave to anyone else.
Monica and an ally enter Duke Clockford's estate to test a theory about the second prince. What she finds there does not stay in the mansion: it follows her back to the academy and to the story of her father's death.
The hypothesis about Felix is answered in a meeting with an imperial mage, and Monica learns why her father was executed. Clearing his name is suddenly possible, just as the prince makes his own bargain with a Sage who has nothing left to lose.
The secret mission collapses. Monica can no longer guard the prince from behind a first-year's name; the Silent Witch has to stand on the kingdom's stage, with an ancient cursed flute and Clockford's plans already in motion.
Monica takes the fight to the Supreme Council, staking her own life against the duke to free the student-council president and stop a war with the Empire. The witch who learned silence so she would not have to speak finally has to break it.
After the web novel's ending, the printed books open a new run. A prison explosion and a water-spirit festival in a port city pull Monica back into danger, this time without the academy cover that defined the first mission.
A lecture at a magic university turns into an attack: fog that can confuse even the Seven Sages fills a building that stores forbidden grimoires. Monica goes in with colleagues who were already on site, looking for a way through a trap aimed at the Sages themselves.
A rumor that the Silent Witch favors a hot-spring town brings impostors and overeager fans to Kelbeck. Monica, her pupil, and Isabelle go to shut it down, while another Sage is dragged into a family engagement he never agreed to.
At a fair packed with new magecraft tools, Lana's company is forced into a contest with a major trading house. Monica looks for a way to help without becoming the product on display, even after Lana's childhood friend arrives uninvited.
* Arc names chosen by Arc Almanac, because the books don’t name them.
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