Desir comes back with 13 years of failure burning in his chest, and he has to watch his friends make the same mistakes that killed them the first time. The time-loop premise could be routine, but the show refuses to make him a solo savior; he's dragging people toward a future they don't understand yet, and that friction is where everything lives. Animation takes hard hits and pacing feels compressed like a speedrun, but the core idea, knowing exactly when and how everyone dies, and still not having the power to stop it alone, makes every recruit conversation matter in ways most isekai never touch.
Desir Herrman watches his world burn. A catastrophic dragon and an encroaching darkness from another dimension have finally claimed everything, and he falls along with it. Then he wakes up years earlier, at the enrollment ceremony of Hebrion Academy, the Empire's leading school for mages. Armed with memories of a doomed future, Desir sets out to change what is coming. He begins seeking out the people who once fought alongside him, determined to unite them before fate repeats itself. His path is blocked early: despite topping his group in the entrance exams, he is placed in the Beta Class meant for commoners, a sign of the class prejudice he believes will ultimately doom humanity. His next goal is to win over the wind mage Romantica Eru, someone he failed to save in his previous life, and then prove his new party's worth against the Alpha Class. The action fantasy runs for 12 episodes.
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