After playing with the children for a while, Nova excused himself and made his way toward the open fields where Yuno usually trained.
Yuno was a very important figure — not because of his hidden lineage as a prince of the Spade Kingdom, but because he was the original child of destiny in this world. In the true flow of fate, Yuno alone carried the weight of being the world's hope. That much had been proven by Lucifero himself.
When the devil probed alternate timelines, Yuno was the only consistent threat to him across every single one. A boy chosen by fate, born not with one, but destined to bear two four-leaf clover grimoires, a miracle even by the standards of this world.
Nova remembered his time within the core of the World Tree, when he had sought answers from the ancient consciousness rooted deep in reality. He had asked it many questions, testing its vast knowledge about the laws that governed this world. Among them, one question in particular had burned at him more than the others:
What are Grimoires? And what is the difference between three-leaf clover and four-leaf clover grimoires?
At first, he thought that grimoires were granted directly by the World Tree. But the World Tree denied this, explaining that it was the origin of magic across the multiverse, not the distributor of grimoires.
The Black Clover world was just one of countless planes of existence, and grimoires were a unique creation bound to this world alone.
A grimoire was defined as a soul-bound, nearly indestructible spellbook that amplifies a mage's power, records their growth, and manifests spells unique to their soul. This definition applied equally to three-leaf, four-leaf, and even five-leaf grimoires.
What made the four-leaf clover grimoire unique, however, was its tie to fate and fortune. Its bearer was not just lucky but marked by destiny itself.
When the laws of this world sensed great danger or an approaching calamity, they responded by raising up a child of destiny, gifting them a four-leaf grimoire to accelerate their growth.
In the history of Black Clover, there were many instances where more than one wielder of a four-leaf clover grimoire appeared in the same era. The most famous example was during the age of the elves — when Lumiere Silvamillion Clover, the first Wizard King, held a four-leaf grimoire of Light Magic, while Licht, the leader of the elves, wielded his own four-leaf grimoire of Sword Magic.
The laws of the world distributed these grimoires by aligning with the accumulated luck and destiny of kingdoms, territories, or races. Only individuals who stood as rulers, heirs, or leaders of such groups could be granted the grace of a four-leaf.
Thus, the first Wizard King, Lumiere Silvamillion Clover, received his four-leaf of Light Magic as both prince of the Clover Kingdom and embodiment of its accumulated fortune.
Licht, in turn, received his four-leaf due to the collective fate of the elves and his status as their clan leader.
Yet one truth made Yuno's case all the more remarkable: normally, one kingdom, race, or territory could give birth to only one four-leaf grimoire per era. And yet Yuno, in the future, possessed two.
By all logic, in this era, the Clover Kingdom's royal family should have been the ones blessed with a four-leaf grimoire. Instead, a prince of another kingdom — Yuno of Spade — received it, inheriting the luck of the entire Clover Kingdom. This should have been impossible. He was not the king or prince of Clover by blood. And yet, the laws of the world bent themselves to make it happen.
Even his survival was proof. A Spade prince, slipping past border security, dodging devil hosts who scoured the land, and finding safety across the frontier — none of it should have been possible. The world itself had nudged events to protect him, ensuring his path.
And then came the greatest twist: Yuno was no true outsider at all. His soul was the reincarnation of Licht's child, tied by fate to the Clover Kingdom's royal lineage due to Licht's wife being a member of Clover kingdom's royal family, while his bloodline marked him as heir to the Spade Kingdom's throne.
This was why Yuno alone carried two four-leaf grimoires — one tied to his soul's heritage as Licht's and Tetia child, connected to Clover, and the other tied to his Spade royal bloodline.
What a lucky boy. And what an unlucky Clover Kingdom.
Nova couldn't help the corner of his mouth twitching as a thought crossed his mind. He wondered, almost amused, what kind of expressions the proud royal family of Clover would wear if they ever learned the truth — that the kingdom's greatest blessing had slipped through their fingers, only to be claimed by a prince of another land.
Would they sputter in outrage? Cry that the laws of the world had betrayed them? Or perhaps simply choke on their own pride?
The image alone nearly made him laugh. A kingdom built on noble arrogance, forced to accept that their greatest miracle had been handed to someone they would have scorned as an outsider.
Shaking his head, Nova's thoughts shifted, flowing into a quieter, more serious current.
So Yuno was the true child of destiny of this Black Clover world. That much was undeniable. The laws themselves had bent to raise him, shaping both his soul and bloodline into a vessel for fate.
But then… what about Asta?
By every measure of story logic, every reincarnator or transmigrator who knew this world would swear Asta was the protagonist, the chosen one. After all, in a world where everything revolved around mana, what could be more overpowered than Anti-Magic — an ability that erased the magic itself?
Anti-Magic was a power that broke every rule of this world. Spells, no matter how refined or ancient, came apart the instant it touched them. Barriers crumbled, curses dissolved, and even the natural flow of mana twisted uneasily in its presence. To the people of this world it was terrifying, unnatural, something that could not be studied or explained.
But to a transmigrator's eyes, it fit perfectly. Every child of destiny carried something unique that set them apart — Naruto bore Asura's chakra and the Nine Tails, Issei Hyoudou wielded the Boosted Gear, and here in Black Clover, Asta carried Anti-Magic. It was the mark of a protagonist: a power so rare it tilted the entire story around them.
But it still didn't answer the question, if Yuno is the true child of destiny, then what is Asta?
When he raised this question to the World Tree, Nova had been surprised by the answer. Asta and Liebe were chess pieces of the World Tree itself.
After all, the flow of time in this world — whether manipulated by Lucifero or by Wizard King Julius — still belonged to the natural laws of this plane. And because Anti-Magic wasn't native to the Black Clover world; it originated from the World Tree itself, so time magic of this world could not see it. Anti-Magic was an anomaly, a blind spot in the laws of fate itself, carried within Liebe.
The World Tree was indeed a masterful chess player. Liebe, a low-ranking devil born without magic, had been cast out as worthless even among devils. His "weakness" made him invisible to their hierarchies, yet it also made him the only being who could bear the seed of Anti-Magic.
Then fate intervened. He was found and taken in by Licita, Asta's mother — a woman cursed with a body that absorbed the mana and life force of everything around her. Her condition forced her into isolation, unable to live among people. And yet, to Liebe, she was perfect. Because he had no mana, he was the only one she could embrace without harming. Their lives intertwined, forging a bond that transcended blood.
But tragedy soon followed. Lucifero, seeking another vessel, tried to seize Liebe's body. Licita threw herself between them, sacrificing her life to protect the devil child she had come to love as her own son. With her dying strength, she sealed Liebe into a five-leaf grimoire — a book that had once belonged to Licht but had been corrupted by despair.
That single act set the stage for everything that followed. Liebe's heart festered with hatred toward devils, his Anti-Magic sharpening into a weapon of defiance. And years later, the very same grimoire was summoned — not by chance, but by fate — into the hands of Asta, Licita's blood son.
What a masterful plan indeed. The world itself had woven an answer:
Yuno, the destined child, chosen by fortune and raised by fate, carrying two four-leaf grimoires.
Asta, the anomaly, guided by the invisible hand of the World Tree, inheriting Anti-Magic through Liebe and his mother's sacrifice.
Then the last remaining question is:
'What is Anti-Magic?'
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