Fall Oblige is the twelfth volume of the Hidan no Aria novel series released on May 24, 2012. This novel contains the Normal Life arc.
Summary[]
Chapters[]
- 1st Ammo: As if into Thin Air - Like Vanish
- 2nd Ammo: Kinji, An Ordinary Person
- 3rd Ammo: Moe Mochizuki
- 4th Ammo: Kikuyo Kagataka
- 5th Ammo: Enlightening Emptiness
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Trivia[]
- Kinji Tohyama succeeds in his goal from Volume 1 of transferring out of Butei High.
- Oblige refers to being bound to an action due to a law or rule. In this case it has to do with Reki's oath to Kinji to always be with him.
- It is revealed that when Kinji put in his paper work to transfer, Reki did the same as well to follow him as part of her oath to him.
- Moe Mochizuki, Kikuyo Kagataka, Magane Tohyama, Setsu Tohyama, Jinyang Cao Cao, and Kou are introduced.
- Seigen Shokatsu and Tamamo return.
- GIII gets the name Kinzou Tohyama
- Moe is symbolized by a dog and Reki a wolf.
- There are two dichotomy references within the volume where Kinji is struggling on where he belongs:
- A wolf (Reki) and dog (Moe) representing the difference between Butei life and normal life.
- Kikuyo and Moe representing the difference between the underground life and normal life.