My Pet Keeps Evolving Into Weirder Forms, and Each One Is Stronger Than the Last

Kota Arahara keeps getting handed dirty work, broken roads, and orders from people who want him to fail. He takes them anyway, because if he refuses, the frontier stays cold, empty, and easy to laugh at. A compass hidden inside his sleeve points him toward buried magic, and the pet he keeps beside him keeps changing into stranger, stronger forms after every hard fight. That would be enough trouble on its own, but he also ends up carrying a secret that belongs to someone else, and that secret starts putting him between the court and the people who depend on him. When Mina steps closer, she sees the part of him that still helps first and thinks later. She also believes in a future that leaves ...