Chapter 39

is the 39th Page of Yūki Tabata's Black Clover.

It is Marie's birthday and Gauche is very excited about it. However, when he comes to visit her, the Black Bull mage finds her bonding with Asta. Will this cause a rift between these two Knights who are supposed to be comrades?

Summary
After Gauche Adley is finished defeating a group of bandits, he shares with them about his little sister's birthday. The notion of visiting his sister brings so much joy to him and causes the Black Bull mage to bleed his nose. Afterwards, Gauche travels to the city where his sister, Marie, is living with bags full of toys along with him. However, to his dismay, the former prisoner finds Marie plays with one of his junior, Asta.

Gauche immediately confronts his junior, but Asta finds no qualm in his act. Subsequently, Marie also asks her older brother to stop hurting her future husband, which quickly breaks Gauche's heart and body to pieces. The turn of event prompts the Black Bull mage to kill his junior, until Sister Theresia whom in charge of Marie's well-being, arrives to take her back to the church. After a series of arguments between Gauche and the Sister, Marie leaves with the latter as Gauche is unable to stop them. The two Black Bull Knights decide to spend the night at Rebecca's house after she gave them the offer.

At night, while Asta is fast asleep, Gauche enters the young Knight's room and prepares to kill him. Fortunately, Asta manages to unconsciously avoid the first attack, which leads to a stalemate where the Black Bull mage tries to parry all of his senior's attacks. However, when Gauche creates a clone of himself, Asta is pushed outside where he finds the town is covered with snow. As Gauche is still determined to kill him, Rebecca comes to Asta and informs him that her siblings are missing.

Fights

 * Asta vs. Gauche Adley