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I understand why Trinity Seven because there are seven deadly sins represented
by a girl which is needed to be controlled by Arata. But I don't understand
why Trinity? Which is referred to as the Trinity? Does Arata's magic have
three forms? Does he need to do three things to control these seven sins? Are
there three magus who can control these seven sins? What does the Trinity
represent?


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What is the meaning of the title Trinity Seven?


This is what I currently know about the term _Trinity Seven_ and _Trinity_ in
the context of this manga.

The accuracy of this post depends largely on the fan translation of the manga
series.

When writing this answer, I confirmed all the facts by checking back on the
manga. However, I didn't check out the whole series from start to end. I only
picked out the chapters which I remembered to have the relevant content and
cited from it.

## Trinity Seven

_Trinity Seven_ refers to the 7 strongest mage in a world (there can be many
parallel worlds).

In Arata's world, the _Trinity Seven_ are the 7 girls: Asami Lilith, Kannazuki
Arin, Kazama Levi, Yamana Mira, Fudou Akio, Kurata Yui and Lieselotte
Sherlock.

According to Liese in chapter 17, to be a member of the Trinity Seven means
that

> one has acquired the _Lost Technica_ in one's archive. In Liese's case, it
> was "Last Crest".

As explained in chapter 36 of the manga, the magic king is closely related to
the _Trinity Seven_. Below is the summarized definition, based on the fan
translation by VISCANS:

> There exists an infinite number of worlds, with each world connecting to
> each other by causality. Worlds begin and end, are born and destroyed over
> and over again. Magic king exists for such system, and his mission, his fate
> is to reduce his world to nothingness. A magic king is born human, a baby
> with the secret of unlimited magic power. Regardless of the circumstances of
> the magic king, he will encounter the Trinity Seven and begin his
> transformation into a proper magic king.

## Trinity

In chapter 36 of the manga,

> ... after Arata copied Lieselotte's Logos Arts in Acedia archive, along with
> Lilith's Outer Alchemy in Luxuria archive and Akio's Matra Enchantment in
> Gula archive, he was confirmed by the sword Judecca to have attained
> _Trinity_.

However, the condition for _Trinity_ is quite ambiguous. At the beginning of
chapter 35,

> ... Arata found the Black Imperial Sword Judecca. The sword identified
> Arata's Magic King element and confirmed his Superbia archive and Impero
> thema, then it went on to recognize Outer Alchemy in Luxuria archive and
> Matra Enchantment in Gula archive. However, the sword concluded that Arata
> did not meet the _Trinity_ requirement, and it started to initiate Magic
> King Berserk Mode.

It was quite clear from chapter 5 of the manga that there are many _thema_
(research topic) in an _archive_. **From my personal impression** , it seems
that different mages working on the same _thema_ may study and master
different _magics_.

> And along that line of reasoning, I speculate that Arata had yet to come up
> with or mastered any magic under Imperium thema, so it was not counted
> towards the Trinity requirement.

Apart from the likely direction of Arata eventually copying the magic from all
members of Trinity Seven, and thus in control of magics from all 7 archives
named after the 7 deadly sins, it is not clear how the _Trinity_ requirement
works. We know "trinity", from Christian doctrine, has **tri-** meaning
**three** in it. However, it is not clear three of **what** ( _archive_ alone
is incorrect, as seen above), and whether it requires the mage to have certain
level of mastery.

To make the matter more confusing, according to chapter 37 of the manga,

> Arata attained power of a _Trinity_ when Akio, Liese and **Arata himself**
> connected to their archives.

And at the end of the chapter,

> Abyss Trinity, Lilith's father and antagonist in the arc, was surprised by
> the fact that Arata exceeded Trinity after Lilith reconnected to her
> archive, which means Arata had 4 archives executed at the same time.

So there seems to be a further distinction between achieving the _Trinity_
status and actually performing magic in _Trinity_ mode.


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The Trinity might refer to the mastery of _three thema_ because in episode 10
of the anime, we see Hijiri using a mode ,which is in a way, similar to
_Arata's Astral Trinity form_. Hijiri says that this form is stronger than
_Magus Mode_ and she also adds that this is the quintessence of her archive
and is the result of her mastering three thema proper to the _Ira archive_.
However in the film _Heavens library & Crimson Lord_, Lilith is said to
possess the quintessence of Luxuria archive in her body without achieving
_Trinity_ through the mastery of three thema.

But for Arata, the _Trinity form_ is more difficult to achieve because he has
some some conditions to clear in order to do that. Still in the film _Heavens
Library_ , Liese explains that there is _three conditions_ to fulfill if Arata
wants to copy another magic or _thema_ coming from _Archives_ other than his
own :

-First condition: he needs to understand what is the magic he is using (the name) and how it must be activated.

-Second condition : he needs to know the origin and the creator of the magic 

-Third condition : he needs to decompose the magic 

Arata already achieved _Trinity_ in the whole sense of the term when he used
_Mentra Enchanted_ from the _Gula Archive_. This means the conditions are
different for _candidates_ and _Demon Lord_ or it depends on the _Archive_
they chose or Arata did not use conventional means to achieve _Trinity_.
Judging by the actions of Judecca in chapter 35, it seems Arata **must
master** three _themas_ from three differents _Archives_ excluding _Superbia_
which leads to : _Gula Archive_ : _Fides_ , _Acedia Archive_ : _Stagna_ ,
_Luxuria Archive_ : _Abies_ needed for Arata to be recognized by Judecca. In
_Heavens Library_ , a clue may be introduced to us as to why Judecca wanted
him to go berserk when Arata says he **controls** 4 four archives and four
themas. **Mastering** and **Controlling** are two differents things, one is
achieved through efforts and the other through sheer force.

This leeds me to believe that Arata will be different from the other _Demon
Lords_ by the theme he chosed. The other _Demon Lords_ always wanted to
destroy the world even _Abyss Trinity_ even though he went against his own
_Archive_ to give birth to Lilith, he still followed the mission given to the
_Demon Lords_ which was to destroy the world for it to be reborn. Arata chose
to follow another route and decided to _control_ the world to stop its
destruction in other words went _against_ his mission.


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