Effect
You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by discarding 1 Level 5 or higher LIGHT monster. Once per turn: You can discard 1 LIGHT monster; banish 1 LIGHT monster from your Deck.
The monster effect "You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by discarding 1 Level 5 or higher LIGHT monster" is an effect that is not classified as an Ignition Effect, Trigger Effect, Quick Effect, or Continuous Effect. (A Chain Link is not built when performing a Special Summon this way.)
When performing a Special Summon with the monster effect "You can Special Summon this card (from your hand) by discarding 1 Level 5 or higher LIGHT monster," you discard 1 Level 5 or higher LIGHT monster from your hand as a procedure, and then Special Summon this card. (The act of discarding the card from your hand is not treated as the completion of the process.)
The monster effect "Once per turn: You can discard 1 LIGHT monster; choose 1 LIGHT monster from your Deck and banish it" is an Ignition Effect. (This effect does not target.)
When activating the monster effect "Choose 1 LIGHT monster from your Deck and banish it," you discard 1 LIGHT monster from your hand as a cost.
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