Chapter Summaries

Dead Apostle Daes led his servants north to hunt the boy favored by an Ancestor, while guests from several families traveled to the Kuonji Family banquet in West Shinjuku. The chapter left Daes approaching his target and the reluctant Tohno Makihi and Tsukashi Tsurumaru on their way to the gathering.

• Daes followed a fate-thread north with more than thirty servants, intending to capture the prophesied boy and gain power toward becoming a Dead Apostle Ancestor.
• Daes vowed to kill Rita Roseian and take her crown once he had grown strong enough.
• Tohno Makihi's father urged him to befriend the Kuonji Family's young lady to help secure his future as head of the Tohno Family.
• Tohno Makihi's father criticized the decline of Japan's demon-hunting families, and Makihi kept silent about the people he had met at Dawn Cafe.
• Tsukashi Tsurumaru's grandfather ordered him to win over the Kuonji Family's young lady, while Tsurumaru reluctantly traveled to the banquet and wished he could leave his family.

The Asagami family, Ryougi Shiki, Alice Acherlot, and Taigong Wang headed toward the Kuonji Family’s welcome banquet. Taigong Wang sensed a Dead Apostle approaching Tokyo and decided to stop at the local Holy Church before attending.

• Asagami Kozō took his wife and daughter, Fujino, to the banquet and urged them to stay together.
• Ryougi Shiki persuaded her older brother to take her to the banquet without telling their father, expecting to meet someone unexpected.
• Alice Acherlot arrived from England and headed to the Hyatt Hotel ballroom in West Shinjuku.
• Taigong Wang learned that no relics of Xu Fu had been found in the Heavenly Dynasty and accepted that any trace might be in Japan.
• Taigong Wang sensed a Dead Apostle approaching from the southwest and ordered his aide to take him to the Tokyo Holy Church before the banquet.

Shiki and Arisu attended a high-society banquet, where Shiki reunited with Tsukashi Tsurumaru and Tohno Makihi while Arisu recognized her childhood companion Liddell. Ryougi Shiki approached Shiki, and the family heads discussed business as the banquet continued.

• Shiki and Arisu entered the Hyatt Grand Ballroom, where Shiki spotted Tsukashi Tsurumaru, Tohno Makihi, and Ryougi Shiki.
• Tsukashi Tsurumaru and Tohno Makihi approached Shiki and Arisu, and Shiki greeted them while Makihi remained wary of him.
• Arisu recognized Liddell among the guests, exchanged a silent greeting with her, and then turned away.
• Tohno's father joined the heads of the Asagami and Ryougi Families, and they agreed to discuss business together.
• Ryougi Shiki ignored her father's request to stay in the lounge and walked toward Shiki, believing he knew about the consciousness she sought.
• The Tohno, Asagami, and Ryougi family heads discussed business and reached several agreements at the banquet.

Ryougi Shiki revealed herself to Shiki and explained that she wanted him and the other Shiki to witness how learning the world’s truth would shape their futures. As Arisu prepared to perform, Shiki spotted Asagami Fujino at the banquet.

• Ryougi Shiki summoned Shiki to speak privately, and he left Arisu, Tsukashi Tsurumaru, and Tohno Makihi to meet her.
• Ryougi Shiki was pulled into a mysterious theater, where she met another version of herself and heard a voice tell them to watch quietly.
• Ryougi Shiki approached Shiki at the banquet and confirmed she had stopped hiding herself and had not erased the relevant memories.
• Shiki trusted Ryougi Shiki’s decision, and she said she wanted both Shikis to see how knowing the truth would change their futures.
• Shiki noticed Asagami Fujino with her mother but chose to watch Arisu’s piano performance rather than approach them.

Arisu performed two piano pieces at a Kuonji Family banquet, pouring her feelings for Shiki into the music. Her grandfather freed her to choose her own future, while Shiki was left troubled by the meaning of her song choices.

• Arisu played Für Elise with heartfelt emotion as Shiki watched from the audience.
• The old master declared that Arisu could freely choose her future, and a middle-aged family member agreed that no one would trouble her again.
• After the performance, Shiki recognized Für Elise and realized how strongly Arisu’s feelings came through in her playing.
• Taigong Wang teased Shiki about coming for Arisu, but Shiki denied being in love with her and struggled to explain his feelings.
• Arisu began playing Mariage d'Amour, and Shiki wondered whether she had chosen both pieces to express an unfulfilled love.

Shiki learned that a Greater Dead Apostle had reached Tokyo and that the Holy Church was preparing to ambush it in Yoyogi Park. As the Church Einsatz and Lady Fujiwara’s shrine maidens prepared the battlefield, the Dead Apostles entered the barrier.

• Taigong Wang told Shiki that a Dead Apostle had been tracked from Yokohama to Tokyo and that the Holy Church planned to ambush it in Yoyogi Park.
• Shiki worried that his friend Sister Yuika would be among the Einsatz sent to fight the Greater Dead Apostle.
• Sister Yuika, Priest Nagashi, and Caleb Frumpton arrived at Yoyogi Park and prepared the Church’s forces for battle in the storm.
• Lady Fujiwara and the shrine maidens evacuated the shrine and raised a barrier around Yoyogi Park to conceal the battle and block the rain.
• Lady Fujiwara remembered her childhood classmate Hōraisan as the Church forces prepared for the attack.
• Ten minutes later, Lady Fujiwara sensed abnormal magical energy entering the barrier and announced that the Dead Apostles had arrived.

After Arisu’s piano performance, Shiki met her childhood acquaintance May Liddell Archalotte and translated Taigong Wang’s blessing for her. As Arisu invited Shiki to dance, a battle against a Greater Dead Apostle raged in Yoyogi Park, which Taigong Wang and the unseen Ryougi Shiki observed; Ryougi Shiki ended the chapter reflecting on the truth of the world.

• Arisu finished her performance and rejected May Liddell Archalotte’s invitation to accompany her at a concert.
• Arisu introduced May to Shiki, then thanked Taigong Wang for his blessing after Shiki translated his words.
• Vice President Tsukashi Tsurumaru and Tohno Makihi joined the group, and Tsukashi interpreted for May.
• Arisu asked Shiki to dance with her, and he agreed while worrying about how to respond to her feelings.
• Taigong Wang sensed a fierce battle in Yoyogi Park between the Holy Church and a Greater Dead Apostle, while Ryougi Shiki watched unseen and Ryougi Ori reacted excitedly.

Count Daes sent his Vampire legion against the Holy Church’s Executors in Yoyogi Park, where modern weapons cut down many of the newly transformed Dead Apostles. Daes then entered the battle, killed a young Executor, and threatened to claim the city as his territory.

• Count Daes ordered nearly thirty Vampires to charge the Executors’ ambush in Yoyogi Park.
• The Executors used firearms, explosives, and Church formulas to kill many Vampires, while the survivors pressed forward and engaged them at close range.
• Frumpton and the other Executors held their positions while Yuika warned the group to stay alert for Daes.
• Daes swept through the battlefield and cut a young female Executor in half before her teacher could reach her.
• Daes revealed his Origin Curse, savored the dead Executor’s blood, and declared that none of the Executors would escape and that he would claim the city.

The Einsatz battled Greater Dead Apostle Daes in Yoyogi Park, where Sister Yuika revealed her Stigmata and drew his attention as a Saint. As Yuika fought to hold him back, Frumpton prepared a trap with his Mystic Eyes and waited for the chance to strike.

• Frumpton ordered the Einsatz to follow their plan, and their gunfire failed to harm Daes as he scattered bullets with a gale.
• Daes attacked Sister Yuika, who activated her Stigmata and survived his powerful blow, though she warned Frumpton she could not block many more attacks.
• Daes recognized Yuika as a Saint and resolved to capture her and plunder her power, then began fighting her at close quarters.
• Priest Nagashi and the other Einsatz continued preparing their plan while battles with Daes's Vampires devastated the park.
• Frumpton used his Mystic Eyes and Black Keys to prepare nearly twenty slashes as a trap, and an Einsatz warned that Daes was approaching.

Sister Yuika lured Daes into the Einsatz’s trap, where the black Frumpton’s Mystic Eyes inflicted severe wounds before the group bombarded him into the lake. Daes survived by draining his descendant Vampires and revealed a Dragon Kind transformation, leaving Priest Nagashi to fear he had reached the Eighth Tier of Dead Apostles.

• Sister Yuika evaded Daes’s attacks and led him toward the Einsatz’s prepared trap in the center of the park.
• Priest Nagashi caught Yuika as she reached the black Frumpton, and the Einsatz attacked Daes to draw him into range of the Mystic Eyes.
• The black Frumpton’s Mystic Eyes slashed Daes repeatedly, and the Einsatz followed with explosives, gunfire, and Black Keys that blasted him into the lake.
• Daes emerged from the lake after draining his descendant Vampires, then revealed that he had absorbed a Dragon Kind mage beast and gained dragon powers.
• Priest Nagashi warned that Daes might have reached the Eighth Tier of Dead Apostles as the transformed Daes threatened the Einsatz.

Fujiwara joined Sister Yuika and the Einsatz against Daes, but the Greater Dead Apostle overwhelmed them and killed nearly the entire Church force. Frumpton’s final message sent the injured Yuika and Fujiwara north to seek the Heavenly Dynasty immortal, while Daes pursued them through the storm.

• Frumpton explained why his Mystic Eyes and the Church’s attacks had weakened against Daes, and warned the Einsatz that the battle would demand their lives.
• Fujiwara arrived to help the Einsatz, but Daes welcomed her and unleashed a storm that partly shattered the park’s barrier.
• Fujiwara, Sister Yuika, Priest Nagashi, Frumpton, and the Einsatz attacked Daes, but he resisted their assaults and gradually gained the advantage.
• Daes killed Frumpton and most of the Einsatz, then flew north after the two women, seeking their blood and the target mentioned in a prophecy.
• Fujiwara carried the severely injured Sister Yuika toward the Hyatt Hotel hall to find the Heavenly Dynasty immortal, following Frumpton’s final order.

As Arisu prepared to confess her love to Shiki at the ballroom, he admitted that hearing her feelings mattered more to him than rushing to help Sister Yuika. Their confession was interrupted when two figures crashed through the ballroom roof and a laughing man identified Shiki, Arisu, and others as his targets.

• Shiki and Arisu danced together, and Shiki struggled with his changing feelings as Arisu tried to confess her love.
• Shiki told Arisu that a High-class Dead Apostle was fighting the Holy Church at Yoyogi Park and admitted he was worried about Sister Yuika.
• Shiki decided to hear Arisu's feelings before going to help, and the pair finished dancing to 'The Blue Danube.'
• Arisu began telling Shiki how their reunion had changed her lonely heart and started to confess her love.
• A crash shattered the ballroom dome, and two black figures fell into the room as the lights went out.
• A man laughed from beyond the broken dome and declared that the saint, the Divine Child, and Shiki were all gathered there as targets.

A Greater Dead Apostle attacked the grand hall, sending guests into a panic while Fujiwara Miko protected them from its storm blades. Shiki and Arisu confronted the danger, and Shiki recognized the injured Miko as his elementary-school classmate; Arisu still struggled to contain her fury as the confrontation continued.

• The transformed Greater Dead Apostle Daes frightened the guests, and Liddell dragged Tsukashi Tsurumaru and Tohno Makihi toward the exit.
• Daes sent a gale of blood-soaked blades at the crowd, and Fujiwara Miko raised a crimson barrier to stop them before her power ran out.
• Shiki used Magic Eye Human Path to guide people away and telepathically urged Taigong Wang to prepare to confront Daes.
• Shiki and Arisu stood beside the injured Sister Yuika and Fujiwara Miko, while Arisu restrained her anger to avoid harming the guests.
• Fujiwara Miko cautiously recognized Shiki, and he realized she was his former classmate, Fujiwara.

Shiki helped stop the Greater Dead Apostle Daes Troyer’s attack, then used Avalon to treat the severely injured Sister Yuika. As Shiki handled the witnesses, Fujiwara told Yuika how she and Shiki had been elementary-school classmates and reflected on their unexpected reunion.

• Daes Troyer charged toward Shiki and the others, but a young man in a dark Tang Suit appeared, struck him, and carried him out through the collapsing ballroom dome.
• Arisu left after Shiki promised to join her once he had dealt with the aftermath, and Shiki noticed an Immortal Technique Barrier rising over Shinjuku Central Park.
• Shiki examined Sister Yuika’s severe injuries, recognized her Stigmata, and used Avalon fused with his Asura Path ability to begin healing her.
• Shiki asked Fujiwara to protect Sister Yuika while he dealt with witnesses, and Fujiwara told Yuika that she and Shiki had shared an elementary-school class for four years.
• Fujiwara recalled how Shiki had helped her avoid bullying and explained that her family moved to Tokyo before middle school, ending their contact until their reunion that night.

Shiki left the Hyatt Grand Ballroom after sealing the memories of witnesses and went to Shinjuku Central Park, where Arisu was battling a Greater Dead Apostle inside Taigong Wang’s barrier. He encountered [Ryougi Shiki], while Taigong Wang realized she seemed to embody the Dao (Root), and Tsukashi Tsurumaru, Tohno Makihi, and Liddell witnessed the supernatural battle.

• Shiki hypnotized the last special ordinary witness in the ballroom and left the Holy Church to deal with the people who had fled into the typhoon.
• Shiki crossed the storm to Shinjuku Central Park and found Arisu’s giant monster fighting a five-meter-tall Greater Dead Apostle inside Taigong Wang’s barrier.
• Shiki spotted [Ryougi Shiki] near the battlefield and exchanged greetings with her as Tsukashi Tsurumaru, Tohno Makihi, and Liddell hid beneath a skybridge.
• Taigong Wang recalled bringing the Greater Dead Apostle to the park, creating the barrier, and watching Arisu attack it with a summoned monster and mist.
• Taigong Wang sensed that [Ryougi Shiki] embodied the Dao (Root) and was horrified when Shiki greeted her familiarly.

Furious that Daes interrupted her confession to Shiki, Arisu pursued him into an Immortal Technique Barrier in Shinjuku Central Park and unleashed her Fairy Tale Magecraft. Daes survived the Bridge Giant’s assault and recognized Arisu as a great witch, while white mist and lurking monsters filled the battlefield.

• Arisu left the ballroom in a rage and headed for Shinjuku Central Park to kill the Dead Apostle who had ruined her confession.
• Liddell told Tsukashi Tsurumaru and Tohno Makihi their families were safe, then forced them to follow her into the storm.
• Arisu recognized the park’s Immortal Technique Barrier as a trap that prevented the Dead Apostle from escaping and entered it.
• Arisu summoned the familiar Night Banquet to turn the park into her fairy-tale territory, then sang to create the Bridge Giant.
• The Bridge Giant struck Daes into a crater, but the fully dragonized Dead Apostle broke free and rapidly recovered.
• Daes recognized Arisu as a great witch from the Mage’s Association as white mist spread through the barrier and monster-like limbs watched from within it.

Arisu unleashed the power of her inherited familiars against Daes after he interrupted her confession to Shiki. Daes repeatedly tried to fight back and regenerate, but the familiars overwhelmed him as Arisu kept him alive to suffer until Shiki arrived.

• Arisu recalled how Shiki's confession to Aoko had made her abandon her cautious plan and decide to reveal her love for him.
• Daes distracted himself by thinking about Shiki, giving Arisu's invisible Rose Hound the chance to tear him into three pieces.
• Daes used stored blood to restore his body, then drove away the fog with a storm and boasted that the Hound could not attack him again.
• The Rose Hound attacked Daes from behind, ripping apart his wings and tearing away a large piece of his body.
• Arisu sent Thames to smash Daes into the ground while the familiars severed his limbs and continued their assault.

Arisu continued tormenting the Greater Dead Apostle Daes while Liddell, Tsukashi Tsurumaru, and Tohno Makihi watched from concealment. After [Ryougi Shiki] arrived, Daes transformed into a dragon-like magical beast and Arisu ordered her familiars to unleash their full power, but the battle continued with Daes fighting back.

• Liddell concealed herself, Tsukashi Tsurumaru, and Tohno Makihi beneath a pedestrian bridge and let the boys watch Arisu's battle with Daes.
• Liddell teased the boys about witches, while Tsukashi Tsurumaru wondered whether Aozaki, Hōraisan, and Justitia were also non-ordinary people.
• Daes attacked Arisu with storms, blades, and flight, but her familiars and the white mist repeatedly intercepted him.
• After [Ryougi Shiki] arrived, Daes transformed into a dragon-like magical beast, and the Bridge Giant promptly stomped him into the ground.
• Arisu unleashed the Bridge Giant and Rose Hound to finish Daes, who breathed scarlet flames across half the park and continued battling the familiars.

Arisu used her familiars and Beguiling Mystic Eyes to overwhelm the monstrous Greater Dead Apostle Daes, while Shiki realized he loved her and answered her smile. The battle ended with Daes crushed in a crater but still alive and resisting.

• Arisu's Rose Hound and Bridge Giant repeatedly attacked Daes, while the Bridge Giant healed after he pierced its chest.
• Shiki watched Arisu fight, admitted to himself that he loved her, and returned her gentle smile; Arisu sensed his feelings and became overwhelmed with joy.
• Daes set much of the park ablaze, but Shiki extinguished the flames as Taigong Wang maintained the barrier.
• Arisu landed and used her Beguiling Mystic Eyes to immobilize Daes, then sent her familiars to slice him apart and crush him into the ground.
• Arisu frowned when Daes survived the attack, and his weakened roar suggested that the Greater Dead Apostle was still resisting.

Daes abandoned his fight with Arisu and tried to seize Shiki, but Shiki revealed his Rainbow Mystic Eyes and overwhelmed him. Shiki left Daes helpless and began probing his spirit and soul to learn about the Dead Apostles and the Progenitors pursuing him.

• Daes escaped Arisu’s Mystic Eyes by turning his severed tail into blood-fueled fire, then decided to retreat after capturing the boy in the park.
• Daes charged at Shiki and revealed that the White-Winged Duke and Rita Rozay-en had taken an interest in him.
• Shiki opened his Rainbow Mystic Eyes, and Daes attacked him out of greed for their power.
• Shiki used the Human Path’s spiritual domain to stun Daes, then pierced his chest and seized his spirit and soul.
• Shiki began examining Daes to understand how he differed from Rubaire and to prepare for the White-Winged Duke and Rita Rozay-en.