Chapter Summaries

Yan Shaohong launched a surprise attack to kill Nurarihyon before he could evolve, but Nurarihyon survived and transformed into Black Armor Form. The chapter left Yan Shaohong facing the newly evolved monster as the other battles continued around them.

• The Osaka Team attacked the Star Alien horde, and the Great Tengu killed or crippled most of its veteran Gantz warriors before Shimaki’s gravity gun only wounded him.
• Inugami attacked Izumi Shion, while Yan Shaohong focused on Nurarihyon and recognized that the monster would grow stronger if allowed to evolve.
• Nurarihyon transformed into a maiden and used a spiritual fluctuation to daze Yan Shaohong, who then sent a puppet to attack from the front while he struck from behind.
• Yan Shaohong’s ultimate kick shattered Nurarihyon’s maiden form, but his mission panel still showed the main quest as incomplete.
• Nurarihyon emerged from the canal in Black Armor Form and lunged at Yan Shaohong with crystalline blade arms, forcing him to dodge with the Wave-Treading Steps.

Yan Shaohong fought Nurarihyon as Bai Xing secretly forced Nurarihyon to evolve again, while battles across Dotonbori pushed several Magnetic Force users to grow stronger. The Bull Demon emerged from the canal, and the Japan Self-Defense Forces arrived and focused their attack on it.

• Yan Shaohong crushed Nurarihyon’s crystal blades and struck him down, but Bai Xing secretly killed the wounded alien, triggering another evolution without changing Yan Shaohong’s quest status.
• Bai Xing watched Shishigami and Kaze Daizaemon fight as both adapted and increased their voltage to 250,000 volts.
• Shimaki and Muroya Nobuo killed the Great Tengu, though Shimaki died and Muroya’s suit was nearly destroyed; Izumi Shion’s Magnetic Force surged to 50,000 volts, letting him defeat Inugami alone.
• A colossal Bull Demon rose from the canal and threatened Izumi Shion, Muroya Nobuo, and the others.
• The Japan Self-Defense Forces arrived with heavy weapons, saw the Bull Demon appear, and concentrated their forces on attacking it.

The Bull Demon destroyed the Japan Self-Defense Forces before Oka Hachiro appeared in a giant mech and began fighting it. As Yamasaki Anzu explained the Osaka Team’s power and Oka’s record, Kaze Daizaemon exploited Shishigami’s arrogance and unleashed a Baji Quan ultimate move.

• The Bull Demon annihilated the Japan Self-Defense Forces unit, leaving Muroya Nobuo and a few survivors in terror.
• Oka Hachiro struck the Bull Demon from an invisible mech, then revealed himself and engaged it in close combat.
• Yamasaki Anzu told Kurono Kei and the others that Oka belonged to the Osaka Team, had earned 100 points seven times, and used a weapon exchanged through the Black Ball Room.
• Kaze Daizaemon baited Shishigami into attacking an opening, then unleashed his Baji Quan ultimate move, Standing Earth, Piercing Heaven Cannon.

Kaze Daizaemon severely injured Shishigami, while Yan Shaohong fought Nurarihyon as Bai Xing secretly caused its repeated deaths and Evolutions. As the battles devastated Dotonbori, Japan’s leaders debated a missile strike and learned that Inuyashiki had escaped.

• Kaze Daizaemon struck Shishigami with Fierce Tiger Climbs the Mountain, destroying his thrusters and sending him crashing into the street, where he lay badly injured.
• Yan Shaohong defeated Nurarihyon, but it died and Evolved again despite his barrier; he suspected Bai Xing was secretly responsible.
• Bai Xing revealed that his Life Energy and Faith Power let him kill Nurarihyon without Yan Shaohong noticing or triggering its death weakness.
• Defense Minister Tang Ben'an Hong urged Prime Minister Yamagami Shinzo to bomb Dotonbori, but Yamagami hesitated over the civilian casualties and political consequences.
• Tang Ben'an Hong learned from Yamatani Gen'i that Inuyashiki had escaped after being repaired, and he angrily blamed Yamatani.

Oka Hachiro killed the Bull Demon, but Nurarihyon evolved into a sixth form after Yan Shaohong struck it with his strongest technique. Oka Hachiro tried to protect Yan Shaohong and was killed, leaving Nurarihyon facing Yan Shaohong again as a sudden change occurred.

• Oka Hachiro used his flying bike to distract the Bull Demon, then climbed onto its head and killed it with his Gorilla Suit’s elbow blades.
• Yan Shaohong fought Nurarihyon’s fifth form, whose learning and healing abilities countered his techniques.
• Yan Shaohong used Purple Bodhi: Great Sun Tathagata—Boundless Qi of the Tathagatas of the Four Directions to destroy Nurarihyon’s fifth form, but Nurarihyon emerged in its sixth form and struck him down.
• Oka Hachiro arrived to protect Yan Shaohong, but Nurarihyon broke his elbow blades, pierced his Gorilla Suit, and killed him.
• Nurarihyon turned back toward Yan Shaohong as a sudden change occurred.

Masaru Kato killed Nurarihyon’s sixth form with the Gravity Gun, but the monster evolved again and trapped the Tokyo Team while fighting Yan Shaohong. Kaze Daizaemon arrived in time to strike the seventh form, after suppressing Shishigami in their battle, which had been interrupted by Inuyashiki.

• Nurarihyon killed Oka Hachiro in one move, and Masaru Kato crushed Nurarihyon with the Gravity Gun.
• Yan Shaohong realized Nurarihyon had been vulnerable because the Gravity Gun was an unfamiliar attack and urged everyone to run.
• Nurarihyon evolved into a seventh form, ensnared the team with her hair, and forced Yan Shaohong to fight her invisible vibrating blades alone.
• Kaze Daizaemon suppressed Shishigami in close combat, sensed he was near Magnetic Field Rotation, and prepared to kill him before Inuyashiki appeared.
• Kaze Daizaemon reached Yan Shaohong and smashed Nurarihyon with a charge, cracking her body and sending her flying.

Inuyashiki captured the badly wounded Shishigami and handed him over to the government, while Kaze Daizaemon joined Yan Shaohong to fight Nurarihyon. Their coordinated attacks exposed Nurarihyon’s adaptive defenses, but Yan Shaohong created an opening for Kaze Daizaemon to strike him down.

• Inuyashiki recovered at the special operations base, decided to capture Shishigami, and found him defeated by Kaze Daizaemon.
• Kaze Daizaemon handed Shishigami over to Inuyashiki, then discovered Kurono Kei and the others restrained and Yan Shaohong struggling against Nurarihyon.
• Yan Shaohong proposed that he and Kaze Daizaemon join forces against Nurarihyon, and Kaze Daizaemon agreed.
• Yan Shaohong and Kaze Daizaemon attacked together, but Nurarihyon adapted his defenses to blunt their blows.
• Yan Shaohong used Purple Bodhi to hold Nurarihyon’s attention, allowing Kaze Daizaemon to land 300,000 Volts: Yama's Three-Point Strike and blast a hole through Nurarihyon’s forehead.

Nurarihyon evolved into his eighth form and initially overwhelmed Yan Shaohong and Kaze Daizaemon, but Kaze Daizaemon broke through to Magnetic Field Rotation and turned the battle around. After discovering Nurarihyon’s eighth form was his limit, the two defeated his later transformations and exterminated him.

• Nurarihyon reassembled into his eighth form, adapting to attacks, absorbing foreign energy, and using techniques copied from Yan Shaohong and Kaze Daizaemon to injure them.
• Bai Xing watched from a nearby rooftop as Kaze Daizaemon broke through into Magnetic Field Rotation and wounded Nurarihyon.
• Kaze Daizaemon overpowered Nurarihyon with his genuine techniques, while Nurarihyon’s copied moves and energy absorption failed against Magnetic Force.
• Nurarihyon evolved into his ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth forms, but Kaze Daizaemon and Yan Shaohong realized his strength no longer surpassed that of his eighth form.
• Kaze Daizaemon reached 70,000 horsepower and destroyed Nurarihyon’s transformations, then joined Yan Shaohong in completely exterminating him.

After the mission ended, Yan Shaohong was left behind in Osaka and killed by Bai Xing. Yan Shaohong activated a Revenge Token before dying, summoning his captain Yue Ming and two teammates to avenge him.

• Muroya Nobuo exchanged his accumulated points to leave the Black Ball Room, while the Tokyo Team returned with most of its members alive and Kenji reunited emotionally with Kaze Daizaemon.
• Kurono Kei realized Yan Shaohong had not returned, and Yan Shaohong discovered Bai Xing had kept him in Osaka after Nurarihyon’s death.
• Bai Xing attacked Yan Shaohong, pierced his strongest Buddhist technique with a spark of electricity, and fatally wounded him.
• Before dying, Yan Shaohong activated a Revenge Token that summoned his captain and teammates into the mission world.
• Yue Ming arrived with Reed and another teammate, and Bai Xing recognized them from Yan Shaohong’s memories.

After Reed and Diaz discovered Yan Shaohong’s death, their captain Yue Ming confronted Bai Xing, whose psychic probing Yue Ming blocked with his Divine Bridge cultivation. Yue Ming attacked Bai Xing to avenge his brother, revealing that he was a Divine Bridge Martial Venerable.

• Reed and Diaz arrived at the scene and found Yan Shaohong dead, then Diaz accused Bai Xing of killing him.
• Yue Ming ordered Reed and Diaz to stand down, and they retreated after Reed sensed the danger Bai Xing posed.
• Bai Xing tried to probe Yue Ming’s memories, but Yue Ming blocked him with the power of his Divine Bridge and Niwan Divine Palace.
• Yue Ming explained that he knew about Spaces and Systems and that he had cooperated with travelers from Death Space, but declared that Bai Xing had to pay for killing Shaohong.
• Yue Ming attacked Bai Xing with a powerful punch, and his cultivation was revealed to be mid-stage True Martial, the Divine Bridge Realm.

Bai Xing and Yue Ming fought a devastating battle across Osaka, escalating their attacks as neither could gain the upper hand. The chapter left them locked in combat after Bai Xing unleashed a 250-megaton Nuclear Explosion Fist and overwhelmed Yue Ming’s ancient elephant manifestation with a mushroom cloud.

• Yue Ming attacked Bai Xing with Five Fire Burning Kill Fist, but Bai Xing endured the flames and countered with his 200,000-Horsepower Electromagnetic Thunder Cannon Fist.
• Bai Xing and Yue Ming exchanged more than a hundred blows as Reed pulled Diaz out of danger, and Yue Ming’s Glazed Finger shattered a distant skyscraper after Bai Xing deflected it with Magnetic Force.
• Bai Xing taunted Yue Ming about his companions and the brothers he had killed, enraging Yue Ming into unleashing Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body Art and paired seal techniques.
• Bai Xing answered Yue Ming’s 350,000-Horsepower attack with Bai Xing Explosive Fist, while missiles launched by Tang Ben'an Hong detonated in midair before reaching the battlefield.
• Yue Ming recognized Bai Xing as a Magnetic Force user and summoned an ancient giant elephant, but Bai Xing raised his Magnetic Force to 400,000 Horsepower and struck with Nuclear Explosion Fist · 250-Megaton Yield.

Bai Xing and Yue Ming’s battle devastated Osaka and surrounding cities, leaving Yue Ming struggling against Bai Xing’s relentless attacks. As his energy dwindled, Yue Ming called on the beginner-stage Sacred Sun Suppressing Prison Body and unleashed the Azure Dragon Ascension Seal.

• Bai Xing and Yue Ming’s nuclear-explosion-level fighting left officials helpless, and Prime Minister Yamagami Shinzo collapsed after watching the destruction spread across the satellite map.
• Yue Ming controlled a fifteen-hundred-meter fire dragon and used the Red Dragon Seal to evade Bai Xing’s attacks, while Bai Xing taunted him and unleashed the Myriad Blade Storm.
• Bai Xing’s assault destroyed Yue Ming’s fire dragon and drove the fight across several cities, as his successive attacks erased buildings and caused casualties to reach seven digits.
• Yue Ming countered with martial techniques and relied on the Dragon Elephant Tyrant Body Art, but his gang yuan rapidly dwindled while Bai Xing appeared to grow stronger.
• Yue Ming recalled obtaining the beginner-stage Sacred Sun Suppressing Prison Body to strengthen his cultivation and safely unleash forbidden moves.
• Yue Ming decided to end the prolonged fight and launched the Azure Dragon Ascension Seal at Bai Xing.

Yue Ming unleashed the Azure Dragon Ascension Seal against Bai Xing, devastating the land and forcing Reed and Diaz to flee more than 270 kilometers. Bai Xing answered with a hundred-billion-ton Nuclear Explosion Fist after his Magnetic Force surged to 450,000 Horsepower, and the two attacks were about to collide.

• Yue Ming unleashed the Azure Dragon Ascension Seal, triggering a massive tsunami and darkening the sky as its dragon-shaped force bore down on Bai Xing.
• Reed grabbed Diaz and fled the blast zone, and the two barely survived the nuclear aftershocks before reaching Hiroshima.
• Reed replenished himself with the Primordial Blood Orb while Diaz used magic crystals, and they recognized Yue Ming's forbidden move as the Azure Dragon appeared.
• Bai Xing welcomed the challenge and used his defensive techniques against the Azure Dragon's attack, but realized that resisting it would leave him seriously injured.
• Bai Xing's King Engine roared as his Magnetic Force climbed to 450,000 Horsepower, and he launched the Triple Amplification: Self-Sacrifice Art with a hundred-billion-ton Nuclear Explosion Fist.

After the Osaka Incident threw the island nation into chaos, Inuyashiki was rejected by his family and killed Yamatani Gen'i, the police officer, and his own family as he embraced overwhelming power. He seized the throne and declared himself Emperor, then slaughtered an uprising and vowed to destroy anyone who resisted his rule.

• The Osaka Incident devastated the island nation, and public panic and violence spread before Prime Minister Yamagami Shinzo imposed harsh suppression.
• Inuyashiki returned home with money but was treated as an alien by Kiko, Mari, and Takeshi, then killed Yamatani Gen'i and broke through to Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Inuyashiki killed the police officer who tried to arrest him and went on to slaughter police and SAT forces while forcing politicians to support his rule.
• Inuyashiki arranged to become Emperor, and the Cabinet approved his ascension despite public opposition.
• Armed civilians, Japan Self-Defense Forces members, police officers, and yakuza stormed the coronation, but Inuyashiki froze their bullets and killed them all.
• Inuyashiki declared himself Emperor on live television and threatened destruction against anyone who opposed him.

Bai Xing traveled from Japan to Germany after Heinz Belenstein invited him to learn about the Gantz system and his daughter’s mysterious messages. Belenstein revealed that Illyria’s latest numbers predicted the end of the world and gave coordinates with the command, “Bring him here!”

• Celestine and Yumemi Kokubo arrived at Bai Xing’s villa to invite him to Berlin on behalf of Meyerbach Company.
• Bai Xing opened a spatial portal and took the two visitors to the Belenstein estate in Germany.
• Heinz Belenstein explained that his daughter Illyria had received alien transmissions that led him to create Gantz and its Black Ball Rooms.
• Belenstein said Illyria’s latest numbers formed a countdown to the apocalypse, which he believed would follow the Osaka Incident.
• Belenstein revealed that Illyria’s newest message contained coordinates and the words, “Bring him here!”

Bai Xing told Belenstein that he came from another world, then entered a white portal that Belenstein, Celestine, and Yumemi Kokubo followed. Inside, they encountered enormous, shifting figures that took the faces of people they knew, leaving Belenstein asking what they were.

• Belenstein explained that he could find no records of Bai Xing before four months ago, leading Celestine and Yumemi Kokubo to suspect Bai Xing was an alien.
• Bai Xing said he was not an alien from their universe but an otherworlder from another world.
• A white portal appeared, and Bai Xing stepped through it; Belenstein followed despite Yumemi Kokubo's warnings, and Celestine and Yumemi Kokubo followed too.
• The group found themselves in a vast white room with two enormous, faceless figures whose shifting forms became human faces.
• Celestine saw his dead father's face, while Belenstein saw his daughter Illyria and then many other familiar faces.
• Belenstein asked the figures who they were and what they were.

Bai Xing and the others met the higher-dimensional beings called Truth, who explained that a powerful alien invasion was approaching Earth and that their aid was motivated by maintaining order, not by concern for humanity. Truth then recreated Illyria as a healthy young child, reuniting her with Belenstein.

• Truth introduced the House of Truth and explained that the figures were images of higher-dimensional lifeforms, while Bai Xing recognized their nature.
• Belenstein questioned Truth and learned that alien refugees had targeted Earth after fleeing a catastrophe, and that the Horse-Faced Aliens would invade when the countdown ended.
• Yumemi Kokubo asked why Truth was helping humanity, and Truth said it intervened to preserve order, regarding human lives and emotions as insignificant.
• Truth revealed Belenstein's longing for a healthy daughter and created a real, cured toddler Illyria before him.
• Little Illyria hugged Belenstein and wiped away his tears, while Bai Xing realized she was real rather than an illusion.

Bai Xing demonstrated Magnetic Force’s potential to the giant human figure, then agreed to act as its agent against outsiders stealing the universe’s origin in exchange for advanced technology. He received the technology and returned to Illyria’s room, where Belenstein was dead and Bai Xing soon disappeared.

• The giant human figure caused little Illyria to explode, driving Belenstein into grief and fury.
• Bai Xing gave Belenstein a Magnetic Field Seed and used Faith Power to improve his talent, allowing him to reach 100,000 units of strength before the giant figure killed him.
• Bai Xing showed the giant human figure that human emotions and conviction could fuel growth, though it said its civilization could not make use of Magnetic Force.
• The giant human figure asked Bai Xing to act as an agent against outsiders stealing the universe’s origin, and Bai Xing agreed in exchange for its technology.
• Bai Xing received the giant human figure’s technological information and fed it into the Techno-Martial Furnace before the white room disappeared.
• Bai Xing, Yumemi Kokubo, and Celestine returned to Illyria’s room; Belenstein was gone, and Bai Xing soon vanished, leaving Yumemi Kokubo and Celestine alone.

Lin Ande took over Andrew Detmer in Seattle and accepted a mission to become an apex predator by gaining telekinesis, but Shishigami’s unexpected attack on a nearby military base disrupted his plans. Shishigami escaped containment and began slaughtering the soldiers.

• Lin Ande took over Andrew Detmer after Andrew was harassed at a party and reviewed his memories of an abusive home and bullying.
• Lin Ande accepted the System’s mission to become a true apex predator, with telekinetic power as the reward.
• Lin Ande planned to gain powers alone, train in secret, and later take revenge on his abusers and tormentors.
• An explosion near Haven Hill startled Lin Ande because it was not part of the plot he remembered.
• Shishigami broke out of a secret military base and attacked the soldiers with electromagnetic cannons after the US Military had imprisoned and studied him.

Shishigami destroyed a US military base in Seattle, escaped the military response, and flew back to the island nation to seek revenge on Kaze Daizaemon and Inuyashiki. Meanwhile, Bai Xing tracked down Lin Ande, who recognized him as a fellow outsider before Bai Xing killed him, leaving Lin Ande to awaken in another world.

• Shishigami repelled US military forces, redirected missiles into Seattle, and left for the island nation after completing his revenge at the base.
• Lin Ande investigated the strange events surrounding Haven Hill and discovered reports about the Osaka Incident, Black Ball Warriors, and the island nation's emperor.
• Lin Ande instinctively fought off Andrew's drunkard father, but a purple portal appeared and its edge severed the man's head.
• Bai Xing emerged from the portal, exchanged a contact phrase with Lin Ande, and killed him with an electric arc.
• Lin Ande awakened in another world and cursed Bai Xing for killing him despite their apparent shared origins.