Chapter Summaries

Ansu read a sensational newspaper story about Arthur and the Sun Family, then attended the grand investiture ceremony with Liszt and Arthur while hoping to find the hidden Chaos Bishop. The chapter ended with Count Carlo urging Ansu to get married and produce a grandson after hearing that Arthur had supposedly been “fertilized.”

• Ansu discovered that Liszt had written the lurid newspaper serial under Calvin Black’s name and decided to make Liszt add himself to the story.
• Ansu put hoods on himself, Liszt, and Arthur before they headed to the ceremony, hoping to avoid attention and search for the Chaos Bishop among the dignitaries.
• Arthur’s still-glowing Sun’s Fire exposed him in the courtyard, so he blinded the guests with a Flash Egg while Ansu slipped into the Ceremony Hall.
• Ansu surveyed the hall’s seating for the Holy Sees, royal family, and great nobles, considering where the Chaos Bishop might be hiding.
• Count Carlo urgently told Ansu that Arthur had been fertilized and ordered Ansu to get fertilized too so he could have a grandson.

Ansu faced Count Carlo’s pressure to marry and have children at the ceremony, then turned Cersei’s floral challenge and their old wager against her. After making Cersei promise to honor the wager, Ansu told Count Carlo that she would have to call him Dad, leaving his father stunned.

• Count Carlo urged Ansu to marry two noblewomen and demanded that he claim the betrothal gifts as expenses.
• Cersei arrived at the Ceremony Hall and invited Ansu to a tea party to explore their floral arts.
• Ansu offered Cersei a Flower Fairy and a Fallen Angel from the Naraku World, unsettling her with the prospect of using them to pollinate corpses.
• Ansu reminded Cersei of their wager and pressed her to keep her promise, so she agreed to honor it after the ceremony.
• After Cersei went to the royal family’s balcony, Ansu told Count Carlo that he had speedrun to the final step and now had a granddaughter; Count Carlo asked how much he had paid.

Ansu attended the Holy See investiture ceremony with Count Carlo, who publicly distanced him from the royal family while supporting his son. The seven cardinals gathered, including the long-absent Astral Bishop, whose arrival ended with him threatening Ansu.

• Count Carlo berated Ansu for spending nothing in the Yellow Market, then loudly criticized the royal family to show the bishops that Ansu was not a royalist.
• Ansu confronted Count Carlo about bribing Merlin to fail his exam, and Count Carlo admitted he had wanted Ansu to leave the Holy See but said only he could discipline his son.
• Arthur was dragged away by Order Knights after a chaotic outburst about his Flash Eggs and the Yellow Market.
• Count Carlo introduced the bishops Hughes, Old Man of the Forest, Fia Lillian, and Lia Lillian, while Ansu suspected each might be the Chaos Bishop.
• The long-absent Astral Bishop appeared in the empty seat, and the Astral Envoy threatened to cut Ansu into a thousand pieces.

Ansu rejected the royal family’s attempt to bind him to Princess Cersei during his coronation, publicly slapping away her hand and denouncing royal power. He climbed toward the divine steps alone, where he sensed the hidden Cersei waiting by her blueberry scent.

• The seven bishops considered recruiting Ansu but hesitated because Cersei’s role in his coronation tied him to the royal family.
• Ansu began climbing the divine steps as the ceremony was broadcast across the Empire, while Cersei waited for him and planned to make him part of her dynasty.
• Ansu slapped away Cersei’s outstretched hand and declared that he rejected her and royal power.
• Cersei lost her perfect composure as Ansu passed her and continued up the stairs alone.
• Ansu detected the hidden Cersei near the top of the stairs by her faint blueberry scent.

Ansu attempted to complete his investiture ceremony without Cersei, while Luojia secretly stood beside him. When Terry pressured them to submit to the royal family, Luojia chose to support Ansu, and a miraculous radiance filled the Ceremony Hall.

• Ansu climbed the sacred stairs alone in the eyes of the crowd and took the ritual items to baptize himself.
• Terry revealed his demigod power and ordered Ansu to abandon the ceremony and kneel before the Milton family.
• As Luojia struggled under Terry’s pressure, Ansu began to lower the scepter, but Luojia covered his hand and declared that Cersei had no right to confer the honor.
• Ansu and Luojia raised the scepter together, and the radiance of the Goddess descended throughout the hall.
• Ansu pointed the scepter at Terry, Cersei, and the gathered nobles, declaring that they had no right to confer the honor upon him.

Ansu and Luojia began the Baptism and Bestowal Ceremony of Radiance before the Empire, while First Prince Terry used royal authority to force Luojia to release the ceremonial staff. Ansu and Luojia endured the pressure together, and Ansu openly counterattacked Terry as the ritual reached its climax.

• Ansu initiated the ceremony and declared that mortals had no right to bestow honors upon him, prompting the Empire’s broadcast audience to witness the holy light.
• Terry recognized Merlin’s scheme and used his royal authority to pressure Luojia, weakening her grip on the staff.
• Luojia refused to let go and joined Ansu in the baptism, even as Terry’s pressure made her tremble and bleed.
• Ansu defied Terry by striking back at his soul while reciting the ritual’s declarations of renunciation and submission.
• Ansu and Luojia remained standing beneath the crushing pressure, and Ansu ended the ceremony’s climactic exchange by declaring, “I submit.”

Prince Terry tried to crush Ansu’s soul and stop his coronation, while Luojia secretly gave Ansu the holy light meant for her. Ansu’s power awakened as a blazing morning star, and Prince Terry recognized its connection to Sun’s Fire.

• Prince Terry sensed Ansu’s lack of devotion and unleashed his demigod royal power against him during the coronation.
• Merlin and Bishop Morgan declined to intervene as Prince Terry’s pressure threatened Ansu and Luojia, while observers across the Empire feared Ansu might become the Holy Son.
• Ansu realized Luojia had concealed herself and sacrificed her chance to prove that Children of Darkness were not born evil.
• Prince Terry’s assault tore through Ansu’s Mental World, and Luojia lost the strength to keep standing.
• Luojia kissed Ansu, told him that his being loved was no lie, and passed the holy light into his arms.
• Ansu awakened a blazing morning star within his Mental World, and Prince Terry recognized its flame as having the same origin as Sun’s Fire.

During the Radiance Blessing ritual, Ansu used the flame Grand Duke Annan had left in his soul to resist First Prince Terry Milton’s royal authority. Ansu summoned the gazes of the Three Mother Goddesses, leaving Terry’s authority shattered and his soul prostrate.

• Ansu’s starfire burned away Terry Milton’s Golden Authority as the prince tried to force him to kneel in the Mental World.
• Ansu endured Terry’s assault while holding the holy light and thinking of Luojia, whose hidden presence accompanied him through the ceremony.
• Ansu revealed that the Radiant Goddess had long shared the scepter with him and called upon the Mother God of Chaos, the Mother Goddess of Life, and the Mother Goddess of Suffering.
• The Three Mother Goddesses’ gazes descended, stripping Terry of the Radiance Blessing that had sustained his soul.
• Ansu raised the ritual scepter and commanded mortals to prostrate themselves, and Terry’s royal authority collapsed as his soul burned to ash.

Ansu destroyed Prince Terry’s soul and corrupted his Mental World with the Three Mother Goddesses, causing Terry to transform into a monster and massacre the royal family during the ceremony. As the carnage was broadcast across Farol, Ansu stood beneath the holy light and declared himself the Chaos Bishop.

• Ansu summoned the Three Mother Goddesses into Prince Terry’s Mental World and killed Terry’s soul despite Terry’s warning that his death would plunge the Empire into chaos.
• Ansu invaded Terry’s Golden Kingdom and corrupted it with chaos, life, and pain, transforming its nobles and landscape into a grotesque realm.
• Prince Terry’s body warped into a blasphemous monster in the Ceremony Hall and began killing the assembled nobles and members of the royal family.
• The Magic Live Broadcast showed Terry’s transformation and massacre to Farol’s citizens while Ansu stood on the Divine Steps holding the holy light.
• Ansu faced the transformed Terry and whispered, “I am the Chaos Bishop. None of you are.”

Ansu used the Radiant Grand Blessing Ritual to expose Prince Terry Milton as a fallen demigod and redeem him in a nationally broadcast execution. The chapter ended with Terry dead at dawn’s threshold, as news of his death spread across the world on the Night of Morningstar.

• Terry Milton transformed into a Cursed Creature, and Ansu attacked him with Holy Light and the Azure Redemption Holy Blade.
• Merlin refused to kill Terry and used his Pure White Eyes to drain much of the creature’s magic power.
• Ansu summoned Radiant Judgment, which reversed Terry’s life by one second and returned him to Merlin’s field of control.
• Ansu recited the Record of Baptism while carving apart Terry’s body before the assembled nobles and the Magic Net audience.
• Ansu cut off Terry’s head and declared that he would return the Golden Trumpet Flowers to God.
• Terry Milton became the first to die on the Night of Morningstar, and news of his death spread across the world.

After the Grand Ceremony, Ansu discovered that the gods had granted him an unnamed Divine Grade diadem that let him reverse concepts in magic and living beings. He tested its power in Heaven and prepared to try it on the Gift of the Mother Goddess of Life.

• Ansu faced a Heavenly Judgment, joked about forgetting to sell Milton's royal bonds, and Merlin rushed away after realizing he had forgotten to sell his too.
• After the Grand Ceremony ended in political turmoil, Ansu and Luojia watched Heaven's sunset together, and Luojia explained that she would reveal her secret when she felt ready.
• Ansu showed Luojia his unnamed diadem, whose Divine Grade effect allowed one Concept Reversal each day without consuming mana.
• Ansu reversed Order Return into Chaos Plunder and used it to steal Luo Xiaohei's claws.
• Ansu reversed Luo Xiaohei's Blood Injury spell into Holy Heal, turning her attack into a source of recovery.
• Ansu decided to test the diadem on the Gift of the Mother Goddess of Life, while Luojia feared what he was about to do.

Ansu reversed Gift of the Mother Goddess of Life into Radiant Goddess's Sterilization, then used his crown to reverse Holy Light Judgment as Bishop Rada and the Star Legion invaded Heaven. After Life Exemption overwhelmed the legion with growing hair and amplified desires, Ansu used its Second Circuit to leap ahead one second and sterilize Bishop Rada, enraging her over the hair she had finally regrown.

• Ansu reversed Gift of the Mother Goddess of Life into Radiant Goddess's Sterilization, frightening Luo Xiaohei, who refused to be the test subject.
• Bishop Rada arrived at Heaven's Gate with the Star Legion and attacked Ansu, blaming him for Merlin's actions.
• With Luojia's Holy Light empowering him, Ansu reversed Radiant Judgment into Life Exemption, making the legion's hair grow and their desires intensify.
• Ansu reversed the Second Circuit of Life Exemption to move one second ahead, dodged Bishop Rada's thunder spear, and used Radiant Goddess's Sterilization on her.
• Bishop Rada lost control and shouted that it had taken her three months to regrow even a little hair.

Merlin confronted Ansu over killing Prince Terry and disrupting the Holy See’s plans, while Ansu insisted he had acted for himself and refused to let Luojia be used as a tool. Facing exposure outside Heaven’s Time, Ansu reversed his own Child of Curse concept and became the Reversed Pope, arousing the Radiant Goddess’s interest.

• Merlin banished Bishop Rada and the desire-corrupted occult soldiers from Heaven’s Time, then confronted Ansu about killing the First Prince and disrupting the Holy See’s plans.
• Ansu explained that he had killed Terry to make the game his own, while Merlin revealed that Luojia had volunteered for the plan and would have borne the royal family’s retaliation.
• Ansu defended Luojia’s independence, then learned that demigods waiting outside would expose him as the Child of Curse if he left Heaven’s Time.
• Ansu used his Divine Grade Title to reverse the concept of living beings and proclaimed himself Luojia’s pope, becoming the Reversed Pope for one day.
• The new Title declared that Ansu could bestow his own crown and that he had strongly aroused the Radiant Goddess’s interest.

Ansu used his Crown Title to become the Child of Blessing, a Reversed Pope whose inverted soul drew immense holy light and made him sincerely believe he was doing good. The chapter left Merlin trapped in Ansu’s “Blessing Enjoyment Style” overtime, while everyone realized the transformed Ansu might be even more dangerous than before.

• Ansu inverted his cursed body with his Crown Title and received the Radiant Goddess’s overwhelming blessing.
• Merlin recognized Ansu as a Child of Blessing, and Ansu emerged with a gentle temperament and the ability to wield holy light effortlessly.
• Merlin judged Ansu’s morals transformed and tried to leave for vacation, while Luojia and Luo Xiaohei tested his patience.
• Ansu repeatedly cast Holy Light Judgment to keep Merlin from getting off work, insisting that making him experience the joy of leaving work was a benevolent act.
• Merlin realized Ansu had redefined his old overtime torture as the “Blessing Enjoyment Style,” and Luo Xiaohei retreated in fear of his people-loving affection.

Ansu trapped Merlin in a time loop and broke his resolve by confronting him about his lonely life, then used Reversed Pope on Luo Xiaohei and turned her into a well-behaved white cat. As Ansu prepared to leave Heaven, Luojia asked him to reverse her too, confessing that he had already turned her heart upside down.

• Merlin failed to escape Ansu's Second Judgment and admitted defeat after Ansu accused him of sacrificing his life to work and manipulate those around him.
• Ansu ended the time loop, then promised Luo Xiaohei he could help her become an elf before reversing her into a fluffy white cat he named Luo Xiaobai.
• Ansu confirmed that Reversed Pope could affect enemies, while Luo Xiaohei discovered she had become a docile cat and lost her ability to hiss.
• As Ansu prepared to leave Heaven, Luojia asked him to reverse her because she did not want to be the only one left unchanged.
• Luojia told Ansu that her heart had already been reversed by him and said she wanted to be a bad child for one day.

Ansu agreed to use the Reversed Pope’s authority to invert Luojia’s title after she revealed she wanted the courage to enter his world and understand the darkness he carried. The chapter ended as Ansu removed her Holy Light veil, with Merlin watching in despair.

• Luojia asked Ansu to invert her title, but he initially refused until she admitted she wanted the courage to face him without her veil.
• Luojia explained that she wanted to understand Ansu’s fate and become a Child of Curse or Child of Blessing alongside him.
• Ansu warned Luojia that she was the Saintess of Holy Light and was destined to become the Shining Star of the Future for Naraku, but she insisted on entering his world.
• Ansu used the Reversed Pope’s authority to invert Luojia’s title and reached out to remove her radiant veil.

In Heaven, the inverted Luojia teased Ansu before he removed her veil and saw her face. Back in Farol, Ansu emerged from Heaven to confront the authorities, then repeatedly stepped in and out of its doors to frustrate their attack.

• Luojia’s inversion transformed her into a teasing, aggressive witch who invited Ansu to remove her veil.
• Ansu took off Luojia’s veil, saw her face, and told her she was more beautiful than Heaven’s sunset glow.
• Farol imposed a curfew and emergency restrictions after Prince Terry became an Outer God Monster and killed royal relatives.
• The authorities surrounded the Magic Guild and waited for Ansu, while officials accused the theocracy of fabricating the previous night’s events.
• Ansu stepped out of Heaven, retreated inside to stop the forces from attacking, and repeated the trick to torment them.

Ansu left the Magic Guild with an innocent, loving outlook and faced a force of Inquisitors of Heresy led by Jack Hughes. He repeatedly retreated inside and came back out to stall them, until the Venerated Demigods ordered the force to enter the guild and capture him.

• Arthur Sonny and Liszt Muen offered Ansu an escape plan through the women's restrooms, but Ansu refused and said he would meet the authorities with love and cooperation.
• Ansu stepped outside to greet the Inquisitors of Heresy, while Jack Hughes ordered his forces to seize him.
• Ansu pretended to remember an umbrella, went back into the Magic Guild, then repeatedly came out and retreated with new excuses.
• Jack Hughes grew increasingly frustrated as the Inquisitors and Knights Order struggled to act without entering the guild.
• The Venerated Demigods sent Jack orders to ignore the Magic Guild's protections, enter, and capture Ansu.

Ansu faced an arresting force led by Chief Judge Jack while Luojia teased him in her witch form. He revealed himself as a Child of Blessing and used his power against Jack, only to realize that Enya had secretly arrived as well.

• Ansu and Luojia exchanged teasing threats and recordings while the inquisitors waited outside the Magic Guild.
• Chief Judge Jack led Royal Knights and inquisitors into the guild to arrest Ansu, claiming the Empire had permission from the Church's upper ranks.
• Jack threatened Ansu with his sword, while Luojia urged Ansu to kill him and an unseen presence made Jack sense danger behind him.
• Ansu stopped the rain and revealed his Radiance Blessing, proving he was a Child of Blessing, then used the Radiant Goddess's power to sterilize Jack.
• Jack accepted Ansu's claim and asked him to remove the two invisible blades at his neck; Ansu realized one belonged to Luojia and the other to the hidden Enya.

Ansu’s attempt to explain Jack’s injuries failed as Enya and Luojia attacked the Inquisitor, and Luojia’s corruption turned him into a monstrous calamity before the watching officials and demigods. The spectacle convinced the crowd that the Golden Kite family had incurred divine punishment, while Merlin celebrated the impending clash.

• Enya appeared beside Ansu and struck Jack with an invisible blade, wounding his shoulder as Ansu insisted he had not attacked.
• Luojia arrived and challenged Enya, then used dark power on Jack while Enya continued to injure him.
• Luojia’s corruption transformed Jack into a black-winged monster, and witnesses connected his distortion to the First Prince’s transformation.
• The assembled Inquisitors and Church forces saw the incident as evidence of divine punishment, while Ansu recognized that public belief would fuel the coming conflict.
• Merlin watched from the top of the stairs and cheered at the prospect of a battle between powerful beings.