Chapter Summaries

Kitagawa and Ghost Blade connected the growing global tensions to the 2008 financial crisis, while Kerrisa prepared the Knights for a coup amid the Puritan Church’s growing influence. Kitagawa offered Vivian R'lyeh’s support as an independent path to power and urged her to prevent England’s factions from tearing the country apart.

• Kitagawa told Ghost Blade that the global financial crisis had begun and predicted that Kerrisa would soon act.
• Jiang Rui explained the crisis’s threat to England, then received messages and sent his group on a business trip.
• Kerrisa learned that the Puritan Church was feeding and supporting unemployed people, but ordered the Knights to stand by rather than attack it.
• Kitagawa told Vivian that Kerrisa was preparing a coup and offered R'lyeh’s support for her as a democratic candidate.
• Vivian questioned whether R'lyeh would back one of her sisters if she refused, and Kitagawa urged her to accept the chance to prevent a civil struggle and protect the people.

Second Princess Kerrisa consolidated her coup in England and ordered the Third Princess eliminated while preparing to use Glastonbury with Curtana. In Academy City, Jiang Rui persuaded Reivinia to accompany him to England, where he planned to confront the Knight Captain and support the Third Princess on his own terms.

• Kerrisa burned Buckingham Palace, ordered the Knight Captain to eliminate the missing Third Princess, and sent Ghost Blade to activate Glastonbury.
• Wordless withdrew Russian Orthodox Church members into hiding as news of the coup drew forces toward England.
• Jiang Rui tried to recruit Reivinia for his operation, and she agreed to come as long as she did not have to fight for England.
• Jiang Rui received Ghost Blade's report that the Knight Captain had defeated the Spider Queen and decided to head for England with Reivinia.
• Jiang Rui left Yinyin Qingcao to guard Academy City and prepare for a possible attack by Aqua of the Back.

Jiang Rui and his allies arrived in the forest near Stratford to rescue Vivian from the Knight Captain, who had pursued her and Kitagawa for eight hours. Reivinia refused to fight because of her agreement with England, but urged Jiang Rui to kill the Knight Captain, and Jiang Rui prepared to face him.

• Vivian admitted she was too exhausted to keep running and urged Kitagawa to escape while she distracted the Knight Captain.
• The Knight Captain revealed that he had detected their nearby reinforcements, but Jiang Rui and his group arrived through Kitagawa’s distress coordinate.
• The Knight Captain destroyed Jiang Rui’s magical vines and recognized Reivinia, who taunted him about his loyalty to the royal family.
• Reivinia declined to attack because of her agreement with England, but encouraged Jiang Rui to kill the Knight Captain and offered future help.
• Kitagawa explained that the Knight Captain’s Sorenren Ritual nullified weapons he understood, then moved aside as Jiang Rui prepared to fight.

Jiang Rui fought the Knight Captain and learned that his Mode Magic could give weapons devastating conceptual properties. After the Captain shattered Jiang Rui’s Steel Severing Sword, Jiang Rui revealed a sky full of Spirit Gears and prepared to overwhelm him with hundreds of weapons.

• The Knight Captain struck Jiang Rui with Florentine, blasting him nearly a hundred meters and badly injuring him before Accelerated Regeneration healed him.
• Jiang Rui returned to close combat, using swordsmanship he had learned from Lin to deflect the Captain’s attacks and land a seven-part strike.
• The Knight Captain changed Florentine into a shorter sword and used conceptual severance to shatter Jiang Rui’s Steel Severing Sword and Kitagawa’s Soul Cutter Sword.
• Kitagawa explained that the Captain’s Mode Magic could apply conceptual weapon properties, including severing power, speed, weight, and range.
• Jiang Rui summoned hundreds of Spirit Gears across the sky, drank a magic potion, and challenged the Knight Captain to cut through them all.

Jiang Rui defeated the Knight Captain by bombarding him with exploding Noble Phantasm projections, while the others discussed the cost of the potions he had used. Ghost Blade learned that Jiang Rui’s debts might be repaid through marriage and resolved to negotiate a bride price rather than let him marry into Nine Tails’s family.

• Jiang Rui explained his projections and used Fantasy Collapse to detonate them, overwhelming the Knight Captain despite his Unbreakable Shield.
• Jiang Rui told the injured Knight Captain that he was not allied with the Puritan Church, though the Knight Captain still considered him more dangerous than Index.
• Nine Tails revealed that Jiang Rui had consumed nearly a hundred and fifty Radiant Potions and asked Kitagawa to reimburse her for the cost.
• Ghost Blade received a message from Kitagawa saying the child should take the Jiang surname, then decided to negotiate a bride price with Jiang Rui.
• Kerrisa laughed off Ghost Blade’s suggestion that he wanted someone to keep him, while he prepared to report the Knight Captain’s defeat.

Jiang Rui killed the Knight Captain, then used the knight’s death and the royal family’s hesitation to persuade Third Princess Vivian to help change England. As the group settled in Stratford and Jiang Rui urged Vivian to turn her popular image into a force for reform, Reivinia confronted him over his plan to overthrow England.

• Jiang Rui questioned the exhausted Knight Captain about whether he wanted to kill Vivian, then killed him with Atomic Collapse when the knight charged without answering directly.
• Jiang Rui took Florentine and argued that both the Knight Captain and the Second Princess had left Vivian’s fate to chance; he used the Knight Captain’s death to persuade Vivian to work with R’lyeh.
• The group traveled to Stratford, where Jiang Rui proposed starting an uprising and urged Vivian to use her beloved public image to bring people to her cause.
• That night, Reivinia confronted Jiang Rui, accusing him of wanting to overthrow England while helping the royal family do it.

Jiang Rui explained that his group had never intended to overthrow England and planned to return to London to rescue the Queen and use her United Meaning ritual to empower the Third Princess and the people. Meanwhile, Accelerator, Misaka Mikoto, Aiwass, and Tsuchimikado Motoharu were surrounded by knights after landing, and learned that most of the Heroes faction now followed Rimuru’s will; Tsuchimikado revealed Rimuru had already arrived.

• Jiang Rui reassured Reivinia that his group would honor its promises and that they respected people who held to their principles, and Reivinia decided she wanted to help the Third Princess.
• Jiang Rui told Nine Tails that they would return to London to rescue the Queen of Britain and use her United Meaning ritual to grant the people power through the Third Princess.
• Accelerator and Misaka Mikoto fought off the knights surrounding their team after they landed in London, while Tsuchimikado Motoharu admitted he had no idea where their promised reception was.
• Tsuchimikado told the group that nearly everyone in the Heroes faction and its affiliates had begun acting according to Rimuru’s will, beyond the Board of Directors’ control.
• Misaka Mikoto asked whether Tsuchimikado knew Rimuru’s whereabouts, and he confirmed that Rimuru was already in London.

Lola briefed Accelerator and the Academy City group on the growing R'lyeh presence in England and the Puritan Church’s plan to stop Curtana and Kerrisa. After Tsuchimikado Motoharu secretly reported to Lola, Accelerator confronted him about whether he also worked for Rimuru.

• Lola met Accelerator and the others, then described R'lyeh Magicians gathering in England and the powerful fighters among them.
• Lola explained that the Knights Faction had Curtana’s enhancement and that Kerrisa was preparing to launch Glastonbury near the French border.
• Accelerator attacked Tateimiya Saiji after he voiced hostility toward Rimuru, and Lola explained that Saiji blamed Rimuru for someone’s death.
• Lola said the group’s urgent task was to stop Kerrisa from provoking a war with France, but she did not know Rimuru’s objective.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu secretly reported Academy City’s information to Lola and declined her invitation to return to the Puritan Church because Maika was still at school in Academy City.
• Accelerator confronted Tsuchimikado Motoharu and asked whether he was also a spy for Rimuru.

Accelerator and the Puritan Church's Choir Combat Group used a magical link to interfere with Curtana, prompting Kerrisa to return to London and purge the Puritans and wavering knights. Meanwhile, Jiang Rui met with Wordless and the others, discussed Vivian's opportunity to challenge Kerrisa, and learned that the Puritan Church held Curtana II and likely had his group's information.

• Accelerator accompanied the Puritan Church's believers to the underground subway and watched them channel magic through Curtana's link, preparing to protect the casters until Curtana was paralyzed.
• Kerrisa left Ghost Blade to guard the floating fortress and returned to London with her knights to purge the Puritan Church and knights who had turned against her.
• Wordless and Sasha arrived at Jiang Rui's town, where Jiang Rui explained that Kerrisa's internal purge might give Vivian a chance to overthrow her.
• Reivinia urged Vivian to use the Knight Captain's legacy and sword, while Jiang Rui reassured her that they would help her secure the greatest possible advantage.
• Jiang Rui interpreted Accelerator's message to learn that the Puritan Church possessed Curtana II and suspected that Tsuchimikado had given the church their information.
• Jiang Rui worried that Misaka Mikoto remained attached to him and considered bringing her into his ranks to protect her.

Lola Stuart teleported Accelerator’s group outside London and enlisted them to rescue the Queen while the Puritan Church held off the Knights Faction. As Accelerator and Misaka Mikoto argued over her feelings for Rimuru, they encountered Jiang Rui and Saten Ruiko, leaving the reunion poised to turn hostile.

• Lola Stuart used the magic carriage to teleport her group beyond London’s defenses, then gave Accelerator a Knights Faction deployment map and asked him to rescue Her Majesty while the Puritan Church fought the knights.
• Misaka Mikoto persuaded Accelerator to join the rescue, and the group headed toward Buckingham Palace with the goal of ending the civil war.
• Misaka Mikoto and Accelerator argued about the Puritan Church, Rimuru, and her reasons for getting involved; she admitted that her gratitude to Rimuru might have become love, then raced ahead with the map.
• Accelerator and Misaka Mikoto encountered a middle-aged monk beside a river, where a blue-haired figure was talking with him, and saw Saten Ruiko among the followers.
• Jiang Rui greeted Misaka Mikoto after their long separation as a chilling mist began spreading through the forest.

Jiang Rui confronted Misaka Mikoto and her allies, explaining that R'lyeh had already moved to rescue the former Queen and was backing the Third Princess, Vivian, as England’s next ruler. After Vivian declared her resolve to shoulder the country’s responsibilities, Jiang Rui invited the group to join him in saving England.

• Jiang Rui assigned Fa Hai to rescue the Queen and ordered Wordless and his subordinates to seize Curtana II from the Puritan Church.
• Misaka Mikoto, Accelerator, and their companions arrived, and Ruiko Saten stepped forward to fight them as Jiang Rui’s disciple.
• Jiang Rui argued that Ruiko needed the chance to grow and challenged Misaka’s assumptions about protecting people by keeping them from danger.
• Jiang Rui revealed that R'lyeh had rescued the former Queen and supported Vivian as England’s new Queen, prompting Accelerator to recognize the plan to change the ruler.
• Jiang Rui and Vivian explained why England needed reform, and Vivian vowed to accept her royal responsibility.
• Jiang Rui extended his invitation to Misaka and the others to join him in saving England.

Jiang Rui and Misaka Mikoto’s opposing ideals drove them into open conflict, while the Third Princess chose R’lyeh’s help despite Accelerator’s warning. As a massive earth ritual emerged and its fist descended, Nine Tails said the earth’s power would not affect Jiang Rui.

• Jiang Rui tried to convince Misaka Mikoto to trust him, but she shot through his chest and accused him of manipulating her.
• Misaka Mikoto confronted Jiang Rui over whether he wanted to save England’s people or simply end the civil war, and they acknowledged that their different ideals put them on opposing paths.
• Saten Ruiko stood with Jiang Rui and prepared to fight Misaka Mikoto, while Nine Tails teased Jiang Rui about his feelings.
• Accelerator tried to persuade the Third Princess to reject R’lyeh’s help, but she said its power was too difficult to refuse.
• Jiang Rui detected magic gathering underground as Tsuchimikado Motoharu and Reivinia attempted to counter it, but Aiwass disrupted their efforts and Nine Tails threw him away.
• A God-Era Ritual: Gaia Weapon rose from the earth and swung a massive fist toward the group, but Nine Tails told Reivinia that its power would not affect Jiang Rui.

Jiang Rui effortlessly stopped Tsuchimikado Motoharu’s earth golem, prompting Tsuchimikado to surrender while Accelerator chose to fight Jiang Rui. As their battle began, Ruiko Saten transformed into a powerful wind elemental and challenged Misaka Mikoto.

• Jiang Rui blocked the earth golem’s attack and revealed that he knew the spell that controlled it.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu surrendered after concluding that the mission to save the Queen mattered more than fighting, and Kinuhata Saiai accepted him.
• Accelerator rejected Jiang Rui’s offer to end the conflict peacefully and attacked him with lightning and incomplete White Wings.
• Reivinia jumped down from the fallen tree to confront Aiwass while Nine Tails watched Accelerator and Jiang Rui’s fight.
• Ruiko Saten unleashed her strongest wind-element spell, formed a towering storm elemental, and introduced herself to Misaka Mikoto as Storm Commander Ruiko Saten.

Jiang Rui battled Accelerator while Reivinia confronted Aiwass, whose Venus-reflecting Spirit Gear could disassemble its target. After Aiwass exposed Reivinia’s substitute and attacked again, she unleashed a powerful Wind Blade, leaving Jiang Rui racing to save her as Accelerator followed.

• Jiang Rui used Dark Matter feathers to pierce Accelerator’s reflection, while Accelerator built an ion storm from the battlefield’s wind and electricity.
• Aiwass tried to use the Spear of Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli’s reflected Venus light to attack Jiang Rui, but Reivinia caught him and threatened him with her blade.
• Reivinia’s substitute took Aiwass’s beam, and her real body vanished using the Hermit card; Aiwass then resolved to kill her to protect his identity.
• Reivinia called out “Sword,” drawing Aiwass into firing his beam, then gathered the battlefield’s wind and unleashed a devastating Wind Blade.
• Jiang Rui rushed to save Reivinia, but Accelerator blocked him before pursuing him when Jiang Rui warned that Imagine Breaker might not stop her attack.

Jiang Rui confronted Misaka Mikoto and Accelerator after Reivinia’s Wind Blade apparently killed Aiwass, then learned Nine Tails had secretly recovered him. He decided to kill the unconscious Aiwass anyway, but the chapter ended with Tsuchimikado Motoharu holding Third Princess hostage and Jiang Rui ordering Kinuhata Saiai to remove her Nitrogen Armor.

• Misaka Mikoto tried to protect Aiwass from Reivinia’s Wind Blade, but Aiwass shoved her aside and vanished when the spell tore the ground apart.
• Jiang Rui explained that Reivinia had amplified the basic Wind Blade through repeated casting, then revealed that Kaihara Mitsutaka was a North American Magician Cabal traitor rather than Misaka Mikoto’s companion’s true identity.
• Nine Tails suddenly produced the unconscious Aiwass, and Accelerator threatened to detonate the Ion Storm unless Jiang Rui returned him and let them retreat.
• After Reivinia said Aiwass had also tried to kill Jiang Rui, Jiang Rui chose to kill him, while Nine Tails trapped Accelerator and Saten Ruiko blocked Misaka Mikoto.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu took Third Princess hostage, and Jiang Rui stopped Nine Tails from intervening before ordering Kinuhata Saiai to remove Third Princess’s Nitrogen Armor.

Jiang Rui defeated Aiwass and Misaka Mikoto’s group with a devastating lightning strike, then brought the Third Princess to Buckingham Palace to establish R’lyeh’s influence among England’s political and magical factions. The chapter ended with the Council asking where the Queen was, and being told she was in her former bedroom.

• Jiang Rui killed Aiwass, prompting Misaka Mikoto to attack him while Tsuchimikado Motoharu held the Third Princess hostage.
• Accelerator detonated the Ion Storm as Misaka Mikoto prepared to unleash her lightning, but Jiang Rui amplified the storm and knocked the opposing fighters unconscious.
• Jiang Rui explained to the Third Princess that Aiwass had threatened him and destroyed Reivinia’s life-saving trump card, then received rewards for completing Misaka Mikoto’s Guardian mission and devouring Aiwass.
• Jiang Rui arrived at Buckingham Palace with the Third Princess and met Kitagawa, Wordless, Fa Hai, Leisha, Reivinia, and representatives of England’s factions.
• Jiang Rui asserted R’lyeh’s dominance by threatening political figures who disrespected him, then advised the Third Princess to soothe them and offer benefits.
• The Council representatives asked where the Queen was, and someone answered that she was in her former bedroom.

Jiang Rui secured the Queen’s instructions for using Curtana II and backed Vivian as she prepared to activate United Meaning, then rested while R’lyeh organized Buckingham Palace’s defenses. Kerrisa learned that Vivian held Curtana II and a way to counter her, and set out to seek Sylvia’s support with the Queen’s spell command.

• Reivinia and the Third Princess began repairing Buckingham Palace, while Jiang Rui obtained the Queen’s instructions for United Meaning, Curtana II, and Curtana Original.
• Jiang Rui delegated affairs to Kihara Tsumiki and rested as Vivian imposed martial law and prepared to activate United Meaning with R’lyeh’s support.
• Kerrisa discovered that the Queen and First Princess had not resisted their removal, and the First Princess warned her that Vivian now held Curtana II and had Reivinia’s support.
• The First Princess gave Kerrisa the Queen’s spell command and told her to find Sylvia, the royal guard maid, to rally the knights and gain her help.
• Kerrisa left to seek Sylvia and considered approaching Archbishop Lola as the conflict over England’s future intensified.

Aleister released his many possibilities and appeared in Academy City, where the Great Sage-controlled Lilith confronted Aqua of the Back. As Jiang Rui recovered in England, Kihara Tsumiki chose to become his first voluntary follower, leaving the story with his plan to bring her along.

• Aleister left the Windowless Building after sensing a conflict between angels and Magic Gods, while Aiwass warned him that Othinus was dangerous.
• A silver-haired Aleister introduced herself to Yinyin Qingcao in Tokiwadai, and Yinyin realized that lights spreading across the world represented Aleister's different possibilities.
• Aqua of the Back attacked Yinyin and Lilith, but the Avatar drew on Yinyin's magic power, invoked the Blood Moon, and identified herself as Ciel.
• Jiang Rui learned that Great Sage had taken control of Lilith and trusted her Water Manipulation and Saintly Constitution Collapse to counter Aqua of the Back.
• Leivinia warned Jiang Rui about England's powerful Saints, and Jiang Rui discussed how Nine Tails might earn points if they fought.
• Kihara Tsumiki told Jiang Rui she had decided to leave with him, becoming the first person to volunteer as his follower.

Jiang Rui learned that Aleister had unleashed multiple possibilities, including a Demon God version with Jiang Rui’s personality, and feared the original Aleister was seeking reinforcements. He ordered an immediate attack on the magicians, but the next day Sylvia and Kerrisa learned the magicians were already coming for them.

• Kihara Tsumiki and Jiang Rui invited Reivinia to join them in their plan to replace the world’s God, but she chose to keep helping while considering the invitation.
• Nine Tails explained that Star Spirits could create world consciousnesses, while Reivinia decided she trusted Jiang Rui to protect the interests of Dawn Light after the god war.
• Jiang Rui learned that Aleister had split into multiple possibilities and that one of them was a Demon God who shared his personality and behavior.
• Jiang Rui ordered his allies to move quickly, defeat the enemy’s main force, take control of England, and declare war on the world.
• The next day, a knight reported to Sylvia and Kerrisa that the magicians were coming to attack.

Kerrisa and the First Princess faced Jiang Rui’s invading forces as aerial strikes shattered their defenses and Sylvia trapped the battlefield in an Angel Barrier. Jiang Rui and Nine Tails overwhelmed Kerrisa, while Reivinia and Sylvia began their deadly duel inside the barrier.

• Kerrisa, Sylvia, and the First Princess saw the manor come under bombardment from aircraft and advanced weapons as the Angel Army attacked.
• Jiang Rui arrived with Reivinia and God's Advent, and Sylvia cast an Angel Barrier that isolated the battlefield and forced a one-on-one fight.
• Reivinia entered the barrier to fight Sylvia, while Jiang Rui warned her to break it if she could not win.
• Jiang Rui and Nine Tails attacked Kerrisa, and Nine Tails seized the First Princess while striking through Kerrisa’s defenses.
• Jiang Rui’s wing-blade storm sent Kerrisa crashing through the ruins, but Curtana kept her alive and healing.