Recaps

Rushana arrived in the past and used Buddhist prayers to resist Hermes Trismegistus, but her brief deception could not turn the battle. As Erice fought Hermes, Rushana discovered that accepting herself as an imitation and disciple might let her support Erice.

• Rushana stepped between Erice and Hermes Trismegistus and resisted his influence by reciting the Avatamsaka Sutra.
• Hermes Trismegistus saw through Rushana's lotus-summoning magecraft and crushed it, while Erice told Rushana to flee.
• Erice fought Hermes Trismegistus, who used poisonous dust and pressed his advantage over her.
• Rushana remembered the instruction to bow east when the sun returned and bowed toward Erice, whom Hermes had called the Great Lord of the East.
• A voice asked Rushana whether she wanted to become herself, and Rushana said she accepted her identity as an imitation and disciple who hoped to become something like Buddha.
• Rushana reached out toward Erice as she continued fighting Hermes Trismegistus.

Erice defeated Hermes Trismegistus, returned with A Xiu to the former Demon Gate, and said goodbye as A Xiu's life resumed its course and she walked into the sea. The story then shifted to the last Sasun's confrontation with God, where she challenged his convictions and was struck down after insisting her actions had meaning.

• Erice analyzed and countered the Thrice-Great One's alchemy, then destroyed Hermes Trismegistus with her strongest attack.
• Erice brought A Xiu to the former Demon Gate and accepted responsibility for Tokyo's destruction when A Xiu asked whether she had regrets.
• Erice and A Xiu thanked each other, clasped hands, and A Xiu's body grew to an age-appropriate form.
• A Xiu walked into the sea after urging Erice to hold on to the person she might find, and Erice watched her friend depart.
• The last Sasun challenged God over the meaning of the Sasun line and the injustice he allowed in the world.
• God unleashed his power against the last Sasun, who fell after declaring that her actions had meaning.

Little Mher woke in Luce’s care after the Underworld Tokyo incident and questioned why she had let Novia have his way, while Erice condemned him as a pervert. In AD 62, Lucius addressed the people of Armenia as Tiridates I sought to establish Christianity there, and he recalled the principles that shaped his approach to missionary work.

• Little Mher woke beside Luce and Tiamat, learned about them, and wondered whether she was still too weak to confront God.
• Erice explained that Dee’s death had ended the threats from Ouroboros and Perun, while Rushana’s disappearance continued to trouble her.
• Little Mher called Novia the worst, and Erice agreed before asking why Little Mher had quietly let him have his way.
• Tiridates I announced that Armenia would convert to Christianity and asked the Holy Church to establish a branch there.
• Lucius addressed the people of Yerevan, promising to bear responsibility and affirming that their courage and worth were recognized.
• Lucius recalled a conversation in which Novia had urged him to understand people’s circumstances, question his own sense of justice, and treat all people as equals.

Lucius met Novia again in Tokyo and discovered that Novia had been the Demon King who once inhabited Erice. Their reunion brought back memories of their first meeting and left Lucius laughing as he reflected on the life he had lived.

• Lucius recalled how the Church had placed its incomplete Holy Scripture under the guidance of the saints and how a young Cardinal had earned its approval.
• Lucius arrived at Erice's hospital room and found her arguing with Little Mher while two other girls tried to intervene.
• Novia appeared behind Lucius, and they went to a private beach as Lucius changed into a formal suit.
• Novia confronted Lucius about the joke video he had made of him and revealed that he knew Lucius had lied about his stolen clothes.
• Lucius realized Novia had been the Demon King connected to Erice and wondered why Erice now seemed indifferent to him.
• Novia challenged Lucius with a wooden sword, repeated a question about whether Lucius's life had formed a beautiful pattern, and Lucius dropped his lance and laughed.

Novia and Lucius reflected on the Church’s bloody decline before Lucius returned to the present. In the hospital, Novia spoke with Little Mher about his past and the anger between them, leaving Little Mher flustered and Novia reconsidering his place in the Trinity.

• Lucius apologized to Novia for what the Church became, and Novia urged him to listen to people and preserve the ideals they had once shared.
• Lucius realized that Novia’s remarks about Tera Ding revealed the identity of the King of the Huns, then teased Novia about having a child.
• Erice questioned Lucius’s closeness with Novia, while Tiamat, Luce, and the others left the hospital room with them.
• Novia acknowledged Little Mher’s anger and said he would not deny responsibility if he had hurt him, even though he had no memory of it.
• Novia explained that his actions in Rome had been what he wanted, and Little Mher became upset as Novia wondered whether changing would make him no longer himself.
• Little Mher shouted that Novia was the only person he knew, and Novia wondered whether he could refuse the Holy Spirit’s position in the Trinity.

Yumina pushed Alice to acknowledge the wish she had buried fourteen years earlier, and wrote a poem revealing her feelings for Utsumi Erice. Alice recognized the memories behind the words but insisted Yumina had not described what truly happened.

• Novia asked Little Mher about the Sea Goddess of Armenia, and Little Mher recalled seeing the title “Storm Maiden” in a dream.
• Vairocana acknowledged the blue-haired Rushana as his little sister, and the Savior said he had acted because his Father would not intervene directly.
• Aoko Aozaki confronted Yumina as Yumina urged Alice to admit she had a wish.
• Yumina controlled Alice’s body and wrote a poem about Alice’s longing for Utsumi Erice.
• Alice stopped Yumina and denied that her poem accurately described the events, while Yumina teased her about her feelings.

Alice resisted Yumina’s attempts to make her confess her wish to Novia, and Yumina took control of her body to go out in Akihabara. Novia and the others arrived in Akihabara, where Erice was stunned to find Aoko Aozaki waiting for them in a penguin coat.

• Alice admitted that she had no right to interfere in Erice and Novia’s relationship, but Yumina urged her to confess her wish to Novia.
• Yumina threatened to take over Alice’s body and use the Fairy-Tale Monster Wishing Star Box, but Alice refused both proposals.
• Yumina took control of Alice’s body and decided to change clothes before going out in Akihabara.
• Novia, Erice, Tiamat, and Luce traveled by train from Marseille Mosaic City to Tokyo, while Novia wondered whether Lilitu or another goddess could be the Storm Maiden.
• Erice criticized Novia for being a womanizer, and Novia joked that she was his wife.
• The group arrived in Akihabara, where Aoko Aozaki greeted Erice and Novia wearing a penguin coat.

Yumina trapped Novia in a mirror world and then hid with him inside Alice’s penguin costume, pretending to be Alice as they rejoined Erice. As Yumina teased Novia and argued that Alice was losing her way as a Witch, Novia called her adorable, leaving her convinced that his affection was a lie.

• Alice said she had waited at the station to welcome Novia and the others, then walked with them toward the Kuonji mansion.
• Aoko asked Novia to escort her to a restroom, where Yumina revealed that she had lured him into a mirror world.
• Novia raised his hand to break the mirror world, and Yumina switched tactics by hiding with him inside the penguin costume.
• Erice met the apparent Alice in Akihabara and continued toward the mansion with her, unaware that Novia was concealed inside the costume.
• Yumina teased Novia and said Alice no longer deserved to be a Witch, but Novia whispered that Yumina was adorable.
• Yumina decided that Novia’s words were a lie and that his friendliness was not unique to her.

Yumina used Novia’s shattered Mirror World to analyze him, then controlled Alice’s body for a day while growing closer to Novia. Meanwhile, Mot tried to claim the Himalayas and remake the planet, but a mysterious force attacked him as the mountains resisted.

• Yumina sensed Novia’s hardships and became determined to occupy his heart, even if she had to make him hate her.
• Yumina provoked Novia and kissed him while walking beside Erice, then asserted that he belonged to her.
• Aoko woke in the mansion bathroom and found marks on her body, while Alice resolved not to let Yumina hurt her without her knowledge again.
• Mot declared that he would not submit to Anat and sought to make the Himalayas submit to his authority over death.
• Mot’s attempt to ascend toward heaven revealed a pillar-like view of the universe, and a mysterious force attacked him as the Himalayas resisted.

El struck down Mot and seized his death authority, while Anat's history revealed how she became devoted to the silver-haired man who crushed her and made her his weapon. Anat remained unable to understand what he loved about the sea, and her search for that answer continued.

• El appeared beside Mot, declared that he would help kill him, and fatally struck him before tearing out his authority over death.
• Anat first met the silver-haired man, who crushed her, but she resurrected and confessed that he had taken her love.
• Anat repeatedly fought and died at the silver-haired man's hands, then accepted his command to die for him.
• Anat crippled El, killed Yam, forced Mot to submit, and arranged for Baal to become god-king before beheading him at his ascension ceremony.
• Anat returned to the silver-haired man and continued serving as his weapon, while wondering what he saw in the sea.

Novia met Zagreus in Akihabara and prepared to confront El at Cape Canaveral, where El had chosen to challenge the New Covenant. As El restored his strength and faced Novia, he asked whether Novia sought the Canaanite throne or intended to kill him.

• Anat transformed herself into Lilith, the first human woman in the Garden of Eden, and begged W (Vey) Y (Ya) to love her.
• Novia met Zagreus in Akihabara, where Zagreus said he sensed Mot had left the Himalayas and was at Cape Canaveral.
• Novia confirmed he was heading to Cape Canaveral to confront El and end the Old Testament's attempt to replace the New Covenant.
• El reflected on Canaan's violent past and believed he would eventually regain his status as the Eternal Exalted One.
• El restored his crippled body and confronted Novia, asking whether Novia wanted his recognition as god-king or wanted to kill him.

Novia and Tiamat traveled to Tallahassee to confront El, where they met Daybit Zem Voiv, a former Cape Canaveral researcher. Daybit revealed that a mysterious spacesuited creature had destroyed Cape Canaveral fourteen years earlier and might still be sealed inside.

• El recalled how a silver-haired man had annihilated him and the gods of Canaan, then explained that he had blurred the Old Testament to claim its powers and intended to kill every living thing.
• Novia and Tiamat explored Tallahassee, where the subdued residents and El’s choice of location led Novia to consider it a new Canaan.
• Novia and Tiamat reached a planetarium where Manazuru Chitose had arranged for them to meet Daybit Zem Voiv.
• Daybit explained that Cape Canaveral had been sealed after something in a spacesuit began destroying it during a Holy Grail War fourteen years earlier.
• Daybit warned that the creature might still be inside Cape Canaveral, waiting for the seal to be opened.

Daybit told Tiamat that he had only months to live and still intended to go to Cape Canaveral, where a mysterious voice was drawing him. At Yayauqui, Tezcatlipoca revealed that an entity called Apollo awaited there, and Novia agreed to travel with Daybit and Tiamat.

• Daybit told Tiamat and Novia that he had only a few months left to live and planned to visit someone in Cape Canaveral.
• Daybit arrived at the Yayauqui chocolate factory with Tiamat and Novia, where he reunited with his Servant, Jaguar Man Navarro.
• Novia and Tezcatlipoca joked about the unsold chocolate, while Tiamat defended Daybit when Tezcatlipoca questioned his journey.
• Daybit explained that a voice in his mind urged him to remember a result and stop wasting time, though he did not know whom he would meet.
• Tezcatlipoca revealed that Cape Canaveral held Apollo, a being formed from humanity's concepts of the Apollo spacecraft and their technology.
• Novia agreed to go to Cape Canaveral with Daybit and gave Tiamat hot chocolate.

Tezcatlipoca and Daybit discussed their plans to leave for Cape Canaveral and the companions Daybit remembered from a dream. That night, Tiamat tried to seduce Novia, but he woke and drew her into his arms, telling her she could have simply asked him directly.

• Tezcatlipoca returned to the planetarium and spoke with Daybit about their trip to Cape Canaveral and the growing threat from Apollo.
• Daybit recalled a dream of Pepe and Wodime, whose friendship had first sparked his interest in astronomy and India.
• Tiamat reflected on her love for Novia and decided to make the first move before they left Tallahassee.
• Tiamat entered Novia's room wearing a revealing outfit and tried to imitate Alice's confident manner.
• Novia woke to Tiamat's advances, pulled her close, and reassured her that she could have spoken to him directly.

Metatron Jeanne d'Arc rejected Ras's doubts and declared that her will represented the Lord's, then took her place on the Throne in Cape Canaveral as the angels fought against the Crown's control. She prepared to reveal her full power as the King of Angels and face the force routing the angelic armies.

• Ras challenged Metatron's claim that humanity's destruction was the Lord's will, then left the court without waiting for her answer.
• Metatron revealed her hatred of humanity and resolved to deliver its final verdict, believing the Lord had entrusted humanity's future to her.
• The chapter described the Kingdom of Heaven, the Throne, and Metatron's history as the King of Angels, including her punishment for sitting on God's seat.
• In the transformed Cape Canaveral, Metatron saw that vast numbers of angels were being routed while resisting her Crown's control.
• Metatron invoked the Lord and prepared to unleash her true form, convinced that no opponent could defeat her.

El sent Metatron to confront Apollo while preparing to devour humanity after his coming battle with Novia. Novia destroyed the angelic army, entered Heaven alone, and met El, who had claimed the authority of the God of the Old Testament.

• Metatron clashed with El, then agreed to confront Apollo after El warned that Apollo opposed her aims but did not want humanity extinct.
• El revealed that he wanted to fight Novia and planned to devour every human if he won.
• Novia killed the angels gathered before Cape Canaveral and erased the crown's commands.
• Novia told Tiamat to go with Daybit and Tezcatlipoca, then entered Cape Canaveral alone and challenged El to face the price of looking into his eyes.
• Novia walked through Heaven to the Throne, where El confirmed he had used his authority to turn the Judgment Court into Heaven and declared himself the God of the Old Testament.

Novia fought El, who had claimed the Old Testament’s authority and attacked with overwhelming divine power. As El prepared to invoke Genesis, Novia challenged his claim to the name God and began recalling a story about Enosh.

• El judged humanity guilty and surrounded Novia with blood-red darkness, but Novia advanced through it unharmed.
• El unleashed his power and struck at Novia, who broke off El’s body parts by naming them and then split him in two.
• El questioned Novia’s reasons for killing gods, and Novia said he needed no reason to do what he considered right and natural.
• El activated the authority of Genesis and assembled a vast array of divine powers around himself.
• Novia told El that the name God belonged to him, then recalled Enosh asking his father whether gods and monsters existed.

Enosh spent his long life searching for God’s name and, at the moment of his death, called upon him as YHWH (Jehovah), though he reversed the letters. In the present, El attacked Novia over the name, while Metatron confronted Tiamat, Tezcatlipoca, and Daybit and began judging their crimes.

• As a child, Enosh heard Set’s stories about God and the man-eating monsters and decided to discover God’s name.
• Enosh spent most of his nine hundred and fifty years traveling through the wilderness, believing he would eventually meet God.
• When Enosh collapsed at the end of his journey, someone caught him, and he whispered the name YHWH (Jehovah), reversing W and Y.
• El realized Novia’s interest in controlling the Old Testament was tied to God’s name and unleashed a barrage of powerful punches, which Novia answered in kind.
• Tiamat, Tezcatlipoca, and Daybit arrived to find Metatron standing over the defeated Apollo, and Metatron threatened them before ordering Rasputin to begin the judgment.
• Rasputin accused Daybit of eliminating the escape prospects of 452 people at Cape Canaveral and Tezcatlipoca of killing countless humans through sacrificial rites.

Metatron judged Tiamat and Tezcatlipoca as enemies of humanity and prepared to destroy them, but Tiamat rejected her verdict and declared that Metatron’s will could not be God’s. Rasputin joined Tiamat and Tezcatlipoca against Metatron, and the chapter ended as her attack began.

• Tezcatlipoca explained the sacrificial rules of his world and challenged Metatron’s one-sided judgment against him and Tiamat.
• Metatron declared that Tiamat and Tezcatlipoca had no right to resist and threatened to kill them within seven seconds.
• Tiamat recalled a conversation about humanity growing beyond its need for a mother and accepted that her children might leave her, while insisting they had not abandoned her out of malice.
• Tiamat accused Metatron of acting against the Lord’s will and declared Metatron innocent, prompting Rasputin to oppose Metatron and reaffirm his faith.
• Metatron announced that all who stood before her were insignificant evil, and her attack began with existence and sound seeming to vanish.

Metatron overwhelmed Tezcatlipoca and destroyed his Black Sun, but the Crown above her shattered after the angels abandoned its call. Elsewhere, Novia met El’s greatest attack head-on, and El stood firm as Novia began to explain why he had lost.

• Metatron used the Holy Seat and her divine power to break Tezcatlipoca’s Black Sun and end his attempt to alter the laws of the world.
• As Metatron prepared to destroy Tezcatlipoca’s Spirit Core and heart, a crack appeared in her Crown, and the Holy Seat hurled him away.
• Metatron wondered which angels had rejected the Crown’s call, then watched the Crown shatter completely.
• El fought Novia with his enhanced body and the usurped Authority of the Old Testament, while Novia used a power drawn from that Authority.
• Novia revealed a new power in a burst of darkness and light, and El charged him with his strongest attack.
• Novia met El’s greatest strength without retreating and began explaining why El had lost.

Novia defeated El, while Metatron attacked Tiamat before Novia arrived and stopped the fight. Metatron expected punishment, but Novia told her he would neither rebuke nor favor her, and she begged him to erase her existence.

• Novia shattered El and destroyed the authority he had taken from the Old Testament.
• Metatron used her graces to negate Tezcatlipoca’s and Rasputin’s powers, then attacked Tiamat as she tried to summon the sea of life.
• Tiamat punched Metatron away when the angel’s voice suddenly cut off, and a powerful presence approached.
• Novia arrived and walked past Metatron, then checked on Tiamat and spoke with Rasputin.
• Metatron apologized to Novia and asked him to erase her concept completely.

Metatron received Tiamat’s gentle punishment and left after agreeing to let the matter with Lilitu rest for now. As Novia and Tiamat prepared to restore the FR world’s ecosystem, Lilith ambushed Metatron and began using a strange black light on her.

• Novia told Metatron that she had caused no lasting harm, and Tiamat wiped away her tears and gave her a light head pat as punishment.
• Tiamat defended Lilitu, and Metatron reluctantly agreed to leave the matter alone before departing.
• Novia and Tiamat sat on the Holy Seat so Tiamat could reshape the devastated FR world’s ecosystem, and Tiamat explained that she had met Lilitu in imaginary number space.
• Lilith shattered the sky, impaled Metatron with a Greatsword that destroyed her power at its source, and exposed Metatron’s unspoken desire to be at God’s side.
• Lilith told Metatron she should confess her feelings, then sent a strange black light through the sword into Metatron’s body.

Lilith left Metatron pinned and weakened after confronting her with her contradictory love and hatred for Him and her grievance against Veya. Metatron knocked herself unconscious and, while reviewing Jeanne d'Arc's memories, questioned whether the voice Jeanne heard was the Holy Spirit, whose origins she connected to Novia.

• Lilith taunted Metatron, admitted that she both loved and hated Him, and recalled that Veya's actions had made her feel betrayed and broken.
• Lilith withdrew her greatsword and left Metatron on the ground, warning her not to mistake mercy for permission to push her luck.
• Metatron considered ending her life to erase the sloth spreading through her, then slammed her head against the ground and passed out.
• In the darkness, Metatron reviewed Jeanne d'Arc's memories and wondered whether the voice Jeanne called a revelation had been the Holy Spirit.
• Metatron reasoned that the Holy Spirit's place in Christian doctrine had been established through Augustine and that Novia had helped bring about its origin.

Metatron emerged in Akihabara and used her power to make Erice, Aoko Aozaki, and Yumina slothful, leaving them playing cards and living on takeout at the Kuonji mansion for a month. When Alice announced that Novia was at the door, Metatron abruptly refused to meet him and went to take a bath instead.

• Metatron wandered into Akihabara, where Erice recognized her wings and asked whether she was an angel.
• Metatron scolded Erice for being desperate to see someone, then made Erice, Aoko Aozaki, and Yumina slothful.
• Metatron and the others spent a month playing cards at the Kuonji mansion and surviving on takeout.
• Alice announced that Novia was at the door, and Metatron refused to answer it before heading to the bathroom.
• Metatron lay fully clothed in the bathtub as the shower continued spraying over her.

Metatron settled into sloth after Novia gave her the Holy Seat, while Novia reflected on his search for Shekinah and remembered Lilith’s desperate love for him. The chapter left their past unresolved, with Lilith pleading for Novia to kill her.

• Metatron tried to kiss Novia in the bath but blurted out a request for the Holy Seat instead.
• Metatron used the Holy Seat to laze around and offered Novia instant noodles.
• Novia reflected that he had found the information about Shekinah he came to seek and considered how humans had mistaken Anat for the Queen of Heaven.
• Novia remembered Anat becoming Lilith and declaring that she wanted his child because he was her father, husband, and Lord.
• Lilith screamed in despair when Novia could no longer see or hear her, then asked him to kill her.