Recaps

Erice woke ashamed of her violent confession, and Novia and Manazuru Chitose explained how Chitose had met Novia in 1908 and how Erice had been born from Novia’s blood through the Holy Grail War and Izanami. Erice learned why her origins and name were tied to Izanami, while the chapter left the meaning of Poimandres unresolved.

• Novia subdued Erice as she threatened Chitose, Kuonji, Lilith, and anyone else she believed stood between them.
• Erice woke beside Novia and Manazuru Chitose, then asked why her grandmother had hidden the truth about her origins.
• Novia reminded Erice that Chitose had met him during the Tunguska Event in 1908, after he mistook her for Erice and saved her.
• Chitose said she had spent decades trying to use a drop of Novia’s blood to create a child, but the blood was absorbed into Izanami-no-Mikoto’s Divine Core during the Tokyo Holy Grail War.
• Chitose explained that Izanami had nurtured Erice as her child, named her Utsumi Erice, and hoped she would become a new mother goddess for humanity’s journeys into space.
• Erice wondered what Poimandres, the Lord’s Mind she had learned about in Tokyo, meant for her.

Erice accepted that she was Poimandres and visited Luce, who promised to teach her a healthy way to get along with Novia. The next day, Erice watched Luce and Novia work together at the breakfast shop, where Pope Alexander VI arrived and asked to meet Luce’s father.

• Erice spent time alone sorting through her feelings, then decided to visit Luce.
• Erice asked Luce if she was her older sister, and Luce confirmed that Erice was Poimandres, the Mind.
• Luce offered to show Erice how to have a proper relationship with Novia, and Erice agreed to meet her the next day.
• Erice watched Luce and Novia work together at the breakfast shop, struggling with jealousy as she saw their easy rapport.
• Alexander VI praised the breakfast before learning Novia had made it, then lectured Luce about independence and asked to meet her father.

Alexander VI discovered that Novia was Luce’s father and was horrified by his earlier criticism of Novia’s cooking. As Erice struggled with her feelings, Lilith joined Novia and Luce at the ice cream stall, and Paracelsus ended the day by asking Luce what Novia meant to her.

• Alexander VI met Novia, realized he was Luce’s father, and silently recoiled from having criticized his cooking.
• Cesare and Lucrezia advised Erice to make herself indispensable to someone she loved, and Alexander VI gave her breakfast.
• Lilith joined Novia and Luce at the beach stall, called herself Luce’s mother, and was delighted when Luce addressed her as Mom.
• Lilith helped Novia and Luce sell ice cream while Erice watched, feeling like an outsider.
• After Lilith drew Novia away, Paracelsus bought Luce’s last ice cream and asked what Novia was to her.

Luce drank Paracelsus’s potion, confessed her desire for Novia, and received a kiss on the forehead before encouraging Erice to pursue closeness with him too. The story then shifted to Pandemonium, where Rahab and Sangyangsha discussed Azazel’s proposal to target Shekinah and their shared hatred of God.

• Paracelsus gave Luce a potion that dissolved hesitation, and she drank it while waiting for Novia.
• When Novia returned, Luce asked him for a kiss, and he embraced her and kissed her forehead.
• Erice arrived and worried that affection for Novia was forbidden, but Luce cited scripture to reassure and encourage her.
• In Pandemonium, Rahab condemned Azazel’s plan to target Shekinah but agreed to join if she could fight her one-on-one.
• Sangyangsha told Rahab that Azazel must have a reliable advantage and said he welcomed the chance to take part in the drama surrounding Shekinah.

Sangyangsha recalled how God had stopped him from unleashing the plagues on Egypt, causing him to rebel, then joined the Satans at Azazel’s gathering. Shekinah revealed her hatred of Draco and attacked, while Ultimate Great Satan’s gaze moved to erase Draco.

• Sangyangsha remembered how God prevented his angelic army from attacking Egypt and how that shattered his faith in divine order.
• Sangyangsha and Rahab went to meet Azazel and the other Satans in Pandemonium.
• Azazel sealed the meeting hall and claimed he had summoned the Satans to discuss a counteroffensive against Heaven.
• Shekinah mocked the assembled Satans, defended her love for God, and declared that she would kill Draco.
• Draco and the Demon Beasts He prepared to fight Shekinah, who unleashed a crushing force as Ultimate Great Satan fixed his gaze on Draco.

Erice went to the Tokyo Resurrection Grand Sanctuary to pray and think about her possessive feelings toward Novia. There, Lilith unexpectedly appeared and began explaining the Holy Trinity Icon.

• Erice went to Nikolai Cathedral, also called the Tokyo Resurrection Grand Sanctuary, intending to offer a prayer.
• Erice reflected on Novia and feared that he would grow so distant that she could only remember him.
• Erice paid to enter the sanctuary, lit a candle, and examined the icons, stopping at the Holy Trinity Icon.
• Lilith arrived by boat, greeted Erice, and identified the central figure in the icon as Jesus, the Son of God.
• Lilith explained how the icon combined the three visitors to Abraham with imagery of the Trinity.

Erice visited the Sanctuary with a confession for Novia in mind, while Lilith teased her and reflected on her own connection to him. In the Holy of Holies, Erice finally declared her love and explained how Novia had saved her, leaving her poised to tell him everything plainly.

• Lilith explained the Trinity painting to Erice and teased her about their supposed family ties to Novia and Chitose.
• Lilith followed Erice through the Sanctuary, joking that she, Chitose, and Erice formed a trinity of mother, grandmother, and daughter.
• Erice questioned whether the Virgin Mary should count as her grandmother, but Lilith said Mary was only Jesus's mother and hinted that Shekinah was more like herself.
• Erice entered the Holy of Holies and admitted to herself that she had decided to confess her feelings to Novia.
• Erice told Novia she loved him, thanked him for being her savior, and said she would remember every part of their time together.

Shekinah trapped Lilith and Erice in the Holy of Holies, a bounded field of nothingness, and attacked them with overwhelming power. Lilith tried to protect Erice, but Shekinah’s next strike pierced her defense as Erice roared in fury.

• Shekinah declared that she would gently kill Erice, whose love as a daughter was more sincere than her own.
• Shekinah transported Lilith and Erice into the Holy of Holies, where the Ultimate Great Satan loomed behind her.
• Shekinah attacked with a massive pillar of cloud, and Lilith dodged it before pulling Erice away from a pillar of flame.
• Lilith warned Erice that Shekinah’s Authority acted directly on outcomes, then Shekinah appeared before them and fired a beam of purifying light at Lilith.
• Lilith activated Conceptual Dress · Samael/Kamael, but Shekinah’s beam pierced it, and Erice roared for Shekinah to get away.

Lilith and Erice faced Shekinah, who toyed with them by restoring and amplifying their strength before crushing them again. Shekinah explained that she had become an aspect of Novia’s divinity, then invoked the highest authority as the bounded field shook around her.

• Erice blocked Shekinah’s beam with the white manifestation of the lord’s mind, but Shekinah declared that both women would die.
• Shekinah empowered Lilith and Erice, intending to make them fight at full strength and repeatedly despair, but Lilith stopped Erice from attacking and asked Shekinah about her power and connection to Novia.
• Shekinah said she was part of Novia, identifying herself as his Anat and Jehovah, and described her transformation from the fallen Queen of Heaven.
• Shekinah declared that she had become Novia’s mother, believer, and divine aspect, then announced the highest authority as the bounded field trembled.

Shekinah unleashed her Midrash authority, fused with the Ultimate Great Satan, and overwhelmed Erice, Lilith, and the Lord's Mind. Just as Lilith asked for time to show Shekinah someone they both knew, Novia's presence entered the realm and unsettled Shekinah.

• Shekinah invoked Midrash and released her full authority, transforming into God.
• The Ultimate Great Satan confirmed Shekinah's divine status and proclaimed a series of world-ending powers.
• Erice and the Lord's Mind collapsed under the proclamation, while Lilith barely remained standing.
• Lilith asked Shekinah for time to show her someone they both knew.
• Novia's familiar presence stained the realm of emptiness, and Shekinah showed a crack of bewilderment.

Shekinah and Lilith awaited Novia’s return while arguing over their claims on him, but a silver-blue-haired stranger emerged from a spatial rift instead. The girl revealed a familiar mixture of Metatron’s sloth and Melusine’s greed, and Shekinah recognized something about her.

• Lilith taunted Shekinah and claimed she had won Novia completely, while Shekinah recalled her humiliating past and resolved to protect him from the women around him.
• Shekinah sensed Novia approaching and eagerly prepared to welcome him, while Lilith also anticipated his arrival.
• A spatial rift opened, but a silver-blue-haired girl stepped through and complained that Lilith and Shekinah had disturbed her big brother.
• The girl declared that disturbing him was a capital offense and radiated a fusion of Metatron’s sloth and Melusine’s greed.
• Shekinah recognized the stranger before Lilith could determine who she was.

Novia attempted to summon Typhon wearing the Sandalphon Mystic Code, but Typhon’s wish-granting Fruit of Impermanence created Epsilon, who appeared in Novia’s room instead. Epsilon reached Novia while Typhon and Melusine remained stranded together.

• Shekinah claimed the title of Midrash God, and Epsilon introduced herself as Novia’s beloved little sister.
• Novia decided to summon Typhon wearing the Sandalphon Mystic Code, then remembered Typhon still carried the Fruit of Impermanence.
• Typhon fought Melusine for the chance to see Novia, but Melusine blocked her because she wanted to preserve her swimsuit as something unique.
• Typhon’s wish to escape Melusine and see Novia caused the Fruit of Impermanence to create Epsilon as another version of herself.
• Epsilon slipped away from Typhon and Melusine and arrived in Novia’s room, where she leaped into his embrace.

Epsilon entered Shekinah’s domain wearing the Sandalphon dress and used humanity’s faith to summon Typhon’s three-thousand-meter true form. Shekinah remained composed as Epsilon prepared to end their confrontation.

• Novia sent Epsilon to join Lilith and Shekinah and gave her the Sandalphon Conceptual Dress.
• Epsilon’s power began eroding Shekinah’s void, and Shekinah explained how their mythological connection gave Sandalphon standing against her.
• Epsilon dismissed Shekinah’s questions and deployed her true form, Typhon Sandalphon.
• Epsilon drew on faith directed toward God through Shekinah to manifest a three-thousand-meter Typhon, while Lilith watched and Shekinah reacted with astonishment.

Shekinah used her divine authority to negate Epsilon’s Typhon True Form, but Epsilon countered by mass-producing more Typhon units. Shekinah multiplied into countless selves to fight them, leaving Lilith and Epsilon at a severe disadvantage as Novia watched from the Kuonji Mansion.

• Shekinah redefined the space and used Ultimate Great Satan to conceptually pin and negate Epsilon’s Typhon True Form.
• Epsilon realized Shekinah and Ultimate Great Satan were separate, then summoned countless Typhon units from the sky.
• Shekinah became enraged by Epsilon’s wastefulness and disrespect, which counted as evil deeds under her divine nature.
• Shekinah split into countless copies and sent them to attack the Typhon fleet with divine punishments, lasers, curses, and gravitational fields.
• Novia watched the battle from the Kuonji Mansion in Akihabara and called it beautiful and surprising.

Novia persuaded Kama to accept angelic vestments, while Shekinah continued battling Epsilon and began questioning a sudden, unfamiliar hatred stirred by her own words. Shekinah’s confusion left her exposed to Epsilon’s attack as she searched for the source of the feeling.

• Novia called Kama “Mother,” overcoming her resistance, and summoned the angelic vestments Jophiel and Haniel for her.
• Shekinah calculated that she would defeat Epsilon within two hundred seconds, but grew irritated at Epsilon’s reckless use of faith and refusal to retreat.
• Shekinah told Epsilon that she could not truly be Novia’s little sister and that she would lose unless another Parallel World overwrote Midrash.
• Epsilon insisted that she was her big brother’s little sister and continued attacking, destroying roughly a tenth of Shekinah’s duplicates.
• Shekinah began to question her unexplained hatred of self-righteous creatures, and Epsilon struck her while she stood motionless in confusion.

Pradyumna emerged from Kama’s lotus and attacked Shekinah, using Haniel’s power to challenge her. Shekinah shrugged off his strike and nearly destroyed him with a single counterblow, but Pradyumna rose and taunted her to continue fighting.

• Shekinah’s recitation of the Rigveda’s creation hymn triggered her duplicates to explode, while Kama’s lotuses erased the remaining copies.
• Pradyumna emerged from the largest lotus, introduced himself as Kama’s reincarnation, and declared war on Shekinah with Haniel’s power.
• Pradyumna struck at Shekinah’s neck, but she caught his hand and remained unharmed.
• Shekinah hit Pradyumna with overwhelming force, badly injuring him and burning away Kama’s lotuses with holy fire.
• Pradyumna refused to use Kama’s power to heal, set his broken neck back into place, and challenged Shekinah to fight again.

Pradyumna challenged Shekinah by targeting her reliance on the Ultimate Great Satan, then asked Sandalphon Epsilon to let him use her true form. Epsilon sent every Typhon-Titan unit to him, and Pradyumna fused them into a world-destroying dragon as Shekinah awaited his attack.

• Pradyumna inferred that Shekinah's power and regeneration came from the Ultimate Great Satan behind her.
• Lilith teased Epsilon about her bond with Pradyumna, then told her to prepare her true form as he moved into position.
• Pradyumna asked Epsilon to let him sit inside her true form, and she agreed while accidentally summoning every Typhon-Titan unit.
• The Typhon Titans converged and merged around Pradyumna as he chanted a summoning spell and forged them through an inverted cross-shaped star gate.
• Pradyumna summoned a colossal Evil Dragon, with the shattered phantom of Mount Olympus trailing behind it.

Pradyumna summoned Star of Calamity: Typhon, a godslaying machine designed to counter Shekinah, but she overwhelmed it with her power. As Shekinah crushed the regenerating machine, Pradyumna suggested that her anger came from wanting to erase the concept of him as her daughter.

• Pradyumna summoned Star of Calamity: Typhon, using the combined divinity of three angels to manifest the ultimate godslaying form.
• Shekinah struck Typhon with an overwhelming blow, destroying its shield and badly damaging its body, but the machine endured and began to recover.
• Shekinah violently spun and imprisoned the world in a cage of light, throwing Lilith, Erice, Pradyumna, and Epsilon into chaos.
• Shekinah concluded that Typhon's nonexistent godslaying concept made it an anomaly she could not truly destroy, so she planned to imprison it until Judgment Day.
• Pradyumna taunted Shekinah about her anger and asked whether she wanted to erase the concept of him as her daughter, as she continued pounding Typhon.

Pradyumna revealed that Utsumi Erice was the daughter figure Shekinah had overlooked, while Erice experienced a vision of gods planning how to oppose a Star Class threat. The gods chose Erice to help build a weapon from Typhon’s technology, and she understood that they had prepared for the end of the Age of Gods and continued to resist it.

• Pradyumna told Shekinah that Utsumi Erice was the daughter closer to their Father, prompting Shekinah to recognize Erice and vow to destroy the impostors.
• Erice dreamed of the Inner Sea of Stars, where Odin, Zeus, Tezcatlipoca, and other gods discussed the mothership and the threat it posed.
• Tezcatlipoca said a warrior from the Americas would wait beyond the Solar System for the mothership, and Zeus agreed to entrust the gods’ technology to Typhon.
• Odin proposed that Erice help manufacture a weapon by reverse-engineering Typhon with the gods’ assistance.
• The gathered gods turned their attention to Erice, who understood that they had prepared for the end of the Age of Gods and continued to resist it.

Erice awakened Poimandres’s full wisdom and created Sky Thunder Zeus, humanity’s ultimate god-slaying weapon, to challenge Shekinah. Zeus stopped Shekinah’s erasure attack with the Barrier of the Covenant, leaving the battle poised to continue.

• Erice used Poimandres’s wisdom for the first time and fully unfolded its power within the Inner Sea of Stars.
• Erice summoned the legacies of many mythologies and forged the colossal god-slaying weapon Sky Thunder Zeus.
• Epsilon marveled at Sky Thunder Zeus, while Shekinah condemned it as a collection of impostors and resumed moving Ultimate Great Satan’s fist.
• Shekinah imbued her fist with the authority of Genesis to erase Zeus, but Zeus raised a hand to block it.
• Zeus’s Barrier of the Covenant absorbed and neutralized Shekinah’s erasure authority.

Erice and Pradyumna joined forces to attack Shekinah, but her faith-powered authority and power to impose solitude restored the stalemate. Watching the battle, Lilith realized that the conflict turned on competing stories and prepared to enter with a heretical one.

• Erice used Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS to repair Typhon and coordinate with Pradyumna, then led the two machines in an attack on Shekinah.
• Erice shielded Typhon from Shekinah's barrage with the Covenant Barrier while Typhon struck Ultimate Great Satan's left shoulder.
• Shekinah explained that modern human faith sustained her godhood, healed her wound, and severed the link between Erice and Pradyumna.
• Ultimate Great Satan, Divine Arsenal AA-ZEUS, and Typhon settled into a stalemate as they resisted one another's powers.
• Lilith identified the battle as a contest of stories and decided to enter the conflict with heresy.

Lilith transformed into the Demiurge and used Gnostic mythology to destabilize Shekinah’s claim to be the One God. As Shekinah and Lilith clashed, Erice and Pradyumna seized the opening to attack Shekinah’s throne, leaving the battle as a three-way assault.

• Lilith transformed Samael into the Demiurge, invoked the names Yaldabaoth, Saklas, and Samael, and proclaimed herself God.
• Lilith summoned lion-headed serpents from the battlefield’s wreckage and used Gnostic mythology to challenge Shekinah’s divine identity.
• Shekinah rejected Lilith’s claim and sent Ultimate Great Satan to assimilate the Demiurge, while Lilith commanded the world’s matter to resist.
• Erice ordered Pradyumna to sever Shekinah’s throne while Shekinah and Lilith were locked in their ideological battle.
• The Sky-Thunder Ship and Star of Calamity Typhon attacked Ultimate Great Satan’s exposed defenses, and Shekinah roared under the pressure of fighting on two fronts.

Shekinah tried to erase Midrash and everything in it, but the collapsing world gave way to a new universe and revealed that Ultimate Great Satan was the Demiurge. The Demiurge stripped Lilith, Erice, and Pradyumna of their powers, then turned its attention to the defeated Shekinah as she asked what it was.

• Shekinah halted her attacks and began collapsing Ultimate Great Satan’s core to drag Midrash and its enemies into nothingness.
• Midrash disappeared, and the Demiurge’s Seven Heavens formed a new material universe around Ultimate Great Satan.
• Ultimate Great Satan ejected Shekinah and declared that her obsession had served as a vessel for its birth.
• The Demiurge dismissed Lilith as an imitator and explained that Midrash had been a nursery for its new universe.
• The Demiurge erased Lilith, Erice, and Pradyumna’s conceptual powers, leaving Shekinah powerless and bereft.
• Shekinah asked Ultimate Great Satan what it was, and the Demiurge began to answer.

The Demiurge revealed that Shekinah had only served as its vessel and dismissed her love as useful to its birth, leaving her broken in the void. Novia appeared to her and called her adorable, while a scripture proclaimed Sophia (Shekinah)'s victory.

• The Demiurge told Shekinah that her fallen wisdom and obsessive love had made her a vessel for its birth, not its creator.
• The Demiurge dismissed Shekinah's love as a useful variable and turned toward the three imprisoned variables, intending to make them the first inhabitants of its world.
• Shekinah sank into despair, believing her life and accomplishments had been meaningless.
• A quiet warmth reached Shekinah in the void, and Novia appeared, smiling and calling her adorable.
• The Nag Hammadi Library declared that Sophia (Shekinah) had won through a bloodless sacrifice.

Novia told Shekinah that her defeat showed the wisdom in recognizing mistakes, then revealed that he had deliberately acted resistant when Lilith was with him. Shekinah was left stunned by his admission.

• Novia called Shekinah cute and stopped her from sinking into self-recrimination.
• Novia declared that Shekinah had lost the struggle against Demiurge but had won in the realm of wisdom because she could recognize her mistakes.
• Shekinah said she had only wanted to see Novia again and touched his cheek, taking responsibility for her sins.
• Novia told Shekinah that she could have joined him and Lilith back then.
• Shekinah protested that Novia had seemed to reject her, and Novia admitted that he had acted that way on purpose.