Recaps

Erice learned the truth of her birth and faced the forces trying to turn her into Poimandres, while Novia helped her choose her own path. The conflict with Hermes Trismegistus continued as Novia revealed his identity to John Dee.

• Novia joined Erice, Rushana, and Tiamat in Underworld Tokyo to investigate the theft of Rushana’s Buddhahood and Buddha-Mind.
• Erice learned that Izanami was her mother, while Masakado and the others revealed that Tokyo’s submerged underworld was tied to Erice’s unfinished journey through Yomi Hirasaka.
• David and Little Mher attacked Underworld Tokyo, and Novia fought Little Mher as John Dee’s plan to make Erice Poimandres advanced.
• John Dee and Cleopatra targeted Erice during the Kanda Festival, but Rushana resisted her command to kill Erice and helped her escape with A Xiu.
• Izanami sent Erice to Tokoyo, where Novia tested her as Poimandres, and Erice rejected both Poimandres and the Great Lord of the East to remain Utsumi Erice.
• Novia showed Erice her childhood memories and returned her to Kanda Shrine to face Cleopatra, while Rushana chose to protect Erice and pursue her own desires.
• Erice confronted Cleopatra, whom she identified as Hermes Trismegistus, and refused to yield to his plan to destroy Earth and create another planet.
• Novia revealed to John Dee that he was Avia, the man Dee had revered, and explained why the Church could not simply be restored to its past.

Novia confronted El and Metatron as they tried to impose their judgment on humanity, while Tiamat and Lilith challenged Metatron’s authority. Afterward, Metatron fell into sloth and joined Erice’s group in Akihabara, as Novia pursued the truth about Shekinah and remembered Lilith’s plea.

• Erice defeated Hermes Trismegistus, then watched A Xiu walk into the sea while the last Sasun fell after challenging God.
• Lucius met Novia on a private beach, apologized for what the Church had become, and urged him to remember their shared ideals.
• Yumina kissed Novia while concealed in Alice’s penguin costume, then declared that he belonged to her.
• El fatally struck Mot and took his authority over death, while Anat continued serving the silver-haired man as his weapon.
• Novia traveled with Tiamat and Daybit to Cape Canaveral, where he confronted El and learned that Apollo had been sealed there.
• Novia defeated El and destroyed his stolen authority, while Metatron’s Crown shattered as Tiamat and Tezcatlipoca resisted her judgment.
• Lilith struck Metatron with a Greatsword, exposed her desire to be at God’s side, and left her to reckon with her feelings.
• Metatron’s sloth spread to Erice, Aoko Aozaki, and Yumina, and they spent a month playing cards before Novia arrived.
• Novia sought information about Shekinah and remembered Lilith’s despairing plea for him to kill her.

Lilith’s jealousy and Erice’s questions about Novia brought the past into the open, while the Seven Deadly Sins gathered around him. Erice discovered that Novia was the Demon King and learned that Chitose had originated from him, then declared her love for Novia.

• Shekinah joined Lilith’s scheme to put Novia to sleep, while Metatron’s closeness with him made Erice wonder about their relationship.
• Lilith drew Kama into her plan to use the sins, but Metatron absorbed Kama’s lust and became Sloth before Novia helped her confront it.
• Melusine arrived and challenged Kama, while Novia learned from Metatron that Chaldea had cleared the Seventh Singularity and Kama revealed Lilith’s despairing love for him.
• Kama showed Lilith Novia’s affection for Melusine and Metatron, driving Lilith to transform into Lilith Samael/Kamael and attack him.
• Novia stopped Lilith’s assault and told her that the Lilim wanted to speak with her, after which Lilith joined the crowded Kuonji household and claimed Novia as hers.
• Satan of Paradise Lost approached Erice, but Novia unsettled him, and Erice later learned that Luce loved Novia and had moved out to avoid burdening him.
• Erice questioned Novia about his past with Martha, then fired the Magic Bullet Shooter’s seventh shot, which Novia caught and which revealed that he was the Demon King.
• Lilith claimed to be Erice’s mother through the wrath in the Magic Bullet Shooter, but Chitose stopped Erice and revealed that she had originated from Novia, prompting Erice to declare that Novia was the one she loved.

Erice learned that she was Poimandres and confessed her love for Novia, then joined Epsilon, Pradyumna, and Lilith in a battle against Shekinah and Ultimate Great Satan. The Demiurge emerged from the conflict, but Novia reached Shekinah in the void and helped her face her mistakes.

• Novia subdued Erice, and Chitose explained how Izanami had raised Erice as her child and hoped she would become a mother goddess for humanity’s journeys into space.
• Erice learned from Luce that she was Poimandres, struggled with jealousy over Novia’s closeness to Luce, and eventually confessed her love to Novia at the sanctuary.
• Shekinah attacked Erice and Lilith, revealed that she was Novia’s divine aspect, and transformed into God, but Epsilon arrived to protect her big brother.
• Epsilon fought Shekinah with Typhon, while Novia summoned Kama’s angelic vestments and Pradyumna joined the battle using Haniel’s power.
• Pradyumna and Epsilon forged Star of Calamity: Typhon, and Erice used Poimandres’s wisdom to create Sky Thunder Zeus from the legacies of many mythologies.
• Erice, Pradyumna, and Lilith challenged Shekinah and Ultimate Great Satan with Zeus, Typhon, and the Demiurge, but the Demiurge formed a new universe and erased their conceptual powers.
• The Demiurge revealed that Shekinah had served as its vessel, leaving her despairing in the void until Novia appeared and told her she had won through recognizing her mistakes.
• Shekinah admitted that she had only wanted to see Novia again, and Novia explained that he had pretended to reject her.