Chapter Summaries

Mizuvia repeatedly rescued Ishtar after she was captured by biker gangs, then left for a new assignment with XX. XX later complained that Mizuvia had bought a claw machine while withholding her spending money, and the chapter began recounting XX’s years at Chaldea Cosmic Higher Academy.

• Mizuvia confronted the Dongcheng Knights and rescued Ishtar, who said she wanted to become a hero.
• Ishtar was captured and rescued by Mizuvia several more times, despite claiming she had become an obedient good girl.
• Mizuvia told Ishtar that he and XX were transferring to Special Investigation Unit 0 to handle Foreigner invaders, and Ishtar cried that she did not want him to leave.
• XX failed repeatedly to win a plushie from the police station’s claw machine and messaged Mizuvia, accusing him of embezzling her salary.
• Mizuvia said he had made the claw machine himself before he found XX, then told her not to contact him unless it was important.
• The chapter recounted how Mysterious Heroine X enrolled at Chaldea Cosmic Higher Academy to become an SSR Servant and spent centuries studying there.

Mysterious Heroine X accepted Mizuvia’s offer to join the Cosmic Police, completed an accelerated year of training and examinations, and became Mysterious Heroine XX. While working with Mizuvia to establish a police station in the understaffed M87 Nebula, XX met Yug, an old acquaintance of her boss, and wondered about their relationship.

• Dorm Supervisor Helena dragged X to her office, scolded her for being unemployed, and told her about a Galactic Police recruitment drive.
• X interviewed with Mizuvia, described her past exploits including defeating an evil god, and signed a contract without reading its conditions.
• Mizuvia brought X to Cosmic Police University, where Mikael was tasked with training her to meet the one-year exam requirements; Mizuvia promised to tutor and room with her.
• X completed the joint examination and Cosmic Grand Examination, became Mysterious Heroine XX, and joined Mizuvia in setting up a police station in the M87 Nebula.
• XX encountered Yug at a claw machine and learned that the librarian had come looking for Mizuvia again; XX asked what their relationship was.

Yug told XX she was Mizuvia’s fiancée, then Mizuvia delivered food to Mysterious Heroine X Alter on Planet Logian. In a bonus story, Mysterious Heroine X endured intense training under Metatron and studied for the Cosmic Grand Examination, with Mizuvia handling her nighttime tutoring.

• Yug won the doll XX had been trying to catch, gave it to her, and said she and Mizuvia were fiancés.
• Mizuvia docked two days of XX’s instant noodles after she sent him an angry message.
• Mizuvia delivered wagashi to Mysterious Heroine X Alter, who gave him one and asked him to visit again.
• Mysterious Heroine X trained under Metatron, who pushed her through extreme physical, combat, and academic exercises while repeatedly comparing her to Mizuvia.
• Mizuvia visited X during training, but Metatron defended the regimen as necessary to prepare her to assist him.
• X faced the Cosmic Grand Examination the next day after compressing four hundred years of coursework into one year.

Mizuvia and Metatron pushed Mysterious Heroine X through a year of punishing training, and she passed the joint examination and Cosmic Grand Examination as a new Cosmic Police recruit, Mysterious Heroine XX. She and Mizuvia were assigned to build a police station in an understaffed, chaotic district of the M87 Nebula, where XX found herself bored and short on support.

• Mizuvia confronted Metatron at the Throne, and Metatron took human form after he called her name and asked for her help.
• Mizuvia and Metatron subjected X to intense physical training and bizarre lessons, helping her learn quickly despite her exhaustion.
• Metatron approved of X's progress and told her to assist and take care of Mizuvia after she qualified.
• X used memories of her training to answer the exam questions and passed both examinations, officially becoming Mysterious Heroine XX.
• Mizuvia arranged for XX and himself to transfer to a poor, chaotic district of the M87 Nebula, where they had to build their own police station and XX complained about the lack of resources.

At fourteen, Novia left Paul behind to pursue his plan to spread Christianity through the Roman Empire, hoping to save Paul and the other apostles from their future deaths. After reaching the Bosphorus, he encountered Lucius Longinus, who attacked him aboard a fishing boat, and Novia subdued him without killing him.

• Novia told Paul he wanted to preach in Rome, but Paul stopped him and planned to take him to Damascus instead.
• John told Paul that Novia had already reached the Bosphorus, and Paul accepted that the boy had outgrown his control.
• Novia explained that he was a transmigrator whose Golden Finger sent him into dangerous historical scenarios, and he resolved to use his powers to protect Paul and spread Christianity.
• A fisherman carrying a cross-shaped scar revealed himself as Lucius Longinus and attacked Novia on the boat.
• Novia used the Blessing of Wind to close the distance and strike Lucius down with a stick, then dispelled the magecraft around the boat without killing him.

Novia recruited Lucius Longinus by promising to help him confront the meaning of his Biting Pain, then spent a year spreading his faith through practical aid to the poor. As Novia prepared to travel to Britain before reaching Rome, Lucius warned him about the danger and questioned his plan to convert Emperor Claudius.

• Lucius ferried Novia across the strait, and Novia revealed that he knew about Lucius's Biting Pain and urged him to follow.
• Lucius accepted Novia's invitation, and they traveled together for a year toward Rome.
• Novia gained wealthy supporters and distributed grain and care to poor believers and their families.
• Lucius warned Novia that his growing influence would bring danger in Rome, but Novia said he had gone to Britain first.
• Lucius realized Novia's illusion had fooled even his eyes and doubted that Emperor Claudius would convert.

Novia created a crimson cross-shaped spectacle in the sky, persuading Claudius that Rome had received divine protection and helping the Romans conquer Britain. After returning to Italy, Novia reunited with Lucius, who attacked him with a spear.

• Novia used a hot-air balloon and prepared materials to create an enormous crimson sign in the sky above the Roman and British armies, bearing the words, “By this sign, you shall win a great victory.”
• Claudius interpreted the crosses as proof that Christianity’s god favored Rome and ordered crosses painted on the army’s equipment, boosting Roman morale.
• The Roman expeditionary army defeated the British alliance, and Britain became a Roman province in 48 AD.
• Novia hurried back from Britain before Claudius could return, hoping to avoid suspicion that he had planned the miracle.
• Novia met Lucius in the countryside near Rome, drew his longsword, and faced Lucius’s spear thrust.

Novia persuaded Emperor Claudius to consider replacing Rome’s divided pantheon with Christianity, then accepted a mission to resolve religious conflict in Alexandria. He departed Rome for Alexandria, where the Atlas Institute became his next target.

• Novia arrived in Rome with Lucius and willingly let the authorities imprison him while he waited for Claudius to return from Britain.
• Claudius visited Novia in prison and questioned him about Christianity, its relationship to Judaism, and what it could offer Rome.
• Novia argued that Christianity could unite religious and imperial authority under one emperor, and Claudius showed interest despite his fear of changing Rome’s faith.
• Novia offered to resolve the bloody conflicts between Greeks and Jews in Alexandria, and Claudius ordered him to set out the next day.
• Novia reached Ostia’s busy harbor, intending to go to Alexandria and seek out the Atlas Institute.

Novia traveled to Alexandria to find the forgotten Submarine Alexandria Library and negotiate with the Atlas Institute. After preaching and helping calm the city’s Greek-Jewish conflict, he was caught underwater by an Atlas Institute magus who planned to use Aether Lines to study his mind.

• Novia appointed Lucius governor of Britain Province and told him to search for the Dragon of Albion’s remains beneath Londinium.
• Novia arrived in Alexandria and began preaching to its residents while searching for the Submarine Alexandria Library.
• Novia used Claudius I’s authority and Roman warships to end the hostility between Alexandria’s Greeks and Jews.
• Novia searched the seabed near the Lighthouse of Alexandria but found no trace of the hidden library.
• An Atlas Institute magus restrained Novia with Aether Lines and explained that he intended to study Novia’s persuasive speeches.

Novia forced Shiyali, an Atlas Institute alchemist, to scout the Alexandria Library and fought her when she tried to escape his control. After revealing that the library’s final level held the remains of Osiris, Novia persuaded Shiyali to sign a contract to help him break through it.

• Novia knocked out an Atlas Institute mage, took their Aether Lines, and recognized the unconscious Shiyali as an alchemist from the Aertanum family.
• Novia controlled Shiyali with her Aether Lines and made her lead the way through the Alexandria Library, where she handled the guardians on its first three levels.
• Novia tried to negotiate with Shiyali, but she attacked him with her Aether Lines and a thread puppet before he bound her with Church magecraft.
• Shiyali warned Novia that the aura of the Age of Gods was gathering on the final level, where Osiris’s remains were preparing to activate.
• Novia explained the library’s connection to the Atlas Institute and asked Shiyali to help him break through it in exchange for one future favor.
• Shiyali signed a contract with Novia and handed it to him.

Novia and Shiyali confronted the awakened Divine Body Osiris in the Alexandria Library, where Osiris tried to seize the library system and offered Novia power in exchange for killing Shiyali. Novia and Shiyali fought back, and Novia unleashed immense magical power as Osiris summoned Jackalmen.

• Novia and Shiyali entered the sealed room and found Osiris's coffin opening amid violet lightning and black miasma.
• Shiyali agreed to support Novia as he confronted Osiris, who awakened, spoke, and revealed that Novia's presence had helped restore his consciousness.
• Osiris attacked Novia with sand and overwhelming physical force, while Novia refused his offer to rule beside him and declared that the age of gods had ended.
• Novia realized Osiris was a newly born soul fragment and asked Shiyali to guide the library's equations into him as Osiris tried to seize control of the system.
• Novia and Osiris battled within the library system, and Shiyali restrained Osiris while Novia pressed his attack.
• Osiris summoned a horde of Jackalmen, and Novia answered by releasing a powerful flash of magical energy.

After Novia and Shiyali defeated Divine Body Osiris, Shiyali waited for Novia to awaken and brought him to the Atlas Institute. The Institute’s Director rewarded Novia with access to Hermes Trismegistus, and Novia left for Rome after asking a question about himself.

• Novia destroyed Divine Body Osiris, completed his contract with Shiyali, and collapsed unconscious.
• While Novia slept for five days, Shiyali disguised herself as him in Alexandria and experienced the warmth of the townspeople.
• Shiyali contacted the Atlas Institute Director after Novia awoke, and the Director excitedly asked her to bring Novia to the Institute.
• At the Atlas Institute, Novia told the Director that Shiyali was beginning to face the truth about herself, and the Director gave him permission to use Hermes Trismegistus.
• Novia asked Hermes Trismegistus, “May I ask, who is Novia?” and left the Institute to return to Rome.

Novia used Emperor Claudius’s anger over Messalina’s wedding to kill her and secure Seneca’s return from exile. Later, Novia asked Seneca to educate Octavia and Britannicus, while the chapter left Nero’s future looming over Rome.

• Novia persuaded Claudius to approve shelter for travelers stranded by flooding, then learned that Messalina had married her lover.
• Claudius appointed Brutus commander of the Praetorian Guard and ordered Novia to bring Messalina to the palace to explain herself.
• Novia killed Messalina’s lover and then killed Messalina, presenting her death as an act of repentance to protect her children’s future.
• Claudius accepted Messalina’s death and allowed Seneca to return from exile, then asked Novia to guide Octavia and Britannicus.
• Novia met Seneca at the palace and asked him how the young prince and princess were progressing in their studies.

Novia met Agrippina and learned that she was poisoning her daughter, Domitius, to control her. He arranged Domitius’s baptism and began teaching her, while Agrippina secured a position as Claudius’s secretary and Novia planned to strengthen Domitius’s loyalty before Agrippina rose further.

• Novia asked Seneca about Agrippina’s child, then went to meet Agrippina at the palace.
• Agrippina tried to win Novia’s favor by asking him to help Domitius, but Novia recognized that Agrippina was poisoning her daughter.
• Agrippina agreed to convert to Christianity and asked Novia to baptize Domitius, while Novia demanded that Domitius’s illness and its cause be handed over to him.
• The next day, Agrippina became Claudius’s secretary.
• On the third day, Novia baptized Domitius and taught her his words about justice before beginning lessons on the Twelve Tables.

Domitius studied under Novia in Rome while Lucius uncovered a vast, decayed presence beneath Britain and reported it to him. Novia traveled to Britain with Shiyali, where he revealed that the presence was the corpse of the Dragon of Albion, a Pureblood Dragon that had died while burrowing underground.

• Novia told Domitius that she would soon have to preach Christian doctrine on her own, and Domitius reflected on her wish to become beloved by the common people.
• Lucius found a powerful, rotten presence beneath Londinium, sealed the area with the Spear of Longinus, and sent word to Novia.
• Novia left Rome for Britain after Emperor Claudius assigned him to deal with the local Druid religion.
• Shiyali met Novia and Lucius in Britain and agreed to help investigate the presence beneath the wilderness.
• Novia explained that the Dragon of Albion had tried to burrow toward the Reverse Side of the World and died of exhaustion underground.

Novia arranged for Shiyali to forge the Dragon of Albion’s head into a weapon, then returned to Rome and planned his next political and religious moves. He later visited Antioch with Domitius and arrived at the chapel just as Paul argued with a Jewish mage.

• Shiyali estimated that refining the Dragon of Albion’s entire body would take twenty years, but agreed to forge its head into a weapon based on Novia’s blueprint in one year.
• Novia told Lucius that he would confront the work ahead and repay the people who had raised him.
• Novia spent two months in Britain, granted Rome-allied tribes limited independence, and arranged safeguards against a future uprising before returning to Rome.
• Novia weighed the obstacles posed by the Senate, Claudius, the Praetorian Guard, Agrippina, and Jerusalem, then decided to visit his hometown of Antioch.
• Domitius secretly joined Novia’s voyage to Antioch, where they visited the chapel and heard Paul arguing with a Jewish mage about covenants and the authority of Jerusalem’s elders.

Novia reunited with Martha in Antioch, where she gave him Jesus’s staff and affirmed his work spreading Christianity. As Novia planned how to use the holy relic and his reputation in Jerusalem, Domitius reflected on her political upbringing and wondered why Novia had taken her as a disciple, leaving her uneasy about the motives behind their arrangement.

• Domitius and Novia arrived as Martha drove out a mage who had insulted Novia and Christianity.
• Paul told Domitius she could become a Saintess, while she insisted Novia still needed to approve.
• Martha described how Tarasque remained with her and spoke of the trials of their journey toward the Reverse Side of the World.
• Martha gave Novia the staff Jesus had owned, and Novia accepted it as a sign of trust and recognition.
• Martha affirmed that the apostles and other believers respected Novia’s teachings, and Novia began planning a future miracle in Jerusalem.
• Domitius recalled her mother Agrippina’s schemes and her own childhood, then wondered why Novia had taken her as a disciple and felt uneasy about the political calculations surrounding her.

Novia confronted the Dead Apostle Ancestor Kouhaku Alcatraz and persuaded him to leave Jerusalem’s heretics to Novia, then returned to Rome with Domitius. Agrippina secured Nero’s adoption and succession advantage, while Claudius remained unaware that Brutus would soon switch his allegiance to Agrippina.

• Novia and Domitius found a village massacred by five Dead, and Novia burned the victims’ bodies after contacting a nearby magus.
• Kouhaku Alcatraz arrived, and Novia identified him and confronted him with the cross-shaped staff associated with Jesus.
• Novia’s words convinced Kouhaku to pursue his studies and leave the heretics in Jerusalem to Novia.
• Novia and Domitius returned to Rome, and four months later Agrippina persuaded Claudius to adopt Domitius and rename her Nero.
• Nero gained public support through her legal work and speeches, while Novia reminded Claudius that he had ignored warnings about Agrippina.
• Claudius believed Brutus would protect his child, unaware that Agrippina would soon win the Praetorian commander’s allegiance.

Nero demonstrated her strength by strangling a lion for Novia, who gave her a sword forged from a fallen star and named it Primal Fire. A year later, Novia visited Shiyali in Britain as she completed a blue-black spear from the head of the Dragon of Albion, but the weapon spoke as he carried her away.

• Nero rented the Roman arena and staged a private spectacle for Novia, defeating a lion with a naked chokehold.
• Novia praised Nero and gave her a red-and-black sword forged from the Tears of the Star, naming it Primal Fire at her request.
• Nero held competitions to gain the people's support while Novia waited for news from Shiyali in Britain.
• Shiyali completed the spear made from the Dragon of Albion's head after a year of work, and Novia took the weapon.
• Novia carried the exhausted Shiyali toward the surface, and the spear suddenly spoke.

The Dragon of Albion recounted how it was trapped underground, lost its body, and spent ages alone on the Reverse Side before Novia encountered its head and forged it into a spear. Novia soothed Albion’s anger with praise and invited it to struggle alongside him, but Albion warned that it would tear him apart if he angered it.

• The Dragon of Albion described how fantasy vanished early, leaving it alone, and how it dug underground until its body died and its soul reached the Reverse Side.
• Novia realized the conscious spear was the Dragon of Albion and apologized for altering its body without permission.
• Shiyali questioned whether the spear held a new consciousness, while Novia praised Albion and pledged his reverence to it.
• Novia invited Albion to share his thoughts and struggles with him, and Albion rejected the proposal while insisting that it was the strongest.
• Novia recognized that Albion feared companionship would compromise its pride and decided that patience might gradually change its mind.