Chapter Summaries

Novia stopped Ptolemy from making the Alexandria Library vanish, forcing the pharaoh to yield and wish the group luck. Beneath Alexandria, Osiris’s Sand began manifesting the symbols and divine power of a unified mythology.

• Novia led the group to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, where they met Ptolemy and learned that Osiris’s Sand was his Master.
• Ptolemy revealed that he had abandoned his plan to revive Alexander IV after his Master chose to become a creator, and had summoned the young king instead.
• Ptolemy attacked the group with his Noble Phantasm, intending to erase the Alexandria Library from the world as his Master wished.
• Novia invoked the Bible Foundation to overpower Ptolemy, restore the library’s place in the world, and make the pharaoh concede.
• Beneath the sea, Egyptian symbols multiplied as Osiris’s Sand manifested the power of a new mythology combining Egypt, Greece, Persia, and other traditions.

Ritsuka witnessed Novia use the Ten Plagues Deity Severance to overcome Egypt’s gods, then watched him claim the Holy Grail from Osiris's Sand. When Osiris's Sand threatened to overwrite the world, Novia challenged her to a fight, and their battle began with the Egyptian gods facing the Church’s summoned Popes.

• Ritsuka saw Set manifest and attack, but the Ten Plagues struck down the Egyptian War God before he could harm her.
• Novia revealed that he had used the ten plagues to defeat the Egyptian gods and told Ritsuka’s group to let him handle the rest alone.
• Novia met Osiris's Sand, who gave him the Holy Grail and explained that she intended to remain in the closing Alexandria Library.
• Osiris's Sand manifested Hermes Trismegistus and threatened to rewrite the world, so Novia invoked the old rule that the winner of their fight would decide what happened.
• Novia summoned the Popes and unleashed the Book of Revelation’s first step against Osiris's Sand and the Egyptian gods.
• Novia began drawing power from the Ghostliner as a radiant throne formed behind him and rose amid the battle.

After Osiris's Sand transferred her powers to Sion, Shiyali's consciousness entered Sion's Thought Partitions, leaving Sion physically shrunken and sharing her body with her past self. Novia resolved the Singularity, and Sion chose to return to the Lostbelt Sea rather than join Chaldea.

• Osiris's Sand closed her eyes as her power passed into a sarcophagus, and a shrunken Sion emerged from it.
• Novia explained that the Human Order Incineration had caused Shiyali's consciousness to enter Sion's Thought Partitions and resonate with her younger self.
• Shiyali took control of Sion's body, apologized to Novia, and kissed him after he told her to wait.
• Novia explained the Singularity's resolution to Mash and the others, while Lord El-Melloi II advised Ritsuka to form a contract before fading away to play games.
• Sion declined to return to Chaldea with Novia and said she would go back to the Lostbelt Sea because their character traits overlapped too much.

Draco reunited with Novia in Chaldea and demanded his attention, while Ritsuka grew uneasy about Nero’s request to see him. The chapter ended with Ritsuka waiting outside Novia’s room after speaking with him, leaving Nero’s meeting with Novia still pending.

• Draco visited Novia, teased him about his affection for Ritsuka, and demanded compensation as Pope and Saintess.
• Novia admitted he liked both Draco’s child and mature forms, while Draco pressed him about his bond with Ritsuka and Gran.
• Ritsuka called Novia to share photographs from Rome and Alexandria, then promised to include him in future pictures.
• Draco continued her intimate encounter with Novia while Ritsuka waited outside his room, uneasy about Nero’s request to see him.

Novia met Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily on an island in Okeanos, and she joined him as he explored a cavern containing a Greek labyrinth. Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily discovered she could hear Novia's thoughts, while a mysterious light briefly appeared in the sky.

• Ritsuka worried about her feelings for Novia and hoped they could see the sea together after the Human Order Incineration ended.
• On a small island, King David agreed to join Kiyohime and Captain Melusine's voyage to fight dragons and seek treasure.
• Novia encountered Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily on the beach and carried her inland after she explained that she had mysteriously returned to her younger form.
• Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily realized she could hear Novia's unspoken thoughts and saw a brilliant light resembling a dove vanish from the daytime sky.
• Novia and Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily entered an underground labyrinth, where he explained its Greek origins as she listened to his thoughts.

Novia comforted the dying Asterios, then defeated Blackbeard and took the Holy Grail while exploring the labyrinth with Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily. Meanwhile, Ritsuka and Mash arrived in Okeanos without Novia, found a settlement, and followed a green-haired Archer who offered to take them to the captain.

• Novia found the dying Asterios in the labyrinth and gave him a final kindness before the labyrinth disappeared.
• Novia and Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily continued through the cavern, encountered Blackbeard, and Novia captured him, took his Holy Grail, and dropped him off the cliff.
• Ritsuka and Mash landed in the sea after their Spiritron Transfer, and Romani warned Ritsuka to avoid injuries in the Singularity.
• Ritsuka and Mash explored the island, spotted a ship and two houses, and approached the settlement.
• A green-haired Archer found Ritsuka and Mash, offered to take them to the captain, and Romani reacted uneasily.

Ritsuka and Mash confronted Melusine, who attacked them before Kiyohime exposed her fear of seawater and helped bring her around to joining Chaldea. As the group set sail with Melusine’s support, a ship carrying the Argonauts appeared ahead.

• Melusine refused Ritsuka and Mash’s request for help, then attacked them with a powerful lance and cut off their communications with Chaldea.
• Ritsuka activated her Mystic Code to strengthen Mash, and Melusine sensed a strange power coming from the stone around Ritsuka’s neck.
• Kiyohime splashed Melusine with seawater, causing the dragon to collapse and revealing her fear of water.
• Kiyohime told Melusine that Novia might be nearby, and Melusine agreed to help Chaldea after recognizing Novia’s stone on Ritsuka.
• David spoke with Romani about Novia and privately resolved to fight as a Heroic Spirit if the chance arose.
• After the ship set sail, Romani detected an approaching vessel with rising magical-energy readings, and David identified its crew as the Argonauts.

Ritsuka and her companions escaped the Argonauts by exploiting Melusine’s weakness to the altered seawater, then tried to use David’s Ark of the Covenant to defeat Heracles. Ritsuka reached the altar but could not stop Heracles, and as Chaldea prepared to withdraw, David attacked him and revealed he could move the Ark.

• Jason introduced the Argonauts and demanded that the crew hand over Melusine; Ritsuka refused, and Melusine hurled Heracles back before seawater from Medea and Fafnir made her collapse.
• Kiyohime sailed away with Ritsuka and the others while Melusine lay unconscious, and David led them to a ruined temple containing the Ark of the Covenant.
• David explained that touching the Ark would destroy Heracles, and Chaldea devised a plan for Ritsuka to lure Heracles to it while carrying Melusine.
• Ritsuka ran toward the Ark under Heracles’s pursuit and leaped over the altar, but Heracles remained unharmed and stopped before touching it.
• Romani ordered Chaldea to prepare a forced retreat, but David charged Heracles and grappled with him, saying he could move the Ark a little.

After Novia defeated Heracles and took the Ark of the Covenant, Ritsuka struggled with her feelings for him while David shared a farewell with Romani. Chaldea then pursued Jason and Medea, only to be transported to a volcanic graveyard claimed by an enemy.

• Novia appeared with Jeanne d'Arc Alter Lily, holding the Ark after Heracles vanished, and Kiyohime and Melusine argued over him.
• Ritsuka left the shelter, concealed her feelings for Novia, and admitted to herself that she liked him too.
• David questioned Romani about Novia and the Ark, recognized Romani's attachment to Solomon, and said goodbye before vanishing.
• Chaldea set out to attack Jason and Medea after Heracles disappeared, but the sky changed as they approached the Argo and they were transported elsewhere.
• An enemy declared that the volcanic graveyard was his domain and taunted the humans and Melusine.

After Typhon surrendered the Third Singularity’s Holy Grail, Solomon appeared and warned Ritsuka that humanity’s future was doomed unless she defeated him. Back in Chaldea, Novia brought Romani a Golden Apple and discussed how Saint Quartz might affect Ritsuka.

• Medea Lily revealed that Typhon’s wish-granting power reversed Jason’s wish, then killed him and disappeared.
• Typhon prepared to attack Melusine but panicked when she noticed Novia, redirected her attack into herself, and surrendered her Holy Grail while begging his forgiveness.
• Chaldea recovered the Holy Grail, and Mash and Ritsuka prepared to return as the group gathered around Novia.
• Solomon appeared, questioned Ritsuka’s efforts to correct the Singularities, and warned that humanity would burn away; Novia encouraged Ritsuka to keep fighting.
• Meli watched the exchange from Avalon and noticed the next Singularity appeared to combine London with Japan’s Tokugawa period.
• Novia brought Romani a Golden Apple after Chaldea’s preparations, then discussed Saint Quartz and its potential to burden Ritsuka.

Novia and Ritsuka discovered that Chaldea’s staff had vanished and traced the forced Spiritron Transfer to the Fourth Singularity, where the Ooku was spreading across London. They arrived at Scotland Yard to investigate and rescue everyone, while Kisshouin Lily recognized another being like herself in the spreading Ooku.

• Novia explained that Saint Quartz and Chaldea Gate’s fault-clearing stages could help Ritsuka grow into a powerful Master, and Romani added an optimistic note to his plans for her training.
• Ritsuka awoke to find Chaldea empty except for Novia, who determined that the missing staff had been forcibly transferred to the Fourth Singularity in London.
• Novia reported that the Fourth Singularity’s influence was expanding into Pan-Human History and merging with something he called a human order collapse domain.
• Ritsuka and Novia used the still-open transfer route to travel to London and search for the culprit and the missing Chaldea staff.
• Tamamo Aria alerted Kisshouin Lily and Jack that Japanese buildings had appeared over London, and Kisshouin saw the Ooku spreading from Scotland Yard.
• Novia and Ritsuka arrived inside Scotland Yard, where Novia realized they had entered a heavily guarded location.

Ritsuka and Novia explored the Ooku after it merged with 1888 London, where they joined Parvati and Kasuga-no-Tsubone and fought the labyrinth’s grotesque police and dolls. A document revealed that Tokugawa Tsunayoshi had been condemned as a criminal, while Novia sensed Kama deep within the maze and she felt an unfamiliar presence.

• Novia opened a hidden room in Scotland Yard, where Ritsuka and he met Kasuga-no-Tsubone and Parvati, who explained that the Ooku had merged with London.
• Ritsuka proposed that they explore together, and Kasuga-no-Tsubone led the group into the next room, where police officers and Doll Palace Ladies attacked them.
• Novia and Parvati defeated the attackers, and Parvati prayed over their remains before the bloody room was cleansed.
• Kasuga-no-Tsubone found a document sentencing Tokugawa Tsunayoshi to execution and wondered whether old grudges had followed the Tokugawa into the future.
• Novia suspected that Kama was using the shoguns’ souls as criminals to sustain the labyrinth, sensed her presence, and Kama felt a strange, familiar sensation while hiding deep within it.

Novia, Ritsuka, and Parvati confronted Kama in the fused Ooku and London labyrinth, where Kama explained that she had taken the Holy Grail to protect humanity from the suffering built into its systems. After Kama fled from Novia’s words, the party continued through the labyrinth, while Kisshouin confronted Kama with the vows of a Bodhisattva.

• Kama appeared before Parvati and Ritsuka, claimed responsibility for fusing the Ooku with London, and said she had taken the Holy Grail to protect humanity.
• Novia explained that the labyrinth defined him as Mara, which kept Kama from touching him, and asked whether her path had truly brought her before Gautama.
• Kama trembled at Novia’s question and fled, while Parvati and Ritsuka continued exploring with him and collected documents about Tokugawa shoguns.
• Novia accepted the roles of Shogun and Commissioner on the second floor, but the Doll Palace Ladies and police officers attacked the party anyway.
• On the third floor, a drunken pink-haired girl approached Novia and offered him wine from her mouth.
• Kisshouin reappeared before Kama and described the four great vows required of a Bodhisattva.

Novia and Ritsuka freed Tamamo Aria from Kama’s enchantment and learned that the Labyrinth’s five layers were designed to make its visitors break Buddhist vows. As the group prepared to find Jack and confront the Labyrinth’s remaining dangers, Aria tried to win Novia over while hiding her growing attraction to him.

• Kama let Kisshouin escape, then remembered the Aspected God who had cared for her and admitted that her love for Kavia had driven her to abandon her identity as the goddess of love.
• Novia and Parvati used the Labyrinth’s arrest-warrant rules to free Tamamo Aria from Kama’s spell, and Ritsuka explained what Aria had done while enchanted.
• Aria resolved to make Novia fall for her, but Ritsuka sat between them and warned her that Novia already had a family.
• Novia identified the Labyrinth’s five layers with Buddhism’s five vows and warned that breaking them all could leave the group unable to resist Kama.
• Novia decided to take the risk himself rather than let Ritsuka continue, while Aria privately declared her willingness to give him everything.

The group found Jack, who immediately attached herself to Novia and called him her mother, while Ritsuka privately reassured him that he could stop joining them if being a Demi-Servant made him suffer. They reached the deepest part of the third floor, where Kama attacked and dispersed the Labyrinth's magical energy.

• Aria led Novia, Ritsuka, and Parvati to a chest where Jack had been resting, and Jack leaped out to embrace Novia and call him Mommy.
• Ritsuka took Novia aside and told him she believed in him and would support him even if he chose to stop accompanying them to Singularities.
• Aria secretly began making Kuchikamizake from the Labyrinth's alcohol fumes, hoping to make Novia obsessed with her.
• The group reached the deepest part of the third floor, where Kama questioned how they had passed the floor without joining its banquet.
• Kama fired a magical arrow at the group, Parvati shielded them, and Kama then scattered all the magical energy in the Labyrinth.

Novia’s group cleared the Third Layer after he broke the Vow Against Alcohol, while Aria, Jack, and Kisshouin competed for his attention. Kisshouin explained that Kama had fused the Ooku with London’s Scotland Yard, whose system judged Tokugawa shoguns guilty regardless of their actual actions, and Parvati learned that her mother had become London’s highest authority.

• Kama opened the Third Layer’s ceiling and sent Asuras falling into the labyrinth as she tried to make the group break the vows.
• Aria and Jack gave Novia their alcohol, and he drank both bottles, breaking the Vow Against Alcohol and causing the Asuras to prostrate themselves before him and disappear.
• Aria and Jack made advances on Novia, then Kisshouin emerged from the Fourth Layer and joined them, prompting Novia to pick them up and insist they deal with it after the incident.
• Novia said the next layer should test the Vow Against Stealing, while Kisshouin warned that following Kama’s route could lead to a bad end.
• Kisshouin explained that Scotland Yard’s system treated anyone made a Tokugawa shogun as guilty of the vows’ offenses, and identified Kama as the commissioner who judged them.
• Jack confirmed that Kama loved London, and Parvati learned that her mother had taken control of London and the Ooku to promise humanity satisfaction through depravity.

Kama revealed that she had merged the Ooku with London and used souls from Edo and London to build a Singularity Domain, hoping to spread her love to all things and see Kavia again. As the Chaldean group reached the final layer, she transformed the universe into a courtroom and declared that she would hate and love them to the end.

• At the entrance to the next layer, Kama admitted that the Five Vows had only been a simple framework for tempting people into forbidden pleasures, then dismissed her duplicate after Parvati accused her of betraying her father.
• Alone in the deepest layer, Kama remembered her plan to restore the Indian Sector and decided to give her love to all things because Kavia existed within them.
• When the final layer opened, Kama told Kasuga-no-Tsubone that Tokugawa Iemitsu was the Ooku’s original keystone and explained how she had merged the Ooku with London.
• Kama explained that she had used souls from Edo and London between 1603 and 1893 as fuel to create the Singularity Domain.
• Parvati confronted Kama about her goal, and Kama said she intended to love everyone as proof of Kavia’s existence within all things.
• Kama changed the universe into a courtroom, filled its seats with copies of herself, and declared that she would hate and love the Chaldean group until the end.

Kama revealed herself as Beast III/L, Mara, and used her cosmic Labyrinth to sentence the Tokugawa shoguns, but Novia resisted through Buddhist power and summoned Papiyas. Mara rejected him as a false counterpart and filled the universe with countless genuine Beasts, leaving Chaldea facing overwhelming odds.

• Kama identified herself as a Demon King and declared the Tokugawa shoguns guilty, sentencing them to death.
• Novia explained that Kama was a Beast of Humanity, while Kisshouin identified herself as the Fragment of the Right.
• Kama's verdict failed to affect Novia, and black lotus petals appeared as Buddhist monks blessed him with radiant marks.
• Novia revealed himself as Papiyas, the Demon King who had reached Buddha, and challenged Mara's forced salvation of humanity.
• Mara dismissed Papiyas as a false creation of the Human Order and filled her universe with countless genuine Beasts.

Novia stripped Kama of her position as London's commissioner and destroyed her manifested universe, but Kama survived by falling into a small Japanese Singularity. There, she established a village and began luring travelers in to kill and consume them.

• Mara explained that she had deliberately allowed the warrants and Jack's trail to be found, then prepared to destroy the apparent Papiyas.
• Novia used the Card Walking Stick and London's authority to strip Kama of her commissioner position and sentence her to imprisonment.
• London rejected Kama, and Novia's Black Lotuses overwhelmed her until she vanished from the Singularity; Novia then told Ritsuka and the others to return to Chaldea.
• Kama survived in a small Japanese Singularity, found a monument to the Heaven of Freely Enjoying Others' Emanations, and changed its inscription to claim the title of Demon King of the Sixth Heaven.
• Kama used the monument's remaining magical energy to create copies of herself and build a village where the women lured travelers in, killed them, and ate them.

Kama’s failed reincarnation ritual left her trapped in a ruined Singularity, where Novia revealed he had secretly been the one she consumed and restored her youth. When Novia left the Singularity, he was pulled into a place associated with Maitreya, where he encountered Sakatsuki Hiyori and Miyu.

• Kama’s ritual failed because she had spared good visitors, making her the traitor who refused to become human, while the North Sea Kraken destroyed the world outside the village.
• Novia revealed that he had watched Kama for two thousand years and let her consume him 520 times, and Kama recognized him as Kavia.
• Novia restored Kama’s youthful appearance, and the destruction loop of the Singularity ended as Kama fell asleep in his arms.
• Kama prepared to leave with Novia for Chaldea, but Novia vanished when he stepped through the basement door.
• Novia appeared in a realm connected to the Human Order’s future and encountered Sakatsuki Hiyori and Miyu.
• Sakatsuki Hiyori asked Miyu whether she had caused the ruined world around them, and Miyu silently shook her head.