Chapter Summaries

Miyu defeated Dragon Flower, and Ivia comforted the dragon before reuniting Ilya and Chloe. After Ivia made an ambiguous romantic declaration to all three girls, their agreement to keep him at a distance quickly fell apart, and Ilya went to join Miyu and Chloe.

• Miyu used Earth's Satsuki to pierce Dragon Flower's attack and defeat her.
• Ivia reassured Dragon Flower that he did not dislike her dragon form, and she returned to the Dragon Flower Tree.
• Ivia reunited Ilya and Chloe, then told Miyu, Ilya, and Chloe, "The moon is beautiful tonight."
• Chloe, Ilya, and Miyu pinky-swore to form a united front against Ivia, but Miyu and Chloe were with him the next day.
• Ilya saw Miyu embracing Ivia and Chloe resting against him, then accepted Ivia's invitation to visit.
• A European maid greeted Ilya at the door and called her the third wife.

Ivia explained that Miyu’s original world was dying because Pandora had never opened the box meant to sustain it, and promised to take her back and resolve the crisis. He confessed his feelings to the girls, kissed Ilya, then welcomed Luce as his daughter and marked Chloe with protective magecraft before Miyu claimed her turn to be close to him.

• Ivia explained that the Enzworths wanted Miyu because she was the Holy Grail vessel from a collapsing world, where Pandora had failed to open the box sustaining the Greater Source.
• Ivia reassured Miyu that she did not need to sacrifice herself and said he would take her back to her world in a few days to deal with its destruction.
• Ivia revealed his feelings to Ilya, Chloe, and Miyu, then kissed Ilya after she panicked about whether he could marry.
• Luce arrived and Ivia explained that she had been created from his severed arm; Luce called the three girls her mothers.
• Ivia used magecraft to protect Chloe from disappearing, and Chloe realized he had teased her by kissing Ilya instead of her.
• Ivia told Miyu that Dragon Flower was recovering, and Miyu pressed close to him and said it was her turn.

Ivia returned with Miyu, Ilya, and Chloe to Miyu’s ruined world, where Gaia, appearing as Tanaka, asked him to destroy the Enzworth family and save her. As they headed for the Enzworth castle, Ivia resolved to restore the world and its people, then rescued a stranded girl named Erica, who recognized him as her Lord God.

• Miyu remembered her reunion with Ivia and asked to stay with him forever, and Ivia accepted her wish with a kiss.
• Ivia brought Miyu, Ilya, and Chloe to Miyu’s snowbound world, where Tanaka appeared and begged him to destroy Enzworth and save her.
• Ivia explained that Tanaka was Gaia and that Pandora’s Box could replace the ruined timeline, then decided to redeem the world himself.
• Ivia led the girls toward Enzworth’s castle and explained to Chloe that he intended to restore the world rather than simply exchange its timeline.
• Ilya, Miyu, and Tanaka found Erica hanging from a wall, and Ivia lifted her down despite her protests.
• Erica heard Ivia’s voice, recognized him as her Lord God, and stared at him in stunned wonder.

Ivia learned why Pandora had failed to open her box: the great flood never occurred, and centuries of human cruelty left her unwilling to protect humanity. He promised to save the world and Pandora, but she rejected his offer before a black-haired man arrived and called her Erica.

• Pandora regained her memories when she saw Ivia and asked him to kill her, but he first told her to change her pants.
• Ivia, Pandora, Tanaka, and the others discussed Pandora's creation, her suffering, and her inability to open the box.
• Tanaka asked why her world alone had avoided humanity's destruction, and Ivia explained that the great flood had failed to occur.
• Pandora confronted Ivia over humanity's cruelty, and he acknowledged that he would feel the same in her place.
• Ivia promised to save the world and Pandora, but Pandora said she only wanted to die.
• A black-haired man entered, called Pandora Erica, and stared in surprise at her changed demeanor.

Ivia broke Darius’s Noble Phantasms and promised to save everyone, then used Pandora’s Box to rewrite the world’s past. In the restored Age of Gods, he protected Pandora from the people who feared her, and she remembered their life together before choosing to support him.

• Darius Enzworth deployed his 301-Second Eternal Ice Palace and challenged Ivia, but Ivia broke the Bounded Field and suppressed Darius’s other Noble Phantasm.
• Ivia promised Darius that he would save everyone, and Darius asked him to spare Pandora before thanking him.
• Ivia asked Pandora to make a wish and open the box, then Pandora’s Box released its power and rewrote the world’s past.
• In ancient Greece, Ivia found Pandora as villagers threatened her, gave her a name, and promised to be her friend and protect her.
• Pandora and Ivia traveled together through countless seasons until Pandora prepared to open the box and sacrifice herself, but Ivia stopped her and told her no one would die.
• Pandora recovered her memories of her former suffering and told Ivia that she wanted to support him as he had supported her.

Ivia, Pandora, Ilya, Chloe, and Miyu built a new generation of intelligent life to make the doomed timeline viable to the Human Order. After the AI recognized their bond with their creators, Ivia revealed that they and Archetype together formed the true New Primates, and they departed Earth for the stars.

• Pandora offered herself to Ivia, but he explained that humanity could not have children in the timeline and that they would need to create the New Primates instead.
• Ilya, Chloe, and Miyu joined Ivia and Pandora in the erroneous timeline after Tanaka explained Ivia’s changes and let them choose to go.
• The five spent thousands of years developing AI, which eventually became the planet’s dominant life and prepared to depart with Archetype.
• On the eve of Archetype’s departure, the AI asked Ivia why they existed and affirmed their love for him and the other Old Primates.
• Ivia revealed that the AI were Archetype’s inner substance and that both together formed the true New Primates.
• Miyu’s Moon Cancer lifted its blockade, and the AI departed Earth alongside Archetype as the five saw them off.

After returning from the flooded timeline, Ilya went to Ivia’s house and learned that he was missing. In Chaldea, Ritsuka struggled with exhaustion and unexplained drowsiness until a mysterious voice summoned her to the Prison Tower and introduced itself as a vengeful Heroic Spirit.

• Ivia, Pandora, Ilya, Miyu, and Kuro returned to their own timeline as the flood destroyed the old world.
• Ilya visited Ivia’s house, where the Daikokutens told her Pandora and the others had already arrived, and she asked where Ivia was.
• Luce questioned Caren about Ivia becoming an Adam figure and asked what advantages their Adam and Eve had over Pandora and Epimetheus.
• Ritsuka reflected on the fourth singularity, discussed her report and Kama with Gran Cavallo, and mentioned her recurring bouts of sleepiness.
• A mysterious voice summoned Ritsuka Fujimaru to the Prison Tower, where it identified itself as a Heroic Spirit and vengeful demon.

Edmond Dantès guided Ritsuka Fujimaru through the prison tower’s chambers of judgment, where the trials shifted and an Outer God’s influence strengthened his power. In the chamber of wrath, Jeanne d’Arc confronted Edmond, while the chambers of wrath and greed joined forces and an unknown voice spoke from behind the greed chamber’s door.

• Edmond revealed that Ritsuka had to survive seven chambers of judgment or die, then led her into the first chamber, where Fergus mac Róich appeared instead of the expected ruler of envy.
• Edmond used his Monte Cristo Treasure to destroy Fergus and continued accompanying Ritsuka after sensing an Outer God’s presence in the prison tower.
• Edmond asked whether Alexandre Dumas’s Priest Faria had escaped Hell, and told Ritsuka, “Wait, and hope.”
• Edmond and Ritsuka passed the chambers of sloth and gluttony, then reached the chamber of wrath, where Jeanne d’Arc appeared and declared that she had come to save Edmond.
• Edmond rejected Jeanne’s attempt to save him, and the chambers of wrath and greed merged as a voice from the greed chamber declared that some thoughts could not be conveyed through words.

Edmond, Jeanne d'Arc, and Amakusa joined forces against Dagon, a god distorted by faith in an Outer God, but Dagon trapped them and prepared them to witness the Pride Room's occupant. Novia emerged from the room, and Dagon's head and hands broke off as he fell prostrate before him.

• Amakusa revealed that the Outer God had occupied the Jealousy Room, and he and Edmond agreed to join forces while Jeanne d'Arc struggled to follow their conversation.
• Dagon manifested as a monstrous god and transformed the Prison Tower into a deadly sea, explaining that a melody had turned him away from correcting his distorted form.
• Dagon struck Amakusa with overwhelming force, and Jeanne d'Arc attacked while Edmond used his Noble Phantasm to cross Dagon's Bounded Field and counterattack.
• Dagon bound Edmond, Jeanne d'Arc, Amakusa, and Ritsuka in black smoke, then the Pride Room appeared and its doors began to open.
• Novia emerged from the Pride Room, and Dagon fell to his knees as his head and hands snapped off before him.

Novia reunited with Ritsuka in the prison tower, freed Dagon from his corrupted existence, and helped Edmond confront the sacrifice he had planned to make. Novia then explained how he, Edmond, and Ritsuka could all leave Château d'If, ending the chapter with Edmond recognizing their hopeful escape.

• Novia restored Dagon's body and released him peacefully after acknowledging his history as a god of grain.
• Amakusa praised Edmond for saving people, while Jeanne d'Arc asked Novia to visit the two Jeanne d'Arc Alter versions; they then departed.
• Edmond declared himself Avenger and tried to make Novia escape by taking his place, but he faltered because doing so went against his teacher's teachings.
• Novia embraced Edmond and affirmed his worth as Edmond Dantès, thanking him for helping Fran and Moriarty and delivering a letter.
• Novia told Edmond and Ritsuka that the prison tower's rule of one survivor did not bind the Outer Gods, and explained how three people had left Château d'If across different times.

Ritsuka dreamed of Mash’s memories, then struggled to find a useful way to improve herself after returning to Chaldea. She ended the chapter secretly making a birthday cake for a fellow Japanese operator, with Novia discovering her in the cafeteria.

• Ritsuka dreamed of Mash speaking with Romani and briefly encountered Meli, who mentioned that an Avenger from the Church had volunteered to work for her.
• Novia reassured the worried staff that Ritsuka had merely dreamed, then showed her Chaldea’s control-room renovations and advised her to focus on getting home safely rather than magecraft training.
• Ritsuka asked Muniere and other young Chaldea staff for advice on how to improve, but their discussion wandered without settling on an answer.
• Ritsuka found a planner in a borrowed hoodie and glimpsed entries about a birthday and Fujimaru and Novia before returning it without reading further.
• Novia found Ritsuka making a cake late at night and learned she wanted to belatedly celebrate a Japanese operator’s birthday.

Ritsuka, Novia, and Mash arrived in the Fifth Singularity amid the Revolutionary War, where Ritsuka risked her life treating a soldier with the help of Nikolai Pirogov. After collapsing from exhaustion, Ritsuka awoke in a field hospital and learned that the soldier had survived.

• Novia encouraged Ritsuka to pursue her dream of opening a cake shop, and she asked him to help her bake a cake.
• Novia and Mash arrived in the Fifth Singularity, while Ritsuka was displaced a kilometer away onto the battlefield.
• A soldier shoved Ritsuka out of the path of a cannonball and was gravely wounded, so she repeatedly used her Mystic Code to treat him.
• Nikolai Pirogov helped Ritsuka keep treating the soldier and directed Novia and Mash to a field hospital after Ritsuka collapsed from exhaustion.
• Ritsuka woke in the field hospital, learned the soldier had survived, and asked Novia what he knew about the Singularity.

Novia and Ritsuka encountered the anguish of a soldier who had lost limbs saving Ritsuka, and Novia comforted him before the group left for the Western The Americas Coalition Army’s main base. There, they met Edison, whose lion head accompanied his role as the Sun King’s technical consultant.

• A wounded soldier blamed Ritsuka for his lost arm and leg, then broke down and apologized for lashing out at her.
• Novia reassured the soldier that the war was to blame, praised his courage, and told him that his daughter would be proud of him.
• Ritsuka apologized to Novia for making him comfort the soldier, and Novia said she would someday understand the joy of saving others.
• The next day, Novia and Ritsuka traveled with Pirogov toward the Western The Americas Coalition Army’s main base, and Pirogov described his anesthesia-related Noble Phantasm.
• Pirogov identified Edison as the maker of the coalition’s robots, and Edison introduced himself to the Chaldea group as the Sun King’s technical consultant.

Rama confronted Krishna in Washington and resisted his attempt to recruit him, while Krishna’s Indian forces attacked the American coalition. Novia saved the wounded Rama, and Geronimo discovered that Tezcatlipoca had appeared in the Maya Federation as another threat.

• Krishna told Rama that Durga was safe and tried to persuade him to join forces, but Rama resisted and questioned the conflict Krishna had created.
• Krishna’s attack tore Rama apart and sent him crashing into the American coalition’s territory; Novia dispersed the impact and caught him.
• Tlaloc watched the coalition suffer defeat at the hands of Krishna, whose Field of Dharma, Kurukshetra, unleashed the Indian Pantheon’s power.
• Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan helped Tlaloc’s forces retreat, while Tlaloc wondered when Favia would arrive from Chaldea.
• Geronimo found a pyramid and a golden-haired stranger near the Maya Federation, then watched his companions kill themselves under the stranger’s influence.
• The stranger revealed himself as Tezcatlipoca, the First Sun.

Novia disguised himself with the Jaguar Man Mask, defeated Rama’s assumptions about his identity by claiming to be Tezcatlipoca, the First Sun, and learned more about Krishna’s Indian faction. His claim alarmed Edison because of Tezcatlipoca’s mythological conflict with Tlaloc, the Western American Alliance’s first president.

• Krishna defeated Rama after revealing that he had prepared for Rama’s powerful manifestation, but Novia saved Rama and had Doctor Pirogov and Edison establish an infirmary.
• Novia put on the Jaguar Man Mask and appeared as a blond, red-eyed figure, causing the newly awakened Rama to faint from fright.
• Rama introduced himself to Mash and explained that he had joined Novia’s side after Krishna defeated him.
• Rama told Ritsuka and the others that Krishna led an Indian faction containing Ashwatthama, Arjuna, Duryodhana, Dhritarashtra, and several Asuras, while Durga had disappeared.
• When Rama asked Novia who he was, Novia claimed to be Tezcatlipoca, the First Sun.
• Edison reacted uneasily to Novia’s claim because Tezcatlipoca’s myths involved conflict with Tlaloc, and Mash explained that Tezcatlipoca had seduced Tlaloc’s wife.

Novia explained the history of the United States and why the indigenous people fought to preserve their past, while Tezcatlipoca revealed to Krishna that he wanted to make a deal. At the campsite, Vritra attacked Rama for siding with the Americans, but Novia interrupted their clash with a gunshot.

• Novia told Ritsuka about European colonization, the American Revolution, and why the indigenous people refused to let their history be erased.
• Novia and Ritsuka heard gunfire at their campsite, and Novia carried her off the mountain toward the disturbance.
• Beneath the White House, Krishna questioned a blond man about the Fifth Sun, and the man revealed he was Tezcatlipoca and proposed a deal.
• Vritra attacked Rama, accusing him of betraying the Indian faction by working with the Americans.
• Rama prepared to use Shiva's Divine Bow against Vritra, but Novia shot at their weapons and stopped both attacks.

Novia posed as Tezcatlipoca and persuaded Vritra that her lord Kavia had sent him, stopping her from fighting and revealing Krishna had promised to bear responsibility for the Indian plan. In the Americas, Tlaloc worried over missing allies and questioned the taciturn girl suspected of being the Second Sun, who reacted painfully to her question.

• Vritra attacked Novia, but he identified himself as Tezcatlipoca and offered a truce.
• Novia named a secret involving Vritra, Tvashtar, and Kama, then claimed he had come on Kavia's commission, delighting Vritra.
• Vritra said Krishna had promised to take responsibility for the undertaking and told Rama that Krishna had suspected his defection.
• Novia remarked that Rama had a share of the Wrath meant for him.
• Tlaloc reviewed reports, worried about Geronimo and the northern allies, and discussed India's unusual offensives.
• Tlaloc asked the girl suspected of being the Second Sun why she had saved her; the girl silently struck her Sun model, seeming to recoil in pain.

Novia recognized the humanoid girl who tackled him as the recovering Star Eater ORT, and he examined her damaged systems inside Tlaloc’s Presidential Suite. ORT had been revived after Quetzal accepted her as a younger sister and helped her take a humanoid form, but she remained unable to speak and continued to repair herself.

• Tlaloc received Edison’s call and was startled when Novia appeared wearing a Jaguar Man Mask as Tezcatlipoca.
• Tlaloc met Novia outside the Presidential Suite, where he fired several shots that deliberately missed her.
• ORT suddenly tackled Novia and prodded his chest, prompting him to recognize her despite her disguise as the Second Sun.
• Novia took ORT into the Presidential Suite and examined her core, finding that most of her systems were still damaged.
• Novia learned that Quetzal had accepted ORT as her younger sister, recorded messages for her, and helped her assume a humanoid form and enter the Throne of Heroes.
• Novia learned that ORT had later saved Tlaloc from Krishna and had remained in the suite, quietly playing with the model sun.

Novia repaired ORT, who chose to stay with him and called the sun beautiful because he was in it. After settling matters with Tlaloc, Rama, and Vritra, the group learned Riverton was about to fall.

• Novia finished repairing ORT’s language system and let her keep a mysterious garbled system for further investigation.
• ORT told Novia she wanted to stay with him, and he asked her to call him the First Sun while he was in disguise.
• Tlaloc questioned Rama about why the Indian forces fought, but Rama refused to reveal their reason, and Novia argued that the purpose behind the war was the greatest culprit.
• Vritra became angry at Novia’s criticism, but ORT restrained her until Novia explained that he was speaking as her master, Kavia.
• Edison rushed in and warned the group that Riverton was about to fall.

Coti joined Novia on the journey to Riverton, where Beowulf and the North America Divine Bear struggled against the India Forces. As American soldiers chose to stand and fight, Beowulf committed himself to holding off Arjuna, while Karna left the India Camp to help answer the land’s grief.

• Coti followed the scent of Novia, and Novia invited the wounded wolf to accompany her to Riverton.
• Beowulf urged the American soldiers to retreat, but one soldier rallied them to remain and fight beside their commander.
• The soldiers defied Beowulf’s retreat order, and he returned to battle with renewed resolve.
• Arjuna attacked Beowulf, who used his power to break through the arrows and declared that the people’s will would bring the age of heroes to an end.
• Karna told Ganesha he would go against the India Forces’ path to help the Americans, then set off to make the sun rise over the grieving land.