Chapter Summaries

Moriarty’s final shot failed when Alice caught the Seventh Bullet, and the Moriarty brothers escaped after he publicly claimed responsibility for the incident. After Holmes’s terminal revealed a clue concerning Manazuru Chitose, Erice and Alice prepared to leave London; the story then shifted to Hel, Yama, and Mictlan-tecuhtli talking beside a gate in the Syrian wasteland.

• Moriarty fired his final bullet at Fran, but Alice revealed she had caught it and told him she understood him.
• Moriarty denounced Berdie Edward, then announced himself as the mastermind before the gathered detectives and live broadcasts.
• James helped Moriarty escape the museum, and the brothers vanished in a burst of smoke.
• After Erice recovered, Novia used her body to activate Holmes’s terminal, which identified Manazuru Chitose at the conclusion of the Holy Grail War as a clue.
• Erice asked Alice about her limited-time contract with the Demon King, and Alice said she was willing to change.
• At a gate in the Syrian wasteland, Hel, Yama, and Mictlan-tecuhtli discussed gods and Hel’s willingness to confront Odin.

Mot revealed his plan to seize the world’s death authorities and transform the Himalayas Mountains into a temple, then defeated Yama and Anubis before Dionysus rescued them. Yama urged Dionysus to go to Akihabara because God Kavia was there, while the next scene introduced a vast ship sailing above Siberia.

• Mot emerged and announced that Asto Vidatu had returned to the Throne after the London plan failed, then Hel blamed a strange person beside Utsumi Erice.
• Yama and Anubis destroyed their gates and confronted Mot, who had transformed the Himalayas Mountains into his temple and revealed his plan to gather the world’s death authorities.
• Mot attacked Yama with a storm of lightning, but Dionysus used the authority he had taken from Typhon to stop the thunderbolts and drive Mot back.
• Dionysus rescued Yama and the unconscious Anubis, and Yama told him to go to Akihabara because God Kavia was there.
• The narration recalled humanity’s lost age of exploration, then described a vast vessel sailing over the drowned region of Siberia.

Erice and Alice fought off a vast swarm of Atlas alchemy drones when the Demon King summoned Shiva’s Trishula to destroy them, leaving Erice collapsed and the Demon King apparently gone. Yama, Dionysus, and Anubis arrived seeking help, while Alice noticed her Command Spells had faded; the chapter then shifted to a silver-haired girl remembering a blinding light that should have killed her.

• Erice manifested the Heavenly Raft of Rama and, as the Demon King, discussed Old Prussian mythology and the identity behind him with Alice.
• Millions of Atlas alchemy drones attacked the Heavenly Raft of Rama, and Alice warned that their future prediction would make them harder to hit over time.
• The Demon King summoned Shiva’s Trishula and destroyed the drones, but Erice collapsed after returning to her normal form.
• Dionysus, Yama, and Anubis boarded the vessel and claimed they had been thrown off the Black-Hearted Route while seeking passage.
• Yama wondered why he could no longer sense the Demon King, and Alice noticed that her three Command Spells had become faint.
• A silver-haired girl recalled a flash of light that swallowed the forest and believed she had died, before realizing that was not what had happened.

Novia carried the weakened Erice through the burning Tunguska forest and identified the disaster as the 1908 Tunguska Event, where Heroic Spirits had appeared to confront a newly born spirit of nature. He met Nastasya, Nikitich, and Zmei, whose memories suggested a connection between Novia and the King of the Huns, while the group prepared to face the threat.

• Novia woke Erice and carried her away from the burning forest as Amaterasu’s voice named the newly born beast of curses.
• Nastasya, wielding Dobrynya Nikitich’s Spirit Origin, arrived with Nikitich and Zmei to protect Russia from the Tunguska creature.
• Zmei recognized a presence linked to his childhood and remembered the King of the Huns and his training under Beo.
• Novia introduced himself as Goethe’s Demon King, and Nastasya challenged him to test his abilities.
• Zmei roared to stop Nastasya and warned her that she could not defeat Novia, leading Nikitich to wonder whether Novia was connected to the King of the Huns.

Novia took newborn Koyanskaya into his care and named her Scathach, while the child formed a complicated view of humanity and began living with Erice and Novia. As Scathach rejected human food and plotted to train humans, Novia noticed that Erice had become unusually dutiful and subdued.

• Nastasya and Zmei defeated the creature corrupted by meteorite fragments, and Erice discovered the newborn Koyanskaya nearby.
• Novia agreed to take the baby, and Nikitich and Nastasya departed with Zmei after Zmei revealed that Novia had been his mother's liege, Avia, King of the Huns.
• Amaterasu blessed the newborn, and Novia named her Scathach, which filled the young Beast with anger and confirmed her rejection of humanity.
• Scathach privately resolved to train humans while smiling warmly at Erice, whom she considered useful despite her hatred of humans.
• At a meal, Scathach chose raw meat over Erice's pancakes and borscht, while Novia observed Erice's changed, overly obedient behavior and reminded her of the great power within her.

Novia accidentally summoned Tiamat into Imaginary Number Space while attempting to find a mother for Scathach, and he discovered that she was eager for him to stay. Before leaving, he invited Tiamat to see the Fr World and help restore its ruined ecosystem.

• Novia told Scathach he intended to find her a mother, and Scathach accepted while privately believing Sanctuary Tunguska would prevent him from succeeding.
• Novia used a summoning formula at the Tunguska Event site, and Sanctuary Tunguska connected him to Imaginary Number Space.
• Novia encountered Tiamat in her true form and explained that he had summoned her by accident.
• Tiamat asked Novia not to go too far and said she would wait for him, leaving Novia to answer that he would return.
• Novia invited Tiamat to visit the Fr World and help change its ecosystem.

Tiamat joined Novia, Erice, and Scathach in Tunguska, where she embraced her role as their mother and settled into caring for the children. The next day, Scathach and Erice drove off a Romanov mage and defeated his Vey familiar, then headed back so Novia and Tiamat would not worry.

• Tiamat asked Novia to take her with him, and he told Scathach that Tiamat would be her mother; Scathach reluctantly accepted.
• Tiamat cooked dinner with Novia, worried over the raw meat Scathach ate, and washed the dishes before spending the night near Novia.
• The following day, a Romanov imperial mage and his Vey familiar confronted Scathach and Erice in Tunguska.
• Erice used martial arts to defeat Vey, while Scathach beat the mage and kicked him toward the river.
• Scathach and Erice decided to return to Novia and Tiamat.

Erice and Scathach encountered Grigori Rasputin and hundreds of Romanov magi in Tunguska, then brought him to meet Novia. After hearing Rasputin’s request for a deal to help stabilize Russia, Novia declared that the Russia Empire would fall.

• Erice caught a bullet and struck the Church attacker as Scathach identified more magi approaching.
• Grigori Rasputin introduced himself and proposed a deal with Scathach and Erice.
• Stolypin warned Nicholas II about Rasputin’s influence, while Princess Anastasia searched the palace for Vey.
• Rasputin secured Nicholas II’s permission to lead several hundred magi to Tunguska.
• Scathach and Erice took Rasputin to Novia, who questioned his faith and declared that the Russia Empire would fall.

Rasputin bargained with Novia to save the Romanovs, and Novia agreed to accompany him to Saint Petersburg as a tutor. At the Palkin Restaurant, Novia met Nicholas II’s family, and Anastasia was struck by his arrival.

• Rasputin asked Novia to save Russia and offered his life in exchange for Nicholas II’s survival, but Novia said Rasputin was already fated to die.
• Rasputin persuaded Novia to make a bargain and invited him and his family to Saint Petersburg for lobster; Novia agreed on the condition that surviving Romanovs would forget their identity.
• Novia decided to pose as a tutor for the royal family and brought Tiamat and the others to Saint Petersburg, giving Tiamat the name Mary.
• Nicholas II and his family arrived at the Palkin Restaurant, where Nicholas and Alexandra teased each other and Anastasia frightened Alexei with jokes about becoming the last Romanov.
• When Anastasia ran toward the door to escape her father, Novia arrived and took her hand, leaving her flustered as she greeted him.

Novia became the Romanov children’s tutor and began teaching Alexei and Anastasia about choosing the world they wanted to live in. Alexei voiced a wish for Russians to reach out to one another, while Novia’s plans to save the family and Anastasia’s new massage treatments left their futures uncertain.

• Tiamat spoke to Nicholas II as Novia’s mother, and Rasputin revealed that Novia was his teacher.
• Nicholas II agreed to have Novia teach Alexei and also entrusted Anastasia’s education to him.
• Novia taught Alexei and Anastasia the folktale of Ilya and asked Alexei what kind of world he wanted to create.
• Alexei said he wanted every Russian to be able to reach out a friendly hand to another, and Novia told him he would need courage to defy fate.
• Novia began overseeing Anastasia’s massage treatments, while Anastasia complained that Alexei seemed to like their new teacher.

After Stolypin's assassination, Nicholas II regretted failing to support him as Russia's reforms stalled and the Land Reform Act died with its champion. Months later, Novia told Anastasia a familiar tale about Ilya, while Nicholas and Rasputin listened outside the massage room.

• Mikhail confronted Nicholas II over the damage the war had done to Russia, and Nicholas insisted he would crush opposition and restore order.
• Novia told Stolypin that Nicholas would not listen to him, and Stolypin explained how land reform could help save Russia.
• Rumors about Rasputin led Nicholas to send him away, while Nicholas's opposition to land reform prompted Stolypin to resign before the Empress Dowager persuaded him to stay.
• Three months later, an assassin shot Stolypin at the Kyiv Opera House, and he died four days afterward; Nicholas mourned him, and the Land Reform Act was abandoned.
• Nicholas admitted to Rasputin that he had failed to understand Stolypin's reforms until it was too late, then went with him to Anastasia's massage room.
• Novia told Anastasia the tale of Ilya, but she interrupted him and asked for a more novel story.

Novia took Alexei through impoverished Grass Market Square, where the boy confronted the suffering caused by war and inequality and vowed to build a kinder Russia. That night, Rasputin accepted a Romanov prince’s invitation to the palace, unaware that the prince and a Duma deputy had arranged his assassination.

• Novia told Alexei that the Romanovs had always been rich but never had enough as war and political turmoil weakened Nicholas II’s control.
• Novia showed Alexei the hunger and desperation in Grass Market Square, where poor people tore apart a rabid dog for food.
• Alexei listened to a speaker demand food, land, and an end to absolute monarchy, then said he wanted Russians to reach out to one another in friendship.
• Novia encouraged Alexei to have the courage to challenge fate, while Rasputin was invited to a prince’s palace under the pretense of a conversation.
• The prince told Rasputin about a prisoner who could seek release on health grounds, as the assassination plot against him began.

Rasputin survived the prince’s first attempts to kill him long enough to beg for Nicholas and his family’s survival, but he died before reaching Novia. The Romanov Empire fell, and the chapter ended with Alexei living under a new name and meeting an unfamiliar girl while fishing.

• Rasputin remembered how he had gained the Romanovs’ trust by controlling Alexei’s bleeding, and he regretted deceiving a family that had treated him sincerely.
• After the prince shot and beat him, Rasputin dragged himself toward Grass Market Square and prayed that his death would save Nicholas and his family, but the prince killed him and threw his body into the Neva River.
• Following the February Revolution, Nicholas agreed to abdicate and later was imprisoned with his family in Yekaterinburg.
• As the civil war neared Yekaterinburg, local leaders executed Nicholas and his family, ending the Romanov Empire.
• Alexei, living under a new name as a commoner, went fishing and complained that his friend Ostrovsky had stood him up.
• An unfamiliar girl told Alexei that his fishing line was getting a bite.

Erice hunted phantasmal species as a Night Watch in a city where the powerless gods Yama and Anubis served as bait, while she continued to struggle with the Demon King's disappearance. After defeating the Demon Throne, she headed to the Kuonji mansion still tormented by guilt and loneliness, with no Command Spell on her hand.

• Anastasia remembered how Nikolai's family survived and went to live in Ukraine, then reunited with Erice, whom she called Chitose.
• Yama and Anubis fled the Demon Throne, which pursued them after Mot stole their powers.
• Erice killed the Demon Throne with her Branch Fist while Yama and Anubis watched.
• Erice spoke with Aoko Aozaki about their completed missions and agreed to report in person later.
• Erice recalled how the Demon King had comforted her after a school fight and how his disappearance left her blaming herself.
• Erice walked toward the Kuonji mansion, still wondering whether the Demon King would return to take her body, and saw that she still had no Command Spell.

Novia returned from investigating the abnormality in the Sanctuary of Tunguska with Tiamat, and Alice brought them to the Kuonji Estate. Erice failed to recognize Novia, while Alice and Tiamat noticed how much Erice had changed.

• Alice waited by the sea, mistook Novia for the Demon King after seeing her Command Spells, and recalled Tiamat's origin as the planet's first life in Mesopotamia.
• Novia arrived at the harbor with Tiamat after leaving his promise to Rasputin to Scathach and investigating Tunguska; Alice and Aoko Aozaki met them there.
• Alice contacted Kuonji, learned Erice was elsewhere, and took Novia and Tiamat to the Kuonji Estate.
• Erice met Novia and Tiamat but did not recognize Novia, asked where he had lived, and left after he said Siberia.
• Tiamat remarked that Erice's hair and personality had changed, and Alice directed Novia and Tiamat to bathe and sleep.

Alice struggled with her feelings for Novia after learning that he and Tiamat had slept together, while Erice’s grandmother, Manazuru Chitose, ordered her to stop working as a Night Watch for at least three months. The chapter left Erice isolated and insisting that the war could not end, as Chitose privately affirmed that she loved her granddaughter.

• Alice asked Novia why he had returned after being gone for five years, and he accepted that she might remain angry with him.
• After Novia left for the guest room, Alice stared at her Command Spells and called him shameless.
• Manazuru Chitose visited Erice at the Kuonji Estate and told her to take a break from work, saying she had already arranged it with the City AIs.
• Erice protested that she could still take missions without the Demon King, but Chitose said the break would last at least three months.
• After Chitose and Lucius left, Erice brooded over losing her work and told herself that the war could not end.
• Outside the estate, Chitose told Lucius that Erice deserved praise and her love.

Erice struggled with her feelings for the departed Demon King after Novia visited her, while Novia and Tiamat set out to find the hidden mother goddess Tiamat had sensed. Novia suspected the goddess was Amenominaka, and he headed to meet Yama, who recognized him as Lord Kavia.

• Chitose told Lucius that Erice resembled her too much, and she reflected that Erice should have been her daughter if not for an accident during the Holy Grail War.
• Novia visited Erice at night, but she coldly sent him away while privately grieving the Demon King and wishing she could see him again.
• Tiamat sensed another mother goddess nearby and explained to Novia that she cared for all the world's children.
• Novia reasoned that the hidden goddess might be Amenominaka, Japan's obscure Creator God.
• Novia recalled meeting Tiamat in the Sea of Chaos and promising to return after she became a mother.
• Novia and Tiamat went to meet Yama, who had invited Novia after recognizing him as Lord Kavia.

Novia took Tiamat through Akihabara’s magecraft shops while waiting for Yama, then heard Yama and Anubis nearby and met them for a meal. Yama explained how Mot sought power over death during the Global Holy Grail War, while Novia considered what had happened to Manazuru Chitose; Anubis began to speak at the end.

• Novia teased Tiamat by saying he had a grandchild, then took her to browse Akihabara’s magecraft shops.
• Tiamat spotted footage of Erice on a shop screen, and Novia connected it to the strange Erice at Kuonji’s house and Manazuru Chitose’s summoning of Lucius.
• Novia overheard Yama and Anubis inside a shop and took them to a restaurant to hear what they needed.
• Yama confirmed Novia had dealt with Asto Vidatu and recounted the Third World War and the worldwide Holy Grail Wars.
• Yama explained that Mot recruited surviving death gods to gain authority over death across mythologies, and Novia considered Mot’s pursuit of Erice and the mystery surrounding Chitose.
• Yama hesitated to reveal that Mot had turned Novia’s Himalayas Mountains into a temple, then kicked Anubis, who began speaking after understanding the hint.

Novia heard Yama’s suspicion that Mot had won the Holy Grail War at Cape Canaveral, while Tiamat playfully sought his approval. In Akihabara, Erice attended class and reacted to a lesson about humanity’s first Moon landing before Manazuru Chitose arrived to speak with her and AI.

• Yama told Novia he suspected Mot had won the Cape Canaveral Holy Grail War because he sensed the deaths of the explorers clinging to Mot.
• Tiamat recalled that the spiritual deprivation of the world’s children began in the direction Yama indicated, then panicked when Novia teased her about spoiling children.
• Tiamat tried to prove her strength to Novia, bit his ear, and asked him for head pats and praise.
• Erice attended a lesson about the Apollo Moon landing and grew irritated when her classmates refused to believe humans had reached the Moon.
• Manazuru Chitose arrived after class to ask Erice how it had gone and speak with AI.

Manazuru Chitose brought Erice to the Kuonji residence at Alice’s request, while John Dee and Pretender Cleopatra prepared to guide Erice into Tokyo’s Human Pasture. Alice chose to stay behind as Novia and Tiamat prepared to travel to Tokyo, and Erice arrived at the mansion.

• Chitose persuaded Erice to go to the Kuonji residence and privately declared that Novia was hers.
• John Dee and Pretender Cleopatra discussed Erice’s unusual nature and planned to lead her safely into the Human Pasture when she reached Tokyo.
• Alice declined Tiamat’s invitation to travel, explaining that she did not want to leave the Kuonji residence behind.
• Chitose arrived at the Kuonji residence and introduced herself as Erice’s grandmother.
• Erice entered and settled on the sofa while Tiamat excitedly greeted her.