Chapter Summaries

El sent Metatron to confront Apollo while preparing to devour humanity after his coming battle with Novia. Novia destroyed the angelic army, entered Heaven alone, and met El, who had claimed the authority of the God of the Old Testament.

• Metatron clashed with El, then agreed to confront Apollo after El warned that Apollo opposed her aims but did not want humanity extinct.
• El revealed that he wanted to fight Novia and planned to devour every human if he won.
• Novia killed the angels gathered before Cape Canaveral and erased the crown's commands.
• Novia told Tiamat to go with Daybit and Tezcatlipoca, then entered Cape Canaveral alone and challenged El to face the price of looking into his eyes.
• Novia walked through Heaven to the Throne, where El confirmed he had used his authority to turn the Judgment Court into Heaven and declared himself the God of the Old Testament.

Novia fought El, who had claimed the Old Testament’s authority and attacked with overwhelming divine power. As El prepared to invoke Genesis, Novia challenged his claim to the name God and began recalling a story about Enosh.

• El judged humanity guilty and surrounded Novia with blood-red darkness, but Novia advanced through it unharmed.
• El unleashed his power and struck at Novia, who broke off El’s body parts by naming them and then split him in two.
• El questioned Novia’s reasons for killing gods, and Novia said he needed no reason to do what he considered right and natural.
• El activated the authority of Genesis and assembled a vast array of divine powers around himself.
• Novia told El that the name God belonged to him, then recalled Enosh asking his father whether gods and monsters existed.

Enosh spent his long life searching for God’s name and, at the moment of his death, called upon him as YHWH (Jehovah), though he reversed the letters. In the present, El attacked Novia over the name, while Metatron confronted Tiamat, Tezcatlipoca, and Daybit and began judging their crimes.

• As a child, Enosh heard Set’s stories about God and the man-eating monsters and decided to discover God’s name.
• Enosh spent most of his nine hundred and fifty years traveling through the wilderness, believing he would eventually meet God.
• When Enosh collapsed at the end of his journey, someone caught him, and he whispered the name YHWH (Jehovah), reversing W and Y.
• El realized Novia’s interest in controlling the Old Testament was tied to God’s name and unleashed a barrage of powerful punches, which Novia answered in kind.
• Tiamat, Tezcatlipoca, and Daybit arrived to find Metatron standing over the defeated Apollo, and Metatron threatened them before ordering Rasputin to begin the judgment.
• Rasputin accused Daybit of eliminating the escape prospects of 452 people at Cape Canaveral and Tezcatlipoca of killing countless humans through sacrificial rites.

Metatron judged Tiamat and Tezcatlipoca as enemies of humanity and prepared to destroy them, but Tiamat rejected her verdict and declared that Metatron’s will could not be God’s. Rasputin joined Tiamat and Tezcatlipoca against Metatron, and the chapter ended as her attack began.

• Tezcatlipoca explained the sacrificial rules of his world and challenged Metatron’s one-sided judgment against him and Tiamat.
• Metatron declared that Tiamat and Tezcatlipoca had no right to resist and threatened to kill them within seven seconds.
• Tiamat recalled a conversation about humanity growing beyond its need for a mother and accepted that her children might leave her, while insisting they had not abandoned her out of malice.
• Tiamat accused Metatron of acting against the Lord’s will and declared Metatron innocent, prompting Rasputin to oppose Metatron and reaffirm his faith.
• Metatron announced that all who stood before her were insignificant evil, and her attack began with existence and sound seeming to vanish.

Metatron overwhelmed Tezcatlipoca and destroyed his Black Sun, but the Crown above her shattered after the angels abandoned its call. Elsewhere, Novia met El’s greatest attack head-on, and El stood firm as Novia began to explain why he had lost.

• Metatron used the Holy Seat and her divine power to break Tezcatlipoca’s Black Sun and end his attempt to alter the laws of the world.
• As Metatron prepared to destroy Tezcatlipoca’s Spirit Core and heart, a crack appeared in her Crown, and the Holy Seat hurled him away.
• Metatron wondered which angels had rejected the Crown’s call, then watched the Crown shatter completely.
• El fought Novia with his enhanced body and the usurped Authority of the Old Testament, while Novia used a power drawn from that Authority.
• Novia revealed a new power in a burst of darkness and light, and El charged him with his strongest attack.
• Novia met El’s greatest strength without retreating and began explaining why El had lost.

Novia defeated El, while Metatron attacked Tiamat before Novia arrived and stopped the fight. Metatron expected punishment, but Novia told her he would neither rebuke nor favor her, and she begged him to erase her existence.

• Novia shattered El and destroyed the authority he had taken from the Old Testament.
• Metatron used her graces to negate Tezcatlipoca’s and Rasputin’s powers, then attacked Tiamat as she tried to summon the sea of life.
• Tiamat punched Metatron away when the angel’s voice suddenly cut off, and a powerful presence approached.
• Novia arrived and walked past Metatron, then checked on Tiamat and spoke with Rasputin.
• Metatron apologized to Novia and asked him to erase her concept completely.

Metatron received Tiamat’s gentle punishment and left after agreeing to let the matter with Lilitu rest for now. As Novia and Tiamat prepared to restore the FR world’s ecosystem, Lilith ambushed Metatron and began using a strange black light on her.

• Novia told Metatron that she had caused no lasting harm, and Tiamat wiped away her tears and gave her a light head pat as punishment.
• Tiamat defended Lilitu, and Metatron reluctantly agreed to leave the matter alone before departing.
• Novia and Tiamat sat on the Holy Seat so Tiamat could reshape the devastated FR world’s ecosystem, and Tiamat explained that she had met Lilitu in imaginary number space.
• Lilith shattered the sky, impaled Metatron with a Greatsword that destroyed her power at its source, and exposed Metatron’s unspoken desire to be at God’s side.
• Lilith told Metatron she should confess her feelings, then sent a strange black light through the sword into Metatron’s body.

Lilith left Metatron pinned and weakened after confronting her with her contradictory love and hatred for Him and her grievance against Veya. Metatron knocked herself unconscious and, while reviewing Jeanne d'Arc's memories, questioned whether the voice Jeanne heard was the Holy Spirit, whose origins she connected to Novia.

• Lilith taunted Metatron, admitted that she both loved and hated Him, and recalled that Veya's actions had made her feel betrayed and broken.
• Lilith withdrew her greatsword and left Metatron on the ground, warning her not to mistake mercy for permission to push her luck.
• Metatron considered ending her life to erase the sloth spreading through her, then slammed her head against the ground and passed out.
• In the darkness, Metatron reviewed Jeanne d'Arc's memories and wondered whether the voice Jeanne called a revelation had been the Holy Spirit.
• Metatron reasoned that the Holy Spirit's place in Christian doctrine had been established through Augustine and that Novia had helped bring about its origin.

Metatron emerged in Akihabara and used her power to make Erice, Aoko Aozaki, and Yumina slothful, leaving them playing cards and living on takeout at the Kuonji mansion for a month. When Alice announced that Novia was at the door, Metatron abruptly refused to meet him and went to take a bath instead.

• Metatron wandered into Akihabara, where Erice recognized her wings and asked whether she was an angel.
• Metatron scolded Erice for being desperate to see someone, then made Erice, Aoko Aozaki, and Yumina slothful.
• Metatron and the others spent a month playing cards at the Kuonji mansion and surviving on takeout.
• Alice announced that Novia was at the door, and Metatron refused to answer it before heading to the bathroom.
• Metatron lay fully clothed in the bathtub as the shower continued spraying over her.

Metatron settled into sloth after Novia gave her the Holy Seat, while Novia reflected on his search for Shekinah and remembered Lilith’s desperate love for him. The chapter left their past unresolved, with Lilith pleading for Novia to kill her.

• Metatron tried to kiss Novia in the bath but blurted out a request for the Holy Seat instead.
• Metatron used the Holy Seat to laze around and offered Novia instant noodles.
• Novia reflected that he had found the information about Shekinah he came to seek and considered how humans had mistaken Anat for the Queen of Heaven.
• Novia remembered Anat becoming Lilith and declaring that she wanted his child because he was her father, husband, and Lord.
• Lilith screamed in despair when Novia could no longer see or hear her, then asked him to kill her.

Shekinah was born as the Queen of Heaven and met Lilith, who drew her into sharing her love for their Father. In the present, Novia woke with Metatron sprawled on him, and Erice returned to find them in an intimate position, feeling lonely and suspecting their relationship was more than ordinary.

• Shekinah was born from the concept of the Queen of Heaven and called the Lord her honored Father.
• Lilith met Shekinah, recognized that she loved the Lord, and persuaded her to join in using his name to put him to sleep; the Sasun lineage was later born through Lilith's actions.
• Metatron brought instant noodles to the sleeping Novia, ate them, and eventually fell asleep sprawled across him.
• Novia woke with Metatron on his chest as Erice returned and found them together.
• Erice reflected on her loneliness and concluded that Novia and Metatron's position suggested an unusual relationship.

Erice returned with cream puffs and watched Novia’s teasing remark leave Metatron flustered and retreating to her room. Left alone with Novia, Erice called his behavior exceptional flirting, while he let her keep that impression.

• Erice brought cream puffs home, gave one to Novia, and reflected on Luce’s confession that she liked him.
• During a Night Watch break, Luce asked Erice about relying on others and liking someone, then admitted she liked Novia.
• Metatron complained that Novia had taken away her most important thing, which turned out to be instant noodles.
• Novia teased Metatron by saying he could be her important thing, and Metatron blushed before retreating to her room on the Holy Seat.
• Erice accused Novia of being skilled at flirting, and Novia accepted her judgment.

Erice thought about the Demon King while checking on Aoko, and Lilith prepared to use the deadly sins to push Metatron into despair. Her choice of lust affected Kama, who sensed that Kavia needed her while Durga kept watch over her.

• Erice left Novia after insisting that her assessment of him was objective, then brought a cream puff to Aoko's locked room and fell while trying to peek inside.
• Lilith spoke with the Lilim and reflected on her hatred, her past actions, and her plan to give the seven deadly sins to people who loved him.
• Lilith decided to try summoning lust through a system like the Holy Grail's, causing Kama to feel itching across her body in the Indian gods' domain.
• Durga warned Kama not to do anything strange and explained that she was watching her because Kama's demonic nature could turn her into a Beast.
• Kama praised Durga while wondering how to escape her surveillance, then sensed that Kavia needed her.

Kama persuaded Mohini to let her leave so she could answer Kavia’s call, expecting to spend a long time with him. Instead, she met Lilith, who had summoned her to use lust in a scheme against someone’s lover, and the two began talking about love and loss.

• Kama tried to get Durga to help her leave, then appealed to Mohini by calling her Mommy and claiming she wanted to change herself.
• Mohini accepted Kama’s explanation, and Durga let her go.
• Kama answered the call expecting Kavia, but found Lilith waiting instead.
• Lilith challenged Kama’s usefulness, prompting Kama to show her different forms before Lilith transformed as well.
• Lilith asked Kama to use lust to make someone despair, but Kama refused because her love belonged exclusively to Kavia.
• Lilith said her love had been destroyed and that she could only hate now, while Kama sensed something was wrong.

Kama followed Lilith’s lead to pursue the silver-haired man, then arrived in Alice’s workshop and clashed with Yumina. Yumina’s First Magic began acting strangely as an unfamiliar presence drew near Kama.

• Lilith showed Kama a photograph of the silver-haired man’s back and warned that seeing his eyes could kill her.
• Kama eagerly left to pursue Lilith’s target, while Lilith watched her go and hoped she would return alive.
• Yumina controlled Alice’s body in their workshop and prepared to use a love potion refined with the First Magic.
• Kama appeared in the workshop and mocked Alice, then struck her forehead when she tried to attack.
• Yumina invoked the First Magic, but a rumbling sound drew closer to Kama as she began complaining about being hungry.

After consuming Yumina’s Love Potion, Metatron’s sloth mutated into overpowering lust, and she subdued Kama and Yumina before confronting Novia. She confessed her sin and asked him to kill her, but instead pressured him to immerse himself in it.

• Metatron ate the cream puffs and drank Yumina’s Love Potion, causing her sloth to mutate as she absorbed Kama’s lust.
• Metatron overwhelmed Kama with her power, knocked her unconscious, and carried her to the Holy Seat.
• Metatron made Yumina faint and carried her to the Holy Seat before going to Novia’s room.
• Metatron confessed that she had become the evil of sloth and asked Novia to kill her.
• Novia said Metatron had already died many times, then offered to dispel her condition.
• Metatron stopped Novia from dispelling the sin and urged him to immerse himself in it.

Utsumi Erice noticed the strange aftermath of three days in which Novia, Metatron, Kama, and Yumina became caught up in Yumina’s Love Puffs and Novia’s punishment of Metatron. The chapter ended with Aoko Aozaki apologizing to Novia, who told her he did not mind.

• Utsumi Erice saw Kama and Aoko Aozaki return to the Kuonji mansion looking flushed and unusually covered up, and wondered what had happened.
• The chapter revealed that Kama and Yumina had been tied to the Holy Seat for three days while Metatron’s reactions fed back to them through Yumina’s synchronization magic.
• Novia kept Metatron awake and overwhelmed her until she surrendered, while Kama and Yumina experienced the sensations from outside the room.
• Erice watched Metatron cling to Novia and Kama hug his arm, and concluded that Novia had won over both of them.
• Aoko Aozaki apologized to Novia for the trouble caused by Yumina’s Love Potion, and Novia said he did not mind.

Kama told Lilith that her scheme against Him was progressing, while Lilith warned her that He was their enemy and revealed her own past as a god of love and fertility. Lilith kept her former beloved’s identity secret and decided to summon another sin to help Kama, hoping to keep her friend out of danger.

• Kama assured Lilith that her plan was going smoothly, but Lilith questioned how Metatron had survived her sloth and reminded Kama that He was their enemy.
• Lilith explained that she had once been the Canaanite god of love Anat and later assumed the identity of Atargatis, a fertility goddess.
• Kama tried to bond with Lilith over their shared roles as gods of love and fertility, but Lilith teased her and refused to explain whom she had loved or why she targeted Him.
• Lilith decided to summon another of the sins to support Kama, considering greed, gluttony, jealousy, or wrath.

Lilith recalled the rejection that had fueled her hatred, then wondered why her summoning of Greed seemed to have failed. Melusine manifested as Greed, flew toward the city to find Novia, and met Erice, who later sensed someone watching her after Melusine vanished.

• Lilith remembered begging a man to kill her, then swore she would never forgive him after he refused and left.
• A voice defined Greed as a sin, while Melusine flew across the sea and realized she could sense several other sin concepts.
• Melusine recalled a godlike power she had encountered in Rome and eagerly declared that she wanted to see Novia again.
• Erice intercepted Melusine at the harbor and asked her to register as an unidentified Servant.
• Melusine told Erice that Novia had given her name and proudly declared her love for him.
• After Melusine disappeared, Erice sensed an unseen presence watching her, but found no one there.

Melusine followed Erice to the Kuonji residence and confronted Kama, while Metatron clung to Novia and checked Chaldea’s progress. She found that Ritsuka Fujimaru had cleared the Seventh Singularity and was speaking with the defeated Kingu.

• Melusine secretly followed Erice to the Kuonji residence and encountered Kama in the courtyard.
• Kama threatened Melusine, who challenged her and introduced herself as the strongest dragon and Novia’s lover.
• Metatron hovered around Novia, reflected on their intimacy, and discussed Goetia’s failed plan with him.
• Novia asked Metatron to check on Chaldea, and she accessed Ritsuka Fujimaru’s memories to confirm the Seventh Singularity had been cleared.
• Kingu questioned Ritsuka about why she kept struggling, and she admitted that she did not know.