Chapter Summaries

Novia comforted Shekinah and declared her supposed sin a deliberate act of kindness, leaving her overwhelmed with happiness. Outside their private realm, Demiurge recognized Novia as an absolute, unchanging reality and charged toward him in awe.

• Novia flicked Shekinah's forehead and told her that her feelings and flawed actions were cute, making her blush and lower her head.
• Novia insisted that Shekinah had won and declared that she had tried to guide the chaos seed before unintentionally giving birth to Demiurge.
• Shekinah listened without arguing as Novia reframed her sin as a benevolent act.
• Demiurge understood that Novia embodied absolute unchanging reality, unlike his own nature of constant transformation.
• Demiurge laughed in exhilaration as the sea of blood evaporated into a storm of destructive concepts, then lunged at Novia.

Demiurge challenged Novia with the full force of his changing reality, but Novia’s unchanging nature made the conflict’s outcome inevitable. Novia formed a divine Spear of Light and pierced Demiurge’s left eye, the prison that had stolen Shekinah’s light.

• Demiurge admired Novia and unleashed a conceptual storm, but Novia corrected its destructive force to nothing.
• Demiurge asked Novia how he would kill him, and Novia said he did not know because no method was required.
• The opposing principles of change and the unchanging caused reality to collapse as Demiurge accepted his approaching end.
• Novia formed a Spear of Light from the blazing wrath of God the Father and pierced Demiurge’s left eye.

Novia killed Demiurge, whose corpse became the foundation of a newborn hell, then confronted the Satans in Pandemonium. He fulfilled Rahab’s wish to be defeated by him and began explaining to Sangyangsha and the others that they should become human.

• Novia pierced Demiurge’s eye with primordial light, killing him as his final breath erased a third of the stars and his corpse transformed into the bedrock of a newborn hell.
• Novia appeared in Pandemonium, where Rahab demanded to be defeated by him as the Lord had once defeated Shekinah.
• Novia compressed and shattered Rahab’s divine might, fulfilling her wish and ending her centuries-long anger.
• Novia addressed Azazel, Lucifero, Paradise Lost, Satan, and Sangyangsha, then recalled how Sangyangsha had questioned the justice of the tenth plague in Egypt.
• Novia told Sangyangsha that angels were still children to him and that it was time for them to become human, urging them to honor finite life and experience the world.

Novia helped Sangyangsha understand that true order required them to value their own hearts, then left them to choose their future. In Chaldea, Solomon used Ars Nova to erase Goetia and himself, only to awaken in a place of absolute nothingness and regret that he had not said goodbye to Novia.

• Novia told Sangyangsha to protect ordinary human joys and encouraged them to think with their own hearts.
• Sangyangsha rose from the Throne and smiled as warm light recalled the Nile sunshine.
• As Ritsuka prepared to stop Goetia, Romani revealed himself as Solomon and raised his tenth ring.
• Solomon invoked Ars Nova, returning his blessings and erasing the foundations of Goetia along with his own existence as Solomon.
• Romani awakened in absolute nothingness, reflected on Chaldea's future, and regretted never properly saying goodbye to Novia.

Romani met Novia in nothingness, where Novia promised him company and the chance to visit other worlds before leaving him with the Queen of Sheba and Miss Klein. In the Temple of Time, Goetia fought Ritsuka Fujimaru to the end, having finally understood the value of human life, and died after offering his final respect to his opponent.

• Novia visited Romani in nothingness, spoke with him, and said he had found people to keep him company and that Romani might be able to walk out into other worlds.
• The Queen of Sheba appeared, embraced Romani, and tearfully told him she wanted to raise camels with him.
• Miss Klein arrived and settled beside Romani, while she and the Queen of Sheba exchanged wary remarks over him.
• Goetia, now mortal and facing death, understood why Solomon and Novia had chosen their paths and continued fighting Ritsuka Fujimaru without anger.
• Goetia used the tenth ring to drive Ritsuka back, then died of his own accord after fighting to his limit, hoping his master would witness the brief life he had been granted.

In the Moon Cell’s Sanctuary, Kishinami Hakuno rejected the forms of reason, power, and self-sacrificing love Novia offered, insisting that he remain her sword and stay by her side. Later, Hakuno told Ritsuka and Hibino Hibiki about the choice, leaving the story with the two friends reacting to her possessive declaration.

• Novia asked Kishinami Hakuno what form he should take to secure the victory she desired.
• Hakuno rejected Novia’s forms of reason, power, and love, then told him not to change and to remain her sword.
• Hakuno turned toward the door that marked an ending and a beginning.
• In a later conversation at Ritsuka’s bakery, Hakuno explained her declaration after the baguettes reminded her of the past.
• Hibino Hibiki excitedly called Hakuno’s choice romantic, while Ritsuka reacted with exasperation.

Ritsuka told Hakuno and Hibiki about the inheritance and losses that shaped her journey, then challenged Hakuno to explain why she answered Ritsuka’s summons after completing her own story. She recounted the Indian Lostbelt and the deadly voyage through Atlantis, leaving off just as she began to repeat Kirschtaria Wodime’s final words.

• Zabi-ko and Hibiki praised Ritsuka, while Hakuno teased her about being a junior whose story still had a long way to go.
• Ritsuka recalled how James Moriarty recognized the influence of the man who had left her, and explained that his legacy felt like a set of signposts.
• Ritsuka asked Hakuno why she had answered the summons after clearing her story; Hakuno claimed she had returned to fulfill her duties, but Ritsuka sensed jealousy beneath her calm expression.
• Hakuno embarrassed Ritsuka by mentioning her encounter with Abi in Salem, so Ritsuka challenged her with stories of the Lostbelts.
• Ritsuka described how defeating the god in the India Lostbelt awakened Supreme Brahman, whose existence threatened to erase the world until their allies managed to eliminate it.
• Ritsuka recounted the sacrifices of Charlotte Corday, Orion, Mandricardo, Achilles, and Teacher in Atlantis, then began recalling what Kirschtaria Wodime said to her.

Ritsuka recalled her past with Hakuno and Hibiki, then welcomed Novia when he unexpectedly arrived at her bakery. Their reunion was immediately interrupted by XX, who begged Novia to return and deal with problems across the universes.

• Ritsuka recounted the desperate battle against ORT in South America and how everyone’s sacrifices helped them win.
• Hakuno teased Ritsuka about the way she had supported Novia, and Ritsuka agreed while joking that they were not the only winners.
• After closing La Repos, Ritsuka reflected that she had hoped the bakery would be a place where Novia could find her across time and space.
• Novia appeared in the bakery, saying he had followed the smell of bread, and greeted Ritsuka after a long absence.
• XX crash-landed outside, clung to Novia, and pleaded for help with a broke police station and his troublesome girlfriends.
• Ritsuka nudged Novia and asked whether he was going to deal with the messes.

Ritsuka and Kishinami Hakuno argued over who was the strongest Master, while XX revealed she had abducted every woman on the planet who carried Novia’s aura. Elsewhere, Luce reported to Yahweh that Father would not return, and Yahweh declared that his preparations would soon succeed.

• Ritsuka agreed to go but insisted that the strongest Master, herself, would have to come along.
• Kishinami Hakuno came downstairs and challenged Ritsuka’s claim to being the strongest Master.
• XX told Novia she had used a tractor beam to gather every woman on the planet who carried his aura and left them unconscious outside the atmosphere.
• Luce apologized to Yahweh and said Father had no intention of returning.
• Yahweh said Luce had not carried out her task sincerely, then announced that his preparations would soon succeed.
• The task of resolving the anti-universe invasion incident was assigned to someone.