Chapter Summaries

Favia prepared to perform a new ritual in Tenochtitlan, with Tlaloc agreeing to help inscribe the Fifth Sun on the Sun Stone. As the ritual began, the people gathered to see Favia, whom they regarded as a great leader.

• Tlaloc agreed to help Favia inscribe the Fifth Sun on the Sun Stone during the coming ritual.
• Favia told Tlaloc that finding the pieces of his Silver Key and reuniting with his little sister remained his original goal, but that staying to help was his own choice.
• The people of Central and South America gathered outside Tenochtitlan's Great Temple for Favia's unprecedented ritual.
• Favia appeared before the gathered people with ritual colors painted on his hands, the Jaguar Man Mask on his chest, and a giant coyote following behind him.

At the first grand ritual since the continent’s unification, Favia announced the Fifth Sun and confronted Tlaloc, who had taken the form of Cipactli to sacrifice herself and usher in a new era. Favia refused to kill her, choosing to create a future for the world without repeating its ancient laws of sacrifice.

• Favia addressed the gathered people, defended the rescued enslaved people, and urged the continent to meet foreign cruelty with strength and dignity.
• Favia named the Fifth Sun-Tonatiuh as the ritual’s recipient, and darkness fell as four flames revealed Tlaloc in the form of the water monster Cipactli.
• Favia realized that Tlaloc had accepted the Cipactli concept so he could kill her and reenact the myth that created the Sun Eras.
• Favia opened his fist to reveal a blue flower, refused to kill Tlaloc, and asked her to watch for the birth of the Fifth Sun.
• Favia continued toward the Sun Stone, resolved to establish a different way of life rather than obey the ancient world’s sacrificial rules.

Favia rejected the Central and South American World's compromise and accepted Tezcatlipoca's approval to fight the resurrected Cipactli, the ancient monster whose body formed the world's foundation. After Cipactli revealed that human sacrifice had fed its endless hunger, Favia began resisting it with the world's plants, and the battle remained unresolved.

• Tezcatlipoca met Favia in Mictlan, explained Cipactli's power, and approved Favia's plan to defeat it.
• Tezcatlipoca, the Lord of the Flayed, and other powers lent their support as Favia returned to face Cipactli in the darkness over Tenochtitlan.
• Favia questioned Cipactli's resurrection, and Cipactli explained that it was the world itself and that human sacrifice had fed its hunger.
• Favia realized the world had revived Cipactli to preserve its old rules after he rejected its compromise, and vowed to destroy the monster and create a new world.
• Cipactli attacked Favia, but Favia's words roused the plants of the darkened world to resist the monster.

Favia gathered the continent’s power and the prayers of its people to defeat Cipactli in Mictlan, ending the ancient world’s laws and ushering in a new sun era. Aboveground, the four suns lit the Sun Stone again, confirming that Favia had slain Cipactli.

• Favia kicked Cipactli into Mictlan, where the monster raged and Tezcatlipoca urged Favia to destroy it as the Fifth Sun.
• The souls and hopes of the continent’s people converged on Favia, empowering him with the force called Maya.
• Cipactli pleaded with Favia to spare it and offered to help him, but Favia said he had come because someone had cried during a sacrifice.
• Tezcatlipoca declared that the future would continue, as Favia raced toward Cipactli’s heart and unleashed the light of Maya.
• Favia tore Cipactli apart, and the ancient monster died as the world’s laws began to change.
• The four great suns lit up on the Sun Stone in Tenochtitlan, and everyone understood that Favia had slain Cipactli.

Favia defeated Cipactli and used the First Sun’s Black Sun authority to postpone ORT’s emergence for a month, while the people accepted him as the Fifth Sun. He left Moctezuma II to govern and spread the faith, then prepared to send the sun away and face the coming battle.

• Favia used the four previous suns to destroy Cipactli, and the people of Central and South America began spreading the story of the newborn Fifth Sun, Tonatiuh.
• Favia confronted ORT beneath the earth and used Tezcatlipoca’s Black Sun authority to reverse the present moment, setting their final battle in Crystal Valley for a month later.
• Favia told Moctezuma II to continue governing and asked Bartolomé and Geronimo to keep spreading the faith while he left.
• Moctezuma II accepted Favia’s instructions, and Favia rose to leave and send the sun away.

Favia reassured Moctezuma II that he would return and asked him to lead Aztec in his stead, then spoke with Tlaloc about her reckless sacrifice, her apology, and the promise she had fulfilled. The chapter left Favia affirming Tlaloc’s worth and her status as the equal of the goddesses whose miracles she brought to the Sun Stone.

• Moctezuma II asked whether Favia was abandoning Aztec, and Favia asked what kind of king he wanted to become.
• Moctezuma II vowed to lead his people through whatever challenges lay ahead, and Favia asked him to fight in his stead until Favia returned.
• Favia left the palace and met Tlaloc by Moon Lake, where she asked about his condition and requested that he keep calling her Tlaloc.
• Tlaloc admitted she had broken her word, misunderstood Favia, and tried to kill him, then offered to accept any punishment.
• Favia forgave Tlaloc and reminded her that she had fulfilled their promise by manifesting the miracles of Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue on the Sun Stone.
• Favia told Tlaloc that she was capable of fulfilling the duties of both goddesses and was their equal.

Favia reassured Baobhan Sith that he would protect her, and she accepted his promise while hiding how deeply she cared for him. Days later, Baobhan Sith interrupted Tlaloc as she tried to invite Favia to a secret place in Tenochtitlan, and the two girls silently competed for his attention.

• Baobhan Sith worried that Favia had risked his life fighting the monster, but he told her he would not ignore people in need and promised to protect her.
• Baobhan Sith admitted that she would let Favia protect her, and he gently took her hand and agreed.
• Over the following days, Baobhan Sith cherished Favia's promise and assumed Tlaloc did not like him.
• Tlaloc sat shyly beside Favia and began inviting him to see a special place in Tenochtitlan, but Baobhan Sith called out to him before she could finish.
• Baobhan Sith sat between Favia and Tlaloc and clung to his arm, while Tlaloc privately resented the interruption and reconsidered whether the pair suited each other.

Favia obtained control of Moon Lake’s leyline from Tlaloc and used it to begin mimicking the Inner Sea of Stars. He set out to become its UO to prevent the planet and its inhabitants from perishing, leaving Tlaloc bewildered as his transformation began.

• Tlaloc watched Favia leave with Baobhan Sith and hoped he would visit her soon.
• Favia later asked Tlaloc to entrust Moon Lake to him, and she acknowledged him as its master, releasing the leyline’s Od.
• Favia explained that he would use Moon Lake’s leyline and powers gathered across different eras to mimic the Inner Sea of Stars.
• Tlaloc realized Favia intended to become a UO and offered to help him kill Altrouge Brunestud and Arcueid instead.
• Favia sent Tlaloc away and began his mimicry to save the planet and everyone living on it, including the approaching Spaniards.

Favia endured 4.6 billion years inside an Imitation Sun, using his conviction and humanity’s faith to preserve his identity as the Sun. He emerged onto Earth transformed and ready to confront ORT, the cause of the world’s impending destruction.

• Favia used the Leylines and everything he had gained across three eras to create an Imitation Sun and resolved to endure as long as the real Sun had existed.
• Inside the mimicry, Favia experienced the Sun’s formation and watched life, civilization, and human faith unfold across immense stretches of time.
• Favia foresaw the destruction brought by ORT’s awakening but drew strength from the lives and hopes of the people beneath him.
• After 4.6 billion years, Favia reclaimed his identity as the Sun and leaped out of the Imitation Sun.
• Favia appeared on Earth wearing the Jaguar Man Mask, declaring himself the Sun that unites all as one.

Favia explained to Tlaloc that ORT had awakened because of him and left to face it alone, while she mourned his departure. Beneath South America, Favia confronted the rising ORT and prepared for their decisive battle.

• Tlaloc confronted Favia about leaving without telling her, and he revealed that ORT had awakened and that he had sent it one month into the future.
• Favia showed Tlaloc a newborn named Cuauhtémoc and explained that he would face ORT because the Final Object inside it had caused its awakening.
• Favia thanked Tlaloc for helping him become the Fifth Sun, told her to live through the changing seasons, and disappeared; Tlaloc wept and confessed her love for him.
• Favia reached ORT's underground Crystal Valley and raised a vast, blazing tree to block its advance and keep it from destroying the planet.
• ORT emerged from beneath the earth, identified Favia as a possible stellar-level being like itself, and faced him as Favia declared their decisive battle had begun.

Favia, the Sun UO, fought ORT in Crystal Valley by wielding the abilities of the planetary UOs and transforming into a giant body of light. The battle escalated into a clash between two stellar beings, with neither able to overcome the other as the otherworld continued to break apart.

• Favia used Saturn UO's power to counter ORT's stellar attack, while Jupiter and Pluto's UOs maintained a seal around the otherworld.
• ORT analyzed Saturn UO's ability and copied its spear of light, so Favia invoked the other planetary UOs and became a giant body of light.
• Favia endured ORT's copied attack and struck back, beginning a close physical battle between the two stellar beings.
• Favia and ORT traded attacks that shook the universe and repeatedly shattered and restored Crystal Valley.
• ORT transformed into its luminous disk form and unleashed endless spears of light, while Favia became a sun and met its attack with layered defenses.

Favia was killed by ORT, but revived the sun through his will and joined its power to defeat the Star Eater. He reclaimed the Silver Key fragment that had awakened ORT and destroyed the visitor from another world.

• As Favia's leaves withered, ORT pierced his body of light, killed him, and began devouring him while Crystal Valley's erosion resumed.
• Favia found himself conscious in darkness and summoned a false but renewed sun, restoring his life and pushing back Crystal Valley's erosion.
• With the planets' wills supporting him, Favia unleashed the sun's power and cracked ORT's disk-shaped body.
• Favia pulled the final Silver Key fragment from ORT's heart, then endured the creature's retaliatory flames without fighting back.
• Favia used the sun's remaining power to collapse ORT's systems, and ORT shattered into fragments.

After ORT’s defeat, Favia set out to return to the place where he had been born and keep his promise. In 1891, Sherlock Holmes and Helena Blavatsky encountered the supposedly dead James Moriarty and his daughter Frankenstein in the Himalayas, where they reunited and discussed their next destination.

• ORT called Favia’s renewed life beautiful before it fell silent, and the Crystal Valley and the otherworld’s protective sky vanished.
• Favia walked toward the exit, determined to return to his birthplace because someone was waiting for him.
• In the Himalayas, Helena asked Sherlock Holmes what Moriarty had been like, and Holmes recalled their final confrontation at Reichenbach Falls.
• Seven mages ambushed Helena and Holmes; after Holmes drove them off, the last assassin reached Helena, but Moriarty and Frankenstein intervened and defeated the attacker.
• Holmes learned Moriarty had survived Reichenbach Falls because Frankenstein had followed him, and Frankenstein said they had come to see Holmes before leaving for Antarctica.
• Moriarty pleaded with Frankenstein not to disown him after she chose her grandfather, while Helena laughed at his antics.

Fran and Moriarty traveled toward Antarctica after recalling Moriarty’s farewell to Edmond Dantès, while Favia returned to Tenochtitlan and saw the people thriving under the Sun god’s protection. After fulfilling his promise, Favia died in Moon Lake as Tlaloc confessed her love and kissed him, and Edmond Dantès arrived in Mexico, believing he had seen the Priest.

• Fran teased Moriarty about his stubbornness before they headed toward Antarctica, and Moriarty recalled Edmond Dantès leaving Europe for Mexico after saying he would wait and hope.
• Favia arrived in a prosperous Tenochtitlan, where a child told him that the people celebrated Tonatiuh and had driven out the Spaniards.
• Favia read a monument honoring the people’s struggle, then sat on the bench by Moon Lake and watched the city’s hopes rise as dreamlike lights.
• Favia placed the completed Silver Key on the bench and entered the lake, where Tlaloc caught him and grieved over his death.
• Tlaloc confessed her love and kissed Favia as he faded away, while Edmond Dantès arrived in Tenochtitlan and said he thought he had seen the Priest.

Edmond met Abigail at Moon Lake and learned that the Priest had been her brother, Favia, who had left but would meet him again someday. He then delivered Favia’s letter to Baobhan Sith, who wept as she read his promise to return.

• Edmond dismissed Haydée and went to Moon Lake, where he met Abigail holding the complete Silver Key.
• Abigail told Edmond that the Priest was her brother, Favia, and that he had left; she reassured Edmond that they would meet again.
• Edmond accepted Abigail’s words, waited in the sunshine, and later encountered a red-haired girl searching for someone.
• Edmond recognized the girl as Baobhan Sith, remembered Favia’s request, and gave her the letter he had carried for her.
• Baobhan Sith read Favia’s message and cried, resolving to keep waiting for him and believing they would meet again.

Cuauhtémoc reflected on how gentle the world had become under Lord Tonatiuh, and resolved to tell the old man he had met about it. The chapter then presented profiles for Favia in his Pretender and Foreigner forms.

• Cuauhtémoc’s parents noticed he seemed down and asked him what was wrong.
• Cuauhtémoc recalled that the world had once been frightening, but his father explained that Tonatiuh had abolished its cruelties.
• Cuauhtémoc said he now liked his name because it had been given and blessed by the great Sun, and his parents praised his growth.
• Cuauhtémoc remembered the old man who knew little about this world and decided to tell him that Lord Tonatiuh’s world was gentle.
• The chapter detailed Favia’s abilities and history as a Pretender and as Favia Tonatiuh, a Foreigner.

The chapter presented Favia as the Fifth Sun, a god who united the American pantheons, and revealed that the sun had chosen him as its own UO after he lived for 4.6 billion years to protect humanity. It left Favia able to transform into the Sun UO and described him defeating ORT with the gathered power of the solar system.

• The chapter outlined Favia's powers as the Fifth Sun, including his authority over nature, his summoned American gods, and his ability to wield the Noble Phantasms of other solar deities.
• The account explained that Favia had imitated the sun and lived for 4.6 billion years while pursuing a dream of protecting humanity from an already destined extinction.
• After Favia's death, the sun heard his will and chose him to become its One of the Primordials, Type: The Sun.
• Favia became the true Sun UO, gathered the power of the solar system, and crushed ORT in a single stroke.
• Favia could invoke his Sun UO identity by shouting, "Burn, sun!" and take the form of a red-and-blue body of light.

After reporting her mission to Zepia, Sion traveled to Romania to reunite with Novia, hoping to take their relationship further. At his residence, she found Melusine fighting two other dragons while Altrouge and Kiara welcomed her, and Sion realized her circle of rivals had grown.

• Sion reported that she and Manaka’s companions had defeated an ancient Dead Apostle, and Zepia congratulated her on making a choice of her own.
• Zepia mentioned the American Holy Grail War and its connection to the Third Magic, prompting Sion to wonder what Novia had done there.
• Sion traveled to the address Manaka had sent, wrestling with her desire to kiss Novia and her fear of asking for more.
• Sion opened the residence door and found Melusine battling a red-haired dragon girl and a small Nero-like girl.
• Sion met Altrouge Brunestud and Kiara Sessyoin, learned that Attila had taken Manaka out, and suspected that Avia might be Novia.
• Kiara teased Sion about her naughty thoughts and asked to be included when Sion acted on them.

Sajyou Manaka tried to recover her spirits while Attila took her out for dessert, but learning that others knew about her private habits devastated her. Back at the house, Attila met Sion, while Altrouge Brunestud revealed that Nero had left with Novia and might be stronger than everyone there.

• Attila took the dispirited Sajyou Manaka to a dessert shop and tried to cheer her up.
• Sajyou Manaka complained that she wanted Novia to appreciate her and include her, but she could not bring herself to say so directly.
• Attila told Sajyou Manaka that Kisshouin had mentioned her private nighttime habits, leaving her horrified that everyone knew.
• Sajyou Manaka returned home and ran to her room, while Attila greeted Sion and promised to help Novia.
• Altrouge Brunestud told Attila that Nero had left with Novia and that Nero might be stronger than them all.

After Draco confessed her feelings to Novia, Attila openly asked him to go to bed with her, and he agreed. The chapter ended with Draco joining them, Altrouge Brunestud accepting Novia’s invitation, and Sion left wavering as Kichijo-in Kihara asked whether she would join too.

• Novia returned with a newly bashful Draco, who introduced herself as Draco and said the others could call her Nero.
• Attila declared that she wanted to go to bed with Novia, explaining that she had decided to ask directly after seeing Melusine and Typhon with him.
• Novia agreed, and Attila embraced him; Draco then insisted on joining them and clung to his back.
• Novia invited Altrouge Brunestud and Sion to come along, and Altrouge Brunestud accepted while Sion hesitated.
• Kichijo-in Kihara asked Sion whether she was going to join them.