Chapter Summaries

Allen defeated Priscilla and left her to flee, then confronted Clare over Teresa’s death while Ine Lily comforted her. He later met Lulu and deceived the spy with a story about Artoria and a rival continent, leaving him with a supposed powerful bomb and urgent information to report.

• Allen overwhelmed Priscilla in battle, but she escaped into the clouds before he could capture her.
• Clare confronted Allen while holding Teresa’s severed head, and he told her that her mercy toward enemies had contributed to Teresa’s death.
• Ine Lily reassured Clare that Teresa had chosen to live as a human and that Clare had given her the happiness she wanted.
• Allen met Lulu in the deserted town and claimed he came from another continent, inventing a threat from Artoria and the Holy Light.
• Allen gave Lulu a tactical nuclear missile launcher as supposed proof and warned him that a fleet would soon arrive, then vanished.
• Lulu decided the information was more urgent than the Organization’s Dark Twin Plan and prepared to contact his superiors.

The Organization tested Allen’s tactical nuclear launcher and realized how vastly outmatched it was, while Alesia and a lion-faced beastman crippled its military and supply lines. On the island, Ine Lily and two surviving Claymores defected to Allen, who accepted them and sent them to learn life energy in the Western Lands.

• A middle-aged leader ordered researchers to fire Allen’s tactical nuclear launcher at an Awakened Being, and the blast vaporized it and flattened the valley.
• Alesia and a lion-faced beastman destroyed ports, ships, shipyards, and Organization-linked institutions, killed more than three thousand people, and seized captured Dragon’s Descendants.
• Ine Lily and two surviving Claymores told Allen they had betrayed the Organization and asked to serve him, and he accepted their defection.
• Allen gave Ine Lily his seal and instructed the Claymores to visit the Knight Order to learn life energy, promising to remove their modification abnormalities if one learned it before he returned.
• Ine Lily, Sophia, and Roar Road set out for the Western Lands, hopeful that life energy could help them avoid awakening.

The Organization’s leaders reacted to news of Priscilla’s awakening, defectors, and Allen by planning new experiments and seeking information while avoiding open conflict. After Allen’s order severed the island’s contact with the mainland and helped trigger a war between two nations, he prepared Teresa’s return; she awakened in Sky City, bewildered and face-to-face with Verena.

• The Organization’s leader ordered an investigation into Priscilla, declared Ine Lily and the other defectors dead, accelerated the Dark Twin Plan, and approved transplanting Teresa’s flesh into Clare.
• The Organization agreed to cooperate with Allen on the surface and sent people to investigate Artoria’s Holy Light, but a bloodied survivor reported that the port and ships had been destroyed by Dragon’s Descendants.
• The Organization’s leaders suspected spies as they realized they had lost contact with the mainland, while two nations blamed each other for the attack and fought a months-long war that ended with one nation losing strategic territory.
• Allen returned to Sky City and waited as Verena strengthened Teresa’s soul until it could exist independently of a body.
• Verena awakened Teresa, who opened her eyes, froze at the sight of the Red Dragon Queen, and struggled to understand how she was alive after having her head severed.

Teresa learned that Allen had preserved her soul and could resurrect her once she trained it, while Verena began teaching her in Sky City Aelionteu. Meanwhile, Artoria’s Holy Light following grew in the south until Luciela, the South Abyss, confronted her at the chapel.

• Allen told Teresa that he had brought out her soul and could create a new body after she strengthened it.
• Teresa learned that Allen had created Verena and heard that Clare had joined the Claymore training class using Teresa’s flesh and blood.
• Verena showed Teresa Sky City Aelionteu, and Teresa began training her soul with Verena’s guidance.
• Artoria’s charitable work and healing Holy Light drew a growing following, and Aria became an apprentice after receiving its enlightenment.
• Luciela arrived at the chapel after evening prayers, revealed her fanged tails, and Artoria identified her as the South Abyss before ordering the apprentices to stand back.

Artoria badly wounded Luciela, driving her to join Isley and Riful in the north, while Allen demanded that the Organization choose whether to ally with him or become his enemy. After the Organization's envoy Lulu left, Allen secretly gave Clare a Seed of Life Energy as she suffered through her modification.

• Artoria attacked Luciela with the Sword of Promised Victory and destroyed more than half her body, forcing Luciela to flee north and join Isley and Riful.
• Lulu visited Allen in the Western Lands and said the Organization wanted to explore cooperation but would not yet choose a side.
• Allen revealed that he understood the Organization's experiments and demanded that it ally with him or be treated as an enemy, offering to teach it life energy if it agreed.
• Lulu questioned Allen about Teresa, Ine Lily, and Clare before leaving the city with two Knights.
• Allen explained that he admired Teresa rather than Clare, then sent a Seed of Life Energy into Clare while she lay in pain after her modification.

Allen reassured Ine Lily that the Organization was too weakened to hunt the defectors and taught her how life energy could develop unique abilities. He restored Ine Lily, Sophia, and Roar Road to human bodies, leaving the three women ready to build new lives among the Knights.

• Allen told Ine Lily that the Organization had only tested his position and was unlikely to attack while it rebuilt its strength.
• Allen explained that the Organization created Yoma and Awakened Beings, then demonstrated how life energy could produce abilities by solidifying air.
• Ine Lily decided to discuss life energy development with Sophia and Roar Road, but Allen stopped her and offered to remove the modifications from their bodies.
• Allen restored Ine Lily's human appearance, and she thanked him tearfully before calling in Sophia and Roar Road.
• Sophia and Roar Road underwent the same restoration, and the three former Claymores began integrating into society over the following days.

The Organization signed a cooperation agreement with Allen, while Isley mastered life energy and united with Riful and Luciela as the northern Abyssals trained for war. As Allen and Artoria strengthened their territories, Rapona’s leaders feared the Holy Light Church’s rise and considered war, though neither Allen nor Artoria took the threat seriously.

• The Organization and Allen signed a pact dividing their territories and promising a military alliance if the northern Abyssals or Artoria’s church advanced, and Allen gave the Organization life energy training methods.
• Isley became the first Abyssal to master life energy, destroyed a mountain peak with one punch, and taught his techniques to Riful and Luciela after they reaffirmed their alliance.
• The Organization’s modified girls and Isley’s forces trained in life energy, while both sides secretly planned to build strength and strike first.
• Allen unified and developed the Western Lands, while Artoria’s Holy Light Church united and enriched the south, driving Awakened Beings north and bandits toward the Land of the East.
• Rapona’s church leaders worried that the Holy Light Church would take their followers and discussed seeking an alliance with Allen, while some considered religious war to stop its expansion.
• Allen and Artoria ignored Rapona’s threat, confident that the Holy City could not match the military strength of the Holy Light Church.

Allen rejected Holy City Rapona’s attempt to enlist his support in a religious war and focused on developing the Western Lands, while Teresa trained in Sky City and learned how little time had passed outside. At the organization’s headquarters, executives debated Clare’s potential and plans against the Holy City as Lulu secretly continued helping the warriors undermine the organization.

• Allen mocked the letter from Holy City Rapona, rejected Sophia’s offer to confront Bishop Meller, and ordered his people to prioritize clearing bandits and building roads.
• Allen promised the fat former merchant a future post as prime minister, motivating him to work harder on domestic affairs.
• Teresa endured soul-strength training in Sky City, where Verena explained that ten days there equaled one day outside and Teresa renewed her resolve to rescue Clare.
• At the organization’s headquarters, the leader questioned Clare’s abilities, while Lulu argued that she should remain under observation and suggested acting against Holy City Rapona.
• The executives discussed sending an Awakened Being against the Holy City and expanding the search for Dark Twins Arisia and Bixi, while Lulu secretly passed information to the warriors.

Bishop Meller’s push for war in Holy City Rapona ended in a massacre when an Awakened Being sent by the Organization killed him and the other war faction leaders. Rapona’s influence collapsed as its people fled, while Allen’s Western Lands and Artoria’s Southern Church prospered during a fragile peace.

• Bishop Meller rallied the Church’s leaders to declare war on the Southern Holy Light Church, despite objections from more cautious bishops.
• An Awakened Being attacked the cathedral, killed Meller and the war faction’s leaders, and devoured them before soldiers could stop it.
• The surviving bishops asked the Organization for help, and it sent Teresa’s-generation warriors to confront the Awakened Being.
• Holy City Rapona’s residents fled south or west, leaving the city to decline as the Organization’s victory exposed the Church’s weakness.
• Allen expanded his Western Lands by building a coastal city and developing river trade, while Isley restrained his followers from freely massacring northern villages.

Ten years after Allen transformed the Western Lands into a thriving industrial power, he left to visit Clare in the Organization’s territory and entrusted its defense to Ine Lily. As the Organization, the northern Abysses, and the southern Holy Light Church grew more threatening, Ine Lily and her allies prepared for a future war meant to destroy the Organization and the country behind it.

• Ine Lily, Sophia, and Roar Road discussed the Western Lands’ growth, the Organization’s Dark Twin Plan, and Clare’s low rank as its No. 47 warrior.
• Allen said Clare had more potential than she appeared to and decided to visit her, leaving Ine Lily in charge of the Western Lands’ defenses.
• Allen departed from the lord’s residence, while Ine Lily, Sophia, and Roar Road considered his mysterious origins and discussed the threats gathering around them.
• Ine Lily urged her companions to stay vigilant and wait for the right time to confront the Organization and the country that controlled it.
• Ine Lily looked toward the fleet and resolved to restore the island and exact revenge for the Organization’s experiments.

Clare entered a town to hunt a Yoma and met Laki, whose fearlessness stirred memories of her past and unsettled her resolve to avenge Teresa. Allen then appeared, prompting Clare to attack him before he restrained her and left; when a Yoma threatened Laki, Clare killed it, but the Organization’s leaders were nearing mass production of controllable warriors through life energy.

• Clare arrived in town, accepted a Yoma commission, and rested in the street, where she nearly struck Laki after he approached her.
• Clare learned that Laki had lost relatives to a Yoma and sensed the creature’s scent on him, leaving her questioning her own resolve after he walked away.
• Allen appeared after ten years, and Clare attacked him; he overpowered her, told her she could seek his help, and vanished.
• Clare heard Laki scream, rushed to his aid, severed the Yoma’s arm, and killed it while Laki escaped unharmed.
• The Organization’s executives discovered that life energy training reduced warriors’ chances of Awakening and brought controllable weapons close to mass production.

The Organization’s leaders discussed how life energy affected Claymores and their plans to create controllable Awakened Beings, while Teresa received a new body in Sky City. Teresa prepared to return to the island in disguise, joining Allen’s plan to make its people take part in their own revenge.

• Dae told Lemoto that life energy could help Claymores resist awakening and might transform into or from Yoki, but mass-producing controllable Awakened Beings remained unlikely.
• Lemoto worried about the Organization’s isolation and the northern Abyssal Ones, while Dae warned that they appeared to have learned life energy; Dae also watched over Teresa’s preserved corpse.
• Teresa entered a calibrated body with golden hair and silver eyes, awakened, and broke the reinforced container with a touch.
• Allen told Teresa to conceal her identity and explained that he wanted the Claymores and islanders to fight for themselves rather than be saved by his brute force.
• Teresa agreed that people who took no part in their own defense would not learn to save themselves, then chose an enchanted, revealing suit of armor from Allen’s treasury.

Teresa returned to the eastern lands with Allen and watched Clare from hiding, learning that Clare had joined the Organization to avenge her. Allen approached Clare’s handler Lulu to discuss cooperation, while Teresa concealed her identity and challenged Clare to a fight.

• Teresa and Allen returned to the eastern lands, and Allen explained that the Organization’s control had kept the region poor and divided.
• Clare and Laki shared a campfire meal, and Allen told Teresa that Clare had joined the Organization to avenge her death.
• Allen and Teresa met Lulu, who questioned Allen about the Abysses learning to train Life Energy and heard his offer to discuss cooperation.
• When Allen said he could not discuss the matter in front of Clare, Teresa tossed her a sword and challenged her while hiding her identity.
• Teresa charged Clare and knocked her back twenty or thirty meters, leaving Clare gasping and realizing she was thoroughly outmatched.

Teresa easily defeated Clare without using Yoki or Life Energy, then left with Allen after Clare sensed a strange familiarity in her. Clare later learned that her friend Elina had sent her a Black Letter and returned to camp grieving.

• Teresa overwhelmed Clare in a sword fight, while Allen and Lulu discussed a sea voyage and Lulu gave Allen a sealed message and crude nautical chart.
• Clare stopped herself from awakening and asked Teresa who she was, but Teresa told her to grow stronger before seeking answers and departed with Allen.
• Lulu told Clare that dozens of warriors had defected to Allen, then encouraged her to ask Allen about Life Energy and handed her a Black Letter.
• Clare opened the letter and recognized Elina’s red sword mark, realizing her old friend had summoned her to carry out her execution.
• Clare returned to camp sorrowful after learning that Elina had sent the Black Letter.

Allen sent Teresa to deliver altered intelligence while he investigated why Elina had sent Clare a Black Letter. Teresa left Clare with Laki, and Allen and Sophia reached Elina, where they found a strange creature emerging from her abdomen.

• Teresa explained that Rosemary's Black Letter had been a challenge rather than a request for execution, and Allen teased her about her past fight with Priscilla.
• Allen asked Teresa to deliver Lulu's altered report to the mainland and promised to investigate Elina's condition and protect Clare's friend.
• Teresa departed, and Clare set out with Laki the next morning while Allen followed them.
• Sophia joined Allen, and they agreed to examine Elina before Clare reached her; they found Elina waiting among ruins with unstable, conflicting yoki inside her.
• Elina warned them away as a toothed tentacle burst from her abdomen, and Sophia cut it in two before Allen stopped her from frightening the injured Elina.

Allen identified the tentacles parasitizing Elina as an unusual life-energy ability created by a Yoma, removed them, and healed her. As Elina recovered, Clare arrived and mistook Allen's position beside the nearly naked woman for an attack.

• Allen examined a tentacle that had tried to parasitize him and concluded it was driven by an overwhelming instinct to survive.
• Elina revealed that a strange Yoma had parasitized more than three hundred villagers, and Sophia invited her to join the defectors from the Organization.
• Allen removed the parasite from Elina and healed the damage it had caused to her body.
• Clare rushed up the mountain, saw Allen beside the exposed Elina, and angrily demanded that he let her go.

Allen teased Clare and Laki while taking Elina away, then warned Clare that the Organization would soon target her. Clare and Lulu agreed to conceal Elina’s survival, and Lulu hurried to investigate whether Allen had discovered a way to suppress awakening.

• Clare attacked Allen after he claimed Elina belonged to him, but Sophia disarmed her in a brief sword fight.
• Allen joked that he wanted to build a harem, then urged Laki to grow stronger to help Clare defeat Priscilla and gave him the Sword of Desire.
• Allen warned Clare that the Organization was darker than she realized and might soon move against her before leaving with Sophia and Elina.
• Clare told Laki to keep the sword and later met Lulu, who suspected Allen had cured Elina or suppressed her awakening.
• Lulu planned to report that Elina had awakened and been killed by Clare, then raced toward the Organization’s headquarters to investigate the possible connection to Dae’s secret experiment.

Lulu learned from Dae that the Organization was secretly developing parasites into controllable War Weapons, while Elina settled into the Knight Order in the Western Lands. As Allen and Clare traveled to the Holy City, Ine Lily prepared the Knight Order for a possible clash with the arriving Holy Light Church delegation, unaware that Allen had arranged the meeting to mislead the Organization and the northern Abysses.

• Lulu questioned Dae about No. 46 Elina, and Dae revealed that the Organization’s Parasitic Plan aimed to create controllable monsters from infected hosts.
• Lemoto ordered Dae to research parasite control and keep the plan secret, hoping to use northern Abysses as nourishment and the weapons as leverage against the man in the Western Lands.
• Sophia brought Elina to the Knight Order’s base, gave her a room and supplies, and told her to begin special training after three days.
• Sophia told Roar Road and Ine Lily that Allen had gone with Clare to the Holy City, where the Organization was testing Clare and hiding Yoma and Awakened Beings.
• Ine Lily learned that a Southern Holy Light Church delegation was headed to the Holy City and ordered the Knight Order to prepare for war and send more scouts.
• Allen had deliberately arranged the Holy City encounter with Artoria to mislead the Organization and the three northern Abysses.

Allen, Clare, and Laki arrived in the decaying Holy City Rapona, where the Holy Light Church’s Saintess Artoria began negotiations to absorb the city’s clergy into her church. A hooded woman warned Bishop Mels that Artoria and her knights were overwhelmingly powerful, then departed on a mission while the city remained threatened by Yoma and Awakened Beings.

• Allen teased Laki about his reaction to the women in Rapona, and Clare demanded to know why Allen had been following them and taken Elina.
• Clare accepted that Allen had kept Elina alive, though she remained angry about his closeness with her friend.
• Clare and Laki saw a delegation of Holy Light Church knights enter Rapona, and Allen recognized Artoria among them.
• Artoria met Bishop Mels, who asked her to merge the city’s clergy into the Holy Light Church, and she requested several days to consider his terms.
• A hooded woman told Bishop Mels that Artoria could easily defeat her and warned him to follow their plan without testing the delegation.
• The hooded woman left on a mission, warning Bishop Mels that Yoma and Awakened Beings still threatened the ruins outside the city.

As Holy City Rapona stirred with political unrest, Allen secretly took Laki to a brothel before meeting Artoria and explaining why he had fostered competing systems in the Western and Southern Lands. The chapter ended with Clare awakening a terrifying power after an Awakened Being wounded her.

• Radicals in Holy City Rapona plotted to assassinate Artoria and her entourage, while Clare left the inn to seek information and left Laki with Allen.
• Allen took Laki to a brothel, where the women overwhelmed him as Allen watched before leaving to meet Artoria.
• Allen told Artoria that he had established Holy Light as a spiritual alternative to the material-based Western regime so the two systems could compete and preserve social diversity.
• Allen and Artoria observed Clare fighting an Awakened Being, and Allen refused to intervene because he expected her Seed of Life Energy to take root.
• The Awakened Being pierced Clare's abdomen and knocked her into a wall, but a terrifying aura erupted from the rubble and a mutated spike pierced the enemy's lower leg.