Chapter Summaries

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.

Clare defeated an Awakened Being after reaching a controlled half-awakened state, while Allen and Artoria prepared a staged confrontation to upset the balance among the island’s powers. After Artoria helped Clare regain control and introduced her to holy light, Allen arrived and collided with Artoria in a blast that left Clare stunned.

• Clare unleashed tremendous life energy, severed the Awakened Being’s legs, and killed him with a devastating sword strike.
• Allen explained to Artoria that Clare’s power came from the seed and the Dragon’s Descendants’ cells, then discussed their plan to stage a war and deceive the Organization and the three northern Abysses.
• Artoria proposed a prolonged military standoff and a mock battle with Allen, then rushed to investigate Clare’s fight; Allen followed as the Holy Light Church’s personnel and Aria hurried after them.
• Artoria threatened to kill Clare unless she returned to human form, forcing Clare to regain control of the rampaging life energy and suppress her yoki.
• Artoria praised Clare, introduced herself as Artoria Pendragon, and used holy light to comfort her; Allen then collided with Artoria, blasting apart much of the street.

Allen and Artoria staged a spectacular spar in the Deep Pit, where Artoria revealed her Red Dragon Sword of Conviction and managed to wound Allen with a slash that split the Holy City in two. The clash left the city devastated and its factions mobilizing for war, while the church accepted that it was doomed to become a pawn.

• Allen and Artoria exchanged blows in the Deep Pit, terrifying Clare, Lulu, Aria, and the people watching nearby.
• Artoria ordered Aria to evacuate the delegation, then explained that she had abandoned her former burdens and now followed her own path as a knight.
• Artoria transformed her holy sword with the conviction of a Red Dragon and struck Allen with a slash that carved a vast ravine through the Holy City and cut his cheek.
• Allen praised Artoria's Sword of Conviction, and Lulu resolved to reassess their strength and consider seeking out Priscilla.
• Over the next two weeks, the Western Lands and the southern region mobilized troops near the ruined Holy City, while Bishop Mels accepted the church's inevitable collapse.

Galadria and Lulu watched the Western and Southern armies stage daily nonlethal clashes outside Holy City Rapona while Allen used the spectacle to draw the Organization and the northern Abysses toward conflict. Artoria explained to her allies that the war was meant to secure the Holy Light Church’s legitimacy before negotiations and to unite the island’s people against the Organization.

• Galadria questioned the Abyssal Ones about Allen, Artoria, and the defected Warriors, while Lulu blamed their defections on Ine Lily, Sophia, and Roar Road.
• Western knights and Claymores fought Southern Paladins and Priests in another fierce but nonlethal clash as Galadria and Lulu observed.
• Allen refused Roar Road’s offer to kill the Organization’s observers and said he wanted Isley, Riful, and Luciela to provoke the Organization into revealing its strength.
• Allen comforted the injured Elina after her defeat by Aria and told her that Clare had left on an Organization mission.
• Artoria told Aria and a city mayor that the Southern Alliance sought recognition for the Holy Light Church, intended to settle the conflict through negotiation, and considered the Organization the true enemy.

The three Abyssals planned a two-front assault against the Organization, but their plans were interrupted when Priscilla appeared in the Northern Lands and proved stronger than all of them. Isley swore allegiance to her as the new King, while Riful and Luciela faced the choice of surrendering or being killed.

• Riful and Luciela argued over whether to attack Pieta or bypass it, and Isley proposed splitting their forces between Pieta and the Organization's headquarters.
• An Awakened Being reported that a powerful newcomer had killed Awakened Beings and townspeople, so the three Abyssals went to investigate.
• They found Priscilla feeding among the dead, and she wounded Luciela with a single attack that bypassed her defenses.
• Priscilla dodged the Abyssals' attacks, tore off Luciela's tail, and learned to convert Yoki into life energy by consuming it.
• Isley knelt and swore allegiance to Priscilla, naming her King, while Riful and Luciela considered whether to surrender.

Priscilla seized control of the Northern Lands, while Isley persuaded Riful to accept her rule so they could rely on her against Artoria and Allen. At the border, Laki unexpectedly killed the Awakened Being threatening Clare and the other Warriors, then began a startling physical transformation.

• Priscilla forced Isley, Riful, and Luciela to acknowledge her as the Northern Lands' ruler, and Isley later explained to Riful that they needed Priscilla's power against threats such as Artoria and Allen.
• Isley and Riful agreed to remain loyal to Priscilla and revised their plans, restoring unity among the three Abyssal Ones.
• Milia, Helen, Deneve, and Clare were overwhelmed by a female Awakened Being, and Milia's attack failed when her Life Energy could not overcome the enemy's defense.
• Clare explained that Life Energy turned combat into a contest of quantities, giving the Awakened Being's greater reserves an overwhelming advantage.
• Laki arrived and pierced the Awakened Being's face with his sword, causing black smoke to break down her body until only a skeleton remained.
• Laki's heart began pounding, and he rapidly grew taller and more muscular as his body transformed.

Allen’s clone rescued Clare, Milia, Helen, Deneve, and Laki, then revealed that the Organization was a research institution using their homeland as a testing ground for biological weapons. Milia, Helen, and Deneve resolved to investigate the truth themselves, and Allen taught them how to develop Life Energy before departing.

• Laki killed the female Awakened Being with the Sword of Desire, and Allen explained that the sword was feeding her energy into him before putting him to sleep.
• Allen healed Clare, Milia, Helen, and Deneve, then explained that he had come in a clone to keep Clare safe because he had promised Teresa.
• Allen told Milia that Clare had joined the Organization to avenge Teresa, whose head had been implanted in Clare instead of Yoma flesh.
• Allen revealed that the Organization was a research institution from across the sea and that the island was a testing ground for biological weapons.
• Milia urged Helen and Deneve to seek evidence, and all three agreed to investigate the Organization’s secrets.
• Allen warned them about the Organization’s power and taught them new ways to develop Life Energy.

After Laki woke from a nightmare, Allen urged him to use the Sword of Desire’s power to shape his fate and consider leaving Clare, while revealing the history behind Clare’s bond with Teresa. Allen ended the warriors’ training camp and warned Milia that a full war between the organization and the Abyssal Ones was near, leaving her to prepare for the coming battle.

• Laki woke in a cave and spoke with Allen, who reminded him that his desire had earned the Sword of Desire’s approval and told him that strength could change his fate.
• Allen explained that Teresa had died after Clare joined the organization to avenge her, and urged Laki to leave Clare rather than risk sharing her doomed path.
• Helen, Milia, Deneve, and Clare returned from training, and Milia and Deneve described their progress developing Life Energy abilities while Allen criticized Clare for trying to imitate Teresa.
• Allen ended the training camp and told the warriors to resume their missions before the Abyssal Ones noticed their absence.
• Milia asked Allen to help destroy the organization, and he refused to fight personally but pointed to the more than thirty defecting warriors who would support her.
• Allen warned Milia that war between the organization and the Abyssal Ones would soon erupt and promised to save defectors when necessary, then vanished in a puff of smoke.

Milia explained the Abyssals’ history and the defeats they suffered ten years earlier, while the Warriors feared being sent against them. At the Holy City, Allen ordered Ine Lily to train Clare and explained to Sophia that a Warrior’s will determined how much of her humanity she retained after awakening.

• Milia told Helen, Deneve, and Clare that Riful, Luciela, and Isley were the three strongest Abyssals and described how the Saintess and Allen had defeated them ten years earlier.
• Clare and Laki described Allen’s immense power, and Milia worried that the organization might send their group to fight the Abyssals.
• Allen discussed the ruined Holy City with Ine Lily and declared that he intended to destroy it and bring in a new era.
• Allen ordered Ine Lily to teach Clare the High-Speed Sword, allowing her to give Clare one of her arms if needed to accelerate her progress.
• Allen explained to Sophia that a Warrior’s will shaped how much of her human personality survived awakening.

Allen explained to Sophia how willpower and human identity could keep awakened Claymores lucid, then learned from Lulu that Priscilla had become the fourth ruler of the Northern Lands alongside the three Abyssals. Lulu urged Allen to honor his alliance with the Organization and help prevent the northern Awakened Beings from overwhelming the island and threatening the continent.

• Allen told Sophia that a strong sense of self and willpower, rather than strength or talent, could help Claymores retain their humanity after awakening, and cited Clare and Jane as potential examples.
• Sophia left the camp to seek out Jane, while Allen opened a portal and met Lulu near a distant rock face.
• Lulu reported that Priscilla had joined the three Abyssals in the Northern Lands and been crowned a new ruler.
• Allen learned that the Organization wanted him to honor their alliance and help oppose the Northern Lands' gathering forces.
• Lulu warned that the Organization's knowledge and technology could let the Awakened Beings create an enormous force and threaten both the island and the continent.

Allen pressured Lulu to obtain secrets about the organization in exchange for helping stop the Abyssals, then discussed the coming northern war and their plans with Artoria. Meanwhile, Teresa landed on the mainland in disguise to explore the country behind the organization.

• Allen demanded that Lulu investigate the organization's research into the parasite and the corpses of past No.1s before Allen agreed to help fight the Abyssals.
• Lulu told Allen that Clare was assigned to subjugate an Awakened Being with No.4 Ophelia as a test of her potential and revealed that Clare was part of a secret experiment.
• After Lulu left, Artoria joined Allen at the campfire, and they agreed to maintain their apparent conflict until the northern war began before uniting their lands.
• Allen said the Claymore Warriors, with Teresa as a possible safeguard, would fight the organization and Abyssals while he and Artoria prepared a nation and an overseas expedition.
• Teresa crossed the sea by boat, landed on an uninhabited beach, disguised herself as a traveler, and began heading toward a port city.

Teresa infiltrated a war-torn port city, delivered intelligence from Lulu to a contact, and discovered the country’s disposable modified warriors. Meanwhile, Clare and Laki encountered Ophelia, whose unstable cruelty turned their assigned hunt into an immediate threat to Laki’s life.

• Teresa crossed the city wall, found the red-painted safe house, and handed a sealed cylinder to Lulu’s contact, who agreed to send the intelligence and obtain a reply within three days.
• The contact sent a courier out of the city with the intelligence while Teresa investigated the barracks and saw male and female modified warriors serving the country.
• Clare met Ophelia at the ruins and learned that only the two of them had been assigned to hunt an Awakened Being.
• Ophelia grabbed Clare and questioned her weak Yoki, then threatened Laki after he attacked and cut her arm.
• Clare blocked Ophelia’s near-fatal strike against Laki, while Ophelia dismissed the Organization’s rules against killing humans.

Clare fought Ophelia while Laki repeatedly tried to help, but Ophelia severed Clare’s legs and used her to torment him. After Laki’s nature changed, he overpowered Ophelia and began whipping her, leaving Clare shocked by his transformation.

• Clare and Ophelia clashed, while Ophelia repeatedly kicked Laki away whenever he tried to join the fight.
• Ophelia severed Clare’s thighs and threatened to kill Laki unless Clare reattached them in time.
• Ophelia attacked Laki to disrupt Clare’s healing, and his pain and anger intensified as she wounded him.
• Laki suddenly changed, bit Ophelia, tore off her boot, and struck her between the legs with his sword hilt.
• Laki cut off Ophelia’s arms, restrained her, transformed the Sword of Desire into a whip, and lashed her as Clare watched in disbelief.

Ophelia awakened after Laki whipped her, then killed another Awakened Being and overwhelmed Clare and Laki with her strength and the Sword of Desire. Ine Lily arrived to rescue them and severed Ophelia’s arms, leaving Ophelia facing a former top-ranked warrior.

• Laki’s whipping drove Ophelia to awaken, and the resulting blast sent him flying.
• A black-haired Awakened Being emerged from the ruins, but Ophelia killed her before she could finish transforming.
• Ophelia attacked Laki, while Clare shoved him out of danger and was badly injured by Ophelia’s strike.
• Ophelia seized the Sword of Desire, broke Clare’s Claymore, and used the sword to overpower Clare and steal her Yoki.
• Ine Lily appeared, identified the Sword of Desire as the source of the stolen Yoki, and cut off Ophelia’s arms.

Ine Lily defeated Ophelia and revealed that the organization had been testing Clare’s inherited potential, then offered to train her in High-Speed Sword. Clare left Laki to travel with Ine Lily, while Laki swore an oath with the Sword of Desire to gain strength, drawing the attention of the watching Lafana.

• Ine Lily cut off Ophelia’s claws and told Clare she had come to help her grow stronger on Allen’s orders.
• Ine Lily revealed that Clare was the subject of the organization’s Generational Inheritance experiment and that Ophelia’s encounters with her had been deliberately arranged to test her.
• Ophelia attacked Ine Lily, who used her partially awakened sword arm to kill her as she tried to flee.
• Ine Lily warned Clare that the organization might target Laki and invited her to learn High-Speed Sword, so Clare told Laki to go to Allen’s Western Lands and promised they would reunite.
• Laki swore an oath with the Sword of Desire, offering all his desires in exchange for invincible strength, and a red light erupted into the sky.
• Lafana, who had been watching for the organization, witnessed the strange light and withdrew to report to the organization’s Abyssal One.

Ine Lily began training Clare in High-Speed Sword after Clare admitted she could not risk fully awakening while her feelings about Teresa unsettled her. As Isley's forces devastated the Organization, its executives debated deploying the Dark Twins and whether Allen would intervene, while Lulu learned that the parasite from Elina was a tightly guarded secret.

• Lafana reported to an Abyssal One that Ine Lily had killed the awakened Ophelia with a powerful High-Speed Sword strike, and he ordered her to keep watching Clare and Laki's sword.
• Ine Lily confronted Clare about holding back her Yoki, and Clare explained that thoughts of Teresa made her fear losing control if she fully awakened.
• Ine Lily demonstrated her precise High-Speed Sword and began training Clare in the technique through a duel beside the waterfall.
• Isley sent Awakened Beings across the island, and their attacks killed nearly all of the Organization's warriors ranked below No. 20 within a month.
• Leader Lemoto urged the executives to deploy the Dark Twins, while Lulu revealed that Allen would not help unless the Organization met his demands.
• Dae stopped Lulu from discussing the parasite from No. 46 Elina's stomach, revealing its confidentiality exceeded that of the Dark Twins.

Allen merged the Western and Southern Lands and revealed his plan to invade the continent and destroy one of its warring countries. Clare returned from seclusion unaware of the war, then witnessed the Organization’s Claymores sacrifice themselves in a desperate fight against an Awakened Being.

• Allen and Artoria signed an agreement merging the Western and Southern Lands, with the Holy Light Church becoming the new regime’s sole legal church.
• Allen told Artoria that he intended to cross the sea and punish the country behind the Organization, arguing that eliminating one of the continent’s warring countries could end the conflict for a time.
• Artoria questioned whether Allen’s plan would bring lasting peace, and Allen said humanity’s short memory made a permanent solution to war impossible.
• Clare returned to an Organization-controlled town after mastering the High-Speed Sword, still intending to use the Organization’s strength to take revenge on Priscilla.
• Clare watched a squad of Claymores battle a six-armed, four-legged male Awakened Being, as several warriors were killed or injured within minutes.

Clare rescued Fūrola’s battered team by killing an Awakened Being with her High-Speed Sword, then reunited with Lulu, who explained the northern war’s devastating losses. Lulu carried altered instructions from the mainland, unaware that Allen had turned him from a player into a pawn.

• An Awakened Being overwhelmed Fūrola’s team, and the wounded Anya broke down as he prepared to kill her.
• Clare appeared, severed the Awakened Being’s wrist, and introduced herself as the Organization’s No. 47 while Lulu questioned her disappearance and sword technique.
• Clare demonstrated the High-Speed Sword and destroyed the Awakened Being, leaving Fūrola and the surviving warriors stunned.
• Lulu took Clare aside and told her the Organization had lost more than two-thirds of its fighting strength and had lost contact with many warriors, including Helen, Milia, and Deneve.
• Lulu carried a sealed cylinder containing altered mainland instructions, unaware that Allen had made him a pawn while he hoped to return to his country.

Teresa reported that the continent’s war had devastated the population and that the Organization’s backers were losing territory while relying on mass-produced Warriors. As Clare joined Fūrola’s team amid mounting losses, Isley prepared an assault on the Organization’s Dark Twins.

• Teresa told Allen that the continent was impoverished and that the country behind the Organization was fielding large numbers of modified Warriors while losing wars and territory.
• Allen speculated that the Dragon’s Descendants came from a lost ancient civilization and asked Teresa to watch over Clare during the coming battle.
• Clare joined Fūrola’s battered team to hunt Awakened Beings and learned that more than twenty powerful enemies remained and that the Dark Twins had disappeared after a recent fight.
• Clare realized that the remaining Awakened Beings were probing the Organization’s defenses before a larger assault.
• Isley told Riful to contact Luciela and prepare to target the Organization’s Dark Twins.

Allen confronted Isley, Riful, and their companions in the Paburu Mountains after learning that Isley planned to attack the Organization’s Dark Twins. He effortlessly repelled Isley’s first attack, then waited as Isley prepared a powerful lance technique.

• Allen met Isley, Dauf, Riful, and an unnamed female Awakened Being on a peak in the Paburu Mountains and learned they were targeting the Dark Twins.
• Isley challenged Allen, while Riful and Isley ordered Dauf and the unnamed Awakened Being to stay out of the fight.
• Isley fired four life-energy arrows, but Allen caught them and hurled them back, devastating Isley’s centaur body.
• Allen formed a tiny sun of compressed life energy and invited Isley to attack while promising not to move or dodge.
• Isley transformed his bow into a twenty-five-meter lance, shrank his body, and concentrated his life energy at the lance’s tip to prepare his Fatal Pierce.