Chapter Summaries

As the Hydro Dragon's power stirred beneath Watatsumi Island, Aji led the Bathysmal Vishaps out of Enkanomiya to seek their long-awaited king. Their attempt to reach the shore met resistance before Kokomi ordered the soldiers to let them pass, and a colossal being appeared above the island, freezing everyone in place.

• The Vishaps sensed their king awakening, but the seal blocking their way out of Enkanomiya remained too strong to break.
• Aji agreed to lead the tribe toward the surface, and the Vishaps left their ancestral home after the barrier began to dissipate.
• Kokomi explained to Paimon and her companion that ancient humans and Vishaps had fought over territory, then learned that a masked priestess was leading Vishaps toward Watatsumi's shore.
• Aji gave her pendant to a younger Vishap and stayed behind to delay the soldiers while the tribe pushed toward the coast.
• Gorou ordered his troops to let the Vishaps pass under Kokomi's instructions, though fighting had already caused casualties near the Moon-Bathing Abyss.
• A gigantic figure appeared above Watatsumi Island and froze its inhabitants with a gaze as azure light spread across the island.

Lin Feng awakened as an Elemental Dragon, accepted the vishaps, and transformed Aji into one at her request. He revived the fallen on Watatsumi Island and carried the vishaps away, leaving the island restored.

• Aji protected the wounded vishaps and told them she would not join them, believing she had no place in their bloodline.
• Lin Feng arrived, accepted the vishaps, and met Aji within his consciousness, where he revealed she was the last Divine Kin of Orobashi.
• Aji chose to become a vishap, and Lin Feng used the Authorities of life and evolution to transform her and appoint her as the vishaps' pioneer.
• Lin Feng used the ley lines and his Authorities to revive the fallen vishaps and Watatsumi Island soldiers.
• Lin Feng swept the vishaps away from Watatsumi Island with a restorative tide, then vanished with the clouds and dragon.

Kokomi and the Resistance assessed the aftermath of a mysterious Hydro Dragon’s intervention, while Paimon and Lumine considered finding it for help. In Enkanomiya, Lin Feng rescued the Geovishap Hatchlings and transformed Aji into a dragonlike form, but worried that she had misunderstood his instructions.

• Kokomi calmed the Resistance after the flood revived the fallen soldiers and healed many wounded, and reports confirmed that the Hydro Geovishaps had vanished.
• Paimon and Lumine discussed the Hydro Dragon’s overwhelming power, and Kokomi explained that Aji was not a known Watatsumi priestess but might be a lost Sea Serpent Official.
• Lin Feng brought Aji and the rescued Geovishap Hatchlings to Enkanomiya, where Aji thanked him and the Hatchlings welcomed him as their king.
• Lin Feng explained that Aji had been reborn with a dragon bloodline and told her to help the Hatchlings become smarter before pursuing further evolution.
• Aji solemnly agreed to follow Lin Feng’s wishes about her form, leaving Lin Feng concerned that she had mistaken his guidance for a preference about her appearance.

Fatui Harbingers and the Shogunate learned that an unknown Hydro Dragon had appeared on Watatsumi Island, while Lin Feng finished restoring Chiyo and uncovered the truth behind the Maguu Kenki. The chapter ended with Chiyo awake as Lin Feng explained that the puppet housed the soul of the swordmaster Mikoshi Michikatsu.

• Signora questioned her informants about the Watatsumi Island incident, and Dottore advised her to accelerate Delusion production rather than confront the unknown dragon.
• Kujou Sara postponed the Shogunate Army’s planned operation and decided to verify reports of a water-controlling dragon before informing the General.
• Lin Feng finished restoring Chiyo’s body, soul, and memories, then went to meet her with Aether and the Maguu Kenki.
• Lin Feng explained that the Maguu Kenki was a soul vessel rather than merely a machine, and Aether concluded that it contained the swordmaster Mikoshi Michikatsu.
• Chiyo opened her eyes as Lin Feng recounted how Mikoshi Michikatsu had killed his corrupted mother and fallen into a nightmare.

Chiyo awoke after being resurrected and learned from Kasanri about the losses and history she had missed, then agreed to a bizarre plan to turn Inazuma’s lands beyond Narukami Island into Abyss-fallen territory. Meanwhile, Lumine’s Resistance force arrived at Higashikimura and found the village frozen, its residents being taken by Abyss forces.

• Chiyo woke in Enjou's Sweets Shop courtyard and mistook her resurrection for a dream until Kasanri explained that she was truly alive.
• Kasanri revealed that she was not the real Yae Miko and recounted what had become of Michikatsu and Nagamasa after Chiyo attacked Ei.
• Chiyo asked how she could repay her benefactor, and Kasanri proposed that they fight the Shogunate Army and turn every region beyond Narukami Island into Abyss-fallen territory.
• Lumine, Paimon, Tanbaka, and the Resistance approached Higashikimura to rescue its residents, who distrusted them over rumors that the Resistance had sunk a Shogunate rescue ship.
• Lumine's force found Higashikimura transformed into an icy wasteland, where Abyss Lectors surrounded two dark figures taking away the frozen villagers.

Lumine and Paimon found Higashikimura frozen and apparently emptied by Abyss Lectors, while Chiyo and Kasanri revealed that they planned to use the attack to force Ei to confront Inazuma’s military decline. In Inazuma City, Yoimiya warned Enjou about the spreading monsters, and Enjou prepared to let the crisis draw the Raiden Shogun into action.

• Lumine restrained Paimon and observed the Abyss Lectors withdrawing after they froze Higashikimura, while Tanbaka advised gathering intelligence instead of attacking.
• Chiyo explained to Kasanri that she had seen Inazuma’s corrupt officials and weakened armies, and she intended to frighten the commanders enough to make Ei respond.
• Lumine and Paimon searched Higashikimura, found no survivors or bodies, and wondered whether the masked leaders were powerful Inazuman yokai.
• Yoimiya warned Enjou that strange monsters had appeared near Araumi and that the Shogunate Army had suffered losses, while Tenshukaku had not acted.
• Enjou reassured Yoimiya that he would stay safe and planned to let the monsters approach Inazuma City so the Raiden Shogun would notice them.

Kazuha decided to return to Inazuma and help people affected by the Vision Hunt Decree, while Kokomi learned that an Abyssal invasion involved yokai-shaped leaders and a Maguu Kenki. In Inazuma City, Ei remained unaware that the Tenryou Commission was hiding defeats and falsifying battle reports as Kasanri subtly tested her suspicions.

• Kazuha told Beidou he had decided to leave the Crux Fleet, visit Inazuma City, and then seek out Sangonomiya Kokomi; Beidou gave him Mora and supplies and let him go.
• Lumine and Paimon reported to Kokomi that Abyssal Monsters had frozen Higashikimura and that a great many Abyss Lectors had been present.
• Paimon showed Kokomi a sketch of two masked yokai and described a puppet releasing cold air; Kokomi suspected the figures were legendary beings and feared the Shogun's reaction.
• Ei visited Enjou's Sweets Shop and told Kasanri that, despite normal-looking battle reports, she felt something was wrong in Inazuma.
• Kasanri mentioned rumors of monsters near Araumi and realized the Tenryou Commission was concealing its losses from Ei.

Dainsleif arrived in Inazuma and sensed a powerful Abyssal presence as the Kujou Clan struggled to contain the monsters at Araumi. At Nanjin Beach, Kasanri and Chiyo intervened in the Shogunate-Resistance battle, only for a rift to open above both armies and unleash strange monsters and a massive Automaton Puppet.

• At Araumi, Abyssal monsters overwhelmed the Shogunate Army while the Golden Wolflord watched from the rift without joining the fight.
• Kujou Takayuki ordered untrained recruits to hold the line at Araumi so he could delay the crisis and prepare to request the Shogun's aid.
• Dainsleif reached Ritou, sensed the intense Abyssal Aura, and decided to demand an explanation from his old friend.
• At Nanjin Beach, Kasanri and Chiyo prepared to disrupt the battle so Ei would witness the officials' incompetence firsthand.
• The Shogunate Army launched an assault after learning the monsters at Musoujin Gorge had disappeared, but a rift opened over the battlefield and strange monsters and a massive Automaton Puppet descended.

Kasanri, Chiyo, and Maguu Kenki led an Abyssal assault that devastated both the Resistance and Shogunate Army, then sent a battle report toward Inazuma City with blades of ice and wind. Ei had just praised the Shogunate’s progress when the blades flew at Tenshukaku, forcing her to draw Dreamer's Will.

• Gorou ordered the Resistance to retreat when Kasanri and the Abyssal forces appeared, but Kasanri used her Authority to incapacitate and kill many soldiers.
• Maguu Kenki isolated the battlefield with ice and wind while Chiyo slaughtered Shogunate forces and left survivors an escape route.
• Chiyo defeated the remaining commanders and sent General Kujou Sara into the frozen area, then pursued the fleeing troops to the cliffs south of Tatarauna.
• Chiyo unleashed ice and wind blades infused with Authority and Abyssal Power, sending them across the ocean toward Tenshukaku.
• Ei read a report describing Shogunate victories and the Resistance’s heavy losses, then leaped from Tenshukaku’s terrace and drew Dreamer's Will as the blades approached.

Ei confronted Kujou Takayuki over the Tenryou Commission’s questionable war finances and reports from Araumi after two powerful attacks struck near Inazuma City. The chapter ended with Ei spotting a Rift Hound King and its pack flying toward the city, contradicting Takayuki’s claim that Araumi’s monsters were suppressed.

• Two powerful attacks collided above the waters near Inazuma City, covering the streets in frost and frightening the citizens.
• Citizens blamed the Tenryou Commission for misleading them about the war, while Kamisato Ayaka left the dessert shop to respond to the unrest.
• Enjou said the front lines had made their move and prepared for Big Yellow to set out, while Kujou Takayuki was summoned to Tenshukaku.
• Kujou Takayuki told Ei the attacks likely came from Abyssal Monsters summoned by the Watatsumi Island rebels, but Ei decided to inspect the army and audit its funding.
• Ei questioned Takayuki’s claims about Araumi, then saw a Rift Hound King and its pack flying toward Inazuma City.

Inazuma City faced an Abyssal monster invasion as Ei fought the Golden Wolflord, while Yoimiya and others helped evacuate residents and defend the city. Ei unleashed the true Musou Isshin in the Araumi region, seemingly killing Big Yellow, though she could not understand why it had charged her final attack.

• Tenryou Commission guards tried to stop the angry crowd from reaching the Tenshukaku, but the approaching monsters and Ei’s lightning made the people distrust the Commission further.
• The Golden Wolflord led Rift Hounds and other monsters into Inazuma, while Ei confronted it and the city’s defenders began holding the lines.
• Yoimiya helped evacuate people in Hanamizaka, thanked the Vision holders who joined the fight, and encountered Kaedehara Kazuha among them.
• Ei sealed the Abyssal rift and drove the Golden Wolflord toward Araumi, where it resisted her attacks and threatened to open a larger portal.
• Ei unleashed the true Musou Isshin, destroying the Golden Wolflord and carving a deep ravine into Narukami Island’s northern side.

After the monster invasion ended, Yoimiya recognized Kazuha and brought him to meet Kamisato Ayaka, while Kujou Sara reported the front-line defeat and Ei exposed the Tenryou Commission’s corruption. At Araumi, Lin Feng revived the broken Wolflord, whose eyes now glowed purple.

• The monsters retreated at dawn, and Yoimiya recognized Kazuha as Beidou’s wanted crewman after he helped defend Hanamizaka.
• Yoimiya and Kazuha joined Kamisato Ayaka, who thanked the employees of Enjou's Sweets Shop for helping protect the city.
• Kujou Sara returned wounded and insisted on reporting the army’s disastrous defeat directly to the Great General.
• Ei placed Kujou Takayuki under guard, condemned the Tenryou Commission’s corruption, and began suspecting problems across Inazuma’s government.
• Lin Feng crossed the sword-scarred waters at Araumi and revived the broken Wolflord, whose pupil glowed purple.

Venti and Zhongli discussed Inazuma’s upheaval and the possibility of awakening old memories, while Lin Feng reassured Aether that Dainsleif would not recklessly disrupt the Abyss Order’s plan. As Inazuma purged corrupt officials, Lin Feng paused the invasion and prepared to move people from beyond Narukami Island to the city before the final plan.

• Venti and Zhongli discussed the unusual events in Inazuma and agreed not to interfere until the right moment.
• Venti asked Zhongli whether he might seek out old friends, and Zhongli said he might if an opportunity arose.
• Lin Feng told Aether that Dainsleif was restraining himself because he was wary of Lin Feng’s power and still had an obsession to fulfill.
• Aether concluded that Dainsleif would not recklessly interfere with the Abyss Order’s plan and intended to meet him later.
• Lin Feng and Aether observed the mass dismissal and arrest of Tenryou Commission officials, which Lin Feng attributed to Ei’s response to long-standing corruption.
• Lin Feng ordered the invasion of Narukami Island slowed and planned to relocate people from outside the island while Inazuma recovered its strength.

Kokomi struggled to choose between resisting the Shogunate, seeking its protection, and preserving Watatsumi Island as monster attacks worsened and the Resistance fractured. Gorou returned with news of a monster force near Yashima Island and traces of the Shogun, leaving Kokomi stunned by the unexpected threat.

• Gorou ordered the Resistance to withdraw from Nanjin Beach because the Shogunate Army was weakened, monster attacks were growing, and using Delusions was costing soldiers their life force.
• White Fluffball gave Kokomi the questionnaires showing that refugees wanted to return to Narukami Island while Watatsumi Island's warriors opposed abandoning their god and home.
• Kokomi explained to Lumine and Paimon that the Resistance was divided over whether to seek the Shogunate's protection, and that either choice risked disaster for Watatsumi Island.
• Kokomi showed Lumine and Paimon the mourning cloths across Sangonomiya and said the residents needed time before she could find a suitable path forward.
• A messenger reported that Gorou had returned, Abyssal Monsters were fighting near Nameless Fort, and his soldiers had seen traces of the Shogun near Nanjin Beach.

Ei struggled to govern Inazuma after uncovering widespread corruption, then followed an Abyssal reaction toward the Resistance’s front lines. There she encountered Chiyo and Yae Miko, who declared themselves enemies of Inazuma.

• Ei’s purge of corrupt officials overwhelmed her with endless investigations and paperwork, and the Shogun warned that her thoughts had fluctuated under excessive workload.
• The Shogun detected a powerful Abyssal reaction near Watatsumi Island, so Ei set out toward the Resistance’s position.
• Lumine, Paimon, Kokomi, and the Resistance held the Nameless Fort against Abyssal Monsters, while scouts reported that Abyss Lectors had appeared.
• Chiyo and Kasanri waited on a mountain to draw Ei toward them, and Chiyo said that she and Yae Miko were now Inazuma’s enemies.

Ei confronted Abyssal replicas of Chiyo and Yae Miko, rejected their call to purge the Resistance, and destroyed the Beast Tide without harming the people. She offered the Resistance refuge on Narukami Island, while Kasanri and Chiyo later discussed what they would have done if Ei had chosen annihilation instead.

• Chiyo and Yae Miko urged Ei to let them eliminate the Resistance, claiming that removing opposition would secure Eternity.
• Ei chose to protect Inazuma’s people, drew Dreamer’s Will, and struck down the monsters while the replicas vanished.
• The Resistance, Lumine, and Paimon survived Ei’s strike, which erased the Beast Tide without injuring them.
• Ei acknowledged the Shogunate’s failure, offered willing Resistance members protection on Narukami Island, and left without attacking them.
• At Enjou’s Sweets Shop, Kasanri and Chiyo reported to Lin Feng that Ei had made the choice to protect the Resistance.
• Kasanri suggested that if Ei had accepted the purge, they might have helped her eliminate everyone in the name of Eternity, alarming Chiyo.

After the Shogun’s strike cleared the monsters from Watatsumi Island, Kokomi weighed her invitation to move the Resistance and residents to Narukami Island against the islanders’ divided loyalties. She decided to send willing people ahead and stay behind to protect those who refused, while arranging for Paimon and Lumine to secretly bring them to safety; she also began to admire the Shogun’s newly revealed governing ability.

• The Shogun’s strike wiped out nearby monsters, and Kokomi ordered the front line to withdraw while Delusion users returned to recover.
• Ruko told Kokomi that Resistance members were arguing over whether to go to Narukami Island, and Kokomi said she would not prevent anyone from leaving but warned them against traveling alone.
• Kokomi explained to Paimon and Lumine that she trusted the Shogun’s goodwill, but many Watatsumi residents might refuse to leave their ancestral home and the Great God’s refuge.
• Kokomi decided to organize a migration for everyone willing to leave and asked Paimon and Lumine to take the Shogun’s token with them.
• Paimon mistook Kokomi’s plan to stay behind for a plan to die, but Kokomi clarified that she would gather those who refused to leave and asked the others to knock them out and put them in the Serenitea Pot.
• Kokomi concluded that the Shogun’s recent reforms suggested she had long been underestimated as a ruler.

Lin Feng told Yae Miko that Watatsumi Island’s Resistance would relocate to Narukami Island, creating a chance to reconcile the islands. Ei summoned Miko to Tenshukaku, but instead of a reunion, she left Miko with half of her enormous backlog of reports and disappeared.

• Yae Miko worried that Lin Feng might demand something from her for helping with the Abyss Invasion, then offered him Fried Tofu when he arrived at the shrine.
• Lin Feng told Yae Miko that the Resistance would relocate to Narukami Island and that Ei had chosen to accept them.
• A shrine maiden urgently summoned Yae Miko to Tenshukaku at Ei’s request.
• Yae Miko assumed Ei wanted to reconnect, but Ei explained that she needed help with government work because the Commissions could not be trusted.
• Ei claimed Yae Miko only had to handle half the work, then left her facing a vast pile of reports.
• Yae Miko began looking for someone else who could help her with the documents.

Yae Miko struggled to manage Inazuma after Ei purged the Tenryou Commission, and she arranged for the Kamisato siblings to assist with government affairs. Meanwhile, Kokomi finished preparing Watatsumi Island’s evacuation to Narukami Island, hoping the move would ease her exhausting workload.

• Yae Miko reviewed the government’s overwhelming backlog and considered recruiting Kokomi to help handle it.
• Kamisato Ayato and Kamisato Ayaka discussed the Tenryou Commission’s purge, the Kamisato Clan’s relief work, and the Resistance’s planned relocation.
• Yae Miko sent the Kamisato siblings a letter offering them probationary posts assisting the Shogun, and Ayato decided they would visit her at Tenshukaku.
• Kokomi and her allies used hypnosis, sleep-inducing incense, and a hidden realm to bring the Watatsumi residents who refused to leave along with the evacuation.
• Kokomi prepared to lead the Resistance and Watatsumi residents to Narukami Island, expecting divine protection and more livable land to reduce her burdens.

Kokomi, Lumine, and Paimon escorted Watatsumi Island’s people toward Narukami Island while uncovering Fatui efforts to prolong the conflict. As the group boarded ships, Kokomi hoped their arrival would be met without prejudice.

• Kokomi returned to the evacuation group after Lumine and her ally had subdued the residents who resisted leaving, and she asked them to temporarily shelter those most likely to cause conflict.
• Kokomi said she wanted Watatsumi Island’s people to avoid renewing their opposition to the Shogunate, since outside threats could return and the island might not receive divine aid again.
• Kokomi revealed that investigators had uncovered numerous spies and sabotage, including a Fatui agent who had helped provoke clashes and frame the Resistance.
• Paimon realized that the Fatui had supplied the Resistance with Delusions and provisions, while Kokomi suspected they had also helped spark the original conflict and aimed to prolong the civil war.
• Kokomi explained that priestesses had extracted information from Fatui spies using interrogation methods inherited from the Kingdom of White Night, then led the group aboard ships bound for Narukami Island.