Recaps

After Araki defeated Yhwach, the Quincy disbanded and the Three Worlds began a new era under Araki’s influence. The chapter ends with Araki revealing that he had promised Yhwach rule over the Three Worlds if he cleared Hell, while quietly considering what to do with Uryu Ishida.

• Yhwach shut himself away in the Wandenreich, returned the power he had taken from his subordinates, and sent their souls into the cycle of reincarnation.
• Haschwalth told the surviving Quincy that Yhwach had sealed the shadow domain and disbanded the Wandenreich, and Uryu Ishida led them toward the Human World.
• Kurosaki Ichigo and his friends joked about their future plans before returning to the Human World, while Aizen Sōsuke accepted the resignations of several Gotei 13 captains and watched a new generation take their places.
• Araki’s allies returned to Hueco Mundo, where Barragan and Arturo fought over Las Noches, Roka Paramia formed the Female Menos Association, and Grimmjow and Nnoitra advanced to Vasto Lorde-class.
• Araki settled in the Human World with Unohana Retsu and Saito Furofushi, then gathered with Ichigo, Uryu, and their friends for hot pot and singing.
• Uryu realized Araki had turned former enemies into subordinates, and Araki told him that Yhwach was trying to clear Hell in exchange for a promised future role ruling the Three Worlds.

Araki sent Yhwach through a gate to invade another world and gather Reishi to replace what the Three Worlds would lose by removing Hell. Yhwach arrived in the Jujutsu Kaisen world, killed Gojo Satoru, absorbed the world’s cursed energy, and returned to find Araki had used the Wandenreich palace for his own plans with Unohana Retsu and Saito Furofushi.

• Araki told Yhwach he could stop Hell from expanding by casting it into another world and stealing replacement Reishi, then assigned Yhwach to lead the invasions.
• Yhwach entered the Jujutsu Kaisen world through Araki’s Transcendent Gate and drew the attention of people and reporters by flying above a city.
• Gojo Satoru confronted Yhwach, but Yhwach stole his cursed techniques and energy before killing him with a single sword stroke.
• Yhwach absorbed the cursed energy of the entire world, including that of the jujutsu sorcerers, cursed spirits, and Ryomen Sukuna, then announced his power and departed.
• Araki brought Unohana Retsu and Saito Furofushi to the Wandenreich and said he wanted more children; days later, Yhwach returned to find his palace in disarray.
• Araki created a private world within the Human World and continued spending time there with Retsu and Furofushi as the Araki family prepared to grow.

Yhwach arrived in a medieval fantasy world and discovered that it contained powerful dead souls and a tree capable of connecting worlds. He resurrected legendary dragons and groups of former players and ordered them to conquer the world before the tree connected to another realm.

• Yhwach surveyed the world, learned about its races and magic, and told Araki he planned to claim the world-connecting tree; Araki cut off their conversation.
• Yhwach gathered the world's Reishi and resurrected powerful dead beings, including dragons and former players, but they initially lacked their memories.
• Yhwach restored their memories, and the humans identified themselves as the Six Great Gods, the Eight Greed Kings, and the Thirteen Heroes, whose leader was Rick.
• Yhwach ordered the resurrected beings to conquer the world within nine days and then help him attack the other world when the tree connected them.
• The dragons and former players knelt and accepted Yhwach as their master.

The Six Great Gods and Eight Greed Kings began their renewed conquest of the world, while Yhwach’s revived dragons brought the Rainbow Dragon Lord to heel. As another wave of players approached, the dragons prepared to meet the invaders on the ninth day.

• The Six Great Gods and Eight Greed Kings agreed to conquer the world from different regions, while Rick set out to find his former companions and Yhwach’s dragons flew off to pursue their own conquest.
• The Black Scripture discovered the Six Great Gods had returned to the Slane Theocracy, and one of them summoned angels with Super-Tier Magic to demonstrate their power.
• The Eight Greed Kings reclaimed Sky City, where their NPC guardians slaughtered the nobles of three nearby small nations and displayed their heads on the walls.
• Cure Elim and Catastrophe confronted the Rainbow Dragon Lord, who surrendered after Cure Elim threatened him with Soulbreaker Breath.
• Cure Elim ordered the Rainbow Dragon Lord to help make Heavenly, Deep Darkness, and Platinum submit to Yhwach, then told him to prepare for the invaders arriving on the ninth day.

Nine True Dragon Lords joined Yhwach and began conquering the world, while the Six Great Gods and Eight Greed Kings helped destroy nations across the continent. After Yhwach resurrected the fallen heroes, the Great Tomb of Nazarick appeared, leaving Momonga unaware of the forces waiting outside.

• The True Dragon Lords decided to serve Yhwach, forced Draudillon Oriculus to surrender the Dragon Kingdom, and Merciful Mother annihilated a nearby beastman nation with Ultimate Explosion.
• The Dragon Lords and Slane Theocracy conquered the neighboring nations; Gazef Stronoff, Brain Unglaus, and Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra led a failed force against the Six Great Gods, with only Evileye escaping.
• The Eight Greed Kings joined the Six Great Gods, and the allied forces conquered the continent as Tsaindorcus Vaision submitted to Yhwach.
• Yhwach resurrected the fallen hero-class figures and ordered them to await the newcomers in a valley.
• The Great Tomb of Nazarick appeared at midnight, and Momonga wondered what had happened while unaware of the forces gathered outside.

Momonga realized that he and Nazarick had crossed into the New World just as dragons and powerful players invaded the tomb. Yhwach’s forces overwhelmed Nazarick’s defenders and pushed deeper underground, leaving Bone King terrified and longing to return home.

• The Eight Greed Kings and Six Great Gods discussed Nazarick’s strength and hesitated over who should lead the attack.
• Momonga confirmed his crossing, learned that Sebas Tian had been killed and Nazarick invaded, then ordered the Floor Guardians to defend the tomb and went to retrieve the World Items.
• The dragons wiped out the undead on the first three floors, and Yhwach’s forces killed Shalltear before resurrecting her as their servant.
• The invaders enthralled Gargantua, defeated Cocytus and conquered the sixth and seventh floors.
• Yhwach erased Victim on the eighth floor, allowing the invasion to continue while Bone King panicked and wished to go home.

Momonga surrendered Nazarick to Yhwach, who killed and resurrected its defenders, usurped their World Items, and opened a passage to YGGDRASIL. Yhwach killed the Dragon Emperor Nidhogg, seized the power of the World Tree and its two hundred World Items, and prepared to move on to another world.

• Albedo confronted the resurrected Floor Guardians, who said they wanted Momonga to surrender because Yhwach was a god beyond their power to fight.
• Momonga asked whether surrender would spare Nazarick, and Yhwach agreed to accept his loyalty.
• Yhwach killed and resurrected Momonga and the others, planted hidden backdoors in them, and usurped their World Items.
• Yhwach opened a passage to YGGDRASIL and showed the players and dragons the Dragon Emperor Nidhogg gnawing at the World Tree's roots.
• Yhwach killed Nidhogg with a World Item-powered spear he named Gungnir, then usurped the World Tree and gained the power of two hundred World Items.
• Yhwach declared the world's task complete and turned toward the next world.

In the war-torn world of No Game No Life Zero, Yhwach rescued Ivan from a Demon Race and revealed that he was human. After learning how weak humanity was, Yhwach rewrote the world's magic, leaving the other races' powers disrupted and Dragonia trapped in the present.

• Rick, Ivan, and another human copied a map from abandoned Ex-Machina equipment when a Demon Race approached, and Ivan went out to draw it away.
• Yhwach appeared before the Demon Race, destroyed it with an azure arrow, and told Ivan that he was human.
• Yhwach swept the ash and gloom from the sky with a Heilig Pfeil and gave Ivan his name.
• Rick approached Yhwach and explained nothing before Yhwach recognized humanity's suffering and promised to bring the races toward peace.
• Yhwach used the World Item power Five Elements Mutual Restraint to spread tier magic, abolish native spells, and cut away Dragonia's future aspects.

Yhwach revealed that the Star Grail was the Almighty and empowered Rick and the humans with his blood, turning them into Sternritter to hunt the Old Deus. As the humans began wiping out other races, a Flügel girl confronted Yhwach and realized she could not defeat him, though she still wanted to try.

• Yhwach explained that the Star Grail was the true Almighty and that the Old Deus were its self-aware fragments, then gave Rick and the other humans his blood and the power to challenge the gods.
• Yhwach launched his Godfall Plan, seized the Divine Essences of Death, Pestilence, and Famine, and used Halo of the Benevolent God to erase the Demon Race and its Demon Lords.
• Rick led the newly empowered Sternritter in a raid that destroyed the Werebeast settlement, then set their sights on the Seiren Race.
• A Flügel girl broke into Yhwach’s palace, and Yhwach opened his Almighty eyes, leaving her convinced that he was far beyond her strength even as she wanted to fight him.

Yhwach killed and revived Jibril, granted her the Schrift All Counter, and sent her to destroy the races waging war. After Jibril turned against the Flügel and Artosh intervened, Yhwach and the God of War clashed, leaving the solar system tilting out of the Milky Way.

• Yhwach recognized Jibril, killed her with a guaranteed strike, revived her, and granted her the Schrift All Counter.
• Jibril pledged loyalty to Yhwach and flew off to destroy the races he considered threats to peace.
• Jibril devastated the Elves’ capital with repeated Heaven’s Strikes, then flew to Avant Heim to recruit the Flügel by force.
• Azriel confronted Jibril, who explained that Artosh had created the Flügel to give him a worthy opponent capable of preventing his Godfall.
• The Flügel unleashed Heaven’s Strike against Jibril, but her All Counter returned the attack until Artosh arrived and canceled it.
• Artosh flew to Yhwach’s palace to challenge him, and their powers collided with enough force to tilt the solar system out of the Milky Way.

Yhwach seized the Star Grail and reshaped the world of Disboard, but Araki and the Soul King took most of its power, prompting Yhwach to refuse their next mission. Araki entered the world of Re:Zero, sent Natsuki Subaru back home, and captured Satella, who became his attendant.

• Yhwach controlled Artosh with The Compulsory and forced him to pierce the planet, revealing the Star Grail.
• Yhwach absorbed the Star Grail's power, but Araki, his daughters, and the Soul King divided most of it among themselves.
• Yhwach stole the races' Spirit Corridors, changed the world's magic rules, and left Artosh transformed into a Flügel girl.
• Angry over losing most of the Star Grail, Yhwach refused to travel to another world, so Araki opened the Myriad Realms Gate and went alone.
• Araki met Natsuki Subaru, slapped him back to his original world, and removed the Witch's Scent from his soul.
• Satella appeared in pursuit of Natsuki Subaru, but Araki restrained her and made her his attendant.

Araki sought out Felt in the Royal Slums, using overwhelming pressure to restrain Old Man Rom and the girl before revealing that he had come for her. As Reinhard, Emilia, Puck, a mysterious buyer, and an old man gathered, Araki stopped the growing confrontation and said he did not like fighting.

• Araki asked Reinhard for his sword, but Reinhard refused to give it up because he was the Sword Saint.
• Araki broke into Old Man Rom’s home and immobilized him with pressure until Felt appeared and pleaded with Araki to spare him.
• Araki told Felt she belonged to him, while Satella objected to him bullying children.
• A woman carrying curved blades arrived as the buyer for a transaction, and Emilia and Puck came looking for the stolen item.
• Reinhard arrived, followed by an old man who recognized the woman as the Gut Ripper, and the group prepared for a fight.
• Araki unleashed his pressure over everyone and said he had gathered them because it was urgent, but he did not like fighting.

Araki revealed that he planned to bring the world under his world's laws, reclaiming its witches' powers, spirits, and Divine Protections, and demonstrated that spirits could become Zanpakuto. After taking powers and allies from Reinhard, Puck, and others, Araki set out to target the Witch Cult, but Wilhelm killed himself and returned as a young man beside Theresia.

• Araki told Puck and Emilia that he came from another world and intended to reclaim the world's powers, then demonstrated his plan by turning his Zanpakuto into Theresia.
• Wilhelm reunited with Theresia, while Araki explained that the dead would fall under his administration; Wilhelm urged Reinhard to hand over his Dragon Sword.
• Reinhard accepted Araki's terms and gave him his sword and Divine Protections, while Puck agreed to become a Zanpakuto spirit and Araki killed Elsa the Gut Hunter after she refused to join.
• Reinhard discovered that Felt was a descendant of the royal family, confirmed her identity with the Royal Selection Emblem, and pledged to serve her.
• Araki prepared to pursue the Witch Cult and its Archbishops, but Wilhelm suddenly killed himself and reappeared as a young man who embraced Theresia.

Araki and Satella helped Crusch begin her campaign against the White Whale and Witch Cult, with Satella destroying the beast and Araki reclaiming the Witch Factors from two Sin Archbishops. The chapter ended with Satella wiping out Petelgeuse and his followers while Araki headed to join the battle.

• Araki promised to help Crusch gain support in the royal selection, and Crusch agreed to hunt the White Whale and oppose the Divine Dragon’s influence.
• Satella destroyed the White Whale with a single Kido spell, and Araki revived its body as bait before waiting for the other Sin Archbishops.
• Lye Batenkaitos and Regulus Corneas arrived, and Araki reclaimed their Witch Factors before his Spiritual Pressure killed them when they attacked.
• Araki teleported toward the border, where Satella crushed Petelgeuse, his Fingers, and the surrounding Witch Cultists with Invisible Providences.

Araki and Satella eliminated the remaining threats and reclaimed the Witch Factors before Araki gathered Pandora, Hector, Echidna, and the other witches to take them to the Phantom Realm. Back in Soul Society, Unohana Retsu confronted Araki about the women accompanying him, while Kurosaki Ichigo unknowingly drank Echidna’s body-fluid tea.

• Araki found Pandora, nullified her Authority, and took her away; Satella reclaimed the Witch Factors from the remaining Archbishops of Sin.
• Araki defeated Hector and stripped him of his powers, then visited Echidna in the Sanctuary and announced he would take her and the Great Spirits to the Phantom Realm.
• Araki and Satella removed the world’s fantasies and returned through a golden Senkaimon with the witches.
• Unohana Retsu demanded an explanation for the women behind Araki, then drew her Zanpakuto and attacked him as he tried to explain.
• Echidna offered Kurosaki Ichigo tea, then revealed it had been brewed with her body fluids, and Ichigo pretended not to understand.

Unohana Retsu hosted a gathering for female Soul Reapers at the Kuchiki Clan villa, where Rukia worried that the captain would attack anyone she considered a threat to her marriage. The gathering turned into a fierce Bankai duel between Unohana and Shutara Senjumaru, leaving Rukia bewildered by their claim that they were only exercising.

• Unohana welcomed Hisana and Rukia to the villa and explained that she wanted to inspect the women's association for women who might seduce Araki.
• Saito Furofushi, Katori Bakuunsai, Hinamori Momo, Rangiku Matsumoto, Isane Kotetsu, and other Soul Reapers arrived, while Rukia fretted that Unohana might attack them.
• Hikifune Kirio and Shutara Senjumaru arrived, and Unohana immediately drew her Zanpakuto and attacked Senjumaru.
• Unohana and Senjumaru exchanged a thousand blows, then both released Bankai and fought amid their powerful abilities.
• Rukia questioned why they needed Bankai to exercise, sensing that both women were fighting in earnest.

Yhwach answered Shirou Kotomine’s prayer, took the identity of RULER named Joshua, and empowered Shirou to help seize the Holy Grail War. Shirou stripped the red faction’s Masters of their Command Seals, spared them, and summoned an extraordinary group of Heroic Spirits, leaving Achilles objecting to Shirou’s introduction.

• Yhwach appeared before Shirou Kotomine, revealed they shared the wish to save humanity, and declared himself RULER under the name Joshua.
• Yhwach gave Shirou his blood, raising Shirou’s attributes to Rank A and granting him the EX-ranked Anti-World Noble Phantasm God's Trumpet.
• Shirou gathered the red faction’s Masters at the church, where Yhwach used Usurpation Altar to strip them of their Master qualifications.
• Shirou knocked the Masters unconscious with Mana arrows rather than killing them, explaining that his wish was to save everyone.
• Shirou summoned six Heroic Spirits, including Heracles, Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Karna, and Achilles, and began identifying them.
• Achilles objected when Shirou described him as nearly invincible only if he was not struck in the heel.

Shirou summoned a team of powerful Heroic Spirits and asked them to help him save all humanity, then sent Karna and Enkidu to kill Jeanne d'Arc. Karna ambushed Jeanne on a country road, where Siegfried intervened, and Gilgamesh appeared with a display of Noble Phantasms that stunned Gordes.

• Shirou told the summoned Heroic Spirits that he wanted to save all humanity, and Gilgamesh, Heracles, and Ramesses II agreed to help or see what he could do.
• Shirou asked Karna and Enkidu to eliminate Jeanne d'Arc, and Gilgamesh decided to follow Enkidu.
• Gordes Musik Yggdmillennia summoned Siegfried, while the head of Yggdmillennia summoned Vlad III and planned to recruit Jeanne d'Arc.
• Karna confronted Jeanne d'Arc on a country road, but Siegfried appeared and blocked his attack.
• Jeanne d'Arc called for the other Servants to reveal themselves, and Gilgamesh appeared on a streetlight with a vast array of Noble Phantasms, leaving Gordes stunned.

Gilgamesh attacked Gordes and Jeanne d'Arc, then unleashed the Sword of Rupture, EA, against Jeanne's defensive Noble Phantasm. Jeanne briefly held back Enuma Elish as Enkidu prepared to intervene.

• Gilgamesh's Noble Phantasm nearly killed Gordes, but Jeanne d'Arc knocked it aside and challenged Gilgamesh to keep the battle from harming Masters.
• Gilgamesh attacked Jeanne and Gordes; Gordes used Command Seals to summon and empower Siegfried, who resumed fighting Karna.
• Jeanne revealed Karna and Enkidu's identities, while Gilgamesh dismissed Gordes's accusation that the enemy had broken the Holy Grail War's rules.
• After Enkidu said his Master was urging him to return, Gilgamesh summoned EA and fired Enuma Elish at Jeanne and Gordes.
• Jeanne activated Luminosité Éternelle and briefly held back Gilgamesh's attack as Enkidu prepared to help.

Gilgamesh and Enkidu killed Jeanne d'Arc and Gordes, while Karna defeated Siegfried and the Red Faction advanced against Yggdmillennia. Achilles fought two opposing Servants on the way to the city, then left them for dead as Heracles went to confront Chiron; the green-haired girl appeared to have survived Achilles's attack.

• Gilgamesh and Enkidu combined their Noble Phantasms, destroying Jeanne d'Arc's flag and killing Jeanne d'Arc and Gordes.
• Karna defeated Siegfried with his spear, and Siegfried returned to the Throne of Heroes after acknowledging Karna's strength.
• Gordes sent Yggdmillennia information about the enemy Servants before he died, and Darnic ordered the family to prepare for a desperate battle.
• Ramesses II appeared in his radiant pyramid temple and bombarded the Homunculi and Golems advancing under Vlad III.
• Achilles overwhelmed two Servants blocking his path, while Heracles recognized Chiron's arrows and went to face their former teacher.
• Achilles killed the pink-haired Servant and struck the green-haired girl before leaving, unaware that she appeared to have survived.

The Red Faction defeated the Black Faction’s remaining Servants and won the Holy Grail War. As the surviving Heroic Spirits gathered, Yhwach appeared and thanked them for completing the Holy Grail for him.

• Caules used all three Command Seals to empower Frankenstein, but Achilles survived her Noble Phantasm and revealed his identity before rushing toward the castle.
• Heracles killed his teacher Chiron in battle, then joined Achilles as they entered the castle.
• Darnic merged his consciousness with Vlad III and transformed him into a vampire, but Heracles and Enkidu overpowered him before Gilgamesh killed him with a weapon designed to counter vampires.
• Achilles fought and killed Jack, the Black Faction’s final Servant, securing victory for the Red Faction.
• Yhwach appeared before the gathered Heroic Spirits and thanked them for completing the Holy Grail for him.

Yhwach recognized the danger of Amakusa Shirou Tokisada’s deathless utopia, while the story later followed the marriages of Renji and Rukia, Ichigo and Orihime, and finally Araki and his partners. At Araki’s wedding, several women challenged his claim of monogamy, leaving him pleading with them to put down their Zanpakuto.

• Yhwach declared himself the Holy Grail War’s victor, dismissed the Grail’s power, and used it to grant Amakusa Shirou Tokisada’s wish for a world without death or birth.
• Gilgamesh and the other Heroic Spirits returned to the Throne of Heroes, while Achilles used the Grail to wish that people would stop calling him Achilles' Heel and was ignored.
• Yhwach realized that a deathless utopia would end humanity’s progress, and five years later Renji married Rukia after enduring the Kuchiki Clan’s brutal approval process.
• Ichigo married Orihime in the Human World, and Araki decided to hold a grand wedding for Saito Furofushi and Unohana Retsu.
• Ten years later, Araki held his wedding at the former Soul King Palace, where Yhwach explained that Chaldea had repaired the altered timeline and Amakusa had eventually understood.
• Katori Bakuunsai, Shutara Senjumaru, and Hikifune Kirio pressed Araki about loving them, and Araki insisted he was a monogamist as the women prepared to attack him with their Zanpakuto.