Ch. 103Monologue (Batman: Year One or Court of Owls Complete)

Bruce Wayne recovered from another broken spine and prepared to return to fighting crime, while Jino tried and failed to heal Laetitia with Amber Gold. The chapter ended with Jino flying toward Lex after learning that Lex had been hit by a tornado, leaving Loren stunned by his grandson’s power.

  • Bruce learned that his blood contained self-healing factors and set out in the Batsuit after hearing a police report about a kidnapping and robbery.
  • Jino reflected on his new Talent Replication Card and gave Harleen Amber Gold to try to help Laetitia, but it had no effect on her mental condition.
  • Jino considered Ra's al Ghul's defeat and learned that he planned to regroup and return to Gotham.
  • Jino received a call saying Lex had been hit by a tornado, then flew into the sky as Loren watched in shock.

Ch. 104Reconciliation

Jino returned to tornado-ravaged Smallville and went to the hospital to check on Lex, where he reconciled with Clark after their recent conflict. Clark and Jino remained friends as Lex and Lionel recovered from the tornado.

  • Jino flew to Smallville and found the town damaged and its hospital overwhelmed with injured residents.
  • Jino helped Lana Lang and Chloe unload medical supplies, then headed to find Lex.
  • Jino found Lex with his eyes covered and Lionel unconscious, while Clark explained that he had rescued them from the tornado.
  • Clark thanked Jino for his earlier advice about kindness and asked whether they were still friends.
  • Jino accepted Clark's apology and said they remained friends as long as Clark did not do anything stupid.

Ch. 105Lex's Commission

Jino gave Lex Amber Gold, discussed Lionel’s injuries and the company’s future, and examined a strange metal fragment that might be an activation key. Later, Jino joined Clark, Chloe, and Lana Lang at the Two Pirates Bar and told them about Batman, asking whether the Masked Man had done the right thing.

  • Jino gave Lex Amber Gold, which healed the small cut on Lex’s eyelid.
  • Lex told Jino that Lionel was blind and asked him to go to Metropolis to steady the company’s stock; Jino agreed.
  • Lex showed Jino a strange diamond-shaped metal fragment, which Lex suspected was an activation key, and Jino returned it for safekeeping.
  • Jino gave Lex another bottle of medicine, leaving Lex to decide whether to use it to restore Lionel’s eyesight.
  • Jino met Clark, Chloe, and Lana Lang at the Two Pirates Bar and told them about Batman.
  • Jino asked Clark, Chloe, and Lana Lang whether Batman, the Masked Man, had done the right thing.

Ch. 106Bar Chat

Lana and Chloe discussed Batman’s fight against Gotham’s crime while Chloe’s hopes of spending time with Jino were dashed when he had to return to Metropolis. There, Jino reunited with Zatanna, who was searching for her missing father, before a frightened woman arrived at Zatanna’s Mystery Agency.

  • Lana and Chloe praised Batman’s actions, and Clark admitted he thought the masked hero was cool.
  • Lana invited Jino to a horse race, but he said he had to return to Metropolis because his father was unconscious and the company needed someone to watch over it.
  • After Jino left, Chloe broke down crying over her unrequited feelings, and Clark stepped outside to give her privacy.
  • Jino visited Zatanna in Metropolis, and the two shared drinks while discussing her missing father, Giovanni.
  • A frightened middle-aged woman arrived at Zatanna’s Mystery Agency and asked for Zatanna.

Ch. 107Midnight Transformation

Maya told Zatanna that her daughter Sarah had begun behaving strangely after exploring an abandoned monastery, then described increasingly disturbing signs of possession. Zatanna recognized that Sarah was possessed and asked Maya what happened next.

  • Maya explained that Sarah had gone with classmates to explore an abandoned monastery a week earlier.
  • Maya recalled Sarah losing her appetite and seeming unwell at dinner three days ago.
  • Maya and William found Sarah gnawing on a wooden carving of Jesus and speaking in a man's voice.
  • Maya said Sarah later avoided sunlight, ate raw beef, cursed God, and crawled onto the ceiling.
  • Zatanna concluded that Sarah was possessed and asked Maya what had happened afterward.

Ch. 108The Deceiver

Zatanna and Jino went with Maya to confront the demon possessing her daughter, Sarah, but discovered Maya had lured them into a trap. As the demon advanced and Maya aimed her shotgun at them, Jino unleashed Heat Vision toward her.

  • Maya told Zatanna that Sarah was tied up in the attic and that her husband was watching her, so Zatanna and Jino agreed to investigate.
  • Maya drove Zatanna and Jino to her home, where Zatanna cast a Body Armor Spell before they went upstairs.
  • Jino noticed Maya had not followed them and saw through the bedroom door that the demon was eating a corpse with no signs that Sarah had been restrained.
  • Maya came upstairs with a shotgun and admitted that she wanted to feed her daughter, while the possessed Sarah emerged from the room and threatened Zatanna and Jino.
  • Zatanna prepared to fight the demon and told Jino to hold off Maya, but Jino fired Heat Vision at Maya.

Ch. 109Physical Exorcism

Jino destroyed Maya with Heat Vision and helped Zatanna restrain the demon possessing Sarah. When he threatened to send the demon to Heaven, it gave in and agreed to talk.

  • Jino incinerated Maya and left the hallway wrecked, shocking Zatanna and the demon possessing Sarah.
  • Jino seized the demon-possessed Sarah and told the demon that her life would not make him back down.
  • Zatanna bound the demon with Backward Speech Magic after Jino released his grip on Sarah.
  • The demon refused to answer Zatanna, trusting that death would send its soul back to Hell.
  • Jino suggested that Zatanna use a ritual to send the demon to Heaven, and the terrified demon agreed to talk.

Ch. 110Your Mom Is Gone

Jino and Zatanna questioned a demon possessing Sarah, learned that Mammon had ordered demons to distract exorcists, and sent the demon back to Heaven. Sarah awoke to find her home destroyed and learned that her mother was gone, while Jino and Zatanna prepared to leave as emergency crews arrived.

  • Jino made the demon answer Zatanna's questions, and it revealed that Mammon had ordered demons to harass the human world and distract exorcists.
  • Zatanna identified Mammon as one of Lucifer's children, but she and Jino set aside the question of his plans.
  • Jino ordered Zatanna to exorcise the demon, and it was swallowed by Heaven's divine light after cursing them.
  • Sarah awoke as the demon left her, saw the ruined house, and learned from Jino that her mother was gone.
  • Sarah blamed herself for breaking into the monastery and collapsed in grief as police and fire-engine sirens approached.
  • Jino told Zatanna they needed to leave.

Ch. 111Catch a Demon

Jino and Zatanna were ambushed by a demon serving Beelzebub, but Jino froze the swarm and helped capture its true body. After learning Mammon's demons were targeting them, Jino considered killing Mammon to draw Lucifer's attention.

  • Zatanna and Jino left the residential district after she erased a girl's memory, but the streetlights shattered and they realized they had been targeted.
  • A swarm of flies formed a demon that warned Zatanna and Jino to stay out of its affairs, then attacked with poisonous insects.
  • Jino told Zatanna to lower her shield and froze the entire swarm with his Freeze Ray.
  • Zatanna identified the demon's true body among the frozen flies, and Jino extracted it so she could seal it in a glass.
  • Zatanna warned that Mammon's subordinates would keep pursuing them, and Jino asked whether killing Mammon would make Lucifer come after him.

Ch. 112Interrogation and Investigation

Jino and Zatanna learned that Mammon planned to use the Spear of Destiny, a psychic medium, and an angel to enter the human world, so they went to a cathedral to find someone with a Spirit Medium Physique. There, they approached a mysterious woman whom Zatanna said was not human.

  • Jino tortured the fly demon Marvi with mosquito-repellent smoke until it revealed Mammon's plan involving the Spear of Destiny.
  • Zatanna explained that bringing a powerful demon into the human world required the Spear of Destiny, a psychic medium, and an angel, and she agreed to help Jino kill Mammon.
  • Jino crushed Marvi and told it to warn Mammon that he was coming.
  • Zatanna led Jino to St. Mary Margaret Cathedral in Metropolis to find a Spirit Medium Physique.
  • Jino could not see through the halo surrounding a blonde woman at the cathedral, and Zatanna told him that the woman was not human.

Ch. 113Constantine

Zatanna asked Gabriel to help locate a Spirit Medium Physique so she could stop the Son of the Demon, but Gabriel dismissed her concerns. Constantine then sought Gabriel’s help getting into Heaven and left devastated after she told him he was doomed to Hell.

  • Zatanna asked Gabriel to use the All-Seeing Eye to find a Spirit Medium Physique, but Gabriel insisted that humans should stay out of the war between Heaven and Hell.
  • Jino and Zatanna left the church, where Constantine collided with Jino on the steps before entering.
  • Inside, Angela argued with a priest that her sister Isabella deserved a traditional funeral despite her death being ruled suicide.
  • Constantine confronted Gabriel and asked for more time to exorcise demons, but she said his deeds would not earn him entry into Heaven.
  • Gabriel told Constantine that he was near death and that Hell awaited him, leaving him to walk out of the church in a daze.

Ch. 114A Deal

Jino and Zatanna visited Midnight Bar to post a bounty for someone with the Spirit Medium Physique, while Constantine asked Papa Midnight for a way to survive his lung cancer and was refused. Constantine then noticed the bounty and accepted it, believing he knew a policewoman with that physique.

  • Jino and Zatanna entered Midnight Bar, where Jino posted a ten-thousand-dollar bounty for information about someone with the Spirit Medium Physique.
  • Constantine went to Papa Midnight and asked for a way to stay alive, but Papa Midnight mocked him and suggested turning him into a zombie.
  • Constantine left Papa Midnight's office and noticed the bounty on the bar's blackboard.
  • Constantine told the bartender he would take the job, remembering that a policewoman who had visited him seemed to have the Spirit Medium Physique.

Ch. 115Angela

Jino learned from Constantine about Angela, a police officer whose sister Isabella had died by suicide after calling Constantine’s name. Before Jino and his companions reached Angela’s apartment, a demonic force abducted her, leaving the room wrecked.

  • At a restaurant, Jino promised Constantine a reward for helping him find a Spirit Medium Physique and offered Amber Gold that might cure Constantine’s lung cancer.
  • Constantine told Jino that he was a Spirit Medium Physique and described how Angela had sought him out after her sister Isabella jumped from a building.
  • Angela remembered investigating Isabella’s death and discovering that her sister had mouthed Constantine’s name before she fell.
  • A demonic voice called to Angela as her apartment lights flickered, and she vanished, leaving a smashed chair and a hole in the wall.
  • Jino and two companions arrived thirty minutes later, cut through Angela’s door with Heat Vision, and found the apartment empty.

Ch. 116Balthazar

Jino, Constantine, and Zatanna traced Angela’s abduction to the demon Balthazar and his followers, who began a ritual to bring Mammon’s son into the human world. Gabriel arrived and took up the Spear of Longinus, but she thrust it toward Angela’s abdomen as the chapter ended.

  • Jino used his vision to find a demonic coin, and Constantine identified it as belonging to Balthazar.
  • Balthazar gathered his demon followers and announced a ritual to prepare for Mammon’s descent.
  • The demons brought the bound Angela to the conference hall and began the ritual with their blood.
  • Balthazar revealed the Spear of Longinus as the instrument meant to pierce Angela and bring forth Satan’s son.
  • Gabriel descended, destroyed several demons with holy light, and took the spearhead from the floor.
  • Gabriel declared that the guilty should be punished and thrust the spearhead toward the creature in Angela’s abdomen.

Ch. 117Weakness Is a Sin

Gabriel tried to sacrifice Angela to make God favor the angels again, but Jino arrived and confronted her. After Gabriel struck him and blasted him through a building, Jino returned unharmed and seized her, leaving their fight underway.

  • Gabriel prepared to stab Angela with the Spear of Destiny, believing humanity's forgiveness made God's treatment of humans unfair.
  • Jino broke through the wall and confronted Gabriel as she prepared to complete her plan.
  • Gabriel opened her third eye, summoned a flaming sword, and blasted Jino through a high-rise building.
  • Gabriel turned back to Angela, but Jino returned and caught the Spear of Destiny between two fingers.
  • Jino disarmed Gabriel, grabbed her by the neck, and slammed her into the wall with his Bio-field.

Ch. 118Such a Weak Angel

Jino overwhelmed Gabriel in Metropolis, cutting off her wings and stripping away her angelic identity. He left her alive on the ground, condemned to suffer as a human.

  • Gabriel attacked Jino with the Seraphim Sword and Angel Feathers, but he resisted her blows and countered with Heat Vision.
  • Jino struck Gabriel through a building and across the road, leaving her badly injured.
  • Jino used Heat Vision to sever Gabriel's wings, causing her divine power to dissipate and turning her into a human.
  • Jino insulted Gabriel and left her alive, saying she would suffer in the human world.

Ch. 119God Said, Let There Be Light

Constantine and Zatanna began exorcising Mammon from Angela, but Balthazar ambushed them and helped Mammon emerge. As Mammon attacked Constantine, a golden light appeared and a voice greeted him as John.

  • Constantine and Zatanna prepared an exorcism array around Angela and began chanting to drive Mammon out.
  • Balthazar stabbed Constantine with the Spear of Longinus, while the array’s destruction caused Zatanna to suffer magical backlash and collapse.
  • Balthazar transformed into black mist and pierced Angela’s abdomen with the spear, allowing Mammon to emerge amid spreading blood mist.
  • Mammon approached the wounded Constantine, who cut his wrist and tried to buy time until Jino returned.
  • As Mammon lunged at Constantine, everything froze and a voice from the golden light said, “Hello, John.”

Ch. 120You Can't Take Him Away

Lucifer appeared in the conference hall, sent Mammon back to Hell, and tried to drag Constantine away. Jino arrived to stop him, and after Jino struck Lucifer, the furious Lord of Hell prepared to counterattack with an Angel's Longsword.

  • Lucifer arrived in the hall and sent Mammon back to Hell.
  • Lucifer grabbed Constantine and began dragging him away, but Jino appeared and told him he could not take Constantine.
  • Constantine recognized Jino, then passed out as Jino and Lucifer faced off.
  • Jino attacked Lucifer with a barrage of punches and kicked him in the face, knocking him back and leaving a shoeprint on his cheek.
  • Lucifer grew furious, conjured an Angel's Longsword, and threatened Jino, who challenged him to attack.

Ch. 121Shattering the Cosmos

Jino and Lucifer fought a devastating battle through a Metropolis high-rise, destroying the building and endangering the planet. After Jino stopped Lucifer’s meteor attack with a planet-spanning Bio-field, he revealed holy wings and Angel Magic, leaving Lucifer stunned as Jino prepared to judge him.

  • Jino and Lucifer traded blows, blades, and visions as their battle tore through every floor of the high-rise.
  • Their Bio-field and Hell Array Domain collided, collapsing the building and sending Lucifer flying into a long trench.
  • Lucifer unfurled his deathly wings and summoned immense magical meteors from beyond the planet, then sent them crashing toward Metropolis.
  • Jino expanded his Bio-field around the entire planet and crushed the incoming meteors, though the collision caused widespread destruction and deaths.
  • Lucifer charged at Jino with the Sword of the Fallen Angel, but Jino revealed glowing white wings, used Angel Magic, and evaded the strike.
  • Jino confronted the stunned Lucifer from the sky and asked whether he was ready to accept judgment.

Ch. 122Quantum Mask (Revised)

Jino’s fight with Lucifer was interrupted by God, who sealed away their battle timeline and gave Jino a new Tear-Point Mask that could cross beyond the DC Universe. Back on Earth, Jino stopped Balthazar and saved Angela, then told Constantine the crisis was over.

  • Lucifer’s jealousy and rage grew as he saw Jino’s angelic power, and the two clashed with their swords.
  • God transported Jino and Lucifer to a white space and stopped their fight, warning that Earth would be destroyed if they continued.
  • God sealed away the timeline of their battle and offered Jino a Tear-Point Mask that could travel beyond the Source Wall; Jino accepted.
  • Jino returned to the high-rise, stopped time, and dissolved Balthazar’s black mist before it could harm Angela.
  • Jino let time resume, and Constantine found his wrist unharmed and Angela free of the black mist; Jino declared the crisis resolved.
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