Chapter Summaries

Kurumi examined Red Queen’s newly created doll body and realized it could help her test magic runes externally. She took Red Queen to the laboratory, while Black Cat spotted the tiny figure and reeled at seeing what looked like two masters.

• Kurumi woke to find Red Queen floating beside her and caught the doll to inspect her body.
• Kurumi studied the magic runes covering Red Queen and considered using her body to overcome her inability to inscribe runes on herself.
• Kurumi asked Red Queen to help with an experiment and led her toward the laboratory.
• Black Cat followed them through the closing door and was stunned to see Red Queen alongside Kurumi.

Smith woke in an Umbrella laboratory with blue blood, blue eyes, and fractured memories after injecting his neurological reagent. As he recovered his memories and suspected Umbrella had hypnotized its staff, he copied his research, took the remaining reagent, and decided to escape the island.

• Smith awoke weak and confused in the laboratory, coughing up blue blood and suffering a violent surge of memories.
• Smith remembered that he had been researching a neurological reagent and had injected it into himself before losing his memories.
• Smith examined his research documents and recalled that Umbrella had transferred him to the island and that he had obediently signed his contract.
• Smith copied his research onto a USB drive, deleted the laboratory files, and searched the local network.
• Smith remembered being taken to a separate laboratory after signing the contract and concluded that Umbrella had hypnotized them.
• Smith sealed away the three bottles of blue reagent, saw the staff starting their morning routines, and decided he had to escape.

Smith escaped Umbrella’s island with experimental evidence and reached the United States, while Red Queen discovered that his psychological suggestion had been broken. Kurumi asked what Red Queen would do next, and Red Queen decided to use Left Eye.

• Smith escaped the island carrying a silver briefcase and resolved to expose Umbrella’s secrets to the government.
• Smith contacted a trusted friend, hid in a city, and used his ability to return to the United States before the military retrieved him.
• Red Queen discovered the report about Smith’s escape after finishing her new body and helping Kurumi with auxiliary armor.
• Kurumi learned that one person had broken Red Queen’s psychological suggestion, and Red Queen complained that Smith had violated his agreement with Umbrella.
• Red Queen reviewed the files and decided to use Left Eye.

Smith discovered that the serum was rapidly aging him and agreed to cooperate with the military officer, while secretly vowing revenge on Umbrella. Kurumi identified the facility holding Smith, ordered Red Queen to destroy it, and Left Eye prepared a tungsten rod strike in low orbit.

• Smith hid his research materials and three serum vials before leaving with the military.
• A lieutenant colonel showed Smith his reflection, revealing that the serum had aged him into an elderly man.
• The lieutenant colonel reported Smith’s condition and stolen information to an elderly military leader, who ordered him monitored and possibly eliminated.
• Smith vowed to make Umbrella pay for what had happened to him.
• Kurumi and Red Queen located Smith and his facility, and Kurumi ordered Red Queen to destroy it and clean up loose ends.
• Left Eye unfolded an eight-ton tungsten rod after confirming the target.

Kurumi and Red Queen monitored the military base with the orbital weapon “Left Eye” as soldiers there tried to uncover information about Smith. After Soldier A was caught stealing experimental medicine, an eight-ton tungsten rod descended toward the base, leaving the lieutenant colonel in its path.

• Red Queen controlled satellites near “Left Eye,” while Kurumi watched the weapon from Umbrella Headquarters.
• Soldiers A and B discussed a failed mission to gather intelligence, and Soldier B revealed that the target was Smith, a former Umbrella doctor.
• A lieutenant colonel ordered Soldiers A and B to move crates into a warehouse, where Soldier A picked one open and found tubes of medicine resembling Umbrella’s “Dawn.”
• The lieutenant colonel knocked Soldier A unconscious, ordered him taken to Smith, and had Soldier B arrested as well.
• The base’s radar detected a fast-approaching object, and an eight-ton tungsten rod slammed into the ground beside the lieutenant colonel.

A space-based tungsten weapon obliterated a military base, and Red Queen later allowed a few nations to detect the crater. The United States and other powers moved to investigate, while American military leaders gathered to determine what had happened.

• The tungsten rod struck the ground, killing the lieutenant colonel and triggering a devastating collapse that swallowed the military base.
• The crustal movement subsided, leaving a crater with no visible trace of the base or its inhabitants.
• Red Queen lifted satellite restrictions, allowing a small number of countries to detect the anomaly and investigate.
• The United States organized a coalition with Yingzhou Island and several European countries to negotiate with China in the Far East and the Polar Bear over access and benefits.
• American military leaders met with several seats empty, including Brooks's, and an elderly general demanded to know who had been responsible for the base.

After the military commanders blamed General Brown for handling the aftermath of a base destroyed by an unidentified weapon, one commander was pressured into reporting the Pentagon satellite control center to Minister Mattis. The chapter ended with the commander alone, fearing the report would ruin his career, as his phone displayed “Umbrella.”

• A four-star general decided to leave the unidentified-weapon incident to General Brown and ordered the commanders to send researchers.
• After the general and other senior officers left, a commander suggested that the Pentagon satellite control center had failed to warn General Brown’s base.
• The commanders pressured the man who raised the accusation to submit a report to Minister Mattis, while his superior declined to defend him.
• A lieutenant general told the distressed commander that Mattis would not harm him, then revealed that Mattis had served under General Brooks.
• Alone in the conference room, the commander worried that his report would bring a nominal promotion and a real demotion, then saw “Umbrella” on his phone.

Secretary of Defense Mattis confronted Jones over complaints blaming the satellite control center for failing to warn General Brown's base before it was destroyed. After examining satellite images and identifying the satellite as Moon Eye Modified, Mattis told Jones to report the incident and shift blame toward Brown, promising to handle the consequences.

• Mattis arrived at the satellite control center and showed Jones a stack of complaints accusing him of failing to warn General Brown's base.
• Jones realized he had been chosen as a scapegoat, and Mattis ordered him to display the satellite images of the destroyed base.
• Mattis examined the before-and-after images and had Jones identify the satellite that had captured them as Moon Eye Modified.
• Mattis learned that Moon Eye Modified had been in orbit for less than a month and that its predecessor, Moon Eye, had been involved in the previous supervisor's resignation.
• Mattis told Jones to write a report that blamed Brown as much as possible and said he would handle what followed.
• Mattis revealed that Brown had insisted on launching Moon Eye Modified.

Obama struggled to decide which country was responsible for the attack on a U.S. military base, while worrying that Congress would delay any response. Mattis brought him a classified report linking the base to the “Moon Eye,” and Obama questioned why the satellite had been replaced.

• Countries investigated the destruction and suspected one another, with the United States viewing the polar bear as a likely culprit.
• Obama reviewed the assessments and worried that Congress would waste time debating the issue instead of acting.
• Obama examined a chart ranking potential suspects and hesitated to take it to Congress.
• Mattis brought Obama a classified satellite control center report concerning the military base and the “Moon Eye.”
• Obama looked at the satellite image and asked Mattis whether the “Moon Eye” had not already been replaced.

Obama reviewed Mattis's report accusing General Brown of misconduct and agreed to investigate him if Mattis could produce evidence for at least five leads within three days. Obama also ordered a thorough investigation of all satellites, warning that the threat of an attack could turn New York or Washington into an artificial lake.

• Obama read Mattis's report on General Brown and questioned whether Mattis was serious about pursuing him.
• Mattis persuaded Obama to consider the investigation, while Obama set a three-day deadline for evidence supporting at least five leads.
• Obama promised to back Mattis if he produced the evidence and said he would keep the report secret from everyone else.
• Obama ordered Mattis to have the satellite control center investigate all satellites, providing written authorization for the operation.
• Obama demanded that Mattis push the investigation to its limits and warned that New York or Washington could become an artificial lake.

Major powers rushed to develop orbital weapons after seeing their potential, while Umbrella profited by supplying them with preliminary plans. In the lab, Kurumi tested a silver liquid material and considered Red Queen’s three methods for engraving magic patterns onto it.

• Major powers recruited experts and funded orbital-weapons research, and Red Queen accepted their investments in exchange for rough blueprints and a manufacturing plan.
• Red Queen covered Kurumi’s arm with silver liquid that could flow into a sphere under Kurumi’s mental control.
• Kurumi asked whether magic patterns could be engraved onto the material, and Red Queen warned that the engraved layer could not be removed.
• Red Queen outlined three approaches: rapid low-grade engraving, a prepared high-grade outfit, or a method combining both approaches that she had yet to complete.

Kurumi brought Red Queen into the divine spark space to help her study an elementary [Gamma]-level magic rune for her new glove. Red Queen returned to reality after sensing the rune, but it was unclear how much she had remembered.

• Kurumi chose to have Red Queen make gloves with the silver liquid and asked her to inscribe an elementary [Gamma]-level magic rune.
• Red Queen agreed to attempt the rune after running more models, and Kurumi used a mechanical arm to move the silver liquid sphere underground.
• Kurumi carefully drew Red Queen's spiritual body into the divine spark space and guided her through a vortex to a room filled with books.
• Red Queen became dizzy when she looked at ancient volumes, so Kurumi made them disappear and advised Red Queen to train her spiritual power.
• Kurumi guided Red Queen's mental power to sense the elementary [Gamma]-level rune, and Red Queen woke back in reality with her memory of it uncertain.

Kurumi completed two liquid-metal gloves engraved with beginner [Gamma]-level magical patterns, then collapsed into sleep from exhaustion. In Asgard, Odin banished Thor to Midgard and cast Mjolnir after him, leaving the hammer to choose who would become the new Thor.

• Kurumi and Red Queen used the cloud-computing bases and two machines to engrave magical patterns onto a pair of liquid-metal gloves.
• Kurumi recovered the remaining psychic power, put on the gloves, and decided not to test their magic while she was exhausted.
• Red Queen reported that the subsystems had messages, then entered sleep mode for twelve hours.
• Kurumi washed up, changed into pajamas, and fell asleep in her apartment overlooking New York.
• Thor and his companions invaded the Frost Giants' realm, where the Frost Giants overwhelmed his companions and the Frost Giant king wore Thor down.
• Odin banished Thor to Midgard and threw Mjolnir after him, declaring that whoever lifted it would earn the hammer's recognition and become the new Thor.

Kurumi woke at Umbrella Headquarters and reviewed Red Queen’s reports on Thor’s arrival in Midgard and a nerve-stimulating drug that might awaken her mental power. She learned Mjolnir may have appeared in the western desert and sent Andre to investigate, while expressing interest in seeing the hammer herself.

• Red Queen slept beside Kurumi after waking before her and preparing breakfast.
• Kurumi reviewed reports about S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new tower and the escaped scientist Smith, who had been confirmed dead.
• Red Queen explained that Smith’s drug could briefly release mental power by stimulating the nerves, but it drained life force.
• Kurumi asked Red Queen to improve the drug, trusting her to make it suitable for a second awakening of Kurumi’s mental power.
• Red Queen reported a powerful magnetic disturbance in the western United States, and Kurumi learned Andre had gone to investigate.
• Kurumi said she wanted to see Mjolnir with her own eyes.

Andre and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson both arrived at the site of Mjolnir’s landing in the western United States, where locals had failed to move the hammer. Andre claimed Umbrella had business there and warned Coulson that Kurumi would soon arrive, leaving Coulson to report Umbrella’s involvement to his director.

• Andre and his team watched locals fail to pull Mjolnir free, even after a pickup truck tore apart under the strain.
• Coulson arrived with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and cleared the civilians away from the hammer.
• Coulson approached Andre’s group, and the two men recognized each other from a past operation.
• Andre told Coulson that Umbrella was inspecting the site and might buy the land, then asked what permits Kurumi’s assistant would need.
• Coulson said the site would soon become a military restricted zone, while Andre insisted that would not stop Umbrella.
• After Andre left, Coulson frowned and decided to report Umbrella’s involvement to his director.

Kurumi and Andre arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s temporary base during a violent storm to inspect the immovable hammer. Coulson led them to Mjolnir, where Kurumi noticed a formally dressed man approaching.

• Kurumi rode with Andre through the storm toward the military restricted zone and asked about the hammer.
• Hawkeye spotted the Umbrella vehicle, reported that Kurumi and Andre had arrived, and watched them enter the base with Coulson.
• Coulson told Kurumi that an unidentified man had caused damage to the base and that S.H.I.E.L.D. had found no records of him.
• Coulson led the group to Mjolnir, which remained atop an earthen pillar, and Andre remarked on its weight.
• Kurumi noticed a formally dressed man approaching as the group looked down at Mjolnir.

Loki secretly inspected Mjolnir at the temporary base, but Kurumi detected his presence before he vanished. Kurumi examined the hammer with magic and reached for its handle as thunder and lightning intensified overhead.

• Loki tried and failed to lift Mjolnir, noticed Kurumi watching him, and disappeared from the base.
• Kurumi told Coulson she wanted to inspect Mjolnir, and he escorted her outside despite his concerns.
• Red Queen detected unusual airflow near the entrance and realized Kurumi had likely sensed Loki.
• Kurumi used an Eye of Spell Breaking to reveal the magical runes on Mjolnir as thunderclouds gathered.
• Kurumi placed her hand on Mjolnir's handle while Coulson worried about the growing storm.

Kurumi used her magic-enhanced glove to overcome Mjolnir’s resistance and lift the hammer, triggering violent lightning and alarming Coulson. The chapter ended with Kurumi holding Mjolnir while her sea of consciousness swallowed the hammer’s spiritual imprint.

• Kurumi tried to lift Mjolnir with one hand and then both, but the hammer would not budge.
• Kurumi infused her right hand with spiritual energy and magic, while Andre stopped Coulson from intervening.
• Kurumi’s magic patterns activated and cracked the pillar beneath Mjolnir as thunderclouds gathered overhead.
• Lightning struck around Kurumi, and Coulson tried to reach her, but the storm surged whenever he approached.
• Kurumi lifted Mjolnir and swallowed its attempted spiritual warning with her sea of consciousness.

Kurumi tested the Meow Meow Hammer and found she could influence the lightning, though she decided the weapon was not useful to her. Coulson then went to deal with a detained man, while Dr. Selvig vouched for him and asked for his confiscated research equipment back.

• Kurumi used the Meow Meow Hammer to summon lightning, striking two places near the temporary base with unexpected force and accuracy.
• Kurumi put the hammer back and decided its runes and abilities were not suitable for her.
• An agent told Coulson that someone had come to vouch for the man in the holding cell, and Coulson explained the situation to Kurumi.
• Kurumi chose to accompany Coulson to see the visitor, while Andre joked with Coulson about her interest in the hammer.
• Dr. Selvig vouched for the detained man and asked Coulson to return the equipment previously seized from his research institute.

Kurumi persuaded Coulson to return Dr. Selvig’s research materials while allowing S.H.I.E.L.D. to copy the data and temporarily requisition some instruments. Before leaving, she offered Selvig a job at Umbrella, and he asked for time to consider.

• Kurumi challenged Coulson’s seizure of Selvig’s research materials, and Coulson agreed to return them while arranging compensation and a pickup truck.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agents copied the research data as they loaded the instruments, while Red Queen copied everything too.
• Selvig thanked Kurumi for helping his research institute and introduced Thor, who said he was the God of Thunder.
• Kurumi offered Selvig a position at Umbrella, and he asked for a few days to consider it because the research belonged to others as well.
• Andre told Kurumi it was time to leave, and she departed after bidding Selvig and Thor farewell.