Chapter Summaries

Chen and Sandora welcomed Viska and the God Realm’s envoys into their home, then learned that investigators had found signs that some Old Empire colonies might have survived the Abyss disaster. Viska offered to share what the God Realm knew and asked about the rebels and their disabled warships.

• Monina explained that Ding Dang was hopeless at exams and reports, while Lin apologized for damaging Ilson and promised to repair the territory.
• Chen brought the God Realm’s envoys to the Chen Family Mansion, where Viska praised its warmth and Saeko welcomed the gods as guests.
• Monina and Anweina competed to cook while Lilina played cards with the gods, and Sandora briefed Viska on the Empire’s destruction and the Fallen Apostle.
• Viska reported that investigators had found gaps in the destruction’s affected regions, suggesting that some Old Empire colonial worlds had survived without self-destructing.
• Sandora refused Viska’s offer to handle the Fallen Apostle, saying the Empire would deal with its former compatriots itself.
• Viska asked about the rebel war, and Chen explained that most rebels had died and their remaining warships had become unusable after the Hall of Documents was shut down.

Chen and Sandora showed Viska around Shadow City, where the Goddess of Light caused trouble by collecting offerings and preaching to the undead. Viska learned about the planned gathering of a thousand worlds and myriad races and offered to help organize it.

• Chen described the god-race envoys, including the members of Ding Dang Squad and Kenser, while Kenser prepared a report for the God Realm.
• Chen and Sandora took Viska through Shadow City’s Azeroth human district, where Chen chased Sikaro for selling pirated goods and Viska asked to visit the Great Cathedral.
• Viska collected money from the cathedral clergy, mistaking them for followers who should pay her, and Chen explained the Battle Sisters Order’s role.
• In the undead district, Viska preached as the Lord of Shadows and blessed the undead while selling them pork belly and calcium tablets.
• After Viska asked what Shadow City had planned for the next day, Chen told her about the gathering of a thousand worlds and myriad races, and she offered to give suggestions.

Chen and Sandora reprimanded Viska, Ilson, and Lin for causing trouble, then Chen helped plan the upcoming Multi-world Carnival with Viska. Bubble reported that preparations were underway, demanded time off, and proposed using the break to bring Suigintou’s younger sisters over.

• Chen and Sandora confronted Viska, Ilson, and Lin about their recent disruptions, and Chen assigned Ilson to catch Sikaro as a challenge.
• Lin accidentally crushed the household refrigerator while trying to fetch Chen a bottle of water, and Monina explained the Dragon God Girl’s immense strength.
• Chen and Viska discussed the Multi-world Carnival, settling on three connected venues: Shadow Space, Azeroth World, and Mars Shelter.
• Bubble reported that the World Hub and carnival preparations were on schedule, then complained that the workload had left her no time to relax.
• Chen agreed that Bubble deserved a break, and Bubble proposed bringing Suigintou’s younger sisters over.

Chen Jun and his family traveled to Suigintou’s world to invite Shizaki Megumi to the upcoming carnival. After Suigintou and Megumi reunited, Chen Jun and Qian Qian left them alone to catch up.

• Chen Jun broke up Suigintou and Lilina’s fight over yogurt, and Qian Qian suggested they were jealous of each other.
• Chen Jun told Suigintou that they were going to visit her sisters and Little Hui, and Suigintou nervously prepared for the trip.
• Chen Jun, Qian Qian, Bubble, and Suigintou traveled through the Dimensional Hub to meet Shizaki Megumi.
• Chen Jun and Qian Qian invited Megumi to attend the carnival and explained how she could use her Null Beacon to travel between worlds.
• Suigintou revealed herself to Megumi, and Chen Jun and Qian Qian left the two friends together.

After leaving Shizaki Megumi, the narrator and Qian Qian spent a playful afternoon shopping with Bubble before reaching Sakurada Jun's house to meet Suigintou's sisters. Suiseiseki mistook the visitors for a threat and raised the alarm, leaving the narrator and Qian Qian expecting trouble.

• The narrator explained that Suigintou was avoiding her sisters because she was embarrassed, and decided to let her postpone their reunion.
• Qian Qian told the narrator she was happy to spend relaxed time with him, and they set off shopping with Bubble.
• Tourists mistook the trio for a family, prompting Bubble to insist that she was the narrator's wife and damage a lamppost in anger.
• Qian Qian led the narrator and Bubble through a long shopping trip, repeatedly forcing the narrator to keep Bubble from attacking people who called her a child.
• The group arrived at Sakurada Jun's house, where Bubble eagerly pounded on the door while fantasizing about the dolls inside.
• Suiseiseki opened the door, heard the narrator mention the Time-Space Administration, slammed it shut, and warned the others that a Great Demon Lord had arrived.

A Jun, Qian Qian, and Bubble confronted Suigintou’s sisters after her misleading letter triggered a coordinated attack, then explained that the letter had been an invitation. Suigintou emerged from hiding, greeted Shinku peacefully, and invited the Rozen Maidens to a carnival at her home, while excluding Sakurada Jun.

• Suiseiseki and the other Rozen Maidens attacked A Jun and Qian Qian, but Qian Qian froze time and they captured Canary and Souseiseki.
• Bubble arrived in an armed Sentry Gun and forced the Rozen Maidens and Sakurada Jun to surrender.
• A Jun explained that Suigintou’s letter had invited her sisters to a carnival, and Shinku questioned his account of Suigintou’s time away.
• Suigintou came out of hiding, greeted Shinku calmly, and invited her sisters to play at her home.
• Suigintou told her sisters not to apologize and excluded Sakurada Jun from the invitation as A Jun handed out IQ cards.

The narrator brought Suigintou and the Rozen Maidens back to Shadow City and hosted them for dinner in Avalon, where they began reconnecting with one another. Sylvanas appeared at the feast after skipping work and said the Forsaken had already planned their carnival activities.

• Suigintou explained that Shizaki Megumi could not join them because her family would worry if she disappeared for a month, and asked for a special pass so she could visit the carnival regularly.
• The narrator and the doll girls transferred to Shadow City, where the Rozen Maidens marveled at the Dimensional Hub and the city around it.
• The narrator took the Rozen Maidens through a portal to Avalon and arranged a group dinner by Fairy Lake, where Hinamichigo ran off to play with the local animals.
• The Heroic Spirits toasted Suigintou, and the narrator encouraged her to sit with her sisters and talk.
• Sylvanas arrived at the feast, explained that she had skipped work to visit, and said the Forsaken had drafted their carnival activity plan ahead of Varian.

The narrator received the Forsaken’s Carnival plan as Sylvanas and several other Azeroth leaders arrived, revealing the friendly rivalry and growing unity among the races. After a family dinner with the visiting heroes and doll sisters, the narrator went to the Great Temple and learned that Fina was being baptized into Ding Dang’s church without the narrator’s knowledge.

• Sylvanas submitted the Forsaken’s detailed Carnival plan first, while Varian, Magni, and Thrall arrived after skipping work and lamented that they had lost the chance to register early.
• The narrator explained that Azeroth’s history had diverged from Earth’s WoW projections, and welcomed Suiseiseki as the assembled heroes and leaders joined the dinner.
• The narrator sent Suigintou to explore with her sisters, then traveled to the Great Temple to visit Fina during her treatment.
• Medea told the narrator that the Misaka Sisters were preparing Carnival performances, including a ten-thousand-person choir, group gymnastics, and an orbital-drop troop display.
• Medea revealed that Fina had chosen to follow Ding Dang and was receiving baptism, though the narrator had not instructed her to do so.

Fina completed her baptism into the Life Goddess Church, after which Ding Dang mistook the Goddess statue for an idiot and caused a historic scandal. The narrator visited Fina at her cottage, learned she felt happier in Avalon despite struggling to understand her emotions, and discussed her appearance at the upcoming carnival.

• Fina answered Artemis's final baptism question truthfully and became a follower of the Goddess.
• The narrator introduced Fina to Ding Dang, who mistook the statue of the Goddess for an idiot and prompted the congregation to escort them out.
• The narrator visited Fina's cottage and found it tidy but almost entirely without decorations or signs of personal hobbies.
• Fina told the narrator she could not express or interpret her emotions but felt happier than she had on the Iron Throne.
• The narrator admitted he had come to Fina's cottage for quiet while Suigintou's sisters visited, then raised the need for Fina to attend the carnival.

After visiting Fina, A Jun returned home to find the Rozen Maidens watching their own anime and Azeroth’s heroes playing a video game in Bubble’s recreation room. The heroes explained that the game showed a broken future their world had escaped, then asked A Jun to fill in as their missing tank.

• A Jun left Fina’s house with Ding Dang, who sulked over learning that the statue in the Baptism Hall had been modeled after her, until a lollipop cheered her up.
• A Jun returned to find Qian Qian worried about Fina and the Rozen Maidens watching Rozen Maiden until the Light Disc player broke.
• A Jun followed Magni’s shouts upstairs and found Bubble, Sylvanas, Thrall, Varian, Magni, Jaina, Kain, Vol’jin, and Isana playing a video game in Bubble’s recreation room.
• The Azerothian heroes joked about raiding their game’s version of Undercity and explained that their world had escaped the grim fate the game depicted.
• Jaina interrupted A Jun’s thoughts about prophetic information projections and told him their group was short a tank.

The narrator watched Suigintou and her sisters reunite, then helped settle them in for the night after Suigintou told them Lilina’s bizarre fairy tale. He later entered his Soul World to check on Alaya and found a white girl curled up there.

• Suigintou and the other Rozen Maidens gathered in the narrator’s room, where Suigintou teased her sisters about the house’s ghost and showed off her remodeled trunk.
• At Hinamichigo’s request, Suigintou read a strange story from a book Lilina had given her, and Suiseiseki and Canary invented dark theories about its plot.
• The narrator ended the discussion and sent the Rozen Maidens to bed, while Shinku thanked him for caring for Suigintou.
• After reading Lilina’s note in the book, the narrator reflected on Suigintou’s loneliness and her wish to grow close to her sisters.
• The narrator entered his Soul World to check whether Alaya had wandered off and found a white girl curled up in the empty white space.

The narrator discovered that a fragile white spirit in his mental world had nearly been erased by his power and found her unable to remember who she was. After he named her Kirakishou and left her to rest, the Rozen Maidens woke him with a box barrage, and a school notice revealed that a parents’ meeting was coming.

• The narrator checked on the white spirit and learned from Alaya that his mental power had been weakening her until she nearly became part of his thoughts.
• The spirit woke, repeated the narrator’s words without understanding them, and showed none of the familiar personalities of Kirakishou or Rozen Crystal.
• The narrator named the spirit Kirakishou, taught her to repeat the name, and left his mental world to discuss her condition with Sandora later.
• The Rozen Maidens woke the narrator by hurling boxes at him, and he discovered that Suigintou had led the morning ambush.
• A Suigintou Magic Puppet delivered a school notice, and the narrator realized the teachers had scheduled a parents’ meeting.

The narrator attended a parent-teacher conference for the Misaka Sisters at the Imperial Military Academy, where their enormous gathering became a rehearsal for the carnival. After enduring their synchronized choruses, he left the academy and ran into Misaka Mikoto, Shirai Kuroko, Kazari Uiharu, Ruiko Saten, and other familiar faces.

• The narrator discovered that the conference covered the entire Junior High Department, leaving him as the sole parent for more than ten thousand Misaka Sisters.
• Medea explained that the Misakas wanted the narrator to preview their carnival performances, and the conference turned into a chaotic rehearsal.
• The Misaka Sisters performed several enormous choruses, overwhelming the narrator and many teachers; he insisted their performance remain on the carnival program.
• The narrator stumbled into Misaka Mikoto at the academy gate, and Misaka Mikoto electrocuted Shirai Kuroko after she accused him of seeking fanservice.
• The narrator tossed the recovering Shirai Kuroko into a flowerbed, then greeted Kazari Uiharu and Ruiko Saten as they admired the academy and joked around.
• A red-haired delinquent priest and Laura Stuart appeared nearby as the girls continued their antics.

The narrator toured Shadow City with representatives from the A Certain Magical Index world, discussed the upcoming Multi-world Carnival and the recent war, and visited Silvia's Candy House. There, he asked his new commander Aura to remove her faceplate, but she hesitated and entered Standby Mode.

• The narrator took Ruiko Saten, Kazari Uiharu, Misaka Mikoto, Laura Stuart, and the others through Shadow City as visitors arrived ahead of the Multi-world Carnival.
• Laura Stuart described the uneasy atmosphere around the newly arrived Pan-Galactic Civilization Community and explained that her world was preparing a display of its mystical culture.
• Laura proposed compiling a new Book of Miracles, and the narrator offered to have Alaya endorse it as an angel.
• Ruiko suggested visiting Silvia, and the group went to her Candy House.
• Aura arrived on routine patrol, reported that most Leader Bees had recovered their mission capability, and the narrator asked her to remove her faceplate.
• Aura agreed only after hesitating, but when the narrator asked whether removing the faceplate was harmful, she fell silent and entered Standby Mode.

After Sandora explained how the Empire’s extermination of Akionec led to Aura and the Leader Bees’ creation, A Jun tried to lift her spirits in a winter park. The mood shifted when a group of familiar God Race troublemakers arrived, leaving A Jun to face their suspiciously cheap disguises.

• A Jun found Sandora foraging near the Old City District and asked her whether Kirakishou’s erased memories could be restored; Sandora said it was unlikely and urged him to care for the girl.
• A Jun asked Sandora about Aura’s faceplate, and Sandora revealed that Aura had once commanded the Empire’s extermination of the Akionec.
• Sandora explained that the Akionec had been studying how to reverse Abyss Infection, and that Aura and her guards fused with the slain Akionec souls to become the first Leader Bees.
• Sandora said the Leader Bees wore faceplates modeled on Akionec heads as a memorial and atonement, and described how the tragedy prompted limited changes in Imperial policy.
• A Jun tried to cheer Sandora by suggesting they discuss the winter scenery, but Sandora said she preferred eating shrubs and traffic barriers.
• A group including Viska, Monina, 123, Kenser, and Lin approached A Jun and Sandora in human disguises, and A Jun recognized them as God Race troublemakers.

Chen and Sandora took Viska, Monina, Lin, Kenser, and 123 to a shopping mall after the gods’ unconventional disguises drew attention around the city. The group shopped energetically, and the chapter ended when someone behind them recognized Wood.

• Viska reunited with Chen, showed off a dress she had robbed and paid for, and explained that the group had attracted attention in their original outfits.
• Monina revealed that Bubble’s cosplay sign had helped redirect attention toward 123, and Chen learned that the group had spent the day eating and exploring with Sandora.
• Chen and Sandora led the gods to Yu Tai Building, where Viska and the others eagerly shopped while Sandora used psychic dispersal to thin the crowd.
• Viska tried on a violet sweatshirt, Monina picked out clothes, Lin declined to shop, and Sandora said she would rather eat later.
• Someone nearby saw Chen and called out, “Wood?”

Chen, Sandora, and a group of gods went shopping with Lin Xue and Ding Ling, turning an ordinary outing into an exhausting spree. Before they parted, Chen and Sandora invited Ding Ling and Lin Feng to attend the Empire’s Carnival as Lin Xue’s guests, provided they kept it secret.

• Lin Xue and Ding Ling ran into Chen, Sandora, and the gods, and Chen secretly told Ding Ling that the visitors were gods allied with the Empire.
• Lin Xue and Ding Ling joined the group as Viska and the others finished choosing clothes for 123.
• Viska and Sandora led the group on a long shopping trip, while Ding Dang insisted that Chen needed clothes with many pockets and pointed to a handbag rack as her new house.
• Chen invited Ding Ling and Lin Feng to attend the Carnival with Lin Xue, and Sandora allowed it on the condition that they kept the event secret.
• Lin Xue followed the group after they parted ways, openly declaring that she was coming to mooch a meal.

The narrator and Sandora reviewed preparations for the approaching carnival and met Reimu and Yakumo Yukari, who had been caught fighting Imperial forces after crossing into the Empire. The chapter ended with the narrator revealing that they were the Emperor and warning Reimu that her bonus needed to be discussed.

• The narrator and Sandora visited Shadow City to review the carnival preparations and the Time-Space Administration’s expanding network of registered worlds and agents.
• Siweisi reported that she had strengthened carnival security with rapid-response troops and an Urban Management Brigade, and praised two new workers recruited after a conflict with Imperial personnel.
• The narrator and Sandora found Reimu and Yakumo Yukari working near the Dimensional Hub to repay damages after fighting C.C.’s agents and Imperial forces.
• Reimu described how she and Yukari had emerged through the Black Gate, fought guards and warships, and surrendered when more ships arrived.
• The narrator revealed that they and Sandora were the Emperor and warned Reimu that her monthly bonus was up for discussion.

A Jun discovered that the newly reborn Kirakishou feared being abandoned, so he and Alaya strengthened her and created a way for her to appear in the real world. He introduced her to the household, where the other Rozen Maidens welcomed her as their younger sister.

• Kirakishou began to dissipate in the Spiritual Sea, then clung to A Jun and cried until Alaya suggested she feared being abandoned.
• A Jun and Alaya realized Kirakishou depended on them, strengthened her perception, and created Angel's Ring so she could safely manifest outside the Spiritual Sea.
• A Jun introduced Kirakishou to the household, and she briefly turned into smoke when Qian Qian tried to pat her head.
• Kirakishou grew more comfortable among the family, and Suigintou awkwardly welcomed her as her younger sister.

On the eve of the Carnival, the Emperor watched Shadow City prepare for the festival and reflected on the worlds and war heroes it would bring together. At the Totem Area, Gaia appeared as the Emperor waited for the opening ceremony.

• Kirakishou returned to the Emperor's mind to sleep after she proved too weak to remain outside, while preparations for the Carnival continued.
• Hakurei Reimu's proposal led visitors' worlds to establish their own security groups, and the Misakas formed the Judgment Suigintou Legion to help maintain order.
• Yakumo Yukari worked off her debt alongside Reimu, while the Emperor told them that their homeworlds had not yet been found and invited them to attend the opening ceremony.
• The Emperor wandered through the completed Carnival grounds and visited the Totem Area, which displayed records and names of heroes who had died defending their worlds.
• Gaia appeared beside the Emperor and said that dawn was finally about to arrive.