Chapter Summaries

After the carnival ended, A Jun reassured Suigintou that her sisters could visit often, then Qian Qian came to him at night and said she wanted to take their relationship further. The chapter left them alone together as A Jun prepared to keep the household from discovering their night together.

• Sandora ended the carnival with a brief speech, while A Jun recovered from the fireworks with Suigintou wiping his face.
• A Jun worried that Suigintou's sisters would return home, but Suigintou asked him to arrange monthly travel passes so they could visit often.
• A Jun promised Suigintou that her sisters could come to Shadow City whenever they wanted, and she went to sleep in her box.
• Qian Qian visited A Jun at night and explained that she had been thinking for two months about taking things further with him.
• A Jun kissed Qian Qian and prepared to prevent the others in the household from noticing their night together.

After spending the morning with Qian Qian and seeing off the carnival’s departing visitors, the narrator visited the monster town and found that Suika had organized an open arena competition. The matches were underway, with monsters, Heroic Spirits, and Imperial Soldiers gathered to watch and participate.

• Qian Qian stayed in bed chatting with the narrator, then quickly dressed and tidied the room after twisting time when he got up.
• Older Sister, Sandora, and Anweina reacted to the narrator and Qian Qian’s relationship, and Older Sister explained that Qian Qian had accidentally visited everyone’s rooms the night before.
• The narrator saw off Tohsaka, Ilya, Emiya, Sakura, Berserker, and Rider at the Dimensional Hub, where Rider planned to enter a motorcycle race.
• Misaka, Ruiko, Laura, Kanzaki, Stiyl, and their companions missed their train after a series of mishaps, so the narrator directed them to the officer passage.
• The narrator considered expanding the Dimensional Hub’s transport network, then went to the monster town and found a large arena competition organized after Suika suggested that everyone find someone to challenge.

Chen attended the Avalon Talent Show, organized by Viska to entertain Gensokyo’s yokai, Heroic Spirits, and Imperial Soldiers. After an assassin duel ended with one fighter wandering the arena for an hour and a half, Ilson and Sikaro began a defensive-skill contest that left the audience exasperated.

• Viska explained that she had organized the talent show to give the yokai, Heroic Spirits, and Imperial Soldiers a chance to relax, and Chen joined her at the judges’ table.
• A Heroic Spirit Assassin and an Imperial Agent vanished during their duel; Viska dispelled their invisibility, revealing the Assassin had been circling alone while the Agent had gone to buy water.
• Chen ordered the Agent commander locked up for two weeks after the Agent admitted leaving the arena to get a drink without paying Reimu.
• Ilson challenged Sikaro to a five-exchange contest of defensive skills, and the two covered opposite halves of the arena with barriers.
• Ilson and Sikaro repeatedly reinforced their defenses instead of attacking, prompting the audience, Viska, and Chen to complain about their embarrassing contest.

Lin's strength contest with Ibuki Suika wrecked the arena, and the chapter then examined the Time-Space Administration's everyday work and the influence its employees were building in other worlds. It left with a warning that another large group of troublemakers had arrived in the Empire's capital, while the Administration's reach continued to expand.

• Marisa and Yakumo Ran announced that the arena tournament would become an official recurring Avalon event, and Qian Qian said she had arranged it.
• Ibuki Suika challenged the crowd, and Monina's teammates pushed Lin onto the stage to face her in a strength contest.
• Lin transformed into a giant Golden Two-Headed Dragon and accidentally flicked Suika into a three-kilometer-deep hole, then flattened much of the arena with her tail.
• The tournament ended with no champion, Suika woke with a broken horn, and she chased the narrator after he glued an ice cream cone onto it as a temporary repair.
• The narrator described how Time-Space Administration employees gathered intelligence, intervened in crises, and built local organizations across their assigned worlds.
• The chapter warned that another numerous group of troublemakers had reached the Empire's capital and partnered with local organizations.

Shadow City remained peaceful as Gensokyo monsters settled in and household mishaps kept everyone busy. During a quiet park visit, Lin Xue acknowledged her feelings for Wood, then warned him that their idle time was about to end.

• Wood described Shadow City's weather factions, the Empire's research and expansion, and the arrival of monsters from Gensokyo.
• Wood recounted Busujima Saeko's vigilante outings, Ding Dang's disastrous attempt to answer students' prayers, and the interruptions keeping him from spending time alone with Qian Qian.
• Wood met Lin Xue in a suburban park while Xiao Qi Jing played nearby and grew stronger outside.
• Lin Xue admitted she was upset about Wood and Qian Qian's relationship, but leaned against him and agreed to come to his house for dinner.
• As Wood and Lin Xue relaxed together, Lin Xue warned that Wood was about to have something to do again.

Lin Xue told Wood that they would soon be getting involved in something good, and he returned home to find Flandre visiting Little Pao Pao after the Scarlet Devil Mansion moved to monster town. The children made up after a series of mishaps, while Sakuya Izayoi admired Anweina’s cooking and Sandora eagerly ate her unusual dish.

• Lin Xue told Wood that they had been idle long enough and hinted that an opportunity was coming, while Xiao Qi Jing called Lin Xue “Mommy” and “Half-immortal.”
• Wood and Lin Xue drove Seven Trillion home and encountered Busujima Saeko carrying a bundle after she returned from shopping.
• Wood found Little Pao Pao and Flandre crying in the living room, and Older Sister explained that Little Pao Pao had brought her new friend home from the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
• Viska explained that Monina had sealed Flandre’s destructive power and that the seal sometimes made her behave like a very young child.
• Little Pao Pao and Flandre resumed playing, but Little Pao Pao pulled off one of Flandre’s crystal feathers, which the adults glued back into place.
• Sakuya Izayoi praised Anweina’s cooking, and Sandora began eating the Isolation Pier Fried High-Low Bar Anweina had prepared for her.

After Sakuya Izayoi and Flandre left, Viska told Chen and Sandora that Father God had invited them to the God Realm. The family prepared for the visit and set out together, with Chen reluctantly riding Lin.

• Sakuya Izayoi took Flandre back to the Scarlet Devil Mansion because Flandre needed the Fairy Forest's power to suppress her impulses.
• Viska relayed Father God's invitation for Chen and Sandora to visit the God Realm, along with his chaotic message about family squabbles and braised pork.
• Sandora described the God Realm as a beautiful but unpredictable place that was friendly to visitors, while Viska warned Chen not to speak to Salong Qian Yuhao.
• Chen's family prepared to travel, and Sandora planned to eat enough at Viska's home to make up for the God Race Cops Five-Man Team's freeloading.
• The group gathered near the Garden of Departure, confirmed Shadow City would manage in their absence, and boarded Lin to travel to the God Realm.

Chen and the others traveled through the Void on Lin’s back while Viska and Sandora explained how worlds were identified and reached. Little Pao Pao found a shed Dragon God scale, and Viska proposed making something from it.

• The group rode Lin through the Void while Monina, Sandora, Suigintou, Bubble, and Lin Xue occupied themselves on her back.
• Viska explained that worlds were located by their unique descriptions and that Void travel worked by matching or simulating a destination’s characteristics.
• Chen compared world descriptions to frequencies and identification codes, and Sandora described how beacons made transfers faster.
• Viska explained that reaching the God Realm required locating a Void Node, a lighthouse established by the God Race.
• Little Pao Pao showed the group a crystalline dragon scale, and Viska said it had probably fallen off while Lin shed her scales.
• Viska suggested carving a set of mahjong tiles from the scale.

The group reached a God Clan Void Node after Lin’s rough landing, then teleported into the God Realm and saw its floating continents. Viska led the visitors onward toward her home, where her father was waiting.

• Viska spotted Void Node 118114 and told the group they would enter the God Realm after stopping there.
• The group jumped from Lin as she landed on the platform, where God servants tended to her and guards registered the visitors.
• The guards teleported the group from the Void Node to the God Realm.
• Viska showed the group the floating continents and explained that the God Realm had infinite, superimposed space.
• Viska led the group toward her home, saying her father was already prepared to receive them.

Chen and his companions visited Viska’s home in the God Realm, where Viska explained the shifting continents and the Garden before bringing them to the Obsidian Palace. They met Viska’s eccentric parents, and Kuwa Yin thanked Chen for saving his daughter.

• Viska explained how the God Realm’s continents shifted between Concept Layers as the group flew toward the Garden.
• Viska brought the group to the Obsidian Palace, where its talkative front door opened after she threatened it with a City Breaker.
• Viska introduced the group to her servant Mo, who explained that Kuwa Yin had ordered the servants not to greet her.
• Kuwa Yin tumbled down the stairs after Viska called him mentally troubled, and Aisha Li descended afterward to welcome the guests.
• Kuwa Yin thanked Chen for saving Viska and said he might otherwise have forgotten he had a daughter.

The narrator’s family stayed at Viska’s lavish home while waiting to meet Father God, and Viska’s dignified parents soon revealed their chaotic side. As the family explored and ate, Suigintou grew more comfortable with the narrator and asked whether he would ever abandon her.

• The narrator and his family met Viska’s parents, Kuwa Yin and Aisha Li, and learned that Viska blamed her years of schooling for becoming a rogue.
• Kuwa Yin hosted a banquet, where Sandora ate at astonishing speed and Viska explained that divine servants included both advanced believers and God Race apprentices.
• Aisha Li recognized Suigintou’s resemblance to young Viska, and Kuwa Yin mistook Suigintou for Viska’s child after seeing her wings.
• Viska and Aisha Li chased Kuwa Yin through the house after Suigintou fell into a salad bowl, while the guests split up to explore and talk.
• The narrator cleaned and changed Suigintou, reassured her that he would stay by her side, and watched her fall asleep on his shoulder.

Viska showed Chen and the others her family’s vast library, where books preserved memories, feelings, and knowledge in forms shaped by their owners’ wishes. She left them stunned by the library’s wonders and her unexpected love of reading, though she still valued books as weapons.

• Viska led the group through her mother’s library and explained that many books recorded the complete lives and memories of ordinary people.
• Chen opened Gondogons’s wordless book and briefly experienced memories from the mortal boy’s life before Viska explained how the book preserved his wish to be remembered.
• Viska showed them books containing a performer’s happiness, an alchemist’s inspiration, a cook’s flavors, and the memories of a world destroyed by an Abyss outbreak.
• Lilina was flattened by the heavy Tuham’s Memoirs after Suigintou pushed it onto her.
• Viska explained that she behaved quietly in the library because her mother had scolded her for making noise as a child, and admitted she loved reading.
• Viska defended her love of books by saying they could broaden horizons or be used to hit an enemy.

Chen Jun wandered out of Viska’s palace and met Jia Jia, the Highest Life Goddess, who invited him and Ding Dang to a gathering of Life Goddesses. After crossing a Concept Layer into a forest clearing, Chen Jun was buried beneath a sudden flood of leaves as the gathering’s guests appeared.

• Chen Jun left Viska’s room for a walk, got lost in the palace, and finally reached the entrance with Mo’s help.
• Chen Jun explored the God Realm’s grasslands, endured attacks from its wildlife, and captured a strange lightning-shooting creature for Sandora.
• Jia Jia introduced herself to Chen Jun, recognized Ding Dang, and invited them to a gathering of Life Goddesses.
• Jia Jia explained that the God Realm’s spaces were layered through concepts, then led Chen Jun and Ding Dang into a forest clearing.
• Jia Jia called for the Life Goddesses to emerge, and a flood of leaves buried Chen Jun.

A Jun attended a gathering of the Life Goddesses, where thousands of playful sprites ambushed him, swarmed him for candy, and turned the feast into chaos. As the gathering wound down, Jia Jia revealed that Star Minister was Father God and her best friend.

• Thousands of Life Goddesses burst from beneath fallen leaves and knocked A Jun to the ground as a prank welcome.
• Jia Jia and Ding Dang explained that the sprites had gathered to celebrate the Highest Life Goddess's Blue Ice Grapes and that they were curious about A Jun.
• A Jun shared his candy with the Life Goddesses, who eagerly grabbed it and caused a string of mishaps while eating it.
• A Jun asked Jia Jia who Star Minister was, and she told him Star Minister was Father God and her best friend.

After meeting the Life Goddesses, Chen returned to Viska’s temple and spent the next morning exploring the Garden with his companions. Viska then received Father God’s message, and they set out for the Glorious Divine Court for their scheduled meeting.

• Chen learned Father God’s name was Xingchen and joined Jia Jia and the Life Goddesses at their gathering before returning to Viska’s temple late at night.
• Chen told Qian Qian, Sandora, and Viska about the gathering, and his first day in the God Realm ended.
• The next morning, Viska led Chen and the others through the Garden, showing them its quiet streets, markets, and everyday life.
• Chen saw a Dark God Race girl with white wings and learned she had dyed them at a feather salon.
• Viska compared the Garden with the Empire’s former cities and praised Shadow City’s potential before receiving Father God’s message.
• Viska led the group toward the Glorious Divine Court for their meeting with Father God.

The family tour group visited Father God at the Glorious Divine Court, where they met the God Race leaders and shared a chaotic banquet. Father God then revealed that the Fallen Apostles had destroyed a world and stolen its Stack System, leaving the group with evidence of a wider threat.

• Father God warmly welcomed the family tour group, promised Viska her allowance, and greeted Ding Dang at the entrance to his palace.
• Father God introduced his daughter Jia Di and the Supreme Dark Goddess Suo La Fiel, while Viska and Ding Dang's arrival frightened the gathered gods with memories of their past mischief.
• Sandora and the others ate with Father God before he sent the children to play and began discussing the disaster that had struck the Empire and other civilizations resisting the Abyss.
• Suo La showed Father God an Abyss-infected fragment of a World Stack System that the God Race Vanguard Teams had found in a destroyed world.
• Father God explained that the Fallen Apostles had destroyed the world and that its entire Stack System had disappeared, leading the group to conclude that it had been stolen.

The group investigated why the Fallen Apostles had stolen God Race systems and learned they were collecting World Hearts, possibly to alter the Void’s final order. Father God ordered stronger defenses and further investigation, while the Fallen Apostles’ true goal remained uncertain.

• The group realized that the Fallen Apostles had stolen both a World Management Terminal and a Stack System, which were incompatible with Shilin technology and unlikely to be useful on their own.
• Sandora connected the thefts to other Fallen Apostles’ raids, and Zoram identified stolen objects from several worlds as World Hearts or parts of them.
• Viska explained that a World Heart carried a world’s information entanglement point, and Zoram suggested the Fallen Apostles might be using the objects in a ritual to alter the Void’s final order.
• Father God speculated that the ritual could create another God Realm, then ordered Suo Wa Lei to obtain the Void Atlas, Fei'er to strengthen defenses, and Zoram to continue investigating.
• Father God turned to the narrator to handle arrangements, but the narrator handed the task to Sandora, who bit him.

Chen Jun and the God Race agreed to coordinate against the Fallen Apostles, including establishing a direct teleportation link between the imperial capital and the God Realm. After a fight brought him to Xi Yan, a human turned composite lifeform with imperial psionic energy, Chen Jun chose to leave her free to live her own life.

• Chen Jun proposed that the Empire and the gods monitor their own territories and share intelligence about the Fallen Apostles, and Sandora offered imperial forces for the coming battles.
• Sandora asked for a permanent Teleportation Gate between the imperial capital and the God Realm, and Father God agreed to place it near Little Ding Dang's temple.
• Father God warned that the Fallen Apostles would remain persistent, while Sandora acknowledged the Empire's responsibility for the disaster that created them.
• Chen Jun and Older Sister found Pandora and Viska fighting an unfamiliar girl, whom Father God introduced as Xi Yan, a former human with Shilin psionic energy and God Race traits.
• Father God explained that Xi Yan had integrated an abandoned imperial outpost, but Chen Jun declined to claim control over her powers and invited her to live freely as his friend.

After discussing the risks posed by abandoned Shilin Apostle relics, Father God took the narrator to the Void Throne and revealed that the Abyss was the destructive residue produced whenever a world was born. The chapter ended with Father God explaining that the Abyss could destroy its corresponding world if it leaked out and broke the Void’s balance.

• The narrator told Sandora about Xi Yan, and they decided the Time-Space Administration would watch for technological leaps that might signal the discovery of Imperial relics.
• The narrator and Sandora finalized plans with Father God, including opening a God Realm Teleportation Gate in Shadow City, before Father God asked the narrator to stay behind.
• Father God led the narrator through a guarded corridor to the Void Throne, a testing ground protected from the surrounding Void.
• Father God demonstrated a world’s birth and explained that the Void’s balance required a destructive counterpart to each world.
• Father God revealed that the Abyss was the residue of world creation and that it could destroy a world if it escaped into it.

Father God explained how the Abyss arose and why it could not be eliminated, then led A Jun into the Void and suggested that his origins were not human. A Jun returned to Older Sister and asked about his birth, but she had no unusual story to tell, so he asked her to call Sandora.

• A Jun learned from Father God that the Abyss was residue created as worlds formed, that it could reset worlds to zero, and that the God Race’s carefully designed worlds could resist it more effectively.
• Father God told A Jun he had planned twenty consecutive five-hundred-million-year projects to strengthen the worlds’ resistance to the Abyss.
• Father God asked A Jun to follow him into the Void, where A Jun struggled to move in Void Form and failed to make a proper face.
• Father God examined A Jun’s Void Form and concluded that A Jun was not human.
• A Jun returned to Viska’s temple and asked Older Sister whether anything unusual had happened when she brought him home; she said nothing had, apart from Wang Cai throwing up after seeing him.
• A Jun told Older Sister to call Sandora because Father God had made him question whether he was human.