Chapter Summaries

Yoru Machi and Nabe introduced themselves to the workers at Singing Apple Pavilion and were met with mockery and threats. When Kazi attacked Yoru Machi, the punch shattered Kazi’s bones instead, leaving him accusing Yoru Machi of using a trick.

• Yoru Machi and Nabe entered Singing Apple Pavilion and introduced themselves as workers from the Far East whose team was named Boundary.
• Heckron, Imina, and Roba of the Four Armaments discussed whether to intervene as the other workers mocked the newcomers.
• Kazi and another worker made crude demands and threats toward Yoru Machi and Nabe.
• Yoru Machi warned the workers to take care of themselves after they were knocked down.
• Kazi punched Yoru Machi, but the impact shattered Kazi’s bones, and he accused Yoru Machi of using a trick.

Yoru Machi and Nabe confronted the Wild Dogs at the Singing Apple Pavilion, where Nabe subdued them with third-tier magic. Their strength impressed the onlookers and the Four Armaments, and Arche used her innate talent to examine Nabe’s mana.

• Yoru Machi kicked the Wild Dogs’ bearded brute into a wall after dismissing his strength.
• The Wild Dogs tried to seize Nabe as leverage, but Yoru Machi warned her not to kill them.
• Nabe replaced her planned seventh-tier spell with third-tier Lightning, leaving the Wild Dogs charred but alive.
• The workers at the Singing Apple Pavilion recognized that Yoru Machi and Nabe were far from ordinary after witnessing Nabe’s magic.
• Roba judged that Nabe had held back, and Arche used her Perception Magic Eye to inspect Nabe’s mana.

Yoru Machi and Nabe made a name for their team, Boundary, at the Singing Apple Pavilion and befriended the Four Armaments. Yoru Machi told Nabe to pose as his wife, leaving her flustered as he joked about replacing her with Shalltear.

• Arche sensed Nabe's immense Magic Power and speculated that she could use Fifth Tier Magic, prompting the Four Armaments to recognize Boundary as a powerful rival.
• Heckron introduced himself to Yoru Machi, and Yoru Machi politely introduced Nabe and their team, Boundary.
• Imina teased Heckron for admiring Nabe, while Yoru Machi and Nabe completed their procedures and stayed at the Singing Apple Pavilion.
• Nabe offered to secretly kill the Wild Dogs, but Yoru Machi refused and said their defeat had helped Boundary gain attention.
• Yoru Machi told Nabe to share the room's double bed and maintain the cover that they were married, leaving her flustered as he joked about asking Shalltear to play the role instead.

Arche returned home on her sisters’ birthday, paid off part of her family’s debt, and resolved to take her sisters away from their irresponsible parents. She discovered that a mysterious friend had given Gutilika and Velerika lavish gifts, including magical pendants worth hundreds of gold coins.

• Nabe protested Yoru Machi’s plan to have Shalltear pretend to be his wife, then agreed to do her best if asked.
• Arche returned home and found debt collectors threatening her father and mother, so she paid them twenty-five gold coins and warned her parents she would leave with her sisters if the debt troubles continued.
• Arche greeted Gutilika and Velerika on their birthday and learned that a black-haired friend of hers had bought them a cake and presents.
• Arche used her Piercing Magic Eye to recognize the crystal pendants her sisters received as powerful Magic Tools worth several hundred gold coins apiece.

Arche asked about her mysterious friend Yoru Machi, then joined the Four Armaments to discuss a dangerous commission to search the Thirteen Heroes’ ruins for a sacred medicine. Heckron proposed recruiting Yoru Machi and Nabe, the celebrated Boundary duo, and Roba and Imina considered the partnership.

• Gutilika and Velerika told Arche that her friend was named Big Brother Yoru Machi, and Arche warned them to hide their crystal pendants from their parents.
• Arche asked Heckron for work because she had little money left after paying her family’s debts.
• Heckron described a commission to retrieve sacred medicine from the Thirteen Heroes’ ruins and proposed finding additional helpers for the dangerous expedition.
• Imina warned that Imperial workers could betray the Four Armaments, while Heckron suggested inviting the Boundary duo to join them.
• Roba explained that Yoru Machi and Nabe, known as the Far East Duo, had completed remarkable commissions and earned a reputation for principled conduct.
• Heckron said he wanted to cooperate with the Far East Duo because they acted differently from ordinary workers.

Heckron invited Yoru Machi and Nabe to join the Four Armaments in exploring the Thirteen Heroes' ruins, and Yoru Machi asked for time to discuss the offer. After learning about the expedition, Momonga questioned Black Sword about the Thirteen Heroes while escorting Nfirea toward Carne Village.

• Heckron proposed that Yoru Machi and Nabe explore the Thirteen Heroes' ruins with the Four Armaments, offering them half the treasure and two hundred gold coins even if they found nothing.
• Yoru Machi said he needed to consult Nabe before giving Heckron an answer the next day.
• Yoru Machi contacted Momonga, who offered to send Shalltear or Mare with a World Item but accepted Yoru Machi's decision to proceed without reinforcements for now.
• Momonga asked Black Sword and Nfirea about the Thirteen Heroes while escorting Nfirea to Carne Village.
• Peter explained that Black Sword took its name from a Black Knight among the Thirteen Heroes, and Momonga asked how powerful the heroes had been.

Yoru Machi and the Four Armaments reached the cemetery where the Thirteen Heroes’ ruins were believed to be and found it swarming with undead. As Yoru Machi recognized the location as part of Momonga’s storyline, he and Nabe displayed overwhelming power, leaving the Four Armaments stunned by the gap between them.

• Heckron led the six adventurers to a cemetery on the Re-Estize Kingdom’s border, where they planned to search for the ruins.
• Roba sensed a dense undead aura, and hundreds of skeletons, Zombie Dogs, and Zombie Boars emerged from the fog to surround the party.
• Yoru Machi recognized the cemetery as the likely site of Kajitt’s base and recalled the events involving Clementine, Nfirea, and Momonga.
• Nabe used Fifth Tier Magic—Dragon Lightning to incinerate the undead within a hundred meters.
• Yoru Machi’s Yoru God Style First Form: Waterfall Sever cut through the undead and surrounding terrain, shocking Heckron, Arche, and the rest of the Four Armaments.

Yoru Machi and Nabe helped the Four Armaments cut through the undead, then refused to change their agreed share of the expedition’s profits despite their overwhelming strength. After hearing a dragon’s roar, the group learned it came from a Bone Dragon, while Nabe discovered Shizu was struggling in a fight nearby.

• Yoru Machi and Nabe cleared a path through the undead, allowing the Four Armaments to reach the graveyard’s center and recover.
• Arche asked whether Yoru Machi and Nabe needed supplies, and Yoru Machi said they would save their few potions for later.
• Roba suggested revising the profit split, but Yoru Machi insisted they honor their original agreement, earning the Four Armaments’ respect.
• A dragon’s roar alarmed the group as they followed Heckron’s map deeper into the graveyard.
• Nabe and Arche flew up to investigate; Arche reported a Bone Dragon, a Magic Caster, and a young girl fighting nearby, while Nabe told Yoru Machi that Shizu was struggling in battle.
• Heckron and the others decided not to retreat, reasoning that they could handle a Bone Dragon with their group’s strength and Roba’s faith magic.

Yoru Machi left Heckron’s group to investigate another battle and found Momonga disguised as Momon fighting Clementine. After Clementine taunted both men and underestimated Yoru Machi, he challenged her assumptions, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• Yoru Machi asked Heckron to handle the Bone Dragon with Nabe’s help, then went alone to investigate another battle.
• Yoru Machi found Momonga fighting Clementine in a withered forest and recognized that Momonga was relying on his level and attributes to keep pace with her swordsmanship.
• Clementine mistook Yoru Machi for an adventurer, taunted him, and declared that she could defeat both opponents.
• Yoru Machi rejected Clementine’s comparison between him and Momonga, pointing out that he was a Demon Swordsman who could also use magic.

Momonga revealed himself as a powerful Magic Caster, killed Clementine when she tried to flee, and left Yoru Machi to handle his own business. Yoru Machi resurrected Clementine without a death penalty while disguised as the God of Light, leaving her convinced she had witnessed a divine miracle.

• Yoru Machi told Clementine that the armored opponent she had fought was a Magic Caster, and Momonga revealed his undead form to prove it.
• Clementine fled, but Momonga used High-Tier Teleportation to catch her and crush her spine with an Embrace Kill.
• Momonga asked Yoru Machi why he was in the graveyard, then left to check on Nabe and Shizu as Yoru Machi changed into a God of Light disguise.
• Yoru Machi used a Resurrection Item to revive Clementine without the usual death penalty.
• Clementine called her resurrection a divine miracle, and Yoru Machi appeared as the God of Light and claimed that he was a god.

Yoru Machi, disguised as the God of Light, resurrected Clementine and restored her body, then recruited her to infiltrate the Slane Theocracy as an adventurer. Clementine accepted the mission and was left with equipment and permission to seek revenge, but was warned not to harm innocents.

• Clementine recognized Yoru Machi’s God of Light disguise and knelt before him after he resurrected her.
• Yoru Machi explained that he had missed her past prayers during a crisis, and Clementine forgave him and renewed her devotion.
• Yoru Machi restored Clementine’s body to its pre-torture condition, and she offered to serve him in atonement.
• Yoru Machi gave Clementine equipment and instructed her to go undercover in the Theocracy as an adventurer, with someone assigned to contact her.
• Yoru Machi allowed Clementine to take revenge on those involved in her suffering but warned he would destroy her if she harmed innocents.
• After Yoru Machi vanished, Clementine opened the item bag he had left and froze in shock.

Clementine accepted Yoru Machi’s powerful gifts and chose not to help Kajitt. Yoru Machi then rejoined the Four Armaments, and Momonga persuaded them to let him and Yoru Machi join their exploration of the Thirteen Heroes’ ruins.

• Clementine saw the healing and mana potions, three-use Resurrection Item, powerful dagger, and Seraph-summoning Magic Crystal Yoru Machi had left her.
• After the Bone Dragon was destroyed, Clementine realized Kajitt was dead and decided his fate did not warrant risking her new gifts.
• Yoru Machi returned to find the Four Armaments confronting Momonga and the orange-haired adventurer who had fought the Bone Dragon.
• Yoru Machi told Heckron that he and Momonga had come to rescue hostages and would keep the Workers’ secret if allowed to join the ruin exploration.
• Momonga claimed he admired the Thirteen Heroes and their Black Knight, and Heckron agreed to let him and Yoru Machi participate.

Momonga, Yoru Machi, and the Four Armaments entered the ruins after Shizu took Nfirea back to E-Rantel, and Yoru Machi and Momonga opened the hidden entrance. They left the first traps unharmed and faced a massive boulder as it rolled toward them.

• Momonga sent Shizu and Kurusuke back to E-Rantel with the unconscious Nfirea while he continued into the ruins with the Four Armaments and Yoru Machi's group.
• Yoru Machi sensed magic in the mural and stone slabs, and Roba and Heckron fitted the slabs into place to raise the hidden gate.
• Yoru Machi and Momonga walked into the narrow passage before Heckron could finish warning them about its traps.
• Dark, armor-piercing arrows fired at Yoru Machi and Momonga, but an invisible barrier deflected them without harm.
• After the arrows ran out, a gigantic boulder rolled down the passage, and Yoru Machi dismissed the trap as unimpressive.

Yoru Machi and the Four Armaments explored the ruins of the Black Knight, where Yoru Machi shattered a huge enchanted boulder with one punch. The group reached a treasure hall containing three magic swords guarded by powerful undead.

• Heckron ordered the warriors to stop an enchanted boulder while the Magic Casters prepared spells, but Yoru Machi shattered it with a single punch.
• Yoru Machi admitted that although he was a swordsman, he knew some unarmed combat techniques, and the Four Armaments accepted his strength without prying into his secrets.
• Heckron identified the ruins as belonging to the Black Knight, one of the Thirteen Heroes famed for wielding four magic swords.
• After more than half a day of exploring and solving puzzles, the group entered a hall filled with treasure, potions, Magic Tools, and three magic swords.
• Yoru Machi and the others saw that a powerful undead guardian stood before each of the three magic swords.

Yoru Machi and Momonga agreed to fight the undead guarding the Black Knight’s swords, while Heckron’s Four Armaments took on the remaining guardian. After the undead fell and the swords were claimed, Yoru Machi and Momonga judged their weapons unimpressive, while the Four Armaments celebrated the seemingly powerful Evil Sword · Shumiris.

• Arche sensed that the undead included a magic caster capable of sixth-tier magic, and Heckron proposed abandoning the swords.
• Yoru Machi offered to handle two undead with Momonga while the Four Armaments fought the third, with each group claiming the sword its guardian protected.
• Yoru Machi defeated the Death Swordsman and identified his weapon as Corrupted Sword: Crocdabar, which inflicted unhealable wounds.
• Momonga defeated the Elder Lich and identified his weapon as Death Sword: Sphitz, whose supposedly fatal effect seemed unreliable.
• The Four Armaments defeated the Death Knight and celebrated Evil Sword · Shumiris, but Yoru Machi and Momonga dismissed it as worse than Momonga’s sword.

Yoru Machi and Momonga left the Black Knight’s ruins with the Four Armaments, who kept the Evil Sword · Shumiris for Heckron. Meanwhile, Clementine slaughtered the Zurrernorn members who came to recover Kajitt’s body, then headed toward the Slane Theocracy with even greater faith in Yoru Machi.

• Yoru Machi and Momonga learned from the Black Knight’s diary about Rik, the Silver Knight, and the Coffin Dragon King.
• Yoru Machi, Momonga, and the Four Armaments divided the Dark Swords and the other treasures, and Heckron chose to wield the Evil Sword · Shumiris.
• Zurrernorn members encountered Clementine while retrieving Kajitt’s corpse and questioned her about his death.
• Clementine attacked the Zurrernorn members with her new dagger and killed them in the graveyard.
• Clementine set out toward the Slane Theocracy, convinced that Yoru Machi’s divine artifact had made her stronger.

After sending Clementine and Negan to the Slane Theocracy, Yoru Machi was summoned to the Bahamut Empire’s palace with Nabe. Emperor Gilkunivesh offered to recruit them, and Yoru Machi questioned whether the Emperor trusted people whose origins were unknown.

• Yoru Machi’s daggers, Blood of the Dark Night, were revealed to teleport their wielder and grow stronger by absorbing an enemy’s blood.
• The Four Imperial Knights interrupted Yoru Machi and Arche’s shopping trip and invited him to the royal palace at Emperor Gilkunivesh’s request.
• Yoru Machi and Nabe met Gilkunivesh, who praised their abilities and offered them wealth and high status if they served the Empire.
• Yoru Machi asked whether Gilkunivesh feared that they might harm the Empire because their origins were unknown.
• Gilkunivesh replied that he was willing to take the risk and said serving him would always remain their choice.

Yoru Machi and Nabe left the Imperial Palace after the Emperor recruited them as a knight commander and court magician. They learned that the Re-Estize Kingdom was under attack by demons, while Yoru Machi’s interference had kept the Theocracy too busy hunting Clementine to target Shalltear.

• Yoru Machi and Nabe emerged safely from the Imperial Palace, and Heckron and the others learned that the Emperor had offered them prestigious positions.
• Heckron explained that the Golden Princess had hired the Four Armaments to help defend the Re-Estize Kingdom’s capital from demons led by Ainz Ooal Gown.
• Yoru Machi realized the attack had begun earlier than expected and wondered why Shalltear had not been attacked first.
• Yoru Machi’s interference had brought Negan and Clementine together, and Clementine used powerful items and inside knowledge to evade the Black Scripture.
• Clementine claimed to be God’s true Apostle after her assassinations, prompting the Six Cardinals to make killing her their highest-priority task.

Yoru Machi learned that demons had occupied the Kingdom’s royal capital for several days and joined a commission to investigate, despite the Emperor’s recruitment offer. After he arrived, Shalltear sensed his anger, and Demiurge decided to confront him rather than abandon Nazarick’s plan.

• Roba told Yoru Machi that demons had occupied the Kingdom’s royal capital for several days, and Yoru Machi agreed to join the commission with Heckron, Arche, and the others.
• Yoru Machi and the group reached the royal capital in less than a day and saw the Wall of Blazing Hell inside the city.
• Yoru Machi sensed a watcher but did not reveal that he had noticed the familiar Shalltear had sent to monitor him.
• Shalltear collapsed when the familiar exploded, then told Demiurge that Yoru Machi had arrived and seemed angry.
• Demiurge admitted that he and Momonga had concealed the plan from Yoru Machi and said he would stop him, while Aura and Mare urged him to inform Lord Ainz first.

Princess Lana gathered the kingdom's adventurers as the capital faced dwindling hopes of help from the Theocracy. Yoru Machi confronted Momonga over his part in a plan to capture and kill ordinary humans, leaving Momonga shaken by how indifferent he had become toward life.

• Princess Lana told the adventurers that the Theocracy could not send aid because it was caught in internal turmoil, worsening fears that the capital would fall.
• Princess Lana announced that powerful reinforcements had arrived, and Yoru Machi and his group entered the council chamber.
• Momonga was stunned to see Yoru Machi, who intercepted his Message and warned him to tell Demiurge and the others to stay away.
• Yoru Machi condemned Momonga for agreeing to round up ordinary humans, including the elderly and children, and reminded him that he had once been human.
• Momonga froze as Yoru Machi's words made him realize how deeply he had grown indifferent toward life.