Chapter Summaries

Yoru Machi overwhelmed Ragnarok with barehanded blows, leaving the royal capital stunned and the Diabolos Cult convinced that Galahad had defeated the Fourth Demon King. As the Cult surrounded Shadow Garden over the Black Rose, Beta and Epsilon called for Mordred to be brought to them.

• Ragnarok tried to crush Yoru Machi, but Yoru Machi pried apart and broke his claws before punching him into the ground.
• Yoru Machi struck Ragnarok again with a flying kick, leaving the Demon King near death and puzzling over why he had not transformed.
• The Diabolos Cult grunts praised Galahad and surrounded the Shadow Garden members, believing their victory over Ragnarok made them unstoppable.
• Shadow Garden members urged Beta and Epsilon to escape, but Epsilon refused to leave without the Black Rose.
• Gado taunted Shadow Garden, and Beta and Epsilon told Nyu to bring Mordred over.

Yoru Machi staged a bargain with Shadow Garden, trading the Black Rose control device for Mordred while making himself appear loyal to the Order. He left Mordred convinced that Yoru Machi was his true brother, and his subordinates impressed by his loyalty.

• Shadow Garden brought the battered, chained Mordred before Yoru Machi and demanded the Black Rose control device in exchange for his release.
• Gado and two other knights urged Yoru Machi to refuse, arguing that keeping the Black Rose would secure his promotion and Mordred was expendable.
• Yoru Machi pretended to resist the demand, intending to hand over the device while making Mordred take the blame for the loss.
• Beta stabbed Mordred in the abdomen and warned Yoru Machi that Shadow Garden could leave by force if he refused.
• Yoru Machi declared that he would keep his promise to save Mordred, then gave Beta the control device in exchange for him.
• Yoru Machi's subordinates were moved by his apparent loyalty, and Mordred saw him as a true brother.

After Mordred fused with Ragnarok and overwhelmed Beta and Epsilon, Yoru Machi prepared to intervene. Shadow's threads stopped Mordred's attack, allowing Yoru Machi to order the Cult forces to retreat.

• Beta and Epsilon obtained the Black Rose control device and prepared to leave with Shadow Garden.
• Mordred broke free, fused with Ragnarok, and warned Yoru Machi to retreat before he lost control.
• Mordred sent Beta, Epsilon, and the others flying with a single claw swipe, and Yoru Machi decided to protect them.
• Shadow's threads blocked Mordred's next attack, and Yoru Machi recognized that Shadow had returned.
• Yoru Machi ordered the Cult forces to retreat, while Gado silenced a subordinate who challenged the order.

Yoru Machi convinced the Cult lackeys that his retreat showed concern for them and loyalty to Mordred, while Mordred faced Shadow in the Olliana capital. Shadow revealed he had already slain a stronger Demon King in the Demon Realm, then kicked Mordred out of the atmosphere.

• Yoru Machi’s words made Gado and the other Cult lackeys believe he had retreated to protect them and leave Mordred the chance to earn credit.
• Mordred mistook Yoru Machi’s retreat for a generous gesture and planned to kill Shadow, seize control of the Cult, and reward Yoru Machi.
• Shadow explained that Mordred was a puppet of power and recalled entering the Demon Realm through the Black Rose to kill a Demon King stronger than Ragnarok.
• Mordred unleashed large-scale attacks while Shadow dodged and used telepathy to ask Beta and the others about Mordred’s relationship with Yoru Machi.
• After learning the details, Shadow appeared before Mordred and kicked him out of the atmosphere.

Shadow killed Mordred with an unrestrained Atomic Slash, ending the battle in Olliana, and Princess Roz became queen. Yoru Machi was promoted and given Diabolos Essence by the Cult, but after gifting it to his men, he realized he had casually given away a fortune.

• Shadow unleashed his Atomic Slash beyond the atmosphere and killed Mordred, whose defeat Yoru Machi and the others witnessed from afar.
• The Diabolos Cult withdrew from Olliana, and Shadow Garden closed the passage to the Demon Realm before leaving the royal capital.
• Princess Roz was elevated to the throne for her decisive actions and for saving most of the kingdom's citizens.
• The Cult refused Yoru Machi access to its headquarters but promoted him to the ninth seat and awarded him two portions of Diabolos Essence.
• Yoru Machi gave his three portions of Essence to Gado and his other lackeys, then learned each portion was worth a castle.
• Gado and the other two swallowed the Essence before Yoru Machi could stop them.

Yoru Machi was sent to Lawless City to recruit Elizabeth while also searching for Cleya, who had disappeared there. Meanwhile, Claire was caught in the city’s vampire uprising and, with Mary, fought toward the Red Tower as the Blood Queen’s revival threatened Lawless City.

• Yoru Machi watched Gado and the others drink the costly Diabolos Essence, then learned the Cult wanted him to recruit Elizabeth in Lawless City.
• Yoru Machi received a letter from Gais and Megdis saying Cleya had vanished in Lawless City, and he ordered Gado to find and protect her.
• Claire met Jaga and Shuro in Lawless City and learned that Yoru Machi had only pretended to be senior Roz’s fiancé to help her.
• A Red Moon appeared over Lawless City, and vampires attacked the streets as the city descended into chaos.
• The Red Tower’s ruler targeted Claire as nourishment for the Blood Queen’s revival, but vampire hunter Mary rescued her.
• Claire and Mary fought their way toward the Red Tower while pursued by vampires.

Powerful figures from the Cult, Shadow Garden, and Lawless City converged to find Cleya Kagano after she went missing. Their search turned into a battle at the Red Tower, where Gorde was asked if he knew where Cleya was.

• The Red Moon's influence spread the ghouls from the Red Tower into the White Tower and Black Tower, prompting Bai Ji and Gagano to hunt them.
• Yoru Machi ordered Yue Dan to protect Cleya, while Alpha sent Beta and Delta to lead Shadow Garden's search; Beatrix also traveled to Lawless City to help.
• Yue Dan found the Red Tower's Gatekeepers defeated and Bai Ji battling Gagano, then demanded that they tell him where Cleya was.
• Beta arrived with Delta and ordered Delta to hold everyone back while she and the others searched for Cleya; Yue Dan summoned his lackeys to stop Shadow Garden.
• Beatrix arrived with Jaga and Shuro, learned that Cleya and Mary had gone to the Red Tower, and asked the enslaved Gorde where Cleya was.

A coalition of powerful figures entered the Red Tower to find Cleya Kagano before Crimson could use her to revive Blood Queen Elizabeth. Cleya and Mary interrupted Crimson’s ritual, but Elizabeth awakened and immediately drained him for blood.

• Beatrix persuaded the gathered factions to stop fighting and search the Red Tower for Cleya Kagano, and they entered together.
• Crimson learned that the powerful outsiders had invaded and decided to revive Elizabeth with an ordinary Demon Swordsman boy’s blood before they reached him.
• Mary recognized the Red Tower’s rising blood aura and rushed to its summit with Cleya, where they found Crimson attempting a marriage contract with Elizabeth.
• Crimson blasted Cleya and Mary aside, but their interruption awakened Elizabeth before he finished reciting the contract.
• Elizabeth’s aura forced Crimson to kneel, then blood spikes pierced him and Elizabeth began absorbing his blood.

Elizabeth awakened as the Blood Queen and attacked everyone in the Red Tower, overwhelming the fighters who tried to stop her. Cleya was struck through by a blood pillar after Yue Dan used her as a shield, but a powerful magic force suddenly erupted from her body.

• Elizabeth appeared before Cleya and Mary and attacked, but Delta intercepted her scythe with a claw strike.
• Elizabeth wounded Delta with her blood barrier, then fought Beatrix and sent her crashing through several floors.
• Beta, Gagano, and Bai Ji joined the battle, while Yue Dan grabbed Cleya and tried to flee.
• Elizabeth unleashed blood pillars across the Red Tower, wounding the fighters and forcing Yue Dan to use Cleya as a shield.
• A blood pillar pierced Cleya, but powerful magic suddenly erupted from her body despite her apparent death.

Calamity Witch Aurora emerged through Cleya, while Elf Hero Olivier awakened within Beatrix, bringing them into conflict with Blood Queen Elizabeth. The three legendary figures fought across the Red Tower, where Elizabeth held her ground beneath the blood moon despite her incomplete resurrection.

• After Elizabeth overwhelmed the tower overlords, Cleya rose and transformed into Calamity Witch Aurora.
• Beatrix emerged from the rubble with golden eyes and a changed aura, and Aurora recognized Elf Hero Olivier within her.
• Elizabeth attacked Aurora, but Olivier struck Elizabeth with a holy sword and swept Aurora into the attack, starting a three-way battle.
• Beta and the others realized the enormous gap between themselves and the three legendary figures as their clashes shook the Red Tower.
• Aurora, Olivier, and Elizabeth fought while weakened in different ways, but Elizabeth relied on the blood moon to sustain her magical power.

Aurora and Olivier fought Elizabeth in the Red Tower before warning her not to kill Cleya, whose death could upset the world's balance. After they withdrew, Yoru Machi arrived and sent Elizabeth flying with a single punch.

• Elizabeth gained the advantage over Aurora and Olivier as the battle drained the borrowed bodies they used.
• Aurora withdrew from Cleya's body after warning Elizabeth that harming the girl would bring someone’s revenge.
• Olivier stopped Elizabeth from attacking Cleya and warned that her death could bring disaster to the world because she was cherished by two dangerous people on opposing paths.
• Olivier sensed someone had arrived and withdrew from Beatrix's body, leaving Elizabeth to ponder Cleya's identity and the world's balance.
• Yoru Machi appeared before Elizabeth, punched through the force of her blood barrier, and sent her flying several kilometers.

Yoru Machi arrived and sent Elizabeth flying with one punch before checking that Cleya was alive. After Bai Ji exposed Yue Dan for using Cleya as a shield, Yoru Machi ordered Gado and the others to deal with him while he went after Elizabeth.

• Yoru Machi knocked Elizabeth several kilometers across the ground with a single punch, then confirmed Cleya was unconscious but out of danger.
• Gado and the other Named Children confronted Yue Dan over his failure to protect Cleya, and Yue Dan defended himself by pointing to Elizabeth's strength.
• Bai Ji accused Yue Dan of using Cleya as a shield, and Beta confirmed that Cleya's clothes were damaged around her vital areas.
• Yoru Machi slapped Yue Dan away when he charged at Bai Ji, then ordered Gado and the others to deal with Yue Dan while he handled Elizabeth.
• Yue Dan swallowed the Order's forbidden drug, while Bai Ji offered to help fight him and the Named Children told her to wait.

Yoru Machi confronted Elizabeth, the Blood Queen, and discovered that her elegant demeanor concealed a yandere desire to be killed by him. He unleashed a colossal Crimson Fire Cannon, but Elizabeth split it with her Blood Scythe, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Elizabeth recovered from Yoru Machi’s punch and calmly introduced herself while asking his name.
• Yoru Machi identified himself and declared that he would fight Elizabeth because she had nearly killed his childhood sweetheart.
• Elizabeth happily welcomed the chance to fight him and asked him not to hold back, confirming Yoru Machi’s suspicion that she was a yandere.
• Yoru Machi cast a gigantic Crimson Fire Cannon that lit up the night sky over Lawless City.
• Elizabeth poured magic power into her Blood Scythe and split the fireball, triggering a massive explosion.

Yoru Machi overwhelmed Elizabeth with the Holy Sword of the Lake, deflected her blood attacks, and bound her with Bakudō #63: Chain Binding. As he thrust his sword toward her abdomen, Elizabeth bit at his neck despite knowing that drinking blood would make her enter berserk mode.

• Yoru Machi cut through Elizabeth’s Blood Scythe and wounded her chest with the Holy Sword of the Lake.
• Elizabeth steadied herself with her Blood Bat Wings and fired tracking Blood Rays at Yoru Machi.
• Yoru Machi blocked the Blood Rays with a curtain of sword strikes, and Elizabeth tried to escape into the air.
• Yoru Machi bound Elizabeth with Bakudō #63: Chain Binding and dragged her toward him.
• As Yoru Machi thrust his sword toward her abdomen, Elizabeth bit at his neck and remembered that drinking blood would trigger her berserk mode.

Elizabeth drank Yoru Machi’s blood and discovered that it did not send her into a frenzy, so she broke free and suddenly asked him to marry her. Yoru Machi was left weighing her proposal and the danger of her powerful, obsessive-seeming nature.

• Elizabeth drank one mouthful of Yoru Machi’s blood, found it extraordinarily delicious, and feared she would lose control.
• Elizabeth realized she had not gone berserk, and the surge of Magic Power let her shatter the glowing chains.
• Elizabeth embraced Yoru Machi and asked him to marry her instead of continuing their fight.
• Yoru Machi questioned her sudden proposal and considered whether he could trust her and accept her offer.
• Elizabeth explained that Yoru Machi’s blood let her control her thirst and made her believe he was the perfect partner.

Yoru Machi ended his confrontation with Elizabeth by agreeing to a marriage contract a century in the future, then returned to the Red Tower to find the Lawless City’s factions ready to submit or resist. He left them stunned when he revealed that he had never intended to rule the city.

• Elizabeth proposed becoming lifelong partners with Yoru Machi, but he refused and said he already had a fiancée, Cleya.
• Yoru Machi mentioned his human empress and princess confidantes, and Elizabeth agreed to wait a hundred years before marrying him.
• Yoru Machi brought Elizabeth back to the Red Tower, where his allies had captured Yue Dan and Shadow Garden had already left.
• Bai Ji pledged herself and the White Tower to Yoru Machi in exchange for the chance to kill Yue Dan, then killed him.
• Gagano refused to submit to Yoru Machi, who asked when he had ever said he intended to rule the Lawless City.

After Yoru Machi secured the White Tower’s submission and Cleya kissed him, Zero Division learned that Aizen Sōsuke had investigated the Soul King and ordered the Soul Reapers to prepare an expedition into Hueco Mundo. The chapter ended with the captains silently avoiding the dangerous assignment.

• Yoru Machi offered Bai Ji and the White Tower protection in exchange for obeying his orders and helping when needed.
• Mary remained mistress of the Red Tower after Elizabeth regained her senses, and the injured Cleya woke and kissed Yoru Machi, prompting Elizabeth to erupt with jealousy.
• Shutara Senjumaru reported Aizen Sōsuke’s investigation of the Soul King to Zero Division, which judged him a grave threat and ordered action.
• The Captain-Commander called a captains’ meeting and proposed forming an expeditionary force to Hueco Mundo to investigate and confront Aizen.
• The captains recognized the mission as dangerous work in Aizen’s stronghold and fell silent rather than volunteer.

Yoru Machi proposed captains for the Hueco Mundo expeditionary force to avoid being saddled with the mission himself. When the Captain-Commander ruled out Unohana, Yoru Machi nominated Kyoraku Shunsui, leaving the latter to shoulder the responsibility.

• Yoru Machi recommended Kurotsuchi Mayuri for the expedition because of his expertise in opening Garganta.
• Yoru Machi proposed Unohana for medical support and Kenpachi Zaraki for combat strength.
• Yoru Machi recommended Soi Fon for intelligence gathering and Kuchiki Byakuya as another captain.
• The Captain-Commander said Unohana had other arrangements and asked Yoru Machi to name a replacement.
• Yoru Machi nominated Kyoraku Shunsui for the expedition.

Yoru Machi and Kyoraku Shunsui tried to nominate each other for the dangerous mission to Hueco Mundo, but the captains’ vote selected Yoru Machi. The ten-person task force prepared to depart, leaving Yoru Machi dejected while the others anticipated the expedition for their own reasons.

• Yoru Machi recommended Kyoraku Shunsui for the Hueco Mundo task force, but Kyoraku argued that Yoru Machi was better suited because of his investigative and medical abilities.
• Yoru Machi rejected Kyoraku’s recommendation, and the Captain-Commander called for a vote to settle which captain would go.
• The captains voted overwhelmingly for Yoru Machi, who joined Soi Fon, Byakuya, Kenpachi Zaraki, and Kurotsuchi Mayuri on the task force with their lieutenants.
• Kyoraku Shunsui tried to comfort the dejected Yoru Machi by promising drinks, but Yoru Machi chased him through the streets with a sword.
• Kenpachi Zaraki and Kurotsuchi Mayuri looked forward to fighting and research in Hueco Mundo, while Byakuya accepted the trip and Soi Fon warned Yoru Machi to take the mission seriously.

Yoru Machi’s expedition arrived in Hueco Mundo, where most of the Soul Reapers immediately split off despite Soi Fon’s objections. With only their small group left together, Yoru Machi revealed that he had an informant and proposed targeting the Espada.

• Yoru Machi told HInamori Momo that she would accompany him to Hueco Mundo, while she secretly looked forward to the opportunity.
• Three days later, the Development 01 Bureau completed a Garganta-opening device, and the expedition arrived in Hueco Mundo.
• Kenpachi Zaraki, Kurotsuchi Mayuri, and Kuchiki Byakuya each left the main group to pursue their own plans.
• Soi Fon criticized the others for abandoning the safety of the expedition, and Yoru Machi explained why he had refused to lead them.
• Yoru Machi told Soi Fon that he had an informant in Hueco Mundo and proposed eliminating as many Espada as possible.