Chapter Summaries

Seitenshi tried to persuade Broly to turn against Scorpio, but Broly refused to harm the creature that had accepted him as a husband. After Scorpio retrieved the Pink Bicycle and stopped its advance, Seitenshi canceled the Sky Ladder attack, leaving Broly’s allegiance and power as the Command Room’s chief concern.

• Kikunojo Tendo ordered an attack on Scorpio, and Broly destroyed the two fighter jets that launched missiles at it.
• Seitenshi asked Kisara Tendo about her connection to the military, then called Rentaro Satomi and asked him to offer Broly marriage in exchange for his help against Scorpio.
• Rentaro Satomi, Enju Aihara, and Kayo Senju approached the coast, where Hiruko Kagetane and Hiruko Kohina followed them and learned that Broly supported Scorpio because it had agreed to become his wife.
• Seitenshi, Miori Shiba, Hiruko Kohina, Kisara Tendo, Enju Aihara, and Kayo Senju offered to become Broly’s wives, but Broly refused to hurt Scorpio and agreed only to protect Tokyo’s Safe Zone.
• Scorpio reached the church in the Old Port Area, retrieved the Pink Bicycle, and remained there happily instead of advancing toward Tokyo’s Safe Zone.
• Seitenshi canceled the planned Sky Ladder Railgun attack after Scorpio stopped in the Old Port Area.

Kisara Tendo exposed Kikunojo Tendo’s political maneuvering, but the death of Shin Tendo and Kikunojo’s resignation left Seitenshi facing the fallout from the battle against Scorpio. Broly helped prevent panic by having the government claim the Self-Defense Forces had stopped Scorpio, while Scorpio joined the Crystal Palace and drew the group’s attention.

• Seitenshi arrested Kikunojo Tendo after Kisara Tendo accused the Tendo Family of manipulating public opinion to block the Gastrea New Law, and Kikunojo agreed to an investigation.
• Kisara Tendo found Shin Tendo dead with a suicide note taking sole responsibility for the manipulation, then suspected Takuto Hosowaki had tipped him off; Hosowaki later let the Tendo Family collect the body and was dismissed.
• Kikunojo Tendo resigned as Assistant Officer but denied hiring Hiruko Kagetane, leaving Seitenshi with greater authority and the burden of explaining the battle’s casualties.
• Kisara Tendo proposed finding Hiruko Kagetane to take responsibility, but Rentaro Satomi said he had already left; Broly also failed to persuade Scorpio to leave Tokyo Bay.
• Broly suggested a cover story, and the next morning the government announced that the Self-Defense Forces had anesthetized Scorpio after a desperate battle, easing the risk of public panic.
• Broly introduced Scorpio to the Group Chat Room, where the members reacted to her size and nature, and Other World Capture Targets who had rejected him changed their minds about joining the Crystal Palace.

Broly refused to force the Tokyo Area women into joining Crystal Palace, while Seitenshi sent Sumire Muroto to investigate why Scorpio remained in Tokyo Bay. When Sumire tried to take Scorpio tissue, Broly stopped her, and she offered to help Scorpio regain her reason or even become human again.

• Aqua urged Broly to pressure the women into becoming his wives, but Broly explained their willingness was uncertain and that he would not use force.
• Seitenshi and Kisara Tendo planned to spread misleading rumors to prevent panic over Broly destroying the Third Fleet, then decided Sumire Muroto should investigate Scorpio.
• Rentaro Satomi brought Sumire to Scorpio, where she examined its body and prepared to cut off tissue for research.
• Broly stopped Sumire from cutting Scorpio and refused her offer to join Crystal Palace on those terms.
• Sumire asked Broly whether he wanted Scorpio to regain her rationality or become human again.

Sumire Muroto explained that Scorpio had once been human and that the Gastrea Virus originated as a human-developed beneficial bacterium, while Broly refused her request to research Scorpio and arranged for his Goddess Master Aqua to come help. Scorpio remained in the Old Port Area under Broly’s watch, and Seitenshi learned Aqua would arrive in four days and assess potential Crystal Palace members.

• Sumire Muroto said Scorpio’s reaction to her Seven Star Relic suggested she might retain human nature, and explained that humanity had developed the Gastrea Virus from a beneficial bacterium intended to cure disease and extend lifespans.
• Broly rejected Sumire Muroto’s proposal to study Scorpio and said his Goddess Master Aqua could use her ability to cleanse abnormal statuses, then secured Aqua’s promise to help after she finished work.
• Sumire Muroto drew a tube of purplish-black blood from Scorpio after Broly allowed it, while Rentaro Satomi and Sumire Muroto decided to report that Scorpio had made the Old Port Area her home.
• Rentaro Satomi told Seitenshi that Scorpio might be restored in four days because Broly’s Master was coming, and Seitenshi learned Aqua would also examine whether she could join the Crystal Palace as one of Broly’s wives.
• Enju Aihara woke up and asked where Broly was, and Rentaro Satomi told her Broly was with Scorpio and would not return for several days.

Broly defended Scorpio online while the Tendo Family’s internal maneuvering and a money dispute unfolded around Takuto Hosowaki. Kisara Tendo contacted Hiruko Kagetane through Broly and asked him to help bring down the Tendo Family to avenge her parents.

• Broly reassured panicked Tokyo residents online that he would stop Scorpio if she threatened the Safe Zone, and his earnest replies helped turn the discussion nostalgic and supportive.
• Takuto Hosowaki demanded compensation from Kikunojo Tendo, who promised him fifty million yen and a future transfer back to his old post.
• Kazumitsu Tendo secretly transferred Takuto only five million yen and planned to pocket the rest, leaving Takuto furious and looking toward Scorpio as an opportunity.
• Kikunojo Tendo anticipated that Sogen Saitake would exploit fears about Scorpio to provoke a crisis in Tokyo and weaken Seitenshi.
• Kisara Tendo asked Broly to help her contact Hiruko Kagetane, then told Hiruko she wanted to bring down the Tendo Family to avenge her parents.

Kisara Tendo tried to recruit Hiruko Kagetane as a witness, but he explained that he wanted the Gastrea New Law stopped so conflict between Cursed Children and ordinary humans would remake society. Broly returned to Scorpio, where Kisara and Miori Shiba competed for his attention, while Kikunojo Tendo learned Kagetane could expose him and prepared to flee to Washington D.C.

• Kisara Tendo offered Hiruko Kagetane money and leniency to testify against Kikunojo Tendo, but Kagetane revealed he opposed the Gastrea New Law because he believed war would reshape society.
• Kisara asked Broly to capture Kagetane, but Hiruko Kohina stopped him, and Kagetane encouraged Broly to spar with her and visit again.
• Miori Shiba brought food to Scorpio and clashed with Kisara over Broly, then learned that Broly's master would test any woman seeking to join the Crystal Palace.
• Kikunojo Tendo received evidence of his contact with Kagetane and learned Kagetane had refused Kisara's offer, then decided to leave for Washington D.C. to avoid extradition.

Takuto Hosowaki hijacked the Sky Ladder under the Tendo Family’s name and fired on Scorpio, but Broly intercepted the shell and stormed the facility. After learning the attack had been ordered by the Tendo Family, Broly agreed to bring Takuto back alive so Seitenshi could use his testimony against them, and Kisara Tendo prepared to lead Broly to arrest the family.

• Takuto Hosowaki and his soldiers seized the Sky Ladder, claiming they acted for the Tendo Family, and aimed its cannon at Scorpio.
• Broly sensed the threat, intercepted the Varani Metal shell, and broke into the Sky Ladder, killing the attackers and capturing Takuto.
• Broly tortured Takuto until he named the Tendo Family as the mastermind, then agreed to Seitenshi’s request to bring him back alive for trial.
• Takuto told Seitenshi that the Tendo Family had paid him to attack Scorpio, while Broly warned he would still face punishment.
• Kisara Tendo stopped Broly from rushing out and said she knew the Tendo Family better; when Takuto tried to flee, Broly knocked him unconscious.

Broly and Kisara confronted the Tendo Family over the attack on Scorpio, exposing Takuto Hosowaki’s role and forcing Kikunojo Tendo to accept responsibility. After killing Takuto, Broly began listing weapons and people capable of threatening Scorpio, leaving the world’s top-ranked Civil Police teams in his sights.

• Broly flew Kisara to the Tendo estate, where she presented Seitenshi’s arrest warrant and accused Kazumitsu Tendo of covering up their parents’ deaths and endangering the Tokyo Safe Zone.
• Broly broke Kazumitsu’s wrists and learned from Butler Imamura that Kikunojo Tendo had flown to the United States, so Kikunojo turned his plane back to Tokyo.
• At the Holy Residence, Takuto Hosowaki revealed that Kazumitsu had skimmed the money meant to pay him for firing at Scorpio, and Kikunojo admitted the Tendo Family’s fault and offered Seitenshi its military connections.
• Kikunojo explained that Takuto had used hatred of Gastrea to provoke an attack and frame the Tendo Family; Broly killed Takuto and spared Kikunojo.
• Broly posted online asking about weapons and people capable of threatening Scorpio, then noted the countries with Sky Ladder-like weapons and the top-ranked Civil Police teams that had defeated Zodiac-class Gastrea.

Broly brought Aqua to examine Scorpio, but Aqua’s Divine Purification did not restore Scorpio to human form. Sumire Muroto discovered that Purification reduced acquired Gastrea Virus Erosion Rates in Cursed Children, while Aqua’s Healing Magic dangerously raised Enju’s rate.

• Aqua arrived with Broly and attempted a grand divine miracle, but realized she had no believers in this world.
• Aqua’s Divine Purification awakened Scorpio and left her skin glossy, but Scorpio remained a Gastrea and enthusiastically wrapped her tentacles around Aqua and others.
• Aqua explained that Purification removed abnormal statuses, and Sumire Muroto tested its effect on Enju Aihara’s Gastrea Virus Erosion Rate.
• Sumire concluded that Purification reduced acquired Erosion Rates but could not alter innate conditions or restore a life form that had completely changed.
• Aqua used Healing Magic on Enju, causing her eyes to redden as her Erosion Rate rose, and Rentaro Satomi urgently told Aqua to stop.

Sumire Muroto’s experiments revealed that Aqua’s spells could stabilize Gastrea transformation and raise infected people’s erosion rates while curing their bodily damage and violent defects. The discovery promised a new era for humanity, but Sumire could not explain how Aqua might restore Scorpio to human form.

• Kisara Tendo tested Aqua’s Divine Healing Spell by cutting her arm, and the spell healed the wound and repaired her damaged lungs.
• Sumire Muroto found that Enju Aihara’s erosion rate had risen to 41% after healing, while Enju felt stronger and moved faster.
• Aqua cooperated with Sumire Muroto’s experiments, and Broly captured Gastrea as test subjects.
• Aqua’s Healing Spell and Purification Spell enabled death row inmates and near-50%-erosion Initiators to undergo stable, rational Gastrea transformation with their defects repaired.
• Sumire Muroto called Aqua’s powers the basis for human evolution, and Seitenshi appeared to become Aqua’s first believer in this world.
• Broly asked how Aqua could turn Scorpio back into a human, but Sumire Muroto said her spells could not reverse transformation in someone already become Gastrea.

Broly sought a way to restore Scorpio’s human form, consulting the Crystal Palace and several powerful allies before choosing Eris’s Luck Blessing to support his own abilities. By nightfall, Scorpio still appeared unchanged apart from a darkening shell, and Broly had not noticed the difference.

• Broly learned that Aqua could not reverse Scorpio’s transformation, and Root Shiki offered help but discovered that her powers depended on the Root, which Black Bullet World lacked.
• Fanlou explained that her Omniscient and Omnipotent abilities would be weakened outside Star Grail World, but Sumire Muroto proposed that Scorpio might regain human form through mutation-based evolution.
• Fanlou suggested combining Eris’s Luck Blessing with Broly’s Doubt and Exaggeration abilities, since they might make a favorable transformation more likely without requiring Spirit Power.
• Eris arrived and blessed Broly, while Aqua introduced her to Seitenshi; Sumire Muroto also discussed the possibility of Enju undergoing Perfect Gastrea Transformation.
• Broly prayed beside the sleeping Scorpio for her to evolve into a happy human, but by the evening banquet she seemed unchanged except that her shell had darkened.

At Seitenshi’s private banquet, Aqua assessed the Crystal Palace candidates while Broly spent time with the guests. The celebration ended abruptly when Scorpio’s Qi began rapidly weakening, and Broly rushed to her with Aqua, Eris, and Sumire Muroto.

• Aqua questioned Eris about Broly’s Luck Blessing, then brought Broly and Eris into the banquet holding his hands.
• Kayo Senju outwitted Hiruko Kohina in a contest of riddles and won her friendship.
• Aqua approved Seitenshi’s application after discussing her ideals and her willingness to love Broly, then considered Miori Shiba and Kisara Tendo for the Crystal Palace.
• Aqua told Eris she planned to admit every recognized Capture Target and use her role as their sponsor to gain influence in the Group Chat Room.
• Rentaro Satomi suggested Broly take Kayo Senju on as his Initiator, while Hiruko Kagetane began to share an idea about the world’s safety.
• Broly sensed Scorpio’s Qi rapidly weakening, flew from the banquet, and returned with Sumire Muroto, Aqua, and Eris to help her.

Broly and the goddesses helped Scorpio survive her evolution, which consumed her energy and left her inside a fragile egg. Scorpio hatched as an intelligent octopus-like girl, called Broly her father and Aqua and Eris her mothers, and demonstrated the ability to split and merge.

• Broly brought Sumire Muroto, Aqua, and Eris to Scorpio, whose energy was falling as her body dried and cracked during evolution.
• Sumire Muroto warned that Scorpio might lack enough Biological Energy, so Aqua healed her, Eris blessed her, and Broly injected Life Energy until her qi stabilized.
• Scorpio's body collapsed, but Broly found a glowing egg in the wreckage, and Aqua accidentally cracked it open.
• A small octopus-like Scorpio emerged, clung to Aqua, then called Broly Father and Aqua and Eris Mother before wrapping herself around Broly.
• Scorpio split into two smaller versions that went to Aqua and Eris, then fused back together, while Sumire Muroto recognized her extraordinary evolution.

Broly and Aqua protected Scorpio from intrusive testing while Sumire Muroto examined her extraordinary abilities. Aqua proposed establishing a religion so Scorpio could replenish the divine power in her clothes, and she left Seitenshi with the possibility that Scorpio might become the world’s protector.

• Seitenshi asked Broly to use Scorpio’s collapsed shell for Safe Zone publicity, and he agreed after learning Scorpio did not care about the remains.
• Aqua refused Sumire Muroto’s request to take Scorpio’s blood and tissue, prompting Sumire to recognize and apologize for treating Scorpio as a research subject rather than a person.
• Sumire examined Scorpio’s abilities and measured her underwater speed at roughly 540 meters per second, far beyond the speed of military submarines.
• Aqua explained that Scorpio’s divine-power clothing would need replenishment and proposed establishing a faith cult for her.
• Seitenshi asked whether Aqua’s new religion would save the world, but Aqua said she had no intention of helping without benefit and suggested that Scorpio could protect the world if its people became her believers.

Aqua founded the Scorpio Cult with Broly, Eris, Seitenshi, Rentaro Satomi, and Enju Aihara, then began recruiting believers in the Tokyo Safe Zone. Meanwhile, Sogen Saitake planned to assassinate Seitenshi and seize control of the Tokyo Safe Zone.

• Aqua named the new religion the Scorpio Cult and wrote its origin story, doctrines, benefits, and obligations, using Seitenshi's one hundred million as startup funds.
• Aqua established the cult at Rentaro Satomi's home, where Rentaro and Enju Aihara joined after hearing about its promises to treat Gastrea infection and help Cursed Child.
• Aqua led the group to distribute flyers and free food in Tokyo, using the official registration document to reassure the public and recruit members for a blessing mass.
• Aqua revealed her plan to use Divine Miracles to turn recruits into believers and threaten those who refused with Gastrea infection and the promise of forgiveness through faith.
• Sogen Saitake learned that Tokyo's announcement about Scorpio's defeat had restored public confidence and decided to send assassins to kill Seitenshi and take the Tokyo Safe Zone.

Tina accepted a solo mission to assassinate Tokyo Area’s head of state while arranging to meet her online friend Broly in Tokyo. As Broly and Aqua prepared a public ceremony for Scorpio, Tina arrived at a hotel and debated what firearm to give Broly as a meeting gift.

• Professor Ann Rand assigned Tina to assassinate the head of state of the Tokyo Area, and Tina insisted on going alone to protect Erin from danger.
• Tina messaged Broly, learned he had witnessed Scorpio’s transformation, and arranged to meet him after she arrived in Tokyo.
• Broly, Aqua, Eris, and Scorpio rehearsed the Scorpio Cult’s public ceremony, with Aqua planning to attract believers and invite Seitenshi.
• Tina arrived at a hotel in the Transfer Station area and wondered whether to give Broly a Glock 17 or a Barrett M82 as a meeting gift.

Kayo Senju and the Initiator girls recruited a struggling blind Cursed Child and her family into the Scorpio Cult, helping drive interest in its Mass Ceremony past two thousand attendees. Tina Sprout arrived in Tokyo for an assassination mission and met Broly at Yoyogi Gymnasium, where the Crystal Palace identified her as a new capture target.

• Kayo Senju and the Initiator girls stopped a blond youth from robbing a blind Cursed Child and invited her to join the Scorpio Cult in exchange for food.
• Kayo and the girls delivered membership benefits to the blind girl's family, and her mother and younger sister joined the cult as well.
• The mother learned she could earn money by recruiting members and bringing them to the Mass Ceremony, while calls about the event surged among residents near the Outer District.
• Kisara Tendo warned Seitenshi that attendance had exceeded two thousand and suggested canceling her appearance, but Seitenshi decided to go to Yoyogi Gymnasium.
• Tina Sprout arrived in Tokyo intending to assassinate her target, then learned Seitenshi was promoting the Gastrea New Law and met Broly at the gymnasium entrance.
• The Crystal Palace identified Tina Sprout as a new capture target with a Happiness Value of 35.

Broly brought Tina to the Scorpio Cult’s Mass Ceremony, where she met its members and learned about their plans. Scorpio’s divine powers convinced the crowd that the gods were real, and Tina ended the chapter face-to-face with her assassination target, Seitenshi, but did not act.

• Tina met Broly at the Gymnasium, gave him a handbag full of money, and agreed to help with the Scorpio Cult’s preparations.
• Aqua had Tina and the other girls inject trace Gastrea Virus into bottled water, while Broly introduced Tina to the group and to Scorpio.
• The Mass Ceremony began with Seitenshi in attendance, and Scorpio appeared onstage to heal and purify people with divine arts.
• The crowd witnessed Scorpio’s powers and began offering her genuine Faith, while Hiruko Kagetane realized that gods truly existed.
• After the ceremony, Broly introduced Tina to Seitenshi and Kisara Tendo, and Tina recognized that she was within reach of her assassination target but made no move.

After the Mass Ceremony, Tina postponed her assassination mission and told Professor Ann Rand about the Scorpio Cult’s apparent miracle, prompting Ann to order an investigation. Meanwhile, videos of the ceremony spread online and sparked widespread disbelief and conspiracy theories in Tokyo.

• At the celebratory banquet, Aqua agreed with Kayo Senju to focus the Scorpio Cult’s missionary work on the Outer District, and Miori Shiba offered to fund churches there.
• Broly invited Tina to stay with him, but she declined; Aqua told Tina to return the next day for her Initiation Baptism.
• Tina called Ann Rand and described the Mass Ceremony’s healing miracle, asking whether she should proceed with the assassination; Ann ordered her to suspend the mission and investigate the cult.
• Tina collected leftover food and water from the ceremony and secretly injected Gastrea Virus Stock Solution into a bottle before sending the package to Ann in the United States.
• Videos of the Mass Ceremony circulated online, but many people dismissed the miracle as effects or deception and spread conspiracy theories about the Scorpio Cult and Seitenshi.

Sogen Saitake hired the Human Pureblood Association to attack the growing Scorpio Cult, while the cult built support in Tokyo by feeding and housing Cursed Children and recruiting two priests. In Washington, Professor Ann Rand remained baffled by the mineral water’s effects as Tina ignored his call to watch Heaven’s Punishment Girl.

• Sogen Saitake dismissed the Scorpio Cult as a scam, then paid the Human Pureblood Association to eliminate it from the Tokyo Area.
• The Human Pureblood Association’s Japan Branch president accepted Saitake’s offer and secured an advance to fund activities in Tokyo.
• Enju Aihara and the other Initiator girls preached to Cursed Children in the Outer District, where the cult provided curry rice and new homes as donations poured in.
• Aqua selected a formerly blind girl and a middle-aged truck driver as priests, and Scorpio granted them Healing and Purification spells.
• Professor Ann Rand found that tests on the mineral water only showed high Gastrea Virus concentrations, while Tina failed to hear his call because she was watching Heaven’s Punishment Girl.