Chapter Summaries

Riezel and Sukuna pushed their domain battle to its final stage, trading soul-cutting slashes as both unleashed their full power. Riezel fused Dimensional Slash into his Thunder Breathing technique, shattered both domains, and cut Sukuna in half.

• Riezel escaped Sukuna's restraint with a teleport and immobilized him with Cursed Speech before landing a Black Flash that badly injured him.
• Sukuna revealed Dismantle: Soul Severing Blade, explaining that he had developed it to target Riezel's soul, but Riezel's soul resisted the attack.
• Sukuna restored his full power and unleashed a storm of soul-severing slashes, while Riezel's domain sent countless slashes to meet them.
• Riezel summoned the Hermit, prepared to use his full strength, and fused Dimensional Slash into Thunder Breathing: Seventh Form, Fire Thunder God.
• Riezel's black-and-gold thunder dragon shattered both domains and the surrounding space, then Riezel appeared behind Sukuna and cut him in half.

Riezel defeated Ryomen Sukuna with a combined Dimensional Slash and Fire Thunder God, leaving Sukuna mortally severed at the bottom of the crater. Before dying, Sukuna explained his desire to unleash chaos and questioned whether Riezel would become lonely as the strongest, but Riezel affirmed that love and companionship would keep him from that fate.

• Riezel's combined Dimensional Slash and Fire Thunder God bisected Sukuna, leaving him unable to recover from his injuries.
• Gojo Satoru, Kashimo Hajime, and the others gathered around Sukuna as Riezel asked why he had wanted to return in the modern era.
• Sukuna described his contempt for the weak and said he had sought amusement by turning their fear and suffering into cursed energy.
• Sukuna challenged Riezel to consider whether becoming the strongest would leave him lonely, as it had Sukuna, Gojo Satoru, and Kashimo Hajime.
• Riezel said he would never require his companions to match his strength and would spend a peaceful life with the people he loved.
• Sukuna's presence vanished, ending the calamity.

After Sukuna and Kengso were defeated, Riezel, Gojo Satoru, and their allies restored order to the Jujutsu World and ended the Culling Game. At a celebration banquet, Riezel raised his abilities to their limit and used divine blood to advance from Lv.8 to Lv.9.

• Riezel and Gojo Satoru led the sorcerers in restoring the Jujutsu World, rescuing Tengen, and resolving the crises left by Kengso.
• Riezel revived Itadori Yuji, Fushiguro Megumi, Kugisaki Nobara, and Nanami Kento, while willing Players joined the cleanup.
• Riezel destroyed the ten Culling Game barriers and purified their cursed energy, bringing Kengso's calamity to an official end in January 2019.
• At a celebration banquet at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu High School, Riezel used divine blood to raise his Ability Values and Development Abilities to their limits.
• Riezel used another drop of divine blood to Level Up from Lv.8 to Lv.9.

After reaching Lv.9, Riezel gained the Development Ability Curse Binding and tested how it strengthened his cursed techniques and control. Gojo Satoru found him training during a celebration, and the two discussed Gojo’s appointment as principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High.

• Riezel leveled up to Lv.9, adapted quickly to his reset abilities, and chose the new Development Ability Curse Binding.
• Riezel tested Curse Binding and found it greatly improved his cursed energy control, made Infinity effortless to maintain, and enhanced his use of Blue, Red, and Immoral Game.
• Gojo Satoru located Riezel on a rooftop using the Six Eyes and asked why he was training during a celebration.
• Riezel and Gojo discussed Riezel’s lover and teased Gojo about settling down as he prepared to become principal of Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• Jujutsu Headquarters had appointed Gojo principal after Yaga Masamichi’s execution, prompting Riezel and others to think Tokyo Jujutsu High was finished.

Riezel decided to leave Jujutsu High and travel the world, parting quietly from Gojo Satoru before spending three months honing his abilities. After returning to Jujutsu High, he reached the end of his Dimensional Travel and departed for his own world.

• Riezel told Gojo Satoru that he planned to leave Jujutsu High and travel while exorcising Cursed Spirits.
• Gojo Satoru declined Riezel's offer to resurrect Geto Suguru and discussed the people he hoped to recruit and mentor.
• Riezel and Gojo Satoru shared a drink and watched the night sky together.
• Riezel left Jujutsu High without telling anyone, and the school never saw him again during his travels.
• Riezel spent three months traveling the world, adapting to his Lv.9 strength and reorganizing his abilities.
• Riezel returned to Jujutsu High, sent his cursed tools and Cursed Objects there, and departed when his Dimensional Travel ended.

Riezel accepted an unexpected Dimensional Cube passage to the Great Source World, where he arrived physically in a Temple and awakened the Holy Sword Malfa's Sword. The people hailed him as their savior, leaving Riezel bewildered by their worship.

• The Dimensional Cube detected the Great Source World and offered Riezel a risky physical journey, which he chose to take.
• Riezel heard prayers filled with longing, hope, and lamentation coming through the passage and entered the Great Source World.
• The Holy Sword awakened in the Temple, prompting two girls and crowds across the world to rush toward it.
• Riezel arrived on the altar, recognized a mysterious bond with the sword, and learned its name was Malfa's Sword.
• Riezel drew Malfa's Sword, and the assembled people knelt and thanked him as their savior while he stood in confusion.

After the crowd witnessed Riezel wield Malfa's Sword, Naisha Felismera, the Female Pope of the Holy Sword Church, explained the world’s history and the origins of its Holy Swords. Riezel learned that drawing Malfa’s Sword made him the Church’s long-awaited savior.

• Clergy and knights calmed the crowd outside the church as news of Riezel’s feat spread.
• Naisha Felismera introduced herself as the 448th Female Pope and told Riezel that the Holy Sword Church served those chosen by its swords.
• Naisha explained that the Source had long faced invasions from the Abyss, which had driven many powerful races to extinction.
• She recounted how an otherworldly visitor named Moslo Reinayl helped the Dwarves forge three Holy Swords to protect the Source.
• Riezel looked at Malfa’s Sword and realized that drawing it had made him a savior.

Riezel told Naisha that the Reinayl Clan had been destroyed eleven thousand years ago, but its descendants still existed in his world and his lover carried Moslo’s Sword. He learned that physical travel between the Akasha Continent and the Great Source World let him remain indefinitely and potentially bring Liz and Eulalie with him.

• Naisha explained that Reinayl saviors and Moslo’s Sword had vanished eleven thousand years earlier, leaving the Source without its strongest aid against the Abyss.
• Riezel introduced himself and told Naisha that the Reinayl Clan and its civilization had been destroyed, but descendants survived in his era.
• Riezel revealed that his lover was a Reinayl descendant who possessed Moslo’s Sword and was alive in the other world, searching for her origins.
• Riezel learned from the Dimensional Cube that travel between the two original worlds required physical manifestation and cost thirty units of Dimensional Energy each way, with no time limit.
• Riezel realized he could use Dimensional Energy to bring other people to the Great Source World and considered bringing Liz and Eulalie.

Riezel met Princess Melo Caledoheart after she requested an audience at the Holy Sword Church, where Naisha explained the princess’s status and the importance of Caledohart. Melo recognized Riezel as the wielder of Sacred Sword Malfa and invited him to the Royal Palace, but Naisha objected, leaving the invitation unresolved.

• Naisha learned that Princess Melo Caledoheart had come to see Riezel and asked whether he would meet her.
• Naisha explained that Melo was Caledohart’s First Princess and that Riezel had descended in the empire’s capital, Frosta.
• Riezel agreed to meet Melo, who entered and respectfully introduced herself to him.
• Melo recognized Sacred Sword Malfa and welcomed Riezel as the Source World’s new savior.
• Melo invited Riezel to the Royal Palace, but Naisha objected because he needed time to acclimate to the Source World.

After weighing Naisha’s concerns against Merlot’s offer of imperial protection, Riezel remained at the Holy Sword Church and studied the Great Source World in its library for three days. He emerged with a plan to go out, leaving Naisha startled and wondering where he intended to go.

• Naisha refused to let Merlot take Riezel to the Royal Palace, warning that the Empire’s court might be dangerous and invoking the threat of Abyss Believers.
• Merlot agreed not to force Riezel to visit the palace but arranged for her guard unit to help the Church protect him and Lord Malfa.
• Riezel questioned Naisha and Merlot about the world, then asked to study the Church’s library rather than trust their accounts alone.
• Riezel spent three days in the library while the Church turned away visitors, and Merlot joined the protection detail without seeing him.
• Riezel emerged from the library and told Naisha he was going out, surprising her when she asked where he planned to go.

Riezel prepared to travel from the Holy Sword Church headquarters, wearing its supreme defensive secret treasure as Naisha insisted on accompanying him. He set out with Naisha, Merlot, and a heavily armed party toward a dangerous place he hoped would help solve a long-standing mystery.

• Riezel put on the Supreme Holy Sword Church, a powerful defensive outfit Naisha had ordered him to wear despite his confidence in his own protections.
• Naisha joined Riezel for the journey, and he accepted that she, Merlot, and their guards would accompany him.
• Riezel and Naisha arrived at the entrance hall, where Merlot, Bishops Luan and Andre, and the rest of the armed party waited to depart.
• Merlot asked whether Riezel truly intended to visit the dangerous place, and Riezel said he had to see it for himself.
• Riezel and the assembled group left the Holy Sword Church headquarters, officially beginning their journey.

Riezel revealed Sacred Sword Malfa to the crowds outside the church, affirming himself as the Savior, then left aboard the Empire’s super-large Floating Magic Battleship, Sphinx. As he considered the Source World’s advanced magical civilization, he wondered how powerful the Abyss must be to threaten it.

• Riezel emerged from the church and found a huge crowd cheering for the Savior after waiting for his arrival.
• Riezel summoned Sacred Sword Malfa, and its radiance stirred the crowd into renewed cheers as he demonstrated that it recognized him.
• Merlot gave Riezel a Mana Metal scabbard, and he sheathed Malfa before leaving the church with Naisha and the others.
• Merlot led Riezel to Sphinx, a super-large Floating Magic Battleship deployed by the Caledohart Empire to transport and protect him.
• Riezel learned that the Reinayl Clan had brought magic and sword techniques from the Great Source World to the Akasha Continent, then wondered how strong the Abyss was.

Riezel learned how the Great Source World’s strength and magic differed from the Akasha Continent, then saw the Empire’s preparations to protect him aboard the Sphinx. Merlot revealed that the King had prepared him a gift, leaving Naisha suspicious about what it might be.

• Riezel considered how the Great Source World’s humans used magic to strengthen themselves and were generally far more powerful than humans from the Akasha Continent.
• Riezel asked about the armed knights and Flying Monsters around the Sphinx, and Naisha explained that they belonged to the Empire’s Sky Division.
• Merlot said the Sky Division would guard the voyage and that two Knight Captains were among the escorts.
• Riezel thanked Merlot’s Father King for the Empire’s precautions, and Merlot said the King had also prepared a gift for him.
• Merlot promised to bring the gift to Riezel later, while Naisha grew uneasy about what it might be.

Riezel boarded the Sphinx for a six-day voyage and settled into his luxurious cabin, where he reflected on Sacred Sword Malfa’s choice of him. He suspected the sword, Meloy God’s emerald, and the beast-hide maps shared a mysterious connection to the Dimensional Cube, and placed them together to investigate.

• Merlot guided Riezel and his group aboard the Sphinx, then showed him his cabin and explained the voyage would take six days under the usual procedures.
• Naisha claimed the room beside Riezel’s, and Melo Caledoheart led her away, leaving Riezel alone.
• Riezel summoned Malfa’s Sword and wondered why it had acknowledged him when the other Sacred Swords had resisted everyone but Moslo’s chosen bloodline.
• Riezel recalled the resonance he had felt from Moslo’s Sword, the beast-hide scrolls, and Meloy God, and suspected they shared a material linked to the Dimensional Cube.
• Riezel placed Malfa’s Sword, the two Beast Hide Scrolls, and Meloy God together and wondered what connected them.

Riezel studied Malfa's Sword and discovered that its power could cleave worlds and refine bloodlines, then wondered about the origins of other Sacred Swords. Merlot entered his room with two blushing maids, leaving Riezel startled by their seductive appearance.

• Riezel put away the Beast Hide Scroll and necklace after failing to uncover their secrets, and considered whether Eulalie might know more if she regained her memories.
• Riezel concluded that Liz was probably not Eulalie's direct descendant, then began channeling magic power into Malfa's Sword.
• Riezel felt his consciousness merge with Malfa's Sword and realized its power could split worlds, interfere with planes, and temper bloodlines.
• Riezel wondered about the Sacred Sword associated with the Tistis Family and decided to ask Naisha about it.
• Merlot entered Riezel's room with two seductive maids, and Riezel froze when he saw them.

Merlot introduced Jelinae and Silune as Nymphs who had chosen to serve Riezel and help him grow stronger, explaining that Caledohart protected their tribe. Riezel rejected them despite the danger posed by the Abyss, leaving Merlot anxious about his ability to survive its coming attacks.

• Riezel met Jelinae and Silune, whose voices and presence stirred his instincts, and learned from Merlot that they were Nymphs.
• Merlot explained that Caledohart protected the Nymph tribe where the two girls were born and that they had volunteered to serve Riezel.
• Merlot said Nymphs could help their partners grow stronger and cited past Saviors who had relied on them.
• Riezel refused to accept Jelinae and Silune, saying he would become stronger through his own efforts.
• Merlot warned that the Abyss and its Believers would target Riezel now that his arrival as the wielder of Malfa was known.

Riezel accepted Jelinae and Silune as maids after Merlot persuaded him, though he warned them not to expect him to help continue their race. After the Sphinx departed the imperial capital, Riezel discovered that Source had two moons, and the Nymph Maidens entered his bath to serve him.

• Riezel recalled the danger posed by Abyss Believers as Merlot urged him to let Jelinae and Silune stay as maids.
• Jelinae and Silune pleaded to serve Riezel, and he agreed to let them stay while warning them not to expect children from him.
• Merlot told the Nymph Maidens to call Riezel Master, and he asked them to stop kneeling and bowing before him.
• The Floating Magic Battleship Sphinx departed the imperial capital with the Sky Division escorting it.
• Riezel noticed the Red Moon and Blue Moon in the night sky and sensed that Moon Breathing worked differently in this world.
• Jelinae and Silune entered Riezel's bath naked and began bathing him, insisting that serving him was their duty.

After Jelinae and Silune served Riezel, he discovered that the Nymphs’ life force had slightly increased his magic power. Merlot took him to watch the knights train on the Sphinx, where Naisha confronted her over the Nymphs and revealed that the King had once sought them as marriage prospects.

• Jelinae and Silune helped Riezel bathe and dress, and he noticed his magic power had grown slightly overnight.
• Riezel reasoned that the Nymphs’ life force had enhanced his potential and welcomed the increase in magic power.
• Merlot invited Riezel to watch the knights’ training on the Sphinx, and he took Malfa's Sword before leaving with her and the Nymphs.
• Naisha joined Riezel on the deck and glared at Jelinae and Silune as she challenged Merlot over the Empire giving them to him.
• Naisha revealed that the King had previously sought marriageable Nymphs, leaving Merlot struggling to maintain her smile.

Riezel learned how the Source World ranked its knights and discovered that its highest ranks included many powerful Saints. As he began to ask about Merlot and Naisha’s strength, he spotted a knight surrounded by a faint black aura.

• Riezel saw that the Floating Magic Battleship’s knights included many fighters far stronger than ordinary knights from the Akasha Continent.
• Merlot explained that Knight Medals marked seven ranks, from Black Iron to Gem, and that the guards aboard the ship were at least Bronze Rank.
• Riezel inferred that Bronze, Silver, Gold, Crystal, and Amber ranks corresponded roughly to Levels 4 through 8, while Gem Rank represented Level 9 or higher.
• Naisha said that Holy Sword Church bishops were comparable to Amber Rank, and Merlot and Naisha revealed that Caledohart’s councilors and the Church’s archbishops were Saints.
• Riezel grew eager to encounter the Source World’s powerful fighters, then noticed faint black, curse-like aura rising from one of the sparring knights.

Riezel discovered that an unremarkable Silver Rank knight was infected with Abyss Aura and exposed it with Malfa's Sword. After the aura attacked him and possessed the knight, Merlot killed the attacker, leaving the deck on high alert.

• Riezel sensed a strange darkness surrounding a Silver Rank knight and asked Merlot to bring him over.
• Naisha ordered Bishops Luan and Andre to protect Riezel, while Merlot placed the deck on first-level alert.
• Riezel summoned Malfa's Sword, whose holy light caused black mist to erupt from the knight and revealed the Abyss Aura infection.
• Luan and Bishop Andre attacked the mist, but it re-formed and charged at Riezel before Malfa's Sword cut it apart.
• Fragments of the mist possessed the knight, who lunged at Riezel, and Merlot killed him with a sword strike.