Chapter Summaries

Moriarty met Salazar Slytherin in the Slytherin Family Cemetery and asked about the cemetery, the Basilisk’s crucifixion, and the Devouring Spell. Salazar agreed to help perfect the spell if Moriarty listened to the cemetery’s story, leaving Moriarty unsure whether Salazar was dead or alive.

• Salazar identified himself as Moriarty’s ancestor and recognized the Slytherin staff as the symbol of the current Family Head.
• Moriarty told Salazar about his descent from the Muggle-born son, his return from China, and his discovery of the Chamber of Secrets; Salazar revealed that Godric had separated the Basilisk couple.
• Salazar showed Moriarty the graves of his ancestors, including his own, and laughed about Godric rejecting godhood because it would violate his knight’s code.
• Moriarty connected the cemetery, cross, and snake with the phrase “Death is Eternal Life,” then asked Salazar to help stop the Devouring Spell from consuming Fire Elemental Magic.
• Salazar urged Moriarty to focus on Water Elemental Magic, but Moriarty revealed he had mastered both water and wind magic.
• Salazar offered to help perfect the Devouring Spell if Moriarty heard the cemetery’s story, and Moriarty asked whether Salazar was dead or alive.

Moriarty examined the Slytherin cemetery’s Magic Circle and learned that its missing graves belonged to Salazar’s Muggle-born descendants who journeyed to China. Salazar revealed the Circle’s connection to Life and Death, his son’s dark bargain, and began explaining why he chose death.

• Salazar used Moriarty’s staff to reveal the cemetery’s Magic Circle, and Moriarty deduced that its graves supplied immense Magic Power through teleportation-related runes.
• Salazar explained that the Circle was incomplete because graves belonging to descendants of his Muggle-born son were missing, and Moriarty realized those graves were tied to his ancestors who went to China.
• Moriarty’s attempt to analyze a rune with the Alchemy Matrix caused him severe pain, so Salazar warned him that the Circle involved the God of Magic and identified the rune as Life and Death.
• Salazar revealed that his Muggle-born son had made a deal with darkness, stolen the staff, traveled to China, and learned Dark Element Magic powerful enough to fight Salazar to a draw.
• Moriarty suspected Salazar had chosen death willingly, and Salazar began recounting his reasons, declaring that death was eternal life.

Salazar explained his path to immortality and revealed that the Immortality Prophecy required a key. Moriarty connected the prophecy to an ancient organization and prepared to pursue the key while planning to investigate Japan.

• Salazar told Moriarty that crossing life and death was his path to immortality, and that the graveyard and family Magic Circle served as safeguards.
• Salazar said he would not complete the Magic Circle by burying Moriarty or his Muggle-born ancestors, then revealed that the second path involved the Immortality Prophecy.
• Moriarty described the Immortality Organization and suspected that its leader was Japan's BOSS, but Salazar argued the group had targeted his Muggle-born son a thousand years earlier.
• Moriarty told Salazar that Merlin and Vivian had gone to Japan after the World Cup attack, and Salazar questioned whether Japan's BOSS led the organization.
• Salazar revealed that fulfilling the Immortality Prophecy required a key, and Moriarty resolved to obtain it.

Moriarty and Salazar traced the Immortality Prophecy’s history and considered whether the Immortality Organization had manipulated Merlin and Salazar to pursue it. Moriarty warned that the organization had infiltrated Britain and might be targeting him, then revealed that he knew of a sixth Elemental Magic: Thunder.

• Salazar explained that he and the other Founders had suspected the Immortality Prophecy was connected to Alchemy, while Moriarty argued that it was tied to Elemental Magic.
• Salazar recalled hearing the prophecy from a Hebrew Lord while fleeing The Vatican, and Moriarty noted that Merlin had also heard it from a Hebrew Lord.
• Moriarty mapped three known appearances of the prophecy across fifteen hundred years and suggested that the Hebrew Lords may have been members of the Immortality Organization.
• Moriarty and Salazar reasoned that the organization could have grown powerful over the centuries, and Moriarty declared he would oppose it despite its infiltration of Britain.
• Moriarty said the Immortality Organization might have targeted him because he possessed two forms of Elemental Magic, then revealed that Thunder was a sixth element.

Salazar helped Moriarty perfect the Devouring Spell by marking Otherworld Space with Moriarty’s Water Elemental Magic, allowing him to absorb and transform the abilities of what he devoured. Moriarty prepared to return to the real world to devour the Phoenix Egg, while Salazar warned that finding a way back might be difficult.

• Salazar praised Moriarty for forging his own magical path and demonstrated the Devouring Spell by transforming Otherworld Space with Water Elemental Magic.
• Salazar reminisced about the Four Founders’ experiments with Elemental Magic and refused to explain why he had left Hogwarts.
• Salazar absorbed the water Moriarty had created, then instructed him to cover the golden land with his Water Elemental Magic.
• Moriarty flooded the space with water, and Salazar explained that this marked it with Moriarty’s magic and would let him seize and transform the abilities of what he devoured.
• Salazar revealed that the only other wizard to enter Otherworld Space in over a thousand years had been a Hufflepuff who mastered Earth Elemental Magic.
• Moriarty set out to return to the real world and devour the Phoenix Egg, while Salazar said he might not find another way into Otherworld Space.

Moriarty devoured the Phoenix Egg and stole the Undying Phoenix’s Fire Elemental Magic, unlocking Fire Element Magic and gaining the potential to become a phoenix Animagus. After mastering his new spells, he reached Level 26 Junior Wizard (Fire) and left the chamber for dinner.

• Moriarty returned to the underground chamber and used Devour to move the Phoenix Egg into the Otherworld Space, where Wind Theft gave him the Undying Phoenix’s Fire Elemental Magic.
• The system confirmed the magic could unlock Fire Element Magic and revealed that Moriarty had gained the ability to become a phoenix Animagus after reaching Level 31.
• Moriarty unlocked Fire Element Magic, received a discount in its shop, and exchanged 98,000 points for five spells while avoiding Burning Rage.
• Moriarty mastered the new Fire Elemental Magic by manifesting a phoenix in his spiritual world and repeatedly undergoing nirvana amid the flames.
• The system raised Moriarty to Level 26 Junior Wizard (Fire), and he left the chamber to join Luke and the two mistresses for dinner.

Moriarty set out from Britain for Japan by flying across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, using phoenix wings and elemental magic. After reaching the Pacific and resting on an ice raft, he awoke to find a luxury cruise ship wrecked on a reef.

• Moriarty left the Castle on August 26th and began his planned journey to Japan, where Lilith had already arrived.
• Moriarty used First Mimicry to grow phoenix wings and flew across the English Channel, drawing the British Navy's attention as an unidentified flying object.
• Moriarty suppressed the Undying Phoenix's urge to become a bird with Occlumency and crossed the Atlantic Ocean into the Indian Ocean.
• While flying over the Indian Ocean, Moriarty combined Water and Fire Elemental Magic, resisted the phoenix instinct again, and raised his Fire Elemental Magic level to 28.
• Moriarty crossed into the Pacific Ocean, built an ice raft, and rested while propelling it with wind magic.
• Moriarty woke to find a luxury cruise ship struck on a reef, with passengers in panic and the crew unable to calm them.

Moriarty investigated a blood-soaked cruise ship and discovered that Tokyo Ghouls had attacked its passengers. After killing the Ghouls in the cabins, he learned that a large creature beneath the water was tilting the ship.

• Moriarty noticed the cruise ship was tilted and saw blood pouring from cabin windows as passengers panicked.
• Moriarty disguised himself, entered the fourth-level cabins, and found brutally murdered passengers and evidence of an unknown attacker.
• Moriarty encountered a Tokyo Ghoul, whose body resisted his Petrification spell, and destroyed it with Fire Elemental Magic.
• Sixteen or seventeen more Ghouls rushed out, but Moriarty killed them with an Explosive Heatwave.
• The cruise ship tilted more steeply after Moriarty's ice raft shattered, revealing that a large object lay beneath the water.

Moriarty discovered that the cruise ship’s cargo included five Tokugawa family treasures that may have attracted the monsters attacking the vessel. After entering Patriarch Tokugawa’s guarded hall, he noticed that the appraiser Simon Farid spoke Hebrew, a language almost no one could speak.

• A Giant Squid attacked the cruise ship and devoured passengers who jumped overboard, while Moriarty suspected the ship or something aboard it had attracted the monsters.
• Moriarty searched the captain’s quarters and found the captain dead, then used the manifests to learn that Patriarch Tokugawa would display five family treasures at seven o’clock.
• Moriarty flew to the ninth floor, froze the bodyguards guarding the entrance, and disguised himself as their leader to enter Patriarch Tokugawa’s hall.
• Simon Farid begged Patriarch Tokugawa to let him leave, but Tokugawa refused and had bodyguards drag him away.
• Moriarty recognized the language Simon muttered as Hebrew, which Nicolas Flamel had said fewer than ten people in the world could speak.

Moriarty disguised himself as British antiques dealer John Wick and questioned Simon Farid, learning about the Wizarding World and the Ōmagari Shikigami Order aboard the cruise ship. As Moriarty investigated the order’s earth-powered shikigami, he heard a window shatter in the corridor.

• Moriarty disguised himself as John Wick and approached Simon Farid, who said the Monsters belonged to another world.
• Simon told Moriarty about his grandfather’s treasure parchment and his sighting of wizards using magic in the Brazilian rainforest.
• Simon suspected the Monsters had come for the Ōmagari Shikigami Order, which Patriarch Tokugawa possessed.
• Moriarty mingled with the guests and learned that the blue token supposedly sealed a dog-shaped shikigami with inexhaustible strength while standing on earth.
• Moriarty heard a window smash in the corridor.

Moriarty watched Ghouls overrun the Tokugawa appraisal gathering, while Patriarch Tokugawa summoned a Shikigami with the Ōmagari Shikigami Order. The chapter left Moriarty learning that the Tokugawa Family was a governor of Mahoutokoro School of Magic as the Shikigami fought the Ghouls.

• Moriarty froze the corridor bodyguards, and Ghouls later attacked the gathering, shrugging off bullets and killing guards and guests.
• Patriarch Tokugawa tried to control the crowd, then summoned a kimono-clad Shikigami from the Ōmagari Shikigami Order to fight the Ghouls.
• Moriarty recognized the Shikigami and received an Exploration Draw after discovering her.
• Patriarch Tokugawa asked Moriarty for help, but Moriarty said the guests’ lives had nothing to do with him.
• Patriarch Tokugawa told Moriarty that the Tokugawa Family was one of Mahoutokoro School of Magic’s governors.

Moriarty confronted Tokugawa Xingye aboard the attacked cruise ship, using his knowledge of Mahoutokoro and Xingye’s secrets to demand Simon Wick and access to the school. When Moriarty revealed that a Giant Squid threatened to capsize the ship, Xingye agreed to lend him Simon in exchange for help.

• Moriarty dismissed Tokugawa Xingye’s offer of the Tokugawa Family’s friendship and recited details about Mahoutokoro School of Magic, revealing that he had read Xingye’s thoughts.
• Moriarty threatened to expose Xingye’s secret affair with his granddaughter unless Xingye handed over Simon Wick and took him to Mahoutokoro.
• Xingye agreed to arrange Moriarty’s entry into Mahoutokoro but refused to hand over Simon, saying that he needed him.
• Moriarty warned Xingye that a Giant Squid was attacking the cruise ship and that the Shikigami could not stop it from capsizing.
• Xingye relented and agreed to lend Simon to Moriarty in exchange for his help.

Moriarty agreed to help Patriarch Tokugawa in exchange for Simon’s company, defeated the Ghouls and drove the Giant Squid away from the cruise ship. After returning to Tokyo with Simon, Moriarty encountered the Slit-Mouthed Woman and received a mission to kiss her.

• Moriarty froze and destroyed four Ghouls, then erased the guests’ memories of his magic.
• Moriarty used Water Elemental Magic and wind blades to drive the Giant Squid away from the cruise ship.
• Patriarch Tokugawa released Simon, and Moriarty took him to Tokyo after the appraisal meeting.
• Simon asked Moriarty to accompany him to Haneda International Airport to meet his wife and daughter.
• Moriarty and Simon encountered the Slit-Mouthed Woman, and the system issued Moriarty a mission to kiss her.

Moriarty chose to spare the Slit-Mouthed Woman and investigate how she had transformed after swallowing black mist, which may have been connected to the Japanese Team’s attack on Hydrose. He took her toward her apartment for answers, but Simon’s wife and daughter were stranded on a delayed flight, and Simon begged Moriarty for help.

• The Slit-Mouthed Woman asked Moriarty if she was pretty, revealed her split mouth, and threatened him with scissors.
• Moriarty used Legilimency to learn that she had swallowed black mist two weeks earlier, around the time Hydrose was attacked, and chose Mission Three.
• Moriarty restrained the Slit-Mouthed Woman and told her to take him to her apartment and explain what had happened when she swallowed the mist.
• Simon asked Moriarty to accompany him to Haneda International Airport, but Moriarty questioned why Simon could not go alone, and the two bodyguards had disappeared.
• A news report announced that the LJN Flight from Israel was delayed, and Simon revealed that his wife and daughter were aboard and begged Moriarty to help.

Simon told Moriarty that someone from the Wizarding World was targeting him and that his wife and daughter were stranded on a delayed flight at Haneda International Airport. As Moriarty investigated the airport lockdown, he discovered a concealed teenage girl who recognized him.

• Simon explained that the Japanese Government had detained passengers from two planes while investigating the cause of five delayed flights, and admitted he believed someone was targeting him.
• Moriarty agreed to help Simon find his wife and daughter, then sent Simon and the Slit-Mouthed Woman to gather information in Ginza.
• After two hours, Moriarty Apparated with Simon and the Slit-Mouthed Woman to Haneda International Airport, where soldiers guarded the entrances and passengers waited for their flights.
• Moriarty sensed a familiar magical presence near the first terminal and sent a Ghost Snake to find its source.
• The Ghost Snake led a concealed teenage girl to Moriarty, and she softly asked whether he was there.

Moriarty and Lilith reunited at Haneda International Airport, disguised themselves as a married couple, and compared clues about the strange flight delays and crows. They discovered thirteen unfamiliar red-robed wizards on the rooftop, whose identity Lilith could not match to Japan’s Aurors.

• Moriarty revealed himself to Lilith, transformed her appearance, and established their cover as British antique dealers John Wick and Trinity.
• Moriarty told Lilith about recent strange incidents, and she explained that her delayed flight had carried a Magic Power fluctuation resembling the Rainbow Crows that attacked Hydrose.
• Simon and the Slit-Mouthed Woman joined Moriarty and Lilith, and Moriarty suspected Simon was hiding something but avoided using Legilimency on him.
• Moriarty and Lilith sensed about thirteen powerful wizards Apparating onto the airport rooftop and suspected they were from the Japanese Ministry of Magic.
• Moriarty and Lilith went to the rooftop, where Lilith recognized the red-robed wizards as neither the Japanese Aurors she had seen before nor a group she could identify.

Moriarty and Lilith watched Japanese Ministry of Magic Aurors led by Fujimoto clash with Mahoutokoro School of Magic wizards led by Yorikuni, who used a form of Elemental Magic called Crimson Magic. As the delayed airplane arrived, Moriarty wondered how the students had learned Elemental Magic and anticipated upheaval in Japan’s Wizarding World.

• Lilith identified the red-robed wizards as likely Mahoutokoro students and recognized the bald Auror, Fujimoto, as an official of the Japanese Ministry of Magic.
• Fujimoto ordered Yorikuni and his students to leave, but Yorikuni refused until the airport crisis was resolved, and their argument turned into a fight.
• Yorikuni and the students used Crimson Magic to conjure water, fire, wind, and stone, while Fujimoto and the Aurors summoned Shikigami to fight back.
• Moriarty realized the red-robed wizards could use Elemental Magic only by invoking Crimson Magic, and he questioned how they had learned it.
• The delayed airplane arrived as beams of light rose from the rooftop.

Moriarty investigated the delayed flight and discovered that strange crows had stripped its passengers of every negative emotion, leaving them capable only of happiness. After helping Simon reunite with his family, Moriarty suspected the Japanese BOSS was advancing Dark Element Magic and prepared to investigate the growing conflict between Mahoutokoro and the Japanese Ministry of Magic.

• Moriarty and Lilith watched the delayed plane approach and saw Japanese wizards and Aurors gathered at the airport, while Moriarty suspected blood-headed crows had caused the delay.
• The plane landed, and its smiling passengers surprised the waiting crowd with a Christmas performance after spending twenty cheerful hours aboard.
• Moriarty concluded that the crows had removed the passengers' negative emotions, and Lilith recognized that their effects differed from those of the Fallen Crow.
• Moriarty told Simon that Natalie and Ilan would recover within a week, then used Ghost Snakes to follow the Japanese wizard groups.
• Moriarty met the Slit-Mouthed Woman and stayed with the others at a hotel near Haneda International Airport, where he inferred the wizard groups had gone to Mahoutokoro and the Japanese Ministry of Magic.

Moriarty and his companions uncovered more about Japan’s Shikigami-based magical system and arranged a visit to Mahoutokoro School of Magic. They arrived at the school by Giant Storm Petrel, where an excited English voice greeted Moriarty and Lilith from behind.

• Lilith explained that Japan’s wizards relied on Shikigami and predicted that the red-robed wizards’ conflict with the Ministry could transform the country’s magical world.
• Moriarty revealed that Simon’s missing bodyguards were Shikigami, and Simon drew them out by standing in traffic; Moriarty then used them to contact Patriarch Tokugawa.
• Moriarty warned Patriarch Tokugawa not to interfere and secured transport to Mahoutokoro School of Magic via helicopter and Volcano Island.
• Moriarty arranged Giant Storm Petrels for the group, and they rode the birds to Mahoutokoro’s gates.
• An excited English-speaking stranger greeted Moriarty and Lilith as they arrived at the school.

Moriarty and Lilith met Jericho at Mahoutokoro School of Magic, where he explained his mission to investigate the late Tsukamura Kogoro. The group entered the school, and Jericho proposed turning its palace into a Hogwarts Asian Branch.

• Moriarty and Lilith reunited with Jericho, who introduced a Tsuchimikado family representative accompanying him.
• Jericho explained how he had tracked Moriarty and Lilith to Japan and identified them despite their disguises.
• The group discussed Mahoutokoro's enchanted uniforms and the risk of first-years being bullied.
• Jericho revealed that the Blench family had sent him to investigate Tsukamura Kogoro and that he had learned Kogoro left Mahoutokoro before graduating.
• Moriarty, Lilith, Jericho, and their companions entered the school and admired its palace, where Jericho proposed making it a Hogwarts Asian Branch.