Recaps

After arriving in a transformed version of her world, Lady Aisha learned about the angels’ mission to correct a distorted church. Meanwhile, Erica sparred with Lucrezia and lost, then Lucrezia received a call from someone who addressed her as Grandma.

• Lady Aisha and the nuns were taken to Heaven, where they saw Gabriel and traveled through gates to a war-scarred world and a modern Earth with a floating continent and enormous aircraft.
• Lady Aisha learned that Angel’s Blood could give humans supernatural powers while turning them into murderous monsters, and that the group’s mission was to correct a distorted church.
• A Valkyrie told Griselda that the Akasha Main System remained unstable and that Odin’s destruction of the Godhood of Fate might have resulted from its abnormalities.
• Erica fought Lucrezia, using her Words of Power and illusions to attack, but Lucrezia outmaneuvered her with magic and left her unable to move.
• A telephone rang at Lucrezia’s house, and a caller greeted her as Grandma.

Alice sought Lucrezia’s account of the Disobedient God’s return to myth and offered her access to research on a strange monster in exchange. Lucrezia revealed that she served the man who had answered Alice’s first call, and after Alice sent her the promised file, Lucrezia began opening it.

• Alice learned that a monster from Lady Aisha’s cave remained after being killed and planned to offer it for research in exchange for Lucrezia’s information about Sardinia.
• Alice called Lucrezia but first spoke with Bai Yue, who teased her into calling him Grandpa.
• Alice called back and asked Lucrezia about Sardinia, but Bai Yue drained Lucrezia’s magical power while she spoke, leaving her breathless.
• Lucrezia told Alice that Bai Yue was the man she would serve and teasingly invited Alice to serve him too, prompting Alice to hang up.
• Alice sent Lucrezia a file by email, and Lucrezia downloaded it and worked out its extraction password.

Lucrezia, Bai Yue, and Erica examined photographs of a dissected monster sent by Lady Alice, while Bai Yue suspected it resembled Hades’s Chimeras. In the Astral Underworld, Susanoo’s group continued plotting to make Kusanagi Godou a God-killer, and John Pluto Smith was summoned to learn that history had changed again.

• Lucrezia showed Bai Yue photographs of a monster and asked whether it came from the Mythological World.
• Bai Yue recognized similarities between the creature and Hades’s Chimeras, while Erica realized Lady Alice had sent the research offer.
• Lucrezia considered joining Lady Alice’s research and teased Bai Yue by mentioning the Princess’s qualifications as a witch and potential Saintess.
• Susanoo and his allies discussed the accepted Prometheus Secret Technique and their plan to turn Kusanagi Godou into a God-killer.
• The Time Keeper summoned John Pluto Smith to Plutarch’s Mansion after changes appeared on the stone slab recording history.

Anne Charlton learned that Lady Aisha had opened a passage to a Parallel World and that an unknown being had entered their world. She traveled with Alice to investigate the captured being, but the chapter ended with them seeing Lucrezia affectionately kissing and giving money to a handsome young man.

• Elder Yu told John that Lady Aisha had opened a passage to a Parallel World and that an unrecordable being had appeared in their world.
• Anne Charlton ordered Jobenster to set aside the King of Flies investigation after learning that Europeans had captured something emerging from Lady Aisha's passage.
• Anne contacted Princess Alice, then traveled to meet her and inspect the captured being, which Anne said might threaten the world.
• Alice told Anne that Lucrezia was coming to examine the being, and Anne recognized her as the witch of Sardinia.
• Anne and Alice saw Lucrezia passionately kiss a handsome young man and give him a card, prompting Alice to suspect he was Lucrezia's kept pet.

Alice, Lucrezia, and Anne examined the monster’s remains and discovered a human-like soul and a numbered mark, while Bai Yue explained how myths bind gods and how his true descent might erase his own mythology. The chapter left Erica wondering what would happen to Bai Yue as the myths surrounding him disappeared.

• Lucrezia teased Alice about finding a lover, embarrassing both Alice and Anne during the ride to the laboratory.
• Alice and Lucrezia examined the monster’s preserved remains, where a mage revealed a human-like soul and a string of numbers engraved on its heart.
• Bai Yue recovered his strength after Erica unknowingly replenished his mana, and he explained how human beliefs shape gods and bind them to their myths.
• Bai Yue asked Erica to search for the Apocalypse Knights, and she found that records of the Pale Rider’s deeds were gradually disappearing.
• Bai Yue told Erica that his true body had left the Mythological World, leading her to wonder whether a god’s myths vanishing would cause madness or other consequences.

Bai Yue considered how to gather more Divine Authorities without exposing himself as an Apocalypse Knight, then took Ariana shopping and offered her a way to gain power. After kissing her, he gave Ariana a blessing, and she sensed supernatural power within herself for the first time.

• Bai Yue realized that absorbing more Divine Authorities and unlocking his final EX gear could help his identity transform from Pestilence toward death.
• Bai Yue decided to conceal his Apocalypse Knight nature and rely on Erica and Lucrezia to fight Disobedient Gods, while Erica went to retrieve an Age of Gods object from the Crimson Copper Black Cross headquarters.
• Bai Yue took Ariana to a shopping mall and chose several maid outfits for her to wear indoors.
• Bai Yue asked Ariana whether she wanted special powers, and she admitted she wanted to stay by Erica's side but worried that granting her power would waste it.
• Bai Yue kissed Ariana and bestowed a blessing on her, allowing her to feel supernatural power within her body.
• Ariana tried to activate the power she had received.

Ariana briefly summoned a cross-shaped greatsword after Bai Yue protected her, while Anne told Alice that the monster came from a Parallel World. Alice probed the monster’s soul and saw memories of a demon-summoning criminal who was tortured in Hell before being taken for experiments, leaving her terrified by what the Grim Reaper revealed.

• Ariana briefly summoned a greatsword nearly as tall as herself, and Bai Yue explained that his protective power had given her magical talent and temporary buffs.
• Anne told Alice that the monster came from a Parallel World, and Alice agreed to probe its soul to learn about the other side.
• Alice sent her Spirit Body to the Sage Council and began examining the monster’s heart and soul while excluding Lucrezia from the room.
• Alice saw the soul’s memories of a human criminal who summoned a demon, sold his soul for power, and killed pursuing police officers.
• Alice watched the criminal die at the hands of a Grim Reaper and suffer in Hell for decades before he and other souls were taken away for experiments.

After spying on Hades’s invasion preparations and his plan to use human souls to create monsters, Alice warned that Lady Aisha’s cave had to be destroyed before the enemy could enter their world, then vanished. Anne went to report the threat as Pluto Smith and sought out the foster mother of the God-killers.

• Alice watched Grim Reapers discuss Hades’s plan to invade another world while 666 and his dragons devastated Norse and Greek mythological worlds.
• Alice learned that Hades had a powerful invading army and that more than five hundred thousand human souls were being used as seeds to create Chimeras.
• After exhausting her spiritual power, Alice collapsed and warned Anne that Lady Aisha’s cave had to be destroyed to prevent their world from being destroyed, then disappeared.
• Anne and Saint Raphael examined Alice and discussed destroying the Fairy Corridor, while Anne decided to report the danger to Lord Smith.
• Anne traveled to the Netherworld, transformed into Pluto Smith, and went to the entrance of the Gods’ Domain to visit the foster mother of the God-killers.

John asked Pandora to summon Aisha after Alice warned that the cave threatened the Human World, but Aisha had vanished beyond Pandora’s reach. Erica returned to London to investigate Alice’s coma and found Bai Yue training Ariana, then accused him of causing the crisis and was punished as he reached into her skirt pocket.

• John told Pandora that monsters had emerged from Aisha’s cave in a Parallel World and that Alice had fallen unconscious after warning the Human World was in danger.
• Pandora could not sense Aisha and worried Anne would enter the cave or try to kill her, while considering whether other gods had encountered beings from the Parallel World.
• Paul sent Erica to visit the unconscious Princess Alice and pledged the Crimson Copper Black Cross’s support for her.
• Erica arrived at the villa and found Ariana training with a magical sword, then learned Ariana could now use magic.
• Erica accused Bai Yue of having something to do with Alice’s coma, and he drained her magic power as punishment before reaching into her skirt pocket.

Bai Yue investigated Medusa’s origins and learned that Erica was about to explain her hidden identity before Lucrezia summoned her to investigate a suspected otherworldly monster. A silver-haired Disobedient God followed the Gorgon’s trail to the city, where Bai Yue provoked her by telling a story about Athena and realized she had taken the bait.

• Bai Yue considered whether Medusa and her mother Ceto had been reshaped in mythology like Athena and Metis, but he lacked enough information to determine Medusa’s original identity.
• Erica began explaining Medusa’s true identity as the trinity Holy Mother of Darkness, but Lucrezia called her away to help investigate a monster suspected of coming from another world.
• A silver-haired Disobedient God tracked her snake’s intermittent presence across several cities and concluded that someone was luring her into the city for a purpose.
• Bai Yue told Erica a story claiming Athena had impersonated Medusa to slander her, and the approaching silver-haired girl angrily denounced it as nonsense.
• Bai Yue questioned the girl about her version of Athena’s story, and she realized he had deliberately provoked her to draw her attention.

Bai Yue returned Athena's snake after demanding that she become his subordinate, prompting the goddess to reveal her true form and unleash an unnatural darkness across the city. The anomaly alerted the people at Alice's mansion, where Alice identified Athena as its likely cause while remaining wary of Lucrezia.

• Bai Yue traded Athena's identity for the snake and then demanded that she become his subordinate.
• Athena recognized Bai Yue as a Disobedient God and transformed from a child into her graceful adult form while trying to escape his expanding Barrier Space.
• Athena invoked true night, extinguishing artificial light across the city and plunging its streets into darkness and panic.
• A blonde girl abandoned her plan to infiltrate a mansion and rushed to support the city after sensing the darkness.
• At the mansion, Lucrezia and Anne reacted to the approaching Disobedient God, while Alice awoke and told her head maid Ericsson that Athena had likely caused the anomaly.

Alice used Spiritual Vision to witness Athena resisting a false Greek world created by a shadow figure resembling one from her dream, then saw a mysterious woman confront John Pluto Smith during London’s supernatural crisis. The woman revealed that she knew Smith’s identity as Anne, and their battle began amid the Night Storm.

• Alice recognized Athena as she resisted a Divine Authority barrier trying to pull her into a false Greek world, and she spotted the shadow figure from her dream among its creators.
• A leopard traveled through the darkness toward Alice’s residence but was struck by lightning and vanished.
• John Pluto Smith summoned a Black Demon Bird, which attacked a nearby forest before a tornado blocked its strike.
• A disguised woman challenged Smith to test her strength, identified her as Anne, and prompted Smith to begin fighting her.
• The woman used the night to suppress the opposing Barrier Space.

Athena’s owls and snakes battled another Disobedient God’s army of beasts while Alexander confronted the disguised Erica, who used locusts and supernatural powers to keep him occupied. Liliana recognized Erica and, as the fight escalated, realized she was wielding Divine Authority as the new seventh God-killer.

• Athena sent owls, venomous snakes, and giant serpents against her opponent, but an army of wild beasts overwhelmed her familiars and pushed toward her.
• Alexander arrived, saw Athena fighting an unidentified Disobedient God, and decided to draw the battle away from the city before a disguised woman attacked him with locusts and a sword.
• The woman identified herself as Erica and challenged Alexander to show his God-killer powers, so he struck at her with lightning while sensing another God-killer nearby.
• Liliana Kranichar arrived invisibly, recognized Erica Blantre fighting Alexander, and watched Erica deflect his lightning with a hurricane.
• Erica turned the locusts into a deathly black mass that summoned skeletal warriors, and Liliana recognized that Erica wielded Divine Authority as the new seventh God-killer.

Athena used her identities as the Goddess of Darkness and Medusa to petrify Bai Yue’s beasts, but he revealed that her victory was an illusion and trapped her in a reenactment of her myth. Athena split into Metis and Medusa to attack him, and their clash left his sword close to breaking.

• Lilia realized that Erica had apparently used Divine Authority and slain a Disobedient God, then questioned whether the person before her was really Erica.
• Athena’s curse of death failed against Bai Yue’s beasts, so she used Medusa’s petrifying gaze to turn the army and Bai Yue into stone.
• Athena discovered that the petrified world was an illusion caused by Bai Yue’s plague, and he invoked her myth to trap her as an infant before she burst from Zeus’s head.
• Athena split into a girl-like Athena and a mature Metis, while Medusa also appeared, and Bai Yue identified their shared identities.
• Athena and her clones attacked Bai Yue with a scythe, repeatedly cracking his swords as he blocked her strikes and replaced each broken weapon.

Bai Yue used the myth linking Athena and Medusa to injure and weaken Athena, then revealed that his golden sword wielded an Authority copied through the Book of Omniscience and Omnipotence. Athena rejected his offer to become his subordinate and defended herself as his golden weapons threatened to pierce her barrier.

• Bai Yue used Words of Power to merge Athena and Medusa in the false myth, spreading Medusa’s beheading wound onto Athena and weakening her.
• Athena realized Bai Yue’s Authority was draining his strength and tried to break his sword before he could abandon the frozen myth.
• Bai Yue’s steel sword and the scattered swords revealed golden blades that severed the Divine Power coating Athena’s weapon.
• Bai Yue explained that the Authority belonged to him and came from the Book of Omniscience and Omnipotence, while Athena inferred that he had acquired Veleslan’s power.
• Bai Yue offered to make Athena his subordinate, but she refused and raised a wall of darkness against the rain of golden weapons.
• The golden weapons pierced deeper into Athena’s barrier, leaving her in danger of being struck.

Bai Yue defeated Athena by exhausting her power, then used Lucrezia to replenish his own and sealed Athena’s divinity. He questioned the now-childlike goddess about the Mythological World, but she knew little about what had happened there.

• Athena and Bai Yue’s powers collided, shattering their Barrier Space until the real world showed through its cracks.
• Bai Yue summoned Lucrezia, replenished his strength through her, and captured the weakened Athena.
• Bai Yue explained that his version of Veleslan’s Golden Sword could seal all three of an opponent’s divinities, though using it exhausted his power.
• After replenishing his magic again, Bai Yue sealed Athena and teased her while she vowed revenge.
• Bai Yue asked Athena why gods left their myths to wander the Earthly World, but she had no answers about the Mythological World’s strange coercion.

Athena hinted that Bai Yue was free from a mysterious woman’s control, while Alice, Alexander, and John investigated two unknown God-killers connected to Lady Aisha’s cave. Pandora revealed that Mekal and Veleslana had returned to mythology and their authorities had been taken, but she never found the expected reincarnation vessel.

• Athena suggested Bai Yue had forgotten a woman who controlled the entire stage, then recognized that he had no threads of fate and was free of her control.
• At Alice’s estate, Alice described her dream of a figure near Lady Aisha’s cave, and the group connected it to Athena’s battle and the two unknown God-killers.
• Alice said the cave might reopen at the next full moon, fifteen days later, while John and Alexander admitted they could not identify the authorities used by their opponents.
• John crossed to the Realm of the Undead and asked Pandora about the two new God-killers, learning that she had performed no reincarnation rituals since Salvatore.
• Pandora revealed that Mekal and Veleslana had descended in Sardinia, returned to mythology one after another, and triggered a reincarnation rite, but their authorities were already gone and the expected vessel was missing.

John told the Black Prince and Alice that Lucrezia might be connected to the recent God-killers and Divine Authority. Alice used Spiritual Vision to investigate Lucrezia, who had prepared a counterattack, and Alice ended the chapter mortified and refusing to let anyone enter her room.

• Pandora suspected Lucrezia because she possessed the Prometheus Secret Technique, but John noted that the technique had not been used and considered a connection to the Divine Realm of the God of the Bible.
• Pandora told Anne not to act recklessly, and John and Anne returned from the Netherworld to tell the Black Prince and Alice what they had learned.
• Alice agreed to investigate Lucrezia with Spiritual Vision, after the Black Prince restored her spiritual strength by reversing her personal time.
• Lucrezia sensed Alice spying on her and staged an intimate scene with her companion to counter Alice’s investigation.
• Alice screamed, collapsed, and vanished from her Spiritual Vision, then threatened to kill herself if anyone entered her bedroom.

Alice was left embarrassed after Lucrezia’s spell linked their physical senses, while Erica tried to recruit Liliana by offering her Divine Authority from the god they served. Liliana resisted, but Erica threatened to expose her secret romance-writing hobby, leaving her pressured to join.

• Alice refused to let anyone enter her room, and Ericsson mistakenly believed her embarrassment came from her poor health and physical condition.
• Alice recalled that Lucrezia had used a spell to link their senses after Alice witnessed Lucrezia in a suspicious room.
• Erica defeated Liliana in a rooftop duel without using Divine Authority and explained that the god she served had granted her power.
• Erica urged Liliana to serve the same god, claiming Liliana already believed in that deity, and insisted they go meet their lord.
• Erica threatened to publish Liliana’s secret romance-writing notebook if she refused to join.

Erica brought Liliana to Bai Yue, who offered her Divine Authority and contracted with her while she was distracted. After Liliana learned that the silver-haired girl was Athena, Bai Yue showed Athena a photograph of a dismembered monster and asked if she knew it.

• Erica used photographs of Liliana writing to pressure her into joining them, then led her to a villa.
• Liliana entered Bai Yue's Barrier Space and was offered two Divine Authorities, but she became distracted by what she had just witnessed.
• Bai Yue contracted with Liliana while she was still lost in her thoughts, granting her Divine Authority.
• Liliana asked about the silver-haired child, and Erica revealed that she was Athena, the sealed goddess.
• Bai Yue showed Athena a photograph of a dismembered monster and asked whether she knew it.

Erica and Liliana learned that the unusual monster was connected to Lady Aisha, while news of Xitiangong’s reopening appeared to be bait to draw God-killers into a scheme. In Japan, Yuri Maritani accompanied her younger sister Kō toward Xitiangong, uneasy about the trip, and Ena Kiyōin joined them.

• Erica and Liliana examined a monster from another world, and Lucrezia said its arrival was related to Lady Aisha.
• Erica learned that the Far Eastern Island Nation planned to reopen Xitiangong, and Lucrezia suspected the announcement was intended to lure their side.
• In the Netherworld, Princess Ruri questioned Susanoo’s plan to leak the news, while Susanoo expected Sect Leader Luohao and possibly Salvatore Doni to respond.
• Yuri Maritani accompanied her younger sister Kō toward Xitiangong, while Kaoru Sayamiya worried the trip might conceal a conspiracy involving Susanoo.
• Ena Kiyōin joined Yuri, Kaoru, and Kō in their vehicle.

Ena Kiyōin came to Xitiangong under her grandfather’s orders, accepting that Kō might be sacrificed for the country’s protection, while Kaoru Sayamiya feared what awaited the sisters. Meanwhile, Bai Yue and a silver-haired girl arrived in the island nation, where the God-killer Luohao challenged him and was knocked back in their martial arts duel.

• Ena Kiyōin told Kaoru Sayamiya that she considered her and Yuri Maritani friends, though she secretly supported her grandfather’s plan and expected Kō to be sacrificed.
• Kaoru Sayamiya worried that Yuri Maritani and her sister would face danger at Xitiangong but believed she could not stop the plan.
• Bai Yue and a silver-haired girl arrived in the island nation and searched for a place to stay after leaving the airport.
• Luohao noticed Bai Yue’s seemingly ordinary movements, tested him with a pebble, and recognized his exceptional martial arts.
• Luohao attacked Bai Yue, and they fought with powerful strikes until he knocked her several meters back.

Luo Hao lost a martial arts contest to Bai Yue and summoned him to Xitiangong the next day, while Lu Yinghua mobilized his family’s forces to find him. Elsewhere, Bai Yue prepared to begin an act with Athena, and Yuri Maritani’s Spiritual Vision activated as dusk fell.

• Luo Hao acknowledged that Bai Yue had surpassed her in pure martial arts and invited him to Xitiangong at a quarter past noon the next day.
• Luo Hao told Lu Yinghua she planned to let Bai Yue slay the beast so he could become a God-killer and fight her again.
• Lu Yinghua learned that Luo Hao had not asked Bai Yue’s name, then called on his family’s forces to locate him.
• Bai Yue asked Athena to begin their plan, and she questioned whether he intended to turn the country into the land of the underworld.
• Yuri Maritani’s Spiritual Vision activated as she stood with others watching the city at dusk.

Yuri Maritani sensed a foreign Disobedient God descending on Tokyo and spreading a plague beneath a black curtain. After seeing a vision of millions dead, she warned the others, while Touma Amakasu reported that the darkness could cover half the country.

• Yuri Maritani used Spiritual Vision and sensed a goddess who called herself the Queen of the Underworld, then saw a foreign god's shadow over Tokyo.
• A black curtain spread from Tokyo, stopping the car and vehicles across the area as swarms of owls and snakes flew overhead.
• Yuri Maritani saw the snakes spread a plague that left people gravely ill and envisioned the land buried beneath millions of corpses.
• Ena Kiyōin, Kaoru Sayamiya, and Yuri's younger sister pulled Yuri out of her vision, and Yuri warned them that the Disobedient God was spreading a plague.
• Touma Amakasu reported that the black curtain continued to spread and could eventually cover half the country.

Kaoru Sayamiya learned that a plague was spreading after a Disobedient God darkened Japan, while Bai Yue revealed he had used Athena’s power to experiment with rewriting mythology. The chapter ended at Tōshōgū Shrine, where Touma Amakasu identified the spreading disease as the Black Death.

• Kaoru Sayamiya accused Ena Kiyōin of being connected to her grandfather’s plan and warned government departments to prepare for disaster.
• In the Netherworld, Susanoo and the others discussed Athena’s interference and watched the black curtain recede.
• Bai Yue told Athena he had spread the plague as a channel for experimenting with rewriting mythology, and Athena considered his unusual power and nature.
• At Tōshōgū Shrine, Kaoru Sayamiya and Touma Amakasu found that symptoms were spreading rapidly across the country.
• Touma Amakasu told Kaoru Sayamiya, Ena Kiyōin, and Kō that the plague was the Black Death.