Recaps

Luos released more of Demon King Algol’s seal, and she awakened with the power to turn people and clouds to stone. As Algol attacked the arena, Bai Yue protected Snow White from petrification while Izayoi faced Luos.

• Bai Yue reported that Yao detected the invisible opponents through their movements, allowing Izayoi to strike a knight and make Hades' Helmet fall again.
• Izayoi and Jin reached the arena, where Luos welcomed them as the Game Leader and removed the ornament sealing Algol.
• White Night worried that Luos had released too much of Algol’s seal and that the New Hakoniwa Migration Plan might benefit if Algol went berserk.
• Algol awakened, shrieked, and petrified people and clouds throughout the palace; Bai Yue peeled away the protective layer that had petrified Snow White.
• Luos ordered Algol to crush Izayoi, but Izayoi hurled a stone that struck her and briefly forced her back.

Izayoi defeated Luos, but Luos’s actions released more of Algol’s seal and unleashed a catastrophic transformation. White Night discovered that someone had sabotaged Thousand Eyes’ branch network, while Algol’s power spread across the region and left Black Rabbit in danger.

• Izayoi destroyed the demonized arena, knocked Luos unconscious, and saw that something Luos had held had merged into Algol’s necklace.
• Algol’s seal broke further, and a brown pillar of light rose from her toward the star associated with her name.
• White Night tried to reach the battle through a Thousand Eyes branch store, but found that someone had diverted her to an abandoned branch and destroyed her route back.
• Izayoi struck the pillar of light until its outer layer cracked, but a surge from the star knocked him away as Algol’s power engulfed Perseus’s base and the surrounding region.
• Algol emerged as a vastly stronger serpent demon, and Black Rabbit collapsed in terror as the creature approached her.
• A figure seized Algol from behind despite being pierced through the body, then ordered Snow White to carry Black Rabbit away.

Bai Yue and Algol were swallowed by the Decadent Wind, and the Gift Game ended amid the destruction of the palace. Back at Thousand Eyes’ base, Black Rabbit discovered Bai Yue was still alive, and the group set out to find him and learn how badly he was hurt.

• Snow White watched the Decadent Wind strike Bai Yue and Algol, while their monsters and demons were erased trying to protect them.
• Kuon Asuka and Kasukabe Yao found the ruined palace and learned from Jin that Bai Yue and Algol had perished together in the Decadent Wind.
• Bai Yue revealed that he had survived in his own domain, though more than seventy percent of his body had been erased.
• White Night doubted Bai Yue had been killed and told Black Rabbit to check the contract document for his Community.
• Black Rabbit saw that Bai Yue’s name remained on the document, confirming he was alive, and the group prepared to find him and assess his condition.

Bai Yue returned to Noname with Lilith, a restrained and hostile new maid, and Black Rabbit and the others struggled to handle her. Meanwhile, he explained how poets could alter history through their poems and began preparing to use that power to undo Algol’s seal, leaving Snow White with a new poem to read.

• Black Rabbit found Bai Yue at the gate after a week of waiting and was bitten by the fierce maid Lilith when Bai Yue dodged her attack.
• Bai Yue introduced Lilith to Leticia and Snow White, who were assigned to guide her and could threaten to cut her hair if she misbehaved.
• Snow White noticed Bai Yue’s poems about Demon King Algol and learned that poets could make their chants alter history.
• Bai Yue explained that he intended to spread poems to distant worlds connected to Hakone World and use a poet’s power to undo Algol’s seal.
• Bai Yue threatened Lilith with a grotesque imagined description if she tore up his poem, then handed Snow White another poem to read.

Leticia discovered recent papers in her master's study that connected him to Canary and bore the familiar handwriting of someone she thought was dead. Meanwhile, he entered a miniature universe where the stars’ light gathered into its central construct.

• Snow White accepted her master's praise and agreed to work until she became worthy of it, then left after he asked her to warm his bed.
• Leticia recalled how her master had won her freedom and continued serving him at Noname.
• Leticia visited her master's room and watched him react intensely to her mature form before he went to sleep.
• A gust scattered her master's papers, and Leticia found pantheon-building notes that matched what Canary had once taught her.
• Leticia found a second set of papers written in familiar handwriting and realized they had been written within the past week.
• Her master entered a miniature universe as starlight gathered around its central power source.

Canary left Little Garden with Yue and revived in the Hero Realm, where Aisha welcomed her and explained the world’s game system. Canary then reached the Disboard challenge area and learned that its highest-difficulty Great War scenario required winning as powerless humans.

• The blonde woman and Yue found one world beyond Little Garden’s observation, and she chose to leave immediately.
• Yue transferred the blonde woman beyond her original world, where she revived in a cultivation tank and took the name Canary.
• Aisha welcomed Canary to the Hero Realm and guided her through the headquarters of the Fate Execution Mechanism.
• Aisha brought Canary to the exclusive game area for a Disboard world, where Canary learned about a challenge set during the Great War.
• Canary read that the challenge’s highest difficulty required her to win as an ordinary human with no supernatural powers.

Canary challenged the human-race scenario in the game, surviving a brutal world but making little progress toward victory before a distant battle destroyed her settlement. Back in Hakone World, Asuka refused Black Rabbit’s unfinished suggestion about using the hot spring.

• The God of Games offered Canary a free chance to challenge the game, and she chose the human race’s hellish difficulty.
• Canary led a settlement through deadly weather, attacks, epidemics, and repeated relocations, while gathering clues about the Goblin Species.
• Canary obtained a Goblin Species map and developed a tentative plan to earn their trust and use their weapons, but a battle between the Heavenly Winged Species and the Machina vaporized her settlement.
• Canary watched the death replay, realized the game had ended without warning, and cursed the game’s unfairness.
• At Noname’s base, Asuka waited to bathe and continued sulking because she refused to call the hot spring’s owner Big Brother.
• Black Rabbit began suggesting something to Asuka, but Asuka sharply refused before she could finish.

Bai Yue received invitations from Fisres, the Halloween Queen’s knight, and hinted that she was Asuka’s sister before Asuka asked him to train her. He explained plans to send people through Hakone World to unexplored worlds, then showed Leticia and Snow White portraits of two powerful goddesses, leaving Leticia shocked by the identity of one.

• Kasukabe Yao explained that she called Bai Yue “brother” by treating the word as meaning pig, and Bai Yue overheard her.
• Fisres arrived as the Halloween Queen’s representative, delivered invitations to Bai Yue, and drew a turtle on Lilith’s face as the Queen’s requested revenge.
• Bai Yue suggested that Fisres’s sister was present, and Asuka asked him to train her so she could become strong enough to face that person.
• Bai Yue explained that he would use invitations to send people from Hakone World to unexplored worlds and let them return safely.
• Bai Yue showed Leticia and Snow White portraits of two powerful girls, identified one as the Bearer of All Negativity, and left Leticia realizing who she might be.

Bai Yue hinted to Leticia and Snow White that the dead Gaia and Mother of Evil Gods could be revived, then made Black Rabbit warm his bed. Later, Black Rabbit set out to retrieve the children who had gone to the Northern District, but found Bai Yue bargaining with White Night over mysterious bottles and a briefcase of gold.

• Bai Yue confirmed Leticia’s suspicions about reviving the dead, and Leticia excitedly accepted his answer.
• Bai Yue dragged an eavesdropping Black Rabbit inside and tucked her into bed to warm it.
• Black Rabbit learned that Izayoi, Asuka, Yao, and Jin had traveled to the Northern District for the Fire Dragon Birth Festival, so she hurried to find them.
• Black Rabbit returned to the headquarters balcony and found Bai Yue and White Night exchanging a small bottle for a briefcase that glowed with gold.
• Bai Yue offered White Night another bottle of transparent liquid from the same source, leaving her visibly shaken.

Black Rabbit discovered that Izayoi and Jin had taken gold from Lord White Night and traveled to the North Area, then caught up with Asuka and Yao at the Boundary Wall. Their explanation of a filthy bargain involving rabbit fur left Black Rabbit suspecting Bai Yue had traded something taken from her.

• Mr. Bai Yue demanded Lord White Night's Sovereignty of the Sun for an unknown item, and their negotiations nearly turned into a fight.
• Black Rabbit rushed to ThousandEyes, where the clerk revealed that the problem children had used Lord White Night's gold to buy Gift Cards and pass through the Gate of Boundaries.
• Black Rabbit traveled to the North Area and found Asuka and Yao, who said Izayoi and Jin had given them hush money after they overheard a filthy transaction.
• Asuka told Black Rabbit that Bai Yue and Lord White Night had traded rabbit fur, prompting Black Rabbit to remember being tied up and gagged in Bai Yue's bed.

Black Rabbit left Kuon Asuka and Kasukabe Yao with Snow White and Leticia while she pursued White Night and Bai Yue over an illegal transaction. At the Fire Dragon Birth Festival, White Night gave Sandora Algol’s Petrification ability and began a startling personal announcement, leaving the crowd waiting to hear what she would say.

• Black Rabbit asked Snow White and Leticia to watch Kuon Asuka and Kasukabe Yao while she went to find White Night and Bai Yue.
• Leticia told Asuka that her Gift could develop into the ability to dominate and enhance other Gifts, and Asuka and Yao signed up for Gift Games.
• White Night gave Sandora a Gift Card containing Algol’s Petrification ability, while keeping a more dangerous card for herself.
• Sandora explained the festival’s finals, and White Night followed with a personal announcement as the audience looked on.
• Kasukabe Yao asked Black Rabbit what White Night planned to announce, and Black Rabbit guessed it was another prank.

White Night announced that the Upper Layers were secretly preparing a New Little Garden World, then dismissed her revelation as a joke while Sandora recognized the danger it posed to the lower levels. The news inflamed divisions among the upper pantheons, and White Night commissioned Noname to defend Salamandra from an expected Demon King attack.

• White Night claimed that the Upper Layers had secretly built a vast wedding home called New Little Garden World, provoking excitement and alarm among the audience.
• Sandora realized the Upper Layers might abandon the lower levels, while Izayoi and Jin suspected the plan meant overturning the existing order.
• Indra faced accusations from rival pantheons over the migration plan and alleged links to the Ouroboros Demon King Alliance, and he stopped the argument from turning violent.
• White Night used a prophecy from Thousand Eyes to warn that Salamandra would face a Demon King attack and commissioned Noname to deal with it.
• White Night set restrictions on the Demon King through her Host Authority, and Black Rabbit reluctantly prepared to face the threat with the three problem children.

Bai Yue told White Night that the Demon Lord attack was connected to a plot to investigate the existence sealed beneath Little Garden, then exposed Sandora’s past contact with Ouroboros. After Sandora collapsed under the revelation, Bai Yue confronted Kuon Asuka outside his room, where she accused him of staring at her chest.

• White Night learned that the Demon Lord’s attack was meant to test the seal on a terrifying existence and became concerned that she could neither safely return to the Heavenly Realm nor retrieve her full power.
• Bai Yue reassured White Night that the attack was probably only a test, then revealed that Sandora had met an Original Text Candidate from Ouroboros.
• Sandora recognized one of the people she had befriended as belonging to Ouroboros and collapsed, fearing that she had leaked secrets.
• White Night defended Sandora, believing she had been deceived, while Bai Yue watched to see whether the young leader could withstand the revelation.
• Kuon Asuka waited outside Bai Yue’s room at night, and he pulled her inside, teasing her about attempting a night raid.
• Asuka denied his accusation and complained that he kept staring at her chest.

Kuon Asuka learned that the little fairy belonged to a Rattenfanger Community distinct from the Demon King's allies, and that its Gift might suit her. After staying in Bai Yue's room overnight, Asuka woke to a humiliating misunderstanding involving drool and spilled yogurt, while a Moon Rabbit arrived at the end.

• Bai Yue explained that the little fairy belonged to the Pied Piper of Hameln Community, not the Rat-Catching Clown, and said the Demon King would appear.
• Bai Yue told Asuka that the fairy's Community had a Gift suited to her, and Asuka recognized its red Steel Giant from the exhibition.
• Asuka climbed into Bai Yue's bed to warm it and fell asleep there, intending to make him sleep on the floor.
• Asuka woke in Bai Yue's room to the smell of breakfast, then spilled yogurt on herself while trying to explain the wet patch on the bedsheet.
• Black Rabbit and Yao misread the scene and fled as Bai Yue insisted it was only yogurt; a Moon Rabbit was then identified as a Noble of the Hakone who had come to the Lower Levels.

At the Fire Dragon Birth Festival, Bai Yue revealed to Sandora that nearly all of Salamandra had secretly arranged for a Demon King to arrive as a trial for her. A powerful visitor called Dead Monkey appeared, challenged Bai Yue over his relationship with White Night, and took him away for a test of strength.

• Black Rabbit felt overwhelmed by the crowd cheering for her as she refereed the festival.
• Bai Yue told Sandora that everyone in Salamandra except her had known the Demon King's Arrival was being lured there, and White Night ordered Mandratodorek to stay silent.
• Dead Monkey arrived, gave Sandora a gift, and asked Bai Yue whether he stood with White Night.
• Bai Yue said he had pulled White Night to his side, and Dead Monkey challenged him to prove his ability.
• Dead Monkey took Bai Yue into the game field, while White Night reassured Sandora and told her to focus on her duties.

A Demon King's invasion disrupted the stage area as White Night was sealed and Black Rabbit faced controlled Salamandra members. Meanwhile, Bai Yue's game with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven shifted from tests of wisdom to a direct test of strength, ending with her attacking him.

• Spectators realized black parchment scrolls were announcing a real Demon King's Arrival, and Sandora felt guilty after recognizing the betrayal had endangered innocents.
• Asuka dodged an attack from Deen while racing to finish Rattenfanger's Gift Game and help fight the invading Demon King.
• White Night was sealed by a black wind, leaving Black Rabbit to confront a flute-playing woman who controlled Salamandra members and sent fire lizards after her.
• Lating pursued Black Rabbit while the petite Demon King declared her revenge against White Night and searched for a dangerous target.
• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven ended her tests of wisdom, challenged Bai Yue to show his strength, and struck at him with a punch.

As the Great Sage Equal to Heaven battled a mysterious opponent, Your Highness and Lin confronted Sandora to demand the Horn of the Star Sea Dragon King while Lord White Night remained sealed. Across the city, Leticia and Black Rabbit fought controlled Salamandra members as the battle’s shockwaves shook the world.

• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven exchanged continent-shattering blows with her opponent, escaped his sensory illusion, and challenged him to use his true power.
• Your Highness and Lin appeared beside Sandora, and Your Highness demanded the Horn of the Star Sea Dragon King while warning Lord White Night that the visitors had different goals.
• Your Highness realized the mysterious fighter was the Great Sage Equal to Heaven just as a violent tremor shook the world and an abnormal sight appeared above the Capital of Blazing Flames.
• Leticia dodged the mage’s lightning attacks while worrying about Asuka, Yao, and her missing master, Lord White Night.
• Black Rabbit defeated controlled Salamandra members and reflected on joining the Demon King’s Gift Game, which she could potentially suspend through Judgment Authority.

The Decadent Wind crossed into the festival world and pursued Sandora’s attacker, while Bai Yue’s strange influence over it drew the Great Sage Equal to Heaven’s attention. The chapter then began the backstory of a noble girl whose illness spread to those around her.

• Black Rabbit sensed a strange disturbance in the sky while heading toward White Night and Izayoi.
• Asuka and Yao saw a ruined world appear through the sky, with dark gray wind consuming its landscape.
• Bai Yue’s Decadent Wind attacked Your Highness while avoiding Sandora, forcing him to defend himself and summon a Simulated Creation Star Chart.
• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven explained that Bai Yue guided the Decadent Wind rather than truly controlling its power, and questioned White Night about her fiancé.
• The chapter introduced a noble girl who began coughing from an illness that soon afflicted the people around her.

Pest’s revenge game was disrupted when a gray force erased her death wind and sealed her with a contract, while His Highness and his allies realized the Decadent Wind had been deliberately guided. After unleashing its power, His Highness appeared mutilated and hollow, leaving the Great Sage Equal to Heaven facing his hunger to devour her.

• Pest recalled how the Black Death killed her and eighty million others, then explained that she sought revenge on the Arrogant Sun by holding the game’s participants hostage.
• Pest unleashed her death wind, but a gray force erased it, sealed her, and presented her with a slave maid contract that shook her resolve.
• Lin and His Highness discussed how the Decadent Wind had acted deliberately, and His Highness explained that another power had guided it.
• Indra arrived at the Heavenly Gates and found the two gatekeepers tied up.
• The Great Sage Equal to Heaven saw His Highness emerge from the gray wind with parts of his body missing, and he stared at her with a hollow hunger to eat her.

Bai Yue revealed that Pest’s true target for revenge was Lady Canary, who had orchestrated the Black Death pandemic to prevent the Utopian Demon King from being born. Pest learned that Canary was dead and her community had nearly been destroyed, leaving her unsure whom she could still hold responsible.

• Black Rabbit struck Bai Yue with lightning, then panicked when she thought she had killed him, while he revealed he had survived by shedding a damaged body shell.
• White Night read Pest’s contract and confirmed that Pest’s revenge target was not White Night; Pest signed a contract with Bai Yue to learn the truth.
• Bai Yue named Lady Canary as Pest’s true target, and Black Rabbit learned that Canary had orchestrated the Black Death pandemic and had died three years earlier.
• Bai Yue explained that the pandemic’s eighty million deaths had changed society enough to prevent Closed World and the Utopian Demon King from emerging.
• Pest considered pursuing Canary’s nearly destroyed community or Canary’s adopted daughter, a Moon Rabbit who knew nothing of the plan.

Pest struggled to find purpose after her revenge ended and became Bai Yue’s maid, while White Night agreed to provide information that might help him resurrect Gaia and the Mother of Evil Gods. Bai Yue then used his knowledge of Pest’s past to embarrass her, leaving her convinced he was forcing her to wear an obscene outfit.

• After Pest signed the contract, her Gift Game ended, and her two subordinates continued fighting their opponents until they were defeated.
• Snow White and Water Serpent showed Pest revealing maid clothes, and Pest feared what her new life as a maid would entail.
• White Night grieved over Canary’s death, planned to reclaim her power after the Fire Dragon Birth Festival, and agreed to compile information about Gaia and the Mother of Evil Gods for Bai Yue.
• Bai Yue explained that reconstructing the two dead beings would require searching an immense amount of data and could take hundreds or thousands of years.
• When Bai Yue asked Pest to pour tea, she noticed him writing in a familiar diary and tore it up in alarm.
• Bai Yue revealed that he knew Pest’s real name and embarrassing memories, and Pest assumed he was threatening her into wearing the obscene maid outfit.

Sandora learned that her brother had been manipulated into helping Pest attack during the Fire Dragon Birth Festival, and accepted Bai Yue’s gift to protect Salamandra’s seal. After the festival, she took responsibility for the incident while concealing its dangerous secrets, and White Night asked whether she had made up her mind about the New Little Garden.

• Bai Yue told Pest he would help her pursue revenge against the gods and Buddhas, but said they would leave Little Garden after the Fire Dragon Birth Festival.
• Sandora visited Bai Yue and learned from Pest that an intermediary had manipulated her brother into loosening inspections so Hamel's Grimoire could be smuggled in.
• Sandora offered Bai Yue’s gift back, but he urged her to keep it because Ouroboros would continue targeting Salamandra and the gift could protect its seal.
• Sandora accidentally spilled Pest’s milk tea and saw a stocking slide out of the cup, realizing what Pest had used to filter it.
• After the festival, Sandora announced an altered account of the Demon King’s Arrival, took responsibility, and kept Ouroboros’s existence and the sealed threat secret.
• White Night asked Sandora whether she had made up her mind about the New Little Garden.

Sandora joined Fate Execution as Salamandra’s representative, and Bai Yue gave her gold to help restore the community. Leticia revealed that the Demon Lord Alliance Ouroboros might be targeting the Absolute Territory Master position, while memories of the vampires’ destruction left Leticia and White Night blaming themselves.

• Sandora signed the contract to join Fate Execution on Salamandra’s behalf, and Bai Yue gave her gold to offset Salamandra’s losses.
• Leticia explained that Ouroboros might seek to trigger the Absolute Territory Master mechanism by eliminating or incapacitating Floor Masters in three areas.
• Black Rabbit learned that Leticia had once been an Absolute Territory Master and accidentally asked how the vampires had suffered their calamity.
• Leticia recalled that the vampires’ dispute over the Sovereignty of the Sun had led to a war that nearly destroyed their race.
• Leticia blamed herself for the vampires’ destruction, and White Night apologized for failing to prevent it before looking toward Bai Yue.

White Night vowed to make Ouroboros suffer for the harm it had caused, while Leticia and the others speculated that Bai Yue came from a true otherworld. When Bai Yue entered the hot spring and awakened his holy sword, Black Rabbit was left stunned by its power.

• White Night concluded that Ouroboros had helped bring about the vampires’ tragic fate and vowed to make its members despair.
• Pest soaked in the hot spring and complained to herself about Bai Yue’s milk-tea requests and Snow White’s teasing.
• Kuon Asuka asked Leticia about Bai Yue, and Leticia guessed that he came from a true otherworld.
• Bai Yue explained that such worlds were independent from Little Garden, then entered his private hot spring.
• Bai Yue awakened his holy sword in front of the women, and Black Rabbit watched it approach in shock.

Bai Yue answered questions about his world and said the group needed four-digit strength to learn what he and White Night were plotting. He then punished Al-chan for pranking his Holy Sword, while Pest asked whether her promised journey for power would take her to his world.

• Asuka, Leticia, and Yao questioned Bai Yue about his world, and he explained that it contained multiple Parallel Worlds.
• Bai Yue awarded and deducted points for the group’s answers, then said they needed four-digit strength to learn his plans with White Night.
• Lilith accidentally spoke, and Bai Yue caught Al-chan as she tried to flee after he confronted her about pranking him while he slept.
• Bai Yue ordered Al-chan to polish the Holy Sword, threatening to alter her appearance if she refused.
• Pest asked Bai Yue whether the distant world where she could gain power to rival the Asura Gods and Buddhas was his world.