Recaps

Rias told Sona that God had died and that King Solomon was preparing to confront traitors threatening the world, while Tsubaki suggested Sona join his new Pillar Demons. During PE class, a mysterious black-haired girl appeared, and Sona’s body reacted to her with overwhelming fear.

• Rias warned Sona that investigating Bai Yue had led to Aisha and Tsubaki becoming powerful Devils, then revealed that God had died in the great war and that King Solomon was preparing to oppose the force behind the traitors.
• Sona doubted King Solomon’s intentions, while Tsubaki explained her loyalty to him and proposed that Sona join his new Pillar Demons to gain the influence needed for her dream.
• During PE class, Sona asked Bai Yue how Tsubaki could be released, and he said he would let her go if Tsubaki herself asked to give up her new identity.
• A black-haired little girl appeared on the field without warning, and Sona struggled to approach her as instinctive fear made her legs resist her.

Bai Yue recognized the mysterious girl who appeared at Kuoh Academy as the Infinite Dragon God Ophis, then warned Rias and Sona that she had joined forces with Vali and a dangerous organization. As Riser Phenex arrived at the Supernatural Research Club, Rias and Sona launched a surprise attack, and ornate mirrors closed around him as his flames threatened to engulf the room.

• A mysterious girl appeared at Kuoh Academy, frightened Sona with her pressure, and vanished after speaking with Bai Yue.
• Bai Yue identified the girl as Ophis, the Infinite Dragon God, and Rias learned that Ophis was supporting Vali and an organization of outcasts and traitors.
• Bai Yue told Rias and Sona that Vali Lucifer had joined forces with Ophis and the organization, leaving them alarmed by the threat.
• The Phoenix family crest appeared in the Magic Array, announcing Riser Phenex's arrival.
• Rias ordered Tsubaki to attack Riser as he appeared, and he blocked their opening strikes with flames before ornate mirrors surrounded him.

Rias and Sona stopped Ravel from escaping after Rias’s group defeated Riser, then considered making Ravel Solomon’s servant to keep their secret. Their confrontation was interrupted by Moon King Haziyiluus and his Four Generals, mysterious intruders from another world whose power threatened the assembled demons.

• Rias’s group battered Riser unconscious with attacks made effective by a cross, and Ravel pulled the cross from him and condemned Rias for working with the Church.
• Tsubaki Shinra destroyed Ravel’s teleportation papers, and Rias and Sona refused to let her leave because she might learn Solomon’s secret.
• Ravel deduced that the young man was likely a successor to King Solomon, and Rias asked him to make her his servant rather than kill her.
• Solomon sensed intruders inside the barrier and called them out, revealing five cloaked figures who had concealed their presence.
• Moon King Haziyiluus identified himself as the second of Evil God Melbazua’s Rahu Seven Luminaries and introduced the Four Generals he had created.
• Haziyiluus and his Four Generals released overwhelming auras, leaving Rias and Sona alarmed by their godlike strength.

Haziyiluus and his Mechanical Lifeforms attacked Rias and her companions, revealing their formidable strength while targeting Bai Yue as a possible resurrected King Solomon. Bai Yue transported them to a strange temple-like dimension, where Haziyiluus recognized him as the Demon God King Solomon who had supposedly died with Satan.

• Rias attacked the Mechanical Lifeforms, but the weakest one overwhelmed her defenses until Tsubaki Shinra's Mirror of Recollection reflected its blast.
• The Mechanical Lifeforms revealed that they had come to capture Bai Yue, and Haziyiluus explained that Evil God Melbazua had ordered them to investigate King Solomon.
• Bai Yue asked why he was their target, but Haziyiluus refused to explain and prepared to attack him.
• Bai Yue chanted, "When the time to crown has come, thus enlighten all things," and transported everyone to a roofless temple in a strange dimension.
• Haziyiluus recognized the dimension and accused Bai Yue of being the Demon God King Solomon, who had supposedly perished with Satan in The Final Battle Between Humans and Gods.

King Solomon transformed into Goetia and instantly destroyed the Four Generals and Moon King Haziyiluus, but the power nearly destroyed his body. In the Dimensional Gap, Melbazoa ordered its forces to withdraw, while Asachel investigated the disturbance and feared that Ophis’s organization had begun to act.

• The Four Generals launched a suicidal barrage to give their master a chance to escape, putting Ravel, Rias, and the others in danger.
• King Solomon froze space and time, destroyed the Four Generals, and crushed Haziyiluus’s head before the barrage could hit anyone.
• Aisha and Tsubaki recognized King Solomon’s Goetia form, and Tsubaki supported him as his body overheated and began to break down.
• Melbazoa lost contact with Haziyiluus and ordered the other mechanical figure to withdraw from the Dimensional Gap to investigate what had happened.
• Asachel examined a disturbance in the Dimensional Gap, worried that Ophis’s organization was behind it, and a Magic Array appeared beside him.

Sirzechs and Asachel learned from Great Red that a powerful enemy called Evil God Rahu Seven Luminaries had defeated it, prompting them to plan an urgent Three Factions Meeting. In the Supernatural Research Club, Ravel and Sona joined King Solomon’s Seventy-Two Pillars, and Sona unexpectedly gained Demon King-level power.

• Great Red told Sirzechs and Asachel that a Mechanical Invasion had begun and that Evil God Rahu Seven Luminaries had defeated it before leaving.
• Sirzechs and Asachel decided to convene an immediate Three Factions Meeting to address the threat.
• Ravel asked to join King Solomon’s Seventy-Two Pillars, and he transformed her into a High-Class Devil with a phoenix card.
• Ravel left to take her brother home, while Rias worried about her own strength against the invading enemies.
• Sona asked to join the Seventy-Two Pillars, and King Solomon’s transformation raised her power beyond High-Class Devil level to Demon King level.

Bai Yue transformed Himejima Akeno into the Demon God Pillar Murmur, though a hidden magic array caused an embarrassing mishap and led Rias to confront him. Rias then asked Bai Yue to transform her into his servant.

• Two Church personnel discovered an unconscious, veiled girl after a strange light appeared on a mountain while they pursued the stolen holy swords.
• During volleyball class, Bai Yue helped Himejima Akeno with warm-ups while Rias watched him with conflicted feelings after he had postponed transforming her.
• Bai Yue brought Akeno to the storage room, heard about her abilities, and granted her the Demon God Pillar Murmur.
• A second magic array on the transformation sheet shocked Akeno, and Rias and Sona arrived to find her transformed and accuse Bai Yue of playing a prank.
• Rias asked Bai Yue to transform her into his servant as well.

Rias learned that Bai Yue intended for her to inherit the Demon God Baal seat, while a twin-tailed girl had answered his Gremory summoning. Grayfia later revealed that the girl was a pure-blooded Gremory, leaving Rias to wonder whether she was the supposedly dead First Generation ancestor.

• Bai Yue told Rias he had chosen someone else for the Gremory seat and planned for her to inherit Baal's seat because she carried House of Baal blood.
• Bai Yue explained that a twin-tailed girl had answered his Gremory summoning, but he had shut it down before she fully appeared.
• Rias learned from Aisha that Bai Yue had kicked the girl back during the summoning and decided to seek answers from her father.
• Grayfia visited Rias and announced that the leaders of the Three Factions would meet in the city three days later.
• Rias asked Grayfia about the twin-tailed girl, and Grayfia revealed that she was a Gremory whose bloodline was purer than Rias's.
• Rias realized Grayfia's description might fit the supposedly deceased First Generation Gremory ancestor.

Rias learned that the Gremory ancestor had awakened, while Akeno encountered Xenovia and Irina fighting a regenerating Mechanical Lifeform. After a rescued girl warned them to stop the final battle between Gods and Humans, Rias and the others suspected the girl and machine came from a future war.

• Rias realized the Gremory ancestor had awakened on the day she summoned and dismissed her.
• Xenovia and Irina fought a regenerating Mechanical Lifeform, and Akeno intervened after spotting its metal shell.
• Xenovia explained that they had come to the city pursuing a stolen Holy Sword, while concealing their connection to the rescued girl.
• The girl woke briefly and warned Xenovia, Irina, and Akeno to stop the final battle between Gods and Humans before fainting again.
• Akeno brought the frozen Mechanical Lifeform to the Supernatural Research Club, where Sona and Rias concluded that the warning concerned a future war between humanity and the gods.

Sona suspected that a girl with knowledge of the future had traveled to the past, and she chose to keep the girl’s existence from those who might be involved in future events. Four days later, the leaders of the three factions met at Kuoh Academy to discuss peace, where Michael revealed God’s death and questioned Asachel about his Divine Artifact research.

• Sona explained her time-travel and parallel-world theories to Rias and the others, then suggested they conceal the suspected time traveler’s existence from King Solomon.
• Four days later, Rias and Sona attended the three-faction meeting at Kuoh Academy, where Sona recognized the veiled girl and noticed Xenovia and Irina looked distressed.
• Michael announced that the God of the Bible had died during the Three Faction War alongside the Four Great Satans of that era.
• The leaders began discussing peace between angels, Fallen Angels, and demons, and Michael and Sirzechs challenged Asachel about collecting Divine Artifacts and the recent attack on a nun.
• Asachel said he researched Divine Artifacts out of personal interest, usually with their holders’ consent, and claimed the attempt to seize the nun’s artifact had been an individual’s unauthorized act.

Asachel revealed that the Khaos Brigade and the invaders from another world threatened the Three Factions, while a shrine maiden named Serafall explained that her world had been conquered by the siblings Evil God Melbazua, Demon God Serafall, and Ghost God Regarzeva. The chapter ended with Asachel believing the shrine maiden and the leaders learning that Evis Etourute had targeted their world before she arrived.

• Asachel told Michael, Sirzechs, and Serafall that he had gathered Sacred Gear users to oppose the Khaos Brigade, whose leader was a dangerous dragon, and reported that Rahu Seven Luminaries had attacked Great Red.
• The veiled shrine maiden corrected Asachel's account, saying Great Red had been attacked by the first of seven servants created by Evil God Melbazua, and revealed that Melbazua had siblings Ghost God Regarzeva and Demon God Serafall.
• The shrine maiden said she had fled from a world conquered by the three siblings, where Demon God Serafall had made her a shrine maiden and turned survivors into Puppet Weapons.
• The shrine maiden explained that she had meant to warn a parallel world whose gods might resist the invaders, but had arrived in this world instead.
• The shrine maiden denied bringing the danger to their world and said Evis Etourute had already been secretly interfering with it; Asachel said he did not think she was lying.

Shefara explained the other world's Final Battle, in which humanity fought the gods for the right to continue, and revealed that the gods had lost their first four matches. She left the group wondering what happened in the fifth match, which she said was the second most dangerous.

• Shefara described the Primal Creator and explained that the gods planned to end humanity's civilization at their millennium conference.
• Shefara said Brunhilde invoked a rule that let humanity challenge the gods in a thirteen-match battle, with seven wins securing another thousand years.
• Asachel questioned Shefara about the Akasha System, which could revive historical figures and let people witness the past.
• Shefara said the gods lost the first four matches: Thor, Beelzebub, Rei-Fuku, and Super Sovereign Hades were killed.
• Shefara identified Loki as the fifth god to fight and said that match was the second most dangerous, after the second match.

The Otherworld Miko, Shefara, explained the devastating battles in Humanity’s war against the gods and revealed that Humanity’s support and the identity of its second fighter were still unknown. The conference was interrupted by a time-stopping attack and the arrival of Katerea Leviathan, Kokabiel, and a monstrous Baal, as Kokabiel denounced Asachel and hinted that more conspirators were involved.

• Shefara explained that Loki’s rampage nearly destroyed the Roman Pantheon and that Satan had manifested at the power of Evis Etourute’s Three Pillar Gods.
• Shefara said the Primal Creator sought to destroy Humanity too, and that a human fighter had once broken into his headquarters before being cast into the void.
• Shefara began naming Humanity’s representatives, identifying Xiang Yu as the first fighter, but stopped before revealing the second as Gasper’s time-stopping power affected the conference.
• Rias blamed Asachel for exposing Gasper to danger, while Akeno and Shun'ichi joined Rias and Sona in confronting him.
• Katerea Leviathan appeared through a Transfer Magic Array, followed by the injured Kokabiel and a monstrous Baal pursuing him.
• Kokabiel said the newcomer was not the Baal he knew, condemned Asachel for choosing peace, and implied that other conspirators were waiting to act.

Asachel confronted Vali and Kokabiel after their betrayal, but a mysterious figure calling himself Baal vaporized Kokabiel with an annihilating death ray. Vali challenged Baal and was caught in the beam; as Vali fought back with his Sacred Gear, Baal prepared an even more dangerous attack.

• Vali revealed his betrayal of Asachel and joined Katerea, while Katerea and Kokabiel swallowed Ophis's power to increase their strength.
• Kokabiel attacked Baal with a Spear of Light, but Baal caught and crushed it before vaporizing Kokabiel with an annihilating death ray.
• Michael and Sirzechs reinforced the barrier after Baal's attack nearly destroyed it, while Asachel realized Baal's power surpassed that of the Baal they knew.
• Vali charged Baal as he tried to leave, and Baal's death ray swallowed the White Dragon Emperor.
• Vali activated Divide to halve Baal's power and absorb it, but Baal formed a spear of black lightning as Asachel warned Vali not to take the attack.

A mysterious man wielding Solomon’s Ring defeated Vali and revealed power that made Michael and Asachel suspect he was the resurrected King Solomon. He offered the First Generation Gremory a way to become a Sovereign-class Demon God and asked her to join his Seventy-Two Pillars, but she demanded to know who he really was.

• The mysterious man struck Vali with the Spear of Destruction, sending him through the barrier and into the night as blood mist marked where he had been.
• Michael recognized Solomon’s Ring, and Asachel recalled King Solomon’s failed plan to transform the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons into Demon Gods.
• The First Generation Gremory appeared, revealed she had been summoned and kicked back into her sleep, and startled the assembled leaders.
• Asachel attacked Katerea Leviathan while she was distracted, and Michael and Sirzechs stayed out of the fight to preserve the barrier.
• The mysterious man gave Rias Gremory a card that could advance her into a Sovereign-class Demon God and explained that he needed her help against the world’s coming destruction and an invasion from another world.
• Rias Gremory demanded that the man tell her who he really was.

Bai Yue used the Ring of King Solomon to bind Rias Gremory as one of his Demon God Pillars, and she discovered he was not the Solomon she remembered. She accepted the connection after receiving a memory from the real Solomon, while Michael suspected the revived King Solomon might become the angels’ hope.

• Rias Gremory activated the card and Magic Array, transforming her power and establishing a contract with Bai Yue, but sensed that his soul was not King Solomon’s.
• Bai Yue explained that the real King Solomon’s remaining will had told him about their agreement and asked Rias Gremory to trust him.
• Rias Gremory accepted her place among Bai Yue’s Demon God Pillars and demanded to know his plans, but he withheld details because their conversations could leak through dreams.
• Bai Yue left to find candidates for the Seventy-Two Pillars, and Rias Gremory realized only six had been confirmed, leaving sixty-six absent.
• Michael asked Rias Gremory about her conversation with Bai Yue, but she refused to answer; Michael wondered if King Solomon had returned and might become the angels’ hope.

Rias prepared to become one of Bai Yue’s Demon God Pillars through a self-directed fusion, while Bai Yue worried that the Evis Etourute world might invade before his forces were ready. Rias’s transformation began draining her magic power and nearly overwhelmed her, and the chapter ended as a burst of light rescued her from unconsciousness.

• Asachel annihilated Katerea with the Spear of Light, and Rias later learned that her ancestor had joined Bai Yue’s Demon God Pillars and reached Sovereign-class.
• Rias forced Gasper out of his room and asked Yuuto Kiba to train him, while Xenovia questioned her about Bai Yue and then wandered through the school.
• Bai Yue suspected the Otherworld Miko had come to gather intelligence and warned Rias that the Evis Etourute world could overwhelm this world if it invaded.
• Rias apologized for not telling Bai Yue about the Otherworld Miko, then stepped into a Magic Array to fuse with a Demon God Card herself.
• The card drained Rias’s magic power and overheated her body until she nearly lost consciousness, but a great light suddenly dispelled the darkness.

Rias broke through to Demon King-level power but accidentally fell against the man she had been with when Koneko Toujou confronted her sister Kuroka Toujou at school. Kuroka tried to learn whether the man possessed Solomon’s Ring, and Koneko attacked to keep her from uncovering more.

• Rias’s magic power surged past High-class Devil limits, and she sensed that Sovereign-class was within reach.
• Rias’s clothes crumbled as she fell against the man, while Kuroka Toujou arrived to see her younger sister, Koneko Toujou.
• Koneko pulled Kuroka into an abandoned classroom and warned her not to investigate the man in the photograph.
• Kuroka questioned Koneko about the man’s identity and whether he was the abnormal Demon God Baal.
• Kuroka inferred that Solomon’s Ring was in the man’s possession, and Koneko smashed the podium with an attack to stop her sister from learning more.

Kuroka tried to take Shirone away, arguing that she needed to master her power and would otherwise hold the Gremory family back. Rias and the mysterious man tracked Kuroka through repeated spatial transfers, and after Rias revealed her new Demon God-level strength, Kuroka surrendered.

• Kuroka immobilized Shirone and tried to persuade her to leave with her, warning that the coming invasion would put the Gremory family in danger.
• Shirone nearly agreed, but Rias and the mysterious man appeared and demanded that Kuroka return her.
• Kuroka teleported herself and Shirone repeatedly, but the man learned her spatial technique and followed them.
• Rias transformed into Demon God's Form, and Kuroka realized she had gained overwhelming Demon King-level power.
• Kuroka's magic bullet was erased by Rias's attack, which destroyed a distant mountain, so Kuroka surrendered.

Rias and her companions encountered Lumayidora, whose cannon fired an attack into the past, threatening to rewrite history. Bai Yue and Kuroka pursued the temporal disturbance, and a woman in a kimono reached the ancient capital in time to contain most of the blast.

• Rias defeated Lumayidora’s azure battleship inside the Divine Temple Different Dimension and learned that its cannon had fired into the past.
• Lumayidora self-destructed, and Bai Yue urged Rias to watch Kuroka before entering the lingering temporal ripples himself.
• Kuroka used spatial transfer to follow Bai Yue into the temporal disturbance as Rias called after her.
• The cannon blast reached the palace of an ancient capital, where a woman in a kimono sealed away most of its force and limited the damage.

Kuroka recounted how Bai Yue saved Bathsheba’s infant son, identified as King Solomon, during their trip three thousand years into the past. Her story alarmed the Supernatural Research Club, and Shirone’s slip about Bai Yue left Kuroka suspecting he had a connection to Solomon’s survival.

• Bai Yue and Kuroka arrived in ancient Jerusalem after an artillery strike killed a maid and Bathsheba’s infant son.
• Bai Yue restored the child by giving him a fragment of blank soul, while Kuroka feared that changing history would erase her.
• Kuroka clung to Bai Yue as they began to disappear, but she was thrown back to the present and subdued by Shirone.
• At the Supernatural Research Club, Kuroka explained that Asachel had staged Vali’s betrayal to help him infiltrate Khaos Brigade.
• Kuroka told Rias and Sona that the child was King Solomon, and Shirone blurted out that Bai Yue was alive before Kuroka could question her.

Ravel proposed that the King Solomon in this world was the same person as the King Solomon from the parallel world, resurrected through this world’s King Solomon’s body. Rias, Sona, Akeno, and the others began to see evidence for her theory in his knowledge and their Demon God powers.

• Ravel questioned why Haziyiluus had reacted so strongly to King Solomon, then learned from Xenovia that the otherworld King Solomon had died after defeating Satan and Beelzebub.
• Xenovia warned that Evis Etourute might use Lumayidora’s time-transcending artillery to alter this world’s history and erase the counterparts of the humans who fought in the other world.
• After Xenovia left, Ravel told Rias and the others that she suspected both King Solomons were the same person, revived in this world using its King Solomon’s corpse.
• Ravel argued that the Moon King had recognized Solomon’s Time Temple and asked how he could be the Demon God King if he had died alongside Satan.
• Rias and Sona recalled that Solomon knew about the otherworld God of the Bible’s betrayal, while the Demon God Pillars’ powers seemed tied to gods absent from their world.

Shirone and Kuroka became Pillar Demon Gods under Bai Yue, gaining new power and rising in strength. Their bond with him transported them and the others to an arena where they watched a different world’s Ragnarok battle between Thor and humanity’s champion.

• Shirone released her new Flauros power without losing control and discovered she had gained a third tail.
• Kuroka chose the Botis card and fused with it using her own strength, reaching Sovereign-class and gaining five tails.
• Kuroka’s transformation resonated with Bai Yue, and the group was transported from the Supernatural Research Club to a vast arena filled with humans from different eras.
• The group realized they were watching a replay of Ragnarok’s first match, in which Thor had been defeated, and saw how rapidly the battle had been slowed for human spectators.
• Sona and Tsubaki noticed the fighters’ speed was far beyond what the displayed movements suggested, while Kuroka learned that this world’s Thor used his gauntlets to suppress his power.

Rias, Sona, Kuroka, and their companions realized they had been transported to the Ragnarok arena and watched the second battle begin between King Solomon and Beelzebub. Beelzebub’s summoned monsters turned out to be feeding the Demon King Mara, which suddenly shifted the battle in his favor.

• Ravel and the others watched the first match’s final strike in increasingly slowed footage and learned the second match would be a clash between Super Sovereigns.
• Rias, Sona, Kuroka, and their companions realized the surrounding audience could see them, and Kuroka defused hostility over her and Koneko’s cat ears and tails by calling them cosplay.
• Aisha wanted to warn King Solomon about his fate, but Sona urged her not to change events because their world depended on his later intervention.
• Brunhilde rebuked humans who prayed to the gods, and Heimdallr introduced Beelzebub and King Solomon as the second match’s fighters.
• King Solomon’s Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons overwhelmed Beelzebub’s monsters, and Solomon revealed power drawn from the Root when the gods accused him of cheating.
• Beelzebub’s monster army nurtured the Demon King Mara, whose appearance suddenly turned the battle against Solomon and his allies.

King Solomon’s Goetia overwhelmed Satan, but Satan unleashed Void God - Chaos, which King Solomon restrained with pillars made of countless dead humans. The girls realized the dead souls had crawled out of Hell to take revenge on the Lord of Heaven for the divine disasters he had imposed on humanity.

• King Solomon overlaid four Demon Pillars from different points in time, letting them kill four Boshuns, but the remaining Boshuns grew stronger by devouring their companions and Beelzebub’s insects.
• Beelzebub’s heart devoured Boshun and transformed him into Satan, while King Solomon overlaid all seventy-two demons to become Goetia.
• Satan nearly fell to two of Goetia’s attacks before unleashing a black sphere called Void God - Chaos that threatened the stadium.
• King Solomon restrained Void God - Chaos with enormous tentacle-like pillars, and Kuroka, Shirone, Koneko, and Aisha were overwhelmed by the sight of them.
• Akeno saw visions of humans dying in divine disasters imposed as trials and realized the pillars were formed from dead souls seeking vengeance on the Lord of Heaven.