Chapter Summaries

Loki revealed a giant python lurking within the darkness after Fenrir escaped into it, and the creature coiled around the arena. The chapter ended with the python looming over the gods and its drool melting a huge pit into the arena floor.

• Fenrir suddenly bit through Odin's defenses, but Tyr rescued Odin and lost an arm when Fenrir snapped its jaws shut.
• Fenrir leaped into the darkness on the arena platform, and Zeus stopped the gods from pursuing it after sensing something more dangerous within.
• Loki revealed that Fenrir's escape had been a trap and announced that a monster with an even greater appetite was waiting.
• A gigantic black creature rose into the sky and coiled around the arena, making the floating island groan under its weight.
• Heimdallr's camera revealed that the creature was an unimaginable giant python wrapped around the arena, and its drool melted a huge pit into the platform.

Jörmungandr regenerated after Zeus destroyed its head, then began crushing the arena as Loki ordered it to eat. The gods learned that its moving brain core was its weakness, but Odin collapsed before he could explain further, leaving them unsure how to kill it.

• The Dragon-slaying Hero blasted a hole in Jörmungandr’s neck, but the wound healed instantly.
• Zeus punched Jörmungandr’s head apart, but its tail struck him into a floating island and its head regenerated.
• Loki revealed Jörmungandr’s name and ordered it to eat, prompting it to tighten around the arena.
• Odin’s account revealed that Loki had secretly fed Jörmungandr corpses for two thousand years and that its brain core was its fatal weakness.
• Odin collapsed after saying Jörmungandr’s brain core constantly moved through its body, and Shiva and Hermes realized they might need to destroy its entire body at once.

The Dragon Slayer used his resistance to dragon venom and blood to suppress Jörmungandr’s regeneration, then teamed up with Shaka and Zeus to tear the serpent apart. With Jörmungandr’s body split into hundreds of pieces, Shaka searched for its core before it could regenerate.

• Adamas watched the Dragon Slayer endure Jörmungandr’s poisonous blood and noticed that the serpent’s wounds healed far more slowly after the man’s blood touched its sword.
• Goll and Gondul explained that the Dragon Slayer’s resistance and power against dragons came from his transformation after slaying Fafnir, while Brunhilde warned that Jörmungandr could only be killed by destroying its core.
• Shaka arranged for the Dragon Host of the Eight Legions of Heavenly Dragons and the Feathered Serpent God to pour their blood onto the Dragon Slayer’s sword, intensifying its power against dragons.
• Zeus grabbed Jörmungandr by the tail, freed it from its coils around the arena, and hurled it into the sky as the Dragon Slayer transformed and launched after it.
• The Dragon Slayer unleashed repeated cross-shaped slashes that cut Jörmungandr into hundreds of pieces, and Shaka used his True Enlightenment Alaya-Vijnana to search for its core before its body reconnected.

Shaka and the Dragon-slaying Hero destroyed the core embedded in Loki, killing him and ending Jörmungandr’s regeneration, but the Hero also died in his final attack. The arena collapsed, the match was judged a draw because both representatives had died, and Ragnarok was temporarily suspended for repairs.

• Shaka discovered Loki had fused with Jörmungandr and Fenrir, with the black crystal core embedded in his chest, but Loki escaped Shaka’s axe strike.
• The Dragon Slayer pierced and evaporated Loki with a final sword attack, then vanished as his remaining power burned away.
• Jörmungandr’s severed body stopped regenerating, and its blood lost its poison, but the Dragon Slayer’s strike damaged the arena and its power core.
• The floating island split and began falling, so several Main Gods transferred the arena to another island before the old one plunged into the abyss.
• Gondul saw the system declare the match a draw, with an X beside both representatives, and stopped Goll from disturbing Brunhilde.
• The Divine Temple’s gods mourned Jörmungandr’s death and discussed Odin being pushed to the brink of death, while Ragnarok was temporarily suspended for arena repairs.

A mysterious figure revealed himself to the Norse gods and sought the Valkyries’ help in opening the gates between the Pantheon and the Human World. Brunhilde’s attempt to use the Akasha System ended when a black-robed stranger appeared through its corrupted display and made his request.

• Njörðr led a mysterious visitor to the Norse gods, who were stunned when he revealed himself as someone they believed dead.
• A god attacked the visitor, but two wolves and a venomous snake restrained him as the visitor asked Lord Gaia for permission to return.
• Nearly two thousand years before Ragnarok, the researcher received an additional memory, discovered a visitor hiding in a shadow, and proposed bullying the Valkyries and making a bet.
• Brunhilde’s repeated blows left the Akasha System displaying static, and Goll and the other Valkyries restrained her from hitting it again.
• A black-robed holographic figure appeared through the system and told Brunhilde that he had met her across Human History and helped guide her search for kings.
• The figure said he was an enemy of the Primal Gods and asked the Valkyries to open the Heavenly Realm Gate connecting the Pantheon and the Human World.

Brunhilde agreed to gather the Valkyries and contact other pantheons after a mysterious man showed that world connection progress had reached 100%, though she remained wary of his motives and the Primal Gods. The story then shifted to a holy city, where church forces guarded the Ark of the Covenant as a demon was reported nearby.

• The mysterious man asked Brunhilde to contact the Valkyries and open the gate to the Human World, and a panel announced that world connection progress had reached 100%.
• Brunhilde asked whether the Old Man of the Mountain belonged to the mysterious man's faction, but he disappeared after saying he would contact her later.
• Brunhilde ordered Gondul to gather the Valkyries and Hrist to contact the leaders of the pantheons that had attended the tea party.
• Brunhilde warned Goll that Zeus might be a traitor and considered how humanity might one day save the gods from the Primal Gods.
• The mysterious man realized he could now log in to the connected world.
• In a holy city, church forces reported a demon, while a church leader went underground to the Divine Temple where priests guarded the Ark of the Covenant.

A woman transporting the Ark of the Covenant and another Sacred Relic escaped a bombing attempt, but the second crate fell into a town and was damaged. A blonde nun found an injured man inside it, healed him, and tried to lead him to shelter as explosions continued nearby.

• A woman carrying a holy sword defended a transport vehicle from demons and later transferred the Sacred Relics to a cargo plane.
• She discovered a bomb beneath the Ark of the Covenant, threw both crates from the plane with their emergency parachutes, and survived the plane's explosion.
• The other crate's parachute was damaged by debris, and the crate crashed into a park near a town where a blonde nun was staying.
• The nun investigated the crater and found an injured man rising from the damaged box inside the crate.
• The nun accidentally knocked the man down, then healed him with an emerald glow.
• As explosions continued around them, the man asked whether the country was at war, and the nun explained that it was under attack.

Bai Yue took Asia Argento to witness the man she had healed attacking two people who had condemned her choice, forcing her to confront the consequences of saving someone dangerous. Aisha healed the victims, but Bai Yue’s accusations left her overwhelmed with guilt as the attacker cursed them from beneath the rubble.

• Bai Yue introduced himself to Asia Argento and led her away, while church warriors later arrived to find the ancient body missing.
• Bai Yue woke Aisha and showed her the man she had treated stabbing two people who had urged her not to save him.
• The attacker tried to stab Bai Yue, but Bai Yue broke his hand and kicked him into a collapsing wall.
• Aisha healed the two wounded people, then agreed to help the attacker when he pleaded from under the rubble.
• Bai Yue questioned whether Aisha’s compassion made her responsible for innocent deaths, and the rescued people defended her as the attacker cursed them.

Aisha tried to draw a summoned demon away from the group, but Bai Yue fought it, learned its Magic, and seized control of it. A second ring began summoning Gremory, while the story shifted to a red-haired girl confronting a monster in a distant town.

• Aisha warned everyone to run and tried to lure the summoned demon away from them.
• Bai Yue struck the demon and countered its black flames, adapting the demon’s Magic Array as they fought.
• The demon tried to escape, but Bai Yue overwhelmed it with a barrage of black flames and forced it to submit by replacing its contract.
• Bai Yue noticed another ring had activated and was summoning the 56th Demon Pillar, Gremory.
• In a distant town, a red-haired girl and others blocked a five-meter-tall monster, which sprayed dissolving liquid in an attempt to escape.

Bai Yue disrupted a mysterious summoning and brought Aisha to her new assignment in the Far Eastern island nation. As Aisha struggled with guilt over saving a demon, she resolved to investigate whether Demon Extermination of the Lost had engineered her expulsion and find the demon again.

• The Slayer Princess resisted a strange summoning, and a black-haired beauty killed the fleeing monster before the summoning failed.
• Bai Yue kicked a figure emerging from an upright Magic Array back through it, causing the array to vanish.
• Aisha recalled how the church had cast her out after she healed a demon, and how the demon she had once saved later committed serious crimes.
• Bai Yue told Aisha that her expulsion and recruitment by Demon Extermination of the Lost might have been orchestrated as part of a conspiracy.
• Aisha arrived with Bai Yue at a government office in the Far Eastern island nation and decided to uncover the truth and find the demon.

Bai Yue brought Aisha to Kuoh, arranging her enrollment at Kuoh Academy while taking a temporary job as a physical education teacher. Rias investigated the pair and connected Bai Yue to a church incident and a possible summoning involving Solomon’s Ring, while Bai Yue stopped near a park at dusk after noticing an unexpected coincidence.

• Bai Yue told Aisha to judge whether someone deserved healing by trusting her instincts, then gave her forged student records for Kuoh Academy.
• Bai Yue explained that he would work as a physical education teacher and traveled with Aisha to Kuoh.
• Rias reviewed the transfer students’ records, learned Aisha had been a Catholic Saintess, and considered recruiting her as a demon servant.
• Rias suspected Bai Yue might be connected to the church’s Sacred Relic incident and wondered whether Solomon’s Ring had summoned someone from the Gremory family.
• As Bai Yue and Aisha approached a park at dusk, Bai Yue stopped and remarked that the timing of an event was an unexpected coincidence.

Bai Yue captured Lina Li after she attacked him and blasted her out of the sky with compressed magic power. He interrogated her about Aisha and learned she had heard rumors that Aisha’s expulsion from the Church had been anticipated.

• Lina Li revealed herself as a Fallen Angel and attacked Bai Yue with Spears of Light, but he caught them.
• Bai Yue formed a compressed sphere of magic power into a spear and shot Lina Li down with its blast.
• Bai Yue questioned Lina Li about her membership in Demon Extermination of the Lost and her knowledge of Aisha.
• Lina Li admitted she had heard rumors that the Church had expected Aisha to be expelled, then agreed to tell Bai Yue more.

Bai Yue killed Lina Li after learning she had targeted Aisha’s healing Sacred Gear, then met Rias Gremory and her servants. Rias later questioned Aisha about a photograph of the Holy Coffin, and Aisha revealed that Bai Yue had emerged from inside it.

• Lina Li claimed that Fallen Angel Governor-General Asachel was her superior, but Bai Yue killed her before she could curse him.
• Rias Gremory confronted Bai Yue and Aisha, then took them to the Occult Research Club and introduced her servants.
• Aisha reacted to a photograph that had fallen from Akeno’s file, prompting Rias to suspect the pair knew about the damaged Sacred Relic.
• Bai Yue pursued Akeno after she lured him away from the hotel, allowing Rias to hypnotize the sleeping Aisha and question her.
• Rias identified the photographed object as the Holy Coffin, and Aisha revealed that Bai Yue had come out of it.

Rias realized Bai Yue might truly be King Solomon and warned Akeno’s group about the danger. Koneko revealed that Rias believed he was King Solomon himself, and the three chose to face him together while Rias dealt with a fleeing thief who had stolen the Ring of King Solomon.

• Sister Aisha recalled Bai Yue’s rings and strange clothing, while Rias feared Akeno was in danger.
• Bai Yue caught Akeno with a teleportation array on a stone and struck her with lightning that overcame her resistance.
• Koneko and Yuuto Kiba joined Akeno, and Koneko received a call from Rias warning them to run.
• Koneko told Akeno and Yuuto to head west after a thief carrying the Ring of King Solomon, but Akeno realized she was hiding Rias’s real warning.
• Akeno confronted Koneko, who admitted that Rias believed Bai Yue was King Solomon himself.
• The three decided to stay together and face Bai Yue rather than abandon Koneko.

Akeno, Koneko Toujou, and Yuuto Kiba attacked Bai Yue after realizing who he was, and he overwhelmed them with lightning. Rias arrived, explained the attack was a misunderstanding, and watched Bai Yue spare the group before demanding atonement for their investigation into his identity.

• Akeno struck Bai Yue with a massive lightning bolt, but he defended himself with magical power and prepared a storm of lightning arrays.
• Bai Yue’s lightning attack left Koneko Toujou unconscious and Yuuto Kiba and Akeno badly injured, while he held Akeno by the neck.
• Rias reached the group and demanded that Bai Yue release Akeno, then asked what had happened.
• After hearing Akeno and Yuuto Kiba’s account, Rias explained that they had attacked out of fear and had mistaken the situation for a fight to the death.
• Bai Yue accepted that the attack had been an unfortunate misunderstanding and asked Aisha to treat the injured devils.
• Bai Yue then demanded that Rias atone for casually investigating his identity.

Bai Yue revealed to Rias Gremory and her companions that God had died and asked them to become his Demon God Pillars, while warning that traitors threatened the world. The next day, Rias and Akeno reflected on the danger of the secret and the previous night's confrontation, while Koneko apologized for her part in it.

• Bai Yue told Rias that traitors had sold out the world and that God had died in the Three Faction War.
• Rias, Akeno, and Aisha reacted with shock to the news, and Aisha collapsed after learning that the Lord she worshipped was dead.
• Rias realized Bai Yue had allowed them to uncover his identity and had tested them, then considered whether to accept his offer to become a Demon God Pillar.
• The next day, Rias complained that Bai Yue had played them, while Akeno prepared an apology gift and Koneko secretly ate one of the pastries.
• Akeno and Rias discussed how close their group had come to disaster, and Koneko apologized for prompting Akeno to attack.

Rias gave Sona Sitri an account of why she killed Lina Li, while Sona left intending to investigate Bai Yue herself. At the Gremory villa, Akeno learned that Bai Yue had only recently begun using magic, and he realized the local magic system might let him adapt formulas from his original world.

• Rias told Sona that Lina Li had tried to steal Aisha’s Sacred Gear and had attacked a human, so Rias killed her; Sona accepted the explanation but decided to investigate Bai Yue.
• Akeno asked Rias why she let Sona leave without warning her, and Rias admitted she hoped Sona might help manage the danger surrounding Bai Yue.
• At the Gremory villa, Akeno asked how Bai Yue had injured his arm, and Aisha explained that he had hurt himself while studying magic.
• Aisha told Akeno that Bai Yue had been unable to use magic before, then learned demon magic by analyzing it and reconstructed his spells with remarkable efficiency.
• Akeno brought Bai Yue magic books, and he read that magic could be manifested through imagination while formulas improved efficiency.
• Bai Yue concluded that he could adapt formulas from his original world and create an environment in which Noble Phantasms could function.

Sona Sitri tricked Akeno and entered the villa’s barrier with Tsubaki Shinra to investigate the person Rias had been hiding. Meanwhile, the mysterious man prepared to grant Aisha the power of a lost Demon Pillar, and Sona’s group approached the villa, finding no response inside.

• Sona Sitri pretended to accept Rias’s plea to stop investigating, then decided to uncover the stranger’s identity to protect Rias and the town.
• Rias hurried to the Underworld to stop her fiancé, Riser Phenex, from using the transfer magic to visit the villa and possibly provoking the stranger.
• Tsubaki Shinra reflected Akeno’s lightning as Sona opened a Different Dimension and escaped with Tsubaki, trapping Akeno inside.
• The stranger prepared to make Aisha a Demon Pillar by granting her the power of one of the thirty-nine pillars whose bloodlines had vanished.
• Sona and Tsubaki approached the villa after setting a barrier, while the rest of Sona’s peerage maintained it outside.
• Sona’s group found no response from inside the villa, despite the original barrier having been destroyed.

Sona and Tsubaki discovered Bai Yue performing a ritual that made Asia Argento a new member of the Malphas Pillar and gave her overwhelming demonic power. Sona recognized Bai Yue as the resurrected King Solomon and feared he planned to use the remaining cards to seize control of the Underworld.

• Sona and Tsubaki entered the villa and found Bai Yue conducting a ritual beside the kneeling Asia Argento.
• Sona attacked with water, but Bai Yue used a ring to make Tsubaki fall and then attack Sona under his command.
• Bai Yue summoned the Malphas card and declared that Aisha could take the Malphas name and join the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons.
• Aisha called Bai Yue King Solomon, and the card dissolved into her, rapidly raising her demonic power to the level of a top-tier high-class demon.
• Tsubaki broke free and released Sona, while Sona feared Bai Yue could use his remaining seventy-one cards to create a force capable of ruling the Underworld.
• Aisha checked her body and discovered she still looked human, though her magical power had increased enormously.

Lord King Solomon transformed Tsubaki Shinra into the demon Gaim, raising her power to Ultimate-Class and binding her loyalty to him. Sona attacked in fury, but Tsubaki stepped between them before Solomon unexpectedly told her to return to Sona.

• Asia Argento awakened as a demon with blue wings and powerful magic, while Sona Sitri and her Vice President were overwhelmed by Lord King Solomon’s presence.
• Akeno Himejima rushed in and saw Solomon use a card bearing Gaim’s image to transform Tsubaki Shinra into one of the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons.
• Tsubaki’s power surged to Ultimate-Class, and she explained that she still retained her will but would prioritize Solomon’s orders over Sona’s if they conflicted.
• Sona broke free of Solomon’s pressure and attacked him with water beasts, but Tsubaki drew her sword to stop her and protect her.
• Solomon told Tsubaki to return to Sona’s side.