Chapter Summaries

Aozaki Touko visited the Pope to persuade the Holy Church to stay out of the Dead Apostle civil war, offering to extend his life and promising to suppress Altrouge if she threatened humanity. The Pope agreed to stand aside, while Umbrella Corporation’s werewolf guards and magi swiftly stopped a Dead Apostle sabotage attempt in Germany.

• Dead Apostles infiltrated Umbrella Corporation in Germany, but werewolves and magi captured them before they could sabotage the company.
• Aozaki Touko silently entered the Pope’s heavily guarded chapel and claimed Solomon had granted her wisdom that let her bypass its defenses.
• Touko used private knowledge about the Pope to persuade him that her clairvoyance was real, then asked the Holy Church to stay out of the Dead Apostle civil war.
• Touko offered to extend the Pope’s life and swore in the Aozaki family’s name that she would suppress Altrouge if the Dead Apostle Princess threatened humanity.
• The Pope agreed that the Holy Church would stand by during the civil war.

Aozaki Touko restored the Pope’s vitality, while Crimson Lord, Rottweil, awakened Arcueid and sought her help against Altrouge in exchange for finding Roa and reclaiming her hair. The chapter then shifted to a Church torture chamber, where a young priest arrived to deliver the Pope’s orders to Narubaleck.

• Aozaki Touko extended the Pope’s life and restored his youthful energy before leaving the chapel.
• Crimson Lord, Rottweil, opened a passage to Millennium Castle and awakened Arcueid.
• Rottweil offered to help Arcueid find and permanently kill Roa and reclaim her hair if she defeated Altrouge.
• At Einzbern, Altrouge sensed Arcueid and considered recruiting her, while Irisviel brought her a book about caring for a fetus.
• Narubaleck killed a torture victim as a young priest arrived to deliver the Pope’s orders.

Narubaleck agreed to keep the Gravekeepers out of the Dead Apostle civil war after the Church promised two years of funding, while Natalia Kaminski and Emiya Kiritsugu monitored the growing Dead Apostle force in a remote town. In Germany, Altrouge and Crimson Lord approached Einzbern, where Altrouge’s sister was staying with the Third Magus, and Crimson Lord prepared for the coming confrontation.

• A priest delivered the Pope’s order for Narubaleck and the Gravekeepers not to interfere in the Dead Apostle civil war, and Narubaleck accepted after hearing they would receive two years of wages in advance.
• Natalia Kaminski and Emiya Kiritsugu watched a remote town occupied by over a hundred Dead Apostles and waited for orders rather than attacking.
• Emiya Kiritsugu told Shishigou Kairi that Aozaki Touko might be able to cure a curse, and promised to mention him if he distinguished himself in battle.
• Altrouge and Crimson Lord arrived in Germany and confirmed that Black Princess was staying at Einzbern with the Third Magus.
• Crimson Lord concluded that Black Princess intended to confront and kill them, leaving him no safe way to retreat.

Ryougi Shiki and Aoko Aozaki defeated a group of Dead Apostles sent to capture them and use them to pressure Aozaki Touko. After Shiki learned who had ordered the attack, she revealed that “It” had temporarily given her Mystic Eyes to help her fight.

• Altrouge threatened Arcueid, while Aozaki Touko tried to calm her and proposed they face Arcueid together if needed.
• A crow carried word that the White Princess had joined the opposition and that Nero Chaos might be recruited against Altrouge.
• A birdlike monster flew toward the Einzbern Family, suspecting the Third Magus had influenced the Holy Church and Mage's Association to stay out of the conflict.
• Ryougi Shiki and Aoko Aozaki pursued the Dead Apostles who had attacked them, killing fifteen and driving the survivors into an alley.
• Shiki cornered the last fleeing Dead Apostle, who revealed that Crimson Lord wanted to capture her and her companions to threaten Aozaki Touko.
• Shiki killed the Dead Apostle with her short blade and told Aoko that “It” had temporarily given her Mystic Eyes.

Aozaki Touko spent the night with Kuonji Alice, rekindling their childhood closeness, then prepared for the coming Dead Apostle civil war. At the Dead Apostles’ castle, Tzvim Authenroche gathered the highest-ranking figures, who questioned the threat posed by Aozaki Touko.

• Aozaki Touko visited Kuonji Alice at night, shared tea with her, and reminisced about how they had become close as children.
• Aozaki Touko insisted that she would remain part of Kuonji Alice’s life, and Alice let her stay as she went to sleep.
• Aozaki Touko slipped into Kuonji Alice’s bed and stayed there through the night.
• The next morning, Kuonji Alice told Aozaki Touko that the Dead Apostles wanted to discuss the coming civil war, and Touko said the high-level fighters should decide the outcome through battle.
• Tzvim Authenroche addressed the assembled Dead Apostle leaders, while Nero Chaos and Gransorg Blackmoore raised concerns about Aozaki Touko’s strength.

Arcueid abandoned her alliance with Crimson Lord after learning that Altrouge was pregnant, leaving Crimson Lord’s forces badly outmatched. Crimson Lord appealed to the hidden Gravekeepers for help, while his allies began considering retreat.

• Crimson Lord warned the Dead Apostles that Aozaki Touko and Merem Solomon’s involvement made the battle more dangerous, while Arcueid said she had joined to reclaim her hair.
• Aozaki Touko refused Crimson Lord’s offer to withdraw and explained that she was fighting because she cared for Altrouge.
• Aozaki Touko revealed that Altrouge was pregnant, and Arcueid sensed the child and rushed to touch her sister’s belly.
• Arcueid declared that she would no longer fight Altrouge and would treat anyone who attacked her sister as an enemy.
• Crimson Lord’s allies, including Nero Chaos and Black Wing Lord, reconsidered their support as Crimson Lord called on the Gravekeepers to restore the balance of power.

Aozaki Touko trapped the fleeing Dead Apostles in her enormous Reality Marble, and the allies prepared to eliminate them while keeping pregnant Altrouge away from the battle. Touko challenged Crimson Lord herself and began testing her strength against him.

• A nun named Narubaleck and her companions withdrew after confirming they would not interfere in the Dead Apostle civil war, prompting Crimson Lord's faction to retreat.
• Touko unfolded Eternal Doll Kingdom and drew the fleeing Dead Apostles, Androids, and mercenaries into her vast Reality Marble, where she explained that the World did not correct it.
• Touko promised Arcueid that she would help find Roa after the battle, while Arcueid and the knights persuaded pregnant Altrouge not to fight.
• Touko assigned Crimson Lord to herself and left Nero Chaos and Black Wing Lord to the Black and White Knights.
• Touko charged across the district and struck the ground with enough force to devastate the area, then faced Crimson Lord and invited him to test her strength.

Aozaki Touko overwhelmed Crimson Lord, who unleashed a city-destroying attack that she evaded by shifting outside her Reality Marble. After realizing the vast gulf between them, Crimson Lord asked Touko to fight him with all her strength.

• Crimson Lord attacked Aozaki Touko, but she kicked him through buildings and into the city wall.
• Touko dodged and deflected Crimson Lord's attacks before striking him into the moat and judging the fight a slaughter.
• Crimson Lord enhanced his body and unleashed a devastating punch that tore through a huge section of the city, while Arcueid shielded Black Princess from the gale.
• Touko emerged unharmed after shifting outside her Reality Marble, and she assessed Crimson Lord's punch as powerful enough to destroy a city.
• Crimson Lord accepted that escape would only mean a life of hiding and asked Touko to fight him with all her strength.

Aozaki Touko killed Crimson Lord with a devastating punch, prompting Nero Chaos and many Dead Apostles to surrender while the remaining battles shifted toward surrender or reconciliation. Afterward, Altrouge thanked Touko tenderly, leaving Touko flustered and Arcueid surprised by her sister’s gentleness.

• Aozaki Touko met Crimson Lord’s desperate punch with her own and erased him, shattering the sky of her Reality Marble.
• Nero Chaos surrendered to White Knight Blood after deciding he had no chance against Aozaki Touko, and White Knight Blood led him toward the castle.
• Black Wing Lord and Black Knight, St. George, agreed to redefine their relationship after witnessing Aozaki Touko’s power.
• Dead Apostles across the battlefield began surrendering as Shishigou Kairi continued hunting those who resisted.
• Aozaki Touko met Altrouge and Arcueid on her way to the castle, and Altrouge gently thanked her for her efforts.
• Aozaki Touko became flustered by Altrouge’s tenderness, while Arcueid was surprised to see her sister act so gently.

Aozaki Touko took Nero Chaos into her research on creating a new life system, promising that it could help him control his Beast King's Nest. The next day, she visited the Pope to fulfill her promise of extending his life, then left him wondering whether her offer of Angel's Fall was genuine.

• Aozaki Touko told Nero Chaos she wanted to study his Beast King's Nest as part of her research into creating a new life system, and Altrouge agreed to let him work with her.
• Nero Chaos considered refusing but accepted Touko's offer after she threatened to demonstrate her magecraft, hoping she could help him control his Beast King's Nest.
• Aozaki Touko explained to Altrouge that she intended to introduce a new life system into her Reality Marble, and Altrouge recognized that Touko's long life gave her time for such a vast undertaking.
• News spread that Crimson Lord's Dead Apostles had been defeated and brought under Altrouge's control, leaving the Holy Church and Mage's Association wary of what she would do next.
• Aozaki Touko visited the Pope in Vatican City and restored the remaining thirty years of life she had promised him.
• The Pope called after Touko to ask whether Angel's Fall could really send someone to Heaven.

Aozaki Touko enlisted the Pope to help create a worldwide Magecraft circle to avert Steel Earth, while Roman finished his assigned ley-line plans after three nights of unpaid overtime. Back at Einzbern, Arcueid asked Touko to make her body pregnant, offering a reward in return.

• Aozaki Touko offered the Pope a chance to reach Heaven if he helped establish a worldwide Magecraft circle, and he agreed after she showed him evidence of the coming catastrophe.
• Roman completed his Earth Vein Construction and Implementation Requirements proposal after working three consecutive nights, and Kayneth invited him out for a drink.
• Roman went to sleep from exhaustion, and Kayneth left without waking him when he failed to get up.
• Aozaki Touko spent the night alone while Irisviel rested during her pregnancy and Arcueid was away with Altrouge.
• Arcueid returned to Einzbern and asked Aozaki Touko to make her body pregnant with a pure-blooded True Ancestor descendant, promising a satisfactory reward.

Aozaki Touko negotiated with Crimson Moon over a possible vessel, then woke beside Arcueid, who had no memory of arriving at Einzbern Castle. Meanwhile, Yaya answered a school call for Aoko and met Shizuki Soujuro, while Touko visited the imprisoned Nero Chaos.

• Crimson Moon asked Touko to help create a body for her descent, but Touko demanded that Crimson Moon offer herself as payment.
• Touko woke beside Arcueid and told her that Arcueid had come from America asking to become pregnant; Arcueid returned to America to find Altrouge.
• Touko told Crimson Moon she would not resurrect her without the strength to suppress her.
• At the Kuonji Western Mansion, Aoko sent Yaya to answer a school call, and Yaya went to meet Shizuki Soujuro at Private Misaki High School.
• Touko visited Nero Chaos in her Reality Marble, where he complained about being imprisoned and dismissed its artificial residents.

Aozaki Touko brought her pregnant wife, Irisviel, to the Aozaki household, shocking her parents with the news that they would become grandparents. Touko agreed to stay in Misaki City until Illya was born, and Aozaki Aoko arrived just as the family learned Touko had also fathered a daughter with Altrouge.

• Nero Chaos learned that Aozaki Touko's Reality Marble reset after seven days, and Touko explained that she wanted its inhabitants to escape it.
• Aozaki Touko ordered Nero Chaos to force Aozaki Aoko to become a Magic User, then left the Reality Marble.
• Aozaki Touko introduced her pregnant wife, Irisviel, to Aozaki Parents, who struggled to accept that their eldest daughter would have a child.
• Touko agreed to stay in Misaki City until Illya was born, and admitted that Altrouge was pregnant with another daughter of hers.
• Aozaki Aoko returned home, saw Irisviel's pregnancy, and asked Touko whether the child was hers.

Aozaki Touko reunited with Aozaki Aoko and revealed her plan to help her awaken the Fifth Magic, using a fabricated threat to motivate her. Meanwhile, Nero Chaos destroyed a leylines node in Misaki City, and Shuraze Yuika considered visiting Touko for help with her blindness.

• Aozaki Aoko realized that Irisviel was carrying Touko's child, and Touko admitted she had kept the pregnancy quiet to avoid trouble.
• Bunbyo Rei asked Shuraze Yuika to visit Touko, suggesting she might cure Yuika's blindness, but Yuika chose to wait until the family gathering was over.
• Nero Chaos sent starving wolves to destroy a leylines node, advancing his plan to make Misaki City's barrier ineffective and force Aoko to awaken.
• Aozaki Touko invited Aozaki Aoko to talk privately and said she intended to teach her magecraft and help her awaken the Fifth Magic.
• Touko falsely claimed she was too injured to fight and invented the dangerous enemy Chaos Tide to persuade Aoko to prepare for the coming battle.
• Aoko saw through Touko's story but agreed to accept the challenge and work toward awakening the Fifth Magic.

Aozaki Touko went to Aoko’s school to teach her magecraft and meet Shizuki Soujuro, while Nero Chaos tried again to draw out the leyline administrator by destroying another node. Touko found Soujuro and questioned him about his fear of death, leaving him to answer that he had thought of Yaya.

• Aozaki Touko accompanied Aozaki Aoko to school, where the sisters joked about Aoko’s fearsome reputation and Touko offered to deal with any unwanted pursuers.
• Nero Chaos went to another suburban leyline node, sent avatars to destroy it, and waited for the administrator to appear.
• Aozaki Touko called to Shizuki Soujuro at school, but he sensed danger and ran until he reached a dead-end alley.
• Aozaki Touko introduced herself as a Magic User and asked Soujuro why he had run; he said he had feared she would kill him.
• Aozaki Touko described Soujuro’s sense of self as faint and asked who he had thought of when he believed he was about to die.
• Shizuki Soujuro answered that he had thought of Yaya.

Shizuki Soujuurou asked Aozaki Touko about the meaning of life, and she promised to help him search for an answer while letting him befriend Yaya. Meanwhile, Aozaki Aoko struggled to learn Gene Lock Release, then found a way to activate it with abundant mana before Touko transported her to a Roman Colosseum and apparently set up a fight with a lion.

• Shizuki Soujuurou asked Aozaki Touko whether she knew the meaning of life, and she offered to help him find his own answer while revealing that Yaya was her creation.
• Aozaki Touko taught Aozaki Aoko the basics of Gene Lock Release, but Aoko could not master it because her mana control lacked precision.
• Nero Chaos decided to attack directly the next day after destroying most of the leyline nodes without drawing out the enemy.
• Kuonji Alice warned that the barrier around Misaki City was nearly destroyed, and Aozaki Aoko used a huge supply of mana to force her first Gene Lock Release.
• Aozaki Touko transported Aozaki Aoko, Kuonji Alice, and herself to a Roman Colosseum, where the crowd cheered for Aoko as the God of Combat and a lion entered the arena.

Aozaki Aoko mastered the first stage of the Gene Lock after enduring a night of battles against powerful opponents created by Aozaki Touko. As Aoko headed toward a confrontation with Nero Chaos, Touko sent Irori and Kozakura to help protect her.

• Aozaki Touko praised Kuonji Alice as a beautiful and mysterious witch while Alice described Touko as the embodiment of a magus family's pursuit of the Root.
• Aozaki Aoko fought Nero, a powerful female Roman emperor, and was repeatedly knocked down despite refusing to surrender.
• Aozaki Aoko recalled defeating a series of bizarre opponents and mastering the first stage of the Gene Lock through the intense battles.
• Aozaki Touko massaged Aoko after the fights, then let her leave the Kuonji Western Mansion without following her.
• Aozaki Touko told Kuonji Alice that she had sent someone to protect Aoko as she faced Nero Chaos.
• Irori and Kozakura introduced themselves to Yaya as Touko's puppets and said they had come to help protect Aoko.

Aoko fled Nero Chaos through the old school building while Touko and Alice watched, confident that the ordeal would push her toward awakening the Fifth Magic. The chapter then shifted to a secluded Buddhist sect, where an unknown monk found a sickly girl revered as a Bodhisattva and declared that she had a greater purpose.

• Aoko confronted Nero Chaos at the old school building after he destroyed the spiritual vein node.
• Aoko fought off Nero Chaos's beast clones and fled when their numbers threatened to exhaust her.
• Touko and Kuonji Alice monitored Aoko, and Touko said she needed only enough resolve to become a Magic User.
• Aoko continued using Magic Bullets against the pursuing beasts as Nero Chaos absorbed his fallen clones.
• An unknown monk found the sickly girl worshiped as a Bodhisattva at the Shingen Tachikawa Eiten Style sect.
• The girl agreed to go with the monk, who said she had a more important purpose than satisfying the believers' desires.

Aozaki Aoko and her allies fought Nero Chaos, who captured Yaya and threatened to crush her unless Aoko awakened the Fifth Magic. With no fear holding her back, Aoko crossed the threshold and began her awakening as Aozaki Touko watched.

• A troubled monk took a girl from a mountain sect after a bloody massacre, seeking a Living Bodhisattva to guide Aozaki Touko.
• Yaya and Kozakura ambushed Nero Chaos at the old school building, but Nero escaped their attacks, captured Irori and Yaya in Genesis Soil, and threatened to crush Yaya’s skull.
• Nero Chaos taunted Aozaki Aoko to awaken the Fifth Magic before he killed Yaya, while Aoko directed her will through the Magic Crest on her arm.
• Aozaki Aoko began chanting as a vast Magic circle spread beneath her and the seasons and weather shifted around her.
• Aozaki Touko watched Aoko’s awakening and saw a red shadow dim and vanish in the distance.

The magical world reacted to Aozaki Aoko becoming the Fifth Magic User and to the Aozaki family’s growing influence. Aozaki Touko and Irisviel welcomed their daughter Illya, and the chapter ended with their family gathering to meet her.

• Nero Chaos recalled Aozaki Aoko’s newly awakened power defeating him and rested while recovering from the fight.
• Inorai and an elderly Lord discussed the birth of a second Aozaki Magic User and prepared a gift for Touko’s unborn child, whom Inorai believed would be a girl.
• Lidell joked with her adoptive father about being able to act freely because of her friendship with Touko, while he suggested she might become Touko’s wife or bear her child.
• Marisbury Animusphere ordered continued surveillance of Touko and instructed his staff to send a properly chosen gift after her child was born.
• Aozaki Touko held newborn Illya while Irisviel reflected on how motherhood had changed her priorities and thanked Touko for bringing her happiness.
• Touko invited the family into the hospital room, and Aozaki Mom, Aozaki Father, and Aozaki Aoko came in to meet Illya.