Chapter Summaries

Clarice and three other warriors were ambushed by an Awakened One and its allies, but hidden ninja from the Hidden Mist Village killed the monsters from afar. Aburame Shikuro ordered his squad to track the surviving black-robed women and follow the warriors to learn where their organization was based.

• Nina led Clarice and two other warriors through the snowy mountains to hunt an Awakened One, which attacked and knocked Clarice unconscious.
• Nina and the other warriors wounded the ant-like Awakened One, but two more Awakened Ones arrived and incapacitated all four women.
• Three unseen attackers killed the Awakened Ones with invisible energy blades, and the black-robed women left the scene.
• Aburame Shikuro, Yamanaka Hiromi, Hyuga Junpei, and Natsuhoshi watched the battle from behind a mountain and identified the black-robed women as possible sources of intelligence about the organization.
• Clarice regained consciousness as Aburame Shikuro sent Karasu and White Zetsu to track the black-robed women and ordered his squad to follow the surviving warriors toward the organization's headquarters.

Clare defeated Miria in a duel by revealing the Windcutter Sword, a technique that relied on extraordinary sword speed without releasing Demon Power. Miria resigned as captain and joined Clare on her journey south to avenge their companions, while Inuzuka Ban’s team decided to follow them and report their intelligence.

• Inuzuka Ban, Xuexi Kazahana, Yamanaka Hanao, and Hyuga Mutai secretly watched Clare and Miria duel in the snow.
• Miria overwhelmed Clare with her New Illusion, but Clare blocked Miria’s attacks with sword swings too fast for the observers to see.
• Deneve explained that Clare had developed the Windcutter Sword during seven years of training, and Clare unleashed it to cut apart Miria’s Illusions.
• Clare told Miria she was going south for unfinished matters, and Miria resigned as captain to accompany her and avenge their friends.
• Inuzuka Ban’s team chose to follow the seven women and send their gathered intelligence back to the Hidden Mist Village.

Star Realm soldiers captured five Claymore Organization logistics men while collecting Awakened Being remains, and Imu identified the Claymore world and set priorities for its coming operations. He ordered Enma to send an Underworld Army unit there to investigate its ruler and search for Teresa's soul.

• Five Organization logistics men arrived to collect the remains of three Awakened Beings, unaware that Star Realm soldiers were watching from the snow.
• The soldiers ambushed and arrested the five men, then the platoon leader learned from their leader that they had come from the War-Torn Continent.
• While traveling over the Loc Lac Desert, Imu recognized the world as Claymore and listed Clare, Priscilla, Riful, Dae, and the Destroyer among his highest-priority targets.
• Imu also identified other targets and possible dangers, including Abyssal Ones, the God of La Baule, and the dragon linked to the Asarakam Clan.
• Imu took over Dark Imu's consciousness and reassured Enma that Matatabi would be watched over.
• Imu ordered Enma to send an Underworld Army unit into the Claymore Underworld to check for a Lord of the Underworld and search for Teresa's soul.

Aburame Shikuro's Hidden Mist squad tracked the Seven Swords and learned that Riful, an Abyssal One, was nearby. They recorded her encounter with No. 3 Audrey and No. 5 Rachel as the two warriors fought her with the Sword of Softness and the Sword of Strength.

• Aburame Shikuro memorized a list of future figures while his squad followed the Seven Swords across the border between Alphonse and Toulouse.
• Tabitha sensed warriors ahead and then detected a powerful Yoki approaching, which Clare identified as Riful of the West.
• Aburame Shikuro ordered Natsuhoshi to report Riful's appearance and request Cloud Village support, then followed the encounter with Yamanaka Hiromi and Hyuga Junpei.
• Riful confronted Rachel and Audrey, while the hidden ninjas learned their identities and recorded the battle with a Visual Den Den Mushi.
• Rachel cut through Riful's ribbons with the Sword of Strength, and Audrey redirected the ribbons with the Sword of Softness before the two attacked Riful together.

Rachel and Audrey attacked Riful, but she revealed her overwhelming power and began forcing yoki into them to make them Awaken. Miria, Clare, Helen, and Deneve rescued them, and Clare stayed behind to question Riful.

• Rachel and Audrey combined their swords to cut through Riful, while Yamanaka Hiromi took control of Rachel and tried to stop the fight.
• Riful exposed her immense yoki, overpowered Rachel and Audrey, and used her ribbons to force yoki into their bodies.
• Yamanaka Hiromi abandoned Rachel's body when the injected yoki threatened to overwhelm him, and Riful's captives disappeared during the distraction.
• Miria, Clare, Helen, and Deneve arrived and rescued Audrey, Rachel, and the two low-ranking warriors.
• Miria ordered the group to scatter, but Clare stayed behind and said she wanted to ask Riful a question.

Riful's meeting with Clare turned into a destructive battle after Clare refused her offer, drawing Natsuhoshi and the Hidden Mist ninjas into the conflict. The squads chose to track their priority targets rather than intervene, while Clare's group decided to seek Galatea and another team located Dae at the Organization's headquarters.

• Riful told Clare about the Organization's new controllable Abyssal Ones, Isley's surrender to Priscilla, and her efforts to strengthen her forces; Clare then refused Riful's offer and fled with the rescued warriors.
• Riful's metal-ribbon attack exposed Aburame Shikuro, Natsuhoshi, Yamanaka Hiromi, and Hyuga Junpei, and Natsuhoshi fought Riful with her Peacock Method while the others withdrew.
• Miria, Helen, Deneve, Clare, and the rescued warriors regrouped; after Audrey woke and confirmed that Galatea had betrayed the Organization, they decided to find her and seek her help.
• Aburame Shikuro ordered Natsuhoshi to disengage, sent White Zetsu to follow Clare's group, and kept his team on Riful's trail to locate Destruction; Natsuhoshi escaped, and the ninjas followed Riful unseen.
• Inuzuka Ban's squad infiltrated the Organization's headquarters and found Dae beside the living Dragon Descendant, then assigned Xuexi Kazahana to protect him.

Lune was captured by Riful and forced to witness the emerging Destroyer while Hidden Mist shinobi watched from nearby. Elsewhere, Deneve and Helen encountered Isley and the Abyss Feeders before Cloud Village shinobi intervened, leaving the warriors to flee and warn Miria, Clare, and the others.

• Lune sensed a powerful presence, but Riful ambushed her, severed her limbs, and brought her to the underground palace, where she agreed to cooperate after seeing the fused bodies of Luciela and Rafaela.
• Aburame Shikuro and his Hidden Mist team watched the Destroyer and waited for it to awaken, while Deneve and Helen detected Isley's immense Demon Power near a town in Lautrec.
• Isley attacked Deneve and Helen after recognizing their erased Yoki, and the two warriors fought back after releasing their Demon Power.
• Abyss Feeders attacked the battle, and Terumi Kaoru used water techniques to trap and fight them as Isley took on others in his awakened form.
• Hōzuki Senjin stopped Isley's arrows and unleashed a massive flood against him and the Abyss Feeders, devastating the town as Deneve, Helen, and Dietrich escaped to a hillside.
• Deneve decided to abandon their trip home and reunite with Miria, Clare, and the others, while Dietrich agreed to accompany them and share what they had learned about the Organization's Abyss Feeder weapons.

Isley was captured by Hōzuki Senjin’s team after the Abyss Feeders were subdued, while the Claymore Organization learned that foreign forces had appeared on the island. In the Western Lands, Natsuhoshi and Yamanaka Hiromi abandoned their attempt to take the fused Rafaela and Luciela after it warned that its awakening was imminent, and the chapter ended as Clare approached and a catastrophic energy eruption began.

• As a flood left Isley helpless, he remembered his past and confessed that he wanted to live so he could see Raki and Priscilla again; Hōzuki Senjin then captured him and explained the World Government’s plans and his likely fate.
• Hōzuki Senjin’s team subdued the Abyss Feeders and arranged to transport Isley and the creatures north, while the Claymore Organization received reports of the mysterious intruders and ordered forces to investigate the Northern Lands.
• Clare left Cynthia and the injured Yuma to follow Dauf toward Riful’s base, where she sensed the faint, unusual Demon Power of the fused Rafaela and Luciela.
• Aburame Shikuro ordered Natsuhoshi and Yamanaka Hiromi to retrieve the fusion, but it contacted Natsuhoshi and warned that its imminent awakening would destroy everything.
• Natsuhoshi fled with Yamanaka Hiromi instead of taking the fusion, and Clare entered the palace just as an enormous burst of energy erupted.

Clare entered Rafaela’s mental world, learned that she had made a grave mistake and should not oppose the World Government, then killed Rafaela’s reconstructed consciousness and inherited her memories. The resulting blast awakened the Destroyer, whose attacks scattered the shinobi while the battle between Riful and the Organization’s Black Twins was interrupted by an unknown technique.

• Clare met Rafaela in her mental world, where Rafaela warned her not to oppose the World Government and told her she had made a grave mistake.
• Clare killed Rafaela with Irene’s Quick Sword, and Rafaela passed her memories and information about Natsuhoshi and the World Government to Clare before vanishing.
• The fused body erupted into a pillar of white light that destroyed the underground palace and left a sixty-meter Destroyer in a crater; Clare emerged unconscious beside it.
• Natsuhoshi flew toward Clare as the Destroyer fired spikes in every direction, while Aburame Shikuro and Hyuga Junpei defended themselves and survived the attack.
• Riful and Dauf fought Alicia and Beth, but Alicia overwhelmed Dauf and pressed Riful until an unfamiliar voice used the Mind Body Switch Technique and made Alicia retreat.

Yamanaka Hiromi failed to seize Alicia’s body, while the battle around the Destroyer escalated as Cloud Village reinforcements arrived with transport planes and a colossal Fire Dragon. As the Claymore Organization’s Dae witnessed the chaos, Xuexi Kazahana appeared and identified her force as being under the World Government.

• Yamanaka Hiromi entered Alicia’s mental space to stop her from attacking Riful, but Beth drove his consciousness out.
• The Destroyer’s spikes wounded Riful and threatened the others until Aburame Shikuro and Hyuga Junpei arrived and blocked the attack; Riful fled with Dauf as Alicia pursued them.
• Destroyer Awakened Beings emerged from the spikes and clashed with the Abyss Feeders, while Aburame Shikuro and Hyuga Junpei fought through the chaos.
• Two Astral Legion C5 Galaxy transport planes arrived, and Natsuhoshi helped Clare, Helen, and Deneve escape with Pakura’s aid.
• Uchiha Kyu arrived atop a colossal Fire Dragon as Cloud Village forces prepared to confront the Destroyer.
• Dae and his men tried to leave the battlefield, but Xuexi Kazahana appeared and revealed that her force served under the World Government.

Xuexi Kazahana defeated Dae’s escort and persuaded him to come with her to the World Government, while hundreds of Eldian paratroopers transformed into Pure Titans and overwhelmed the destructive awakened ones. As the battlefield shifted, Clare admitted she knew Natsuhoshi’s past memories, and Uchiha Kejiu began attacking the Destroyer with Smaug.

• Xuexi Kazahana killed or incapacitated Dae’s black-clad escorts with Ice Release senbon and invited Dae to join the World Government; Dae agreed to follow her while remaining interested in her abilities and research resources.
• Connie Springer’s Eldian paratroopers jumped from two C-5 transport planes, transformed into Pure Titans, and crushed the destructive awakened ones with their size and regeneration.
• Clare told Natsuhoshi that she knew about the Giant World and Eldians from memories, and Natsuhoshi agreed to find somewhere quiet to talk.
• Uchiha Kejiu ordered Taketori Kazuo and Chodo to support Aburame Shikuro against Riful and the Black Twins while he and Pakura confronted the Destroyer.
• Uchiha Kejiu and Smaug combined their flames into a vast blue-lit firestorm that engulfed the sky above the Destroyer.

The Kabaneri Corps attacked the Claymore Organization’s northern outpost to capture its Yoma, overwhelming the defenders with aircraft, machine guns, and specially designed smoke grenades. The surviving demons were incapacitated for recovery as the assault continued.

• At headquarters, Rimuto learned that the northern outpost had been attacked and ordered the report received with alarm.
• Four V-22 Osprey aircraft arrived over the outpost, and blue-uniformed Kabaneri soldiers leapt out and massacred the guards with machine guns.
• Rollins ordered the outpost’s stock of Yoma released, killed a panicked researcher, and urged his men to protect the organization’s secrets.
• Horobi told Uryu that the mission was to recover the Yoma, while Uryu watched the fighting from the aircraft.
• Kabaneri soldiers shot the attacking demons in the legs, then used smoke grenades to knock them unconscious.
• After the corridor quieted, the Kabaneri captain ordered his soldiers to begin recovering the demons.

Little A and Shinku Yūhi led a ninja task force to capture the Claymore Organization’s leaders and recover its research, while barriers sealed the headquarters. Little A’s lightning-fast attacks began knocking out the Claymore Warriors without killing them.

• Leader Rimuto learned that strange purple barriers had sealed the Claymore Organization’s headquarters and ordered everyone, including the trainees, to prepare for an attack.
• Rimuto headed to Dae’s laboratory as Little A and Shinku Yūhi led twelve ninjas into the operation to capture Leader Rimuto and Rubel, recover research materials, and take as many Claymore Warriors and trainees alive as possible.
• Little A explained that he wanted to earn merit to exchange for the Zoan Monkey-Monkey Fruit, Danger Beasts Lagann Form.
• Viola and the Claymore Warriors behind her confronted the ninjas, but Little A struck them with blue lightning and knocked them unconscious.
• Abigail and Leticia released their Demon Power, but Little A disarmed and kicked them into tree trunks, leaving them unconscious while he avoided using lethal attacks.

Little A and the ninja forces broke through the Claymore headquarters’ defenses, while Shinku Yūhi subdued most of the warriors and trainees with genjutsu. He stayed behind to speak with the surviving defenders as Little A continued the advance, promising to reveal the Organization’s truth and the ninja’s origins.

• Little A tore through the Claymore Warriors’ defensive line, while Shinku Yūhi and the other ninjas followed and dealt with the scattered defenders.
• Audrey, Rachel, and Nina organized the remaining Claymore Warriors, but Shinku Yūhi’s Nirvana Temple Technique put more than a hundred trainees to sleep.
• Audrey, Rachel, Nina, and the White Twins, Lida and Leda, resisted the genjutsu, and Shinku Yūhi explained that the single-digit warriors could become dangerous if they Awakened.
• Rachel prepared to attack, but Lida and Leda pointed out that the fallen warriors were still alive, easing the defenders’ fear that the ninjas intended to kill them.
• Shinku Yūhi told the five survivors that the ninjas targeted the Organization’s upper ranks, then stayed behind to talk while Little A led the others onward.

Rimuto and the Organization’s surviving forces tried to escape through the Four Violet Flames Formation while A fought Historia and Cassandra. After A drove both former No. 1 warriors into Awakening, Roxanne refused Rimuto’s orders and Laftila immobilized her with Yoki Synchronization.

• Roxanne discovered that her Claymore could withstand the barrier’s purple flames, and Rimuto ordered her and Laftila to break through while Historia and Cassandra confronted A.
• Historia and Cassandra attacked A together, but he hurled them into each other with Lightning Bomb, forcing them to Awaken.
• A overwhelmed the Awakened Historia and Cassandra, while Laftila reported that Historia’s aura was weakening.
• Roxanne refused to help break the barrier, declared that the Organization was finished, and said she would join A’s side.
• Rimuto ordered Laftila to control Roxanne, and Laftila used Yoki Synchronization to immobilize her.

Kaze Fufeng received reports of the Otherworld Committee’s successful operations in the Claymore World, but Priscilla’s sudden attack caused severe casualties and forced him to dispatch Steve Guts as reinforcements. On the Western Lands battlefield, Aburame Shikuro stopped Riful from pursuing Priscilla and revealed that his mission was to protect her and her unborn child.

• A report informed Kaze Fufeng that Jonin A’s squad had occupied the Claymore Organization headquarters, captured Rimuto and other personnel, killed the Awakened Cassandra and Historia, and recovered a living Dragon Descendant and Dae’s research.
• Kaze Fufeng received updates that the Holy City had been occupied, Miada and other targets had been captured, Miria had been found, and Hōzuki Senjin’s squad had captured Isley and eleven other Abyss Feeders.
• A staffer reported that Priscilla had killed Hyuga Junpei and Taketori Kazuo and heavily injured Eldian forces, so Kaze Fufeng ordered Army Lieutenant General Steve Guts to reinforce the Western Lands.
• Priscilla’s attack left Alicia badly wounded and killed Taketori Kazuo, Dauf, and Hyuga Junpei before she departed, while Aburame Shikuro stayed behind to protect the survivors.
• Riful tried to pursue Priscilla to avenge Dauf, but Aburame Shikuro blocked her and revealed that she was pregnant and that his mission was to protect her and bring her to camp.

Uchiha Kejiu and Pakura fought Priscilla while the Destroyer’s attacks threatened everyone on the battlefield. After Priscilla awakened and began devouring the Destroyer, Kejiu launched a powerful technique to stop her, and she turned to face him.

• Uchiha Kejiu and Pakura teamed up against Priscilla while Smaug and the Pure Titan forces fought the Destroyer’s Awakened Beings.
• Priscilla overwhelmed Pakura, then awakened into a towering creature with power matching the Destroyer.
• White Zetsu took a Purple Butterfly Emergency Pill to tend to Smaug after the dragon was struck down.
• Priscilla injured Uchiha Kejiu, then ignored his attacks and charged at the Destroyer to devour it.
• Uchiha Kejiu unleashed his secret Flame Dragon technique at Priscilla, who paused and asked whether he wanted to die that badly.

Uchiha Kejiu awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan while trying to protect Pakura, but Priscilla overwhelmed them and was about to kill them. Steve Guts arrived from an aircraft and challenged Priscilla, ending the chapter as his punch closed in on her.

• Priscilla shattered Uchiha Kejiu's flaming attack, wounded him with light needles, and then struck Pakura down when she tried to shield him.
• Uchiha Kejiu awakened the Mangekyou Sharingan and formed Susanoo, but Priscilla broke through it and forced him and Pakura back.
• Smaug, overcome by Demon Power, attacked Priscilla, and Uchiha Kejiu used Amaterasu to make her retreat from the black flames.
• Priscilla fired another storm of light needles at the helpless Uchiha Kejiu and Pakura, but Steve Guts dropped from a V-22 Osprey and shielded them.
• Steve Guts gave Uchiha Kejiu two Purple Butterfly Emergency Pills, then struck Priscilla hard enough to blow apart her arm.
• Steve Guts declared himself a noble Sea Star Person and charged Priscilla with a punch.

Steve Guts fought the awakened Priscilla while reflecting on the military ridicule he faced as a Nue-Form Kabaneri. Meanwhile, Xuexi Kazahana brought Dae to a World Government base, where Director Fritz began assembling researchers for Dae’s Special Talent Defense Meeting.

• Steve Guts used his fear energy against Priscilla, and their opposing powers clashed as the Destroyer watched nearby.
• Steve Guts recalled how Vice Admirals mocked his Kabaneri enhancement and urged him to join the Astral Legion, while he insisted he belonged to Army Headquarters.
• Xuexi Kazahana escorted Dae into the camp, where he saw advanced technology, magic, and captured Yoma and Awakened Beings.
• Minister Benjamin welcomed Dae and arranged for him to meet Director Fritz of the Biochemical Research Institute.
• Director Fritz contacted Caesar and asked him to summon Muzan, Queen, Souei, Orochimaru, and Dorothea for Dae’s Special Talent Defense Meeting.

Dae defended his research before the Biochemical Research Institute and was accepted as an intermediate researcher, where he hoped to study powerful Yoma and Claymore specimens. Meanwhile, Enma arrived in the Claymore Underworld with an Underworld fleet and ordered a search for Teresa.

• Dae presented his century of research on Dragon Descendants, Yoma, Claymore Warriors, Demon Power, and awakening, then answered questions from the institute’s researchers.
• The researchers voted to recruit Dae as a special talent and ranked him as an intermediate researcher, while praising his talent but noting his weak foundations and crude methods.
• Director Fritz told Dae he could continue studying Yoma and might eventually encounter Dragon Yoma, Abyssal Ones, and other powerful specimens; Dae also learned the institute would address his modified body.
• Tatsumi led Enma, Gyutaro, Daki, and an Underworld fleet into the Claymore Underworld.
• Enma ordered the fleet to begin its conquest and search for Teresa, whom she wanted to meet.