Chapter Summaries

Imu investigated why Esdeath had awakened Conqueror's Haki and suspected people from the Otherworld awakened it after joining the World Government for more than three years. In Hades, Lucifero ordered the demons to share everything they knew about the World Government’s Admirals and Fleet Admirals and open more Gates.

• Imu questioned whether Velkhana had triggered Esdeath’s Conqueror’s Haki and compared her awakening with Biba Amatori’s.
• Imu suspected the timing was linked to how long someone from the Otherworld had served in the World Government and planned to watch Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju for signs of awakening next year.
• Moryo and Adrammelech briefed the gathered demons on the World Government, its conquests, and its forces in the Shinobi World.
• Moryo identified Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, A, Onoki, and Rasa as powerful members of the World Government’s Sea Ninja Village and compared their strength with the Demon Gods.
• Lucifero demanded all intelligence about the Admirals and Fleet Admirals, then ordered Adrammelech and Baal to open the Gates of Hades on their levels.

Aramaki proposed that the World Government counterattack Hades and establish a front there, while the leaders of the Shinobi World debated the risks. The meeting ended when new Gates of Hades opened in Earth Province and Wind Province, sending demon armies into both regions.

• Hashirama Senju, Aramaki, Tengen Uzui, and other leaders gathered to discuss the war against Hades.
• Aramaki proposed leading the Fourth Main Battle Legion into Hades, with Hashirama Senju, Madara Uchiha, and old A agreeing to assist.
• Shikaku Nara warned that the demons might cut off the return route or open another Gate of Hades in the Shinobi World.
• Aramaki said the World Government would open a Star Gate to secure their return and that Akainu, White Whale, and Red Lotus could defend against another invasion.
• A Ninjutsu Sect ninja reported that new Gates of Hades had appeared in Earth Province and Wind Province, and that demon armies were pouring through them.

Three Gates of Hades unleashed demon armies across the Shinobi World, overwhelming Earth Province and threatening millions as ordinary fighters proved powerless. Hamura Otsutsuki sent his clone to clear a path, and the Otsutsuki forces deployed their aerial fortress to attack the demons.

• Wrangel watched bombers strike the demon horde advancing from the Gate of Hades in Wind Province and deployed Loulan's remaining infantry division to establish a defensive line.
• Demon armies slaughtered towns and cities in Earth Province as civilians fled south and ninja and Samurai died trying to stop them.
• Hamura Otsutsuki proposed deploying Ancor Vantian, the modified aerial fortress stored inside the moon, while Kaguya Otsutsuki warned against wasting their power on low-ranking demons.
• Hamura's clone summoned a vast tornado with Silver Wheel Reincarnation Explosion, destroying the demons before the Gate of Hades at the cost of all his Chakra.
• Ancor Vantian appeared above the Gate of Hades, and Otsutsuki puppets flew out and bombarded the demons with golden blasts.

The Otsutsuki puppet army and Ancor Vantian held back the demons at the Gate of Hades in Earth Province while Astral Legion forces fought to protect Loulan. As reinforcements and the Shinobi World’s strongest fighters mobilized, Ōtsutsuki Aramaki called for an invasion of Hades itself.

• Ancor Vantian bombarded the demons at the Earth Province gate while its automated factory supplied puppets at a rate of twelve per minute, buying time for civilians to flee.
• In Wind Province, Vice Admiral Wrangel’s Second Infantry Division used machine guns, artillery, rockets, bombers, and holy magic to stop the demon army advancing toward Loulan.
• Marshal Nikolai Zhukov ordered Vice Admiral Vladimir Vazov’s Fourth Army to reinforce the Shinobi World.
• From Noah, Imu watched as the Shinobi World’s top fighters split into three groups to confront the gates in Wind Province, Earth Province, and Demon Country.
• Ōtsutsuki Aramaki led an assault toward the Demon Country gate and declared that his forces would fight into Hades and attack the demons’ homeland.

Imu prepared to create a new body for Teresa while the World Government processed prisoners, rebuilt the Claymore World, and honored those who fought in the Dragon Yoma Extermination War. The chapter ended with Miria and the other Claymore Warriors receiving medals as the World Government welcomed them into its ranks.

• Imu set out to create Teresa's body using her soul, Lunaliu's Philosopher's Stone, and a sample of Teresa's Lineage Factor from Clare.
• The World Government sent Fafhena, Priscilla, Florida Water, Riful, and other captured beings to Impel Down for imprisonment and research.
• Vice Admiral Rundstedt's Fifth Astral Army suppressed the Caroling Kingdom, while General Gaius took control of Rome and oversaw its reconstruction.
• The World Government finalized commendations for combatants who had served in the Dragon Yoma Extermination War.
• Department of Honors officials awarded Miria and the other Claymore Warriors medals, welcoming them into the World Government's ranks.

Teresa arrived at Enma Palace after entrusting Luciela and the Claymore Warriors with representing their Underworld, and learned about their future under the World Government. She prepared to reunite with Clare and asserted that she would stand up to Esdeath if necessary.

• Luciela, Rafaela, Sophia, Riful, and the other Claymore Warriors entered Yellow Springs City to meet with Enma Court, while Teresa left them to handle the Underworld's submission.
• Willy Tybur welcomed Luciela's delegation and escorted them toward Lady Ymir, while Teresa went to Enma Palace.
• Teresa learned that Clare was at the Biochemical Research Institute and that the Claymore Warriors could receive surgery to heal their abdominal wounds.
• Enma explained that the Claymore Warriors could choose Sea Star citizenship and pursue freedom, police work, military service, or Teresa's personal guard; Teresa named her guard the Claymore Warriors.
• Teresa learned that she would be resurrected in two days and that Esdeath was domineering, then said she would not let anyone push her around.

Imu resurrected Teresa by creating a new body and using the Underworld’s authority to return her soul. After teaching her swordsmanship and Haki, he showed her Beelzebub’s heart and asked her to try to purify it.

• Imu used Human Transmutation and a Philosopher’s Stone to create Teresa’s body in the Flower Chamber.
• Dark Imu invoked Underworld Reversal, and Teresa left the Underworld and awakened in her new body.
• Imu welcomed Teresa as his Empress and sparred with her, correcting her swordsmanship and helping her grasp Observation and Armament Haki.
• Imu showed Teresa the heart of Beelzebub, and she recoiled from its terrifying aura.
• Imu asked Teresa to see whether she could purify Beelzebub’s heart.

Teresa tested whether her Rabona Divine Power could purify Beelzebub’s heart, but estimated that the process would take years. Imu brought her to Noah and began searching for ways to strengthen her, finding a Mythical Zoan Angel Fruit whose holy light might suit her.

• Teresa used her Rabona Divine Power against Beelzebub’s heart, and Imu destroyed the demonic mist that nearly struck her.
• Teresa explained that she could absorb love and faith, but her power was much stronger in the Claymore World and she could purify the heart only slowly.
• Imu returned the heart to his Heavenly Dragon Realm and took Teresa through a Star Gate to Noah.
• Stussy greeted Teresa and led her toward the Heaven Queen Palace with the Ubuyashiki Sisters present.
• Imu searched the Holy Land Treasury for ways to strengthen Teresa and found a Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit: Angel Form with healing and defensive holy light abilities.

Esdeath visited Pokke Village on Velkhana and sought information about the Hunter's Guild, discovering that its influence and secretive Dark Night organization would complicate her plans to bring it under the World Government. Meanwhile, Teresa received an Angel-form Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit and learned that Imu planned to spend the night with her.

• Esdeath and Velkhana arrived at Pokke Village, where the hunters prepared to fight until Esdeath explained that she meant them no harm and asked to speak with the village chief.
• Esdeath introduced herself as president of the World Ecological Association, while Akame used a Den Den Mushi to explain the World Government to the villagers.
• Esdeath learned about the Hunter's Guild's quest ranks and its investigation of Ukanlos, then discovered that a captured man belonged to Dark Night, the Guild's intelligence and assassination organization.
• Akame told Esdeath about the enormous Fatalis Great Sword kept in an ice cellar, and Esdeath decided to take it for the Empress's ship and later have its materials reforged.
• Ubuyashiki Hina delivered Teresa an Angel-form Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit and told her that Imu would spend the night at Heaven Queen Palace.

After eating the Angel Fruit, Teresa merged with the Angel's beast soul and became an eight-winged archangel, greatly improving her ability to purify Beelzebub's heart. Imu arranged for Tsuru to teach Teresa, and Tsuru began looking up information about her new student.

• Ubuyashiki Hina used a Wisteria Flower crest card to shield herself and the Merfolk maids from the energy erupting from Teresa.
• Teresa merged with the Angel's beast soul and transformed into an eight-winged archangel.
• Imu sent Beelzebub's heart to Teresa, who spent nearly an hour purifying its demonic power before Imu retrieved it.
• Imu noticed Teresa was wasting energy and ordered Stussy to tell Tsuru to teach her at least one day each week.
• Tsuru received Saint Nusjuro's call, then searched the military network for information about Teresa.

Shiryu arrived to reinforce the Astral soldiers and defeated a high-ranking shadow demon by linking its heart to his own, then devoured its soul with the Shinigami. He turned his attention to the nine remaining high-ranking demons.

• Vice Admiral Wrangel's Third Infantry Division struggled to hold back the demon army as ten high-ranking demons slaughtered Astral soldiers.
• A shadow demon used its magic to kill soldiers with their own shadows and raise shadow soldiers to attack the survivors.
• Shiryu arrived, destroyed the shadow soldiers, and wounded the shadow demon with Raiu.
• Shiryu pierced his own heart, causing the demon's heart to be pierced as well, then seized it as the Shinigami pulled out and devoured its soul.
• The Astral soldiers cheered as the demon disintegrated, and Shiryu set his sights on the nine remaining high-ranking demons.

Shiryu and thousands of Loulan Puppets helped turn the tide against the demon army as World Government reinforcements entered the Shinobi World. The chapter ended with two suspected high-ranking demons crossing the bay toward Loulan, leaving Vice Admiral Wrangel unsure whether the city could defend itself.

• Shiryu evaded three high-ranking demons' spells and unleashed a massive slash against the demon using Demonic Mud Magic.
• Loulan Puppets under Falcon Dragon's control arrived and fired precise purple bolts that struck demons and protected retreating soldiers.
• The Astral Legion continued bombing the demons while Vice Admiral Vladimir Vazov led the Fourth Army through the Star Gate into the Shinobi World.
• Loulan's alarm sounded, and reports told Vice Admiral Wrangel that two suspected high-ranking demons had crossed the western guard line and were heading for the city.

Marshall D. Teach sensed a crisis near Loulan and flew to the battlefield, where two upper demons were slaughtering the defenders. He stopped Arias from reaching Roran City and turned his attention to Thorsten.

• Marshall D. Teach detected panic at headquarters with his Observation Haki and flew alone toward Loulan, leaving his engineering team to continue work on the airport.
• Thorsten and Arias massacred Astral soldiers, ninjas, and Loulan Puppets as defenders tried and failed to stop them.
• Astral soldiers deployed Dr. Stylish's Cockroachmen, but the upper demons quickly killed them all.
• Arias rode toward Roran City, but Marshall D. Teach raised cement walls to halt him, then seized him and slammed him to the ground.
• Marshall D. Teach taunted Arias and challenged Thorsten as cement dust billowed around him.

Marshall D. Teach fought the upper-rank demons Arias and Thorsten on the coast outside Roran City, using cement powers to withstand their attacks. As their battle devastated the coastline, Queen Sara and the others in Loulan learned someone was holding the demons back.

• Teach pinned Arias and impaled its demon warhorse, Adele, with cement spikes before Arias recalled it in black mist.
• Thorsten and Arias recognized Teach as a powerful human and faced him together while the soldiers and ninjas watched from a distance.
• Thorsten struck Teach with his demonic sword, but Teach countered with a Haki-coated cement fist and sent him flying.
• Arias charged Teach and blasted him down a trench, but the figure it struck was a cement decoy; Teach emerged beside Adele and punched Arias away.
• Arias and Thorsten regrouped and continued battling Teach as his cement powers and their clashes wrecked the coastline.
• Queen Sara, Vice Admiral Wrangel, Vice Admiral Jolidon Dodd, and the others in Loulan received news of the fight and were relieved that someone was holding the demons back.

Falcon Dragon blocked a Demon God's devastating beam, but two Demon Gods and four Greater Demons threatened the battlefield. Whitebeard and the others arrived, and Hashirama Senju killed Cryska before the remaining Greater Demons fled with their opponents.

• Falcon Dragon used Dragon Dance: Sky Tempest to neutralize a Demon God's beam aimed at the battlefield.
• Whitebeard struck the other Demon God with a massive sphere of energy and challenged the demons.
• Tengen Uzui, Rasa, Shukaku, and Matatabi charged the Greater Demons while Hashirama Senju flew toward the Demon Gods.
• Cryska attacked Hashirama, who killed her with two enormous golden fists.
• The three remaining Greater Demons fled into the distance, drawing Tengen Uzui, Rasa, Shukaku, and Matatabi away.

Edward Newgate and Hashirama Senju battled two Demon Gods near the Gate of Hades while Falcon Dragon fought Baal, a highest-ranking demon, in the skies over Wind Province. Kaguya Otsutsuki sent Hamura Ōtsutsuki to protect Falcon Dragon as Hagoromo remained on the moon to watch for another threat.

• Edward Newgate rode King Mu through the demons and struck a Demon God's pillar of light with Heaven Cleave as Hashirama Senju countered the other with his Wood Human.
• Edward Newgate and Hashirama Senju charged the Demon Gods, whose orange-yellow spheres fired powerful scarlet beams at them.
• Falcon Dragon used the underground Dragon Vein's energy to stabilize the continent, then blocked Baal's surprise attack and began fighting him with True Dragon Flash.
• Kaguya Otsutsuki ordered Hamura Ōtsutsuki to help Falcon Dragon and told Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki to stay alert for the Gate of Hades in Earth Province.

Demons drove the Ninjutsu Sect’s defenders back to Green Pine Town, where the exhausted ninjas could barely harm them. The Land of Iron’s samurai arrived with Nichirin Blades and turned the fight around, but the demons’ numbers and coordinated magic kept the battle brutal.

• An exhausted Ninjutsu Sect ninja failed to stop a demon’s Earth Strike Technique and died as the defensive line collapsed near Green Pine Town.
• A Chunin ran out of weapons and Chakra, but a samurai killed the demon about to attack him.
• The Land of Iron’s samurai, wielding Nichirin Blades, charged into the demon ranks and began cutting them down with Demon Slayer Breathing Technique.
• The ninjas recognized the blades’ ability to harm demons, while Daito used Armament Haki and Observation Haki to devastate the enemy ranks.
• The samurai stabilized the line and helped civilians flee south, but the demons adapted and coordinated their attacks, making the battle more brutal.

The Great Tenseigan's Aerial Fortress fought two Demon Gods in North Earth Province until Adrammelech's corrosive magic weakened it and forced it to disappear. Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki then confronted Adrammelech above the battlefield.

• The Aerial Fortress exchanged beams with two Demon Gods and used the Great Tenseigan's gravity to pin demons to the ground.
• Adrammelech poured corrosive black liquid onto the Aerial Fortress's barrier, weakening its defenses and ending its gravitational suppression.
• The Demon Gods fired at the fortress, but it vanished, and their beams destroyed Adrammelech's magical formation, scattering corrosive black water across the battlefield.
• Adrammelech wondered where Imu was and sensed figures descending from the Moon toward the Gate of Hades and toward him.
• Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki appeared before Adrammelech, and the two introduced themselves as the Sage of Six Paths and the ruler of the second layer of Hades.

Sakazuki unleashed a massive Ancient Dragon Magic: Great Eruption against Hades’s forces, interrupting the Demon Gods and engulfing the demon army in lava. Madara Uchiha followed with Majestic Destroyer Flame, leaving the surviving demons and the Demon Gods’ lower bodies submerged in fire.

• Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki and Adrammelech moved their duel to the middle layer of the sky as the wider battle erupted across the provinces.
• The Demon Gods advanced toward populated regions and began gathering demonic power to destroy towns and villages.
• Sakazuki fired enormous magical magma fists at the Demon Gods, disrupted their attacks, and overwhelmed the surrounding demons with lava.
• Madara Uchiha flew into the battlefield and unleashed Sage Art: Fire Release: Majestic Destroyer Flame, engulfing the surviving demons and those emerging from the Gate of Hades.

The Fourth Main Battle Legion forced its way to Hades First Layer, where its soldiers fought through the darkness and began pushing back the demons. As Moryo's stone statue army advanced to drive them out, Charlotte Cracker summoned his Biscuit Army to meet it.

• Cracker's 1st Division cut through the demon army and reached the Gate of Hades despite heavy casualties.
• A major entered Hades First Layer, used a Lamp Dial to light his surroundings, and led the way as soldiers poured through the gate.
• Cracker ordered the Moon Lion Unit to scout the area and map the terrain.
• A flare revealed Moryo's approaching stone statue army, whose march shook the ground.
• Cracker summoned the Biscuit Army, which formed battle lines and advanced against the stone statues.