Chapter Summaries

Kagome returned to the Modern World for her graduation ceremony while Rikuo was born into the Nura Clan and Nurarihyon explained the family’s ties to Higurashi Shrine. In the Four Souls World, Naraku fused with the corrupted Jewel of Four Souls and unleashed miasma that devastated the land around him.

• Kagome graduated from junior high and celebrated with her family after getting into Shuishan High School.
• Wakana Nura gave birth to Nura Rikuo, and Rihan Nura brought the newborn out to be welcomed by the Nura Clan.
• Nurarihyon told Wakana that Rikuo should visit Higurashi Shrine and described the decline of the Great Western Demon Kingdom after Sesshomaru’s death.
• Naraku fused the corrupted Jewel of Four Souls into his palm and regenerated his damaged body.
• Naraku’s Demon Power spread as deadly miasma, turning the area within ten kilometers into a dead zone.

Loli Mercury recruited Miroku and discussed possible paths for Sango and Kohaku to join the World Government. Miroku revealed that his Wind Tunnel was nearing the point of losing control, but Loli proposed seeking experts to improve its seal.

• Loli Mercury invited Miroku to join the Yin-Yang Bureau and advised Sango and Kohaku to consider Sea Ninja Village.
• Sango chose to remain a demon slayer if Miroku joined the Yin-Yang Bureau, while Kohaku asked whether he could become a ninja without killing people.
• Loli Mercury offered Kohaku a path to learn Chakra and ninjutsu while serving as an Exorcist Officer under Miria.
• Miroku declined to join because his Wind Tunnel was about to lose control and could endanger those around him.
• Loli Mercury suggested developing a stronger seal and offered to find ninja or mages who could help stabilize the Wind Tunnel.

Naraku absorbed the complete Jewel of Four Souls and approached, drawing swarms of yoma toward the northwest as the group prepared for his arrival. Kagome learned that yoma also lived in her modern world, while four ninjas reported Brook and Inuyasha’s visit to their superiors.

• Loli Mercury examined Miroku’s prayer beads, warned him not to use the Wind Tunnel, and said they would deal with Naraku.
• Miria sensed a powerful presence stronger than Priscilla, and Miroku realized Naraku was coming after absorbing the complete Jewel of Four Souls.
• Charlotte Linlin laughed off the threat, while Miroku hoped Inuyasha and Kagome would return from the Bone-Eater’s Well.
• Kagome arrived with Inuyasha and Brook, learned that yoma lived in the modern world, and worried about her family’s safety.
• Inuyasha and Kagome spotted swarms of yoma heading northwest and identified Naraku as their destination.
• Four ninjas found a recording Den Den Mushi near the Bone-Eater’s Well and sent their footage and Brook’s account to the General Staff of the Otherworld War Commission.

Kagome and the others set out to confront Naraku, but Charlotte Linlin insisted on facing him alone and flew toward Numazu. There, Naraku sensed her approach as Astra Militarum troops struggled through the miasma, and Linlin announced her arrival.

• Kagome and Inuyasha returned to the Shrine, where Sango and Miroku planned to keep the newly reborn Kohaku and Shippo away from the fight.
• Charlotte Linlin silenced the group, dismissed their help, and flew toward the black clouds over Numazu; Brook warned that she was an Admiral-level combatant far stronger than he was.
• Miroku and Inuyasha decided to follow Linlin in case she needed help.
• A Virgo Star Army Group platoon encountered poisonous purple fog and attacking monsters in Numazu, while communications with other units failed.
• Naraku watched the soldiers from inside his giant spider body and sensed a powerful presence approaching from the east.
• Linlin arrived over Numazu with Zeus, Prometheus, and Chione and called for Naraku to come out.

Charlotte Linlin confronted Naraku in the canyon while he mistook her for a powerful onmyoji from the Gokadoin Clan. After Loli Mercury and Giselle left for Kyoto to investigate the Yin-Yang Bureau, Linlin enlarged herself and charged at Naraku.

• Naraku recognized Prometheus, Zeus, and Chione as powerful Celestial Yokai and believed the Jewel of Four Souls made him nearly unbeatable.
• Charlotte Linlin introduced herself as BIG MOM and head of the Yin-Yang Bureau, but Naraku mistook her for Gokadoin Koketsu Koketsu.
• Loli Mercury proposed going to Kyoto with Giselle while Brook, Miroku, and Monk Yun Ya helped spread word of the World Government after Naraku's defeat.
• Giselle summoned another Bone Dragon, and Loli Mercury and Giselle rode it northwest toward Kyoto.
• Naraku attacked Charlotte Linlin with a torrent of melting spider threads, which Prometheus burned away.
• Charlotte Linlin stopped Zeus and Chione from interfering, dispelled the Shrinking Lamp's effect by releasing her Haki, and leaped at Naraku with a punch.

Charlotte Linlin overwhelmed Naraku despite the Jewel of Four Souls and his demonic powers, repeatedly smashing him as he regenerated. The Virgo Star Army Group witnessed the battle from orbit, while Naraku feared that Charlotte Linlin intended to remove the Jewel from his body.

• Charlotte Linlin battered Naraku’s giant spider form, breaking through his barriers and shrugging off his miasma, spider silk, and attacks.
• Naraku released Saimyosho insects, but Charlotte Linlin’s Conqueror’s Haki destroyed them and cleared the canyon of miasma.
• Charlotte Linlin repeatedly slammed Naraku around while his Demon Power and the Jewel of Four Souls rapidly regenerated his body.
• The Virgo Star Army Group headquarters on Mount Amagi watched the fight by satellite, and its officers concluded that Numazu needed no further investigation.
• Charlotte Linlin said she would dig the Jewel of Four Souls out of Naraku after she had finished beating him, leaving him terrified.

Kirinmaru was awakened when the World Government’s Virgo Star Army invaded Japan and overwhelmed the eastern demon army. After learning that demons and humans alike faced the invaders, he chose to fight and protect the world.

• Inuyasha admitted he wanted to defeat Naraku himself, while Kagome hoped Charlotte Linlin would soon deal with him.
• Zero awakened Kirinmaru and told him that invaders from another world had attacked Japan.
• Riku explained that the Virgo Star Army had reached Date District, where the eastern demon army was losing ground.
• Kirinmaru learned that the invaders were also attacking the western demon kingdom and eliminating demons who resisted them.
• Kirinmaru took up the Star-Exploding Sword and declared that he would protect the world.

The Four Great Calamity Beasts switched to guerrilla tactics against the Astral Legion, while a brigade commander sent bombers toward Akita Prefecture with Qiongqi’s flying demons in their path. Imu visited the Era Tree Spirit, learned that an unknown force had severed its connection to other Era Trees, and reconsidered its value.

• Chaos proposed that Qiongqi, Taotie, Taowu, and Nühuo scatter their forces and harass the Astral Legion instead of fighting in large formations.
• The heavy combined brigade commander planned to bomb the Great Eastern Demon Kingdom’s capital and sent two Blizzard bombers toward Akita Prefecture under fighter escort.
• Yuri warned the brigade that Qiongqi and over a thousand flying demons were approaching the bomber formation, so the bombers released two thousand Thunder Spear drones.
• Imu arrived at Kikyo Shrine, examined the Sacred Tree, and summoned the Era Tree Spirit.
• The Era Tree Spirit told Imu that the unknown had severed its connection to every other Era Tree except the one in 2006, limiting what it could see of the future.
• Imu concluded that the Era Tree Spirit’s powers had been restricted and that its value was lower than he had expected.

Imu learned that Era Trees could connect different points in time and space, but most of their abilities had been sealed. He brought the Era Tree Spirit and his three Shichibukai to 2006, opened a Small Star Gate to the Four Souls World, and set out to search for Takamagahara.

• Imu reasoned that Mu had taken the Era Tree Spirit to Wano Island to become a bridge between the Yin-Yang Bureau and the Enma Court.
• Imu ordered the Era Tree Spirit to send him to 2006, when Kagome was born, and to bring Karna, Falcon Dragon, and Albertrion along.
• The Era Tree Spirit sent Imu and the three Shichibukai from Kagome Shrine to Higurashi Shrine, where Imu opened a Small Star Gate.
• The Star Map notified Imu that Star Gate World No. 0014 had become an independent parallel-world spacetime.
• Imu and his companions vanished as people, demons, and monsters approached, then headed to see whether this world still had a Takamagahara.

Imu harvested the gods and spirits of the New World’s Takamagahara, then turned his attention to its possible connection with the Four Souls World. In the Four Souls World, the World Government claimed Naraku for the Yin-Yang Bureau, while Charlotte Linlin shattered the Jewel of Four Souls and unleashed its dark energy.

• Imu transformed the New World’s gods into Philosopher’s Stones, Divine Jewels, and Buddhist relics, and prepared to analyze its Takamagahara Spaces.
• Charlotte Linlin took the Jewel of Four Souls from Naraku after defeating him, leaving him helpless in her grasp.
• Inuyasha tried to kill Naraku, but Miria blocked him, and Brook explained that the Yin-Yang Bureau would take Naraku to Wano Island on Sea Star as research material.
• Miroku said he had agreed to join the Yin-Yang Bureau and proposed that he and Sango marry and live on Sea Star.
• Kagome asked Charlotte Linlin to purify the Jewel of Four Souls, but Charlotte Linlin said its true wish was to disappear and shattered it.
• Dark demonic energy erupted from the shattered Jewel of Four Souls as demons fled and chaos broke out.

Charlotte Linlin destroyed the Jewel of Four Souls, freeing Midoriko and scattering the demons it had released. Brook then recruited Miroku, Yun Ya, and Kagome for the Yin-Yang Bureau, while Inuyasha urged Kagome to travel with him to Sea Star.

• Charlotte Linlin's Conqueror's Haki scattered the demons released from the Jewel of Four Souls, and Midoriko thanked her before reuniting with Kirara and fading away.
• Kagome asked whether Charlotte Linlin had shattered the Jewel knowing Midoriko would be freed, and Charlotte said she had only granted the Jewel's wish.
• Charlotte Linlin froze Naraku and stored him in her space ring, then Brook outlined plans to recruit Buddhist monks and Shinto shrine maidens for the Yin-Yang Bureau.
• Brook asked Miroku and Yun Ya to help contact monks they knew, and he formally invited Kagome to join the bureau as a shrine maiden.
• Kagome hesitated over moving to Sea Star, but Inuyasha encouraged her to go and promised to fight their way back if they disliked it.

Suikazan Fuguki and Moonlight Shigure led shinobi in a coordinated assault on the Kyoto Imperial Palace, using giant summoned beasts to distract its defenders while a strike team attacked the Emperor’s residence. The imperial family was slaughtered, and Mingzai arrived too late to save them, managing only to deal with the abandoned giant snake.

• Suikazan Fuguki received orders to attack palace gates and draw defenders away while Moonlight Shigure's team raided Otsunegoten.
• A shinobi summoned a giant snake, and another summoned a giant rhinoceros, causing chaos across Kyoto as they attacked the palace barriers.
• Suikazan Fuguki and two teammates stormed Kenreimon Gate, killed its guards, and fought palace reinforcements while testing how the barrier affected shinobi.
• Moonlight Shigure led four shinobi through Oike Garden and attacked the onmyoji guarding Otsunegoten after confirming Go-Nara Emperor was inside.
• Eight shinobi killed Go-Nara Emperor, the Empress, and the palace's samurai and onmyoji within fifteen minutes.
• Mingzai arrived with dozens of onmyoji after the massacre and dealt with the giant snake that had not been recalled.

Imu discovered that Aoi Spiral City was the Gokadoin Clan’s headquarters and learned that Abe no Seimei was tied to the world’s supernatural history. Meanwhile, Abe no Seimei approached Yoriichi Tsugikuni in the Four Souls Underworld, and their encounter ended with Yoriichi’s attack stopped by a golden Pentagram array.

• Ninjas killed Hosokawa Harumoto and the Shogunate’s guards, plunging Kyoto into chaos as Loli Mercury and Giselle headed to search for promising talents.
• Kirinmaru attacked a bomber formation over the Great Eastern Demon Kingdom, while Greedy Wolf Star forces arrived to study the demons’ abilities.
• Imu scanned Japan, found a region in Fukuchiyama City that blocked his divine sense, and revealed Aoi Spiral City as the Gokadoin Clan’s hidden headquarters.
• Imu realized Yoriichi Tsugikuni might be in trouble and turned his attention toward the northern sky.
• After Yoriichi defeated Sesshomaru, Abe no Seimei approached his camp and asked to speak with him about the World Government.
• Yoriichi attacked Abe no Seimei, but Seimei stopped his blade and flames with a golden Pentagram array.

Abe no Seimei revealed how his mother’s repeated failures to give birth to him led him to abandon coexistence and seek power, then confronted Yoriichi Tsugikuni to learn about the World Government. Imu explored the orderly Underworld and learned that Abe no Seimei had become its Lord after losing his last chance at rebirth.

• Abe no Seimei explained that Hagoromo’s death and her repeated betrayals had ruined his plans for rebirth, driving him to embrace yoma rule over humanity.
• Abe no Seimei froze Yoriichi Tsugikuni’s army with a spiritual talisman and demanded information about the World Government, threatening extermination if it failed to satisfy his curiosity.
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni offered Abe no Seimei a Den Den Mushi to show him what the World Government could do.
• Imu named Star Gate World No.0014 the Hundred Demons World and explored its orderly Underworld with Karna, Falcon Dragon, and Albertrion.
• Imu learned that Abe no Seimei had agreed to become Lord of the Underworld after Hagoromo’s defeat by Nurarihyon and the Nura Clan ended another chance at rebirth.
• Princess Lingyue lost her position as Lord of the Underworld and lived out the rest of her natural lifespan.

Abe no Seimei saw a vision of his future defeat and confronted Imu to learn why his plans failed. Imu explained that Izanagi had opposed his attempt to make yokai rule humanity, leaving Abe no Seimei to realize that the world itself had been his opponent.

• Abe no Seimei watched a vision showing his plans to kill Rihan Nura succeeding, followed by Nura Rikuo defeating him after his rebirth.
• Abe no Seimei flew out of Heian-kyō and approached Imu, where Albertrion, Karna, and Falcon Dragon stopped him.
• Imu sent Abe no Seimei into the vision again, showing him a promotional video and additional content about his future.
• Abe no Seimei asked Imu why he lost, and Imu said Izanagi had forbidden his plan to have yokai rule humanity and darkness suppress light.
• Abe no Seimei realized that Izanagi had been thwarting his and Hagoromo Fox's ambitions for centuries.

Imu challenged Abe no Seimei’s beliefs and offered him a place in the World Government, revealing that the Four Souls World was the past of his world. Abe no Seimei demanded a fight before pledging loyalty and opened his Sky Pattern Innate Domain, turning the battlefield into a cosmos.

• Abe no Seimei argued that humans and demons could not coexist and blamed Izanagi for his failures, while Imu said humanity’s leadership was the heavenly way and cited the World Government’s rule over more than twenty races.
• Imu told Abe no Seimei that the Hundred Demons World and Four Souls World would come under the World Government, then revealed that the Four Souls World was this world four hundred years earlier.
• Abe no Seimei learned another version of himself existed in the Four Souls World and said he would join the World Government only if Imu defeated him.
• Abe no Seimei summoned his Twelve Divine Generals and used their Demon Power to strengthen his yin-yang arts Innate Domain, Sky Pattern, transforming the surroundings into a cosmos.

Imu overwhelmed Abe no Seimei in his Reality Marble by redirecting Eternal Samsara, taking control of the barrier, and shattering Seimei’s Sky Pattern. Convinced by Imu’s strength and the World Government’s opportunities, Seimei joined the Star Temple as the God of Yin and Yang and was appointed director of the Enma Court and Spirit Particle Research Institute.

• Abe no Seimei and the Twelve Divine Generals unleashed Eternal Samsara at Imu, Karna, Falcon Dragon, and Albertrion.
• Imu used spatial abilities to divert Eternal Samsara and reshape its energy into a light sword, leaving Abe no Seimei stunned.
• Imu analyzed and took control of Abe no Seimei’s Reality Marble, accelerating its planets, satellites, asteroids, and meteors around them.
• Imu shattered Abe no Seimei’s Sky Pattern with Eternal Samsara, returning everyone to the skies above Heian-kyō.
• Abe no Seimei knelt and asked to join the World Government, and Imu appointed him the Star Temple’s God of Yin and Yang, director of the Enma Court, and director of the Spirit Particle Research Institute.

Vice Admiral Vladimir and Chief of Staff Fajinhan assessed the Astral Legion’s costly campaign in the Four Souls World before learning Fleet Admiral Sengoku was arriving with only a guard platoon. Sengoku passed through the world without involving himself in the war and headed to Noah, wondering what Lord Imu had summoned him for.

• Vladimir and Fajinhan reviewed the Astral Legion’s advance and the many demon nations that had caused heavy casualties across the Four Souls World.
• Vladimir considered requesting two additional armies, and Fajinhan warned him against recruiting troops from the Food Wars World.
• Yuri announced that Fleet Admiral Sengoku would arrive through the Star Gate, and Vladimir learned he was bringing only one guard platoon.
• Vladimir and Fajinhan concluded that Sengoku’s visit was probably unrelated to their campaign and that he had not been ordered to take command.
• Sengoku arrived, briefly spoke with Vladimir, and departed aboard a naval warship bound for Noah.
• As his ship rose into the sky, Sengoku wondered whether Lord Imu had summoned him to grant him a chance to grow stronger.

Imu summoned Sengoku to the Empty Throne Hall and gave him two mythic Buddhist artifacts to help him pursue a second awakening of the Daibutsu Fruit. Sengoku left to cultivate in the Four Souls World, with Zephyr set to manage Marine Headquarters, while Imu insisted he keep his sense of justice.

• Imu summoned Sengoku and explained that Buddhist fruition ranks and another prepared resource might help him reach the Daibutsu Fruit’s second awakening.
• Izanagi told Imu that Sengoku could not receive a fruition rank unless he met the spiritual requirements, which he had not.
• Imu presented Sengoku with the Lotus Lantern and the Pure World Auspicious Cloud, artifacts that aided Buddhist meditation and offered healing and other powers.
• Imu ordered Sengoku to cultivate in the Four Souls World until he obtained a fruition rank and appointed Zephyr to manage Marine Headquarters.
• Imu warned Sengoku not to abandon his justice, and Sengoku agreed.

Sengoku left Noah to seek enlightenment among the people of the Four Souls World, while Charlotte Linlin gathered monks and shrine maidens at Kikyo Shrine to learn about souls and spiritual power. After discovering that she could change Prometheus between a righteous Naohi and an evil Kyūrei, Linlin agreed to begin studying spiritual power.

• Sengoku disguised himself as an unnamed old monk and set out to cultivate and understand Buddha among the common people.
• Astra Militarum helicopters escorted monks and shrine maidens to Kikyo Shrine, where Charlotte Linlin welcomed them and threw out people she recognized as frauds.
• Mushin, Yun Ya, Kaede, and Miroku explained the four souls and the difference between Naohi and Kyūrei to Charlotte Linlin.
• Charlotte Linlin put Prometheus into battle mode, revealing that she could change its soul from a righteous Naohi into an evil Kyūrei.
• Yun Ya and Miroku suggested Linlin use her power to purify corrupted souls, and Mushin offered to teach her spells and spiritual power.
• Charlotte Linlin accepted the offer, hoping spiritual power would help her grow stronger and develop her Soul-Soul Fruit ability.