Chapter Summaries

White Night Yaksha arranged for the others to cover her while she dealt with the Demon King, and Su Yang offered to fight it as well. At the exhibition, Hisada Asuka admired the communities’ artworks and discovered that the tiny fairy’s community, Rat Catcher, had made a giant red robot named Dean, just as every lantern went out.

• White Night Yaksha asked the group to provide cover while she confronted the Demon King, and Su Yang said he would help if needed.
• Hisada Asuka toured the exhibition hall with the tiny golden fairy and admired artworks made by Northern District communities.
• Asuka resolved to reclaim her community’s flag from the Demon King and grow stronger as an organizer.
• Asuka found a giant red robot named Dean and learned from the fairy that Rat Catcher had made it.
• A sudden gust of air extinguished every lantern in the tunnel.

Asuka fought a swarm of rats in a tunnel after her Gift failed to control them, then Leticia rescued her and the little spirit. Afterward, Asuka recovered from her wounds in the hot spring behind White Night Yaksha's shop.

• Asuka tried to command the rats with her Gift, but it had no effect, so she cut them down and fled with the little spirit.
• Asuka realized the rats were targeting the little spirit and tucked it safely into her clothing.
• Leticia transformed into her older form, destroyed the pursuing rats, and challenged their hidden caster to reveal themself.
• Leticia returned to her loli form as she and Asuka left the tunnel for the exhibition grounds.
• Asuka soaked in the hot spring, where her wounds healed completely within minutes.

Hisada Asuka worried that her Gift was limited but resolved to train rather than manipulate her companions. After Black Rabbit and the others checked on her at the hot spring and explained the impending Demon King attack, Asuka left to rejoin Su Yang and Jin Russell.

• Hisada Asuka questioned why her Gift failed against rats and decided to strengthen her psychic powers without changing her Gift into one that controlled others.
• Black Rabbit rushed to check on Asuka, but White Night Yaksha tackled her into the hot spring before she could reach her.
• Black Rabbit asked whether Asuka had been injured, and Asuka reassured her that she had recovered in the spring.
• White Night Yaksha openly admired Asuka's figure, prompting Asuka to punch her on the head as Lily, the younger Leticia, and Kasukabe Yō joined them.
• Kasukabe Yō explained the impending Demon King's attack while the girls soaked in the spring, and Asuka later got dressed and left.
• Su Yang and Jin Russell waited for the girls, and Su Yang smiled as he watched them return from bathing.

White Night Yaksha told Black Rabbit about her role as referee for the next day’s Gifted Competition and revealed the finalist communities. The chapter left No Name considering Rat Catcher’s connection to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.

• Su Yang teased Kasukabe Yō, Asuka, and Black Rabbit while Leticia relaxed as Lily scrubbed her back.
• White Night Yaksha told Black Rabbit she would referee and host the Gifted Competition, and Black Rabbit accepted in exchange for compensation.
• White Night Yaksha proposed a revealing referee uniform, but Black Rabbit refused.
• Kasukabe Yō asked about her opponent, and White Night Yaksha named Salamandra, No Name, Rat Catcher, and Ghost Fire as the finalists.
• Su Yang asked whether Rat Catcher referred to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and Russell explained the figure’s connection to the fairy tale and to controlling rats.
• Asuka recalled the rats they had encountered in the cave.

Asuka worried that the sprite sleeping beside her might be connected to the Rat Catcher and the enemies behind the rat swarm, but resolved to protect it unless it proved guilty. The next day, the Gifted Competition finals began while Asuka continued trying to understand the sprite.

• Asuka recalled the rat swarm and worried that the sprite had been targeted by the enemy controlling it.
• White Night Yaksha considered the possibility that remnants of the Fantasy Grimoire Group were involved and arranged to have someone keep watch.
• Asuka decided she would protect the sprite unless it had done something wrong, and began thinking through how to handle the unknown enemies.
• Black Rabbit opened the finals of the Fire Dragon Birth Festival's Asian Gifted Competition, the 'Duel of the Creators.'
• Asuka accepted a cookie from the sprite and reassured herself that it could not be a Demon King's subordinate.
• Someone finished explaining what they knew about Ghost Fire and hoped the information would help.

Kasukabe Yō entered the Gifted Competition to gain experience and faced Aisha Ignis of Ghost Fire. After White Night Yaksha transported them to Underwood’s Labyrinth, the contest began with both competitors still sizing each other up.

• Kasukabe Yō declined to bring a partner because she did not want her cat to be hurt, then headed to the arena.
• Black Rabbit introduced Kasukabe Yō and Aisha Ignis as the contestants, and Aisha’s Jack the Lantern Carrier knocked Kasukabe Yō down with its rushing air current.
• White Night Yaksha transported the contestants to the competition grounds, and Black Rabbit explained that the first to escape Underwood’s Labyrinth would win.
• After the competition began, Aisha told Kasukabe Yō to make the first move, but neither contestant attacked.

Kasukabe Yō tried to escape Aisha and Jack through the Root Maze, using Russell's information to evade Ghost Fire's flames. Jack revealed his true speed and struck Yō hard, leaving her down on the ground as Aisha urged him to leave.

• Kasukabe Yō tricked Aisha into revealing she was not Ghost Fire's leader, then ran into the Root Maze.
• Aisha rode Jack after Yō and attacked her with blue-white flames as she fled toward the maze's exit.
• Kasukabe Yō used airflow to scatter the flames and continued running, believing the damage would not be fatal.
• Aisha realized Yō likely knew where the exit was and ordered Jack to get serious.
• Jack suddenly accelerated, appeared in front of Yō, and shield-bashed her into the tree roots before she fell to the ground.
• Pumpkin Head Jack judged that his attack had worked, and Aisha told him to leave first.

Kasukabe Yō surrendered against Aisha Ignis after judging she could not win, giving Aisha the match. Jack’s advice and the reactions of Yō’s companions left her reflecting on relying on others as the group looked ahead to what she might gain from the loss.

• Aisha Ignis retreated while Jack the Lantern Carrier unleashed stronger crimson flames and challenged Kasukabe Yō.
• Jack explained Aisha’s origins and tried to distract Yō, who considered her options before surrendering.
• Black Rabbit declared Aisha the winner, and the arena barrier shattered as the fighters returned to the field.
• Aisha angrily told Yō she would defeat her easily next time, while Jack advised Yō that she could rely on her Community.
• Kasukabe Yō apologized to Black Rabbit, Russell, and Leticia, and White Night Yaksha remarked that Yō seemed to have gained something despite losing.
• Sandora and Hisada Asuka praised the match and recognized the potential in Kasukabe Yō’s Gift.

Black contracts fell across the arena and revealed that White Night Yaksha had been designated the main participant in a massacre game. As spectators panicked and fled, the Demon Lord Girl ordered her subordinates to begin the competition.

• Su Yang picked up a black contract and read its rules, which named White Night Yaksha as the main participant and set the victory conditions for the host and participants.
• The spectators realized the contracts had initiated a massacre that covered every community and the people caught among them.
• Spectators spotted an enormous White Giant atop the city wall, and panic drove the crowd toward the exits.
• The Demon Lord Girl appeared on the northern city wall and declared that the competition would begin.
• The Demon Lord Girl's subordinates accepted her order and began to act.

A Demon King’s Gifted Competition trapped White Night Yaksha and scattered the others, while Su Yang pretended to be hurt before confronting the invaders. He overwhelmed Wixie but held back, and the chapter ended as Wixie recovered and drew his weapon.

• A black whirlwind barrier enclosed White Night Yaksha and blasted Sandora and the others away.
• Su Yang followed White Night Yaksha’s advice and pretended the whirlwind had hurt him.
• Kasukabe Yō spotted eight glowing figures descending from the high wall, and Su Yang left Russell to handle the city’s unrest and White Night Yaksha.
• Su Yang intercepted Wixie with a kick that drove him deep into the wall, while Lating watched in concern.
• Wixie burst from the wall, drew his weapon, and faced Su Yang, who wondered whether he was finally getting serious.

Su Yang confronted Wixie and identified the demons behind the Hamelin legend while Lating continued her mission. Elsewhere, Leticia fought Pest and the White Giant Shulutrom, but her spear attack could not harm Pest.

• Lating left Wixie to carry out their master's orders while Su Yang evaded Wixie's shadow attacks and explained that he had let her go because she was too weak to interest him.
• Su Yang identified Wixie and Lating as demons from the fabricated Pied Piper of Hamelin legend and inferred that their mission was to expose the truth behind the Hamelin Incident.
• Su Yang attacked Wixie with Noble Phantasms as Wixie prepared to fight him at close range.
• Shulutrom unleashed high-pressure air currents against Leticia, and Pest dismissed Leticia as weak before ordering the giant to kill her.
• Leticia transformed into her stronger adult form and charged Pest with an energy spear, but the attack passed through her without causing harm.

Pest confronted Sandora after destroying Shulutrom, while Black Rabbit tried to keep the crowds calm during the demon lord’s challenge. An unseen flute melody drove some passersby into a violent frenzy, leaving the streets in chaos.

• Pest destroyed Shulutrom with a crimson beam, and Leticia fell as Pest turned to face Sandora.
• Sandora confronted Pest, identifying her as Hameln’s demon lord and preparing to hold her back as a Floor Master.
• Black Rabbit tried to calm the arena crowd while Mandela and Lily evacuated people from the streets.
• An unseen flutist played a melody that made some passersby turn red-eyed and attack those around them.

As Pest’s Demon King attack unleashed chaos, Aisha and Jack helped survivors while Hisada Asuka and the others confronted Lating near the trapped White Night Yaksha. Lating sent Lizardmen against them and began playing her flute, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Aisha knocked down the fire-breathing Dragon Person without killing him, while Jack checked on Lily and the rescued little girl.
• The city’s panicked crowds caused deaths and separations as Pest’s arrival brought destruction to the streets.
• Hisada Asuka and the others found White Night Yaksha trapped in a painful black barrier and unable to use spatial powers or join the battle.
• White Night Yaksha warned them that the competition’s rules might hide details, the Demon King might belong to a new Community, and her sealing had a specific method, but Lating interrupted her.
• Lating admitted she had interfered with Salamandra and sent Lizardmen soldiers charging at Kasukabe Yō and the others.
• Kasukabe Yō blasted the Lizardmen into the air with a powerful current of wind, and Lating raised her flute and began to play.

Black Rabbit suspended the Gifted Competition [The Pied Piper of Hamelin] and gathered the organizers and participants for negotiations. Su Yang’s group and Demon King Pest’s group assembled at the conference table as deliberations began.

• Lating used her flute to weaken Kasukabe Yō, and Hisada Asuka sent Russell to carry her to Black Rabbit.
• Hisada Asuka stopped the controlled Lizardmen with her Gift, but Lating knocked her down and prepared to overpower her.
• Su Yang dismissed Wixie as a weak opponent, then noticed golden lightning flare from a nearby tower.
• Black Rabbit invoked Judgment Authority and temporarily suspended the competition, causing the fighting to stop.
• Su Yang encouraged Russell before Black Rabbit opened negotiations between the organizers and participants.

Black Rabbit confirmed that the Gifted Competition had no incompleteness, and Pes set its resumption for one month later. Pes then revealed that she had infected participants with the Black Death and demanded that everyone, including White Night Yaksha, join Hameln in exchange for their lives.

• Sandora asked Black Rabbit to judge whether the competition was incomplete, and Black Rabbit ruled that the rules and White Night Yaksha’s seal were legitimate.
• Pes asked when the competition could resume, and Black Rabbit said it could be postponed for up to one month.
• Pes agreed to resume the competition one month later, but Russell identified her as the Black Death and warned that she had infected participants.
• Pes demanded that everyone present and White Night Yaksha join Hameln, while Lating asked to include the girl she had captured.
• Russell reasoned that Pes wanted to recruit them because Hameln was newly established, then began seeking a way to prevent the infected participants from dying.

Pes negotiated with Su Yang and Russell over delaying the Gifted Competition, ultimately agreeing to a one-week restart and a twenty-four-hour limit. Meanwhile, Hisada Asuka woke in a cavern and encountered the spirits of Hameln, who promised to reveal the truth and give her their final Gift.

• Pes rejected Su Yang's offers to restart the competition in three or five days, insisting on a longer delay.
• Mandela proposed executing anyone who showed symptoms of Black Death, even Sandora or himself.
• Russell offered a one-week delay and a twenty-four-hour competition limit, with the organizer winning if no victor emerged; Pes accepted and vowed to make Russell her toy.
• Hisada Asuka woke in a cavern after Lating's attack and saw a huge crimson Steel Giant surrounded by golden lights.
• The spirits identified themselves as 130 people sacrificed in Hameln and promised to explain what happened on June 16, 1284, before giving Asuka their final Gift.

Hisada Asuka accepted the Gifted Competition challenge to tame the Steel Giant Dean, while Pes and her companions watched their virus spread among the infected. Asuka remained missing, and Lating reaffirmed her loyalty to Pes.

• Hisada Asuka read the competition contract and asked how she could use her Gift to tame Dean.
• The golden motes promised victory if Asuka tamed Dean, and she accepted the challenge as a member of No Name.
• Four days after their meeting, Pes, Lating, and Wixie observed infected patients whose strength had rapidly declined.
• Lating lamented that Hisada Asuka was still missing, while Pes remained confident their plan was proceeding smoothly.
• Lating hugged Pes and pledged to remain loyal to her until the end.

Kasukabe Yō recovered enough to discuss the Gift Game with Su Yang, who explained how the Hamelin Inscription’s clues pointed to the stained glass as the Forged Heritage. As the appointed time arrived, Pes’s controlled citizens gathered for the confrontation, and Russell led them forward.

• Kasukabe Yō awoke from her feverish sleep and asked Su Yang why he had come to see her.
• Su Yang told Kasukabe Yō that the deaths recorded on the Hamelin Inscription were the intersection point of the parallel timelines and identified the Black Death as the false clue.
• Su Yang reasoned that the Hamelin Stained Glass was the Forged Heritage that had to be destroyed to reveal the true heritage.
• Kasukabe Yō asked about White Night Yaksha, and Su Yang explained how she had lowered her Divinity to seal her original Star Spirit power.
• At sunset, citizens carrying tools emerged under Pes’s control, and Russell led them toward the confrontation.

Pes activated Hameln's Grimoire after the crowd solved her riddle, transforming the area into a dark version of Hameln Town. As others searched for the church, Wixie confronted Su Yang and discovered that his enhanced strength still could not overcome him.

• The crowd found and smashed the stained-glass windows depicting the Pied Piper, while Pes, Lating, and Wixie watched from above.
• Pes revealed that Wixie had received a Godhead and activated Hameln's Grimoire, filling the sky with black smoke and replacing the houses with ancient buildings.
• Russell guessed that Hameln Town had been summoned and told the crowd to find its church, while Mandela urged them to search.
• Su Yang watched the transformation from a rooftop and welcomed the chance to relax until Wixie rushed over to challenge him.
• Wixie's attack was stopped by a small stream of water controlled by Su Yang, who casually encouraged him as water gathered around them.
• Wixie questioned why his Godhead and doubled power in his home territory had not allowed him to defeat Su Yang.

Su Yang and the others fought Pest’s forces while Russell led civilians in searching for the stained glass needed to win the Gifted Competition. Lating’s ambush forced Russell’s group to retreat, leaving Leticia to defend them as White Giants appeared in pursuit.

• Wixie attacked Su Yang with everything he had, but his blows had no effect.
• Black Rabbit and Sandora attacked Pest together, but Pest blocked them with a black shield and sent black mist at them.
• Russell’s group found a stained-glass panel without a mouse and continued searching for the real one while Su Yang and the others kept Pest occupied.
• Lating appeared with controlled Lizardmen Pawns and White Giants, forcing Russell and the others to flee while Leticia stayed behind to block the dragons’ breath.
• Russell realized his group lacked the combat power to face unexpected threats as more White Giants appeared behind them.
• The chapter described Shuotelom’s ability to control storms and devastate humans with high-pressure winds.