Chapter Summaries

Roswaal learned that Echidna had survived for four hundred years without his help, while Roy used repeated Death Returns to reach the moment when Subaru faced Reinhard. Subaru reached a dead end, and Roy arrived with Emilia as Subaru’s crimes and motives were revealed.

• Roswaal reunited with Echidna, who dismissed him as boring, and learned she had been rebuilding her body for four hundred years.
• Echidna destroyed the Dragon Stone, then Roy ended the 571st loop and reclaimed Death Return and the Witch Factor.
• Subaru confronted Reinhard amid the burning palace, taunted him over his failures, and tried to break his spirit after realizing he could not defeat him.
• Elsa and Meili prepared to continue their mission against Reinhard until Roy arrived with Emilia and told them their mission was complete.
• Subaru warned Emilia that Roy planned to revive the Witch of Envy, but Elsa refused to attack Roy and revealed her loyalty to him.
• Roy explained that he had watched Subaru because of Death Return, then told Emilia about Subaru’s crimes and asked her to infer his true goal.

Roy reclaimed Satella and the Witch Factors from Subaru, completed his Sinless Body, and challenged Reinhard after condemning his reliance on blessings. When Reinhard drew the Dragon Sword, Roy’s Divine Right overwhelmed him and nullified the power of the sword and the World's Blessing.

• Roy revealed to Emilia that Satella was her mother and explained that Pandora had falsified the history of Satella devouring the world.
• Roy took Satella and Death Return from Subaru, then gathered all seven Witch Factors and returned them to the Great Sin Witches.
• Roy completed his Sinless Body and told Reinhard that he stood for victory rather than justice or evil.
• Roy challenged Reinhard and manifested his Divine Right, causing Reinhard severe pain as he tried to comprehend it.
• Reinhard drew the Dragon Sword and summoned the power of Volcanica, but Roy’s Divine Right suppressed the storm and made Reinhard’s blessings seem powerless.

Roy stripped Reinhard of his Blessings and destroyed Dragon Sword Reid, then activated a world-spanning ritual to separate the distorted phases and restore the world. After defeating Hector and capturing Pandora, Roy revealed that the Fantasy Tree was tied to a Lostbelt and hinted that its planting four hundred years earlier could let him undo Pandora’s falsified history.

• Roy used the Light of the Right to erase Reinhard’s Blessings and shatter Dragon Sword Reid, leaving the Sword Saint defeated and powerless.
• Roy told Reinhard that Felt was alive, then announced that he would correct the history Pandora had falsified.
• Roy activated the ritual field built across Lugnica’s churches and began separating the worlds’ phases and restoring Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind.
• Roy used the Divine Right to destroy Hector and seize Pandora in the Elior Forest.
• Pandora claimed that her distortion’s consequences and the world’s hatred of Satella would remain, but Roy suggested that the Fantasy Tree could let him change the falsified history.
• Roy explained that the Fantasy Tree sustained a Lostbelt and reminded Pandora that he had planted it four hundred years earlier.

Roy severed the Fantasy Tree and erased the false history, then imprisoned Pandora in his Mindscape World with the Great Sin Witches. True history returned, Emilia became Lugnica’s new king, and Roy visited the imprisoned Subaru Natsuki.

• Roy destroyed the Fantasy Tree with Fantasy Severance, causing the false world to vanish into a blank expanse.
• Roy hypnotized Pandora and drew her into his Mindscape World, where the Great Sin Witches decided to punish her.
• True history replaced the false history, depicting Pandora’s defeat and the Witches’ sacrifice four hundred years earlier.
• Crusch Karsten and Priscilla Valiere discussed the changed history, and Priscilla decided to seek the Witch Cult’s Archbishop of Pride position.
• Roy crowned Emilia queen of Lugnica, while the nation began to be called Crowley.
• Roy visited Subaru Natsuki in the capital’s dungeon, where Subaru remained imprisoned and dispirited.

Roy sent Subaru Natsuki back to his own world and left Emilia as queen before departing on an expedition. Back in his modern home, Roy learned that Athena had traveled to another world and fought in a Holy War, though she had not yet explained whether the experience changed her.

• Roy gave Subaru Natsuki a scroll that opened a passage home, and Subaru vanished from the prison.
• Roy said goodbye to Queen Emilia, entrusted her care to Ram and Rem, and promised to return from his expedition.
• Emilia gave Roy a farewell kiss before he left the Re:Zero world.
• Roy returned to his modern home after more than four hundred years in the Re:Zero world, where only over forty days had passed.
• Aiwass appeared, and Roy recognized her newly formed face as Rose, Aleister's wife.
• Athena returned wearing golden armor and told Roy she had unified many versions of herself before replacing Athena in the Saint Seiya world and fighting in its Holy War.

Roy reunited with Athena, then returned to the Moon World to refine his flawed Mercury Formula and gather knowledge about the Third Magic. In 1902, he appeared as the Orthodox Patriarch to baptize Grand Duchess Anastasia, leaving the Tsar and his court in awe of his sacred presence.

• Roy and Athena discussed her mission to become the only Athena, and she rested with him for seven days in the Real World.
• Athena returned to her war, while Roy decided to visit the Moon World because it offered useful unknowns and time to perfect his Mercury Formula.
• Roy entered the Moon World and arrived at the Peter the Great Summer Palace on June 18, 1902, for Grand Duchess Anastasia's baptism.
• Nicholas II and his family prepared to welcome the Orthodox Patriarch as nobles gathered for the ceremony.
• Roy Crowley arrived as Patriarch, and his holy presence moved the gathered nobles and earned Nicholas II's deep respect.

Roy became the godfather of Anastasia Nikolayevna Romanova and baptized her before the Russian court, revealing his supernatural presence as the Earthly Angel. Years later, Kirei served as Roy’s attendant and brought him books on world history as Roy continued searching for Consort Yu.

• Nicholas II asked Roy to become the godfather of his youngest daughter, Anastasia, and Roy accepted.
• Roy baptized Anastasia in the Summer Palace as the Tsar, Empress, and guests witnessed his angelic manifestation.
• In 1907, Kirei returned to Peter and Paul Cathedral with books for Roy and passed the Church’s security inspection.
• Kirei delivered the books to Roy, who explained that his search for Consort Yu in Cathay had so far yielded nothing.

Roy investigated reports of ghouls in Saint Petersburg, then visited Nicholas II at the Summer Palace, where he reunited with his mischievous goddaughter Anastasia. Nicholas II dismissed his family to discuss serious business with Roy and asked whether he knew Father Gaypan.

• Roy ordered Kirei to increase the search for the hidden Dead Apostle behind the ghouls and discussed the danger of disorder and war.
• Roy and Kirei traveled to the Summer Palace, where Roy caught Anastasia after she leaped from a tree.
• Roy greeted Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra, Anastasia, and Prince Alexei in the palace reception room.
• Nicholas II explained that he stayed at the Summer Palace to protect Alexei, who had hemophilia like his mother.
• After his family left the room, Nicholas II asked Roy whether he knew Father Gaypan.

Roy spoke with Nicholas II about unrest in Russia and the Clock Tower, then found Anastasia and spent the evening with her. He left her tucked into bed, where she asked for a story and Roy began telling her about Lolita.

• Roy told Nicholas II that Father Gaypan’s demonstration had no connection to the Church, and Nicholas II described plans to appease the protesters without truly giving up power.
• Nicholas II warned Roy that the Clock Tower was unsettled over Bartholomew of the Department of Law and Order, and Roy promised to keep its people from disturbing ordinary residents.
• Roy declined dinner with the imperial family and went to find Anastasia, who had wandered off to the rear garden.
• Roy coaxed Anastasia into joining him for dinner, and Kirei made her ramen at Roy’s request.
• Roy put Anastasia to bed, agreed to have Kirei make ramen for her again, and began telling her his story called Lolita.

Roy decided to take control of the Holy Church and learned that the Church, the Dead Apostle Ancestors, and the Mage's Association were converging on the Russian Empire over a rumored Age of Gods relic. As the chapter ended, Roy watched over a tense Saint Petersburg while the conflict approached.

• Roy resolved to make himself the Holy Church's leader after realizing that his position as Orthodox Patriarch left him outside its secret affairs.
• Kirei introduced Roy to Narubarek, the head of the Burial Agency, who urged him to leave the Russian Empire for his safety.
• Narubarek revealed that rumors of a Sventovit relic had drawn the Dead Apostle Ancestors, the Mage's Association, and the Holy Church to Russia.
• Roy rejected Narubarek's warning and said he would not abandon the Russian Empire's believers.
• After Narubarek left, Roy considered the gathering factions and looked out over Saint Petersburg as the coming conflict loomed.

Roy investigated vampire activity in Saint Petersburg, where he met the magus Inorai Balueretta Atolohom. After identifying her as the daughter of the Creation Department’s Lord, he used his Magic Eyes to turn her magecraft into salt and immobilize her.

• A revolutionary told Roy about his failed movement and received a route to leave Russia in exchange for his handwritten manuscript.
• Roy reflected on Tsarist Russia’s unrest and set out to investigate the ghouls and Dead Apostles troubling Saint Petersburg.
• Roy bought a sand painting from Inorai, recognizing her as a magus.
• Inorai walked the streets at night and encountered Roy, whom she suspected was a Church Executor.
• Inorai revealed that she was the daughter of the Lord of the Creation Department, and Roy identified her as the future teacher of Touko Aozaki.
• Roy swiftly reached Inorai and used his Magic Eyes to turn her protective sand into salt and begin transforming her body.

Roy confronted the Serpent of Akasha, revealed as Mitchell Roa Baldermay, while protecting Inorai in Saint Petersburg. Roa attacked Roy and Inorai after boasting that her current body let her regain strength without mass bloodshed.

• Roy restrained Inorai with his Salt Magic Eyes, then restored her body and questioned her about the Izuluma family's search for the Root through beauty.
• Roy led Inorai through empty Saint Petersburg streets and explained that Executors were keeping the ghouls off the roads.
• Roy revealed Mitchell Roa Baldermay, the Serpent of Akasha, in a dark alley, and Inorai recognized her as an unaffiliated Ancestor of the Dead Apostles.
• Inorai proposed using her Sand Magecraft and Magecraft Artifact to help them escape or defeat Roa, while Roy disclosed that he was the Orthodox Patriarch.
• Roy deduced that Roa had once been an Executor and learned her reincarnated body could restore her strength without consuming large quantities of blood.
• Roa charged at Roy and Inorai, intent on turning them into Dead Apostles.

Roy defeated Roa with powers that recreated miracles from the Age of Gods, then spared him to draw the True Ancestor’s princess out of Millennium Castle. He brought Inorai to the church as a prisoner, while the princess awakened and approached the Executors; the next morning, Roy found Inorai looking exhausted.

• Roy split Roa apart with a sea-parting miracle and used the sins of Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony against him.
• Roy offered Roa a chance to live in exchange for information about the Narubarek family and a promise not to harm innocent people.
• Roy told Inorai he had spared Roa to lure out the True Ancestor’s princess, then declared Inorai his prisoner and took her to the church.
• Executors sent by Roy watched Millennium Castle, and the True Ancestor’s princess awakened, left the castle, and approached them.
• The next morning, Roy completed his prayers and found Inorai in the corridor with dark circles under her eyes.

Roy met the Clock Tower magus Inorai and revealed his control over True Aether before encountering Alteria Brunestud, the Ninth Ancestor of the Dead Apostles. After branding Alteria’s forehead with a cross, Roy transported her to a strange domain as her subordinates arrived.

• Roy invited Inorai to breakfast, and she asked whether his offer concerning bloodlines still stood.
• Roy and Inorai found a beautiful girl praying in the church, and Roy introduced himself as the Orthodox Patriarch.
• The girl identified herself as Alteria Brunestud, and Roy touched her forehead with holy water, branding her with a cross.
• Inorai recognized Alteria as Crimson of the Ancients, while Alteria realized Roy had trapped her and weighed her escape options.
• Roy sensed Alteria’s subordinates approaching and shifted her from the cathedral into a strange domain that she recognized as an impossible law of another world.

Alteria was trapped by Roy in the Golden Supreme Heaven, where he used her memories and the ruined Millennium Castle to humiliate and pressure her. As Arcueid entered Peter and Paul Church, she was transported into the same strange world.

• The Black and White Knights found Alteria missing from her hotel room and set out with Fou to search for her.
• The knights saw Arcueid approaching Peter and Paul Church with several Executors, then abandoned their search there and left the city.
• Roy sensed Arcueid's arrival while Alteria seethed in the ruined Millennium Castle he had recreated within the Golden Supreme Heaven.
• Roy explained that the Golden Supreme Heaven was a parallel world and revealed a vision of biblical heaven to the trapped Alteria.
• Arcueid entered Peter and Paul Church and suddenly found herself in a strange place after the church and the accompanying Executors vanished.

Arcueid and Alteria fought inside Roy’s Golden Supreme Heaven until Alteria surrendered and both princesses were captured. In the church’s prayer room, Arcueid remained content in captivity and insisted that Alteria keep their promise, leaving the Black Princess frustrated and resigned.

• Alteria recognized Arcueid as her foolish younger sister and proposed they work together to escape Roy’s otherworld.
• Roy tempted Arcueid with information about Roa, and she turned against Alteria to capture her.
• Arcueid and Alteria fought until Alteria surrendered and demanded that Roy capture Arcueid too.
• Roy accepted both princesses’ requests, and Arcueid willingly bound herself and Alteria with the Millennium Lock.
• In the prayer room, Alteria tried to persuade Arcueid to escape, but Arcueid refused because they had promised to stay and behave.

Roy fed the chained princesses and used his blood to tempt Alteria into eating, while Arcueid’s easygoing presence kept disrupting her composure. Alteria pleaded for more of Roy’s blood, and he offered to give her some daily if she obeyed him.

• Roy brought a Russian breakfast to Alteria and Arcueid, who were chained together in the prayer room.
• Arcueid enjoyed the food and chatted happily with Roy, while Alteria scolded her and argued with Roy.
• Roy mocked Alteria by comparing her hot temper to his wife’s, and Alteria reacted angrily.
• Roy dripped his blood into Alteria’s porridge, and she ate it despite insisting she would not be tempted.
• After finishing the meal, Alteria begged Roy to let her drink more of his blood, and Roy said he would give her some if she obeyed him.

Roy made Alteria and Arcueid serve as nuns at his church, then questioned Alteria about the Dead Apostles’ response to an Age of Gods relic in Tsarist Russia. Alteria revealed that Ortensia had drawn the Dead Apostle Ancestors and the Mage’s Association into a conflict, leaving Roy aware of the scale of the conspiracy.

• Roy persuaded Alteria to wear a nun’s habit and gave her the alias X’s Misty Branch.
• Arcueid eagerly put on her nun’s habit, while Alteria changed after Roy teased her.
• Roy stopped Alteria from leaving and helped her put on boots before asking about the Dead Apostles.
• Alteria said she and Ortensia were enemies and reported that more than ten Dead Apostle Ancestors had gathered in Tsarist Russia.
• Alteria explained that Ortensia had provoked her, that the Bartholomew family and Mage’s Association were also involved, and that an Age of Gods relic must truly exist.

Roy concluded that the Counter Force was obstructing his senses because his Peak of Humanity power threatened the planet, while Aiwass amused herself by letting the clergy see her. Inorai left Peter and Paul Cathedral and warned her father about Roy, as the Clock Tower’s Lords argued over their factional split and prepared to investigate an Age of Gods Relic in Tsarist Russia.

• Roy told Aiwass that the Counter Force had blocked his Clairvoyance and severed his ability to sense the Imperial Concubine, likely because he had reached the Peak of Humanity.
• Roy noticed the clergy acting fanatically after seeing Aiwass and teased her for being mischievous.
• Inorai left Peter and Paul Cathedral, then decided to contact her father and warn him that Roy was no empty figurehead.
• Lord Vordem and Lord Trambelio defended bringing talented common-born magi into their factions, while Bartholomew accused them of splitting the Clock Tower.
• Lord Ulysses urged Bartholomew to focus on the Age of Gods Relic in Tsarist Russia, and Lord Vordem summoned Inorai to Moscow.
• Lord Vordem reported Inorai’s warning about Roy, prompting the Clock Tower’s Lords to unite their attention against the Orthodox Patriarch called the Earthly Angel.

The Clock Tower learned of the Orthodox Patriarch’s seemingly divine power, while Roy used the information to stir the Dead Apostles into action. At Peter and Paul Church, Alteria struggled with her humiliating volunteer work until Roy offered her a way to confront Altrouge Nacht without losing her strength.

• The Clock Tower’s Lords discussed reports that the Orthodox Patriarch wielded True Aether and Michael’s authority, then Lord Bartholomew ordered the news spread to provoke the Dead Apostles.
• Roy explained that he had let Inorai return to the Clock Tower so its response could help him observe the Dead Apostles and the Counter Force.
• Alteria served relief meals and cleaned the church, concealed her identity by calling herself Kagari no Kiri, and resented how naturally she had taken to church work.
• Roy told Alteria that the Mage’s Association had leaked her presence to the Dead Apostles, and she realized he was using their likely response to break the stalemate.
• Alteria revealed that Altrouge Nacht pursued her for Ortensia and that the Dead Apostles were divided between her and Ortensia.
• Roy offered Alteria his blood to protect her from Altrouge Nacht’s weakening ability, and she accepted the offer and asked where to find him.