Chapter Summaries

After Chaldea survived Primate Murder’s attack, Roy visited Roman in the control room and explained why he was pursuing the path to become The One God. He left Roman with the burden of continuing his work, while promising to help resolve Humanity Annihilation.

• Ritsuka resolved to use her innate ability in future battles to protect Mashu and Chaldea, while Sajyou Ayaka lamented that she could not fight without a Heroic Spirit.
• Merlin survived Primate Murder’s attack, admitted his magecraft could not restrain its complete form, and promised to remain with Chaldea.
• Young Da Vinci ordered everyone to rest and recover before undertaking anything else.
• Roman monitored the Spiritron Radar alone at night when Roy appeared and shared cake and coffee with him.
• Roy told Roman he intended to become The One God even if everyone had to be sacrificed, and argued that this path was the world’s only salvation.
• Roy said Humanity Annihilation was a hidden danger Roman had left behind and promised to help resolve it.

Chaldea celebrated conquering the Russian Otherworld and learned that the Norse Otherworld, a British Otherworld and Singularity, and a Sumerian-era Singularity remained ahead, with a mysterious point around AD 33 beyond them. When Roman proposed the Norse Otherworld as their next destination, the Masters’ fear of what happened in the Greek Otherworld made them resist, and he tried to persuade them to proceed.

• Merlin entered Roman’s room and found him alone with cake and coffee after Roy had vanished.
• Roy chased the transformed Primate Murder through the Golden Supreme Heaven, dismissing her attempts to scare him away.
• Roman congratulated Chaldea’s Masters on conquering the Russian Otherworld and presented predictions for three remaining challenges and a hidden event around AD 33.
• Roman said Chaldea should head to the Norse Otherworld next to rescue its staff, but Masters who had visited the Greek Otherworld reacted with alarm.
• Kirschtaria cautiously asked Roman to reconsider, while Roman claimed he understood their experience and began explaining why they should go.
• Tohsaka Rin demanded that Roman get to the point, and Luviya mocked her lack of elegance, prompting Rin to retort.

Skadi reflected on how Odin had transformed the Norse Lostbelt and restored its nine realms, then approached Odin with a suggestion about expanding the Aesir’s power. Odin responded irritably, leaving Skadi wary of the goddess’s mood.

• Skadi recalled how Odin had slain Surtur, restored the World Tree, and ended the giants’ threat to humanity.
• Skadi visited Valhalla and asked Ortlinde, Hildr, and Thrud whether Odin was in the palace.
• Skadi entered the palace, fearful of Odin’s immense power, and asked what had angered her.
• Skadi suggested that Odin could occupy the entire world and spread the Aesir’s glory through the nine realms.
• Odin asked Skadi whether she was teaching her how to act.

Othinus’s Will of the Demon God changed Skadi’s memories so she believed Roy was Frigga, her queen. After Skadi urged them to help restore the Aesir by having children, Othinus sent her away, and Roy reaffirmed his bond with Othinus.

• Othinus introduced Roy to Skadi as Frigga, and her Will altered Skadi’s memories and fate.
• Othinus recognized that her joke had caused chaotic distortions and apologized to Roy.
• Skadi asked Othinus to help reforge the Aesir’s glory and offered to become the mother of the Gods.
• Othinus rebuked Skadi for proposing that she have children with Roy, and Skadi apologized and left Valhalla.
• Othinus teased Roy about having children with Skadi, and Roy told her their shared understanding mattered more than physical intimacy.

Roy told Othinus that he understood her sacrifices and promised to support her as she had supported him. Chaldea crossed into the Norse Otherworld, found its magical energy comparable to the Age of Gods, and encountered Olga Marie after mistaking a distant tree for a Fantasy Tree.

• Roy said his ritual had gone smoothly and his Mental Body was beginning to loosen as he crossed Human Evil.
• Roy revealed that Othinus had come to the Moon World to protect him, and Othinus offered to help hold back Yog-Sothoth if He tried to descend.
• Ritsuka and Mashu rode outside Chaldea's vehicle as the group prepared to enter the Sea of Imaginary Numbers and cross the Lostbelt storm.
• Chaldea safely reached the Norse Otherworld, where Da Vinci and Shion found normal living conditions but extremely high magical energy.
• Kirschtaria said he could use astrology after preparing a connection to the stars, reassuring the group about their strength.
• Mashu spotted a distant tree, and Olga Marie appeared and explained that it was not a Fantasy Tree because that tree had already been cut down.

Olga Marie confronted Chaldea over its state before explaining that Odin’s power, not a Fantasy Tree, sustained the Norse Otherworld. Meanwhile, Brunhilde and Ophelia entered Asgard seeking an audience with Odin, while Roy chose to observe what would happen.

• Olga Marie scolded Roman and the others, and Li noticed that Brunhilde and Ophelia were missing.
• Brunhilde and Ophelia reached Asgard, where mass-produced Valkyries recognized Brunhilde and agreed to escort them to Skadi.
• Ophelia secretly sent information about the Norse Otherworld to Chaldea as she and Brunhilde traveled to Fanggelf.
• Brunhilde reunited with Ortlinde, Hildr, and Thrud before Skadi arrived with Roy, who told them he would watch events unfold.
• Olga Marie explained to the Chaldea Masters that the Fantasy Tree had been cut down and Odin’s power now sustained the Otherworld.
• Olga Marie said she could travel freely, asserted her claim to lead Chaldea, and refused to help with Saving Humanity’s Order, though she remained curious about Odin.

Othinus summoned Brunhilde and Ophelia to Valhalla and offered Brunhilde a chance to lift her curse by killing Chaldea and Sigurd with the Lord of the Gods' Spear. Roy let Othinus direct the Norse Lostbelt's fate while he continued his plan to transcend Human Evil.

• Othinus recognized Brunhilde and recalled how her old-world counterpart had served her as a maid and passed down the method for forging the Lord of the Gods' Spear.
• Brunhilde begged Othinus to lift the curse that turned her love into killing intent, while Ophelia trembled in the Demon God's presence.
• Othinus gave Brunhilde the Lord of the Gods' Spear and ordered her to kill Chaldea and Sigurd, promising to lift her curse and change Ophelia's fate if they succeeded.
• Brunhilde accepted the spear and felt the overwhelming will of a Demon God behind its power.
• Roy chose to let Othinus play out the Norse Lostbelt's possible fates and continued pursuing his plan to transcend Human Evil.

Roy explained that the AD 33 ritual would be his crucial chance to pursue the path beyond the Silver Star, then described how Brunhilde would use Odin’s spear against Sigurd to break her curse. As Brunhilde faced Chaldea, she revealed that her love for Sigurd had been imposed by the curse, and Sigurd began to explain why he had been the one to rescue her.

• Roy resolved to hunt Yog-Sothoth’s trail in AD 33 and admitted he had abandoned his plan to seek enlightenment because there was no Buddha in this world.
• Roy told Skadi that Brunhilde’s Eternal Spear was meant to erase Sigurd from history, sever the source of her curse, and give her hope of breaking it herself.
• Brunhilde confronted Chaldea with Odin’s spear, while its overwhelming power terrified Ritsuka, Mashu, Roman, and Merlin.
• Ritsuka asked Ophelia why she had sided against Chaldea, and Ophelia said she could neither refuse nor wanted to refuse the Great God’s command.
• Brunhilde told Sigurd that Odin had cursed her to love whoever rescued her from a burning city, making her love for him false.
• Sigurd sorrowfully began to explain that he had rescued Brunhilde because the Volsung Clan had fallen out of Odin’s favor.

Brunhilde used Othinus’s Eternal Spear, with Ophelia’s Mystic Eye securing the strike, to destroy Sigurd and break free of her cursed love. As Skadi turned against Chaldea in the snow-covered Asgard, Kirschtaria prepared to fight her and advance toward Odin.

• Sigurd told Chaldea that Brunhilde’s love would make her hate him, and that her spear would give them their chance.
• Ophelia denied the future in which Sigurd survived as Brunhilde swore upon Odin’s spear and shattered Grom, killing Sigurd across time and erasing his curse on Brunhilde.
• Brunhilde and Ophelia collapsed from the effort, but each recognized that she had faced and overcome her own fear.
• Othinus watched Skadi go to confront Chaldea, revealing that she had intended Brunhilde’s spear to fulfill a promise to her rather than destroy Chaldea.
• Skadi covered Asgard in snow and declared that those she did not love would be killed.
• Kirschtaria invoked the Human Order Protection Celestial Sphere as Chaldea prepared to fight Skadi.

Othinus arrived on the battlefield and killed Mashu with the Eternal Spear, then effortlessly killed Ishtar and the Goddess of Justice. The surviving Chaldea members were left facing the overwhelming power of the Norse king of the gods.

• Othinus threw the Eternal Spear from Valhalla, and its golden light erased Mashu and the destruction sweeping across Asgard.
• Ritsuka mourned Mashu as the Chaldea group realized that their own lives were in danger.
• Othinus appeared before the battlefield, and the group recognized her as Odin, the king of the Norse gods.
• Ishtar summoned the Bull of Heaven and attacked Othinus, but the bull vanished and Othinus killed Ishtar with a gesture, killing Tohsaka Rin as well.
• The Goddess of Justice attacked Othinus, who destroyed her sword and tore her apart with a glance.

Othinus slaughtered Chaldea in the Norse Otherworld, leaving Olga Marie alive after Ritsuka and Ophelia tried to save their companions. Othinus explained that she had isolated the region to protect the Understander’s ritual and said Olga Marie’s presence there had put everyone’s lives in her control.

• Othinus killed Shion, Da Vinci, and the Chaldea members, while Merlin fled to Avalon and was destroyed by a spear that shattered space-time.
• Ophelia used her Magic Eye in an attempt to save Chaldea, collapsed, and chose to sacrifice herself for her companions.
• Ritsuka resolved to bear everyone’s sins and charged Othinus with power drawn from her sole Magic Circuit, but Othinus caught her fist and left her unconscious.
• Othinus spared Olga Marie and explained that she had separated the Norse region from its original world to limit the effects of her Fate Spark on the Understander’s ritual.
• Othinus told Olga Marie that she was one of the Seven Wedges of the Understander and that their arrival had placed their lives under her control.

Roy and Othinus discussed how Chaldea’s defeat in the Norse Otherworld had served the hidden purpose of testing Ritsuka’s resolve. Roy explained his plan to make Ritsuka bear the world’s original sin and become the Son of God for his Demon God ritual, which would complete with him becoming the Trinitarian Christ the Savior.

• Othinus told Olga Marie that Chaldea had entered her prison despite her warnings, and Roy appeared and sent Olga Marie back to the Golden Supreme Heaven.
• Othinus dismissed Skadi and the Valkyries, leaving her alone with Roy after Chaldea’s massacre.
• Roy explained the contradictions among Christianity, Judaism, and Islam that complicated his attempt to become a complete Demon God.
• Roy revealed that Ritsuka was meant to serve briefly as the Son of God, with Aika providing her body and Roy providing her soul while Chaldea’s Grand Order tempered her mind.
• Roy admitted that Chaldea’s many Masters and Servants had made its missions too easy, but said Othinus had created the hardship needed to prepare Ritsuka.
• Othinus affirmed that she understood Roy’s purpose, and Roy said the completed Grand Ritual would make him Christ the Savior.

Ritsuka met Roy in the afterlife, and he resurrected her after she chose Mashu to live in her place. Back on the bleached earth, Ritsuka and Mashu reunited with Roman and Sajyou Ayaka, but learned that nearly all of Chaldea had perished in the Lostbelt.

• Ritsuka found herself dead in a world of absolute darkness and spoke with Roy, who explained that he could resurrect only one person from Chaldea.
• Ritsuka chose Mashu to be resurrected, and Roy brought Ritsuka back to life instead.
• Mashu embraced the awakened Ritsuka and wept with relief.
• Roman appeared with Sajyou Ayaka and told Ritsuka that, besides her and Mashu, only Sajyou Ayaka had survived.
• Sajyou Ayaka blamed herself for being too weak to join the expedition, while Roman assured her that the Lostbelt had likely doomed anyone who entered.

Ritsuka, Mash, Roman, and Sajyou Ayaka continued through a desert toward the Britain Lostbelt, where they planned to use a ley line to summon a Heroic Spirit. In Jerusalem, Roy praised Sajyou Aika for creating a silent city resembling Revelation, and she responded with fervent devotion.

• Ritsuka, Mash, and Roman realized Mash might have been cured of her fatal condition when she was revived, and Ritsuka vowed to continue saving humanity.
• Ritsuka, Mash, Roman, and Sajyou Ayaka crossed the desert with dwindling supplies, and Roman collapsed from exhaustion.
• Mash found a ley line beneath the sand, and Roman proposed using it to summon a Heroic Spirit with Sajyou Ayaka as the Master.
• Sajyou Ayaka agreed to attempt the summoning so she could help the others.
• Roy walked through Jerusalem with Sajyou Aika, praised her Revelation-like world, and received her affectionate declaration of devotion.

Roy and Sajyou Aika entered the Holy Capital, where the King of Lions described the ongoing apocalyptic ritual and pledged to destroy the remaining resistance. After Roy promised Rongomyniad eternal existence, she ordered her knights to prepare for Mordred’s mission and guard against Chaldea.

• Roy reassured Sajyou Aika that he needed her, and she declared her love and devotion while considering killing Ritsuka if she threatened their bond.
• Roy and Sajyou Aika went to the Holy Capital’s throne room, where the Knights of the Round Table paid reverence to the King of Lions, Rongomyniad.
• Rongomyniad told Roy she had brought war, famine, plague, and death to the land, and planned to defeat Britain’s Red Dragon and the Mountain Folk.
• Roy spared the Mountain Folk from being included in the ritual and promised Rongomyniad that she would exist with him forever; he crowned her as divine ruler.
• After Roy and Sajyou Aika left, Rongomyniad ordered Agravain to summon Mordred and told him to have Gawain guard the Holy Capital against Chaldea.

Arthur, Merlin, and the surviving Chaldea members crossed a desert and found Lancelot’s army fighting Mordred’s forces in a parallel world ruled by the King of Lions. The chapter ended as the two armies clashed, with Mordred’s smaller force gaining the upper hand.

• Arthur and Merlin helped the Chaldea group survive the desert by hunting and cooking a mutated insect for food.
• Arthur confirmed he was a male King Arthur from a parallel world, and he promised to aid Mashu and the others.
• The group left the desert and discovered Lancelot and Mordred leading opposing armies.
• Mordred revealed that she planned to kill a group of commoners to fulfill the King of Lions’s order, while Lancelot tried to persuade her to stop.
• Mordred ordered her Purification Knights to attack, and Lancelot led his troops into battle while protecting the commoners.
• Lancelot and Mordred clashed as Mordred’s smaller army gained the upper hand.

Arthur countered the King of Lions’ Light of Judgment with Excalibur, allowing Lancelot and the civilians to survive while Mordred retreated. The story left Mordred’s forces fleeing as the last human gathering place remained Constantinople, Arthur’s capital.

• Mordred’s Purification Knights slaughtered civilians, and Merlin used falling petals to disrupt the fighting.
• Ritsuka sensed Sajyou Manaka’s magical power among Mordred’s forces, while Sajyou Ayaka reacted with fear.
• The King of Lions’ Light of Judgment descended, and Lancelot ordered his troops and the civilians to scatter as Mordred attacked him.
• Arthur released ten restraints of Excalibur and blasted the Light of Judgment in the sky, stopping it from striking the battlefield.
• Mordred ordered her troops to retreat after recognizing Arthur’s holy sword, and she escaped while Roy watched from the mountains.
• Mordred’s forces fled toward safety, while Constantinople remained the last gathering place of humanity and Arthur’s capital.

Chaldea learned from Lancelot that the Lostbelt diverged in AD 500, when King Arthur survived Camlann and became the King of Lions. Meanwhile, Roy met First Hassan at the Temple of Jibril and persuaded him not to attack, leaving him to recognize the coming judgment as a matter of faith.

• Lancelot welcomed Chaldea and explained that the current year was AD 1311 and that the King of Lions was the Arthur who had survived for eight hundred years.
• Roman explained that the date difference made the region both a Singularity and a Lostbelt.
• Roy entered the Temple of Jibril and faced First Hassan, who hesitated to attack him because he sensed the True God in Roy.
• Roy urged Hassan to avoid betraying his faith, and Hassan chose to personally purge the Hassans opposing the King of Lions.
• Roy warned Hassan that the world was a Lostbelt and asked how long they had remained on Earth; Hassan answered with the scriptural phrase, “one day, or less than one day.”

Chaldea learned how the Lion King had destroyed human civilization and reached Constantinople, where King Arthur protected the last survivors. As they met Bedivere, Ritsuka and Ayaka sensed a ghostly girl, and Ayaka recognized a frightening presence tied to her past.

• Roy persuaded Hassan as-Sabbah to remain secluded in his temple and keep clear of the Lostbelt’s affairs.
• Lancelot told Chaldea that the Lion King had slaughtered most of humanity, while King Arthur resisted her to protect the remaining survivors.
• Chaldea arrived in ruined Constantinople and learned that its inhabitants had spent six months rebuilding under King Arthur’s protection.
• Bedivere guided the group toward King Arthur and blamed himself for failing to return the sacred sword, which had led to the Lion King’s rise.
• Ritsuka and Ayaka noticed a ghostly girl in the corridor, and Ayaka recalled her terrifying sister and the Beast from the Shinjuku Holy Grail War.

Sajyou Ayaka and Chaldea met Artoria and the Knights of the Round Table in Constantinople, then settled in for the night. Aika appeared in Ayaka’s room and, after briefly seeming affectionate, accused her sister of failing to love her and asked why she had come to oppose her again.

• Artoria welcomed Chaldea and Arthur, and the Knights of the Round Table teased Merlin, Lancelot, and Kay during their first meeting.
• Artoria arranged lodging and a meal for Chaldea, and Sajyou Ayaka returned to her room to rest after their long journey.
• Aika appeared before Ayaka, whose fear returned as she remembered Aika’s role in their father’s death during the Holy Grail War.
• Ayaka told Aika about her life at the Clock Tower and admitted she returned home only on their father’s memorial day.
• Aika said Ayaka did not love her and asked why she had struggled against her before and returned to stop her now.