Chapter Summaries

Roy learned that the Demon Gods Niangniang and Nephthys were in London, then confronted Laura Stuart at St. George’s Cathedral. After Laura’s Great Demon Kolozun attacked him with Aether Incarnations, Roy used Kolozun’s own magic and bound Laura in silver hair.

• Kerissa decided to report Roy’s warning to Mother Empress and wondered why he had told her to watch out for Laura Stuart.
• Levianna told Roy that two powerful magicians had been breaking into London Magic Societies, and Roy identified them as the Demon Gods Niangniang and Nephthys.
• Roy warned Levianna not to approach the Demon Gods, gave her time to reorganize Dawn Light, and tasked her with finding more Demon Gods.
• Roy entered Laura Stuart’s prayer room at St. George’s Cathedral and found her invoking the Thirty Heavens of Aether as Kolozun.
• Kolozun accused Roy of failing to provide her a chance to kill Aleister and sent ten Aether Incarnations to attack him.
• Roy destroyed the Aether Incarnations with Flame Sword, then summoned silver-haired incarnations that bound Laura in midair.

Roy used his mastery of Aether and Kabbalistic knowledge to defeat Kolozun and Qliphoh.Puzzle.545, while Laura suffered severe wounds. After freeing Kolozun, Roy approached Laura, who asked whether he planned to send her back to the Tree of Life.

• Roy bound Laura with his silver hair and shocked Kolozun by displaying the hidden eighteenth level of Aether.
• Kolozun summoned Qliphoh.Puzzle.545, but Roy recited forbidden knowledge that overwhelmed the demon and disabled her ability.
• Roy explained how Kolozun intended to spread chaos through possession and human conflict, then released her from his binding.
• Laura fell into the blood-covered church floor, and Roy approached her as she asked what he planned to do.

Roy made Laura agree to travel around Britain with him as his sister, promising her an opportunity to confront Aleister, and learned that an unidentified Demon God had visited her. After Roy crossed the Tree of Life’s abyss with Laura again, the story left her recovering in the cathedral washroom while Q Demon tried to approach her.

• Roy restored Laura’s scarred face and offered her a chance to face Aleister if she temporarily gave up her role as Supreme Pontiff and traveled with him as his sister.
• Laura accepted Roy’s condition and confirmed that a mist-shrouded Demon God had suppressed the spells inside her.
• Roy asked Laura, who guarded the abyss of the Tree of Life, to let him cross it again, and she agreed.
• Laura washed in the cathedral washroom while Q Demon offered to wash her hair, and Laura ordered Qliphoth to leave.

Laura agreed to travel with Roy to Edinburgh while disguising herself as his younger sister, but their drive was interrupted when Niangniang and Nephthys staged a highway collision to meet him. The two Demon Gods confronted Roy about his killing of a young Bishop.

• Laura had Q Demon wash her hair and said she would accompany Roy on a trip while pursuing her own goal in Edinburgh.
• Roy picked up Laura and Q Demon in a car borrowed from the British Royal Family, and they drove toward Edinburgh.
• Niangniang and Nephthys stood in the highway, and Roy struck them with the car before they got up unharmed.
• Roy dispelled the other drivers’ awareness of the crash and asked Niangniang and Nephthys why they had sought him out.
• Niangniang asked Roy about the young Bishop he had killed, while Nephthys began crying over the news.

Roy’s attempt to restore his sister Laura’s personality to Kolozun’s body was discovered by Niangniang and Nephthys, who decided to follow him despite his warning not to interfere. As Roy drove the group toward Edinburgh, the two Demon Gods clung to him while Kolozun inwardly worried about their presence and plotted against them.

• Niangniang and Nephthys hugged Roy and asked him to take them to the New World or fight them, but he refused and explained that he had already lost time on his trip.
• Niangniang and Nephthys recognized that Roy’s technique was drawing Laura’s personality back into Kolozun’s body, and Roy warned them not to meddle.
• Niangniang and Nephthys decided to accompany Roy, and Kolozun agreed outwardly while privately resenting the growing number of Demon Gods.
• After their car was wrecked, Laura called for a replacement, and Niangniang shoved Q Demon into her, prompting Laura to scold the Little Demon.
• Roy drove toward Edinburgh as Niangniang and Nephthys clung to him, and Niangniang explained Edinburgh’s connection to Nuada and the Celtic phase.

Roy and Laura uncovered the purpose of Mathers’s hidden Scottish Grand Ritual, which was meant to seize control of Britain and its union through Enoch. Laura revealed the concealed chamber beneath St. Margaret’s Chapel and led Roy and the Demon Gods inside to show them the ritual’s implements.

• Roy and the others paid for admission to St. Margaret’s Chapel, where Laura revealed that she had buried Mathers’s remains beneath its altar.
• Roy deduced that Mathers had planned to restore the Scottish Stuart Dynasty, separate Scotland from England, and rule Scotland.
• Laura confirmed that Mathers had prepared the Scottish Grand Ritual to control Britain and the union’s member states through Enoch.
• Laura activated a mechanism involving the altar’s cross and the stained-glass window, opening a secret door beneath the chapel.
• Laura invited Roy and the Demon Gods into the hidden chamber, believing they would not interfere with her plan.

Roy and Laura uncovered the four treasures needed to restart the Scottish Grand Ritual, while Roy connected Britain’s magical history to Laura’s plans. He then announced that he would take Laura to Academy City to fulfill his promise and kill Aleister.

• Roy, Laura, Niangniang, and Nephthys entered a hidden chamber containing the Scottish royal treasures and the Stone of Destiny.
• Nephthys identified the Stone of Destiny as a Christianized item based on Celtic legends, and Laura explained how the Scottish Grand Ritual had established Purism and reshaped Britain.
• Roy revealed that Laura had become Supreme Pontiff to gather the ritual objects and fulfill her contract with Mathers, restore the Stuart Dynasty, and pursue her goal.
• At Edinburgh Castle, Roy chatted with Niangniang and Nephthys while Laura waited for him to choose their next destination.
• Roy told Laura they were going to Academy City to fulfill his promise to her by killing Aleister.

Tezcatlipoca attacked Earth with the First Sun, but Niangniang discovered that the world could now sustain demons in their complete forms. Smoke Mirror explained how he and Nuada uncovered the change, while Niangniang and Smoke Mirror accepted Roy’s offer—or declined to seize his right hand—and embraced the world as a demon playground.

• Tezcatlipoca launched the First Sun at Earth, and Niangniang tried to stop it with her magical treasures.
• The First Sun pierced Niangniang and burned away half her body, revealing that Tezcatlipoca had returned to his complete form.
• Smoke Mirror appeared and told Niangniang, Roy, and Nephthys that the world’s structure had changed, allowing demons to descend in complete forms.
• Smoke Mirror explained that he and Nuada had discovered the change after fighting and undoing their transformation, expecting the world to perish.
• Niangniang recognized that Roy had attained the demons’ endpoint and trusted his promise to take her to a new world, while Smoke Mirror said he was content to rampage through this world.

Roy gathered the Demon Gods in a recreated Golden Supreme Heaven, where they could fight without destroying the present world. After Nephthys merged part of herself with Roy and Niangniang, Roy left the others to battle while he returned to Edinburgh to fulfill a promise to Laura.

• Niangniang and Nephthys lifted their zombie technique and returned to their complete forms.
• Roy summoned the remaining Demon Gods and created the Golden Supreme Heaven as a durable playground for them.
• Niangniang asked Nephthys to join forces with her, and Nephthys merged part of her body with Niangniang and part with Roy.
• Roy left the Golden Supreme Heaven for the Material World, explaining that he intended to observe the Demon Gods rather than join their game.
• Nephthys worried that Niangniang would face several Demon Gods alone, but Roy pointed out that Nephthys's other half was with her and said Niangniang could not die.

Roy brought Laura to Academy City, where Kihara Yuui’s weapon had turned the city into a deadly furnace and elemental monsters were rampaging. As they crossed the devastated city, Laura asked why Roy was taking her somewhere other than Aleister’s hidden building.

• Roy promised Laura a chance to confront Aleister and brought her to Academy City.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu asked Kamijou Touma to help rescue Maisha and flee the city, explaining that he feared Aleister would kill them both if he considered him a possible traitor.
• Aleister told Aiwass that Kihara Yuui had betrayed him and that Kihara Brainstem was still alive; Aiwass warned him that Anna Sprengel had begun moving toward Academy City.
• Laura and Roy walked through the heat-stricken city, where Kihara Yuui’s weapon was raising temperatures to lethal levels.
• Laura asked Roy why they were not heading toward Aleister’s building in District 7.

Roy brought Laura to Academy City and left her with Kanzaki Kaori, Stiyl, and Index while arranging for her to confront Aleister. He returned home to find Nephthys had manifested from his body, prompting Lilith to wonder how many Demon Gods he would bring home.

• Roy explained that Kihara Yuui had disabled Aleister’s Lag Extending Lines, leaving Aleister blind to Laura’s arrival, and promised to create an opportunity for her revenge.
• Roy brought Laura to Kanzaki Kaori’s apartment and asked Kanzaki to look after her for a few days.
• Kanzaki Kaori, Stiyl, and Index were shocked to see Laura, who greeted them and learned Index was living well in Academy City.
• Roy left Laura with the others, then returned to his apartment, where Othinus questioned him about bringing home another piece of trash.
• Nephthys emerged from Roy’s body, and Lilith asked how many Demon Gods he planned to bring home.

Roy considered whether to send help to Niangniang, who was fighting the other Demon Gods in the Golden Supreme Heaven, but the zombie agreed while Nephthys chose to stay in the present world. Meanwhile, Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki fought elemental monsters amid a devastating heat wave and headed to a Tokiwadai warehouse.

• Nephthys explained to the zombie that the world's altered structure allowed her to exist despite undoing the zombie's spell, and the zombie understood how the Bishop had died.
• Roy explained that he had sent the Demon Gods to the Golden Supreme Heaven and considered helping Niangniang, but Othinus refused to join the fight.
• The zombie agreed to help Niangniang, while Nephthys declined and chose to remain in the present world.
• Misaka Mikoto destroyed the elemental monsters around Tokiwadai with lightning while Shokuhou Misaki kept the students and teachers hidden with her power.
• Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki discussed handling the crisis together, and Misaka led Shokuhou to a warehouse behind the school.

Misaka Mikoto showed Shokuhou Misaki the A.A.A. she had found, while Anna Sprengel arrived in Academy City and confronted Roy. Anna’s first attempt to attack him failed when Aiwass withheld her power, but she then revealed the Rose Cross’s unique interpretation of Kabbalah.

• Misaka Mikoto opened a warehouse to show Shokuhou Misaki the A.A.A. she had found in ruins.
• Anna Sprengel arrived in Academy City and identified Roy as the Demon God of Christianity.
• Anna explained that she despised Demon Gods, though she valued Roy’s youth and refused to become one herself.
• Anna invoked The Book of Law, but Aiwass withdrew her power before it could harm Roy.
• Anna used Aiwass’s power again through the Rose Cross’s Kabbalah and explained the technique’s system of three elements, seven metals, and twelve zodiac signs.

Roy saw through Anna Sprengel’s Rose Cross spell and revealed that he had reached a state beyond the Demon Gods, then left to confront an Old One. On a rooftop in Academy City, he faced a being resembling the Chimera and called her an Old One.

• Roy identified Anna Sprengel’s right hand as the foundation and weakness of her spell, and Anna admitted that he had seen through the Rose system.
• Roy told Anna that he had attained the greatest self and declared, “I am Self-Existent—I am that I am,” leaving her shaken and wondering if he was the true Lord she sought.
• Roy vanished to deal with the trouble posed by the Old Ones, while Anna decided to seek answers for herself.
• Roy confronted a beautiful, monstrous being on an Academy City rooftop and addressed her as an Old One.

Roy uncovered that Chimera was Nyarlathotep, an Old One who had secretly influenced Gremlin and trapped its Demon Gods in a dreamlike world. Nyarlathotep revealed that she had arrived in the world before Nephthys became a Demon God and had spent ages preparing her plan.

• Roy realized that Chimera had made the Demon Gods disappear and deduced that Persephone was a distorted Greek Demon God, not a separate Roman one.
• Nyarlathotep explained that she had confused Persephone before her ascension and sent the other Demon Gods into an inescapable dream maze.
• Roy recognized Chimera as Nyarlathotep, a messenger who spread the Old Ones’ madness between worlds, and assessed her power and origins.
• Nyarlathotep appeared to Roy as the Bloated Woman and said she had arrived during the era of Egyptian Mythology, before Nephthys became a Demon God.
• Roy concluded that Nyarlathotep’s long residence and preparation had enabled her to deceive and trap the unwary Demon Gods.

Nyarlathotep told Roy that the Old Ones planned to claim the world and gave him a deadline to free the Demon Gods trapped in Azathoth’s dream. Roy decided to protect the world, and he and Othinus suspected that Nyarlathotep was spreading Azathoth’s madness to help it awaken and transcend.

• Nyarlathotep explained that the Old Ones would take the world after the Demon Gods died in the dream, unless Roy freed them within five hundred and thirty-seven million cycles.
• Nyarlathotep transformed into a female pharaoh, kissed Roy’s hand, called him the Supreme One God, and vanished.
• Roy told Othinus and Nephthys that he cared about the world and was interested in saving it; Nephthys feared for Niangniang.
• Roy reassured Othinus that Nyarlathotep’s dream could not kill him and explained that the evil gods retained some rationality.
• Roy and Othinus suspected that Nyarlathotep spread Azathoth’s madness across worlds so it might regain reason and awaken, though Roy doubted Azathoth would ever change.

Roy concluded that Persephone might have left a clue inside Ideal Banishment, then destroyed Kihara Yuui’s transplanted right hand to search for it. He found a branch marked with a Kabbalah rune and realized it pointed to a particular technique, though its nature remained unstated.

• Roy reasoned that the Demon Gods needed to investigate Nyarlathotep’s dream from within and identified Persephone as the likeliest source of clues.
• Kihara Yuui used a microwave weapon and elemental creations to attack Academy City while seeking revenge for Kihara Brainstem.
• Roy confronted Kihara Yuui in the crystal tower and recognized that she had used the Saint-Germain virus to make Ideal Banishment regard her as Kamisato Shoryu.
• Roy severed Kihara Yuui’s right hand, then dismantled Ideal Banishment to search for a message from Persephone.
• Roy extracted Persephone’s power and found a small branch carved with a Kabbalah rune, which he understood had been left for him.

Roy prepared a ritual while Laura set out to confront Aleister, and Anna Sprengel stopped pursuing Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki after Aiwass blocked her. Roy then took Lilith to meet their father, while Aleister pondered his lost control over the Lag Extending Line.

• Roy praised Persephone’s plan to exploit Nyarlathotep’s ignorance and put away the branch needed for his ritual.
• Laura left Kanzaki Kaori and headed for the Building with No Doors or Windows, intending to kill Aleister.
• Misaka Mikoto carried the exhausted Shokuhou Misaki as they fled Anna Sprengel, until Aiwass appeared and stopped Anna.
• Anna Sprengel told Aiwass she wanted to find a master and left, while Aiwass disappeared after checking on Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki.
• Roy returned to the apartment, took Lilith outside, and said they were going to meet their father.
• Aleister stood in the Building with No Doors or Windows and considered how Kihara Yuui had severed his control over the Lag Extending Line.

Aleister, worried that he could no longer protect his children in a world of rising supernatural threats, considered lifting his curse and becoming a Demon God. When he saw Laura Stuart, he mistook her for his daughter and left his fortress to meet her, unaware she was Great Demon Kolozun seeking revenge.

• Aleister learned that the Demon Gods faced a crisis and feared the world’s destruction would endanger his children.
• Aleister considered lifting his curse to gain the power of a Demon God, but worried that doing so would revive Golden Dawn.
• Aleister saw Laura Stuart arrive and recognized her as his second daughter, Laura Crowley.
• Laura was pleased that Aleister had left his protected building and prepared to take advantage of his weakened condition.
• Aleister approached Laura with guilt, and she called him “Father” while acting as his daughter.

Laura revealed that she was the Great Demon Kolozun, who had raised Roy and killed Aleister to fulfill Mathers’s contract, and Aleister appeared to die in despair. Aleister then reemerged as a mass of overlapping selves, leaving Laura to face the return of the man she believed she had killed.

• Laura’s Sword of Damocles pierced Aleister’s already damaged body, and she explained that he could no longer use magic and was dying.
• Laura revealed that Mathers had ordered her to pose as Aleister’s summoned demon and lead him to ruin, and that she had secretly raised Roy after Aleister abandoned him.
• Laura admitted she had used Aleister’s guilt over abandoning his children to break his spirit, then declared that she was Kolozun and that her contract was complete.
• Aleister lost consciousness and died, while Laura celebrated her freedom and began planning to confront the Demon Gods.
• A strange shadow surrounded by Tarot cards appeared and identified itself as Aleister, explaining that it contained countless possibilities of himself.
• Aleister began retrieving his possible selves, reducing them to seventeen million usable bodies before using information about Roy and Lilith to calculate a single conclusion.