Chapter Summaries

Aiwass returned in a female form and revealed that Roy had used Laura’s attempt to kill Aleister to begin merging the Great Demon Kolozun with Aleister’s deceased daughter. Roy arrived with Lilith, the Black Cat Witch, and the Holy Guardian Angel Aiwass as Laura realized something had been done to her during their trip to Scotland.

• Aiwass revealed that she had voluntarily lifted the curse and returned, then accused Laura of possessing the Thoth Tarot and called her Laura Zaza Crowley.
• Aiwass reasoned that Laura could not be her second daughter and concluded that Roy had arranged for the dead Laura to be resurrected through Kolozun’s body.
• Aiwass explained that Kolozun was becoming Laura and thanked her for raising Roy and helping reunite the siblings.
• Roy arrived with Lilith, the Black Cat Witch, and the Holy Guardian Angel Aiwass, while Laura demanded to know what he had done to her.
• Roy reminded Laura of their trip to Scotland, and she suspected he had secretly cast a spell on her there.

Roy revealed that he had planned Laura’s awakening and used Kolozun to unite Aleister’s possibilities against Britain, creating a path for Aleister’s resurrection. He released Kolozun to return to Britain and fight for her survival, while secretly awaiting the birth of his and Laura’s child on Halloween.

• Roy explained that his spell would merge Kolozun with Laura and awaken the true Laura Crowley.
• Laura learned that Aleister’s liberated possibilities had united to attack Britain, prompting Christianity, the Royal Family, and the Knight Faction to defend the country.
• Aleister revealed that the invading Crowleys shared a desire for revenge, and Roy explained that their deaths would leave one Aleister alive to be resurrected.
• Roy privately considered the unborn child in Laura’s body and his plan for its birth on Halloween.
• Roy let Kolozun return to Britain and use her remaining spells and spiritual items for one final chance to defeat him.

Kolozun escaped to Britain with the Rider-Waite Tarot Grimoire, while Aleister reunited with Lilith and followed Roy home. In Academy City, Laura’s magic took Index away, and Stiyl set out to confront her and rescue Index.

• Aleister let Kolozun escape, and Roy explained that the Rider-Waite Tarot Grimoire could contain Mathers’s final method against his enemies.
• Lilith reunited with Aleister, angrily confronted her about becoming a woman, and then left with Roy for home.
• Mina Mathers revealed Aleister’s old cross-dressing and sexual exploits, while Roy explained that the current Aleister was one separated possibility.
• Aleister followed Roy and Lilith to their apartment, where Index was speaking under the control of a Puritan Church spell.
• Kanzaki Kaori could not break the Saint George’s Domain barrier, and Index vanished in a burst of radiant feathers.
• Stiyl decided to go to St. George’s Cathedral and demand Index’s freedom from Laura.

Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori set out to rescue Index while Tsuchimikado Motoharu fled Academy City with Maisha and Kamijou Touma. In Roy’s apartment, Aleister joked with Lilith and the others about her shameless behavior and scientific experiments, then left Lilith exasperated with a provocative confession about her underwear.

• Stiyl left to rescue Index, and Kanzaki Kaori overcame her hesitation and agreed to go with him.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu hijacked a plane with Kamijou Touma, Accelerator, and Maisha and headed for Britain, where over a billion Crowleys were invading.
• Aleister used her authority over Academy City from Roy’s apartment while Lilith scolded her for behaving provocatively.
• Mina Mathers condemned Aleister’s shamelessness, and Aleister teased her by threatening to humiliate her in front of Mathers.
• Aleister defended her past experiments as scientific research, and Lilith decided that arguing with her was pointless.
• Aleister told Lilith she was wearing white underwear and had no safety shorts.

Aleister explored life in her new female body and explained her theory that gender and civilization were linked through the Isis, Osiris, and Horus Eras. The chapter left Lilith heading to the shower after mocking Aleister’s claims and her interest in Egyptian mythology.

• Aleister asked Lilith to fasten her skirt, saying she had never worn women’s clothing before and was beginning to enjoy being a woman.
• Lilith teased Aleister about her promiscuity and admitted she thought highly of Roy.
• Aleister explained that her infinite possibility let her experience gender in body, mind, and soul, unlike ordinary transformations.
• Aleister described how women’s social status had shifted across history and connected those changes to the Isis, Osiris, and Horus Eras.
• Lilith mocked Aleister for revering Egyptian mythology and went into the washroom to shower.

Aleister persuaded Lilith to accompany her to London, where Aleister planned to confront the Great Demon, while Roy confronted Anna Sprengel over her plans to spread magic. Roy trapped Anna in a world modeled on Christianity’s Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, and she agreed to obey him to avoid endless torment.

• Aleister and Lilith left the inn, and Aleister told Lilith she would take her to Britain for protection from the Great Demon.
• Lilith agreed to go to London with Aleister, who said Aiwass and Mina Mathers would protect her.
• Roy sought out Anna Sprengel and warned her not to make the already chaotic world worse by exposing magic to ordinary people.
• Roy transported Anna into his constructed Christian afterlife, where he offered her a choice between death and obedience.
• Anna agreed to remain quiet and follow Roy’s wishes, then wondered whether he was the God she had been seeking.

Roy left Academy City after arranging for its residents and dark-side members to prepare a ritual for Queen Persephone in Italy, then headed toward Britain to witness the coming clash between the Golden Dawn and Aleister. In London, Laura Stuart summoned Mathers and the Golden Dawn to protect her ritual, but Mathers panicked when he learned their enemies were Demon Gods.

• Roy told Othinus and Nephthys that he would keep their destination secret and use people unrelated to magic to prepare the ritual materials in Italy.
• Roy explained that Anna Sprengel had given him The Chemical Wedding of the Christian Rosenkreuz Follower to test whether he would legitimize the Rose Cross, and he said Anna should return to him as a Miko.
• Roy sent Mugino Shizuri, Franda, Shokuhou Misaki, Misaka Mikoto, Miel Ant, and other Academy City personnel to Italy to assemble Queen Persephone's Grand Ritual.
• In London, Laura Stuart met Mathers at St. George's Cathedral after using the Rider-Waite Tarot to resurrect the Golden Dawn.
• Mathers learned that Aleister was alive and eagerly planned to confront him, then agreed to protect Laura while she completed her ritual.
• Laura told Mathers that her enemies were a group of Demon Gods, and Mathers reacted in shock.

Laura explained the Golden Dawn’s hidden Demon God ranks and planned to use its members and four spiritual items to begin the Scottish Grand Ritual, advancing Kolozun’s world-destroying Morasell Ritual. Roy met three resurrected Golden Dawn figures in London, including Conan Doyle and Yeats, and heard Yeats recall his hatred of Aleister.

• Mathers explained that the Golden Dawn’s highest ranks corresponded to Demon Gods and insisted that his target was Aleister, while Laura kept Aleister’s connection to a Demon God from him.
• Mathers left St. George’s Cathedral to pursue Aleister, and Laura privately criticized his arrogance and the Golden Dawn’s inability to stay united without Woodman.
• Laura resolved to rely on the Nameless Mist and prepared to use the Sword of State, Crown of Coronation, Scepter of Dominion, and Stone of Destiny to hijack Britain and trigger the Morasell Ritual.
• Roy entered a London café with two women and introduced himself to Conan Doyle, Yeats, and Machen as their God and Aleister’s son.
• Yeats recalled refusing to lend Aleister money and kicking him down the stairs, then blamed Aleister for destroying the Golden Dawn.

Roy met Yeats, Conan Doyle, and Arthur Machen, then left after determining that Machen’s work had been influenced by Yog-Sothoth. Walking beside the Thames, Roy concluded that Yog-Sothoth and Azathoth were rivals and considered the possibility that Yog-Sothoth might oppose Nyarlathotep.

• Roy apologized for Aleister’s actions, spoke with Yeats and Conan Doyle, and explained that he had come to meet Arthur Machen.
• Roy questioned Machen about his connection to the evil gods, found that he had been influenced by madness but not seriously, and departed.
• Yeats, Conan Doyle, and Machen speculated that Roy was a god before celebrating their temporary new lives.
• Roy explained to Othinus that Azathoth drew worlds into dreams while Yog-Sothoth connected worlds through her gate, making the two competitors.
• Roy said he had sensed Yog-Sothoth’s aura in Machen and suggested she might interfere with Nyarlathotep and give him another chance to meet her.

Kamijou Touma, Accelerator, and Tsuchimikado Motoharu broke Britain’s Triple Four-Color Great Barrier at Big Ben while Aleister waited for Imagine Breaker to create an opening. At Windsor Castle, Kerissa and Queen Elizabeth confronted Britain’s worsening crisis and the possibility that Laura Stuart planned to perform the Scottish Grand Ritual.

• Tsuchimikado Motoharu explained that Britain’s factions had joined forces because Britain was at war with Academy City and proposed destroying the barrier from within.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu and Accelerator took Kamijou Touma to Big Ben, where Kamijou used Imagine Breaker to destroy a ritual node and collapse the barrier.
• Aiwass questioned Aleister’s plan, but Aleister said Roy’s influence would ensure Imagine Breaker broke the barrier; she then saw that it had disappeared.
• Kerissa learned that the barrier had fallen and that Laura Stuart had vanished with a large suitcase, prompting her and the Commander of Knights to suspect the Scottish Grand Ritual.
• Queen Elizabeth entered the war room, said Laura’s century-long preparations were being exposed, and assured the gathered leaders that France would not invade and the United States would send its Atlantic Fleet.

Aleister returned to Britain and reunited with Levianna before confronting Mathers, whose fury over Mina Mathers led him to attack her. Aleister survived his powerful elemental spell, and Mathers challenged her to a direct magical duel.

• Aleister landed on the British shore with Mina Mathers after the Triple Four-Color Great Barrier collapsed.
• Levianna met Aleister and explained that Roy had sent her to bring Aleister to Mathers so they could settle their grudge.
• Aleister teased Levianna and asked her to find somewhere for her to stay before seeking out Mathers.
• Mathers arrived, saw Mina Mathers, and angrily demanded to know what Aleister had done to his wife.
• Mathers unleashed a devastating fire-and-wind spell, but Aleister used her reversed Death Major Arcana and the Staff of Impact to withstand it.
• Mathers stopped his attack and mocked Aleister, insisting she could not beat him in a straightforward magical duel.

Roy arrived at a London hotel where the resurrected Golden Dawn members were gathered, intending to kill them himself. The hall fell silent when Roy entered and claimed Aleister tasted wonderful.

• Aleister escaped Mathers after Levianna and Mina. Mathers fled, deciding to retrieve her Bible.
• Roy arrived at an empty London hotel and vowed to send its occupants back to Hell.
• The Lady of the Masquerade presided over a gathering of Golden Dawn members, who mocked Aleister and bet on how long she would survive against Mathers.
• Roy entered the hall and said he wanted to curse Aleister too, adding that she tasted wonderful.
• The Golden Dawn members stopped talking and turned toward the stranger in the red robe.

Roy Crowley confronted the Golden Dawn and defeated their group ritual by identifying its weakness, then Mina Mathers incapacitated the members before Lady of the Masquerade restored them. The chapter ended with Roy recognizing Lady of the Masquerade as the Golden Dawn’s Magician and identifying her Mercury-based spirit magic.

• Roy Crowley told the Golden Dawn that Aleister Crowley was his mother and that he already knew their mysteries.
• The Golden Dawn surrounded Roy and launched a group ritual, but Roy disrupted it by explaining that Nephthys would not support them.
• Mina Mathers entered and used her artistic magic to strip the Golden Dawn members of their sanity before transforming into Aleister’s Thoth Tarot Canon.
• Lady of the Masquerade used her Word Spirit to restore the Golden Dawn members and countered Roy’s World tarot card with the reversed Magician.
• Roy identified Lady of the Masquerade as the Golden Dawn’s Magician and deduced that her magic drew on Mercury’s spirit.

Roy demonstrated the power behind the Seven Astral Spirits to Lady of the Masquerade, revealing a geocentric magic that represented the Solar System. Lady of the Masquerade recognized its overwhelming scale and calmly awaited the attack.

• Lady of the Masquerade summoned Mercury's astral spirit through Raphael, but its power fled before reaching Roy.
• Roy praised Lady of the Masquerade's pursuit of knowledge and formed a magical pattern representing the Seven Archangels and Astral Spirits.
• The seven celestial bodies began orbiting Roy, and Lady of the Masquerade recognized the magic as Geocentrism.
• Lady of the Masquerade identified the Seven Heavens and realized Roy's power could destroy the Solar System, yet she calmly awaited the spectacle.

Roy destroyed the Golden Dawn and collected the tarot cards left behind, while Mathers pursued Aleister into Scotland. At a chapel tied to her lost love Rose, Aleister met Osorah Aquinas and began confronting her past as Osorah urged her to confess her sins.

• Roy confined the stellar spirits' power to the hotel, killing the Golden Dawn members and leaving Lady of the Masquerade mortally wounded.
• Roy removed Lady of the Masquerade's mask, prayed for her, and watched her become the Magician tarot card before collecting the remaining Rider-Waite cards.
• Mathers chased Aleister into Scotland, where Aleister went to the chapel where she had married Rose.
• Aleister entered the chapel and recognized Osorah Aquinas, who explained that she had refused the Supreme Pontiff's order and taken refuge there.
• Osorah treated Aleister's wound and told her that the Lord would not abandon her, prompting Aleister to ask whether she should confess her sins in the church.

Aleister took a Bible from Osorah and confronted Mathers, revealing that her resentment toward him sprang from the loss of her daughter and her longing for a family and someone who understood her. She transformed into an Angel and claimed the Golden Dawn’s Temple Leader position, while Mathers also became an Angel to face her.

• Aleister asked Osorah whether her sins could be forgiven, then took the church’s Bible, convinced it would let her use her Christian-based magic against Mathers.
• Mathers told Aleister that the Golden Dawn’s sphere had been destroyed, and Aleister credited Roy with eliminating its members.
• Aleister told Mathers she envied his bond with Mina Mathers and blamed his dismissal of children and magic’s price for Lilith’s death and her hatred of the Golden Dawn.
• Aleister used the Bible and sacred names to transform into an Angel, taking the position of Temple Leader and challenging Mathers.
• Aleister explained that Britain was eliminating her other possibilities so hers could become the sole victor, and Mathers answered by using INRI to transform himself into an Angel.

Aleister defeated Mathers after his Christian magic failed under the power controlled by Roy, and the two old rivals shared their hidden envy and regrets as Mathers died. Mathers transformed into Tarot cards that flew toward Roy, who stopped at London's border to watch them approach.

• Aleister used her Word Spirits to strip Mathers of his angelic power and raise herself to the holiness of the Son of God.
• Aleister pierced Mathers through the chest with the Staff of Impact, and both collapsed after their battle.
• Aleister and Mathers admitted that they had envied each other and argued over their opposing ambitions and regrets.
• Mathers died after declaring that he would still have killed Aleister, and his body became the Fool and Minor Arcana cards.
• Roy stopped at London's border as a golden light shot toward him from the north.

Roy completed the Golden Realm by gathering the Golden Dawn’s tarot cards and headed toward Italy with Othinus and Nephthys. In Naples, Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto began enjoying a break after finishing their tasks, while Roy’s next plans remained ahead.

• Othinus asked Roy why he was collecting the Rider-Waite Tarot, and Roy explained that the cards held the Golden Dawn’s wisdom and could create a perfect spirit.
• Roy decided to travel to Italy with Othinus and Nephthys, expecting the other Demon Gods to remain trapped in Nyarlathotep’s dreamscape.
• Anna Sprengel denied the fraudulent contract behind the Golden Dawn, causing Westcott to turn to ash; the final tarot card, The World, flew toward Roy’s deck.
• Yeats, Conan Doyle, and the last Golden Dawn members became tarot cards and joined the Rider-Waite Tarot, completing Roy’s Golden Realm.
• Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto arrived in Naples and explored the city, where Italian men repeatedly flirted with Shokuhou Misaki.

Roy took Othinus and Nephthys to Lake Avernus and used Persephone’s Golden Bough to begin a ritual leading to the Underworld. Nyarlathotep appeared to dissuade him from saving the Demon Gods, but Roy rejected her attempt to exploit his grievances against them.

• Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto encountered Mugino Shizuri and Item in Naples, and Shokuhou persuaded them to travel together rather than fight.
• Roy explained to Othinus and Nephthys that Lake Avernus was the mythological entrance to the Underworld and that Persephone had left the Golden Bough in Ideal Banishment.
• Nephthys realized Persephone had left the Golden Bough as a beacon and urged Roy to open the way to find Persephone and Niangniang.
• Roy revealed that the ritual had already begun and tossed Persephone’s Golden Bough into Lake Avernus.
• Nyarlathotep appeared and asked Roy why he would save the Demon Gods, but Roy recognized that she was trying to use his name to take revenge on them.

Roy explained that his right hand could cross between worlds and gather knowledge, but its dangers made it a deadly gift. He transformed the Fourfold World into his Highest Heaven, cast Nyarlathotep into Hell, and Othinus arrived to fight her.

• Roy explained that his right hand could cross between worlds, break worlds’ limits, and gather knowledge, though its random destinations could kill its wielder.
• Roy asked who created the ark, and Nyarlathotep identified the Lord of Heaven as an Old God.
• Roy transformed the Fourfold World into his Highest Heaven and confronted Nyarlathotep from his divine throne.
• Roy sent Nyarlathotep falling from Heaven into the Nine Hells, where she transformed into a monstrous giant and tried to break free.
• Othinus appeared in Hell with the Lord of the Gods’ Spear and challenged Nyarlathotep to fight.