Chapter Summaries

Rias survived her battle with Indra, who fled after Michael overpowered him at Saigō’s instruction. Her peerage brought her back to the damaged Gremory villa, where Saigō began caring for her.

• Michael struck Indra with his holy sword, and Indra retreated after Saigō privately ordered Michael to spare him.
• Rias collapsed, and Gabriel caught her before Himejima Akeno and the others arrived to take her home.
• Rias’s peerage returned to the damaged villa and learned that Cao Cao had been captured and sent to the Heavenly Realm.
• Saigō told Himejima Akeno and Grayfia to bring Rias to his bedroom so he could treat her.
• Saigō examined Rias’s severe injuries, held her broken hand, and told her that she had suffered.

Saigō used the Third Star Particle in his blood to heal Rias after her battle with Indra, then offered her another way to recover. Meanwhile, Azazel urged Vali and Issei Hyoudou to join the demons and return to the Netherworld with him.

• Saigō fed Rias his blood, and the Third Star Particle began repairing her injuries.
• Rias awoke after two and a half days and learned from Saigō that his blood had helped her recover.
• Saigō told Rias his blood could also help her master the strength she had gained from fighting Indra, and she drank from his wrist.
• Saigō whispered another recovery method to Rias, and she blushed before nodding.
• Azazel offered Vali a place among the Fallen Angels and suggested that he could return to the demons under Luci★Fer.
• Azazel explained that Issei Hyoudou could visit his parents in the Human World, while Vali agreed that Issei deserved to be accepted by the demons.

Rias recovered from her wounds with Saigō’s Third Star Particles and resolved to grow strong enough to inherit the Divinity of Destruction. Meanwhile, Saigō brought Michael and Sirzechs together to negotiate an angel-devil alliance, while Sirzechs confirmed his father’s hidden identity and was left bewildered by the revelation about his mother.

• Azazel explained to Vali that the Fallen Angels needed to join the angels and devils as Michael and Gabriel’s actions pointed toward the three factions uniting.
• Rias drank energy liquid made with Saigō’s blood essence, and the Third Star Particles rapidly repaired her injuries from her battle with Indra.
• Rias showered, saw how much her body had recovered, and vowed to become stronger and inherit the Divinity of Destruction for Saigō’s sake.
• Sirzechs recognized Saigō as the Lord of Demons he had admired since childhood and wondered how his mother could actually be his older sister.
• Saigō told Michael and Sirzechs to negotiate an alliance between angels and devils themselves, without involving him in the details.

Azazel offered to unite the Fallen Angels with the angels and demons, while Michael asked Saigō to let Asia Argento serve Rias. That night, Saigō visited Rias to give her medicine, and she nervously asked if it was time to take it.

• Azazel knelt before Saigō and offered an alliance or full submission of the Fallen Angels to the demons.
• Saigō left the alliance decisions to Michael, Sirzechs, and the other leaders, and praised their efforts to protect their people.
• Michael introduced Asia Argento and asked Saigō to let her become one of Rias's servants as an angel.
• Saigō told Michael that Rias would decide, while implying that she would welcome Asia.
• Saigō visited Rias in her bedroom and held her ankle as they discussed the alliance and the future of the demons.
• Rias asked Saigō if it was time for her medicine.

After recovering from her battle with Indra, Rias reunited with Sona and Himejima Akeno and learned about major political changes in the Netherworld. As leaders of other factions gathered in Lilith to watch the alliance of angels, demons, and Fallen Angels, Rias heard that Mount Sumeru had congratulated them while bypassing Indra.

• Saigō told Rias to continue taking the medicine for several more days, and she began drawing out the Third Star Particle with his help.
• Leezer Luci★Fer, Azdahaka, and Apep planned to break the Beast of 666’s seal, unleash their Evil Dragon Legion on Lilith, and seize Rias’s inheritance.
• Rias emerged from her bedroom after seven days, fully recovered and stronger, and reunited with Sona and Himejima Akeno.
• Rias discussed her treatment with Himejima Akeno and watched a Rating Game featuring Vali Luci★Fer’s team.
• Sona told Rias that angels, demons, and Fallen Angels were forming an alliance, prompting leaders from other factions to gather in Lilith.
• Rias reasoned that the alliance would make the three races the world’s strongest faction, and Sona said Mount Sumeru had sent congratulations while bypassing Indra.

Rias and Sona discussed Indra’s disappearance and the devils’ popular Rating Game, while Saigō anticipated Shiva’s return as the God of the Bible’s seal weakened. Before going to the parliament gathering, Rias met Asia and welcomed her as her new servant, leaving Asia in Tōjō Shirone’s care.

• Himejima Akeno warned Rias that Indra might still pursue her, and Rias agreed to stay alert.
• Rias and Sona discussed Serafall Leviathan, the Red Dragon Emperor, and the growing popularity of muscle among devil children.
• Saigō said the God of the Bible’s seal had failed and predicted that Shiva would emerge for a final confrontation.
• Rias met Asia in Lilith and welcomed her as a servant, promising they could become like family.
• Tachibana Kuroka and Himejima Akeno teased Asia, but Rias stopped them and Tōjō Shirone offered to protect her.

Rias joined the leaders of the world’s factions at a council meeting in Lilith, where they discussed schemes by Hades and Leezer and the coming turmoil. When the Demon Capital was attacked, Zeus’s lightning stopped the earthquake, but a Seven-Headed Ten-Crowned Monster appeared, and the leaders recognized it as the Beast of 666.

• Rias arrived at the council center with her peerage and saw Seraphlu clinging to Sona in a magical-girl outfit.
• Rias joined Sirzechs and the gathered faction leaders as Zeus, Sirzechs, and Michael discussed Hades’s schemes, Leezer’s suspected alliance with him, and the missing Holy Relics.
• The council hall shook as an unknown power caused a violent earthquake across Lilith, and Odin warned that a powerful intruder was responsible.
• Zeus hurled his lightning staff into the Void and cut off the energy causing the earthquake, while the storm above Lilith grew more violent.
• A magic circle tore through Lilith’s defenses, and the Beast of 666 descended into the Demon Capital as the leaders recognized it in shock.

The Beast of 666 and its allies attacked Lilith and other mythological realms, forcing the Chief Gods to rush home to defend them. As Saigō confronted a counterpart of Az Dakaha in the capital, Leezer Luci★Fer celebrated the assault and prepared to rebuild the Old Demon King Faction.

• The Beast of 666 rampaged through Lilith, and Loki revealed that its seven avatars were attacking multiple mythological realms alongside hordes of Evil Dragons.
• Odin, Michael, Zeus, and the other Chief Gods left the Netherworld to defend their realms, while Rossweisse remained behind to fight.
• Saigō encountered a young man he identified as a counterpart of Az Dakaha and declared that he would personally defeat him.
• Leezer Luci★Fer celebrated Lilith's destruction and proclaimed himself the true Luci★Fer, while Hades watched and Apep remained at Leezer's side.
• Leezer promised to help Apep reach new worlds, while Hades privately resolved to obey Shiva after witnessing the terrifying evil gods from beyond their world.

Saigō killed Azhi Dahaka with the Wheel of the Conqueror's Light, honoring the great hero's sacrifices with a vow to restore Zoroastrianism. As Sirzechs and Rias recovered from witnessing their father's overwhelming power, Sirzechs sensed terrifying beings arriving through the Dimensional Rift, while Leezer, Apep, and Hades reacted in terror.

• Saigō erased Azhi Dahaka and vowed that the Sacred Fire would burn again and Zoroastrianism's banner would fly high.
• Saigō's blast silenced the battlefield, and ancient gods recognized the Lord of Demons' power as the Beast of 666 knelt in fear.
• Sirzechs and Rias were shaken by their father's strength, and Sirzechs encouraged Rias to keep pursuing the mission Saigō had entrusted to them.
• Sirzechs sensed a vast breach opening through the Dimensional Rift and warned Rias that terrifying arrivals might be their greatest enemies and final trial.
• Sirzechs transformed amid scarlet flames, while Leezer, Apep, and Hades showed terror from beyond a layer of space.

Saigō’s overwhelming power frightened Hades, Leezer, and the observers who learned that he had killed the Two Heavenly Dragons a thousand years earlier. As Leezer faced Vali and Issei in battle, three evil gods entered the Dimensional Rift on Shiva’s orders, while Great Red fled to seek Ophis’s protection.

• Leezer panicked at Saigō’s power, so Hades sent him through a teleportation circle into the Netherworld to test the battlefield.
• Azazel identified Saigō’s radiance as the Lord of Demons, and Ddraig told Issei that the Lord of Demons and God of the Bible had killed him and Albion a thousand years earlier.
• Vali recognized Leezer as his grandfather, and Azazel explained how Leezer and Vali’s father had abused Vali and driven his mother away.
• Issei joined Vali in attacking Leezer, who turned on his fleeing grandson and threatened to kill him.
• Great Red fled from Melvazoa, Regalzeva, and Seraserbes, who crossed the Dimensional Rift under Shiva’s orders to kill Sirzechs and Rias.
• Ophis sat in the Gremory residence and looked mockingly at a beautiful woman in a red gown.

Ophis and Great Red hid from the invading Evil Gods while worrying that Sirzechs and Rias would have to face them without Saigō. In a meeting with Shiva, Saigō learned that his sacrifice as the first Human Original Text test subject had earned humanity’s karmic debt, enabling him to inherit the Mother of Evil Gods’ divinity.

• Ophis let Great Red stay with her and worried that Sirzechs and Rias would have to confront the Evil Gods from EXE World.
• Saigō met Shiva in an illusory snowy mountain range and questioned whether Shiva’s plans depended on the three invading Evil Gods.
• Shiva explained that Saigō had been a Human Original Text Candidate who died in the first experiment, paving the way for Sakamaki Izayoi to become the true candidate.
• Shiva said Saigō’s death for the future of humanity created a debt owed by humans across the multiverse, giving him the qualification to inherit the Mother of Evil Gods’ divinity.
• Saigō understood that humanity’s gratitude had enabled a mortal to bear a Second Rank divinity, a miracle unique to him.

Shiva confronted Saigō with Nandi and Chhinnamasta, threatening Sirzechs and Rias unless Saigō abandoned the Mother of Evil Gods’ Spirit. Just as Shiva pressed him to reveal his remaining allies, Mikawa Shiten appeared and revealed himself as the original Indra.

• Shiva explained that the Six Great Devils’ power now obstructed Saigō’s path to Second Rank and threatened his children through the Destruction Spirit.
• Nandi and Chhinnamasta arrived to support Shiva, and Saigō recognized that they could overwhelm Sirzechs and Rias.
• Shiva warned that Saigō’s Third Rank true body would destroy the world and offered to spare him if he abandoned the Mother of Evil Gods’ Spirit.
• Shiva described how Zeus, the Halloween Queen, the Future Buddha, and the White Night King had been kept from aiding Saigō, then asked who could help him.
• Mikawa Shiten arrived and transformed into Indra, the original chief god of Vedic Mythology, surprising Shiva.

Saigō and Shiva began their decisive battle after Mikawa Shiten settled his past Karma and agreed to hold off the Bull God and the Great Black Goddess. Saigō used Shiva’s power to split the Destruction Spirit into two crystals, which he sent into the mortal world, while Indra prepared to fight the two gods.

• Shiva explained that he had anticipated Saigō would break the rules and use Little Garden’s functions to even the sides.
• Mikawa Shiten acknowledged his debt to Zoroastrianism and the Mother of Evil Gods, then promised to hold off the Bull God and the Great Black Goddess while Saigō fought Shiva.
• Saigō and Shiva exchanged devastating attacks that shattered their false mountain domain and destroyed the planet beneath them.
• Saigō used Shiva’s power of destruction and rebirth to split the Destruction Spirit into two crystals.
• Saigō sent the two crystals into the mortal world, and Indra turned his attention to fighting the Bull God and the Great Black Goddess.

Himejima Akeno and Rias’s peerage defeated Old Demon King Faction invaders in Lilith, while Sirzechs and Rias fled three evil gods from EXE World. The siblings reached House of Gremory and received two crystals their father had left as a weapon against powerful foes, as the Wind of Decay began blowing elsewhere in the universe.

• Indra restrained the Great Black Goddess and the Divine Bull to keep them from reaching Saigō’s children in the Netherworld.
• Himejima Akeno struck down Kateria Leviathan after Kateria insulted her family and House of Gremory.
• Tachibana Kuroka bound Cruzeare Asmodeus, and Tōjō Shirone destroyed him with a powerful punch before Kuroka tried to persuade Shirone to approach Lord Zarathustra with her.
• Ingvild Leviathan crushed Sairaorg Beelzebub with a summoned sea, while Asia healed Rias’s peerage and Ravel worried that she had lost her role.
• Himejima Akeno watched as Sirzechs and Rias fled three evil gods who were stronger than Great Red and the Infinite Dragon God.
• Sirzechs and Rias reached House of Gremory badly wounded and saw two crystals, their father’s gift, descend toward them as the Wind of Decay blew on a distant planet.

Saigō expelled his five Great Spirits and merged with the Mother of Evil Gods’ Spirit, approaching Second Rank as he prepared to revive Zoroastrianism. Shiva accepted Saigō’s new power and offered himself as its test subject, while Indra defeated the Bull God and the Great Black Goddess.

• Saigō attacked Shiva with the Spirits of Decay, Malice, Weakness, Treason, and Chaos, stripping the five Great Spirits from his body.
• Shiva’s uncontrolled destructive light swept toward the Bull God and the Great Black Goddess, and Indra destroyed both with the Brahma-Indra Spear.
• The Human Original Text sustained Saigō as the Mother of Evil Gods’ Spirit descended from the Void Sanctuary and fused with him.
• Saigō gained direct command of the Spirit and neared Second Rank, seeking to balance humanity, good, and evil while restoring Zoroastrianism.
• Shiva congratulated Saigō, acknowledged that the battle was over, and invited him to use Shiva’s incarnation to test primordial evil.
• Saigō extended a finger and tapped the void, transforming its beauty.

The Halloween Queen used Saigō’s help to revive the Celtic Pantheon and became its Lord, rising toward the Second Rank as its power returned. In the Upper Layer, the White Night King watched her ascension and laughed with delight, while the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven remained silent.

• Saigō confirmed Shiva and his followers had been erased, settled his Karma with Indra, and let Indra leave.
• The Halloween Queen prepared to use the last remnant of the Celtic Pantheon’s Divine Group Worldview to complete its revival.
• Scathach ordered the Queen’s Knights, including Fes Les, to leave the outer gate before the dangerous ascension began.
• The Halloween Queen merged the remnant into herself, and Little Garden acknowledged the Celtic Pantheon’s resurrection and spread that fact to other worlds.
• The Halloween Queen gained the title of Lord of the Pantheon as its power flowed into her, and the White Night King watched her rise with delight.

The White Night King and the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven discussed the Halloween Queen’s breakthrough and the chaos threatening Little Garden, while Zeus drove Yahweh from Mount Olympus. The Halloween Queen thanked Saigō for helping her fulfill her lifelong wish and offered him a reward, leaving its nature unstated.

• The White Night King visited the Great Sage, Equal to Heaven and discussed the Halloween Queen’s rise to the Second Rank and the coming Solar Sovereignty War.
• The Great Sage, Equal to Heaven worried that Saigō might revive Zoroastrianism and make himself even more powerful, while the White Night King warned that Little Garden was entering an era of destruction.
• Zeus confronted Yahweh on Mount Olympus, and Yahweh withdrew after acknowledging that their final struggle would pit Human History against Mythological History.
• Zeus told Athena, Apollo, and the other Greek gods that their next enemy was the reviving Seed of Killing, Gaia’s monster and the Greek Pantheon’s archenemy.
• Saigō appeared before the Halloween Queen, who thanked him for helping her achieve her lifelong ambition and told him to take his reward.

Sirzechs and Rias used the Destruction Spirit to defeat the EXE World’s evil gods, while Issei and Vali destroyed Leezer and Sirzechs annihilated the Beast of 666. In Little Garden, Saigō told the Halloween Queen that he planned to distribute his Spirits, pursue the First Rank, and later help her reclaim her Solar Sovereignty.

• Sirzechs and Rias pursued the fleeing Melvazoa, Regalzeva, and Seraserbes into the Dimensional Rift and destroyed them with destructive flames and the Sacred Fire.
• Leezer watched his forces collapse as Issei and Vali joined forces to kill him, and Sirzechs reduced the Beast of 666 to ashes.
• Rias searched for Saigō after the battle but found that he had disappeared.
• Saigō explained to the Halloween Queen that he would give his Spirits to the candidates and use the breaking of the Void Barrier to make Zoroastrianism blaze again.
• Saigō revealed that he sought the First Rank and would gather goodwill to obtain the Spirit of the Mother of Good Gods.
• The Halloween Queen trusted Saigō and agreed that they would move forward together and reclaim her Solar Sovereignty.

The Halloween Queen wondered what it felt like to be a mother, while Saigō reunited with Morax and sent him back to Teyvat before offering Makima the chance to inherit a Great Demon’s Divinity. Makima accepted the dangerous offer, but Saigō left her to choose whether to risk her life bearing its Malice.

• The Halloween Queen asked Scathach what being a mother felt like, and Scathach admitted she had never borne a child.
• Saigō reunited with Morax, who refused to leave Teyvat and join him in seeking greater power.
• Saigō promised Morax they might meet again if he survived the coming trial, then sent him home and severed Teyvat’s connection to Little Garden.
• Saigō summoned Makima, who crawled to him and declared herself his loyal dog.
• Saigō offered Makima immense power through the Divinity of Malice and warned that bearing it could kill her.

Saigō transformed Makima and Goetia with Spirit Divinities, then returned to Nazarick and reunited with Albedo, Momonga, and Demiurge. He arrived as Momonga struggled with Demiurge’s plan to conquer the world and relied on Saigō to manage Nazarick’s NPCs.

• Makima agreed to accept the Malice Spirit Divinity, and Saigō used the Sacred Fire to destroy her body and begin forging her into the Great Demon of Malice.
• Saigō sent the Weakness Spirit Divinity to Goetia, who was being tempered by the Sacred Fire to become the Weak Great Demon.
• Saigō appeared in Nazarick, where Albedo welcomed him and eagerly accepted his invitation to visit his suite that night.
• Albedo told Saigō that Momonga was in the Throne Room with Demiurge, and Saigō teleported there.
• Demiurge presented himself to Saigō while Momonga, troubled by Demiurge’s plan to conquer the world, felt relieved that Saigō had returned.