Chapter Summaries

Shade used the Moon God's divine art to erase the darkness in an abandoned house, and Ellie revealed that she had awakened an aptitude for moonlight. As the Church uncovered more of Mr. Snake's victims and signs of the Calamity of Fate spread, Shade's allies gathered on Fatumonst Island to prepare to confront the Lover of Desire.

• Shade's Moon Prayer · Sanctuary Aura completely removed the darkness in the abandoned house, and Ellie used moonlight from her horn for the first time.
• Luvia suspected Ellie's new power had emerged through her ties with powerful holders of Destiny, while Shade invited Dorothy to join him on Fatumonst Island and Galina arranged to come with Tifa.
• The Church reported three more people who had traded with Mr. Snake, and the spreading Serpent Plague appeared to be part of the Calamity of Fate rather than something Mr. Snake needed to spread personally.
• An earthquake struck the waters north of Fatumonst Island, and a strange purple glow colored the sunset.
• Grace, Helen, Galina, and Tifa arrived on the island before dinner, as Shade prepared to encircle the Lover of Desire with his allies.

As the group prepared for a possible battle near Fatumonst Island, Shade discussed expenses and the future with Galina, then consulted Grace, Helen, and the Ship Girl about Lady White. Strange earthquakes and an Infinite Snake’s appearance near the Elf Camp confirmed that danger was drawing close, and the chapter left Shade’s allies bracing for events that night.

• Galina asked Shade how the operation’s expenses were divided, and he explained the shares, supplies, and Witch Council funding.
• Galina asked Shade what he imagined life would be like after the remaining Chosen Ones appeared, and he promised to make sure everyone was satisfied.
• Shade found Tifa, Matilda, and Winnie preparing a late-night snack, then went to the Captain’s Room to speak with Grace, Helen, and Illustrious Miss.
• The Ship Girl explained that she was an ocean-born elf and might someday nurture other ship-born beings, while Grace, Helen, and Illustrious Miss discussed how to gain Lady White’s trust.
• Mr. Mortis arrived to exchange intelligence with Shade, and a small submarine earthquake struck near the City of Time Wheels.
• Daniste warned Shade that an Infinite Snake had appeared beside the Elf Camp and that Emilia had dealt with it.

As the forces gathered on Snow Mountain for the expected battle against the Lover of Desire, Shade and Luvia discovered that the enemy had established rituals at seven possible locations. Luvia sent Shade to the waters off the Southern Island while she and Winnie led the fight at the most likely location on the mountain.

• Shade summoned Doctor Schneider and Priest Augustus, who left to investigate a possible Demon summoning before the battle.
• Miss Delia A. Sabelle joined Shade on the rooftop, accepted a Star Dew, and agreed to help in the Final Battle.
• Grace and Helen arrived with Luvia and Bella, who had tracked the Lover of Desire to two possible locations, while Winnie reported that two manifestations had appeared on the Snow Mountain.
• The Seer Association identified three more possible locations, bringing the total to seven; Shade used the Lucky Coin with Luvia to reveal that rituals were underway at all seven.
• Luvia concluded that the Lover of Desire was trying to trigger the Second Fate Impact and assigned Shade to the Southern Island with Grace and Helen, while she and Winnie headed to the Snow Mountain.

Shade divided the teams to confront the seven sites linked to the Serpent Plague, then flew with Ellie, Grace, Helen, and Adele Isabella to a marked offshore location. They found an enormous tooth bearing a powerful ritual matrix and faced an army of plague-touched creatures as Adele froze the battlefield and Shade began a sanctuary spell.

• Shade assigned the group to separate battlefields, gave several allies Bent Arcs and a Serpent's Shedding, and warned that Act V would end before dawn.
• Shade departed with Ellie, Grace, and Helen, while Adele Isabella caught up and joined him; Dorothy later received a letter about Shade and the Reinharts.
• Shade's party reached a small island where Adele exposed a foul ritual matrix covering what she identified as an enormous tooth from Mr. Snake.
• Fishmen and Water Ghosts bearing traces of the Serpent Plague surrounded the island, and Shade recognized that their target was among them.
• Adele cast Time Stop over the island and surrounding sea, and Shade began Moon Prayer · Sanctuary Aura.

Shade fought the Serpent Plague creatures as the Ring Arcanists deployed the Veil of Obscurity, trapping the battle in a realm where life and death overlapped. The enemy gathered at the world’s eastern edge, and Daniste asked Shade when Silver Moon would appear.

• Shade used Silver Moon’s power, Red Butterflies, and Red Mist to destroy many fishmen and water ghosts while sensing three Infinite Snakes and the Mermaid Halonin.
• Grace struck Halonin’s manifested body, and the Ring Arcanists arrived with Daniste and Miss Ingram.
• A Ring Arcanist deployed the Veil of Obscurity, awakening nearby water ghosts and separating the battlefield from the outside world.
• The Ring Arcanists and two Thirteenth Ring Warlocks drove the water ghosts back, while Shade defeated three Infinite Snakes and turned them into black Bent Arcs.
• A massive shadow gathered the remaining fishmen and water ghosts at the eastern edge of the realm, where the gathered Ring Arcanists joined Shade.
• Daniste asked Shade when Silver Moon would appear on the horizon.

Shade and the Ring Arcanists fought the rotting Mermaid created by the Veil of Obscurity, and Shade destroyed it with a combined silver-and-red Moonlight Slash enhanced by Falling Star Strike. As the black rain stopped and the last snakes were cleared, Valentin Halonin emerged, overwhelmed by the Death Curved Arc’s growing power.

• The rotting Mermaid appeared beneath the black rain, wielding the Death Curved Arc and attacking the assembled Ring Arcanists.
• Daniste, Miss Ingram, the Nightmare Witch, and the other Arcanists fought the Mermaid and its black snakes while Ellie endured the death-corrupted world.
• Miss Sabelle accelerated Shade’s time so he could rise high above the battlefield, where he combined two Moonbeam Greatswords for Moonlight Slash’s fourth form.
• Shade transformed the falling cross-shaped slash with Falling Star Strike, and the Mermaid Girls restrained the creature long enough for the attack to cleave it apart.
• Shade used Moon Prayer · Sanctuary Aura to dissolve the tiny snakes emerging from the Mermaid’s corpse while Miss Sabelle sent Daniste and the Nightmare Witch to dismantle the Snake Fang.
• Valentin Halonin rose from the black water in human form, but the Death Curved Arc’s resonance with death made her body begin to fail.

Shade defeated Valentine Halonin’s controlled body, received Death’s Bent Arc, and witnessed Mr. and Mrs. Otto reunite in death beneath the Underworld Moon. Their tears transformed the Eternal Flower into an antidote, and Shade headed with Grace and Helen to support the battle on Snow Mountain while Miss Sabelle returned to town.

• Valentine Halonin lowered the Bent Arc, gave it to Shade, and let her controlled body sink as her consciousness departed.
• Shade opened a passage toward the Underworld Moon, where the innocent girl’s soul and the reunited Mr. and Mrs. Otto departed after bidding him farewell.
• Grace gathered the Ottos’ tears, and Helen helped Shade transform the Eternal Flower into a liquid antidote.
• Miss Sabelle declined to join Shade and returned to town, while Shade, Grace, and Helen flew to help destroy the Snake Fang.
• Helen and Grace discussed whether Miss Sabelle was a Witch and decided not to reveal their suspicions to Shade.

Shade left the shattered sea fang to join the battle at the Snow Mountain, where Luvia and Winnie faced Valentin Halonin beside another giant snake fang. After Ellie pierced a hidden space in the mountain, Shade sent Grace and Helen to reinforce the losing defenders and descended into the fight.

• Daniste stayed behind to guard the shattered sea fang, while Shade gave her the last blank snake shed and flew toward the Snow Mountain with Ellie.
• Ellie led Shade and the Red Butterfly Twins through a hidden space in the mountain after Grace and Helen empowered her horn.
• Shade found Luvia and Winnie fighting Valentin Halonin above a battle between black and white giant Snakes around another embedded snake fang.
• Shade saw the defenders losing ground against snake-transformed Corpses and five Pseudo-Ring Beasts, while Stella restrained the enemies' Destinies.
• Shade sent Grace and Helen to help the defenders with Death's Arc, told Ellie to hide, and leapt into the battle with Star Strike.

Shade, Iluna, and their allies battled Valentine Halonin and the Black Snake on Snow Mountain, while the Demon of Weapons, Black Hand-Tifron, unleashed a far more monstrous form of the snake. The new creature emerged amid black mist and lightning, leaving the battlefield and sensitive Arcanists across the island sensing its terrifying power.

• Shade transformed into a giant star and plunged into the pit, where he and the White Snake grappled with the Black Snake as Winnie and Luvia withdrew.
• Iluna arrived, invoked Fate Stance, and struck Valentine Halonin with a crimson Thunder Spear, sending her crashing toward a mountain.
• Shade used Moon Fire, Night Watchman, and his allies' powers to destroy the Black Snake's body, but the Demon caught its severed head beside the Nail.
• Black Hand-Tifron released an overwhelming evil power and cast a half-snake onto the ground, summoning black mist and lightning.
• A gigantic, horned, human-eyed snake covered in human limbs and filthy runes emerged, its power rivaling that of the corrupted Falling Star Beast.

Shade, Emilia, and Doctor Schneider used the Great Sin Chains, demonic marks, and a thirteenth rune of Lust to contain the Demon King’s blood. The blood was sealed inside a thirteen-faced crystal, leaving Shade with the mysterious power in his hands.

• Emilia used Time Stop to let Shade bind the serpent corrupted by the Demon King’s blood with the Great Sin Chains and three demonic marks.
• Shade’s ritual branded twelve evil symbols across the sky, drawing attention from the Mermaid, If, and the Seer Association and Misfortune Order, while Doctor Schneider confronted the Demon.
• Shade used the Doctor’s False Shell mirror to draw the Demon King’s blood out of the serpent and reveal its shadowy true form.
• The blood’s power nearly broke Shade’s control of the chains until he added the perfume’s Lust rune, stabilizing all thirteen runes.
• Shade completed the seal, trapping the Demon King’s blood in a small, thirteen-faced black crystal that pulsed in his hand.

Shade sealed the Black Snake and gained a new ability, then joined Doctor Schneider against the Demon of Weapons as Iluna and Emilia pursued Valentine Halonin. The Demon of Weapons unleashed its full Demon Domain, but Shade and the Doctor broke through its assault, and the Night Watchman pierced the demon for the first time in centuries.

• Shade’s Great Sin Chains evolved, granting him a third chain and the Original Sin Seal, and the White Snake warned him about Mr. Snake’s power and the seven Snake Fangs.
• The White Snake merged into Shade and enhanced his shield abilities until dawn, then asked him to have the Ice and Snow spirit essence contact it after Act V.
• Emilia joined Iluna in pursuing Valentine Halonin, who landed among the fighting forces and revealed the cracked Fool and a Snake-like ring.
• Doctor Schneider and Shade confronted the wounded Black Hand-Tifron, and the Demon of Weapons unleashed its Demon Domain and a barrage of recorded weapons.
• Doctor Schneider devoured the shadow weapons while Shade advanced behind his combined shields, then pierced the Demon of Weapons with the Night Watchman.

Shade and his allies drove back the Demon of Weapons and chased the White Ring to Valentine Halonin, who gathered three rings and revealed her Fate Stance. Shade left Iluna to face Valentine while he and Emilia went to help the others, and Iluna’s battle against Valentine continued as Stella supported her with frost and snow.

• Shade, the Doctor, and Bill Schneider attacked the Demon of Weapons, but a Black Snake shattered the coffin and let the White Ring escape.
• The White Ring appeared in Valentine Halonin’s hand, and she joined it with the Fool and a Black Ring to restore herself and form a black sphere.
• Shade arrived and gave Night Watchman to Iluna, leaving her to fight Valentine while he and Emilia went to aid Luvia and the others.
• Iluna confronted Valentine as she emerged in a snake-bodied Fate Stance, and the two exchanged attacks amid red lightning and black light.
• Stella rode Ellie over the battlefield and used Frostmourne to summon snow that suppressed Valentine’s Resurrection fate.

Iluna overwhelmed Valentine Halonin while Shade’s allies destroyed the Demon and helped turn the battle against the Pseudo-Ring Beasts. As Act V neared its end, five Fate candidates gathered at the battlefield’s edge, where Stella challenged the newcomers’ offer to intervene.

• Iluna fought Valentine Halonin with growing control over crimson lightning, while Stella supported her from the air.
• Doctor Schneider told Shade that the Demon of Weapons was destroyed but had split off part of its essence, likely giving it to Mr. Snake.
• Shade and his allies fought the remaining Pseudo-Ring Beasts as Luvia used the Fool’s Arc to separate one creature from its fate.
• Iluna repeatedly pierced Valentine Halonin, whose serpentine transformation strengthened her but failed to overcome Iluna’s power.
• Father and Katerin Schwartz arrived as candidates for Chosen One qualification, and Ellie, Stella, Old Mr. Charat, and Mr. Mortis confronted them.
• Father offered to help before Act V ended, but Stella said Iluna had already suppressed the Lover of Desire and needed no assistance.

Stella, Iluna, and Grace and Helen helped suppress the Lover of Desire, but Valentine Halonin devoured Baron Samir and transformed into a stronger, beautiful snake monster. The chapter ended with Iluna preparing to fight again, trusting Shade had anticipated this turn.

• Stella stopped Katerin Schwartz and the other candidates from interfering, while Grace and Helen arrived with the Death Bent Arc.
• Iluna battered the Lover of Desire, and Stella used Death to suppress Resurrection and halt her regeneration.
• Baron Samir appeared beside Valentine Halonin, confessed his love, and was swallowed by her as she transformed.
• Valentine fused with the serpent-shaped Black Mist, escaped the restraint of Death, and emerged as a stronger human-headed snake monster.
• Iluna faced the transformed Valentine and vowed to smash her face.

The Lover of Desire declared that she had fulfilled her fate, then began breaking apart and endlessly resurrecting as Iluna, Stella, Ellie, and the Red Butterfly Sisters attacked her. As Ellie awakened a power connected to her human form, Stella saw a girl's silhouette in the Unicorn's shadow.

• The Lover of Desire claimed that devouring her beloved had made them one and completed her fate, then manifested a Ninth Ring of Fate.
• The Lover of Desire and her Ring of Fate began to crack and repeatedly shatter and regenerate, leaving Iluna to strike while the monster could not attack.
• Iluna, Stella, Grace, and Helen attacked the black Ouroboros ring, while Ellie returned with Death's Arc and joined the assault.
• The black ring repeatedly blasted Stella and Ellie away, but Ellie resisted its power and charged at the Ring of Fate of Resurrection with Death's Arc.
• After Ellie fell again, the scar on her neck lit up as she raised her horn, and Stella saw the shadow of a human girl on the ground.

Ellie’s human form helped Iluna and the Red Butterfly Twins destroy the Lover of Desire, but Mr. Snake emerged and revealed his plan to forge a Destruction Sword from the Demon’s essence and the Lover’s fate. As Mr. Snake prepared to face Shade, Ellie brought him a glowing White Ring.

• Ellie transformed into a young woman, used the Bent Arc to separate the Resurrection Ring from the Ouroboros Black Ring, and helped Iluna destroy the Lover of Desire.
• Black light engulfed Iluna and Stella, then Mr. Snake appeared beside the Lover of Desire’s Ashes as the battlefield fell into darkness.
• The Red Butterfly Twins explained that they had accepted the risks of claiming an Ancient God’s power, and Mr. Snake formed a ring from the Lover’s Ashes.
• Shade revealed that he had used Shattering Destiny to disrupt the Baron and Lover of Desire’s connection, while Mr. Snake fused the Demon’s essence and the ring into a Destruction Sword.
• Shade learned that the Demon had sacrificed itself to help bring about Doomsday, and Mr. Snake prepared to fight him.
• Ellie came to Shade with the White Ring, which began glowing brightly as she offered it to him.

Shade obtained the Fate of Resurrection with Ellie’s help and fought Mr. Snake, using the Soul Tear Drop to break the bond between Valentine Halonin and Baron Samir. After the incarnation began turning to ashes, the true snake-faced God of Fate emerged from the ancient temple into the Reality World.

• Ellie gave Shade the Demon's Ring of Rebirth, and he gained the Fate of Resurrection, which healed him, reflected certain Fate-based attacks, and restored others through his gaze.
• Shade fought Mr. Snake, whose Destruction Sword wounded him despite the rapid healing granted by Resurrection.
• Shade shattered the Soul Tear Drop in his palms and used the resulting vision to separate Valentine Halonin and Baron Samir’s fused souls, breaking Mr. Snake’s black-light sword.
• Shade blasted Mr. Snake away with Thunderclap Wave and restored the gathered allies, who attacked together as they advanced through the darkness.
• The group found Mr. Snake’s incarnation turning to ashes before the ancient God of Fate’s temple, then saw the true snake-faced God of Fate emerge into the Reality World.

Shade and his allies forced Mr. Snake to retreat when the Deathbringer Angel appeared beneath the Underworld Moon and wielded Fated Death. The group returned to the hidden basin, where the War of Fate continued and the battle’s witnesses began to disperse.

• Mr. Snake confronted Shade at the Temple Entrance and threatened to kill people before the final act.
• The Underworld Moon rose over a realm of black water, and the Deathbringer Angel arrived to face Mr. Snake.
• The Angel’s ring joined with the Death Curved Arc to complete the Ring of Death, and he struck Mr. Snake with Fated Death.
• A black Crow seized the broken Blacklight Sword blade, and Mr. Snake retreated into the Temple after warning Shade that its final act had not arrived.
• The Temple vanished, and Shade and the others returned to the rugged basin as Ellie ran toward them in her Unicorn form.
• The cultist candidates, Grace, and Helen left to pass on what had happened, while the Witches relaxed at Mr. Snake’s retreat.

Shade, Priest Augustus, and Doctor Schneider freed the souls of Baron Samir and Valentine Halonin from the broken blade so they could uncover the truth behind their cursed love. The Baron revealed that he had wished for Valentine to love him forever, leaving the story with Shade learning that both lovers had made the same wish.

• Shade gave Priest Augustus the broken blade containing the souls of Baron Samir and Valentine Halonin, and asked whether they could be separated.
• Doctor Schneider purified the blade, and Priest Augustus released the two souls from it.
• Priest Augustus silenced the pair and let Shade question Baron Samir first.
• Baron Samir said Mr. Snake had offered to heal his disabled legs, but he had wished instead for Valentine to love him forever.
• Shade told Baron Samir that Valentine had made the same wish before him, and the Baron admitted he had feared she would leave despite her spell.

The Baron and Valentine Halonin revealed how Mr. Snake manipulated their wishes and doomed their love, while Shade refused to trade her soul for Desire’s reward. Valentine then offered Shade the power twisted into her soul by the snake, tearing the Ring of Rebirth from herself at great cost.

• The Baron recounted making two wishes to Mr. Snake: first to learn the truth about his crippled legs, then to keep Valentine with him forever by killing her and binding her soul.
• Valentine asked Shade whether she and the Baron could have been happy without Mr. Snake, and Shade contrasted their story with the enduring love of Mr. Otto and Old Mrs. Otto.
• Valentine gave Shade an ice-rose petal containing what she knew about Mr. Snake and offered her soul to help him oppose the snake.
• Shade refused to use Valentine’s soul as payment to an evil existence and broke the mask Desire had given him.
• Valentine explained that seeing Mr. Snake’s true form had twisted part of her soul into Destiny, then tore the Ring of Rebirth out of her soul and offered its power to Shade.