Chapter Summaries

Izayoi Sakamaki stopped Zhongli from attacking Tokisaki Kurumi, and the group accepted Akemi Homura’s plan to send Little Madoka into reincarnation. After Kurumi left for another timeline, Izayoi postponed his hoped-for spar with Homura, then Zhongli reported a possible evil god at Mt. Qingce.

• Izayoi Sakamaki caught Zhongli’s spear and persuaded him to stop pursuing Tokisaki Kurumi, while Tsunade joined the fight against Akemi Homura.
• Tokisaki Kurumi stopped venting her grief and then shot herself, leaving her body behind as she went to another timeline.
• Akemi Homura gathered the bodies of Little Madoka and Tokisaki Kurumi, and Izayoi Sakamaki asked to spar with her.
• Akemi Homura declined to fight, so she and Izayoi agreed to spar after she met Little Madoka again, while Tsunade and others stayed to accompany her.
• Zhongli returned to Teyvat and spotted a bright moon and a giant wolf shape in the fog above Mt. Qingce, which he suspected was an evil god.

Zhongli learned that the Giant Wolf Fenrir was an incarnation of Mithras, a Hound of Tindalos, and Izayoi Sakamaki devised a plan to lure it away by traveling back in time. Izayoi went to the first loop, met Kaname Madoka before she became a magical girl, and eventually defeated the Stage Equipment Witch while Akemi Homura watched in alarm.

• Zhongli's Geo spear vanished into the Giant Wolf Fenrir, and Izayoi Sakamaki identified it as Mithras's incarnation and warned that ordinary elemental attacks would not work.
• Izayoi Sakamaki asked Akemi Homura to send him back to Kaname Madoka's first loop so he could attract the Hounds of Tindalos and lead them away.
• Akemi Homura sent Izayoi Sakamaki one month into the past, where he met Kaname Madoka and urged her to think carefully before becoming a magical girl.
• Izayoi Sakamaki stayed with Kaname Madoka through her repeated losses, but could not break through the barrier to save her friends.
• When the Stage Equipment Witch appeared, Izayoi Sakamaki beat it directly, leaving Akemi Homura frightened and confused.

Izayoi Sakamaki fought off the Hounds of Tindalos and drove Mithras away while Kaname Madoka prepared to make a wish. Afterward, he warned the group about Outer Gods and advised its members to strengthen themselves, prompting Zhongli to ask how a Demon God could grow stronger.

• Izayoi Sakamaki destroyed the attacking Hounds of Tindalos and drove the enormous Mithras into a Spacetime vortex after a fierce fight.
• Izayoi Sakamaki told Akemi Homura and Kaname Madoka to do whatever they wanted, then prepared to witness Madoka make her wish.
• Izayoi Sakamaki learned from Zhongli that Fenrir had left through a breach, and he urged the Demon Gods to conceal it before Fenrir could return.
• Zhongli struggled to shake visions of Fenrir devouring planets and asked the group how a Demon God could grow stronger.
• Izayoi Sakamaki recommended ways for Zhongli to increase his power and warned the group that Outer Gods and evil gods could threaten their worlds.
• Izayoi Sakamaki told the group to inspect their worlds and study information about the Outer Gods that he and Master Ancient would distribute.

Aizen Sōsuke discussed reforming Soul Society and his plans for the Soul King while Kuchiki Rukia challenged his cruel methods. Izayoi Sakamaki went to fight the Salvation Witch, but Taotie’s hunger and Master Ancient’s warning about her eating herself left him with a new problem.

• Aizen Sōsuke asked Izayoi Sakamaki for advice on reforming Soul Society, and Izayoi told him to shape it as he pleased.
• Kuchiki Rukia objected to Aizen Sōsuke’s experiments on Central 46 Chambers members, but Aizen defended them and said he planned to visit the Soul King.
• Izayoi Sakamaki asked to fight the Soul King, then suggested fighting Kaname Madoka’s Salvation Witch instead.
• Akemi Homura warned Izayoi Sakamaki that the Salvation Witch was nearly impossible to defeat, but she sent him through time after he insisted.
• Taotie complained that Izayoi Sakamaki had not fed her, and Master Ancient warned him that a hungry Taotie might eat herself.

Izayoi Sakamaki sent Taotie to attack the Salvation Witch, Kriemhild Gretchen, and discovered that Taotie could consume the Witch’s spatial energy. After Gretchen tried to flee, Izayoi urged Taotie to eat more.

• Izayoi Sakamaki promised the hungry girl a huge meal and charged toward the Salvation Witch, but QB had already disappeared.
• Izayoi ordered Taotie to bite Gretchen, and Gretchen swallowed her into the barrier beneath her birdcage-like skirt.
• Taotie ate spatial energy inside the barrier rather than people, and Izayoi learned that her feeding frightened Gretchen.
• Izayoi punched Gretchen until she collapsed and released Taotie, who said she had eaten lots of spatial energy.
• When Gretchen began to flee, Izayoi urged Taotie to charge after her and eat more.

Izayoi Sakamaki and Taotie defeated the Salvation Witch, but Gretchen’s voice revealed that Little Madoka might be trapped within her. After Taotie finished eating, Izayoi decided to investigate whether the Incubators and the Black Goat’s Kid had returned, leaving the ruined world behind with Taotie eager to join him.

• Izayoi and Taotie attacked Gretchen, and a crack in her face spoke to him in Little Madoka’s voice, pleading for help.
• Izayoi rejected the voice as a trick and continued striking Gretchen until she stopped struggling and Taotie emerged from her barrier.
• Izayoi realized that magical girls’ souls might remain inside Witches, and grew angry at himself and the Incubators.
• Izayoi wondered whether the Incubators’ base and the Black Goat’s Kid had returned after Homura’s resets, and asked Taotie if she remembered the creature.
• Taotie recalled the Black Goat’s Kid and agreed to go taste it after Izayoi promised that no one could interfere.

Izayoi Sakamaki investigated the Incubators’ attempt to summon an Outer God, found their summoning site abandoned, and fed the summoned Black Goat’s Kid to Taotie. Back in Akemi Homura’s timeline, he told her he had dealt with the Salvation Witch, but kept the truth about Madoka’s fate to himself.

• Izayoi Sakamaki traveled with Taotie to the Incubators’ gathering and sensed a terrifying aura that he suspected belonged to Shub-Niggurath.
• The dark aura recoiled, and the Incubators vanished; Izayoi Sakamaki found their site deserted and crushed one remaining Incubator.
• A Black Hole briefly opened and left a confused Black Goat’s Kid behind, which Izayoi Sakamaki ordered Taotie to eat.
• After returning to Akemi Homura’s timeline, Izayoi Sakamaki said he had no way to save Little Madoka but had dealt with the Salvation Witch.
• Akemi Homura was stunned by his claim, while Izayoi Sakamaki withheld that Taotie had eaten Gretchen.

Izayoi Sakamaki, Akemi Homura, and Tokisaki Kurumi reunited with the reincarnated Kaname Madoka at school so Izayoi could invite her back to the Chat Group. Izayoi’s direct note asking whether Madoka liked him flustered her, while Homura and Kurumi watched jealously and the group reacted to his blunt approach.

• Akemi Homura asked Tokisaki Kurumi to return so they could find Kaname Madoka, and Izayoi Sakamaki agreed to go with them.
• Reincarnated as an ordinary girl in the Kaname household, Little Madoka woke from a recurring dream and hurried to school.
• Izayoi Sakamaki, Akemi Homura, and Tokisaki Kurumi entered Madoka’s class as transfer students and sat around her.
• Tokisaki Kurumi accused Akemi Homura of bringing Izayoi near Madoka, while Homura noticed Madoka seemed flustered by him.
• Izayoi passed Madoka a note asking if she liked him, and she blushed and hid it as her classmates and the Chat Group reacted.

Izayoi Sakamaki recruited Kaname Madoka into the Chat Group after Akemi Homura and Tokisaki Kurumi delayed him at school. Meanwhile, Saitama killed a disguised monster, and Izayoi traveled to Tatsumaki’s world, where he encountered a dangerous mist.

• Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura took Kaname Madoka to the infirmary while Izayoi Sakamaki was left surrounded by classmates.
• Saitama entered an alley after hearing a call for help and killed the monster Bloody Queen when it revealed its true form.
• Izayoi Sakamaki went to the infirmary, invited Kaname Madoka into the Chat Group, and left school.
• Izayoi Sakamaki traveled to Tatsumaki’s world and vanished after recognizing danger in the mist as Tatsumaki called out.

Izayoi Sakamaki found Bloody Queen’s mysterious folding fan and discovered that it bewitched people into seeing its holder as a beautiful girl. He tried to destroy the fan with Saitama and Tatsumaki, but it resisted and attempted to escape through space.

• Izayoi Sakamaki found Bloody Queen’s fan beside a pile of rotten flesh and recognized its ability to transform how people appeared.
• Saitama arrived, mistook Izayoi Sakamaki for a cute girl, and followed him until Izayoi contacted Tatsumaki for help.
• Tatsumaki arrived with a hydraulic press, but she too failed to recognize Izayoi Sakamaki until Saitama held the fan and the bewitchment lifted.
• Izayoi Sakamaki tried to crush the fan with the hydraulic press, but it stopped the machine from pressing down.
• The folding fan flew away and cracked the surrounding space as it tried to escape, prompting the little girl to warn that it was traveling through space.

Izayoi Sakamaki and Saitama tried to destroy the mysterious folding fan, but it resisted their attacks. After Tatsumaki was overwhelmed by a glimpse through the Space-Time Rift, Nyarko came through to retrieve the fan.

• Izayoi Sakamaki stopped the folding fan from escaping and he and Saitama repeatedly punched it without breaking it.
• Tatsumaki asked what they would do about the still-open Space-Time Rift, and Izayoi Sakamaki suspected someone on the other side was keeping it open to retrieve the fan.
• Tatsumaki looked through the rift and collapsed as tentacles and sharp mouths appeared from her body, so the girl swallowed her and brought her back safely.
• Izayoi Sakamaki and Saitama approached the rift, but it expanded and Nyarko jumped through, saying she had come to take back her folding fan.

Izayoi Sakamaki discovered that Nyarko had come to retrieve the Bloody Queen’s damaged folding fan, but he kept it for Little Taotie. Nyarko left through a Space-Time Rift after revealing she knew about Mithras, and Tatsumaki questioned why Izayoi would not chase her.

• Izayoi Sakamaki teased Nyarko by pretending the Bloody Queen’s folding fan was only a ball, while Saitama and Tatsumaki watched.
• Izayoi Sakamaki recognized Nyarko’s aura and suspected she was the Bloody Queen’s true body, but Nyarko denied it and explained that the fan was useful because the Bloody Queen had lost most of her power.
• Izayoi Sakamaki stuffed the mangled fan into his pocket for Little Taotie instead of returning it to Nyarko.
• Nyarko said she was leaving and accidentally revealed that she knew about Mithras before escaping through the Space-Time Rift.
• Tatsumaki asked why Izayoi Sakamaki would not chase Nyarko, and he warned that she was an incarnation of Nyarlathotep.

After Tatsumaki was badly injured by the folding fan, Izayoi Sakamaki called Tsunade to treat her. As Tsunade began operating, Tatsumaki cried out in pain and collapsed into Izayoi Sakamaki’s arms, leaving him wondering why the anesthetic had not worked.

• Tatsumaki picked up the damaged folding fan and had her hand crushed by its remaining power.
• Izayoi Sakamaki explained that Nyarlathotep was an Outer God, and Saitama left after saying he would stop her if she returned.
• Izayoi Sakamaki asked Tsunade to come treat Tatsumaki, and Tsunade arrived after drinking.
• Tsunade anesthetized Tatsumaki and began operating on her shattered hand while Izayoi Sakamaki warned her about the lingering bizarre aura.
• Tatsumaki cried that the treatment hurt, then collapsed into Izayoi Sakamaki’s arms as Tsunade told him to hold her still.

Izayoi Sakamaki left after Tsunade healed Tatsumaki, then visited Akemi Homura and Tokisaki Kurumi. He asked Homura to return him to the timeline where he first encountered Mithras, determined to find out whether the being had truly disappeared.

• Tsunade healed Tatsumaki's injured hand, and Izayoi Sakamaki left once he saw she had recovered.
• Izayoi Sakamaki visited Akemi Homura and Tokisaki Kurumi in the Puella Magi Madoka Magica world.
• Izayoi Sakamaki reflected on his encounters with the Three Great Gods and wondered why they were interested in him.
• Izayoi Sakamaki asked Akemi Homura to send him back to the timeline where he had first met Mithras.
• Akemi Homura agreed to help Izayoi Sakamaki search for another way, despite believing there had been no way to save anyone.

Izayoi Sakamaki returned to the moment Kaname Madoka became a god and found his past self fighting Mithras's avatar. After learning that Mithras had mistaken him for an Ishtar person, he watched the Hound flee and realized his past self had already killed and fed its avatar to the girl.

• Akemi Homura sent Izayoi Sakamaki back to the timeline where Kaname Madoka became a god, and he spotted Akemi trapped beneath a collapsed building.
• Izayoi rushed toward the fallen Stage Equipment Witch and saw his past self fighting the Hounds of Tindalos.
• Izayoi struck Mithras, then learned it had pursued him because it thought he was an Ishtar person traveling through time.
• Mithras accepted that Izayoi was telling the truth and began to leave, but fled in a panic when Izayoi challenged it.
• Izayoi saw that his past self had killed Mithras's avatar and fed it to the girl, then asked her if she was hungry.

Izayoi Sakamaki learned that his Zanpakutō’s Bankai took the form of a little girl named Taotie, who grew stronger by eating, then missed his chance to fight another version of himself. He warned the Chat Group about the Hounds of Tindalos and began explaining the Outer Gods’ power, leaving Gilgamesh curious about what it meant for him.

• Izayoi Sakamaki learned that the little girl was Taotie, the strongest form of his Zanpakutō, and that eating strengthened it.
• Izayoi Sakamaki missed his chance to meet and fight his other self when that version vanished to the One-Punch Man World.
• Izayoi Sakamaki failed to find a connection to Yog-Sothoth through Mithras and left, resolving to warn the group about time travel’s dangers.
• Izayoi Sakamaki told the Chat Group about the Hounds of Tindalos, prompting members to discuss the threat and Tatsumaki’s experience with them.
• Izayoi Sakamaki explained that the Outer Gods were regional overlords in several affected worlds, then began to address what that meant for Gilgamesh.

Izayoi Sakamaki recruited Akemi Homura to help him find the Great Race of Is and negotiated with Mithras for their location. He learned that the Ishtar people were in Gilgamesh’s world, where Gilgamesh had gone to meet the seemingly friendly visitors himself.

• The Chat Group issued a mission to find the Great Race of Is, with a Hounds of Tindalos Contract Book as its reward, and Izayoi Sakamaki warned the group that the Hounds would hunt them.
• Izayoi Sakamaki proposed searching alone and summoning the others once he found the Ishtar people, and the group agreed.
• Izayoi Sakamaki asked Akemi Homura to rewind time so he could speak with the Lord of the Hounds of Tindalos, and she suggested capturing a Hound as a guard.
• Akemi Homura sent Izayoi Sakamaki back along the timeline, and he encountered Mithras and asked where the Ishtar people were.
• Mithras revealed that the Ishtar people were in the Type-Moon world, and Izayoi Sakamaki realized Gilgamesh had gone to confront them in Uruk.

Izayoi Sakamaki negotiated with the Ishtar person inhabiting Gilgamesh over exchanging knowledge about evading the Hounds of Tindalos, then invited Chat Group members to visit the Ishtar person's library. In Madoka's world, her nightmares about dangerous events left Akemi Homura and Tokisaki Kurumi shaken, and Kurumi took Homura away while concealing the truth from Madoka.

• Izayoi Sakamaki realized Gilgamesh was inhabited by an Ishtar person and learned it wanted to exchange consciousnesses to gain his knowledge.
• Izayoi Sakamaki offered to bring other knowledgeable people in exchange for information about how the Ishtar people evaded the Hounds of Tindalos.
• The Ishtar person refused to exchange information outside its library, so Izayoi Sakamaki invited Chat Group members to visit it.
• Tony and Sōsuke Aizen agreed to visit the Ishtar person's library.
• Little Madoka told Akemi Homura and Tokisaki Kurumi about nightmares featuring hounds, a wounded girl, and a white doll, frightening Homura and Kurumi.
• Tokisaki Kurumi pretended Akemi Homura was having an episode and took her toward the infirmary as Little Madoka offered to come along.

Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura sought a way to stop Little Madoka from returning to her tragic cycle, and Homura used her hourglass to freeze the world so they could travel together. Meanwhile, Izayoi Sakamaki gathered the group in Uruk and revealed that an Ishtar person had exchanged consciousnesses with Gilgamesh.

• Tokisaki Kurumi comforted Akemi Homura and decided to visit the Ishtar people's library to find a way to help Little Madoka.
• Akemi Homura stopped time with her hourglass and left with Tokisaki Kurumi, while another version of Little Madoka picked up the hourglass and watched over her other self.
• Sōsuke Aizen arrived to join Izayoi Sakamaki and Gilgamesh in Uruk.
• Akemi Homura and Tokisaki Kurumi arrived, and Gilgamesh stared at them until Izayoi Sakamaki told them to sit.
• Tony arrived and joked that Gilgamesh seemed replaced, prompting Izayoi Sakamaki to explain that an Ishtar person had exchanged consciousnesses with Gilgamesh.

Izayoi Sakamaki stayed out of the Ishtar people’s mind exchange while the group visited their library, and Tony discovered the Chat Group could adapt to the Ishtar bodies. After the group returned from spending over twenty hours in the exchange, Izayoi let them keep their acquired knowledge and dismissed them, confident none could defeat him.

• Izayoi Sakamaki refused to exchange minds with an Ishtar person, and the others went to visit the Ishtar library.
• Tony livestreamed the exchange, but his feed went dark when the Ishtar person occupying his body caused him to lose consciousness.
• Tony realized the Chat Group had not followed him at first, then returned and the group identified that it had adapted to their Ishtar bodies.
• Izayoi Sakamaki fell asleep on Tokisaki Kurumi’s lap and woke after the group had spent more than twenty hours exchanging minds.
• Aizen Sōsuke told Izayoi that the Ishtar people had left after obtaining the knowledge they wanted.
• Izayoi Sakamaki dismissed the group without asking what they had learned and claimed that none of them could beat him.