Chapter Summaries

Tokisaki Kurumi revealed that the Ishtar people evaded the Hounds of Tindalos by raising a pup taken from a dead Hound and using it to guide them. Izayoi Sakamaki then suggested their hidden library might have been built from the mother Hound’s womb, provoking Mithras’s fury.

• Tokisaki Kurumi explained that the Ishtar people had once sacrificed clansmen to steal knowledge and eventually obtained a Hound of Tindalos corpse.
• Tokisaki Kurumi revealed that the Ishtar people carried Hound fur to avoid pursuit before discovering a more lasting method.
• Tokisaki Kurumi said the Ishtar people had raised an unborn Hound of Tindalos pup, which obeyed them and helped them escape its kind.
• Mithras appeared after Tokisaki Kurumi finished explaining the Ishtar people’s secret and reacted angrily to the revelation.
• Izayoi Sakamaki guessed that the Ishtar people’s hidden library had been made from the mother Hound’s womb, and Mithras bared his fangs at him.

Izayoi Sakamaki promised to help Mithras recover the Hounds of Tindalos stolen by the Ishtar people, and the group received contract vouchers for Hounds of Tindalos. After giving Gilgamesh his voucher and agreeing to Mithras’s request to follow him, Izayoi Sakamaki was left facing his group members’ astonishment at gaining a powerful subordinate.

• Izayoi Sakamaki deduced that the Ishtar people had hidden their stolen knowledge and captive Hounds of Tindalos inside a Hound’s womb, and Mithras asked him to help.
• The Chat Group announced that each participant would receive a Hounds of Tindalos Contract Voucher.
• Izayoi Sakamaki gave his voucher to Gilgamesh, who had nearly endangered Uruk by entering the Ishtar library alone.
• Mithras asked to follow Izayoi Sakamaki until they recovered a missing pup, and Izayoi Sakamaki agreed to help capture the Ishtar people after his other matters were settled.
• Mithras vanished into space to handle his clan’s affairs, and Akemi Homura questioned Izayoi Sakamaki’s apparent new subordinate.

Akemi Homura considered taking a Hound of Tindalos contract to protect her world, while Izayoi Sakamaki and Gilgamesh put their earlier tension behind them. After the group discovered that Outer Gods had been watching their worlds, Izayoi reassured everyone and personally inspected each world, then returned to Mithras, who hinted that he wanted to ask him something.

• Akemi Homura weighed the power of a Hound of Tindalos contract against her desire to protect her world and Little Madoka.
• Gilgamesh thanked Izayoi Sakamaki for giving him something and apologized before leaving.
• Group members deployed Hounds of Tindalos around their worlds and realized they had felt the gaze of Outer Gods.
• Izayoi Sakamaki and Master Ancient explained that the sensed attention might have been distant, casual glances, and Izayoi promised to deal with anything that appeared.
• After an evil god's traces were found in one member's world, Izayoi Sakamaki inspected every group member's world with Mithras's help.
• Izayoi Sakamaki rested on Mithras's back as Mithras said he was curious about something.

Izayoi Sakamaki tried to lure the Ishtar people out with Mithras, but Mithras’s presence scared them away, so Izayoi sent him to follow from a distance. After Taotie ate Mithras’s aura and Izayoi wandered through several worlds, an Ishtar-possessed alien approached him and greeted him.

• Mithras offered to hold back the wolf pup while Izayoi Sakamaki drew out the Ishtar people, whom Izayoi suspected wanted his knowledge and body.
• Izayoi and Mithras searched several universes but found the Ishtar people had fled after sensing Mithras’s aura.
• Izayoi sent Mithras to follow from afar, while Taotie consumed Mithras’s aura and asked to eat him; Izayoi refused and pointed her toward the Ishtar people instead.
• Izayoi traveled with Taotie through several worlds, helping against Outer Gods and enjoying the sights along the way.
• An unfamiliar alien approached Izayoi and greeted him, and Izayoi recognized that an Ishtar person had taken over its body.

Izayoi Sakamaki let an Ishtar person believe he would exchange bodies, then followed it to the Ishtar Clan Grounds while secretly expecting a trap. He was struck from behind and lost consciousness, while the little girl stopped eating.

• Izayoi Sakamaki questioned an Ishtar person about its daughter and learned that the Hounds of Tindalos had killed her.
• The Ishtar person asked Izayoi Sakamaki to exchange spiritual bodies, and he pretended to agree on the condition that he could choose an Ishtar he liked.
• Izayoi Sakamaki left the little girl eating and followed the Ishtar person toward the Clan Grounds, thinking about how to let himself be captured.
• At the Clan Grounds, Izayoi Sakamaki saw the Ishtar people wearing bones and questioned the pink starfish about its skull.
• An unseen attacker struck Izayoi Sakamaki from behind, and he lost consciousness after glimpsing deep green flames.
• The little girl paused her meal and wiped her mouth.

Izayoi Sakamaki survived the Ishtar people’s spiritual-body ritual after his Perpetual Motion Machine reacted, then reunited with Mithras and Girl. Girl threatened the young Tindalos pup, and Mithras pleaded for her release by offering himself instead.

• Izayoi Sakamaki was restrained for the Ishtar people’s ritual, but Yellow Sponge exploded when he attempted to exchange spiritual bodies with him.
• A strange fluctuation entered Izayoi Sakamaki, triggering his Perpetual Motion Machine and engulfing him and the Great Race of Is in white light.
• Izayoi Sakamaki emerged unharmed and reunited with Mithras and Girl, who had subdued the young Tindalos outside.
• Izayoi Sakamaki told Mithras to release the pup, but she tried to escape and Girl frightened her by revealing her predatory nature.
• Mithras begged Girl to spare the pup and offered himself as food, claiming he would remain in his prime for thousands of years.

Izayoi Sakamaki helped Tindalos learn that she was a Hound of Tindalos, not an Ishtar, and reunited her with Mithras and her clan. He then revealed that the Ishtar people had carried her mother’s scent for a horrifying reason, leaving Tindalos and the Hounds shaken and unable to accept the truth.

• Mithras asked Izayoi Sakamaki to summon her clan, and he agreed after explaining that Tindalos did not believe they were alike.
• Little Taotie refused to eat Izayoi Sakamaki because his power was too strong, and he promised to let her eat him if she grew powerful enough.
• The Hounds of Tindalos arrived, and Mithras stopped one clan member from approaching Tindalos while she still believed the Ishtar people were her family.
• Little Taotie gave Tindalos a mirror, and Tindalos saw that she had the appearance of a Hound of Tindalos.
• Tindalos insisted that the Ishtar people carried her mother’s scent, and Izayoi Sakamaki explained what he had learned about the Ishtar people and their library.
• Tindalos recoiled in disbelief as Izayoi Sakamaki finished recounting the truth to her and the Hounds of Tindalos.

Izayoi Sakamaki returned a fragment of Anna’s skull, revealing to Tindalos that she was the lost daughter of Frank and Anna and that her birth name was Chloe. The hounds prepared to seek Anna’s remains and travel back to witness the war’s beginning, while Izayoi wondered whether their quest for revenge had caused the war.

• Izayoi Sakamaki gave Mithras a fragment of Anna’s skull, and Frank mourned as Tindalos realized it was her mother’s remains.
• Mithras explained how Anna disappeared during the war, and Frank revealed that he and Anna had chosen the name Chloe for their daughter.
• Tindalos accepted the name Chloe and was welcomed by the Hounds of Tindalos as their recovered clanswoman.
• Izayoi urged the hounds to retrieve Anna’s remains, and Chloe volunteered to travel into the past to find them.
• Mithras agreed to let Chloe and Izayoi travel to the war’s beginning, and the hounds vowed revenge for Anna.
• Izayoi asked Mithras what had originally caused the war between the Ishtar people and the Hounds of Tindalos.

Izayoi Sakamaki and his companions tracked a small group of Ishtar people, hoping to use Aizen Sōsuke’s Kyōka Suigetsu to locate their main force and capture someone with access to their library. After Aizen took control of the group, Izayoi arrived with Chloe and Tokisaki Kurumi, whose unsettling presence had made their journey awkward.

• Izayoi Sakamaki traveled through the past with Chloe while Tokisaki Kurumi followed, frightening Chloe with her presence.
• Tokisaki Kurumi spotted a small group of Ishtar people, and Izayoi told her to wait for the Chat Group members to gather so Aizen could use Kyōka Suigetsu to trace their main force.
• Izayoi explained that they needed to capture an Ishtar person with enough status to enter and leave the library freely.
• When Izayoi asked whether they should approach or follow the Ishtar people, Tokisaki Kurumi said Aizen had already taken control of them and was waiting for Izayoi.
• The group teased Izayoi after Tokisaki Kurumi implied he had handled a personal problem on the way, and Izayoi clarified that Chloe had been too frightened to use Spacetime travel because of Kurumi.
• Akemi Homura asked what Tokisaki Kurumi had done to Chloe.

Izayoi Sakamaki realized Chloe’s terror of Tokisaki Kurumi might be connected to events in spacetime, and he used Aizen Sōsuke’s Kyōka Suigetsu to put Chloe to sleep. He suspected Kurumi and Akemi Homura had acted on the fear, but the chapter left their connection to Chloe unexplained.

• Chloe trembled in fear of Tokisaki Kurumi, who left to clear her head, and Akemi Homura followed her.
• Izayoi Sakamaki recognized a possible connection between Chloe’s fear, Kurumi’s departure, and Homura following her, then asked Aizen Sōsuke to use Kyōka Suigetsu on Chloe.
• Aizen Sōsuke hypnotized Chloe into a deep sleep and asked Izayoi to let him study her, but Izayoi refused.
• Izayoi reasoned that Chloe and Kurumi had never met, and Aizen suggested Kurumi might have acted impulsively because of the inexplicable fear.
• Izayoi suspected Kurumi and Homura had done something together, while Aizen wondered whether they had targeted Chloe’s mother.

Izayoi Sakamaki and Aizen Sōsuke realized that Anna’s fear had passed to Chloe before birth and that the Mobius Ring could no longer be stopped. Elsewhere, Tokisaki Kurumi fought a Hound of Tindalos until Akemi Homura recognized the pregnant warrior as Anna, Chloe’s mother.

• Izayoi Sakamaki and Aizen Sōsuke discussed how Anna’s fear had reached Chloe and concluded that the Mobius Ring was already taking its course.
• Izayoi Sakamaki asked Aizen Sōsuke how he knew about the Mobius Ring, and Aizen Sōsuke’s smile stiffened.
• Tokisaki Kurumi attacked an injured Hound of Tindalos while Akemi Homura guarded them and tried to keep the hound from escaping.
• Akemi Homura stopped Tokisaki Kurumi from continuing the fight and offered the Hound of Tindalos a Healing Potion, but the hound refused to trust her.
• Akemi Homura asked whether the Hound of Tindalos was Anna, and Tokisaki Kurumi realized Anna was Chloe’s mother.
• Anna learned that her unborn child was named Chloe and asked whether Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura were Chloe’s friends from the future.

Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura learned that Anna knew she would die, and tried to find a way to heal her. Elsewhere, Izayoi Sakamaki reacted to their struggle against fate by striking Aizen Sōsuke, who used Kyōka Suigetsu to keep the group from noticing.

• Anna guessed that her future self was dead, but said she was relieved to know her child was alive and well.
• Akemi Homura told Anna that Chloe was in this spacetime, and Anna accepted that she would never meet her child.
• Tokisaki Kurumi offered Anna a Healing Potion, but Anna refused because it would act like poison to her.
• Akemi Homura explained that she had inherited Little Madoka's Points, and Tokisaki Kurumi urged her to buy a Golden Potion while preparing to heal Anna with Zafkiel.
• Izayoi Sakamaki sensed Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura resisting fate, then struck Aizen Sōsuke when he teased him.
• Aizen Sōsuke used Kyōka Suigetsu to distract the group members, while Izayoi Sakamaki fumed that he had lost control and hit him.

Izayoi Sakamaki explained that the Hound of Tindalos near Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura was Anna, Chloe’s mother, and connected the encounter to the strange voice about fate that haunted his dreams. As Kurumi fought Anna, Izayoi urged her to let Anna go and sent her an exclusive Red Packet, leaving the group curious about what it contained.

• Aizen Sōsuke asked Izayoi Sakamaki why he was upset, and Izayoi identified the Hound of Tindalos with Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura as Anna, Chloe’s mother.
• Izayoi recalled hearing a voice about fate in his dreams and said that the idea of fate made him unhappy.
• Izayoi saw that Kurumi and Homura were calling for Tsunade’s help, but Tsunade did not respond.
• Izayoi told Kurumi to let Anna go and sent her an exclusive Red Packet.
• The group members reacted excitedly to the Red Packet, and Tatsumaki asked what it contained.

Izayoi Sakamaki’s group members learned that Points could not be transferred and discovered the Phoenix Tail Feather’s costly rebirth ability. When they begged him to buy feathers for them, he agreed on the condition that they repay him, then threatened to kick them out of the group.

• Tatsumaki regretted staying behind while members from other worlds went on the mission.
• Aizen Sōsuke asked Izayoi Sakamaki for Points, but Izayoi explained that the Chat Group forbade transferring them.
• Tokisaki Kurumi showed Anna the Phoenix Tail Feather and urged her to eat it after explaining its Nirvana ability.
• Akemi Homura found the feather’s sixty-seven-million-Point price and asked Izayoi to buy one for her.
• Izayoi agreed to deliver feathers if members repaid him, then silenced their teasing by threatening to kick them out.

Izayoi Sakamaki and the others learned that Anna had given the Phoenix Tail Feather to her unborn child, then discovered Anna had crossed time to reach Chloe. Anna insisted on leaving with the Ishtar people for her child and race, and Izayoi asked her to explain her plan.

• Izayoi Sakamaki told Tokisaki Kurumi that Anna had not appeared, then realized the tearful Hounds of Tindalos before him was Anna herself.
• Anna reunited with Chloe and thanked Izayoi for letting her see her grown child.
• Anna said she intended to leave with the Ishtar people, believing her sacrifice could help Chloe and their race.
• Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura objected, while Anna explained that she was determined to fight for her child and her people.
• Izayoi asked Anna to tell him what she was planning.

Anna went ahead to face the Ishtar people while Izayoi Sakamaki stayed behind with Chloe and confronted the being controlling her. The being identified itself as Yog-Sothoth, while Aizen Sōsuke and the others prepared to fight the gathered Ishtar people.

• Anna rejected the group’s suggestions and insisted on drawing the Ishtar people away by herself, despite Izayoi Sakamaki’s objections.
• Anna faced a group of Ishtar people as Aizen Sōsuke, Tokisaki Kurumi, and Akemi Homura followed behind her.
• Aizen Sōsuke followed Anna, hoping to obtain Hound of Tindalos cells, while the other group members advanced toward the Ishtar people.
• Izayoi Sakamaki stayed behind with the vacant-eyed Chloe and addressed the presence that had frozen the surrounding Spacetime.
• Izayoi Sakamaki recognized the presence within Chloe as Yog-Sothoth and asked why it had come to him.
• Tokisaki Kurumi and Akemi Homura closed the space around Aizen Sōsuke and the Ishtar people, and Aizen drew Kyōka Suigetsu.

Izayoi Sakamaki learned that Yog-Sothoth had not created the Chat Group and that even the Omniscient and Omnipotent being knew little about the Nameless Mist. After discussing the danger of drawing Azathoth’s attention, Izayoi planned to bring the group members to explore the mist while keeping his suspicions about Yog-Sothoth in mind.

• Chloe asked Izayoi Sakamaki how he communicated through the Chat Group, explaining that she could not perceive its Spacetime or its origins.
• Izayoi learned that Yog-Sothoth had not created the Chat Group and that Yog-Sothoth did not know everything, including what lay within the Nameless Mist.
• Izayoi asked about Azathoth’s palace, and Yog-Sothoth warned that speaking of it could draw Azathoth’s attention, especially while Yog-Sothoth was present.
• Yog-Sothoth said the Nameless Mist was usually stable but that no one who entered it had returned except him.
• Izayoi said he would bring the group members to visit the Nameless Mist, while Yog-Sothoth asked him to explain the Chat Group.

Izayoi Sakamaki arrived too late to save Anna and found Aizen Sōsuke among the survivors, while Chloe grieved over her mother’s remains. As Akemi Homura hummed a lullaby, Izayoi reflected on his own parents and the life he could not escape.

• Izayoi Sakamaki woke Chloe and brought her to see Anna, but they arrived after the battle had ended.
• Aizen Sōsuke showed Izayoi a tuft of Anna’s fur and said the Ishtar people had taken the body, then left with a more important Ishtar captive.
• Izayoi prepared to return to his own Spacetime, leaving Chloe with the grieving Hounds of Tindalos as she began transforming toward a wolf form.
• Akemi Homura hummed a lullaby that drew Izayoi back, and he remembered the note his parents had left him and his wish to escape a life sustained by the Third Perpetual Motion Machine.

Akemi Homura’s song soothed Izayoi Sakamaki and the grieving Chloe, while Frank learned that Anna was gone and Chloe was safe. Izayoi handed a captured Ishtar person to Frank, who then offered to serve as Izayoi’s Hound of Tindalos.

• Akemi Homura sang “Do You Remember Love,” bringing Izayoi Sakamaki and Tokisaki Kurumi to tears and helping Chloe calm down.
• Izayoi Sakamaki returned to his Spacetime and told Frank that Anna was gone and Chloe should return soon, then reassured him that Chloe was growing stronger.
• Frank volunteered to detain the Ishtar person, and Izayoi Sakamaki used the Chat Group to bring the captured prisoner to him.
• Aizen Sōsuke explained that he had identified the Ishtar person as a higher-up because he tried to flee while others fought.
• Frank asked whether Izayoi Sakamaki had a Hound of Tindalos following him, then offered himself for the role.

Izayoi Sakamaki spoke with Gilgamesh about Enkidu and summoned Akemi Homura, believing Gilgamesh would need to hear her song. He then returned to school in the Puella Magi Madoka Magica world, where Tokisaki Kurumi teased Madoka and spread a strange story about Izayoi to their classmates.

• Izayoi Sakamaki sent Frank away with the Ishtar person and found Gilgamesh lamenting that Enkidu was not at his side.
• Gilgamesh told Izayoi about Enkidu, their former rivalry, and the Chain of Heaven that Enkidu had left behind.
• Izayoi messaged Akemi Homura to come to Gilgamesh, saying he thought Gilgamesh would need her song, then left.
• Izayoi returned to school and saw Tokisaki Kurumi teasing Madoka, who blushed and ran out when Izayoi greeted them.
• Tokisaki Kurumi told Izayoi that Madoka was going through puberty and later told their classmates that Izayoi was fighting a terrifying devil.