Chapter Summaries

Iron Man Tony and Gilgamesh fought while Zhongli wandered off and encountered a tiger-like girl calling herself the Leopard Person. Meanwhile, Izayoi Sakamaki brought Gudako and Mash to Uruk, where they saw Gilgamesh diligently managing the kingdom.

• Iron Man Tony and Gilgamesh clashed in a fierce aerial battle as Zhongli protected himself with a barrier and admired the forest.
• Chat Group members watched Tony’s livestream and speculated about Gilgamesh’s anger and the strength of Tony’s armor.
• Zhongli wandered deep into the forest, where a tiger-like girl insisted she was a leopard and demanded that he become an offering to her.
• Izayoi Sakamaki brought Gudako and Mash to Gilgamesh’s palace in Uruk.
• Gudako, Mash, and Izayoi listened as Gilgamesh carefully handled reports, supplies, Demonic Beast attacks, and matters concerning his subordinates.

Gudako and her companions met King Gilgamesh, who focused on the mysterious Izayoi Sakamaki and challenged him to battle. Izayoi revealed an overwhelming aura, and Gilgamesh embraced the danger with excitement as he prepared to attack.

• Merlin brought Gudako and her companions before Gilgamesh, who recognized them as visitors from another Spacetime and asked Izayoi Sakamaki who he was.
• Izayoi introduced himself provocatively, prompting the guards to draw their weapons before he revealed he had been joking; Gilgamesh laughed and ordered Siduri to step back.
• Gilgamesh summoned his clay tablet and prepared to fight Izayoi, while Merlin kept Anna and the others from joining the battle.
• Izayoi released an oppressive aura that darkened the palace hall, warned Gilgamesh he might die, and drew an excited response from the King of Heroes.
• Izayoi accepted Gilgamesh's challenge, and Gilgamesh unleashed a barrage of blades, spears, swords, and halberds toward him.

Izayoi Sakamaki and the Chat Group’s Gilgamesh arrived in Uruk, where the two versions of the King of Heroes bickered after Tony was beaten by Gilgamesh. Izayoi gathered the group to plan Uruk’s defense, then asked Tony where Zhongli and Tokisaki Kurumi had gone.

• Merlin reinforced the palace’s barrier as Izayoi Sakamaki and Gilgamesh prepared to fight, while Gudako reached Doctor Roman and learned the situation was under control.
• Tony crashed into the palace in damaged Iron Man armor, pursued by the Chat Group’s Gilgamesh, who confronted his version from the current era.
• The two Gilgameshes traded insults and threats, while Izayoi stopped them from fighting and proposed discussing how to protect Uruk City.
• The Chat Group’s Gilgamesh announced the battle plan to Uruk, while the current-era Gilgamesh stood by with bruises from fighting Izayoi.
• Izayoi asked Tony where Zhongli and Tokisaki Kurumi had gone; Tony recalled that Zhongli had taken tea and gone for a stroll, but did not know where Kurumi was.

After the group discussed how to handle the coming battle in Uruk, Tokisaki Kurumi caught Ishtar as the goddess tried to leave. Kurumi used time-based abilities to immobilize Ishtar and left her helpless in her hands.

• Izayoi Sakamaki proposed that the others take turns fighting the coming threat and said Gudako and Mash could investigate a nearby city.
• Gudako accepted the reconnaissance mission, while Merlin invited Anna to explore and try the local desserts.
• Ishtar arrived at the palace, argued with Gilgamesh, and prepared to leave Uruk.
• Tokisaki Kurumi appeared behind Ishtar and teased her about being her beloved toy.
• Ishtar stabbed Kurumi, but Kurumi reversed her own injury and used time-manipulating bullets to stop Ishtar and take control of her.

Ishtar was captured by Tokisaki Kurumi and pressured into helping Uruk, but admitted that her Bull of Heaven was missing. As the palace prepared for war, Gudako’s group traveled toward Uruk and encountered a strange golden figure in the forest.

• Tokisaki Kurumi released Ishtar after Izayoi Sakamaki asked her to stop, and Ishtar agreed to help fight the Three Goddess Alliance when Kurumi’s clones intimidated her.
• Gilgamesh told Ishtar to bring out the Bull of Heaven, but Ishtar confessed that it was gone and Gilgamesh berated her.
• Gilgamesh had Ishtar tied to a rack outside the palace with a sign calling her an idiot, and Tokisaki Kurumi appeared to tease her.
• Gudako, Mash, and Merlin traveled toward Uruk, with Gudako relieved that Izayoi Sakamaki could shoulder some of their burden.
• A golden figure appeared in the forest and called herself a legendary idiot before insisting that she was not an idiot.

Zhongli reunited with Gudako’s group after getting lost and defeating the Leopard Person’s attacks with his golden barrier. He revealed that Quetzalcoatl had left the Three Goddess Alliance, giving the group an unexpected advantage in their mission.

• The Leopard Person attacked Mash and her companions, but Zhongli arrived and stopped her with a stone before protecting himself behind a golden barrier.
• Doctor Roman recognized Zhongli as a companion and explained the palace’s battle plan to him after learning he had wandered off and forgotten about the mission.
• Zhongli told the group that he had met Quetzalcoatl and described her complicated affection for humanity.
• Zhongli announced that Quetzalcoatl had already left the Three Goddess Alliance, leaving Gudako and the others astonished.

After Zhongli persuaded the Feathered Serpent God to leave the Three Goddess Alliance and support Uruk, the group revised its battle plan. Gilgamesh claimed the fight against Enkidu and the Demon Beast Goddess, while Izayoi declared he would confront Tiamat directly, leaving the others stunned.

• Doctor Roman reported that Zhongli had persuaded the Feathered Serpent God to join Uruk, and he shared an image of Zhongli speaking with her.
• Gilgamesh reacted angrily to learning that Zhongli had resolved one of the threats before he had contributed, then gathered everyone to discuss the new information.
• Izayoi assigned Ishtar and Gudako to persuade the Underworld Goddess and told Gilgamesh to face Enkidu and the Demon Beast Goddess.
• Gilgamesh refused assistance against Enkidu, whom he recognized as the world's only Chain of Heaven, and agreed to pursue the Demon Beast Goddess afterward.
• Izayoi announced that he would fight Tiamat directly and shatter her Regenerating World, while Tokisaki Kurumi expressed interest in facing the creator goddess too.
• Gilgamesh slapped Ishtar's sign labeled "Useless Goddess" and told her to hold it properly.

Izayoi Sakamaki began a Gift Game requiring the team to defeat Gorgon and resolve Gimugu’s resentment to awaken Tiamat. Gilgamesh confronted Gimugu while Zhongli struck Gorgon’s palace with Marduk’s Hand Axe, and Anna helped the team defeat Gorgon and returned safely.

• Izayoi Sakamaki issued a Gift Game to Tokisaki Kurumi, Gilgamesh (Heroic Spirit), Tony, Zhongli, and Gudako, making Gorgon and Gimugu their targets.
• Gilgamesh confronted Gimugu outside the Demon Beast Goddess’s palace and challenged him to fight.
• Zhongli summoned Marduk’s Hand Axe and smashed it into the palace, severely damaging Gorgon and alarming Gimugu.
• Tony joked about Gorgon’s appearance, and Anna attacked him before Tokisaki Kurumi explained Anna’s connection to Gorgon.
• Tokisaki Kurumi, Mash, and Iron Man restrained Gorgon, while Anna persuaded her and then returned to the team carrying Gorgon’s remaining radiance.

Anna subdued Gorgon, but the group learned that Tiamat was the true threat and watched her awaken to attack Uruk. As Uruk’s soldiers fought to defend humanity, Tony joined the battle and began to recognize what had been missing from his pursuit of strength.

• Anna defeated Gorgon without injuring her, but failed to reach her through the hatred and pain accumulated within her.
• Gimugu discovered Gorgon’s fading divinity and warned that the group had unleashed Tiamat; Merlin revealed that he would return in his true body within two days.
• Gilgamesh stopped Tokisaki Kurumi from pursuing Gimugu, and Tony explained that the king was grieving his former close friend.
• Three days later, Tiamat awakened in the deep sea and sent black mud and monsters toward Uruk, beginning the final battle.
• Uruk’s soldiers held the city’s defenses while the Chat Group watched, respecting their choice to protect humanity themselves.
• Tony flew into battle in his Iron Man armor and realized that he had pursued strength without the resolve and convictions that others possessed.

The visitors and Uruk’s defenders drove back Tiamat’s black tide, while Gilgamesh spent his life force to activate the city’s Divine Authority Seals. Enkidu’s body, inhabited by Gimugu, then revealed himself and joined the battle against Tiamat.

• Tony Stark, Tokisaki Kurumi, Gilgamesh, and Zhongli joined the fight, and Zhongli summoned a meteor that wiped out the black tide before the monsters returned in overwhelming numbers.
• The visitors, Uruk’s gods, and Chaldea’s defenders fought together and stabilized the city’s failing defensive line.
• Gilgamesh activated the Divine Authority Seals without soldiers or Lapis Lazuli, burning his life force because he refused to let the outsiders claim all the glory.
• Siduri realized Gilgamesh had accepted his destined end and watched in grief as golden chains burst from Uruk.
• Gimugu, inhabiting Enkidu’s body, appeared as the Chain of Heaven, condemned the monsters, and wrapped Tiamat in massive chains.

Quetzalcoatl and Ishtar helped pin down and attack Tiamat, while Izayoi Sakamaki watched and began plotting to make Ishtar his maid. Ishtar fled Tokisaki Kurumi’s attention and settled beside Izayoi, who won her trust with praise and displayed a trove of dazzling gemstones.

• Quetzalcoatl transformed into a comet and slammed Tiamat into the ground, with Gudako’s Command Spell strengthening her attack.
• Ishtar summoned a celestial meteor and fired it as an arrow at Tiamat, whose resistance was hindered by Gimugu’s chains.
• Izayoi Sakamaki watched Ishtar’s attack and considered using gemstones and other methods to make her his maid.
• Tokisaki Kurumi silently threatened Ishtar, who recognized her as a pervert and hurried to take refuge beside Izayoi.
• Izayoi praised Ishtar until she relaxed and began to like him, then produced a string of brilliant gemstones.

Izayoi Sakamaki gave Ishtar a trove of gemstones before flying to confront Tiamat, then rejected Gudako’s plan to send the goddess into the underworld. He left the group worried as he prepared to handle the battle his own way.

• Izayoi Sakamaki dazzled Ishtar with gemstones from two of Gilgamesh’s treasuries, then told her she could keep them as he left for the battlefield.
• Ishtar blushed and savored Izayoi Sakamaki’s compliment, unaware that he was amused by how easily he had flustered her.
• Izayoi Sakamaki observed Tiamat and considered recruiting her into No Name if she could enter Hakoniwa.
• Gudako asked Izayoi Sakamaki to help send Tiamat into the underworld, but he refused to resolve the crisis through that tragic method.
• Gudako pleaded with Izayoi Sakamaki not to act impulsively, and he insisted he knew what he was doing.

Izayoi Sakamaki trapped Tiamat inside the Endless Colosseum to battle her without destroying the Underworld or the world outside. He overwhelmed her Demon Beasts and continued attacking as she transformed into a dragon, leaving her struggling to withstand him.

• Izayoi Sakamaki rejected the plan to fight Tiamat in the Underworld and enclosed them both inside the Endless Colosseum.
• Mash, Gudako, Ishtar, Zhongli, Gilgamesh, and the Feathered Serpent God realized Izayoi Sakamaki intended to face Tiamat alone, and Gilgamesh declared victory assured.
• Tiamat summoned the Eleven Demon Beasts, but Izayoi Sakamaki swiftly shattered them as they repeatedly tried to regenerate.
• Izayoi Sakamaki battered Tiamat with devastating attacks until she transformed into a powerful dragon form.
• Izayoi Sakamaki mocked Tiamat's transformation and continued attacking, while her anger and sorrow remained hidden behind her outward composure.

Izayoi Sakamaki stopped treating Tiamat as a punching bag and entered her newly created world to speak with her, while Uruk City’s defenders defeated the unsupported black mud and celebrated their victory. The battle’s outcome remained undecided, leaving Gudako bewildered that the others seemed unconcerned about Izayoi and Tiamat.

• Izayoi Sakamaki realized he had been using Tiamat as a punching bag, then prepared a full-strength attack as she unleashed NegaGenesis to create a replacement world.
• Izayoi passed through Tiamat’s black-and-white domain despite its restrictions and entered her inner world to talk with her.
• With Tiamat gone from the battlefield, Gilgamesh announced that Uruk City and Mesopotamian civilization had survived the apocalypse war.
• The defenders and Chat Group members celebrated the victory, while Gilgamesh and Tony complained that the final battle had ended before they could fight properly.
• Gudako asked why the others were not worried, since Izayoi had only restrained Tiamat and their confrontation was still unresolved.

Tony and Roman reassured Gudako that Izayoi could easily handle Tiamat, while Zhongli and Gilgamesh shared a conversation about the burdens of kingship. In Uruk, Siduri broke down over Gilgamesh and Enkidu leaving her behind, and Gilgamesh comforted her as he prepared to pass with the old era.

• Tony told Gudako that Izayoi could destroy worlds and had nothing to fear from Tiamat, and Roman confirmed his assessment.
• Zhongli and Gilgamesh drank together and discussed the burdens each had borne as king.
• Gilgamesh worked in the palace while Siduri urged him to rest, then confronted him for disregarding her feelings and leaving her alone.
• Gilgamesh embraced Siduri, apologized, and explained that the king of the old era had to depart so a new era could begin.
• Zhongli asked Gilgamesh how he felt about Siduri, and Gilgamesh drank in frustration over the other king's good fortune.

The Chat Group's Gilgamesh mourned Siduri and Enkidu, while Izayoi Sakamaki met Tiamat in her sorrowful inner world. He defied fate to rescue her and offered to take her to an era that needed and loved her.

• The Chat Group's Gilgamesh told Uruk's Gilgamesh that he had been powerless to stop Siduri and Enkidu from dying, and the two kings drank together in grief.
• Izayoi Sakamaki found Tiamat and listened as she mourned that her children had once loved her but now wanted to leave.
• Izayoi Sakamaki told Tiamat that neither she nor her children were wrong, though her love no longer suited the era.
• As Tiamat began to disappear and begged her children not to leave her, Izayoi Sakamaki broke through the river of fate and pulled her back.
• Izayoi Sakamaki offered Tiamat a contract to join an era that needed and loved her.

Izayoi Sakamaki defeated Tiamat but persuaded her to join No Name, promising to take her to a world where she would be needed. Back in Uruk, he reunited with his allies and explained his encounter with Tiamat to Ishtar, whose view of him shifted as she recognized his compassion for the gods.

• Tiamat accepted Izayoi Sakamaki's contract and joined No Name after he promised to take her to a world that needed her.
• Tiamat asked Izayoi not to abandon her, and he promised that no one would abandon her again.
• Izayoi returned to Uruk and spoke with Tony, who described learning from the city's attitude toward its fallen and his clashes with Gilgamesh.
• Izayoi and Tony prepared to visit Gilgamesh, while Ishtar wandered the palace and waited for something to do.
• Ishtar questioned Izayoi about Tiamat, and he explained how he fought her in the Final Duel Arena and reached her through a conversation.
• Ishtar saw Izayoi's sorrow and empathy for Tiamat and began wondering whether he understood the gods.

Ishtar, feeling abandoned and lonely after the battle, became distracted by Izayoi Sakamaki’s gemstones and embarrassed herself by grabbing him. Izayoi offered her a vast mountain of gemstones in exchange for a reason, and Ishtar eagerly asked what he wanted before protesting his appraising gaze.

• Ishtar reflected that the gods had been abandoned by humanity and feared being left alone after the others departed.
• Ishtar became flustered when she realized she was gripping Izayoi Sakamaki’s arm and standing close to him.
• Tony teased them and left, claiming he was going to find Gilgamesh for another fight.
• Izayoi teased Ishtar about her interest in gemstones, and she denied wanting them until he promised to give them to her.
• Izayoi summoned a mountain of gemstones and told Ishtar it was only part of his collection.
• Ishtar agreed to do whatever Izayoi wanted for the gemstones, then objected when she noticed him appraising her.

Izayoi Sakamaki tricked Ishtar into signing a contract that bound her to become his maidservant in Hakoniwa. Though he offered her a choice between the contract and a mountain of gems, Ishtar chose the gems and buried herself in them.

• Izayoi Sakamaki revealed that Ishtar had signed a binding contract and laughed as she realized she had sold herself.
• Ishtar confronted Izayoi Sakamaki, but he refused Gudako’s plea to let her go and called her his future maidservant.
• Gilgamesh mocked Ishtar, and Izayoi Sakamaki told him he was about to die before preparing to leave with Gudako, Mash, and Anna.
• Ishtar protested that she had helped in the final battle, and Izayoi Sakamaki acknowledged her as a comrade before offering her a choice between freedom and the gems.
• Ishtar chose the Gemstone Mountain and buried herself in it, while Gilgamesh mocked her decision.

Izayoi Sakamaki and Tokisaki Kurumi plotted how to handle Ishtar after she abandoned the alliance for a mountain of gems. When Izayoi reclaimed the treasure, he reminded Ishtar that their contract made her his maid and placed everything she owned under his control.

• Ishtar became enthralled by the gems, while Gilgamesh complained and Zhongli reflected on their meaning.
• Tokisaki Kurumi whispered a suggestion to Izayoi about her friend Tobiichi Origami, and they shared a knowing look as they watched Ishtar.
• Mashu shielded Anna from the suggestive conversation, while Anna wondered what the unfamiliar terms meant.
• Izayoi clapped and reclaimed the gems, leaving Ishtar desperately clinging to the last one.
• Izayoi took the last gem and told Ishtar that their contract made her his maid and everything she owned his.