Chapter Summaries

Jigen heard a voice he believed came from Otsutsuki Shibai and followed its guidance to a hidden underground lake. He plunged into its strange depths, convinced he was approaching godhood, while two unknown figures appeared in his eyes.

• Jigen heard a vision of Otsutsuki Shibai repeating the titles “God of Lost Hearts,” “Eternal Screamer,” and “Father of Demons,” and believed Shibai had become a god.
• Jigen sensed that the voice came from the moon and decided to settle his thousand-year-old grudge against Kaguya.
• Jigen followed the voice’s guidance through ancient ruins to a cavern with a pale blue lake guarded by floating bubbles.
• Jigen used Sukuna-Hikona to shrink the bubbles and dove into the lake, whose water grew dark red and gelatinous as he descended.
• Jigen heard Shibai’s voice again, pressed onward, and had two unknown figures reflected in his pupils.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki followed a voice through the interior of a satellite and descended into an Abyss, where he found the Ten-Tails Shell bound by strange roots. He awoke in a living town beneath the statue, and Otsutsuki Toneri identified the place as Shangri-La Far From the Mortal World.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used his Byakugan to realize that he had entered the interior of a satellite through the pink lake.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki flew to the ruined city and found blood-red roots spreading from an Abyss as a voice called to him.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki followed the call and jumped into the Abyss, where darkness swallowed him.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki awoke beside a grotesque statue he recognized as the Ten-Tails Shell, wrapped in blood-red branches.
• Otsutsuki Toneri appeared and told Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that he was in Shangri-La Far From the Mortal World.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki entered a strange lunar settlement and learned from Toneri that its residents worshipped a being that had supposedly saved them. After Isshiki saw the mist’s ghostly figures, they attacked him, and Toneri abandoned him in the fog.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki failed to open a Spatial Teleportation Gate and learned from Toneri that everyone in the town belonged to the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki claimed to be a descendant of Hagoromo, while Toneri described the blood-red branches as gifts from God.
• Three bell tolls thickened the pink mist, and Ōtsutsuki Isshiki followed Toneri toward the town.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki used the Byakugan to see ghostly figures in the mist, and they noticed his gaze.
• Toneri told Ōtsutsuki Isshiki that those who saw the figures could not leave the mist, then walked away as they charged at Isshiki.

Ōtsutsuki Isshiki fled the Ghost Shadows into a ruined town, where the suspended residents revealed that a sinister presence had lured him there. A force within Isshiki drove that presence out, and Uchiha Sōgetsu appeared before the residents as they recognized him.

• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki attacked the Ghost Shadows with black cubes and Black Rods, discovered his attacks could not affect them, and ran toward the town.
• The Ghost Shadows stopped outside the town, held back by a stone monument, as Ōtsutsuki Isshiki entered the vine-covered ruins.
• Ōtsutsuki Isshiki found the residents hanging from blood-red branches around the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path, and they chanted about the God of Lost Hearts and the Eternal Screamer.
• The residents immobilized Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, and a blood-red vine entered his body and drilled into his brain as they searched for someone.
• An unfamiliar voice spoke from within Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, its power destroyed the vine, and a translucent figure emerged from him.
• The residents recognized the figure as Uchiha Sōgetsu, who confirmed that he had arrived.

Uchiha Sōgetsu used Ōtsutsuki Isshiki and the blood-red vines to spread a mental plague and the True Creator’s voice, forcing the pollution out of the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path. The statue’s collapsing shell revealed a Demonic God, and Sōgetsu completed his mission to uncover the moon’s secret.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu revealed that he had spent three years turning Ōtsutsuki Isshiki into a puppet, but Isshiki succumbed when he recognized Sōgetsu as the Dragon.
• The vine-connected Otsutsuki clansmen descended on Sōgetsu and repeatedly demanded that he have a child with them.
• Sōgetsu detonated the Mental Plague seed in Ōtsutsuki Isshiki, spreading madness through everyone linked by the blood-red vines.
• Sōgetsu sensed that the true pollution was inside the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and called it out.
• When the statue attacked, Sōgetsu snapped his fingers and triggered the True Creator’s voice, causing the statue’s shell to collapse.
• Sōgetsu saw a Demonic God inside the hollowed-out statue, suffered an uncontrollable transformation, and received confirmation that the moon-secret mission was complete.

Uchiha Sōgetsu confronted a mad Sequence 1 Demonic God on the moon but was overwhelmed by its contamination and attacks. He escaped at the last moment by using the Star Scepter to teleport to Konoha.

• Uchiha Sōgetsu recognized the moon's contamination as a mad Sequence 1 Angel controlled by the Mother Tree of Desire and stabilized his Spirituality after seeing its Mythical Creature Form.
• The Demonic God attacked Uchiha Sōgetsu, who revealed his Mythical Creature Form and tried to repel it with Mind Breath and Mind Storm.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu avoided the Demonic God's contamination by roaming the Subconscious Ocean and sacrificing a Virtual Persona, then tried to fly toward the exit.
• The Demonic God restrained Uchiha Sōgetsu with barriers and another shriek, leaving him weakened as he prepared to escape.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu pictured Konoha accurately and used the Star Scepter to teleport away before the Demonic God could stop him.

After losing contact with his main body, 'Adam' prepared a resurrection plan by choosing White Zetsu as a stand-in and taking on the identity of Amon. Uchiha Sōgetsu became lost in a strange realm, then vanished after a system notification interrupted his attempt to escape, appearing in a speeding black sedan.

• 'Adam' lost contact with his main body and decided to suspend Obito's advancement and slow the Twilight Hermitage's Potion Pathways.
• 'Adam' chose White Zetsu as a stand-in and used the Parasitism ability recorded in Lemann's Travel Notes to plan to control him.
• 'Adam' put on a monocle and a pointed cap and declared that he was Amon.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu used the Star Scepter to escape God's Sin but arrived in a chaotic realm he could not identify.
• Uchiha Sōgetsu began losing control in the strange realm and tried to use the Star Scepter again, but a system notification interrupted him and he vanished.
• A man drove a black sedan at 275 kilometers per hour through heavy rain, searching the dark road for an exit.

A father drove his son through a storm while Death Servants pursued them, then confronted Odin, who demanded the suitcase and offered to transform them. As the father fought Odin and the boy fled, a grayish-white Dragon appeared in the sky.

• The man sped through the rain, crushing Death Servants that blocked the road while protecting his son.
• Lightning brought Odin to the toll station, where he demanded the suitcase and offered the man and boy a stronger bloodline.
• The man gave his son the suitcase, ordered him to run, and attacked Odin as the Death Servants pursued the boy.
• The man leaped at Odin with his blade, but time seemed to stop before their clash.
• A grayish-white Dragon tore through the ink-black clouds above them.

Chu Zihang revisited his fragmented memories of a gray Dragon and received an assignment to investigate the Infanticide Case in Brooklyn with Adam, a newly introduced psychologist. The mission had been raised to A-rank after an agent died, and Chu Zihang agreed to protect Adam.

• Chu Zihang woke from a recurring dream about the man who had charged at Odin and the gray Dragon that interrupted their clash, but needle-like pain stopped him from remembering more.
• Norma informed Chu Zihang that the Executive Department had ordered him to prepare for a Brooklyn mission involving a suspected high-risk Mixed-blood.
• Chu Zihang met Adam outside the Executive Department, accepted his business card, and learned that Adam was a Cassell College psychologist drafted as a mission analyst.
• Chu Zihang and Adam joined Raymond and the other agents for a briefing about the Infanticide Case, which involved the murder of a pregnant woman and her unborn child.
• An agent explained that the suspect’s estimated bloodline rank had risen from B-rank to A-rank after the previous investigator died, and Chu Zihang agreed to protect Adam.

Raymond assigned Adam Ankewelt to investigate a series of murders targeting pregnant women, with Chu Zihang protecting him and Susie serving as bait. After the briefing, Raymond questioned Angers about why he had insisted Adam join, and Angers kept his reasons secret while studying Adam’s file.

• Raymond presented the murders and asked Adam to profile the killer, who he suspected had suffered childhood abuse or abandonment and resentment toward mothers.
• Raymond assigned Adam to survey the crime scenes, Chu Zihang to protect him undercover as a doctor, and Susie to act as bait for the suspected A-rank killer.
• Raymond ordered the team to prepare alchemical weapons and assemble at the college gate before traveling to Brooklyn.
• After the meeting, Susie introduced herself to Adam and offered to protect him, while Chu Zihang spoke with her.
• Raymond asked Angers why he had required Adam to join the mission, but Angers refused to explain and examined Adam’s file.

Adam devised a hospital bait plan to lure a serial killer targeting young blonde single mothers and divorcees, reasoning that the killer’s pride would make him attack despite recognizing the trap. The plan appeared to be underway when controlled civilians burst into Susie and Chu Zihang’s ward, and Susie identified an unknown Word of Power.

• Adam and Chu Zihang determined that the killer likely obtained victims’ personal information through hospital records and narrowed the suspect pool to caregivers.
• Susie posed as a pregnant single mother in a hospital, while Chu Zihang protected her undercover and Adam and Freya posed as a couple nearby.
• Adam told Freya that the killer would accept the bait because his pride and desire to create a new “work of art” would overcome his caution.
• Adam sensed the killer’s arrival, and Chu Zihang detected killing intent outside Susie’s ward.
• Several disheveled people broke into the ward, and Chu Zihang recognized that they were ordinary people under control as Susie suspected an unknown Word of Power.

A killer used a hypnosis-like Word Spirit to turn the hospital's civilians into a protective crowd, trapping Chu Zihang, Susie, Freya, and Adam. Chu Zihang pursued the suspected killer alone, while Adam began to worry that Chu Zihang himself might be the greater danger.

• Raymond lost contact with the undercover team as hypnotized civilians flooded the hospital, and his operatives failed to enter without harming them.
• A disguised killer ambushed Team B and seriously injured Misha, so Raymond ordered the operatives to retreat and seal the hospital exits.
• Chu Zihang and Susie barricaded themselves in a ward, then Chu Zihang spotted the suspected killer and charged after him while Susie went to join Adam and Freya.
• Susie, Freya, and Adam held their ward door against the crowd until the civilians outside stopped ramming it.
• Adam noted that Chu Zihang's high-risk King of Flames Word Spirit should have caused a commotion, then asked whether Susie or Freya could stop Chu Zihang.

Adam, Susie, and Freya confronted George, who had controlled Chu Zihang and blocked the hospital’s communications. After learning how George’s ability worked, Adam recognized it as a Word Spirit like his own and prepared to face George while Susie and Freya held off Chu Zihang.

• Adam warned Susie and Freya that Chu Zihang was approaching under enemy control, and Chu Zihang blasted through the hospital room door with Lord's Flame.
• Adam identified George in the corridor as the culprit, while Susie and Freya realized that Chu Zihang had truly been controlled.
• George explained that he entered people’s spiritual worlds to find their weaknesses and control them, and said he had subdued Chu Zihang by using pregnant women as shields.
• George offered to let Adam leave if Susie and Freya stayed behind, but Adam refused and revealed that he believed George’s power was a Word Spirit like his own.
• Adam told Susie and Freya to hold Chu Zihang back while he faced George, and golden light appeared in Adam’s eyes.

Adam and the others tried to stop George while Chu Zihang remained under his control, and Adam pursued George after helping Freya and Susie hold Chu Zihang off. Adam revealed that his Word of Power could override George’s and defeated him with a single slap, leaving George embedded in a wall.

• Adam charged George while Freya used Land of Purity to block Chu Zihang’s King of Flames and Susie attacked with a metal bedboard.
• Chu Zihang deflected the bedboard and struck at Adam, but Adam caught his blade barehanded and punched him into a hospital room.
• Adam left Freya and Susie to hold off the awakened Chu Zihang and pursued George down the corridor.
• George surrounded Adam with controlled patients and threatened to make them kill themselves, but Adam overrode his Word of Power and freed them.
• George attacked Adam physically, but Adam slapped him into a cement wall and told him that doctors could fight too.

Adam used hypnosis to drive George into Deep Dragonization, then defeated him and fed him a drop of his own blood as part of an experiment. George was left helpless and silenced as Adam thanked him for cooperating.

• George realized Adam was manipulating his emotions, but Adam used Combat Hypnosis to plant the command to kill him.
• Adam used Frenzy to push George past the Blood Limit Boundary, transforming him into a Deep Dragonized creature with bone wings.
• George attacked Adam, but Adam redirected his first charge and revealed that George’s apparent victory had been a hypnotic illusion.
• Adam met George’s next punch with his own, shattered George’s body, and silenced him with a gesture.
• Adam stepped on George and let a drop of his blood fall into George’s mouth before thanking him for cooperating.

Adam fed George a drop of Demigod blood, causing him to mutate into a monstrous mass of flesh that rampaged through the hospital corridor. After Adam feigned severe injuries, Susie and Freya found him as Chu Zihang awakened and prepared to confront George.

• Adam forced George to swallow Demigod blood, and George lost control as his body transformed into a sprawling mass of flesh and eyes.
• Adam left George to mutate, then used Lie to disguise himself as a badly injured survivor and played dead.
• George charged down the corridor, and Hikari engulfed him in flames as Freya and Susie arrived to search for Adam.
• Susie and Freya found Adam and tried to hold George back, but their force field and Frigga bullets failed to stop him.
• Chu Zihang awakened from hypnosis, told Susie and Freya to take Adam away, and unleashed Word of Power - Lord's Flame against George.

After the Brooklyn case, the Executive Department discovered evidence that a genetic drug had caused George’s Deep Dragonization and that its trail led toward Japan. Anger planned a mission to Japan involving Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Adam Ankewelt, leaving the reason for Adam’s inclusion unclear.

• Raymond ordered Chu Zihang to keep George’s Deep Dragonization secret from anyone not already informed.
• The Executive Department concealed the hospital fire as a gas leak and sent George’s remains to the Alchemy Principles Department for study.
• Schneider told Anger that George’s remains contained traces of a genetic drug that could increase dragon blood, and that the drug’s clues pointed to Japan.
• Anger and Schneider discussed the Japan Branch and Yamata no Orochi, then decided to use a mission to test their intentions.
• Anger proposed sending Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Adam Ankewelt to Japan, describing Adam’s inclusion as a small test.

Principal Anger visited Adam in the hospital to arrange a mission to Japan and confront him about the Dragon King there. Adam agreed to investigate the White King's descendants in exchange for the White King's remains, while Anger demanded an explanation after the mission.

• Adam calmly questioned Principal Anger about his involvement with Brooklyn.
• Anger agreed not to pursue the matter with George and warned Adam that he would kill him if he tried to overthrow humanity.
• Anger assigned Adam, Chu Zihang, and Caesar to investigate a genetic drug and the White King's descendants in Japan.
• Adam demanded the White King's remains, prompting Anger to erupt in fury because Adam had known Japan had a Dragon King.
• Anger threatened Adam with a Damascus folding knife, but Adam reminded him that Time Zero could not kill him and recalled their earlier agreement.
• Anger agreed that Adam could have the White King's remains and demanded an answer after the mission.

After the Psychology Department cleared Chu Zihang of hypnotic traces, he learned he had been assigned to a secret mission in Tokyo with Caesar and Adam. The three departed aboard Sleipnir, while Caesar began to find Adam more intriguing than he had expected.

• Chu Zihang returned to the Lionheart Society after completing his psychological examinations, and Susie told him he was due to leave for Tokyo with Caesar and Adam.
• Susie prepared Chu Zihang's luggage and Alchemy Sword, then wished him a safe return.
• Chu Zihang met Adam at the school gate and promised there would be no mishaps on their mission.
• Caesar, already aboard Sleipnir, wondered why Adam had been selected and investigated his unremarkable background.
• Chu Zihang and Adam boarded Sleipnir and greeted Caesar, who became intrigued by Adam's clear, childlike eyes.

Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Adam flew to Tokyo to investigate the source of the Dragon Blood Gene Potion and locate a missing Soviet icebreaker carrying dragon-related cargo. In Tokyo, Uesugi Eriyi waited for Adam, who had promised to free her from her tower.

• Sleipnir carried Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Adam from Chicago to Tokyo after Caesar reviewed the secret mission file with them.
• Caesar learned that the missing Soviet icebreaker had reportedly sunk near Japanese waters while carrying forbidden dragon-related items.
• Caesar struggled to make conversation with Chu Zihang and Adam during the flight, while Chu Zihang asked where to buy gifts for his mother.
• Uesugi Eriyi waited in her room at Genji Heavy Industries for the man who had promised to take her away.
• Adam had introduced himself to Eriyi in her dream and asked whether she longed for freedom.