Vol. 12Worlds, Witches, and Soul Stones

Duanmu Huai destroyed the Worldstone and the High Heavens, helped reclaim Dadanier’s planet, and brought the Inquisition to Tenba. He then pursued the truth behind Witches and Magical Girls, ending with possible ways to save them under investigation.

  • Duanmu Huai rescued the students, destroyed the Worldstone and the High Heavens, and killed the Prime Evils before returning home.
  • Duanmu Huai helped Dadanier reclaim his planet, then traveled to Tenba and claimed an injured Levatiel while declaring his intent to take control.
  • Duanmu Huai led the Inquisition against Tenba’s vampires, freeing their human captives and securing the City of Glimmer.
  • Duanmu Huai investigated the ruined surface and used his Great Old One power to sense and envelop the spreading Warp Space pollution.
  • Duanmu Huai destroyed a C'tan Shard, then joined Chisato and others in investigating Witches and their connection to Magical Girls.
  • Duanmu Huai and his allies uncovered a possible link between dead girls and Witches and found a new lead in Kamihama City.
  • Duanmu Huai and Akemi Homura investigated Kamihama’s Magical Girls, Magius’s Wings, and Kyubey’s system, learning how Soul Stones and Witches were connected.
  • Duanmu Huai and Ann began examining a proposed soul-restoration experiment and considered testing Kamihama’s Witch-cleansing system.
Chapters 1119–1220 Read from ch. 1119

Arc 45Worldstones and New Worlds

Duanmu Huai rescued the students, destroyed the Worldstone, the High Heavens, and the Prime Evils, then returned home and helped Dadanier reclaim his planet. He later took Ann and others to a world of Levatiel songstresses, where he declared his intent to take control of Tenba and claimed an injured Levatiel.

  • Duanmu Huai rescued the students at Bastion Fortress, learned Azmodan was corrupting the Worldstone, and prepared to destroy it.
  • Duanmu Huai blew up the Worldstone, defeated the Majin, and destroyed the High Heavens after the angels attacked the Royal Capital.
  • Duanmu Huai killed the Prime Evils and destroyed the Abyss Forge, then returned home with the students and helped establish contact between the Inquisition and the supernatural factions.
  • Duanmu Huai attended Dadanier’s succession ceremony and appointed him holder of the Trade Charter, then learned that Rudy’s rebels were using magic against the God Emperor Church.
  • Duanmu Huai disabled Maple Leaf City’s barrier and ordered it bombarded, then warned Shepard to investigate Evil God influence and prepare to exterminate infected colonies if necessary.
  • Duanmu Huai traveled with Ann, Okegis, Lorena, and Maria to a New World, where they met Ladorf and learned about the treatment of Levatiel.
  • Duanmu Huai decided to take control of Tenba and recover the Levatiel, then claimed an injured songstress from a Tenba employee.
Chapters 1119–1144 Summaries Read

Arc 46The Inquisition Reclaims the World

Duanmu Huai took control of Tenba’s Levatiels and led the Inquisition into the planet’s underground conflict, destroying the vampire strongholds and freeing their human captives. With the City of Glimmer secured, he turned to investigating the planet’s ruined surface and spreading Warp pollution.

  • Duanmu Huai seized Tenba’s Levatiel and declared that the Inquisition would reclaim the world, while promising to leave its autonomous government in place and protect the Levatiels.
  • Duanmu Huai’s party explored the surface and found an underground human civilization whose people fought vampires using dangerous Ghost Curse Weapons.
  • Duanmu Huai killed the vampires at White Stone Outpost, then continued toward Vampire City with Hiiragi Shinoa, Sangū Mitsuba, Ann, and Lorena.
  • Okegis and Maria seized the underground city for the Inquisition, and Duanmu Huai’s forces broke into Vampire City and rescued the humans being drained for blood.
  • Duanmu Huai defeated the vampire leadership while Okegis’s forces destroyed Hiiragi Murato’s research base and the Warp Daemon he had summoned.
  • Duanmu Huai brought the rescued humans to the City of Glimmer, arranged for Tenba to manage it, and identified the planet’s Chaos influence as a Bloodletter of Savage Wrath.
  • Duanmu Huai investigated the planet’s lifeless surface and suspected that an ancient conflict and a curse like the Scarlet Rot had left it ruined.
  • Duanmu Huai used his Great Old One power to sense and envelop the Warp Space pollution spreading across the land.
Chapters 1145–1170 Summaries Read

Arc 47Witches and Magical Girls

Duanmu Huai destroyed the C'tan Shard and then pursued a Witch Hunt in a modern city, joining forces with Chisato and AAA while investigating Kyubey and the girls who became Witches. After uncovering a possible link between Witches and Magical Girls, the group learned of a new lead in Kamihama City.

  • Duanmu Huai destroyed the C'tan Shard, and the Sleeping Maiden absorbed its First Level Authority Construct before he finished erasing the planet's curse.
  • Duanmu Huai accepted the Witch Hunt quest, met Kyubey in a modern city, and partnered with Chisato and Mika's café after recovering the gang's money.
  • Duanmu Huai and Chisato entered a Witch's barrier at an abandoned factory, where he killed the Witch and questioned Kyubey's account of the factory owner's daughter.
  • Duanmu Huai investigated the sealed Witch in the mountains, made a contract with Kigara, and brought her back as a subordinate.
  • Duanmu Huai agreed to a joint anti-Witch effort with AAA and Direct Attack, then destroyed a crayon-themed Witch in C-16 District with Yugiri Ayano.
  • Duanmu Huai and the others concluded that dead girls could transform into Witches, while he kept the black sphere rather than letting Kigara consume the soul inside.
  • Duanmu Huai helped Yugiri Ayano, Chisato, and Kigara stop a Devil Possessed from attacking the mayor, then reported that a Witch and Magical Girl clue had surfaced in Kamihama City.
Chapters 1171–1195 Summaries Read

Arc 48The Magical Girl Investigation

Duanmu Huai uncovered the link between Magical Girls, Soul Stones, and Witches, then joined forces with Akemi Homura and Kamihama’s Magical Girls to investigate Magius’s Wings and Kyubey’s system. The group began searching for a way to save the girls while Duanmu Huai considered testing both a proposed soul-restoration method and Kamihama’s cleansing system.

  • Duanmu Huai captured Mami Tomoe, discovered that her life depended on her Soul Stone, and learned from her that Grief Seeds cleansed it.
  • Akemi Homura told Duanmu Huai and Yugiri Ayano that she had returned from the future and had seen Madoka Kaname become a Witch, so she agreed to help investigate Kamihama City.
  • Duanmu Huai’s group met Nanami Yachiyo, Yui Tsuruno, and Tamaki Iroha, then investigated a rumor that had cursed Tamaki Iroha and destroyed its barrier to free her.
  • Duanmu Huai fought Magius’s Wings and the Witches they released, while his group learned that the organization promised Magical Girls freedom from their curse.
  • Duanmu Huai questioned captured Black Wings and suspected Kamihama City altered the usual transformation of Magical Girls into Witches, then returned to Mitakihara to capture Kyubey during Miki Sayaka’s contract.
  • Ann and Rumiere determined that Kyubey’s race granted wishes by bringing future causality into the present and harvested Magical Girls’ despair as energy, prompting Duanmu Huai to seek a less cruel solution.
  • Duanmu Huai met Inoue Takina through Chisato’s work with DA, while Ann reported Airi’s proposal to restore Magical Girls’ souls through Heroic Spirit possession.
  • Duanmu Huai and Ann agreed to examine their existing test subject before expanding the proposed experiment, and Duanmu Huai considered testing whether Kamihama’s Witch-cleansing system changed Magical Girls over time.
Chapters 1196–1220 Summaries Read
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