Chapter Summaries

After defeating Guinevere’s protector, Azer tested the World Saving Divine Sword and the Ruyi Jingu Bang, then met Athena, who reclaimed the Gorgon Stone. Athena restored her primordial form as the Trinity Queen, while Azer watched with a knowing smile.

• Azer defeated Lancelot’s manifestation with the World Saving Divine Sword but could not usurp his Authority.
• Azer summoned Sun Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang and demonstrated its ability to change size and shape.
• Azer called out Athena, who had approached in the form of an owl, and identified her desire to reclaim her Snake.
• Athena took the Gorgon Stone from Azer and chanted Words of Power to restore her lost divinity.
• Athena transformed into her primordial form as the Trinity Queen, and Azer watched without intervening.

Azer used his control over the Gorgon Stone to bind Athena after she absorbed it and returned to her Trinity Queen form. He turned her into his Exclusive Armament and left with the transformed stone emblem.

• Athena challenged Azer to battle, believing he had waited for her to regain her full power.
• Azer walked into Athena’s deathly domain, and she froze as she swung the Scythe of Death at him.
• Azer explained that he had bound the Gorgon Stone with his authority over armaments, making Athena subject to his control when she merged with it.
• Azer kissed Athena, then watched as she transformed into a stone emblem bearing both her goddess and Gorgon forms.
• Azer put away the Gorgon Stone and left with Athena as his Exclusive Armament.

After the battle in Nikko City, Azer restored the transformed citizens and returned to Seven Heroes Shrine, while the Netherworld elders avoided meeting him. There, he and his companions were reunited with Seishuuin Ena, who had returned with the snow-white Spirit Blade.

• The Committee for the Compilation of True History lifted Nikko City's lockdown and organized relief efforts as Azer used Ama no Murakumo to cure the citizens transformed into monkeys.
• Erica and Lilliana recounted defeating monkey Divine Beasts with their god-slaying combat magic, while Mariya Yuri had guided them through danger with her Spirit Vision.
• Saya Miyakano thanked Azer for resolving the crisis and explained that the Netherworld elders were reluctant to meet him; Azer suspected they feared his power and the weapons he had taken.
• Saya Miyakano left with Kasu Tōma, and Azer returned to Seven Heroes Shrine with Erica, Lilliana, and Mariya Yuri.
• Mariya Yuri recognized Seishuuin Ena in the living room, where Ena had returned with the snow-white Spirit Blade.

Seishuuin Ena returned and complained that Azer had fought the Monkey God Lord without her, then promised to join him if another god appeared. Her meeting with Erica Brandelli sparked a rivalry over the King’s foremost retainer, and the two left to fight as Mariya Yuri was mortified by claims that she was already regarded as the King’s woman.

• Seishuuin Ena told Azer she resented missing the battle against the Monkey God Lord, and he promised to bring her along next time a god appeared.
• Erica Brandelli called herself the King’s First Knight, and Lilliana objected that she was not entitled to the title while Lilliana remained a captured maid.
• Seishuuin Ena challenged Erica, and Lilliana revealed that Ena had defeated her while she used the Song of the Bow.
• Erica and Seishuuin Ena agreed to fight over who deserved to be the King’s foremost close retainer, while Ena said she would protect Mariya Yuri’s place above her.
• Lilliana told Mariya Yuri that the world viewed her as the New King’s woman, leaving Yuri embarrassed as she remembered her family’s suggestive remarks.
• Erica and Seishuuin Ena went outside to fight, followed by Lilliana, while Azer stayed behind and calmly drank his tea.

After Erica and Seishuuin Ena returned from their duel, Lilliana persuaded Azer to make her his knight while still keeping her housework duties. That night, Luo Hao unexpectedly appeared in Azer’s bath, declared herself his elder sister, and joined him naked, leaving Azer to accept the situation and enjoy the view.

• Erica and Seishuuin Ena returned from their duel acting as though nothing had happened, while Lilliana’s expression hinted that she had witnessed something remarkable.
• Lilliana asked Azer to serve as his knight, and he agreed on the condition that she continued doing housework.
• Mariya Yuri went home and disappeared for the night, while Erica and Seishuuin Ena were also absent.
• Azer relaxed in the Shrine Office bathtub until Luo Hao appeared and chided him for failing to notice her approach.
• Luo Hao told Azer she would teach him to be a proper king, then undressed and joined him in the bathtub, claiming the siblings’ closeness justified bathing together.
• Azer stopped questioning Luo Hao’s behavior and decided to enjoy the sight of her.

After praising Azer for defeating the Great Sage and Marquis Voban, Luo Hao invited him to return to China, but he chose to keep traveling and hunting Heretic Gods. Azer postponed his return to the Library of Fantasies, and he and four companions began a journey that brought him new divine artifacts and powers.

• Luo Hao praised Azer’s victories and offered him a place in the Five Prisons Holy Sect, but Azer declined to settle in China for now.
• Luo Hao accepted Azer’s decision and told him to visit her on Mount Lu when he was ready to return to his homeland.
• After the Library of Fantasies notified Azer that his life experience was complete, he postponed returning so he could hunt more gods.
• Azer traveled with Mariya Yuri, Erica, Lilliana, and Seishuuin Ena, using Yuri’s Spirit Vision to find and slay Kaguya-hime in the Sagano Bamboo Forest.
• Azer acquired Kaguya-hime’s five divine treasures, then traveled abroad and slew Ea, Typhon, and Horus, gaining one divine artifact and two abilities.

After ending his god-slaying journey, Azer returned to the Library of Fantasies and received a new reward: Leviathan, a colossal living weapon described as the world’s strongest magical beast. The chapter ended with Azer examining Leviathan’s information after using the Authority of the Demon King to silence it.

• Azer obtained the Authorities of the Demon King, the Eye of Horus, and Ea’s book of spells after slaying Typhon, Horus, and Ea.
• Azer decided to stop pursuing gods, returned to China, and spent a year with Luo Hao on Mount Lu as vice sect leader and China’s second King.
• Azer returned to the Library of Fantasies, where the Library settled his life experience and began distributing a reward.
• A colossal azure monster emerged from the reward book, and its arrival caused the Library to expand around it.
• Azer activated the Authority of the Demon King to silence the monster, then identified it as Leviathan, a four-thousand-meter living weapon and the world’s strongest magical beast.

Azer strengthened Leviathan into his Exclusive Armament, then opened the fantasy book and entered the world of Strike the Blood. His new life background made him Leviathan’s control terminal and sealing sacrifice, taken in by the Lion King Organization and sent to Koukami no Mori.

• Azer used his authority to transform Leviathan’s circuits to gold and strengthen the colossal beast as his Exclusive Armament.
• Azer opened the fantasy book without putting Leviathan away, and the Library of Fantasies selected Strike the Blood as his next world.
• Azer received memories of sleeping inside Leviathan until a surge of magical power awakened the beast and drew it to an Artificial Island in the Far East.
• Leviathan merged into the boy inside its body, who was taken in by the Lion King Organization and identified as the beast’s control terminal and sealing sacrifice.
• The Lion King Organization placed Azer in Koukami no Mori for supervision and education, and he realized he had been sent to an all-girls boarding school.

Azer, the only male student at Koukami no Mori, was summoned by the Lion King Organization’s Three Sages as he prepared to graduate. They ordered him to transfer to Private Saikai Academy and observe the Fourth Primogenitor, Akatsuki Nagisa, leaving him stunned to discover that the supposedly fearsome Vampire was a schoolgirl.

• Azer reflected on his unusual place as the sole boy at Koukami no Mori, a girls’ school that trained Demon Slayers.
• The Three Sages reminded Azer that they had taken him in three years earlier and asked about his education and combat training.
• The Three Sages explained that Azer was to graduate and become independent, then revealed that the Fourth Primogenitor had returned to the human world.
• The Three Sages showed Azer a photograph and ordered him to observe the Fourth Primogenitor in Itogami City, eliminating her if he judged her dangerous.
• Azer learned that the Fourth Primogenitor was Akatsuki Nagisa, a third-year middle school student at Private Saikai Academy, and was told to transfer there as her observer.

Azer arrived on Itogami Island and moved into an apartment in the South District, where he encountered his new neighbor, Akatsuki Nagisa. He introduced himself to her, privately revealing that he had come specifically for her.

• Azer arrived on Itogami Island, where his presence instinctively frightened several demons.
• Azer traveled from the East District to the South District, planning to enroll at Saikai Academy and settle into the residence arranged by the Lion King Organization.
• Azer reached Room 705 and entered the apartment building elevator.
• Akatsuki Nagisa hurried into the elevator and chatted with Azer about her brother Kojo and the elevator delays.
• Azer told Akatsuki Nagisa that he was the new resident of Room 705, then introduced himself and asked her to take care of him.

Azer settled into the apartment beside Akatsuki Nagisa and used the Demon King's Authority to spy on her, discovering that her spiritual senses remained sharp. He questioned why Nagisa had become the Fourth Primogenitor and examined the special Martial Divine Tool the Lion King Organization had given him.

• Azer furnished Room 705 with the Lion King Organization's allowance and decided not to buy kitchenware.
• Azer transformed a bird into his divine servant and used it to watch Nagisa change clothes, but her spiritual senses alerted her to something unusual.
• Azer recalled that Nagisa's becoming the Fourth Primogenitor contradicted the original story and suspected the Lion King Organization had selected him for a hidden purpose.
• Azer examined the Silver Radiance Qilin, a custom Martial Divine Tool rebuilt from the Six-Type Demon Subduing Sword to strengthen his power.

Azer bound himself to the Silver Radiance Qilin, a space-cutting Martial Divine Tool that matched him perfectly, then prepared to begin ordinary student life at Saikai Academy. The chapter ended with him meeting his new homeroom teacher, a doll-like girl in a luxurious office.

• Azer discovered that the Hundred-Type Heavy Armored Demon Subduing Blade was uniquely compatible with him and bound it using his Authority.
• Azer infused Silver Radiance Qilin with Spirit Power, tested its spatial attacks and absolute defense, and kept a small blade while storing the rest inside his body.
• After furnishing his apartment, Azer put on the Saikai Academy uniform and set out to attend school.
• Azer arrived at Saikai Academy and met his future homeroom teacher, a young-looking girl in a Gothic Lolita dress.

Azer joined Nangong Nayue’s Class 1-B at Saikai Academy, where his unusual charm drew the students’ attention and his strength left Nayue wary. After class, he met Akatsuki Kojo, Yaze Motoki, and Aiba Asagi, beginning his academy life alongside the original protagonist group.

• Nangong Nayue warned Azer to behave, but Azer cooled her with Hyōrinmaru’s power, prompting her to attack him and fail to catch him.
• Nayue introduced Azer to Class 1-B, where the Bamboo Cutter’s Five Treasures made him seem mysterious and captivating to his classmates.
• Azer chose the empty seat beside Akatsuki Kojo as Nayue began the lesson, while she worried about his danger and his connection to the Fourth Primogenitor.
• After class, students crowded around Azer with questions until Yaze Motoki intervened and introduced himself, Kojo, and Aiba Asagi.

Azer examined Akatsuki Kojo, Aiba Asagi, Yaze Motoki, and Akatsuki Nagisa, finding that their unusual roles did not match what he expected from the original story. After school, he went looking for Akatsuki Nagisa, but a figure outside the Middle School Division building caught his attention.

• Azer used his special sight and found Akatsuki Kojo appeared to be an ordinary human, while Yaze Motoki was an over-adapter and Akatsuki Asagi and Akatsuki Nagisa had extraordinary abilities.
• Azer wondered why the Lion King Organization believed Akatsuki Nagisa was the Fourth Primogenitor when neither she nor Akatsuki Kojo showed signs of being one.
• Azer introduced himself to Akatsuki Kojo as his new neighbor and said Akatsuki Nagisa had complained about her brother during their elevator ride.
• Aiba Asagi and Yaze Motoki teased Akatsuki Kojo for relying on Nagisa, and Azer joked that people should not have those thoughts about their younger sisters.
• After school, Azer decided to look for Akatsuki Nagisa, who belonged to the cheerleading squad.
• Outside the Middle School Division building, Azer noticed a figure.

Azer met Yaze Natsune, the Saintess of the Middle School Division, while she worried over a stray cat stuck in a tree. He coaxed the cat down and entrusted it to Yaze, who planned to care for it and find it a home.

• Yaze Natsune watched anxiously as Xiao Nai Mao trembled in a tree, and Azer approached to help.
• Azer called to Xiao Nai Mao, who climbed down and leaped into his arms.
• Azer introduced himself to Yaze Natsune and recognized that she had a hidden connection to a powerful bloodline.
• When Azer could not keep the cat in his apartment, Yaze offered to take care of it until she found it an owner.
• Xiao Nai Mao resisted leaving Azer at first, but he calmed her and handed her to Yaze, who promised to care for her.

Akatsuki Nagisa ran into her new neighbor, Azer, and accepted his invitation to dinner after missing her chance to buy groceries. Akatsuki Kojo learned his sister was eating out with a boy and panicked, while Nagisa continued venting about her family at the restaurant.

• Akatsuki Nagisa ran into Azer outside Saikai Academy, and he caught her before she fell.
• Azer invited Akatsuki Nagisa to dinner, and she texted Akatsuki Kojo that he would have to arrange his own meal.
• Akatsuki Kojo read Nagisa's message, grew furious and alarmed, and failed to reach her by phone or text.
• Azer and Akatsuki Nagisa went to a family restaurant in Itogami Island's South District.
• Akatsuki Nagisa complained to Azer about Akatsuki Kojo, Kijo-kun, and Fukamori Mom while they ate.

Azer questioned Akatsuki Nagisa about her family and the missing memories of her former abilities, but found no evidence that she knew of the Fourth Primogenitor. After two demon men triggered Nagisa’s intense fear and threatened Azer, Nagisa screamed just as his Spirit Power began to surge.

• Akatsuki Nagisa confided in Azer about her family, and he reassured her while learning how close she was to Akatsuki Kojo.
• Azer subtly questioned Akatsuki Nagisa and concluded that she knew nothing about the Alight Night Banquet, Number Twelve Base, or the Fourth Primogenitor.
• After dinner, Akatsuki Nagisa became terrified when two demon men approached them on the street.
• Azer held Nagisa and warned the demons to leave, but one reached for him as his Spirit Power stirred.
• Akatsuki Nagisa screamed, and an explosive burst erupted.

Akatsuki Nagisa transformed into an immortal vampire and unleashed a Primogenitor-class Familiar, threatening to freeze Itogami Island. Azer subdued her and put her to sleep, then disappeared with her before the Special District Guard arrived.

• Akatsuki Nagisa’s magic power erupted, and she transformed into a high-ranking vampire with the Ice Demon Bird Familiar.
• Nagisa’s inner presence recognized Azer as a Human Pillar like herself and attacked when he refused to let her continue endangering the island.
• Azer charged through the Familiar’s strike, explaining that his resistance repelled its magic power, and scattered it with a single blow.
• Azer bound Nagisa with Bakudo Number Sixty-One and used the hilt of the Heavenly Crown King to place her in a dormant state.
• Azer caught the unconscious Nagisa and vanished before the armed helicopters and Special District Guard reached the frozen street.

Azer learned from Athena that Akatsuki Nagisa was an ordinary human who housed the dormant consciousness and power of Aurora Florestina, the true Fourth Primogenitor. Seeking answers about his connection to Aurora, Azer entered Nagisa’s consciousness and found Aurora asleep within it.

• Azer asked Athena to examine the unconscious Akatsuki Nagisa, and Athena discovered an external soul sleeping inside her.
• Athena explained that Aurora Florestina was the true Fourth Primogenitor and only manifested through Nagisa when danger awakened her.
• Azer asked why Aurora had emerged differently than expected and claimed he had awakened her, but Athena said she could not see Nagisa’s past.
• Athena used her underworld Authority to connect Azer’s soul to the consciousness inside Nagisa, and Azer descended into her inner world.
• Azer found Aurora asleep in a ball of light and realized that he was naked as he reached toward her.

Azer witnessed Aurora Florestina’s memories and learned how her awakening on Itogami Island had led to her bond with Akatsuki Nagisa and their conflict over Origin. After Aurora sacrificed herself to seal Origin, Akatsuki Nagisa drew Aurora’s soul into her body and preserved her life.

• Aurora’s memories showed how Akatsuki Nagisa broke her seal during the Gozo Island Ruins Incident, awakening Aurora and causing Leviathan to awaken Azer.
• Aurora sought Akatsuki Nagisa to reclaim Origin, but Nagisa refused because sealing the Cursed Soul would kill Aurora.
• Aurora and Akatsuki Nagisa spent three and a half years clashing and supporting each other, forming a deep bond.
• During the Alight Night Banquet, Origin used Akatsuki Nagisa to resurrect by gathering the other eleven Familiars.
• Aurora separated Origin from Akatsuki Nagisa and used the Anti-Magic Holy Lance to die with Origin, but Akatsuki Nagisa drew Aurora’s soul into herself and preserved her life.