Chapter Summaries

Senba Gari visited the Nishikino home to stop Maki Nishikino’s father from transferring her away from Otonokizaka. After revealing his old rivalry with Mari Nishikino, Senba used his teacher status to challenge Mari’s plans, while Maki’s friends struggled to keep an angry Nico from interrupting them.

• Mari Nishikino refused to let Honoka Kosaka and the others see Maki, blamed them for her declining grades, and said he would transfer her to another school.
• After Maki missed school again, Senba Gari agreed to visit her home and speak with her father.
• Zuifei Nishikino welcomed Senba and the girls, and Senba and Mari recognized each other as old rivals before trading insults.
• Senba sent Maki and her friends upstairs, then used his teaching certificate to conduct a home visit despite Mari’s objections.
• Mari said he wanted Maki to study, take over the hospital, and become a doctor, while Nico tried to break into the conversation from Maki’s room.

Senba Gari convinced Mari Nishikino to let Maki Nishikino return to Otonokizaka and join μ's, and Maki reunited with the group. Later, μ's planned a beach training camp, with Maki agreeing to ask her family about using their villa.

• Senba Gari confronted Mari Nishikino about Maki's loneliness and showed him photos of her happy with μ's.
• Mari Nishikino allowed Maki to return to Otonokizaka and pursue what she wanted, as long as she kept up her studies.
• Senba Gari found Maki playing piano at school and led her to the rooftop, where she asked to join μ's and the members welcomed her.
• During summer vacation, Honoka Kosaka proposed a beach training camp because the group struggled to practice in the heat.
• After the group discussed costs, Maki Nishikino agreed to ask her family about using their villa.

Senba Gari agreed to join μ's seaside training camp and traveled with the nine girls to Maki Nishikino’s family villa in Okinawa. After the group began dropping senior and junior titles, they arrived at the villa and settled into their rooms.

• Nozomi Tojo suggested inviting Senba Gari to the seaside camp, and Maki Nishikino and the others agreed.
• Senba Gari hid Silver Phantom when Honoka Kosaka and the girls visited, then accepted their invitation to join the training camp.
• While waiting for their flight, Eli Ayase proposed that the group stop using senior and junior titles, and the girls tried addressing each other by name.
• The group flew to Okinawa, where Senba Gari drove everyone to Maki Nishikino’s luxurious seaside villa.
• Honoka Kosaka and Rin Hoshizora rushed to claim places on the villa’s large bed, and Rin called Umi Sonoda over.

μ's arrived at Maki Nishikino’s luxurious villa for a training camp, where Umi Sonoda planned an intense practice schedule but the girls escaped to enjoy the beach. Senba Gari stayed behind to use the study while the others played in the water and on the sand.

• Maki Nishikino showed Minami Kotori, Yazawa Nico, and Senba Gari the villa’s spacious kitchen and revealed that her family had a personal chef.
• Eli Ayase and Nozomi Tojo explored the living room, where Hanayo Koizumi hid behind a flowerpot because the open space made her uneasy.
• Umi Sonoda presented a demanding training schedule that included a ten-kilometer swim and jog, but Honoka Kosaka and the others distracted her and ran to the sea.
• Eli Ayase and Senba Gari persuaded Umi Sonoda to let the girls take time to relax, while Senba Gari asked Maki Nishikino for permission to use the study.
• The girls played in the water as Nozomi Tojo filmed them, and Yazawa Nico moved the watermelon away while Hanayo Koizumi tried to smash it blindfolded.

Senba Gari found an ancient painting linking Yamata no Orochi to Mlortha and dreamed of a wounded armored figure who recited a cryptic warning about humans, gods, and demons. Divine appeared in the dream and stopped him from approaching the figure.

• Senba Gari discovered an ancient scroll depicting an eight-headed serpent facing an armored swordsman, and he suspected the figures were Yamata no Orochi and Susanoo.
• Senba Gari questioned why the ancient ruins had mentioned Mlortha, the Seven-HBrute, Divine, and Spirit but concealed Yamata no Orochi, then decided to study Mlortha's history.
• Honoka Kosaka suggested that the μ's girls visit a haunted house, and they agreed to invite Senba Gari.
• The girls found Senba Gari asleep over books in the study and quietly left him undisturbed.
• Senba Gari dreamed of the wounded armored figure, heard a warning about the balance between humans, gods, and demons, and saw Divine Garuda appear.
• Divine told Senba Gari that he could not go any farther.

Senba Gari was pushed out of the Rift Between Reality and Illusion after Garuda confronted a blood-eyed armored figure who warned that Senba Gari and Divine would be destroyed. Back at the villa, Senba Gari cooked dinner for μ's, and the girls enthusiastically praised his food.

• Garuda forced Senba Gari out of the Rift Between Reality and Illusion, then challenged the armored figure who claimed he and the dead original were two sides of the same person.
• The armored figure warned Garuda that Senba Gari would cause Divine's destruction because he possessed Divine and a heart that had fallen into a demon; Garuda vowed to resist that fate.
• Senba Gari woke at dusk and met Nozomi Tojo, who brought Maki Nishikino along to help him shop and encouraged her to open up to the other girls.
• Senba Gari prepared dinner with help from Eli Ayase, Nozomi Tojo, Umi Sonoda, and Yazawa Nico, while recalling how his mother's disastrous cooking had forced him to learn.
• The nine girls of μ's eagerly ate Senba Gari's cooking and praised it, with Honoka Kosaka and Eli Ayase competing for the food.

Senba Gari took μ's to a newly opened haunted house, where animated knight armor attacked them and a hidden figure watched from the shadows. After rescuing Honoka Kosaka and protecting the others, Senba Gari faced the armor as it reassembled and attacked again, leaving him pinned beneath a sword strike.

• Senba Gari agreed to visit the haunted house with the nine members of μ's, though he felt uneasy when he entered its strange castle-like interior.
• Honoka Kosaka touched a suit of knight armor, which came to life and swung its scythe at her; Senba Gari pulled her out of its path and smashed the armor apart.
• A second knight armor attacked Senba Gari as the group tried to leave, cutting his hands before he destroyed it and assured the girls he would get them out safely.
• Minami Kotori bandaged Senba Gari's injured hand, while a shadowy figure watched and declared that the real show was about to begin.
• The two suits of armor reassembled and attacked from opposite sides; Senba Gari fought them with a scythe, dodged a sword thrust, and ended up on the ground blocking a blow aimed at his neck.

Senba Gari struggled against reassembling knight armor after a hidden force separated Honoka Kosaka and the other girls from him and prevented him from transforming. Nozomi Tojo woke in an earlier time with Eli Ayase, who could not remember μ's, while Senba Gari continued searching the haunted house.

• A shadow pulled Honoka Kosaka and the other eight girls through a moving wall and into a pit, enraging Senba Gari.
• Senba Gari failed to summon the Beast Soul Driver, fought the reviving knight armor, and used a talisman to bind them.
• Senba Gari sent the Beast God Cubes to search for the girls, took the knights' swords, and left; the armor and bindings then vanished as a thin figure emerged from the shadows.
• Nozomi Tojo found Eli Ayase in her home in a time before Otonokizaka's term began and discovered that Eli could not remember μ's without suffering severe pain.
• Senba Gari searched the haunted house with a knight's sword and reached what appeared to be a dead end.

Senba Gari entered a doorway that transported him to the place where his nightmare began, while Nozomi Tojo’s outing with Eli Ayase and Alisa Ayase turned into a deadly department-store collapse and a trap involving an impostor. The chapter ended with Eli Ayase finding Nozomi Tojo beside the apparently stabbed “Alisa Ayase,” as Nozomi desperately insisted that she was fake.

• Senba Gari entered a newly revealed doorway and found himself in the place where his nightmare began.
• Eli Ayase, Nozomi Tojo, and Alisa Ayase visited a crepe shop and a department store, while Nozomi Tojo repeatedly spaced out and recalled fragments of a past disaster.
• A collapse tore through the department store, separated Eli Ayase from Nozomi Tojo, and left Alisa Ayase missing.
• An impostor disguised as Alisa Ayase attacked Nozomi Tojo, who knocked her down with a steel pipe and picked up the fallen hatchet.
• Nozomi Tojo raised the hatchet over the impostor, and Eli Ayase found her with the hatchet buried in “Alisa Ayase’s” stomach.
• Nozomi Tojo pleaded with Eli Ayase to believe that the Alisa Ayase she had stabbed was fake.

Eli Ayase pulled a hatchet from Alisa Ayase’s corpse and attacked Nozomi Tojo, while Maki Nishikino, Yazawa Nico, Hanayo Koizumi, and Rin Hoshizora became trapped in a nightmare forest. After settling for the night at Mr. Yan’s cabin, Hanayo and Rin spotted a lit room with its door ajar and decided to investigate.

• Eli Ayase pulled the hatchet from Alisa Ayase’s body and swung it at Nozomi Tojo, while a voice praised Eli’s hatred.
• Maki Nishikino woke in a dark forest and reunited with Yazawa Nico, Hanayo Koizumi, and Rin Hoshizora.
• Yazawa Nico agreed that the four girls would stay at Mr. Yan’s cabin until morning, despite Maki’s suspicions about their separation from the others.
• The girls ate Mr. Yan’s tea and snacks, then Rin accompanied Hanayo upstairs to find the bathroom.
• After Hanayo and Rin left the bathroom, they noticed a lit room with its door slightly open and Rin suggested they look inside.

Rin Hoshizora discovered that Mr. Yan had transformed into a monster and was hunting the girls, while Senba Gari was forced to witness a memory of Divine’s battle with Hodenig a thousand years earlier. The chapter ended as Divine transformed into a black-scaled monster and seized Hodenig’s claw.

• Rin Hoshizora peeked into Mr. Yan’s room and saw his arm transform as he revealed his plan to devour the girls.
• Mr. Yan attacked Rin Hoshizora and Hanayo Koizumi, but Rin burned his face with a torch before they fled downstairs.
• Rin Hoshizora warned Maki Nishikino and Yazawa Nico, and the four girls tried to escape Mr. Yan into the forest.
• Senba Gari found himself in the hall where Divine had once faced Hodenig, who said Divine had sealed the child whose power he had helped awaken.
• Hodenig lifted the weakened Divine by the neck and threatened his loved ones, while Senba Gari was unable to intervene.
• Divine’s armor broke apart as black scales and a monstrous claw emerged, and he grabbed Hodenig’s claw.

Senba Gari witnessed Divine defeat Hodenig and seal it away, then faced the guilt of surviving the ruin expedition as the dead confronted him. A vision revealed how Mamoru, Li, and Fatty had been killed by Mlortha, leaving Senba Gari trapped with the truth of their deaths.

• Divine tore off Hodenig's claw, fought against being controlled, and unleashed black mist that drained Hodenig's power.
• White light filled the hall, turning Hodenig into seven stone statues and leaving the dying Divine sealed inside a crystal coffin.
• The hall shattered, and Senba Gari found himself in darkness as Mamoru and the other expedition members accused him of being the only survivor.
• Senba Gari's reflection showed him a vision of Mamoru, Li, and Fatty searching for him after Mlortha attacked the expedition.
• Fatty saved Li from a Mlortha but was killed, Li was stabbed, and Mamoru fired at the monsters until his rifle ran out of bullets.

Senba Gari resisted the Nightmare Realm’s attempt to drive him into despair, while Honoka Kosaka, Minami Kotori, and Umi Sonoda reunited through their song and helped break the illusion. The group escaped the shattered realm, but Senba Gari found himself cut off from them and unable to contact the outside.

• Senba Gari’s guilt over the deaths of his companions awakened a black aura, but Honoka Kosaka, Minami Kotori, and Umi Sonoda sang together from within the Nightmare Realm and steadied one another.
• Eli Ayase stopped herself from killing Nozomi Tojo, and the song made Mr. Yan vanish before he could attack Maki Nishikino and the others.
• Senba Gari heard the girls singing, rejected despair, and stabbed the reflection beneath him, shattering the Nightmare Realm and freeing everyone trapped inside.
• Honoka Kosaka embraced Umi Sonoda and Minami Kotori, then reunited with Eli Ayase and the other girls as the Beast God Cubes watched from hiding.
• The hidden mastermind vowed that the real show was still to come, while Senba Gari discovered that the area blocked communication and left his connection to the Beast Soul Driver dangerously faint.

Senba Gari reached the girls and confronted Nightmare, who had trapped them in the haunted house and blocked Senba Gari from using his power. Senba Gari recovered his connection to the Beast Soul Driver, transformed into Divine Garuda, and faced Nightmare as it launched its flaming chains at him.

• Senba Gari followed Shadow Dog to Honoka Kosaka and the other girls, who decided to find him so they could escape the haunted house together.
• Nightmare appeared, admitted it had orchestrated the events, and bound the nine girls with ghostly chains.
• Senba Gari arrived, freed the girls, and confronted Nightmare, but Nightmare stopped him from transforming with a Soul Crystal and seized him by the throat.
• Senba Gari recalled his uncle's lesson about drawing in spiritual power and pulled his connection to the Beast Soul Driver back to him.
• Senba Gari kicked free, transformed into Divine Garuda, and prepared to fight Nightmare.
• Nightmare shattered its replica Soul Crystal, formed flaming chains, and sent them shooting toward Divine.

Senba Gari defeated Nightmare after protecting Honoka Kosaka and the other girls, but visions of an unknown past continued to trouble him. The chapter ended with Minami Kotori, Honoka Kosaka, and Umi Sonoda visiting him late at night, and Kotori hugging him.

• Divine protected Honoka Kosaka and the other eight girls with talismans as Nightmare turned the hall into a dark battlefield and attacked him with a ghostly blade.
• Divine changed into Divine Unicorn, recognized Nightmare's doubles, and used a wind arrow to strike its true body and end the dream.
• Back at the Nishikino family's seaside villa, Senba Gari reassured the crying Minami Kotori and sent the girls to bed before investigating his visions and the first-generation Divine's history.
• Senba Gari experienced a new vision of a woman tending to a wounded armored man, but a knock at his door abruptly ended it.
• Minami Kotori arrived with Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda, then hugged Senba Gari as he opened the door.

After the nine girls sought comfort with Senba Gari following a frightening experience, he reassured them and helped them sleep. The next day, he took them shopping to lift their spirits, and they ended the outing laughing together.

• Honoka Kosaka, Umi Sonoda, and Minami Kotori came to Senba Gari’s room with pillows, followed by Maki Nishikino, Rin Hoshizora, Hanayo Koizumi, Yazawa Nico, Eli Ayase, and Nozomi Tojo.
• Senba Gari told the nine girls they were not alone and that their friendship could help ease their fear, then tucked them in and quietly left them sleeping.
• Senba Gari called Takai Geki to ask him to bring a few things the next day, and Takai Geki arrived in the morning with Golden Firmament.
• Senba Gari made breakfast, then suggested the girls go out shopping with him, and their spirits lifted as they ate and laughed together.
• The girls filled Senba Gari’s arms with shopping bags, while Nozomi Tojo explained to Eli Ayase that he had taken them out to help them forget their fear.
• Senba Gari brought Eli Ayase a cold drink and invited her to join the others as Honoka Kosaka called him their pack mule.

Senba Gari treated Honoka Kosaka and the others to a barbecue and arranged fireworks for their seaside evening before returning to daily life in the city. He found the unconscious, naked Kuryu Tenkeiji in an alley and brought him home, where Kuryu Tenkeiji secretly opened his eyes after Senba Gari left the room.

• Senba Gari agreed to buy ingredients and make barbecue for Honoka Kosaka and the others, and asked them to call him by his name.
• Senba Gari arranged for Silver Phantom to set off fireworks over the sea, delighting the girls as Nozomi Tojo realized who had arranged them.
• A week after the training camp, Senba Gari heard a noise in an alley and found the naked, unconscious Kuryu Tenkeiji.
• Senba Gari carried Kuryu Tenkeiji home, prompting Takai Geki, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament to react with surprise and confusion.
• Senba Gari covered Kuryu Tenkeiji with a blanket and left the room, after which Kuryu Tenkeiji opened his eyes.

Senba Gari told Takai Geki that Yamata no Orochi’s true body was sealed in the Earth’s core and revealed the history of the God’s Chosen, including a mysterious fourth named Yu. A mantis-like monster attacked them, and the fight left their living room in ruins as Spirit struck the paralyzed creature.

• Senba Gari showed Takai Geki a painting of Yamata no Orochi and said his missing father had sent it after disappearing.
• Senba Gari explained that Yamata no Orochi had existed since Earth’s formation, while its avatar had been defeated and its true body sealed in the Earth’s core.
• Senba Gari told Takai Geki about the God’s Chosen and the first generation’s mysterious fourth member, Yu.
• A mantis-like monster sneaked into the living room and attacked Senba Gari, Takai Geki, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament.
• Senba Gari and Takai Geki transformed into Divine and Spirit, then fought the monster while trying to limit damage to the house.
• Golden Firmament shocked the monster with an electric baton, and Spirit landed a powerful punch on its abdomen.

Kuryu Tenkeiji woke at Senba Gari’s home after transforming into a mantis monster and asked Senba Gari to rescue his family from the underground boxing ring’s experiments. Senba Gari and Takai Geki agreed to help, visited the Wind Fragrance Orphanage, and were called aside by its director.

• Kuryu Tenkeiji woke from a nightmare at Senba Gari’s home and begged Senba Gari to save his family.
• Kuryu Tenkeiji tried to leave without explaining himself, but Silver Phantom stopped him, and Senba Gari persuaded him to tell what had happened.
• Kuryu Tenkeiji explained that he and other orphans had entered an underground boxing ring to win money for their orphanage, lost to a powerful opponent, and were taken to a sealed room where he was turned into a monster.
• Senba Gari urged Kuryu Tenkeiji to stand firm, then agreed with Takai Geki to help rescue the others.
• Honoka Kosaka and the other μ's members arrived at Senba Gari’s wrecked home while Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament cleaned up.
• Senba Gari, Takai Geki, and Kuryu Tenkeiji visited the Wind Fragrance Orphanage, where the director asked the three of them to speak with him.

Senba Gari, Takai Geki, and Kuryu Tenkeiji entered an underground boxing arena to rescue Kuryu Tenkeiji’s family, while the director gave Senba Gari a mysterious crystal shard. Takai Geki signed a life-and-death contract and began his first match against the reigning champion, Beetle.

• Kuryu Tenkeiji confronted the director about drinking, and the director gave Senba Gari a dark-blue crystal shard from a mysterious friend.
• Senba Gari, Takai Geki, and Kuryu Tenkeiji went to a luxurious bar that concealed an underground boxing arena and planned to use Takai Geki’s challenge as a diversion for their rescue.
• Takai Geki signed the arena’s life-and-death contract despite Senba Gari’s concern, then entered the ring as the challenger Spirit.
• The referee announced that Spirit would face the reigning champion, Beetle, and Takai Geki struck Beetle in the abdomen before he could finish his taunt.