Chapter Summaries

Cerberus overwhelmed Senba Gari, Takai Geki, and their spirit partners, but Divine risked a final attack to protect a little girl before Heavenly God Fang intervened and drove Cerberus away. Minami Kotori then learned that Senba Gari had been taken to the hospital for emergency treatment.

• Takai Geki and Senba Gari transformed and attacked Cerberus, but Cerberus caught their strikes and blasted them and their spirit partners through a building wall.
• Cerberus defeated Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament, broke Divine’s Flame Feather Blade, and pinned the badly injured Divine to a wall.
• When Cerberus threatened a crying little girl, Divine pulled the blade from his abdomen and used Skyfire Fall against Cerberus before collapsing as his armor shattered.
• Heavenly God Fang negotiated with Cerberus, which departed after warning that it would return, and he ordered a Yin-Yang Guard attendant to call an ambulance.
• Minami Kotori answered a call from her mother and learned that Senba Gari was in the hospital receiving emergency treatment.

Senba Gari hovered near death after fighting Cerberus, while his friends and family waited anxiously outside the operating room. In the Rift Between Reality and Illusion, the five beast souls revealed that they had sealed the Beast Soul Bracelet because Gari could not control its power, and Garuda invited him to try using it.

• Minami Kotori rushed to Nishikino General Hospital, where Senba Gari and Takai Geki had been taken after Cerberus's attack.
• Honoka Kosaka and the others learned that Gari was in surgery, and Takai Geki blamed himself for Gari's injuries.
• Zuifei Nishikino described Gari's severe wounds, and a nurse warned that he was near death and the hospital had run out of blood.
• Honoka Kosaka, Minami Kotori, and Nozomi Tojo offered to donate type O blood, but a black-haired man arrived and offered his own blood; four people recognized him as Hunter Uncle.
• In the Rift Between Reality and Illusion, Garuda, Fenrir, Unicorn, Diamond, and Flood Dragon scolded Senba Gari for risking his life to save a child.
• Garuda explained that the beast souls had sealed the Beast Soul Bracelet because Gari could not control it, then invited him to try using it.

Senba Gari recovered consciousness after three days in the hospital and learned that Senba Ryo had visited before leaving again. That night, Hagoromo Gitsune appeared at his bedside to deliver something at another person's request.

• Senba Gari insisted on using the Beast Soul Bracelet despite the beast souls' warning that its full power could overwhelm his body, and Garuda allowed him to try.
• Senba Ryo visited the unconscious Senba Gari, left Kotori Minami in charge of his son, and returned with Hagoromo Gitsune after taking one last look at him.
• Three days after Cerberus attacked, Senba Gari woke in the hospital as Honoka Kosaka and the other μ's members visited him.
• Kotori Minami told Senba Gari that Senba Ryo had visited three days earlier and asked her to take care of him, while Senba Gari chose not to explain his injuries.
• Hagoromo Gitsune visited Senba Gari that night and said she had come to deliver something at another person's request.

Hagoromo Gitsune left Senba Gari a healing pill and his mother’s necklace before warning him that Cerberus would attack the human world. Despite promising Minami Kotori he would stay behind, Senba Gari took the pill, transformed into Divine, and joined the battle against Cerberus.

• Hagoromo Gitsune paralyzed Senba Gari, returned his mother’s necklace, and left him a pill that could heal him at the cost of unbearable pain.
• Minami Kotori begged Senba Gari not to fight, but he knocked her unconscious and swallowed the pill.
• Senba Gari transformed into Divine and flew from the hospital toward Cerberus’s attack.
• Tsuchimikado Kan refused to send his family to stop Cerberus, while Takai Geki transformed into Spirit and fought alongside Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament.
• Cerberus defeated Spirit, Silver Phantom, and Golden Firmament, then caught Divine’s flying kick and grabbed him.
• Divine struck Cerberus in the waist to escape its grip, and Spirit reacted in shock at Senba Gari’s arrival.

Senba Gari unlocked the Beast Soul Bracelet’s full power, transformed into a fiery Garuda-like form, and defeated Cerberus. After waking from another short collapse, he faced an angry scolding from Minami Kotori and the other members of μ's.

• Divine activated the Beast Soul Bracelet despite the immense strain, and an unfamiliar voice urged him to release the power within him.
• Divine transformed into a blazing, eagle-like beast form and overwhelmed Cerberus, destroying two of its heads and carrying it into a flaming attack.
• Hodenig saw a crystal on the eight-headed serpent totem glow and said Cerberus’s defeat would help the Creators awaken.
• Senba Gari returned to his human form and collapsed, then woke after a day and a night unconscious.
• Minami Kotori and the other members of μ's confronted Senba Gari for leaving to fight while injured after knocking Minami Kotori unconscious, while Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda commented on Kotori’s anger.

After Senba Gari’s reckless actions worried the girls and Takai Geki struggled to keep up with him, new enemies formed an alliance around an experiment and Shub-Niggurath. The chapter ended as Divine and Spirit confronted the heavily armored Snapping Turtle Mlortha, who began a counterattack.

• Minami Kotori and the other girls scolded Senba Gari for knocking her out and fighting while injured, and he apologized.
• Takai Geki recalled Senba Gari’s warning that the Beast Soul Bracelet’s power was forbidden and carried a price, then resumed running to keep pace with him.
• Four armored men, including Kazuraba and Shouichi, escaped through a mercury-colored ripple after their target got away.
• A white-shirted stranger offered Hodenig and Doctor Shinigami a partnership involving an experiment, an unfinished belt, and Shub-Niggurath, and they accepted.
• Snapping Turtle Mlortha rampaged through the city, but Divine rescued a man from a thrown car while Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament’s attacks barely damaged the monster.
• Divine and Spirit struck Snapping Turtle Mlortha without moving him, and he spun around with his tail swinging.

Divine, Spirit, and Heavenly God Fang fought Mlortha until Naraku arrived and released a red smoke cloud over Divine, Maki Nishikino, and Heavenly God Fang. The next morning, Senba Gari had turned into a six- or seven-year-old child, and Nozomi Tojo mistook him for an adorable boy.

• Divine prepared to use the Beast Soul Bracelet against Mlortha, but Heavenly God Fang trapped the monster in a pentagram formation.
• Mlortha broke free, wounded Heavenly God Fang, and battered Divine into a piano shop where he found Maki Nishikino hiding.
• Naraku appeared, threw a smoke-producing ball into the shop, and left with Mlortha as the red cloud enveloped Divine, Maki Nishikino, and Heavenly God Fang.
• Senba Gari woke up in a child’s body, and Silver Phantom confirmed that he was still Gari.
• Honoka Kosaka and the other girls arrived at Gari’s house, where Nozomi Tojo picked up the transformed Gari, thinking he was a little boy.

Senba Gari and Maki Nishikino discovered that a red smoke bomb had turned them into children, and learned there was no known way to reverse it. Gari offered to let Maki stay at his house and led the girls to a beautiful room to find her something to wear.

• The girls recognized child-sized Senba Gari, then found that Maki Nishikino had also become a little girl; Takai Geki stared at Maki until Senba Gari had Silver Phantom knock him unconscious.
• Senba Gari and Maki Nishikino traced their transformations to the red smoke from the previous day, while Tsuchimikado Kan learned the same smoke had transformed him and that no solution was known.
• Eli Ayase warned that Gari and Maki would need to keep their changed appearances secret, and Gari invited Maki to stay at his house until they returned to normal.
• Maki Nishikino admitted she had no other clothes that fit her, so Senba Gari led the girls upstairs and opened the door to a beautiful room.

The girls discovered a room of old clothes and accessories, then dressed Senba Gari as a catgirl while Takai Geki repeatedly tried to convince himself he was seeing things. The chapter ended with Gari giving in to the girls’ requests and meowing for them.

• Senba Gari showed the girls a room full of his mother’s old clothes, and they began picking out outfits and accessories.
• Rin Hoshizora tried on a white wig, while Nozomi Tojo caught Senba Gari trying to leave and dressed him in a wig and a princess outfit.
• Takai Geki opened the door, saw the girls surrounding the dressed-up Gari, and shut it again in disbelief before looking a second time.
• Senba Gari remembered how his mother, Otonashi Yukine, had dressed him in girls’ clothes when he was young.
• The girls pleaded with Senba Gari to meow, and he finally made a shy catlike sound that delighted them.

Takai Geki met Kira Tsubasa by the lake and began telling her how he first met Senba Gari. Eight years earlier, Geki and Gari clashed after the Takai Family rescued Gari’s archaeological team, and Geki defied his father, Takai Mamoru.

• Takai Geki met Kira Tsubasa by the lake, and she encouraged him to explain his worries about Senba Gari.
• Takai Geki asked Kira Tsubasa about rivals and began recounting how he and Senba Gari became friends.
• Senba Ryo’s archaeological team fled a giant earth spider after he plucked a hair from its leg, and the spider trapped Mamoru with its web.
• Takai Family guards rescued the team, while young Senba Gari and Takai Geki immediately provoked each other.
• Kun brought Senba Ryo’s group to the Takai Family mansion, where Takai Mamoru punished Geki for his defiance and ordered a guard to keep him inside.

Senba Gari and Takai Geki bonded over their shared longing for their fathers’ attention, and Gari began teaching Geki kendo while staying with the Takai family. After two days of training, Geki invited Gari to a special place, while the adults met in the Takai residence’s study.

• Takai Geki left after arguing with Takai Mamoru, and Mamoru invited Senba Ryo’s group to dinner.
• Senba Gari watched Takai Geki practice swordsmanship, corrected his stance, and learned that Geki wanted his father to acknowledge him.
• At the banquet, Takai Mamoru and Senba Ryo confessed their guilt over how they treated their sons and drank together.
• Senba Gari told Takai Geki that his mother had died in front of him, and the two boys introduced themselves and formed a bond.
• Over the next two days, Senba Gari trained Takai Geki in the forest, and Geki invited him to a special place.
• Takai Mamoru, Senba Ryo, and Mamoru sat together in the Takai residence’s study as Mamoru began to speak.

Takai Geki and Senba Gari entered the Takai family’s forbidden grounds in search of the legendary God's Secret Treasure, triggering a mechanism that dropped them into an underground passage. After Senba Gari apparently defeated a giant stone beast with spiritual power, Takai Geki woke alone and called for him.

• A servant reported that Takai Geki and Senba Gari had entered the forbidden grounds, prompting Takai Mamoru to explain the danger and send Kun and Mamoru’s companions to search for them.
• A hidden watcher reported the boys’ disappearance to an unnamed Family Head, while a paper spider secretly observed the fathers in the study.
• Takai Geki admitted that he did not know the route to the treasure, then pressed a raised rock that opened a trapdoor and sent both boys falling into darkness.
• Takai Geki later saw Senba Gari standing over a pile of broken stones with a splintered wooden sword, and he realized Gari had spiritual power.
• After waking in a dark, rune-covered passage, Takai Geki found Senba Gari missing and called out to him.

Takai Geki and Senba Gari were trapped in a forbidden underground land where the Four Great Sacred Beasts fought. After identifying the sleeping White Tiger behind them, they realized all four beasts were nearby, while the battle between the Black Tortoise, Vermilion Bird, and Azure Dragon escalated.

• Takai Geki panicked after he was separated from Senba Gari, then watched the Black Tortoise defeat the Vermilion Bird as the Azure Dragon arrived to challenge it.
• Senba Gari reunited with Takai Geki and led him away while the three beasts began a chaotic battle.
• Takai Geki and Senba Gari discussed how to survive, concluded the beasts were fighting over their own territory, and identified them as the Four Great Sacred Beasts.
• Senba Gari warned Takai Geki to listen, and they discovered the sleeping White Tiger was the rock wall behind them.
• The Black Tortoise attacked the Vermilion Bird with water and poison, and the Vermilion Bird's fire struck the Azure Dragon, which answered with poisonous mist.

Senba Gari and Takai Geki fought their way through the forbidden area’s four spirit beasts, and Qilin revealed that Takai Geki had passed a test by choosing to save his friend. Qilin began explaining that the test came from a mischievous god, leaving the reason for its deception unresolved.

• White Tiger awakened, shattered Vermilion Bird, and pursued Senba Gari and Takai Geki through the passage.
• Senba Gari used a burst of spiritual power to destroy White Tiger, then collapsed unconscious.
• Takai Geki lured Azure Dragon and Vermilion Bird into a talisman’s black mist, which destroyed them, before Black Tortoise stopped its attack.
• Qilin appeared and offered to take one of the two intruders to the Divine Secret Treasure and out of the forbidden area.
• Takai Geki chose to stay behind so Senba Gari could leave, and Qilin revealed that his choice had passed a test.
• Qilin explained that its false choice had been part of a mischievous god’s game.

Takai Geki returned from the forbidden land with Senba Gari, gained the Beast Soul Driver, and reconciled with his father. The boys began training together, while Takai Mamoru presented Senba Ryo with the mysterious scroll and an unknown spy collected four gemstones from the forbidden statues.

• The qilin explained that Takai Geki had passed a test and gave him the Beast Soul Driver, which formed a five-colored armguard before he returned to the forbidden area's entrance with Senba Gari.
• Kun and the Takai Family guards found the boys unconscious, and Old Zhi confirmed that both had only minor injuries and needed rest.
• Takai Geki and Takai Mamoru reconciled, and Geki told his father about the forbidden land, the Beast Soul Driver, and Senba Gari's spiritual power.
• Takai Mamoru arranged for Takai Geki and Senba Gari to train under Kun, while an unknown figure took the blue gemstone from the Black Tortoise statue and turned toward the Qilin statue.
• Takai Mamoru told Senba Ryo that the boys had already begun training together and showed him the mysterious scroll Takai Geki had brought back.

Takai Geki and Senba Gari trained together before the Senba family left, and Geki later recalled their friendship while speaking with Kira Tsubasa. After returning home, Geki entered the Rift Between Reality and Illusion through his Beast Soul Driver and faced the Four Spiritual Beasts and a massive brown figure.

• Takai Geki gave Senba Ryo a scroll pointing to another secret treasure, and Kun discovered that Senba Gari had already awakened his spiritual power.
• Kun put Takai Geki and Senba Gari through grueling training, strengthening their bodies and deepening their friendship.
• The Senba family departed with a wooden box of self-defense items, and Takai Geki and Senba Gari promised they would meet again.
• Takai Geki told Kira Tsubasa about Senba Gari, then returned to find Gari despondent after the girls had played with him all day.
• Takai Geki used his Beast Soul Driver and form cards to enter the Rift Between Reality and Illusion, where the Four Spiritual Beasts and a huge brown figure confronted him.

Takai Geki convinced Qilin and the Four Spirit Beasts to let him use the Beast Soul Bracelet, offering his life in exchange for power. He used its Golden Tiger form to destroy Snapping Turtle Mlortha, but the transformation drained his life force, and the chapter ended by introducing a man in Akihabara watching μ's performance footage.

• Takai Geki told Qilin and the Four Spirit Beasts he would trade his life for the power to protect those who cared about him, and Qilin agreed to let him use the Beast Soul Bracelet.
• Senba Gari woke Takai Geki and sent him to fight the returning Snapping Turtle Mlortha, which was attacking a commercial street.
• Takai Geki rode Golden Firmament to lure Snapping Turtle Mlortha away from the police and into a greenbelt.
• Takai Geki transformed into Golden Tiger and destroyed Snapping Turtle Mlortha with the Tiger Brake finisher.
• Golden Firmament checked on Takai Geki, who said the transformation had drained some of his life force but that he still had to keep using it.
• A slovenly man in an Akihabara rental apartment watched footage of μ's performing.

Senba Gari learned that Minami Kotori had been receiving threatening letters and told her to stay with Honoka, while a tengu Mlortha attacked Divine. Kotori was abducted from her home, and Divine received an incoming call after the Mlortha vanished.

• A spider belonging to human-form Naraku bit a μ's stalker, beginning to transform him as Naraku urged him to give in to his desires.
• Minami Kotori visited Senba Gari and showed him the anonymous letters and secret photographs she had found in her room.
• Senba Gari reassured Kotori and suggested she stay with Honoka Kosaka; Kotori left alone to pack while a jealous watcher followed her.
• Silver Phantom detected Mlortha, and Divine and Spirit confronted a tengu Mlortha while Silver Phantom and Golden Firmament blocked its escape.
• Kotori found a new letter accusing her of betrayal, then a winged figure appeared and abducted her from her home.
• Honoka Kosaka and Umi Sonoda found Kotori's front door ajar and her room ransacked; meanwhile, the tengu Mlortha vanished into black feathers and Silver Phantom alerted Divine to an incoming call.

After Minami Kotori disappeared, Senba Gari’s frantic search and mounting self-blame made his emotions increasingly unstable, while a mysterious figure taunted him from within his mind. Kotori remained captive in an abandoned factory, and the chapter ended with Takai Geki punching Gari and demanding to know what had happened to him.

• Umi Sonoda told Senba Gari that Minami Kotori was missing, and Gari promised to come while struggling to contain his anger.
• After a day of searching, Gari saw a blood-eyed reflection of himself taunt him about Kotori and Mlortha; he punched the glass and shouted at the μ's members to leave.
• A man imprisoned Kotori in an iron cage and, after she refused food, forced cake into her mouth and threatened her; a small gray mechanical dog appeared nearby.
• Over the next three days, Gari searched without rest as Silver Phantom and Takai Geki worried about his worsening emotional state.
• The next morning, Takai Geki stopped Gari from going out again and punched him, demanding to know what he was doing, as Honoka Kosaka and the others witnessed the confrontation.

After learning that Minami Kotori had been found, Senba Gari and Takai Geki rushed separately to rescue her from an abandoned factory. Senba Gari defeated her kidnapper, but Minami Kotori was so badly hurt and frightened that she hid from him.

• Senba Gari angrily accused Takai Geki and the others of not understanding his grief over losing his family, then stormed out.
• Shadow Dog found traces of Minami Kotori, and Takai Geki left with Golden Firmament to rescue her while Honoka Kosaka and the others stayed behind.
• Silver Phantom informed Senba Gari that Takai Geki was heading to Minami Kotori, and Senba Gari transformed into Divine and raced toward the factory.
• Takai Geki and Golden Firmament found Minami Kotori locked in a cage, but Tengu Mlortha attacked them to stop them from rescuing her.
• Senba Gari arrived in his Hurricane Soul form and destroyed Tengu Mlortha with a powerful kick.
• Golden Firmament freed Minami Kotori, but when Senba Gari approached her, she recoiled in fear and hid behind Golden Firmament.