Chapter Summaries

Iori discovered that Beatrix’s niece, Alpha, was suffering from Demon Possession and explained that it came from the awakening bloodline of the Three Heroes, which the Diablo Cult sought to suppress. He began treating her by blocking her pain and preparing to guide her unstable magic power into normal pathways, while Beatrix entrusted the child to him.

• Beatrix told Iori how the Diablo Cult had destroyed her sister’s family and pursued her while she protected her orphaned niece.
• Iori examined the sick child and recognized her condition as Demon Possession.
• Iori explained that Demon Possession was the awakening of the Three Heroes’ bloodline and accused the Diablo Cult of persecuting their descendants to clear the way for conquest.
• Iori used Kido to block the child’s pain, then opened a wound to begin treating her unstable magic power.
• Beatrix said she trusted Iori because she could not save the child herself, and Iori continued examining the girl’s condition.

Iori cured the elf girl and began building a secret organization to oppose the Diablo Cult, recruiting Esdeath and rescued demon possession victims. At the group’s first meeting, Beatrix worried that her recognizable identity would expose the organization.

• Iori used his magic to cure the young elf girl, who woke to find her pain gone and thanked him as her mother Beatrix embraced her.
• Iori decided that defeating the deeply embedded Diablo Cult required a loyal organization hidden from the world, and he recruited Esdeath from another world to help lead it.
• Iori and Esdeath spent two months destroying two Cult bases and rescuing eight demon possession victims, then gathered them with Beatrix and Alpha at an abandoned castle.
• Esdeath described the Cult’s ability to retreat and urged the group to grow by rescuing more victims, while Iori explained that their shared persecution and presumed deaths would help them remain loyal and concealed.
• Beatrix admitted that her public identity could draw the Cult’s attention and feared she would endanger the organization.

Esdeath explained the corruption beneath the Kingdom of Oliana’s prosperous artistic culture to the Diva during a visit to the capital. She left the Diva with a clearer view of how wealth and power exploited creators and the poor, while dismissing the country’s problems as boring.

• Esdeath criticized Oliana’s artistic culture and called the country rotten while dining with the Diva and other Seireitei members.
• Esdeath explained that wealth and artistic ambition gathered in the capital while the countryside grew poorer.
• Esdeath described how the capital displaced poor residents and how nobles exploited artists to acquire their work cheaply.
• The Diva realized that similar inequalities affected her own hometown, though less severely.
• Esdeath concluded that commoners who did not resist exploitation deserved to be exploited.

Iori led Seireitei in a campaign against Orc tribes driven into war by the Cult’s Demon Drug, then learned that a Wolf Clan leader had murdered the Fox Clan chief and was about to kill her orphaned daughter. Seireitei captured the Wolf Clan leader, and an elf restrained him as Iori considered how to handle the two survivors.

• Esdeath and Diva watched Princess Roz’s movements and discussed gathering intelligence on why the Cult wanted to attack her.
• Iori’s Seireitei forces wiped out a Demon Drug-addicted Orc group while investigating the Cult’s efforts to provoke wars across the great forest.
• Iori ordered thirteen survivors sent for interrogation and instructed his people to find the Cult’s agents in the forest.
• A crow-masked girl reported that the Wolf Clan leader had taken Demon Drug, killed the Fox Clan chief, and tried to murder her orphaned daughter.
• Seireitei captured the Wolf Clan leader, and an elf struck him down when he demanded to be released.

Iori Aizen let the surviving Wolf Clan member Yue Dan go so the Seireitei could use him to track the Cult, then offered the Fox Clan girl a chance to shape her own future. She accepted his offer and became Yuki-hime, pledging herself to revenge and to Iori.

• No. 305 kicked and taunted the drugged Yue Dan while her companions discussed waiting for Iori's orders.
• Yue Dan blamed the Fox Clan chief's death and the village's destruction on the fox girl and her mother.
• Iori told Yue Dan he could leave if he gave up Demon Drug, then secretly sent two Seireitei members to follow him and find the Cult.
• The fox girl demanded answers and power, cut her cheek, and vowed to do anything necessary to take revenge.
• Iori healed the fox girl's wound, advised her to use all her strengths, and named her Yuki-hime as a potential agent to restore order in the forest.
• Yuki-hime knelt before Iori and pledged her loyalty until her body turned to ash in revenge.

After preparing for months and strengthening his forces across three worlds, Iori entered an unfamiliar fantasy world and discovered that its Otherworld God could not process his request for a survival-granting power. The chapter ended with the god switching to Japanese and Iori answering its call.

• Iori delayed traveling to the new world while he managed his organizations, studied his recent gains, and raised his Reiatsu above Kyōraku Shunsui’s.
• After seven or eight months, Iori judged himself prepared and used the Plot CG to travel to the new world.
• Iori examined his surroundings, tested his magic, and spotted a medieval city across the plains.
• The Otherworld God greeted Iori in Chinese and offered to grant him a power, but its system failed to define or analyze him and redirected him to Divine Craftsman Service.
• The god switched to Japanese and asked whether Iori could hear it, and Iori calmly replied, “Hello.”

Iori learned that a system error had transferred him into Granbahamart while he was still alive, and he reassured the acting goddess instead of blaming her. After explaining the broken system and confirming that Iori had arrived in his original body, the goddess noticed his transformation into a Spirit Body and began examining him again.

• The acting goddess discovered that Iori had no transfer record and learned that he had family, friends, wives, and an empire in his original world.
• Iori offered to help the distressed goddess resolve the situation, earning a Good Person Card from her system.
• The acting goddess explained that Granbahamart’s previous goddess had left an outdated transfer system without instructions before going on vacation.
• Iori confirmed that he had arrived in his original body, which meant the transfer violated the Heavenly Realm’s safety rules.
• The acting goddess noticed that Iori had become a Spirit Body and started a new examination, reacting with surprise at the results.

Iori completed his registration by explaining how his mimicry-like constitution made his spirit form measurable, then asked the acting goddess for a transferee bonus. After reviewing the available gifts, he chose Greedy Usurper, a skill that could temporarily steal an opponent’s ability or equipment and potentially seal it if they lost.

• Iori explained that his constitution let him adapt to new environments and asked the acting goddess to register his soul form and record his movements.
• The acting goddess showed Iori the available divine artifacts, talents, and Blessings, and he ruled out options that overlapped with his existing abilities.
• Iori and the acting goddess viewed the miserable circumstances of a newly arrived transferee whose only gift was Translation, then agreed to leave the troubling scene alone.
• Iori selected Greedy Usurper despite the acting goddess’s recommendation that he choose a holy sword.
• The goddess manifested Greedy Usurper, and Iori learned that its success depended on factors including Luck, strength, fate, and his understanding of the target ability.

Iori Aizen found the imprisoned transmigrator at a circus and helped him fight escaped magical beasts. After the transmigrator sent the circus staff who had abused him flying away, Iori judged that his mental state was still healthy enough.

• Iori asked Aqua about Chinese transmigrators and learned that the Heavenly Realm had largely stopped recruiting them because they often caused political upheaval.
• Iori obtained the location of another transmigrator from Aqua and flew to a circus where the man had been imprisoned.
• Iori found the transmigrator fighting escaped magical beasts while protecting the circus staff who had mistreated him.
• Iori used Forced Plunder to acquire the local language, questioned the circus boss, and learned that the man had been bought as a beastman.
• Iori joined the fight and helped defeat the magical beasts.
• The transmigrator sent the three surviving circus staff flying beyond the horizon, and Iori decided his revenge had not gone too far.

Iori rescued the traumatized transferee Yosuke, helped him recover, and offered him food and games from Earth to give him comfort. After they shared their histories, Iori realized that Yosuke came from a different version of Earth, where it was the year 2000.

• Iori calmed the starving transferee with a rice ball, and Yosuke tearfully asked whether Iori knew Japan.
• Iori introduced himself in Japanese, learned the transferee's name was Yosuke, and treated him after he collapsed.
• Yosuke slept for a day and night while Iori protected him, then woke and talked with Iori about his family and gaming.
• Iori gave Yosuke a Switch and Sega games, but Yosuke learned Sega had left the console market and mourned its fate.
• Iori and Yosuke shared their stories, and Yosuke said he had been seventeen in the year 2000 when a truck hit him.
• Iori concluded that Yosuke had come from a different version of Earth.

Iori and Yosuke formed an adventuring party, and Iori discovered that Yosuke’s Translation ability let him communicate with fairies and ask them for help with magic. After Iori caught Yosuke secretly playing Sega games on a Switch, the two cleared a dungeon, where Yosuke asked Iori about his bonus.

• Iori and Yosuke discussed their different worlds and agreed to find a city, settle their identities, and begin adventuring.
• Iori explained that Yosuke’s Translation ability let him communicate with fairies, whose help enabled him to use magic.
• Iori and Yosuke registered as adventurers, took small guild jobs, and learned about Granbahamart while Iori worried about Yosuke’s low spirits.
• Iori brought Yosuke an old Sega console, but secretly saw him playing Sega games on a Switch and apologizing to Sonic.
• After Iori and Yosuke cleared a medium-difficulty dungeon, Yosuke asked what bonus Iori had received and questioned the complexity of his powers.

Iori reassured Yosuke that his soul might be able to return to Japan, then gave him a Sega Saturn that left him conflicted. After the pair sold their dungeon loot, an appraiser invited Yosuke to a festival, but he turned her down to focus on his new console and asked Iori to go instead.

• Iori explained that Yosuke was in a vegetative state in Japan and that his soul might be able to return, though they did not know how.
• Yosuke thanked Iori emotionally for finding him, and Iori gave him a Sega Saturn to play.
• Iori and Yosuke returned to the city, turned in their quest, and sold their loot directly to the Adventurer's Guild for a quick payout.
• The appraiser, who had been rescued by Yosuke, invited him to a bread shop for the Summer Harvest Festival.
• Yosuke declined because he preferred rice and was preparing to battle the Saturn, then suggested that Iori use the second reservation voucher.

Yosuke and Keibun revisited Yosuke’s otherworld memories, where an embarrassing Sega-versus-Nintendo revelation left Yosuke mortified. Back in Granbahamart, Iori explained that heroes existed and that demihuman races were scarce or isolated, then asked Yosuke to consider the usual essentials of a hero’s party.

• Keibun questioned Yosuke about his missed chance to grow closer to Appraiser Miss, but Yosuke said he had simply returned to the inn.
• Yosuke described how he used magic to play video games in the other world and defended his preference for ordinary screens over projecting games into his brain.
• A memory revealed Yosuke playing a Nintendo Switch while claiming loyalty to Sega, and Iori silently watched before leaving with a Saturn box.
• Yosuke was overwhelmed with embarrassment and screamed that he wanted to reincarnate as a shellfish.
• Iori told Yosuke that Granbahamart had heroes and that elves, giants, and dwarves rarely appeared in human society because they were few or lived in isolation.
• Iori asked Yosuke to consider which elements were essential to a hero’s party.

Yosuke and Iori identified three possible ways to find a route back to Earth: become heroes, seek the legendary Divine Trial, and investigate earlier Transferred Ones. Yosuke then tried to arrange a romantic confession between Farrell and Iori, but his misunderstanding left them furious; in the side story, he defended his reasoning to Jingwen and asked how he looked.

• Iori told Yosuke about a nursery rhyme describing three shrines whose trials might reveal the Truth of the World, and outlined the Hero route, Divine Trial, and research into earlier Transferred Ones.
• Iori said they would leave the city in two or three days and urged Yosuke to settle interpersonal matters, pointing out that Farrell had often watched them.
• Yosuke invited Iori and Farrell to a restaurant, mistakenly assuming Farrell had feelings for Iori, and encouraged her to confess before leaving them alone together.
• In the side story, Yosuke complained to Jingwen that Iori and Farrell had reacted angrily to his matchmaking, while Jingwen explained that Yosuke had misunderstood Farrell's feelings.
• Yosuke argued that romantic attraction depended heavily on looks and asked Jingwen to judge his appearance.

Jingwen listened as Yosuke recounted his memories with Iori and Farrell, realizing that Farrell’s apparent affection for Iori was actually directed toward Yosuke. The chapter ended with Farrell visiting Yosuke in the rain to say something meant only for the two of them, then spending the night learning to play games with him.

• Yosuke described himself as an unremarkable background character and praised Iori as a rare beauty and ideal partner, while Jingwen questioned his interpretation of Farrell’s feelings.
• Yosuke recalled rescuing Farrell from bandits, dancing with her at a festival, and casting spells for her, but Jingwen reacted with stunned disbelief at how significant those moments seemed to Farrell.
• Yosuke showed memories of Farrell repeatedly seeking him out, only for him to redirect her to Iori or overlook her, while Farrell watched him from a distance.
• Yosuke explained that Iori delayed their trip by a day because of the forecast, and a torrential rainstorm followed; during the storm, Farrell came to Yosuke’s room.
• Farrell insisted she had come to see Yosuke rather than Iori, and after he helped her warm up and change out of her wet robe, she sat with him and learned to play games.

Yosuke and Jingwen watched memories of Farrell choosing to pursue her studies so she could meet Yosuke again, then began playing Guardian Heroes together. In Granbahamart, Iori and Yosuke sought a way to become Heroes and learned that the Sacred Serpent Cane might help them defeat a poisonous magical beast, though locals doubted the legend behind it.

• Jingwen watched Farrell explain that she had resigned and planned to become a Great Sage so she could join Yosuke again someday.
• Jingwen asked Yosuke to play Guardian Heroes, and Yosuke enthusiastically agreed.
• Iori and Yosuke traveled to a town to investigate a powerful magical beast as part of their search for a way home.
• A fruit shop proprietress told Iori the legend of a foreign doctor who received the Sacred Serpent Cane and used it to defeat a poisonous King of Magical Beasts.
• The proprietress revealed that the legendary doctor's descendant was the local lord, while townspeople suspected the lord's family had invented the story for prestige.

Iori sought the lord’s blessing and a chance to inspect the Sacred Serpent Cane before slaying the Magic Poison Dragon. The lord rejected him in anger, leaving Iori facing a choice about how to approach the family heirloom.

• Iori learned from the receptionist that the lord charged heavily for the cane’s blessing and had recently refused another adventurer.
• Iori saw an elf maiden arrive at the manor and learned she was Princess Elga, who wanted to inspect the cane as an ancient magical artifact.
• Elga refused the lord’s demand for a date and invoked his family’s duty to aid dragon slayers, but he questioned her qualifications and withheld the cane.
• Elga vowed to slay the Magic Poison Dragon without the cane and left the manor, passing Iori at the entrance.
• Iori offered to sell the dragon’s materials to the territory and pay to inspect the cane, but the lord angrily refused his request.

Iori secured the Sacred Serpent Cane by bringing the lord a beautiful elf named Celestine Lucullus, who agreed to a date with him. In a bonus scene, Jingwen recognized Celestine as a dating-sim character and carefully explained her background to Yosuke and Fujimiya Sumika.

• Iori persuaded the lord to trade the Sacred Serpent Cane for a date with a beautiful female elf, promising to bring one to him.
• Iori returned with Celestine Lucullus, and the smitten lord handed over the cane and invited her to tour his garden.
• Celestine agreed to accompany the lord, reassuring herself that the encounter was like progressing through a game scenario.
• Fujimiya Sumika interrupted Yosuke and Jingwen as they watched a memory projection, asking whether Yosuke knew the beautiful elf.
• Yosuke explained that he had transformed into Celestine using Iori's memory projection, and Jingwen identified her as an Elf Saintess from a dating sim.
• Jingwen gave Yosuke a selective account of Celestine's story while Fujimiya watched the image with envy.

Yosuke explained that Jingwen’s careless magic had angered the spirits, then described Iori’s extraordinary strength and his own unease about Iori’s unpredictable nature. The chapter ended with Iori arriving at the Magic Poison Dragon’s lair carrying the Snake Staff and meeting Elga’s princess, who warned him that he was unprepared to fight the dragon.

• Jingwen and Fujimiya learned that the spirits had threatened a world-ending disaster after Jingwen treated them like tools, while Yosuke explained that his respectful friendship with them kept his magic safe.
• Yosuke said Iori was far stronger than him and would survive and save the world in a crisis, but admitted Iori’s mysterious, unpredictable behavior made him uneasy.
• Yosuke explained that Iori had gone to face the Magic Poison Dragon alone, while the Snake Staff had mattered mainly to Yosuke as a curiosity and possible clue about other transported people.
• Iori met Elga’s princess outside the Magic Poison Dragon’s lair with the Snake Staff, saying he had come to protect people and improve his Dragon Slayer proficiency.
• Elga’s princess warned Iori that the Magic Poison Dragon required powerful weapons, fire-resistant armor, and antidotes, and questioned his chances with only a staff.

After Iori saved the exhausted Elf maiden from the Magic Poison Dragon’s breath, he gave her a bunny girl outfit and tried to encourage her to fight on. The dragon then attacked Iori, and the Elf maiden rushed to protect him as he challenged her to reject her belief that the beast was invincible.

• The Elf maiden fought the Magic Poison Dragon for a day and night, while Iori waited nearby with a storefront of supplies and clothes.
• When the Elf maiden finally begged Iori for help, he blocked the dragon’s breath with Splitting Void and offered her clean clothes.
• The Elf maiden put on Iori’s bunny girl outfit, thanked him, and prepared to face the dragon alone.
• Iori’s barrier kept the dragon’s ranged attacks from reaching the Elf maiden, and his mistake in forgetting to dismiss it left her standing ready to fight without an opening.
• The Magic Poison Dragon lunged at Iori, and the Elf maiden attacked its jaws to protect him.
• Iori called the dragon’s invincibility into question and challenged the Elf maiden to keep fighting.