Chapter Summaries

Iori healed the wounded villagers and used a resurrection scroll to bring more than a hundred dead villagers back to life. Afterward, he explained to Sebas why he considered every life worth saving, leaving Sebas reassured about his master's compassion.

• Iori treated the wounded villagers and told them to gather the dead for a memorial rite.
• Iori used a resurrection scroll to revive more than a hundred villagers, and families reunited.
• Sebas returned to the square and told Iori he supported helping the villagers.
• Iori explained that he valued every life equally and wanted Sebas to speak honestly with him.

Iori accepted a quest to protect Karn Village from an approaching force and used the Mountain and River Scroll to move the villagers to safety. As the armed group entered the village, its commander Gazef sensed danger and confronted the mysterious Iori, whose coat had drawn the group’s attention.

• Iori accepted the quest to repel the enemies approaching Karn Village and reassured the frightened villagers.
• Iori asked the villagers to introduce him to local food and customs as his reward, then used the Mountain and River Scroll to transport them to a grassland.
• Sebas recognized the scroll as a World Item and stayed beside Iori as the armed force arrived.
• The knights entered cautiously and found the bodies of their comrades displayed throughout the village.
• Gazef ordered his men not to act rashly, suspected Iori had placed a curse on them, and studied the figure in white.
• Iori’s Moon Coat’s Focus skill was revealed to draw others’ attention and make them perceive his aura according to their own values.

Iori introduced himself to Gazef Stronoff and revealed that he had sent the missing villagers to another world. After demonstrating his power, he returned Gazef and his soldiers to the village and proposed using Gazef as bait to draw out whoever was behind the attacks.

• Iori introduced himself and Sebas to Gazef, who deduced that a third party had killed the attackers and removed the villagers.
• Iori confirmed that the villagers were in another world, then used his spiritual pressure to silence Gazef and the soldiers.
• Iori transported Gazef and his men to the grassland where the villagers had gathered, and Gazef thanked him for saving them.
• Gazef told Iori that the Empire was suspected of sending disguised soldiers to attack villages, while Iori said he wanted to protect the commoners near his new home.
• Iori returned Gazef and more than a dozen soldiers to the village and suggested that their enemies might seize a chance to kill Gazef.
• Gazef realized that the attacks might have been a conspiracy targeting him since he left the Royal Capital.

Iori offered Gazef protection in exchange for his loyalty, but Gazef refused and led his knights toward the border city. An ambush by the Sunlight Scripture killed nearly half his soldiers, leaving Gazef facing the Theocracy’s attackers.

• Iori proposed that Gazef pledge loyalty to him in return for help defeating his enemies, but Gazef declined and departed with his subordinates.
• Iori explained to Sebas that he had wanted to recruit Gazef partly to make up for past regrets, then returned to Nazarick with the villagers and released soldiers.
• Gazef’s remaining soldiers caught up with him, and he changed their route after finding the journey suspiciously smooth.
• The Sunlight Scripture’s lightning trap struck Gazef’s party, killing nearly half the soldiers, while Gazef and his aide escaped the initial attack.
• Gazef fought off incoming arrows and recognized the attackers as agents of the Suren Theocracy’s Six-Colored Scripture.

Iori and Sebas arrived as Gazef faced defeat at the hands of the Sunlight Scripture, whose commander Nigun panicked at Iori’s overwhelming presence. When Nigun summoned angels to attack, Sebas and Iori swiftly destroyed them, leaving the Scripture stunned and demanding to know who Iori was.

• The Sunlight Scripture overwhelmed Gazef and killed his accompanying knights, leaving him wounded and near defeat.
• Nigun sensed Iori and Sebas approaching, then collapsed in terror after perceiving Iori’s extraordinary magic power.
• Nigun ordered the Sunlight Scripture to summon angels and attack Iori and Sebas.
• Sebas shattered one angel with a punch and defended against the angels’ first attack.
• Iori scattered glittering fragments that disoriented and destroyed the remaining angels.
• Nigun demanded to know who Iori was and what magic he had used.

Iori revealed his overwhelming power by crushing Nigun’s Seraph and declaring himself the God of Soul Judgment, Bleach. After Nigun’s second attack was stopped by his death, Sebas prepared to deal with the terrified Sunlight Scripture members.

• Iori used Greedy Usurper through his Scheming Glasses to steal the magic cores from all the angels in view.
• Nigun summoned a Seraph with a Sealing Crystal, but Iori stopped its Golden Sword attack and crushed it with a giant armored warrior.
• Iori told Nigun that he was Bleach, the God of Soul Judgment, and condemned him to Hell rather than Heaven.
• Nigun threw another Sealing Crystal, but his head exploded before it could be used, throwing the Sunlight Scripture into chaos.
• Sebas apologized for allowing Nigun to threaten Iori and stepped forward to face the Sunlight Scripture.

Iori and Sebas defeated the Sunlight Scripture, saved Gazef, and revived his fallen soldiers before returning to Nazarick, where Iori planned to gather the Guardians and establish a faith centered on himself. The story then shifted to a snowy gathering in Soul Society, where Iori visited Jushiro and learned that Zaraki had changed his appearance and begun training with new restrictions.

• Sebas defeated the Sunlight Scripture attackers, while Iori explained to Gazef that he had used only a little force.
• Iori revived Gazef’s fallen subordinates with a Sealing Crystal, then disappeared with Sebas, leaving Gazef to worry about his country’s future.
• Sebas brought the surviving captives back to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and Iori ordered him to gather the Guardians to hear the Tomb’s future course of action.
• Iori checked his completed mission reward and decided to build a holy cleric class centered on worship of Supreme Shinigami Iori Aizen.
• At Jushiro’s snowy gathering, Iori praised the garden while Shunsui and Jushiro discussed Zaraki’s new spiked hairstyle, bells, and eyepatch.
• Iori suspected that repeated defeats had inspired Zaraki’s new approach and looked forward to fighting him again.

Iori’s apostles steadily spread his religion in the other world while he relaxed with Shunsui and Jushiro at a snowy banquet. When Kuchiki Sōjun arrived half-naked and explained that Iori had taught him the rules of their clothing wager, the gathering turned its attention to Iori, who prepared to flee.

• Iori reflected on the religion he had founded in the Great Tomb and the Art Style Value its apostles were earning.
• Jushiro and Shunsui discussed the tense mood in the Seireitei while relaxing with Iori by a brazier.
• Kuchiki Sōjun arrived wearing only a loincloth and credited his improved health and strength to Iori’s treatment.
• Yamamoto scolded Sōjun, but Sōjun defended himself by explaining that he had lost a clothing wager during a drinking game.
• Sōjun and Ginrei realized Iori had told him that losing at finger guessing meant taking off clothes, and everyone turned toward Iori as he prepared to use Shunpo to escape.

Iori stayed in a quiet town while receiving an update on Seireitei’s growing campaign against the Diablo Cult. Meanwhile, Beatrix and Alpha fought the Frost Dragon, but after Beatrix wounded it, the dragon refused to admit defeat.

• Iori listened to a Shinigami girl report that Seireitei had expanded across the nations and was aggressively attacking the Diablo Cult.
• After hearing about Beatrix and Alpha’s personal matters, Iori left town at midnight to investigate.
• Alpha and Beatrix battled the Frost Dragon, using their speed and swordsmanship against its powerful ice magic and defenses.
• Beatrix used steel wires and a high-speed strike to break the Frost Dragon’s scales and wound its forehead.
• Beatrix demanded that the Frost Dragon honor its promise to join the organization, but it claimed the battle was not over.

Beatrix tested herself against the Ice Dragon, but Iori arrived and subdued it with ease. After promising to train Beatrix and Alpha’s group, he was attacked by the Ice Dragon again and effortlessly evaded its bite.

• Beatrix ended her duel with the Ice Dragon after deciding that the fight had shown how far she still was from Iori’s strength.
• Alpha revealed the Shinigami girls and ordered Delta to join the hunt after the Ice Dragon refused to cooperate.
• Iori struck the Ice Dragon with lightning and sealed it with Kido and iron pillars.
• Iori praised Alpha’s growth, while Alpha stopped Delta from clinging to him.
• Beatrix explained her reasons for challenging the Ice Dragon, and Iori offered to train her and Alpha’s group at headquarters.
• The Ice Dragon broke free and lunged at Iori, who snapped its teeth with a flick and calmly dodged its attack.

Iori secured the Ice Dragon as an ally, promised Beatrix a chance to train in other worlds, and reunited with Esdeath, who wanted a child with him. He then entered Purgatory to investigate the source of magic power and the danger threatening Earth, discovering that the strange realm was a floating continent bordered by an endless abyss.

• Iori stopped the girls from finishing off the Ice Dragon and convinced it to honor their alliance after it saw Ama-no-Murakumo.
• Iori promised Beatrix that he would take her to train in other worlds once Alpha could manage Seireitei, though he told her she would have to meet a condition.
• Esdeath told Iori she wanted a child, and the two discussed her hopes for family life and her plans to raise a child through harsh survival training.
• Iori recalled Esdeath and brought the Shinigami girls to Earth so they could guard against a possible collapse of the barrier around Purgatory.
• Iori entered Purgatory disguised as a powerful magical creature and began mapping its regions, finding that its edge opened onto an apparently bottomless abyss.
• Iori returned to Soul Society to use the Dangai’s time acceleration and Shangri-La’s coordinate teleportation as he continued his exploration.

After tracing Purgatory’s magic tide to a shattered satellite that had disrupted the Great Source Corridor, Iori investigated its crater and awakened the creature hidden inside. The enormous black serpent emerged from the satellite’s core and fixed its blood-red eye on him.

• Iori determined that a damaged satellite relay had disrupted the Great Source Corridor, causing magical power to accumulate and triggering Purgatory’s collapse.
• Iori traveled to the shattered satellite and entered its massive impact crater to investigate its core.
• As Iori approached the crater’s bottom, tentacles burst from the ground and attacked him, so he unleashed Ama-no-Murakumo’s Yamata no Arashi.
• The tentacles regenerated and fired golden beams, but Iori answered with Full Release Ama-no-Murakumo Sword and split the satellite in two.
• A vast presence stirred beneath the crater, and a thousand-meter-long Pitch-Black Great Serpent rose from the planetary core and fixed its blood-red eye on Iori.

Iori trapped the cosmic serpent inside the Mountain and River Scroll and used his powers to sever its body, though it continued to regenerate. Afterward, he emerged among the shattered satellite fragments and received a system record for the World Devouring Serpent.

• Iori realized the black serpent had drawn him into an alternate dimension within its body and used the Heavenly Cloud Sword to break through its darkness.
• The serpent drew magical power from the Purgatory World, so Iori used the Mountain and River Scroll to cut it off from its supply.
• Iori fought the serpent inside the scroll’s small world with lightning and Five Dragon Annihilation, then used Mirror Water to split it into three pieces.
• The serpent began reconnecting its body, and Iori summoned thunderclouds and a divine phantom to continue the fight.
• Iori appeared among the shattered satellite fragments and received a CG record for the World Devouring Serpent, with an Art Style Value reward and an option to extract its divinity.

After defeating the World Devouring Serpent, Iori began draining Purgatory World’s magic power and received a Gate of Dimension leading to Campione!. He arrived face-to-face with the Last King Rama, who mistook him for a warrior fated to defeat him and inherit his title.

• Iori considered rebuilding the shattered satellite into a fortress and drew magic power from Purgatory World to delay another Magic Tide.
• Iori received the Gate of Dimension: God Slayer after collecting a plot CG.
• Iori arrived on a floating island and recognized the white-haired youth there as the Last King Rama.
• Iori introduced himself as Iori Aizen, a wanderer from another world, and Rama sensed their closely related godhoods.
• Rama concluded that fate had guided Iori to defeat him and inherit the title of Last King.

Iori met Rama, the weary Last King, and urged him to face the Goddess of Fate as he offered him freedom. Meanwhile, Alice Louise Offenbar awoke from a vision of Iori and Rama, realized a powerful Unwilling God had arrived nearby, and prepared to greet him.

• Rama explained that the Goddess of Fate had bound him to destroy every Campione! and warned Iori that she might make him the next Last King.
• Iori rejected Rama’s warning, encouraged him to challenge fate, and pulled Rama’s rusted divine sword free, offering him freedom.
• Alice Louise Offenbar dreamed of a serpent pierced by a blade, a golden palace, a ruined world, and a white-coated young man surrounded by animals.
• After waking, Alice told her maid that a great Unwilling God had descended within a hundred kilometers and decided to greet him.

Alice approached Iori on behalf of the Council of Sages, hoping to learn his identity and prevent a conflict, but he denied being an Unwilling God. The Council nevertheless treated him as one and pledged to obey his wishes, while Iori studied the world’s magic, myths, and altered history.

• Alice found Iori and introduced herself as a special adviser to the Council of Sages, but he questioned her assumption that he was an Unwilling God.
• Alice gathered influential Council members, who agreed to support her decisions and obey Iori’s commands despite believing he was an Unwilling God.
• Alice failed to identify Iori through her Spiritual Vision and considered several possible explanations for his nature and purpose.
• Alice told the Council that Iori’s only request was to read, so the members arranged to provide him with rare and ancient books.
• Iori studied magical texts and compared the world’s myths and history with his own memories to prepare for future encounters with gods.

Iori explained that he had taken Rama’s sword while Rama slept and planned to disrupt Fate by killing every Campione! and Unwilling God. After learning about the six Campiones! and the Wuxia King’s past trip to Japan, Iori decided to go there and awaken the Great Sage Equal to Heaven.

• Iori told Rama that Greedy Usurper had let him seize the sleeping god’s sword and that he intended to resist Fate by killing Campiones! and Unwilling Gods.
• Alice gave Iori access to the Council of Sages’ records and described the six Campiones!, including Luo Hao, the Wuxia King.
• Iori told Alice he was not targeting Campiones! for now, but questioned why Luo Hao had once traveled to Japan.
• Iori concluded that Japan was hiding the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, whom its sorcerers had trapped and sustained with offerings.
• Iori ordered Alice to arrange his trip to Japan and warn its sorcery societies that he would awaken and fight the Hero God.

Lucretia entrusted Alice with the Prometheus Grimoire after a vision connected it to an approaching Unwilling God, and Alice brought it to Iori. Iori recognized the tablet’s value, let Alice keep it for the Council of Sages, and offered to give her a healthy body, leaving her overwhelmed with excitement.

• Lucretia told Alice that a Japanese boy had returned the Prometheus Grimoire and that her Spiritual Vision showed a brilliant light descending in Britain, possibly an Unwilling God drawn by the tablet.
• Alice brought the grimoire to Iori on the flight to Japan, and he said the manifestation of another Unwilling God—not himself—was connected to it.
• Iori examined the grimoire, discovered traces of previously stolen divine power, and decided it could serve as bait for a god.
• Alice volunteered to keep the grimoire, and Iori revealed that he had seen through her phantom body and knew her real body was frail and sleeping in London.
• Iori offered Alice a healthy body as a reward for her service, and she reacted with excitement.

Iori repelled a thunder god’s attack during the flight to Japan, then left Alice and the others to meet the Japanese Mystic Side while he climbed Mount Fuji alone. At a hidden altar, he triggered a ritual and entered a hazy, separate realm, with Shangri-La recording the transit coordinates.

• A thunder god surrounded Iori’s plane with a storm, but Iori seized part of the god’s thunder divinity, forged a lightning blade, and returned it to its owner.
• Iori told Alice to continue to Japan, reasoning that the wounded god would come after him later, while he prioritized the mysteries awaiting him there.
• At the airport, Kasukabe Touma and Saya no Kashiwagi welcomed Alice’s party and learned that Iori had gone ahead to climb Mount Fuji.
• Iori climbed a disused trail up Mount Fuji, sensed powerful magic within an iron relic at a small shrine, and destroyed the shrine with a Kido blast.
• A ritual transported Iori into a hazy mountain realm, and Shangri-La recorded the changing coordinates during his passage.

Iori Aizen met Susanoo in Yomi, where the Japanese Steel God tried to negotiate and learn Iori’s identity. Iori refused to abandon his plan to free the imprisoned Bimawen, and Susanoo drew a divine sword as their confrontation began.

• Iori Aizen entered Susanoo’s spiritual domain on Mount Fuji and found the god waiting in a secluded house in Yomi.
• Susanoo accused Iori of threatening Japan and offered support in finding other Unwilling Gods if Iori abandoned his pursuit of the Monkey God Lord.
• Susanoo summoned a gaunt monk and the Glass-eyed Princess to reinforce his position, but Iori warned them that his announcement was not a request for permission.
• Iori explained that he intended to free Rama by eliminating the Unwilling Gods and Campione!, then identified himself as Iori Aizen and said he could also be called Susanoo.
• Susanoo produced a black divine sword and warned Iori not to use his name casually in Japan.