Chapter Summaries

Seele and the others discussed Altair’s departure before heading toward a battle elsewhere in the city, where Baxiu fought Al and was driven to concede. A new female knight arrived to stop them, and Baxiu immediately proposed marriage to her.

• Altair escaped with the Sorrowful King, while Seele complained about her arrogance and Iori sensed a battle nearby.
• Iori revealed that he had hung Takashi Matsubara from a lightning rod, and Kubo Ei promised to apologize to him.
• Baxiu damaged Al’s Phantasma Knight but reconsidered fighting after Igalga took flight, then admitted he had lost.
• Al prepared to stop Baxiu from leaving, but a lightning-wreathed female knight charged between them and demanded that they cease fighting.
• Baxiu proposed to the female knight and asked her to bear his children, leaving her stunned.

Alicetelia urged the summoned characters to unite and seek their creators so she could save her homeland, but Iori and his group questioned her plan and refused to commit to her faction. Baxiu remained undecided, judging potential allies by their rewards and continuing to propose marriage to the women present.

• Baxiu proposed to Alicetelia, who angrily rejected him before introducing herself to Iori and his group.
• Alicetelia argued that the creators could change the characters' worlds and urged everyone to stop fighting and work together.
• Meteora explained that the Uniform Princess had not been honest with them, while Iori warned that using extraordinary powers could harm innocent people.
• Alicetelia insisted she would pursue any chance to save her homeland, even if she was being used, and declared that their factions differed.
• The Phantasma Knight's silver-haired pilot asked for time to understand the situation, while Baxiu offered to join whichever side paid him more.
• Baxiu proposed to Mamika and then Seele, but both rejected him.

After Baxiu joined Alicetelia, Iori gathered the others to discuss their next move and heard Meteora’s findings about the world. She concluded that the world was changing its own laws to accommodate the characters and their powers, putting it at risk of collapse.

• Baxiu chose to join Alicetelia, declaring that the bigger side was always right, and Iori gained Recognition Power and Presence Power when media helicopters filmed them.
• Iori’s group escaped the battlefield and met Takashi Matsubara and Kubo Ei at a restaurant, where Iori invited Souta Mizushino to join their discussion.
• Iori asked whether they should pursue the Gundam pilot or the Uniform Princess, but Seele argued that they first needed answers about the Uniform Princess’s purpose, returning home, and changing their worlds.
• Iori pointed out that the characters and their abilities had appeared in a world where they did not originally exist, prompting Meteora to reveal that she had been studying the world’s laws.
• Meteora explained that the world’s laws accommodated foreign beings and made the unreasonable seem reasonable, and warned that the world was facing collapse.

Iori and the others learned that the world's Correction Force could strain reality toward a Great Collapse, then investigated whether creators could strengthen their characters by changing their settings. Their experiment suggested that public perception, rather than creators' private drafts, could alter reality, and Iori began to worry about the power behind the world's collective consciousness as he thought of Altair.

• Meteora explained that the Correction Force rewrote reality to accommodate fictional characters, but warned that its growing burden could eventually cause a Great Collapse.
• Seele vowed to stop the Military Princess, and Iori said the group needed to strengthen its forces and test whether creators could change their characters' abilities.
• Takashi Matsubara and Marine wrote and illustrated fire magic for Seele, but she failed to use it.
• Iori had Takashi show Seele his unpublished settings, and she confirmed that most were false and had not affected her.
• Iori concluded that private writing could not change Seele, then proposed publishing the fire-magic setting for fans to judge and testing whether public approval would let her learn it.
• Iori considered how a collective human consciousness might distort reality and thought of Altair the Military Princess.

Takashi Matsubara and the others discussed how public recognition could alter summoned characters’ settings, while Iori considered using the media and voice actors to strengthen their cause. Meanwhile, the Sorrowful King urged his faction to let their opponents gather so the Military Princess could exploit disorder in the world’s Rules, leaving Alice and Mamika troubled by the possible risks.

• Meteora explained that characters gained the resonance needed to manifest when their stories left a deep impression on many people, and Souta connected this to public recognition deciding which settings endured.
• Iori considered using entertainment and publicity to increase recognition, then suggested contacting voice actors and creators to support their settings.
• Marinie warned Takashi Matsubara that characters might retaliate against their creators, prompting the group to worry about colleagues such as Fujimoto Ki and Tanikawa.
• Blitz proposed assassinating opponents to weaken their faction, but the Sorrowful King argued that more characters and greater conflict would help the Military Princess disrupt the Rules.
• The Sorrowful King claimed that disrupting the Rules could let the Military Princess rewrite lives and worldviews, and he persuaded Mamika that she might save others without fighting.
• Alice defended Mamika from the Sorrowful King's manipulation, while Blitz questioned the danger to reality and the Sorrowful King assured the group that the damage could remain minor.

Iori arranged cooperation between his group and the Japanese government to prepare for the Uniform Princess, while Meteora explained how public recognition could strengthen the Created. The chapter ended with the government learning that publicity could improve their allies’ abilities.

• Iori secretly brainwashed Japan’s high command and helped establish cooperation between his group and the government.
• Aki Kikuchihara apologized for the government’s rough treatment and began a special incident response meeting with Iori’s group.
• Al corrected Kikuchihara’s description of his mecha, insisting that it was the Phantasma Knight, while Meteora pressed the government to show its sincerity.
• Kikuchihara described the growing supernatural incidents and reported that Alicetelia had kidnapped her author.
• Meteora explained that Alicetelia’s attempt to change her character settings would likely fail without public recognition, pushing her toward the Uniform Princess.
• Kikuchihara realized that government publicity could increase the Created’s Recognition Power and strengthen their abilities.

The Japanese government agreed to support Meteora and the other Created against the Military Princess and the threat of a Great Collapse, while Meteora chose to defend Earth as an independent decision. Iori’s publicity campaign then spiraled into a worldwide fan frenzy, leaving him surprised by the scale of its success.

• Meteora warned the Japanese officials that the Military Princess could trigger a Great Collapse, and the government promised support.
• Kikuchihara asked whether the Created would protect a world that regarded their homes as fiction, and Meteora and Seele agreed to help for their own reasons.
• Baxiu told Mamika that he disliked Demon Lord Oppai, whose domineering nature reminded him of powerful figures from his own world.
• Japanese and international media promoted a massive crossover project, while fans and creators produced a flood of related content.
• Iori realized that his publicity efforts had grown beyond his expectations as the project’s influence spread worldwide.

Iori defeated Alicetelia in a battle watched by viewers across Japan, but Mamika rescued her before he could finish. Baxiu then attacked Iori, and Mamika trapped him with her Heartbeat Barrier, prompting the weakened Alicetelia to unleash her lightning again.

• Iori explained that Recognition Power had raised his Recognition Power and Presence Power to sixty-five, and his fame as the actor playing Aizen Iori had spread across Japan.
• Alicetelia confronted Iori and said she would use the Uniform Princess’s growing Recognition Power to try to give her war-torn world a happy ending.
• Alicetelia attacked Iori with Gaeze von Belichijie, but Iori easily protected her author and overwhelmed her in a fight streamed to viewers across Japan.
• Mamika rescued Alicetelia just as Iori was about to strike, and Baxiu charged at him while accusing him of trying to make the princess a star-slave.
• Mamika trapped Iori in her Heartbeat Barrier, and when he sent tracking chains after her, Alicetelia rose and unleashed Gaeze von Belichijie, bringing her lightning into conflict with Iori’s Zanpakuto.

Iori defeated Baxiu and fought Alicetelia while Mamika tried to keep the combatants from hurting one another. The arrival of an unfamiliar Altair halted the battle, and Iori recognized her as an intelligent entity born from humanity’s collective unconscious, with power over human cognition and fantasy.

• Iori deflected Alicetelia’s empowered attacks and defeated Baxiu, then battled Alicetelia with his katana.
• Mamika interrupted Iori’s attack on Alicetelia and pleaded for the fighting to stop, but Alicetelia continued her mission.
• Iori evaded Alicetelia’s powerful lance strike by teleporting, damaged her mechanical warhorse, and forced her back.
• An unfamiliar Altair arrived and froze everyone except herself and Iori within a sealed space, warning that killing the others would irreparably disrupt the balance.
• Iori used his power over karma to examine Altair and concluded that she was an intelligent entity born from humanity’s collective unconscious, governing human cognition and fantasy.

Iori explained that humanity’s collective attention could be used to save the fictional characters’ worlds, then revealed a plan called a Singularity. He left everyone questioning why his plan required creating an abnormal world that could threaten reality.

• Altair confronted Iori, blamed his internet-driven influence for disrupting her plan, and demanded that he follow his setting and leave the world.
• Iori refused to yield, promised he would protect humanity, and argued that Altair could not control him because he was outside her authority.
• Altair returned to herself and fought Iori, who let her rescue the Female Knight, Alicetelia, and Mamika.
• Iori told Alicetelia that humanity’s imagination and Recognition Power could help save her homeland more efficiently than continued battles, and Meteora warned him that revealing the plan could create new variables.
• Iori explained that a Singularity was an abnormal world whose deviation from history could push it toward collapse, and Altair questioned why he would propose creating one.

Iori proposed creating a world-spanning Singularity where characters would compete for a wish-granting prize, giving Alicetelia a chance to save her homeland and Altair a chance to pursue her own goals. The government and creators began organizing the crossover event, while Iori’s plan drew suspicion from some of the participants.

• Iori explained that a Singularity fueled by worldwide Recognition Power could host a battle for a wish-granting trophy, and Alicetelia agreed to fight despite the possibility of leaving a parallel world unsaved.
• Altair accepted the plan and said she would compete for the prize, then named the event the Holy Grail War after criticizing Iori’s proposed title.
• Iori and Meteora told Kikuchihara and the others to prepare the crossover, contact creators, and build public awareness of the event as entertainment.
• Alicetelia told her companions about the plan, prompting Uncle Blitz to question Iori’s motives while Altair recognized that he had given her a chance to revive Shizuna Shimazaki.
• The participants voiced their intentions to claim the prize, save their people, or stop the fighting.

The Golden End Singularity F project drew widespread attention as the creators finished preparations and Kikuchihara briefed Iori’s group on a mysterious mechanical construct and a newly summoned girl, Saya Nioisaka. Saya asked them to find her brother, Shiki Tohno, while a promotional scene showed the heroes facing Altair and the Golden Star Cup.

• A promotional video introduced the Golden End Singularity F crossover, its heroes, and the Golden Star Cup as a wish-granting artifact.
• Kubo Ei and Takashi Matsubara discussed the project’s growing popularity and the creators’ brief respite from preparations.
• Kikuchihara told Iori’s group that a beast-like mechanical construct had been spotted near Shinjuku, and Iori suspected Altair’s side had found it.
• Kikuchihara introduced Saya Nioisaka, a newly summoned student with no combat abilities, and Saya asked the group to find her brother, Shiki Tohno.
• A dramatic scene showed Meteora and her allies confronting Altair beneath a strange sky, where Saya learned that the Golden Star Cup could grant every wish.

Souta watched the government-backed crossover project’s lavish PV fuel speculation about Altair and Shizuna Shimazaki, while Iori recruited Hiko Seijuro by challenging him to a rematch. Their battle escalated as Hiko Seijuro released his Bankai, and it left Iori facing the blazing warrior’s destructive power.

• Souta admired the high-quality PV as the project’s promotion intensified and the public uncovered Shizuna Shimazaki’s story, turning on her cyberbullies.
• Iori decided not to involve Saya in the battle and sought out Hiko Seijuro, whom Altair had previously failed to recruit.
• Iori offered Hiko Seijuro the choice of joining his faction or continuing their unfinished fight, and Hiko Seijuro chose to fight.
• Hiko Seijuro released Blazing Flame: Ashen Sword, but Iori blocked the resulting inferno with Splitting Void and gained the upper hand in their exchange.
• Hiko Seijuro recognized that Iori’s techniques resembled his own and removed his scorched haori to fight more seriously.
• Hiko Seijuro unleashed his Bankai, Danmetsu Enkai, as Iori faced him amid the flames and molten ground.

Iori fought Juzhizhai, also known as Hiko Seijuro, using only his Soul Reaper abilities, and repeatedly overwhelmed the prime-aged swordsman. After Juzhizhai confronted Iori for looking past him toward someone else, his Bankai changed into a far more precise and destructive form; the chapter ended as Iori countered its matter-erasing slash with Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō.

• Iori released Mirror Water and overrode Juzhizhai’s fiery domain with a mirror-like field.
• Iori and Juzhizhai exchanged powerful attacks, leaving the surrounding forest scorched and battered.
• Juzhizhai accused Iori of seeing another person’s shadow instead of focusing on him, and identified himself as Hiko Seijuro.
• Juzhizhai’s Bankai changed, and his ordinary-looking slash erased a ravine through the ground and air.
• Iori formally apologized and faced Juzhizhai with renewed respect as he unleashed Hiryū Gekizoku Shinten Raihō against the transformed Embers’ Tachi.

Iori defeated Juzhizhai in their duel, then helped prepare the public-facing story and setting for the Golden Star Cup collaboration. The abandoned industrial district was transformed into a staged battlefield, and Iori gave the signal to begin the event as crews started recording it.

• Iori used Shunkyo Kai and Two Bone Barrage to overwhelm Juzhizhai, who unleashed his final Embers' Tachi strike before Iori pierced his heart.
• Iori explained that Mirror Water let him split his body in advance and Hollowfy the cut portion, and Juzhizhai accepted his defeat before dispersing into nothingness.
• Iori acquired the legendary Master and Disciple skill, while the government expanded the collaboration project and developed a conflict between Humanity's Good and World's Evil.
• The government selected an abandoned industrial district as the stage for Singularity F, and intelligence personnel found a beast-shaped mecha that had already joined Altair's side.
• Iori stood atop a ruined statue and ordered the event to begin as military, police, media, and production crews recorded the staged battlefield.

As the staged city battle generated Recognition Power, Ernesti fought Blitz Toka while Meteora monitored the growing response. The animation then showed Seele facing her former comrade Karon, and the chapter ended as Recognition Power began bringing fantasy into reality.

• Ernesti fought Blitz Toka in the city, using force-field shields and magic before summoning his Phantasma Knight.
• Blitz Toka used steam pipes, special ammunition, and his experience with urban fights to evade Ernesti.
• Meteora gathered and analyzed information from across the city as Recognition Power exceeded expectations.
• An animation showed Seele confronting Karon, her former comrade, who urged her to end their endless conflict.
• After the scene aired, Recognition Power rippled through the viewers and began bringing things from fantasy into reality.

Seele met Diao, a monster controller who joined the villains for food and lodging, while Mamika confronted Iori and declared that she would claim the Golden Star Cup to help her friends and make peace with Altair. The chapter left Mamika ready to keep fighting despite the cost, and Iori doubting he could defeat her resolve.

• Seele’s staged grief over Karon’s death was interrupted when Diao’s white, beast-shaped monster landed nearby.
• Diao introduced herself to Seele and explained that she had joined the villains because they offered food and lodging, not because she hated humans.
• Mamika used her magic to drive Iori away from Baxiu and heal the orc’s injuries.
• Mamika told Iori that she wanted to help Alice and Baxiu, take the Golden Star Cup before Altair, and use it to satisfy everyone’s wishes.
• Mamika declared that she would try to become friends with Altair and keep fighting to protect everyone, leaving Iori uncertain he could beat her.

Ernesti fought Alicetelia with his giant mecha while Blitz infiltrated the underground command site with Demon Lord Oppai. The chapter ended as Blitz and his companion encountered Saya, the apparent defender of the entrance.

• Ernesti warned Alicetelia to retreat, then opened fire on her with the Phantom God Knight.
• Alicetelia dodged the barrage, charged the mecha, and escaped its Vacuum Field with the help of her divine armguard and Pegasus.
• Alicetelia summoned lightning that struck the mecha, and Ernesti countered with a chest beam that brought down nearby buildings and buried her in the rubble.
• Blitz used his gravity device and hacking skills to find the hidden entrance, then summoned Demon Lord Oppai to join him.
• Blitz and Demon Lord Oppai reached the underground site's entrance and met Saya, whom Blitz addressed before the two prepared to face her.

Saya revealed her power to command the spirits of matter while Altair reached the Golden Star Cup, which she planned to use to revive Shizuna Shimazaki. At the tower, the Sorrowful King betrayed Altair and demanded the power to defeat Iori Aizen, leaving them poised to fight over the Cup.

• Saya transformed the surrounding matter into a steam giant and warned that she would stop anyone trying to destroy the world’s beauty.
• Altair and the Sorrowful King headed for the Golden Star Cup after Meteora reported that they had reached the tower.
• Iori Aizen continued fighting Baxiu and Mamika, revealing that Altair reaching the Cup was part of his plan.
• Mamika summoned five magical girls from her world, greatly increasing her power as Iori reacted with surprise.
• Altair found the Golden Star Cup at the tower’s summit and learned that the Sorrowful King wanted its power to defeat Iori Aizen.
• The Sorrowful King ended his cooperation with Altair and moved to take the Cup, while Altair drew her saber and a PPSH-41.

Altair defeated the Sorrowful King, but their battle activated Iori’s plan and transformed the Golden Star Cup into a hidden world called Heavenly Reverse Moon. Iori told the gathered characters that only one faction’s wish could be granted, setting the stage for a final struggle.

• Altair destroyed the Sorrowful King’s familiar, then fought and defeated the Sorrowful King despite the Golden Star Cup’s Recognition Power disrupting her abilities.
• The Sorrowful King vanished, warning Altair that Iori had already set events in motion, as the Golden Star Cup’s light spread across the city.
• Meteora explained that Iori had altered the Star Cup’s system, and Altair’s use of All Creation triggered its final stage, overturning reality and illusion.
• Iori and the other participants were transported into Heavenly Reverse Moon, a world created inside the Golden Star Cup that appeared on viewers’ screens around the world.
• Iori explained that the Star Cup was the world itself and that its wishes could only be fulfilled through a dramatic conflict accepted by the public.
• Altair demanded control of the Star Cup, while Alicetelia, Blitz, Mamika, and others considered competing to fulfill their wishes and regrets.