Chapter Summaries

Salomon visited Rodin’s Gates of Hell Bar to find Bayonetta and seek help locating an alchemical book connected to the Darkhold. Enzo offered to discuss the search, and Bayonetta arrived as Salomon’s intended contact.

• Salomon entered Rodin’s demiplane bar, where Rodin recognized him as the child born beneath a beam of light from Heaven.
• Salomon told Rodin and Enzo he needed to learn where Paul of Tarento had written an alchemical book tied to the Darkhold.
• Rodin warned that the book had disappeared and said Salomon had revealed information to Enzo without getting anything in return.
• Enzo offered to help find the book and invited Salomon to his home to discuss the matter.
• Bayonetta entered the bar, and Rodin told her that Salomon was looking for her.

Salomon met Bayonetta and agreed to help her find the Darkhold in exchange for information about his past. They traveled to Florence, where Bayonetta fought angels in the Infernal Realm and Salomon joined the battle.

• Bayonetta read the Sorcerer Supreme’s letter and offered to help Salomon find the Darkhold if Kamar-Taj investigated her lost past.
• Rodin explained Bayonetta’s amnesia, and Salomon told her that he was human and shared her goal of keeping Extra-dimensional Beings off Earth.
• Bayonetta took Salomon to Enzo’s home for dinner, then brought him to Florence to confront the angels descending there.
• Bayonetta entered the Infernal Realm, and Salomon followed through a portal he opened with his Sling Ring.
• Salomon defeated an Angel Affinity with a punch and its own spear, then hurled the spear to pin another angel while Bayonetta fought the others.

Salomon and Bayonetta fought off a group of Angels near Florence, with Salomon using spells to expose their weaknesses and help Bayonetta defeat them. They headed to a resort for the night, where Bayonetta booked one room and teased Salomon into sharing it.

• Salomon tested the Angels' defenses with spells, then used Blight Ray to weaken one so Bayonetta could kill it.
• Salomon used Earth Grab, summoned spiderwebs, and rolled a fireball through the trapped Angels while Bayonetta finished off the survivors.
• After the Angels vanished, Bayonetta drove Salomon toward Florence on her motorcycle, and they decided to stay at Country Puppet because Holy Cross Church was closed.
• Salomon protested when he learned Bayonetta had booked only one room, but she teased him until he agreed to go inside.

Salomon explained Bayonetta’s forgotten past and the conflict over the Left and Right Eyes, then warned that her soul might be bound for the Abyss when she died. Bayonetta asked whether he had a way to change that fate.

• Salomon arranged a dinner outing and brought Bayonetta a white evening gown.
• Salomon and Bayonetta shared a meal and discussed what Salomon knew about her past.
• Salomon told Bayonetta that she possessed the Left Eye, while the Right Eye was in Wigrid, where angels were gathering.
• Bayonetta questioned whether The Venerable One was using her, and Salomon explained that Kamar-Taj stood behind her.
• Salomon warned that Bayonetta’s demon-summoning contract could send her soul to the Abyss, and Bayonetta asked if he had a solution.

Salomon and Bayonetta discussed her demonic contract and her search for answers in Wigrid, then agreed to work together on the condition that she would protect him from directly facing groups of angels. Salomon returned to Kamar-Taj for the night, planning to teleport back to Bayonetta’s hotel the next morning.

• Salomon explained that Bayonetta’s contract may have changed her body and shadow, while Bayonetta asked him to help her investigate her past in Wigrid.
• Salomon refused to join Bayonetta’s search immediately, saying he needed to study and train before confronting powerful angels.
• A demon’s hand struck the table after Salomon disparaged demons, and Bayonetta explained that her Demon Lord disliked being called chaotic.
• Bayonetta inferred that the Sorcerer Supreme approved of their cooperation, offered to help Salomon, and made a deal with him to collect items while she fought.
• Salomon opened a portal back to Kamar-Taj after dinner and planned to return to Bayonetta’s hotel the next morning.

Salomon and Bayonetta broke into Holy Cross Church and searched its monastery library for documents, with Salomon using magic to gain access. Salomon discovered a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci bearing an unusual eagle-and-shield design.

• Salomon used magic to unlock Holy Cross Church's entrance and led Bayonetta through the church toward the forbidden monastery.
• Salomon cast Charm Person on a friar, who befriended them and guided them into the monastery library.
• Bayonetta knocked the friar unconscious, and Salomon hid him behind the bookshelves before searching the manuscripts.
• Salomon examined the church's alchemical and historical writings and found a manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci bearing a circle like a shield with a spread-winged eagle.

Salomon discovered that the Brotherhood of the Shield had preserved the alchemical and historical manuscripts he wanted, then had Kamar-Taj apprentices move the church library’s documents to his room. After hunting angels with Bayonetta, he considered her suggestion to summon demons but refused to make a contract that would bind his soul, leaving him to seek another method with her help.

• Salomon learned that the Brotherhood of the Shield had included famous historical figures and had influenced the Franciscan Order’s alchemical collection.
• Salomon opened a portal to Kamar-Taj and asked the apprentices to move the church library’s manuscripts, while Mordo questioned him about the theft and Bayonetta.
• Salomon and Bayonetta cleared the library of documents, leaving the friar unconscious, and then returned to hunting angels.
• Bayonetta suggested that Salomon summon and command the Seventy-Two Pillars of Demons to strengthen his fighting style.
• Salomon refused to bind his soul to a Demon Lord and asked Bayonetta to help him find another way to summon demons.

Salomon summoned demons on Mount Ceceri to test whether his magic could bind them, and successfully restrained the demon Hideous. The ritual also drew out a dark crimson hand, leaving the summoning’s outcome uncertain.

• Salomon sacrificed werewolves and performed a demon-summoning ritual with Bayonetta standing by to intervene.
• Several Abyssal spiders emerged from the magic circle, followed by the metallic demon Hideous, which killed the spiders.
• Hideous lunged at Salomon, but he bound it with golden magical shackles and confirmed that his magic could control it.
• A dark crimson hand reached out from the magic circle after Salomon’s magic vanished.

Salomon and Bayonetta confronted a crimson hand that offered him a contract naming Solomon as its signatory and demanding his soul. After Salomon rejected and amended the contract, the hand retreated, leaving a ring in the ashes and the mystery of what it had wanted unresolved.

• Salomon used Vishanti's power to drive the crimson magic from the Summoning Circle, then let the crimson hand present its contract.
• Salomon and Bayonetta examined the contract and found that it was already signed by Solomon and listed seventy-two demons.
• Salomon refused to accept the contract or sell his soul, and the hand removed the soul-sale clause after he demanded changes.
• Salomon added safeguards to the contract, but the hand gave him the middle finger, killed the Hideous demon, and withdrew with the parchment.
• Salomon and Bayonetta found a ring among the ashes in the Summoning Circle, while Salomon suspected the encounter might have been arranged by the Sorcerer Supreme.

Salomon learned that Belial claimed his soul under an old contract with King Solomon, while the Sorcerer Supreme warned that other demons might have claims on him too. He then followed Bayonetta to a cathedral in Naples, where she tried to lure angels by holding a funeral for Lagnan Cultists.

• The Sorcerer Supreme explained that Belial believed Salomon was King Solomon and sought to enforce an old contract claiming Salomon's soul after death.
• She warned Salomon that the contract had some binding force and that Lilith or other demons might also have claims on him because of events surrounding his birth.
• Salomon put on King Solomon's ring and accepted that he might have to fight demons, while the Sorcerer Supreme said he would need to summon them using his own magical power.
• Bayonetta dressed as a nun to lure angels to a Ragnar Grand Cathedral in Naples, where she planned to offset the magical power she had spent summoning demons.
• Salomon followed Bayonetta into the church and watched as she prayed over the Lagnan Cultists' bodies, waiting for angels to arrive.

Salomon caught a man photographing Bayonetta in a church and tried to get him out before the Angels attacked. When the battle began, Salomon protected the intruder while Bayonetta fought the descending Angels.

• Salomon grabbed the man and took his camera, discovering that he had followed Bayonetta for years because he believed she had killed his father.
• The man recognized Salomon from Florence, and Salomon admitted killing the missing people there because they were werewolves.
• The altar candles went out, Rodin played the organ, and dazzling golden light swept through the church.
• Bayonetta leapt among the Angels and tore an Affinity Angel's arm off as their blood became golden motes.
• Salomon pulled the intruder out of the path of an Angelic spear and raised orange circles around his hands, ordering the man to stay put and be quiet.

Bayonetta defeated the Affinity Angels with the four pistols Rodin delivered, while Salomon tried to get Luca out of the church. A Beloved Angel appeared and began demolishing the church, forcing Salomon and Luca to flee.

• Bayonetta fought the Affinity Angels and used her magic to dodge their attacks while Salomon kept Luca behind him.
• Rodin summoned four Elven Knight pistols, and Bayonetta used them to gun down the Affinity Angels.
• Salomon tried to lead Luca out of the church, but Luca insisted he needed to learn what had happened to his father.
• A Beloved Angel smashed through the church window and began attacking the building with its giant axe.
• Salomon dragged Luca outside, and the two ran from the Beloved Angel.

Bayonetta fought and defeated a powerful Beloved Angel, then summoned Gomora to devour it. Salomon watched the demon emerge while Luca struggled to make sense of the battle.

• A Beloved Angel attacked Bayonetta in the church plaza, and she dodged its axe while firing back with the Elven Knight.
• Bayonetta lured the angel into exposing a vulnerable pink orb on its back and shattered it with her heel.
• Bayonetta invoked Gomora, whose appearance Salomon recognized as that of a demon from John Forest.
• Gomora bit down on the Beloved Angel as Bayonetta revealed that its pained expression was another reason she had hunted it.

Bayonetta finished hunting an angel while Salomon tried to stop Luca from pursuing the supernatural world. Luca confronted Bayonetta over his father’s death, but Salomon revealed that the rosemary scent he had followed belonged to angels, not her.

• Gomora devoured Beloved Angel, and Bayonetta recalled the demon after completing her hunt.
• Rodin praised Bayonetta’s work, and she kept the magenta handgun he had provided.
• Salomon warned Luca that revealing supernatural beings to ordinary people could bring dangerous consequences and explained Kamar-Taj’s role in protecting humanity.
• Luca said he had tracked Bayonetta for twenty years because he believed she had killed his father, and Bayonetta burned his camera with magic.
• Salomon told Luca that rosemary was an angelic scent rather than Bayonetta’s perfume, leaving Luca stunned.

Salomon warned Luca that pursuing the truth about angels and witches would endanger him and humanity, but Luca insisted on learning how his father died. Salomon then offered to teach Luca to use a gun so he could pursue his own revenge.

• Salomon explained that Luca had tracked angels rather than witches and warned him that public knowledge of angels and demons could endanger humanity.
• Luca asked whether Bayonetta or an invisible monster had killed his father, and Salomon argued that his father had chosen to pursue dangerous mysteries.
• Salomon revealed that he was assigned to watch Bayonetta, and she teased him about keeping a ring on his finger for life.
• Luca agreed to keep the supernatural truth from the public but insisted on learning about his father's death, the Ragnar Covenant, and the witches.
• Salomon asked whether Luca knew how to use a gun, then told him to avenge his father himself.

Salomon let Luca pursue the truth about the Infernal Realm after warning him of the danger and making him sign a contract to keep occult matters secret. After sending Luca to investigate Wigrid, Salomon and Bayonetta headed for The Gates of Hell Bar to confront Enzo about the trouble caused by his information.

• Salomon explained that Luca had the right to know about the occult and chose not to erase his memories or stop his investigation.
• Salomon told Luca the Angel was already dead, then had him sign a contract witnessed by the Vishanti to prevent him from revealing occult secrets.
• Salomon directed Luca to investigate Wigrid and identify Balder as the last Sage, warning him to bring a gun and giving him his phone number.
• Salomon summoned a Pegasus and escaped with Bayonetta before the police arrived, while Luca fled in his car.
• Bayonetta questioned Salomon about letting Luca investigate, and Salomon said Luca's choices were his own as long as he kept the occult secret.
• Salomon and Bayonetta set off for The Gates of Hell Bar to find Enzo, whose intelligence had caused a serious problem.

Salomon connected the Beloved Angel’s appearance to Bayonetta, the Left Eye, and the approaching Ragnar Covenant Easter, then decided to alert the Sorcerer Supreme. Luca called from a press conference in Wigrid to report that Izawell Group president Balder had appeared in public.

• Enzo blamed the Beloved Angel’s arrival on Bayonetta and the approaching Ragnar Covenant Easter, while Salomon and Bayonetta discussed the angel’s revelations about the Left Eye and Jubileus.
• Salomon and Rodin reasoned that Balder might be behind the scheduled Easter and the Izawell Group’s plans to awaken Jubileus.
• Salomon said he would inform the Sorcerer Supreme and prepare Kamar-Taj in case Jubileus awakened.
• Luca called Salomon from the Izawell Group’s press conference and reported that Balder was there.

Salomon, Bayonetta, and Enzo watched Balder appear on television as the Ragnar Covenant’s mass suicides drew worldwide attention. Balder’s message to Bayonetta triggered memories and raised the possibility that he was her father.

• Salomon watched news of the Ragnar Covenant’s mass suicides and the vandalized church with Bayonetta, Rodin, and Enzo at The Gates of Hell Bar.
• Enzo identified Balder, the Izawell Group president and leader of the Lagnan Cultists, as Bayonetta’s client and the man behind her job.
• Salomon suspected Balder had set a trap for Bayonetta and said he would return to Kamar-Taj to report the situation to the Sorcerer Supreme.
• Balder appeared to address Bayonetta through the broadcast, calling her his dear daughter and triggering memories of a burning tower and forest.
• Enzo left without paying his bar bill, while Bayonetta remained on alert and wondered about her connection to Balder.

Balder prepared to unite the Three Realms and awaken Jubileus, while the Venerable One explained Bayonetta’s origins and the role of Rosa’s lipstick in stopping him. Salomon learned that Bayonetta’s fate depended on his choices, then answered her phone and heard a little girl call her “Mommy!”

• Balder told Jeanne that Bayonetta would join him as the Eyes of the World and help bring about Jubileus’s descent.
• Salomon reported the threat to the Venerable One, who revealed that Bayonetta was the daughter of Balder and Rosa and that Rosa’s lipstick could kill Balder.
• The Venerable One explained that Salomon had to help Bayonetta evade Balder’s traps and said her survival depended on his decisions.
• Salomon answered Bayonetta’s ringing phone and heard a little girl call her “Mommy!”

Bayonetta secretly traveled toward Wigrid to investigate her lost memories, but a mysterious white-haired woman named Jeanne attacked her and fought with the same magic and techniques. Their battle stirred Bayonetta’s memories before her damaged pistols forced them apart, leaving her curious about Jeanne and their past.

• Bayonetta boarded the Wigrid-bound train through the Infernal Realm and dreamed of a silhouette she called her father before waking with no memory of the dream.
• Jeanne rode a motorcycle alongside the train, fired on Bayonetta’s carriage, and singled her out while ignoring the Lagnan Cultists.
• Bayonetta escaped onto the train roof and confronted Jeanne, who challenged her to fight for answers about their connection.
• Bayonetta and Jeanne exchanged matching attacks as they moved across the mountains, and their battle began to revive Bayonetta’s memories.
• Bayonetta’s Elven Knight pistols cracked and then broke when their embedded gems shattered, and Jeanne withdrew, telling her she was not ready.