Chapter Summaries

Tony publicly mourned Pepper and sought power through Ability Development, while Shokuhou Misaki and Tsunade arranged to cooperate on their missions. Tony arrived on Superpower Island and prepared for his first Ability Development, with the world watching.

• Tony spoke at a press conference about the deaths of his colleagues and Pepper, saying he wanted power to protect the person he loved.
• Fury called Coulson about Tsunade’s offer to resurrect Pepper, but S.H.I.E.L.D. and the United Nations Security Council’s restrictions prevented them from accepting its condition of publicizing Holy Light.
• Shokuhou Misaki asked Tsunade for a Beginner Resurrection Coin in exchange for spreading Holy Light’s basic teachings, and Tsunade agreed to cooperate with her.
• Shokuhou Misaki spoke with the remaining members, who agreed their missions did not require them to fight one another.
• Tony arrived on Superpower Island after accepting Shokuhou Misaki’s conditions and began studying for Ability Development.
• Tony mastered the basic theories in three days and posted a photograph announcing his first Ability Development, drawing worldwide attention.

Tony Stark underwent Ability Development using equipment made by Shokuhou Misaki and successfully became a Level 1 Ability User. He discovered that his ability accelerated his thoughts rather than time, leaving him physically unable to keep up with his perception.

• Shokuhou Misaki used psychological guidance equipment to help Tony develop a Personal Reality, and the staff detected an AIM Field.
• The staff confirmed Tony had become a Level 1 Ability User, and Shokuhou Misaki announced the success and began a livestream.
• Tony woke to find himself being livestreamed and initially doubted that Ability Development had worked because he felt no different.
• A nurse guided Tony to use the formulas he had learned, and he perceived the world slowing as his thoughts accelerated.
• Tony tried to stand while using his ability, cramped his leg, and realized that only his thinking speed had increased.

Tony discovered that his ability was Thought Acceleration while Superpower City began construction and its members undertook long-term missions across Marvel worlds. After two months in the Dungeon, two years had passed in those worlds, and Shen Mo prepared to advance the Merchant Guild’s development by attending an important meeting.

• Tony identified his ability as Thought Acceleration and ended the camera broadcast, while Shokuhou Misaki regretted announcing his success before learning what power he had developed.
• Shen Mo explained that time moved differently in mission worlds and warned the eliminated Blackbeard that he would struggle to catch up with the members who remained on missions.
• Shen Mo watched the members’ progress as two months passed in the Dungeon and two years passed in the Marvel worlds; some members were eliminated, including Luffy, while Shen Mo recruited two distinctive versions of Tony.
• Shen Mo announced that he would return to the Merchant Guild for an important meeting and that Ikaros would continue carrying out his work while he was unreachable.

Shen Mo prepared to upgrade the Merchant Guild and launch its open beta by creating a headquarters. He and Othinus began designing it in a reset space in the A Certain Magical Index World.

• Shokuhou Misaki met with Tsunade, Zoro, and Accelerator to discuss Shen Mo's message, but they turned to planning how to deal with Black Bolt and the Inhumans.
• Accelerator urged Shokuhou Misaki to publicize the Inhumans' threat and their cooperation with Magneto.
• Shen Mo decided the Merchant Guild needed a headquarters where members could live, trade, and rest before the open beta began.
• Shen Mo told Othinus to start creating the headquarters in the reset space of the A Certain Magical Index World.
• Othinus began outlining the headquarters designs as the world turned blank.

Shen Mo finished a first version of the Merchant Guild’s cosmic headquarters and announced a reform that would let the Beyonders recruit members across countless worlds. The chapter left the guild’s more than one hundred members learning that qualified people could now be chosen to join and gain power from the Jars.

• Shen Mo completed the headquarters’ galaxy-like design, with three suns at its center and islands for members according to their rank.
• Shen Mo discussed with Othinus whether to create or purchase other Beyonder figures to occupy the remaining suns, then decided to postpone the choice.
• Shen Mo drafted an announcement and sent it to all Merchant Guild members through their Member Badges.
• The members learned that the guild would stop relying on traveling merchants to screen candidates and instead let the Beyonders seek qualified recruits throughout the myriad worlds.

The Merchant Guild announced a major transformation that added new Badge features, Jar rewards, and services, prompting Shokuhou Misaki to travel to its headquarters with Whitebeard. There, she saw veteran members’ lavishly upgraded islands and resolved to become richer and stronger.

• The Merchant Guild announced hundreds of updates, including bound Badges, private Jar openings, trading, and new Vouchers.
• Shokuhou Misaki asked Whitebeard to visit the Guild headquarters with her, and he agreed.
• Shokuhou Misaki arrived alone on a barren island in a strange space surrounded by countless mist-covered islands.
• She watched other members use Vouchers to enlarge, decorate, conceal, or speed up their islands.
• Seeing the lavish islands, Shokuhou Misaki resolved to open more Jars and surpass the wealthy veteran members.

Shokuhou Misaki explored the Merchant Guild’s new features and returned to the Marvel World to seek more jars, while Shen Mo spent nearly all his money opening gates to three new worlds. Kamado Tanjiro became a Guild member and learned that a task had been assigned to Intermediate Members Stage 1 under rules protecting people in his world.

• Shokuhou Misaki discovered the Guild and task-system updates, considered recruiting allies, and returned to the Marvel World to acquire more jars.
• Shen Mo chose the Demon Slayer, Akame ga Kill, and Lelouch worlds, bought gates to them, and selected one character from each.
• Shen Mo chose Kamado Tanjiro as the first recruit, reaching him as he traveled to the Demon Slayer Corps selection.
• Tanjiro received a Badge, learned that the Merchant Guild could help him save his sister, and embraced his new goal.
• Tanjiro received notice that a task had been assigned to Intermediate Members Stage 1 and that participants could not threaten or harm members of his world.

Tanjiro learned that Intermediate Members would be sent to his world on a mission to eradicate every demon, putting his sister in danger. Misaka Mikoto and Toni accepted the mission and arrived in Taisho Era Japan, where they found evidence of a demon and prepared to investigate.

• Tanjiro realized the mission to eradicate every demon threatened his sister and despaired at the thought of the arriving Members as enemies.
• Misaka Mikoto snatched the low-difficulty mission, invited Toni to join her, and left Shokuhou Misaki jealous of their opportunity.
• Misaka Mikoto and Toni traveled to Taisho Era Japan and began gathering information while remaining alert despite the mission's low rating.
• Toni spotted a demon eating a human corpse near a village and analyzed it as likely a transformed human with a physical body.
• Toni comforted Misaka Mikoto, who affirmed that she was a capable superhero, and the two prepared to approach the demon.

Toni and Misaka Mikoto reached a demon’s feeding site and watched Shinobu Kocho kill the demon with poison in a brief battle. After Toni and Mikoto revealed themselves, Toni claimed they had come to eliminate demons and told Shinobu that Thor was standing behind her.

• Toni sensed someone approaching, and she and Misaka Mikoto watched Shinobu Kocho reach the demon.
• Shinobu confronted the demon, pierced it with her specially made sword, and killed it with poison.
• Shinobu noticed Toni and Misaka Mikoto watching and questioned who they were.
• Toni praised Shinobu’s fighting skill and claimed she and Mikoto were gods sent to eliminate demons.
• Misaka Mikoto appeared behind Shinobu and suggested destroying the demon and corpses, while Toni announced that Thor was behind Shinobu.

Toni and Misaka Mikoto revealed their extraordinary powers to Shinobu Kocho, who struggled to decide whether they were demons. Toni carried Shinobu above the clouds and showed her the beauty of the night before summoning a gigantic Space Battleship.

• Misaka Mikoto crackled with electricity, alarming Shinobu Kocho, while Toni explained that they had come to kill demons.
• Misaka Mikoto reduced the murder scene to ash as Toni confronted Shinobu Kocho and learned that sunlight killed demons.
• Toni carried Shinobu Kocho into the sky at supersonic speed, while Misaka Mikoto followed them.
• Toni slowed above the clouds, and Shinobu Kocho opened her eyes to admire the moonlit sky.
• Toni summoned a gigantic Space Battleship, leaving Shinobu Kocho stunned by what looked like a castle in the sky.

Toni and Misaka Mikoto brought Shinobu aboard their spaceship, learned what she knew about demons and Muzan Kibutsuji, and decided to begin by hunting demons. The chapter ended with Toni offering to study and upgrade Shinobu’s demon-slaying sword.

• Toni asked Shinobu whether she believed they were not demons, and Shinobu hoped they had come to exterminate the demons.
• Toni showed Shinobu around the spaceship, where Shinobu marveled at its comforts and technology.
• Misaka Mikoto asked how demons had appeared, and Shinobu explained that Muzan Kibutsuji had created them.
• Shinobu said the Demon Slayer Corps had never found Muzan Kibutsuji, and Toni decided they would start by killing ordinary demons.
• Toni offered to study Shinobu’s sword and help upgrade it.

Toni showed Shinobu Kocho a weapon that simulated sunlight and could destroy demons, potentially even Muzan Kibutsuji. After Shinobu mourned her sister, Toni suggested that she might be able to resurrect her.

• Shinobu Kocho spent the night aboard the gods’ home and joined Misaka Mikoto the next morning.
• Toni brought Shinobu Kocho to the laboratory and demonstrated a sphere that recreated sunlight in a nighttime environment.
• Toni explained that the device would act like sunlight against demons and might even kill Muzan Kibutsuji.
• Shinobu Kocho broke down in tears, grieving that her sister had died before such a weapon existed.
• Toni told Shinobu Kocho that her sister might still be resurrected, leaving Shinobu stunned and hopeful.

Shinobu Kocho learned that her sister might be resurrected if a mysterious omnipotent existence chose her, and she resolved to keep hoping. Toni offered to help the Demon Slayer Corps locate demons through research, while secretly monitoring Shinobu as she returned to see the Master.

• Toni told Shinobu Kocho that resurrection was possible but depended on being chosen by an all-powerful existence.
• Shinobu Kocho resolved to keep praying for her sister after the demons were defeated.
• Misaka Mikoto asked Shinobu Kocho what she planned to do next, and Toni proposed researching demons with the Corps's help to locate them.
• Toni carried Shinobu Kocho down from the ship, and Shinobu ordered her comrades to protect her on the way back so she could see the Master immediately.
• Toni opened a virtual screen showing Shinobu Kocho and admitted to Misaka Mikoto that she had secretly planted a surveillance device.

Shinobu Kocho told the Hashira that two gods had appeared and offered help against Muzan Kibutsuji and the demons, though Sanemi Shinazugawa refused to believe her. Oyakata-sama revealed a captive demon and asked Shinobu to demonstrate the power the gods had granted, leaving the Hashira watching as she placed a sphere before it.

• Oyakata-sama urgently summoned the Hashira to the Demon Slayer Corps headquarters.
• Oyakata-sama announced that the Corps had encountered a dawn that could make Muzan Kibutsuji and the Twelve Kizuki no longer worth fearing.
• Shinobu Kocho explained that she had met two true gods who had come to help the Corps.
• Sanemi Shinazugawa rejected her claim and vowed never to believe or acknowledge the supposed gods.
• Oyakata-sama said he believed in the gods and ordered subordinates to bring in a demon bound inside an iron cage.
• Shinobu Kocho placed a sphere granted by the gods on the ground in front of the demon as the Hashira watched.

Shinobu Kocho demonstrated a weapon that emitted sunlight and reduced a demon to ash, convincing the Hashira that it could destroy Muzan Kibutsuji. Oyakata-sama pledged the Ubuyashiki Family to the goddesses, and Toni announced that they had arrived.

• Shinobu Kocho activated the sphere, and its sunlight burned the demon to ash.
• Shinobu Kocho told the Hashira the sphere was a divine miniature sun capable of destroying any demon, even Muzan Kibutsuji.
• Shinobu Kocho recounted how she had encountered the two goddesses, and Oyakata-sama pledged the Ubuyashiki Family in exchange for their help exterminating demons.
• Sanemi Shinazugawa declared he would serve as a servant or slave if God could kill Muzan Kibutsuji.
• Toni announced that she and the goddesses had arrived, startling the Hashira and prompting Sanemi Shinazugawa to draw his sword and protect Oyakata-sama.

Toni and Misaka Mikoto revealed themselves as gods to the Demon Slayer Corps and Misaka Mikoto cured Oyakata-sama’s generational Curse. Toni explained that they had come to eliminate every demon and asked the Corps for information about Muzan Kibutsuji and help from its members.

• Toni and Misaka Mikoto descended before the Pillars, who accepted that they were gods.
• Oyakata-sama greeted the two, and Misaka Mikoto identified his facial scars as a Curse.
• Misaka Mikoto struck Oyakata-sama with purple lightning, dispelling the Curse and erasing his scars.
• Oyakata-sama and the Pillars prostrated themselves in gratitude before Toni told them to rise.
• Toni explained that the Merchant Guild had assigned them to eliminate every demon in the world.
• Toni showed Oyakata-sama her monitoring particles and asked for information about Muzan Kibutsuji and assistance from the Demon Slayer Corps.

Toni formed a cooperation with the Demon Slayer Corps and asked them to look for someone chosen by heaven, who could become a god and perhaps help revive Shinobu Kocho’s sister. Meanwhile, Tanjiro killed demons and grew stronger during his examination, and the Corps ordered him taken to headquarters after he killed seventy-eight demons.

• Toni told Oyakata-sama and Shinobu Kocho that someone in their world might be chosen to become a god, and asked them to watch for an exceptionally powerful candidate.
• Tanjiro entered the Demon Slayer Corps examination determined to grow strong enough to protect Nezuko, and discovered that killing demons earned him Points.
• Tanjiro spent the examination killing demons and using his Points to open Chests and improve his strength.
• After seven days, Tanjiro emerged from the mountain having killed about seventy-eight demons, including an unusually powerful one, and most examinees had passed.
• One of Oyakata-sama’s daughters told Tanjiro that headquarters had ordered him brought in because of his exceptional strength.

Shen Mo finished debugging a selection system that chose members based on their influence on their world's fate, then opened membership to many people in the Demon Slayer World. The new members began adjusting to the Merchant Guild, while the Hashira and their allies focused on finding Muzan Kibutsuji, who might also have become a member.

• Shen Mo used Tanjiro as a test case and finalized a system that selected people positioned to change their world's future.
• People across the Demon Slayer World, including every Hashira and Muzan Kibutsuji, received membership qualifications and learned about the Merchant Guild.
• Toni and Misaka Mikoto saw beams of light connecting the new members to the three suns and recognized the scale of the upheaval.
• Oyakata-sama convened a meeting with Toni and Misaka Mikoto, who warned that Muzan might now be a member too.
• Oyakata-sama said the Corps would keep searching for Muzan, relying on its numbers and the two senior members' strength.

Toni offered to fund Shinobu Kocho and the other Hashira through their novice period if they joined her guild after the demons were defeated. After Shinobu asked for time to consider, Toni pressed Misaka Mikoto for an answer about joining her as well, pointing out that Mikoto had no money.

• Toni proposed buying Medical Chests for Shinobu Kocho and offered to fund her novice period if she joined Toni's guild.
• Oyakata-sama told the Hashira they had the right to choose their own paths after the demons were wiped out.
• Toni invited all the Hashira to join her guild and offered to cover their novice-period expenses, but none accepted immediately.
• Shinobu Kocho asked Toni for time to consider the offer, and Toni agreed.
• After the late meeting, Toni asked Misaka Mikoto to decide whether to join her, then reminded Mikoto that she had no money.

Shinobu Kocho joined Toni as a companion and opened hundreds of medical chests before the gathered Hashira. The chests yielded valuable healing items, while Toni warned Sanemi Shinazugawa that resurrection remained rare.

• Toni tried to persuade Misaka Mikoto to join her guild, but Misaka said she would think about it longer.
• After speaking with Oyakata-sama, Shinobu Kocho decided to follow Toni until all the demons were slain, and Toni welcomed her as a companion.
• Toni agreed to fund Shinobu Kocho's chest purchases, and Shinobu bought hundreds of chests for the Hashira to watch her open.
• Sanemi Shinazugawa asked when they might find a chest that could resurrect someone, and Toni told him that such a power was exceptionally rare.
• Shinobu Kocho opened chests from morning until dusk, revealing medical supplies, healing skills, and potions that astonished the Hashira.