Chapter Summaries

Artoria argued that Night Raid could use its power to keep the Revolutionary Army from becoming a new Empire, and revealed that they might remain powerful indefinitely. After learning the truth about the gods’ world, Chelsea joined the others in considering how to warn the Revolutionary Army, but Artoria postponed the discussion for breakfast.

• Artoria challenged Chelsea’s belief that only the Revolutionary Army could save the country and warned that its leaders might become tyrants.
• Artoria proposed that Night Raid’s members could act as a blade over those in power and force the Revolutionary Army to follow the right path.
• Artoria suggested that the members might not grow old or die, leaving Chelsea doubtful while the others considered her claim.
• The next morning, Chelsea learned from the others about Artoria’s plan to bring them to the gods’ world and believed it after seeing their equipment and miracles.
• Nezha proposed giving the Revolutionary Army an unforgettable warning, but Artoria stopped her and called everyone to breakfast.

Artoria planned to use Esdeath’s return to stage a final battle that would demonstrate her strength and reshape the world’s order. The Revolutionary Army followed Esdeath toward the Imperial Capital, where the minister and Little Emperor awaited her arrival.

• Artoria explained that she wanted the Revolutionary Army to witness her final battle with Esdeath, while Chelsea offered to persuade the Revolutionary Army and asked whether she could become a god.
• Artoria told Chelsea that she could pursue her wish to revive her former companions in the world that would be revealed after the conflict.
• Chelsea returned and persuaded the Revolutionary Army to follow Esdeath’s army toward the Imperial Capital.
• Esdeath learned the Revolutionary Army was behind her, slowed her advance, and looked forward to fighting Night Raid and its allies.
• Little Emperor asked the minister when Esdeath would arrive, and the minister reassured him that Esdeath would destroy the rebels and Night Raid.

Artoria and Joan watched Esdeath’s disciplined army face the Revolutionary Army, then Artoria walked up to challenge Esdeath. Artoria declared herself the King of Knights, and Esdeath asked why she had come.

• Esdeath halted her army outside the Imperial Capital and waited for the Revolutionary Army and Night Raid to arrive.
• Artoria praised Esdeath’s command and army while she and Joan watched from a nearby hillside.
• The Revolutionary Army arrived with Anning Dao, and General Bratley asked Chelsea when Night Raid would act.
• Chelsea spotted Artoria and Joan approaching Esdeath, and the Revolutionary Army mistook them for surrendering.
• Artoria introduced herself as the King of Knights, stirring both armies, and Esdeath challenged her claim and asked her purpose.

Artoria challenged Esdeath to follow her and defeated her first attack, proving she could resist Esdeath’s freezing power. The Revolutionary Army erupted after Esdeath was knocked back, while the duel remained underway.

• Artoria invited Esdeath to follow her, and Esdeath offered to make her a subordinate if she lost their challenge.
• Esdeath charged without using her Imperial Armament, but Artoria blocked her sword thrust without moving.
• Esdeath unleashed her freezing power, but Artoria’s wind shattered the ice and stopped the chill.
• Artoria forced Esdeath backward, leaving Bratley stunned and the Revolutionary Army cheering.

Artoria faced Esdeath in a battle before the Revolutionary Army and Imperial forces, effortlessly destroying Esdeath’s ice attacks before answering with a devastating sword strike. Esdeath recognized that Artoria’s power was not wind and trembled at the force of the blade.

• Esdeath questioned whether Artoria’s wind-like defense came from an Imperial Armament, then attacked with ice pillars that shattered before reaching her.
• Esdeath created hundreds of ice pillars, but Artoria remained still and destroyed every one near her.
• Esdeath rose into the sky and dropped a huge ice sphere toward the battlefield, terrifying both armies.
• Artoria praised Esdeath’s talent, then cleaved the ice sphere apart with a sword strike that sent powerful waves of air through the sky.
• Esdeath felt the sword’s incomprehensible sharpness and realized it was not wind.

Artoria defeated Esdeath, whose desperation awakened a powerful time-freezing ability that still could not affect her. As the ice covering nearly half the Imperial Capital began to melt, Esdeath accepted that Artoria belonged to a world far beyond her own.

• Esdeath accused Artoria of toying with her, and Artoria explained that their battle was unfair because her power surpassed Esdeath’s world.
• Esdeath unleashed a burst of cold that froze the world and awakened her ultimate ability, then thrust her rapier at Artoria.
• Artoria caught Esdeath’s rapier between two fingers, unaffected by the freeze, and described the gap between their worlds.
• Esdeath released her sword, vowed she might someday surpass Artoria, and accepted that she would die pursuing battle.
• The frozen world covering nearly half the Imperial Capital began to dissipate as Bratley and the onlookers wondered who had won.

Artoria defeated Esdeath and claimed her as a captive, but the Empire’s secret Imperial Armament, the Supreme Throne, rose above the capital and devastated the Revolutionary Army. As the soldiers fled from its repeated attack, Esdeath watched to see how Artoria would face the ultimate Imperial Armament.

• Artoria returned Esdeath’s sword and declared that Esdeath belonged to her until she could win a rematch, and Esdeath accepted her defeat for the moment.
• The ground shook, and the palace rose from the capital as the giant Imperial Armament called the Supreme Throne.
• Esdeath revealed that the Supreme Throne was the Empire’s first and strongest Imperial Armament, while the Revolutionary Army panicked at its appearance.
• Bratley urged the Revolutionary Army to charge the capital, but Little Emperor fired the Supreme Throne’s red beam and blasted a vast breach through the city wall.
• The Revolutionary Army broke and fled as the Supreme Throne prepared another attack, while Esdeath challenged Artoria to find a way to defeat it.

Joan protected the Revolutionary Army from the Supreme Imperial Arms’ attack, and Artoria destroyed it with one-fiftieth of her power. The victory left Esdeath eager to learn how to gain such strength, while Artoria said their difference lay in their worlds.

• Joan used her original power to shield the Revolutionary Army with golden light, causing its soldiers and commanders, including Bratley, to kneel in awe.
• Seryu recognized Joan’s care for those she loved and hatred for those she opposed, while Esdeath realized Joan was stronger than she had thought.
• Artoria offered to use one-tenth of her power, but Joan limited her to one-fiftieth to avoid destroying the Imperial Capital.
• Artoria unleashed Excalibur and overwhelmed the Supreme Imperial Arms, cleaving the clouds and destroying its upper body along with the Empire’s palace.
• The Revolutionary Army realized it had won and revered Joan and Artoria as gods, while Esdeath asked how she could obtain their power.
• Artoria told Esdeath that their difference was not power or faith, but worlds.

After defeating the Supreme Imperial Arms, Artoria and her allies began rebuilding the Empire while Night Raid pursued Minister Honest, who might gain membership and godlike power. With Honest killed and Anning Dao subdued, the qualified people gathered at the temple as the mission reached its final moment.

• Joan of Arc and Artoria warned Najenda that Minister Honest might become a Reserve Member, so Najenda sent Night Raid and Seryu to catch and kill him.
• Esdeath asked Artoria about the powerful beings who directed them, and Artoria told her to approach their world with awe.
• Artoria won the Revolutionary Army's obedience and assigned divine envoys to rebuild the Empire's Order.
• Artoria established a temple and statues for Night Raid, and on the fifth day she executed Anning Dao's leader after recognizing his dangerous nature.
• Night Raid returned after killing Minister Honest, and the qualified members, including Seryu, Akame, Najenda, Esdeath, and Kurome, gathered at the temple.

After completing their mission, Artoria, Joan of Arc, and the other Reserve Members witnessed the three suns and learned what the Merchant Guild represented. Esdeath vowed to surpass the Beyonders, earned the Guild’s recognition, and left to gather money for maximum Chest Opening.

• Artoria and Joan of Arc received the mission-complete message as the three suns blazed and carried the Reserve Members’ wills above the clouds.
• The Reserve Members learned that the suns represented the Beyonders who founded the Merchant Guild, while Esdeath declared she would become a Beyonder and surpass them.
• One of the suns sent its gaze toward the group, and a voice welcomed them to the Merchant Guild as a place for pursuing dreams.
• The Reserve Members returned to their bodies and reacted to their new understanding, while Mine asked Shear to pinch her and screamed when Shear did.
• Esdeath returned to her army, collected money from her followers for maximum Chest Opening, and vowed to challenge the Beyonder she had seen.

After Esdeath gained the Hellblood Demon God class, Shen Mo concluded the Akame ga Kill World mission and sent new missions to Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Beyond the Boundary. The Code Geass mission went to Shokuhou Misaki, while the Beyond the Boundary mission was also selected immediately.

• Esdeath drank the class-change jar and gained the Hellblood Demon God power, which strengthened her through combat and replenished her blood qi from prey.
• Shen Mo reviewed the completed Akame ga Kill World mission, where more than a dozen newcomers had joined the Merchant Guild, and decided to keep the mission procedure for now.
• Shen Mo sent missions to Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion and Beyond the Boundary.
• Shokuhou Misaki selected the Code Geass mission, which tasked her with uniting the world.
• A member selected the Beyond the Boundary mission immediately after it was sent out.

Minato Namikaze won the mission to achieve coexistence between humans and youmu by using Shadow Clones to watch the Member Badge. Shen Mo assigned Bismarck and Othinus to the Overlord world to examine people with Blank Badges and livestream the process, introducing the Merchant Guild’s Auditor role.

• Minato Namikaze used Shadow Clones to select the Beyond the Boundary mission just before Shokuhou Misaki.
• Shen Mo reviewed the mission and let Minato Namikaze take Uzumaki Kushina rather than Naruto or Sasuke.
• Shen Mo decided to promote Auditors, who would assess people overlooked by the Selection System despite their desire to join the Merchant Guild.
• Shen Mo chose Bismarck and Othinus, rather than Ikaros, to conduct examinations with Blank Badges and livestream them to the members.
• Shen Mo revealed that their mission would take place in Overlord, a world he considered suitable for finding future members through Auditor examinations.

Shen Mo and his companions discussed how immense power had transformed Overlord, then Bismarck and Othinus prepared to serve as auditors. Shen Mo announced the Merchant Guild’s reform to its members, introducing auditors to review overlooked candidates.

• Ikaros and Othinus observed that Overlord’s power had gradually assimilated his personality, and Shen Mo explained why he had not been approved by the Member Selection System.
• Shen Mo told Bismarck and Othinus they could try to nurture Overlord as auditors but should use their own judgment.
• Bismarck and Othinus studied the anime, secretly investigated Overlord’s world through the World Gate, and made a plan.
• Shen Mo summoned the members through their badges and appeared before them in a powerful new projection.
• Shen Mo announced that the Merchant Guild would abolish the Traveling Merchant system and replace it with auditors who reviewed overlooked individuals.

Shen Mo explained the Auditor role and announced that Bismarck and Othinus would demonstrate its duties in a New World. They entered the King of the Undead world through a spatial rift, warning members about the dangers of crossing one without proper abilities.

• Shen Mo explained that Auditors would judge rule violations, enforce guild rules, and apply for an assessment to qualify.
• Shen Mo introduced Bismarck and Othinus as his assistants and announced their live demonstration in a New World.
• Bismarck tore open a spatial rift, impressing the members watching the broadcast.
• Othinus warned members that the distorted laws inside a spatial rift could cause death and alter past, future, and fate.
• Bismarck and Othinus crossed the rift and arrived at the coordinates of the King of the Undead world.

Othinus and Bismarck approached Gazef Strohnoff during his mission and warned him that his fate was leading to death. After they vanished, Gazef discovered that the mysterious Badge he had carried for years was heating up, though his guard could not see it.

• Othinus explained that reviewers could learn about a target's fate as a cavalry unit approached her and Bismarck.
• Gazef Strohnoff halted his riders and cautiously asked why the two women had blocked their path.
• Othinus identified Gazef as their target and offered help, warning him that he did not know who he was about to face.
• Othinus and Bismarck faded away after telling Gazef to grip his Badge when he truly needed help to escape his destined death.
• Gazef found the Badge in his palm growing scorching hot, but his guard insisted there was nothing in his hand.

Gazef discovered that his badge had become invisible to everyone else, but continued toward his mission despite the warning of danger. Othinus and Bismarck explained that he was being evaluated because of his place in fate, then revealed Overlord as a world-threatening King of the Undead whose wish did not qualify him for membership.

• Gazef showed his badge to his soldiers, who could neither see nor touch it, then rode onward despite his unease.
• Othinus explained that a candidate needed significance within fate, and that Gazef was fortunate to have received a blank badge and an evaluation.
• Bismarck announced that fate was about to begin as the camera followed Gazef to a ruined village.
• The camera shifted to a massacre of foreign soldiers, where a helmeted mage commanded undead knights and demonstrated powerful magic.
• Othinus and Bismarck identified the mage as Overlord, a recently transformed King of the Undead powerful enough to destroy the world, and said an evaluator could try to qualify him for membership.

Bismarck and Othinus reviewed Ainz Ooal Gown and Gazef, debating whether Ainz’s fixation on finding his former companions left him fit to join. As Ainz’s lack of empathy became clearer, Bismarck approached him, and Albedo moved to defend him.

• Orochimaru recognized that Ainz’s undead nature was eroding his empathy, while his former human caution still shaped his behavior.
• Othinus questioned whether Ainz qualified for membership, but Bismarck argued that he could still be cultivated; they agreed to assess their targets separately and make the final judgment together.
• The images of Ainz and Gazef merged as Gazef led his subordinates toward battle and Ainz watched him leave without feeling genuine concern.
• Bismarck declared that someone controlled by power and stripped of empathy could not qualify as a member.
• Bismarck appeared at the village and approached Ainz, prompting Albedo to draw her weapon and step in front of him.

Bismarck approached Ainz Ooal Gown and revealed that she knew his former name and that his undead body had imprisoned his heart. Ainz was left stunned, unable to understand how she knew the truth.

• Albedo sensed Bismarck's unusual presence and tried to drive her away, but Ainz ordered her to step aside.
• Bismarck said Ainz seemed lost and had suddenly arrived in an unfamiliar environment, prompting him to suspect she was using a fortune-teller's trick.
• Ainz said he would not be fooled, while Albedo threatened Bismarck for attempting to deceive her master.
• Bismarck told Ainz he had not been like this a few days earlier and that his undead body had imprisoned and controlled his heart, then called him Suzuki Satoru.
• Ainz was shocked that Bismarck knew his real name, while his Forced Calm skill surged repeatedly.

Bismarck revealed overwhelming power when Albedo attacked her, leaving Ainz Ooal Gown and the Merchant Guild members stunned. She explained that she was a traveler through countless worlds with a purpose, while her display demonstrated why strength was essential for becoming an auditor.

• Bismarck told Ainz Ooal Gown that his arrival in the world was real and not part of a conspiracy.
• Albedo attacked Bismarck with her scythe to defend Ainz Ooal Gown.
• Bismarck caught the scythe with two fingers and shattered it, leaving Albedo frightened and Ainz Ooal Gown questioning who she was.
• Bismarck said she was a traveler through countless worlds whose travels served a purpose.
• The Merchant Guild members realized that becoming an auditor required great strength, a lesson Bismarck and Othinus intended to convey.

Bismarck explained that Ainz Ooal Gown’s arrival was part of a predetermined procedure and warned that his undead body was gradually turning him into a demon king bound by its character setting. After helping him recognize the changes in himself, she offered him a chance to choose what came next.

• Ainz Ooal Gown treated Bismarck as a superior force and asked her why he and the others had arrived in this world.
• Albedo objected to Ainz Ooal Gown’s deferential approach, but he stopped her and she bowed to Bismarck.
• Bismarck said their arrival was a simple, predetermined procedure and that Ainz Ooal Gown had been chosen by good fortune.
• Bismarck warned that Ainz Ooal Gown’s personality was being assimilated by his body, which would turn him into a demon king confined by his character setting.
• Ainz Ooal Gown recognized that he was already becoming less human, and Bismarck offered him an opportunity to choose.