Chapter Summaries

Hexi and Holy Keisha discussed how to use the Angels’ Wish Opportunity, deciding that compatible mystical knowledge would benefit Angel Civilization more than advanced technology it could eventually develop or acquire. Hexi chose the second direction and planned to consider the exact wish, mentioning that the Divine Body System might be improved with mystical abilities.

• Hexi explained that alien technologies could inspire research, while mystical systems remained impossible for the Angels to study at their essence.
• Hexi argued that a wish recognized by the laws could make mystical knowledge compatible with the Angels’ universe and technology.
• Holy Keisha agreed that Angel Civilization’s foundations and patience made immediate technological shortcuts less important, and trusted Hexi to decide how to use the wish.
• Holy Keisha joked that Hexi could spend the wish on personal interests, while Hexi replied that she could ask Bai Xuan directly about anything she wanted to know.
• Hexi chose the mystical-knowledge option and said she would think over a wish that could strengthen the Angels’ Divine Body System.

Saitama chose Soul Completion and began recovering emotions that had faded after he broke his Limiter, while Kazuma Sato and his team hunted Kabane for Chat Group Points. Kazuma celebrated earning around a hundred thousand Points as he compared his methods with Kaito Kuroba’s more stylish approach.

• Saitama claimed Soul Completion, which loosened the emotional barrier around his soul and made familiar memories feel vivid again.
• Saitama experienced regret, amusement, and anticipation, then began thinking about dinner and whether Genos would return to cook.
• Kazuma Sato hunted Kabane with Megumin, Aqua, and Darkness, directing them to preserve targets and avoid wasting Points.
• Kazuma told Su Yunqing that he had earned around a hundred thousand Points and said Umaru had joined the plot while Hachiman Hikigaya and Yukinoshita had gone off together.
• Kazuma uploaded a Memory Copy of Kaito Kuroba stylishly hunting Kabane, and Kaito admitted he had deliberately shown off.

Kaito Kuroba and Kazuma Sato argued over whether having power changed a person's attitude toward taking lives and the law. Setsuna Ogiso asked how she could gain supernatural power, and Su Yunqing explained that she needed a system compatible with her world's rules before recommending Chakra.

• Kazuma Sato said Kabane were unsalvageable monsters and felt no hesitation about killing them, while Kaito Kuroba criticized his attitude.
• Kazuma Sato taunted Kaito Kuroba about Aoko Nakamori and Inspector Ginzo Nakamori, and the two prepared to settle their argument in the Virtual Battle Arena.
• Setsuna Ogiso asked whether she could learn systems from the group's shared files without purchasing them.
• Su Yunqing explained that Setsuna Ogiso's ordinary world could not support supernatural energy unless a method was purchased through the Chat Group Mall.
• Setsuna Ogiso asked which system best suited her limited Points, and Su Yunqing recommended buying a Chakra Seed over the more talent-dependent Ki system.

Su Yunqing recommended that Setsuna Ogiso cultivate Chakra because her Blessing of Natural Vitality suited Chakra and future Sage Art, and Setsuna bought a Chakra Seed and learned the basics. When Touma Kazusa asked whether she should choose Chakra too, Su Yunqing realized her Heart of Melody talent might suit a cultivation system based on music and began looking for one among the worlds derived from Bai Xuan's World.

• Su Yunqing explained how Setsuna Ogiso's Blessing of Natural Vitality could help her refine Chakra and sense Natural Energy for Sage Art.
• Su Yunqing recommended Chakra as a cost-effective path for Setsuna, with the possibility of pursuing Senju bloodline, Wood Release, and Sage Art later.
• Setsuna Ogiso bought a Chakra Seed for 100 Points and downloaded the Basic Chakra Refinement and Manipulation Guide.
• Touma Kazusa asked whether she should also cultivate Chakra, and Su Yunqing cautioned that Setsuna's blessing made their situations different.
• Su Yunqing recalled Touma Kazusa's Heart of Melody talent and suggested searching for a high-potential cultivation system centered on music among the worlds derived from Bai Xuan's World.

Bai Xuan explained three powerful music-based cultivation paths to the Chat Group and Touma Kazusa, outlining their methods, limits, and risks. Touma Kazusa concluded that Heavenly Sound Dao was the only path she seemed able to choose.

• Loki and Marquis Voban discussed the countless music-based and deity-related cultivation systems in Bai Xuan's World.
• Bai Xuan described Heavenly Sound Dao, which harmonized cultivators with Heaven and Earth and could ultimately let them alter its laws.
• Bai Xuan explained Heart-Image Sanskrit Sound Dao, whose practitioners refined emotions into spiritual power but risked mental exhaustion and severed memories.
• Bai Xuan outlined the six realms of Myriad Transformation Musical Chapter Path, which used mastery of music theory to understand and reconstruct reality.
• Bai Xuan compared the three paths and noted that Myriad Transformation Musical Chapter Path demanded exceptional rationality and knowledge.
• Touma Kazusa said she lacked the ability to choose either Heart-Image Sanskrit Sound Dao or Myriad Transformation Musical Chapter Path.

Touma Kazusa chose the Heavenly Sound Dao as the cultivation path best suited to her musical nature and exchanged for its foundational method, the Spiritual Charm Initial Listening Chapter. After gaining a new awareness of the rhythms in the world around her, she sat at her piano and began to play.

• Touma Kazusa rejected the Heart-Image Sanskrit Sound Dao because repeatedly provoking and reshaping her emotions could exhaust her and change who she was.
• Touma Kazusa ruled out the Myriad Transformation Musical Chapter Path because it demanded mathematical and logical abilities beyond her strengths, and settled on the Heavenly Sound Dao.
• Su Yunqing and Bai Xuan explained that the Spiritual Charm Initial Listening Chapter was the foundation from which cultivators developed their own methods or learned established compositions, and that Touma Kazusa could exchange for it for about ten thousand Points.
• Touma Kazusa thanked the group and exchanged for the Spiritual Charm Initial Listening Chapter, which flooded her mind with new insights and let her hear rhythms in nature, her body, and everyday sounds.
• Touma Kazusa felt inspired by her changed perception, went to her piano, and began playing a melody.

Touma Kazusa’s first Heavenly Sound Dao composition subtly resonated with nature, while Angel Zhixin reflected on her growing love for Bai Xuan and the special place he had given her. The chapter ended with Zhixin content to remain at Bai Xuan’s side, loving and guarding him even as his care extended to the whole world.

• Touma Kazusa played an original melody that gently stirred the plants, air, and light in her piano room.
• Bai Xuan relaxed by a stream in his Small World as Angel Zhixin offered him a massage.
• Zhixin teased Bai Xuan for looking at the world more than at her, and he told her she was his chosen companion.
• Zhixin remembered how meeting Bai Xuan and becoming his Guardian Angel had transformed her admiration into love.
• Zhixin accepted her desire for Bai Xuan’s attention and resolved to keep watching over and loving him.

Bai Xuan reflected on his feelings for Zhixin and accepted that his love did not need to match her unwavering devotion. Kanade Tachibana joined the Chat Group while still alive and suffering from heart disease, and Su Yunqing sent her power to cure it.

• Bai Xuan recalled his years with Zhixin and concluded that he cherished her without needing to love her with the same intensity she loved him.
• Kanade Tachibana joined the Chat Group from her hospital bed, and Su Yunqing recognized her as the Angel from Angel Beats!.
• Kanade Tachibana confirmed that she was alive, leading Su Yunqing to realize she had joined before entering the Afterlife.
• Kanade Tachibana told the group that her heart hurt, revealing that she was suffering from a severe bout of pain.
• Su Yunqing sent Kanade Tachibana an exclusive Red Packet containing power that could cure her heart disease.

Su Yunqing healed Kanade Tachibana’s heart condition and weakened body through a Red Packet, giving her the chance to live a healthy, ordinary life. After the Chat Group members watched Kanade’s Memory Copy and mourned her original fate, Kanade looked toward an unknown future with new hope.

• Su Yunqing sent Kanade a Red Packet containing energy and uploaded a Memory Copy of Kanade’s story.
• Kanade claimed the Red Packet, and a radiant Angel-like phantom healed her heart and began restoring her strength.
• Kanade thanked Su Yunqing and said the Angel was beautiful, while Su Yunqing explained that her body would gradually grow healthier and stronger.
• The Chat Group members discussed the regrets and loneliness in Kanade’s original story and expressed relief that she would avoid the Afterlife.
• Kanade felt her steady heartbeat and considered her newly open-ended future as she looked out the hospital window.

Kayaba Akihiko introduced Sword Art: Jianghu, a full-dive world with evolving societies and no fixed main storyline, then revealed that its martial arts and cultivation methods might be real and learnable. The chapter left the Chat Group reacting to the possibility that the game could offer more than a simulated second life.

• Kayaba Akihiko dismissed Kanade Tachibana's heart disease as easily curable through the Chat Group and shifted the discussion to Sword Art: Jianghu.
• Su Yunqing accepted that Kanade's fate had changed and asked Kayaba Akihiko what made his new game special.
• Kayaba Akihiko described Jianghu as an almost infinite, evolving world where players' choices shaped its history and societies.
• Su Yunqing questioned whether Jianghu was still only a game, since dying in it would not mean real death.
• Kayaba Akihiko revealed that the game's martial arts and cultivation methods could be real and learnable.

Kayaba Akihiko explained how he used a basic martial arts method to give every future Sword Art: Jianghu player eligibility to practice cultivation, then recovered much of the cost by recycling the game’s martial arts system. He received a trace of World Will attention as a reward and said he had arranged cooperation with governments and international organizations to maintain real-world order.

• Su Yunqing and Tony questioned how Kayaba Akihiko had made martial arts cultivable in his technologically advanced world.
• Kayaba Akihiko explained that he purchased Basic Internal Energy eligibility for all future players, allowing them to learn other martial arts in Jianghu without further authorization.
• Kayaba Akihiko revealed that recycling the game’s martial arts system restored much of his Points and earned him A Trace of World Will Attention, which could improve his luck when pursuing his goals.
• Su Yunqing warned that Jianghu’s real-world effects could disrupt society and feared Kayaba Akihiko might disregard the consequences.
• Kayaba Akihiko denied intending to disrupt real-world order and said he had established preliminary cooperation with major governments, regions, and international organizations.

Kayaba Akihiko explained how he had negotiated with governments to prepare for Jianghu’s launch, while retaining the ambition to create a true world of his own. He revealed that players’ cultivation and experience would generate Chat Group Points through Jianghu’s agreement and exchange system, leaving him able to expand access as the game grew.

• Kayaba Akihiko described agreements with governments covering Jianghu’s economic, legal, and social effects, and said the game would launch in three days.
• Kayaba Akihiko recounted how governments had tried to ban Jianghu and seize its technology before he demonstrated power that forced them to cooperate.
• Kasumigaoka Utaha questioned how Kayaba Akihiko could provide cultivation to more than the ten million players allowed by his purchased qualifications.
• Kayaba Akihiko explained that Jianghu players would accept an agreement granting him ownership of their in-game cultivation and results, which he could recycle.
• Kayaba Akihiko revealed that players could exchange Internal Force for contribution points, while the Chat Group automatically recycled that Internal Force and players’ martial-arts experience into Points.

Kayaba Akihiko explained how Jianghu’s user agreement let him recycle players’ cultivation results into Points while building a self-sustaining virtual world. Marquis Voban considered using a harsher version of the scheme, but recognized that Kayaba’s openness would attract far more participants and yield greater returns.

• Su Yunqing realized Kayaba Akihiko could copy and recycle players’ experiences and cultivation gains through Jianghu’s user agreement.
• Kayaba Akihiko said Points were only a resource and described his ambition to create worlds capable of supporting entire civilizations.
• Loki remarked that he had no need for a game-based source of Points, since Asgard could obtain them through conquest or development.
• Marquis Voban saw Jianghu as a potential way to gain Points while noting that Kayaba’s approach seemed more merciful than direct control and constant recycling.
• Marquis Voban concluded that hiding the real-world value of cultivation would limit participation, while Kayaba’s disclosure could draw billions of people into the system.

Marquis Voban considered using Kayaba Akihiko’s game-based approach to gather Points, but Loki mocked his lack of technical skill. Voban revealed an Authority suited to his own world, then clarified that it belonged to a version of himself from a derivative world connected to Bai Xuan’s World.

• Marquis Voban recognized how Kayaba Akihiko’s virtual-world system created lasting benefits for both its participants and its creator.
• Loki mocked Voban’s ability to replicate the system, arguing that Voban lacked the technical knowledge and design skill it required.
• Voban countered that his world’s Authorities could accomplish through supernatural power what Kayaba’s world required games to do, and shared the details of the Corridor of the Underworld of Thousand Realms Trials.
• Su Yunqing, Loki, and Tony were astonished by the Authority’s ability to create trial worlds, protect participants from permanent death, return their growth to reality, and adjust time.
• Voban explained that the Authority was not his own but came from the Mall’s records of a derivative world where another Marquis Voban had slain Morpheus Tarot-Thius.

Marquis Voban planned to buy the Corridor of the Underworld Authority and build a trial system that could generate Points from Trial-Takers, despite the high cost. His argument with Loki escalated into a Virtual Battle Arena fight, while Ace returned to the Chat Group after reshaping his world with Infinite Tsukuyomi.

• Loki mocked Marquis Voban for relying on another world's version of himself, but acknowledged the idea of studying other worldlines for useful Authorities.
• Marquis Voban explained how he would use the Authority to create trials, recycle Cursed Power and skills, and earn Points from participants.
• Su Yunqing asked whether Marquis Voban could afford the Authority, and Loki warned that it might be a costly mistake.
• Marquis Voban and Loki traded insults over their leadership and strength, then entered the Virtual Battle Arena to fight.
• Tony and Boil Daigo Into Soup explained to the newcomers why Marquis Voban and Loki had a bitter history.
• Ace returned to the Chat Group and said he had mostly finished reshaping his world, with Infinite Tsukuyomi proving useful.

Ace ended the Great Pirate Era by overthrowing the World Government and building the peaceful, integrated Azure Alliance, giving the Will of D a new meaning: Development and Dawn. As Su Yunqing and the others reflected on his achievement, Whitebeard proudly praised Ace as his son.

• Ace used the Infinite Tsukuyomi to unite the world and establish the Azure Alliance, a global system of governance, production, education, and welfare.
• Ace reflected on how protecting ordinary people had changed his dream and led him to end both the pirate era and the Celestial Dragons’ old order.
• Ace recalled Garp’s doubts about replacing the World Government, then remembered Garp praising him after seeing the new world he had built.
• Su Yunqing reflected on how the Chat Group had changed familiar worlds and on her shift from audience member to participant in their stories.
• Whitebeard celebrated Ace’s accomplishments and said he was proud that his son had surpassed him.

Ace reunited emotionally with Whitebeard in the Chat Group, then revealed that Shanks and Mihawk had Celestial Dragon blood and disclosed the Holy Knights’ role and the hidden truth of the God Valley Incident. He ended with the revelation that Blackbeard was Rocks’s son and reflected on Rocks and Whitebeard’s efforts to protect their families.

• Ace and Whitebeard exchanged affectionate calls, and Kazuma complained that their reunion was overwhelming the Chat Group.
• Ace revealed that Shanks had a blood-related older brother in the Holy Knights and that both Shanks and Mihawk came from Celestial Dragon families.
• Ace explained that the Holy Knights served Imu, could punish Celestial Dragons, and possessed regenerative and teleportation abilities.
• Ace recounted that Saint Garling killed his wife and God Valley’s king, then led a mass killing competition until Rocks attacked to rescue his family and followers.
• Ace said Imu’s power demonized Rocks, Roger and Garp briefly restored his sanity, and Garling’s Holy Knights later killed him before the government erased God Valley’s history.
• Ace revealed that Blackbeard was Rocks’s biological son and considered how Whitebeard had also risked himself to reach Rocks during the battle.

Ace explained that Teach would never regret betraying the Whitebeard Pirates, while Whitebeard said his loyalty to Rocks did not excuse Teach’s crimes. Ace then revealed that in his world, Whitebeard spared Teach after he begged for forgiveness, so Ace killed him instead, provoking the Whitebeard Pirates.

• Whitebeard said Teach’s connection to Rocks did not change his guilt for murdering Thatch and betraying the family, and recalled that he had killed Teach in his own world.
• Su Yunqing asked Ace what had happened to Teach in his world, and Ace explained that he had warned Whitebeard to watch over Thatch.
• When Teach tried to attack Thatch, Whitebeard stopped him, but Teach begged for mercy and Whitebeard ultimately expelled him instead of killing him.
• Ace said he killed Teach after Whitebeard spared him, judging his pleas to be a disguise and leaving no room for him to threaten the crew again.
• Whitebeard, Thatch, and the other crew members turned against Ace for killing one of their own, and hostility spread across the Moby Dick.

Ace revealed records of four ancient gods in the Pirate World and suggested that the God of Rain was the Celestial Dragons’ greatest fear. He then shared hypotheses linking the gods to Imu, whose identity remained erased from most historical documents.

• Ace explained that Whitebeard had held back against him because he had not endured the losses that would have made him hate Teach.
• Ace told the group that ancient records named Sun God Nika, the God of Earth, the God of Forest, and the God of Rain, with the God of Rain described as the Celestial Dragons’ greatest fear.
• Marquis Voban left his battle with Loki to learn about the gods, then reentered the Virtual Battle Arena after Loki taunted him about falling behind without Points.
• Su Yunqing asked Ace to explain Imu’s connection to the gods, and Ace said the records gave no direct evidence that Imu was one of them.
• Ace shared that forbidden texts called Imu the Eternal King and said the ruler of the throne possessed the Authority to adjudicate and define.

Ace and the group debated whether ancient gods’ powers had survived in Devil Fruits, and Tony proposed that Buggy’s Chop-Chop Fruit, Dragon’s unknown Fruit, and Chopper’s Human-Human Fruit might correspond to the Gods of Earth, Rain, and Forest. The theory gained some support, but Marquis Voban questioned whether Buggy could ever awaken his Fruit.

• Ace reasoned that Imu may have stolen divine Authority and reviewed fragmentary records about the gods and the Time of Promise.
• Su Yunqing speculated that the Gods of Forest, Earth, and Rain might correspond to plant-, earthquake-, and weather-related Devil Fruits.
• Tony argued that the Gods’ Fruits were likely misidentified Mythical Zoans, proposing Buggy’s Chop-Chop Fruit for Earth, Dragon’s unknown Fruit for Rain, and Chopper’s Human-Human Fruit for Forest.
• Su Yunqing challenged Tony’s theory, but Tony defended it by linking the Fruits’ potential awakenings to earth, nature, and hidden divine powers.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka and Umaru Doma found parts of Tony’s theory plausible, with Umaru suggesting Buggy’s luck might come from divine protection.
• Marquis Voban doubted the theory and questioned whether Buggy could awaken the Chop-Chop Fruit.