Chapter Summaries

Kallen confessed her love to Mahiro after showing him how she had rebuilt her life and helped her mother recover, and he accepted her feelings. On Christmas, C.C. confronted Mahiro about taking Nunnally to Lelouch and leaving Charles’s Code to her, resenting that he had restored her immortality without asking.

• Kallen took Mahiro to the United States of Japan, where they visited the former vendor she had helped establish a hot dog shop.
• Kallen brought Mahiro to her home, where he reunited with her recovered mother, Madam Red Moon.
• Kallen kissed Mahiro, confessed her love, and explained that she had arranged her affairs and her mother's support before pursuing him.
• Mahiro and C.C. walked unnoticed through the Christmas crowds, and C.C. asked whether he had achieved the perfect ending he wanted.
• C.C. reproached Mahiro for taking Nunnally to see Lelouch and giving her Charles's Code without asking her opinion.

Yotsuba Mahiro reassured C.C. that he would find a way to stay with her forever and asked her to leave with him for a world he had created. He surprised her with a birthday celebration and a bellflower pendant, and she ended the night by embracing and kissing him.

• Yotsuba Mahiro explained that immortality could be attained in many ways and promised to work toward staying with C.C. forever.
• Yotsuba Mahiro asked C.C. to go with him to a new world, and she agreed to follow him wherever he went.
• Yotsuba Mahiro brought C.C. to a hotel room, where fireworks began outside the window.
• Yotsuba Mahiro gave C.C. a bellflower pendant engraved with “Hopeless love” and “Everlasting love,” then wished her a happy birthday with a white rose.
• C.C. learned Mahiro knew her birthday from seeing her memories, thanked him, and kissed him.

After celebrating C.C.’s birthday, Mahiro returned to his original world and unexpectedly landed in Erika’s bath. Once they settled the misunderstanding, Erika brought him to her private dojo to collect on an old promise to duel.

• C.C. decided to stay by Mahiro’s side after he celebrated her birthday, while Alaya watched them and bid farewell to the traveler between worlds.
• Mahiro appeared in the Chiba Family’s bathroom and startled Erika while she was bathing.
• Erika struck Mahiro, then questioned him about his unexpected arrival and demanded that he forget seeing her naked.
• Erika reminded Mahiro that he still owed her a swordsmanship match and took him to her private dojo to fight.

Yotsuba Mahiro defeated Erika in a dojo sparring match, exposing the enormous gap between their swordsmanship. Erika then joined him on a flight to Mashima Island, where she planned to work at Arcadia, still troubled by how far she was from his level.

• Erika challenged Yotsuba Mahiro to spar so she could gauge the gap between them, and he easily blocked her opening attacks.
• Erika used Kisara Tendo's techniques and accelerated repeatedly, but Mahiro broke her wooden sword and slammed her to the dojo floor until she surrendered.
• Erika complained about being hurt and demanded that Mahiro spar with her regularly, and he healed her injuries.
• On the private jet to Mashima Island, Erika said she planned to start working there after graduation, while Mahiro noted that Mizuki Shibata, Honoka Mitsui, and others planned to join Arcadia as teachers.
• Erika reflected on how thoroughly Mahiro had defeated her and felt frustrated and alarmed by the vast difference in their abilities.

Mahiro returned to Mashima Island and reunited with the women in his life before agreeing to spend a day with Miyuki. Their date brought them to a Tokyo shopping mall, where Miyuki asked him to attend her upcoming graduation ceremony.

• Mahiro told Erika about his journey to another world, and she teased him about the women who had joined him.
• Mahiro arrived at Mashima Island, which had expanded, and connected Penglai Island to it with a bridge.
• Miori Shiba invited Mahiro to a business dinner, and Miyuki asked him to spend the next day with her.
• Mahiro and Miyuki went on a date in Roppongi, talking about school, family, and his travels between worlds.
• Miyuki told Mahiro she would graduate on March fifteenth and asked him to attend her graduation ceremony.

Miyuki took Mahiro shopping and fussed over him, while he sensed an unseen observer who turned out to be Gu Jie, a former enemy of the Yotsuba Family plotting revenge. Back at the main house, Mahiro realized Miyuki’s unusual attentiveness came from advice by Miya and Maya, and she nervously offered him a massage.

• Miyuki took Mahiro to a shop, chose clothes for him, and personally put new shoes on his feet.
• Mahiro sensed someone watching him outside the shop but could not find the observer, then left with Miyuki.
• Gu Jie, hiding in a coffee shop, revealed that he had secretly entered Japan and intended to gather weapons to attack the Yotsuba Family.
• On their private jet, Mahiro questioned Miyuki about her strange behavior and guessed that Miya and Maya had coached her.
• At the Yotsuba main house, Miyuki shyly offered Mahiro a massage, then hurriedly explained that she only wanted to help him relax.

Miyuki gave Mahiro a massage that led to an intimate night involving her, Maya Yotsuba, and Yotsuba Miya. The next morning, a grave message prompted Miya to summon Mahiro and Miyuki to her study, where she had been searching for something through the Supreme Throne.

• Miyuki prepared oils and massaged Mahiro, explaining that she had learned the techniques from old books given to her by her aunt.
• Mahiro turned Miyuki over and pinned her down, and Maya Yotsuba and Yotsuba Miya listened outside the bedroom before Mahiro pulled them inside.
• The Yotsuba family ate an awkward breakfast the next morning, with Miyuki, Maya Yotsuba, and Yotsuba Miya visibly affected by the night before.
• Hayama whispered a message to Maya Yotsuba, and Yotsuba Miya asked Mahiro and Miyuki to come to her study after breakfast.
• Yotsuba Miya searched for something using the Supreme Throne, then received Mahiro and Miyuki in her study.

Maya warned Mahiro that Gide Black Gu had entered Japan and urged him to stay safe, while Mahiro suspected Gu Jie was connected to Maya’s abduction and planned to consolidate the magic families. Several days later, Mahiro traveled to meet Miori Shiba, where he found an old acquaintance waiting in her car.

• Maya told Miyuki and Mahiro that Gide Black Gu had left the USNA and infiltrated Japan, and she warned Mahiro to bring guardians and bodyguards.
• After Miyuki left, Mahiro asked Maya whether Gu Jie was connected to Great Han and raised the possibility that a traitor had enabled her abduction.
• Mahiro said he wanted revenge, to unify the Ten Master Clans and Hundred Families, and to deal with Gu Jie; Maya agreed to arrange a Master Clan Conference but asked to handle Gu Jie herself.
• Mahiro agreed not to confront Gu Jie for the time being, then secretly ordered Zeta to find him.
• Several days later, Mahiro left the Yotsuba Clan’s main residence and met Miori Shiba, who welcomed him and led him to a car where an old acquaintance was waiting.

Mahiro attended a business banquet with Miori Shiba, reunited with Honoka and Shizuku, and learned that two police officers had gone missing amid the search for Gu Jie. The chapter ended when an unnaturally stiff young man approached the group and greeted Shizuku, Honoka, and Luna.

• Mahiro teased Angelina during the ride to the banquet, while Miori Shiba flirted with him and Angelina protested.
• Mahiro arrived at the banquet with Miori Shiba and slipped away from the guests to eat in a quiet corner.
• Honoka embraced Mahiro excitedly, and Shizuku welcomed him back.
• Gamma told Mahiro that Gu Jie remained missing and that two police officers had disappeared; Shizuku identified Gu Jie as Gide Black Gu, the mastermind behind Blanche.
• A stiff young man approached with a young woman beside him and greeted Senior Kitayama, Senior Mitsui, and Miss Luna.

At a business banquet, Yotsuba Mahiro humiliated Shippou Takuma after Takuma questioned him and defended Kowamura Maki. After the banquet, Takuma followed Maki to her home, where she dismissed her bodyguards and went to shower.

• Gamma politely took her leave from Mahiro and left the banquet rather than socialize with Shippou Takuma.
• Kowamura Maki introduced herself to Mahiro, Mitsui Honoka, and Kitayama Shizuku, but Mahiro challenged her qualifications to shake his hand.
• Shippou Takuma questioned Mahiro about Miyuki and the Yotsuba Family, so Mahiro mocked and threatened him in front of the banquet guests.
• Shippou Takuma left the banquet with Maki in disgrace, and Mahiro told Honoka and Shizuku that Maki was using Takuma.
• After the banquet, Takuma followed Maki to her home, where she sent away her bodyguards and went to shower.

Kowamura Maki and Shippou Takuma discussed recruiting influential students, while Mahiro’s search for Gu Jie continued. At the Yotsuba residence, Mayumi Saegusa and her twin sisters visited Mahiro, and the sisters’ rivalry with Ayako erupted into a dispute over whom he would marry.

• Kowamura Maki urged Shippou Takuma to recruit Mitsui Honoka and use her to approach Kitayama Shizuku and the Yotsuba Family, but Takuma refused to consider anyone from the Saegusa Family.
• Mahiro continued spending time with girls as Shadow Garden struggled to locate Gu Jie, while Yotsuba Miya trained Miyuki for the upcoming Clans Conference.
• Mayumi Saegusa arrived at the Yotsuba residence with Kasumi and Izumi, where Ayako and Fumiya were visiting Mahiro.
• Kasumi and Izumi clung to Mahiro and declared their intention to marry him, prompting Ayako to insist that Miyuki should be his wife and that she would be his concubine.

Mahiro told Mayumi that he planned to move against the Ten Master Clans and the Numbers because of traitors in Japan’s magic community, then reassured her he would spare the Saegusa Family. After Mayumi and Mahiro kissed, they returned downstairs, where Maya, Miya, and Miyuki had arrived, and Maya’s glance unsettled Mayumi.

• Ayako, Izumi, and Kasumi argued over who would become Mahiro’s wife and began unfastening their clothes, so Mahiro stopped them and sent them to wait with Fumiya.
• Mayumi took Mahiro upstairs and asked whether the Yotsuba Family planned to act at the Master Clans Conference.
• Mahiro said he intended to move against the Ten Master Clans and all the Numbers because of traitors, citing the Kudou and Saegusa Families’ foreign ties.
• Mayumi failed to change Mahiro’s mind, and he promised not to be too harsh on the Saegusa Family before they kissed.
• Mahiro and Mayumi returned downstairs to find Maya, Miya, and Miyuki there, and Maya’s glance made Mayumi panic.

At a Master Clan conference, Maya Yotsuba announced Miyuki Shiba’s succession and engagement to Yotsuba Mahiro, who then declared that he intended to unify the Ten Master Clans. The Saegusa and Jumonji Families supported the Yotsuba Family, while the other families remained silent and wary.

• Shippou Takuma arrived at the conference and was confronted by Yotsuba Mahiro over his earlier demand that Mahiro kneel and kowtow; Maya Yotsuba and Yotsuba Miya joined in rebuking him.
• Kudo Retsu ended the exchange and urged Maya Yotsuba to explain the meeting’s purpose.
• Maya Yotsuba announced that Miyuki Shiba was designated as the next head of the Yotsuba Family and was engaged to Yotsuba Mahiro.
• Yotsuba Mahiro declared that he wanted to unify the Ten Master Clans and asked who supported or opposed him.
• Mayumi Saegusa and Saegusa Koichi announced the Saegusa Family’s support for the Yotsuba Family’s decision.
• Katsuto Jumonji announced that the Jumonji Family also supported the Yotsuba Family.

Yotsuba Mahiro secured control of the Ten Master Clans after Shiba Tatsuya struck down Shippou Takuma, then had the Kuroba siblings capture Kowamura Maki. Interrogation revealed Maki had ties to Gu Jie, leaving Mahiro puzzled by how events differed from what he remembered.

• Goze Mio warned that the Yotsuba Family was challenging Japan's magical community, but Mahiro asked the families whether they opposed his plan to unify the Ten Master Clans.
• Shippou Takuma objected, so Shiba Tatsuya hurled him into a wall and dragged him away while Mahiro ordered a reckoning of the Shippou Family.
• The other family heads accepted Yotsuba leadership, and Mahiro's forces moved to settle accounts with the families.
• Kowamura Maki packed to flee, but Kuroba Ayako and Fumiya Kuroba captured her after Ayako used Poisoned Bees to incapacitate her.
• Interrogators discovered that Maki had contacted Gu Jie to seek a method for preserving her beauty, and Mahiro wondered why this differed from the events he remembered.

Yotsuba Mahiro’s forces tracked Gu Jie to the docks as he tried to flee Japan, and Akame intercepted his escape. The chapter ended with Akame fighting Gu Jie’s corpse puppets while Gu Jie vanished using Ghost Gate Dunjia.

• Kowamura Maki disappeared, while the Yotsuba Family continued its purge and searched for Gu Jie.
• Shadow Garden located Gu Jie near the docks, and Mahiro ordered his people to move that night.
• Gu Jie sensed he was being watched and set out for the docks with an assistant and several companions.
• Zeta followed Gu Jie’s vehicle as Mahiro ordered her to keep him under surveillance rather than kill him immediately.
• Gu Jie fired grenade rounds into traffic, but Akame appeared and cut his car in half, killing his assistant.
• Gu Jie sent two corpse puppets against Akame and escaped with Ghost Gate Dunjia as she resumed fighting them.

Yotsuba Mahiro intercepted Gu Jie and killed him after Zeta destroyed the dead soldiers he had prepared. The search party found the bodies of Chiba Toshikazu and Inaheng, and Mahiro later wondered what Erika’s relationship with her elder brother had been like.

• Gu Jie fled west and encountered Yotsuba Mahiro, who revealed that he had stopped the dead soldiers from answering Gu Jie’s command.
• Zeta appeared at the warehouse after destroying Gu Jie’s dead-soldier puppets.
• Mahiro dodged Gu Jie’s Ghost Gate Dunjia and slapped him to death, then burned his corpse to ash.
• The search party found Chiba Toshikazu and Inaheng’s bodies and learned through Shiba Tatsuya’s analysis that they had been dead for more than a day.
• The Chiba Family arranged a joint funeral and sent Mahiro an invitation, prompting him to ask Maya Yotsuba about Erika’s relationship with her elder brother.

Yotsuba Mahiro attended Chiba Toshikazu’s funeral with Maya Yotsuba and Miyuki Shiba, where Erika Chiba mourned her half-brother despite their strained relationship. After grieving, Erika thanked Mahiro for freeing Toshikazu from being used as a puppet and asked about his strength.

• Mahiro decided to attend Toshikazu’s funeral as Erika’s friend, and Maya Yotsuba accompanied him with Miyuki Shiba to the Chiba residence.
• At the funeral, Mahiro noticed Shuji Chiba was absent and saw Erika greeting mourners while trying to hide her grief.
• After the ceremony, Erika broke down while recalling how Toshikazu had treated her, and Mahiro and Miyuki quietly listened until she asked Mahiro for a handkerchief.
• Erika thanked Mahiro for bringing Toshikazu back and explained that she recognized Akame’s blade wound and knew her brother had been controlled as a puppet.
• Mahiro told Erika he had killed the magician Gu Jie, and he confirmed that Toshikazu had been strong enough to challenge Akame.

Mahiro agreed to revive Chiba Toshikazu and Inatsune, then Erika took him to a hotel and offered herself to him as repayment for saving her brother. The chapter ended with Mahiro accepting her offer.

• Erika asked Mahiro to use his magic to revive her brother, and he agreed after learning that she did not hate Toshikazu.
• Mahiro secretly revived Chiba Toshikazu and Inatsune before the cremation, then left as the Chiba Family celebrated their return.
• Erika hurried Mahiro away from the estate and brought him to a hotel, where she restrained him and began undressing.
• Erika said she had decided to devote herself to Mahiro because she could not repay the debt of saving her brother in any other way.
• Mahiro stopped resisting and accepted Erika's offer.

After First High School’s graduation ceremony, Mahiro reunited with his friends and was approached by Kudo Retsu, who offered to trade the Kudou Family for Mahiro’s medicine that repaired genetic defects. The chapter left Mahiro demanding to know how Kudo learned about the medicine, and Kudo revealed that Maya Yotsuba had told him.

• Erika’s connection and the Yotsuba Family’s actions led the Chiba Family to submit to Yotsuba administration, and Erika moved to Mashima Island to run a dojo and teach at Arcadia’s school.
• Mizuki Shibata, Mitsui Honoka, and Kitayama Shizuku moved to Mashima Island ahead of their original plans as First High School held its graduation ceremony on March 15th, 2098.
• After the ceremony, Erika suggested that the group visit the café where they had first gathered, and Lina said she had no reason to return to the dissolved USNA.
• Kudo Retsu stopped Mahiro and his friends outside the school and asked Mahiro to meet him at the café.
• In a private room, Kudo offered to trade the Kudou Family for Mahiro’s genetic-defect-repairing medicine, and Mahiro asked how he had learned about it.
• Kudo told Mahiro that Maya Yotsuba had revealed the medicine’s existence.

Kudo Retsu offered Kyoko Fujibayashi and the Kudou Family in exchange for Yotsuba Mahiro’s enhancement serum to treat Minoro Kudou. Mahiro accepted the deal on the condition that the Kudou Family be transferred to Miyuki, while Kudo Retsu left without Kyoko.

• Mahiro accused Kudo Retsu of having helped arrange Maya Yotsuba’s kidnapping decades earlier, and Retsu’s reaction confirmed Mahiro’s suspicion.
• Kudo Retsu offered Kyoko Fujibayashi as payment for the serum, disregarding her feelings and leaving her devastated.
• Kudo Retsu revealed that he wanted the serum to treat his frail grandson, Minoro Kudou.
• Mahiro demanded that the Kudou Family also be transferred to Miyuki, and Kudo Retsu accepted the terms.
• Kudo Retsu left the café without sparing Kyoko another glance.