Chapter Summaries

Miyauchi Hiyage returned to Seiwa Academy with Satoru Gojo, where Kanoe Yuko learned she could no longer summon her Diary and struggled to understand her possible future as a divine messenger. That night, Miyauchi Hiyage opened the Diary containing Shadow Yuuko and discovered its forced debt-enforcement function had activated.

• Satoru Gojo returned Miyauchi Hiyage's backpack, and Miyauchi Hiyage took Fujimiya Miki back to Seiwa Academy instead of a hospital.
• Satoru Gojo explained that a shrine might be built to repair the Ley Line and that Kanoe Yuko could become a divine messenger.
• Kanoe Yuko realized she could no longer summon the Diary from Miyauchi Hiyage's backpack, though it remained connected to her.
• Hiiragi Inori reported the Ley Line's condition, while Satoru Gojo set up a sealing barrier and left to find food.
• Miyauchi Hiyage stayed overnight at the school and took Kanoe Yuko's Diary out of his own Diary to check on Shadow Yuuko.
• Shadow Yuuko attacked Miyauchi Hiyage to seize the Diary, but when he threw it to her, a notification activated forced debt enforcement.

Miyauchi Hiyage sealed Shadow Yuuko inside Kanoe Yuko’s Diary and made her bear its debt, then disguised her capture as an escape. The next morning, he filmed at the back mountain, where Kanoe Yuko told him that Kanoe Kirie had awakened and Kanoe Shizuuko was in poor condition.

• Shadow Yuuko resisted repaying the Diary’s debt, so Miyauchi Hiyage extracted most of her resentment energy and sealed her inside the Diary as its guardian spirit.
• Miyauchi Hiyage used Yellow Temperance to make it appear that Shadow Yuuko had escaped, while Fujimiya Miki helped stage the deception by fainting.
• Miyauchi Hiyage refused to let Shadow Yuuko read the Diary and earn Reading Points, then sealed her away again after promising to return her freedom if she cooperated.
• The next morning, Miyauchi Hiyage saw that Shinto priests had brought the Ley Line situation under control and went to the back mountain to film.
• At the cenotaph, Kanoe Yuko showed Miyauchi Hiyage an old comb she had dug up and asked whether Fujimiya Miki was all right.
• Kanoe Yuko told Miyauchi Hiyage that Kanoe Kirie had awakened and Kanoe Shizuuko was in poor condition after the incident.

Miyauchi Hiyage weighed whether to reveal Kanoe Shizuuko’s full story, then negotiated a way to remain close to Jujutsu High without becoming a Sorcerer. After leaving Seikyou Academy, he and his companions went to visit Kanoe Kirie and her grandmother in the hospital.

• Miyauchi Hiyage asked Kanoe Yuko whether she wanted his video to show the complete truth about Kanoe Shizuuko or preserve her dignity, and Kanoe Yuko fell silent.
• Miyauchi Hiyage and Fujimiya Miki signed confidentiality agreements, and he discussed his fate-related abilities and reluctance to join Jujutsu High with Satoru Gojo.
• Miyauchi Hiyage offered to hire Kento Nanami as a tutor, and Satoru Gojo accepted that the arrangement could benefit both Miyauchi Hiyage and Jujutsu Society.
• Miyauchi Hiyage concealed his Sealing Technique from Satoru Gojo and left Seikyou Academy with Fujimiya Miki and Itou Kaiji after Itou Kaiji signed the agreement.
• Miyauchi Hiyage and his companions visited Kanoe Kirie and her grandmother at the hospital, where Kanoe Kirie was recovering from minor fractures.

Miyauchi Hiyage visited the hospital and learned that Kanoe Shizuuko was unlikely to wake, while Kanoe Kirie wanted the truth about the past revealed. Back in Asahigaoka, he showed Fujimiya Miki the sealed Shadow Yuuko and explained his control over her, leaving Miki to question how he had adjusted to the supernatural world.

• Miyauchi Hiyage told Kanoe Kirie that he would ask Kanoe Yuko whether the truth about the past should be included in his video.
• Kanoe Kirie said she would confront Grandmother Yuko, while Kanoe Shizuuko remained comatose after reliving her past in the illusion.
• Miyauchi Hiyage returned to Asahigaoka, left Itou Kaiji to rest, and went to speak with Fujimiya Miki.
• Miyauchi Hiyage summoned Shadow Yuuko from the Diary, commanded her to sit, and made her change into Kanoe Yuko's appearance.
• Miyauchi Hiyage explained the Diary's seal and offered Shadow Yuuko freedom if she completed its tasks and stopped targeting innocent people.
• Fujimiya Miki recognized that Shadow Yuuko was pretending to cooperate, and then told Miyauchi Hiyage that her own first encounter with the supernatural had left her more shocked and frightened than he had seemed.

Miyauchi Hiyage discussed Honma Meiko’s failing health and the strange thread draining her life, then prepared to investigate the mountain where she drowned. He persuaded Itou Kaiji to keep working with him and revealed a new reward: an app that allowed entry into the Impression Space, which might help him fight supernatural threats.

• Fujimiya Miki asked Miyauchi Hiyage about Honma Meiko, and he explained that a strange thread leading toward the mountains seemed to be draining her life force.
• Miyauchi Hiyage planned to investigate the mountain where Honma Meiko had fallen into the water, while Fujimiya Miki urged him to stay safe.
• Miyauchi Hiyage offered Itou Kaiji money and the chance to leave, but Itou accepted the reward and committed to working for him for three years.
• Itou Kaiji worried that Sakakibara Kouichi might struggle with the supernatural world, and Miyauchi Hiyage explained the Mystery Revival and the possibility that they could awaken powers.
• Miyauchi Hiyage recalled receiving a navigation app that entered the Impression Space and considered using it to fight Shadows as a way to exorcise Vengeful Spirits.

Miyauchi Hiyage took the Asahigaoka students to Chichibu for their spring field trip, where he checked Honma Meiko’s fate and found its connection still led to the mountain where she had once fallen into the water. After the group’s day out, he told Meiko about his recent encounter with a Vengeful Spirit and offered to take her to meet Chichibu Shrine’s shrine maiden to investigate her condition.

• Miyauchi Hiyage brought Renge on the spring field trip, and Ichijo Hotaru learned from Koshigaya Komari why the students admired and feared him.
• Miyauchi Hiyage examined Honma Meiko’s fate in Chichibu and saw that its thread still led toward the mountain where she had fallen into the water.
• Kaede Kagayama led the group to Moss Phlox Hill and a strawberry farm, and the students enjoyed their outing before staying at a hot spring hotel.
• Miyauchi Hiyage met Honma Meiko at the hotel entrance and told her about awakening extraordinary powers after encountering a Vengeful Spirit.
• Miyauchi Hiyage offered to take Honma Meiko to meet the first-grade shrine maiden stationed at Chichibu Shrine so she could examine Meiko’s condition.

Miyauchi Hiyage took Honma Meiko to Chichibu Shrine, where the Kano Shrine Maiden discovered that Meiko’s life was being sustained by an unusual power despite her body being severely depleted. After hearing Meiko’s account of her Breathing Technique, the Omiya Shrine Maiden linked it to the Demon Slayer Corps’ old technique, though she could not confirm that it caused Meiko’s condition.

• Miyauchi Hiyage brought Honma Meiko to Chichibu Shrine so its Shrine Maidens could examine her.
• The Kano Shrine Maiden noticed Meiko’s strong affinity for the Ley Line and considered taking her as a disciple.
• The Kano Shrine Maiden’s examination revealed that Meiko’s body was almost hollowed out and depended on a warm, unknown power to stay alive.
• Honma Meiko described the Breathing Technique she had previously explained to Miyauchi Hiyage.
• The Omiya Shrine Maiden connected the technique to the Breathing Technique once used by the Demon Slayer Corps to fight the Demon King, but said its role in Meiko’s condition was only a guess.

The Omiya Shrine Maiden discovered that Honma Meiko was linked to a branch of Chichibu City's Ley Line despite divining that she should have died five years earlier. She used spiritual power to clarify Meiko's memories of the drowning and, after learning of a possible anomaly at the children's secret base, arranged for Meiko's family to join a blessing ceremony before they investigated.

• The Omiya Shrine Maiden examined Honma Meiko, sensed her connection to a Ley Line branch, and divined that Meiko's fate indicated she had died five years earlier.
• Honma Meiko allowed the Omiya Shrine Maiden's mental suggestion to awaken her memories of the drowning five years ago.
• Meiko recalled how her childhood friends had formed Super Peace Busters, how she fell into the river, and how Miyauchi Hiyage and others helped rescue her.
• The Omiya Shrine Maiden noticed something suspicious about the group's abandoned cabin and asked Meiko to take her to the place where she fell into the water.
• Meiko asked to notify her family, so the Kano Shrine Maiden called the Honma couple and explained that Chichibu Shrine would hold a blessing ceremony for Meiko.

Miyauchi Hiyage took Honma Meiko to her childhood secret base, where the Omiya Shrine Maiden found that the Ley Line’s power was enveloping her. The shrine maiden explained that the cabin was a crucial node connected to Chichibu Shrine’s Ley Line and that the Ley Line had chosen Meiko, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Fujimiya Miki told the others that Miyauchi Hiyage had taken Honma Meiko to Chichibu Shrine, and Kaede Kagayama checked his detailed email to her.
• Honma Meiko read the Diary and told the chat group that Miyauchi Hiyage had been with her, helping clear him of suspicion about You Know Who.
• Miyauchi Hiyage, Honma Meiko, and the Omiya Shrine Maiden reached the childhood secret base, where the shrine maiden cleaned the dusty cabin.
• The Omiya Shrine Maiden found Spiritual Power engraved in the words Super Peace Busters, while Miyauchi Hiyage saw a cocoon of power draining Meiko’s life force without registering as danger.
• The Omiya Shrine Maiden stopped the power’s flow and explained that the cabin was a key node in the Ley Line, which had chosen Honma Meiko.

The Omiya Shrine Maiden revealed that Honma Meiko had been fated to drown and become the Mountain God of Chichibu, but Miyauchi Hiyage’s intervention had changed her fate. After learning that the Ley Line contract was weakening her body, Meiko received two possible paths from her Diary: become a god after death or pursue godhood while retaining her body.

• The Omiya Shrine Maiden explained that Meiko’s name had connected her to the Ley Line and that her original fate was to drown and become the Mountain God.
• The Omiya Shrine Maiden said Hiyage’s appearances had diverted Meiko from that fate, but her unresolved contract continued to weaken her body.
• The Omiya Shrine Maiden proposed keeping the contract, helping Meiko recover, and training her to pursue godhood while alive.
• Meiko checked her Diary and found that completing her commission had unlocked a choice between becoming the Mountain God after death or pursuing the more difficult path of godhood in the flesh.

Honma Meiko joined the shrine and began reconnecting with the Ley Line, but a violent spatial disturbance swept across the mountain and transported her and Miyauchi Hiyage to an unfamiliar place. They found themselves without phone reception, and Miyauchi suspected they had crossed into another world through a spatial crack.

• Honma Meiko agreed to join the shrine and called the Omiya Shrine Maiden her Teacher.
• The Omiya Shrine Maiden guided Honma Meiko to the Ley Line, which began sending Spiritual Power into her body.
• Spatial turbulence and supernatural lightning interrupted the ritual, and a powerful distortion made Honma Meiko and Miyauchi Hiyage vanish.
• The Ley Line became berserk after Honma Meiko disappeared, and its disturbance spread across the mountain range toward nearby cities.
• Miyauchi Hiyage found himself with Honma Meiko in an unfamiliar mountain forest and explained that they might have been transported to another world.

Miyauchi Hiyage and Honma Meiko arrived in a mana-rich world after the spatial rift separated them from the Omiya Shrine Maiden. When Honma’s Diary issued a two-hour commission to reach the rift’s core and offered a chance to return home, Hiyage persuaded her to follow its directions east.

• Hiyage found that the thread connecting him to Honma had snapped, then sensed a powerful presence to the east that forced him out of the Eyes of Destiny.
• Honma’s Diary blocked a divine-level mental impact at a cost of ten Reading Points and issued a time-limited commission to investigate the spatial rift’s core.
• Hiyage secretly read the Diary’s new commission and considered the risks, while Honma worried about leaving the area without knowing whether the Omiya Shrine Maiden could find them.
• Hiyage told Honma about his fate-sensing ability and said her dark fortune also contained an opportunity.
• Honma took Hiyage’s hand and led them east toward the rift’s core, about five kilometers away.

Miyauchi Hiyage and Honma Meiko reached the unstable space’s core and found Tohru, a dying dragon pinned by a holy sword. Tohru questioned Miyauchi Hiyage, while he recognized her and considered the consequences of intervening; the chapter left her fate undecided.

• Miyauchi Hiyage teleported Honma Meiko across the mountains before guiding her on foot through the unstable space.
• Honma Meiko used Reading Points to adjust her Ripple Breathing and keep pace with Miyauchi Hiyage.
• Miyauchi Hiyage and Honma Meiko entered the core area, followed the scent of blood, and found a wounded green dragon with a holy sword embedded in her body.
• Honma Meiko received a choice to kill the dragon for a Dragon Slayer reward or pull out the holy sword and risk angering a god.
• Tohru recognized Miyauchi Hiyage as someone the holy sword had rejected and asked why he had come.
• Miyauchi Hiyage recognized Tohru from Dragon Maid and reflected that his arrival differed from the encounter that would lead Kobayashi to save her.

Miyauchi Hiyage and Honma Meiko met the dying dragon Tohru, who offered them a way back to their world and warned that only someone without faith in gods could pull out the holy sword. Honma Meiko decided to try anyway, trusting her Diary to protect her, and Tohru reluctantly accepted their help.

• Tohru explained that a spatial rift could send Miyauchi Hiyage and Honma Meiko home, but Honma Meiko chose to stay and ask about the sword in Tohru's body.
• Tohru warned that the holy sword was a weapon of the gods and that anyone who believed in gods would be harmed trying to remove it.
• Honma Meiko checked her Diary and concluded she could absorb the sword's backlash with Reading Points, then asked Miyauchi Hiyage to help her try.
• Miyauchi Hiyage agreed to support Honma Meiko, though he knew neither of them lacked the faith needed to pull out the sword safely.
• Tohru sensed the protection of an unknown god around Honma Meiko and accepted that the pair genuinely intended to save her.

Honma Meiko tried to draw the holy sword from Tohru, but Miyauchi Hiyage destroyed it when he intervened, freeing the dragon and completing his targeted draw. In his consciousness, Hiyage encountered the sword’s self-awareness, who explained why she had attacked him.

• Tohru agreed to let Honma Meiko attempt to pull out the holy sword, and Miyauchi Hiyage guided Meiko as she climbed onto the dragon’s back.
• Honma Meiko used Ripple Breathing and Reading Points to draw the sword several inches, but divine resistance and lightning kept her from freeing it.
• Miyauchi Hiyage touched the holy sword to help, and it shattered as the Diary’s Emergency Mode pulled Honma Meiko to safety; Tohru broke free and blocked the lightning.
• Miyauchi Hiyage received notice that his targeted draw was complete and entered his consciousness, where he met the holy sword’s self-awareness.
• Holy Sword Loli told Miyauchi Hiyage that she had attacked him because she sensed a dragon’s aura and his irreverence toward the gods, but her power had been absorbed and her consciousness trapped inside him.

Miyauchi Hiyage subdued the Holy Sword, gained Unlimited Blade Works and Projection Magic, and helped free Tohru. Tohru asked to visit their world, and Honma Meiko wondered whether the Omiya Shrine Maiden would believe their explanation of Tohru's origins.

• Miyauchi Hiyage gained Unlimited Blade Works and Projection Magic, then projected the Holy Sword to show Tohru he had subdued it.
• Honma Meiko apologized to Miyauchi Hiyage for leaving him to face the danger, and he comforted her before asking Tohru what she planned to do.
• Tohru transformed into a blonde girl, introduced herself, and listened as Honma Meiko explained why she had chosen to save her.
• Tohru described her weariness with the endless war and asked Honma Meiko if she could visit their world.
• Miyauchi Hiyage silently supported Honma Meiko, who asked whether the Omiya Shrine Maiden would believe them about Tohru's origins.

Miyauchi Hiyage and Honma Meiko returned from the other world with Tohru, who concealed her power and slipped away toward Asahigaoka. After Meiko was taken to stabilize her Ley Line contract, Omiya Shrine Maiden destroyed evidence from the other world and ordered Miyauchi Hiyage to keep their experience secret.

• Tohru concealed her Aura with arrays, and Honma Meiko welcomed her to travel with them to their world.
• Miyauchi Hiyage, Honma Meiko, and Tohru crossed the spatial rift; Tohru went into hiding near Asahigaoka while Miyauchi Hiyage and Honma Meiko prepared a cover story.
• Kano Shrine Maiden carried Honma Meiko to the Ley Line to reconnect her contract, while a monk escorted Miyauchi Hiyage away from the unstable spatial area.
• Kano Shrine Maiden told Miyauchi Hiyage that Honma Meiko and the Ley Line were stabilizing, then questioned him about what he had seen beyond the rift.
• Miyauchi Hiyage offered dirt and grass from the other world for testing, but Omiya Shrine Maiden burned them and ordered him to deny any connection to another world.

After helping Honma Meiko recover her connection to the Ley Line, Miyauchi Hiyage and the shrine maidens concealed the events surrounding the spatial rift and the earthquake. Meiko later told the group that she had visited another world, saved Tohru with Hiyage’s help, and was now on a path to become a deity.

• The Omiya Shrine Maiden told Miyauchi Hiyage to help conceal Meiko’s condition from Shrine Headquarters until Meiko could reconnect with the Ley Line.
• The group chat worried when a magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck near Meiko, and the girls speculated that a battle with a Vengeful Spirit had caused it.
• After leaving the barrier, Hiyage reassured his friends and relatives, while the shrine maidens explained his absence as a ritual and Meiko was taken away for treatment.
• Meiko returned to the group chat and said her physical problem was resolved, then explained that she had traveled to another world and helped save Tohru with Hiyage’s assistance.
• Meiko asked the group to keep Tohru and the other-world trip secret, and Umaru wondered whether Meiko might soon become a deity.

Honma Meiko’s journey to another world and her discovery of a dragon excited the Diary group, while Miyauchi Hiyage met Tohru in Asahigaoka and explained his world’s chaotic supernatural systems and history. Tohru wondered whether a world without gods offered ordinary people a better life, but Miyauchi Hiyage’s answer crushed her hopes.

• Umaru and Gokō Ruri eagerly asked Honma Meiko to introduce them to Tohru, but Honma Meiko asked them to keep the dragon’s existence secret until Tohru felt comfortable.
• Miyauchi Hiyage thanked Shiina Mashiro for staying awake to relay the group’s messages, told her about his new holy sword and Reality Marble, and promised to show her Tohru’s image later.
• Miyauchi Hiyage found Tohru at the Asahigaoka filming location and explained Honma Meiko’s condition, the recovering spatial rift, and his world’s recent revival of supernatural powers.
• Tohru sensed the world’s chaotic Mana and learned from Miyauchi Hiyage that more than a hundred distinct supernatural systems existed, with their compatibility varying by region.
• Miyauchi Hiyage explained how mystical decline had helped technology develop, and Tohru asked whether ordinary people lived well without gods and powerful supernatural beings.
• Miyauchi Hiyage gave Tohru an answer that crushed her hopes, but the chapter did not reveal what he said.

Miyauchi Hiyage warned Tohru that this world’s wars and future supernatural dangers made it no easy place to fix her own world, then introduced her to modern technology and arranged for her to stay in Asahigaoka. Meanwhile, Shinomiya Kaguya arrived to meet him after investigating the Demon Slayer Corps and arranging an investment visit from the Shinomiya Conglomerate.

• Miyauchi Hiyage described the world’s wars and looming supernatural threats, and Tohru abandoned her hopes of finding an easy way to change her world.
• Miyauchi Hiyage showed Tohru videos and explained the internet, electrical appliances, and Asahigaoka’s filming business; she agreed to stay and learn about the technology.
• Miyauchi Hiyage arranged Tohru’s temporary identity as a foreign tourist, gave her a phone and spending money, and told Fujimiya Miki about her.
• Kaede Kagayama told Miyauchi Hiyage that the Shinomiya Conglomerate planned to invest in Asahigaoka Media and send a representative before noon.
• Shinomiya Kaguya used her Reverse Side World identity and Ripple Breathing to meet Yushiro and Kiriya Ubuyashiki, exchanged Breathing Techniques, and obtained Scarlet Ore and Demon Slayer Corps records.
• Shinomiya Kaguya arrived in Asahigaoka, familiar with the village and its videos after preparing to approach Miyauchi Hiyage.