Chapter Summaries

Exusiai brought Lisa safely back to her mother in Siracusa, while Hoshino returned to Yae Shrine hoping to rest. In Kjerag, Pramanix escaped the clergy’s search and set off toward a rainbow after the bell at her waist began to glow.

• Exusiai met Lappland in Siracusa, accepted her offer to act as a guide, and decided to stay for a few days.
• Lisa reunited with her mother and showed her the shrine maiden etiquette she had learned by making a cute pose, leaving her mother alarmed.
• Hoshino used her powers to make a farewell fireworks display for Lisa, then returned to Yae Shrine and relaxed in its hot spring.
• Pramanix hid beneath a cliff outside her cabin for seven hours while the clergy searched for her, then climbed down the mountain when they failed to find her.
• Pramanix’s bell began to glow as a rainbow appeared, and she decided to head toward it.

After fleeing Kjerag, Pramanix followed a rainbow to Yae Shrine and fell asleep at Hoshino’s doorstep. Hoshino took her in and discovered that touching Pramanix’s tail triggered progress on unlocking Saintess’s Prayer.

• Pramanix escaped into the snowy wilderness and turned back after deciding to choose her own life.
• Hoshino found Pramanix asleep in a pile of leaves outside Yae Shrine.
• Hoshino carried Pramanix inside, and the bell at her waist briefly tried to initiate a group chat before Hoshino silenced it.
• Pramanix mistook Hoshino for a fellow shrine servant, then went back to sleep.
• Hoshino touched Pramanix’s tail and startled her awake, but Pramanix soon fell asleep again.

Hoshino stayed with the exhausted Pramanix at Yae Shrine and tried to make her feel welcome, while Pramanix discovered the hot spring and reflected on the freedom she lacked in Kjerag. The chapter ended with Hoshino returning with food and finding Pramanix bathing in the spring.

• Hoshino waited beside Pramanix and silenced the ringing bell when it threatened to disturb her sleep.
• Pramanix woke hungry, and Hoshino teased her until she glimpsed the freedom she had been afraid to embrace.
• Pramanix reluctantly ate rice balls, so Hoshino left the shrine to find her meat.
• Pramanix found the hot spring, bathed, and envied the shrine maidens' freedom to come and go as they pleased.
• Hoshino returned with fried chicken and ramen, searched for Pramanix, and found her blowing bubbles in the hot spring.

Pramanix hid her identity in Lungmen with flashy clothes and a spray-painted bell, then explored the idea of becoming a rapper. After testing her, Emperor discovered she had extraordinary rap skills learned from her saintess chanting.

• Hoshino measured Pramanix and left to buy clothes that would disguise her, while Pramanix ate the food she had brought.
• Pramanix changed into Emperor's oversized T-shirt and thigh-high socks, then let Hoshino cover her sacred bell with water-soluble paint.
• Emperor mistook Pramanix for a rookie rapper, and Pramanix asked him what rap and a battle were.
• Pramanix asked Emperor to test her rap talent, and he emerged ten minutes later astonished by her fast, clear flow and intricate rhymes.

Hoshino prepared Pramanix to debut in Lungmen as a rapper named [Saintess], while Kjerag’s search for the missing Saintess failed. SilverAsh learned Enya was in Lungmen and decided to search for her himself.

• Emperor warned Hoshino that Kjerag would treat Pramanix’s bell as a provocation, but Hoshino said she had prepared a layered identity for her.
• Pramanix tried shopping in Lungmen and told a stranger she was an underground singer mentored by Emperor.
• Kjerag’s search parties failed to find the Saintess, so they notified SilverAsh through Kjerag Trade.
• SilverAsh restrained his subordinates until he had a reason to act, then sent Tenzin to find Enya and said he would go himself.
• News spread in Kjerag that a rapper called [Saintess] was rising in Lungmen’s underground scene, but the elders dismissed it.
• Six days later, Tenzin returned with a Lungmen plant, and SilverAsh realized Enya was in Lungmen.

SilverAsh traveled to Lungmen to find his sister, Pramanix, after learning she was the rapper known as Saintess. As Pramanix questioned whether rap was truly what she wanted, the people of the snow mountain arrived in Lungmen to intercept SilverAsh and protect her.

• SilverAsh researched rap, disguised himself as a rapper, and set off openly for Lungmen.
• Pramanix performed for her audience, then privately wondered whether she loved rap or was only rebelling; Hoshino tried to reassure her and asked her to prepare for next week's performance.
• SilverAsh searched Lungmen for Saintess, discovered her concerts were scheduled for the following week, and was repeatedly mistaken for someone who sold fish balls.
• The people of the snow mountain arrived in Lungmen, deciding SilverAsh had found a lead and ordering their group to intercept him without alerting him.

Arene arrived in Lungmen while Kjerag’s leaders began moving to bring Pramanix back, and SilverAsh’s appearance forced Pramanix to prepare to leave Hoshino. Before she could go, the god of Kjerag spoke through her and asked Hoshino to tell the story of how she slew a god.

• Arene walked through Lungmen and judged the people’s lack of reverence as he considered the Saintess’s role as Kjerag’s spiritual totem.
• Ch'en sent the Kjerag religious matter to Yae Sakura after the Governor-General’s Office told her to let the professionals handle it.
• Pramanix and SilverAsh silently reunited at Hoshino’s performance, but Pramanix left without speaking to him.
• Pramanix told Hoshino that SilverAsh’s arrival meant the people of the mountains would come for her, then prepared to leave the shrine.
• The holy bell enveloped Pramanix in light, and the god of Kjerag spoke through her, asking Hoshino to recount how she slew a god.

Hoshino let the divine one inhabit Pramanix and touched her tail while beginning a story about Yae Sakura. Meanwhile, SilverAsh disguised himself as a fish-ball vendor’s twin and beat two Kjerag clergymen in an alley.

• Hoshino carried Pramanix to bed and held her tail, raising the Saintess's Prayer progress as she began recounting a story.
• Ch'en called Hoshino about Kjerag clergy arriving in Lungmen, and Hoshino told her that Kjerag's greatest god was in her bed.
• SilverAsh, upset after his younger sister rejected him, recruited Jaye and borrowed his identity as a fish-ball vendor.
• SilverAsh and Jaye cornered two Kjerag clergymen in an alley and beat them before escaping without being identified.
• Rumors spread between Kjerag and Lungmen about twin bandits who had beaten and robbed the clergymen.

Hoshino told the deity how the miko became the Gyakushinn Miko after slaughtering her village and killing the god who sacrificed her sister. She demonstrated the power of an immortal with Heavenly Punishment, leaving the deity convinced not to pry further.

• Hoshino recounted how the miko returned to find her sacrificed sister dead, slaughtered the village, and killed the apologetic god.
• The deity interpreted the miko as a new god born from the concept of godslaying, while Hoshino withheld the details behind her weapons and shikigami.
• Hoshino whispered the names Mount Taixuan and Fuyun Temple, and the deity admitted she had never heard of them.
• Saintess's Prayer reached one hundred percent, unlocking the Character Card and allowing Hoshino to use Heavenly Punishment.
• Hoshino insulted Fuyun Temple and summoned lightning that reduced a withered tree to dust, warning the deity not to ask what she should not.

Hoshino persuaded Kjerag’s goddess to help free Pramanix from her duties and arranged for the goddess to travel to Kjerag and confront its clergy. After Governor Wei thanked Hoshino for keeping the divine visitor from becoming Lungmen’s problem, the convoy prepared to depart.

• Hoshino convinced the goddess to support her plan to grant Pramanix a long vacation and assert divine authority over Kjerag’s clergy.
• Pramanix, with the goddess’s power shining through her, told the hospitalized Arene that he was guilty and ordered him to redeem his sins.
• The goddess ignored Arene’s deceased companion, while Hoshino arranged an electric wheelchair for Arene and planned a convoy to Kjerag.
• Hoshino contacted Madam Wei and invited her to witness the goddess’s arrival in Kjerag.
• Madam Wei and Lungmen’s Governor, Wei Yenwu, joined the convoy, and Wei Yenwu thanked Hoshino for sending the goddess away from Lungmen.

The god returned Pramanix to herself in Kjerag and announced a trial to test how believers would manage without the Saintess. Hoshino then declared that she would take Pramanix away, leaving the believers to face the god's demands.

• Hoshino watched Madam Wei and Wei Yenwu discuss the god as Arene and SilverAsh reacted to the god's presence.
• The convoy traveled from Lungmen to Kjerag through unexpectedly gentle weather.
• The god addressed Kjerag's believers, rebuking them for fearing that the Saintess's absence meant they had lost her protection.
• The god announced that Pramanix would leave the snowy mountains for an extended period as part of a trial.
• The god withdrew from Pramanix, and Hoshino drew her sword and said she would take the Saintess away.

Hoshino freed Pramanix from her saintess duties and helped her consider a new career, while Ch'en unexpectedly ran into Bagpipe driving a seeder through Lungmen. The chapter left Pramanix weighing the possibility of becoming a psychologist and Ch'en protesting Bagpipe’s oversized vehicle.

• Hoshino declared that the mountain’s people would no longer hunt Pramanix and told her she could choose how to live.
• Pramanix learned that her trip to Lungmen had been arranged by the mountain’s god, then asked whether she could forgive SilverAsh and decided she could not forgive him yet.
• Hoshino suggested possible careers until Pramanix showed interest in becoming a psychologist, especially because the job offered flexible hours and payment.
• Ch'en finished work early and heard the roar of engines as she walked through Lungmen.
• Bagpipe drove a seeder through the city, caught up with Ch'en, and lifted her into the vehicle while claiming she had come to avenge her friend.
• Ch'en told Bagpipe that large vehicles were not allowed in the city during the day.

Bagpipe helped Ch'en get revenge on Swire by pinning Swire's car to the road with her lance, while Hoshino brought Pramanix to Rhodes Island to find work as a psychologist. Pramanix was accepted through a partnership with Kjerag Trade, and Hoshino returned to Lungmen after Kal'tsit warned her not to bully Rhodes Island operators.

• Bagpipe threw her lance through Swire's car hood, pinned the car to the ground, and escaped with Ch'en in an oversized agricultural vehicle.
• Swire abandoned her immobilized car and left the rest to the Guard Department's traffic division.
• Hoshino took Pramanix to Rhodes Island, where Kal'tsit accepted her as a psychologist in exchange for a partnership with Kjerag Trade.
• Pramanix went to see Cliffheart, while Kal'tsit told Hoshino that Bagpipe had gone to Lungmen to confront whoever had bullied Ch'en.
• Hoshino returned to Lungmen, thinking about what character Bagpipe might unlock.

Bagpipe brought Ch'en to the shrine, but her desire to farm its unused land quickly took priority over helping Ch'en get revenge. Hoshino and Mayer prepared to face Bagpipe, who refused to give up after the shrine rejected her request to lease the land.

• Bagpipe arrived at the shrine with Ch'en and imagined turning its barren grounds into wheat fields, while Ch'en warned her that shrine thieves had met terrible ends.
• Hoshino visited Mayer's workshop, where Mayer prepared a mechanical otter fitted with explosives as a precaution against Bagpipe.
• Hoshino, Mayer, and Ch'en reached the shrine and found Bagpipe waiting beside her smoking agricultural reclamation machine.
• Bagpipe asked Hoshino to lease the shrine grounds for farming, but Hoshino refused and hurried inside with Mayer.
• Bagpipe told Ch'en she intended to pursue farming and revenge at the same time.

Bagpipe tried to secure a place to stay at Hoshino’s shrine, but Mayer’s explosive lock destroyed the gate and sent her flying. After learning that Ceobe had wrecked her farm and gone missing, Bagpipe set out to find her, while Hoshino’s hoped-for Valkyrie Gloria unlock began to progress.

• Ch'en locked Bagpipe in a holding cell after arranging for her lance to be returned and discarding her traffic ticket.
• Mayer installed a complicated electronic lock at Hoshino’s shrine, and Bagpipe’s attempt to open it with the password 123456 triggered an explosion that destroyed the gate.
• Hoshino confronted Mayer over the blast, then stopped her from building fortifications that would spoil the shrine’s atmosphere.
• Ceobe ate her way through Bagpipe’s farm and left Rhodes Island to look for Bagpipe in Lungmen.
• Bagpipe received news of the ruined farm and Ceobe’s disappearance, then set out to find Ceobe as Hoshino watched the Valkyrie Gloria unlock progress.

Hoshino joined Bagpipe and Mayer to search for Ceobe, while Ch'en learned of the chaos at Yae Shrine. Ceobe encountered Mephisto and defeated his Infected herd, leaving him to promise a song.

• Hoshino persuaded Bagpipe to take her and Mayer along to find Ceobe, then left Kallen guarding Yae Shrine.
• Hoshino confiscated Mayer's explosives before the trio departed in Mayer's agricultural machine.
• Ch'en read a report about the explosion at Yae Shrine and Kallen knocking reporters unconscious.
• Ceobe met Mephisto in the wilderness, where he sent his Infected herd to attack her.
• Ceobe killed the entire herd with [Really Heavy Spear] and asked Mephisto what he would perform, so he said he would sing a song.

Ceobe overwhelmed Mephisto and demanded that he sing, while Hoshino, Bagpipe, and Mayer struggled to follow her trail. Their search led them to FrostNova, who was also looking for Mephisto, and Hoshino considered asking her to join the search.

• Ceobe defeated Mephisto's flock, then told him to sing while remaining ready for his attack.
• Bagpipe drove Hoshino and Mayer across the wasteland in pursuit of Ceobe, growing increasingly exhausted as the trail stretched on.
• Mayer's detector picked up a powerful life signal, and Hoshino went ahead to investigate.
• Hoshino found FrostNova searching with the Yeti Squad for the missing Mephisto.
• FrostNova said she needed to find Mephisto, and Hoshino considered inviting her to help search for Ceobe.

Hoshino brought FrostNova along with the group, while Mephisto tried to trick Ceobe into going to Reunion headquarters. FrostNova asked Mayer to locate Faust, whose hidden tracker showed that Mephisto was already heading somewhere at high speed.

• FrostNova agreed to go with Hoshino and told Yeti Squad to return without her.
• Mayer welcomed FrostNova onto the vehicle, where she sat on the hood to stay apart from the others.
• Ceobe left Mephisto after forgetting her mission, but Mephisto persuaded her to stay by reminding her that Bagpipe was in Lungmen.
• FrostNova asked Mayer to trace Faust's location and explained that she would protect Mephisto if he was found alive.
• Mayer tracked Faust and revealed that Mephisto was moving quickly toward a destination, apparently unaware Faust had placed a tracker on him.

Faust found Mephisto with Ceobe and tried to take her away, but the encounter turned into a standoff when Bagpipe and the others arrived with FrostNova. Hoshino began negotiating a punishment for Mephisto, bluffing that she could call down heavenly lightning with Bagpipe’s lance.

• Faust found Mephisto singing with Ceobe and approached them, claiming he had come to take Mephisto home for dinner.
• Ceobe asked to eat at Faust’s house, while Faust and Mephisto’s exchange left the three of them at a stalemate.
• Ceobe spotted a tracked vehicle carrying Bagpipe, Mayer, Hoshino, and FrostNova, and Faust recognized FrostNova among them.
• The group disembarked and split into opposing sides, with FrostNova joining Mephisto and Ceobe returning to Rhodes Island’s side.
• Hoshino criticized her companions for appearing divided, then suggested punishing Mephisto with heavenly lightning and asked Bagpipe to lend her lance.

Hoshino used Saintess's Prayer to call down Heavenly Punishment on Mephisto and his herd before escaping with Bagpipe, Ceobe, and FrostNova. Mephisto survived with severe injuries and was sealed in an ice coffin while FrostNova began to take an interest in Hoshino.

• Bagpipe gave Hoshino her lance, and Hoshino pointed it at Mephisto while explaining that she served no god and was only pointing the way to his punishment.
• Hoshino waited ten minutes for Dawn's Glory to unlock as Mephisto summoned a herd of more than a hundred creatures to shield his escape.
• After the unlock succeeded, Hoshino activated Saintess's Prayer's Heavenly Punishment, and a thunderbolt annihilated the herd and severely injured Mephisto.
• FrostNova froze Mephisto in an ice coffin while Faust worried over him, and she decided to keep her distance from him and his herd.
• Hoshino, Bagpipe, and Ceobe drove away in the harvester as Ceobe watched the aftermath and Bagpipe warned her to remember it.