Chapter Summaries

After Gu Mo left with his house and Magic Ship, Kanako worried about her dwindling liquor while Suwako prepared to hide the Steel Golem. Yakumo Yukari found the house gone, then caught up with Gu Mo aboard the ship after it destroyed a Thunder Beast, and asked why he had departed without telling her.

• Kanako lamented that Gu Mo had left and worried that the liquor he left behind would eventually run out, while Suwako told her to brew more.
• Suwako asked Kanako to help conceal the Steel Golem, and Yakumo Yukari arrived at the lakeside asking why the mountain house had disappeared.
• A Thunder Beast attacked Gu Mo's Magic Ship in a storm, but the ship's enchanted cannons destroyed it with a broadside.
• Gu Mo and Kamizaki discussed how yokai had become more numerous as the human world changed.
• Yakumo Yukari stepped aboard the Magic Ship and questioned Gu Mo about leaving without informing her; he said he had left locators and noted that she had slept through spring.

Gu Mo traveled aboard the Magic Ship to explore the current world and make new friends, while Yakumo Yukari visited after oversleeping through spring and offered suggestions for places to go. She recommended a sacred volcano inhabited by oni and tengu, and Gu Mo considered visiting it.

• Yakumo Yukari explained that she had slept through spring and only awakened in midsummer, then found Gu Mo's familiar home gone and learned he had left on a journey.
• Gu Mo told Yakumo Yukari he was wandering to learn about the current world and meet more friends, so she offered travel suggestions.
• Yakumo Yukari recommended the Sunflower Field and asked about Gu Mo's meeting with Miss Kazami, who had lost interest after realizing he was an avatar.
• Gu Mo said challenging Miss Kazami with his true body would be bullying her too much, then asked Yakumo Yukari about other places to visit.
• Yakumo Yukari described a sacred volcano where oni and tengu lived, along with a passage to the Underground World, and asked whether Gu Mo wanted to go there.

Gu Mo learned the history and name of Yokai Mountain, then chose it as the Cold Crow’s first destination to trade with the yokai who gathered there. During the voyage, he refined the ship’s puppets and began planning an all-purpose maid, though its time-related abilities would require help from his main body.

• Yakumo Yukari explained that Mount Yatsugatake had been shattered by Sakuya-hime and later became known as Yokai Mountain after demons and tengu settled there.
• Gu Mo recognized the story of Mount Yatsugatake from his own past and decided to take the Cold Crow to Yokai Mountain as a merchant vessel.
• Yakumo Yukari estimated that the ship would reach the mountain’s vicinity in less than five days, while Gu Mo explained that he had deliberately limited its speed to enjoy the journey.
• Gu Mo inspected the Cold Crow’s workshop and modified more than a hundred puppets to improve their appearance and precision.
• Gu Mo began planning a Super Maid and concluded that he would likely need his main body’s support to give it time-related abilities.

Gu Mo and Shinki planned to create a powerful maid by combining their skills and considered defining the Demon Realm as the origin of magic. After the Cold Raven reached a mountain market, Yakumo Yukari noticed that Gu Mo's eyes had turned clear azure, reflecting the Sea of Stars.

• Shinki joined Gu Mo at the workbench, and they began planning the All-Purpose Maid Project together.
• Gu Mo proposed engraving a Magic Foundation into the Demon Realm and defining it as the world from which magic originated; Shinki agreed.
• The Cold Raven reached a vast spiritual peak, and Yakumo Yukari told Gu Mo that tengu lived nearby and explained why oni could be difficult to deal with.
• Yakumo Yukari noticed that Gu Mo's pupils had changed, and Gu Mo confirmed in a scrying mirror that his eyes had become clear and azure.

Gu Mo awakened the Divine Star Eyes as his original body underwent transformation, discovering their powers while telling Yakumo Yukari the change came from a cultivation breakthrough. When the Cold Crow approached Yokai Mountain, the tengu Aya arrived to investigate, giving Gu Mo a chance to introduce himself as a merchant before other tengu drew near.

• Gu Mo discovered that all his avatars had gained Divine Star Eyes and identified the Crimson Star Eyes' curses, the Dark Star Eyes' attacks on consciousness, and the Azure Star Eyes' heightened insight.
• Gu Mo told Yakumo Yukari that his original body had made progress in its cultivation, and she questioned whether it had reached a breakthrough.
• Aya flew up to the Cold Crow, recognized Yakumo Yukari, and asked who Gu Mo was.
• Gu Mo introduced himself as a merchant and planned to use tengu gossip to publicize his Curiosity Shop.
• Other tengu approached as the Cold Crow slowed and flew toward Yokai Mountain.

Gu Mo moored the Cold Crow in a gorge near Yokai Mountain and learned that the tengu’s rumors were too untrustworthy to draw visitors to his planned market. He decided to offer the tengu something novel, while Shameimaru Aya spotted him using a strange flashing box in the gorge.

• Gu Mo moored the Cold Crow in a canyon near Yokai Mountain after the tengu refused to let the ship enter the mountain’s airspace.
• Yakumo Yukari and Shinki explained that the smoke above the mountain came from Iwanaga-hime’s divinity and that the gorge was not yet a marketplace.
• Gu Mo learned that no yokai had come to trade and that even the tengu distrusted Aya’s reports.
• Gu Mo decided to pitch the tengu a new idea and trade goods such as clothing, materials, local specialties, and magical knowledge.
• Shameimaru Aya finished her patrol, flew near the gorge, and saw Gu Mo holding a flashing, clicking black box above the canyon.

Gu Mo staged a chance encounter with Shameimaru Aya to spark her interest in modern media tools, then used her curiosity to draw her into a sales pitch. The chapter left Aya engrossed in his magically enhanced catalog aboard his advanced ship, unaware that Gu Mo had carefully prepared the whole scheme.

• Gu Mo took photographs at the canyon while Shameimaru Aya secretly watched, hoping to make her curious about the camera.
• Aya circled back and pretended to pass by, giving Gu Mo an excuse to show her a photograph of herself in flight.
• After seeing the image, Aya asked whether Gu Mo sold cameras, and he invited her aboard his ship to discuss his merchandise.
• Gu Mo showed Aya a magical scroll that functioned like a tablet and displayed his extensive catalog, complete with product descriptions and sale labels.

Gu Mo traded with Shameimaru Aya for information and discovered a dangerous Yokai Cherry Tree that he had hoped to give as a birthday present. He and Yakumo Yukari arrived at the tree to investigate, and Gu Mo sensed it was about to attack.

• Gu Mo persuaded Shameimaru Aya to exchange gossip and other information for Points and merchandise, then reviewed the information she supplied.
• Yakumo Yukari questioned Gu Mo's sales scheme and his claims about his abilities before he pointed out a report about a Yokai Cherry Tree.
• Gu Mo and Yakumo Yukari used a gap to travel to the enormous tree, where Yukari judged it could become as powerful as Kazami Yuuka and wield a deadly Boundary of Death.
• Gu Mo revealed that he had wanted to transplant the tree as a birthday gift for Axiu and her sister, but feared it was too dangerous.
• Gu Mo sensed the temperature drop and stepped in front of Yakumo Yukari and the silver-haired girl as the tree's aura of death stirred.

Gu Mo and Yakumo Yukari left the dormant Yokai Cherry Tree alone, and Gu Mo considered how to build a lasting supply chain for his market while reflecting on his incomplete moon powers. Shinki returned to ask about the important girl Gu Mo wanted to give a gift to, and the chapter left her upset after Gu Mo told her they were not kindred.

• Gu Mo and Yakumo Yukari found no safe way to deal with the Yokai Cherry Tree and chose not to attack it because it had harmed no one.
• Gu Mo returned to his ship, considered possible partners for supplying his market, and ruled out the tengu, oni, and Demon World.
• Gu Mo used moonlight to create a shining stairway and reflected on his difficulty mastering the Method of Clear Mirror, Still Water.
• Shinki returned to Gu Mo and asked whether the important girl he had mentioned was someone he wanted to give a gift to.
• Shinki said she had thought they were kindred, and Gu Mo gently explained that friendship did not depend on being kindred before telling her he was not her kindred.

Gu Mo’s trade with the yokai flourished as news spread across Yokai Mountain, and Yakumo Yukari suggested a group of kappa as potential manufacturing partners. When Yukari asked about the person Gu Mo had wanted to give a gift to, he explained that she was a quiet Half-Yokai, drawing a startled reaction from Yukari and the attention of the silver-haired girl.

• Gu Mo spent the night keeping watch over his Magic Ship and Miss Shinki, then welcomed tengu who flocked to his trading stations after Shameimaru Aya spread the news.
• Tengu who tried to trade information discovered that Shameimaru Aya had already submitted much of it, so they had to offer other goods or knowledge.
• Over nearly half a month, more yokai and eventually oni arrived, packing the trading area as business continued.
• Yakumo Yukari visited Gu Mo and recommended the kappa downstream as potential partners because they were skilled at making human tools.
• Yakumo Yukari asked about the person Gu Mo had wanted to give a gift to, and Gu Mo explained that she was a quiet oni and a Half-Yokai.
• Gu Mo told Yakumo Yukari that love made mixed bloodlines possible, while the silver-haired girl listened nearby with a strange, thoughtful expression.

Ciri descended beneath Europa’s ice and glimpsed a godlike presence in the abyss, whose power reminded her of Tiamat. Years later, in the Dungeon World, Gu Mo lost an arm-wrestling match to an oni girl on Yokai Mountain.

• Ciri crossed Europa’s frozen surface and entered a fissure leading to a bronze gate beneath the ice.
• Ciri used a prepared token to open the gate and rode a platform down through a vast network of passages in the ice.
• Ciri saw a colossal being in the dark ocean below and recognized an aura like the one she had sensed from Tiamat.
• At a banquet on Yokai Mountain, an oni girl defeated Gu Mo in an arm-wrestling match and remarked on his strength.

Gu Mo left a drunken gathering on Yokai Mountain after refusing Shameimaru Aya’s request to take compromising photographs of its leaders. He then met Yakumo Yukari, who reported that the mysterious light from the moon appeared to have been a Lunar Princess who came to Earth.

• Gu Mo drank with Ibuki Suika at a chaotic Yokai Mountain banquet and saw Hoshiguma Yuugi, Tenma, Reikyu Ilin, and others drunkenly wrestling.
• Shameimaru Aya asked Gu Mo for the photographs she had wanted him to take, but he denied agreeing to help and refused to take them.
• Aya flew off to take the photographs herself, while Gu Mo reflected on the technological changes spreading through Genbu Ravine and Yokai Mountain.
• Gu Mo entered a rift and met Yakumo Yukari, who said she had found traces of the light that fell from the moon years earlier.
• Yakumo Yukari told Gu Mo that the light probably was not a Lunarian weapon and suggested that a Lunar Princess had come down to Earth.

Gu Mo learned from Yakumo Yukari that a Lunar Princess had been executed and exiled to Earth after a forbidden incident, while a Lunar Sage escaped punishment. Yakumo then revealed that the Yokai Cherry Tree near Kyoto was nearing sentience after feeding on many lives, leaving its likely emergence as a dangerous monster a concern.

• Gu Mo recalled noticing a secret light fall from the moon more than a decade earlier, prompting Yakumo Yukari to investigate the Lunar Capital.
• Yakumo Yukari explained that a Lunar Princess and Lunar Sage had violated a taboo, but the Princess alone had been blamed, executed, and ultimately exiled to Earth.
• Gu Mo said he knew nothing about the Lunar Capital, and Yakumo Yukari took his response as reassurance that he was no longer allied with the Lunarians.
• Yakumo Yukari told Gu Mo that the Yokai Cherry Tree near Kyoto was close to becoming a yokai after absorbing the vital essence of many humans and yokai.
• Gu Mo realized that the tree's unnatural growth could make it bloodthirsty and dangerous to all living beings.

Gu Mo and Yakumo Yukari discussed how to deal with a dangerous tree that wielded the power of death, but they could not secure help from Shikieiki, Shinki, or Kazami Yuuka. The chapter ended with a Saigyouji girl staring at the Saigyou Sakura and envisioning its blossoms as a blood-red, ominous world.

• Gu Mo suggested asking Shikieiki to move the tree, but Yakumo Yukari explained that Yamas could not interfere in the living world.
• Gu Mo and Yakumo Yukari agreed that the death-controlling tree was too dangerous to leave alone and considered moving or cutting it down.
• Gu Mo said Shinki had been avoiding him, and he guessed she was secretly working on a new creation.
• Yakumo Yukari proposed asking Kazami Yuuka for help, but Gu Mo revealed that he had fought with her a few days earlier.
• A Saigyouji girl stood beneath the unbloomed Saigyou Sakura and imagined its blossoms opening into a blood-red scene.

Gu Mo and Yakumo Yukari investigated the Saigyouji Family’s cursed cherry tree, and Gu Mo discovered that its seal had already been broken despite its apparent lack of consciousness. The chapter then shifted to a mysterious Princess at a residence near Mount Fuji, where Eirin arrived to tell her that her time on Earth was nearly over.

• Gu Mo and Yakumo Yukari observed the Saigyouji Family estate and learned that Saigyou Hoshi had sealed the Yokai Cherry Tree more than ten years earlier.
• Gu Mo insisted that the tree’s seal had already been undone, though Yakumo Yukari had found no recent victims near it.
• Gu Mo tried to kill the tree with his powers and then extract its consciousness, but both attempts failed.
• Gu Mo began approaching the tree alone to test whether he could move it, while Yakumo Yukari stayed back.
• At a residence near Mount Fuji, a black-haired Princess watched crowds gathered outside and complained about their disturbance.
• Eirin visited the Princess and said she would return to bring her back to the Lunar Capital when her time on Earth was up.

Kaguya explained to Eirin that she had set five impossible treasure quests to discourage her suitors, while the old Taketori couple continued pressuring her to marry. A distant battle unleashed a vast force of death, and a mysterious fighter used the five treasures to recreate Kaguya's Time Stop Spell and halt it.

• Kaguya told Eirin that the Taketori couple’s wealth and fame had drawn persistent harassment and that she had used a birthday feast to divert attention onto herself.
• Kaguya explained that she had given five suitors impossible quests for the Robe of the Fire Rat, the Stone Bowl of the Buddha, the Jewel of the Dragon's Neck, the Cowry Shell of the Swallow, and the Jeweled Branch of Horai.
• Eirin and Kaguya sensed a tremendous force of death erupting far away and sweeping across Mount Fuji, making people collapse or freeze in terror.
• Eirin and Kaguya watched as moonlight spread from the distant direction and stopped movement across the landscape.
• The Yokai Girl witnessed a fighter endure the Yokai Cherry Tree’s attacks with many techniques and then use the five treasures to recreate Kaguya's Time Stop Spell, halting the force of death.

Gu Mo used his adapted Method of Clear Mirror, Still Water to freeze the surrounding world and limit the Yokai Cherry Tree’s deathly tide, but the tree resisted the spell and his attempts to seal it. He remained unharmed and kept the five treasures ready as the fight continued.

• Gu Mo cast his adapted Method of Clear Mirror, Still Water, freezing the environment and preventing the Yokai Cherry Tree’s death power from devastating a vast area.
• The Yokai Cherry Tree resisted the time stop and sent its deathly power toward its enemies, while Yakumo Yukari twisted space to evade it.
• Gu Mo’s avatar appeared to perish, then repeatedly reformed among illusory cherry blossoms, which Yakumo Yukari recognized as his technique for redirecting damage and draining the tree’s power.
• Gu Mo tried to seal the Earth Qi and suppress the Yokai Cherry Tree, but its baleful energy destroyed his formation and talismans, and the tree resisted his attack.
• Gu Mo reappeared beside Yakumo Yukari unharmed, concluded that the Yokai Cherry Tree was immune to the time stop, and kept the five treasures active.

Gu Mo failed to destroy the Yokai Cherry Tree and suspected its true foundation lay beyond the courtyard. Eirin and the Princess arrived hidden in the World of Eternity and the Instant, but Gu Mo detected and attacked them before realizing they were not the tree’s manifestation.

• Gu Mo told Yakumo Yukari that the Yokai Cherry Tree’s roots had spread beyond its physical trunk, making it difficult to destroy without finding its true foundation.
• Gu Mo sensed unseen visitors in the courtyard and swept his sleeve toward them as Eirin and the Princess entered under the Princess’s ability.
• Eirin and the Princess spotted Gu Mo surrounded by all five treasures, including the Jeweled Branch of Horai, and tried to retreat.
• Eirin tore through Gu Mo’s Pot Heaven technique with arrows and a spatial vortex, and Gu Mo stopped attacking when he realized they were not the tree’s consciousness.
• Eirin asked where Gu Mo had obtained the Jeweled Branch of Horai, and he replied that it had grown at his home on Mount Horai.

Gu Mo met Kaguya and Eirin after a misunderstanding over the Jeweled Branch of Horai, which he falsely claimed came from his home on Mount Horai. His knowledge of Kaguya’s name alarmed Eirin, while Gu Mo realized the black-haired girl was the Lunar Princess Yukari had told him about.

• Gu Mo claimed the Jeweled Branch of Horai was a specialty from Mount Horai, prompting Kaguya and Eirin to question him about where he lived.
• Eirin explained that Horai had vanished long ago and that only three jeweled branches remained on the moon.
• Gu Mo admitted he could not explain where Mount Horai was, and Kaguya revealed that she and Eirin were Hourai Immortals.
• Kaguya introduced herself as Mount Horai, Kaguya, and Gu Mo asked why the Lunar Princess was from Mount Horai.
• Eirin shielded Kaguya and demanded to know how Gu Mo knew her identity, while Gu Mo confirmed that she was the Lunar Princess Yukari had mentioned.

Gu Mo explained how he had learned Princess Kaguya was from the moon, then insisted that possessing the five treasures was a coincidence rather than an attempt to win her hand. Princess Kaguya accepted his apparent concern about her marriage challenge, leaving the group in an awkward silence.

• Gu Mo told Eirin that he had discovered lunar anomalies years ago and had not acted against Princess Kaguya, though Eirin remained wary.
• When Eirin asked where Gu Mo's Jeweled Branch of Horai and other treasures came from, Gu Mo refused to disclose their origins.
• Princess Kaguya revealed that she had recently required anyone seeking to marry her to gather all five treasures, including the Jeweled Branch of Horai.
• Yakumo Yukari suspected Gu Mo had pursued the treasures for Princess Kaguya, but Gu Mo argued that he had planned them for his spell long before her challenge.
• Gu Mo urged Princess Kaguya not to make a hasty marriage decision, and she trembled before saying she was glad he understood.