Chapter Summaries

Gu Mo reunited with Shinki in the Forest of Magic, where they argued over his past connection to Kaguya before discussing Alice. Shinki was delighted by Gu Mo’s praise of Alice, while Shameimaru Aya planned to turn his return into a sensational news story.

• Shinki pounced on Gu Mo with enough force to devastate the surrounding forest, but he restored the damaged area and greeted her warmly.
• Shinki complained that Gu Mo had lied about his closeness to Kaguya, and he insisted that their encounters had been coincidences.
• Gu Mo claimed that the dragon form Shinki had seen before was an incarnation rather than his true body, leaving her bewildered.
• Gu Mo praised Alice, and Shinki eagerly pressed him to say more about her.
• Outside the Forest of Magic, Shameimaru Aya decided to embellish a news story about Gu Mo’s return.

After another fruitless search for the true World Tree, Reimu, Marisa, and Alice studied the remaining suspects and prepared to investigate the Forest of Magic. A newspaper showed a devastated area near Alice’s home and a confrontation between a young man and a silver-haired girl, prompting Alice to rush toward the scene in alarm.

• Reimu and Marisa complained about their failed search, while Alice mapped out the Forest of Magic and Misty Lake as the remaining likely locations for the World Tree.
• Marisa insisted her mushrooms had no side effects, leaving Alice unsettled about the strange feelings she had been experiencing.
• Alice said Remilia and Patchouli were investigating Misty Lake while the group planned to search the Forest of Magic.
• Aya’s newspaper delivery brought an extra edition showing a confrontation and widespread destruction near Puppet House in the Forest of Magic.
• Alice feared her mother had attacked the young man in the photograph and hurried toward the forest, followed by Marisa and Reimu.

Gu Mo completed the preparations for Suwako’s transformation into the World Tree and changed day into night to summon everyone to the Forest of Magic. Alice and the others arrived and were stunned when Alice recognized Shinki as her mother.

• Gu Mo confirmed that Suwako’s divinity was settling smoothly into the mature tree and expected her transformation to finish that night.
• Gu Mo sent a message to Moriya Shrine and decided to gather his old companions with a signal.
• Gu Mo turned midsummer noon into a starry night with a huge full moon, prompting Eirin, Yuuka, and Remilia’s group to react and head toward the Forest of Magic.
• Alice, Kirigame Marisa, and the Red and White Miko reached the giant tree and found Shinki there.
• Alice called Shinki her mother, and Shinki joyfully greeted her daughter.

Alice confronted Shinki after believing her mother had attacked Gu Mo, then admitted that she loved him and hated her moms for what had happened. Gu Mo returned and began presenting his imagined moon as an incident for Gensokyo to resolve, but Shinki grabbed him to lament that Alice liked him more, and the moon began falling.

• Alice asked Shinki what she had done, while Shinki nervously tried to understand what Alice knew.
• Alice confessed that she cared deeply for Gu Mo and shouted that she liked him most but hated her moms.
• A crowd of Gensokyo residents gathered to watch Alice and Shinki’s emotional confrontation.
• Gu Mo returned and announced that everyone could defeat him to resolve the crisis or let his manifested moon fall.
• Shinki grabbed Gu Mo and mourned that Alice liked him more than her, causing the moon to plummet toward the earth.

Gu Mo learned that he and Shinki had a daughter, leaving Alice stunned by the revelation. As the moon he had materialized hurtled toward Earth, Gu Mo caught it with a raised hand.

• Shinki repeatedly told Gu Mo that their daughter was his and hers, and Gu Mo realized Shinki had used his life template to create her.
• Alice struggled to process the revelations that the young man knew her mother and might be her father.
• Hakurei Reimu urged everyone to deal with the moon falling toward Earth.
• Gu Mo raised a hand and caught the moon he had materialized.

Gu Mo restored the moon and struggled to process the revelation that Alice was his daughter, while Yakumo Yukari arrived and exposed his many legendary identities. The chapter ended with Yukari demanding that he explain who his three marriage partners were.

• Gu Mo used his Authority of Sky and Reality Marble to restore the moon and recreate a peaceful night sky over Gensokyo.
• Gu Mo realized that Alice was his daughter but hesitated to say what he thought about it.
• Yakumo Yukari emerged from a rift, followed by Yuyuko, Yakumo Ran, and a Half-Human Half-Spirit girl.
• Yakumo Yukari called Gu Mo the Dragon God and listed the many legendary roles he had held, shocking the crowd.
• Gu Mo awkwardly claimed his absence was a misunderstanding, and Yakumo Yukari demanded that he name his three marriage partners.

Gu Mo realized that Yakumo Yukari and the others had mistaken his earlier signal about introducing friends for a promise to choose marriage partners. Pressed to answer, he acknowledged Alice and Shinki, and Yukari demanded to know who else he would choose.

• Kamishirasawa Keine and Hieda no Akyuu remembered Gu Mo’s registration details and suspected his earlier signal had involved the supposed marriage partners.
• Shinki eagerly recalled that Gu Mo had ultimately accepted Alice as his daughter, while Yagokoro Eirin silently reconsidered Houraisan Kaguya’s connection to him.
• Gu Mo reflected that he had meant to bring Shinki and others to Gensokyo as friends, but recognized that the situation had become too complicated.
• Yakumo Yukari demanded that Gu Mo tell Shinki whether he would choose her, and Gu Mo acknowledged that he could not deny Alice or Shinki.
• Yakumo Yukari asked Gu Mo, “what else?” after he accepted Shinki and Alice.

Gu Mo revealed that he had three marriage partners besides Shinki, prompting Yakumo Yukari to realize his relationships stretched back to his time as emperor. Furious, Yukari tried to seize him, but Kazami Yuuka, Sakuya, and others joined the fight, turning the gathering into a melee.

• Gu Mo clarified that he had three marriage partners in addition to Shinki, leaving Yakumo Yukari and the onlookers stunned.
• Yakumo Yukari used Kamishirasawa Keine to investigate the history and concluded that Gu Mo's relationships dated to his time as emperor.
• Yakumo Yukari attacked Gu Mo through gaps in space, but Shinki pulled him clear.
• Kazami Yuuka shattered Yukari's gaps with a Magic Cannon and joined the confrontation.
• Sakuya came to Gu Mo's side, Remilia and the Scarlet Devil Mansion group followed, and Ibuki Suika jumped into the growing melee.

Gu Mo's attempt to escape Yakumo Yukari's attention triggered a massive battle in the Forest of Magic as the powerful yokai attacked one another and tried to stop him. Yukari's layered Boundary Manipulation kept Gu Mo trapped, while Reimu and Marisa watched the chaos and Alice remained stunned by learning Gu Mo was her father.

• Yakumo Yukari and Kazami Yuuka's confrontation escalated into a sprawling battle involving Remilia, Patchouli, Ibuki Suika, and others.
• Yakumo Yukari cut through the fighters' attacks with her boundary power and used magic eyes to restrain the battlefield, including Izayoi Sakuya.
• Gu Mo explained that he had created Sakuya as an early prototype and had hoped to use her time manipulation to escape Yukari's trap.
• Remilia confronted Gu Mo about his connection to Sakuya before a flying tree struck her and sent her crashing through the forest.
• Hakurei Reimu begged everyone to stop fighting, while Kirigame Marisa held her back and Alice stood dazed over the revelation that Gu Mo was her father.

Yakumo Yukari’s battlefield suppression faltered as the other women resisted and the chaos around Gu Mo escalated. Princess Kaguya brought Gu Mo into her eternal world to escape the fight, where he struggled to process learning that Alice was his daughter and Kaguya hinted that a medicine allowing Hourai Immortals to have children was not yet ready.

• Yakumo Yukari lost control of the battlefield as the others joined forces against her, and she muttered about keeping Gu Mo trapped forever.
• Gu Mo tried to calm the fighters, but Princess Kaguya took his hand and brought him into her eternal world.
• Kaguya told Gu Mo that fleeing the battle could give everyone time to calm down, then asked how he felt about suddenly having a daughter.
• Gu Mo admitted that learning Alice was his daughter had left him confused and overwhelmed.
• Kaguya dismissed Gu Mo’s suspicion that she might have a child and said a medicine allowing Hourai Immortals to have children could not have been developed so quickly.

After Gu Mo disappeared, the fighters left the Forest of Magic, where Suwako emerged after completing her reincarnation and found everyone gone. Sanae waited at Moriya Shrine with a reheated banquet while Gu Mo spoke with Kaguya and checked on Yagokoro Eirin at Eientei.

• Yukari left the battlefield through a spatial rift, and Kazami Yuuka and several others departed to search for Gu Mo.
• Sakuya asked to investigate, and Remilia agreed to accompany her; Shinki took Alice into a spatial distortion.
• The Forest of Magic was restored and emptied before Suwako emerged from the giant tree after completing her reincarnation.
• Suwako landed in the empty forest and wondered whether she had returned too late for the planned battle and banquet.
• Sanae waited at Moriya Shrine with the banquet, while Gu Mo and Kaguya discussed the expected gathering.
• Gu Mo projected himself into Eientei, where Yagokoro Eirin calmly prepared medicine.

Gu Mo avoided asking Yagokoro Eirin about a medicine that could let Hourai Immortals have children, then faced Kaguya’s teasing and pressure about the aftermath of the incident. After Gensokyo adjusted to its altered sky and the new giant tree, Gu Mo visited Alice to begin resolving their situation, and she greeted him by asking whether to call him an outsider or her father.

• Gu Mo consulted Yagokoro Eirin about her reaction to his celestial techniques, but stopped himself before asking about a secret medicine for Hourai Immortals.
• Gu Mo told Kaguya that he had not asked Eirin about the medicine, and Kaguya mocked him before pressing him about resolving the consequences of the incident and his daughter.
• Gensokyo gained a giant world-displaying tree and an independent day-night cycle, while Kamishirasawa Keine fielded villagers’ questions about the missing teacher and Hieda no Akyuu prepared to interview the Dragon God at a Moriya Shrine banquet.
• Gu Mo arrived at Alice’s Puppet House while a silver-haired girl watched from behind a tree, then knocked and waited nervously.
• Alice opened the door and sarcastically asked Gu Mo whether she should call him Mr. Outsider or Father.

Gu Mo visited Alice at the Puppet House and tried to explain his sudden appearance as her father. He offered to help with her doll magic and asked whether she and Shinki would visit his home, leaving Alice’s response unresolved.

• Gu Mo explained that he had only recently learned Alice was his daughter, and Alice invited him into the Puppet House as Lord Dragon God.
• Alice kept her distance while reading, so Gu Mo asked about her interest in doll magic and offered to help bring her dolls to life.
• Alice reacted angrily to learning that Gu Mo had created the magical knowledge she valued, and she asked whether his offer was a transaction.
• Gu Mo said she could take time to consider his help, then asked Alice to visit his home with Shinki.

At a banquet at Moriya Shrine, Gu Mo faced a tense crowd as Hieda no Akyuu began interviewing him for the Record of Everything in Gensokyo. He confirmed his name and said he lived on the moon, but admitted he knew little about dragons, leaving the attendees curious about his origins.

• Reimu enjoyed the banquet while keeping an eye on Gu Mo, who sat surrounded by Yukari, Yuuka, Shinki, and others.
• Gu Mo tried to appease the still-irritated Yukari with a compliment about her dress, while Alice watched from a distance and Kaguya spoke with Eirin.
• Hieda no Akyuu began interviewing Gu Mo, drawing the attention of the nearby guests and irritating Shameimaru Aya, who had wanted to interview him herself.
• Gu Mo confirmed that his name was Gu Mo and said he generally lived on the moon but traveled widely.
• When Akyuu asked whether all dragons lived on the moon, Gu Mo said he did not know because he had never seen another dragon.

Gu Mo told the gathering that his ability let him travel between truly different worlds and revealed that he came from another world. His answers prompted questions about his life on the moon, Horai Island, and Kaguya, before he disclosed that the awe-inspiring dragon form Yukari had once seen was only an avatar.

• Hieda no Akyuu asked Gu Mo what his ability was, and he called it the Ability to Cross Worlds.
• Gu Mo clarified that he meant travel between truly different worlds and said he had come from another world.
• Gu Mo explained to Yakumo Yukari that he usually lived on the moon in his world or on Horai Island.
• Yakumo Yukari questioned whether Gu Mo had known Kaguya earlier, and Gu Mo said they had not been familiar at the time.
• Gu Mo said his first appearance after seclusion had been an avatar, astonishing Yakumo Yukari, who had thought that form was his true body.

During an interview, Gu Mo revealed his enormous power, his connection to Tamamo-no-Mae, and his past clash with Chaos, helping explain his long absence and easing tensions in Gensokyo. After the banquet, he began building a two-way Planar Gate beneath the Imaginary World Tree to show Alice his intentions through action.

• Gu Mo told Yakumo Yukari that he could tear the planet apart under normal circumstances and briefly control the sun by merging with Tamamo.
• Gu Mo revealed that Tamamo was Tamamo-no-Mae and explained that he had known her before projecting his consciousness into this world.
• Gu Mo said Chaos had nearly killed him and that he had needed several hundred years to recover from his injuries.
• The banquet ended, and the Imaginary World Tree remained standing as a safeguard for Gensokyo.
• Gu Mo began constructing a Planar Gate beneath the Imaginary World Tree to establish a two-way passage to the real world and demonstrate his attitude to Alice.

Gu Mo completed the Arcane Gate in Suwako’s treehouse and tested its connection to the Moon Base, where he had turned the moon into a vast mechanized supercomputer. He left the gate working and the lunar project nearing the point where he could install part of his consciousness in it.

• Gu Mo explained how the Arcane Gate’s vortex showed the difference in time flow between worlds and told Suwako how to operate and shut down the passage.
• Gu Mo suggested that Suwako study projection spells and attract Ai and the black-and-white witch to his library and its Grimoires.
• Gu Mo passed through the Arcane Gate to the Moon Base to perform its final connection test.
• Gu Mo described how he had hollowed out the moon and built a planet-scale computer using technology from the Proof of Domination: Crown of Kronos.
• Gu Mo sensed that the moon had become his Mechanized Sacred Body and planned to install part of his consciousness in it as an avatar.

Gu Mo learned that Ciri had briefly found her home world but fled when the Wild Hunt appeared, then lost the passage back. He reassured her and suggested trying again, while Ciri remained unsure she could find the world again.

• Gu Mo returned to the real world after several years and visited his parents, who had grown subtly younger from the longevity medicine.
• Ciri suddenly teleported to Gu Mo and told him she had found a land in Temeria near Vizima.
• Gu Mo concealed the teleportation from nearby pedestrians and their devices, then took Ciri aside to hear what happened.
• Ciri explained that the Wild Hunt appeared soon after she arrived, so she fled back and closed the passage.
• Gu Mo reassured Ciri that she could try opening the passage again, and a long-haired golden-haired figure sat beside them.

Gu Mo welcomed Yakumo Yukari to his world, where she inspected the surroundings and questioned him about his other bases. He introduced her to Ciri, whose search for a way home had succeeded, and suggested Yukari might help with her problem.

• Yakumo Yukari arrived at the cold drink shop and told Gu Mo that his world seemed much like the world outside Gensokyo.
• Yakumo Yukari asked Gu Mo about the moon, and he explained that he had developed bases across multiple worlds.
• Gu Mo introduced Ciri as a Witcher, Source Mage, and trusted navigator, and described the similarities between her powers and Yakumo Yukari's.
• Ciri greeted Yakumo Yukari calmly, leaving the Yokai Sage awkwardly unsure how to respond.
• Gu Mo suggested that Ciri explain her problem to Yakumo Yukari while he checked the system interface for a way to compare the Witcher World with his own dimension.

Gu Mo refreshed the system shop and bought the Eye of Agamotto, suspecting its steep price included the Time Gem hidden inside. He used the gem to freeze time and looked into the recent past for a solution to Ciri and Yakumo Yukari’s discussion.

• Gu Mo found the Eye of Agamotto among the discounted items and reasoned that its three Legendary Keys might pay for a Time Gem concealed inside the amulet.
• Gu Mo bought the amulet despite its high price, while the other refreshed items were a Dragon Ball Radar and the Iron Sand Palm manual.
• Gu Mo connected with the amulet’s power and froze the material world, leaving Yakumo Yukari and Ciri unaffected.
• Gu Mo told Yakumo Yukari and Ciri that he might have found a more interesting solution to their discussion, then used the Time Gem to travel into the recent past.
• Gu Mo watched Ciri investigate the world beyond the Teleportation Gate, having found a solution that he realized would be extremely costly.