Recaps

Ren helped Rias win her Rating Game, then protected Odin from Loki and Fenrir. After defeating Loki and taming Fenrir, Ren joined the faction leaders as they discussed cooperation and the danger posed by Ophis’s new snakes.

• Ren killed Shalba, returned to Katerea, and declined her offer to become her Queen before helping Rias prepare for her Rating Game.
• Rias defeated Riser with her peerage, ending her engagement, while Akeno’s light attacks weakened Riser’s regeneration.
• Ren discovered Loki’s opposition to Odin’s peace plans and drove Loki away after he attacked Odin.
• Rias and Akeno moved into Ren’s house, and Ren agreed to help protect Odin by serving as bait for Loki.
• Fenrir attacked Odin’s group, but Ren and his allies weakened and restrained the wolf, allowing Ren to tame it with a Momotaro Rice Ball.
• Loki arrived with Skoll and Hati, but Ren defeated him and calmed the two wolves with more rice balls.
• Ren let Odin take Loki for judgment and kept Fenrir and its offspring, then heard the faction leaders discuss cooperation, Loki’s imprisonment, and Ophis’s dangerous snakes.

Ren investigated Romania’s blood factories, took charge of the Hero Faction’s younger members, and brought Rossweisse to Kuoh Town. In Kyoto, he turned against Cao Cao’s plan to summon Great Red, rescued Yasaka, and founded the Brotherhood with Jeanne, while Suzaku faced punishment from the Himejima Family.

• Odin paid Ren for his mission and left, while Jeanne warned Ren that Cao Cao was forcing Sacred Gear evolution and intended to involve him in the Kyoto operation.
• Ren and Jeanne exposed the vampire Blood Factories in Romania, rescued their captives, and helped the Hero Faction destroy the factories before Ren agreed to lead the group.
• Ren returned to Kuoh Town, hired Rossweisse as his bodyguard, and Asia gained Mjolnir’s recognition after lifting it.
• Ren met Cao Cao in Kyoto and agreed to help capture Yasaka, but later accepted Suzaku Himejima’s request to rescue her and secretly broke her seal.
• Cao Cao revealed his plan to use Kyoto and Yasaka’s power to summon Great Red, then the Hero Faction lured Kyoto’s defenders into a battle across a magical replica of the city.
• Ren defeated several Hero Faction fighters, exposed his opposition to Cao Cao, and Jeanne openly joined him against her former allies.
• Georg tried to evacuate the Hero Faction, but Ren shattered the alternate space, rescued Yasaka, and formed the Brotherhood with Jeanne after Cao Cao escaped.
• Yasaka reunited with Kunou, while Himejima Suou confined Suzaku for helping Ren and she worried that the family’s leadership would repeat its mistakes.

Ren helped Suzaku take control of the Himejima Family, then fought the rebellious vampires and rescued Valerie and Ophis from the growing threat of Lizevim. After bringing them to Kyoto, he entered a new dungeon and arrived in the world of the Fourth Primogenitor.

• Ren helped Suzaku Himejima kill Himejima Suou and the hostile elders, then supported her as she became clan head and began reforming the family.
• Ren visited Yasaka and Kunou in Inner Kyoto, helped arrange closer ties between the yokai and the Himejima Family, and accepted Griselda’s mission to investigate the vampires in Romania.
• Ren fought Marius Tepes’s faction, uncovered Lizevim’s role in altering the vampires, rescued Valerie, and captured Crom Cruach after defeating him.
• Lizevim transformed hundreds of vampires into Evil Dragons, so Ren fought to protect Tepes and Carmilla before Griselda’s angels arrived to help defeat the attackers.
• Ren took Valerie and Ophis to Kyoto, where he introduced them to the girls and the factions discussed Lizevim’s threat.
• Ren prepared for the new dungeon, entered a rain-soaked world, and found Hazarov attacking Liana Karyana, Kojou Akatsuki, and Nagisa Akatsuki.
• Ren killed Hazarov and learned that he was on Gozo Island in a world with three Primogenitors, then watched the Fourth Primogenitor awaken and freeze the mountain.
• The Fourth Primogenitor introduced herself to Ren and asked why he could withstand her cold.

Ren captured the Fourth Primogenitor, settled on Itogami Island, and took on allies and artificial lifeforms while confronting the Chaos Empress. As the Feast of the Crimson put the island at risk, Ren killed Zaharias and left the surviving vessels facing him.

• Ren defeated the Fourth Primogenitor, captured her in a Master Ball, and agreed to go to Itogami Island with Nangong Nayue and Number Twelve.
• Ren accepted Kojou Akatsuki’s request to protect Nagisa Akatsuki, then took in Yase Kanon after stopping her uncle’s illegal experiments.
• Ren defeated Sakari-Do Island-Andret, took control of Astarte and Schwanita, and arranged for Astarte to become Aurora’s blood servant.
• Ren accepted Veltiana’s quest to kill Zaharias, then defeated the Chaos Empress in a battle near Itogami Island and claimed her as his concubine.
• Ren learned that Number Six and Number Ten were approaching and refused to attend the Feast of the Crimson meeting, while Liana and Veldiana asked him to kill Zaharias.
• Zaharias and masked Beastmen tried to seize Number Twelve, but Ren arrived and fought off the attackers as Zaharias summoned several vessels and their familiars.
• Ren destroyed Zaharias’s familiars and cut through his gemstone shield, killing him and leaving the surviving vessels confused.