Chapter Summaries

Ren traveled to the past and defeated the young Grayfia before taking her away from the battlefield. After healing her, he urged her to abandon the Satan Government, arguing that the reformists were destined to win.

• Grayfia attacked Ren, and he countered her magic before overpowering her with a Kaioken-enhanced strike.
• Ren carried the unconscious Grayfia away from the battlefield and healed her injuries with hand sanitizer.
• Ren took photos of Grayfia while she slept, and she woke to find him beside her.
• Grayfia demanded to know why Ren had attacked her, and he explained that he wanted to warn her against serving the Satan Government.
• Ren argued that the Satan Government would lose, citing the reformists’ allies and the strength of Sirzechs, Ajuka, and Serafall.

Ren revealed private facts about Grayfia to persuade her that he knew the future, then described the Reformists' victory and the Underworld's future. Grayfia agreed to hear more while postponing her trust until she could verify his claims, and the conversation ended when her stomach growled.

• Ren told Grayfia that the Satan Army would fall and claimed her brother Euclid was secretly obsessed with her, then recited private details and memories that shocked her.
• Grayfia asked Ren about the rebels' plans and the Underworld's future, and he predicted the Reformists would win and Sirzechs, Ajuka, Falbium Asmodeus, and Serafall would become the new Four Great Satans.
• Ren said Grayfia would join the Reformists and become their chancellor, then teased her by claiming Sirzechs would pursue her and jokingly asked her for compensation.
• Grayfia said she would believe Ren if his claims were verified and asked him to share more about the Underworld's future; Ren warned her against changing history recklessly.
• Grayfia listened calmly to Ren's account of the Underworld's future, then blushed when her stomach growled.

Ren met a young Grayfia during the Underworld’s past, gave her food, and promised she would recognize him centuries later before his time-travel ended. Back in the present, he learned his mission was complete, but the adult Grayfia did not remember him.

• Ren offered Grayfia modern food, and she quickly ate it before learning his name.
• Grayfia invited Ren to return with her and offered to arrange him a human identity, but he said his time was nearly up.
• Ren promised Grayfia he would shine like the sun and remain unforgettable, then vanished when the time-travel effect ended.
• Grayfia searched for Ren, found no trace of him, and resolved to play her role in the Underworld’s future while watching for his return.
• Ren received Grayfia Affection +30 and five Lucky Mooncakes for completing the mission.
• Ren reunited with the adult Grayfia less than a minute after his disappearance, but she said she did not know him.

Grayfia revealed that she had remembered Ren from their meeting centuries earlier and confronted him over failing to recognize her. After sharing how her family had been lost and asking him to become her new family, she grabbed him before he could answer.

• Grayfia invited Ren to stay at the Lucifuge estate, then entered the hot spring and joined him.
• Grayfia told Ren a story about a girl who had waited centuries for a man who had promised to return, revealing her resentment when he failed to recognize her.
• Grayfia explained that she had never lost her memories and had pretended to have amnesia because Ren had overlooked their past meeting.
• Grayfia described how her father had opposed her joining the reformists, publicly disowned her, and later died in battle.
• Grayfia asked Ren to become her family, then grabbed him before he could reply.

Ren reunited with Grayfia, and their long-held feelings led to an intimate night before he promised to take responsibility. After returning to the Gremory castle, Ren told the others that Hades had granted him a ducal title, castle, and territory.

• Grayfia kept Ren from resisting by threatening his family member, then confronted him over leaving her waiting for hundreds of years.
• Ren and Grayfia spent the night together in the Lucifuge Family's private bathroom, and Grayfia eventually fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Grayfia asked Ren to leave and called her actions impulsive, but Ren promised he would take responsibility for her.
• Ren teleported back to the Gremory Family's castle instead of accepting the servants' escort.
• Ren told Rias, Lavinia, Minagawa Natsume, and the others that Hades had ennobled him as a duke and granted him a castle and territory.

Ren handed out Brotherhood rewards and set out for the Greek Netherworld to confront Hades, but a newly opened dungeon transported him to Naples, Italy. He left a family safe from a robber and began to learn where he had arrived.

• Ren told Minagawa Natsume that she and the other Brotherhood members would receive titles and territory, then asked Jeanne to distribute their exchanged rewards.
• Ren gave Brotherhood members welcome gifts and decided to enter the Greek Netherworld alone to take revenge on Hades.
• After returning to the human world through Romania, Ren received a system notification that a new dungeon had opened and chose to enter it.
• Ren arrived in a foul-smelling alley, heard a robber threatening a family, and pointed an oversized gun at the robber.
• Ren learned from the family that he was in Naples, Italy, let them leave, and warned them to avoid dark alleys.

Ren was caught in a spatial rift, rescued an unconscious woman from an incoming arrow, and discovered she was Aphrodite, a near-death goddess. After Aphrodite tried and failed to force a contract on him, Ren identified her Belt of Friendship and questioned her intentions.

• A spatial rift opened near Ren, and a fleeing thug was torn apart when he crashed into it.
• A woman flew out of the rift into Ren’s arms, followed by a powerful arrow that Ren cut down before sending an Ultra Slash back through the rift.
• Ren carried the unconscious woman to a secluded park, where she woke and called him a lowborn mortal while offering him a goddess’s blessing.
• The woman tried twice to bind Ren with her glowing belt, but his body repelled the contract both times.
• Ren appraised the woman as Aphrodite, the near-death Goddess of Love and Beauty, and identified the belt as the Belt of Friendship.

Ren captured the wounded Aphrodite in his last Master Ball, making the goddess his tiny, reluctant Pokémon and bringing her into an unfamiliar world. After Aphrodite explained that Nemesis had hunted her, a nearby volcano erupted and released cursed energy that astonished her.

• Ren refused Aphrodite's contract and persuaded her to enter a Master Ball to escape death.
• Aphrodite emerged as a tiny girl and learned that Ren's capture had made him her master, restricting her use of her divine powers.
• Aphrodite told Ren that Nemesis had pursued and wounded her, forcing her to flee through a spatial rift with her divine artifacts.
• Ren and Aphrodite watched a nearby volcano erupt as vast cursed energy gathered around it.
• Aphrodite sensed that the cursed energy surpassed Zeus's and noticed something near the volcano.

Ren confirmed he had arrived in the Campione! world and flew toward the Heretic God Perseus after the system assigned him a quest to defeat him. As Perseus began fighting the dragon near Mount Vesuvius, Liliana and Diana approached the scene and recognized the god as a terrible threat.

• Ren sensed two enormous surges of magical power near Mount Vesuvius as a dragon formed from the region's essence appeared in the sky.
• Diana and Liliana identified the dragon's emergence as a disturbance around the Hera Pillar and flew toward the volcano under concealment magic.
• Ren recognized Diana and Liliana, confirmed he was in the Campione! world, and flew toward the magical power he believed belonged to a Heretic God.
• Ren accepted the system quest to defeat Perseus, which offered affinity gains, a World Teleportation Anchor Fragment, and a random reward.
• Perseus attacked the dragon near Mount Vesuvius, bringing a storm and towering waves toward Naples.
• Liliana saw Perseus and recognized him as a powerful, dangerous Heretic God.

Ren interrupted Perseus as the Heretic God prepared to kill the dragon born from Naples’s spiritual essence, then fought him with the Twilight Spear. Perseus mounted Pegasus after Ren’s attack sent him flying, leaving their battle poised to escalate.

• Perseus defeated the dragon and prepared to deliver a fatal blow despite Liliyana’s plea to spare it.
• Perseus used his divine words to freeze Liliyana and ordered her to stand aside.
• Ren struck Perseus with the Twilight Spear, forcing him to evade and abandon his attack on the dragon.
• Ren identified himself as a passing Kamen Rider and fought Perseus at super speed.
• Ren’s Twilight Spear shattered Perseus’s blade of light and blasted him thousands of meters away.
• Perseus mounted Pegasus and praised Ren for forcing him to fight seriously.

Ren and Aphrodite faced Perseus as he unleashed his sun-powered attacks, but Aphrodite’s Belt of Friendship failed to charm him. Perseus turned his killing intent on her, leaving Ren to evade his arrows while trying to understand why the artifact had not worked.

• Perseus summoned a radiant halo and fired lightning-fast arrows at Ren, who used Super Acceleration to dodge them.
• Perseus shot an arrow into the sky, causing hundreds of sun-hot rays to rain down, and Ren evaded them while Aphrodite panicked.
• Aphrodite remembered her Belt of Friendship and activated its Authority against Perseus, who appeared to stop fighting and recognized her.
• Perseus claimed he had found a new target, then shot at Aphrodite and declared that he would bury her there.
• Ren continued dodging Perseus’s arrows as Aphrodite questioned why her Belt of Friendship had failed, and Ren considered the nature of her divine realm.

Ren defeated Perseus with the Twilight Spear’s Overpowering Radiance, and sorcerers concluded that he had become the world’s seventh Campione!. Despite killing a god for the first time, Ren received no Authority, leaving him unsure why Pandora and the Ring of Usurpation had not recognized him.

• Perseus grew frustrated as Ren blocked his attacks and continued wounding him, then fired a rain of six arrows that Ren endured with dark purple armor and flames.
• Perseus charged Ren atop Pegasus, and Ren invoked Overpowering Radiance, which engulfed and destroyed both the god and his steed.
• Liliyana, Diana, and the watching sorcerers realized Perseus had been defeated, and local sorcerers began securing the scene and spreading news of Ren’s apparent rise as the seventh Campione!.
• After using Overpowering Radiance, Ren felt drained and discovered that killing Perseus had granted him no Authority.

After killing Perseus, Ren recovered and explained to Aphrodite how this world's gods combined multiple identities and Authorities. He then approached Diana and Liliyana as they debated how to deal with the new Campione!, leaving them stunned when he revealed he had overheard them.

• Ren received the Horse Talisman for defeating Perseus and used a Senzu Bean to restore his strength.
• Aphrodite worried that other gods would retaliate, and Ren explained how this world's gods combined multiple godheads and divinities.
• Aphrodite lamented that her Belt of Friendship was less useful against Heretic Gods, and Ren teased her about trying to control him.
• Diana and Liliyana discussed whether to approach Ren or wait for instructions from the Bronze Black Cross headquarters.
• Diana explained that contacting Ren might help the Bronze Black Cross, while Liliyana remained wary because of her past experience with a Campione!.
• Ren appeared beside the women and said he would go meet the Campione! with them, leaving Diana and Liliyana speechless.

Ren met the witches Diana and Liliyana after defeating Perseus, then questioned them over dinner as he tried to determine the timeline and make plans for Sardinia. The chapter ended with Ren asking why Perseus had suddenly appeared.

• Diana and Liliyana knelt before Ren, then agreed to answer his questions and arranged a meal at Naples’s finest restaurant.
• Aphrodite appeared atop Ren’s head and introduced herself as the goddess of love and beauty, shocking the witches.
• Ren asked how many Campione!s there were and whether they knew Kusanagi Godou; Diana said they had no information about him.
• Ren told Diana to take him to Sardinia the next day so he could investigate signs of Heretic Gods and establish the timeline.
• Ren asked Diana why Perseus had suddenly appeared.

Ren left Naples for Sardinia with Diana and Liliyana, while Aphrodite remained bound to him as his pet goddess. News of a suspected seventh Campione! spread through the hidden world, and the next morning Ren woke to Aphrodite struggling in his arms.

• Ren learned that Aphrodite’s arrival had likely triggered Perseus’s early descent, then said he would travel to Sardinia.
• Ren asked Diana and Liliyana to accompany him as local guides, and Liliyana reluctantly accepted after he teased her about becoming his maid before correcting himself to female knight.
• Ren settled into a hotel suite and made Aphrodite serve as his bath attendant, while she protested that she was a goddess rather than his pet.
• The Greenwich Sage Council investigated Ren’s appearance, linked Perseus’s descent to the upheaval of the Hera Pillar, and found no records identifying Ren.
• The next morning, Aphrodite escaped Ren’s grasp and struck at him in frustration, but her blows only massaged him and woke him.

Ren traveled by yacht from Naples to Sardinia after learning that Kusanagi Godou had not appeared in the recent entry records. On arrival, he learned of an unusual magical fluctuation near ancient ruins, while Erica Blandelli was sent to Sardinia as a scout and Paolo learned that Ren had arrived.

• Diana told Ren that Kusanagi Godou’s name was absent from the past month’s entry records, and Ren chose to travel to Sardinia by ship.
• Erica asked Paolo to assign her to investigate rumors of a Heretic God on Sardinia, and Paolo gave her the assignment.
• Paolo received a report that the seventh Campione! had appeared on Sardinia and feared the situation he had hoped to avoid.
• Ren arrived in Cagliari and checked the quest menu, but no new quest had appeared, so he planned to explore the island.
• Diana told Ren that local members had detected an unusual magical fluctuation near ancient Phoenician ruins and that Copper Black Cross had likely suppressed the information.

Ren waited on Sardinia for Verethragna to summon Melqart so he could complete his mission, spending the time watching videos and appointing Liliyana as his personal female knight. Meanwhile, Erica learned that Ren had arrived on the island and considered investigating him, while the chapter left the two Heretic Gods’ arrival still pending.

• Ren discovered that only Verethragna had appeared on the mission map and decided to wait for him to summon Melqart.
• Ren spent his time at the hotel watching videos with Aphrodite and drinking Liliyana’s herbal tea.
• Ren appointed Liliyana as his personal female knight, though she did not pledge loyalty to him.
• Erica learned that Ren had arrived on Sardinia and weighed investigating him against pursuing the Heretic God.
• Erica decided to ask Liliyana what she knew about Ren.
• Ren continued waiting on Sardinia while enjoying the hotel’s food, drinks, and services.

Ren confronted Verethragna as the war god summoned Melqart, revealing that he knew Verethragna’s future as the Last King. Verethragna welcomed Ren as a worthy opponent and challenged him to grant the undefeated god a defeat.

• Ren arrived at Verethragna’s location and told the war god to continue summoning Melqart, explaining that he wanted to fight them both.
• Verethragna questioned Ren about his knowledge of the summoning and the name Melqart.
• Ren told Verethragna that he knew he would return to mythology and later become the Last King.
• Verethragna declared that he sought defeat and asked Ren to give him a true battle.
• Erica watched from afar as Verethragna challenged Ren, while Ren silently judged the war god’s arrogance.

Ren faced Verethragna and Melqart after both Heretic Gods descended, and challenged them to fight him together. He rescued Erica from the storm, then transformed and attacked Melqart, whose sentient clubs stopped Ren’s first deadly strike.

• Melqart appeared amid a violent storm, and Erica panicked at the presence of a second Heretic God.
• Ren challenged Verethragna and Melqart to fight him together, then rescued Erica from Melqart’s storm and sent her away.
• Melqart launched a lightning attack at Ren, who transformed and used his speed to approach from behind with the Twilight Spear.
• Melqart’s clubs, Pursuer and Exiler, blocked Ren’s strike and counterattacked, forcing Ren to retreat.
• Melqart acknowledged Ren as a worthy opponent after sensing the danger of his attack, while Verethragna watched without intervening.

Ren overwhelmed Verethragna with Ultra Slash, then raised his power with Fivefold Kaioken and forced Verethragna and Melqart to ally against him. After repeatedly attacking Melqart with Ultra Slashes, Ren charged Verethragna for close combat, and the God of War invoked his winged power to defend himself.

• Ren used Ultra Slash to slice Verethragna’s Boar avatar in half, then dodged the attack and became excited by the prospect of finally facing defeat.
• Ren activated Fivefold Kaioken, and Verethragna and Melqart agreed to fight him together as Melqart transformed into a giant.
• Ren fired four Ultra Slashes at Melqart, who used lightning and his clubs before turning into a storm to evade them.
• Ren fired two more waves of Ultra Slashes at Melqart, who realized the attack could be used repeatedly.
• Ren charged Verethragna for hand-to-hand combat, and Verethragna invoked his winged power to protect himself from Ren’s attacks.