Chapter Summaries

Allen discussed the Second Prince’s death and the Dragon King Kingdom’s threat, then offered Klaim a role with the Splendor of the Secret Sword. While browsing a market stall in Shilong, Allen found a doll depicting himself and came face to face with Zanoba Shilong.

• Allen told the group that he had killed the Second Prince, and he and Isolte considered whether the Dragon King Kingdom might exploit the resulting political turmoil.
• Allen offered Klaim the position of vice-captain of the Splendor of the Secret Sword, but Klaim refused the title and affirmed that Allen was its only captain.
• Alexander praised Allen’s skill at commanding people, and Allen kicked him into the river.
• Allen spotted a Snow Valley Hunt doll depicting himself at a market stall, where Aisha had been examining the wares.
• Zanoba Shilong approached Allen from behind as Allen held the doll.

Allen encountered Zanoba Shilong, who became enraged over the Allen Doll before turning into an ecstatic admirer of its craftsmanship. Zanoba stripped the doll’s coat to inspect its muscles, and Aisha and Isolte immediately asked whether there were more removable parts.

• Allen recognized Zanoba Shilong and realized that the prince’s anger was focused on the Allen Doll.
• Zanoba demanded the doll, and Allen handed it over after signaling Isolte that everything was fine.
• Zanoba praised the doll’s materials, craftsmanship, pose, and moving blade, then described its imagined strength and character.
• Zanoba removed the doll’s coat to examine its sculpted muscles, startling Allen.
• Aisha asked whether Zanoba had more dolls, while Isolte asked if the doll’s pants could be removed.

Allen met Zanoba, who eagerly sought an introduction to Rudeus so he could learn doll-making, and learned that Zanoba was a Divine Child. Zanoba’s account of the royal family’s Millish worship left Allen intrigued by its private altar ritual.

• Zanoba realized Allen was the man represented by the doll and asked him to introduce him to Rudeus, offering to fulfill Rudeus’s supposed request for a nude doll model.
• Aisha showed Zanoba her lotus root sculpture and suggested that he take Allen as his master, but Zanoba declined because he had no interest in learning swordsmanship.
• Allen asked Zanoba why people feared him, and Zanoba explained that he had possessed immense, difficult-to-control strength since childhood as a Divine Child.
• Zanoba said he had consulted books about Divine Child abilities and that the Millish Temple held records he had been unable to access.
• Allen questioned Zanoba about the royal family’s private Millish worship day, and Zanoba described a ritual involving a priest’s blessing and bathing in divine radiance atop a Millish Altar.

Allen learned that Pax had become a capable, respected prince under Lokkishi’s encouragement-based teaching, and that Pax had gone to study in the Dragon King Kingdom. The chapter left Allen wary of Pax’s repeated connection to the Dragon King Kingdom and its possible significance.

• Allen questioned Zanoba about the Millish Temple’s damaged altar and suspected its blessing ritual was part of a secret experiment involving the Shirone royal family.
• Allen asked Zanoba about Pax, and Lokkishi explained how her encouragement-based teaching had helped Pax become an excellent student.
• Zanoba said Pax’s grades and royal guard numbers had risen, and that he had left to study in the Dragon King Kingdom after conflicts with the First Prince.
• Lokkishi told Allen that Pax had parted with her respectfully and hoped to recruit Allen and Rudy to help Shirone gain independence.
• Allen learned Pax had gone to study in the Dragon King Kingdom again and grew wary of the pattern.

At the inn in Shirone Royal Capital, Lokkishi encouraged Isolte to spend time alone with Allen, who was privately considering whether the Human God had guided events toward the Dragon King Kingdom. Isolte joined Allen in his room, and they reunited affectionately as she told him how much she had missed him.

• North Three and Klaim drank at the inn while Eris flirted with two adventurers downstairs.
• During the bath, Lokkishi urged Isolte to go to Allen’s room, saying she would not join him that night.
• Allen reviewed his notes about the Dragon King Kingdom and wondered whether the Human God had directed the events leading there.
• Isolte entered Allen’s room, embraced him, and settled into his lap.
• Isolte told Allen that she had dreamed of him while he was missing and was grateful he was alive.

Allen asked Isolte to assess clues pointing toward the Dragon King Kingdom and fell asleep seeking more information through Prophecy Art. His dream showed Aisha in silver Magic Armor as it cracked apart, and he woke to find Isolte’s notes highlighting a suspicious Millish Temple in Shirone, where a Divine Child might be present.

• Isolte confessed that she had loved Allen for comforting her after her parents’ deaths, and Allen asked her to help analyze his clues.
• Allen destroyed the Healing Magic Circles in his Dragon Saint Battle Qi and fell asleep to use Prophecy Art.
• Allen dreamed of Aisha wearing silver Magic Armor as fractures spread through the armor and across her face.
• Allen woke at 2:14 and found Isolte asleep beside him, with her annotations identifying possible Human God schemes and suspicious activity at the Millish Temple in Shirone.
• Allen saw a petite maid watching the temple through the rain, and the narration noted that Bihyde, the Divine Child of Rupture, should be inside.

On a rainy night, Allen went to the Millish Temple in Shirone to learn Healing Magic and inspect its baptism altar. He obtained a sacred text and forced the old priest to lead him onward, while North Three was left outside to face the Temple Knights.

• Aisha and Melna discussed Bihyde and Allen’s investigation before Allen silently left the inn after thinking of Sylphy and vowing to kill the Man-God.
• Allen questioned Klaim about Healing Magic, then headed for the Millish Temple with North Three following him.
• When Lais refused them entry, Allen knocked him unconscious, entered the temple, and tricked the Temple Knights into attacking North Three instead.
• Allen asked the old priest for the Healing Magic text and the location of the baptism altar, then used a bright green spell that convinced the priest to take him there.

Allen confronted Bihyde, the Shilong Millis Temple’s High Priest, and discovered that his Divine Child ability continually severed the necks of people nearby. Bihyde explained how his experiments with Zanoba had distorted their abilities, leaving Allen to consider the strange truth behind Zanoba’s strength and head-pulling.

• Allen examined the hidden altar and questioned the old priests about why its magic circles had not been maintained, learning that Bihyde had ordered the altar built.
• North Three reported that he had knocked out the knights outside, then a descending priest severed both North Three’s and Allen’s necks with his ability.
• North Three regenerated and caught his falling head, while Allen recognized Bihyde’s rule-based power as neck severance and told him he had come to talk.
• Bihyde explained that the temple had branded him a Cursed Child because his ability endangered everyone nearby, then sent him to Shilong.
• Bihyde revealed that he had used an illegal baptismal altar to experiment on Zanoba, causing their abilities to split and fuse: Zanoba gained monstrous strength mixed with neck severance, while Bihyde gained the reverse.
• Bihyde described the risks of exchanging Divine Child abilities, and Allen contained North Three behind a Barrier Spell as Bihyde smashed his head against the floor.

Allen learned that Zenith’s Cursed Child ability could be removed using Saint Millish’s lost holy sword hilt and a sufficiently powerful baptismal altar. Later, he found Aisha awake and asked her three questions about her plan, ending by asking whether she would die.

• Bihyde explained that only Cursed Children could exchange abilities, and that the lost holy sword hilt made from Saint Millish’s arm bone could serve as an empty Cursed Child shell.
• Allen concluded that Zenith’s ability could be removed with the holy sword hilt and a powerful baptismal altar, and left with North Three.
• Aisha left her room in the night and met Allen by a corridor window after he returned from investigating the Millish Temple.
• Allen told Aisha that Zenith’s ability could be removed, then said he would ask only three questions about her plan.
• Aisha nodded that her plan could prevent Orsted from killing Allen and could protect Allen, Isolte, Roxy, and Zenith.
• Allen asked Aisha whether her plan would lead to her death.

Allen realized Aisha had come from the future and told her he would stand beside her, while concluding that his own plan to approach Orsted would fail. After using the Emperor-rank Magic Circle, he entered a dream and found himself before the Mount Ai Orphanage, a building from his former world.

• Allen asked whether Aisha would die, and she answered that she would live.
• Allen told Aisha about his own arrogance and the people who had supported him, then thanked her and assured her she was not alone.
• After leaving Aisha, Allen reasoned that her plan could lead to a future where everyone survived and chose to trust her judgment over his own plan.
• Allen returned to his room, used the Emperor-rank Magic Circle, and fell asleep beside Isolte.
• Allen opened his eyes in a dream and saw the Mount Ai Orphanage, a building from his former world.

Allen’s Precognitive Dream brought him back to Mount Ai Orphanage, where he recovered the truth about his childhood and discussed how the dreams revealed overlooked information. He concluded that the answer to killing the Human God completely lay behind his old dormitory door, but woke before he could open it.

• Allen arrived at the abandoned Mount Ai Orphanage and found that his battle aura was gone, though his trained reflexes and Water God Style techniques remained.
• Allen reached the second-floor dormitory and discovered a notice identifying him as its sole occupant and a patient with dissociative identity disorder.
• Allen remembered that Aiqiu and Aihao had never existed, that he had been isolated at the orphanage, and that his current personality had voluntarily replaced a more extreme one.
• Little Allen appeared and explained that the Precognitive Dreams highlighted information Allen had overlooked about his urgent problems.
• Allen identified killing the Human God completely as his current predicament and decided the answer was behind the dormitory door.
• The dream dissolved as Allen opened the door, and he woke beside Isolte, who greeted him in the morning.

After waking beside Isolte, Allen reviewed his Precognitive Dream and realized the clues might reveal how to defeat the Human God. He deduced a plan involving merging with the Human God and turning the God of Destruction’s power against it, leaving him shaken by the possibility.

• Allen woke with his arm around Isolte, who teased him before leaving to buy breakfast.
• Allen heard Eris making noise from a nearby room, while Aisha complained from the window below and Melna pulled her inside.
• Allen wrote down what the dream had revealed, including that Little Allen’s dissociative identity disorder had been cured and that the dream extended beyond the predicted attack by Orsted.
• Allen recalled Bihyde’s explanation of the Emperor-rank magic circles at Millish and inferred that the dream’s incarnation had connected him to the Human God.
• Allen theorized that he could merge with the Human God and use their connection to corrupt the God of Destruction, potentially becoming the Six-Sided World’s sole god.
• Allen imagined Little Allen asking if he wanted to try the plan.

Allen planned to split the group’s journey so Zenith could return to Asura with Paul while he traveled to the Dragon King Kingdom to prepare for the fight against the Human God. He framed the plan as an open scheme that would force the Human God to choose between targeting Zenith and confronting Allen, and Isolte offered to protect Zenith.

• Lokkishi and Isolte prepared breakfast, and Lokkishi misunderstood Isolte’s cooking advice as intimate guidance before tripping while fleeing the kitchen.
• Allen told the group they needed to accelerate their journey because he had learned how to replace the Blessed Child’s ability using an Imperial-rank baptismal magic circle and the Holy Sword’s hilt.
• Allen showed the group a map and explained that Zenith would travel with Paul toward Asura while Allen went to the Dragon King Kingdom, using separate routes to obscure their movements from the Human God.
• Allen said he would draw the Human God’s attention to himself and force him to choose between maintaining plans against Zenith or committing his forces to stop Allen.
• Isolte volunteered to accompany Zenith as protection, while Lokkishi frowned unusually.

Allen divided the party into two groups after Aisha demonstrated her advanced magic control, then visited the Millish Temple with Zanoba and revealed Bihyde’s role in Zanoba’s past. Allen killed Bihyde and encouraged Zanoba to pursue his craft, but Zanoba accepted the request by vowing to make Allen’s dolls famous; three days later, the group left Shirone.

• Lokkishi and Isolte debated who should accompany Allen, until Aisha insisted she could take care of him and demonstrated a miniature flaming tornado.
• Lokkishi discovered Aisha had control on the level of an Advanced Magician, and the group split into Allen’s party and Zenith’s party.
• Allen brought Zanoba to the Millish Temple, where Bihyde explained that his experiment had caused part of his severing ability to mix with Zanoba’s Blessed Child power.
• Zanoba calmly accepted Bihyde’s confession, but Allen killed Bihyde and told Zanoba that his worth did not depend on an enemy’s judgment.
• Zanoba recounted how his uncontrolled power had killed his younger brother and fiancée, and Allen urged him to use his interest in dolls and mechanisms to help others.
• Three days later, Zanoba tearfully watched the group leave Shirone after promising to make Allen’s dolls known throughout the world.

As King Asura lay dying from Tick Magic Sickness, Ariel concluded that her brother’s victory in the Succession Conflict was inevitable and made one final attempt to change her fate. She set out for Boreas Manor to visit Sylphy and seek Rudeus and Derrick, asking Ghislaine to tell Lord Philip that Boreas should stop supporting her if she failed.

• King Asura became gravely ill after Tick Magic Sickness gradually crystallized his organs.
• Ariel stopped writing her political journal, changed clothes, and decided to visit Boreas Manor.
• Ariel thanked Ghislaine for guarding her as they passed the bodies of two assassins in the palace garden.
• Ariel told Ghislaine that her brother’s victory was inevitable and that she planned one final attempt to change things.
• Ariel asked Ghislaine to tell Lord Philip that Boreas should no longer risk supporting her if she failed, and Ghislaine agreed to pass on the message.

Sylphiette accompanied Ariel to seek Silent Seven Stars’s help in reaching Dragon God Orsted, while urging her to survive the Succession Conflict until Allen returned. Ariel regained her resolve, and they arrived at the Sairent Institute, where an argument about visiting Orsted was underway.

• Sylphiette prepared to leave with Ariel after learning that Philip had received an invitation from First Prince Gravel.
• Sylphiette told Ariel that she mattered more than Gravel’s invitation and accompanied her to the Magic University research institute.
• Sylphiette argued that Allen had backed Gravel only to pursue his own goals and urged Ariel to stay alive until Allen returned.
• Ariel screamed out her frustration, then thanked Sylphiette and resolved to keep fighting while there was still a chance to change the succession.
• Sylphiette and Ariel arrived at the Sairent Institute and heard a woman refuse to let someone visit Orsted.

Derrick begged Nanahoshi to reveal where Orsted was so he could help Ariel in the Succession Conflict, but she refused and relayed Orsted’s bizarre instructions to keep Ariel alive. Sylphy inferred that Orsted had left the capital, then persuaded Nanahoshi to consider hiding Ariel in the institute basement; the chapter ended with Nanahoshi confused when Sylphy asked who would break Ariel’s limbs.

• Derrick repeatedly pleaded with Nanahoshi to reveal Orsted’s whereabouts, and Ariel arrived to apologize for his behavior and ask Nanahoshi for help.
• Nanahoshi said Orsted had told her to keep Ariel alive if trouble arose, and quoted his suggestion to break Ariel’s legs and lock her in the basement.
• Sylphy inferred from Orsted’s instructions that he had left the royal capital and could not intervene, then explained how the basement plan might preserve Ariel’s life.
• Sylphy smashed a teacup, healed her injured palm with silent casting, and convinced Nanahoshi to sit back down.
• Sylphy asked Nanahoshi whether she would break Ariel’s limbs herself or instruct Sylphy to do it, leaving Nanahoshi bewildered.

Sylphy helped Ariel abandon her plan to wait for Orsted and arranged her immediate escape from Ars to the Northern Magic Three Kingdoms. As Ariel’s party was stopped at the city gate, the chapter revealed that Philip had received a letter from Chidi Town and was heading to the royal palace with renewed hope.

• Nanahoshi explained that Orsted had left Ars with Darius and could not return soon, so Sylphy concluded that Ariel needed to flee the capital.
• Sylphy revealed that Boreas had prepared a refuge in the Northern Magic Three Kingdoms and urged Ariel to leave immediately with Ghislaine.
• Ghislaine drove Ariel, Sylphy, Derrick, and Nanahoshi toward the city gate, where a Water King stopped their carriage for an inspection.
• Ariel challenged the Water King, who let her pass while claiming that the prince had anticipated her flight and would not blame her.
• Two hours earlier, Philip traveled from Boreas Mansion toward the royal palace with a black king piece and a letter postmarked from Chidi Town, Gardinia.

Philip visited Gravel at the Silver Palace and delivered Allen’s letter, which revealed Allen’s rise to the Seven Great Powers and his killing of Halfas. At Boreas Manor, Sylphy received a letter from Allen and began reading it, her heart settling after two years of uncertainty.

• Philip waited outside the Silver Palace before Water Kings escorted him to Gravel’s throne room.
• Gravel threatened Ariel’s life and urged Philip to declare the Boreas Family’s support, but Philip handed him a letter from Allen.
• Gravel read Allen’s letter, learned that Allen had joined the Seven Great Powers and killed Halfas, and dropped his threat against Ariel.
• Philip told Gravel that he had received several letters that morning, and Gravel ended the meeting and ordered Lilfa to see him out.
• Sylphy returned to Boreas Manor, found the letters addressed to her and Hilda, and opened Allen’s letter in Hilda’s bedroom.

Allen sent Sylphy a letter explaining that he had been trapped beneath the sea for two years of outside time, revealing the conspiracy involving the Human God and reassuring her that his family was safe. Sylphy was left blushing and waiting for his return after learning he could watch her through the Clairvoyant Eye and that he now had white hair like hers.

• Allen explained that time had passed differently while he was trapped beneath the sea and apologized for his long silence.
• Sylphy cried with relief that Allen was alive, then read his account of the conspiracy and the danger involving the Human God and Orsted.
• Allen told Sylphy that Zenith, Lilia, Norn, and Aisha were safe and asked her to wait in the royal capital until he could explain everything in person.
• Allen urged Sylphy to sleep and eat properly, then revealed that his Clairvoyant Eye let him see how she was doing from afar.
• Sylphy blushed and adjusted her appearance after learning Allen had been watching her, then read that he had white hair and asked her to wait for his return.