Chapter Summaries

Tatsumi, Yas, and Sayo became Holy Light Clerics and joined Yi Yong’s group after receiving holy power and armor. After the village chief learned what had happened, he began to trust the clerics and accepted their help for the village.

• Holy light awakened in Tatsumi, and Yi Yong praised him as a future Holy Light Cleric; Tatsumi, Yas, and Sayo pledged to bring hope together.
• Fushu gave the three mechanical backpacks and taught them to transform into Holy Light Cleric armor.
• Yi Yong’s group returned to the village, where the worried chief reunited with the three children and took them home for breakfast.
• Tatsumi showed the chief his holy power and explained what had happened, persuading the chief to trust Yi Yong and the clerics.
• The chief saw the clerics farming alongside villagers, while Fushu explained that improving people’s livelihoods was part of their duty and promised to guide the three children.

After nearly half a year of training with Yi Yong and the Holy Light Clerics, Tatsumi decided to go to the Imperial Capital with Sayo and Yas to gather intelligence and take responsibility for their world. Yi Yong and the others equipped the trio for their journey, while planning to expand their base and provide further support.

• Tatsumi told Sayo and Yas that they should travel to the Imperial Capital to learn more about their world and help the Holy Light organization.
• Tatsumi asked Yi Yong for permission to leave, and Yi Yong approved while warning the three to stay cautious and keep training.
• Yi Yong gave Tatsumi a gold bracelet inscribed with Invincibility, Fushu gave Yas a Precision Six-Barrel Machine Gun, and Shuihua gave Sayo a Golden Scepter.
• Tatsumi said goodbye to the village chief and the Holy Light Clerics, then set off with Sayo and Yas.
• Yi Yong and Fushu discussed Tatsumi's responsibility and planned to expand their base so they could send another legion and support him.

Tatsumi, Yas, and Sayo entered the Imperial Capital hoping to join the military and gather information, but found that connections and money controlled their prospects. After the Mercenary Guild rejected them, Leone approached the three and offered to help.

• Tatsumi paid a young guide for directions and learned that Minister Honest controlled military recruitment and that the Mercenary Guild was a good place to gather information.
• The guide led Tatsumi, Yas, and Sayo to the Mercenary Guild, where its guildmaster refused to recruit them and ordered men to throw them out.
• Tatsumi shoved a man aside, and the three left the guild frustrated by the Imperial Capital's corruption and lack of opportunities.
• Leone appeared before the worried youngsters and offered to tell them about her connections, while privately planning to teach them a lesson.

After Leone took Tatsumi and his companions’ money and vanished, they accepted an offer of help from the malicious Aria. They pretended to succumb to her family’s drugged feast as the guards dragged them toward the manor’s pigpen.

• Leone convinced Tatsumi to give her most of their savings, then disappeared after promising to help them enter the Imperial Military Headquarters.
• Tatsumi, Sayo, and Yas gave up waiting for Leone and encountered Aria, whose malice Tatsumi sensed despite her friendly manner.
• Aria invited the three to her family’s manor, where Sayo secretly used holy power to counter the knockout drug in their food.
• Tatsumi, Yas, and Sayo pretended to pass out, while Aria and her family celebrated and ordered guards to take them to the pigpen.

Tatsumi, Yas, and Sayo broke into Aria’s estate, rescued the tortured captives, and killed Aria and her guards. After meeting Night Raid, Tatsumi proposed working together and turned to pursue Aria’s parents.

• Sayo treated the captives while Tatsumi and Yas fought the guards, and a soldier fired a red flare that alerted Aria and her parents.
• Aria confronted Tatsumi and Yas as Night Raid watched from nearby, and Tatsumi killed her after the pair fought off her soldiers.
• Yas’s scanning turret targeted Night Raid in the woods, but Tatsumi stopped him and recognized Leone, who revealed that she and the others were Night Raid.
• Sayo brought out the surviving captives, and Tatsumi promised they would not be abandoned.
• Tatsumi proposed working with Night Raid and suggested they deal with Aria’s parents before discussing their organizations.

Tatsumi brought his companions to Night Raid’s headquarters and argued that they shared the goal of changing the Empire, though he believed that overthrowing it was only the beginning. He left Night Raid considering his account of the Holy Light’s work and his challenge to build a fairer society.

• Tatsumi trusted Leone to arrange shelter for the people rescued from Aria’s Manor, then followed Night Raid to its headquarters.
• Najenda questioned Tatsumi about his proposed cooperation, and he said both groups wanted to change the rotten world.
• Akame acknowledged that Night Raid’s killings still made them deserving of retribution, while Tatsumi explained the resolve of the Holy Light Clerics.
• Tatsumi described how the Holy Light had improved his village and outlined his organization’s plans to end injustice, class oppression, and poverty.
• Mine called Tatsumi’s ideals naive, but he challenged Night Raid to help build a fair society, leaving her unable to answer.

Tatsumi explained the Holy Light Clerics’ power and proposed that Night Raid exchange intelligence for equipment and medical aid. After Yas demonstrated their technology, Sayo healed Najenda’s arm and restored her sight.

• Tatsumi told Najenda that ordinary people could wield holy power through shared ideals and faith, and introduced himself, Yas, and Sayo as Holy Light Clerics.
• Tatsumi proposed trading equipment, medical care, and supplies for Night Raid’s intelligence on the Empire.
• Yas demonstrated a reconnaissance drone, communicators, and other support equipment, impressing Night Raid with their capabilities.
• Sayo used the Golden Scepter’s Greater Healing Technique to regrow Najenda’s missing arm and restore her sight.

Tatsumi and his companions secured a partnership with Night Raid, revealing the Priests’ powerful abilities and arranging reinforcements from Yi Yong. As Yi Yong described the legion’s growing conflict with the Empire, he told Tatsumi to continue his work in the Imperial Capital.

• Tatsumi introduced Najenda to the Priests’ abilities, including resurrection, and Najenda agreed to work with the Holy Light Clerics.
• Najenda had Sheele arrange accommodations for Tatsumi, Yas, and Sayo, while she told Leone that Night Raid would test the alliance because the Revolutionary Army needed allies.
• Tatsumi and his companions practiced their Breathing Exercise Method at sunrise, then Yas set up a Signal Tower to contact Fushu and Yi Yong.
• Yi Yong praised the trio, promised them medals, and agreed to send Elite Holy Light Clerics and two Master Priests after Najenda offered the Empire’s full territory map.
• Yi Yong told Tatsumi that the legion had killed tax collectors who tried to seize the villagers’ grain, but instructed him to stay in the Imperial Capital because the legion could handle the Empire’s forces.

Tatsumi welcomed Iron Hammer and his elite cleric squad, who had arrived to support Night Raid, and introduced them to Najenda. As the groups walked to headquarters, Iron Hammer described the clerics' resistance to the Empire and challenged Najenda to explain how the Revolutionary Army would prevent corruption from returning.

• Tatsumi brought Night Raid to meet the arriving cleric squad and greeted Iron Hammer, his longtime companion.
• Iron Hammer ordered his clerics to report to Najenda and follow Night Raid's orders as long as they upheld their discipline and honor.
• Iron Hammer told Tatsumi that the village was thriving after the clerics killed its tax collector and drove off Imperial troops.
• Najenda asked Iron Hammer about the Revolutionary Army, and he questioned whether restoring the Empire while preserving the nobility would change anything.

Iron Hammer explained to Najenda and Night Raid why the Holy Church fought to overthrow the nobles, recounting how the Church had rescued him and his wife from oppression. The discussion left both groups aware that they might become enemies after defeating the Empire, but they set aside the tension and continued working together.

• Iron Hammer challenged Najenda and Night Raid to question whether nobles had the right to rule, arguing that ordinary people could govern themselves if given knowledge and strength.
• Mine questioned why the people deserved more, and Iron Hammer defended their labor and explained that they needed the power to resist oppression.
• Iron Hammer recounted how a greedy lord's rent and refusal of medicine had led to his children's deaths and his wife's illness, before the Holy Church gave him hope and helped bring the lord to justice.
• Najenda and Night Raid recognized that their alliance with the Holy Church might be temporary, though they did not want to fight people who cared for the common folk.
• Iron Hammer reassured Najenda that they should focus on working together for now, and both groups eased the tension by sharing amusing stories.

Mine confided her doubts and jealousy to Sheele, who reassured her that Night Raid’s companions would support her. The next day, Night Raid spent time with Iron Hammer’s squad, heard their revolutionary anthem, and worried about how formidable the Holy Light Clerics would be as enemies.

• Mine asked Sheele whether Captain Iron Hammer and the others disliked her and whether their vision of equality could become real, and Sheele comforted her.
• Mine admitted she envied those who had found companions fighting for a brighter future, then returned to the Dormitory with Sheele.
• Iron Hammer’s squad completed morning exercises with Tatsumi and his companions, greeted Bulat and Lubbock, and helped Night Raid with its work.
• The Holy Light Clerics raised their banner and sang a song calling on the suffering to unite without relying on saviors, gods, or emperors.
• Najenda asked Night Raid what they thought of the clerics, and the group judged them disciplined and hardworking enough to be dangerous opponents.

Najenda assigned the Holy Light Clerics squad to hunt Zank the Beheader, with Sheele, Akame, and Mine accompanying Captain Iron Hammer. The team located and crippled Zank with coordinated sniper fire, then moved to finish him.

• Najenda received a list of revolution supporters from a wounded courier, who died after delivering it.
• Najenda sent Iron Hammer's squad, accompanied by Sheele, Akame, and Mine, to kill Zank the Beheader.
• Iron Hammer's team disguised themselves as civilians and used cloaked drones to find Zank in the Imperial Capital.
• Three Holy Armored Ones shot Zank with cloaked rounds, wounding him and forcing him to charge toward their position.
• The snipers used wall-piercing rounds to strike Zank in both arms and his right leg, subduing him.
• Akame and the others joined Iron Hammer to deliver the finishing blow.

Iron Hammer’s Holy Light Clerics left Zank the Beheader burning with a soul-purifying Holy Flame, which Seryu and the Military Police could not extinguish. When the Minister brought Zank to the palace, the flame spread to nobles and officials, prompting the Minister to order General Esdeath back to defend the capital.

• Iron Hammer ordered Tatsumi to remove Zank the Beheader’s Five Sights, and Yuga set Zank alight with the Holy Flame before the clerics left him to suffer.
• Seryu found her mentor Zank burning and begged the Military Police to save him, but their attempts to extinguish the flame failed.
• The Minister summoned Zank to the palace at the Little Emperor’s request, where guards shoved two soldiers onto him and the Minister ordered the soldiers killed afterward.
• A noble touched Zank and caught fire, spreading the Holy Flame to other nobles and officials as they fled in agony.
• Palace guards shot the burning nobles and officials, but the Holy Flame persisted, so the Minister ordered General Esdeath recalled to protect the capital and destroy the rebels.

Esdeath returned to the Imperial Capital after Minister Honest summoned her to confront Night Raid, while Night Raid learned that the Holy Flame had killed many of the Empire's corrupt officials. Iron Hammer revealed the Holy Church's powerful ranks and Pope Ria's strength, then prepared to show Night Raid a video.

• Esdeath killed the Northern Prince and agreed to return to the Imperial Capital to deal with Night Raid.
• Najenda told Night Raid that many of Minister Honest's trusted followers had died after touching the Holy Flame at the Imperial Palace.
• Iron Hammer explained that the Holy Flame burned only those whose evil was severe enough, and protected virtuous people.
• Najenda warned that Esdeath, the Empire's strongest fighter, was returning, and Iron Hammer promised the Holy Church could send powerful reinforcements.
• Iron Hammer described the Holy Church's hierarchy and said Pope Ria was level 89 and could destroy the Imperial Capital with a light blow.
• The Holy Armored One set up a projector at Night Raid Castle to show the others a video of the Church's power.

Night Raid watched a battle video that revealed the overwhelming power of the Holy Light Clerics and learned that they had come from another world. Iron Hammer offered an alliance, but Najenda remained undecided as Night Raid considered the Holy Church’s intentions.

• Night Raid watched Marshal Axel destroy a meteor and saw Madara Uchiha and other enemies unleash devastating attacks against the Holy Light Clerics.
• Iron Hammer revealed that the three remaining opponents had held off four Holy Light Cleric army groups and that the video showed the final battle that ended the Shinobi World wars.
• Iron Hammer told Night Raid that the Holy Church came from another world through the Cross-World Teleportation Array and intended to bring hope to the Empire.
• Iron Hammer criticized the Revolutionary Army’s cooperation with northern tribes and said the Holy Church would protect ordinary people before eventually withdrawing.
• Najenda said she needed time to consider an alliance, and Iron Hammer led the Holy Light Clerics out to give Night Raid room to discuss.

Najenda sent Akame and Chelsea to investigate life under the Holy Church while its forces expanded into the world and prepared to confront the Path of Tranquility Church in Longxi City. The Holy Church’s missionaries demonstrated genuine healing miracles, and Legion Commander Will ordered a citywide display as the rival church prepared to retaliate.

• Najenda agreed with Akame’s proposal to investigate the Holy Church’s territory and sent Akame and Chelsea to gather evidence.
• Fushu told Yi Yong that the Second Army Group, including Commander Rich, would arrive within fifteen days, and reported trouble for the Third Legion in Longxi City.
• Yi Yong ordered the Third Legion to brand the Path of Tranquility Church heretics and placed the Fourth and Fifth Legions on standby.
• A Path of Tranquility missionary told the deputy leader that Holy Church clerics had cured a sick man with white light, prompting the deputy leader to summon the Four Rakshasa Demons.
• Will told Aili to prepare a large-scale display of miracles in Longxi City, and Aili said Holy Light Descent Magic was ready.

Will challenged Path of Peace deputy leader Bolic to prove his god’s power, and Aili and the Priests performed a radiant Holy Light ritual that won Longxi City’s people over to the Holy Light. Bolic ordered the Four Rakshasa Demons to attack, and Will and the Holy Knights prepared to fight them.

• Bolic arrived with the Four Great Guardians and had Ji twist his head and limbs to present the feat as a miracle of Path of Peace’s True God.
• Will mocked Ji’s display and ordered the Holy Light Clerics to begin the Holy Light Descent Ritual.
• Aili and the Priests prayed, summoning luminous wings and a rain of light that spread across Longxi City and led the people to praise the holy light.
• Bolic abandoned his pretense and ordered the Four Rakshasa Demons to kill Will and the others.
• The Holy Knights surrounded Bolic’s group behind Shields of Courage, while Will drew his sword and unleashed his holy power.

Will killed Berkeley and the Four Rakshasa Demons, then led the Holy Light Clerics to arrest the malicious Anning missionaries. At the Path of Tranquility Church’s Grand Cathedral, he and Aili met Lord, the imprisoned church founder, who asked them to save the city’s people and let him join the True God’s faith.

• Will used his Oath aura to immobilize the Four Rakshasa Demons and killed Ji, Zhutian, Horsehead, and Linglu.
• Will killed Berkeley after the deputy leader threatened him with the Minister’s retaliation.
• Will addressed the frightened crowd, and the Holy Light Clerics ordered the arrest of every malicious Anning missionary in the city.
• Will and Aili went to the Path of Tranquility Church’s Grand Cathedral to confront the person behind the turmoil.
• Lord explained that he had founded the church to comfort the city’s suffering people before the Minister’s intervention transformed it and Berkeley imprisoned him.
• Lord asked Will to save the people and give him the chance to believe in the True God, and Will welcomed his sincerity.

Akame and Chelsea visited Tatsumi’s village and learned that the Holy Church had transformed it with better farming, education, and living conditions. After Tatsumi’s young brother Jiabao cautiously recognized them as strangers, Akame and Chelsea left wary of the Church’s influence.

• Chelsea and Akame confirmed they had reached Tatsumi’s village and accepted a villager’s invitation to his home.
• Chelsea questioned the villager, who credited the Holy Church with improving farming, rebuilding homes, educating children, and ending the Empire’s tax collection.
• The villager said he would fight the Empire to protect the improved life the Church had brought to the village.
• Jiabao returned from school, refused Chelsea’s lollipop because his teacher had warned him not to accept food from strangers, and persuaded his father to accompany him back to school.
• Akame realized Jiabao might have seen through their visit, and she and Chelsea decided to leave.

Yi Yong learned that Chelsea and Akame had visited Jiabao’s home to investigate the Holy Light Clerics, and he ordered his people to let them observe freely. Chelsea disguised herself as a cleric and spent the morning helping repair an elderly woman’s house, where the clerics’ care for the townspeople left her impressed.

• Jiabao described the two women who had visited his home, and Fushu identified them as Night Raid members Chelsea and Akame.
• Yi Yong guessed that Chelsea and Akame were investigating the clerics and told his unit to pretend not to notice them unless they committed a crime.
• Chelsea and Akame went to observe the Holy Light Clerics, and Akame hid while Chelsea used her Gaea Foundation to disguise herself as a cleric named Qiangzi.
• The clerics assigned Chelsea to carry bricks while repairing old Phil’s house, then Mohai helped when she claimed to be heartbroken over a breakup.
• After the repair work, the clerics shared a meal with old Phil and her grandson, and Chelsea felt moved by their kindness.