Recaps

After the Empire’s hundred thousand elite troops were destroyed and General Budo was killed, the Holy Church ordered Night Raid to assassinate the minister and his officials. Esdeath organized a new Imperial Arms Police Force to protect the capital, then hurried back to Madara, whom she had come to regard as her lover.

• Iron Hammer announced that the Holy Church had defeated the Empire’s hundred thousand elite troops, killed Budo, and ordered Night Raid to target the minister and his officials.
• The minister learned of the defeat and summoned Esdeath, who had been spending her time with Madara.
• Esdeath proposed forming an Imperial Arms Police Force and transferring frontier soldiers to defend the capital, while the minister privately discussed killing her with Syura.
• Esdeath assembled Kurome, Seryu, Dr. Stylish, and two other Imperial Arms users to organize the new force.
• Esdeath told her subordinates that Madara was stronger than her and hurried back to see him.

Hashirama freed Madara from the Holy Light Bracelet, and Madara retaliated before the two rejoined Night Raid. Najenda assigned the groups to begin an operation against the minister and his officials, while Esdeath vowed to find Madara after discovering he had left.

• Hashirama retrieved Madara and removed the Holy Light Bracelet, restoring Madara's strength.
• Madara trapped Hashirama in Tsukuyomi and beat him before agreeing to leave for the mission.
• Esdeath returned to find Madara gone and vowed to find him and demand an explanation.
• Madara and Hashirama rejoined Night Raid, where Hashirama's swollen face drew questions and Madara confronted him over what he had told the others.
• Najenda assigned Madara and Hashirama to attack the Imperial Palace while the other groups carried out their objectives and support teams stood by.
• Night Raid and the Holy Light Clerics put on their communication bracelets and set off to begin the operation.

Madara and Hashirama attacked the Imperial Palace, where Madara fought Syura and destroyed the palace. Meanwhile, Leone’s group encountered Seryu and Dr. Stylish, and the chapter left them surrounded by Dr. Stylish’s Fashion troops.

• Madara dropped Hashirama into the palace square, where Hashirama summoned a wooden golem and Madara crushed the palace guards and buildings with a sphere of stone.
• Syura teleported the minister and the Little Emperor out of the palace, but Madara struck him and then used Shinra Tensei to destroy the palace and Syura’s marked escape points.
• Esdeath noticed the palace’s destruction and ran toward it, while Leone led Tatsumi, Sayo, Mine, and Sheele onward to their mission.
• Seryu confronted Leone’s group over the deaths of her father and Teacher Zank, and Koro transformed and attacked Tatsumi.
• Yas shot Koro, Sayo transformed him into a lamb with Silent Lamb, and Tatsumi summoned a Holy Sword that killed him.
• Dr. Stylish revealed his Fashion troops as Seryu prepared to fight, surrounding Tatsumi and his companions.

Tatsumi and Night Raid fought Dr. Stylish’s bioengineered army, and Tatsumi used the Holy Knight’s ultimate skill, Invincibility, to defeat the transformed doctor. Afterward, his allies teased him as he struggled to recover from the strain of using the skill.

• Sayo shielded the group from Seryu’s attack while Mine shot at her, and Yas killed Seryu after Dr. Stylish’s creatures blocked Mine’s first beam.
• Tatsumi and his allies fought the bioengineered creatures as Yas searched for their controller, while Dr. Stylish transformed into a giant monster and began devouring his troops.
• Dr. Stylish charged toward the fleeing civilians, so Tatsumi sent Sayo, Leone, and Mine to rescue them and activated Invincibility with his Holy Light Bracelet.
• Tatsumi overpowered Dr. Stylish’s giant fist and destroyed the doctor with a punch of Holy Light.
• Leone praised Tatsumi, but Mine and Sayo teased him about how briefly he could keep fighting after using the skill.

Madara killed Syura and the minister, completing his mission in the Imperial Palace. After fighting Esdeath and recognizing her strength, he let her walk beside him as he and Hashirama departed.

• Madara killed Syura, then evaded the minister’s Imperial Arms-nullifying ring and pistol before killing him as well.
• Hashirama brought Esdeath to Madara, and she insisted that she wanted to grow stronger alongside him.
• Esdeath challenged Madara, and they fought with ice techniques, fire, genjutsu, and Susanoo.
• Esdeath summoned five Ice Crystal Dragons, but Madara pulled them into black holes with Banshō Ten'in, leaving her exhausted.
• Madara praised Esdeath as a master of ice techniques and let her hold his arm as they left with Hashirama, their mission complete.

Akame and Kurome fought a fierce duel while their allies clashed around them. Just as the sisters charged for a fatal strike, Esdeath stopped both blades and announced that the war was over.

• Akame and Kurome exchanged sword strikes, and Kurome used Eight Rooms to summon corpses before Akame forced her onto the defensive.
• Will intervened to protect Kurome, but stepped aside after she asked him to let the sisters settle their duel themselves.
• Kurome summoned her strongest puppet, a skeletal Danger Beast, and Iron Hammer shielded Akame from its laser while the Holy Light Clerics fought Will and Bols.
• Madara and Esdeath arrived and agreed to stop the fighting because the war had ended; Iron Hammer then arrested the bound Will and Bols.
• Akame and Kurome charged at each other for a final strike, but Esdeath seized both blades and told Kurome the war was over.

After Esdeath joined Madara and Night Raid, Akame and Kurome reconciled and the mission group gathered for a victory banquet. In the Imperial Capital, the nobles blamed the White Bandits for the Empire’s collapse and resolved to muster their private troops against them.

• Esdeath revealed that Madara was her man and said she planned to join him, while Akame and Kurome embraced and promised not to separate again.
• Iron Hammer led the group to the rendezvous point, where Najenda and Night Raid lowered their weapons after learning Esdeath was no longer an enemy.
• Night Raid, the Holy Light Clerics, and Esdeath’s group celebrated their success, and Iron Hammer announced that the Holy Church’s main force would arrive in two days.
• Imperial nobles learned that the minister was dead, the Little Emperor had vanished, and the Revolutionary Army had not caused the crisis.
• Duke Hainan and the nobles agreed to muster their private troops and resist the White Bandits if they entered the Imperial Capital.

Rich’s Holy Light Clerics Legion attacked the Imperial Capital, shattered its walls, and began seizing the nobles while Night Raid and Esdeath watched. By nightfall, the city had fallen under the legion’s control and the frightened people waited indoors as the rain settled over the capital.

• Najenda and Night Raid prepared to welcome the arriving Army Group as nobles continued exploiting the people.
• Rich arrived with the Holy Light Clerics Legion and told Night Raid to watch rather than join the battle.
• Duke Hainan and the nobles mocked the legion’s numbers and celebrated their apparent advantage behind the city walls.
• Rich ordered the Holy Light Cannons to fire, blasting holes in the walls and killing or scattering the defenders.
• The Holy Knights charged through the weakened wall, killing Duke Hainan as the masonry collapsed.
• Rich ordered clerics to maintain order and arrest the nobles, while the terrified citizens hid until a late-night storm quieted the city.

The Holy Church settled into the Imperial Capital and carried out reforms, aid efforts, and a harsh crackdown on crime. After trials exposed the nobles’ abuses, the residents celebrated the enforcement of their sentences and the clerics’ salute to the people.

• Imperial Capital residents discovered that the white containers in the streets were Sleep Pods occupied by Holy Light Clerics, while Iron Hammer explained to Night Raid that the soldiers avoided disturbing residents and were building barracks outside the city.
• The Holy Church returned wealth seized by nobles, cut taxes, aided homeless children and refugees, and violently suppressed criminal gangs across the Imperial Capital.
• Holy Light Clerics punished a gang boss who trafficked and abused children, and the city’s crime rate fell as criminals feared further crackdowns.
• The Holy Church tried 284 nobles and found only two relatively clean-handed, while Night Raid witnessed the residents celebrate the verdicts and the judge order the sentences enforced.
• Holy Light Clerics bowed to the cheering residents after declaring that the Holy Law would safeguard justice for the people.

Night Raid enjoyed the peace and prosperity that followed the Holy Church’s actions, while Esdeath spent time with Kaguya in a frontier city. The chapter left Esdeath relieved to avoid Kaguya’s cooking and resolved to learn how to cook herself.

• Leone, Akame, Kurome, and the rest of Night Raid joked about their salaries and celebrated their peaceful new life as Najenda offered to treat them to a meal.
• Akame asked where Esdeath had gone, and Kurome said Esdeath was on a honeymoon with Madara.
• Esdeath hosted Kaguya for tea and assured her that she and Madara were getting along well.
• Esdeath imagined growing stronger than Madara, then blushed when Kaguya worried she might be ill and urged her to have a healthy baby.
• Esdeath persuaded Kaguya not to cook by saying Madara wanted to try local food, then decided she would need to learn cooking to avoid Kaguya’s meals in the future.

Madara defeated the Revolutionary Army leader after exposing his selfish ambition, then returned to the inn and joined Esdeath and Kaguya. The Holy Church expanded across the Empire as revolutionary remnants found little support among people whose lives were improving.

• Madara used Tsukuyomi on the Revolutionary Army leader, saw his ambition to become emperor, and killed him with a kunai.
• Madara returned to the inn, where Esdeath welcomed him and he learned Hashirama had not come back.
• Madara scolded Kaguya for giving Hashirama money and urged her to go shopping with Esdeath.
• The Holy Church expanded rapidly across the Empire without further resistance.
• Revolutionary remnants tried to organize against the Holy Church, but villagers alerted the Holy Light Clerics and the people refused to support them.

Night Raid prepared to travel with Tatsumi to the Shinobi World as the Holy Light Clerics withdrew, leaving the Empire to govern itself. Tatsumi reunited with Yi Yong, met Archpriest Le'er, and joined the departing procession toward the Holy Church Portal.

• Najenda burned the aristocratic faction's plea for help, and Night Raid agreed to leave its fate to the Holy Church's trials.
• Najenda told Night Raid they would travel to the Shinobi World with Tatsumi, whose identity as their world's Child of Holy Light and future Archbishop had been revealed.
• Iron Hammer assured Najenda that the Empire's new generation of clerics could govern independently and that the Shinobi World would support them if needed.
• Najenda and Iron Hammer exchanged farewells as Night Raid greeted the departing Holy Light Clerics.
• Tatsumi reunited with Yi Yong, who introduced him to Archpriest Le'er as a future ally.
• The villagers of Tata Village and local clerics saluted the departing pioneers as the group headed for the Holy Church Portal.

Night Raid arrived in the Shinobi World and learned that the Holy Church’s apparent city was a military base equipped with overwhelming technology. Yi Yong showed them the Star Ring encircling the world, leaving Madara shaken by the scale of the Holy Church’s power.

• Night Raid entered the Shinobi World, and Akame reassured Kurome that Pope Ria would cure her illness.
• Yi Yong explained that they were at a military base, and Shayi used the Great Enlightenment Technique to teach Night Raid the world’s language.
• Yi Yong guided the group through the base and described its vehicles, mecha, and Sky Carriers, explaining that the Holy Church had needed only ground forces to defeat the Imperial Capital’s reactionary forces.
• Kaguya asked whether the Holy Church planned to counterattack the Ōtsutsuki Clan, and Yi Yong said it would prevent them from harming the Shinobi World again.
• Yi Yong pointed out the Star Ring, and Madara used his Rinnegan to see its vast habitat and the spacecraft surrounding the Shinobi World.

Night Raid traveled aboard Mothership A15 to the Holy Church’s city of light, marveling at the Shinobi World’s technology and comforts along the way. The chapter ended with the group gazing down at Holy Light City and imagining what their own world might become.

• Night Raid boarded Mothership A15 at the Aerospace Port, where navigator Yu Mu welcomed them and gave Yi Yong her contact information.
• The women aboard showed Tatsumi and Yas to their rooms, making Sayo jealous, while Mine and Sheele bathed and the group later enjoyed the ship’s restaurant.
• Kurome shared Octopus Balls with Akame, who protested when Kurome led her away from the food to the observation deck.
• Night Raid looked down at Holy Light City’s towers, Light Curtains, and hovercars, and Najenda compared the Empire unfavorably with it.
• Tatsumi declared that their world could develop into a similar city, and Leone teased him until Sayo punched him and the group laughed.

The Holy Church welcomed Night Raid from another world with a grand ceremony, honoring its members and appointing Tatsumi as a bishop. As the ceremony celebrated the spread of the Holy Light, Li Ming used faith from Akame's world to absorb a new rule and began planning to create Noble Phantasms.

• Ria prepared for the audience with Meli and welcomed Night Raid at the Holy Church.
• Axel greeted Night Raid and escorted them through the church as clerics applauded their arrival.
• Ria presented each Night Raid member with a Medal of Courage and announced Tatsumi's appointment as a bishop.
• Tatsumi addressed the crowd, promising to lead his world in supporting its allies and spreading the Holy Light.
• Li Ming absorbed a rule formed through faith from Akame's world and decided to use it to create Noble Phantasms.

Ria prepared the Holy Church for a journey to a powerful new world after Holy Light created Gold Cloths and a Holy Grail to help the Church enter it. She entrusted Axel with the Grail and the task of changing the new world’s law so the Church’s legions could follow.

• Ria gave Night Raid Holy Light Seeds, learned Akame wanted treatment for Kurome, and sent Meli to help while collecting Night Raid’s Imperial Arms for modification.
• Holy Light gave Ria thirteen Gold Cloths, including one for her, and a Holy Grail that could distort a law resembling Holy Light in another world.
• Li Ming modified Night Raid’s Imperial Arms to make them compatible with Holy Power and strengthened their abilities.
• Ria gave Gold Cloths to the twelve Legion Commanders and ordered them to prepare for the Church’s next mission.
• Ria entrusted Axel with the Holy Grail and instructed him to use it upon arrival in the new world so the Church’s legions could enter safely.

Axel crossed through the Holy Light Teleportation Array into a garbage-strewn world, where the world's repulsive force nearly killed him before the Holy Grail cleared the storm and allowed him to remain. Ria ordered the portal secured, while Sabo and Luffy convinced Ace to investigate the light pillar near the garbage dump.

• Ria sent Axel through the Holy Light Teleportation Array after warning him to return if the world's repulsive force became too strong.
• Axel was crushed by the world's force, but the Holy Grail blocked the lightning and scattered the clouds; Kizaru briefly noticed that his Glint-Glint Fruit powers had become unresponsive.
• Ria saw the Portal's warning light turn white and sent the Holy Light Clerics Legion through; Kumata found Axel injured and brought him back to Ria, who healed him.
• Ria ordered the Holy Armored Ones to fortify the portal into a tightly defended military base.
• Sabo and Luffy told Ace about the pillar of light near the garbage dump, and Ace grabbed a crowbar and went with them to investigate.

Kumata ordered the Holy Light Clerics to clear the garbage around the Portal, help the displaced people, and secure the area for a military base. Ace, Sabo, and Luffy attacked two clerics who tried to take them to safety, but the clerics restrained them and carried them toward a temporary shelter.

• Kumata ordered the Holy Light Clerics to relocate nearby people, clear the garbage with Holy Flame, and forbid entry within ten kilometers of the Portal.
• The Holy Light Clerics gave the displaced people food, clean tents, and clothing, while bathing and caring for the children.
• Ace, Sabo, and Luffy watched the clerics at work and decided to follow them to learn where they were taking the people.
• Two Holy Light Clerics approached the boys and invited them to leave the dangerous area, but Ace shouted for the trio to attack.
• Ace and Sabo struck the clerics with crowbars, and Luffy hit one with his stretched fists, but their attacks failed against the clerics' armor.
• A Holy Light Cleric used Slowness to stop the boys, and the clerics carried them to the temporary shelter.

Ace, Sabo, and Luffy attended lessons at the Holy Church after repeated escape attempts failed, and their teacher asked them about their dreams. The chapter left Sabo inspired to become like the teacher and help protect others’ hopes.

• Ace asked whether the Holy Light Clerics would teach their skills, and the teacher said anyone could learn if they believed in the Holy Light.
• Sabo defended the Holy Church for feeding, clothing, and educating the children, while Ace and Luffy argued over a bowl of milk.
• The teacher invited the class to share their dreams, and Luffy said he wanted to become King of the Pirates while Ace said he wanted to break free of someone’s shackles.
• The teacher urged Ace and Luffy to pursue their dreams without hurting others, and told Luffy that his vision sounded more like an adventurer than a pirate.
• Sabo asked whether he could become someone like the teacher, and she encouraged him to follow that goal without wavering.

Sabo chose to become a Holy Light Cleric, while Ace and Luffy continued learning from their teacher and received protective charms before heading home. After the Holy Light Clerics burned the garbage dump, Kumata ordered an immediate attack on the city.

• Sabo told Ace and Luffy that he had decided to become a Holy Light Cleric, and they celebrated his choice.
• Ace, Luffy, and Sabo learned a Body Tempering Technique and attended lessons that deepened their respect for their teacher.
• Ace and Luffy revealed that Curly Dadan had adopted them, and their teacher gave the three boys Peace Charms before they left for home.
• The Holy Light Clerics evacuated the displaced people and set the garbage dump ablaze with Holy Flame.
• The city's soldiers failed to extinguish the white fire, while the clerics watched the response through drone footage.
• Kumata decided the Holy Light Clerics would attack the city and ordered his troops to capture it immediately.

The Holy Light Clerics Legion stormed the Goa Kingdom’s city, defeated its defenders, and occupied the palace. The king and prince were taken away as the Legion prepared to judge the rulers for their treatment of the people.

• The Holy Knights smashed through the city gate, killed the transformed general, and defeated Deji after he attacked their charge.
• The city’s soldiers surrendered when the Holy Knights offered to spare them, and the Legion assigned guards to prisoners while Priests healed the wounded.
• At the palace banquet, the king and prince heard fighting outside, and the prince went to investigate.
• A Holy Light Cleric kicked the prince down as the Legion entered the palace and declared the city occupied by the Holy Church.
• The king invoked the Celestial Dragons and World Government, but the Regiment Commander ordered the rulers taken to the Judgment Hall.

Ria ordered the Holy Church’s legions to launch a major operation while the Church expanded its preparations across the Shinobi World and the Pirate World. In the Goa Kingdom, its soldiers abolished noble privileges and issued reforms, and a newspaper editor and reporter prepared to meet them.

• Ria ordered Axel to lead four army groups out after Kumata reported that the forward base was secured.
• The Holy Church’s mobilization sparked a surge in Shinobi World manufacturing as merchants competed to supply its needs.
• In the Pirate World, the Holy Church began developing a navy and ordered shipyard machinery to build warships.
• Holy Armored Ones occupied the Goa Kingdom, escorted the king and nobles from the city, and issued decrees abolishing noble privileges and relieving refugees and taxpayers.
• Kumata ordered a press conference to introduce the Holy Church, while a reporter and her editor went to meet the soldiers who had arrived at their newspaper office.

President Pier accepted an invitation to a Holy Church press conference while Kumata prepared to address reporters in Goa, and Axel stayed behind to oversee construction of a military base. At the palace the next day, reporters arrived and Nanako befriended the guard Gennai before the conference began.

• A Holy Light Cleric invited President Pier and the Dawn Newspaper to the Holy Church's press conference, and Vivian urged him to accept.
• Kumata told Axel he had moved ordinary residents out of the dump to make room for a military base and arranged a press conference for the following day.
• Axel declined to attend, told Kumata to answer the reporters' questions, and promised to show videos of the Church's military strength.
• At Goa's royal palace, Vivian and Nanako arrived among the reporters, and Nanako posed beside Gennai, a guard on duty.
• Gennai showed Nanako and Vivian his digital camera, and Nanako kissed him before leaving for the meeting room.
• The reporters gathered in the meeting room and discussed the conference's purpose and what questions to ask.

At a press conference, Kumata presented the Holy Church as a faith-based organization that defended the people and rejected oppression, while promising it could withstand the World Government. He began a military exercise broadcast to show reporters the Church’s forces, leaving them watching its vast army and advanced machinery.

• Kumata introduced himself as Zhongshan Kumata, Legion Commander of the Holy Church’s Third Army Group, and explained the Church’s level-based ranks and his own combat strength.
• Kumata told Vivian that the Holy Church supported freedom of belief, stood with ordinary people, and would hold oppressors accountable.
• Kumata declared that the Church could protect the city from the World Government and asked Jianlei to notify Marshal Axel to begin a military exercise.
• Kumata showed reporters a broadcast of tens of thousands of Holy Light Clerics, giant mechanical suits, artillery-like machines, and flying craft assembled on a barren plain.
• The Holy Light Clerics began their synchronized military exercise as the reporters watched and took photographs.

After the Holy Church’s press conference inspired the people of Goa, the Five Elders ordered a Buster Call against the kingdom. Garp was sent to lead the attack, while Dragon and Shanks headed toward the East Blue.

• Kumata ended the press conference after reporters applauded the Holy Light Clerics’ resolve to fight for the people.
• Newspapers spread the Holy Church’s message across Goa and beyond, prompting ordinary citizens to cheer and the Five Elders to condemn the group.
• The Five Elders ordered a Buster Call against the Goa Kingdom, and Sengoku instructed Garp to carry it out with Kuzan while minimizing casualties.
• Whitebeard dismissed the Holy Church’s challenge as the work of ambitious schemers, while Dragon decided to go to the East Blue to meet them.
• After reading the news, Shanks ordered his crew to sail to Foosha Village so he could see Luffy.