Chapter Summaries

Origami Tobiichi became a Spirit and fought Tohka Yatogami, refusing to abandon her mission to eliminate all Spirits. Lin Guang stopped their clash, and Origami fled; he then reassured Tohka and went with her and Yoshino to check on the injured Spirits.

• Origami Tobiichi transformed into a Spirit and attacked Tohka Yatogami with Metatron, declaring that she would eliminate every Spirit and then herself.
• Lin Guang sent Shido Itsuka and Natsumi Kyouno to find the injured Kaguya Yamai, Yuzuru, and Miku Izayoi while he and Yoshino hurried toward Tohka and Origami.
• Tohka Yatogami and Origami Tobiichi prepared to unleash their strongest attacks, but Lin Guang appeared between them and stopped the fight.
• Origami Tobiichi withdrew her power and flew away, and Lin Guang promised Tohka Yatogami that he would bring back the Origami they knew.
• Lin Guang healed and resealed Tohka Yatogami's spirit power with a kiss, then took Tohka and Yoshino to the school's Nurse's Office after Shido found the injured Spirits.

At Raizen High School, Lin Guang reassured Shido Itsuka about Origami Tobiichi and later watched as she asked Kurumi Tokisaki to send her five years into the past. Kurumi agreed to use the Bullet of the Twelve, and Lin Guang began gathering the Time Stone and Space Stone powers as Origami vanished.

• Natsumi Kyouno recovered after using much of her power to treat the injured Yamai Sisters and Miku Izayoi.
• Lin Guang returned to the nurse’s office, confirmed Origami Tobiichi’s situation to Shido Itsuka, and secretly located her using his power.
• Origami Tobiichi found Kurumi Tokisaki and asked her to send her back to August third, five years earlier, so she could prevent her parents’ deaths.
• Kurumi Tokisaki agreed to test the Bullet of the Twelve on Origami and fired it, causing Origami to disappear.
• At the hospital, Lin Guang watched the encounter and began gathering the Time Stone and Space Stone powers, hoping to reach five years into the past in time.

Origami Tobiichi traveled five years into the past and attacked [Phantom], believing she had found the person who killed her parents. After [Phantom] vanished, Origami thought she had avenged them, but Lin Guang appeared beside the wreckage and a fallen girl, leaving her confronted with a shocking scene.

• Origami Tobiichi arrived in Tengu City five years earlier and saw Kotori Itsuka and Shido Itsuka during a Spacequake.
• Origami found [Phantom] and repeatedly attacked her with [Extinction Angel], but [Phantom] dodged and said she had never attacked Origami’s parents.
• Origami trapped [Phantom] in a cage of light and unleashed a powerful blast, but [Phantom] escaped and began to dissipate after saying she had achieved her objective.
• Origami struck [Phantom] with another beam and believed she had avenged her parents when [Phantom] vanished.
• A new Spacequake alarm sounded, and Lin Guang emerged from an alley beside the destroyed road and a white-haired little girl lying on the ground.

After witnessing the truth about her parents’ deaths, young Origami Tobiichi found comfort in Lin Guang before he returned to the future. There, the moon turned black as Origami underwent inversion, and Lin Guang’s allies prepared to attack DEM Industries across Tengu City.

• Young Origami Tobiichi realized that her future self had killed her parents, and Kurumi Tokisaki’s time limit sent the future Origami back to the present.
• Lin Guang rescued the devastated young Origami from a falling building and promised she could trust and rely on him.
• Young Origami vowed to leave her sorrow and happiness with Lin Guang while keeping her anger until she killed the Angel, then walked away.
• Lin Guang returned to the future, while Kurumi Tokisaki watched a black fissure spread across the moon.
• Lin Guang warned the women in Tengu City that Origami had undergone inversion and ordered them to prepare for battle while avoiding civilians and intercepting DEM Industries.
• Arisa Shūkyōin took command aboard the Fatebreaker as the women deployed their Endlave Robots, and inverted Origami appeared in a blue-black gown with a black Crown.

Origami Tobiichi fell into her Inverse form and attacked Tengu City, prompting Lin Guang to protect the others and confront her. As DEM arrived to capture Origami, Jessica Beli and Artemisia Bell Ashcroft clashed with Lin Guang’s Endlave Robots while Ellen flew toward him.

• Origami Tobiichi’s dark feathers destroyed the hospital, but Lin Guang used the Space Stone to evacuate the injured and medical staff.
• Lin Guang explained Origami’s Inverse form to Shido Itsuka and the Spirits, then shielded them from her black rays.
• Lin Guang told Tohka Yatogami and Shido to handle DEM’s arrival and gave them the code ZS-7D for Ellen before going to confront Origami alone.
• Jessica Beli ignored Ellen’s orders and charged Origami, but Lin Guang’s 3,500 Endlave Robots blocked her and DEM’s Wizard Unit.
• Ellen flew toward Origami while Artemisia Bell Ashcroft and Jessica attacked the Endlave Robots, triggering a battle between DEM and Lin Guang’s forces.
• Tohka saw Ellen heading toward Lin Guang and shouted that she would stop her.

Ellen received Lin Guang’s code to initiate the Decapitation Plan and headed back to DEM’s tower to target Westcott, while Nia Honjo and Mukuro Hoshimiya went to find Kurumi Tokisaki. Lin Guang entered Origami Tobiichi’s mental space and reached her, helping her break free of its darkness.

• DEM Wizards and [Beast] Robot units blocked Tohka Yatogami and the others from reaching Ellen.
• Mukuro Hoshimiya delivered Lin Guang’s code, [ZS-7D], and Ellen returned to DEM’s tower to carry out the Decapitation Plan against Westcott.
• Nia Honjo used [Rataibako] to locate Kurumi Tokisaki, and Mukuro Hoshimiya took her to the top floor of a company building.
• Lin Guang entered Origami Tobiichi’s mental space and found her despairing in its darkness.
• Lin Guang reassured Origami Tobiichi, and the darkness shattered as she took his hand.

Lin Guang sealed Origami Tobiichi after helping her accept the consequences of her past, then revealed his forces and offered Kurumi Tokisaki a wager about the First Spirit. Kurumi accepted the contest, which would decide whether Lin Guang shared what he knew or sealed her.

• Origami Tobiichi thanked Lin Guang for stopping her from making another irreversible mistake, and he comforted her as she cried.
• Lin Guang kissed Origami Tobiichi and sealed her, then covered her with his clothes and promised to stay by her side.
• An Endlave Robot reported that Sa.vior had defeated DEM's Wizard Unit, captured its captains, and that Jessica Beli had died when her equipment exceeded its limit.
• Lin Guang explained Sa.vior's remotely operated robots to Origami Tobiichi, settled her aboard the Fatebreaker, and returned to Tengu City.
• Lin Guang told Kurumi Tokisaki that he knew about her past actions and had encountered the First Spirit, then proposed a contest with their secrets and her sealing at stake.
• Kurumi Tokisaki accepted Lin Guang's wager because she wanted the opportunity to learn about the First Spirit and obtain Spirit Power.

Lin Guang brought Nia Honjo and Mukuro Hoshimiya to meet Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, where he restored Ellen’s memories and revealed his spatial power. Westcott recognized Lin Guang as a potential rival to Mio Takamiya and asked what he wanted.

• Nia Honjo asked Lin Guang why he had not sealed Kurumi Tokisaki, and Lin Guang said their encounter had a purpose and that he wanted the First Spirit to see it.
• Kotori Itsuka watched footage of Lin Guang with Sa.vior’s robots and wondered how he was connected to the organization.
• Lin Guang, Nia Honjo, and Mukuro Hoshimiya confronted Westcott, while Ellen held a Light Sword to his neck.
• Lin Guang restored Ellen’s memories, and Mukuro Hoshimiya aimed [Michael] at her as she realized she had betrayed DEM Industries.
• Lin Guang demonstrated his spatial power to Westcott, who compared him to Mio Takamiya and asked about his objective.

Lin Guang confronted Westcott and revealed that he knew the truth about Mio Takamiya and Westcott’s past, then declared he would destroy DEM Industries and kill him. Westcott activated his powerful Tactical Realizer, but Lin Guang and Nia Honjo were unharmed, and Lin Guang summoned Susanoo.

• Lin Guang told Westcott he knew Westcott had founded DEM Industries to steal the First Spirit’s power and had killed Shinji Takamiya in front of Mio.
• Lin Guang announced that DEM Industries would cease to exist and that Westcott would disappear from the world.
• Ellen attacked Mukuro Hoshimiya, who opened a spatial wormhole and drew Ellen away to fight above Tengu City.
• Westcott revealed a nameplate engraved with [Zeus] and transformed into a high-grade Tactical Realizer.
• Westcott’s Thunder ray blasted apart part of the building’s top floor, but Lin Guang’s barrier protected him and Nia Honjo.
• Lin Guang dismissed Westcott’s attack and summoned Majestic attire: Susanoo.

Lin Guang and Nia Honjo defeated Westcott, who was left pinned and half-dead as Mukuro Hoshimiya brought the captured Ellen to them. Lin Guang silenced Ellen and turned to speak with Westcott.

• Lin Guang unleashed his icy armor, cut Westcott's spear and left arm, then split apart Westcott's lightning attack.
• Westcott tried to flee, but Lin Guang severed his right arm and Nia Honjo pierced his abdomen with a spear drawn from [Rataibako].
• Lin Guang opened a spatial portal and found Westcott pinned by Nia Honjo's spear.
• Mukuro Hoshimiya arrived with Ellen tied up after disabling her Tactical Realizers, and Lin Guang praised her.
• Ellen demanded to know what Lin Guang had done to Westcott, but he silenced her and prepared to speak with Westcott.

Lin Guang killed Isaac Ray Peram Westcott, erased Ellen Mira Mathers’s memories, and led the destruction and takeover of DEM Industries. Reine Murasame worried about his ability to seal Spirits and resolved to find the last child, while Kurumi Tokisaki chose to honor her agreement with Lin Guang instead of attacking Ellen.

• Lin Guang killed Isaac Ray Peram Westcott after Westcott asked whether Lin Guang had prevented his success.
• Lin Guang explained DEM Industries’ history to Ellen Mira Mathers, blamed her for helping Westcott, and erased her memories before sending Westcott’s body into space.
• Arisa Shūkyōin reported that the women had destroyed DEM Industries’ armed forces and that she was arranging to acquire the company.
• Reine Murasame found DEM Industries devastated, worried that Lin Guang could forcibly seal Spirits, and decided to visit the last child.
• Kurumi Tokisaki declined her clone’s suggestion to kill Ellen because she had made an agreement with Lin Guang.

Kurumi Tokisaki visited Lin Guang at the Itsuka household, where they shared breakfast and seemed to have reached an understanding. Lin Guang then took her to see a gathering of neighborhood cats while Kotori Itsuka and Reine Murasame monitored them from Fraxinus.

• Kurumi Tokisaki arrived at the Itsuka household, and Lin Guang invited her to join him, Shido Itsuka, and Kotori Itsuka for breakfast.
• Kurumi Tokisaki praised Lin Guang's cooking, while Shido Itsuka and Kotori Itsuka watched her and left soon after finishing their meal.
• Kotori Itsuka returned to Fraxinus and told Reine Murasame about Kurumi Tokisaki's visit; they agreed to monitor Kurumi Tokisaki and Lin Guang.
• Lin Guang took Kurumi Tokisaki outside to a stairway where more than a dozen neighborhood cats had gathered, and she tried to hide how much she liked them.

Lin Guang spent the day with Kurumi Tokisaki, who agreed to meet him again on Christmas. After returning home, Lin Guang told Kotori Itsuka and Shido Itsuka that he had founded the Sa.vior Organization, leaving them stunned.

• Lin Guang and Kurumi Tokisaki visited a cat-filled spot, where the kittens crowded around Lin Guang and he teased Kurumi Tokisaki by licking her palm.
• Lin Guang and Kurumi Tokisaki spent the rest of the day revisiting places and visiting shops, then watched the sunset together.
• Kurumi Tokisaki arranged to meet Lin Guang again on Christmas before they parted ways for the evening.
• Kotori Itsuka asked Lin Guang why Kurumi Tokisaki had appeared and whether they had an agreement, explaining that she wanted him to be honest as family.
• Lin Guang told Kotori Itsuka and Shido Itsuka that he had founded the Sa.vior Organization, and both were shocked.

Lin Guang revealed that he created Sa.vior to help Spirits and asked Kotori Itsuka to arrange a meeting with Reine Murasame. Reine agreed to meet him at a café, where she arrived the next day as Lin Guang considered whether he could Seal her.

• Lin Guang told Shido Itsuka and Kotori Itsuka that he founded Sa.vior after Kurumi Tokisaki appeared, and Nia Honjo explained the Spirits and the First Spirit to them.
• Kotori Itsuka contacted Reine Murasame, who agreed to meet Lin Guang at XX Café the next afternoon.
• After the call, Reine Murasame reflected on her plan to revive someone and held her patched teddy bear.
• The next morning, Kotori passed Reine's meeting time and place to Lin Guang, who suspected Kotori had said something more and hoped he might Seal Reine.
• Lin Guang waited at the café, and Reine arrived and sat across from him.

Lin Guang met Reine Murasame, revealed that he knew she was Mio Takamiya and had uncovered her plan to approach Kurumi and kill him. He challenged Reine to a contest and urged her to reconsider resurrecting Shinji Takamiya through the deaths of so many people, leaving her stunned in the café.

• Lin Guang met Reine Murasame at a café, where she rejected the idea that she might fall for him and revealed that she already loved someone.
• Lin Guang hinted that he knew about her identity and her suspicions about his ability to Seal Spirits, while Reine probed him with Spirit Power without effect.
• Lin Guang called her Mio Takamiya and exposed her plan to approach Kurumi, pretend to be captured, then kill him and reclaim the Spirit Crystals.
• Lin Guang explained that he had hidden their conversation from the café’s other patrons with an Illusion Array, then proposed that he and Reine hold a contest to make each other fall in love.
• Lin Guang asked whether Shinji Takamiya would forgive Reine for killing so many people to resurrect him, then left the café as Reine sat stunned.

Lin Guang returned to the [Fatebreaker] and learned that the captured blue-haired DEM operative was Mana Takamiya, Shido Itsuka’s biological younger sister. He introduced himself to Mana as the Sa.vior Organization’s founder and the ship’s owner, then began to ask her something.

• Arisa Shūkyōin told Lin Guang that DEM Industries was nearing collapse after its Tactical Realizer development facilities worldwide had been destroyed.
• Arisa identified a captured blue-haired girl as Mana Takamiya and showed Lin Guang a photograph of a pocket watch linking her to Shido Itsuka.
• Lin Guang reassured Arisa that she could act spoiled around him, then entered Mana’s room.
• Mana was shocked to see Lin Guang and questioned his connection to the Sa.vior Organization.
• Lin Guang explained that he was Shido and Kotori’s adoptive older brother, the Sa.vior Organization’s founder, and the true owner of the Space Battleship.
• Lin Guang told Mana that DEM and Westcott would have been destroyed regardless, then said he wanted to ask her something.

Mana Takamiya recounted what happened after Kurumi disappeared and, with DEM Industries collapsing, accepted Lin Guang’s suggestion to join Ratatoskr and spend time with Shido. Lin Guang then visited Artemisia and asked which memories she wanted to keep before they were erased.

• Mana Takamiya told Lin Guang that Kurumi had injured her, and she later joined the operation after Origami Tobiichi became an Inverse Spirit.
• Mana Takamiya said she had no plans after DEM Industries fell, and Lin Guang suggested she join Kotori’s Ratatoskr organization to be with Shido Itsuka.
• Lin Guang released Mana Takamiya from confinement and arranged for someone to escort her out.
• Lin Guang visited Artemisia, who asked whether he had come to erase her memories.
• Lin Guang offered to preserve memories of people Artemisia chose, and she named Ashley Sinclair, Leonora Hales, Cecilia O'Brien, Mikie Okamine, and Origami Tobiichi.

After returning from the Fatebreaker, Lin Guang reassured Kotori Itsuka and the others about his competition with Kurumi Tokisaki, whose next date with him was set for Christmas. Reine Murasame had already made her choice about resurrecting Shinji Takamiya, while Nia Honjo privately persuaded Tohka Yatogami to agree to something.

• Lin Guang returned home, where Kotori Itsuka pretended to be upset with him until Reine Murasame and the others arrived.
• Kotori warned everyone that Kurumi Tokisaki might attack Lin Guang, but Lin Guang trusted Kurumi to honor their competition, and Kotori agreed to take precautions.
• Lin Guang told Kotori that he and Kurumi would meet again at Christmas, prompting Nia Honjo to suggest Kurumi planned a decisive date.
• Lin Guang refused Kotori's offer to train him, and the group laughed as Kotori tussled with Tohka Yatogami.
• Lin Guang noticed Reine Murasame looked unchanged, while Reine had already made her choice about resurrecting Shinji Takamiya.
• After the others went home, Nia Honjo went with Tohka Yatogami, who eventually agreed to something Nia had proposed.

Tohka Yatogami sneaked into Lin Guang’s room on Nia Honjo’s encouragement, but Lin Guang turned the situation around and spent the morning with her. Afterward, Tohka woke with her Astral Dress briefly shifting between its normal and inverse forms, while Nia covered for Lin Guang downstairs.

• Nia Honjo shut Tohka Yatogami inside Lin Guang’s room and left, hoping she would complete the organization’s mission.
• Lin Guang woke to find Tohka on top of him, and she bashfully repeated the words Nia had taught her.
• Lin Guang reversed their positions and asked Tohka who had taught her what to say.
• Shido Itsuka found Nia Honjo bringing breakfast and heard that Lin Guang was away checking new research parameters.
• Lin Guang stayed beside the sleeping Tohka as her Astral Dress shifted between its normal and inverse forms, then comforted her when she woke.

Lin Guang and Kurumi Tokisaki spent Christmas together, and Kurumi asked whether he would accept her despite her past sins. As Lin Guang promised to stay with her, Mio Takamiya emerged from Kurumi’s shadow and attacked, but Lin Guang caught her hand.

• Tohka Yatogami recalled her intimate morning with Lin Guang, and Lin Guang later waited for Kurumi Tokisaki at the mall on Christmas.
• Lin Guang took Kurumi Tokisaki to a pet shop, dressed as Santa Claus, and bought the black kitten she had chosen.
• Lin Guang and Kurumi Tokisaki visited several places and watched a movie together while he suspected Mio Takamiya was involved in Kurumi’s path.
• As snow fell, Kurumi asked Lin Guang whether he would accept her despite her sins, and he promised to stay with her until they disappeared.
• Mio Takamiya emerged from Kurumi’s shadow and tried to stab her, but Lin Guang caught Mio’s hand.