Chapter Summaries

Lairak explained that she and the others had killed a dragon to restore the timeline after Linde regained his magic, and invited Yogg to help preserve history. Meanwhile, Lin Ye reached the Nine Provinces Continent, gave Flowey a fragment of his soul, and headed with him toward Ji City.

• Lairak led Yogg to Number 1296, who explained that Linde's return to magic had shifted history and that the group killed a dragon to correct the timeline.
• Number 1296 invited Yogg to join the effort to preserve the true timeline and achieve a perfect ending.
• Linde continued his peaceful life teaching and studying at school while Lin Ye traveled through a forest toward the Nine Provinces Continent.
• Lin Ye reached the continent and confronted Flowey, who had mistaken him for Linde.
• Lin Ye gave Flowey a fragment of his soul, causing golden flowers to bloom and letting Lin Ye control him.
• Flowey climbed onto Lin Ye's arm as Lin Ye walked toward Ji City, the capital of the Yan Kingdom.

Lin Ye and Flowey visited the Yan Kingdom’s capital, where a misunderstanding led its people to treat Flowey as a Monster Immortal. After Duke Zhao of Yan entertained them, they overheard nobles discussing a victory over Qin, while conspirators planned to carry out a scheme the next day.

• Lin Ye teased Flowey into tasting salty pickled vegetables outside Ji City’s gate.
• Duke Zhao of Yan’s guards aimed their crossbows at Flowey, but a scholar called him a Monster Immortal from the Ancient clan and calmed them.
• Lin Ye used the Wisdom Soul Reaction Formula to help Flowey learn Chinese, then declined Duke Zhao’s banquet invitation but accepted a meal at a tavern.
• At the tavern, Flowey mistook the nobles’ mention of Ma Sui for mochi and asked whether it tasted good.
• Conspirators discussed the Monster Immortal and Lin Ye, then decided to proceed with their plan the next day.

Lin Ye discovered a gigantic eye covering the sky and draining magic power, then prepared to confront it with Flowey. As Yan’s people panicked and Duke Zhao of Yan tried to keep order, Lin Ye charged toward the darkness overhead.

• After the banquet, Lin Ye pulled Flowey away from exploring the palace and warned him not to get involved in court affairs.
• Before dawn, Flowey woke Lin Ye as an enormous black curtain covered the sky and began draining Lin Ye’s magic power.
• Lin Ye used True Sight to identify the eye as an ordinary Beholder, but looked away before its overwhelming information could damage his eyes.
• Lin Ye summoned Keyboard while Flowey agreed that the crisis was interesting.
• Duke Zhao of Yan rejected a minister’s suggestion to flee and focused on directing the city as its residents panicked.
• Lin Ye leaped out of the guesthouse and charged toward the darkness as the crowd thanked the demon immortal.

Lin Ye used the upgraded Keyboard’s developer mode to destroy Demon Eye’s core, then returned to the still-open rift to finish the fight. Space-time turbulence carried him and Flowey to 1298 AD, while Linde noticed their connection had been cut.

• Lin Ye copied Flowey’s vine with the Keyboard and sent a swarm of vines against Demon Pupil, but the effort badly damaged him.
• Lin Ye merged his Soul Projection with the Keyboard, froze the sky in developer mode, and typed “Death” into Demon Eye’s core.
• Lin Ye crashed into the palace ruins, recovered with candy, and learned that the demon was not dead when he gained no LOVE.
• Lin Ye and Flowey entered the rift, where space-time turbulence swept them to 1298 AD, one year before the war between humans and monsters.
• Linde discovered that his connection to Lin Ye had cut out, then called Frisk “Mom” when she kicked open his door.

Toriel and Frisk told Carlret that they had come from the future, and Carlret accepted their story after seeing his old book. Linde worried that monsters would be wiped out in a future war, but Frisk stopped him from attempting to travel through time; meanwhile, Linde concealed a strange tremor in half of his soul and wondered what had happened to his clone.

• Beside Carlret's cabin, Ralph and a blonde girl waited for their teacher's friend to return.
• Carlret mistook Toriel for someone sent by the D-Dream Clan to make him inherit the throne, but Linde and Frisk corrected him.
• Frisk explained that she and Toriel came from nearly three thousand years in the future, and Toriel showed Carlret his old book, Monster Elemental Magic Compilation.
• Carlret accepted that they were from the future and warned that humans and monsters would eventually fight as humanity grew stronger through a new magic system.
• Linde worried that monsters would be wiped out in the future war, but Frisk reminded him not to force his way through time.
• Linde play-fought with Frisk to cover up a shudder, while wondering what had happened to his clone and why half of his soul was trembling.

During winter break, Linde and Frisk’s attempt to create blizzard-proof food with Soul Fire ended in an exploding oven, aggressive cookies, and a damaged wall. After cleaning the courtyard as punishment, the two children enjoyed the snowy night together while Toriel and Carlret watched over them.

• Linde and Frisk’s experiment sent glowing cookies flying through the kitchen, and one transformed into a chibi yeti that bit Linde.
• Carlret monitored the disaster through crystal balls and bet Toriel that Linde’s latest adjustment would destroy the east wall; the oven’s blast proved him right.
• Toriel sent Linde and Frisk to clean the courtyard, where they argued over whose idea had caused the mess and then played in the snow.
• Frisk and Linde admired the starry sky, and Frisk teased Linde with a notebook containing his chibi drawing of her.
• Toriel watched the children from the window while Carlret repaired the wall and the soul-energy cookies floated in a smiley face.

Lin Ye and Flowey landed in a medieval village where people mistook them for demons, and Lin Ye's bad luck repeatedly put him in danger. After escaping the Holy Knights, Lin Ye decided to seek safety in the Monster Kingdom, and Flowey carried him toward it.

• Lin Ye and Flowey fell into a haystack in a village, where villagers attacked them with holy water and the Judge pursued them.
• Lin Ye and Flowey hid in an abandoned monastery, but the Holy Knights soon stormed in and chased Lin Ye into a corpse vault.
• Lin Ye decided to travel to the Monster Kingdom to avoid humans wielding Determination.
• Flowey brought Lin Ye a map, then dragged him underground toward the Monster Kingdom after a pebble tripped him.

Undyne was left in charge of the monsters while Toby revealed that another person could travel through the spacetime passage. Lin Ye woke in an unfamiliar place without Flowey, sent Chara off to find a host, and met a feline monster girl before falling and hurting his tailbone again.

• Asgore entrusted Undyne with leading the monsters and hurried off to find Toriel.
• Toby told Undyne that the spacetime passage could now let one more person through, but she ran into a wall while trying to enter.
• Martlet went to tell Clover about his coffee shop but found his bedroom empty.
• Some people found Lin Ye unconscious and carried him to a shabby room, where he woke without Flowey.
• Lin Ye spotted Chara and warned her that she would dissipate without a host, so she left to find someone to possess.
• A feline monster girl approached Lin Ye, and he fell while trying to stand, injuring his tailbone again.

Lin Ye learned about the Monster Kingdom from Sallys while Chara searched the human kingdom for someone whose soul could host her. Chara found and possessed a child named Frayla, whose resemblance to herself and Frisk left her questioning the red soul bearers’ naming tradition.

• Lin Ye introduced himself to Sallys and asked her about the Monster Kingdom.
• Chara searched the human kingdom for a compatible soul and felt a powerful resonance.
• Chara discovered that the matching soul belonged to a young child who resembled her and Frisk.
• Chara possessed the child and learned that her name was Frayla.
• Chara wondered why she, Frisk, and Frayla were all girls with names that sounded masculine.

Linde met Clover in another spacetime and learned that Clover had watched events unfold while still a soul. Meanwhile, Lin Ye learned that humans threatened the Monster Kingdom and wondered whether an unseen force had sent him to pivotal moments in history; he resolved to keep moving forward.

• Clover arrived in Linde’s spacetime, introduced himself, and explained that he had seen everything while he was still a soul.
• Linde praised Clover for deliberately entering Mount Ebott and exchanged teasing looks with Frisk.
• Sallys told Lin Ye that tensions between humans and monsters had worsened and that humanity held a decisive advantage.
• Lin Ye wondered whether his arrival could change the looming War of Sealing and suspected a powerful puppeteer was directing his travels through history.
• Lin Ye decided not to let the force behind the scenes discourage him and resolved to live as he chose.

Flowey followed a familiar presence out of the Monster Kingdom and, with a talkative spider lily named Lycoris in tow, found Frayla asleep in a human town. Chara was attached to Frayla and recognized Flowey as Asriel, but he could neither see nor hear her.

• Flowey sensed something familiar that he thought might be Chara and left the Monster Kingdom to pursue it.
• Flowey met Lycoris, a spider lily who introduced herself and insisted on following him.
• Flowey tracked the growing familiar sensation to a human town and searched its houses with Lycoris.
• Flowey found Frayla asleep in bed, while Chara watched from her fragmented soul state and decided to stay with her.
• Flowey noticed how much Frayla resembled someone he knew.

Linde’s dangerous experiments left him near death after Frisk struck him to make him rest. At the boundary between life and death, another-universe version of Linde revived him and warned him to take his companions through the spatial rift to reach Lin Ye’s time and disrupt the storyline before someone succeeded.

• Linde struggled with growing unease and devoted himself to dangerous magical experiments, isolating himself from his friends.
• Frisk knocked Linde unconscious with a knife-hand strike, intending to make him rest.
• At the boundary between life and death, the Black-Robed Man told Linde that Frisk’s blow had left him near death and that he would be unconscious for seven days.
• The Black-Robed Man revealed that he was Linde from another universe and used a soul formula to restore Linde while giving him power.
• The other Linde ordered him to take his companions through the unclosed spatial rift in the Yan Kingdom, reach Lin Ye’s time and disrupt the storyline before an unnamed man succeeded.

Linde tested the students who wanted to accompany him to the rift, then used Sans’s teleportation to take the group to the Yan Kingdom. After leaving Carlret behind, Linde led the others into the closing rift, while unseen conspirators discussed how they had manipulated him into entering it.

• Linde asked Asgore to test the students, and only ten remained standing at the end.
• Linde offered Grace another chance to join the journey, and she accepted; Villar also agreed to come despite the risk to her unusual soul.
• Linde told Frisk that the passage would close in seven days and revealed that Sans would help them reach the rift above the Yan Kingdom.
• Sans teleported the group to the Yan Kingdom’s capital and fell asleep from the effort, while Carlret chose to stay behind.
• Linde led the others into the closing rift, and conspirators revealed that they had tricked him into entering it to advance their plot.

A violent space-time passage scattered Linde and his companions, while Sans teleported between them to pull them back together. When a strange light targeted Linde, he sent the others to safety and led it away through another anchor point, leaving Frisk to guide the group onward as she worried about him.

• Linde realized the space-time passage was unstable and urged everyone to hold on as turbulence scattered them.
• Sans used teleportation to retrieve the companions swept away by the turbulence.
• A streak of light pierced Frisk’s Artifact barrier and pursued Linde, who raced toward an anchor point with the group.
• Linde pushed the others through the anchor point, then drew the light after him into another one.
• Frisk took charge and led the group through an anchor point while reassuring herself that Linde would be fine.

The light entered Linde’s soul in the rift, where he appeared as the Demon Envoy and slaughtered a human army and its monster foes. He vanished when Frisk arrived, leaving her to wonder whether she had seen Linde on the mountain.

• The light caught up with Linde in the rift and plunged into his soul.
• A human army and monsters fought until a meteor struck the battlefield, revealing the white-haired Demon Envoy.
• The human commander ordered both sides to unite against the Demon Envoy, who killed them with meteors and lightning.
• The Demon Envoy destroyed the human souls gathered in the air, then prepared to attack the humans and monsters arriving through a Space-Time Rift.
• The Demon Envoy saw Frisk looking toward him and vanished, while Frisk decided to climb the mountain to investigate the figure she thought resembled Linde.

Linde repeatedly relived events from the beginning of his journey, watching himself and Frisk follow a timeline that differed from his memories. After the Great Dragon died and his LOVE rose to 13, he confronted a blurry figure who claimed they had met before and demanded an explanation.

• Linde regained control as he fell into the flowers on Mount Ebott, where Frisk landed and did not recognize him.
• Linde watched himself share a meal with Toriel and then openly meet Papyrus, while the events unfolded without the misunderstandings he remembered.
• Ye Yu arrived and died resisting the Error-Checking System after Linde and Frisk defeated him.
• The Savior and the Book of Prophecy attacked again, but Yukari Yakumo did not appear, leaving Linde without his magic.
• Linde destroyed the Soul Reaction Formula, killing the Great Dragon and raising his LOVE to 13.
• A blurry figure greeted Linde as someone they had met before, and Linde demanded that they explain what was happening.

White Chara told Linde that he was meant to join Number 0’s plan to perfect the world through repeated resets, and offered to help him carry out a false reset instead. Six months later, Chara sensed Frisk’s soul resonating while she was teaching Frayla with Flowey and Lycoris.

• Linde pulled back White Chara’s hood and demanded that she explain what was happening.
• White Chara revealed that Number 0 had restarted the world 1,295 times and planned one more reset, with each version of Linde meant to help him.
• White Chara said the Book of Prophecy had disrupted Number 0’s plan and that Linde’s clone had likely been taken over as a substitute.
• Linde questioned whether Number 0’s pursuit of a perfect world was justified, and White Chara offered to help him carry out a false reset.
• Six months later, Chara sensed Frisk’s soul while she was teaching Frayla alongside Flowey and Lycoris.

White Chara reset Linde into a falsely created Number 1296 Universe, where he met a different Frisk and learned that the Frisk he knew was still lost in space and time. Meanwhile, Lin Ye watched Toriel and Frisk discuss the war and continued searching for battlefields to grow stronger.

• Linde corrected White Chara about Number 0 obtaining a Soul Formula, prompting White Chara to use False True Reset.
• Linde awoke beside a different Frisk in the falsely created Number 1296 Universe and learned from White Chara that the Frisk he knew was still lost in space and time.
• Linde teleported outside Mount Ebott, where the universe's error-checking system attacked him until White Chara destroyed it.
• Toriel told Frisk they were in the middle of the human-monster war, while Lin Ye checked his status and resumed searching for battlefields.