Recaps

Roland and Othinus activated the Blue Dream Creation Program, transforming Earth into a vast Nationwide Transmutation Circle to create a temporary powerhouse and draw the Demon Gods into an absolute battlefield. Roland then used his power to pull magnetic-field-bearing planets from across the universe toward the Solar System, setting the final confrontation in motion.

• Misaki Shokuhou reported that the Blue Dream Company had prepared the plan, and Roland reassured her that no remaining pieces could derail his endgame.
• Roland and Othinus activated the Yafei altars, causing cities, land, and living things across Earth to be swallowed as the planet's surface formed a Nationwide Transmutation Circle.
• Othinus recognized that Roland had adapted alchemical knowledge from Fullmetal Alchemist to convert Earth's energy and accelerate the Blue Dream Creation Program.
• Earth's magnetic field blazed through space, alerting planets across countless star systems and awakening an even more terrifying presence.
• Roland tilted the universe with his power and forced magnetic-field-bearing planets to fall toward the Solar System as Earth resisted beneath him.

Roland and Aiwass transformed the universe through a battle among its planets, allowing Aiwass to gain authority over a newly strengthened Physical Phase. With the plan’s initial steps complete, Roland asked Aiwass to help him cultivate.

• Roland reassured Aiwass that he could control the universe’s transformation, and she agreed to witness the destiny he was pursuing.
• Roland turned the Solar System into an arena where awakened planets battled and consumed one another before converging on Earth.
• Aiwass used Earth as a medium to divide space and time into a domain governed by physical laws, destroying most of the attacking planets.
• The surviving planets struck Earth and devastated its surface, but Aiwass absorbed their power and formed a new, stronger Earth.
• Aiwass gained the potential to become the holder of the universe’s highest authority, and Roland commanded her to help him cultivate.

Roland received Aiwass's blessing, which connected him to the universe's energy and strengthened his plans to surpass the Demon Gods and escape the Throne. Days after the universe was remade, Mikoto Misaka told Misaki Shokuhou that Othinus had suddenly vanished.

• Aiwass connected Roland to the energy of the universe and bestowed a blessing meant to help him ascend the true Throne.
• Roland considered using his new power to destroy the Angel of Heaven of Heavens who had trapped him on the Throne.
• Aiwass merged with Roland, urging him to become a benevolent king who could bring salvation and happiness to everyone.
• Misaki Shokuhou struggled with the workload and chaos caused by the transformed New Earth and sun.
• Mikoto Misaka visited Misaki and revealed that Othinus had swung her spear and disappeared without explanation.

Misaki Shokuhou and Mikoto Misaka discovered that the Demon Gods had arrived and launched a global attack, prompting the Blue Dream Company to mobilize its forces. As the battle spread, Nephthys and Niangniang met Laura, who offered to join them in pursuing her own wish and fulfilling the Contract.

• Misaki Shokuhou concluded that the Demon Gods had arrived, ordered a worldwide alert, and sent Mikoto Misaka to gather the troops.
• An Earth Giant emerged through a fissure, and Mikoto Misaka reported that Judgment and Anti-Skill were assembling.
• Misaki Shokuhou dispatched Accelerator, who destroyed the Earth Giant with his black wings as a spiky-haired boy rushed after him.
• Multiple alarms informed Misaki Shokuhou of disasters in other regions, and she began coordinating further responses.
• Nephthys and Niangniang watched their forces destroy a Yafei, then discussed their interest in Britain and the world's preparations against them.
• Laura appeared and told Nephthys and Niangniang she would ally with them to pursue her wish and fulfill the Contract, prompting Nephthys to identify her as the Silver Star.

Misaki Shokuhou and Accelerator defended Academy City from a giant Earth monster, only for the Demon God Bishop to reveal himself as the attacker. Meanwhile, Roland returned from his transformation and resolved to celebrate by killing a Demon God.

• Misaki Shokuhou recognized that the Earth Giant threatened Academy City and ordered the Misaka Network and Index Librorum Prohibitorum to assist Accelerator.
• Accelerator analyzed the giant’s magic, adapted to its earth-manipulating power, and tore it apart while Kamijou Touma watched.
• Misaki Shokuhou noticed that the other Demon Gods had left no clear traces, then Bishop appeared and claimed responsibility for the attack.
• Bishop told Misaki Shokuhou that the Demon Gods’ victory was already decided after their descent into the lower world.
• Roland awoke after taking another step toward becoming a Magnetic Field Demon God and announced that he would kill a Demon God to celebrate.

Misaki Shokuhou and the others confronted the High Priest, a Demon God who wanted to test the world and offer them a chance to correct it. After the High Priest attacked them and dismissed their chances of victory, Roland arrived and struck him.

• Misaki Shokuhou recognized the High Priest as a sokushinbutsu Demon God whose achievement had been denied, leaving him uncertain about his purpose and willing to test the world.
• The High Priest invited Misaki Shokuhou and the others to correct the world, but Kamijou Touma and Accelerator refused and prepared to fight him.
• The High Priest sent an earthen hand at Accelerator, whose attack was overwhelmed despite his analysis of the technique.
• Misaki Shokuhou challenged the High Priest's empty promises and argued that Roland's group would keep pursuing its goals despite the odds.
• The High Priest attacked Misaki Shokuhou, but Roland appeared and struck him, making his head spin as he mocked the Demon God's lack of self-awareness.

Roland returned to face Bishop after absorbing Aiwass's power, and he declared complete confidence in winning the war. Bishop denied fearing death, but Roland exposed his fear before the two Demon Gods began fighting.

• A tornado and Roland's blessing strengthened Kanzaki Kaori and the others as they recognized his return.
• Roland rescued Misaki Shokuhou, received her battle data, and told her he was completely confident he would win.
• Bishop repaired his twisted neck and challenged Roland, insisting that a Demon God could not truly be killed.
• Roland pointed out that Bishop was sweating, and Bishop angrily claimed it was rain before attacking with a gigantic concrete hand.
• Roland's Scarlet Crystal Facets filled the sky, and primordial light poured through them as Bishop looked up in alarm.

Roland overwhelmed Bishop, who used the power of the six paths to create a defensive domain and endure the fight until the other Demon Gods arrived. Roland shattered Bishop’s domain with a blow that pierced his chest, leaving his fate unclear.

• Bishop realized Roland could wield Demon God power without disturbing the world and concluded he could not win.
• Bishop unleashed his full power, transformed Academy City into a space of the six paths, and focused on surviving until the other Demon Gods came.
• Roland recognized Bishop’s desperate strategy and praised his resolve before attacking his domain.
• Roland split Bishop’s space of authority with a punch and explained that his finite defense could not withstand a universe-killing blow.
• Roland’s God-Slaying Punch pierced Bishop’s chest and left the Demon God hanging from his arm.

Roland killed Bishop with the Godslaying Strike, but the attack’s aftershock began tearing the world apart. Niangniang and the other Demon Gods arrived, repaired the damage, and surprised Roland with an invitation.

• Roland’s Godslaying Strike destroyed Bishop, who found peace in his final moments and asked Roland to convey his apology to Aleister.
• The strike’s aftershock cracked the sky and shattered Academy City’s protective Barrier, and Roland restrained Misaki Shokuhou while the world began to break apart.
• Niangniang arrived and used her treasures to repair the fissures, then told Roland that the other Demon Gods had gathered nearby.
• The Demon Gods assembled around Roland, and a bandage-covered woman leaned against him and asked, “Wanna do it?”

Roland surveyed the assembled Demon Gods as Nephthys offered terms to avoid war: they would leave his freedom and the people he cared about untouched if he transformed the world into a framework that could contain them. Although Roland agreed that the offer was attractive, he rejected it and declared that he would take the world by defeating them all.

• Roland identified the Demon Gods gathered around him, including Nuada, Niangniang, and Nephthys.
• Nephthys flirted with Roland, then explained that Bishop’s death had removed an obstacle to negotiating with Gremlin.
• Nephthys offered to let Roland leave with everything he had built in exchange for helping the Demon Gods transform the world into a realm that could accommodate their power.
• Roland said he had no objections to the terms in principle, but refused them.
• Roland declared that he would claim the world by finishing off all the Demon Gods.

Roland rejected Nephthys’s proposal to share power and declared that battle would decide who claimed the world. As Gremlin’s Demon Gods launched their assault and Chimera and Proserpina froze the Present World to constrain him, Roland summoned a trillion-degree fireball.

• Nephthys offered Roland a compromise, but he refused to trade for what he considered his own and challenged the gathered Demon Gods to take it by force.
• Nuada attacked with a gigantic die of white beetles, which Roland’s protective flames burned to ash.
• Nephthys declared negotiations over and ordered the Magic God Army to advance.
• Roland spotted Chimera and Proserpina suppressing the world from outside, limiting his ability to unleash his full power without triggering greater destruction.
• Roland chanted a Word Spirit and summoned a blazing, trillion-degree fireball from beyond the heavens.

Roland held off the Demon Gods as they attacked with their signature powers, but a sudden assault from the Cthulhu Mythos briefly disrupted his mind. The Demon Gods coordinated their attacks and engulfed him, leaving the battle at a critical turning point.

• Roland used the White Horse's golden flames to weaken the effects of the Demon Gods' attacks and reshape the battlefield.
• Tezcatlipoca hurled his Spear of Heaven at Roland, who stopped it with his hand and redirected it to blast Nuada away.
• Niangniang attacked Roland with her Baobei and chainswords, but Roland countered her weapons, punched her away, and kicked Nephthys aside.
• Tezcatlipoca and the Demon God with the gleaming silver arm coordinated their attacks while protecting Niangniang and Nephthys from the shock waves.
• The black matchstick-man silhouette appeared in front of Roland and attacked his mind with the Cthulhu Mythos, briefly making him stiffen.
• The Demon Gods combined their powers and engulfed Roland in a coordinated all-out attack.

Nephthys and the other Demon Gods attacked Roland in a coordinated attempt to wound him and alter the world’s Phase, but Roland countered their assault with the Holy Right. The chapter ends with him overpowering Nephthys’s Phase change and demanding that the Demon Gods submit to his truth.

• Nephthys used Tears of Dissemination to amplify Roland’s power and destabilize his Heart Light, while the forgotten Cthulhu Demon God entangled him in a mental clash.
• Tezcatlipoca and Nuada attacked Roland with the Spear of Heaven and the Silver Arm, but he caught both weapons in his hands.
• Roland manifested the Holy Right and shattered the forgotten Old God, sweeping Tezcatlipoca and Nuada away with its power.
• Niangniang sacrificed herself to wound Roland and drank his blood, while Nephthys prepared to use her remaining power to change Phases.
• Nephthys began inserting a new Phase into the world, but Roland overrode it with another Phase and declared that the Demon Gods should submit to his truth.

Roland altered Nephthys’s inserted Phase while the Demon Gods tried to keep him occupied, then revealed that he had completed a formula for victory. He destroyed their combined attack with a single punch and killed the Demon God of the Cthulhu Phase.

• Roland forced his Phase into Nephthys’s world and modified it while the other Demon Gods attacked him.
• Nephthys said her Phase had blended with Roland’s, but she could not tell what he had changed; Niangniang also admitted that Roland’s blood had left her feeling strangely secure.
• Roland emerged from the dust healed and declared that the formula for victory was complete.
• Tezcatlipoca and the other Demon Gods launched a coordinated attack, but Roland struck it with an ordinary punch.
• Roland shattered the combined attack and killed the Demon God of the Cthulhu Phase instantly.

Roland erased the Cthulhu Demon God and overwhelmed Tezcatlipoca, leaving the Demon Gods terrified and confused about his power. He explained that he had been waiting for the right conditions to fully digest the {Complete Formula Solver}, though the world had not yet been destroyed.

• Roland erased the Cthulhu Demon God with an attack that left no damage in the outside world, and the surviving Demon Gods shifted to defensive stances.
• Roland beckoned the Demon Gods to attack together, and Tezcatlipoca answered by fully manifesting his dark, fate-bound form.
• Roland stopped time, seized Tezcatlipoca by the head, and rendered his power ineffective while the other Demon Gods could neither see nor act.
• Niangniang explained that she had briefly regained her sight in the darkness and seen Roland use gravity to pull Tezcatlipoca toward him.
• Roland told Nephthys that he had not used the power of a complete Demon God and explained how his ability to modify phases differed from the weakened Demon Gods’ powers.
• Roland revealed that he had been waiting for the conditions to align so he could fully digest the fruit called {Complete Formula Solver}.

Roland revealed that he had become a Complete Formula Solver who could analyze and manipulate the formulas behind the universe and the Demon Gods. After explaining how he used the Demon Gods’ own plans and Zombie’s Infinite Mirror Magic Formula to secure his advantage, he watched them flee and unleash attacks to destroy the world, then offered to make a new one.

• Roland explained that his mastery of time, reality, and formulas had let him develop the Complete Formula Solver, making Demon Gods’ powers solvable data to him.
• Roland told the Demon Gods that their efforts to manipulate the universe had helped him obtain Zombie’s Infinite Mirror Magic Formula and the parameters of their internal structures.
• Nephthys realized Roland had likely defeated Zombie and could interfere with the Demon Gods’ immortality, so she ordered everyone to flee and destroy the world to buy time.
• The Demon Gods scattered beyond the horizon and unleashed attacks powerful enough to obliterate star systems and threaten humanity.
• Roland reached toward the barrage and asked whether they wanted a new world.

Roland used Ideal Exile to remove the Demon Gods from the present world, trapping them in a separate realm where they could wield their power freely. Nephthys escaped in a remnant body, but Roland found her on the moon, and she realized her instincts already made her submit to him.

• Roland absorbed Tezcatlipoca and sent Niangniang, Nuada, and the other Demon Gods into New Heaven and Earth, a separate realm built from the world's timeline.
• Niangniang understood the realm as a liberating refuge before her body vanished, and Roland declared his preparations complete as the disaster ended.
• Nephthys used a remnant of her body to escape, concealed herself, and fled toward the moon to observe Roland from a distance.
• Nephthys collided with Roland on the lunar surface, and he stroked her hair without restraining her.
• Nephthys recognized that she had submitted because her body acknowledged Roland's superior status.

Roland confronted Nephthys, who refused to submit unless he proved that resistance was useless, and discovered her contingency was already unfolding. Laura Stuart revealed herself as Coronzon and mortally wounded Aleister with the Damocles sword, declaring that the old era's powers were now challengers.

• Roland explained how he had anticipated Nephthys's movements and asked whether she still wanted to fight.
• Nephthys said she admired Roland and might serve him, but only if he forced her to accept that resistance was futile.
• Nephthys revealed that she had a contingency beyond Gremlin's plan, and Roland deduced that a disaster had already begun below.
• Roland and Nephthys saw Aleister hanging in the damaged Windowless Building with the Damocles sword piercing his chest.
• Laura Stuart explained that the sword had destroyed Aleister's heart and revealed herself as Coronzon.
• Coronzon declared that her Contract had ended and that Aleister and the Demon Gods were challengers to the new era.

Nephthys explained how Laura had betrayed Roland to fulfill Coronzon’s Contract by killing Aleister, but Aleister survived by revealing that he had sealed countless possibilities within himself. As Laura moved to finish him, Aleister’s body recovered and manifested a strange power called the Asura Immortality Art, while Roland revealed that the apparent reversal had also been anticipated.

• Nephthys told Roland that Laura had switched sides after sensing Aleister’s return and had helped bring about his death to fulfill Coronzon’s Contract.
• Aleister revealed that he had sealed 1,083,092,817 possible futures within himself and that a silver-haired version of him was ready to fight Coronzon again.
• Roland dismissed Nephthys’s confidence as a desperate gamble and revealed that he had anticipated the betrayal through contingency plans with Aleister.
• Laura rushed toward Aleister’s original body to kill him, but his heart reappeared and his strength returned.
• Aleister named the power gathering on his forehead the Magnetic Field Rotation · Asura Immortality Art.

Aleister regenerated from Laura’s attacks through the Asura Immortality Art and resolved to fight his final battle against Coronzon. He left Laura’s ultimate strike crumbling his body, but caught the forbidden sword and seized her hand, taking control of the fight.

• Aleister revealed that he had regenerated his heart using the Asura Immortality Art, while his silver-haired possibility mocked Laura and explained his embrace of magnetic field power.
• Laura unleashed Divine Authority Confusion and a storm of golden hair weapons, repeatedly destroying Aleister’s body, but he regenerated almost instantly.
• Aleister reasoned that Roland’s absence must be part of a larger plan and committed himself to fighting Coronzon for the world, his ideals, his daughter, and his allies.
• Laura summoned the Path of the Flame Sword and pierced Aleister with its higher-dimensional blade, which could sever even the Target Key.
• Aleister reached through his disintegrating body, caught the forbidden sword, seized Laura’s hand, and declared that he was taking charge.

Aleister used his and Laura’s shared Abyss-summoning magic to trap them in a reverse ritual, then launched the Windowless Building into space to reach a new realm. The journey brought them to the Golden Throne, where they encountered Roland.

• Laura’s Flame Sword pierced Aleister while her hair restrained him, and she dismissed his resistance as futile.
• Aleister summoned three rubies and used their shared magic to begin a reverse summoning that pulled both him and Laura toward the Abyss.
• Laura warned that her flesh-and-blood body would resist the ritual, but Aleister revealed he had prepared a hidden spaceship inside the Windowless Building.
• The building launched into space, and Aleister used black-hole power and the ritual to divert their journey into another realm.
• Aleister said he was returning his soul to the Golden Throne, where Laura saw Roland beside the throne’s master.

Roland revealed that he had maneuvered Coronzon into serving as his guide for another ascent through the Abyss, and Laura tried to destroy herself and Aleister rather than submit to him. Roland summoned Sajyou Manaka, who helped subdue Laura and declared herself Roland’s mother, leaving Laura furious and disbelieving.

• Roland explained that he had monitored and manipulated Laura so he could use Coronzon as a ticket to conquer the Abyss again.
• Laura realized Roland had never regarded her as an equal and vowed to destroy herself along with Aleister rather than become his slave.
• Roland reminded Laura that his All the World's Evil was not merely nourishment and summoned Sajyou Manaka from within her hair.
• Sajyou Manaka’s Dragon shadow began eroding Laura, and she identified herself as a girl in love who instinctively helped Roland.
• Sajyou Manaka called herself Roland’s mother, prompting Laura to accuse him of being a womanizer, while Roland insisted theirs was pure love.

Roland explained that he had arranged for Aleister to die so he could use Aleister’s remaining possibilities and Laura’s value together to fulfill his plans. He revealed that he intended to awaken from the dream sustaining the world and confront the Angel of Heaven of Heavens, then asked Aleister to link the fire in his place.

• Roland confirmed that Aleister had died and explained that he had treated Aleister’s life as an asset whose possibilities could be used after death.
• Laura realized that Roland had used her grudge against Aleister to draw her into a contract and provide a buffer for Aleister’s continuation.
• Roland told Laura that he needed her as the Key to Awaken him from the dream that sustained the world.
• Roland revealed that he planned to confront the Angel of Heaven of Heavens and needed allies among higher-dimensional beings and another source of kindling.
• Roland asked Aleister to link the fire in his place, and Aleister agreed to take the field as a Lord of Cinder.

Roland used Aleister’s possibilities to link the fire and escape the Golden Throne without waking the Serpent of the Sixth Heaven, then announced his resurrection. In Academy City, the girl who had inherited Aleister’s name learned the world had at least a day left and watched over Lilith Crowley as they awaited Roland.

• Sajyou Manaka and Laura prepared Aleister to become a Lord of Cinder, and Aleister charged toward the Golden Throne as fuel for the Flame of Possibility.
• Aleister reached close enough to touch Roland’s fingertips, then burned away as Roland rose from the Throne and crossed the flames unharmed.
• Roland’s return began merging the Infinite Temple of Time with the fractured world, while the Serpent’s Phantom beneath the Throne remained unresponsive.
• Aleister, Kihara Noukan, and Heaven Canceller discussed the world’s remaining time and the plan to have Roland deliver Lilith Crowley.
• The girl who had inherited Aleister’s name looked at Lilith Crowley’s nameplate beside the cradle.

Roland held the resurrected Lilith in a steel garden while she struggled to accept that Aleister, her father, had become a woman. Lilith realized the garden was the embryonic form of Roland’s plan to imitate a vast cosmic structure and prepare for the threat endangering the world.

• Aleister warned Roland not to make Lilith admire him, while Lilith angrily rebuked Aleister for becoming a woman and struck him with her bottle.
• Lilith explained how Aiwass had preserved her existence and how Roland had given her a physical body, allowing Aleister to regain his daughter.
• Roland told Lilith that Aleister’s freedom to build her paradise served their larger plan and that the time bought by his work would help them prepare for the world-ending threat.
• Lilith tried to use her Spirituality against Aleister, but the steel garden instinctively blocked her miracle.
• Lilith recognized that the garden’s arrangement resembled a galaxy or universe and concluded that it was the embryonic form of Roland’s “Little Garden.”