Chapter Summaries

Roland interrupted Lorelei Barthomeloi’s fight with Smiley, then used Rita Rozay-en’s Rose Mystic Eyes to test Smiley’s bond with Rita. Smiley saw through Roland’s disguise and demanded to know what he had done to Rita.

• Roland tore open space, stopped Lorelei Barthomeloi and Smiley’s confrontation, and asked Lorelei to yield Smiley to him.
• Lorelei accepted Roland’s help, left to gather survivors and secure the Mystic Eyes Collection Train’s treasures, and headed back to the train.
• Smiley threatened to kill Roland if Rita had died or been captured, explaining that she and Rita had promised to kill each other rather than let anyone else do it.
• Roland revealed Rita’s Rose Mystic Eyes and took on her appearance, convincing Smiley that Rita was present.
• Smiley sensed that the figure was not truly Rita, confronted Roland, and demanded to know what he had done to her.

Roland overwhelmed Smiley by nullifying her Marble Phantasm with the world’s laws of physics, then carried her out of the water and prepared to awaken Crimson Moon Brunestud. The chapter leaves Smiley unconscious and Roland addressing the power or being within her.

• Smiley spread her water-thread web through Rita’s Rose Mystic Eyes Otherworld and used Marble Phantasm to trigger an Imaginary Number Space collapse against Roland.
• Roland appeared behind Smiley and erased the collapse and her follow-up attack, explaining that the planet’s laws of physics adapted to his presence and returned her fantasies to their original state.
• Smiley collapsed in terror, and Roland trapped her in the Rose Mystic Eyes illusion to make her experience Rita’s anger and hatred.
• Roland carried Smiley from the water, observed that her appearance and power changed as she adjusted to being on land, and tapped her forehead to wake Crimson Moon Brunestud.

Roland uncovered that Smiley had become an elf-like sacrifice blessed by Crimson Moon, who had granted her Marble Phantasm while remaining hidden within her. Crimson Moon appeared after Roland provoked her and, seeing that he had blocked the Counter Force’s gaze, invited him to become her ally and share the world.

• Roland reasoned that Smiley had modified her life essence toward that of an incarnated elf, explaining how she overcame the Flowing Water Curse but not how she gained Marble Phantasm.
• Roland addressed the sleeping Smiley as Crimson Moon and teased her until she opened her eyes and revealed her queenly presence.
• Crimson Moon explained that Smiley was her blessed Miko and a sacrifice, not a vessel, so Smiley had not fully transformed into an elf.
• Roland admitted he had only noticed something suspicious and had not known Crimson Moon was hiding within Smiley.
• Crimson Moon recognized that Roland had reproduced a Principle Blood Ring and blocked the Counter Force’s gaze, then invited him to become her ally and share the world.

Roland held the weakened Crimson Moon captive as she explained her plan to replace the Counter Force and revealed why Arcueid could make that possible. The chapter left Roland considering whether Arcueid could become Earth's UO, Type:Earth, while also serving as Crimson Moon's vessel.

• Roland immobilized Crimson Moon and demanded a reason to spare her, despite her claim that she would give the world a new future.
• Crimson Moon explained that she had once promised Gaia protection, but secretly intended to claim Earth and was eventually destroyed by Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg.
• Crimson Moon said she preserved her will through the True Ancestors and hoped to return through a suitable vessel.
• Crimson Moon revealed that Arcueid was an exceptionally powerful vessel whose unusual birth could let her become a prototype UO for Earth.
• Roland concluded that a resurrected Crimson Moon descending through Arcueid could produce Type:Earth.

Roland rejected Crimson Moon’s offer to join her plan to create Earth’s Ultimate One, but promised to conceal their meeting and let her continue pursuing it. He then returned to the Forest of Einnashe, where Altrouge Brunestud and Lorelei Barthomeloi concluded that the White-Winged Duke was behind the conspiracy and sought to bring forth the Dark Six.

• Crimson Moon invited Roland to become her ally, and he asked whether she considered herself female before answering.
• Roland refused Crimson Moon because he wanted to keep her and her daughters separate, but agreed to cover up what had happened and let her act.
• Crimson Moon withdrew from Smiley, telling Roland that he would see what she could do.
• Roland returned to find Altrouge Brunestud and Lorelei Barthomeloi talking in the Forest of Einnashe, and Altrouge reported that Rita Rozay-en had been secured.
• Lorelei told Roland that she had arranged to move the Mystic Eyes Collection Train and that Olga Marie, Lord El-Melloi II, and Aoko Aozaki could handle the collection.
• Altrouge and Lorelei identified the White-Winged Duke as the conspirator and the Dark Six as his likely goal.

Roland learned that the White-Winged Duke was pursuing a ritual to resurrect the mysterious Dark Six, and he agreed to join the hunt against him. After Lorelei departed, Roland told Altrouge that he would give her freedom once the incident was over, leaving her stunned.

• Roland learned from Lorelei and Altrouge that The Dark Six was an obscure legend whose resurrection the White-Winged Duke had promoted for nearly a thousand years.
• Lorelei explained that she intended to sabotage the White-Winged Duke’s ritual, and Roland agreed to take part in the hunt out of curiosity.
• Lorelei thanked Roland for saving her with a hug and said she would overlook Altrouge’s true identity, then left to attend to her duties.
• Altrouge scolded Roland for embracing Lorelei, and Roland caught her as she kicked him and pulled her into his arms.
• Roland told Altrouge he would give her freedom after the incident ended, and she reacted with surprise.

Roland offered Altrouge freedom from the contract’s restrictions and revealed that Rita and Smiley were tied to Crimson Moon’s resurrection plan. Altrouge resolved to become Tsukihime, but realized she would miss drinking Roland’s blood as they continued their intimate farewell on the way to Rita.

• Roland told Altrouge he would loosen the contract’s restrictions after he finished collecting Rita and let her use her power freely while she sought a way to break the contract.
• Altrouge questioned why Roland had not warned her about Lorelei, Rita, and Smiley, and Roland revealed that Rita and Smiley were connected to Crimson Moon’s resurrection plan.
• Altrouge declared that she could pursue becoming Tsukihime too and asked whether anything was negotiable if she achieved it; Roland agreed that her progress would make the contract a minor matter.
• As Roland carried Altrouge away from the Forest of Einnashe, she realized she would miss drinking his blood and wondered why gaining freedom did not make her happier.
• Roland resumed teasing Altrouge on the way to Rita, and Fou curiously reacted while resting beside Rita’s motionless body.

Trhvmn Ortenrosse met Vam Fem in Aylesbury, the industrial village Vam had built as a possible site for the Dark Six ritual. After discussing the failed ambush on Lorelei Barthomeloi and the growing threat of a Church–Clock Tower alliance, Trhvmn revealed his plan to pursue a bolder goal than resurrecting Crimson Moon: creating a New Primate.

• Trhvmn Ortenrosse walked through Aylesbury and reflected on how Dead Apostles had used human enterprise to establish the village's industrial district.
• Vam Fem arrived and said he had come to see Aylesbury before Lorelei Barthomeloi caused its destruction.
• Vam asked about Trhvmn's failed ambush on Lorelei, and Trhvmn acknowledged the losses of Rita Rozay-en and Smiley as well as the disappearance of the Forest of Einnashe.
• Vam warned that the attack on Lorelei and the Saint could unite the Clock Tower and the Church against the Dead Apostles.
• Trhvmn said Merem Solomon and Black Wings had agreed to join his plan to resurrect the King of the Moon as part of a contingency.
• Trhvmn declared that his true ambition was not simply to revive Crimson Moon, but to create a New Primate.

Akiha Tohno recalled how Roland had entered her life after her father’s failed attack on the Nanaya Family left her the young head of the Tohno Family. Back in the present, she learned that Roland had taken the reports about strange rumors in Misaki, including a credible sighting of a blond vampire.

• Akiha Tohno remembered her difficult childhood after Makihisa Tohno died during the failed attack on the Nanaya Family and Shiki Tohno disappeared.
• Akiha Tohno recalled meeting Roland, whom she called her teacher, and how his attention had eased her lonely life.
• Kohaku prompted Akiha Tohno to stop gazing out the window and rest, but Akiha chose to continue working on family business.
• Kohaku told Akiha Tohno that Roland had taken the collected reports about supernatural rumors in Misaki so she would not overwork herself.
• Kohaku revealed that the most credible rumor was that a blond vampire was wandering through the city.

Roland investigated the sudden disappearance of the blonde vampire rumored to be roaming Misaki Town, while Fujino Asagami suggested expanding his barrier. Shiki Ryougi then arrived with a suitcase containing a beautiful girl cut into seventeen pieces, leaving Roland to face an unexplained incident.

• Roland and Fujino Asagami discussed why sightings of Arcueid had abruptly stopped, and Roland suspected someone was helping her.
• Roland rejected Fujino's suggestion to expand the barrier across Misaki Town, confident Arcueid would eventually come to him.
• Shiki Ryougi interrupted Roland and Fujino and said she had caused someone else a crisis on her way home.
• Shiki brought a bloodied suitcase into Roland's office and opened it to reveal a blonde girl cut into seventeen pieces.

Roland discovered that Shiki Ryougi had cut Arcueid Brunestud into seventeen pieces, then reassembled the still-living True Ancestor princess. As Roland groped Arcueid to prove he was not attracted to her lifeless body, she opened her eyes and saw his hands on her chest.

• Roland recognized the dismembered girl in the suitcase as Arcueid Brunestud and realized Shiki Ryougi had killed her after feeling an urge to do so.
• Shiki Ryougi explained that she had carefully planned Arcueid's dismemberment, and Roland recognized that his own influence had encouraged her to embrace her killer nature.
• Roland and Shiki Ryougi began gathering Arcueid's pieces, while Fujino Asagami and Shiki reacted with embarrassment to Roland's suggestive behavior.
• Roland reassembled Arcueid's body, and her injuries began bonding together through her True Ancestor vitality.
• To prove he was not attracted to Arcueid's lifeless body, Roland grabbed her chest, and Arcueid opened her eyes and looked at his hands.

Roland tried to reassure Arcueid after she awoke, but his hands on her chest quickly turned his apology into an assault. After binding her with the Shroud of Magdalene, he learned that Arcueid believed he had killed her.

• Fujino Asagami and Shiki Ryougi urged Roland to apologize for touching the newly awakened Arcueid.
• Arcueid noticed Roland's hands on her breasts, then grew wary when he said he worked for the Church before trusting his assurances about their shared goal of eliminating Dead Apostle Ancestors.
• Arcueid called Roland a slightly perverted good person, and Roland responded by groping her while appraising her breasts.
• Arcueid struck at Roland, but he restrained her with the Shroud of Magdalene and explained how he had prepared for her to fight back.
• Arcueid said she had thought Roland was a good person who had made a mistake and had planned to forgive him for killing her, leaving Roland startled by her claim.

Roland freed Arcueid after she mistook him for the one who had killed her and bound her with the Shroud of Magdalene. The two agreed to work together against their shared enemy, though Roland immediately insisted on giving her a full-body examination.

• Arcueid accused Roland of killing her, explaining that she had endured hours of agony while recovering from Shiki Ryougi’s Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Arcueid concluded that Shiki Ryougi was an innocent puppet and that Roland was the true culprit because he bore the consequences of Shiki Ryougi’s actions.
• Roland teased the bound Arcueid while removing the Shroud of Magdalene, and she feared he intended to kill her before realizing he was freeing her.
• Roland told Arcueid that he would help with their shared goal, and she agreed to become his ally.
• Roland proposed a full-body examination, and Arcueid began protesting that she would remove her clothes herself.

Roland and Arcueid formed an alliance, and Arcueid asked him to help hunt the Dead Apostle Ancestors in the city. After identifying Roa as her true target, she insisted they first eliminate the vampires hunting True Ancestors to protect the city.

• Roland took over accompanying Arcueid after Fujino Asagami showed her around Reien Academy.
• Roland reassured Arcueid that they could keep to agreed boundaries, and she asked him to help deal with the Dead Apostle Ancestors in the city.
• Roland and Arcueid discussed Roa, the External Ancestor who had stolen Arcueid's power and caused her to slaughter the other True Ancestors.
• Arcueid revealed she had come to the city because she learned Roa was hiding there and said she could never forgive him.
• Arcueid told Roland they needed to eliminate the vampires hunting True Ancestors before pursuing Roa so the city would not be caught in the conflict.

Arcueid asked Roland to help protect the city from the vampires targeting her, and the two set out in his car with Arcueid driving. As a Dead Apostle Ancestor pursued them on the highway, Roland calmly told her to keep driving and prepared to respond.

• Arcueid told Roland that someone was targeting her and asked him to help defeat the vampires threatening the city.
• Roland agreed, then compromised with Arcueid by offering to show her around the city while they waited for their enemies to appear.
• Arcueid asked to drive Roland's car, and he let her take the wheel.
• Arcueid used her Marble Phantasm to shape the air currents and drove the car at extreme speed along a quiet suburban highway.
• A giant black dog emerged from a dark fissure and pursued them, and Roland identified it as the Dead Apostle Ancestor hunting Arcueid.
• Arcueid panicked at the sudden attack, while Roland told her to keep driving as ominous black mud appeared beneath the pursuing monster.

Nero Chaos investigated why his black dog had gone missing while pursuing Arcueid, then discovered that Roland had turned the beast against him. Roland overwhelmed Nero’s chaotic system and revealed himself as a being of many apocalyptic names, leaving Nero terrified before him.

• Nero Chaos wondered how the human beside Arcueid had interfered with his black dog and decided to gather information rather than retreat.
• Nero sent black crows from his body to scout, but the black dog returned and crushed them before attacking him.
• Nero swallowed the rebellious dog, but its abnormality overwhelmed his internal chaos and left him burning with pain.
• Roland emerged from the shadows and told Nero that his imitation of Humanity’s Evils was impure beside Roland’s genuine power.
• Roland named himself Adam, Lilin, the Antichrist, Satan, and the Great Red Dragon before telling Nero to remember the name Roland.

Roland confronted Nero Chaos, dismissed his imitation of the Beast of Revelation, and destroyed the Phantasmal Species army with black mud. Nero absorbed the tainted beasts to transform into a stronger chaos monster, but Roland warned that Nero had doomed himself as a mother’s song began to sound.

• Nero Chaos unleashed the Lair of the Beast King, surrounding Roland with an army of Phantasmal Species.
• Roland’s black mud infected and dissolved Nero’s beasts, turning the Chaos Tide into burning sludge.
• Nero absorbed the tainted horde and transformed into a werewolf-like monster, believing the chaos would strengthen him.
• Roland told Nero that he had killed himself and said that Mother was already singing.
• Nero heard a woman’s sorrowful song and understood that she was furious because someone had harmed her child.

Roland revealed that Tiamat was his mother and that Nero Chaos had angered her by imitating her power and attacking her only child. Tiamat overwhelmed Nero and began destroying him, while Arcueid arrived after the fight was effectively over.

• Nero Chaos tried to attack Roland, but his corrupted beast mud broke down and his instincts forced him to retreat.
• Roland explained that Nero had angered his mother, then revealed that Tiamat had personally borne him using the Womb of a Hundred Beasts.
• Tiamat attacked Nero with her Authority, melting his body and forcing his 666 beasts to endure the pain together.
• Arcueid arrived to help Roland, but found Nero already defeated.
• Roland sent Nero's remaining body into the sky, where it exploded into fragments.

After defeating Nero Chaos, Roland teased Arcueid during their first date, which led them to a love hotel. There, he offered her his blood to help restore the power Roa had stolen, leaving her to decide whether to drink it.

• Arcueid thanked Roland for defeating Nero Chaos and embraced him, but punched him when he tried to take their intimacy too far in the street.
• Roland pointed out that they were on a date, and Arcueid suggested they go to a love hotel after they missed the last train.
• Arcueid excitedly explored the love hotel and explained that she wanted to experience spending the night there with Roland.
• Arcueid said Roa remained a threat because he had stolen some of her power, and Roland offered her his blood to help her recover.

Roland persuaded the blood-starved Arcueid to drink his blood, despite her fear that feeding would intensify her attachment and bloodlust. After she resisted his advances, she finally gave in and drank until she was satisfied.

• Roland offered Arcueid his blood and argued that she could safely drink it, but she explained that True Ancestors who indulge their bloodlust can become addicted and lose themselves.
• Roland concluded that Arcueid feared drinking his blood because their intimacy would strengthen her feelings for him, and she admitted she was not ready to face those consequences.
• Roland kissed Arcueid and pressed his advances despite her protests, and she tried to resist drinking his blood.
• Arcueid eventually drank Roland's blood, felt her power and mental restrictions begin to lift, and thanked him when she had had enough.