Chapter Summaries

Roland defeated Crimson Moon, took the embryo of the Sixth Magic, and sent her toward Arcueid and Altrouge. He found Kiara Sessyoin asleep on the Moon, where {Shiki} explained that she had realized she should serve Roland.

• Roland removed the embryo of the Sixth Magic from Crimson Moon and hurled her toward the Two Princesses and the Venus UO.
• Roland decided to deal with Kiara Sessyoin before Goetia and traveled to her hiding place on the Moon's far side.
• Roland broke into Kiara Sessyoin's weakened World Egg and crossed the sea of Manjusaka flowers surrounding him.
• Roland found Kiara Sessyoin in a deep, genuine sleep and wondered why she had acted as the mastermind behind the Crimson Moon incident.
• {Shiki} appeared and told Roland that Kiara Sessyoin had realized she should exist to serve him.

Roland and Root Shiki completed their union, allowing Shiki to perceive beyond her former limits. Their success awakened Pāpīyas of the Sixth Heaven, who emerged from the depths of the multiverse in a display of fury.

• Root Shiki explained that Kiara Sessyoin's corruption had made her an existence meant to serve Roland because Pāpīyas's Principle demanded the annihilation of everything but himself.
• Root Shiki said Kiara Sessyoin's love and connection to Roland had drawn her toward his fate, completing the paradoxical link between beginning and end.
• Roland questioned why Root Shiki had come in Shiki's body, and she admitted she wanted to experience their union without a barrier between them.
• After their union, Root Shiki felt the unknown beyond her former limits, confirming that Roland had succeeded.
• Roland showed Shiki the immense black-serpent being emerging from the chaotic depths, and she realized that Pāpīyas of the Sixth Heaven had awakened in anger.

Roland crossed the multiversal sea and confronted Pāpīyas, who recognized him as a brother and offered to spare him and share his power. Roland refused, choosing to face Pāpīyas in battle, and ended the chapter ready to use his strength.

• Roland reached Pāpīyas at the end of a road formed from burning universes and realized Pāpīyas was trapped between his own self and the Serpent's Self-Destruction Factor.
• Pāpīyas acknowledged Roland as his brother and offered him survival and power equal to his own.
• Roland rejected Pāpīyas's offer because a world containing only the end held no value to him.
• Pāpīyas rose in anger and enveloped Roland in killing intent and painful imagery as he challenged him to find an answer.
• Roland laughed and declared that it was time to use super strength.

Roland fought Pāpīyas and discovered how the enemy’s overwhelming Immeasurable Numbers could be countered through the dimensional logic of infinity. By turning Pāpīyas’s strength against him, Roland transformed Little Garden into the Unified Seven Heavens Dragon, leaving Pāpīyas to recognize his new power.

• Roland attacked Pāpīyas with Slash Emperor, knocked him into the rift, and confirmed that the seemingly invincible enemy could still be suppressed.
• Pāpīyas unleashed Total Annihilation of All Forms and Mandala of Immeasurable Numbers, destroying the infinite multiverses and overwhelming Roland’s Principles.
• Pāpīyas mocked Roland’s Principles and his devotion to humanity, but Roland explained that Humanity’s Evil was helping him endure the attack.
• Roland revealed that infinity could not be divided and that Pāpīyas’s immense strength caused the dimensional logic opposing his Principle to expand alongside it.
• Roland used the resulting paradox to renew Little Garden as the [Unified Seven Heavens Dragon], and Pāpīyas recognized the transformation.

Roland used the Key of All Spirits and the newly born spiral force to break Pāpīyas’s hold over the Tengu Path, then absorbed him and turned him into a trial for Little Garden. As Roland’s own hegemony manifested as Spiral Gospel, he began rebuilding the scarred world and preparing to create anew.

• Roland concluded that he could not defeat Pāpīyas by matching his immeasurable numbers and chose to exploit Pāpīyas’s flaws instead.
• Roland removed the Key of All Spirits and invoked its Contract, causing a crack to spread through Pāpīyas’s Tengu Path.
• Roland explained that his spiral force could become the survival impulse Pāpīyas lacked, and the force pierced the Tengu Path through Little Garden.
• Roland absorbed Pāpīyas and assigned him the role of the Decadent Wind, a future Demon King who would test Little Garden’s inhabitants.
• Roland crossed beyond the Sea of Infinite Multiverses as his long-suppressed hegemony manifested as Spiral Gospel.
• Roland began restoring the scarred world and spoke, “Let there be light.”

Roland reflected on the worlds he had drawn into the Spiral Gospel and trusted their inhabitants to find their own paths. As his companions gathered to welcome him back, he chose to begin the next chapter of their lives on his own terms, while new stories waited beyond the spiral.

• Roland explained to Yukari Yakumo that he had incorporated connected worlds into the Spiral Gospel but intended to let their inhabitants shape their futures.
• Yukari Yakumo reassured Roland that Reimu had found resolve and was content to remain in Gensokyo.
• Yukari Yakumo opened a gap, and Roland joined the companions from across his connected worlds who had gathered to welcome him back.
• Roland took the hands of the two girls at the front and transported them to an enormous imagined bed, prompting Miss Root Shiki to comment on his undignified choice.
• Roland declared that he would decide how the story ended as the seeds of causality promised new worlds and journeys.