Recaps

Bethel pursued Klein through the Spirit World and resisted his traps, but Klein used Antigonus to distract him while his incomplete Fool form approached. Bethel seized the white mask, and Klein accepted the transfer of his Beyonder characteristics and Uniqueness.

• Bethel left the Spirit World to search for Klein, wary of the cost of using Sefirah Castle's power.
• Bethel escaped Klein's attempt to strand him in the Historical Void and attacked the Klein he found with numerous abilities.
• Klein resurrected as an unfinished Fool form, and Bethel tried to draw its Beyonder characteristics and Uniqueness toward himself.
• Antigonus appeared and distracted Bethel, who sent him away through a door.
• Bethel reached for the Fool mask, but the illusory figure caught his hand and explained that he had not become a true god.
• Bethel pressed the white mask onto his own face, and Klein told him he would accept the characteristics and Uniqueness.

Klein and Bethel confronted each other inside Sefirah Castle, where the Lord of the Mysteries granted Bethel partial control and pushed them toward a battle. Klein turned the contest into a Kingdom of God shaped like his lost home, and Bethel realized that the city’s inhabitants were puppets beneath the Lord of the Mysteries’ gaze.

• Bethel entered Sefirah Castle and recognized Fors’s Tarot Club chair as he met Klein, who explained that Amon had once entered the castle and lost it.
• Bethel gained control of Sefirah Castle and reshaped its hall into a room from the Fourth Epoch, while Klein revealed that the Lord of the Mysteries’ will filled the place.
• Klein said the Lord of the Mysteries was urging them to fight, then used coffee to transform Sefirah Castle into a dark stage and open a Door to a deserted city resembling his original world.
• Bethel recognized the city as a Kingdom of God built from Klein’s memories and spoke of the loneliness of returning to a world changed by time.
• Bethel entered the city and saw its streets fill with people and vehicles, then escaped to a rooftop when passersby noticed him.
• Bethel sensed that threads from the dark sky controlled everyone in the city and saw a blurry figure watching him from behind the curtain.

Klein and Bethel fought across Klein’s Kingdom of God as Bethel used Door powers to tear it apart and Klein countered with Fooling and the concept of a star. Bethel nearly sealed Klein with the Twilight Greatsword, but Klein turned the tables by using a miracle to bring in Antigonus and seize control of Bethel’s Spirit Body Threads.

• Bethel recorded the Kingdom of God’s information, escaped through a shop door, and then unleashed doors across the city to tear the kingdom apart.
• Klein invoked the authority of Blind Stupidity to confuse Bethel, then grafted the concept of a star into the kingdom and forced Bethel to flee its destructive effects.
• Bethel transformed into a symbol to escape the star’s danger, while Klein linked himself more deeply to Sefirah Castle and tried to graft Bethel onto its door of light.
• Bethel pierced Klein with the Twilight Greatsword and began sealing his powers as space around him collapsed.
• Klein spotted Bethel behind him and summoned Antigonus, who removed Bethel’s recorded Spirit Body Threads ability and sent the threads toward Klein.
• Klein told Bethel that he had caught him too, and Bethel’s thoughts froze.

Klein and Antigonus defeated Bethel inside Sefirah Castle, but the Lord of the Mysteries forced Klein to absorb the Door pathway and become a dual-pathway True God. Klein later asked Bethel to succeed him if he eventually lost control, and Bethel refused to accept until Klein had gathered the remaining characteristics.

• Bethel broke free of Klein’s Spirit Body Threads trap and attacked him with a devastating Dawn Storm, but Klein escaped by Fooling history and leaving a Historical Projection in Bethel’s cage.
• Klein used Sefirah Castle’s conflicting commands to draw Bethel toward the Fool’s seat, where Antigonus restrained and blinded him before destroying him with a supernova.
• After Bethel’s defeat, the Lord of the Mysteries forced the Door pathway’s characteristics and Uniqueness onto Klein, who resisted losing himself and became a dual-pathway True God.
• Klein entered the Astral World, faced hostile gazes from beyond the world barrier, and later met Bethel, who had become a Miracle Invoker.
• Klein asked Bethel to remember humanity and succeed him as Lord of the Mysteries if Klein lost control, but Bethel said he would consider it only after Klein gathered the Fool characteristics and gave him the key of stars.

After defeating Bethel, Klein confronted the Lord of the Mysteries’ growing influence over his mind, refused to open the Western Continent’s seal before the wars stabilized, and went to help the Hidden Sage. In the Astral World, he entered the storm realm and was immediately targeted by a violent wave while an indescribable device advanced toward its original target.

• An illusory book warned Klein that his will was near collapse and that he needed mental treatment, while Bethel urged him to rest.
• Klein admitted that the Lord of the Mysteries had already awakened within him and could gradually assimilate him, but said facing it was his own choice.
• Klein began opening the Western Continent’s seal, then withdrew his command and promised the Demon of Knowledge he would open it after the situation stabilized.
• The Demon of Knowledge suggested Klein help the Hidden Sage, and Klein eagerly departed for the Astral World while Bethel returned to the Abraham Family’s residence.
• Klein observed the gods’ battles and Lilith’s unstable condition, then entered Storm’s realm as a violent wave turned toward him and an indescribable device advanced toward its target.

Klein fought to evade Leodero’s attacks as God Almighty began invading the God of Thunder’s Kingdom of God and mind. Leodero rejected submission and unleashed the Calamity Banner, while a colossal war airship arrived and bombarded the ocean.

• Klein dodged Leodero’s devastating waves and analyzed the God of Thunder’s Kingdom of God while searching for a way to exploit its weaknesses.
• Klein sensed God Almighty’s power invading the ocean and saw the sun’s influence spreading across the Northern Continent.
• Leodero resisted God Almighty’s attempt to claim his mind, gouged out and crushed his golden eye, and declared that he would not grovel.
• Leodero released every seal on the Calamity Banner, unleashing its polluting power as the Chaos Sea’s corrosion intensified.
• A colossal war airship crashed into Leodero’s Kingdom of God and fired its cannons, disrupting the ocean and its storms.

Klein faced a sudden attack from God Almighty while the Demon of Knowledge tried to seize the White Tower. The Demon of Knowledge escaped Leviathan’s assault and continued toward the tower as Klein prepared to claim Leodero’s characteristics.

• God Almighty used lightning that tracked Klein through space, leaving Klein unharmed but convinced that God Almighty was targeting him as the Lord of Mysteries.
• The Demon of Knowledge began a direct assault on the White Tower while Klein planned to seize and seal Leodero’s Beyonder characteristics.
• Klein failed to steal the Eye of Omniscience but used Sefirah Castle and the Error pathway to mock God Almighty with a monocle.
• The Demon of Knowledge took his airship into the sky and fired an incendiary shell at the White Tower, but its wind barrier blocked the attack.
• Leviathan seized the airship, so the Demon of Knowledge activated its hidden backup power and crashed it into the sea monster.
• The airship’s ammunition and spells burned Leviathan, then it rose from the creature’s remains and charged toward the White Tower.

Klein used Bethel’s Historical Projection to draw the Eye of Omniscience away while he moved to destroy Leodero’s Kingdom of God. As Cheek succumbed to convergence and attacked Leodero, God Almighty’s will overwhelmed Leodero, leaving his fate at its end.

• The Demon of Knowledge blinded the White Tower’s eye with a leaf, giving Klein an opening to summon Bethel’s Historical Projection and graft the Eye of Omniscience’s lock onto him.
• Klein escaped aboard the airship and controlled it through its Spirit Body Threads as the Eye of Omniscience resumed pursuing him.
• Leodero released control of 0-01, and its aura intensified Cheek’s craving until she lost control and attacked him.
• Cheek and Leodero fought violently in the Astral World while the Son of Chaos tried to contain the escalating danger.
• Leodero’s final attack came as God Almighty’s mental assault exhausted him, and God Almighty’s will consumed his identity and rejected him.

Leodero recalled his ambition and defied God Almighty as the returning god consumed him, while the battle in the Kingdom of God shifted in the attackers’ favor. The Demon of Knowledge obtained the Eye of Omniscience, and Cheek seized 0-01—only for a figure resembling Medici to drag her into the banner.

• Leodero remembered envying Medici and Ouroboros and recognized that his loyalty to the Ancient Sun God had concealed his ambition.
• Leodero resisted God Almighty’s command, punched toward him, and was burned away as God Almighty declared that he forgave him.
• The Demon of Knowledge stole the Eye of Omniscience, and Klein fled with him when the Kingdom of God flipped and the White Tower collapsed.
• With Leodero dead and 0-01 uncontrolled, Cheek rushed to seize the Red Priest Uniqueness while the other gods pursued their own objectives.
• Cheek took 0-01, but a figure resembling Medici emerged from the banner, grabbed her wrist, and dragged her inside.

Cheek recognized Medici’s connection to the City of Calamity and fought his transformed, calamity-marked form. Meanwhile, Ouroboros entered Calderón with the Outer Deity to retrieve Medici’s death imprint, and the chapter ended with Medici emerging from the River of Eternal Darkness.

• Cheek realized her sudden attack on Leodero had brought her closest to 0-01, then prepared to accommodate it as a gray-black figure appeared in the blood-red world.
• Cheek recognized Medici beneath the symbol of calamity, and the two enemies clashed.
• The Outer Deity warned Ouroboros that the River of Eternal Darkness was dangerous, then proposed using a photograph of Medici’s death imprint to reach him in Calderón.
• Ouroboros accepted the risk of entering Calderón to save Medici, noticed Sefirah Castle above the Seven Lights, and sent a tentative prayer before going into the Spirit World.
• The Outer Deity touched the River of Eternal Darkness and tossed Medici’s photograph into it, drawing Medici’s dead hand and face out of the waters.
• Medici recognized Ouroboros and asked where he was and what he was doing there.

Medici learned that Ouroboros had become a god through the Circle of Inevitability and that his resurrection required him to confront the City of Calamity and Cheek. Meanwhile, God Almighty’s sun shower won widespread devotion as he turned his attention toward the Astral World, where Lilith faced his gaze.

• The Outer Deity recovered Medici’s ancient Death Imprint from the River of Eternal Darkness and gave the newer imprint to Ouroboros.
• Medici saw visions of his life in the Circle of Inevitability ring and discovered that Ouroboros had become a god by accepting the Outer Deity’s power.
• The Outer Deity explained that Medici needed to seize something from the City of Calamity to reconnect his fate, and Medici said he was already there fighting Cheek.
• God Almighty’s sunlit rain healed people across the Northern Continent, prompting crowds to worship the Sun and accept Liveseyd as a heavenly symbol.
• Hermes told Ileana and Audrey that the Lord had returned and that the sun would never set again.
• God Almighty looked toward the Astral World; the Son of Chaos and the Hidden Sage hid, while Lilith opened her arms toward him.

Medici told Ouroboros that he was still alive in the City of Calamity and fighting Cheek, while Klein accepted Adam alive from the Demon of Knowledge. In the Astral World, God Almighty attacked Lilith and pursued the Hidden Sage, but Klein opened a Door beneath Lilith to help her confront him.

• Medici told Ouroboros that he was in the City of Calamity, had not died, and was fighting Cheek over her attempt to become a dual-pathway true god.
• Klein refused the Demon of Knowledge’s offer to break Adam down and asked for him to be handed over alive.
• Klein entered the Astral World and saw God Almighty appear, while the corrupted Lilith made an embracing gesture toward him.
• God Almighty sealed the Astral World, restricted Lilith, and used the Spirit World to track the Hidden Sage, but someone scrambled the information and obscured the trail.
• God Almighty filled the Astral World with scorching sunlight as Lilith raised a Red Moon and grew layers of vegetation to withstand the attack.
• Klein tried to open a Door beneath Lilith, resisted her Mother Goddess-induced vision, and succeeded; Lilith enlarged the Door as another Door opened before God Almighty.

The Son of Chaos fled Earth after God Almighty returned, while Medici defeated Cheek and absorbed the Primordial Demoness’s power. Medici then reappeared in a new form and called for Ouroboros, who hesitated and asked for time to understand what had happened.

• The Son of Chaos escaped into Outer Space, where other deities mocked him and some quietly followed him as he fled with Uncertain Mist.
• Medici fought Cheek, revealed his connection to the City of Calamity, and summoned the Red of War to overwhelm her.
• Medici burned Cheek and took her transparent dagger, which transformed into the Primordial Demoness’s Uniqueness.
• The flames of 0-01 carried Cheek’s body toward the Southern Continent, where a red streak joined them and Medici reformed in armor.
• Medici entered the Spirit World, called for the Great Serpent, and Ouroboros said he needed time to digest the situation.

Klein’s intervention helped Medici’s will persist within the Calamity of Destruction, though his identity and future remained uncertain. Ouroboros reunited with Medici, who planned to campaign across the Starry Sky with him, and Ouroboros could only sigh instead of refusing.

• Klein answered Ouroboros’s prayer, explained that he had bound the Red Priest Card to Medici’s soul, and then evaded the sun pursuing him through the Astral World.
• The Outer Deity used the Death Imprint to probe the River of Eternal Darkness, encountered Salinger, and discussed how Klein’s intervention had helped Medici become a candidate for Red Priest.
• The Outer Deity warned Ouroboros that Medici’s consciousness might not last and urged him to check on his own life after losing his past and future.
• Ouroboros found Medici outside Calderón, where Medici believed he had defeated Cheek and gained the power of a Sefirah.
• Medici promised to fight the Circle of Inevitability to restore Ouroboros’s past and future, then invited him to campaign across the Starry Sky; Ouroboros sighed rather than refusing.

Ouroboros accepted that Medici had become the Calamity of Destruction and promised to stand by him, while Audrey and Ileana discussed the origins of Ileana’s distrust of gods and the spread of faith in God Almighty. Elsewhere, an Outer Deity decided to seize the embodiment of a tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness while the gods were distracted.

• Ouroboros asked how long Medici would remain the Calamity of Destruction, and Medici explained that he expected to roam the Starry Sky and fight any gods who challenged him.
• Ouroboros recognized how abruptly Medici’s values had changed and promised that Fate would stand by him.
• Ileana told Audrey how a corrupt convent administrator had exploited and murdered people, how she and her brother brought him to justice, and how the experience destroyed her faith in the gods.
• Audrey explained that God Almighty’s appearance in the Sea of Collective Subconscious could spread belief among all living beings, and Ileana feared humanity would become his believers.
• The Outer Deity considered taking the embodiment of the River of Eternal Darkness’s tributary while God Almighty and the Lord of Mysteries were preparing to fight.

A decaying god invaded Calderón through the River of Eternal Darkness and called for the Demon of Knowledge, while Medici considered launching a world-spanning war before revealing he had only been teasing Ouroboros. Bethel heard their exchange and began recording the souls and events he had witnessed.

• The god of decay spread his Sefirah’s domain across Calderón, whose ruins rapidly withered, and called on the Demon of Knowledge to fulfill their agreement.
• Ouroboros received a vision of a sea of blood and found Medici preparing to lead a war across the world.
• Ouroboros warned Medici that his war would threaten God Almighty’s believers and bring severe consequences, but Medici initially claimed those believers were worth destroying.
• Medici revealed that he had been joking and said he would watch the conflict, helping Klein if he was in danger.
• Bethel overheard the conversation, realized Medici had been close to carrying out his threat, and began a notebook dedicated to the souls he had witnessed.

The Demon of Knowledge delivered Adam to Klein as payment for obtaining Omniscience, while the gods’ battle reshaped the world and the Demon of Knowledge evacuated Church of Mysteries territory in Trier. In Sefirah Castle, Klein confronted Adam about the sacrifices behind the catastrophe in Tingen, then allowed him to remain there as an Angel of Imagination.

• The Demon of Knowledge freed Adam, shielded him from God Almighty’s gaze, and brought him toward Klein after explaining recent events.
• The Church of Mysteries evacuated its schoolchildren as the Demon of Knowledge folded its territory in Trier into boxes and carried it away.
• The red moon’s light faded as the battle between the incomplete Mother Goddess and the Omniscience and Omnipotence One reached its outcome.
• The Demon of Knowledge presented Adam to Klein, who accepted him as an Angel of Imagination without stripping away his identity.
• Klein challenged Adam over the planned use of 0-08 and the deaths risked in Tingen, and Adam admitted he had wronged the victims.
• Klein told Adam to remain in Sefirah Castle, where he could choose a seat except the one bearing the Spectator symbol.

The Demon of Knowledge brought Klein to the Lord of Withering, who offered two ways to help him endure the Lord of Mysteries’ influence. Klein chose to recover memories from before the Celestial Worthy’s influence took hold, while conflicts over the Western Continent and the River of Eternal Darkness continued.

• The Mother Goddess of Depravity’s incarnation fled God Almighty but turned toward the Western Continent after its Sefirah’s aura drew her in.
• The Demon of Knowledge returned Arrodes to Klein and introduced the Lord of Withering, who offered to help with Klein’s mental strain.
• The Lord of Withering described a curse that strengthened Klein’s humanity and a memory ability that could preserve his past.
• The Lord of Withering’s main body fought to seize Calderón and its tributary of the River of Eternal Darkness, sacrificing lives to gain control.
• Klein chose the memory treatment and asked the Lord of Withering to restore his Old Earth memories and those from before he became Sequence Two.
• The Lord of Withering said it needed Klein to do something, suggesting he might be willing to help.

Klein used memories of his ordinary past to preserve his humanity against the Lord of Mysteries’ corruption, then witnessed the Outer Deity’s plan unfold amid a devastating battle. He agreed to banish the Outer Deity from humanity, while the fate of the Lord of Mysteries remained unresolved.

• Klein relived memories of Zhou Mingrui and Klein Moretti to steady his mind and resist the Lord of Mysteries’ influence.
• The Outer Deity offered the Demon of Knowledge territory and discussed taking people from the Southern Continent and archipelago to preserve cultural conflict.
• The Outer Deity warned Klein that his mental stability would last for a thousand years, and Klein sensed that something had happened outside and returned to Sefirah Castle.
• The Outer Deity asked God Almighty for the Prisoner Uniqueness, while the battle against the Sefirah Incarnation ended with a sword strike killing hundreds of thousands and the Devil attacking Klein.
• The Outer Deity revealed that he wanted Klein to kill his other half and then banish him from Earth, and Klein accepted the proposal after learning the Demon of Knowledge had helped with the plan.

Klein defeated the Lord of Withering, banished the newly crowned Monarch of Decay, and prepared to face God Almighty with the Tarot Club and his allies. After arranging their safety and sharing a New Year’s Eve celebration in the Western Continent, Klein returned to his identity as Zhou Mingrui and went to celebrate with a friend.

• Klein exploited the seal of the Western Continent and the Twilight Greatsword to kill the Lord of Withering, who became the Monarch of Decay and willingly accepted Klein’s banishment.
• Klein questioned the Demon of Knowledge about the moon, learned why they had chosen to leave Earth, and asked them to join his fight against God Almighty; they agreed to be contacted before returning to the Western Continent.
• Klein visited the City of Miracles, reunited with Leonard, and brought the angels and Tarot Club members to Sefirah Castle to explain that he would relocate them before fighting God Almighty.
• Klein introduced Adam, Will, Zaratul, Pallez, and Bethel as his allies and assigned Bethel to administer Sefirah Castle if Klein fell asleep.
• Klein asked Arrodes if it was afraid, admitted that he was afraid but looked forward to the battle, then crossed into the Western Continent and celebrated New Year’s Eve as Zhou Mingrui.

Garcia struggled with the Church’s restrictions on knowledge after his research into the stars was rejected, but Norbert’s account of a Heretic angel renewed his curiosity. The chapter ended with Garcia finding and secretly ignoring a card advertising wish-fulfillment services.

• A transmigrator accused the Church of deceiving him, but the bishop listed his offenses and ordered his baptism; Garcia defended himself against the man’s attack and was told to pray in the Confessional.
• The bishop rejected Garcia’s research into celestial bodies beyond the Astral World, insisting that people should not seek knowledge the Lord had not permitted them to know.
• Garcia returned home intending to burn his research, but Norbert arrived and praised the work before explaining that one apparent nebula in it was a Heretic angel.
• Norbert warned Garcia that dangerous knowledge about the unknown should remain inaccessible, while Garcia privately continued longing to see the stars for himself.
• The baptized transmigrator, now living as Yorkel, refused to discuss his former world, and Garcia decided against seeking baptism himself.
• Garcia found a strange card advertising professional wish-fulfillment services, saw it vanish, and chose not to report it to the Church.

Garcia learned that Norbert served the God of Mischief, Amon, while preparing to undergo baptism to purge his irreverent thoughts. Elsewhere, Audrey cooperated with Zaratul to bring people into Heaven and reflected on her long life and enduring ties to the Tarot Club.

• Garcia told Norbert he planned to undergo baptism, and explained how the Church used the ritual to remove unwanted thoughts.
• Norbert fed a white dove marked around its right eye and revealed that it was an avatar of Amon; he explained his Error pathway abilities to Garcia.
• Garcia and Norbert watched Amon's avatar lead birds in an attack on a crow, after which Norbert abruptly left and the crow disappeared.
• Zaratul met Audrey and asked her to accept eight people into Heaven; Audrey accepted five and deferred Louise Fischer's case for ten years.
• Audrey and Zaratul discussed their cooperation, the Tarot Club's news, and Audrey's wish for people to live happily and have the chance to atone.