Chapter Summaries

Haimo comforted Tsukuyo before she left for the Dungeon, then checked on the sleeping Hestia and Sasamori Aya. He left Aya resting after the exhausting fight the previous night.

• Haimo reassured Tsukuyo that she was a good girl and a treasured member of his familia, and she left smiling.
• Onigawara Rin and the others saw Haimo comfort Tsukuyo, grew determined not to fall behind, and headed into the Dungeon.
• Haimo found Hestia sprawled asleep and mumbling about fried potato balls and borrowing money, then covered her with a blanket.
• Haimo visited Sasamori Aya, who was still asleep and recovering from the fight the previous night.

Haimo left a potion and note for the sleeping girl, dismissed the Mansion’s workers, and used the quiet to travel to world G-404, Black Bullet. In Tokyo, Kisara Tendo finally cut through a pile of scrap metal with her cursed blade, reaching a new level of swordsmanship as her pursuit of vengeance continued.

• Haimo left the potion and a note by the girl’s bedside, then went to the kitchen and sent Chloe, Lunoire, and the other worker home.
• After the Mansion fell quiet, Haimo left Royman’s briefcase untouched and ordered the system to transport him to world G-404.
• The system identified the world as Black Bullet, set the anchor in the Tokyo Area, and transported Haimo through a dark vortex.
• At dusk, Kisara Tendo practiced alone in an abandoned dojo and sliced a stack of scrap metal cleanly in half with Murderous Blade Snow Shadow.
• Kisara recognized that her strike had reached a realm beyond the ordinary and looked ahead to mastering the blade and matching Kikunojo Tendo.

Kisara Tendo discovered the beginnings of a sword technique she believed could help her avenge her parents, but Rentaro Satomi urged her to abandon revenge. The chapter left Kisara furious and heartbroken after Rentaro said he was tired.

• Kisara Tendo felt the embryonic form of [Tendo Sword Drawing Technique: Zero Type] and believed she could use it to avenge her parents.
• Kisara rushed to tell Rentaro Satomi about her breakthrough and said they could fight together if he grew stronger.
• Rentaro avoided Kisara's hands and told her to stop clinging to hatred and give up her revenge and painful swordsmanship.
• Kisara confronted Rentaro about her parents' deaths and the injuries both of them had suffered, accusing him of betraying her trust.
• Rentaro told Kisara he was tired.

Kisara Tendo drove Rentaro Satomi away, then collapsed from the physical cost of her revenge and swordsmanship. As she pleaded for help, Haimo arrived from another world and recognized her as a high-potential candidate.

• Rentaro Satomi told Kisara Tendo he was leaving their revenge behind to focus on his new Initiator, and placed a document on her desk.
• Kisara Tendo accused herself of being dead weight, then ordered Rentaro Satomi out and threw the papers at him.
• Rentaro Satomi left without answering, and Kisara Tendo collapsed in pain as her failing body began shutting down.
• Kisara Tendo called Rentaro Satomi's name and begged for help as she lost consciousness.
• Haimo emerged from a black vortex, saw Kisara Tendo beside her Demon Sword, and identified her as a high-potential candidate.

Haimo found Kisara Tendo near death and used divine power to stabilize her without restoring her missing kidney. Kisara woke, mistook him for an angel, then recognized him as a threat and tried to reach her sword.

• Haimo examined Kisara Tendo's battered, unconscious body and admired her unyielding ferocity.
• Haimo eased Kisara's acute organ failure and stabilized the chaotic energy in her body, leaving her missing kidney unrepaired.
• Kisara regained consciousness and mistook Haimo's backlit figure for an angel.
• Haimo corrected Kisara's assumption, and she recognized him as dangerous and tried to reach Demon Sword Snow Shadow.
• Haimo told Kisara not to waste her strength and said her body had stopped being on strike for now.

Haimo appeared from another world and saved Kisara Tendo from dying, then explained that he had come specifically for her because of her talent. He left her stunned by claiming to be a god.

• Haimo temporarily revived Kisara Tendo's failing body and said her missing kidney and depleted vitality still needed a permanent solution.
• Kisara Tendo asked who Haimo was and learned that he had come through a portal from another world.
• Kisara Tendo questioned Haimo's motives and suspected the Tendo Family might have sent him.
• Haimo said he wanted Kisara Tendo's talented body and then revealed that he was a god.
• Kisara Tendo laughed in disbelief at Haimo's claim.

Kisara Tendo vented her anger at Haimo, then broke down crying when he met her grief without judgment. After he wiped her tears, she asked why he was not angry that she had denied the gods, and Haimo challenged her narrow understanding of them.

• Kisara Tendo collapsed after shouting that gods could not exist in a world this ruined.
• Haimo quietly asked Kisara Tendo if she was done venting, and she broke down sobbing.
• Haimo waited for Kisara Tendo to calm down, then wiped her tears with a handkerchief.
• Kisara Tendo asked Haimo why he was not angry that she had denied the existence of gods.
• Haimo replied that her understanding of gods was too narrow.

Haimo told Kisara Tendo that humans had created the Gastrea Virus through experiments on orphaned girls, and that the Cursed Children and Stage V monsters were the consequences. He left her confronting the possibility that humanity had hidden its crimes and forced the Cursed Children to fight the disaster they had caused.

• Haimo reassured Kisara Tendo that gods were not responsible for her suffering and said humanity had created the Gastrea Virus.
• He explained that governments and powerful organizations had experimented on orphaned girls to develop biological weapons, causing them to become Gastrea.
• Haimo revealed that Stage V monsters were former girls whose remaining attachment to humanity was preserved in their childhood toys, which drew them to the Seven Stars Relics.
• He said the authorities concealed the experiments to prevent humanity from turning on itself and collapsing.
• Kisara Tendo pieced together the implications as Haimo said the Cursed Children had been sent to the front lines to atone for humanity's crimes.

Haimo revealed that the red-eyed children had been made scapegoats to shield the true culprits, then transported Kisara Tendo high above the city and claimed to know who murdered her parents. Rentaro Satomi returned to the agency, found Kisara and Snow Shadow missing, and assumed she had gone off to practice.

• Kisara Tendo doubted Haimo’s revelations and said she had unfinished business before she could go with him.
• Haimo addressed Kisara by name and said he knew what happened to her parents and who was on the list of their murderers.
• Haimo snapped his fingers and transported Kisara to a point ten thousand meters above a city glittering with lights.
• Rentaro Satomi returned to the Tendo Civil Security Agency with boxed lunches and found the office empty.
• Rentaro discovered that Kisara and Snow Shadow were gone, failed to reach her by phone, and assumed she had left to practice swordsmanship.

Haimo brought Kisara Tendo high above the city and offered to give her the strength to take revenge on the Tendo Family. Kisara accepted his offer, and Haimo hinted that he might even resurrect her parents if she earned glory for him.

• Rentaro Satomi left Kisara Tendo a boxed meal and a note before departing for a meeting with his new partner.
• Haimo watched Rentaro leave and confronted Kisara Tendo high above the city, where she realized how powerless she was against him.
• Kisara Tendo knelt before Haimo and begged him to help her kill the people she suspected of murdering her parents.
• Haimo introduced himself as a god embodying strife and offered Kisara a healthy body, power, and the chance to destroy her enemies and their order.
• Haimo said he might bring Kisara's parents back from the dead if she won glory for him, leaving her stunned.

Kisara Tendo joined Haimo’s familia after he promised he could help her reunite with her parents and would support her revenge. Haimo transported them into a meeting attended by the Seitenshi and Tokyo Area officials, freezing everyone in place.

• Haimo told Kisara Tendo that death could be overcome and that he could help her see her parents again.
• Kisara Tendo agreed to join Haimo’s familia, accepting his offer of power in exchange for fighting for him and winning glory.
• Haimo snapped his fingers and transported Kisara Tendo and himself to a conference room in the Tokyo Area.
• Kisara Tendo found herself before the Seitenshi and more than twenty officials, who were shocked by their sudden arrival.
• An official tried to call the guards, but Haimo’s power left everyone in the room unable to move.

Haimo brought Kisara Tendo to the Imperial Palace, where she confronted Kikunojo and Wakō Tendo over her parents’ murder. As Kisara prepared to exact revenge, the Seitenshi tried to stop her by invoking the law, and Kisara asked Haimo to free the two men so they could confess before she killed them.

• Haimo identified Kikunojo Tendo and Wakō Tendo among the immobilized officials and left them to Kisara Tendo.
• The Seitenshi realized she could move and asked Haimo who he was; he said he had brought his child to settle private business.
• Kisara advanced on Kikunojo and Wakō with Snow Shadow, and the Seitenshi tried to stop her by invoking the law.
• Kisara accused the two Tendo men of killing her parents ten years earlier and questioned why the case remained unsolved.
• Kisara asked Haimo to release Kikunojo and Wakō so she could hear them confess before killing them, and Haimo asked if she was sure.

Kisara Tendo confronted Wakō Tendo to take revenge, and Haimo freed him so she could fight him. After Kisara cut through Wakō’s bullet and severed his legs, Haimo forced the Seitenshi to witness the violence as a lesson in governing.

• Kisara Tendo prepared to kill Wakō Tendo, and Haimo released Wakō and Kikunojo Tendo from their restraints.
• Wakō Tendo drew a hidden handgun and fired at Kisara Tendo.
• Kisara Tendo split the bullet with her sword and cut off Wakō Tendo’s legs at the knees.
• Haimo forced the horrified Seitenshi to keep watching Wakō Tendo bleed, telling her that witnessing death was necessary to grow as a ruler.

Haimo exposed Wakō Tendo’s corruption in the construction of Monolith No. 32, and Kisara Tendo forced him to reveal that it would fail within a year. Kisara then confronted Wakō about her parents’ deaths, and he began pleading with Kikunojo Tendo for help.

• Haimo revealed that Wakō had used inferior metal in Monolith No. 32 to steal money, and Wakō admitted the Monolith would stop working within a year.
• Kisara kicked Wakō’s wounded leg and demanded to know how long the Monolith would last.
• Haimo explained that the Monolith’s failure would let Gastrea overrun the Tokyo Area, and Seitenshi lost faith in the officials she had trusted.
• Kisara described the sword technique that had cut Wakō, then demanded the truth about the Gastrea attack that killed her parents ten years earlier.
• Wakō denied knowing anything, but Kisara pressed her blade to his neck until he looked pleadingly toward Kikunojo.

Kisara Tendo forced Wakō Tendo to reveal that Kikunojo Tendo and other family members had plotted her parents’ deaths to conceal the Tendo Family’s crimes. Kikunojo showed no sign of denying the accusation and condemned Wakō for exposing the family’s secrets.

• Kisara Tendo threatened to cut off Wakō Tendo’s limbs, and he broke down and confessed to the family’s crimes.
• Wakō named Hinata, Xuanzhuo, and Ximin as participants in the cover-up and the release of the Stage I Gastrea.
• Wakō accused Kikunojo Tendo of ordering the deaths of his own son and daughter-in-law to protect the family’s reputation and positions.
• Seitenshi was shaken by the accusation, while Kikunojo remained composed and silent.
• Kikunojo asked whether Wakō’s confession was his last words and called him disgraceful for revealing the family’s secrets.

Kikunojo Tendo confessed to ordering the deaths of Kisara Tendo’s parents and defended the murders as necessary for the Tendo Family and the country. He ordered Kisara to kill Wakō Tendo, and she confronted her brother before he mistook her sheathed sword for mercy.

• Kikunojo Tendo admitted that he had planned the operation that killed Kisara Tendo’s parents.
• Kikunojo Tendo claimed that his son had threatened the Tendo Family and that killing him had been necessary.
• Kikunojo Tendo ordered Wakō Tendo to die and told Kisara Tendo to kill him.
• Wakō Tendo begged Kisara Tendo for mercy, but she reminded him how he had abandoned her after their parents died.
• Kisara Tendo sheathed her sword, and Wakō Tendo wrongly believed she had decided to spare him.

Kisara Tendo killed Wakō Tendo with a sword strike and confronted Kikunojo Tendo over her parents’ deaths. Kikunojo suggested that her survival as a child had depended on someone’s intervention, prompting Kisara to recall the person who had supported her for ten years.

• Kisara Tendo explained that her technique had cut Wakō Tendo twice, and his body split in half as the delayed wound opened.
• The horrified officials watched as Kisara Tendo walked toward Kikunojo Tendo, while Haimo's divine power kept them from moving.
• Kikunojo Tendo questioned Kisara Tendo’s belief that she knew everything about her parents’ deaths and said the planned murder was meant to leave no survivors.
• Kikunojo Tendo asked how Kisara Tendo had survived the Gastrea attack as a six-year-old, despite losing only one kidney.
• Kisara Tendo recalled the person who had been her sole emotional support for the past ten years.

Kikunojo Tendo revealed that Rentaro Satomi had recognized the purge planned by the Tendo Family and chose to save Kisara Tendo to secure both their futures. He argued that Rentaro’s later efforts to dissuade Kisara from pursuing revenge came from guilt, leaving her struggling to believe his account.

• Kikunojo Tendo told Kisara Tendo that Rentaro had noticed the signs of the purge days before it happened but stayed silent because he could not stop the family and would have been killed if he warned her father.
• Kikunojo Tendo said Rentaro had chosen to abandon Kisara’s doomed parents and save her, expecting that her gratitude would strengthen his position in the Tendo Family.
• Kikunojo Tendo condemned Kisara for rejecting the path Rentaro had supposedly planned, claiming they could have become the family’s political and martial leaders.
• Kisara Tendo protested that Rentaro was not that kind of person, but Kikunojo Tendo pressed her to recall how he had repeatedly urged her to abandon revenge.
• Kikunojo Tendo concluded that Rentaro had discouraged Kisara’s pursuit of the truth because he felt guilty.

Kikunojo Tendo shattered Kisara Tendo’s resolve by claiming Rentaro Satomi had been complicit in her parents’ deaths, then threatened that his death would plunge the Tokyo Area into civil war. Kisara hesitated with her sword at his heart as the Seitenshi and ministers confronted the truth about his schemes.

• Kikunojo Tendo told Kisara Tendo that Rentaro Satomi had been an accomplice in her parents’ deaths, making her reinterpret his past pleas against revenge as manipulation.
• Haimo recognized that Kikunojo Tendo’s story was mostly false, but saw that Kisara Tendo had accepted its logic and lost her certainty.
• Kikunojo Tendo offered Kisara Tendo his life, then warned that his death would unleash political conflict and endanger millions in the Tokyo Area.
• The Seitenshi and the other ministers reacted in horror as Kikunojo Tendo abandoned his respectable façade and stopped pretending.

Kisara Tendo hesitated over whether to kill Kikunojo Tendo, fearing the civil war and mass deaths it could cause. Haimo gave her permission to act as she wished and declared that a world-changing purge would begin at dawn.

• Kisara Tendo held Snow Shadow near Kikunojo Tendo’s heart but struggled with the consequences of killing him.
• Kisara Tendo asked Haimo whether killing Kikunojo Tendo would destroy the Tokyo Area.
• Haimo called the city and world rotten and said the old order had to collapse for a new one to emerge.
• Haimo announced that the transformation would begin at dawn, when Gastrea would kill sinners and those who opposed divine will.
• Haimo told Kisara Tendo she was not bound by anyone’s rules and that God would stand behind whatever she chose.