Chapter Summaries

Bell visited the Menethil Family’s small Japan branch after finding intelligence about Japan’s Curse World that interested him. He promised to repair the branch’s unstable expanded office at the family’s expense, then prepared to discuss the intelligence that had brought him there.

• Nanami Misora pleaded with Bell to reduce her punishment, and Bell agreed before Sakamoto invited him into the office.
• Bell noticed that Sakamoto had expanded the office space with an unstable Undetectable Extension Charm and explained that the spell required additional methods to make a large space stable.
• Sakamoto complained that the Japan branch could not afford to hire the family’s construction specialists, but Bell offered to cover the repairs as a reward for the branch’s intelligence.
• Bell explained that he had found intriguing information about Japan’s Curse World while reviewing intelligence and had left the Academy to investigate.
• Sakamoto recalled William’s order that Bell’s commands took precedence over his own.

Bell came to Japan to help treat Isayama Yomi, but learned that her wounds had not improved because the Killing Stone's cursed power could not be removed. After sensing that Japan's earth veins absorbed human malice and spawned evil spirits, Bell suspected the Killing Stone might resonate with the land and generate immense Magic Power.

• Bell told Sakamoto he had come to Japan to help treat Isayama Yomi, whom he had known during an earlier visit.
• Sakamoto recalled seeing Yomi gravely injured and explained that her condition had not improved despite the Countermeasures Office's efforts.
• Sakamoto said the cursed power in Yomi's wounds came from the Killing Stone and could not be dispersed.
• Bell remembered Zhao Youde's account of the Killing Stone and reconsidered how dangerous it might be.
• Bell sensed that Japan's earth veins absorbed the malice of intelligent life and used it to continually produce evil spirits.
• Bell wondered whether the Killing Stone resonated with Japan's earth veins and could generate more Magic Power than the Philosopher's Stone.

Bell learned that Isayama Yomi had disappeared and ordered his people to find her and the person who had used the Killing Stone to injure her. Tsuchimiya Kagura later found Yomi transformed into an evil spirit, inherited Byakuei and the Killing Stone from her dying father, and set out to exorcise her.

• Bell learned Yomi had vanished and ordered Sakamoto to search for her and the culprit who had used the Killing Stone.
• Kagura heard that Yomi was missing and began searching for her, but went to Ginza to fight a sudden outbreak of evil spirits.
• Kagura encountered Yomi surrounded by corpses and could not bring herself to kill the sister she hoped to restore.
• Kagura's father arrived, was fatally wounded by Yomi, and passed Byakuei to Kagura before he died.
• Kagura received the Killing Stone, sensed that Yomi held another one, and left home determined to exorcise her.

Bell interrupted Yomi and Kagura’s deadly clash and explained that he had restrained them to stop the sisters from killing each other. He introduced himself to Kagura and invited Yomi to join his newly founded organization, while Kagura remained suspicious of him.

• Yomi and Kagura fought fiercely until Kagura tried to stab Yomi in the heart with an Exorcism Nail.
• Kagura and Yomi discovered they were both immobilized, and Bell appeared after restraining them with the Full Body Binding Spell.
• Bell criticized Yomi for ignoring Kagura’s feelings and announced the founding of the organization “All Sister-Complexes Are One Family.”
• Bell offered Yomi the position of vice chairman, while Yomi questioned the organization’s name and purpose.
• Kagura accused Bell of turning Yomi into an evil spirit and vowed to protect her sister from men who might deceive her.
• Bell denied being responsible, introduced himself as Bell Menethil, and greeted Kagura.

Bell fought Yomi after the Killing Stone's curse broke his Binding Spell and drove her into a destructive frenzy. He blasted her back with Arcane Burst and ordered Sakamoto and the Countermeasures Office agents to stay out of the battle.

• Yomi's Killing Stone shattered Bell's Binding Spell, and she seized Lion King to attack him.
• Yomi pursued Bell at high speed, repeatedly slashing at him and destroying much of the forest.
• Bell used Arcane Burst to blast Yomi through several trees, though the spell's backlash caused pain across his skin.
• Bell ordered Sakamoto and the Countermeasures Office agents to stop approaching, then fired a Magic Power Impact to keep Yomi back.

Bell fought Yomi while trying to restrain her without killing her, using Qiongqi and a series of Curses to prepare a plan to subdue her. Just as he was about to carry it out, Kagura rushed back into the battle to help Yomi.

• Bell kept Yomi at a distance with Magic Power Impacts and Curses while seeking a way to break her advantage without killing her.
• Yomi summoned Ran Honglian, and Bell called out Qiongqi to counter its Roaring Wave and fight the spirit beast.
• Bell distracted Yomi by showing off Qiongqi, then used Icy Wind Impact to numb her leg and drive her back with repeated blasts of frost.
• Bell lowered the temperature in the forest until snow began to fall, then raised his Wand to complete his plan.
• Kagura returned to the battlefield and summoned Byakuei to help Yomi, sacrificing some of her life force to draw on the Killing Stone's power.

Bell used Body Separation to survive Yomi’s strike, then defeated her with a combined armor-piercing Sectumsempra and Freezing Curse. As Yomi fell frozen, Bell discovered that his separated lower body was flying around beyond his control.

• Bell sent Byakuei and Kagura flying, then resumed fighting Yomi as she regained the advantage.
• Yomi trapped Bell with a blade glow and cut his body in half, but realized her strike had not felt like it hit flesh.
• Bell fired a combined Sectumsempra and Freezing Curse into Yomi’s back, freezing her and sending her falling toward the ground.
• Bell used Wingardium Leviosa to steady his upper body and revealed that Body Separation had kept him alive, though he could not control his lower half.

Bell defeated Yomi and temporarily sealed the Killing Stone, restoring her sanity. He asked whether the stone could be removed from her body, leaving Yomi’s condition unresolved.

• Bell noticed Yomi’s lingering Magic Power in a slash mark and used the Severing Technique to counter her attack.
• Bell froze Yomi, crushed her neck, and sealed part of the Killing Stone’s power.
• Bell used his magic to drive the chill from Yomi’s head, and she regained her sanity.
• Yomi accused Bell of being a pervert and demanded to know what he planned to do with her.
• Bell asked Yomi whether the Killing Stone could be removed from her body.

Bell discovered that Yomi could not be separated from the Killing Stone without killing her, but he refused to do so and proposed making her his Shikigami. He explained that his Patronus, Qiongqi, could protect him from the Killing Stone’s corruption, leaving Yomi to consider his offer.

• Bell learned that the Killing Stone had merged with Yomi’s soul and that removing it would kill her.
• Yomi asked Bell to kill her, but he refused because Kagura would blame him.
• Bell proposed that Yomi become his Shikigami so their contract could help suppress the Killing Stone’s malice.
• Yomi warned Bell that the Killing Stone would corrupt him through their contract and urged him not to risk it.
• Bell summoned Qiongqi and explained that its balance of good and evil thoughts could protect him from the Killing Stone’s corruption.
• Qiongqi whimpered at Bell after sensing his disrespectful thoughts about choosing Yomi over it.

Bell persuaded Yomi to become his Shikigami, promising she could still visit her younger sister Kagura in Japan. He completed a powerful contract ritual to bind her and help suppress the Killing Stone, leaving a crimson, diamond-shaped mark on her forehead.

• Bell reassured his Patronus, then offered Yomi a chance to become his Shikigami and continue visiting Kagura.
• Yomi questioned why Bell was risking so much to save her, and he admitted he had acted because he wanted to.
• Yomi agreed to the contract after Bell promised she could return to Japan to see her younger sister.
• Bell drew a Contract Magic Array and used his blood and an incantation to imprint the Shikigami contract on Yomi's soul.
• The ritual created a crimson diamond-shaped mark on Yomi's forehead around the Killing Stone.

After completing the Shikigami contract, Bell restored Yomi’s body and treated her injuries, despite her kicking him in anger. Yomi made Bell recall Ten Thousand Snakes to protect Kagura, who soon arrived unharmed and demanded that Bell let her sister go.

• The Shikigami contract flooded Bell with Yomi’s memories, and he criticized her taste in men and her former fiancé, Iizuna Kiyonori.
• Yomi demanded to know where Bell had put her body, and Bell showed her that he had kept it nearby and frozen.
• Bell removed the icy Magic Power from Yomi’s body, reattached her head, and healed her neck so she could stand again.
• Yomi kicked Bell in the shin, and he treated his injured leg and gave her a healing Potion while treating her wounds.
• Yomi ordered Bell to recall Ten Thousand Snakes so it would not hurt Kagura, and Kagura arrived unharmed and shouted at Bell to let Yomi go.

Kagura reunited with Yomi after Bell saved her from the Killing Stone’s corruption, and the sisters reconciled despite Yomi having killed their father. Bell interrupted their conversation and urged them to leave the clearing before the Japanese Government arrived.

• Kagura charged at Bell when she saw him pointing a wand at the bloodied Yomi, but Yomi intercepted her and explained that Bell had saved her and she had recovered.
• Kagura and Yomi embraced and wept together, then Yomi apologized for killing Kagura’s father.
• Kagura forgave Yomi, reasoning that she had been a victim of the mastermind who had caused the tragedy.
• Kagura asked Yomi who had killed Sister Ming, injured her, and put the Killing Stone inside her.
• Bell interrupted Yomi before she could explain and urged the sisters to leave the wilderness; Yomi resented the interruption, while Kagura readily agreed.

Bell emerged from the forest with Kagura and Yomi after the battle, ending the anxious wait of the Menethil Family and the Countermeasures Office. When Sakamoto and the others reacted warily to Yomi, Bell told them she was now one of them.

• Sakamoto and Iwahata Koji waited with their groups outside the forest, each struggling over whether to move toward the silent battlefield.
• Sakamoto and Iwahata decided at the same moment to lead their people onward, but Bell's voice stopped them.
• Sakamoto rejoiced that Bell was unharmed, while Iwahata checked that Kagura was safe.
• Bell and Kagura emerged from the forest with Yomi, whose healed injuries and clean clothes hid the battle she had just fought.
• Sakamoto and the others readied their Shikigami and weapons when they saw Yomi, but Bell ordered them to stand down because Sister Yomi was one of them now.

Bell took Yomi and Kagura away from the ravaged woodland after forcing the Countermeasures Office members to lower their weapons. Back at the Menethil Family’s Japan branch, he left the sisters to play and found Nanami Misora asleep at the front desk.

• Kagura told Iwahata Koji and the Countermeasures Office members that Yomi had returned to normal, but they kept their weapons raised because they feared the consequences of Yomi’s past killings.
• Bell intimidated the Countermeasures Office members with his Magic Power until they put down their weapons, then used Side-Along Apparition to take Yomi and Kagura away.
• Sakamoto led his men along the mountain path and scolded one of them for complaining that Bell had not taken them along.
• Bell returned to the Menethil Family’s Japan branch with Yomi and Kagura, then left them to play by themselves.
• Bell woke Nanami Misora at the front desk, and she complained that he had startled her.

Bell and Nanami discussed ordering lunch at the Odd Jobs Shop while Kagura learned that Yomi had become Bell’s Shikigami. The chapter ended with Yomi telling Kagura to sit down and hear her out.

• Bell stopped Sakamoto from scolding Nanami for treating him casually.
• Bell refused to let Nanami cook and agreed to let her order grilled meat instead of sushi.
• Kagura shouted in shock after learning that Yomi had become Bell’s Shikigami.
• Yomi told Kagura to sit down and listen to her explanation.

Bell reunited Yomi and Kagura, arranged for them to bathe and get clean clothes, then contacted Sebas for help with a problem in Japan. He sent a hundred Special Operations Team members to gather at the Menethil Family’s Japan branch.

• Bell entered the office and found Yomi and Kagura holding hands and whispering.
• Yomi took Kagura to bathe, while Bell asked Nanami Misora to buy them clothes.
• Bell called Sebas and asked how many Special Operations Team members could be deployed.
• Sebas offered up to one hundred people, and Bell instructed him to send them to Japan in batches and gather at the family’s Japan branch.

Bell enjoyed barbecue with Yomi while Sakamoto and his companions struggled to run back from the mountains, then welcomed the Special Operations Team's Third Division to Japan. With all one hundred members assembled, Bell prepared to pursue the filthy rat.

• Bell waited for Sakamoto and the others to return, while they exhausted themselves running along a remote mountain road and argued with Sakamoto about buying a car.
• Yomi took over grilling the barbecue, and Bell enjoyed the food she prepared.
• Bell expanded the Odd Jobs Shop to accommodate the arriving Special Operations Team members.
• Jennifer Myers reported that all one hundred members of the Third Division had assembled and asked Bell for orders.
• Bell welcomed the team and prepared to hunt down the filthy rat.

Bell sent the Special Action Team to find Mitarashi Kazuhiro, whom he blamed for mistreating Yomi and whose Killing Stone he also coveted. While waiting for the search, Bell returned with Yomi to the Isayama home, where Kagura turned his Kendo lesson into a chase around the dojo.

• Bell summoned a magical image of Mitarashi Kazuhiro and ordered the Special Action Team to find him, warning them that he was powerful.
• Sakamoto and his subordinates were humbled by the Special Action Team’s strength and resolved to learn the Side-Along Apparition curse.
• Bell agreed to accompany Yomi to the Isayama family home for one last visit before she left Japan.
• Bell asked Yomi to teach him Kendo, and she began training him without allowing him to use Magic Power.
• Kagura arrived, took over Bell’s lesson, and chased him around the dojo after knocking his wooden sword away.

Kagura tried to teach Bell a lesson in the Dojo, but he restrained her and turned to hear Jennifer’s report about the failed hunt for Mitarashi Kazuhiro. Jennifer showed Bell the target’s direction, and Bell expanded her map to reveal the full country before reacting with irritation.

• Yomi gave Kagura her place in the Dojo, and Kagura chased Bell while accusing him of avoiding Kendo practice.
• Kagura launched a jumping chop at Bell, but he used the Full Body-Bind Curse to freeze her and asked Yomi to take her aside.
• Jennifer reported that her teams had tracked the target to the mountain forest, where he used the Killing Stone to summon evil spirits and escape their cordon.
• Bell absolved Jennifer, explaining that Wizards’ Curses were ineffective against spirit-type beings like the evil spirits.
• Jennifer showed Bell a map with the target’s escape direction, and Bell expanded it into a map of the entire country before calling the target a rat.

Bell learned that Mitarashi Kazuhiro was fleeing toward Kyoto, so he planned a blockade with Yomi and Jennifer. He resolved to pursue Mitarashi for the Killing Stone, which let Qiongqi grow and gave Bell small, steady gains in magic power, while Mitarashi remained unaware of the force closing in.

• Bell discovered Mitarashi Kazuhiro was heading for Kyoto and asked Yomi to identify a suitable place to block his route.
• Yomi warned that Kyoto’s outskirts covered too much ground for their current manpower, and Bell decided they would keep chasing Mitarashi if the blockade failed.
• Bell explained that Qiongqi could devour the Killing Stone’s malicious thoughts, grow stronger, and feed small amounts of magic power back to him.
• Bell told Jennifer to use her discretion, and she eagerly hoped Mitarashi would break through so the pursuit could continue.
• Bell advised his group to buy firearm-type Cursed Tools for fighting low-level evil spirits and conceal their identities.
• Mitarashi wondered where the powerful, well-trained masked pursuers had come from.