Recaps

Chiyome refused Bai Mo’s offer to remove her curse and asked him to serve the Mochizuki Clan as its doctor, while deciding not to rely on him further. Back at the clan, she faced Takeda Shingen’s improved terms for an alliance, which required her to reconcile with Morotoki.

• Bai Mo offered to remove Chiyome’s curse, but Chiyome chose to keep it in case it could help the Mochizuki Clan and asked him to stay as their doctor.
• Chiyome told Mochizuki Mo not to exploit Bai Mo’s kindness and ordered the clan members who knew about him to keep quiet.
• Mochizuki Mo offered to support Chiyome if she left the clan to go with Bai Mo, but Chiyome said she would follow the original plan and integrate the Mochizuki Clan into the Takeda Clan.
• Chiyome returned to find Takeda Shingen waiting with improved promises and supplies for the Mochizuki Clan.
• Takeda Shingen made reconciliation with Morotoki a condition of welcoming the Mochizuki Clan, while implying Morotoki would later be sacrificed to settle their grievances.

Bai Mo and Shiki welcomed Da Vinci, who had arrived unexpectedly, and shared dinner while discussing Shiki’s help with Chaldea’s Singularities. After hearing about Bai Mo’s ordeal in Uruk, Bai Mo thanked Shiki, leaving her pleased with her decision to help.

• Shiki told Bai Mo that Da Vinci was coming over, and Bai Mo prepared dinner for their guest.
• Da Vinci arrived at Shiki’s home, where she and Shiki recognized each other and sat down to eat with Bai Mo.
• Da Vinci recognized Bai Mo and teased him about his relationship with Shiki, who explained that she had helped Chaldea deal with powerful beings in the Singularities.
• Da Vinci described the Singularities, and Bai Mo recounted his experiences in Uruk, including the threats posed by Tiamat and Enlil.
• Bai Mo thanked Shiki for helping Chaldea, and Shiki proudly savored his gratitude.

Shiki told Da Vinci that Chaldea might face further trouble and offered her information, while Da Vinci left to retrieve Mnemosyne. In Kaizu Castle, Takeda Moritoki accepted a blue snake and an imperial order as he prepared to target Chiyome and the Mochizuki Clan.

• Shiki told Da Vinci that she was not part of Pan-Human History and offered her information as payment for Da Vinci’s help.
• Da Vinci left the café and decided to retrieve Mnemosyne from the Singularity.
• Takeda Moritoki raged over Chiyome receiving the Source of Power and blamed her for taking what he believed belonged to him.
• A strange voice offered Takeda Moritoki a blue snake that could make Chiyome his puppet if he slipped it into her sake.
• Takeda Moritoki accepted the snake after receiving an imperial order to subjugate the Mochizuki Clan, then drew his sword and vowed to prove his loyalty.

Bai Mo considered how to strengthen his offense against stronger opponents while recovering, and Uesugi Kenshin warned him that a demon had infiltrated Kaizu Castle. Bai Mo refused to leave and prepared to confront the threat, while Kenshin hid in his clinic as someone knocked at the door.

• Bai Mo reviewed his martial arts and considered improving the Orca Heaven and Earth Way to counter opponents with far greater horsepower.
• Bai Wunan and Hell warned Bai Mo against risking contact with Dark Leiao, whose power could make Bai Mo a tempting target.
• Uesugi Kenshin visited Bai Mo's clinic with food and wine, then warned him that Kaizu Castle felt oppressive and that a demon had slipped inside.
• Bai Mo refused Kenshin's request to leave, saying the demon might kill ordinary people and that he had unfinished business with it.
• When someone knocked at the clinic door, Kenshin hid in Bai Mo's bedroom rather than leave through the back door.

Takeda Shingen visited Bai Mo to assess his ties to the Mochizuki Clan and invite him to serve Takeda, while Bai Mo warned him not to mistreat Chiyome. Takeda tried to slip through the back door to gather intelligence, where Uesugi Kenshin seized him and began beating him.

• Takeda Shingen visited Bai Mo, praised his medical skills, and asked about his partnership with the Mochizuki Clan.
• Bai Mo told Takeda Shingen that he would respect Chiyome's choice to return to Takeda but would not tolerate her being humiliated or harmed.
• Mochizuki Mo arrived with news that members of the clan opposed Chiyome's decision and asked Bai Mo for help.
• Takeda Shingen tried to use Bai Mo's back door to eavesdrop on Mochizuki Mo, despite Bai Mo warning him not to enter.
• Uesugi Kenshin grabbed Takeda Shingen, crushed his hand, and dragged him inside while threatening to make him forget the encounter.

Bai Mo used a power he was experimenting with to manifest Mochizuki Kyūdayū and help Chiyome confront the elders opposing reconciliation with the Takeda. After the elders backed down, Chiyome visited Bai Mo’s empty clinic and found a moment of peace there.

• Mo asked Bai Mo for help dealing with the Mochizuki elders, and Bai Mo refused to give her power for a killing spree.
• Bai Mo created a force-formed image of Mochizuki Kyūdayū and sent it to support Chiyome as the elders denounced her plans to reconcile with the Takeda.
• Chiyome read the elders’ private thoughts and discovered that they opposed surrender to protect their own wealth, positions, and secrets.
• Kyūdayū confronted the elders, accused them of betraying the Mochizuki Clan, and drove them away from Chiyome.
• Chiyome accepted Kyūdayū’s support, while Bai Mo returned to Shiki’s place through the clinic’s back door.
• Chiyome entered the empty clinic, found Bai Mo gone, and quietly enjoyed the calm of the room before leaving.

Bai Mo discussed Shiki joining his dangerous journey and insisted she put her safety first. Shiki agreed, then reminded him that they would protect each other as traveling companions.

• Bai Mo watched Shiki carve her steak into a human shape and slice it apart while they discussed her dislike of snakes.
• Bai Mo sensed that his Spirit Origin was nearly exhausted and recalled Bai Wunan's advice about restoring his soul before using Bai Lubao's power to repair it.
• Shiki asked Bai Mo to take her out before he left, and he agreed to bring her along despite warning her that the journey could be dangerous.
• Bai Mo told Shiki never to put herself in danger for him, and she said she was happy that he cared about her.
• Shiki pinched Bai Mo's cheeks and told him to recover quickly, adding that their responsibility to protect each other went both ways.

Chiyome left Bai Mo’s clinic feeling newly unconcerned with others’ gossip, while Bai Mo found the Mochizuki Clan crest she had left and misunderstood it as a political warning. She then went to meet Takeda Moritoki for the last time, bracing herself to endure his insults, and found him waiting in carefully arranged samurai attire.

• Chiyome left Bai Mo’s clinic openly and dismissed the gossip of people who saw her leaving.
• Chiyome began to view her power as useful and questioned her childlike physique as she walked through the market.
• Bai Mo found Chiyome’s Mochizuki Clan crest and mistakenly took it as a warning about his fabricated Mochizuki Kyūdayū.
• Chiyome headed to the Takeda Clan’s entrance to complete political formalities with Takeda Moritoki, struggling with resentment as she reminded herself to endure.
• Chiyome entered Moritoki’s room and judged his polished appearance against the ugliness she sensed within him.

Chiyome negotiated with Takeda Morotoki, but his demand that she drink wine he had soaked his feet in turned the meeting into a humiliating confrontation. Morotoki threatened the Mochizuki Clan to restrain her, and Chiyome finally snapped as he tried to force the cup on her.

• Chiyome met Morotoki to discuss peace between the Mochizuki and Takeda clans, and used Electric Current Push to make him sit down.
• Morotoki demanded that Chiyome drink one cup of wine to settle their grievances, then soaked his feet in the wine before offering it to her.
• Morotoki taunted Chiyome and threatened that the Takeda Clan would destroy the Mochizuki Clan if she killed him.
• Chiyome struggled between her anger and her responsibility to her clan as Morotoki mocked her and urged her to drink.
• Morotoki lifted the cup to force the wine down Chiyome’s throat, and she cursed him and warned that he was courting death.

Bai Mo rescued Chiyome after her bloodline curse erupted and left Morotoki incapacitated. Ashiya Dōman then found Morotoki and tortured him for ruining his plan to control Chiyome's soul.

• Chiyome's power went out of control when a phantom blue snake lunged from the wine and bit her, blasting apart part of the Takeda Clan's residence.
• Bai Mo extinguished Chiyome's flames, recognized that her bloodline curse had been triggered, and carried her away.
• Morotoki claimed Chiyome and her power as his spoils, so Bai Mo used Electric Current Push, Heart-Crushing Electric Claw to immobilize him and warned him they would discuss Douman later.
• Ashiya Dōman appeared and blamed Morotoki for ruining his plan to use a shikigami to control Chiyome's soul.
• Dōman burned Morotoki's legs and pierced him with steel needles, vowing to torment him because killing him could trigger the means Bai Mo had left in his heart.

Bai Mo brought Chiyome to the Mochizuki Clan shrine and confronted Ibuki-Douji about the curse threatening her. After learning that the curse belonged to Ibuki-Douji’s separated calamity aspect, Bai Mo protected Chiyome and went to meet the approaching entity, while Uesugi Kenshin set out with Hōshō Tsukige.

• Bai Mo laid Chiyome in the ancestral shrine and summoned the god connected to the Mochizuki bloodline.
• Ibuki-Douji appeared and explained that Chiyome’s curse came from her separated aspect, which embodied calamity and impurity.
• Ibuki-Douji said the calamity aspect was already approaching in a rage, and Bai Mo sensed its vast power from far away.
• Bai Mo shielded Chiyome with a barrier and vanished to confront the calamity aspect.
• Uesugi Kenshin remained unaffected by the divine presence and left with Hōshō Tsukige as warriors and ashigaru crawled after them, hoping to witness the threat.

Bai Mo fought the Ibuki God with his long saber, but Ashiya Dōman trapped them both in a strange space. Bai Mo recognized it as the system remnants they had sought and prepared to deal with the Ibuki God before recovering it.

• The Ibuki God appeared above the ocean current, and Bai Mo caught his first saber before charging at her.
• Bai Mo split the Ibuki God's serpents, shattered Kusanagi no Great Saber, and drove her into the sea.
• As Bai Mo prepared a finishing strike, a strange space pulled him and the Ibuki God inside.
• Ashiya Dōman arrived at the shrine and moved to capture the weakened Chiyome.
• Bai Mo identified the strange space as the system remnants and saw the Ibuki God absorbing its accumulated curses.

Bai Mo fought the Ibuki God after she absorbed Douman’s curses and unstable power, which rapidly destroyed her body. He defeated her in a final clash, and she vanished, leaving behind a short saber.

• Bai Mo tested the curses and realized the Ibuki God was absorbing power she could not control, which would eventually destroy her.
• The Ibuki God challenged Bai Mo to fight instead of waiting for her to collapse, and he chose to meet her next strike.
• The Ibuki God absorbed curses without restraint and transformed them into a vast assault of cursed serpents and black waves.
• Bai Mo charged into the Ibuki God’s Eight Veins Raging Waves and shattered her divine core with his demon blade.
• The Ibuki God accepted her defeat and disappeared, leaving behind the short Kusanagi no Great Saber.

Bai Mo erased Evil Spirit Safu and helped Chiyome defeat Ashiya Dōman, then studied how Enki’s purification could counter curses and other mind-altering powers. After Kebao and Giant Shark each struck him with their powers, Bai Mo began investigating their effects through Dark Reincarnation.

• Bai Mo erased Evil Spirit Safu, allowing Chiyome to wound and kill Ashiya Dōman.
• Bai Mo recovered the system remnants and told Shiki that his business was finished and they could plan a trip to Kyoto.
• Bai Mo used Enki’s cord of flowing water in the hot spring to study how purification affected Ibuki God’s curse and the mind.
• Bai Mo applied Dark Reincarnation to his experiments and decided to test it against the stronger curse in the short blade.
• Kebao and Giant Shark each struck Bai Mo with the powers of pain and madness, while exchanging insults before withdrawing.

Bai Mo endured the clashing powers of suffering and madness and created a tranquil power that could soothe intense emotions and extinguish those influences. The power left Tiandao unaffected but briefly stirred Darkness’s emotions, prompting a furious reaction from the maple grove.

• Bai Mo’s leaking powers of suffering and madness drove a soldier toward suicide and made two squirrels attack each other.
• Bai Mo subdued the black panther and giant shark manifestations and formed a water-like power that brought tranquility.
• Bai Wunan tested the new power on the gathered warriors, and War God Ke Bao found it erased the effects of suffering and madness.
• Tiandao felt no change when he accepted the power, while Bai Cinan explained that it could soothe powerful warriors’ emotions.
• Darkness erupted in anger after briefly feeling the effect of the power, and Bai Cinan dispersed the force he unleashed.

Bai Mo recovered a damaged small-world space and let Shiki take part of its control after she confronted him for handling a dangerous task alone. Shiki discovered she could isolate him inside the space and left him facing the implications of becoming her “prisoner.”

• Bai Mo finished restoring the area with a drizzle, and Shiki confronted him in the hot spring for taking risks without asking her for help.
• Bai Mo explained that he wanted to repay Shiki’s help rather than become someone who only took from her, and he agreed she could make requests of him.
• Bai Mo showed Shiki the recovered space and offered it to her, so she entered it and spoke with Great Saber, Oga, and Bai Wunan.
• Shiki used the space’s rules to create a large stretch of flat ground and explained that part of its control now belonged to her.
• Shiki warned Bai Mo that she could pull him into her secluded space whenever she wished, where others could not detect him.

Bai Mo and Shiki enjoyed a quiet evening in Kyoto until Chiyome’s Magnetic Field Rotation lit up the sky. Earlier that day, Ibuki-Douji offered Chiyome a chance to grow stronger, leaving her to decide whether to accept the crystal.

• Bai Mo and Shiki shared tea and a meal in Sen no Rikyu’s tearoom, then spotted a blast in the sky that Bai Mo recognized as Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Bai Mo and Shiki confirmed that Chiyome had caused the blast and continued drinking tea, while Bai Mo decided she would have to take responsibility for her actions.
• Chiyome fled across Kyoto’s rooftops after demonstrating her new power, and the narration returned to the morning when she woke at the Mochizuki Clan residence.
• Ibuki-Douji appeared beside Chiyome’s bed and offered her a magical crystal that could strengthen her power.
• Ibuki-Douji explained that Bai Mo had inspired her to help Chiyome, then asked Chiyome whether she wanted to become strong.

Chiyome failed to use Ibuki-Douji’s power to break through, then confronted the humiliation she had once considered enduring. She seized control of Takeda Morotoki, tortured him, and discovered an imperial order condemning her before leaving him alive and horribly injured.

• Chiyome stopped her cultivation attempt and recalled how she had hesitated over whether to submit to Morotoki’s humiliating demand.
• Chiyome entered Morotoki’s room, wounded him, and sealed off the area so he could not summon help.
• Chiyome repeatedly injured and healed Morotoki, listing the ways he had abused her and her clan while reveling in her control over him.
• Morotoki claimed he had acted under the emperor’s orders, and Chiyome found a secret imperial order calling for her subjugation.
• Chiyome left Morotoki alive in a grotesquely injured state and vanished from the room.

After breaking through to Magnetic Field Rotation, Chiyome went to the empty clinic, then traveled to Kyoto and stormed the imperial palace. She overpowered the emperor and his consort, forced them to serve her, and became intoxicated with the feeling of humiliating someone so powerful.

• Chiyome reached Magnetic Field Rotation and hurried to the clinic, but found Bai Mo and Shiki gone.
• Chiyome flew to Kyoto, entered the imperial palace, and dismissed its guards and the emperor’s authority.
• When the emperor challenged her, Chiyome sent him and his consort crashing into a wall with her power.
• Chiyome made the emperor kneel, bound him to a pillar, and had his consort pour her wine.
• Chiyome reveled in the emperor’s humiliation and drank until she became intoxicated.

After fleeing the palace, Chiyome returned to Kaizu Castle, where she tried to act on her desire for Bai Mo. Seeing him peacefully reading with Shiki, she refused to disrupt his happiness and let her burning resolve fade.

• Chiyome erased the emperor’s and consort’s memories, escaped the palace, and laughed as she tested the immense power of her punch.
• Chiyome returned to Kaizu Castle and approached Bai Mo’s clinic, while Bai Mo and Shiki discussed how repression might shape her behavior.
• Chiyome opened the clinic’s back door and saw Bai Mo reading beside Shiki in a sealed library room.
• Chiyome’s inner voice urged her to take Bai Mo by force, but she collapsed against the wall and said she could not destroy his happiness.
• Chiyome let her repressed desire burn itself out as Cath Palug watched her.

Bai Mo closed his clinic, entrusted Mochizuki Mo with his medical knowledge and its future, and prepared to leave. At a farewell banquet, Chiyome arrived struggling with her renewed desire for him.

• Bai Mo wrote prescriptions and illustrated instructions for his patients before compiling his herbal knowledge into a book and giving it, the clinic keys, and hidden gold to Mochizuki Mo.
• Bai Mo encouraged Mo to leave the ninja life someday, practice medicine, and pass on what she learned, and Mo stopped trying to persuade him to stay.
• Mo proposed a farewell gathering and left to invite Chiyome, while Bai Mo planned to return the Moon Ring and Nine Luminaries and ask Chiyome about her time in Kyoto.
• Bai Mo closed the clinic for good, and Da Vinci arrived with Renaissance machinery after arranging to travel with him.
• Kenshin arrived and protested Bai Mo's departure because she would miss his drinks, then joined the banquet.
• Chiyome arrived at the door, fighting the desire she still felt for Bai Mo despite having tried to satisfy it several times.

Chiyome reunited with Bai Mo and the others after gaining magnetic field power, but her secretive behavior and confession revealed that she had taken revenge on the emperor in a way that endangered the Mochizuki Clan. Bai Mo reprimanded her and kept her clan crest, warning that her actions could turn all of Japan against her.

• Shiki greeted Chiyome as the lady of the house and asked her to clean the library corridor, where she discovered that Shiki knew about her compromising nighttime visit.
• Shiki reassured Chiyome that she would not tell Bai Mo what she had seen, and Chiyome joined the farewell meal in a daze.
• Bai Mo returned the Moon Ring and Nine Luminaries to Chiyome, and Kenshin asked whether she had used her new power against Takeda Shingen.
• Bai Mo asked what Chiyome had done after gaining her power, and she admitted that she had tied up the emperor and forced him to watch his consort act like a courtesan.
• Kenshin praised Chiyome's courage, but Bai Mo struck her with the clan crest and warned that her revenge could make the Mochizuki Clan enemies of all Japan.

After Chiyome’s mistake with the emperor, Bai Mo went to handle the fallout while Shiki urged Chiyome to choose a better future. Later, Bai Mo showed Da Vinci his collection of Mesopotamian Me and offered to lend them to her for research in exchange for something.

• Bai Mo left Chiyome with Kenshin, Shiki, and Da Vinci to deal with the consequences of Chiyome’s actions.
• Kenshin and Chiyome drank heavily, and Chiyome asked Shiki about her life with Bai Mo and whether they planned to have children.
• Shiki told Chiyome she hoped she would choose a better future, but Chiyome resolved not to give up.
• Bai Mo showed Da Vinci the Me of craftsmanship and explained how Enlil had used it to create a Lahmu civilization.
• Bai Mo revealed a collection of other Me and offered Da Vinci the chance to research them for a price.

Bai Mo parted from Kenshin and accompanied Chiyome to Kyoto, where she confronted Oda Nobunaga over the emperor’s affair. Chiyome reached a bargain with Nobunaga, but as they walked out of the city, she felt an emptiness she could not shake.

• Bai Mo gave Kenshin medicinal wine and the pagoda, and Kenshin left after they agreed they might meet again.
• Bai Mo took Chiyome to Kyoto and told her to resolve her trouble without his help.
• Chiyome entered the Nijo residence, demonstrated her strength, and carried Oda Nobunaga out past the guards.
• Chiyome told Bai Mo she had agreed to save Nobunaga in a future crisis in exchange for Nobunaga covering up the emperor’s affair and abandoning power afterward.
• Bai Mo approved of the deal, and Chiyome walked beside him through Kyoto before slowing at the road out of the city.

Bai Mo helped an abused nightingale before returning home, where he waited for Shiki and prepared to leave once the remaining Spirit Origin ran out. Arcueid returned and confessed that she had given a stone tablet in Imaginary Number Space both the Ryougi Lataib and Bai Mo's copied cultivation manual, leaving Bai Mo especially concerned about the copy.

• Bai Mo left silver for a beaten nightingale, who found it in her quilt after he vanished from a rooftop.
• Bai Mo returned home, learned from Da Vinci that the commissioned ship was finished, and noticed Shiki was missing along with her blade.
• Bai Mo waited for Shiki, but Arcueid arrived at the door at tremendous speed after finishing her absorption of what Leiao had left behind in Uruk.
• Arcueid apologized and explained that she had handed the Ryougi Lataib to a stone tablet in Imaginary Number Space.
• Bai Mo asked whether Leiao had harmed Arcueid, then reacted with concern when she admitted giving away the copy of the cultivation manual he had transcribed.