Recaps

After recovering from her injuries with Medea’s potion, Atalanta visited Bai Mo and invited him to go hunting with her after their current troubles ended. Bai Mo accepted without realizing the invitation’s significance, and Atalanta later discovered he had not rejected her.

• Atalanta told Bai Mo that Medea’s potion had healed her injuries.
• Atalanta asked Bai Mo about his plans, then invited him to hunt with her once their troubles were over.
• Bai Mo agreed, and Atalanta hurried away while the Argo Heroes watched and placed bets on his answer.
• Jason paid his bet and hoped Bai Mo would find someone he cared about to keep him from risking everything.
• Atalanta replayed their conversation, realized Bai Mo had accepted, and celebrated before telling herself the hunt was only to repay him and teach him wilderness skills.

As the Argo’s food ran low, Medea proposed a plan that involved taking her brother hostage and potentially killing him, while Bai Mo confronted her about what she intended to do. After Medea rejected his warning about her love for Jason, Bai Mo realized the gods might be watching him and faced a choice about how to act.

• Jason worried that the Argo would run out of food while Colchis pursued them, and Medea offered to solve the problem with a plan.
• Bai Mo caught a swordfish using precise control of his electric power and reflected on his training and future ambitions.
• Medea asked Bai Mo to guard her as she carried out a plan to approach her brother and take him hostage.
• Bai Mo learned that Medea intended to leave her brother behind if necessary, and he confronted her about the possibility that she would sacrifice him.
• Bai Mo warned Medea that Aphrodite’s love arrow might be controlling her feelings, but Medea said she accepted her love as happiness and told him not to interfere.
• After Medea left, Bai Mo’s olive branch eased his pain, and he resolved to choose his own fate while wondering what the gods had done to him.

Medea used the exchange for supplies to lure Absyrtus into her hands and make him a hostage against Aeëtes’s fleet. When she tried to kill him to stop the pursuit, Bai Mo turned against her, rescued Absyrtus, and returned him to Aeëtes.

• Medea arranged to exchange herself for supplies, and Bai Mo helped her capture Absyrtus when he came to meet them.
• After taking the grain and water, Medea drugged Absyrtus, and Bai Mo carried him aboard the Agor while his guards stood down.
• Absyrtus tried to escape, but Bai Mo stopped him as Aeëtes’s fleet approached the Agor.
• Medea ordered Bai Mo to dislocate Absyrtus’s limbs and threatened to kill him unless Aeëtes stopped pursuing them.
• Bai Mo seized Medea’s wrist before she could strike Absyrtus, then threw her to Heracles and leaped with Absyrtus onto Aeëtes’s ship.
• Bai Mo reset Absyrtus’s limbs, and Aeëtes welcomed his son back.

Bai Mo rescued Absyrtus and destroyed Colchis’s ships to give the Argo a chance to escape, but Ares’s blessing empowered the Colchian soldiers and Aeëtes ordered them to pursue the ship. As Bai Mo struggled to keep the fleet from reaching the Argo, Medea began preparing a ritual to counter the divine blessing.

• Aeëtes embraced Absyrtus and offered Bai Mo a third of his kingdom, while Heracles stopped Medea from using her threads against Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo broke the mast of Aeëtes’ flagship and asked whether Aeëtes would spare the Argo and Jason if Bai Mo returned the Golden Fleece and surrendered Jason and Medea.
• Bai Mo broke the masts of more Colchian ships, and Ares’s blessing suddenly strengthened their soldiers and intensified their fighting spirit.
• Aeëtes ordered his warriors to attack Bai Mo and pursue the Argo, while Bai Mo was held back by soldiers he refused to kill.
• Heracles blasted apart a pursuing ship as archers turned their fire on the Argo, and Medea began preparing ritual implements to counter the blessing.

Bai Mo tried to stop the frenzied Colchian fleet from destroying the Argo while Medea sought Poseidon's help through a sacrifice. Though Ares's blessing withstood Bai Mo's first attacks, his persistence finally broke it, and the Argo escaped on the current.

• Bai Mo ran across the sea and intercepted the Colchian fleet, drawing its attacks away from the Argo.
• Medea completed a ritual and prayed to Poseidon, who answered after hearing her renew Jason's promise to marry and love her.
• Bai Mo unleashed a powerful blade strike, but Ares's blessing protected the fleet and arrows wounded him.
• Bai Mo kept fighting despite his injuries, determined not to abandon his friends aboard the Argo.
• Bai Mo's blade energy shattered Ares's blessing and tore apart a ship, while the current carried the Argo away.

Bai Mo destroyed Colchis’s fleet but spared its soldiers, then swam away badly wounded and reached an island. There he met Circe, who offered to take him to her home, and he wondered whether she was Medea’s aunt.

• Bai Mo’s attacks shattered Colchis’s ships until Ares withdrew the fleet’s fighting spirit, ending the battle.
• Bai Mo stopped attacking, and the frightened survivors abandoned their pursuit; Aeëtes learned that no one had died and ordered his people to regroup.
• Wounded and losing blood, Bai Mo swam toward an island, passed one he suspected might be dangerous, and headed for another where he detected a small boat.
• Circe walked her puppy along the shore, where the animal cowered as Bai Mo came ashore and collapsed on the beach.
• Circe offered the injured Bai Mo shelter, and he noticed her pointed ears and wondered whether she was Medea’s aunt.

Bai Mo stayed at Circe’s cottage while trying to recover and investigate her magic, but letters from Aeëtes revealed his role in the events at Colchis and warned Circe not to antagonize him. When Circe returned with a meal, Bai Mo stopped a blade just short of her forehead, accused her of planning to drug him, and was left uncertain when she burst into tears.

• Circe brought Bai Mo barley porridge, and he used Electric Current Push to try to analyze it rather than drink it.
• Aeëtes’s first letter told Circe that Medea had betrayed Colchis, Bai Ermo had defeated the pursuing army, and Aeëtes was preparing to break with the gods.
• A second letter identified Bai Ermo as a hero who had saved Absyrtus and warned Circe not to make trouble for him; Circe realized Bai Mo was the man in her house.
• Circe decided she needed Bai Mo’s help to bring Medea back and prepared a lavish meal with poisonous ingredients.
• Bai Mo raised his blade at Circe when she entered his room, then stopped it just short of her forehead and accused her of intending to drug him.
• Circe sat down and began crying, leaving Bai Mo unsure how to respond.

Bai Mo apologized to Circe after realizing he had wrongly accused her of drugging him, then learned more about the gods’ curse on Medea and promised to take her back to Colchis. He revealed that his anger at the gods came from his own painful past and his resolve to prevent Medea’s tragic fate.

• Bai Mo stopped Circe’s tears, apologized for threatening her, and accepted the reheated porridge after confirming it was ordinary food.
• Circe told Bai Mo that Aeëtes had informed her about him, and she explained that Medea’s love for the leader of the invading Argonauts came from a god’s curse.
• Circe revealed that Hera had exposed the curse to the Argo’s crew through a prophecy, and she cursed the gods from behind her magical protections.
• Bai Mo promised Circe that he would take Medea back to Colchis, then explained that he could not stand by while the gods decided her fate.
• Bai Mo told Circe about his abusive family and his envy of the affection Medea had received, strengthening his resolve to change her ending.

Bai Mo recovered on Aeaea while Circe treated his wounds and delayed his departure to rescue Medea. In Thessaly, Jason and Atalanta worried about Bai Mo, while Medea feared what might happen if Colchis captured him.

• Circe insisted on applying salve to Bai Mo's wounds, secretly removing the War God's blessing so his Magnetic Field Power could heal him.
• The Argo Heroes returned safely to Thessaly with Poseidon's blessing, and Jason asked Medea whether she had heard news of Bai Mo.
• Medea urged Jason to seek Athena's knowledge of Bai Mo, but Jason left the feast instead of spending the night with her.
• Medea worried that Aeëtes might capture Bai Mo and demand him in exchange for the Golden Fleece or for her.
• Atalanta decided to remain in Thessaly until news arrived and prayed for Bai Mo's safety.
• Bai Mo caught Circe groping him as his wounds healed, and Circe left him to face the drugged feast alone.

Bai Mo tried to leave Circe’s island, but she drugged his porridge and left him unconscious despite his resistance. In Thessaly, Medea discovered wrinkles on her face, while Athena and Aphrodite argued over whether love would distract Bai Mo from his future role.

• Bai Mo confronted Circe about drugging the food, then drank the porridge after refusing her offer to cook another meal.
• The sleeping potion overwhelmed Bai Mo after he forced Circe out, and he fell into a deep sleep while Circe revealed that events had gone as planned.
• In Thessaly, Medea saw wrinkles at the corner of her eye, shattered her mirror, and sought comfort beside the sleeping Jason.
• Athena watched Aeaea Island restlessly as Aphrodite teased her about worrying over Bai Mo and his possible feelings for Circe.
• Athena insisted that love was an obstacle to Bai Mo’s destiny, while Aphrodite mocked her certainty that he would become a celebrated epic hero without emotional attachments.

Bai Mo accepted Circe’s Garment of the Hawk and set off from Aeaea Island, despite refusing her confession because he expected to leave this era. He flew toward a safe island to rest, hoping he could repay Circe someday.

• Circe failed to enter Bai Mo’s room, fell asleep outside his door, and woke in his bed to find he had made her porridge.
• Bai Mo asked Circe to undo the curses on the sailors in her pigpen, and she agreed after revealing she knew he had swum from the Colchis fleet and bore the sea god’s blessing.
• Circe confessed that she liked Bai Mo, but he refused to accept her love because he could not promise her a future and expected to leave the era.
• Circe asked Bai Mo to return after his affairs were settled, then gave him the Garment of the Hawk, a Mystic Code that enabled swift, self-directed flight.
• Bai Mo flew away from Aeaea Island, chose a safe island for the night, and began recovering beside a campfire.

Pelias and Aeëtes’s schemes pushed Medea to demand that Jason marry her, while Athena warned Jason that Bai Ermo faced a difficult future and struggled to understand Bai Ermo’s identity and purpose. The chapter ended with Athena’s theories collapsing as three game pieces shattered and the final piece cracked.

• Pelias received Aeëtes’s demand for Medea’s return and welcomed the chance it gave him to undermine the Golden Fleece offering.
• Medea silenced and magically enslaved Pelias’s attendant, then destroyed the decree he had brought.
• Jason asked Athena about Bai Ermo, and she said he was safe but faced trials worse than Heracles’s; Jason later enjoyed hearing a bard praise the Argo heroes.
• Medea worried about her aging appearance and persuaded Jason to marry her the next day, using a forged letter from Pelias as leverage.
• Athena examined four pieces representing Bai Ermo’s power, background, birth, and goal, but three shattered and the last developed a crack.

Bai Mo returned to Thessaly, witnessed the poverty and abuse of its people, and killed Pelias after learning of his soldiers’ cruelty. He left Jason to claim the throne and walked alone toward Athena’s temple, troubled by how little killing had changed the suffering around him.

• Medea agreed to help Jason take the throne from Pelias, while Bai Mo returned to Thessaly by boat with an old fisherman.
• Bai Mo learned that Pelias’s fees for Jason and Medea’s offering had burdened the poor, then gave a gold coin to a woman whose child was sick.
• Bai Mo caught two soldiers stealing the woman’s coin, injured them, and followed one to her home, where he found the child dead.
• Bai Mo confronted Pelias at the palace and killed him after sending him to ask the dead soldier why Bai Mo had come.
• Bai Mo left the palace in the rain, rejected Jason’s attempt to approach him, and urged Jason to treat his future subjects well.

Bai Mo waited for Athena while she questioned Prometheus about fate, and Jason asked Medea to return the Thread of Fate to Bai Mo. After Atalanta left in a jealous mood, Poseidon appeared at Jason and Medea's wedding and fixed his attention on Medea.

• Bai Mo found Athena absent from her temple and returned to his room to consider how to escape her plans.
• Athena visited Prometheus on Mount Caucasus and asked what fate held for the gods, but Prometheus refused to tell her.
• Jason asked Medea to return the Thread of Fate to Bai Ermo after their wedding, and Medea agreed.
• Atalanta visited Bai Mo at Athena's temple, became upset when he talked about Circe, and left.
• Poseidon arrived at Jason and Medea's wedding in a tornado, and he and Bai Mo both turned their attention to Medea.

Poseidon took Medea’s youthful years after Athena prevented him from claiming the Thread of Fate, and Jason rejected Medea when her beauty was gone. Bai Mo stopped Medea from killing Jason and confronted Poseidon over his laughter.

• Hera intervened when Poseidon demanded Medea’s Thread of Fate, and Athena declared Medea had no right to sacrifice it.
• Poseidon took Medea’s youth, leaving her aged, and Jason refused to marry her because he said she was no longer useful to him.
• Medea listed everything she had sacrificed for Jason, then begged Bai Mo to kill him in exchange for the Thread of Fate and all her powers.
• Bai Mo rushed to Medea and appeared to stab her, while Poseidon mocked her and Jason called for attendants to seize her.
• Bai Mo supported Medea, challenged Poseidon’s laughter, and revealed the leaden arrow that could undo the curse of love.

Bai Mo defended Medea from Poseidon and urged her to return home, but she gave him the Thread of Fate, which showed him visions of possible futures. After the visions ended, Bai Mo carried Medea toward the fleet of Colchis while the gods watched.

• Poseidon sent a seawater warhorse to attack Bai Mo, but Athena intervened and stopped the assault.
• Bai Mo told Medea she had done nothing wrong and urged her to go home, while deciding he might have to ally with Athena.
• Medea gave Bai Mo the Thread of Fate, and it transported him through visions of a victory feast, the gods harming humanity, and a possible future in which he ruled as king of the gods.
• Bai Mo returned to reality, scooped up Medea, and flew toward the fleet of Colchis.
• Athena left, Hera followed, and Poseidon remained behind watching coldly.

Bai Mo fought through Poseidon’s storm and armies of sea monsters to carry Medea toward the fleet of Colchis, refusing Athena’s attempt to make him abandon her. Just as Aeëtes recognized his daughter and sent boats to rescue them, Poseidon rose from the sea and trapped Bai Mo and Medea in enormous waves.

• Poseidon raised towering waves and summoned tornadoes and sea monsters to stop Bai Mo from returning Medea to Colchis.
• Medea used True Magic to guide Bai Mo through the storm while he fought sea monsters and protected her.
• Athena used her power to fill Bai Mo with absolute reason and urge him to abandon Medea, but he stayed true to his promise and continued fighting.
• After nearly three hours, Bai Mo broke through the sea monsters’ blockade and spotted the fleet of Colchis.
• Aeëtes recognized Medea on Bai Mo’s back and ordered boats to rescue them, but whirlpools swallowed the boats.
• Poseidon emerged from the ocean and surrounded Bai Mo and Medea with enormous waves, trapping them at sea.

Bai Mo rejected Athena’s offer of protection, threw Medea toward the returning Argo, and defied Poseidon and the other Olympian gods. After he cast Athena’s olive branch into the sea and warned Zeus about the prophecy, the gods erupted in anger and Athena decided to cut ties with him.

• Poseidon demanded that Bai Mo surrender Medea under their sacrificial agreement, while Jason brought the Argo back through the storm to help.
• Athena urged Bai Mo to offer her the Thread of Fate and revealed that she believed he was the prophesied child who could overthrow Zeus, but Bai Mo accused her of manipulating him.
• Bai Mo hurled Medea toward the Argo, then fought Poseidon as Athena repeatedly offered him protection in exchange for his loyalty.
• Bai Mo denounced Hera, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Ares, and Athena, then threw Athena’s olive branch into the sea and declared that no one could control his life.
• Bai Mo warned Zeus that his actions might fulfill the prophecy, provoking the gods on Olympus, while Athena concluded that she had to cut ties with him.

Bai Mo gambled on absorbing Zeus’s lightning to escape the world, but the strain nearly killed him before he awakened Magnetic Field Rotation and cut Poseidon in half. As Poseidon begged Zeus to save him, Zeus unleashed an even more powerful lightning strike at Bai Mo.

• Athena told Zeus that Bai Mo was the person born under Cronus’s curse and said Prometheus had made him impossible to turn back.
• Poseidon and Hades attacked Bai Mo, who asked the system whether enough energy could take them out of the world.
• Bai Mo tried to absorb Zeus’s lightning, but his heart failed under the energy’s strain.
• Bai Mo’s heart beat again, and he awakened Magnetic Field Rotation, using the Peerless Demon Blade to slice Poseidon in half.
• Poseidon begged Zeus for help, and Zeus summoned a lightning strike more than fifty times stronger than the previous one.

Bai Mo used Zeus’s lightning and his own life force to unleash Selfless Demon Blade, killing Poseidon before being transported toward Fuyuki City. He survived with his magnetic field realm stabilized at 250,000 horsepower, but learned the technique had cost him a fifth of his lifespan.

• Bai Mo recalled how Great Saber had stopped him from practicing Selfless Demon Blade after he lost consciousness during training.
• Bai Mo endured Zeus’s lightning, combined it with his own power, and unleashed Selfless Demon Blade to sever Poseidon’s head.
• Jason, Aeëtes, and the Colchis soldiers watched in shock as Bai Mo disappeared and the gods’ assault ended.
• While Bai Mo fell through the space between worlds, he reflected on the people and promises he had left behind and stabilized his magnetic field realm.
• Bai Wunan visited Great Saber in the training space and warned that the treasure had drawn out Bai Mo’s power ahead of time.
• The system told Bai Mo that he retained 250,000 horsepower but had burned through a fifth of his lifespan using Selfless Demon Blade.

After the Argo returned to Thessaly with the Golden Fleece, Jason tried to keep his distance from Medea and secretly sought a potion that could put her to sleep forever. Medea caught him with two women, punished them, and revealed that she had already made the potion he wanted, leaving Jason trapped in fear of her and Poseidon.

• Pelias reluctantly allowed Thessaly to celebrate Jason and the Argo's return, while Jason asked Medea to fulfill a list of demands and pray at Athena's temple.
• Jason told a wizard to make a potion that would put someone to sleep forever, hoping to deal with Medea without confronting her directly.
• Jason slept with two dancing girls, but Medea found them in his room and wounded them with magical iron brambles and blades.
• Jason persuaded Medea to spare the women by claiming he had mistaken them for her, then changed the subject and went with her.
• Medea told Jason she had made an eternal-sleep potion as a child and crushed the bottle, while Jason realized he had no safe way to escape her.

Alaya recorded Bai Ermo as a Saber-class Heroic Spirit, while Bai Mo trained in a strange space and entered his training space. After months of meditation and exploration, he met Oga, whose appearance shocked him enough to fall off a cliff.

• Alaya recorded Bai Ermo's impression from ancient Greek legend and confirmed his class as Saber.
• At the Clock Tower, a lecturer discussed Bai Ermo's role in the decline of faith in the gods, while Kiritsugu Emiya learned that Einzbern had prepared a golden scabbard for the Holy Grail War.
• Bai Mo sensed someone watching him, then entered his training space and spent three months struggling to quiet his mind through meditation.
• Bai Mo explored the sea, befriended a pod of orcas, and returned to meditate with a calmer mind.
• Oga appeared beside Bai Mo after six months, and Bai Mo accidentally unleashed a powerful attack before calling him "Nagging Whale" and falling off the cliff.

Oga taught Bai Mo Limitless Tremor Zen and his other whale-style martial arts, then reflected on his own life after hearing why Bai Mo had rejected Athena’s offer. After a year and a half of training, Oga taught Bai Mo his strongest technique, Orca Heaven and Earth Way-Ultimate True Form, leaving Bai Mo horrified by the transformation.

• Oga taught Bai Mo Limitless Tremor Zen and explained that he and Great Saber controlled who could enter their space.
• Oga asked why Bai Mo had refused Athena’s offer, and Bai Mo said he wanted to live according to his own heart rather than become what others expected.
• Bai Mo urged Oga to leave the space and enjoy life, but Oga explained that leaving would destroy the world and himself.
• Oga taught Bai Mo the principles of Orca Tyrant Fist and his other martial arts, while Bai Mo trained for a year and a half and stabilized his power.
• Oga began teaching Bai Mo Orca Heaven and Earth Way-Ultimate True Form, and Bai Mo was forced to memorize Oga’s terrifying transformed shape.

Tokiomi prepared Gilgamesh to guard against Bai Mo, while Bai Mo appeared inside Einzbern Castle and encountered Illya and her maids. After Leyritt fled with Illya, Bai Mo saved them from the pursuing homunculi and stood against Einzbern’s guards to protect their freedom.

• Tokiomi showed Gilgamesh Bai Ermo's faded flag as a precaution, and Gilgamesh questioned whether Tokiomi was afraid of the godslayer.
• Illya read a storybook in Einzbern Castle while Leyritt and Sella worried about what would happen to her if the family failed.
• A burst of energy tore through the castle, and Bai Mo appeared before Illya and asked where and when he was.
• Leyritt took Illya toward the breach, but Ahadon's familiars and Mystic Codes attacked them as Sella pleaded for Leyritt's life.
• Bai Mo stopped a Mystic Code, healed Leyritt, and reattached her severed arm before confronting Einzbern's guards over their claim that Illya and Leyritt were property.

Bai Mo rescued Illya and the Einzbern homunculi, spared Ahadon while urging him to free any homunculi who developed their own thoughts, and arranged passage from Germany to Fuyuki. During the flight, Sella began telling Bai Mo about herself and Leyritt.

• Bai Mo used a controlled gale to defeat the homunculi and Mystic Codes sent after Illya, then followed the wind to Ahadon inside Einzbern Castle.
• Bai Mo spared Ahadon and urged him to free future homunculi who developed thoughts of their own; Ahadon agreed to do so for the two he considered failures.
• Bai Mo bought cakes for Illya, Leyritt, and Sella, then took them to the airport and arranged a private jet to Japan.
• During the flight, Bai Mo reflected on the Third Magic and the Holy Grail War while Illya and Leyritt slept.
• Bai Mo shared cake with Sella, asked about her and Leyritt, and Sella began answering while the others slept.