Recaps

Shiva tried to stop Arjuna from entering the era, but his attack instead connected Arjuna to the world and allowed him to arrive. In Sweetness City, Arjuna recovered his bow and met Karna at the arena, where they began a deadly archery duel.

• Shiva confronted Arjuna in the Himalayas, but Arjuna crossed the barrier and urged Shiva to let him enter the world.
• Shiva struck Arjuna with his trident, and their powers connected Arjuna to the era as flames consumed the snowy mountains.
• The Pandavas returned to Sweetness City, where Yudhishthira accepted that Karna should take the throne before Bai Mo confronted him about his earlier boast.
• Krishna returned Arjuna's bow and encouraged him to try again, while the dark-skinned servant questioned whether he would surrender his conquered territory to Karna.
• Arjuna met Karna at the arena, and Karna opened his Armor of Hell to make their contest fair; when their bowstrings sounded, a fist struck instead of an arrow.

Karna defeated Arjuna in a duel by using smoke and his fists, then defended the choice as a way to survive rather than remain bound by rigid rules. After Arjuna accepted Karna’s view, he took Karna’s hand and punched him, while the dark-skinned servant began to fade away.

• Nakula and Sahadeva treated Yudhishthira’s broken legs, while Bhima criticized him for continuing to gamble.
• King Drupada confronted Yudhishthira over his failure to protect Draupadi, and Yudhishthira’s brothers fled, leaving him to face Drupada alone.
• Krishna told Bai Mo that Karna would be all right after breaking his vow, then reflected on how dharma could be exploited and needed to be broken.
• Karna defeated Arjuna by throwing up smoke and punching him, prompting Arjuna to protest that they were supposed to be having an archery duel.
• Karna explained to Arjuna that people could not always remain pure and that survival mattered more than rigid rules; Arjuna took his hand and punched him.
• The dark-skinned servant began to fade as Karna asked whether he was now the greatest archer, and Arjuna let him claim the title.

Arjuna returned to Hastinapura and found Bhishma and the others still burdened by their failures to uphold dharma. Seeing the age unchanged, he unleashed Maha Pralaya to judge the world, and Gandhari removed her blindfold to see Duryodhana for the first time as the sword light closed in.

• Arjuna emerged from the flames on the snowy mountain and vanished to inspect the world before remaking it.
• Bhishma and Drona lamented how their oaths and choices had failed to prevent adharma in Hastinapura.
• Arjuna appeared before Bhishma and Duryodhana, gathering energy from the world as the people sensed his overwhelming power.
• Arjuna declared that evil still filled the age and invoked Maha Pralaya, whose sword light began swallowing the people around Duryodhana.
• Duryodhana ran toward Dhritarashtra and Gandhari, while Gandhari removed her blindfold and saw her son for the first time.

Bai Mo and Krishna prepared to confront Arjuna, whose Maha Pralaya was erasing people and weakening the world’s resistance to him. In Hastinapura, Arjuna struck down Bhishma, but Kama challenged the merit protecting him and denied it in the name of the oppressed.

• Bai Mo asked Krishna whether the people erased by Arjuna’s first judgment had been destined to die, and Krishna explained that Arjuna was an unstoppable God of the End whose repeated strikes would make the world resemble his Lostbelt.
• Krishna gave Bai Mo a golden Divine Wheel and told him to use it against Arjuna, while he went to speak with Karna.
• Bhishma attacked Arjuna in Hastinapura, but Arjuna ignored his questions and cut him down with a sword strike.
• Bai Mo tried to break Arjuna’s wrist with an Orca Tyrant Fist, but Arjuna’s golden wheel and Power of Merit blocked the attack.
• Kama touched Arjuna’s golden wheel, drew his attention, and denied his merit in the name of the patron deity of the oppressed.

Bai Mo fought Arjuna while Kama helped protect Hastinapura’s fleeing citizens. In the ruins, Duryodhana discovered that his family and allies were dead, and demanded to know why he alone had survived.

• Kama rejected Arjuna’s judgment of the world, shattering his halo of merit and removing its protection.
• Bai Mo defended Kama and clashed with Arjuna, whose attack devastated the already-ruined Hastinapura.
• Kama carried fleeing citizens to safety on sacred lotuses, though some chose to hide and watch the battle.
• Duryodhana awoke beneath the ashes and searched the wreckage for his family, Teacher Drona, and other allies.
• Krishna told Duryodhana that Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, his brothers, and Bhishma were dead, prompting Duryodhana to ask why he had survived.

Krishna explained that Gandhari sacrificed herself to save Duryodhana from Arjuna’s judgment, then urged him to flee as her protection faded. Meanwhile, Bai Mo fought Arjuna and exposed how his reliance on overwhelming borrowed power had weakened his combat judgment, before a sudden shout distracted him.

• Krishna told Duryodhana that Gandhari had spent her merit to protect him and had consequently been judged evil and killed.
• Krishna warned Duryodhana to run before Arjuna found him, then headed toward the battlefield.
• Bai Mo used the Orca Heaven and Earth Way, Dark Reincarnation, and God-Severing Way against Arjuna, who countered with immense power and prepared Maha Pralaya.
• The Myoken Divine Wheel cut Arjuna’s wrist and disrupted Maha Pralaya after Bai Mo used the God-Severing Way to conceal its attack.
• Bai Mo said Arjuna had lost his combat wisdom because he depended on power drawn from the gods, then attacked alongside the Myoken Divine Wheel.
• Someone shouted at Arjuna, and the normally machine-like warrior turned to look.

Duryodhana refused Krishna’s offer to flee and asked him to help him reach Arjuna so he could take revenge. As Bai Mo and Kama fought to stop Arjuna’s attack, the explosion cleared to reveal Arjuna still standing with Maha Pralaya.

• Duryodhana recalled Dhritarashtra’s promise that fate would favor him and insisted that his evil deeds were debts fate owed him.
• Krishna urged Duryodhana to run while Arjuna was occupied, but Duryodhana rejected his pity and asked Krishna to help him attack Arjuna.
• Arjuna gathered Maha Pralaya’s power and aimed it at Duryodhana, but Bai Mo seized his arm and disrupted the attack.
• Bai Mo and Arjuna clashed with blades, and fragments of Bai Mo’s Blade of Hell engulfed Arjuna.
• Kama unleashed Shiva’s flames while Bai Mo formed Avici Uninterrupted, and their powers collided in a tremendous explosion.
• Arjuna split the smoke with his sword and remained standing, still controlling Maha Pralaya.

Duryodhana struck Arjuna with Krishna’s Moonlight Mace, but Arjuna killed him with Maha Pralaya. Krishna then reached Arjuna and vanished, causing the emotions Arjuna had suppressed to resurface as he realized Krishna had once again filled the place within him that Shiva had cleared.

• Duryodhana traded his iron mace for Krishna’s Moonlight Mace and hit Arjuna in the forehead.
• Arjuna unleashed Maha Pralaya and engulfed Duryodhana after Duryodhana let his guard down.
• Krishna appeared beside Arjuna and touched his shoulder, then collapsed as Bai Mo caught him.
• Bai Mo found that Krishna had stopped breathing, while Arjuna clutched his face as unfamiliar emotions surged through him.
• Arjuna remembered that Shiva had destroyed the Krishna within him, leaving a vacant place that the new Krishna had now filled.

Arjuna tried to suppress Krishna’s influence, but Krishna awakened memories and emotions that weakened Arjuna’s control of the gods’ power. In a vision of the Kurukshetra battlefield, Krishna rejected Arjuna’s claim to uphold Dharma and declared that compassion was its soul, leaving Arjuna unable to carry out its judgment.

• Arjuna tried to seal off Krishna within himself while Bai Mo and Kama attacked him, slowing his divine power.
• Krishna asked Arjuna what the soul of Dharma was, stirring memories of people Arjuna had erased and filling him with painful emotions.
• Arjuna showed Krishna the aftermath of the Kurukshetra War and argued that evil had to be rooted out before it could spread.
• Krishna first appeared to accept Arjuna’s invitation to fight together, then told him that he should never have been the one to uphold Dharma.
• Krishna explained that compassion, not the Pandavas’ virtues, was the soul of Dharma and declared that Arjuna could no longer pass judgment on the world.

Krishna restored Arjuna’s humanity before returning to Vishnu, disrupting Arjuna’s control over his divine power and judgment. Bai Mo fought Arjuna, but Maha Pralaya suddenly regained its authority and unleashed a force that began collapsing everything around them.

• Krishna gave Arjuna the humanity he had lost, then returned to Vishnu’s true self.
• Arjuna erupted with uncontrolled power as Bai Mo attacked, and the Myoken Divine Wheel shredded his golden gauntlet and struck one of his horns.
• Bai Mo battered Arjuna and pulled an energy arrow from his throat, then checked with Kama that Krishna would return to Vishnu once the fight ended.
• Arjuna summoned a sacred warhorse and wielded Maha Pralaya, whose judgment repeatedly rejected Bai Mo as a target.
• Kama fired Bai Mo’s energy-sealed arrow into the warhorse, and Maha Pralaya suddenly approved its use of power, causing the surroundings to begin collapsing.

As Arjuna’s power threatened Sweetness City and Bai Mo disappeared, Karna set out to join the battle despite having no weapon capable of harming him. The Myoken Divine Wheel brought Karna to Ashwatthama and another Karna, who empowered him with a spear and the strength to confront Arjuna.

• Maya warned Karna that his weapons could not hurt Arjuna, but Karna insisted on joining the battle.
• Draupadi gave Karna a strip of red gauze, and Vrishali blessed his departure as he rode out of Sweetness City.
• The Myoken Divine Wheel transported Karna to a white space, where he met Ashwatthama and another version of himself.
• The other Karna entrusted his Spirit Origin and spear to Karna, combining his power with Ashwatthama’s and Surya’s divine strength.
• Karna returned to the city gates and flew toward the battle to face Arjuna.

Karna arrived to confront Arjuna, who abandoned his chance to deal with Kama and eagerly challenged his blood brother. Kama exposed that Indra was still supporting Arjuna, and Arjuna rejected his father's help as the two prepared to fight.

• Arjuna overwhelmed Kama with [Maha Pralaya] and demanded she swear not to enter the void to retrieve Bai Mo.
• Kama refused to abandon Bai Mo, and Karna's spear arrived, drawing Arjuna's delighted attention.
• Karna and Arjuna clashed, and Karna called Arjuna his fourth brother, explaining that he was the eldest by blood.
• Karna asked Kama to bring Master back while he fought Arjuna, and Kama questioned whether Arjuna would keep relying on his father's help.
• Kama revealed that Indra had supported Arjuna, and Arjuna demanded to know if his father intended to help him win.

At the battle in Hastinapura, Kama sacrificed her new divine station to keep Arjuna from escaping into nothingness and becoming a Beast again, leaving Karna to defend the way forward. Karna and Arjuna prepared to resume their fight.

• Draupadi stood alone beside the sacrificial fire in Sweetness City as Arjuna struggled with Indra's support and Karna's taunts about his use of [Maha Pralaya].
• Kama tried to slip into nothingness, but Arjuna warned that doing so could erase her new divine station and turn her into a Beast again.
• Kama chose to burn her divine station with Shiva's flames rather than abandon Arjuna, declaring that her duty as a patron god of the oppressed kept her from leaving.
• After Kama vanished, her Power of Austerity remained as a pillar of light, and Karna received a flower tea recipe she had left for her master.
• Karna vowed to stop Arjuna from advancing, and Arjuna eagerly accepted his challenge.

Karna and Arjuna fought amid the ruins of Hastinapura, with Arjuna unleashing Pashupata and overwhelming Karna’s defenses. As Draupadi offered herself to the sacrificial fire, the souls bound to Karna appeared to stand with him, and his eldest brother urged him to fight.

• Karna and Arjuna began their duel, and Arjuna’s opening attack destroyed Hastinapura.
• Karna and Arjuna traded attacks, while Arjuna recognized that Karna’s Golden Armor and God-Slaying Spear had been strengthened by Bai Mo.
• Arjuna summoned Pashupata and bombarded Karna, whose computing core warned that he would soon have no room to evade.
• Draupadi touched the sacrificial fire and offered her body so it could summon and weave the five sons together.
• Karna recalled Bai Mo’s explanation of how love and trust could let him split his mind, then faced Arjuna’s final star-like arrow.
• The Myoken Divine Wheel resonated with Ashwatthama’s war wheel, and five figures appeared beside Karna as his eldest brother invited him to fight together.

Arjuna unleashed the Fantasy Tree to overwhelm Karna, but the Pandavas helped Karna press their attack and Arjuna recovered a trace of humanity. The chapter ended with Arjuna claiming victory as he summoned Pashupata, despite telling Karna he had not lost.

• Arjuna rejected the familial feelings Krishna had restored, while Karna urged him to search his heart.
• Bhima, Yudhishthira, Nakula, and Sahadeva aided Karna as he attacked Arjuna with the God-Slaying Spear.
• As Karna’s spear began to break through Arjuna’s river of stars, Arjuna summoned the Fantasy Tree and linked the Lostbelt to the past.
• One of the Pandavas struck Arjuna with a punch, and Arjuna sensed that Krishna’s return of his humanity had awakened a new vitality.
• Arjuna summoned Pashupata and told Karna that he had not lost, though Arjuna had won.

Bai Mo returned in time to save Karna and confronted Arjuna, who had drawn on the Fantasy Tree’s power. Bai Mo absorbed that power despite the strain on his body and prepared to defeat Arjuna quickly.

• Karna was trapped by the Fantasy Tree’s branches and struck by Arjuna’s Pashupata, but Bai Mo returned and caught him before he was destroyed.
• Bai Mo healed Karna and sent him back to Sweetness City, then told Arjuna that using the Fantasy Tree had sharply reduced his chances of winning.
• Bai Mo explained that Arjuna could command the Fantasy Tree but could not fully merge with it, while his own body began burning as he absorbed its power.
• Bai Mo gathered flames in his hands and declared that he would finish Arjuna in three moves.

Arjuna resolved to kill Bai Mo and Karna, then unleashed Maha Pralaya through a bow reforged from Gandiva and the Fantasy Tree. Bai Mo caught Arjuna’s multicolored arrow with his ruined hand and cut through Arjuna’s counterattack.

• Arjuna accepted Bai Mo’s strength but decided that victory required killing him and Karna.
• Arjuna summoned images of people from his past and vowed to erase them and sever his karma.
• Bai Mo offered Arjuna a mirror and told him that his resolve looked forced, echoing Karna’s words.
• Arjuna bound the crumbling Gandiva with Fantasy Tree branches and fired Maha Pralaya at Bai Mo.
• Bai Mo charged with three figures merging into him, caught Arjuna’s arrow in his mangled left hand, and sliced through Arjuna’s counterattack.

Bai Mo used a self-destructive technique to overpower Arjuna, who survived the first strike by invoking the Ashvins and using the earth to cushion his fall. Bai Mo unleashed a second strike, shattering Arjuna’s armor and divine power as he accused him of failing to overcome his own humanity.

• Bai Mo explained that he compressed and detonated his own cells to wield power beyond his limits, while Arjuna relied on the borrowed strength of the gods and the Fantasy Tree.
• Bai Mo’s first self-destructive strike shattered Arjuna’s body and drove toward his heart, but Arjuna invoked the Ashvins’ Cellular Regeneration to endure it.
• Arjuna fell to earth and used the ground to disperse the force, then believed Bai Mo was too damaged to attack again.
• Bai Mo reignited his ruined body and entered the Self-Destruction Realm a second time, striking Arjuna’s head with the Sea Tiger Exploding Fist.
• Bai Mo said Arjuna had misjudged him and accused him of clinging to his humanity as the strike shattered Arjuna’s armor, surrounding orbs, and horns.

Bai Mo defeated Arjuna's Fantasy Tree-powered form, but Amrita began transforming Arjuna into an emotionless god. As Bai Mo and Kama left, Kunti comforted Arjuna, whose soul remained himself for the moment.

• Bai Mo's Explosive Fist shattered Arjuna's body, and Arjuna admitted that he had still wanted to defeat Karna fairly.
• Amrita emerged within Arjuna and began preserving his body, while Kama explained that it would remake him as an emotionless god.
• Bai Mo restored himself with the Asura Undying Body but said he could not survive another strike in the Self-Destruction Realm.
• Bai Mo told Arjuna that his imperfections were part of who he was and that people loved him, then left with Kama on a rainbow-colored parrot.
• Kunti appeared and comforted Arjuna by letting him rest on her lap, while Indra hoped Amrita would not erase Arjuna's soul.

Kunti comforted Arjuna and helped him accept rest, allowing the God of the End to vanish peacefully. With Arjuna gone, the gods worked to stabilize the distorted world while Kama and Shiki stopped Bai Mo from pushing himself further.

• Kunti held Arjuna and reassured him that he did not have to be perfect, and Indra returned Gandiva to him before departing.
• Kunti played the conch given to her by Bai Mo, using Prajapatya Astra to lull Arjuna into a peaceful sleep as his body disintegrated.
• Bai Mo and Kama realized that Arjuna had been defeated by denying himself, with Kunti's love completing the plan.
• Bai Mo asked Kama to take him to the distorted world, but Kama and Shiki warned him to rest instead.
• Shiva and the other gods worked to hold the space around the Fantasy Tree in place, and Bai Mo closed his eyes to rest.

Bai Mo was cast into nothingness by [Maha Pralaya] and followed his bond with Kama to find a way out. He reunited with Kama despite her loss of divine power and growing Beast crowns, then crushed the crystal to return them to the battlefield.

• Bai Mo woke in the void and wondered how Arjuna had activated Maha Pralaya.
• Bai Mo followed his connection to Kama and found an eight-pointed crystal that could take him out of the void.
• Mara urged Kama to return to Bai Mo and resume obstructing his path, but Kama refused to risk becoming a Beast again.
• Kama watched Bai Mo from afar and planned to leave after he escaped, while the Beast crowns above her head continued to grow.
• Bai Mo used a Command Spell to locate Kama, apologized for his tactical misjudgment, and took her wrist.
• Bai Mo crushed the crystal, revealing the battlefield and preparing to return with Kama.

Bai Mo reassured Kama that he accepted her as she was and helped her reclaim the divine office of the god who shelters the oppressed. After they returned to Sweetness City, Mara sensed another possible target, while a mysterious figure on a throne considered investigating the Lostbelt.

• Kama worried that her Beast crown meant she was becoming a Demon King, but Bai Mo said he had accepted her knowing she was a Beast.
• Bai Mo argued that Kama’s choice to protect people proved she remained worthy of her divine office, then confronted Mara, who vanished in a burst of light.
• Bai Mo explained that Mara had tried to provoke Kama into falling back into depravity, and sent her to find Kunti while he faced Arjuna.
• Kama’s golden radiance merged into her body, restoring the divine office, and she returned with Bai Mo to Sweetness City as the sky began to heal.
• Mara sensed another ascetic in the void, while a figure on a throne discussed Chaldea and the powerful god in the Lostbelt before deciding to investigate.

Bai Mo said farewell to Draupadi and reassured her about how to honor her father while living her own life. He then joined the gathered gods, who had assembled to discuss a proposal with him, while Indra recovered from Kama's ambush.

• Bai Mo restored Draupadi's strength and told her to pursue her own happiness rather than pray and make offerings for her father every day.
• Draupadi blessed Bai Mo's journey and said goodbye to him.
• Kama led Bai Mo to Karna's main hall, where Ganesha, Indra, Surya, the fire god, Takshaka, and other gods had gathered to speak with him.
• Bai Mo noticed Indra was hidden behind curtains, and the gods revealed that Kama had attacked him while he rested.
• Indra claimed he had accepted Kama's beating to avoid a greater conflict and ordered the Ashvins to record his version of events.

Bai Mo met with the gods after Arjuna’s defeat, secured their help for the survivors, and persuaded Indra to abolish caste by birth and spread knowledge. He returned to the Lostbelt, where Ritsuka and Kadoc were stunned to learn the crisis had already been settled.

• Ganesha told Bai Mo that Shiva was watching the spacetime distortion, Brahma had wandered off, and no one knew where Narottama was; Bai Mo then asked Ganesha to protect Draupadi, Kunti, and the other survivors.
• Indra said the gods would restore some of those erased by [Maha Pralaya], and Bai Mo offered to help people who repented while insisting that safeguards were needed.
• Ganesha explained that caste should reflect character rather than birth, and Bai Mo warned that inherited caste would let people monopolize knowledge.
• Indra decreed that high caste would no longer be determined by birth, ordered secluded sages to teach outstanding people, and declared a new Dharma for the return to the Krita Yuga.
• Indra directed Bai Mo to return through the spacetime distortion and complete the transfer, then left with the other gods.
• Bai Mo appeared before Ritsuka and Kadoc in the Lostbelt, handed over the materials Tenju had needed, and told them that Arjuna and the crisis had already been dealt with.

Bai Mo reunited with Chaldea after Arjuna disappeared, and the group returned to Asha’s village to investigate Karna’s whereabouts. There, they discovered that the village’s history had changed, and a book revealed a new chapter written by Vikarna.

• Kama appeared with Bai Mo, and he explained that she had turned over a new leaf and that they had formed a contract.
• Ritsuka accepted the sudden alliance, while the group noticed Karna was missing and decided to ask around in the village.
• The group found Asha’s village peaceful and flourishing, with reading and statues of Kama in the homes.
• Asha recognized Rama’s name from the Ramayana and scolded him for doubting Sita, while Kama confirmed Rama would deserve divine punishment.
• Bai Mo asked for a library and found a history book containing a new “Madman Chapter” written by Vikarna.