Chapter Summaries

Manaka accepted Gilgamesh’s judgment and agreed to resurrect the dead and repair the Underworld, while Anna killed Gorgon and learned she believed Bai Mo fulfilled a prophecy. As Arcueid confronted Manaka, a mysterious white-haired man emerged from an Imaginary Number Space, leaving his identity and purpose unknown.

• Gilgamesh judged that Manaka’s merits and offenses canceled out and required her to atone as an outsider by restoring Mesopotamia.
• Anna killed Gorgon, who recognized Bai Mo as the prophesied last living son of Zeus destined to seize the God King’s throne.
• Arcueid found that the remaining soul fragments had not appeared and decided to leave after warning Manaka.
• Arcueid reached Manaka as a surge of Imaginary Number power opened between them, and both attacked whatever was emerging.
• A battered stone stele emerged unharmed from their attacks, and a white-haired man appeared, commenting on their power and the familiar saber technique.

Arcueid and Manaka encountered Dark Leiao, who had been drawn by the power released in their battle and wanted to trade for Arcueid’s Ryougi Lataib. After studying it, Dark Leiao gave Arcueid his cultivation insights and martial arts, leaving her with a powerful opportunity to develop further.

• Dark Leiao appeared through a stone tablet and explained that it had tracked the power Arcueid and Manaka released during their fight.
• Dark Leiao sensed Arcueid’s Ryougi Lataib and asked to examine it, while Crimson Moon warned her that refusing him could put everyone in danger.
• Arcueid reluctantly lent Dark Leiao Bai Mo’s copy of Ryougi Lataib and insisted that he return it afterward.
• Dark Leiao studied and recorded the art, then offered to take Arcueid as his disciple, but she refused and refused to let Bai Mo join her.
• Dark Leiao passed Arcueid his cultivation insights from the War God of a Thousand Armies, along with his understanding of the Bodhidharma Sutra, the Asura Way, and Avici Uninterrupted.

Dark Leiao examined the Ryougi Lataib technique and decided to have younger practitioners test it, while Crimson Moon and Arcueid prepared to study the knowledge he had sent. Far away, Ciel and Neco-Arc ate together, and Ciel remembered pressing the cat button a month earlier.

• Dark Leiao reasoned that Ryougi Lataib had been created by a local expert who died after damaging their Primordial Spirit, and decided to test it on juniors.
• The stone tablet cracked apart, and Dark Leiao vanished as Crimson Moon and Arcueid were left with the technique and other martial arts texts.
• Crimson Moon wondered why the techniques had been written down instead of transmitted through Magnetic Field Power, then decided to absorb the material and find Bai Mo.
• Ciel ate with Neco-Arc at a restaurant beyond the Milky Way, stamped on the cat when it asked for sashimi, and recalled pressing the cat button a month earlier.

Ciel escaped an isolated star system with Miss X, found work as a BAD END commentator, and resolved to return to Bai Mo. Meanwhile, Bai Mo remained in late Sengoku Japan, where Shiki helped his soul recover using a damaged Foreigner Spirit Origin.

• Neco-Arc trapped Ciel on a barren planet, but a spaceship crashed onto the cat and revealed an unconscious Artoria-type girl inside.
• After drifting for a month, Ciel and Miss X reached civilization, where Ciel learned Earth was missing from the local star charts.
• Miss X found Ciel a BAD END commentator job, and Ciel accepted it while vowing to return to Bai Mo.
• In late Sengoku Japan, Shiki checked on Bai Mo and warned him not to use magnetic field rotation power while his soul recovered.
• Bai Wunan said the Foreigner remnant Spirit Origin was gathering fragments of Bai Mo's Primordial Spirit and could help restore him to over seven hundred and fifty thousand horsepower.

Bai Mo recovered his strength in a Japanese garden while Shiki insisted that he remain with her for treatment. Gilgamesh’s recorded message confirmed that the spare treasury key was his to keep and warned him that his fate was unusual, while Bai Mo learned that Arcueid had already left Uruk.

• Bai Mo thanked Shiki for restoring his strength and worried about Arcueid and Manaka in Uruk.
• Shiki refused to let Bai Mo leave, changed their surroundings into a Japanese garden, and prepared to host him.
• Bai Mo used Gilgamesh’s spare key to retrieve a recorded message from a clay tablet.
• Gilgamesh told Bai Mo to keep the key, explained that Ereshkigal’s Underworld authority could be returned by summoning her, and warned him to examine his fate involving Sajyou Manaka, Arcueid, and another powerful being.
• Bai Mo realized Arcueid had left Uruk and then rose to leave the garden.

Shiki consulted BB and Parvati about Bai Mo’s emotional distance, and BB advised her to earn his trust by helping him and letting him repay her. Shiki returned to the kitchen in good spirits, determined to support Bai Mo until he was free to be with her.

• Shiki explained her concerns about Bai Mo to BB and Parvati, who learned that he seemed unable to pursue love while burdened by his responsibilities.
• BB analyzed Bai Mo as someone who undervalued himself and felt compelled to repay anyone who helped him.
• BB suggested that Shiki help Bai Mo and let him offer himself in return, comparing the idea to Parvati’s courtship of Shiva.
• Shiki recalled how her efforts for Chaldea had brought her closer to Bai Mo, then decided to invite someone from Chaldea to a meal.
• Shiki returned to the kitchen, where Bai Mo had joined her to help prepare lunch, and resolved to help him finish his responsibilities.

Bai Mo trained with Mad Giant Shark while Shiki’s blade appeared and revealed itself to be the blade blank containing One-Second Hell. Shiki kept the blade and proposed that she and Bai Mo train together once his power recovered, while the two divine weapons faced off on their stands.

• Bai Mo shared breakfast with Shiki, then left to train.
• Bai Mo used Mad Giant Shark to temper his body and considered changing his training because his reduced power made the process inefficient.
• Shiki’s blade appeared and struck at Mad Giant Shark before returning to Shiki.
• Shiki explained that the blade was her old blade blank and still contained One-Second Hell.
• Bai Mo agreed that Shiki could keep the blade, and Shiki proposed training with him once his power recovered.
• Shiki placed both divine weapons on stands and smacked them when they began facing off.

Bai Mo rescued Mochizuki Mo and her exhausted ninja companions from Uesugi Clan soldiers, then learned that Mochizuki Chiyome’s supposed status as a divine bride might be connected to a system anomaly. He left to report what he had discovered to Shiki, while Mochizuki Mo decided he must be the god destined to marry their leader.

• Mochizuki Mo led her wounded ninjas toward Kaizu Castle, but Uesugi Clan soldiers ambushed them and demanded their surrender.
• Bai Mo used a powerful gust to scatter the soldiers, then persuaded the remaining samurai captain to leave alive.
• Mochizuki Mo introduced herself as the twelve-year-old leader of the group, and Bai Mo healed the ninjas before asking about their leader, Mochizuki Chiyome.
• Bai Mo learned that Mochizuki Mo believed Chiyome was a bride of the gods, and suspected the belief or Chiyome’s extraordinary strength came from a system-related anomaly.
• Bai Mo left to explain the situation to Shiki, while Mochizuki Mo told the other ninjas that he was secretly descended to marry their leader.

Bai Mo returned to Shiki’s mountain residence and told her he planned to investigate Chiyome and the remnants of the system while recovering his soul. He left to resume his work as a doctor, and Shiki watched his figure appear in a book.

• Bai Mo returned to the residence, where Shiki greeted him and startled him by pretending to change his shoes.
• Bai Mo told Shiki that Chiyome’s fate seemed to have changed and that he planned to investigate how she used her electric current push power.
• Bai Mo explained that he also needed to investigate the system remnants and make contact with society while repairing his soul.
• Shiki agreed to let Bai Mo go out, reminding him to return on time.
• After Bai Mo left, Shiki opened a book that showed his figure on its pages.

Takeda Shingen managed tensions with the Mochizuki Clan while preparing to meet a newly recruited onmyoji. In Kaizu Castle, Bai Mo treated an injured Mochizuki ninja for free, and she later returned with Mochizuki Chiyome, the person Bai Mo had been searching for.

• Takeda Shingen dismissed reports of a god, ordered a reward sent to Chiyome, and told his subordinate to provide the Mochizuki Clan with supplies only when Chiyome kept her people in line.
• Takeda Shingen learned that someone had answered his recruitment call for onmyoji and went to meet him with gifts.
• An injured Mochizuki ninja discovered Bai Mo's clinic, where he treated her wound and gave her food without charging her.
• Bai Mo used the water god's authority to disinfect the ninja's wound and stop further infection, then concluded that Chiyome had a good reputation among the common people.
• The ninja returned to the clinic with Mochizuki Chiyome, whom Bai Mo recognized as the recipient of this world's Source of Power.

Bai Mo treated Mochizuki Chiyome’s injuries and asked how she had gained her power. Chiyome recounted how a mysterious sphere merged with her during an assassination attempt, destroying her marriage alliance and worsening tensions between the Mochizuki and Takeda Clans.

• Bai Mo examined Mochizuki Chiyome, treated her internal injuries, and gave her medicinal broth and herbs to take.
• Chiyome asked Bai Mo to work for the Mochizuki Clan, but he refused while agreeing to keep treating its ninja.
• Bai Mo asked Chiyome how she had been injured and gained her power, and she explained that her title as the Divine Marriage Bride was a rumor.
• At a banquet celebrating Chiyome’s planned marriage to Takeda Moritoki, a sphere of light appeared as a ninja attacked Moritoki.
• Chiyome blocked the attack, and the sphere merged into her body, giving her power that reduced the ninja to blood and gore.
• The marriage alliance was called off, Moritoki grew hostile toward Chiyome, and the Mochizuki and Takeda Clans became wary of her power.

Bai Mo treated Mochizuki Chiyome and learned of the curse and political pressures trapping her between the Mochizuki and Takeda clans, then decided to help her while searching for remnants of the system. Back at the Mochizuki residence, Chiyome faced renewed clan troubles before Lord Morotoki arrived and mocked her as a god’s bride, demanding to know when she would marry.

• Chiyome explained that her power had brought suspicion and pressure, and that she was hiding an injury sustained fighting Uesugi Kenshin to earn Takeda recognition.
• Bai Mo gave Chiyome medicine and warned her not to attract attention when she returned for treatment.
• Bai Mo told Shiki about Chiyome, and Shiki revealed that a deity’s curse affected the Mochizuki Clan and that Bai Mo’s divine core had helped Chiyome feel safe enough to confide in him.
• Bai Mo decided to help Chiyome preserve the Mochizuki Clan and have her search for system remnants in exchange.
• Chiyome returned to reports of conflict between her people and Takeda physicians, while Mochizuki Mo claimed she had met the god who would marry Chiyome.
• Lord Morotoki entered with an onmyoji and taunted Chiyome about being a god’s bride, asking when she would marry.

Chiyome endured Takeda Moritoki’s insults and learned that the Takeda Clan could offer little medical help, though an onmyoji delivered a potent snakeskin that triggered her Yamata no Orochi curse. The onmyoji secretly reported that Chiyome might possess unusual powers and could be controlled through the curse, while the next morning Bai Mo and Shiki shared a playful breakfast-time exchange.

• Takeda Moritoki mocked Chiyome and refused her request for medical supplies, saying the Takeda Clan’s resources were scarce.
• An onmyoji gave Chiyome a pale snakeskin, which caused her severe pain and agitation, and said she could ask him how to use it.
• The onmyoji secretly told his master that Chiyome might possess unusual powers and bear Yamata no Orochi’s curse, making her easy to control.
• Chiyome decided to give the snakeskin to Bai Mo as a medicinal ingredient the next day.
• Shiki stayed in bed until Bai Mo brought breakfast and asked him to fetch her kimono, teasing him about an equivalent exchange.

Bai Mo helped Chiyome recover, warned her that the Takeda Clan might be plotting against her, and agreed to treat Mochizuki Clan ninjas in his back room. While Chiyome hunted a boar with him to prepare a return gift, Uesugi Kenshin confronted her, and Bai Mo arrived just as their fight seemed imminent.

• Chiyome brought Bai Mo a shed snakeskin gifted by the Takeda Clan, and Bai Mo warned that it could harm someone with weak qi and blood.
• Chiyome told Bai Mo she suspected the Takeda Clan had targeted her, and he urged her to gather intelligence rather than give in to them.
• Chiyome asked Bai Mo to treat Mochizuki Clan ninjas in his back room, and he agreed while asking her to share any information she learned.
• Chiyome asked Bai Mo to accompany her into the mountains to find a return gift, and she quickly killed a boar with Electric Current Push.
• Uesugi Kenshin appeared and challenged Chiyome to fight, then Bai Mo emerged nearby as Chiyome feared the worst.

Bai Mo protected Chiyome by invoking Uesugi Kenshin’s duty to accept a duel, giving the Mochizuki leader a chance to escape. He then faced Kenshin himself and struck her down with Bajiquan, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Bai Mo learned that Uesugi Kenshin was a woman, while Chiyome warned him not to draw her attention.
• Kenshin challenged Chiyome, but Bai Mo urged Chiyome to put the Mochizuki Clan’s survival ahead of her pride and escape.
• Bai Mo challenged Kenshin to a duel, and she allowed Chiyome to leave rather than risk her reputation by refusing.
• Kenshin charged Bai Mo, who disrupted her footing and hit her in the ribs with Bajiquan, sending her tumbling to the ground.

Bai Mo defeated and healed Uesugi Kenshin, then helped her understand why her soldiers would not risk their lives to rescue her. As they shared food and wine, Kenshin opened up to him and fell asleep after asking him to call her Nagao Kagetora.

• Bai Mo removed Uesugi Kenshin’s broken rib and healed her after she had charged into their duel without armor or a weapon.
• Bai Mo confronted the frightened Uesugi soldiers, who followed his suggestion to make a show of fighting before fleeing.
• By the fire, Bai Mo explained that the soldiers had chosen survival over a hopeless rescue, and Kenshin reflected that her clan’s precepts were not suited to ordinary people.
• Bai Mo told Kenshin that she reminded him of a hero who had lost his humanity, then shared roasted meat and fruit wine with her.
• After drinking, Kenshin asked Bai Mo to call her Nagao Kagetora and fell asleep; Bai Mo gathered food and boar tusks before leaving.

Chiyome returned to Bai Mo’s clinic with the snakeskin gift, whose curse caused her severe pain before she fell asleep. Bai Mo covered her and continued treating patients, and she woke at dusk to find him still there.

• Chiyome returned to Kaizu Castle and shut herself inside Bai Mo’s clinic, wondering whether she had made another mistake.
• Chiyome opened the box containing the yellowed snakeskin, endured its intensified curse, then closed it and fell asleep on the bench.
• Bai Mo returned home with lunch, and Shiki told him she wanted to read genuine historical records of the Greek Age of Gods with him.
• Bai Mo entered the clinic, found Chiyome asleep, covered her with a blanket, and used a Rune to conceal her from perception.
• Bai Mo treated patients until dusk, when Chiyome woke and looked in disbelief at him sitting at the counter.

Bai Mo reunited with Chiyome and returned the boar tusks she had earned, while she followed him through town and encountered Takeda Moritoki. After Cath Palug frightened Moritoki into fleeing, Chiyome left, and Cath Palug revealed it had sensed Manaka's jealousy.

• Chiyome woke to find Bai Mo unharmed and thanked him for bringing back the boar tusks as a return gift for her snakeskin.
• Chiyome followed Bai Mo through the market, telling herself she was investigating why her curse's pain faded when she was near him.
• Takeda Moritoki spotted Chiyome in the city, demanded an explanation, and took the boar tusk she offered for Lord Takeda Shingen.
• Cath Palug's terrifying shadow made Moritoki wet himself and flee, after which Bai Mo revealed the small white creature beneath it.
• Chiyome stroked Cath Palug before leaving, and Cath Palug told Bai Mo it had sensed Manaka's jealousy.

Bai Mo and Shiki read about how his influence changed the fates of his friends from the Argo, and Shiki asked whether he and Atalanta had been lovers. After Bai Mo stayed up reading, Shiki woke beside him in a rare moment of happiness, while Cath Palug worried that the world might still be in danger.

• Bai Mo returned home with Cath Palug, and Shiki welcomed them before they made dinner together.
• Shiki showed Bai Mo records of Greek mythology, and they discussed how his influence gave Atalanta a better ending and Jason an unusual excuse for his many partners.
• Shiki asked Bai Mo whether he and Atalanta had been romantically involved, and he said they had only been friends.
• Shiki settled beside Bai Mo to read, fell asleep, and woke to find him still there after he had finished the book overnight.
• Shiki told Cath Palug that waking beside Bai Mo made her happy because she loved him, and Cath Palug feared the world's destruction might still be imminent.

Bai Mo witnessed Uesugi Kenshin break into Kaizu Castle alone and protect civilians from soldiers who were looting. When he saw Mochizuki Clan ninjas moving children near Kenshin’s advancing troops, he vanished to intervene.

• Bai Mo returned to the clinic and realized battle had begun at Kaizu Castle.
• A Takeda commander told a recruit that Uesugi Kenshin had charged through the town’s defenses alone, forcing the Takeda soldiers to retreat and regroup inside the castle.
• Three Uesugi soldiers tried to attack a woman and her children, but Bai Mo killed them and sealed the residence’s gate with a rune.
• Bai Mo spotted Mochizuki Clan ninjas relocating children just two streets from Uesugi Kenshin’s advancing troops.
• Bai Mo vanished to protect the children.