Chapter Summaries

During the battle at Kaizu Castle, Bai Mo rescued Mochizuki Mo and the Mochizuki Clan’s young ninja from Uesugi soldiers, then sheltered them at his clinic. He left them safe under the protection of his wind, while the ninja wondered whether he was a god destined to marry Mochizuki Chiyome.

• An onmyoji used a ritual to observe Kaizu Castle and sent smoke toward it as a storm began.
• Mochizuki Chiyome fought through Uesugi warriors while her ninja escort lost sight of her in the rain.
• Mochizuki Mo’s group was surrounded by Uesugi soldiers who accused the Takeda Clan of abandoning the Mochizuki ninja.
• Bai Mo stopped a soldier’s katana, broke through the Uesugi formation, and led Mochizuki Mo and the others away unharmed.
• Bai Mo sheltered the ninja at his clinic with warm air and ginger soup, then left Mochizuki Mo in charge.
• A Mochizuki ninja wondered whether Bai Mo was a god who had come to marry their leader, while Mochizuki Mo questioned the idea.

Bai Mo tracked down the onmyoji behind the mind-distorting rain, learned that he served the emperor in Kyoto and had targeted Chiyome, then reversed the curse and found Chiyome fighting Uesugi Kenshin. After Bai Mo rescued the unconscious Chiyome, Kenshin accepted sake as compensation and withdrew from Kaizu Castle.

• Bai Mo sensed the rain's magic, captured the fleeing onmyoji, and read his memories, learning he had been sent from Kyoto to target Chiyome.
• Bai Mo studied the spell and cast warm rain over Kaizu Castle, restoring the defenders' and Chiyome's awareness.
• Chiyome found Uesugi Kenshin at the intersection and attacked her, believing the missing Mochizuki Clan members had been captured.
• Uesugi Kenshin overcame Chiyome and was about to strike her down when Bai Mo intervened and carried the unconscious Chiyome away.
• Bai Mo warned Kenshin to retreat before the Takeda forces recovered, gave her a golden sake flask, and left with Chiyome as Kenshin rode away.

Chiyome woke after the battle to learn her clan had been spared by an unknown rescuer, whose familiar medicine suggested he was Bai Mo. Bai Mo tracked an onmyoji to the Nijō Imperial Palace, destroyed an Abe no Seimei clone, and learned Ashiya Dōman was behind it; Dōman survived and remained confident in his plan.

• Chiyome woke in her room and learned the children were safe, Uesugi had withdrawn, and her clan had suffered no losses beyond valuables.
• Chiyome recognized the sweetness in her medicine and relaxed as she suspected someone familiar had treated her.
• Bai Mo searched the imperial palace and Oda Nobunaga’s quarters, then placed Rune Runes to monitor them.
• Ashiya Dōman’s clone emerged from a tunnel beneath the Nijō Imperial Palace and was killed by Bai Mo, who identified him as Ashiya Dōman.
• Bai Mo destroyed the clone’s scarlet paper figure and confirmed the onmyoji was Ashiya Dōman.
• Ashiya Dōman recovered in an unknown space, resolved to continue his plan, and watched a sinister little snake crawl onto his arm.

Bai Mo discussed his plans for Chiyome with Shiki, then returned to Kaizu Castle to treat people affected by the devastation. After Mochizuki Mo described the clan’s hardship and suggested a marriage alliance, Bai Mo promised to find them a way out, just as Chiyome arrived.

• Bai Mo ate a meal prepared by Shiki and explained that he planned to leave a mark on Chiyome and collect her Primordial Spirit after she died naturally.
• Bai Mo returned to Kaizu Castle, offered free medical treatment, and served hot porridge to the people there.
• Mochizuki Mo brought herbs from Bai Mo and described how the Mochizuki Clan struggled under surveillance and internal opposition.
• Mochizuki Mo suggested that Bai Mo join forces with Chiyome, but Bai Mo rejected the idea and said he would not stay long.
• Bai Mo called a marriage alliance tragic and promised Mochizuki Mo that he would find the clan a way out before leaving.
• Chiyome entered through the back door and gave Mochizuki Mo a reproachful look.

Chiyome offered Bai Mo the Mochizuki Clan’s gratitude, and he asked her to let him retrieve her powerful primordial spirit after she died naturally. She misunderstood him and tried to kill herself, but Bai Mo stopped her and clarified his intentions, leaving her stunned by what she had taken his words to mean.

• Mochizuki Mo left Bai Mo’s home with medicinal herbs, and Chiyome apologized for the Mochizuki Clan’s troubles.
• Chiyome offered to repay Bai Mo for helping her and the clan, but Bai Mo stopped her from kneeling.
• Bai Mo explained that Chiyome’s power was fused with her primordial spirit and asked her to let him retrieve it after her natural death.
• Chiyome drew her ninja sword, believing Bai Mo wanted her soul immediately, but Bai Mo took the weapon from her.
• Bai Mo struck Chiyome on the forehead with his cup, treated the bruise, and clarified that she could live out her life in peace.
• Chiyome realized Bai Mo meant to claim her soul only after her natural death and stared blankly at the ceiling.

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.