Chapter Summaries

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.

Bai Mo reassured Arcueid that she had done nothing wrong by choosing to survive, then discovered that the copy of Ryougi Lataib she gave Dark Leiao had been adapted for her nonhuman body. The chapter left Dark Leiao enthusiastically testing the unsuitable technique on a human disciple, whose body repeatedly broke apart and revived.

• Bai Mo comforted Arcueid and praised her for choosing survival rather than sacrificing herself to Dark Leiao.
• Crimson Moon revealed the copy of Ryougi Lataib and learned that Bai Mo's version used a different circulation method from Arcueid's.
• Bai Mo explained that he had rewritten the technique to match Arcueid's True Ancestor body, making her copy dangerous for humans to practice.
• Bai Mo and Crimson Moon realized Dark Leiao had received the unsuitable copy remotely and had not seen Arcueid demonstrate it in person.
• Dark Leiao repeatedly forced a human disciple to practice the flawed technique, reviving him after each failure and preparing to dismantle his cultivation and primordial spirit.

Arcueid reunited with Bai Mo, relieved that she had not caused him trouble, and revealed how much Leiao had taught her. Her new insights helped Bai Mo, who planned to adapt them for her, while Shiki watched from above and moved into the living room.

• Arcueid clung to Bai Mo in relief, and Da Vinci left them alone to paint them from a distance.
• Bai Mo noticed Arcueid’s power approaching 990,000 horsepower and learned that Leiao had taught her the Asura Way, the Bodhidharma Sutra, and Avici Uninterrupted.
• Arcueid passed her insights into Avici Uninterrupted to Bai Mo, who confirmed they would help him and promised to adapt the techniques for her.
• Bai Mo told Arcueid that he was recovering from an injury and expected to surpass 750,000 horsepower after remaining at electric current push until noon the next day.
• Shiki watched Arcueid and Bai Mo, transformed into a streak of light, and entered the living room through the wooden boards.

Bai Mo discovered that Shiki had disguised herself as a child to prank him and Arcueid, but the joke turned into a confrontation between the two women. As they faced off, a ghostly blue light appeared around Bai Mo and pointed in an unknown direction.

• A girl resembling Shiki appeared and pretended to be Bai Mo’s daughter, prompting Arcueid to mistake her for his child.
• Shiki revealed herself after the girl vanished, and Bai Mo asked what had happened while Arcueid and Shiki recognized each other as powerful figures.
• Arcueid and Shiki traded accusations about their past behavior toward Bai Mo, while he tried unsuccessfully to calm them.
• A ghostly blue light appeared around Bai Mo and began pointing insistently in a certain direction.

Bai Mo followed the Spirit Origin remnants to a lifeless, pale version of the world where Chaldea had once stood. He entered the Antarctic storm barrier and destroyed the modified trees guarding a crater, then asked the Martial God Spaces who had made them.

• Shiki explained that the Spirit Origin remnants still drew Bai Mo toward souls sealed elsewhere, while she and Arcueid avoided provoking the unknown outsiders.
• Bai Mo left Japan and followed the remnants to a barren world covered by storm barriers.
• Bai Mo flew to Antarctica and entered its barrier, where Da Vinci saw only a deep crater where Chaldea had stood.
• Bai Mo was attacked by pale, purple-lit trees and cut them down with a cyclone and vacuum sword blades.
• Bai Mo found that the trees had been modified with Magnetic Field Power and asked the Martial God Spaces who had created them.
• Giant Shark said he recognized no technology from Blue Country in the trees.

Bai Mo followed his connection to a city created by replicating the Root and found Olga Marie imprisoned and being tortured at Area 51. After rescuing her and killing the researchers and guards, he encountered Marisbury Animusphere, who said the city was his Chaldeas.

• Shiki transported Bai Mo to a city she said had been created by replicating the Root, then returned to the system space.
• Bai Mo sensed that the city's inhabitants lacked human thoughts and vanished after hearing someone call for help.
• Bai Mo found Olga Marie restrained in an underground Area 51 facility, where researchers were preparing to dissect her.
• Bai Mo transformed the researchers into sand, healed Olga Marie, and told her that he was a friend of Da Vinci.
• Bai Mo killed the guards in the underground passage, and Olga Marie recognized Marisbury Animusphere when he appeared.
• Marisbury introduced himself as Olga Marie's father and called the city his Chaldeas.

Bai Mo confronted Marisbury and tried to rescue Olga Marie, but Marisbury revealed that Chaldeas needed her soul for his plan. As Chaldeas threatened them, Marisbury offered Olga Marie’s soulless body to Chaldea, and she rejected him as her father.

• Bai Mo shielded Olga Marie and accused Marisbury of watching her imprisonment without intervening.
• Marisbury admitted he had observed the planet and said Chaldeas needed Olga Marie’s soul.
• Bai Mo seized Olga Marie and escaped toward space while Shiki offered to help sever her connection to Chaldeas.
• Chaldeas revealed its immense power and attacked as Bai Mo shielded Olga Marie and fought back with scarlet currents.
• Marisbury offered Olga Marie’s body to Chaldea in exchange for her soul, prompting her to call him Marisbury and demand what he took her for.

Bai Mo fought Marisbury’s Chaldeas after learning it was trying to reclaim Olga Marie’s soul. When Chaldeas began using Spiritron Transfer to disintegrate her body, Bai Mo charged toward it with a newly refined, all-or-nothing attack.

• Bai Mo rejected Marisbury and fought Chaldeas, redirecting its immense energy into a Hell Samsara Sword with magnetic field power.
• Chaldeas identified Bai Mo as a magnetic field power user, raised defensive barriers, and made recovering Olga Marie’s soul its primary objective.
• Chaldeas used Spiritron Transfer to pull Olga Marie toward it, and Da Vinci warned that the process would disintegrate her body.
• Bai Mo left Olga Marie in the grip of the transfer field and charged at Chaldeas, concentrating his power into a single destructive blow.

Bai Mo broke through Chaldeas's defenses but could not stop it from targeting Olga Marie. As Chaldeas launched its Star-Piercing Spear, Bai Mo released her and summoned Master Oga to handle the attack.

• Chaldeas failed to analyze Bai Mo, but Bai Mo shattered its crystalline defense with Orca Heaven and Earth Way-Orca Tyrant Fist, destroying his right arm in the process.
• Chaldeas sent tendrils to capture Olga Marie, and Bai Mo pulled her free with Magnetic Field Heavenly Lock while the Great Blade Martial God cut through distorted space.
• Chaldeas formed its tentacles into a Star-Piercing Spear and aimed it at Olga Marie as she begged Bai Mo to let her go.
• Bai Mo released Olga Marie, clearing the last magecraft traces from her body as she fell toward Chaldeas's attack.
• Bai Mo summoned a second figure beside the Great Blade Martial God and entrusted the rest to Master Oga.

Bai Mo sent Oga to save Olga Marie, and Oga destroyed the star-piercing spear before Bai Mo and his War Gods overwhelmed Chaldeas. After confirming Olga Marie was safe and Chaldeas had been erased, Bai Mo left the space.

• Bai Mo summoned his special War God, Oga, and sent him to rescue Olga Marie from the star-piercing spear.
• Oga transformed with Orca Heaven and Earth Way-Ultimate True Form, broke through Chaldeas's energy, and shattered the spear with Limitless Tremor Zen.
• Magnetic Field Heavenly Lock pulled Olga Marie to safety, and she landed on the grass beside the Mona Lisa.
• Bai Mo used Avici Uninterrupted to cut into Chaldeas while Oga and his other War God attacked it, leaving it fatally damaged.
• A dimensional hole devoured Chaldeas, and Bai Mo left after confirming Olga Marie was safe and the enemy had vanished.

After rescuing Olga Marie, Bai Mo brought her to the pavilion and learned that Chaldea had infiltrated a Lostbelt on the bleached Earth. He refused to let her rush into danger to fulfill her duties, leaving her embarrassed but determined to repay his rescue.

• Bai Mo reviewed his battle at 760,000 horsepower and planned to continue developing Avici Uninterrupted and his other techniques.
• Bai Mo reunited with Da Vinci and Olga Marie, reassured Olga Marie, and brought her into the pavilion while Shiki worked on the exterior.
• Da Vinci explained Chaldea and the bleaching phenomenon to Olga Marie as Bai Mo prepared dinner and Arcueid fed from him.
• Bai Mo learned that Chaldea had infiltrated a Lostbelt and warned that its powerful enemies could make the mission disastrous.
• Olga Marie thanked Bai Mo and offered to take responsibility, but Bai Mo refused to let her risk her life and teased her about owing him favors.