Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo met with Qin Shi Huang, Skadi, and Anastasia in Xianyang Palace to discuss plans for developing Great Qin, Russia, and Northern Europe. He focused on spreading Blue Country’s technology and knowledge, leaving Qin Shi Huang to realize Bai Mo cared more about infrastructure than supreme authority.

• Bai Mo arrived at Xianyang Palace, where Ortlinde greeted him enthusiastically before Anastasia told her to mind her behavior.
• Qin Shi Huang gathered Bai Mo, Skadi, and Anastasia to discuss how to manage their three nations and territories.
• Bai Mo proposed sending people to learn power generation from Blue Country and building an electrical grid in Russia and Northern Europe.
• Bai Mo outlined plans to expand industry, protect emergency nuclear power stations, and adapt Blue Country’s network and research for the other nations.
• Bai Mo said he wanted to use Qin’s rice cultivation records to improve crops for Russia and Northern Europe, while Qin Shi Huang accepted that Bai Mo was not seeking supreme authority.

Bai Mo oversaw the expansion of Russia’s electrical infrastructure with Tesla and Magnetic Field Power wielders, while Bai Wunan persuaded a reluctant worker to take pride in his contribution. On a mountain, Tiandao taught children martial arts, and Electric Eye offered to teach them mechanical skills as well.

• Bai Mo tasked Tesla with designing a hydroelectric dam and gave him stable nuclear material to use for power generation.
• A young powerhouse nearly toppled a tower while building it, but Bai Wunan steadied it and talked with him about his reluctance to work.
• Bai Wunan encouraged the young powerhouse to see the power lines as a way to make a meaningful contribution and impress the ballet dancer he liked.
• The young powerhouse resumed his work with greater patience, and a white-haired man helped him finish the remaining stretch of cable.
• Electric Eye visited Tiandao’s mountain school, saw him teaching children martial arts, and asked to teach them mechanical knowledge; Tiandao agreed.

Bai Mo established a power plant and introduced farming and tools in Skadi’s village, then learned a death rune from Ortlinde and taught her a raven rune. While the two spent a peaceful night together, Goredolf awoke somewhere unfamiliar.

• Bai Mo built a nuclear power plant and gave the villagers seeds, instructions, household appliances, and farming equipment.
• Ortlinde brought Bai Mo to her house on Gullfaxi, where they shared dinner and discussed her recent behavior.
• Ortlinde gave Bai Mo a death rune from Skadi, explaining that it could threaten beings who were cut off from death.
• Bai Mo learned the death rune and taught Ortlinde the raven rune he had developed in the Qin Lostbelt.
• Goredolf woke in a Japanese-style building instead of his room in Chaldea and wondered where he was.

Chaldea identified a Singularity in Edo-period Japan where Servants were being reverse-summoned, and Kadoc and Ophelia went to investigate while Ritsuka rested. In Northern Europe, Bai Mo took Shiki to a mountainside overlooking a lake, where they decided to build a hot spring inn.

• Da Vinci and Roman briefed Ritsuka, Kadoc, Ophelia, and Hinako on missing Servants and Goredolf, tracing the reverse summonings to a 1634 Singularity.
• Kadoc and Ophelia volunteered to handle the Singularity and departed with Sigurd, leaving Ritsuka to recover.
• Shiki joined Bai Mo for breakfast and persuaded him to take her for a walk in Northern Europe.
• Bai Mo showed Shiki the mountainside where Sigurd had hoped to build a cabin, and remembered Sigurd's promise to take responsibility for Brynhildr's happiness.
• Shiki suggested turning the site into a hot spring inn, and a new luxury inn stood on the mountainside by sunset.

In Chaldea, Hinako Akuta volunteered to rescue Kadoc and Ophelia after they lost contact, but she soon disappeared as well. Meanwhile, Bai Wunan examined former Heroic Spirit hosts, and Bai Mo and Shiki worked to restore Bai Mo’s bond with his blade before Chaldea lost contact with Hinako.

• Olga Marie sent Hinako Akuta to rescue Kadoc and Ophelia, who had gone missing in a troublesome Singularity.
• Bai Wunan examined Raven Runes and studied former Heroic Spirit hosts whose Magnetic Field Power was being drained away.
• Bai Mo struggled to use the blade Shiki had recovered, and Shiki said it lacked a sense of belonging with him.
• Bai Mo and Shiki each chose a character for the blade’s new name, and Bai Mo felt its mysterious sensation return.
• Chaldea lost contact with Hinako Akuta, and Olga Marie ordered the staff to find Ritsuka Fujimaru.

Ritsuka entered a dangerous bounded field with Kiara Sessyoin as her unexpected ally, while Bai Mo hunted system remnants in the depths of the universe. After clearing enough monsters with Arcueid, he realized she planned to keep fighting alone and insisted on helping her.

• Ritsuka arrived at the Japanese-style bounded field, where Chaldea established an intermittent communications link and she prepared to summon a Servant.
• Kiara Sessyoin appeared beside Ritsuka and offered to accompany her through the dangerous area.
• Bai Mo confronted and killed a giant beast that carried a system fragment, then had its body harvested by several Thousand Locks.
• Arcueid said that the monsters she and Bai Mo had dealt with should be enough, but Bai Mo suspected she planned to return alone and finish the task later.
• Bai Mo told Arcueid he would help her, and she asked him to spend more time with her and cook for her.

Bai Mo tested his Hell War Armor and began developing a new technique in the Realm of Immortals. Meanwhile, Kama/Mara confronted Ritsuka in the Ooku, defeated Sessyoin, and destroyed Bai Mo’s surveillance bead, prompting him to investigate.

• Bai Mo completed Hell War Armor, combining Formless Battle Armor with Blade of Hell to create an offensive and defensive technique without Jingang War Armor’s harmful effects.
• Bai Mo entered the Realm of Immortals to study martial arts and chose Magnetic Field Heavenly Lock as the basis for a new technique.
• Kama/Mara confronted Ritsuka on the Ooku’s fifth level, but Sessyoin rescued Ritsuka and sent her and the accompanying Servants out to explore the Ooku again.
• Kama/Mara defeated Sessyoin and crushed the Indra’s Net bead Bai Mo had given her for surveillance.
• Bai Mo sensed the bead shatter and hurried to find out what had happened to Sessyoin.

After Kama defeated Kiara Sessyoin, Ritsuka returned to the Ooku’s first level with little hope of victory, but Bai Mo arrived and restored her strength. Kama recognized Bai Mo from Tezcatlipoca’s livestream and prepared to confront him with unusual excitement.

• Kama watched Ritsuka return to the first level and gloated that Kiara Sessyoin’s defeat had left the Master with fewer chances against her.
• Bai Mo entered through a café-like doorway, healed Ritsuka, and asked whether Sessyoin had turned traitor.
• Ritsuka explained that Sessyoin had stayed behind to protect them, and Bai Mo assured her Sessyoin could be summoned again after they returned to Chaldea.
• Parvati and Bai Mo recognized a strange familiarity between them, and Parvati suggested Bai Mo might have helped Sakura Matou in another world.
• Kama recognized Bai Mo from a clip of Tezcatlipoca’s livestream and decided to take him seriously, eager to face him.

After learning how Kama had transformed the Ooku and begun Tokugawafication, Bai Mo and Ritsuka met Kasuga-no-Tsubone and the other allies, then discussed how to exploit Kama’s Tokugawa attribute. The conversation ended with Kasuga-no-Tsubone asking whether the Tokugawa Clan had fallen.

• Bai Mo learned from Ritsuka that Kama had turned the Ooku into a five-floor underground labyrinth where visitors were subjected to Tokugawafication.
• Parvati transformed into Saitō Fuku, who introduced herself as Ofuku and presented Mata Hari, Scheherazade, Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami Munenori, and Kiara.
• Bai Mo recognized Kasuga-no-Tsubone and harshly criticized the Tokugawa ruling class, prompting Ritsuka to comfort her.
• Scheherazade thanked Bai Mo for killing the man who had tormented her, while Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami Munenori showed interest in Bai Mo’s sword.
• Bai Mo and Ritsuka decided that Tokugawa was their best way to counter Kama, and Scheherazade suggested recreating the Black Ships.
• Kasuga-no-Tsubone heard Scheherazade’s suggestion and asked whether the Tokugawa Clan had fallen.

Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami Munenori told Kasuga-no-Tsubone that the Tokugawa Shogunate had fallen, and Bai Mo entered the Ooku alone to search for the hanafuda cards and inspect its remaining traps. There, he encountered Kama, who challenged him, but Bai Mo ignored her and walked past.

• Yagyu Tajima-no-Kami Munenori told Kasuga-no-Tsubone that the Tokugawa Shogunate had fallen, and she hoped the transfer of power had been peaceful and later generations had lived in peace.
• Bai Mo explained that the Ooku's five floors used the five precepts to tempt people into Tokugawafication, and agreed to check the remaining areas alone so Ritsuka would avoid further corruption.
• Bai Mo entered the first floor of the Ooku and found the destroyed remains of court lady puppets arranged along the corridor.
• Kama appeared and Bai Mo asked why the god of love was a woman, irritating her and prompting her to summon identical copies of herself.
• Kama challenged Bai Mo to fight, but he walked straight through her group, intent on checking the other traps.

Bai Mo refused to attack Kama on the first floor of the Ooku and repelled her arrows with the Hell War Armor. He eventually forced Kama to let him proceed to the second floor by confronting her with painful words about her past.

• Bai Mo declined to fight Kama, cleared the first floor, and sent its giant ghosts into Japan's Hell.
• Bai Mo reached the second-floor checkpoint, where Kama demanded that he defeat her to proceed.
• Kama fired volleys of arrows at Bai Mo, but the Hell War Armor knocked them all down.
• Kama challenged Bai Mo to attack her, but he instead spoke about her death and painful past as the god of love.
• Kama stormed away, and the doors to the second floor opened.

Bai Mo and the others investigated a Tokugawa shogun’s inro to learn why Kama had chosen the Ooku, and uncovered a scene from Tokugawa Tsunayoshi’s life. As a strange voice promised to love Tsunayoshi forever, the group realized the inro might hold a clue to the Ooku’s mystery.

• Bai Mo gave Ritsuka the hanafuda card and explained how he had defeated Kama by invoking her history with Shiva.
• Parvati became Kasuga-no-Tsubone, and she and the others wondered why Kama had chosen the Ooku and whether something had happened in the Indian Lostbelt.
• Ritsuka gave Bai Mo an inro associated with the Tokugawa shoguns, and Bai Mo used Raven Runes to reveal a scene inside it.
• Bai Mo identified the man in the scene as Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, whose lavish care for dogs shocked Kasuga-no-Tsubone and made her faint.
• A gentle female voice appeared in the scene and told Tsunayoshi that it alone understood him and would love him and his kindness forever.

Bai Mo deduced Kasuga-no-Tsubone’s hidden importance and sent her to discipline the Ooku’s corrupted wet nurses while he entered the second floor. He resisted Kama’s attempts to make him break the precept against false speech and reached the checkpoint by mapping the maze’s paths.

• Bai Mo inferred that Kama had used the identity of a wet nurse to corrupt Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and that Kasuga-no-Tsubone had a deeper role in the Ooku.
• Bai Mo gave Kasuga-no-Tsubone Tokugawa Tsunayoshi’s inro and told her to discipline the wet nurses while he cleared the dangers ahead.
• Kama offered to guide Bai Mo through the second-floor maze if he declared, “I am the Tokugawa shogun,” but he refused.
• Bai Mo repeatedly raced through the maze without taking Kama’s offered shortcuts or deceiving himself, marking the paths as he went.
• Bai Mo used the Asura Lost Track Path to find the remaining hidden route, and the checkpoint gates opened without him breaking the precept.

Kama transformed the third floor into an alcoholic fog and banquet to tempt Bai Mo into breaking the precept against drinking. Bai Mo resisted her advances and the crowd’s praise, while Kama urged him to relax and indulge.

• Kama and Mara argued over their ability to tempt people as Bai Mo searched the second floor for hanafuda cards.
• Kama filled the third floor with alcoholic vapor, but Bai Mo sealed off his mouth and nose to avoid drinking.
• Kama replaced the labyrinth walls with fog, making the exit impossible to sense unless Bai Mo became intoxicated.
• Kama revealed a banquet of revelers, praised Bai Mo’s past achievements, and encouraged him to drink and rest in her arms.
• Bai Mo rejected Kama’s advances and knocked her away when she appeared behind him.

Bai Mo rejected Kama’s victory banquet because its praise ignored his comrades’ efforts, then ended the gathering and returned to the Ooku labyrinth. Kama gave up on stalling him and prepared to move on to the next stage, while Mara worried that she had lost sight of their goal.

• Bai Mo grabbed Kama and questioned how she knew about his surroundings, then dismissed his concern when he realized she was only an avatar.
• Bai Mo rejected the guests’ praise and named the comrades and allies whose efforts had made the Lostbelt victories possible.
• Bai Mo ended the banquet and dismissed the summoned guests, but drunken stragglers lingered until Kama’s avatars drove them out.
• Mara questioned Kama’s decision to stop stalling Bai Mo, and she resolved to move on after her repeated failures to make him fall.
• Kama vanished, the alcoholic haze lifted, and Bai Mo found himself back in the Ooku labyrinth beside the exit to the fourth floor.

Bai Mo and Ritsuka entered the fourth floor of the Ooku to investigate a suspected hidden passage and find Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s missing inro. They discovered a research facility and a massive ghost, which Bai Mo subdued with his Underworld authority.

• Ritsuka asked to accompany Bai Mo to the fourth floor and explained that she suspected a conspicuous wall there concealed Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s inro.
• Bai Mo and his companions entered the fourth floor, found the obvious white wall, and broke through it into a dark hidden chamber.
• A massive ghost emerged from underground, but Bai Mo used his Underworld authority to immobilize and disperse it.
• Parvati said the ghost-commanding power belonged to Mara rather than Kama.

Ritsuka and her group found Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s inro marked as Kama’s, leaving them unable to take it without breaking the fourth-floor precept. Bai Mo negotiated a trade in which he agreed to let Kama shoot him with a love arrow, and Kama arranged to meet him on the fifth floor.

• Ritsuka found Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s inro inside the reactor-like object, but Kama’s name was attached to it.
• Mata Hari and Ritsuka realized that taking the inro would violate the precept against stealing, even if one of Ritsuka’s Servants took it.
• Bai Mo called out to Kama and proposed trading for the inro, while Parvati explained that a trade could count as a contract rather than theft.
• Kama first demanded that Bai Mo or Ritsuka enter a room with her on the fifth floor, then offered to give up the inro if Bai Mo let her shoot him with an arrow.
• Parvati objected, but Bai Mo accepted the arrow challenge, and Kama burned away her name from the inro and said she would wait for him on the fifth floor.

Bai Mo and the Chaldea party reached Kama/Mara’s true body on the fifth floor of the Tokugawa Kaiten Labyrinth, prepared to fight with the anti-Tokugawa inro. Kama revealed her Beast III form and hinted that Matsudaira Nobutsuna had a hidden role, which Bai Mo uncovered as a hanafuda card lodged in his hollowed-out body.

• Kama/Mara anticipated Chaldea’s return and examined the flower arrow she intended to use against Bai Mo.
• Parvati warned Bai Mo that Kama’s arrows could affect any living being, but his understanding of Kama’s love and desire gave him confidence he could resist them.
• Ritsuka, Bai Mo, and their allies entered the fifth floor with the hanafuda cards and Tokugawa Yoshinobu’s inro, then found Matsudaira Nobutsuna drinking with Kama’s clones.
• Bai Mo spoke to Matsudaira Nobutsuna, causing his cup to fall and the clones to disappear as Kama revealed her fiery red Beast III form.
• Kama asked Matsudaira whether he would use his hidden weapon, and Bai Mo sensed that Matsudaira had replaced his internal organs with something that appeared to be a hanafuda card.

Bai Mo and Chaldea fought Kama, but discovered that the anti-Tokugawa power barely hurt her because they had underestimated her scale. Kama revealed that Ritsuka’s desire to save her companions had also made her a plaything, then transformed the Ooku into the universe around them.

• Bai Mo and Kama saved Matsudaira Nobutsuna from stabbing himself and recovered the hanafuda card hidden in his body.
• Bai Mo, Ritsuka, and the Servants attacked Kama with the anti-Tokugawa power, while the Sword of Victory and Beginning and End damaged her horns.
• Bai Mo realized their attacks were only a drop in the bucket, and Kama revealed that Ritsuka’s desire to rescue her companions had been part of her control.
• Bai Mo told Ritsuka to protect Kasuga-no-Tsubone and advanced toward Kama as she warned that she could make all humanity fall.
• Kama transformed the Ooku into a vast, airless universe, leaving Ritsuka and the others surrounded by darkness and Kama’s immense presence.

Kama revealed that her universe-spanning form consisted of endless copies of herself, and she tried to make Ritsuka surrender by leaving her stranded in the void. Bai Mo fought through Kama’s clones and prepared an untested technique as the battle continued.

• Kama revealed that every star in her boundless universe was another copy of herself with the power of a Beast.
• Kama used Tokugawafication and the vast emptiness to pressure Ritsuka, while Chaldea’s Servants helped her maintain her sense of self.
• Bai Mo charged Kama, but she retreated into a sea of sunflowers and sent countless clones to swarm him.
• Bai Mo redirected Kama’s flames with Beginning and End and struck back, but Kama’s universe-scale body made the attack difficult to land.
• Bai Mo put away Beginning and End, interlaced his fingers, and prepared to test an untried move.