Chapter Summaries

Bai Mo tried to calm Melusine, but he discovered that her despair over Aurora had driven her into a self-destructive rampage. Melusine rejected the truth that Aurora had used her and prepared to destroy Britain as the Calamity of the Dragon.

• Bai Mo tried to wake Melusine and calm her, but her power surged until she threatened to explode and devastate northern Britain.
• A princely man revealed that he had stripped away Melusine’s illusions and made her see that Aurora would never love her.
• Bai Mo felt Melusine’s memories and learned that Aurora had rescued her only to appear beautiful and had kept her as a tool.
• Bai Mo told Melusine that Aurora had never loved her, but Melusine insisted Aurora would love her and let her grief turn into madness.
• Melusine declared that Britain should burn as the Black Spear’s destruction and her final death threatened the kingdom.

Bai Mo tried to stop Melusine from detonating Albion and destroying Britain by taking control of the dragon’s body and steering her toward the sea. Morgan’s mirrors trapped Albion above the water, though the will to destroy Britain continued to resist them.

• After Sion explained that Melusine could only escape the Black Spear’s effect by ceasing to be Melusine, Albion plunged toward Britain as her power built toward an explosion.
• Bai Mo realized Melusine was controlling Albion’s body and used Raven Runes to send commands into Albion’s brain, trying to redirect her toward the sea.
• Morgan prepared her Water Mirrors while Bai Mo urged Melusine to calm down, but Melusine remained consumed by despair over Aurora.
• A hidden will fought Bai Mo’s control and made Albion veer back toward Britain, but Morgan’s mirrors redirected her over the sea and boxed her in.
• Morgan realized Bai Mo’s influence on Albion’s course had helped her mirrors catch the dragon and praised him for entering her body.

Bai Mo rescued Melusine from her irreversible transformation by changing her body with Nidhogg's bone and invoking the sea's authority to let her be reborn. Melusine survived and accepted his hand as he led her toward the light.

• Bai Mo sent Albion crashing into the sea after the mirrors trapped her and the other consciousness withdrew.
• Melusine expelled Bai Mo, then prepared to die as the Black Spear's power and Albion's flesh consumed her.
• Bai Mo stabbed himself with Nidhogg's Bite to draw out its poison, then plunged the blade into Melusine to fuse Nidhogg's bone into her body.
• Bai Mo urged Melusine to keep living, and she conveyed that she wanted to survive.
• Dr. Roman and Circe explained that Melusine needed a conceptual rebirth, and Bai Mo invoked the sea's authority to make it possible.
• Melusine opened newly reborn eyes, found that the sea no longer rejected her, and let Bai Mo lead her toward the surface.

Bai Mo saved Melusine by restoring her through the sea, giving her a second life and a new affinity for seawater. Melusine joined him on his journey, and Morgan’s attempt to bind her with a fifteen-thousand-year contract ended when Bai Mo refused to pressure her.

• Bai Mo realized that the sea accepted Melusine, who emerged from it alive and renewed.
• Melusine thanked Bai Mo for giving her a second life and asked to accompany him to Orkney.
• Melusine mourned the loss of her home, then realized it had fallen into the sea and could be recovered later.
• Morgan arrived and produced a contract requiring Melusine to offer her soul and work for fifteen thousand years.
• Bai Mo rolled up the contract and rejected Morgan’s attempt to pressure Melusine, saying she was free to go wherever she wanted.

Bai Mo and the others traveled toward Orkney, where Morgan said Mash and the Rain Clan Bell were waiting. They encountered Grimr, whose familiar face resembled Cú Chulainn, and Morgan warned Ritsuka that he had to be called by that name in Fairy Britain.

• Bai Mo returned the toxins in his body to Nidhogg's Bite, and Melusine explained that she trusted him despite the dagger's evil dragon aura.
• Koyanskaya learned the blade contained materials from two powerful beasts in the Scandinavian Lostbelt and mourned missing the chance to find them.
• Ritsuka recalled shouting Ophelia's name during the Lostbelt crisis, prompting laughter from the others and an embarrassed response from Ophelia over the communicator.
• Morgan told the group that Mash and the Rain Clan Bell were in Orkney, and Redra Bit soon stopped the carriage after spotting someone waving ahead.
• Morgan identified the figure as Grimr and warned Ritsuka that calling him by another name in Fairy Britain would weaken his power, while Bai Mo studied his familiar face.

Bai Mo’s group met Grimr, who revealed he was a temporary replacement for the missing Odin, then crossed into Orkney through a vast otherworldly barrier. They reached the bell tower and found it guarded by rows of undead, while Morgan explained that the Rain Clan had been exterminated for trying to atone for the fairies’ original sin.

• Ritsuka greeted Grimr, while Bai Mo asked Chaldea to confirm his identity with Skadi and Grimr denied being Odin himself.
• Grimr said Odin had left him as a temporary replacement and that he had spent a year learning about Britain’s history.
• Bai Mo’s group found a vast magecraft barrier around Orkney and entered it after Grimr said it had appeared around the time the queen left the Lostbelt.
• Bai Mo led the group across the sea on a road of ice, and they encountered shadows and remains inside the mist-covered island.
• Morgan explained that the four great clans had slaughtered the Rain Clan because its fairies were preparing to atone for their original sin.
• Bai Mo’s group arrived at Orkney’s bell tower, where rows of armored undead stood guard.

Bai Mo’s group fought through the Mirror Clan soul fragments guarding Orkney and continued toward the bell tower, where Morgan’s presence stopped undead knights resembling Tristan, Gawain, and Lancelot. Outside Orkney, Beryl and Oberon prepared to delay the group, with Oberon agreeing to create a dream while leaving Melusine to Beryl.

• Tristan killed an undead archer and was overwhelmed by the Mirror Clan fairy’s memories, which Morgan identified as deliberately infused soul fragments.
• Bai Mo used the Magnetic Field Heavenly Blade to defeat the undead and absorbed their memories, saying he had a way to contain them.
• The group entered the bell hall and encountered undead versions of Tristan, Gawain, and Lancelot, who lowered their weapons when Morgan appeared.
• Morgan led the group up the stairs, while the others suspected she knew Orkney intimately.
• Beryl and Oberon discussed their failed trap and planned to use Oberon’s dream to stall Morgan and Bai Mo, leaving Melusine for Beryl to handle.

Bai Mo was separated from Morgan in a strange mist and encountered Uther, a knight seeking to stop Tonelico. Uther revealed Morgan’s painful past and begged Bai Mo to kill her so she could finally rest.

• Melusine stayed with Ritsuka and the others after Bai Mo and Morgan disappeared into a separate space.
• Bai Mo entered the mist alone and defeated a knightly afterimage without using Beginning and End.
• Bai Mo awakened the afterimage, who identified himself as Uther, a disciple of Tonelico.
• Uther showed Bai Mo how a fairy poisoned his coronation cup, destroying the peace he was meant to bring to Britain.
• Uther explained that Tonelico had endured betrayal and torture while saving Britain, then begged Bai Mo to kill her and let her rest.

Bai Mo defeated Uther’s lingering spirit and showed Morgan that he intended to take the burden of salvation upon himself, clearing up her suspicions about his motives. Back at Orkney, Ritsuka touched Mash’s ice coffin as the Clan Bell rang, beginning the Fairy of Paradise’s pilgrimage and unleashing judgment upon the fairies.

• Bai Mo rejected Uther’s plan to stop Morgan and insisted that Uther should take on the work of saving Britain himself; then Bai Mo shattered Uther’s sword and the spirit vanished.
• Morgan reunited with Bai Mo, admitted she had misunderstood what he wanted, and laughed at his arrogant but gentle determination to bear the burden of salvation.
• Bai Mo asked about Uther’s presence, and Morgan explained that the remnant souls had been used to set up two trials and that Tonelico had been left behind at the stone steps.
• Bai Mo and Morgan returned to Orkney’s bell tower, where Artoria, Ritsuka, the Clan Bell, and the frozen Mash were waiting amid a violent disturbance.
• As Bai Mo tried to get everyone away, Ritsuka touched Mash’s ice coffin, which shattered as the Clan Bell rang and began the Fairy of Paradise’s pilgrimage.

Beryl used a ritual to drain life force and magical energy from Orkney, trapping Ritsuka, Mash, and the others as the island sank beneath seawater. Bai Mo rescued them, and Melusine pursued Beryl and cut him into pieces before he escaped through a portal.

• Beryl sacrificed captured fairies to activate a ritual that drained Orkney and raised walls of seawater around it.
• Melusine warned Ritsuka that the spell was draining their life force, while Ritsuka struggled to reach Mash’s crystal.
• Caster helped Ritsuka free Mash, and Bai Mo arrived to restore their strength as Morgan secured the bell.
• Bai Mo carried Ritsuka and Caster away from Orkney while Melusine swam through the seawater and pursued Beryl.
• Melusine struck Beryl with Innocence Arondight, and his remains spilled through a portal into his safe house beneath Britain.

After escaping Orkney, Bai Mo and the others rested by a lake while Morgan shared more about Baobhan Sith and tried to reconcile with Habetrot. The peaceful gathering ended when Mash stirred in Redra Bit’s carriage and Bai Mo’s Metatron Award briefly heated, while Melusine asked to speak with him.

• Melusine joined Bai Mo and the others after they left Orkney, and Bai Mo suggested they rest while recovering from their drained life force.
• At the lakeside, Ritsuka, Caster, and Baobhan Sith relaxed in the water, and Morgan noted that Baobhan Sith had made friends.
• Bai Mo asked Morgan about Baobhan Sith’s past, and Morgan confided that she trusted him and wanted him to help the child.
• Morgan offered Habetrot food and asked her to become her companion again, and Habetrot accepted the food box.
• During the peaceful meal, Bai Mo’s Metatron Award heated as a faint sound came from Redra Bit’s carriage, prompting Ritsuka and the others to check on Mash.
• Melusine stayed behind and asked Bai Mo if she could talk to him.

Mash awoke after returning to the present, remembering how Tonelico had frozen her for 2,400 years and left her with advice for the future. Morgan recognized Mash’s message about Britain’s hope, while Melusine asked Bai Mo whether he wanted her to stay by his side.

• Mash awoke among Ritsuka and the others, then grieved over her failure to prevent Tonelico’s despair and the poisoning in Londinium.
• As Tonelico froze Mash, she comforted her, advised her to fight for the future she valued, and promised they would meet again in 2,400 years.
• Mash asked Tonelico to wait until their reunion for her answer about their journey, then fell asleep in the ice.
• Morgan remembered Mash’s final words, smiled at her, and went to check on Bai Mo, but found him and Melusine gone.
• Melusine told Bai Mo she did not know whether to stay with him or return to Aurora, and Bai Mo left the choice to her.

Bai Mo let Melusine choose whether to return to Aurora, giving her magical gems to take back. After discovering Aurora with Lancelot, Melusine fled to Bai Mo’s residence in New Darlington, where he agreed to take her in.

• Bai Mo told Melusine she was free to return to Aurora and gave her a bag of magical gems as a gift.
• Melusine kissed Bai Mo before leaving, prompting teasing from Morgan, Shiki, and Arcueid.
• Bai Mo’s party traveled to New Darlington, where Melusine appeared in a cardboard box beside the Wind Clan’s Clan Bell, asking to be taken in.
• Melusine recalled finding her room cleared out and catching Aurora and Lancelot together in a Command Card battle; she threw the gems at them and left with the Clan Bell.
• Bai Mo agreed to let Melusine stay, and she clung to him while complaining about Lancelot’s NTR.

Melusine returned to Bai Mo after finding Aurora with Lancelot, and Morgan brought her back into her service as a Fairy Knight. Morgan revealed that she and Bai Mo would relocate Britain without its fairies and publicly claim to be married, while Melusine accepted her new role but could not change her title.

• Melusine returned to Bai Mo after finding Aurora and Lancelot together, deciding to sever her ties with Aurora and live happily with Bai Mo.
• Ritsuka explained Lancelot's history to Melusine, who angrily questioned why Morgan had given her the name Lancelot.
• Morgan ordered Melusine to return to her service as a Fairy Knight and told her she could stop holding back against fairies.
• Morgan revealed that she and Bai Mo planned to relocate Britain to a world without calamities, taking no fairies except Melusine.
• Morgan said she publicly claimed Bai Mo as her husband, and Melusine declared Morgan's enemies her own before asking to change her Fairy Knight title; Morgan refused.

Bai Mo read stories to Baobhan Sith and Melusine to improve their judgment, then discussed the power-absorbing machine from Orkney with the Martial God Space residents. The conversation revealed that its creator, Lun Rang, was Landao Tianwu’s unknown child, while Lun Rang remained hidden beneath Britain.

• Bai Mo slipped away after Baobhan Sith and Melusine fell asleep, and Morgan praised his efforts to educate Baobhan Sith before he urged Morgan to spend more time with her.
• Bai Mo and the others compared the Orkney machine that absorbed Magnetic Field Power to the Dead Soul Worm and identified its creator as Lun Rang, who had once drained Sea Tiger’s power.
• Sea Tiger recalled that Mizuki Hitomi had warned him Lun Rang was dangerous and could affect his son’s future rule.
• Bai Mo revealed that Lun Rang was Landao Tianwu’s child, and Oga remembered sensing something when Lun Rang died.
• Beneath Britain, Lun Rang sneezed and assumed only Beryl might be talking about him.

Morgan and her allies planned to obtain the Wing Clan’s Clan Bell in Gloucester, where Muryan was holding an auction for competing Children of Prophecy. They decided to attend rather than steal the bell, then prepared Caster for the event and set off for Gloucester.

• Morgan displayed the Bells of Orkney, Norwich, and Salisbury, while Melusine and Bai Mo discussed how Bai Mo had saved the Bell of Norwich from Aurora.
• Morgan chose the Wing Clan’s Clan Bell in Gloucester as their next target, and Koyanskaya explained that Muryan would auction it to Children of Prophecy in two days.
• The group agreed to bid at the auction rather than risk retaliation against New Darlington by stealing the bell.
• Ritsuka asked Bai Mo to provide Caster with suitable clothes, but Caster rejected a golden suit of armor from Gilgamesh’s treasury.
• Habetrot took charge of making Caster formal attire, and the group set off for Gloucester.

Bai Mo and Morgan investigated Gloucester’s auction house ahead of the evening auction and discovered Muryan meeting with Spriggan. Spriggan proposed using the Calamity of the Beast to eliminate the Fang Clan’s leaders and bring the clan under Muryan’s control.

• Bai Mo and Morgan prepared to attend Gloucester’s auction while Ritsuka and the others explored the town and the rest of the group pursued their own plans.
• Bai Mo and Morgan entered Muryan’s bounded field unnoticed, and Morgan placed a spell over the auction house.
• Bai Mo recognized the arriving Spriggan as a human impersonating the Earth Clan chief and sensed something unusual inside his head.
• Muryan challenged Spriggan to explain his plan to bring the Fang Clan to her side.
• Spriggan proposed dealing with Fairy Knight Gawain and Woodwose through the Calamity of the Beast.

Muryan heard Spriggan’s plan to unleash the Calamity of the Beast against the Fang Clan and help Queen Medb seize the throne, while Bai Mo and Morgan secretly observed them. Back at the hotel, Morgan and Bai Mo weighed the danger and chose to prepare without warning Woodwose, as Morgan considered her growing ties to Bai Mo.

• Muryan listened as Spriggan urged her to let the Calamity of the Beast attack the Fang Clan and explained that he wanted to help Queen Medb take the throne.
• Muryan agreed to Spriggan’s proposal, and Bai Mo and Morgan watched their conversation from the empty auction hall.
• Morgan considered the plan but noted that awakening Cernunnos would make it dangerous, and Bai Mo said he would speak with Barghest.
• Morgan refused to warn Woodwose, judging him arrogant and foolish, and told Bai Mo they should make their own preparations.
• Habetrot questioned Morgan’s political marriage to Bai Mo, while Morgan said she and Bai Mo would prosper or suffer together.

Bai Mo confronted Fang Clan fairies who tried to seize Ritsuka, and their leader Woodwose arrived at the restaurant. The chapter left Bai Mo and Woodwose facing each other as the others watched.

• Baobhan Sith took Caster, Ritsuka, Mash, and the others to a restaurant, where Caster led them upstairs to avoid a scene.
• Bai Mo and Barghest were waiting in a private room, and Bai Mo approved of Baobhan Sith intimidating the Fang Clan fairies.
• Several Fang Clan fairies tried to claim Ritsuka, but Bai Mo severed their legs and demanded to know who had assigned them.
• Woodwose arrived, dismissed the injured fairies as useless, and confronted Bai Mo, while Caster remembered the destruction of her hometown.

Bai Mo confronted Woodwose after Woodwose’s subordinate tried to abduct Ritsuka and Caster, and demanded an apology. When Woodwose refused and attacked, Bai Mo overwhelmed him by binding the Lung of the Planet that powered his strength.

• Woodwose sensed Bai Mo as a rival apex predator, but Bai Mo accused his subordinate of trying to abduct his companion.
• Woodwose dismissed Ritsuka and Caster as weak, and Bai Mo demanded that he and his subordinate apologize.
• Woodwose accepted Bai Mo’s offered handshake, but Bai Mo crushed his hand and pinned him in place.
• Arcueid and Crimson Moon identified Woodwose as a Lung of the Planet, a planetary heat-dissipation and antivirus function.
• Woodwose bit Bai Mo and unleashed the Lung of the Planet’s immense magical energy, but Bai Mo struck his lungs and bound them with Ryougi Heaven-Imprisoning Enkidu before punching him.