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Azathoth invades the Missionaries and shows them all the times they died. Maria surprises Nyarlatheotep with her resolve after knowing the truth. Arsalan's okay and recounts how the Guild Master doesn't fight with his SA and tells others to due the same. And it's retold that Maria is the acting GM. As we get closer to the Genociders Aza sends us to another plane and shows us all of our memories of dying. And then Shiro shares info about Yog to Leib and states the Game has been in a time loop countless times. Exceptions can break the Game and were excluded by the Game Masters. Shuichi says our Summoning emblems protect us from small time loops like in battle zones. We learn SA's that are World Pillars can keep their owners memories after Loops. Leib says the Game ends and resets after a Victor is crowned or if an Exception kills everyone. Aza's Throne records every Loop. We've been killed by our friends in many Loops Moritaka remember cutting us open and Tadatomo remembers the smell of our chard flesh. Thanks to Aza giving us past memories we also now have memories from our SA's past owners. We get Shino lore how he married his wife and recap how he failed to protect her and never touched her and how in his death his memories where scattered into 8 beads and what was left was sent to the Void. Shino stops Aza's Mouth of Madness and it blows up and Shino sacrifices himself for Tada and Mori. (It was a bit too sudden if you ask me) We then learn his real name is Yatsufusa and He's basically tada and Mori's spiritual father and tells us to keep trying laugh at your mistakes and even if it's hard forgive people. Then he disappears into light and leaves through the nearest Gate. (Kinda anti climatic considering Ch.16 seems to have brought him back. Also if he was a Shadow and not summoned through normal means then he shouldn't have been able to leave through a Gate. I'm going to remember this). We get Surtr lore. Yggdrasil has it's own Loop.