Chapter Summaries

Jiang Rui warned Anna about the dangers of becoming supernatural and urged her to persuade her parents to leave New York. Elsewhere, a member of The Truth Society reflected on the disrupted plan and continued preparing a feed for Rancher.

• Jiang Rui found that the Night Watch remained busy and that Emily had not reappeared, while his side was apparently being ignored.
• Anna returned to the shop and asked Jiang Rui to teach her magic, but he cautioned her about supernatural dangers and put off discussing it.
• Jiang Rui told Anna to persuade her parents to leave New York temporarily, just as commotion rose outside and the sky darkened.
• A hidden member of The Truth Society reviewed how the Holy Maiden's death and Lilith's escape had disrupted the plan and drawn demigods' attention to the United States.
• The man dismissed the idea that The Truth Society was allied with the Twisted Ones and examined a tentacle-like sample, insisting everything was for truth.

A man attempted to summon the god of eternity by transforming the Rancher with the Black Goat’s flesh, blood, and gathered souls, but Dream Realm isolation stopped the manifestation. The dream barrier shattered, and Nightmare’s response plunged New York into darkness as children began to transform.

• The man used the Rancher, the Black Goat’s flesh and blood, and collected soul essence to begin the god’s revival.
• A spreading storm devoured matter and souls, while the Rancher’s transformation advanced toward godhood and drained the man’s vitality.
• Dream Realm isolation halted the ancient spirit just before it could fully descend, so the man cut off his finger and fed it to the Rancher.
• The man vanished as the entity opened a giant eye and shattered Nightmare’s dream barrier.
• Nightmare turned into a curtain of black, plunging the school into darkness and making the teacher and children fall asleep.
• One girl watched her hand turn into fleshy tendrils, then smiled and leaned toward her classmate.

Emily ordered a military assault to suppress the newly emerged entity while Jiang Rui encountered aberrants in New York. Elsewhere, Jiang Rui’s main body found a classroom massacre and subdued a transformed girl, leaving him to wonder whether aberrants retained their former obsessions.

• Emily ordered Night Watch forces to use long-range weapons against the entity until Nightmare Your Eminence and reinforcements arrived.
• Jiang Rui stopped Anna from looking at the entity, burned an aberrant that attacked them, and speculated about the creature’s nature.
• The entity blocked the first missile barrage, but Emily realized physical attacks could harm it and ordered further strikes.
• Jiang Rui’s main body subdued a transformed girl in a classroom where nearly everyone else had been mutilated, and found one child still sleeping.

As New York descended into chaos, Jiang Rui’s main body hunted aberrations while his Avatar left Anna to join the fight. Meanwhile, Nightmare uncovered the High Table and The Truth Society’s aims, and Emily set out to track a High Table assassin.

• Jiang Rui’s main body found and killed an aberrant spider girl at an elementary school, then sent the Night Watch her location and photos.
• Jiang Rui’s Avatar told Anna to hide and vanished to hunt aberrants and wrongdoers, while Ciel controlled his main body and prioritized its survival.
• Nightmare concluded that the High Table and The Truth Society intended to spark conflict between ordinary and extraordinary people, and vowed they would pay for it.
• Emily learned that Sealed Artifact C-2369 had cooled and could track the High Table assassin, then took it and prepared to leave Night Watch headquarters.
• The compass-like artifact lit up with the assassin’s location.

Jiang Rui's Avatar was attacked by the Vampire Slayer, a High Table assassin whose Sequence 5 domain erased his presence and defeated detection. Jiang Rui fled toward Emily for help, only to discover she had stopped at a nearby lighthouse and was watching the fight.

• Jiang Rui tried to save sleeping civilians, but the Vampire Slayer ambushed him and identified him as Lord Brent Rand.
• The Vampire Slayer used his domain to evade Jiang Rui's detection and cut through his defenses, while Jiang Rui escaped in Thunder Incarnation.
• Jiang Rui ran toward Emily, hoping she would help him deal with the assassin.
• The Vampire Slayer pursued Jiang Rui to a villa by the river and attacked him with a cyan-flaming blade, but Jiang Rui transformed into crimson mist and fled upward as a bat.
• Great Sage reported that Emily had arrived but was watching from a lighthouse instead of moving to help.

Jiang Rui fought the Vampire Slayer, whose domain let her attack him while remaining untouchable, and learned from Ciel how such domains worked. The chapter left him facing her with no clear way to break the domain except to create one of equal strength or escape its range.

• Jiang Rui transformed into Brent and used blood weapons to counter the Vampire Slayer, but his attacks passed through her while her blade wounded him.
• The Vampire Slayer explained that her domain placed her on a higher layer, allowing her to strike Jiang Rui without being hit.
• Jiang Rui drank a blood potion as the Vampire Slayer advanced and taunted him.
• Ciel explained that the Slayer's ability resembled a dimensional attack and that Jiang Rui could defeat it by using an equal-level domain or escaping its range.
• Ciel clarified that domains were places or barriers imbued with rules, while the domains of gods were called divine kingdoms.

Jiang Rui struggled against the Vampire Slayer while trying to avoid revealing Avalon or the Blood Moon, as Emily monitored the crisis from a tower. Emily learned that the disaster was a ritual for someone seeking to become The Crowned, and the city’s mutations were spreading as help raced toward New York.

• Jiang Rui considered using Avalon and the Blood Moon against the Vampire Slayer, then decided to test him with Unlimited Blade Works instead.
• A bewildered civilian woke on the villa balcony, and Emily realized civilians were waking while Nightmare Your Eminence was being held back.
• Emily learned that another Your Eminence was racing from Los Angeles to New York after refusing outside assistance.
• The arriving Your Eminence explained that the black storm was a split-off infant of the Black Goat of the Woods being used in a ritual for The Crowned.
• Emily’s subordinate reported widespread mutations across the city, and Emily prayed as the rescue effort continued.

A girl called Dragon King Spark Spark destroyed the cryptic entity threatening the city, while the injured man behind the ritual discovered that the Rancher and the box of inscribed paper were missing. He was confronted by Night Watch members and Iron Throne soldiers as they arrived to arrest him.

• The cryptic entity broke through the blockade and began tearing at the sky as citizens awakened into monsters.
• The girl reached the state border, summoned a golden dragon phantom, and destroyed the entity with dragon breath and slashes.
• The girl reassured her dragon companion and told someone over an information link that she had reached the border.
• The injured man identified his attacker as Dragon King Spark Spark and realized that the Rancher and the box of inscribed paper had vanished.
• Night Watch members and Iron Throne soldiers found the man, who insulted them before the leading officer raised a technological gun.

Jiang Rui faced Vampire Slayer after the dragon’s appearance drew supernatural fighters across the city, while Emily ordered civilians rescued and ordinary personnel calmed. As Vampire Slayer struck at Jiang Rui, the Blood Moon appeared in his eye and a red moon rose over New York, triggering alarms about a massive energy surge.

• Emily issued a Level One combat readiness order and told personnel to prioritize rescuing civilians and calming ordinary staff.
• Emily told Rien that attacks had also struck Washington State, Boston, and St. Paul, and reported that His Eminence had gone to St. Paul.
• Jiang Rui knocked out the fat man in the mansion, but the assassin killed him, leaving no survivors.
• Vampire Slayer refused to retreat and repeatedly attacked Jiang Rui, explaining that he was still working for a client.
• Jiang Rui raised his arms to block Vampire Slayer’s strike, and Vampire Slayer saw the Blood Moon in Jiang Rui’s pupil.
• Alarms reported massive unknown energy invading New York’s barrier as a red moon appeared in the sky.

Jiang Rui unleashed power left behind by Lilith, summoning the Blood Moon and turning the fight against the Vampire Slayer. Though the Slayer cut Jiang Rui in half, Jiang Rui’s blood surrounded him with deadly spikes, leaving the hunter trapped and facing a reversal.

• Jiang Rui’s right eye released crimson power, and the Blood Moon descended as his strength and connection to blood surged.
• Emily suspected Lilith had left Jiang Rui a protective gift, while the Vampire Slayer recalled his teacher’s warning to flee if Lilith summoned the Blood Moon.
• The Vampire Slayer attacked from concealment, but Jiang Rui used the Blood Moon to reveal him and shatter his domain.
• Jiang Rui grabbed the Slayer’s blade, lost four fingers, and punched him away, but the Slayer’s follow-up strike cut Jiang Rui in half.
• Jiang Rui’s falling blood froze around the villa, formed spikes, and aimed at the Vampire Slayer.

Jiang Rui defeated the Vampire Slayer by using Holy Flame against his living-corpse body, then kept attacking him until the Iron Throne arrived. The officials identified the dead killer and began investigating the scene, while Jiang Rui worried that his vampire identity would be exposed.

• The wounded Vampire Slayer drank Corpse Keeper Potion and used his living-corpse constitution to resume attacking Jiang Rui.
• Jiang Rui and the Vampire Slayer traded repeated stabs, with both refusing to back down.
• Jiang Rui unleashed a final Holy Flame spell through his blade, inflicting severe pain on the Vampire Slayer and causing him to collapse.
• Jiang Rui picked up the Vampire Slayer's weapon and continued punching and stabbing him until Iron Throne officials pulled him away.
• An elderly Iron Throne official recognized the Vampire Slayer, and Jiang Rui claimed he might have been a passing vampire while worrying about the consequences of exposure.

Jiang Rui reflected on his impulsive fight while discovering that the short blade he had taken from his opponent had extraordinary sharpness and powerful weapon-breaking traits. As soldiers surrounded the corpse, an elderly man approached Jiang Rui.

• Jiang Rui questioned why he had unleashed his strength instead of avoiding danger or waiting for help, and blamed Emily for leaving him unprotected.
• Jiang Rui recognized that his abilities and Avalon already made him strong enough to survive most situations.
• Jiang Rui inspected the enhanced short blade Dan and learned it had Sharpness 260, guaranteed armor-piercing and shattering effects against weaker weapons and defenses.
• Jiang Rui compared Dan's sharpness with his other blades, retired the Blood Weeping Blade, and swallowed Dan to add its traits to his abilities.
• Jiang Rui considered swallowing the dead opponent but decided against it as soldiers gathered around the corpse.
• The elderly man finished inspecting the scene and walked toward Jiang Rui.

After Jiang Rui helped stop the unrest, Director Molly tried to take him for questioning, but Emily claimed him as a temporary Night Watch employee. She gave Jiang Rui an authorization card and made clear that his new job meant working for her and taking the blame.

• Jiang Rui joked that people in illegal professions should not be too dedicated as Director Molly prepared to question him.
• Emily confronted Director Molly and presented a document claiming Jiang Rui had joined the Night Watch three days earlier.
• Director Molly recognized that Emily had given him a face and left without taking Jiang Rui.
• Jiang Rui learned that Emily had watched his fight and had prepared an ability to save him if he suffered a fatal injury.
• Emily gave Jiang Rui a Night Watch authorization card and told him to work for her, write reports, take the blame, and die if necessary.

Lilith struggled with the consequences of her reduced form and warned that powerful newcomers threatened the old order, while Jiang Rui returned to his shop and learned that global tensions had grown after the disaster. The chapter ended with Emily taking Jiang Rui to Iron Throne headquarters for questioning.

• Lilith discussed the Blood Moon incident with the shop owner and said she planned to say goodbye to many old friends.
• Jiang Rui regained control of his main body, which Great Sage had kept safe and supplied with water while it traveled along the Atlantic coast.
• Jiang Rui returned to his office, reunited with Dennis and Anna, and checked on Fane's district amid panic and spreading cults.
• Jiang Rui learned that the United States, Russian Federation, Xia Country, and Eagleland were clashing over the response to the disaster and the disclosure of mysterious powers.
• Emily brought Jiang Rui to Iron Throne headquarters and placed him in an interrogation room to make an official record.

Jiang Rui, living as Brent Rand in the Night Watch, endured repeated interrogations and learned that his actions had secured Emily’s position, though she warned that her political rivals could target her subordinates. As protests over the proposed Extraordinary Person Act continued in Times Square, Dennis cautioned Jiang Rui about Emily’s demanding management, and Jiang Rui learned that the waitress had joined the protesters.

• Jiang Rui complained about repeated questioning, and Emily explained that Night Watch recordkeepers were documenting his statements, which had varied slightly each time.
• Emily told Jiang Rui that killing the Vampire Slayer had helped secure her position, but warned that her rivals might make trouble for her subordinates.
• Jiang Rui spent his free time exploring R'lyeh and experimenting with water abilities, including a healing effect that proved useless.
• Jiang Rui saw protesters in Times Square demonstrating over the proposed Extraordinary Person Act, which concerned how authorities should handle extraordinary individuals.
• Dennis warned Jiang Rui that Emily trusted and protected capable subordinates but would work them hard after calculating their limits.
• Jiang Rui asked Dennis about the waitress, and Dennis said she had gone to protest.

Jiang Rui questioned Dennis about his past and learned how Emily’s New York case reshaped the Night Watch and left Dennis working as a reviewer. Dennis warned Jiang Rui to keep a way out while serving under Emily, then revealed his former identity as a postman; Jiang Rui ended by asking why he had become an ordinary person.

• Dennis explained that Emily suspected everyone of having supernatural powers, while he was genuinely ordinary.
• Dennis told Jiang Rui that Emily could protect her subordinates but might abandon them, and advised him to leave himself a way out.
• Dennis revealed that he and Emily had once held each other’s positions before Emily’s final New York case reshaped the city’s power structure.
• Dennis said Emily’s case had included abandoning the independent factions that supported the Night Watch, and Jiang Rui inferred that Dennis had been among them.
• Dennis disclosed that he had once been a postman who carried information between factions and arranged transactions.
• Jiang Rui asked Dennis why he had become an ordinary person.

Dennis told Jiang Rui how Emily had saved him by permanently sealing his abilities, and Jiang Rui learned that Anna had become a prominent author of proposed extraordinary-person laws. Jiang Rui rushed to confront Anna, while Dennis reflected on Emily and the changing extraordinary world.

• Dennis explained that Emily had saved him from mutation by using the S-556 sealed artifact to make him an ordinary person permanently.
• Jiang Rui worried that the artifact could be used against him and decided his true body should leave New York.
• Dennis told Jiang Rui that Anna and her father, Dale Smith, had coauthored influential papers and a revised Extraordinary Person Act proposal.
• Jiang Rui learned that Nightmare Your Eminence might arrive soon and hurried out to confront Anna.
• Dennis remembered Emily's first birthday gift and wondered whether her actions had been her response to his three-year pursuit.

Ye Xiaoqian investigated Brent Rand and considered whether he was connected to Rimuru, while Long Ruoqing and a Xia Country leader discussed political plans for revealing the extraordinary world and whether Tyrant could be trusted. The chapter left Xia Country facing a dangerous era of change, with Long Ruoqing unable to judge Tyrant’s intentions toward the country.

• Ye Xiaoqian obtained Brent Rand’s confidential file from Yutong and wondered whether he was connected to Rimuru.
• Yutong noted that Brent had killed a Sequence 5 member of the High Table and held a senior position in the Night Watch’s New York branch.
• Ye Xiaoqian explained that the proposed Extraordinary Person Act Amendment could follow a divisive law to shape public opinion before disclosure of the extraordinary world.
• Long Ruoqing asked a Xia Country leader whether he would support the Old Ones or ordinary people, and he chose the people while hoping conflict could be avoided.
• Long Ruoqing told the leader that Sword Elder liked Tyrant, and she said Tyrant was a newborn rather than a spy sent by the Real world.
• Long Ruoqing reflected that she could sense hostility toward herself but could not determine whether someone had ulterior intentions toward Xia Country.

Jiang Rui read his classified file and found its assessment suggested he might be recruitable, then examined Anna’s successful Extraordinaries Act Amendment and suspected that powerful interests had guided her father’s work. He left Anna considering whether her father had helped her enter the extraordinary world.

• Jiang Rui read his file, noticed its errors and missing advancement details, and took its final assessment as a sign that his main body might soon return home.
• Anna showed Jiang Rui that her Extraordinaries Act Amendment had won more votes than the Secretary of State’s version.
• Jiang Rui read the amendment and concluded that it opened access to extraordinary powers while leaving advancement channels under the control of extraordinary families.
• Jiang Rui questioned how Anna and her ordinary father had produced such a timely, informed act and suggested that someone had guided them.
• Anna admitted she had mentioned wanting to enter the extraordinary world, and Jiang Rui inferred that her father had helped her pursue that goal.

Jiang Rui returned to Xia Country under the identity of Jiang Xiaoxiao and joined the Light Chasers, but a new world mission transported him into A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun. He faced a dangerous invasion mission with faction and ranking requirements, and worried about the powerful figures he might have to confront.

• Jiang Rui reassured Anna that the government would protect her father and suspected the Night Watch would soon act.
• Jiang Rui arrived in Xia Country as Jiang Xiaoxiao, an identity secured through a contract requiring him to join the Light Chasers.
• Great Sage began the new world mission and identified its destination as A Certain Magical Index/A Certain Scientific Railgun, with 137 participants.
• Jiang Rui learned that he had to survive for 30 days, choose a hostile faction by killing one of its key members, and rank among the top 100 in Twist Value or be erased.
• Jiang Rui noticed missions targeting powerful figures, including Kamijou Touma, a Magic God, Accelerator, and Railgun, and worried about fighting the protagonists again.