Chapter Summaries

Plot points

• Kraft sends Bonnie away, locks the office, and reacts with disbelief when he realizes Edward’s visitors resemble characters from Nichijou. He recognizes Arale, Alice, and Angela, along with a dog and cat in red scarves.
• Edward introduces himself as Wang Mian, a version of Kraft from a parallel world. Kraft explains his own history, including that his system is now gone.
• Edward reacts bitterly to Kraft’s luck, then describes his life: he was reborn with his memories and a Great Scientist System, but its limited benefits only helped him learn and research faster.
• After discovering he was in the Marvel universe, Edward gave up on becoming exceptional. He works at Stark Industries for the salary, avoids superheroics, and considers his life comfortable enough.
• Edward says he has secretly built Iron Man suits but cannot use them without attracting Stark’s attention. His movie-based universe lacks organizations such as S.P.E.A.R. and S.A.B.E.R., leaving him with few appealing options.
• Kraft gives Edward a Nano Earpiece and introduces him to the Kraft Council Forum, where Edward learns about another counterpart who gained Assassin’s Creed abilities after losing his memories.
• Edward wonders whether deliberately giving himself amnesia might let him become “awesome.”

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft is curious about Edward’s system and admits he would like to study it, but quickly explains his own situation. He sympathizes with Edward and offers him access to the forum.
• Edward/Wang Mian is cautious, pragmatic, and resigned: he values safety over power and has no desire to become a hero. Yet hearing about Kraft’s system and the Assassin counterpart reveals lingering envy and ambition.
• Quinn jokes that Edward seems mentally unwell, while the unusual group’s arrival adds to his confusion.

Significant themes

• Unequal luck and unfairness: Edward resents Kraft’s apparent advantages and laments the different fortunes of their parallel selves.
• Choice versus risk: Edward declines heroic opportunities because he lacks confidence and fears the consequences.
• Identity and alternate paths: The parallel-world counterparts show how different circumstances—and even memory loss—can radically change the same person’s life.

Plot points and events

• Edward refuses Kraft’s offer to teach him Dream Technology. His learning system would punish him with endless exercises if he failed to master it, and the memory of that ordeal terrifies him.
• Edward explains his plans for surviving Thanos’s Snap: obtain Pym Particles and hide in the Quantum Realm, or simply rely on being restored by Hulk. He has no interest in fighting Thanos.
• Kraft admits he can’t take Edward to another world yet because the Forum’s cross-world capabilities are limited. He gives Edward a collection of technological data instead, including Pym Technologies research.
• After comparing their experiences, Kraft decides not to stay in Edward’s world. Edward invites Kraft and his companions to dinner before they leave.
• At Edward’s messy home, Kraft discovers Edward’s two scantily dressed companions, making the visit awkward. Edward dismisses them and cooks a good meal, but the group soon departs.
• Kraft’s next portal opens into a strange, chaotic dimension. A figure appears, and Kraft announces, “Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.”

Character developments and interactions

• Edward is revealed as an older, comfortable-in-his-routines counterpart to Kraft: resourceful enough to prepare backup plans, but unwilling to risk discomfort or take on heroic responsibilities. He is relieved to find someone from another world he can talk to and is delighted by Kraft’s technological files.
• Kraft respects Edward’s choice not to fight and does not assume responsibility for solving his world’s crisis. He offers practical help through the data, while remaining focused on his own search for the Time Stone.
• Arale and Alice eagerly accept Edward’s invitation to dinner. Their presence—and the judgmental looks from Kraft and the others—heightens Edward’s embarrassment over his lifestyle.

Significant themes

• Comfort versus responsibility: Edward knowingly chooses an easy life over heroism, even with a world-threatening crisis ahead.
• Help without obligation: Kraft offers useful assistance but recognizes that he is not automatically responsible for every parallel world.
• Loneliness and connection: Despite his careless habits, Edward values the rare chance to speak with someone who shares his unusual background.
• Comic contrast: Edward’s laid-back survival plans and awkward home life contrast with Kraft’s ongoing adventures and the dramatic appearance of Dormammu.

Plot points and events

• Kraft Lee arrives in the Dark Dimension with Arale, three girls, a cat, and a dog, startling both Dormammu and Kraft Wang—who look identical.
• Kraft Lee asks Kraft Wang for the Time Stone so he can continue trapping Dormammu in a time loop. Wang, a newly appointed Sorcerer Supreme, is wary but accepts that Lee may be his counterpart from another universe.
• Arale easily overpowers Dormammu, repeatedly smashing him apart as the Dark Dimension restores him. Wang is astonished by her strength.
• Lee reveals that Arale can be sustained with Mechanical Vitan-A, then asks her to break the dimension. Her first punch cracks space, proving she can threaten Dormammu’s immortality.
• Panicked, Dormammu offers to leave Earth and never threaten it again. Wang insists on a binding Contract rather than trusting his promise.
• Dormammu signs, recalls his followers, and escorts the group out. Wang then invites Lee through a Portal to discuss the Time Stone and their relationship.

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft Lee is practical and confident, quickly using Arale’s strength to force a resolution and deferring to Wang on Earth’s safety.
• Kraft Wang shifts from suspicion and disbelief to decisive action. His insistence on a Contract shows his caution and experience with demons.
• Arale remains cheerful and innocent, misinterpreting Dormammu’s comments and treating the fight as fun. Her immense strength becomes the decisive threat.
• Dormammu goes from arrogant confidence in his home dimension to panic once Arale demonstrates she can damage it. He retreats under a binding agreement.
• The two Krafts cautiously cooperate despite their confusion, while the Kamar-Taj sorcerers are baffled by seeing two versions of their master.

Significant themes

• Power overturning expectations: Arale’s simple physical strength surpasses Dormammu’s control of his own dimension.
• Trust and accountability: Wang recognizes that a demon’s spoken promise is unreliable, so he demands a Contract.
• Multiverse and identity: The meeting of two identical Krafts raises questions about parallel worlds and their vastly different histories.
• Innocence amid danger: Arale’s cheerful misunderstanding contrasts sharply with the life-or-death stakes of the battle.

Plot points and events

• Kraft Lee and Kraft Wang arrive at a version of Kamar-Taj located in the Himalayas and resembling a village rather than the temple Kraft Lee expected.
• Lee explains that he wants the Time Stone to help connect versions of himself across different worlds through the Kraft Council Forum. Wang agrees to lend it without asking for another Infinity Stone in return.
• Lee gives Wang a Nano Earpiece so he can join the Forum, then sets up a portable research lab in Wang’s spell-practice space while the Forum server is upgraded.
• Lee leaves Arale, Alice, Angela, and his pets in Wang’s care, warning him that Arale is unusually strong and that the pets’ fights may become noisy. Wang confidently accepts the responsibility.
• Wang joins the Forum as “Sorcerer Supreme.” After checking in, he browses the existing posts, which are mostly from “Master Assassin,” and finds them dull compared with his own dangerous work at Kamar-Taj.
• A new post from “Salty Fish Uncle” catches his attention. Its mundane complaint about the cost of saline nasal rinse embarrasses Wang so much that he calls it “utterly indecent” and exits the Forum.

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft Lee is resourceful and focused on expanding communication among his alternate selves. He trusts Wang with both the Time Stone and his companions, while taking care to explain how to manage them.
• Kraft Wang proves generous by lending the Time Stone, and curious enough to explore the Forum. His confidence in handling Arale and the pets hints that he may be underestimating the chaos they could cause.
• The two Krafts share easy familiarity and humor, discussing tea, research, and the care of Lee’s companions as alternate versions of the same person.
• Arale, Alice, and Angela are left with Wang: Alice is usually able to keep Arale in check, while Angela tends to indulge her. Their antics are foreshadowed but do not yet occur in the chapter.

Significant themes

• Cooperation across worlds: The Forum and the loan of the Time Stone represent alternate selves pooling resources and staying connected.
• Trust and responsibility: Lee relies on Wang to safeguard both powerful artifacts and his companions.
• Comic contrast: The chapter juxtaposes cosmic threats and magical duties with trivial online chatter, ending on Wang’s exaggerated reaction to an ordinary health-care complaint.

Key plot points and events

• Arale and the other guests wreak havoc at Kamar-Taj, damaging the well and a magical artifact, starting a fight between their pets, and releasing prisoners—whom Arale promptly knocks out.
• Exhausted, Sorcerer Supreme Kraft Wang visits Kraft Lee in his laboratory, pretending he wants more Forum members while actually hoping to escape the chaos.
• Kraft explains that synchronizing the Forum’s time requires precise control of the Time Stone. Wang proposes combining magic with technology, using the Eye of Agamotto as a model.
• The two Krafts upgrade the Infinity Stone Orbment in less than half a day and connect the Forum to the Time Stone. A test confirms that the Forum’s time system works.
• Forum users celebrate the upgrade, but Salty Fish Uncle’s lewd image posts and requests for obedient android companions quickly derail the discussion. Kraft shuts him down, while Master Assassin arrives late and asks for more pictures.
• Kraft resumes his recruitment efforts, leaving with his sister and pets through a portal. The chapter ends with an unrelated author’s note about physiological seawater and saline.

Character developments

• Kraft Wang is revealed to be nearing his limit after managing the disruptive guests. Though he gives a practical excuse for visiting Kraft Lee, his real motive is to find a way out.
• Kraft Lee shows frustration with the technical problem but readily adapts when Wang suggests a magical solution.
• Kraft Wang’s magical expertise proves complementary to Kraft Lee’s engineering skills, allowing them to complete the upgrade quickly.
• Salty Fish Uncle emerges as an unabashed pervert, while Master Assassin appears happy to encourage him.
• Kraft Lee notices Wang’s Forum browsing history but tactfully keeps quiet to preserve his dignity.

Significant themes

• Cooperation across disciplines: Magic and technology succeed where either approach alone has limits.
• Alternate selves can differ sharply: The Forum’s members share identities across worlds but have very different personalities and priorities.
• Chaos and responsibility: Kraft Wang’s dignified role as Sorcerer Supreme contrasts with the exhausting disorder caused by his guests.
• Comic contrast: A major magical-technological breakthrough is followed by crude Forum banter and an unrelated everyday-life aside.

Character interactions

• Kraft Wang and Kraft Lee tease one another before working together; Lee recognizes Wang’s hidden motive but does not openly press him.
• Wang contributes the magical insight that lets Lee solve his Orbment problem.
• Kraft Lee and Wang react with disgust to Salty Fish Uncle’s behavior, though Wang’s own browsing history suggests he may be less above it than he claims.
• Master Assassin joins the conversation late and openly backs Salty Fish Uncle’s posts.

Key plot points and events

• Salty Fish Uncle opens a forum thread to advise newcomers who have lost their memories, joking that he is the only one with memories of a past life.
• Beauty Painter shares paintings of women and reveals that his dreams center on Shi Zhixuan, though he is currently following the artistic path of Hou Xibai. He has also befriended several women, including Mary Jane and Gwen Stacy, prompting Uncle’s enthusiastic requests for more artwork.
• Listening to Spring Rain All Night recounts being overwhelmed by the Demon Saber Technique, falling into demonic possession, and attacking the Avengers. The Designer saved him with the Mind Stone; he surrendered afterward and is now imprisoned in the Raft, where Uncle’s image collection is his main entertainment.
• Android No. 0 appears while attacking a Hydra base and says that, despite his many-world experiences, he is far weaker than the Designer—and cannot defeat Arale.
• The forum introduces two especially unfortunate newcomers: A Dead Person, whose soul the Designer preserved after Hydra experiments killed him, and An Undying Person, a mutant who must watch loved ones age and die. The latter knows Deadpool and Wolverine, but says Deadpool is otherwise ordinary.
• Mr. Negative asks why the Designer acted awkwardly around him; Uncle explains that the Designer’s adoptive father shares that name. Mr. Negative also reveals he has lost his memories and has not had the dreams others discuss.
• Members compare their dream-derived talents. It’s My Turn Next can initiate Shadow Games through any competitive game, while Saint of Gamblers has an ability related to time and space that requires help from others.
• Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain and Tiger Shot reveal dreams of sports protagonists Genichiro Sanada and Kojiro Hyuga. Uncle explains that their tennis and soccer skills may be dangerously powerful; both confirm they have already overwhelmed opponents.
• Pink Dark Boy reveals that his dream protagonist is manga artist Rohan Kishibe, but he has not yet acquired a Stand.
• Uncle realizes that, despite starting the thread to offer advice, he has mostly discovered that many others possess impressive abilities while he and the dead newcomer do not. The group promptly redirects him to update his image collection.

Character developments and interactions

• Uncle serves as the thread’s comic commentator: he recognizes the newcomers’ fictional inspirations, warns them about dangerous powers, and repeatedly complains about his own ordinary status and useless system.
• Listening to Spring Rain All Night shows remorse for his rampage and accepts responsibility by surrendering, though he treats prison life with dry humor.
• Beauty Painter is modest about his skills and prefers painting to manga, while Uncle and several others eagerly praise his work.
• Android No. 0 downplays his strength compared with the Designer; Uncle counters that his inability to beat a gag-manga character is hardly surprising.
• The various “ordinary” or unlucky members bond through exaggerated envy and shared complaints, while those with powerful or unusual abilities casually reveal the risks—and absurdity—of their gifts.

Significant themes

• Memory and identity: Many newcomers have lost their memories, yet dreams of other lives or fictional worlds shape their abilities and ambitions.
• Power comes with danger: The saber fighter’s possession and the sports players’ unexpectedly lethal skills show that dream-derived talents can be difficult to control.
• Relative misfortune: Characters measure their hardships against one another, turning trauma, immortality, weak powers, and ordinary life into dark comedy.
• Crossover absurdity and humor: The forum mixes superhero worlds, martial-arts fiction, anime, manga, and gag characters, with Uncle’s pop-culture knowledge providing much of the humor.

Key plot points and events

• Kraft wakes from a dream about Dr. Arale and builds the Fairy Tale Robot, which can send people into illustrated books.
• Tests show that books become blank while someone is inside them, then rewrite themselves to reflect that person’s experiences. The robot can bring people back out, but not fictional creatures.
• Further experiments reveal that book worlds are effectively virtual reality: injuries, death, objects, and skills do not carry over into the real world. Some information can be recorded, but much of it cannot be reproduced. Kraft concludes that the invention is mainly useful for harmless play.
• Arale asks to visit a King Kong comic, and Alice chooses Alice in Wonderland. Angela declines because she cannot find a pirate story she likes; Kraft promises to ask his parallel-world counterparts to make one.
• Inspired by the idea of learning from dreams, Kraft combines the Fairy Tale Robot’s concept with an older device and builds a Dream Induction Device in under three days.
• Kraft tests it himself. He enters a familiar dream world—Professor Agasa’s laboratory—but arrives without his equipment. He retains his powers and Iron Fist, however.
• A young girl enters the lab and challenges him. Recognizing her as Sherry, Kraft blurts out an inexplicable greeting: “Ah~~~ Sherry~~~”

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft is curious and methodical, carefully testing the limits of his inventions before deciding what they can be used for. Disappointed that book-world skills cannot transfer, he quickly redirects his ambitions toward dream-based learning. In the dream, he remains confident despite lacking his usual gear.
• Arale is eager to play inside a King Kong comic; Kraft indulges her.
• Alice shyly presents Alice in Wonderland and joins the experiment.
• Angela wants a pirate story but cannot find one she likes, prompting Kraft to seek help from his counterparts.
• The chapter ends with Kraft’s awkward, impulsive encounter with Sherry, setting up a new adventure in the dream world.

Significant themes

• Experimentation and limits: Kraft tests extraordinary technology systematically, only to find that its apparent possibilities have firm boundaries.
• Fantasy versus reality: Illustrated worlds can imitate experience but cannot directly alter reality or grant lasting abilities.
• Dreams as a new frontier: The failed promise of learning through books pushes Kraft toward exploring dreams as a potentially more powerful source of knowledge.
• Play and safety: The book device’s main value may be giving Arale and others exciting adventures without real-world harm.

There is no story chapter here—only an author’s update. The writer says they woke with a painful stiff neck, which prevented them from working comfortably, and therefore they won’t post an update tonight. They had already written about 4,000 characters for the morning’s chapter and express frustration at the setback.

Plot points and events

Kraft arrives at Professor Agasa’s home and calls a frightened auburn-haired girl “Sherry.” She assumes he is from the criminal Organization she fled and offers to go with him if he will spare Agasa. Kraft tries to reassure her that he only wants to see the professor, but she remains suspicious.
While waiting in the living room, Kraft watches television and eats an apple. The girl—Ai Haibara, formerly known as Sherry—continues pleading that Agasa knows nothing about the Organization. When she mentions APTX-4869, Kraft realizes it is the drug that shrank both her and Shinichi Kudo, who is now living as Conan Edogawa.
Agasa returns home carrying Kobe beef. Haibara warns him that Kraft is from the Organization. Agasa immediately charges Kraft to protect her, but Kraft easily restrains him and insists, inwardly, that he is a good guy.

Character developments

• Kraft is amused and awkward about being mistaken for a villain. Though he makes some effort to reassure Haibara, he gives up explaining when she remains convinced, then pieces together the connection between Haibara, APTX-4869, and Conan.
• Ai Haibara is terrified but shows courage and loyalty, offering herself to protect Agasa. She briefly doubts Kraft’s identity, then becomes alarmed when he demonstrates knowledge of Conan’s real identity.
• Professor Agasa responds to Haibara’s warning with immediate self-sacrifice, attacking Kraft rather than fleeing.

Character interactions

Haibara repeatedly tries to protect Agasa by persuading Kraft to take her instead. Kraft’s casual behavior—watching TV and eating an apple—conflicts with her fear of him, but his knowledge of Shinichi deepens her suspicion. Agasa’s charge confirms his concern for Haibara, while Kraft’s effortless restraint leaves both of them believing they are in grave danger.

Significant themes

The scene plays on misunderstanding and dramatic irony: Kraft is harmless in intent, but Haibara and Agasa interpret his presence and knowledge as proof that he is an Organization agent. It also highlights loyalty and self-sacrifice, as Haibara offers herself and Agasa attacks to protect her.

Key plot points and events

• After Ai Haibara mistakes Kraft for an organization member, Professor Agasa calms the confrontation. Kraft claims he found Agasa through computer research into reversing aging, and Agasa accepts the explanation; Ai remains suspicious.
• Agasa explains the connections among APTX-4869, Ai’s former identity as Shiho Miyano, the organization, and the shrunken Shinichi Kudo, now living as Conan Edogawa. Ai warns Kraft that anyone linked to her and Conan could be targeted.
• Kraft privately condemns Shinichi and his parents for putting the Mouri family in danger without telling them.
• Kraft asks for Ai’s APTX-4869 research data. She refuses, saying the drug is fundamentally a poison and that she neither brought the data when she escaped nor intends to give it to him.
• Kraft offers to kill Gin and Vodka, the men who murdered Ai’s sister. Ai and Agasa doubt he can challenge the organization.
• To demonstrate his confidence, Kraft creates a luminous sword from yellow energy and slices a corner off Agasa’s wooden table. Ai is astonished; Agasa mourns the damage.

Character developments

• Kraft stays composed under suspicion, invents a plausible cover story, and quickly turns the conversation toward his goal. His criticism of the Kudo family shows his strong sense of fairness, while his display of power reveals that his offer to confront the organization is serious.
• Ai Haibara remains guarded and traumatized by the organization, but her warning to Kraft shows concern for his safety. She is unwilling to trust him with dangerous research.
• Professor Agasa is kindly and trusting, explaining the situation in detail once he believes Kraft is not a threat. His attachment to his furniture provides a brief comic beat.

Significant themes

• Trust and vulnerability: Ai’s fear makes her suspicious, while Agasa’s openness helps defuse the conflict.
• Responsibility and hypocrisy: Kraft questions whether the Kudo family can justify exposing the Mouri family to danger without informing them.
• Power versus fear: Kraft’s supernatural weapon challenges Ai and Agasa’s belief that the organization is too dangerous to oppose.
• Comic self-awareness: Kraft reflects on the questionable behavior of characters in the story that inspired his dreams, blending criticism with humor.

Character interactions

• Agasa mediates between Kraft and Ai, gradually earning Kraft’s acceptance and giving him the background he needs.
• Ai warns Kraft away from the organization, rejects his request for APTX-4869 data, and reacts with disbelief when he offers to retaliate.
• Kraft tries to reassure them with an extraordinary display of power, accidentally damaging Agasa’s favorite table.

Key plot points and events

• Ai Haibara accepts Kraft’s offer to target the Black Organization, hoping his unusual powers can succeed where Shinichi Kudo’s detective skills and the police cannot. She gives him her APTX-4869 research and asks him to help her witness Gin’s death.
• Professor Agasa objects to killing the organization’s members and urges Kraft to turn them over to the police. Ai, driven by grief and hatred over her sister’s death, rejects that approach and says she is willing to pay any price for revenge.
• Ai leaves Agasa’s home with Kraft, thanking the professor for taking care of her. Only afterward do they discover Kraft has nowhere to stay and no money.
• Kraft suggests staying at Shinichi’s empty house and eating Agasa’s Kobe beef, but Ai’s disapproving stare makes him abandon the meal plan. They head to the shopping district instead.
• Hoping to earn money, Kraft spots a pachinko parlor and asks Ai for seed money. She gives him her yen, though she privately mocks the idea of using superpowers to gamble. Kraft takes only one 500-yen coin and sends her to wait at a café.

Character developments and interactions

• Ai shifts from cautious hope to an explicit commitment to revenge. Her grief and anger lead her to place her trust—and her research—in Kraft, even as she begins to doubt his reliability.
• Kraft is confident that his powers can defeat the organization, dismisses ordinary law enforcement, and avoids debating Agasa. His casual, impractical behavior—leaving Ai without a place to stay or money—contrasts with his confidence as a fighter.
• Agasa tries to uphold the law and protect Ai, but falls silent when he recognizes how deeply her loss has shaped her.
• Ai and Kraft’s partnership starts on unequal footing: she is emotionally invested and makes sacrifices, while he treats their immediate practical problems with comic nonchalance.

Significant themes

• Revenge versus justice: Ai favors lethal retaliation; Agasa argues that even terrible criminals should face the law.
• Power and accountability: Kraft’s attitude reflects the dangers of believing extraordinary abilities place someone above ordinary institutions.
• Grief and hope: Ai’s unresolved hatred resurfaces when she sees a possible path to avenge her sister.
• Idealism versus reality: Kraft may be powerful, but his lack of money and planning makes him an unexpectedly unreliable ally.

Plot points and events

• Kraft uses Iron Fist to rig a pachinko machine, deliberately drawing the parlor owner’s attention. He gets a large cash payment in exchange for agreeing not to play there again.
• Rather than visiting more parlors, Kraft plans to use his money on horse racing. After staying at a hotel with Ai, he bets everything on the highest-odds races and wins a fortune.
• Kraft buys and equips a laboratory. The era’s computers are too primitive for him to create even a basic AI assistant, but he easily removes the virus from the disks containing APTX-4869 research.
• With Ai’s expertise and the recovered data, Kraft completes a rejuvenation drug. Ai also makes an antidote and regains her adult body.
• Ai asks Kraft to help her avenge her sister. Since the organization is difficult to locate online, she suggests searching for Gin, whose distinctive black Porsche 356A may provide a lead.

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft treats Iron Fist as a convenient way to acquire money, then turns his attention to research. Though he initially favors exposing the organization publicly to flush it out, he respects Ai’s objections because that approach could endanger civilians—and because he feels indebted to her.
• Ai Haibara moves from supporting the research to directly asking Kraft for help against the organization. She resists his riskier plan and offers a practical lead instead.
• Kraft and Ai share a hotel and work together in the laboratory; their partnership shifts toward pursuing Ai’s personal goal.
• The pachinko owner pays Kraft to leave, while his employees escort Kraft to meet him.

Significant themes

• Cheating and convenience: Kraft prefers quick, effortless gains—using Iron Fist for gambling rather than building a business.
• Limits of the dream world: Dream-enhanced inventions do not carry over, and the setting’s outdated technology constrains what Kraft can build.
• Loyalty and responsibility: Kraft balances efficiency against the potential harm to innocents, choosing to accommodate Ai’s caution.
• Identity and revenge: Ai’s restored body marks a turning point, but her focus remains on confronting the organization responsible for her sister’s fate.

Plot points and events

• Unable to locate Gin’s black Porsche 356A through cameras or the young internet, Kraft pays used-car brokers to search for it. He is using the inquiries less to buy a car than to provoke Gin into making contact.
• The brokers’ unusual persistence alerts Gin. He interrogates and kills one of them, then suspects Kraft is a plant and orders Vermouth to investigate.
• Shiho Miyano predicts Vermouth will approach first. When the doorbell rings, her fear of the Organization causes her to tremble; she hides in Kraft’s prepared basement.
• Vermouth arrives disguised as broker Eitaro Ikeuchi. Kraft recognizes that the disguise is remarkably convincing, though he spots a small flaw: her “sweat” is only staged with a damp handkerchief.
• Vermouth claims to have found several cars, recommends a silver Porsche that could be repainted, and charges Kraft heavily for information about the black car’s owner. She secretly plants a listening device, which Kraft notices and later removes.
• Kraft expects Gin’s group to ambush him at the address Vermouth supplied. He tells Shiho to stay hidden and promises to try to bring the attackers back alive. Shiho warns him to flee if necessary and says their agreement will be fulfilled once this is over.
• Another visitor arrives after Shiho hides again: a young boy in glasses and a blue suit, whose identity is not revealed in this excerpt.

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft is playful and confident, using money and deception to draw the Organization out. He is curious about Vermouth’s disguise but remains alert, spotting her surveillance and preparing for an ambush. He also hints that he has weapons beyond his supernatural abilities.
• Shiho remains frightened of the Organization, but she trusts Kraft enough to follow his plan. Her warning that he should run shows her concern for him, while her offer to end their agreement suggests she wants to free him from further obligation.
• Gin is suspicious and ruthless, killing a broker rather than risk leaving a witness. He delegates the investigation to Vermouth instead of approaching Kraft directly.
• Vermouth is theatrical and capable, using an elaborate disguise and a planted bug while extracting a large payment from Kraft. Their encounter is a contest of performance and observation: she underestimates how much Kraft notices.
• The chapter’s central interactions are the tense partnership between Kraft and Shiho, and the concealed duel between Kraft and Vermouth—each pretending not to see through the other.

Significant themes

• Deception and surveillance: Both sides use disguises, planted devices, and false motives, while trying to detect the other’s tricks.
• Money as leverage: Kraft’s offer mobilizes brokers, and Vermouth exploits his apparent willingness to pay.
• Trust under threat: Shiho’s safety depends on Kraft’s protection, while their agreement gives their partnership a clear limit.
• Power and caution: Kraft’s confidence is balanced by preparation; even with unusual abilities, he does not assume the Organization can be confronted carelessly.

Plot points and events

• Conan rushes into Kraft’s research institute demanding to see Haibara. Kraft stops him and reveals that he knows Conan is Shinichi Kudo.
• Kraft says he obtained the Rejuvenation Drug and intends to fulfill his payment by killing members of the Black Organization. Conan condemns him, but Kraft counters that Conan’s refusal to involve the police and pursuit of personal revenge may leave other victims at risk.
• Kraft tranquilizes Conan, takes his equipment, ties him up, and tells Shiho they should keep him locked away so he cannot interfere. He then uses Conan’s voice-changing bow tie to reassure Ran that Conan will stay with Professor Agasa.
• Elsewhere, Vermouth reports to Gin that Kraft appears to be targeting him. She has given Kraft a location Gin prepared so the organization can ambush him. When Chianti reports that a boy entered Kraft’s home, Vermouth worries and decides to join Gin’s group.
• Kraft leaves the institute and appears to drive toward the ambush, but he is actually leading Chianti and Korn in circles. Gin waits, suspecting Kraft has noticed the tail or sought help. Kraft’s real problem is that he has no navigation and is lost.

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft is confident and ruthless, openly challenging Conan’s moral certainty. He restrains Conan rather than letting him disrupt his plans, while his apparent skill at handling the situation contrasts comically with his inability to navigate.
• Conan/Shinichi is furious at Kraft’s intended killings and argues that supernatural abilities should be used constructively. Kraft’s criticism exposes the tension between Conan’s detective work, his distrust of the police, and the danger of pursuing the organization alone.
• Shiho quietly questions Kraft’s harsh portrayal of Conan, showing sympathy for him even while accepting Kraft’s decision to detain him.
• Vermouth shifts from teasing Gin to genuine concern when she hears a boy has entered Kraft’s home, then joins the operation. Gin remains cold and controlling, dismissing the boy as irrelevant and firmly silencing Chianti’s complaints.

Significant themes

• Good intentions versus consequences: Kraft argues that noble motives do not excuse actions that may worsen harm.
• Justice and personal revenge: The exchange questions whether Conan’s private pursuit of the organization is morally defensible when he could seek official help.
• Power and responsibility: Kraft’s abilities prompt debate about how they should be used, though his own planned violence complicates his argument.
• Tension with comic relief: The organization prepares a deadly ambush, while Kraft’s outdated, unreliable travel situation leaves him lost on the way.

Key plot points and events

• Kraft’s poor sense of direction makes his drive to the warehouse look like an elaborate attempt to evade surveillance. Chianti and Korn follow him through repeated car changes, only to realize he is genuinely lost.
• Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth confront Kraft at the warehouse, where Gin demands to know which government agency he serves. Kraft jokingly mentions the Demon Gang, then seriously describes S.P.E.A.R., a Chinese organization that handles aliens and superpowered people.
• When Gin shoots him, Kraft catches the bullet between glowing fingers and summons seven swords. He disables Gin, Vodka, and Vermouth, then treats their wounds, ties them up, and jams their radio.
• Knowing Chianti and Korn are outside, Kraft impersonates Gin over the radio and lures them into the warehouse. He captures them too.
• To transport all five prisoners, Kraft gives them an age-reversing drug he developed with Shiho Miyano. They shrink to about children’s size; Vermouth appears older than the others, prompting Kraft to conclude she is likely in her late fifties or sixties.
• On his way back to the research institute, Kraft is stopped by Officer Wataru Takagi, who is investigating a murder next door. Kraft’s innocent surprise at learning the neighbors’ name immediately makes the encounter awkward.

Character developments and interactions

• Kraft remains cheerful and irreverent under threat, treating Gin’s interrogation as an opportunity for jokes. His vast powers and planning—especially the radio trick—make him far more formidable than the Organization expects, though his navigation skills remain hopeless.
• Gin is confident and eager to face a worthy opponent, but rapidly recognizes the danger once Kraft demonstrates his powers. Even while wounded, he tries to warn the Organization.
• Chianti and Korn move from suspicion to exasperated disbelief as they realize Kraft is lost. They follow orders and are eventually tricked into joining the other prisoners.
• Vodka tries to control the confrontation, while Vermouth follows Gin and becomes another captive.
• Takagi approaches Kraft professionally, but Kraft’s casual response to the murder investigation leaves him at a loss.

Significant themes

• Comic contrast: The feared Black Organization’s surveillance operation is undermined by Kraft’s simple confusion about Tokyo’s roads.
• Power and vulnerability: Gin’s tactical instincts cannot overcome Kraft’s supernatural abilities, and the Organization’s usual intimidation tactics have no effect on him.
• Improvisation and deception: Kraft combines force with quick thinking, using the jammer and Gin’s voice to capture the snipers without exposing himself.
• Playful tonal shifts: A high-stakes confrontation gives way to absurdity when the captured enemies are shrunk and packed into Kraft’s car, followed by an awkward police interview.

• Capture and confrontation: Officer Takagi clears Kraft after learning he is new to the neighborhood and barely knows the Kuwata family. Kraft returns home with five shrunken Black Organization members—Gin, Vodka, Vermouth, Korn, and Chianti—and finds Shiho Miyano hiding in the basement with Conan. He restores the captives to their normal forms with an antidote, though Vermouth emerges as an old woman, suggesting she had used a similar youth-preserving drug.
• Shiho’s revenge: Kraft gives Shiho a gun and leaves the choice to her, despite Conan’s frantic attempt to stop her. Gin remains defiant, while Chianti shifts from threats to pleas and offers to cooperate; the others largely ignore her. Overcome by grief, Shiho empties the gun into Gin, killing him, and also fatally wounds Vodka. Vermouth is grazed; Vermouth, Korn, and Chianti survive. Shiho decides to hand the survivors to the police, hoping exposure will put pressure on the organization even if it has allies within the authorities.
• Kraft’s departure and return to reality: Kraft accepts Shiho’s decision and gives her a bank card for support, then leaves to test how to wake himself from the dream. At another property, he uses the Iron Fist to knock himself unconscious and successfully wakes in the real world after less than two hours, despite experiencing more than a month in the dream. He then begins trying to reproduce the APTX-4869-related rejuvenation drug he learned to make there.
  Character developments and interactions: Shiho moves from anxious relief at Kraft’s return to grief-stricken revenge, then makes a deliberate choice to pursue justice through the surviving captives rather than further violence. Kraft captures the organization on her behalf but avoids deciding for her, respects her choice, and provides practical help. Conan tries to restrain Shiho but is silenced by Kraft. Gin’s composure and defiance contrast with Chianti’s increasingly desperate self-preservation.
  Themes: The chapter explores revenge versus justice, personal agency, and the possibility of seeking accountability through law despite institutional corruption. It also contrasts loyalty and courage with opportunism, while advancing the story’s dream-reality and drug-development threads.

Key plot points and events

• Kraft successfully recreates the Rejuvenation Drug from his dreams, confirms it works on mice, and tests it on himself—temporarily becoming a ten-year-old boy. Its effects do not carry over into the Dream World.
• He embarks on a series of new dreams. In one, he meets Nano Shinonome, who unexpectedly explodes when he tries to help her, waking him abruptly. In another, a zombie-filled city prompts him to end the dream before it becomes dangerous.
• Kraft reaches Penguin Village and persuades Dr. Senbei Norimaki to teach him by becoming his apprentice. He learns several bizarre but powerful inventions, including a Transformation Laser Gun, Time Camera, and Magic Rice Cooker. He leaves before the village’s absurdity can make him “one of them.”
• A dream that seems to promise cultivation is interrupted by a mysterious speaker. Later, Kraft joins the Changliu Immortal Sect, but its members are too distracted by romance to guide him; his unguided practice goes wrong, forcing him awake.
• Remembering that he has successfully learned internal cultivation from another dream, Kraft refuses to give up. He eventually finds the Shushan Sect, learns a complete cultivation method with proper instruction, and practices it in the real world.
• Ten days later, he flies through the sky on a sword and proudly posts about becoming a Sword Immortal on the Kraft Council’s Forum. The author’s afterword explains that this is the planned ending, though the story concludes sooner than originally outlined because of the author’s injury, exhaustion, and dwindling chapter backlog.

Character developments

• Kraft grows more confident in using dreams as a way to acquire real-world skills and technology. His experiences also make him more cautious: he ends dangerous or unsettling dreams immediately and recognizes the risks of attempting cultivation without guidance.
• His patience and persistence are tested by repeated interruptions and the useless Changliu sect, but he ultimately succeeds by finding a teacher who can properly instruct him.
• Senbei is easily swayed by praise and enjoys being treated as a master; Arale’s insistence helps Kraft become his apprentice.
• Taro Soramame is friendly but quickly retreats when he hears the chaos at Senbei’s house.

Significant themes

• Dreams as a source of real learning: Kraft turns imagined experiences into inventions, martial arts, and ultimately cultivation he can use while awake.
• Risk and responsible learning: Knowledge gained in dreams can be valuable, but practicing dangerous techniques without proper instruction may have real consequences.
• Absurdity and adaptation: Penguin Village’s comic logic is entertaining and productive, yet Kraft sees that prolonged exposure could change him.
• Persistence amid setbacks: Explosions, unsuitable worlds, and negligent teachers do not stop Kraft from pursuing his goal.

Character interactions

• Kraft works with Angela to reproduce the Rejuvenation Drug and later considers giving it to Peter as a wedding gift once he can address its unpleasant side effects.
• In Penguin Village, Kraft builds a warm rapport with Arale and Gatchan, meets their friends, and becomes Senbei’s apprentice through Arale’s enthusiastic support.
• His failed experience at Changliu contrasts with his eventual success at Shushan, where proper guidance enables him to cultivate safely and reach his Sword Immortal milestone.

Summary

• Plot and events: This is an author’s afterword rather than a story chapter. The author looks back on the book’s revenge-focused plot, including confrontations with Thanos and another persistent villain. The original outline eventually ended, followed by a parallel-timeline storyline. The author also experimented with multiple-character casts, large-scale scenes, and detailed combat.
• Character development: The author identifies the protagonist’s rapidly expanding, overly broad abilities as the book’s main flaw: by the end, major villains posed too little danger. The protagonist’s personality was also too vague and insufficiently distinctive to drive the later plot. Writing Arale proved easier because her personality was more direct and extreme. Romance ideas involving Angela and Skye were considered but dropped.
• Themes and lessons: The reflection centers on learning from creative mistakes: balancing a protagonist’s strengths, making their personality clear, and keeping a cast manageable. The author concludes that groups of three to five characters are easier to write effectively. They plan to apply these lessons to the next book, an Harry Potter story, with a more focused protagonist and a less sprawling set of abilities.
• Character interactions: The author discusses planned but unrealized romantic pairings and notes the challenges of writing larger ensembles. No new interactions between fictional characters occur; the focus is on the author’s choices and reflections.
  The author plans to take a short break before beginning the next book, citing fatigue with fanfiction research and a backlog of entertainment to catch up on.

Chapter Summary

The author announces a new Harry Potter fanfic about a cat who gains Druid Magic, turns into a human, and attends Hogwarts. The idea had been around for some time, but the author initially doubted their ability to write convincingly from a cat’s perspective. They began outlining a Marvel story instead, then later found Zhongyuan and eventually started writing the Hogwarts story—only to realize that having a cat did not make as much difference to the writing as expected.
The book’s title changed several times. It was first planned as Definitely Not an Animagus, partly to avoid confusion with an earlier title controversy. At the editor’s suggestion, it was changed to The Druid Master of Hogwarts, though the author is unsure which title readers will find.
The premise playfully applies Druid terminology: a Druid who becomes a bear is a Bear Druid, one who becomes a Moonkin is a Moonkin Druid, and one who becomes human must therefore be a Human Druid. The story follows the little cat as wizards mistake it for an Animagus and it learns to live as a human at Hogwarts. The author closes by inviting readers to check out the new book.

Character Development and Interactions

No story characters appear directly in this announcement. Its focus is the author’s creative process, the editor’s influence on the title, and the cat protagonist’s planned transition into human life among wizards.

Significant Themes

• Transformation and identity: The cat must adapt to being human, while others misunderstand what it is.
• Creative uncertainty and discovery: The author’s confidence and approach evolve as they develop the idea.
• Humorous classification: The “Human Druid” label turns Druid forms into a playful naming joke.