Chapter Summaries

Emilia and Rem returned from calming the residents of Mezas Territory, and Fang Li told them he planned to leave Roswaal's mansion now that the Witch Cult threat had passed. Emilia, Rem, and Ram tried to persuade him to stay, but he reassured them they would meet again before they fell silent.

• Fang Li stayed in his room and refused Ram's steamed sweet potatoes when she called him to eat.
• Emilia and Rem returned to the mansion after Emilia had calmed the residents of Mezas Territory and stopped their panic from spreading.
• Rem credited Fang Li's role in Emilia receiving the dragon's recognition with helping the residents accept her explanation.
• Fang Li announced he planned to leave because the Witch Cult had been dealt with and the Royal Selection had passed its first hurdle.
• Emilia, Rem, and Ram urged Fang Li to stay, but he said he had his own matters to attend to and promised they would meet again.
• Emilia, Rem, and Ram accepted that Fang Li had made up his mind and fell silent.

Fang Li reflected on how his brief stay had deeply affected the mansion’s residents, while insisting that leaving did not mean he would never return. Two days before his departure for the Main God Space, Rem entered his room in a nightgown and asked him to punish her.

• The girls ate dinner in silence and then returned to their rooms, leaving Fang Li to realize that his departure had affected them more than he expected.
• Fang Li considered how his actions had shaped his bonds with Emilia, Rem, Ram, and Sylvia, despite the short time he had spent with them.
• Fang Li reminded himself that he would leave in two days but could spend Exchange Points to return to this world.
• Rem entered Fang Li’s room wearing a blue nightgown instead of her maid uniform and asked him to punish her.

Rem asked Fang Li to punish her for failing to protect Emilia during the White Whale battle, but her request became a confession of her feelings. Fang Li recognized Rem's fear and passion as she embraced him and asked him once more to punish her.

• Rem entered Fang Li's room and asked him to punish her for failing to protect Emilia during the White Whale battle.
• Fang Li recalled that he had casually promised to punish Rem so she could stop blaming herself, and he explained that he had never meant to do so.
• Rem insisted that Fang Li had the right to punish her because she had been ordered to obey him and had failed her duty.
• Rem embraced Fang Li and told him he could do anything to her, while clarifying that she did not expect to become his partner and only wanted him to accept her feelings.
• Fang Li realized Rem was trembling with fear, and Rem confessed that she feared falling deeply in love with him before asking him to punish her again.

Fang Li was interrupted just before kissing Rem when Emilia arrived, and the three spent the night together without intimacy. After several more days of sharing quiet nights, Fang Li left the mansion under the moonlight, thinking of another place he had to return to.

• Fang Li and Rem nearly kissed before Emilia arrived and found them embracing.
• Emilia fled in embarrassment, and Fang Li told Rem to wait while he went after her.
• Fang Li returned with Emilia, and the three slept together beneath one blanket without passion.
• Over the next two days, Emilia and Rem visited Fang Li’s room each night, and they only slept together.
• On the third night, Fang Li tucked Emilia and Rem in, left the mansion, and vanished into the moonlight.

Fang Li earned an Ex Rank clearance, selected Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World as a Personal World, and reflected on what he had learned from Subaru Natsuki and Petelgeuse. When he entered the depths of his soul, Ryougi Shiki showed him that the space was breaking apart.

• Fang Li used the Evaluation Stone, raising his clearance to Ex Rank and earning 50000 Exchange Points, 30 Free Attribute Points, and 5 Free Skill Points.
• Fang Li designated Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World as a Personal World and added it to his list of worlds.
• Fang Li tallied his rewards, including 100000 Exchange Points, a total of 250000 Exchange Points, and the title Royal Guard Knight.
• Fang Li fell asleep while focusing on the insight he had gained from Subaru Natsuki and Petelgeuse.
• Fang Li met Ryougi Shiki in the depths of his soul, where she pointed out that the space was splitting into countless fragments.

After seeing his soul steadily shatter, Fang Li learned from Ryougi Shiki that he needed to search for the origin of his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. He spent ten days training and preparing, then opened a new Instance World to pursue that origin.

• Fang Li and Ryougi Shiki watched cracks spread through Fang Li’s soul, and Ryougi Shiki warned that he still needed to understand its true nature to survive.
• Ryougi Shiki told Fang Li to search for the origin of his eyes, and Fang Li resolved to visit the world connected to the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Fang Li spent the next ten days challenging the Trial Tower by day and sparring with Ryougi Shiki in his soul space at night.
• Fang Li cleared seven Trial Tower floors, reaching the thirty-fifth floor, and invested thirty attribute points in AGI.
• Fang Li bought an item at the Auction House that allowed him to enter a designated world, then opened a new Instance World.

Fang Li entered the Tsukihime Instance World and felt an uncanny sense of belonging while gazing over an ordinary grassland. A red-haired stranger who shared his nostalgia for the place left after suggesting Fang Li resembled a child they had met there before, and Fang Li reflected on fate.

• Fang Li arrived in the Tsukihime Instance World and read the three main quests.
• Fang Li stood on a grassland near a city and felt as if he had returned home.
• A stranger silently approached Fang Li and called the grassland an ordinary, somewhat nostalgic place.
• The stranger said Fang Li resembled a child they had met on a previous visit, despite their different appearances.
• The red-haired stranger departed, and Fang Li smiled and remarked that fate was wondrous.

Fang Li entered Misaki City in the Type-Moon world, where the Main God Space had given him the identity of a surviving orphan of the Seven Nights Clan. He learned how his assigned past connected him to the Tohno family, and the chapter left him reading a letter signed by Tohno Akiha.

• Fang Li arrived in bustling Misaki City, the setting of Tsukihime, and reflected on entering the Type-Moon world to explore the origin of his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and Seven Nights Assassination Technique.
• Fang Li realized the Main God Space had assigned him the identity of an orphan of the Seven Nights Clan, whose members were demon-exterminators with exceptional abilities.
• Fang Li recalled that the Tohno family had exterminated the Seven Nights Clan around ten years earlier, and that Shiki Nanaya had been taken in, renamed Tohno Shiki, and made the family’s eldest son.
• Fang Li learned that his assigned identity made him the second survivor of the Seven Nights Clan, hunted by the Tohno family head until the man’s recent death.
• Fang Li read a letter he had received after the Tohno family head died and saw that it was signed by Tohno Akiha.

Fang Li arrived at the Tohno estate after Tohno Akiha invited him and met Akiha and the twin servants Kohaku and Hisui. Akiha said she wanted to make up for the past Fang Li had lost.

• Fang Li reached the Tohno family estate and found that its gate was unlocked.
• Kohaku welcomed Fang Li and escorted him to the reception room, where Tohno Akiha and Hisui were waiting.
• Tohno Akiha introduced herself as the head of the Tohno family, while Fang Li recognized her servants Kohaku and Hisui as twins.
• Fang Li asked why Akiha had invited someone her father had hunted for years.
• Tohno Akiha told Fang Li that she wanted to make up for the past he had lost.

Tohno Akiha offered Fang Li compensation for the suffering her father had caused the Seven Nights Clan, but Fang Li refused because he had never experienced that suffering. He then asked whether the Tohno family needed any help.

• Tohno Akiha explained that she disagreed with Tohno Shinku's decision to destroy the Seven Nights Clan, though she would not criticize her late father.
• Tohno Akiha offered to arrange a legal identity, housing, schooling, work, and other support for Fang Li.
• Fang Li refused the compensation, explaining that he had suffered no losses and thanking Tohno Akiha for her kindness.
• Fang Li guessed that Tohno Akiha also wanted to help because he was the last surviving member of Tohno Shiki's clan.
• Fang Li asked Tohno Akiha whether the Tohno family needed any help.

Fang Li moved into the Tohno mansion’s West Wing after Tohno Akiha hired him as a butler, and Kohaku explained that he would direct the household’s maids. Kohaku told him that Akiha’s older brother would return to live at the mansion the next day, leaving Fang Li curious about the new arrival.

• Kohaku showed Fang Li his room in the West Wing and offered to have furniture and necessities bought for him.
• Fang Li accepted the room as it was and reflected on how Rem had cared for him at Roswaal Mansion.
• Kohaku remarked that Fang Li seemed more cheerful than she had expected, then said she had stolen Hisui’s personality.
• Kohaku told Fang Li that Tohno Akiha’s older brother would return to the mansion the next day.
• Kohaku left after promising to wake Fang Li and explain his duties the following morning.

Fang Li left the Tohno mansion and followed a suspicious man linked to a series of blood-drained murders. He found the man feeding on a corpse in an alley and confronted him.

• Fang Li reflected on how Tohno Akiha had driven the Tohno relatives from the mansion and invited him to live there.
• Fang Li slipped out of the mansion and went into the city at night.
• Fang Li watched a news report about eight young women murdered and drained of blood.
• Fang Li used his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes to spot a man covered in Death Lines and followed him into an alley.
• Fang Li found the man feeding on a blood-soaked corpse, and the man turned toward him with a hungry, maddened stare.

Fang Li hunted the vampire and its Dead through Misaki City overnight, then returned to the Tohno residence and was scolded for sleeping in. Tohno Akiha assigned him to learn his duties with Kohaku and pick someone up that evening.

• A Dead attacked Fang Li in an alley, and he cut it in half with a dagger as its remains evaporated.
• Fang Li searched for the vampire behind the Dead but found no one at its known hiding places.
• Fang Li hunted vampires across Misaki City through the night until dawn.
• Kohaku woke Fang Li and dragged him to the sitting room, where Tohno Akiha told him to learn his duties and pick someone up that evening.

Tohno Akiha asked Fang Li whether any other members of the Seven Nights Clan had survived and then explained that her older brother had been raised by a branch family. She asked Fang Li to bring him back to the Tohno main house, while Fang Li realized his implanted identity had changed the family’s history.

• Tohno Akiha asked Fang Li whether any other members of the Seven Nights Clan had survived, and he said he was the only one.
• Tohno Akiha accepted that the Seven Nights Clan had only one survivor and resolved that Tohno Shiki would be the only one who existed in the world.
• Tohno Akiha told Fang Li that her older brother had lived with a branch family for eight years after Tohno Shinku sent him away.
• Tohno Akiha asked Fang Li to bring her older brother back to live at the Tohno main house.

Fang Li learned about Kohaku’s limited knowledge of Tohno Shinku and continued familiarizing himself with the Tohno mansion’s affairs. At the school gates, he finally met Tohno Shiki.

• Tohno Akiha left the estate with Hisui while Kohaku guided Fang Li around the mansion.
• Fang Li asked Kohaku about Tohno Shinku, and she explained that she had rarely seen him since he brought her and Hisui to the Tohno family.
• Kohaku said Fang Li did not seem like someone who killed people casually because of the way he smiled.
• Fang Li quickly mastered the mansion’s duties despite being distracted.
• Fang Li waited outside a high school in Misaki City and met Tohno Shiki as he left the campus.

Fang Li met Tohno Shiki at the school gate while posing as a Tohno family butler sent by Akiba to bring him home. Their Mystic Eyes of Death Perception clashed when they looked at each other, and Fang Li helped the pained Shiki head to the Tohno family estate.

• Fang Li introduced himself to Tohno Shiki as a butler sent by Akiba and reassured him that he could drop the formalities.
• When Fang Li gave his name as Nanaya Fang Li, Tohno Shiki reacted to the word “Nanaya,” and their Mystic Eyes of Death Perception met.
• The mutual reading of their deaths overwhelmed Tohno Shiki, while Fang Li remained unharmed and suppressed his own Mystic Eyes.
• Fang Li supported Tohno Shiki and led him toward the Tohno family estate.

Fang Li trained his Star Pulse Energy and wondered why Ryougi Shiki had sent him to the Type-Moon World, given that Shiki Nanaya seemed to have little he could learn from. Shiki Nanaya visited Fang Li, giving them a chance to talk about their shared Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

• Fang Li returned Shiki Nanaya to the Tohno family estate, where Tohno Akiha reunited with him while avoiding any mention of the Nanaya family.
• Fang Li went to his room and trained his Star Pulse Energy, reflecting on his own abilities and Shiki Nanaya's erased memories and sealed Mystic Eyes.
• Fang Li questioned whether Ryougi Shiki had sent him to observe the world as a whole and wondered what he had yet to notice.
• Shiki Nanaya visited Fang Li because he was bored and could not freely leave the estate, and Fang Li agreed to talk with him.

Fang Li revealed to Tohno Shiki that he could see Death Lines too, and the two compared their Mystic Eyes. Tohno Shiki discovered he could see Death Points on Fang Li, but the sight overwhelmed him, leaving Fang Li to conclude that they were still different.

• Fang Li told Tohno Shiki he could see the same Death Lines and revealed his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes.
• Tohno Shiki removed his glasses and confirmed that Fang Li's body had the same Death Lines he could see.
• Fang Li explained that both of them had gained their eyes after death-related experiences, though their innate peculiarities made their abilities different.
• At Fang Li's request, Tohno Shiki focused his eyes and saw Death Points among Fang Li's Death Lines for the first time.
• Tohno Shiki became nauseous from the sight, so Fang Li returned his glasses and said they were still different.

Fang Li went looking for Tohno Shiki after learning he had left school sick and never returned home. He found Shiki sitting alone in a park at Demon Hour as rain began to fall, and caught the smell of blood.

• Fang Li hunted the dead through the night and returned to the Tohno estate near dawn, then slept in and was scolded by Tohno Akiha.
• Hisui told Fang Li that Tohno Shiki had left school with anemia but had not returned home.
• Fang Li offered to search for Shiki and left the estate while recalling the original plot.
• Fang Li searched Misaki City and found Tohno Shiki sitting with his head lowered on a park bench at evening.
• Rain began to fall, and Fang Li caught the smell of blood near Shiki.

Fang Li fought and subdued Tohno Shiki after the boy attacked him with a knife while under the influence of his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes. Fang Li suspected Tohno Shiki had killed someone, and the White Princess appeared at the park entrance as a terrifying pressure swept through the rain.

• Tohno Shiki suddenly attacked Fang Li with a knife and his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes.
• Fang Li defended himself with the Moon Blade, using his own Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to parry Tohno Shiki's strikes.
• Fang Li overpowered Tohno Shiki, knocked his knife away, and held the Moon Blade beneath his chin.
• Tohno Shiki came back to himself, and Fang Li asked whether he had killed someone.
• The White Princess appeared at the park entrance as a terrifying pressure filled the area.