Chapter Summaries

A golden-haired White Princess attacked Tohno Shiki in the rain, but Fang Li stopped her and caught her when she collapsed. Fang Li carried the unconscious girl away and told Tohno Shiki to come with him.

• The White Princess entered the park and charged at Tohno Shiki, who froze in fear.
• Fang Li shoved Tohno Shiki aside and blocked the White Princess's next attack with Moon Blade.
• The White Princess shifted her attack to Fang Li, but her claw stopped before reaching him as she groaned in pain and collapsed.
• Fang Li caught the White Princess and explained that she had already been killed once by the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Fang Li carried the White Princess away and ordered Tohno Shiki to come with him, and Tohno Shiki hurried after them.

Fang Li brought the injured White Princess to his room and confronted Tohno Shiki about killing her. He discovered that Shiki’s awakened Seven Nights blood and demon-exterminating impulse had driven him to attack, while the White Princess’s revival revealed her as a True Ancestor.

• Fang Li returned to the Tohno household carrying the injured White Princess, and Kohaku and Hisui prepared clean clothes.
• Fang Li took the White Princess to his room, where she lay beneath the covers breathing painfully, and Tohno Shiki followed.
• Fang Li confronted Tohno Shiki, who admitted that an uncontrollable impulse had made him attack the White Princess with his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Fang Li explained that Shiki’s Seven Nights blood had awakened when he encountered a non-human, triggering his demon-exterminating impulse and assassination abilities.
• Fang Li concluded that the White Princess had survived being dismembered and identified her as a princess of the True Ancestors.

Fang Li told Tohno Shiki that the revived White Princess was a vampire, and Shiki left to process the revelation and his guilt. After night fell, the princess began recovering under the moonlight, but an Azure Crow attacked the room and Fang Li swiftly killed it.

• Fang Li warned Tohno Shiki that learning the truth would draw him into a supernatural world and identified the White Princess as a vampire.
• Tohno Shiki left, saying he would return to apologize to the princess when she woke.
• Tohno Akiha visited the room, recognized the princess as a vampire, and demanded that Fang Li explain what was happening.
• As night fell, the White Princess's breathing steadied and her recovery improved in the moonlight.
• Fang Li sensed a deathly silence outside, leapt through the window, and sliced an attacking Azure Crow in two.

Fang Li spoke with the revived Arcueid Brunestud, explained her identity as a True Ancestor, and told her Tohno Shiki was the one who had killed her. When Shiki appeared at the doorway, Arcueid turned her hostility and killing intent toward him.

• Fang Li waited beside Arcueid as she awoke and stared at him with hostility.
• Arcueid asked Fang Li whether he intended to kill her, and he clarified that Tohno Shiki had killed her.
• Fang Li identified Arcueid as the princess of the True Ancestors and explained the difference between True Ancestors and Dead Apostles.
• Arcueid demanded to know where her killer was, and Tohno Shiki nervously revealed himself at the doorway.
• Arcueid fixed Tohno Shiki with killing intent, and he realized he was in danger.

Tohno Shiki faced Arcueid, who demanded to know how he had killed her, and Fang Li explained the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Arcueid recognized the eyes as an extraordinary Noble Colour and warned that modern Magi would seek to seize them.

• Arcueid confronted Tohno Shiki but Fang Li warned them not to fight while she was badly wounded.
• Arcueid asked Tohno Shiki how he had killed her, and he said Fang Li had identified his ability as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Fang Li explained magecraft, magic, and how Magic Eyes used their gaze to affect targets.
• Arcueid explained that the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception were a miracle beyond ordinary Noble Colour Magic Eyes and would attract modern Magi.

Arcueid explained the power and value of Tohno Shiki’s Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and accepted that he had killed her with them. Fang Li then brought up the vampires causing trouble in the city, and Arcueid admitted she could no longer hunt them, leaving Fang Li to expect a battle soon.

• Arcueid explained that the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception could kill even immortal beings by cutting their Death Lines, making them highly coveted by the Mage’s Association and Holy Church.
• Arcueid accepted that Tohno Shiki had killed her with the Mystic Eyes, though Shiki protested that he was not the only person who possessed them.
• Fang Li stopped Shiki from explaining the other bearers and redirected the conversation to the vampires wreaking havoc in the city.
• Arcueid confirmed that she had come to hunt the city’s vampires but said she could no longer do so, then sulked beneath the blanket.
• Fang Li concluded that someone else could take up the fight and expected battle to come, most likely that night.

Fang Li realized Arcueid was still badly injured and let her rest, while an ominous enemy approached the Tohno residence. As shadowy beasts surrounded the grounds, a tall figure advanced toward Fang Li in the courtyard.

• Arcueid slept to recover from the injuries caused by Tohno Shiki’s Mystic Eyes, and Shiki and Akiha left for school.
• That night, Arcueid stood at Fang Li’s window and sensed a formidable enemy approaching.
• Fang Li found Akiha, Kohaku, and Hisui waiting in the entrance hall, and they each went their separate ways without questioning him further.
• Fang Li entered the courtyard as shadowy beasts infiltrated and encircled the Tohno residence.
• Fang Li looked ahead as a tall figure silently approached.

Fang Li confronted a black-clad man approaching the Tohno family mansion and effortlessly defeated the beasts sent against him. After the man revealed a gigantic black tiger, Fang Li killed it with a kick and slashed at the man, leaving the outcome unclear.

• Fang Li and the black-clad man passed each other on the forest path as beasts gathered around Fang Li.
• The beasts attacked Fang Li, and he cut them apart with Moon Blade.
• The black-clad man turned to face Fang Li and told him to die.
• The man summoned an enormous black tiger, but Fang Li kicked its head apart.
• Fang Li rushed the man and struck him with a fatal slash, tearing fragments from his coat.

Fang Li identified his opponent as Nero Chaos, the tenth of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostle, and dismissed the beasts created by Nero’s Inherent Skill as unimpressive. Nero answered Fang Li’s provocation by unleashing a massive horde, and Fang Li prepared to face it.

• Fang Li nearly bisected Nero Chaos with a slash, but Nero’s dark body remained connected and he leaped away.
• Fang Li recognized Nero as the tenth of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors of the Dead Apostle and explained that his Beast King’s Den held 666 beast factors and lives.
• Fang Li mocked Nero’s beasts and challenged him to create a monster on the level of a Demon Beast.
• Nero opened his coat and sent over a hundred enormous wolves, leopards, tigers, and hounds stampeding toward Fang Li.
• Fang Li welcomed the challenge and raised Moon Blade as the beast tide rushed at him.

Fang Li fought through Nero’s endless beast tide and used his Pure Star Imperial Armament to strike at the Dead Apostle. Nero blocked the fatal blow with a beast but was kicked into a tree, leaving the clash’s outcome apparent.

• Fang Li charged into Nero’s beast tide, cutting down the attacking beasts as Nero continuously created more with Beast King's Den.
• Nero declared that Fang Li should be proud to have forced him to use his full power.
• Fang Li grew tired of the battle and unleashed a burst of light and wind that scattered the beasts.
• Fang Li appeared beside Nero and thrust Bō Xié toward his heart, but Nero summoned a moose to take the strike.
• Fang Li kicked Nero into a tree, and the beastly roars abruptly stopped.

After battling Nero Chaos, Fang Li realized he had grown strong enough to fight the Dead Apostle without using the Holy Mark. Arcueid arrived and confronted Nero, who decided to retreat and seek another chance to kill her.

• Fang Li surveyed the ruined courtyard and realized he could now hold his own against Nero without the Holy Mark.
• Nero rose from the wreckage, recognized Fang Li as a formidable opponent, and suspected he was a Magus or an Executor from the Burial Agency.
• Arcueid arrived, identified Nero as the one who had attacked her, and explained that he had used a beast to spy on her weakness.
• Nero said he could not kill Arcueid that day and began to withdraw.
• Fang Li raised Bō Xié and activated his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes as Nero tried to escape.

Fang Li was trapped by Nero Chaos’s Genesis Soil and faced three Demon Beasts, but he used his Ice-Blue Demon Eyes and Bō Xié to cut them apart. Nero and Arcueid were left stunned as Fang Li’s counterattack revealed that he had never doubted his victory.

• Fang Li charged Nero, but Nero trapped him in Genesis Soil made from the beast factors Fang Li had slain.
• Nero opened his chest and released three enormous Demon Beasts, claiming they were formed from the remaining three hundred types of beast factors.
• Arcueid prepared to intervene as the Demon Beasts charged, but Fang Li calmly declared that the fight would not be fun otherwise.
• Fang Li saw the Demon Beasts’ Death Lines and unleashed Flash Sheath—One Mile Four Crossings with Bō Xié, slicing all three apart.
• Nero and Arcueid stared in shock as Nero wondered how Fang Li’s attack could have been possible.

Fang Li used the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to destroy Nero’s Demon Beast, Genesis Soil, and more than five hundred beast factors, making Nero realize he could be killed. As Nero prepared to unleash his remaining factors, a black shadow approached him from behind and struck.

• Fang Li cut through the black mud and destroyed Nero’s Demon Beast and Genesis Soil with the Pure Star Imperial Armament.
• Nero discovered that more than five hundred beast factors had been killed and would not return to his body.
• Arcueid recognized Fang Li’s eyes as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception and explained their terrifying power to Nero.
• Nero feared death and prepared to unleash his remaining beast factors, but a black shadow silently approached him from behind and drew blood.

A mysterious vampire called the “Snake” ambushed Nero and devoured him before fleeing into the forest with him. Fang Li and Arcueid pursued the creature, but after fighting through a horde of the dead, they lost its trail.

• A black shadow attacked Nero, drank his blood, and carried him away as Nero cried out against the “Snake.”
• Arcueid and Fang Li raced after the fleeing vampire into Misaki City's industrial zone.
• A horde of dead surged from the buildings and attacked the pursuers.
• Fang Li and Arcueid cut down the dead, but Arcueid exhausted herself in the fight.
• The vampire escaped with Nero, and Arcueid and Fang Li were left facing its trail.

Arcueid’s cheerful breakfast at the Tohno home set her against Tohno Akiha, while Fang Li kept the argument from escalating. Arcueid explained that Nero had attacked her and that she was hunting a different vampire, leaving Tohno Shiki confused about why vampires hunted one another.

• Arcueid happily ate breakfast as Tohno Akiha demanded that she leave the Tohno home.
• Arcueid revealed that she was interested in the two people with Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, startling Tohno Akiha and Tohno Shiki.
• Tohno Shiki asked about the previous night, and Arcueid said a vampire had attacked them.
• Tohno Akiha confronted Arcueid, but Fang Li stopped their argument and sent Tohno Akiha and the maids away.
• Arcueid told Tohno Shiki that Nero had come to hunt her and that she was hunting another vampire.

Fang Li explained why Arcueid was created to hunt vampires and why Nero had pursued her to Misaki City. After warning Fang Li and Tohno Shiki that powerful organizations would want them for their Mystic Eyes, Arcueid dragged them away.

• Fang Li explained that Arcueid was created by the True Ancestors to destroy Fallen True Ancestors and Dead Apostles.
• Fang Li told Tohno Shiki that vampires could kill one another just as humans could, explaining why Nero had hunted Arcueid.
• Arcueid said that Fang Li and Tohno Shiki were extraordinary humans because they possessed Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Arcueid warned that the Church and Mage's Association would seek out Fang Li and said she did not want to become his enemy.
• Arcueid grabbed Fang Li and Tohno Shiki and led them outside.

Arcueid explained that the vampire who had consumed Nero could grow powerful enough to turn Misaki City into a city of the dead, so she enlisted Fang Li and Tohno Shiki to help find him. The three faced the urgent search without knowing where to begin.

• Arcueid pulled Fang Li and Tohno Shiki through Misaki City's commercial streets, then revealed she had brought them along to find the vampire.
• Fang Li explained that the vampire had consumed Nero and might have absorbed his power.
• Arcueid warned that the vampire could keep growing stronger by directing the dead to feed on the city's residents.
• Tohno Shiki feared that Akiba, Kohaku, and Hisui could become controlled dead, while Fang Li questioned how they could find the hidden vampire.
• Arcueid insisted that they had no choice but to search, and Fang Li wondered whether there was another way.

Fang Li, Arcueid, and Tohno Shiki considered how to find the vampire controlling the dead in Misaki City. They decided to use the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception to locate and kill the dead after nightfall, while Fang Li went to find food.

• Fang Li ruled out using the Tohno family's manpower, modern equipment, or bait to find the vampire.
• Fang Li and Arcueid proposed killing all the dead under the vampire's control to force him out of hiding.
• Arcueid explained that she could sense the dead nearby and that Fang Li and Tohno Shiki could identify them with their Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
• Arcueid suggested they wait until nightfall, when the dead would come out, before searching for them.
• Fang Li said he would find somewhere to eat while they waited.

Fang Li, Arcueid, and Tohno Shiki spent the day together before setting out at night to hunt the serial killer. Fang Li went ahead to investigate, and Tohno Shiki removed his glasses and followed, choosing to share the burden of seeing death through his Mystic Eyes.

• Fang Li learned that Arcueid had spent eight hundred years without speaking until he prompted her to talk, and he kept her company as they wandered Misaki City with Tohno Shiki.
• When night fell, Fang Li told Tohno Shiki to save his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception for when they found the victim.
• Arcueid remarked that constantly seeing a world full of death could make someone abnormal, and Fang Li replied that he had already been abnormal for a long time.
• Fang Li walked ahead, and Tohno Shiki removed his glasses and followed, unwilling to let Fang Li face the hunt alone.
• Fang Li and Tohno Shiki both instinctively gripped the same gleaming white weapon without noticing.

Fang Li, Arcueid, and Tohno Shiki searched the streets for an anomaly while Shiki tried to use his Mystic Eyes more deeply. After Fang Li warned him about the danger, Shiki spotted a person covered in Death Lines staggering into an alley.

• Fang Li, Arcueid, and Tohno Shiki walked silently through the busy streets for hours as they searched for an anomaly.
• Tohno Shiki focused his Mystic Eyes and began seeing Death Points on people and buildings, but the effort caused severe pain.
• Fang Li told Tohno Shiki that understanding the deaths of nonliving things overwhelmed his human brain and warned him not to force his eyes.
• Arcueid called Fang Li a monster after he explained that he could understand any kind of death naturally.
• Tohno Shiki spotted someone staggering into an alley, and Fang Li saw countless Death Lines covering that person's body.