Chapter Summaries

Lin Qiye learned that Amamiya Haruki opposed Divine Authority and had saved him because they shared an enemy. Amamiya explained the wanted-criminal ranks and the seven Oracle Envoys, then pointed to Rain Collapse when Lin Qiye asked how he had controlled the rain.

• Lin Qiye questioned Amamiya Haruki about the invaders, learning that around two had appeared at intervals of six to eight months, but Amamiya had lost track of them.
• Amamiya Haruki declared that Divine Authority was his only enemy and described the country as a puppet whose people had been taught to accept their own lowliness.
• Lin Qiye realized that Amamiya Haruki had helped him because both opposed the Pure Land, though their beliefs differed.
• Amamiya Haruki explained the four wanted-criminal ranks and said that seven Oracle Envoys were the strongest beneath the gods.
• Lin Qiye asked how Amamiya Haruki had controlled the rain without using a Forbidden Ruin, and Amamiya pointed to Rain Collapse and asked whether Lin Qiye knew about the Nine Calamity Blades.

Amamiya Haruki explained the origins and powers of the Nine Calamity Blades, then offered to introduce Lin Qiye to someone who might repair Zhanbai and possibly awaken its blade soul. Lin Qiye questioned Haruki’s motives, and Haruki revealed that he wanted to make a deal.

• Amamiya Haruki told Lin Qiye that Rain Collapse was the fourth of the Nine Calamity Blades, forged by the defeated Earthly Gods as weapons of revenge.
• Amamiya Haruki revealed Rain Collapse’s blade soul in the Mirror World and explained that living Magatsu Blades could withstand the Oracle Envoy’s slashes and could not be wielded without their recognition.
• Lin Qiye lamented that Zhanbai had been broken, while Amamiya Haruki said he knew someone who could repair even a Magatsu Blade.
• Amamiya Haruki suggested that the person might also help Zhanbai develop a blade soul, since it came from beyond Japan and might be unusual.
• Lin Qiye asked why Amamiya Haruki was helping him, and Amamiya Haruki replied that he wanted to make a deal.

Lin Qiye agreed to consider helping Amamiya Haruki in exchange for a blade spirit and received instructions to meet him in two weeks. Meanwhile, Yurina took Grandma Crane to worship the Seven Lucky Gods, unaware of what might await them at the shrine.

• Amamiya Haruki asked Lin Qiye to accompany him to a dangerous place where Magatsu Blades could not be used, and Lin Qiye agreed to decide after they found someone who could repair his blade.
• Amamiya Haruki arranged to meet Lin Qiye in two weeks at the Fishing Boat Teahouse in Osaka, and Lin Qiye asked him to lend some money.
• Lin Qiye disguised himself, avoided surveillance cameras, and bought food and daily necessities before heading toward the suburbs.
• Grandma Crane reminded Yurina that Sunday was their usual day to worship the Fortune God, and Yurina decided to take her despite her worries.
• Yurina took one thousand yen from their savings and supported Grandma Crane to a busy shrine dedicated to the Seven Lucky Gods.

Yurina and Grandma Crane prayed at the shrine, but Yurina spotted men waiting outside to catch her and used the shop to arrange a disguise and escape. The men chased several children in identical black raincoats, while their leader searched the shrine and learned that Yurina had recruited the children for a Ghost Catching Game.

• Yurina and Grandma Crane prayed to Daikokuten, and Grandma Crane privately wished for Xiao Youli's happiness.
• Yurina noticed several men watching the shrine entrance and sent Grandma Crane home while she hid in a nearby shop.
• The men waited outside, believing Yurina would have to leave through the shrine's only gate.
• Yurina sent children in matching black raincoats running in different directions to confuse the men.
• The men split up to chase the children, while their leader searched the shrine and failed to find Yurina.
• One man called to report that he had caught a boy, who said Yurina had invited the children to play Ghost Catching Game and given them lollipops and raincoats.

Yurina was caught and beaten by two men while Lin Qiye waited for her and the other child to return. Inside the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Lin Qiye executed one imprisoned Mystery and then confronted the frightened Void White Bear, asking if it wanted to live.

• Yurina blinded the Scarred Man with chili powder, but his companion caught her and slapped her twice.
• Lin Qiye returned to the container with food and supplies, found no one home, and waited outside.
• Lin Qiye entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and silenced the more than three hundred imprisoned Mysteries.
• Lin Qiye asked the Soul Reaper Black Ghost if it wanted to live, then killed it when it only roared at him.
• The Void White Bear's Fear Value rose to 63 after it saw the Black Ghost die, and Lin Qiye asked whether it wanted to live.

Lin Qiye recruited dozens of imprisoned Mysteries as orderlies by making them sign labor contracts, then left snacks and a note at the container when the people he was waiting for did not return. On his way into the city with Hong Yan, he encountered Grandma Crane, who recognized him as Xiao Youli’s friend.

• Lin Qiye offered the white bear a choice between signing a labor contract and dying, and the white bear signed and became orderly 008.
• Grey Sparrow said it wanted to live before Lin Qiye could question it, and Lin Qiye asked whether it could do housework.
• After two hours of interviews, Lin Qiye had recruited most of roughly seventy Mysteries as orderlies, numbered through 078, and placed them under Li Yifei’s management.
• Lin Qiye realized the two people he was waiting for had not returned, left snacks and a note at the container, and planned to visit again the next day.
• Lin Qiye and Hong Yan met Grandma Crane sitting by a roadside intersection, and she asked whether he was Xiao Youli’s friend.

Lin Qiye searched for Yurina after Grandma Crane said she had gone missing, and found her hairpin and blood on the roadside. Yurina had been kidnapped by Iwami Yusuke, who demanded repayment of her dead father’s debt and ordered his men to beat her.

• Grandma Crane asked Lin Qiye to find Yurina, and Lin Qiye sent Hong Yan to take her back while he searched.
• Lin Qiye found Yurina’s cherry blossom hairpin and drops of blood, and suspected she had been taken or hurt.
• Yurina woke in a warehouse surrounded by thugs, with her hands tied behind her back.
• Iwami Yusuke confronted Yurina over a 3-million-yen IOU bearing her dead father’s signature and demanded she repay it.
• Yurina said her family had nothing and that Iwami Yusuke’s men had blocked her from returning home, so he ordered a thug to beat her.

Lin Qiye summoned Black Pupil and used him to search surveillance footage for the girl with the cherry blossom hairpin. Black Pupil found that she had been abducted, while Iwami Yusuke returned to the warehouse after failing to obtain information from Yurina.

• Iwami Yusuke ordered his thugs to imprison Yurina and starve her before selling her if she could not repay her father's debt.
• Iwami Yusuke apologized to Mr. Jing for failing to get information from Yurina, then returned to the warehouse after Mr. Jing gave him another chance.
• Lin Qiye summoned Black Pupil in a secluded alley while Hong Yan watched for anyone approaching.
• Lin Qiye asked Black Pupil to find the girl wearing a cherry blossom hairpin by looking through a surveillance camera.
• Black Pupil stopped searching just before the mysterious gaze could lock onto Lin Qiye, and Hong Yan took them to safety.
• Black Pupil told Lin Qiye that the girl had been abducted.

After Black Eye traced Yurina to the western suburbs, Lin Qiye sent Hong Yan to search the area. Captured again by Iwami Yusuke, Yurina freed herself and fled the warehouse, but Iwami shot at her as she neared escape.

• Black Eye told Lin Qiye that Yurina's abductors had taken her to the western suburbs, and Lin Qiye sent Hong Yan to search from their last known location.
• Yurina used a hidden utility blade to cut through her bonds while recalling how Iwami Yusuke's men had abducted and beaten her before.
• When Iwami Yusuke came to take her out, Yurina trapped him inside the dark room with a cardboard box over his head and escaped.
• Yurina dodged the thugs, struck one with a liquor bottle, and ran toward the warehouse entrance.
• Iwami Yusuke broke out, drew a revolver, and fired at Yurina as she fled.

Lin Qiye and his companions reached the warehouse after a gunshot and found Yurina in the thugs’ hands. Hong Yan and Black Pupil attacked on Lin Qiye’s command, leaving the thugs helpless as the slaughter began.

• Iwami Yusuke’s shot knocked Yurina down, and his thugs dragged her back into the warehouse.
• Iwami Yusuke demanded to know whether Yurina’s parents had left anything valuable, then ordered Kutaro to cut off her fingers when she refused.
• Hong Yan smashed through the warehouse doors, and Lin Qiye entered with Black Pupil.
• Lin Qiye ordered Hong Yan and Black Pupil to kill everyone except Iwami Yusuke.
• Hong Yan and Black Pupil overwhelmed the thugs, killing them as they tried to fight back.

Lin Qiye rescued Yurina from Iwami Yusuke’s gang and learned they had kidnapped her over a supposed inheritance left by her parents. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye puzzled about why the gang believed Yurina possessed something valuable, despite finding nothing in her house.

• Lin Qiye, Hong Yan, and Black Pupil defeated the warehouse thugs, and Lin Qiye knocked Kutaro away from Yurina.
• Iwami Yusuke pulled a revolver, but Lin Qiye dodged the bullet, disarmed him, and struck him down.
• Lin Qiye sent Black Pupil to interrogate Iwami Yusuke, then took Yurina outside and revealed his identity.
• Lin Qiye told Yurina that Grandma Crane had reported her disappearance, and Yurina learned that Hong Yan and Black Pupil worked for him.
• Yurina explained that the gang had kidnapped her because they believed her parents had left her something valuable, though they had searched her house and found nothing.

Lin Qiye learned that the debt used to target Yurina was fabricated and that Iwami Yusuke had been directed by a criminal syndicate, likely tied to one of Kanto’s most powerful families. After Black Pupils dealt with the thugs, Lin Qiye offered Yurina money and urged her to hide with Grandma Crane while he continued his other work.

• Yurina told Lin Qiye that her father had died two days earlier and that she did not consider his debts her responsibility.
• Black Pupils discovered that Iwami Yusuke had forged the IOU and was acting under orders from someone called Mr. Jing, who had promised him five million yen for an item.
• Yurina explained the major criminal syndicates in Kanto and Kansai, then shared her dream of visiting Japan’s most luxurious host club.
• Black Pupils learned that Mr. Jing had a Kanto accent, leading Lin Qiye to suspect the Kangawa or Kazamatsuri families were involved.
• Lin Qiye told Yurina to move with Grandma Crane and offered her money, while Black Pupils went back to deal with Iwami Yusuke.

Yurina returned to her home with Lin Qiye and found it ransacked, while Amamiya Haruki gave up searching Yokohama for Yurina Kurotetsu's descendant and planned to leave for Osaka. Elsewhere, Hoshimi Shota lost his wager against the fox woman and had to accept her punishment.

• Yurina asked to go home and pack, and Lin Qiye agreed to accompany her; after leaving the warehouse, he picked up a warped bullet from the ground.
• Amamiya Haruki told a young man that he had found no trace of Yurina Kurotetsu's descendant in Yokohama and planned to travel to Osaka the next day.
• Hoshimi Shota challenged the fox woman to their usual game for a prophecy, lost at rock-paper-scissors, and was carried off to face her punishment.
• Yurina unlocked her home and entered with Lin Qiye, who found muddy footprints, scattered belongings, and every cabinet and drawer opened.

Lin Qiye accompanied Yurina to her old home, where she learned that her father had been killed in Osaka and was asked to collect his belongings. After returning Yurina to Grandma Crane, Lin Qiye resumed recruiting caregivers for the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and filled it with two hundred more Mysteries.

• Lin Qiye searched Yurina's ransacked home with his Mental Power but found nothing hidden there.
• Yurina answered a call from the Osaka City Police Department and learned that her father, Yurina Kurotetsu, had been killed four days earlier and that his belongings awaited collection.
• Lin Qiye suggested Yurina consider seeing her father's belongings, and offered to accompany her to Osaka.
• Yurina returned to the containers and reunited with Grandma Crane, while Lin Qiye left them to settle in together.
• Lin Qiye entered the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and recruited all two hundred remaining Mysteries as caregivers.

Lin Qiye organized the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods’ 297 orderlies after the hospital built them a dormitory, assigning seven veterans to lead departments. That night, Yurina joined him on the hillside and said she could not sleep.

• The hospital expanded and built a seven-story employee dormitory as Lin Qiye wondered where the new orderlies would sleep.
• The Ancient Ape roared at the noisy orderlies, forcing them to the ground before returning to its statue-like state.
• Lin Qiye appointed Li Yifei, A Zhu, Rubik's Cube, Hong Yan, Lord Beile, Wangcai, and Black Pupil as heads of seven departments.
• Li Yifei and the other department heads interviewed and assigned the new orderlies, while Black Pupil led their training.
• Merlin watched the busy courtyard from the study and praised the joys of youth.
• Yurina sat beside Lin Qiye on the hillside at night and told him she could not sleep.

Yurina told Lin Qiye why she had planned her death to protect Grandma Crane, then chose to travel to Osaka to collect her father’s belongings and learn about his past. After arranging care for Grandma Crane, she accompanied Lin Qiye to Osaka under his new alias, Asaba Qi Ye, and they arrived at the police department to collect her belongings.

• Yurina explained that she had arranged a nursing home for Grandma Crane and planned to die so the thugs pursuing her would stop tracking them.
• Lin Qiye agreed to accompany Yurina to Osaka, and she guessed he came from another world but trusted him not to hurt her.
• Yurina saw Grandma Crane off to the nursing home, then boarded the Shinkansen to Osaka with Lin Qiye.
• Yurina suggested the Japanese alias Asaba Qi Ye for Lin Qiye, and he accepted it.
• Lin Qiye and Yurina reached the Osaka Police Department and asked to collect the belongings of Yurina Kurotetsu, a Fierce Ghost-class wanted criminal.

Yurina collected her father Yurina Kurotetsu’s belongings and ashes from the police station, but learned only that an Oracle Envoy had killed him. As Lin Qiye took her to Dotonbori, Mr. Jing’s people began following them.

• Yurina signed for Yurina Kurotetsu’s belongings, recognized his wedding ring, and collected his ashes.
• Yurina asked why her father had been wanted and how he was caught; a policewoman said the case details were classified and an Oracle Envoy had killed him.
• Lin Qiye reflected that the Pure Land seemed to monitor society and intervene only when threats exceeded the mortal world’s abilities.
• Lin Qiye offered to take Yurina to eat before she returned by Shinkansen, and she chose a Kobe Beef restaurant in Dotonbori.
• Mr. Jing ordered his people to follow Yurina and Lin Qiye after they left the police station, and Lin Qiye sensed they were being watched.

Lin Qiye realized the yakuza were tracking Yurina with help from the police and decided to confront them rather than keep fleeing. He set a trap on Yamazaki Bridge and left Mumu to attack the pursuing cars while Yurina escaped by taxi.

• Lin Qiye sensed armed pursuers and deduced that the yakuza had used a police call about Yurina’s belongings as bait.
• Lin Qiye paid the taxi driver to change course to Yamazaki Bridge and drew two Magic Arrays on the taxi’s roof.
• Lin Qiye told the driver to keep driving with Yurina, activated the Magic Arrays, and jumped out of the taxi.
• The yakuza ignored Lin Qiye and accelerated after Yurina’s taxi across the bridge.
• Lin Qiye summoned Mumu into the road and ordered it to blow up the oncoming cars, prompting Mumu to produce a rocket launcher.

Lin Qiye’s summoned Mumu turned into a firepower fortress and destroyed most of the gang convoy pursuing him. After Mumu shrank back into a doll, a surviving gang member shot at Lin Qiye, who drew two blades from the Black Box.

• Lin Qiye realized Mumu was unaffected by the mysterious gaze because its power came from another dimension.
• Mumu transformed into a towering arsenal and shot down the gang members and vehicles on the bridge.
• Lin Qiye stopped Mumu from killing the remaining survivors and picked up the shrunken mummy.
• A surviving gang member called Mr. Jing for help, and Mr. Jing said he would ask the family head to intervene.
• The gang member fired at Lin Qiye, who dodged the bullet and drew two blades from the Black Box.

Lin Qiye defeated the gangsters on Yamazaki Bridge and used a captured walkie-talkie to confront Hansawa Shi, the Hankawa Family's young master. Their exchange revealed that Yurina carried something called Latent Royal Blood and that a blade's whereabouts were also at stake.

• Lin Qiye cut down the gangsters on Yamazaki Bridge, spared three after disarming them, and questioned the survivors as police approached.
• Mr. Jing reported that a suspected Magatsu Blade wielder named Asaba Qi Ye had intercepted the gangsters sent after Yurina.
• Hansawa Shi ordered Mr. Jing to take over the Ghost Fire Society and prepare for a clash with the Black Killer Group.
• Lin Qiye contacted Hansawa Shi through a walkie-talkie and claimed that Yurina and the things she carried belonged to him.
• Hansawa Shi warned Lin Qiye about the Latent Royal Blood and the whereabouts of a blade, and Lin Qiye answered that he was not afraid.