Chapter Summaries

Shen Qingzhu asked Imori Hiroshi to locate four people, while Lin Qiye and his companions arranged to attend Osaka’s fireworks festival before carrying out their attack plan that night. Meanwhile, Hoshimi Shota challenged the fox woman to an arrow-tossing game and threw his first three arrows.

• Shen Qingzhu gave Imori Hiroshi portraits of four people and ordered him to find them.
• Lin Qiye asked Uncle Kyosuke for the day off so he could take Yurina to the festival, and Amamiya Haruki agreed to go too.
• Uncle Kyosuke closed the club for the day and said he would take them to the festival, but insisted Lin Qiye, Amamiya Haruki, and Xiao Jin wear clothes he had prepared.
• Hoshimi Shota, determined not to lose another game, covered the fox woman with a down jacket before challenging her to a duel.
• The fox woman chose arrow tossing as the game, and Hoshimi Shota threw all three of his arrows toward the bronze pot.

At the Osaka Festival, Lin Qiye, Amamiya Haruki, and Xiao Jin drew attention in flashy yukata advertising the Black Wutong Club while Uncle Kyosuke accompanied Yurina. As fireworks began, Lin Qiye expected Shen Qingzhu and the others to be deploying their people and planned to leave afterward.

• Hoshimi Shota won an arrow-throwing game against the fox woman, who gave him a prophecy about Yurina Kurotetsu’s descendants.
• Uncle Kyosuke sent Lin Qiye, Amamiya Haruki, and Xiao Jin through the festival in conspicuous Black Wutong Club advertising yukata and followed with Yurina.
• Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki joked about getting revenge on Uncle Kyosuke, while Xiao Jin explained that he stayed as a host because Uncle Kyosuke was important to him.
• Lin Qiye checked the time and told Amamiya Haruki they would leave after the fireworks, expecting Shen Qingzhu and the others to have begun deploying their people.
• Fireworks erupted over the Yodogawa River as the festival began its display.

Mr. Jing and the Hankawa Family traced Lin Qiye and the others to the mysterious Black Wutong Club and decided to break in and search for evidence. At the fireworks festival, Uncle Kyosuke offered to let Yurina bring Grandma Crane to the club, and he carried her home after the fireworks ended.

• Mr. Jing learned that the club had appeared without any renovation or purchase records and ordered the Hankawa Family to break in and search for Spider Silk.
• Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki watched the fireworks and spoke about the beauty that concealed the country’s rotten core.
• Uncle Kyosuke carried Yurina so she could see the fireworks above the crowd.
• Yurina told Uncle Kyosuke she was happy at the club but could not stay because Grandma Crane was alone in Yokohama.
• Uncle Kyosuke agreed that Yurina could bring Grandma Crane to the club, and Yurina kissed his cheek in gratitude.
• After the fireworks ended, Uncle Kyosuke carried Yurina away through the departing crowd.

After the Hankawa Family’s gang trashed the Black Wutong Club, Yurina broke down over losing the place she had hoped to call home. Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki left into the rain to exterminate the Hankawa Family.

• Yurina happily told Lin Qiye that Uncle Kyosuke had agreed to let Grandma Crane stay at the club.
• Yurina and the others found the Black Wutong Club wrecked, with its doors, windows, furniture, and liquor smashed.
• A neighbor said the gang causing trouble around Dotonbori had raided the club while searching for something.
• Yurina sobbed that the destruction was her fault, and Uncle Kyosuke comforted her.
• Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki armed themselves and walked into the rain, declaring that they would exterminate the Hankawa Family.

Asakura Ken mobilized the Black Killer Group while Mr. Jing led the Hankawa Family into the Black Wutong Club, where Uncle Kyosuke waited for them. Hoshimi Shota’s prophecy suggested Yurina Kurotetsu might still be alive and planning another attack on the Pure Land, as the Black Killer Group and Hankawa Family faced off in the street.

• Asakura Ken led more than forty Black Killer Group vehicles toward their destination after Shen Qingzhu recognized the rain as the signal Lin Qiye and Shen Qingzhu had agreed on.
• Uncle Kyosuke sent Yurina and Xiaojin away from the Black Wutong Club, then waited inside for the Hankawa Family.
• Mr. Jing brought his men to the club to capture Yurina, but they found Uncle Kyosuke sitting atop a pile of wrecked furniture and watching them.
• Hoshimi Shota told Amamiya Haruki that he had prophesied Yurina Kurotetsu would escape the deadlock and attack the Pure Land again, prompting Amamiya and Lin Qiye to reconsider whether Yurina was alive.
• The Hankawa Family blocked the Black Killer Group’s vehicles, and members of both groups got out to face one another.

Shen Qingzhu led the Black Killer Group in a surprise attack on the Hankawa Family, while Lin Qiye destroyed their nightclub headquarters with a missile. The Hankawa forces collapsed, and Amamiya Haruki asked what had caused the explosion.

• Shen Qingzhu arrived with the Black Killer Group and ordered his men to attack the Hankawa Family.
• Hansawa Shi watched his forces lose ground and considered drawing the Magatsu Blade while waiting for news about Mr. Jing's mission to capture Yurina Kurotetsu's daughter.
• A missile flew through the Ghostfire Nightclub's window and detonated, destroying the building and its surroundings.
• Asakura Ken rallied the Black Killer Group, which routed the stunned Hankawa Family members.
• Amamiya Haruki asked Lin Qiye what had caused the explosion, and Lin Qiye explained that he had fired a heavy fighter-mounted missile.

Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki attacked Hansawa Shi with missiles before Amamiya engaged him with Rain Collapse, while the Pure Land detected three Magatsu Blades in Osaka and sent Oracle Envoys there. The Pure Land’s automatic defenses were mysteriously disabled by an intruder.

• Lin Qiye had Mumu fire a missile at Hansawa Shi, who survived by blocking it with Black Rope’s blade projection.
• Lin Qiye ordered Mumu to launch a second missile, but Hansawa Shi again defended himself with Black Rope.
• Amamiya Haruki drew his sword and attacked Hansawa Shi, summoning a water dragon that collided with Black Rope’s enormous blade projection.
• In the Pure Land, Hazu detected Amamiya Haruki, Hansawa Shi, and a third Magatsu Blade wielder identified as Yurina Kurotetsu, possibly returned from the dead.
• The yellow-robed Oracle Envoy summoned Oracle Envoys No. 4 and No. 6, and three launch pods departed for Osaka.
• The Pure Land detected an intrusion, and its automatic defense mode was disabled as an eerie voice said, “Hee hee.”

Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki defeated Hansawa Shi after Shen Qingzhu shot the motorcycle he used to escape. Captured, Hansawa Shi revealed that his grandfather had ordered him to pursue Yurina Kurotetsu’s King’s Blood and Magatsu Blade, leaving Amamiya Haruki questioning how the elderly Hankawa Matsuri could still be involved.

• Lin Qiye used the Ancient Treant and missiles to attack Hansawa Shi, whose Black Rope blade soul appeared as a massive stone statue and blocked the blast.
• Hansawa Shi fled on a motorcycle, but Shen Qingzhu shot its fuel tank and sent him crashing into the street.
• Amamiya Haruki disarmed Hansawa Shi, and Lin Qiye held a blade to his neck until he surrendered.
• Hansawa Shi said his grandfather, the former Hankawa Family head, had sent a letter ordering him to recover Yurina Kurotetsu’s King’s Blood and find her Magatsu Blade.
• Amamiya Haruki questioned how Hankawa Matsuri, a First Generation Citizen who should be about a hundred years old, could still be alive.

Hansawa Shi revealed that a mysterious letter had sent him after Yurina Kurotetsu’s royal blood, but Lin Qiye suspected Yurina himself had written it to obtain the Magatsu Blade and attack the Pure Land. As Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki pursued the vanished blade, Yurina was trapped by Oracle Envoy No. 6, while Yurina and Xiaojin heard an explosion near the club.

• Hansawa Shi explained how he followed a letter from his grandfather to Osaka and eventually lured Yurina Kurotetsu’s daughter there.
• After Lin Qiye let Hansawa Shi go, Shen Qingzhu shot him dead from a distance.
• Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki suspected Yurina Kurotetsu had sent the letter to get Hansawa Shi to bring Black Rope and the Magatsu Blade to Osaka.
• The Magatsu Blade vanished, and Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki ran into the rain to search for Yurina.
• Oracle Envoy No. 6, Mirror Calamity, revealed that he had trapped Yurina Kurotetsu and taken the blade.
• Yurina and Xiaojin headed toward the club with repair supplies when an explosion lit up the city, prompting Xiaojin to look toward the blast.

Xiaojin used Bewildering Pupil to escape a Red Robe Oracle Envoy with Yurina, while the Oracle Envoys searched for them. The Yellow Robe Oracle Envoy tracked Yurina’s thoughts to the Black Wutong Club, but its location appeared to be concealed from him.

• Yurina and Xiaojin heard explosions before a Red Robe Oracle Envoy arrived, and Xiaojin fled with her as the envoy spotted them.
• A coin rang out, and Xiaojin and Yurina vanished; the Red Robe Oracle Envoy reported possible traces of Bewildering Pupil and a girl who might be Yurina Kurotetsu’s daughter.
• The Yellow Robe Oracle Envoy used his ability to search nearby thoughts and found Yurina wondering why Xiaojin had fled.
• Xiaojin brought Yurina back to the damaged Black Wutong Club, where she waited for Uncle Kyosuke while Xiaojin watched from upstairs.
• The Yellow Robe Oracle Envoy followed Yurina’s thoughts to the alley but saw only an empty lot where the club should have been.

Shen Qingzhu led the Black Killer Group in an attack that crippled the Hankawa Family, then faced a Red Robe Oracle Envoy when the group’s vehicles were stopped in the rain. After refusing to kneel, he signaled that he intended to kill the envoy.

• Shen Qingzhu’s forces defeated the Hankawa Family, and he reviewed the Japanese Lin Qiye had taught him as they drove through the rain.
• The Red Robe Oracle Envoy appeared in the road, and the Black Killer Group members climbed out and knelt before him.
• Shen Qingzhu stayed in his car while the Red Robe Oracle Envoy searched for his identity and Asakura Ken realized the Grand Leader was missing from the kneeling crowd.
• Shen Qingzhu stepped out wearing the Flowing Cloud Haori and refused Asakura Ken’s demand that he kneel.
• The Red Robe Oracle Envoy identified Shen Qingzhu as an invader, and Shen Qingzhu made a throat-slitting gesture and said, “Kulus.”

Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki split up to rescue their companions after sensing the Oracle Envoys, while Little Gold fought the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy to protect Yurina. Little Gold escaped with Yurina, but the Envoy caught up with them just as reinforcements arrived.

• Lin Qiye and Amamiya Haruki sensed two Oracle Envoys and split up, with Lin Qiye heading to save the Grand Leader and Amamiya Haruki going to Dotonbori.
• The yellow-robed Oracle Envoy destroyed the Black Wutong Club and confronted Little Gold, who defended the dazed Yurina.
• Little Gold attacked the Envoy with illusions, but the Envoy saw through them and overpowered him.
• Little Gold used another illusion to escape with Yurina, but the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy caught up and blocked their route.
• Rain began to fall, and Little Gold smiled as he sensed that reinforcements had arrived.

Amamiya Haruki confronted Oracle Envoy No. 2, Heart Calamity, while piecing together Yurina Kurotetsu’s scheme and realizing that Yurina and Lin Qiye had been drawn into the Black Wutong Club deliberately. He learned Yurina Kurotetsu was trapped in the Mirror World without Black Rope, then prepared to face Heart Calamity with another Magatsu Blade master.

• Amamiya Haruki emerged from the rain and struck Heart Calamity with Rain Collapse, but the Oracle Envoy repelled him.
• Amamiya Haruki recognized Xiaojin as Bewildering Pupil’s blade spirit and deduced that the Black Wutong Club and his own hiring had been part of Yurina Kurotetsu’s scheme.
• Amamiya Haruki concluded that Yurina Kurotetsu had likely lured Hansawa Shi to Osaka to obtain Black Rope and target the Pure Land.
• Xiaojin told Amamiya Haruki that Oracle Envoy No. 6 had trapped Yurina Kurotetsu in the Mirror World and taken Black Rope.
• Amamiya Haruki sent Xiaojin to help Yurina Kurotetsu and suggested that another Magatsu Blade master could help him fight Heart Calamity.

Shen Qingzhu confronted the Pure Land’s Red Robe Oracle Envoy, whose flames devastated the street and threatened the Black Killer Group. He ordered the group to flee, then used his Vacuum Domain to extinguish the flames and save them, while a mysterious gaze searched the area around him.

• Shen Qingzhu shot at the Red Robe Oracle Envoy, but the envoy melted the bullet and unleashed flames across the street.
• The Oracle Envoy’s fire ignited cars and killed pedestrians, while the Black Killer Group members remained kneeling on the scorching ground.
• Shen Qingzhu ordered the Black Killer Group to flee, and Asakura Ken rallied the members to follow him.
• The Oracle Envoy sent an inferno after the fleeing group, but Shen Qingzhu snapped his fingers and evacuated the air within a one-kilometer radius, extinguishing the flames.
• The Black Killer Group and surviving pedestrians escaped as a mysterious gaze searched the area around Shen Qingzhu.

Shen Qingzhu rescued the Black Killer Group’s members and killed the Red Robe Oracle Envoy with the Soul Severing Blade, but the envoy’s body activated an autonomous counterattack. Lin Qiye saved Shen Qingzhu from the ensuing explosion, while Amamiya Haruki faced the Yellow Robe Oracle Envoy as Little Jin went to help Yurina Kurotetsu.

• Shen Qingzhu stopped Qi Min’s operation after the Black Killer Group members had mostly evacuated, drawing the Red Robe Oracle Envoy close by pretending not to understand him.
• Shen Qingzhu used the Soul Severing Blade to erase the Red Robe Oracle Envoy’s soul and escape the mysterious gaze.
• The Hazu System took control of the soulless Oracle Envoy and triggered an explosive counterattack.
• Lin Qiye rescued Shen Qingzhu with a branch and warned him that the Oracle Envoys’ modified bodies could still operate without their souls.
• Little Jin left Amamiya Haruki to help Yurina Kurotetsu, while Amamiya Haruki stayed to fight the Yellow Robe Oracle Envoy.

Amamiya Haruki fought the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy, Heart Calamity, and merged with Rain Collapse's blade spirit to unleash its full power. After cutting the Oracle Envoy down and devastating Dotonbori, Haruki learned that the enemy could return through anyone nearby who feared him.

• The yellow-robed Oracle Envoy countered Amamiya Haruki's attacks, exploited his familiarity with Haruki's techniques, and told him he needed ten more years of training to win.
• Amamiya Haruki stained Rain Collapse with his blood and merged with its blade spirit, transforming into white-haired Amamiya despite the cost to his lifespan.
• White-haired Amamiya used a rain-line slash to sever half of Dotonbori and cut off half the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy's hand.
• Amamiya Haruki appeared before the Oracle Envoy and sliced him in two, while his attack reduced the rest of Dotonbori to ruins.
• Heart Calamity reappeared in another body and revealed that any person within ten kilometers who feared him could become his main body.

Amamiya Haruki faced Oracle Envoy No. 2, whose Heart Calamity made him nearly immortal by using the fear of thousands of people as substitutes. Haruki urged Yurina to find the third Magatsu Blade, and she discovered a mysterious paper crane hidden in her clothes.

• Oracle Envoy No. 2 gathered hundreds of kneeling people and relied on thousands more potential vessels to survive, leaving Haruki with no easy way to kill him.
• Haruki told Yurina that her father must have left her the third Magatsu Blade and asked whether anything unusual had stayed by her side.
• Yurina remembered Grandma Crane, the elderly woman who had folded paper cranes with her, but was confused because Grandma Crane was in Yokohama.
• The Oracle Envoy attacked Haruki, who fought him with Rain Collapse and destroyed his body, only for him to reappear through a kneeling passerby.
• Yurina found no blade among her belongings and pulled out her mother's cherry blossom hairpin, then noticed a dry paper crane with a scorched mark that had somehow hidden itself in her clothes.

Grandma Crane’s paper cranes flew to Yurina and formed Thousand Cranes, the Magatsu Blade Yurina Kurotetsu had left her. The Yellow-Robed Oracle Envoy urged Yurina to surrender it, but she questioned whether the gods and their idea of goodness had ever protected her.

• In Yokohama, Grandma Crane transformed into a flock of paper cranes and flew out of her nursing home window.
• In Osaka, a paper crane with a bullet mark flew from Yurina’s hand, followed by a vast flock that formed the sheathed blade Thousand Cranes.
• The Yellow-Robed Oracle Envoy recognized that Thousand Cranes was protecting Yurina, while Amamiya Haruki said she had the qualifications to become a blade wielder.
• The Yellow-Robed Oracle Envoy warned Yurina that drawing the blade would make her a hunted fugitive and offered to let her live safely if she handed it over.
• Yurina recalled how the Black Wutong Club had given her warmth and questioned whether the gods’ protection and the distinction between good and evil meant anything.

Yurina awakened Thousand Cranes and became its blade master, earning a Fierce Ghost-level wanted designation. As Amamiya Haruki fought the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy, Grandma Crane incapacitated nearby civilians to weaken the enemy’s ability to create avatars.

• Yurina chose to stand by the people she cared about, drew Thousand Cranes, and summoned Grandma Crane as its blade soul.
• Grandma Crane reassured Yurina and promised to protect her before confronting the yellow-robed Oracle Envoy.
• The city’s screens identified Yurina as a Fierce Ghost-level wanted criminal and displayed her wanted notice.
• Amamiya Haruki intercepted the Oracle Envoy’s attack while Grandma Crane spread paper cranes across the area to knock civilians unconscious.
• Amamiya Haruki attacked the Oracle Envoy again as the loss of frightened civilians weakened his ability to create avatars.

Uncle Kyosuke fought the silver-robed Oracle Envoy in the Mirror World, using illusions and hypnosis to recover Black Rope and complete Bewildering Pupil. He drew both Magatsu Blades and challenged the Oracle Envoy to face him.

• The silver-robed Oracle Envoy attacked Uncle Kyosuke, but could not draw Black Rope from its sheath.
• Uncle Kyosuke's blade soul returned to its scabbard, restoring Bewildering Pupil and surprising the Oracle Envoy.
• The Oracle Envoy crushed two mirrored buildings together, but Uncle Kyosuke escaped using Bewildering Pupil.
• Uncle Kyosuke used hypnosis to trick the Oracle Envoy into throwing Black Rope away, then retrieved it.
• Uncle Kyosuke drew both Bewildering Pupil and Black Rope and asked the Oracle Envoy whether he still thought he could win.