Recaps

Lu Xin watched Teacher Lu as her countdown neared zero, while rumors about the Eyes in the Sky unsettled Qinggang. At sunset, Number Eight hesitated outside Qinggang’s high wall as hundreds or thousands of suited figures arrived, insisting that the confessed must be sentenced.

• Lu Xin delivered a truck to Crimson Moon Elementary School, claimed he had come to apply as a teacher, and stayed to observe Teacher Lu.
• Lu Xin found Teacher Lu haggard but busy preparing the children’s records and school applications, while her countdown fell to seventeen hours and thirty-six minutes.
• Lu Xin believed Kid and the others could manage the growing tension in Qinggang, though rumors about the Eyes in the Sky spread and prices rose.
• As the countdown drew closer to zero, Lu Xin waited at the school while Teacher Lu wrote and discarded papers, then closed her curtains.
• Number Eight stopped outside Qinggang Satellite City No. 2, and hundreds or thousands of suited figures gathered beside him with silver briefcases.
• Number Eight asked whether the newcomers had come to help or urge him on, and they answered that those who confessed their crimes must be sentenced.

Lu Xin stayed with Teacher Lu as the countdown to her executioners’ arrival neared zero, but she could not explain why she believed she deserved what was coming. When he discovered her attempting suicide amid a horrifying vision of the orphanage, he treated her wounds and called Seven out to face him.

• Lu Xin returned to the school and sat with Teacher Lu, determined to stay beside her as her countdown ran down.
• Teacher Lu asked whether Lu Xin feared the danger and suggested she might deserve what was coming, but she could not bring herself to explain.
• Teacher Lu went into the restroom, where Lu Xin found her with a slit wrist, sewn shut by black threads as childhood laughter and orphanage figures filled the distorted space.
• Lu Xin removed the paper cutter, carried Teacher Lu to the sofa, and bandaged her wrist despite her struggling and the spreading threads.
• Lu Xin shouted for Seven to come out and face him.

Lu Xin confronted Number Eight after Teacher Lu attempted suicide, and Number Eight revealed that he had sought her help to accuse Lu Xin for the orphanage deaths. Teacher Lu awoke and admitted she was guilty, saying she had caused the events from the beginning and had always known Lu Xin was a monster.

• Lu Xin unleashed his twisted force field, destroying the black threads and hallucinations around Teacher Lu.
• Number Eight emerged from the washroom mirror and explained that he had rushed in after sensing Teacher Lu's suicidal thoughts.
• Lu Xin demanded to know why Teacher Lu had been given a judgment contract, and Number Eight said he wanted justice for the children who died in the orphanage by having Lu Xin judged.
• Number Eight revealed that Teacher Lu had accused herself, confessed, and been judged guilty by the Midnight Court.
• Teacher Lu woke and said she was guilty because she had caused the events, then told Lu Xin she had known from the beginning that he was a monster.

Teacher Lu confessed that her boasting about the outside world and insistence on including every child in the escape plan helped set the orphanage tragedy in motion, and that she had long known what Lu Xin was truly like. Lu Xin realized his efforts to appear normal had not fooled her, just as blood-red eyes appeared over Qinggang City.

• Teacher Lu told Lu Xin and Number Eight that she had proposed the escape plan after describing the outside world to the children, though she had not truly wanted to escape herself.
• Teacher Lu admitted she had insisted the older children bring everyone, including Number Nine, because she wanted to prove herself and knew they feared him.
• Teacher Lu confessed that she blamed herself for the children's suffering and deaths, and apologized to Number Nine for refusing to acknowledge what he was like.
• Lu Xin realized his attempts to convince Teacher Lu that he was recovering and normal had been a clumsy performance she had seen through.
• Violent tremors shook the city, and a pair of blood-red eyes appeared in the sky over Qinggang alongside the Crimson Moon.

Old Director revealed to Seven that he had orchestrated the children’s escape and later trials to awaken and shape Number Nine’s humanity. As the three Crimson Moons appeared over Azure Harbor, he explained that his new Trial of Strength would put Number Nine under even greater pressure to strengthen him.

• Old Director told Seven that Number Nine, codenamed Tyrant, had resisted every attempt to provoke a predictable reaction, so he had deliberately activated the boy’s power through the escape plan.
• Old Director revealed that Chen Xun had reported the children’s escape plans and that Seven’s informing had helped him assess her attitude and decide to rescue her.
• Old Director explained that Number Nine’s fragile humanity had grown alongside overwhelming divinity, leading him to cling to rules and forget painful memories.
• Old Director described how he designed successive trials that helped Number Nine’s humanity grow strong enough to bear his divinity.
• Old Director told Seven that the Trial of Strength would use even greater pressure to strengthen Number Nine’s fragile humanity.

Three Crimson Moons appeared over Qinggang, and Kid’s influence among the residents helped shield the city from their mental pressure. While Qinggang’s forces mobilized, the Midnight Court infiltrated Satellite City No. 2, prompting officials to prepare a major response and support the lone soldier.

• The three Crimson Moons opened their Eyes over Qinggang, driving residents toward shelters as city forces and prepared capable people mobilized.
• Kid raised her umbrella, and the residents’ combined thoughts of her helped keep the Crimson Moons’ mental force outside Qinggang.
• Chen Jing reported that the Midnight Court had used Kid’s distraction to infiltrate Satellite City No. 2.
• Professor Bai identified the Midnight Court’s pollution as judgment and explained that it was targeting the lone soldier.
• Minister Shen ordered Qinggang’s departments to protect citizens, prepare for an emergency, request assistance, and send all available forces to support the lone soldier.

After Teacher Lu’s confession left Lu Xin devastated, Mom comforted him and helped him recognize that he still refused to accept how things had turned out. Lu Xin began to sense his mental core as the family prepared to set events back on their proper path.

• Number Eight tried to keep Teacher Lu from drowning in guilt, but the old security guard arrived and accused Number Eight of acting like the tattling child he had once been.
• The old security guard threatened Number Eight with his shotgun, and Lu Xin lifted the barrel away before he could fire.
• Overwhelmed by Teacher Lu’s confession, Lu Xin felt too tired to care about the world and wanted to leave everything behind.
• Mom appeared with Sister and Father, comforted Lu Xin, and offered to take him home to rest.
• Lu Xin admitted that he was unwilling to accept how things had turned out, and Mom said he had begun to sense his mental core.
• Mom took the shotgun as Lu Xin’s voice shifted among his family’s voices, revealing that he did not want to abandon his life or be alone again.

Lu Xin exposed the Midnight Court’s judgment as a form of contamination that preyed on the weak and kind, forcing Number Eight to confront the flaws in his pursuit of justice. As the enforcers closed in, Lu Xin reassured Teacher Lu that she need not condemn herself, then prepared to face what was coming.

• Lu Xin mocked Number Eight and the Midnight Court, explaining that their judgments relied on overpowering or manipulating people into confession.
• Lu Xin accused Number Eight of targeting the weaker Lu Xin while avoiding the Old Director, and argued that a judgment unable to judge everyone fairly should itself be judged.
• The eyes in the sky intensified their power over Qinggang, and the enforcers began advancing toward the teaching building after the countdown ended.
• Teacher Lu admitted that she deserved judgment for her past selfishness, but Lu Xin thanked her for bringing him along when she escaped and told her not to blame herself.
• Lu Xin said he no longer liked Teacher Lu as much but would not let anyone judge her, then told the old security guard to cover the children's ears.

Lu Xin and his family suppressed Teacher Lu’s guilt-fueled illusions and the law enforcers surrounding the school, but the Midnight Court’s influence spread across Qinggang. Mom explained that the judgment power fed on accumulated guilt, and Lu Xin prepared to endure it and find its logical chain.

• Teacher Lu’s guilt manifested as illusions of the orphanage children and a chorus demanding that she pay for their deaths.
• Lu Xin spread his shadow through the school, and Mom used her scissors to erase the illusions and the law enforcers inside the building.
• Lu Xin sent Sister home, then saw more law enforcers gathering as Teacher Lu’s illusions began spreading across Qinggang.
• Mom explained that the Midnight Court’s judgments absorbed the souls of its victims and formed an S-rank contamination, making it nearly impossible to defeat by force.
• Lu Xin concluded that he had to endure the judgment and destroy its logical chain, then insisted that nobody could judge him.

Lu Xin defended Crimson Moon Elementary School from the enforcers, while Mom and Father helped him destroy their advancing forces. The surviving enforcers began using judgment powers to distort Lu Xin’s perception, emotions, and motives, leaving him under multiple forms of mental influence.

• Lu Xin warned the enforcers not to enter Crimson Moon Elementary School, but they surged toward Teacher Lu through a logic chain.
• Mom appeared throughout Teacher Lu’s logic chain and used her scissors to make approaching enforcers vanish.
• Lu Xin attacked the enforcers entering through the school gate, and Father spread black shadows that destroyed most of the crowd.
• The surviving enforcers combined their powers, and the Photographer System made Lu Xin perceive them as kind and harmless.
• The Editor System altered Lu Xin’s emotions, while the Sower System planted the desire to join the enforcers and follow their laws.

Lu Xin was subjected to the enforcers’ Judgment abilities, which turned his memories and instincts against him until he stabbed himself with their swords. As he faced the Trial of Strength, the Old Director explained that the trial tested whether Lu Xin could bear the pressure of divinity, and Mom said he had to find his true self through self-judgment.

• The enforcers used Judgment abilities to make Lu Xin doubt his past and nearly tear out his own heart.
• Lu Xin’s instincts turned against him, and he struggled to stop his shadow from polluting him.
• The enforcers trapped Lu Xin in distorted memories and drew their swords, which he seized and used to stab himself repeatedly.
• Father tried to stop Lu Xin, while Mom explained to Sister that self-judgment could either destroy his humanity or reveal his true self.
• The Old Director said the Trial of Strength tested whether Lu Xin could endure pressure and bear the divinity within him.

Lu Xin resisted the executioners’ Judgment after accepting his past selves and refusing to condemn the boy he had been. He confronted the enforcers with the many monstrous forms of himself in the old building and challenged them to consider whether the world could endure everyone’s true nature.

• Lu Xin relived his past under the power of Judgment and nearly killed the little boy at the beginning of his memories, but he embraced him instead.
• Xu Jing refused to execute Teacher Lu, cast aside his Sword of Judgment, and faced the executioners with a flower vase.
• Lu Xin reconciled with his former selves and awakened, tearing through the black threads that had sealed his eyes and mouth.
• Lu Xin rejected the enforcers’ authority to judge him, and their renewed Judgment revealed shifting visions of the old building.
• The old building filled with monstrous versions of Lu Xin, who questioned whether the enforcers or the world could bear to see everyone’s true nature.

Lu Xin unleashed the old building’s Mental Palace against the Executors, while the Black Queen tried to steal his secret and sent Mental Monsters to attack Qinggang. As more forces entered the battle, Lu Xin decided they were invading rather than judging him and prepared to kill them all.

• Lu Xin ordered the monsters inside the old building to attack, and countless versions of himself overwhelmed the Executors.
• Outside Qinggang, Old Director recognized the old building as Lu Xin’s Mental Palace and said the successful trial had revealed the secret behind his stability.
• Mom warned Lu Xin that the Black Queen was using a mirror in the sky to steal his secret, and Lu Xin saw his face reflected in it.
• The Black Queen’s mirror released an endless army of Mental Monsters against Qinggang as the Executors’ fear brought forth the Sword Bearer.
• Seven knightly orders activated silver boxes and sent black chains into Qinggang’s Satellite Cities to capture struggling ability users.
• Lu Xin declared that the attacks were an invasion, not a judgment, and said he would kill the invaders.

As Qinggang was overwhelmed by Mental Monsters and its ability users were controlled, Professor Bai ordered the city to keep resisting while waiting for Lu Xin’s signal. The Doll then revealed a new power, destroying the invading monsters with white chains, while Lu Xin learned Mom had given her the ability.

• Unknown Mental Monsters attacked Qinggang and overwhelmed the Doll’s protection, while black chains took control of the city’s ability users and turned them against their allies.
• Professor Bai recommended continuing the resistance and observing Satellite City No. 2, saying he believed Lu Xin would give them a signal to launch a counterattack.
• Mom asked Lu Xin whether he had found the mental core, and he admitted that he had but avoided explaining what it was.
• Mom said she had made arrangements on the ground and would give Qinggang a reassuring signal.
• The Doll rose into the air as Mental Monsters attacked her, then unleashed white chains that pierced and destroyed the monsters across Qinggang’s skies.
• Lu Xin asked Mom whether she had given the Doll her new power, and Mom confirmed she had given her a meeting gift.

Kid received the origin power of an Ultimate and gained overwhelming control of the mental world, enabling Qinggang to begin its counterattack. As reinforcements and defenses mobilized, Lu Xin faced the Sword Bearer, who pointed its bloodstained blade toward Satellite City No. 2.

• Kid’s power surged as white chains shattered Mental Monsters and blocked their entry into Qinggang.
• Professor Bai identified Kid’s transformation as the Ultimate, and Mr. Su realized the Solo Soldier had given her an Ultimate’s origin power.
• Minister Shen ordered Qinggang’s counterattack, while Professor Bai took command of pollution cleanup.
• Kid’s white chains freed the Drunkard, Watchdog, and other ability users from black-chain control and enhanced their powers as they fought the Mental Monsters.
• Qinggang deployed its electromagnetic cannons and cleanup teams, while a vast force of the dead approached from the southeast with a pregnant monster aboard a truck.
• Lu Xin challenged the Sword Bearer, which drew its rusted, bloodstained greatsword and pointed it toward Qinggang Satellite City No. 2.

Lu Xin used Fantasy Nation to counter the Midnight Court’s assault on Qinggang Satellite City No. 2 and the guilt field spreading from Teacher Lu. He began reshaping the field, leaving the city’s fate in the hands of his imagined reality.

• The Midnight Court summoned execution frames and sent countless executioners toward Qinggang Satellite City No. 2, while its ropes forced residents to confess their sins.
• Mom explained that the Midnight Court had turned judged souls into executioners and warned Lu Xin that fighting it with fear or Fantasy Nation carried serious risks.
• The Midnight Court’s power spread through the city, binding residents with ropes and making Teacher Lu’s guilt and despair form a pollution field.
• Lu Xin decided to save the city and reached out to Teacher Lu’s guilt field with his black particles.
• Lu Xin activated Mental Mutation, Fifth Step: Fantasy Nation, and began transforming the field across Satellite City No. 2.

Lu Xin used an illusion to erase the guilt across Satellite City No. 2, ending Midnight Court’s judgment of Teacher Lu and forcing the Executors to retreat or dissolve. He then set out in a truck toward the enormous statue outside the city, with his family and companions along for the journey.

• Lu Xin spread Teacher Lu’s field across Satellite City No. 2, changing her memories and dissolving her guilt as Number Eight watched in shock.
• Lu Xin made the city’s residents remember themselves as kind and sinless, causing the gallows’ nooses to snap and the Executors to melt away or flee.
• Lu Xin ended Teacher Lu’s judgment and left Number Eight’s memories untouched, while recognizing that his illusion was temporary and not the truth.
• Lu Xin drove a large truck out of the school toward the statue outside the city with Mom, Father, Sister, and the others accompanying him.
• Gecko arrived with armed soldiers, asked whether Lu Xin needed help, and withdrew when Lu Xin declined.

Lu Xin charged through Midnight Court’s executioners and confronted the Sword Bearer’s projection with help from Mom and Father. After the Sword Bearer pierced his heart, Lu Xin used the Pale Hand to seize its throat while Father knocked it down, and he challenged it as his heart kept beating.

• Lu Xin drove a truck through the executioners and headed toward the Sword Bearer’s projection while Mom cut down its nooses and Father transformed the executioners with his shadow.
• Lu Xin climbed from the truck and confronted the Sword Bearer, then used the Pale Hand to reach through layers of space and seize its throat.
• The Sword Bearer struck Lu Xin through the heart with its Sword of Judgment, but Lu Xin held on and Father slammed into its legs.
• The Sword Bearer fell, the surrounding executioners were scattered, and Lu Xin shouted that his heart was still beating and asked what the Sword Bearer thought it was.

Lu Xin endured the Sword Bearer’s corrosive judgment and released monstrous versions of himself that attacked it. The Sword Bearer broke free and summoned the Midnight Court’s execution creatures, which crawled from the fissures toward Lu Xin and his companions.

• The Sword Bearer’s power spread rust through Lu Xin, Father, and Sister, while Mom brushed away the rust that touched her.
• Lu Xin rejected the Sword Bearer’s right to judge him, and monstrous versions of himself burst from his body and swarmed the Sword Bearer.
• The malicious Lu Xins gnawed at the Sword of Judgment as the Pale Hand clung to the Sword Bearer, forcing it to collapse and break free.
• The Sword Bearer re-formed beneath the Crimson Moon and invoked the Midnight Court, causing the ground to crack open around Lu Xin and his companions.
• Living execution tools crawled from the fissures and advanced toward Lu Xin and the others.

The Sword Bearer unleashed his judgment power, filling the wasteland with gallows and torture-device monsters that overwhelmed Lu Xin’s malicious selves. Lu Xin decided to face the Sword Bearer himself and charged at him with Sister, carrying the half of the Sword of Judgment.

• The Sword Bearer summoned executioners and gallows whose gaze and falling ropes threatened Lu Xin and his family.
• Father’s butcher army held off the executioners while Mom cut apart the falling ropes and mental entities with her scissors.
• The torture-device monsters captured and tormented the malicious Lu Xins, causing Lu Xin intense pain and prompting him to question whether judgment still had meaning.
• Lu Xin told his trapped selves that he should face the Sword Bearer, even though he was the weakest.
• Lu Xin pulled the half of the rusted Sword of Judgment from his chest, took Sister’s hand, and charged toward the Sword Bearer.

Lu Xin fought through the Sword Bearer’s torture-tool monsters, using imagined power to turn bullets and the half of the Sword of Judgment into devastating weapons. Though he pierced the Sword Bearer and thought the battle was over, Mom realized it was the real Sword Bearer, and it began healing.

• Lu Xin charged through the torture-tool monsters, resisting the Sword Bearer’s judgment and evading its mental shock by exchanging places with a monster.
• Lu Xin imagined immense force into three bullets, blasting craters into the Sword Bearer and interrupting its attack.
• The Sword Bearer caught Lu Xin’s right hand, but Lu Xin hurled the half of the Sword of Judgment into its chest, piercing through its body.
• Lu Xin and the others thought the Sword Bearer had been defeated, but it recovered as vengeful faces appeared across its body.
• Mom realized they had mistaken the Sword Bearer for a projection and that this was the real Sword Bearer.

Lu Xin and his family faced the real Sword Bearer as it absorbed countless mental entities and began tearing reality apart. With Qinggang threatened by the Sword Bearer’s uncontrolled distortion, Mom and Father spent their power to shield the city, leaving Lu Xin to confront the Sword Bearer.

• Mom realized that the figure was the real Sword Bearer, which was instinctively restoring its full mental power by absorbing the Executors and other mental creatures.
• Lu Xin hid Sister as the Sword Bearer’s growing power began drawing in mental entities, weakening Qinggang’s besiegers and straining reality.
• The Sword of Judgment lodged in the Sword Bearer triggered a violent distortion that threatened to sweep across Qinggang.
• Mom spread herself across Qinggang’s walls to hold back the distortion, while Lu Xin forced Father to use his stored shadows to reinforce the city’s defenses.
• Lu Xin turned to face the real Sword Bearer, knowing he had to eliminate it without preparation.

Lu Xin charged into the Sword Bearer’s collapsing force field and used Kid’s Domination Chains to bind him, then pressed his black-particle-covered palm to the Sword Bearer’s forehead and demanded judgment. As Qinggang’s cities stabilized, the command center aimed its superfrequency electromagnetic cannons at the Eyes in the Sky.

• Sister told Lu Xin she had never blamed him for what happened at the orphanage and said she stayed by his side because she felt safest with him.
• Lu Xin ran through the Sword Bearer’s violent mental currents, enduring repeated wounds as he fought his way toward him.
• Lu Xin called to Kid, who sent a white chain from Qinggang Main City; Lu Xin used it to move around the Sword Bearer and bind him with chains.
• Lu Xin pushed Sister toward Mom and Father, then dove onto the Sword Bearer’s head and ordered him to kneel and accept judgment.
• The command center received reports that Qinggang’s cities were stable and, at Minister Shen’s suggestion, turned the superfrequency electromagnetic cannons toward the Eyes in the Sky.

Lu Xin used the pressure he had carried throughout his life to force the Sword Bearer to kneel, then crushed it along with its mental power and laws. Mom told Father and Sister that an Ultimate had fallen.

• Lu Xin pressed his palm against the Sword Bearer's forehead and struggled against its immense mental power.
• Mom showed Father and Sister a vision of Lu Xin extending through many forms to a shadow wearing a crown, explaining that there had only ever been one Lu Xin.
• Lu Xin unleashed the black particles against the Sword Bearer, but the destruction was too slow to overcome its vast power.
• Lu Xin's lifelong pressure passed through him into the Sword Bearer, forcing it to kneel beneath him.
• The pressure crushed the Sword Bearer's body and destroyed its mental power and laws, and Mom said an Ultimate had fallen.

Lu Xin resisted the pressure of the Sword Bearer’s collapsing mental currents and the shadow beneath God’s gaze, while Qinggang’s electromagnetic cannons destroyed one of the eyes in the sky. The Old Director explained that he was waiting to see whether the person who performed Lu Xin’s mysterious surgery would appear to inspect its results.

• Lu Xin laughed amid the Sword Bearer’s mental currents and saw a black shadow seated on a throne inside a palace above him.
• Mom told Father and Sister that Lu Xin had to withstand God’s gaze on his own, while the eyes in the sky watched him.
• Qinggang fired its overfrequency electromagnetic cannons and blasted one of the eyes dark.
• Lu Xin regained his resolve, resisted the pressure, and saw the shadow’s unfamiliar yet familiar face smile at him.
• The Old Director told Seven that Qinggang’s development resulted partly from an Eclipse Research Institute social experiment and said he was waiting to see whether Lu Xin’s surgeon would inspect the surgery’s results.