Chapter Summaries

Chen Fan met Revolutionary Army spies Weiss and Litteny in the Imperial Capital and learned that Wild Hunt, a brutal secret police force formed by the minister’s son, was terrorizing the city. When Wild Hunt arrived, Chen Fan waited as Shira and Dottya approached them.

• Chen Fan arrived at the Black Night restaurant and met Revolutionary Army spies Weiss and Litteny.
• Weiss told Chen Fan that Wild Hunt had been killing and abusing civilians and officials in the Imperial Capital.
• The restaurant owner warned everyone to hide as six Wild Hunt members came down the street.
• Chen Fan sensed a group approaching Wild Hunt and chose to wait before acting.
• Shira and Dottya arrived, with Dottya saying she had come to meet the scientist Stylish.

Chen Fan stepped out to confront Wild Hunt after Shira defeated the Imperial Fist Temple disciples and threatened a surviving woman. Shira recognized Chen Fan, and the members of Wild Hunt prepared to attack him.

• Imperial Fist Temple disciples surrounded Wild Hunt, blaming them for murdering their teacher and his family.
• Shira fought the disciples without using his Imperial Arms and left nearly all of them fallen.
• Enshin stopped a woman from killing herself, while Shira ordered the group stripped and beaten to death.
• Chen Fan spoke from the street and asked Wild Hunt how they wanted to die, startling Weiss and Linette watching from inside.
• Wild Hunt members each claimed they wanted to kill Chen Fan, and Shira recognized him.

Chen Fan confronted Shira and the Wild Hunt, rejecting Shira’s threat and declaring that he would kill them all. After overpowering Enshin’s Vacuum Slash, Chen Fan fought the group and wounded Izo, leaving the battle underway.

• Shira recognized Chen Fan as Esdeath’s lover, but Chen Fan said he did not need Esdeath’s protection and would kill the Wild Hunt.
• Enshin attacked Chen Fan with Vacuum Slashes from his Imperial Arms, but Chen Fan’s stronger slash shattered them.
• Izo blocked Chen Fan’s Vacuum Slash, while Shira ordered the Wild Hunt to attack together.
• Chen Fan vanished and appeared beside Enshin, but Izo intercepted his strike.
• Chen Fan redirected his blade around Izo’s defense and cut his arm.

Chen Fan fought Wild Hunt in the street, overpowering its members and nullifying Cosmia’s sound-based Imperial Arms. As the residents began to hope he could defeat Wild Hunt, the clown threw an Explosive Orb at him.

• Shira attacked Chen Fan from behind, but Chen Fan kicked him into a fruit stand.
• Chen Fan countered Enshin’s slashes and wounded Izo, overwhelming both in combat.
• Dottya and Enshin tried to ambush Chen Fan, but his Sword Domain struck them away.
• Cosmia used her sound-based Imperial Arms against Chen Fan, but he reflected the sound and remained unharmed.
• The residents, Weiss, and Linette watched as Chen Fan fought the injured Wild Hunt members without a wound.
• The clown threw a glass bead at Chen Fan and called it an Explosive Orb as Chen Fan cut at it.

Chen Fan survived Champ’s explosive Imperial Arms, wounded Enshin, and confronted Wild Hunt before Shira teleported the group away. Kurome, Ran, and Will arrived as Chen Fan recognized the Imperial Arms that had once transported him and Esdeath; Wild Hunt regrouped in the Imperial Palace, where Dottya offered to reattach Enshin’s arm.

• Champ’s explosive Imperial Arms detonated around Chen Fan, but he emerged unharmed.
• Chen Fan severed Enshin’s left arm and declared that Wild Hunt would face judgment for killing innocent people.
• Kurome, Ran, and Will arrived and assumed Chen Fan was fighting Wild Hunt.
• Shira activated Shangri-La and teleported Wild Hunt away before the Jaegers could intervene.
• Chen Fan recognized Shira’s teleportation formation as the one that had transported him and Esdeath to an isolated island.
• Wild Hunt appeared in the Imperial Palace, where Enshin vowed revenge and Dottya offered to reattach his arm.

Chen Fan drove off Wild Hunt and received the gratitude of the Imperial Capital’s residents and the Imperial Fist Temple disciples. Shira vowed to use the Empire’s power to take revenge, while the Jaegers learned why Chen Fan had fought Wild Hunt.

• Champ admitted that Chen Fan was too strong for him, while Shira vowed to make him pay and Dottya suspected Chen Fan had Danger Beast blood in him.
• Chen Fan sheathed his blade, and Ran stopped Will and Kurome from attacking him.
• The residents thanked Chen Fan for driving Wild Hunt away, and he warned that he would kill them if they returned.
• The Imperial Fist Temple disciples offered to serve Chen Fan, but he told them to leave the Imperial Capital to avoid retaliation.
• A bystander explained Wild Hunt’s actions to Ran, Will, and Kurome, leaving the Jaegers ashamed that they had failed to stop the group.
• Weiss and Linette wanted to speak with Chen Fan but felt annoyed when the three Jaegers gathered around him.

Chen Fan met Ran, Will, and Kurome in the Imperial Capital and discussed Night Raid’s plans and the Jaegers’ ties to the Empire’s abuses. Ran revealed his personal motive for opposing Wild Hunt and chose to help Chen Fan, leaving the group to join forces against them.

• Ran, Will, and Kurome met Chen Fan at a café and questioned why Night Raid had come to the Imperial Capital.
• Chen Fan said he opposed Wild Hunt’s abuse of innocent people, forcing Will and Kurome to confront their conflict between the law and morality.
• Ran said he would help Chen Fan kill Wild Hunt and explained that the Jaegers served Esdeath, who had helped the minister.
• Ran revealed that Wild Hunt’s fat clown had tortured and killed his students and that officials had covered up the crime.
• Chen Fan offered to take the blame for killing Wild Hunt, while Ran questioned whether the Empire would last long enough for him to rise through its ranks.
• The group recognized that the Jaegers could not deal with Wild Hunt because of their identities and that they could not defeat Chen Fan.

Ran agreed to lure Wild Hunt members out so Chen Fan could kill them, while Chen Fan explained why Esdeath would not punish the minister’s men. After several days of waiting and gathering intelligence, Ran prepared to draw some of Wild Hunt out that night, and the chapter ended inside the palace conference hall with the minister and Shira present.

• Chen Fan told Will and Kurome that Esdeath would likely let the minister’s influence protect Wild Hunt, and Ran realized his evidence against them would be useless.
• Ran agreed to lure Wild Hunt members out, and Chen Fan promised to kill them.
• Chen Fan returned to Night Raid and spent three days there while Wild Hunt stayed inside the palace and Ran shared intelligence with the Revolutionary Army.
• Ran built Wild Hunt’s trust and spread word that Chen Fan had disappeared, then planned to trick several members into leaving the palace that night.
• At night, the chapter shifted to the palace conference hall, where the minister ate at the head of the table and Shira stood behind him.

The Empire’s officials discussed the rebel threat until Great General Budo promised to defend the capital and threatened the minister, who openly defied him. Meanwhile, Ran visited Wild Hunt’s hideout to carry out his plan and told Cosmia he would join them if he could.

• The minister asked the Empire’s officials how to respond after the rebels took Anzhi Pass, and a military minister warned that the rebels possessed more than half of the Empire’s Imperial Arms.
• Shira suspected the minister remained calm because the Imperial Clan still had the Supreme Imperial Arm.
• Great General Budo arrived, reassured the officials that he would destroy any rebels who neared the capital, and warned the minister that he would eradicate the cause of the nation’s unrest.
• The minister smiled and challenged Budo, leaving the officials anticipating further upheaval in the Imperial Capital.
• Ran visited Wild Hunt’s hideout, where Cosmia asked him to become her boyfriend and he said he would if he could join Wild Hunt.
• Enshin complained about being confined at the hideout, and Cosmia teased him by suggesting he and Ran keep her company together.

Ran lured Cosmia, Enshin, and Champ out of the palace by promising them a circus, while concealing his plan. At the empty tent, Chen Fan appeared onstage and confronted them.

• Ran learned that the others were away at a meeting with Lord Shira and invited Cosmia, Enshin, and Champ to a circus performance.
• Ran claimed he wanted to join Wild Hunt and reassured Enshin that Chen Fan had not been seen for several days.
• Cosmia, Champ, and Enshin agreed to go with Ran, each eager for the people they expected to find at the circus.
• Ran led the three to the tent, where they found no performers and heard a familiar voice from the stage.
• Chen Fan appeared beneath the spotlights, shocking Cosmia, Enshin, and Champ.

Ran, Chen Fan, and Leone cornered three members of Wild Hunt and divided their opponents among themselves. Chen Fan faced Enshin, whose full-moon strength proved unable to match Chen Fan’s Slash Style.

• Ran and Chen Fan trapped the fleeing Wild Hunt members outside the tent, while Leone blocked their escape.
• Ran explained that he had joined forces with Night Raid to punish Wild Hunt, then claimed Champ as his opponent.
• Leone chose to fight Cosmia after she tried to seduce Chen Fan, leaving Enshin to Chen Fan.
• Enshin attacked with full-moon-enhanced Vacuum Slashes, but Chen Fan dodged them with Silent Step.
• Chen Fan unleashed Slash Style, and Enshin barely blocked it with a barrage of Vacuum Slashes.

Chen Fan confronted Enshin and defeated his Full Moon Wheel with Vector Manipulation. He revealed that he was punishing Wild Hunt for massacring a circus, then asked Enshin what he remembered about the slaughter.

• Chen Fan clashed blades with Enshin and mocked him for having his severed hand reattached.
• Enshin demanded to know why Chen Fan was attacking Wild Hunt, and Chen Fan said he simply disliked them.
• Enshin unleashed Full Moon Wheel, but Chen Fan stopped its Blade of Vacuum with Vector Manipulation and emerged unharmed.
• Chen Fan told Enshin that Wild Hunt had tortured and killed everyone in a circus, including its children.
• Enshin remembered the massacre and asked Chen Fan what his relationship was to the victims.

Chen Fan tortured and killed Enshin, then took his Imperial Arms, Blade of Vacuum, for the Revolutionary Army. He joined Leone's fight against Cosmia and advanced through her sound-wave attack, intent on killing her.

• Chen Fan severed Enshin's limbs while taunting him, then blocked Enshin's final Vacuum Slash and cut off his head.
• Chen Fan took Enshin's Imperial Arms, Blade of Vacuum, and decided to give it to Nadjeshda.
• Chen Fan found Leone struggling against Cosmia's sound-based attacks, which were especially painful to her heightened hearing.
• Chen Fan said Cosmia's seductive voice had no effect on him and walked toward her as she unleashed a powerful sound wave.

Chen Fan’s group finished their mission, and Ran returned to the palace under an alibi arranged with Chelsea. In the western Empire, Esdeath’s army received a flying-dragon courier, leaving its message unknown.

• Chen Fan killed Cosmia while Ran finished his fight with Champ the Clown, whose reflected attack set him ablaze and killed him.
• Ran thanked Chen Fan for helping him take revenge, and Chen Fan warned him to avoid actions that would betray their arrangement.
• Chen Fan explained to Leone that he spared Ran because Ran was intelligent and could prove useful to them.
• Chelsea, disguised as Ran, kept up his alibi in the Imperial Capital before switching places with the real Ran as he returned from the sky.
• In the western Empire, Esdeath, Seryu, and Boros were with the army when a flying dragon carrying a rider arrived overhead.

Esdeath received orders to return to the Imperial Capital, where she hoped to face Chen Fan again. Meanwhile, Shira reported his losses to the minister, who warned him against challenging Chen Fan and assigned Suzuka to him.

• Esdeath received an urgent order to return to the Imperial Capital and departed with Seryu and Boros.
• Shira learned that Enshin and Cosmia were dead and complained that their deaths had left him without useful subordinates.
• Shira confessed to the minister that Chen Fan had trapped him inside the palace, and the minister warned him not to confront Chen Fan directly.
• The minister introduced Suzuka as the sole surviving member of the Rakshasa Four Ghosts and gave him to Shira, who rejected him as Imperial Fist Temple trash.

Minister Honest ordered Shira to find a way to eliminate Chen Fan, while Night Raid prepared for a coming confrontation with the Empire. Nadjeshda left to deliver three Imperial Arms to the Revolutionary Army, and Chen Fan agreed to face Esdeath if necessary but refused to kill her or be used by the Revolutionary Army.

• Suzuka told Shira that Chen Fan was a Night Raid member with the bloodline of a Super Danger Beast, and Shira learned why Chen Fan had opposed him.
• Minister Honest tasked Shira with getting rid of Chen Fan and considered using Great General Budo to fight him, regardless of who died.
• Chen Fan trained with Akame at Night Raid's base while Nadjeshda prepared to take three Imperial Arms to the Revolutionary Army.
• Nadjeshda told Chen Fan that Esdeath had returned to the Imperial Capital and that the Revolutionary Army was seeking alliances ahead of a likely confrontation.
• Chen Fan said he could hold Esdeath back but would not kill her, and warned that he would destroy the Revolutionary Army if it tried to coerce Nadjeshda.

Chen Fan and the Revolutionary Army prepared for the coming decisive battle as Nadjeshda departed, while Esdeath returned to the Imperial Capital and learned about Wild Hunt’s crimes and Chen Fan’s presence. The Jaegers reacted angrily to the news that Chen Fan had come back to the city.

• Nadjeshda left on the Flying Bat after telling the Revolutionary Army to stay alert for the coming decisive battle.
• Leone teased Chen Fan about his interest in Esdeath, and he reassured her that he loved both women.
• Esdeath returned to the Imperial Capital, where Ran, Will, and Kurome welcomed her.
• Ran showed Esdeath evidence of Wild Hunt’s crimes and explained how the group had destabilized the Imperial Capital.
• Ran told Esdeath that the Jaegers had encountered Chen Fan, prompting Seryu to vow to kill him.

Esdeath learned that Chen Fan had returned to the Imperial Capital and heard how he and Ran had fought Wild Hunt together. She prepared to deal with Night Raid before the Imperial Guard departed for the southern rebels, then met with the Little Emperor and the minister.

• Ran told Esdeath how Chen Fan confronted Wild Hunt and joined him to kill three of its members.
• Esdeath forgave Ran for cooperating with Chen Fan but warned him that Night Raid remained the enemy.
• Esdeath explained that she had left troops in the west and planned to handle the southern rebels after addressing Night Raid.
• Esdeath dismissed Boros and Seryu, arranged dinner with the Jaegers, and postponed their plans against Night Raid until the next day.
• Esdeath visited the Little Emperor, gave her reward to her western subordinates, and then met the minister, who urged her to oppose Great General Budo.

Esdeath used Ran’s evidence of Shira’s crimes to pressure the Minister into disbanding Wild Hunt, while warning him not to interfere in her dealings with Chen Fan. After Wild Hunt reappeared, Chen Fan went to the Imperial Capital and confronted Shira and his team, beginning their battle with Izo blocking his attack.

• Esdeath gave the Minister evidence of Shira’s crimes and demanded that he disband Wild Hunt to protect her territory.
• The Minister asked about Chen Fan, and Esdeath said she would handle him herself while privately recognizing the Minister’s attempt to gain leverage.
• Chelsea reported that Wild Hunt had begun moving again, and Chen Fan set out for the Imperial Capital to kill them.
• Shira learned Chen Fan had arrived and led Izo, Dottya, and Suzuka to confront him as part of a plan to provoke a fight between Chen Fan and Esdeath.
• Chen Fan charged Shira and attacked him, but Izo intercepted the sword strike, breaking the stone beneath his feet as he barely held his ground.

Chen Fan fought Izo and the Rakshasa Four Ghosts, but Shira used his Imperial Arms to teleport him into the Imperial Palace. Shira revealed that he had lured Chen Fan there, where Great General Budo and General Esdeath could confront him.

• Izo challenged Chen Fan, who wounded him with a Finger Pistol and a sword strike.
• Suzuka restrained Chen Fan while Shira activated Shangri-La and transported them to the Imperial Palace.
• Dottya tried to drain Chen Fan's blood, but he used his vector manipulation to blast her and Suzuka away.
• Shira told Chen Fan that Wild Hunt had only meant to hold him back and that the palace's guards, Budo, and Esdeath would prevent his escape.