Chapter Summaries

Amamiya Natsuki agreed to take Sayu with him on a late-night trip, but Kitagawa Marin arrived before Sayu could leave and offered to help him bathe. Sayu hid in the bathtub, leaving Natsuki sharing it with her while Marin washed his clothes and remained unaware.

• Sayu insisted on accompanying Amamiya Natsuki when he went to punish some wicked people, and he told her to meet him at eleven thirty.
• Sayu hid in the bathroom when Kitagawa Marin knocked, and Marin came in to check Natsuki's injured shoulder.
• Marin noticed that Natsuki's wound had not healed and insisted on washing his back, so he delayed her while Sayu hid in the bathtub.
• Marin washed Natsuki's back and then offered to wash his clothes, while Sayu remained concealed behind the bathtub curtain.
• Natsuki got into the tub with Sayu, and Marin finished washing his clothes and went back without discovering her.

Amamiya Natsuki took Sayu to confront Yamada by summoning the Human-faced Dog Yuzuki in the Theater. Yuzuki terrorized Yamada, while Sayu stopped her from killing anyone, and the group prepared to find their next target.

• Sayu joined Amamiya Natsuki on a nighttime bicycle ride to Yamada's house, where he planned to summon the Human-faced Dog for revenge.
• Amamiya Natsuki activated the Theater and brought Sayu and the supernatural beings into a dark-school setting, where Yuzuki recognized Sayu.
• Yuzuki saw Yamada and lunged at her, but Sayu followed to prevent her from killing the girl.
• While Yuzuki and Sayu were away, Amamiya Natsuki played Mahjong and fended off Mrs. Kaguya's flirtation and the Yandere girl's suspicions.
• Sayu returned and explained that Yamada confessed to bullying in front of her parents and neighbors; Yuzuki had also frightened her and vowed to torment her again.
• Amamiya Natsuki ended the Theater and said they would find their next target, and Yuzuki declared she would reluctantly accept him as her master.

Amamiya Natsuki and Sayu returned to the inn after punishing another girl who had committed a crime, and Sayu decided to stay in Hokkaido. On the Shinkansen back to Tokyo, Natsuki confessed his feelings to Kitagawa Marin, who accepted while asking him to confess properly later.

• Amamiya Natsuki and Sayu returned to the inn after Sayu declined to name anyone else who had mistreated her.
• Sayu told Kitagawa Marin and Amamiya Natsuki that she would stay in Hokkaido, then watched them leave for Tokyo.
• On the Shinkansen, Kitagawa Marin said Yuzuki's regrets made her want to speak honestly about her own feelings.
• Amamiya Natsuki told Kitagawa Marin he liked her and confessed that he also liked other girls, promising never to lie to her.
• Kitagawa Marin accepted Amamiya Natsuki's confession and agreed to go out with him, but asked him to make a proper confession later.

After returning to Tokyo, Amamiya Natsuki reunited with Miko and confessed that he liked her, but she refused his proposal to date him alongside his other girlfriends. At home, Shinomiya Kaguya confronted him about kissing Mrs. Kaguya, and the chapter ended with her reflecting on how much she had learned about sex.

• Amamiya Natsuki met Miko working at a convenience store and learned she had taken the job to help cover Forest School expenses.
• Amamiya Natsuki apologized for being away and invited Miko to dinner, then confessed that he liked her and asked her to date him.
• Miko rejected the idea of dating him together with the other girls, though she blushed when he continued flirting while she worked.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned home, where Mrs. Kaguya complained that he had called her Auntie the night before.
• Shinomiya Kaguya questioned Amamiya Natsuki about what he had done with Mrs. Kaguya, and he admitted that they had kissed.
• Shinomiya Kaguya considered how her sheltered upbringing had left her ignorant before she learned about sex from manga.

Amamiya Natsuki returned from Hokkaido and reunited with Shinomiya Kaguya, treating her bruised foot while they joked about marriage. Upstairs, Hayasaka Ai visited and tried on the Pure White Bride Skin Card, leaving Natsuki’s attempt to kiss her foot thwarted.

• Amamiya Natsuki greeted the Head Evil Spirit in the refrigerator and told Shinomiya Kaguya about his trip to Hokkaido while omitting parts of it.
• Amamiya Natsuki noticed Kaguya’s bruised foot, massaged it, and joked with her and Mrs. Kaguya about holding another wedding.
• Amamiya Natsuki went upstairs to charge the Lucky Coin and test whether his one-second Time stop could prevent bad luck.
• Hayasaka Ai visited Natsuki and asked to see Kaguya in a wedding outfit, so he showed her the Pure White Bride Skin Card.
• Amamiya Natsuki tried to kiss Hayasaka’s stocking-covered foot, but she pulled away and warned him to stay away while he was unlucky.
• Hayasaka Ai equipped the Pure White Bride Skin Card.

Amamiya Natsuki demonstrated his Time stop skill to Hayasaka Ai, then met Miko and drove off an evil spirit that had followed her home. He guided Miko through making a Witch's Potion, and Shinomiya Kaguya confirmed that her first attempt succeeded.

• Amamiya Natsuki used Time stop to catch a fly and explained how the skill worked to Hayasaka Ai.
• Hayasaka Ai left, and Amamiya Natsuki received messages from Sayu about gifts she had bought and a secret plan for next week.
• Amamiya Natsuki took the dog to the park and ran into Miko, driving away an evil spirit that followed her.
• Amamiya Natsuki offered to pay Miko three thousand yen for each game-certified Witch's Potion, and Miko agreed to try making one.
• Amamiya Natsuki guided Miko through potion-making, and Shinomiya Kaguya appraised the finished potion as a success.

Amamiya Natsuki spent the night playing Mahjong in the Theater Domain, where the Yandere Young Lady provoked Shinomiya Kaguya by claiming Natsuki as her husband. The next day at school, he discovered that Sayu had applied to transfer from Hokkaido and met Fujiwara Moeha and her friend Kohana at lunch.

• Miko left after the Witch's Potion job was settled, then returned at night and slept in the little maid's room while Amamiya Natsuki played Mahjong with the others.
• The Yandere Young Lady confronted Shinomiya Kaguya and claimed she could kiss her husband, then pinned Amamiya Natsuki down and kissed him in front of everyone at dawn.
• Amamiya Natsuki walked the dog with the Silly Young Lady, and the group headed to school after breakfast.
• Kashiwagi gave Amamiya Natsuki a transfer application, and he recognized the applicant in the photo as Sayu, who had gone to Hokkaido to arrange a transfer.
• At lunch, Fujiwara Moeha introduced Amamiya Natsuki to her friend Kohana, and Moeha shared his fried chicken with her friend.

Amamiya Natsuki investigated Kohana’s nightmares, used his fully charged coin to enhance Time stop to three seconds, and received a Witch inheritance that taught him a curse-purifying Mystical Pattern. He left school with Koyasu Tsubame to visit the hospital.

• Fujiwara Moeha told Amamiya Natsuki that Kohana and other students were dreaming about a mysterious woman, and Natsuki confirmed Kohana was not a player.
• Natsuki used Goddess of Fortune's Favor to make proxy pulls and successfully enhanced Time stop from one second to three seconds.
• Natsuki activated the Witch's Crystal Ball and inherited a method for drawing a Mystical Pattern that purified curses.
• Koyasu Tsubame invited Natsuki to the hospital, and the two took the train there together.

Amamiya Natsuki confessed to Koyasu Tsubame and officially asked Kitagawa Marin to date him, then received a message from Fujiwara Moeha describing a frightening nightmare. He reassured Moeha that it was probably just a dream, but left her worried about what repeated nightmares might mean.

• Amamiya Natsuki pasted the Healing Skill onto Mizuhara Chizuru, then confessed his feelings to Koyasu Tsubame, who realized she liked him too.
• Amamiya Natsuki met Kitagawa Marin and took her to the Skytree, where fireworks accompanied his request for her to officially date him; Marin kissed him in answer.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned home, checked Sayu's delivered gifts, and spent the night in the theater with Miss Sadako.
• Fujiwara Moeha told Amamiya Natsuki that she had dreamed of the woman Kohana had described and experienced sleep paralysis; he said nightmares were normal and suggested praying at a shrine if they continued.

Amamiya Natsuki investigated a shared nightmare affecting Fujiwara Moeha, Kohana, and many of their classmates. After finding that most students in Moeha’s class had experienced it, he and Fujiwara Chika began checking whether it had spread to other classrooms.

• Fujiwara Moeha told Amamiya Natsuki that many classmates had dark circles and had dreamed about the same woman.
• Amamiya Natsuki explained the situation to Fujiwara Chika, who grew worried when she heard Moeha and Kohana had shared the nightmare.
• At lunch, Kohana described being trapped in sleep paralysis as a woman approached her bed, and Moeha said at least half her class had the same nightmare.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Fujiwara Chika visited the junior high school section, where Chika and Moeha counted twenty-one affected students in a class of thirty.
• Fujiwara Moeha went to ask students in a neighboring classroom whether they had also experienced the nightmare.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others traced the class’s shared nightmare to Hinata, who had fallen into a coma and carried a curse aura. They decided to use a piece of Scurvy Orange to try to wake her, and entered her hospital room after Fujiwara Moeha distracted her mother.

• Amamiya Natsuki learned that Hinata had drawn the nightmare woman and was absent from school.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Fujiwara Chika, and Shinomiya Kaguya joined Fujiwara Moeha to visit Hinata in the hospital, where they found her unconscious.
• Amamiya Natsuki detected a curse aura around Hinata and realized he might be able to dispel it.
• The group chose to use a piece of Scurvy Orange and asked Fujiwara Moeha to get Hinata’s mother out of the room.
• Fujiwara Moeha led her mother away, and Amamiya Natsuki, Fujiwara Chika, and Shinomiya Kaguya entered Hinata’s private room.

Amamiya Natsuki, Shinomiya Kaguya, and Fujiwara Chika found a drawing of the Faceless Woman and received a Guard Mission to kill her after learning she had cursed Hinata. Unable to find clues at Hinata’s villa, Natsuki decided to use the Player Mutual Aid Group and big data to track down people connected to the supernatural threat.

• Hinata woke in the hospital, but she could not remember the Faceless Woman, so the group went to retrieve her schoolbag and drawing.
• Fujiwara Chika found the sketch, triggering a mandatory Guard Mission for the three to kill the Faceless Woman.
• Amamiya Natsuki reasoned that the Faceless Woman was an enemy of the Game and warned that Moeha might also be at risk after dreaming of her.
• The group searched Hinata’s empty villa but found no clues, and they concluded that Hinata’s memory loss had left them without a useful witness.
• Amamiya Natsuki said they should turn to science, opened the Player Mutual Aid Group, and began posting an announcement as Fujiwara Chika asked what he planned to do.

Amamiya Natsuki used a paid bounty to gather information about the Faceless Woman’s curse while Shinomiya Kaguya prepared a purifying potion. After the group made a bottle of purple liquid, Miko arrived with potions she had made and asked Natsuki to check their success rate.

• Amamiya Natsuki posted a bounty in the Player Mutual Aid Group to gather information about the supernatural threat, and he, Fujiwara Chika, and Shinomiya Kaguya went home after eating.
• Fujiwara Chika declined Natsuki’s offer to stay with Moeha, while Kaguya said the ordered potion ingredients had arrived and she would try to make a curse-purifying potion.
• Kitagawa Marin visited Natsuki’s home, admitted she had come because she missed her boyfriend, and clung to him in the bathroom.
• Amamiya Natsuki, Kitagawa Marin, and Shinomiya Kaguya made a purple potion, but Kaguya refused to test it after the silly dog exposed its belly.
• Miko arrived with potions she had made and asked Amamiya Natsuki to appraise their success rate.

Amamiya Natsuki went to the Fujiwara Family home to try purifying Kohana’s curse, using a blindfolded ritual arranged by Fujiwara Chika. The ritual kept failing when Kohana moved, and the chapter ended as Fujiwara Moeha asked to gossip while Natsuki continued drawing the pattern.

• Amamiya Natsuki appraised Miko’s Witch’s Potions, confirmed that eight had succeeded, and sold them for a profit.
• Fujiwara Chika called Amamiya Natsuki and asked him to help Kohana, whose curse was causing nightmares.
• Amamiya Natsuki secretly entered the Fujiwara Family home and joined Fujiwara Chika, Fujiwara Moeha, and blindfolded Kohana in a bedroom.
• Fujiwara Moeha misunderstood Chika’s instructions and removed her pajamas before Chika corrected her.
• Amamiya Natsuki began drawing a curse-purifying pattern on Kohana, but she moved and broke it before he could finish.
• Kohana tried to hold still for another attempt, while Fujiwara Moeha asked Fujiwara Chika to gossip.

Amamiya Natsuki purified the Nightmare Curse afflicting Kohana and Moeha, then shared an intimate moment with Chika. Chika reacted angrily to his plan to date several girls, and Natsuki revealed that Marin had already agreed.

• Moeha admitted that she liked Natsuki and said she and Kohana would pursue him if Chika did not like him.
• Natsuki purified Kohana’s Nightmare Curse, then removed Moeha’s curse as well.
• Chika fed Natsuki barley tea mouth-to-mouth after he insisted she repay his kindness.
• Natsuki told Chika that he liked her and wanted to date everyone together, prompting her to call him shameless.
• Natsuki revealed that Marin had agreed to his plan when he visited Hokkaido.

Amamiya Natsuki confessed to Fujiwara Chika, who did not accept him but let him promise to ask again. After investigating Hinata’s Nightmare Curse, Natsuki and the girls traced the eerie Faceless Woman to a mall Escape Room and prepared to confront it.

• Amamiya Natsuki told Fujiwara Chika about Yuzuki’s regrets and confessed; Chika refused to agree immediately, and he promised to ask again tomorrow.
• Amamiya Natsuki returned home, gathered his employees in the theater, and learned that none of them knew what was behind the game missions.
• Amamiya Natsuki received Chika’s message that Moeha and Kohana had awakened without nightmares, confirming that the curse had been cleansed.
• Shinomiya Kaguya examined Hinata’s records and, with the others, deduced that Hinata’s nightmares began after a likely encounter at the mall Escape Room.
• Fujiwara Chika decided the group should go to the Escape Room immediately and eliminate the apparition.

Amamiya Natsuki gathered the group at a shopping mall’s escape room to search for the eerie Faceless Woman, who had invaded reality. When their search turned up nothing, he proposed using the Pure White Bride skin to detect the Nightmare Curse, and Koyasu Tsubame wore it after winning rock-paper-scissors.

• Amamiya Natsuki persuaded Miko to take the day off and bring her Spirit Vision to help search for the Faceless Woman.
• Amamiya Natsuki and the others traveled to the shopping mall and entered the Shibuya Labyrinth Murder Case escape room.
• Miko, Human-faced Dog, and Miss Sadako failed to detect the eerie presence, while Young Lady Kaguya and Shinomiya Kaguya rapidly solved the room’s puzzles.
• Amamiya Natsuki suggested using the Pure White Bride skin to reveal the Nightmare Curse’s location, and Fujiwara Chika realized the Bride’s color could signal proximity to the eerie presence.
• Kitagawa Marin and Koyasu Tsubame played rock-paper-scissors, and Koyasu Tsubame equipped the Pure White Bride skin as Amamiya Natsuki took her photo.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others defeated the Faceless Woman and completed the Reality Guardian Mission. After leaving the escape room, the group decided to spend the rest of the day together.

• Koyasu Tsubame traced the Bride’s darkening dress to a Faceless Woman hidden beneath the bed frame, and the Yandere Young Lady smashed the bed but failed to destroy the creature.
• Amamiya Natsuki used Time stop to tear down and burn the poster the Faceless Woman had moved into, killing her and completing the mission.
• The group cleared the escape room, and Amamiya Natsuki sent Human-faced Dog Yuzuki and Miss Sadako back to the theater while Shinomiya Kaguya stopped the Yandere Young Lady from demanding a kiss.
• Amamiya Natsuki paid for the broken bed, and the group discussed how to spend their free day, with Fujiwara Chika suggesting ice cream, a movie, and shopping for summer clothes.

Amamiya Natsuki and the others divided the generous rewards from their mission at a dessert shop, keeping the rare Instance Exemption Card and assigning the two Skill Cards. Koyasu Tsubame learned Blow Bubbles and prepared to try it out while the group waited for their desserts.

• Amamiya Natsuki explained that only the person who got the final kill could claim mission rewards, and the group agreed to keep the valuable Instance Exemption Card for emergencies.
• The group discussed the Little Devil Maid Skin Card, and Amamiya Natsuki put it away after the girls teased him about wearing it.
• Amamiya Natsuki learned the Eloquent Tongue skill, while the group joked about its Cherry Knot active skill.
• The group gave the Blow Bubbles Skill Card to Koyasu Tsubame, who learned the scouting skill.
• Koyasu Tsubame agreed to test Blow Bubbles in the quiet dessert shop, and a bubble appeared with a pop.

Amamiya Natsuki and his friends celebrated defeating the Faceless Woman, watched a horror movie, and spent the day together. On the train to the hospital, Tsubame admitted she was upset that he had held hands with Chika, and he began to explain why he had barely eaten or drunk during the movie.

• Tsubame demonstrated her Blow Bubbles skill, and Amamiya Natsuki told the Mutual aid group to stay alert for future monster invasions.
• The group chose a horror movie, where Marin held Amamiya Natsuki's right hand and Chika then took his left hand.
• After the movie, the group went to barbecue and spent the afternoon shopping before splitting up in the evening.
• Amamiya Natsuki and Tsubame headed to the hospital together, and he noticed that she was unusually quiet.
• Tsubame acknowledged that she had seen Amamiya Natsuki holding hands with Chika and felt hurt, so he started to explain his lack of popcorn and soda.