Recaps

Fu Qian, posing as Dancy, refused the Anjing Group’s Miracle Potion but drew Sawada’s attention with his speed. After taking Kanna Kisaragi to her sister’s shop, he returned to his lodgings and let two hidden attackers inject him with a syringe so he could learn more about the potion project.

• Fu Qian refused Sawada’s invitation to take the Miracle Potion and caught Kanna Kisaragi when she stumbled.
• Fu Qian learned the next test was tomorrow night and took Kanna Kisaragi to her sister’s fortune-telling shop instead of her home.
• Fu Qian told Kanna Kisaragi’s sister that she needed to attend the Miracle Potion test the following day.
• Fu Qian questioned why the Warehouse had assigned him to keep the Anjing Group from learning whether the potion worked.
• Fu Qian returned to his lodgings, sensed two people hiding behind the door, and let one inject him with a syringe.

Fu Qian let Sawada and an accomplice capture him, then woke restrained in a room where they tried to question him about the Miracle Potion. After Sawada interrupted his partner, Fu Qian broke free and tore off the man’s head.

• Fu Qian pretended to be knocked out after Sawada and a stranger injected him with an anesthetic and stuffed him into a bag.
• Fu Qian woke restrained in a white room and recognized Sawada’s partner by his voice.
• A man wearing a turkey mask tried to question Fu Qian, who guessed the captors were connected to Anjing Group and the Miracle Potion.
• Sawada interrupted from behind a one-way mirror and told his partner to ask the questions.
• Fu Qian snapped the turkey-masked man’s neck, then tore off his head.

Fu Qian confronted Sawada after killing his masked partner and deduced that Sawada had acted independently to capture and test him. Sawada was trapped by the consequences of his gamble, and Fu Qian offered to discuss Supernatural Power despite declaring Sawada doomed.

• Fu Qian waited for Sawada beside the dead turkey-headed man, and Sawada returned to the room.
• Sawada threatened Fu Qian with the Anjing Group and the electric chair, while Fu Qian revealed they were in a special corporate hospital.
• Fu Qian reasoned that Sawada had planned the operation on his own after spotting him at Anjing Building and deciding to study him.
• Sawada admitted the plan was his own and claimed he had only wanted Fu Qian to cooperate with tests.
• Fu Qian argued Sawada would be in serious trouble if Fu Qian were ordinary, then declared Sawada doomed and said he had become interested in Supernatural Power.

After awakening to strange new strength, Fu Qian persuaded Sawada to turn the incident into a controlled potion-testing case that could secure Anjing Group’s protection from the Night Watchers. Sawada obtained a list of potions, and Fu Qian found the entry for Wriggling-7.

• Fu Qian showed Sawada that his wound had rapidly healed and demonstrated strength approaching that of a formal Transcendent.
• Fu Qian proposed that Sawada report his transformation as an unusual but controlled test result and request Anjing Group’s protection from the Night Watchers.
• Sawada doubted Fu Qian’s motives, but Fu Qian argued that Anjing would prefer an unexpected result produced under its own control.
• Sawada agreed to arrange further testing, but Fu Qian demanded to choose his own potion from a complete list.
• Sawada returned with confidential potion documents, and Fu Qian found the entry for Wriggling-7, listed under HAP0032-667.

Fu Qian investigated Kanna Kisaragi’s drug trials and arranged to use the same drug while maintaining his cover as Dancy Crawford. He returned to the fortune-teller’s cottage to find Kanna in a tense standoff with her father, then left with her.

• Fu Qian questioned Sawada about the drug assignments and learned that numbered versions were distributed at random and often produced unexpected effects.
• Fu Qian found Kanna Kisaragi’s file and learned she had used Wriggle-7, while Sawada warned him to wait until the company abandoned her before acting on his interest in her.
• Sawada suggested Fu Qian choose Wriggle-7 and explain that he wanted to test whether the same drug would produce special effects; Fu Qian agreed.
• Fu Qian examined Dancy Crawford’s file and told Sawada that he had killed the real Dancy and was impersonating him, which Sawada accepted as a useful cover story.
• Fu Qian returned to the fortune-teller’s cottage and found Kanna Kisaragi facing her furious father, Mr. Kisaragi, who had a hidden knife.
• Kanna Kisaragi came out, greeted Fu Qian, and asked him to leave with her while her father looked away.

Fu Qian accompanied Kanna Kisaragi to Anjing Building, where he claimed he had changed his mind about taking the Miracle Potion. After Sawada approved his request, Fu Qian was brought in for review, and the potion was placed before him.

• Kanna Kisaragi told Fu Qian that her father had found her naked in her sister's arms, and said her sister had grown unusually close to her in recent years.
• At Anjing Building, Sawada greeted Kanna Kisaragi, but Fu Qian asked to enter with her and said he wanted to accept the potion after all.
• Sawada took Fu Qian through the building and left him waiting while he reported Fu Qian's case for review.
• Sawada returned with a staff member carrying the Miracle Potion and told Fu Qian to control his breathing and drink it within ten seconds.

Fu Qian drank Yasui Company's Crawling-7 potion but felt no effect, reinforcing his plan to have the formula dismissed as a failure. After returning home to observe events, he was attacked at dinner by Ms. Suzune.

• Fu Qian examined and drank the potion, sensing a brief trace of supernatural energy but no lasting effect.
• Fu Qian questioned why the supposedly failed formula had resurrected Kanna Kisaragi and concluded the mission had a deeper purpose.
• Fu Qian told Sawada he felt no change and warned him to record the test results honestly, intending to keep Yasui Company from pursuing the formula.
• Fu Qian found that Kanna Kisaragi had already left, then returned home rather than pursuing her.
• Ms. Suzune burst into Fu Qian's home and pinned his hand to the dining table with a dagger as he calmly offered her pasta.

Hayami Suzune confronted Fu Qian over Kisaragi Iken’s murder, but Fu Qian denied killing him and persuaded her that Kanna Kisaragi might be the culprit. He left Suzune with two suspects, one of whom had taken the Miracle Potion.

• Hayami Suzune accused Fu Qian of killing Kisaragi Iken and taking his liver, then admitted she had come intending to kill him on impulse.
• Fu Qian asked Suzune to turn off her recorder, denied the murder, and challenged her to consider whether she had wanted an excuse to kill him.
• Fu Qian told Suzune that Kanna Kisaragi had killed her father and pointed out that Kanna had eaten something suspicious the previous day.
• Fu Qian suggested a missing student from a nearby school had been the food Kanna ate, and Suzune retched after realizing Fu Qian meant himself.
• Suzune refused to accept Fu Qian’s claim without proof, while he reminded her that Kanna had taken the Miracle Potion and fell within her responsibilities.

Fu Qian accompanied Hayami Suzune to investigate Kisaragi Iken’s murder and offered a bizarre reconstruction of the crime. Kanna Kisaragi and her older sister arrived at the scene as Fu Qian continued his performance.

• Fu Qian told Hayami Suzune she could find remains outside, and she ordered him to bandage his wound and come with her.
• Hayami Suzune drove Fu Qian to the Kisaragi family estate, where officers had secured the murder scene.
• Fu Qian examined Kisaragi Iken’s body and concluded that the killer was inexperienced with a blade and knew the house well.
• Fu Qian theatrically described the killer’s movements, prompting an officer to praise his supposed empathy.
• Kanna Kisaragi and her older sister arrived, and Fu Qian suggested that Kisaragi Iken had endured the attack without fighting back against the person who wielded the blade.

Fu Qian revealed that Kisaragi Iken had taken his own life, then questioned the female diviner about her relationship with Kanna and why she had told their father about Kanna’s dangerous connection to him. The diviner defended her father’s choice and described Kanna as being like a wax figure.

• After Fu Qian implied Kanna Kisaragi was responsible for the death, her older sister left the scene with her, and Hayami Suzune took Kanna aside to question her.
• Fu Qian declined to ride with Hayami and Kanna, then took the female diviner home by taxi.
• At the diviner’s cottage, Fu Qian asked what she thought of Kanna and told her he knew Kisaragi Iken had killed himself.
• The female diviner said Kanna had spoken about Fu Qian to show off, not out of malice, and Fu Qian asked why she had told their father about Kanna’s involvement with him.
• The female diviner said her father had been a father who acted out of helplessness, and suggested Kanna was like a wax figure.

Chie Kisaragi told Fu Qian how Kanna had become an empty shell driven by desire and begged him not to destroy her, even if she was already beyond saving. Fu Qian questioned whether Kanna might possess a talent for cultivation, leaving Chie to consider an explanation the Yasui Company's tests could not have detected.

• Chie Kisaragi described Kanna's growing charm and how she came to feel that her sister was an empty shell.
• Chie explained that Kisaragi Iken had struggled to reach Kanna and apologized for the trouble he had caused Fu Qian.
• Chie begged Fu Qian not to hurt Kanna, and Fu Qian agreed not to destroy her.
• Chie realized Fu Qian might have deliberately misled Ms. Ayane and that his words could have referred to Kisaragi Iken instead of Kanna.
• Fu Qian suggested Kanna might have a transcendent talent gained through cultivation, which ordinary tests might not detect.

Fu Qian investigated Kanna Kisaragi’s possible cultivation aptitude and arranged to observe her through the Yasui Company. Hayami Suzune arrived after Kanna was cleared, claiming she had come to accept Fu Qian’s dinner invitation.

• Fu Qian speculated that Kanna Kisaragi’s cultivation talent might explain her unusual response to the mutation potion and decided to observe her rather than risk swallowing her.
• Fu Qian gave Chie Kisaragi a folded-paper heart with an invitation for Kanna to have dinner after her test.
• Sawada confronted Fu Qian about Kisaragi Iken’s death, and Fu Qian assured him that the plan remained under control.
• Hayami Suzune came to Fu Qian after Kanna Kisaragi was proven innocent and said the case had been handed over to the police.
• Hayami Suzune showed Fu Qian the unfolded and refolded paper heart and said she had come to accept his dinner invitation.

Hayami Suzune confronted Fu Qian over his plans for Kanna Kisaragi, then attacked him after he served her a bowl of creature brains. Fu Qian dodged her supernatural strike, revealing that he was a Supernatural, and Suzune realized she could have tried to stop him long ago.

• Hayami Suzune accused Fu Qian of targeting Kanna Kisaragi and said she would stop him once the test ended.
• Fu Qian told Hayami Suzune that Kanna wanted his attention, while Suzune declared that she would not let him harm her.
• Hayami Suzune threatened Fu Qian with her dagger, but he went to the kitchen and returned wearing a turkey-head mask with a bowl of soup.
• Hayami Suzune found creature brains in the soup, and Fu Qian said they tasted better after they had time to settle.
• Hayami Suzune attacked Fu Qian, but he dodged her strike with supernatural speed.
• Hayami Suzune realized Fu Qian was a Supernatural and regretted not having tried to eliminate him earlier.

Hayami Suzune discovered that Fu Qian was a supernatural cannibal and pursued him into a hidden underground passage. After they injured each other in a trap-filled chamber, Suzune’s talisman seemed to cut Fu Qian apart, but his body parts moved on their own, leading her to suspect the scene was a mental interference.

• Hayami Suzune attacked Fu Qian after realizing he was a supernatural being, but he fled through a secret passage.
• Hayami Suzune followed Fu Qian into a chamber where he used hidden needles coated with anesthetic to numb her body.
• Hayami Suzune used a precious talisman to slice Fu Qian into pieces, despite her worsening paralysis.
• Fu Qian’s severed body parts crawled and scattered, and Hayami Suzune realized she might be experiencing mental interference.

Hayami Suzune tested whether the underground horror was an illusion and found signs that the world around her was unreal. She returned to Fu Qian’s dining room, resisted his attempt to tempt her with brain soup, and looked for a way to escape the nightmare.

• Hayami Suzune calmed herself, checked where the fleeing head had gone, and found no blood or creature there.
• Hayami Suzune saw a mutilated corpse on a stone platform, concluded she was under mental interference, and retraced her steps with her dagger.
• Hayami Suzune returned to the living room and stabbed Fu Qian’s hand before sitting at the table.
• Fu Qian urged Hayami Suzune to drink the steaming brain soup, and she shouted him down after feeling an urge to taste it.
• Hayami Suzune noticed the table lacked a mark from her earlier stabbing and decided the surrounding world was likely a nightmare she needed to escape.

Trapped in Fu Qian’s Clear Dream, Hayami Suzune tried repeatedly to escape but was sent to different places in the dream. When she considered killing herself to end it, Fu Qian distracted her with soup, and she began drinking it.

• Hayami Suzune left Fu Qian’s room but found herself back in the underground chamber, then reappeared in a bedroom and returned to the living room.
• Hayami Suzune smashed the living room windows and jumped through them, but each escape attempt sent her somewhere else in Clear Dream.
• After repeated failed attempts, Hayami Suzune confronted Fu Qian and threatened to cut her own throat.
• Fu Qian questioned whether she wanted to die without eating, and Hayami Suzune hesitated as hunger overwhelmed her.
• Fu Qian served Hayami Suzune a bowl of soup, and she greedily drank it.

Hayami Suzune escaped Fu Qian’s hallucination, found Kanna Kisaragi safe, and took her away from Anjing Building. Fu Qian regenerated and concluded that his plan had protected Kanna while misleading both the Night Watchers and Yasui Group.

• Hayami Suzune realized the soup contained mushrooms, then recognized that the fog and her apparent ordeal had been a hallucination.
• Hayami Suzune removed the turkey mask and found an unfamiliar man beneath it, then suspected Yasui Company was involved.
• Hayami Suzune hurried to Anjing Building, confirmed Kanna Kisaragi was safe, and offered to take her back to her sister’s.
• Fu Qian regenerated his head and decided the Night Watchers and Yasui Group would believe Hayami Suzune had killed Kunio.
• Fu Qian began his secret observation plan for Kanna Kisaragi, codenamed “Beauty 9527.”

Fu Qian completed the Man-Demon task, received a strange elixir that could enable an ascension ritual, and wondered whether it was connected to Kanna Kisaragi’s condition. After returning to his shop, he was summoned by Wen Li’s father, apparently to discuss his marriage to Miss Wen.

• Sawada arrived at the bloodied living room, found a nearly empty bowl and a sharp blade, and realized the situation was serious.
• Fu Qian received the task evaluation, learned he had killed Dancy Crawford and Kunio, and gained 21 Sanity Value and the Deception Ritual Elixir.
• Fu Qian inspected the elixir, which could let an Intermediate Tier or lower transcendent perform an ascension ritual from another path.
• A steward summoned Fu Qian to see Old Master Wen, who wanted to discuss Fu Qian’s marriage to Miss Wen.

Fu Qian met Wen Li’s father, Wen Xiuxian, and aunt, Zhuang Xinyu, after they summoned him to learn about his relationship with Wen Li. Wen Li explained that her family had become frighteningly obsessive, and Fu Qian confirmed that something was wrong with them.

• The butler told Fu Qian that Wen Xiuxian had summoned him, and Fu Qian agreed to go to Wen Li’s home.
• Fu Qian met Wen Xiuxian and Zhuang Xinyu, who asked about his relationship with Wen Li and her plans.
• Fu Qian asked Wen Xiuxian how much he would pay him to stop seeing Wen Li, startling him.
• Zhuang Xinyu introduced herself as Wen Li’s aunt and said Wen Li’s mother had died young.
• Wen Li told Fu Qian that her father and aunt had become obsessively focused on certain things, and Fu Qian said he believed something was wrong with them.

Fu Qian investigated Wen Li’s family’s unusual pressure to marry her and discovered that her parents reacted far more strongly than normal when he challenged their plans. He suspected the diary in the Warehouse could help uncover the cause, but the chapter ended before he read it.

• Wen Li told Fu Qian that her father and aunt had become stubborn about arranging her marriage and that her abilities could not keep them calm for long.
• Fu Qian examined Wen Li’s supernatural earring, which her father had given her, but found no obvious problem with it.
• Wen Li asked Fu Qian to help keep her parents’ emotions in check, and he agreed to cooperate at lunch.
• Fu Qian asked the Wen family how much a live-in son-in-law earned, prompting Wen Xiuxian to slam the table and Zhuang Xinyu to drop her smile.
• Fu Qian stormed out, removed his mask in a secluded spot, and took a black-covered notebook from the Warehouse to investigate the predicament.

At Fu Qian’s bookstore, Wen Li used the Gulad family’s Abyss Notebook to test whether her account of recent events was true, and discovered that the claim she had no one she liked vanished from the page. Fu Qian put a Sweet Dream Head Cage on her to block outside influence, then asked to inspect her earring and said he would perform a magic trick.

• Wen Li visited Fu Qian at the bookstore and explained that her family was worked up, then asked whether he had found the problem.
• Fu Qian gave Wen Li the Abyss Notebook and explained that false statements written in it disappeared.
• Wen Li repeatedly wrote about her recent experiences, and the sentence claiming she had no plans to marry and already liked someone vanished.
• Fu Qian had Wen Li wear the Sweet Dream Head Cage, which blocked gazes and quieted her emotions.
• Fu Qian asked Wen Li to remove her earring and told her he would perform a magic trick.

Fu Qian swallowed Wen Li’s earring and followed the sorrowful voice it revealed into a strange vision of an ancient library. There he found a sobbing woman named Liliana, who feared she was nearly out of time and did not want to keep doing missions.

• Fu Qian swallowed Wen Li’s earring and sensed a faint, sorrowful melody as its effects took hold.
• Fu Qian’s consciousness entered a ruined ancient library, where a voice said the place was safe and begged not to be left unheard.
• Fu Qian climbed toward the sobbing voice and felt his existence waver when he touched one of the drifting lights.
• Fu Qian found a pale, emaciated woman covered in vivid patches of color, who said her name was Liliana.
• Liliana sobbed that only a little remained and that she did not want to keep doing missions.

Fu Qian met Liliana, a demigod-level former worker whose words carried powerful mental effects, and traced Wen Li’s sudden marriage pressure to an object connected to Liliana. As Liliana insisted that he listen and remember her name, Fu Qian resisted the urge to identify himself as her.

• Fu Qian approached the weeping Liliana and recognized her as a powerful, possibly former warehouse worker.
• Liliana screamed that she would not work anymore and wanted to go home and get married, while her voice covered Fu Qian in iridescent glass and planted the same urge in him.
• Fu Qian asked Liliana about her hometown, but she demanded that he listen to her voice and not leave her alone.
• Fu Qian connected Liliana’s influence to Wen Li’s recent marriage pressure, reasoning that the swallowed earring had carried Liliana’s emotions to Wen Li.
• Liliana declared her name, and Fu Qian struggled to reject the mental assault and keep from believing that his name was Liliana.

Fu Qian fought Liliana’s shattered consciousness in a strange realm, destroyed her shadow, and returned with a mirrored polygonal plate in place of Wen Li’s earring. Wen Li then learned her father and aunt were doing better, while Fu Qian dismissed her family’s troubles as ordinary anxiety.

• Liliana’s mental assault affected Fu Qian, but his pep talk briefly calmed her and helped her speak more clearly.
• Liliana tried to transform into a physical body and possess Fu Qian, revealing that only a few obsessions remained of her shattered consciousness.
• Fu Qian unleashed black-and-red tendrils, destroyed Liliana’s shadow, and damaged part of the ancient building as unseen gazes pressed in on him.
• Fu Qian returned to Wen Li with a smooth, mirrored polygonal plate where the earring had been.
• Wen Li received a call saying her father and aunt had gone swimming together and seemed in better spirits, and Fu Qian told her it was ordinary anxiety.

Wen Li learned that a demigod’s resentment had influenced her family and received the shard Fu Qian recovered after dealing with Liliana. The next morning, Fu Qian returned to the Warehouse and encountered a new containment breach: Clamor, Code 1-339.

• Wen Li realized her own will had affected her family’s behavior and asked Fu Qian whether the earring had caused it.
• Fu Qian explained that a demigod had used the earring to locate Wen Li and send her resentment, then said the matter had been dealt with.
• Fu Qian gave Wen Li the strange shard connected to Liliana, and she accepted it despite the unsettling reflection it showed.
• Wen Li removed the Sweet Dream Head Cage and discovered she could sense that Fu Qian’s emotions were unstable.
• Wen Li stayed at the bookstore until dark, then left after carefully organizing its bookshelves.
• The next morning, Fu Qian entered the Warehouse and received a containment breach alert for Clamor, Code 1-339.