Chapter Summaries

Fu Qian and Su Gao watched a bizarre Leaf Island talent show hosted by An Jing Shizhi, and Fu Qian suspected its popularity and supernatural measuring device might be tied to the Native Council. The chapter left him wondering whether An Jing Shizhi had involved himself in something the Night Watchers should know about.

• Su Gao identified An Jing Shizhi, King of Leaf Island and founder of Yasui Company, as a guest judging the contestants on a strange variety show.
• Su Gao explained that An Jing Shizhi was Yasui Company's only Emperor and that he might have supported the Native Council to resolve his Hidden Danger.
• Fu Qian suspected the Native Council had arranged Yasui Company's charitable testing program as a condition for providing technical help.
• Su Gao explained that Leaf Islanders pursued infamy to gain attention, and Fu Qian wondered whether Kanna Kisaragi's behavior was connected to the trend.
• Fu Qian saw contestants use a crystalline boulder that measured their infamy and realized Yasui Company had helped turn the trend into a popular show.

Fu Qian and Su Gao took a train to see the supernatural entity called Elegy, while Fu Qian considered the Yasui Company’s influence and the purpose behind its activities. Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi approached them on the train, but Fu Qian used the Law Remnants to make the couple sit elsewhere.

• Fu Qian asked Su Gao where Elegy was, then suggested that Lady Violetta should go see it.
• Su Gao agreed to travel with Fu Qian, and they boarded a train while their followers kept their distance.
• Fu Qian told Su Gao that Captain Leigo had suggested using notoriety to break through the dimensional barrier.
• Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi approached Fu Qian and Su Gao, claiming they were also headed to see Elegy.
• Fu Qian activated the Law Remnants and made Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi move to another part of the carriage.

Fu Qian and Su Gao visited Wushe Temple to investigate its famous stone toad while keeping pressure on the Yasui Company. Kanna Kisaragi touched the toad and produced its loudest cry yet, then immediately looked to Fu Qian.

• Fu Qian agreed to go to Wushe Temple with Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi.
• At the temple, Fu Qian observed that only a small number of visitors made the stone toad sound, and none displayed a supernatural aura.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao declined to join the queue and watched Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi take their turns.
• Kanna Kisaragi pressed her hand against the Toad-faced, producing a piercing cry louder than any Fu Qian had heard.
• Kanna Kisaragi froze and looked toward Fu Qian.

Fu Qian and the others attended the Infamy Law gathering, where Kanna Kisaragi earned the title of Depth Four, Dark Fairy, while Takagi failed to earn a badge. As they prepared to leave, Su Gao sensed a hostile high-ranking Yasui Company figure watching them and steered the group away.

• Fu Qian praised Kanna Kisaragi, whose toad’s noise earned her the Infamy Law rank of Depth Four, Dark Fairy.
• The old abbot presented Kanna Kisaragi with an ornate badge, and the crowd cheered her achievement.
• Takagi tried the test but earned no badge, and Kanna Kisaragi comforted him while showing Fu Qian her award.
• Su Gao said she was uncomfortable with the crowd, and Fu Qian recognized that a hostile Yasui Company figure was watching them.
• Fu Qian agreed to leave with Su Gao, and Kanna Kisaragi joined them, joking that her sister might scold her.

Fu Qian and Su Gao escorted Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi from Wushe Temple while suspecting that an unseen force was manipulating events around them. After Kanna narrowly fell and Takagi caught her, a boulder rolled down the mountain and slashed Takagi's neck, leaving the group facing a possible attack.

• Fu Qian accepted Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi as companions rather than risk drawing attention by refusing them.
• As the group left Wushe Temple, Kanna Kisaragi lost her footing in the crowd, and Takagi caught and steadied her.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao both suspected that Kanna's fall was no coincidence and considered whether someone from the Yasui Company had intervened.
• Kanna Kisaragi wondered why her results had been so high, and Fu Qian suggested that she left a deep impression on people.
• A boulder rolled down the mountain, and Takagi dodged it but suffered a long cut on his neck.

Fu Qian and Su Gao accompanied Takagi to a clinic, where Takagi confronted Dr. Yamagata for staring at Kanna Kisaragi and later discovered that Yamagata was having a heart attack. Fu Qian suspected Takagi’s extraordinary good fortune had helped keep them delayed, and Su Gao grew displeased with whoever was drawing ordinary people into their supernatural troubles.

• Fu Qian agreed to accompany Takagi, Kanna Kisaragi, and Su Gao to a clinic after Takagi was injured.
• Dr. Yamagata treated Takagi while repeatedly staring at Kanna, and Takagi snapped the doctor’s glasses and threw them away.
• Takagi noticed Yamagata was unresponsive, recognized that he was likely having a heart attack, and alerted the clinic staff.
• Fu Qian concluded that Takagi’s good fortune might have shaped the incident and noted that he and Su Gao had been delayed for another twenty minutes.
• Su Gao agreed that the hidden person’s tricks could have become dangerous and showed displeasure at ordinary people being caught up in them.

Kanna Kisaragi gave Fu Qian her treasured badge as an apology, leaving Takagi devastated by her attention to another man. As the group reached the station, a passerby recognized Takagi, and Takagi's strained reaction to Kanna made Fu Qian suspect his luck was fading.

• Kanna Kisaragi handed Fu Qian the badge she had won at Wushe Temple and told him it mattered to her.
• Takagi struggled to hide his distress as Kanna Kisaragi praised Fu Qian and Su Gao ended the awkward exchange by saying they should leave.
• The four walked toward the station, with Kanna Kisaragi holding Takagi's arm while he forced himself to act as if nothing was wrong.
• A passerby recognized Takagi and teased him about his girlfriend.
• Takagi gripped Kanna Kisaragi's hand too tightly, then panicked and tried to kiss it after she scolded him.
• Fu Qian noticed Su Gao turning to look at him.

Fu Qian and Su Gao left Kanna Kisaragi and Takagi behind and pursued a hidden supernatural who was disrupting Su Gao’s work for Yasui. Fu Qian urged Su Gao to use her full strength as they searched through a crowded park.

• Fu Qian offered to accompany Su Gao, while Kanna Kisaragi left the station with Takagi after he defended her to his friend.
• Fu Qian reflected that Takagi’s will had been worn down by his feelings for Kanna Kisaragi and the supernatural influence surrounding him.
• Su Gao revealed that she had not forgotten anything and had used the excuse to signal that Yasui’s attempt to manipulate people around her needed a response.
• Su Gao and Fu Qian searched several locations for a hidden supernatural who kept moving through the crowds and evaded detection.
• Fu Qian told Su Gao not to hold back and encouraged her to use all the strength she could muster.

Fu Qian and Su Gao tracked down Takahashi Yae, a Yasui Company doctor who had been manipulating events around them. Takahashi revealed he was over three hundred years old, and Fu Qian challenged him for failing to become a demigod.

• Fu Qian urged Su Gao to pursue their hidden target at full speed, and she forced him to flee toward quieter streets.
• Fu Qian bought grilled rice cakes while Su Gao cornered the disguised Takahashi Yae beside a fountain.
• Takahashi introduced himself as a doctor of the Yasui Company and admitted he had been helping a young man troubled by love.
• Fu Qian questioned Takahashi about Wushe Temple and showed him Kanna Kisaragi's badge, unsettling the old doctor.
• Takahashi denied being in charge of the game, then said he had lived for more than three hundred years, prompting Fu Qian to ask why he was not a demigod.

Fu Qian pressed Takahashi Yae to explain his ability after Takahashi used it to bring misfortune down on him. Violetta attacked, and Su Gao defeated Takahashi’s escape technique, leaving him to explain that his power controlled the momentum of events toward an outcome.

• Takahashi Yae threatened Fu Qian and revealed that his ability could impose misfortune on him.
• Takahashi used his ability on Fu Qian, but Violetta launched a deadly attack that forced him to split into six shadows and flee.
• Su Gao picked up a broom and swung it like a sword, shattering Takahashi’s shadows and sending his true body into the fountain.
• Takahashi offered to undo the effect on Fu Qian, but Fu Qian refused and insisted that he answer questions first.
• Takahashi explained that his ability controlled the momentum pushing events toward a particular outcome.

Fu Qian questioned Takahashi Yae about his fate-based ability and his role in the Yasui Company, then examined the Infamy Law badge. Takahashi left after the exchange, while Fu Qian and Su Gao discussed the strange rules behind the badge.

• Fu Qian mocked Takahashi Yae’s luck, and Takahashi explained that he had joined the Yasui Company because it revealed possible paths toward demigodhood.
• Takahashi said he was not in charge of the Infamy Law project and refused to identify the person who was.
• Fu Qian thanked Takahashi for answering his questions and told him he could leave.
• Takahashi checked that Su Gao would not stop him, then departed.
• Fu Qian told Su Gao that the Infamy Law badge seemed to follow its own rules and that he wanted to meet its inventor.

Fu Qian and Su Gao visited retired Transcendent Delin after Hayami Suzune invited Su Gao to meet him. Delin welcomed Su Gao but ignored Fu Qian, and began reflecting on the dangers of his former life as Su Gao asked about the crisis that changed their lives.

• After a quiet night, Hayami Suzune visited Fu Qian and asked to see Su Gao.
• Hayami Suzune said Leigo wanted to know whether Su Gao was free to meet a retired Transcendent, and Fu Qian agreed to accompany her.
• Leigo drove Fu Qian and Su Gao to Delin's home near the Night Watcher's headquarters.
• Delin welcomed Su Gao but ignored Fu Qian, then invited the visitors to drink tea in the courtyard.
• Delin said he was grateful to have left his dangerous former life, and Su Gao asked when the crisis that changed their lives had happened.

Su Gao questioned Delin and Leigo about a crisis on Leaf Island thirteen years earlier, hoping to recover details tied to her lost memories. Fu Qian provoked Delin by asking about his daughter, then realized the visit might have been arranged to cast him as a dangerous Man-Demon and make Su Gao seem innocent.

• Su Gao asked Delin and Leigo about their crisis thirteen years earlier, but they refused to reveal its details because they had been ordered to keep them confidential.
• Delin said an incomprehensible being had helped them survive, though the Night Watchers never confirmed what happened afterward.
• When Delin asked Fu Qian if he had questions, Fu Qian asked about Delin's daughter, prompting Delin and Leigo to react with hostility.
• Fu Qian continued asking about the daughter's schooling, and Delin calmed down and returned to his seat.
• After Mrs. Delin left to warm the pastries, Fu Qian suspected Leigo and Delin had arranged the visit as a trap to portray him as a Man-Demon and Su Gao as an innocent young woman.

Delin hosted Leigo and the others while quietly weighing their plan to deal with Dancy Crawford. Their conversation about the Depth Four badge ended with Rebecca defending Fu Qian's right to enjoy it and arguing that more people were learning about the supernatural world.

• Mrs. Delin introduced Rebecca to the guests, while Delin watched Dancy Crawford warily.
• Delin reflected on agreeing to help Leigo deal with Dancy and explained why he had not killed him during their earlier meeting.
• Hayami Suzune asked Violetta whether she had gone out, and Su Gao said they had visited Wushe Temple.
• Fu Qian showed Leigo and the Night Watchers his Depth Four badge and teased them about breaking down the barrier between ordinary people and the supernatural world.
• Rebecca objected when Leigo dismissed the badge as a children's toy, saying it was fun and that more people were learning about it.

At the Delins’ tea gathering, Rebecca argued that knowing someone could be measured by depth, while Su Gao revealed that Mr. Dancy had saved her. After the gathering ended, Fu Qian and Su Gao walked home, and Fu Qian bought a mask as he prepared for what Carlos might do next.

• Rebecca argued that her idea of knowing someone was more interesting than supernatural powers, and Su Gao agreed that it could be quantified.
• Su Gao told the Delins that Mr. Dancy had saved her, undermining their plan to turn her against him.
• Fu Qian said goodbye to the Delins, and Hayami Suzune and Leigo worried that Su Gao trusted Dancy despite the coming conflict between Siren and An Jing.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao walked home while Fu Qian considered how Carlos and Takahashi Yae might respond to the events at Wushe Temple.
• Fu Qian bought a ghastly white mask that he planned to wear when greeting guests.

Fu Qian layered masks to conceal his identity and prepared for a potentially dangerous visit while Su Gao rested. Asao Sakura arrived instead of the mysterious expert he expected and cautiously questioned them about their contact with the Night Watchers.

• Fu Qian bought a plain white mask to conceal the recognizable Witch Mask beneath several layers.
• Fu Qian and Su Gao returned to their lodging, where he wore the layered masks and warned her not to rush into a fight if their visitors exposed them.
• Su Gao went upstairs to rest, and Asao Sakura arrived to visit Fu Qian.
• Asao Sakura asked whether Fu Qian had left Xidào and learned he had visited Wushe Temple and earned a badge.
• Asao Sakura asked about Fu Qian's contact with the Night Watchers, so he called Su Gao downstairs to answer her.

Asao Sakura tried to recruit Fu Qian and Su Gao to the Yasui Company, but Fu Qian unsettled her by revealing what he knew about the Kawasaki Family. He then realized Su Gao had been changing since Asao arrived, and sensed that a hidden threat had silently affected them both.

• Asao Sakura praised the Yasui Company and offered Violetta substantial exemptions as she tried to draw Fu Qian and Su Gao away from the Night Watchers.
• Fu Qian said they had visited Delin, then asked whether Asao feared the Yasui Company would suffer the Kawasaki Family's fate.
• Asao Sakura was shaken when Fu Qian described the Kawasaki Family's destruction and the survival of its distant branches.
• Su Gao remained composed despite becoming unusually still and inhuman in appearance, and Fu Qian realized the change had begun after Asao arrived.
• Fu Qian sensed extreme danger when he recognized that something had silently affected both him and Su Gao, despite their demigod senses.

Fu Qian suspected that An Jing Shizhi was secretly observing him and Su Gao, but could not confirm whether a divine envoy had concealed its presence or was simply ignoring him. As Asao Sakura continued discussing Yasui Company's promises, Su Gao asked what would count as a formal promise, and Fu Qian began to suspect Sakura had another purpose for coming.

• Fu Qian challenged Asao Sakura's authority to make promises and suggested that only someone like An Jing Shizhi could offer a credible commitment.
• Asao Sakura said she had not been told to escalate the matter to An Jing Shizhi, though higher-ranking Yasui Company officials might make promises if the two demigods were interested.
• Fu Qian deliberately called out An Jing Shizhi to test whether the suspected divine envoy was watching, but received no reaction and prepared to use False God Incarnation if necessary.
• Asao Sakura reassured Fu Qian that Yasui Company never broke its promises and tried to involve Su Gao in the discussion.
• Su Gao asked what would qualify as a formal promise from Yasui Company, while Fu Qian reconsidered why Asao Sakura had come and wondered if she had a separate purpose.

Fu Qian suspected that an unseen figure connected to the Native Council was using Asao Sakura to enter Su Gao’s perception, so he activated Clear Dream to expose it. The dream drew in Asao Sakura and Su Gao, and Fu Qian returned to find a woman beside them whom he believed was Emperor An Jing.

• Fu Qian connected the unseen presence to the Native Council’s concealment technique and suspected Asao Sakura was serving as its medium.
• Fu Qian left the living room to make tea while Asao Sakura remained with Su Gao and Violetta.
• In the tea room, Fu Qian activated Clear Dream and enveloped the building in his domain.
• Asao Sakura entered the dream immediately, and Su Gao stopped resisting after recalling Fu Qian’s warning.
• Fu Qian returned to the living room and saw a smiling woman beside Su Gao and Asao Sakura, whom he identified as Emperor An Jing.

Fu Qian investigated the unseen Divine Envoy during Su Gao and Asao Sakura’s tea ceremony and deduced that she existed in her targets’ minds rather than physically in the room. He suspected she had not possessed him because he was a man, but the reason remained uncertain.

• Fu Qian returned to the table and noticed that the Divine Envoy could see Su Gao and Asao Sakura, while she seemed to avoid looking directly at him.
• Fu Qian tested whether the Divine Envoy could observe something Su Gao could not see by removing his Witch Mask, and she showed no reaction.
• Fu Qian concluded that the Divine Envoy could only perceive what her host perceived and theorized that her possession existed purely in her targets’ minds.
• Asao Sakura finished the tea ceremony and served Fu Qian, while he wondered why the Divine Envoy had not possessed him.
• Fu Qian noticed the Divine Envoy glaring at him with disgust and suspected that she possessed only women.