Recaps

Cup Snake visited Bronya’s restaurant to thank her and Zhao Bai for the extraordinary events of the previous night. She explained that she wanted to record and interview people, and the chapter ended as Bronya brought Zhao Bai out to meet her.

• Cup Snake arrived at the restaurant after asking Theresa where Zhao Bai usually was.
• Bronya recognized Cup Snake from the previous night and watched her warily as Cup Snake introduced herself.
• Cup Snake described herself as a recorder and thanked Bronya and Zhao Bai for drawing her into extraordinary events.
• Cup Snake said she wanted to interview everyone, starting with the restaurant’s owner and proprietress.
• Bronya dragged a bewildered Zhao Bai out of the kitchen, and he greeted Cup Snake.

Cup Snake approached Zhao Bai to write a biography about him and his wife, claiming she would stalk him if he refused. Zhao Bai agreed to her terms and confronted Theresa for revealing information about him.

• Cup Snake asked Zhao Bai whether he was the strongest person in the world, and he readily agreed before objecting to her exaggerated descriptions.
• Cup Snake told Zhao Bai and his wife that she wanted to write a biography and explained that Theresa had told her about his many encounters with monsters and extraordinary events.
• Zhao Bai stormed over to Theresa and complained that Cup Snake had threatened to stalk him if he refused to cooperate.
• Theresa asked whether Zhao Bai had agreed, and he said he had because he feared Cup Snake might catch him during a bathroom visit.

Theresa felt guilty because she could not remember what she had told a novelist the previous night, while Bronya explained her behavior to Zhao Bai. Zhao Bai and Bronya then discussed whether to bring an observer on their missions and checked the school forum to see how much attention the novelist had attracted.

• Theresa denied telling the novelist anything important, then took back the Xuanyuan Sword and shut herself in her room.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai that Theresa was guilty because she had forgotten what she said the previous night.
• Bronya suggested that Zhao Bai bring the novelist along on missions, but Zhao Bai objected that it would make their time together awkward.
• Bronya proposed treating the novelist as someone writing Zhao Bai’s biography, and Zhao Bai rejected the idea.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya browsed the school forum and found that the new student novelist had caused a bigger stir than expected.

Zhao Bai read school gossip about Cup Snake and his rumored relationship with Bronya, then discussed food and payment with Cup Snake over a meal. He recorded Cup Snake’s unpaid bill in a ledger and insisted that he cooked for enjoyment, not distrust.

• Zhao Bai read school gossip about Cup Snake and Heavy Cannon Rabbit, then closed the laptop when it embarrassed him.
• Cup Snake praised Zhao Bai’s meal and asked to put the cost on his tab until she earned money from publishing a book.
• Zhao Bai wrote Cup Snake’s debt in a small notebook because he could not find a way to make her pay.
• Zhao Bai said he cooked because he enjoyed it, and Cup Snake asked whether his notebook was a journal.

Cup Snake became fascinated by Rosaliya and Liliya’s beastification and began interviewing them at Zhao Bai’s shop. Rosaliya could not remember how she became beastified, so she turned to Liliya for the story.

• Cup Snake briefly examined Zhao Bai’s notebook, then explained that she would publish her novel once she had written enough.
• Rosaliya and Liliya visited Zhao Bai’s shop during summer break, and he scolded Rosaliya for failing most of her classes.
• Cup Snake observed the sisters’ beastification traits and eagerly asked to interview them.
• Rosaliya mistook Cup Snake’s interest for fandom and happily agreed to an interview, while Zhao Bai worried about what was coming.
• Cup Snake asked how the sisters had become beastified, and Rosaliya admitted she had forgotten before asking Liliya to explain.

Cup Snake tried to uncover the story behind Rosaliya and Liliya, but their simple idol ambitions left her baffled. After Cup Snake left, Zhao Bai asked Rosaliya to keep a woman occupied during missions.

• Cup Snake questioned Liliya about why she and Rosaliya had become monster girls, and Liliya said they had wanted to become idols.
• Rosaliya tried to continue telling Cup Snake how the Vodka Girls became idols, but Cup Snake gave up recording their story and left.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai that Rosaliya and Liliya had accidentally thwarted Cup Snake's scheming, and Zhao Bai agreed.
• Cup Snake decided she disliked the Vodka Girls and would avoid them while living at St. Freya.
• Zhao Bai asked Rosaliya to help keep a woman occupied when he and Bronya went on missions, and Rosaliya readily agreed.

Rosaliya agreed to help with Zhao Bai and Bronya's mission despite Liliya's reminder that she had failed classes. Otto approved Zhao Bai's expanded team against regulations and planned to assign them a new mission, leaving Amber to wonder about his intentions.

• Rosaliya accepted the responsibility enthusiastically, while Liliya complained and reminded her about her failed classes.
• Liliya tried to endure Rosaliya's hug but grew more annoyed and tired.
• Amber reported Zhao Bai's updated mission roster to Otto.
• Otto laughed at the roster, which included Bronya Zaychik, Rosaliya Alin, Liliya Alin, and Cup Snake.
• Otto approved the oversized team and said he would immediately assign it a new mission.

Zhao Bai received a message from Otto, who renewed his offer for Zhao Bai to inherit the Archbishop position and threatened him with more missions after he refused. The chapter ended with Zhao Bai and Bronya joking about his attraction to domineering CEO-style romance.

• Zhao Bai saw Otto had secretly added him back and exchanged emoticons with him.
• Otto invited Zhao Bai to come to Europe and inherit his Archbishop position, but Zhao Bai refused.
• Otto said he would send Zhao Bai more missions and approved his application to expand his team.
• Zhao Bai tried to delete Otto's contact, but the delete button had been disabled.
• Bronya teased Zhao Bai about domineering CEO-style romance, and Zhao Bai explained that he liked it because the person he liked was both a domineering CEO and a loli.

Zhao Bai and his teammates received a strange long-term mission, and Bronya studied its report while the others prepared for what lay ahead. The chapter ended by introducing Si Ren, a Chamberlain Gang member who received a strength-enhancing reagent after Chamberlain warned him that someone was trying to sow distrust among the gang.

• Zhao Bai and his teammates received a long-term mission from headquarters, with A-rank Zhao Bai leading the team.
• Cup Snake recorded her observations and anticipated traveling to the first mission site with an expert.
• Rosaliya celebrated the mission but quietly tucked Liliya’s tail under her blanket as Liliya slept.
• Bronya studied the mission report and found the assignment strange.
• Si Ren received a two-milligram strength-enhancing reagent from the Chamberlain Gang.
• Chamberlain told Si Ren that someone had leaked the reagent to stir suspicion and promised to prevent the gang from turning against itself.

Si Ren used a mutation serum to raid a gang’s train shipment, but a bald, bone-mutating guard killed him. Bronya investigated the crushed corpse and wondered how widespread genetic mutation had become.

• Si Ren injected the serum, transformed his arm into a bone blade, and approached the guards at the train.
• Si Ren killed two guards with a sudden attack, then faced the bald man in a suit.
• The bald man revealed bone hammers of his own and crushed Si Ren’s head.
• Bronya examined Si Ren’s corpse and questioned whether a stronger mutant had killed him and how many others could mutate.

Zhao Bai and Bronya left on a mission aboard a Gulfstream jet, while Theresa tearfully saw them off. After they departed, Theresa and Fu Hua fought over who would claim the child Xuanyuan Sword.

• With three extra passengers joining them, Zhao Bai and Bronya abandoned the motorcycle and boarded a Gulfstream jet for their mission.
• Theresa tearfully waved Zhao Bai goodbye, while Bronya judged her too foolish to be a threat.
• After the jet took off, Theresa tried to recruit Xuanyuan Sword to play games with her.
• Fu Hua appeared holding Xuanyuan Sword and dodged Theresa's attempts to take her back.
• Theresa and Fu Hua loudly argued over who was Xuanyuan Sword's parent, drawing curious looks from people around campus.

Zhao Bai and the others landed in a city where mutants lived, while Cup Snake kept her distance and Rosaliya eagerly tried to continue telling her idol story. Zhao Bai whispered a warning to Bronya about the two nonhuman girls drawing attention as they walked through the city.

• On the plane, Rosaliya begged Cup Snake to interview her about her idol journey, while Bronya held Zhao Bai back from reacting to the commotion.
• The group landed and left through a private passage, with a heavy artillery mech protecting one girl and the other two carrying large boxes.
• Liliya woke up in the unfamiliar place and Rosaliya excitedly tried to retell her idol story to Cup Snake.
• Cup Snake retreated from Rosaliya and watched the group from behind.
• Zhao Bai whispered to Bronya that two genuine nonhuman girls walking through a city with mutants could draw attention.

Zhao Bai and Bronya settled in with Rosaliya, Liliya, and Cup Snake before splitting up to scout the city. Zhao Bai wandered into an exposed area of newly built high-rises, where a strange premonition left him expecting something to happen.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya joked about being kidnapped and settled into the hotel with Rosaliya, Liliya, and Cup Snake.
• Liliya kept Rosaliya from engaging with the suspicious crowd while Cup Snake recorded their reactions.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya split up to scout the surrounding area.
• Zhao Bai walked alone toward a newly built neighborhood and sensed that something was about to happen.

Zhao Bai survived an assassination attempt by slicing bone bullets out of the air, while Cup Snake secretly witnessed his swordsmanship and followed him. He reached the shooter’s building and began climbing its glass wall.

• A hidden shooter fired at Zhao Bai’s lower back, but Zhao Bai turned and split the bullet in two with his blade.
• The shooter sent seventy-six eerie white bone bullets at Zhao Bai, and Zhao Bai cut through every one as he ran toward the building.
• Cup Snake emerged from her hiding place, admired the bullet fragments and Zhao Bai’s swordsmanship, then followed him.
• Zhao Bai reached the building and climbed straight up its steep glass curtain wall.

Zhao Bai found the gunman dead from exhausting his own body, disposed of the corpse, and returned to the hotel with Cup Snake. With the trail ending at the dead man, he discussed the situation with strategist Bronya.

• Zhao Bai entered the building and found a gunman whose body had collapsed after he fired bones from his body as bullets.
• Zhao Bai found a green scarf, burned the gunman’s corpse with Crimson Cherry Blossom, and scattered the ashes in a bathtub.
• Zhao Bai met Cup Snake downstairs and corrected her exaggerated account of his supposed victory.
• Zhao Bai took Cup Snake back to the hotel, scolded her for following him, and sent her to her room.
• With the trail ending at the dead gunman, Zhao Bai went to discuss the matter with strategist Bronya.

Bronya investigated the Chamberlain Gang’s dead marksman and concluded that the city’s factions and mutation paths made the situation dangerous. Meanwhile, Chamberlain’s gang discussed the missing sniper and considered luring the two girls seen at the airport with benefits.

• Bronya identified the dark green face covering as the Chamberlain Gang’s signature and questioned Zhao Bai about the dead man.
• Zhao Bai described the corpse’s gun-barrel-shaped growth of muscle and bone, which had an optical targeting organ.
• Bronya reviewed the city’s factions and suspected that a drug might be causing genetic mutations.
• Chamberlain mourned the loss of his finest marksman and urged his gang to keep seeking opportunities.
• A gang member suggested enticing the two girls with benefits instead of seizing them by force, and Chamberlain agreed.

Zhao Bai’s investigation into the assassins stalled, so the group considered using Rosaliya and Liliya as bait. After spotting an Idol Selection Competition, Rosaliya leaped from the hotel to head there.

• Zhao Bai said the investigation had reached a dead end because the assassins blended into ordinary crowds.
• Zhao Bai and the others discussed using the twins as bait, while Heavy Cannon Rabbit searched the city’s surveillance cameras.
• Cup Snake examined the neatly cut remains and marveled at Zhao Bai’s precise swordsmanship.
• Rosaliya spotted a banner for an Idol Selection Competition below the hotel.
• Liliya realized Rosaliya had jumped from the thirtieth floor and was heading downstairs with her greatsword.

Liliya and Rosaliya arrived at a supposed idol selection site, where they discovered a kidnapping scheme disguised as an agency. Rosaliya defeated the recruiter in an arm-wrestling match and dislocated his wrist.

• Liliya jumped from a building, stumbled after Zhao Bai called to her, and crashed to the ground, where Rosaliya helped her up.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya recognized the situation as a Rosaliya trap and silently formed a plan to use the twins as bait.
• Rosaliya found a crude stage and watched a suspicious van flee as she and Liliya arrived.
• The recruiter claimed that aspiring idols had to win an arm-wrestling match to join his agency.
• Rosaliya forced the recruiter’s hand down and dislocated his wrist.

Rosaliya and Liliya were taken to a suspicious warehouse by Qing Ye, who tried to incapacitate them with sleeping gas. Liliya woke when Rosaliya shook her, leaving Qing Ye’s plan in trouble.

• Rosaliya rode with Qing Ye’s men to a warehouse, mistaking a captive’s screams for a signal to sing.
• Qing Ye left the twins in a room and ordered his subordinates to pump sleeping gas through the ventilation fan.
• Rosaliya remained unaffected by the gas while Liliya fell asleep on her own.
• Rosaliya shook Liliya awake, and Qing Ye realized the sleeping gas had not worked.

Bronya and Zhao Bai discovered that Qing Ye had reported the captured Dragon Girls to Chamberlain. Two directors arrived to collect Rosaliya and Liliya, leaving Zhao Bai watching as the girls prepared to get into their car.

• Bronya and Zhao Bai surveyed the warehouse and wondered whether Rosaliya and Liliya had already defeated the gang.
• Bronya intercepted Qing Ye's call to Chamberlain, in which Qing Ye claimed Blue Square had captured two Dragon Girls.
• Chamberlain sent two directors in an emerald sports car to retrieve the girls.
• Qing Ye waited outside the warehouse while the hypnotic gas left his companions unconscious.
• Rosaliya volunteered for herself and Liliya when the directors arrived and beckoned them into the car.

Qing Ye waited for his companions to wake and thanked an unseen power for its help, while Cup Snake used the Grey Scavengers’ machines to observe the city. After Chamberlain called about the Dragon Girls killing seven Potion Warriors, Qing Ye offered his loyalty in exchange for control of Blue Square once his brother died.

• Qing Ye tied his blue bandana back on, treated his sprained wrist, and thanked a rumored great existence for lending him power.
• Cup Snake recorded activity in a room and realized the Grey Scavengers had approached it, giving it access to machines that watched the city.
• Qing Ye received a call from Chamberlain, who asked how the Dragon Girls had killed seven Potion Warriors at their concert.
• Qing Ye told Chamberlain that the Dragon Girls’ guardian had confronted him and that he had revealed the potions came from a ruined pharmaceutical factory in Sky City.
• Qing Ye offered Chamberlain his loyalty once his brother died and he took control of the organization, but Chamberlain ended the call with a sneer.

Chamberlain asked Zhao Bai to help assassinate Qingshan, the leader of Blue Square and a complete genetic mutant. Zhao Bai questioned the plan but left the conversation aware that Chamberlain was serious about recruiting him.

• After his call, Chamberlain asked Zhao Bai how he had done as an emissary of Destiny.
• Zhao Bai asked whether Chamberlain intended to carry out an assassination, and Chamberlain explained that modern equipment made old-fashioned shootings unnecessary.
• Chamberlain said he treated the drugs and the bio-modified humans they created as weapons, while Qingshan had injected himself with the drug on the first day.
• Zhao Bai noted that Qingshan seemed to have changed completely and asked how Chamberlain planned to deal with him as a genetic mutant.
• Chamberlain indicated that he wanted Zhao Bai to carry out the assassination, and Zhao Bai protested before asking whether Chamberlain was serious.
• Chamberlain nodded, confirming that he was serious.

Zhao Bai agreed to inspect Qing Ye after Chamberlain urged him to see the young man for himself, then left while warning Chamberlain not to flee. The next morning, Qing Ye rode with his monstrous big brother to the chapel and endured the creature’s scrutiny.

• Zhao Bai agreed to meet Qing Ye and rejected Chamberlain’s operation schedule so it would not influence his judgment.
• Zhao Bai left with Bronya and the twin girls, then asked Bronya whether his assassin act had seemed convincing.
• Bronya criticized Zhao Bai for talking too much, while Rosaliya praised his performance and continued to believe they were auditioning for a movie.
• Zhao Bai called out to Cup Snake from the bushes.
• The next morning, Qing Ye accompanied his big brother to the chapel and saw him examining him like food.

Zhao Bai interrupted the lizardman before he could eat Qing Ye and killed him with a swift strike. He discovered Qing Ye had concealed a healthy hand and pistol inside his cast.

• The lizardman told Qing Ye that his untainted flesh seemed like succulent lamb and began to realize Qing Ye had wanted him to do something.
• Zhao Bai heard the conversation and approached as the sports car stopped.
• The lizardman got out to confront Zhao Bai, who killed him with a swift blade strike.
• Qing Ye greeted Zhao Bai with relief, and Zhao Bai noticed a healthy hand holding a pistol inside Qing Ye’s cast.

Zhao Bai confronted Qing Ye and demanded the gene mutation drugs, while Cup Snake warned that Qing Ye was hiding dangerous ambitions. At the memorial service for Qing Ye’s brother, the gathering remained silent until someone finally spoke.

• Zhao Bai demanded that Qing Ye hand over every gene mutation drug and threatened to return if mutants appeared again.
• Qing Ye ordered his driver to take him away and told him to notify the cadres about the memorial service.
• Zhao Bai found Cup Snake hiding in the bushes, and she warned that Qing Ye was ambitious and had concealed a pistol inside his cast.
• Cup Snake told Zhao Bai that Qing Ye secretly hated mutants and was preparing for a major move.
• At the memorial service, attendees prayed in silence until someone broke it.