Recaps

Evil Mouth and Love Resentment learned that Leader Suffering Disaster would return to Blue Star the next day and establish a Calamity branch there. Unable to find a suitable base in time, they prepared the abandoned Church of Birth Headquarters for the leaders’ arrival.

• Evil Mouth received Deception’s message that the leaders were returning to Blue Star because conquering the greater world would take time.
• Evil Mouth told Love Resentment that Leader Suffering Disaster would lead the returning team, and Love Resentment worried about where they would stay.
• Evil Mouth suggested taking over the Church of Birth’s abandoned overseas Headquarters, and Love Resentment agreed it could serve as a branch.
• Love Resentment hired workers to renovate the Headquarters overnight while his Weird removed the statue of the Mother of Birth.

Shen Yu assembled Disaster’s remaining members and brought Suffering Disaster, Illness, Covetous Attachment, and Sloth to Blue Star. Suffering Disaster approved of Love Resentment’s work, while foreign factions grew terrified after people connected to the Church of Birth died or rapidly aged.

• Shen Yu completed Disaster’s roster but kept some Character Cards and linked characters inactive, dispatching only part of the group.
• Suffering Disaster arrived on Blue Star with Illness, Covetous Attachment, Sloth, and dozens of ordinary members, where Love Resentment welcomed them in a convoy of luxury cars.
• Love Resentment and Covetous Attachment exchanged polite barbs on the ride, and Love Resentment reflected on how he, Evil Mouth, and Deception had built up their influence despite being sent away from the main assignment.
• Suffering Disaster inspected the former Church of Birth headquarters and praised Love Resentment and his companions for their work.
• Foreign powers learned that people closely associated with the Church of Birth had died or rapidly aged, and their leaders feared the faction and regretted trusting its promises.

As the Blue Star Alliance formed under Yi Gui Company’s influence, Suffering Disaster’s Calamity Organization abandoned plans to expand on Blue Star and turned toward the Horror Game’s Dungeons to find a headquarters. While searching abroad, Covetous Attachment witnessed the Eagle Kingdom’s widespread suffering and sensed a hostile gaze.

• The Blue Star Alliance was established on May 7, 2025, and several countries joined Yi Gui Company in exchange for weapons and Contract Anomalist support.
• Suffering Disaster and Disease recognized that Yi Gui Company had blocked Calamity’s expansion on Blue Star, so Suffering Disaster ordered them to investigate Dungeons and suitable worlds.
• Love Resentment and Evil Mouth led Covetous Attachment, Sloth, and other members through foreign countries, clearing low-level Dungeons as they searched.
• In the Eagle Kingdom, Covetous Attachment saw people suffering from Weird contamination and reflected on humanity’s persistent disasters and pain.
• Covetous Attachment sensed a malicious gaze on a street, looked toward its source, and saw only pedestrians.

Covetous Attachment searched the area for the watcher, while Xia Bo returned home and used his skin-like diary to write a death for Rod Gekeli. After realizing the two men he had seen carried the aura of a Weird, Xia Bo lay frightened that his killings might be discovered.

• Covetous Attachment crossed the street to search for the person watching him but found no one, while Sloth waited outside the shop.
• A man in a gray hat emerged from the shop and worried that the Contract Anomalists might ruin his plans.
• Xia Bo finished his milk deliveries, went home, and watched reports of accidental deaths with pleasure.
• Xia Bo wrote in his diary that Rod Gekeli would die after a lawn mower sent glass into his neck, then admired the entry.
• Xia Bo remembered seeing two people with the aura of a Weird and feared they might uncover his actions.

Xia Bo feared that the Contract Anomalists investigating a nearby death would discover his diary, which made his written curses come true. After they found no supernatural evidence at the scene, he rushed home and considered using the diary against them despite not knowing their names.

• Xia Bo recalled how the diary had made his supervisor and other people he resented suffer misfortune, and he worried that Contract Anomalists might be searching for him.
• Xia Bo passed Covetous Attachment and Sloth while delivering milk, and Covetous Attachment sensed a malicious gaze but failed to identify him.
• Covetous Attachment found blood in the Gekeli family's backyard and used Sloth's ability to learn that the homeowner had supposedly died in an accident.
• Covetous Attachment found no strange aura at the scene, then sensed the familiar malicious gaze again as Xia Bo drove past.
• Xia Bo panicked about the investigation, hurried home after his shift, and opened the diary to consider what to write about the two Anomalists.

Covetous Attachment and Sloth searched for a Dungeon while Xia Bo weighed how to kill them without attracting suspicion. Just as the two prepared to leave the city, a Dungeon opened near Xia Bo’s house.

• Covetous Attachment escaped the police and met Sloth, who learned about the destruction he had caused during the chase.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth heard that Love Resentment, Evil Mouth, and the others had found no suitable Dungeons, while Sloth searched the city at a leisurely pace.
• Xia Bo watched Sloth and considered ways to kill the two Contract Anomalists, but hesitated over how to make their deaths look accidental.
• The next day, Sloth and Covetous Attachment read that two gangs had died after accidentally detonating a bomb during a conflict.
• As Sloth and Covetous Attachment prepared to leave, the city’s Weird energy surged, and they followed it to Xia Bo’s house.

Covetous Attachment and Sloth entered Xia Bo’s home expecting to find a Dungeon, but discovered only a powerful anomaly. Xia Bo fed live pets to the diary, whose skin-like cover came alive and killed them, leaving him terrified as it began to grow stronger.

• Covetous Attachment and Sloth broke into Xia Bo’s courtyard but found no Dungeon notification or change in their surroundings.
• Covetous Attachment ignored Sloth’s suggestion to leave and went inside to confront the anomaly.
• Xia Bo learned that fresh blood and flesh could strengthen the diary enough to make its deadly accidents affect Contract Anomalists.
• Xia Bo bought live pets and brought them to the diary, hoping to gain power and eliminate the two Contract Anomalists.
• The diary’s human-skin-like cover peeled away, flowed into the cages, and wrapped around the pets until their cries fell silent.

Xia Bo used the evolved diary to trigger a backlash from the anomaly inside Covetous Attachment, who lost control of his body after entering Xia Bo’s house. Sloth fought the Weird possessing Covetous Attachment and suspected that an abnormal energy fluctuation in the city had caused the backlash.

• Xia Bo watched the diary’s human-skin cover devour the caged animals, then hid upstairs when Covetous Attachment and Sloth broke into his house.
• Xia Bo wrote a story in the diary that made Covetous Attachment and Sloth suffer anomaly backlash and die together.
• Covetous Attachment entered the house, where the anomaly inside him grew agitated and seized control of his body.
• Sloth rushed in and saw Covetous Attachment’s body transforming as the Weird took over.
• Sloth used his Ghost Domain to attack the Weird and tried to keep it from devouring Covetous Attachment’s consciousness.
• Sloth recalled the abnormal energy fluctuation and concluded that something in the city had triggered the backlash.

Xia Bo’s diary-driven scheme caused Covetous Attachment and Sloth to lose control and fight each other in a crowded neighborhood. As the battle threatened to end in mutual destruction, Shen Yu learned of their condition and decided to send the Disease Character Card.

• Sloth noticed Xia Bo upstairs, but the Faceless Anomaly escaped his control and took over his body, just as another Weird entity controlled Covetous Attachment.
• The two possessed men fought their way out of Xia Bo’s house, and Xia Bo celebrated as events followed his diary.
• Shen Yu received a system warning that Covetous Attachment and Sloth had lost control, checked their status, and decided to send the Disease Character Card.
• The pair mutated and continued fighting, damaging nearby homes as residents fled and police established a cordon.
• Onlookers and local police watched the battle while the two Weirds fought on, apparently driven toward mutual destruction.

Two Contract Anomalists fought uncontrollably while Xia Bo watched, expecting the destruction to damage their public standing. As strange black snow began falling and energy readings surged, the police ordered everyone to take shelter.

• Police chiefs and bystanders feared the fighting Contract Anomalists had lost control as their battle damaged buildings and injured people.
• Covetous Attachment struggled to regain control while Sloth realized they might die from their anomalies’ backlash.
• Xia Bo watched the battle and laughed, pleased that it would tarnish Contract Anomalists’ reputation.
• Black, snowflake-sized objects began falling from the sky, and the energy detector readings rapidly soared.
• A police chief ordered the crowd to evacuate into shelter and warned everyone not to touch the unknown substance.

Disease arrived after black substance spread across the battlefield, infecting Xia Bo and the people nearby. He took the diary page bearing Covetous Attachment and Sloth, while the two Contract Anomalists regained control and realized Disease had intervened.

• Black substance fell like snow, causing people who touched it to sneeze and flee the battlefield.
• Xia Bo became severely ill despite hiding at home, then heard someone climbing the stairs toward him.
• Disease introduced himself as one of Disaster's five top officers, took Xia Bo's diary, and burned the page bearing Covetous Attachment and Sloth.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth regained control of their bodies and began suppressing their mutations.
• Sloth recognized the black substance as a sign of Disease, and Covetous Attachment identified it as Disease Transmission.

Disease took Xia Bo’s diary after defeating him and left him alive, but Xia Bo’s diseases continued to worsen. Disease then rescued Covetous Attachment and Sloth, revealed that the diary had caused their trouble, and said he had planted dozens of diseases in Xia Bo.

• Xia Bo begged Disease to spare him, and Disease took the diary and left him alive.
• Xia Bo realized his illnesses remained, vomited blood, and called emergency services after his medicine failed.
• Disease noticed the police chiefs watching from afar, unlocked Seed of Plague, and drove Covetous Attachment and Sloth away in a borrowed car.
• Disease gave Covetous Attachment the human-skin diary, and Covetous Attachment and Sloth realized it had caused the weird entities inside them to lose control.
• Disease told Covetous Attachment and Sloth that he had planted dozens of diseases in Xia Bo, and they accepted his decision.

Covetous Attachment tested the diary by writing that they would encounter a dangerous anomaly, and Disease stopped the car to punish him for the reckless entry. Meanwhile, online accusations blamed Contract Anomalists for a disaster in the Eagle Kingdom, leaving the rookies confused about who had caused it.

• Covetous Attachment wrote in Xia Bo's diary that they would encounter an anomaly leading to a dangerous, high-level dungeon.
• Disease pulled over and punched Covetous Attachment after realizing the diary might make the entry come true while they were injured.
• Disease noticed several cars following them, and Covetous Attachment and Sloth speculated that police chiefs wanted an explanation for the disturbance.
• People online accused Contract Anomalists of losing control and endangering hundreds of ordinary people in the Eagle Kingdom.
• The rookie Contract Anomalists searched their chat groups for the culprits, but none of them admitted involvement, and they wondered whether the newest rookies were responsible.

Ji Wu investigated a foreign incident in which two Contract Anomalists had fought and injured hundreds, while the Anomaly Containment Association scrambled to identify them. As the Eagle Kingdom demanded answers and compensation, the Association found that Bai Zuo and Skywing A were missing and suspected they had fought.

• Ji Wu saw reports of two Contract Anomalists losing control in the Eagle Kingdom and feared the incident involved Bai Zuo.
• Ji Wu questioned the Association and investigated the reports, but no one could identify the two Anomalists.
• The Anomaly Containment Association searched for the missing Bai Zuo and Skywing A and suspected they had fought each other.
• Shen Yu knew the Association was in an uproar but let it continue without intervening.
• The Eagle Kingdom authorities demanded an explanation and compensation from the Anomaly Containment Association for the injured people and damaged property.
• The Association's representative learned that the incident also involved a Contract Anomalist using an ability against an ordinary person, who remained severely harmed.

Wu and Bo investigated a mass illness in the Eagle Kingdom and examined Xia Bo, who had been cursed with numerous diseases. Wu’s divination found that the attack had nothing to do with the Anomaly Containment Association, leaving the officials without the compensation they expected.

• After thousands of people developed brief symptoms from black substances falling from the sky, the Eagle Kingdom reported that Xia Bo had suffered severe, persistent illnesses.
• The Anomaly Containment Association sent Wu and Bo to investigate because its other powerful Contract Anomalists were unavailable.
• Bo saw dense black Weird energy clinging to Xia Bo and concluded that someone had deliberately attacked ordinary people in violation of the Humanity Code.
• Wu used a crystal ball to divine the source of the disease while the official grew frightened by the spreading black mist.
• Wu declared that the incident had nothing to do with the Anomaly Containment Association.

Wu and Bo refused to take responsibility for the illnesses and damage caused by the group in the Eagle Kingdom, then left while Xia Bo begged them for help. Yi Gui Company denied the Anomaly Containment Association's liability and clarified that the culprits were Anomaly Tamers, not Contract Anomalists, leaving the public debating the difference.

• Wu used the crystal ball to confirm that Weird abilities caused Xia Bo's illnesses but said the culprit was not a Contract Anomalist from the Anomaly Containment Association.
• Xia Bo offered information about the group in exchange for being saved, but Bo and Wu refused to help and left the isolation ward.
• Wu's Character Perfection increased, unlocking the Witch Doctor (Perfect) skill and knowledge of herbal formulas.
• Wu and Bo departed from the Eagle Kingdom, while an official threatened to punish Xia Bo and cut off his painkillers.
• Yi Gui Company announced that the Anomaly Containment Association was not responsible because the people who lost control were Anomaly Tamers, not Contract Anomalists.
• People questioned what Anomaly Tamers were, and some speculated that they forcibly suppressed and tamed Weirds rather than contracting with them.

Ji Wu confirmed that the Eagle Kingdom incident had not involved Bai Zuo or Skywing A, then joined other supervisors discussing the Anomaly Tamers’ loss of control. Fang Yi linked the incident to Disaster and revealed that its cadre Disease, an SS-class figure, was behind it.

• Ji Wu reviewed reports that the Eagle Kingdom incident was caused by Anomaly Tamers and that most people affected had only suffered temporary symptoms.
• Ji Wu worried about Bai Zuo’s whereabouts and reflected on the difficult responsibilities supervisors had toward the Contract Anomalists they oversaw.
• Ji Wu joined Zhang San, Yu Ba, and Fang Yi, who were discussing recent incidents of Anomaly Tamers losing control.
• Fang Yi said Wu’s divination had revealed the word “Disease” while investigating the Eagle Kingdom incident.
• Fang Yi explained that Disease was one of Disaster’s five great cadres, spread pathogens, and was an SS-class threat marked by black, fluffy matter.

Fang Yi and Ji Wu discussed Calamity’s growing threat and Ji Wu’s decision to remain Bai Zuo’s Supervisor for now. Meanwhile, Disease and his companions found the hospital where Xia Bo was being interrogated, while Xia Bo concealed the diary.

• Fang Yi warned Yu Ba, Zhang San, and Ji Wu that Calamity’s executive on Blue Star could signal a threat, and Zhang San and Yu Ba left to resume their duties.
• Fang Yi learned Ji Wu had declined a Tribunal position because he did not want a change in supervision to affect Bai Zuo’s progress.
• Disease, Covetous Attachment, and Sloth sensed an eerie aura near a private hospital and Disease recognized the curse he had left on someone inside.
• Eagle Kingdom interrogators stopped Xia Bo’s medication and forced him to reveal that the people involved were Disasters.
• Xia Bo withheld information about the diary because he feared that revealing it would get him killed.

Xia Bo was killed in the hospital by Skinner, whose brutal method left the police suspecting an experienced killer or an anomalous incident. Covetous Attachment and Sloth followed Skinner out of the city, where Skinner attacked them as they stopped near a forest.

• Skinner entered Xia Bo’s ward and dragged him off the bed with an iron hook.
• The police found Xia Bo skinned and dead, and a forensic examiner concluded the skin had been removed while he was alive without damaging the flesh beneath.
• The police chiefs considered whether the killing was an anomalous incident and decided to report it to the Investigation Bureau.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth followed Skinner from the hospital, hoping it would lead them to a dungeon.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth stopped at the edge of a forest, and an iron hook shot toward Covetous Attachment’s face.

Covetous Attachment, Sloth, and Disease entered the S-Rank Dungeon Kro's Artwork after tracking a Weird through the forest. Sloth discovered that the diary he carried counted as one of Kro's artworks, and he and Disease headed toward a manor to collect more.

• Covetous Attachment dodged the Skinner's hook, then chased it into the forest with Sloth and Disease.
• Covetous Attachment triggered Kro's Artwork and was separated from Sloth and Disease by the Dungeon's fog.
• Sloth and Disease entered the Dungeon and learned that the diary Sloth carried fulfilled the normal clear condition.
• Disease told Sloth to collect all the artworks, which might be Anomaly Artifacts.
• Sloth and Disease followed the Weird energy through the fog to a manor, passing a skinless corpse made of exposed flesh.

Covetous Attachment entered Baron Mobiya’s manor and discovered that its murals traced the master’s artistic development from bright early works to a disturbing final painting that stirred the Weird inside him. Sloth and Disease arrived, and the companions were guided toward the banquet without revealing their suspicions.

• An old butler welcomed Covetous Attachment into the manor and identified the murals as works by his master, Baron Mobiya, whom Covetous Attachment called Kro.
• Covetous Attachment accepted the butler’s assumption that he was Kro’s friend and examined the murals as their style grew darker and more oppressive.
• The final mural disturbed Covetous Attachment and roused the Weird within him, so he forced himself to look away while the butler praised it.
• Sloth and Disease arrived, recognized Covetous Attachment, and refrained from discussing the mural in front of the butler.
• The butler led the three companions toward the banquet, which was due to begin in an hour.

Covetous Attachment, Sloth, and Disease were drawn into Kro’s painting, where they witnessed a memory of Kro’s childhood and learned how his father pressured him to paint for the family’s ambitions. The three were left considering whether Kro’s talent and difficult upbringing had warped him, and whether someone like him would ever accept being subordinate.

• Covetous Attachment noticed that Kro’s paintings had changed in mood and proposed returning to inspect them.
• Covetous Attachment touched the painting Eye in the Painting and was pulled inside; Sloth and then Disease followed.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth arrived in a daytime version of the manor and watched Kro’s father order the butler to train Kro and ensure he learned noble etiquette.
• The butler found young Kro painting and urged him to rest, but Kro continued because his father had demanded ten paintings before returning.
• Covetous Attachment and Sloth discussed Kro’s shrewdness, the possibility that his circumstances could twist his mind, and whether he would accept a subordinate position.

Kro struggled to find the missing quality in his paintings, destroying each work before he could finish it. While searching for inspiration, he discovered a disturbing book about human emotions and blood, and Sloth read it after Kro fled.

• Kro repeatedly tried to paint but tore up his work, while his paintings grew fewer and worse.
• Kro searched the study for inspiration and found a book titled Colors and Warm Tones.
• Kro read the book’s descriptions of emotions, blood, and life, then turned pale, dropped it, and hurried out of the study.
• Sloth picked up the book and read its unsettling claims about human nature, while Covetous Attachment asked what it said.
• Sloth reached passages about poison, jealousy, greed, and blood turning black, then fell into thought.

Sloth and Covetous Attachment watched Kro discover that blood gave his paintings their unsettling quality, while Disease recognized Kro’s exceptional supernatural talent. Kro’s father began supplying him with human blood for his work, and the painted world reached Kro’s fifteenth birthday.

• Sloth asked what Kro might think after reading the book, and Covetous Attachment realized its ideas had influenced Kro’s disturbing paintings.
• Kro asked for duck and chicken blood, used them as paint, and created his first painting in days.
• Disease recognized Kro’s rare ability to infuse objects with supernatural power, prompting Shen Yu to consider recruiting him to make Anomaly Artifacts.
• Kro’s father praised and sold ten paintings, while the butler reported Kro’s use of animal blood and asked the master to ease his demands.
• Kro’s father ordered the estate to obtain human blood from poor people, and Kro continued painting without showing a reaction to the change.
• The world within the painting advanced to Kro’s fifteenth birthday.

At Kro’s fifteenth birthday banquet, his father presented him to nobles as a prospective son-in-law, while Sloth and Covetous Attachment watched from inside the painting, unable to escape. Although Kro appeared perfectly composed, Sloth recognized that he resented being controlled, and the chapter ended with a marquis discussing a match between Kro and his daughter.

• Covetous Attachment and Sloth concluded that the painted world extended about a thousand meters from Kro and complained that they could neither escape nor affect what they watched.
• Kro’s father held a lavish banquet and introduced Kro to nobles who valued his talent, looks, and manners as well as his potential marriage prospects.
• Sloth observed that Kro’s practiced smile hid hollow eyes and a struggle against his father’s control.
• Young nobles mocked Kro’s lower social status and speculated that his father intended to marry him to a noblewoman to gain a title.
• Kro’s father spoke with a marquis whose daughter admired Kro and had come to arrange a match.