Recaps

Qi Si learned how Lu Ming trapped the Rabbit God in a repeating game to save Reiko, then discovered that Reiko’s soul had become attached to her prayer ribbon through his contract with her. After Lu Ming vanished, Qi Si prepared to pursue the Rabbit God’s power and began spreading his own divine names among the students.

• Qi Si learned that Lu Ming had sacrificed himself after Reiko died, creating a paradox that trapped the Rabbit God and Reiko inside Escape Rabbit God Town.
• Lu Ming explained that Reiko had to be chosen as the sacrifice, while the player acting as Kannagi Shichiro had to inherit the Rabbit God’s power to end the stalemate.
• Qi Si discovered Reiko’s prayer ribbon in his pocket and realized his contract had bound her soul to it, forming a new red Soul Leaf.
• Lu Ming thanked Qi Si and disappeared, while Qi Si ended his livestream and prepared for the coming conflict with the Rabbit God.
• Qi Si found Li Fang’s death certificate and a student booklet describing Bamboo Cage Eyes, then rewrote its legend to invoke his own divine names and attract the Rabbit God’s followers.

Qi Si learned that the Rabbit God could communicate through the prayer ribbon he had left, and an unseen evil ghost carved rules and advice for him. He approached the Rabbit God to propose a trade, claiming he had come to save it.

• Qi Si returned to Room 0415, learned from Teacher Qian that Reiko had gone missing, and inferred that her final corpse would not be found until August 6.
• Qi Si resumed Escape Rabbit God Town and discovered the Divine Chisel and his prayer ribbon had appeared while the game was paused.
• Qi Si read the Rabbit God's message asking for a trade and warning him not to copy the shrine idol when carving a vessel.
• An unseen presence used the Divine Chisel to carve rules and hints, then ignored Qi Si's questions about its identity.
• Qi Si offered his prayer ribbon to the Rabbit God and said he had come to save it.

Qi Si passed the Rabbit God lot-casting ritual and learned that the adults planned to make him develop desires so they could shape him into a controllable god. He began carving a different Idol and a malicious blessing plaque, while recognizing that he might have a desire he could not remember.

• Qi Si offered the Rabbit God a contract: he would refuse to help with the Rabbit God Festival if They freed him from Rabbit God Town.
• On the second day of August, Qi Si learned that the lots tested whether a child could contain the Rabbit God's power, then accompanied the attendant to the main hall.
• Qi Si successfully cast all three lots into the cylinder, and the Kannagi Family head celebrated him as a potential new god.
• The attendant explained that Qi Si had succeeded because he had no obvious desires, while the priest said the adults would need to make him develop desires before he could become their god.
• Qi Si used the Rabbit God sculpture from Lu Ming's game as a model for a new Idol, then carved a blessing plaque bearing the nursery rhyme "Bamboo Cage Eyes."

Qi Si tried to persuade the Rabbit God to cooperate, continued carving, and asked Kurokawa Akira to spread a prayer plaque’s words in secret. During the locked fasting period, he saw Kannagi Shichiro’s memories and learned how bullying and the Bamboo Cage Eyes game shaped Shichiro’s wish and fate.

• Qi Si asked the Rabbit God to help him oppose the shaman, then continued carving while Kannagi Rokuro urged him to focus on becoming the new god.
• Qi Si learned that the priests would make him gain and lose things to awaken his desires, and he asked Kurokawa Akira to spread the words on a prayer plaque without telling the adults.
• After eating his final meal before fasting, Qi Si was locked in the Divine Dwelling with the Rabbit God and used Fast-forward.
• Qi Si witnessed Kannagi Shichiro tormenting boys during Bamboo Cage Eyes and heard Shichiro explain that he had carved the nursery rhyme beneath the Idol to avoid being the demon in the game.

Kannagi Shichiro made a deal with Qi Si and sent him into a new timeline before the Caution Rabbits events began. Taking Lu Ming’s place in the past, Qi Si helped spread belief in the Rabbit God and met Reiko on her first day at Hope Middle School.

• Kannagi Shichiro recounted how childhood cruelty drove him to become the Rabbit God and asked Qi Si to save him.
• Qi Si agreed to a contract with Kannagi Shichiro and used the Rabbit Corpse to travel to Hope Middle School’s past.
• Qi Si gave the drowning Lu Ming a rabbit-god carving and told him to believe and pray to the Rabbit God.
• Lu Ming recited Qi Si’s divine name, allowing Qi Si to possess him and leave the lake.
• Qi Si woke in Lu Ming’s dormitory, went outside in the rain, and met Reiko, who introduced herself as a new transfer student.

Qi Si manipulated the Hope Middle School timeline, planting clues and steering Reiko and the students toward events that would shape Lu Ming’s fate. He returned to Rabbit God Town after drowning the timeline’s Lu Ming, while another Lu Ming appeared at the school and the system began repairing the damaged Instance.

• Qi Si gave Lu Ming’s voice recorder to Li Fang to treat it with rabbit blood, making it harder for ghosts and gods to perceive.
• Qi Si watched Reiko get bullied, then selectively intervened and encouraged her to become emotionally invested in Lu Ming.
• Qi Si planted clues for his future self in a diary and used Reiko’s bullying to influence Li Fang and deepen Reiko’s sympathy for him.
• Qi Si entered Natural Lake and used [Rabbit Corpse] to return to Rabbit God Town, triggering a system repair as the timeline’s Lu Ming drowned and vanished.
• Another Lu Ming appeared on campus, while the erased Lu Ming’s existence faded from nearly everyone’s memories.

Qi Si suppressed the Rabbit God, recognized that the contract’s suggestion had distorted his judgment, and prepared to weaken Lu Ming’s control over Rabbit God Town. As the Rabbit God Festival began, Qi Si offered himself as the sacrifice while keeping a knife in his heart to preserve his consciousness.

• Qi Si used Reiko’s recording to bind the Rabbit Idol inside its shrine, then realized the contract had led him to believe he had no desires and was incomplete.
• Qi Si carved a new Rabbit God idol and learned that Reiko’s mother had destroyed Reiko’s body and died with her in a fire.
• Qi Si had Kurokawa Akira spread the Three-Line Divine Name among the townspeople to erode Lu Ming’s control over the Instance.
• After two days without food, Qi Si recognized that his hunger was awakening desire, while Reiko’s recording continued suppressing the Rabbit God.
• On the night of August 6th, Qi Si stabbed his heart with the [Self-Harmer's Paper Knife] and joined the Rabbit God Festival procession as its sacrifice.

Qi Si freed Kannagi Shichiro from Rabbit God Town, then used their contract to take the Rabbit God’s divine power and possess his body. He completed the game’s third playthrough and returned to Hope Middle School, where he remembered one unfinished task.

• Qi Si used [Soul Contract] to weaken the believers’ faith, allowing Kannagi Shichiro to break free and slaughter the people of Rabbit God Town.
• After the slaughter, Qi Si invoked their contract and forced Kannagi Shichiro to surrender his divine power, then merged with and devoured his consciousness.
• Qi Si gained the Rabbit God’s power, but the Eerie Game reported that his strength exceeded its permitted range before its system recovered.
• Qi Si completed the main quest and discovered that the Rabbit God Idol could open the game Escape Rabbit God Town.
• The game recorded the third playthrough as complete with Ending ③, then returned Qi Si to a dormitory at Hope Middle School.
• Qi Si examined Reiko's Prayer Ribbon and remembered that he still had something left to finish.

Qi Si completed the Caution Rabbits Instance by manipulating Hope Middle School into reenacting Reiko’s death, then turned her ghost into a vengeful spirit and unlocked the Fatalism True End. Before leaving, he traveled back to Rabbit God Town to leave clues for his past self, then exited the Instance with the mystery still awaiting its answer.

• Qi Si spread the Rabbit God legend through Hope Middle School and used the students’ wish-making to seize control of the school’s NPCs and stage Bamboo Cage Eyes.
• Reiko offered to die in Lu Ming’s place, and Qi Si let the NPCs drive her to leap from a window while Lu Ming struggled helplessly against his restraints.
• Qi Si gathered Reiko’s ghost into her Prayer Ribbon, completed his quest, and cleared the Instance with the Fatalism True End.
• Qi Si used the Rabbit Corpse to return to Rabbit God Town and leave his past self a prayer ribbon, a Divine Chisel, and carved instructions about the Rabbit God.
• Qi Si’s past self asked questions by carving on the wooden block, but the countdown ended before Qi Si could answer, so he left the remaining mystery for him to solve.

Players in the Ruins of Sunset watched Si Qi unlock the Caution Rabbits Instance’s True End before the ranking steles shattered and reformed into a new stele listing twenty-two identities. The new list placed Si Qi at number 13 as the Scarlet High Priest and left several identities unidentified.

• The record stele announced that Si Qi had unlocked the Caution Rabbits Instance’s True End, permanently closing the Instance.
• Players discussed Si Qi’s clear, the Unnamed Guild, and the fallout from the Nine Provinces Guild’s denunciations.
• Players noticed cracks spreading across the Newcomer Ranking and Comprehensive Strength Ranking steles until both shattered.
• The broken stones reassembled into one enormous stele bearing twenty-two identities, including Scarlet High Priest—Si Qi.

Qi Si became a god, shut out the prayers of mortals, and returned to Rose Manor to consume the contract and claim its authority. After absorbing the contract’s memories and history, he left their identities uncertain and returned to the divine hall, where the Eerie Game welcomed him back as the Main God.

• Qi Si awakened in the Game Space as a god, restored the temple, and used the Sea God Scepter to silence the prayers surrounding him.
• Qi Si confronted the contract at Rose Manor, learned that the contract wanted their authorities to converge, and agreed to a final gamble over which of them would control his body.
• Qi Si and the contract bit and consumed each other, exchanging authority, flesh, and memories as both bodies turned partly to bone.
• Qi Si absorbed the contract’s memories and learned that it had created the Eerie Game to resist The Rules and avoid being consumed in a coming reset.
• The contract asked Qi Si to plant roses across the world, then crumbled as Qi Si left the castle carrying a rose.
• Qi Si returned to the divine hall, cleared the mural’s gray mist, and heard the Eerie Game welcome him back as the Main God.

The Ruins of Sunset ranking stele transformed into a list of twenty-two Identity Cards, confirming that the final Instance was approaching and that most Players would be excluded. Qi Si studied the cards and his incomplete memories, then tried the sealed temple again and wondered what he still lacked.

• Players gathered at the Ruins of Sunset and debated whether the Identity Cards determined who could enter the final Instance.
• Qi Si examined the stele, recognized three ownerless cards, and resolved to take Puppeteer's [Eyes-Closed Dictator] card so he could advance toward [Lord of Gods].
• Qi Si reflected on his incomplete memories and the mysteries surrounding his multiple slots, the returned dead, and Lin Jue's [Dark Judge] card.
• Fu Jue and Lin Chen arrived at the World Tree and met in a tense stare while Lin Chen's Soul Leaf sought Qi Si's guidance.
• Qi Si left the gathering and tried to open the abandoned temple, but it again told him he was not complete enough.

Chen Hao and four other players entered Double Happiness Town, where a God-level NPC's arrival changed their rescue mission into a quest to slay an Evil God. Meanwhile, Qi Si returned to the Instance to retrieve his missing finger bone, discovered it belonged to a different time and space, and prepared to face the Players and the Rules.

• Chen Hao introduced himself and the other players as their raft approached the blood-red Double Happiness Town.
• A God-level NPC's arrival triggered errors, and the Players' main quest changed from rescuing Xu Wen to slaying the Evil God.
• Qi Si returned to Double Happiness Town, found the coffin that had once held him empty, and realized he was in a different time and space than before.
• Qi Si gained Xu Wen's memories, learned that no Players had found his finger bone, and put her into the coffin before leaving the temple.
• The Rules issued the Players a mission to kill Qi Si, and he watched the five Players gather by the well, confident he could challenge the Rules.

Lin Chen met Fu Jue at the Ruins of Sunset and publicly agreed to possible cooperation between their guilds, but a mysterious blood-red thread appeared around his finger after they shook hands. In Double Happiness Town, Qi Si confronted Li Yao about the Evil God Finger Bone and spared her, revealing that he was the god who had once altered her fate.

• Lin Chen went to the Ruins of Sunset to assess the ranking monument and encountered Fu Jue, who proposed discussing the final Instance.
• Lin Chen refused a private meeting, questioned whether Fu Jue spoke for Nine Provinces or Listen Wind, and heard him propose an alliance with the Unnamed Guild.
• Lin Chen publicly accepted a conditional reconciliation after Fu Jue apologized for Chang Xu's actions, then left and discovered a blood-red thread coiled around his little finger.
• Li Yao hid in the Temple of the Joyous God as the other Players died and the Instance descended into chaos.
• Qi Si appeared before Li Yao and asked whether she had seen his finger bone; she recognized him as the Evil God who had once imprisoned her soul and ordered her to conceal it.
• Qi Si decided not to kill Li Yao, calling her an interesting discarded piece, and vanished from the devastated temple.

White Crow continued purging the Church of the Scales and prepared to use the deaths in Xiang City to empower her [Utopian Orator] card, even as resistance grew and the Federation appointed Aleksei Olegovich as acting governor. Qi Si observed the sacrifice and his changing nature, then returned to his body and considered whether to answer prayers by offering people rose seeds.

• White Crow reviewed the purge’s death toll and treated the followers’ deaths as sacrifices toward drawing a card with [Utopian Orator].
• Asakura Yuko warned White Crow that opposition to the purge was growing and the Church of the Scales risked internal conflict; White Crow insisted the purge would continue and revealed the card’s power.
• Qi Si reviewed prayers and Soul Leaves, noticed White Crow’s sacrifice in Xiang City, and reflected that his memories and feelings were increasingly distant from humanity.
• Qi Si returned to his bedroom, rejected the Contract’s suggestion that he abandon his body, replied to Lin Chen, and watched forum posts shift attention toward the Unnamed Guild.
• Qi Si tried to grow the Contract’s golden rose seeds, but they failed to take root; the Contract suggested that he answer prayers and have people plant the roses for him.

At Ruins of Sunset, Qi Si met the Puppeteer and agreed to let Sariel use one of his [Scarlet High Priest] minor cards to enter the final Instance in exchange for cooperation. After the meeting, Qi Si traveled to Qi Family Village, where The God’s powers returned to him and he discovered Liu Pu had become a puppet.

• The Puppeteer asked Qi Si to lend Sariel a minor card and bring one of his puppets into the final Instance, offering a Soul Contract in return.
• Qi Si accepted the proposed cooperation and handed the Puppeteer the [Merchant] Card, while warning him that he remembered his threat against Fu Jue.
• Qi Si’s controlled body collapsed after leaving the teahouse, and the chapter revealed that he had used an [Insomnia Pathogen] victim as his proxy for the meeting.
• Qi Si considered how to fill his remaining final Instance slots without revealing the Unnamed Guild’s shortage of available Players.
• Qi Si rode with Liu Pu from Jiang City to Qi Family Village, where entering the fog restored The God’s powers and revealed a translucent thread on Liu Pu’s wooden pinky.

Fei Zhenqi and Ning Xu tried to escape the deadly ghost domain in Qi Family Village, while Qi Si prepared Xu Yao to enter the Eerie Game. Their apparent escape led them straight to Qi Si, who killed them after learning Ning Xu had no close ties to Jin Yusheng.

• Fei Zhenqi and Ning Xu endured another night of attacks in Qi Family Village, and Ning Xu recalled how she had first resolved to follow Fu Jue.
• Qi Si gave Xu Yao the [Noble] card and asked her to bind it and enter the Eerie Game as a player.
• Fei Zhenqi carried the wounded Ning Xu toward a glowing door while paper people pursued them, and the door transported them to Qi Si's house.
• Qi Si confronted Ning Xu about her relationship with Jin Yusheng, then used blood-red vines to kill her and Fei Zhenqi.
• Qi Si told Xu Yao to have the paper people clean up the bodies and wondered how Jin Yusheng would react to Ning Xu's death.

Dong Xiwen turned a deadly Crazy Blackjack game into a draw, saving himself and Yang Yao, then received an Identity Card from Bob on Qi Si’s behalf. In Jiang City, Qiu Lihua’s wish for her son’s safe return came true, and the chapter ended with an ominous young man appearing at her pancake stall.

• Dong Xiwen used his knowledge of Crazy Blackjack to control the game, then deliberately made the final round a draw so all four Players survived.
• Bob told Jack that his client wanted the two men from Dragon County kept alive, and warned him about the Church of the Scales and the Insomnia Urban Legend.
• Bob gave Dong Xiwen an Identity Card called “Audience” from the “Fool Deceiver” set and prepared to take Yang Yao away under contract.
• A young man in a red suit gave Qiu Lihua a rose stem and promised her wish would come true; the rose bloomed, and Yang Yao called her.
• A young man in black with golden eyes arrived at Qiu Lihua’s stall and ordered an egg-filled pancake.

After Fei Zhenqi and Ning Xu's names turned black in the Life Register, Qi Si learned that Jiang City was being searched for him and chose to remain in Qi Family Village. As players prepared for the Final Instance, Lin Chen told Qi Si that someone seemed to be impersonating him, leaving Qi Si facing the possibility that there were two of him.

• Mu Dongxu and Liao Bingchen watched Fei Zhenqi's and Ning Xu's names fade to black, and Fu Jue announced that Qi Si had been placed on the S-rank wanted list.
• Qi Si saw the search of Jiang City, considered Jin Yusheng's warning, and decided to stay in the Qi Family Village ghost domain.
• Qi Si summoned Reiko to guard the ghost domain so Xu Yao could accompany him to meet Lin Chen.
• Players and officials scrambled to prepare for the Final Instance as the Church of the Scales seized control of twelve autonomous regions.
• At dinner, Qi Si noticed gaps in what he knew about Lin Chen, and Lin Chen said someone had been impersonating Qi Si and asked whether there could be two of him.

A young man in a red suit spoke with Jin Yusheng about Ning Xu’s disappearance and Jiang City’s lockdown while concealing that he was still there. He explained to Li that he had arranged for Li to remain in Chang Xu’s body as part of a plan to oppose the Rules and the Ancestral God Or, then gave Li instructions he refused to explain.

• Jin Yusheng told the young man that Ning Xu had gone missing and that the Investigation Bureau had traced her disappearance to him.
• The young man claimed he was still in Jiang City, dismissed Jin Yusheng’s suspicions, and ordered oranges for him.
• Li asked why he was trapped in Chang Xu’s body, and the young man explained that the world’s rules made separating spirit and flesh difficult.
• The young man said Or’s return and the Rules’ actions showed that he and Li were not candidates to inherit the Sea God’s authority.
• The young man told Li that he had a plan to oppose the Rules and Or and had kept Li in the human world to help carry it out.
• After the young man whispered the plan to Li, Li questioned his reasons, but the young man told him to follow the plan without asking why.

Fu Jue faced a review by Eerie Investigation Bureau officials over suspicions about his conduct and leadership before the final Instance. After answering questions about Jiang City, the God's Descent Incident, and Ning Xu, he was asked to explain Qi Si's role in the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School Instance.

• Officials from branch offices gathered in Jiang City to question Fu Jue and decide whether he would lead official forces into the final Instance.
• Fu Jue rejected the claim that his repeated visits to Jiang City meant he had concealed advance knowledge about The Gate.
• Fu Jue defended his decisions during the God's Descent Incident, saying the Main God could not have been predicted and that abandoning containment minimized losses.
• Fu Jue explained that he sent Ning Xu to Qi Family Village to protect her from scrutiny, then challenged Fujiwara Shinya over his own handling of a contaminated investigator.
• An elderly official from Maple Leaf County asked Fu Jue about Qi Si's involvement in the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School Instance and his rise within the Unnamed Guild.

Fu Jue defended his ties to Qi Si and the Unnamed Guild during an investigation, arguing that he had tried to build cooperation and that bureaucratic failures—not his actions—had delayed the Bureau’s response. The questioning turned to the missing Dice of Fate, and Fu Jue directed the investigators to his report.

• Fu Jue explained that he had submitted Qi Si’s information and proposed building a relationship with him, but the report had stalled during database review.
• Fu Jue challenged the accusation that he had concealed Qi Si, pointing out that investigators should have found the information already in the Bureau’s database.
• After a representative disparaged Lin Jue, Fu Jue remained silent and stared him down until another investigator redirected the questioning.
• Fu Jue defended seeking cooperation with the Unnamed Guild as a way to prepare for the final Instance and avoid conflict among Players.
• When asked about the missing Dice of Fate, Fu Jue referred the investigators to File S-1752.

After being cleared of wrongdoing, Fu Jue faced pressure from county representatives over who would receive lesser cards and enter the final Instance. He proposed a timed challenge to choose the eight participants and left Li Yunyang with a simple instruction: stay alive.

• The investigators concluded that Fu Jue was innocent and that the Eerie Investigation Bureau had acted reasonably in the final Instance.
• A representative asked Li Yunyang about the [Immortal Shaman Priest] lesser cards, and Li Yunyang claimed she had already given them all to her teammates.
• Fu Jue said the [Fallen Savior] lesser cards remained unassigned and proposed selecting the final Instance team from Players who cleared the most Instances in the next thirty-two hours and thirty-seven minutes.
• Fu Jue and Li Yunyang scattered rings that would let interested Players match into their Instances, prompting accusations and an argument among the investigators.
• Fu Jue left with the Dragon County investigators, then told Li Yunyang to adapt to events and do her best to stay alive.

Yang Yao returned to the casino after the Survivor Game, pretending he had won and sworn off gambling, but his addiction drew him back. A blood-red rose promised to fulfill his desires, and he transformed into a rose monster that offered the same bargain to the gamblers around him.

• Yang Yao bragged to the gamblers at Ruidanshen Casino that he had mastered Blackjack in the Survivor Game and forced it into a tie.
• After returning home on May 1st, Yang Yao promised his mother he would stop gambling, but the urge soon overwhelmed him.
• Yang Yao found vivid red roses on his windowsill, touched one, and saw visions of wealth and a prosperous life with his mother.
• A voice told Yang Yao to plant the rose in his heart and nourish it with his flesh and blood to fulfill his desires, and he accepted.
• Yang Yao returned to the casino, won repeatedly, and ignored the rose brand burning on his chest as vines seemed to grow through his body.
• Roses burst from Yang Yao's flesh and transformed him into a monster, which offered the gamblers a rose and promised to fulfill their desires.

A rose monster spread through a Jiang City casino, granting wishes while driving people to gamble, as its pollution triggered a citywide emergency. Fu Jue traced the outbreak’s spread and questioned whether the contract’s risky plan could succeed.

• A gambler accepted a rose from the monster, wished to win money, and began winning repeatedly at a slot machine.
• The gamblers and casino staff took roses and planted them over their hearts; the manager received a rose and regrew his missing leg.
• The Eerie Investigation Bureau’s pollution monitors exceeded their limits, and Shao Qingmin ordered investigators to prepare for the outbreak while those entering the final Instance stayed behind.
• Fu Jue examined the Ancestral God Idol and used an Identity Card to witness the rose’s path from a castle to the casino and its spread through Jiang City.
• Fu Jue concluded that the contract’s plan had a low success rate and relied on considerable randomness and instability.