Recaps

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin raided the Truth Cult’s vault in Nanmoku Village, then went to rescue Wakamatsu Yuko, her sons, and Tamagawa Shu. They prepared to leave the village with Tamagawa Shu, whose resemblance to Fang Cheng and mysterious “mother” still needed investigating.

• Fang Cheng recalled his Blood Beasts and, with Kanzaki Rin, returned to Nanmoku Village to retrieve the Truth Cult’s money and find Tamagawa Shu.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin drew away the armed followers, entered a hidden vault beneath a chapel, and took the Truth Cult’s fortune and records.
• Wakamatsu Yuko worried that the Truth Cult would target her and her sons if Wakamatsu Kazuki did not return, while she hid Tamagawa Shu in her home.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin broke into Wakamatsu Yuko’s home and told her they had come to take her and her children out of Nanmoku Village.
• Wakamatsu Yuko gathered her sons and Tamagawa Shu, and Tamagawa Shu happily recognized Fang Cheng as Ultraman.

Fang Cheng returned to Tokyo with Wakamatsu Yuko’s family and brought Tamagawa Shu with him to investigate the boy’s origins. Back home, he gave Asaka Akie a Soul Stabilizer to protect her from Ye Yuqing, then kissed Ye Yuqing after an awkward mishap with Akie’s shirt.

• Fang Cheng and the others escaped Nanmoku Village with Wakamatsu Yuko, her sons, and Tamagawa Shu, then flew back to Tokyo with stolen cash.
• Fang Cheng learned that Tamagawa Shu had been adopted from the Volunteer Home in Ota Ward, and Kanzaki Rin agreed to investigate.
• Kanzaki Rin left with Wakamatsu Yuko and the children, while Fang Cheng drove home and reunited with Sato Mai and Ugou Mirai.
• Fang Cheng gave Asaka Akie a Soul Stabilizer, which reassured Ye Yuqing that she would be safe as long as she wore it.
• Ye Yuqing accidentally popped a button off Akie’s shirt, and Fang Cheng pulled her onto the bed and kissed her.

Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie shared their feelings, and he told her about two men who resembled him and her younger brother, asking her and Sato Mai to investigate whether they had been adopted. At dinner, Sato Hayato announced he was moving in with Kujo Go for a mission that might be connected to Teacher Takeda.

• Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie kissed, and Akie asked him to wait until tonight before taking things further.
• Fang Cheng told Akie about Tamagawa Shu and Kitaryu Shingen, who resembled him, and asked her and Sato Mai to investigate whether he and her younger brother had been adopted.
• Sato Hayato announced at dinner that he planned to move out, startling Sato Mai and the others.
• Hayato explained to Fang Cheng that he and Kujo Go were pretending to be a couple living together for a mission.
• Hayato told Fang Cheng privately that the mission might be connected to Teacher Takeda.

Fang Cheng learned that Takeda Masumi had secretly met with an armed man from Machine City and questioned her about it. Masumi claimed she had refused to join their plans, but Fang Cheng grew more suspicious when she revealed Kanzaki was busy.

• Sato Hayato told Fang Cheng that he had seen Takeda Masumi secretly meeting an armed man from Machine City while investigating the man's movements in Tokyo.
• Fang Cheng approved Sato Hayato's request to move out and teased him about his close relationship with Kujo Go.
• Fang Cheng waited for Takeda Masumi to return, then invited her to the rooftop balcony to talk.
• Fang Cheng confronted Takeda Masumi about meeting the Machine City man, and she said he was an old comrade who had invited her to join their plans but whom she had turned down.
• Fang Cheng questioned how Takeda Masumi knew Kanzaki was busy when she claimed to spend her days at the Training Ground, leaving her speechless.

Asaka Akie tried to take her relationship with Fang Cheng further, but Ye Yuqing stopped her and asked for more time to decide. Meanwhile, Kanzaki Rin entered Tokyo’s Underground Prison to visit a life-sentenced criminal.

• Asaka Akie prepared to meet Fang Cheng, but Ye Yuqing took control of their body and refused to let her leave the room.
• Asaka Akie argued that Ye Yuqing liked Fang Cheng too and urged her to act before another woman claimed him, while Ye Yuqing worried about his other relationships and asked for more time.
• Kanzaki Rin reflected on her growing feelings for Fang Cheng and the money she had spent before showing her credentials to enter the Underground Prison.
• Kanzaki Rin went to the Underground Prison to meet a criminal serving a life sentence.

Kanzaki Rin visited the Underground Prison to question Nozawa Ritsu about a possible rescue attempt, but he stayed silent until she left and discovered the hidden key she had planted. Meanwhile, Fang Cheng’s household saw Sato Hayato move out with Kujo Go, while Fang Cheng teased them about their relationship.

• Kanzaki Rin entered the Underground Prison and warned Nozawa Ritsu that his sister’s rescue attempt would get them both imprisoned, but he did not respond.
• After Kanzaki Rin left, Nozawa Ritsu found a metal-detector-blocking substance she had slapped onto the cell door, opened it, and discovered a key marked 24 inside.
• Fang Cheng waited all night for Asaka Akie, then received a secret kiss from her the next morning.
• Sato Mai urged Sato Hayato to find a girlfriend or boyfriend, while he prepared to move out to keep his distance from the women in Fang Cheng’s household.
• Kujo Go arrived to take Sato Hayato, promised to take care of Hayako, and heard Fang Cheng tease him about living with a boyfriend.

Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng that her investigation into Tamagawa Shu had reached a dead end, then fell asleep while he massaged her. After Asaka Akie caught Fang Cheng undressing Rin and misunderstood the scene, the misunderstanding was cleared, and Fang Cheng and Akie kissed.

• Sato Hayako moved into Kujo Go's car and left with him, while Kanzaki Rin returned from an all-nighter and showed little interest in Sato Hayato moving out.
• Kanzaki Rin reported that Tamagawa Shu had been abandoned at an orphanage, suffered brain damage from a fever, and had an anonymous donor whose identity she could not trace.
• Kanzaki Rin fell asleep as Fang Cheng massaged her, and Asaka Akie walked in while he was removing Rin's jacket and miniskirt.
• Kanzaki Rin woke, understood what had happened, punched Fang Cheng, and returned to her room to sleep.
• Fang Cheng confronted Asaka Akie about entering to check on them, then kissed her as Ye Yuqing complained in his mind.
• Fang Cheng trained his Heart-Body-Technique and played games with Ugou Mirai until he received a call from someone he had not heard from in a long time.

Fang Cheng rushed to rescue the badly wounded Nangong Saya from armed soldiers in an abandoned factory and healed her with the Word Spirit Art. After saving her, he teased her into choosing whether to devour him or be devoured by him.

• Nangong Saya called Fang Cheng for help, and he flew toward the location she sent while telling Ugou Mirai and Yuguang Qingxue to stay home.
• Wounded and losing blood in an abandoned factory, Nangong Saya was found by nine soldiers and used her last grenade as they entered her room.
• Fang Cheng burst through the wall and shot the soldiers in the room, then sent two Blood Eagles after the remaining soldiers.
• Fang Cheng healed Nangong Saya's bullet wound and scrapes with the Word Spirit Art, removing the bullet and leaving no scars.
• Fang Cheng reminded Nangong Saya that she had promised to devour him and made her choose between keeping her promise and letting him devour her.

After Nangong Saya told Fang Cheng that Takeda Masumi was in danger, they searched the suburbs and found Masumi’s comrades under attack. They learned Masumi might be at a hospital in Black Dragon Town, where Fang Cheng arrived to find a battle between SOT troops and Cyborgs.

• Fang Cheng healed Nangong Saya, learned the soldiers were from the government’s SOT Unit, and discovered Takeda Masumi might be in danger.
• Fang Cheng carried Nangong Saya into the suburbs, where they found government troops attacking a reinforced building.
• Fang Cheng used Blood Eagles and Flying Rain Needles to destroy the force of over a hundred soldiers and disable its armored vehicle.
• Nangong Saya’s comrades said Takeda Masumi might have gone to a hospital in Black Dragon Town, and Fang Cheng immediately flew there with Saya.
• Fang Cheng reached Black Dragon Town and saw more than five hundred SOT troops using armored vehicles and drones against Cyborgs defending the town.

Fang Cheng entered the town under siege by the SOT Unit and met Takeda Masumi at the hospital. After asking her to speak privately, he removed his Blood Battle Suit and knocked her down, leaving Nangong Saya stunned.

• The SOT Unit used drones to attack the Cyborgs hiding in town, while the Cyborgs used EMP Equipment to disable most of the drones.
• Fang Cheng flew into town, destroyed the armed drones with Blood Eagles, and brought Nangong Saya to the hospital.
• Nangong Saya told the Cyborgs that Takeda Masumi should meet Fang Cheng, and Takeda left a dispute with the Cyborg leaders to see him.
• Takeda Masumi recognized Fang Cheng and agreed to speak with him privately despite his commanding tone.
• Fang Cheng took off his Blood Battle Suit and quickly knocked Takeda Masumi to the ground as Nangong Saya watched in shock.

Fang Cheng confronted Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya about their secrets, learning that Saya was Masumi’s undercover agent and that Masumi had ties to Machine City. The two women were in Tokyo to rescue someone from the Underground Prison.

• Fang Cheng scolded Takeda Masumi for hiding her involvement and explained that he had come because Saya said both women were in danger.
• Fang Cheng noticed Saya and Masumi had been close for years despite pretending they had not been in touch.
• Takeda Masumi revealed that Nangong Saya was her undercover agent in Machine City and helped her stay in contact with her comrades.
• Takeda Masumi said she had sent some of the Cyborg forces to Machine City, where they could put their skills to use.
• Takeda Masumi revealed that she and her comrades had come to Tokyo to rescue someone held in the Underground Prison.

Takeda Masumi explained the origins of the second-generation cyborgs and their plan to rescue Nozawa Ritsu from the Underground Prison. After learning that 730 cyborgs had been discovered and surrounded, she asked Fang Cheng for help, and he teased her into using Nangong Saya to persuade him.

• Takeda Masumi explained that the Area 11 government abandoned its second-generation cyborg project, leaving most cyborgs without support and triggering an uprising.
• Nangong Saya revealed that researchers had deceived or forcibly mutilated many soldiers and interns to create cyborg test subjects, and that Nozawa Ritsu had killed the researchers before being imprisoned.
• Takeda Masumi told Fang Cheng that the cyborgs wanted to rescue Nozawa Ritsu and that the SOT Unit had raided their hideout after a traitor exposed them.
• Fang Cheng learned that 730 cyborgs had come to Tokyo and criticized Takeda Masumi for bringing such a large group without keeping their presence secret.
• Takeda Masumi asked Fang Cheng to help, and he teased her about showing cleavage, so she pulled the bewildered Nangong Saya toward him instead.

Fang Cheng agreed to help Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya escape the SOT Unit, but the Cyborg leaders doubted him and challenged his authority. He quickly defeated them, then forced Ishiyama Keisuke to apologize to Nangong Saya, leaving Takeda Masumi to suspect the two were acting strangely.

• Takeda Masumi told Fang Cheng that the scattered Cyborgs needed help regrouping, not breaking prisoners out of jail.
• Fang Cheng joined Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya in a basement to meet five Cyborg leaders, who questioned his identity and ability to overcome the SOT Unit.
• Nangong Saya defended Fang Cheng, but Ishiyama Keisuke and the other leaders continued to doubt him.
• Fang Cheng knocked down the Cyborg leaders, then grew over four meters tall and subdued Ishiyama Keisuke.
• Fang Cheng demanded that Ishiyama Keisuke apologize for yelling at Nangong Saya, and Takeda Masumi noticed Nangong Saya's lovestruck reaction.

Fang Cheng agreed to help Ishiyama Keisuke's group escape after overpowering him, while Takeda Masumi confronted Fang Cheng about his relationship with Nangong Saya. As the convoy prepared to break out, Fang Cheng summoned a vast flock of Blood Eagles to face the SOT Unit's drones.

• Ishiyama Keisuke apologized to Takeda Masumi and Fang Cheng, then gathered the cyborgs and equipment for the breakout.
• Takeda Masumi teased Fang Cheng about Nangong Saya, while Saya kissed Fang Cheng and decided she would pursue him.
• The cyborgs loaded more than a hundred people into a convoy, and Takeda Masumi went with them to keep everyone calm.
• Fang Cheng scouted the SOT Unit with a Blood Eagle and saw that it was launching a large number of drones.
• Fang Cheng drained his Tide of Blood to create hundreds or thousands of Blood Eagles, preparing to cover the convoy's escape.

Fang Cheng’s Blood Eagles routed the SOT Unit and helped the Cyborgs escape town. After parting ways with the Cyborgs, Fang Cheng teased Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya about his relationships, leaving the question of how he would handle his girlfriends unresolved.

• Fang Cheng’s Blood Eagles overwhelmed the SOT Unit’s Drone Swarm and forced the troops blockading the town to flee.
• The Cyborg convoy escaped town, and Takeda Masumi told Ishiyama Keisuke to attack on the twenty-fourth to distract the guards while Nozawa Ritsu escaped prison.
• Takeda Masumi and Fang Cheng reunited after the Cyborgs departed for Machine City, and she admitted she regretted joining their plan.
• Takeda Masumi pointed out that Fang Cheng had Asaka Akie as well as Nangong Saya, but Fang Cheng dodged her question by suggesting a game to decide who would get him.
• Takeda Masumi complained about the double standard for men and women, and Fang Cheng privately decided he wanted all the women.

Fang Cheng returned to the city with Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya, stopping at Saya’s home so the women could shower. Saya grew more forward with Fang Cheng, but Masumi’s interruptions and decision to stay over kept him from being alone with her.

• Fang Cheng brought Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya to Saya’s home, where Saya showered first and Masumi questioned Fang Cheng about his feelings for women.
• Fang Cheng told Masumi he liked all the girls, including her, and joked that he would persuade them all by sleeping with them.
• Fang Cheng teased Saya about a family photo, and their flirtation began to turn intimate before Masumi called Saya into the bathroom.
• Masumi and Saya showered together, playfully teased each other, and Fang Cheng briefly shut off the water before Masumi ordered him to turn it back on.
• Fang Cheng showed off his physique after bathing, joked by meowing when Masumi asked him to show his animal side, and gave up on a night alone with Saya when Masumi insisted on staying.

Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie uncovered evidence that someone had abandoned similar-looking baby boys at orphanages and secretly funded their care, possibly as part of a hidden Socialized Rearing program. The chapter left them with Fujiwara Hirotetsu’s proposal as a lead to investigate, while Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie turned to a private experiment.

• Takeda Masumi stayed away from the Training Ground and spent her time at the auto repair shop with Nangong Saya, disrupting Fang Cheng’s plans.
• Sato Mai showed Fang Cheng her brother Sato Hayato’s searches about same-sex attraction and offered to carry on the Sato family line with Fang Cheng if Hayato got a boyfriend.
• Sato Mai and Asaka Akie used Kanzaki Rin’s resources to investigate whether Fang Cheng and Asaka Makoto had been adopted.
• Asaka Akie gave Fang Cheng records showing that he and Asaka Makoto had been adopted after being abandoned at orphanages, and that secret donations to those orphanages stopped after the adoptions.
• Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie connected the boys’ similar backgrounds to Fujiwara Hirotetsu’s Socialized Rearing proposal and considered investigating it.
• Fang Cheng proposed a private experiment, and Asaka Akie blushed and agreed.

The Integrity Agency celebrated its grand opening, but Fang Cheng's off-key song sparked a quarrel that ended with Kanzaki Rin and Yuguang Qingxue dragging Ye Yuqing away. Ugou Mirai asked to join Fang Cheng's survival team, and he began to reveal a hidden condition for membership.

• Fang Cheng hummed a song about orphans, drawing hostile stares from the agency's guests.
• Ye Yuqing defended Fang Cheng's singing and challenged Kanzaki Rin, while Sato Mai and Sato Hayato declined to help her.
• Ye Yuqing goaded Kanzaki Rin and Yuguang Qingxue into facing off, but the two teamed up to drag her to the Lounge instead.
• Ugou Mirai asked Fang Cheng to join the group he had formed with Asaka Akie and Sato Mai.
• Fang Cheng said the group had a hidden condition for joining.

Fang Cheng admitted Ugou Mirai to the Life Extension Society and continued running the Agency through a quiet stretch. A visitor named Gongyuan Hang arrived and revealed that Fang Cheng might be his half-brother, leaving their connection unresolved.

• Fang Cheng made an exception to the Society's orphan rule and accepted Ugou Mirai as a member.
• Nangong Saya decided to stay with Fang Cheng and fight for her happiness despite her jealousy and insecurity.
• Fang Cheng kept in touch with Iron-Cast Palace and the Fox Immortal House while the Agency received little work.
• Gongyuan Hang visited the Agency, and Ugou Mirai mistook him for Fang Cheng because they looked almost identical.
• Gongyuan Hang asked whether Fang Cheng's grandfather was Gongyuan Dapu, then said Dapu was his father.

Fang Cheng met Gongyuan Hang, an office worker who looked remarkably like him, and agreed to protect him from a wealthy man he suspected was targeting him. Fang Cheng secretly planted a mosquito on Gongyuan Hang to monitor him, since he doubted the meeting was a coincidence.

• Fang Cheng questioned Gongyuan Hang about his background and learned that his parents had died and he was an adopted orphan.
• Gongyuan Hang told Fang Cheng that he sensed malicious observers and feared someone was trying to kill him.
• Gongyuan Hang privately named Banjyo Taisei as his suspected attacker and explained that Taisei had stolen his girlfriend, who had AIDS.
• Gongyuan Hang asked the Agency to protect him while he prepared to leave Tokyo, and Fang Cheng accepted the job.
• Fang Cheng planted a tiny mosquito on Gongyuan Hang to protect him and investigate whether his story was true.

Fang Cheng reviewed investigation and kinship-test results while secretly watching Gongyuan Hang with Ye Yuqing. Ye Yuqing tried to make Fang Cheng jealous by claiming a man had smacked her in exchange for milk tea, but Fang Cheng returned from the shop rubbing his own butt.

• Fang Cheng read Asaka Akie's findings on Gongyuan Hang and Banjyo Taisei, along with a report confirming that Fang Cheng, Tamagawa Shu, and Gongyuan Hang shared a blood ancestor.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing continued their uneventful surveillance of Gongyuan Hang, and Ye Yuqing complained about Fang Cheng and Akie's affection.
• Ye Yuqing went to buy milk tea, where a handsome man in sunglasses flirted with her and offered her a cup in exchange for smacking her butt.
• Ye Yuqing told Fang Cheng the man had smacked her, making Fang Cheng hurry toward the milk tea shop to confront him.
• Fang Cheng returned holding milk tea and rubbing his own butt, leaving Ye Yuqing's smug smile frozen.

Fang Cheng discovered that a man in sunglasses was using a camouflaged military drone to surveil Gongyuan Hang, and suspected the man worked for the authorities. While he continued tailing the man, Ye Yuqing stayed by his side, and Fang Cheng introduced her to his gaming friend, Super Powerful Super Cute God.

• Fang Cheng realized Ye Yuqing had made up her excuse to get him to confront the man in sunglasses, then explained that the man had drawn his attention to Gongyuan Hang.
• Fang Cheng used a mosquito from the Blood Beast Nest to inspect the man's tablet and discovered drone footage of Gongyuan Hang.
• Fang Cheng followed the man in sunglasses toward Gongyuan Hang's home and wondered why the authorities were tracking him as Number 59.
• Ye Yuqing complained about waiting with Fang Cheng but refused to go home, while Asaka Akie teased her for wanting his attention.
• Fang Cheng invited Super Powerful Super Cute God to play a game and handed his phone to Ye Yuqing, who suspected the player was another vixen.

Fang Cheng discovered that the SOT Unit was secretly monitoring Gongyuan Hang, then witnessed masked gunmen take Gongyuan away as a firefight erupted. He followed the conflicting groups with Ye Yuqing, while Kanzaki Rin prepared to begin a mysterious operation with Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya.

• Fang Cheng followed Kishibe Yoshikatsu to an underground SOT fortress, where Nakajima Tomoya said their seven-day surveillance of Number 59 had found no suspicious targets.
• Ye Yuqing complained that a troll teammate had made her lose more than ten games on Fang Cheng’s account, and Fang Cheng quit the game after seeing his rank drop.
• Fang Cheng saw masked gunmen take Gongyuan Hang from his home while the Intelligence Division officer watching him was shot dead, and Nakajima Tomoya mobilized the SOT Unit.
• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing put on their Blood Battle Suits and followed the gunmen, while Fang Cheng called Kanzaki Rin for help and she refused because she was busy.
• Kanzaki Rin switched off her phone and told Takeda Masumi and Nangong Saya that Fang Cheng had taken the bait and they needed to begin.

Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing followed Gongyuan Hang after an armed group escaped with him through Tokyo’s sewers, while SOT tracked him with an implanted device. The trail led to a heavily defended estate, where seventy men resembling Fang Cheng were gathered.

• Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing watched the armed group take Gongyuan Hang through a sewer in a motorized waterproof capsule and disperse under cover of electromagnetic jamming.
• Fang Cheng tracked Gongyuan Hang with his Blood Beast Nest, while Nakajima Tomoya revealed that SOT had implanted a tracking device in him and Kishibe Yoshikatsu realized SOT had accepted its agents’ deaths as necessary sacrifices.
• Mysterious people pulled Gongyuan Hang from the sewer, hooded him, and drove him from Tokyo to an abandoned village estate guarded by hundreds of armed personnel.
• The captors brought Gongyuan Hang and sixty-nine other hooded prisoners into a room, then removed their hoods and restraints at a man’s command.
• Fang Cheng saw that all seventy prisoners had faces identical to his.

Hasegawa Kohei told the seventy captives that they were products of Fujiwara Hirotetsu’s Gene Editing Project and explained that his resistance group had rescued them from the SOT. Before he could finish, SOT forces launched an artillery strike on the village, leaving Nakajima Tomoya watching the attack from nearby.

• Hasegawa Kohei introduced himself and told the captives that Fujiwara Hirotetsu had created them through the Gene Editing Project and placed them in orphanages across Tokyo.
• Hasegawa Kohei explained that Fujiwara Hirotetsu had used natural selection to find geniuses and that the resistance planned to evacuate the captives from Tokyo.
• Hasegawa Kohei described his group as a resistance organization and invited the captives to join.
• An artillery shell struck the village, shaking the building and injuring captives with flying glass.
• Nakajima Tomoya watched the attack through a drone feed as SOT soldiers set up a position outside the village.