Recaps

Fang Cheng abandoned his plan to compete with the established monster corpse collectors and decided to seek work with one instead. Asaka Akie grew more openly attached to him, while the chapter ended with Fang Cheng punching down a girl who suddenly jumped out at him and his friends.

• Kanzaki Rin rejected Fang Cheng's proposal to start a monster corpse collection business and explained that established collectors already had government approval and connections.
• Fang Cheng found black-market listings with high prices for monster corpses, but Kanzaki Rin refused to let him sell the Giant Toad corpse.
• Asaka Akie showed concern for Fang Cheng, and he teased Sato Hayato about being jealous of their closeness.
• Fang Cheng told Asaka Akie he would join the established corpse collector rather than compete with him.
• After school, a girl jumped out in front of Fang Cheng, Asaka Akie, and Sato Hayato, and Fang Cheng knocked her down with one punch.

Fang Cheng accidentally knocked down Sato Mai, then teased Sato Hayato until Mai and their mother mistook Hayato for a boy interested in men. After parting from Asaka Akie at the subway, Fang Cheng joined Kanzaki Rin for another hunt, and called someone before they set off.

• Fang Cheng knocked down Sato Mai when she jumped out to surprise him, and she apologized for the prank.
• Fang Cheng teased Sato Hayato about hentai manga, prompting Mai to call their mother and report that Hayato might have a boyfriend.
• Sato Hayato fled in embarrassment after his mother threatened him over the phone, and Mai ran after him.
• Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie continued to the subway, where Akie blushed and stepped on his foot after asking about hentai manga.
• That night, Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin got into her car to hunt another target, and Fang Cheng dialed a number before they left.

Fang Cheng tried to get a job at the Fox Immortal House, but the call ended in rejection and he teased Kanzaki Rin during their drive. They arrived at the Fourth Layer to deal with an Earthbound Spirit, where Fang Cheng received a blessed Vajra Pestle and immediately suggested using it to unclog his toilet.

• Fang Cheng called the Fox Immortal House to ask for a job, but the receptionist refused to hire him.
• Kanzaki Rin offered to ask around about the Fox Immortal House's location, then threatened to withhold food when Fang Cheng teased her.
• Kanzaki Rin drove Fang Cheng to the Fourth Layer, where they planned to handle an Earthbound Spirit that had begun disturbing residents in a high-rise.
• Kanzaki Rin gave Fang Cheng a blessed Vajra Pestle for fighting the spirit, and he joked that he would use it to unclog his toilet.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin investigated a haunted building, where they discovered intruders performing a ritual around an Earthbound Spirit and rescued the bound Sato Hayato. The last intruder transformed into an old man and summoned a towering phantom as the fight continued.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin climbed to the sealed upper floors and found footprints from at least five people leading toward the top floor.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin reached a spotless, seemingly normal corridor and prepared for danger, but Fang Cheng had to unlock the final room with hardened blood.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin entered and found three people performing a ritual around a semi-transparent girl, with Sato Hayato bound in the corner.
• Fang Cheng pierced one intruder with a blood javelin, and Kanzaki Rin electrocuted another with her stun gun.
• The last intruder dodged Fang Cheng's next javelin, read from a black scripture, rapidly aged into a white-haired old man, and summoned a towering phantom.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin fought an Evil God's projection that nearly killed them, but they drove it away with the Vajra Pestle and Dharma Bell. Afterward, Fang Cheng found that a human corpse had yielded energy, a Reading point, and a Life fragment.

• Kanzaki Rin attacked the phantom with her electric gun while Fang Cheng's javelin passed through it, and the phantom severed his arm with its greatsword.
• Kanzaki Rin rang the Vajra Dharma Bell to weaken the phantom, and Fang Cheng used his blood to shield her from its attack.
• Fang Cheng entered the Blood of Madness state, retrieved the Vajra Pestle, and charged the phantom as it attacked him, losing both legs before regenerating them.
• Fang Cheng struck the phantom with the Vajra Pestle, making it disappear, while his spit landed on Sato Hayato's forehead.
• Fang Cheng searched the corpses and absorbed energy from one, receiving Reading +1 and Life (Fragment 1/3) +1.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin rescued Sato Hayato from an Ultimate Bliss Cult ritual, and Fang gained new abilities and another revival by killing the surviving cultist. As Fang approached the weakening Earthbound Spirit, Sato Hayato suddenly told him to wait.

• Fang Cheng freed Sato Hayato and learned that cultists had kidnapped him while he was buying soy sauce and used two other civilians in a ritual.
• Kanzaki Rin identified the cultists as members of the Ultimate Bliss Cult and explained that they had performed a Spirit Offering Ritual to summon an Evil God Projection.
• Fang Cheng killed the unconscious cultist, gained a Life Fragment and a Translation ability, and merged the fragment into another life.
• The Earthbound Spirit pleaded with Sato Hayato for help as Fang Cheng approached her with his bloodstained knife.
• Sato Hayato called out to Fang Cheng to wait.

Fang Cheng killed the Earthbound Spirit despite Sato Hayato’s plea to help her, then revealed that she had killed six civilians. After the fight, Kanzaki Rin called for help with the cult-related aftermath while Fang Cheng prepared to drive her car back.

• Sato Hayato asked Fang Cheng to help the crying Earthbound Spirit, and Fang Cheng killed her with the Vajra Pestle, gaining Undead Vision +1.
• Fang Cheng challenged Sato Hayato’s sympathy for the spirit, and Kanzaki Rin explained that it had killed six civilians, including two children.
• The top floor returned to its decayed state, and Sato Hayato panicked when he touched a skull in the darkness.
• Kanzaki Rin gave Fang Cheng her car keys and said she had to call someone because the incident involved a cult and an Evil God.

Kanzaki Rin struggled to claim credit for defeating the Evil God's projection without exposing Fang Cheng, and she called her half-brother Kamikawa Takumi for help. After Sato Hayato reunited with his family, a woman from the Ultimate Bliss Cult watched his sister Sato Mai and identified her as a new Holy Seed; the next day, Sato Hayato confronted Fang Cheng at school.

• Fang Cheng kept asking Kanzaki Rin whether the Countermeasure Department paid a bonus for monster corpses, then left after she angrily dismissed him.
• Kanzaki Rin called Kamikawa Takumi for help, but she hung up when a woman's scream and Kamikawa's flustered explanation made their call sound indecent.
• Kamikawa Takumi rushed to the Fourth Layer to repair his image, while Sato Hayato kept Fang Cheng's existence secret during questioning and reunited with his family.
• A woman watching Sato Mai outside the Countermeasure Department reported that she had found a new Holy Seed.
• Fang Cheng hid the Vajra Pestle, examined the abilities he had gained, and researched the Ultimate Bliss Cult before going to bed.
• At school the next day, Sato Hayato appeared battered and told Fang Cheng to take responsibility for him.

Fang Cheng learned how Sato Hayato’s family mistook him for gay because of the manga Fang Cheng had recommended, and later spoke with Asaka Akie about the Ultimate Bliss Cult. After effortlessly fending off Takeda Masumi’s attacks, Fang Cheng remembered something he wanted to ask her.

• Asaka Akie overheard Sato Hayato’s words and suspected he and Fang Cheng had a secret relationship, while Fang Cheng threatened Sato for being easy to misunderstand.
• Sato Hayato explained that his family had beaten him after finding the gay manga he had downloaded from Fang Cheng’s notes, and Fang Cheng apologized and offered to make amends.
• Fang Cheng asked Asaka Akie about her landlady’s Ultimate Bliss Cult; Asaka said she knew about it but did not believe in it, and Fang Cheng offered to help if the landlady caused trouble.
• Asaka Akie smiled at Fang Cheng’s offer, then fell behind him on the way back to class with a dull, lifeless expression.
• During training, Takeda Masumi failed to land a hit on Fang Cheng, who was distracted; he tried to comfort her, then boasted that he was a genius and teased her about thinking he would stay single.
• Fang Cheng told Takeda Masumi not to be scared and said he had something to ask her.

Fang Cheng learned that Nangong Saya’s Mechanical Arm likely came from a government modification project, then caught Kanzaki Rin searching his apartment for the Vajra Pestle. He left Kanzaki pinned on the floor, refusing to let her up until she answered him.

• Fang Cheng asked Takeda Masumi about Nangong Saya’s Mechanical Arm, and Takeda said Saya had probably joined a government mechanical-modification project.
• Fang Cheng teased Takeda Masumi about her chest before leaving the Training Ground early.
• Fang Cheng noticed his door’s security mark was gone, entered his apartment quietly, and found Kanzaki Rin rummaging beneath his bed.
• Kanzaki Rin pulled a box free after Fang Cheng smacked her, then attacked him and was quickly knocked down.
• Fang Cheng pinned Kanzaki Rin and learned she had come to retrieve the Vajra Pestle, while she demanded to be let up.

Fang Cheng kept the Vajra Pestle from Kanzaki Rin and embarrassed her by revealing a lifelike sex doll in the box where she thought it was hidden. Kanzaki Rin then told him she had been recommended for the Countermeasure Department’s superpower training program and would be leaving for a while, though she suspected Kamikawa Takumi had helped secure the opportunity.

• Fang Cheng refused to return the Vajra Pestle and let Kanzaki Rin open the box under his bed.
• Kanzaki Rin found a lifelike sex doll in the box and scolded Fang Cheng for buying it while complaining that he was broke.
• Fang Cheng defended the doll and argued that the Vajra Pestle belonged with it as a ritual implement, leaving Kanzaki Rin too exasperated to continue.
• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng she had been recommended for the Countermeasure Department’s internal superpower training program and would be away for a while.
• Kanzaki Rin suspected Kamikawa Takumi had secured her recommendation through a deal with the department’s senior leadership, but resolved to take the opportunity and pursue her hidden goal.

Kanzaki Rin left for rare Countermeasure Department training, warning Fang Cheng that someone was targeting him and telling him to invoke her name if he met Kamikawa Takumi. After days without her, Fang Cheng went out hunting monsters and encountered Asaka Akie at the Edogawa River, acting unlike herself and without her glasses.

• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng she would be away for one to six months for annual internal training and warned him to seek Masumi if he ran into trouble.
• Kanzaki Rin said Fang Cheng should tell Kamikawa Takumi her name if Takumi tried to kill him, then promised to find the address of Fox Immortal House.
• Kanzaki Rin left for training without finding the address, and Takeda Masumi explained how few Countermeasure Department members qualified for the training.
• Fang Cheng stayed home to train for several days, then rode his scooter out at night to look for monsters and earn money.
• Fang Cheng found Asaka Akie standing on the river railing, shouting at fate and the world without her glasses.

Fang Cheng met Ye Yuqing, who shared Asaka Akie's body, and fought her after she challenged him. He took her home on his motorcycle and stopped at a convenience store, where he bought ten boxes of condoms.

• Fang Cheng realized the woman by the river was Ye Yuqing, who said she shared Asaka Akie's body and could be thought of as her older sister.
• Ye Yuqing punched at Fang Cheng and challenged him to fight, and he eventually knocked her down and threw her onto the grass.
• Fang Cheng asked whether Ye Yuqing had been the one who beat up the female students, and she admitted it.
• Ye Yuqing suggested that she and Fang Cheng try grown-up games, but he declined and took her home on his motorcycle.
• Fang Cheng stopped at a convenience store and asked the cashier for ten boxes of condoms.

Fang Cheng took Ye Yuqing to a love hotel, where she discovered he meant a mobile-game challenge rather than an adult game. After they returned home, Ye Yuqing confronted Grandma Matsuda, who continued preaching about the approaching Day of Divine Descent and Ultimate Bliss Heaven.

• Fang Cheng bought ten boxes of the largest condoms, embarrassing Ye Yuqing when he told her what he had purchased.
• At the love hotel, Ye Yuqing tried to escape Fang Cheng, but he explained that he wanted to play a one-on-one mobile game with condom-blowing and exercise as penalties.
• Fang Cheng beat Ye Yuqing in every match, making her blow up the condoms and complete hundreds of sit-ups and squats.
• Fang Cheng asked Ye Yuqing about Grandma Matsuda, then left her at home and rode away on his motorcycle.
• Grandma Matsuda came downstairs and offered to make Ye Yuqing noodles, but Ye Yuqing splashed water in her face and went to her room as Grandma Matsuda preached about eternal bliss.

Fang Cheng let Asaka Akie believe he and Ye Yuqing had been intimate, then explained that they had only played mobile games and exercised as penalties. The chapter ended with the Ultimate Bliss Cult storyline beginning.

• Asaka Akie avoided Fang Cheng at school, while Sato Hayato appeared exhausted and distracted.
• At lunch, Asaka Akie asked Fang Cheng what she and Ye Yuqing had done the night before, since Ye Yuqing had left an incomplete diary entry.
• Fang Cheng described their visit to a love hotel and teased Asaka Akie with misleading details about games, exercise penalties, and ten boxes of little umbrellas.
• Asaka Akie panicked and feared Ye Yuqing had used her body to sleep with Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng clarified that he and Ye Yuqing had only played mobile games, done exercises, and blown up umbrellas for fun.

Fang Cheng teased Asaka Akie about her relationship with Ye Yuqing, then grew concerned that their shared body might connect them to the Ultimate Bliss Cult. After school, Sato Hayato approached Fang Cheng to ask for help.

• Asaka Akie explained that she and Ye Yuqing usually shared experiences through a diary, and that Ye Yuqing was currently asleep while Akie controlled their body.
• Fang Cheng joked about the two personalities marrying different people, embarrassing Asaka Akie until she hurried back to class.
• Fang Cheng recalled that the Ultimate Bliss Cult worshipped twin goddesses sharing one body and suspected a connection to Asaka Akie and her family’s landlady, but decided not to investigate unless Akie asked for help.
• After school, Sato Hayato furtively asked Fang Cheng for help, and Fang Cheng refused unless Sato was a busty beauty.

Fang Cheng agreed to investigate Sato Mai’s suspicion that someone was following her, especially after Sato Hayato suspected the Ultimate Bliss Cult was involved. The two arranged to discreetly watch Mai after school, with Hayato picking her up as usual and Fang Cheng following at a distance.

• Sato Hayato asked Fang Cheng for help after explaining that his sister Mai felt someone was secretly watching her, though the police and their family had found nothing.
• Hayato suspected the Ultimate Bliss Cult was behind the stalking, reminding Fang Cheng that cultists had previously kidnapped him.
• Fang Cheng weighed the danger against his concern for Hayato and Asaka Akie, then agreed to investigate without promising results.
• Fang Cheng told Hayato to pick Mai up as usual while he watched from a distance, and the two exchanged phone numbers before separating at the school gates.

Fang Cheng followed Sato Hayato and Sato Mai after noticing a sedan tailing them, then confronted and defeated the man watching them. The man refused to explain himself until Fang Cheng showed fake Countermeasure Department credentials, prompting him to claim he was innocent.

• Sato Hayato met Sato Mai at the junior high school and took her out for pastries while Fang Cheng followed them.
• Fang Cheng noticed a black sedan tailing the siblings and tracked it as Sato Hayato and Sato Mai entered a pastry shop.
• Fang Cheng questioned the suited man in sunglasses, tried to provoke a reaction by promoting the Ultimate Bliss Cult, and plastered flyers on his car.
• The man chased Fang Cheng into a quiet alley, where Fang Cheng beat him and found a listening device, weapons, pills, and fake police IDs.
• When a patrol drone warned Fang Cheng to stop, he presented fake Countermeasure Department credentials, and the man changed his tune and called himself innocent.

Fang Cheng discovered that Sato Mai’s supposed pursuer was actually a bodyguard hired by her parents, then returned to his routine while monsters hid from Kamikawa Takumi’s purge. The chapter ended when Sato Hayato called to say Mai had gone missing.

• Fang Cheng brought Sato Hayato and Sato Mai to meet Omura Sho, and Sato Hayato confirmed with his father that Omura was Mai’s hired bodyguard.
• Fang Cheng apologized to Omura Sho, then left after confirming there was no other suspicious person nearby.
• Sato Mai teased her brother about Fang Cheng and asked him for Fang’s phone number in exchange for keeping quiet about his online searches.
• Takeda Masumi told Fang Cheng that Kamikawa Takumi had killed numerous monsters, driving others into hiding and leaving Fang unable to find any.
• Sato Hayato called Fang Cheng and told him that Sato Mai had gone missing.

After refusing to help Sato Hayato search for his missing sister, Fang Cheng watched him leave, troubled by his own irritation. A cultist then attacked Sato Hayato outside Fang Cheng’s home, forcing Fang Cheng to intervene before the man could kill him.

• Sato Hayato told Fang Cheng that Sato Mai had vanished on her way home and that her bodyguard had been found dead, but Fang Cheng said he could not help search for her.
• Sato Hayato visited Fang Cheng in person and begged for help, but Fang Cheng again said he was unable to find Sato Mai.
• After Sato Hayato left, a man in a cap revealed that his group had taken Sato Mai to make her a Saintess and attacked Sato Hayato.
• Fang Cheng hurled a crimson blade at the man in the cap, interrupting his attempt to crush Sato Hayato’s throat.

Fang Cheng defeated and killed the man in the hat, a fanatic from the Ultimate Bliss Cult, but learned that Sato Mai was still missing. After Sato Hayato recognized the attacker from an earlier encounter, Fang Cheng asked Takeda Masumi to investigate the man’s movements and set out with Sato Hayato to dispose of the body.

• The man in the hat attacked Fang Cheng, who used his blood-controlling ability to overpower him and demand Sato Mai’s whereabouts.
• The man in the hat refused to answer, and Fang Cheng tortured him until Sato Hayato ran off to vomit.
• Fang Cheng killed the fanatic, searched his body, and found a Life Fragment, an Ability Fragment, and a locked phone.
• Sato Hayato remembered bumping into the man in the hat at a pastry shop and told Fang Cheng when and where it happened.
• Fang Cheng sent the man’s photo to Invincible Iron Fist and called Takeda Masumi to request an investigation and help with security cameras.
• Fang Cheng put the corpse in a body bag and told Sato Hayato to come with him.

Fang Cheng and Sato Hayato rushed to the inn where the man in the hat had stayed, hoping to find Sato Mai. After learning that three cultists remained in Room 209, Fang Cheng broke in and attacked them.

• Fang Cheng took Sato Hayato to the inn identified by Takeda Masumi, bringing him along in case cultists were watching.
• Fang Cheng and Sato Hayato wore Ultraman masks, and Fang Cheng persuaded the receptionist to reveal that the man in the hat had stayed in Room 209 with three others.
• The receptionist shut down the inn’s cameras, but her phone lost its signal after Fang Cheng and Sato Hayato went inside.
• Fang Cheng posed as a delivery guy at Room 209, then smashed through the door and impaled the cultist who looked through the peephole.
• Fang Cheng threw a spear through a second cultist and transformed his other spear into a saber to disarm and punch the last attacker across the room.

Fang Cheng interrogated an Ultimate Bliss Cult member and learned that Sato Mai had been taken out of Tokyo to prepare for a sacrificial ceremony, but he could not find out where she was. After dropping Sato Hayato at home, Fang Cheng received a call from Asaka Akie just before dawn.

• Fang Cheng tortured a surviving cultist until he revealed that Sato Mai had been sent away from the Third Layer and might be taken somewhere outside Tokyo.
• The cultist said Sato Mai was a Holy Seed meant to become a Saintess and would be taken to a ceremony on the Day of Divine Descent, but he did not know the location.
• Fang Cheng tricked the cultist into believing he would spare him, then had Sato Hayato kill him; Hayato was shaken by the experience.
• Fang Cheng called Takeda Masumi, learned she had already sent people to handle the bodies, and left the inn with Sato Hayato after knocking out a motorcycle thief.
• Fang Cheng promised to ask a friend to investigate the cult and took Sato Hayato home, where Asaka Akie called him just before dawn.

After Asaka Akie called Fang Cheng in tears, he realized she was in danger and raced to act. At her home, her other personality, Ye Yuqing, resisted her mother’s abuse and rejected the cultists’ path to Ultimate Bliss Heaven.

• Asaka Akie called Fang Cheng, apologized, gave him everyday reminders, and ended the call after saying it was too late for him to call her “big sister.”
• Fang Cheng connected Asaka Akie’s crisis to the Ultimate Bliss Cult and asked Sato Hayato whether Sato Mai had a dual personality; Sato Hayato confirmed she did.
• Fang Cheng resolved to help Asaka Akie and drove away, telling Sato Hayato to stay safe.
• Asaka Shizuko beat Asaka Akie before the cult painting, blaming her for her father’s and younger brother’s deaths and demanding that she atone.
• Ye Yuqing took control, stopped Asaka Shizuko’s attack, broke the bamboo switch, and walked past the gathered cultists, calling their route to Ultimate Bliss Heaven a road to death.

Edo Reina killed Sato Hayato’s parents and attacked him, revealing that his sister had been targeted as a Holy Seed. Driven by rage, Sato Hayato awakened a powerful telekinetic ability, but as Edo Reina prepared to kill him, two blood-red spears burst through the front door.

• Sato Hayato returned home and found his parents dead, with Edo Reina waiting for him.
• Sato Hayato repeatedly charged Edo Reina, but she knocked him down and revealed that his sister had been discovered as a Holy Seed because of him.
• Edo Reina prepared to kill Sato Hayato, who awakened a superpower and hurled objects at her with his mind.
• Edo Reina dodged Sato Hayato’s attacks and struck him down as his strength faded.
• Edo Reina retreated when a warning alerted her to danger, and two blood-red spears pierced through the front door toward her.