Chapter Summaries

Nangong Saya tried to cross the strait but was ambushed by a large group demanding an item and password. Just as they captured her, a blood-red sparrow appeared and a red Iron Suit descended to attack her assailants.

• Nangong Saya arrived at the shore and attacked the captain and the people waiting there when they surrounded her.
• Nangong Saya fought her way along the beach, but the bald man and his forces surrounded her and demanded the item and password.
• Nangong Saya ran out of ammunition and was captured, but refused to reveal the password.
• The bald man ordered his men to break Nangong Saya's limbs and remove her Mechanical Arm.
• A blood-red sparrow landed in front of Nangong Saya, and a barrage of bullets rained down on the crowd.
• A person wearing a red Iron Suit descended onto the beach.

Fang Cheng rescued Nangong Saya from a group of armed men on the shore and brought her back to the hotel. After asking how she had traveled from Tokyo, he heard her say she had had terrible luck.

• Fang Cheng arrived in his armored suit and killed the men attacking Nangong Saya, including a bald cyborg who challenged him.
• Fang Cheng revealed his identity to Nangong Saya, then carried her away from the shore using short bursts of explosive thrust.
• Fang Cheng flew with Nangong Saya to the city, where the bumpy ride left her feeling sick and battered.
• Back at the hotel, Fang Cheng asked Nangong Saya how she had come from Tokyo, and she sighed that she had had the worst luck.

Nangong Saya told Fang Cheng how a dying friend had entrusted her with an item to deliver to Machine City, and Fang Cheng discovered a tracker hidden on her. He arranged to take her across the strait, while Tsukikage Hoshi wondered whether his trip was connected to a particular matter.

• Nangong Saya explained that her friend had given her an item and a string of numbers for delivery to Machine City, and that enemies had pursued her from Tokyo to Aomori Prefecture.
• Fang Cheng asked why Nangong Saya did not hand the item to her attackers, and she insisted she would honor her promise to her friend.
• Fang Cheng found a tiny spider-like tracker on Nangong Saya and told her that a sparrow had spotted it in her hair.
• Fang Cheng offered to take Nangong Saya across the strait, then asked Tsukikage Hoshi to provide clothes for her and make room for one more passenger.
• Tsukikage Hoshi agreed to take Nangong Saya and wondered whether Fang Cheng's plans were related to that matter.

Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya crossed the strait with Tsukikage Hoshi and arrived in Machine City, where Fang Cheng agreed to help Saya deliver an item that night. After they left, Tsukikage Hoshi sent Qin to follow them because she feared Saya’s errand was tied to the unrest in the city.

• Tsukikage Hoshi took Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya across the strait by ship, and Fang Cheng saw Monsters boarding ships to leave for the big city.
• Tsukikage Hoshi explained that Machine City lured people to work in its farms and factories and did not let them leave.
• After reaching Machine City, Fang Cheng agreed to accompany Nangong Saya to deliver her item that night.
• Tsukikage Hoshi warned Fang Cheng to conceal his identity, then sent the black cat Qin to follow him and Saya.

Nangong Saya and Fang Cheng went to deliver an item at Number 26, Seventh Alley, Central Avenue, but discovered the empty house was a trap. Fang Cheng fought off the ambush and fled with Nangong Saya as armed forces and drones closed in around them.

• Nangong Saya and Fang Cheng found Number 26 empty, and Fang Cheng detected blood and signs that someone had recently been there.
• Fang Cheng spotted approaching vehicles and tried to leave with Nangong Saya, but an explosion engulfed the house entrance.
• Fang Cheng shielded Nangong Saya, armored himself with blood, and told her to hide in the bedroom.
• Fang Cheng flew out through the smoke, dodged rockets, and bombarded the armed men and their vehicles with blood-made weapons.
• Nangong Saya climbed into Fang Cheng's arms, and he flew away as vehicles and more than a hundred drones pursued them.

Fang Cheng tried to escape Machine City with Nangong Saya while Councilor Siye Hui ordered their capture and Tsukikage Hoshi arranged to intervene. After Fang Cheng landed, the pair found themselves surrounded by monsters, drones, and tanks.

• Fang Cheng used Blood Eagles to destroy pursuing drones and tried to evade a missile, which detonated among the Blood Eagles.
• Siye Hui ordered his forces to capture Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya, while his father warned that Cyborgs would be held off for less than forty minutes.
• Tsukikage Hoshi asked Karin to contact Speaker Kozaki and told Fang Cheng to stop fighting until she arrived.
• Fang Cheng told Karin that the Machine City forces had attacked first and joked that killing more than a hundred people by the coast had been an accident.
• Nangong Saya climbed down from Fang Cheng and saw monsters on the rooftops, drones overhead, and tanks blocking the street.

Fang Cheng escaped a tank-backed encirclement with Nangong Saya in his Blood Battle Suit and flew to confront Siye Hui. After trapping the convoy, he faced another large force and learned that Siye Hui was a council member backed by his powerful father, Siye Yuta.

• Fang Cheng warned Tsukikage Kari to bring her Landlady quickly, then covered Nangong Saya in a Blood Battle Suit.
• Fang Cheng carried Nangong Saya out of the tank bombardment and flew toward Siye Hui's position.
• Siye Hui berated his officers after Fang Cheng escaped, then spotted Fang Cheng approaching and fled with them.
• Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya crashed onto the convoy's lead vehicle, and Fang Cheng destroyed two cars to block its escape.
• Tanks, drones, and armed troops surrounded Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya as Siye Hui stepped out of a car.
• Fang Cheng asked Nangong Saya about Siye Hui, and she identified him as a Machine City council member and Siye Yuta's son.

Fang Cheng used his Lying Ghost's Words ability to trap Siye Hui in an illusion and torment him until he obeyed. Siye Hui finally agreed to explain why he had mobilized such a large force.

• Siye Hui demanded that Fang Cheng hand over Nangong Saya, but Fang Cheng approached him despite the armed guards.
• Fang Cheng caught Siye Hui in the Lying Ghost's Words illusion and made him believe his arm had been severed.
• Fang Cheng explained the ability's range and limitations, then ordered Siye Hui to do as he said.
• Fang Cheng forced Siye Hui to repeatedly act like an arrogant heir, cutting off his arm even after approving his performance.
• Fang Cheng asked why Siye Hui had mobilized such a large force, and Siye Hui begged to tell him.

Siye Hui explained that Machine City’s factions were fighting over a sealed arsenal containing a secret weapon, and that Nangong Saya’s friend had given her its key and password before dying. Fang Cheng escaped with Nangong Saya after injuring Siye Hui, who was killed when he ordered his men to pursue them.

• Siye Hui told Fang Cheng that Machine City had discovered a secret weapon in a sealed Sapporo arsenal and that its factions were battling over the key and password.
• Siye Hui claimed the dead recipient was a Cyborg soldier and explained that the Cyborg faction had been trapped in its stronghold by the other factions.
• Fang Cheng dispelled Lying Ghost’s Words, causing Siye Hui’s imagined severed arm to become real and leaving him badly injured.
• Fang Cheng entered Overload Mode, grabbed Nangong Saya, and leaped away while Siye Hui’s men rushed to help him.
• Siye Hui ordered his men to kill Fang Cheng, and a sparrow landed on his head and exploded, killing him.

After Siye Hui’s death, Fang Cheng escaped Machine City’s search with Nangong Saya and returned to Tsukikage Hoshi’s home with help from Tsukikage Qin. There, they met Kozaki Wataru, the Speaker of Machine City.

• With Machine City’s forces searching for them, Fang Cheng refused Nangong Saya’s offer to go alone and carried her away from danger.
• Fang Cheng teased Nangong Saya about helping her because of her breasts, and she clung to him instead of insisting on leaving.
• Tsukikage Qin found Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya, drove them through Machine City, and brought them to Tsukikage Hoshi’s home.
• Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya arrived to find Tsukikage Hoshi and an old man waiting in the living room.
• The old man introduced himself to Fang Cheng as Kozaki Wataru, the current Speaker of Machine City.

Fang Cheng and Tsukikage Hoshi negotiated with Kozaki Wataru, who took possession of the armory key and password. As Fang Cheng prepared to leave Machine City with Nangong Saya, he asked her if she had something to tell him.

• Fang Cheng met Kozaki Wataru and warned him not to investigate his identity, while assuring him he had no interest in Machine City's internal affairs.
• Nangong Saya handed Kozaki Wataru the armory key and password, and he promised she would be rewarded.
• Tsukikage Hoshi warned Kozaki Wataru that destroying the key would be a stronger guarantee, but he refused because the armory weapons protected Machine City.
• Tsukikage Hoshi told Fang Cheng to leave before Siye Yuta could retaliate for his son's death, and arranged for Nangong Saya to be escorted back to Tokyo.
• Fang Cheng and Nangong Saya drove behind Tsukikage Hoshi's car, and Fang Cheng asked Nangong Saya what she wanted to tell him.

Fang Cheng learned that Nangong Saya was a Machine City agent and heard the truth about her past. He let her go, but after teasing her by inspecting her mechanical arm, he suddenly kissed her and pressed her onto the car hood.

• Fang Cheng confronted Nangong Saya about recognizing Siye Hui and knowing a way out of Machine City, and she admitted she was an agent sent to Tokyo by Machine City.
• Nangong Saya told Fang Cheng that her parents had been Machine City agents, that she had become an agent as a minor, and that she had taken over an assignment to escort a key and password after her friend died.
• Fang Cheng stopped the car in the countryside and told Nangong Saya to drive to the coast, where the Landlady's people would take her back, making clear he would not arrest her.
• Fang Cheng asked to touch Nangong Saya as much as he wanted, then examined her mechanical arm while she expected him to touch her body.
• Fang Cheng kissed Nangong Saya and pressed her down onto the car hood.

After Fang Cheng kissed Nangong Saya, she left for Machine City while he traveled with Tsukikage Hoshi toward the Iron-Cast Palace. Seeing the Monster society in Kamikawa District, Fang Cheng questioned why humanity had failed to defeat the Monsters.

• Fang Cheng stopped kissing Nangong Saya, and she asked when he would return to Tokyo before driving away.
• Tsukikage Hoshi asked whether Fang Cheng was really a Vampire, and he said he might still have a little humanity left.
• Fang Cheng and Tsukikage Hoshi rode toward the Iron-Cast Palace through Monster-controlled Hokkaido.
• Fang Cheng observed that Monsters had built an orderly society around farming and work.
• Fang Cheng asked Tsukikage Hoshi why humans could not deal with the Monsters despite their military technology and superpowered individuals.

Tsukikage Hoshi explained that monsters could not be wiped out because killing them caused their numbers to grow rapidly, and Fang Cheng learned why humanity had stopped trying to defeat them outright. They reached the Iron-Cast Palace in Ibuki, where Fang Cheng’s marriage certificate to Yuguang Qingxue drew a knowing reaction from the guards.

• Tsukikage Hoshi told Fang Cheng that monsters multiplied rapidly whenever humans killed them, making victory in a war impossible.
• Fang Cheng realized that humanity had developed supernatural abilities to withstand the monsters’ endless attacks and schemes.
• Fang Cheng and Tsukikage Hoshi entered Ibuki and traveled up Sounkyo to the Iron-Cast Palace gates.
• Fang Cheng showed his marriage certificate to Yuguang Qingxue, and a Ghost Samurai let them pass after recognizing him as her husband.
• Tsukikage Hoshi told Fang Cheng that Yuguang Qingxue had plenty of admirers.

Fang Cheng arrived at the Iron-Cast Palace and settled into a residence while Tsukikage Hoshi tried to arrange a meeting with the Ghost Lord. She learned the Ghost Lord had been absent for over half a month, leaving his sons to contend over control of the palace.

• Tsukikage Hoshi warned Fang Cheng that Yuguang Qingxue had many suitors and that he might face trouble at the Iron-Cast Palace.
• Tsukikage Hoshi said the Ghost Lord was too busy to meet Fang Cheng soon and arranged a secluded residence for him.
• Fang Cheng explored his comfortable residence and viewed the neon-lit Iron-Cast Palace from its roof.
• Tsukikage Hoshi was refused an audience with the Ghost Lord and went to meet her superior, Oni Takizawa.
• Oni Takizawa told Tsukikage Hoshi that the Ghost Lord had been absent for over half a month and that his elder brother was replacing palace commanders with his own people.

Fang Cheng gathered information about Iron-Cast Palace, its ruling factions, and the growing conflict over human corpse supplies while waiting for the Landlady. On his fifth day there, Ghost Samurai arrived at his door, and the chapter left him facing trouble without the Landlady present.

• Fang Cheng explored Iron-Cast Palace and gathered firsthand information about its entertainment venues and monster society.
• Fang Cheng learned that Shuten-doji had founded Iron-Cast Palace and that the Ghost Lord's children were competing factions with possible motives for attacking the Yuguang Family.
• Fang Cheng discovered that Tsukikage Hoshi served Oni Takizawa and heard rumors that Oni Rakshasa was taking over state affairs while the Ghost Lord remained absent.
• Fang Cheng learned that the shortage of human corpse products followed Aoki Tsuna's death and the Yuguang Family's failure to find a new middleman.
• Fang Cheng tested whether monsters benefited from eating his flesh and found that it satisfied their urge to eat humans, but the sight of a monster eating a corpse product later made him feel sick.
• On his fifth day in Iron-Cast Palace, Fang Cheng opened his door to a group of unfriendly Ghost Samurai while the Landlady was still away.

Ghost Samurai commander Hayakawa Hideki confronted Fang Cheng over his marriage to Yuguang Qingxue and demanded that he prove he could make her happy. Fang Cheng claimed he made her happy in bed, leaving Hayakawa furious and with no proof.

• Hayakawa Hideki arrived at Fang Cheng's home with Ghost Samurai and asked whether he was Yuguang Qingxue's husband.
• Hayakawa and his subordinates accused Fang Cheng of tricking Yuguang Qingxue into marrying him and urged him to divorce her.
• Fang Cheng said he was willing to divorce Yuguang Qingxue and that she would likely leave him when she returned.
• Hayakawa stopped Fang Cheng from closing the door and challenged his ability to protect Yuguang Qingxue.
• Fang Cheng said Yuguang Qingxue protected him, then told Hayakawa that he made her happy in bed when asked to prove it.

Fang Cheng faced Hayakawa Hideki’s challenge after the Ghost Samurai mocked him and demanded that he divorce Yuguang Qingxue. He fought unarmed while concealing his abilities, and the chapter ended as Hayakawa’s three blades closed in from different directions.

• Hayakawa Hideki challenged Fang Cheng to a duel and demanded that he leave Yuguang Qingxue, while the Ghost Samurai jeered at Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng walked out to accept the fight after Hayakawa threatened to drive him from Iron-Cast Palace.
• Fang Cheng declared that he would fight using an unarmed sword style, angering Hayakawa and the watching Ghost Samurai.
• Hayakawa attacked with a series of rapid sword strikes, and Fang Cheng dodged them without fighting back.
• Hayakawa split his sword into three blades and sent them toward Fang Cheng from different directions.

Fang Cheng defeated Hayakawa Hideki and the Ghost Samurai, then explained his Universal Three Fists as swordsmanship without a sword. When police officer Yamada Yu arrived, Hayakawa stayed silent and let Fang Cheng be accused of attacking the police.

• Hayakawa Hideki used Swallow Return against Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng trapped his katana between his palms and defeated him with three punches.
• More than a dozen Ghost Samurai attacked Fang Cheng, who swiftly knocked them down without killing them.
• Hayakawa asked about Fang Cheng's fighting style, and Fang Cheng called it the Universal Three Fists and claimed it was an unarmed sword technique.
• Yamada Yu arrived with the police, aimed his pistol at Fang Cheng, and accused him of attacking the police.
• Hayakawa stayed silent rather than explain that they had been sparring, so Yamada ordered the officers to take Fang Cheng in.

Fang Cheng fought off Yamada Yu and the Ghost Samurai who tried to arrest him, then learned that General Xiayuan had ordered them to wait for troublemakers. The Ghost Princess arrived as the injured guards accused Fang Cheng, leaving him to see whether she would intervene or side with them.

• Yamada Yu ordered the Ghost Samurai to arrest Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng fought them off and disarmed Yamada Yu.
• Fang Cheng trapped Yamada Yu in an illusion, tortured him for answers, and learned that General Xiayuan had arranged the arrest.
• Fang Cheng wounded Hayakawa Hideki when he tried to stop him, then decided to leave the situation for the Landlady to handle.
• The Ghost Princess arrived with an armed escort, and an injured Ghost Samurai accused Fang Cheng while he watched to see how she would respond.