Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin negotiated a partnership to eliminate the Vampires, with Kanzaki agreeing to provide information, training, and financial support. As they prepared to begin, Fang Cheng asked her to supply pig's blood, leaving Kanzaki confused about what Vampires could drink.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin agreed to cooperate after she accepted his requests for monster information, ability details, combat training, and instruction.
• Fang Cheng secured promises that Kanzaki would replace his furniture and cover his expenses during their partnership.
• Kanzaki said she would arrange everything the next day and confirmed Morishita Yamato would not bother Fang Cheng again soon.
• Kanzaki asked whether Fang Cheng needed blood, and he requested pig's blood rather than human blood.

After Kanzaki Rin brought Fang Cheng pig's blood and stolen Department files, he ate with her before studying the supernatural creature compendium. Learning how vampires detect and hunt one another left him wondering why Yagawa Ryoka had found him and what Isis had done to him.

• Kanzaki Rin took Yagawa Ryoka's corpse as spoils of war, and furniture was delivered to Fang Cheng the next morning.
• Kanzaki Rin brought Fang Cheng pig's blood and a USB drive of illegal information, ordering him to study it and destroy it within a day.
• Fang Cheng cooked pig's-blood-and-vermicelli stew, and Kanzaki Rin joined him for the meal.
• Fang Cheng found he could neither copy nor print the files, so he began reading the supernatural creature compendium, focusing on vampires.
• Fang Cheng learned that vampires could smell one another and were driven to hunt or flee, then wondered how Yagawa Ryoka had found him and why he could smell her blood.
• Fang Cheng remembered Isis's chilling smile and wondered what she had done to him.

Fang Cheng learned that artificial superpowers required years of training and prepared to join Kanzaki Rin in hunting Vampires. The next morning, Kanzaki Rin arrived to begin his basic training and drove him away in her car.

• Fang Cheng read about artificial superpowers and realized he had lacked the aptitude to develop them.
• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng they would begin three days of basic training before searching for the Vampires, whose attacks were increasing.
• Fang Cheng copied the Vampire materials to his computer and messaged Asaka Akie, asking whether she was depressed or suicidal; she denied it and got annoyed at his questions.
• The next morning, Kanzaki Rin brought Fang Cheng pig's blood, ate breakfast with him, and took him to training in her sedan.
• Fang Cheng questioned whether Kanzaki Rin had a driver's license, and she started the car and sped off before he could finish complaining.

Kanzaki Rin brought Fang Cheng to a Disaster Countermeasure Department training facility and assigned Takeda Masumi to train him in real combat for three days. As Takeda repeatedly knocked him down, Fang Cheng saw a system notification appear.

• Kanzaki Rin took Fang Cheng to an underground training facility and told him to pose as an intern with Self-Healing abilities.
• Kanzaki Rin introduced Takeda Masumi as Fang Cheng's trainer for the next three days.
• Takeda Masumi provoked Fang Cheng into the boxing ring and warned him that her training would continue even if she beat him to death.
• Fang Cheng charged Takeda Masumi, but she dodged his attacks and knocked him down repeatedly while taunting him.
• Kanzaki Rin left the facility, and Fang Cheng noticed the notification [Combat Training +1].

Fang Cheng repeatedly fought Takeda Masumi, using each knockdown to gain combat training until his fighting improved dramatically. Takeda Masumi finally attacked in earnest and launched him into the air, leaving him on the ground.

• Fang Cheng kept getting up after Takeda Masumi knocked him down, studying her evasions and earning Combat Training increases.
• Fang Cheng realized Takeda Masumi relied on prediction and reflexes, then tried to trade hits by enduring her blows and counterattacking.
• Fang Cheng’s prompt changed to [Combat +1], and his attacks became more precise, forcing Takeda Masumi back into the ropes.
• Takeda Masumi decided to show Fang Cheng what real fighting looked like and launched an attack.
• Takeda Masumi vanished from Fang Cheng’s sight, struck his chin, and sent him spinning into a heavy fall as [Combat Training +1] appeared.

Fang Cheng endured a day of brutal training with Takeda Masumi, eventually landing a punch on her before they fought on. After Kanzaki Rin found him that night, she fed him at a barbecue restaurant and learned from Takeda that he had left her bruised too.

• Takeda Masumi knocked Fang Cheng down repeatedly, but he kept getting back up and demanded that they continue fighting.
• Fang Cheng tracked Takeda Masumi's movements, dodged her attack, and struck her with an uppercut, prompting her to charge at him again.
• Kanzaki Rin returned to Training Ground 05 that night, found Fang Cheng exhausted, and took him to a barbecue restaurant.
• Fang Cheng devoured the food, leaving Kanzaki Rin to pay for the meal without eating anything herself.
• Kanzaki Rin called Takeda Masumi and asked her to go easier on Fang Cheng, while Takeda treated her bruises and complained that he had hit her too hard.

Fang Cheng defeated Takeda Masumi after three days of combat training, then refused to stop fighting when she declared he had passed. Kanzaki Rin rushed to the Training Ground fearing the worst and found Takeda fleeing Fang Cheng.

• Fang Cheng broke free of Takeda Masumi's joint lock and knocked her into the ropes with a punch.
• Fang Cheng repeatedly defeated Takeda Masumi as his superior physical fitness and combat gains overcame her experience.
• Takeda Masumi declared Fang Cheng's training complete and tried to end the fight.
• Fang Cheng grabbed Takeda Masumi by the ankle and dragged her back when she tried to escape the ring.
• Kanzaki Rin hurried to the Training Ground with a stun gun and found Fang Cheng chasing a panicked Takeda Masumi.

Fang Cheng outmatched Takeda Masumi during training, while Kanzaki Rin bribed him with a barbecue dinner to end their fight. Takeda Masumi recognized Fang Cheng’s unusual talent and later tried to flirt with him, but he rejected her advances and she left with a teasing remark about helping Rin.

• Kanzaki Rin found Fang Cheng chasing Takeda Masumi around the training area and learned they had been fighting.
• Takeda Masumi asked Kanzaki Rin to stop Fang Cheng, but Kanzaki Rin persuaded him to quit by offering him as much barbecue as he wanted.
• Takeda Masumi told Kanzaki Rin that Fang Cheng’s fighting ability made him a remarkable talent and warned her to take care of herself.
• Takeda Masumi waited for Fang Cheng after his shower, flirted with him, and touched his chest, but Fang Cheng slapped her hand away and scolded her.
• Takeda Masumi watched Fang Cheng leave and said that was all her big sister could do for Kanzaki Rin.

After Kanzaki Rin began hunting Vampires with Fang Cheng, his Advanced Olfaction led them to a street stall in an area where mummified bodies had been found. The chapter ended with Kanzaki Rin joining him for food instead of confronting him about the scent he detected.

• Kanzaki Rin took Fang Cheng to barbecue, then told him they would begin searching for Vampires the next day.
• Fang Cheng wondered about Kanzaki Rin's maturity, exercised, and continued studying Vampire information while saving Asaka Akie's class notes.
• Kanzaki Rin picked Fang Cheng up with pig's blood and glass noodles, and they set off to search areas with disappearances and mummified bodies.
• Fang Cheng teased Kanzaki Rin about her scent during the drive, then used his heightened sense of smell to search the streets of Edogawa Ward.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin to stop, got out, and ordered food at a street stall; Kanzaki Rin glared at the owner before ordering a serving too.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin tracked a vampire to an abandoned warehouse, where they discovered it was keeping captives as a food supply. The vampire left with a drained woman’s corpse, while the captives remained locked inside.

• Fang Cheng detected a moving vampire while he and Kanzaki Rin ate, then hurried her back to the car to pursue it.
• Kanzaki Rin launched miniature reconnaissance drones, and Fang Cheng used them to identify and track a masked driver in a black sedan.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin followed the sedan from the city to an abandoned warehouse in the suburbs.
• The vampire carried a bound high school girl and bags of food into a locked room crowded with captives.
• The vampire came back out dragging a woman whose blood had been drained and dumped her body in a nearby ditch.

Fang Cheng rescued seven captives from a warehouse while Kanzaki Rin kept watch, but a flock of Bats and a returning Vampire disrupted their escape. They were still inside the warehouse as the Vampire came back.

• Kanzaki Rin changed the plan to rescue the captives first, while Fang Cheng used a drone to track the Vampire and entered the warehouse alone.
• Fang Cheng unlocked the captives’ room and freed a high school girl, then tried to lead all seven people out.
• Kanzaki Rin warned Fang Cheng to avoid the main entrance, where a dozen motorcyclists had gathered, so he led the captives toward the back.
• Bats burst from beneath a stairwell, frightening one woman into screaming.
• Kanzaki Rin warned Fang Cheng that the Vampire had returned.

Fang Cheng and his group were cornered by the Night King Gang, but he killed Kansai with a dagger before a mysterious vampire appeared. The newcomer decapitated the gang leader, leaving the surviving thugs and Fang Cheng’s group facing him.

• The Night King Gang surrounded Fang Cheng and his companions at the warehouse, and its leader ordered the men killed and the women kept for the gang.
• Fang Cheng proposed reversing the leader’s plan, then caught Kansai’s thrown dagger and killed him with it when Kansai charged on his motorcycle.
• A pale middle-aged man in a black trench coat appeared beside the gang leader and fixed his gaze on Fang Cheng.
• The gang leader ordered his men to be quiet, but the newcomer decapitated him before he could react.

Kuroishi Yuto slaughtered a gang of bikers and confronted Fang Cheng, revealing that Fang Cheng was a Vampire. He let the fleeing civilians go only to kill two of them in front of Fang Cheng, then prepared to kill the rest when Fang Cheng showed no anger.

• Kuroishi Yuto killed the Mohawk and slaughtered the fleeing bikers with his extraordinary speed and razor-sharp nails.
• Kuroishi Yuto recognized Fang Cheng as a Vampire and accused him of mixing with humans after Fang Cheng rescued the civilians.
• Fang Cheng urged Ugou Mirai and the others to escape, and Ugou Mirai shouted her name and told him not to die.
• Kuroishi Yuto snapped his fingers and caused two women among the fleeing civilians to burst out in blood-red spikes, but Fang Cheng remained expressionless.
• Kuroishi Yuto spread his arms and snapped his fingers again, preparing to kill the rest of the civilians.

Fang Cheng fought Kuroishi Yuto, a vampire who had fed on his own kind, while Kanzaki Rin coordinated the evacuation and prepared to intervene. Though Yuto overwhelmed Fang with his speed, Fang caught his hands and headbutted him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Fang Cheng ambushed Kuroishi Yuto through a smoke bomb and smashed his face, giving the survivors time to flee.
• Kuroishi Yuto healed instantly and laughed off Fang Cheng's attacks, but Fang launched him with a Rising Dragon Strike.
• Kuroishi Yuto used his superior speed to dodge Fang Cheng and slash him repeatedly, while Kanzaki Rin held back the drones at Fang's request.
• Kuroishi Yuto tried to seize Fang Cheng's heart, but Fang caught his stabbing hand and grabbed his other hand as well.
• Fang Cheng yanked Kuroishi Yuto toward him and slammed his head into Yuto's face.

Fang Cheng fought Kuroishi Yuto, discovered that the Vampire could move his heart and form blades from his blood, then led him into a trap with Kanzaki Rin’s help. The chapter left Kuroishi Yuto cut in half by a laser hidden in the weeds.

• Fang Cheng battered Kuroishi Yuto with headbutts and punches, but discovered that Kuroishi had moved his heart elsewhere in his body.
• Kuroishi Yuto cut Fang Cheng’s wrist and chest with blood crystals, while both fighters healed their wounds.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin that Kuroishi Yuto had moved his heart, and she told him to lure Kuroishi toward her position.
• Fang Cheng retreated into the weeds with Kuroishi Yuto chasing him, while Kuroishi slashed him repeatedly.
• Fang Cheng jumped when Kanzaki Rin warned him, and a hidden laser passed beneath him and sliced through Kuroishi Yuto’s waist.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin fought Kuroishi Yuto with traps and weapons, but his berserk transformation overwhelmed their defenses. The chapter ended as Kanzaki Rin charged him with a silver longsword, aiming for his head.

• Kanzaki Rin's laser severed Kuroishi Yuto, and Rapid Condensation Machines trapped his upper body in hardening foam.
• Kuroishi Yuto transformed and burst through the foam with red crystals, impaling Fang Cheng and piercing the car Kanzaki Rin drove at him.
• The car pinned Kuroishi Yuto against an embankment, but he cut it apart and lunged at Kanzaki Rin.
• Kanzaki Rin's drones trapped Kuroishi Yuto in nets, and she attacked him with a stun gun and flames.
• Kuroishi Yuto cut through the nets and leaped at Kanzaki Rin, who drew a silver longsword and thrust it toward his head.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin killed Kuroishi Yuto by driving Kanzaki Rin’s silver sword through Fang Cheng and into Kuroishi Yuto’s heart. Fang Cheng appeared to die, but Kanzaki Rin revived him with medicine, and he woke to ask to touch her breasts.

• Fang Cheng rescued Kanzaki Rin and battered Kuroishi Yuto until he seized Kuroishi Yuto’s heart.
• Kuroishi Yuto transformed into a crystal-covered sea urchin, trapping Fang Cheng and blocking Kanzaki Rin’s attack.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin to strike through him, and she pierced his heart and Kuroishi Yuto’s with her silver sword.
• Kuroishi Yuto turned to black dust, while Fang Cheng stopped breathing and Kanzaki Rin feared he was dead.
• Kanzaki Rin injected Fang Cheng with medicine, and after he revived, he asked to touch her breasts before he died.

After Kanzaki Rin and Fang Cheng defeated Kuroishi Yuto, Fang Cheng looted the Vampire’s heart and gained new abilities and an extra life. They survived the battle but were left with damaged equipment to pay for, and Fang Cheng collapsed against Kanzaki Rin as they prepared to leave.

• Kanzaki Rin angrily attacked Fang Cheng after he joked about wanting to touch her breasts, and he defended himself before looting Kuroishi Yuto’s corpse.
• Fang Cheng absorbed Kuroishi Yuto’s heart and gained Life, Short-Range Dash, Steel Blood, a Life Fragment, and Blood of Madness fragments.
• Kanzaki Rin noticed Fang Cheng’s fatal wound had healed and questioned why silver weapons did not affect him, but he claimed he was resistant to them.
• Kanzaki Rin realized their car and one Rapid Condensation Machine had been destroyed and worried she would have to pay the Countermeasure Department.
• Fang Cheng offered Kanzaki Rin a fifty-cent coin as payment, then collapsed against her and asked her to carry him back.

After killing Kuroishi Yuto, Fang Cheng tested the new abilities he had gained and discovered he could train them to improve. When Kanzaki Rin visited the next day, she told him their vampire hunts might be put on hold indefinitely.

• Kanzaki Rin gave the starving Fang Cheng ration bars and energy bars, then stayed behind to contact the Disaster Countermeasure Department while he rode a gang member's motorcycle home.
• Fang Cheng tested Short-Range Dash and Steel Blood, earned training notifications for both, and realized Steel Blood had significant potential but required precise control.
• Fang Cheng exercised until he gained a stamina point, then slept through the day and night.
• Kanzaki Rin visited Fang Cheng with duck blood and began preparing Japanese-style duck blood and glass noodle soup.
• Fang Cheng asked when they could resume hunting vampires, and Kanzaki Rin said they would have to pause and might never need to act again.

Fang Cheng learned that Kanzaki Rin and the Countermeasure Department were beginning a vampire hunt, and he spent the following days training while she was away. On the fourth morning, two young men in combat gear appeared at his door instead of Kanzaki Rin.

• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng that the Countermeasure Department was mobilizing to exterminate Tokyo’s vampires, and he asked her to bring him a vampire heart for a test.
• Kanzaki Rin stopped visiting Fang Cheng while she took part in the hunt, and Fang Cheng followed a strict training and study schedule at home.
• Asaka Akie continued sending Fang Cheng class notes and explaining them, while thinking of him as a younger brother.
• On the fourth morning after Kanzaki Rin’s disappearance, Fang Cheng opened his door to find two young men in full combat gear.