Chapter Summaries

Morishita Yamato waited for proof that Fang Cheng had been killed while Fang Cheng lured a Vampire toward the Morishita family’s Villa. Fang Cheng reached the Villa and attacked a security guard as Kiba Taishi pursued him.

• Morishita Yamato ordered his lackey to keep searching for Fang Cheng and considered using Asaka Akie to provoke him.
• Fang Cheng found a Vampire in a white car after spotting a woman thrown onto the road with puncture wounds in her neck.
• Fang Cheng raced through the city with Kiba Taishi, whose car crashed at a bend before he resumed the chase.
• Fang Cheng led Kiba Taishi to the Morishita family’s neighborhood, destroyed a drone and nearby security cameras, and hid his motorcycle.
• Fang Cheng vaulted into the Morishita family’s Villa, introduced himself as a passing Kamen Rider, and struck a security guard with a knife-hand attack.

Fang Cheng infiltrated the Morishita villa, killed guards and a young man in bed with Morishita Sayuri, and abducted her. He then encountered Morishita Yamato in the hallway after shooting the guards escorting him.

• Fang Cheng entered the villa, masked his scent with garlic juice, and searched the rooms while guards investigated the disturbance outside.
• Fang Cheng broke into Morishita Sayuri's room, shot her young lover, and subdued Sayuri when she tried to scream.
• Fang Cheng demanded that Sayuri pose for photos, then knocked her unconscious and carried her away.
• Morishita Yamato left his room with two guards, encountered Fang Cheng in the hallway, and watched Fang Cheng shoot both guards.

Fang Cheng interrogated Morishita Yamato about hiring a killer and learned that someone had manipulated him, though Morishita Yamato could no longer remember who. Fang Cheng knocked him unconscious just as the Vampire entered the Villa.

• Morishita Yamato recognized Fang Cheng, who punched him and shot him in the thigh before demanding to know why he had hired a killer.
• Morishita Yamato claimed someone had urged him to hire the hitman and supplied a black-market account, but he could no longer remember that person’s identity.
• Fang Cheng questioned Morishita Yamato about who had originally set him against Fang Cheng, but Morishita Yamato could not recall that name either.
• Morishita Yamato admitted that he regretted targeting Fang Cheng and begged to be spared, but Fang Cheng punched him unconscious.
• Fang Cheng sensed the Vampire entering the Villa.

Kiba Taishi followed Fang Cheng’s scent to the Morishita Family’s villa, where his hunger drove him to slaughter the security guards and Morishita Kengo’s party. He reached the main hall and tore open the figure that pounced on him from above.

• Kiba Taishi crashed through the villa gates and attacked the security guards, overpowering them despite their gunfire and special ammunition.
• Morishita Kengo fled with Sayuri and several guards, but Kuki Kei ran past them while fleeing Kiba Taishi.
• Kiba Taishi killed the guards and Sayuri, then slashed Morishita Kengo’s head and pursued Kuki Kei.
• Kiba Taishi killed Kuki Kei and followed Fang Cheng’s scent into the villa’s main hall.
• A figure dropped from above and pounced on Kiba Taishi, who plunged both hands into the attacker and tore it open.

Fang Cheng used Morishita Yamato and Morishita Sayuri to slow Kiba Taishi while escaping the villa, where the SAT Mobile Team nearly killed the vampire. Kiba Taishi fled through the sewers, only to run into Fang Cheng again.

• Kiba Taishi tore through people at the villa while Fang Cheng taunted him about his driving and threw bodies down at him.
• Fang Cheng tossed Morishita Yamato down the stairs, knocking Kiba Taishi over, then threw Morishita Sayuri at him and ran.
• Fang Cheng spotted two SAT Mobile Team soldiers approaching and escaped over the villa wall as they attacked Kiba Taishi.
• Kiba Taishi survived the soldiers' gunfire and drone search by crawling into the sewer, then climbed out and found Fang Cheng waiting nearby.

Fang Cheng fought Kiba Taishi, whose blood-control ability let him reshape his body and attack with a pursuing Blood Snake. Fang Cheng discovered Kiba Taishi had hidden his heart in his butt and killed him by stabbing it, then wondered how to handle the body.

• Fang Cheng charged Kiba Taishi and stabbed him with a silver dagger, but Kiba Taishi twisted Fang Cheng's arm with blood and counterattacked.
• Fang Cheng struck Kiba Taishi with punches and a Blood Blade, while Kiba Taishi healed and revealed his ability to control blood.
• Fang Cheng dodged Kiba Taishi's Blood Snake, then charged him when Kiba Taishi split it into three streams.
• Fang Cheng cut off his own leg to escape the blood streams and beheaded Kiba Taishi with a Blood Blade.
• Fang Cheng stabbed Kiba Taishi's hidden heart in his butt, killing him, and then wondered what to do with the body.

After killing Kiba Taishi, Fang Cheng acquired Tide of Blood and completed Blood of Madness, then disposed of the evidence. At the Morishita Family's Villa, Kanzaki Rin and Aoki Yusuke investigated the aftermath before Kamikawa Takumi arrived.

• Fang Cheng looted Kiba Taishi's heart, gaining an extra life, Tide of Blood, and the final fragments needed to obtain Blood of Madness.
• Fang Cheng used Tide of Blood to move the remaining blood into the sewer, discarded Kiba Taishi's corpse and his own severed limbs, and left the scene.
• Kanzaki Rin and Aoki Yusuke arrived at the Morishita Family's Villa, where the Countermeasure Department was investigating the Vampire killings.
• Arai Yamataka questioned whether Kiba Taishi had been the only Vampire and noted that cameras and Patrol Drones had been deliberately damaged.
• After Kanzaki Rin called him, Kamikawa Takumi arrived by drone, floated into the courtyard, and entered the Villa carrying milk tea and bread.

Kamikawa Takumi visited the villa, where Arai Yamataka asked him to hunt the vampires Isis had left in Tokyo. After bargaining for two superpower training sessions for Kanzaki Rin, Takumi agreed, while Aoki Yusuke stayed behind to mourn Morishita Yamato and promise revenge.

• Kamikawa Takumi greeted Kanzaki Rin and brought her milk tea and bread, then joked with Arai Yamataka about ignoring his calls and pulled off his wig.
• Arai Yamataka explained that the Countermeasure Department needed Takumi to deal with Isis's vampire creations because a mass murder case had drawn pressure from the Cabinet Office.
• Kamikawa Takumi refused until Arai Yamataka offered to recommend Kanzaki Rin for two internal superpower training sessions, and Takumi agreed to hunt the vampires.
• Kamikawa Takumi and Kanzaki Rin left the villa together, while Aoki Yusuke opened Morishita Yamato's body bag, closed his eyes, and vowed to avenge him.

Kanzaki Rin learned that Kamikawa Takumi had been ordered to clear the vampires from Tokyo, while Fang Cheng discovered that Blood of Madness made him more attractive instead of ugly. Kanzaki Rin confronted Fang Cheng over his attack on Morishita Yamato and his family, revealing that she had spent the night deleting surveillance footage for him.

• Kamikawa Takumi told Kanzaki Rin that Arai Yamataka had asked him to clear the vampires from Tokyo, though he planned to wait until after playing his new games.
• Fang Cheng caught a thief trying to steal his motorcycle, knocked him unconscious, and rode home.
• Fang Cheng combined Tide of Blood with Steel Blood to create and harden blood constructs, then tested Blood of Madness and found that it transformed him into a handsome, charismatic figure.
• Kanzaki Rin arrived at Fang Cheng's home, and he tried to photograph her before she accused him of attacking Morishita Yamato and his family.
• Kanzaki Rin revealed that she had spent the previous night deleting surveillance footage to keep Fang Cheng from being caught.

Fang Cheng denied to Kanzaki Rin that he had acted against the Morishita family, while she warned him that the Countermeasure Department was sending Kamikawa Takumi after him. When Fang Cheng proposed hunting other Monsters instead of Vampires, Kanzaki Rin asked whether he could gain something from their corpses.

• Kanzaki Rin confronted Fang Cheng about acting alone, but he denied responsibility and demanded to know how she had learned about his nighttime activities.
• Kanzaki Rin revealed that a drone had spotted Fang Cheng killing a Monster on the night of the sixteenth and explained that she objected to his risky methods, not his revenge on the Morishita family.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin scuffled after he joked about hiring an escort, damaging two cushions.
• Kanzaki Rin warned Fang Cheng to stay home because the Countermeasure Department had sent Kamikawa Takumi, the famous psychic and hentai artist, to deal with him.
• Fang Cheng suggested they hunt other Monsters instead of Vampires, prompting Kanzaki Rin to ask whether he could gain something from Monster corpses.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin discussed the threat against him, while Aoki Yusuke met with Hiya Kyohei and learned they had to delay their plans because God's Pen was hunting Vampires. Aoki left determined to kill Hiya Kyohei and his sister, then thought of Rin as he drove away.

• Fang Cheng pinned Kanzaki Rin down after their fight, then released her when she agreed not to pursue the Morishita Family over what happened to them.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin that Morishita Yamato might have been hypnotized into targeting him, and Kanzaki Rin agreed to investigate.
• Aoki Yusuke visited Hiya Kyohei at an abandoned village and found him testing a blood-red wolf created with his new ability.
• Aoki Yusuke told Hiya Kyohei to stay hidden because God's Pen had been sent to deal with Vampires, and Hiya Kyohei warned him not to scheme against him or show interest in Ami.
• After leaving the village, Aoki Yusuke cursed Hiya Kyohei and vowed to kill him and Ami before wondering whether Rin would understand him.

Fang Cheng rejected Ugou Mirai after she admitted she liked him, citing her small chest as the reason. Yuguang Qingxue reported Fang Cheng's background to Ugou Mirai's mother, who ordered her to keep him away from the family, but Mirai's heartbreak showed that the rejection had already happened.

• Fang Cheng continued training, attending school, and hunting monsters with Kanzaki Rin while Ugou Mirai approached him after school.
• Ugou Mirai asked Fang Cheng to choose a nickname, and he told her to call him Daddy.
• Fang Cheng asked if Ugou Mirai liked him, then rejected her when she admitted she did, saying her chest was too small.
• Yuguang Qingxue told Ugou Mirai's mother that Fang Cheng was a vampire who had worked with Kanzaki Rin, and her mother ordered her to watch him and keep him away from the family.
• Ugou Mirai cried to Yuguang Qingxue about Fang Cheng rejecting her and pleaded for some of her bust.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin teamed up to hunt a Giant Toad in the Fourth Layer, but their poor coordination led them to approach it separately. Kanzaki Rin cornered the monster, and a red crystal javelin struck it as it fled.

• Kanzaki Rin equipped Fang Cheng with Countermeasure Department gear and led him into the Fourth Layer to hunt a Giant Toad.
• Fang Cheng misunderstood Kanzaki Rin’s silent instructions, and she used drone footage to clarify that they should flank the monster from both sides.
• Kanzaki Rin entered an alley and found a middle-aged man eating a disemboweled young man.
• Kanzaki Rin fired her stun gun at the monster, but it dodged and fled around a corner.
• A red crystal javelin struck the fleeing monster in the belly and pinned it to a wall.

Fang Cheng fought the Giant Toad, which revealed its intelligence and skill with a spear, and defeated it by suddenly using a pistol. He left the barely living Monster for Kanzaki Rin to kill.

• Fang Cheng attacked the middle-aged man with hardened blood javelins, prompting him to transform into a Giant Toad and vanish using camouflage.
• Fang Cheng refused Kanzaki Rin’s offer to come help, then exposed the Giant Toad’s hiding place by splashing blood across its face.
• Fang Cheng and the Giant Toad fought with spears, and the Monster demonstrated precise martial arts before explaining that Monsters could learn human skills.
• Fang Cheng acknowledged Monsters as intelligent beings, but the Giant Toad insisted they had to settle their conflict by fighting.
• Fang Cheng surprised the Giant Toad with a pistol, shot it repeatedly, and impaled it with his spear.
• Kanzaki Rin arrived and questioned Fang Cheng about his gun, and he pulled out the spear and offered her the chance to kill the Giant Toad.

Fang Cheng tested whether he could absorb fragments from a Monster killed by someone else, then began looking for ways to get access to more Monster corpses. He left Kanzaki Rin uneasy as he turned to her with a new idea.

• Fang Cheng persuaded Kanzaki Rin to kill the Giant Toad while pretending he wanted to protect small animals.
• Kanzaki Rin killed the Giant Toad, and Fang Cheng absorbed a Life Fragment and a Leatherworking fragment from its corpse.
• Fang Cheng asked Kanzaki Rin about the Countermeasure Department’s Forensic Identification Division and learned he could not easily get a job or sneak inside.
• Fang Cheng considered paying the black market to collect Monster corpses, then looked at Kanzaki Rin and said he had a bold idea to discuss.

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.