Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng received Isis’s powers after she chose to die, then found Asaka Akie reborn in a sea of flowers. The two returned from Ultimate Bliss Heaven to a wrecked basketball court, where Asaka accepted Fang Cheng despite his inhuman nature.

• Isis impaled herself, embraced Fang Cheng, and said she wanted to merge with him before dissolving into sand and leaving him her power.
• Fang Cheng gained five extra lives, Shadow Dweller, and increased proficiency in his vampire abilities, then formed a blood bodysuit with his improved control.
• Fang Cheng found Asaka Akie naked and wounded among flowers as petals merged into her body and restored her.
• Asaka Akie awoke and clung to Fang Cheng before the two were expelled from Ultimate Bliss Heaven into a wrecked basketball court.
• Fang Cheng made clothes for Asaka Akie from his blood, and she told him she accepted him no matter what he was.

After Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie escaped the cult’s ritual, they found Asaka Shizuko dying from the loss of her lifespan, and Asaka Akie said goodbye to her mother. Fang Cheng left the gymnasium with Akie and her mother’s coffin, where Sato Hayato and Sato Mai were waiting.

• Fang Cheng recovered the broken Vajra Pestle, the split Holy Grail, fragments, and Mizuma Atsushi’s Golden Rod, gaining four extra lives.
• Asaka Shizuko briefly regained her senses, apologized to Asaka Akie, and died in her daughter’s arms.
• Fang Cheng found that Grandma Matsuda had also died after her lifespan was drained, then sealed Asaka Shizuko’s body in a blood coffin.
• Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie left the gymnasium and met Sato Hayato and Sato Mai outside.
• Sato Hayato recognized the closeness between Fang Cheng and Asaka Akie and decided to keep his distance from her.

Fang Cheng escaped Yatsumachi with Sato Mai, Sato Hayato, and Asaka Akie, then reported his victory over the Ultimate Bliss Cult to Takeda Masumi. He met Tsukikage Hatsuka, who offered to buy the cult’s valuable relics, and left the Vajra Pestle in his possession after learning it was worth little.

• Fang Cheng called Takeda Masumi to report that he had disrupted the Ultimate Bliss Cult’s God Descent Ritual and killed its Archbishop, and she agreed to try to claim the merit without revealing his identity.
• Fang Cheng drove away with Sato Mai, Sato Hayato, and grieving Asaka Akie, leaving the Saintesses at the gymnasium for Takeda Masumi’s people to handle.
• Fang Cheng found Tsukikage Hatsuka asleep as a cat in her sports car and petted her until she woke and transformed into a woman.
• Fang Cheng showed Tsukikage Hatsuka the Holy Grail, the Little Gold Rod, and the Vajra Pestle, and she agreed to buy the first two.
• Tsukikage Hatsuka said the Vajra Pestle was probably gold-plated and offered only scrap-metal prices, so Fang Cheng kept it.

Fang Cheng sold the Holy Grail and Vajra Pestle through Tsukikage Hatsuka, then discovered his motorcycle had been stolen outside her Izakaya. After leaving, he questioned Asaka Akie about Ultimate Bliss Heaven and learned Ye Yuqing was still present, ending with Ye Yuqing abruptly withdrawing when Fang Cheng teased her.

• Tsukikage Hatsuka confirmed the Holy Grail was pure gold, and Fang Cheng handed her the Grail and Vajra Pestle for appraisal.
• Fang Cheng asked whether Hatsuka's Izakaya was the Fox Immortal House, but she denied it and refused to help him find the place.
• Fang Cheng and Hatsuka returned to Flower Street and found his motorcycle stolen; Hatsuka insisted the shop would find it and recover its reputation.
• Fang Cheng invited Hatsuka to his home for a meal, hoping to befriend her, and drove away with Asaka Akie and the exhausted Sato siblings.
• Fang Cheng asked Asaka Akie about Ultimate Bliss Heaven, and she said she had received no blessing, though her appearance had improved; he worried Izanae's gift might have a hidden cost.
• Asaka Akie revealed Ye Yuqing was still present, and Fang Cheng's balloon joke made Ye Yuqing immediately withdraw.

After rescuing the Sato Siblings, Fang Cheng brought them to the Training Ground and stayed with Asaka Akie while she arranged her mother’s cremation. While Akie leaned on him for comfort, Fang Cheng spotted ghosts in the crematorium corridor and drove off a ghost boy and his mother with his Vajra Pestle.

• Fang Cheng left the Sato Siblings in Takeda Masumi’s care at the Training Ground, where Asaka Akie resolved to live for herself and pursue him.
• Fang Cheng called Nangong Saya to thank her for helping find the siblings and considered building a network of allies for future trouble.
• Fang Cheng took Akie to cremate Asaka Shizuko’s remains, and she leaned against him as they waited.
• Fang Cheng used Undead Vision to spot ghosts in the corridor and struck a ghost boy with his Vajra Pestle after popping his ball.
• The ghost boy’s mother retreated into a wall when Fang Cheng threatened her, and Akie clung to him after he told her ghosts were nearby.

After Asaka Akie lost her family and home, Fang Cheng took her in and arranged for her to live with him. He left her with a bank card for expenses and household duties, while privately lamenting the strain on his finances and missing Kanzaki Rin.

• Asaka Akie told Fang Cheng she had nowhere to go, and he invited her to live with him after they collected her family's urns.
• Fang Cheng took Asaka Akie to buy necessities and clothes, then helped her settle into his spare room.
• Fang Cheng gave Asaka Akie a bank card for daily expenses and explained that she would handle the housework and repay him when she had an income.
• Ye Yuqing briefly took control of the body, mistook the bank card as hers to spend, and sat back down after Fang Cheng denied her.
• Asaka Akie accepted the card, went to make food, and Fang Cheng privately worried about supporting another person and missed Kanzaki Rin's money.

Fang Cheng tested his new Shadow Dweller ability, teased Asaka Akie and Ye Yuqing, and spoke with Takeda Masumi about Sato Hayato’s newly awakened power. Takeda had discovered Fang Cheng was not with the Countermeasure Department, but remained willing to help him, leaving him optimistic about what he planned to do next.

• Fang Cheng tested Shadow Dweller by hiding in Asaka Akie’s shadow, then returned to his room to exercise.
• Ye Yuqing took control of Asaka Akie’s body, blocked their bedroom door with a cabinet, and argued with Akie about Fang Cheng and their feelings.
• Fang Cheng overheard Ye Yuqing boasting about Asaka Akie’s chest and teased her, then frightened her by banging on the door while he was actually on the phone.
• Takeda Masumi told Fang Cheng that Sato Hayato had awakened a powerful ability and showed potential to become an Ace, though she struggled to control him.
• Fang Cheng admitted he was not with the Countermeasure Department, and Takeda remained willing to let him use the Training Ground while demanding he repay his food and drink debt.

Half a month after the Day of Divine Descent, Fang Cheng had Sato Hayato, Sato Mai, and Asaka Akie train at the Training Ground under Takeda Masumi while she helped settle the aftermath of his actions. Takeda gave Fang Cheng the bonus from the arrest case, then wondered why the Countermeasure Department had not paid attention to him sooner.

• Fang Cheng had the Sato siblings and Asaka Akie take six months of leave and train at the Training Ground after their parents died.
• Takeda Masumi knocked Sato Hayato down, then beat Asaka Akie and Sato Mai in the ring.
• Fang Cheng teased Takeda Masumi about her chest and her interest in his body, and she pounced on him to wrestle.
• Takeda Masumi explained that Fang Cheng's killing of Archbishop Mizuma Atsushi at the ritual site had provided clear evidence of his cult membership.
• Takeda Masumi shared most of the credit with her Countermeasure Department connections and gave Fang Cheng the bonus of a little over three hundred thousand.
• Takeda Masumi asked Fang Cheng why the Countermeasure Department had ignored his activities until now.

Fang Cheng formed a small group with Asaka Akie and Sato Siblings, intending to help them survive and strengthen their ties, while Takeda Masumi declined to join. The chapter ended with Fang Cheng deciding to put down roots in this world and build from the group as his starting point.

• Takeda Masumi warned Fang Cheng that someone influential might be concealing his identity, declined to join his group, and assessed Sato Hayato as a psychic with the potential to become an Ace.
• Fang Cheng brought Asaka Akie and Sato Siblings home for dinner and explained that their group would help its members protect and support one another.
• The four agreed to form a group without choosing a name, and Sato Hayato toasted Fang Cheng as their leader.
• After the others got drunk, Fang Cheng put them to bed, cleaned up, and reflected on how he had stopped keeping his distance from the world.
• Fang Cheng decided to grow roots in this world by building up his small group and seeking more partners.

Kanzaki Rin returned from special training and visited Fang Cheng, only to find Asaka Akie living with him. Fang Cheng greeted Rin as “Mom,” leaving Akie convinced their relationship was indecent.

• Kanzaki Rin returned to the city, brushed off Aoki Yusuke, and drove to Fang Cheng’s apartment with pig’s blood.
• Asaka Akie answered the door and was startled when Kanzaki Rin used a key to enter.
• Kanzaki Rin told Asaka Akie they were ordinary partners and asked her to wake Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng hurried out of bed and called Kanzaki Rin “Mom.”
• Asaka Akie dropped a glass and, egged on by Ye Yuqing, mistook their relationship for something sordid.

Kanzaki Rin returned from special training and found Asaka Akie living with Fang Cheng, prompting Ye Yuqing to suspect an affair between them. The chapter ended with Ye Yuqing and Kanzaki Rin preparing to fight while Fang Cheng watched from the living room.

• Kanzaki Rin returned that morning and found Asaka Akie at Fang Cheng's home, then clarified that she and Fang Cheng were business partners.
• Fang Cheng made breakfast for the three of them and asked Kanzaki Rin about her special training.
• Ye Yuqing took control of Asaka Akie's body, demanded to know what was going on between Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin, and learned from Fang Cheng that Ye Yuqing was Asaka's second personality.
• Ye Yuqing accused Kanzaki Rin of being involved with Fang Cheng because she had a key and slippers at his home, then threatened to beat her up.
• Fang Cheng left the kitchen to avoid getting involved, and Ye Yuqing and Kanzaki Rin rolled up their sleeves and prepared to fight.

Fang Cheng watched Kanzaki Rin defeat Ye Yuqing, who had challenged her over her supposed relationship with him. After Ye Yuqing logged out and Asaka Akie apologized, Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin about the events of the past three months as they drove to the Training Ground, while Akie’s feelings for him became clear.

• Fang Cheng commentated on Kanzaki Rin pinning Ye Yuqing in their fight and filmed the match instead of intervening.
• Kanzaki Rin made Ye Yuqing apologize before letting her go, and Ye Yuqing logged out so Asaka Akie could regain control.
• Asaka Akie apologized to Kanzaki Rin and realized that Kanzaki Rin and Fang Cheng were not romantically involved.
• Fang Cheng invited Kanzaki Rin to the Training Ground and began explaining how he had rescued Asaka Akie and the Sato Siblings from cultists.
• Kanzaki Rin noticed Asaka Akie gazing at Fang Cheng with intense emotion and wondered whether he might someday rescue her in the same way.

After Kanzaki Rin returned from special training, Fang Cheng tested her enhanced abilities and learned that her intermediate enhancement had shortened her life expectancy. Kanzaki Rin joined the Countermeasure Department’s Patrol Department, while she and Fang Cheng planned to keep working together; the chapter ended with Asaka Akie’s sudden scream.

• Fang Cheng sparred with Kanzaki Rin and won only after she demonstrated greatly improved physical and combat abilities.
• Takeda Masumi explained that Kanzaki Rin’s intermediate enhancement meant she would likely live only until sixty, but Kanzaki Rin said she had to undergo it.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin that Sato Hayato had chosen to keep his newly awakened ability secret from the Countermeasure Department, and Kanzaki Rin offered to fund Fang Cheng’s Life Extension Society.
• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng she had become a full member of the Countermeasure Department and joined its Patrol Department, where she could continue investigating monsters with him.
• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin exchanged files detailing their abilities, but Fang Cheng teased her about her measurements, prompting her to log off.
• Fang Cheng sent Kanzaki Rin another file, then heard Asaka Akie shriek from outside.

Tsukikage Hatsuka visited Fang Cheng to apologize because she had failed to find his stolen motorcycle, and he negotiated three free information purchases as compensation. She explained that the motorcycle had repeatedly been stolen from one thief by another, and after two months she had lost track of it.

• Tsukikage Hatsuka arrived at Fang Cheng's home and apologized on behalf of the Landlady for failing to find his motorcycle.
• Fang Cheng theatrically mourned the motorcycle and bargained with Tsukikage Hatsuka until she offered three free information purchases.
• Asaka Akie served Tsukikage Hatsuka tea while Ye Yuqing struggled to take control so she could pet the cat.
• Tsukikage Hatsuka explained that the motorcycle had been stolen repeatedly, sometimes within minutes, and that she had searched for two months without finding it.
• Tsukikage Hatsuka said she had come to apologize and offer compensation because the theft could damage the establishment's reputation.

Fang Cheng won Tsukikage Hatsuka over with food, catnip, and a game, gaining information about the Tsukikage Family and Tokyo’s Monsters. After Hatsuka left, Asaka Akie grew anxious about her undefined relationship with Fang Cheng and considered making a move, while Ye Yuqing angrily objected in her mind.

• Tsukikage Hatsuka transformed into a fat cat, but Fang Cheng tempted her to stay with fried chicken, dried fish, catnip, cola, and a game.
• As Tsukikage Hatsuka ate and played with Fang Cheng and Ye Yuqing, she complained about the Landlady restricting her food and exercise.
• Fang Cheng learned that Tsukikage Hoshi led the Tsukikage Family, a known Monster group whose connections helped her sell information about the Fourth Layer.
• Tsukikage Hatsuka left after arranging to visit again, and Fang Cheng told Asaka Akie he wanted to maintain a good relationship with her for information.
• Asaka Akie worried that Kanzaki Rin might become Fang Cheng’s romantic interest and considered approaching him, while Ye Yuqing scolded her in their shared mind.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin prepared for an operation against a dangerous Charm-Spotted Spider, while Kanzaki arranged official Countermeasure Department status and training support for Fang Cheng’s team. They set out for the monster’s last known location with Sato Hayato accompanying them and Sato Mai providing remote support.

• Kanzaki Rin gave Fang Cheng and Sato Hayato the operation files and agreed to arrange training courses for Fang Cheng’s team.
• Kanzaki Rin told them their applications had been approved, making them auxiliary personnel for the Countermeasure Department.
• Fang Cheng read that their target, the B-rank Charm-Spotted Spider, was a shapeshifting monster suspected of working as a server at a bar.
• Kanzaki Rin explained the monster danger ratings, including the threat posed by the Blood Queen, Isis.
• Fang Cheng estimated his own strength at above B-rank but below A-rank, while Sato Hayato figured he was only DD.
• Kanzaki Rin drove toward the operation as Sato Mai followed overhead with a drone and prepared to provide remote support under Izumi’s direction.

Fang Cheng, Sato Hayato, and Kanzaki Rin searched a Shinjuku bar for the Monster Charm-Spotted Spider, but Sato Hayato was lured upstairs by the disguised monster. Fang Cheng found the private room and shot Charm-Spotted Spider after it tried to seduce him.

• Fang Cheng, Sato Hayato, and Kanzaki Rin split up to search the bar for their target.
• A woman lured Sato Hayato onto the dance floor and then into an upstairs private room, where she kissed him and undressed with him.
• Sato Hayato realized the woman was the cross-dressing Monster Charm-Spotted Spider when it spoke in a man's voice, but he was too weak to resist or call for help.
• Charm-Spotted Spider gagged Sato Hayato and opened the door when Fang Cheng came looking for him.
• Charm-Spotted Spider tried to seduce Fang Cheng and reached for his hidden pistol, so Fang Cheng shot it several times.

Fang Cheng pursued Charm-Spotted Spider through a bar, across the city’s high-rises, and into a sewer while Kanzaki Rin and the others tried to support him. The two fighters tangled their blood threads and spider silk in the sewer as Fang Cheng pulled Charm-Spotted Spider toward him.

• Fang Cheng shot Charm-Spotted Spider and blocked his claw attack with a blood bracer before pursuing him with Blood Threads.
• Fang Cheng drove Charm-Spotted Spider through a second-floor window, and both used their threads to swing between buildings while joking about looking like Spider-Man.
• Kanzaki Rin treated Sato Hayato for Charm-Spotted Spider’s poison and jumped out to pursue the fighters.
• Sato Mai reported that a drone had locked onto Charm-Spotted Spider, but Fang Cheng stopped Ye Yuqing from firing at him.
• Charm-Spotted Spider escaped into a manhole, and Fang Cheng sealed his nose and mouth with blood before following him into the sewer.
• Fang Cheng and Charm-Spotted Spider attacked each other with Blood Threads and spider silk, and Fang Cheng yanked Charm-Spotted Spider toward him.

Fang Cheng pursued Charm-Spotted Spider from the sewer to his secret hideout and ambushed him there. After Fang Cheng revealed he was working for money and demanded five million, Charm-Spotted Spider realized he was stalling.

• Charm-Spotted Spider escaped Fang Cheng in the sewer, then shook off any pursuers before returning to his hidden home.
• Fang Cheng emerged from Charm-Spotted Spider's shadow and attacked him, but their clash left neither defeated.
• Fang Cheng noticed Charm-Spotted Spider's unusual body and let him mistake him for a Vampire.
• Charm-Spotted Spider tried to recruit Fang Cheng, but Fang Cheng said he worked for whoever paid more.
• Fang Cheng demanded five million, and Charm-Spotted Spider recognized that he was stalling for time.

Fang Cheng fought the Charm-Spotted Spider after it trapped him in its silk-filled home. He immobilized the giant Spider with Blood Threads, but its armored body resisted being cut.

• The Charm-Spotted Spider mistook Fang Cheng’s offer to make a deal for a delaying tactic and transformed its home into a silk trap.
• Fang Cheng flooded the house with blood, but the Charm-Spotted Spider revealed its giant Spider form and shattered his hardened-blood shield with its legs.
• Fang Cheng shaped his blood into a giant Vajra Pestle and smashed the Charm-Spotted Spider through the wall and onto the road.
• Fang Cheng pursued the Spider with a giant blood hammer, but it dodged and sprayed White Turbid Spray to counter his blood.
• Fang Cheng used Blood of Madness and Short-Range Dash to bind the Spider in Blood Threads, but its thick armor prevented the threads from cutting through it.