Chapter Summaries

Fang Cheng killed Charm-Spotted Spider, gained new abilities, and looted a residence before Countermeasure Department agents arrived. As he tried to explain that he was on their side, someone among them shot at his head.

• Fang Cheng pinned Charm-Spotted Spider with the Giant Que Sword and killed it.
• Fang Cheng absorbed the spider’s energy, gained two lives and several abilities, and fused Spider Sense with Pre-warning into Heart Sense.
• Fang Cheng searched the residence and collected bank cards, cash, and jewelry.
• Maeda Kenichi, Kujo Go, and two other Countermeasure Department members arrived and aimed their weapons at Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng raised his hands and said they were on the same side, but someone fired a bullet at his head.

Fang Cheng survived an attack by armed drones after Kujo Go opened fire under Aoki Yusuke’s influence, then destroyed the drones and charged toward the Countermeasure Department team. The chapter ended with Tozo Taishi and Maeda Kenichi opening fire on him as the bullets bounced off his Blood Battle Suit.

• Fang Cheng used Heart Sense to evade Kujo Go’s first shot, but Kujo and the armed drones then fired on him.
• Fang Cheng fled behind the Spider’s corpse as the drones dropped cluster bombs, and Maeda Kenichi blamed Kujo for the attack.
• Aoki Yusuke secretly admitted to himself that he had influenced Kujo and hoped the bombardment would kill Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng used Blood Threads to drag down three drones, then burst from the burning wreckage and charged at the team.
• Tozo Taishi and Maeda Kenichi ordered Fang Cheng to stop and opened fire, but his Blood Battle Suit deflected the bullets.

Fang Cheng fought off four Countermeasure Department members who attacked him, then confronted them with Kanzaki Rin after she arrived. As the dispute threatened to escalate, Fang Cheng pretended to have a head injury and asked Kanzaki Rin to take him to the hospital.

• Tozo Taishi, Maeda Kenichi, Aoki Yusuke, and Kujo Go attacked Fang Cheng, but he used his abilities to dodge their weapons and overpower them.
• Fang Cheng broke both arms of Tozo Taishi, Maeda Kenichi, Kujo Go, and Aoki Yusuke, while leaving them alive.
• Kanzaki Rin arrived with Sato Hayato and demanded that Maeda Kenichi and Tozo Taishi explain why they had fired on Fang Cheng.
• Kanzaki Rin and Tozo Taishi argued over who was responsible, while Aoki Yusuke complained that Fang Cheng had injured them.
• When Fang Cheng threatened Tozo Taishi, he suddenly clutched Kanzaki Rin and pretended that his head hurt so she would take him to the hospital.

Fang Cheng used a shameless injury act to pressure Maeda Kenichi and the others into admitting fault and apologizing for the armed drone attack. After they bowed and Kujo Go knelt, Fang Cheng mocked them again, leaving Kanzaki Rin to pinch him for not letting the matter go.

• Fang Cheng pretended to be injured and leaned against Kanzaki Rin while taunting Aoki Yusuke.
• Kanzaki Rin threatened to call the Inspectorate Department if Maeda Kenichi and Tozo Taishi continued disputing responsibility.
• Maeda Kenichi explained that Kujo Go and Aoki Yusuke had fired shots, triggering the armed drones, then apologized to Fang Cheng.
• Maeda Kenichi ordered Tozo Taishi and Aoki Yusuke to bow, and forced Kujo Go to kneel and apologize.
• Fang Cheng mocked their apologies, and Kanzaki Rin pinched him to make him stop.

Fang Cheng accused Aoki Yusuke of using hypnosis to make Kujo Go shoot him, then beat Aoki while insisting his suspicion was reasonable. After leaving the Countermeasure Department members behind, Fang told Kanzaki Rin that something was wrong with Aoki, and she asked what he had noticed.

• Fang Cheng forgave Kujo Go, then punched Aoki Yusuke and accused him of hypnotizing Kujo into firing.
• Aoki denied the accusation and argued that Fang had no evidence, while Maeda Kenichi promised an investigation and offered medical treatment.
• Fang left with Kanzaki Rin and Sato Hayato, joking with Kanzaki as Aoki watched them go.
• Tozo Taishi called for backup, but he, Maeda Kenichi, and Kujo Go kept their distance from Aoki.
• In the car, Fang told Kanzaki that Aoki seemed suspicious and asked whether Aoki attended their school; Kanzaki wondered why Fang had only just realized it.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin identified Aoki Yusuke as the likely hypnotist who had targeted Fang Cheng, but Kanzaki urged him to postpone revenge. At home, Aoki learned that the government and the Yuguang Family planned to sign a peace treaty, and he began plotting with Hiya Kyohei to destroy it.

• Kanzaki Rin explained that Aoki Yusuke may have used his psychic ability to make colleagues overlook him and may have anonymously reported Fang Cheng.
• Fang Cheng considered confronting Aoki Yusuke, but Kanzaki Rin warned that the Aoki family's influence and increased Countermeasure Department security made acting now too dangerous.
• Aoki Yusuke returned home, where his family had gone on high alert and Hiya Kyohei was hiding while growing harder to control.
• Aoki Tsuna told Aoki Yusuke that the government and the Yuguang Family would sign a peace treaty, which could cost the Aoki family its power.
• Aoki Tsuna urged Aoki Yusuke to abandon his pursuit of Kanzaki Rin and help the family, while Aoki Yusuke remained heartbroken over her.
• Hiya Kyohei demanded that Aoki Yusuke help him kill Fang Cheng, and Aoki promised an opportunity tied to the plan to destroy the treaty.

Fang Cheng confronted Tsukikage Hatsuka at the Fox Immortal House and discovered she had pocketed money from the Holy Grail sale and stopped searching for his motorcycle. Tsukikage Hoshi arrived and initially mistook the scene for an attack, then caught Hatsuka in her true form and questioned her weight and secret food stealing.

• Fang Cheng visited the Fox Immortal House and confronted Tsukikage Hatsuka for hiding its identity from him.
• Fang Cheng discovered that Tsukikage Hatsuka had pocketed a hundred thousand from the Holy Grail sale and admitted she had stopped looking for his motorcycle.
• Fang Cheng pinned Tsukikage Hatsuka down and threatened to punish her, prompting Tsukikage Hoshi to enter and unleash her aura.
• Tsukikage Hoshi mistook Fang Cheng’s actions for an attack on her cat, but Fang Cheng explained that Hatsuka had cheated him.
• Tsukikage Hoshi lifted Hatsuka by the scruff and asked why she had grown fat again, while Fang Cheng and Hatsuka fell silent.

Fang Cheng visited Tsukikage Hoshi at Fox Immortal House, where she tested her Charm on him and offered him membership in exchange for joining the Tsukikage Family and accepting a Loyalty Brand. He refused the condition, but Tsukikage Hoshi agreed to let him briefly see where she worked.

• Fang Cheng visited Tsukikage Hoshi's cottage and ate the strawberry cakes while Tsukikage Hatsuka ran on a locked treadmill.
• Tsukikage Hoshi noticed Fang Cheng seemed immune to her Charm and could not read the images in his mind, so she tried to seduce him for information.
• Fang Cheng mistook Tsukikage Hoshi's seductive swaying for a sign of hemorrhoids and offered her Mayinglong, angering her.
• Tsukikage Hoshi read Fang Cheng's recommendation letter and said he could join Fox Immortal House if he joined the Tsukikage Family and accepted a Loyalty Brand.
• Fang Cheng refused to accept the brand, then asked to see where Tsukikage Hoshi worked, and she agreed to let him look briefly.

Fang Cheng toured Fox Immortal House’s corpse-processing plant after questioning Tsukikage Hoshi and learned that the business sold monster corpses to the government. He discovered that humans also sold human corpses to monsters, leaving him amazed at how profit connected both sides.

• Fang Cheng asked Tsukikage Hoshi whether monsters could get hemorrhoids, and she threatened him after her teacup cracked in her grip.
• Tsukikage Hoshi suspected someone had sent Fang Cheng to test Fox Immortal House, while Fang Cheng decided to be more cautious about trusting her.
• Fang Cheng asked Tsukikage Nana to touch her tail, stroked it too long, and apologized to the fox she transformed into with milk candy.
• Tsukikage Nana led Fang Cheng through the corpse-processing plant, where Tsukikage Jun explained that Fox Immortal House sold collected monster corpses to the government.
• Tsukikage Jun told Fang Cheng that some humans collected human corpses and sold them to monsters for profit.

Fang Cheng discovered that fresh Monster corpses at Fox Immortal House’s factory could yield fragments, then traded his three information inquiries for permission to observe there daily. He left with an extra life and a Leatherworking Fragment, planning to keep harvesting fragments at the factory.

• Fang Cheng learned that the factory workers were female Possession-type Monsters and asked Tsukikage Jun to let him try the assembly line.
• Fang Cheng touched Monster corpses until he received an energy notification, then discovered that only recently dead corpses yielded fragments.
• Fang Cheng told Tsukikage Jun he was studying corpses to accomplish a great feat by making Monsters of different kinds able to have children together.
• Fang Cheng asked to trade an information inquiry for daily access to the factory, and the Landlady required all three inquiries in exchange.
• Fang Cheng stayed at the factory until nightfall, collecting three Life Fragments and one Leatherworking Fragment, which gave him an extra life and Leatherworking proficiency.

Tsukikage Hoshi learned that Fang Cheng was planning something and chose to have Tsukikage Jun investigate rather than drive him away. Back home, Fang Cheng gathered his team and Kanzaki Rin to plan Aoki Yusuke’s death, leaving Ye Yuqing punished after she mistook their meeting for an affair.

• Tsukikage Jun told Tsukikage Hoshi about Fang Cheng’s proposal to address reproductive incompatibility and his apparent unspoken request, and Hoshi decided to find out what he was planning.
• Fang Cheng abandoned his idea of asking Fox Immortal House for human skin because he no longer trusted Tsukikage Hoshi with the secret.
• Fang Cheng gathered Asaka Akie, the Sato Siblings, and Kanzaki Rin at home and announced that he intended to kill Aoki Yusuke.
• Kanzaki Rin objected that the plan could expose the team, but Fang Cheng took her to his bedroom and showed her his written plan.
• Kanzaki Rin judged the plan workable but full of holes, and Fang Cheng asked her to help improve it.
• Ye Yuqing and Sato Mai eavesdropped, misread the planning as an affair, and Ye Yuqing kicked open the door before ending up with a swollen butt.

Sato Hayato defeated a monster disguised as a beautiful girl, with Fang Cheng stepping in when it got back up. After collecting the monster’s human skin, Fang Cheng shut himself in his room to wear it, while Kanzaki Rin waited eagerly to mock him.

• Sato Hayato used his superpowers and steel balls to defeat the monster girl, but Fang Cheng killed her when she sprang back to attack.
• Fang Cheng and Sato Hayato discovered the monster was a male lizard hidden inside a woman’s skin, and Fang Cheng absorbed fragments of its abilities.
• Sato Mai drove the team away with the human skin and the monster’s body, while Kanzaki Rin stayed behind to revise Fang Cheng’s operation plan.
• Fang Cheng spent the night and morning in his bedroom preparing to wear the human skin, while Kanzaki Rin waited with a camera for him to emerge.
• Fang Cheng finally opened the bedroom door as the sponsor and team members watched.

Fang Cheng showed off his newly customized female body to Kanzaki Rin, Asaka Akie, and the Sato siblings, leaving them stunned and embarrassed. He described the body’s weight and smoothness, then offered the girls a dubious massage technique.

• Kanzaki Rin and the others aimed their phones at the bedroom door as Fang Cheng emerged wearing only borrowed underwear.
• Fang Cheng struck poses and strutted like a runway model, while Sato Hayato struggled to hide his reaction.
• Asaka Akie recognized her underwear, blushed, and handed control of the body to Ye Yuqing, who laughed and playfully touched Fang Cheng’s chest.
• Fang Cheng teased Sato Hayato about touching him, but Hayato backed down under Sato Mai’s warning glare.
• Fang Cheng offered to massage Sato Mai’s sore shoulders, but Kanzaki Rin warned her that he was trying to take advantage of her.
• Kanzaki Rin asked how Fang Cheng’s female body felt, and he said its skin felt smooth and silky.

Fang Cheng read Kanzaki Rin’s plan and learned that the Aoki family secretly supplied corpses to Monsters through its hospitals and crematoriums. He asked Kanzaki Rin whether the family had powerful government backing, leaving the group’s approach to Aoki Yusuke uncertain.

• Ye Yuqing mistook Fang Cheng’s cucumber joke for something sexual, and Fang Cheng clarified that he had used it to moisturize a wound on his backside.
• Kanzaki Rin gave Fang Cheng her action plan, which he read and found well suited to his abilities.
• Fang Cheng asked Sato Hayato to try wearing the skin, but Hayato misunderstood and thought Fang Cheng was propositioning him; Fang Cheng corrected him and knocked him down.
• Kanzaki Rin gave Fang Cheng documents about Aoki Yusuke’s family, and Fang Cheng discovered that the family collected and sold corpses to Monsters.
• Fang Cheng asked Kanzaki Rin whether the Aoki family had powerful government connections that might force them to revise their plan.

Fang Cheng prepared to use the Dark Bible’s Word Spirit Art to hide his identity when killing Aoki Yusuke, then discovered that the Bible—and the Evil God—could reach him anywhere. He accepted the Bible’s eerie presence and turned his attention back to dealing with Aoki Yusuke.

• Kanzaki Rin explained that the Aoki Family’s corpse-trading business depended on the government’s and Yuguang Family’s mutual need for an intermediary, and said Ugou Mirai was likely a child of the Yuguang Family.
• Kanzaki Rin told Fang Cheng that Aoki Yusuke’s hypnotic influence had been exposed within the Countermeasure Department, while Aoki remained shut inside his home.
• Kanzaki Rin took Asaka Akie and Sato Mai to prepare and scout, while Sato Hayato went to the Training Ground and Fang Cheng stayed home to study the Dark Bible.
• Fang Cheng tested Bind and Imbalance on the rooftop, summoning black tentacles and making a sparrow lose its balance without noticing any apparent cost.
• Fang Cheng threw the Dark Bible downstairs after an illustration spoke to him, but found it back on his coffee table and accepted that he could not escape it.

Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin staged a date and used a chain of disguises and shadow transfers to get him inside the Aoki Family residence. There, Fang Cheng detected a Vampire and continued toward the residence despite the unexpected danger, while a group of women approached.

• Fang Cheng and Kanzaki Rin went on a public date before checking into a hotel, where Fang Cheng disguised himself as a woman.
• Kanzaki Rin, Asaka Akie, and the Sato siblings carried out a carefully separated route that let Fang Cheng travel through their shadows without being tracked.
• Sato Hayato drove to Hakusan Town, where Fang Cheng left the car and used Blood Thread to cross into the Aoki Family residence from above.
• Fang Cheng smelled blood and realized a Vampire was hiding in the residence, and Kanzaki Rin suspected Aoki Yusuke had made a deal with the Vampires.
• Fang Cheng refused to retreat and crept deeper into the residence, where he caught the scent of a group of women approaching.

Fang Cheng infiltrated the Aoki residence and discovered Aoki Yusuke was planning something with his father for the twentieth of next month. He ambushed Yusuke in his room, shooting him repeatedly before a blood-red wolf crashed through the wall to protect him.

• Fang Cheng hid in Mika’s shadow and overheard fragments of Aoki Yusuke and Aoki Tsuna’s plans for the twentieth of next month.
• Fang Cheng followed Aoki Yusuke to his courtyard, where he found Hiya Kyohei, a Vampire, waiting nearby.
• Aoki Yusuke chose Mika to stay with him, and Fang Cheng waited in her shadow as Yusuke attacked her.
• After Aoki Yusuke sent Mika away, Fang Cheng fired a bullet from her shadow and wounded Yusuke.
• Fang Cheng emerged and emptied his gun into Aoki Yusuke, but a blood-red wolf burst through the wall and shielded him.

Fang Cheng killed Aoki Yusuke, but a Wild Boar Monster ambushed him and forced him into a desperate chase through the Aoki Family garden. Hiya Kyohei inherited Aoki Yusuke’s final command for revenge, while government forces closed in on Fang Cheng.

• Fang Cheng repelled Blood Wolf, then shot Aoki Yusuke in the forehead.
• Aoki Yusuke used his last moments to command Hiya Kyohei to avenge him against Fang Cheng before dying.
• A Wild Boar Monster smashed through the house and drove Fang Cheng through the garden, destroying his Blood Battle Suit.
• Kanzaki Rin warned Fang Cheng that the SAT Mobile Team would arrive in fifteen minutes and urged him to escape within ten.
• Fang Cheng fled through the garden as the Wild Boar Monster chased him, and security personnel accidentally helped him gain some distance.

Fang Cheng fought his way through the Aoki Family estate after killing Aoki Yusuke, but Hiya Kyohei’s explosions left his fate unclear. Aoki Tsuna and the Wild Boar Monster still planned their operation, while Hiya Kyohei promised to avenge Aoki Yusuke despite realizing he had targeted the wrong person.

• The Wild Boar Monster charged Fang Cheng, who repeatedly used Collapse and Crushing Doom to trap him before binding the security guards and fleeing.
• Hiya Kyohei blocked Fang Cheng’s escape, but Fang Cheng trapped him in an illusion and attacked him with a silver dagger and a flurry of punches.
• Hiya Kyohei unleashed Blood Explosion, detonating himself and nearby Blood Wolves and blasting the garden with powerful explosions.
• Hiya Kyohei regenerated and ranted that he had avenged Aoki Yusuke, while the guards stayed back from his erratic behavior.
• Aoki Tsuna learned the assassin had used Ultimate Bliss Cult Word Spirit Arts and confirmed to the Wild Boar Monster that their planned operation would proceed.
• Hiya Kyohei entered naked, closed Aoki Yusuke’s eyes, and vowed to avenge him.

Fang Cheng escaped the Aoki Family estate after killing Aoki Yusuke, then returned to the hotel with Kanzaki Rin and the others. After warning Kanzaki about a possible plan for the twentieth of next month, he realized the woman in the room was an impostor and demanded to know where Kanzaki Rin was.

• Fang Cheng escaped the Aoki Family estate badly burned after shooting Aoki Yusuke, then hid in Sato Hayato's shadow to get away from the responding SAT Mobile Team.
• Fang Cheng reunited with Kanzaki Rin, Asaka Akie, and Sato Mai at the hotel, where he ate and confirmed that he had shot Aoki Yusuke fourteen times.
• Fang Cheng told Kanzaki Rin that the Aoki father and son had discussed plans for the twentieth of next month, and she resolved to investigate the government's preparations.
• Kanzaki Rin approached Fang Cheng at the hotel and pretended to agree to his request to be his Puppy, but Fang Cheng grabbed her and demanded to know who she was and where Kanzaki Rin was.