Chapter Summaries

Fang Ran reviewed Yota’s novel, praised it despite criticizing its flaws, and persuaded him to leave his room and visit Sister Cheng Zi. Before departing, Fang Ran added Yota’s book to his shelf and learned from Yota’s uncle how isolated Yota had been.

• Fang Ran told Yota that his novel’s slow, unconventional style had hurt its chances with readers, but admitted that he liked it.
• Yota became tearful with excitement at receiving his first feedback and asked Fang Ran to repeat the review so he could record it.
• Fang Ran learned that Yota could use a Leap-Space device to travel to Sister Cheng Zi, then bound him with a Shadow Card and prepared to take him along.
• Fang Ran activated the leap device, threw Yota through the portal, and added Yota’s novel to his bookshelf on the tablet.
• Yota’s uncle returned with coffee, explained that Yota had long been lonely and often used for his abilities, and thanked Fang Ran for reading his novel.

The author reflected on his quiet, lonely life after graduating and explained that writing full-time felt exhausting and he did not want his hobby to become a burden. He planned to take time off in September to travel, visit friends and relatives, and look for inspiration, leaving updates temporarily unstable.

• The author described spending August at home, writing daily and seeing almost no one besides his parents.
• He admitted that writing consumed his energy and that he wanted time to play, travel, date, and experience life outside novels.
• He announced plans to go out in September, visit relatives and classmates, and possibly travel to BJ or Dalian.
• He said there would be no updates that day or the next, and that September updates might be irregular.
• He thanked readers for supporting his novels and said he felt fortunate to have readers.

Fang Ran and Yota arrived in Tokyo while trying to find someone who had left them a vague note, then struggled to navigate the unfamiliar city without phones or money. They wandered through Shinjuku and ended with Fang Ran discovering that Yota could read Japanese.

• Fang Ran and Yota emerged from the teleportation gate in Tokyo and found a note telling them to come find someone, but it gave no location.
• Fang Ran and Yota realized they had no phones or money and decided to search Tokyo for clues, starting in Shinjuku.
• Fang Ran offered to erase Yota’s presence so they could explore the crowded city, and persuaded him that sightseeing might inspire his writing.
• Fang Ran and Yota wandered around the same area for nearly an hour because they could not read the signs or use phone navigation.
• Yota explained that construction detours were connected to the upcoming Olympics, and Fang Ran realized Yota could read Japanese.

Fang Ran took the anxious Yota around Shinjuku and brought him to a hair salon, where Yota got a dramatic makeover. The pair left the salon bickering, with Yota clinging to Fang Ran and begging not to be abandoned.

• Fang Ran dragged Yota through Shinjuku and used the Phantom Card to conceal them before leaping across the city with him.
• Fang Ran brought Yota to a hair salon, where Yota froze up when the staff tried to speak with him.
• Fang Ran gave the staff a Japanese note requesting their best hairstylist and paid with a black card edged in gold.
• After an hour and a half, Yota emerged with a stylish haircut that revealed his unexpectedly handsome appearance.
• Yota put his old glasses back on, and Fang Ran teased him, threatened to leave him behind, and walked away.
• Yota clung to Fang Ran's waist on a Shinjuku street and begged him not to leave him alone.

Fang Ran dragged Yota around Tokyo while they searched for Cheng Zi, turning their trip into a series of comic confrontations over Kabukicho and Akihabara. The chapter left Fang Ran trying to reach a figurine store’s fifth-floor section while Yota clung to him to stop him.

• Fang Ran used his ability to make others see Yota wearing a dress, then dragged him toward Kabukicho until Yota stopped him at the entrance.
• Fang Ran decided to look for Cheng Zi, and Yota said she liked games before Fang Ran deduced she had gone to Akihabara.
• Fang Ran flew Yota from Shinjuku to Akihabara, where they entered an electronics department store and discussed shopping and money.
• Fang Ran tried to go to the store’s fifth floor, but Yota wrapped himself around Fang Ran and refused to let him pass.

Fang Ran took Yota around Akihabara, where an owl cafe visit ended with the owls swarming him and the pair being asked to leave. On a department-store rooftop, Yota revealed a projected photograph of Fang Ran in a completely different persona outside the Westfjord Hotel.

• Fang Ran browsed anime figures with Yota before taking him to an owl cafe instead of a maid cafe.
• The cafe’s five owls flocked to Fang Ran and knocked him onto a table, so the staff asked them to leave and waived their bill.
• On a rooftop, Yota thanked Fang Ran for taking him out and said he had worried about meeting him but now thought he was a good person.
• Yota activated a device that projected a photograph of a poised, cold-looking Fang Ran outside the Westfjord Hotel, surrounded by bodyguards and secretaries in the falling snow.

Fang Ran encouraged Yota by explaining why he had risked going to the Arctic and urging him to find courage when his own reason came. As Fang Ran prepared to leave the rooftop, a new Clow Card, The Glow, awakened in his hand, giving him an instinctive sense that something was about to happen.

• Yota showed Fang Ran a photo of him in the Arctic and asked why he had gone there despite knowing the danger.
• Fang Ran said he had gone because someone important to him was there, then reassured Yota that relying on luck did not make him any less of a Participant.
• Fang Ran encouraged Yota to be brave when he found a reason to complete his Awakening Scene, while an unseen follower decided not to test him.
• Fang Ran helped Yota float down from the rooftop and was surprised when golden pages appeared before him.
• The Glow awakened as a new Clow Card in Fang Ran's hand, and he sensed that something was about to happen.

Fang Ran searched Akihabara with Yota for Mu Cheng and found her waiting inside an orange tent at a game convention. Mu Cheng refused to leave until Fang Ran tempted her with a launch-limited game edition, and she immediately agreed to go with him.

• Fang Ran and Yota went to a crowded anime convention while searching for Cheng Zi.
• Cosplayers surrounded Yota, and Fang Ran left him to make his way to the game sales area.
• Fang Ran spotted an orange tent at the front of the game line and discovered Mu Cheng inside.
• Mu Cheng refused to return early, insisting that she would stay until she bought a limited-edition game.
• Fang Ran claimed he had the game edition with him, and Mu Cheng rushed out of her tent and agreed to leave.

Fang Ran reunited with Mu Cheng and Yota in Tokyo, then learned Young Master planned a Sea Island vacation for the Night Bureau before the National War. Just as the group set out for an arcade, Fang Ran was pulled into a Night Gear Scenario and found himself above a flooded, ruined Tokyo.

• Fang Ran found Yota sulking after leaving him behind at the game release, and Mu Cheng reunited with both of them.
• Fang Ran and Yota realized none of them had brought a phone, so Mu Cheng contacted Young Master through their Night Web team channel.
• Young Master invited the Night Bureau to vacation on a Sea Island before the National War, and Mu Cheng eagerly agreed after hearing he had prepared game consoles and discs.
• Mu Cheng proposed taking Fang Ran and Yota to an arcade while they waited for their flight.
• Fang Ran vanished in a burst of white light and appeared atop a building above a dark, flooded Tokyo, surrounded by dancing Clow Cards as his Night Gear Scenario began.

Fang Ran entered a Night Gear Scenario in which darkness had flooded Tokyo and most of his Clow Cards were sealed. After barely destroying one A-99, he discovered the city was filled with more of the deadly gaseous monsters and received a mission to kill them all.

• Fang Ran found himself above a dark, silent Tokyo beneath a dark moon and collected the Water Card, which returned his available Clow Cards while leaving many others sealed.
• A gaseous monster ambushed Fang Ran with suffocation, corrosion, poison, and powerful slashes, leaving him badly injured and unable to damage it with ordinary attacks.
• Fang Ran used the Flight Card, The Dash, and Wave Card to launch a full-force attack that shattered the monster, though the blast also burned and poisoned him.
• Fang Ran saw numerous similar gaseous monsters rising from Tokyo’s black sea, and the system identified them as A-99s and ordered him to kill them all.

Fang Ran faced A-99, a top-one-hundred A-Rank monster whose manifestations were drowning Tokyo and attacking from all sides. Remembering the Demoness’s reassurance, he accepted the power of the Moon and unleashed his black monsters, hoping one day to do something for her.

• Fang Ran learned that A-99 embodied the effects of global warming and was causing the Black Sea to submerge Tokyo.
• Fang Ran exhausted his magical energy destroying one A-99 with the Wave Card, then watched as the remaining monsters surrounded him.
• As A-99s charged, Fang Ran summoned Gluttony and emerged atop its head.
• Fang Ran remembered the Demoness’s help and wondered whether it was all right to keep accepting it.
• Fang Ran put on the Black Rose mask, summoned his other black monsters, and faced the A-99s while wishing he could someday help the Demoness.

Fang Ran cleared the Night Device scene in Tokyo by summoning the Demoness’s black dolls, which slaughtered the A-99s. After the victory, he noticed that his displayed magical energy value had changed.

• Yota panicked when Fang Ran disappeared at the Akihabara venue, but Mu Cheng reassured him that Fang Ran had likely been pulled into a scene and would be safe.
• Fang Ran summoned the black dolls in the flooded Tokyo scene, where they overwhelmed the A-99s and turned the battle into a one-sided slaughter.
• Pride erased the final A-99, and Fang Ran confirmed that the Night Device scene had been cleared.
• Fang Ran reflected on the dolls’ power and The Glow Card’s luck omen as he waited for the system to settle the scene.
• Fang Ran noticed that his magical energy display had changed to 2160/5321.

Fang Ran discovered that Droupnir had increased his Magic Energy and triggered a fusion with Night's Pilgrimage. He chose Gungnir as the fusion’s freely chosen ability, and the result was the A-rank Night Gear The King of Gods Belonging to the Edda Saga.

• Fang Ran noticed his Magic Energy limit had increased by one and recalled the mysterious ring placed on his hand by Arrogance.
• Droupnir appeared on Fang Ran’s left ring finger, and its power raised his Magic Energy limit to 5322.
• The system began fusing Droupnir with Night's Pilgrimage, transforming both Night Gears and awakening new powers in Fang Ran.
• Fang Ran chose the phantom of Gungnir from four options, and it became an oath-like power within the fused Night Gear.
• The fusion produced ZXC9-A—The King of Gods Belonging to the Edda Saga.

Fang Ran fused Droupnir with Night's Pilgrimage, gaining the powers of Odin and a new King of Gods form. After the Night Gear scenario ended, a vast terror beneath the Black Sea nearly drowned him, and he awoke exhausted in the convention hall as a familiar voice found him.

• Fang Ran discovered that the fusion gave him runes, Hugin and Munin's powers, Droupnir's mana growth, and Gungnir's oath, though it did not grant him a stronger offensive ability.
• The system announced that Fang Ran had killed all A-99, completed the scenario, and received its Night Gear reward.
• A colossal darkness flooded the world, and Fang Ran glimpsed a terrifying presence beneath the Black Sea before losing consciousness.
• Fang Ran reappeared in the convention hall, coughing and trembling as he remembered the drowned, shattered Tokyo.
• A familiar voice found Fang Ran and told someone that Xiao Fang had been snatched away by a scenario.

After escaping the Scenario, Fang Ran was too exhausted to stand and was carried by Mu Cheng as he and Yota left. Aboard a private jet bound for an unknown sea island, Fang Ran fell asleep beside his companions, while the coming National War awaited him.

• Mu Cheng and Yota found Fang Ran sprawled on the floor after the Scenario, and Fang Ran admitted that the Black Sea finale had left him shaken and weak.
• Yota tried to help Fang Ran up but dropped him, so Mu Cheng picked him up in a princess carry despite his embarrassment.
• At Narita Airport, a suited subordinate told the young master that Fang Ran's three friends had boarded the private jet safely.
• The young master learned that Fang Ran had gone to rest and said they would talk when they met again.
• Fang Ran fell asleep on the plane beside figures wrapped in blankets as it flew toward an unknown sea island, exhausted by the day's events and the approaching National War.

An Italian Arbitration Knight traveled from Rome to London, eager to meet her ancestor and confident she would win the National War. Meanwhile, Fang Ran woke aboard a plane arriving at a private tropical island, confused after sleeping between two people.

• A golden-haired young woman boarded an international train in Rome and traveled toward London for a mission.
• She recalled her ancestor’s sacrifice and the maxim that nobles were defined by how they used their power.
• The woman reassured her phantom companion, Tu Er, and declared that she could not lose the National War.
• Fang Ran’s plane reached a luxurious tropical island, where he woke after dreaming about a video game and asked if class was over.

Fang Ran woke aboard a plane bound for Sea Island and learned the young master had arranged for him, Yota, and Mu Cheng to skydive onto it. He tricked Yota into jumping, then prepared to take the still-clinging Mu Cheng with him as he jumped.

• Fang Ran woke up and learned the plane was circling above Sea Island, where the three travelers would land by parachute.
• Yota panicked at the open cabin door, while Mu Cheng admitted she was afraid of heights and clung to Fang Ran’s legs.
• Fang Ran gave Yota fake instructions for making friends, ending with a marriage proposal, then kicked him out of the plane.
• Fang Ran tried to get Mu Cheng to jump, but she held on tighter and refused to let go.
• Fang Ran activated the Jump Card and asked whether Mu Cheng was afraid he would take her with him; Mu Cheng worried that letting go would make him throw her down.

Fang Ran, Yota, and Mu Cheng reached the young master's tropical island after a disastrous skydive and settled in at his enormous beachfront villa. As the Night Bureau members gathered for the vacation, Fang Ran met a stern woman and was suddenly attacked by someone furious that he had dragged them into trouble.

• Fang Ran caught Yota after he opened his parachute too early, but Yota clung to him and prevented him from opening his own chute, so Fang Ran used The Float to bring them and Mu Cheng down into the sea.
• Fang Ran and the others crawled ashore, where the young master greeted them in a beach buggy and took them to his villa.
• The young master explained that he had bought fifty years of development and usage rights to the island and had built a huge private retreat there.
• After changing into beachwear, Fang Ran learned that the young master had used a Space Teleportation Gate and that the Bureau members had already arrived.
• A woman in a white swimsuit struck the young master for teasing Fang Ran, then an enraged figure charged at Fang Ran over a past incident involving being hung from a balcony railing.

The Night Bureau members gathered at the young master's island villa for a beach vacation during the National War, trading jokes and getting into trouble as they changed into seaside clothes. The group reunited on the beach, while Yota remained hidden in the bushes.

• Fang Ran and Meng Lang immediately fought when they met, while Gou Yu greeted the young master and Ai Ma knocked him down for asking an impolite question.
• Spellcaster and the young master started bickering, and Qing Ning blasted a peeping uncle out of the bushes and stomped on him.
• The young master welcomed the Night Bureau members and praised the island's scenery as Su Qun and Magician joined the conversation.
• Qing Ning, Hua Ling, Fu Su, and Ye Sheng emerged in their beach outfits, and Su Qun complimented Hua Ling's swimsuit.
• Mu Cheng appeared in denim boxer shorts and told Qing Ning that Yota was probably hiding in a shadow, while Yota watched from the bushes and wondered if he could come out.

The Night Bureau enjoyed a beach vacation on Sea Island, where Fang Ran tried a jet ski and crashed into the sea. As he began to drown, he saw a wine-red-haired woman swimming toward him like a mermaid.

• Hua Ling dominated a beach volleyball game against Spellcaster, Meng Lang, and Su Qun while Mu Cheng watched from the sidelines.
• Ye Sheng and Fu Su discussed the National War and Night Crow as Fang Ran gleefully played in the water nearby.
• Fang Ran chose a jet ski after asking for a safe activity, then used The Dash and lost control of it.
• Fang Ran fell into the sea and admired the underwater scenery before seawater left him struggling to breathe.
• As Fang Ran began to lose consciousness, he saw a woman with wine-red hair swim toward him.