Chapter Summaries

After killing Herzog, Amon took steps to seize his forces and continue advancing the White King Revival plan. As he assessed the competing factions in Japan, he remained uncertain about Odin’s intentions and Xia Mi’s goals.

• When time resumed, Amon killed Herzog by slashing his throat, then later returned to cut off his head.
• Amon used pressure to force Herzog to mobilize his hidden assets, hoping to take over his forces and replace him in directing the White King Revival plan.
• Amon noted that Herzog’s assets included a Dragon-form Dead Servant cultivation base and a cloning factory that produced Shadow Dancers.
• Amon considered the goals of Odin, the Secret Party, Lu Mingze, the White King, Feather Spirit, and the Eight Clans of the Serpent as he walked away with Herzog’s head.
• Amon remained unsure what Xia Mi wanted and wondered whether he should delay his plans until Fenrir finished building his dragon body.

Minamoto Chisaki and the others discovered a hidden Dead Servant breeding ground beneath Genji Heavy Industries, implicating Tachibana Masamune and the Eight Clans of the Serpent in forbidden research. Amon arrived with Tachibana Masamune’s severed head, and Minamoto and Sakurai Nanami tried to distance the clans from the crimes as Amon called for a meeting to discuss what came next.

• Minamoto Chisaki and his group found a concealed laboratory and breeding pool filled with mutated Dead Servants and bones.
• Miyamoto Shio said the hidden area was beyond his authority, while Minamoto suspected Tachibana Masamune was behind the experiments.
• Ryoma Genichiro urged the group to destroy the evidence before General Mike Amon discovered it, and Minamoto ordered Miyamoto and Sakurai Nanami to act.
• Amon appeared holding Tachibana Masamune’s severed head, shocking the clan members and prompting Minamoto to stop them from raising their guns.
• Sakurai Nanami insisted the clans had known nothing of Tachibana Masamune’s deeds, and Minamoto bowed to Amon and promised cooperation.
• Amon said evidence must determine responsibility and asked Minamoto to gather the other clan heads for a discussion.

Amon revealed evidence that Tachibana Masamune was Dr. Herzog and forced the Eight Clans of the Serpent to accept his terms for how their role in the conspiracy would be reported. He ended the military blockade and arranged for Erii to leave the Shrine and explore Tokyo under supervision.

• Amon gave the clan heads documents identifying Tachibana Masamune as Dr. Herzog and detailing his history and suspected crimes.
• The clan heads read the evidence, and Minamoto Chisaki recognized a missing girl in the photographs as the first Dead Servant from the Sky Ladder Well.
• Amon presented two possible accounts of the Eight Clans of the Serpent's responsibility and asked which report they preferred; the clan heads submitted to his lead.
• Amon ordered the US Military to end its blockade and imposed strict confidentiality on everyone involved in the operation.
• Amon offered to take Erii out to Tokyo, and Minamoto Chisaki agreed on the condition that she take her suppressant and stay with the protection team.

Amon called President Ronald in front of the Eight Clans of the Serpent and claimed he had uncovered a terrorist plot, assuring Ronald that the U.S. pressure on Japan had been handled. The clan heads took the call as a sign of Amon’s goodwill, while Amon secured their gratitude without intending to use the U.S. military against them.

• Amon called President Ronald on speakerphone while the Eight Clans of the Serpent listened.
• Ronald complained about political pressure over Amon’s actions in Japan and urged him to return with evidence of a successful operation.
• Amon reported that he had killed Herzog, a former German and Soviet scientist who had conducted biological weapons research in Japan, and said Herzog’s laboratory had self-destructed.
• Ronald praised Amon’s operation, then asked whether it could win him the Nobel Peace Prize; Amon explained that secrecy would keep the achievement from public recognition.
• Ronald announced he would mediate at least eight wars to pursue the prize, leaving the clan heads and Amon speechless.
• Minamoto Chisaki understood that Amon had eased U.S. pressure on the Eight Clans, and the clan heads felt grateful to him.

After Amon took over as head of the Japan Branch, he learned that Xia Mi and her companions had escaped their pursuers and ended up working at a Shinjuku host club. At Takamagahara, Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku watched the recruits while their mysterious Boss brooded over Herzog’s death.

• Amon took over as head of the Japan Branch, and Ryoma Genichiro agreed to resign and recommend him to Principal Angers.
• Xia Mi called Amon from Takamagahara and explained that Chu Zihang had been wounded while they escaped the Eight Clans of the Serpent.
• Xia Mi said Manager Humpback Whale had sheltered the group, arranged treatment for Chu Zihang, and recruited Caesar, Finn, and Lu Mingfei to work at the host club.
• Amon realized that his companions had ended up at the same host club where Caesar and the others had gone.
• Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku watched the hosts through a hidden aquarium wall and joked about requesting Caesar’s service.
• The Boss muttered over a shogi piece about Herzog dying too easily, prompting Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku to speculate about his changed behavior.

Lu Mingze let Mai Sakatoku and Su Enxi enjoy a night off while Caesar, Finn, Lu Mingfei, and the recovering Chu Zihang helped at Takamagahara. Chu Zihang was assigned to Xia Mi, who asked him to smile for her.

• Lu Mingze complained that He Xiaomeng had thrown the script off course and left him with no missions to assign.
• Su Enxi eagerly set off for the Hosts, but Mai Sakatoku stopped her and warned her not to attract the Little Dragon Maiden's attention.
• Chu Zihang joined Caesar, Finn, and Lu Mingfei at work despite his lingering weakness and unstable Golden Eyes.
• A waiter brought Chu Zihang, working as Ukyo Tachibana, to a booth where Xia Mi had requested his company.
• Xia Mi explained she had come as a guest to support Manager Humpback Whale, then told Chu Zihang to smile.

At Takamagahara, Chu Zihang and Xia Mi shared a booth while Su Enxi met the renowned host Genji Wakana, who called himself Kazama Ruri. A waiter summoned Chu Zihang and the other rookie hosts to a private room, and Xia Mi was stopped from following him by her brother.

• Xia Mi leaned against Chu Zihang and tried to feel his abs, but he slapped her hand away without pushing her off.
• Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku joined the club’s revelry, where Su Enxi met Genji Wakana, who introduced himself as Kazama Ruri and signed her jacket.
• A waiter told Caesar, Finn, and Lu Mingfei that guests in the Summer Moon Room had requested them, and the three hosts went upstairs.
• The waiter then summoned Chu Zihang to the same private room, and Chu Zihang warned Xia Mi to be careful before heading up.
• Xia Mi tried to follow Chu Zihang, but someone pressed her back into the booth; she turned and recognized her brother.

Xia Mi reassured Amon that she and Chu Zihang were only fellow disciples, while Mai Sakatoku warned Su Enxi that Kazama Ruri was dangerous. Kazama then joined Caesar, Chu Zihang, Finn, and Lu Mingfei and asked them to help kill Wang Jiang.

• Amon teased Xia Mi about kissing and cuddling with Chu Zihang, and she insisted they were just ordinary fellow disciples.
• Kazama Ruri left Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku, and Mai warned that he was extremely dangerous.
• Chu Zihang joined Caesar, Finn, and Lu Mingfei as Sakurai Kogure revealed she belonged to Nippon Stronghold and used the codename Ryoma.
• Kazama Ruri entered the room, confirmed he had arranged the meeting, and exchanged banter with Caesar, Finn, and Lu Mingfei.
• Kazama Ruri asked the four men to cooperate with him in killing Wang Jiang, whom he called a Ghoul and an absolute bastard.

Genji Wakana revealed the Eight Clans of the Serpent’s secrets and accused Tachibana Masamune of being a clone of Wang Jiang, presenting evidence of his experiments. Caesar agreed to cooperate with Genji Wakana if his claims were true, but Amon suddenly entered the room.

• Genji Wakana told Caesar, Chu Zihang, and Lu Mingfei that he was Minamoto Chisaki’s younger brother and explained the White King’s Holy Remains and the Eight Clans of the Serpent’s hidden history.
• Genji Wakana claimed that Wang Jiang’s apparent immortality came from cloning and suspected that the second Wang Jiang was Tachibana Masamune.
• Genji Wakana presented a dossier about Bondarev and photographs of a Breeding Pool as evidence of Tachibana Masamune’s experiments.
• Caesar questioned whether the evidence was genuine, and Genji Wakana proposed taking the group to meet General Mike Amon.
• Caesar agreed to cooperate if Genji Wakana’s claims were true, but Amon opened the door and asked what they were discussing.

Amon entered the Summer Moon Room after destroying the Dead Servant Breeding Pools and killing Tachibana Masamune, then declared that Chu Zihang's relationship with Xia Mi was the more serious problem. The room erupted in laughter as Amon accused Chu of deceiving his newly adult sister, while Xia Mi tried to push him out.

• Amon entered the room with Xia Mi, and Sakurai Kogure apologized to Kazama Ruri for failing to stop him.
• Lu Mingfei recounted the group's dangerous experiences and Kazama Ruri's intelligence about the White King, the Holy Remains, Wang Jiang, and a conspiracy within the Eight Clans of the Serpent.
• Amon revealed that he had destroyed the Dead Servant Breeding Pools in Genji Heavy Industries and killed Tachibana Masamune.
• Amon slammed the table and accused Chu Zihang of deceiving Xia Mi, prompting Lu Mingfei, Finn, and Caesar to laugh while Chu stood frozen.
• Chu Zihang questioned whether his feelings for Xia Mi were love, and Xia Mi blushed and tried to shove Amon toward the door.

After Kazama Ruri urged Chu Zihang and Xia Mi to act on their feelings, the two shared an awkward but meaningful look. Amon confronted Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku in the corridor, learned Su Enxi was a Kassel College board member, and asked to meet her boss.

• Xia Mi shoved Amon out of the Summer Moon Room, then awkwardly explained his behavior to Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei, Caesar, and Finn.
• Kazama Ruri told Chu Zihang not to leave someone who cherished him waiting, prompting Chu Zihang and Xia Mi to meet eyes before looking away.
• Kazama Ruri and Sakurai Kogure left the room, and Amon noticed Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku spying from the corridor.
• Su Enxi tried to flee with Mai but grabbed Amon instead, and Amon recognized her from their earlier phone conversation.
• Amon asked whether Su Enxi and Mai worked for Kassel College, and Su Enxi revealed she was a board member and financial backer.
• Amon asked Su Enxi if he could meet her boss, startling her and Mai.

Amon rejected Boss's offer to meet, threatened him over using game cheats, and drove the group away from the sealed hotel after explaining that the Eight Clans of the Serpent blamed them for the massacre there. The group left with a mysterious shrine maiden, while Amon hinted that he had killed the attackers for targeting his sister and left Chu Zihang uneasy.

• Amon told Su Enxi and Mai Sakatoku that he knew of Boss, but Boss declined to meet him, so Amon sent a warning about using cheats in games.
• Amon drove Caesar, Lu Mingfei, Chu Zihang, Xia Mi, and Finn away from the host club after Minamoto Chisaki dropped them off.
• Lu Mingfei found a shrine maiden carrying a sword and a yellow rubber duck in the back seat and sat beside her.
• Amon said the US Military had killed the biker gang members at the Peninsula Hotel and that a mysterious person had wiped out the Ninja Army, including Fuma Kotaro.
• Chu Zihang recalled Xia Mi rescuing him and wondered whether she had defeated Fuma Kotaro and the sniper by herself.
• Amon said the Eight Clans of the Serpent suspected Caesar and the others, then declared that killing their attackers was justified because they had targeted his sister.

Amon revealed that Uesugi Erii was the Eight Clans of the Serpent’s strongest Oni, with the dangerous Spirit Word Judgment, and explained why he had brought her to Tokyo. When he asked who would earn her trust and help keep her calm, Lu Mingfei volunteered, drawn to her after their brief meeting.

• Finn remarked that the Eight Clans of the Serpent had been unusually cautious around Amon, who identified the quiet girl beside Lu Mingfei as their greatest treasure.
• At the hotel, Amon told Caesar, Chu Zihang, Lu Mingfei, and Finn that the girl was Uesugi Erii, the Uesugi Clan Head, whose bloodline surpassed Minamoto Chisaki’s.
• Amon explained that Erii’s Spirit Word was Judgment and that her sheltered upbringing had left her mentally young and eager to explore the outside world.
• Amon asked one of the men to build Erii’s trust so he could calm her if her unstable bloodline caused trouble; Chu Zihang declined because he feared Xia Mi would misunderstand, while Caesar and Finn also refused.
• Lu Mingfei volunteered to accompany Erii, and Amon joked that they shared an interest in games and compared them to a scholar and a female ghost.

Amon took his Dragon-form Dead Servant puppets into a violent storm and descended to the deep-sea floor to search for an ancient city and an “Embryo.” After one puppet detected something unusual, Amon and the others converged on its location.

• Amon sailed into the storm with a boatload of Dragon-form Dead Servants, whose chaotic minds strained his control.
• Amon and the Dead Servants leaped into the ocean and descended toward the seabed.
• Amon transformed into a black dragon and used his tail to swim rapidly through the deep sea.
• Amon reached the seafloor and sent the Dead Servants in different directions as detection nodes in the Mental Network.
• A Dead Servant found something unusual, and Amon and the other puppets rushed toward its coordinates.

Amon followed a strange red glow into an anomalous deep-sea ecosystem and discovered the lost city of Takamagahara. As his Dead Servants searched the ruins for the god and the Feathered Serpent God, they found the sunken Lenin, where a pair of enormous eyes opened in the darkness.

• Amon reached a vast, red-lit abyss surrounded by thriving deep-sea life and recognized the ecosystem as a feeding ground prepared by a slumbering Dragon King.
• Amon drove away the aggressive Ghost-Toothed Dragon Vipers with his Monarch's pressure and ordered his Dead Servants to search the abyss.
• A Dead Servant discovered the ruined ancient city of Takamagahara, built around a towering structure beside a magma river.
• A Dead Servant found the sunken Lenin in the ruins, its hull covered in Deep-Sea Lung Snails, and saw enormous eyes open in the darkness.

Amon discovered that the Feathered Serpent God guarded the sunken Lenin and the Embryo, and that the Dragon’s allegiance had shifted toward the Dragon Raja World. After the Dead Servant puppets failed to distract or defeat him, Amon withdrew without reaching the Embryo.

• Amon lost contact with a Dragon-form Dead Servant puppet and sent more puppets to investigate the Lenin.
• The puppets revealed the Feathered Serpent God, whose mind and allegiance had shifted away from Amon’s influence.
• Amon used two puppets as a feint while a third tried to reach the Lenin and the Embryo.
• The Feathered Serpent God destroyed all three attacking puppets after tracking their movements.
• Amon judged that the puppets could not reach the Embryo and retreated, while the Feathered Serpent God returned to guarding the wreck.

Amon ordered the Trieste’s tests delayed while he sought authorization for a higher-level military operation, as Kassel College monitored the Embryo and learned of Japan’s request to appoint He Xiaomeng as branch head. The chapter left off as Pompeii contacted Angers and the professors.

• Amon inspected the Trieste at Ganryu Research Institute, ordered its hull repainted, and told Miyamoto Shio to delay the tests until he could seek authorization from Mr. Ronald.
• Mans Longdeshited reported that the Embryo’s heart rate had briefly surged, and Professor Von Schneider judged that an external stimulus had disturbed it before it returned to dormancy.
• Von Schneider reported that Ryoma Genichiro had resigned and recommended He Xiaomeng as acting head of the Japan Branch, while Manstein said the Kaguya-hime system blocked Kassel’s access to information.
• Angers accepted the Japan Branch’s nomination and asked when it would act against the Embryo, then heard that the Trieste’s deployment was delayed for local calibration.
• Angers and the professors received a connection request from the Gattuso Family, and Pompeii appeared on the screen.

Pompeii tried to stop Caesar from leading the dangerous mission, but Caesar refused to return. Pompeii then warned Angers that He Xiaomeng might be connected to the Dragon Kind, and Angers decided to go to Japan to watch him.

• Pompeii demanded that Angers bring Caesar home, but Caesar refused to abandon his responsibility as team leader.
• Pompeii warned Angers that He Xiaomeng, also known as Mike Amon, must be kept away from the heart of the deep-sea operation.
• Pompeii showed photographs from the Yamal icebreaker, where Dragon Kind cocoon material and a decayed skeleton had been found.
• Pompeii suspected that He Xiaomeng was either a human traitor or a Second Generation Dragon, and warned that other Dragon Kind might be in Japan.
• Angers declined to suspend the mission because the Embryo could hatch soon and said he would go to Japan to watch He Xiaomeng.

Amon became Japan Branch head and launched the Purge of Sins against Nippon Stronghold, insisting that Japan’s internal threats had to be eliminated before confronting the Dragon Kind Embryo. Over the following two months, the purge reshaped Japan while several characters pursued sharply different routines, and the professors monitoring the deep-sea threat grew increasingly anxious.

• Amon took command of the Eight Clans of the Serpent and ordered Nippon Stronghold eradicated, arguing that internal threats had to be removed before the clans could safely face the god beneath the sea.
• The clans carried out the Purge of Sins, raiding Nippon Stronghold bases, executing its most heinous members, imprisoning others, and sharply reducing bloodline-related violence and black-market Evolution Drugs.
• Lu Mingfei and Uesugi Erii toured Japan under Lu Mingze’s arrangements while Mai Sakatoku, Su Enxi, and an elite clan force accompanied and guarded them.
• Chu Zihang and Xia Mi wandered through Japan as Chu Zihang observed the changes brought by the purge, while Finn enjoyed Inuyama He's hospitality at the Tamamo-no-Mae Club.
• Caesar Gattuso stayed close to Minamoto Chisaki, watched He Xiaomeng’s actions, and secretly exchanged intelligence with Kazama Ruri about the purge and the tensions surrounding it.
• The professors in Kassel College’s central control room grew exhausted and fearful as Amon’s campaign delayed action against the pulsating Embryo beneath the Pacific Ocean.

At a late-night ramen cart, Angers met Caesar Gattuso to hear the results of an investigation into the origins of Japan's leaders. When Caesar said their genes all came from Uesugi Koshi, the former Shadow Emperor reacted in shock.

• Kassel's professors argued over Amon's delay in Japan while the Embryo's heartbeat remained steady.
• Angers met Uesugi Koshi at his ramen cart and explained that Caesar Gattuso was coming to report on a mission.
• Caesar arrived and told Angers that his investigation had found the Dragon King of Nippon Stronghold and the heads of the Minamoto and Uesugi Clans were genetically engineered test-tube babies born at Black Swan Port.
• Caesar said the three leaders' genes originated from Uesugi Koshi, prompting Koshi to whirl around and demand to know what he had said.