Chapter Summaries

The Great Serpent dispelled Eclipse and left the assembled dragon slayers overwhelmed by its power. In a frozen moment, Lu Mingze offered Lu Mingfei a deal to help fight it, but Lu Mingfei refused for now as the serpent seemed able to perceive Lu Mingze.

• The Great Serpent dispelled Eclipse, frightening Uesugi Koshi and the other fighters with its power.
• Lu Mingze appeared in Lu Mingfei's arms and explained that Dragon Kings were usually defeated only when flawed or weakened.
• Lu Mingze offered to help Lu Mingfei deal with the Great Serpent in exchange for one-quarter of his life.
• The Great Serpent's Main Brain turned its gaze toward Lu Mingze, and Lu Mingze said the White King was naturally sensitive to minds.
• Lu Mingze insisted that he and Lu Mingfei could defeat the serpent, then vanished after Lu Mingfei declined to make a deal.

Lu Mingfei watched Angers, Uesugi Koshi, and the others battle the Great Serpent, whose offensive Thunder Pool overwhelmed their attacks. As Kazama Ruri saved Minamoto Chisaki at the cost of a serious wound, Lu Mingfei prepared to join the fight with the Seven Deadly Sins and a sniper rifle.

• Lu Mingfei sensed the Little Devil's concern and wondered whether refusing the deal would cost him something precious.
• Angers, Uesugi Koshi, Chu Zihang, Minamoto Chisaki, and Kazama Ruri attacked the Great Serpent while Crow, Yasha, Sakura, Caesar, and Mai Sakatoku supported them from a distance.
• The Great Serpent unleashed an offensive Thunder Pool, striking the fighters with lightning and forcing them to dodge.
• Kazama Ruri shoved Minamoto Chisaki clear of the Heavenly Cloud Sword's strike and took a deep wound across his back.
• Lu Mingfei left Erii in a safe place, caught Finn's case of the Seven Deadly Sins, and received a large-caliber sniper rifle.

Lu Mingfei shot the Nine-Headed Serpent in the eye but was knocked off the platform, and Erii leaped after him to save him. After her Spirit Word: Judgment was canceled, she threw Lu Mingfei to safety and was caught in the serpent’s jaws.

• Lu Mingfei shot the Nine-Headed Serpent in the eye, drawing its fury and a scorching beam attack.
• The beam’s blast hurled Lu Mingfei to the platform’s edge, where he lost his grip and fell toward the serpent’s mouth.
• Erii jumped after Lu Mingfei, caught him, and invoked Spirit Word: Judgment against the Nine-Headed Serpent.
• The serpent canceled Judgment, and Erii threw Lu Mingfei toward a distant platform to save him.
• The Nine-Headed Serpent bit Erii’s shoulder as Lu Mingfei landed safely and cried out in horror.

After Erii sacrificed herself to save Lu Mingfei, he accepted Lu Mingze’s deal and awakened power that let him seize control of the elements. Just as he prepared to attack the Nine-Headed Serpent, the Sumeru Platform collapsed and plunged him into darkness.

• Erii remained trapped in the Nine-Headed Serpent’s jaws as Lu Mingfei watched helplessly and called for Lu Mingze.
• Lu Mingze warned Lu Mingfei that saving Erii was no longer certain, but Lu Mingfei offered his life and demanded that he fight the serpent.
• Lu Mingze praised Lu Mingfei for finally grasping power, and Lu Mingfei transformed as a massive elemental torrent swept across the sea.
• The Nine-Headed Serpent lost control of the elements and could no longer use its Spirit Word while Uesugi Koshi and Minamoto Chisaki rushed toward Erii.
• The Sumeru Platform collapsed beneath Lu Mingfei, and darkness swallowed him as Lu Mingze cried out about a restart.

After a nightmare of Erii being killed, Lu Mingfei woke and learned that his companions had succeeded in their operation. Sakura brought him to the Eight Clans of the Serpent’s Shrine, where the elders and shrine maidens welcomed him as the family’s benefactor.

• Lu Mingfei dreamed of playing games and sharing a sunrise with Erii before seeing her attacked by a pale nine-headed serpent above a cold sea.
• Lu Mingfei woke in his hotel room and feared for Erii’s safety.
• Sakura told Lu Mingfei that the clan head had prepared a victory banquet and that his companions had already gone ahead.
• Sakura escorted Lu Mingfei to the Shrine of the Eight Clans of the Serpent.
• The Shrine’s elders and shrine maidens bowed to Lu Mingfei, and Sakura explained that they were thanking him for ending the family’s ancient curse.

At a celebration after the Eight Clans of the Serpent’s curse was lifted, Lu Mingfei woke from a three-day sleep and discovered that everyone had forgotten Uesugi Erii. The chapter ended with Caesar also denying that he knew her.

• Lu Mingfei joined the celebration and asked Finn how long he had been asleep; Finn said three days.
• Lu Mingfei told Finn he had dreamed about messy things and asked where Erii was.
• Finn and Inuyama He said they had never heard of Erii, and Inuyama He said the Uesugi Clan Head position had been vacant.
• Lu Mingfei insisted that Erii was Uesugi Erii, the Eight Clans of the Serpent’s secret weapon, and recalled Inuyama He meeting her before.
• Caesar said he did not remember anyone like Erii.

Lu Mingfei discovered that everyone around him had forgotten Erii, Chu Zihang, and He Xiaomeng, and he left the celebration with Caesar and Finn to investigate. Minamoto Chisaki watched them go, uneasy with the sense that he had forgotten something.

• Lu Mingfei asked Minamoto Chisaki and Uesugi Koshi about Erii, but they denied that she existed and said Minamoto Chisaki had no sister.
• Lu Mingfei learned that Angers had returned to The Academy and found that Finn did not recognize Chu Zihang or He Xiaomeng.
• Caesar suggested that Nine Infants's mental Spirit Word might have affected Lu Mingfei's memories, and Finn proposed discussing the matter at the hotel.
• Caesar and Finn thanked Minamoto Chisaki and left the Shrine with Lu Mingfei.
• Lu Mingfei looked back at the celebration before leaving, while Minamoto Chisaki watched him and felt that something was out of place.

Lu Mingfei compared his memories with Caesar and Finn, discovering that their versions of the past differed and that they remembered him as a celebrated Kassel College student. After Caesar reported that nobody else remembered Erii, Lu Mingfei rejected the idea that he was the one mistaken.

• Lu Mingfei asked Caesar and Finn whether they remembered Xia Mi, He Xiaomeng, Chu Zihang, and other people from his memories.
• Caesar and Finn recalled Lu Mingfei dueling Caesar over Nono, with Nono knocking both men down, and described Lu Mingfei as the Lionheart Society president and an exceptional freshman.
• The three men spent most of the night comparing memories about He Xiaomeng, Chu Zihang, Erii, and Xia Mi, finding that many details conflicted.
• Caesar told Lu Mingfei that Minamoto Chisaki's investigation found the Eight Clans of the Serpent members shared Caesar and Finn's memories and that there was no evidence Erii had ever existed.
• Lu Mingfei recalled his time with Erii, then declared that he was not the one who was wrong.

Lu Mingfei insisted that Erii and the others had been real, but Caesar, Finn, and Masashi Toyama believed his memories were false and urged him to accept that. He searched Genji Heavy Industries and Kassel College’s records for proof, finding nothing and ending close to despair when an email appeared.

• Lu Mingfei told Caesar and Finn that Erii, He Xiaomeng, and Chu Zihang had truly existed, and Caesar arranged for him to undergo a hospital examination.
• Masashi Toyama questioned Lu Mingfei about his memories and challenged him to find evidence that Erii had existed, offering hypnosis if he could not accept the truth.
• Lu Mingfei searched Erii’s room at Genji Heavy Industries and found Genji Wakana occupying it, with none of the furnishings he remembered.
• Lu Mingfei searched for Mike Amon and combed through Kassel College’s campus forum, finding no evidence of Erii, He Xiaomeng, or Chu Zihang.
• Lu Mingfei grew close to despair as an email appeared on the computer screen.

Lu Mingfei received Angers’s advice to trust his convictions and ask Chen Motong to help investigate the people he remembered. Angers’s email gave Lu Mingfei proof that He Xiaomeng existed, though it described him as an ordinary truck driver, leaving Lu Mingfei to realize he had probably seen him before.

• Kaguya-hime showed Lu Mingfei Angers’s video message, in which Angers said he did not know He Xiaomeng, Chu Zihang, or Erii and suggested Lu Mingfei’s memories might be an illusion caused by the White King.
• Angers encouraged Lu Mingfei to pursue the truth if he believed his memories, and suggested he seek Chen Motong’s help because of her Profiling ability.
• Angers directed Lu Mingfei to investigate a person whose profile and photographs were attached to the email.
• Lu Mingfei recognized the man in the photographs as He Xiaomeng, his senior brother, but learned that he was an ordinary truck driver.
• Lu Mingfei remembered seeing a man resembling He Xiaomeng in Truck GG and realized he had probably met him long ago.

Angers and the Watchman connected the theft of Constantine’s Dragon Bone Cross to memories being altered, while Chu Zihang learned that the girl who saved him was Xia Mi, the Dragon King Jormungandr. The chapter left him asking whether her brother was Fenrir.

• The Watchman told Angers that a masked man had taken the Dragon Bone Cross and vanished, while everyone else remembered the Watchman as never having left the Clock Tower.
• Angers compared the Watchman’s lost memories to Lu Mingfei’s and wondered whether someone could rewrite the world and erase people from existence.
• Chu Zihang told Xia Mi that the college and even his mother had no memory of him, then asked who she was.
• Xia Mi admitted that she was a dragon and identified herself as Jormungandr, the Dragon King of Earth and Mountain.
• Chu Zihang asked whether Xia Mi’s brother should be called Fenrir.

Xia Mi explained that He Xiaomeng had once become a Dragon King but was not the exhausted man they watched, then revealed she had only erased Chu Zihang’s memories of her. After restoring those memories, she told him that the world had encountered an Error and that powerful Dragon Kind could alter worldlines.

• Xia Mi told Chu Zihang that Fenrir was her true brother and that she had taken the identity of He Xiaomeng’s dead sister, He Xiaoyu.
• Xia Mi explained that He Xiaomeng had known their relationship was false, yet treated her as his sister and had transformed from a human into a Dragon King.
• Xia Mi said the sleeping He Xiaomeng across the way was neither her brother nor the He Xiaomeng they knew.
• Chu Zihang asked whether Xia Mi had altered his memories, and she admitted she had made him forget her.
• Xia Mi kissed Chu Zihang, restoring his memories of their shared past, and clarified that she had not altered his understanding of the world.
• Xia Mi told Chu Zihang that the world had encountered an Error and that the strongest Dragon Kind could alter worldlines.

Chu Zihang recalled Lu Mingfei transforming before the Sumeru Platform collapsed, then questioned whether dragons could change worldlines. Xia Mi explained that the world was a Mobius Loop and revealed that this world had no Chu Zihang, only Lu Mang, who died on the rainy night on the Elevated Bridge; Chu Zihang remembered Odin.

• Chu Zihang remembered Lu Mingfei growing scales and wings, then falling into the sea when the Sumeru Platform collapsed.
• Chu Zihang wondered whether Lu Mingfei had changed the worldline, and Xia Mi asked him about the Academy’s S-Class suicide rumor.
• Xia Mi explained that the world continually cycled like a Mobius Loop, with small differences between worldlines.
• Xia Mi told Chu Zihang that this world had no one named Chu Zihang, only Lu Mang, who died on a rainy night on the Elevated Bridge.
• Chu Zihang recalled the figure riding Sleipnir and identified him as Odin.

Lu Mingfei, Caesar, and Finn joined Nono in China to investigate a suspected world-changing threat, while Nono visited her brother Chen Moxin at the villa. Chen Motong noticed that Chen Moxin had become relaxed and content with his role working for Naga, much like her dog Laifu.

• Caesar confronted Lu Mingfei for taking Nono to investigate without telling him, and Lu Mingfei argued that the danger could affect everyone.
• Finn interrupted their argument, and Caesar explained that he had followed Lu Mingfei and Nono to keep watch while they investigated in China.
• Chen Motong returned to the villa and questioned Chen Moxin, who said he had become someone else's dog and was working as Naga's general manager.
• Chen Motong used Profiling to sense that Chen Moxin's self-mockery hid a genuine ease, and she noticed his similarity to Laifu.

Chen Motong confronted Chen Moxin about the Chen Family’s plans and demanded that he withdraw the people monitoring her and Caesar. After Lu Mingfei and Kassel College’s dragon-slaying team arrived in the city, Wa Master ordered Zhou Minhao to watch for unusual activity, sensing that hidden forces were stirring.

• Chen Moxin explained that the Chen Family had shifted its support from Odin to Naga and was backing her company while seeking to influence her.
• Chen Motong told Chen Moxin to pull back the Chen Family’s watchers, and he ordered Xiao Qi to withdraw them and let the Gattuso Family handle Caesar’s complaint.
• Zhou Minhao informed Wa Master that Lu Mingfei and Kassel College’s dragon-slaying team had entered China.
• Wa Master learned that Lu Mingfei had come to visit family in the city and ordered Zhou Minhao to monitor unusual events because she sensed something was wrong.

Lu Mingfei returned to Shilan High School with Chen Motong, Caesar, and Finn to search for traces of Chu Zihang, but discovered that the school remembered Lu Mingfei as its greatest student and had no record of Chu Zihang. As they prepared to visit He Xiaomeng, Lu Mingfei questioned why Chen Motong called him her little brother, and she realized her memories of him might not fit the person he had always been.

• Lu Mingfei saw how much his hometown had changed and learned that Scarlet Group had recently transformed the city's economy.
• The gatekeeper recognized Lu Mingfei as Shilan High School's most outstanding student of the past decade and let the group onto campus.
• Lu Mingfei found that students and teachers remembered him as a celebrated alumnus, while Chu Zihang was absent from the school's class rosters.
• The group sat by the flower bed, and Finn suggested they go find He Xiaomeng.
• Lu Mingfei asked Chen Motong why she was helping him, and her answer made her realize that her assumption he had once been a helpless, drowned dog contradicted his reputation as an outstanding student.

Lu Mingfei and his companions began investigating He Xiaomeng after Chen Motong realized her perceptions might be unreliable. Their discussion of He Xiaomeng’s place in Lu Mingfei’s memories was interrupted when their Ferrari crashed, and Lu Mingfei climbed out to check their surroundings.

• Chen Motong used Profiling and concluded that her perceptions of Lu Mingfei might be flawed, while Caesar suggested investigating He Xiaomeng.
• The group drove toward He Xiaomeng’s home, and Caesar asked Lu Mingfei to describe the He Xiaomeng he remembered.
• Lu Mingfei recalled how He Xiaomeng had mentored and supported him, while Finn lamented missing out on the free meals he might have shared with him.
• The Ferrari suddenly spun off the road and overturned after a violent impact.
• Lu Mingfei, Caesar, Chen Motong, and Finn confirmed they were conscious, and Lu Mingfei crawled out of the car to scan the surroundings.

Lu Mingfei and his companions crashed into He Xiaomeng’s truck, and Lu Mingfei recognized him as his Senior Brother even though He Xiaomeng did not know him. After they went to the hospital, Mai Sakatoku was recovering from a broken leg while Su Enxi teased her.

• Lu Mingfei climbed out of the overturned car expecting an attack, but found He Xiaomeng calling emergency services and putting out a warning sign.
• Lu Mingfei excitedly called He Xiaomeng his Senior Brother, but He Xiaomeng did not recognize him and warned him not to blame him for the crash.
• A police officer recognized He Xiaomeng from another recent accident, while Caesar accepted responsibility for their speeding and paid compensation.
• The ambulance took Finn for an examination, and Lu Mingfei asked He Xiaomeng to come to the hospital with them.
• At the hospital, Su Enxi teased Mai Sakatoku about breaking her leg in a truck collision after facing Sansun.

Lu Mingfei and the others met He Xiaomeng, who had no memory of Lu Mingfei despite the accurate details he knew about him. After He Xiaomeng revealed that his sister He Xiaoyu had died, he agreed to take them to see her grave and investigate whether she had known Lu Mingfei.

• Caesar gave He Xiaomeng a résumé-style file, and He Xiaomeng accepted it and asked whether the group had come to find him.
• Chen Motong explained that Lu Mingfei remembered He Xiaomeng as a senior, though neither the group nor Kassel College's records could confirm he existed in their shared past.
• He Xiaomeng denied knowing Lu Mingfei, but agreed to cooperate with the investigation after Caesar offered to compensate him.
• Caesar asked about He Xiaoyu, and He Xiaomeng revealed that his sister had been dead for years.
• Chen Motong suggested Lu Mingfei might have known He Xiaoyu, and He Xiaomeng agreed to take the group to visit her.
• Finn returned from his examination, and He Xiaomeng led the group away.

After leaving the hospital, Caesar and the others followed He Xiaomeng to the cemetery where his sister Xiaoyu was buried, only to find that the site had collapsed into a huge pit. A former cemetery caretaker explained that an earthquake had caused the collapse, while rumors claimed the pit was haunted.

• Wang Xu gave Caesar a Bugatti Veyron on Chen Moxin’s behalf, and Nono recognized him as one of the Chen Family’s people.
• Mai Sakatoku and Su Enxi spotted Wang Xu and other suited men monitoring the hospital, then suspected they had been exposed while investigating He Xiaomeng.
• He Xiaomeng led Caesar, Chen Motong, Lu Mingfei, and Finn to the cemetery at night, where they found a vast pit in its place.
• He Xiaomeng panicked and asked where his sister Xiaoyu was, and Caesar grabbed his arm to keep him from falling into the pit.
• A former cemetery caretaker said an earthquake had caused the ground beneath the cemetery to collapse and added that people believed the place was haunted.