Recaps

Chen Xiao prepared for Ikuyo Kita’s anime convention performance, upgrading his computers with Nymph and gathering Kessoku Band for the trip. He drove the group out of his villa district in a borrowed car, while the neighborhood guard suspected he was hiding a girl.

• Chen Xiao brought Nymph out to upgrade the computers for Elf Yamada and the others, but the effort drained much of his mana and left her leaning against him.
• Three days later, Ikuyo Kita discovered that Nijika Ijichi, Ryo Yamada, and Hitori Gotoh were joining her on the trip and playfully demanded compensation for her emotional distress.
• Chen Xiao rejected Ryo Yamada’s idea of piling everyone onto his electric scooter and instead borrowed a black sedan to drive the group to the convention.
• The group hid in the car when Chen Xiao passed the villa district’s security guard, Uncle Liu, who let them through but grew suspicious after they left.
• Chen Xiao and the others relaxed once they had driven away, while Uncle Liu concluded that Chen Xiao was hiding a girl.

Chen Xiao brought Nijika Ijichi, Ryo Yamada, Ikuyo Kita, and Hitori Gotoh to the Comic Exhibition, where they explored the venue and prepared for Ikuyo Kita’s performance. When Chen Xiao introduced the girls to Ding Jiafang backstage, Ding Jiafang reacted with murderous jealousy.

• Chen Xiao comforted Hitori Gotoh after the crowds at the Comic Exhibition overwhelmed her.
• Chen Xiao led the four girls through the exhibition, turned away requests to photograph them, and watched an anime-themed comedy sketch with them.
• Ding Jiafang messaged Chen Xiao that his turn was approaching, so Chen Xiao took the girls backstage.
• Nijika Ijichi and Ryo Yamada encouraged Ikuyo Kita as she grew nervous about performing.
• Ding Jiafang saw Chen Xiao arrive with four beautiful girls and glared at him furiously.

Chen Xiao introduced Ikuyo Kita and the other members of Kessoku Band as the performers he had invited for Ding Jiafang’s event. Just as Kita was called onstage, the venue’s backing-track equipment failed, leaving her to choose whether to sing without accompaniment or cancel.

• Ding Jiafang was surprised when Chen Xiao arrived with Nijika Ijichi and three other beautiful girls, and Nijika introduced them as Chen Xiao’s friends.
• Chen Xiao introduced Ikuyo Kita as the guest singer, then explained that she was the lead singer in a band with Nijika Ijichi and the others.
• Ding Jiafang received a message that his act was coming up and hurried everyone backstage, where Ikuyo Kita confirmed she was ready to perform.
• The host announced Ikuyo Kita’s performance, but the backing-track equipment stopped working, and he asked whether she would sing without it or cancel.

When the stage’s playback equipment failed, Chen Xiao and Nijika Ijichi arranged for Kessoku Band to perform live instead. The band introduced itself to the convention audience and made its debut, though Hitori Gotoh remained terrified of the crowd.

• Chen Xiao and Ding Jiafang found that a mouse had chewed through the stage’s audio cable, leaving the performance without a usable playback setup.
• Chen Xiao spotted a rival content creator, [Today's Flower City Rich Boy], acting suspiciously, but focused on finding a way to save the performance.
• Nijika Ijichi asked Chen Xiao to find instruments so Kessoku Band could perform, and he agreed.
• Hitori Gotoh panicked at the thought of going onstage, while the staff brought out a drum kit and connected the equipment.
• Ikuyo Kita, Nijika Ijichi, Ryo Yamada, and Hitori Gotoh introduced themselves as Kessoku Band and prepared to perform.

Kessoku Band stunned the convention crowd with a performance of "Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet," after Hitori Gotoh overcame her stage fright with a dazzling guitar solo. Their skill drew a growing audience and livestream viewers, leaving the musicians who lent them their instruments in disbelief.

• Hitori Gotoh panicked when the audience stayed silent after Kessoku Band introduced themselves, but Chen Xiao encouraged her from the crowd.
• Hitori Gotoh launched into a fiery guitar solo, breaking the silence and astonishing the audience and the musicians who had lent the band their instruments.
• Ikuyo Kita introduced Kessoku Band's original song, and the group performed it in standard Shenzhou speech rather than Japanese.
• The audience cheered as the band's performance drew a larger crowd, while livestream viewers and video recordings spread the moment online.
• The long-haired guitarist and the portly drummer watched Nijika Ijichi and Hitori Gotoh play and marveled at their exceptional skill.

Kessoku Band’s debut performance impressed the audience so much that the organizers let the girls play a second song, leaving other musicians humbled. Afterward, the band celebrated backstage with Chen Xiao and returned the borrowed instruments.

• Ikuyo Kita finished “Guitar, Loneliness and Blue Planet,” and the audience erupted in cheers while the rival band’s members left, shaken by Kessoku Band’s skill.
• The hostess announced that other performers had withdrawn, giving Nijika Ijichi and the others time to play another song.
• Kessoku Band performed “Seishun Complex,” won over the audience, promoted the band, and returned backstage.
• Nijika Ijichi asked Chen Xiao for his thoughts, and he praised the performance while Ryo Yamada joked about how much money they could have made charging admission.
• Ding Jiafang arrived backstage, congratulated Chen Xiao, and privately suspected he was involved with all four girls.
• Ikuyo Kita, Hitori Gotoh, and Ryo Yamada returned the borrowed instruments, and the long-haired guitarist wistfully praised Hitori Gotoh’s touch on his guitar.

[Today's Flower City Rich Boy] tried to take revenge on Ding Jiafang and the four performers by controlling rats, but Chen Xiao tracked him into a mysterious alley and confronted him. The rich boy summoned another swarm, only for Chen Xiao to stop it with his remote.

• Angry after Ding Jiafang's success, [Today's Flower City Rich Boy] used a leaf melody to send rats after Ding Jiafang, Nijika Ijichi, and the others backstage.
• A door slammed and knocked the rats away, and a teasing voice caused him to lose control of the remaining rats.
• [Today's Flower City Rich Boy] tried to leave the convention but wandered into a dark alley, where Chen Xiao appeared and demanded to know if he had sabotaged the sound equipment.
• After recognizing Chen Xiao as Catnip's friend, [Today's Flower City Rich Boy] summoned countless rats with a flute and sent them attacking.
• Chen Xiao pressed a button on his remote, instantly stopping the swarm.

Chen Xiao used Mental Out to control rats and force Gao Chen to confess that his flute’s rat-controlling power came from black magic. After learning Gao Chen had been recruited by the Black Magic Society, Chen Xiao questioned him about his victims.

• Chen Xiao used his remote to send the rats back to their nests and immobilized Gao Chen with Mental Out.
• Chen Xiao forced Gao Chen to admit that he had sabotaged the sound equipment to anger Catnip and sent rats to attack Catnip and the girls for revenge.
• Gao Chen revealed that his rat-controlling ability was black magic called The Pied Piper of Hamelin, activated by a magical flute.
• Chen Xiao recognized the spell from Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They? and suspected Gao Chen of spreading the plague, but Gao Chen insisted he had only learned the spell while studying abroad.
• Gao Chen explained that he was the youngest son of the wealthy Gao family, had found the flute in Europa, and had been recruited by the Black Magic Society after it failed to sever his connection to it.
• Chen Xiao asked how many people Gao Chen had had rats bite, and Gao Chen admitted that he could not remember.

Chen Xiao tortured Gao Chen for targeting Nijika and the others, then fought the evil spirits unleashed by Gao Chen’s bone flute and destroyed it. He left Gao Chen alive, altered his mind, and ordered him to confess, while relying on Information Erasure to conceal himself.

• Chen Xiao beat and injured Gao Chen, silencing him with the remote and blaming him for endangering Nijika, Ryo, Bocchi, and Kita.
• Chen Xiao used Spirit Seeing Eyes to discover that Gao Chen’s flute was covered in tiny skulls and black sludge.
• The flute released evil spirits and bound itself to Gao Chen, but Chen Xiao used borrowed shrine maiden powers and Demon-Sealing Needles to destroy the spirits and shatter the flute.
• Chen Xiao healed Gao Chen enough to keep him alive, then used the remote to alter his mind and ordered him to turn himself in and confess.

After Chen Xiao took Nijika Ijichi and the others away from the Comic Exhibition, Gao Chen publicly turned himself in, and Ding Jiafang began to suspect Chen Xiao had caused it. Ding Jiafang wondered why Chen Xiao would forgo Nova Academy if he had awakened a superpower.

• Chen Xiao reunited with Ding Jiafang, Nijika Ijichi, and the others after they escaped the crowd backstage, then left with the girls to take them home.
• Ding Jiafang warned Chen Xiao not to let an unresolved relationship become trouble, and Chen Xiao thought of Lin Qi before departing.
• Ding Jiafang learned that Today's Flower City Rich Boy had posted a video of himself turning himself in at the Magic City Police Station.
• Comic Exhibition attendees watched Gao Chen's surrender video and speculated that a mind-controlling superpower had forced him to confess.
• Ding Jiafang connected Gao Chen's surrender and the mention of rat-controlling magic to Chen Xiao's long absence, then wondered why Chen Xiao would reject Nova Academy if he had a superpower.

Chen Xiao recovered from using multiple borrowed powers with Kalifa’s help, then returned home with Nijika Ijichi and the others. Days later, the Gao family sought revenge through the impaired Gao Chen while Liu Yaowen watched.

• Kalifa appeared and caught Chen Xiao as he collapsed, helping him recover by letting him borrow her strength.
• Kalifa explained that Miss Mari had opened a Boundary Gate, and Chen Xiao told Nijika Ijichi and the others that he had defeated Gao Chen to avenge them.
• Kalifa drove the group toward home after reading a manual, but Chen Xiao took over when her driving frightened everyone.
• Days later, Liu Yaowen learned that a Gao family representative had come to the Anomalous Incident Management Bureau.
• The elderly representative told Liu Yaowen that the Gao family wanted revenge and could find their enemy through Gao Chen.

The Gao family hired the Daoist Qing Xuanzi to investigate Gao Chen’s attacker, while Liu Yaowen and Huang Qingque watched. Qing Xuanzi traced a karmic connection into a poisonous-fog city, where a white-haired figure attacked him and left his fate uncertain.

• The Gao family pursued revenge against Gao Chen’s attacker to restore its reputation and business interests, and Liu Yaowen allowed the family to proceed.
• Liu Yaowen introduced Qing Xuanzi to Huang Qingque, who recognized him as an unorthodox practitioner and challenged his ability to uncover the attacker.
• Qing Xuanzi examined Gao Chen and discovered that his three souls and seven spirits were intact, but his mind had been irreversibly made pure.
• Qing Xuanzi used a secret art to follow a karmic link from Gao Chen into a strange city filled with poisonous fog.
• A petite, white-haired figure rushed at Qing Xuanzi and wounded him before he could react.

Qing Xuanzi failed to identify the person who attacked him, while the Gao family elder investigated several suspects and dismissed the leads closest to the truth. The chapter then flashed back to Chen Xiao’s return home, where Shokuhou Misaki greeted him with an embrace and he kissed her in front of the others.

• Qing Xuanzi returned from his soul projection injured and claimed he needed half a year to recover, though he secretly expected to heal in a week.
• The Gao family elder investigated Gao Chen’s recent whereabouts and dismissed Ding Jiafang, Chen Xiao, and Nijika Ijichi and her companions as suspects.
• The chapter flashed back to Chen Xiao returning home, where Shokuhou Misaki threw herself into his arms and demanded a kiss.
• Chen Xiao kissed Shokuhou Misaki passionately, while Orihime Inoue, Kalifa, Nijika Ijichi, and the others watched.

Chen Xiao paid the prices for borrowing several girls’ abilities, receiving kisses and spending time with Jack the Ripper. Reimu Hakurei’s materialization ended soon after he paid her, while Reimu planned to save her money for a future date with him.

• Shokuhou Misaki and Orihime Inoue kissed Chen Xiao as payment, while Kalifa thanked him for giving her a new life before returning to her figurine.
• Reimu Hakurei charged Chen Xiao fifty yuan for a basic service and kissed him, then began turning transparent after her price was paid.
• Chen Xiao realized that paying a price could take priority over the mana cost of materialization, but that the mana drain returned once the price was paid.
• Jack the Ripper asked Chen Xiao to hold her and watch television with her, and he agreed.
• Yukari Yakumo teased the figurine Reimu Hakurei for saving money, while Reimu imagined using her savings to invite Chen Xiao on a date.

Tsugumi warned Chen Xiao that materialized figurines lacked legal identities and revealed she had created official records for Kessoku Band. The chapter ended with her claiming the records looked convincing unless authorities investigated in person.

• Ikuyo Kita and the other Kessoku Band members returned to figurine form, and Nina Isari learned they had performed at the Comic Exhibition without her.
• Nina Isari angrily blamed Chen Xiao for missing out, while Rupa comforted Hitori Gotoh.
• Tsugumi summoned Chen Xiao to the computer room and raised the problem of the girls having no legal identities.
• Tsugumi explained that public attention around Kessoku Band's performance and the rich boy's confession could lead authorities to investigate attendees.
• Tsugumi told Chen Xiao she had used Angeloid's AI system to alter the population records and create identities for Nijika Ijichi and the other band members.

Chen Xiao discovered that his family belonged to a prominent supernatural clan and learned why his father had concealed their background. The revelation left him realizing that his father had avoided discussing the supernatural and had readily accepted his refusal to attend Shenzhou Nova Academy.

• Tsugumi interrupted a romantic moment with Chen Xiao when Nymph connected to the computer system and objected.
• Tsugumi showed Chen Xiao his population record, which identified him as a member of the Tianyun Chuanfang Chen Family and noted his refusal to attend Shenzhou Nova Academy.
• Nymph broke through the security on Chen Shifeng's classified record, revealing that Chen Xiao's grandfather was a high-level supernatural and that the Chen Family had returned to Shenzhou's supernatural community.
• Chen Xiao explained that his previous life had left him unaware of his grandfather and his family's history, and he complained that his father had hidden their supernatural background.
• Chen Xiao realized his father had agreed to his refusal to attend Shenzhou Nova Academy to avoid revealing the secret he had kept for more than twenty years.

Chen Xiao remembered to pay Miko Yotsuya for borrowing her Spirit Seeing Eyes, then Tsugumi kissed him after seeing Miko do the same. As he prepared to take Jack the Ripper downstairs, she asked to kiss him too, and he told her to wait until she was grown up.

• Chen Xiao remembered that he had not yet paid Miko Yotsuya for borrowing her Spirit Seeing Eyes and reassured her before kissing her.
• Miko thanked Chen Xiao and hurried away, while Tsugumi became jealous and decided to act while Nymph could not interfere.
• Tsugumi surprised Chen Xiao with a kiss, then celebrated her victory as pixel Nymph watched helplessly from the computer screen.
• Tsugumi returned to figurine form, and Chen Xiao prepared to take Jack the Ripper downstairs.
• Jack the Ripper asked Chen Xiao for a kiss, and he told her that they could talk about grown-up things when she was older.

Kessoku Band’s official video made the group an online sensation, while Nina Isari pressed Chen Xiao to arrange an account and rehearsal space for her band. At Shenzhou Online Literature, editor Camellia reviewed Elf Yamada’s illustrated novel Supreme Throne and decided to sign it.

• Nijika Ijichi and her Kessoku Bandmates uploaded the Comic Exhibition performance video to their new accounts and gained hundreds of thousands of followers.
• Nina Isari clung to Chen Xiao until he promised to create an account for her band, buy instruments, and turn a third-floor room into a rehearsal space.
• Nina Isari kissed Chen Xiao on the cheek and ran off, while he reflected on the increasingly bold behavior of the materialized figurine girls.
• Elf Yamada and the others completed account verification and submitted their manuscript and illustrations to Shenzhou Online Literature.
• Camellia reviewed Supreme Throne during a livestream, enjoyed its story and illustrations, and decided to sign it.

The Gao family representative and Qing Xuanzi searched for Chen Xiao’s attacker but found no trace, then shifted their hunt toward suspicious foreigners and accidentally helped the Anomalous Incident Management Bureau expose infiltrators. A mysterious figurine revealed she had guided events to protect A-Xiao and planned to gather strength for the dangers ahead.

• The Gao family representative paid Qing Xuanzi extra to investigate the Comic Exhibition, and Huang Qingque accompanied them under Liu Yaowen’s orders.
• Huang Qingque found no traces of the powerful attacker, and the group’s search of the exhibition center turned up nothing.
• A Countermeasures Team member suggested a foreigner might have attacked Gao Chen, so the group redirected its investigation toward suspicious foreigners.
• Huang Qingque identified an Evil Spirit Worship follower, and Qing Xuanzi helped capture him and other infiltrators, including members of the “Playing Cards” organization.
• Liu Yaowen honored the Gao family representative and Qing Xuanzi at the Bureau, while the representative remained confused about how the investigation had ended.
• A figurine told her silver-haired attendant that she had manipulated events to resolve A-Xiao’s nuisance and that they needed to gather strength for the future.

Tsugumi used Nymph to find and counterattack hackers who targeted an internet company after she had patched its servers. Her retaliation crippled the Gao family's technology and businesses, making her account, [Funeral Parlor], infamous.

• Tsugumi registered [Funeral Parlor] and submitted patches for vulnerabilities she found through Shenzhou's Bug Bounty Program.
• When hackers attacked a company's servers, Tsugumi drove them out and traced them to the Cyber Flying Dragon team, connected to the Gao family in Guangdong Province.
• Tsugumi investigated the Gao family's troubles and read gossip about their alleged hereditary madness before deciding to teach them a lesson.
• Tsugumi pressed the confirm key, overloading the Cyber Flying Dragon team's computers and crashing the Gao family's internet servers.
• The Gao family's stock plunged, Old Master Gao coughed up blood and was hospitalized, and the family recalled its representative from Magic City.

After Tsugumi earned over a hundred thousand from the internet company for finding server vulnerabilities, she celebrated by teasing Chen Xiao until they nearly became intimate. Asuna interrupted them, misunderstood what she saw, and then fled in embarrassment after realizing Chen Xiao had noticed her measuring her abdomen.

• Tsugumi showed Chen Xiao the internet company's transfer record and celebrated earning over a hundred thousand.
• Tsugumi sat in Chen Xiao's lap and teased him as a reward for helping him earn money.
• Chen Xiao kissed Tsugumi's neck and began embracing her before Asuna opened the door and interrupted them.
• Tsugumi hurried away while Asuna questioned Chen Xiao about what they had been doing.
• Asuna blushed and fled after Chen Xiao noticed her measuring her abdomen.

Chen Xiao sensed unseen eyes watching him as he showered, while the figurines around him showed increasingly suggestive interest. Meanwhile, Mr. K canceled a mission in Magic City after learning that the Gao family and the Countermeasures Team had eliminated his informant, and he began suspecting Chen Xiao.

• Asuna panicked after facing Chen Xiao, and Chen Xiao showered while worrying that he was becoming more depraved.
• Chen Xiao felt someone watching him in the bathroom, but a spatial rift full of eyes opened only after he had left.
• Mahiru Shiina took over cooking and eyed Chen Xiao suggestively at dinner, while he pretended not to notice.
• Mr. K learned that Three of Spades had gone missing in a crackdown led by the Gao family and Magic City's Countermeasures Team, so he canceled the mission and arranged compensation.
• Mr. K connected the crackdown and the Gao family's downfall to the Comic Exhibition incident and grew suspicious of Chen Xiao, though he found no evidence linking him to the events.

K agreed to a commission that might let him kill the Chen family’s older daughter, while Remilia foresaw a threat to Chen Xiao’s family. The display-cabinet figures learned that a renegade vampire planned to use Shenzhou’s ley lines and a blood sacrifice to regain an ancestral form, then argued over who would confront him.

• K told Black Queen about his suspicions regarding Chen Xiao, and she dismissed them as unfounded.
• Black Queen offered K a Dolan Blood Clan commission whose reward might let him kill the Chen family young master’s older sister, and K accepted.
• Remilia saw that someone connected to Chen Xiao by blood was in danger and warned the figures in the display cabinet.
• Remilia revealed that a renegade vampire intended to use Shenzhou’s ley lines and a blood sacrifice to revert to an ancestral form.
• Arcuid and Ciel fought over the chance to take on the vampire as the other figures argued about who should handle the mission.

Chen Xiao woke after unknowingly performing the infamous “Rito Trip” on Rias, while the figurine girls discussed his sleep antics. He then took Seika Ijichi and Kessoku Band out to obtain household registration documents and ID cards, leaving Uncle Liu surprised to see Seika in the car.

• Chen Xiao woke beside the lingering warmth of Rias, unaware that he had repeatedly performed the “Rito Trip” on her during the night.
• Akeno Himejima, Koneko Toujou, Shizuka Marikawa, Nanami Aoyama, and the other figurines discussed Nemesis’s role in Chen Xiao’s sleep antics.
• Chen Xiao materialized Seika Ijichi, Nijika Ijichi, and the rest of Kessoku Band to explain that they needed household registration documents and ID cards.
• Chen Xiao took Seika and the band members to arrange their documents, with Seika acting as their guardian for the ID applications.
• Uncle Liu spotted Seika in the passenger seat and was left enviously speechless.

Chen Xiao helped Seika Ijichi and Kessoku Band transfer their household registrations to mainland Shenzhou, then took Seika to shop for instruments. A classmate spotted them holding hands and exposed Chen Xiao’s relationship in a group chat, which Ding Jiafang quickly disbanded to keep Lin Qi from learning more.

• Chen Xiao and Seika Ijichi completed her household registration transfer, then brought Nijika Ijichi and the other Kessoku Band members in to apply for theirs.
• The clerk recognized Kessoku Band, asked for autographs and a photo, and welcomed them to mainland Shenzhou.
• Chen Xiao and Seika went to a downtown mall to choose instruments, and he took her hand when she hinted that the crowd made her uncomfortable.
• A classmate saw Chen Xiao holding hands with Seika and told their group chat that Chen Xiao was dating someone.
• When Lin Qi asked who Chen Xiao was dating, Ding Jiafang disbanded the group chat before Lin Qi could learn more.