Chapter Summaries

Jonas, who had transmigrated into a cyberpunk game as a villain, feared his powerful female subordinates would betray him for the protagonist. He confronted the Black Valkyrie before her hunt for the protagonist and threatened her through her younger sister.

• Jonas recalled how the Brain-Melding Witch would expose the corporation's secrets and ruin his reputation.
• He remembered that the Black Valkyrie would eventually betray the corporation and help the protagonist kill his original body.
• Jonas spotted the Black Valkyrie in the corporation's lobby as she prepared to hunt the protagonist.
• Jonas summoned her to his office and showed her a collar, warning her that her little sister could be bullied.

Jonas Wetting, a transmigrator who knew the game’s plot, summoned Esnie Nora to prevent the Black Valkyrie from defecting to the Resistance Army. He confronted her about her younger sister and revealed a collar, leaving Esnie facing an ominous offer or threat.

• Jonas recalled how capable employees such as Esnie Nora, Iris, and Noel turned against the Wetting Conglomerate in the game’s original plot.
• Knowing Esnie’s first encounter with the protagonist was approaching, Jonas summoned her to his office.
• Esnie rode the elevator to Jonas’s office, wary of him but dependent on her salary to extend her younger sister’s life.
• Jonas recited Esnie’s record of killing sixteen armed gang members and showed her a collar.
• Jonas told Esnie he knew what she wanted and asked whether she wanted her younger sister to keep suffering.

Jonas revealed that he knew Esnie’s younger sister Celine was dying from Ellison muscular atrophy and offered to save her in exchange for Esnie’s loyalty. The chapter ended with him holding out a silver collar and ordering Esnie to put it on.

• Jonas described Celine’s illness and told Esnie that her sister did not have long to live.
• Esnie confronted Jonas, and the room’s security system aimed its weapons at her as she lost her composure.
• Jonas calmed the standoff by asking Esnie whether she would keep lying to herself.
• Jonas offered to save Celine, and Esnie immediately asked what he wanted her to do.
• Jonas showed Esnie a silver collar and told her to put it on and pledge her loyalty to him.

Jonas made Esnie wear a collar and pledge loyalty by barking, then promised to seek treatment for her younger sister, Celine Nora. After ordering Celine transferred to a Wetting Conglomerate hospital, Jonas learned that the Alt District had fallen out of the conglomerate’s control.

• Esnie accepted Jonas’s condition and let him fasten a collar around her neck.
• Jonas demanded that Esnie prove her loyalty, and she reluctantly said, “Woof.”
• Esnie left after Jonas promised to help her younger sister, Celine Nora, though neither of them trusted that he could keep his promise.
• Jonas ordered Celine transferred discreetly to a Wetting Conglomerate hospital and arranged for the collar to monitor Esnie’s physical and mental state.
• Jonas realized that Esnie’s absence might have left the gangs’ fight to someone else, then received a call reporting that the Alt District was out of control.

Jonas responded to the Alt District riot by assembling a tactical squad and summoning Eiffel Margarita, who had already gathered intelligence on the gangs. He decided to go to the district himself, while Eiffel agreed to accompany him so he could learn his limits.

• Jonas learned that gang members had defeated his armed special forces and taken control of the Alt District.
• Jonas ordered a tactical squad of about twenty people to assemble and asked for a pickup at the Ellison Building.
• Eiffel Margarita brought Jonas information on the Alt District gangs and assessed the risk of his going there.
• Jonas told Eiffel to prepare a car because he would visit the Alt District himself.
• Eiffel agreed to accompany Jonas, hoping the trip would help him recognize his own abilities.

Jonas brought twenty-five special operatives to confront the Alt District riot and learned that the gangs had Tayne Consortium tactical suits and outside support. He ordered the Alt branch fortified and set an ambush, choosing to gamble on the gang leader attacking.

• Jonas arrived at the burning Alt District and ordered Eiffel to ready the special operatives for combat.
• Ston celebrated the gangs’ gains and received attack routes and troop deployments from the mysterious sender K.
• Ston planned to capture the Wetting Consortium’s Alt branch building and use the victory to expand his power.
• Eiffel identified the gang members’ equipment as Tayne Consortium tactical suits and warned Jonas that force and negotiation both carried risks.
• Jonas ordered the Alt branch building fortified and twenty special operatives to ambush the route, saying he could afford to gamble.

Jonas Wetting defeated the gang assault on the Alt branch and traced its source to K. He confronted the white-haired hacker, Amau Sueko, in person after luring her into believing she had time to escape.

• Ston led the gang into the Alt branch, where Jonas’s explosives overwhelmed them and left Ston unconscious.
• Jonas questioned Ston and shot him in the thigh until Ston revealed that K had supplied the gang’s information and gave Jonas K’s anonymous email address.
• Jonas sent K a video in which he killed Ston and threatened to find K, prompting Amau Sueko to prepare to flee.
• Amau Sueko noticed that Jonas had delayed sending the video for an hour, but an alarm sounded and the front door was blasted open.
• Jonas entered Amau Sueko’s room and greeted her by name.

Jonas captured Amau Sueko and interrogated her about how she obtained detailed data on the Wetting Conglomerate’s Alt District branch. When she tried to bargain, Jonas told her she was only bait and asked whether she thought her companions would come to rescue her.

• Jonas subdued Amau Sueko with an electric shock and ordered Eiffel to take her to the Wetting Conglomerate.
• Amau Sueko woke up chained and recognized Jonas, recalling that he had outmaneuvered her plan to target him.
• Jonas asked Amau Sueko how she had obtained detailed data on the Alt District branch building.
• Amau Sueko claimed she had gathered the data by surveying and mapping, but Jonas knocked her chair over and confronted her.
• Jonas told Amau Sueko she was bait, not a negotiating partner, and asked if she expected her companions to rescue her.

Jonas planned to make Amau Sueko’s companions pay for the deaths and injuries in the Alt District, then learned that Celine Nora had awakened at Wetting Hospital. He met Celine and claimed to be her sister’s master.

• Jonas told Amau Sueko that her life could not repay the thirteen employees killed or injured in the Alt District and warned her he would involve her in his next act.
• Eiffel asked Jonas about his plan to draw out the person behind Amau Sueko, and he explained that he intended to wear down his prey’s ability to resist.
• Jonas received a call reporting an unexpected development with Celine Nora and went with Eiffel to Wetting Hospital in the Earlis District.
• Celine threatened Jonas with a fruit knife and said she would rather die than let him use her against her sister.
• Jonas told Celine that she was at Wetting Hospital and introduced himself as her sister’s master, causing her to drop the knife.

Jonas convinced Celine that her sister Esnie had asked him to care for her and oversee her treatment, though Celine misunderstood the implications of a photograph he showed her. He left her to focus on treatment, then regretted taking responsibility for her when she asked him to bring her a list of games.

• Jonas showed Celine a photograph of Esnie wearing a collar and said Esnie had asked him to look after Celine and manage her treatment.
• Celine accepted Jonas's explanation and asked who he was; Jonas introduced himself as her caregiver and said she could think of him as Esnie's boss.
• Celine asked when she could see Esnie, and Jonas told her she could visit or ask her sister to confirm his story.
• Jonas told Celine to focus on her treatment and ask him if she needed anything.
• Celine asked Jonas to bring her several games, including The Tragic Life of the Holy Mother and My Dog Girlfriend, and Jonas regretted using her as leverage against Esnie.

Jonas left Celine’s hospital room and headed to the Sterlt District to deal with the Alt District riot’s remaining accomplices. He found Ian Strala in his workshop, where Ian’s panic and resentment were interrupted by Jonas’s arrival.

• Celine asked Jonas to keep her purchases secret from her sister, and Jonas agreed before leaving the hospital room.
• After seeing news about the Alt District riot, Jonas ordered his driver to take him to the Sterlt District.
• Ian Strala, a Destiny insurgent who had helped plan the riot, worried that the Wetting Conglomerate would discover him and considered fleeing.
• Destiny emailed Ian that it would help him evade pursuit and later plan Amau Sueko’s rescue, which angered him.
• Jonas blasted open Ian’s workshop door, introduced himself, and noted that Ian already knew who he was.

Jonas forced Ian Strala to agree to lure the Destiny Organization's reinforcements into a trap in exchange for Amau Sueko's release. While imprisoned, Amau Sueko uncovered Ian's betrayal and resolved to stop him.

• Jonas had a Wetting Conglomerate task force member shoot Ian Strala in both legs, then confronted him about the Destiny Organization's request to rescue Amau Sueko.
• Jonas offered to hand Amau Sueko over to Ian if he guided the Destiny Organization's reinforcements into a trap, promising Ian could leave safely afterward.
• Amau Sueko used her knowledge of the E2-S System to hack into the confinement cell and search for a way to escape.
• Amau Sueko decrypted a video showing Jonas's deal with Ian and realized Ian had betrayed the Destiny Organization.
• Amau Sueko decided she had to stop Ian.

Jonas engineered a trap for Amau Sueko, then confronted the Alt District firewall crisis caused by the riot. He decided to recruit Iris from the slums and start her storyline early.

• Jonas confirmed that Amau Sueko had accessed the planted evidence, and Eiffel called his scheme a trap.
• Three days after the Alt District riot, Eiffel reported that server damage and ongoing hacker attacks had made firewall repairs costly and expected to take at least twenty days.
• Jonas realized the Wetting Conglomerate’s board would not approve a talented employee’s transfer to help defend the firewall.
• Jonas remembered Iris, the [Brain-Melding Hacker], and decided to go to the slums to recruit her.

Jonas took Eiffel into the Slums to search for a cybersecurity and information technology expert, then brought her to the Red-Light District to lie in wait. The chapter left them seated at a bar as Jonas began his plan.

• Jonas and Eiffel entered the Slums in plain clothes to search for skilled talent.
• Jonas led Eiffel over a wall and into the Red-Light District, surprising her with its nightlife.
• Jonas and Eiffel sat at a bar, where Eiffel asked what he intended to do.
• Jonas told Eiffel that they would lie in wait.

Jonas and Eiffel waited at a bar for Iris Chelsea, who had been sold by her adoptive father to the Wildfire Gang and implanted with a chip. As Iris was delivered to Young Master Sirka, someone burst into the room and asked to join the negotiations.

• Jonas and Eiffel spotted the shackled Iris Chelsea arriving with the Wildfire Gang.
• The gang took Iris to Young Master Sirka, who accepted her as a sex doll despite her frail appearance.
• Iris feared the abuse and death that awaited her and thought bitterly of a story about a heroine rescued by true love.
• Someone kicked open the room's door and asked, "Mind one more person at the negotiating table?"

Jonas Wetting confronted Sirka over an illegal sex-doll transaction and used recorded evidence to pressure the Bond Conglomerate into cutting its dealings with the Destiny Organization. He left with the purple-haired girl, while Eiffel realized Jonas had come for her as well as to negotiate.

• Jonas Wetting interrupted Sirka and the gang leader, then revealed that he had recorded evidence of their illegal transaction.
• Jonas threatened to send the evidence to the Peacekeeping Forces and warned Sirka that the scandal could damage the Bond Conglomerate.
• Jonas raised the Bond Conglomerate's dealings with the Destiny Organization and urged Sirka to end its trade and supply chain with them.
• Sirka agreed to Jonas's demand, and Jonas asked to take the purple-haired girl with him.
• Sirka let Jonas take the girl, and Eiffel suspected that rescuing her had been Jonas's real purpose.

Jonas brought Iris to a villa in the Silt District and reassured her that she was safe, then promised to deactivate her sex doll chip and free her from her chains. Iris broke down in tears, while Eiffel watched and grew more wary of Jonas’s ability to win people over.

• In the car, Iris panicked and begged Jonas not to hit her, and he gently assured her no one would hurt her again.
• At the villa, Iris asked Jonas if she could change out of the silk dress because its comfort made her uneasy.
• Jonas told Iris he would deactivate her sex doll chip and said he needed Iris Chelsea, not a sex doll without a sense of self.
• Jonas undid Iris’s chains, and Iris cried as she accepted his words.
• After fourteen hours and twenty-six minutes, Eiffel concluded that Iris had fallen for Jonas and resolved to be more cautious around him.

Jonas brought Iris to the Wetting Conglomerate’s Alt District branch to help counterattack the firewall, after spending several days building her trust and confidence. Though the staff doubted her, Iris accepted Jonas’s request and prepared to prove herself.

• Jonas gave Iris dessert during a meal, and she felt both happiness and inferiority as she experienced his kindness.
• Iris spent the next few days following Jonas closely and avoiding everyone else, frustrating Eiffel.
• After Eiffel confronted him, Jonas took Iris to the Alt District branch office.
• Jonas brought Iris into the server room and told the staff to work with her on the firewall counterattack.
• Jonas asked Iris to help, and she agreed, determined to repay his kindness.

Jonas used a young girl's exceptional hacking ability to expose the teams attacking the Wetting Conglomerate's Alt District firewall, allowing the Conglomerate to track and arrest them. After the sweep, Eiffel realized Jonas's recent behavior may have been training the girl and resolved to be much more careful around him.

• A hacker leader realized the Wetting Conglomerate had lured his group into exposing its vulnerabilities, and that their employer had blocked him.
• Wetting Conglomerate Special Operations Personnel stormed the hackers' hideout, arrested the group, and shot the leader when he challenged their authority.
• The Wetting Conglomerate carried out raids across multiple locations, deterring further attacks on the Alt District firewall.
• People wondered how Jonas had tracked the hackers, while those close to him learned that a girl under twenty had done it with her hacking talent.
• Eiffel recalled Jonas's behavior and suspected he had been training the girl, so she resolved to be more careful around Mr. Jonas.

After resolving the Alt District incident, Jonas planned to make the Destiny Organization pay and rewarded Iris for helping him. He gave her a safer home, unaware that she had lied about removing her sex doll chip, leaving her to cling to it as her last ploy to obtain his love.

• Jonas reflected on the Alt District incident and decided to begin his reckoning with the Destiny Organization by targeting Miss Amau Sueko.
• Jonas asked Iris what reward she wanted, and she shyly asked him to pat her head more often.
• In the car, Jonas asked whether Iris had removed her sex doll chip, and she claimed that she had.
• Jonas gave Iris the key to a villa he had prepared for her and left after telling her to take care of herself.
• After Jonas left, Iris touched the scar where the chip had been implanted and revealed that she had kept it because it made her feel secure.