Chapter Summaries

Jonas visited Amau Sueko in her confinement cell and told her the Alt District branch had been suffering hacker attacks since the riot. He left her with photographs of several people and asked whether she knew them.

• Amau Sueko continued hacking the building's security system while worrying that the Destiny Organization's rescue attempt would cause heavy casualties.
• Amau Sueko learned from the building's system that Ian Strala had betrayed the Destiny Organization and had influence among the rescue team.
• Jonas entered Amau Sueko's cell and spoke with her about the costs of ongoing hacker attacks on the Alt District branch.
• Jonas threw several photographs onto the floor and asked Amau Sueko whether she knew the people in them.

Jonas tormented the captive Amau Sueko with the deaths of Destiny Organization personnel and threats against others, intending to keep her focused on hatred rather than his true plans. After leaving her in confinement, he reflected that her intelligence had made her easier to trap.

• Jonas showed Amau Sueko photographs of Destiny Organization cybersecurity personnel and blamed her for the Alt Branch's losses.
• Amau Sueko tried to negotiate, but Jonas told her she had nothing he wanted and was there only to amuse him.
• Jonas revealed that the people in the photographs had already been executed and threatened to torture and kill others because of Amau Sueko's decision.
• Amau Sueko swore she would kill Jonas as he left the confinement cell.
• Jonas explained that he had used hatred to distract Amau Sueko from his true intentions.
• A confidential company file stated that Iris was skilled at hacking, though Wetting had no record of her abilities.

Jonas reviewed the Wetting Conglomerate’s Alt District contracts, fell asleep at his desk, and later resumed work after Eiffel quietly cared for him. Meanwhile, Ian Strala received orders from the Destiny Organization to commence an operation.

• Jonas stayed up all night planning how to use the Wetting Conglomerate’s contracts for the Alt District.
• Eiffel found Jonas asleep, put his coat back over him, closed the window, and left the financial report on his desk.
• Jonas woke that evening, noticed Eiffel’s care, and returned to reviewing the Alt District documents.
• In Sterlt District, Ian Strala worried that both the Destiny Organization and the Wetting Conglomerate might dispose of him.
• Ian Strala received an email from the Destiny Organization that said, “Commence operation.”

The Destiny Organization attacked the Wetting Conglomerate’s Alt District branch to rescue Amau Sueko, but the operation met a prepared ambush. Kinoshita Ren was brought to his knees, and Esnie Nora appeared to finish him.

• A bombing diverted the Peacekeeping Forces while the Destiny Organization prepared to attack the Alt District branch.
• Ian Strala told Kinoshita Ren that he had mapped the branch’s security deployments and identified the emergency passage as its weakest point.
• Kinoshita Ren ordered the attack and instructed his team to find Amau Sueko and withdraw immediately.
• The team breached the second-floor defenses but reported an ambush as gunfire erupted.
• Concealed guns opened fire on Kinoshita Ren, who fell to his knees before Esnie Nora approached him.

Esnie defeated Kinoshita Ren as the Destiny Organization's ambushed task force suffered heavy losses. Amau Sueko rescued Knight from Ian, but a mysterious man killed Knight and the wounded squad member, then confronted Amau about their deaths.

• Esnie killed Kinoshita Ren after defeating him in a fierce sword fight.
• The Destiny Organization's task force regrouped in the Alt Branch Building, where Knight confronted Ian about the false intelligence.
• Ian tried to shoot Knight, but Amau Sueko emerged and killed Ian first.
• Amau told Knight that Ian had betrayed the Destiny Organization, and Knight urged her to escape with the survivors.
• A man shot and killed Knight and the wounded squad member, then taunted Amau Sueko for seeing them die because of her.

Jonas defeated Amau Sueko and revealed that he intended to send her back to the Destiny Organization alive, where suspicion over her survival would divide the group. After Amau Sueko lost consciousness, Jonas called for medical help.

• Amau Sueko emptied her gun at Jonas, but his drone shield blocked the bullets.
• Amau Sueko reached for Knight's gun, and the drone shot her hand and knocked the weapon away.
• Jonas told Amau Sueko that every member of the Destiny Organization's team had died, including Mr. Ian and Mr. [Demon Samurai].
• Amau Sueko admitted defeat and asked Jonas to kill her, but he told her she would live with guilt and return to the Destiny Organization.
• Jonas explained that Amau Sueko's return would sow suspicion and divide the Destiny Organization, then found her unconscious and called for medical help.

After the Destiny Organization’s attack, Jonas sent an injured girl to be treated and returned to the Alt Branch Building as his reputation grew. When the Peacekeeping Forces requested a meeting, he learned their new branch director was Yucas Amili, a person he recognized from the game.

• Jonas ordered the injured girl taken to Wetting's Steltert Hospital for treatment and then sent to Enlis District.
• News of the attack spread through District 25, boosting Jonas’s reputation as people recognized that he had set a trap for the Destiny Organization.
• At the Alt Branch Building, Jonas told Eiffel that the trap had achieved its goal by discouraging further attacks.
• Eiffel told Jonas that the Peacekeeping Forces wanted to meet him, and he agreed to arrange a time.
• Jonas learned that the Peacekeeping Forces planned to send Yucas Amili and recognized her as Amili of the Death Rattle.

Jonas recognized Yucas Amili as a powerful Peacekeeping Forces director and summoned her to negotiate with the Wetting Conglomerate. When Yucas met him, his carefully arranged conference room made her reconsider him as a formidable opponent.

• Jonas recalled Yucas's legendary fight against Esnie and decided to bring her to the Wetting Conglomerate.
• Jonas told Eiffel to summon Yucas and said it was time to settle a score with the Peacekeeping Forces.
• Yucas arrived at the Alt Branch Building to negotiate on behalf of the Peacekeeping Forces.
• Jonas greeted Yucas in a conference room arranged to give him the psychological advantage.
• Yucas abandoned her dismissive view of Jonas and recognized him as a formidable opponent.

Jonas negotiated with Yucas over the Peacekeeping Forces’ dispute with the Wetting Conglomerate concerning the Moslika District, demanding a share of its trade profits. He then offered an alternative deal that left Yucas and Eiffel stunned.

• Eiffel felt jealous as she compared herself with Yucas, while Jonas asked why Yucas had come to see him.
• Jonas guessed that Yucas wanted his help resolving the Moslika District dispute between the Peacekeeping Forces and the Wetting Conglomerate.
• Yucas asked Jonas to help and offered Peacekeeping Forces support, but Jonas said he did not need it.
• Jonas demanded seventy percent of the Moslika District’s trade profits, and Yucas said the terms were impossible.
• Jonas presented Yucas with a contract and told her to sign it and be his maid for three months, shocking her and Eiffel.

Jonas offered Yucas Amili a contract to serve as his maid for three months in exchange for giving up his share of the Moslika District deal. Yucas refused to sign without permission to disclose the arrangement, but Jonas expected her to return soon.

• Eiffel suspected Jonas wanted to use Yucas's presence to restrain the Peacekeeping Forces and counter the board's plans.
• Yucas reviewed the employment contract and asked to report it to her superiors, but Jonas forbade her from telling anyone outside the room.
• Yucas refused the secrecy condition, so Jonas ended the discussion and handed her his business card.
• Yucas left, and Jonas told Eiffel that she would be back and would likely sign the contract next time.

Iris, lonely after Jonas’s recent absence, fell asleep in the workspace he had prepared for her and accidentally sucked on his finger when he came to check on her. Jonas praised her for upgrading the firewall, leaving Iris delighted and eagerly anticipating seeing him again.

• Iris missed Jonas but avoided disturbing him, and she fell asleep while waiting in her workspace.
• Jonas found Iris asleep with her head on his lap, and she woke after taking his finger into her mouth.
• Iris explained that she had been afraid of interrupting Jonas, and he admitted he had been busy with the Destiny Organization situation.
• Iris told Jonas she had upgraded the firewall from EX-2 to EX-3, and he praised her as a huge help.
• After Jonas left, Iris savored his praise and looked forward to seeing him again.

Jonas sent Amau Sueko back to the Enlis District with a video file, while Aungus and the Destiny Organization’s core members debated whether she had betrayed them. The video spread that night, showing Amau killing a fellow member, even as she remained unconscious.

• Jonas learned that Amau Sueko had been delivered to the Enlis District with the file he had prepared.
• Aungus heard that Amau had been found unconscious and called the Destiny Organization’s core members together.
• Aungus and the other members argued over whether Amau had escaped on her own or betrayed the organization, and Aungus urged them to trust her.
• Members of the Destiny Organization received a video showing Amau Sueko shooting and killing Ian Strala.
• Amau Sueko remained unconscious.

Jonas rewarded Esnie and sent the Federal Tax Bureau information about Aungus Ian, escalating the crisis engulfing the Destiny Organization. As Aungus struggled to contain outrage over a video showing Amau Sueko killing Ian Strala, tax investigators arrived to question him.

• Jonas praised Esnie for helping defend the Alt Branch and told her that Celine's condition had improved.
• Jonas reminded Esnie that she had kept their promise, and she left after thanking him.
• Jonas sent the Federal Tax Bureau his file on Aungus Ian to fan the flames.
• A video of Amau Sueko shooting Ian Strala provoked widespread demands for an investigation within the Destiny Organization.
• Aungus struggled to defend Amau Sueko while she remained unconscious and the organization's members grew angrier.
• A Federal Tax Bureau investigator confronted Aungus at the Earlkes Bar over substantial funds he had allegedly received in violation of regulations.

Aungus faced a Federal Tax Bureau investigation and the Bond Conglomerate's decision to end its partnership with the Destiny Organization as suspicion over Amau Sueko's role in the leaks grew. Jonas deleted the evidence he held over Sirka Bond and offered him a joint project, leaving Miss Eiffel to recognize his familiar tactic.

• The Federal Tax Bureau investigated the Destiny Organization over leaked transaction records, but its investigators left with falsified documents, restricting the organization’s ability to make major moves.
• Sirka Bond told Aungus that the Bond Conglomerate would end its cooperation with the Destiny Organization after their current phase, citing the leaked information.
• Rick, known as [Gecko], told Aungus that the organization’s members planned to torture Amau Sueko and urged him to act before the Destiny Organization fell apart.
• Jonas thanked Sirka Bond for providing information, deleted the evidence he had recorded, and offered him a joint project as compensation.
• Miss Eiffel recognized Jonas’s familiar manipulation tactic as Sirka became interested in the offer.

Jonas offered Sirka a stake in restarting the Weiton Project, using the deal to draw him into the Wetting Conglomerate’s plans. Sirka accepted Jonas’s terms before the deadline, and Jonas told Eiffel that Sirka had taken the bait.

• Jonas proposed that Sirka fund the Weiton Project with five million credit points and equipment in exchange for thirty percent of its profits and the Wetting Conglomerate’s support.
• Jonas told Sirka that he wanted him to become head of the Bond Conglomerate, and gave him until the twenty-sixth to accept.
• Sirka hesitated over the risks, questioned Jonas’s offer, and ended the call without committing.
• Eiffel asked Jonas why he had targeted the Bond Conglomerate, and Jonas explained that he intended to use Sirka as a pawn.
• Sirka messaged Jonas that he would meet the conditions before the twenty-sixth, and Jonas told Eiffel that Sirka had taken the bait.

Jonas reassured Eiffel that he could handle the Weiton Project and invited her to dinner, while the Destiny Organization's leaders argued over whether Amau Sueko had betrayed them. Aungus announced that someone had attacked the unconscious Amau in her hospital room and vowed to find whoever was sowing discord.

• Jonas explained that he did not need to outsource the Weiton Project's weapons development, and Eiffel trusted him to solve the problem.
• Jonas invited Eiffel to dinner as a reward for her work, and she accepted.
• Rick accused Amau Sueko of leaking information and urged the organization to kill or expel her.
• Liweike defended Amau, while a woman in black leather challenged him over evidence in a video.
• Aungus received word that someone had attacked Amau's hospital room and demanded to know who had orchestrated it.

After Amau Sueko woke, Aungus confronted her with the leaked records and footage showing her killing Ian Strala. She recognized Jonas’s trap but discovered that the files that could prove Ian was a traitor had been deleted, leaving her unable to clear her name.

• Rick warned Aungus that dissatisfaction within the Destiny Organization had grown difficult to control and asked what he planned to do.
• A member interrupted the meeting to report that Amau Sueko had awakened.
• Amau Sueko asked Aungus whether the Wetting Conglomerate had rescued her, and he confirmed it and told her organization members had attacked her treatment room.
• Aungus told Amau Sueko that Destiny Organization transaction records had leaked and showed her footage of her shooting Ian Strala.
• Amau Sueko said Ian Strala was a traitor and Jonas had set her up, then found that the files she had decrypted were gone.

Amau Sueko vowed to regain the Destiny Organization’s trust by striking back at the Wetting Conglomerate, while Jonas prepared a cruel gift to weaken her resolve. After the organization tasked her with devising a retaliatory plan, she received photographs of the dead operatives and a message confronting her with the cost of her actions.

• Amau Sueko told Aungus she would take responsibility for the organization’s internal strife, and he agreed to gather its members.
• Aungus declared Ian Strala a traitor and the video a Wetting Conglomerate scheme, then assigned Amau Sueko to plan retaliation under Rick’s supervision.
• Jonas selected potential Weiton Project recruits and arranged for thirty-five photographs of the dead Destiny Organization members to be mailed to Amau Sueko.
• Amau Sueko received the photographs, which showed the operatives alive on the fronts and dead on the backs, along with a note asking whether the price was worth it.

Jonas took Esnie to visit her younger sister, Celine, in the hospital, where Celine’s teasing made Esnie question what Jonas wanted from her. The visit left Esnie unsettled by her feelings and the collar around her neck.

• Jonas brought Esnie to Earlis District Hospital to visit Celine, who was reading a book she hurriedly hid when they entered.
• Jonas noticed Celine’s embarrassment and left the ward so the sisters could speak alone.
• Esnie and Celine caught up, and Celine noticed the collar around Esnie’s neck.
• Celine questioned Esnie about her relationship with Jonas and teased her about his intentions, leaving Esnie flustered.
• Esnie began to wonder whether Jonas wanted more than a superior-subordinate relationship and whether she could escape him.

Esnie left the hospital with Jonas, unsettled by Celine’s teasing and unsure what Jonas wanted from her. During their drive, Jonas explained why he had made her sign an agreement and confessed that he wanted all of her.

• Celine secretly asked Jonas for ten new porn games while Esnie prepared to leave the hospital.
• Esnie said goodbye to Celine, and she and Jonas left the hospital together.
• Jonas offered to take Esnie out for a drive, and she agreed despite feeling nervous and conflicted.
• Jonas told Esnie that he had made her sign the agreement because he wanted more than a relationship based on mutual use.
• Jonas confessed to Esnie, saying, “I want all of you.”