Chapter Summaries

Jonas helped Yushua break through to Level Four, then prepared a counterattack against the Federation vanguard approaching District 25. The chapter ended as tactical bombs devastated the vanguard and threw its formation into chaos.

• Jonas overpowered Yushua inside her dream and used their encounter to help her advance to Level Four Psionic.
• Jonas learned that the Federation vanguard was nearing District 25 and ordered Eiffel to mobilize a ten-person squad, Iris, and Miss Nightingale.
• The Federation vanguard advanced toward District 25 under orders to conceal itself, while its soldiers dismissed the city’s defenses.
• After the vanguard cleared a land mine, tactical bombs designed to destroy Tactical Mecha exploded, killing soldiers and destroying five mecha.
• The vanguard captain realized they were under attack and cried out as the formation collapsed into chaos.

Nora and Iris helped Jonas defeat a Federation elite vanguard, but Nora killed every soldier and left no one to interrogate. Dorothy revealed that the doomed squad had been bait for a second team that infiltrated District 25, and she planned to concentrate Federation forces on rescuing Noel; Jonas then postponed Nora and Iris’s rewards to go on a date with Eiffel.

• The captain ordered his troops to report District 25’s ambush, but the Federation’s systems and communications had been disabled, and Nora killed the remaining soldiers with her spatial ability.
• Jonas scolded Nora for wiping out the entire vanguard and praised her and Iris, promising each a reward of her choosing.
• Lin Gong reported the vanguard’s defeat to Dorothy, who explained that the squad had been bait and that another team had entered District 25 unnoticed.
• Dorothy concluded that Jonas relied on Psionics as well as advanced technology and ordered Lin Gong to prepare for a concentrated operation to rescue Noel.
• Nora and Iris each offered to let the other claim her reward first, while Nora secretly hoped to use her spatial ability during their time with Jonas.
• Eiffel arrived with documents, and Jonas embraced her and told Nora and Iris he had a date with Eiffel instead.

Jonas and Eiffel discovered that Federation Psionics had infiltrated District 25, and traced a likely way in through the Peacekeeping Forces. Jonas decided to confront the Peacekeeping Forces’ senior leadership, and he arrived at their headquarters just as Yucas was being taunted by Otto Luo Yang.

• Jonas and Eiffel found hidden-camera photographs of five figures who had entered District 25 after the previous night and suspected they were Federation Psionics.
• Jonas reasoned that the infiltrators had likely bypassed border security with help from the Peacekeeping Forces, whose leadership leaned toward the Federation.
• Jonas told Eiffel he would visit the Peacekeeping Forces and bring Miss Esnie, while relying on Yucas as an inside contact.
• Otto Luo Yang mocked Yucas as she prepared to patrol, then a subordinate announced that Jonas Weiyan had arrived with a bodyguard and wanted to see him.

Jonas Weiyan confronted Director Otto over the Joint Forces' collusion with the Federation, but Otto rejected his offer to join the District 25 Alliance and mocked him. Jonas then launched a prepared attack that trapped the Joint Forces in their building, where a hidden assailant killed Otto and moved on to the next target.

• Jonas Weiyan arrived at the Joint Forces headquarters with Esnie and met Director Otto, while Yucas watched from the conference room entrance.
• Jonas asked Otto to join the District 25 Alliance and accused the Joint Forces of helping Federation Psionics infiltrate District 25.
• Otto admitted the Joint Forces' actions, refused to join the alliance, and mocked Jonas, who left with Esnie.
• Otto told his subordinates that Jonas had backed down, boasting that the Joint Forces would remain aligned with the Federation.
• The Joint Forces building lost power as its security barriers descended, and Otto learned that a Network Hacker had sealed the armory and trapped everyone inside.
• A shadowy attacker appeared behind Otto, beheaded him, and moved toward another target as his subordinates' calls for help went unanswered.

After Jonas Weiyan’s attack decimated the Peacekeeping Forces’ Radical leadership, Yucas moved to seize the opportunity while the surviving officials argued over whether to resist him. The attack’s aftermath left the Peacekeeping Forces in turmoil, and Rhein Delta claimed Senna Life deserved a third of the credit for Jonas’s victory.

• Yucas stayed through Jonas’s attack, then prepared to use the Peacekeeping Forces’ collapse to strengthen her position and take control.
• News spread that the Peacekeeping Forces had suffered devastating casualties, with many people identifying Jonas Weiyan as the attacker.
• Delt urged the surviving officials to retaliate, but Clio rejected resistance and left with others, leaving only about a third of the meeting’s attendees.
• Carol celebrated Otolo’s death and felt relieved that she had surrendered to Jonas early.
• Rhein Delta realized that Jonas’s attack had spared Senna Life from supplying the Peacekeeping Forces, then claimed her company’s contract had helped Jonas and that she deserved a third of the credit.

Jonas met Beigong Ling for breakfast to thank her for the technologies that helped the Alt Conglomerate unite District 25 and counter the Federation. After hearing about the Star of Dawn’s growth, Beigong Ling accepted his offer to spend the day together and chose to start with a tour of her company.

• The morning news blamed the Peacekeeping Forces building incident on a ventilation duct explosion caused by a Central Control System malfunction, prompting citizens to condemn the Peacekeeping Forces.
• Jonas waited at a café and welcomed Beigong Ling, preparing her a croissant and the unsweetened coffee she liked.
• Jonas told Beigong Ling that the Alt Conglomerate had united District 25 and counterattacked the Federation by clearing out Peacekeeping Forces leaders who refused to negotiate.
• Beigong Ling told Jonas that the Star of Dawn had grown into a sizable company with many clients and a steadily expanding force.
• Jonas offered Beigong Ling his day to make up for missing their previous invitation to drinks, and she decided to begin with a tour of the Star of Dawn.

Dorothy learned that Jonas’s forces had outmaneuvered the Federation’s intelligence operations and sent Zero to carry out a mission in District 25. After completing her assignment, Zero slaughtered the Shark Gang in the slums, and Dorothy prepared to contain the fallout.

• A Federation Network Hacker told Dorothy that Iris had locked onto her private communications and that the Federation could not break the lock.
• Dorothy reviewed the report of the Peacekeeping Forces’ decimated leadership and ordered her plans to proceed while Noel remained a priority for rescue.
• Zero Misen completed her mission to uncover the Carls Family’s betrayal and eliminate its leadership, but failed to send her report because the slum network malfunctioned.
• Zero remembered the Void Realm Church’s help in the slums and killed two Shark Gang thugs who were trying to take a girl as payment for a debt.
• Zero slaughtered the Shark Gang, and Dorothy received confirmation of the massacre and decided to send Lin Gong to deal with the situation.

After Zero’s unauthorized killings in Brielle’s Slums, Dorothy tested her abilities and sent her to District 25 to retrieve Noel. Zero crossed the Ruins and reached the outskirts of District 25 as Jonas learned that she was heading there.

• Dorothy accepted Zero’s report about killing the Shark Gang, then assigned her to bring Noel back from District 25 with an elite Psionic squad.
• Dorothy tested Zero in a virtual reality device, where Zero instantly defeated her opponents and showed the strength of a Psionic nearing the fifth tier.
• Dorothy confirmed that Zero was powerful enough for the mission and believed no Psionic in District 25 could match her.
• Jonas received a confidential file naming Zero Misen as the Federation’s strongest Psionic and recognized her from his knowledge of the game.
• Zero crossed the radioactive Ruins without protection and reached the outskirts of District 25.

As Delt and Clio struggled to counter Yucas’s growing influence, they asked the Federation for help and were assigned Zero. They sent her to investigate a warehouse of Fourth-Generation Tactical Mecha, then learned she had apparently destroyed them all by herself.

• Yucas’s generous benefits drew members to the Conservatives, prompting Delt and Clio to meet and seek a way to stop her.
• Clio persuaded Delt that they needed Federation support because Yucas was too powerful to confront directly.
• Dorothy redirected Zero from her original mission to assist the Peacekeeping Forces, and the Federation arranged a meeting with Delt and Clio.
• Delt and Clio doubted Zero because of her young appearance, but asked her to investigate a factory where Yucas’s Fourth-Generation Tactical Mecha might be stored.
• Zero asked whether she should destroy the mecha if she found them, and Clio said she could do so if possible.
• A subordinate reported that a factory in Bebops District had burned down, with mecha fragments scattered inside, and Delt and Clio realized Zero had likely destroyed the entire stockpile.

Jonas and Yucas discussed her growing control of the Peacekeeping Forces before she seduced him in his office. Their encounter was interrupted when Rhein arrived to report that an attacker had destroyed a warehouse full of her newly purchased Tactical Mecha, and Jonas demanded extra payment for replacements.

• Yucas told Jonas that the Conservatives controlled nearly three-fifths of the Peacekeeping Forces and offered to join the Alt Conglomerate.
• Yucas seduced Jonas in his office while insisting that he finish his paperwork.
• Rhein rushed into Jonas's office and reported that a lone attacker had destroyed a factory's worth of her Fourth-Generation Tactical Mecha.
• Rhein blamed the Federation and suspected Dorothy had sent the attacker after she refused to surrender.
• Jonas said the Alt Conglomerate had not identified the Psionics who crossed the Wasteland and explained that replacement mecha would cost more.
• Rhein demanded a new batch of mecha, and Jonas told her she would have to pay extra.

Jonas bargained with Rhein for rare materials in exchange for Fourth-Generation Tactical Mecha, then investigated the attack on her factory with Yushua’s dream ability and identified the likely culprit as Zero Misen. After Yushua exhausted her psionic energy, Jonas offered to restore it through something he called “Mana Restoration.”

• Rhein rejected Jonas’s demand for rare ores and metals, asked for a day to consider his offer, and fled after he teased her about the mecha delivery.
• Yucas left to relocate the mecha and arrange operator training, while Jonas reviewed the factory footage Rhein had provided.
• Jonas asked Yushua to recreate the attacker’s brief appearance as a dream, and she used her new fourth-tier ability to create a controlled dream.
• Inside the dream, Jonas studied the attacker’s blurred figure and concluded that she was probably Zero Misen, a Federation Psionic.
• After Yushua’s effort left her psionic energy depleted, Jonas offered to replenish and increase it with “Mana Restoration.”

Yushua’s dream-based psionic recovery left Jonas exhausted, while Zero lost her money to a scammer and then killed him. As the Radicals reeled from a botched attack and Yucas’s new mecha, Zero arrived to meet them and asked whether they had any credit points.

• Jonas used a dream to restore Yushua’s psionic energy, but she overwhelmed him in the dream and he fled after she woke.
• Zero was scammed out of her credit points, killed the scammer, and told Dorothy she had no money left.
• Delt and Clio celebrated the destruction of Yucas’s mecha until Yucas returned with a squad of genuine Fourth-Generation Tactical Mecha.
• Delt and Clio learned that their attack had hit Rhine Life’s factory in Bebops District, costing the company more than three billion credit points.
• Clio decided the Radicals should cooperate with Zero, and Zero arrived to ask Delt and Clio whether they had any credit points.

Zero received a large transfer of Credit Points from the Radicals and agreed to assassinate Yucas. Meanwhile, Yucas left alone to retrieve Detective Kawei, unaware Zero was following her.

• Clio convinced Delt to send all his Credit Points to Zero so the Radicals could secure her help.
• After receiving the money, Zero agreed to find an opportunity to kill Yucas and asked Clio to send her Yucas's schedule.
• Yucas oversaw preparations for the Conservatives' new Fourth-Generation Tactical Mecha and learned Detective Kawei had returned with evidence against the Radicals.
• Yucas drove alone toward the border between Kaches District and the Wasteland to meet Kawei.
• Zero quietly set out after Yucas, following her as she drove away from the base.

Yucas was ambushed by the Federation Psionic Zero Misen and survived her devastating self-detonation only for Zero to return unharmed. Esnie rescued Yucas, and Jonas later identified Zero as the Federation’s strongest Psionic and began considering how to lure her out.

• A white-clad attacker ambushed Yucas on the highway and overwhelmed her with superior speed and swordsmanship.
• Yucas sacrificed her shoulder to unleash her Thermal Greatsword, but the attacker detonated herself in a massive psionic blast.
• The attacker reappeared unharmed and moved to kill the exhausted Yucas, but Esnie arrived and drove her away before Jonas arranged emergency treatment.
• Yucas awoke three days later, and Jonas told her the attacker was Zero Misen, the Federation’s strongest Psionic, who could evade surveillance using Predecessor Civilization Technology.
• After hearing Yucas’s account, Jonas suspected Zero used combat-capable clones that could regenerate or self-detonate, and he considered adjusting his plans to lure her out.

Jonas arranged for Iris to analyze District 25’s data to track Zero, while Iris waited for a chance to spend time with him. After her other self accepted Jonas’s invitation, Iris prepared her home for his visit and heard him arrive.

• Jonas thanked Yucas for her information and promised to find the Federation Psionic who had attacked her.
• Iris’s other self urged her to take the initiative and find an excuse to see Jonas.
• When Jonas called to ask for her help, Iris’s other self accepted his invitation to come over.
• Iris bathed, dressed in a white gown, and prepared a scented candle and wine for Jonas.
• Iris heard Jonas unlock the front door and realized he had arrived.

Iris and her second personality devised a plan to seduce Jonas with romantic surroundings, wine, and mood-stimulating incense. After the second personality took control and Jonas succumbed to the incense, Iris's ten-minute limit expired, leaving the two selves arguing over who would get control.

• Jonas arrived at Iris's home and admired the candlelit room and the photograph she had secretly taken of them together.
• Iris used his regret about neglecting her to win a promise that they would go out and take a proper photograph.
• Iris served Jonas wine while the incense filled the room, and its combined effects stirred his desire and clouded his thoughts.
• Iris's second personality took control, admitted the incense had ensnared Jonas, and moved closer to him.
• Jonas embraced Iris after his reason gave way, but the second personality's ten minutes ended and Iris's other self demanded control.

Iris woke beside Jonas after a night of intimacy, then gave him surveillance analysis that mapped Zero’s movements. Meanwhile, the Radicals gained ground against the Conservatives in the Peacekeeping Forces, unaware that their confidence in avoiding scrutiny might be misplaced.

• Iris woke in Jonas’s arms, kissed him, and admitted that she had analyzed District 25 surveillance footage for him.
• Jonas praised Iris’s route map of Zero’s movements and left to handle work in person.
• Iris’s other personality woke and angrily confronted her about being repeatedly made to take over during the night; Iris apologized and promised to give her control during their next date.
• Delt and Clio exploited Yucas’s injuries to recruit personnel, seize resources, and push the Conservatives out of the Peacekeeping Forces building.
• Clio urged Delt to slow their campaign and limit cooperation with businesses in case the District 25 Alliance investigated them, but they believed they had erased all evidence linking them to the Federation.

Jonas investigated Zero's fabricated identity and suspected the Peacekeeping Forces' Radicals had helped her. He kidnapped Delt and pressured him to reveal the Radicals' cooperation with Zero, offering him sole leadership in return.

• Jonas and Eiffel confirmed that Millie Della's identity was fabricated and found no school records for her.
• Jonas noticed Zero had avoided the area around Peacekeeping Forces headquarters and suspected the Radicals had helped her.
• Nightingale knocked Delt unconscious and brought him to Alt Tower.
• Jonas confronted the bound Delt with Millie Della's file and demanded details about the Radicals' cooperation with Zero.
• Jonas offered Delt the chance to become the Radicals' sole leader, and Delt's resistance collapsed.

Jonas used Deputy Director Delt to attract Dorothy’s attention and draw Zero out of hiding, while Eiffel and Jonas grew intimate after finishing the night’s work. Nightingale tried to open a portal to Jonas’s room, only to discover he already had company.

• Jonas learned from Delt that Zero was difficult to locate and devised a plan to use the Peacekeeping Forces to draw her out.
• Jonas had Delt released in an Alt Conglomerate vehicle, and a Federation Psionic identified Delt as a suspected traitor and reported him to Dorothy.
• Jonas told Eiffel that Delt was a stepping stone in his plan to lure Zero, and Eiffel guessed his goal.
• Eiffel asked Jonas for himself as a reward, and Jonas embraced her and led her toward the bathroom.
• Nightingale attempted to open a portal to Jonas’s room, heard intimate sounds from the other side, and wondered whether she could join them.

Nora Rockefeller teleported into Jonas's bath while Eiffel showered and seduced him to collect Universal Character Fragments. After Eiffel left, Nora insisted she would keep sneaking in during breaks, while Dorothy considered using Jonas's campaign against the Peacekeeping Forces as a diversion for her own plans.

• Nora Rockefeller changed into a revealing outfit and teleported into the bath where Jonas was with Eiffel nearby in the shower.
• Nora joined Jonas in the bath and collected Universal Character Fragments while he tried to keep Eiffel from noticing her.
• Dorothy learned that Delt Pace had reappeared and been judged a Federation traitor, then decided to investigate Jonas's interest in the Peacekeeping Forces.
• Eiffel finished showering and left the bathroom without discovering Nora hiding in the bath.
• Nora told Jonas she would keep sneaking in during breaks, and Jonas reluctantly promised to set aside a day for her.