Chapter Summaries

Jonas interrogated Kogar about the Chip and the board’s plans, then killed him in the conference room. Miss Eiffel released Kogar’s body as Jonas surveyed the mess he had made.

• Kogar tried to persuade Jonas to put away his gun and claimed the board only wanted to teach him a lesson.
• Jonas shot Kogar in both legs and ordered him to answer his questions.
• Jonas asked how Kogar knew he had the Chip and why he had not wondered how Jonas took it from the Nathen Conglomerate.
• Kogar insisted he was only carrying out the board’s assignment, but Jonas said he could not stand him.
• Jonas shot Kogar in the head, killing him, and Miss Eiffel released his corpse.

After Jonas killed Kogar and his bodyguard, Eiffel disposed of the bodies and comforted Jonas, mistaking his silence for grief over his parents. Jonas privately revealed that Kogar’s death was part of a calculated plan to provoke the board, then asked Eiffel to release him because he was having trouble breathing.

• Jonas told Eiffel to clean up after he killed Kogar, and Eiffel killed the unconscious bodyguard as well.
• Eiffel worried that the Levi Conglomerate would exploit Kogar’s death and undermine Jonas’s deal with the Nathen Conglomerate.
• Eiffel mistook Jonas’s quiet expression for grief over his father and held him, promising to stay by his side.
• Jonas realized Eiffel had misunderstood his feelings but stayed quiet to enjoy her embrace.
• Jonas explained that Kogar had been chosen as a scapegoat to provoke the board and advance his plans.
• Jonas asked Eiffel to let go because he was having trouble breathing.

After killing Kogar, Jonas accepted the Wetting Conglomerate board’s invitation to headquarters, unaware that Belloc had hired an assassin to kill him at a banquet. Before leaving the Alt District with his entourage, Jonas learned of the plot through Iris, then shared an intimate moment with her in his office.

• The Wetting Conglomerate board argued over Kogar’s death, and Mister decided to summon Jonas to headquarters before moving against him.
• Belloc Boots planned to exploit the board’s hostility toward Jonas and hired the titled assassin Piers for 1.5 million credit points.
• Jonas accepted the board’s invitation and prepared to travel to headquarters with Esnie, Eiffel, and Miss Shigure Ryoko.
• Iris hacked into board members’ inboxes and discovered Belloc’s assassination contract, which Jonas read before departing.
• Jonas held Iris in his office as she flirted with him, and they shared a kiss.

After spending the night with Iris, Jonas promised to visit her more often and delayed his trip to Smellica District. He later arrived there with his group ahead of the meeting, intending to track down the exposed assassin Piers.

• Iris asked Jonas to visit her more often, and he promised he would.
• Jonas postponed his trip to Smellica District by two days, while Eiffel noticed Iris acting dazed and felt jealous.
• Jonas and his group arrived in Smellica District early to deal with trouble before the meeting.
• Shiyu Ryoko gave Jonas intelligence about Piers's possible hiding places.
• Jonas told Eiffel they would catch Piers.

Jonas and his group tracked down Piers, the assassin hired by Belloc Boots to kill him, and captured him in his hideout. Piers realized Jonas had arrived in Smellica District early to uncover his location, and suspected Belloc had been exposed.

• Piers prepared his weapons and Corpse Corrosion Agent while planning to assassinate Jonas for nearly two million credit points.
• Jonas and his group found Piers's hideout, and Eiffel shot him in the leg and hand as they forced their way inside.
• Jonas introduced himself while Piers asked who they were, and Eiffel shot Piers's other leg.
• Jonas asked Piers why he thought he had arrived in Smellica District two days early, and Piers realized Belloc Boots was likely involved.

Jonas killed Piers after obtaining evidence that Belloc Boots had hired the assassin, then used Piers’s account to deceive Belloc and collect over a million Credit Points. Belloc expected Jonas to be dead when the board convened, but Jonas arrived at the meeting in person.

• Piers offered Jonas evidence against Belloc Boots, but Eiffel shot and killed him.
• Jonas sent Belloc a staged photograph of his apparent death, and Belloc transferred over a million Credit Points.
• Shiyu Ryoko worried that Jonas might dispose of her once she was no longer useful and resolved to stay alert.
• At the board meeting, Belloc began to claim Jonas would not attend, but Jonas entered and confronted him.

Jonas turned the board’s attempt to strip him of power into a decisive victory by proving Kogar had betrayed the Wetting Conglomerate and exposing Belloc Boots’s murder plot. As Jonas consolidated the assets he gained, Miss Amau regrouped in the Enlis District and renewed her call for vengeance, apparently with an ally.

• Jonas admitted killing Kogar and accused him of sabotaging the Wetting Conglomerate’s deal with the Nathen Conglomerate and sharing intelligence with the Levi Conglomerate.
• Jonas played a video of Chelsea confirming the joint chip deal, shifting the board’s position in his favor.
• Jonas threw a bloodstained burlap sack onto the table and challenged Belloc Boots over hiring someone to murder an heir.
• Mister dismissed Belloc Boots and transferred the businesses belonging to Belloc Boots and Kogar to Jonas as compensation.
• Miss Amau regrouped in the Enlis District and called for vengeance against Jonas, possibly alongside someone else.

Jonas secretly took control of Misat District and spread rumors about his conflict with the board to lure his enemies into acting. While fishing there with Miss Eiffel, he flirted with her before she reminded him to finish the transfer paperwork.

• Jonas completed the transfer of Misat District smoothly and kept his control of it quiet.
• Jonas spread rumors that the board had stripped him of his authority, hoping to draw interested parties to him.
• Jonas went fishing at a private spot in Misat District with Miss Eiffel.
• Jonas teased Miss Eiffel about wearing cat ears, and she grew embarrassed and pushed away from him.
• Miss Eiffel changed the subject and told Jonas to finish the Misat District transfer paperwork, and he agreed.

Jonas secretly acquired Belloc Boots's and Kogar's assets, then arranged for Belloc to be killed in prison to eliminate a loose end. Back at the Wetting Conglomerate's Alt Branch, Jonas thanked Esnie as Eiffel arrived with documents, leaving him uneasy about the tension between the two women.

• Jonas's secret acquisitions increased his wealth and strengthened his position among the board members.
• A staged prison system malfunction led a patrol robot to shoot and kill Belloc in his cell.
• Jonas watched footage of Belloc's death and considered the board trouble settled, though he still expected possible conflict with the Levi Conglomerate.
• Jonas thanked Esnie for her help, while she felt she had contributed little and Eiffel had handled the fighting.
• Eiffel arrived with documents, and Jonas sensed something was amiss as Esnie's expression shifted.

Jonas used his warm attention toward Eiffel to provoke Esnie’s jealousy and deepen her denial of her feelings for him. After Esnie left, Eiffel realized Jonas had used her as part of his plan, and she bit into the apple he offered in irritation.

• Jonas greeted Eiffel warmly, asked after her health, and gave her throat lozenges while Esnie watched.
• Esnie compared herself unfavorably with Eiffel, felt jealous, then left Jonas’s office insisting she only wanted revenge for his humiliation.
• In the elevator, Esnie touched her collar and convinced herself she would not let Jonas get away with what he had done.
• Jonas thanked Eiffel for helping with his plan and pressed an apple to her lips before she could protest.
• Eiffel bit the apple angrily, uncertain whether she resented being used or wished Jonas were pursuing her instead.

Jonas planned to use a private dinner with Chelsea to gain leverage in the Nathen Conglomerate partnership, while Shiyu Ryoko mistook his intentions for romantic interest and warned Chelsea. Chelsea arrived at the restaurant believing they were meeting to discuss business, and Jonas greeted her.

• Jonas told Eiffel that Chelsea was his only opening to gain the upper hand in the partnership and planned to invite her out alone.
• Shiyu Ryoko overheard Jonas and Eiffel, then decided to warn Chelsea that Jonas intended to invite her to dinner.
• Chelsea reviewed Shiyu Ryoko's account of the board incident and worried that Jonas might become a dangerous rival and partner.
• Shiyu Ryoko told Chelsea that Jonas planned to invite her to dinner, prompting Chelsea to wonder if he had improper intentions.
• Jonas messaged Chelsea to invite her to discuss the partnership, and she went to the restaurant's upper floor.
• Jonas welcomed Chelsea at the restaurant, where she arrived expecting a business discussion.

Jonas tried to negotiate better terms for the Chip partnership with Chelsea, but their dinner took a strange turn when touching her bare hand triggered a physical reaction. After recognizing a scar from surgery to remove a sex doll chip, Jonas used the discovery to threaten her.

• Jonas hosted Chelsea for dinner and offered evidence that the Levi Conglomerate had tried to intercept the Chip, but she said it was not enough leverage.
• When Chelsea's chair tipped, Jonas caught her hand and her glove slipped off; she began reacting strangely to his touch.
• Shiyu Ryoko monitored the dinner from a rooftop, but her listening device briefly lost its signal, and what she saw through her binoculars stunned her.
• Jonas noticed a scar on Chelsea's arm that resembled a sex doll chip removal scar and realized she could not negotiate normally in her condition.
• Jonas pulled Chelsea close and threatened to reveal that she had once had a sex doll chip implanted.

Jonas used Chelsea's history with a sex doll chip to persuade her to accept his help with its aftereffects. Shiyu Ryoko watched from outside, became convinced Jonas might have strange powers, and saw him take Chelsea toward the Strien Grand Hotel.

• Jonas restrained Chelsea and revealed that he knew she had once had a sex doll chip implanted.
• Chelsea's symptoms worsened when Jonas stopped touching her, and she finally asked him to help.
• Shiyu Ryoko watched the exchange through binoculars and wondered whether Jonas could hypnotize or control people.
• Shiyu Ryoko saw Chelsea get into Jonas's black bulletproof sedan and watched them head toward the Strien Grand Hotel.

Shiyu Ryoko watched Chelsea arrive at the Strien Grand Hotel with Jonas and feared they were becoming intimate. Inside a private room, Jonas explained that his treatment could relieve the damage caused by Chelsea’s sex doll chip, then ordered her to kneel as the first step.

• Shiyu Ryoko saw Chelsea and Jonas lean against each other outside the Strien Grand Hotel and realized they had gone inside.
• Jonas brought Chelsea to a private room and assured her that it was secure.
• Jonas explained that removing Chelsea’s sex doll chip had caused irreversible damage and that his treatment could only relieve the accumulated problems.
• Chelsea warned Jonas not to go too far, and Jonas told her that resisting the chip’s influence could damage her brain.
• Jonas ordered Chelsea to kneel.

Chelsea woke after Jonas Wetting treated her condition, furious and humiliated by how she had submitted to him, though she admitted she felt better. At the Wetting Conglomerate’s Alt Branch Building, Jonas told Eiffel he had spent the night treating a patient, leaving her skeptical of his medical ambitions.

• Chelsea woke exhausted and recalled submitting to Jonas during the treatment, leaving her embarrassed and resentful.
• Chelsea read Jonas’s note offering further treatment for a price and vowed to make him pay when they met again.
• Chelsea recognized that her condition had improved after Jonas’s treatment and decided to rest.
• Jonas arrived at the Wetting Conglomerate’s Alt Branch Building, where Eiffel teased him about his strenuous night.
• Jonas said he had helped a patient with an underlying condition and claimed his dream had once been to become a doctor.
• Eiffel hoped that fewer innocent patients would end up in Jonas’s hands.

Shiyu Ryoko learned that Chelsea had spent the night at a hotel, while Chelsea avoided explaining where she was and asked for information on Jonas. Later, Chelsea recalled how her brother Endi had arranged for a chip to be implanted in her and how she had escaped, before a familiar episode of arousal overwhelmed her again.

• Shiyu Ryoko called Chelsea and offered to deliver her information on Jonas, but Chelsea told her to send the files to a private email and not rush the Wetting Conglomerate infiltration.
• Chelsea remembered that her older brother Endi had tried to secure control of the Nathen Conglomerate by having a Sex Doll chip implanted in her.
• Chelsea recalled waking during the operation, killing the doctor, and cutting the chip out of her own body, leaving her with years of side effects.
• As the episode returned, Chelsea stopped resisting, slipped her hand beneath her skirt, and murmured Jonas's name.

Jonas sought to expand his network after taking control of two Second Districts and persuaded Sirka to consider working with him again. In Enlis District, Amau Sueko remained determined to avenge herself on Jonas, and a masked woman asked if she was ready for revenge.

• Jonas told Eiffel he planned to recruit Sirka Bond and called him despite Eiffel's doubts.
• Sirka initially rejected Jonas, but Jonas described his new control of two Second Districts and partnership with the Nathen Conglomerate, then apologized and offered to make amends.
• Sirka asked Jonas to explain the proposed partnership before deciding, while Eiffel watched Jonas smile.
• Amau Sueko stayed in her room, preparing to take revenge on Jonas and facing hostility within the Destiny Organization.
• A masked woman confronted Amau Sueko and asked whether she was ready for revenge.

Rachael Tans dismissed Amau Sueko’s warnings about Jonas Wetting and left to confront him on her own. She decided to kill Jonas before Amau’s plan began, believing his death would help Amau regain her confidence.

• Amau Sueko warned Rachael Tans to follow the plan and avoid unnecessary actions, but Rachael insisted she could kill Jonas Wetting.
• Rachael vanished from Amau’s presence, leaving behind a holographic video projector and a voice recorder; Amau saw that Rachael’s dagger had pinned a fly’s wing to the wall.
• Rachael walked through District 25, thinking Amau had become timid since the previous incident and blaming Jonas for the change.
• Rachael flipped a coin, took heads as confirmation of her instincts, and decided to visit Jonas Wetting despite Amau’s order.

Richel used drone footage to plan how to exploit Esnie and Eiffel’s relationships with Jonas, concluding that he was involved with both women. Jonas noticed the surveillance and kissed Eiffel to mislead the watcher, leaving Richel unknowingly serving his plan.

• Richel watched footage of Jonas and Esnie, decided they might be romantically involved, and planned to use that connection to lure Esnie away.
• Richel saw Jonas appear intimate with Eiffel and concluded that he was a scumbag involved with every woman around him.
• Jonas told Eiffel that a miniature drone was watching them and instructed her to act as though they had not noticed.
• Jonas reminded Eiffel how they had acted before, then kissed her while Richel watched through the drone.

Rachael watched Jonas and Eiffel stage an intimate encounter, then changed her assassination target from Esnie to Eiffel. Jonas recognized Rachael as a possible threat and asked Eiffel to help draw the assassin out, ending by telling her she was irreplaceable to him.

• Rachael watched drone footage of Jonas and Eiffel and decided to target Eiffel instead of Esnie.
• After the drone left, Jonas explained to Eiffel that their staged intimacy was meant to make the assassin believe they were romantically involved.
• Jonas suspected Rachael Tans, a top assassin affiliated with the Destiny Organization, might be behind the surveillance.
• Jonas told Eiffel to help lure the person behind the assassination attempt into revealing themselves.
• Jonas warned Eiffel that future attempts against him were likely and told her she was irreplaceable to him.