Chapter Summaries

Jonas intervened when an heir to an electrical appliance company accosted Yucas, then made her dance with him to keep him from reporting her for sneaking into the banquet. As they danced, Jonas revealed that he had seen through her act and knew her name.

• Jonas put his arm around Yucas and sent the heir to the electrical appliance company away after briefly threatening to stop him from leaving.
• Jonas refused to keep Yucas's secret unless she agreed to dance with him.
• Yucas reluctantly accepted and danced with Jonas, trying to hide her discomfort and maintain her disguise.
• Jonas asked Yucas if she had finally decided to stop pretending, then identified her as Miss Yucas Amili.

At the ball, Jonas and Yucas questioned each other about her secret Peacekeeping Forces mission before an armed squad claiming to be the Morris Conglomerate's security team seized control of the banquet hall. Jonas recognized the suspicious squad as a threat and told Yucas to act, leaving their confrontation about to begin.

• Yucas warned Jonas not to interfere with her secret mission, while Jonas questioned why she was aboard the cruise ship.
• An armed squad entered the banquet hall, fired shots, and ordered the guests to stay down.
• The squad leader claimed the ship was under attack and said Destiny Organization members had infiltrated the gathering.
• Jonas stood up, and the squad identified him as Mr. Wetting and ordered him to stand down.
• Jonas accused the squad of being connected to the Destiny Organization and told Yucas to act.

Miss Yucas defeated the security squad at the banquet, and Jonas killed its captain before agreeing to accompany her through the cruise ship. Meanwhile, Amau Sueko watched her operation unfold until a live update showed Destiny Organization members trapped together in a stairwell.

• Miss Yucas ambushed the security squad, shot two guards in the legs, and defeated the rest in close combat.
• Jonas stopped the captain from reaching a gun, killed him, and asked Miss Yucas if he could accompany her.
• Miss Yucas agreed to let Jonas come along as they prepared to deal with trouble aboard the cruise ship.
• Amau Sueko reviewed her plan and live reports, believing the operation was proceeding as expected.
• Amau Sueko saw that Destiny Organization members had gathered in a stairwell and wondered why they were trapped there.

Amau Sueko lost contact with the Destiny Organization squad trapped aboard the ship and feared Jonas had anticipated their plan. After Yucas defeated the attackers on the stairwell, Jonas had Rachel inject and incapacitate her, leaving his next move unclear.

• Amau Sueko discovered the ship's jamming system had cut off contact with the trapped squad and ordered the others to converge on the staircase.
• Yucas defeated twenty or thirty Destiny Organization members in the stairwell but was wounded in the right leg.
• Jonas praised Yucas's fighting skills, then warned that she might struggle to protect him while injured.
• Jonas called Rachel, who restrained Yucas and injected her with a substance that made her lose consciousness.
• Jonas thanked Yucas and told her to rest as she looked at him in shock and anger.

Jonas persuaded Rachel that his plans for Amau Sueko would not harm her, and Rachel reluctantly agreed to become his accomplice. In the present, Jonas prepared to draw Amau Sueko into his plan while sending Rachel to move the unconscious Miss Yucas somewhere safe.

• A few days before the Chamber of Commerce, Jonas argued that his plans for Amau Sueko were a trial rather than a betrayal, and Rachel asked him to promise he would not hurt her.
• Jonas reassured Rachel, who accepted his proposal despite her misgivings about helping him.
• In the present, Jonas decided Miss Yucas had served her purpose and that her removal would help steer Amau Sueko into making a new move.
• Rachel admitted she wanted to stop Jonas but felt little attachment to the Destiny Organization and cared only about Miss Amau.
• Jonas ordered Rachel to move the unconscious Miss Yucas somewhere safe, and Rachel obeyed after reminding him of their agreement.

Jonas returned to the hall and ordered Rachel to kill everyone after the guests turned against him. Tobias Xiu suspected the Morris Conglomerate had known about the attack, leaving the trapped guests with few allies and no clear way out.

• Rachel left Yucas unconscious and asked Jonas where they were going next.
• Jonas took Rachel back to the hall, saying it was time to teach Miss Amau a lesson.
• The stranded guests discovered the hall's signal was blocked and complained about Jonas and the Morris Conglomerate.
• Tobias Xiu suspected the Morris Conglomerate had anticipated the Destiny Organization's attack and recognized Jonas as a potential ally.
• Jonas entered the hall and ordered Rachel to kill everyone after the guests accused and denounced him.

Jonas slaughtered everyone at the banquet to destroy the Destiny Organization’s bargaining chips, while Amau Sueko tried to salvage her plan. She found the banquet hall filled with corpses and heard Jonas greet her with a taunting question.

• Jonas killed the banquet guests, poured out his wine, and prayed among their bodies while Rachel watched.
• Amau Sueko realized her forces had been drawn into a diversion and boarded the cruise ship to investigate.
• Amau Sueko found a Destiny Organization squad dead in the stairwell and suspected Jonas and Esnie were responsible.
• Amau Sueko chose to continue with her original plan and hurried to the banquet hall.
• Amau Sueko ordered the doors opened, saw the slaughter inside, and heard Jonas ask whether she liked his reunion gift.

Amau Sueko’s team discovered that Jonas had left a recording and a deadly trap aboard the cruise ship, where a fire and electrical surge struck as they tried to escape. The Misterka District Peacekeeping Forces learned of the disaster and launched a rescue operation, unaware of the full scale of the carnage.

• Job Bud found a voice recorder beneath the bodies, and Jonas’s second recording began playing.
• Amau Sueko realized the music concealed a warning and ordered everyone to evacuate.
• Flames and electrical currents swept through the venue, trapping some people inside as others fled.
• Anse spotted smoke pouring from the cruise ship on the surveillance feed and reported the emergency.
• The Branch Director assembled Peacekeeping Forces, discovered the ship’s communications were cut, and rushed to organize a rescue.

After Jonas’s explosion devastated the Destiny Organization’s venue, Amau Sueko tried to organize the survivors’ retreat before the Peacekeeping Forces arrived. She stayed behind as a decoy, unaware that an even worse fate awaited her.

• Jonas escaped the wreckage, satisfied that his plan had succeeded and that the Destiny Organization would take the blame.
• Amau Sueko recovered from the blast, assessed the casualties, and ordered the survivors to retreat while searching for evidence against Jonas.
• Job Bud warned Amau Sueko that Peacekeeping Forces helicopters and speedboats were already approaching, making a search for evidence impossible.
• Amau Sueko divided the survivors into five teams and chose to stay behind with several others to cover their retreat.
• Job Bud offered to stay and protect Amau Sueko, but she ordered him to leave with the others, unaware that she could not escape the abyss awaiting her.

Amau Sueko was trapped aboard the cruise ship as Jonas Wetting arrived with Morris Conglomerate security forces and crushed the Destiny Organization’s remaining resistance. After her adjutant Job Bud tried to assassinate Jonas, Rachel killed him on Jonas’s order, leaving Amau devastated.

• Peacekeeping Forces reinforcements were delayed when unidentified hackers attacked their communications and vehicle systems.
• Jonas Wetting arrived with Morris Conglomerate security personnel and attacked Amau Sueko’s group as they prepared to retreat.
• Amau offered to surrender to Jonas if he let the surviving Destiny Organization members leave.
• Job Bud shot at Jonas, but a tactical drone’s barrier blocked the bullet, and Rachel subdued Job.
• Jonas ordered Rachel to kill Job Bud, and Amau collapsed after witnessing her former companion beheaded her current companion.

Yucas escaped the locked room and discovered the banquet hall had been destroyed, then pursued a gunshot through the cruise ship. Esnie stopped her and knocked her unconscious, while Jonas ordered Rachel to deal with the despairing Amau Sueko.

• Yucas woke after Rachel had ambushed her, broke open a fire cabinet, and used its axe to destroy the electronic lock.
• Yucas saw smoke and flames rising from the ruined banquet hall and realized an explosion had occurred.
• The Peacekeeping Forces' rescue unit restored communications and continued toward the cruise ship, planning to surround it and wait for reinforcements.
• After Job Bud died, Amau Sueko surrendered to Jonas and begged him to spare the others, but Jonas said she had no leverage and told Rachel to end it.
• Yucas heard a gunshot and headed toward it, but Esnie blocked her path and defeated her, striking her injured leg before knocking her unconscious.

Esnie captured the unconscious Miss Yucas while Jonas kept Destiny Organization prisoners as leverage against the Peacekeeping Forces. He negotiated for Yucas to serve as a security consultant in the Alt District branch for three months, leaving her unconscious beside him as the deal was accepted.

• Esnie acknowledged that she had underestimated her opponent, reported the mission complete, and confirmed that she had intercepted Miss Yucas.
• Jonas kept the captured Destiny Organization members as bargaining chips while Rachel worried over the unconscious Amau Sueko and warned him she would kill him if his plan proved to be a lie.
• Jonas pointed out that Rachel needed to deal with her sex doll chip before she could resist him or try to kill him.
• The Peacekeeping Forces arrived to find the rescue operation unsuccessful, and Jonas offered their senior leadership the captured Destiny Organization prisoners.
• Jonas asked the Peacekeeping Forces to appoint Director Yucas as a security consultant for the Alt District branch for three months, and the councilor accepted.

Jonas reflected on how the cruise ship incident would help him prepare for future upheaval, then rewarded Shigure Ryoko for her successful infiltration and intelligence work. Shigure accepted a 100,000-credit bonus and eagerly recommitted herself to the Wetting Conglomerate.

• Jonas considered how the cruise ship incident had improved his reputation and positioned him for future conflicts across District 25 and the world.
• Jonas recognized Shigure Ryoko as his best intelligence operative and praised her for infiltrating the enemy camp without being recognized.
• Jonas promised Shigure Ryoko a reward for her work and announced that she had passed her probationary assessment.
• Jonas told Shigure Ryoko she would receive a 100,000-credit bonus, and she enthusiastically declared her loyalty to the Wetting Conglomerate.

After the cruise ship massacre damaged Alt Corporation’s finances, Jonas received an invitation from Chelsea of the Nathen Conglomerate and met her at the Strien Grand Hotel. Chelsea’s Chip-removal side effects left her in a submissive, desire-driven state, and Jonas spent the night using the prepared restraints and toys before having sex with her.

• The Morris Conglomerate presented evidence of its Security Force fighting the Destiny Organization, shifting public blame toward the Destiny Organization while the massacre’s economic fallout hurt Jonas’s business.
• Aifei'er told Jonas that the company was running at a loss and that Chelsea had requested a private meeting that night.
• Chelsea arrived at the hotel with the items Jonas had requested, and the side effects of her removed Chip made her follow his commands.
• Jonas put a collar and leash on Chelsea, used the toys she had brought, and had her serve him in several ways.
• Jonas had sex with Chelsea repeatedly, and she stayed with him at the hotel as the night continued.

Jonas reflected on Chelsea’s physical surrender after treating her and planned to recruit Amau Sueko as an undercover asset by modifying her body. Aifei'er reported that she had found Eudora Ray, a disgraced mechanical engineer who ran an illegal clinic, leaving Jonas poised to bring the familiar name into his plans.

• Jonas saw that Chelsea had physically surrendered after their treatment, though she still concealed her feelings behind a cool manner.
• Jonas decided that Amau Sueko should join the original protagonist’s storyline as his guide and serve as an undercover asset, with bodily modification as a necessary step.
• Aifei'er told Jonas she had found Eudora Ray, a former Gaut Communications Company mechanical engineer who had been fired after an expensive mistake.
• Aifei'er explained that Eudora had sold most of her belongings to repay the company and now survived by running an illegal clinic.
• Jonas recognized Eudora’s familiar name and considered her a promising person to recruit.

After the cruise ship incident, Yucas suspected Jonas Wetting had orchestrated the attack but lacked evidence. When headquarters assigned her to infiltrate the Alt Branch and go undercover near Jonas, she eagerly accepted, determined to find proof against him.

• Yucas reviewed the cruise ship incident and concluded that Jonas was her strongest suspect, though she had no evidence.
• Councilor Aldridge called Yucas with a secret Peacekeeping Forces mission concerning Jonas Wetting.
• Aldridge explained that Yucas would use a false identity to enter the Alt Branch recruitment process and gather intelligence near Jonas.
• Yucas accepted the mission and asked headquarters to send her the documents, vowing to find evidence against Jonas.

Alt Corporation held a recruitment fair for its Security Department, where Esnie’s brutal interviews impressed the applicants and helped Jonas undermine Yucas before her expected arrival. After Esnie returned to Jonas’s office, she willingly submitted to his advances.

• Jonas arranged Alt Corporation’s recruitment fair with Yucas as its secret target, while Esnie screened applicants for the Security Department.
• The applicants were warned the test could cause injuries and were told their interviews would be broadcast live.
• Esnie, concealed behind the image of a young interviewer, easily defeated retired Peacekeeping Forces agent Saroyan, Ferdinand and ordered the next applicant forward.
• Esnie told Jonas that none of the applicants had met her requirements, and Jonas thanked her and offered her water.
• Esnie read Jonas’s desire, crouched in front of his desk, and submitted to him.

Miss Yucas faced Miss Esnie in an armed-combat interview and lost after a fierce duel, but Esnie passed her to the final interview. Esnie secretly savored her victory, and her jealousy toward Yucas began to emerge.

• After the first nineteen applicants failed, Miss Yucas entered the interview room for her test with Miss Esnie.
• Miss Esnie changed the test to armed combat and immediately attacked Yucas with a tactical sword.
• Yucas gradually revealed her full strength, but Esnie kept her under pressure and ultimately defeated her.
• Miss Esnie told Yucas she had passed and should report to the top-floor office for the final interview.
• After leaving, Miss Esnie privately enjoyed humiliating Yucas, as her jealousy began to sprout.

Yucas faced Jonas Wetting in the final stage of her Alt Corporation interview, using the alias Alec Millian while trying to conceal her anger and abilities. Jonas tested her reactions with a fake gun, then welcomed her aboard, leaving Yucas more convinced than ever that he was vile.

• Esnie worried that Yucas might take her place in Jonas's affections but accepted the plan for Yucas to work at Alt Corporation for three months.
• Yucas entered the interview expecting to meet Esnie and instead found Jonas Wetting waiting for her.
• Jonas questioned Yucas about her combat abilities, and she admitted she excelled at unarmed fighting.
• Jonas aimed a gun at Yucas from fifteen meters away and pulled the trigger, but the gun shot streamers instead of bullets.
• Jonas welcomed Yucas to Alt Corporation, and she concluded that the rumors about his vileness were true.

Jonas visited Amau Sueko in the hospital after she woke for the third time and told her he had plans he could not yet reveal. He ended the conversation by activating a tenfold sensitivity setting, leaving Amau stunned.

• Yucas completed her brief onboarding at the Alt Conglomerate and returned to her assigned apartment without suspecting a conspiracy.
• Jonas visited Amau Sueko, who had been kept unconscious with sedatives after her previous awakenings.
• Amau challenged Jonas over his intentions and suggested he kill her rather than keep her captive.
• Jonas said he would explain her situation and told her, "Sensitivity, tenfold."