Chapter Summaries

Jonas used the Empathy Collar to torment Itra, while its linked sensations also left Rui suffering in Alt Corporation's laboratory. After recognizing that his psionic awakening might be intensifying his pleasure-seeking tendencies, Jonas asked Eiffel where he could obtain banned IIS supplies and learned of an upcoming black-market auction.

• Yucas saw Itra kneeling in Jonas's office and quietly left, unaware that the surveillance system recorded her visit.
• Jonas left Itra to endure the Collar's stimulation, and her resistance caused Rui to experience the same sensations through their Empathy Collars.
• Jonas watched Itra and Rui suffer, then wondered whether his psionic energy was amplifying his desire for amusement.
• Jonas asked Eiffel about obtaining IIS Stimulant and IIS Base Solution, and she suggested the upcoming black-market auction in Angus District.
• Eiffel asked whether Jonas wanted the stimulant for himself, and he teased her until she blushed.

Jonas and Miss Eiffel entered Angus District’s underground black market, where its secret owner, Charlie, ordered an inquiry into Jonas and arranged to test his interest in a Wooden Token. Jonas found a smuggler selling IIS Stimulant, but after the man overcharged him, Jonas revealed that he knew the smuggler’s identity and frightened him.

• Jonas and Miss Eiffel entered the underground black market and learned that its mysterious ruler was known as the Black Market King.
• An attendant recognized Jonas as an auction guest and led him and Miss Eiffel to the auction venue, prompting Jonas to suspect someone was waiting for them.
• Charlie watched Jonas and Miss Eiffel on surveillance, told Kaze not to bring the Void Realm Church Saintess to Angus District, and ordered him to learn Jonas’s purpose and auction a Wooden Token.
• Jonas found a smuggler named Wordsworth Shandy selling IIS Stimulant and offered to buy all 380 boxes.
• When Shandy demanded 140,000 Credit Points, Jonas challenged the price and revealed that he knew Shandy’s identity, terrifying the smuggler.

Jonas bought IIS Stimulant cheaply from a smuggler, then attended the Angus District black-market auction with Miss Eiffel, suspecting its hidden proprietor was watching them. He won a mysterious Inscribed Plaque that stirred the same inexplicable feeling as his first encounter with the void realm, and suspected the Void Realm Church was involved.

• Jonas used threats to make the smuggler sell him a large quantity of IIS Stimulant for 30,000 credit points.
• Jonas and Miss Eiffel entered the auction hall and realized the hidden proprietor had arranged a private box for them.
• Jonas dismissed a bunny girl commentator, while Miss Eiffel showed jealousy and watched the auction with growing discomfort.
• Jonas and Miss Eiffel discussed the auction’s Gene Drug and theories about the old humans of the previous era.
• Jonas bid 101,000 credit points for the mysterious Inscribed Plaque, despite Miss Eiffel’s disapproval.
• Jonas felt the plaque was connected to the void realm and suspected the Void Realm Church was behind its arrival.

Jonas received an enigmatic wooden plaque from the Angus District black market organizer, then discovered it showed him visions of an advanced human civilization from a previous era. He visited Iris and agreed to spend time with her regularly, while she eagerly negotiated for even more frequent visits.

• A bunny girl told Jonas that the hidden organizer regretted testing him and wanted to meet him later, but Jonas rejected the offer of an escort back to Alt District.
• After returning to the office, Jonas asked Eiffel to investigate the Angus District organizer, learned the Nanomedical Machines project faced an Arbitration Bureau complaint, and decided to visit Iris.
• Jonas used his psionic energy on the wooden plaque and saw visions of interstellar warships, insect swarms, soldiers, and dying people’s prayers, leaving him questioning whether a previous human civilization had existed.
• Iris showed Jonas the dolls and clothes she had knitted while missing him, and Jonas told her they would meet at least once a week.
• Iris asked whether they could meet twice a week and then eagerly suggested five times.

After spending the night with Iris, Jonas learned that she had secretly built a big-data system to help the Alt Corporation. He praised her work and agreed it was a major benefit, and Iris asked him for a kiss with tongue.

• Jonas refused Iris's demand for five rounds, and two rounds left her satisfied and asleep.
• Iris woke at noon and told Jonas she had been working on a project in the Network Security Department.
• Iris showed Jonas a system that collected and categorized District 25 residents' online comments and personal information.
• Jonas learned Iris had built the system's initial framework in about three months and thanked her for her hard work.
• Jonas told Iris the system would greatly help the Alt Corporation, and Iris asked him for a kiss with tongue.

Jonas arranged for Yucas Amili to return to Alt Corporation, knowing she wanted access to his Aberrant-related information and intending to use her return to win her over. He then coordinated a media plan to expose a Peacekeeping Forces scandal, setting up a direct contrast between the two organizations.

• Jonas stored the IIS Stimulant shipment in Alt District's Secure Warehouse and left its development to Miss Rui.
• Yucas Amili called Jonas and requested permission to leave the Peacekeeping Forces and return to Alt Corporation, claiming the mission had become risky.
• Jonas approved Yucas's return and offered to arrange an explanation for her departure from the Peacekeeping Forces.
• After the call, Jonas revealed that he intended to use Yucas's return to show her the contrast between the Peacekeeping Forces and Alt Corporation.
• Jonas told a girl to use the media to expose a Peacekeeping Forces scandal during a planned staged event.

The Peacekeeping Forces debated how to respond to Jonas and the Alt Corporation, while Berkeley Harris delayed action and left Yucas to decide whether to accept a risky mission. Jonas brought Yucas back into the company and arranged a classified assignment, then tested Nora’s weakness for gemstones by ordering her to kneel.

• Peacekeeping Forces leaders argued over whether to exploit Yucas for intelligence on Jonas, and Berkeley Harris postponed plans concerning Jonas while emphasizing external pressures.
• Yucas returned to Jonas at the Alt Corporation, where he offered her a new job and gave her an ID card for a classified project.
• Jonas asked Yucas about psionic energy, noticed her answer revealed too much, and told her he would take her to the project the next day.
• After Yucas left, Nora emerged from the shadows, and Jonas praised her improved ability while noting that thermal imaging could still detect her.
• Jonas proposed training Nora to resist her psychological weakness, then showed her gemstones and told her to kneel if she wanted them.

After his encounter with Nora, Jonas brought Yucas to a hidden Alt Corporation facility for her new assignment investigating psionic energy. The facility’s extreme security unsettled Yucas, and Jonas warned her that its research had driven several researchers mad.

• Nora left Jonas’s office after he claimed she had failed a test, though her hazy memories and his influence kept her from resisting him.
• Yucas contacted Jonas about her assignment, and he told her to wait before taking her to the new department.
• Jonas led Yucas through a concealed corridor where cameras, security drones, and infrared detectors guarded the entrance.
• The facility’s system registered Yucas as Acrylic and granted her access to the restricted passage.
• Jonas warned Yucas to set aside what she thought she knew because several researchers there had gone mad.

Jonas showed Yucas a staged Research Center where apparent experiments in awakening psionic energy drove researchers insane, convincing her that the Alt Corporation was conducting illegal human experimentation. After Yucas left determined to gather evidence, Jonas revealed that the researchers and the incident were fake, part of a plan to feed her false intelligence to the Peacekeeping Forces.

• Jonas warned Yucas that studying psionic energy had driven researchers insane, then offered to show her the Research Center.
• Jonas showed Yucas a researcher apparently descend into madness and be killed, explaining that the staff had accepted the risks in exchange for compensation.
• Yucas saw information suggesting the project aimed to awaken psionic energy in ordinary people and resolved to gather evidence against Jonas and the Alt Corporation.
• After Yucas left, Jonas returned to the Research Center, where the supposed researcher reported that the mission was complete and the staged evidence had been erased.
• Jonas revealed that the apparent researchers were Security Department operatives and planned to use Yucas to deliver false intelligence to the Peacekeeping Forces.

Yucas accepted the Peacekeeping Forces committee’s order to extend her undercover assignment and begin stealing intelligence from Alt Corporation’s Psionic Energy Department. Meanwhile, Jonas and Eiffel uncovered a link between Angus District and the Void Realm Church, then grew closer in the Office.

• Yucas learned that the Peacekeeping Forces committee wanted her to investigate the Psionic Energy Department and Jonas Wetting’s human experiments, and she agreed to continue her assignment.
• Yucas told the committee she had infiltrated the Psionic Energy Department and could begin stealing intelligence when ordered.
• Eiffel told Jonas that Angus District was connected to the Void Realm Church and that its controller might oppose the Church’s Saintess.
• Jonas decided to investigate the relationship between Angus District and the Void Realm Church, while Eiffel worried that Alt Corporation would no longer need her as it grew.
• Jonas reassured Eiffel that he would always need her, and the two kissed and became intimate in the Office.

Jonas and Eiffel resumed their sexual games after a night together, but their morning was interrupted by a message from Eudora Ray. Eudora reported that she had completed a potion capable of awakening Psionic Energy in ordinary people, leaving Jonas considering its potential use.

• Jonas teased Eiffel over her missing underwear, and she gave in to his demand for morning help before returning to work in her damaged clothes.
• Jonas resumed teasing Eiffel at her desk, and she begged him not to stop when he pretended to withdraw his hand.
• A communication request from Eudora Ray interrupted them, and Jonas told Eiffel to answer it.
• Eudora Ray saw Jonas and Eiffel together, then angrily reported that her potion could awaken Psionic Energy in ordinary people before ending the call.
• Jonas considered the potion's potential value if it could be marketed properly.

Jonas learned that Rui had developed a drug that temporarily awakened psionic energy, then considered potential partners and turned his attention to Amau Sueko's activities in Helios District. The next day, the Star of Dawn seized downtown Helios District and called for the overthrow of District 25's status quo.

• Rui explained that her drug awakened psionic energy for about twenty-four hours with a 95 percent success rate, but repeated doses caused severe and potentially fatal bodily damage.
• Jonas offered Rui a reward, and she asked him to stop the other Empathy Collar wearer from masturbating at night and to honor their agreement to release Itra.
• Jonas received a call from Chelsea, considered the Arbitration Bureau as a partner for the drug, and learned that Amau Sueko had discovered and removed his surveillance device.
• Jonas told Eiffel to focus on Helios District because he expected Amau Sueko to make a major move there.
• The following day, the Star of Dawn seized downtown Helios District in less than thirty minutes and called on supporters to overthrow District 25's status quo.

The Star of Dawn captured downtown Helios District to publicize its strength and pressure the authorities into granting it a foothold, but the Peacekeeping Forces encircled its members during their withdrawal. Esnie took the data they had copied and left after invoking Jonas, while Amau Sueko was left shaken by the threat of meeting him again.

• Jonas recognized the Star of Dawn's capture of Helios District as a bold attempt to negotiate for a foothold and wondered whether he would let Amau Sueko succeed.
• At St. Peter's Church, Amau Sueko learned that Mika had finished copying the data and ordered the Star of Dawn to withdraw as the Peacekeeping Forces closed in.
• Beigong Ling led the breakout and fought off Peacekeeping Forces, but she was wounded, leaving her and Amau Sueko among a small group trapped inside the church.
• A short-haired woman arrived amid the gunfire and demanded the copied data; Amau Sueko recognized the danger and ordered Beigong Ling to hand it over.
• The woman, Esnie, took the USB drive and told Amau Sueko that Mr. Jonas looked forward to seeing her again, leaving Amau Sueko trembling.

After Beigong Ling challenged Jonas Wetting to a wager over the Alt Corporation, Jonas answered with a prank that prompted her to request a six-month deadline. Jonas then went to the Arbitration Bureau to negotiate over the Alt Compound Drug, where Esnie forced their way past security and Carroll Sigrid appeared.

• Beigong Ling called Jonas Wetting and proposed that the Star of Dawn attack the Alt Corporation in three months, staking its destruction on the contest; Jonas agreed to extend the deadline to six months.
• Jonas sent a communications device that released smoke, streamers, and a recording mocking Beigong Ling, who asked him anonymously whether the six-month extension still stood.
• Jonas took an experimental sample of the Alt Compound Drug and traveled with Esnie to the Arbitration Bureau to meet Carroll Sigrid.
• Hardy Austin refused Jonas and Esnie entry, so Esnie kicked him down and cut through the gate with her Thermal Sword.
• Carroll Sigrid emerged with security personnel as Jonas told Esnie to lower her weapon.

Jonas negotiated a partnership with Carroll Sigrid of the Arbitration Bureau, offering a drug that temporarily gave ordinary people Psionic Energy in exchange for Tactical Mecha. On the drive home with Esnie, Celine called to ask her sister for security training, but Esnie struggled to keep the conversation ordinary while Jonas teased her.

• Carroll let Jonas explain his proposal after he asked whether she knew about Psionics, and he claimed his drug could awaken them in ordinary people with a failure rate below five percent.
• Jonas showed Carroll a drug sample and described its cost: repeated use weakened the body toward death, while each dose granted twenty-four hours of psionic energy.
• Carroll accepted Jonas's offer to share the production method in exchange for the military's latest Tactical Mecha, and she promised to draft a contract within three days.
• After Jonas left, Carroll reprimanded her deputy for nearly losing the deal and warned him to obtain Jonas Wetting's forgiveness.
• On the drive back, Celine called Esnie to ask for security-work instruction, and Esnie ended the call when Celine guessed Jonas was with her.
• Jonas told the car AI to switch to self-driving mode as Esnie warned that his teasing could cause an accident.

Jonas approved a proposal concerning the Helios Region and planned to use the Psionic Awakening Drug to unsettle the Star of Dawn. Meanwhile, Rachel wrestled with her growing attachment to Jonas until an unexpected call from Amau Sueko interrupted her thoughts.

• Jonas spoke with Celine, agreed to visit her that night, and then reviewed and approved a cooperation proposal concerning the Helios Region.
• Jonas anticipated that the Psionic Awakening Drug would alarm Amau Sueko and the Star of Dawn, and decided it was time to draw Rachel back in.
• Rachel recalled her difficult past, her bond with Amau Sueko, and how Jonas's treatment had left her craving the warmth of servility.
• Rachel received a call from an unfamiliar address and heard Amau Sueko ask whether she was Rachel.

Amau Sueko contacted Rachel and offered to free her from the Sex Doll chip if she helped oppose Jonas. Rachel agreed, but Jonas revealed he knew about the contact and ordered her to pass Sueko doctored information; he then demanded that she kneel to prove her loyalty.

• Rachel answered Amau Sueko’s call, and Sueko proposed working together against Jonas and promised to help free Rachel from her Sex Doll chip.
• Sueko explained that she had removed her own chip and showed Rachel the scar as proof.
• Rachel nodded in agreement, and Sueko said she would later explain how to temporarily block the chip and communicate safely.
• Rachel told Sueko she had pledged loyalty to Jonas, and Sueko mistook the remark for a convincing act meant to deceive him.
• Jonas praised Rachel for bringing him valuable information and told her to give Sueko doctored information.
• Jonas asked Rachel what she wanted, then ordered her to kneel and prove her loyalty.

Jonas secured a partnership with the Arbitration Bureau that would provide the Alt Corporation with Tactical Mecha data, while Eiffel warned him that his growth would make an enemy of the Wetting Conglomerate and reaffirmed her loyalty. Meanwhile, Alt District administrator Dennis Dupont blamed Jonas for his lack of influence and developed a deep-seated grudge against him.

• Carole confirmed the Arbitration Bureau partnership with Jonas and promised to send the Tactical Mecha database key to the Alt Corporation.
• Eiffel realized how far the Alt Corporation had grown, cautioned Jonas about the Wetting Conglomerate, and said she would stay by his side.
• Jonas teased Eiffel about confessing her feelings, and she answered directly that she would always remain with him.
• The chapter described how the Alt Corporation's growth had brought the Alt District close to the standards of a Second District.
• Dennis Dupont, the Federation's Alt District administrator, grew frustrated by his lack of authority and blamed Jonas for obstructing his ambitions.

Celine claimed Jonas’s promised reward at Alt Corporation while Dennis Dupont joined forces with the Wetting Conglomerate’s Board of Directors against the company. During negotiations, Eiffel attacked Dupont after he insulted her, then let him go; Dupont accepted Mister Wetting’s terms and vowed revenge.

• Celine visited Jonas after her Psionic Energy breakthrough and pursued her reward while Eiffel reported to him, unaware of what was happening beneath his desk.
• Dennis Dupont resented Alt Corporation’s growth and inability to secure Jonas’s cooperation, so Mister Wetting offered to help him advance the Alt District’s Economic Development Belt in exchange for his cooperation against Alt Corporation.
• Jonas learned that the administration had revoked Alt Corporation’s privileges and demanded negotiations, and he suspected Mister Wetting was behind Dupont’s pressure.
• Eiffel attended the negotiations alone, rejected Dupont’s proposed Economic Development Belt, and attacked him after he demeaned her and tried to exploit her background.
• Eiffel spared Dupont and left after he ordered his guards to lower their weapons; Dupont then told his subordinate to contact Mister Wetting and accept his terms.

Jonas used Nora to eliminate Dennis Dupont and recover the Access Key to the federal officials system, then visited the hospitalized Iris and cared for her while Esnie watched jealously. The chapter ended with Jonas reminding Esnie to put her safety first as he returned to work.

• Jonas tested Nora with the jeweled necklace, and she agreed to his condition before he assigned her to deal with Dennis Dupont.
• Nora emerged from Dennis Dupont's shadow, strangled him unconscious, and took him to Jonas, who tortured him until he revealed that the Access Key was beneath the skin of his right arm.
• Jonas ordered Dennis Dupont's fingers crushed and his body buried in concrete, then learned that Iris had been hospitalized from overwork.
• Jonas visited Iris and fed her congee, which led to an intimate kiss while Esnie watched through the door window with jealousy.
• When Jonas left the hospital with Esnie, he stopped her from considering injuring herself for his attention and told her that her safety mattered most.