Chapter Summaries

During a history lecture, Sonia recorded the Watcher's embarrassing post-amnesia remarks so she could use them against him, then planned to publicize her latest Void Realm death to promote her upcoming album. As Sonia’s roommates joked after class, they and the other students noticed strange star shadows reflected across the Sky Curtain.

• Sonia secretly compiled the Watcher's most affectionate and shameless post-amnesia remarks as ammunition against him.
• Sonia accidentally cracked her desk while imagining how she would use her notes to get even with the Watcher.
• After class, Sonia told Lois and Adele that she had died again in the Void Realm, intending to attract attention for her upcoming Singer album.
• Adele teased Lois about possibly being a man, and Lois hurt Adele’s feelings before coaxing her to follow with the reminder of an upcoming quiz.
• Lois, Adele, and the other students stopped in the corridor and stared at star shadows reflected on the Sky Curtain.

Sonia witnessed the Stars fall and the world plunge into darkness before a blue-robed Spellcaster’s prayer restored the sky and raised a White Giant Tower. The revelation that the event was called Stars Prayer led Sonia to connect it to the Watcher’s incarnation, and she perceived a Concept Secret Poison.

• At Harvest Orchard, Sonia decided to buy the Heart Pen Miracle at full price after Mifa told her there were no discounts.
• Spell Spirit fruits began cracking and releasing their spirits as stars fell across Star Country, only to strike an invisible barrier surrounding the world.
• The sky went dark, and a blue-robed female Spellcaster climbed a staircase and prayed as blue flames enveloped people across Star Country.
• The Stars returned to the sky, and a White Giant Tower appeared where the Spellcaster had prayed; Sonia named the phenomenon Stars Prayer.
• Mifa identified a fallen Spell Spirit as Meteor, prompting Sonia to wonder whether it belonged to a Star Art School.
• Sonia connected the event to the Avatar of Stars and the Watcher’s Secret Incarnation, then experienced a distorted vision and received the Void Realm’s response: Concept Secret Poison.

Igula hid in a wardrobe and took a bath while Ash sought advice about the fear and responsibility he felt after wagering the Witch’s and Sword Maiden’s lives. Igula refused to comfort him, but Ash left with an idea for gaining experience as a leader, and Liss arrived to ask for a Fraudster’s wisdom.

• Igula maintained his decoy routine in the suite and tried to relax in the bathtub before Ash interrupted him.
• Ash asked Igula whether he would hesitate to risk the lives of people who trusted him, revealing his fear that the Witch and Sword Maiden might die under his decisions.
• Igula rejected Ash’s request for comfort and told him that decision-makers had to accept sacrifice and grow through experience.
• Ash concluded that he needed more practice leading a team and left, while Igula wondered whether Ash’s question had planted a seed in him.
• Liss entered the bathroom and announced that she needed a Fraudster’s wisdom.

Annan placed Ash and the Funeral Agency under house arrest in the high-rise, then left them to investigate Van Mula before meeting again at six. Liss kept her Sisters’ secrets from Ash while using his Advanced Substitute to search the Library, where the Substitute found a book about the enslavement of evil nobles.

• Annan expanded the outsiders’ permitted area to the entire high-rise, gave them 500 Gospel Points, and told them she would gather them at six.
• Igula warned the others that Annan might sell them to Qinna, and he set out to investigate while Ash stayed with Liss.
• Ash gave Liss command authority over his Advanced Substitute so it could accompany her without sharing its memories with him.
• Diya urged Liss to keep their secret and use Ash’s kindness rather than reveal the Sisters’ identities, since Gospel could turn kindness into malice.
• Liss asked the Substitute to hold her hand and help her find books about Gospel Incarnation and a thousand years of history.
• In the Library, the Substitute searched for books while Liss slept and noticed a book titled .

Ash used the Gospel to amplify his intent and drew nine Pure Aura Drinks, giving the group a way to heal their souls before entering the Void Realm. Meanwhile, Harvey consulted the Gospel about modifying Alice and learned to combine Ghoul-enhanced limbs with a Vengeful Soul-enhanced body.

• Ash asked the Gospel how to improve his odds of drawing items and learned that it could amplify his intent for 150 Gospel Points.
• Ash bought Source Crystals, used the Intent Amplification state for a Ten-Pull, and drew nine Pure Aura Drinks and one Stamina Potion.
• Harvey asked whether Alice suited either his Wraith or Ghoul modification plan, and the Gospel charged him 50 points to say she suited neither.
• Harvey paid for advice on strengthening Alice, and the Gospel recommended Ghoul enhancement for her limbs and Vengeful Soul enhancement for her body.

Ash refined Pure Aura Drinks into soul-healing potions and an Enthusiasm Potion, then chose to save the latter to avoid disrupting his team's relationships. After using a magic mirror shard to strengthen his bond with the Black White Witch, he discovered the Sword Maiden had gained Concept Secret Poison, which briefly revealed the terrifying spider web hidden over reality.

• Ash refined nine Pure Aura Drinks and a stored drink, producing three Burning Soul Essence Drinks and one Enthusiasm Potion.
• Ash decided to keep the Enthusiasm Potion until he could use one on both the Black White Witch and the Sword Maiden at the same time.
• Ash drew a Black White Witch's Magic Mirror Shard and used it to expand the Witch's bond functions.
• Ash noticed the Witch's concealment level had fallen and found that the Sword Maiden had acquired Concept Secret Poison.
• Concept Secret Poison made Ash see his room and city transformed into a vast spider nest, with people and living things trapped in webs, before reality returned to normal.

Ash realized that the Secret Incarnation was a Divine Lord’s strategic asset, but it offered no benefit to him because he had not unlocked its troop type. While investigating it, he asked Gospel for help improving his combat experience and received access to a maxed-out Epic account, just as Concept Secret Poison turned his Game Pod into a spider cocoon.

• Ash reasoned that Concept Incarnations were exchanged among Heroic Soul Commanders as part of the Divine Lords’ game, and that the Empress Heroic Soul had likely destroyed the Avatar of Stars.
• Ash inspected the Secret Incarnation absorbed by his Soul Summoning Spell Spirit and learned that it strengthened Secrecy Peeking Women, a troop type he had not unlocked.
• Ash asked Gospel how to use the Secret Incarnation and why Heroic Soul Commanders carried such items, but Gospel demanded thousands of points for answers.
• Ash asked Gospel how to improve his mental fortitude through combat and proposed playing high-difficulty Epic content as a Captain and Commander.
• Gospel gave Ash the credentials to a fully maxed-out Epic account, and Ash logged in before Concept Secret Poison turned his Game Pod into a spider cocoon.

Ash struggled through an Extreme Dungeon raid, then used the Gospel to find Annan’s earring and followed Igula into Suite 24. There, Igula invented a cover story for the maid, and Ash claimed Annan could be considered his daughter.

• Ash failed to clear the Extreme Fish-Slaying Carp raid, but realized that Epic’s raid mechanics could help improve his understanding of Void Realm Knowledge Creatures.
• Ash asked the Gospel where Annan was, then located her Amethyst Earring in Suite 24 of the Dining Layer.
• Ash spotted Igula hiding near Suite 24 and followed him inside after he pulled a maid into the room.
• Igula told the maid that he and Ash were Senheiser spies who had undergone the Demon Extraction Ritual to gain Annan’s trust.
• When the maid questioned Ash’s identity, he said that Annan could be considered his daughter.

Ash and Igula posed as Senheiser agents to question Lucy and gathered information about Annan and the clan. At Suite 24, Annan revealed that their mission was to date at least one person before the second Future List, with Qinna Senheiser as a particularly valuable target.

• Ash claimed he had served Qinna as a lover and endured her daughter’s harassment for the Senheiser People, convincing Lucy to trust him and Igula.
• Igula questioned Lucy, who said Annan had visited Nona and received a skincare treatment, while Lucy knew little about the other families or Qinna and Nona’s relationship.
• After Lucy left, Igula said Annan seemed confident their plan would get them onto the second Future List and noted that Qinna had kept their information secret.
• Ash and Igula joined Liss and Harvey at Suite 24, where Annan said each of them had to date at least one person within seven days.
• Annan said that becoming Qinna Senheiser’s lover, even for one night, could secure their victory, prompting Ash and Igula to wonder whether she had overheard their earlier lies.

Annan told Ash, Harvey, and Igula to pursue love and family by dating in the Family Reincarnation Dreamscape, where they could earn Gospel recognition. Bange warned that its immersive emotional connections could assimilate them into the Senheiser family, but the group still faced entering the Dreamscape, while Ash and the others were assigned to date nonstop and Liss was exempted.

• Annan explained that the group could satisfy the Gospel's requirements for love and family by participating in Love Matching in the Family Reincarnation Dreamscape.
• Annan described the Dreamscape's anonymous identities, changeable appearances, and lack of restrictions, startling Ash, Liss, Harvey, and the others.
• Bange warned that the Dreamscape's sincere, tangible emotional connections could draw the group into the Senheiser family and be difficult to resist.
• Bange revealed that he had once served Madam Qinna, betrayed Doran to protect Annan, and resisted the family's influence because his care for Annan came first.
• Annan reaffirmed her plan, and Ash summarized the assignment as dating nonstop in the Dreamscape; Annan said Ash and the others had to do it, but Liss did not.

Annan explained the risks facing the group in Van Mula and arranged their entry into Senheiser’s Family Reincarnation Dreamscape, where Ash was expected to court Qinna to help save her family. The group settled on Igula as their best chance of improving their ranking, but he secretly learned that Gospel would not count dating someone he neither desired nor liked.

• Igula questioned whether Senheiser could protect the group from the Red Hats and other forces, and Annan explained that Ash was the only one with a bounty and gave everyone Senheiser family crests for entering its Dream Realm.
• Annan explained that winning Qinna’s favor could make Gospel view Ash as a leader capable of governing millions and potentially help Senheiser survive the coming chaos.
• Ash proposed telling Qinna that dating him might save Senheiser, prompting Igula and Harvey to accuse him of scheming to force the beautiful Elf Clan Leader into submission.
• Annan decided that Igula was the group’s only useful candidate for the second ranking, since the others were unsuitable or protected from participating.
• Igula checked Gospel in a restroom and learned that dating someone he neither desired nor liked would not count as dating.

Ash unlocked Senheiser Dreamscape and sent his Substitute on a dating expedition using the Black White Witch’s action style. The Substitute continued helping Liss’s Sisters in reality while the Sisters appeared in the Dream Realm, where they planned to exploit its information and pursue romantic targets in Ash’s name.

• Ash decided to switch from Combat Arcanist to Medical Artificer as he pursued his goal of becoming a team Commander.
• The Gospel Book unlocked the Senheiser Dreamscape module and warned that Ash’s soul damage made an expedition inadvisable.
• Ash dispatched his Substitute on a dating expedition and selected the Black White Witch’s action style.
• In Liss’s room, the Substitute continued searching Senheiser records for clues while Liss spoke to the mirror.
• Seventeen Sisters gathered in the Dream Realm, agreed to complete Ash’s dating mission, and scattered into the mist to seek romantic targets.

Igula entered the Family Reincarnation Dreamscape to investigate it while guarding against its addictive power. After disguising himself as a girl, he met Xiao Xi, whose affectionate advance shattered his emotional defenses, and gave her the name Ilina.

• Igula reasoned that he needed to join the Dream Realm mission to pursue the Future List and prove his value, despite the danger of becoming attached to the family.
• He entered the Dream Realm, surveyed its many wish-shaped Bubbles, and disguised himself as a literary girl to avoid recognition.
• Xiao Xi approached Igula, tripped, then sprang up and hugged him, asking him on a date.
• Igula's Heart Like a Rock and Will of Steel failed to protect him from Xiao Xi's affection, and he introduced himself as Ilina.

Igula and Xiao Xi shared an imagined life of adventures and companionship, but Igula revealed that intimacy threatened his sense of self and attacked her in a recreation of Broken Lake Prison. He destroyed Xiao Xi’s figure with a punch and admitted he wanted to punch him in reality too.

• Xiao Xi transformed the treehouse into a starry sky and adventured through dangerous dreamlike places with Igula.
• Xiao Xi promised to stay with Igula through the end of the Weaving Festival, and Igula reluctantly accepted.
• The dream changed into the Deathmatch Arena of Broken Lake Prison, where Igula said he had never truly escaped his prisonlike life.
• Igula admitted Xiao Xi had entered his heart but declared that anyone who broke through his Wall of Heart had to die.
• Igula punched Xiao Xi’s figure apart and said he wanted to punch him in reality too.

Liss stayed behind in reality while her Sisters entered the Family Dream Realm, where the White Queen was drawn into a dangerous dream and Diya encountered a mysterious double. The chapter left Diya facing a guessing game about the stranger’s identity.

• The White Queen convinced Liss to stay behind while the Sisters paired up for their mission in the Family Dream Realm.
• Liss proposed joining the mission with Dad, then decided to cut his hair with a fruit knife while the Substitute was doing homework.
• The White Queen entered the Family Dream Realm alone and found herself separated from her Sisters.
• The Black Witch lured the White Queen into the Queen Dream Realm, urging her to give up her heart and enjoy a life in the spotlight.
• Diya met someone dressed like her and calling herself Little Red, who challenged Diya to guess her identity before the night ended.

Qinna entered the Family Dream Realm and became captivated by a clumsy Elf boy named Xiao Ya, while Annan entered her childhood Dream Realm and accepted a mysterious boy’s offer of friendship. Ash quit a game after another failed team run and refused to be drawn in by the Gospel’s suspiciously welcoming prompt.

• Qinna entered the pastry factory bubble and offered to teach Xiao Ya how to make Red Velvet Cake for his Younger Sister.
• Annan transformed into her young self in the Children's Playground and realized that playing alone was lonely.
• A boy called Xiao Xiu appeared in Annan's Dream Realm, and she introduced herself as Xiao An before playing with him.
• After another failed game run, Ash summoned the Gospel, saw its empty response, and decided not to fall for its apparent bait.

Ash grew suspicious of the strange changes around him, especially Igula avoiding him and women seemingly showing him affection. Harvey and Liss offered explanations, but Liss implied Ash was imagining his popularity, leaving him ready to punish her for the joke.

• Ash noticed daily cakes appearing in his room, Liss using Advanced Substitutes quickly, Annan touching him, and women treating him warmly.
• Ash realized Igula had been avoiding him and asked Harvey and Liss what might be wrong.
• Liss suggested Ash apologize to Igula by barging in while he bathed, but Ash feared provoking him because he sensed danger.
• Harvey proposed that Ash's apparent popularity was a hallucination caused by several possible factors, and Liss pretended to pity him for imagining a stepmother.
• Ash asked Harvey whether a healing Miracle could repair Liss after he threatened to whip her.

Ash discussed his popularity with women, Annan’s expectations, and Harvey’s past love with Harvey and Liss. After Qinna wiped cream from Ash’s mouth, Lucy saw her lick the cream from her finger and became convinced Ash and Igula had told her the truth.

• Harvey explained that Annan’s recent hitting was likely her way of expressing dissatisfaction that Ash had not pursued a date or advanced on the leaderboard.
• Liss asked whether dating changed people, and Harvey revealed that he had met a woman who resembled Nalbel in the Dream Realm and was trying to quit smoking because of her.
• Harvey described Nalbel’s death and his desire to create a violet-blue Corpse Spot, revealing the destructive feelings he still carried.
• Ash worried that the cakes appearing in his room were a warning and asked Harvey and Liss to help him eat them before heading to the Game Layer.
• Qinna wiped cream from Ash’s mouth in a crowded elevator, while Lucy watched their interaction.
• Lucy followed Qinna and saw her lick the cream from her fingertip, confirming her belief that Ash and Igula had been telling the truth.

Ash hesitated over whether to explore the Senheiser Dreamscape after his raid team lost its Tank Artificer, but ultimately joined a random raid team instead. The Witches secretly prevented him from entering the Dream Realm, then prepared to visit their Sweethearts on its final night, with the Witch choosing to see Red Death before her death.

• Ash canceled his Substitute Expedition, but warnings and an imagined debate convinced him not to enter the Dream Realm himself.
• Ash decided to join a random raid team for fun and to make up for having once lied about his raid progress.
• The Witch and the other Sisters admitted they had used Suggestion to keep Ash from entering the Dream Realm.
• The White Witch announced that it was their last day in the Dream Realm, and the Sisters scattered to visit their Sweethearts.
• The Witch caught the pajama-clad Witch and arranged to switch assignments so she could visit Red Death, who was due to die that night.

In the Dream Realm, the Black Witch urged the White Queen to reject her role and resent Diya, but the White Queen reaffirmed her love and commitment to her Sisters. The Black Witch broke down in tears, and they promised to remain together before the White Queen had to leave the Dream Realm.

• The Black Witch told the White Queen that she had never wanted to leave the High Tower and deserved to live for herself.
• The Black Witch argued that Diya's wish to escape had brought them into danger and that the Sisters should not have to sacrifice themselves for her.
• The White Queen said she would accompany Diya through Hell and told the Black Witch that she needed her and would accept her darkness.
• The Black Witch accused the White Queen of having secretly fought Diya for control and causing their descent into Eternal Tribulation, then broke down sobbing in her embrace.
• As the White Queen began turning transparent, the Black Witch asked her to promise not to abandon her, even if she had to keep pretending to need her.
• The White Queen promised that the Queen would not abandon her butler and said she would always protect her younger sister.