Chapter Summaries

Raven identified Lynn’s affliction as the weeping clown curse and sought help from the church, which held a relic capable of countering curses. Meanwhile, the curse drove Lynn to escape and head toward the church, determined to diagnose and cure the gathered townspeople.

• Raven explained that the weeping clown curse distorted its victims’ perceptions and could eventually create a new consciousness that replaced them.
• After suppressing their own curses, Raven and Black Skull hurried through town, and Raven pointed to the church’s Holy World relic as a possible means of curing Lynn.
• Raven and Black Skull entered the church and warned the Town Mayor and townspeople that Lynn’s curse would make him seek more patients and spread disease.
• Lynn grew frustrated that treating a bound werewolf seemed to reveal ever more illnesses, while his Left Hand told him that the curse made him cause new diseases whenever he diagnosed someone.
• Lynn freed the werewolf, climbed onto the roof, spotted the crowded church, and set out to cure everyone there.

Raven persuaded the mayor to prepare the Sacred Relic, then confronted Lynn as the curse drove him to attack the church. Lynn grafted on the Dragon Breath Arm but hesitated to use it, revealing his familiar penny-pinching streak.

• Raven told the mayor that cursed Lynn was coming and asked to borrow the Sacred Relic to treat him.
• Raven showed the mayor a pendant depicting a bound twelve-winged angel, and the mayor ordered the guards to prepare the Sacred Relic ritual.
• Lynn arrived at the church, and Raven transformed into ravens to attack him while Black Skull stayed behind to protect the residents.
• Lynn threw an explosive potion at Raven's flock, then grafted the Dragon Breath Arm onto his shoulder.
• Lynn hesitated to unleash the dragon's fire because using the arm would wear down its durability, and Left Hand recognized his penny-pinching streak.

Lynn briefly regained his senses, but Raven tried to restrain him as his violent mutations worsened. After Lynn used Flesh Regeneration Potion and began transforming uncontrollably, Raven called for the church’s Sacred Relic, while a Pighead Butcher watched the light rise above Silent Town.

• Lynn briefly came to his senses, then tore off the Dragon Breath Arm and tried to flee Raven.
• Raven bound Lynn with Cursecraft chains, but Lynn’s Focusing Eye destroyed the ravens and began dissolving the array.
• Zuo Zuo bit Lynn’s tentacle to turn the Focusing Eye away, and Raven severed it before pinning Lynn down with a Cursecraft Spear.
• Raven invoked the Twelve-Winged Upside-Down Angel, but Lynn’s tentacles hurled him away as the sacred pendant’s chains restrained Lynn.
• Lynn crushed bottles of Flesh Regeneration Potion, triggering uncontrolled growth and mutation, and Raven called for the Sacred Relic.
• The mayor and priests opened the Holy Chest beneath the church, and a Pighead Butcher watched the resulting beam of light from a distant peak.

The Pighead Butcher explained that he had deliberately amplified the Black-and-White Clown’s curse to provoke Lynn’s awakening, while trusting that Lynn would resist losing his sense of self. In Silent Town, Raven used the awakened Holy Grail to purify Lynn’s monstrous transformation, but the curse grew more violent, and Lynn fired at Raven.

• The Pighead Butcher told the Black-and-White Clown that he had released him to strengthen his curse on Lynn, and said Lynn’s bottom lines were stinginess and human lives.
• Lynn’s Flesh Regeneration Potion transformed him into a huge mass of flesh, breaking the holy chains and straining the magic circle.
• Raven took the awakened Holy Grail and led the Town Mayor and priests in prayers to purify Lynn.
• The holy light shrank Lynn’s flesh, but the curse inside him raged more fiercely as it was suppressed.
• The Black-and-White Clown’s face appeared on Lynn’s cheek, and Lynn raised a silver Revolver and fired a demon-hunting bullet at Raven.

Lynn resisted the Weeping Clown’s curse, spared Raven, and used his own principles to expose and destroy the clown’s shadow. After defeating it and gaining a new reward, Lynn thanked Raven while the Holy Grail lay shattered and his revival progress reached 3%.

• Lynn shot Raven several times, but his final bullet struck beside Raven’s head instead of killing him.
• The Weeping Clown tried to force Lynn to shoot Raven again, but Lynn turned the gun on himself and used the shots to tear the clown’s shadow from his body.
• Lynn pinned the shadow with a broken spear, explained that it could not replace him because he would not kill the innocent, and destroyed it with a bullet.
• Lynn recorded the Weeping Clown curse and completed the hidden quest Self, gaining permanent increases to his mental power and soul strength and the Clown’s Mask.
• Lynn thanked Raven, who asked how he had escaped the curse, and Lynn said he had recognized something was wrong because he could not kill anyone.
• Lynn’s revival progress increased to 3% as everyone looked over the ruined square and the fallen Holy Grail.

After Lynn recovered from his madness, he apologized to Raven, who was horrified by Lynn’s naked display and then had to stop him from shooting Raven’s hand into firing at him. Lynn collapsed from his injuries, but Raven operated on him, and Lynn woke up with stitches in his chest.

• Lynn apologized to Raven while standing naked in the square, then borrowed shorts from the townspeople.
• Lynn pressed Raven’s hand to the revolver and made him shoot Lynn several times, splattering Black Skull with blood.
• Lynn collapsed beside Raven, and Raven realized Lynn had been near death from his wounds.
• Lynn underwent surgery by the Night Doctors and later woke beside Raven.
• Lynn tugged at the stitches in his chest, and Raven struck his forehead and told him to sit still.

After reviving from a staged blackout, Lynn answered Raven’s questions and claimed his teacher, Blood Saw, had taught him his abilities and supplied a legendary potion. Lynn said he had come to Silent Town to become a Night Doctor, then swore he was telling the truth as lightning flashed outside.

• Raven interrogated Lynn about his diagnostic ability and curse, but Lynn chose to sneer at him and then used Flesh Cataclysm to make himself pass out.
• After Raven revived him, Lynn explained that he had acquired the Weeping Clown curse by drinking a Pighead Butcher’s soup while saving a little girl.
• Lynn claimed his teacher had taught him his abilities and identified the teacher as Blood Saw, a powerful master of Flesh Modification and other disciplines.
• Lynn told Raven that he had come to Silent Town to further his medical education by becoming a Night Doctor.
• Lynn swore that everything he had said was true, and lightning flashed outside the window.

Raven concluded that Lynn's curse seemed to have been removed but ordered the Night Doctors to keep him under strict surveillance until Raven could report to the Matriarch. The observation logs recorded Lynn escaping containment, treating patients, charming townspeople and Night Doctors, and restoring Commander Black Skull's body.

• Raven told the Night Doctors that Lynn's curse seemed removed and ordered them to monitor him until Raven returned from reporting to the Matriarch.
• The Night Doctors documented Lynn's odd behavior, denied his request to treat patients, and later caught him performing surgery on a Werewolf after he escaped through a chimney.
• The organization allowed Lynn to treat the townspeople under supervision, and the logs recorded his medical success and the relatives he acquired among his patients.
• Lynn apologized to Commander Black Skull, and a flash of light preceded Black Skull regaining his flesh-and-blood body and calling Lynn his brother.
• Lynn charmed the observer during a late-night conversation, prompting the observer to describe him as an eloquent and charming gentleman.

The Night Doctors’ observation logs chronicled how the subject won over the team by restoring their former appearances and treating townspeople, while Commander Raven remained absent. By the end, the subject had gained enough influence to divide the team, and the adjutant desperately hoped Mr. Raven would return.

• The observers restricted contact with the subject after Observer No. 1 spent the night in his cabin and showed signs of growing close to him.
• Commander Black Skull secured greater freedom and better meals for the subject, whose ability restored the undead Night Doctors to physical bodies for an hour.
• The subject restored the three senior Night Doctors to younger forms, and they emerged praising and admiring him.
• The subject treated townspeople and held an approved bonfire party, winning over more Night Doctors.
• The deputy team leader entered the subject’s cabin to rebuke and question him, then emerged as a little girl in a pink dress.
• Mr. Lynn cast a deciding vote to approve phased treatment for werewolves and later helped defeat a proposal to end observation, prompting the adjutant to beg for Mr. Raven’s return.

Raven returned to Silent Town expecting to find the aftermath of another curse outbreak, but discovered Lynn entertaining the Night Doctors and townspeople with guitar music. As Raven tried to restore order, he realized his subordinates had been hiding their appearances and identities behind their masks.

• Raven returned to Silent Town and found the square and Lynn’s confinement house empty, with his subordinates’ bloodstained coats hanging nearby.
• Raven heard voices in the church and burst in, finding Lynn playing guitar for a cheerful crowd of Night Doctors and townspeople.
• Raven struck a subordinate and scolded the Night Doctors for turning their surveillance of Lynn into a concert.
• Raven’s adjutant explained that Lynn had cooperated with monitoring, but Raven removed her mask and found a little girl underneath.
• Raven called for Black Skull, then removed his mask and watched long black hair spill down.

Raven returned to find that Lynn had won over his squad, and the Night Doctors accepted Lynn as a provisional recruit. Raven took him to the City of Night to register and begin his assessment.

• Raven read the reports of Lynn's antics and held a vote on whether to recruit him; only Raven and Black Skull raised their hands in opposition.
• Lynn qualified to join the Night Doctors and traveled with Raven's squad from Silent Town to their outpost.
• Raven warned Lynn to choose a code name before they used a Portal to reach the City of Night headquarters, Beneath the Stars.
• At the trial hall, Raven introduced Lynn to Nightmare and obtained a professional registration form.
• Lynn registered as Good Doctor · Peacemaker, an apprentice Night Doctor, and Raven took him to his assessment.

Lynn entered the Night Doctor assessment and began its tool-use test, where candidates had to treat patients with improvised instruments. The chapter ended with Lynn revealing a rusty chainsaw as his surgical tool, shocking the examiner and his patient.

• Raven explained that the Night Doctor assessment covered adaptability, mental fortitude, technical skill, combat ability, and principles.
• Lynn entered the trial hall as Good Doctor Peacemaker and joined nine other candidates for the assessment.
• The examiner announced that candidates would perform surgery on experienced Night Doctors posing as patients and grade one another’s surgical ability.
• The candidates chose unusual tools, including a fruit knife, a bone shard, and a razor blade.
• Lynn revealed and revved up a rusty chainsaw, startling the examiner and Patient Number Four.

Lynn convinced the Night Doctor chief examiner that using improvised tools was a mark of professionalism, so all ten trainees began their timed operations with dangerous machinery. As Lynn reassured Patient Four about his Chainsaw expertise, a trainee at the next bed sawed into a patient's artery.

• Lynn brought a rusty Chainsaw to the exam and argued that Night Doctors should use whatever tools were available to save lives.
• The chief examiner praised Lynn's speech, ordered the other trainees to choose unconventional tools, and started a thirty-minute surgery trial.
• The trainees charged at their terrified patients with machines including cutting tools, drills, grinders, and a hand-cranked fan.
• Lynn assured Patient Four that he was a professional Chainsaw surgeon, and Patient Four began to consider trusting him.
• A patient at the next bed screamed for help after a trainee sawed into his artery, splashing blood across Patient Four.

Lynn operated on Patient Four’s spore-covered prostate with a Chainsaw, using anesthetic mainly to keep him still. After achieving Human-Saw Unity, Lynn precisely removed the spores and applied healing medicine, impressing the other trainees.

• Patient Four tried to escape Lynn’s Chainsaw operation, but Lynn anesthetized him and tied him to the bed.
• Lynn began operating and Patient Four realized the anesthetic did not stop the pain, though it left him unable to move or scream.
• Lynn examined Patient Four’s prostate and found it covered in spores.
• Remembering his teacher’s advice, Lynn entered the realm of Human-Saw Unity and excised the spores with precise Chainsaw work.
• Lynn applied Potent Healing Medicine to Patient Four’s prostate as the other trainees watched in astonishment.

Lynn impressed the Night Doctor examiners with a fast chainsaw operation and passed the first assessment with a perfect score. The second assessment began with a test of pain tolerance, and Vampire No. 3 protested that undead and mechanical trainees had an unfair advantage.

• Lynn completed a precise chainsaw surgery on patient No. 4, earning the chief examiner’s praise and passing with a score of ten.
• The chief examiner inspected the other trainees’ operations, and patient No. 7 revealed that his abdomen was full of metal after being stitched up.
• The first assessment ended with Lynn and mechanical puppet No. 1 taking the top scores, while a Dark Elf and a Stitching Monster were eliminated.
• The chief examiner announced that the second assessment would test pain tolerance, which the mechanical puppet and undead trainees could not experience.
• Vampire No. 3 objected that the pain assessment was unfair to the flesh-and-blood trainees.

Lynn took the pain-tolerance examination while the candidates raised their simulated pain levels, but he secretly modified his brain so the pain felt pleasurable. The test continued with ten minutes remaining as the other candidates struggled to endure it.

• The chief examiner introduced machines that simulated pain in the candidates’ consciousnesses and set a passing threshold of level 50.
• The undead, Mechanical Puppet, and Stitching Monsters quickly raised their pain levels, while Lynn sat back without touching his button.
• The two Dark Elves passed out at pain tolerances of 37 and 40, and the vampire continued trying to overtake the Stitching Monsters.
• The chief examiner assumed Lynn was giving up, but Lynn told Zuo Zuo that he enjoyed the pain after using Flesh Cataclysm to make it pleasurable.

Lynn waited until the final five minutes of the pain-tolerance assessment, then used his surgical expertise to endure rapidly increasing pain as Zuo Zuo handled the button. He surged past the other candidates and provoked them to resume competing, leaving the chief examiner scrambling to slow the machines.

• Lynn told Zuo Zuo to press the button while he focused on enduring the pain in his consciousness.
• With less than five minutes left, Lynn began raising his pain level, surprising the chief examiner and the other candidates.
• Lynn rapidly tapped the button until his score passed the threshold and climbed beyond the leading candidates.
• The mechanical puppet and the two undead started hammering their buttons to catch up.
• The chief examiner ordered the machines' response rate lowered and warned Lynn not to break the expensive equipment.

Lynn endured the pain machine’s maximum setting while the chief examiner and nearby Night Doctors checked whether he had passed out. Still conscious, he provoked the Mechanical Puppet and two undead into raising their pain levels to compete with him.

• Lynn’s pain level reached 100 as the Mechanical Puppet and two undead pushed theirs to 91, 87, and 86.
• The chief examiner sent two Night Doctors to check Lynn, who remained conscious despite radiating heat and vapor.
• The Night Doctors were shocked by Lynn’s appearance and reaction, while Lynn claimed the pain was a piece of cake.
• Lynn raised his pain level to 101 and challenged the others to continue.
• The Mechanical Puppet and two undead pressed their buttons again, refusing to concede.

Lynn competed against the other recruits in a pain-tolerance test, pushing his score to 200 and breaking the Night Doctors' all-time record. After earning a hidden achievement and new abilities, he left the test machine's wreckage only to collapse and dry-heave from getting too high.

• Lynn and the other recruits began furiously pressing the pain-test buttons, turning the test into a contest.
• Undead Recruit Two and the other undead passed out at 110, while Mechanical Puppet One endured until 147 before exploding.
• Lynn kept pressing with Zuo Zuo and drove his pain tolerance to 200, causing Machine Four to explode.
• Lynn earned the Ultimate Experience achievement, permanent bonuses, and the passive skill In the Name of M.
• Lynn walked out of the wreckage as the record-holder, then doubled over and dry-heaved.

After passing the pain-tolerance assessment with a record-breaking score, Lynn entered the third trial, which tested the trainees’ mental fortitude through fears and temptations. The trial’s first scene shocked the observers, who protested that it could not possibly count as a test.

• Lynn recovered at the hospital, thanked Zuo Zuo for helping him break the 200-point barrier, and returned to the Trial Hall.
• The chief examiner announced the scores, placing Lynn first with two perfect scores, and explained that the next assessment would test mental fortitude.
• The examiner transported the six remaining trainees to a castle hall, gave each a lifesaving key, and described a five-stage trial behind six doors.
• At the trainees’ urging, Lynn went first, unlocked a door, and entered the darkness while the others watched through a projected image.
• The image revealed Lynn’s trial, prompting the observers to gape in shock and shout that they protested.