Chapter Summaries

Lynn was trapped in his hotel room by a Plague Doctor who unleashed a curse that transformed the building into an insect hatchery. After removing the curse and copying it with his Curse Eye, Lynn turned the attack against its caster and prepared to confront him with Miss Doll.

• Lynn learned from Miss Doll that a Plague Doctor wearing a white crow mask was in the corridor, while a barrier blocked his escape and access to the Vision Realm.
• The Plague Doctor spread the Aberrant Insect Hatchery curse through the hotel, transforming its walls into flesh and filling them with insects.
• Lynn used his Curse Removal ability to erase the curse and collect it, frustrating the Plague Doctor.
• Lynn replaced his right eye with the Curse Eye and cast the copied hatchery curse, unleashing aberrant insects on the Plague Doctor and his creatures.
• Lynn endured the Curse Eye's backlash and told Miss Doll he was ready to attack the Plague Doctor.

Lynn confronted Doctor Senyi in the blood-transformed hotel and bluffed that he had long known about the Plague Doctors. Senyi attacked, but the Matriarch’s trap snapped shut and a girl’s threads bound him.

• Lynn used the insects’ mental link to spot Doctor Senyi in the corridor and aimed his Revolver at him.
• Senyi revealed that he belonged to the Plague Doctor Collective and tried to recruit Lynn, while Lynn recognized him by name.
• Lynn told Senyi and Zuo Zuo that he had secretly investigated the Plague Doctors, then admitted privately to Zuo Zuo that he was bluffing.
• Lynn claimed the Matriarch was ready to close the net as soon as Senyi attacked.
• A silent girl appeared behind Senyi and pierced and bound him with her threads.

Lynn and Black String Moon attacked Moriichi, but he survived by transferring his consciousness into another body and fled to the hotel lobby. As Moriichi tried to undo the Blood Array and warn his allies, Black String Moon immobilized him with her threads.

• Black String Moon sliced Moriichi apart, and Lynn used the Dragon Breath Arm to engulf his flesh in flames.
• Moriichi's burning remains unleashed Raving Clamor, but Black String Moon's Soulstring Melody restored Lynn's sanity and contained the sound.
• Moriichi's flesh exploded into corrosive blood, and Black String Moon shielded Lynn while confirming she could track him through a thread.
• Moriichi emerged from a corpse in a first-floor room and realized Lynn's group might have laid a trap with the Upside-Down Angel.
• Moriichi rushed to the lobby and began undoing the Blood Array, but crystalline threads suddenly froze his body in place.

Lynn and Black String Moon hunted Moriichi through the hotel as he repeatedly transferred his consciousness into prepared corpses. After being killed four times, Moriichi used a curse to transform into a huge flesh monster and confronted them on the first floor.

• Black String Moon immobilized Moriichi while Lynn identified his Will Transfer ability and pursued him through the hotel.
• Moriichi escaped into prepared corpses twice, but Black String Moon's threads caught him and Lynn ambushed and shot him during his third rebirth.
• After escaping into a rat's corpse in the basement, Moriichi cast a blood-and-flesh curse as his final chance to turn the fight around.
• The curse transformed Moriichi into an enormous tentacled flesh monster that burst through the first-floor lobby and threatened Lynn and Black String Moon.

Lynn used his enhanced curse-removal ability to strip Moriichi of the flesh rampage curse, then struck him with a fully charged punch. Moriichi was left screaming as the force traveled along Black String Moon’s threads and left her eyes blank.

• Black String Moon fought Moriichi’s aberration with her threads while Lynn identified the curse sustaining it.
• Lynn used a Skill Enhancement Scroll to increase Limited-Time Curse Removal to three uses and a 25-hour duration.
• Lynn used a tentacle controlled by Black String Moon to remove Moriichi’s curse, restoring him to normal and cataloging the flesh rampage curse.
• Moriichi charged at Lynn in grief and rage, but Black String Moon’s threads restrained him.
• Lynn struck Moriichi with his stored power, and the force traveled along the threads to Black String Moon, whose eyes went blank.

Lynn killed Plague Doctor Moriichi with the Fist of M, which made Moriichi fire nearly ten thousand shots and die from overwhelming pleasure. Lynn gained experience, five Doll Substitutes, and a damaged Dragon Breath Arm, then looked for Miss Doll.

• Lynn's punch sent Moriichi flying and triggered an uncontrollable surge of sensation through his body.
• Moriichi used his remaining life force as ammunition, firing for almost ten minutes before dying in a crater.
• The system confirmed Moriichi's death, rewarded Lynn with experience and five Doll Substitutes, and recorded the achievement Death by Orgasm.
• Lynn inspected the blood-covered hall, realized Moriichi had fired 9,965 shots, and asked where Miss Doll was.

After Moriichi’s defeat, Lynn found Black String Moon trembling and discovered that the Fist of M had caused her intense mental stimulation and depleted her energy. The diagnosis left him realizing that his punch had indirectly inflicted the shock on her.

• Lynn found Black String Moon crouched beneath her umbrella, trembling and unresponsive.
• Black String Moon tried to walk away, but each step made her shudder and lowered her favorability toward Lynn.
• Lynn used the remote’s stop command and activated his random diagnosis ability on her.
• The diagnosis revealed that the Fist of M had caused Black String Moon intense mental stimulation and reduced her energy to nine percent.
• Lynn recalled the threads binding Moriichi when he punched him and began to understand what had happened.

Lynn realized his M Fist had affected Black String Moon and brought her to his room to find a way to help. After she restrained him, Black String Moon tried to recharge herself, only to discover her mother had replaced her energy cubes with glass and left a message telling her to let Lynn wind her up.

• Lynn carried Black String Moon to his room and considered how to relieve the effects of the M Fist, while the system offered him three doll-related quests.
• Lynn ignored the quests and reactivated Black String Moon, who trapped him with threads and insisted she needed no treatment.
• Black String Moon tried to stand but faltered, then took out an energy cube to recharge herself.
• The energy cube shattered, and Black String Moon discovered the other cubes were glass as well.
• A message from Black String Moon's mother revealed she had replaced all the energy cubes and suggested Lynn wind Black String Moon up instead.

After Madam Doll’s tampering destroyed the energy-replenishing cube, Black String Moon told Lynn he had to recharge her to suppress the mental shock and continue protecting him. Lynn began winding her with a mechanical key, which locked into the socket on her back and made her body react violently.

• Lynn asked whether Madam Doll had switched the cube, and Black String Moon confirmed that she had.
• Black String Moon explained that she needed a large amount of energy and that Lynn was responsible for replenishing her mana under their contract.
• Lynn took out five winding keys and chose the largest one to recharge Black String Moon.
• Lynn unzipped Black String Moon’s dress to reveal the curse markings and winding-key socket along her spine.
• Lynn inserted the key into the socket, and it locked into place as purple light spread across Black String Moon’s back and her body shuddered.

Lynn wound Black String Moon, but stopped when he learned that an employment directive prevented her from refusing intimate contact. The chapter left him realizing she had fought the restriction with great effort.

• Lynn turned the winding key clockwise, causing gears to click and purple patterns on Black String Moon's skin to glow.
• Lynn felt his desire intensify as he wound the doll.
• Lynn asked whether Madam Doll had tampered with Black String Moon.
• Black String Moon explained that employment agreement special directive No. 3 barred her from resisting or refusing intimate contact with her master.
• Lynn understood that Black String Moon had exerted great willpower to barely defy the directive.

Lynn discovered that a curse on Black String Moon had been secretly influencing his desires, while a hidden command restrained her from resisting him. He realized Madam Doll had arranged the encounter as a trap, and the chapter ended with him understanding the scheme.

• Black String Moon confirmed that a command had restrained her when Lynn touched her, though she had known nothing about it beforehand.
• Lynn suspected that something beyond the command had affected his behavior and used his diagnostic ability to examine himself.
• Lynn's diagnosis revealed a Left Hand Mutant and the Heart-Mind Allure curse, which could make its target develop urges to possess and violate.
• Lynn realized Madam Doll had switched Black String Moon's Energy Cube and used the curse and restrictive command to make him mistake her inability to resist for consent.

Lynn realized Miss Doll’s mother had used a charm to push him toward her daughter, and he offered to dissolve his employment contract rather than take advantage of her. Black String Moon asked whether he was abandoning her, leaving their relationship unresolved.

• Lynn apologized to Black String Moon and explained that her mother had inscribed a charm on her back to influence him.
• Lynn offered to end their employment agreement so Black String Moon could leave and be free of the contract.
• Black String Moon asked Lynn, “Are you going to abandon me, Mater?”
• Lynn explained that her mother had hoped he and Black String Moon would form a bond like the one that had transformed her into a living person.
• Lynn asked Black String Moon to dissolve the contract and treat her as a person with free will, and she watched him in silence as faint ripples stirred in her eyes.

Lynn tore up his compulsory contract with Black String Moon and invited her to work for him as an equal, causing her emotional development to rise sharply. The chapter ended with him waiting for her answer in a hotel room in Dark Night City.

• Black String Moon told Lynn she would submit to his commands because her contract gave him complete authority over her.
• Lynn tore up their contract and told Black String Moon he wanted her to have a will and heart of her own.
• Lynn offered Black String Moon a month of employment under more equal terms and invited her to accept.
• Madam Doll noticed Black String Moon's emotional development rise after the contract ended and wondered what Lynn had done.
• Black String Moon's emotional development climbed to 18% as Lynn repeated his invitation and waited for her answer.

After surviving Moriichi’s attack with Black String Moon’s help, Lynn learned from Sir Awen that Moriichi had been a Plague Doctor infiltrator. Sir Awen promised an investigation and protection, but Lynn remained uneasy about why the Plague Doctors had targeted him.

• Lynn told Sir Awen that Moriichi had attacked him after the hotel was sealed off, and Black String Moon briefly appeared as his bodyguard.
• Sir Awen identified Moriichi as a rank-four Meritorious Figure who had likely been corrupted and undergone repeated Flesh Modification.
• Sir Awen explained that the Plague Doctors had split from the Night Doctors and had infiltrated Dark Night City for centuries.
• Sir Awen said the Plague Doctors might have targeted Lynn because he could suppress the curse within the Matriarch.
• Sir Awen took Moriichi’s corpse away, restored the hotel, and promised to investigate and protect Lynn, who remained uneasy.

Lynn thanked Miss Doll for accepting his employment offer and went to sleep, while Sir Awen reported the Plague Doctors’ infiltration to the Upside-Down Angel. That night, a stealthy catlike figure snuck into Lynn’s room and crawled under his covers, as Miss Doll watched without intervening.

• Lynn reflected that the Plague Doctors could become a major obstacle, then thanked Miss Doll for accepting his offer and returned to his room.
• Sir Awen told the Upside-Down Angel that a Plague Doctor within the Pharmaceutical Research Group had attacked Lynn and urged her to close the net.
• The Upside-Down Angel said they needed to find the Plague Doctors’ Main Brain before conducting more purges.
• Sir Awen suggested that the Plague Doctors’ Main Brain might come from within their own ranks, declaring that the Plague Doctors were their dark side.
• That night, a small catlike figure slipped into Lynn’s room and crawled beneath his covers while Miss Doll watched silently.

Miao Miao transformed into a catgirl after taking the Catgirl Potion and surprised Lynn by appearing in his bed. Lynn accepted that she was Miao Miao, then discovered Miss Doll had been invisibly listening to their conversation.

• Black String Moon and Miao Miao listened to Lynn mutter in his sleep, and Miao Miao waited to surprise him after taking human form.
• Lynn woke to find a blue-haired catgirl lying naked on his chest and mistook her for a Succubus.
• Miao Miao told Lynn who she was, and her familiar voice and meow convinced him that she was truly Miao Miao.
• Lynn wrapped Miao Miao in a blanket and learned she had transformed only a little while earlier before coming straight to his room.
• Lynn used the Plague Doctor Mask's detection lenses and discovered Miss Doll had been invisibly listening nearby.

Lynn brought Miao Miao, newly transformed into a cat-eared girl, to the Hospital for a checkup. He confirmed she was healthy, though her ability to distort speech patterns remained, and reassured her that he liked her new appearance.

• Lynn picked up Miao Miao, comforted her, and promised to check for adverse effects from her transformation.
• Lynn left the Hotel with Miao Miao wrapped in his robe and Miss Doll following beside him.
• Lynn examined Miao Miao at the Hospital and found no signs of illness or side effects.
• Lynn confirmed Miao Miao's speech-distorting ability remained and reassured her about her appearance.

Lynn accepted Miao Miao’s request to become his pet after she tearfully threatened to leave, though he set rules about clothing, licking people, and climbing into beds. The system rewarded him and unlocked a quest to find Miao Miao’s family and take revenge on the Flesh Modification organizers, while the author’s note said the story was preparing to begin its Main Storyline.

• The system offered Lynn three quests after Miao Miao asked to be his pet, and she insisted she did not want to be treated as family or an equal.
• Miao Miao cried and started toward the door when Lynn hesitated, then hurried back when he called her.
• Lynn agreed to adopt Miao Miao as his pet if she followed his three rules, and she happily called him Master.
• The system awarded Lynn experience, a Black Skull Coin, a Cat-Eared Girl, and a Soul-Suppressing Bell, then unlocked the quest to find Miao Miao’s family and kill Plague Doctor Number 315 and the Flesh Modification organizers.
• Lynn used a Cat Teaser to play with Miao Miao as he wondered whether having a cat-eared girl as a pet was a good idea.

Lynn began his night shift at the Abnormal Creature Center after Miao Miao went to rest, then met a Filth Slime who sought help with his first love. The Filth Slime began recounting how he met her, leaving Lynn listening to his story.

• Miao Miao obediently went to the lounge, and Lynn read Dr. Aier's note asking him to see two patients who might arrive that night.
• After waiting at the counter, Lynn welcomed a Filth Slime who squeezed under the door and introduced himself as the new Night Doctor.
• Lynn calmly reassured the Filth Slime about his smell, and the creature gained favorability toward him.
• The Filth Slime said he had fallen in love and began describing the night he first saw her while foraging in a toilet.

Lynn listened to the Filth Slime explain how his efforts to court a water-type Slime repeatedly ended in rejection. The Filth Slime asked Lynn for a makeover, and Lynn offered to use Mimicry to try out a few appearances before operating.

• The Filth Slime told Lynn that he first met the girl by crawling up from below in a toilet and was beaten for it.
• The Filth Slime said he brought her pastries fermented for thirty years and was beaten again, then learned she preferred roses and fragrant essences.
• The Filth Slime decided to stop eating shit for the girl and revealed that his cream cakes were still made from it.
• The Filth Slime asked Lynn to give him a more masculine and handsome appearance, triggering the special quest A Slime's Makeover.
• Lynn offered to test different looks with his Mimicry ability before performing surgery.