Chapter Summaries

Lynn charged into the underground passage to stop the Fallen Angel from leaving the Underground Grand Hall and provoking a battle with the Titan God. As the Feather Pen altered events to keep him alive, the Fallen Angel realized it had been influencing her thoughts and began questioning why she had left the hall.

• Lynn decided to confront the Fallen Angel himself rather than let the disaster spread into a larger war.
• The Feather Pen rewrote its account of events, describing Lynn's attempt to stop the Fallen Angel and the power he could use to change the war.
• The Fallen Angel recognized Lynn and sent a barrage of black feathers at him as he charged toward her.
• The Feather Pen's writing weakened the feathers and diverted their lethal strikes, leaving Lynn wounded but alive.
• The Fallen Angel realized the Feather Pen had made her overlook its presence and began questioning why she had left the hall despite having the advantage.

Lynn caught up to the Fallen Angel as she struggled against the Feather Pen’s influence and urged her to return. She pierced his chest but spared his heart, and he embraced her, telling her that everyone was waiting for her.

• The Fallen Angel realized the Feather Pen had manipulated her, but she became distracted by the thought of returning to the Great Hall.
• Lynn used silver light created through Mimicry to leap toward the Fallen Angel and call her back.
• The Fallen Angel attacked Lynn, piercing his chest as he closed in on her.
• The Fallen Angel realized that she had deliberately shifted her strike to miss Lynn’s vital organs.
• Lynn embraced her and told her to come back because everyone was waiting for her.

Lynn risked his life to reach the Matriarch inside the Fallen Angel and trusted her to awaken. The Matriarch returned, and chains began binding the struggling dark personality.

• Zuo Zuo realized Lynn could not use Curse Removal and struggled to take him away as he clung to the Fallen Angel.
• The Fallen Angel seized Lynn by the throat and threatened to kill him, but he insisted the Matriarch would not let him die.
• The Fallen Angel lunged at Lynn’s skull, but her claws only cut his cheek as golden light returned to her eyes.
• Lynn welcomed the Matriarch back as golden currents surged through her body and she cried out in pain.
• Chains tightened around the Fallen Angel and emerged from the darkness as she fought the Matriarch’s control.

Lynn and the Self-Binding Angel survived the crisis, but both collapsed after she returned to herself. Lynn woke later to Zuo Zuo scolding him, only to realize Alice, Miao Miao, Miss Doll, and the Silver-Haired Girl had all witnessed their exchange.

• The Self-Binding Angel regained control, broke the black Magic Array, and collapsed while holding Lynn’s wrist.
• White Night and the Night Doctors found Lynn and the unconscious angel, whose golden light continued healing his wounds.
• System notifications rewarded Lynn for earning the angel’s trust and reaching level 56.
• Lynn woke in bed and teased Zuo Zuo after she scolded him for grabbing her in his sleep.
• Lynn noticed Alice, Miao Miao, Miss Doll, and the Silver-Haired Girl watching him from around the room.

Lynn woke after sleeping for a day and learned that the Fallen Angel's crisis had been contained, but Black String Moon warned him that Hell had turned its attention toward him. The chapter left Lynn realizing that his collapse might have been caused by something more than exhaustion.

• Lynn woke to find everyone gathered around him and learned from Alice that he had slept for a whole day.
• Alice told Lynn that the Night Doctors' Angel had returned, the sky's magic array had shattered, and the awakened Titan had beaten Sir Awen and the Colossus lady into settling down.
• The Colossus Brain warned Lynn not to risk his life again because he had promised to take her out of Hell.
• Lynn noticed Alice's worry and asked what was wrong with him.
• Black String Moon told Lynn that his condition was very bad and that Hell had turned its attention toward him.

Lynn discovered that Hell's Gaze had appeared in his status, suggesting the backlash from the Feather Pen's actions had begun, and learned that Origins were protecting Dark Night City. He reassured Alice and Miao Miao before privately admitting nothing to Black String Moon, while a bare-chested boy prepared for the third wave of a test in an underground hall on Blue Star.

• Lynn saw Hell's Gaze at 17% in his status and realized the Feather Pen's backlash might have reached him through his blood.
• Black String Moon told Lynn that Sir Awen and other Origins had warded Dark Night City and advised him to avoid leaving or entering the Vision Realm.
• Lynn cheerfully sent Alice and Miao Miao to rest, assuring Alice that six Origins were protecting him.
• After Alice and Miao Miao left, Lynn gave no answer when Black String Moon asked whether he was worried.
• On Blue Star, a bare-chested boy stood in an inverted pentagram as the third wave of a test was about to begin.

Bai Yi took the Supernatural General Administration’s Witcher test, fighting waves of monsters while the officials watched his altered body. He kept battling to protect the hometown he shared with Lynn, while the observers’ concern gave way to despair over their losing bets on his organs.

• Bai Yi began his Witcher test after more than a month of training, gripping the Silver Bracelet that contained a fragment of Lynn’s severed finger.
• The magic array summoned monsters, and Bai Yi cut them down while recalling how his experiences with Lynn had changed his life and driven him to join the Supernatural General Administration.
• Bai Yi fought on despite his fear, determined to protect his hometown for Lynn if Lynn could no longer remain there.
• The Medium and the Celestial Master watched and discussed the inexplicable changes in Bai Yi’s body, whose organs seemed to be warring among themselves.
• The Medium and the Celestial Master lamented losing their bets on Bai Yi’s heart and kidney as the test continued.

Bai Yi fought through the final round of his Witcher qualification test against a rapidly healing Evil Entity. As he invoked an ancient exorcism incantation, the observers recognized the supernatural technique and discussed the growing involvement of Western exorcists.

• Bai Yi passed the third trial after defeating low-level Evil Entities, but the Medium and Taoist Angel started a final round against a stronger foe.
• The Medium summoned an Aberrant, a former nurse whose soul had been shattered and whose monstrous body attacked Bai Yi at high speed.
• Bai Yi blocked the Aberrant's strike and wounded her, but she quickly healed and slashed his shoulder deeply.
• Bai Yi recited an ancient Latin exorcism incantation and gripped a cross-bearing bracelet against his sword as a golden glow surrounded him.
• The Celestial Master recognized Bai Yi's technique, and the Medium warned that Western Exorcist factions were becoming more involved in their affairs.

Bai Yi used a holy exorcism spell against the distorted nurse, but the flames purified him instead and left him charred. The nurse attacked while he was weakened, and Bai Yi panicked as the Medium and Celestial Master tried to stop the test.

• The Celestial Master and Medium realized Bai Yi might be vulnerable to his own exorcism spell because of the changes made to him in Hell.
• Bai Yi activated the spell, and holy flames engulfed him before he could attack the nurse.
• The Medium and Celestial Master ordered the test stopped as the nurse charged at Bai Yi.
• The nurse pinned Bai Yi to the floor and pressed her mouthparts close to his face.
• Bai Yi lost his nerve and cried out for his Big Brother to save him.

Bai Yi survived the Testing Ground when a hidden failsafe installed by Big Brother killed the Heteromorphic Nurse, leaving him embarrassed by its noisy reminder. In Dark Night City, Lynn sensed a vague feeling of resentment but could not guess its cause.

• As Bai Yi neared collapse, an alarm sounded from his clothes and gunshots struck the Heteromorphic Nurse.
• A silver-white flexible sword pierced the nurse, and a prerecorded voice from Bai Yi’s crotch repeated that the sensor had been triggered.
• In the changing room, the Medium explained that Big Brother had installed a safety trigger and recording, while Bai Yi cried over the reminder.
• In Dark Night City, Lynn sensed what felt like resentment, but told Black String Moon that he had probably imagined it.

Lynn inspected his new God's Equation skill and went to the Abnormal Creature Containment Center to investigate the backlash affecting its occupants and the Feather Pen. He discovered that an affected Night Doctor believed himself to be a guard dog, though Lynn’s strange success in taming him left Black String Moon questioning Lynn’s own normality.

• Lynn examined God's Equation and considered whether it could repair his shattered Curse Eye.
• Black String Moon told Lynn that abnormalities had appeared at the Abnormal Creature Containment Center and that several Night Doctors had been affected.
• Black String Moon pointed out a severely affected Night Doctor, who attacked Lynn after mistaking himself for a dog.
• Lynn returned after ten minutes with the Night Doctor following him on all fours, then fed him a large bone and patted his head.
• Black String Moon explained that the Night Doctor’s self-perception had changed and that he now seemed to think he was a guard dog.

Lynn entered the Abnormal Creature Center despite Black String Moon warning him that the Feather Pen’s influence had caused dangerous distortions and the center was under lockdown. He set out with Black String Moon and the Night Doctor to find the pen and understand the backlash.

• Black String Moon told Lynn that the Feather Pen’s influence had altered the contained individuals’ self-perception, while Sir Awen and the others had not reached the disorder’s source.
• Lynn teased the Night Doctor by making him fetch a Meat Bone, and Black String Moon snapped the bone in two to stop him.
• Black String Moon relayed Sir Awen’s warning that Lynn should stay outside because the abnormalities could distort his self-perception and threaten other contained objects.
• Lynn insisted on entering to find his friend, and he took Black String Moon with him despite her protests.
• Lynn, Black String Moon, and the Night Doctor entered the ruined reception hall, where Lynn proposed finding the Feather Pen and investigating its backlash.

Lynn repeatedly tried to reach Number 002, but the Feather Pen’s influence kept diverting him without his awareness. After realizing her power might be worsening, he planned to enter again by exploiting her fondness for cats.

• Lynn and Black String Moon left the Abnormal Creature Center, but he soon remembered he had meant to ask the Feather Pen about her backlash and rushed back.
• Lynn entered Number 002’s room while Black String Moon waited, but he was diverted and later found himself soaking in a bathhouse pool.
• Black String Moon explained that Lynn had run off before entering the room, and he realized the Feather Pen had interfered with him again.
• Lynn explained the Feather Pen’s fate-altering ability and insisted he needed to reach her before her condition worsened.
• Lynn transformed into a black cat, reasoning that the Feather Pen’s love of cats might let him approach her.

Lynn entered Feather Pen’s room in cat form and found that her backlash had warped it into a vast, grotesque space filled with twisted figures from stories. Her notes revealed that she had provoked Hell by using a boy’s blood to share the burden, leaving Lynn to hurry deeper into the dangerous space.

• Lynn unlocked Number 002’s door as a cat and found that Feather Pen had not expelled him, but the room had become vast and was filled with pulsing flesh and the sound of frantic writing.
• Lynn found Feather Pen’s notes describing severe backlash, her loss of control, and her attempt to contain its effects by expanding the room underground.
• Lynn encountered a giant rag doll eating flesh, then a mutated knight and a two-headed dragon, before passing other grotesque figures drawn from storybooks.
• Lynn discovered a blood-soaked note in which Feather Pen explained that using a boy’s blood to share her backlash had provoked Hell.

After learning that Feather Pen had borne the backlash from using his blood, Lynn rushed to her in the Alternate Dimension but was thrown back into bed before he could reach her. He repeatedly tried to return to Number 002’s room, only to be sent back again with hours erased from his memory, and ended the chapter determined to keep trying.

• Lynn realized that Feather Pen’s backlash had worsened because she used his blood and that he had not borne any of it.
• Lynn rushed through the Alternate Dimension and found Feather Pen surrounded by diseased flesh, but she screamed at him not to look and sent him flying.
• Lynn woke in his bed, realized hours had passed, and concluded that Feather Pen had sent him back to keep him away.
• Lynn hurried to Number 002’s room and demanded to talk, but he woke in bed again with another gap in his memory.
• Lynn leaped from the fifth-floor window and raced back to the Abnormal Creature Center, determined not to give up on reaching Feather Pen.

Lynn repeatedly woke and ran naked between his room and the Abnormal Creature Center while Sir Awen and the Night Doctors tried to understand what was happening. Lynn revealed that Number 002, the Feather Pen, had suffered a severe backlash after confronting an Origin, leaving her unstable.

• A Night Doctor told Sir Awen that Lynn had been waking, running naked toward the Abnormal Creature Center, then returning to sleep.
• Sir Awen watched Lynn rush back into his room and concluded that Number 002 might be interfering with him.
• Sir Awen used psionic power to wake Lynn, who immediately tried to run out again.
• Lynn explained that he was trying to reach the Feather Pen because her abnormality had worsened after she suffered a tremendous backlash while dealing with an Origin.
• Sir Awen sent the other Night Doctors away and asked Lynn what had happened, and Lynn answered, "Backlash."

Lynn learned that Number 002 was the Feather Pen, an Authority of Fate suffering Hell’s backlash, and vowed to help her despite her attempts to keep him away. After she severed the link to the Alternate Dimension, Lynn used the Giant Scythe to warp underground, where he found her resisting the urge to curse Dark Night City.

• Lynn told Sir Awen that Number 002 had confined herself in the Alternate Dimension and that he was determined to help her.
• Sir Awen suspected Number 002’s power was an Authority, and Lynn left to return to her.
• Lynn found Number 002’s room empty and realized the Feather Pen had cut off the connection to the Alternate Dimension.
• Lynn used a positioning device and the Giant Scythe’s Warp ability to travel underground.
• The Feather Pen wrote a curse against the city, then crossed it out while enduring the pain of Hell’s backlash.

Lynn reached Feather Pen amid her catastrophic transformation and realized the pen was only her outward form, while she was the enormous, suffering mass of flesh in the Alternate Dimension. Though she pleaded with him to leave, Lynn understood she had hidden from him out of shame and walked toward her.

• Lynn fought through the storm and seized the blood-covered Feather Pen before the force of the flesh hurled him away.
• Lynn sensed no consciousness in the pen and heard sobbing from the vast Flesh Cataclysm.
• Lynn realized Feather Pen was the writer and that the pen was only her outward manifestation.
• Feather Pen begged Lynn to leave until her backlash ended, hiding her grotesque body from him.
• Lynn asked if she had avoided him because she feared he would see her true appearance, then approached her despite her pleas.

Lynn endured the creature’s violent attacks until he reached her and tried to comfort her by comparing his ruined body to her own. His words drew her out of her grief, and she began to tell him that she still knew who he was, but she trembled before finishing.

• The enormous mass of flesh repeatedly lashed Lynn away as he kept getting back up and walking toward her.
• Lynn finally reached her and knelt beside her, joking that her cat now looked like her and asking her not to laugh at him.
• When she stopped sobbing, Lynn sat beside her and pretended to be hurt that his appearance had made her stop speaking to him.
• She told Lynn that she knew what kind of person he was and that he was still the one she had always known, then began trembling before she could finish.

Lynn reassured the Writer Big Sister that he still accepted her despite her monstrous form, and she finally embraced him and sobbed. After comforting her, he asked about the backlash and reaffirmed that she was his girlfriend.

• The Writer Big Sister asked whether Lynn truly saw her as a monster or feared her, and Lynn asked her why he should be afraid when he knew her.
• The Writer Big Sister told Lynn she was not afraid of him, then broke down crying as he embraced her and promised their friendship would not change.
• The Writer Big Sister clung to Lynn and sobbed until she calmed down, then teased him for repeatedly barging into her space.
• Lynn asked the Writer Big Sister about the backlash and why she had become a misshapen mass of flesh, but she asked whether he was not curious or frightened instead.
• Lynn reassured the Writer Big Sister that she was still his good friend, then corrected himself and called her his girlfriend, showing her their written promise.