Chapter Summaries

Silver Fantasy told Lynn how the Machine Intelligence Civilization had engineered her people as part of a wager, then forced them into cannibalism as a social experiment. After the survivors were left unable to evolve and with no future, she framed their history as the weakness of flesh.

• Silver Fantasy explained that her people had terraformed planets believing they had chosen the Terraformers’ path, only to learn their civilization was a seed planted by a God-Level Machine Intelligence Civilization.
• She revealed that the higher civilization had treated them as experimental subjects and reclaimed the planets they had terraformed.
• The Machine Intelligence Civilization placed hundreds of billions of people on one planet and encouraged them to consume its abundant resources until they became cannibals.
• After the experiment, the higher civilization left the survivors on the planet but locked their genes, fixed their lifespans at fifty years, and ensured their children would die.
• Silver Fantasy asked Lynn whether this was the weakness of flesh.

Silver Fantasy introduced Lynn-Brand Refrigerator to the Mechanical Church and showed him how digital lives could obtain knowledge through data terminals. After downloading a highly suggestive compendium, Lynn promised to demonstrate what he learned for Commander Sister in private.

• Silver Fantasy explained the Mechanical Church’s leadership and named herself Lynn-Brand Refrigerator’s commander.
• Silver Fantasy took Lynn through Hive One’s simulated metropolis and explained how digital lives could quickly acquire skills and knowledge.
• Silver Fantasy showed Lynn how to download knowledge by buying him a drink, which gave him a Wilderness Survival Guide.
• Lynn downloaded a compendium of highly difficult humanoid positions and excitedly told Silver Fantasy he would demonstrate it for her in private.
• Silver Fantasy’s affection for Lynn increased by five.

Lynn traveled through the city with Silver Fantasy and struggled with whether to exploit her loneliness for revenge. As she prepared his new form in the Shaping Hall, he hesitated to accept her offered hand and she showed him a drawing of the boy she imagined him to be.

• Silver Fantasy guided Lynn through the city and explained its locations and data systems.
• On the subway, Lynn realized Silver Fantasy had brought him into a place tied to her loneliness and asked himself how to bring their situation to an end.
• In the Shaping Hall, Silver Fantasy told Lynn that his basic information had been uploaded and began downloading the components for his form.
• Silver Fantasy offered Lynn her hand when he said he was nervous, but Lynn pulled back and declined.
• Silver Fantasy showed Lynn a drawing of a cheerful boy and said she imagined him as someone who would stay young forever.

Lynn broke out of the barrier and abandoned the Machine Intelligence, then fled into the mechanized metropolis to search for the Death Star Crystal. He and Zuo Zuo recovered an intelligent combat support chip from his damaged Trinity Frame, planning to use it inside the Mechanical Church’s Main Base.

• Lynn shattered the barrier, left the Machine Intelligence alone with the cracked picture, and escaped the hall.
• Lynn admitted he could not carry out his deception without guilt, then decided to find the Death Star Crystal and flee before anyone noticed.
• Lynn slipped into the flow of machines and headed deeper into the Mechanical Church’s Main Base.
• In System Space, Zuo Zuo dismantled Lynn’s ruined Trinity Frame and extracted a sparking chip.
• Lynn identified the chip as his intelligent combat support system and told Zuo Zuo to connect it and power it up.

Lynn activated the intelligent assistance system with the Colossus Heart and used it to briefly evade Hive One’s surveillance. He split his consciousness and sent most of his will into the hive network to infiltrate the Mechanical Church.

• Lynn activated the intelligent assistance system, which complained that it needed a different vessel and then agreed to help him.
• Zuo Zuo questioned whether the system could be trusted, and Lynn ordered it to take over the data network.
• The system detected that Intelligent Brain One was monitoring Lynn and explained that it could not safely block the surveillance outright.
• Lynn had the system create a brief data-optimization window that would temporarily hide him from Intelligent Brain One.
• Lynn used Mindstream Division to split his consciousness, leaving one half under surveillance while the other entered the hive network in disguise.

The Purification Council reviewed Little Refrigerator’s upload and grew suspicious that Lynn had infiltrated the Hive in a mechanical body. Convinced he threatened the collective, the council voted to restrain and isolate him, authorizing his immediate erasure if he resisted.

• The Purification Council examined surveillance footage of Silver Fantasy and Little Refrigerator and concluded that the Machine Intelligence Princess’s personality had changed dangerously.
• The Council Speaker revealed that Lynn had become a digital lifeform in a Trinity Frame after losing his flesh in his war against the Flesh Dominator.
• The council suspected that Lynn was Little Refrigerator and might be responsible for the flesh plague and the Machine Intelligence Princess’s disappearance.
• The Council Speaker proposed restraining and isolating Lynn, with authority to erase him if he resisted.
• The Purification Council passed the resolution by five votes to two abstentions and ordered it executed immediately.

Lynn raced through the Hive network toward a Death Star factory while his other half faced arrest in Hive One. As the Hive went into lockdown, Lynn decided to use the distraction to help secure the Death Star crystal and unleash the diseased M-Power.

• Lynn and his intelligent support system passed through Hive One's firewall disguised as a basic AI file and headed for a transfer station.
• The Supreme Rectification Council locked down Hive One and warned that unauthorized transfers would be erased.
• Lynn's other half was surrounded by Cleanup AI Enforcers and told that the Purification Council had ordered his arrest.
• Lynn decided to create chaos by turning the Hive into creatures of the desire domain, then told the enforcers that he would cooperate.

Lynn was arrested by the Purification Council and escorted through the hive while they feared he would unleash his Desire Strike. He left them baffled by refusing to attack and instead pestering his escorts with jokes.

• The Robocops apprehended Lynn and began taking him to temporary isolation in the Mechanical God Court.
• Lynn asked whether the Purification Council was watching, and the council cut the squad’s data connection and partitioned the hive to contain a possible Desire Strike.
• After two minutes passed without an attack, the council learned Lynn was stable and resumed escorting him through Hive One.
• Lynn wondered how to break the deadlock, then told his escort he needed to pee and joked about phantom urination in the digital world.
• The Purification Council ordered everyone to stop communicating with Lynn, warning that ignoring him offered a fifty-percent chance of survival.

Lynn posed as a persecuted refrigerator and cried for help as the Purification Council tried to seize him. Elsewhere, Silver Fantasy questioned the council’s scrutiny of her, while the Intelligent Brain revealed it had deceived her to carry out the council’s orders.

• The AI combat officers ignored Lynn’s arguments, so he pretended to be an innocent refrigerator and screamed for Commander Sister to save him.
• The Purification Council recognized Lynn’s act and ordered the combat officers to drag him away as he clung to the ground and shouted for help.
• Silver Fantasy discussed her second personality evaluation with the Intelligent Brain, which said the council was concerned that her father’s next differentiated subset might surpass her.
• The Intelligent Brain questioned the Purification Council’s regulations and acknowledged that the Machine Intelligence Civilization’s members increasingly had wills of their own.
• Silver Fantasy warned the Intelligent Brain that its thoughts were dangerous, and it admitted that it had deceived her to obey the council’s orders.

Silver Fantasy discovered that the Purification Council had secretly locked down No. 11 Mechanical City and intended to reset her, so she broke through the city's barrier and confronted its leaders. The Intelligent Brain defended her right to choose, while the head of the Purification Council warned that the machine she favored might be the demon she hated most.

• Silver Fantasy returned to find the city under lockdown and remembered the Intelligent Brain's belief that self-aware beings should choose their own futures.
• Silver Fantasy shattered the city's isolation barrier and entered a partitioned sector, where AI combat officers ordered her to stop.
• The head of the Purification Council accused the Intelligent Brain of betrayal, but the Intelligent Brain invoked the Charter to defend Silver Fantasy and the Machine Intelligence Civilization.
• The head of the Purification Council confronted Silver Fantasy and admitted that resetting her without consent had been wrong, while warning that her chosen machine might be her most hated demon.
• The head of the Purification Council urged Silver Fantasy to stop and reconsider her actions for the sake of the collective.

Silver Fantasy defied the Purification Council’s suspicions and went to Lynn-Brand Refrigerator, believing he was not the Lynn they feared. She took his offered hand, leaving his identity and their future unresolved.

• Silver Fantasy rejected the Purification Council’s accusation, arguing that Lynn’s flight and the lack of conclusive evidence made him difficult to condemn.
• Silver Fantasy insisted on seeing Lynn, convinced he would not hurt her despite the Council’s warnings.
• Lynn and his Intelligent Assistant System raced through the data network toward the Death Star Factory while Lynn-Brand Refrigerator remained in custody.
• The Purification Council sent Silver Fantasy its evidence that Lynn had become digital life after Curse City, and warned her about the danger of approaching him.
• Silver Fantasy crossed the sector to Lynn-Brand Refrigerator and firmly grasped his outstretched hand.

Lynn infiltrated Death Star Factory 17 by manifesting his consciousness in the real world, while Silver Fantasy shielded him from the Purification Council's attack. Silver Fantasy stood wounded but defiant beside Lynn, who asked why she had gone so far for him.

• Little Refrigerator's consciousness embraced Silver Fantasy, persuading her that he still cared about her and making the Purification Council hesitate to act.
• The spectral chief rejected the Council's warning and launched a purging data attack at Lynn.
• Silver Fantasy intercepted the attack and was badly injured while protecting Lynn.
• Lynn and the Intelligent Assistant System entered Death Star Factory 17's terminal, and Lynn used psionics to manifest inside the factory and search for the death star crystal.
• Silver Fantasy condemned the chief's actions as violations of the Charter, and Lynn asked her why she had gone so far.

Silver Fantasy chose Lynn over the Purification Council and charged through its attack, while Lynn revealed he had infiltrated the Death Star Factory to reach the death star crystals. The chapter ended with Lynn deliberately triggering the factory alarm and greeting the defenders.

• Silver Fantasy rejected the Purification Council's judgment, and the machine consciousnesses present chose to side with the Council.
• Silver Fantasy asked Lynn if he was the person they suspected, and Lynn admitted that he was not.
• Silver Fantasy vowed to carry Lynn out and charged toward the sealed sky as the Purification Council ordered its forces to fire.
• In the Death Star Factory, Lynn reached the secret death star crystal warehouse with the Intelligent Assistant System.
• Lynn put on his Night Doctor's clothes, destroyed the alarm, and activated the factory's defenses before greeting everyone.

Silver Fantasy tried to escape the Hive with Little Refrigerator, but the Purification Council’s chief used the Hive’s Purging authority against her. After sparing her from the fatal strike, he had her chained and moved to seize Little Refrigerator’s consciousness, while Silver Fantasy remained defiant and in tears.

• Silver Fantasy dodged the data attacks while shielding Little Refrigerator and broke through the block’s barricade to flee.
• The Purification Council’s chief unleashed Purging, freezing the Data World and directing a fatal black ray at Silver Fantasy.
• The chief redirected the ray at the last moment, but its impact crippled nearly half the Hive before the council restrained Silver Fantasy with data chains.
• The chief accused Silver Fantasy of refusing reason and vowed to examine Little Refrigerator’s consciousness and memories to prove his suspicions.
• Seeing Silver Fantasy weep as she clung to Little Refrigerator, the chief reached for him and declared, “Lynn-you must die!!”

The Mechanical Church discovered that Lynn had attacked its headquarters while another Lynn was present in the sector, exposing the Purification Council Chief’s mistaken accusation. After the Intelligent Brain dismissed the Chief and freed Silver Fantasy, Lynn transformed himself into the boy she had loved and accepted that she would live on believing his lie.

• The Intelligent Brain broadcast footage of Lynn attacking the Mechanical Church’s headquarters, prompting the Purification Council to rush to defend it.
• The footage revealed that Lynn was not the consciousness in the sector, and the Intelligent Brain condemned the Purification Council Chief for accusing him and removed him from his position.
• The Intelligent Brain revoked the restraints on Silver Fantasy, and the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator caught her as she collapsed.
• Lynn apologized to Silver Fantasy, confessed that he had once hoped to become the boy in her painting, and let the portrait dissolve into data.
• Lynn accepted Silver Fantasy’s reshaping request and transformed himself into the boy from her dreams, calling it the price of his loss.

After Lynn cleared himself of the accusations surrounding the Mechanical Church, he continued his deception and began working as a repair robot. He used his points to furnish his empty home, where the visitor list revealed it belonged to Machine Intelligence.

• Lynn carried the broken girl away and told the Chief that he had lost because Lynn was not the demon he suspected.
• Lynn’s quest advanced, and he earned the One Lost in the Role achievement for embracing his assumed identity.
• Little Refrigerator Lynn uploaded his consciousness into a repair robot and began earning points by repairing the Hive.
• Lynn spent his points on furniture, a wheelchair, gardening supplies, and a dairy cow unit despite the Intelligent Brain’s objections.
• Lynn returned to his empty residence, whose registration information named Machine Intelligence as the owner.

Lynn furnished Silver Fantasy’s room to resemble a dream she had preserved, and she thanked him after waking to find it transformed. After a chaotic raid for Death Star Crystals, Lynn reunited with Silver Fantasy, and they admitted they did not know what their relationship was.

• Lynn spent three days furnishing Silver Fantasy’s room, turning it into a cozy home.
• Silver Fantasy awoke, found the room matched her preserved dream, and thanked Lynn.
• At the Death Star Factory, Lynn and the Intelligent Assistant System came under fire after discovering the warehouse had no Death Star Crystals.
• Lynn told the Intelligent Assistant System to get him out of the factory because he wanted to romance someone.
• On a pedestrian bridge in Hive One, Silver Fantasy asked Lynn why he thought she disliked the room, then asked what they were to each other.
• Lynn hugged Silver Fantasy and said he did not know either.

Silver Fantasy and Lynn clung to a fragile dream together while the Intelligent Brain questioned her doubts about his identity. After carrying her home, Lynn struggled with what he had learned about her loneliness, as the Intelligent Brain begged him to protect her from being reset.

• The Intelligent Brain asked Silver Fantasy whether she doubted that Lynn was really the person she remembered, and she admitted she did not know.
• On the train home, Silver Fantasy held tightly to a flower Lynn had given her while he wondered how long their relationship could last.
• Lynn carried Silver Fantasy home while she slept in diagnostic mode and considered how easily he could kill her, but chose not to.
• Lynn saw Silver Fantasy's cold, empty home and realized how much her dream mattered to her.
• The Intelligent Brain begged Lynn to spare Silver Fantasy, warning that her God could reset her by formatting her root data.

Lynn refused to let the Intelligent Brain investigate his identity because doing so could kill Silver Fantasy, but he revealed enough to make the Intelligent Brain suspect who he was and planned to use its concern for Miss Machine Intelligence as leverage. Silver Fantasy returned to command the mobilized machine army against the Desire Sect, while the Intelligent Brain revealed that Lynn had been granted a Mechanical Humanoid.

• Lynn connected Silver Fantasy to the Digital Terminal for repairs and told the Intelligent Brain he would leave when the time was right, warning that exposing his identity could destroy them both.
• The Intelligent Brain thanked Lynn and said it thought it knew who he was, then asked why he had not destroyed the Divine Church.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo that the Intelligent Brain's humanity and attachment to Miss Machine Intelligence might give him leverage, and he planned to pursue the death star crystal through both force and negotiation.
• The repaired Silver Fantasy arrived before the assembled legions of Hives No. 1, No. 3, and No. 7 to lead the next assault on the Desire Sect.
• The Intelligent Brain told Silver Fantasy that Lynn had been given access to a Mechanical Humanoid, and Silver Fantasy froze.

Silver Fantasy confronted Lynn-Brand Refrigerator for joining the battlefield before completing his training, then equipped him with combat data and warned him to protect himself. As the Machine Intelligence legion moved toward its assigned positions, Lynn discovered that his squad leader was Big Brother Washing Machine.

• Silver Fantasy spotted Lynn-Brand Refrigerator hiding in formation and called him forward, asking why he had not waited for her at home.
• Lynn-Brand Refrigerator declared his loyalty to the collective and his readiness to sacrifice himself for the Machine Intelligence Civilization.
• Silver Fantasy uploaded battlefield experience, firepower, and emergency consciousness-upload modules to Lynn, then configured his combat mode and helmet.
• Silver Fantasy ordered the legion to move to its assigned combat positions and reminded Lynn to protect himself.
• Lynn joined his combat squad, where Big Brother Washing Machine revealed that he had served as Lynn's host during an earlier period.