Chapter Summaries

Lynn examined Madam Doll after she claimed to be unwell and used his diagnostic skill to discover several hidden conditions. He began questioning her about how her cursecraft might be masking her symptoms.

• Madam Doll visited Lynn late at night and said her body ached and she felt weak.
• Lynn checked Madam Doll’s pulse but found no abnormalities, so he activated his diagnostic skill.
• Lynn’s system identified skeletal compression, pathological tissue changes, and a residual blood-origin curse in Madam Doll.
• Lynn told the bewildered Madam Doll that she was seriously ill and asked whether she felt her bones bearing great weight or her body nearing collapse during strenuous activity.
• Madam Doll denied those symptoms and explained that her power came from cursecraft.
• Lynn asked whether she had ever tested her body without the support of her cursecraft energy.

Lynn discovered that a lingering Blood-Origin Curse was turning Madam Doll’s body back into wood and fibers, and said he could treat her. When she explained that the curse could only be suppressed through intense romantic ecstasy, she revealed that Lynn’s master could no longer help because of a problem men feared most.

• Lynn persuaded Madam Doll to suppress her mystical curse energy, exposing how her body weakened without it.
• Lynn diagnosed remnants of the Blood-Origin Curse that were eroding Madam Doll’s bones and flesh into wood and fibers.
• Madam Doll offered to do anything if Lynn could cure her, while Lynn tried to keep their conversation professional.
• Lynn asked how Madam Doll had previously suppressed the curse, and she explained that it required intense romantic ecstasy with someone she loved.
• Madam Doll said Lynn’s master could no longer help her and described his issue as the problem men feared most.

Lynn tried to find a way to suppress Madam Doll’s curse without relying on sex and devised a treatment using a potion. He locked her in the operating room after she drank it, then hurried upstairs to block out the sounds as the potion took effect.

• Madam Doll explained that dolls could transform when their emotions awakened, usually through a trusted bond and sex, while cruel alternatives involved torture or devastating grief.
• Lynn suggested that Madam Doll’s curse might be suppressed through physical sensations now that she had a flesh-and-blood body, but Madam Doll misunderstood his intentions.
• Lynn brewed Passion Succubus Perfume and told Madam Doll that enduring its effects until dawn would suppress her curse.
• Madam Doll drank the potions, and Lynn injected anesthetic into her limbs before leaving the operating room.
• Lynn nailed the door shut, returned to the attic, plugged his ears with cotton, and waited as sounds came from downstairs.

Lynn waited out the effects of his treatment on Madam Doll, then examined her and found that her curse was weakening. Madam Doll called him a devil as the system awarded Lynn two achievements and a potion formula.

• Lynn ignored Madam Doll's cries while the treatment continued for several hours, and the system reported changes in her condition.
• Wandering Soul Alley spent a sleepless night, and its residents complained in the Vision Realm about the sounds from the Bloodsaw Apothecary.
• After six hours, Lynn entered the operating room and found Madam Doll free of the operating table and slumped in a corner.
• Lynn examined Madam Doll and found her underlying condition improving and her curse substantially weakened.
• Madam Doll called Lynn a devil, and the system awarded him mission rewards, two achievements, and a Lewd Potion Formula.

Lynn treated Madam Doll’s curse with a potent potion and helped her recover, then accepted a mysterious manual from her as thanks. Madam Doll warned that Lynn would be left alone in Wandering Soul Alley when Blood Saw went to seek the Demon Association’s legacy.

• Lynn received an advanced Lewd Potion formula from the system and decided he likely had no use for it.
• Lynn gave Madam Doll tea after treating her curse, and she said her symptoms had greatly improved.
• Madam Doll asked whether Blood Saw had heard her noises, and Lynn admitted he had given his teacher sleeping medicine.
• Madam Doll offered Lynn a reward, then gave him a booklet called “Doll Manor: Comprehensive Doll Manual.”
• Madam Doll warned Lynn that dangerous creatures might investigate Wandering Soul Alley after Blood Saw left to seek the Demon Association’s legacy.

Madam Doll offered Lynn the chance to hire one of her cursed-doll daughters, explaining their abilities and how they helped fund the manor. Lynn considered choosing one for protection but grew wary of the dolls’ emotional development and energy needs.

• Madam Doll showed Lynn a booklet describing her daughters’ appearances, personalities, abilities, and energy consumption.
• Madam Doll explained that the dolls took paid jobs such as assassination, warfare, bodyguard work, and management, and offered Lynn his first hire for free.
• Lynn considered hiring a doll to help protect him after his teacher’s departure, then asked if he could take them all.
• Madam Doll’s favorability rose when Lynn said he wanted all the dolls, but dropped when he suggested taking none, so he quickly clarified that he was still deciding.
• Madam Doll explained that higher emotional-development ratings meant a doll was closer to awakening emotions, and that the dolls needed energy to keep working.
• Lynn decided to favor dolls with low emotional-development ratings and wondered aloud whether he would have to feed one.

Lynn chose to rent Madam Doll’s seventh daughter, Black String Moon, and learned that Blood Saw knew the dangerous Night Doctors. Blood Saw warned that they would operate on anyone they deemed sick, leaving Lynn intrigued and his teacher increasingly unsettled.

• Lynn learned that Black String Moon recharged with a winding key and chose to rent her as a bodyguard.
• Madam Doll offered to include her third daughter, but Lynn declined and accepted a free thirty-day rental of Black String Moon.
• Lynn served Blood Saw tea, boosting his favorability, and Blood Saw asked whether he wanted to become a real doctor by choosing a class.
• Lynn asked Blood Saw about the Night Doctor class, and Blood Saw explained that the Night Doctors believed every living creature was sick.
• Blood Saw warned that the Night Doctors would cut open anyone they could not diagnose, and his sanity decreased as Lynn reacted with admiration.

Blood Saw tested Lynn’s moral outlook to determine which alignment suited him, and Lynn’s answers revealed an obsessive approach to healing that disregarded laws and conventional limits. Blood Saw concluded that Lynn currently leaned toward chaotic good.

• Blood Saw warned Lynn that the Night Doctors were abnormal, then questioned him to assess his alignment.
• Lynn said he would treat a hostile patient, use any means necessary to save a patient who wanted to live, and preserve a dead patient’s body until he could revive them.
• Lynn said he would side with someone close to him over the law, but would kill that person if they killed innocent people for fun.
• Lynn joked that he would kill Blood Saw first if ordered to kill his lover or parents, and Blood Saw struck him on the head.
• Blood Saw ruled out lawful and chaotic evil, then classified Lynn’s current outlook as chaotic good.

Lynn chose to pursue the Night Doctor profession, and Blood Saw began preparing brutal medical training for him. Meanwhile, Bai Yi was lost on Soul-Lost Street, where he encountered terrifying supernatural figures and continued fleeing through the darkness.

• Lynn told Blood Saw that he had decided to become a Night Doctor and claimed he had a way to find their headquarters.
• Blood Saw agreed to train Lynn in medical skills and survival, beginning with a demonstration of Chainsaw Laparotomy.
• A stranger knocked at the Potion Shop and asked for a doctor to examine his strangely moving belly.
• Bai Yi wandered into Soul-Lost Street after following Didi’s navigation and encountered a woman whose head twisted around as she welcomed him to the street.
• Bai Yi fled from the woman and then saw a two-bodied figure sawing through the place where its halves were joined.

Bai Yi fled through the Alternate Dimension, only to be haunted by a woman’s head growing from his shoulder and lured into the castle called Happy Home. Several days later, Lynn set out alone on his first house-call job, eager to earn a large fee as his teacher warned him not to rob the client.

• Bai Yi ran from two monsters, then encountered Blood Doll, who noticed a second head growing from his shoulder.
• The woman’s head appeared on Bai Yi’s shoulder and asked if he was hiding from her as Blood Doll followed him.
• Bai Yi reached the castle marked Happy Home, whose gates opened and drew him inside.
• Lynn gained beginner-level skills in several medical techniques at Bloodsaw Apothecary.
• Blood Saw sent Lynn to a house-call job on Soul-Lost Street and cautioned him to charge only what he had earned.
• Lynn left Wandering Soul Alley alone, carrying his medical case and blade, and reminded himself to be careful.

Lynn entered Soul-Lost Street to find Happy Family and used his Revolver to silence the wraiths that followed him. After a female ghost startled him at a crossroads, Lynn beat and threatened her until she desperately tried to offer compensation.

• Lynn entered Soul-Lost Street with his Soul Lamp and struggled to navigate by the order’s confusing map.
• Lynn shot and killed a Black Fog Wraith and a Night Wraith after their eerie laughter followed him.
• Lynn continued along the street and approached a woman in red to ask for directions to Happy Home.
• The woman’s head spun around and startled Lynn, who slapped her and then beat her with a streetlamp pole.
• Lynn pinned the Headless Female Ghost down with his Revolver and demanded compensation, frightening her until she tried to offer something.

Lynn reprimanded a Headless Female Ghost for frightening people, then unsettled the Twin Ghostly Shadows by silently watching them from the darkness. When his Soul Lamp went out, the twins spun around, fearing he had disappeared or was about to attack.

• Lynn apologized for striking the Headless Female Ghost, reattached her head, and warned her not to scare people.
• Lynn offered the ghost his business card and a stitch-up, frightening her into promising to mend her ways and find honest work.
• Lynn gained experience and happiness for reforming the ghost, then continued along the street with his map and lamp.
• The Twin Ghostly Shadows noticed Lynn watching them from a stool beneath a streetlight and grew increasingly unnerved.
• The Soul Lamp went out, and the Twin Ghostly Shadows whipped around to look behind them.

Lynn approached the Twin Ghostly Shadows while they were trying to saw apart their conjoined bodies and persuaded them to let him operate. He offered them coupons and Skeleton Coins, and the chapter ended with them nervously preparing for surgery after learning he had studied chainsaw techniques for only two days.

• Lynn startled the Twin Ghostly Shadows, then introduced himself as a doctor and offered to help them.
• The Twin Ghostly Shadows grew hostile until Lynn revved his Chainsaw, frightening them into refusing treatment.
• Lynn offered the Twin Ghostly Shadows discount coupons and Skeleton Coins as an introductory gift.
• The Twin Ghostly Shadows agreed to expose the place where they were joined for an operation.
• The Twin Ghostly Shadows asked Lynn how long he had studied, and he answered that it had been two days.

Lynn surgically separated the Twin Ghostly Shadows, then reached Happy Home and ran into Blood Doll. He suggested that her missing mother might be inside her stomach.

• Lynn used a Chainsaw to split the Twin Ghostly Shadows into two individuals, then stitched them up.
• The two newly separated Ghost Shadows fled before Lynn could give them medicine.
• Lynn reached the castle called Happy Home and encountered Blood Doll outside.
• Blood Doll recognized Lynn and panicked, but Lynn stopped her and asked about the limbs he had once pulled from her stomach.
• Lynn told Blood Doll that her mother might be inside her stomach.

Lynn told Blood Doll that she might have eaten her mother and invited her to identify the remains at his Potion Shop. He entered the Old Castle to treat Alice and found himself welcomed by her unsettling family, while a new quest tasked him with escaping alive.

• Lynn showed Blood Doll her mother's comb and suggested she had eaten her mother, then offered to help her identify the remains.
• Blood Doll warned Lynn not to enter the Old Castle, but disappeared as its gates opened.
• Lynn entered the castle and saw a pale, pupil-less face watching him from a tower window.
• Carmel, Dark Elf, and Bai Yi welcomed Lynn to a feast and asked him to cure Alice.
• Lynn received quests to treat Alice and leave the Happy Home alive.

Lynn faced a sinister family’s attempt to make him eat grotesque food, keeping them calm by pretending to enjoy it and feeding the dishes to Zuo Zuo. After devouring stacks of plates, he asked whether there was any more.

• Lynn arrived at the family’s table and asked to see the sleeping Miss Alice, but the Male Host insisted he eat first.
• Lynn refused Bai Yi’s kidney and ate a sausage that turned into an intestine stuffed with the flesh of fifteen doctors, costing him ten sanity points.
• Lynn fed a moldy, maggot-covered apple and other dishes to Zuo Zuo, explaining that his left hand was a second mouth.
• Zuo Zuo angrily resisted, then agreed to help Lynn finish lunch in exchange for strawberry cake.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo cleared stacks of plates while the family watched, and Lynn asked if there was any more food.

Lynn discovered that his client’s family had been trying to lure him into a sinister plan, and Bai Yi warned him before attacking. Lynn recognized Bai Yi as a fellow person from Shanghai, but Bai Yi escaped, leaving Lynn ready to confront the family.

• Lynn overheard the Male Host and Female Host discussing how he had eaten their two-month food supply and failed to follow their expected script.
• Lynn went to the bathroom with Zuo Zuo, where Bai Yi joined him and began bleeding from his body.
• Bai Yi warned Lynn in Chinese that the family would cut him open and make him part of the family, then attacked him while laughing about Alice wanting Lynn as her big brother.
• Lynn and Zuo Zuo threw Bai Yi into a wall, but he leaped away and vanished down the corridor.
• Lynn said he had been distracted by meeting someone from home and resolved to give the patient’s family a proper treatment.

Lynn confronted the Female Host after she served him a feast of human organs and forced her to eat the food Zuo Zuo had stored. He left her terrified and demanded she reveal where she had hidden Bai Yi.

• Lynn returned to the dining hall with the Female Host, who served him a feast made from human organs.
• Lynn refused to eat the organs and accused the Female Host of being sick when she insisted he finish them.
• Lynn pinned the Female Host's hand to the table and forced her to swallow the food Zuo Zuo had stored.
• Lynn kicked the Female Host to the floor, restrained her, and demanded to know where she had hidden Bai Yi.

Lynn tortured the Female Host into revealing that Bai Yi had been sent to the kitchen after Alice regained control of him, then went there to find him. As the Female Host was taken over again and ordered to bring Lynn to the Cellar, Lynn entered the kitchen and was directed to ask the Head Chef about Bai Yi.

• Lynn diagnosed the Female Host with several illnesses, caused painful symptoms, and cut open her chest until she revealed that Bai Yi was in the kitchen.
• The Female Host said Alice had taken control of Bai Yi and wanted Lynn to take his place; Lynn stitched her chest and headed for the kitchen.
• After Lynn left, an eerie voice took control of the Female Host and ordered someone to stop Alice's new big brother, bring the useless old big brother to the Cellar, and prepare them for surgery.
• Lynn entered the kitchen, where animated knives and utensils prepared food, and asked for Bai Yi.
• The Boning Knife told Lynn to go farther inside and ask the Head Chef, while chopping ribs that looked strangely human.

Lynn found the Pighead Butcher cooking in the kitchen and learned that Bai Yi had become one of his ingredients. To trade for Bai Yi, Lynn supplied the Butcher with a brain that met the requirements for his soup, though the exchange had not yet been completed.

• Lynn discovered the Pighead Butcher cooking soup and learned that Bai Yi was being used as an ingredient.
• The Pighead Butcher agreed to trade for Bai Yi if Lynn brought him tissue from a higher-order being containing knowledge and resentment.
• Lynn realized the Heart-Eater Demon's brain fit the Butcher's requirements and presented it to him.
• The Pighead Butcher accepted the brain as the soup's final seasoning and tossed it into the pot.