Chapter Summaries

Kenichi Amamiya reviewed the Otsutsuki Clan’s altered sequel to Murderous Manga and found that it ended by portraying the clan as Ji-yun Kang’s saviors. He dismissed the propaganda and turned his attention to figuring out how to spread the Pandora Virus beyond the limits of space.

• Kenichi Amamiya examined a genjutsu device titled Manga and recognized it as a sequel to Murderous Manga that he had set up.
• The altered story showed Ji-yun Kang being interrogated as clues connected her to Old Zhao’s daughter, the manga killings, and a supernatural presence within her.
• Ji-yun Kang discovered that the supposed ghost was another personality and pledged herself to the Otsutsuki Clan, which the story depicted as granting her salvation.
• Kenichi Amamiya mocked the Otsutsuki Clan’s version of events and considered how to release the Pandora Virus, noting that it could not cross the vacuum of space on its own.

Kenichi Amamiya examined the Otsutsuki Clan’s records on the Star Virus, a deadly pathogen that exploited their Chakra defenses and drove the clan to destroy an infected research planet. He sought to learn from the virus for his own research, while Otsutsuki Roshiki continued studying it in the laboratory.

• Kenichi Amamiya asked Otsutsuki Roshiki to show him the Otsutsuki Clan’s most dangerous viruses and microorganisms.
• Kenichi Amamiya read records describing the Star Virus’s discovery, its lethal effects on beings with Otsutsuki genes, and its rapid spread among the clan.
• Kenichi Amamiya found that the records skipped years of research before describing the Star Virus’s resistance to treatment and the clan’s worsening outbreak.
• Kenichi Amamiya watched a video showing Research Planet No. 31 being destroyed after research into the Star Virus failed.
• Otsutsuki Roshiki continued studying the high-risk virus in the laboratory.

Kenichi Amamiya studied the Star Virus in a vacuum laboratory and discovered that it was not a conventional virus but a deliberately engineered biological weapon. He began recording its unusual structure and considered how its protective mechanism might be destroyed or adapted.

• Kenichi Amamiya began researching the Star Virus in a laboratory exiled into the vacuum, focusing first on ways to prevent infection.
• Kenichi Amamiya reasoned that the Star Virus was designed to target Otsutsuki Clan genes and that its extreme lethality had made it easy to contain.
• Kenichi Amamiya separated the virus into two structures, which a mysterious medium immediately joined back together, revealing its chimera-like design.
• Two God-level Otsutsuki watched Kenichi Amamiya and approved of his serious approach to the research.
• Kenichi Amamiya found that the outer layer resisted antibiotics and other chemicals, and he identified the Star Virus as a biological weapon with a protective recognition mechanism.
• Kenichi Amamiya began drawing the weapon's structure so he could understand how to destroy or improve it.

Kenichi Amamiya studied the Star Virus and the biological weapon containing it, secretly planning to control and enhance the virus while misleading the Otsutsuki Clan about his research. He carried the virus with him and prepared to stage an accident so he could continue his work in the Shinobi World.

• Kenichi Amamiya considered making the virus reproduce exponentially by absorbing energy such as stellar radiation, potentially spreading it throughout the universe.
• A man questioned Kenichi Amamiya about his research, and Kenichi described the object as a protective barrier while concealing his biological-weapon theories.
• Kenichi Amamiya continued studying the object under surveillance and discovered that heating it to 372 degrees deactivated it, while it could self-destruct to protect the virus from investigation.
• Kenichi Amamiya suspected the patterns on the object's surface might reveal its nature and planned to investigate its composition and possible control mechanism.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided to take the Star Virus to the Shinobi World, where he could research it without Otsutsuki oversight, and prepared to create an accident.

Kenichi Amamiya studied the Star Virus and completed a three-day quarantine after leaving his laboratory. He met Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu, a grieving researcher whose daughter had died from the virus, and received his research as they discussed how to understand it.

• Kenichi Amamiya used his Cheat System to study the Star Virus, then disinfected himself and left the laboratory.
• Two Otsutsuki placed Kenichi in a three-day quarantine, which he spent playing games until he was confirmed uninfected.
• After quarantine, Kenichi met Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu, who had lost his daughter to the virus and wanted to share his research.
• Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu gave Kenichi his Experiment Log and took him to his heavily secured laboratory.
• Kenichi suggested the Star Virus was a biological weapon, and Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu shared his findings about its unusual characteristics.

Kenichi Amamiya agreed to share Star Virus research with Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu and accepted Otsutsuki Yuehui as a laboratory assistant while rejecting her offer to date. As he settled into the luxurious home the clan provided, he remained wary of the Otsutsuki and reflected on the brutal treatment of those outside their kind.

• Kenichi Amamiya agreed to share Star Virus research progress with Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu.
• Otsutsuki Yuehui introduced herself as a family-appointed assistant and protector, and offered to date Kenichi Amamiya.
• Kenichi Amamiya accepted Otsutsuki Yuehui as his assistant but declined marriage, then returned to the house where she lived next door.
• Kenichi Amamiya suspected the clan might be testing or identifying him and considered how to avoid complications.
• Kenichi Amamiya watched a brutal alien fight and concluded that the Otsutsuki exploited outsiders because it benefited them.

Kenichi Amamiya reviewed the Otsutsuki Clan’s rivals and allies as he considered how to oppose the clan and avoid relying on its biased records. He visited Otsutsuki Roshiki’s laboratory, where spacecraft research continued despite the difficulties of crossing the vast universe.

• Kenichi Amamiya reaffirmed that his conflict with the Otsutsuki Clan was irreconcilable and considered using his backup plan alongside Star Virus research.
• Kenichi Amamiya read the Otsutsuki archives about the Stellar Race, Star Collective, Cosmic Mercenaries, Observers, and the plant faction led by Nova.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided he needed to investigate the other factions himself rather than trust the Otsutsuki Clan’s accounts.
• The Otsutsuki Clan’s Starport supported spacecraft launches and contact with the wider universe.
• Researchers in the Underground Laboratory celebrated a successful experiment as Otsutsuki Roshiki examined the results.
• Kenichi Amamiya visited Otsutsuki Roshiki and inspected the improved spacecraft technology, noting that the universe remained too vast for faster-than-light travel to solve the journey’s difficulties.

Kenichi Amamiya discussed the universe’s expansion with Otsutsuki Roshiki and used an illusion crystal to create a revised Men in Black-style story that portrayed the Otsutsuki Clan as secret guardians. Roshiki suggested changes to make the plot support the Clan’s propaganda, and Kenichi began revising it to cast the Stellar Race as its enemy.

• Kenichi asked Roshiki whether the universe was expanding and reflected on the energy and sacrifices that might be involved if it stopped.
• Kenichi decided to create a Men in Black-inspired script using an illusion crystal, while keeping his infiltration plans in mind.
• The script followed Agent K recruiting James Edwards into the Otsutsuki Clan, where they investigated alien threats and defended the Milky Way’s energy core.
• After hearing the plot, Roshiki praised its portrayal of the Clan and advised Kenichi to replace the insectoid enemies with the Stellar Race.
• Kenichi accepted Roshiki’s suggestions and began changing the story’s enemies and setting to match the Clan’s interests.

Kenichi Amamiya designed a punishment genjutsu based on the first Saw film for the Otsutsuki Clan, which approved his script. He returned to his Star Virus research and found the laboratory fortified with extensive biosafety measures.

• Kenichi Amamiya decided to refine a genjutsu using Supporting Character's suggestion while considering how to avoid attracting the Otsutsuki Clan's attention.
• The Otsutsuki Clan's Main Family asked Kenichi Amamiya to create an agonizing punishment genjutsu that would leave captives hope of survival and encourage them to reveal information.
• Kenichi Amamiya adapted the first Saw film into a punishment genjutsu, adding more punishment scenarios and submitting the script to the Otsutsuki Clan.
• The Otsutsuki Clan approved Kenichi Amamiya's design, and he turned back to his experiments on the Star Virus.
• Kenichi Amamiya entered a heavily secured underground laboratory and considered the virus's danger, noting that it lacked a means of activation.

Kenichi Amamiya received a request from an Otsutsuki Clan powerhouse to create a horror genjutsu and chose One Missed Call 1. As Yumi and her friends faced the curse of deadly phone calls inside the scenario, Kenichi prepared the genjutsu for Otsutsuki Roshiki and wondered how powerful the clan’s higher-up would be.

• The Otsutsuki Clan asked Kenichi Amamiya to create a unique horror genjutsu for an ancestor of Otsutsuki Tensho, offering substantial rewards.
• Kenichi Amamiya chose One Missed Call 1 as the scenario and began constructing it in his laboratory.
• In the genjutsu, Yoko received a voicemail from her own phone predicting her words and death, then fell onto a train.
• Yumi learned that Kenji had also received a death call, and he died after an invisible force dragged him into an empty elevator.
• Kenji’s phone called Natsumi, and Yumi stayed with her while the other students tried to erase their numbers.
• Otsutsuki Roshiki watched Kenichi Amamiya operate the genjutsu machine, while Kenichi focused on completing the scenario and wondered about the powerhouse’s strength.

Kenichi Amamiya spoke with an Otsutsuki Clan Elder through a delayed interstellar communication system and learned that the Elder was interested in his research on Four-Dimensional Space and communications technology. The Elder promised a third-stage Chakra Fruit if Kenichi made a breakthrough, then said he had a task for him.

• Kenichi Amamiya discussed the Otsutsuki Clan’s powerful members and limited interstellar communications with Otsutsuki Roshiki.
• Kenichi entered a special room and watched an Otsutsuki Elder appear on a screen, where the Elder praised his research and offered him a third-stage Chakra Fruit for uncovering Four-Dimensional Space.
• Kenichi noticed a three-minute delay in the call and considered recording the communication’s limits as useful information for future conflicts.
• The Elder showed Kenichi a recording of two ninjas fighting in space and explained that Cable Star’s vast network of optical cables enabled communication across the universe.
• The Elder told Kenichi that he had something he needed him to do.

Kenichi Amamiya agreed to help Amaterasu gain confidence and continued researching the virus that targeted Otsutsuki Clan genes. After watching virtual Television, he questioned why the Otsutsuki Clan had not developed wormhole technology despite being able to build a Time Machine.

• Kenichi Amamiya agreed to help Amaterasu, whose illness had undermined his confidence, at the request of an Otsutsuki man.
• Kenichi Amamiya returned to his laboratory, spoke with Supporting Character, and later resumed researching the stars and the virus.
• Kenichi Amamiya discovered that the virus targeted Otsutsuki Clan genes indiscriminately and considered how to study it alongside the Pandora Virus.
• Kenichi Amamiya watched a tokusatsu show and an advertisement for the planet Emerald Dream on virtual Television.
• Kenichi Amamiya switched off the television and wondered why the Otsutsuki Clan had not developed wormhole technology despite having a Time Machine.

Kenichi Amamiya studied the Star Virus and discovered it functioned like biological circuitry, then investigated the destroyed civilization that had created it. He visited the civilization’s Death Star and met its bored guard, Otsutsuki Feizai, while considering how the site might support his future plans.

• Kenichi Amamiya reflected on the Otsutsuki Clan’s hierarchy and watched its members take an interest in his genjutsu research.
• Kenichi Amamiya analyzed the Star Virus, modified it, and realized it acted like a biological chip or code.
• Kenichi Amamiya investigated the extinct civilization that developed Bio-programming and learned its planet had been destroyed by the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Kenichi Amamiya obtained permission to visit the planet’s ruins and met Otsutsuki Feizai, who guarded the Death Star.
• Otsutsuki Feizai told Kenichi Amamiya that nobody had entered the ruins during his watch and that the valuable things had already been taken away.

Kenichi discovered that a data-gathering robot had escaped from the Otsutsuki Clan’s facility and was taken to Mechanical Dreamweaver, where the Clan researched the Star Virus. After learning he had been used as bait, Kenichi considered how the Clan’s research might advance his own work on the Pandora Virus.

• Kenichi reported seeing something flee the guarded area, prompting Otsutsuki Feizai and the accompanying Otsutsuki to raise the alarm.
• An Otsutsuki pursuer returned and identified the escaped target as an expensive data-gathering robot made by the Merchants, then recommended reporting the incident to the family Elders.
• The Otsutsuki man took Kenichi to Mechanical Dreamweaver, the Clan’s planet-wide laboratory for studying the Star Virus.
• Kenichi examined an experimental report and reacted with distress as he realized the Otsutsuki Clan had withheld information and used him as bait.
• The Otsutsuki man explained that outsiders had been investigating the research, while Kenichi considered combining the findings with his Pandora Virus.

Kenichi Amamiya learned that the Otsutsuki Clan had secretly continued researching the Star Virus, though their work had missed its true nature as Bio-programming. He decided Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu should be allowed to learn the truth, while Kiyomatsu faced the painful choice of continuing his research for his daughter’s sake.

• Kenichi Amamiya learned that the Otsutsuki Clan had made limited progress researching the virus and that its methods were misguided.
• Kenichi Amamiya confirmed that the research he and Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu had conducted remained usable and asked whether he could reveal the clan’s secret work to Kiyomatsu.
• The researchers agreed that Kenichi Amamiya could tell Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu whatever he wanted.
• Kenichi Amamiya visited Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu’s underground laboratory and watched him grieve for his daughter while struggling with the possibility that the clan had kept him in the dark.
• Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu resolved to keep fighting the Star Virus for his daughter, then raised his head with a bitter smile as Kenichi Amamiya watched.

Kenichi Amamiya questioned Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu about the Star Virus and the Otsutsuki Clan’s research, while considering how to keep the virus’s secrets from the clan. Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu grieved for his dead daughter but chose to continue researching, then agreed that the virus’s shell was its most important feature.

• Kenichi Amamiya asked Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu whether he resented the clan for the circumstances surrounding the Star Virus, and Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu admitted he had little choice but to obey.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided he needed to remain useful to the Otsutsuki Clan and privately considered killing Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu if he discovered the virus’s secrets.
• Kenichi Amamiya showed Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu the clan’s research and asked what he thought the Star Virus’s shell might be.
• Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu wept over the virus, resolved to expose the clan’s conspiracy, then hesitated because doing so might undermine research connected to his daughter’s death.
• Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu visited his daughter’s room and mourned her before telling Kenichi Amamiya that the virus’s shell was its most crucial feature.

Kenichi Amamiya took over Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu’s virus laboratory after Kiyomatsu left to serve the Otsutsuki Clan, and considered how to handle the clan’s rigid hierarchy and alien slaves. The chapter ended with Kenichi hoping the emotionally broken Kiyomatsu would find the courage to cause the clan trouble.

• Kenichi Amamiya decided to pretend to research the Star Virus for the Otsutsuki Clan while privately considering how to use the laboratory’s resources.
• Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu invited Kenichi Amamiya to a farewell meal, drank himself unconscious, and left the next morning without a word.
• Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu handed control of the laboratory and its alien slave researchers to Kenichi Amamiya.
• Kenichi Amamiya entered the laboratory, observed its researchers and security, and considered how to understand the invisible shackles controlling the aliens.
• Kenichi Amamiya recognized that Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu’s mental state had shattered and hoped he would become brave enough to cause the Otsutsuki Clan trouble.

Kenichi Amamiya spent a year testing the Star Virus and trying to decrypt its shell, while Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu continued researching the virus on Otsutsuki. After Otsutsuki Clan ninjas repelled Alien Creatures but failed to recover all of Those Things, the clan’s higher-ups punished the guards responsible.

• Kenichi Amamiya reflected on Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu’s work and began testing the Virus Petri Dish, attempting to break the virus’s code through repeated experiments.
• Kenichi Amamiya spent a year testing substances against the virus, reached ninety-two percent decryption, and estimated that the process would take two more months.
• Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu led researchers on Otsutsuki in another effort to conquer the virus that had killed his daughter.
• Otsutsuki Clan ninjas fought Alien Creatures in space and forced several of them to flee, but they failed to recover all of Those Things.
• The Otsutsuki Clan’s higher-ups demoted the guards and placed them under confinement for failing to prevent the leak.

After Otsutsuki Feizai was demoted to the Branch Family and branded with a Cursed Seal, Kenichi Amamiya took him to a laboratory and made him an experimental subject. Three months later, Kenichi found Feizai was still alive, while he continued considering how to weaken the Main Family and grow stronger.

• Kenichi Amamiya learned that Otsutsuki Feizai had been made Branch Family and saw the Cursed Seal punish him when he showed hatred.
• Kenichi Amamiya decided Feizai might betray him, bought him as an experimental subject, and brought him to his laboratory.
• Kenichi Amamiya restrained Feizai and subjected him to painful experiments while planning to use him in virus research.
• Kenichi Amamiya considered exploiting divisions between the Main Family and Branch Family, but judged that he needed more strength and a careful plan.
• Three months later, Kenichi Amamiya saw that Otsutsuki Feizai had survived the experiments and expressed surprise at his vitality.

Kenichi Amamiya studied Otsutsuki Feizai, who had survived the Star Virus because his immune system resisted it, and watched the Otsutsuki Clan continue experiments on him. After declining Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu’s offer to research the virus together, Kenichi planned to leave and develop a more infectious strain, while Kiyomatsu questioned whether the clan had allowed his daughter to die.

• Kenichi Amamiya found that Otsutsuki Feizai carried the Star Virus but had survived because his immune system resisted it, and he reported the unusual case to the Otsutsuki Clan.
• Kenichi Amamiya learned that the virus was gene-based Bio-programming and that breaking it required a rare mineral found on a Death Star.
• Kenichi Amamiya stayed to observe Otsutsuki Feizai’s experiments and spoke with Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu, who revealed that the clan was reconsidering its research direction.
• Kenichi Amamiya declined Otsutsuki Kiyomatsu’s invitation to study the virus together, leaving Kiyomatsu feeling abandoned and wondering whether the clan had tacitly permitted his daughter’s death.
• Kenichi Amamiya observed the ongoing battle between the virus and Otsutsuki Feizai’s immune system and saw an opportunity to let the Otsutsuki Clan bear the consequences.