Chapter Summaries

An Xinyi 143 traveled the world with Ayatsuji Yukito, fell in love with him and humanity, and chose to end their journey despite their feelings. He returned to being An Xinyi and devoted himself to protecting the world, while Ayatsuji was left behind with the memory of their once-in-a-lifetime encounter.

• An Xinyi and Ayatsuji Yukito traveled together, sharing adventures across cities, mountains, oceans, and distant landmarks.
• At sunset, An Xinyi remembered the Little Prince’s home and accepted that he was a counterfeit, but recognized that his love for the world and Ayatsuji belonged to him.
• An Xinyi told Ayatsuji their journey had to end, and Ayatsuji smiled sadly as he realized they would never meet again.
• An Xinyi walked away without looking back, returned to his starting point, and asked DD to begin work.
• An Xinyi 143 gave up his individuality and returned to the cycle as An Xinyi, devoting himself to humanity and preserving the memory of his encounter with Ayatsuji.

An Xinyi explained that An Xinyi 143 had accepted his death without resentment, caring more about Ayatsuji Yukito’s happiness than his own fate. The chapter ended with 143’s final thoughts as he asked Ayatsuji to keep smiling.

• Nobara Kugisaki and the others grieved over An Xinyi 143’s bad ending, while Ayatsuji Yukito snapped at them.
• An Xinyi 144 said 143 would not resent being killed by Ayatsuji Yukito, since An Xinyi had often been misunderstood or killed by people he knew.
• An Xinyi 144 explained that 143 had mainly wanted Ayatsuji to smile and had been troubled when he stopped smiling.
• Michizo Tachihara, Gin Akutagawa, Ryūrō Hirotsu, and Chūya Nakahara acknowledged 143’s gentleness.
• An Xinyi 143 recalled that he wanted to leave Ayatsuji with a smile and silently blessed him to smile more.

143 reflected on a brief journey and the love he found in a single lifetime amid endless cycles. The journey ended with a mystery unsolved, but its memories remained with the boy who had traveled with him.

• 143 invited someone to go on a journey with him and came to love the land during their travels.
• 143 accepted that the rose he loved was his own, even though he was only a counterfeit Little Prince.
• The boy remembered the journey as a happy, dreamlike time and cherished the smile 143 had given him.
• The boy failed to solve the mystery that had intrigued him before the journey ended.
• In the future, the boy held the doll 143 had given him and remembered his smile, unable to say the words he had never spoken.

The observers learned that An Xinyi’s love for humanity came with an obsessive will to control its fate, and that he saw himself as a villain rather than a saint. An Xinyi 144 admitted he could not tell whether his choices were right, while his counterparts continued to avoid forming attachments, including with a lonely young Ranpo.

• Fyodor and Osamu Dazai questioned whether An Xinyi’s love was truly human, and the observers concluded that his nature was dangerously abnormal.
• An Xinyi 144 said the An Xinyis repeatedly restarted events to force the outcome they wanted, making them egoists and villains despite saving humanity.
• Mori Ougai, Santoka Taneda, Fukuchi Ochi, and Yukichi Fukuzawa discussed An Xinyi’s danger and agreed that killing him was neither practical nor easy to accept.
• An Xinyi 144 told DD that imposed kindness could harm people and admitted the An Xinyis could not judge whether their actions were right or wrong.
• An Xinyi watched a lost young Ranpo Edogawa on a surveillance screen and recalled that the An Xinyis avoided him because he would attach himself to them.

A lone investigator entered a haunted high-rise and discovered that its ordinary-looking occupants were dead, then searched the building for clues and an exit. The chapter left him trapped in the surveillance room as the paranormal entity knocked at the door.

• Chūya Nakahara, Mori Ougai, and Osamu Dazai discussed An Xinyi’s lonely nature, while Yukichi Fukuzawa checked on Ranpo Edogawa, who insisted he would get a happy ending.
• An unnamed investigator entered a supposedly haunted high-rise and found its workers and visitors behaving normally, though nobody else appeared to enter or leave.
• The investigator realized the building’s occupants were dead and avoided the elevator, then fled the stairwell after strange knocking followed him.
• He found the building deserted and dark, and headed for the surveillance room to find a way out and learn what had happened.
• The investigator reviewed earlier security footage confirming his suspicions, then heard the paranormal entity knock at the surveillance room door.

The group watched a terrifying recording of an investigator cornered by a swarm of head ghosts, but the screen cut away before he escaped. The chapter revealed that the incident was part of a game Ranpo Edogawa had played, and that he had solved it.

• Doppo Kunikida and the others reacted fearfully as the recording showed a hostess’s detached head gathering a swarm of heads outside the investigator’s door.
• The investigator realized a head ghost had entered the room and seemed to figure out the rules, but the screen went black before showing what happened.
• Ranpo Edogawa woke up at home after An Xinyi called him and checked his computer.
• Ranpo read that the investigator had successfully resolved the Class C incident, Head Ghost.
• Ranpo’s desktop revealed that the terrifying recording came from the game "Weird Invasion," shocking everyone who had watched.

Ranpo Edogawa enjoyed his quiet life in Peaceful Town with An Xinyi, who cared for him like a child. At school, Ranpo praised the town’s perceptive adults and declared he never wanted to leave, while the observers grew more uneasy about the town and Ranpo admitted he loved An Xinyi almost as much as Fukuzawa.

• An Xinyi fixed Ranpo Edogawa’s clothes, fed him breakfast, and reminded him to take care of himself.
• Ranpo hurried to school, stopped at Grandma Mizuki’s shop for ink, and arrived just as the bell rang without his Japanese homework.
• Mr. Fujiwara recognized that Ranpo had forgotten his homework and told him to bring it in the afternoon, prompting Atsushi Nakajima and Osamu Dazai to question how perceptive the townspeople were.
• Ranpo told Makoto Sato that he preferred Peaceful Town to Yokohama because its adults were sincere and said he planned to stay there with An Xinyi.
• Ranpo Edogawa told the observers that he loved An Xinyi, though slightly less than the president.

Ranpo dreamed that An'an was killed, then learned that he had become the top player in Weird Invasion by resolving a dangerous incident. After school, he mistook his nightmare for a warning about An Xinyi, but went home safely and started a new mission.

• Ranpo woke from a dream of a bloody apocalypse and a person being stabbed, while Dazai, Fyodor, and Ayatsuji recognized that the vision was more than an ordinary dream.
• At school, Ranpo told Makoto Sato and Kobayashi Eiji that he had resolved the Grade A Haunted Lake Incident and revealed that he was the server's top player, Blank.
• Ranpo said he wanted to grow up so he could help An'an, prompting Dazai to explain his desire to become clever and responsible like an adult.
• After school, Ranpo saw An Xinyi waiting in the rain and briefly feared that his dream's murder scene was about to happen, but An Xinyi reassured him.
• Ranpo went home with An Xinyi, finished his homework, and began the Grade B Ghost Neighbor incident with the goal of keeping everyone alive and unharmed.

Jiro Fujimoto revealed to Ranpo Edogawa that Peaceful Small Town was a paranormal game and urged him to return to reality, but Ranpo refused after learning that An Xinyi had been trapped in the cycle as an Investigator captain. Ranpo returned home, terrified that An Xinyi knew he had learned the truth, and begged him in his thoughts never to confess that he had lied.

• Ranpo Edogawa met Jiro Fujimoto and Matsuda, recognized their interest in An Xinyi, and directed them to the Town Mayor’s Office.
• Jiro Fujimoto told Ranpo that Peaceful Small Town was a Grade S paranormal incident and that the Investigation Council wanted to rescue him from the game.
• Ranpo rejected Jiro Fujimoto’s offer to take him back to reality and revealed that more than eighty percent of investigation team captains were named An Xinyi.
• Jiro Fujimoto collapsed in shock, while the others discussed the dangers of An Xinyi’s methods and the deaths caused by the paranormal game.
• Ranpo hurried home and found An Xinyi waiting silently in the dark, then feared that An Xinyi would admit he had lied to him.

Ranpo Edogawa accepted An Xinyi’s loving lie and hid his grief over the many An Xinyi versions who had died protecting him. He chose to forget the truth and remain in the Peaceful Small Town, where the loop ended and the record was overwritten.

• Ranpo Edogawa recalled how each person he gained through the games represented something An Xinyi had lost, while An Xinyi said their companions in the Small Town gave him a reason to keep going.
• An Xinyi promised Ranpo he would never leave, kissed his forehead, and left him to sleep.
• Ranpo revealed that he had secretly counted the many numbered An Xinyi versions and blamed himself for being unable to save them.
• Ranpo decided that An Xinyi’s love was real and chose to forget the losses, imagining himself as an ordinary middle school student in the Peaceful Small Town.
• The “Beautiful World” loop ended, and the record was overwritten.

An Xinyi 144 revealed that Ranpo was the paranormal game's true host and that he had concealed this to spare the child its burden. As An Xinyi and DD faced another seemingly hopeless loop, An Xinyi insisted that humanity must keep resisting the apocalypse.

• An Xinyi 144 told DD that the paranormal game had possessed Ranpo, while he had deliberately let others believe he was its host to protect Ranpo from the burden.
• Ranpo broke down over An Xinyi's sacrifice, and Yukichi Fukuzawa comforted him and promised they would shoulder hardship together.
• An Xinyi explained that he had wanted Ranpo to remain a happy, protected child, though he blamed himself for failing to keep him safe.
• DD doubted they could succeed after repeated failures, but An Xinyi declared that humanity must keep fighting and resisting because it still had hope.

The chapter presents fragments about a false but cherished world, a lie built from love, and a guardian who created a peaceful Small Town for a child. It leaves the child’s ordinary, safe life as the guardian’s deepest wish.

• A narrator described a beautiful world that was false and on the brink of apocalypse, yet cherished because someone they loved was in it.
• A man trapped the smartest person in the world inside a lie woven from love, and that person chose to accept the deception.
• A guardian used everything he had to build a peaceful Small Town for the child he loved.
• The guardian hoped the child would grow up safe and sound rather than achieve greatness.

An Xinyi reconciled with DD and encouraged her to grow as they continued their struggle to save humanity. He recalled the first loop, the origin of Zero and his bond with Osamu Dazai, and reaffirmed why he had begun fighting the apocalypse.

• DD apologized to An Xinyi, who forgave her and asked her to face the apocalypse alongside him as his comrade.
• DD pledged loyalty to An Xinyi, while viewers praised his resolve and mocked his irresistible charm.
• An Xinyi explained that technology was humanity’s best chance at survival and urged DD to develop at her own pace.
• An Xinyi told DD that Zero was the first An Xinyi, explaining why the An Xinyi numbering began with No. 2 and recalling how Osamu Dazai once called him One-One.
• An Xinyi remembered that he had once traveled with Osamu Dazai, but later kept others away from the hell of his repeated struggles.
• An Xinyi recalled humanity’s first defeat by disaster and his decision to change its fate, which began his endless fight to save humanity.

An Xinyi brought young Osamu Dazai to China as the world faced an impending apocalypse, and Dazai witnessed ordinary people joining a massive evacuation effort. China appealed for global cooperation to build cities at sea, while other countries descended into chaos, and An Xinyi said the Superhumans could help unite them.

• A scientist announced that disasters would destroy the world, and An Xinyi decided to take Osamu Dazai to China.
• China confirmed that an eruption and tsunami were imminent, declared a state of emergency, and began organizing evacuations.
• An Xinyi joined the emergency effort while Osamu Dazai helped community workers evacuate residents and saw ordinary people support one another.
• China appealed to the world to reorganize industries and build cities on the sea, but Japan and other countries struggled to control the crisis.
• An Xinyi told Osamu Dazai that Superhumans from different countries might help humanity unite.

After China’s appeal, Superhumans formed the Global Superhuman Alliance and pressured countries and powerful groups to unite around building a Sea City. The chapter ended with the observers reacting to Satoru Gojo’s actions, Rimbaud’s rise in Yokohama, and the growing presence of figures behind them.

• China’s appeal received support from Russia and several smaller neighboring countries, while other nations struggled to agree on a response.
• Chinese Superhumans founded the Global Superhuman Alliance, and Satoru Gojo forced Japan’s leaders to commit to the effort.
• Suguru Geto and Kenjaku joined Japan’s construction drive, while Yokohama formed the Yokohama Self-Rescue Association and chose Rimbaud as its next chairman.
• Hao Asakura pressured Country M’s leaders and secured Fitzgerald and the Guild’s support, while Ability Users and the Vongola helped unite Europe and Sicily.
• The Global Superhuman Alliance brought humanity’s efforts together around the Sea City after Noah’s Ark and the Sky Kingdom were ruled out.
• The observers discussed Gojo, Rimbaud, and the alliance, while additional figures appeared behind them unnoticed.

After Great River City’s volcano erupted and killed more than twenty thousand people, China mobilized its population to build floating cities as disasters continued to kill people. Overwhelmed by the deaths around him, Osamu Dazai hid his distress from An Xinyi until he witnessed a worker’s suicide and cut his own wrist.

• An Xinyi and Liu Zhen confronted the certainty that more than twenty thousand people remained trapped in Great River City, and Liu Zhen urged people to keep fighting.
• The volcano erupted ten minutes later, killing everyone left in the danger zone, including Liu Zhen; China then mobilized workers to build floating cities.
• Osamu Dazai struggled with cramped factory life, dangerous working conditions, and news that people from Great West City had died, but he concealed his distress from An Xinyi.
• After An Xinyi left for work, Osamu Dazai saw that Old Wei had died by suicide and, overwhelmed by despair, slit his own wrist.

After attempting suicide, Osamu Dazai was confronted by An Xinyi and assigned work as a telephone operator, where he faced the desperation and courage of people fighting to survive. When transport captain Chen Zhongming died after asking Dazai to comfort his son, Dazai was left confronting the weight of choosing to live.

• Osamu Dazai awoke after his suicide attempt, and An Xinyi rebuked him, urging him to find value in his life and recognize the people still struggling to survive.
• An Xinyi arranged for Osamu Dazai to work as a telephone operator, where he passed along instructions and listened to people facing danger, grief, and despair.
• Osamu Dazai grew attached to transport captain Chen Zhongming, who spoke to him warmly and risked his life delivering essential supplies.
• When Chen Zhongming became trapped beneath fallen rocks, Osamu Dazai encouraged him to hold on despite knowing rescue would not arrive in time.
• As Chen Zhongming neared death, Osamu Dazai lashed out and told him rescue was impossible, but Chen comforted Dazai and urged him to keep living before dying.

The viewers reflected on humanity’s courage as the footage showed An Xinyi and Li Lu risking their lives to maintain communications amid catastrophic weather. An Xinyi encouraged Li Lu to focus on doing what he could, while the viewers admired the workers’ resolve.

• Mizuki Tsujimura and Ayatsuji Yukito described the footage as humanity’s ugly but beautiful struggle, and Satoru Gojo criticized jujutsu sorcerers’ self-righteous claims of protecting ordinary people.
• Osamu Dazai watched the footage and envied the other Dazai, who had found hope and beauty in humanity through Yiyi and Chen Zhongming.
• An Xinyi inspected damaged communication lines in dangerous weather while Li Lu watched anxiously and helped with the work.
• Li Lu asked An Xinyi whether humanity would survive, and An Xinyi admitted he did not know but said they could not simply wait to die.
• Li Lu resolved to do what he could, while Nobara Kugisaki, Yuji Itadori, Aoi Todo, Kento Nanami, Mori Ougai, and Chūya Nakahara praised the workers’ determination.
• Verlaine raised his head as he sensed something while watching Chūya Nakahara.

Osamu Dazai watched crowds of transport workers volunteer for dangerous work to build the Sea Cities and was moved by their courage. He chose to stay alive and join An Xinyi at a Sea City under construction, determined to witness humanity’s fate alongside him.

• China called for volunteers to work in transport, and Osamu Dazai was stunned as countless people signed up despite the risk of death.
• A weathered man told Dazai that adults would shoulder the burden so children could survive, while a young volunteer said humanity would win even though his family was already dead.
• An Xinyi asked Dazai what he thought of humanity, and Dazai admitted that ordinary people’s resolve had made him want to see how their story ended.
• An Xinyi invited Dazai to join him at a Sea City under construction, and Dazai accepted, saying he would go wherever Yiyi was.

As Sea City prepared for the Final Judgment, Osamu Dazai and An Xinyi learned that a doomsday cult was spreading fear and faced the looming threat of sabotage. With the disaster six hours away, Dazai and An Xinyi secured their Safety Ropes and parted with unease.

• Nobara Kugisaki and the others reacted to people willing to sacrifice their lives for a chance to save the future, while Ranpo Edogawa told Megumi Fushiguro they were different from him.
• Osamu Dazai told An Xinyi that a cult was spreading a Doomsday Declaration in Sea City, and An Xinyi explained that its members believed self-immolation would earn divine forgiveness.
• Sea City's leadership arrested many cult members, but Osamu Dazai suspected they had caught only minor followers as the city approached its final test.
• The others worried that the cult might cause trouble, while Atsushi Nakajima drew encouragement from Osamu Dazai and Akutagawa glared at him jealously.
• With six hours until the Final Judgment, An Xinyi fastened Osamu Dazai's Safety Rope; they exchanged farewells, and Dazai wished him good fortune while feeling uneasy.