Chapter Summaries

Lin Guang saw Inori Yuzuriha join the student council and warned Shu Ouma that learning more about her could turn his life upside down. That night, Inori moved into Lin Guang’s house, where he learned that the others had returned to the alternate space, and she asked him to make rice balls.

• Maid Tsunomori showed Lin Guang and Shu Ouma a video featuring Gai Tsutsugami and Funeral Parlor, and Lin Guang recognized Gai’s look as a message for him.
• Inori Yuzuriha applied to join the student council, and Arisa Shūkyōin accepted her after confirming her application.
• Lin Guang warned Shu Ouma that learning why Inori was at the school could change his life, then left him to decide whether to meet at their usual place.
• Lin Guang waited at the school’s secret base for Shu Ouma, but Shu never appeared, so Lin Guang concluded he would probably have nothing to do with Funeral Parlor.
• Lin Guang returned home to find Inori Yuzuriha and her robotic pet Funell inside, and she asked him to make rice balls.

Shu Ouma asked Lin Guang to teach him how to fight, while Inori Yuzuriha called Lin Guang away to meet Gai Tsutsugami. Gai warned that an outsider, possibly a student, may have seen Funeral Parlor during its operation, leaving the group to consider the risk of being identified.

• Shuichiro Keido told Rear Admiral Yang that Major Shuukai would handle incidents involving Funeral Parlor and praised his skill at tracking targets.
• Inori Yuzuriha worried that she was a bother to Lin Guang, and he reassured her that he was simply unused to sharing his home.
• Shu Ouma visited Lin Guang to ask for combat training, and Lin Guang told him to improve his physical fitness first.
• Inori Yuzuriha summoned Lin Guang to meet Gai Tsutsugami, leaving Shu Ouma feeling distant from them.
• Gai Tsutsugami told Lin Guang that an outsider, possibly a student, might have spotted Funeral Parlor during the previous operation.

Lin Guang took charge of finding the student who had witnessed the incident and encouraged Inori Yuzuriha to think about what she wanted for herself. The next day, he found Yahiro Samukawa at school and addressed him, leaving their conversation about to begin.

• Lin Guang told Gai Tsutsugami that the witness was a student at their school, and Gai left the matter to him and Inori Yuzuriha.
• On the way home, Lin Guang asked Inori Yuzuriha what she wanted to do for herself and promised to help her find an answer.
• In the alternate space, Lin Guang reconciled with Shinobu Kocho, then left when Lin Mei and Rose tried to repay him for finding the Blue Spider Lily.
• Lin Guang reflected that Shu Ouma had lost the Power of the King and wondered what would happen when he met Yahiro Samukawa.
• The next morning, Lin Guang and Inori Yuzuriha went to Class 2-A, where Lin Guang identified Yahiro Samukawa and asked to speak with him.

Lin Guang confronted Yahiro Samukawa about selling information on terrorists and learned that Yahiro had been driven by his younger brother’s illness. Lin Guang offered to help treat his brother, leaving Yahiro to decide whether to trust him.

• Lin Guang took Yahiro Samukawa to the indoor basketball court to speak privately, while Maid Tsunomori wondered whether something had changed between Lin Guang and Shu Ouma.
• Lin Guang revealed that he knew Yahiro had sold information, and Yahiro angrily defended his actions and grabbed Lin Guang by the collar.
• Lin Guang used his King’s Sigil to draw Yahiro’s Void and knock him unconscious, then stopped Inori Yuzuriha from shooting him so they could continue talking.
• Yahiro woke up and accepted a drink from Lin Guang, who warned him not to report him to GHQ and pointed out that his younger brother needed treatment.
• Lin Guang offered to help resolve Yahiro’s brother’s condition, and Yahiro clasped his hand.

Lin Guang removed Jun Samukawa’s Void and absorbed the crystals afflicting him, then received Yahiro Samukawa’s recording of the Roppongi incident. Yahiro offered to become Lin Guang’s right-hand man.

• On the walk home, Inori Yuzuriha told Lin Guang she wanted to understand him, the others, and her own feelings, then asked him to make rice balls.
• Yahiro Samukawa brought Lin Guang to his younger brother Jun and asked him to cure Jun’s illness.
• Lin Guang pulled Jun’s Void from his chest, making the crystals on Jun’s body disappear, then returned the Void to him so he could recover.
• Lin Guang told Inori that he had absorbed the crystals and felt stronger, while Inori worried about his health.
• Yahiro gave Lin Guang a disk containing his Roppongi recording and asked to become Lin Guang’s right-hand man.

Lin Guang joined Funeral Parlor's surprise operation to rescue Kenji Kido from the AP Virus Prevention and Control Center. After Lin Guang and Inori Yuzuriha escaped with Kenji, a group of Endlaves surrounded them, and Lin Guang prepared to fight with Inori's Void Great Sword.

• Lin Guang rejected Yahiro Samukawa's offer of loyalty but secretly hoped Yahiro would not disappoint him.
• Gai Tsutsugami briefed Lin Guang on Funeral Parlor's plan to rescue Kenji Kido with a surprise attack.
• Funeral Parlor launched an assault on the AP Virus Prevention and Control Center, while Ayase Shinomiya attacked in Steiner.
• Lin Guang Mei and Rose destroyed several Endlaves, but Gai Tsutsugami ordered Funeral Parlor to ignore them and continue the operation.
• Lin Guang and Inori Yuzuriha rescued Kenji Kido, then drew the attention of more than a dozen Endlaves as Lin Guang summoned Inori's Void Great Sword.

Lin Guang rescued Kenji Kido from the Apocalypse Virus Prevention and Control Center with help from Ayase, Inori, Rose, and Lin Mei, collecting Treasure Chests along the way. At the Funeral Parlor’s base, Gai introduced Lin Guang as the owner of the Void Genome and said their next objective was to take down White Blood Cell.

• Lin Guang destroyed Endlaves and escaped with Inori Yuzuriha, while Ayase rescued Kenji Kido and carried them out in Steiner.
• Lin Guang used the Gravity Gun to lift pursuing Endlaves into the air as Rose and Lin Mei finished them off, then the Funeral Parlor withdrew.
• The system awarded Lin Guang a Silver Treasure Chest for completing the rescue, and Inori woke up at the safe location.
• Gai Tsutsugami invited Lin Guang to stay with the Funeral Parlor, and Lin Guang said he might return to school soon.
• Gai brought Lin Guang to the larger headquarters, introduced him to the members, and named White Blood Cell as their next target.

Gai Tsutsugami ordered Funeral Parlor to memorize 145 battle-plan scenarios in three days and assigned Ayase Shinomiya to test Lin Guang. After a night with Rose, Lin Guang began his tests by facing Argo, who challenged him to fight with intent to kill.

• Gai Tsutsugami presented the 145-scenario battle plan, set a three-day deadline, and assigned Ayase Shinomiya to assess Lin Guang.
• Lin Guang met Ayase and Tsugumi, then summoned Rose and Lin Mei in his room and rewarded them before spending the night with Rose.
• Ayase woke Lin Guang the next morning and led him to meet Argo for a close-combat test.
• Argo tried to put Lin Guang in his place, then handed him a dagger and demanded that he attack with genuine intent to kill.

Lin Guang impressed Argo with his speed and fighting ability, then joined Ayase Shinomiya as she took him to meet Ōkumo and test his skills with heavy weapons. After Lin Guang easily handled a cannon and completed a demanding parkour test, Tsugumi was stunned by his physical data.

• Lin Guang overwhelmed Argo with his Conqueror's Haki and defeated him instantly in a close-combat test, earning Argo's respect and welcome aboard.
• Ayase Shinomiya took Lin Guang to meet Ōkumo, while Lin Guang teased her and pushed her wheelchair despite her protests.
• Ōkumo handed Lin Guang a heavy cannon, which Lin Guang swung with ease, showing his strength.
• Ayase Shinomiya sent Lin Guang to Tsugumi for a fitness test, where he raced through abandoned buildings in a sensor suit without tiring.
• Tsugumi checked Lin Guang's physical readings and wondered aloud whether he was really human.

Lin Guang completed Funeral Parlor’s physical and firearms tests with exceptional results, then settled into life at the base. After hearing Inori Yuzuriha sing at night, he offered to listen if she wanted to talk, but she watched him leave feeling miserable.

• Lin Guang’s obstacle-course results astonished Tsugumi and Ayase Shinomiya, and he later improved from missing his first shot to consistently hitting a target’s vital areas.
• Inori Yuzuriha demonstrated precise shooting, while Ayase recorded Lin Guang’s results after his rapid improvement.
• At Funeral Parlor’s base, Lin Guang spoke with Argo about his swordsmanship and urged Kyou to be careful before she left to prepare supplies with Gai Tsutsugami.
• Lin Guang found Inori singing by a large window and asked what had prompted her song.
• Lin Guang left after telling Inori she could talk to him anytime, and Inori watched him go with a sudden feeling of misery.

Lin Guang discovered that Gai Tsutsugami was using Inori Yuzuriha's blood to suppress the Apocalypse Virus in his own body, then teased Ayase Shinomiya and carried her back to her room. The next day, Lin Guang and Ayase prepared to begin a mock battle for the White Blood Cell assault operation.

• Inori Yuzuriha entered Gai Tsutsugami's room, and Lin Guang realized Gai was extracting an Apocalypse Virus inhibitor from her blood.
• Lin Guang bumped into Ayase Shinomiya, apologized, and teased her about her feelings for Gai until she began to cry.
• Lin Guang carried Ayase Shinomiya to her room and tucked her into bed after she insisted she would not rely on anyone else.
• The next day, Lin Guang stood with Ayase Shinomiya and the new-model Endlave Steiner as their mock battle for the White Blood Cell assault operation began.

Lin Guang won the mock battle against Ayase Shinomiya by evading Steiner and reaching the train car, but the celebration was interrupted by news that White Blood Cell had fired on the Delta District. Gai Tsutsugami warned the Funeral Parlor that GHQ intended to wipe out every Japanese person.

• Lin Guang dodged Ayase Shinomiya's paintball barrage, used a flashbang to escape Steiner, and reached the train car to win the mock battle.
• Kenji Kido criticized the Funeral Parlor's lack of discipline, prompting Ayase Shinomiya to defend Gai Tsutsugami.
• Tsugumi reported that White Blood Cell had fired at the Delta District, putting the Funeral Parlor on high alert.
• Shūichirō Keidō praised Shuukai for locating the Funeral Parlor's supporters and watched White Blood Cell's test firing from orbit.
• Shibunshiki explained that White Blood Cell's satellite network could attack targets across Japan, and Gai Tsutsugami said GHQ meant to exterminate the Japanese people.

After GHQ’s forces devastated Funeral Parlor’s reinforcements, Gai Tsutsugami launched a riskier operation to disable White Blood Cell at Tsukinose Reservoir. Before the mission, Lin Guang agreed to help Gai suppress his Apocalypse Virus and confronted him about his doubts as a leader.

• Gai Tsutsugami reported that the reinforcements had been wiped out and their supplies lost, but ordered Funeral Parlor to begin the operation.
• Gai Tsutsugami explained that the team had to infiltrate the White Blood Cell control facility and send a termination signal without physically touching its core.
• Gai Tsutsugami gave Shibunshiki a revised battle plan that raised projected losses from five percent to thirty-five percent.
• Inori Yuzuriha asked Lin Guang to help Gai, and Lin Guang agreed to suppress Gai’s Apocalypse Virus.
• Lin Guang entered Gai’s medical vehicle and heard him confess that he felt weak and unsure whether he was worth everyone’s sacrifices.

Lin Guang offered to use his Power of the King to remove the Apocalypse Virus from Gai Tsutsugami, who postponed the attempt until after the operation. As Funeral Parlor launched its assault on Tsukinose Reservoir, Gai, Lin Guang, Inori Yuzuriha, and Kenji Kido infiltrated the facility and reached the White Blood Cell's core.

• Lin Guang told Gai Tsutsugami that he could absorb the Apocalypse Virus by extracting Voids, and Gai asked him to try after the operation.
• Gai Tsutsugami ordered the diversion at Tsukinose Reservoir, where Ayase Shinomiya fought Daryl Yan's Endlave while Funeral Parlor drew enemy fire.
• Gai led Lin Guang, Inori Yuzuriha, and Kenji Kido into the reservoir, and Kenji Kido praised Lin Guang's combat skills.
• Inori Yuzuriha stayed behind to confront the soldiers as Gai, Lin Guang, and Kenji Kido continued to the White Blood Cell's core.
• Lin Guang extracted Kenji Kido's Void, then prepared with Gai to act against the core once it stopped rotating.

Lin Guang destroyed Daryl Yan’s Endlave after its weapons damaged White Blood Cell’s core, and White Blood Cell No. 1 veered off course, leaving Gai Tsutsugami to conclude the mission had failed. Lin Guang drew Shuukai’s Void without harming him and used it to destroy the White Blood Cell satellites, while Gai Tsutsugami was left questioning who Lin Guang really was.

• Lin Guang connected Funell to White Blood Cell’s core, but Daryl Yan fired the Endlave’s weapons and shattered the core’s glass, so Lin Guang cut the Endlave in two and destroyed it.
• Tsugumi told Gai Tsutsugami that White Blood Cell No. 1 had left its orbit and was on course to crash into Tokyo, and Lin Guang left to find someone who might help.
• Lin Guang met Shuukai, drew out his spear-and-shield Void without making him lose consciousness, and ordered him to come along.
• Lin Guang hurled Shuukai’s Void into space, where it destroyed the three White Blood Cell satellites before returning to his hand.
• Tsugumi reported that all the White Blood Cells had been destroyed, and Gai Tsutsugami asked Lin Guang who he really was.

After destroying the White Blood Cell, Lin Guang returned to school, where rumors about GHQ and his recent actions drew attention. He reunited with Arisa Shūkyōin and agreed to attend her grandfather’s banquet on the family cruise ship.

• Lin Guang told Shuukai to keep his identity hidden from GHQ, and Shuukai left; the system then awarded Lin Guang five Silver Treasure Chests for resolving the White Blood Cell assault.
• Gai Tsutsugami questioned Lin Guang about his powerful subordinates, while Shūichirō Keidō learned that the White Blood Cell had been destroyed and heard a golden-haired young man predict the River of Lament would awaken.
• Lin Guang returned to school with Inori Yuzuriha and escaped the crowd with help from Arisa Shūkyōin before meeting Yahiro Samukawa on the rooftop.
• Yahiro Samukawa guessed Lin Guang had been involved with Funeral Parlor and GHQ, and Lin Guang promised he would have a use for him soon.
• Arisa Shūkyōin reunited with Lin Guang in the Student Council office, told him about her grandfather’s banquet, and Lin Guang agreed to attend it aboard the family cruise ship.

At a banquet aboard a cruise ship, Lin Guang met with Gai Tsutsugami and learned about Funeral Parlor’s plans, then revealed to the Kuhouin Family’s patriarch that he had joined them. After learning that Antibodies planned to sink the ship, Lin Guang led Arisa Shūkyōin to the aft deck as the attack approached.

• Arisa Shūkyōin introduced Lin Guang to Haruka Ouma and told him that the Kuhouin Family’s patriarch wanted to see him.
• Gai Tsutsugami told Lin Guang that Shu Ouma was aboard the ship, had recovered some memories, and had obtained the King’s Sigil; he then prepared a revised battle plan.
• Lin Guang met the Kuhouin Family’s patriarch and disclosed that he had joined Funeral Parlor.
• Shuukai warned Lin Guang that the newly appointed Igoruman Tang of the Antibodies planned to sink the cruise ship.
• Gai Tsutsugami told Lin Guang to take Arisa Shūkyōin to the aft deck before the missiles launched, while he went to speak with the patriarch.
• Lin Guang asked Arisa Shūkyōin to dance, led her to the aft deck, and promised her a fireworks display.

Lin Guang used Arisa Shūkyōin’s Void to turn GHQ’s missile attack on the cruise ship into fireworks while dancing with her. After Arisa left, Lin Guang spoke with Shu Ouma and asked about Funeral Parlor approaching him.

• Lin Guang drew an Orb-Shaped Void from Arisa Shūkyōin and used its petal-shaped plates to intercept missiles aimed at the cruise ship.
• Arisa told Lin Guang she wanted to protect him, and the two danced as more missiles became fireworks.
• Shu Ouma watched the missiles being intercepted and tried to reassure himself that he could return to an ordinary life.
• Lin Guang called Shu over, and Arisa asked him to keep her conversation with Lin Guang secret before leaving.
• Lin Guang explained to Shu that he was Arisa’s adopted older brother and had moved out of the Kuhouin Family, then asked whether Funeral Parlor had approached him.

After the banquet, Lin Guang learned that Funeral Parlor planned to infiltrate a GHQ base on Oshima to obtain the Origin Stone, and agreed to help extract a student's Void. He rested with Inori Yuzuriha, then woke in the night resolved to ease the suffering of the people around him.

• Shu Ouma asked Lin Guang whether he and Inori Yuzuriha belonged to Funeral Parlor, and Lin Guang warned that Shu was still caught in a vortex he could not escape.
• The elderly head of the Kuhouin Family agreed to cooperate with Funeral Parlor, and Shibunshiki told the group that the Kuhouin Group would provide channels within the country.
• Gai Tsutsugami told Lin Guang that Funeral Parlor would go to Oshima in three days to infiltrate GHQ's base and retrieve the Origin Stone.
• Lin Guang refused to use Shuukai to open the base's security defenses, so Gai proposed extracting Souta Tamadate's Void and knocking him out afterward.
• Lin Guang accepted the plan, then let Inori Yuzuriha comfort him by resting his head on her lap while he fell asleep.
• Lin Guang woke in the middle of the night, saw Inori asleep beside him, and resolved to cut through the suffering in the world.

Lin Guang reviewed his abilities and opened all his stored treasure chests, gaining items to strengthen himself and his companions. He gave Kanae Kocho two Soul Jades that could help her grow stronger before she returned to the spirit host space.

• Lin Guang reviewed his abilities and planned to give Lin Mei, Shinobu Kocho, Tamayo, and Mitsuri Kanroji abilities suited to them.
• Lin Guang opened sixteen Bronze Treasure Chests and received Golden Desert Eagles, Enlightenment Experience Cards, and Eggs Benedict.
• Lin Guang opened six Silver Treasure Chests and received Weapon Enhancement Cards, two Soul Jades, and dark aura.
• Lin Guang gave Kanae Kocho both Soul Jades to strengthen her soul and allow her to grow.
• Kanae Kocho thanked Lin Guang and returned to the spirit host space.