Chapter Summaries

Richie and Si Ang returned to Eden Academy after missing a week and received three Tonitrus Bolts each instead of being expelled. Richie offered to help Anya with her studies, but he warned her that a lunar eclipse on exam day would prevent her from using her mind-reading ability.

• Damian resolved to beat Richie at midterms, while Ann admired Richie for his achievements.
• Henry told Richie and Si Ang that the school had spared them expulsion but given them three Tonitrus Bolts each, and he urged them to study and behave elegantly.
• Richie earned full marks on a history quiz, while Anya scored thirteen and Damian scored ninety-seven; Richie asked Henry to let him stay for Anya's tutoring.
• On the school bus, Richie told Anya that a lunar eclipse would stop her from reading minds on exam day, then reassured her about passing.
• Twilight reviewed the children's grades at home, and Richie settled on the sofa to watch him tutor Anya.

Richie studied diligently for his midterm exams and carefully completed his papers, while Si Ang grew upset that Richie seemed to care more about studying than spending time with him. After the exams, Si Ang tried to invite Richie home, but Richie joked that he would rather visit Second Son Damian, provoking Si Ang's possessive anger.

• Richie studied hard while Anya received help from Twilight and Yuri, and Yor admired Richie's dedication.
• Richie carefully finished and checked his exam, then looked for Anya and Si Ang.
• Richie tried to comfort Si Ang after an exam, but Si Ang ignored him, so Richie focused on reviewing for the next subject.
• After the final exam, Si Ang grew anxious when Richie continued ignoring him and followed him, asking him to visit the school garden and inviting him home.
• Richie said he would rather visit Second Son Damian's house, making Si Ang block his path and demand that he repeat himself.
• Richie quickly claimed he had only been joking, wary of Si Ang's possessiveness.

Richie earned first place in every subject on the midterm results, completing his eight stars and seven Tonitrus. His sudden fame at Eden Academy left Si Ang unaware that many students had become Richie's admirers.

• Richie whispered to Si Ang, calming him enough that Si Ang forgot why he had come to confront him.
• Six days later, Richie and the other first graders gathered at the noticeboard to see their midterm results.
• Richie ranked first in all four subjects and overall among 287 students, while Anya passed every subject and Si Ang ranked below her.
• Richie completed Eight Stars and Seven Tonitrus, and Damian realized how far behind Richie he was.
• Richie's results made him famous around Eden Academy, while Si Ang remained unaware of his new romantic rivals.

After Richie celebrated earning four stars with the family, he worried about being forgotten if he disappeared, while Twilight concealed that he would eventually leave. That night, Richie dreamed of a strange cloud that asked him to save it and revealed that his Sixth Sister was an Outside Invader.

• Twilight celebrated Richie's four stars and offered him a kitten or another present, but Richie declined and wished to stay with his family forever.
• Richie read Twilight's thoughts and worried that, like Sixth Sister, he might disappear and be forgotten by his family and Si Ang.
• Richie fell asleep and, for the first time since arriving in this world, began to dream in a strange, colorful space filled with mist and clouds.
• A childlike cloud spoke to Richie, who discovered that he could feel pain in the dream and demanded to know who had brought him there.
• The cloud asked Richie to save it, explaining that the world was close to collapsing and that it had found an Outside Invader: the cat in his home.

In a dream, Richie learned that the world was collapsing and that the cloud needed him to reset its timeline by making everyone forget him. He woke uncertain whether the dream was real, facing the prospect of leaving his family and friends behind.

• Richie angrily demanded to know what had happened to his cat, and the cloud explained that it had sent her back to her original world alive and well.
• Richie asked whether the cloud had come to send him home, and the cloud said it needed him to save the world and itself first.
• The cloud asked Richie to hypnotize Eden Academy’s students and teachers, his parents, Anya, and his friends so they would forget him, then help restore the world’s progress to when Anya had one Tonitrus and one star.
• The cloud explained that the collapsing world was close to disappearing and warned Richie that everyone’s fate depended on his decision.
• Richie remained stunned as the dream faded and woke in bed, wondering whether the encounter had been real.

After learning that disasters had begun striking the world, Richie grieved over the danger facing his family and friends, then agreed to help save the little world. He asked Little Cloud to erase the students’ parents’ impressions of him before the next afternoon while he prepared to carry out the rest of the plan.

• Richie watched news reports of an earthquake, flooding, and the recent extraordinary storm, and realized the world was beginning to collapse.
• Richie hid his tears from Twilight, Yor, and Anya, then went to school and pretended that an eyelash had made his eyes red.
• Richie invited Si Ang to visit Grandmother that weekend, and Si Ang agreed and walked him to the academy gates.
• Richie spent the evening with his family before Little Cloud arrived late that night to ask what he had decided.
• Richie agreed to act to save the little world and asked Little Cloud to erase the students’ parents’ impressions of him before the next afternoon.

Richie became an Imperial Scholar at the Stella ceremony, then used knockout gas and hypnosis to erase himself from most students’ and staff members’ memories. Si Ang and Anya resisted, leaving Richie to face the harder task of making his closest friends forget him individually.

• Richie decided to finish saying goodbye to his family and friends before asking Little Cloud to send him back.
• At the ceremony, Henry pinned Richie’s final four Stella onto him, making him an eight-Stella Imperial Scholar.
• Richie released knockout gas in the auditorium and hypnotized most of the students and staff to lock away their memories of him.
• Si Ang and Anya resisted Richie’s command, and Richie recognized that he would need to hypnotize them separately.
• Richie told the sleeping crowd to wake in one minute and forget what had happened, then left the auditorium.

Richie erased the school’s memories of him, then prepared to hypnotize the Forgers so he could leave his family without being remembered. After sharing a final dinner with them, he raised his soup for a toast, leaving his farewell’s true purpose concealed.

• Richie erased the students’ and staff’s memories of him, while Anya and Si Ang noticed he was absent; Si Ang found Richie outside, and Richie gave him an explanation for leaving the Auditorium.
• Richie walked around campus with Si Ang, then rode the school bus home with Anya, thinking that he would formally say farewell to his family that night.
• Richie returned to the Forger home and secretly added a sedative to the soup Twilight had made.
• Richie ate a final dinner with Twilight, Yor, and Anya, then thanked them solemnly for caring for him.
• Richie proposed raising their soup bowls in a toast to celebrate his eight Stellas and becoming an Imperial Scholar, and Twilight dismissed his speech as an awkward choice of words.

Richie drugged the family and tried to hypnotize Twilight into forgetting that he had adopted Richie, but Twilight resisted fiercely. Richie suffered a serious physical backlash and continued forcing his way into Twilight’s memories.

• Richie drugged the family’s broth, leaving Anya and Yor asleep while Twilight pretended to be unconscious.
• Richie tried to hypnotize Twilight, but Twilight woke and questioned him about the drug.
• Richie injected Twilight with a sedative, and Twilight collapsed before reaching an antidote.
• Richie told Twilight that he had never adopted Richie and that Richie had already been dead when Twilight saw him at the orphanage.
• Twilight repeatedly resisted, insisting that Richie was his beloved son, while Richie grew pale, spat blood, and pushed on with the hypnosis.

Richie used hypnosis to seal away Twilight’s memories of him, then made Anya forget him and began altering Yor’s memories. By dawn, he planned to erase himself from all three of their minds.

• Richie spent eight hours hypnotizing Twilight and convinced him that he had never had a son, sealing away every memory of himself.
• After collapsing from the effort, Richie rested and drank hot cocoa before continuing the hypnosis.
• Richie persuaded Anya that he was a bad person and guided her into locking away all her memories of him.
• Richie hypnotized Yor by focusing on her strongest memory of him, the time she had broken his ribs, and altered her memories with little difficulty.

Richie erased the last traces of his life from the Forger home and left before Twilight, Yor, and Anya woke. Si Ang picked him up and, alarmed by his failing health and grief, took him to get hot breakfast before heading onward.

• Richie told Little Cloud to remove all traces of his stay at the Forger home, turn his room into storage, and return his family to their beds.
• Richie walked through the home, remembered the time he had spent with the Forgers, and left before they could wake.
• Richie waited outside for Si Ang, who arrived with his family driver at seven in the morning.
• Si Ang held Richie to warm his cold hands and realized that Richie's body was close to death.
• Si Ang ordered the driver to buy Richie hot, easy-to-digest breakfast before taking them to their destination.

Richie and Si Ang set out to climb the mountain to Grandmother’s house, but Richie’s failing strength forced Si Ang to carry him. Si Ang continued up the path while Richie entertained him by telling Dream of the Red Chamber.

• Richie asked Si Ang whether he would remember him if he went to another world, and Si Ang angrily insisted that Richie was not allowed to leave him.
• Richie and Si Ang finished breakfast and reached the foot of the mountain, where Si Ang sent the driver away until three that afternoon.
• Richie insisted on climbing despite his weakness, but after a few steps he grew pale and began to tremble.
• Si Ang lifted Richie onto his back and carried him up the mountain as Richie teased him and played with his hair.
• After Richie stopped covering Si Ang’s eyes, Si Ang resumed climbing and asked Richie to continue telling him Dream of the Red Chamber.

Richie and Si Ang visited Grandmother at her bamboo house, bringing supplies and sharing lunch with her. While Si Ang waited outside, Richie hypnotized Grandmother and changed her memories so she remembered rescuing and visiting only Si Ang, leaving no memory of Richie.

• Si Ang and Richie climbed to Grandmother's home with food, clothes, and household supplies to repay her kindness.
• Grandmother welcomed the boys, accepted their gifts, and shared lunch with them.
• After lunch, Si Ang waited in the woods while Richie went to Grandmother's bedroom to speak with her alone.
• Richie used his mental power to control Grandmother and erase her memories of him, leaving her to remember only Si Ang.
• An unseen watcher observed Richie through the window, then returned to the tree and pretended to be casual.

After Richie altered Grandmother’s memories, Si Ang hid that he had witnessed it and brought the exhausted Richie to his home. Richie fell asleep in Si Ang’s room, while Si Ang arranged for him to be cared for.

• Si Ang realized Richie had altered Grandmother’s memories and concealed that he had watched him.
• Richie agreed to stay at Si Ang’s home, though he refused to visit Grandmother before leaving.
• Si Ang left Grandmother a note that made it seem he had come alone, then carried Richie down the mountain and drove him home.
• Si Ang showed Richie his guarded villa and brought him to a private suite.
• After Richie fell asleep on the sofa, Si Ang moved him to his bed, tucked him in, and summoned a servant.

Si Ang asked his adoptive father, Ivan, to send top doctors to treat his seriously ill friend Richie Forger. He revealed that he was Test Subject No. 110 with X-Ray Vision, and Ivan agreed to provide the medical team.

• Si Ang asked the Evan Family’s elderly butler to arrange a call with Ivan.
• Si Ang pleaded with Ivan to find the best doctors for Richie Forger, but Ivan refused to help without a worthwhile bargain.
• Si Ang insisted he had a valuable bargaining chip and would reveal it only after Ivan agreed to treat Richie.
• Ivan agreed to send a top medical team and equipment to Si Ang.
• Si Ang revealed that he was Test Subject No. 110 and could use X-Ray Vision to see illnesses and failing organs, and Ivan said the offer was enough before hanging up.

Richie woke at Si Ang's home, ate dinner, and spent the night sharing Si Ang's bed. By dawn, Si Ang was still worried about Richie's health and asked why he had woken so early.

• Si Ang waited beside the window while Richie slept, then helped him get up after he woke in the dark.
• Richie put on slippers and ate the dinner Si Ang had kept ready for him.
• Richie bathed and changed into Si Ang's clothes, then declined a small ornament Si Ang offered him.
• Si Ang invited Richie to share his bed, and Richie agreed, believing Si Ang was afraid of the dark.
• Richie and Si Ang stayed awake through the night, and Si Ang questioned Richie when he returned from the bathroom at dawn.

Richie told Si Ang that he had transmigrated into Richie Forger and explained how his actions had altered the story’s timeline, threatening the space-time. He revealed that he planned to erase everyone’s memories of him, and Si Ang asked for more time together before Richie hypnotized him.

• Richie struggled to explain his secret, then told Si Ang that Zhang Si had transmigrated into Richie Forger.
• Richie explained that Twilight was his father and described Operation Strix and his efforts to earn Stellas at Eden Academy.
• Richie revealed that changing the world’s plot had put its space-time on the verge of collapse, so he had erased everyone else’s memories of him.
• Si Ang realized Richie intended to erase his memories too and asked whether Richie had come to do that.
• Si Ang stopped Richie from hypnotizing him immediately and asked to spend more time together while hearing about Richie’s life in his other world.

Richie told Si Ang about his life in the real world and explained that his life was nearing its end, while Si Ang pleaded to keep his memories and begged Richie to stay. Richie prepared to erase Si Ang’s memories, but grew dizzy and lost consciousness before he could begin.

• Richie told Si Ang where he lived, described his appearance in the real world, and showed him a drawing.
• Si Ang pleaded to keep his memories, but Richie insisted that everyone’s memories had to be erased for the world’s safety.
• Si Ang begged Richie to stay beside him, and Richie admitted that his life was about to end and he needed to go home.
• Richie described his demanding schooling and reassured Si Ang that his parents would care for him in the real world.
• Richie promised Si Ang they would not forget each other and began preparing to hypnotize him, but became dizzy and lost consciousness.

Si Ang learned from the medical team that Richie's organs were failing and he would die by the following evening, with no way to save him. After keeping Richie asleep for the day and kissing his forehead, Si Ang visited Twilight to ask how hypnosis could be resisted or used to conceal memories.

• Si Ang brought a medical team to examine Richie, and the doctors found no illness but severe organ failure.
• The medical team told Si Ang that Richie would survive until the next evening at the latest and agreed to keep the diagnosis confidential.
• Si Ang sat with the sleeping Richie all day, then kissed his forehead as he accepted that he could not keep Richie in this world.
• Si Ang went to Twilight's psychiatric hospital and suspected Richie had hypnotized Twilight because he did not recognize him.
• Si Ang asked Twilight how to resist hypnosis and conceal a memory, then left after hearing that the subject controlled the process.

Richie hypnotized Si Ang to erase his memories before leaving, believing it would spare him a worse heartbreak. On the way home, Richie encountered the Forgers, whose unexplained sorrow stirred when they saw him, and Twilight asked if they had met before.

• Si Ang woke as Richie's drug-induced sleep ended and pleaded with him not to leave.
• Richie hypnotized Si Ang, altered his memories, and left the Evan home for Berlint West District.
• Si Ang watched Richie depart, then asked the butler to excuse him from school and bring him breakfast.
• Richie returned to the Forgers' home and saw Twilight, Yor, and Anya, who felt a sudden, inexplicable sadness at the sight of him.
• Twilight asked Richie if they had met before, but Richie shook his head and walked away in tears.