Chapter Summaries

Lin En finally captured the silver-haired Valkyrie after luring her into the black mist and waiting for her power to weaken. He restrained and gagged her, intent on taking revenge for the countless times she had killed him.

• Lin En watched the Valkyrie struggle against the black mist and recalled how she had repeatedly killed him after he approached her sun.
• Lin En explained that he had learned the Valkyrie's habits over ten years and lured her into the black mist, where she could not safely remain.
• After wearing her down for hours, Lin En used chains of black mist to bind the Valkyrie when her light and power faded.
• The Valkyrie threatened to kill Lin En when her strength returned, and he angrily reminded her of how often she had killed him.
• The Valkyrie demanded to know who Lin En was, but he silenced her by plugging her mouth with black mist.

Lin En discovered that Shinsen Saya’s anger produced emotional fragments he could eat, then tried to force her to explain the desolate place and how he could reach a normal world. The chapter ended with him threatening her using an artifact he had taken from her sun, while she finally showed signs of alarm.

• Lin En repeatedly silenced Shinsen Saya with black mist, collected her anger fragments, and ate them to increase his satiety.
• Lin En recalled that his Emotion devourer system let him turn emotional fragments into nourishment, though he had been stranded somewhere with almost no other source of emotions.
• Lin En removed the mist and demanded that Shinsen Saya explain where they were and how he could reach a normal world, but she refused and threatened to kill him.
• Lin En tried to provoke Shinsen Saya with a tentacle, but she remained furious and defiant.
• Lin En produced a heat-radiating artifact he said he had taken from her sun, and Shinsen Saya’s expression changed as he asked her to choose.

Lin En forced Shinsen Saya to explain the Warp and the world beyond it, learning that she had become a blazing sun to seal a rift into Seven Nights. After promising to release her, he reneged and left her imprisoned while he went to explore her world.

• Lin En questioned Shinsen Saya about the Warp, then noticed her need to return to the sun and persuaded her to describe the world beyond it.
• Shinsen Saya explained that the Warp's Outer Gods had invaded reality for over a thousand years before being annihilated, and that she had sealed the great rift at a terrible cost.
• Shinsen Saya revealed that the world was called Seven Nights and had endured eternal darkness until she became a sun a thousand years earlier.
• Lin En pretended to honor his promise, then plugged Shinsen Saya's mouth again and admitted he would keep her imprisoned as his long-term source of food.
• Lin En left Shinsen Saya trapped amid the living black mist and set out to explore her world.

After ten years in the Warp, Lin En was pulled through a rift into the world of Seven Nights, where a blood moon was already causing Spirit Realm incursions. Glass Lamp encountered a terrifying presence in the darkness as the Spirit Bell rang.

• Lin En left his home in the black mist and crossed the sun to investigate the giant rift beyond it.
• Lin En saw the crimson blood moon over the world below, but the system set his objective to slaughter its inhabitants and dragged him through the rift before he could object.
• During the blood moon, Glass Lamp fought invading shadows on Clockwork Street while an exorcist warned her that the moon had appeared unusually soon.
• A Hellhound charged Glass Lamp, ignored her crossbow bolt, and fled past her in apparent fear.
• An overwhelming presence surged toward Glass Lamp, every streetlamp on the street exploded, and a distant tower's Spirit Bell rang.

Glass Lamp tried to identify the calamity that descended on Clockwork Street, but looking at it destroyed her eyes and left her terrified. Lin En, newly arrived in a twisted body, approached her as the Exorcists' headquarters connected to her crystal and saw the being on camera.

• The Spirit Bell rang nine times as the signal from Glass Lamp’s location cut out, and she used her Eye of Truth-Piercing to look into the darkness, bursting her eyes.
• At the Exorcists' headquarters, an old man identified the nine tolls as a possible [Outer God Projection] and ordered the staff to restore contact with Glass Lamp.
• Blind and terrified, Glass Lamp heard a distorted figure approaching and lost sanity as Lin En crawled toward her and asked for help.
• Lin En stood using tentacles and walked up to Glass Lamp, whose fear worsened when she heard his voice.
• The clerks restored the crystal’s image connection and saw a strange shape emerge directly in front of Glass Lamp’s camera.

Lin En arrived in the Seven Nights World in a failing human vessel and mistook Glass Lamp’s terror for ordinary shyness while asking her for directions and clothes. He left with directions to Gear Street and Glass Lamp’s underwear, as she remained convinced he was a demon god planning to devour the world.

• Lin En confused the clerks with his exposed body, then tried speaking kindly to the terrified, blind Glass Lamp.
• Lin En spoke the local language, and Glass Lamp’s sanity dropped as she mistook his accent for proof he was an ancient evil god.
• Lin En inspected his panel and learned his human vessel was fifteen, missing its brain stem, losing its memories, and unable to support more power.
• Lin En asked Glass Lamp for directions to Gear Street, and she explained the route while fearing he intended to make the world his lair.
• Lin En asked Glass Lamp for pants, and she shakily offered him her lace-trimmed underwear.

Glass Lamp warned the Exorcists that an ancient great demon had descended and was heading for Gear Street, prompting them to mobilize against it. Meanwhile, Lin En reached his host’s home at 154 Gear Street, where its monstrous inhabitants tried to eat him and he decided he wanted to eat them too.

• Jones and the Exorcists found Glass Lamp trembling, and she reported that an ancient demon had defeated her sight and planned to make the area its lair.
• Glass Lamp pointed toward Gear Street and fainted after warning that the demon might devour the world.
• Jones ordered the Exorcists to alert headquarters and seek help from the Knowledge Association and Sun God Church before rushing toward Gear Street.
• Lin En searched for 154 Gear Street, puzzled by his host’s memories and the system’s reference to a Vessel Family.
• Lin En entered the house when its door opened, but a bloody hand dragged him inside.
• The monsters in the house said they wanted to eat Lin En, who replied that he wanted to eat them too.

Lin En left the evil-spirit couple after forcing them to stop eating people and point him toward No. 154, while they feared he was an Outer God from beyond the rift. He reached a candlelit house he believed belonged to his host’s family, but the Spirit-Sealing Talismans on its door burned away when he knocked.

• Lin En terrified the Flesh-and-Bone Aberration and Blood Wraith, then made the evil-spirit couple apologize and promise not to eat people.
• The rotting man gave Lin En Spirit Coins and supplies, refused to part with his daughter, and pointed him toward a nearby candlelit house as No. 154.
• After Lin En left, the rotting man told his wife that Lin En was an Outer God whose return could force even powerful beings in the Spirit Realm to kneel.
• Lin En reached the candlelit house, assumed his host had a family there, and knocked while calling, “I'm home!”
• The Spirit-Sealing Talismans on the door burst into flames, and someone hiding beneath the window realized they had failed.

Lin En entered Hana Ye’s house, frightening her and destroying her protective sacred objects before defacing a portrait of the Valkyrie, whom he recognized as the woman he had imprisoned. Hana Ye crept out to check whether the portrait had subdued the intruder, unaware that Lin En was right behind her.

• Lin En knocked on Hana Ye’s door while she hid inside and loaded a revolver with silver bullets.
• Hana Ye mistook Lin En for a ghost, shot at him, and hid in a wardrobe drawer as he entered the house.
• Lin En walked past Hana Ye’s sacred objects, causing them to crack and burst apart.
• Lin En recognized the Valkyrie’s portrait and altered it into a blasphemous image of her bound in chains and wearing a bikini.
• Hana Ye crept out to see whether the portrait had stopped the monster, while Lin En peered over her shoulder.

Lin En chased down Hana Ye after she mistook him for a naked ghost, then discovered he had gone to the wrong address. The chapter left Hana cautiously asking whether he was human, and Lin En proudly insisting that he was.

• Hana Ye relaxed after believing the monster had been defeated, then panicked when Lin En appeared behind her and gave her a high five.
• Lin En grabbed Hana Ye, but she scratched his face, slipped out of her dress, and fled; he chased her into the bedroom and caught her on the bed.
• Hana Ye begged Lin En not to eat her, and he insisted that he was neither a ghost nor a monster and had not come to eat her.
• Lin En asked whether they were at 154 Gear Street, but Hana Ye told him they were at 154 Mistveil Street and Gear Street was ten kilometers north.
• Lin En admitted that he could not read street signs and had gone the wrong way, prompting Hana Ye to cautiously ask if he was human.

Lin En tried to leave Hana Ye’s room, but she begged him to stay until daylight and offered him gold coins. When a sinister presence appeared outside, Hana Ye hid with Lin En in a wardrobe.

• Lin En told Hana Ye he had wandered into her room by mistake and started to leave, but she grabbed his shorts and begged him to wait until morning.
• Hana Ye warned Lin En that going outside was dangerous and pleaded with him not to leave her alone.
• Hana Ye offered Lin En gold coins, but he refused her IOU and tried to leave.
• A chilly breeze and a twisted shadow appeared outside, frightening Hana Ye and Lin En.
• Hana Ye pulled Lin En into a wardrobe and said the thing outside had found them.

Hana Ye told Lin En that an Evil Spirit had been stalking her, but the creature found them in her secret base and revealed that someone in the Spirit Realm had put a bounty on her. Lin En caught its wrist as it attacked Hana Ye, and the chapter ended with the Evil Spirit unable to break free.

• Hana Ye explained that terrifying sightings had followed her after school and begged Lin En not to leave her secret base.
• Hana Ye tried to retrieve Spirit-Sealing Talismans from the wardrobe while Lin En offered to help, and the Evil Spirit smashed the wardrobe apart.
• Hana Ye fainted when the Evil Spirit appeared, then clung to Lin En and pleaded for help after she regained consciousness.
• The Evil Spirit said that a bounty had been placed on Hana Ye in the Spirit Realm and reached to attack her.
• Lin En caught the Evil Spirit's wrist and demanded that it explain why it had called him Hana Ye's lover, while the creature struggled unsuccessfully to escape.

Lin En terrified the Heart-Burrowing Demon until it died, then discovered its bounty writ had targeted Youzhi Hana Ye. Hana Ye passed out after Lin En frightened her, leaving her vulnerable with the bounty still active.

• Lin En transformed into a towering, many-eyed form and frightened the Heart-Burrowing Demon into revealing that it came from the first level of the Spirit Realm.
• The Heart-Burrowing Demon died of fright, dropping a Blood-Character Bounty Writ that identified Youzhi Hana Ye as its target.
• Lin En read that the bounty cursed Hana Ye to remain visible to grotesque creatures until the bounty expired or she was killed.
• Hana Ye panicked when Lin En looked at her, and she passed out after hitting her head against a wall.

Lin En saved Hana Ye from an attacker, but she remained frightened of him until he showed her a bounty writ bearing her face. As Lin En tried to leave her behind, Hana Ye clung to him and offered to pay him by becoming his wife.

• Hana Ye woke after fainting twice, mistook Lin En for a monster, and panicked when he tried to prove he was human.
• Lin En showed Hana Ye a bounty writ with her face on it, and she sobbed over why anyone would target her.
• Lin En said he was leaving, but Hana Ye clung to his leg because she feared the monsters outside.
• Hana Ye asked whether Lin En needed a wife as payment for taking her home.

Lin En agreed to escort Hana Ye home in exchange for her signing an indenture contract pledging herself as his little wife. As they crossed the Red Moon-shrouded streets, Hana Ye explained the Spirit Realm Overlay and the history of Eternal Night, before brilliant magic circles appeared over Gear Street.

• Lin En questioned Hana Ye about her usefulness, then agreed to take her home in exchange for her pledge and stamped their contract with monster blood.
• Lin En and Hana Ye walked through the deserted streets during the Red Moon, with Hana Ye clinging to him and panicking at every sound.
• Hana Ye explained that the Spirit Realm could overlap with reality, and described how a goddess had ended the age of Eternal Night a thousand years earlier.
• Lin En recognized the goddess in Hana Ye's portrait as the Valkyrie he had altered and claimed that his memory loss explained his ignorance.
• As Lin En and Hana Ye neared Gear Street, enormous layered magic circles appeared in the sky, which Lin En called fireworks.

Lin En and Hana Ye were surrounded by Exorcists near Gear Street, but Hana Ye recognized their captain, Jones, and exposed his secret love letters to Mr. Ulac. The Exorcists were left stunned by the revelation.

• Hana Ye mistook the enormous array in the sky for a sign of a terrifying monster and tried to flee with Lin En.
• Exorcists surrounded Lin En and Hana Ye, demanding that they identify themselves and threatening to kill them.
• Lin En considered attacking the Exorcists, but Hana Ye stopped him and introduced herself as a member of the [Youzhi] family.
• Jones recognized Hana Ye, and she identified him as the captain her sister said liked guys.
• Hana Ye revealed that Jones secretly wrote love letters to Mr. Ulac, leaving Jones and the other Exorcists in stunned silence.

Jones questioned Hana Ye and Lin En after they were found together, then warned them that an Ultra-Ancient Great Demon had supposedly descended and threatened their city. Lin En recognized the reported demon’s behavior and was left imagining the monster behind the declaration of war.

• Jones questioned Hana Ye and Lin En, and Hana Ye protected Lin En while Jones threatened the Exorcists to keep a secret about his love life quiet.
• Hana Ye called Lin En her boyfriend, prompting the Exorcists to draw their blades until she insisted they were friends and he had saved her.
• Jones warned Hana Ye and Lin En that Gear Street was sealed off and revealed that an Ultra-Ancient Great Demon had likely descended.
• Jones explained that the Spirit Bell had rung nine times, the Demon Suppression Corps had entered the Spirit Realm, and the demon had threatened to eat everyone in the city.
• Lin En recognized the demon’s reported behavior and pictured it as a twisted figure humiliating a little girl before declaring its intent to rule the world.

Lin En learned that an ultra-ancient great demon threatened the city-state, then drank Church Holy Water to prove he was not an evil entity. The flames delighted him because of his fire resistance, while Jones mistook his reaction for proof of purity.

• Jones explained that an ultra-ancient great demon could bring a catastrophe like the Eternal Night and showed Lin En an image that appeared to depict a human body part.
• Lin En joked that the image might be of him, and Jones dismissed the idea before offering him Holy Water to test whether he was a monster.
• Lin En drank the Holy Water, which covered him in golden flames without hurting him.
• Jones concluded that Lin En was pure and gained favorability toward him, while Lin En silently blamed his reaction on years of fire exposure.
• Lin En crushed the bottle, angry that the pleasure he felt was not real happiness.

Lin En and Hana Ye reached her family castle after Jones gave them a mithril flintlock and an Exorcist Credential. Lin En admitted he might be the great demon the exorcists were seeking, then sensed something watching him from the Yuzhi family cemetery.

• Jones apologized to Lin En and gave him a modified mithril flintlock and an Exorcist Credential, which Hana Ye accepted after learning their value.
• Jones assigned two exorcists to escort Lin En and Hana Ye to the Yuzhi family castle, where Lin En accidentally shot himself and gained happiness.
• Lin En told Hana Ye he was probably the great demon the exorcists sought, frightening her as he carried her to the castle.
• Lin En declared Hana Ye his wife and promised not to eat her family, then sensed something watching him from the cemetery behind the castle.

Lin En accompanied Hana Ye home and comforted her after learning how alone she felt in the Castle. Their tender moment was interrupted by the Castle’s unsettling servants, and Lin En’s power forced the sinister presence outside her door to retreat.

• Hana Ye sneaked Lin En into the Castle and explained that her father was away, her sister was busy, and her mother had died, leaving her largely alone.
• Lin En tried to comfort Hana Ye, accidentally suffocating her before she woke and burst into tears, then reassured her that different tears meant different things.
• Hana Ye blushed at Lin En’s words and denied it when he teased her about it.
• The butler questioned Hana Ye about another person in her room, and she claimed she was rehearsing lines for school.
• Lin En sensed a sinister presence at the door and made it withdraw with the Red Moon’s power, then remarked that Hana Ye’s home was unusual.