Chapter Summaries

Lin En stayed in Hana Ye’s room and learned how Origin Substances and Divine Sequences shaped the powers of Exorcists. The chapter ended with Hana Ye telling him bizarre stories about powerful people whose sequences had disastrous effects.

• Hana Ye locked up her room and told Lin En he could stay there because her Exorcist sister was unlikely to come home.
• Lin En asked Hana Ye to explain the world’s power system, and she used a textbook to teach him about Origin Substances.
• Hana Ye explained that each Origin Substance could contain up to nine Divine Sequences, which granted abilities and determined how supernatural beings were judged.
• Hana Ye described her sister’s Eye of Truth-Piercing sequence and warned that some sequences caused harmful side effects.
• Hana Ye amused Lin En with stories about geniuses whose sequences included Idiot and a dick growing out of the forehead.

Lin En discovered a hole in his brain and suspected someone had tampered with his body before he arrived, then stayed in Hana Ye’s bed while planning to investigate his identity. After a little girl returned to the Castle, the strange shadows around Lin En’s bed disappeared.

• Lin En removed his brain to show Hana Ye a hole near where a [source essence] should form, frightening her into fainting.
• Lin En searched the hole, found no [source essence], and told Hana Ye he suspected someone had tampered with his body before his arrival.
• Lin En planned to visit the place where he had descended the next day, then fell asleep in Hana Ye’s bed.
• Hana Ye left for the next room and warned Lin En not to make noise because her father might learn she had brought a man home.
• Tentacles and shadows reached toward Lin En’s bed before the Castle’s front door opened and a little girl’s voice announced, “I’m back...”

Glass Lamp returned home blind after encountering a terrifying Great Demon and found her sister Hana Ye safe, then slept beside Lin En without realizing he was there. In the morning, she left for work and wondered why her panties felt loose.

• Glass Lamp arrived home with her eyes covered and scolded the household for not telling her that Hana Ye had gone missing.
• Glass Lamp quietly entered the bedroom, found Hana Ye apparently asleep, and worried about encountering the Great Demon again.
• Lin En mistook Glass Lamp for Hana Ye in his sleep, pulled her close, and went back to sleep while Glass Lamp dreamed she was being held.
• Glass Lamp woke at five, dressed without realizing Lin En remained in bed, and headed downstairs to report for work.
• Glass Lamp noticed her panties felt loose and wondered whether she had picked up the wrong pair.

Lin En and Hana Ye searched the place where Lin En had regained consciousness, uncovering his student ID and signs that his body had been dragged through a hidden Spirit Realm Overlay. The chapter ended with someone watching Lin En through a blood-red image and realizing he was alive.

• Hana Ye woke Lin En and helped him dress in borrowed clothes before they went searching for clues to his identity.
• Lin En and Hana Ye walked through Clockwork Street, where Lin En noticed the sun had grown smaller and the magic array still sealed Gear Street.
• Lin En identified dried blood as his own and followed drag marks into a foul alley that ended at a wall hiding a Spirit Realm Overlay.
• Hana Ye spotted a card lodged in the wall, and Lin En retrieved a student ID identifying him as Link Lucifer, a third-year student at Secret Canon Academy District.
• Lin En sensed a faint six-pointed star on the wall, while a watcher in a distant realm saw his gaze and reacted in shock that he was alive.

Lin En followed Hana Ye toward their academy, but their argument over divorcing ended when Shakira, Lin Ke's girlfriend, appeared and kissed him. Hana Ye went to the noble academy believing she had been divorced.

• Lin En explained that he had taken over the body of a dead academy student and tried to calm Hana Ye when a tentacle emerged in public.
• Lin En proposed divorcing Hana Ye to avoid being treated as an evil lolicon, but she refused and bit him until he promised to wait until her ransom was paid.
• Shakira recognized Lin En as Lin Ke, embraced and kissed him, and said they had celebrated their third anniversary.
• Hana Ye left for the noble academy after seeing Shakira with Lin En, and she told a classmate that she had gotten divorced.

Lin En met Shakira, who claimed to be his girlfriend, and their public kisses did not restore his memories. After he agreed to meet her after school, Shakira revealed she was manipulating Loren and urged him to kill Lin En out of jealousy.

• Shakira told Lin En they had been together for three years and showed him the brooch he had given her for their anniversary.
• Shakira kissed Lin En repeatedly in the hallway, but he still could not remember her.
• Shakira invited Lin En to her house after school to try to recover his memories, and he agreed to go.
• Loren confronted Shakira about kissing Lin En, and she called him her puppy and used her red Sequence to influence him.
• Shakira told Loren to kill Lin En, framing the act as jealousy.

Lin En learned that he was in a prestigious academy for Origin Substance users and savored sitting at a classroom desk, but Loren kicked the desk and provoked him. Lin En beat Loren so badly that the whole class had to restrain him, while Loren remained furious.

• Lin En learned that the academy trained Origin Substance users and that his class required students to possess at least two Sequences.
• Lin En delighted in sitting at his desk and shook it until the girl in front of him asked him to stop.
• Loren entered the classroom, kicked Lin En’s desk, and taunted him about a kiss outside.
• Lin En punched Loren, then repeatedly struck and stomped him with a folding stool.
• The students finally restrained Lin En and pulled Loren away, but Loren threatened to kill him.

Lin En fought Loren in class, prompting Loren to summon a Hanged Ghost with his [Ghost Control] Sequence. The ghost attacked Lin En but became terrified of him and fled into a nearby student’s arms.

• Lin En repeatedly struck Loren with a folding stool, and students struggled to restrain him.
• A voice told the blond boy that Loren had been affected by Charm, but Loren broke free and formed a pitch-black [Sequence].
• Loren activated [Ghost Control] and summoned a powerful Hanged Ghost, causing the students to panic and someone to fetch an instructor.
• Loren ordered the Hanged Ghost to kill Lin En, but she stopped inches from his face when he challenged her.
• The Hanged Ghost grew increasingly frightened of Lin En, abandoned her rope, and clung to a nearby boy while begging him to stop.

Lin En defeated Loren after Loren's Evil Spirit refused to attack him, then was taken to the academic affairs office for questioning. The blond boy realized Lin En had sensed the Abyss Succubus inside him, and the spirit admitted that Lin En frightened her.

• Loren ordered his Evil Spirit to attack Lin En, but it clung to Lin En instead and refused to answer Loren's summons.
• Loren charged Lin En with a flying kick, and Lin En struck him in the groin and kicked him repeatedly.
• The blond boy revealed that Loren's second Sequence was [Weak Egg], while teachers arrived and Loren was taken to a church for treatment.
• Lin En told the teachers and students that Loren had started the fight, and the students backed up his account.
• As Lin En left for the academic affairs office, the Abyss Succubus told the blond boy that Lin En had noticed her presence and made her afraid.

The Academic Affairs Office failed to learn why Loren had attacked Lin Ke, then learned that Loren was undergoing surgery at the Church and received a report that someone may have tampered with his eyes. Meanwhile, Hana Ye misunderstood rumors about the fight, while Lin En anticipated further tests and left school, where someone called out to him.

• The teachers questioned students and concluded that Loren had provoked Lin Ke, but none could explain why the fight began.
• The Church sent the teachers a photo of Loren under anesthesia and announced that his surgery to cure his desire had succeeded.
• Xiliu arrived at the Academic Affairs Office and reported that something seemed wrong with Loren's eyes.
• Hana Ye heard a rumor about the fight, briefly thought Lin Ke had been injured, then decided to check on him after school.
• Lin En speculated that someone had tested him with charm, checked his satiety, and looked forward to seeing what would happen next.
• At dusk, Lin En left through the school gates and heard someone call his name from behind.

Lin En traveled with Shakira and learned how Clockwork City faced nightly incursions from the Spirit Realm and that she possessed the Transmutation Sequence. Shakira said Lin En had the Flesh Sequence, and he left the story embarrassing her while Hana Ye watched from a disguised trash can.

• Shakira embraced Lin En and asked whether he had recovered his memories, and he told her he remembered little and had lost his reading ability.
• Lin En said he had likely been attacked on Clockwork Street and claimed the Exorcist Squad had given him a Flintlock Pistol; Shakira invited him to her home, and he accepted after she kissed him.
• A trash can followed Lin En and Shakira as they walked away, and Hana Ye watched them leave while lamenting that Lin En no longer wanted her.
• Shakira explained that the Spirit Realm overlaid parts of the city at night and described the Church's Spirit-Sealing Talismans and the Exorcist Squad's role in defending the city.
• Shakira demonstrated her Transmutation Sequence and told Lin En that his Sequence was Flesh; Lin En turned her toward him and made an explicit joke, embarrassing her and startling Hana Ye.

Lin En told Shakira he suspected his Origin Substance had been removed, and she brought him to her home to help him recover his memories. At the church, teachers discovered Loren’s violent jealousy had been amplified by someone using the high-level Sequence [Heart Corrosion], while Shakira’s attempt to jog Lin En’s memory ended with her undressing before him.

• Lin En pretended he could not use his Sequence and suggested his [Origin Substance] might have been removed when he fell unconscious, but Shakira insisted that removing it would have killed him.
• Shakira brought Lin En to her home in the lower city, hoping the place would help him remember their past.
• Teachers questioned the injured Loren about attacking Lin Ke, and his anger erupted when they mentioned [Jealousy].
• A blond boy identified Loren’s condition as the work of someone using [Heart Corrosion] to amplify his jealousy.
• At Shakira’s home, she drew the curtains, removed her red dress, and asked Lin Ke whether he remembered anything.

Shakira tried to make Lin En remember his past with Lin Ke, but her affection turned into violent obsession when she revealed that Lin Ke’s [Holy Flame] Sequence had separated them from her [Rot]. She killed Lin En while raging over his supposed abandonment.

• Shakira showed Lin En keepsakes from her relationship with Lin Ke, but he could not remember them.
• Shakira pressed Lin En onto the bed and covered his eyes, claiming their intimacy might restore his memories.
• As night fell, Shakira recalled how she and Lin Ke had studied together and hoped to join the Exorcist Squad and rise in society.
• Shakira transformed her hands with bone spurs and scales, then smashed Lin En’s head and killed him.
• Shakira blamed Lin Ke’s [Holy Flame] Sequence and her own [Rot] Sequence for driving them apart, lamenting that he had abandoned her.

Shakira killed Lin En and planned to consume his body, but Hana Ye confronted her and was nearly killed. Lin En suddenly revived with a black tentacle and turned Shakira’s attack aside.

• Shakira crushed Lin En’s head, blamed Lin Ke for his return, and called for her allies and a doctor.
• Shakira caught Hana Ye spying and threatened to eat her alive.
• Hana Ye scratched Shakira, escaped her grasp, and shot her while accusing her of killing Lin En.
• Shakira lunged at Hana Ye, but a black tentacle struck her and pulled Hana Ye away.
• Lin En sat up despite his mangled head and teased Shakira about being watched.

Lin En revealed to Shakira that he was an otherworldly being occupying Lin Ke’s body, while Hana Ye fainted after seeing his shattered head repair itself. Shakira attacked Lin En and used her Heart Corrosion ability, but he resisted it and left her stunned.

• Lin En repaired his smashed head in front of Hana Ye, who lost sanity and fainted.
• Lin En told Shakira she had recognized that he was not Lin Ke and accused her of luring him there to kill him.
• Lin En identified himself as Lin En, a person who had crossed over from another world, and said the body now belonged to him.
• Shakira entered her Transmutation state, attacked Lin En, and tried to drive him out of Lin Ke’s body.
• Shakira used Heart Corrosion on Lin En, but he revealed he had built up resistance to psychic abilities and left her shocked.

Lin En confronted Shakira with evidence of her years of tormenting Lin Ke and accused her of arranging his parents’ murders and his death. He crushed her arm and threatened to kill her unless she told him the truth, leaving Shakira terrified and at his mercy.

• Lin En trapped Shakira’s arm in his chest, lifted her by the throat, and revealed that he knew she had controlled and tormented Lin Ke.
• Lin En accused Shakira of using her connections to gain privileges while isolating Lin Ke from his friends and keeping him under her control.
• Lin En told Shakira that Lin Ke had recorded his accusations against her in his textbooks, including clues about his parents’ murders.
• Shakira denied knowing what Lin En meant, and he crushed her arm while admitting he had not come only to sleep with her.
• Lin En demanded that Shakira tell him the truth about her history with Lin Ke and threatened to smash her eyes into her brain if she lied.

Lin En forced Shakira to confess why she betrayed Lin Ke, then killed her after she attacked him. He planned to use her help to recover his Origin Substance and take over Lin Ke’s identity, but the story left him alone after crushing her in his arms.

• Lin En learned that Shakira had tortured Lin Ke, resented his awakening of the [Holy Flame] Sequence, and decided to kill him after he rejected her control.
• Shakira blamed Lin Ke for leaving her and insisted that he belonged to her, while Lin En accused her of treating him as property and questioned her about his parents’ deaths.
• Lin En told Shakira that Lin Ke’s final written words were that he hated having fallen in love with her, then demanded she help him recover his Origin Substance and assume Lin Ke’s identity.
• Shakira attacked Lin En from behind and stabbed him repeatedly, but he embraced her and crushed her to death.

Lin En killed Shakira, obtained her origin substance, and woke Hana Ye after she fainted. He questioned why she had followed him, then reluctantly forgave her for trying to avenge him and reassured her that he would not leave her alone.

• Lin En told the dead Shakira that her victim had once hoped to give her another chance, then collected her origin substance and examined its three sequences.
• Lin En revived the unconscious Hana Ye with an exaggerated breath, and she mistakenly thought they had both gone to hell.
• Lin En confronted Hana Ye for secretly following him under a trash can, and she admitted she had been curious and afraid to lose his protection.
• Lin En threatened to abandon Hana Ye, but softened when he remembered that she had tried to avenge him and agreed to forgive her for now.
• Hana Ye pointed out that Lin En had just admitted he might not honor contracts, then clung to his leg and begged him not to leave her alone.

Lin En treated Hana Ye’s wounds after Shakira attacked her, then discovered a bruised handprint on her ankle and a bounty on her that had risen to 50,000 Spirit Coins. Hana Ye explained that she had nowhere to turn because her father hated her, and Lin En asked whether she had been born because her mother cheated.

• Lin En disinfected and bandaged Hana Ye’s neck wounds, teasing her when she recoiled from his tentacles.
• Lin En noticed a hand-shaped bruise on Hana Ye’s ankle and checked the Spirit Realm Bounty Writ, which now offered 50,000 Spirit Coins for her capture and soul.
• Lin En asked why Hana Ye had come to him instead of her teachers or father, and she said she could not stay with her teachers and her father disliked her.
• Hana Ye recalled being abandoned at the Church while gravely ill and said her father favored her older sister and would not care if she died or disappeared.
• Lin En stared at Hana Ye and asked whether she had been born because her mother cheated.

Lin En comforted Hana Ye and agreed to protect her as his wife, then followed her to a roadside cannon to investigate his missing origin substance. Hana Ye accidentally blasted off Lin En’s head, and he retaliated by spanking her.

• Lin En comforted Hana Ye, told her not to cry over people who did not care for her, and promised to protect her.
• Hana Ye thanked Lin En and offered to fulfill a wife's duties, and Lin En agreed to take her as his wife.
• Lin En and Hana Ye went to investigate the accomplice who had dumped his body and to recover his origin substance.
• Hana Ye showed Lin En the modified Portable Cannon she had used to hide and attack Shakira's house.
• Hana Ye fired the cannon while Lin En stood in front of its muzzle, blowing off his head.
• Lin En's head regrew, and he spanked Hana Ye while she protested that he had promised not to hit her.