Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into a high school student named Luo Shu, Luo Shu learned that a malfunctioning system needed energy from a protagonist to save him from dangerous mental strain. He found Utaha Kasumigaoka while fleeing a giant rat, but the pair ended up trapped in an alley with the creature blocking their escape.

• Luo Shu woke in a bookstore with the memories of his Japanese high school life and learned that his system lacked the energy to activate its ability system.
• The system explained that Luo Shu needed a protagonist's consent to install an Energy Collector and gather energy, so he rushed out to search nearby.
• Luo Shu used the short-range scan while fleeing by bicycle and found a barefoot girl running from a giant rat.
• Luo Shu offered the girl a ride, and she joined him as he pedaled away from the rat.
• Five minutes later, Luo Shu and the girl were trapped at a dead end with the rat blocking the alley, and he asked Utaha Kasumigaoka if he could put a device inside her body.

Luo Shu gained powers after Utaha Kasumigaoka agreed to his mysterious request, allowing him to kill the giant rat and escape with her. The system then revealed that Utaha had become his first familia member and awakened an ability.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka offered to help Luo Shu escape the giant rat and asked him to notify her parents if she died.
• Luo Shu asked Utaha to let him implant a device in her, claiming it could give him power to defeat the rat, and she agreed in a panic.
• A magic formation appeared, and Luo Shu acquired Intuition, Combat Potential, and Wind Element Manipulation.
• Luo Shu followed phantom lines and killed the charging rat with a blade of wind; its corpse burned away.
• Utaha took Luo Shu away on a bicycle, while system notifications identified her as his first familia member and announced she had awakened Mind Reading.

Luo Shu treated Kasumigaoka Utaha’s injured feet and learned that she understood his mission to rebuild his lost pantheon and had accepted becoming his familiar. The chapter ended with Utaha eager to discuss how they would restore his divine power.

• Luo Shu treated Kasumigaoka Utaha’s scraped feet while the system revealed its full name and its goal of building a mythology centered on Luo Shu.
• Kasumigaoka Utaha explained that the system had told her Luo Shu was an ancient deity who had lost his followers and was rebuilding his pantheon.
• Luo Shu revealed that he was her third-year senpai at Private Toyosaki Academy, and Utaha greeted him as such.
• Utaha said she accepted becoming Luo Shu’s lifelong familiar because the contract offered extended life, youth, special abilities, and the possibility of immortality.
• When Luo Shu prepared to leave after treating her feet, Utaha insisted they discuss rebuilding his pantheon.

Luo Shu and Utaha Kasumigaoka discussed how to gather influence for rebuilding a divine pantheon, while the system explained the limits on recruiting familia members. Luo Shu proposed using their powers to make religion real, and Utaha questioned whether his plan came from a book called The Criminal Code.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka revealed that she had persuaded the system to alter surveillance footage so their actions appeared normal.
• Luo Shu asked Utaha what she and the system planned to do and what reward she expected from rebuilding the divine pantheon.
• Utaha proposed recruiting influential public figures as familia members to gather energy, but the system said recruits needed the rare aptitude of fate's favor.
• The system said Luo Shu's Eye of Truth could identify people with that aptitude.
• Luo Shu suggested they could influence powerful people by making religion real, and Utaha asked whether the book behind his idea was called The Criminal Code.

Luo Shu persuaded Utaha Kasumigaoka to pursue a discreet, gradual plan to influence influential people through their circles rather than taking illegal or reckless action. He proposed starting a school club focused on the occult, leaving Utaha embarrassed after revealing he already knew about her light novels.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka backed away from Luo Shu's proposal to take a more extreme approach, and he reassured her that he disliked it too.
• Luo Shu explained that they could influence influential people indirectly by approaching people around them, including students from prominent families.
• Utaha chose the identity of a famous female author, and Luo Shu pointed out that she already wrote novels and had held a book signing.
• Utaha realized Luo Shu knew about her work, Love Metronome, because he worked at the bookstore she visited.
• Luo Shu suggested they start small with a discreet school club dedicated to studying the occult, proposing the names Astronomy Club or Service Club.

Luo Shu and Utaha Kasumigaoka planned to form a school club as the first step toward creating a Divine Group, and chose Eriri Spencer Sawamura as their prospective third member. After exchanging LINE contacts, Luo Shu prepared to leave, but Utaha asked him to stay the night.

• Utaha warned Luo Shu that the Service Club name would not pass school review and that they needed at least three members; Luo Shu proposed naming it the Astronomy Club instead.
• Luo Shu and Utaha discussed their lack of friends at school and agreed that Utaha would invite Eriri Spencer Sawamura to meet them after school the next day.
• Luo Shu said Eriri most likely had the aptitude, and Utaha accepted her as their candidate for the club.
• Luo Shu listed the group's future needs, including funding, intelligence, weapons, a training place, and investigating the monster that had chased Utaha.
• Luo Shu and Utaha exchanged LINE contacts, and when he started to leave, Utaha tugged at his clothes and asked him to stay the night.

Luo Shu stayed at Utaha Kasumigaoka’s apartment after they learned that radiation-mutated monsters might still be loose in Tokyo. Elsewhere, Director Tachibana investigated the alley and sent its records to the Special Records Office, suspecting the Abyss was stirring again.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka found a TV Asahi report claiming radiation-mutated animals from an island region had been captured, and she and Luo Shu concluded that some monsters remained at large.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka asked Luo Shu to stay the night for protection, agreed to provide for his needs, and asked him about the energy his divine servant had mentioned.
• Luo Shu postponed explaining the energy until the next day and remarked that he sensed a storm coming.
• Director Tachibana arrived at the alley crime scene and learned that surveillance showed neither the monster nor the people it had chased.
• Director Tachibana ordered the records sealed and sent to the Special Records Office for the Class B Files, then wondered whether a wind-element mage had caused the monster’s injuries.

Luo Shu accompanied Utaha Kasumigaoka to Toyogasaki Academy, where she explained her newly awakened Mind Reading ability and planned to use a letter to approach Eriri Sawamura. The chapter ended with Eriri finding another love letter in her shoe locker.

• Luo Shu and Utaha Kasumigaoka rode a crowded subway to Toyogasaki Academy, and he made room for her by the window.
• Utaha teased Luo Shu by suggesting he change her Line contact name, then told him a classmate had photographed them and might spread dating rumors.
• Utaha explained that she could read nearby thoughts for about three minutes, focus on someone by looking at them, and could not read Luo Shu's mind.
• Utaha showed Luo Shu a white envelope she planned to use to get Eriri Sawamura to meet them.
• Eriri Sawamura arrived at school and found a love letter in her shoe locker.

Luo Shu and Utaha Kasumigaoka lured Eriri Sawamura to the rooftop with a fake love letter to ask her to join their astronomy club. Eriri arrived and heard the request, then Luo Shu invoked her secret identity as Kashiwagi Eiri as she was about to refuse.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka admitted she had used a love letter to bring Eriri Sawamura to the rooftop.
• Eriri Sawamura approached the rooftop, believing she had been summoned by someone who wanted to confess to her.
• Luo Shu called Eriri by name after she spied on him and Utaha Kasumigaoka through the door.
• Luo Shu explained that he and Utaha Kasumigaoka wanted to start an astronomy club and needed one more member.
• As Eriri was about to refuse, Luo Shu said Kashiwagi Eiri would not turn down such a small favor.

Luo Shu revealed that Eriri was the doujin artist Kashiwagi Eiri and persuaded her to join his Astronomy Club, alongside Utaha Kasumigaoka. After Eriri agreed, Luo Shu and Utaha prepared to finalize the club during lunch.

• Eriri exposed herself as Kashiwagi Eiri when Luo Shu mentioned her pen name, and Utaha Kasumigaoka realized she was the adult doujin artist.
• Luo Shu told Eriri he would not reveal her secret and explained that he needed her and Utaha Kasumigaoka to establish the Astronomy Club.
• Eriri mistook Luo Shu's motives and Utaha's romance rumor for signs of blackmail, then agreed to join the club.
• Eriri warned Luo Shu that her wealthy, protective parents would retaliate if he tried to blackmail her.
• Luo Shu asked Utaha whether she had contacted a teacher about the club, and she said the teacher was pleased she wanted to join.

Luo Shu, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Eriri Sawamura secured approval for their astronomy club and obtained an empty classroom. They headed to inspect it as school let out, while Tomoya Aki also persuaded a teacher to give him a multimedia-room key.

• Luo Shu, Utaha Kasumigaoka, and Eriri Sawamura persuaded Takagi to advise their astronomy club, and he signed their application and gave them a classroom key.
• Luo Shu insisted that Eriri was part of their group, though she muttered that she had not agreed to his wording.
• The trio heard Tomoya Aki arguing with Nakamura about using the multimedia classroom, and Eriri hurried them away after watching him.
• Tomoya Aki won a key from Nakamura but was told to seek student council permission to use the multimedia classroom.
• At three thirty, Luo Shu led Utaha Kasumigaoka and Eriri to the empty classroom and opened its door.

Luo Shu revealed that he could create an alternate space, turning the Astronomy Club’s empty classroom into a furnished headquarters. Utaha Kasumigaoka invited the terrified Eriri to join their supernatural organization, and Luo Shu welcomed her to the real Astronomy Club.

• Eriri offered to pay for the Astronomy Club’s supplies in exchange for keeping her identity as Eri Kashiwagi secret.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka locked the classroom door while Luo Shu explained that Eriri had misunderstood their arrangement.
• Luo Shu clapped twice and transformed the classroom into an alternate space that expanded into a furnished headquarters.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka explained the alternate space and the club’s supernatural purpose to the bewildered Eriri.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka invited Eriri to swear loyalty to their god, and Luo Shu welcomed her to the real Astronomy Club.

Luo Shu explained the fledgling Astronomy Club’s benefits to Eriri Sawamura and persuaded Utaha Kasumigaoka that the promised rewards were affordable. Eriri asked about the supernatural uses of points, then smiled slyly when Luo Shu asked whether she would join.

• Luo Shu told Eriri that she and Utaha were the Astronomy Club’s first members, and Eriri asked if she could quit.
• Luo Shu offered members a monthly allowance of fifty points, ability awakening, medical care, and mission-related support.
• Utaha questioned whether Luo Shu could afford those benefits, and Luo Shu explained that familiars supplied enough monthly energy to cover them.
• Eriri asked whether she could buy points with cash, and Luo Shu said the organization did not allow it.
• Luo Shu explained that points could purchase supernatural abilities and items, then asked Eriri whether she would join; Eriri answered with a sly smile.

Luo Shu inducted Eriri into the Astronomy Club and the system awakened her excellent-tier Transformation ability. After Eriri transformed into a miniature Utaha Kasumigaoka, Utaha revealed her Mind Reading ability, startling Eriri so badly that she collapsed.

• Eriri agreed to join the Astronomy Club but warned Luo Shu she might leave if he failed to keep his promises.
• Luo Shu presented a membership contract, and Eriri signed it and pressed her handprint onto the document.
• Luo Shu asked the system to begin Eriri’s awakening ritual, and it granted her the excellent-tier ability Transformation.
• Eriri used Transformation to change into a shorter, more mature-looking version of Utaha Kasumigaoka.
• Utaha revealed that she had awakened Mind Reading and had read Eriri’s thoughts, causing Eriri to revert to normal and collapse.

Eriri Sawamura blamed Utaha Kasumigaoka for revealing her identity to Luo Shu, then joined her in meeting him at a park. Luo Shu gave both girls bracelets that granted access to the organization’s base and system before leaving for his bookstore job, and the three founding members went their separate ways.

• Eriri accused Utaha of using mind-reading to uncover her identity as Kashiwagi Eiri and making her faint.
• Utaha followed Eriri to a park, where they met Luo Shu beside a fountain.
• Luo Shu gave Eriri and Utaha silver bracelets that provided base access, system connections, and emergency evacuation, along with fifty points each.
• Utaha asked about the bracelets’ cost, and Luo Shu said they cost a thousand points each and were a perk for full-fledged members.
• Luo Shu left for his bookstore job, and Eriri and Utaha separated after he had gone.

Luo Shu discussed how Points granted luck and influence, then learned that advancing abilities was far beyond his current budget. After finding a second wallet, he was approached from behind by an unfamiliar woman.

• Luo Shu found a wallet containing fifty thousand yen and learned that his stored Points gave him a permanent luck blessing.
• Luo Shu checked the steep costs of advancing his abilities and decided to save more Points before attempting any upgrades.
• Luo Shu learned that Eriri Sawamura generated more Points than Utaha Kasumigaoka because her social influence was greater.
• Luo Shu asked whether removing the Familia members' ability limitations required advancement, then cut off the system before it could explain the costs.
• Luo Shu found a second wallet, but stopped when an unfamiliar woman remarked on his luck from behind him.

Luo Shu returned Tachibana Kirika’s wallet and accepted a reward before learning she had approached him because his newly awakened mental ability made him stand out. Tachibana offered him a well-paid job in a special government department, and Luo Shu agreed to continue the conversation at a nearby café.

• Luo Shu returned Tachibana Kirika’s wallet, and she gave him two hundred thousand yen as a finder’s reward.
• Tachibana Kirika offered Luo Shu a government job jointly overseen by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and the US military stationed in Japan.
• Tachibana Kirika explained that Luo Shu’s unusually strong, freely radiating mental power revealed him as a newly awakened ability user.
• Tachibana Kirika offered Luo Shu a salary, benefits, and recreational trips, while warning that refusal could lead to heightened observation and check-ins.
• Luo Shu asked to discuss the offer somewhere more private, and Tachibana Kirika led him toward a nearby café.

Luo Shu visited the LycoReco café with Tachibana Kirika and learned that she wanted him to join her special department as a Special Ability User. After reading the contract, he asked who their enemies were, and Tachibana Kirika called it a good question.

• Tachibana Kirika brought Luo Shu to the LycoReco café and introduced him to Chisato Nishikigi and Mika.
• Chisato Nishikigi served Luo Shu a latte with coconut juice and reacted with surprise when she learned he was Chinese.
• Tachibana Kirika asked Mika to bring out a Type 1 special contract, and Chisato Nishikigi realized Luo Shu was a Special Ability User.
• Luo Shu read the contract's benefits and injury provisions, then asked Tachibana Kirika who the department's enemies were.
• Tachibana Kirika smiled and said that was a good question.

Tachibana Kirika explained the secret organizations, the Special Records Office, and the uncertain origins of abyssal life-forms to Luo Shu before recruiting him. Luo Shu signed the contract and followed Chisato Nishikigi to tour the branch and collect his equipment.

• Tachibana Kirika described the Astronomy of Truth, the Golden Dawn, and the Special Records Office's relationship with the Metropolitan Police Department and the US forces.
• Tachibana Kirika explained that the Astronomy of Truth believed the abyss contained layered worlds and that its demon warlocks used blood sacrifices to contact Hell.
• Luo Shu considered the value of working with SDS and asked whether Tachibana Kirika had ever intended to let him refuse.
• Luo Shu signed the contract, shook hands with Chisato Nishikigi, and agreed to join SDS.
• Tachibana Kirika told Chisato Nishikigi to show Luo Shu around and get him equipment, then left to register his contract.

Luo Shu learned about the SDS team, his wind ability’s reputation as a scouting skill, and his new role at the café. Chisato Nishikigi revealed that everyone there except the boss came from the Abyss.

• Chisato Nishikigi explained that guns remained important against supernatural threats and asked Luo Shu about his ability.
• Luo Shu said he controlled wind, and Chisato described Wind Mages as highly valued scouts.
• Chisato showed Luo Shu the underground base and explained the roles of Mika, Mizuki Nakahara, Kurumi, Takina Inoue, and herself.
• Chisato gave Luo Shu a specially made black combat suit and learned that he attended Toyogasaki.
• Chisato told Luo Shu that everyone at the café except the boss had come from the Abyss, leaving him stunned.