Chapter Summaries

After surviving the test, Kallen returned home with Richard and Uncle Eisen, who asked what had happened in the chamber. Kallen warned Eisen to keep his identity secret, while Richard returned to find his father waiting at home.

• The Hound Dogs Squad woke after a day in the test chamber, reunited with Marlow, and signed confidentiality agreements before eating the clergy’s food.
• Richard invited Kallen and Memphis to the Pastry Shop, then Kallen drove Richard and Memphis home and joked with Richard on the way.
• After Richard got out, Uncle Eisen asked Kallen what had happened, and Kallen told him to keep his identity secret and act as if everything were normal.
• Kallen dropped Uncle Eisen off and urged him to show Richard more concern before returning home himself.
• Richard reassured Kaixi that his mission had been safe, then offered his father a pastry when Mr. Eisen appeared and slapped him.

Kallen recounted his mission to his household and learned that the Order God Church and Reincarnation Church would hold negotiations on Dark Moon Island. Later, beneath the moon, he asked Kevin whether his sacrifice for her had been worth it, and Kevin answered softly.

• Mr. Eisen beat Richard after Richard made a series of tactless remarks, while the elderly woman restrained Kaixi and confronted her about Kallen and Richard.
• Kaixi agreed that Kallen could return to the Guman Family and take its surname, and the elderly woman promised to treat Kallen and Richard equally while explaining that Kallen did not want to come back.
• Kallen reported his mission to Alfred, Puer, and Kevin, and Puer questioned Kevin about his past dealings with the God of Order.
• Alfred told Kallen that the Order God Church and Reincarnation Church had chosen Dark Moon Island as the site of their negotiations.
• Kallen invited Kevin to drink beer with him on the roof, and Kevin encouraged him to ask whether his sacrifice for her had been worth it.

Kallen spent his day off hosting Richard, reading, and resting while Puer interrogated Kevin. His captain then called to say their squad had been specially selected for a lucrative security assignment on Dark Moon Island after an important person praised them.

• Richard visited Kallen with a swollen face after his father beat him, and Kallen teased him while serving him noodles and lunch.
• Kallen and Richard read in the study until Richard called home and his father ordered him to stop disturbing Kallen and come back.
• After Richard left, Kallen bathed and napped while Puer interrogated Kevin, then talked with Puer and read the Order Weekly.
• Kallen's captain called and explained that their squad would replace another team as security for postwar reparations negotiations with the Reincarnation Church on Dark Moon Island.
• The captain told Kallen that an influential person had specifically recommended and praised their squad, securing them the assignment.

Kallen learned that his silver mask had likely drawn the attention of an influential figure, and Neo told him the squad would soon travel to Dark Moon Island on a mission. After arranging for puppets to be made from Puer’s portrait designs, Kallen returned home with a box containing a sexy puppet, which Xili and Mrs. Lake accidentally opened.

• Kallen told Neo that wearing his silver mask in the strange space had made him stand out, and Neo warned him not to wear it casually.
• Kallen told Puer he would be away on a mission to Dark Moon Island, and she asked him to arrange two puppets based on her designs at the Lemaire Pottery Gallery.
• Kallen paid Lemar for the puppets and a mask, then caught Matthews stealing his car and confronted him in an alley.
• Matthews’s wallet released pink smoke when Kallen kicked him, so Kallen left him intoxicated and returned home.
• Xili and Mrs. Lake joked about their feelings for Kallen, then accidentally opened the box he had brought back and found a sexy puppet inside.

Kallen learned that Alfred had been arrested during a church operation targeting bewitching otherworldly demons, possibly because of Kallen’s own authorization for the Raniedal Project. After Kallen and Alfred witnessed a powerful woman destroy a transport truck and its occupants, Kallen fought her to protect Alfred and agreed not to report what he saw.

• Kallen wrote in his notebook about people discovering his identity, then learned Alfred had not returned home.
• Alfred was arrested by the Order God Church while investigating an Otherworldly Demon Club, and Kallen collected him with Fanny’s help.
• Alfred told Kallen that many club members had been arrested in a special operation, leading Kallen to suspect his authorization for the Raniedal Project had caused the arrests.
• Kallen and Alfred saw a woman destroy a church transport truck and kill its occupants while rescuing a little girl and a fluffy white creature.
• The woman attacked Alfred, but Kallen drew the Sword of Arius and fought her alongside him.
• The woman offered to spare Kallen if he kept the incident from the Order God Church, and Kallen agreed.

Kallen sent Neo after the woman who had attacked him and Alfred, and Neo fought her in a deserted industrial compound. Neo defeated her after revealing his power as a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon and invoking Light-Knight's Protection, then demanded that she keep his power secret from the Order God Church.

• Kallen asked Alfred to gather Fanny and the squad while he pursued Neo, and Alfred agreed that Kallen had not promised to report the woman to the Order God Church.
• The woman stopped in a deserted industrial compound, where Neo confronted her and demanded an apology for threatening Kallen.
• The woman and Neo exchanged spell arts before she used Ruimoer and her armor to attack him at close range, badly wounding him.
• Neo trapped the woman with his ribs and seized her, but she escaped with a sacred artifact and inflicted severe wounds on him.
• Neo healed rapidly as a Bloodthirsty Otherworldly Demon and invoked Light-Knight's Protection, then overpowered the woman with his greatsword and knocked her down.
• Neo held his greatsword to the woman's neck and offered to spare her if she kept what she had seen from the Order God Church.

Neo defeated Anita, an inheritor of the Gravekeeper Clan, and let her go after proposing they work together to find the sealed God-Burial Cemetery. Back at home, Kallen learned from Kevin that Kevin knew the cemetery’s location and had helped the God of Order seal it.

• Neo injected Anita with a drug, learned she belonged to the Gravekeeper Clan, and made her apologize to Kallen.
• After the drug wore off, Anita left with her symbiotic companion Ruimoer and gave Neo a black bead so he could contact her.
• Neo admitted to Kallen that he did not know where the cemetery was but planned to use the search as a reason to summon Anita for help.
• Kallen returned to the Funeral Society and told Puer what had happened; Puer recalled a former Gravekeeper Clan companion who had died searching for the cemetery.
• Kevin revealed that he knew the God-Burial Cemetery’s exact location and, through Alfred, said he had helped the God of Order seal it.

Kallen learned that Kevin could locate the God-Burial Cemetery only after another layer of his seal was undone, then prepared to visit Dark Moon Island and later Allen Manor. When Pike underwent Divine Revelation, Kallen used his chain to prolong the experience and guide him, ending with Pike recognizing Kallen as his boss after Kallen promised to quintuple his salary.

• Kevin revealed that he had arranged the God-Burial Cemetery’s banishment into the Void Countercurrent and could sense its coordinates once another seal was undone.
• Kallen discussed the plans for Earl Recar’s coffin and said he would visit Dark Moon Island before going with Alfred to Allen Manor.
• Dinkum told Kallen that Pike seemed close to Divine Revelation, and Kallen brought Pike into his study to undergo it.
• Kallen’s black chain halted Pike’s brief observation period and let Kallen enter Pike’s vision, where he encountered the God of Order’s revelation to Pike.
• Kallen tried to redirect Pike’s recognition toward him, and Pike called him a great boss after Kallen offered to increase his salary fivefold.

Kallen successfully guided Pike to distinguish Order from the God of Order, then discussed how he might eventually reshape the Order God Church. After resting, Kallen received a mission notification and prepared to leave for Dark Moon Island.

• Kallen helped Pike complete Divine Revelation and establish a new interpretation of Order, then rewarded him with a fivefold increase to his base salary.
• Kevin proposed that Kallen rise within the Order God Church and eventually replace the God of Order, but Kallen questioned how that would make him different from the gods.
• Kallen bathed and rested while Puer arranged for Dora and Doreen to use the Light-infused bathwater to ease their illness.
• Alfred told Kallen that Fanny would pick him up in two hours for a mission, and Kallen said he was going to Dark Moon Island.
• Puer told Kallen to stay safe while he was away, and Kallen reassured her that he would return.

Kallen and Neo Squad traveled with Bishop Woforen’s delegation to Dark Moon Island for negotiations, where they settled into the Bernard Hotel. With their duties light before the talks began, Kallen joined Laure, Leon, and Richard on an outing to explore the island.

• Kallen joined Neo Squad as they prepared for the trip, and Neo told them to present themselves as the victors at the negotiations.
• Kallen’s team teleported with Woforen, Leon, and Laure to Dark Moon Island, where Neo praised Order for shaping the world and Woforen agreed.
• The delegation arrived at the Bernard Hotel, where Neo assigned Kallen to share a room with him and gave most of the squad time to explore.
• Laure invited Kallen, Leon, and Richard to sample local specialties and visit the Mermaid Theater, while Richard promised to take Memphis there separately later.

Kallen visited Dark Moon Island’s mermaid theater with Laure, Richard, and Leon, but chose not to select a merfolk for himself. Ophelia learned he was alone and ordered the theater’s top courtesan sent to his room.

• Kallen and the others ate local seafood and tried Moonlight Tea at a restaurant in town.
• Laure bought the group expensive purple tickets to the mermaid theater, where Kallen watched the merfolk and read about their customs.
• Kallen decided not to use the launcher or order anyone, then realized guests in opposite rooms could see into his room.
• Panmir reported Kallen’s choice to Ophelia while Madam Qienai praised his restraint.
• Ophelia ordered Madam Qienai to send the theater’s top courtesan to Kallen’s room.

Kallen refused to take advantage of the mermaid sent to his room, then reunited with his companions and met Ophelia during her visit to Bishop Woforen. Ophelia called Kallen aside and asked what he had done that afternoon, and he admitted he had visited prostitutes.

• Kallen took the mermaid’s potion, warned her it was harmful, and told her to rest in the bathtub while he slept on the bed.
• Kallen discovered his bill had been paid and joined Richard, Leon, and Laure at the drinks bar.
• Kallen and his companions returned to the residence and found Ophelia visiting Bishop Woforen.
• Ophelia greeted Leon, then passed Kallen without speaking to him as she left with Leon and the others.
• Ophelia stopped beside an ornamental river, called Kallen over, and asked what he had done after eating seafood.
• Kallen told Ophelia that he had gone to visit prostitutes.

Kallen met with Ophelia, who discussed Dark Moon Island’s plans to build his influence and struggled with her feelings for him. That night, Neo took Kallen to search for a villa connected to the memories in his head.

• Ophelia told Kallen that General Taufman and Elder Council representatives would meet him, and she explained the island’s hopes for his growing network of connections.
• Ophelia staged an affectionate farewell with Kallen, then admitted to Panmir that she liked him and felt unsettled by his fiancée and his refusal to accept a mermaid’s services.
• Neo told Kallen that a location on Dark Moon Island had triggered a memory and proposed that they sneak out to investigate it.
• After dark, Neo and Kallen left the hotel in casual clothes and headed toward a large villa with ginkgo trees.

Neo and Kallen infiltrated General Tuffman's villa, where Kallen overheard Tuffman discussing Ophelia's feelings for Kallen and the Dark Moon Clan's ties to the Church of Light. The chapter ended when Ophelia opened the curtains and discovered Kallen hiding behind them.

• Neo and Kallen identified the villa as the residence of General Tuffman, Ophelia's uncle, and decided to sneak inside.
• Neo and Kallen used Light-Shadow Concealment to enter the villa through a cellar and wine cellar.
• Kallen became separated from Neo and hid in a study as Ophelia and Tuffman arrived to talk.
• Tuffman questioned Ophelia about her feelings for Kallen, and she said she had accepted that nothing could happen between them because Kallen had a fiancée.
• Tuffman revealed the Dark Moon Clan's secret ties to the Church of Light and told Ophelia to pray for the Dark Moon's protection before reading its scriptures.
• Ophelia prayed, opened the curtains, and found Kallen hiding behind them.

Kallen and Ophelia were transported from Dark Moon Island to a hidden island filled with deadly snakes while chasing the captain. As they searched for a way back, activating the stone stele revealed a pit of more than a thousand corpses and a message signed by Bernard.

• Ophelia recognized Kallen in disguise but let him leave the study without revealing his visit to General Taufman.
• The captain activated a teleportation formation in the villa, and Kallen and Ophelia followed him through it.
• Kallen and Ophelia arrived on a remote island, fought off pythons, and realized they were southwest of Dark Moon Island.
• Ophelia examined the stone stele while Kallen noticed that the apparent turf nearby felt like hair.
• The hair withdrew beneath the stele, exposing a corpse pit containing over a thousand bodies and a message from Bernard inviting them to sleep there forever.

Kallen and Ophelia uncovered how Bernard had betrayed and massacred the believers in Light who helped build Dark Moon Island, then found a hidden dwelling and the corpse of Phileas’s wife. They found the captain waiting by the teleportation formation, but he had lost himself and turned on Ophelia, declaring that the Dark Moon Bloodline should perish.

• Kallen and Ophelia searched the island for a way back and found a cave containing statues of Bernard and Puer and two stone coffins.
• Kallen and Ophelia discovered that one coffin held the corpse of a woman in robes of Light, whom Kallen identified as the wife of the leader of the believers in Light.
• Kallen and Ophelia found the teleportation formation on a platform facing Dark Moon Island and saw the captain waiting there in a deer head.
• The captain called out Elisa’s and Jennifer’s names, removed his deer head to reveal a bloody face, and threatened to wipe out the Dark Moon Bloodline.

Kallen and Ophelia fought the captain after he lost himself and attacked them. Ophelia escaped through the activated formation, while Kallen remained behind with the captain, whose flames vanished just as Kallen ran out of strength.

• The captain charged at Kallen and Ophelia, but Ophelia stabbed him with her greatsword; he exploded and then continued attacking through a rag doll and pale hands.
• Kallen and Ophelia coordinated to stop the captain’s attacks, and Kallen moved to prepare the Teleportation Array while Ophelia challenged him in close combat.
• The captain overwhelmed Ophelia, breaking through her defenses and imprisoning her, but Kallen pierced him from behind with Ophelia’s greatsword empowered by light.
• Kallen held the captain down as their fire and water powers clashed, giving Ophelia time to complete the formation and teleport away.
• Kallen’s spiritual power ran dry, but the captain’s flames suddenly dissipated, and he told Kallen to pull out the sword.

After Kallen wounded Neo, the captain revealed that he had regained control and had staged the fight to help Ophelia survive and deepen her feelings for Kallen. Neo and Kallen planned a cover story for the captain’s disappearance and Kallen’s survival, then began preparing the scene.

• Kallen confronted Neo after stabbing him, and Neo explained that he had regained consciousness during the fight and had deliberately played along to create an opportunity for Ophelia to escape.
• Neo admitted he had arranged the danger to bring Kallen and Ophelia closer, while Kallen objected to being manipulated and worried about seeing her again.
• Neo told Kallen that the formation led to another island and proposed returning to Dark Moon Island separately, leaving Kallen to be rescued.
• Neo and Kallen devised a story that Neo had tried to take over Kallen’s body but had been destroyed when Bernard and Miss Paul protected him.
• Kallen revealed that Miss Paul was still alive as his family’s cat and that he could summon her aura and phantom, so Neo agreed to include her in their staged scene.
• Neo summoned a sword of Light and prepared to give Kallen more injuries to make their cover story convincing.

Kallen waited in a cave for rescue after the captain staged his injuries, then woke in a Dark Moon Island hospital and confronted General Taufman about the island’s claims on him and Ophelia. He rejected Taufman’s offer of power and marriage, declaring that the Dark Moon was only fit to reflect Order’s shadow.

• The captain staged Kallen’s injuries and the cave scene, warned him that Ophelia might conceal how they arrived, and left him to await rescue.
• Kallen discovered scratch marks inside Jennifer’s coffin and realized Bernard had displayed her suffering as a triumph over Puer.
• Kallen slept in an empty coffin until Ophelia and a rescue party arrived, with Puer’s image appearing beside him through the captain’s magic formation.
• After receiving treatment, Kallen woke in the hospital to find General Taufman waiting and learned that Ophelia had concealed the circumstances of his arrival.
• Kallen told Taufman he rejected the Dark Moon’s faith and owed its people no deference, then refused Taufman’s proposal that he marry Ophelia and rise to power.
• Kallen recounted Puer’s regret over choosing the Family Faith System and told Taufman that the Dark Moon was only fit to reflect Order’s shadow.

Kallen recovered from his injuries on Dark Moon Island while Ophelia openly pursued him despite his engagement, then returned to the hotel for the conference. Neo discovered a signal calling Light Remnants to gather and suspected they planned to act during the conference, so he set out to infiltrate their meeting.

• Taufman accepted that Kallen intended to pursue his future with the Order God Church, then worried over the contradictions in Kallen's behavior and told himself, "Light Remnant..."
• Ophelia visited Kallen, confessed her feelings through her actions, and embraced him despite his attempts to resist; his wound reopened while she leaned against him.
• After receiving further treatment, Kallen decided to attend the conference, and Ophelia accompanied him to the Bernard Hotel in armor while warning him that Light Remnant accomplices remained at large.
• At the hotel, Kallen found Neo, who revealed he had located a gathering signal for Light Remnants and suspected they planned something during the conference.
• Neo told Kallen to attend the conference with Memphis while he infiltrated the Light Remnants' meeting, and Kallen made him promise not to offer them advice.