Recaps

Lu Xiao entered the Dark Prison, learned that his body and curse could harm anomalies, and joined Dart’s squad for a mission involving Boss Liu’s Magic Mirror. The squad reached the manor as foreign Prison Wardens moved to seize it, and Dart prepared to intercept them while Lu Xiao questioned whether they were human.

• Dart’s squad rescued Lu Xiao from the Dark Prison and brought him to the base, where the Prison Doctor treated him and discovered his body healed and renewed itself.
• Lu Xiao helped the Prison Doctor operate on Liuguang, then underwent surgery to suppress a curse that threatened to turn him into rotten flesh.
• When Colonel Enzo tried to take Liuguang, Lu Xiao identified him as a vampire and tore him apart, while the Prison Doctor treated Dart’s severe injuries.
• The Doctor tested Lu Xiao’s ability to harm anomalies, classified him as S-class, and learned from Ivan that his curse could worsen despite the surgery.
• Lu Xiao asked to return to the human world, and the Doctor arranged for him to accompany Dart’s squad on a mission against Boss Liu’s Magic Mirror.
• Boss Liu used the Magic Mirror to learn that seven people were coming, while Dart’s squad attacked his manor and retreated under heavy fire.
• The Doctor deployed Lu Xiao to Magic City, where the squad learned the Magic Mirror could see the past and future and foreign Prison Wardens were attacking the manor.
• Dart ordered his squad to prepare a live-ammunition interception as Lu Xiao asked whether he could kill the attackers and insisted they were not people.

Lu Xiao faced the cost of his curse, helped contain new anomalies, and saw the Doctor lose control of key custody disputes. After surviving a monster attack in the Dark Prison, Lu Xiao set out with Dart, Driver, and Chainsaw Uncle, but a red-dressed woman appeared and killed Driver.

• Lu Xiao used the Omniscient Mirror to learn about his past and curse, then rejected sacrificing the Present World and sought the Prison Doctor’s advice.
• The Doctor sent Lu Xiao and Dante to investigate a missing-passenger taxi, and Lu Xiao brought the anomalous vehicle and its driver back to C03.
• The Doctor classified the taxi as Sequence 302-Vehicle and its driver as Sequence 303-Driver, while Lu Xiao welcomed Driver as a comrade.
• At the Round Table Conference, the Council voted to transfer 301 and approved an investigation into C03, while the Doctor refused to surrender 09 and Adam’s motion against C03 passed.
• Lu Xiao tested the Cursed Toy Cap Gun and revolver, suffering their effects alongside the Prison Doctor and Ivan, while Dart developed a strange eye linked to Lu Xiao’s blood.
• Lu Xiao, Dart, and Driver entered the Dark Prison to hide from the Investigation Team, but a monster pursued them until the crimson moon’s eye opened and destroyed it.
• Lu Xiao reunited with Chainsaw Uncle, gave him a name badge, and shared a vampire with Driver and Dart, whose tentacles grew thicker.
• Lu Xiao traveled with Dart, Driver, and Chainsaw Uncle to find local specialties, but a red-dressed woman appeared, snapped Driver’s neck, and vanished.

Lu Xiao and Dante’s group traveled to Japan to find answers and seize 012-Pen, while the Doctor pursued knowledge of Lu Xiao’s divinity and the Gate’s threat. The Omniscient Mirror devastated Japan, but the group returned to Huaxia with 012-Pen and an injured Dante, and the Doctor sought 013-Parchment to use with it.

• Lu Xiao escaped his containment room amid a facility-wide riot, then joined Dante’s mission to search for a Ghost-Faced Moth nest and flew with the team to Japan.
• Lu Xiao killed the Ghost-Faced Moth Empress with the Corrupted Revolver, survived through a parasitic larva, and gained the Omniscient Mirror’s warning about his curse.
• Dante and Lu Xiao’s group reached Japan, where Dante prepared a secret mission to seize 012-Pen as the Doctor pursued answers about humanity’s limits and Lu Xiao’s divinity.
• Lu Xiao’s team entered J01, where he fought Serial Number 297-Shy Guy as Artisan opened every containment room and Dante declared himself Devil over the radio.
• The Omniscient Mirror swallowed a fighter jet and unleashed disasters that destroyed Tokyo Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture, while Lu Xiao’s group seized 012-Pen and escaped.
• Lu Xiao returned to Huaxia with Dante, whose damaged lungs the Prison Doctor operated on using Lu Xiao’s flesh, and the Doctor obtained 012-Pen while seeking 013-Parchment.

Lu Xiao and C03 prepared to capture Niclade while dealing with Lu Qian’s birth, the Creator’s flesh, and a dangerous drug experiment. The arc ended with Doctor sending Lu Xiao’s group into the Dark Prison’s depths as Dart’s infection and He Shang’s disappearance raised new concerns.

• The Doctor used 09 to write a message predicting R’lyeh’s rise in a month, then persuaded the Round Table to declare the highest state of war readiness and seek help from A01.
• Lu Xiao found that Dart had gone deeper into the Dark Prison, while Dante underwent a life-form ascension and Lu Xiao’s larva hatched into Lu Qian.
• Ivan, the Prison Doctor, and Chainsaw Man welcomed Lu Qian, while the Prison Doctor and Chainsaw Man entered 09’s room and escaped with the Creator’s severed leg.
• Lu Xiao fed the Creator’s flesh to his companions, and Ding Dan mutated while the Doctor tested a drug intended to enhance a subject exposed to Deity’s Whisper.
• The Omniscient Mirror warned Lu Xiao that Lu Qian’s mutation was tied to C03 and could be stopped by sacrificing the facility, but Lu Xiao refused.
• Nicladе learned that the Prison Wardens planned to attack in a month and sacrifice him to the Omniscient Mirror, while Lu Xiao’s group traveled through C02 to search for food.
• Lu Xiao’s group hunted and ate strange creatures in the Dark Prison, while the Doctor’s drug temporarily increased a Consumable’s strength and speed before its effects wore off.
• Lu Xiao’s companions noticed he had become more human, and the Doctor sent the group into the Dark Prison’s depths after warning them that Dart was parasitized by R019-Source of Contamination and that He Shang was missing.