Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiao learned that his blood had made the insect egg closest to him and that it would never betray him. After the team completed its mission, Xiao Yu transformed their vehicle into a stealth aircraft, and Lu Xiao’s disastrous piloting sent the passengers into the air and then into a terrifying dive.

• The Omniscient Mirror told Lu Xiao that his blood had transformed the insect egg and made him its closest person, prompting him to imagine raising it as a pet.
• Lu Xiao and the others returned to Liu Guoliang, and Dante reported that the threats below had been cleared out.
• Lu Xiao returned the close-in defense grenade cannon to Liu Guoliang because deploying it required authorization.
• Xiao Yu transformed the vehicle into a black stealth airplane, and the team boarded for the flight to Japan.
• Lu Xiao welded the doors shut, took off without lowering the flaps, and revealed that he had only played Grand Theft Auto V; Driver and the passengers passed out as the plane lurched through the sky.

The Doctor paid the Prison Doctor while learning that 019-Source of Pollution had escaped into the Dark Prison. There, it infected Dart and Chainsaw Man, and Dart agreed to its demands to keep it from controlling Chainsaw Man.

• The Prison Doctor apologized to the Doctor for letting 019-Source of Pollution escape, and the Doctor underwent the procedure to pay his fee.
• Chainsaw Man fed Dart high-level Weird Life until a soldier carrying a glass container approached them in the Dark Prison.
• The soldier dissolved into black liquid, which Dart recognized as 019-Source of Pollution as it breached containment.
• The black liquid infected Dart and Chainsaw Man, then tempted Dart with the chance to become human again.
• Dart refused the offer at first and asked Chainsaw Man to kill him, but agreed to 019-Source of Pollution's demands to prevent it from polluting Chainsaw Man.

Lu Xiao and his companions flew through foggy seas and encountered the enormous S058, the jellyfish flying in the sky, before reaching Japan. Dante said they would complete the mission to contain Lu Xiao in Tokyo Prefecture.

• Lu Xiao told Driver that the plane was on autopilot and nearing Japan, while Dante explained that the foggy sea was home to S058, which had never harmed passing aircraft.
• The plane passed beside the giant jellyfish, and Lu Xiao drooled over the thought of eating it while the Omniscient Mirror suggested he eat it raw.
• Lu Xiao and his companions arrived in Japan, where Dante explained that the country had only Tokyo Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture, a population of just over a million, and one Containment Facility, J01.
• Lu Xiao asked where Dante planned to complete the mission to contain him, and Dante chose Tokyo Prefecture.

Lu Xiao crash-landed the plane in Japan, and Dante’s group continued toward Tokyo in Driver’s van. In Tokyo Prefecture, Artisan ordered more people seized for experiments on 297 and insisted Japan must keep key anomalies out of Huaxia’s hands.

• Lu Xiao dove toward a clearing and landed the plane on its side, terrifying Driver, Dante, Sly, Xiao Yu, and Liuguang.
• Driver transformed into a silver-gray van, and Dante’s group set off for Tokyo Prefecture.
• Artisan ordered his staff to find more people for experiments on 297 after they reported that no prisoners remained.
• Artisan dismissed a researcher’s concerns about misclassifying 297 and said Japan needed the Omniscient Mirror to escape its predicament.
• Artisan rejected trading 012-Pen for access to the Omniscient Mirror because he feared Huaxia would seize 012 and 013-Parchment.
• Artisan arrived at his villa with Oda and produced a handgun.

Artisan killed the researcher and returned home to reassure his daughter. On the road to Osaka, Lu Xiao and Driver attacked a gang of Japanese thugs, leaving Vehicle with fresh fuel and the group facing possible consequences for their violence.

• Artisan shot the researcher in the van, then comforted his daughter by telling her Oda was resting.
• Lu Xiao learned from the Omniscient Mirror that Vehicle ran on flesh and blood, but refused to feed him his own.
• A group of thugs stopped the van and demanded money, then attacked Vehicle and grabbed Dante.
• Lu Xiao smashed the thug holding Dante, and Dante and the other Prison Wardens pretended not to see as Lu Xiao attacked the rest.
• Driver asked to join in, and after Sly explained Dante's response, Driver killed the last surviving thug to earn a third-class merit despite the mess.
• Dante asked if Vehicle had finished refueling, and Driver replied that he was almost done.

Lu Xiao and Dante arrived in Tokyo Prefecture, where the Omniscient Mirror revealed that Doctor had sent them to seek an answer but would not explain what it was. The next morning, Dante arranged a helicopter tour while Lu Xiao and the others trained.

• Lu Xiao's group reached the C03 Containment Facility office in Tokyo Prefecture, and Dante asked the office's head, Zuoshandiao, to show them around Japan.
• Dante hinted that their mission was to recontain Lu Xiao, but Zuoshandiao inferred they had another assignment and agreed to help.
• The Omniscient Mirror said Doctor had sent them to seek an answer, but it could not reveal what the answer was until its deal with him was complete.
• Dante coughed violently in the hallway and hid his bloodied palm from Lu Xiao, who urged him to quit smoking and offered to take him to Prison Doctor.
• The next morning, Dante asked Zuoshandiao to arrange helicopter clearance, while Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu trained and Driver joined them after Lu Xiao teased him about his appearance.

Dante and the group flew from the private hangar while Zuoshandiao gave them an aerial tour and explained how Containment Facilities were arranged. Xiao Yu revealed that the System and Gates formed the foundation of the Prison Wardens, and Dante confirmed Doctor had authorized Lu Xiao to learn about the organization.

• Zuoshandiao received flight clearance and took the group to a private hangar, where Lu Xiao asked to fly the helicopter but Driver objected, so Zuoshandiao piloted it.
• Zuoshandiao flew over Tokyo Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture and explained why Containment Facilities were built beneath shrines, churches, temples, or psychiatric hospitals.
• Lu Xiao asked whether every Containment Facility had a Gate, and Xiao Yu explained that Serial Number 03-Gate connected the Present World and the Dark Prison.
• Xiao Yu said Serial Number 01-System was the first contained anomaly, served as the Prison Wardens' brain, and guided them to the Gates; she said its origins were highly classified.
• Lu Xiao asked the Omniscient Mirror about the System's origins, and it said learning them would cost at least as much as resolving his curse.
• Dante told Zuoshandiao that Doctor had authorized sharing Prison Wardens information with 292, and Lu Xiao felt pleased with his badge.

Adam mutated into a monstrous tentacled creature and entered the Dark Prison after triggering A01 Containment Facility’s alarm. Meanwhile, Dante led Lu Xiao and the others toward J01 Containment Facility for a dangerous mission, declaring them qualified Sacrificial Ones before departure.

• Adam’s body sprouted tentacles and an enormous eye as he cursed Doctor and Huaxia.
• Adam’s mutation triggered A01 Containment Facility’s Dark Prison Value alarm, and his tentacles killed staff as he passed through the Gate into the Dark Prison.
• In Japan, Dante ordered Zuoshandiao to send the office staff home and instructed Driver to use teleportation to enter J01 Containment Facility that night.
• Dante warned Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu that the mission would strip them of their Prison Warden status and death benefits, then declared them qualified Sacrificial Ones.
• Liuguang, Sly, and Xiao Yu refused to back out, and Lu Xiao learned that Dante’s special training had taught them how to smoke.

Doctor defied his superiors and pursued research to find a way for humanity to survive the Gate’s impending failure, insisting that learning the deity’s name was essential. He Shang learned that 292 possessed supreme divinity and ordered Doctor to develop it fully.

• Dante and Sly arrived by teleportation at J01 Containment Facility.
• Doctor told the Warden he had chosen to act, despite risking his position, because he sought a technological breakthrough to prepare for the Gate’s failure.
• The Director praised Doctor’s decision and offered support, but abruptly ended their call when He Shang called.
• He Shang ordered Doctor to withdraw his people from Japan and warned that their actions could cost the country its seat in the Highest Office.
• Doctor explained that he wanted answers about humanity’s technological limits and warned that the Dark Prison was assimilating the Present World, potentially destroying civilization when the Gate failed.
• Doctor confirmed that 292 had divinity stronger than 09’s, and He Shang ordered him to develop 292 fully.

The Doctor explained that Lu’s blood had given him a curse called Apotheosis and warned He Shang about its effects, but He Shang still demanded Lu’s divinity. Meanwhile, Lu Xiao and three rookie Sacrificial Ones entered J01 Containment Facility to seize Contained Anomaly 012-Pen, where alarms sounded and security forces closed in.

• The Doctor told He Shang that a single drop of Lu’s blood had caused a Prison Warden soldier to mutate horrifically, and refused to help replicate Lu’s divinity.
• The Doctor recalled injecting himself with diluted blood produced from Lu’s cultured stem cells, which made him younger and left an eye in his palm.
• The Prison Doctor identified Lu’s curse as Apotheosis, called his divinity pure and noble, and said he came from the depths of Prison.
• He Shang still wanted Lu’s divinity, so the Doctor agreed to send him a blood sample and advised him to check Adam’s condition first.
• Lu Xiao and the rookies entered J01 Containment Facility to seize Contained Anomaly 012-Pen, while Dante and Driver flew off with the Omniscient Mirror for another mission.
• The facility’s cameras detected Lu Xiao’s group, and security forces converged on them as Liuguang warned Lu Xiao not to use his Bone Spur unless necessary.

Lu Xiao slaughtered the Prison Warden soldiers at the J01 Containment Facility, driving Artisan to release every Living Contained Anomaly. Meanwhile, Dante and Driver escaped missiles and confronted A01’s Special Operations Squad, and Dante declared that he was now Devil, a member of the Saints.

• Lu Xiao stabbed himself with the Bone Spur, incapacitated Liuguang and the others, then killed more than a hundred Prison Warden soldiers.
• Artisan learned that the Highest Office had abandoned him and treated J01 as a bargaining chip, so he pressed the facility’s emergency button and opened every Containment Room.
• Driver dodged missiles in the helicopter, shut off its engine to evade an attack, then restarted it after the explosions damaged Dante.
• An A01 fighter jet ordered Dante to stop, and Dante told the radio that he had left the Prison Wardens and joined the Saints under the codename Devil.
• Dante rejected the accusation that he had betrayed humanity and declared, “From now on, please call me Devil, Dante!”

Dante and Driver faced an incoming fighter jet before the Omniscient Mirror transformed and unleashed a catastrophe across Tokyo Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture. Inside the J01 Containment Facility, Lu Xiao fought Serial Number 297-Shy Guy and decided to take the regenerating creature with him.

• Dante asked Driver whether he had sounded cool over the radio, then Driver warned that a fighter jet had locked onto their helicopter and fired missiles.
• Lu Xiao read Serial Number 297-Shy Guy’s containment information, saw its face, and provoked it with remarks about its appearance.
• Serial Number 297 charged Lu Xiao, who broke off its arm, ate it, and attacked with Bone Spur after the limb regenerated.
• Driver restored the vehicle to its original form as a floating ball of flesh, and the Omniscient Mirror swallowed the fighter jet.
• The Omniscient Mirror unleashed a massive tornado, waves, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes that destroyed Tokyo Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture, then began to reveal the deity’s name.

Dante was gravely injured after helping the Driver, who used the Omniscient Mirror to transform the vehicle into a supersonic aircraft. Lu Xiao and the others escaped J01 with the fountain pen, leaving the Artisan surrounded by escaped Weird Creatures.

• Dante asked the Driver for a cigarette and whether he had looked cool, while the Omniscient Mirror warned that he might not survive without help.
• The Driver asked the Omniscient Mirror how to transform the Transforming Vehicle into a supersonic airplane, and the Mirror gave him the answer for free.
• Lu Xiao killed 297 with the Bone Spur and ate part of its arm as Liuguang, Xiao Yu, and the others regrouped in the collapsing J01 Containment Facility.
• The Driver arrived in the transformed aircraft, and Lu Xiao used the Omniscient Mirror to locate 012 before they teleported to the Gate and took the fountain pen from the Artisan.
• The aircraft departed, and dozens of Class D Weird Creatures emerged from the shadows around the Artisan.

Lu Xiao returned from Japan with Dante and asked the Omniscient Mirror whether Dante could be saved; it answered yes. The group brought Dante to the Prison Doctor for emergency treatment, and the chapter ended as the doctor began operating.

• Driver said Dante and the Omniscient Mirror had destroyed Japan, and Lu Xiao rewarded the mirror with three fingernails.
• Lu Xiao asked the Omniscient Mirror whether Dante could recover, how to kill the Shy One, and whether they would sacrifice the god; it answered yes, advised feeding the Shy One to Serial Number 302-Vehicle, and said the sacrifice was already an established fact.
• Lu Xiao and the others flew back to Huaxia and brought the badly injured Dante to the Prison Doctor's Containment Room.
• The Prison Doctor put Dante on the operating table, promised to use his best anesthetic, and began removing Dante's damaged lungs.

The Prison Doctor operated on Dante while Lu Xiao watched, and the Doctor questioned whether the procedure had been necessary. After obtaining 012-Pen, the Doctor asked for 013-Parchment, and the Warden and Director arrived at C03 to witness their use.

• The Prison Doctor used a piece of Lu Xiao's flesh while repairing Dante, then finished the operation after Lu Xiao pointed out the missing kidney and the misplaced needle.
• The Doctor questioned what the surgery had accomplished if Lu Xiao's flesh had saved Dante.
• Lu Xiao asked whether the Doctor wanted to study 297, and the Doctor ordered it contained; Lu Xiao then said his ride could gain unlimited power by eating it, and the Doctor allowed him to dispose of it as he wished.
• The Doctor identified the antique fountain pen as 012-Pen and told the Warden he had obtained it but needed 013-Parchment.
• The Warden said the Director of C02 must witness the use of both anomalies, then brought 013-Parchment to C03 with the Director.
• The Director tried to recruit Lu Xiao to C02 by promising him an endless supply of cooked Weird Creatures, irritating the Doctor.

The Doctor and the Director discussed trading the Director’s anomalous chef for Lu Xiao’s blood, while the Warden noticed the eye growing in the Doctor’s palm. When an expendable was contaminated and transformed after writing part of the Doctor’s dictated text, Lu Xiao paid the Omniscient Mirror ten fingernails to learn that the writing involved a deity beyond human tolerance.

• The Director offered to send his anomalous chef in exchange for a sample of Lu Xiao’s blood, and the Doctor agreed.
• The Warden noticed the eye in the Doctor’s palm, and the Doctor explained that he had injected himself with Lu Xiao’s blood.
• The Doctor dictated a passage about Niclade and the awakening of Cthulhu to an expendable, who transformed into writhing flesh after writing the first sentence and was shot by Prison Warden soldiers.
• The Doctor asked Lu Xiao to consult the Omniscient Mirror, and Lu Xiao pulled out and swallowed ten fingernails to pay for its answer.
• The Omniscient Mirror explained that the contamination grew stronger with the target’s standing and that humans could not withstand the effects of writing about a deity.

Lu Xiao and the others decided to ask Serial Number 09-Polluted Creator to write the forbidden text, despite the danger of empowering him. Inside his containment room, 09 transformed into a horrifying, alluring figure, and Lu Xiao heard a voice urge him to eat.

• The Omniscient Mirror told Lu Xiao that writing the text would hasten the curse inside him, so the Doctor and the others debated asking 09 instead.
• The Warden objected to the plan, but the Doctor decided that 09 would write the text, and Lu Xiao refused to do it himself.
• The Doctor led Lu Xiao, the Director, and the Warden to 09's containment room and warned them to limit how long they looked at him.
• The Doctor called on 09 for help, and 09 answered as Lu Xiao briefly looked at him.
• Lu Xiao saw 09's body covered in festering wounds as his chains became tentacles, then heard a tempting voice in his mind tell him to eat 09.

Doctor used Sequence Number 09 to record information for a planned sacrifice, while Lu Xiao avoided being corrupted and learned that 09 had tried to leave an anchor on him. Doctor then planned to capture Niclade, the Saints Organization’s leader, and sacrifice him to 301 to learn how to achieve a technological breakthrough.

• Sequence Number 09 transformed, wrote Doctor’s intended message on the Parchment Scroll, and returned it with the pen.
• 09’s gibbering briefly corrupted Doctor and the others, then He placed a clump of corruption in Lu Xiao’s hand and told him to eat it.
• Lu Xiao fed the clump to the Omniscient Mirror, which explained that 09 had wanted to leave an anchor and descend through Lu Xiao’s flesh and blood.
• Doctor confirmed that 09 had recorded the message and said they had less than a month to prepare to capture Niclade and sacrifice Him to 301.
• The Warden doubted humans could defeat and capture a deity, while Doctor said Huaxia needed help from other parties, especially A01.

The Doctor presented evidence that the Gate was failing and that hostile beings lay in the depths of the Dark Prison, then convinced the Round Table Conference to put the Prison Wardens on the highest state of war readiness. He revealed that R'lyeh would rise from the seabed in one month.

• The Warden told the Doctor and Director that humanity was too weak and entrusted the future to them.
• The Highest Office convened the Round Table Conference, where the Doctor showed three recordings from the Omniscient Mirror.
• The recordings confirmed that the Gate was failing, dangerous beings inhabited the Dark Prison, and the Mirror demanded a deity sacrifice for a technological breakthrough.
• The Doctor proposed the highest state of war readiness, and every representative voted in favor.
• The Councilor ordered C03 Containment Facility to share its intelligence and required all other facilities to follow its plans.
• The Doctor said 012-Pen and 013-Parchment had recorded that R'lyeh would rise from the seabed in one month.

The Doctor secured support for a plan to sacrifice Niclade before the Lord of R'lyeh awakened, while tensions flared over Adam’s mutation. He Shang injected Lu Xiao’s blood, and Dante awoke in C03 after the Prison Doctor treated his injuries.

• The Doctor proposed using Contained Anomalies against Niclade and asked A01 to deploy 02-Angel, avoiding 09 because of the risks posed by his polluted nature.
• Anti demanded an explanation for Adam’s mutation, and the Doctor said Adam had provoked 292 during an investigation at C03, causing 292 to rampage and escape.
• The Director challenged Anti over Adam’s conduct at the Huaxia facility, but a Councilor ordered everyone to set aside personal disputes until the operation was finished.
• After the meeting, He Shang injected himself with a sample of Lu Xiao’s blood, believing it could cause mutations and grant divinity.
• Dante woke at C03 with sutured wounds and recalled that the Prison Doctor had saved him after the helicopter mission.