Synopsis

The chapter opens with the protagonist being appointed the new Pavilion Master of the Nirvana Pavilion, greeted with a mix of veiled hostility and manufactured friendliness. He's immediately tasked with reviewing a case involving an injured child, where the father is desperate for justice, revealing a cover-up implicating a 'Hundred Sword Demon' and the Nirvana Pavilion's own biased investigation. The chapter ends with the Pavilion Master confronting the perpetrator of the attack and exposing his lies to witnesses.