Chapter Summaries

Lin Feng escaped Herta's laboratory by stowing away on the Trailblaze Train with March 7th and Stelle. After the jump, March 7th discovered him in the corridor and summoned Stelle, who was just as stunned.

• March 7th and Stelle left Herta's workspace and headed for the train while Lin Feng slipped out unnoticed.
• Asta saw March 7th and Stelle off, then returned to her work as Herta's puppet ended their call.
• Lin Feng decided to escape the space station and enlisted Peppy to help him board the departing train.
• Peppy carried Lin Feng toward the retracting gangway, and Lin Feng leaped onto the train just before its door closed.
• After the jump, March 7th found Lin Feng in the corridor and called for Stelle, who dropped her bat in shock.

March 7th and Stelle discovered that Lin Feng’s Cat Cake had followed them onto the Express, and Ruan Mei agreed to let it stay while she continued her experiment. At her laboratory, Ruan Mei watched footage of the Cat Cake sneaking aboard and hinted that she wanted to see it again.

• Stelle noticed that the Cat Cake had no space station energy marker, and March 7th grew attached to it as she examined and petted it.
• March 7th picked up the Cat Cake while Stelle messaged Ruan Mei to ask whether they should send it back.
• Ruan Mei told Stelle that the Cat Cake could stay on the Express because she was too busy to care for it.
• At her laboratory, Ruan Mei replayed footage of Peppy carrying the Cat Cake onto the Express and studied its focused eyes.
• Ruan Mei reflected that she understood what she should do about life, pushed another Cat Cake away, and said she expected the Cat Cake not to disappoint her when they met again.

March 7th and Stelle brought Lin Feng, a Cat Cake created by Ruan Mei, aboard the Astral Express, where Himeko and Pom-Pom took turns petting him. March 7th and Stelle left to ask Dan Heng how to care for a Cat Cake, leaving Pom-Pom waiting for another chance to hold him.

• March 7th and Stelle returned to the Astral Express with Lin Feng, and Pom-Pom eagerly asked to hold the Cat Cake.
• March 7th explained that Ruan Mei had entrusted Lin Feng to them, and Himeko picked him up and happily petted him.
• Himeko passed Lin Feng to Pom-Pom, who nervously held him and asked how to raise a Cat Cake.
• Himeko suggested asking Dan Heng for advice, so March 7th and Stelle took Lin Feng to find him.
• Pom-Pom complained that the others had left before he could pet Lin Feng enough, and Himeko promised they would bring him back.

Dan Heng identified Lin Feng’s Cat Cake form as an energy-feeding creation, and Lin Feng absorbed a metal offering from Furball before transforming back into a human. Searching the Express for energy, Lin Feng found sequence-level energy in March 7th’s camera and began absorbing it as she returned to her room.

• Dan Heng examined Lin Feng and concluded that the Cat Cake probably fed on energy, while March 7th and Stelle found him a place in the recreation room.
• Furball nudged Lin Feng and offered him a small piece of metal, which Lin Feng absorbed before his body reconstructed into human form.
• Lin Feng searched the recreation room, found no useful energy, and slipped through the Express toward the guest car while disguised as a Cat Cake.
• Lin Feng entered March 7th’s unlocked room and detected sequence-level energy in her pink camera.
• Lin Feng began absorbing the camera’s energy and hid under the desk as March 7th approached, wondering why her door was open.

Lin Feng was trapped in March 7th’s room while secretly absorbing a data stream, then got discovered in his Cat Cake form. After finishing the absorption and gaining a new ability, he was carried toward the bathroom when March decided to bathe him.

• March locked the bedroom door behind her, leaving Lin Feng trapped inside and unable to find a key.
• When March returned and went to bathe, Lin Feng resumed absorbing the data stream beneath her desk.
• March came out to retrieve her duck bath sponge and discovered Lin Feng under the desk in Cat Cake form.
• Lin Feng acted cute to avoid suspicion while his data stream absorption completed, granting him Mimetic Construct Separation.
• March decided Cat Cakes had no gender and picked Lin Feng up, generously inviting him to bathe with her.

March 7th bathed Lin Feng in his Cat Cake form and let him sleep beside her, while teasing him about whether he was a boy or a girl. After March fell asleep, Lin Feng used Mimetic Construct Separation to create a human body, then returned to the Cat Cake and went to sleep.

• March 7th washed Lin Feng in the bathtub, dried him, and joked that he was like Pom-Pom after a bath.
• March 7th questioned whether Lin Feng was a boy and threatened to keep him out of her bed, so he played cute until she let him stay.
• March 7th climbed into bed and placed Lin Feng beside her pillow, resting her hand on him as she fell asleep.
• Lin Feng activated Mimetic Construct Separation and formed an independent human body while keeping his Cat Cake self beside March.
• Lin Feng moved the blanket off the Cat Cake when March accidentally pinned him beneath it, then returned his human body to the Cat Cake and went to sleep.