Recaps

Jiyan and the Midnight Rangers fought the Faceless Inferno Lord’s forces at Norfall Gorge, but the enemy overwhelmed their defenses despite Sentinel Jué’s intervention. As Jiyan prepared to overclock and make a final stand, Phrolova arrived and attacked Impermanence Heron.

• Jiyan rallied the Breaking Formation Battalion to defend Norfall Gorge as the Faceless Inferno Lord advanced.
• The cannons broke the Threnodian’s barrier, and the battalion fought the Tacet Discords while Jiyan crushed their ranks.
• Multiple Crownless broke through the defenders, but Sentinel Jué appeared and destroyed them with dragon breath.
• Sentinel Jué’s form faded, and Impermanence Heron arrived with four Crownless as the Tacet Discords surged again.
• Jiyan prepared to overclock, but Phrolova arrived and sent Hecate to attack Impermanence Heron.

Phrolova helped Jiyan and the Breaking Formation Battalion defeat the Tacet Discords, then faced the Faceless Inferno Lord alone as Reversal Rain revived the dead and turned fallen soldiers into enemies. After the colossus pierced her with a beam, she rose and summoned the Book of the End as a longsword, determined to protect the world he loved.

• Phrolova used Hecate to immobilize the Tacet Discords, letting Jiyan and the soldiers kill or drive back the enemy tide.
• A soldier praised Phrolova as a heroine, but others accused her of being a Fractsidus fiend responsible for past deaths, and she refused to explain herself.
• Reversal Rain revived the slain Tacet Discords and corrupted fallen soldiers, while the Faceless Inferno Lord grew stronger by drawing on the war.
• Jiyan ordered the Breaking Formation Battalion to withdraw, and Hecate hurled Jiyan beyond the rain as Phrolova stayed behind to fight the tide.
• Phrolova used Hecate to control the Tacet Discords and make them attack one another, but the Faceless Inferno Lord entered the battlefield and pierced her with a beam.
• Phrolova struggled back to her feet, vowed to protect the world he loved, and summoned the Book of the End as a longsword.

Phrolova repeatedly used the Book of the End to heal herself while fighting the Faceless Inferno Lord’s war puppet, then gained Jué’s power and destroyed it. As the Faceless Inferno Lord’s true body attacked the canyon, Rover and two others arrived, and Rover praised Phrolova.

• Phrolova used the Book of the End to undo her defeat and control Tacet Discords, but the Faceless Inferno Lord absorbed them and formed a powerful war puppet.
• Hecate saved Phrolova from the puppet’s first strike, and Phrolova used all ten of the Book of the End’s restorations while the defenders debated whether to help her.
• Jiyan ordered the troops to support Phrolova, and the cannons blasted the puppet away from her.
• Sentinel Jué lent Phrolova power, allowing her and Hecate to destroy the war puppet with Remnant Moon, Final Melody of the Underworld.
• The Faceless Inferno Lord’s true body approached and attacked the canyon, but Rover and two others arrived; Rover told Phrolova that she had been very elegant.

Rover and the others wounded the Faceless Inferno Lord, but it underwent a terrifying power breakthrough and turned its rain of retroact into a deadly weapon. Rover sent Jinhsi, Cartethyia, and Phrolova to safety and prepared to face the monster alone.

• Phrolova blushed at Rover's praise, while the Faceless Inferno Lord targeted him with a devastating beam that Cartethyia and Jinhsi blocked together.
• Rover caught the wounded Phrolova and held her still as she struggled and threatened to scratch him.
• The Faceless Inferno Lord grew nearly twice as large, reached second-class Reiatsu, and spoke the words "War... tides!" as its rain of retroact became instantly lethal.
• Rover told Jinhsi, Cartethyia, and Phrolova to retreat while the rain and thousands of Overlord Class Tacet Discords surged after them.
• Rover summoned a card and announced Ryūjin Jakka's Shikai as he prepared to fight the Faceless Inferno Lord alone.

Rover unleashed Zanka no Tachi and defeated the Threnodian Crownless, but its core began recovering by absorbing the battlefield’s frequencies. Imperator offered to use the Separation Authority to sever its connection to the Resonator.

• Rover used Flame Rampart and Brush Slash to destroy the spawned Tacet Discords and split the Faceless Inferno Lord’s body in two.
• The Faceless Inferno Lord’s remains gathered into Crownless, its true form, and its immense power shook the battlefield.
• Rover activated Bankai, Zanka no Tachi, and burned away Crownless’s right arm and war spear with East, Kyokujitsujin and West, Zanjitsu Gokui.
• Crownless summoned fallen warriors from a sea of blood, and Rover countered with skeletal Tacet Discords using South, Kaka Jūmanokushi Daisōjin.
• Rover struck Crownless with North, Tenchi Kaijin, reducing it to a core, but the core began recovering by absorbing the battlefield’s frequencies.
• Imperator told Rover to release him so he could use the Separation Authority to sever Crownless’s connection to the Resonator.

Rover restored Imperator and helped her sever the Faceless Inferno Lord from its Resonator, securing Jinzhou’s victory. As the defenders celebrated, Rover stopped Phrolova from leaving and told her he liked her.

• Rover used Cartethyia’s Philosopher’s Stone to recreate Imperator’s soul, then gave her a body with a Gigai.
• Imperator used an alchemical array and the defenders’ strength to sever the Faceless Inferno Lord from its Resonator and stop its rebirth.
• Rover sealed the weakened Threnodian with Bakudō #99, Kin, and the defenders celebrated Jinzhou’s victory.
• Phrolova tried to leave, but Rover caught her as the soldiers praised her for helping defend them.
• Rover told Phrolova that those she protected could acknowledge her actions and said he liked her.

Phrolova panicked after Rover said he liked her, then returned to prison, where she learned he had three days in Jinzhou before leaving for Rinascita. She invited him to lie on her lap.

• Phrolova blushed and became flustered over Rover saying he liked her, then hid in a fissure she made with her baton.
• Xixi pulled Phrolova from the fissure, and Phrolova gave a young warrior the false name Red Lotus.
• Jinhsi ordered Jiyan to reinforce the defenses around the Faceless Inferno Lord's seal and keep Fractsidus members away.
• Phrolova complained that a blind woman had confiscated some of her dolls while Rover visited her in prison.
• Rover told Phrolova that Cartethyia's frequencies were disordered and that he would return to Rinascita with her in about three days.
• Phrolova told Rover to lie down on her lap.

Rover and Phrolova grew comfortable with each other as she soothed him to sleep, while Jinhsi and Sanhua watched from the magistrate’s office. As Rover drifted into a buried childhood memory, a woman told him she only hoped he could live a carefree, happy life.

• Rover rested his head on Phrolova’s lap, and the two awkwardly grew accustomed to the closeness.
• Phrolova stroked Rover’s hair, and he teased her until she ruffled it in retaliation.
• Jinhsi and Sanhua watched the pair on a screen and discussed whether Phrolova was following a seduction strategy.
• Phrolova sang “Dreamless Sleep and Crimson Beyond,” and Rover sat up in alarm when the melody stirred painful memories.
• Phrolova changed to a lullaby, and Rover relaxed and began falling asleep.
• Rover remembered telling a woman he wanted to travel the universe and save people, and she said she hoped he would live a carefree, happy life.

After waking from a dream, Rover watched over the sleeping Phrolova and worried about the dangers ahead in Septimont. Edward III resurrected Xiutake and learned that Rover was the prophesied Crown, while Phrolova was trapped in a nightmare and Rover had to choose how to wake her.

• Rover woke from a dream, carried the exhausted Phrolova to bed, and considered the Threnodian Leviathan, the Fractsidus, Edward III, and the mysterious person from his hometown.
• Phrolova began struggling in her sleep and cursed the stars, while Edward III resurrected Xiutake with Philosopher's Stones.
• Xiutake told Edward III that he had found the Crown, who could enter the Gate of Truth and return unharmed, and Edward III recited the prophecy of his ascension to godhood.
• Edward III's throne displayed a rune, and he declared that the Star Maiden must return as a vision showed a blood-red meteor destroying a town and a maiden in white falling amid the devastation.
• Phrolova screamed and thrashed in her nightmare as her frequency became dangerously unstable, and Rover called for her to wake.
• The system offered Rover three ways to wake Phrolova, and he chose the third option: kiss her.

Rover kissed Phrolova to wake her from a nightmare, and she returned to herself after remembering that Triss and the others might still be saved. Phrolova received fifty uses of the Book of the End and awakened Fairy-Tale House, then prepared to show Rover its other uses.

• Rover accepted the system's task and kissed the distressed Phrolova to wake her, while Sanhua prevented Jinhsi from watching.
• Phrolova woke, kicked Rover into a wall, and then remembered her nightmare and apologized.
• Rover reminded Phrolova that there was still a chance to save Triss and the others, restoring her hope.
• The system rewarded Phrolova with fifty uses of the Book of the End and awakened her Fullbring, Fairy-Tale House.
• Phrolova made the Rover doll fire a Byakurai and revealed that her other dolls could move, then teased Rover about using her ability to pay him back.

Phrolova trapped Rover inside a doll with her Fairy-Tale House ability and teased him, but his Separation Authority freed him. Rover advanced on the cornered Phrolova, who asked to make peace, and he refused.

• Phrolova shrank Rover by stuffing him inside a doll with her Fairy-Tale House ability.
• Phrolova poked the doll and pressed her foot down on Rover, but he resisted with his strength.
• Rover used Hadō #33, Sōkatsui, and the blast erupted inside the doll, covering him in soot and freeing him from Phrolova's foot.
• Rover used Separation Authority to escape the doll and approached Phrolova.
• Phrolova stumbled to the ground and asked Rover if they could make peace, but he refused.

Rover visited Phrolova in prison, where she revealed that the meteorite disaster might have been man-made and shared a cryptic clue about the Truth. He spent several days visiting friends in Jinzhou before discovering a penniless artist painting an indecent picture of him.

• Rover confronted Phrolova, who claimed the meteorite was no natural disaster and recited a cryptic phrase about stars, a ring, and finding Truth.
• Rover promised to investigate whoever had caused the disaster, while Jinhsi cheered up after Sanhua gave her a doll and planned to mass-produce it.
• Rover watched Lingyang perform a lion dance and later sparred with Yuanwu, defeating him in a boxing match.
• Rover crossed paths with a mysterious female agent and, with Yangyang and Chixia away, visited their usual teahouse alone.
• Rover lost a board game to Changli, joined her for spicy meat, and found her voice hoarse the next day.
• Rover spotted a young artist painting an indecent picture of him in an alley.

Rover discovered that Zhezhi had been drawing risqué pictures of him for a client, who turned out to be a terrorist. After feeding Zhezhi and paying her the money the client owed, Rover received a call from Cartethyia saying it was time to return to Ragunna.

• Rover startled Zhezhi while she was drawing and learned she had accepted a commission despite being banned from taking work.
• Zhezhi explained that her client, Xiaochen's Solo Fan, had hired her to draw risqué pictures and then disappeared without paying the final balance.
• Rover told Zhezhi that Xiaochen's Solo Fan had been arrested for carrying out a terrorist attack, and Zhezhi fainted from shock.
• Zhezhi woke up to find Rover had prepared a meal, which she eagerly ate.
• Rover transferred Zhezhi the unpaid Shell Credits, and Cartethyia called to tell him it was time to return to Ragunna.

Rover and Cartethyia left Mount Firmament for Septimont, but Edward III’s servant Gaia ambushed them on the way to retrieve the crown. The chapter ended as Gaia gathered energy to attack and Cartethyia stepped forward to fight him.

• Taoqi, Danjin, and Jinzhou residents gathered to see Rover and Cartethyia off, while Taoqi relayed Jiyan’s wishes for a safe journey.
• Imperator explained that she could not return to Rinascita without her true Sentinel body, and Cartethyia promised Jinhsi that she would keep Rover safe.
• Rover and Cartethyia rode a stone pillar launched by Abu’s cannon toward Septimont, as Cartethyia said she wanted to test her new abilities.
• Gaia attacked them with a blazing ball of light that destroyed the stone pillar and leveled a mountain.
• Gaia revealed that Edward III had sent him to retrieve the crown, and Cartethyia stepped forward as he prepared to attack.

Cartethyia fought Gaia in her blue Sentinel form, using speed and wind attacks before he countered with powers that neutralized her sword and movement. Just as Gaia was about to strike her, she transformed into Fleurdelys’s red form and shattered his left claw with one punch, leaving Rover stunned.

• Cartethyia entered her blue third form and dodged Gaia’s blazing sun attack with her enhanced speed.
• Cartethyia pierced Gaia’s armor with Wind-Erosion Annihilation, then attacked him with six sword-wielding copies.
• Gaia revealed his true name, Qian Gaia, and used his Qian powers to become intangible, conjure blades of light, disarm Cartethyia, and suppress her speed.
• As Gaia moved to strike Cartethyia’s throat, she changed into Fleurdelys’s red form and broke free of his restraint.
• Cartethyia punched Gaia’s steel claw apart, shocking both Gaia and Rover.

Fleurdelys defeated Gaia by combining her powers to stop him from using his intangibility, allowing Rover to retrieve the Philosopher’s Stone. As Rover and Cartethyia left, Gaia unleashed a massive self-destructing attack.

• Fleurdelys overwhelmed Gaia in combat, but he avoided her follow-up attack by turning intangible.
• Fleurdelys fused chaotic power into Gaia and forced him out of his Hollowfication state, disabling his special ability.
• The greatsword pierced Gaia and pulled the Philosopher’s Stone from his body, leaving him defeated.
• Rover told Gaia to deliver a message to Edward III, then left with Cartethyia.
• Gaia tried to engulf Rover and Cartethyia in a vast self-destructing blast, and Rover cast Bakudo #81, Dankū.

Rover and Cartethyia reached Septimont, where Cartethyia’s tavern revelry ended when they learned an Ashihara girl was wearing a painful collar that suppressed her Resonance. The girl said the Neon Tavern’s owner had put it on her, and Cartethyia turned furious as Rover listened to her plea to go home.

• Kun's Square Instrument arrived at the battlefield, learned Gaia had been destroyed, and withdrew on Edward III's orders.
• Rover and Cartethyia reached Septimont and went to the Blazing Sun Tavern to await news from the governor.
• Cartethyia drank freely at the tavern and challenged a patron to a duel while Rover watched over her.
• Rover and Cartethyia overheard patrons discuss Ashihara buildings that had fallen into Septimont and the Neon Tavern's support for local orphans.
• Cartethyia noticed a distressed Ashihara girl wearing a collar that suppressed her Resonance, and Rover asked who had put it on her.
• The girl said the Neon Tavern's owner had fitted the painful collar and that she wanted to go home to her mother, making Cartethyia furious.

Liu Lan told Rover that the Neon Tavern’s owner and staff had abused her and drained her Resonance Force, while she stayed to protect the orphaned children there. Cartethyia led Septimont’s people to confront the tavern, and Rover learned from Shorekeeper that Azure Academy had vanished into a spatial rift twenty years earlier, not two months ago.

• Liu Lan told Rover that she had awakened her Resonance Force, been captured by the Neon Tavern’s owner, and suffered abuse from the tavern staff.
• Liu Lan explained that she stayed at the tavern to protect the local orphaned children, and recalled how a senior had once protected her.
• Cartethyia rallied the people of Septimont, and they followed her from the Blazing Sun Tavern to attack the Neon Tavern.
• Rover asked Shorekeeper to investigate Liu Lan’s account, and Shorekeeper found no recent spatial rifts in Ashihara.
• Shorekeeper told Rover that Azure Academy’s records showed it had been swept into a spatial rift twenty years earlier.

Cartethyia led Septimont warriors into the Neon Tavern after Liu Lan exposed its abuse of orphaned Resonators. She forced the Ashihara staff to clear the tavern and, once seated with Liu Lan, ordered Lu Sha to serve them.

• Lu Sha and the Ashihara thugs mocked and tormented the children, while a boy warned them that Liu Lan had gone for help.
• Cartethyia arrived with Liu Lan and Septimont warriors, then severed the burly man's arm when he tried to grab Liu Lan.
• Cartethyia challenged Lu Sha's attempt to brush off the attack and knocked an attendant unconscious when he demanded ten million Shell Credits to book the tavern.
• Lu Sha ordered the private rooms cleared, and Cartethyia took the best room with Liu Lan and the warriors.
• Cartethyia stopped the server and ordered Lu Sha to pour Liu Lan a drink.

Cartethyia forced Lu Sha to kneel and humiliated him before sending him to fetch the Neon Tavern’s owner. She then ordered Lu Hong to prepare thirty-seven precisely specified fish dishes, leaving the tavern owner under threat of having his shop smashed.

• Cartethyia intimidated Lu Sha into kneeling and pouring wine, then smashed a glass into his face when he failed to fill it properly.
• Cartethyia ordered Lu Sha to get his boss, and Lu Sha crawled out of the room.
• The Septimont warriors, Liu Lan, and the children praised Cartethyia for standing up to the men.
• Lu Hong, the owner of the Neon Tavern, came downstairs and offered to serve the guests.
• Cartethyia demanded thirty-seven whole, boneless, scaleless fish of different kinds and preparations, each with an exact weight, within three quarters of an hour.

Cartethyia forced Lu Hong and the Neon Tavern staff to prepare thirty-seven different fish dishes, then threw them all to the floor and claimed she did not eat fish. After Lu Hong threatened the collared captives with a detonator, Cartethyia revealed her Sentinel power and suppressed the collars, declaring that he had earned a death sentence.

• Cartethyia gave Lu Hong three quarters of an hour to prepare thirty-seven whole fish, each a different species and cooked a different way.
• After the servers delivered the dishes, Cartethyia swept them off the table and said she did not eat fish, accusing Lu Hong of trying to humiliate her.
• Lu Hong lost his temper and ordered Cartethyia and the others to leave, then demanded that his subordinates summon the Septimont troops.
• A server reported that a black-haired person with golden eyes had stopped the troops, who saluted him and called him Lord Duelist.
• Lu Hong revealed detonators in the captives’ collars and ordered Cartethyia to kneel, but Cartethyia unleashed Sentinel power that dimmed the collars and threatened him with death.

Cartethyia revealed herself as a Sentinel, killed Lu Hong, freed the children, and arranged for the tavern to become an orphanage. Meanwhile, Rover confronted the disguised Nesso about the Ashihara spatial rift and the Fractsidus, but Nesso escaped as paper cranes.

• Cartethyia’s aura exposed her as a Sentinel, and she disabled Lu Hong’s remote control and removed the children’s collars.
• Cartethyia vaporized Lu Hong with a gust of azure wind as the Ashihara people knelt and blamed one another for mistreating the children.
• Cartethyia ordered the Ashihara people turned over to Septimont’s authorities, the tavern’s property sold to compensate the children, and the building made into an orphanage.
• Cartethyia learned that Rover had left with a wandering poet and waited for him to return.
• Rover recognized Nesso as the foe he had previously injured, questioned him about the Ashihara rift and the Fractsidus, and attacked with the Blood Oath Covenant.
• Nesso vanished into paper cranes, and Rover used Bakudō number fifty-eight, Kakushitsuijaku, to pursue him.

Rover tracked down Christopher inside a spatial script and repeatedly attacked him, then pursued him by train after Christopher escaped. Rover stripped away Christopher’s immortality and pinned him down, demanding answers about the calamity in Ashihara twenty years earlier, just as Christopher called for Scar to save him.

• Rover used Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows to locate Christopher and cut his way into the spatial rift where he was hiding.
• Rover attacked Christopher, discovered the rift was part of a script that made Christopher eternally undying, and mocked the setting.
• Christopher escaped through a passage, so Rover and Abu deployed a train through the spatial rift to follow his lingering aura.
• Rover cornered Christopher with a second train, and their clashing abilities burned the script away and removed Christopher’s undying effect.
• Rover pinned Christopher down and demanded to know whether he caused the calamity in Ashihara twenty years earlier and where he got his power.
• Christopher struggled and called for Scar to save him as Rover raised his scythe.

Rover fought Christopher and Scar, but their scripted escapes led him into a cage infused with the power of a powerful Threnodian. As Rover prepared to break free, a gentle voice spoke to him.

• Scar attacked Rover to save Christopher, but Rover caught Scar’s blade while impaling Christopher with his scythe.
• Christopher used his script to switch places with Scar, leaving Scar impaled, and Rover blasted both men with lightning.
• Scar fled through space with Christopher, but Rover caught up, broke off one of Scar’s horns, and pinned them both with it.
• Christopher used the last of his strength to transfer Rover to another space, where Threnodian power formed a cage around him.
• Rover began chanting Hadō #91 to escape, but a gentle voice said, “I hope I can make you proud!”

Rover entered a city trapped in a repeating Lament disaster and met Chisa, who was trying to reach the Rainbow Sound Tower to save her friend Chengxia. After clearing the Tacet Discords, he took Chisa toward the tower and forced a path through the chaotic Threnodian power.

• Rover broke through a Lament barrier and descended into a modern city where time was looping around the moment of its destruction.
• Rover sensed Chisa as the only living person in the city and saw her fighting Tacet Discords amid the repeating disaster.
• Rover used his flames to destroy the Tacet Discords without harming the people caught in the loop.
• Chisa recognized Rover from Chengxia's student ID card and told him that Chengxia was at the Rainbow Sound Tower, the source of the Lament.
• Rover took Chisa toward the tower and unleashed lightning and Hadō #90: Kurohitsugi to cut through the chaotic Threnodian power.