Recaps

Rover and Kutsuba Chisa followed Chengxia’s messages through the tower, reaching the final level before a space-time current separated them. Rover woke in someone else’s body on a snowy plain, where a pink-haired girl came out of a cabin and asked him to catch Snow Velvet Leopard Leopard.

• Rover used Hadō #90, Kurohitsugi to clear a path to the tower and apologized to Chisa for rushing ahead.
• Chisa explained that the tower’s chaos might let Rover meet the person whose voice he had heard, then told him about her mission with Chengxia.
• Rover and Chisa entered the tower, found Chengxia’s amber records, and followed her messages through thirteen doors.
• Rover eased the pressure at the final break point, but a space-time current split him from Chisa.
• Rover awoke on a snowy plain inside another person’s body, and a pink-haired girl asked him to catch Snow Velvet Leopard Leopard.

Rover experienced a memory of Aemeath as a little girl, watching her tease the person caring for her and grow jealous over their many love letters. The memory ended with Aemeath opening a letter from Gudaomaoning and freezing at its bizarre declaration of love.

• Rover found himself observing an unfamiliar person's memories while they held little Aemeath.
• Aemeath pretended to cry until the person agreed to take her out to play, then teased them about marrying her when she grew up.
• The person showed Aemeath a pile of love letters and said they had received them in one week, including letters from men.
• Aemeath opened a silver-white letter addressed to Gudaomaoning and read its repeated declarations of love.

Aemeath and Rover visited the Snow Velvet Seals, where Aemeath playfully rode the seals and declared herself their queen. When a pack of Snow Velvet Hakimi arrived to menace them, Aemeath stood up to the newcomers as the seals watched eagerly.

• Aemeath burned the love letters and set off with Rover to play with the Snow Velvet Seals.
• Aemeath startled the seals, rode one, and teased them into pretending they liked her.
• As the sun set, Aemeath said she had promised to protect the seals from their bullies.
• More than a hundred Snow Velvet Hakimi gathered around, and Aemeath planted herself between them and the seals.
• The seals cheered while secretly hoping Aemeath and the Snow Velvet Hakimi would fight each other.

Rover and Aemeath dealt with the aggressive Snow Velvet Hakimi, then walked home as Aemeath spoke about feeling lonely and wanting to attend school. When Rover and the body's owner rejected her dream of becoming a savior, Aemeath decided she would grow up to be a bad woman.

• Snow Velvet Seals cheered Aemeath on as more than a hundred Snow Velvet Hakimi surrounded her and Rover.
• Aemeath threw the Hakimi a cat treat, and Rover briefly took control to protect her and use the authority of separation to make the attacking cats docile.
• Aemeath pointed out the cat king, and Rover subdued it too, before he and Aemeath headed home at sunset.
• Aemeath told Rover she wanted to go to school because she felt lonely, and said she would make friends and help people like him.
• When Aemeath declared that she wanted to become a savior, Rover and the body's owner objected and suggested other careers.
• Aemeath grinned and announced that she wanted to grow up to be a bad woman.

The body's owner and Rover indulged Aemeath as she described her plans to become a bad woman, then carried her home after she fell asleep. As Rover was pulled away, he answered her question by wishing her a carefree and happy life.

• Aemeath declared that she would become a bad woman and listed the generous working conditions she would impose on her employees.
• The body's owner pretended to be frightened, then carried the sleepy Aemeath home after she asked to be picked up.
• Aemeath kissed him and promised to shelter and protect him, explaining that she wanted to comfort him and stay by his side.
• The body's owner stood in the snowfield, moved by Aemeath's words, while she fell asleep in his arms.
• At home, Aemeath caught his pinky and asked what kind of person would make him proud as Rover felt himself being pulled away.
• Rover wished Aemeath a carefree and happy life before leaving.

Rover said goodbye to Aemeath and returned through a spacetime rift, arriving at a school assembly in Ashihara. After striking a student who bullied Resonators, he learned the assembly was targeting Kuchiba Chisa and was ordered to watch her confess.

• Rover soothed Aemeath into sleep, then parted from the other owner of his body and crossed the spacetime rift.
• Rover used Kidō to track Chisa and opened a passage to a school sports field, where he realized he had arrived in Ashihara in his own body.
• A fat student smashed Rover's mirror, insulted him as a Resonator, and demanded he kneel to pick up the pieces.
• Rover slapped the student, who fell and threatened to make him pay.
• A teacher silenced the assembly and called Kuchiba Chisa a bully, ordering her to come forward and confess.

Rover saw Chisa publicly accused of bullying and used a quake to disrupt the assembly before she could be forced into a confession. He found Chisa confronting the girl who had falsely accused her, and learned the girl had targeted her because Chisa was kind and a Resonator.

• Rover recognized Chisa onstage as the school principal publicly accused her of bullying students.
• Chisa denied the charges, but the principal threatened to summon the Resonance Force Control Center, and she began to give in under pressure from the crowd.
• Rover used Hadō number fifty-eight, Earth Dance, to shake the field and scatter the assembly.
• Rover followed Chisa to a tree, where she confronted the girl who had accused her of bullying.
• The girl admitted she had falsely accused Chisa because she was kind, was a Resonator, and looked amusing when she was upset.

Rover intervened when a bucktoothed girl falsely accused Chisa, but his violent retaliation drew the class rep and a teacher into the dispute. After the bucktoothed girl blamed the class rep instead, the class rep broke her other tooth, and another student arrived to confront her.

• The bucktoothed girl mocked Chisa for helping her and insisted that Chisa had bullied her, so Rover stepped in to defend Chisa.
• Rover slapped the girl and threatened her with a brick, but the class rep arrived and accused him and Chisa of bullying her.
• Before the class rep could return with a teacher, Rover broke one of the girl's buck teeth; when questioned, the girl blamed the class rep instead.
• The teacher reprimanded the class rep and told her to stay away from Resonators, then left without punishing her.
• The bucktoothed girl called the class rep a good person, prompting the furious class rep to break her other buck tooth.
• A male student wearing glasses arrived and accused the class rep of bullying a classmate, and she warned him to stay out of it.

Rover and Chisa discussed how his attitude toward helping people had changed, and Chisa told him she liked who he was now. When they entered their classroom, they found Chisa being harassed and her desk vandalized, so Rover locked both doors and trapped everyone inside.

• Rover warned the class monitor to stay out of other people's business, then left with Chisa.
• Chisa recalled Rover's former kindness and said she liked who he was now.
• Rover and Chisa entered their classroom, where students mocked Chisa for being a Resonator.
• Chisa found her desk defaced, her textbooks destroyed, and her parents' address written beside it; she broke down in tears.
• Rover comforted Chisa, recovered from a bout of anger, and locked both classroom doors so no one could escape.

Rover sealed the classroom and confronted the students who had bullied Chisa, using violence to force them to face him. He threatened Liu Zhen with a Truth Stone and demanded that he name everyone involved.

• Rover sealed the classroom with Resonance Force and demanded that the student who had bullied Chisa step forward.
• Liu Zhen mocked Rover and encouraged the other students, while Rover identified him and several calm students as the instigators.
• Rover knocked Liu Zhen down and beat him until he begged for mercy.
• Zhang Cheng tried to stop Rover and dismissed Chisa's complaints, so Rover grabbed him and struck him in the stomach.
• Rover demanded that Liu Zhen name everyone involved and showed him a Truth Stone to discourage him from lying.

Rover used the Truth Stone to break Liu Zhen, who confessed to bullying Chisa and was forced to lick her desk while classmates filmed him. Rover then confronted the eight students Liu Zhen had named, but their leader Zhao Wei defied him and demanded that Rover kneel and lick his shoes.

• Rover used the Truth Stone's painful attack to make Liu Zhen believe him and confess who had encouraged the bullying.
• Liu Zhen admitted scribbling on Chisa's desk and licked it clean under Rover's orders.
• Rover told the three students who had filmed Chisa to record Liu Zhen and the others and post the footage.
• Rover called forward Zhao Wei, Zhang Cheng, Li Yue, and five other students named by Liu Zhen.
• Zhao Wei invoked his powerful family background and ordered Rover to kneel, lick his shoes, and swear to be his dog.

Rover used a painful interrogation technique to punish Zhao Wei, Li Yue, and their followers, while Chisa worried about the consequences. As the bullies passed out, Zhao Sheng and three powerful Overlord Class Resonators arrived outside the sealed classroom and began battering its wall.

• Li Yue and seven others confronted Rover, insisting that they would teach him a lesson.
• Rover used Hadō number six, Execution, to inflict intense pain on all eight, and Zhao Wei begged his father for help.
• Chisa warned Rover that he might face consequences, but he reassured her and continued mocking the bullies.
• Rover claimed the convulsing students were pretending to charge an attack, chant, or play dead, while the onlookers watched in shock.
• Three Overlord Class Resonators battered the classroom wall as Zhao Sheng and the principal waited outside.

Rover confronted Mayor Zhao Sheng after Zhao Wei called for his father, accusing both of them of abusing their power. Zhao Sheng arranged to have the cameras disabled and ordered his three Resonators to attack Rover.

• Zhao Wei rejoiced when he believed his father had arrived, while Chisa told Rover to blame her for what happened.
• Rover lifted the restrictions, and Zhao Sheng entered with the principal and three powerful Resonators.
• Zhao Sheng confronted Rover, but Rover blamed Zhao Sheng for indulging Zhao Wei and warned him that retribution was coming.
• Zhao Sheng ordered the principal to arrange for the cameras to be shut off, then told his Resonators to attack Rover without killing him.

Rover defeated the three Resonators Zhao Sheng sent to attack him, then beat Zhao Sheng and demanded that he resign. Zhao Sheng relied on his powerful family connections, but Rover threatened to humiliate him in front of the reporters watching downstairs.

• Zhao Sheng ordered three Resonators to cripple Rover and strip him in front of the media.
• Rover swiftly knocked out the three Resonators, breaking one arm and one leg from each.
• Rover confronted Zhao Sheng and struck him, then seized him by the hair and drove a knee into his abdomen.
• Rover pinned Zhao Sheng to the floor and told him to resign and make way for someone more worthy.
• Zhao Sheng boasted about his family's political influence, and Rover asked whether he would still hold office after running naked and barking like a dog before the reporters.

Rover confronted Zhao Sheng and the officials who enforced Ashihara’s oppressive controls on Resonators, using their own electric collars to punish them. Just as Zhao Sheng tried to call on his grandfather’s influence, he learned that the former prime minister had been assassinated.

• Rover threatened to make Zhao Sheng run naked for the reporters waiting outside the school.
• Rover let the Principal summon the Resonance Control Bureau, then challenged its director over the regulations targeting Resonators.
• Rover removed the Resonators’ collars and used Separation Authority to put the collars on Zhao Sheng, Zhao Wei, and the officials.
• Rover activated the reinforced collars, shocked the officials into begging for mercy, and forced Zhao Sheng to agree to run naked.
• Zhao Sheng called his grandfather, Ashihara’s former prime minister, but the former prime minister’s bodyguard said he had been assassinated during a speech.