Chapter Summaries

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.

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.