Chapter Summaries

Han Jiang and Kiana escaped the aftermath of the World Bubble’s explosion and were rescued by Schicksal. At the camp, they learned the disaster’s shockwave had reached Headquarters and reunited with Rita and Durandal before heading to check on the injured.

• Han Jiang teased Kiana as they left Benares’s area, and she glanced back at it before boarding a rescue helicopter with him.
• The rescue crew said the tremors had reached Schicksal Headquarters and that they had flown for over ten hours; Han Jiang realized he had badly misjudged how much time had passed.
• Han Jiang and Kiana saw the immense crater left by the explosion and learned that Durandal, Rita, and the Blazing Blades squad had arrived at the camp.
• Lewis welcomed Han Jiang and Kiana, then told Han Jiang that Leanna and her teammates were safe, though some had been injured.
• Han Jiang greeted Rita and Durandal before entering the medical tent with Kiana and Lewis to check on the injured.

Han Jiang and Kiana recovered with the injured Valkyries while the three major forces speculated about the enormous explosion’s origin. Han Jiang planned to return to St. Freya High School, keeping the World Bubble explosion’s connection to him secret.

• Rita recalled Durandal describing Han Jiang as a stingy, strange boy and concluded that he was an utter scumbag.
• Han Jiang and Kiana joined Leanna and the other injured Valkyries in Lewis’s tent, where Han Jiang recounted how they had survived the blast.
• Kiana worried about the mission, and Leanna confirmed that Durandal and the others had eliminated the Honkai Beasts.
• Han Jiang and Leanna discussed the explosion, which Schicksal had ruled too powerful to be natural and which had drawn Anti-Entropy and World Serpent to the region.
• Schicksal, Anti-Entropy, and World Serpent each suspected another organization had caused the explosion and speculated about its purpose.
• Han Jiang decided to return to St. Freya High School and keep his involvement in the World Bubble explosion secret.

Han Jiang and Kiana returned safely to St. Freya, where Theresa and Himeko began pursuing the Gem of Desire at Schicksal’s Oceania Branch. Himeko assigned Han Jiang, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya to an exchange competition there, leaving Han Jiang to wonder how the mission might affect Wendy and Bronya.

• Han Jiang and Kiana borrowed a Schicksal helicopter from Durandal and returned to St. Freya with the two injured pilots.
• Theresa granted Han Jiang and Kiana three days off after Himeko confirmed they were safe.
• Himeko reported that the Gem of Desire was at Schicksal’s Oceania Branch, and Theresa ordered her to lead negotiations under the pretext of a student exchange.
• Himeko explained that the Moonlight Throne could convert imaginary energy into real energy, and she later summoned Han Jiang, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya to announce an exchange competition with the Oceania Branch.
• Han Jiang suspected St. Freya had found the Gem of Desire and wondered whether events involving Wendy and Bronya would change.

The Far East Branch delegation arrived at the Oceania Branch for an exchange competition, but a massive Honkai outbreak struck the city as the Hyperion descended. With communications cut off and the Oceania Branch in danger, Himeko prepared to lead the response while Han Jiang, Kiana, and the others offered to fight.

• Himeko ordered Han Jiang, Mei, and Kiana to prepare for the exchange competition and gave them two days off before departure.
• Han Jiang explained that Yae Sakura was guarding St. Freya and said he intended to bring Wendy back from the Oceania Branch or secure the Gem of Desire for St. Freya.
• The Hyperion reached the Oceania Branch city two days later and received a large welcome from its staff and Valkyries.
• As the Hyperion descended, Ai-chan detected a vast, high-concentration Honkai outbreak resembling the one in Changkong City.
• Himeko tried to contact the Oceania Branch, but the liaison's transmission cut out before they could explain what was happening.
• Himeko ordered the Hyperion to locate the branch's air harbor, put its personnel on combat readiness, and prepare her Nuclear Fusion Armor as Han Jiang and Kiana volunteered to fight.

Himeko sent Han Jiang, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya down as an advance team to assess the Honkai outbreak at the Oceania Branch. After landing, Han Jiang joined the local Valkyries and led his team toward another entrance to find survivors and someone he knew.

• Han Jiang warned Himeko that sending everyone down would cause heavy casualties, so she agreed to deploy his group first.
• Han Jiang, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya parachuted from the Hyperion and fought through the chaos around the burning Oceania Branch.
• Han Jiang said the team would search the branch for surviving personnel and someone he knew.
• Han Jiang met the Oceania squad captain, learned that some staff inside could still be contacted, and received a map of the base.
• Han Jiang led his teammates toward another entrance to the base despite the captain's warning that splitting up was dangerous.

Han Jiang and his companions searched the Oceania Branch for survivors and the Herrscher at the center of the outbreak. They followed the Honkai Beasts to a high-security sanatorium beside the laboratory, where Bronya spotted someone in a wheelchair perched near a broken floor.

• Han Jiang told Mei, Kiana, and Bronya that they had to find the Herrscher, while Bronya analyzed the base's restricted areas.
• The group followed distress signals to a communications room, where they rescued two liaison officers and gave them Anti-Honkai Serum.
• Han Jiang left the liaison officers behind after sending their location to the Oceania Branch Valkyrie squad, then headed toward the highest-security building.
• Bronya identified the building beside the laboratory as a high-grade sanatorium for injured Valkyries and senior leaders, and the group crossed over from a rooftop toward it.
• Bronya spotted someone in a wheelchair sitting at the edge of the sanatorium's fractured floor.

Han Jiang and the others rescued Wendy and brought her former friend Yisha to her, while concealing their suspicions about Wendy. Hearing Yisha recall Wendy’s past as the Oceania Branch’s finest Valkyrie intensified Wendy’s anger over her ruined legs.

• Bronya found Wendy in a wheelchair, and Han Jiang decided to take her with the group despite Kiana nearly revealing that they suspected her.
• Han Jiang and Kiana returned to the communications room and rescued the two stranded girls while Bronya planned their escape route.
• One of the rescued girls recognized Wendy as her childhood friend Yisha, and Wendy recognized her in turn.
• Yisha explained that she and Wendy had joined the Oceania Branch together, but Wendy disappeared after a mission and her friends and family were barred from seeing her.
• Wendy said her legs were ruined and she would never stand again, while Yisha struggled to understand how the branch’s finest Valkyrie could have suffered such a fate.

Bronya reassured Wendy that her damaged legs could recover, and Han Jiang led the group out of the dangerous Oceania Branch base. After they escaped, Han Jiang and Wendy opposed meeting the local Valkyries, and Yisha chose to stay with Wendy.

• Bronya showed Wendy her augmented exoskeleton legs and explained that she had once been confined to a wheelchair, while Han Jiang said Wendy could walk again within a month if she cooperated.
• Han Jiang assigned the group roles, and Bronya used Heavy Cannon Rabbit to protect Wendy as the team set out through the base.
• Han Jiang and Mei fought through Honkai Beasts and Deadwalkers while Bronya searched for a safe route, and Heavy Cannon Rabbit blasted open a blocked intersection.
• The group escaped the base after half an hour, and Yisha said more than a hundred Valkyries were waiting outside to welcome the St. Freya students.
• Han Jiang and Wendy both said they should not meet the Oceania Valkyries, and Han Jiang offered Yisha and Betty the choice to leave with their squad or accompany the group.
• Yisha chose to stay and take care of Wendy.

Han Jiang’s team left the Oceania Branch with Wendy, Yisha, and Betty, while Himeko revealed that they were searching for the Gem of Desire, which would become the Fourth Herrscher’s core. After the Hyperion detected a Herrscher aboard, Himeko suspected Wendy and prepared the ship to contain her.

• Han Jiang stayed with Yisha and Betty while Bronya and Yisha found a safer route out of the city.
• Himeko told Han Jiang that St. Freya had sent the mission to recover the Gem of Desire and that the Hyperion could only detect it within fifty meters.
• Bronya detected nearby Anti-Entropy troops, so the Hyperion landed outside the city and Han Jiang’s group boarded.
• Han Jiang proposed returning Wendy to St. Freya to make exoskeleton armor for her while Mei prepared drinks for the group.
• Himeko told Han Jiang that the Herrscher was aboard the Hyperion and suspected Wendy was the only possible candidate among the rescued girls.
• Himeko sealed off the Valkyrie lounge, readied the Valkyries and Nuclear Fusion Armor, and noted that the Moonlight Throne weapon was also aboard.

Han Jiang and the others returned to St. Freya with Wendy, who grew hopeful about becoming a Valkyrie again. The chapter left Wendy beginning the process of getting custom leg augmented armor from Chiyuan's Wing.

• Han Jiang reassured everyone after the Valkyrie lounge shook, and Himeko reported that Anti-Entropy forces had approached the Hyperion before both sides passed each other by.
• Bronya encouraged Wendy and agreed to let her call her Big Sister Bronya, briefly remembering Seele.
• The Hyperion returned to St. Freya, where Yisha and Betty went to the infirmary and Bronya led Wendy toward Chiyuan's Wing's laboratory.
• Han Jiang summoned Chiyuan's Wing, who rushed to the laboratory and joked with him before Bronya introduced her as St. Freya's precise and capable measurement specialist.
• Chiyuan's Wing prepared to scan Wendy's legs and design a mold for her augmented armor.

Himeko checked on Wendy while Chiyuan's Wing began examining her injured legs to design augmentation armor that could help her walk. Wendy felt welcomed and cared for at St. Freya, while Bronya introduced her to the academy's people—including Han Jiang—with an unflattering account of his romantic reputation.

• Himeko told Wendy that Yisha and Betty were receiving treatment at St. Freya's hospital, then asked Chiyuan's Wing why she had brought Wendy to the laboratory.
• Himeko sent Kiana and Mei to rest and prepare breakfast, while Bronya stayed with Wendy and the academy kept guards on watch outside.
• Chiyuan's Wing asked Wendy's permission to examine her legs, then recorded her sensations and measurements for the augmentation armor design.
• Wendy cried with happiness as Bronya described how the people at St. Freya cared for one another.
• Bronya told Wendy that Han Jiang was a powerful A-rank warrior and called him a playboy who had allegedly won and then rejected Schicksal's princess.

Han Jiang and Chiyuan's Wing discussed Wendy's prosthetic armor and biological chip, while Han Jiang tried to persuade Bronya to replace her old chip. The chapter ended with Chiyuan's Wing explaining the new chip's benefits and suggesting Wendy could enroll at St. Freya with Himeko's approval.

• Wendy chose proliferating armor and a biological chip like Bronya's, while Han Jiang opened the laboratory door with his mind.
• Kiana and Mei delivered breakfast, and Himeko learned that Wendy had become the Fourth Herrscher after the Oceania Branch experimented on her.
• Cocolia failed to find the Gem of Desire and encountered Durandal, starting a fight between Anti-Entropy and Schicksal.
• Theresa told Schicksal that St. Freya could not send more personnel to support the Oceania Branch because its students had been injured.
• Chiyuan's Wing explained that Bronya's old chip could be affected by the Moonlight Throne, and Han Jiang urged Bronya to accept a replacement.
• Chiyuan's Wing described the new chip's improved response and communications system, saying Wendy could become a St. Freya student with the principal's approval.

Han Jiang persuaded Bronya to replace her biological chip before Wendy received her regenerative leg armor, hoping to reassure Wendy that St. Freya was sincere. The procedures began in Chiyuan's Wing's renovated laboratory, with Wendy watching as her own armor was prepared.

• Bronya agreed to replace her chip because another malfunction could endanger everyone, and Chiyuan's Wing said the operation had an almost certain success rate.
• Han Jiang asked Wendy to wait until Bronya's procedure was finished, explaining that the delay would allow them to calibrate Wendy's regenerative leg armor.
• Chiyuan's Wing summoned Blood Embrace to examine Bronya after Han Jiang offered her two months of tomato juice.
• Chiyuan's Wing revealed that she had remodeled the rooms around her laboratory after improving standard Valkyrie weapons by three percent.
• Chiyuan's Wing replaced Bronya's chip while making regenerative armor for Wendy, allowing Wendy to watch both procedures through transparent glass.

Wendy stayed with Bronya through her biochip surgery while St. Freya concealed her identity as the Fourth Herrscher from Schicksal. After Bronya recovered, Theresa, Himeko, and Mei revealed that they knew Wendy was a Herrscher and asked her to believe she could join them in fighting Honkai.

• Wendy refused to leave Bronya while Chiyuan's Wing replaced Bronya's biochip over three days.
• The Oceania Branch reported that Honkai had been suppressed but the Herrscher had vanished, leaving Otto unable to explain her disappearance.
• Bronya's surgery went smoothly, while Wendy agreed to meet Theresa and discuss her enrollment and future.
• Himeko told Wendy that St. Freya knew she was the Fourth Herrscher, and Mei revealed that she was the Third Herrscher.
• Theresa and Himeko explained that Herrschers could fight Honkai alongside humans and welcomed Wendy to join them if she did not harm ordinary people.

St. Freya convinced Wendy to join the school as a Valkyrie, accepting a bomb in her heart to monitor her Herrscher energy. As Wendy recovered and news of her presence spread, the chapter ended with Tesla and Einstein secretly arriving at St. Freya while Han Jiang worked to keep Fu Hua from being used by Otto.

• Theresa, Han Jiang, and Himeko offered Wendy a place at St. Freya, and Wendy agreed to have a bomb implanted in her heart as a condition of joining.
• Himeko took Wendy to the school hospital, and Han Jiang teased Mei for hiding that St. Freya had implanted a bomb in her without her consent.
• A week later, Wendy received leg armor and a biological chip, and Kiana challenged her while Wendy practiced walking again.
• After Yisha and Betty returned to the Oceania Branch, the news of Wendy's presence became public, and Theresa refused to return her despite the branch's demands.
• Otto found Wendy's disappearance amusing, while Anti-Entropy's conservative faction welcomed St. Freya's possession of two gems and Cocolia's radical faction grew furious.
• Tesla and Einstein secretly arrived at St. Freya, as Han Jiang kept talking with Fu Hua to discourage her from helping Otto take Kiana away.

Anti-Entropy radicals led by Cocolia attacked St. Freya to seize Wendy, and Han Jiang prepared to join a raid on Cocolia’s base in Changkong City. As the Hyperion departed with Han Jiang, Mei, Kiana, Bronya, Tesla, and Einstein, Fu Hua stayed behind to fight a newly arrived Welt clone.

• Han Jiang learned from Himeko that Anti-Entropy mechs had breached St. Freya and that a team would raid Cocolia’s base in Changkong City.
• A flamboyantly dressed Welt clone demanded that St. Freya hand over the Third and Fourth Herrschers, and Fu Hua fought him while Han Jiang returned to the dorm.
• Han Jiang divided the group, sending Yae Sakura, Chiyuan's Wing, Blood Embrace, Lilith, and Rin to rendezvous with Theresa while he, Mei, Kiana, and Bronya headed for Himeko.
• Tesla and Einstein boarded the Hyperion, and the ship took off with Han Jiang and the others as Fu Hua continued fighting the Welt clone.
• Kiana asked Himeko to fire the Hyperion’s main cannon at the attacking mechs, but Himeko refused to risk destroying St. Freya and its grounds.

Himeko led Han Jiang, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya to infiltrate Cocolia’s base beneath the ME Company headquarters in abandoned Changkong City. The group split up to scout for an entrance while Tesla and Einstein waited aboard the Hyperion.

• Han Jiang asked Bronya about her new biochip, and Bronya said it had improved her simulated combat score without affecting her readiness for the mission.
• The Hyperion arrived in Changkong City, and Tesla revealed that Cocolia’s base was beneath the ME Company headquarters, once linked to Anti-Entropy executor Raiden Ryoma.
• Himeko left Tesla and Einstein aboard the Hyperion and led Han Jiang, Kiana, Mei, and Bronya toward the ME Company building.
• Himeko learned that Mei rarely visited the ME Company, so she told the team to scout the building and have Bronya scan its remodeled interior.
• Himeko split the team into Han Jiang and Kiana, Mei and Bronya, and herself alone, assigning Han Jiang to keep Kiana from causing trouble.

Han Jiang, Kiana, Himeko, Mei, and Bronya infiltrated ME Company with help from Tesla and Einstein, who disabled its defenses and guided them inside. They passed through an entrance opened by an Anti-Entropy spy as four Floating Battleships headed toward Changkong City.

• Han Jiang and the others searched ME Company's perimeter but found its entrances protected by cameras, drones, infrared detectors, and guards.
• Mei explained the radical and conservative factions to Kiana while Himeko worried that the group's presence might expose the Hyperion.
• Tesla and Einstein sent the team ME Company's structural diagrams and a plugin that identified allies and helped disable its defenses.
• Einstein shut down the entrance's security systems, and Tesla looped the surveillance footage while the team entered the building.
• An Anti-Entropy spy opened a password-protected door for the group, and Einstein confirmed his identity before they continued deeper inside.
• Tesla and Einstein prepared to act as four Floating Battleships flew toward Changkong City.

Bronya refused to help Cocolia capture Mei, and Cocolia tried to use Bronya’s biochip and their shared past to force her compliance. When Bronya collapsed in distress and Anti-Entropy mechs attacked Mei, Himeko’s group turned back to help, with Himeko staying behind to fight off pursuing mechs.

• Bronya told Himeko she did not want to continue the mission and asked her not to hurt Cocolia; Himeko and Han Jiang assured her that they only intended to seize resources and Father.
• Mei stayed with Bronya while Himeko, Han Jiang, and Kiana continued toward Father’s laboratory.
• Cocolia ordered Bronya to capture Mei, but Bronya refused and confronted Cocolia about whether she had sent her to St. Freya as an undercover agent.
• Cocolia’s command failed to activate through Bronya’s biochip, and she tried to persuade Bronya by recalling how she had saved her and Seele; Bronya broke down in tears.
• Mei called Himeko’s group for help as four Anti-Entropy Tactical Mechs attacked her and Bronya; Mei shielded Bronya from laser blasts.
• Himeko led Han Jiang and Kiana back toward Mei, then cut through a steel door and stayed behind to hold off three mechs while they rushed ahead.

Han Jiang and his allies escaped the collapsing ME Company building as Anti-Entropy forces fought Cocolia’s mechs and captured her. Bronya revealed she had replaced her biological chip to escape Cocolia’s control, while Cocolia lost her position as an Anti-Entropy Executor and was ordered to guard a facility.

• Han Jiang and Kiana helped Mei defeat the mechs while Bronya remained distraught over Cocolia’s commands.
• Einstein warned Han Jiang’s group to evacuate as the Father-class Mech began moving, and Himeko joined them as the building shook.
• Tesla and Einstein arrived with Anti-Entropy forces, and Han Jiang’s group withdrew before ME Company collapsed.
• Tesla and Einstein’s troops fought the mechs and captured Cocolia, while the Father-class Mech ran out of energy beneath the ruins.
• Bronya told Cocolia she had replaced her biological chip so Cocolia could no longer control her, then returned the old chip.
• Tesla told Cocolia that her Executor status was revoked for framing Raiden Ryoma and ordered her to guard an Anti-Entropy facility.