Chapter Summaries

After sharing a meal with Durandal, Han Jiang watched her destroy a wall to conceal her identity and resumed hunting Deadwalkers for Evolution Points. On the seventh day, he encountered Yae Sakura, who had cleared a large Deadwalker group, while a dark fox urged her to kill him.

• Durandal gained ten favorability points after eating Han Jiang's lunch, while Han Jiang wondered why the system did not reveal what abilities he could learn from her.
• Durandal warned Han Jiang to forget their meeting, blasted through the room's wall, and escaped through the window.
• Han Jiang hunted Deadwalkers over several days, collected six Schicksal Soldier Cores, and raised his Evolution Points above 100.
• Han Jiang went to a larger Deadwalker gathering and found Yae Sakura eliminating the monsters.
• Yae Sakura told Han Jiang she was protecting civilians by destroying evil, while a dark fox urged her to kill him and she ordered it to get lost.

Yae Sakura refused to attack Han Jiang, saying she was not lonely because someone was waiting for her. Han Jiang then confronted Kiana, Bronya, Mei, and Himeko after learning they had been monitoring his communications, and the chapter ended with Himeko teasing him about his lack of interest in girls.

• Yae Sakura told Han Jiang that protecting civilians was her duty and that someone had always been waiting for her, then left.
• Kiana accused Han Jiang of cheating after he overtook her in the point rankings, but Han Jiang showed her the Deadwalker corpses he had cleared alone.
• Bronya and Mei revealed that they had secretly monitored Han Jiang's communication channel, and Bronya explained that armor could not be remotely controlled.
• Kiana admitted that eight students and Himeko had taken part in monitoring Han Jiang, then cut off the channel again.
• Himeko opened Han Jiang's communication channel and teased him about being a kid who had not secretly gone looking for other girls.

Han Jiang evolved Stigmata: Hundred Refinements, but the system shut down for a 72-hour update, so he transferred its armor data to his academy armor and continued training. After falling asleep, he woke in Yae Sakura’s Stigmata Space alongside Theresa, who claimed she could get them out.

• Han Jiang collected Schicksal Soldier Cores from Imperial Guard Deadwalker corpses and used ten to evolve Stigmata: Hundred Refinements.
• The system began maintenance, preventing Han Jiang from activating Hundred Refinements, but he transferred its core data to his academy armor and restored their combined boost.
• Han Jiang continued fighting Deadwalkers without the system, then fell asleep and dreamed of walking through an endless void toward a light.
• Han Jiang woke beneath a tree in Yae Sakura’s Stigmata Space, clutching a fox mask, and found Theresa unconscious nearby.
• Theresa explained that she had secretly protected the students’ training area from Honkai Beasts and confidently promised Han Jiang she could get them out.

Han Jiang and Theresa encountered a bear-shaped Honkai Beast in the Stigmata Space, but their strength was suppressed and both were caught until Yae Sakura killed it. Yae Sakura brought them to her home in Yae Village, where Han Jiang met Yae Rin and discovered her grave beneath the courtyard cherry tree.

• Theresa rushed toward villagers in danger, and Han Jiang followed her despite warning that they could not handle the Honkai Beast.
• Han Jiang shoved Theresa out of the bear-shaped Honkai Beast’s attack, but it grabbed him; Theresa charged it and was caught too when her strength failed.
• Yae Sakura appeared, killed the Honkai Beast with a flash of blade light, and offered to take the injured pair to Yae Village.
• Yae Sakura brought Han Jiang and the unconscious Theresa to her home, where she examined Theresa and arranged food and medicine for Han Jiang.
• Han Jiang met Yae Rin in the courtyard and saw the grave marked with her name beneath the cherry blossom tree.

Han Jiang learned about Yae Village’s drought and recent rain-prayer ritual while waiting for Theresa to recover. After Theresa woke, they realized they were in Stigmata Space, where their powers were missing and someone was watching them.

• Yae Rin told Han Jiang that Honkai Beasts had recently appeared, the village’s river was drying up, and villagers had been barred from the back mountain.
• Yae Sakura invited Han Jiang to stay until Theresa recovered, and he later explored Yae Village while thinking about its drought and the Stigmata Space.
• The next morning, Theresa woke in a Miko outfit, scolded Han Jiang, and admitted she had noticed her strength was gone.
• Han Jiang spotted someone watching them and asked Theresa whether she knew about Stigmata Space.
• Theresa realized her stigmata was gone, while Han Jiang explained that he had learned of stigmata in ancient Shenzhou texts.

Han Jiang and Theresa investigated the unsettling Yae Village and learned from Yae Rin that they had entered a memory of Yae Sakura’s five-hundred-year curse. They agreed to help, then returned to Yae Estate to wait and learn more while their strength remained restricted.

• Han Jiang led Theresa through Yae Village, where they discovered that the villagers all watched them wherever they went.
• Han Jiang brought the frightened Theresa back to Yae Estate, where Yae Rin appeared by her grave and asked them to save her sister, Yae Sakura.
• Yae Rin explained that outsiders could break the cursed memory and warned that she might soon disappear; Han Jiang agreed to help.
• Theresa speculated that Yae Rin might be a recording, while Han Jiang wondered about the curse, their lost strength, and Hiyori’s connection to the soul.
• Han Jiang startled Theresa as a joke, then took her back to the house to wait for his system update and observe the Stigmata Space.

Han Jiang and Theresa stayed with Yae Sakura in the village, where monsters had been killing villagers and Yae Sakura was overwhelmed by guilt. After Han Jiang and Theresa comforted her, he suspected Hiyori was trying to break Yae Sakura emotionally and planned to help her once the system update finished.

• Han Jiang shut Theresa out of their room, but let her back in after she promised not to bully him at school; Yae Sakura helped Theresa clean up.
• After Yae Sakura left to handle village matters, Han Jiang teased Theresa about blushing around her, and the two of them tussled.
• Yae Sakura returned with food and told Han Jiang and Theresa that more monsters had appeared and several villagers had been killed.
• Theresa noticed black mist and an animal-like silhouette around Yae Sakura, and Han Jiang comforted Yae Sakura until the mist vanished and she stopped crying.
• Han Jiang concluded that Hiyori was pushing Yae Sakura toward an emotional collapse and resolved to help her and try absorbing Hiyori's power after the system update.

Han Jiang found that the system update had restored his strength but left him without Crystals, then took Theresa to the shrine to confront the villagers blaming Yae Sakura for the monster attacks. He challenged their belief in human sacrifice and defended Yae Sakura, while Hiyori’s plans to sacrifice Theresa remained underway.

• Han Jiang inspected the updated system, discovered the Logistics Department required Crystals he did not have, and tested his restored strength and unnamed Domain Gear.
• Han Jiang pulled Theresa from their room despite Yae Sakura’s warning and took her to the shrine, believing Hiyori had begun moving against them.
• At the shrine, villagers accused Han Jiang and Theresa of bringing monsters to Yae Village and demanded their sacrifice, while Yae Sakura tried to defend them.
• Theresa interrupted the villagers’ accusations, and Han Jiang appeared to side with the old woman before questioning why the gods had not stopped the monsters.
• Han Jiang condemned the use of human sacrifices and pointed out that Yae Sakura, not the gods, had been protecting Yae Village.

Han Jiang and Theresa learned that the villagers planned to sacrifice Yae Sakura’s younger sister, Yae Rin, to the evil god. When Yae Rin revealed that she expected to die helping Han Jiang resist the god, he suddenly proposed finding a way for both sisters to survive.

• The shrine master sent Yae Sakura to investigate Han Jiang and Theresa, while the old woman urged preparations for a second sacrifice.
• Yae Sakura explained that the god had demanded living sacrifices and that the villagers were targeting her family because she resisted it.
• Theresa realized the villagers intended to sacrifice Yae Sakura’s younger sister, and Han Jiang vowed to help defeat the evil god.
• Yae Rin appeared and explained that she planned to sacrifice herself to help save Yae Sakura and weaken the god.
• Han Jiang rejected Yae Rin’s single-choice solution and pulled Theresa along, telling Yae Rin to come with him.

Han Jiang urged Yae Rin and Yae Sakura to flee before the village could sacrifice Rin, promising to help both sisters survive. Yae Sakura hesitated, still hoping the drought would end and her father would refuse the ritual.

• Han Jiang persuaded Yae Rin to trust him, and she agreed on the condition that he save her sister.
• Han Jiang, Theresa, and Yae Rin entered Rin's room, where Yae Sakura was caring for her younger sister.
• Han Jiang asked Yae Sakura whether she could keep Rin from being sacrificed, and Sakura admitted she could not stop the village.
• Han Jiang proposed that they leave immediately and promised Rin could recover and live a normal life elsewhere.
• Yae Rin told Sakura she wanted to live, but Sakura still hesitated because she worried about the village and their father.

Han Jiang and Yae Sakura faced the villagers’ demand to sacrifice Yae Rin, while the shrine master struggled to protect his daughter and uphold the village’s beliefs. When Hiyori’s fox-shaped shadow appeared and demanded a sacrifice, Han Jiang drew his sword to keep the villagers from reaching Rin.

• Villagers demanded that Yae Rin’s tendons be severed and that she be sacrificed, while the shrine master agreed to hold the ritual the next day.
• Yae Rin asked her father whether the god deserved their faith, and he said it did if it protected the village from the drought.
• Yae Sakura challenged her father’s decision, while Han Jiang prepared to fight and Theresa condemned the villagers’ beliefs.
• Dark clouds gathered and thunder made the villagers believe rain was coming, but the clouds cleared and a black fox-shaped shadow appeared, demanding a sacrifice.
• A villager rushed toward Rin’s room, but Han Jiang kicked him back and drew the Muramasa of Bizen as the shrine master guarded the doorway.

Yae Sakura rejected Hiyori’s demand for a human sacrifice and went to the shrine to fight the deity, while Han Jiang carried Yae Rin after her. As Yae Sakura battled Hiyori, the deity’s influence overwhelmed Theresa and turned villagers against the group, leaving Han Jiang to protect Yae Rin and Theresa.

• The shrine master agreed to sacrifice Yae Rin within three days, but Yae Sakura declared Hiyori an evil god and drew Sakura Blizzard against her father’s wishes.
• Yae Sakura knocked out the shrine master and went to confront Hiyori, while Han Jiang carried Yae Rin and Theresa followed.
• At the shrine, Yae Sakura charged Hiyori as Han Jiang absorbed her Honkai Energy and gained fire and erosion abilities.
• Hiyori’s influence overwhelmed Theresa and controlled villagers, who attacked Yae Rin and Theresa; Han Jiang cut down the attackers within the Stigmata Space.

Han Jiang protected Theresa and Yae Rin as Hiyori attacked Yae Sakura and tormented her with memories of their repeated battles. Theresa overcame her hatred of Otto, regained her strength, and helped Yae Sakura defeat Hiyori, whom Han Jiang spared so he could question it about Yae Rin’s remnant soul.

• Han Jiang carried Theresa and Yae Rin through Hiyori’s fireball attack while Yae Sakura tried to protect the villagers from the fight.
• Hiyori provoked Yae Sakura with the villagers’ deaths and recalled their five hundred years of repeated battles, while Theresa struggled through memories of Otto’s experiments.
• Theresa chose to forgive Otto, awakened, and recovered her S-rank Valkyrie strength with Judah.
• Theresa and Yae Sakura defeated Hiyori, and Theresa bound it in chains instead of killing it.
• Han Jiang questioned Hiyori about why Yae Rin’s remnant soul had remained in the Stigmata Space for five hundred years.

Han Jiang discovered that Rin’s remnant soul could be preserved because of her unusual bloodline and tested whether he could serve as her vessel. He had Theresa kill Hiyori, then collected the Herrscher’s benevolent side as the group considered how to resurrect Rin.

• Hiyori claimed Rin’s bloodline shared her power, which had allowed Rin’s remnant soul to remain in the Stigmata Space.
• Han Jiang reasoned that Rin could attach herself to him if he absorbed enough of Hiyori’s Honkai Energy, and the system confirmed he had enough energy to bear her soul.
• Yae Sakura and Theresa suspected Hiyori had taken control of Han Jiang, but he explained that he was testing whether he could become Rin’s vessel.
• Han Jiang ordered Theresa to kill Hiyori, and the system awarded him 1,000 crystals for helping eliminate the Erosion Herrscher.
• The system offered to collect Hiyori’s benevolent side, and Han Jiang chose yes as the white sphere entered his inventory.

Han Jiang helped Rin’s remnant soul enter his system inventory, and Theresa and Yae Sakura planned to revive her secretly at St. Freya High School. Yae Sakura agreed to go with them, then shared some of the collapsing Stigmata Space’s energy before they prepared to return.

• Theresa recovered a missing part of the Divine Key with Judah, while Han Jiang asked Yae Sakura about Hiyori’s final words, “Honkai Will.”
• Han Jiang successfully collected Rin’s remnant soul and heard her faint voice; Theresa promised to arrange a body for Rin in secret at St. Freya High School.
• Han Jiang invited Yae Sakura to St. Freya so she could follow Rin’s revival, and Rin’s promise to see the next year’s cherry blossoms persuaded her to go.
• Yae Sakura transferred some of the Stigmata Space’s energy to Han Jiang and Theresa, giving Han Jiang fire and corrosion abilities and forming Theresa’s Crimson Sakura Stigmata Armor.
• Theresa considered having armor made to use her new Stigmata abilities, and Han Jiang wondered what had happened outside while they were in the Stigmata Space.

Han Jiang woke after the Herrscher of Erosion was defeated and learned that he had been detained because he attacked people while under its influence. He joined Kiana, Mei, and Bronya for squad training, but returned to a locked dorm still unsure what he had done during the previous three days.

• Theresa woke in a wrecked Hyperion room and learned that staff had avoided disturbing her as instructed.
• Han Jiang received system notifications about increased favorability and a 700-crystal deduction, then woke up chained and blindfolded in a laboratory room.
• Himeko told Han Jiang that his Herrscher energy had been linked to the Erosion Herrscher, and Theresa confirmed that the Herrscher in the Stigmata Space had been eliminated.
• Mei and Bronya freed Han Jiang, while Kiana and the others laughed at his behavior during the three days he had been controlled.
• Himeko assigned Han Jiang to squad training with Kiana, Mei, and Bronya, and Kiana explained that he had attacked someone and been moved to a locked dorm.

Han Jiang examined his updated system, spent his Crystals on a supply pull that yielded instant noodles, and joined Kiana’s team for the new, harder combat training. The chapter left the team at a Deadwalker training site after surviving Bronya’s reckless drive.

• Han Jiang checked the updated system, found that Hiyori’s good side could be incubated, and noticed Rin’s remnant soul absorbing his Honkai Energy.
• Han Jiang used 300 Crystals on a supply pull and received pretty-girl-flavored instant noodles that restored Honkai Energy and increased Kiana’s Favorability when she ate them.
• The next morning, Kiana let Han Jiang out, and Himeko explained that the training had expanded as Honkai incidents became more frequent.
• Han Jiang joined Kiana, Mei, and Bronya in an off-road vehicle headed for a group of 120 Deadwalkers, with Bronya driving.
• Bronya drove recklessly through obstacles and arrived behind schedule, leaving Han Jiang and Mei drenched in sweat while Kiana wanted a faster ride.

Han Jiang joined Kiana, Mei, and Bronya in a battle against a large horde of Deadwalkers and Honkai Beasts. After the four defeated the remaining enemies, Han Jiang criticized the others for taking such risks.

• Bronya began the attack with Heavy Cannon Rabbit, bombarding the horde while Kiana, Mei, and Han Jiang charged into battle.
• Han Jiang activated Hundred Refinements and attacked a Chariot-class Honkai Beast as Kiana and Mei fought through the Deadwalkers.
• Bronya joined the fight after the bombardment had eliminated many enemies, using Heavy Cannon Rabbit and precise strikes to kill more.
• Han Jiang and Mei coordinated their swordsmanship to bring down the fast Rush-class Honkai Beasts.
• After thirty minutes, Kiana shot down the final Honkai Beast, and the exhausted group rested on a collapsed floor slab.
• Han Jiang pointed out Kiana's torn cape and bleeding arm, then told the group their reckless battle had been dangerous.

After the battle, Mei treated the group's injuries while Han Jiang collected Schicksal Soldier Cores and discovered he could extract Titanium Alloy from a Scythe Queen's weapon. He headed back to the vehicle for his instant noodles, leaving Mei hurt that he had left her lunch.

• Mei treated Kiana's and Han Jiang's wounds while Kiana, Bronya, and Han Jiang joked about their injuries and promised to protect one another.
• Mei told Han Jiang to return to camp if his wound made him feel unwell, but he insisted he could keep fighting.
• Han Jiang returned to the battlefield under the pretense of checking for surviving Deadwalkers and collected Schicksal Soldier Cores.
• Han Jiang extracted Titanium Alloy from the Scythe Queen's scythe and realized he still needed a broken Thunder Blade and an ultra-compact reactor to upgrade his Pulse Blade.
• When Mei served lunch, Han Jiang remembered his instant noodles in the vehicle and left, disappointing Mei while Kiana defended her cooking.

Han Jiang’s interactions with Kiana and Mei increased their favorability, and he obtained the Gun Fu skill. A warning about Changkong City Girls' Middle School coincided with the system detecting special Honkai Energy there, leaving Han Jiang with a compass pointing toward the danger zone.

• Kiana tried Han Jiang’s beautiful girl flavored instant noodles and said they tasted like Mei’s cooking, prompting Mei to blush when Han Jiang addressed her by her first name.
• Mei’s favorability increased by 10, and Kiana’s increased by 5, granting Han Jiang Gun Fu LV1.
• Han Jiang exchanged five sets of Honkai Beast fangs and claws for one crystal, raising his total from 20 to 21.
• Hiyori's Benevolent Face began reacting as Han Jiang received an order to stay away from Changkong City Girls' Middle School.
• Bronya detected unusual activity near the school, where four student markers and a red danger zone appeared on the map.
• The system detected special Honkai Energy near Changkong City Girls' High School but said there was not enough to hatch the Herrscher Benevolent Face, while a compass pointed toward the school.