Chapter Summaries

Bronya and Han Jiang entered the Sea of Quantum after the Eye of the Abyss began closing, leaving Theresa and Kiana to defend Abyss City. Separated in the strange realm, they each faced a guide who sent them toward a test in another world.

• Theresa unleashed Blood Knight: Moonlit and fought alongside Han Jiang as a giant monster emerged from the Eye of the Abyss and then retreated when the entrance began closing.
• Bronya leaped into the Eye of the Abyss to search for Seele, and Han Jiang followed while Kiana was left behind to protect Mei and help defend the city.
• Bronya met Joachim in the Sea of Quantum and insisted on rescuing someone she could not live without, while Quantum Shadows appeared to test her.
• A misty man told Han Jiang he had to accept a test to enter the Sea of Quantum, then sent him falling into darkness after his abilities and system powers failed.
• Joachim pushed Bronya from a floating rock and sent her toward another world, telling her that her past confusion and pain would become her greatest enemies.

Bronya and Han Jiang adjusted to unfamiliar worlds, with Han Jiang discovering that he shared a secret alliance with Otto in a Demon Beast-threatened Yae Village. At St. Freya, Cocolia reassured Bronya that she was free to choose her future, and Bronya agreed to join a mission with Himeko and Cocolia.

• Bronya woke in a different version of St. Freya Academy, while Han Jiang found himself in a village preparing to welcome Yae Sakura’s returning party.
• Han Jiang learned that Otto and Kallen had come to Yae Village after a shipwreck, and Otto summoned Han Jiang to discuss a needed herb and their shared interests.
• Kallen and Yae Sakura visited Otto’s clinic, where Kallen described her lifelong bond with Otto as that of brothers, and Han Jiang left to gather information about his new world.
• Han Jiang learned that his traveling merchant identity included a twenty-person armed squad and dealings with influential people across the region.
• Bronya learned that Cocolia was a Valkyrie and heard how she had joined St. Freya to give children hope and freedom.
• Himeko invited Bronya on a mission with herself, Cocolia, and another student, and Bronya agreed to help.

Han Jiang found a murdered girl and killed two mountain bandits before discovering that Seele had already slaughtered their stronghold. In a separate world, Bronya met Seele and joined a mission to investigate stolen supplies; the chapter ended as Han Jiang and Seele encountered more than thirty captives emerging from the bandits’ horse pens.

• Han Jiang traveled toward the mountain bandits’ lair, killed two bandits who had abused and murdered a village girl, and buried her beside the road.
• Han Jiang found the bandits’ stronghold covered in corpses and was attacked by red-eyed Seele, who revealed that she had wiped out the bandits after seeing them raid a village.
• Bronya met Seele, Cocolia, Himeko, and Fu Hua in another world and joined their team for a mission involving stolen supplies and Anti-Entropy.
• Fu Hua assigned Bronya and Seele to scout for places where the stolen supplies might be hidden while Cocolia, Himeko, and Fu Hua visited Silver Fox.
• Seele told Han Jiang that she had killed the bandits after finding them raiding a village, then she and Han Jiang saw more than thirty captives emerge from the horse pens.

Han Jiang rescued captives from a bandit stronghold and brought them to Yae Village, where Otto treated the people as experimental materials. Meanwhile, Bronya and Seele’s reconnaissance led them to a warehouse containing Joachim, whose strange power summoned a mech before he fainted.

• Han Jiang and Seele killed the bandits, and Han Jiang gathered the surviving captives, including nine girls, to take them to Yae Village.
• Seele told Han Jiang that someone had separated her from her Main Personality and wondered whether she had survived the Sea of Quantum.
• Otto welcomed the captives as experimental materials, while Han Jiang learned that this world’s Han Jiang had apparently delivered people to him before.
• Bronya and Seele identified an abandoned warehouse as Silver Fox’s likely hiding place, and Cocolia’s group joined them there after capturing Silver Fox.
• Fu Hua opened the warehouse and found the bound boy Joachim inside, whereupon he summoned a mech that Himeko destroyed.
• Joachim fainted after the attack, and Fu Hua discovered that his body was covered in old and fresh wounds.

Han Jiang joined Yae Sakura, Kallen, and Yae Village’s guards on a dangerous expedition to Maple Valley to retrieve a medicinal herb Otto had requested. After Han Jiang obtained the Honkai-rich crystal herb, a gigantic boar-like Demon Beast went berserk, leaving Yae Sakura and Kallen injured as they fought to hold it back.

• Otto reminded Han Jiang about their plans for the next day, and Han Jiang returned home with Seele’s Alter Ego.
• Yae Sakura asked Han Jiang to guide an expedition to Maple Valley for a medicinal herb, and Kallen arrived with Flying Fish Balls that Seele tried and enjoyed.
• At daybreak, Han Jiang led Yae Sakura, Kallen, Seele, and Yae Village’s guards toward Maple Valley, where Demon Beasts killed and injured several people along the way.
• After Kallen and Yae Sakura scouted the valley, the group entered and found a crystalline herb near the lair of a huge Demon Beast.
• Seele fought the swarming beasts while Yae Sakura and Kallen attacked the giant boar; Han Jiang retrieved the herb and realized Otto had misrepresented its purpose.
• The boar went berserk, and Yae Sakura urged Han Jiang to escape with the herb while she and Kallen continued fighting it.

Han Jiang helped Kallen and Yae Sakura defeat a massive boar and returned to Yae Village with only twenty-seven surviving warriors. He discovered that Otto had seized control of the village, imprisoned Yae Sakura and Kallen, and was conducting human experiments to create stronger fighters.

• Han Jiang, Kallen, and Yae Sakura combined their attacks to kill the boar, then escaped the burning valley with Seele and the remaining warriors.
• Otto welcomed the returning party, took the wounded for treatment, and accepted the medicinal herb while claiming the shrine master was resting.
• Han Jiang noticed the village had become restricted and learned that Otto had placed Yae Sakura and Kallen under house arrest.
• Otto told Han Jiang how he had built a following and staged a coup while Yae Sakura was away, then invited Han Jiang to cooperate with him.
• Otto showed Han Jiang a secret laboratory where chained and injured people were being used in experiments fueled by Honkai Energy and the medicinal herb.

Han Jiang was left to decide whether to help Otto conduct human experiments to prepare for Honkai or oppose him to protect innocents, while Otto argued humanity would otherwise be wiped out. Elsewhere, Bronya and her companions identified the unconscious boy as the missing supplies and split up as Anti-Entropy pursuers arrived.

• Otto explained to Han Jiang that his experiments could give people power to fight Demon Beasts and protect humanity, and revealed his research into Honkai Energy and artificial stigmata.
• Kallen opposed Otto's experiments on moral grounds, but Otto ordered his subordinates to capture and confine her.
• Otto warned Han Jiang that Honkai threatened humanity's survival, leaving him to weigh the immediate deaths caused by experiments against the world's eventual destruction.
• Han Jiang struggled with whether to help Otto, comparing his methods with Kevin's plan to make humanity adapt to Honkai.
• Cocolia identified the unconscious boy as Joachim, who possessed the Herrscher of Reason's power, and Bronya said he might be Anti-Entropy's missing supplies.
• After alarms warned that Anti-Entropy pursuers were nearby, Cocolia told Bronya and Seele to take Joachim to safety while she, Himeko, and Fu Hua drew the pursuers away.

Bronya reunited with her Seele in a repeating world and persuaded Cocolia and the others to let Joachim escape Schicksal by enrolling at St. Freya. After the mission ended, Bronya asked Fu Hua to speak with her alone, suspecting she might still be following Otto's orders.

• Seele refused to hand Joachim over, and Bronya realized Seele was her own Seele from another world after Seele recognized her and explained the repeating cycle.
• Seele told Bronya that Han Jiang had promised to take her out of the Sea of Quantum, and Bronya chose to leave the Sea with Seele and Joachim.
• At the rendezvous point, Bronya revealed Joachim's scars and argued that he should choose his own future at St. Freya rather than return to Schicksal.
• Cocolia admitted the mission had been a test and arranged to hide Joachim's transfer to St. Freya from headquarters, while Himeko praised Bronya's choice.
• Bronya learned that Himeko knew no student named Han Jiang, then asked Fu Hua to speak with her alone because she suspected Fu Hua was still following Otto's orders.

Bronya chose to free the boy and guide him at St. Freya, while Han Jiang agreed to help Otto rebuild order in a chaotic world. After learning that his choice led to the best outcome among branching worlds, Han Jiang returned to the abyss, and Bronya learned that Seele had left her a book and that Seele’s power was split between two parts.

• Fu Hua accepted Bronya’s plan to guide the boy, and Cocolia declared him free before Bronya was pulled into darkness.
• Seele explained that her repeating worlds were World Bubbles and told Han Jiang to choose; Han Jiang agreed to help Otto establish order and strengthen Yae Village.
• The black-mist man showed Han Jiang alternate worlds and explained that his choice produced one of the best outcomes, then sent him onward.
• Bronya found Seele’s glowing book and saw Cocolia bring the boy to St. Freya, where he named himself Joachim Welt.
• Joachim told Bronya he was a clone of Welt Yang and said Seele’s book could help Bronya find her in the Sea of Quantum.
• Joachim revealed that Seele’s mysterious power was divided into two parts, and Bronya vowed to save her.

Han Jiang entered a high school World Bubble alongside Kevin Kaslana and met the brilliant, distant MEI, while Kevin tried to win her attention with Han Jiang’s advice. After two peaceful weeks, they encountered a Honkai Beast and a squad recruiting them, but Han Jiang claimed he was just an ordinary high school student.

• Han Jiang and Kevin transferred into a class where they met MEI, who ignored Kevin and kept reading advanced books.
• Kevin befriended Han Jiang and asked him how to approach MEI, then repeatedly tried Han Jiang’s advice and was rebuffed.
• Over the next two weeks, Kevin grew popular with their classmates and occasionally exchanged brief words with MEI, while Han Jiang received a love letter.
• Han Jiang and Kevin found a woman with Honkai disease fleeing an intersection, and a three-person squad emerged after defeating the Honkai Beast pursuing her.
• The squad leader invited Kevin and Han Jiang to join them in fighting Honkai, but both called themselves ordinary high school students.

Han Jiang and Kevin declined to join the fight against Honkai, but Kevin later joined a research institute with Han Jiang and grew close to MEI as Honkai’s first Herrscher descended. Bronya and Seele entered a second world, where they found Otto leading an orphanage and began looking for a way to approach Joachim.

• Mike repeatedly tried to recruit Han Jiang, while Kevin resisted his family’s expectations until he asked to join the Far East research institute because MEI worked there.
• MEI assigned Kevin and Han Jiang to Division Two to help analyze and apply Honkai Energy, and Kevin began spending more time with her.
• As Honkai disease cases surged worldwide, the First Herrscher, the Herrscher of Reason, descended and stunned every organization studying Honkai.
• Bronya awoke in a snowy world at a child’s funeral, recognized Otto, Theresa, and Joachim, and found Seele beside her.
• Bronya told Seele that Joachim might be key to escaping the world, and they followed the children back to Otto’s orphanage.
• At lunch, Seele named carrot and beet soup to break the silence after Theresa asked the grieving children what they would eat.

After Karel’s departure, Theresa tried to comfort the grieving children while Joachim prepared to leave the orphanage for adoption. Bronya and Seele learned that Joachim’s father had been killed by the priest after experimenting on homeless children, leaving Joachim conflicted about his father and forbidden knowledge.

• Theresa served beef stew and learned that Mrs. Liesel would pick up Joachim the next day, though he refused to reconsider leaving.
• Theresa sent Bronya and Seele to gather firewood, and they fought several waves of Quantum Shadows before noticing the snowy landscape lacked animals and Honkai Beasts.
• As Bronya and Seele gathered wood, Seele reflected on how the orphanage reminded her of their childhood, while Bronya suspected Joachim’s departure involved more than adoption.
• Theresa told Bronya and Seele that she had grown up at the orphanage and revealed that the priest had killed Joachim’s father, a doctor who had begun experimenting on homeless children.
• Theresa explained that Joachim did not truly blame the priest; he hated that his father had pursued forbidden knowledge and used children’s lives in an attempt to revive his mother.

Theresa told Bronya and Seele why Joachim accepted adoption and feared becoming a priest, then set out with them to find the missing priest. In the Previous Era, MEI and Kevin stayed at the Far East research institute to face the approaching First Herrscher, while Han Jiang, Kevin, and SU prepared the defenses.

• Theresa explained that Joachim accepted Mrs. Liesel's adoption offer because he was afraid of repeating the priest's painful choice, and Bronya said leaving would not resolve his inner conflict.
• Theresa, Bronya, and Seele left the cabin to look for the priest when he failed to return.
• MEI refused to evacuate from the Far East research institute, and Kevin chose to stay with her while Mike agreed to protect them.
• Kevin and Han Jiang went to prepare defenses and met SU, who also volunteered to stay and fight the First Herrscher.
• Han Jiang, Kevin, and SU reached the heavily fortified beach Operations Department as the institute awaited the First Herrscher's arrival.

Prometheus led the Honkai Beasts in an assault on the Far East, overwhelming its defenses while MEI investigated the First Herrscher’s human past and abilities. As the beasts broke into the research institute, Han Jiang and SU stayed behind to defend MEI, who continued her analysis.

• Prometheus’s Honkai Beasts attacked the Far East coast, and MEI realized the defenders’ firepower would not be enough to hold them.
• Prometheus appeared aboard an unnumbered aircraft carrier, introduced herself, and destroyed a reconnaissance satellite with its particle beam.
• MEI found Prometheus’s former identity, Safali Winter, whose records ended when she was twelve, and the group considered how her abandonment might have shaped her hatred of humanity.
• Prometheus ordered the Honkai Beasts to attack in formation, and they breached the Far East’s first defensive line before her aircraft carrier vanished.
• As Honkai Beasts invaded the research institute, Kevin urged MEI to evacuate, but she stayed to study Prometheus’s abilities.
• Han Jiang and SU went to confront the invading beasts while MEI continued analyzing the available data.

Bronya searched for the missing priest with Seele and discovered that Feather Dust had been protecting the orphanage’s snowfield. After Feather Dust urged her to face her own past, Bronya brought help to the unconscious priest, leaving his bond with Joachim unresolved.

• Bronya reassured Seele that she was ready to face her painful memories, and Seele promised to stay by her side.
• Bronya and Seele found Theresa cradling the collapsed priest, while Honkai Beasts attacked both groups on the snowfield.
• Feather Dust appeared, explained that the priest had only six years left, and said he hoped to entrust her power to Joachim despite the guilt between them.
• Feather Dust urged Bronya to seek her own answer and find a path beyond her past before disappearing.
• Bronya fetched Joachim and the other orphanage children, who carried the unconscious priest back on a stretcher with his snacks still in hand.

Otto woke in the orphanage and offered Joachim his protective cross, but Joachim rejected it because Otto had killed his father. After Bronya and Otto saved Joachim from Honkai Beasts, Bronya urged him to face his feelings; Joachim left the next morning, and Otto’s worsening Honkai Energy corrosion became visible.

• Theresa and the children welcomed Otto after he woke, and he tried to give Joachim his cross before Joachim angrily refused it and left.
• Bronya followed Joachim into the snowfield, where four Honkai Beasts attacked them as Otto arrived and saved them with Feather Dust’s power before collapsing.
• Bronya confronted Joachim about running from his past, then encouraged him to speak honestly and accept responsibility; Joachim cried and helped carry Otto back.
• Theresa found the group and checked on Joachim, but he left the orphanage without saying goodbye the next morning.
• Theresa brought Bronya and Seele to see Otto, whose body had developed dense dark-red lines from worsening Honkai Energy corrosion.

Otto reconciled with Joachim and died after entrusting him with the orphanage and his beliefs. Back in Welt's labyrinth, Bronya learned how it was formed and prepared to enter its final world to reach the Core of Reason and find Seele.

• Otto confessed his past mistakes and shared the Saint's belief that people must choose their own path and accept responsibility, while the children gathered around his bedside.
• Joachim returned with Otto's cross and promised to inherit the orphanage and its responsibilities, asking Otto to remain his family.
• Otto died with Joachim beside him, and the next day Joachim and Theresa buried him beside Karel and vowed to keep Freya Orphanage open.
• Bronya returned to the labyrinth, where Joachim explained that Welt had become the labyrinth after using his remaining power to create a barrier against the Sea of Quantum.
• Joachim opened the final path for Bronya and warned her not to let World Serpent escape; Bronya entered the third world, which was shrouded in darkness.

MEI identified Prometheus as the First Herrscher and prepared a battle plan using a new Honkai-powered armor and arriving reinforcements. Kevin agreed to wear the armor and deliver the final blow if needed, and humanity began its first major counterattack against the Herrscher.

• MEI analyzed the data and concluded that the First Herrscher could create objects from energy and command Honkai Beasts, while Prometheus approached the research institute.
• MEI revealed second-generation armor powered by Honkai Energy and identified Han Jiang and Kevin as its suitable users.
• MEI explained that the Mu Continent reinforcements and a secret warship could defeat Prometheus but would need Kevin or Han Jiang to confirm her death, and Kevin agreed to take the final role.
• MEI showed Kevin evidence suggesting Prometheus had weak close-combat ability and explained that her hatred of humanity stemmed from her past.
• At three in the morning, the Mu Continent reinforcements arrived, the research institute's warship launched, and humanity began attacking Prometheus and the Honkai Beast horde.

Han Jiang and the human forces fought the First Herrscher and her Honkai Beasts, while Kevin challenged the Herrscher in MEI’s second-generation armor. As the First Herrscher unleashed a continent-wide surge that strengthened the remaining beasts, Han Jiang fought to keep one away from Kevin, and MEI prepared the Floating Battleship’s main cannon in case they failed.

• After two hours of missile bombardment, Han Jiang and SU joined the ground assault, and Mike led Fifth Squad toward the isolated First Herrscher.
• Han Jiang drew one bear-shaped Honkai Beast away from the squad and defeated it with Red Tassel and the Book of Cang Xuan.
• Kevin leaped from the Floating Battleship and broke through the First Herrscher’s defenses, then fought her alongside Han Jiang.
• The First Herrscher unleashed a surge of Honkai Energy that strengthened the Honkai Beasts, and the remaining bear-shaped beast broke through the combat team’s encirclement.
• Han Jiang took on the newly strengthened Judgment-class beast while Kevin continued attacking the injured First Herrscher, and MEI readied the battleship’s main cannon as backup.

Han Jiang helped Kevin kill the First Herrscher, then witnessed the rise of Flame-Moth and humanity’s worsening war against Honkai. After the man of black mist sent him onward, Han Jiang awoke amid the ruins of St. Freya High School as its forces prepared to face the Herrscher of the End.

• Han Jiang restrained the First Herrscher while Kevin struck her down and claimed the Core of Reason.
• MEI refused to surrender the core, and a Mu Continent representative backed her as Honkai outbreaks and political disorder spread across the world.
• Kevin proposed naming their anti-Honkai organization Flame-Moth, and MEI approved the name.
• Han Jiang saw visions of Flame-Moth’s campaigns and the devastating battles against later Herrschers before the man of black mist sent him to another place.
• Han Jiang awoke in the ruined St. Freya High School, where Himeko, Kiana, and Mei prepared to draw the Herrscher of the End’s attention for the Hyperion.