Chapter Summaries

Han Jiang took Rosaliya on a night mission to hunt Dominance Herrschers, and the pair captured several puppets hidden among city workers and vehicles. After Rosaliya pushed through her exhaustion to protect her friends, they returned to headquarters, where Bronya was waiting.

• Tesla sent Rosaliya with Han Jiang for training but kept Liliya at the base while the biological laboratory researched her illness.
• Han Jiang and Rosaliya tracked down a delivery rider whose thermal box held puppet parts, then defeated the rider and the assembled puppet.
• Han Jiang and Rosaliya captured a taxi driver puppet and later fought a puppet hidden in a garbage truck, with Han Jiang blocking an attack that nearly hurt Rosaliya.
• Rosaliya said she would keep joining missions to make Bronya, Liliya, and everyone else safer, then fell asleep on the ride back.
• Bronya met Han Jiang at headquarters, and Han Jiang praised Rosaliya's performance and promised her cake when she woke.

Han Jiang and Anti-Entropy analyzed the Dominance Herrschers’ shared network and improved their ability to track puppets, allowing them to eliminate dozens across the city. The attacks then stopped across both Anti-Entropy and Schicksal territory, leaving Einstein and Tesla worried that the Herrschers were preparing something worse.

• Bronya and Han Jiang returned the sleeping Rosaliya to her bedroom, where Liliya was talking in her sleep.
• Einstein, Tesla, and Welt explained that the Dominance Herrschers shared information through a network and that Anti-Entropy could use it to track their movements.
• Han Jiang asked whether the tracking method would be shared with Schicksal, and Welt said Anti-Entropy would consider cooperation while remaining wary of Otto.
• Welt told Han Jiang that protecting those close to him was a valid motive, and Han Jiang admitted that he did not want to become selflessly devoted to strangers.
• Anti-Entropy eliminated thirty-two Dominance Herrscher puppets in one week, after which signs of their activity disappeared from both Anti-Entropy and Schicksal territory.

Anti-Entropy planned to lure the Dominance Herrscher into a trap at the Arctic base while using Wendy at St. Freya as a second target. The chapter ended with the Dominance Herrscher’s puppets debating how to respond to Anti-Entropy’s apparent provocation.

• Welt and the others decided to gather the Dominance Puppets and destroy the space where their true leader and growth source were hidden.
• Kiana and Mei volunteered as bait, while Welt explained that Anna and Chen Tianwu would also be part of the plan and that Anti-Entropy suspected it had spies.
• At a private meeting, Welt said Raiden Ryoma, Bronya, and he would negotiate with Remaining Fire, while Kiana, Mei, Bronya, and the two other Herrschers would go to the Arctic base.
• Welt revealed that Wendy would remain at St. Freya as a second obvious target, so Han Jiang and Fu Hua would stay behind to protect her.
• Einstein asked Fu Hua to bring Cang Xiaoxuan to Anti-Entropy, calling the Armed Puppet crucial to its future, and Fu Hua agreed to seek her consent.
• The Dominance Herrscher’s puppets held a chaotic courtroom meeting about whether to answer Anti-Entropy’s challenge, until their leader demanded order.

The Dominance Herrscher chose Wendy as its next target and planned to seize the Wind Herrscher’s Authority. Anti-Entropy and Remaining Fire finalized a joint expedition to the Arctic, while Han Jiang returned to St. Freya and found Seele waiting at his door.

• The Dominance Herrscher rejected an attack on four Herrschers and voted to target Wendy at St. Freya instead.
• Welt and Einstein secured Remaining Fire’s support for the Arctic expedition and agreed on plans for protecting the groups from the Dominance Herrscher.
• Luo Nianxi raised concerns about Han Jiang, Fu Hua, and Hyperion, and Welt and Einstein assured her that Han Jiang and Fu Hua would not disrupt the operation.
• Han Jiang and Fu Hua returned to St. Freya, where Theresa greeted them and joked about Han Jiang’s height.
• Han Jiang met Lilith and Blood Embrace in his dorm, then found Seele at his door after she returned to St. Freya.

Seele returned to St. Freya as Theresa’s group prepared to use Wendy as bait to lure out the Dominance Herrscher. When the plan began, the puppets abducted Wendy into the domination space, and Han Jiang, Seele, Fu Hua, Theresa, and Himeko broke in to rescue her.

• Seele returned to St. Freya, and Han Jiang informed Bronya that she was back.
• Theresa asked Wendy to serve as bait, and Wendy agreed so she could help defeat the Dominance Herrscher and restore Bronya’s Herrscher Authority.
• St. Freya staged a Honkai incident at a mining area while Anti-Entropy and Remaining Fire departed for the Arctic Base.
• Honkai Beasts attacked Han Jiang’s Ship, and the Dominance Herrscher’s puppets appeared and pulled Wendy into the domination space.
• Han Jiang, Seele, Fu Hua, Theresa, and Himeko opened a way into the domination space and entered to reach Wendy.

Han Jiang and the others defeated the Dominance Herrscher’s puppets, then destroyed the Dominance Space by detonating a damaged World Bubble. As the space collapsed, a woman on Earth screamed in rage at humanity.

• Han Jiang rescued Wendy from the puppet swarm while Himeko, Fu Hua, Theresa, and Seele fought their way toward them.
• The Dominance Herrscher used the Herrscher of Reason’s power to create weapons and mechs, but the group protected Wendy and defeated the puppets.
• Seele killed the final puppet, and Theresa confirmed that the Dominance Herrscher’s signals had disappeared.
• The group collected the puppet cores and left the space, while Han Jiang stayed behind to destroy it.
• Han Jiang sensed a powerful presence, then detonated a damaged World Bubble and escaped as the Dominance Space collapsed.
• A woman on Earth screamed, “Damn... humans!”

Han Jiang arrived in a World Bubble resembling Schicksal’s oppressive Holy City and met Kallen, who had endured countless repetitions and sought his help to end the city’s injustice. When Kallen showed him a missionary abusing a mother and daughter, Han Jiang nearly struck the man, but Kallen stopped both the missionary’s blow and Han Jiang’s intervention.

• Han Jiang woke in an unfamiliar World Bubble, reached Schicksal’s Holy City, and learned from an old man that the Church sold indulgence certificates.
• Kallen, who resembled Kiana, revealed that she had experienced countless repetitions in the city and believed Han Jiang came from another world.
• Kallen asked Han Jiang to help her overturn the city’s injustice, explaining that she had no memories from before this world and used the name Kallen Kaslana.
• Kallen brought Han Jiang to a handicraft shop and predicted that a missionary would threaten its mistress and daughter over the husband’s unpaid indulgence certificate.
• The missionary tried to drag the woman away and threatened to strike her, but Kallen caught his hand while also stopping Han Jiang from slapping him.

Kallen explained that she wanted to overthrow Schicksal by awakening the oppressed people, then took Han Jiang to the lower district to show him the misery caused by the church's rule. When a girl publicly denounced Schicksal and was seized by guards, Kallen sent Han Jiang to rescue her while hiding his identity.

• Kallen stopped a missionary from abusing a mother and daughter, challenged his blame of the Knights Order, and left without helping the family up.
• Kallen told Han Jiang that she needed to awaken the people and said he was her only helper; she revealed that Otto had vanished from her later cycles.
• Kallen took Han Jiang through the wall into the lower district, where they saw people suffering amid the Honkai-born Black Death.
• A noblely dressed girl condemned Schicksal in a speech at a crowded square, and the crowd and arriving Knights Order guards turned against her.
• Kallen asked Han Jiang to help the girl, gave him a mask, and watched as he disguised himself and moved toward the seized speaker.

Han Jiang and Kallen rescued a red-haired speaker from Schicksal’s guards, then visited the slums and met Hanna, who was helping the poor. Kallen explained that Schicksal could only be overthrown by uniting nobles and ordinary people, while Han Jiang continued to follow her lead as he tried to understand who she really was.

• Han Jiang rescued the red-haired girl from Schicksal’s guards, and she gave him her mask as thanks while Kallen grew jealous.
• Kallen led Han Jiang through the slums, where they saw people struggling with poverty and the spreading plague.
• Han Jiang recognized Hanna cleaning a courtyard and giving food to two elderly residents, and Kallen introduced herself and Han Jiang to her.
• Kallen pulled Han Jiang away after speaking briefly with Hanna, leaving Hanna confused about why a noble had approached her.
• Kallen told Han Jiang that overthrowing Schicksal required uniting kindhearted nobles and the people, and Han Jiang agreed to support her while wondering about her identity.

Kallen and Han Jiang planned to rob wealthy Schicksal officials and give part of the stolen money to resistance groups. After Victor's guards dodged Han Jiang's attempt to create a distraction, Kallen pushed him to disguise himself in a dress so she could proceed with the theft.

• Kallen recruited Han Jiang to help steal from corrupt officials, and they agreed to give half the proceeds to resistance groups led by people such as Anna and the red-haired speaker.
• Kallen and Han Jiang secretly posted a calling card at Missionary Victor's estate, warning him that they would take his treasures.
• The next morning, Kallen excitedly told Han Jiang that their calling card had become a topic of conversation, and she grew determined to prove the doubters wrong.
• That night, Kallen and Han Jiang returned to Victor's estate, where the guards had been strengthened and Victor anxiously guarded his basement treasure.
• Han Jiang tried to knock out a gate guard with a pebble, but the guard accidentally dodged it while chatting with another guard.
• Kallen gave Han Jiang a dress and insisted he change so she could enter the estate without being discovered.

Kallen and Han Jiang stole treasures from Victor's residence and brought them to Jenna's resistance group to exchange for gold coins for the poor. Hanna valued the haul at only twelve hundred gold coins, and Kallen and Han Jiang began considering smaller noble families as future targets.

• Kallen dressed Han Jiang as a noblewoman, and he distracted Victor's guards while she slipped into the residence and stole a sack of treasures.
• Han Jiang and Kallen escaped with the loot and decided to seek help converting it into gold coins from Jenna's resistance organization.
• Kallen presented the treasures to Jenna, who arranged for Hanna, a foreign noble connected to the group, to appraise them.
• Hanna estimated the treasures were worth around three thousand gold coins but said the group could offer only twelve hundred because transporting them out of the country would be dangerous.
• Kallen accepted the low price and agreed with Han Jiang that they could target smaller noble families in future thefts.

Kallen and Han Jiang sold the stolen treasures, funded Hanna and Jenna’s organization, and gave the proceeds to poor households while Kallen pretended to investigate her own theft. After receiving a list of corrupt nobles, they prepared to target the Church’s abuses as the city’s nobles grew fearful.

• Kallen left Jenna three hundred gold coins and arranged to receive nine hundred gold coins from Hanna in three days, while asking Jenna’s organization for a list of corrupt nobles.
• Kallen returned to the Kaslana estate, recalled how she had once distributed stolen wealth with someone’s help, and arranged a guest room for Han Jiang.
• The Knights Order’s captain restored Kallen’s authority and asked her to investigate the theft at Victor’s home, unaware that she was the culprit.
• Kallen spent three days pretending to help the Knights Order investigate, then received nine hundred gold coins from Hanna and Jenna.
• Kallen and Han Jiang distributed two gold coins to each household in the lower district, and Han Jiang reflected on the Church’s protection of the people alongside its abuses.
• Jenna gave Kallen the list of corrupt nobles, who stayed indoors in fear of receiving the Phantom Thief’s calling card.

Han Jiang and Kallen followed the Knights Order to Victor’s estate and uncovered Schicksal’s secret research into the Black Death and Honkai. They found sick girls restrained around a black box carrying the Erosion Herrscher’s power, while Victor claimed it could reveal a way to eliminate the Honkai.

• Han Jiang warned Kallen that giving stolen gold to the poor could worsen their poverty, but she remained convinced her actions were right.
• Han Jiang and Kallen followed Knights Order members as they took sick girls from their homes to Victor’s estate.
• Han Jiang and Kallen entered Victor’s hidden basement and discovered cages holding Honkai Beasts and Deadwalkers.
• Kallen captured Victor, and Han Jiang spotted signs of a concealed rotating wall that led to another chamber.
• Victor said Schicksal was researching a cure for the Black Death and led Han Jiang and Kallen to a room where girls were tied to crosses around a glowing black box.
• Han Jiang sensed the Erosion Herrscher’s power in the box, while Victor claimed it could reveal how to cure the Black Death and eliminate the Honkai.

Kallen and Han Jiang confronted Schicksal over its experiments on girls, but Eleanor used the black box’s power to transform and stop them. Kallen stood ready to fight Eleanor as the girls were freed and the Archbishop fled.

• Eleanor attacked Kallen and Han Jiang with strange black mist, while Victor tried to stop Kallen from freeing the girls.
• The Archbishop revealed that Schicksal had experimented on Eleanor to develop Stigmata, and argued that sacrificing a few people could save the Holy City.
• Han Jiang challenged Schicksal’s justifications, and Kallen decided to save the girls, insisting that the Kaslana family protected the people.
• The Archbishop ordered the girls killed, but Han Jiang freed them while Kallen blocked Eleanor and declared that she would not sacrifice some people to save others.
• Eleanor entered the formation and thrust her spear into the black box, allowing its energy to corrupt and transform her as the Archbishop and Victor retreated.

Han Jiang and Kallen raced to the Schicksal Grand Cathedral to take Judas's Oath and stop Eleanor, whose absorption of the black box had transformed her and triggered a Honkai outbreak. Kallen took up the artifact and confronted Eleanor, whose Black Abyss White Flower met Judah's chains as the battle began.

• Eleanor transformed after absorbing the black box's Honkai Energy, attacked Kallen, and destroyed Victor's residence while a Honkai outbreak spread through the lower district.
• The Schicksal Knights Order fought the emerging Honkai Beasts and evacuated civilians, while Jenna and her group also went out to protect people.
• Han Jiang and Kallen fled to the Schicksal Grand Cathedral, where Kallen explained that Judas's Oath could seal Eleanor's corrupted power.
• Kallen and Han Jiang fought past three Grand Knight Commanders and two Cardinals, and Kallen took Judas's Oath from its place above the cathedral hall.
• Eleanor broke into the cathedral wielding Black Abyss White Flower, and Kallen deployed Judah's golden chains against her as the fight began.

Han Jiang and Kallen stopped Eleanor’s attack and learned the truth about Otto’s message and the World Bubble. They left for the main universe, where Han Jiang arranged for Kallen to meet Lilith and Theresa at St. Freya High School.

• Kallen used Judas’s Oath to restrain Eleanor, take the black box, and stop the Honkai Beasts from appearing across the Holy City.
• Eleanor explained that Otto had saved her and that she had acted to protect him and Kallen; Kallen then opened Otto’s message and struggled with the affection he had left for her.
• Kallen and Han Jiang defeated the remaining Honkai Beasts and left the World Bubble, where Jenna’s organization later recruited nobles and Eleanor continued protecting Schicksal.
• After traveling through several World Bubbles to the southern seas of Shenzhou, Han Jiang contacted Yae Sakura and Lilith, then told Kallen that Lilith’s older sister looked like her.
• Kallen agreed to meet Lilith and contacted Theresa, who arranged for Han Jiang’s Ship to pick them up and bring them to St. Freya High School.

Han Jiang brought Kallen to St. Freya, where she met Lilith and learned the Dominance Space had been destroyed. After Yae Sakura returned to the academy, Han Jiang brought Kallen to meet her, and Kallen recognized her through her tears.

• Han Jiang brought Kallen aboard his transport ship, where Lilith embraced her and accepted her as a big sister.
• Lilith told Han Jiang that the Dominance Space had vanished and the remaining Dominance Herrschers were powerless puppets.
• Han Jiang brought Kallen to St. Freya, where Theresa and others welcomed her and Yae Rin learned Kallen had returned.
• Han Jiang told Yae Rin to keep Kallen's return from Yae Sakura until Sakura came back from her assignment.
• After Yae Sakura returned to St. Freya, Han Jiang led Kallen to meet her, and Kallen turned toward Sakura in tears.

Han Jiang and Kiana searched for the remaining Dominance Herrscher puppets while Schicksal scientist Nagamitsu investigated a baffling reactor failure at St. 1504 Institute. As Han Jiang speculated about Honkai’s future, he and Kiana wondered what they would do if it were ever eradicated.

• Han Jiang stopped Rin from spying on Kallen and Yae Sakura’s reunion, then prepared to travel to the Arctic Base with Wendy and Seele to visit Bronya.
• At St. 1504 Institute, Nagamitsu investigated a third reactor that appeared to operate normally but produced no energy, and she found no cause for the failure.
• Nagamitsu reported the malfunction to Durandal and was told to move her work to Hrimheim Laboratory while the reactor underwent repairs.
• Einstein, Tesla, and Schrodinger improved their Dominance Herrscher detector, and Han Jiang took Kiana searching for the remaining puppets after half a month of sightseeing and fighting.
• During their mission, Han Jiang speculated about Honkai and the Herrscher of the End, and Kiana asked what he would do if Honkai were eradicated.

After Tesla reprimanded Han Jiang and Kiana, Han Jiang spent time with Mei before they confronted Raven in New Jersey about children being taken for the Stigmata Project. The chapter ended when Tesla urgently summoned Han Jiang and Mei back because the Herrscher of the Void Gem was affecting Kiana.

• Tesla scolded Han Jiang and Kiana for taking too long to deal with the Dominance Herrscher puppets and told Han Jiang to stay ready for missions.
• Han Jiang invited Mei shopping, and Mei told him that a Honkai Energy reactor malfunction had disrupted projects at Schicksal's St. 1504 Institute.
• Han Jiang and Mei found Raven in New Jersey and questioned her about the Stigmata Project and the children taken from the area.
• Raven threatened to trigger a Honkai outbreak, then revealed that Jackal's subordinates were taking the children and left the factory.
• Tesla told Han Jiang and Mei that the Herrscher of the Void Gem was acting abnormally and that Honkai Energy was corroding Kiana's body, so Han Jiang arranged their return.

Han Jiang learned that Kiana was losing control of the Honkai Energy inside her and had only about a month before her condition could unleash the Herrscher of the Void. As Anti-Entropy and Kiana’s friends began planning how to save her, Himeko started telling Han Jiang a story from her early days as a Valkyrie.

• Han Jiang and Mei returned to headquarters, where Tesla and Einstein explained that Kiana had lost control while unconscious and badly injured Siegfried.
• Kiana told Han Jiang and Mei that she could no longer control the Honkai Energy inside her, and Sirin took over her body before Kiana fought to regain control.
• Han Jiang and Mei left Kiana alone, and Han Jiang worried that her Core of the Void could not safely be removed.
• Welt convened a meeting with Anti-Entropy and Kiana’s allies, where Einstein explained that Kiana’s ability to contain Honkai Energy had reached its limit and that deliberately supplying her with Honkai Energy had not caused the problem.
• Einstein and Tesla said Kiana’s willpower was their only immediate hope and estimated that they had one month before they would have to face the worst-case scenario.
• After a ten-hour meeting, Himeko tried to encourage Han Jiang and began telling him about her early days as a Valkyrie.