Chapter Summaries

After the Kantai Town mission, Han Jiang reunited with the girl he had saved and turned down her parents’ offer of money, suggesting they support the local combat team instead. Back aboard the Hyperion, the trainees reviewed the operation, and Himeko told them to learn from its successes and mistakes.

• Han Jiang greeted Shuangshuang and her parents, who had waited all day to thank him for saving her.
• Han Jiang refused the father’s bank card, and Himeko suggested donating the money to the local combat team or buying Anti-Honkai Serum.
• Fu Hua told Han Jiang not to let encounters with ill-intentioned people keep him from saving kind people, and the squad returned to the Hyperion.
• Kiana, Fu Hua, Mei, and Bronya shared their mission reflections before Han Jiang said he should break the legs of people who disrupted order.
• Himeko advised the trainees to leave such problems to the local combat team when possible and to review the mission so they could improve.

Fu Hua took Han Jiang to the neutral nation of Tamashik to investigate the destruction of a Schicksal outpost and train him in other Valkyrie skills. After meeting Wraith, they were pursued by armed men, and Fu Hua confronted them while Han Jiang stayed in the van.

• Fu Hua told Han Jiang the academy would assign no more missions before winter break and brought him on a Schicksal mission to Shenzhou and Tamashik.
• Fu Hua explained that a Schicksal outpost had been wiped out and that she had come to deal with it.
• At Tamashik Airport, Fu Hua realized they were being followed and met Wraith, who reported that only three of twelve outposts remained and that thirty people survived.
• Fu Hua introduced Wraith to Han Jiang and told him to observe the different roles Valkyries could take on.
• Fu Hua left the van to face the pursuers, while Wraith kept Han Jiang inside as armed men surrounded them and opened fire.

Fu Hua and Wraith escorted Han Jiang after defeating Anti-Entropy operatives, but Schicksal’s cleanup team was ambushed by Raiden Ryoma and his fighters. Raiden singled out Han Jiang, who drew Muramasa of Bizen and counterattacked as the Valkyries tried to protect him.

• Fu Hua defeated eighteen Anti-Entropy operatives, and Wraith called Schicksal’s intelligence division to dispose of them.
• Fu Hua sent Han Jiang with ten Valkyries to help bury the captured operatives in a wasteland.
• Raiden Ryoma appeared and defeated the Valkyries before dozens of his Tachi-wielding fighters surrounded them.
• Raiden asked to take the captured operatives and recognized Han Jiang, then ordered his fighters to surround him.
• The Valkyries formed a defensive ring around Han Jiang, and he countered Raiden’s attack with Falling Sakura Slash.

Han Jiang fought Raiden Ryoma and was knocked unconscious before Ryoma took him away to ask about Raiden Mei. Ryoma revealed that he wanted to learn about Mei’s life at St. Freya, and began questioning Han Jiang about their closeness.

• Han Jiang and five Valkyries attacked Raiden Ryoma, but he easily handled them and separated Han Jiang from the others.
• Han Jiang activated his Domain Gear, took a second sword, and pressed Raiden Ryoma harder, but Ryoma still defeated him with a strike from his scabbard.
• Han Jiang woke as Raiden Ryoma carried him away and learned that Ryoma had brought him there to ask about Mei.
• Raiden Ryoma identified Han Jiang as Mei’s close male student and revealed that his sword was Plasma Kagehide and that he was S-rank.
• Han Jiang found that he could not send messages on his communication device, and Raiden Ryoma began asking about how close he and Mei had become.

Han Jiang questioned Raiden Ryoma about Mei, the people in Tamashik, and Raiden Ryoma’s conflict with Cocolia, while Raiden tested Han Jiang’s control of Honkai Energy. The test left Raiden considering whether Han Jiang could protect Mei in his place.

• Han Jiang placated Raiden Ryoma by recounting Mei’s school life and accomplishments, then asked what Raiden would do with the Valkyries and Anti-Entropy operatives.
• Raiden Ryoma said the Valkyries could leave if they handed over the Anti-Entropy members, and explained that the Tamashik operatives were not his subordinates.
• Han Jiang asked whether the people in Tamashik worked for Cocolia and cited Schicksal records of her conflict with Raiden Ryoma in 2013.
• Raiden Ryoma questioned Han Jiang’s rapid rise to B-rank and challenged him to channel Honkai Energy into Plasma Kagehide.
• Han Jiang infused the blade until his Honkai Energy drained rapidly, and Raiden Ryoma considered whether he might take Raiden’s place beside Mei.

Han Jiang tested Plasma Kagehide under Raiden Ryoma’s supervision, then escaped with the sword before returning it. He rejoined Fu Hua and Wraith, but Wraith grew suspicious and aimed a pistol at him.

• Han Jiang used Plasma Kagehide to freeze a tree, and Raiden Ryoma judged his skill barely passable.
• Raiden Ryoma told Han Jiang to return to the academy and report on Mei, then chased him down to reclaim Plasma Kagehide.
• Han Jiang returned to the clearing, found the others gone, retrieved Muramasa of Bizen, and contacted Fu Hua.
• Han Jiang met Fu Hua and Wraith at a bar and told them he had encountered Raiden Ryoma.
• Wraith questioned how Han Jiang had survived and aimed a pistol at his head.

Han Jiang convinced Wraith and Fu Hua that he had met Raiden Ryoma, and learned Fu Hua had thoroughly verified his identity. Fu Hua took him on a mission to attack Anti-Entropy strongholds in Tamashik, where she began their assault on a hotel bar.

• Han Jiang sent Wraith and Fu Hua photos confirming that he had met Raiden Ryoma, and Wraith accepted his account.
• Fu Hua explained that she had investigated Han Jiang's background in detail, while Wraith revealed that Raiden Mei was Raiden Ryoma's daughter and Han Jiang's schoolmate.
• Wraith reported thirteen Anti-Entropy strongholds in Tamashik, and Fu Hua assigned Han Jiang six locations to handle after showing him the process.
• Fu Hua and Han Jiang changed into combat suits and entered a hotel where Anti-Entropy intelligence personnel operated a bar on the eighteenth floor.
• After waiting ten minutes for Schicksal's cleanup team, Fu Hua punched a bar employee as she and Han Jiang began the operation.

Han Jiang helped Fu Hua clear six Anti-Entropy bases, then spent a day learning reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance from Wraith. He began a new mission at an underground dance club, where the staff identified him as a target and surrounded him with guns and snipers.

• Han Jiang and Fu Hua defeated the members at a bar base, then split up to attack six Anti-Entropy bases each, with Han Jiang clearing his assigned locations despite taking minor injuries.
• Wraith told Han Jiang that someone had followed him and that she had dealt with the tail, while Fu Hua assigned him another task for the next day.
• Fu Hua explained that she had brought Han Jiang to Tamashik to teach him practical skills, and Wraith spent the day instructing him in intelligence gathering and counter-surveillance.
• Wraith transformed into Fu Hua and sent Han Jiang to tackle one of the six bases he had left untouched, telling him to find hidden operatives and shake off anyone following him.
• Han Jiang entered an underground dance club, where attendants called him the day's lucky customer and tried to restrain him as armed people and snipers surrounded him.

Han Jiang fought his way out of an Anti-Entropy base while Fu Hua and Wraith watched and judged his skills. After he injured the base’s fighters and exposed the sniper, he left to evade pursuers, while Fu Hua and Wraith discussed how far to push Anti-Entropy.

• Han Jiang resisted Anti-Entropy operatives who tried to capture him, and he gained a Gun Fu level during the fight.
• Fu Hua and Wraith watched Han Jiang’s struggle from a café, and Fu Hua decided to move closer in case he needed support.
• Han Jiang shot his attackers in the legs and hands, then took an enemy’s pistol when his own ran out of bullets.
• Wraith’s thrown Muramasa of Bizen split the sniper’s rifle, allowing Han Jiang to locate and shoot the sniper before he injured the underboss.
• Han Jiang called for the cleaners and left the base, while Fu Hua and Wraith observed that other Anti-Entropy members were pursuing him.

Han Jiang spent the night evading Anti-Entropy pursuers after attacking their base, while Wraith and Fu Hua monitored him and Wraith erased evidence of his presence. The next day, Wraith took Han Jiang to a wedding to teach him intelligence work through an unexpected practical exercise.

• Han Jiang was cornered in an alley but shot a pursuer’s communicator and used his speed and combat skills to escape while leaving misleading tracks.
• Wraith and Fu Hua followed Han Jiang as Schicksal’s cleaners dealt with the injured Anti-Entropy operatives, and Wraith praised his adaptability.
• At around four in the morning, Fu Hua ended the exercise, and Wraith summoned Han Jiang back to the bar.
• Wraith erased Han Jiang’s traces from the city system and Anti-Entropy’s records while Han Jiang returned to his room and slept poorly.
• The next day, Wraith drove Han Jiang to a wedding procession, gave a red envelope, and explained that she planned to teach him intelligence work while they enjoyed the occasion.

Wraith took Han Jiang to a wedding, a shopping mall, and the bar to teach him that disguise involved adapting to a setting and imitating people’s expressions and behavior, not just changing faces. After Han Jiang reflected on what he had learned, Wraith began teaching him makeup and facial disguise, showing him how skilled she was.

• Wraith brought Han Jiang to a wedding and used the guests’ behavior to teach him how people concealed their true feelings and blended into a setting.
• Han Jiang watched the guests, including the bride and groom’s former partners, and recognized that people adjusted their expressions to suit the occasion.
• Wraith took Han Jiang to a shopping mall, where he observed passersby while she shopped in a different disguise.
• Han Jiang concluded that people’s status affected how they acted and the impressions they gave, and Wraith praised his observation.
• After they returned to the bar, Han Jiang observed customers until closing, when Wraith began teaching him makeup and facial disguise.

Han Jiang trained in disguise and makeup while Fu Hua completed their mission to destroy Anti-Entropy strongholds in Tamashik. After returning to Shenzhou, Fu Hua brought Han Jiang to Mount Tai Xu and asked him to consider whether he wanted greater offensive power or stronger defense.

• Wraith demonstrated how to use makeup tools and nano skin, and Han Jiang spent a week learning to imitate other people.
• Fu Hua destroyed Anti-Entropy strongholds in Tamashik, while Han Jiang practiced disguises at a bar and helped attract customers.
• Han Jiang and Fu Hua left Tamashik, flew back to Canghai City, and then traveled to Mount Tai Xu.
• At a hotel near Mount Tai Xu, Fu Hua asked Han Jiang how many Deadwalkers he had killed and how well he had mastered the sword techniques she taught him.
• Fu Hua offered Han Jiang a choice between greater offensive power and stronger defense, giving him three days to decide.

Han Jiang toured Fu Hua’s hometown with her before she led him into Mount Tai Xu to choose an inheritable Stigmata power. They discovered Tai Xu City, an ancient ruin beneath the mountain, and Fu Hua revealed that her two friends had left behind offensive and defensive powers there.

• Han Jiang spent three days sightseeing with Fu Hua in the county town and explored her former home on Mount Tai Xu.
• Fu Hua led Han Jiang to a hidden passage in a valley and explained that she had two ancient secret realms containing inheritable Stigmata powers.
• Han Jiang entered Tai Xu City, a vast city left behind by the previous era of civilization.
• Fu Hua identified one of the Stigmata powers as belonging to Xiao Yun and the other as the Sage King, whom Han Jiang recognized as Guan Xing, or Theresa Starseer.

Han Jiang entered Xiao Yun’s Stigmata Space after Fu Hua explained the dangers and taught him about the Sword God. He found sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun in a village and offered to help her in exchange for a meal.

• Fu Hua opened the Stigmata Space paths, explained that Han Jiang could not normally possess two Stigmata, and urged him to comprehend the Sword God within Xiao Yun’s space.
• Han Jiang reassured Fu Hua that he would enter, and Fu Hua’s favorability toward him increased as he jumped onto the path to Xiao Yun’s Stigmata Space.
• Han Jiang arrived in an ancient Shenzhou setting, checked that his Honkai Energy and system armor still worked, and made his way to a village.
• Han Jiang found sixteen-year-old Xiao Yun struggling to wring out a heavy garment and offered to help her.
• Han Jiang wrung out the garment and asked Xiao Yun for a meal in return, then teased her by pretending she wanted to hold his hand.

Han Jiang accompanied Xiao Yun home for food, where her father Xiao Da mistook him for a suitor and approved of his martial and military ambitions. The chapter left Han Jiang bewildered as Xiao Yun asked to care for her parents for two more years before joining the army.

• Xiao Yun brought Han Jiang to her spacious family home after he asked for food and clothes.
• Xiao Da welcomed Han Jiang and assumed he had come because he liked Xiao Yun.
• Han Jiang explained that he had gotten lost, then said he came from Mount Tai Xu and wanted to join the army.
• Xiao Da decided Han Jiang might suit Xiao Yun and began imagining them enlisting together and marrying later.
• Xiao Yun told Xiao Da she wanted to care for her parents for two more years and practice swordsmanship before joining the army.
• Han Jiang stood dumbfounded at Xiao Da and Xiao Yun's dramatic exchange.

Han Jiang stayed with Xiao Yun’s family, where her parents hoped he might become a trustworthy companion for her and perhaps enlist alongside her. As the family began dinner, a villager burst in with troubling news, leaving them uncertain what had happened.

• Xiao Da invited Han Jiang to stay while he learned more about him, and Xiao Yun admitted she did not want to leave the village or disappoint her father.
• Xiao Yun’s mother urged Xiao Da to give Han Jiang and Xiao Yun room to talk, while Xiao Da worried Han Jiang might hurt his daughter.
• Han Jiang asked Xiao Yun about enlisting, and she explained that she wanted to remain near her parents but also did not want to disappoint her father.
• A gong sounded, but Xiao Yun said village announcements often concerned ordinary local business, so she and Han Jiang stayed inside.
• Xiao Yun’s mother persuaded Xiao Da to bring out his treasured wine so he could assess Han Jiang over dinner.
• As the Xiao family and Han Jiang began eating, a burly man rushed in and told Xiao Da that something was wrong.

Demon Beasts appeared by the village stream and injured Fu Gui, so Xiao Da went to investigate with Xiao Yun and Han Jiang. Xiao Da dismissed the reports as exaggeration, but Han Jiang recognized that the creature was likely a Honkai Beast.

• Zhang Er Niu interrupted Xiao Da’s meal to report that Demon Beasts had appeared by the stream and injured two children.
• Xiao Da, Xiao Yun, and Han Jiang went to the riverbank, where they found Fu Gui bleeding from a wound.
• Xiao Da cleaned and bandaged Fu Gui’s wound, then asked the villagers what the Demon Beasts looked like.
• The villagers gave conflicting accounts, while Zhang Er Niu described a silver-scaled, winged creature that controlled water.
• Xiao Da told the villagers to go home and arrange for guards, then dismissed the Demon Beast reports as likely exaggerations.
• Han Jiang found traces by the riverbank and concluded that the creature was probably a Honkai Beast.

Han Jiang observed Xiao Yun’s swordsmanship and gained a trace of insight into Sword God before a water-controlling Honkai Beast attacked the village. As the battle worsened, Xiao Yun ran to warn Xiao Da of a stream of water attacking him from behind.

• Han Jiang watched Xiao Yun practice and gained a trace of insight into Sword God.
• Xiao Yun told Han Jiang that Xiao Da had taught her swordsmanship and that she hoped to visit Mount Tai Xu.
• Two villagers spotted a massive Demon Beast in the river and summoned Xiao Da.
• Xiao Da attacked the Demon Beast, while Han Jiang joined the fight with Muramasa of Bizen and wounded it.
• The Demon Beast sent a stream of water toward Xiao Da from behind, and Xiao Yun ran to warn him.

Han Jiang saved Xiao Yun and Zhang Er Niu from the Demon Beast, which fled after injuring Xiao Da. Back in the village, the chief arranged a watch and began to wonder whether Han Jiang was an immortal who could help defeat the beast.

• Han Jiang used Time-Space Blink to rescue Xiao Yun and kick Zhang Er Niu clear of the Demon Beast’s tail, while Xiao Da escaped unharmed.
• Wounded by Han Jiang, the Demon Beast sent water arrows at the villagers and fled into the forest after striking Xiao Da’s crippled leg.
• Xiao Yun thanked Han Jiang, and the villagers returned to the village with the injured Xiao Da.
• The village chief ordered Er Niu and his younger brother to guard the entrance and summoned witnesses to discuss the Demon Beast.
• Mother Xiao tended to Xiao Da while villagers speculated that Han Jiang was an immortal, and the village chief asked them to explain what they had said.

After Xiao Da was wounded fighting a Demon Beast, he and Han Jiang joined the village chief’s meeting to discuss the threat. The villagers argued over how many Demon Beasts there were and looked to Han Jiang to fight them, but the village chief challenged their claims about his power.

• The village chief sent villagers to check on Xiao Da and bring Fu Gui to his house while Xiao Da’s family tended his wound.
• Xiao Da, supported by Xiao Yun and Han Jiang, headed to the village chief’s house to discuss how to deal with the Demon Beast.
• On the way, a villager asked Han Jiang if he was an immortal, but Han Jiang dismissed the idea as a trick.
• At the meeting, villagers disagreed about the number and nature of the Demon Beasts, while Fu Gui claimed he had seen three and one could control water.
• Xiao Da demanded to know who would fight alongside him, and the villagers urged Han Jiang to take responsibility for the Demon Beast.
• The village chief scolded the villagers for shifting the burden onto Han Jiang and asked why the Demon Beast had fled if Han Jiang was as powerful as they claimed.