Chapter Summaries

Einstein ended the conversation with Tesla and pushed her toward the door, leaving their discussion unfinished until the next day.

• Einstein glanced at Cocolia, who sat motionless with her eyes closed.
• Einstein stood up and shoved Tesla toward the door.
• Tesla protested that they had not finished talking.
• Einstein said they should continue the discussion tomorrow.

Tachibana Yuki admitted she wanted to keep Sirin’s present and future, then asked for a kiss. After Bella arrived, Sirin sent her to make cake, leaving the two alone in the hall.

• Sirin suggested that the Herrschers could hide and let humanity confront the Cocoon of the Finality, but Tachibana Yuki said she was greedy and wanted Sirin’s future.
• Tachibana Yuki asked Sirin for a kiss, and Sirin blushed before giving in.
• Bella rushed into the hall after hearing a sudden noise and asked what had happened.
• Tachibana Yuki joked that a kitten had gotten angry, and Sirin ordered Bella to make cake.
• Bella left for the kitchen, while Sirin and Tachibana Yuki stayed in the hall.

Welt trapped Kevin in layered World Bubbles while Ninti used her power to lead Seele out of the Sea of Quantum aboard the Hyperion. After reaching the real world, Ninti sent Seele to Cocolia and turned back into the Sea of Quantum to rescue Welt.

• Welt revealed that he had transferred his core to Ninti and used layered World Bubbles to hold Kevin back.
• Ninti summoned an army of machines and led Seele through the Sea of Quantum's blockade aboard the Hyperion.
• Ninti and Seele broke through into the real world, where Einstein, Tesla, and Cocolia saw them emerge.
• Ninti sent Seele to Cocolia, then shattered the Iron Pilot unit's defenses and plunged back into the Sea of Quantum to reach Welt.

Ninti returned to the Sea of Quantum and restored Welt, but Kevin attacked them as they stood against his return to the real world. After Kevin struck Welt down, Ninti awakened the Herrscher of Reason’s power and met his next attack head-on.

• Ninti arrived aboard the Hyperion and restored Welt’s weakening body.
• Ninti told Kevin she would stand with Welt, and the two prepared to fight him.
• Kevin attacked with black ice while Welt and Ninti fought back with the Star of Eden, the Hyperion, and mechanical squads.
• Welt opened a tunnel through Kevin’s ice, but Kevin froze him from behind before he could escape with Ninti.
• Ninti unleashed the Herrscher of Reason’s power and struck Kevin alongside a giant mecha god.

Ninti fought Kevin in the Sea of Quantum, escalating from close combat to a devastating blast of anti-Honkai energy, but Kevin remained unharmed and turned his attention to her mechanical giant god. On Cocolia’s flagship, Siegfried met Seele and offered to protect her while Cocolia prepared to take the girl somewhere safer.

• Ninti attacked Kevin with a barrage of punches and kicks, but he endured them without fighting back.
• Ninti unleashed a giant cannon blast combining anti-Honkai energy with powers of decomposition and annihilation, and Kevin blocked it unharmed.
• Kevin considered taking the mechanical giant god’s power instead of harming Ninti, then fixed his attention on the towering construct.
• Cocolia struck Siegfried for restlessly tapping his foot and threatened him with her pistol when he protested.
• Cocolia introduced Seele to Siegfried, who warmly offered to protect her if a fight broke out.
• Cocolia agreed to take Seele farther away while Siegfried stayed behind, confident in his own strength.

Kevin reunited with Siegfried in the real world and was disappointed by his descendant’s weakened state. After Siegfried threatened to attack him, Kevin struck him into a coastal cliff, leaving him buried beneath the rubble.

• Kevin met Siegfried formally and regretted how badly his descendant had deteriorated.
• Siegfried demanded to know where Welt and Ninti were and threatened Kevin with his guns.
• Kevin greeted Siegfried with a reference to Heavenly Fire Judgment.
• Kevin launched Siegfried into a coastal cliff, which collapsed and buried him.

Kevin reunited with Skyfire after emerging into the real world, then returned Ninti to Cocolia. As Cocolia carried Ninti away, Kevin watched them go before agreeing to return with Skyfire to World Serpent’s foothold in Shenzhou.

• Skyfire stopped Kevin and Cocolia’s crossed greatswords with one hand and greeted Kevin.
• Cocolia demanded that Kevin return her daughter, Ninti, and Kevin praised her bravery as a mother.
• Kevin gently placed the sleeping Ninti in Cocolia’s mech, which carried her away.
• Skyfire offered to take Kevin back to World Serpent, where Jackal had prepared sacrifices for him.
• Kevin turned his attention from Ninti’s departure to Skyfire and agreed to go with her.

Kevin returned to World Serpent, learned how the era’s Herrschers and other unusual figures had changed, and considered whom to bring into the Land of the Past. The chapter ended as a sword-wielding girl appeared after cutting the upper half of the conference hall away.

• Welt suggested that Ninti might persuade Kevin to return Siegfried’s Heavenly Fire Judgment, while Siegfried worried about losing the Kaslana family weapon.
• Heavenly Fire explained that Jackal had modified him to preserve World Serpent’s operations, and Gray Serpent briefed Kevin on the era’s many unusual developments.
• Kevin considered Elysia’s promise and decided that Anqi, Hua’s disciple and Su’s ally, was a safer candidate than the unverified Herrschers for entering the Land of the Past.
• A sharp sword Qi sliced through the conference hall, sending its upper half sliding away as Kevin and the World Serpent officers watched.
• A petite, cold-looking girl holding a sword came into view at the hall’s entrance.

Anqi confronted Kevin and demanded the truth about the Stigmata Project. After learning that Su had left his body and power to her but was still alive, she agreed to go where Kevin directed her to find the answer.

• Anqi arrived at Kevin's base, where Jackal raged over her destroyed laboratory and Gray Serpent tried to restrain her.
• Skyfire challenged Anqi to choose whether she was a friend or enemy, then yielded the conversation to Kevin when she asked about the Stigmata Project.
• Kevin asked Anqi what she would do with the answer, and she said she would make her own choice based on it.
• Anqi told Kevin that Su had left his power and body to her before his spirit disappeared, and that he had left no message for Kevin.
• Kevin said Su was still moving forward along his own path and offered to direct Anqi somewhere she could learn more; Anqi agreed to go.

Ninti prepared pastries for the reunion while Welt and Siegfried discussed Anti-Entropy’s recent security. Raiden Ryoma arrived to see Welt, only to learn Cocolia had never thought to tell the Sovereign about the organization’s reforms, leaving him questioning his role.

• Tesla and Einstein dragged Iserin away after she brought up Ninti’s possible Herrscher Core rejection reaction.
• Ninti continued preparing treats for the reunion with the children from East Sea Base, arranged after Seele returned.
• Welt worried that Anti-Entropy would have been vulnerable to an attack while he and Ninti were absent, and Siegfried challenged his assessment.
• Cocolia tripped Raiden Ryoma as he rushed in to greet Welt, then told him to state his business and leave.
• Raiden Ryoma asked why Cocolia had not reported Anti-Entropy’s reforms to Welt, and Cocolia said she saw no need to inform a Sovereign who did not manage the organization.

Cocolia’s family celebrated their reunion with a lively dinner and a shared bath. At Schicksal’s meeting, Wendy struggled to make the lethargic Delta appear present online.

• Cocolia’s family held a lively reunion dinner, bathed together, and slept under the same covers.
• Otto chaired a Schicksal meeting attended by Amber and the S-Rank Valkyries.
• Otto asked where Delta was when she did not appear in the Oceania conference room.
• Wendy cut the connection and taped Delta’s limp body and eyelids into place for the meeting.
• Delta objected to being expected to stand, and Wendy called her useless while patting her head.

Yae Sakura and Li Sushang met over tea as Otto explained how Sushang’s cooperation helped Schicksal reassure Delta. Meanwhile, Anqi entered the Land of the Past, cleared its street of Honkai Beasts and buildings with one sword strike, and met Elysia.

• Yae Sakura brewed Longjing tea for Li Sushang, and they discovered that both had arrived from five hundred years in the past.
• Otto admitted he had arranged for Sushang to cooperate partly to signal Schicksal’s strength and asked her to look after Sakura.
• Sushang agreed to try to get along with Sakura, who resolved to follow Otto’s arrangement despite her private reservations.
• Anqi entered the Land of the Past and learned she had to pass through a street of Honkai Beasts and remembered buildings to meet Elysia.
• Anqi split the street and its unstable space with a single sword strike, then entered the light and met Elysia, who recognized her as a Thousand-Person Ruler.

Anqi explored the Flame-Chasers’ gathering place and decided to cook a welcome gift for Elysia. Elysia watched her cook, chatting playfully without getting a response.

• Anqi considered the value she could gain from the place and the Thirteen Flame-Chasers.
• Elysia laughed when she saw Anqi lick her lips while daydreaming.
• Anqi searched beneath the counter and found a stove, kitchen utensils, and fresh ingredients.
• Elysia explained that the gathering place had many facilities, including a vanity and audio equipment.
• Anqi washed her hands and began cooking a welcome gift while Elysia watched and teased her.

Anqi left Mobius a synthesized Honkai Beast body, and Mobius’s curiosity drove her straight back to her laboratory to study it. Later, Anqi shared food with Elysia, teased her about her weight, and began cooking for herself as Elysia grew curious about her past.

• Anqi gave Mobius a synthesized body made from Honkai Beasts before leaving, and Mobius soon rushed to her laboratory with it.
• Klein sneezed while maintaining code in the Land of the Past and worried that the Doctor would assign her more work.
• Elysia found the food Anqi had left in the initial hall and ate it all before Anqi returned.
• Anqi measured and teased Elysia about her weight, leaving Elysia briefly devastated before she recovered.
• Elysia praised Anqi’s cooking and asked whether she always cooked for herself, prompting Anqi to ask if she wanted to hear her story.

Anqi won Mobius’s respect with her research materials and left Mobius eager to study them further. After Mobius departed, Anqi teased Elysia about her weight, but Elysia became distracted by how soft Anqi felt and hugged her while she tried to eat.

• Anqi praised Mobius’s pursuit of evolution and eternal life, and Mobius told her to report for duty early the next morning.
• Mobius left happily to study Anqi’s materials, impressed by her competence.
• Anqi resumed teasing Elysia and said Mobius’s advantage was that she was thin.
• Elysia protested that she was not fat, then hugged Anqi and played with her hair and cheeks while Anqi tried to eat.

Anqi convinced Dr. Mobius that her goal of evolving into a chimera could advance humanity, and Mobius agreed to help her. After building Anqi a new experimental body, Mobius sent her to test it with Kalpas, who was furious at the Thousand-Person Ruler but struggled to attack her.

• Anqi described her chimera ambition to Mobius, who criticized her limited experience and warned that the technology had a bottleneck.
• Anqi argued that she could surpass Kevin because she was the Honkai, and Mobius agreed to plan experiments using Anqi’s available materials.
• Mobius took Anqi’s sample of Saniat Holy Blood and asked her to use her authority to provide the materials required by the plan.
• After several days of preparation, Mobius placed one of Anqi’s cores into a new body, and Anqi tested its strength by cracking the metal floor with one step.
• Mobius brought Anqi to Kalpas’s fiery ruins to test the body, where Anqi repeatedly asked him to hit her despite his rage at the Thousand-Person Ruler.

Anqi tested her temporary body by provoking Kalpas into fighting her, while Mobius observed the experiment from the Flame-Chasers’ hall. After Kalpas accidentally killed one of Anqi’s disposable bodies, Anqi thanked him, offered him food, and left him to eat alone.

• Anqi taunted Kalpas and fought him in a temporary body while Mobius and Klein watched the test data.
• Kalpas lost control and punched through the body Anqi was using, believing he had killed her.
• Anqi reappeared unharmed as her other bodies cleaned up the corpse, then thanked Kalpas and offered him a drink.
• Kalpas warned Anqi to stay away from Mobius, but Anqi said she was already a Ruler and left to eat.
• Anqi returned with a meal for Kalpas and departed, and Kalpas sat down to eat rather than waste the food.

Anqi kept bringing Kalpas food despite his protests, then impressed Dr. Mobius by completing an enormous research assignment within two days. She left Mobius speechless by presenting even more ideas for review.

• Anqi brought Kalpas food and asked him to calmly explain why he refused it, saying she wanted to care for him before she left.
• After Anqi departed, Kalpas punched apart nearby ruins, then sat down and ate the food.
• Anqi revealed that she was the Thousand-Person Ruler and that her avatars could think independently, and Mobius assigned her research to verify within two days.
• Klein worried about the workload and offered to help, but Anqi said she could handle it without working alone.
• Two days later, Anqi presented Mobius with a massive set of completed reports and experimental results.
• Anqi handed Mobius another stack of new research ideas, leaving her speechless.

Anqi focused on earning Mobius and Vill-V’s trust because of their value to her plans. She then turned her attention to Fu Hua, whose passive manner contrasted with Anqi’s persistent attempts to serve her.

• Anqi decided to do her utmost to gain Mobius and Vill-V’s trust and affection.
• Anqi greeted Fu Hua and called her master despite Fu Hua’s reminder that she was only a resonance from fifty thousand years ago.
• Anqi continued bringing Fu Hua tea and taking the initiative while Fu Hua remained passive.

Kosma opened the door and found the visitor had left the children with the Naughty Ruler, who was encouraging Griseo to paint and making strange remarks about a body pillow. Kosma realized he had let his guard down and blamed the Naughty Ruler for influencing Griseo.

• Kosma watched the visitor leave and pushed open the door.
• Kosma heard the children and the Naughty Ruler talking about painting and protecting the children's future.
• Griseo said she did not understand what painting was.
• The Naughty Ruler made a remark about a soft, fragrant body pillow.
• Kosma smacked his forehead and wondered what the Naughty Ruler had been teaching Griseo.