Recaps

Lin Nai investigated a mysterious wave of sleep across the Herta Space Station and discovered that Aha had entered the dreams of its staff. He entered Asta’s dream, defeated Aha’s challenge, and forced the Aeon to leave the station, though Aha left an invitation for him to reconsider becoming an Emanator.

• Lin Nai trapped an Alien Water Sprite that had posed as George, then discovered his Explode Gold Coins skill and pranked Silver Wolf with a Rickroll.
• After Lin Nai experienced a strange, painful dream, Herta found no physical cause for his symptoms, and Lin Nai later treated exhausted staff in the Medical Bay.
• Lin Nai investigated the station-wide sleepiness and learned that Asta, Arlan, and many others had fallen into deep sleep after strange dreams.
• Lin Nai entered a Sleep Pod and encountered signs that Aha was intruding on his dream, then challenged Aha to face him there.
• Lin Nai rebuilt a Sleep Pod, entered Asta’s dream as data, defeated Aha’s black-mist creatures, and found Asta with Topaz’s face appearing in the dream.
• Lin Nai confronted Aha in Asta’s dream and used Zi-O II to trap Him in a time loop until He agreed to leave the Herta Space Station and wake Asta.
• Asta awakened, and Lin Nai later received a prank package from Joy along with Aha’s note congratulating him and offering to return if he reconsidered becoming an Emanator.

Lin Nai helped repel the Anti-Matter Legion, welcomed Stelle into the group, and left the Space Station aboard the Stellar Express. On Jarilo-VI, he and the crew entered Belobog and began investigating its history and Cocolia’s ties to the sealed Underworld.

• Lin Nai used Silver Wolf’s warning to prepare the Space Station for the Anti-Matter Legion’s attack, then fought alongside Kafka and helped Stelle awaken with a Stellaron in her chest.
• Lin Nai and Stelle joined the effort to defend the Space Station, and Lin Nai destroyed the Doomsday Beast before Herta examined him and Stelle.
• Lin Nai left the Space Station with the Astral Express crew and began the journey to Jarilo-VI, where unstable Star Rail readings forced them to stay indefinitely.
• Lin Nai and the crew followed Sampo toward Belobog, and Lin Nai blasted through the city wall before restoring it and leading the group inside.
• Lin Nai booked rooms at the Goethe Hotel and told the crew to investigate Belobog’s Stellaron discreetly while avoiding Cocolia for the time being.
• Lin Nai met Serval at her workshop, played her guitar, and gave her the score for “Wildfire” before declining her invitation to join her band.
• Lin Nai and the crew learned about Belobog’s Overworld, Underworld, and Geomarrow heating system, then agreed that Lin Nai would contact Serval about Cocolia’s past.
• Serval showed Lin Nai the “Wildfire” score and asked if he belonged to a resistance group, while Pela mistook the locked workshop for a secret romantic meeting.