Chapter Summaries

Lin Nai found an unconscious white-haired girl in an alley and brought her to his hotel, where she woke and met him. The girl identified herself as Kiana Kaslana and accepted his offer of ramen, though she did not know how to use chopsticks.

• Lin Nai, a transmigrated boy living in Russia, took a shortcut through an alley in the rain.
• Lin Nai found a white-haired girl unconscious against a wall, confirmed she was breathing, and carried her back to his hotel.
• Kiana woke from a dream about her father and realized she was in an unfamiliar room.
• Lin Nai offered Kiana ramen, and she accepted the food despite being embarrassed by her hungry stomach.
• Kiana decided not to admit that she did not know how to use chopsticks.

Lin Nai fed Kiana Kaslana after finding her collapsed in an alley, and they discussed her search for her father and their lack of legal identities. When Lin Nai offered to pay for her hotel room, Kiana proposed sleeping on the couch in his room instead.

• Lin Nai shared ramen with Kiana, who ate several bowls after days of living rough.
• Kiana introduced herself and told Lin Nai she was searching for her father, but he had not seen the white-haired, one-armed man.
• Lin Nai remembered that Kiana was K423 and considered leaving to explore the world and confront its tragedies.
• Kiana asked how Lin Nai paid for the hotel, and he explained that he robbed back people who tried to rob him.
• Lin Nai offered to arrange a hotel room for Kiana, but she suggested staying in his room and sleeping on the couch.

Lin Nai helped Kiana prepare to search for her missing father, but they had no phone number or contact address to put on her notices. After sending Kiana to the copy shop, Lin Nai led the people following them into an alley to confront them.

• Kiana slept soundly in the hotel while Lin Nai tried unsuccessfully to wake her with an activation command, then got her up by calling out that food was ready.
• Lin Nai took Kiana to find a copy shop so she could print missing-person notices for her father.
• Kiana realized she had no phone or contact details for the notices, and Lin Nai tried to reassure her about her father.
• Lin Nai noticed several suspicious people watching them and sent Kiana into the copy shop while he went into an alley.
• Lin Nai realized the pursuers were still following him and wondered why the local gang was not afraid after their previous defeat.

Lin Nai fought off gang members who tried to capture him, but a huge crowd chased him until he ran into Kiana and a lost little girl. He was surrounded with Kiana beside him, leaving them facing the gang together.

• Lin Nai ambushed George and his companion in an alley, knocked them out, and escaped two men who tried to tranquilize him.
• Lin Nai fled past barricades he had set up, then encountered Blythe and several gang members waiting with cars.
• Blythe launched a skyrocket that accidentally burned the hair of another gang member, while Lin Nai tried to slip away.
• Lin Nai spotted Kiana walking with a timid girl who had become separated from her parents.
• Lin Nai realized gang members were closing in from every direction, and Kiana asked if he was being hunted.

Lin Nai surrendered to Blythe’s group to protect Kiana and a little girl, then was taken to a room and tied up. After escaping and defeating the two guards, he left them hanging from the ceiling.

• Lin Nai surrendered when Blythe threatened him with a Gatling gun, and he told Kiana to take the little girl to find her parents.
• Kiana watched as Lin Nai was taken away and resolved to find and rescue him.
• Lin Nai recognized the two guards as the men he had previously injured, and they approached him despite their boss’s orders.
• Lin Nai snapped his ropes, used a chair and his fists to defeat both guards, then tied them up and hung them from the ceiling.

Lin Nai escaped the gang hideout and met Raven, who let him go and briefly patted his head. Meanwhile, Gray Snake forced two gang leaders to play Russian roulette over the payment, while Lin Nai watched from above and considered intervening.

• Lin Nai left two terrified men behind and encountered Raven, who identified herself as a mercenary and pointed him toward a clear route out.
• Raven let Lin Nai pass, then patted his head before he left; Gray Snake discovered her disobedience through surveillance and threatened to deduct her salary.
• Gray Snake paid the three gang leaders, then shot Blythe and ordered the remaining two to compete for the money in Russian roulette.
• Lin Nai watched the deadly game from a high spot and wondered whether to intervene or claim two kills.

Lin Nai escaped Gray Snake’s ambush with Kiana and agreed to travel with her while she searched for her father. A year later, the two were still traveling together and fighting Honkai Beasts as Lin Nai trained his skills.

• Gray Snake demanded that the gang leader hand Lin Nai over, but Lin Nai defeated the gang leader and confronted Gray Snake.
• Kiana crashed through the wall to rescue Lin Nai, and he fled with her in a car while Gray Snake stayed behind and killed the gang leader.
• Lin Nai and Kiana left town and agreed to travel together, making finding Kiana’s father their first goal.
• One year later, Lin Nai killed a Honkai Beast with his Ultra Disk Blade after a year of traveling and fighting alongside Kiana.

Lin Nai and Kiana arrived at a hotel after Lin Nai robbed a street punk, and Lin Nai used the punk’s key card to secure a room. He left the card at the front desk for its owner while secretly changing the hotel records, leaving an employee unconscious beneath the counter.

• Lin Nai explained that Honkai Beasts did not feel pain, and Kiana teased him about his lack of compassion.
• Lin Nai revealed that he had stripped a street punk and taken his belongings after hanging him from a streetlamp.
• Lin Nai and Kiana joked about the hotel key card, argued over dinner, and decided to eat at the hotel buffet.
• Lin Nai checked the key card at the front desk, knocked out an employee, and altered the records to book a different room.
• Lin Nai left the key card beside the computer and promised the unconscious employee 200 yuan for medical expenses.

Lin Nai and Kiana broke into a hotel’s luxury suite, knocking out the staff and deleting the surveillance footage. After Kiana left for the buffet, a girl resembling Bronya arrived under the guise of room service, and Lin Nai found her behaving strangely.

• Lin Nai copied a hotel keycard while Kiana knocked out the security staff and erased the surveillance footage.
• Lin Nai and Kiana reached the top-floor suite and marveled at its size and luxury.
• Kiana turned on the television, grabbed snacks, and left for the buffet restaurant on the twenty-fifth floor.
• A girl with spiral pigtails who resembled Bronya arrived at Lin Nai’s door and offered room service.
• Lin Nai noticed Bronya lying on the sofa and pulling off her damp black stockings, leaving him startled by the situation.

Bronya tried to strangle Lin Nai, but he survived, and Kiana walked in on the scene. An armed squad then stormed the hotel and targeted Bronya, revealing that someone had ordered her death as part of a power grab.

• Bronya wrapped a wet stocking around Lin Nai's neck, but he remained unharmed.
• Kiana returned with food, saw Bronya changing stockings beside Lin Nai, and joined their standoff.
• Bronya asked why she could not kill Lin Nai, and Lin Nai considered using tools to make her explain herself.
• An armed squad burst into the hotel and aimed their guns at Lin Nai and Kiana.
• The squad leader told Bronya that she was being killed not for failing her mission but because she was the officer's sharpest blade.

Lin Nai tried to convince Bronya to choose life as armed men threatened them. After Bronya decided she wanted to survive, Lin Nai and Kiana attacked, and Bronya joined the fight with lethal resolve.

• One of the armed men checked the mission briefing and confirmed that Lin Nai and Kiana were not listed targets, while Bronya revealed that her order was to kill everyone on the floor.
• The leader ordered his men to shoot Lin Nai and Kiana despite their absence from the list.
• Lin Nai asked Bronya if she wanted to live and urged her to seek a different future; Bronya began to reconsider dying for the mission.
• Lin Nai and Kiana attacked the armed men, and Lin Nai used Gauss Stasis to halt their bullets in midair.
• Bronya realized she might escape and began killing the attackers with a fruit knife, striking without hesitation.

Lin Nai and Kiana defeated the attackers in the hotel suite, and Bronya joined them as they set off together. Meanwhile, Gray Snake paid the thug who had targeted them, leaving Raven puzzled about why he was helping the children indirectly.

• Lin Nai reflected on how his travels had shaped Kiana's views on killing as Kiana fought the enemies with him and Bronya.
• After the battle, Lin Nai invited Bronya to travel with him and Kiana, and she accepted his offer to become their companion.
• Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya set out together as a new three-person team.
• Gray Snake paid the burlap-clad thug for his role in the events at the hotel.
• Raven asked Gray Snake why he did not simply give the child money or recruit him into World Serpent.

Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya traveled to a new town as Lin Nai tried to help Bronya find interest in life. Bronya mistook a flash of reflected light for a sniper scope, then went with Lin Nai to eat cabbage soup.

• Gray Snake ordered Raven to investigate the explosion's mastermind, leave one person alive, and let Jackal contact the survivor for an experiment.
• Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya set out after putting up missing-person notices in their previous city.
• Lin Nai asked Bronya what she wanted to eat, and she requested cabbage soup while Kiana complained that he had not asked her.
• The trio arrived in a new town, where Kiana and Lin Nai discussed their dwindling funds as Bronya followed silently.
• Bronya spotted a flash and reached for her gun, but Lin Nai identified it as reflected light from a piece of glass.
• Lin Nai took Bronya by the hand and led her to a nearby restaurant for cabbage soup.

Lin Nai and Kiana took Bronya around town, where Lin Nai encouraged her to embrace her new freedom. After waking from a nightmare, Bronya went alone to the plaza and was confronted by a masked man who called her Silver Wolf.

• Kiana spotted pigeons in the plaza, and Lin Nai photographed Bronya as one landed on her hand.
• Lin Nai told Bronya she was free after escaping the concentration camp, and she began to feel happier during their month together.
• The trio returned to the hotel when it grew too late to visit a copy shop.
• Bronya woke from a nightmare in which Lin Nai and Kiana had died, covered Kiana with her blanket, and left the hotel alone.
• A gunman attacked Bronya at the plaza, and she dodged the shot and drew her pistol.
• A masked man called Bronya Silver Wolf and demanded to know why she had not returned, while she considered how to kill him quickly.

Lin Nai and Kiana followed the masked man who had taken Bronya, while Lin Nai planned to let Bronya confront the cage holding her back and help rescue other children. They reached the place where Bronya’s trail stopped and discovered a metal surface beneath the snow, suggesting the enemy’s base was underground.

• The masked man threatened Bronya with bombs at a hotel, forcing her to leave with him as Lin Nai and Kiana followed secretly.
• Lin Nai explained that he wanted Bronya to break free of her own cage and hoped she could lead them to rescue other children like her.
• Lin Nai and Kiana pursued the masked man for several days, with Lin Nai driving until exhaustion nearly overcame him.
• Kiana knocked Lin Nai into the snow after realizing his exhaustion had left him thinking unclearly.
• Lin Nai sensed that Bronya’s trail ended at a hidden underground location and found metal beneath the snow.

Lin Nai and Kiana found a hidden entrance and descended into the facility, where Lin Nai decided to rescue Bronya instead of making her escape on her own. He burst into Bronya’s cell just as her captor threatened her, then attacked him.

• Kiana and Lin Nai discovered that shouting a string of slogans opened the platform beneath them.
• Lin Nai told Kiana to search for the children’s training area while he went to rescue Bronya, explaining that he could not make her endure the cage again.
• Bronya waited in a damp cell, worried about Lin Nai and Kiana, as her captor demanded that she swear loyalty to him.
• Lin Nai crashed through the door and arrived before Bronya’s captor could strike her.
• The captor challenged Lin Nai and boasted about his connections, but Lin Nai rushed forward and kicked him away.

Lin Nai rescued Bronya from the base’s leader and used his apparent sacrifice to try to free her from her mental cage. An explosion and intruder alarm interrupted the confrontation, and Bronya held the apparently gravely wounded Lin Nai as the leader left them behind.

• Lin Nai broke Bronya’s handcuffs and told her he had come because they were companions.
• Lin Nai killed an attacker with a punch and refused the middle-aged man’s offer to work together, declaring he would save the children too.
• The middle-aged man fired at Bronya, and Lin Nai shielded her, taking the bullets and insisting that she was a person, not a tool.
• An explosion shook the base, and an alarm announced that an intruder had entered.
• The middle-aged man left Lin Nai and Bronya behind, and Bronya lifted the weakened Lin Nai into her arms as he called his injury a mere fatal wound.

Lin Nai tricked Bronya into leaving him behind so she could confront the man who had imprisoned her, while Kiana arrived and found giant robots attacking. Bronya shot the man, but a masked Doctor appeared and gave him an injection that healed his wounds.

• Lin Nai comforted Bronya, made her promise to destroy her cage, and pretended to be too injured to get up.
• After Bronya left, Lin Nai revealed that he had faked his injuries and got up; Kiana then arrived and told him that giant robots were attacking.
• Bronya confronted the middle-aged man and shot him repeatedly, saying she was making him pay for each shot Lin Nai had taken.
• A masked woman called Doctor appeared, left a syringe for the middle-aged man, and departed.
• The middle-aged man injected himself with the medicine, and his wounds began to heal.

Lin Nai reappeared to protect Bronya and helped defeat Buka, who collapsed after displaying strange behavior. Bronya questioned Lin Nai about surviving bullets and tracking her location, then thanked him with a gentle pat on the head.

• Bronya shot Buka, but he stayed standing and rushed at her before Lin Nai appeared and caught his punch.
• Lin Nai confronted Buka, but Buka began twitching and screaming, causing Lin Nai to flee behind Kiana and Bronya.
• Buka fell motionless, and Lin Nai sensed that his life energy was gone while Honkai energy remained in his body.
• Lin Nai picked up the syringe with unknown liquid residue, and Bronya explained that Buka had injected himself with it.
• Bronya asked why Lin Nai was unharmed and how he had found them, and Lin Nai admitted that bullets had little effect on him and that he had used energy to track her location.
• Bronya thanked Lin Nai and patted his head, explaining that Kiana seemed to like doing it.

Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya escaped the underground base just before it self-destructed, and they encountered two people emerging from the wreckage in robots. The red-haired woman introduced herself as Einstein, while the other was still unidentified.

• Bronya thanked Lin Nai for saving her, hugged him, and smiled before trading barbs with Kiana.
• A Honkai-corrupted zombie rose, and a Knight-type Honkai Beast crashed through the wall; Lin Nai defeated the zombie with a punch.
• The underground base announced its self-destruct sequence, so Lin Nai rushed to evacuate Kiana and Bronya.
• Lin Nai carried Kiana and Bronya clear of the explosion, and they watched the underground base collapse into a crater.
• Two robots burst from the ground, and their occupants emerged: a red-haired woman named Einstein and a young woman with curly light-colored hair.