Chapter Summaries

Lin Nai and Kiana fought a massive Tank-type Honkai Beast that emerged beneath the snow, while Tesla and Einstein watched in shock. Lin Nai destroyed it with a powerful crimson energy blade, but the strain left him barely able to stand, and Tesla wondered whether his attack could kill a Herrscher.

• Tesla and Einstein discussed where Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya should stay, but Lin Nai objected to them deciding without asking.
• A huge Tank-type Honkai Beast burst from beneath the ground, and Lin Nai rescued Kiana and Bronya from its attack.
• Lin Nai cut through the beast’s leg with a ring of light, while Tesla and Einstein struggled to get their prototype robot moving.
• Lin Nai told Kiana to distract the beast and sent Bronya to lead Tesla and Einstein to safety.
• Lin Nai gathered photon energy into a massive crimson blade and blasted the Honkai Beast, destroying it in an explosion that sent everyone skidding across the snow.
• Lin Nai struggled under the energy’s physical strain, and Tesla asked Einstein whether his power could kill a Herrscher; Einstein said they would need careful measurements to know.

After the battle, Anti-Entropy's Tesla and Einstein invited Lin Nai to join them, while Cocolia explained that she would take the children to an orphanage. Lin Nai declined the invitation, leaving his future with the group undecided.

• Tesla and Einstein discussed how Lin Nai's strength could make him a powerful fighter, while Cocolia arrived at the scene.
• Raven warned Jackal not to target Lin Nai, and the two returned after Jackal's experiment failed to fully activate its subject's Stigma.
• Tesla invited Lin Nai to come with Anti-Entropy, and he objected when she called him a kid.
• Cocolia awkwardly approached Bronya, who hid behind Lin Nai and called her a strange woman.
• Cocolia said she had arranged for the children to go to an orphanage, and Tesla realized they were the children Lin Nai had raised.
• Tesla praised Anti-Entropy and asked if Lin Nai was interested in joining, but Lin Nai said no.

Lin Nai agreed to travel with Tesla and Einstein if they helped him look for Siegfried Kaslana, while Einstein concealed what Anti-Entropy knew about Siegfried. The group reached Cocolia’s orphanage, where Bronya noticed a shy girl on the balcony, and Lin Nai considered the unusual Honkai Beast encounter.

• Lin Nai asked Tesla to help find Siegfried Kaslana, and Einstein agreed to look for him without promising they would find him.
• Cocolia led Lin Nai, Kiana, Tesla, Einstein, and Bronya to her orphanage, where they planned to stay the night before returning to Anti-Entropy Headquarters.
• Kiana questioned whether Anti-Entropy could find her father, and Lin Nai promised to keep traveling with her and help her grow stronger.
• Bronya stared at a timid girl watching the group from the orphanage’s second-floor balcony, while Kiana teased Bronya about her interest.
• Einstein explained that she and Tesla had followed an alert about unusually high Honkai energy, and Tesla warned that the situation still warranted caution.

Lin Nai gave Tesla and Einstein a vial from the underground base that could grant power before turning people into zombies, and they agreed to investigate it. After Tesla mourned her ruined mechas, the group settled in for the night, where Tesla questioned Lin Nai about his abilities and he warned her not to probe too deeply.

• Lin Nai showed Tesla and Einstein the vial recovered from the underground base, and they agreed to analyze the dangerous substance.
• Lin Nai described the masked Doctor to Tesla, who realized the Doctor had caused the Honkai energy overload and lamented her destroyed mechas.
• Cocolia arranged lodging for Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya, while Tesla and Einstein planned to take them to Anti-Entropy Headquarters the next day.
• Tesla visited Lin Nai late at night to ask about his abilities, and Lin Nai warned her that learning too much would be dangerous.

Tesla questioned Lin Nai about his powers before hiding in his closet when Einstein arrived to discuss Anti-Entropy’s plans. Einstein joined Tesla in the closet, and Lin Nai opened the door to find Kiana waiting outside.

• Tesla asked whether Lin Nai’s powerful moves had restrictions, and he said he could use them consecutively without knowing his limit.
• Einstein visited Lin Nai to ask about his powers and reassure him that he could seek help from her and Tesla at Anti-Entropy.
• Einstein revealed she had seen Tesla enter the room, then climbed into the closet with her.
• Kiana appeared outside Lin Nai’s door, surprising him.

Kiana visited Lin Nai because she could not sleep and worried that Anti-Entropy could not be trusted, while Lin Nai reassured her and told her a story about Mebius. Tesla and Einstein listened from inside the wardrobe, and Bronya arrived at Lin Nai's room as the night continued.

• Kiana came to Lin Nai's room, worried about Anti-Entropy and still shaken by finding him collapsed and covered in blood.
• Lin Nai reassured Kiana, let her lean against him, and began telling her a story about Mebius.
• Tesla and Einstein, hiding in the wardrobe, listened to Lin Nai and Kiana and were drawn into the story.
• Bronya knocked and entered, saying she could not sleep, then noticed Kiana in Lin Nai's arms.

Lin Nai finished telling Kiana and Bronya a story, then fell asleep while the two girls decided to stay beside him for the night. The next morning, he woke with Kiana wrapped around him.

• Bronya squeezed into Lin Nai's arms, prompting Kiana to complain before she joined them to hear the story.
• Tesla and Einstein discussed how Lin Nai's stories might sell, but Einstein said they could not use them to recover the cost of their damaged mechs.
• After Lin Nai ended the story and fell asleep, Bronya said she would stay because he had exhausted himself saving her, and Kiana decided to stay too.
• Tesla and Einstein settled down together inside the wardrobe while Kiana and Bronya lay beside Lin Nai.
• The next morning, Lin Nai woke feeling trapped and saw Kiana's drooling face in front of him.

Lin Nai freed himself from Kiana, welcomed Seele, and discovered that Einstein and Tesla had spent the night asleep in his wardrobe. Cocolia watched the two doctors limp downstairs with Lin Nai and wondered whether something had happened between them.

• Bronya wiped Kiana's drool from Lin Nai's arm, and Lin Nai remembered that Einstein and Tesla were missing.
• Seele came to summon everyone to breakfast, and Lin Nai gave her a piece of candy before asking Bronya to take Kiana downstairs.
• Lin Nai found Einstein and Tesla asleep in the wardrobe and dragged them onto the bed after they said their legs were numb.
• Cocolia watched Tesla limp downstairs with Lin Nai and Einstein trailing behind, then wondered if the doctors had done something together.

Lin Nai, Einstein, and Cocolia shared breakfast at the orphanage while Tesla endured Einstein and Lin Nai’s teasing and Kiana ate five bowls. With Anti-Entropy’s people still not there, Lin Nai and Kiana stayed at Cocolia Orphanage, where Kiana complained of being bored.

• Einstein smacked Tesla’s numb thigh, and Lin Nai muted Tesla when she started swearing.
• Lin Nai gave Einstein the mute button, and Einstein and Lin Nai teased Tesla by muting her every time she tried to speak.
• Bronya revealed that Kiana had eaten five bowls, prompting Lin Nai to remind her not to eat so quickly.
• After breakfast, Lin Nai returned to his room while Kiana rolled around on the bed and complained that she was bored.

Lin Nai, Kiana, Bronya, Tesla, and Einstein spent the morning chatting and drawing at Cocolia Orphanage while waiting for Anti-Entropy personnel to arrive. After lunch, Lin Nai kept himself busy playing with the children and reflected on how he had grown used to staying beside Kiana as she searched for her father.

• Bronya challenged Kiana with a multiplication question, and Lin Nai used a computer to supply the answer.
• Tesla and Einstein arrived, joked with Lin Nai, and suggested that they might tutor him at Anti-Entropy, but he refused and threatened to dismantle Tesla's mech.
• Tesla and Einstein noticed Lin Nai drawing clothes and borrowed paper and pens to sketch their own ideas.
• The morning passed without Anti-Entropy personnel arriving, and Tesla explained that their aircraft could not make the trip as quickly as Lin Nai expected.
• After lunch, Lin Nai played with the orphanage children and remembered how he had stayed with Kiana while she posted missing-person notices for her father.

Lin Nai spent time with the orphanage children and gently told Kiana a story while thinking about her origins as K423. He later left with Tesla and Einstein for Anti-Entropy’s base, where he learned more about the organization and its mechs.

• Lin Nai gave Rosalia and Lilia candy while Xing Ma’er watched from a distance, and then joined Kiana and Bronya on the sofa.
• Kiana asked Lin Nai for a story, and he began telling her about a manned probe flying to Mars while thinking about her identity as K423.
• Tesla and Einstein prepared two mechs and took Lin Nai and the others to Anti-Entropy’s base after Lin Nai promised the children he would return with more stories.
• Lin Nai looked over Anti-Entropy’s enormous base and reflected on its origins, technology, and place among the organizations fighting the Honkai.
• Tesla boasted that Anti-Entropy was the second-largest Honkai-fighting organization and smacked Lin Nai on the head when he asked how many there were.

After arriving at Anti-Entropy with Kiana and Bronya, Lin Nai reflected on his bond with them and the need to protect Kiana from Otto. The next morning, Tesla summoned him for testing, but his poor sense of direction left him lost in the dormitory corridors.

• Einstein arranged rooms for Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya after their long flight to Anti-Entropy.
• Lin Nai watched over the sleeping Kiana and Bronya, explaining to Tesla that Kiana was his first friend in this world and felt like family.
• Tesla and Einstein remembered their lost family and resolved to keep fighting the Honkai and Otto.
• The next morning, Tesla repeatedly called Lin Nai to demand that he come to her laboratory for examinations and tests.
• Lin Nai hurried out half-asleep but became lost because Tesla had not told him where the laboratory was, and he had no cell phone to call her.

Lin Nai got lost while trying to find Tesla, but Walter Yang found him and escorted him to the laboratory, where Tesla and Einstein examined him. Tesla found Lin Nai’s results baffling because his blood test seemed completely ordinary.

• Lin Nai collided with Walter Yang, who recognized him and offered to lead him to Tesla’s laboratory.
• Walter explained that Einstein had asked him to find Lin Nai, and the two headed to the laboratory together.
• Tesla complained that Lin Nai had taken too long, while Bronya gave him bitter coffee and candy.
• Einstein and Tesla examined Lin Nai themselves to protect his information from Anti-Entropy’s radicals, while Kiana fell asleep on the sofa.
• Tesla studied Lin Nai’s report and told Einstein that his blood test was far too ordinary, leaving her confused.

Einstein and Tesla found Lin Nai’s physical examination results completely ordinary despite his extraordinary power, so they arranged a combat test with Welt. On the trip to the testing site, Lin Nai lectured Kiana and Bronya about road safety, then prepared to be the only one to face Welt.

• Tesla complained that Lin Nai’s normal test results were strange because he could unleash power through his hair, and Einstein briefly threatened him with scissors.
• Einstein decided to test combat ability by having Welt take the field instead of risking an expensive mech.
• Einstein drove the group to a deserted valley while Lin Nai warned Kiana and Bronya against street racing, and he muted Tesla when she kept grumbling.
• Tesla explained that Lin Nai alone would fight because Kiana and Bronya were not suited to face a mech.

Lin Nai and Welt began a monitored spar so Tesla and Einstein could collect combat data. Welt's gravity suppression failed to stop Lin Nai, who adapted and moved faster before striking Welt with a roundhouse kick that sent him flying.

• Lin Nai considered whether Welt could help build the Ark, but decided not to take advantage of him because he was a good person.
• Tesla and Einstein set up instruments while Lin Nai, Welt, and the others ate boxed meals nearby.
• Welt used gravity to suppress Lin Nai as the spar began, but Lin Nai adapted to the pressure and kept moving.
• Welt dropped the gravity attack and took a fighting stance as Lin Nai used High-Speed Movement to close the distance.
• Lin Nai leaped in and struck Welt with a roundhouse kick, sending him flying while Tesla watched in surprise.

Lin Nai overwhelmed Welt during a combat test, shrugging off gravity beams and firing a powerful energy beam before smashing Welt into the ground. The fight ended with Lin Nai’s summoned road roller exploding, and he gained a Herrscher of Reason Core and a new skill.

• Welt attacked Lin Nai with gravity beams, but Lin Nai knocked them aside and blasted Welt with an orange-red energy beam that destroyed ten Anti-Entropy mechs.
• Lin Nai leapt at Welt and smashed him into the ground, causing a Herrscher of Reason Core to appear as a random item.
• Lin Nai considered saving the Core for Bronya until she had studied with Tesla and Einstein.
• Lin Nai summoned a road roller and brought it down on Welt, who used gravity spheres to destroy it.
• Lin Nai received the random skill Burning Mebius Spinning Kick.

Lin Nai fought Welt to help Einstein and Tesla assess his abilities, but the spar ended before either used their full strength. Afterward, Welt and Einstein questioned Lin Nai about his Herrscher of Reason-like power, and Einstein learned that he needed to understand what he constructed.

• Lin Nai overwhelmed Welt with a series of throws until Tesla stopped their spar.
• Einstein and Tesla concluded that the fight revealed Lin Nai’s great strength but did not establish his limits, and that he could face Emperor-type Honkai Beasts.
• Welt asked Lin Nai about the road roller he had constructed, and Lin Nai admitted that he had made it with his power.
• Einstein asked whether Lin Nai needed to understand something before constructing it, and Lin Nai confirmed that he did.
• Einstein and Tesla stared at Lin Nai with ill intent after his answer, making him wary of what they planned.

Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya completed tests at Anti-Entropy, and Welt later visited Siegfried with news about Kiana. Siegfried learned he could occasionally leave his treatment base, but he still hesitated to meet Kiana and considered watching her from the shadows.

• Lin Nai agreed to study with Tesla and Einstein and insisted that Kiana and Bronya join him.
• Welt tested Kiana against an Anti-Entropy mech and sparred with Bronya; Kiana dismantled the mech with her strength.
• Einstein led Lin Nai, Kiana, and Bronya back to Anti-Entropy while Welt went to another base to visit Siegfried.
• Welt told Siegfried how he had learned that Kiana was with Lin Nai and reassured him that she was healthy.
• Siegfried became agitated upon hearing that Lin Nai was a boy around Kiana's age, then learned he could occasionally leave the base.
• Siegfried refused to meet Kiana because of the pufferfish inside her, and Welt suggested that he watch her from the shadows.

Siegfried learned about Lin Nai’s strength from Welt and went with him to see Kiana. Meanwhile, Lin Nai struggled through lessons with Einstein and Tesla and tried to convince them to let him dismantle a mech.

• Welt told Siegfried that Lin Nai had defeated ten Anti-Entropy mechs and shattered Welt’s shield with a kick.
• Siegfried questioned whether Lin Nai was truly a teenager, then decided to visit Kiana with Welt.
• Einstein and Tesla continued teaching Lin Nai, while Bronya taught Kiana after Kiana struggled with academics.
• Lin Nai asked to learn how mechs were built, but Einstein and Tesla rejected the idea of using research funding on outdated models.
• Lin Nai proposed taking apart Tesla’s mech, and Tesla angrily refused while Einstein agreed to indulge him.

Lin Nai skipped his lesson with Tesla and Einstein, then found Kiana teaching Bronya Kaslana Gun Fu at the training room. After Kiana teased him for skipping class, Bronya asked Lin Nai to tutor Kiana the next day and tell her a story because she had not been sleeping well.

• Lin Nai slipped out of class while Tesla argued with Einstein, and Einstein let him go after noting he had studied for forty minutes.
• Lin Nai followed the navigation on his phone to the training room, where Kiana was trying to teach Bronya Kaslana Gun Fu.
• Lin Nai confronted Kiana about neglecting her homework, and Kiana bit his arm after he pointed out that she was last in class.
• Bronya told Lin Nai that he would teach Kiana the next day because she needed a break from tutoring her.
• Bronya asked Lin Nai to tell her a story because she had not been sleeping well, and Lin Nai agreed.