Chapter Summaries

Himeko tested Lin Nai, Fu Hua, and the girls, discovering that they were all powerful fighters who had concealed much of their strength. The tests ended when Theresa called Lin Nai to demand that he come handle her pile of work.

• Himeko assessed Lin Nai as potentially stronger than her and recognized Fu Hua’s remarkable combat ability after their sparring.
• Kiana, Bronya, Mei Raiden, and Seele demonstrated at least B-rank combat ability while hiding their greater powers.
• Lin Nai received a call from Theresa, who claimed he was supposed to be working and asked where he was.
• Theresa, overwhelmed by paperwork and her adjutant’s arrival, had called Lin Nai so she could pass the work to him and return to reading comics.
• Lin Nai was surprised that Himeko had sent him to work without telling Theresa.

Lin Nai was pulled away from Himeko’s class to handle Theresa’s paperwork, while Kiana and the others began life at St. Freya Academy. A month later, the group had moved into Lin Nai’s villa, where Theresa confronted Himeko after finding her drunk in bed.

• Theresa recalled that Himeko had supposedly promised to teach her how to hand over missions, while Himeko’s adjutant tried to calm her down.
• Lin Nai left Himeko’s class to go see Theresa, and Himeko began the others’ training at St. Freya Academy.
• Theresa ambushed Lin Nai with a huge pile of documents and forced him to work.
• A month passed, and Lin Nai’s villa was completed; Kiana, Bronya, Mei Raiden, Seele, Theresa, and Fu Hua moved in.
• Theresa woke to find Himeko drunk in her bed and kicked her onto the floor.
• Theresa argued that Himeko should not enter her room while there were boys in the villa, and she realized Kiana was pursuing Lin Nai.

Kiana teased Bronya over spending the night in Lin Nai’s room, then confidently dismissed warnings about the Valkyrie exam. Lin Nai took the students to the examination site, leaving Kiana still convinced she would pass easily.

• Kiana found Bronya leaving Lin Nai’s room and thought Bronya had shared an intimate night with him, but Seele explained that they had only played games.
• Kiana and Bronya argued while Lin Nai taught Mei to cook and Theresa and Himeko ate breakfast.
• At St. Freya Academy, Kiana bragged that passing the upcoming Valkyrie exam would be easy, while Bronya and Fu Hua warned her not to be overconfident.
• Lin Nai arrived with the exam papers and led the Valkyries to the examination site while Himeko stayed behind to handle the assistant director’s work.

Lin Nai supervised the Valkyries’ exams and watched Kiana struggle with the written tests. After the exams, he caught Welt watching magical girls instead of working and handed him Kiana’s history paper, which had every answer wrong.

• Lin Nai watched Kiana struggle with the written test and stopped her from asking him for answers.
• A previous-civilization skit showed Lin Nai killing Kevin and Himiko before Fu Hua defeated him.
• After the exams, Lin Nai checked that Kiana had written her name and class, then collected her paper.
• Lin Nai found Welt watching magical girls in the classroom office and sent Tesla and Einstein a picture of him slacking off.
• Lin Nai gave Welt Kiana’s history paper and told him she had not answered a single question correctly.

Lin Nai left Welt to grade the exams after posting an embarrassing video of him in the group chat, then the students completed their combat test and received their results. The chapter ended with Fu Hua in first place, while Kiana discovered she had not won.

• Lin Nai left Welt with the exam papers to grade and went shopping, while Welt saw Lin Nai's video of him watching magical girls appear in the group chat.
• Lin Nai worried that Kiana might challenge Bronya to a duel, then joined Elysia in planning to trick Su in the Previous Civilization skit.
• The students completed their combat capability test, where Bronya overwhelmed her opponent with firepower, Mei Raiden used her sword styles, and Seele fought alongside Black Seele.
• The results showed Bronya, Mei Raiden, and Seele in second, third, and fourth place, and Seele pointed Kiana toward her name on the score sheet after Fu Hua took first place.

Kiana failed most of her written exams and had to prepare for a make-up exam, while Lin Nai and the others discussed how to help her study. Fu Hua joined Kiana’s tutoring session and eyed her closeness with Lin Nai.

• Kiana discovered that she had failed, and Welt told her the make-up exam would take place in a week.
• Bronya offered to tutor Kiana, but she said Lin Nai could not help because he had work from the Principal.
• Lin Nai was unsurprised by Kiana’s failure, and Theresa blamed Siegfried while Himeko noted that Kiana had earned full marks in combat.
• Kiana struggled to memorize history with Lin Nai, who warned her she would keep taking make-up exams if she failed.
• Fu Hua arrived with books to help Kiana study and wondered about Kiana’s and Bronya’s closeness to Lin Nai.

Lin Nai turned Bronya’s Hohom Virtual Reality Connector into immersive game consoles, while Fu Hua tried to teach Kiana history and the others gathered to inspect the new machines. The group was left wondering why Lin Nai had designed the consoles to look like coffins.

• Fu Hua tried to teach Kiana history, but Kiana fell asleep on Lin Nai’s lap almost immediately.
• Lin Nai and Fu Hua talked on the balcony, where Fu Hua considered getting revenge on him by bringing him into the Elysian Realm.
• Bronya joined them and explained that her Hohom Virtual Reality Connector accessed the Schicksal Database’s history of Honkai.
• Bronya woke Kiana by shouting that food was ready, and Lin Nai began modifying Vill-V’s game machines with Bronya’s device.
• Lin Nai unveiled several Virtual Immersive Game Consoles, and Theresa, Himeko, and Fu Hua remarked that they looked like coffins.

Lin Nai brought everyone into the Schicksal Database so Kiana could study history, but he disappeared from the group and met Otto Apocalypse in a separate virtual space. The chapter left their meeting about to begin.

• Lin Nai introduced the Virtual Immersive Game Console and saved Kallen's data from the Schicksal Database, and everyone decided to join Kiana's history lesson.
• Bronya led the group to the earliest recorded Honkai Beasts, which appeared in southern Asia in 2717 BCE.
• Fu Hua recognized the arriving Jilin, also known as Ji Xuanyuan, and recalled Cang Xuan and Dan Zhu finding her.
• The group noticed Lin Nai was missing while Lin Nai waited in a blank virtual space for Otto Apocalypse.
• A flashback showed Elysia persuading Lin Nai to use his transformation device on Chijie by threatening to tell Kevin and Hen about him.

Lin Nai met Otto in the Schicksal Database, offered to help revive Kallen, and reached an agreement to work with him. Otto later sought answers from Void Archive about who Lin Nai was.

• Lin Nai sealed the data space and asked Otto whether he had harmed Fu Hua, then accepted that Otto had not.
• Lin Nai told Otto he could revive Kallen, and Otto demanded to know why he should believe him.
• Lin Nai and Otto discussed the matter at length and agreed to collaborate, with Lin Nai planning to visit Schicksal Headquarters.
• Otto left the database and asked Void Archive who Lin Nai was.

Otto learned that Lin Nai had revived people and considered the possibility of cooperating with him. Meanwhile, Kiana fell into Judas’s hidden records, where she met Kallen Kaslana and fought the masked group pursuing her.

• Void Archive told Otto that Lin Nai had killed many Previous Civilization Herrschers and warned him not to provoke Lin Nai.
• Void Archive showed Otto records of Lin Nai reviving people, prompting Otto to consider cooperating with him.
• Kiana fell into Judas’s virtual records and met Kallen Kaslana, who was being pursued by Arthur and his masked subordinates.
• Kiana knocked away a masked pursuer and blocked Arthur’s attack with a golden barrier produced by the Mebius Aura.
• Kiana announced herself as a passing Valkyrie and fought Arthur, blocking his attacks.

Kiana escaped with Kallen after defeating Arthur with the Mebius Aura, then learned that Kallen had stolen a dangerous weapon identified as the Divine Key Jizo-Mitama. Himeko, Bronya, Mei, Seele, and Theresa caught up with Kiana, while Lin Nai remained missing.

• Kiana struck Arthur with the Mebius Aura, then used a Mebius Cut to stop his masked allies and fled with Kallen.
• Kallen told Kiana she had stolen a weapon to keep it from people who might misuse it, and described it as a katana that could summon Jizo-Mitama.
• Kiana recognized the weapon as the Twelfth Divine Key, Jizo-Mitama, and recalled Lin Nai's remarks about its origins.
• Himeko punched Kiana when the group found her, then pulled her up while Bronya teased her and Mei checked on her.
• Kiana asked where Lin Nai was, and Seele said they had not seen him since entering.

Kiana and the others learned that Kallen was a data record and decided to help her despite Theresa’s warning that the real Kallen had died five hundred years earlier. Bronya used Lin Nai’s code list to arm the group with new forms and weapons, while Lin Nai watched over them and noted that the codes would vanish after one use.

• Kallen recognized Fu Hua as the Crimson Kite Immortal, and Fu Hua recalled their past encounter involving the Oath of Judas.
• Theresa explained that Kallen was only a virtual record, but Kiana insisted on trying to help her, and Theresa agreed.
• Bronya used Lin Nai’s code list to load combat forms and abilities for the group.
• Kiana, Mei, Theresa, Himeko, Fu Hua, Seele, Bronya, and Kallen reacted to their new appearances and equipment.
• Lin Nai watched from above and noted that the codes were single-use, in case Otto tried something.

Lin Nai prepared to confront Otto in the virtual space while Kiana, Bronya, and Mei Raiden chose to storm Schicksal Headquarters and install Kallen as Overseer. As Schicksal Headquarters exploded, Lin Nai taunted Data Otto and considered reconstructing a virtual world from a hidden Schicksal Database record.

• Lin Nai equipped the group for their virtual-space outing and decided to attack Otto, while Kiana, Mei Raiden, Bronya, and Seele discussed what they should do.
• After the discussion, Kiana, Bronya, and Mei Raiden led an assault on Schicksal Headquarters, aiming to overthrow its rule and make Kallen Overseer.
• Theresa questioned where the girls had gotten their blunt plan, while Lin Nai sneezed elsewhere.
• Lin Nai taunted Data Otto, who complained that Lin Nai had already carved him up three times.
• Lin Nai watched Schicksal Headquarters explode and considered using a hidden Schicksal Database record to reconstruct a virtual world.

Kiana woke from the virtual space after meeting a self-aware virtual Kallen and reflected on how real their encounter had felt. The chapter ended with Kiana remembering Kallen’s parting words and blushing.

• Lin Nai knocked Otto unconscious and considered creating a virtual Yae Sakura personality to meet Kallen.
• Bronya found she could only construct the Star of Eden, while Kiana, Mei Raiden, and the others battled through Schicksal Headquarters.
• Kiana’s group reached Nicholas Apocalypse’s office, and Kiana forced him to agree to make Kallen the Schicksal Overseer.
• Lin Nai learned that Chijie, Kevin, Su, Hen, and Cosmo had been feminized after drinking Elysia’s potion and decided to ask Elysia what happened.
• Kiana woke from the virtual pod and recalled meeting Kallen in the Schicksal Database’s hidden records.

Kiana woke from the virtual world and joined Lin Nai and the others for crayfish and drinks, while recalling Kallen’s unexpected words before she left. In the virtual space, Kallen wondered whether the peaceful world had truly changed and hoped it could become something more.

• Kiana climbed out of the virtual pod, joined Lin Nai’s meal, and eagerly ate crayfish while the others teased her.
• Kiana recalled that Kallen knew she was a virtual personality and had thanked her for helping, then said something that left Kiana flustered.
• Lin Nai and Himeko drank baijiu while Kiana cheered them on, Theresa drank bitter melon juice, and Fu Hua quietly drank water.
• Kallen wrote in her diary that several days had passed without the virtual space resetting or following its former course.
• Kallen looked over the peaceful city and hoped that, if possible, something more could happen.

Kallen found Data Yae Sakura’s body and a note suggesting she use it while Yae Sakura’s consciousness remained unfinished. The next morning, Lin Nai woke Himeko after a drinking contest, and the group started their day after Fu Hua served breakfast.

• Kallen found Data Yae Sakura lying on the floor and read a note suggesting she use the body for now.
• Lin Nai found Himeko asleep in the messy living room after she lost their drinking contest.
• Fu Hua stopped Lin Nai from using his rough hangover-soup method on Himeko and served her soup instead.
• Lin Nai asked Fu Hua for a life-saving item because he feared meeting the real Kiana at Schicksal Headquarters.
• Kiana came downstairs, ate the breakfast Fu Hua had prepared, and began the day with Lin Nai and Fu Hua.

Bronya and Lin Nai visited Hohom Paradise, where Bronya won a huge haul of prizes from claw machines. When Bronya asked for watermelon, Lin Nai was stunned by the fruit seller’s outrageous price and challenged him about it.

• Bronya took over the claw machine after Lin Nai failed to win anything and collected a mountain of prizes.
• Lin Nai pulled Bronya away when the claw machine owner begged them to stop and the neighboring shop owner closed up to avoid them.
• Lin Nai stored the prizes in his System Space and wondered why his system had gone quiet.
• Bronya asked Lin Nai for watermelon, and he went to a fruit stand with her.
• Lin Nai asked the seller the price and objected when the man demanded 4,000 Far East Coin for one watermelon.

Lin Nai and Bronya spent the day at Hohom Paradise, where Lin Nai exposed a vendor selling an unripe melon and endured Chijie's anger over his wasabi prank. The system then delivered Lin Nai a Holy Grail as a delayed reward for knocking Otto out, leaving him surprised by its sudden arrival.

• Lin Nai tested a vendor's claim that his expensive melons were ripe, smashed an unripe one, and called the police to have the vendor arrested.
• Bronya checked her plans for the day, which included taking Lin Nai street racing to watch the stars that night.
• Lin Nai visited Chijie and was told to get lost over his past prank of filling every sandwich cookie with wasabi.
• Lin Nai followed Bronya around Hohom Paradise as she rode attractions and took intimate photos with him to send to Kiana.
• The system gave Lin Nai a Holy Grail as a delayed reward for knocking Otto out with a club, and Lin Nai questioned why it had not arrived earlier.

Lin Nai and Bronya went to Hohom Paradise, where Theresa and Himeko joined them after Theresa tried to stop their date. Fu Hua watched from a distance, but a power outage shut down the park and left everyone disappointed.

• Lin Nai noticed a familiar figure and quietly headed toward an alley with Bronya.
• Theresa and Himeko appeared, and Lin Nai reminded Theresa that she had approved his leave request.
• Theresa tried to join Lin Nai and Bronya's outing, but Lin Nai offered to pay for her and Himeko to have fun separately.
• Lin Nai realized Fu Hua was watching them from a nearby mountain, and Fu Hua retreated after being spotted.
• Hohom Paradise lost power, ending the outing and leaving Theresa frustrated after a day of work.

After the blackout at Hohom Paradise, Bronya took Lin Nai for a dangerously fast motorcycle ride, and the two ended up at a police station. Tesla and Einstein collected them, where Bronya admitted her license had been revoked and Tesla was also accused of driving without a valid license.

• Theresa found Lin Nai and Bronya after the power went out, and Bronya decided they would return another time.
• Bronya constructed motorcycles and sped away with Lin Nai, leaving Himeko and Theresa behind.
• Lin Nai finished giving a statement at a police station and learned that Tesla and Einstein had come to collect him and Bronya.
• An officer scolded Bronya for street racing without a license, and Bronya said her license had been revoked.
• Tesla was recognized for having her own license revoked for speeding, so she claimed Einstein had driven them there.
• Einstein took Lin Nai home while Tesla praised Bronya's driving.