Chapter Summaries

Mobius tried to imprint her mark on Chen Luo while he was unconscious, but the Flame-Chasers arrived and restrained her. After the Herrscher of Knowledge woke Chen Luo, he confronted Mobius about her plan.

• Mobius explained that she had won Chen Luo over and intended to brand him with her mark to influence her future self.
• Klein showed Mobius a recording she had left for herself, while Aili gathered the Flame-Chasers at the bar and led them toward Mobius's laboratory.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge sensed that Chen Luo's consciousness had fallen silent as the group reached the laboratory.
• Mobius placed Chen Luo on an operating table and began removing his coat, but Aili and the others burst into the laboratory and restrained her.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge entered Chen Luo's sea of consciousness and slapped him awake, and Chen Luo accused Mobius of setting him up.

Chen Luo used the Elysian Realm to suppress Mobius and planned to punish her by changing her into an outfit she disliked. After Aili eagerly volunteered to fetch a pink maid outfit, Chen Luo took the chance to approach Eden and ask her questions.

• Chen Luo had the other Flame-Chasers leave the laboratory, keeping Herrscher of Knowledge with him while Mobius shackled herself to the experimental bed.
• Chen Luo converted the Elysian Realm into his temporary unit, then joined Herrscher of Knowledge in overpowering Mobius.
• Chen Luo emerged from the laboratory and found Aili, Eden, Rin, and Sakura waiting outside after trying to eavesdrop.
• Aili accepted Chen Luo's plan to dress Mobius in a pink maid outfit and ran off to fetch one.
• Chen Luo moved closer to Eden and asked her to answer his questions.

Eden told Chen Luo that his future self had left answers somewhere in the Elysian Realm, and Chen Luo decided to stay there and help Rin return to school. He then helped Aili dress Mobius in a pink-accented maid outfit, but fled when Mobius came after him in a rage.

• Eden explained that Chen Luo had helped build the Elysian Realm and suggested he explore it to find information his future self had left behind.
• Sakura said Chen Luo already had a room beside Rin's, and Chen Luo decided to take Rin to St. Freya Academy and arrange her enrollment.
• Chen Luo told Rin he had a surprise for her, while thinking about asking Yae Sakura to tell him directly if she wanted help saving her sister.
• Aili asked Chen Luo to make Mobius try on outfits, and Chen Luo agreed to have her wear a black-and-white maid outfit with pink embellishments.
• After Mobius changed, Chen Luo fled, and Mobius kicked open the laboratory door and angrily demanded to know where he was.

Mobius pursued Chen Luo after he stole her clothes, while Elysia and the Herrscher of Knowledge explained what had happened. Chen Luo used a mental imprint to detect Mobius’s approach and escaped through an unpowered Elysian Realm device, leaving Klein bewildered as Mobius arrived.

• Mobius asked Elysia where Chen Luo had gone, and Elysia sent her in the wrong direction through reverse psychology.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge told Elysia that Chen Luo had stolen Mobius’s clothes and that they had placed a mental imprint in Mobius to alert Chen Luo to harmful intentions.
• Rin asked Sakura for a drink, but Sakura refused and allowed her to have a sundae instead.
• Chen Luo sensed Mobius approaching the main hall and tried to escape through the Elysian Realm battlefield device, which Klein said had no energy module installed.
• Chen Luo vanished using a card, and Mobius arrived to ask Klein where he had gone.

Chen Luo tested an Elysian Realm Pass while Mobius chased him through the realm, then returned with Raven to the World Serpent base. After Raven traded him ten Fake Herrscher Gems for Work Points, they went to see the seaside villa Grey Serpent had arranged for her.

• Mobius caught Chen Luo in the bar after chasing him through Elysian Realm, but left when he teased her about her clothes and appearance.
• Chen Luo tested his Elysian Realm Pass, explored more than 40 percent of the realm, and learned he still needed to uncover the minimap to find every area.
• Chen Luo and Raven discussed her Work Points and the Herrscher of Knowledge's disguises before leaving Elysian Realm.
• Raven returned Chen Luo ten Fake Herrscher Gems, and he quietly set their future exchange price beyond what her 147 Work Points could afford.
• Raven and Chen Luo visited Grey Serpent, then Raven drove them toward the seaside villa World Serpent had prepared for her.

Chen Luo brought Raven and the children from Changkong City to a seaside villa, then sensed an unusual Militant in his territory that might be his companion Honkai Beast. He left to move the children to their new home while planning to investigate the anomaly at Chiba Academy.

• Raven drove Chen Luo to a seaside villa, where they confirmed he could teleport to Changkong City through the bar.
• Chen Luo connected to Honkai, noticed the exchange discount had worsened, and sensed his Honkai Beasts and Militants had returned to Chiba Academy.
• Chen Luo found a Militant wandering within Chiba Academy that seemed alive and shared a special connection with him, so he suspected it might be his companion Honkai Beast.
• Chen Luo considered adding the anomaly and other Honkai Beasts or Militants to his Puppet Collection Vault for their combat buffs.
• Raven gathered the children, and Chen Luo opened a portal so they could move to the seaside villa and begin language lessons after a day of rest.

Chen Luo settled the children into Raven’s villa and helped Lyle begin his path toward becoming a sniper. At Chiba Academy, he found the unusual Militant he had been searching for and was startled by her resemblance to Yuno.

• Raven let the thirteen children choose rooms in the villa, and Lyle gave his room across from Raven’s to Chen Luo.
• Raven decided to train Lyle as a sniper with a demanding daily exercise routine, while Chen Luo gave him a Barrett M82A1 Sniper Rifle that Raven kept for him.
• Chen Luo asked Raven to tidy his room in exchange for a work point, then teleported from the villa to Chiba Academy.
• Chen Luo used his connection to the Honkai energy in Chiba Academy to locate the Militant and waited for her to approach.
• Chen Luo saw that the human-shaped Militant resembled Yuno and had thin vines wrapped around her arms.

Chen Luo named the new poison-wielding puppet Yuno, strengthened her with Fake Herrscher Gems, and began planning to turn St. Freya Academy into a training ground for Herrschers. The chapter ended with the Herrscher of Knowledge dragging Chen Luo out of the bar.

• Chen Luo used his Domination Authority to turn the approaching vine-covered girl into his sixth puppet and named her Yuno.
• Yuno poisoned a Honkai Beast with her vines, and Chen Luo gave her Fake Herrscher Gems to absorb more Honkai energy.
• Chen Luo imagined recruiting Herrschers and other candidates into St. Freya Academy and building a Herrscher training program; the Honkai faction exchange discount improved to 12% off.
• Chen Luo returned to Chiba Academy to gather disposable puppets for his plans.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge kicked open the bar door and pulled Chen Luo outside while he told her not to rush.

Chen Luo and the Herrscher of Knowledge set out to steal Fu Hua’s clothes after arguing about whether Fu Hua had grown over the past fifty thousand years. When the Herrscher of Knowledge demanded that Chen Luo prove their bond by finding Fu Hua’s dormitory alone, a new commission appeared and left him facing the challenge.

• The Herrscher of Knowledge insisted that Chen Luo accompany her to steal Fu Hua’s clothes, explaining that she wanted to compare Fu Hua’s current clothes with her memory version’s figure.
• Chen Luo teased the Herrscher of Knowledge about her concerns over her figure, and she headbutted him before they left the bar.
• Outside Himeko’s house, Chen Luo asked the Herrscher of Knowledge for directions to Fu Hua’s residence and tried to bargain for compensation.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge refused to help and demanded that Chen Luo find Fu Hua’s dormitory on his own to prove their bond.
• A new commission challenged Chen Luo to find Fu Hua’s dormitory in one attempt without anyone’s help, offering Primogems, a random reward, and increased favorability.

Chen Luo completed Herrscher of Knowledge’s commission by finding Fu Hua’s dormitory, then discovered Fu Hua showering inside. With Herrscher of Knowledge urging him on, he stealthily emptied Fu Hua’s entire home while she bathed.

• Chen Luo closed his eyes, spun around, and followed Herrscher of Knowledge’s mood to Fu Hua’s dormitory, completing the commission.
• Chen Luo and Herrscher of Knowledge discovered that Fu Hua was showering, and Herrscher of Knowledge explained that events had diverged from her memories.
• Herrscher of Knowledge rejected Chen Luo’s suggestions to interfere with Fu Hua and instead urged him to take her belongings while she showered.
• Chen Luo used Void Stealth and Stealth Master to remove Fu Hua’s wardrobe and then everything else in her home.

Chen Luo and Herrscher of Knowledge demolished Fu Hua’s dormitory as revenge for a phone scam, then realized Otto might not carry out the infiltration plan they had counted on. Chen Luo persuaded Herrscher of Knowledge to return Fu Hua’s belongings, while Fu Hua tried to make sense of the Honkai Beast attack and the theft of everything in her dormitory.

• Herrscher of Knowledge convinced Chen Luo to steal Fu Hua’s clothes and destroy her dormitory, and a new commission rewarded them for the demolition.
• Chen Luo sent a Tank-class Honkai Beast to damage Fu Hua’s dormitory, which collapsed; Fu Hua then rushed toward Himeko’s house.
• Chen Luo questioned whether Otto would still order Fu Hua to infiltrate Kiana and the others after discovering the bar could connect to other worlds.
• Chen Luo persuaded Herrscher of Knowledge to return Fu Hua’s furniture and belongings by admitting he felt guilty about the destruction and spying on her while she bathed.
• Fu Hua, dressed and sitting in a borrowed room, wondered how a Honkai Beast had appeared at St. Freya Academy and realized her clothes, communicator, and other belongings had all been stolen.

Fu Hua investigated the destruction of her home and discovered that the missing belongings had been delivered to St. Freya Academy’s lost and found by someone using her own handwriting. Meanwhile, Chen Luo and Theresa watched Durandal spar with Kiana Kaslana, who challenged the strongest Valkyrie of Schicksal.

• Fu Hua called St. Freya Academy’s lost and found and learned that someone had brought in the contents of her home under the name “Madame Green Lily.”
• Fu Hua retrieved an old outfit and a new communicator, then recognized that the registration form’s handwriting matched her own.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge used the communicator Chen Luo had modified while Chen Luo and Theresa discussed Durandal’s arrival at St. Freya Academy.
• Theresa explained that she had sent Durandal to the training ground after Durandal criticized her comic-reading and that Fu Hua had fought Durandal earlier.
• Kiana Kaslana challenged Durandal and questioned whether she was as strong as her reputation, while Durandal warned her not to judge opponents by appearances.

Durandal sparred with Kiana and used the fight to teach her combat principles while exposing the gap between their abilities. After Kiana exhausted herself, another fighter arrived to take over as the academy’s sparring partner.

• Kiana challenged Durandal, who treated their match as instruction and quickly overwhelmed her while explaining battle tactics.
• Durandal used Kaslana Gun Kata and pointed out Kiana’s flawed technique, poor preparation, and weak academic performance as Kiana kept attacking.
• Chen Luo found Theresa absorbed in a Homu manga and told her that Kiana had been fighting Durandal for half an hour.
• Kiana tried to outlast Durandal but ran out of stamina; Durandal praised her improvement and urged her to train harder.
• Mei and Bronya checked on Kiana while Rita offered to spar with Durandal, but a newcomer announced that they would train with the students instead.

Fu Hua appeared at St. Freya Academy in an immortal-looking outfit that helped restore her strength, while Chen Luo arranged a healing aid as compensation for the Herrscher of Knowledge. Kiana commissioned Chen Luo to defeat Durandal, and he fulfilled it by beating her and Rita at board games with a rigged ability.

• Fu Hua wore an ancient outfit sent by Madame Green Lily and asked to join the students’ training because she felt unusually energetic.
• Chen Luo blamed the Herrscher of Knowledge for Fu Hua’s stolen clothes and charged her for a portable healing anchor attached to Fu Hua’s outfit.
• Kiana asked Chen Luo to avenge her loss to Durandal, triggering a commission to defeat Durandal.
• Chen Luo avoided a direct fight and challenged Durandal to Gomoku, where he won using his board-game ability.
• Rita challenged Chen Luo to chess, but he kept winning until she became baffled, completing Kiana’s commission.

Chen Luo asked Theresa to consider enrolling Rin at St. Freya, explaining that Rin had lost her Herrscher authority and proposing Yae Sakura as her guardian. He then turned the private gathering toward Siegfried, prompting Kiana to ask whether Chen Luo knew where her father was.

• Chen Luo asked Theresa to enroll Rin at St. Freya, and Theresa said she would consider it after meeting Rin and learning more about her.
• Chen Luo explained that Rin's sister's preserved memories served as her guardian and suggested Yae Sakura look after Rin at school.
• Theresa reacted nervously when Chen Luo joked about summoning souls, and Chen Luo offered to pay Rin's tuition.
• Chen Luo gathered the key figures for a private conversation, briefly making Durandal think he would reveal her identity before he began talking about Siegfried.
• Kiana eagerly asked Chen Luo whether he had any clues about where Siegfried was.

Chen Luo received several commissions to find Siegfried and proposed using Kiana as bait by hanging her outside St. Freya Academy. Kiana agreed, but Theresa, Durandal, and Raiden Mei objected, and Chen Luo said he had other, slightly more troublesome methods.

• Chen Luo explained that Siegfried had been secretly protecting Kiana and that her search for him had shaped her ambitions.
• Kiana asked Chen Luo to find Siegfried, triggering commissions from Kiana, Durandal, Rita, Raiden Mei, and Theresa.
• Kiana promised to do anything if Chen Luo could find her father, and he suggested hanging her at St. Freya Academy's gate to draw Siegfried out.
• Kiana accepted the plan, but Raiden Mei, Theresa, and Durandal protested against putting her in danger.
• Chen Luo insisted the bait plan was feasible, then said he knew other methods that were only slightly more troublesome.

Cocolia gathered Anti-Entropy’s Executors to plan an operation against St. Freya Academy, while the hooded Waite used Raiden Ryoma to threaten his daughter. Raiden Ryoma discovered a chess piece in his hand, and Kiana later wondered whether they were simply waiting for her father to come to them.

• Cocolia presented a plan to capture the Third Herrscher, infiltrate St. Freya’s Central Dogma area, and capture both Kiana Kaslanas.
• Tesla challenged the hooded man’s identity as Waite, but he restrained her with gravity and Cocolia continued the briefing.
• Cocolia revealed that the real Kiana was alive and said she intended to capture both Kianas, while Tesla and Einstein suspected she had another motive.
• Cocolia brought the hooded Waite to Raiden Ryoma’s prison, where he photographed Raiden Ryoma and threatened to capture his daughter before punching him.
• After Waite left, Raiden Ryoma found a chess piece in his palm and wondered what it was.
• Kiana asked Chen Luo whether they would stay home and wait for her father to come to them, but Chen Luo told everyone to wait patiently.

Chen Luo agreed to help bring Siegfried to St. Freya Academy and met Fu Hua, who asked him to investigate the theft and destruction of her home. He identified Madame Green Lily as Otto, but Fu Hua clarified that she wanted the culprit behind the incident, leaving Chen Luo with a revised commission.

• Chen Luo explained that he could use Kiana and the others’ danger to draw Siegfried out, while Durandal had to visibly leave St. Freya Academy.
• Fu Hua asked Himeko to let her stay at her home after Madame Green Lily stole her belongings and her dorm was destroyed.
• Chen Luo shook hands with Fu Hua and saw two favorability discounts associated with her.
• Fu Hua asked Chen Luo to identify Madame Green Lily, and he told her that the name referred to Otto in a story involving Kallen.
• Fu Hua rejected Otto as the culprit behind her recent troubles and revised her commission to ask Chen Luo to find the person responsible.

Chen Luo accepted Fu Hua’s commission to identify the culprit who had emptied her home, and the Herrscher of Knowledge realized he planned to expose her. While cooking with Raiden Mei, Chen Luo learned that Kiana’s reunion with Siegfried had brought Mei’s loneliness and worry about her imprisoned father back to mind, so he offered to help rescue Raiden Ryoma that night. Mei embraced him gratefully, just as their dinner began to burn.

• Chen Luo rejected a shortcut for Fu Hua’s commission and decided to identify the culprit, while the Herrscher of Knowledge feared he would reveal her role.
• Rita told Chen Luo to help Raiden Mei cook dinner, and he joined Mei in the kitchen despite protesting to Kiana and Himeko.
• Chen Luo noticed Mei’s sadness about Kiana finding Siegfried and asked her about her own father, Raiden Ryoma.
• Mei told Chen Luo about her lonely life after Raiden Ryoma was imprisoned and admitted that the Third Honkai Outbreak had brought her friends into her life.
• Chen Luo offered to help rescue Raiden Ryoma that night, blocked Mei’s knife with his finger when she startled, and Mei embraced him as the food began to burn.

Chen Luo left Raven in charge of the bar while he weighed his Primogem expenses and plans to improve his combat strength. On the roof, Durandal confronted him about the choices he had given her and her need to recover her memories before facing Siegfried, and Chen Luo promised to help before showing her a family portrait that included himself.

• At dinner, Kiana complained that Mei had placed the only burnt dish in front of her, and Chen Luo defended Mei while teasing Kiana.
• Chen Luo left Raven to manage the bar for an hour and worried about paying Primogems to preserve the quality of its food and drinks.
• On the roof, Chen Luo considered saving Primogems for a six-star item and decided to seek out Aponia to obtain a discount.
• Durandal found Chen Luo and asked whether the two choices he had offered her had ever been a real choice, since she still needed help recovering her memories before facing Siegfried.
• Chen Luo promised to resolve Durandal's troubles and gave her a carved family portrait depicting Siegfried, Cecilia, child Durandal, K423, and an unexpected fifth person.