Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo defeated Old Worm’s body, then made a deal with Matou Kariya to save Sakura and keep Kariya alive by turning him into a puppet. He summoned Matou Zouken into the bar, where the insect tried to flee.

• Chen Luo survived Old Worm’s attack and destroyed the basement with five fireballs, but Matou Kariya warned that Old Worm could revive.
• Chen Luo found Old Worm’s entry in his tool person section and agreed to help Matou Kariya save Sakura in exchange for his Command Spell.
• Chen Luo asked Matou Kariya how he would give Sakura happiness, and Kariya blamed Tohsaka Tokiomi for sending her to the Matou Family.
• Chen Luo offered to keep Matou Kariya alive and let him care for Sakura if Kariya became his puppet, and Kariya accepted.
• Chen Luo received commissions to help Matou Kariya live for at least ten years and to capture Old Worm, then summoned Matou Zouken from the Friend’s Ledger.
• Matou Zouken appeared in the bar as an insect and flew toward the open doorway, but Chen Luo bound it with a thread.

Chen Luo captured Old Worm’s true body and rejected his offers to escape, while Matou Kariya urged Chen Luo to kill him. Old Worm tried to bargain by offering knowledge and help with the Holy Grail War, but Chen Luo revealed he wanted Master qualification without intending to participate.

• Chen Luo summoned Old Worm’s insect body into the bar, trapped it in a bottle, and explained how Old Worm had used insects and descendants to prolong his life.
• Old Worm offered Chen Luo Command Seals, magical knowledge, and help transferring Master qualification in exchange for his freedom, but Chen Luo refused.
• Matou Kariya urged Chen Luo to kill Old Worm so Sakura and the Matou family could be safe, and Chen Luo clarified the terms of his promises to Kariya.
• Old Worm offered to leave Fuyuki and asked whether Chen Luo knew how to summon Heroic Spirits, but Chen Luo declined a new commission to spare him.
• Chen Luo told Old Worm he wanted Master qualification but had no intention of joining the Holy Grail War, leaving Old Worm’s bargaining strategy useless.

Chen Luo accepted Matou Zouken’s wish to become an Old Undead and trapped him in threads, then removed Matou Kariya’s Command Spells and turned him into a puppet. He ended the chapter letting Yvette, Patchouli, and Yun Lian’er examine his Stigmata and Command Spells while the Herrscher of Knowledge tried to draw on his face.

• Chen Luo explained that he wanted Master qualification rather than participation in the Holy Grail War, then asked Matou Zouken what he truly wished for.
• Matou Zouken said he wanted to become an Old Undead, triggering a commission; Chen Luo released him from the bottle and caught him in a cocoon of threads.
• Chen Luo stripped the Command Spells from Matou Kariya’s hand and transferred them to his palm.
• Chen Luo turned Matou Kariya into a puppet by wrapping him in threads, while Yakumo Yukari examined the process.
• Yvette studied Chen Luo’s Stigmata, and Patchouli and Yun Lian’er examined his Command Spells as the Herrscher of Knowledge approached with a marker.
• Chen Luo struck the Herrscher of Knowledge with a fist of threads before she could draw on his face, and Yvette remarked that his Stigmata might earn him good treatment at the church.

Chen Luo turned Matou Kariya and Matou Zouken into puppets, gaining a craft essence that could seal enemies’ ultimate attacks. He freed Kariya from the Matou family’s control and discussed how to restore Sakura, while Kariya asked to see her.

• Chen Luo completed the Puppet Transformations of Matou Kariya and the Old Worm, earning rewards including the craft essence 500 Years of Obsession.
• Chen Luo learned that the craft essence could seal all an enemy’s Noble Phantasms and wondered whether it could also suppress abilities from other worlds.
• Matou Kariya and the Old Worm pledged themselves to Chen Luo, who told Kariya he could take Sakura and live freely.
• Chen Luo discussed Sakura’s altered body and Magic Circuits with the Old Worm, considering how his Stripping Ability could restore her.
• Chen Luo discovered that Matou Kariya had gained the Butterfly Transformation talent and that the transformation had removed his Engraving Insects and repaired much of his body.
• Matou Kariya asked Chen Luo for permission to go see Sakura.

After claiming his Wandering Magus identity, Chen Luo applied for an attendant identity for Yakumo Yukari and received a task to obtain a Servant. He tried linking Yvette to his Command Seal, but learned the task required a spirit summoned through the Holy Grail, leaving him reluctantly considering the Holy Grail War and its potential clients.

• Chen Luo reassured Old Worm that their past grudges were gone and invited him to collect the reward for completing the identity task.
• Chen Luo obtained the Wandering Magus identity and applied for a new identity for Yakumo Yukari, prompting a Servant-collection task.
• Chen Luo linked Yvette to his Command Seal and argued that she should count as his Servant, but the task remained incomplete.
• Chen Luo learned that a qualifying Servant had to be a spirit bound to the Master and commanded through Command Seals.
• Chen Luo decided he might have to enter the Holy Grail War and considered offering to fulfill the wishes of Masters and Heroic Spirits himself.

Chen Luo used Corrupted Ji Lin to fulfill a Servant-related task, then obtained an embarrassing maid identity for Yakumo Yukari and transferred it to her. After giving Patchouli weak Magic Circuits and deciding to stay out of the Holy Grail War, Chen Luo accepted Yakumo Yukari’s commission to share information about the world and handed her a USB drive after she signed a contract.

• Chen Luo summoned Corrupted Ji Lin, traded her instant noodles, and had her sign a contract linking her to Command Spells, completing the Servant requirements for his task.
• Chen Luo received a maid identity and Identity Proof for Yakumo Yukari, then transferred the proof to her when she entered the world.
• Chen Luo gave Patchouli the low-grade Magic Circuits from his Wandering Magus identity and said Sakura’s body still needed treatment and its remaining worms removed.
• Chen Luo thanked Corrupted Ji Lin for helping with the task and decided not to participate in the Holy Grail War.
• Yakumo Yukari asked Chen Luo for information about the world, and he accepted her commission on the condition that she sign a contract before receiving the materials.
• Chen Luo gave Yakumo Yukari a USB drive, prompting her to suspect he had prepared it in advance.

Chen Luo completed Yakumo Yukari’s ability-slicing procedure, gained a weak version of Boundary Manipulation, and added it to Yvette’s Collective Network options. He then reassured Matou Sakura that Old Worm would no longer send her to the basement and reached out to her.

• Chen Luo called Yakumo Yukari into the bar to complete their contract by slicing off a portion of her ability.
• Chen Luo struggled to extract one ten-thousandth of Yakumo Yukari’s SS-rank Talent, then swallowed the slice and gained A-rank Boundary Manipulation.
• Chen Luo added the ability to the Collective Network for Yvette, one of the few puppets able to download an A-rank Talent.
• Chen Luo made a tiny, unstable Gap that collapsed, and Yakumo Yukari refused to provide another ability slice.
• Chen Luo told Matou Sakura that he had accepted Matou Kariya’s wish and made Old Worm normal, then offered Sakura his hand.

Chen Luo used Matou Kariya’s Break Cocoon into Butterfly Talent to repair Matou Sakura’s body, then took the Talent for himself. He considered how to obtain and divide abilities for his puppets’ Collective Network, while the Herrscher of Knowledge offered him one of her ability seeds.

• Chen Luo put Matou Sakura to sleep and wrapped her in threads to repair her body through partial Puppet Transformation.
• Matou Kariya used Break Cocoon into Butterfly on Sakura’s cocoon, and Chen Luo downloaded the Talent for himself.
• Chen Luo formed a second cocoon around Old Worm and wondered whether the Talent could transform him as well.
• Chen Luo considered splitting Yakumo Yukari’s Boundary Manipulation and seeking abilities from other guests for the puppets’ Collective Network.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge offered Chen Luo one of her ability seeds, while Yakumo Yukari complained that he treated her less generously.

Chen Luo accidentally applied for the Grand Puppeteer identity while discussing the Moon World, then learned the true Honkai Consciousness identity had been far more expensive than he realized. His application locked him out of pursuing the Root for now and assigned him a Holy Grail War quest.

• Chen Luo refused to take an ability seed from the Herrscher of Knowledge and changed the subject by explaining the Moon World’s Grand Puppeteers and Magicians.
• Chen Luo’s household register applied for the Grand Puppeteer identity without his consent, deducted 1,000 Primogems, and started an identity quest.
• Chen Luo learned that his earlier Honkai Consciousness application had received a steep discount from an original price of 20,000 Primogems.
• Chen Luo discovered that he could not apply to become the Root while another identity quest was active.
• The system assigned Chen Luo a Holy Grail War quest to summon and protect a Servant, gain an advantage in the war, seize the Holy Grail, and purify the World's Evil within it.

Chen Luo watched Sakura emerge from her cocoon and used his Friendship Face-Breaker Punch to restore Matou Zouken, who became Makiri Zorgon. As Chen Luo set out to summon a Servant and join the Holy Grail War, Alaya pulled him into a mysterious space to speak with him.

• Sakura broke free of her cocoon, and Chen Luo sent Yakumo Yukari and Matou Kariya to take the sleeping girl back to her room.
• Matou Zouken emerged from his cocoon in a young body, but Chen Luo judged his soul still trapped by 500 Years of Obsession and beat him until he returned to the righteous path as Makiri Zorgon.
• Chen Luo revived Makiri Zorgon twice and then set out with him to summon a Servant and enter the Holy Grail War.
• A special conceptual aggregate pulled Chen Luo into a chaotic space, where he met Alaya in the form of a little girl.
• Chen Luo relaxed in a conjured rocking chair, claimed familiarity with higher-dimensional consciousnesses, and offered to help Alaya as an old friend.

Chen Luo accepted Alaya’s commission to resolve The World’s Evil in exchange for a reduced version of the Third Magic, then summoned a badly injured Servant for the Holy Grail War. The chapter ended with the Servant’s death countdown at one minute and Chen Luo desperately trying to save her.

• Alaya offered Chen Luo the Third Magic if he joined the Holy Grail War and resolved The World’s Evil, and Chen Luo accepted after securing a contract.
• Chen Luo discovered Alaya’s commission provided no Origin Stones and paid 100 Origin Stones to leave her conceptual space.
• Makiri prepared a summoning circle, and Chen Luo used his Elemental Eye to provide mana for the ritual.
• Chen Luo summoned Morgan, who appeared with only her head remaining, prompting Makiri to admit that this was not a normal summoning result.
• Chen Luo learned that Morgan was about to die and picked up her head as her death countdown began.

Chen Luo saved the badly mutilated Berserker by reversing her personal River of Time, but she woke with her memories unclear and would not reveal her true name. Their Servant contract formed, leaving Chen Luo unsure how to manage the silent girl in the Holy Grail War.

• The head-only Servant attacked Chen Luo, who tried to turn her into a puppet before she died but found her damaged body and soul made the transformation fail.
• With seconds left, Chen Luo spent ten days reversing the Servant’s personal time and restored her to her former condition.
• Chen Luo asked Makiri about the summoning and warned others online not to use a parody invocation, while cursing Alaya for the costly rescue.
• The restored girl stood unresponsive until she identified herself as a Berserker, forming a contract with Chen Luo.
• Chen Luo asked for her true name, but the white-haired Berserker stayed silent, and he chose not to continue her incomplete Puppet Transformation.

Chen Luo summoned Morgan, whose soul was in chaos and whose memories and identity seemed uncertain, and gave her the temporary name Origin Stone. He left the bug-filled basement with her and agreed to supply her mana himself after discovering she feared insects and refused to accept help from the Matou household.

• Chen Luo found that more than half of Morgan’s soul had become a puppet, asked to shake hands, and received no response.
• Chen Luo saw Morgan’s recorded names and the status “Soul in Chaos,” then learned she could not clearly identify herself or remember her name.
• Chen Luo named the silent Servant Origin Stone and explained that her silence could conceal her Berserker class from the other Masters.
• Chen Luo asked Morgan to leave the basement and offered to have Makiri supply her mana, but she grabbed the hand bearing his Command Spells.
• Chen Luo realized Morgan feared bugs and said he would provide her mana himself, though his reserves were limited unless he converted Honkai energy.

Chen Luo summoned Morgan before the Holy Grail War began and promised to find a way to maintain her mana, then left her at the bug-filled house. The next morning, he went to the bar, where Yvette remained in hiding and asked him to send her back to her world.

• Morgan used gestures to point out the Command Spell connections, and Chen Luo severed the links to Corrupted Ji Lin and Yvette.
• Chen Luo realized the Holy Grail War had not started yet and persuaded Morgan to stay at the bug-filled house.
• Chen Luo left home after telling Sirin and Holy Sword Durandal to watch the little fox, and Sirin forced it to eat its pickled vegetables.
• Chen Luo told Yvette she had to stay in the bar until they found a way for her to return without raising suspicion.
• Yvette asked Chen Luo to help her return home, refused his offer to fight, and told him to call her if the Lord appeared.

Chen Luo brought Morgan, a Servant who was close to disappearing, to Mobius while worrying about the Primogems he would lose if she died. After Hen died during fusion surgery and was revived, Chen Luo realized that saving people who affected history could raise his threat level and leave the future dangerously uncertain.

• Chen Luo explained to Mobius that Morgan needed his magic power to remain in the world and that he had to keep her close.
• Morgan entered spirit form as Chen Luo and Mobius went to perform Hen’s fusion surgery.
• Hen emerged from surgery walking, but Chen Luo revealed that Hen had died during the procedure and survived because Chen Luo had made him a puppet and revived him.
• Chen Luo saw his threat level rise by five percent when Hen died, then fall after Hen was revived, and feared that historical figures dying or surviving could alter future events.
• Chen Luo considered recalling the puppets whose survival might have changed history, while deciding that Desdichado and Hen did not need to be returned.

Chen Luo performed Fusion surgeries and reflected on his duty to respect the lives of his puppets, then endured Aili force-feeding him sour oranges. After completing three more surgeries, he met Hen and Griseo before preparing to perform Hen’s Fusion surgery.

• A girl thanked Chen Luo and Mobius for saving her brother during Fusion surgery, and Aili teased Chen Luo about his popularity.
• Aili shared the girl’s sour oranges with Mobius and Kevin, then tried to force-feed Chen Luo until Morgan’s attempted intervention distracted her.
• Chen Luo finished three Fusion surgeries that all failed, earning 400 Primogems, and asked Mobius whether performing another surgery would make people expect four a day.
• Chen Luo abandoned a volunteer in a wheelchair when he spotted Griseo, then introduced himself to Hen as the lead surgeon for Hen’s Fusion surgery.
• Blanca asked Mobius whether Chen Luo could ensure survival after a failed surgery, and Mobius said his record supported it before discussing Chen Luo’s Puppet Transformation and Collective Network.

Chen Luo agreed to reserve a safe fusion-surgery slot for one of Aili’s friends, then joined Mobius in operating on Hen while Griseo said goodbye. Afterward, Chen Luo complained about Aili’s rough bodyguarding and asked Desdichado to protect him, though she admitted she was not suited to the job.

• Aili asked Chen Luo to reserve a fusion-surgery slot for a friend, and he agreed before learning the request’s details.
• Griseo called Mobius “Grandma,” prompting Mobius to correct her and Chen Luo to tease Mobius before she punched him.
• Chen Luo and Mobius accompanied Hen into the operating room while Aili and Blanca watched, and Aili sensed a presence nearby.
• Chen Luo asked Kevin to help replace Aili as his bodyguard, accusing her of tormenting him with sour tangerines.
• Chen Luo asked Desdichado to become his bodyguard, but she explained that her mental-perception abilities might leave her needing his protection.

Chen Luo tested Desdichado’s new mental abilities, then returned to the bar with Morgan and Yvette and read a Friend’s Ledger before going to bathe. The Herrscher of Knowledge found the ledger Chen Luo left behind and reached for it.

• Chen Luo offered Cosmo a chance to undergo fusion surgery and teased him about Kevin making him cry, then left with Aili and Desdichado to test Desdichado’s abilities.
• Chen Luo used the Void Archive and his abilities to guide experiments on Desdichado, confirming that her mental power could slightly interfere with reality and had improved her memory and stamina.
• Chen Luo asked Aili to bring Mobius to lunch, then left to return to the bar and draw a six-star item at an auspicious time.
• At the bar, Chen Luo served Morgan and Yvette tea and read a Friend’s Ledger containing a friend’s past experiences.
• Chen Luo went to take a bath after leaving the Friend’s Ledger on the table, and the Herrscher of Knowledge picked it up out of curiosity.

Chen Luo summoned the Herrscher of Thunder from one year in the future to ask about upcoming events and prepare for his first six-star pull. She advised him on Yvette’s Sword of Light, the Herrscher of Knowledge’s identity, Morgan’s needs, and the Friend’s Ledger’s hidden ability to raise his magic power and mental power limits through reading stories.

• Chen Luo summoned the Herrscher of Thunder and learned she came from one year in the future, during the Holy Grail War.
• The Herrscher of Thunder suggested Yvette explain her Sword of Light as a prize from an angel-related secret realm reached through the Abyss Channel.
• The Herrscher of Thunder reminded Chen Luo to arrange an ordinary Talent User identity for the Herrscher of Knowledge, who asked to be A-Luo’s Auntie.
• The Herrscher of Thunder said Morgan needed a great deal of magic power and suggested Chen Luo might complete his Savior title through her.
• The Herrscher of Thunder revealed that finishing stories in the Friend’s Ledger could increase Chen Luo’s magic power and mental power limits.

Chen Luo questioned the Herrscher of Thunder about his random items and learned their uses, though she could not advise him on how to draw better rewards. After she returned to her card, Chen Luo began a ten-pull, which ended on a golden light.

• The Herrscher of Thunder asked Chen Luo to send her, Bronya, and Kiana to the Elysian Realm for training, and he agreed to discuss it with them.
• The Herrscher of Thunder explained useful applications and limitations for Chen Luo's items, including the Friendship Revolver, household register, Childhood Fun Park, Spoon Demon, and Book of Contracts.
• The Herrscher of Thunder said she could not control Chen Luo's draws and advised him to draw on schedule and save currency for emergencies before her card's time expired.
• Chen Luo realized he had forgotten to ask the Herrscher of Thunder about the Honkai Consciousness, then traded barbs with Yvette and ordered her to keep her middle finger raised.
• Chen Luo performed a ten-pull with various rituals and sacrifices, and the draw produced a golden light.