Chapter Summaries

Chen Luo tested whether enhanced Assassin clones could become powerful, nearly undetectable Talent Users and ordered them to acquire abilities through the Collective Network. Back at the bar, Venti agreed to use a Gnosis to gather Faith Power for Chen Luo, but only if Chen Luo explained his black eye.

• Chen Luo copied an Assassin into silver and golden versions, then had Herrscher of Knowledge test how well each could hide in Spirit Form.
• Chen Luo ordered the Assassins to collect Faith Power and download the A-rank Presence Suppression Talent and his Stealth (Master) skill.
• Chen Luo invited Herrscher of Knowledge to sneak into Hua's room while Hua was away.
• Chen Luo explained that his Human 'Orange Juice' Project had implanted dormant Puppet Marks in people, which would turn their souls into puppets when they neared death.
• Venti offered to use a Gnosis to gather Faith Power for Chen Luo if Chen Luo told him where the black eye around his eye came from.

Venti explained that Faith Power could gather on worshipped objects and places throughout Teyvat, prompting Chen Luo to plan a collecting trip with Shenhe. After Venti sampled Chen Luo’s magical wines, Othinus arrived at the bar and demanded another game of hide-and-seek, which Chen Luo refused.

• Chen Luo explained how Herrscher of Knowledge led him into Fu Hua’s room, where Fu Hua discovered them and punched him; Venti agreed to gather Faith Power for him.
• Venti suggested that the Lyre of Winds, statues, temples, and other symbols could hold Faith Power, and Zhongli added that Liyue’s immortal temples and even Mora might contain it.
• Chen Luo planned to tour Teyvat with Shenhe to collect Faith Power and promised Zhongli he would repair damaged temples he found.
• Chen Luo gave Venti silver and golden magical wines, and Venti regretted drinking the golden wine after tasting how much better it was.
• Othinus entered Chen Luo’s bar and demanded another hide-and-seek game, but Chen Luo refused because their contract required both of them to agree.

Chen Luo tried to persuade Othinus to abandon her plan to destroy the world, but she threatened to capture people close to him unless he played hide-and-seek. As more of Chen Luo’s acquaintances crowded into the bar, Othinus gained a growing collection of potential hostages, and Kanzaki Kaori arrived at the end.

• Chen Luo questioned Othinus about why she wanted to destroy the world, but she threatened to wait for him whenever he returned there unless he played hide-and-seek.
• Accelerator and Last Order entered the bar, and Othinus threatened to capture them to pressure Chen Luo.
• Misaka Mikoto arrived with Shirai Kuroko, Uiharu Kazari, and Saten Ruiko, adding more people Othinus could use as hostages.
• Kamijo Touma, Index, and Tsuchimikado Motoharu entered the bar, and Index placed a commission for a huge feast.
• Tsuchimikado called Kanzaki Kaori in from outside, and she handed Chen Luo her Ling blade as promised after he solved Angel Fall.

Chen Luo negotiated with Othinus, who threatened to destroy Academy City unless he played hide-and-seek with her, and challenged her to rock-paper-scissors instead. After Othinus lost and returned to the bar for unlimited fries, the immediate threat passed, while she remained intent on her original goal.

• Chen Luo introduced Othinus as a Magic God, startling Tsuchimikado Motoharu and Kanzaki Kaori.
• Othinus threatened to capture the people gathered at the bar and said she could destroy Academy City with God's Spear.
• Chen Luo explained his hide-and-seek contract with Othinus, then proposed rock-paper-scissors as a way to decide whether they would play.
• Chen Luo defeated Othinus in repeated rounds of rock-paper-scissors, and she headed for the Bar Door.
• Chen Luo offered unlimited fries, prompting Othinus to return to the bar while insisting she had not forgotten why she came.
• Little Othinus happily ate fries from Chen Luo's shoulder.

Chen Luo tested whether his River of Time could produce an enhanced Othinus, while Little Othinus explained how Magic God powers changed across worlds and reassured him about the River God Ability’s potential. Three Othinuses emerged from the river, but the golden and silver copies were temporary, so Chen Luo gained no River God Power.

• Little Othinus advised Chen Luo to keep beating Othinus at hide-and-seek and described sealing her on the third floor as a last resort.
• Tsuchimikado Motoharu and Kanzaki Kaori discussed Othinus’s world-destroying intent and the mysterious source of her God's Spear, while Chen Luo returned Kanzaki Kaori’s Ling blade.
• Chen Luo invited Othinus to enter the River of Time to test whether it could manifest an enhanced version of her.
• Little Othinus explained that Magic Gods lost the ability to manipulate phases in the Moon World and that their powers varied by world, unlike Chen Luo’s transformed abilities.
• Othinus sank into the River of Time, and three versions of her emerged, but the golden and silver copies were temporary.

Chen Luo dismissed two alternate Othinuses before they could reveal what they knew, then distracted the original Othinus with food while keeping his secret safe. After a busy day at the bar, he returned home and planned to take the restless little fox out, while reassuring the bored Herrscher of Knowledge that she would be able to join him in Moon World soon.

• Chen Luo summoned golden and silver Othinus, dodged their punches, and made them disappear when golden Othinus threatened to reveal a secret to the original Othinus.
• Chen Luo avoided explaining the alternates' strange behavior and kept Othinus from investigating by feeding her baked potatoes and other food.
• Chen Luo's customized bar scenes sold for high prices, and he decided to find someone skilled at both cooking and bartending so he could take time off.
• Chen Luo found Book of Cang Xuan reading A Certain Magical Index aloud to entertain the little fox, who could not read and had been tearing up the house.
• Chen Luo told the bored Herrscher of Knowledge to be patient until he obtained the Grand Puppeteer identity, then invited Little Eight to bed and caught her by the scruff when she leaped at him.

Chen Luo went to the bottom of Mount Enzou with Young Gil and Merlin to prepare to give Iskandar a body by throwing him into The World's Evil and binding him with the Chains of Heaven. After Merlin’s wish counted as fulfilled, Chen Luo observed Iskandar from afar and readied Gil for the plan.

• Chen Luo discussed his puppets and Servants with Holy Sword Durandal, Morgan, and Herrscher of Knowledge before deciding to help Iskandar fulfill his wish.
• Chen Luo explained that he would summon Iskandar and have Young Gil bind him with the Chains of Heaven before throwing him into The World's Evil to give him a body.
• Chen Luo, Young Gil, and Merlin teleported to the bottom of Mount Enzou, where Chen Luo explained that his chess-piece marker enabled the trip.
• Chen Luo told Merlin to hide so Iskandar would not discover Merlin’s identity as Caster, then learned Merlin’s wish had already counted as fulfilled.
• Chen Luo used his Clairvoyance to observe Iskandar from afar and asked Young Gil whether he wanted enhanced Chains of Heaven; Gil said he trusted the original.

Chen Luo summoned Iskandar and forced him into The World's Evil to obtain a body, while protecting him with Childhood Fun Park. As Iskandar underwent the process, Chen Luo learned Fantasy Collapse from Young Gil and planned to improve the technique further.

• Chen Luo summoned Iskandar onto Old Worm, crushing the bug, then had Young Gil bind Iskandar with the Chains of Heaven.
• Chen Luo severed Iskandar's contract with Waver using All-Purpose Command Spell Nullification and equipped Iskandar with Childhood Fun Park.
• Chen Luo threw Iskandar into The World's Evil so he could obtain a body, then cleaned the contamination from the Chains of Heaven.
• Young Gil told Chen Luo she wanted to stay in this world and explore Different Worlds rather than return to the Heroic Spirit Throne.
• Chen Luo asked Young Gil to teach him Fantasy Collapse and learned a rough version of the technique after half an hour.

Chen Luo helped Iskandar become incarnated, giving him a physical body, and explained the risks and benefits of his new condition. Iskandar accepted silver Command Spells and offered Chariot of the Gods for Chen Luo to enhance in the River of Time.

• Chen Luo pulled Iskandar from The World's Evil, burned away its remaining influence, and completed the mission to give him a physical body.
• Iskandar swung his sword at Chen Luo, who caught it and snapped it with his Psychopath's Hand ability, then repaired it by reversing time.
• Iskandar thanked Chen Luo for incarnating him and chose to keep his physical body despite being more vulnerable and unable to turn into spiritual form.
• Chen Luo advised Iskandar to renew his contract with Waver and gave him three silver Command Spells, warning that their effects on his physical body were uncertain.
• Iskandar agreed to let Chen Luo take Chariot of the Gods into the River of Time, where it became a silver-enhanced Noble Phantasm.

Chen Luo gained Iskandar’s Noble Phantasms, Command Spells, and Spiritron Dress Fragment, while Iskandar reunited with Waver. Back at the Matou estate, Matou Kariya asked Chen Luo to improve his ability, and Chen Luo used the River God Ability to offer him a B-rank Butterfly Transformation Talent.

• Chen Luo gave Iskandar six more silver Command Spells, then had Morgan teleport him back to Waver.
• Chen Luo used Puppet Transformation on the Divine Bulls and obtained a Spiritron Dress Fragment and the Mystic Code The End of the World.
• Iskandar and Waver formed a contract again, then divided the nine silver Command Spells between them.
• Matou Kariya asked Chen Luo to improve his ability, triggering a commission to raise Kariya’s ability rank.
• Chen Luo presented Matou Kariya with a choice of Talents, and Kariya chose the B-rank Butterfly Transformation Talent.

Chen Luo helped Matou Kariya fuse three talents and upgraded Break Cocoon into Butterfly into a conceptually modified talent. After returning to the bar with Gilgamesh and the others, he was confronted by Irena, who wanted to hire his skills.

• Chen Luo gave Matou Kariya three related talents to absorb and explained how his injury-based talent worked.
• Matou Kariya suggested copying a downloaded talent for Sakura, and Chen Luo agreed to test the idea on Liu Wenxuan instead.
• Chen Luo claimed the Butterfly Transformation reward and spent 1,500 Primogems to upgrade Break Cocoon into Butterfly, giving it cocoon defense, resistance-evolving healing, and the ability to share its effects.
• Chen Luo returned to the bar with Matou Kariya, Gilgamesh, Merlin, Morgan, and Herrscher of Knowledge, while Gilgamesh asked to visit a Different World.
• Irena arrived at the bar, identified Chen Luo as a puppeteer skilled at making puppets and finding people, and began explaining what she wanted.

Chen Luo helped Irena investigate the theft of her hair, tracing the clue to a puppet shopkeeper who revealed an underground auction. Chen Luo offered to locate the culprit before the auction began, and the group set out to find them.

• Irena asked Chen Luo to find the person who stole her hair and help her punish them, and Chen Luo accepted the commission.
• Chen Luo met the Night Witch Shira, who was investigating the serial killer case with Irena.
• At the inn, Chen Luo used Suigintou to draw attention to the shopkeeper's puppet, and Shira threatened him until he admitted he had bought it at an underground auction.
• The shopkeeper revealed the auction's connection to special dolls, and Shira learned it would take place that night.
• Chen Luo said he could locate Irena's hair immediately, so Irena urged him to take her to the culprit.

Chen Luo helped Irena and Shira track down the witch who had stolen victims’ hair to make dolls. He found Irena’s hair in the shop, exposed the shop owner, and left her captured while Irena recovered the puppet.

• Chen Luo accepted Shira’s commission to find the hair used in the dolls and bought a broom so he could fly.
• Chen Luo led Irena and Shira to the doll shop, where he criticized the owner’s puppets for using poor-quality hair.
• The shop owner brought out a puppet made with Irena’s hair, and Chen Luo identified it as the evidence and her as the culprit.
• Irena and Shira defeated the shop owner and trapped her in a cage with her hands bound.
• Chen Luo asked Irena to teach him the magic she had used, and Irena agreed before retrieving the puppet made with her hair.

Irena and Chen Luo exposed the dollmaker witch who had stolen women’s hair and punished her with Chen Luo’s Friendship Revolver. After learning the other hair-made dolls had already been sent to an underground auction, Irena agreed to join Shira and Chen Luo in recovering them.

• Irena recovered her hair from a doll and confronted the shopkeeper, who admitted stealing hair to make dolls for an underground auction.
• Chen Luo lent Irena the Friendship Revolver, and Irena shot the witch, forcing her to laugh uncontrollably for ten minutes.
• Chen Luo used his Hair Growth Spell on Irena, making her hair grow twice as long and leaving her to consider whether to cut it.
• Chen Luo threatened to shoot the witch again, and she revealed that the other dolls had been delivered to auction buyers, including one made from Irena’s hair.
• Chen Luo, Shira, and Irena decided to attend the underground auction and recover the stolen-hair dolls.

Chen Luo completed a mission at an underground auction and discovered that his Puppeteer profession had transformed the Puppet Enthusiast achievement into a powerful five-star ability. Back at the bar, Herrscher of Knowledge sought Yakumo Yukari’s Identity Proof so she could explore the Moon World, while Yakumo teased her about Chen Luo.

• Irena blasted the auctioneer and the human-hair puppet, completing Chen Luo’s mission to find the victims’ hair.
• Chen Luo saw the Puppet Enthusiast achievement change from four stars to five after the Puppeteer profession modified it, granting him several puppet-related abilities.
• Chen Luo returned to the bar, where Gil said he had spent the day shopping in a Different World.
• Yakumo Yukari returned to the bar, and Herrscher of Knowledge asked to borrow her Identity Proof to explore the Moon World.
• Yakumo teased Herrscher of Knowledge by using Space Manipulation when handing over the card, and Chen Luo told her to stop before the girl got upset.

Chen Luo teased Yakumo Yukari about Golden Gensokyo, asked Morgan about her wishes, and threatened Merlin with a Command Spell. At Einzbern Castle, Iskandar dissolved his alliance with Artoria and withdrew from the Holy Grail War after Chen Luo granted his wish for a physical body.

• Yakumo Yukari asked Chen Luo to open a door home, but he shut it on her after mentioning Golden Gensokyo and blocked her from the bar for three hours.
• Chen Luo asked Morgan whether Pan-Human History's Morgan loved or hated King Arthur, then asked what wish Morgan wanted fulfilled; she challenged him to distinguish genuine kindness from seeking a reward.
• Chen Luo used a Command Spell to order Merlin to stand still and wait to die after Merlin laughed at him.
• Iskandar announced that he was dissolving his alliance with Artoria and withdrawing from the Holy Grail War because his wish had been fulfilled.
• Artoria discovered that Iskandar had gained a physical body, and Iskandar said Chen Luo had granted it without demanding compensation.

Iskandar ended his alliance with Artoria after Chen Luo granted his wish, leaving her and Kiritsugu Emiya to reconsider their chances in the Holy Grail War. At Chen Luo’s bar, the Herrscher of Knowledge returned to the Moon World, and Chen Luo prepared to test a new puppet-related ability on her.

• Iskandar told Artoria he would leave the Holy Grail War after witnessing the Holy Grail, then shared intelligence about the hidden Berserker and its contract with Archer before departing.
• Kiritsugu Emiya chose not to shoot Iskandar and concluded that Artoria might need Avalon to face the remaining Servants; he asked Irisviel whether she trusted Saber and proposed going to the Matou Residence after nightfall.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge celebrated regaining her Identity Proof, then jumped back into the bar when Chen Luo used a speaker to imitate King Hassan’s bell.
• Chen Luo considered the special effect unlocked by his Puppet Enthusiast achievement, freed Merlin from his Command Spell, and called the Herrscher of Knowledge over to test the ability.

Chen Luo accepted a commission to handle Artoria after she discovered Merlin was at the Matou Family residence, while Merlin tried to avoid facing her. Chen Luo went downstairs to meet Artoria, leaving Merlin to face Morgan’s anger.

• Herrscher of Knowledge eagerly agreed to try the Collective Network and visit the Puppet Collection Vault, but Artoria called for Merlin outside the Matou Family residence.
• Chen Luo and Merlin realized Iskandar had revealed Merlin’s presence to Artoria, and Chen Luo accepted a commission to deal with her on Merlin’s behalf.
• Merlin panicked about facing Artoria and asked Chen Luo to claim that he was dead, cursed by Morgan, or otherwise unable to recognize her.
• Chen Luo used a Command Seal to make Merlin stay behind, then went downstairs to meet Artoria while Herrscher of Knowledge followed.
• Morgan confronted Merlin over his insults about her curses, while Gilgamesh and the little fox went downstairs to watch.

Chen Luo admitted to Artoria that he was a Master with three Servants and revealed his many Command Seals. Kiritsugu Emiya asked for the Holy Grail’s wish-granting right, then proposed a contest that Chen Luo accepted, leaving the terms of their wager to be tested.

• Chen Luo told Artoria that Merlin had hidden from her and explained that he was a Master, not a Servant, with Berserker Morgan, Caster Merlin, and Young Gil as his Servants.
• Artoria inferred that Chen Luo’s bandages concealed Command Seals, and he revealed an arm covered in them.
• Kiritsugu Emiya asked Chen Luo to grant him the Holy Grail’s wish-making right, but Chen Luo warned that the Grail was contaminated and could not achieve world peace.
• Kiritsugu Emiya proposed a contest for the right to use the Holy Grail, and Chen Luo accepted a three-round match in which each side would take turns attacking and the more injured side would lose.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge objected that Kiritsugu Emiya’s proposed wager was unfair, while Kiritsugu Emiya privately believed Chen Luo would accept because of a restriction tied to his divine duty.

Chen Luo and Kiritsugu Emiya negotiated a three-round contest with a contract that concealed a draw clause granting Chen Luo time with Artoria. After Artoria survived Chen Luo’s first attack, he hurled a blood-red Gungnir empowered by Fantasy Collapse at her, and she answered with Avalon.

• Chen Luo demanded an hour with Kiritsugu Emiya and Artoria if his side won, while offering to spare Irisviel if he lost.
• Kiritsugu Emiya tested Chen Luo’s Book of Contracts and signed a formal agreement that secretly let both sides win if the contest ended in a draw.
• Artoria unleashed Excalibur in the first round, but Chen Luo remained unharmed.
• Chen Luo summoned three versions of Gungnir, chose the blood-red spear, and warned Artoria that he was using Fantasy Collapse.
• Artoria activated Avalon as the spear struck, creating a massive explosion in the abandoned park.