Chapter Summaries

At the masquerade ball, Ling Feng mistook miku transformed as Mei for the real Mei and accidentally took miku’s first kiss. miku agreed to keep the incident secret on the condition that Ling Feng become her knight.

• Ein announced the masquerade rules, including that attendees could invite others to dance only with consent and that finding Princess miku would earn a mysterious reward.
• Mei entered the ballroom transformed as miku and found many identical mikus, while Ling Feng delayed his arrival after following a suspicious figure.
• Ling Feng met miku disguised as Mei in the corridor, mistook her for Mei, and kissed her before she slapped him and her camouflage vanished.
• Ling Feng realized he had kissed miku, who was upset that her first kiss had been taken while he was thinking of Mei.
• Ling Feng asked miku to keep the incident secret, and miku demanded that he become her knight.

Ling Feng agreed to serve as miku’s knight in Magic City and at St. Freya Academy, then deliberately turned the hand-kissing ritual into a kiss on the lips. After miku grew upset about her first kiss, Ling Feng confessed that he liked her and asked her to become his wife, leaving her conflicted as he explained what made her different from his expectations.

• miku offered to make Ling Feng her part-time knight, and he agreed to protect and obey her in Magic City and at St. Freya Academy.
• Ling Feng pulled miku into his arms and kissed her on the lips instead of kissing the back of her hand; miku eventually accepted the kiss.
• miku confronted Ling Feng about stealing her first kiss, and he apologized while privately admitting he had acted deliberately.
• miku asked Ling Feng to accompany her to Magic City after deciding the ball was boring because so many guests were copies of her.
• Ling Feng suspected miku’s anger came from complicated feelings, then asked her to become his wife and told her that he genuinely liked her.
• Ling Feng praised miku as more approachable than he had expected, citing how she stood in line, ate roadside snacks, and delivered takeout with him.

miku admitted she envied Mei’s freedom and affection, then let Ling Feng court her as her knight without giving him a definite answer. When the group returned to the masquerade ball, the Quantum Camouflage failed and the Vodka Girls announced they had sabotaged the event’s power supply.

• miku said she envied Mei and told Ling Feng he could earn a chance to be with her, then kissed his cheek and claimed him as her knight.
• miku agreed to attend the ball with Ling Feng instead of going to Magic City, and asked him what he had done with Mei in the kitchen.
• Ling Feng warned Ein and Tesla that he had spotted a suspicious person, while Ein worried that stopping the ball would damage the academy’s reputation.
• Tesla transformed into Ling Feng, but the Quantum Camouflage suddenly failed and everyone at the ball reverted to their original appearances.
• The Vodka Girls appeared on the hall screen and confessed they had taken over the ball after losing the idol selection contest and destroying the magnetic field’s power supply.
• Theresa confronted Ein and Ling Feng, asking why the two troublemakers were still at the academy.

Ling Feng and Bronya found Rosaliya and Liliya after they disrupted the Masquerade Ball, but Bronya reunited with her friends and persuaded them to surrender. The Vodka Girls apologized and spent the night with Bronya and Seele, while Ling Feng failed to find Mei and ended up alone in the living room.

• Theresa ordered Ling Feng to catch the intruders, and Bronya explained that Rosaliya and Liliya were her friends, so Ling Feng brought her along to find them.
• Bronya noticed miku's lipstick mark on Ling Feng's face, deduced who it belonged to, and teased him about it before they met Rosaliya and Liliya.
• Liliya surrendered and revealed that Rosaliya wanted to reunite with Bronya, and Rosaliya embraced Bronya and admitted she had missed her.
• Bronya told Rosaliya and Liliya that the Herrscher of Reason core had restored her emotions and legs, and the twins explained their Honkai Beast genes and tails.
• The Vodka Girls apologized to Ein and the guests, then played with Bronya and Seele, while Ling Feng failed to find Mei and found miku and Mei sleeping together.

Ling Feng admitted to Ein that he liked miku, then learned the company would be called Sacred Fire and ate a late-night meal prepared by Rita. Rita revealed that a mask linked their past and future meetings, but her explanation of why she had waited for him remained unfinished.

• Ein tricked Ling Feng into admitting he had kissed miku while she was disguised as Mei, and he blamed Ein’s Quantum Camouflage field for the mistake.
• Ein urged Ling Feng to pursue miku so she could renegotiate their cooperation agreement, and Ling Feng rejected her proposed scheme.
• Ein told Ling Feng that their new company was registered as Sacred Fire.
• Rita cooked Shenzhou-style fried rice for Ling Feng, then suggested they exercise together to help him digest.
• Rita showed Ling Feng the Kamen Rider mask and explained that their past and future selves had met, revealing why she had kept the reason for her feelings secret.
• Rita said she might have confessed and made up for ten years of waiting when they first met, but her account stopped mid-sentence.

Rita explained why Ein had made her keep Ling Feng’s identity and their future relationship secret, and the St. Freya Academy anniversary continued with Ling Feng accompanying Theresa and later meeting Otto. The celebration ended without the intruder being found, and Ein closed the portal while explaining that it could not remain open.

• Rita told Ling Feng that Ein had ordered her not to reveal their connection so history would remain unchanged, and Ling Feng reassured her.
• Theresa dragged Ling Feng on a supposed patrol, then took him to an ice cream shop so she could secretly get a discounted kids’ meal.
• Otto met Ling Feng and asked about Theresa and the celebration; Ling Feng concealed the intruder’s presence, and Otto left before Theresa returned.
• Ling Feng and Theresa continued patrolling without finding anyone suspicious, and the anniversary celebration ended on its final evening.
• Tesla lamented that the portal could not stay open, and Ein explained that it was needed for gemstone research and could let strangers enter.

After closing the wormhole between Magic City and Shenzhou, Ling Feng faced miku’s demand that he marry her if he wanted their relationship to continue. He went to her room that night to answer her, saying he could not marry her alone.

• The Queen closed the spatial wormhole, and Ein removed the gemstone from the energy device.
• miku told Ling Feng she was leaving the next day and asked whether he wanted to marry her as his legally recognized wife.
• Mei interrupted Ling Feng and miku, then invited them to miku’s farewell party; miku performed several songs for the group.
• miku told Ling Feng to come find her that night if he had made up his mind, and Ling Feng later slipped into her room through the window.
• Ling Feng sat beside miku and told her he could not marry her alone.

Ling Feng and miku confronted their unresolved marriage, and he brought her to his Imaginary Space, where they became closer before she left for the airport. After spending the afternoon alone, Ling Feng received an urgent call from miku telling him to return to Magic City International Airport.

• miku challenged Ling Feng for delaying marriage despite Fu Hua and the Herrscher of the Void expecting children, and he promised to resolve the matter.
• Ling Feng took miku to his isolated Imaginary Space, where they spent the night together and she said she had to leave for work the next morning.
• Mei, Ling Feng, and the others saw miku off at Magic City International Airport, where she kissed Ling Feng’s cheek and warned him not to marry without including her.
• Ling Feng spent the afternoon alone while the others were occupied, then answered a call from miku ordering him to come to Magic City International Airport immediately.

Ling Feng reunited with miku, who returned to Magic City after a Honkai outbreak canceled her concert and decided to stay for at least a month. After she and Ling Feng secretly spent the night together, Mei discovered evidence of him in miku’s room and began breaking down the door.

• Ling Feng found miku at the airport, and she explained that she had returned because a Honkai outbreak in Europe disrupted her concert plans.
• miku told Ling Feng she would stay for about a month, then went shopping and played games with him around Magic City.
• miku returned to the apartment, where Kiana and the others welcomed her, while Mei planned to ask about miku’s kiss with Ling Feng.
• Ling Feng sneaked through miku’s window that night, and the two were caught off guard when Mei came to visit.
• Mei found Ling Feng’s clothes and phone in miku’s room, confirmed his phone number, drew her katana, and began knocking down the door.

Mei discovered that Ling Feng and miku had started a relationship, but the three reconciled after she admitted she was hurt that Ling Feng had not sought her out. The next day, Ein warned Ling Feng that massive Honkai outbreaks had spread across the world, and the chapter ended with Team 233 preparing for a possible outbreak in Shenzhou.

• Mei broke into the room and confronted Ling Feng and miku about their relationship and their plans to marry.
• Mei revealed that she was upset because Ling Feng had gone to Bronya instead of seeking her out, and miku apologized for hiding her feelings.
• Mei and miku made up and agreed they would remain close friends and become sisters.
• Ein showed Ling Feng reports of large Honkai outbreaks across Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Africa, and predicted Shenzhou might be next.
• Ling Feng and Ein alerted Theresa and gathered the academy leaders and Team 233 to prepare for a possible Honkai outbreak in Shenzhou.
• Tesla explained that the outbreak timing was uncertain, while Ein reported that Honkai had affected cities across Europe and nearly every sizable African city.

As Honkai energy across the world converged on Nine Nether, Ling Feng and the others realized that Chiyou was awakening and prepared to investigate and defend Shenzhou. Chiyou emerged from the sea and headed toward the Second Island, leaving Ling Feng determined to stop it before it reached shore.

• Theresa mobilized St. Freya Academy’s Valkyries and announced a possible Honkai outbreak in Shenzhou, but the expected outbreaks never appeared.
• Ein traced the world’s rapidly flowing Honkai energy toward Nine Nether, and Fu Hua warned that Chiyou’s seal might have failed.
• Ling Feng barred Fu Hua and Himeko from combat, ordered Himeko to gather students of Shenzhou descent to seek a Xuanyuan Sword wielder, and agreed to investigate with Bronya.
• South Sea monitoring buoys went offline, and satellite images showed that Chiyou had awakened and was moving north toward Shenzhou’s Second Island.
• Ling Feng ordered Kiana to warn the island’s residents, but Tesla said evacuation would take too long, so Ling Feng decided they had to stop Chiyou before it landed.

After nuclear missiles failed to stop Chiyou, the threat turned toward St. Freya Academy, forcing an evacuation. Himeko discovered she could wield the Xuanyuan Sword and charged at Chiyou, while Ling Feng, Kiana, and Bronya returned to help her.

• Theresa authorized a nuclear strike, but Chiyou swallowed all five missiles and then changed course toward the East China Sea, causing tsunamis as it advanced.
• Himeko reported that none of the Shenzhou students could use the Xuanyuan Sword, and Ein concluded that Chiyou was heading for St. Freya Academy.
• Theresa struggled to leave the academy, but Ein organized an evacuation to Shanghai and Ling Feng used his Imaginary Space to move equipment and documents.
• Himeko touched the Xuanyuan Sword with her blood, found that she could wield it, and recovered enough strength to draw it.
• Himeko flew toward Chiyou, and Ling Feng, Kiana, and Bronya arrived and prepared to join her; Theresa took Judas and insisted on going too.

Ling Yuan appeared from the future, defeated Chiyou, and used medicine to save Himeko from Honkai corruption. She revealed that Fu Hua was her mother and began explaining her arrival to Ein, Ling Feng, and Fu Hua in Ein’s laboratory.

• Bronya, Theresa, True Kiana, and Ling Feng rushed toward the battlefield as Himeko’s armor failed and Chiyou pulled her toward its jaws.
• A mysterious red-haired girl named Ling Yuan struck Chiyou with the Tai Xu Sword Array and a fire phoenix attack, defeating it.
• Ling Yuan injected Himeko with medicine that neutralized the Honkai energy in her body, and Himeko began breathing again.
• Ling Yuan recognized Bronya and True Kiana, then revealed that Fu Hua was her mother and pointed to Fu Hua’s stomach.
• Ein sent everyone to handle academy duties, then questioned Ling Yuan with Ling Feng and Fu Hua in her laboratory about how she had traveled back from the future.

Ling Yuan revealed that she had come from the future on missions connected to Chiyou, a cure for Zombies, and a secret task for Ein. After Chiyou’s defeat, she bonded with Fu Hua and cooked for everyone, while Kiana asked Ling Feng to cover for her unfinished homework.

• Ling Yuan told Ein that her future daughter had sent her back and that one mission was to help defeat Chiyou, while accidentally hinting that the era would soon develop the technology to do so.
• Ling Yuan revealed that she had brought Dr. Tesla’s serum, which could turn Zombies back into humans, and whispered her final mission to Ein.
• Ein and Ling Feng restored the laboratory and began cleanup after Chiyou’s attack, while Ein kept Ling Yuan’s arrival secret and arranged for Chiyou’s corpse to be guarded for dissection.
• Ling Yuan cooked a Shenzhou meal for everyone and served Fu Hua medicinal chicken soup to support her pregnancy, prompting True Kiana to tell Ling Feng she wanted a daughter too.
• Kiana asked Ling Feng to claim that her homework had been lost at sea, and he agreed to vouch for her before they started playing games.
• Someone asked to join Ling Feng and Kiana’s game.

After Chiyou was defeated, Ling Feng visited Himeko as she recovered from losing her Valkyrie powers, and revealed that he was the mysterious person she had pursued for ten years. Two days after St. Freya Academy reopened, Ling Yuan asked Ling Feng to take her to Shanghai, but he refused.

• Ling Yuan joined Kiana, the Queen, and True Kiana for games and answered questions about events and games in her future.
• Ein began organizing the dissection of Chiyou's corpse while Ling Feng visited the recovering Himeko, who had become an ordinary person.
• Ling Feng told Himeko that he was the person who had handcuffed her ten years earlier, and Himeko explained that she had sworn to remain single until she caught him.
• Himeko asked Ling Feng to have Ling Yuan visit so she could thank her; Ling Yuan later visited, and Himeko was in good spirits afterward.
• Schicksal Headquarters and Anti-Entropy agreed to share Chiyou's remains, with the four cores going to whoever found them.
• After St. Freya Academy reopened, Ling Yuan asked Ling Feng to take her to Shanghai, but he told her to go by herself.

Ling Feng accompanied Ling Yuan to the Magic City, where they shopped and bought gifts for Fu Hua and Ling Yuan. After Ling Yuan abruptly hurried them back to the academy, Ling Feng learned she only wanted to prepare dinner on time.

• Ling Yuan insisted that Ling Feng accompany her to the Magic City, and they explored the city and ate together.
• At a supermarket, Ling Feng bought Fu Hua a silver hairpin and gave Ling Yuan a jade pendant she had been promised as a child.
• A boy's ball knocked over Ling Yuan's juice, and she stopped Ling Feng from confronting the boy before rushing him onto the train back to the academy.
• Ling Yuan explained that she needed to prepare dinner's ingredients early, leaving Ling Feng surprised by her urgent return.

Ling Feng learned that Ein planned to use the Quantum Generator to bring Kallen back from Ling Yuan’s era, and that Ling Yuan would return to her own time when the machine was activated. With the generator expected to be ready in three days, Ling Feng spent the remaining time with his daughter.

• Ling Feng visited Ein in the laboratory and asked about Moon, then proposed moving Moon to St. Freya Academy for help.
• Ein revealed that Ling Yuan had told her Kallen was in the future and that the Quantum Generator could bring her back to Ling Feng’s spacetime.
• Ein explained that activating the generator would also send Ling Yuan back to her era, and that Ling Feng would see her again in five months.
• Ein said the generator’s coordinates were calibrated and it would take about three days to charge using the Longing Gem.
• Ling Feng thanked Ein for waiting for him and helping him, then went to the apartment and tried to help Ling Yuan cook.
• Ling Feng told Ling Yuan that Ein’s Quantum Generator should be ready in about three days.

Ling Feng discussed Kallen’s return with Theresa, who warned that Otto might pursue her, and they agreed to bring Kallen back and let her choose what to do. Ling Feng also asked Theresa to excuse Kiana from redoing her summer homework, while he planned to visit Anti-Entropy after Ling Yuan left.

• Ling Yuan teased Ling Feng about Kallen before Kiana returned from school exhausted and complained that Theresa had ordered her to redo a summer’s worth of homework in one week.
• Ling Feng promised Kiana he would ask Theresa to cancel the extra homework, and the group later celebrated Himeko’s recovery over dinner.
• Ling Feng told Theresa he planned to visit Anti-Entropy with Ein to check on Moon after seeing Ling Yuan off, and Theresa approved as long as he did not stay long.
• Ling Feng explained that Ein intended to bring Kallen back from the future, but Theresa warned that Otto might try to claim her; Ling Feng decided to bring Kallen back and let her make the choice.
• Ling Feng asked Theresa not to make Kiana redo her summer homework because she had nearly finished it already.

Ling Feng persuaded Theresa to excuse Kiana’s unfinished summer homework, then spent time with Kiana before joining the others to send Ling Yuan back to the future. Ling Yuan returned through the Quantum Generator after speaking with an unidentified girl who seemed to have a history with Ein.

• Theresa agreed not to make Kiana redo her summer homework but warned that failing the next exam would greatly increase her winter homework.
• Ling Feng kissed Theresa, but Kiana’s message interrupted them, and he went to tell Kiana the outcome.
• Ling Feng told Kiana she had to study for her next exam, and she agreed before asking him to play with her that night.
• Three days later, Ling Feng, Ein, Fu Hua, Theresa, Tesla, Xiao Lu, and Schrodinger gathered at St. Freya Academy’s underground laboratory to say farewell to Ling Yuan.
• Ein activated the Quantum Generator, and Ling Yuan spoke through the opened connection with an unidentified girl who told her to return.
• Ling Yuan apologized to Ein for the girl’s misunderstandings, and Ein said she understood.

Kallen arrived from the Quantum Beam and chose to stay at St. Freya Academy rather than return to her world or meet Otto. The group began planning how to hide her, but they still had to find her a room.

• Ling Yuan said goodbye to Ling Feng, hugged and kissed him, then entered the Quantum Beam; Kallen emerged immediately afterward and Ling Feng caught her.
• Kallen told Ein and the others that her future self had explained the situation, and she decided to stay at St. Freya Academy because she had nowhere else to go and did not want to see Otto.
• Ein, Tesla, and Ling Feng discussed protecting Kallen from Otto, and Kallen rejected moving to Anti-Entropy or relying on her Phantom Thief disguise.
• Ein proposed having miku disguise Kallen when she returned at noon, and the group agreed to consider the plan.
• Tesla pointed out that the apartment had no spare rooms, leaving Ling Feng and the others to confront the problem of where Kallen would stay.