Chapter Summaries

Ling Feng and Yae Sakura helped Kallen become part of the family, while Otto suffered an awkward hat mishap. A week later, the household prepared Rita’s birthday party, Durandal arrived to celebrate, and miku voiced a vague suspicion that something about her seemed off.

• Yae Sakura embraced Kallen and offered to teach her training, helping her feel like family, while Ling Feng watched in surprise.
• Otto put a book on a shelf, causing a hat to fall onto his head just as Amber entered.
• Ling Feng, True Kiana, and miku decorated the apartment for Rita’s birthday, and Rita thanked them for their preparations.
• Durandal arrived at St. Freya Academy, gave Rita a birthday present, and accepted an invitation to dinner at the apartment.
• Durandal went upstairs to find Kiana and the Queen, while miku told Ling Feng she felt something was wrong with Durandal.

Ling Feng apologized to miku for joking about spending the night with Rita, then discussed her suspicions about Durandal and tried to make peace with her. The two reconciled, but Ling Feng left their conversation about Durandal for later.

• Ling Feng reassured miku that Durandal had come for Rita's birthday and would stay in a guest room, then realized his joke had upset miku.
• Rita teased Ling Feng about the unresolved problems he had created and advised him to settle things with miku before they became a bigger conflict.
• In the kitchen, Mei and Yae Sakura talked with miku and Ling Feng about Kiana's reduced training, increased appetite, and possible weight gain.
• Ling Feng brought miku to her room, apologized for his joke, and kissed her until she stopped being angry about it.
• Ling Feng began to turn the conversation to serious matters, leaving his discussion with miku unfinished.

At Rita’s birthday party, miku warned Ling Feng that Durandal’s decision to stay seemed suspicious, though she could not explain her intuition. The next morning, Theresa assigned Kiana and Mei a Honkai mission as an S-rank assessment, with Durandal assisting, and rejected Ling Feng’s offer to join because he might favor Kiana.

• miku told Ling Feng that Durandal’s unusual willingness to stay for Rita’s birthday suggested she had another reason for being there.
• Rita’s birthday party brought their friends together, while Durandal celebrated with Rita but barely ate.
• The next morning, Kiana asked Ling Feng to take everyone shopping before classes resumed, and he agreed.
• Theresa announced that a low-intensity Honkai mission in southwestern Asia would serve as Kiana and Mei’s preliminary S-rank assessment.
• Durandal volunteered to assist in Rita’s place, and Theresa accepted while instructing her not to intervene unless necessary.
• Ling Feng offered to accompany them, but Theresa refused because he might favor Kiana during the assessment.

Kiana and Mei were tricked into drinking a Honkai energy potion and taken to Schicksal Headquarters by Durandal under Otto’s orders. After learning Otto might use the energy to awaken Sirin inside Kiana, Ling Feng ordered the Hyperion deployed to rescue them.

• Theresa sent Kiana and Mei with Durandal to undertake Kiana’s S-rank Valkyrie assessment.
• Durandal gave Kiana and Mei the Mighty Potion, which supplied Honkai energy, and they drank it before the battle.
• Durandal told Otto that Kiana and Mei had consumed the potion and were aboard her ship, and Otto ordered her to bring both to Headquarters without alerting Theresa.
• Theresa and Ling Feng discovered Durandal’s ship and the girls’ trackers were heading toward Schicksal Headquarters, and they could not contact Kiana or Mei.
• Ein and Tesla warned that increased Honkai energy could make Sirin’s awakening in Kiana irreversible, so Ling Feng demanded that Theresa deploy the Hyperion, and Theresa agreed to go with him.

Theresa, Ling Feng, and their allies prepared to confront Schicksal Headquarters and rescue Kiana and Mei. As the Hyperion approached, Otto continued experimenting on Kiana and challenged the arriving forces to turn back.

• Ein and Tesla helped Ling Feng organize the Far East Branch’s forces, while Theresa declared that she would oppose Otto to protect Kiana and Mei.
• Otto kept Kiana unconscious in an experimental chamber and ordered Amber to inject more Honkai energy, while Mei was restrained and told that Kiana was being tested to awaken her Herrscher power.
• Durandal explained that Otto intended to activate Kiana’s power, and Mei vowed that Ling Feng and Bronya would come for her and Kiana.
• Amber reported that Kiana’s body was absorbing the injected energy through a suspected Herrscher core in her lower abdomen, while the Hyperion arrived near headquarters.
• Ling Feng ordered the Hyperion to prepare its main cannon, but Otto contacted the bridge and offered to let the incident pass if they turned back, insisting that Kiana had to remain his guest.

Ling Feng stalled Otto while secretly infiltrating Schicksal headquarters to rescue Kiana. As Otto forced Kiana to confront her past as K423, Ling Feng arrived at the floating island with True Kiana, Bronya, and Bella to begin the operation.

• Otto asked Ling Feng to trust him and offered to show Ein and Theresa evidence about Kiana, while Ling Feng agreed to buy time.
• Ling Feng explained that he would infiltrate headquarters through Imaginary Space with True Kiana, Bronya, and Bella, leaving Theresa and Rita on the Hyperion to manage the situation.
• Otto awakened Kiana in an experimental chamber, injected her with medicine, and made her relive her childhood experiments and learn that she was K423.
• Otto told Kiana that her Captain, the real Kiana, and those around her had known the truth, leaving her to face the revelation alone.
• Ling Feng released True Kiana, Bronya, and Bella on headquarters' floating island, and True Kiana agreed to let him command the operation.

Ling Feng sent Bronya and True Kiana to search Schicksal headquarters for Kiana while Bella attacked its energy towers. Durandal intercepted Bella, overpowered her, and brought her crashing down onto the headquarters’ floating island.

• Ling Feng assigned Bronya and True Kiana to find Kiana and ordered Bella to destroy the energy towers while avoiding harm to bystanders.
• Bronya used Project Bunny’s Quantum Camouflage to infiltrate headquarters, while True Kiana began searching its familiar corridors.
• Otto learned of the invasion, ordered Durandal to stop Bella, and left Kiana’s capture to the Immortal Blades as Kiana sank into despair over being a clone.
• Bella’s energy beam failed to penetrate an energy tower’s shield, so she tried to ram it before Durandal appeared and challenged her.
• Durandal blocked Bella’s attacks, used her Stands to break Bella’s armor, and cut into her wing when Bella tried to flee.
• Bella’s damaged wing failed to keep her aloft, and she crashed onto the floating island’s airport.

Bella was badly wounded by Durandal while trying to escape Schicksal headquarters, and Rita intervened so Bella could get away. Surrounded and driven into dragon form, Bella fought back and faced a choice between risking her life to destroy an energy tower or failing Ling Feng’s mission.

• Bella tried to flee, but Durandal knocked her down and prepared to destroy her wings.
• Rita arrived, blocked Durandal, and revealed her loyalty was to Ling Feng rather than Schicksal.
• Bella attempted to leave while Rita confronted Durandal, but Schicksal Valkyries and soldiers surrounded her.
• After soldiers opened fire, Bella transformed into her dragon form and attacked the troops.
• Under fire from headquarters’ ion cannons, Bella remembered her mission to destroy the energy towers and realized she might have to ram one despite the danger.

Bella sacrificed herself to destroy Schicksal’s energy tower, while Ling Feng confronted Otto in a hidden laboratory to rescue Kiana. As Ling Feng prepared to use Limit Break against Otto, a massive tremor shook headquarters, interrupting their fight.

• Bella flew toward the energy tower, and Durandal and Rita tried to stop her when they realized she intended to destroy it.
• Durandal pierced Bella’s shoulder with her Knight Lance, but Bella still crashed into the energy tower and smashed it apart in a blast that shook Schicksal headquarters.
• Ling Feng found Otto in a hidden laboratory and demanded that he return Kiana; Otto explained that he had begun an experiment to give her control of the Herrscher of the Void’s power.
• Ling Feng fought Otto, but Otto’s soulium body withstood his attacks, and he used a mimicked Star of Eden to trap Ling Feng in intense gravity.
• Ling Feng broke free and began activating Limit Break, refusing Otto’s offer to cooperate or his warning that destroying Schicksal would endanger his friends.
• A violent tremor shook headquarters, interrupting the confrontation as Otto opened communications to ask what had happened.

Ling Feng rescued the unconscious Bella from the sea using Tesla’s upgraded Chi You and brought her aboard the Anti-Entropy flagship for treatment. Meanwhile, Rita and Durandal prepared to fight, and the chapter ended with Ein reporting that Bella was severely injured.

• After Durandal’s Knight Lance struck Bella and she fell into the sea, Ling Feng left Otto’s headquarters to rescue her.
• Ling Feng and Ein struggled to stop Bella from sinking until Tesla revealed that she had upgraded Chi You and could transmit it to him.
• Ling Feng received Transcended Chi You, reunited briefly with its AI, and used its gravity control to push Bella out of the sea.
• Ein directed Ling Feng to the Anti-Entropy flagship, where he carried Bella for treatment.
• Rita confronted Durandal with her phantom and scythe as Durandal summoned the Divine Key Black Abyss White Flower.
• Ein examined Bella aboard the flagship and reported that she had severe wounds and a nearly broken right wing.

Ling Feng returned to Schicksal’s air harbor after learning Durandal had injured Bella, then confronted Durandal while trying to reach Otto and find Kiana. He activated restricted Limit Break and defeated Durandal with one punch, leaving her unconscious beneath the ruins.

• Ein told Ling Feng that Bella was out of mortal danger and could recover by absorbing Honkai energy, though it would take a long time.
• Durandal defeated Rita and prepared to take her back to Schicksal, but Ling Feng arrived and split the air harbor in half with Chiyou.
• Ling Feng sent the exhausted Rita to Imaginary Space and challenged Durandal, acknowledging that they had once saved each other.
• Ling Feng and Durandal exchanged attacks as he asked Chiyou to activate restricted Limit Break to finish the fight quickly.
• Ling Feng broke Black Abyss White Flower, punched Durandal through her armor, and left her unconscious beneath the air harbor’s ruins.

Ling Feng confronted Otto at Schicksal Headquarters and found Sirin controlling Kiana with renewed spatial powers. When Sirin’s body began dry-heaving, Ling Feng restrained her and tried to reduce the Honkai energy in Kiana’s body to suppress Sirin’s consciousness.

• Ling Feng healed Durandal, returned to Schicksal Headquarters, and demanded that Otto hand over Kiana.
• Otto explained that Sirin had regained the authority of the Herrscher of the Void, and Sirin attacked Ling Feng while accusing him of betraying her.
• Sirin tried to unleash her ultimate attack but suddenly became nauseous and dry-heaved, leaving Ling Feng and Otto puzzled.
• Sirin attacked Ling Feng again, but he pinned her down and tried to knock her unconscious with a chop to the neck.
• Ling Feng kissed Sirin repeatedly to absorb Honkai energy from Kiana’s body, aiming to suppress Sirin’s consciousness.

Ling Feng extracted the Herrscher cores from Kiana and pursued Otto, who abandoned Schicksal and prepared to take his own life. Kallen appeared and confronted Otto, leaving him questioning who she was.

• Chi You told Ling Feng that extracting Kiana’s Herrscher cores could suppress Sirin, so Ling Feng removed the Space Gem and Tranquil Gem and placed Kiana in Imaginary Space.
• Ling Feng tracked down and destroyed Otto’s Soulium body, then realized Otto’s real body was likely near Kallen’s preserved remains.
• Otto awakened his real body, ordered Amber to surrender Schicksal to Theresa, and prepared to shoot himself with Void Archives.
• Ling Feng entered Otto’s chamber and told him to put down his weapon, but Otto insisted he was tired and wanted Ling Feng to tell Theresa he never blamed her.
• The Queen and Kallen arrived through a spatial wormhole, and Kallen stood between Ling Feng and Otto.
• Otto mistook Kallen for someone made from Kallen Kaslana’s genes, but she disarmed him and identified herself as Kallen Kaslana.

Kallen from another world confronted Otto over her past actions and beat her unconscious before Ling Feng stopped her. Schicksal’s forces surrendered, and Ling Feng later examined the preserved body of this world’s Kallen, admitting that they did not know how to truly revive her.

• Kallen told Otto that her actions had hurt many people, then knocked away Otto’s weapon and punched her repeatedly.
• Ling Feng pulled Kallen off Otto, and Otto fainted after seeing Kallen embrace him.
• The Queen explained that Kallen had asked her to bring them to Schicksal headquarters, and Tesla reported that Schicksal’s forces had surrendered and disarmed.
• Kallen asked Ling Feng to treat Otto humanely, and he assured her that Otto would not be tortured.
• Ling Feng and Kallen examined the original Kallen’s body in a hibernation pod and discussed how it might have been preserved for five hundred years.
• Ling Feng said he did not know how to truly revive the dead with their current knowledge and power.

Ling Feng left Schicksal’s command center after Theresa was named its new Bishop and went to check on Kiana. When Kiana woke in his Imaginary Space and confessed that she was K423 rather than the real Kiana, Ling Feng reassured her that Sigfried had accepted her as his daughter and that she would always be his Kiana.

• Ling Feng brought the unconscious Otto and Kallen to the command center, where Amber confirmed Schicksal had stopped resisting.
• Theresa arrived, and Ling Feng sent True Kiana to accompany Otto for treatment while Theresa stayed to handle Schicksal’s affairs.
• Amber recognized Theresa as Schicksal’s new Bishop, and Theresa asked Ling Feng what she should do.
• Ling Feng told Bronya to follow Tesla’s orders, then vanished to check on Kiana in his Imaginary Space.
• Kiana woke and told Ling Feng she was K423, believing he and the real Kiana had known the truth.
• Ling Feng admitted he had learned Kiana’s origins from Sigfried and reassured her that Sigfried had named and accepted her as his daughter, while he would always consider her his Kiana.

Kiana accepted that she could keep the name and life she shared with True Kiana, while Ling Feng prepared to tell her she was pregnant. After Kiana reunited with Theresa, Ling Feng learned that Mei had been rescued and went to find her, leaving Durandal reflecting on their complicated relationship.

• Ling Feng reassured Kiana that True Kiana accepted her and that they could continue living as two Kianas together.
• Kiana asked about Mei before Ling Feng could tell her she was pregnant, so he brought her back to the command center to see Theresa.
• Theresa embraced Kiana, while Ling Feng learned from Tesla that Mei had been rescued and was helping at the air harbor.
• Rita sat with Durandal, who regretted saving Otto and asked after the injured Benarous; Rita said Benarous was unconscious aboard the flagship.
• Ling Feng arrived, asked Rita where Mei was, and flew to Air Harbor No. 2, while Durandal remained behind to consider her complicated ties to him.

Ling Feng reunited with Mei, told her that Kiana was the K423 clone, and reassured her that he loved Kiana for who she was. After Mei joined Kiana and Bronya in the command room, Kiana felt nauseated, and Bronya’s scan led her and Ling Feng to secretly leave together.

• Ling Feng found Mei at Air Harbor No. 2 and explained that Kiana was the K423 clone, while Mei asked how he felt about her.
• Ling Feng took Mei to the command room, where Kiana hugged her and Mei thanked Bronya for helping with the rescue.
• Kiana and Bronya said they were hungry, so Ling Feng offered to take them and Mei to the cafeteria while bringing food back for Theresa and Tesla.
• Kiana retched before eating, and Bronya scanned her with Project Bunny and discovered something that prompted Ling Feng to hush her.
• Bronya claimed Kiana had a minor digestive issue, and Ling Feng took Kiana and Bronya through a spatial wormhole, leaving Mei to walk to the cafeteria alone.

Kiana learned she was pregnant, and Ling Feng postponed deciding what to do until he could consult Tesla and Ein about the risks posed by Sirin. After delivering meals around Schicksal, Ling Feng returned to the Imaginary Space, where Your Majesty noticed blood on her bed and he identified it as Rita’s.

• Bronya told Kiana she was pregnant, and Ling Feng apologized and said he would support her choice.
• Bronya warned that Sirin might take control of Kiana’s body later in the pregnancy, so Ling Feng planned to consult Tesla and Ein before deciding what to do.
• Kiana chose to leave the decision to Ling Feng, then went to the cafeteria and eagerly ate a large lunch.
• Ling Feng delivered food to Theresa, Tesla, Kallen, True Kiana, and Your Majesty while Bronya stayed with Kiana and Mei arrived at the cafeteria.
• Your Majesty refused most of her meal and complained about blood on her bed, so Ling Feng explained that Rita’s injuries had left the stains.

Ling Feng learned that Bella’s damaged pseudo-core could erase her human identity, and Ein proposed seeking Sirin’s help. Because Kiana was pregnant and waking Sirin could endanger her, the group debated whether to end the pregnancy, but they left without a solution.

• Ling Feng learned from Ein that if Bella’s pseudo-core shattered, she would revert to Benarous and lose her memories and personality.
• Ein proposed asking Sirin to repair Bella’s pseudo-core, but Ling Feng revealed that Kiana was pregnant and could not safely be used to awaken Sirin.
• Ein suggested ending Kiana’s pregnancy to protect her and awaken Sirin, while warning that Bella’s core could fail at any moment.
• Ling Feng gathered Ein, Tesla, both Kianas, Theresa, Mei, and Bronya to discuss Bella’s condition and Kiana’s pregnancy.
• Bronya supported ending the pregnancy, while True Kiana and Mei opposed the plan and feared Sirin would not help Bella.
• Tesla suggested asking the Queen to repair Bella’s pseudo-core, but Ling Feng said the Queen had the ability without knowing how to use it.

Bronya proposed using the newly built Ark System to enter Kiana’s consciousness and ask Sirin how to repair Bella’s failing pseudo-core. Ein and Kiana entered the system, but Sirin refused to help, leaving Bella’s fate unresolved.

• Bronya suggested connecting to Kiana’s consciousness through her Virtual Reality System, and Kiana agreed to risk the experiment to save Bella.
• With help from Ein and Tesla, Bronya rebuilt the system and named it the Ark System, then prepared Kiana for the connection.
• Ein joined Kiana inside the Ark System after Ling Feng decided his presence might make Sirin refuse to cooperate.
• Ein told Sirin that Bella’s pseudo-core could shatter and asked how to repair it, but Sirin dismissed Bella as a disposable follower.
• Ein challenged Sirin’s assumption that she could revive and regain her power under the group’s surveillance, leaving Sirin speechless.