Chapter Summaries

After Lumine and Paimon escaped the Shogun in front of Inazuma’s citizens, Ei pursued them into the wilderness while Lin Feng and Kasanri discussed how the crisis could shake Inazuma out of its complacency. Lumine faced Ei’s killing blow, but an Abyssal rift opened and a gigantic King Beast emerged, making her look even more suspicious.

• Lin Feng and Kasanri watched the citizens react to Lumine’s escape and discussed how the Fatui had worsened Inazuma’s internal conflict.
• Ei pursued Lumine through the wilderness, destroying monsters as she wondered what Yae Miko planned to do with the Gnosis.
• Lumine and Paimon fled with the Rice Ball, debated their loot and escape route, and planned to seek help from the Watatsumi Island resistance.
• Ei caught up with Lumine and prepared a fatal Musou no Hitotachi after Lumine’s attempt to explain failed.
• An Abyssal rift opened above Lumine, and a colossal King Beast emerged as Ei watched her with growing suspicion.

Lumine, Paimon, and Rice Ball escaped Ei’s attack, but the clash strengthened Lumine’s Abyssal Aura and left them stranded in Inazuma with little Mora. Half a month later, Lin Feng prepared to meet the Abyss Order’s Prince with Kasanri and his new sweets-shop employees, including Caribert.

• Ei unleashed a vastly stronger strike at the Abyssal tunnel, and Lumine escaped with Paimon and Rice Ball through an emergency teleport.
• Lumine told Paimon that Ei’s destructive power exceeded their expectations, their escape had cost too much Mora, and the strengthened Abyssal Aura could attract powerful enemies.
• Lumine decided to find their location and ask Thoma to contact the Yashiro Commission, while hoping the Watatsumi resistance might shelter them.
• Half a month later, Lin Feng opened Enjou’s Sweets Shop with Kasanri and Caribert among its employees, explaining that the workers were Abyss Order members using human bodies.
• Lin Feng told Kasanri that he had blocked Ei’s strike without serious injury and that the Abyss Order cooperated with him through its Prince.
• Lin Feng gathered the shop’s employees to meet the Abyss Order’s Prince and mentioned that another employee on Watatsumi Island had yet to report in.

Lin Feng learned that Tanbaka had proposed turning Lumine into the leader of a resistance made up of Abyss Order members disguised as humans, who would fight the Shogunate and Fatui and rescue civilians. Intrigued by the plan, Lin Feng wondered how Lumine and Paimon were faring on Watatsumi Island.

• Lin Feng praised Caribert's design of the dessert shop and offered to hire Aether as another clerk.
• Aether explained that he avoided meeting Lumine because he was not ready to face her and believed Lin Feng would keep her safe.
• Aether said Lumine's defensive bracelet protected her from serious harm, though using it could drain her money.
• Aether told Lin Feng that Tanbaka had proposed making Lumine the leader of a resistance staffed by disguised Abyss Order members.
• Lin Feng became interested in Tanbaka's plan and looked toward Watatsumi Island, where Lumine and Paimon were traveling.

Kamisato Ayato and Kamisato Ayaka rejected the Fatui’s offer and placed their hopes on Lumine joining the Resistance. Sangonomiya Kokomi sent Gorou to welcome Lumine, who arrived in Kannazuka with Paimon and was greeted by a man calling himself Tanbaka.

• Kamisato Ayaka reported that hostility toward the Kamisato Clan had increased and branch families were testing its authority.
• Kamisato Ayato and Kamisato Ayaka agreed that the Yashiro Commission could not accept the Fatui’s cooperation offer and discussed Lumine as a potential ally.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi ordered Gorou to lead the Yatagarasu Squad and welcome Lumine, despite Gorou’s concerns that the reinforcements might be a threat.
• Gorou promised to find Lumine and bring her to Sangonomiya as the Resistance struggled against the Shogunate Army.
• Lumine and Paimon reached Kannazuka with the Yashiro Commission ninjas, where Tanbaka greeted Lumine and said the Resistance had been waiting for her.

Lumine and Paimon were lured by Tanbaka and his companions with promises of a banquet, then taken through a teleportation device to a hidden domain. There, the group revealed they were a newly formed resistance devoted to Lumine and asked her to lead them.

• Tanbaka found Lumine and Paimon and persuaded them to join his supposed resistance squad with promises of food and a welcome banquet.
• Tanbaka introduced the pair to his companions, and Old Man Haden guided them through the war zone to a camp at Nameless Fort, where they enjoyed a feast.
• Gorou and the Yatagarasu Squad waited in vain for Lumine at their planned meeting place, while Tanbaka's group secretly took her and Paimon to Suigetsu Pool the following evening.
• Tanbaka led the pair into a domain through a modified teleportation device, claiming it would take them to the resistance headquarters.
• Inside the domain, Tanbaka revealed that his group was a separate resistance made up of Lumine's admirers and asked her to lead them.

The Signora confronted the other Fatui Harbingers over their lack of support for the Inazuma operation and secured aid for the rebels. The meeting ended with an urgent report that the Electro Archon might leave to eat sweet snacks.

• The Signora questioned the Harbingers about the weakening war on Kannazuka, but Tartaglia dismissed the issue as a simple matter of strength.
• The Signora warned Dottore and Pantalone that their plans depended on Inazuma's turmoil, and the two exchanged accusations over their failures and resources.
• Arlecchino refused to involve the House of the Hearth, then handed her remaining Inazuma forces over for deployment as ordinary Fatui soldiers.
• Pantalone offered war supplies and Dottore offered a functioning Delusion Factory, while The Signora assigned Tartaglia to guard the factory or escort supplies.
• The Harbingers discussed their plans concerning the Gnosis and the Electro Archon before an urgent message reported that multiple interception plans had failed.
• The Signora read that the Electro Archon was about to leave because she supposedly wanted to eat sweet snacks, leaving the Harbingers stunned.

At Enjou's Sweets Shop, Lin Feng discussed the Abyss Order's abandoned plan to restore Khaenri'ah with Aether, who believed Lin Feng could offer a better path. Aether proposed using time to recover Khaenri'ah's true ley lines, and the chapter ended as Lin Feng sensed a distinctive Electro presence approaching the shop.

• Lin Feng received Aether's news that the blond resistance had already been welcomed into Enkanomiya by the Abyss Lectors.
• Aether explained that Lin Feng's help had eased the Order members' suffering and given them a new purpose after their restoration plan was suspended.
• Aether described the Order's original plan to rebuild Khaenri'ah's ley lines from its members' memories, then admitted it could only create an incomplete imitation and could not address the curse.
• Aether proposed finding the Administrators so Lin Feng could use time to recover Khaenri'ah's true ley lines, and Lin Feng agreed that observing the past might be feasible with little impact.
• Lin Feng sensed an unmistakable Electro presence approaching and gestured for Aether to pause their discussion.

Ei went to Enjou’s Sweets Shop with the Shogun to calm the disorder in the Plane of Euthymia, where she met Kasanri and questioned Enjou about the shop and its staff. After learning that Enjou had given Kasanri a home and work, Ei thanked him and began eating the sweets he served her.

• The Shogun explained that sweets and clearing her mind were prearranged remedies for the turmoil in the Plane of Euthymia, while Ei reflected on her lost friends and the threat from the Abyss.
• Ei and the Shogun entered Enjou’s Sweets Shop, where Kasanri greeted them with a white fox and reminded Ei of Yae Miko.
• Ei ordered Dango Milk and Sakura Mochi, then asked Enjou why Yae Miko had let him open the shop and what Kasanri’s background was.
• Enjou explained that he had opened the shop to provide stable work for people in need and had found Kasanri homeless in White Fox Field.
• Ei thanked Enjou for taking Kasanri in, and Enjou invited her to enjoy the sweets before they continued talking.

Kasanri prepared desserts and spoke with Ei about her past and the price of eternity. Ei explained that she pursued an unchanging Inazuma even if she herself had to bear the cost, leaving Kasanri to understand the fear and resolve behind her decision.

• Kasanri joined Lin Feng in the baking room and decided to make desserts as a way to speak with Ei about eternity.
• Shibahe Zi and Hyakurin Hakune arrived at the dessert shop after work, intending to check it out, and found Ei inside.
• Kasanri served Ei Mitarashi Dango, water manjū, and rice pudding, then accepted Ei’s invitation to talk.
• Ei invited Kasanri to join the Shogunate, but Kasanri answered by recounting her lonely past and explaining that change had allowed her to meet others.
• Kasanri said eternity was beautiful but required change and could impose endless loneliness on the one maintaining it.
• Ei declared that she would preserve Inazuma’s eternity even if the price was herself.

Ei visited Lin Feng’s dessert shop, accepted the desserts as offerings, and marked the shop with the Shogun’s protection before leaving. The next morning, Lumine accepted leadership of the Abyss Order’s small Resistance force in Enkanomiya and asked Tanbaka to introduce her to its members and specialists.

• Kasanri spoke with Ei about her responsibility and guilt, and Ei felt lighter after their conversation.
• Lin Feng served Ei desserts, which she decided to take back to a friend, and Ei marked the shop with a Triple Tomoe after declaring the food an offering.
• Ei asked Lin Feng how he had met Yae Miko, then left reassured that Yae Miko still intended to address the Sacred Sakura.
• Kasanri said Ei could not be persuaded, while Lin Feng noted that the shop had unexpectedly gained divine protection; he also reviewed preparations for the Soul Return ritual across Inazuma.
• Lumine woke in Enkanomiya to find herself presented as the leader of a roughly two-hundred-person Resistance force, and she accepted the role and asked Tanbaka to introduce her to Haden and the medical and machinery personnel.

Tanbaka guided Lumine and Paimon through Enkanomiya, explaining its history and the Abyss Order’s presence there. They reached the Resistance’s training grounds, where Haden prepared to demonstrate their combat strength.

• Tanbaka explained that Enkanomiya was the abandoned Kingdom of White Night beneath Watatsumi Island, and that the Sun-Subduing Great Narukami Shrine controlled its day and night.
• Tanbaka warned Paimon that Evernight brought frightening apparitions, and explained that vishaps lived throughout Enkanomiya, though the Resistance had not released those confined nearby.
• Tanbaka insisted he was only a bookish strategist and swore he was telling the truth, prompting Lumine and Paimon to accept his claim rather than beat him.
• Tanbaka brought Lumine and Paimon to the training ground, where Haden introduced himself as the Resistance’s swordsmanship instructor.
• Haden described his long-ago swordsmanship career and reassured Paimon that his body remained sturdy despite his eroded mind.
• Haden offered to show Lumine and Paimon the Resistance’s combat capabilities using the Ruin-type machines nearby.

Lin Feng reviewed the Resistance’s combat strength and learned that its logistics group had collected and repurposed numerous Ruin Guards. As the Shogunate and Resistance neared their next clash, he planned to expand the Abyss Order’s Invasion Team by searching for remnants of Chiyo.

• Haden showed Paimon and the Princess the Resistance’s Ruin Guards, transport vehicles, medical support, and combat teams, explaining how the machines could be made to attack indiscriminately.
• Haden said Khaenri'ahn mechanisms had been found near the Sun-Subduing Great Narukami Shrine and that a translated document suggested an envoy had visited Enkanomiya long ago.
• Lin Feng reviewed reports showing that the Shogunate was driving the Resistance back toward Nanjin Beach, while Kasanri lamented the Tenryou Commission’s weakened forces.
• Lin Feng and Kasanri agreed that the Resistance would soon face Kujou Sara and the Shogunate, so Lin Feng said the Abyss Order needed to fill out its Invasion Team before the conflict escalated.
• Lin Feng proposed consulting a Guuji and searching the ley lines for Chiyo’s remnants, and Kasanri asked him to bring her old friend back if possible.

Lin Feng questioned Yae Miko about Chiyo’s disappearance and learned that it might be connected to a lost swordsman puppet near Yashima Island. He then announced that he would use the Sacred Sakura to survey Narukami Island’s ley lines, claiming his Dendro authority let him operate it because it was a tree.

• Lin Feng caught Yae Miko making Fried Tofu in a shrine side hall after she hid her cooking and shed fur from the worshippers.
• Yae Miko described Chiyo’s history, her disappearance near Yashima Island, and her sons Mikoshi Chounosuke and Mikoshi Michikatsu.
• Yae Miko revealed that an automaton puppet created by Iwakura Michikatsu had lost control and might be connected to Chiyo’s disappearance.
• Lin Feng asked whether Yae Miko could sense the Sacred Sakura’s condition and Narukami Island’s ley lines.
• Lin Feng said he would use the Sacred Sakura to survey the ley lines and claimed his Dendro authority allowed him to operate it as a tree.
• Lin Feng headed toward the Sacred Sakura while Yae Miko decided to see whether his claim was possible.

Lin Feng strengthened the Sacred Sakura while Kasanri found the demon horn tied to Chiyo’s lingering resentment and encountered Gohyōzō in Chinju Forest. As Kasanri prepared to join a strategy meeting, she realized the accumulated filth in the Sacred Sakura might become Ei’s final enemy: a shadow embodying Inazuma’s fears.

• Lin Feng used Dendro power to isolate the filth in the ley lines and rapidly strengthen the Sacred Sakura, astonishing Yae Miko.
• Kasanri tracked three hiding Tanuki in Chinju Forest, subdued them, and recovered a demon horn containing part of Chiyo’s lingering resentment.
• Kasanri guided the Tanuki’s polluted yokai power into the Sacred Sakura’s roots and spoke with the sealed Gohyōzō.
• Kasanri proposed a new three-month hide-and-seek contest with Gohyōzō, promising to release its seal after half a month.
• Kasanri concluded that the Sacred Sakura’s increasingly concentrated filth could become an enemy Ei must face, embodying the fears of Inazuma’s people.

Lin Feng explained his plan to create an Electro Archon stronger than Ei by combining Inazuma’s ley-line corruption with replicated Electro Authority, while preparing the Golden Wolflord to withstand Ei’s Musou no Hitotachi. As Gorou ordered the Resistance to retreat from a losing night raid, a missile barrage struck the Shogunate camp and an old archer appeared beside Aether.

• Lin Feng told Aether and Kasanri he would use Inazuma’s accumulated corruption and a replicated Electro Authority to create a powerful imitation of Ei for her to fight.
• Lin Feng explained that the Golden Wolflord had been building Electro resistance in Musoujin Gorge and would receive the Chi Dragon’s defensive Authority to survive Ei’s strike.
• Aether offered the Abyss Order’s help with the invasion, while Kasanri agreed to find Chiyo and direct the coming battle; Lin Feng accepted an Abyssal horn and prepared to travel to Yashima Island.
• Kujou Sara routed the Resistance during Gorou’s night raid, and Gorou ordered his troops to withdraw rather than risk their forces.
• A missile barrage hit the Shogunate Army’s rear camp, and Kujou Sara turned to see an old man beside Aether drawing his longbow.

Lumine and Haden’s faction intervened in Watatsumi Island’s night raid, using Ruin Guards and Haden’s arrow to disrupt the Shogunate Army and help the Resistance withdraw. The Signora learned that the unknown faction included a likely Traveler and ordered Nathan to continue supplying both Resistance groups and prepare Delusions for them.

• Haden’s forces attacked the Shogunate Army from behind with Ruin Guards, while Haden shot Kujou Sara out of the sky with an arrow.
• Gorou ordered the Resistance troops to retreat, and Lumine and Haden withdrew toward a meeting point to meet Sangonomiya Kokomi.
• Sangonomiya Kokomi worried that the Resistance’s night raid lacked the Crux Fleet’s support and hoped Gorou would return with good news.
• Nathan reported the battle’s unexpected outcome to The Signora, including Kujou Sara’s injury and sightings of a Blond Figure leading the unknown faction.
• The Signora ordered Nathan to keep his disguise, deliver aid to both Resistance groups, and prepare Delusions, dismissing them as no threat to the Fatui.

Sangonomiya Kokomi welcomed Gorou’s victorious Resistance and invited Lumine’s team to Sangonomiya, while Childe went searching for the Puppet Swordfiend to train. Lin Feng sent the puppet the King of the North Wind’s power, and Childe found himself facing three Swordfiends at once.

• Sangonomiya Kokomi learned that the Traveler’s team had helped Gorou defeat the Shogunate forces and ordered a ceremonial welcome and an invitation to Sangonomiya.
• Gorou brought Lumine, Paimon, and their companions back to Watatsumi Island and explained the dangers and strategic purpose of the battle at Nanjin Beach.
• Childe left his Fatui assignment and searched for the Puppet Swordfiend, hoping to copy his rival’s training by fighting it without Foul Legacy Transformation.
• Lin Feng learned that Childe had found the puppet and sent the King of the North Wind’s power through the ley lines.
• The empowered Swordfiend declared Childe its enemy and attacked alongside two projections, forcing him to defend himself.

Lin Feng stabilized the Mikage Furnace, inspected the dormant Maguu Kenki, and explained to Aether that he was trying to preserve Inazuma’s time loop and prepare Ei to confront her own idea of eternity. He planned to let the Shadows keep repairing the world for now and headed off to retrieve a prospective employee.

• Childe used Foul Legacy Transformation to survive Lin Feng’s attacks, then signaled nearby Fatui soldiers for help and was found by Rosalyn.
• Lin Feng drove Childe away, reinforced the Mikage Furnace’s barrier, and contained its overflowing Tatarigami power.
• Lin Feng examined the dormant Maguu Kenki and found the information he wanted in its memory module.
• Lin Feng told Aether that Inazuma’s fate depended on a closed loop involving Istaroth and Ei’s resolve to oppose her former idea of eternity.
• Lin Feng rejected Aether’s suggestion to force the Shadows out, saying he would let them continue repairing the world until their authority came to him naturally.
• Lin Feng ordered Aether to take the Maguu Kenki somewhere suitable and prepared to retrieve a prospective employee.

Kokomi and Lumine agreed to a partnership in which Lumine’s small Resistance force would conduct special operations with Watatsumi’s intelligence and support. The alliance prepared to investigate a mysterious aid shipment and rescue Higashikimura residents while repairing Yashima Island’s warding devices.

• Kokomi offered Lumine’s Resistance equal input on plans and promised intelligence and support in exchange for their elite fighters’ help with special operations.
• Lumine accepted the partnership on the condition that her soldiers could refuse unreasonable or overly dangerous missions.
• Kokomi explained that Watatsumi had no way to defeat the Shogun but resisted because civilians could not survive under the Vision Hunt Decree and needed their wishes to reach their god.
• Kokomi asked the new allies to help rescue people in Higashikimura and repair Yashima Island’s warding devices.
• Paimon and Lumine received a letter from an unknown sponsor offering supplies, and Tanbaka suggested the aid might be intended to reassure their smaller force.
• Lumine decided to collect the supplies before taking on their first joint mission in Higashikimura.

Lumine and the Resistance tried to understand a vast Hydro anomaly spreading across Watatsumi Island while Lin Feng used Hydro, Geo, and Dendro Authorities to restore Chiyo. The rain proved harmless and beneficial, but Lumine suspected the source might be a powerful Hydro Elemental Dragon.

• Lumine asked Tanbaka why the Resistance followed her and faced death without fear, and he said the gods had taken everything from them and they believed they would remain beside their comrades after death.
• Kokomi welcomed the Resistance's new reinforcements, but a messenger reported a giant whirlpool and a huge shadow north of Watatsumi Island, threatening the island's fishing and food supply.
• Aether watched Lin Feng use Hydro Authority and other powers to awaken Chiyo's body and restore her soul, while Aether sent an item through an Abyss gate to the Abyss Lectors in Enkanomiya.
• A vast Hydro anomaly spread over Watatsumi Island, and the Resistance soldiers gathered at the shore as glowing droplets and torrential rain descended.
• Paimon and Lumine determined the rain was harmless, and Lumine sensed that its powerful Hydro energy came from a being that was neutral or friendly toward humans.
• Lumine told Paimon the source might be a Hydro Elemental Dragon, since it seemed as powerful as an Archon and the Hydro Archon could not be there.