Chapter Summaries

The narrator watched Kirakishou show her first desire to play with others, but she could only remain in the real world while close to his spiritual power. After Kirakishou and Little Pao Pao became playmates, her sudden disappearance sparked a brief panic before Sandora explained the limit of her range.

• Older Sister gathered the girls and guests to play WoW, while Sandora reflected on their unusual entertainment and joked that she envied Pac-Man.
• Kirakishou emerged from the narrator’s Spiritual Sea and asked to play, marking her first wish to interact with the outside world.
• Little Pao Pao invited Kirakishou to play, and Gilgamesh went to fetch her toys as the two girls headed upstairs together.
• Little Pao Pao began crying, and Gilgamesh reported that Kirakishou had vanished after going faint and getting lost.
• Kirakishou reappeared beside the narrator, and Sandora explained that she had disappeared after moving beyond the range of his spiritual power.
• The narrator stayed to look after Little Pao Pao and Kirakishou while Gilgamesh protested his teasing about her sleeping arrangements.

The narrator dealt with family antics and inspected Shadow City's Carnival before visiting District G-77, where a chaotic Warcraft esports semi-final was underway. The chapter ended with the narrator and Qian Qian bewildered by the mismatched teams and the frenzied crowd.

• The narrator described how Kirakishou became Little Pao Pao's playmate, though she could not stray far from him without dissipating and returning to his Spiritual Sea.
• The narrator helped Little Pao Pao get dressed while Jillgamesh complained, then found Pandora secretly marking her height on a mirror; Sandora recalled that Pandora had once measured herself beneath a tower until it fell.
• The narrator, Sandora, and Qian Qian inspected the Carnival, where Hakurei Reimu drove performers off the street and admitted that Yakumo Ran remained unconscious while Yukari watched over her.
• The group headed to District G-77 and discovered that Azeroth World and the New Eden Federation were hosting a massive esports competition.
• Tex Finley introduced a Warcraft semi-final between four Azeroth players whose race choices confused the narrator and Qian Qian, while the spectators roared and traded insults.

As the carnival tournament descended into absurd confusion, A Jun spent the day with Sandora and Qian Qian before meeting Reimu at Silvia’s shop. When a dispute over cultural taboos erupted on the Shopping Street, A Jun imposed an overwhelming reading assignment as Shadow City’s new remedy for cultural conflicts.

• Iori Yagami and Kusanagi Kyo stalled their tournament match by insisting that the other make the first move, while the competition and its audience spiraled into confusion.
• A Jun refused Sandora’s bizarre skewers, then left Sandora to accompany Qian Qian while he went to visit Silvia’s shop.
• Reimu worried that Gensokyo might fall into disorder while she and Yukari were away, and she and A Jun investigated a commotion on the Shopping Street.
• A Jun learned that two merchants were arguing because each considered the other’s clothing colors offensive to his own culture.
• A Jun gave the merchants two tons of documents about other worlds’ customs and declared that anyone who violated Shadow City’s cultural regulations would have to study them.

After the carnival settled into an orderly rhythm, A Jun and the Empire’s leaders attended the Azeroth Savior Army’s military parade in Tirisfal Glades, where Sylvanas explained the lingering Great Rift and its value to researchers. After the parade, A Jun proposed creating an Affiliated World Military Command Department with the leaders of Azeroth’s races.

• A Jun and the others attended the military parade held on the fifth day of the carnival, and Sandora’s choice of date recalled the Shilin Apostles’ Fifth Generation.
• Sylvanas showed A Jun the Great Rift left by the Savior War and described how Azeroth’s scholars studied its stable psionic and spatial disturbances.
• The Royal Review Ship passed over the assembled Savior Army, and the parade was broadcast to audiences in the three Assembly Halls.
• After the parade, A Jun proposed an Affiliated World Military Command Department to the leaders of Azeroth’s races.

The Emperor proposed the Affiliated World Military Integration Department to reorganize the worlds’ campaign forces into the Imperial Auxiliary Army, standardize their command and logistics, and develop compatible equipment suited to different races. The leaders agreed to establish the department, but an emergency report from Shadow City said the fox demon girl might awaken within half an hour.

• The Emperor explained that the worlds’ armies needed cross-world reorganization and standardized equipment to become effective warriors rather than cannon fodder.
• Sandora clarified that the Imperial Auxiliary Army would unify forces used in Imperial campaigns while worlds retained independent forces, local officers, and distinctive combat methods.
• The Emperor reassured Varian that the reorganization would improve deployment, logistics, and equipment without stripping worlds of their military authority.
• Kael'thas and Roland Gail agreed to the plan, and the Emperor ordered the leaders to establish the Integration Department and recruit experts from their worlds.
• Lilina warned that the worlds could become dependent on Imperial technical support, while the Emperor defended the plan as necessary for their survival and growth.
• An emergency communication from Siweisi reported that the fox demon girl's brainwave readings were rising and she might awaken within half an hour.

The Emperor returned to Shadow Fortress, where a self-styled martial-arts prodigy caused chaos before the Urban Management Brigade subdued him. At the Medical Center, Yakumo Ran woke and described a continent falling from the sky, leaving the group unsure how she and Yakumo Yukari had arrived in this alternate world.

• The Emperor complained about his packed schedule as Lilina listed celebrations across many worlds, and the group teleported back to Shadow Fortress.
• A young man calling himself Nangong Ao Tian and several other grandiose names emerged from a dimensional passage and attacked the Hub's security barriers.
• Reimu and the Urban Management Brigade arrested the injured newcomer, while Sandora ordered him sent through the usual processing procedures.
• The group visited the Medical Center and found Yakumo Ran awake, struggling to untangle her braided tails; Qian Qian frightened her with an iron.
• Yakumo Ran told the group she remembered a continent falling from the sky and waking in the strange room with Yakumo Yukari, who said they were in a safe alternate world with no way back yet.

Yakumo Ran recounted how a hexagonal floating continent descended into Gensokyo and crashed onto Youkai Mountain, leaving the cause and extent of the damage unknown. The Empire refocused its search on the incident, while the narrator ended the night being ambushed by Suigintou and the other Rozen Maidens.

• Yakumo Ran told Yakumo Yukari and the narrator about Gensokyo's strange weather, the blood-red moon, and the floating continent that crashed onto Youkai Mountain.
• The narrator and his companions questioned Hakurei Reimu and consulted Empire experts, who could not determine whether the continent came from another world or how badly Gensokyo had been damaged.
• Sandora used Ran's account to refocus the search for Gensokyo, and the narrator lamented that the investigation had ruined his chance to enjoy the celebrations or avoid official duties.
• The narrator returned home and tried to sleep, but Suigintou and the other Rozen Maidens dropped boxes on him for keeping them awake.

The narrator and the Rozen Maidens discovered that Suigintou had bought him a gift, though she accidentally left it outside the many wrapped boxes. Her alchemical Point-You Compass could only point toward Suigintou, and the chapter ended with the narrator cherishing the gift and the affection behind it.

• The Rozen Maidens startled the narrator with a pile of crashing boxes, then Souseiseki explained that Suigintou had something to give him.
• Suigintou presented a heavily wrapped gift but panicked when the narrator found the innermost box empty.
• Hinamichigo retrieved the forgotten gift, an alchemical compass that pointed toward Suigintou.
• Shinku and Canary showed the narrator the other bizarre inventions the Rozen Maidens had bought from the notorious alchemist.
• The narrator thanked Suigintou and asked why she had recorded herself on the compass, and she hurried into her box without answering.

Yakumo Ran learned that the foreign landmass may have come from another world, while a spatial flash carrying psionic traces raised suspicions of Old Empire ruins and a broader disturbance in the Void. An object that crossed a World Barrier was brought to Shadow Base, where a scan revealed what looked like a human embedded inside it.

• The narrator explained to Yakumo Ran that she had crossed over from Gensokyo after falling into a ring of light, and that the Dimensional Hub was working to locate her home.
• Gaia reported a spatial flash and psionic traces near a Macro World Border Outpost, prompting Sandora to order further investigation.
• Sandora suspected the incident was connected to the rising frequency of World Crossings and other disturbances since the last World Crossing tide.
• Agents returned with an irregular object recovered from behind a powerful interference source, and the narrator, Sandora, Tawell, Qian Qian, and the Pandora sisters examined it at Shadow Base.
• Tawell's scan found that the object had undergone World Crossing, and she spotted what appeared to be a human near its center.

Tawell’s team freed a giant warrior and a mutated monster from Space Amber, and both revived in the hangar. After the warrior killed the Abyss-infected monster, he collapsed and died again, and Sandora ordered Tawell to resurrect him by the next day.

• Tawell’s scans revealed a towering armored warrior and a deformed humanoid monster trapped together inside the Space Amber.
• Sandora ordered Tawell to cut open the Space Amber, and the work machines extracted both creatures intact.
• The warrior and monster revived and fought, while the monster’s black blood released Abyss Energy and triggered a base-wide alert.
• The warrior weakened the monster, but a white shadow killed it before it reached the Royal Guard soldiers.
• The warrior turned toward Sandora and the others, dropped his sword, and collapsed from his wounds.
• Sandora ordered Tawell to resurrect the warrior and have him standing before her awake by the next day.

After Kirakishou devoured the Abyss creature’s mind to protect A Jun, the group contained the incident and arranged to resurrect the fallen Giant Warrior. A Jun then visited the World Tree Temple, where he found Lilina overwhelmed by paperwork because Ding Dang’s operating system had locked its premium functions.

• Imperial Soldiers recovered the dead Giant Warrior while Tawell examined his mutated blood and the Abyss-infected creature’s body.
• A Jun discovered that Kirakishou had vanished from the Spiritual Sea, then watched her reform from mist after consuming the creature’s mental energy and returning the excess to him.
• Bubble canceled the capital-wide emergency response, and Qian Qian convinced civilians that the commotion had been a family Gundam tournament.
• A Jun told Older Sister and the others that the Giant Warrior would be resurrected and the monster sent for dissection, then headed to the World Tree Temple to find Lilina.
• A Jun used the sleeping Ding Dang as a key to enter the temple and found Lilina buried under accumulated reports and prayers because her trial software had expired.

The narrator and the God Race Cops Five-Man Team helped Ding Dang repair her disastrous World Management Terminal, while Viska’s past came back to haunt her when the revived warrior recognized her as the destroyer of Atlantis. The warrior accepted that Viska was no longer the demon he remembered and identified himself as Ares, welcoming the Empire’s return.

• The narrator brought the God Race Cops Five-Man Team to help Ding Dang clear her temple’s backlog and repair the World Management Terminal.
• Lilina helped prevent Tawell from dissecting the revived giant, and the next morning Sandora and the narrator visited him at the Research Center.
• The giant seized his greatsword and attacked after recognizing Viska, but Sandora restrained him.
• Viska identified the warrior as an Atlantis super soldier, and the narrator explained that Viska had destroyed the mad demon who devastated Atlantis.
• The warrior recognized that Viska was not the same person as the demon and heard Sandora announce the Empire’s return.
• The warrior introduced himself as designation AL-135, Ares, and welcomed the gods’ return.

Ares explained how Atlantis survived its ancient destruction, drifted through space, and was struck by an Abyss-corrupted wreck before its teleportation engine activated. His account suggested Atlantis had reached Gensokyo, so the narrator prepared to go there, but Lin Xue arrived with Sally and an Atlantis relic.

• Ares told Sandora and the narrator that Atlantis escaped its ruined homeland aboard a city protected by the Sunscorched Obelisk and drifted through a desolate universe for hundreds of thousands of years.
• Ares recounted how a metal wreck struck Olympus Mountain, corrupted the servants beneath it, and triggered a battle that ended with the city’s systems failing and him being trapped in molten material.
• Ares remembered someone shouting “The horizon!!” as Atlantis’s interworld teleportation engine activated, then demanded to return to battle until Sandora put him into forced hibernation.
• The narrator and Sandora concluded that Atlantis had likely teleported to Gensokyo and prepared to travel there, while Sandora worried about the Old Empire’s past interference in Atlantis’s history.
• Lin Xue arrived with Sally and an ancient Atlantis relic as the narrator arranged the teleportation.

Lin Xue brought Sally’s ancient family relic to the Shadow Fortress, where Ares identified it as a beacon that could locate Atlantis. The beacon revealed a route to the lost world, and A Jun sent troops through the Teleportation Gate to reinforce the battle against the Abyss.

• Lin Xue told A Jun that Sally’s family had preserved a mysterious black disc for generations, and she brought Sally and the relic to the command headquarters.
• A Jun explained Atlantis’s history to Lin Xue, then took her and Sally to meet Ares in the Research Center.
• Ares recognized Sally as an Atlantean descendant and accepted that Atlantis had been destroyed and Earth had changed, without demanding compensation for his people.
• Ares activated the disc with his blood, and its message revealed that it was a beacon requiring a higher-level spatial positioning device to find Atlantis.
• A Jun realized the beacon could help locate the lost world and announced that the Time-Space Administration should prepare to send troops.
• Sandora confirmed that Atlantis’s defenders needed immediate help, and A Jun sent the assembled forces through the Teleportation Gate toward the front lines.

The Empire mobilized an expedition to investigate Atlantis, which had crashed into Gensokyo and threatened Youkai Mountain. After surveying the damage from orbit, the group descended toward the mountain to meet its residents, who mistook their aircraft for another danger from the sky.

• Vega led Armored Scorpions, Ravens, and Leader Bees toward the transport ship, while Reimu, Yukari, and Ran learned that an Imperial Colony Ship had crashed into Gensokyo and agreed to return home.
• Bubble rushed toward the expedition with plans to conquer Gensokyo, but Older Sister carried her away before she could act.
• The Empire's forces boarded a Faith-class transport ship and entered Gensokyo, where the Shipboard Mainframe showed that Atlantis hung over Youkai Mountain and had withered much of its upper slopes.
• Yukari left to reinforce the Great Barrier, but an Imperial vessel's teleportation restriction forced her to hurry out through the normal exit.
• Sandora sent Ares and Imperial Agents to Atlantis to organize evacuations, while the narrator took Reimu and Ran toward Youkai Mountain in a light transport aircraft.
• Gensokyo's residents saw the aircraft approach beneath Atlantis and attacked it, startling Reimu.

The emperor’s family landed in Gensokyo, where Reimu and Marisa explained that Atlantis was descending toward Youkai Mountain. The narrator realized that the youkai were unintentionally keeping the island’s shield powered, but Cirno and Ding Dang wandered off together before anyone could act.

• The transport survived Gensokyo’s danmaku barrage and landed among hundreds of wary youkai.
• Reimu and Ran reunited with Marisa, who learned about their time in the Empire and warned that Sky Island was descending again.
• Cirno explained that gathered youkai were struggling to hold Atlantis above Youkai Mountain while people fought on the island.
• The narrator determined that Atlantis’s conduits were absorbing most of the youkai’s power and converting it into energy for the island’s shield.
• Ding Dang emerged from the narrator’s clothes and met Cirno, and the two introduced themselves as the strongest and most amazing before running off to play.

The narrator, Sandora, and their companions joined Marisa and the residents of Gensokyo as they struggled to keep Atlantis from crashing into Youkai Mountain. Imperial Agents reported that Atlantis was being consumed by the Abyss and could fail within seventy-two hours, leaving the group to plan how to lift it safely while coordinating Gensokyo’s scattered forces.

• Marisa learned Atlantis belonged to the narrator’s group and accused them of causing the crisis, while Yakumo Ran relayed Yakumo Yukari’s warning that the barrier remained stable for now.
• Marisa led the group to Youkai Mountain, where residents of Gensokyo used their varied powers in disorganized teams to hold Atlantis above the mountain.
• Imperial Agents reported that an extremely dangerous, heavily Abyssalized object was destabilizing Atlantis and that its systems could fail within seventy-two hours.
• Sandora rejected an immediate attack that could trigger an Abyssal eruption over Youkai Mountain and decided the group should prepare to lift Atlantis for a landing operation.
• Marisa agreed to help after Reimu warned her about the Abyss, and curious Gensokyo residents gathered around the outsiders.

Chen Jun explained to Gensokyo’s yokai that Atlantis had fallen from another world and that its failing shield could release Abyss Energy if the island rose without their power. With Yakumo Yukari’s support, he organized the yokai to ascend with Atlantis and evacuate aboard the mothership.

• Chen Jun introduced himself and Sandora, then used a holographic projection to show the yokai Atlantis’s history and its arrival in Gensokyo.
• Chen Jun explained that the yokai’s power was sustaining Atlantis’s shield and Abyss suppression systems, making their cooperation essential to prevent disaster.
• Saigyouji Yuyuko and Youmu arrived, and Yakumo Yukari emerged from a rift to support Chen Jun’s plan.
• Chen Jun told the yokai to ascend with Atlantis while maintaining their power, then evacuate to the mothership’s Safe Zone within three minutes.
• Marisa agreed to follow Chen Jun’s instructions because Reimu and Yukari trusted him and Gensokyo had no other way to handle the crisis.

Chen and Sandora prepared the yokai for Atlantis’s urgent ascent while spending time with Yakumo Yukari, Hakurei Reimu, and the others. An Imperial Agent found that the contamination source at Olympus Mountain was a dangerous fragment of the Viska Star Ring, and Chen ordered preparations as Atlantis’s launch drew near.

• Chen and Sandora explained that the yokai would need to rotate shifts and rest before Atlantis began its ascent within twelve hours.
• Hakurei Reimu fed Sandora and Saigyouji Yuyuko snacks until they ran out, then Chen shook a vast hoard of stolen goods from Reimu’s Personal Space.
• An Imperial Agent reported that the Olympus Mountain impact site held an intensely contaminated piece of Imperial machinery and could not be approached safely.
• Sandora identified the object as a fragment from the power sector of the Viska Star Ring, and Chen ordered the agents to place Null Beacons and Alaya’s feathers nearby.
• Chen told the yokai to rest because Atlantis’s ascent would begin soon, then wondered where Ding Dang had gone.

A Jun and the others found Ding Dang and Cirno playing a game in which Cirno froze Ding Dang and was struck by escalating heavenly lightning. After learning more about Ding Dang’s status as a Goddess, the group returned to Youkai Mountain, where someone was waiting on their bamboo mat.

• A Jun and the others followed the thunder and Ding Dang’s divine power into a hidden clearing, where lightning struck Cirno and Ding Dang was trapped inside a large ice ball.
• Ding Dang broke free and restored the damaged clearing, then explained that she and Cirno were playing a game to see whether she escaped the ice before Cirno was knocked out by lightning.
• The group watched Cirno freeze Ding Dang again and endure another lightning storm, after which Reimu assured Cirno that her position as the strongest was secure.
• Yakumo Yukari revealed that Ding Dang was a Goddess, surprising Marisa and the others, while Yuyuko quietly kept Youmu at a distance.
• A Jun and the others returned to Youkai Mountain in the evening, where they found someone occupying their bamboo mat.