Chapter Summaries

Xina joined Kiana, Mei, and Bronya’s mission to board the unmanned warship above Canghai City, while Himeko coordinated their movements over a temporary channel. At her sniping point, Xina secretly used a captured Honkai Beast and her mutated larvae to seed the warship with six new creatures.

• Fu Hua sent Kiana, Mei, and Bronya toward the drones and warship, while Xina flew separately to her sniping point.
• Himeko established a temporary communication channel and directed the Valkyries to board their drones; Kiana damaged hers and needed a replacement.
• Xina boarded her drone, reached the sniping point, and shot several Assault-Class Honkai Beasts from the sky.
• Xina captured a half-dead Assault-Class Honkai Beast, branded it with her energy, and ordered it to reach the warship.
• Xina's mutated Honkai Beast larvae consumed the captured beast and infiltrated the large Honkai Beasts on the warship, growing into six dark-blue creatures.

Xina directed her Honkai Beasts as Mei and Bronya boarded the battleship and Kiana fought a Honkai Emperor. Xina took control of the Emperor, which transformed into a stronger black form and forced Kiana and Mei to flee through a melted opening.

• Xina ordered Honkai Beasts One and Two to corrode the battleship's armor while Four others created Crossbow Types and Scout Types.
• Bronya and Mei reported boarding the battleship as Xina's new Honkai Beast types supported the assault.
• Fu Hua told Xina that Kiana had encountered a Honkai Emperor, and Xina ordered a Type 3 Aberrant Honkai Beast to parasitize it after Kiana drove it away.
• Kiana met Mei at the corroded entrance near the stern, where the controlled Honkai Emperor attacked them.
• Mei and Kiana fought the Emperor until it transformed into a stronger black form and cut through the battleship floor.
• Mei grabbed Kiana and dodged the Emperor's attack, escaping through a melted opening in the metal door.

Xina used Honkai Beasts to chase Kiana and Mei through the battleship and cornered them beside an Escape Pod. Mei launched Kiana away, then destroyed the two Honkai Emperors blocking them, while Kiana escaped the pod through its ventilation shaft.

• Xina ordered the Honkai Emperor to break through the door and pursue Kiana and Mei while Crossbow-Type Honkai Beasts attacked the Power Room door.
• Mei rode on Kiana's back as they fled, but Xina sent an ice-element Honkai Emperor ahead to trap them between it and the pursuing fire-element Honkai Emperor.
• Kiana spotted an Escape Pod and tried to send Mei inside, but Mei grabbed Kiana and hurled her into the pod instead.
• Mei's lightning attacks froze and shattered both Honkai Emperors, though the pod's launch was restricted by her Herrscher activity.
• Kiana crawled out of the Escape Pod through its ventilation shaft, leaving Xina baffled by their actions.

Xina sabotaged the battleship’s control room and Power Room as Kiana, Mei, and Bronya tried to reach the controls and prevent it from crashing into Canghai City. Fu Hua chose to join them despite the danger, while Xina believed the battleship was still destined to fall.

• Xina watched a Type 4 Aberrant Honkai Beast spawn troops in the Power Room, then had Crossbow-Type Honkai Beasts corrode the Battleship Control Room’s panels and wiring.
• Bronya identified the battleship as likely belonging to Anti-Entropy and guided Kiana and Mei toward the control room so they could stop its fall.
• After the Power Room caught fire and the battleship tilted more sharply, Fu Hua ordered Xina back to the Helios and set out to assist Kiana and the others.
• Xina asked Fu Hua why she would risk her life, and Fu Hua said she could not let the battleship fall on Canghai City.
• After Fu Hua left, Xina reflected that she had sabotaged the control room and started the Power Room fire, and that the battleship was destined to fall.

Xina tried to stop the group from regaining control of the damaged battleship, but Bronya found a hidden backup connection in the control room and accessed its systems. With the power system destroyed and the battleship set to crash into Canghai City in about twenty minutes, Bronya began trying to redirect it before impact.

• Xina flew toward the battleship after learning to operate a ship from a flight manual.
• Fu Hua led the group to the control room, where they found the equipment destroyed and crawled through holes in the damaged door.
• Bronya connected Heavy Armor Bunny to a backup cable hidden in the ceiling and began accessing the battleship's systems.
• Xina realized the cable had survived her attack and ordered her Honkai Beasts to search the ship for backup power systems.
• Bronya discovered the battleship's power system was destroyed and it would crash in about twenty minutes, then agreed to try to redirect it away from Canghai City.

As Bronya investigated the Moonlight Throne, she found an email addressed to Kiana that mentioned four keys and said the battleship’s navigation password was Kiana’s birthday. Xina connected the clues to Herrscher Cores and suspected Schicksal was involved, while the group prepared to try Kiana’s birthday as the password.

• Fu Hua reported the mission’s progress to Himeko, who warned Bronya to watch for viruses and said she would report the Honkai Beasts’ unusual behavior to Theresa.
• Bronya found an email in the Moonlight Throne’s system saying the battleship was being returned to Kiana after fourteen years and listing four keys: Yearning Storm, Conquering Thunder, Pestilent Flames, and Serene Death.
• Xina recognized Serene Death as the Serenity Gem and reasoned that the email’s references to four keys and a throne pointed toward the Second Herrscher and Schicksal, though she could not explain Kiana’s connection.
• Bronya read the email’s final line, which said Kiana’s birthday was the navigation password, while Kiana denied knowing anyone who would give her a battleship.
• Xina suggested trying Kiana’s birthday, and Himeko agreed.

Kiana, Mei, Fu Hua, and the others redirected the Moonlight Throne away from Canghai City, but Bronya’s armor malfunctioned and she attacked them. Xina repeatedly shot Bronya to stop her, leaving the group facing an unexplained system infection as the battleship’s reactor failed.

• Bronya entered Kiana’s birthday as the password, redirecting the Moonlight Throne toward an uninhabited wilderness.
• Xina ordered the Magma Emperor to destroy the failing reactor, and the resulting explosion made Fu Hua agree to evacuate.
• Bronya’s armor shifted to black and red as its system entered elimination mode, and she attacked Kiana with Heavy Armor Bunny.
• Xina shot Bronya through the Moonlight Throne’s windshield, freezing her lower body and stopping her attack.
• Bronya broke free of the ice and prepared to fire on Fu Hua, Kiana, and Mei, but Xina shot her again and knocked her down.

Fu Hua and the others rescued Bronya from the Moonlight Throne before Hyperion destroyed it, and Bronya recovered after technicians repaired her Bio-chip. Theresa and Xina arranged to blame Anti-Entropy for the crash, while Xina focused on earning a doctorate so she could become a research Valkyrie.

• Xina urged Fu Hua and the others to evacuate with Bronya, and Fu Hua carried Bronya and the black rabbit onto the deck before Xina flew them to safety.
• Himeko ordered Hyperion to bombard the Moonlight Throne, which exploded and crashed in Canghai City.
• The group returned to St. Freya Academy, where technicians found Bronya had mild frostbite and two bone fractures, repaired her Bio-chip, and left Fu Hua to care for her.
• Xina suggested blaming Anti-Entropy for the crash, and Theresa learned that Otto had recommended nearly the same explanation.
• Xina returned to normal life and planned to earn her doctorate before the year-end assessment so she could become a research Valkyrie.

Himeko sent Xina to North America to take an early Genetics Doctor exam arranged by Perrine Griffin. Xina passed quickly, and she and Perrine left for afternoon tea.

• Himeko received Perrine Griffin's call and told Xina to pack for an early doctoral exam in North America.
• Perrine welcomed Xina at a luxury hotel and showed her to a room full of scholars waiting to examine her.
• Xina used hallucinogenic spores to make the scholars believe their questioning was over, then completed the exam papers in three hours.
• The scholars reviewed Xina's answers and thesis, agreed she deserved to pass, and gave her a card bearing their signatures.
• Xina showed Perrine her passing card, and Perrine invited her to afternoon tea, which Xina agreed to pay for.

Peilin showed Xina her family's wealth, treated her to food, and introduced her to the Sacred Relics at the New North American Branch. Xina left thinking she might get a chance to raid Schicksal's warehouse when she visited headquarters.

• Peilin revealed that her family owned the hotel and had tens of billions in assets, then gave Xina her expensive watch.
• Jealous of Peilin's wealth, Xina told Jormungandr to build her a golden castle and a mountain of gems, and Jormungandr set off to find minerals.
• Peilin visited Xina at midnight with food, and they discussed Sacred Relics and the theory that Herrschers destroyed the Previous Civilization.
• Peilin took Xina to the branch's weapon room and showed her the 2nd, 3rd, and 7th Sacred Relics.
• Peilin said Xina could see the Sacred Relics kept at headquarters, and Xina thought she might raid Schicksal's warehouse.

Xina was abducted at the airport by Anti-Entropy and confronted by Einstein, who showed her documents alleging Otto’s human experiments. Xina dismissed Einstein’s accusations and demanded to know what Anti-Entropy was offering her.

• Xina refused to follow a masked man, then whipped him when he threatened her with a gun.
• The FBI arrested Xina despite the armed man, and she staged a public outburst before they took her to an interrogation room.
• Einstein revealed her identity as an Anti-Entropy leader and presented documents detailing Schicksal’s human experiments.
• Einstein said Cocolia had planned the Honkai incidents in ChangKong City and Singapore.
• Xina rejected Einstein’s attempt to discuss Anti-Entropy’s principles and told her to name her price.

Xina learned from Einstein that Kiana was the clone K-423 and heard Anti-Entropy’s account of the Second Honkai Eruption, but she rejected Einstein’s offer to cooperate. She framed Anti-Entropy for attacking her, provoking Peilin to order strikes against its strongholds, then spent ten days recovering before returning to the Far East Branch.

• Xina demanded Einstein’s experimental records and learned that the current Kiana was K-423, a subject taken from Destiny Headquarters.
• Einstein explained the Second Honkai Eruption and Otto’s alteration of its outcome, while Xina considered whether Kiana might be the Second Herrscher’s vessel.
• Xina refused to work with Anti-Entropy, revealed that she had sent a distress signal, and warned Einstein that Destiny’s New North American Branch was coming.
• Einstein left, and Xina burned the documents before Peilin arrived with Valkyries and found her pretending to be gravely wounded.
• Xina blamed Anti-Entropy, prompting Peilin to order missile strikes against its strongholds.
• After ten days in the New North American Branch’s medical room, Xina boarded a plane back to the Far East Branch.

Xina returned to St. Freya Academy before the Valkyrie Assessment and tormented Kiana with warnings about failing and a stack of practice books. That night, Xina tested Kiana’s connection to the Second Herrscher, but the results conflicted with her intuition, leaving her determined to investigate further.

• Xina returned to the villa, warned Kiana about the assessment, and frightened her with the prospect of being demoted to support or logistics work.
• Xina gave Theresa a special edition of Magical Girl Teriri, Himeko a bottle opener, and Kiana a set of practice books while Bronya took Kiana’s game consoles.
• Xina gave Mei, Bronya, and Fu Hua more ordinary gifts, then joined Mei and the others for afternoon lessons.
• During a storm that night, Xina placed a modified purple flower by Kiana’s bed and examined her as a possible vessel for the Second Herrscher, K-423.
• Xina left Kiana’s room when the examination produced no clear answer and concluded that her intuition and the results disagreed.

Xina studied through the night, then spent the day avoiding an exam and picking up Rita Rossweisse, the S-Rank Valkyrie sent from Destiny Headquarters to inspect St. Freya Academy. Rita arrived at the combat assessment, where Theresa introduced her to the students.

• Xina decided the Second Herrscher might be hiding herself and studied until dawn, then made breakfast with Raiden Mei.
• Theresa told Xina she was exempt from the culture exam and assigned her to pick up the visiting S-Rank Valkyrie; Kiana protested that Xina did not have to take the exam.
• Xina sat beside Kiana during the exam and snacked while Kiana struggled to answer the questions.
• Xina met Rita Rossweisse at the airport, struggled to recall her name, and drove her back to St. Freya.
• Theresa introduced Rita to the students at the combat assessment as a Headquarters inspector and S-Rank Valkyrie.

Rita challenged Kiana to a Honkai Beast contest during the St. Freya assessment, then the final simulated combat exam began. Xina watched Fu Hua face a Frost Emperor and thought the opponent was far too weak for her.

• Rita apologized for visiting St. Freya Academy and requested a match with Kiana, while Theresa tried to dismiss Kiana’s surname as a coincidence.
• Theresa set the match as a race to defeat one hundred Honkai Beasts, and Rita and Kiana fought with a scythe and twin pistols.
• Rita reached one hundred victories first, and Mei supported the exhausted Kiana as Rita urged her to rest for the remaining tests.
• Theresa announced the practical exam against simulated Honkai Beasts, and Xina watched candidates face opponents matched to their abilities.
• Fu Hua faced a Frost Emperor in the arena, and Xina privately wished the program had assigned her a Judgment-class opponent.

Kiana’s Valkyrie assessment malfunctioned and produced the Emperor-class Honkai Beast Ganesha, leaving her trapped in a dangerous fight. Mei and Bronya rushed into the arena to help her, while Xina stayed behind without her armor or weapons.

• Kiana connected to the assessment program at a 120% synchronization rate, and the malfunctioning machine generated Ganesha.
• Himeko and Theresa realized they could not safely disconnect Kiana, while Kiana began fighting Ganesha and struggled to damage it.
• Mei asked whether someone could enter the arena, and Xina explained the rules for crossing its barrier.
• Mei rushed into the arena to help Kiana, and Bronya followed her.
• Xina decided not to enter because she had brought neither her Valkyrie Armor nor her weapons.

Xina joined Kiana, Mei, and Bronya in defeating the Emperor-class Honkai Beast Ganesha, using precise shots and her Holy Gun Armor: Longinus to freeze it. After Kiana collapsed from exhaustion, the group traced her sudden sleep to the wreckage of the Moonlight Throne, which was still being repaired aboard the Hyperion.

• Xina took a sniper rifle and repeatedly shot Ganesha's left eye armor while Kiana and Mei attacked it and Bronya provided interference.
• Xina froze and weakened the armor over Ganesha's left eye, then helped Heavy Armor Bunny open a path for her shot to blind it.
• Xina blinded Ganesha's remaining eye and froze the beast solid with her Holy Gun Armor: Longinus, prompting the Valkyries to celebrate.
• Kiana collapsed from exhaustion after the battle, and Xina followed Himeko and the others to the Hyperion's battleship port.
• Rita suggested the Moonlight Throne wreckage had caused Kiana's sudden sleep, and Bronya explained that its damaged main cannon and backup engine were being repaired.

Rita recommended sealing the Moonlight Throne wreckage and questioned Xina about her rejected promotion application and skipped assessment. After returning to headquarters, Rita filed reports on K-423 and Xina, recommending further evaluation of Xina’s character.

• Rita advised Theresa to surround the Moonlight Throne wreckage with a barrier that sealed Honkai energy, and Theresa agreed.
• Theresa sent Kiana back to the dormitory with Mei, Bronya, and Fu Hua, then asked Himeko to discuss something aboard the Hyperion.
• On the drive to the airport, Rita learned that Xina had applied for an A-Rank promotion through the New North American Branch and asked why she skipped the assessment.
• Xina showed Rita her doctoral certificate and said she planned to become a research Valkyrie because the benefits were better, leaving Rita stunned.
• On the flight to headquarters, Rita wrote a report noting K-423’s increased Honkai energy and combat strength and recommending further evaluation of Xina’s character.

Xina met with Sirin, the Second Herrscher, and negotiated for information in exchange for helping her revive her dragon. A month later, Xina and Kiana’s group were summoned to the Headmaster’s Office to review records about the Gem of Hopes.

• Xina secretly met Sirin at midnight and offered to help revive her dragon in exchange for information.
• Sirin warned Xina about the God Key Feather of the Wind but admitted she had no countermeasure against it.
• Xina and Sirin agreed to a partnership, and Sirin returned to her room when she could no longer control Kiana’s body.
• A month later, Himeko called Xina and Kiana’s group to the Headmaster’s Office for a field assignment.
• Theresa showed Xina records about the Gem of Hopes that she had found based on information from their previous investigation.

Theresa assigned Xina and Himeko to lead a mission to New Zealand to recover the lost Gem of Hopes, and explained the Gems’ origins to the group. Xina noticed that Theresa’s account conflicted with Einstein’s and concluded that Otto had likely allowed Siegfried to take K-423 from his laboratory.

• Theresa told the group that a Honkai eruption had devastated the Oceania Branch and the Gem of Hopes had been lost in New Zealand.
• Theresa said Headquarters had temporarily promoted Xina to A-Rank and assigned her and Himeko to lead the recovery mission with Kiana and the others.
• Kiana and Himeko asked about the Gems and the Moonlight Throne, and Theresa agreed to explain the Gems’ origins.
• Xina noticed that Theresa’s account of the Second Honkai Eruption differed from Einstein’s version.
• Xina reasoned that Otto knew about the K-423 experiment and had probably allowed Siegfried to take K-423 from the laboratory.