Chapter Summaries

Gwen restored the shattered Gemini Cloth, learned it had survived a failed Holy War, and soothed the resentment trapped within it while Mysterious remained inside him. After asking Mysterious to watch as he proved he could help her, Gwen returned to his room and let the fragile Cloth continue recovering.

• Gwen recognized the reassembled Golden Cloth as the Gemini Cloth and used his Will Energy to read memories of its defeat and the execution of Athena, the Pope, and the remaining Saints.
• The Gemini Cloth latched onto Gwen, so he used the Solace Ray, conversation, and sealing techniques to purge its lingering resentment.
• Gwen asked Mysterious what she wanted and learned that she probably wanted to kill herself; he told her to watch closely rather than expect her to trust him immediately.
• Gwen tried to restore the Cloth with his energy but could not find a faster method before the Main God Space sent him back to his room.
• Gwen lay down without removing the Cloth and let it recover on him.

Gwen’s damaged Golden Cloth barely recovered overnight, so he met Alicia, Griseo, and Cosmos while wearing it. He revealed that the Cloth came from a parallel world where the Holy War was lost, and Alicia asked whether it had acknowledged him as its master.

• Gwen found that the Golden Cloth had recovered very little overnight and told Prometheus nothing unusual had happened.
• Alicia brought Griseo and Cosmos to meet Gwen, and Gwen introduced himself to Griseo and Cosmos.
• Alicia asked Gwen about his cracked armor, and he identified it as the Golden Cloth from the story of Yolandale and the Immortal Star Anchor.
• Gwen explained that the Cloth had been shattered in a parallel world where the Holy War was lost and the underworld swallowed the earth.
• Alicia asked whether the Golden Cloth had acknowledged Gwen as its master.

Gwen used the galaxy summoned by the Light and Shadow Spark to slowly repair his damaged Cloth, while Alicia gathered the Flame-Chasers to hear the story of “Saint.” The chapter ended with Vill-V wondering about Gwen’s mysterious Cloth and Alicia confirming that its origin was a secret even she could not know.

• Gwen explained that his damaged Cloth was close to being ruined and that he was preserving it by using his body as a Cloth Box.
• Alicia suggested that Gwen use the Light and Shadow Spark’s galaxy to supply the Cloth with starlight, and she arranged his transformation pose before he summoned it.
• Gwen discovered that the Cloth slowly absorbed the galaxy’s power, and Sakura and Kalpas noticed the glowing display as they entered the hall.
• Pardofelis brought Vill-V, Su, and Hua to the side hall, where Alicia told the gathered Flame-Chasers the story of “Saint.”
• Vill-V asked how Gwen had obtained the Cloth, and Alicia said its origin was a secret even she was not allowed to know.

Gwen’s repairs restored the Cloth Box only partially, leaving it too fragile to absorb more energy and forcing him to keep wearing it. Vill-V took him to her workshop for safe observational testing, while the others debated the artifact’s weight and nature; Alicia set off to visit the workshop with Eden and Aponia.

• Vill-V agreed to help Gwen and asked to conduct limited research, and Kevin predicted Gwen would accept her conditions.
• Gwen emerged from the starry river and explained that the weakened Cloth Box could not withstand further nourishment, so he still had to wear it.
• Vill-V examined Gwen’s cracked gauntlet, classified it as needing intensive care, and led him to her workshop for observational testing only.
• Sakura and Su reasoned that Gwen seemed to be carrying something unusually heavy, while Eden suggested the Cloth Box might be imposing a penalty because it had not fully accepted him.
• Pardofelis sneaked toward Vill-V’s workshop with Canned Food, while Kevin, Su, Cosmos, and Hua declined Alicia’s invitation to follow.
• Alicia invited Eden and Aponia to visit the workshop, and Eden agreed to go.

Alicia and the others visited Vill-V’s workshop, where Gwen finished basic tests on the Holy Cloth and explained its weight depended on whether it recognized its wearer. Gwen then asked Eden to prepare a gravity training room, while Alicia insisted on joining the music lessons Eden had offered him.

• Alicia persuaded Aponia and Sakura to join her group in visiting Vill-V’s workshop, where they watched Vill-V test Gwen and the Holy Cloth.
• Vill-V ended the basic tests, and Alicia led the others out so Vill-V could work in peace.
• Gwen explained that the Holy Cloth would feel light to a recognized wearer but mountain-heavy to someone it did not recognize, and said it currently burdened him.
• Gwen asked Eden to use Star of Eden to create a gravity training room so he could practice methods he had learned from the Holy Cloth.
• Eden agreed to prepare the room, and Alicia learned she had invited Gwen to music lessons and demanded that Eden teach her too.

Gwen stayed in the Elysian Realm to train, with Alicia arranging for Sakura to spar with him. After a month of intense practice, he had advanced his Sixth Sense training and substantially repaired the Gemini Golden Cloth.

• Alicia asked Sakura about her headphones, then invited her to join Gwen's training as an additional sparring partner.
• Gwen held back the truth about Sakura's younger sister, while he and Alicia agreed to find a more suitable time to tell Sakura.
• Sakura and Alicia tested Gwen in a gravity training room, but Gwen defeated Sakura by deflecting her blade and landing a controlled punch.
• Sakura explained that sparring with Gwen helped her improve her technique, and Alicia invited them to join Eden for music and snacks.
• Over the next month, Gwen completed the foundational Saint training and advanced his Sixth Sense while the Gemini Golden Cloth's damage was largely repaired.

After training, Gwen joined Alicia, Sakura, Eden, and Aponia for pastries and music, and Eden’s performance about the First Flame awakened a vast power within him. In Anor Londo, the bonfire erupted and plunged the sky into darkness, while Eden disappeared into the flames and Mobius hurried to investigate.

• Gwen, Alicia, and Sakura left their simulated training and joined Eden and Aponia for pastries made by Vill-V’s Hundred Flavors personality.
• Alicia teased Gwen about his poor musical skills before she and Eden performed together in the Forest of Twilight.
• As Gwen listened to Eden’s music about the First Flame, the bonfire in Anor Londo surged and a vast power emerged within him.
• The flames swallowed Firelink Shrine, the sky over Anor Londo darkened, and Mobius realized Eden was missing.
• Mobius rushed toward Phylannor to ask about Eden, while Hila warned them not to approach the flames.

Gwen used his newly awakened Cosmo to reverse time in Anor Londo and bring Eden back, then collapsed from the effort. After resting with his head on Alicia’s lap, he woke to teasing from Alicia and an interruption from Sakura.

• The sky above Anor Londo transformed into a galaxy, and Gwen’s silver giant appeared in the stars as he forced his way into the World Bubble within him.
• Gwen sent a beam of light into the flames, and Eden walked out of them before the giant’s image faded from the sky.
• Gwen’s transformation ended in the Elysian Realm, where Alicia caught him and the others checked that he was not seriously hurt.
• Gwen’s memories affected Eden when their eyes met, so he steadied her with his hand while Aponia and Alicia supported her.
• Exhausted from reversing time, Gwen fell asleep with his head on Alicia’s thigh while Mysterious struggled to supply his body with Honkai Energy.
• Gwen woke and teased Alicia about her lap, but Sakura arrived and asked what the two of them were doing.

After recovering from the strain of reversing time to save Eden, Gwen returned to the Elysian Realm and decided to resume its trials. Prometheus and Mysterious warned him against rushing back, but he persuaded them to let him proceed, and the chapter ended with him entering the main hall.

• Sakura left Gwen and Alicia alone, and Alicia teased Gwen before he pulled her into an embrace beneath the night sky.
• Gwen told Alicia and Eden how he had awakened his Cosmo and reversed time inside the World Bubble to save Eden, who said the images still inspired her.
• Eden asked Gwen to help her make sense of the images, and Gwen agreed, prolonging his recovery in the Elysian Realm.
• Gwen's Gemini Golden Cloth began repairing itself among the stars while he prepared to return to the Elysian Realm's trials.
• Prometheus and Mysterious objected to Gwen resuming the trials while his energy remained depleted, but Gwen reassured them and said every person standing behind him gave him another reason to win.
• Gwen left the room after persuading them and found Alicia and Eden chatting in the side hall.

Gwen continued exploring the Elysian Realm, collected Alicia and Eden’s Signets, and defeated a Honkai-powered Midir. He entered the blank door that revealed a visitor’s most feared enemy, arriving in a gloomy town.

• Gwen reassured Eden that he was ready to continue the trial, and Alicia encouraged him to go ahead.
• Alicia appeared inside the trial and transformed into a golden crystal flower Signet for Gwen.
• Gwen chose Eden’s Gold Signet, then proceeded through the trial and received Signets from several Flame-Chasers.
• Gwen defeated Midir on the sixteenth floor and found a blank door said to lead to a visitor’s most feared enemy.
• Despite Mysterious’s concern, Gwen entered the blank door and found himself in a silent, oppressive town beneath a gloomy sky.

Gwen fought Dark Luciel in Elysian Realm, first overpowering him with close-range attacks before Dark Luciel revealed a more dangerous power and tried to turn him into a doll. Gwen began burning his Cosmo to charge the Bow of Light, while Eden refused to leave Anor Londo despite Hila and Mobius urging her to go.

• Gwen transformed into Nexus and dodged Dark Luciel’s attacks, then used close-range strikes to keep him from firing beams.
• Gwen activated the Final Core and battered Dark Luciel, but his attacks failed to break through Dark Luciel’s defenses, so Mysterious drew Honkai Energy to sustain him.
• Dark Luciel blasted Gwen away and attempted to corrupt him, but Gwen’s starlight resisted the black-red energy.
• Gwen interrupted Dark Luciel’s attempt to summon the Dark Spark, and Dark Luciel recognized a familiar fluctuation in Gwen and began scrutinizing him.
• Dark Luciel unleashed Dark Spark Wave and Dark Luciel Beat against Gwen’s barrier, while Gwen charged the Bow of Light and burned his Cosmo.
• In Anor Londo, Hila and Mobius urged Eden to leave, but Eden refused to go.

Eden calmed the runaway flames at Firelink Shrine as a Fire Keeper while Gwen defeated Dark Luciel and returned to the Elysian Realm. Aponia explained that the blank door had created an enemy from Gwen’s power and revealed that it had nearly corrupted the realm.

• Eden approached Firelink Shrine and used her new role as a Fire Keeper to soothe its raging flames.
• Gwen strengthened his resolve, pierced Dark Luciel’s defenses with the Arrow of Light, and defeated him.
• Gwen returned to the sixteenth floor of Elysian Realm, where the Flame-Chasers and Alicia welcomed him back.
• Aponia explained that the blank door’s trial had exceeded the realm’s limits and nearly produced a world-destroying monster.
• Gwen reassured Aponia that the danger had arisen from his own heart and that defeating it had been his responsibility.

After recovering from his battle, Gwen visited Eden in Anor Londo and healed the burns she had suffered while tending the bonfire. He returned to his body exhausted but relieved that her hands were restored.

• Alicia praised Gwen for showing concern for Aponia, and she and Eden encouraged him to rest after his draining battle.
• Gwen traveled to Anor Londo and visited Eden, who reassured him that she accepted the burden of maintaining the bonfire.
• Gwen noticed Eden hiding her hands and found burns left by her contact with the remaining embers.
• Gwen used his flame power to remove the burns, and Eden worried that healing her might have harmed him.
• Gwen returned to his body more exhausted, still feeling pain as he looked at his uninjured hand.

After Gwen agreed to Mobius’s examination, the researchers found that his strength had grown enormously after the seventeenth floor, where he faced an idealist who tried to grant eternal life by freezing all time. Gwen explained his progress with the Gene Lock, and Mobius and Vill-V considered whether its effects could be studied or reproduced.

• Gwen invited Mobius and Vill-V to decide who would examine him first, and Vill-V let Mobius go ahead.
• Mobius examined Gwen in her newly sunlit laboratory while Vill-V compared his new results with earlier records and was stunned by his progress.
• Gwen said he had faced someone who turned living beings into Spark Dolls to preserve the world in an unchanging moment, and Mobius recognized the danger of taking an ideal to extremes.
• Vill-V asked about the Gene Lock, and Gwen explained that he had reached its third stage, though he could not yet fully interpret the ideas behind the Signets.
• Gwen said the Gene Lock had also helped form Stigmata, prompting Vill-V to ask Mobius whether a drug could help others unlock it; Mobius said she lacked the data to know.

Gwen gathered data with Mobius and Vill-V, then decided to keep exploring the Elysian Realm while awaiting their research. Eden used his energy to make wine and tasted a drink infused with his understanding of the new civilization, while Cosmos warned Gwen about the cost of power.

• Mobius agreed to investigate whether anyone else could unlock the Gene Lock before considering Vill-V's prepared seventeenth Stigmata Project draft, then sent Vill-V and Gwen away.
• Gwen told Alicia he would continue exploring the Elysian Realm because he suspected she was ready to reveal the truth she had kept from him.
• Eden asked Gwen to help her make wine, drawing faint streams of light from his arm into water until it became wine.
• Eden tasted the wine, which carried Gwen's understanding of the current civilization, and remarked that Alicia's flavor was strong in it.
• Cosmos warned Gwen not to let power devour his body and soul, adding that one side of Cosmos had already been devoured.

Gwen absorbed Cosmos’s Signet, entered Griseo’s painted world, and discovered black mist corrupting its monsters. After reassuring himself that Griseo was unharmed and taking her for a flight in his giant form, he continued through the Elysian Realm, where Kevin warned him about the cost of power; Gwen then began a hidden achievement challenge by seeking out Kalpas.

• Cosmos offered Gwen his Signet and warned him that the Path of Dawn was a trail shaped by failure; Gwen absorbed it and praised the meaning of dawn.
• Gwen entered Stars and destroyed the black-mist-covered monsters in Griseo’s painted world, then learned from Griseo that the mist had appeared on its own.
• At Griseo’s request, Gwen transformed into a giant, flew with her through the painted sky, and returned her safely to her stool.
• After completing the enhanced trial, Gwen received Kevin’s Signet and heard his warning about power, responsibility, and its price.
• Gwen cleared the floors through the sixteenth, decided to challenge everyone who had left behind a door, and went first to face Kalpas.

Gwen challenged Kalpas to test his progress, and their battle ended with Gwen defeating him in a full-force clash before healing his injuries. After they discussed Kalpas’s mask and Alicia’s influence, Gwen reflected that the world’s beauty was a matter of subjective judgment.

• Gwen sought out Kalpas, who transformed and demanded that Gwen struggle on the verge of death again.
• Gwen caught Kalpas’s opening kick, endured its bone-breaking force, then countered and dodged as they exchanged attacks.
• Kalpas brought down a mass of meteors, and Gwen’s upward punch defeated him, leaving him badly injured and without arms.
• Gwen healed Kalpas with a Solace Ray and asked why his mask remained undamaged.
• Gwen and Kalpas discussed Alicia’s influence and Aponia before Gwen said the world itself had no meaning in whether people considered it beautiful.

Gwen told Sakura the truth about the tragedy from the past and revealed that her sister Ling’s consciousness remained in Ksitigarbha’s Soul. The sisters reunited in the ruins while Mysterious questioned Gwen about whether he considered himself a good person.

• Gwen threatened anyone who tried to harm Aili, and Kalpas laughed before telling him to seek answers from others.
• Gwen called Kalpas an honest man, then left the seventeenth floor and returned to the Elysian Realm’s main hall.
• Sakura visited Gwen, and he took her to a secluded ruin before telling her about the tragedy from his memories.
• Gwen revealed that Ling’s consciousness lived in Ksitigarbha’s Soul, and Ling appeared and embraced Sakura.
• Mysterious asked how Gwen judged himself, and Gwen said he was not an absolutely good person like Alicia.

Gwen reflected with Mysterious on his desire to love and protect several women, and she urged him not to condemn himself for his flaws. After Sakura explained that Ling needed time to recover, she asked Gwen to keep Ling with him rather than bring her into the Elysian Realm.

• Mysterious told Gwen that his desire to marry multiple women did not erase his capacity to be good, though she acknowledged that the desire was shameless.
• Gwen explained that his growing power had strengthened his desires, and that he tried to control them rather than become someone he hated.
• Gwen and Mysterious agreed that human desire and humanity’s capacity for goodness were both powerful.
• Sakura explained that Ling had exhausted her energy and needed time to recover, then Gwen returned Ksitigarbha's Soul to his stigmata space.
• Sakura asked Gwen to take Ling with him instead of bringing her into the Elysian Realm, saying Ling would be safer by his side and could help him use the Divine Key.

Gwen reunited Sakura with Ling and then continued his Elysian Realm trials, where he fought Kevin in Savior form. As the battle pushed Gwen’s Cosmo to a new peak, he prepared to end it with Galactic Explosion.

• Sakura agreed to speak with Ling about joining Gwen and promised not to force her if she refused.
• Gwen returned Sakura to the Elysian Realm hall, where she went to rest while he continued his trials.
• After defeating Vill-V, Su, Sakura, Cosmos, and the others, Gwen faced Kevin and pushed him into Savior form.
• Gwen fought Kevin with the Gemini Cloth as Kevin tested him and tried to convey a message about forging a path forward.
• Gwen’s Cosmo synchronized with his powers, and he unleashed Galactic Explosion at the height of his strength.