Recaps

The Flame-Chasers met the little Vitas and agreed to help clear the Honkai Beasts in exchange for help finding their missing companion. The group began traveling through the city together, leaving the little Vitas reassured by their powerful new allies.

• Kevin protected Reserved Vita from an attack, and Theresa introduced the Flame-Chasers to the little Vitas.
• The little Vitas mistook Su for Big Sister Vita, and Su explained that the group had come to find a companion on the planet.
• Theresa proposed that the Flame-Chasers clear out the Honkai Beasts if the little Vitas helped locate their companion, and Heguang agreed.
• The little Vitas led the Flame-Chasers through the city, where Kalpas destroyed a group of Assault-type Honkai Beasts with one punch.
• Hua explained that more dangerous Honkai Beasts and the Dead existed, and Elysia reassured the frightened little Vitas that the Flame-Chasers could handle them.

Heguang and Hanstu led the Flame-Chasers to Flos's hidden underground museum to search for records about Honkai and the Abyss. After Kalpas accidentally opened the entrance, the group learned about the city and its agents, beginning with the inspector Yixin Xiao Hong.

• Heguang explained that she and Hanstu suspected a connection between the Abyss and Honkai after hearing Vita mutter about the Abyss, and Hanstu and Yixin Xiao Hong agreed to guide the Flame-Chasers to the museum.
• The Flame-Chasers easily defeated the Honkai Beasts they encountered, reassuring the little Vitas that the visitors had not caused the outbreak.
• At the museum entrance, Kalpas's flames lit the surrounding torches and opened the Alloy Door, while Aponia and Theresa kept her from attacking the mechanism.
• Theresa noticed Sosa watching from above as the group entered the underground museum.
• Hanstu explained that seven agents governed Flos and introduced Yixin Xiao Hong as the city's enthusiastic inspector.

The Flame-Chasers learned about the Vitas while exploring the city’s museum for clues about the Honkai and the Abyss. Theresa put a Masked Fool’s mask into the supposedly empty display case that held Moriarty, while Himeko grabbed the data lifeform inside.

• Heguang and Hanstu described the other Vitas and their personalities to the Flame-Chasers.
• Theresa and Hua found an empty display case that Hanstu said had been an exhibit since the city’s founding.
• Theresa persuaded Heguang and Hanstu to let her place an exhibit inside by offering them a chance to touch her cat ears and tail.
• Theresa opened the case, and Himeko reached out and grabbed the transparent cluster of data inside.
• Theresa put a Masked Fool’s mask into the display case and closed it.

Theresa released Moriarty, Otto’s alternate account, from captivity and restrained him when he tried to escape. She challenged his claims of genius by comparing him with Dr. MEI, leaving Moriarty uneasy as she began her argument.

• Theresa identified the data entity as Moriarty, a new consciousness born in one of Otto’s Soul Steel bodies, and had Himeko release him.
• Moriarty thanked Himeko, declared he would create a surprise for the city, and tried to flee, but Theresa gathered and restrained his data body.
• Moriarty argued with Theresa and insulted her, while Kalpas and the others reacted angrily to his behavior.
• Theresa proposed debating what made a true genius and got the Flame-Chasers’ permission to discuss their and Dr. MEI’s accomplishments.
• Theresa described Dr. MEI’s plan to help humanity defeat the Honkai and advance civilization, making Moriarty suspect her argument was leading somewhere troubling.

Theresa explained Honkai, the Imaginary Tree, and the Previous Civilization’s efforts to survive the trials, including its Divine Keys and other projects. As her lecture continued, Sosa ordered Vita to approach Theresa for information, leaving Vita disillusioned and plotting against her.

• Theresa described Honkai as the Imaginary Tree’s civilization trial and explained the Sea of Quantum to Moriarty, the Flame-Chasers, and the little Vitas.
• Theresa showed images of low-level Honkai Beasts and zombies, while Sosa and Vita secretly listened from between dimensions.
• Sosa ordered Vita to contact Theresa and learn about Honkai at any cost, and Vita gave up her admiration for Sosa and began considering how to deal with her.
• Theresa explained Herrschers and Dr. MEI’s plans, then listed the Divine Keys and described the Fusion Warrior and Stigmata Projects.
• Moriarty realized that his crimes seemed insignificant beside the Previous Civilization’s struggle against Honkai.

Vita arrived and revealed that she knew where Griseo was, but asked Theresa's group to help clear the Honkai Beasts from Flos first. After reuniting with the little agents, she prepared to join them in fighting Honkai.

• Theresa urged Moriarty to abandon his criminal schemes and help find Griseo, and Moriarty agreed that he wanted to surpass Otto.
• Vita arrived, introduced herself as Flos's chief agent, and revealed that she had preserved Moriarty's consciousness after trapping him for over two hundred years.
• Vita told Theresa's group she knew where Griseo was and asked them to clear the Honkai Beasts from Flos before leading them to her.
• Theresa embraced Vita, leaving Vita flustered and receptive to Theresa's affection, until Himeko reminded Theresa to restrain herself.
• Hua agreed that the group would help Flos, and Vita reunited with Xiao Hong, Hanstu, and Xiao Guang before declaring she would fight Honkai with them.

Theresa offered Vita a Masked Fool mask and helped her reject Sosa’s control, while the Flame-Chasers began clearing Honkai Beasts from Flos. After Kalpas wiped out the beasts, Sparkle was sent toward the Solar System to investigate Theresa’s aura of immortality.

• Theresa revealed that Sosa was a goddess who had ordered Vita to gain the Flame-Chasers’ trust at the cost of her life, and she offered Vita a chance to escape Sosa’s control.
• Hanstu and the other little ones urged Vita to live for herself, and Vita accepted Theresa’s mask and joined the Masked Fools.
• An Eidos User from the Interastral Peace Corporation and Aha sent Sparkle toward the Solar System to investigate the aura of immortality.
• Under Vita’s guidance, the Flame-Chasers attacked the Honkai Beasts on Flos, with Kevin freezing them and Aponia striking them with golden lightning.
• Kalpas unleashed a fire tornado that destroyed all the Honkai Beasts on Flos and beyond, and the other Flame-Chasers restrained him before he caused further destruction.

The Flame-Chasers and Theresa planned how Flos could prepare to fight the Honkai, while explaining why they could not intervene too much. After Theresa predicted the next outbreak for a month later, Vita offered to lead them to the buried battleship.

• Vita and the seven little Vitas met the Flame-Chasers and heard Mobius explain how to organize Flos's defense against the Honkai.
• Theresa promised support from Schicksal, while Kevin planned to send World Serpent personnel, including Feather Rabbit, to train Flos's people.
• Theresa explained that excessive intervention could shift the Honkai's trial onto Flos, causing stronger threats, and said the Flame-Chasers should let its people fight for themselves unless the planet faced destruction.
• Theresa revealed she had recently inherited the Honkai Will and predicted that the next outbreak would come in a month, bringing Knight-type and Chariot-type Honkai Beasts and ordinary zombies.
• Vita offered to take the Flame-Chasers to the battleship buried beneath the mountains where she and Sosa had concealed it.

Vita revealed that Sosa had repeatedly destroyed and reset civilizations, and asked the Flame-Chasers to help her overthrow Sosa so she could take her place. As Vita opened the Ark, Sosa appeared in the sky and accused her of betrayal.

• Vita led the group to the ruins of Qiming and explained that she had been forced to reset civilizations and trigger the Great Flood of World Destruction for Sosa.
• Vita told Theresa that she wanted the Flame-Chasers' help to defeat Sosa and become a new Sosa with humanity.
• Vita gave Hua a bird-shaped Jade Pendant that Hua had once gifted to Griseo.
• Vita warned the group that using her authority would alert Sosa, then split apart the mountains to uncover the Ark as Kalpas cleared away the dust.
• Sosa appeared as a purple eye in the sky and told Vita, "You betrayed me, Agent."

Vita confronted Sosa over her betrayal and was gravely injured when Sosa stripped away some of her power, but Theresa healed her and the Servants vowed to defeat the false god. Verity authenticated herself as the Ark’s creator, and Theresa cleared the Ark’s monsters so they could reach Griseo’s Cryo Pod.

• Vita accused Sosa of betraying her, and Sosa wounded Vita by stripping away some of her power before threatening to destroy everyone.
• Kevin, Theresa, and the other Servants challenged Sosa’s threats while keeping their true strength hidden to lure her out.
• Theresa healed Vita, who accepted that Sosa had hurt her and resolved to stop helping her.
• Verity authenticated herself as the Ark’s highest-authority user and requested a route to Griseo’s Cryo Pod.
• After the Ark system warned that monsters roamed inside, Theresa deployed a Binding Barrier that bound and dissolved them all.

Verity and the Flame-Chasers tried to awaken Griseo from her cryo pod, but Sosa had trapped her consciousness in a dream. Theresa and Sentience Treasure filled the dream with absurd chaos until Griseo woke, leaving her sitting in the open pod looking utterly exhausted.

• The group reached Griseo’s frost-covered Cryo Pod, but the Ark System failed to awaken her.
• Vita explained that Sosa had placed Griseo in hibernation and trapped her consciousness in a dream.
• Sentience Treasure entered Griseo’s mind and discovered she was unwilling to leave a dream she believed was real.
• Theresa shared her authority with Sentience Treasure, who projected a dream filled with Dr. Ratio zombies, cat guns, and a giant head-launching robot.
• Griseo woke as the dream dissipated and sat up in the open Cryo Pod, looking dead inside.

Griseo woke from an absurd dream to find the Flame-Chasers and others revived as Memory Fragments, with Su transformed into a woman. Theresa discovered Griseo’s embarrassing manga beneath the Cryo Pod, and Pardo found several more of her comics.

• Griseo woke from her strange dream and tearfully reunited with the others, including Mobius, Kevin, Verity, and Cosmo.
• Theresa explained that the group had returned as revived Memory Fragments, and Himeko introduced the transformed Su to Griseo.
• Theresa found Griseo’s manga, “The Domineering Kevin Would Never Fall for the Delicate Su,” beneath the Cryo Pod and began reading it with Elysia.
• Kevin and Kaiven tried to stop Elysia from reading the manga, while Himeko hid her face against Vita to escape its contents.
• Pardo searched nearby piles and found more comics Griseo had drawn about Kalpas and Cosmo, Elysia and Eden, and Hua and Mobius.

Theresa and Vita explained Sosa’s plans to Griseo and prepared to confront her while Theresa stayed out of the fight to lure Sosa from the Sea of Quantum. When Sosa’s Bud of Wishes appeared and the sky darkened, Griseo used her new power to paint a road toward the heavens.

• Vita found comics about Su and Kevin in Griseo’s collection, embarrassing the Flame-Chasers and prompting Griseo to ask why there were two Sister Sus.
• Theresa admitted that she had caused Griseo’s dream, and Vita explained how she and Sosa had used the Ark’s incubation chambers to transform Pluto into Planet Luo and keep Griseo asleep.
• Vita told Griseo that Sosa had stripped her of her authority after believing she had betrayed her, and Griseo thanked Vita for helping bring her companions back.
• Theresa told the group to hold back until Sosa appeared, especially Kalpas, because Theresa could not risk driving Sosa into hiding in the Sea of Quantum.
• Sosa’s Bud of Wishes appeared as the sky darkened and the ground cracked, and Griseo painted a road toward the heavens to lead everyone into battle.

Griseo created a rainbow road to the heavens, and the group rode Verity’s transformed Ark toward Sosa while trying not to alarm her. They fought Sosa’s grotesque incarnation and targeted its energy supply, hoping to draw out Sosa’s true body.

• Griseo used her brush to create a rainbow road, and Verity transformed the Ark into a warship that carried the group skyward.
• Verity unlocked the Ark’s hidden Annihilation Mode, and its weapons destroyed the Buds of Wishes blocking their advance.
• Sosa’s incarnation emerged from the clouds, and Griseo created a platform beneath the Ark so the others could fight it.
• Elysia led the group onto the platform while Theresa, Himeko, Vita, the two Griseos, and Verity stayed aboard the Ark.
• Verity charged the Moonlight Throne cannon, Kalpas struck the incarnation’s shell, and Sakura carved cracks into it with sword light.
• Kevin leaped toward the incarnation’s flower stem and swung the Jie Mie Greatsword at its energy supply.

The Flame-Chasers destroyed Sosa’s avatar and confronted Sosa in the judgment domain, shattering the clock before Sosa could complete the ritual. Sosa then revealed a planetary-scale true body, but Theresa swallowed its enormous attack and trapped everyone in the Heavenly Divine Realm.

• Kevin severed Sosa’s avatar’s floral stem, Verity blasted it with the Moonlight Throne, and Hua destroyed it with Inch-Punch: Heaven Splitter.
• Verity brought the Flame-Chasers to Sosa’s domain, where Sosa began the judgment ritual and attacked Vita.
• Theresa caught Sosa’s blast aimed at Vita while the Flame-Chasers attacked the clock; Kevin shattered its shield and the clock, bringing Sosa down.
• Vita urged Sosa to stop, but Sosa plunged into the Sea of Quantum and emerged as a vast flower larger than Pluto.
• Theresa swallowed Sosa’s enormous energy blast, then used her platinum-white staff to transport everyone to the Heavenly Divine Realm.

Theresa revealed herself as the Aeon of Binding and defeated Sosa, who relinquished her authority to Vita before disappearing. With Sosa's power passing to her, Vita began transforming as the Flame-Chasers celebrated by petting Theresa's wings and tail.

• Theresa descended in her divine form and surrounded Sosa with angels, revealing herself as the Aeon of Binding.
• Sosa fired a supergiant beam at Theresa, who compressed it into a pellet and swallowed it.
• After losing her power, Sosa's overgrown body crumbled, and Vita caught her as she fell from its center.
• Sosa thanked Vita, transferred all her authority to her, and disappeared into pale pink flames that formed a Cocoon of Light around Vita.
• The Flame-Chasers crowded around Theresa to pet her tail, ears, and wings, while Theresa concealed her divine realm and let them enjoy themselves.

After Vita inherited Sosa’s Authorities, Theresa asked her to help establish a permanent portal between Earth and Flos. The portal opened successfully, and Theresa began organizing support for Flos as the group prepared to visit the settlement.

• Vita awakened with Sosa’s Authorities and explained that she could manipulate time and the Sea of Quantum, as well as control the Starfarer.
• Theresa asked Vita to help create a permanent portal between Earth and Flos, and Vita agreed so she could control access to her territory.
• Theresa opened a portal near St. Freya while Vita opened one in Flos, and they joined the passages into a stable connection.
• Theresa told the St. Freya Valkyries about the portal and Flos’s Honkai outbreak, and the feminized Otto offered Valkyries for training.
• Welt offered Anti-Entropy mechs to help Flos’s people fight the Honkai, while World Serpent made no statement.

Otto reconciled with Kallen and agreed to make peace with Sakura as Kallen began sending Valkyries to Flos. Mei, Kiana, Bronya, and the other Earth factions arrived to discuss expanding the portal, while Vita insisted they let Flos’s citizens adjust to their presence gradually.

• Kallen comforted Otto about her appearance and urged her to get along with Sakura, and Otto agreed on the condition that Sakura stopped mocking her as the number one Green Hat.
• Otto announced that Schicksal would send Valkyries through the portal to explore Flos and teach its people to fight the Honkai.
• Anti-Entropy, World Serpent, and the Valkyries of St. Freya also began arriving on Flos through the portal opened by Theresa and Vita.
• Kiana met Vita, and Mei interrupted their greeting by taking Vita’s hand before Kiana could shake it.
• Mei asked Vita to enlarge the portal so Earth could send through warships and equipment, but Vita said the factions needed to arrive gradually so Flos’s citizens could adapt.

The Valkyries protected Flos and explained the Honkai threat to its residents, while Sentience Treasure and Shigure Kira caused chaos during their public appearance. In the Sea of Quantum, White Seele began transforming into a new Herrscher of Death with Vita’s authority.

• Otto and Welt agreed to keep disruptive entrepreneurs away from Flos and preserve its natural scenery for tourism.
• Sentience Treasure introduced the Herrschers to Flos’s residents, hypnotized them into praising her, and was bonked by Hua before the Valkyries explained the Honkai threat.
• Shigure Kira sang onstage and incapacitated the crowd with her deadly voice until Sentience Treasure erased their memories.
• Theresa gave Seele the core of the Herrscher of Death, and Vita offered her the Sea of Quantum’s one available Herrscher authority.
• White Seele accepted the core, and blue-violet branches and flowers formed a cocoon around her as her transformation began.

White Seele emerged as the Herrscher of Life and Death and demonstrated her Life and Death Domain before Theresa brought her and Black Seele back to Flos. As Flos prepared to defend itself against Honkai, Sparkle arrived on Earth and headed toward St. Freya.

• White Seele emerged from the flower cocoon with the souls Diana and Flora and explained that she had become the Herrscher of Life and Death.
• White Seele summoned her Life and Death Domain, where her authority could strengthen her powers and let the surroundings attack enemies or heal allies.
• Theresa brought White Seele and Black Seele to Flos, then reunited with the group as its people prepared for Valkyrie and mech training.
• The people of Flos began training plans with Schicksal and Anti-Entropy to fight Honkai Beasts.
• Sparkle landed on Earth in a crimson spacecraft, turned it into a mask, and headed toward St. Freya.

Sparkle arrived at St. Freya, where Elysia welcomed her and brought her to Academy Head Theresa. Seeking help with the corrosive Destruction Energy affecting her, Sparkle revealed her real name and prepared to apply to become a Valkyrie.

• Elysia hugged Sparkle and welcomed her to St. Freya, while Sparkle decided to stay close and learn to imitate her.
• Elysia led Sparkle through the academy as Valkyries greeted Elysia and invited students to her upcoming stream.
• Elysia brought Sparkle to Academy Head Theresa's office, where Theresa agreed to let her apply to St. Freya.
• Theresa questioned Sparkle's name, and Sparkle admitted that she was called Sparkle.

Sparkle nearly suffocated in Elysia’s enthusiastic hug, then Academy Head Theresa took her to meet Theresa about obtaining a Stigmata Injection. They arrived at the Golden Courtyard just as Theresa beat Vita at cards and revealed that Sparkle was there.

• Elysia hugged Sparkle so tightly that Theresa intervened, and Sparkle fled to Academy Head Theresa for help.
• Academy Head Theresa explained that Sparkle needed to pass written and physical entrance tests to receive a Stigmata Injection, then called Theresa.
• Academy Head Theresa led the wary Sparkle through the academy to the Golden Courtyard, where Theresa, Himeko, and Vita were playing Landlord.
• Theresa defeated Vita with a series of strong card plays, and Himeko revealed that her hand was made up of bomb combinations.
• Theresa pointed out Sparkle and Academy Head Theresa to Vita as their new guest arrived.

Theresa and Vita captured Sparkle when she tried to flee, then gave her a Stigmata Awakening Serum that protected her from Destruction Energy and awakened her Dreaming Fish ability. Theresa said Sparkle and Vita would have to serve as maids for a week, and the two reluctantly went to change.

• Theresa reversed time to stop Sparkle from escaping as a butterfly, while Vita helped keep her in custody.
• Theresa pressured Sparkle to drink a Stigmata Awakening Serum, and Sparkle reluctantly agreed in exchange for a favor.
• Sparkle's Destruction Energy corrosion faded as a fire-attributed Stigmata formed on her lower abdomen.
• Sparkle discovered her new Dreaming Fish ability, which let her create flames, a Little Goldfish, and smiling masks.
• Theresa ordered Sparkle and Vita to serve as maids for a week, and they reluctantly took their outfits to the bathroom.

Vita and Sparkle began a week of maid training under Rita after losing a bet, while Theresa and the others turned the lessons into an excuse to be pampered. The chapter ended with Rita assigning the newcomers to wash the Theresas’ and Durandal’s feet.

• Vita and Sparkle emerged in maid outfits, and Himeko excitedly hugged Vita.
• Rita and Durandal arrived at Golden Courtyard and found the group lounging together.
• Academy Head Theresa told Rita to train Vita and Sparkle as maids for a week, and Rita agreed to teach them how to serve people.
• Rita led Vita and Sparkle to prepare scented water and taught them to wash feet.
• Rita assigned Vita to wash Durandal’s feet and planned to wash Little Theresa’s, while Sparkle began removing Big Theresa’s shoes.

Theresa revived Cheng Lixue and the Cangxuan Danzhu sisters by retrieving their consciousnesses and blood samples from the past without changing history. After growing new bodies for them, she left the Flame-Chasers preparing for their return.

• Sparkle, Himeko, Rita, and Vita washed the two Theresas’ feet before Theresa ended their maid game and summoned the Flame-Chasers back from Flos.
• Theresa told Hua and the Flame-Chasers that she planned to revive Cheng Lixue and the Cangxuan Danzhu sisters.
• Theresa opened a temporal rift and extracted Cheng Lixue’s, Cangxuan’s, and Danzhu’s consciousnesses and blood samples without altering the past.
• Theresa used the Power of Abundance and three cultivation pods to grow bodies for the three women.
• Mobius expressed happiness that Theresa had revived her former assistants, Cangxuan and Danzhu.