Recaps

Theresa and the Astral Express crew met Phainon and Tribbie, explained that they had come from beyond Amphoreus, and agreed to accompany them to help the refugees reach Ochema. After the refugees recognized Theresa as the “Cat Girl Titan,” she asked Phainon what the nickname meant.

• Phainon shielded Tribbie and questioned Theresa's group about their arrival, and Theresa explained that they were explorers from beyond Amphoreus who wanted to help.
• Stelle complained that Phainon had tried to take her bat, and Tribbie mediated until Phainon apologized and offered to guide the group.
• Acheron asked why Phainon and Tribbie were in the wilderness, and Phainon explained that they were escorting refugees to the Holy City Ochema.
• Stelle asked whether Phainon had a brother named Kevin, and Theresa projected Kevin's image, which shocked Phainon and Tribbie with how closely he resembled Phainon.
• Phainon led Theresa's group toward the refugees, who called Theresa the “Cat Girl Titan,” leaving her confused about the nickname.

Theresa was mistaken for the legendary Cat Girl Titan and proved her supposed identity by conjuring food for starving refugees, who began worshipping her. After Phainon left with the women, they entered a temple and found Janus’s priests arguing over whether to relocate to Holy City Ochema.

• Phainon told Theresa and the others that she looked exactly like the ancient Cat Girl Titan, and Theresa wondered if she had returned to Amphoreus’s past.
• Theresa conjured porridge, DIO Bread, and soy milk for the refugees, who hailed her as the Cat Girl Titan.
• Phainon asked Tribbie to distribute the food, ate a meal, and then set out again with the women.
• Theresa and the others entered a temple and found the elderly priest Noduss berating Virtus for asking the Chrysos Heirs to take the priests to Holy City Ochema.
• Phainon tried to reassure Noduss that they had come to save the people, but Noduss remained opposed to leaving the temple and its protection from the Gate of Myriad Paths.

Theresa and the travelers met Phainon and the priests at the Gate of Myriad Paths, where an elderly priest named Noduss refused to evacuate. Phainon asked them to retrieve Noduss, and Tribbie opened a glowing book to guide them onward.

• Virtus mistook Theresa for the Cat Girl Titan, but Theresa said they only looked alike.
• Phainon explained that the priests had fled after the Heaven's Punishment Legion destroyed their homeland, and that Noduss had stayed behind despite the danger.
• Phainon asked Theresa and the travelers to bring Noduss back, while Tribbie agreed to accompany them and answer their questions.
• The group followed Tribbie to a thick book that could lead them across the broken path.
• Tribbie prayed over the book, which began glowing blue as she invoked Orionis.

Tribbie led the Stellaron Hunters through the Deep Abyss to rescue the refugees, but her power was nearly spent. Stelle learned Orionis's Prayer, helped retrieve the stubborn old priest, and then questioned Phainon about Amphoreus and the strange legend connecting Theresa to a Cat Girl Titan.

• Tribbie used Orionis's Prayer to guide the Stellaron Hunters and refugees through the Deep Abyss, despite growing exhausted from using the Gate of Hundred Realms.
• Theresa realized Stelle had memorized Tribbie's prayer, and Stelle restored the ruined temple by using Orionis's Prayer herself.
• Stelle and the others found the stubborn old priest, who agreed to return to Holy City Ochema after Tribbie revealed she was Tribios, a high priest of Janus.
• Phainon explained that the apocalypse was approaching, that the Titans were old gods and enemies of humanity, and that Chrysos Heirs were prophesied saviors with Golden Blood.
• Yinyueyue demanded that Phainon explain the suspicious legend calling Theresa a Cat Girl Titan, since Theresa had never visited Amphoreus before.

Phainon told the Stellaron Hunters the legends of the Cat Girl Titan, including how she founded the Holy Fire Cat Cult and left behind a painting and storage bracelets. When Stelle photographed the Little Chicken Ascending the Mountain Painting, it transformed into a cat-ear hair clip and triggered a burst of light from Phainon.

• Phainon recounted how the Cat Girl Titan defeated the King of Castrum Kremnos and founded the Holy Fire Cat Cult, with Cipher as its leader.
• Phainon explained that his family had passed down the Cat Girl Titan's Little Chicken Ascending the Mountain Painting and an Imaginary Storage Bracelet.
• Theresa noticed hidden platinum-white words in the painting, and Phainon allowed Stelle to photograph it.
• Stelle's camera flash made the painting circle Theresa and transform into a cat-ear hair clip.
• Theresa placed the clip on Phainon's head, and platinum-white light burst from his body.

Theresa transformed Phainon into a cat-eared girl, and the group learned about the Titans and Tribbie’s power to alter reality. As Tribbie opened the Gate of Hundred Realms to send everyone to Holy City Ochema, Theresa abruptly shut the portal.

• Phainon transformed into a beautiful, cat-eared girl, and Theresa and the others reacted with amusement.
• Phainon introduced herself to Tribbie as Bai Fei, while Tribbie suspected her true identity.
• Tribbie explained that the Destiny Three Titans granted priests the ability to recreate brief moments from the past and said Stelle had the talent to become a priestess of Orionis.
• Tribbie sang an ancient ballad about the Twelve Titans for the refugees and the Stellaron Hunters.
• Tribbie began opening the Gate of Hundred Realms to send everyone to Holy City Ochema, but Theresa used emerald-green light to shut it.

Theresa opened a portal to Okhema, where the Heaven's Punishment Legion had invaded, and helped the city fight back with her healing tree and the Stellaron Hunters. After the battle, Phainon admitted to Tribbie that she was Little Bai and explained how the Cat Girl Titan's gift had changed her.

• Theresa restored Tribbie's strength and opened a portal directly to Okhema, revealing that the city was under attack.
• Tribbie and the others entered Okhema, where citizens explained that Titanica Dolli's Heaven's Punishment Legion had invaded and begged the Cat Girl Titan to save them.
• Theresa grew a giant Tree of Abundance that healed the wounded citizens and soldiers, while Phainon, Stelle, Yinyueyue, and the soldiers fought the invaders.
• The defenders defeated the Heaven's Punishment Legion, and Tribbie led Phainon and the Stellaron Hunters aside to meet Aya.
• Tribbie recognized Phainon as Little Bai, and Phainon explained that Theresa had uncovered a secret in her scroll painting and the Cat Girl Titan's gift had transformed her.

Phainon asked the Stellaron Hunters to help defend Okhema, and they agreed before Himeko attacked the Heaven's Punishment Legion. After Himeko's attack accidentally turned the Legion into explosive Dr. Ratios, Mydei arrived and took Phainon's hand.

• Phainon and Tribbie begged the Stellaron Hunters to help Okhema, and Stelle and Himeko agreed to fight while Yinyueyue offered help with reservations.
• Theresa warned Phainon and the others not to betray them, and Himeko asked permission to stretch her limbs.
• The group encountered praying civilians surrounded by the Heaven's Punishment Legion, but the believers refused to evacuate.
• Himeko struck the Legion with pink-and-black fireballs, turning its members into violet-black Dr. Ratios that exploded among the other attackers.
• Theresa asked whether Himeko's transformation of the Legion was deliberate or accidental, and Himeko called it deliberately accidental.
• Mydei arrived with Castrum Kremnos soldiers, recognized Phainon, and affectionately took her hand.

Mydei mistook Phainon, who was disguised as Bai Fei, for a beautiful stranger and flirted with her while the travelers met Trianne and Ning. After hearing that Janusopolis had fallen and seeing Theresa’s giant tree and portal, the group wondered where the absent savior had gone.

• Mydei grabbed Phainon’s hand and pursued her, then mistook Theresa for the returning Cat Girl Titan when he saw her cat ears.
• Theresa, Yinyueyue, Stelle, Acheron, and Himeko introduced themselves, and Mydei asked Phainon for her name.
• Phainon introduced herself as Bai Fei, and Mydei flirted with her while Tribbie and the others kept her identity secret.
• Tribbie told Trianne and Ning that Janusopolis had fallen and that Theresa had opened a portal and cultivated the enormous tree.
• Stelle asked why there were three Tribbies, and the girls introduced themselves as Trianne, Ning, and Tribbie.
• Mydei asked where the savior had gone, while Phainon glared at him and Mydei felt jealous when she seemed to defend the savior.

Tribbie led the travelers through Cloud Stone Market, where they met Castorice and fought the Heaven's Punishment Legion. The group headed toward Aglaea's place, while Castorice remained puzzled by Bai Fei's resemblance to Phainon.

• Mydei agreed to help evacuate the refugees, while Tribbie sent Trianne and Ning away and took the travelers to meet Aglaea.
• Phainon led the group to Cloud Stone Market, where Castorice arrived and froze nearby Heaven's Punishment Legion soldiers with her aura.
• Tribbie introduced the travelers to Castorice, who warned them to stay away from her deadly aura and led them onward.
• Acheron instantly killed two elite Heaven's Punishment Legion soldiers, and Castorice asked Tribbie where Phainon was.
• Theresa destroyed another group of soldiers with multicolored lightning, and Tribbie led everyone toward Aglaea's place.

Phainon revealed that he was the cat-eared girl Bai Fei and begged the group to keep his transformation secret from Mydei. The group reached the Cloud Marble Heavenly Palace, where Nicadori’s oppressive aura affected them as they approached the battlefield and encountered an armored figure carrying a golden spear.

• Castorice recognized Phainon’s familiarity and asked who he was after he identified the roar as Nicadori’s.
• Phainon told Castorice that he was Phainon and explained that the painting in his bracelet had led to his transformation into Bai Fei.
• Castorice and the others agreed to keep Phainon’s secret, while Castorice began imagining fanfiction about him and Mydei.
• Theresa gave Phainon a pink magic wand, and Stelle persuaded him to use it instead of his greatsword so Mydei would not recognize his fighting style.
• The group teleported to the Cloud Marble Heavenly Palace and struggled against the pressure of Nicadori’s aura as they approached the battlefield.
• A roar sounded, and an armored, humanlike figure holding a golden war spear descended before the group.

Stelle and the others resisted the Black Tide’s bloodlust in the Cloud Marble Heavenly Palace, then Phainon used the Super Dimensional Concerto to transform into a magical girl and destroy Nicadori’s incarnation. Aglaea arrived after the battle and questioned Phainon and the visitors from beyond the stars.

• Phainon warned Stelle and the others to resist the Black Tide’s influence, and Theresa used the Aha mask’s laughter to dispel their killing intent.
• Theresa gave Phainon the Super Dimensional Concerto and told her that greater embarrassment would unleash greater power.
• Phainon transformed into a pink-and-white catgirl magical girl, broke Nicadori’s golden spear, and annihilated its incarnation with a beam of light.
• Aglaea explained that the defeated Nicadori was only an incarnation with less than one percent of its original power, while the Kin of Strife and Heaven’s Punishment Legion retreated.
• Aglaea asked Phainon whether she was herself and questioned Theresa and the Stellaron Hunters about being visitors from beyond the stars.

Aglaea explained the Senate’s hostility toward the Chrysos Heirs and revealed that she hoped the Stellaron Hunters would help deal with it. After probing her account, Theresa and the others learned the ancient history behind the feud and why neither side could easily eliminate the other.

• Aglaea warned that her golden threads could observe events and sense some people’s thoughts, while Acheron, Yinyueyue, and Himeko cautioned her against probing them.
• Aglaea introduced the Senate, and Phainon and Castorice explained that it opposed the Chrysos Heirs and sought to halt the Journey of the Fire.
• Theresa questioned Aglaea’s motives, and Phainon revealed that the Senate cultivated Purifiers, tried to assassinate Chrysos Heirs before they awakened, and obstructed their mission.
• Theresa, Yinyueyue, and Acheron tested Aglaea and learned that the Senate could revive its elders in other bodies, had greater popular support, and had existed longer than the Chrysos Heirs.
• Theresa and the others uncovered that, a thousand years earlier, Hysilens and Krydla had saved Okhema from an allied invasion, after which Krydla purged the Senate and ruled the city.
• The Senate’s fear of that purge became a lasting grudge against the Chrysos Heirs, while the Chrysos Heirs sought to dismantle the Senate through publicly accepted means.

The Stellaron Hunters declined to become Aglaea’s tools against the Senate, while leaving open the possibility of future cooperation. Phainon accepted the name Bai Fei after her transformation into a catgirl, and Stelle placed a Realm Anchor in Okhema before the group headed to Hero’s Bath.

• Theresa told Aglaea the Stellaron Hunters needed time to consider her proposal and would not proactively contact the Senate.
• Aglaea explained that her golden threads let her see, hear, and smell wherever they reached, then teased Phainon about Mydei’s interest in her transformed appearance.
• Castorice and Aglaea began calling Phainon Bai Fei, and Bai Fei agreed to the name while hoping she could eventually change back.
• Yinyueyue asked Aglaea for permission to leave a Trailblaze beacon, and Aglaea approved.
• Stelle created a Realm Anchor so the Trailblazers could teleport back to Okhema, and Aglaea invited the travelers to Hero’s Bath.

Aglaea welcomed Theresa and the others to the Chrysos Heirs’ Hero’s Bath and used its bath spirits to teach them about Amphoreus. The group listened to the Titans’ history in a goofy baby-story mode, while Phainon fled back to her residence before the bathing began.

• Aglaea reassured the visitors that the beacon was a Realm Anchor, then invited them to the exclusive Hero’s Bath.
• Phainon panicked about bathing with the others and returned to her residence, while Aglaea led the women to the bathhouse.
• Theresa, Himeko, Stelle, Acheron, and Yinyueyue changed into swimsuits and entered the pool; Castorice sat apart because her aura of death could harm others.
• Stelle approached Castorice but backed away after Castorice warned her not to make contact.
• Aglaea summoned bath spirits to recount Amphoreus’s history, then changed the narration to baby mode when Stelle found it too heavy.
• Theresa joked that baby mode suited Stelle because she was less than a year old, leaving Aglaea surprised.

Aglaea explained that the Chrysos Heirs’ Journey of the Fire meant slaying the corrupted Titans and gathering their twelve Core Flames to recreate Amphoreus. She asked Theresa and the others to help Okhema survive the apocalypse, but Stelle’s remark about the local gods left Aglaea and Castorice stunned.

• After the bathhouse spirit finished recounting Amphoreus’s past, Aglaea abandoned her plan to test the visitors with golden threads when Theresa’s glance frightened her.
• Theresa pressed Aglaea to explain the Chrysos Heirs’ Journey of the Fire plainly, and Aglaea assured the group that the heirs meant them no harm.
• Aglaea explained that the Black Tide had corrupted the Titans, plunged Amphoreus into darkness, and left Okhema as humanity’s last refuge.
• Aglaea said the Chrysos Heirs sought the twelve Titan Core Flames to trigger Re-creation and begged Theresa’s group to help Okhema.
• Stelle called the local gods lame compared with Theresa, and Yinyueyue’s attempt to shush her came too late to prevent Aglaea and Castorice from hearing.

Theresa revealed that she was the Cat Girl Titan, and Aglaea accepted her and the Trailblazers as allies in Amphoreus. Castorice found comfort in Theresa’s embrace, fulfilling her wish to touch someone without harming them, while Aglaea explained the painful history behind Castorice’s power of death.

• Theresa told Aglaea and Castorice that she was the Aeon of Binding, while the Trailblazers affirmed that they saw her as family and a companion.
• Aglaea accepted Theresa’s identity and allowed the Trailblazers to travel freely through Amphoreus, offering help and ending her tests of them.
• Theresa hugged Castorice, whose power of death could not harm her, and Castorice clung to Theresa and sobbed with relief.
• Aglaea explained that Castorice’s death power had made her the Saintess of Death in Aideria and forced her to grant death from childhood.
• Aglaea recounted how Castorice had eventually granted death to her adoptive mother, Amunet, and cried as she died in Castorice’s arms.

Castorice began telling Theresa and the others about her tragic childhood in Aideria, where her death-giving power made her a feared Death Saintess. Her memories ended with her fleeing the executions she was forced to perform and discovering that even a flower withered beneath her touch.

• Aglaea left to handle affairs in Okhema, and Theresa invited Castorice to share her past.
• Castorice asked to touch Theresa's cat ears before agreeing to tell her story, and Theresa let her pet them.
• Castorice recounted how the people of Aideria revered her as the Death Saintess and how Amunet became her godmother and trained her to use her power.
• Amunet ordered young Castorice to end the suffering of an old deer, and Castorice killed it with a touch.
• After Amunet made her perform more executions, young Castorice ran away in fear and watched a flower turn to ashes when she touched it.

Castorice’s memories showed how her death-giving power isolated her from childhood and shaped her life as a Saintess. After decades serving as the Battle Overseer Saintess, she returned to Aideria and reunited with the girl who had first tried to befriend her, only to grant her a final embrace.

• As a child, Castorice accepted a branch offered by a girl so they could walk together, but she fled after remembering Amunet’s warning about the danger of touching others.
• Castorice endured the burden of executing people and later ran away from the palace, but the order brought her back.
• When Amunet asked Castorice to grant her death, Castorice reluctantly touched her cheek, and Amunet turned to ash.
• After reading Amunet’s letter, Castorice left Aideria to become the Battle Overseer Saintess and spent decades granting peaceful deaths amid war and tragedy.
• Castorice returned to Aideria and found her childhood friend as an old woman at a cemetery; when the woman took her hand, Castorice embraced her as she died.
• After the funeral, Castorice left her cloak on the woman’s gravestone and departed while a little deer watched her go.

Castorice recounted her thousand-year search for her origins, while Theresa gave her and Aglaea custom terminals. After Castorice went home to write a Mydei-and-Bai Fei fanfic, Theresa transformed the train car into a villa for the Stellaron Hunters.

• Castorice told Stelle and Yinyueyue that she had left Aideria, met Aglaea in Ochema, and spent time with Cat Girl Titan and Cipher over the past thousand years.
• Aglaea arrived, reassured Castorice, and offered the Trailblazers communication tablets, but Theresa showed her group’s terminals instead.
• Theresa created golden, woven-style terminals for Aglaea and pinkish-purple, butterfly-themed terminals for Castorice, then taught them how to use the devices.
• Aglaea offered the group luxurious suites, but Theresa declined because their train car had room for everyone to rest.
• Castorice returned to her residence and began writing a fanfic about Mydei and Bai Fei titled “Fei, Don't Run! The Domineering Mydei Dotes on You Mercilessly!”
• Theresa set up the modified train car in a secluded clearing, where it transformed into a two-story villa with a garden and swimming pool.

Aglaea and Mydei visited the garden villa where the Stellaron Hunters were staying, and Mydei grew suspicious that the catgirl Bai Fei was the missing savior Phainon. After entering the villa and sharing breakfast, Mydei struggled to accept that his first love had become his best friend in a beautiful girl’s form.

• Guards turned away citizens gathering around the garden villa, while Aglaea ordered them to keep the Senate and other visitors away and tested Theresa’s barrier with her golden threads.
• Mydei arrived with Bai Fei and Aglaea, greeted Bai Fei, and began to suspect that she was the savior who had disappeared several days earlier.
• Stelle nearly called Bai Fei by Phainon’s name, strengthening Mydei’s suspicion, and Theresa opened the barrier to invite the visitors inside.
• Theresa served breakfast from the Xianzhou Golden Market, and Bai Fei happily ate while Mydei watched her and lamented that Hajie had become so pretty.

Bai Fei admitted that she was Phainon and explained how the Little Chicken Ascending the Mountain Painting had transformed her, while Mydei and Aglaea learned how much she was struggling with her new form. Theresa offered to restore Bai Fei after a week of preparation, but the impending crisis came first, and Mydei realized he was unsure whether he wanted Bai Fei to change back.

• Mydei confronted Bai Fei after she let slip that she had traveled with the Trailblazers, and Aglaea explained that Bai Fei was Phainon and had not chosen her transformation.
• Bai Fei told Mydei and Aglaea that the Little Chicken Ascending the Mountain Painting had transformed her and that her body and mannerisms had continued changing.
• Bai Fei asked Theresa for help, and Theresa said she could prepare a restoration potion in a week but suggested they address Amphoreus's crisis first.
• Theresa warned Bai Fei that a more direct way to restore her would be brutal, so Bai Fei agreed to wait for the potion.
• Mydei realized that he did not really want Bai Fei to change back, while Theresa stayed noncommittal about using her divine power to restore her immediately.

Bai Fei accepted her new female form and resolved to continue the Journey of the Fire, while Aglaea learned about modern facilities from Theresa and Yinyueyue. As Bai Fei and Mydei talked alone in the garden, Mydei grabbed and stroked her tail, leaving her flustered.

• Bai Fei told Aglaea and Mydei she would adapt to her female form and keep fulfilling her responsibilities as a savior.
• Theresa invited Aglaea, Bai Fei, and Mydei to tour the garden villa, and Aglaea asked Yinyueyue to explain its appliances and facilities.
• Bai Fei and Mydei walked together in the garden, both feeling shy as they noticed their growing attraction to each other.
• Bai Fei asked Mydei whether he wanted to help make their world better and eradicate the black tide.
• Mydei asked Bai Fei if she had considered what would happen if she could not change back, then grabbed and stroked her tail.
• Bai Fei blushed and punched Mydei lightly as she complained that having her tail grabbed made her feel weak.

Mydei and Bai Fei recommitted themselves to training, while Aglaea began optimizing the World Wide Web after learning from Theresa and the others. The group toured Okhema on an Earth Beast and ended their trip at its ranch.

• Mydei let go of Bai Fei’s tail and said he would grow stronger to help reclaim Castrum Kremnos, and Bai Fei vowed to train with him.
• Theresa and the others taught Aglaea modern networking concepts, and Aglaea posted a maintenance notice before reworking her golden threads.
• Bai Fei left to train with Mydei, while Theresa led the others on a tour of Okhema and Stelle took photographs.
• Stelle converted Credit Points into Liheng Coins through the World Wide Web, and the group paid a mustached old man to ride his Earth Beast around Okhema.
• After two system hours, the group dismounted at an Earth Beast ranch, where the old man explained that the animals rested and ate red soil there.

Castorice reunited with Stelle and the others at the Earth Beast breeding grounds and explained why she visited the beasts. Stelle tried eating their red soil feed and regretted it immediately.

• Castorice greeted Stelle and the others after being away for several days, and Theresa hugged her while the citizens watched in shock.
• Acheron teased Stelle about her jealousy, and Stelle agreed to let Theresa cuddle her rather than tell Liu Ying and Yinyueyue about her feelings for Castorice.
• Castorice explained that she visited the Earth Beasts to watch and feed them because she longed to experience the atmosphere of life.
• Castorice told everyone that Earth Beasts ate soil, and Stelle bit into a chunk of red soil before grimacing at its bitter, dry texture.
• Castorice and the others laughed as Stelle complained about the awful taste.