Recaps

Theresa stopped Focalors from sacrificing herself, revealed her divine power by forcing Neuvillette to dance, and proposed that Focalors and Furina explain their actions to Fontaine. Neuvillette arranged a press conference at the Opera Epiclese, where Hydro energy began gathering as the audience took their seats.

• Theresa halted the Hydro Greatsword, destroyed it, and gave Neuvillette a bead of compressed indemnitium powerful enough to supply Fontaine for a thousand years.
• Theresa demonstrated her power by magically making Neuvillette dance, then stopped when he apologized for doubting her.
• Theresa proposed that Focalors and Furina tell Fontaine how they worked to avert the prophecy and what Furina endured while playing the Hydro Archon.
• Neuvillette agreed to Theresa's plan and arranged a press conference at the Opera Epiclese.
• Charlotte arrived at the Opera Epiclese and questioned Lumine about the press conference as Hydro aura gathered inside the venue.

Furina announced at a packed press conference that the real Hydro Archon would resolve Fontaine’s doomsday prophecy, then introduced Focalors. Focalors confessed that she had created Furina and hidden inside the Oratrice for five hundred years, and began explaining her plan to break the prophecy.

• People from across Fontaine, including The Knave, the House of the Hearth children, and Navia, gathered at the Opera Epiclese to hear Furina’s announcement.
• Theresa teleported Escoffier to a seat near Paimon and Lumine, and Escoffier thanked her by promising to prepare a meal.
• Neuvillette quieted the audience, and Furina told them that the real Hydro Archon would take action to resolve the prophecy.
• Focalors emerged beside Furina, shocking the audience with her resemblance to the Hydro Archon.
• Focalors revealed that she had created Furina to reassure Fontaine’s people and had hidden in the Oratrice to sleep after being severely injured five hundred years earlier.
• Focalors began explaining that she had spent the intervening years searching for a way to break Fontaine’s prophecy.

Focalors and Theresa revealed the origins of Fontaine’s people and the fate of the original humans, shocking the crowd at the Opera Epiclese. Their explanations were interrupted by a huge, starry whale emerging above the building, and Theresa evacuated everyone.

• Focalors revealed that Egeria had transformed Oceanids into human forms, explaining why Fontaine’s people were vulnerable to the Primordial Sea.
• Theresa explained that the original people of Fontaine had abandoned their human bodies and become stone Golems after the fall of Remuria.
• Theresa showed the crowd how Remus founded Remuria, defied a prophecy of its destruction, and ultimately led its people to become Golems.
• A massive, starry whale broke through space and appeared above the Opera Epiclese, alarming Neuvillette and the crowd.
• Theresa used her authority over space to transfer everyone outside the Opera Epiclese.

Theresa and the others drove the Star-Devouring Whale into the Primordial Sea, where The Knave's flames continued to burn it. Theresa summoned Hachivili to challenge the whale, but it refused to come down and face the group.

• Theresa teleported civilians, tourists, and the Melusines outside the Opera Epiclese so the others could fight freely.
• Neuvillette attacked the Star-Devouring Whale, then Tartaglia emerged from its rift and shocked it with his twin blades.
• Neuvillette's water mines struck the whale, but its tail knocked Tartaglia into the hole before The Knave wounded it with bloodred flames.
• Theresa reopened the closing rift and jumped into the Primordial Sea after the whale, followed by Himeko, Lumine, Paimon, and Neuvillette.
• In a dry space inside the Primordial Sea, Theresa sent Hachivili to challenge the whale, but it stayed out of reach, wary of The Knave's flames.

Skirk emerged from hiding after Theresa and the others discovered her, and the group learned about her brutal training and search for enough strength to oppose her master, Surtalogi. She introduced herself as capable of speaking with them, while Theresa identified her as Tartaglia’s master and a powerful figure.

• Theresa called out Skirk, who had been watching Tartaglia fight the Star-Devouring Whale from a spatial rift.
• Skirk reconsidered challenging Tartaglia and focused on the unusual Stellaron Hunters after witnessing Sunday transform into Judgment Day.
• Skirk’s memories revealed that Surtalogi had trained her harshly, cast her into the Dark Sea, and made her vow to grow strong enough to stop him.
• Skirk survived the Dark Sea by adapting to its dangers with Abyss Power and later trained Tartaglia for five years.
• Himeko invited Skirk out of hiding, and Skirk said the group had proved capable enough to speak with her.
• Neuvillette asked who Skirk was, and Theresa identified her as Tartaglia’s master and said she might rival Zhong Li.

Neuvillette confronted Skirk over the Star-Devouring Whale’s destruction of the Primordial Sea, and Theresa proposed a wager to settle the dispute. Hachivili slapped the whale away and began a beam clash, glowing as she started to transform.

• Neuvillette accused Skirk of being responsible for the whale consuming the Primordial Sea, but Skirk explained that it was her master Surtalogi’s pet and one of her trials.
• Skirk said the whale could not be killed and explained that it consumed planetary life by instinct while growing stronger.
• Theresa proposed a wager between Hachivili and the Star-Devouring Whale, with the winner entitled to one request, and Skirk accepted.
• Hachivili played the Hachimi Song, taunted the whale, and slapped it into the air, denting its belly.
• Hachivili fired a platinum beam at the whale’s black-hole-like attack and began to glow as she prepared to transform.

Hachivili and Aha battled the Star-Devouring Whale in the depths of the Primordial Sea, while their attacks shook the sea and endangered the seal at the Fortress of Meropide. After Aha transformed the whale and it launched a counterattack, Hachivili powered up for another clash.

• Hachivili summoned Mao Die and blasted the Star-Devouring Whale into a sleeping ball, while Theresa contained the shock wave.
• The tremors reached the Fortress of Meropide, where Wriothesley reinforced the Primordial Sea seal as Sigewinne evacuated everyone.
• Aha possessed the sleeping whale and transformed it into a larger, empowered form that attacked Hachivili with a light cannon.
• Theresa used the authority of Order to contain the Primordial Sea as Hachivili and the whale exchanged attacks.
• Hachivili donned battle armor and unleashed Storm Nebula Split, while the whale fired a massive black-and-red light cannon at her.

Theresa used a powered Food Stall chair and Order energy to transform Tartaglia into a massively muscular fighter. Tartaglia stopped Hachivili and the Star-Devouring Whale from colliding, then challenged the whale to a final battle.

• Theresa restrained Tartaglia in the Food Stall chair and shocked him, while Skirk tried to free him before realizing the electricity was changing his body.
• Theresa shot Tartaglia with a bullet made from Order energy, and he broke free of the chair with immense new strength.
• Tartaglia charged between Hachivili and the Star-Devouring Whale and stopped both of their attacks with his hands.
• Tartaglia tossed Hachivili to Theresa, who caught and cradled Hachivili.
• Tartaglia challenged the Star-Devouring Whale to finish their battle, and the whale accepted.

Theresa and Aha empowered Childe and the Star-Devouring Whale for a playful contest, while Himeko ran a betting stall. Childe won their final clash, but the chapter left Himeko owing Neuvillette and Skirk their winnings.

• Childe and the enhanced Star-Devouring Whale traded punches, tail blows, and eye beams as spectators gathered to watch.
• Himeko opened a betting stall, and Theresa, Neuvillette, Stellaron Essence, Lumine, Paimon, and Skirk placed wagers on the fight.
• Theresa and Aha limited the enhancements to five minutes and kept both combatants below Emanator strength to protect Teyvat.
• Childe and the Star-Devouring Whale unleashed their strongest attacks, and the explosion left the whale stunned while Childe barely remained standing.
• Childe’s enhancement wore off, and he asked for clothes as Himeko declared him the winner and prepared to pay out Neuvillette and Skirk.

After settling their bets, Himeko and Theresa offered to help Neuvillette regain his full power without disturbing Focalors’s divine throne. Yinyueyue began transforming him into an Immortal Dragon Descendant, leaving the others watching as her true dragon might emerged.

• Himeko paid Stellaron Essence and Lumine their winnings, while Paimon accepted that she had lost her bet.
• Neuvillette declined his winnings, and Himeko and Theresa offered him a way to become a complete dragon without harming Focalors or Furina.
• Skirk warned that interfering with the divine thrones could provoke the Heavenly Principles, then agreed to watch after Theresa reassured her.
• Yinyueyue volunteered to perform the transformation, joking that Theresa might turn Neuvillette into a girl.
• Yinyueyue revealed her dragon horns and tail and used the Inscription of Imbibitor Lunae to grant Neuvillette the bloodline of The Permanence.

Neuvillette accepted Yinyueyue’s offer and transformed into a dragon of The Permanence, gaining new powers and knowledge. He returned to Fontaine, halted the Primordial Sea’s eruption, and restored the seal beneath the Fortress of Meropide.

• Yinyueyue offered Neuvillette dragon blood and said Dvalin and Durin had also embarked on the Path of The Permanence.
• Neuvillette accepted the offer to protect Fontaine, swallowed Yinyueyue’s dragon blood, and began transforming as the Primordial Sea surged around him.
• Theresa accelerated Neuvillette’s transformation with her authority over Space-Time, and he emerged from a golden-blue egg as a water dragon.
• Neuvillette learned about The Permanence Dragon Clan and gained the innate divine ability called the Gate of Reincarnation.
• Neuvillette sensed Wriothesley’s approach, stopped the Primordial Sea, and restored the seal beneath the Fortress of Meropide.

Neuvillette used his newly completed Authority of Water to remove the Oceanid power from Fontaine’s people, freeing them from the Primordial Sea prophecy. After returning to work, he considered Furina’s future, while Lyney continued hiding Clervie from The Knave.

• Neuvillette revealed to Wriothesley that he knew about the enormous steel ship beneath the Fortress of Meropide and said Fontaine’s prophecy could be broken.
• Neuvillette spread a torrential rain across Fontaine, using the raindrops to break down the Oceanid power in its people.
• Paimon, Lumine, and Fontaine’s residents mistook the rain for Neuvillette crying and called out, “Hydro Dragon, Hydro Dragon, don’t cry!”
• Neuvillette stopped the rain and returned to his office, planning to discuss Furina’s future with her.
• Focalors explained to Furina that Neuvillette’s rain had removed their Oceanid blood, while Lyney warned Clervie to keep hiding from The Knave.

Lyney hid Clervie from the children while The Knave recognized the ghost of her dead friend. After inviting Lumine and Paimon to a feast at the House of the Hearth, The Knave welcomed Theresa and the Fontaine leaders as well, and they planned to arrive before nightfall.

• Lyney warned Clervie to stay hidden and asked for extra food to keep the children from suspecting anything.
• The Knave saw through Lyney's disguise and recognized Clervie, whom she had killed in a duel long ago.
• Lumine and Paimon met Lyney and Lynette, accepted their invitation, and visited the House of the Hearth.
• The Knave welcomed Lumine and Paimon and asked them to invite Theresa and her companions to a feast.
• Paimon contacted Theresa with the Akasha Terminal, and Theresa agreed to bring Neuvillette, Focalors, and Furina.
• Theresa ended the call and said they would visit the House of the Hearth before nightfall.

Lyney introduced Lumine, Paimon, and the others to Clervie, a mysterious girl he believed was a ghost, and asked them to keep her existence secret from The Knave. At the House of the Hearth banquet, The Knave appeared with Clervie following her, leaving Paimon alarmed.

• The Knave let Lumine and Paimon explore the House of the Hearth and assigned Lyney and Lynette to assist them.
• Clervie approached Lyney and met Lumine, Paimon, and Lynette, while Lyney warned her to hide from The Knave.
• Lyney explained that Clervie seemed like a ghost because she only sniffed food and claimed to feel full, and he shared her troubling claims about children being sent to Dottore.
• Lyney asked Lumine and Paimon to keep Clervie a secret, and Paimon promised she would not blab.
• Lyney led the group to the banquet hall, where Stellaron Essence arrived and The Knave appeared with Clervie behind her.

Lyney faced punishment from The Knave for hiding Clervie, while the House of the Hearth hosted a banquet for its guests. After the meal, Theresa gave Clervie a living body, bringing the girl back to life in the present.

• Lyney admitted responsibility for bringing Clervie into the House of the Hearth, and The Knave postponed his punishment until after the banquet.
• The Knave seated Clervie beside her and hosted a feast for Neuvillette, Furina, Focalors, Zhong Li, and the others.
• After the banquet, The Knave asked Lyney to write a full account of what had happened and took Neuvillette to her meeting room.
• Theresa offered to bring Clervie back to life, and Clervie followed her outside with Lumine and Paimon behind them.
• Theresa created a body modeled on Clervie and placed her soul inside it, awakening the girl beneath the night sky.

Theresa reunited Clervie with The Knave after resurrecting her, then privately asked Neuvillette to do something so bizarre that he feared it would cost him his dignity. The chapter ended with Neuvillette struggling to accept Theresa’s request.

• Paimon and Lumine emerged from hiding and worried that Theresa’s resurrection of Clervie might anger the Ruler of Death on Celestia.
• Theresa explained the dangers of the Path of Voracity, frightening Paimon and Lumine away from the idea of following it.
• Theresa teleported Clervie, Himeko, Paimon, and Lumine to the House of the Hearth, where Clervie joyfully reunited with The Knave.
• Clervie pleaded with The Knave on behalf of Lyney and the others, while The Knave vowed to deal with the children who had betrayed the House of the Hearth.
• Neuvillette asked Theresa how he could repay her help, and Theresa sent him a strange request that left him worried about losing his dignity.

Theresa sealed Neuvillette’s wandering senses with an Elation-infused restraint that carried an unknown side effect. Meanwhile, The Knave led Lyney and the children to a wasteland to confront a traitor, only to discover a crowd of people had followed them.

• Neuvillette asked Theresa to restrain his Hydro perception, and she sealed his senses while warning that the harmless side effects would depend on luck.
• Neuvillette left, while Lumine, Paimon, Furina, Focalors, Stellaron Essence, Theresa, Skirk, and Zhong Li followed The Knave and the children.
• The Knave reached a wasteland with Lyney and the children, spotted Lumine and Paimon hiding in bushes, and ordered them to come out.
• Stellaron Essence leaped out with a baseball bat in her mouth, and Furina, Focalors, and Theresa emerged as the group laughed.
• Skirk and Zhong Li came out of hiding, leaving The Knave stunned by the growing crowd.

The Knave confronted Lumine and the others for interfering in the House of the Hearth, while Theresa challenged Furina to face her fear by using the Knave’s Crimson Moon Flame. Furina’s mask transformed her into the powerful, bizarre Pefurina, leaving the story poised for her to face the Knave.

• The Knave demanded that Lumine, Paimon, Stellaron Essence, Furina, Focalors, Theresa, and Zhong Li leave the House of the Hearth’s internal affairs alone.
• Lumine and Paimon refused to abandon Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet, despite the Knave warning that she would not hold back.
• Theresa urged Furina to confront the Knave, then asked the Knave to give Furina a wisp of Crimson Moon Flame while everyone else stayed out of the fight.
• Furina threw her mask into the flame, and it transformed into a giant red spider resembling the Knave that leapt onto her face.
• Furina transformed into Pefurina, wielding a red war scythe as her sea creatures became armor.

Furina, empowered by Theresa, fought The Knave with summoned Quantum creatures and a surprise road-roller attack. The Knave defeated her in a satisfying sparring match, and Furina returned safely to Focalors.

• Furina summoned Quantum Honkai Beasts and a healing jellyfish to battle The Knave.
• The Quantum creatures repeatedly vanished and reappeared, while the jellyfish healed them after The Knave struck them down.
• Furina ambushed The Knave from above with a blood-colored road roller, but The Knave unleashed her Blood Moon power and destroyed it.
• The Knave caught Furina with her scythe and declared victory, then gently cushioned Furina's fall with water.
• Furina thanked Theresa for helping her summon the creatures and admitted she was not skilled at close combat.

The Knave had Theresa uncover the House of the Hearth children’s misdeeds, then punished Lyney and Lynette while secretly executing those who had leaked secrets. The next day, Skirk saved the exhausted Escoffier from falling off a roadside wall, and the two felt an unexpected attraction as they met eyes.

• Theresa used the authority of Consciousness to make the House of the Hearth children confess their actions to the Knave.
• The Knave spared Lyney and Lynette from death but ordered them to care for Clervie until adulthood, while Theresa erased the House of the Hearth memories of children who wanted to leave.
• After everyone else left, the Knave secretly executed the children who had leaked the House of the Hearth’s secrets.
• The next morning, Skirk and the others said goodbye to Lyney and his companions before setting out around the Court of Fontaine.
• Skirk caught Escoffier as the sleepy chef ran toward a steep drop, and the two felt their hearts quicken while gazing at each other.

Escoffier invited Skirk to Hotel Debord and cooked her an elaborate meal, while Skirk found herself growing unexpectedly attached to the chef. Furina arrived and, seeing Escoffier tending to Skirk, became jealous and refused to hear Escoffier’s explanation.

• Skirk introduced herself to Escoffier, accepted her invitation to Hotel Debord, and followed her there.
• Escoffier personally prepared a large meal for Skirk, while Skirk overheard waitresses gossiping about the chef and felt angry at the thought of her being harassed.
• Furina and Focalors entered Hotel Debord and found Escoffier serving Skirk.
• Furina murmured that she had been there first, and Escoffier hurried to explain while Furina haughtily refused to listen.

Furina mistakenly accused Skirk and Escoffier of being involved, but learned Skirk had only saved Escoffier from falling. They shared a meal, and the chapter ended with Skirk's hair ornament briefly displaying a pink Crystal Flower.

• Skirk explained that she had saved Escoffier from falling, and Escoffier confirmed nothing had happened between them.
• Furina apologized for misunderstanding, then joined Skirk and Focalors for a meal after her stomach growled.
• Focalors led Furina to a seat, and Escoffier cooked more dishes before joining them at the table.
• Skirk and Furina took turns feeding Escoffier, leaving her giddy with excitement as the servers watched jealously.
• Focalors urged Furina to stop overwhelming Escoffier, while a pink Crystal Flower briefly flashed in Skirk's hair ornament.

Theresa used Subconscious Influence to make Skirk and others lose their inhibitions, triggering chaos at Hotel Debord and across Fontaine. Neuvillette’s seal came undone, and he, Yinyueyue, Zhong Li, and the infected people of Fontaine ended up dancing while Furina remained the only sane one.

• Theresa influenced Skirk until she became Wisdom Skirk, whose gaze spread a silly, happy state to Escoffier, Furina, and others.
• Escoffier and Skirk hugged Furina, prompting her to cry for help and alert the Gardemeks.
• The Gardemeks fired water bullets at the affected people, but Wisdom Skirk disabled them and assimilated a Melusine.
• Neuvillette arrived to stop the commotion, but the strange mental influence made his seal come undone and turned him into a dancing Human Disco Ball.
• Theresa played Cloud Sail Sway, transforming Yinyueyue and Zhong Li into dragons who danced with Neuvillette as the infected people of Fontaine joined in.

Wriothesley arrived in the Court of Fontaine and found it overrun by bizarre, transformed people. After narrowly avoiding drinking Apa Tea made with piss, he saw Neuvillette performing an outrageous water-spraying dance and laughed, while Furina spotted him as someone who had not been assimilated.

• The Knave refused to let the House of the Hearth intervene, warning that the spectacle concealed deadly danger.
• Wriothesley entered the Court of Fontaine to find Liyue tea merchants and found strange beings behaving absurdly instead.
• Wriothesley declined to sample Apa Tea, then watched its seller and a customer transform and fight after the tea was revealed to contain piss.
• Wriothesley saw Neuvillette dancing and spraying water, and laughed at his embarrassing spectacle.
• Furina, held by Escoffier, spotted Wriothesley and realized he had not been assimilated.

Furina escaped Escoffier and joined Wriothesley in fleeing Neuvillette, who had been affected by the Dr. Ratio Meme Virus. Stellaron Essence explained that defeating Neuvillette and Skirk would stop the outbreak, while Old Yang teleported to the Court of Fontaine to help.

• Furina kissed Escoffier to make her loosen her embrace, then escaped and ran toward Wriothesley.
• Neuvillette arrived, threw Furina into the air for stepping on his boots, and Wriothesley caught her with an ice lid.
• Furina explained that Skirk and Focalors had been affected, while Wriothesley took a photograph that angered Neuvillette and made him chase them.
• Furina guided Wriothesley toward the Stellaron Hunters as Neuvillette pursued them with water cannons.
• Stellaron Essence said the Dr. Ratio Meme Virus would collapse if Neuvillette and Skirk were defeated, and Theresa admitted she had accidentally let it spread.
• Stellaron Essence called for backup, and Old Yang left Tian Shu and teleported to the Court of Fontaine.