Chapter Summaries

Furina revealed that she was Focalors’s human avatar and had been powerless to use the Hydro Archon’s authority or stop Fontaine’s prophecy. She began explaining that Fontaine’s original sin came from Egeria transforming Oceanids into imitation humans.

• Neuvillette questioned Furina about her lack of Hydro powers, her response to the Oceanid testimony, and Tartaglia’s guilty verdict.
• Theresa, Ms. Nightingale, and Escoffier comforted Furina, who broke down and admitted that Focalors had given her no divine authority.
• Furina explained that she was an avatar containing a sliver of Focalors’s human consciousness and had spent five hundred years playing the Hydro Archon while seeking a way to avert the prophecy.
• Furina recounted how Egeria created the Oceanids, transformed them into imitation humans using the Primordial Sea, and was punished by the Heavenly Principles.
• Furina explained that Egeria passed her Gnosis and authority to Focalors as she died during the war in Khaenri’ah, and that the creation of the Fontainians was their original sin.

Furina revealed that she had impersonated Focalors for five hundred years and that the real Focalors planned to sacrifice herself to break Fontaine’s prophecy. As Focalors began preparing her final trial, Aha offered Furina and Stellaron Essence power in exchange for amusement, and Furina’s corny joke earned them both masks.

• Furina explained that Egeria had transformed her people into humans and that Furina herself lacked the Hydro Archon’s authority and would dissolve in the Primordial Sea.
• Furina revealed that the real Focalors was hiding inside the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale, and Theresa explained that Focalors planned to execute herself to release the Hydro Dragon’s authority and save Fontaine’s people.
• Neuvillette sensed the Indemnitium stirring and realized Focalors was preparing her plan, while Furina wished she had the power to help.
• Theresa offered to give Furina power through the Power of Joy, but Aha appeared and demanded something fun in return.
• Stellaron Essence offered a corny joke, and Furina answered its riddle with a pun about a hachimi being hard for a donkey to amuse.
• Aha laughed at Furina’s joke, split its mask in two, and sent one mask to Furina and the other to Stellaron Essence.

Stellaron Essence and Furina awakened the Power of Joy and transformed into new forms, while Theresa explained the Paths and their power to the others. Furina discovered her ability was Energy Mimicry and began copying Neuvillette's Hydro powers.

• Theresa restrained the light as Stellaron Essence and Furina transformed after putting on their masks.
• Stellaron Essence became the Star of Elation, wielding a fluffy pink slipper, while Furina took on a glamorous new appearance.
• Theresa explained the Aeons, Paths, Pathstriders, and Emanators, including how their power grew with their understanding.
• Himeko claimed that even Phanes would be no match for her and Theresa, shocking Zhong Li and Neuvillette.
• Furina tested her Energy Mimicry by holding Neuvillette's wrist and summoning Hydro energy and three jellyfish.

Furina introduced the three Hydro summons she had created, while Neuvillette learned more about the visitors and decided not to disturb Focalors. After Furina celebrated being able to show her true self, everyone retired to their rooms in the Palais Mermonia.

• Furina introduced Lord Usher, Lady Hévémara, and Miss Chevreuse, and Theresa awakened their intelligence and translated their words.
• The summons explained that they served Furina and could use Hydro for offense and healing, while Furina admitted she had borrowed their names from a novel.
• Zhong Li recalled creating Azhdaha, and Himeko revealed that Azhdaha had become a catgirl named Ruofei in Liyue.
• Neuvillette said he would not visit Focalors but would continue to address Fontaine's prophecy, then sent the guests to their rooms.
• Furina ran out to show everyone her companions, and the visitors followed the Melusines to rest for the night.

Furina enjoyed a carefree outing with her three Hydro creatures while The Knave followed her to test whether she could defy Fontaine’s prophecy. When The Knave ambushed Furina, Hachivili knocked her into a wall with one paw.

• Furina paraded through the Court of Fontaine with Lord Usher, Miss Chevreuse, and Lady Hévémara while observers debated whether to approach her.
• The Knave watched Furina and decided to test her ability to defy Fontaine’s prophecy.
• Theresa and Himeko sent Hachivili to lure Furina, who found the cat in a garden and eagerly cuddled her.
• The Knave rushed Furina from behind and pinned her down, frightening Furina into calling her a scary mushroom person.
• Hachivili broke free and struck The Knave with one paw, sending her crashing into a wall.

Hachivili stopped Arlecchino’s attack on Furina and exposed her identity, bringing Neuvillette into the confrontation. Theresa revealed that she knew Arlecchino’s real name, and Zhong Li joined her, leaving Arlecchino surrounded and wary.

• Arlecchino tried to escape after Hachivili slammed her into the ground, but Hachivili pinned her and removed her mask.
• Furina called for Neuvillette’s help, and he identified the attacker as Arlecchino, the Knave of the Fatui Harbingers.
• Theresa arrived and called Arlecchino by her true name, Peruere, explaining that she had read her circumstances in the Ley Lines.
• Arlecchino summoned a blood-red scythe and attacked Zhong Li when he approached from behind, but his Jade Shield blocked her strike.
• Theresa and Zhong Li told Arlecchino they meant no harm, while she remained tense among the powerful figures.

The Knave was overwhelmed by Fontaine’s powerful fighters after attacking Furina, then explained that she had come to help avert Fontaine’s prophecy. Furina accepted her apology and the Knave agreed to compensate her and share intelligence before leaving.

• The Knave realized she could not take on the powerful fighters surrounding her and asked what they planned to do with her.
• Theresa transported the Knave and the others to Neuvillette’s office, where Neuvillette asked why she had attacked Furina.
• The Knave explained that she had come to help Fontaine escape the prophecy and asked where Childe was.
• Neuvillette asked Furina whether the Knave should stand trial, but Furina chose to forgive her after hearing her explanation.
• The Knave promised compensation and unconditional intelligence from the House of the Hearth, then left to find somewhere to rest.

Neuvillette focused on protecting Focalors and arranging a meeting with her while Theresa and the others explored Fontaine. After Neuvillette invited the group to the Opera Epiclese, they set off to discuss Focalors’s situation.

• After the Knave left, Neuvillette decided to prioritize Fontaine’s prophecy and Focalors’s safety, and planned to visit her at the Opera Epiclese.
• Neuvillette worked through the morning, then arranged a private banquet for his guests at Hotel Debord, with the bill sent to the Palais Mermonia.
• Theresa and the others had afternoon tea with Furina and complained that Fontaine’s desserts were too sweet.
• Neuvillette met the group at the restaurant and invited them to visit the Opera Epiclese without discussing the matter openly.
• Furina told the restaurant to send the bill to the Palais Mermonia, and the group followed Neuvillette to the Opera Epiclese.

Neuvillette brought the others to the sealed Opera Epiclese, where Focalors emerged from the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale and reunited with Furina. Focalors explained that she had hidden herself to deceive the Heavenly Principles and prevent Fontaine's prophecy of doom, but her explanation left the others facing her desperate plan and its cost.

• Neuvillette ordered the Melusines to seal the Opera Epiclese and keep everyone away until he called for them.
• The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale opened, revealing Focalors and a massive Hydro greatsword formed from Indemnitium.
• Furina embraced Focalors and wept over the loneliness and pain she had endured, while Focalors comforted her.
• Zhong Li recognized Focalors's deception, and Focalors admitted that she had aimed to fool the Heavenly Principles.
• Focalors explained that she had acted to avert Fontaine's prophecy, which said its people would dissolve and the nation would be submerged.
• Focalors began recounting how Egeria had left her the seemingly impossible prophecy, and asked what she could have done to oppose the Heavenly Principles.

Focalors explained how she had spent five hundred years deceiving the Heavenly Principles to save Fontaine, then sentenced herself to death so Neuvillette could regain the Hydro authority. Theresa stopped the Hydro Greatsword just before it could kill Focalors.

• Focalors recounted how Egeria had warned her that Fontaine’s prophecy was anchored by the Heavenly Principles, prompting her to devise a plan to deceive them.
• Focalors described the Archons’ battle against the Abyss in Khaenri’ah and revealed that the divine thrones held authority taken from the Elemental Dragons.
• Furina thanked Focalors for creating her and explained that help from beyond Teyvat had renewed her hope, while Neuvillette apologized for misunderstanding her.
• Focalors said her existence kept Neuvillette’s authority incomplete, then sentenced the Hydro Archon to death and began her final dance.
• Theresa summoned platinum-colored chains that stopped the Hydro Greatsword above Focalors.

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.