Recaps

Feng Chen accepted Otto’s offer to join the Far East Branch as a student who took missions, and arranged for Seele Vollerei to join his team. He then took Bella on a covert date, using the Wind Herrscher’s powers to conceal them before they entered a café.

• Otto offered Feng Chen a paid position at the Far East Branch, and Feng Chen agreed on the condition that he could move his villa there.
• Feng Chen asked Otto to assign Seele Vollerei to his team, and Otto agreed.
• Honkai teased Feng Chen about Seele and predicted that Feng Chen would eventually have eight wives.
• Feng Chen chose to take Bella for a walk, and she decided not to invite the others.
• Feng Chen used the Wind Herrscher’s power to hide himself and Bella as they walked through town, then they went into a café for coffee and sweets.

Otto awakened S-444 and named her Xila as part of his attempt to revive Kallen. Feng Chen moved his villa to St. Freya, where he enrolled as an envoy and reunited with Theresa and Fu Hua, while Rita and Sakura were also assigned to the Far East Branch.

• Otto concluded that Kallen’s soul might not want to wake and awakened S-444, deciding to call her Xila.
• Xila began infant-style education while Feng Chen moved his villa, foundation and all, into Imaginary Space.
• Feng Chen met Fu Hua at the Far East Branch, and she explained that he would serve as an envoy and enroll at St. Freya.
• Theresa scolded Feng Chen for skipping work and classes, then recognized his villa as Otto’s former home.
• Feng Chen brought Bella and Sirin to St. Freya and completed his enrollment procedures with Fu Hua.
• Feng Chen learned that Rita and Sakura had also been assigned to the Far East Branch.

Sirin struggled with her classmates’ questions before Feng Chen’s squad was called to see the principal about a possible mission. Instead, Feng Chen brought the squad to his home for Rita’s Divine Land lunch, where Seele met Rita and learned about her connection to Feng Chen.

• Sirin complained to Seele that her classmates kept asking about her homeland, and the group noticed Welt had returned to St. Freya.
• Welt told Feng Chen that the principal wanted to see the squad, likely about a mission.
• Rita invited Feng Chen home for lunch, and he brought Sirin, Bella, and Seele along.
• Feng Chen introduced Seele to Rita, who welcomed her while privately feeling unsettled by the new guest.
• Sirin warned Seele that Rita was an S-rank Valkyrie, and Seele concluded that Rita’s confidence and hidden meanings made her a formidable rival.

Feng Chen’s squad investigated an Emperor-class Honkai Beast resembling Ashwatthama near Canghai City, while Feng Chen suspected World Serpent was behind its appearance. After showing Seele the sea, he used Honkai Energy to summon lesser Honkai Beasts and ordered them to search for the target.

• After leaving Feng Chen’s home, Seele worried about Bronya’s lost ability to express emotions, and Feng Chen reassured her before they went to Theresa’s office.
• Theresa gave Feng Chen a commission to investigate an Emperor-class Honkai Beast that had caused destruction near the coast and then disappeared.
• Feng Chen recognized the Beast’s description as Ashwatthama and suspected World Serpent had created it, though he did not know their purpose.
• Feng Chen brought Sirin, Bella, and Seele to Canghai City and showed Seele the sea before splitting up the squad to search for the Beast.
• Unable to sense the unusual Beast, Feng Chen summoned lesser Honkai Beasts with his Honkai Energy and sent them to find the target.

Feng Chen, Seele, and Bella confronted an experimental Honkai Beast resembling Ashwatthama, which could summon heavenly lightning. When Seele could only offer a twenty-percent chance of stopping it safely, Feng Chen demanded a one-thousand-percent chance and the world turned gray.

• Two masked men injected themselves and transformed into black liquid, from which a giant Honkai Beast with mismatched arms emerged.
• A damaged Floating-class Honkai Beast returned to Feng Chen with news of the target, and Feng Chen sent Seele and Bella its coordinates.
• Bella identified the target as a likely World Serpent experiment based on Ashwatthama and found it near the beach.
• The experimental Ashwatthama attacked Bella with heavenly lightning, but Feng Chen used the Herrscher Core's power to pull space together and help her evade.
• Feng Chen and Bella attacked Ashwatthama, while Seele said she had only a twenty-percent chance of stopping it without harming Bella.
• Feng Chen demanded a one-thousand-percent chance of immobilizing Ashwatthama with one strike, and the world turned gray.

Feng Chen defeated Ashwathama and its split forms, then sent Rita to eliminate the surviving Gray Serpent. After confirming the mission was complete, he left with Rita for the beach.

• Ashwathama split into Son of Dawn and Son of Night, but Feng Chen struck a hidden weakness in Son of Dawn, and Son of Night destroyed it to keep its secrets hidden.
• Feng Chen tore Son of Night apart with giant hands, and blue light escaped from its remains.
• Feng Chen told the others to rest while he went to Canghai City to handle more missions.
• Gray Serpent emerged from the ruins but was ambushed and killed by Rita, whom Feng Chen had sent to finish the mission.
• Rita told Feng Chen that the assassination had left no traces, and the two headed toward the beach.