Chapter Summaries

Little Griseo noticed that Verne and Miss Ark were involved in an unusual project and wondered what they were doing. She concluded the matter was both interesting and important, and waited to hear more.

• Little Griseo looked at Verne and Miss Ark and asked what was going on.
• Little Griseo observed that Verne had been active on the Ark, alternating between research and performances.
• Little Griseo reasoned that Verne’s Expert persona was handling Miss Ark’s matter because it was important.
• Little Griseo grew more interested in learning what the project was.

Miss Ark explained that she and Verne had worked on improving the Ark’s slow, passive system for finding world coordinates. Their changes would let Little Griseo travel more actively to favored story points and eras, without piloting the ship herself.

• Little Griseo was surprised that Miss Ark had taken the initiative to tell her about the work.
• Miss Ark explained that the Ark’s original coordinate-finding mechanism was inefficient and left them waiting unpredictably.
• Miss Ark said she and Verne had worked to add variables to the mechanism and make coordinate acquisition more active.
• Miss Ark explained that their plan would help Little Griseo reach favored plot points and periods directly.
• Little Griseo would no longer need to pilot the ship herself after experiencing coordinate teleportation.

Verne introduced a scanning and detection program integrated into Little Griseo’s core modules to help find destinations across worlds. Little Griseo learned that it could generate coordinates from ongoing scans or filter for a specific goal.

• Little Griseo reflected on the group’s repeated mistakes when traveling through time and worlds.
• Verne took over from the expert and presented her new creation to Little Griseo.
• Verne demonstrated the program and explained that its scanning function gathered information from other worlds to generate coordinates.
• Verne explained that the detection function filtered for information based on specific keywords and goals.

Verne explained the Ark’s Bounty Mission and Wish List modules to Little Griseo, showing how they could help her find and travel to other worlds. The Bounty Mission required a world to request help and offer a reward, while the Wish List could generate waypoints from someone’s desires.

• Little Griseo agreed that Bounty Mission was a clearer name for the module that let other worlds post requests for help.
• Verne explained that a world’s request could reveal its coordinates and potentially generate a waypoint, while Little Griseo could choose whether to accept the mission.
• Little Griseo reasoned that she could help a world in exchange for a reward while still accomplishing her goal of traveling across worlds.
• Verne showed Little Griseo the Bounty Mission interface and explained that it needed a response and basic information from the other side before displaying a request.
• Verne opened the Wish List and explained that it could generate waypoints from a person’s wishes, including journeys to particular worlds or points in time.

Little Griseo learned how the Bounty Module and Wish Module worked and decided to wait for worlds to request paid help. Miss Ark then called her over to test the Wish Module.

• Miss Ark explained that worlds issued Bounty Module quests, while the Ark itself fulfilled Wish Module requests with proper authorization.
• Little Griseo understood that broadcasting offers of paid help could let worlds contact her and create beacons.
• Little Griseo accepted that she would have to wait for a request, enjoying the anticipation of an unknown mission.
• Miss Ark called Little Griseo over to begin testing the Wish Module.

Little Griseo hesitated over what wish to make, but the Wish Module detected her scattered thoughts and began generating quests before she had started. Verne and Miss Ark suspected a malfunction as Little Griseo wondered whether this was normal.

• Little Griseo stood before the control panel and struggled to choose which of her many wishes to pursue.
• The Wish Module sensed Little Griseo's thoughts and automatically began generating quests.
• Miss Ark glared at Verne, suspecting that the Great Magician had tampered with the module.
• Verne insisted she had not added anything and claimed that problems during a test were normal.
• Little Griseo asked whether this situation was really normal.

Little Griseo’s wandering thoughts triggered the Wish Module to generate nearly seven hundred wish-related tasks at once. Expert Verne stopped the detection and considered adding filters and limits, leaving the module’s mechanism due for adjustment.

• Little Griseo’s thoughts caused the Wish Module to generate pages of wishes, including wishes about becoming an Uma Musume, the Great Tree King, and a Kamen Rider.
• Expert Verne pulled Little Griseo out of the detection range, stopping the Wish Module after it produced seven pages of tasks.
• Expert Verne explained that Ark’s computing power could handle the simultaneous tasks but that they would interfere with one another.
• Expert Verne considered filtering out weak or unclear wishes and limiting simultaneous probes to three to five.

Little Griseo and Verne reviewed the trial functions and agreed that the bounty feature should be paused while the wish feature was adjusted. Ark said she would return with an update after further improvements, leaving Little Griseo confident the system would soon be ready to use.

• Little Griseo thanked Verne and accepted that the trial had revealed problems that needed fixing.
• Little Griseo felt embarrassed that Verne had seen her private, sometimes childish wishes written out as explicit goals.
• Verne and Little Griseo exchanged awkward, polite expressions while Ark remained unaware of their embarrassment.
• Ark said the trial could be improved and promised to inform Little Griseo when the adjustments were further along.
• Little Griseo agreed to put the bounty function on hold and reset the wish-acquisition mechanism.

Little Griseo considered how the Wish List could help the Ark find worlds and offered Verne a wish as a reward for helping. Verne and the others eagerly suggested destinations, but Little Griseo left them to agree on a single choice.

• Little Griseo thought that Wish Lists should let people choose whether to share their wishes or keep them private.
• Little Griseo realized that the Wish List and bounty functions could improve how the Ark searched for coordinates.
• Little Griseo offered Verne a wish slot and the chance to help navigate the Ark as a reward.
• Verne said she wanted to visit a world with advanced technology, while the Great Magician, Hundred Flavors, the Ultimate Evil, the True Self, and the Mysterious Scholar suggested other kinds of worlds.
• Little Griseo said she had no objection but told everyone to agree on one wish.

Little Griseo questioned Miss Ark about changing the Ark’s core hub, but Miss Ark and Expert Verne avoided answering. The chapter explained how vital the Ark’s core was to both Miss Ark and Little Griseo, leaving the reason for the planned change unresolved.

• Little Griseo noticed the beacon acquisition program was still running and asked why nobody had told her about the major core hub change.
• Miss Ark fell silent, and Expert Verne hid herself, leaving the body standing dazed without an answer.
• Little Griseo grew more suspicious and asked Miss Ark and the other girl to explain what was happening.
• Little Griseo considered that Miss Ark would not recklessly endanger the Ark, but recognized that changing its core could still be a serious matter.
• The chapter explained that the Ark’s core sustained the Ark and was essential to Little Griseo and Miss Ark; if it were breached and shattered, they could be left severely weakened or worse.

Little Griseo questioned what Verne could do with her temporary authorization over the Ark core. Miss Ark explained that Verne could only assemble functions from tools she provided, and that Verne's access had since been revoked.

• Little Griseo insisted on learning exactly what Verne had done and what her authorization allowed.
• Verne deferred Little Griseo's questions to Miss Ark, saying she did not want to handle the matter herself.
• Miss Ark explained that Verne had only been able to use provided interfaces and code blocks, without access to the Ark core's underlying systems.
• Miss Ark said she had built the core platform and foundation, while Verne had assembled functions such as the Bounty Module and Wish Module.
• Miss Ark confirmed that Verne's access privileges had been revoked, so she could no longer act on the Ark core.

Little Griseo questioned Verne about whether she had added back doors to the things she handled, and Verne’s silence made Miss Ark suspect that she had. The chapter ended with Miss Ark reflecting that Verne had a long history of hiding back doors, even in things she had made herself.

• Little Griseo considered why Verne had agreed to come and thought it was better not to pry into anyone’s secrets.
• Little Griseo asked Verne whether she had added any back doors.
• Verne paused and looked away without answering.
• Miss Ark realized Verne had probably hidden something and recalled that Verne had left things inside Yae’s brain without being discovered.

Little Griseo and Miss Ark discovered that Verne had installed a backdoor, prompting them to demand its removal. Verne admitted it was meant to observe Ark’s condition, leaving the group to confront her interference with Ark’s core.

• Little Griseo worried that Verne might have tampered with her core and insisted the backdoor be removed.
• Miss Ark reacted even more strongly than Little Griseo and demanded that Verne remove it.
• Verne pushed her trickster personality forward to explain the backdoor, while the trickster concluded that apologizing was the best course.
• Little Griseo asked what the backdoor did, and Verne admitted it was intended to observe Ark’s condition.
• Little Griseo realized Verne had installed it because of her long-standing fascination with Ark and her desire to examine Ark’s core.

Little Griseo forgave Verne for trying to access Miss Ark’s data and told her to finish her modules without causing more trouble. Verne’s playful personas soon teased Little Griseo, showing that Verne had recovered from her apologetic mood.

• Verne pleaded with Little Griseo to let her observe Miss Ark’s navigation and operating data.
• Little Griseo agreed to let Verne collect data through Miss Ark, but warned her to stop causing trouble and complete the Bounty Module and Wish Module.
• Little Griseo told Miss Ark to be more careful so the incident would not happen again, and Miss Ark agreed.
• The Great Magician persona and Hundred Flavors teased Little Griseo by pretending to be aggrieved over her scolding Verne.
• Little Griseo recognized that Verne had quickly returned to her mischievous ways.

Little Griseo considered the risks of Verne's access to the Ark's core and concluded that internal defenses needed to be reinforced. She turned to Verne, weighing how to address the danger.

• Little Griseo decided Miss Ark should supervise Verne and the continued module improvements.
• Little Griseo reflected that Verne's unsupervised tinkering could create hidden risks despite her good intentions.
• Little Griseo recalled the succubus from Overload, whose settings Bone King had altered, and considered the dangers of data-based lifeforms.
• Little Griseo reasoned that outside attackers could only breach her core if she were already near death, making internal threats the priority.
• Little Griseo pondered the issue and looked at Verne.

Little Griseo decided to trust Verne with finding and patching vulnerabilities in the Ark core, while allowing a limited backdoor that could not alter her thoughts or persona. Verne quietly strengthened the core as she built the backdoor, and the chapter ended with the arrangements settled.

• Little Griseo reasoned that Verne could find and patch vulnerabilities in the Ark core and trusted her more than Dr. Mei or Einstein.
• Little Griseo allowed Verne to install a backdoor, but forbade her from changing Little Griseo’s persona or thoughts or hypnotizing her.
• Verne worked on the Ark core because she cared about Little Griseo, regardless of whether Little Griseo knew it.
• Verne created the backdoor module while identifying and patching other vulnerabilities in the Ark core.

Little Griseo left Verne after entrusting her with the Wish List and approving its use for system testing. Verne estimated that the system could be perfected within a year or two.

• Little Griseo made a few more inquiries of Verne, then left because she trusted her to handle things.
• Little Griseo explained that the Wish List held only seven or eight hundred wishes because Verne had interrupted the Wish Module’s detection, and that she kept the list as her own to-do list.
• Little Griseo suggested improving the system’s detection, screening, and analysis mechanisms to prevent logical loops and crashes.
• Little Griseo told Verne that the Wish List could be used as debugging data, even if some wishes were consumed during testing.
• Verne and Miss Ark accepted Little Griseo’s proposal, and Verne estimated that the system could be perfected within a year or two.

Little Griseo worried that her instructions had made Deified Kiana and Deified Mei awkward around each other and wondered whether to keep interfering. She decided that shifting their attention might help, while the Honkai Impact 2nd situation and their possible ascension remained unresolved.

• Little Griseo considered how long research and the remaining work on the Honkai Impact 2nd and Honkai Impact 3rd sides might take.
• Little Griseo left the core hall and returned to the Administrative Section to check on Deified Kiana and Deified Mei.
• Little Griseo saw that the two girls had become awkward and conflicted after being told to achieve complete emotional compatibility.
• Little Griseo wondered whether she had put too much pressure on them and whether further intervention might make things worse.
• Little Griseo concluded that shifting their attention could help them escape their mental loop and reassess the situation later.

Little Griseo asked Apophis for advice about the troubled relationship between Deified Kiana and Deified Mei. Apophis reassured her that she would never fall in love with anyone and urged her to trust that Kiana was simply awkward about romance.

• Little Griseo sought out Apophis because she trusted her to help with emotional problems.
• Little Griseo told Apophis about the problems between Deified Kiana and Deified Mei and worried that Kiana might fall for Apophis.
• Apophis stroked Little Griseo and said she would remain the Goddess's nun forever and never love anyone else.
• Little Griseo pointed out that Kiana's feelings could still cause trouble, but Apophis encouraged her to trust Kiana and said she was merely clumsy at romance.

Little Griseo reflected on Apophis’s devotion to calling her Goddess, then visited Dr. Mei, who was recovering after giving birth to Eve. Eve had been born with an unusually rich foundation and the ability to think from birth.

• Apophis continued to address Little Griseo as Goddess and embraced her role as High Priest of the Goddess Cult.
• Little Griseo wondered whether Apophis’s service to the Goddess meant she was serving her, but Apophis only smiled in response.
• Little Griseo went to visit Dr. Mei, who had given birth to Eve two days earlier and was still in confinement.
• Dr. Mei told Little Griseo that Eve was asleep and continued reading beside the crib.
• Little Eve’s gifted foundation let her think from birth and understand what she needed.