Recaps

Kiana and March 7th discovered Sunday wandering Golden Hour, then followed a sealed-off area where strange dream rules were being investigated. After sending an exhausted Hound Family member to rest, Kiana and March 7th entered the park to investigate the bizarre effects themselves.

• Kiana and March 7th overheard Family members discussing rumors about the Oak Family incident and saw Sunday with a Pipi Xi person called One Week.
• A Hound Family member recognized Sunday but, after he spoke to her, dismissed her suspicion and let him continue on his way.
• March 7th led Kiana toward a heavily barricaded park area, where a Hound Family member warned them that certain rules absolutely must not be violated because the dream corrected anyone who broke them.
• Kiana asked to investigate, and the exhausted Hound Family member let her and March 7th pass.
• Kiana used the power of the Herrscher of Knowledge to send the Hound Family member to rest, then told the manager she and March 7th would handle anything unusual in the park.

March 7th and Kiana tested the Elysian Park rules and discovered that violations caused strange effects after a delay. After March 7th’s trash turned into golden ice cream, Kiana summoned Stelle, who rushed to the park to find the magical trash can.

• March 7th ate floating ice cream despite the rule against eating anything besides hamburgers, but no correction happened immediately.
• March 7th repeatedly failed to get onto the stage, while Kiana walked onto it without obstruction.
• March 7th was forced to regurgitate a fresh triple-flavored ice cream, and Kiana concluded that the rules’ effects were delayed.
• March 7th threw the ice cream into a trash can, which shook and expelled golden ice cream.
• Kiana sent Stelle a photo and told her that the trash can turned anything thrown inside into gold.
• Stelle arrived at the park in under ten minutes, asking where the trash can was.

Kiana and March 7th explored Penacony’s park, where Stelle tested a miraculous trash can and lost her treasured garbage collection. They then traded with a Bubble Hound for a bottle cap and headed to the Golden Gacha Machine, while Kiana secretly used her power to take the Hound’s Clover Coins.

• Stelle repeatedly fed her saved trash into the park’s trash can until it transformed into a bucket-like object and departed with her treasures.
• Kiana and March 7th discussed the park’s bizarre rules, including rules that forbade ordinary behavior in schools.
• Kiana translated a Bubble Hound’s bark for March 7th, then explained that it wanted Clover Coins for a Solesda bottle cap.
• Kiana threatened the Bubble Hound with Void Lances, and it gave them a bottle cap before fleeing.
• Kiana revealed that she had taken the Bubble Hound’s Clover Coins, and March 7th inserted the bottle cap into the Golden Gacha Machine.

After Sunday explained his return to Penacony, Welt agreed to supervise him as they dealt with the anomalies. Kiana proposed disguising Sunday as a tiny, golden-haired cat-eared girl, leaving Sunday and Welt stunned.

• Kiana and March agreed to let Sunday travel with Welt after hearing that the company had released him and One Week had helped him move around Penacony.
• Welt said Sunday would have to stay with him until they left Penacony and warned that his companions still needed to be informed.
• Kiana and March both said they understood, and Welt began taking the group to meet the others.
• Welt stopped speaking when he realized Sunday’s presence made moving through Penacony risky.
• Kiana suggested Sunday use Harmony and Order to disguise himself as a four-foot-eight, golden-haired, cat-eared, flat-chested, tsundere little loli.

Kiana, Ouyang, March 7th, Stelle, Sunday, and One Week discovered that a candy had split Tingyun's memories into numerous independent copies in Penacony. They learned how the copies came to be, but the Tingyuns remained unresponsive, leaving the group to find a way to restore the original.

• Kiana and Welt Yang persuaded Sunday to disguise himself as a tiny, golden-haired, fox-eared girl, letting him pass Hound Family members unnoticed.
• Ouyang, Kiana, March 7th, Sunday, and One Week encountered Stelle among countless Tingyun copies, and Stelle explained that Ruan Mei had rescued Tingyun after Phantylia's attack.
• Stelle told the group that she and Tingyun had accepted candy from a Don't Laugh Challenge, and Kiana used surveillance footage to show Tingyun sneezing and splitting into multiple copies.
• Sunday explained that Tingyun's sensitive mind had shed memory fragments in Penacony's Dream Pool, where they became independent beings; Kiana then revealed Sunday's disguise, though Stelle mistakenly thought he was a girl and Ouyang's granddaughter.
• The group tried to speak to the Tingyun copies, but they acted like projections and could neither see nor hear anyone; March 7th stopped Kiana from carrying one away.

The group explored Tingyun’s scattered memories until One Week’s attunement revealed a disturbing vision and brought forth a memory-fragment of Phantylia. The fragment appeared beside Tingyun without attacking, leaving everyone surprised by how calmly the two faced each other.

• Tingyun proposed forming a merchant group with her duplicates, but Kiana and the others left to investigate more of the dreamscape.
• The group encountered Tingyuns arguing about gifts and a childlike Tingyun who wanted to play, then found a relatively normal Tingyun.
• One Week began attuning the normal Tingyun and saw bloody haze, flames, and a sinister smiling figure before stopping to ask if anyone else had heard a voice.
• Kiana warned that Phantylia might emerge from Tingyun’s memories, and March 7th hastily taped Kiana’s mouth shut before the attunement resumed.
• The attunement gathered the Tingyun duplicates into flower petals, while a heliobus formed into a memory-fragment of Phantylia beside Tingyun.
• Phantylia’s fragment acted like Tingyun and calmly explained that her visible tail was simply a fox’s tail, then exchanged a glance with Tingyun.

Tingyun confronted the Phantylia illusion in Penacony, and Kiana helped defeat it. Tingyun then turned the damage Phantylia had caused into a business opportunity, contacting Jade and other merchants to pursue compensation.

• Tingyun attacked Phantylia, and the two clashed with flames empowered by Destruction.
• Tingyun unleashed her Destruction power, but Phantylia could only fight her to a draw before Kiana restrained her in a figure-four leglock.
• Phantylia emerged as a faceless blue flame, and Kiana corroded the illusion until it dissipated.
• Tingyun blamed Phantylia for the damage and losses, then began calling merchants to organize claims against her.
• At Tingyun's request, Kiana contacted Jade, and Tingyun proposed that the company pursue Phantylia for intercepted cargo and other losses.
• Jade reported Tingyun's proposal to Diamond, while Tingyun continued contacting merchants connected to the Minghuo Merchant Guild.

Tingyun shopped for souvenirs in Penacony, reunited with Yukong, and later boarded the Astral Express. The train’s morning gathering turned into a reunion when Little Kiana, Mei, and Bronya arrived, leaving Ouyang to wonder whether Honkai had caught up with him again.

• Tingyun and Kiana received Diamond’s offer of compensation and possible help against Phantylia.
• Tingyun went to Oti Mall with Kiana and March 7th, bought gifts for her Xianzhou friends, and let Kiana choose an unusual present for Fu Xuan.
• Yukong arrived at the Tatalov to take Tingyun home, and the two shared a quiet reunion.
• After the crew returned to the train, they found Sunday, Tingyun, and Black Swan aboard.
• Little Kiana, Mei, and Bronya boarded the train and reunited emotionally with Himeko.
• Ouyang entered the observation car, saw the newcomers, and remarked that Honkai had caught up with him again.

Kiana and the Astral Express crew encountered Little Kiana, Mei, Bronya, and other visitors from the Honkai world aboard the train. Sparkle and Vita brought even more familiar faces through a passage between worlds, and the expanded crew began a new pioneering journey.

• Ouyang recognized Welt, Himeko, and Kiana, while Himeko and the other passengers tried to make sense of the sudden arrivals.
• Little Kiana mistook March 7th for Kiana’s illegitimate little sister, then reacted with shock when March 7th called herself Kiana’s wife.
• Pom-Pom led everyone to the party car for breakfast, where Kiana asked Little Kiana how she had arrived.
• Little Kiana explained that Vita had awakened her on the moon and brought her, Mei, and Bronya to the train.
• Sparkle and Vita arrived with Kiris, Seele, Fu Hua, Theresa, the Dreamseekers, Durandal, Rita, and a veteran Nameless.
• Sparkle revealed that Aha had opened a passage between the worlds, and the expanded crew set out on a new pioneering journey.