Chapter Summaries

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.