Chapter Summaries

Kiana and the Express crew joined the final round of the Sands of Serenity Festival’s public selection, while Kiana investigated Mr. Susa’s history and exposed doubts about Aiden’s account. The contest began with three stages ahead, including a final challenge against a long-standing defender.

• Aiden welcomed the Nameless to the festival and explained that he had come to Penacony during its founding era, where Mr. Susa’s soda inspired Solesda.
• Kiana asked what happened to Mr. Susa, and Silver Wolf sent her archived records describing his role in Penacony’s history and his connection to the Express crew and Hanunu.
• Kiana, Stelle, March 7th, Liuying, and Himeko gave their remarks before Aiden left, with Stelle echoing Kiana’s dramatic line and Himeko wishing everyone safety.
• The host announced three contest stages, with route choices in the first two and a popular defender awaiting the contestants in the final stage, then started the competition.

Kiana and Sparkle entered the festival auditions together, where Sparkle’s antics turned their performance into a spectacle. The Express crew won the championship, while the pair’s suggestive closeness set fans shipping them into a frenzy.

• Himeko struggled to assign Kiana to a team until Sparkle appeared and partnered with her for the Acting Path challenge.
• Sampo, disguised as a judge, gave Kiana and Sparkle a script about Kiana being missing from the Golden Hour, and Kiana said she could do nothing.
• Sparkle tried to eat Kiana’s toes, then asked whether someone dreaming in Penacony could sense real-world stimulation.
• Hound members arrested Sampo for ambushing a staff member and stealing their identity, while Sparkle admitted she had arranged his false identity through improper means.
• Kiana and Sparkle finished the auditions, and Sparkle rejected the judges’ invitations to become an actress, saying her heart belonged to Kiana.
• Stelle’s side won the championship, and fans eagerly shipped Kiana and Sparkle.

After the Express crew won the preliminaries, Sunday revealed that the Oak Family rejected their demands and disclosed his connection to the remnants of Order. He separated Kiana from the others and trapped her in a dream tailored to her, where she resisted its comforts and found a golden beach beyond her room.

• The Express crew entered the Penacony Grand Theater and met Sunday, who congratulated them but said the Oak Family would not accept their demands.
• Sunday argued that Penacony should not return to a lawless world, and Himeko pressed him to explain what had happened at his meeting with Welt and Guinaifen.
• Sunday revealed that he was a remnant of Order, prompting the group to realize that the Oak Family as a whole followed Order while one performer belonged to Harmony.
• Kiana disappeared, and Sunday told the others that she, Guinaifen, and Ouyang were safe in dreams he had created for them.
• In a dream resembling her room, Kiana ate Bishoujo Flavor instant noodles and drank Sister Juice, then opened the door and found a sunlit beach.

Kiana explored the dream prison, where she escaped a beach dream and disrupted Ouyang’s ordinary dream by bringing Otto to him. She then entered Guinaifen’s dream and took the stage with her, but the announced song was not the one they expected.

• Kiana tried to wake herself from the beach dream by falling from a great height, then found Mei and Otto waiting in the dream space.
• Kiana opened the doors to Ouyang’s and Guinaifen’s dreams and discovered that both were living out beautiful dreams without remembering their negotiations with Sunday.
• Kiana brought Otto into Ouyang’s dream, waking Ouyang, who confronted his old friend before leaving to return to Penacony.
• Kiana entered Guinaifen’s dream, where the two prepared to perform together as the Wings-Together duo.
• The host announced their song, “You Are All My Wings!”, then realized the song was wrong.

Kiana exposed Aha’s disguise while the Express crew reached the Grand Theater, where Sunday prepared to fight for his vision of Order. After Kiana rejoined the group, she suddenly took a doll hostage as the confrontation with Sunday began.

• Kiana realized that the Robin beside her was Aha in disguise, and Aha admitted that the puppets had only been props it moved.
• Stelle and the others reached the Grand Ensemble Ceremony’s final theater, where Sunday recounted the fall of Taiyi and prepared to face them.
• March 7th accidentally turned the confrontation into a joke by demanding that Sunday return her wife, then corrected herself to demand Kiana back.
• Kiana rejoined the group and said she wanted every day off, while Sunday revealed that the Stellaron lay behind the curtain or within the theater itself.
• As Sunday invited the group to prove their convictions, Kiana grabbed a doll and used it as a hostage, prompting Himeko to warn March 7th and Stelle to be ready to restrain her.

Sunday revealed that he wanted to create a human paradise ruled by Order, but the Express crew rejected his plan and prepared to fight. Kiana and the others faced the Symphonic Choir, Dominicus, as Sunday’s plan to unite Harmony and Order began.

• Kiana held Guinaifen’s plushie hostage to try to make Sunday surrender, but Sunday ignored it and defended his vision of a paradise without Aeons.
• Himeko, March 7th, and the others rejected Sunday’s plan, and Sunday summoned puppets to block them before rising above the stage.
• Kiana and March 7th attacked Sunday, but their attacks barely hurt him; Kiana then destroyed the puppets he sent to stall them.
• Kiana said that a real seven-day holiday mattered more than a week off in a dream, prompting Sunday to consider changing his backup plan.
• Sunday synchronized with the puppets and summoned the Symphonic Choir, Dominicus, revealing that the Grand Ensemble Ceremony aimed to unite Harmony and Order.
• Kiana joked that Xipe had become one with Taiyi because she loved him, distracting the others as the battle began.

After Sunday's defeat, Fu Xuan stayed in Penacony with March 7th and Kiana, while Qing Que celebrated the prospect of more time to slack off. Kiana later bought a stall's entire stock of rare white peach juice and recognized the hooded merchant when she revealed her face.

• Jing Yuan and Dan Heng joined the fight against Sunday with the Luofu reinforcements and defeated him, ending the crisis in Penacony.
• March 7th and Kiana tried to flee from Fu Xuan, but Fu Xuan caught them and agreed to stay in Penacony for a few days as the Luofu's Acting General.
• After Fu Xuan left, Qing Que wandered around Penacony, promoted Imperial Jade, and rejected Sunday's Seven-Day Weekend because she preferred slacking off during work.
• Fu Xuan bought milk tea and joined March 7th and Kiana, who wondered where Pom-Pom, Ouyang, and Boothill had gone.
• Kiana found a merchant selling rare white peach juice, bought the entire stock for 200,000 Credit Points, and recognized the merchant after she removed her hood.

Kiana tried on a wedding dress in Penacony after Fu Xuan and March 7th brought her to a bridal shop. The dress stirred memories of her parents and childhood, and she left the changing room holding lilies as Fu Xuan and March 7th began trying on dresses themselves.

• Kiana spotted a merchant who resembled Sampo, while the merchant watched the group leave and remarked that Kiana seemed immersed in a beautiful dream.
• Kiana followed Fu Xuan and March 7th into a bridal shop, where the two dragged her into a changing room and gave her a wedding dress to try on.
• Kiana recalled attending a wedding with Ling as a child and remembered Cecilia promising she could wear her mother's coronet when she married.
• Kiana put on the wedding dress and took out a bouquet of lilies, while the bridal-shop attendant joined the Kitty Fan Club and shared a picture of her.
• Fu Xuan and March 7th admired Kiana, then chose wedding dresses for themselves and entered the changing room.

Kiana, March 7th, and Fu Xuan decided to marry after revisiting their wedding-shop photo, and they began arranging a wedding in Penacony. When Asta arrived in a Star Destroyer, she was shocked to learn that Kiana was getting married, and two more people were still aboard the ship.

• Kiana admired March 7th and Fu Xuan in their wedding gowns, and the three spent several days together in Penacony.
• Kiana wondered why she had not seen Dan Heng, Ouyang, or Pom-Pom, but Fu Xuan explained that the others were busy or resting.
• March 7th’s commemorative wedding-shop photo fell from her pocket, and she, Fu Xuan, and Kiana agreed to marry.
• Fu Xuan secured a three-month leave from Jing Yuan, while March 7th told the Express crew about the wedding and received their blessings.
• A Star Destroyer arrived outside Penacony, and Asta hurried down to confront Kiana about marrying so soon.
• Two more people disembarked from the Star Destroyer while Asta questioned Kiana.

Kiana married March 7th and Fu Xuan in a grand Penacony ceremony, then went to the Dreamy Hotel to wait for a surprise. There she met a seductive version of herself, began to question her strange circumstances, and guessed incorrectly that the woman was Sparkle.

• Ruan Mei brought the unwilling Herta to Kiana's wedding, while guests including Bronya and Seele arrived with gifts.
• Herta officiated Kiana and March 7th's ceremony, and Ruan Mei led the ceremony for Kiana and Fu Xuan.
• March 7th and Fu Xuan left to prepare a surprise, so Kiana waited in her Dreamy Hotel room.
• Kiana entered a transformed room resembling the St. Freya Academy student apartment bathroom and met another version of herself.
• The other Kiana offered Kiana three guesses, and Kiana guessed Sparkle, but the woman said she was wrong.

Kiana realized Aha had trapped her in a dream and watched the others devise a way to escape it. After they awakened in the theater, Aha examined a dangerous cocoon above Sunday while the crew recounted their bizarre nightmares.

• Kiana recognized the woman in her dream as Aha and remembered that she had been dreaming since returning to the train.
• Kiana watched Bocchi fire the Galaxy Rangers' bullet as Yomi led Stelle into the world of nothing, weakening the Dream of Taiyi and waking the group.
• The awakened crew found Aha in the theater and saw a cocoon above Sunday that she believed could herald the birth of a new Aeon.
• March 7th recounted dreaming that Kiana, Mei, and Yomi made out in her room, while Dan Heng described being run over by Blade in a pink princess dress.
• Ouyang began to describe his dream of Otto, and the truth was that Welt had dreamed of marrying Otto in disguise.

The Express crew described their dreams while the purple cocoon above Lord of the Day grew, and Aha hinted that it contained the absent Kiana. Kiana emerged with a divine appearance that made Ouyang suspect she had become an incarnation of Finality.

• Himeko described dreaming that she was Kiana's teacher, joined her on missions, and fought her while wearing red armor.
• Stelle recounted her dream of an almost perfect Penacony and wondered whether her own slash had caused the others' nightmares.
• The cocoon darkened, grew, and developed purple patterns as Aha hinted that it contained one of the Star Rail's missing Nameless.
• March 7th guessed that Lord of the Day was Kiana in disguise, then realized her earlier threat to beat up whoever caused the nightmares might have been heard by Kiana.
• Kiana emerged from the cracking cocoon with a golden halo and an emotionless, godlike gaze.
• Ouyang recognized similarities between Kiana's appearance and Finality, the force that cleansed worlds in his understanding of Honkai.

Kiana intervened in Sunday's attempt to impose Order, and Guinaifen helped persuade him to abandon his paradise before he fell into the abyss. After Aha revealed that Kiana was the Herrscher of Finality and a potential Aeon, Kiana vanished, leaving Ouyang and the others uncertain about what she had become.

• Kiana watched as Sunday transformed into the Philosophical Fetus and began the Dream of Taiyi, then erased the colossal hand of Order when it threatened the group.
• Guinaifen urged Sunday to accept a paradise beyond Order, and the Star Rail struck him as he prepared another attack.
• Sunday gave up after hearing Stelle explain that people eventually awaken from dreams, and Guinaifen embraced him as he fell into the abyss.
• Ouyang raised a barrier when a new danger emerged, and Aha explained Honkai and identified Kiana as the Herrscher of Finality and a possible Aeon.
• March 7th noticed Kiana's expression had changed, and Kiana vanished before Ouyang and the others could respond.

Kiana awoke in Teyvat holding Paimon, then met Lumine and Venti, who mistook her for the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles because of her resemblance. The encounter ended with Lumine lowering her weapon after deciding Kiana was not the Sustainer.

• Kiana fell asleep beside March 7th, woke up in Teyvat with Paimon in her arms, and wondered how she had arrived there.
• Paimon recognized Kiana and reacted with alarm, while Kiana checked her appearance in a mirror.
• Lumine entered the inn, saw Kiana, dropped her breakfast, and drew her sword after mistaking Kiana for the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.
• Venti arrived with dandelion wine, recognized Kiana's resemblance to the Sustainer, and reacted in shock.
• Lumine lowered her weapon and reasoned that Kiana was probably not the Sustainer because she had no need to pretend with her.

Kiana tried to teleport Lumine and Paimon directly to Inazuma, but the jump went wrong and left her alone in a hot spring. Lumine and Paimon remained at their camp, unsure where Kiana had ended up.

• Lumine told Kiana that they planned to reach Inazuma by the Crux Fleet because the nation was under lockdown, and Kiana offered to teleport them instead.
• Kiana teleported behind Lumine, startling her, and Lumine wondered whether Kiana was the Sustainer of Heavenly Principles.
• Lumine showed Kiana a map, and Kiana held her and Paimon as she attempted a spatial jump to Inazuma.
• The teleportation left Lumine and Paimon at their camp, where they worried about Kiana and wondered why they had not moved.
• Kiana realized she had landed in a hot spring and began searching for Lumine and Paimon.

Kiana met Yae Miko at the Grand Narukami Shrine's hot spring and showed her images of Tingyun and Yae Sakura, leaving Yae Miko wondering whether Yae Sakura was her sister. When Yae Miko later found Kiana eating Inagi Hotomi's fried tofu, she felt an unexpected maternal attachment to her and asked who she was.

• Yae Miko confronted Kiana at the hot spring after Kiana appeared there by teleportation.
• Kiana showed Yae Miko pictures of Tingyun and Yae Sakura, and Yae Miko wondered whether Yae Sakura was her sister.
• Yae Miko sent Inagi Hotomi to fetch shrine maiden clothes for Kiana.
• Kiana grabbed and ate the fried tofu Inagi Hotomi had been holding, while Yae Miko mistook the scene for inappropriate groping.
• After Inagi Hotomi left, Yae Miko asked Kiana who she was, and Kiana answered that they had already met.

Kiana took on a Yae Sakura-like form and stayed with Yae Miko at the Grand Narukami Shrine, where her appetite and ability to understand foxes drew attention. As Yae Miko warned her about the coming Traveler and Inazuma’s unrest, Kiana went to meet Kamisato Ayaka on her own.

• Kiana realized her cursed mouth had transformed her into a virtual Yae Sakura, complete with foxlike traits and the ability to make giant rice balls, and Yae Miko invited her to the Grand Narukami Shrine.
• Yae Miko’s rumors that Kiana was her younger sister spread through Inazuma, and Kiana astonished a noodle-shop owner by devouring an enormous serving of kitsune udon.
• A fox reported a ghost and Treasure Hoarders to Yae Miko, while Kiana understood the fox through a Synesthesia Beacon and drew its confused attention.
• Yae Miko warned Kiana that the Traveler was coming to Inazuma and that trouble might follow, advising her to keep her distance.
• Near the Kamisato Estate, Kiana asked Yae Miko to go ahead and approached Kamisato Ayaka, while Yae Miko worried that Ei might turn Kiana into a shut-in.

Kiana visited Kamisato Ayaka at the Kamisato Estate, where her repeated theft of fried tofu and a tantrum caused confusion before Ayaka learned who she was. Ayaka then offered to show Kiana around Inazuma, and they set out together.

• Yae Miko gave Kiana Mora and suggested she use her resemblance to pass as a Yae when needed.
• Kamisato Ayaka mistook Kiana for Yae Miko and repeatedly ordered fried tofu after Kiana secretly ate each serving.
• Kiana rolled on the floor and cried for more fried tofu, prompting Ayaka to have a large stack brought in.
• Kamisato Ayaka learned that her visitor was Kiana, while rumors about the tantrum quickly reached Yae Miko.
• Kamisato Ayaka invited Kiana to explore Inazuma, and they left the Kamisato Estate together.

Kiana used her impersonation of Yae Miko to stop a Shogunate soldier from targeting Tejima, then explored Inazuma City with Kamisato Ayaka. Their shopping trip ended when they spotted a stall selling Dango Milk.

• Kiana disguised herself as Yae Miko and persuaded a Shogunate soldier to arrest the ronin who had falsely accused Tejima instead of investigating Tejima.
• Kiana and Kamisato Ayaka entered lively Inazuma City and visited Yae Publishing House.
• Kiana bought books, including three novels about herself and Yae Miko, and noticed they all portrayed her as the weaker sister.
• Kiana and Kamisato Ayaka spotted a stall advertising freshly made Dango Milk near the Adventurers' Guild.

Kiana brought Dango Milk, snacks, and light novels to Tenshukaku, where Raiden Ei took control from the Raiden Shogun and enjoyed the treats with her. After Yae Miko arrived, Ei withdrew, and Kiana returned to the Grand Narukami Shrine, where Yae Miko asked to speak with her later.

• Kiana teleported to Tenshukaku with treats and light novels, but the Raiden Shogun drew the Grass Cutting Blade and demanded to know who she was.
• Raiden Ei recognized something familiar about Kiana, took control of the Shogun's body, and ate snacks, drank Dango Milk, and read a light novel with her.
• Yae Miko arrived and saw Ei enjoying the treats, but Ei retreated into the Sanctum of Euthymia and the Raiden Shogun sent Yae Miko and Kiana out of Tenshukaku.
• Ei resumed eating after Yae Miko cautioned her about sweets, then ordered an attendant to check for outsiders, count Inazuma's Vision holders, and buy Dango Milk.
• Yae Miko returned to the Grand Narukami Shrine and told Kiana to come to her room later because she had something to discuss.