Recaps

Dong Moxuan, a transmigrated dead apostle who had infiltrated Changkong City, tried to get money from Mei with an absurd story before admitting he knew her father. Mei let him in, while Dong Moxuan remained broke and hoped his connection to Raiden Ryoma would help him.

• Dong Moxuan introduced himself to Mei as Kevin Kaslana and spun an elaborate tale about the previous era and World Serpent to ask her for ten million.
• Mei grew skeptical and impatient, questioned whether he was joking, and prepared to leave.
• Dong Moxuan stopped joking, gave his real name, and said he was a friend of Mei's father.
• Dong Moxuan's narration revealed that he had transmigrated into the Honkai world as a male dead apostle, could control his Honkai Energy, and had infiltrated Changkong City.
• Dong Moxuan explained that his bank card was frozen and that he had approached Mei impulsively while trying to find money.

Mei questioned Dong Moxuan’s claim that he knew her father, Raiden Ryoma, and asked him for proof. After two ridiculous fake photographs and a real one, she accepted that he was telling the truth, though she had yet to decide what to do about him.

• Mei brought Dong Moxuan into her home and listened as he explained that his bank card had been frozen and he had come to seek help from Raiden Ryoma.
• Mei asked Dong Moxuan for evidence that he was her father’s friend, despite her intuition suggesting he was not lying.
• Dong Moxuan showed Mei two crude edited photographs, one with Raiden Ryoma’s head pasted onto a blonde woman’s body and another with Dong Moxuan’s head on an old man’s body.
• Dong Moxuan gave Mei a genuine photograph of himself with Raiden Ryoma, and Mei acknowledged that it looked authentic.
• Mei accepted Dong Moxuan’s identity but noted that it would not determine the decision she still had to make.

Dong Moxuan tried to convince Mei to let him stay, but she initially refused because he had pledged allegiance to Raiden Ryoma. He forced her to agree by clinging to her leg, and the chapter ended with Mei confronting him after he laughed while offering comfort about Raiden Ryoma’s imprisonment.

• Mei told Dong Moxuan that his loyalty to Raiden Ryoma had nothing to do with her and dismissed him.
• Dong Moxuan pretended to accept Mei’s refusal, then grabbed her leg and begged her to take him in.
• Mei agreed to let Dong Moxuan stay temporarily and laid down rules for sharing her home.
• Dong Moxuan turned on the television, and a news report announced that Raiden Ryoma had been imprisoned.
• Mei noticed Dong Moxuan laughing as he tried to comfort her and asked if he had been laughing.

Dong Moxuan settled into Raiden Mei’s home, where his antics eased some of her distress as she cooked dinner and prepared a room for him. He expected the Honkai eruption in Changkong City to happen in about a month and vowed to look after Mei; the next morning, she had already left for school.

• Mei questioned Dong Moxuan’s suspiciously cheerful behavior, then went to the kitchen feeling exhausted by her father’s imprisonment and his unexpected guest.
• Mei prepared a sumptuous dinner, and Dong Moxuan enthusiastically ate it after she reminded him to wash his hands and observe mealtime manners.
• After dinner, Mei prepared a room for Dong Moxuan, who privately thought about his plans and the Honkai eruption he expected in a month.
• Dong Moxuan vowed to take care of Mei while Raiden Ryoma remained in prison, then woke after ten the next morning and found Mei gone to school, leaving a note on the table.

Dong Moxuan tried to deliver Mei's forgotten lunch box to Senba Academy, but after climbing the wall he collided with a silver-haired girl. He realized his hand had landed on her chest as she moaned beneath him.

• Dong Moxuan found Mei's lunch box at home and decided to bring it to Senba Academy.
• Mei realized she had forgotten her lunch and planned to buy bread instead.
• The gatekeeper stopped Dong Moxuan at the school entrance, so he left and climbed over the wall.
• Dong Moxuan collided with a silver-haired girl while climbing down and used Honkai Energy to soften their fall.
• Dong Moxuan checked the lunch box, then realized his hand was resting on the girl's chest.

Dong Moxuan delivered Mei the lunch she had forgotten, and Mei thanked him warmly, beginning to see him as someone who cared about her. Afterward, Kiana caught up with him while he was eating at the convenience store.

• Dong Moxuan recognized Kiana after accidentally touching her, then fled before she could chase him.
• Dong Moxuan found Mei in the crowd and gave her the lunchbox he had brought for her.
• Mei accepted the lunch and hesitantly thanked Dong Moxuan, touched by his concern.
• Dong Moxuan bought bread and yogurt at the convenience store and sat down to eat.
• Kiana found Dong Moxuan and confronted him as he was about to bite into his yakisoba bun.

After Kiana found Dong Moxuan, she confronted him about knocking her down and leaving, though her unexplained familiarity with him kept her from simply attacking him. Their conversation was interrupted by Kiana’s class monitor, who assigned her to move sports equipment and then questioned why Dong Moxuan was there.

• Kiana searched the campus for the Silver-haired Youth and found Dong Moxuan sitting on a bench.
• Dong Moxuan offered Kiana bread and yogurt, and she accepted them before demanding they discuss what had happened.
• Dong Moxuan offered Kiana the money he had left, angering her because she took it as an insulting attempt to pay her off.
• Kiana’s Black-haired Class Monitor told her to move sports equipment or clean for the entire next week, and Kiana reluctantly agreed.
• The Class Monitor noticed Dong Moxuan beside Kiana and asked why he was there.

Dong Moxuan was nearly exposed as a boy sneaking into Senba Academy, but Kiana helped him pass as her cousin and deliver homework. After the Class Monitor let them go, Kiana insisted that Dong Moxuan help her move equipment to the storage room.

• Dong Moxuan worried that the observant Class Monitor would discover he was a boy inside Senba Academy.
• Kiana claimed Dong Moxuan was her cousin and said he had come to deliver her forgotten homework, and Dong Moxuan followed her explanation.
• The Class Monitor appeared to see through their story but told Kiana to have her cousin leave after delivering the homework and departed.
• Kiana thanked herself for fooling the Class Monitor, while Dong Moxuan thanked her for helping him avoid trouble.
• Kiana introduced herself by name, learned that he was Dong Moxuan, and ordered him to help move equipment to the storage room.

Kiana made Dong Moxuan help her move her belongings at Senba Academy, then exchanged phone numbers with him and sent him away with a drink. That evening, Mei returned home to find Dong Moxuan cooking dinner, and they sat down to eat together.

• Kiana refused to let Dong Moxuan leave until he gave her his phone number, then gave him Otaku Happy Water as payment for helping her move.
• Mei returned home from school and found Dong Moxuan cooking dinner in the kitchen.
• Dong Moxuan told Mei he was cooking because he did not want to freeload while staying at her home.
• Mei and Dong Moxuan sat down to eat, and he asked her how she liked his cooking.

Dong Moxuan shared a warm dinner with Mei and agreed to teach her how to cook. The next day, Kiana called him to help replace the cheap furniture in her apartment, and they set off to find a store.

• Mei praised Dong Moxuan's cooking, and he offered to teach her, which she accepted.
• Mei went to school and left Dong Moxuan breakfast, lunch money, and his allowance.
• Kiana called Dong Moxuan and asked him to help buy furniture, and he agreed after she said their earlier dispute was settled.
• Dong Moxuan met Kiana, who had skipped class, and learned that she wanted to replace the poor-quality furniture supplied by her landlord.

Kiana and Dong Moxuan searched for furniture, settled on a moderately priced store, and went to a maid cafe for a late lunch. The chapter ended with Kiana pinching Dong Moxuan after he stared at the maid who greeted them.

• Kiana admired the furniture at an expensive store but left after learning she could not afford it.
• Dong Moxuan accompanied Kiana through several furniture stores, and they eventually chose items at a moderately priced shop.
• Kiana blushed and snapped at Dong Moxuan when he asked why she had brought him along to shop.
• Dong Moxuan chose a maid cafe for lunch, and Kiana mocked him for being an otaku.
• A maid greeted them, Dong Moxuan stared at her, and Kiana pinched his waist.

Dong Moxuan and Kiana visited a maid café, where the maid mistook them for lovers and steered them toward a couple’s set meal. Kiana agreed to order it for the complimentary pudding, and the two were left awkwardly facing its romantic presentation.

• Dong Moxuan and Kiana denied being lovers when the Chestnut-haired Maid asked, but they let her keep thinking they were a couple.
• Kiana ordered a Deluxe Couple Love Set Meal to get the complimentary Special Super Rainbow Pudding, insisting she was doing it only for the dessert.
• Dong Moxuan teased Kiana about the couple’s meal, and she became frustrated and turned away.
• The Chestnut-haired Maid served the set meal, which featured heart-shaped omurice, paired desserts, and a shared drink with a heart-shaped straw.
• Dong Moxuan awkwardly offered the drink to Kiana, and she lowered her head and began eating.

Dong Moxuan and Kiana finished lunch and went shopping together, where a spoonful of shared pudding left Kiana flustered. He walked her home, and the chapter ended with Kiana thanking him for spending the day with her.

• Dong Moxuan remembered a silver-haired girl as he watched Kiana, who offered him a bite of pudding and then accused him of being lewd after realizing they had shared a spoon.
• Kiana declined to buy the shop's couple phone charms and paid the bill, while the Chestnut-haired Maid wrongly assumed Dong Moxuan was living off her.
• Dong Moxuan offered to walk Kiana home, and she invited him to follow her to her nearby rental.
• Kiana told Dong Moxuan to stop outside her place, declined to invite him in, and awkwardly thanked him for the day.

Dong Moxuan gave Kiana one of a pair of charms, and both of them questioned their inexplicable closeness to each other. Later, Mei agreed to deliver a classmate’s documents and was interrupted by Dong Moxuan, who came to pick her up.

• Dong Moxuan gave Kiana a pair of charms as thanks for lunch, and Kiana accepted one while leaving the other for him.
• After Dong Moxuan left, Kiana hung the charm on her phone, wondered why she seemed so taken with him, and failed to throw the gift away.
• Dong Moxuan also noticed his unusual fondness for Kiana, dismissed it as a quirk, and decided to pick up Mei.
• A short-haired girl asked Mei to deliver documents to the teacher’s office, then criticized Mei behind her back; Mei overheard her and clenched her pen.
• Dong Moxuan entered the classroom and asked Mei why she was still there after school.

Dong Moxuan picked Mei up from school, defended her by humiliating a classmate who had bullied her, and walked home with her. Their friendship grew warmer over the next few days, until an event interrupted their routine one weekend afternoon.

• Dong Moxuan arrived at Mei's school and thanked her friend, then splashed her with crushed Otaku Happy Water after noticing her contempt for the drink.
• Mei objected to Dong Moxuan bullying a high school girl, but he explained that he had acted because the girl had bullied Mei.
• Dong Moxuan carried Mei's schoolwork and walked home with her, while Mei nearly confessed something before changing the subject to dinner.
• Over the next few days, Mei grew gentler toward Dong Moxuan, while Kiana did not contact him again.
• Dong Moxuan's quiet routine with Mei was interrupted one weekend afternoon.

Mei took Dong Moxuan to a crowded shopping mall to buy him clothes, and the two shared a shy, date-like outing. After Mei chose a white shirt for him, Dong Moxuan tried it on, and she blushed at how handsome he looked.

• Mei persuaded the reluctant Dong Moxuan to go shopping for clothes instead of staying home.
• Dong Moxuan teased Mei that their weekend outing was basically a date, making her blush.
• Mei and Dong Moxuan reached a crowded mall, and Dong Moxuan held her hand so they would not get separated.
• Mei led Dong Moxuan into a clothing store and asked him to choose an outfit.
• Dong Moxuan tried on a white shirt, and Mei turned away with flushed cheeks as she admired how he looked.

Dong Moxuan and Mei chose clothes together, and Mei asked him to help with the stuck zipper on her dress. As he entered the fitting room, Dong Moxuan found himself strongly attracted to her.

• Dong Moxuan picked out several outfits for himself and urged Mei to choose some clothes too.
• Mei agreed to let Dong Moxuan help her select clothes, and he chose a white dress for her to try on.
• Mei entered the fitting room and discovered that the dress's back zipper was stuck.
• Dong Moxuan found the store clerk missing, so Mei nervously asked him to come inside and help.
• Dong Moxuan entered the fitting room and paused, captivated by Mei's exposed back, while she urged him to start pulling up the zipper.

Dong Moxuan helped Mei zip up a dress, caught her when she stumbled, and left her flustered after their close encounter. Mei showed him the outfit with a sun hat, and after they bought it, they talked about what she did in her free time.

• Dong Moxuan carefully zipped up Mei's dress, and Mei accidentally stepped on its hem and fell into his arms.
• Dong Moxuan caught Mei against the fitting-room wall, then released her and left after they found themselves almost cheek to cheek.
• Mei hid her face in embarrassment before emerging from the fitting room to ask Dong Moxuan what he thought of her dress.
• Dong Moxuan added a white sun hat to Mei's outfit, praised how cute she looked, and bought the clothes.
• Dong Moxuan asked Mei whether she wanted to go back, and Mei said she planned to review her studies.
• Mei protested that she was not a bookworm and said she sometimes watched television.

Dong Moxuan teased Mei about having no friends, then called himself her friend and coaxed her into accepting him as her boyfriend. He rushed her to an arcade for a date, where Mei admitted she had never played an arcade game.

• Dong Moxuan teased Mei about her lack of friends, then told her he counted as her friend.
• Dong Moxuan jokingly got Mei to agree that he was her boyfriend and pulled her along to go on a date.
• Dong Moxuan took Mei to an arcade, where she felt uneasy after hearing he had gone on a date with another girl before.
• Mei agreed to the date because Dong Moxuan had cared for her, and he led her to an arcade machine.
• Mei sat beside Dong Moxuan and asked how to operate the unfamiliar game machine.

Dong Moxuan and Mei spent their date playing games at an arcade, where Mei met a sharp-tongued girl who offered to teach her a rhythm game. When Dong Moxuan returned, Mei pretended she was still struggling so he would teach her, leaving the other girl dismayed.

• Dong Moxuan taught Mei an arcade fighting game, then switched to cooperative games after repeatedly defeating her.
• Dong Moxuan and Mei played through the arcade for hours and lost track of their date.
• While Dong Moxuan went to buy drinks, a black-haired girl criticized Mei’s rhythm-game technique and offered to teach her.
• Mei quickly learned the rhythm game, impressing the black-haired girl, who seemed eager to say something more.
• Dong Moxuan returned and held Mei’s hands to guide her, while Mei acted clumsy and asked him to be patient.
• The black-haired girl watched Mei play alongside Dong Moxuan as the light faded from her eyes.

Mei and Dong Moxuan spent the afternoon at the arcade, where they played games and shared a tender moment over a claw-machine prize. They left holding hands, while Black-haired Girl watched them go, heartbroken and alone.

• Black-haired Girl left after seeing Mei and Dong Moxuan acting intimately, and neither of them noticed she was gone until later.
• As dusk approached, Dong Moxuan suggested one final game before they went home, and Mei chose the claw machine.
• Mei repeatedly failed to win a dumpling plushie, so Dong Moxuan grabbed it for her.
• Mei tried once more and won a purple dumpling plushie, which she shyly gave to Dong Moxuan as a reward.
• Dong Moxuan and Mei held hands as they left the arcade, while Black-haired Girl watched and then staggered out alone.

Honkai descended on Changkong City, and Dong Moxuan headed to Senba Academy to find Mei as Kiana fought through the infected there. Just as they encountered each other in the corridor, Kiana fired at Dong Moxuan, who dodged and recognized her.

• Honkai descended on Changkong City, and Dong Moxuan began his plan by heading toward Senba Academy to find Mei.
• Kiana killed the Honkai-infected creatures in her classroom and mourned the classmates she had never gotten to know.
• Kiana worried about Dong Moxuan and went to clear the infected from the corridor.
• Dong Moxuan used his ability to locate Mei near the rooftop and moved through the devastated academy.
• Kiana fired at Dong Moxuan from behind, but he dodged and turned to find her there.

Dong Moxuan reunited with Kiana at Senba Academy, where she warned him about the Honkai outbreak and insisted he come with her to find breakfast. On the rooftop, a schoolgirl surrounded by purple lightning woke with no memory of how she got there.

• Kiana mistook Dong Moxuan’s powerful Honkai aura for infection, but he had already withdrawn it when he saw her.
• Dong Moxuan told Kiana he had come because he was worried about her, flustering her before he prepared to leave.
• Kiana explained that a dangerous Honkai outbreak had spread across Changkong City and offered to protect Dong Moxuan.
• Kiana’s stomach growled, so she pretended Dong Moxuan was hungry and took him by the wrist to find breakfast.
• A schoolgirl awakened on the rooftop surrounded by purple lightning, confused about where she was and unable to remember what had happened.

Theresa received news of a Honkai reaction in Changkong City and ordered Himeko to return from vacation. Otto sent Durandal to the city to retrieve a long-sought object, while Cocolia assigned Bronya to capture Raiden Mei, whose Herrscher power had awakened.

• An unnamed Valkyrie reported the Honkai reaction in Changkong City to Theresa, who ordered Himeko to return despite her vacation.
• After the Valkyrie left, Theresa sighed over the new Honkai and murmured Cecilia's name.
• Otto told Durandal that a crucial object he had been seeking was in Changkong City and ordered her to bring it back.
• Cocolia watched Raiden Mei on a screen and said that her Herrscher power should have awakened.
• Cocolia asked Bronya to bring Raiden Mei back, and Bronya promised to succeed.

World Serpent chose to wait as the Third Eruption struck Changkong City, while Mister discussed fate and a girl who refused to go there. At Senba Academy, Kiana and Dong Moxuan headed to the rooftop after hearing thunder, where Mei might be.

• Jackal reported the Third Eruption in Changkong City, and the Venerable Lord ordered her to wait for Schicksal and Anti-Entropy to act.
• The Venerable Lord viewed Mei’s image and vowed that this time he would not lose.
• Mister told the girl that he had followed fate’s guidance since receiving a power that let him glimpse its threads.
• At the convenience store, Kiana ate bread while Dong Moxuan worried about Mei and tried to discourage Kiana from investigating the rooftop.
• After thunder and purple lightning sounded above them, Kiana took Dong Moxuan by the wrist and led him toward the rooftop.