Chapter Summaries

After surviving Himeko’s final attack, Chlorine Sodium escaped the Honkai world and collected a large reward. As she opened a passage to the next world, her Herrscher form changed into a small, weakened body, but her powers remained intact.

• Chlorine Sodium let Himeko defeat her apparent Herrscher body, then revealed her escape route and laughed as she vanished from the collapsing Imaginary Space.
• Chlorine Sodium checked her new points while falling and prepared to travel to the next world.
• Chlorine Sodium noticed her wings had disappeared and her voice and body were changing into a more ordinary human form.
• Chlorine Sodium discovered that her figure had shrunk dramatically, though her strength remained unchanged.
• Chlorine Sodium opened a void entrance and fell through it, leaving the Honkai world.

Yelena, an infected girl imprisoned in an Ursus mine, was nearly killed by the guards before a mysterious blast destroyed the mine. She awakened her extreme-cold Originium Arts and survived at the edge of the destruction, while everyone else inside was killed.

• Ursus guards dumped infected prisoners’ corpses into a pit and prepared to kill the remaining children at the mine.
• A captain noticed Yelena’s angry, living eyes and kicked her, leaving her unconscious in the snow.
• Yelena woke and was dragged toward the pit, but she broke free and tried to reach the mine gate before the guards beat her down again.
• As Yelena begged for someone to save her, a pillar of light and scorching heat struck the mine.
• Yelena awakened her extreme-cold Originium Arts, survived the blast, and watched the mine and its occupants perish.

Yelena escaped the ruined mine but became lost in the snowy forest, starving until she mistook Chlorine Sodium’s Armed Doll for food. Chlorine Sodium recognized Yelena as the protagonist and tried to assess whether she had been discovered, while Yelena collapsed in despair.

• Yelena searched the smoking mine ruins for food, found only matches, and followed the guards’ tracks toward the forest’s edge.
• Yelena lost the tracks, followed a river through the dark, and used her matches as hunger and cold overwhelmed her.
• Yelena spotted something drifting in the stream, pulled Chlorine Sodium’s Armed Doll Tesla Zero from the water, and bit it.
• Chlorine Sodium realized that Yelena had the symbol of a protagonist above her head and considered whether to attack or deceive her.
• Yelena failed to understand Chlorine Sodium’s attempts to communicate, released the doll, and slumped onto the ground.
• Chlorine Sodium assessed Yelena’s old wounds, ragged clothing, and surrounding cold as she hovered above her.

Chlorine Sodium rescued the starving, Infected Yelena and pretended to be an elf to keep her close, then brought her to an abandoned village and prepared food. Yelena woke in Chlorine Sodium’s shelter, where Chlorine Sodium introduced herself as a doctor and began questioning her.

• Chlorine Sodium saw that the symbol over the girl was gray and unlit, agreed to be called an elf, and promised to grant her wish to live.
• Chlorine Sodium carried the unconscious girl out of the forest and settled her in an uninhabited village.
• Chlorine Sodium killed a wild wolf with weapons from the Imaginary Space and dragged its corpse back to use as food.
• Yelena awoke by a fireplace and realized that someone had taken her in despite her uncontrolled Originium Arts.
• Chlorine Sodium introduced herself, fed Yelena a piece of meat, and asked whether she was a rabbit or a donkey.

Chlorine Sodium schemed to use Yelena’s trust while secretly planning to turn future companions against one another, as Ursus’s Emperor’s Royal Guard investigated the destroyed mine. After finding Yelena’s nightmares had frozen her home, Chlorine Sodium carried her to safety while Yelena remembered the mine’s destruction and the mysterious pillar of light.

• Chlorine Sodium examined her genuine psychiatrist identity and planned to build Yelena’s trust so she could later sabotage the girl’s relationships.
• An Emperor’s Royal Guard member inspected the ruined mine with Duke, who proposed finding and using whoever had caused the destruction.
• Chlorine Sodium returned to Yelena’s home carrying a wolf she had shot and found the house frozen by Yelena’s nightmare-driven Originium Arts.
• Chlorine Sodium carried the sleeping Yelena to another house as she muttered about the cold and her grandmother leaving.
• Yelena remembered feeling helpless as the mine was destroyed by a pillar of light and its devastating shock wave.

Yelena woke in Chlorine Sodium’s care, and Chlorine Sodium began cultivating her trust while hiding her own ruthless intentions. Later, the two went into the winter forest, where Chlorine Sodium helped Yelena practice controlling her powers as they hunted.

• Yelena woke in a different house and learned that her previous home had frozen over.
• Chlorine Sodium examined Yelena’s injuries and planned to earn her trust by acting compassionate.
• Chlorine Sodium introduced herself and awkwardly assured Yelena that no one would hurt her, prompting Yelena to laugh and call her Big Sister.
• Chlorine Sodium asked about Yelena’s name, and Yelena said her parents had disappeared before she could remember them.
• Chlorine Sodium took Yelena into the forest to practice controlling her Originium Arts while they hunted.

Chlorine Sodium reassured Yelena that she would take her along, then embraced her as Yelena began to cry. Yelena’s uncontrolled frost erupted, but Chlorine Sodium summoned an unextinguishable spark as the chapter ended.

• Chlorine Sodium hunted a snow-covered creature with a shotgun and declared that they had dinner.
• An Emperor's Royal Guard traced a purple meteor’s path to an abandoned village and set out to investigate it.
• Chlorine Sodium and Yelena roasted meat by a fire and discussed leaving the village the next day.
• Yelena panicked at the thought of being left behind, and Chlorine Sodium promised to take her along.
• Chlorine Sodium embraced Yelena as she cried, triggering Yelena’s extreme frost.
• Chlorine Sodium snapped her fingers and revealed a scorching spark that the frost could not extinguish.

Chlorine Sodium gathered information in Ursus and planned to provoke the empire’s army to draw out a protagonist, but a trigger signaled that Yelena’s village had been surrounded. While Chlorine Sodium rushed back, Infected Enforcement Squad members found Yelena and prepared to take her away.

• Chlorine Sodium disguised herself in an Ursus city and read a newspaper to learn about the Infected and the empire.
• Chlorine Sodium planned to publicly attack the Ursus army to create chaos and attract a protagonist.
• A Honkai Energy trigger device alerted Chlorine Sodium that the village had been surrounded, and she vanished from the city to return.
• Yelena woke without Chlorine Sodium, continued her training, and went outside into the snow.
• Infected Enforcement Squad members spotted Yelena, insulted her, and ordered their companions to take her away.

Chlorine Sodium rushed back toward Yelena and arrived as Yelena's uncontrolled Originium Arts froze the Infected Enforcement Squad members. The Emperor's Royal Guard nearly killed Yelena before Chlorine Sodium shot at him, interrupting his attack.

• Tens of minutes earlier, Chlorine Sodium ended her Herrscher state and ran across the snowfield to avoid being spotted by Yelena.
• Yelena unleashed her Originium Arts against the Enforcement Squad, freezing several members as her body began to crystallize from overuse.
• The Emperor's Royal Guard pierced Yelena's cold barrier, grabbed her by the neck, and began to crush her bones.
• Chlorine Sodium shot at the Emperor's Royal Guard, forcing him to drop Yelena and leap aside.

Chlorine Sodium confronted the Enforcement Squad guarding a village and overwhelmed them, keeping one Arts Caster alive to question him. An Emperor's Royal Guard then encountered another silver-haired woman, whose identity remained unclear as the Guard began to restrain her with a strange field.

• Chlorine Sodium appeared at the village cordon, and the Enforcement Squad accused her of crossing it with accomplices.
• The Enforcement Squad members threatened to interrogate Chlorine Sodium, but she decided to use violence against them.
• Chlorine Sodium struck down five squad members and spared the Arts Caster so she could demand information.
• The Emperor's Royal Guard evaded an undetected bullet and saw a silver-haired woman enter, returning the slug to her gun.
• The Guard challenged the woman, who gave an evasive answer, and then activated a field that began to trap her.

Chlorine Sodium defeated an Emperor's Royal Guard with her martial arts, then unleashed her Herrscher form when three more Guards arrived. The remaining Guards attacked and retreated in coordinated formation as she summoned countless Gates of Reason.

• Chlorine Sodium shattered the Royal Guard's barriers and killed her with an Iron Mountain Lean, after which the Guard's red emergency flare summoned three companions.
• The three Emperor's Royal Guards entered the village and found their companion dead, while Chlorine Sodium revealed her Herrscher form and opened countless Gates of Reason.
• One Royal Guard ordered the others to retreat and charged Chlorine Sodium, while a second opened a valve on his body and attacked and the third tried to escape.

Chlorine Sodium annihilated the Emperor's Royal Guard and confronted Koschei, who proposed cooperation to help her navigate Ursus. Yelena later woke beside Chlorine Sodium, while Chlorine Sodium considered Koschei's plan and the Infected organization an interesting pet competition.

• Chlorine Sodium killed the guards and destroyed the village, then discovered and eliminated an observer using an Infected as a familiar.
• Koschei introduced himself and offered Chlorine Sodium cooperation, but she repeatedly attacked him and watched him regenerate from black liquid.
• Koschei argued that they shared interests, offering to clear obstacles in Ursus in exchange for help with his own plans.
• Chlorine Sodium returned to Yelena, who had remained unconscious and seen none of the battle.
• Yelena woke beside Chlorine Sodium, who privately considered Koschei's scheme and the Infected organization a pet competition.

Chlorine Sodium trained Yelena by secretly using Honkai Energy to drive a snow-wolf pack into attacking her, then offered to teach her inch force to overcome her limits as a mage. She recalled learning the technique from Fu Hua and began explaining it to Yelena, who listened in amazement.

• Chlorine Sodium controlled a snow-wolf pack with Honkai Energy and used it to train Yelena in combat.
• Yelena froze the attacking wolves but nearly fell to a lone wolf's ambush before Chlorine Sodium intervened.
• Chlorine Sodium discussed Yelena's weaknesses and decided to teach her a close-range technique called Heaven Splitter.
• Chlorine Sodium recalled learning inch force from Fu Hua, who had called herself invincible.
• Chlorine Sodium demonstrated inch force on a wooden post and explained its combat principles to Yelena.

Chlorine Sodium prepared a staged uprising at an Ursus concentration camp while Koschei and Major Koschei agreed to arm the suppression forces. The chapter ended as Chlorine Sodium arrived at the camp, with the soldiers, guards, and Infected waiting for the confrontation to begin.

• Yelena trained in close-range self-defense before Chlorine Sodium let her fall asleep and traveled to the concentration camp.
• Koschei and Major Koschei agreed that lethal weapons could be used against the Infected during the suppression.
• The Infected gathered at the camp entrance after religious fanatics’ prophecies seemed to come true, while the guards and military forces assembled outside.
• Chlorine Sodium arrived in the darkness as the gathered forces and Infected waited for the uprising’s prologue to begin.

Koschei and Chlorine Sodium used a staged Infected uprising and Honkai Energy to plunge the mine into violence, while Koschei began considering how to create an heir and leader for his plans. Chlorine Sodium received a confidential map of Ursus defenses, and Koschei urged her to intensify the conflict.

• Koschei watched the purple light rise and reflected that Snake Scale had helped him arrange the events leading to the supposed prophecy.
• Chlorine Sodium spread Honkai Energy across the gathering, mutating the Infected and driving them to attack the military police.
• The Honkai influence also made some military police turn on their own teammates as the major general struggled to control the chaos.
• Koschei considered creating a tragic Chosen One to serve as his heir and lead the Infected uprising.
• Chlorine Sodium dismissed the violence as boring, and Koschei gave her a confidential map marking Ursus defenses and garrisons.

Chlorine Sodium brought Yelena into an Ursus city while concealing her infection, and Yelena struggled with the unfamiliar crowds before trying a hamburger. They continued toward Chernobog, hoping to leave before an approaching blizzard.

• Chlorine Sodium and Yelena reached a prosperous Ursus transport hub and learned from a map that Chernobog lay far to the east.
• Chlorine Sodium reassured the fearful Yelena that the military police would not detect her infection, which she had suppressed to hide its visible crystals.
• Chlorine Sodium led Yelena through the city and urged her to choose something to eat before they continued toward Chernobog ahead of a blizzard.
• Yelena stopped at a hamburger restaurant, where Chlorine Sodium found them a quiet corner after the crowd overwhelmed her.
• Yelena held a hamburger she had once heard about and took her first bite.

Chlorine Sodium and Yelena crossed the tundra ice while Yelena’s sour taste brought back a fragment of her early childhood. Meanwhile, Duke Koschei consulted Yaga Glazunov and another figure about the Snow Demon, which had destroyed a second military base and killed four Emperor’s Royal Guards.

• Yelena recalled her mother asking what she wanted to eat, and the memory of wanting hamburger meat left a sour taste in her mouth.
• Chlorine Sodium teased Yelena about getting fatter after the ice cracked beneath her, then the two crossed the frozen river.
• Investigators at the ruined Garrison Legion camp debated whether the Snow Demon’s threat level should be raised.
• Yaga Glazunov dismissed the Emperor’s Royal Guards and mocked the idea that the Snow Demon warranted a meeting.
• Duke Koschei explained that the Snow Demon had killed four guards and destroyed a second military base, unsettling Ursus’s people.

Chlorine Sodium learned that Ursus had reported her as the Snow Demon after an attack on its troops, while Yelena recognized the figure in the newspaper as the source of the catastrophe she had survived. The chapter left Yelena reliving the mine’s destruction and wondering what stood behind the pillar of light.

• Yaga Glazunov insulted the Emperor's Royal Guard and dismissed the Snow Demon as an easy target before leaving Koschei and the scarred man to discuss the incident and Lungmen.
• Chlorine Sodium and Yelena caught a ride toward Chernobog as the driver shared rumors about the Snow Demon and showed them a newspaper.
• Chlorine Sodium read the report of a Snow Demon attack on the 15th Army Group subordinate Garrison Legion and recognized her own golden-winged figure in its blurry photograph.
• Yelena recognized the image from the mine disaster and relived the pillar of light that had killed everyone around her.
• Yelena wondered whether the figure behind the light had been a god, a miracle, or something else.

Chlorine Sodium traded intelligence with Koschei and learned of an ancient, mysterious device that might be hidden in Chernobog. Meanwhile, Kal'tsit examined a massive metal creation intended to deal with the Snow Demon, as the sarcophagus research group pursued its own dangerous ambitions.

• Yelena became trapped in memories of the pillar of light until Chlorine Sodium startled her, and she broke down crying in her sister's arms.
• Chlorine Sodium met Koschei in the duke's castle and received intelligence gathered under their deal.
• Chlorine Sodium examined an old mining report about an unidentified device excavated by a company under the Ursus Boris Group, and Koschei pointed her toward Chernobog.
• At Chernobog's sarcophagus testing grounds, the deputy director showed Kal'tsit a huge metal creation intended to confront the Snow Demon.

Duke Ivanov Kim Yusupov struggled to explain the destruction of five thousand soldiers by the Snow Demon as Ursus worried that the Infected might begin resisting. Yaga Glazunov and Duke Koschei set an invisible intelligence-gathering net across the snowfield, while Emperor Fyodor questioned Islam Witt about the army’s defeat.

• Duke Ivanov Kim Yusupov berated his subordinates for failing to discover who destroyed five thousand soldiers in one night.
• The Staff Department warned that news of the Infected resisting the army could spark wider unrest, while Ursus still needed their labor for Line Two.
• Yaga Glazunov used an ancient Originium Arts incantation to spread her hair across the snowfield and gather intelligence about the Snow Demon.
• Duke Koschei warned that the new nobility might obtain the intelligence and complicate their plans.
• At the Winter Palace, Emperor Fyodor asked Islam Witt whether the Ursus army had suffered a deliberate attack, and Witt replied that the army still guarded the empire’s borders.