Recaps

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot searched for Palo Valetti, learning that she had ties to the Gear Association and might be known to Luella Arsen, an eccentric alchemist in the Outer City. Luella recognized Palo and prepared to use her Communicator to help find her.

• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot found records identifying Pankto Valetti's wife, Vivian Valetti, and daughter, Palo Valetti, but had no current contact information for Palo.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot deduced that Palo was connected to the Gear Association and led Lin Yu to seek help from Luella Arsen.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Lin Yu entered Luella Arsen's hidden underground alchemy workshop.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot explained that Luella was a former Noble and a well-connected alchemist who could help locate people in the Outer City.
• After Lin Yu described Palo Valetti, Luella said she knew Palo well and pulled out a Communicator.

Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot met Luella Arsen, who led them to implantation expert Palo Valetti. Lin Yu told Palo that her father, Pankto Valetti, was alive and had asked him to find her, leaving Palo questioning why her father had not come himself.

• Luella Arsen made soup from the mushroom on her head, and Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot drank it while waiting for Palo's location.
• Luella led Lin Yu and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to an abandoned area, where they found Palo Valetti inside a parked Alchemy Vehicle.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot proved her identity as the Fairy Queen, and Lin Yu explained that he had come to find Palo and her mother for Pankto Valetti.
• Lin Yu revealed that Pankto had survived the Despair Train and that Lin Yu had rescued him before destroying it.
• Palo learned her father was free and asked why he had not come to find her himself.

Lin Yu reunited Palo Valetti with her father, Pankto Valetti, and explained how he had been framed and lost his memories. Palo initially rejected him, but Pankto remembered her name, and she broke down and punched him over the years of pain his disappearance had caused.

• Palo Valetti doubted Lin Yu's account of her father's framing and lost memories, but Lin Yu said he had proof.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Luella vouched for Lin Yu before Pankto Valetti appeared at the truck door.
• Palo recognized Pankto, who nervously apologized for the hardship his absence had caused her.
• Palo told Pankto she did not consider him her father because he lacked their shared memories and urged him to leave and live his own life.
• Pankto remembered Palo's name and its meaning, apologized for forgetting her, and Palo punched him while crying out that her mother had died without learning what happened to him.

Lin Yu secretly repaired Pankto Valetti’s soul wounds, restoring his memories and enabling a reunion with Palo Valetti. Nightless Sky Fire Apricot decided to return to her family, while Lin Yu kept his deeper concerns about her future to himself.

• Lin Yu took Nightless Sky Fire Apricot and Luella aside so Palo Valetti and Pankto Valetti could speak privately after Palo punched her father.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot suspected Lin Yu had meddled, and he admitted he had arranged for Pankto to recover his memories by repairing his soul wounds with Mental Power and Soul Power.
• Lin Yu told Luella he could not fix her memory problems, and Nightless Sky Fire Apricot advised her to avoid unknown mushrooms and potions and to sleep properly.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot thanked Lin Yu for helping her reflect on family bonds and said she was ready to return to the Nightless Sky Family and face her mother’s death.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot said she missed her mother and expected to cry at the funeral, while Lin Yu privately worried she might someday resent her mother after using Divine Descent.
• Palo Valetti waved Lin Yu over after her conversation with Pankto seemed to end.

Palo Valetti reconciled with Pankto Valetti and agreed to assist Nightless Sky Fire Apricot with a Forbidden Alchemy project in exchange for having her father's wanted status removed. She learned that the Artificial Human she would help modify was created using Pankto as its genetic source, and the chapter ended with Palo realizing how dangerous and ambitious the plan was.

• Lin Yu saw that Palo Valetti and Pankto Valetti had made up after she hit him and then tended to his injury.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot offered to remove Pankto Valetti's wanted status if Palo assisted with an Alchemy Components modification project, and Palo agreed.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot revealed that Pankto's wanted status had already been removed and sent Palo the project files.
• Palo read that she would help Oumia Bosen modify an Artificial Human for advanced Alchemy and Forbidden Alchemy use.
• Lin Yu revealed that the Artificial Human's genetic source was Pankto Valetti, and Palo called the plan crazy.

Palo Valetti agreed to help modify Arthur Two and clear Pankto Valetti’s record, while Nightless Sky Fire Apricot prepared to pose as the Creator when Oumia Bosen arrived. Lin Yu explained how Xiao Nian’s Player status let her withstand advanced alchemical modifications, then promised to bring Nightless Sky Fire Apricot along to a dangerous ocean world.

• Palo Valetti accepted the commission and drove to Nightless Sky Fire Apricot’s warehouse to inspect the equipment.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot told Lin Yu that Oumia Bosen would arrive soon and that he should take Arthur Two away before then.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot said she and Palo would modify Arthur Two, aiming to make him as strong as Arase Nian in her normal mode.
• Lin Yu explained that Xiao Nian could endure extensive alchemical modifications because she was a Player with a special Item.
• Nightless Sky Fire Apricot apologized for hiding her analysis of Xiao Nian’s modifications and asked Lin Yu to invite her on future trips.
• Lin Yu promised to bring Nightless Sky Fire Apricot to a dangerous world of islands and aquatic creatures, and she vowed to protect him with Complete Divine Descent.