Recaps

Duanmu Huai killed the monsters and machines threatening multiple worlds, then became stranded in a Space Hulk and joined Inquisitor Sten’s mission to a plague-stricken Hive City. After defeating the Great Unclean One, he learned the Empire had summoned them to Cadia, where his true fight against the Chaos God awaited.

• Duanmu Huai killed the monsters awakened by Dr. Emma and the Three-Headed Dragon, then followed its portal to an alien system and ordered the Myriad Eagle Battleship to destroy it.
• Duanmu Huai brought the Brass Band Club to Antarctica, welcomed new recruits into the Inquisition, and investigated the signal that had led the Quarians and Geth away.
• Duanmu Huai and Rumiere infiltrated the Mechanical Planet and defeated the Unexpected Enemy, but a Necron attack released a C’tan Shard that Duanmu Huai devoured as the star system exploded.
• Duanmu Huai awoke on a Space Hulk, met Inquisitor Sten and the Space Wolves, and helped them retrieve a glowing fragment from a corrupted machine.
• Duanmu Huai joined Sten’s group at a plague-stricken Hive City, where they followed Kara’s prophecy into an Eldar structure and freed the Great Unclean One despite its warning.
• Duanmu Huai killed the Great Unclean One with the Power of Destruction, ending the plague, then refused to swear by the God Emperor when Sten questioned his allegiance.
• A guard told Duanmu Huai and Sten that the Empire had summoned them to Cadia, and Duanmu Huai recognized it as the battlefield where he would face the Chaos God.

Duanmu Huai helped defeat Abaddon’s assault on Cadia, revived Guilliman, and destroyed Magnus before the System sent him into a Destiny trial. In the trial, he investigated a monster in his hometown and then joined Meijia’s sixteenth-birthday gathering, where the family’s strict traditions began to take hold.

• Duanmu Huai opened a passage through the Warp storm to Cadia, where he destroyed the Fire God Legion’s Cursed Artifact, crushed Ercanthus, and helped repel the Black Legion.
• Duanmu Huai empowered Cadia’s defenders, killed Abaddon, and left for Macragge with Belisarius Cawl to prevent the Eldar from controlling Guilliman’s awakening.
• Duanmu Huai purged Guilliman’s corruption, defeated Yvraine’s Incarnae, and explained the Inquisition and the danger of the Emperor’s ascension to the revived Primarch.
• Duanmu Huai gave Guilliman tools to expose Warp corruption, then destroyed Magnus and his Thousand Sons fleet before the System began a Destiny trial with a fabricated identity.
• Duanmu Huai investigated strange events with Kagami Sakuya, uncovered a monster in the mountain, and dragged Shudde M'ell into a lake to kill it.
• Duanmu Huai returned home, raised his Demolitions skill, and accompanied Sakuya to Meijia’s birthday gathering at the Shiroho family estate.
• Meijia explained the family’s strict sixteenth-birthday rules and her cousin’s murder, while Duanmu Huai gave her a protective pendant.
• Shiroho Satomi, Sakura Sayuri, Shiroho Sen, Saeki Ryoko, and Social Man arrived for dinner, then Granny Mikawa locked Meijia inside the eastern corridor and ordered the guests back to their rooms.

Duanmu Huai rescued Meijia from Shiroho Miyuki, then began investigating a cult suspected of manipulating paranormal enthusiasts and causing deaths. His investigation led him to Death House, where a television crew encountered a locked-room death and increasingly volatile behavior.

• Duanmu Huai uncovered the Shiroho Family’s history and found Meijia trapped in a dream by Miyuki, who summoned Great Atlach-Nacha before Duanmu Huai killed it and the mansion collapsed.
• Duanmu Huai chose Animal Taming, acquired a red panda named MiMi, and met Tokisaka Satoshi, who linked a murdered girl to the Cult of the Light of the Universe.
• Duanmu Huai suspected the cult had manipulated Miki Jun into causing the Drill Worm incident, then learned Tokisaka Satoshi had died after investigating a planned mass suicide at Death House.
• Shionji Yuko joined Duanmu Huai and Sakuya’s investigation, and Yellow Hair gave Duanmu Huai a former warehouse to use as a secure headquarters.
• Shionji Yuko found links between Miki Jun, Saeki Ryoko, and paranormal activities, while Duanmu Huai arranged to investigate Death House with a television crew.
• At Death House, Duanmu Huai witnessed strange statues vanish and reappear, rescued an actress from an unseen force, and found blood on a statue he later smashed.
• The crew discovered Zecun hanged in the locked Annex, and Duanmu Huai ordered them to call the police and preserve the scene.
• After Shionji Yuko suggested Zecun’s death was a locked-room murder, Duanmu Huai stopped the director and a staff member from attacking each other and noticed the crew’s unusual emotional instability.

Duanmu Huai investigated a chain of disappearances in March City, uncovered the Universe Light Church’s Shoggoth plot, and destroyed the King in Yellow as Carcosa threatened the city. After the city’s leaders were arrested, he took a school investigation job and began searching for two missing boarders.

• Duanmu Huai lured out and devoured Roygarl, gaining a Fear Aura that inflicted Despair, then opened a detective agency and began taking cases.
• Duanmu Huai investigated March City’s disappearances, uncovered the Mental Hospital’s Shoggoth experiments, and destroyed the hospital after rescuing the detectives and gathering evidence.
• Duanmu Huai traced the hospital’s funding to the Universe Light Church and the Nine Gates Family, then killed the Nine Gates Chieftain and discovered his copy of The King in Yellow.
• Duanmu Huai and the detectives learned that Carcosa was encroaching on March City, and Duanmu Huai defeated the King in Yellow with Reality Stabilizing Anchors and the Rune of Death.
• The Idol Detective arrested Mayor Sankawa and the Nine Gates Chieftain, while Duanmu Huai gained a new ability to judge people’s skills and abilities.
• Duanmu Huai accepted a covert assignment as a substitute physical education teacher to investigate two missing boarders at Qian Yuan Dormitory.
• Duanmu Huai overpowered members of the Five Swords, examined the missing students’ room, and learned that the girls may have escaped disguised as guards with an accomplice’s help.