Recaps

Zhao Bai offered Fu Hua a security job at Zhao Family Restaurant, claiming he needed someone to protect its secret recipes. Fu Hua accepted and hurried on to her bar shift, leaving Zhao Bai with his new hire.

• Zhao Bai reflected on how Rita had identified the details of his omurice and resolved to stay vigilant around her.
• Zhao Bai stopped Fu Hua on her way to the bar and offered her a position as the restaurant’s security guard.
• Fu Hua wondered why Zhao Bai had suddenly changed his mind and asked when she could start.
• Zhao Bai urged Fu Hua to accept, warning that stolen recipes could force him to leave St. Freya and end the free staff meals.
• Fu Hua accepted the job and said she would report to Zhao Family Restaurant the next morning.
• Fu Hua hurried toward the bar after realizing their conversation had used up part of her commuting time.

Zhao Bai discovered that Principal Theresa was investigating reports of a ghost on campus and was terrified by the possibility that ghosts existed. Theresa assigned Zhao Bai to investigate the Campus Ghost Stories in her place.

• Zhao Bai returned to the dormitory after High Immortal fled and found Theresa reading an internal academy report.
• Theresa read the report’s final entry, which described Campus Ghost Stories, and asked Zhao Bai whether ghosts and monsters existed.
• Zhao Bai pointed out that Theresa was a church nun with the Oath of Judas, but Theresa insisted she was concerned about student safety.
• Theresa assigned the ghost investigation to Zhao Bai, who suspected she had planned to send him in her place.

Zhao Bai read a detailed ghost story about footsteps in a hazardous-materials warehouse and asked Theresa for academy funding to support his restaurant’s new employees. Theresa agreed to raise the money through a small student fee and assigned Bronya Zaychik as his partner for the ghost-catching mission.

• Zhao Bai read a log describing repeated footsteps in the chemical hazardous materials storage warehouse despite thorough searches.
• Zhao Bai asked Theresa to allocate academy funds to cover his restaurant’s additional employees.
• Theresa proposed adding a one-dollar security fee to every student’s tuition bill to raise the funds.
• Theresa told Zhao Bai that Bronya Zaychik, who disbelieved in ghosts but wanted to catch them, would partner with him.

Zhao Bai ran his restaurant while Rita, disguised as a maid, tried to get into the kitchen, and Fu Hua blocked her to protect her undercover identity. The staff waited until night to investigate the supposed ghost, but the chapter ended before anything appeared.

• Fu Hua stopped Rita from entering the kitchen, and Rita kept their interaction formal to avoid exposing Fu Hua’s undercover role.
• Zhao Bai served Rita and Fu Hua creamy mushroom soup and bread, while Rita silently gave him a challenging smile.
• Zhao Bai served plum rice balls for the afternoon meal, and the employees ate them all.
• Zhao Bai and his teammates waited until night to deal with the ghost rumors, since they were busy during the day.

Zhao Bai met Bronya and her Heavy Cannon Rabbit to investigate a supposed haunting, though Bronya treated the mission as a chance to use her ghost-catching vacuum cleaner. They reached the hazardous chemicals storage room, where footsteps sounded as they listened for a ghost.

• Zhao Bai met Bronya beneath a streetlamp and asked about the vacuum cleaner mounted on Heavy Cannon Rabbit.
• Bronya explained that the device was movie merchandise meant to detect and capture ghosts, and she believed it would work despite not believing in ghosts.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai to stay behind Heavy Cannon Rabbit if he was afraid, and he checked the academy map before suggesting they begin the investigation.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai used their verification cards to enter the hazardous chemicals storage room, which was unguarded and lined with barrels.
• Bronya listened carefully, and footsteps suddenly sounded beside her.

Zhao Bai and Bronya searched a chemical warehouse for the source of a strange, heavy clattering sound but found nothing. Bronya concluded it did not sound like footsteps, and Zhao Bai suggested they go home and continue another day, promising to show her a treasure afterward.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya turned on the warehouse lights and searched its corridors, taking care not to bring dangerous weapons into the chemical warehouse.
• Zhao Bai heard the clattering sound and traced it to an empty patch, while Bronya searched the area with her vacuum cleaner.
• Bronya concluded the sound resembled the movements of a poorly lubricated robot, though they found no robot or other explanation.
• After searching until late at night, Zhao Bai suggested they go home and sleep, then investigate another day.
• Zhao Bai promised to show Bronya a treasure afterward.

Zhao Bai used Other Shore Gate to bring the vanished Titan Daddy out of its quantum state, then watched it disappear again without activating. He returned to the dormitory shaken and told Theresa what had happened.

• Zhao Bai offered Bronya a space-agency supply of Soviet-made salmon roe sausage, and she agreed to try it.
• Zhao Bai returned to the hazardous chemical storage room with Other Shore Gate and swung it through the spot where his teammate had vanished.
• Other Shore Gate knocked the Titan Daddy out of its quantum state, revealing its enormous, dormant body.
• The Titan Daddy vanished again without activating, leaving Zhao Bai unsure what had happened.
• Zhao Bai returned to the dormitory and told Theresa everything while she played Resident Evil 7.

Zhao Bai struggled to find a way to show Theresa the Titan in the warehouse without frightening her. After staying awake until dawn, he encountered a mysterious red-haired girl who recognized his weapon’s power over quantum weapons.

• Theresa doubted Zhao Bai’s explanation and ordered him to resolve the warehouse matter within three days, threatening to withhold the counterintelligence budget.
• Zhao Bai worried that Theresa would not enter the warehouse and that the Titan could be dangerous if it emerged on its own.
• Zhao Bai stayed awake until dawn, unable to decide how to reveal the Titan to Theresa.
• A semi-transparent red-haired girl appeared before Zhao Bai and asked how his weapon could pull quantum weapons into reality.
• The red-haired girl expressed anger and disbelief that Zhao Bai’s weapon could do what her group’s years of research had failed to achieve.

Tesla secretly observed Zhao Bai to judge St. Freya Academy, but he discovered she was responsible for the warehouse’s ghostly footsteps. She withdrew into an unobserved quantum state after threatening him, while reflecting on his severe injuries.

• Tesla revealed that a quantumized person could choose who observed them and explained that she had been watching Zhao Bai to assess St. Freya Academy.
• Zhao Bai went about his morning routine under Tesla’s constant observation, then used the Other Shore Gate to keep her out of the kitchen.
• Tesla reappeared after work and questioned Zhao Bai about his scythe, and he said he used it to cut leeks.
• Tesla threatened Zhao Bai and accidentally revealed that her mechanical footsteps had caused the sounds in the warehouse.
• Tesla vanished into an unobserved quantum state and remembered that the spy in Schicksal had seemed to favor St. Freya Academy, while Zhao Bai had been coughing blood despite being Anti-Entropy’s severely injured Sovereign.

Zhao Bai met with Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C in place of the punished Bronya and tested how it would respond to questions about reporting and keeping secrets. Heavy Cannon Rabbit promised to protect his life, but its answer about concealing a secret was left unresolved.

• Tesla was humiliated after Zhao Bai dragged her Titan out of its quantum state, then watched her return it to that state.
• Zhao Bai found Bronya absent from their meeting because Mei had confined her for secretly modifying a vacuum cleaner.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C attended for Bronya and explained that it used prerecorded phrases to communicate.
• Zhao Bai asked Heavy Cannon Rabbit whether it would report what it saw and heard, and it said yes.
• Zhao Bai asked whether Heavy Cannon Rabbit would conceal a secret to save his life, and it paused to calculate its response.

Zhao Bai painted the Titan as a Tree Planting Day mascot and activated its combat system, then fled with Bronya’s Heavy Cannon Rabbit through the campus. Their noisy escape drew students to their windows, where they spotted the glowing green mech chasing them.

• Zhao Bai had Bronya promise Heavy Cannon Rabbit would protect him, then crossed the open area with the Other Shore Gate to reach the Titan.
• Zhao Bai spray-painted the Titan green and wrote “Happy Tree Planting Day” across its body.
• The Titan activated its combat system and chased Zhao Bai as he and Heavy Cannon Rabbit escaped through the warehouse doors.
• Zhao Bai and Heavy Cannon Rabbit raced along the campus road while the Titan nearly grabbed him several times.
• Students woke to the noise and saw a glowing green giant robot chasing Bronya’s Heavy Cannon Rabbit.

Zhao Bai led the painted Titan on a chase through St. Freya Academy before luring it to a lakeside wetland. He used Heavy Cannon Rabbit to complete the final step of his plan and drew Other Shore Gate as the Titan closed in.

• Zhao Bai rode Heavy Cannon Rabbit around campus twice, drawing attention from the Campus Police and ensuring Theresa would hear about the incident.
• Zhao Bai led the Titan to an unnamed lake in the campus forest and tried to see its green-painted metal body as a mass of vegetables.
• Zhao Bai told Heavy Cannon Rabbit to make Bronya say, "I want to eat vegetables," to resolve the crisis.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit finished processing the request and Bronya said the words as the Titan approached Zhao Bai.
• Zhao Bai drew Other Shore Gate from subspace and slashed toward the Titan with Four Directions Slash.

Zhao Bai killed the Titan and erased the night’s records, then returned home while Tesla watched the aftermath from her quantum state. At the locked-down lakeside, Tesla encountered a blue-haired young girl whose voice she recognized.

• Zhao Bai used Four Directions Slash to split the Titan in two and destroy it.
• Zhao Bai told Heavy Cannon Rabbit to delete the night’s records, but saved a video of Bronya saying she wanted to eat vegetables.
• Zhao Bai returned home after midnight and went to sleep without waking Theresa.
• Tesla watched the authorities lock down the lakeside after the Titan vanished.
• A blue-haired young girl appeared behind Tesla, who recognized her voice.

Ein told Tesla that Walter’s chosen rendezvous point had been sealed off and suggested finding a new location at St. Freya Academy. Meanwhile, Bronya confronted Zhao Bai about a photograph showing him being carried by Heavy Cannon Rabbit, despite his claim that the robot had malfunctioned and lost its data.

• Ein asked Tesla whether she had any ideas after Walter’s rendezvous point was sealed off.
• Ein suggested that they find a new location at St. Freya Academy to pass along intelligence.
• Zhao Bai served Bronya black caviar sausage with salad dressing and mashed potatoes.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai she did not believe Heavy Cannon Rabbit’s hard drive had malfunctioned and erased the previous night’s data.
• Bronya showed Zhao Bai a blurry photograph of him being carried by Heavy Cannon Rabbit.

Bronya tried to understand and clear up the rumors linking her to Zhao Bai, asking what had happened in the warehouse. Zhao Bai accompanied her back to the hazardous chemical storage warehouse, where they hid under camouflage to investigate.

• Bronya learned that rumors about her and Zhao Bai had spread, and she received congratulations and pink roses.
• Bronya asked Zhao Bai what had happened in the warehouse the previous night.
• Bronya asked Zhao Bai to accompany her back into the hazardous chemical storage warehouse to verify what happened.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai lay under camouflage cloth and silently watched the warehouse after the Titan escaped and the clicking sounds stopped.

Bronya and Zhao Bai secretly watched Walter meet Einstein at night, while Einstein kept their conversation private. Zhao Bai used the supposed date as an excuse to lead Bronya away.

• Bronya recognized Walter waiting in the darkness and stayed quiet with Zhao Bai.
• Einstein arrived and explained that she and the others had gathered there to avoid being noticed and to hide that Walter was still alive.
• Walter asked why Titans had appeared at the academy and thanked Tesla for choosing the sheltered meeting place.
• Einstein told Zhao Bai to take Bronya away because she and Walter needed to talk privately.
• Zhao Bai told Bronya they were watching a couple's date, and Bronya pointed out that they were also alone together at night.

Bronya discovered that Walter and Einstein’s secret meeting was a date rather than an espionage operation. Meanwhile, Theresa apologized to Zhao Bai for misunderstanding him, but hesitated over how to make the apology.

• Zhao Bai leaned close to hear a girl and became distracted by her fragrance.
• Einstein put her half-eaten lollipop into Walter’s mouth and told him to keep it there.
• Bronya realized Walter and Einstein were on a date and felt disappointed that the nighttime meeting was not an espionage operation.
• Bronya returned to Mei and Kiana, while Zhao Bai went home to find Theresa waiting to apologize.
• Theresa apologized to Zhao Bai for misunderstanding him, then faltered as she tried to remember how an apology should be made.

Theresa gave Zhao Bai a Sensory Deceiver that let him see anything as an ingredient, enabling him to fight humans. Zhao Bai worried about being entrusted with that power, but Theresa said she trusted him and urged him to protect what he cherished.

• Theresa gave Zhao Bai a pair of glasses called the Sensory Deceiver, which could make him see anything as an ingredient.
• Zhao Bai realized the glasses would let him overcome the taboo against fighting humans.
• Zhao Bai asked Theresa whether it was right to hand him the power of life and death, admitting he only wanted to be a chef.
• Theresa said she trusted Zhao Bai after observing him for two years and described him as kind, brave, and not a lolicon.
• Theresa encouraged Zhao Bai to take up a weapon and protect the things he cherished.

Theresa tested Zhao Bai to see whether he was a lolicon, then warned him that she could remotely destroy the device entrusted to him if he caused a major accident. Zhao Bai settled back into his routine, while the black-rimmed glasses remained unused after their first use.

• Zhao Bai asked Theresa how she had determined he was not a lolicon, and she explained that her outfits had been tests.
• Theresa changed into an oversized shirt and returned to sit with Zhao Bai.
• Theresa warned Zhao Bai that she could destroy the device remotely and hold him responsible if his actions caused an accident.
• Zhao Bai made Theresa bitter melon and celery juice as a gesture of appreciation.
• Zhao Bai resumed opening the shop, getting off work, and trading wits with the maid, while the black-rimmed glasses remained in his arms.

Zhao Bai received Theresa’s invitation to travel to Australia, ignored it during work, and learned at home that she had arranged a mission to test newly developed glasses. The glasses had not been used in combat, and Theresa had chosen Zhao Bai partly because his previous mission records showed his opening taunts needed improvement.

• Zhao Bai saw people on the sidewalk turn into realistic salted fish and recoiled from his sudden urge to cook them.
• Zhao Bai reflected on his work as a chef and his third-place academic ranking behind Bronya and Fu Hua.
• Theresa texted Zhao Bai about a possible trip to Australia, praising its beaches and beef.
• Zhao Bai ignored Theresa’s messages for the rest of the afternoon and returned home that evening.
• Theresa explained that she had arranged a mission to test the newly developed glasses and improve Zhao Bai’s embarrassing opening trash talk.

Theresa asked Zhao Bai to inspect a Schicksal-affiliated cattle ranch in Australia, where bushfires threatened its missile testing fields. Raiden Mei would accompany him to learn swordsmanship, and Zhao Bai accepted the paid mission.

• Theresa explained that Schicksal's cattle ranch had an arms-manufacturing background and used its grasslands as missile testing grounds.
• Theresa said Australian bushfires were approaching the ranch's testing fields after firefighting cuts left the region understaffed.
• Theresa revealed that Raiden Mei wanted to accompany Zhao Bai and seek his swordsmanship guidance after hearing Kiana's account of his skill.
• Zhao Bai accepted the commercial mission and retrieved Ice Lotus Sky from the food storage room.

Zhao Bai prepared for his Australia mission, packing weapons and hiding a pair of glasses whose power could change how he saw the world. Before leaving, he told Rita and Fu Hua the restaurant would close for a few days, and Fu Hua asked whether they would still be paid.

• Zhao Bai considered the risks of using Skadi of Frost and the forbidden glasses, then packed his weapons for the trip.
• Zhao Bai disguised himself in golfing clothes and carried his weapons in a golf bag.
• Zhao Bai told Rita he was going to Australia on a mission and gave the staff a few days off.
• Fu Hua asked Zhao Bai whether the staff would still receive pay during the closure.

Zhao Bai and Mei flew to Australia aboard a private Gulfstream jet after discovering their disguises were unnecessary. As the plane descended, Zhao Bai woke from a comfortable sleep and asked Mei if they were nearly there.

• Zhao Bai refused his employees' unreasonable request, and Mei arrived around noon carrying a disguised sword hidden inside a surfboard.
• Zhao Bai and Mei exchanged knowing grins as they noticed each other's disguised weapons.
• Zhao Bai and Mei boarded a Gulfstream jet, which flew them through checkpoints without delay and carried only the two of them.
• Zhao Bai slept for about two hours while Mei watched him, then looked away when he began to wake.
• Zhao Bai noticed the plane descending and asked Mei if they were about to reach Australia.

Zhao Bai and Raiden Mei arrived at Schicksal’s Anna Creek Ranch to help with a reported fire emergency. Their client, Chen Sicheng, revealed that he had actually requested combat personnel to kidnap the chairman of the Fire Commission and force firefighters to act.

• Mei watched Zhao Bai during the flight as the plane descended and landed.
• Zhao Bai and Mei drove to Schicksal’s Anna Creek Ranch in southern Australia.
• Zhao Bai and Mei met their client, Chen Sicheng, beneath the ranch’s office building.
• Mei asked Chen whether he had requested combat personnel to protect him.
• Chen said he had wanted them to kidnap the chairman of the Fire Commission and make the firefighters put out the fire.
• Zhao Bai realized the assignment had been relayed incorrectly and that he had come prepared to fight a fire.

Zhao Bai and Mei went to investigate the flames threatening the ranch, where Zhao Bai drew Ice Lotus Sky and extinguished the fire with a wave of absolute-zero frost. The chapter explained that the weapon stopped atoms in a fixed space, leaving the ranch surrounded by frozen air.

• Mr. Chen told Zhao Bai and Mei that the ranch’s deserted state and mounting losses could expose the missile test base to an investigation.
• Zhao Bai reassured Mr. Chen, sent him away, and drove Mei toward the flames.
• Zhao Bai and Mei left their car as the heat became dangerous, and Mei began showing signs of dehydration.
• Zhao Bai drew Ice Lotus Sky, shielding Mei from the heat with its chill.
• Zhao Bai used Dimensional Slash to engulf the flames in ice and snow.
• The chapter explained that Ice Lotus Sky fixed space ahead of its hilt, stopped atoms, and produced Absolute Zero.