Recaps

Anti-Entropy reviewed the risk posed by Raven and held a meeting after receiving footage from its satellites. Cocolia celebrated new funding and pushed Tesla and Einstein to debut as performers, leaving Einstein and Tesla irritated by her plans.

• Gray Serpent considered whether Raven had leaked more intelligence and whether Anti-Entropy should save or silence her.
• Anti-Entropy's satellites transmitted footage from an hour earlier to headquarters as Cocolia coughed, signaling another meeting.
• Einstein learned that Cocolia credited her and Tesla for securing funding without mentioning Durandal's payment for their prior collaboration.
• Cocolia urged Tesla and Einstein to debut and offered to manage them, prompting Tesla to protest.

Cocolia pushed Einstein and Tesla to debut as virtual scientists, then showed them satellite images of a powerful man fighting monsters at a Shencheng Medicine factory. She continued presenting images of the man's blazing greatsword, leaving Einstein and Tesla to endure her relentless praise.

• Cocolia insisted that Einstein and Tesla debut as virtual scientists, and they accepted.
• Cocolia presented satellite images of Shencheng Medicine's factory in Sky City.
• Cocolia pointed out a man wielding a greatsword whose bright attacks made the factory grounds look like daytime.
• Einstein and Tesla watched as Cocolia switched from a single image to a grid of images and continued praising the man's power.

Cocolia showed Einstein nine photos of Zhao Bai and declared that he would become an Anti-Entropy Executor, despite having no real plan beyond trying to provoke him. Einstein then surprised Tesla by agreeing to debut, but insisted on managing herself, leaving the two of them at odds.

• Cocolia shared nine pictures of Zhao Bai and said she expected him to become an Anti-Entropy Executor.
• Einstein considered contacting Walter and thought Cocolia’s fan meeting might offer a chance to bring him back.
• Einstein told Tesla she would debut but manage herself because she was bored and wanted something fun.
• Tesla reacted with disbelief, and she and Einstein continued arguing about the arrangement.

Zhao Bai brought Raven to St. Freya Academy, where she was imprisoned and interrogated by Bronya. Raven’s suggestive explanations failed to faze Bronya, while they left Theresa flustered; Zhao Bai watched from outside the room.

• Zhao Bai completed the handover with Superintendent Zhou, wrote a mission report, and brought Raven to St. Freya Academy.
• The principal trusted Zhao Bai’s judgment and placed Raven in the academy’s most secure prison.
• Bronya interrogated Raven, who tried to explain her feelings for Gray Serpent through explicit praise of mechanical prosthetics.
• Bronya remained unfazed and asked Raven whether that was all, leaving Raven defeated.
• Theresa blushed at Raven’s words, and Zhao Bai asked whether she had ever played weird Galgames.
• Zhao Bai stopped questioning Theresa and kept watching Raven, while noting that St. Freya Academy had no dedicated interrogation room.

Zhao Bai tried to make Raven reveal the danger of World Serpent, but their conversation veered into street racing and bedroom experience. Bronya exposed Raven’s bluff and left her speechless, while Theresa laughed outside the interrogation room.

• Zhao Bai watched Raven cautiously as he doubted whether she was really a threat from World Serpent.
• Bronya said Raven was lying and called out her repeated attempts to steer the conversation toward bedroom activities.
• Raven reacted in shock, then mocked Bronya as a brat with no experience.
• Bronya apologized with a smile that made Raven feel completely defeated.
• Theresa laughed outside the poorly soundproofed interrogation room.

Zhao Bai interrogated Raven about her role in World Serpent, while Bronya watched and hoped he would maintain his serious demeanor. Raven explained that she led Shencheng Medicine’s branch and that Gray Serpent headed intelligence, then clarified that they were only colleagues.

• Theresa stopped laughing and felt sympathy for Raven’s predicament.
• Zhao Bai told Theresa that the situation was an interrogation, then entered the room.
• Zhao Bai sat beside Bronya and asked Raven what position she held in World Serpent.
• Raven said she headed Shencheng Medicine’s branch and that Gray Serpent led the intelligence department.
• Raven denied being in a relationship with Gray Serpent and said she had never been in one.
• Zhao Bai kept a cold expression as he considered the organizations’ existing dealings with Schicksal.

Zhao Bai questioned Raven about World Serpent and its connection to the pharmaceutical incident, but her answers left him unsure whether she was dangerous. Bronya assured him that Raven was genuinely foolish, though Zhao Bai remained wary.

• Raven explained that World Serpent and Shencheng Medicine were separate to avoid stereotypes and public criticism.
• When Zhao Bai asked about Gray Serpent's pharmaceutical work, Raven called him an old terrorist and urged Zhao Bai to kill him.
• After the interrogation, Zhao Bai wondered why Raven seemed harmless.
• Bronya said Raven had hidden some things but was truly an idiot, while Zhao Bai questioned whether she was deliberately misleading them.

Bronya described Raven as a three-layered fool while avoiding Zhao Bai’s questions about how she saw him. Raven remained bound by Judah in a confinement room as Theresa left her under observation.

• Bronya called Raven a resentful old woman, a self-righteous schemer, and a pure idiot, then said there was no fourth layer.
• Zhao Bai asked what Bronya saw when she looked at him, but Bronya stayed silent and linked arms with him.
• Theresa felt like a third wheel as she watched Bronya and Zhao Bai walk together.
• Raven complained about her treatment while locked in the confinement room under priority observation.
• Theresa had used Judah to bind Raven, suppressing her strength and leaving her unable to struggle.

Gray Serpent told Raven he had arranged for her to leave the Far East prison and serve a life sentence elsewhere, keeping her available for a future signal. Raven accused him of hiding from Zhao Bai, but he denied it.

• Raven, chained with her Honkai energy suppressed, called Gray Serpent to rescue her.
• Gray Serpent revealed he had arranged for Raven to be transferred in three days to Sky City's Fifty-Second Women's Prison for financial fraud.
• Gray Serpent said Raven would likely receive life imprisonment and should remain on standby until he contacted her.
• Raven asked whether she could break out of prison, and Gray Serpent told her not for now.
• Raven accused Gray Serpent of being too cowardly to face Zhao Bai, and he denied it.

Gray Serpent drugged Raven and lost his bee-shaped robot when her body crushed it. From a hidden laboratory in Sky City, he recorded data about her body under the file name Raven:086.

• Gray Serpent pricked Raven's earlobe with a sleep aid while considering how to avoid being recognized.
• The sleep aid took effect, and Raven's body crushed the bee-shaped robot as she slumped down.
• Gray Serpent emerged from a replacement body in his hidden Sky City laboratory and began recording data.
• Gray Serpent completed the report and archived it as Raven:086.

Gray Serpent told Jackal that Raven’s records had been handled and World Serpent’s secrets remained within his calculations, then defended the Venerable Lord’s strength. The scene shifted to Bronya setting down a controller while reassuring someone during a game of “Couple’s Kitchen.”

• Gray Serpent reported to Jackal that things were going well and Raven’s records had been sorted and filed.
• Jackal teased Gray Serpent for becoming irrationally fanatical whenever the Venerable Lord was involved.
• Jackal agreed to review the video and remarked that the man’s swordsmanship looked handsome, though it was eye-searing to watch repeatedly.
• Gray Serpent blurted out that the Venerable Lord was far stronger than he was.
• Bronya set down the controller and reassured someone while playing “Couple’s Kitchen.”

Zhao Bai played Couple's Kitchen with Bronya while thinking about Raven, and Bronya comforted him by revealing she had planted a tracking device in Raven. Theresa returned to her room with Xuanyuan Sword for company as Raven remained locked in the confinement room.

• Zhao Bai made mistakes while playing Couple's Kitchen with Bronya because he was thinking about Raven.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai she had put a tracking device in Raven's stomach, comforting him.
• Theresa watched the game with Xuanyuan Sword and joked that Zhao Bai wanted Bronya to comfort him.
• Xuanyuan Sword comforted Theresa, who hugged her and decided to return to her room.
• Xuanyuan Sword followed Theresa to her room, while Raven remained locked in the confinement room for three days.

Raven spent three days in prison after Zhao Bai warned her not to escape, and she feared he would come back if she disobeyed. When a visitor arrived to save her, she was surprised to find she did not recognize them.

• Zhao Bai told Raven she would have to repay her debts and warned that he would personally bring her back if she tried to escape.
• Raven was taken to prison and placed in a solitary cell, where she wondered if she would ever get out.
• Raven stayed in prison for three days without attempting to escape, afraid of Zhao Bai.
• A prison guard told Raven she had a visitor, and Raven expected her teammates to save her.
• Raven saw the visitor and asked who they were.

Raven met Gray Serpent, who explained that she had entered in a cloned body because her mechanical body could not come openly. Raven questioned the clone’s origin, and the chapter ended with Gray Serpent’s answer still unknown.

• Gray Serpent appeared in a petite prosthetic body and confirmed her identity to Raven.
• Gray Serpent said flesh was inconvenient and explained that her body was a clone made using technology she took from Anti-Entropy’s clone experiment project.
• Raven asked whose body the clone had been copied from, suggesting it might have been Gray Serpent’s own.

Gray Serpent visited Raven in prison to ask about Zhao Bai and secretly verified Raven’s loyalty. She confirmed that Zhao Bai had planted a tracking device on Raven, leaving Raven startled.

• Raven tried to pinch Gray Serpent’s cheeks, but a prison guard reminded her that visitors and prisoners could not touch.
• Gray Serpent told Raven that Zhao Bai seemed instinctively wary of World Serpent, and said she would keep a close watch on him.
• Gray Serpent secretly confirmed that Raven had not betrayed World Serpent.
• Gray Serpent told Raven that Zhao Bai had planted a tracking device on her, and Raven rubbed her head in surprise.

Gray Serpent left Raven in prison and, back in a mechanical body, plotted how to provoke Zhao Bai without getting killed. He considered using the little girl’s body to experience Zhao Bai’s strike, but decided he needed a safer series of plans.

• Gray Serpent warned Raven to watch her words and actions before leaving her in prison.
• Gray Serpent switched back to his mechanical body and preserved the little girl’s unconscious body rather than abandoning it.
• Gray Serpent considered using the little girl’s body to attract Zhao Bai’s attention and experience the Jie Mie Greatsword’s strike.
• Gray Serpent remembered Zhao Bai’s treatment of troublesome little girls and decided he needed a careful plan to avoid dying.

Zhao Bai and Bronya spent time playing a cooking game together, and he mistook her intense focus for a gesture meant to make his experience enjoyable. The chapter ended with Bronya explaining that she had simply been trying to break the high-score record.

• Zhao Bai sneezed and suspected someone was talking behind his back, while he and Bronya glanced toward Theresa's room.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya continued playing a cooking game and worked smoothly together.
• Zhao Bai noticed Bronya's intense focus and assumed she was trying to make sure he enjoyed the game.
• Bronya ended the round at their highest score, then told Zhao Bai she had been aiming to break the record.

Bronya told Zhao Bai that she liked him despite his flaws, and he embraced her on the sofa without Heavy Cannon Rabbit intervening. The moment he looked at Heavy Cannon Rabbit, however, it took his gaze as a provocation and became furious.

• Bronya told Zhao Bai that she liked him even when he acted like a hero with an overinflated sense of self.
• Zhao Bai wondered whether Bronya was mocking him, but she reassured him that her feelings would not change.
• Zhao Bai put down the controller and pounced on Bronya on the sofa, expecting Heavy Cannon Rabbit to punish him.
• Zhao Bai looked at Heavy Cannon Rabbit, and it took his gaze as a defiant provocation and grew furious.

Zhao Bai’s attempt to comfort Theresa after Bronya left him alone only made her angrier. The next morning, Theresa brought news that headquarters had promoted Zhao Bai to A-rank after reviewing his mission report.

• Bronya returned to her room, and Heavy Cannon Rabbit left Zhao Bai alone.
• Zhao Bai tried to invite Theresa out and offered to make bitter melon juice, but she angrily told him to get lost.
• Zhao Bai went to bed, disappointed that he had missed out on Bronya’s lap pillow.
• Theresa visited Zhao Bai the next morning and told him headquarters had promoted him to A-rank, deeming him ready to become a full-fledged warrior.

Zhao Bai worried that his new A-rank Valkyrie appointment was Otto’s revenge and would force him to take missions instead of enjoying academy life. Theresa explained that he would always have to bring teammates on missions, leaving Zhao Bai relieved that he could still take Bronya along.

• Zhao Bai reacted with dismay when Theresa said he could no longer slack off at school.
• Zhao Bai suspected Otto had arranged his A-rank Valkyrie appointment as payback for their earlier trick.
• Zhao Bai worried that A-rank Valkyries could take solo missions and that he would no longer be able to take Bronya on trips.
• Theresa clarified that Zhao Bai had to bring teammates on every mission because he would get lonely alone.

Zhao Bai learned that Otto had arranged strict requirements for his mission teammates, and Bronya used them to turn Kiana away. The chapter ended with Kiana believing Bronya and leaving disappointed.

• Zhao Bai told Bronya about his A-rank promotion and asked whether he could bring teammates on missions.
• Bronya said Zhao Bai's teammates had to meet strict requirements, including being a 147-centimeter-tall, 40-kilogram Siberian girl with light gray hair and a mech.
• Kiana asked Zhao Bai to take her as a minor support teammate so she could earn credits and graduate.
• Bronya repeated the teammate requirements to Kiana, who believed her and left in disappointment.

After Zhao Bai left, Bronya admitted she had been wrong to blame him, and they returned to work. His classmates then congratulated him on becoming A-rank, and he read through their messages while cooking.

• Bronya said she should not have blamed Zhao Bai and suggested they get back to work.
• Zhao Bai's communicator received dozens of messages congratulating him on his promotion to A-rank.
• Fu Hua congratulated Zhao Bai and urged him to keep studying.
• Rosaliya called Zhao Bai a friend because he liked the Vodka Girls and sent him a photo of herself and Liliya.
• Liliya congratulated Zhao Bai and asked him to make more delicious food.
• Zhao Bai received a message saying “Happy wedding” and dismissed it as someone stirring up trouble.

After reading the blessings from his friends, Zhao Bai felt better and reopened his restaurant with a ten percent discount. Gray Serpent learned that Schicksal had promoted Zhao Bai to A-rank and saw an opportunity to carry out his mission.

• Zhao Bai replied to Durandal’s message by telling her to drop to A-rank so they could stand on equal footing.
• Rita sent Zhao Bai a family portrait and passed on blessings from herself and Yue Xia.
• Zhao Bai deleted Otto’s blessing and contact, then put up a sign offering ten percent off the restaurant.
• Gray Serpent received news that Zhao Bai had been promoted to A-rank and decided it was time to carry out his mission.

Gray Serpent considered how to cause trouble without casualties, while Cocolia reacted to Zhao Bai’s promotion to Schicksal A-rank. Cocolia fantasized about recruiting him to Anti-Entropy, and Einstein questioned whether he would want her resources.

• Gray Serpent realized Zhao Bai might keep arriving to clean up the trouble he caused and searched for opportunities to make trouble without anyone dying.
• Cocolia learned that Zhao Bai had been granted A-rank status and complained that Schicksal was wasting his talent.
• Einstein continued getting ready to stream and asked whether Zhao Bai would even want Cocolia’s resources.
• Cocolia claimed she would recruit Zhao Bai by hiring food critics to praise his cooking.

Zhao Bai took the day off after his restaurant’s unexpectedly high revenue, pleased with the results despite joking that he had suffered losses. In the living room, Theresa continued teaching the Xuanyuan Sword to speak.

• Zhao Bai recalled how his discounts had drawn in the students and brought in more revenue than expected.
• Zhao Bai decided not to open the restaurant and took the day to relax.
• Theresa patiently taught the Xuanyuan Sword to call her “big sister,” but it called her “Grandma.”