Recaps

Rosaliya and another figure arrived at St. Freya Academy in disguise, but found the grounds strangely quiet and unguarded. Rosaliya revealed herself and walked inside, wary of the open entrance.

• Rosaliya and her companion approached St. Freya Academy in black robes.
• Rosaliya remarked that the academy was quiet and had no visible guards.
• Rosaliya removed her robe, stroked her horns, and walked down the school path.

Rosaliya and Liliya searched for Bronya’s husband after learning she was in love, and students directed them to Zhao Bai. They headed toward the restaurant where he was said to be.

• Rosaliya wondered why nobody recognized the sisters, and Liliya told her it was a good thing.
• Rosaliya recalled how she and Liliya had tried to become idols and later comedians, while their popularity began to fade.
• Rosaliya grew curious about the man who had won over Bronya and ran off to ask a passing student where he was.
• The student recognized Rosaliya’s portrait of Bronya and told her Zhao Bai was at a nearby restaurant.
• Liliya noted that Bronya’s relationship with Zhao Bai had become common gossip at the all-girls school.

Rosaliya and Liliya visited Bronya’s restaurant in disguise, where they encountered Zhao Bai. He recognized them as the Vodka Girls and decided to prepare them a gift.

• Liliya and Rosaliya arrived at the restaurant and found Bronya at the cashier while Heavy Cannon Rabbit cleaned.
• Bronya recognized the disguised Rosaliya and Liliya and asked whether their mother had sent them.
• Zhao Bai came out of the kitchen and met the two girls, who introduced themselves as the Vodka Girls.
• Zhao Bai decided to make a gift for his sisters-in-law and took out a bottle of vodka to practice bartending.

Zhao Bai served Rosaliya and Liliya vodka-based cocktails, and both girls collapsed after drinking them. Bronya revealed that they could not drink alcohol and led Zhao Bai away with the unconscious twins.

• Zhao Bai mixed vodka with cherry syrup, lemon juice, and mint to make cocktails for Rosaliya and Liliya.
• Rosaliya and Liliya drank their cocktails and collapsed to the floor.
• Zhao Bai asked what had happened, and Bronya examined the girls’ glasses.
• Bronya accused Zhao Bai of giving hard liquor to minors, then said the twins could not drink alcohol.
• Bronya gestured for Zhao Bai to carry the girls, and he followed her outside while asking what alcohol would do to them.

Zhao Bai and Bronya took the drunken Rosaliya and Liliya to a secluded lakeside, where the twins began charging him with powerful headbutts. Bronya explained how to stop them, and Zhao Bai prepared to fight back.

• Bronya explained that Rosaliya and Liliya would progress from sleepiness to lucidity and then drunken rampage.
• Zhao Bai carried Rosaliya and Liliya to the lakeside while Bronya warned him to find a quiet place to stop their madness.
• Rosaliya and Liliya mistook Zhao Bai for Bronya's kidnapper and charged him with Super Headbutts.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai he could wait for the alcohol to wear off or squeeze the twins' tails to disable them.
• Zhao Bai put on black-rimmed glasses and summoned a pair of lightning-wreathed gauntlets.

Zhao Bai stopped Rosaliya and Liliya’s attack with his electrified gloves, and the sisters fell asleep after he shocked their horns. They later woke up, while Zhao Bai withdrew his gloves without noticing Rosaliya burp.

• Zhao Bai slowed Rosaliya and Liliya’s charge and knocked them down with his fists.
• Zhao Bai grabbed the sisters’ horns and used gentle lightning to sap their strength.
• Rosaliya and Liliya hugged each other’s tails, curled up, and fell asleep.
• Bronya said her younger sisters only acted that way after drinking, and Zhao Bai agreed not to take their words seriously.
• Rosaliya and Liliya woke up, and Zhao Bai withdrew his electrified gloves without noticing Rosaliya burp.

Rosaliya and Liliya restrained Zhao Bai and demanded that he give Bronya back to them. With Bronya’s permission, Zhao Bai prepared to free himself from their hold.

• Rosaliya and Liliya used their tails to communicate while pretending to sleep.
• Rosaliya suddenly grabbed Zhao Bai’s wrist with her tail, and Liliya joined her by binding his other hand.
• The girls pinned Zhao Bai down and asked him to give Bronya back to them.
• Zhao Bai looked to Bronya, who told him to go ahead.

Zhao Bai used repeated tail stimulation to restrain Rosaliya and Liliya until they were exhausted, while Bronya watched. Afterward, he carried the sleeping girls home.

• Zhao Bai licked Rosaliya's and Liliya's tails whenever they tried to stand, leaving them limp and unable to escape.
• Bronya watched Zhao Bai's actions coldly, extinguishing his excitement.
• Zhao Bai continued restraining the girls until Bronya told him to stop.
• Bronya said the prolonged stimulation had been necessary to restrain them without harming them.
• Zhao Bai carried the exhausted Rosaliya and Liliya home.

Zhao Bai prepared brown sugar water while waiting for Rosaliya and Liliya to wake so he could apologize for what happened while they were drunk. When they recovered, he opened the guest room door and startled Rosaliya, who hid beneath the blankets.

• Zhao Bai made ginger, brown sugar, and lemon water for Rosaliya and Liliya and waited outside their room.
• Rosaliya and Liliya woke up confused about why they were sticky and had ended up in a stranger's bed.
• Zhao Bai entered with the drinks, saw Rosaliya removing her damaged stockings, and quickly retreated.
• Rosaliya screamed and hid beneath the blankets, then asked Liliya why she was not hiding.

Zhao Bai brought Rosaliya and Liliya into the house, gave them clean clothes and ginger-spiced brown sugar water, then Bronya questioned them about why they had come. The chapter left Rosaliya beginning to answer before Bronya asked whether Mama Cocolia had sent them.

• Liliya asked Zhao Bai why he had been hiding, but he ran out and shut the door behind him.
• Zhao Bai gave Rosaliya and Liliya his T-shirts because their original clothes were dirty.
• Zhao Bai served the girls brown sugar water, and Rosaliya drank it despite its ginger and lime juice.
• Bronya sat opposite Rosaliya and Liliya and questioned them about why they had come.
• Rosaliya began to say that it was Mom, and Bronya asked whether Mama Cocolia had sent them.

Bronya forgave Rosaliya and Liliya for secretly coming to see Zhao Bai, and Liliya wondered what had softened Bronya. As the twins left, Rosaliya asked Zhao Bai for a non-alcoholic version of his drink, then tried to blame her craving on Liliya.

• Liliya admitted that Rosaliya had dragged her to the school because Rosaliya was curious about Zhao Bai.
• Rosaliya feared Bronya's anger, but Bronya forgave her, making Rosaliya cheer.
• Liliya watched Bronya's newfound gentleness and wondered what had changed her.
• Before leaving, Rosaliya asked Zhao Bai whether he could make a non-alcoholic version of his drink, claiming Liliya wanted one.
• Liliya exposed Rosaliya's lie, and she dodged Rosaliya's lunge with practiced precision.

Zhao Bai stopped Bronya from punishing Rosaliya and Liliya harshly, then made them non-alcoholic drinks. Bronya explained that the sisters had taken a dangerous risk by coming from Anti-Entropy, but Zhao Bai hoped his hospitality would keep them from returning.

• Zhao Bai promised Rosaliya a non-alcoholic drink and left to retrieve the bartending tools.
• After Zhao Bai left, Bronya made Rosaliya and Liliya balance a bucket of water between their heads as punishment.
• Zhao Bai returned, took the bucket from the sisters, and began mixing drinks while Bronya played Hutao Adventure.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai that Rosaliya and Liliya should be punished for secretly traveling from Anti-Entropy, but Zhao Bai argued that treating them well would discourage another visit.
• Bronya sighed as Zhao Bai finished making three drinks of different colors.

Zhao Bai made the Vodka Girls chilled Sprite drinks before they left St. Freya and returned to the orphanage. Rosaliya enthusiastically told Cocolia about their visit and their fight with Zhao Bai.

• Zhao Bai prepared pink, blue, and gray drinks for Bronya, Rosaliya, and Liliya, using Sprite, lemon juice, mint extract, and Fengyoujing.
• Rosaliya and Liliya enjoyed their icy drinks and praised them.
• After changing into their dried clothes, Rosaliya and Liliya said goodbye to Zhao Bai and left St. Freya with Bronya.
• Zhao Bai rubbed Rosaliya and Liliya's heads and said he might visit Anti-Entropy in a few years.
• Rosaliya and Liliya returned to the orphanage, where Rosaliya told Cocolia they had fought Zhao Bai, lost, and become good friends with him.

Cocolia learned that Zhao Bai had been intimate with Rosaliya and Liliya, and she marked him as a grave threat. Einstein and Tesla discussed Cocolia’s reaction, while Einstein warned that Tesla’s robots were like children to her.

• Rosaliya described Zhao Bai’s tongue to Cocolia, who examined Rosaliya and Liliya and noticed Rosaliya’s torn stockings.
• Cocolia suspected that Einstein and Tesla had withheld information and vowed to have Zhao Bai executed.
• Tesla celebrated Cocolia’s humiliation and mocked her for adopting orphaned girls.
• Einstein reminded Tesla that her robots were like children to her, and Tesla wondered whether Zhao Bai could seduce them away.

Liliya and Rosaliya underwent a thorough examination at the orphanage after Rosaliya said something suspicious, and Cocolia kept them under house arrest for further tests. Meanwhile, Rita learned Zhao Bai’s secret and agreed to keep it quiet.

• Liliya and Rosaliya lay on hospital beds while Cocolia arranged an examination, and Liliya realized it would include a prenatal checkup.
• Rosaliya questioned why they were being examined, and Liliya explained that their mother wanted to check them because Rosaliya had said something wrong.
• Liliya and Rosaliya finished their examination around seven in the evening, and Cocolia ordered them to remain under house arrest until the next day.
• Zhao Bai found his home quiet after the sisters left and considered buying a husky, but he decided against spending the money.
• Bronya drove Rita away, but Rita had already asked Theresa about Zhao Bai’s secret and agreed to keep it quiet.

Theresa brought Bronya and Heavy Cannon Rabbit an ancient stele bearing a powerful Stigmata imprint, hoping to study it and develop Artificial Stigmata. After Bronya read its inscription and awakened the imprint, Theresa turned to Zhao Bai, who listened as she complained about the maid who had been caring for her.

• Theresa arrived with an ancient stele recovered near Canghai City and asked Bronya and Heavy Cannon Rabbit to translate it.
• Bronya read that the stele told of an ancient hero who lost his wife and spent the rest of his life alone on an island.
• Bronya said, "History can be changed," causing the stele to reveal a crimson Stigmata imprint and emit intense Honkai energy.
• Theresa explained that the imprint was a remnant of its former owner's Stigmata and wanted to study it to advance Artificial Stigmata.
• Theresa shouted for Zhao Bai and complained that a maid had been brushing her hair, holding her, and telling her bedtime stories.
• Zhao Bai wondered whether Theresa's real complaint was that she felt inferior to the maid's chest.

Zhao Bai entered Stigmata Space through the laboratory’s consciousness-linking equipment. He arrived on a beach in the ancient Shenzhou region, where the stigmata owner’s memories appeared vividly real.

• Theresa took Zhao Bai to the underground laboratory after arranging beds for their Stigmata Space session.
• Theresa connected the stone tablet and stigmata to Zhao Bai’s helmet using a conductive solution.
• Zhao Bai’s consciousness traveled through a sequence of memories that ended on an image of Bronya smiling.
• Zhao Bai arrived on a beach in the ancient Shenzhou region and remarked on how lifelike the surroundings were.

Zhao Bai searched ancient Canghai City for the owner of the Stigmata while Theresa and Bronya monitored him from the laboratory. After finding no one, he returned to the shore as an inexplicable fire rose within him.

• Theresa contacted Zhao Bai through Bronya's Quantum Communication and told him to find the owner of the Stigmata and soothe his resentment.
• Zhao Bai praised Bronya's voice, upsetting Theresa while Bronya gripped the hem of his clothes.
• Bronya read a changing stone stele that described one god remaining in Shenzhou after a bonfire ended the age of many gods.
• Zhao Bai searched the beach and forest for the Stigmata's owner but found no one.
• Zhao Bai returned to the shore, where an inexplicable fire rose within him.

Zhao Bai used Heavenly Fire Judgment to create a huge pillar of flame on the beach so others would find him. After he shut it off and hid, someone arrived.

• Zhao Bai realized he could draw others to him by making himself conspicuous.
• Zhao Bai set Heavenly Fire Judgment to maximum power and fired it upward, creating a towering pillar of flame.
• Bronya admired the spectacle while Theresa watched in shock and worried about triggering the Stigmata Space’s defenses.
• Zhao Bai shut off Heavenly Fire Judgment as the heat rose, then hid.
• Someone arrived just after Zhao Bai lay down.

Zhao Bai recognized the newly unearthed Stigmata as the Lianshan Clan, one of his ancestors, but the powerful man attacked before they could speak. Zhao Bai tried to defuse the encounter while Theresa and Bronya watched, and the Lianshan Clan demonstrated his immense strength.

• Zhao Bai recognized the red-haired man as the Lianshan Clan and recalled that he was the original form of the Shennong Clan.
• Theresa asked Zhao Bai about the man, and Zhao Bai explained that everyone from Shenzhou knew the Lianshan Clan.
• The Lianshan Clan heard them, hurled his wooden staff at Zhao Bai, and pierced four trees before it lodged in the last one.
• Zhao Bai dodged the attack, raised his hands, and pleaded with the Lianshan Clan not to kill him.
• Theresa and Bronya watched Zhao Bai's attempt to calm the encounter, with Bronya praising his approach.
• The Lianshan Clan pulled down the tree holding his staff, and the falling trunk bounced off him without causing injury.

Zhao Bai met Lianshan Clan and was invited to his settlement, where he finally saw Ji Lin. The settlement held no sign of the other ancestors, including Ancestor Fu Hua.

• Lianshan Clan asked Zhao Bai who he was and why he had come to the seaside, and Zhao Bai said he was a chef seeking legendary ingredients.
• Lianshan Clan asked whether Zhao Bai had seen a pillar of light, but Zhao Bai claimed he had hidden and seen and heard nothing.
• Lianshan Clan invited Zhao Bai to his wooden clan settlement.
• Zhao Bai met Ji Lin, who was petite and carried the Xuanyuan Sword rather than a huge greatsword.
• Zhao Bai looked around the settlement but saw neither the other ancestors nor Ancestor Fu Hua.

Zhao Bai watched Lianshan Clan’s memories and understood how deeply he had preserved his wife, Ji Lin, in his loneliness. Ji Lin mistook Zhao Bai for a chef, while Theresa and Bronya reacted to her appearance from outside the Stigmata Space.

• Zhao Bai noticed that Ji Lin appeared vividly in Lianshan Clan’s Stigmata Space and realized how carefully he had remembered her while she was sealed beneath the sea.
• Zhao Bai lowered his head after realizing he had been staring at another man’s wife, then found Ji Lin looking at him.
• Ji Lin asked Zhao Bai whether he was a chef, and he nodded in confirmation.
• Theresa teased Bronya that Zhao Bai was attracted to lolis, while Bronya defended him and said she trusted him.
• Theresa became captivated by Ji Lin’s cuteness, while Bronya watched without being affected.

Zhao Bai watched Ji Lin and the Lianshan Clan argue over who would risk their life to seal Chiyou. When Chiyou arrived, Ji Lin kissed her husband and went to meet her death, and Zhao Bai’s vision froze as his consciousness drifted away.

• Zhao Bai realized Ji Lin was an illusion shaped by the Lianshan Clan’s ideal of a perfect woman and congratulated him on having a wonderful wife.
• Ji Lin and the Lianshan Clan argued over whether sealing Chiyou with the Xuanyuan Sword was their only option and who should face death.
• The coast shook as Chiyou arrived, and Ji Lin embraced and kissed the Lianshan Clan before going to meet the Honkai Beast.
• Zhao Bai tried to reach out, but everything froze and his consciousness drifted away.

Zhao Bai reentered the Stigmata Space, determined to save Lianshan Clan and Ji Lin by confronting Chiyou. He followed the remembered sounds to the sea and froze its waves with a single katana strike.

• Theresa explained that Lianshan Clan's memories ended when Ji Lin died wielding the Xuanyuan Sword against Chiyou.
• Zhao Bai asked Theresa to let him try again, then returned to the white beach in the Stigmata Space.
• Zhao Bai headed east toward the remembered tremors and cries, intent on confronting Chiyou.
• Zhao Bai drew his katana and froze the entire sea with a sweeping blade strike.

Zhao Bai confronted Chiyou alone in the Stigmata Space, freezing the sea and binding the colossal creature so he could search for its three hearts. He found the first heart and began cutting through the earth covering it, but his Skyfire Greatsword struck a hard, shell-like surface.

• Zhao Bai crossed the sea on ice bridges until he found Chiyou, the immense wandering realm that threatened Shenzhou.
• Zhao Bai froze a vast area of ocean around Chiyou and prepared to destroy its three hearts alone.
• Zhao Bai summoned weapons from Myriad Martial Arts and used Oath of Judas to bind and weaken Chiyou.
• Zhao Bai climbed onto Chiyou and searched its body until he found the first heart.
• Zhao Bai drove the Skyfire Greatsword through the soil over the heart, but the blade met a hard structure that pulsed with powerful vibrations.