Recaps

Zhao Bai killed Chiyou in Stigmata Space, while Theresa awakened a strange stigmata after investigating the sea. As Zhao Bai and Bronya took her in, Theresa discovered Chiyou was still alive beneath the waters, and they set out to face it as Cocolia sent Titans to investigate.

• Zhao Bai destroyed Chiyou’s hearts and pinned its head to the ice, while Ji Lin found the corpse and met Zhao Bai on the shore.
• Zhao Bai woke from Stigmata Space and told Theresa that Chiyou might still be alive in reality, prompting Theresa to investigate Canghai City’s coast.
• Theresa entered a cave beneath the sea, encountered a strange sphere, and transformed before Oath of Judas dragged her back to shore.
• Theresa called Zhao Bai for help, and he found her with rabbit ears and a glowing crimson stigmata before bringing her back to St. Freya.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya let Theresa stay with them while he studied her stigmata, and Yae Sakura’s spirit asked him to protect Theresa.
• Theresa remembered the monster beneath the sea and told Zhao Bai she had found Chiyou in Sky City, where its heartbeat made her stigmata go berserk.
• Zhao Bai agreed to kill the wounded Chiyou and set out with Bronya, while Cocolia sent An and an elite Titan squad to investigate beneath the waters.

Zhao Bai, Bronya, and their allies fought their way through Chiyou’s shifting interior while confronting An and the Third Herrscher. Zhao Bai reached Chiyou’s heart, found Ji Lin, and prepared to kill her because her life was bound to it.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya entered Chiyou, where its interior transformed into a vast starry realm and separated them from Mei.
• Zhao Bai encountered An and defeated her, then carried her through Chiyou while trying to correct her beliefs and keep her from interfering.
• The Third Herrscher found Bronya, listened to her story about Zhao Bai, and later agreed to search for Chiyou’s energy nodes.
• The Third Herrscher struck Chiyou’s heart, triggering a violent reaction, while Zhao Bai learned that Heavy Cannon Rabbit’s Chiyou Cannon made it appear friendly to Chiyou.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai used Heavy Cannon Rabbit to reach the energy nodes, and Zhao Bai attacked one before heading toward Chiyou’s heart.
• Zhao Bai entered the heart, fought through its Honkai Beasts, and discovered Ji Lin asleep within it.
• Ji Lin attacked Zhao Bai on her warhorse, but he defeated the horse and brought her back to awareness.
• Zhao Bai told Ji Lin that her life was bound to Chiyou’s heart and that he had come to kill her, and Ji Lin urged him to do it quickly.

After Zhao Bai and Bronya returned from Chiyou, the Xuanyuan Sword emerged as a child shaped by Ji Lin’s lingering feelings and joined their household. Theresa and Himeko misunderstood the child’s origins, while the story ended with Tesla laughing and Cocolia in despair at Anti-Entropy.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya returned from Chiyou and kept their time inside it secret, while Bronya sent Theresa a fabricated report disguised as an erotic story.
• Zhao Bai fed An and the Third Herrscher gyudon, and Mei later awoke troubled by memories of the mission and the stolen diving suit.
• Zhao Bai retrieved the Xuanyuan Sword from the sea and found that it had taken the form of a little girl after absorbing Ji Lin’s sorrow.
• Zhao Bai brought Xuanyuan Sword to St. Freya, where Bronya and Theresa discovered her and mistook her for Zhao Bai’s child with Ji Lin.
• Xuanyuan Sword transformed between infant and sword forms, called Zhao Bai and Bronya her parents, and called Theresa “Grandma.”
• Theresa questioned Fu Hua and Himeko about her age, then told Himeko that Zhao Bai had a child and Bronya was not the mother.
• Himeko confronted Bronya at the restaurant, but Xuanyuan Sword emerged and called her “Auntie,” leaving Himeko cursing Theresa.
• The narration shifted to Anti-Entropy, where Tesla had been laughing for days while Cocolia remained in a bleak state.

Cocolia launched a staged attack on St. Freya to reclaim Bronya and draw Zhao Bai into Anti-Entropy, but Zhao Bai and the students defeated the threat. Cocolia abandoned her objection to Zhao Bai and began considering her daughters as a way to recruit him.

• Cocolia and Einstein planned an infiltration of St. Freya, using Walter’s clone and Titan mechs to distract the school while Cocolia tried to take Bronya back.
• Zhao Bai began learning Taixu Sword Qi from Fu Hua through late-night cocktail lessons, and he reached the Taixu realm when the air-raid siren sounded.
• Einstein met Theresa and explained that Anti-Entropy’s leaders held differing views, while Cocolia tested Zhao Bai by asking him to make her drinks.
• Cocolia demanded that Bronya leave with her, and Zhao Bai threatened to kill her rather than let her take Bronya before discovering the Titan attack was staged.
• Zhao Bai destroyed the dancing Titans, while Theresa confronted Cocolia and Walter’s clone captured her, and Zhao Bai then froze Walter’s second clone as he advanced.
• Cocolia threatened to erase Bronya’s emotions, but pressing the remote set off fireworks instead, and Zhao Bai found Bronya unharmed.
• Cocolia told Einstein she had planned to use Bronya to draw Zhao Bai to Anti-Entropy, then returned to the orphanage and asked Rosaliya what she thought of him.