Recaps

Zhao Bai interrogated Raven and sent her to prison, where Gray Serpent secretly confirmed her loyalty to World Serpent. Zhao Bai was promoted to A-rank, while Gray Serpent and Cocolia began making plans around him, and Zhao Bai took a day off from his restaurant.

• Cocolia showed Einstein and Tesla images of Zhao Bai’s power and urged them to debut as virtual scientists, while Einstein chose to manage herself.
• Zhao Bai brought Raven to St. Freya Academy, where Bronya and Zhao Bai questioned her about her role in World Serpent and her relationship with Gray Serpent.
• Gray Serpent arranged for Raven’s transfer to prison, secretly recorded her, and later visited her in a clone body to confirm she had not betrayed World Serpent.
• Raven spent three days in prison, where Gray Serpent warned her to be careful and revealed that Zhao Bai had planted a tracking device on her.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya played Couple’s Kitchen together, and Bronya told him she liked him before he pounced on her and angered Heavy Cannon Rabbit.
• Theresa informed Zhao Bai that headquarters had promoted him to A-rank, and Bronya misled Kiana about the strict requirements for joining his missions.
• Zhao Bai received congratulations from his friends and acquaintances, answered Durandal’s message, deleted Otto’s blessing, and learned Gray Serpent was preparing to act.
• Cocolia considered recruiting Zhao Bai through praise of his cooking, while Zhao Bai decided to take a day off and Theresa tried to teach Xuanyuan Sword to call her big sister.

Zhao Bai and Bronya investigated a Honkai Beast rampage, exposing Lin Yiping’s mind-controlled army and defeating him. Gray Serpent adopted the identity Cup Snake and arrived at St. Freya, while her plans for World Serpent continued without her.

• Theresa left Zhao Bai in charge of his first official mission, and he invited Bronya to investigate reports of a huge pale beast.
• Bronya used an online survey to uncover a coordinated effort to make the city’s students deny seeing the monster, while Zhao Bai and Bronya used Rosaliya’s singing to lure out the Honkai Beasts.
• Lin Yiping revealed himself as the leader of the Honkai Beast army and claimed he had evacuated the city’s residents to protect them.
• Zhao Bai froze Lin Yiping and his cannons into an ice sculpture, but Lin Yiping evolved into an armored creature and attacked him.
• Zhao Bai severed the attacker’s hand and burned it to pieces, while Gray Serpent narrowly escaped the flames and later woke in Theresa’s care.
• Gray Serpent invented the identity Cup Snake, and Theresa found her horror stories online and accepted her as a young genius.
• Gray Serpent returned to Sky City, prepared to release body-altering drugs as Hexie Medicine, and left Jackal in temporary control of World Serpent.
• Cup Snake arrived at St. Freya, sensed something abnormal beneath the academy’s calm, and began her extraordinary life there.

Cup Snake joined Zhao Bai’s team as a biographer while they investigated a gang’s drug-driven mutations and the abduction of Rosaliya and Liliya. Zhao Bai killed Chamberlain’s lizardman ally, warned Qing Ye to surrender the drugs, and learned from Cup Snake that Qing Ye was preparing a major move.

• Cup Snake arrived at Zhao Bai’s restaurant to interview him for a biography, and Zhao Bai reluctantly agreed to cooperate after she threatened to stalk him.
• Zhao Bai assembled a mission team that included Bronya, Rosaliya, Liliya, and Cup Snake, then traveled with them to investigate a strange long-term assignment.
• A bone-bullet gunman attacked Zhao Bai, who killed him and discovered a green scarf that Bronya identified with the Chamberlain Gang.
• Rosaliya and Liliya followed a suspicious idol audition to a warehouse, where Qing Ye tried to capture them with sleeping gas and then summoned two gang directors to collect them.
• Chamberlain discussed the mutation drugs and asked Zhao Bai to assassinate Qingshan, but Zhao Bai chose to meet Qing Ye without following Chamberlain’s schedule.
• Zhao Bai met Qing Ye at a chapel and killed the lizardman who confronted him, then demanded that Qing Ye hand over every gene mutation drug.
• Cup Snake warned Zhao Bai that Qing Ye hated mutants, had hidden a pistol in his cast, and was preparing a major move as a memorial service began.

Zhao Bai destroyed Gray Serpent’s network after Cup Snake’s death, then returned to St. Freya Academy to train and search for Qing Ye. He later joined Bronya in a Sherlock Holmes Stigmata investigation that began with a murder on an isolated island.

• Qing Ye killed three challengers at the funeral gathering, then seized control of the organization and launched a war against the modified humans.
• Qing Ye destroyed Blue Square’s drugs and disbanded the organization, while Zhao Bai burned the remaining potions and learned that Cup Snake had recorded the events.
• Cup Snake discovered the girl in the experimental pod and left Zhao Bai a suicide note asking him to publish her account and punish whoever took over her body.
• Zhao Bai repeatedly killed Gray Serpent across her reincarnations until he had destroyed her intelligence houses and returned to the plane with Bronya, Rosaliya, and Liliya.
• Zhao Bai returned to St. Freya Academy, trained with Fu Hua to control his inner demon, and later visited Qing Ye’s grave, where he found no remains.
• Raven escaped prison and reached Gray Serpent’s underground base, where she rescued Gray Serpent and comforted her before the girl took over as the network’s messenger.
• Theresa sent Zhao Bai and Bronya to investigate a Sherlock Holmes Stigmata in London, and they entered its virtual island scenario as detectives.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya found a corpse in a locked room, and Bronya deduced from the wound and blood spray that the killer had used a magical weapon and superhuman speed.