Recaps

Zhao Bai solved the deadly knight challenge in Stigmata Space, then joined Durandal in fighting a massive Honkai Beast horde. Their investigation in the Sea of Quanta ended with Zhao Bai encountering Seele, who vanished before he could understand what was happening.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya used clues about the invisible knight to determine how to end its challenge, and Zhao Bai survived by surrendering to it.
• Zhao Bai returned from Stigmata Space with Bronya and shared a meal with the others, while Theresa’s debt ledger and Zhao Bai’s career plans led him to enlist Theresa’s help against Otto’s missions.
• A large Honkai Beast horde alarmed St. Freya, and Zhao Bai, Bronya, and Durandal went to meet it while Theresa and Fu Hua followed.
• Zhao Bai and Durandal cut through the horde, and Bronya counted 6,324 kills for Zhao Bai against Durandal’s 6,248.
• Zhao Bai and Durandal entered the Sea of Quanta, where Durandal destroyed a wounded Shadow of Chaos and brought Zhao Bai back to the real world.
• After Durandal left, Zhao Bai returned to the Sea of Quanta despite its rejection of him, and a scarlet claw stopped short of striking him.
• A breathless girl warned Zhao Bai to run, and he recognized her as Seele before she vanished into deep-blue butterflies.

Zhao Bai sought Einstein’s help to teach Seele to control her quantumization, while earning an Anti-Entropy Executor medal and bringing Seele tea and food. He entered Seele’s Stigmata Space and reached a frightened version of her, offering comfort as he tried to restore her hope.

• Zhao Bai escaped Red Seele in the Sea of Quanta, then spoke with Seele and promised to visit her again with a gift.
• Zhao Bai went to North America, found Einstein and Tesla in their desert livestreaming base, and persuaded Einstein to help Seele in exchange for handling Cocolia.
• At Anti-Entropy’s general meeting, Zhao Bai accepted an Executor medal from Cocolia and secured two Titans as payment for catering.
• Zhao Bai returned to St. Freya and later met Einstein at the Eye of the Abyss, where she found Seele quantumized throughout the Sea of Quanta.
• Zhao Bai served tea and Crab-Stuffed Oranges to Seele, Black Seele, and Einstein, then learned from Einstein that Black Seele blamed herself.
• Einstein began a treatment involving Seele’s Stigmata, and Zhao Bai entered the Stigmata Space despite her warning.
• Zhao Bai found an orphanage in Seele’s memories and pursued a frightened Seele who did not recognize him.
• Zhao Bai stopped Seele with ice, comforted her, and reminded her that strangers could help each other and that the world still held reasons for hope.

Zhao Bai helped Seele escape Stigmata Space, reunited her with Bronya, and brought her to St. Freya Academy. As Bronya prepared a handmade weapon as a gift for Zhao Bai, Seele’s eyes turned pale red after her consciousness sank into darkness.

• Zhao Bai guided Seele through Stigmata Space, helped her face her desire to defeat the monsters, and together they hunted down Tonatiuh.
• Seele chose to go to St. Freya Academy to be with Bronya, and Zhao Bai reunited them at the lakeside.
• Seele settled in with Bronya and the others while Black Seele appeared through Heavy Cannon Rabbit and discussed Bronya’s feelings with Zhao Bai.
• Bronya took Seele shopping to find Zhao Bai a gift, then realized that sincerity mattered more than matching the value of his gift to Seele.
• Bronya designed and built a superalloy spatula that could transform into a longsword, intending to give it to Zhao Bai.
• After Seele tucked Bronya into bed, her consciousness sank into darkness, and her eyes reopened pale red.

Bronya gave Zhao Bai a transforming golden spatula and joined him aboard the Hyperion, where he began working as a chef and underwent combat tests. When Seele’s first mission went awry after she drank fruit wine, Black Seele took over, and Zhao Bai concealed what had happened from her.

• Bronya gave Zhao Bai a transforming golden spatula, and he braided her hair before they walked together around campus.
• Walter learned that Cocolia had made Zhao Bai an Anti-Entropy Executor, then met Tesla and Einstein, who explained that Einstein had recruited him to counter Cocolia’s influence.
• Theresa assigned Zhao Bai to oversee the Hyperion’s cafeteria, where Himeko tested Bronya’s command ability and Zhao Bai’s combat skills.
• Zhao Bai destroyed a Honkai Beast with his hand cannons, then cooked for the Hyperion crew and served Himeko strawberry-pulp wine.
• Bronya asked Zhao Bai to accompany Seele on her first mission, and he gave Seele citrus wine before they rode to a beach full of confined Honkai Beasts and zombies.
• Seele became drunk, defeated the enemies with her scythe, then attacked Zhao Bai, who knocked her unconscious and broke her weapon.
• Black Seele warned Zhao Bai not to give Seele alcohol, then returned control to Seele, and Zhao Bai told her he had completed the mission while she slept.
• Bronya learned that Seele had drunk wine and fought the monsters, told Zhao Bai not to let her drink again, and watched him put away the cafeteria’s alcohol.