Chapter Summaries

Zhao Bai delivered a meal to a woman being consumed by Honkai energy and used his cooking to try to save her. As the Honkai will threatened to devour her mind, he offered her a bite of steak and promised it would turn her back.

• Zhao Bai rode a hovering motorcycle from St. Freya to an ordinary residence in Canghai City to deliver takeout.
• Zhao Bai entered the residence and found violet Honkai crystals spreading across the walls and a woman calling for help.
• Zhao Bai placed his meal box before the woman, and her arm regained its human color when he took her hand.
• Zhao Bai sliced the Heavenly Fire Judgment-seared beef ribs with Raikiri as the woman writhed in pain.
• Zhao Bai told the woman that eating his cooking would turn her back before the Honkai will devoured her mind.

Zhao Bai saved Miss Chen from Honkai corruption by feeding her Wagyu steak, then collected payment for the meal and delivery. Miss Chen felt her despair lift, while Zhao Bai offered her a simple word of comfort.

• Zhao Bai fed Miss Chen Wagyu steak, melting away the crystals and restoring her body from Honkai corruption.
• Zhao Bai helped Miss Chen up and charged her 1,068 yuan for the ribs plus a 50-yuan delivery fee.
• Miss Chen paid Zhao Bai and reflected that classmates, coworkers, and her parents had made her feel alone before he arrived.
• Miss Chen said she was happy, and Zhao Bai comforted her by saying that food and love must never be let down.

Zhao Bai returned to St. Freya Academy after earning money from cooking and found Theresa living in his home as a freeloader. The chapter left him watching Theresa play a violent game while he continued serving as her cook and caretaker.

• Zhao Bai left after earning more than a thousand yuan and considered what ingredients to buy next.
• Zhao Bai reflected on his past life as a food enthusiast and Captain, his cooking powers, and his resolve to save girls from Honkai.
• Zhao Bai rode his motorcycle back to St. Freya Academy, passing through its security without triggering alarms.
• Zhao Bai recalled that Theresa had moved into his home after learning his cooking could suppress Honkai and heal the dead.
• Zhao Bai entered his messy home and found Theresa playing Doom Slayer: Doom in her pajamas.

Zhao Bai prepared handmade snacks and a late-night meal for Theresa, who stayed up playing games and asked him for food. The chapter ended as Zhao Bai began cooking fried chicken with a high-energy laser cannon.

• Zhao Bai cleaned up the living room while Theresa dozed in front of the TV.
• Theresa woke and said she was bored of Doom Slayer, then asked Zhao Bai to make her a late-night snack.
• Zhao Bai went to the freezer, where Ice Haotian kept the ingredients cold, and selected chicken drumsticks and other ingredients.
• Zhao Bai prepared and seasoned the chicken, then brought out a Heavy Cannon Rabbit weapon to cook it without oil.

Zhao Bai used a heavy cannon to fry chicken with a laser, impressing Theresa with the meal. After eating, Theresa returned to their dorm to sleep, while Zhao Bai put away his weapons and prepared for bed before classes the next morning.

• Theresa joined Zhao Bai on the rooftop as he aimed his heavy cannon at the sky to cook.
• Zhao Bai fried chicken in a golden laser beam, which vanished in less than a second.
• Theresa devoured the chicken and praised Zhao Bai's cooking, while he acknowledged her protection.
• Theresa returned to her room to sleep, and Zhao Bai stored his weapons in subspace before having a glass of calming liquor.

Zhao Bai opened his restaurant at St. Freya Academy after a short night’s sleep and prepared to serve breakfast. Fu Hua arrived as his first customer, requesting a meal to help her feel alert.

• Zhao Bai woke at dawn, drank a mint-and-salted-lemon drink, and quietly left Theresa asleep in her room.
• Zhao Bai rode to the cafeteria and reached the rooftop of his restaurant, the Zhao Family Restaurant.
• Zhao Bai prepared the restaurant for the day, keeping the secrets of his high-energy-laser cooking hidden.
• Fu Hua arrived and asked Zhao Bai for a breakfast that would refresh her.
• Zhao Bai recommended mint tea and fruit salad, and Fu Hua ordered the fruit salad.

Zhao Bai refused Fu Hua’s repeated attempts to work at his restaurant, while continuing to serve customers from around the world. Kiana arrived with her workbook, apparently hoping to ask Zhao Bai for help with her homework.

• Fu Hua asked Zhao Bai why he would not hire her, and he said it was because she was not a Zhao.
• Zhao Bai prepared Fu Hua a salad with sour-and-spicy sauce, and she vowed to make him accept her résumé someday.
• Zhao Bai cooked a variety of international dishes for his customers using Heavenly Fire Judgment.
• Kiana arrived at the restaurant carrying her workbook and hesitated as she tried to speak to Zhao Bai.

Kiana paid Zhao Bai for the right to copy his Honkai history homework after failing to persuade him to leave the principal’s medical observation. As Zhao Bai prepared to close up, Theresa arrived as his final customer.

• Kiana asked Zhao Bai to lend her his homework, then offered to get the principal to release him from medical observation in exchange.
• Zhao Bai refused, preferring to remain under the principal’s observation.
• Kiana bought vanilla ice cream with hazelnut sauce and copied Zhao Bai’s homework so she could finish her mission and return to gaming.
• After seeing Kiana off, Zhao Bai began closing up, but the wind chimes announced another customer.
• Theresa arrived, and Zhao Bai wondered whether her stern public manner or her shut-in behavior at home was the real disguise.

Theresa assigned Zhao Bai to investigate the unusual Honkai incidents in Canghai City with Kiana Kaslana, despite his preference for Fu Hua as a partner. She explained that Kiana’s slow reactions and inattention to theory made her unlikely to question Zhao Bai’s suspicious kitchen tools.

• Zhao Bai prepared bitter melon juice for Theresa with his Anti-Field Greatsword, and Theresa asked whether anything had gone wrong during his delivery to Canghai City.
• Theresa told Zhao Bai that trainee Valkyries would investigate the increased small-scale Honkai incidents and named Kiana Kaslana as his partner.
• Zhao Bai asked to team up with Fu Hua instead, but Theresa said the reconnaissance mission did not need an A-rank Valkyrie and that Zhao Bai was best suited to it.
• Zhao Bai questioned why Theresa had chosen Kiana, and Theresa revealed that Kiana was unlikely to suspect his kitchen tools because she reacted slowly and ignored theory lessons.
• Theresa admitted she had scrambled Kiana’s assignment order to make her copied answers wrong, while Zhao Bai secretly knew Kiana’s homework was correct because he had fixed it for her.

Zhao Bai and Kiana set out on a mission to Canghai City after Kiana arrived three hours late because she had stayed up gaming. Zhao Bai led the operation and took her with him in the motorcycle’s sidecar.

• Zhao Bai went home early with Theresa before the mission scheduled for the next morning.
• Zhao Bai left before dawn, gathered ingredients, and waited at the school gates for Kiana.
• Kiana arrived at eight-thirty, explaining that she had stayed up until dawn playing a game with Bronya.
• Zhao Bai told Kiana he was leading the operation and that she was his sidekick.
• Zhao Bai and Kiana boarded his motorcycle and flew off toward their mission.

Zhao Bai brought Kiana to Canghai City to investigate recent Honkai outbreaks, but chose to begin by visiting a woman he had rescued while delivering food. The woman recognized him at her door, leaving Zhao Bai to clarify that he had only saved her.

• Zhao Bai flew from St. Freya to Canghai City with Kiana, who fell asleep in the sidecar and hit her head when he stopped.
• Zhao Bai and Kiana discussed how to investigate the Honkai outbreaks, and Kiana proposed checking the marked locations for common factors.
• Zhao Bai decided to visit the woman he had rescued while delivering food, rather than search the mapped outbreak sites.
• The woman recognized Zhao Bai and referred to him as the man from that night, so he explained that he had only delivered food and saved her.

Zhao Bai and Kiana investigated Miss Chen’s transformation, and Zhao Bai used the food from that day to help her recall a vision of a ruined classroom covered in vines. Kiana suspected the site was Senba Academy, the school destroyed in the Honkai Eruption where the Herrscher of Thunder awakened.

• Zhao Bai told Kiana how he had saved Miss Chen, then showed Miss Chen and Kiana their credentials and explained that they handled supernatural phenomena.
• Zhao Bai said a hidden presence had preyed on Miss Chen’s negative emotions and asked whether she remembered seeing anything during her transformation.
• Zhao Bai prepared the same snowflake beef ribs as before, and the smell brought back Miss Chen’s memory of burning pain.
• Miss Chen recalled seeing a ruined classroom and vines, then rested and ate the meat.
• Kiana connected the ruined school to Senba Academy, destroyed in the Honkai Eruption during which the Herrscher of Thunder awakened.

Zhao Bai and Kiana traveled to Senba Academy to investigate rising Honkai energy, finding the abandoned campus overgrown with Honkai-infused vines. They discovered a new energy source inside, and Kiana questioned why it was targeting Canghai City instead of nearby Changkong City.

• Zhao Bai rewarded Kiana with grilled rib, and she ate it despite feeling insulted by the gesture.
• After thanking Miss Chen, Zhao Bai and Kiana set out for Senba Academy in Changkong City.
• Kiana recalled the destruction at the academy and drew her pistols as they began scouting.
• Zhao Bai noticed that the Honkai energy readings were rising and concluded that a new source was active within the campus.
• Kiana wondered why the source would bypass Changkong City and head toward Canghai City instead.

Zhao Bai fought through the school’s attacking vines and used his kitchen-weapon technique to slice them into juice. Kiana accepted his implausible explanation, then later asked him to explain the technique.

• Kiana kicked Zhao Bai forward while she stayed behind to fight the vines.
• Zhao Bai stopped dodging, treated the vines as ingredients, and used his Anti-Field Katana to gather and slice them into juice.
• Kiana rushed over to check on Zhao Bai, and he claimed he had invented the technique while chopping vegetables.
• Kiana acted as though she understood Zhao Bai’s explanation, then later asked him to explain the technique.

Zhao Bai and Kiana fought their way through bloodied, overgrown vines toward Senba Academy’s Botanical Garden. There, they found a gigantic, breathing rose surrounded by moving vines.

• Zhao Bai explained his absurd One Slash Three Thousand Cuts technique, and Kiana asked him to stop talking about swordsmanship.
• Zhao Bai and Kiana entered the dense vines, where Zhao Bai cut a path with his particle blade and warned Kiana about the thorns.
• Kiana vented her frustration by wildly slashing the vines with her sword, then returned it to Zhao Bai and embraced him.
• The vines parted to create a winding path toward the Botanical Garden, so Zhao Bai and Kiana advanced cautiously.
• Zhao Bai and Kiana reached the ruined greenhouse and saw a two-meter rose moving as if it were breathing, encircled by writhing vines.

Zhao Bai and Kiana confronted the corpse-fed crimson rose, and Zhao Bai prepared to destroy it with Heavenly Fire Judgment. The rose opened to reveal a humanlike girl, leaving Zhao Bai shocked as the girl called humans foolish and ignorant.

• Zhao Bai explained that the rose grew stronger by absorbing Honkai energy from girls transformed into zombies.
• Kiana fired at the rose, but her shots could not damage its petals, while its neurotoxin weakened her.
• Zhao Bai pulled Kiana away from the rose’s vines and prepared to attack with Heavenly Fire Judgment.
• The rose bloomed and revealed a beautiful humanlike girl.
• The girl called humans foolish and ignorant, and Zhao Bai realized he was in trouble.

Zhao Bai used Judah to suppress the plant girl and protect himself and Kiana from the neurotoxin, then prepared an antidote from the girl’s vines. Kiana woke after drinking it, but she still could not see.

• Zhao Bai summoned Judah, whose presence calmed the Honkai and created a toxin-free space around him and Kiana.
• The plant girl lost her composure when she felt the power of Judah’s thirteen spears.
• Zhao Bai used the Void Blade to cut off the girl’s vines, then processed them with a laser cannon to extract an antidote.
• Zhao Bai fed the antidote to Kiana, easing her poisoning symptoms.
• Kiana woke and asked why she could not see, and Zhao Bai told her the blindness might be a temporary effect of the poison.

Zhao Bai forced the flower-born creature to reveal its monstrous true form, which resembled a giant turtle covered in roses. He recognized it as an ingredient and hurled a chained spear at it as it charged him.

• Kiana struggled against Zhao Bai while her senses were impaired, and he recalled his weapons except for Judas.
• Zhao Bai persuaded the flower-born creature to abandon its human form and fight with its true body.
• The creature emerged as a huge animal-plant hybrid and fled through the greenhouse, while Zhao Bai saw it as a turtle-like ingredient.
• Zhao Bai threw a chained spear at the monster after it turned and charged toward him.

Zhao Bai killed the monster that had attacked him and Kiana, then pretended that Kiana had saved his life. He left the encounter preparing a false mission report and promised Kiana a free bowl of ramen, though she still preferred her instant noodles.

• Judah's chains restrained the monster, and Zhao Bai used Godslayer to burn its wound and sever its neck.
• Zhao Bai cleaned up the signs of the fight, hid his weapons, and pretended to be dead until Kiana woke.
• Kiana performed CPR on Zhao Bai, accidentally breaking his ribs, and he concealed his pain as she celebrated his recovery.
• Zhao Bai told Kiana that she had unleashed hidden power and saved him, though she could not remember doing so.
• Zhao Bai offered Kiana a free bowl of ramen and photographed the scene while preparing a false mission report, but Kiana decided that her instant noodles were better.

After returning from the mission, Zhao Bai cooked pork bone ramen for Kiana using an Emperor-class Honkai Beast’s leg bone and reopened his restaurant. The restaurant grew busy as customers came in for the new special.

• Zhao Bai returned to St. Freya Academy, submitted his mission report, and hurried Kiana back to the restaurant to make her promised meal.
• Zhao Bai used an Emperor-class Honkai Beast’s leg bone, Absolute Zero ice, and Heavenly Fire Judgment to prepare a rich pork bone broth.
• Kiana praised Zhao Bai’s ramen and happily ate her free dinner.
• Zhao Bai put away the reusable bones and hung a sign advertising the ramen special with a tearful 10% discount.
• Customers flocked to Zhao Family Restaurant, and Zhao Bai got busy serving them.