Chapter Summaries

Zhao Bai destroyed Chiyou’s three hearts and killed him with Black Abyss White Flower. When Chiyou’s dead body continued to flee toward the shore, Zhao Bai pinned his head to the ice with the Xuanyuan Sword.

• Zhao Bai destroyed Chiyou’s first heart with a pillar of holy light.
• Zhao Bai froze Chiyou’s second heart with his blade.
• Zhao Bai swept Black Abyss White Flower’s lance, granting Chiyou’s final heart the concept of death and killing him.
• Chiyou broke free of Judas’s chains and dragged his dead body toward the shore.
• Zhao Bai pinned Chiyou’s head to the ice with the Xuanyuan Sword, snapping his neck as his body kept moving.

Ji Lin arrived at the shore and found Zhao Bai standing unharmed beside the dead Chiyou, whom he had killed. After collecting his weapons, Zhao Bai urged Ji Lin to live well and reminded her that her husband loved her.

• Ji Lin followed an ice road across the sea after hearing Chiyou roar and found Chiyou dead.
• Ji Lin questioned Zhao Bai, who claimed he was a chef gathering ingredients and showed her the Xuanyuan Sword.
• Zhao Bai collected several powerful weapons from the shore, leaving Ji Lin astonished and faintly jealous.
• Zhao Bai shook Ji Lin's hand and told her to live well because her husband loved her.

Zhao Bai emerged from the Stigmata Space after Lianshan Clan’s resentment disappeared, leaving him shaken by the thought of losing Bronya. He warned Theresa that Chiyou might still be alive and returned to work with Bronya, holding her hand tightly.

• Zhao Bai woke from the Stigmata Space as it collapsed at the moment Lianshan Clan saw his wife return.
• Zhao Bai told Theresa that Ji Lin’s real history might have ended in her death and that Chiyou could still be alive.
• Zhao Bai removed the resentment-free stigmata from the glass chamber and left its processing to the researchers.
• Zhao Bai returned to the restaurant with Bronya, troubled by the fear of parting, and Bronya tightened her grip on his hand.

Theresa moved into Mei’s dormitory but missed the comforts of her old life. After Zhao Bai warned that an ancient monster from Stigmata Space might still exist in reality, she decided to investigate Canghai City’s coastline herself.

• Theresa watched two figures leave and complained that they were annoying.
• Theresa reflected on moving into Mei’s dormitory and losing her former comforts.
• Theresa recalled Zhao Bai’s warning that the monster from Stigmata Space might still be alive in reality.
• Theresa decided to investigate Canghai City’s coastline herself because she considered her reconnaissance skills suitable.

Theresa began a reconnaissance mission along the coast near Canghai City, diving into the dark sea with Judah left ashore as an anchor. As she descended into the depths, her Stigmata glowed beneath her habit.

• Theresa removed the Stigmata and deleted its image records before heading home to retrieve Judah.
• Theresa told Mei she would not be home for dinner and flew toward Canghai City.
• Theresa leaped from the jet with Judah strapped to her back and landed on the shore.
• Theresa left Judah on land and dove underwater to scout the seabed, tethered to the Cross of Judgment.
• As Theresa descended into the darkness, her Stigmata glowed and pulsed beneath her habit.

Theresa followed ancient Honkai energy fluctuations through a crack into a cave inside Chiyou, believing she had found the source of the signal. Her investigation stopped at a huge, round boulder covered in cracks.

• Theresa recalled that she had obtained a stigmata after suddenly falling unconscious while investigating Changkong City.
• A soothing presence calmed Theresa as she passed through a wide crack and entered another world.
• Theresa found herself in a cave, wrung out her wet nun's habit and hair, and followed increasingly dense Honkai energy fluctuations.
• Theresa felt heat on her back as she continued deeper into the cave.
• A massive, round boulder covered in cracks blocked Theresa's path, leaving her staring at it.

After a surge of purple light from the stone, Theresa felt a burning touch on her back and discovered that she had transformed into a pink-haired, rabbit-eared girl before fainting. Oath of Judas dragged her back to shore, where her changed appearance and increased height became clear.

• Theresa heard a call from the Primordial Era as purple light poured from the enormous sphere.
• A scorching touch reached Theresa's back, and she found rabbit ears and a changed appearance in a puddle's reflection.
• Theresa fainted, and Oath of Judas reeled her unconscious body through the seawater to shore.
• Oath of Judas noticed Theresa had grown to about 1.7 meters and that her silver-white hair had turned crimson at the tips.
• Oath of Judas recognized Theresa as its master despite her transformation.

Theresa woke on the shore believing her transformation had been a dream, but removing Judah’s chains triggered the Crimson Sakura Stigmata and left her struggling to control her beastification. Feeling helpless, she called Zhao Bai, who was playing an MMORPG with Bronya.

• Theresa woke up coughing seawater and initially thought her beast-girl transformation had only been a dream.
• Theresa tried to remove the chains around her waist, which unleashed the Crimson Sakura Stigmata and worsened her beastification.
• Judah restrained Theresa and helped her regain her senses.
• Theresa thought of Zhao Bai and called him for help.
• Zhao Bai yawned while playing an ordinary MMORPG with Bronya.

Zhao Bai received a desperate call from Principal Theresa and rushed to a remote island to help her. He found Theresa hiding behind a rock, dressed as a red-haired bunny-eared girl and wrapped in chains.

• Zhao Bai received a tearful call from Principal Theresa asking for help.
• Theresa told Zhao Bai to bring a large piece of cloth and gave him the island’s coordinates without explaining why she needed help.
• After getting Bronya’s approval, Zhao Bai flew to the island on his motorcycle.
• Zhao Bai followed traces on the ground and found Theresa hiding behind a rock in bunny ears and chains.

Zhao Bai examined Theresa after her Honkai energy began acting up, tracing the problem to the glowing, overheated stigmata on her back. Its shrine-maiden design and Theresa’s changed appearance led him to suspect that someone had tampered with her.

• Theresa nervously asked Zhao Bai for help, and he told her to show him her back.
• Zhao Bai noticed Theresa’s pink eyes triggered an unsettling impression and turned her away from him.
• He explained that Judas’s chains were suppressing her rampaging Honkai energy and keeping her conscious.
• Zhao Bai tore open Theresa’s outfit and found her crimson stigmata glowing with heat.
• He recognized a three-tomoe shrine-maiden design and suspected the fox-eared figure had secretly caused the trouble.

Zhao Bai decided Theresa’s stigmata had gone berserk and brought her back to St. Freya hidden in his motorcycle’s sidecar. When they arrived beneath his building, Theresa refused to get out because she did not want anyone to see her.

• Zhao Bai examined Theresa’s stigmata, but it showed no signs of changing into the Oath of Sakura.
• Zhao Bai told Theresa they needed to leave the island and return to St. Freya to investigate her condition.
• Theresa hid beneath a curtain in the motorcycle’s sidecar while Zhao Bai rode her back to St. Freya.
• Zhao Bai parked beneath his building, but Theresa refused to emerge and quietly asked him not to let anyone see her.

Zhao Bai carried the chained, bedraggled Theresa back to Bronya’s room and brought her home. Bronya questioned whether he had rescued or abducted the principal, then discovered that Theresa’s fox ears were real.

• Zhao Bai carried Theresa over his shoulder and asked Judah to become lighter.
• Zhao Bai knocked on Bronya’s door with his foot while carrying Theresa and Judah.
• Bronya opened the door, and Zhao Bai brought Theresa inside and tossed her onto the sofa.
• Theresa recognized the sofa as her familiar place to play games and was moved to be home again.
• Bronya asked whether Zhao Bai had snatched the principal, then tugged Theresa’s fox ears and heard her cry out in pain.

Bronya and Zhao Bai restrained Theresa and forced her to bathe while keeping the balance between her Honkai energy and Oath of Judas intact. The chapter ended with Theresa clean but miserable after Heavy Cannon Rabbit blasted her with pressurized water.

• Bronya tugged Theresa’s ears, and Theresa cried out with a catlike meow.
• Zhao Bai warned Bronya that Theresa’s Honkai energy and Oath of Judas were in a dangerous balance, then reassured Theresa that he would keep her confined.
• Zhao Bai told Theresa to bathe, while Bronya stayed outside with Oath of Judas and a chain extending into the bathroom.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit shredded Theresa’s nun’s outfit, and Theresa backed into Bronya, who was wearing a raincoat.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit tossed Theresa into the bathtub and blasted her with pressurized warm water until the salt was washed away.

Zhao Bai monitored Judas’s suppression while Bronya bathed and dried Theresa so he could study her Stigmata and find a way to harmonize its power. Theresa exposed the Stigmata on her back for his inspection, and the chapter ended with Bronya watching him after he admitted he had not looked enough.

• Zhao Bai observed Judas’s fluctuating suppression and considered how to use Black Abyss White Flower to stabilize Theresa’s Stigmata.
• Bronya emerged from the bathroom, then carried Theresa out after drying her with Heavy Cannon Rabbit.
• Theresa sat on the sofa and lay down so Zhao Bai could examine her exposed Stigmata.
• Zhao Bai said he had not looked enough, and Bronya stared at him.

Zhao Bai kept Theresa at home so he could observe the Honkai energy fluctuations in her Stigmata, while Bronya agreed to let her stay. Theresa moved back in, and Bronya went to retrieve her belongings from the girls’ dormitory.

• Zhao Bai watched Theresa’s Stigmata and asked her to stay put for two days so he could study its Honkai energy fluctuations.
• Theresa asked whether Zhao Bai was lusting after nonhuman girls, and he insisted she did not qualify without a tail.
• Bronya agreed to let Theresa stay, recognizing how much she had suffered to protect Zhao Bai and wanting to protect the principal’s secret in return.
• Theresa moved back in with Zhao Bai and Bronya, leaving her belongings in the girls’ dormitory.
• Bronya floated to the dormitory with Heavy Cannon Rabbit to retrieve Theresa’s belongings.

Bronya returned to St. Freya Academy to collect Theresa’s belongings because Theresa was temporarily staying with her and had joined her group. She asked Mei to keep their secret, then left with the packed items.

• Mei noticed Bronya’s hurried return and asked whether Zhao Bai had treated her badly.
• Bronya told Mei that Theresa had an unspeakable secret and was temporarily staying at her house.
• Bronya asked Mei to keep the arrangement secret, and Mei agreed.
• Bronya packed Theresa’s nun outfits, bedding, and a rubber duck for Heavy Cannon Rabbit to carry away.
• When Mei asked how long Theresa would stay, Bronya called it a secret.

Mei wondered whether she had grown old after watching Bronya leave, while Zhao Bai reflected on his changed relationship with Theresa and investigated her stigmata. He briefly saw Yae Sakura in a vision but failed to uncover more before Bronya returned with clothes and clean bedsheets.

• Mei waited for Bronya, then asked Kiana whether she seemed old when Kiana came home.
• Zhao Bai compared his former bond with Theresa to caring for a cat and considered how it had changed.
• Theresa teased Zhao Bai about petting her despite his supposed views on nonhuman girls, and he told her she was cute.
• Zhao Bai saw Yae Sakura in the vision from Theresa's stigmata, but the image vanished before he could learn more.
• Bronya returned carrying clothes and clean bedsheets.

Zhao Bai watched Theresa in her own clothes and tried to understand Yae Sakura’s stigmata. Yae Sakura appeared and entrusted Theresa’s protection to him, leaving him with a clearer understanding of the stigmata; outside the room, he found Bronya secretly carving words into the door.

• Theresa happily changed back into her own old-man T-shirt, and Zhao Bai watched her move around the apartment while studying her stigmata.
• At bedtime, Theresa slept on her stomach with chains wrapped around her, and Zhao Bai sat beside her to examine Yae Sakura’s stigmata.
• Zhao Bai called out to Yae Sakura, and her conscious spirit emerged from the stigmata.
• Yae Sakura told Zhao Bai she wanted to protect Theresa and asked him to take care of her before disappearing.
• Zhao Bai understood how the stigmata worked and left the room, where he found Bronya having Heavy Cannon Rabbit carve tiny words into the door.

Zhao Bai and Bronya joked about labeling the principal’s room, then he explained that a woman in a dream had entrusted Theresa to his care. He asked Bronya to convince Theresa to stay with them, while Bronya quietly searched for games she could use to bully Theresa.

• Zhao Bai changed Bronya’s “Pet Room” label to “fox den,” and Bronya engraved the words neatly onto the doorframe.
• Zhao Bai asked whether Bronya had heard another woman’s voice, then explained that the woman in his dream had entrusted Theresa to him.
• Zhao Bai asked Bronya to persuade Theresa to stay, set some rules, and avoid bullying her until she cried.
• After Zhao Bai fell asleep, Bronya searched Theresa’s game collection for competitive games but found only easy game settings.

Theresa woke up at Bronya’s home and was surprised to find Bronya finishing Resident Evil 7 on Madhouse difficulty with an S+ rating. Bronya invited Theresa to stay, and Theresa went to the kitchen, where Zhao Bai welcomed her back and served her bitter melon juice.

• Theresa woke up and found Bronya playing Resident Evil 7 on the sofa.
• Bronya finished the game with an S+ rating, no deaths, no reloads, and no healing items used on Madhouse difficulty.
• Bronya asked Theresa whether she wanted to stay, and Theresa happily accepted.
• Theresa went to the kitchen, where Zhao Bai welcomed her back after hiding Black Abyss Hundred Flowers and Judas.
• Zhao Bai gave Theresa bitter melon juice made with ice from the Chiyou Cannon.