Chapter Summaries

Zhao Bai faced the Third Herrscher in her true form and responded to her attempt to recruit him by patting her head. An watched in disbelief as Bronya joined in, and the encounter ended with the Third Herrscher staring at Zhao Bai while he continued patting her.

• The Third Herrscher descended with Bronya and revealed her true form as Zhao Bai judged that he could handle her.
• Zhao Bai interrupted the Third Herrscher's offer and patted her head despite the lightning hurting him.
• Bronya asked whether she was worth only one pat, prompting the Third Herrscher to agree that Zhao Bai should pat her more.
• The Third Herrscher realized the two humans might be baiting her and fell silent while Zhao Bai kept patting her.
• An approached Bronya, who told her not to speak.

Zhao Bai organized the group to locate Chiyou’s remaining energy nodes and used Heavenly Fire Judgment to make the Third Herrscher cooperate. As the search began, Bronya left An behind, leaving her helpless and still longing for Bronya.

• Zhao Bai proposed that the Third Herrscher scout for Chiyou’s energy nodes while Bronya and An searched for Heavy Cannon Rabbit and the Titans.
• The Third Herrscher refused to follow Zhao Bai’s orders, so he used Heavenly Fire Judgment to split the floating landmass and demonstrate his power.
• The Third Herrscher agreed to fly through Chiyou and search for the energy nodes.
• Bronya leapt between the platforms to search for Heavy Cannon Rabbit and left An behind.
• An watched Bronya with longing as someone asked why she had been left behind.

Bronya found Heavy Cannon Rabbit among Chiyou’s worms and returned toward Zhao Bai, while the Third Herrscher slaughtered worms that crawled before her. The two continued through Chiyou’s interior by very different means.

• Bronya found Heavy Cannon Rabbit peacefully mingling with the worms inside Chiyou, whose ally recognition had been triggered by its Chiyou Cannon.
• Bronya called Heavy Cannon Rabbit over and rode back toward Zhao Bai, wondering whether the cannon had been made from Chiyou’s body despite Chiyou still being alive.
• The Third Herrscher’s presence made the worms crawl out and prostrate themselves before her.
• The Third Herrscher complained about the worms’ appearance and burned them to ash with lightning.

The Third Herrscher attacked Chiyou’s heart with a full-force spear strike, setting off a violent reaction throughout its body. Zhao Bai explained to An that he had trusted the Third Herrscher to help because she was a fatally tsundere person.

• The Third Herrscher sensed the Honkai energy nodes sustaining Chiyou and hurled a purple spear at its heart.
• An asked Zhao Bai how he had known the Third Herrscher would listen to him.
• Zhao Bai forced An to smile, then whispered that the Third Herrscher would help even while claiming she would not.
• The Third Herrscher’s spear pierced Chiyou’s heart and triggered a reaction that split the floating landmass and shook the surrounding sea.
• Zhao Bai dismissed the upheaval as Chiyou’s final burst of strength.

Zhao Bai watched Chiyou weaken while the Third Herrscher attacked, but a crack in the starry sky triggered her bomb and forced her to land. Bronya returned with news about Heavy Cannon Rabbit, giving Zhao Bai an idea for destroying Chiyou.

• Zhao Bai decided he was willing to let Chiyou die even if its death dragged down Canghai City's residents.
• The Third Herrscher attacked Chiyou with lightning, but Chiyou's movement exposed a crack that triggered her bomb's countdown.
• The Third Herrscher suppressed her Honkai energy to disarm the bomb and waited for Zhao Bai to help her.
• Zhao Bai realized the Third Herrscher could still sense Honkai energy and could guide him to attack Chiyou.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai that Heavy Cannon Rabbit had been recognized as friendly because it possessed the Chiyou Cannon, and Zhao Bai formed a plan.

Zhao Bai and Bronya traveled on Heavy Cannon Rabbit toward the second node, while Zhao Bai explained how he had changed An’s outlook. They reached the Third Herrscher, and Zhao Bai drew Crimson Dyed Cherry to strike the node.

• Bronya confirmed that Heavy Cannon Rabbit was identified as an ally because it carried the Chiyou Cannon.
• Bronya took Zhao Bai aboard Heavy Cannon Rabbit and left An behind in a cloud of dust.
• Bronya remarked that An had become more obedient, and Zhao Bai credited his guidance with changing her.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit carried Zhao Bai and Bronya to the second node, where they found the Third Herrscher and ancient inscriptions.
• Zhao Bai drew Crimson Dyed Cherry and struck at the node.

Zhao Bai flew toward Chiyou’s heart with Bronya after the Third Herrscher pointed out the way. Left behind and unable to fly, the Third Herrscher vowed to show Zhao Bai a Herrscher’s wrath.

• The Third Herrscher directed Zhao Bai toward Chiyou’s heart.
• Zhao Bai praised the Third Herrscher mockingly, then flew off with Bronya on Heavy Cannon Rabbit.
• The Third Herrscher realized she had lost her wings and watched Zhao Bai leave, furious at his disrespect.
• The Third Herrscher vowed to make Zhao Bai witness a Herrscher’s wrath, though she was unsure how to do it.
• Bronya asked Zhao Bai what he was doing, and he said he had been testing how tolerant a tsundere could be.

Zhao Bai descended into Chiyou’s heart to find a crack where he intended to deliver death to a noble warrior. He reached the healed wound carrying Dragon's Spine, while the heart’s small Honkai Beasts froze in response to its pulse.

• Zhao Bai asked Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C to throw him down, and it sent him toward the heart.
• Zhao Bai landed on the heart and moved through its purple rivers and ancient pulses.
• Small Honkai Beasts emerged to attack Zhao Bai, but Dragon's Spine's matching pulse left them frozen.
• Zhao Bai pushed through the swarm and found the faint crack he had come to reach.

Zhao Bai awakened Ji Lin and faced her in battle within the violet heart. After their first clash showed he could not defeat her honorably with the Xuanyuan Sword, he prepared to overwhelm her with a storm of attacks.

• Zhao Bai found Ji Lin asleep in the heart and called her back to consciousness.
• Ji Lin summoned a black warhorse, drew her sword, and attacked intruders with hostility.
• Zhao Bai put away Dragon's Spine and took up the Mysterious Yellow Xuanyuan Heavy Sword.
• Ji Lin charged Zhao Bai on her enormous warhorse, and their swords collided in midair.
• The impact numbed Zhao Bai's arms and sent him flying backward, so he resolved to unleash a storm of attacks.

Zhao Bai defeated Ji Lin’s warhorse in the Memory Battlefield and told her that he had come to kill her because her life was bound to Chiyou’s heart. Ji Lin accepted her fate and asked him to make it quick.

• Zhao Bai used his overwhelming authority to stop Ji Lin’s warhorse and cut off its foreleg.
• Zhao Bai pinned the warhorse with Dragon's Spine, then decapitated it with his blade.
• Ji Lin watched the horse die as light returned to her eyes and asked Zhao Bai if he had come to save her.
• Zhao Bai told Ji Lin that her life was bound to Chiyou’s heart and that he had come to kill her.
• Zhao Bai chose Crimson Cherry Blossom to kill Ji Lin, and she told him to do it quickly.

Zhao Bai freed Ji Lin from her endless wait, mourned her, and cremated her remains. He and Bronya left the ruins with Chiyou silent, while Zhao Bai grew afraid of parting.

• Zhao Bai killed Ji Lin’s lingering resentment and found her long-dead remains beneath the golden ornaments and robe.
• Zhao Bai carved a mourning poem from the Book of Songs into the stone wall for Ji Lin and the Lianshan Clan.
• Zhao Bai had Heavy Cannon Rabbit replace the Chiyou Cannon with the 5th Sacred Relic and ordered it to cremate Ji Lin.
• Bronya noticed Zhao Bai’s melancholy and held his hand as he explained who Ji Lin had been.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit fired, burying the remains and ruins beneath flames and dust.

After Chiyou died, Zhao Bai asked Bronya to hide how close the mission had come to going wrong, and Bronya secretly sent Theresa a fabricated mission report. As Chiyou’s inner space flooded, Zhao Bai helped the Third Herrscher put on a diving suit, and they returned to St. Freya unnoticed.

• Zhao Bai asked Bronya to report that they had easily defeated Chiyou and conceal their five hours inside it.
• Bronya blushed while thinking up an alibi, then insisted that she would write the report and Zhao Bai must not read it.
• Bronya secretly sent Theresa an erotic story edited to use the mission’s characters as a fabricated report.
• As seawater flooded Chiyou’s collapsing inner space, Zhao Bai taught the Third Herrscher how to put on a diving suit and calmed her anger.
• Zhao Bai, Bronya, and the Third Herrscher returned to St. Freya like thieves.

Zhao Bai stopped An from leaving and brought her to the restaurant for a meal, where the Third Herrscher also demanded an offering. Zhao Bai began preparing a beef bowl with onions and the leftover beef.

• An tried to slip away, but Zhao Bai grabbed her and insisted she stay for a meal.
• Zhao Bai opened the restaurant, startling An into hiding in the bushes before she reluctantly came out.
• Zhao Bai offered An pork cutlet rice as a reward, and An mistook it for an attempt to make her confess.
• Zhao Bai changed the meal to a beef bowl, while the Third Herrscher sat beside An and demanded a unique offering.
• Zhao Bai cooked onions with Black Abyss White Flower, then simmered thinly sliced beef with mirin and soy sauce.

Zhao Bai prepared gyudon for the Third Herrscher and An, then helped them mix the egg into their rice. The Third Herrscher remained dangerous and inexperienced, while An struggled to use chopsticks.

• Zhao Bai cracked an egg into the Third Herrscher's gyudon and explained how to mix it.
• The Third Herrscher accused Zhao Bai of mocking her lack of experience and revealed her dangerous intent toward humanity.
• Zhao Bai remembered that the Third Herrscher's consciousness had only been born in recent years and worried that she was too young for his attraction.
• Zhao Bai took the Third Herrscher's bowl and mixed the rice, beef, and egg for her.
• An struggled to mix her gyudon with chopsticks, so Zhao Bai mixed her bowl for her.

An ate Zhao Bai’s cooking and learned that he hoped she would speak well of him to Bronya and Cocolia. After Zhao Bai sent An on her way, Theresa received a mission report from Bronya.

• Zhao Bai served An a finished dish and brought her a spoon when she could not use chopsticks.
• An praised the food, and Zhao Bai asked her to put in a good word for him with Bronya and Cocolia.
• Zhao Bai explained that power could not win Bronya’s heart and told An to leave after finishing her rice.
• The Third Herrscher collapsed asleep face-first into her bowl.
• Theresa received an email from Bronya containing a mission report.

Theresa discovered that she had accidentally destroyed her tablet and lost the remaining chapters of the story she was reading. After Zhao Bai and Bronya returned home, Theresa asked Bronya for more, but Bronya said there wasn’t any.

• Theresa realized she had spent five hours playing and decided to check the mission details.
• Theresa crushed her tablet in anger and lost the story data she had been reading.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya returned home after putting the sleeping Mei in her own room.
• Theresa pulled Bronya aside and asked whether there was more of the story.
• Bronya told Theresa there wasn’t any more.

Bronya teased Theresa with a suggestion about forbidden pleasure, leaving Theresa flustered and rushing to her room. The chapter ended with Mei waking from a troubling dream, pale and gasping.

• Theresa accused Bronya of lying about still being a girl, and Bronya denied it.
• Bronya whispered a way for Theresa to experience forbidden pleasure, and Theresa grew flustered before rushing into her room.
• Zhao Bai noticed Theresa's strange behavior and asked Bronya about it, but Bronya said she did not know why Theresa was acting that way.
• Theresa rolled around on her bed in embarrassment while Zhao Bai remained confused.
• Mei suddenly woke, pale and gasping as though she had been drowning.

Mei woke from a dream—or a memory—about stealing a diving suit and following Zhao Bai and Bronya, then learned that the suit had really been stolen. At the orphanage, An was delighted to have been entrusted with a task and treated to gyudon.

• Mei woke in a sweat and wondered whether her memories of the principal, Zhao Bai, and Bronya had been a dream.
• Kiana returned and told Mei that an old-style women's diving suit had been stolen from the storeroom and that the thief had left no clues.
• Mei realized the theft matched what she remembered doing and dropped her bathrobe in dismay.
• An returned to the orphanage happy that someone had entrusted her with a task and treated her to gyudon.

An told Cocolia that Zhao Bai seemed suitable for Bronya, and Cocolia sent her to confinement with Liliya and Rosaliya. Rosaliya eagerly welcomed An as an audience for the twins’ performance.

• An told Cocolia that Zhao Bai seemed suitable for Sister Bronya.
• Cocolia questioned An about calling Bronya “Sister” and listened to her explanation.
• Cocolia threw An into the confinement room with Liliya and Rosaliya.
• Rosaliya greeted An excitedly and asked if she had come to watch their performance.

An was happy with Zhao Bai, who prepared to shoulder Cocolia’s anger over her relationship with Bronya. The next morning, Zhao Bai and Bronya found construction underway on the school auditorium and the restaurant’s second phase, which was becoming a Russian restaurant.

• An happily walked along beneath the moonlight, while Zhao Bai anticipated that Cocolia would be angry about Bronya falling in love.
• Zhao Bai worried about the control chip in Bronya’s brain and decided he would bear Cocolia’s anger so Bronya could remain happy.
• The next morning, Zhao Bai and Bronya went to open the restaurant and learned that work had begun on the school auditorium and the restaurant’s second phase.
• Zhao Bai entered the construction site and watched reserve Valkyries operate practice exoskeletons and carry steel bars.
• Zhao Bai saw that the second phase, built on land Theresa had mortgaged to him, was rapidly becoming a Russian restaurant.