Chapter Summaries

Zhao Bai returned to the dormitory after a late-night food business and reported his battle to Theresa over ramen. Theresa questioned his use of the Godfall Sword and his severe injuries, then joked that she wanted to experience an Emperor-class Honkai Beast’s impact herself.

• Zhao Bai came back to the dormitory at eleven o’clock with two mission reports still to complete and found Theresa asleep on the sofa.
• Zhao Bai served Theresa ramen, and she ate it despite finding its aroma familiar.
• Zhao Bai told Theresa how he had bluffed the humanoid creature into changing forms and fleeing, and Theresa questioned how he had used the still-developing Godfall Sword.
• Theresa reviewed Zhao Bai’s medical report showing that all twenty-four of his ribs had been fractured, and Zhao Bai said the impact had been comparable to an Emperor-class Honkai Beast’s.
• Theresa said she wanted to experience such an impact, and Zhao Bai warned that her small body could not take it, prompting her to protest that he was treating her like a child.

Rita Rossweisse investigated a report about a rose-covered Honkai Beast and traced Zhao Bai to his restaurant. She arrived at the restaurant to apply for a job, leaving Zhao Bai alarmed that the timeline had changed.

• Zhao Bai chose not to report that Kiana had broken his ribs.
• Rita found a Far East Branch report about a Honkai Beast with roses growing from its back and recognized its wounds and scorch marks.
• Rita identified Zhao Bai as a restaurant owner at St. Freya Academy and decided to visit him.
• Rita entered Zhao Bai's restaurant and said she was applying for a job.
• Zhao Bai recognized Rita and suspected his actions had shifted the timeline.

Rita Roswita pressured Zhao Bai to work under her direct management, using his secrets and Theresa’s living arrangements as leverage. Zhao Bai refused her demand, and after Rita slipped away, he decided to tell Theresa about her visit.

• Rita applied for a kitchen assistant job at Zhao Family Restaurant, but Zhao Bai refused to hire her.
• Rita revealed that Schicksal owned the land and said she knew Theresa Apocalypse was living with Zhao Bai, threatening to expose their arrangement.
• Zhao Bai refused to reveal his agreement with Theresa, and Rita revoked his independence and placed him under her direct management.
• Zhao Bai said he would agree, then firmly refused Rita and walked past her as the restaurant opened.
• Rita slipped away unnoticed and said she would wait for Zhao Bai to change his mind, while he decided to tell Theresa about her visit.

Zhao Bai asked Theresa for advice after meeting Rita, then returned to running the cafeteria and prepared omurice while anticipating Rita’s interest in his secrets. When Rita visited again, he began using his divine abilities as he decorated the dish.

• Zhao Bai told Theresa about meeting Rita, and she advised him to decide for himself and be prepared for her charm.
• Zhao Bai dismissed his fear of being investigated and returned to the cafeteria the next day.
• Zhao Bai made popular omurice with curry rice, eggs, mayonnaise, and tomato sauce.
• Rita visited during lunch, and Zhao Bai began displaying his divine abilities while decorating her omurice.
• A massive scythe woven from vines and rose branches fell from subspace.

Zhao Bai served Rita his carefully prepared omurice, hoping it would move her to tears, but she praised it calmly and finished every bite. Rita treated the meal as her first employee meal and asked Zhao Bai when she could start working at the restaurant.

• Zhao Bai decorated Rita’s omurice with a rose made from ketchup and invited her to eat.
• Rita tasted the dish and praised its ingredients, texture, and balanced flavors.
• Rita finished the entire plate without crying, disappointing Zhao Bai.
• Rita thanked Zhao Bai for the meal, called herself an employee, and asked when she could start work.
• Zhao Bai panicked and noticed cleaning supplies by the door as Rita watched him with an inscrutable smile.

Zhao Bai offered Fu Hua a security job at Zhao Family Restaurant, claiming he needed someone to protect its secret recipes. Fu Hua accepted and hurried on to her bar shift, leaving Zhao Bai with his new hire.

• Zhao Bai reflected on how Rita had identified the details of his omurice and resolved to stay vigilant around her.
• Zhao Bai stopped Fu Hua on her way to the bar and offered her a position as the restaurant’s security guard.
• Fu Hua wondered why Zhao Bai had suddenly changed his mind and asked when she could start.
• Zhao Bai urged Fu Hua to accept, warning that stolen recipes could force him to leave St. Freya and end the free staff meals.
• Fu Hua accepted the job and said she would report to Zhao Family Restaurant the next morning.
• Fu Hua hurried toward the bar after realizing their conversation had used up part of her commuting time.

Zhao Bai discovered that Principal Theresa was investigating reports of a ghost on campus and was terrified by the possibility that ghosts existed. Theresa assigned Zhao Bai to investigate the Campus Ghost Stories in her place.

• Zhao Bai returned to the dormitory after High Immortal fled and found Theresa reading an internal academy report.
• Theresa read the report’s final entry, which described Campus Ghost Stories, and asked Zhao Bai whether ghosts and monsters existed.
• Zhao Bai pointed out that Theresa was a church nun with the Oath of Judas, but Theresa insisted she was concerned about student safety.
• Theresa assigned the ghost investigation to Zhao Bai, who suspected she had planned to send him in her place.

Zhao Bai read a detailed ghost story about footsteps in a hazardous-materials warehouse and asked Theresa for academy funding to support his restaurant’s new employees. Theresa agreed to raise the money through a small student fee and assigned Bronya Zaychik as his partner for the ghost-catching mission.

• Zhao Bai read a log describing repeated footsteps in the chemical hazardous materials storage warehouse despite thorough searches.
• Zhao Bai asked Theresa to allocate academy funds to cover his restaurant’s additional employees.
• Theresa proposed adding a one-dollar security fee to every student’s tuition bill to raise the funds.
• Theresa told Zhao Bai that Bronya Zaychik, who disbelieved in ghosts but wanted to catch them, would partner with him.

Zhao Bai ran his restaurant while Rita, disguised as a maid, tried to get into the kitchen, and Fu Hua blocked her to protect her undercover identity. The staff waited until night to investigate the supposed ghost, but the chapter ended before anything appeared.

• Fu Hua stopped Rita from entering the kitchen, and Rita kept their interaction formal to avoid exposing Fu Hua’s undercover role.
• Zhao Bai served Rita and Fu Hua creamy mushroom soup and bread, while Rita silently gave him a challenging smile.
• Zhao Bai served plum rice balls for the afternoon meal, and the employees ate them all.
• Zhao Bai and his teammates waited until night to deal with the ghost rumors, since they were busy during the day.

Zhao Bai met Bronya and her Heavy Cannon Rabbit to investigate a supposed haunting, though Bronya treated the mission as a chance to use her ghost-catching vacuum cleaner. They reached the hazardous chemicals storage room, where footsteps sounded as they listened for a ghost.

• Zhao Bai met Bronya beneath a streetlamp and asked about the vacuum cleaner mounted on Heavy Cannon Rabbit.
• Bronya explained that the device was movie merchandise meant to detect and capture ghosts, and she believed it would work despite not believing in ghosts.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai to stay behind Heavy Cannon Rabbit if he was afraid, and he checked the academy map before suggesting they begin the investigation.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai used their verification cards to enter the hazardous chemicals storage room, which was unguarded and lined with barrels.
• Bronya listened carefully, and footsteps suddenly sounded beside her.

Zhao Bai and Bronya searched a chemical warehouse for the source of a strange, heavy clattering sound but found nothing. Bronya concluded it did not sound like footsteps, and Zhao Bai suggested they go home and continue another day, promising to show her a treasure afterward.

• Zhao Bai and Bronya turned on the warehouse lights and searched its corridors, taking care not to bring dangerous weapons into the chemical warehouse.
• Zhao Bai heard the clattering sound and traced it to an empty patch, while Bronya searched the area with her vacuum cleaner.
• Bronya concluded the sound resembled the movements of a poorly lubricated robot, though they found no robot or other explanation.
• After searching until late at night, Zhao Bai suggested they go home and sleep, then investigate another day.
• Zhao Bai promised to show Bronya a treasure afterward.

Zhao Bai used Other Shore Gate to bring the vanished Titan Daddy out of its quantum state, then watched it disappear again without activating. He returned to the dormitory shaken and told Theresa what had happened.

• Zhao Bai offered Bronya a space-agency supply of Soviet-made salmon roe sausage, and she agreed to try it.
• Zhao Bai returned to the hazardous chemical storage room with Other Shore Gate and swung it through the spot where his teammate had vanished.
• Other Shore Gate knocked the Titan Daddy out of its quantum state, revealing its enormous, dormant body.
• The Titan Daddy vanished again without activating, leaving Zhao Bai unsure what had happened.
• Zhao Bai returned to the dormitory and told Theresa everything while she played Resident Evil 7.

Zhao Bai struggled to find a way to show Theresa the Titan in the warehouse without frightening her. After staying awake until dawn, he encountered a mysterious red-haired girl who recognized his weapon’s power over quantum weapons.

• Theresa doubted Zhao Bai’s explanation and ordered him to resolve the warehouse matter within three days, threatening to withhold the counterintelligence budget.
• Zhao Bai worried that Theresa would not enter the warehouse and that the Titan could be dangerous if it emerged on its own.
• Zhao Bai stayed awake until dawn, unable to decide how to reveal the Titan to Theresa.
• A semi-transparent red-haired girl appeared before Zhao Bai and asked how his weapon could pull quantum weapons into reality.
• The red-haired girl expressed anger and disbelief that Zhao Bai’s weapon could do what her group’s years of research had failed to achieve.

Tesla secretly observed Zhao Bai to judge St. Freya Academy, but he discovered she was responsible for the warehouse’s ghostly footsteps. She withdrew into an unobserved quantum state after threatening him, while reflecting on his severe injuries.

• Tesla revealed that a quantumized person could choose who observed them and explained that she had been watching Zhao Bai to assess St. Freya Academy.
• Zhao Bai went about his morning routine under Tesla’s constant observation, then used the Other Shore Gate to keep her out of the kitchen.
• Tesla reappeared after work and questioned Zhao Bai about his scythe, and he said he used it to cut leeks.
• Tesla threatened Zhao Bai and accidentally revealed that her mechanical footsteps had caused the sounds in the warehouse.
• Tesla vanished into an unobserved quantum state and remembered that the spy in Schicksal had seemed to favor St. Freya Academy, while Zhao Bai had been coughing blood despite being Anti-Entropy’s severely injured Sovereign.

Zhao Bai met with Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C in place of the punished Bronya and tested how it would respond to questions about reporting and keeping secrets. Heavy Cannon Rabbit promised to protect his life, but its answer about concealing a secret was left unresolved.

• Tesla was humiliated after Zhao Bai dragged her Titan out of its quantum state, then watched her return it to that state.
• Zhao Bai found Bronya absent from their meeting because Mei had confined her for secretly modifying a vacuum cleaner.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit 19C attended for Bronya and explained that it used prerecorded phrases to communicate.
• Zhao Bai asked Heavy Cannon Rabbit whether it would report what it saw and heard, and it said yes.
• Zhao Bai asked whether Heavy Cannon Rabbit would conceal a secret to save his life, and it paused to calculate its response.

Zhao Bai painted the Titan as a Tree Planting Day mascot and activated its combat system, then fled with Bronya’s Heavy Cannon Rabbit through the campus. Their noisy escape drew students to their windows, where they spotted the glowing green mech chasing them.

• Zhao Bai had Bronya promise Heavy Cannon Rabbit would protect him, then crossed the open area with the Other Shore Gate to reach the Titan.
• Zhao Bai spray-painted the Titan green and wrote “Happy Tree Planting Day” across its body.
• The Titan activated its combat system and chased Zhao Bai as he and Heavy Cannon Rabbit escaped through the warehouse doors.
• Zhao Bai and Heavy Cannon Rabbit raced along the campus road while the Titan nearly grabbed him several times.
• Students woke to the noise and saw a glowing green giant robot chasing Bronya’s Heavy Cannon Rabbit.

Zhao Bai led the painted Titan on a chase through St. Freya Academy before luring it to a lakeside wetland. He used Heavy Cannon Rabbit to complete the final step of his plan and drew Other Shore Gate as the Titan closed in.

• Zhao Bai rode Heavy Cannon Rabbit around campus twice, drawing attention from the Campus Police and ensuring Theresa would hear about the incident.
• Zhao Bai led the Titan to an unnamed lake in the campus forest and tried to see its green-painted metal body as a mass of vegetables.
• Zhao Bai told Heavy Cannon Rabbit to make Bronya say, "I want to eat vegetables," to resolve the crisis.
• Heavy Cannon Rabbit finished processing the request and Bronya said the words as the Titan approached Zhao Bai.
• Zhao Bai drew Other Shore Gate from subspace and slashed toward the Titan with Four Directions Slash.

Zhao Bai killed the Titan and erased the night’s records, then returned home while Tesla watched the aftermath from her quantum state. At the locked-down lakeside, Tesla encountered a blue-haired young girl whose voice she recognized.

• Zhao Bai used Four Directions Slash to split the Titan in two and destroy it.
• Zhao Bai told Heavy Cannon Rabbit to delete the night’s records, but saved a video of Bronya saying she wanted to eat vegetables.
• Zhao Bai returned home after midnight and went to sleep without waking Theresa.
• Tesla watched the authorities lock down the lakeside after the Titan vanished.
• A blue-haired young girl appeared behind Tesla, who recognized her voice.

Ein told Tesla that Walter’s chosen rendezvous point had been sealed off and suggested finding a new location at St. Freya Academy. Meanwhile, Bronya confronted Zhao Bai about a photograph showing him being carried by Heavy Cannon Rabbit, despite his claim that the robot had malfunctioned and lost its data.

• Ein asked Tesla whether she had any ideas after Walter’s rendezvous point was sealed off.
• Ein suggested that they find a new location at St. Freya Academy to pass along intelligence.
• Zhao Bai served Bronya black caviar sausage with salad dressing and mashed potatoes.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai she did not believe Heavy Cannon Rabbit’s hard drive had malfunctioned and erased the previous night’s data.
• Bronya showed Zhao Bai a blurry photograph of him being carried by Heavy Cannon Rabbit.

Bronya tried to understand and clear up the rumors linking her to Zhao Bai, asking what had happened in the warehouse. Zhao Bai accompanied her back to the hazardous chemical storage warehouse, where they hid under camouflage to investigate.

• Bronya learned that rumors about her and Zhao Bai had spread, and she received congratulations and pink roses.
• Bronya asked Zhao Bai what had happened in the warehouse the previous night.
• Bronya asked Zhao Bai to accompany her back into the hazardous chemical storage warehouse to verify what happened.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai lay under camouflage cloth and silently watched the warehouse after the Titan escaped and the clicking sounds stopped.