Chapter Summaries

Zhao Bai realized Otto had arranged the missile that delivered a woman to him, then confronted Otto by phone. Otto offered him the Archbishop’s position and hinted at a coming upheaval, leaving Zhao Bai tempted only enough to consider it.

• Zhao Bai deduced that Otto had used his high-level access to let the missile bypass St. Freya’s defenses.
• Otto called Zhao Bai and said the woman was his gift, asking Zhao Bai to care for her and keep his distance from Otto’s granddaughter.
• Otto told Zhao Bai that a major change was coming and asked whether he would choose humanity’s potential or raise the butcher’s blade.
• Otto offered Zhao Bai the chance to succeed him as Archbishop and take control of Schicksal after his death.
• Zhao Bai initially rejected the offer, then asked whether they could negotiate.

Zhao Bai rejected Otto’s proposal to become his successor and discussed how to handle Yue Xia with Bronya. Bronya worried about the danger Yue Xia posed and treated Zhao Bai’s bleeding finger herself.

• Zhao Bai firmly refused Otto’s offer and was told to care for Yue Xia and keep her company.
• Zhao Bai told Bronya that Yue Xia was a laboratory creation and shared Otto’s proposal with her.
• Bronya joked that becoming Overseer would make Theresa call her Grandma, and Zhao Bai corrected her about Theresa’s family ties.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya compared Yue Xia to a stray cat, while Bronya remained wary of the blood-drinking girl.
• Bronya took Zhao Bai’s bleeding hand and sucked his injured finger, curious to see his reaction.

Zhao Bai kept the newly awakened Moonlit Embrace safe through the day and gave her medical plasma when she woke hungry. As Yue Xia pressed close and flirted with him, he worried about Bronya’s feelings and Otto’s influence on her.

• Bronya teased Zhao Bai after their awkward, intimate moment, and Moonlit Embrace’s whimper broke the silence.
• Zhao Bai chained Moonlit Embrace to the bed during daylight because he feared the sunlight would harm her.
• At dusk, Zhao Bai gave the hungry Yue Xia warmed medical plasma.
• Yue Xia called Zhao Bai her beloved and asked about getting married before going further, while Zhao Bai reminded her that Bronya was listening nearby.
• Zhao Bai removed Yue Xia’s chains, and she nestled into his embrace.

Bronya kept Theresa away from Zhao Bai while he carried out the Bishop’s mission with Moonlit Embrace, though watching them together made Bronya jealous. She turned to Theresa for help, leaving the reason for her request unstated.

• Bronya told Theresa to return to her room and lock the door so she would not encounter her lookalike.
• Bronya ordered Heavy Cannon Rabbit not to rush in and explained that Zhao Bai would gain Schicksal’s wealth after completing the Bishop’s mission.
• Bronya watched Zhao Bai hold Moonlit Embrace and sniff the fingers two women had licked, becoming jealous.
• Bronya knocked on Theresa’s door and asked for help, and Theresa complained that Bronya only treated her as Headmistress when she needed something.
• Bronya told Theresa to open the door.

Bronya asked Theresa for a long night mission far from St. Freya so she could get away from Zhao Bai, while Zhao Bai struggled to escape Moonlit Embrace. Theresa assigned him to capture monsters in Canghai City, leaving him with a mission that matched Bronya’s request.

• Bronya asked Theresa for a lengthy night mission far from St. Freya and said she did not want to see Zhao Bai.
• Theresa suspected Bronya and Zhao Bai had fought, but Bronya left without explaining what happened.
• Moonlit Embrace clung to Zhao Bai and broke several of his ribs as he struggled to get free.
• Zhao Bai received Theresa’s mission to stay in Canghai City and capture night-walking monsters.

Zhao Bai invited Yue Xia on a honeymoon and carried her out of a window, while Otto watched and prepared Durandal to play a vampire hunter who would push the pair closer together. Durandal doubted Otto’s matchmaking plan as he sent her to create urgency for Zhao Bai and Yue Xia.

• Zhao Bai invited Yue Xia to travel, sleep, and eat together, calling it their honeymoon.
• Yue Xia accepted Zhao Bai’s hand, and he carried her out the window before leaping to the ground with her.
• Otto watched their leap from an underground laboratory in Finland and judged the romantic scene nearly complete.
• Otto told Durandal to hunt Zhao Bai and Yue Xia to create urgency and bring them closer together.
• Durandal sighed at Otto’s plan, while Otto failed to understand her doubts.

After Zhao Bai left, Bronya reflected on Theresa’s short lifespan and decided to make things easier for her. Zhao Bai rode off with Yue Xia, while Bronya contacted him to criticize his rigid approach to dating.

• Bronya found Zhao Bai gone and considered Theresa’s lifespan and the failed specimens that had preceded her.
• Bronya decided that Theresa deserved to have a more brilliant life despite her short one.
• Bronya cleaned up the scattered glass and rockets, then concluded that Zhao Bai was too selfish and cowardly to care for more than one woman.
• Zhao Bai rode his motorcycle with Yue Xia in the sidecar, and she excitedly asked whether they had reached home base.
• Bronya contacted Zhao Bai and told him he was rigid and had no way to court girls besides treating them to meals.

Zhao Bai tried to find a way to approach Yue Xia, and Bronya offered to guide him. As they rode through the night, Zhao Bai gave the hungry Yue Xia warmed blood to drink, leaving her quietly watching his neck.

• Bronya told Zhao Bai that inviting Yue Xia to dinner would not work because she was a vampire.
• Bronya offered to guide Zhao Bai, then explained that her romantic skill came from natural talent.
• Yue Xia watched Zhao Bai's neck as Moonlit Embrace grew hungry.
• Zhao Bai warmed a bag of genetically engineered blood and handed it to Yue Xia with a straw.
• Yue Xia figured out how to use the straw and sipped the blood while Zhao Bai kept his eyes on the road.

Bronya searched for cheesy pickup lines to help Zhao Bai give Yue Xia a grand ending, then directed him to a love hotel in Canghai City. Zhao Bai misunderstood Bronya’s explanation of the hotel’s equipment, and the chapter left him pleased that she supposedly knew he liked Kamen Rider.

• Bronya searched for pickup lines in several languages, imagining how Zhao Bai’s words would affect Yue Xia.
• Yue Xia curiously gnawed on a plastic straw until Zhao Bai pulled it away and gave her another.
• Zhao Bai and Yue Xia reached Canghai City beneath the full moon, and Bronya told Zhao Bai to go to a love hotel.
• Zhao Bai explained that the hotel’s audiovisual equipment could be adjusted to watch Kamen Rider, and Bronya said she thought everyone liked it.

Zhao Bai searched for a nocturnal monster while Durandal prepared to stage a dramatic fight for him at a love hotel. Durandal waited for Zhao Bai to return, uncomfortable with the theatrical role Otto had assigned her.

• Zhao Bai adjusted the TV antenna so the children could watch Kamen Rider Vulcan.
• Zhao Bai set out to find a catlike monster that attacked people at night.
• Durandal watched for her target from a skyscraper, dressed as a Vampire Hunter.
• Lord Bishop instructed Durandal to act intimidating and provoke her opponent so Zhao Bai would see her dramatic performance.
• Durandal waited for Zhao Bai to return before entering the love hotel and staging the planned attack.

Durandal, dressed as a Victorian vampire hunter, confronted Zhao Bai outside the love hotel on Otto’s orders. She began attacking him after he recognized the Archbishop’s involvement.

• After searching all night without success, Zhao Bai returned to the love hotel as an explosion shattered its windows.
• A small, red-eyed figure fell in front of Zhao Bai, and Durandal approached in Victorian attire with weapons in hand.
• Durandal challenged Zhao Bai over whether he would protect a vampire, but he recognized that the Church and Otto were involved.
• Durandal transformed her meat saw into a giant scythe and charged Zhao Bai, telling him not to answer her question with a question.

Zhao Bai fought Durandal, whom Otto had sent after him, then fled with the unconscious Moonlit Embrace. Otto ordered Durandal to let them escape long enough to talk and promised that she could keep cats at headquarters.

• Durandal attacked Zhao Bai with a scythe, and he recognized her strength as likely belonging to someone sent by Otto.
• Zhao Bai charged Durandal, then retreated with the unconscious Moonlit Embrace over his shoulder.
• Otto told Durandal to chase Zhao Bai without catching him too soon, giving them time to talk as they ran.
• Durandal slowed down after Otto promised she could keep cats at headquarters.

Zhao Bai fled Canghai City by motorcycle with Yue Xia while Durandal pursued them in her Knight Moonbeam armor. He reached the sea, where Durandal caught up as dawn approached.

• Zhao Bai reassured Yue Xia that she had done nothing wrong as he carried her away from Durandal.
• Durandal stopped herself from destroying Zhao Bai's motorcycle after Otto warned her that it was powered by a gemstone.
• Zhao Bai rode his motorcycle out to sea with Moonlit Embrace while Durandal summoned her Knight Moonbeam armor and flew after him.
• Durandal's flight disrupted the city lights, prompting Otto to remark that she was unsuited to city missions.
• Zhao Bai reached the sea and saw Durandal approaching behind him before sunrise.

Zhao Bai confronted Durandal over the frozen sea, wielding Heavenly Fire Judgment and Ice Lotus Sky as Durandal prepared to attack him. Meanwhile, Bronya searched for Zhao Bai after a disturbance disrupted quantum communications, but she still had not found him.

• Zhao Bai stopped his motorcycle and faced Durandal, who recognized him.
• Zhao Bai froze the sea with Ice Lotus Sky, then drew Heavenly Fire Judgment and melted parts of the ice.
• Durandal prepared to test Zhao Bai at maximum output in the Moonlit Armor while Otto’s chatter distracted her.
• Theresa listened aloud to a fantasy novel until Bronya muted her phone remotely.
• A disturbance tore through quantum communications near Zhao Bai, and Bronya continued searching for his signal.
• Bronya heard someone shout, “Let go already!”

Durandal defeated Zhao Bai in close-quarters combat and reported to Otto that she had him under control. Otto questioned how she had overcome him, and Durandal asked what to do next.

• Durandal challenged Zhao Bai to a hand-to-hand fight, and he accepted after they had traded attacks at range.
• Durandal used her superior strength and combat skill to break Zhao Bai’s ribs and overpower him.
• Durandal told Otto she had Zhao Bai under control and explained that his lack of killing intent reminded her of Theresa.
• Otto expressed surprise at her success, and Durandal asked for her next orders.

Otto allowed Durandal to keep fighting Zhao Bai, who provoked her despite his injuries. As the battle’s shockwaves threatened Yue Xia, Otto spoke to her and offered help, awakening the power of her blood as Schicksal’s satellite turned crimson.

• Zhao Bai refused to fight back and taunted Durandal, insisting she could not bring herself to hurt him.
• Durandal punched Zhao Bai after he told her to hit him, and Otto let her continue.
• Yue Xia struggled to endure the shockwaves while the battle raged below.
• Otto spoke to Yue Xia and offered to help her control the chaotic blood within her.
• Yue Xia’s blood answered an ancient call, crimson light descended from the sky, and Schicksal’s satellite changed color.

Yue Xia appeared atop Blood Judas and stopped Durandal’s fight, while Zhao Bai suspected the weapon had been projected from an Anti-Entropy satellite. As Zhao Bai prepared to intervene, Durandal stopped reciting her lines and declared she would no longer follow the Bishop’s orders.

• Yue Xia descended onto Blood Judas and told Durandal not to bully her retainer.
• Durandal accepted defeat after seeing Yue Xia’s protective expression.
• Zhao Bai suspected that Blood Judas had been projected from an Anti-Entropy satellite.
• Zhao Bai prepared to pull Yue Xia away and reason with Durandal.
• Durandal stopped reciting her lines and told the Bishop she would not do this anymore.

Durandal tried to reveal the truth about Moonlit Embrace, but Zhao Bai stopped her and chose to protect Moonlit Embrace’s brief, happy life. Durandal and Zhao Bai prepared to face each other as dawn approached.

• Durandal overpowered Moonlit Embrace and began to explain who she really was.
• Zhao Bai struck Durandal and sent her into the sea before she could finish.
• Zhao Bai told Moonlit Embrace to hide beneath a blackout cloth until everything was over.
• Durandal accepted that Zhao Bai had his own sense of justice and drew her lance as he stood guard with his weapon.
• Durandal argued that Moonlit Embrace’s beautiful life would soon end, and Zhao Bai paused before offering his reason for protecting her.

Zhao Bai and Durandal clashed over their conflicting wishes for Moonlit Embrace’s finale, choosing to settle the argument through combat. Their fight continued as Zhao Bai revealed his gauntlets and Durandal brought her lance down in a powerful smash.

• Zhao Bai rejected Durandal’s attempt to change his mind and said she might still change her own.
• Zhao Bai and Durandal began fighting across an isolated, ice-covered sea.
• Durandal charged with her lance, and Zhao Bai retreated while deflecting her attacks with his blade.
• Zhao Bai replaced Ice Lotus Sky with deep-purple gauntlets and used lightning to twist Durandal’s lance aside before punching.
• Durandal recognized Zhao Bai’s gauntlets as Moon Ring’s and swung her lance down at him like a hammer.

Zhao Bai fought Durandal to a draw before they agreed to spar again the next night. After escaping with Moonlit Embrace, he asked Bronya for somewhere to stay and learned she had withheld her hotel suite because she feared he would destroy her belongings.

• Zhao Bai and Durandal traded powerful attacks until the ice beneath them melted and broke apart.
• Durandal proposed that they resume their fight another day, and Zhao Bai agreed to meet her at the same place tomorrow night.
• Zhao Bai rode away with Moonlit Embrace and told Bronya he had fought Durandal.
• Zhao Bai asked Bronya for a place to stay, and she offered her Hutao-themed hotel suite in Canghai City.
• Bronya explained that she had put Zhao Bai in a couples' hotel because she feared he would blow up her precious things.