Chapter Summaries

Bronya and Zhao Bai celebrated their relationship with a romantic rooftop moment before walking hand in hand around campus. Their affectionate appearance sparked gossip among students as the school term approached.

• Bronya teased Zhao Bai about his poor technique, then spread her arms while he wrapped the sash around her waist and kept the comb as a treasured keepsake.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai walked down from the rooftop hand in hand and discussed Seele's enrollment.
• Zhao Bai asked where Bronya had sent everyone from the house, and Bronya dismissed the question.
• Bronya and Zhao Bai strolled along the campus road as students noticed them in her O-furisode and speculated about their relationship and Zhao Bai's child from Shenzhou.

Walter noticed Zhao Bai wearing an Anti-Entropy Executor insignia and questioned him about it. After Zhao Bai described the golden-haired woman who had given it to him, Walter panicked and rushed back to Anti-Entropy headquarters, suspecting Cocolia was recruiting recklessly.

• Walter saw the Anti-Entropy Executor insignia on Zhao Bai and stopped him and Bronya to ask where it came from.
• Zhao Bai said a golden-haired woman in a Russian-style military uniform had given him the insignia and invited him to regular meetings in the Quantum Sea.
• Walter inferred that Cocolia had given Zhao Bai the badge and hurried back to headquarters.
• Walter left so hastily that he reportedly bought a standing-room ticket and did not pack his luggage.

Walter discovered that Anti-Entropy’s meeting room had been torn open into quantum space and hurried to find Einstein and Tesla in California. Tesla explained that Durandal had forced her into a crossover event, while Walter remained focused on the crisis at Anti-Entropy.

• Walter watched Tesla livestream a violent open-world game while waiting for the Executor Assembly to be convened.
• Walter returned to Anti-Entropy’s meeting room and found it empty, with a huge hole opening into quantum space.
• Walter flew to the California desert to find Einstein and Tesla.
• Tesla cut off her stream when she saw Walter arrive and asked why he was there.
• Walter asked what had happened to Anti-Entropy, and Tesla said Durandal had come and kidnapped her into doing a crossover event.

Walter returned to confront Cocolia, but Tesla explained that Anti-Entropy was in a financial crisis and redirected him to Einstein. Einstein revealed that Zhao Bai’s Executor title and insignia at school had been part of a plan to lure Walter back.

• Tesla told Walter that Anti-Entropy was nearly broke and depended on game earnings to survive.
• Tesla explained that Cocolia controlled the Mikoyan Design Bureau’s weapon profits and spent them on forbidden experiments.
• Walter realized the discussion had strayed from his goal of confronting Cocolia and asked where she was.
• Tesla summoned Einstein instead of directing Walter to Cocolia.
• Einstein told Walter that Zhao Bai’s Executor title and school insignia were part of her plan to bring him back.

Walter planned to rob a bank in Africa to raise money for Anti-Entropy and put the organization on a sustainable path. He considered who could help, then learned Zhao Bai had been recruited for his combat ability and lack of interest in office politics; the chapter ended on the day of an opening ceremony.

• Walter decided that Anti-Entropy should rob an African bank to raise startup capital.
• Walter considered the organization’s scientists and engineers as potential bank robbers, then thought he might have to go himself.
• Walter asked Einstein why Zhao Bai had been recruited as an executor.
• Einstein explained that Zhao Bai’s combat ability could counter Cocolia’s influence and that he avoided office politics.
• Walter approved of Einstein’s decision, and the chapter noted that it was the day of the opening ceremony.

Seele joined St. Freya Academy as a transfer student, while Theresa assigned Zhao Bai to oversee the Hyperion’s cafeteria as an internship. Zhao Bai explored the ship’s empty bridge with Bronya, trying to recreate a familiar scene, and left her standing in a spot that reminded him of a game.

• Seele enrolled at St. Freya Academy, and students spread rumors that she was Bronya’s little sister and Zhao Bai’s sister-in-law.
• Zhao Bai hoped to stay at the academy and focus on his restaurant, but Theresa arranged for him to oversee cafeteria operations aboard the Hyperion.
• Theresa arranged the assignment because she wanted to keep Zhao Bai from being recruited by Anti-Entropy.
• Zhao Bai took Bronya to the Hyperion’s bridge and positioned her as he examined the view.
• Zhao Bai described the bridge’s weather effects and voice lines, leaving Bronya confused.

Zhao Bai and Bronya boarded the refitted Hyperion, where Himeko explained Theresa’s arrangement to bring Bronya aboard as an intern. Bronya recognized the contrast between the school’s sanctuary and the battleship’s role as its weapon, and understood that Theresa was trying to carry out a dead person’s wish.

• Bronya raised her cannon toward Zhao Bai, who reacted with excitement, until Himeko’s cough warned them to behave on the Hyperion’s bridge.
• Himeko explained that the Hyperion had been refitted from an aircraft carrier into a battleship, with Himeko serving as its main cannon.
• Himeko said Theresa had ordered her to give Zhao Bai freedom and bring his wife aboard for an internship so he would stop slacking off.
• Bronya noticed that the Hyperion’s crew carried themselves like soldiers, unlike the leisurely schoolgirls.
• Bronya understood that Theresa was preserving the school as a sanctuary and honoring the wish of someone who had died.

Himeko toured Zhao Bai and Bronya around the Hyperion before assigning Bronya a simulated tactical battle to assess her command ability. Bronya doubted the assessment was serious, while Zhao Bai’s closeness with her left Himeko miserable and prompted her to cancel the rest of the tour.

• Zhao Bai showed the ship’s reinforced kitchen, which had been remodeled to suit his traits.
• Himeko explained that the Hyperion had no main cannon because she served as its main weapon through the Nexus system.
• Himeko told Bronya to take a simulated tactical battle challenge as an assessment of her command ability.
• Bronya suspected the StarCraft 2 challenge was just part of a leisure tour rather than a serious evaluation.
• Zhao Bai held Bronya’s hand and asked her to carry him, making Himeko cancel the remaining tour activities and begin the assessment.

Zhao Bai and Bronya played StarCraft in Schicksal’s gaming area, with Bronya secretly controlling the game and helping Zhao Bai win. Himeko stopped Zhao Bai from starting work afterward, insisting that two rounds of gaming were not enough to excuse him.

• Himeko warned Zhao Bai and Bronya not to do anything strange in the gaming area because it had surveillance cameras.
• Zhao Bai started a special edition of StarCraft while Bronya used a controller to play alongside him.
• Zhao Bai appeared to win easily despite his awkward keyboard inputs, leaving Himeko puzzled about how he was managing it.
• After the game, Zhao Bai walked out refreshed while Bronya yawned and put the controller away.
• Zhao Bai asked if he could start work, but Himeko refused to let him treat two rounds of StarCraft as enough.

Himeko took Zhao Bai aboard the Hyperion to test his combat ability and found a Chariot-class Honkai Beast. She sent him toward the cannon barrel to attack it from the sky, with Bronya ready to report its position.

• Himeko told Zhao Bai he was temporarily qualified as a chef and assigned him deck-cleaning work, but Zhao Bai objected because he was an A-rank.
• Himeko claimed her experience handling 3A-rank Honkai incidents put her above Zhao Bai and reminded him to show more authority as an A-rank.
• Himeko searched for a large Honkai Beast and piloted the cloaked Hyperion toward a Chariot-class target.
• Himeko gestured for Zhao Bai to go, and he stepped into the Hyperion's cannon barrel while Bronya put on goggles.
• Bronya stood ready to report the Honkai Beast's position as Zhao Bai prepared to attack it from above rather than fight it in close combat.

Zhao Bai demonstrated his overwhelming power by destroying a Honkai Beast from the air, leaving Himeko and Bronya with little understanding of his abilities. He then returned to cooking for the Hyperion’s crew, though he remained uneasy about serving meals without charging for them.

• Zhao Bai handed Bronya his crimson hand cannons and asked her to help aim at a Honkai Beast below.
• A flash of white light struck the wilderness, annihilating the Honkai Beast and scorching the surrounding ground.
• Himeko examined the monitor footage and rejected the explanation that Zhao Bai’s attack was the Principal’s saying about a chef’s flames.
• After the day’s tests, Zhao Bai cooked individual meals for the Hyperion crew at high speed.
• Zhao Bai felt unaccustomed to receiving only his monthly wages and felt a pang of heartache when he served eager Valkyries.

Zhao Bai served Himeko steak and cherry liqueur after spinning Bronya until she was dizzy. The chapter left Himeko examining the pink drink and asking what was in it.

• Bronya warned Zhao Bai to stop spinning her, and he caught her as she toppled over.
• Himeko arrived and ordered a plain filet steak and an alcoholic drink.
• Zhao Bai poured Himeko a glass of pink cherry liqueur.
• Himeko asked whether Zhao Bai had added cherry blossoms, and he explained that the wine contained fresh strawberry pulp.

Himeko sampled Zhao Bai’s cherry-strawberry wine and accepted a bottle to take home. After she left, Zhao Bai and Bronya discussed Seele’s internship assignment, which involved simple zombie-clearing missions carried out with supervision.

• Himeko tasted the cherry-strawberry wine and enjoyed it with Boss Zhao’s sliced filet.
• Zhao Bai told Himeko how he had eaten strawberries at an Italian winery and booked seventeen percent of Canella Winery’s fruit wine production.
• Zhao Bai gave Himeko a bottle of the wine, and she took it with her when she left.
• Bronya questioned Zhao Bai about his winery purchase, and he explained that his story was sales talk.
• Zhao Bai and Bronya turned to Seele’s internship, noting that newly promoted Valkyries would handle simple zombie-clearing missions without working independently.

Zhao Bai agreed to accompany Seele on her first mission and gave her a bottle of citrus wine before they set off. Seele quietly began to feel the wine’s effects, and the chapter left her drunken rampage just beginning.

• Bronya asked Zhao Bai to follow Seele on her mission and watch for a possible berserk episode, and he agreed.
• Bronya said she would set Heavy Cannon Rabbit to cook meals for the girls aboard the ship.
• Zhao Bai brought Seele to the Hyperion’s bridge for photos before her first mission.
• Seele struggled to carry her oversized scythe, and Zhao Bai gave her citrus wine that tasted like sparkling juice.
• Seele drank the wine, and a faint dark crimson mist appeared in her eyes as she set off with Zhao Bai.

Zhao Bai took Seele to a seaside mission, mistaking her drunkenness for first-mission excitement as she asked him to drive faster. At the beach, Seele prepared to fight the Honkai Beasts and zombies, while Zhao Bai watched with concern.

• Zhao Bai rode his motorcycle toward the mission with Seele sitting in the sidecar and holding her scythe.
• Seele burped repeatedly, appeared flushed, and told Zhao Bai she felt excited, but he assumed she was merely nervous about her first mission.
• Seele asked Zhao Bai to drive faster, and he increased the motorcycle's speed.
• Zhao Bai and Seele arrived at a deserted beach where Schicksal had confined the Honkai Beasts and zombies behind walls.
• Seele swung her scythe at the enemies, and Zhao Bai worried that its size might pull the petite girl out of her grip.

Seele got drunk and mistook a beach ball and other moving objects for enemies, while Zhao Bai realized she was attacking blindly. When an Assault-class Honkai Beast appeared, Seele killed it with her scythe, still laughing wildly, and Zhao Bai worried about when she would sober up.

• Seele sliced a beach ball apart and searched for the monster she thought she had defeated.
• Zhao Bai realized Seele was drunk as she swung her scythe at moving objects and shattered the ground.
• Seele demonstrated her scythe skills by cutting falling leaves into pieces.
• An Assault-class Honkai Beast appeared, and Seele dodged its charge and pierced it with her scythe.
• Seele flung the Honkai Beast into the air, cut it apart with crescent blades, and laughed wildly while Zhao Bai worried about her drunkenness.

Seele slaughtered the Honkai Beast and undead while drunk, then headed toward the sea until Zhao Bai intervened with the Ai-chan Hammer. The chapter left Zhao Bai facing Seele as she attacked him with Moonfang Heavenly Charge.

• Seele cut down the Honkai Beast and undead with her scythe while Zhao Bai watched.
• After the enemies were gone, Seele walked toward the ocean, and Zhao Bai told her to stop.
• Zhao Bai summoned the Ai-chan Hammer and warned Seele, hoping she was beginning to sober up.
• Seele dismissed the hammer and fired Moonfang Heavenly Charge at Zhao Bai with her scythe.

Zhao Bai fought the drunken Seele and knocked her unconscious with the inflatable Ai-chan Hammer. Seele woke as her scarlet-eyed second personality, aching and confused, while Zhao Bai awkwardly accepted blame for her drinking.

• Zhao Bai blocked Seele’s fierce scythe attacks with the inflatable hammer as she laughed and kept fighting.
• Zhao Bai knocked Seele away and brought the hammer down, defeating her and smashing her scythe.
• Zhao Bai waited beside the unconscious Seele on the beach.
• Seele woke with scarlet pupils, clutched her chest in pain, and asked how hard Zhao Bai had hit her.
• Zhao Bai said her injuries had been unavoidable, and Seele blamed him for letting her drink.

Black Seele warned Zhao Bai to keep Seele away from alcohol, then let Seele return to consciousness after the beach was cleared. Zhao Bai hid Black Seele’s actions and reassured Seele that they could report the mission as they pleased.

• Black Seele revived and told Zhao Bai never to give Seele alcohol, then lectured him about underage drinking.
• Black Seele waited until Seele’s injuries healed before giving control back to her.
• Seele woke confused and asked whether they had completed the mission.
• Zhao Bai claimed he had killed the monsters while Seele slept, sparing her the truth about Black Seele.
• Zhao Bai told Seele that Schicksal rarely checked who killed the monsters, and Seele worried about falsifying the report.

Seele returned from the mission shaken after fruit wine made her rampage through the monsters, and Bronya reassured Zhao Bai that he was not to blame. Zhao Bai returned to preparing dinner aboard the Hyperion and took precautions to keep Seele away from alcohol.

• Bronya noticed Seele's dejected mood and asked whether something had happened between her and Zhao Bai.
• Seele apologized to Zhao Bai, but Bronya explained that she should not apologize so casually because it could be misunderstood.
• Zhao Bai told Bronya that Seele had drunk fruit wine, become drunk, and slain every monster with her scythe.
• Bronya told Zhao Bai not to let Seele drink alcohol again and said the incident was not his fault.
• Zhao Bai prepared dinner and put away all the alcohol, posting a notice that the cafeteria was not licensed to sell it.