Arc 55The Counterfeit Holy Grail War

Chen Li helped Homura Akemi become the god of magical girls’ despair, then returned to New Penacony and drew Xu Zhao and Undying Path into the Counterfeit Holy Grail War. As the war’s final day approached, Sparkle joined Origami University and became Firefly’s adopted daughter.

  • Zibai was reborn in Liyue, and Chen Li asked Nicole to record the angels’ return in the Paradise Calendar.
  • Chen Li traveled to Mitakihara, where Homura Akemi wished to govern magical girls’ despair and battled the witches in the Ring of Miracles.
  • Chen Li used a Miracle Patch to prevent the universe’s heat death, set conditions on Kyubey’s wish granting, and gave Doctor tools to support Miracle Defense Battles.
  • Homura Akemi returned to managing the Space-Time Administration, while Chen Li went back to New Penacony and found Xu Zhao trapped in a cycle of strange deaths after summoning the Golden Honkai-Moe King.
  • Chen Li hired Undying Path to influence the Holy Grail War, but Xu Zhao’s summoned king dropped the Holy Grail into Duality Paradise’s leylines, creating the Counterfeit Holy Grail War.
  • Chen Li shrank Duality Paradise and placed it in New Penacony’s sky, where the war’s winner could claim a Miraculous Artifact and permanent authority as the Aeon of Joy.
  • At Origami University, Krydrla put Sparkle in charge of the graduation ceremony and assigned Firefly as the designated Master.
  • Firefly asked Sparkle to become her Servant, and Sparkle persuaded her to adopt her instead.
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Zibai was resurrected in Liyue as the angels returned to human form, and Nicole recorded the event while Chen Li assigned the remaining work. The chapter ended with Venti tasked with gathering the angels and helping them adjust to human society, while Zhongli prepared to join the Holy Grail War.

  • Zibai was reborn in Liyue after the Three Corpses fused through the Miracle Cocoon, and Nicole recorded the angels' return in the Paradise Calendar.
  • Nicole revised her account of the angels' homecoming several times at Chen Li's request, adding Zibai's rebirth and the Lord of Night's freedom from the leylines.
  • Chen Li asked Venti and Zhongli to handle the angels' registration and employment, but Zhongli said he had to participate in the final day of the Holy Grail War.
  • Venti complained that Zhongli should help with his many avatars, but Chen Li sided with Zhongli and gave Venti the [Wish Granting] bell to gather the angels.
  • Chen Li told Venti to help the angels integrate into human society and teased him about being a bad example because of his dangerous Wind Glider flights.

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Chen Li assigned rebuilding and governance work while Nicole revised the history of the angel race’s return. He prepared to travel to the Magical Girl world with Nicole, who began awakening her abilities, but Chen Li still felt he had forgotten something.

  • Chen Li explained that the Cryo Archon received the Dark Sea along with her jade tablet, then instructed Mavuika to calm Natlan and plant the Boundary Stone in the Mare Jivari, and Furina to have Neuvillette draft new laws.
  • Nicole repeatedly revised the history book until Chen Li chose the brief first version: “Year One of the Paradise Calendar, the angels return home.”
  • Chen Li opened a Teleportation Gate to the Magical Girl world and invited Nicole to join him; she agreed after he offered to help her develop a personal panel, Stigmata, and an Exclusive Profession.
  • Furina said she would have Arlecchino take her to find Columbina and Sandrone, while Chen Li learned that the Doctor had successfully tested modified modules on a Kyubey.
  • Nicole used pages from the Book of Years and Unofficial History to awaken her character card, and Chen Li wondered what he had forgotten as Furina reassured him it was unimportant.

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Chen Li left the restaurant and arrived in the Magical Girls world, where he found Homura Akemi surrounded by eleven Kyubeys. Nicole’s Observer Dodoco, perched on Chen Li’s head, revealed that it could load other character cards and had given the Kyubeys an unexpectedly fervent oath of loyalty.

  • Chen Li departed through the Teleportation Gate, and Venti, Furina, Mavuika, and Zhongli left the restaurant while Venti invited Nicole to meet the other angels.
  • Nicole worried about her portable Dodoco clone, which used the Observer character card loaded with Silent Angel to record history and report to her.
  • Chen Li arrived at a pier in Mitakihara and found Homura Akemi sitting among eleven Kyubeys, with the Doctor nearby.
  • The Dodoco on Chen Li’s head interrupted Homura and declared that she considered the Kyubeys loyal and righteous.
  • The eleven Kyubeys stood together and shouted an oath of brotherhood, confusing Homura Akemi.
  • Chen Li explained that Observer could load the personality and skills of other character cards, turning the loaded character into an advanced bot.

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Chen Li and Homura Akemi prepared for the Miracle Defense Battle as the Dodoco’s words empowered the Kyubeys and Doctor. Homura used a Kyubey to transform into a Soul Gem and made a wish that drew corruption from magical girls’ Soul Gems across countless Parallel Worlds, with Kyubey realizing Chen Li’s role in the causality behind it.

  • Dodoco’s words gave allied operators less HP and faster redeployment, while the Kyubeys’ frenzy made their death-and-revival cycle even faster.
  • Homura Akemi told Chen Li she was ready for her second-stage transformation and revealed that she had cut away two-thirds of Madoka Kaname’s causality, though The Law of Cycles had blocked her attempt to sever all of it.
  • Chen Li sacrificed one Kyubey, which transformed into a Soul Gem for Homura Akemi.
  • Homura Akemi wished for magical girls’ Soul Gems to never accumulate despair again and to become the god who governed their despair.
  • Corruption from Soul Gems across countless Parallel Worlds surged toward Homura, fulfilling her wish as Kyubey recognized that meeting Chen Li had given her immense causality.

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Chen Li created a world-specific Ring of Miracles and sent Homura Akemi into a Miracle Defense Battle against an army of witches. Homura overwhelmed the attackers by using Kyubeys as fuel for her abilities, and the battle reached its final bosses as Chen Li watched from the docks.

  • Kyubey lamented that he had met Chen Li first, but Chen Li punched him, and Kyubey immediately revived.
  • Chen Li used the Falling Sakura Divine Axe to transfer Homura Akemi’s burden of life to himself, then swallowed the corruption that had been surrounding her.
  • Chen Li created the Ring of Miracles, whose attackers included the Witch of the Universe, the Witch of Despair, Walpurgisnacht, and other witches.
  • Homura Akemi entered the battle with eleven Kyubeys and used them to repeatedly refresh her ultimate while slaughtering witches and their familiars.
  • Homura Akemi stacked her attack power to 666666 layers and faced the Witch of the Universe, the Witch of Despair, and Walpurgisnacht as final bosses.
  • Chen Li watched the battle from the docks and remarked that Walpurgisnacht had gained enough strength to stand alongside the other two witches.

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Doctor used a cheat code to defeat the Cosmic (Miracle) Witch, and the Miracle Defense Battle ended with a three-star victory and the Law of Miracles appearing above Mitakihara. Homura Akemi chased Doctor for forcing her to deliver the victory line, while Chen Li examined the new Law template and its potential.

  • Doctor withdrew the Kyubeys and entered a cheat code that turned them into family portraits, leaving Homura Akemi as the only operator.
  • Homura Akemi lost control and spun as her arrow curved around the Blue Gate and struck the Cosmic (Miracle) Witch, destroying it and winning the battle.
  • Homura Akemi recited the required victory line as time froze, and the Law of Miracles appeared above Mitakihara when the battle ended.
  • Homura Akemi attacked Doctor with the Falling Sakura Divine Axe for using the cheat code, and Doctor fled while Chen Li watched the Law of Miracles.
  • Chen Li explained how the Law template established inviolable miracle rules and compared it with the Cocoon template, then Doctor ran back to him for help.

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Chen Li, the Doctor, and Homura Akemi debated how to use their three Miracle Patches, until Kyubey offered to help fulfill many wishes in exchange for a rule preventing the universe’s heat death. Chen Li contracted Kyubey and used one patch to wish that the universe would not fall into heat death, but the wish’s effects were not immediately visible.

  • The Doctor clung to Chen Li as Homura Akemi confronted her for making Homura spiral-launch into the air, and Chen Li calmed Homura by offering her a Miracle Patch.
  • The Doctor asked how many Miracle Patches they had earned, and Chen Li said they had three but struggled to choose which problems to address.
  • Homura Akemi urged Chen Li to make a personal wish, but she and the Doctor stopped him from wishing harm on oppressors or imposing seven paid days off on all living beings.
  • Kyubey appeared and proposed that its species use its wish-granting abilities and countless clones to help realize miracles, asking Chen Li to prevent the universe’s entropy from increasing in return.
  • Chen Li bound Kyubey with a Covenant Gold Coin and used a Miracle Patch to wish that the universe would not fall into heat death.

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Chen Li used Miracle Patches to reshape Kyubey’s wish-granting rules, then planned safeguards for the coming wave of magical girls. After Doctor departed and Kyubey was pulled away to grant another wish, Homura Akemi returned the Falling Sakura Divine Axe because she no longer needed it.

  • Chen Li rejected Kyubey’s suggestion to stop entropy from increasing, then wished that Kyubey would appear near anyone with a pure wish and die in an accident if it tried to grant a harmful wish.
  • Chen Li gave Kyubey a King’s Vassal Jade Talisman, granting every Kyubey authority to create Boundary Stones as agents.
  • Chen Li told Homura Akemi to use future Miracle Patches to protect magical girls’ Soul Gems and make Soul Gems shatter before a girl with a black Redemption Ticket could harm someone.
  • Chen Li gave Doctor the Miracle Card [First Cause of Life] and ten crystals to support Miracle Defense Battles in other worlds.
  • A new wish forcibly drew Kyubey away, and Homura Akemi returned the Falling Sakura Divine Axe to Chen Li, explaining that she was no longer suited to its purpose.

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Chen Li pushed Homura Akemi to meet Madoka Kaname and the others, where Homura corrected Kyubey’s misleading explanation and confronted Sayaka Miki about her wish. Kyubey then introduced the Time Administration Bureau as a way to organize and compensate Magical Girls, leaving the girls to consider their new roles.

  • Chen Li considered finding a new wielder for the Falling Sakura Divine Axe and decided to return to the Honkai: Star Rail world, while Homura Akemi watched Madoka Kaname, Mami Tomoe, and Sayaka Miki speak with Kyubey.
  • Kyubey offered Madoka Kaname an Agent Jade Tablet and described a new role protecting peace across worlds, then falsely explained why Homura Akemi was called the Flame Demon.
  • Chen Li pushed Homura Akemi out from behind a cherry blossom tree, and she stopped time to aim her bow at Kyubey before warning the girls that Kyubey concealed and distorted the truth.
  • Homura Akemi told Sayaka Miki that her injured violinist friend should make his own wish, and Kyubey helped explain that Sayaka should consider what mattered to herself.
  • Kyubey announced that eligible Magical Girls could work for the Time Administration Bureau, and Homura Akemi explained that the bureau would coordinate their work and provide compensation.

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Mami Tomoe, Madoka Kaname, and Sayaka Miki learned about the Magical Girls’ new jobs and the cost of becoming one, while Chen Li was confronted by Elysia over the loss of her development rights. Mobius awakened late and caught Chen Li and Elysia hiding that they had each delayed her awakening, leaving Chen Li trying to charm his way out of her anger.

  • Kyubey gave Mami Tomoe employee number 0000004 and explained that Homura Akemi was 0000002, while Madoka Kaname and Sayaka Miki could also join the Time Administration Bureau.
  • Homura Akemi and Kyubey told Sayaka Miki that a Magical Girl’s Soul Gem was her true body, and Kyubey explained that contribution points could earn the Sheep Talisman to restore her soul to her body.
  • Elysia arrested Chen Li and demanded compensation for losing the Magical Girl world’s development rights, but Mobius awakened from the Poké Ball and interrupted her confrontation.
  • Mobius noticed she had awakened late, and Chen Li and Elysia privately admitted that they had each delayed her awakening by half a day.
  • Chen Li reassured Mobius that he kept her in his heart, prompting Elysia to stare at him in shock.

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Chen Li and Mobius were caught in Dodoco’s reality-warping effect, and Mobius learned she had slept through two days while the Paradise Alliance had rapidly expanded. After Mobius set off to find Elysia, Chen Li returned to New Penacony, where Pixie reported a surge of applications to become agents.

  • Dodoco’s words-become-law effect pulled Elysia and Mobius into Chen Li’s embrace, and Elysia teased Mobius before leaving with her Beautiful Girl’s Privilege.
  • Elysia told Mobius it was the seventh day of the Holy Grail War, and Mobius checked her terminal and confronted Chen Li about having slept for a day and two nights.
  • Elysia escaped through a Teleportation Gate, while Mobius broke free when Chen Li muffled Dodoco and then left to track down Elysia using Changye Yue’s Elysia Radar.
  • Chen Li assigned Homura Akemi to continue managing the Space-Time Administration and returned to New Penacony.
  • Pixie told Chen Li that Sparkle’s livestream of the Miracle Defense Battle and King’s Land deployment had sparked a frenzy of applications to become agents.

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Chen Li learned that Xu Zhao had summoned a chibi Golden Honkai-Moe King and left her with the Holy Grail, prompting him to track Xu Zhao down. He found her hiding outside New Penacony and knocked her unconscious after she mistook him for the summoned character.

  • Pixie told Chen Li that Xu Zhao had used Altair’s Worldview and a popular doujin to summon the chibi Golden Honkai-Moe King holding the Holy Grail.
  • Chen Li learned Xu Zhao had fled New Penacony without the summoned character, the Holy Grail, or her doujinshi.
  • Chen Li used his Slap Gloves to open a black hole and reach Xu Zhao in her hiding place.
  • Xu Zhao mistook Chen Li for the Golden Honkai-Moe King, and Chen Li revealed himself as the sentient notebook she had abandoned.
  • Chen Li struck Xu Zhao with the Falling Sakura Divine Axe, and she lost consciousness.

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Xu Zhao relived her disastrous Servant summoning, then fled New Penacony with the doujinshi that had summoned the chibi Golden Honkai-Moe King. After reaching her Lili News Agency in Duality Paradise, she was visited by a white-haired young man dressed like a mage.

  • Xu Zhao awoke just before her summoning, tried to stop it by removing the doujinshi, but summoned the chibi Golden Honkai-Moe King and received three Command Spells.
  • Xu Zhao grabbed the doujinshi, announced her escape on the livestream, and fled New Penacony, fearing the Miraculous Forger would see the summoning as an offense.
  • Xu Zhao used her Boundary Stone teleportation plan to travel through Pier Point and the Jade Palace Xianzhou before returning to Duality Paradise.
  • Xu Zhao checked the news and saw that her summoning had topped New Penacony's trending list.
  • A white-haired young man in white robes entered Lili News Agency, and Xu Zhao looked him over.

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Xu Zhao repeatedly died in a bizarre cycle after summoning the Golden Honkai-Moe King, as figures claiming to be the summoning materials attacked her over things she had failed to clean or wish for. After preparing for another visit and resigning herself to the cycle, she returned to Lili News Agency and learned the Golden Honkai-Moe King had come to give her a valuable card.

  • Xu Zhao was killed by a white-haired swordsman claiming to be the Summoning Circle, then woke back in the studio and cleaned the circle before fleeing.
  • A golden king claiming to be her landlord killed Xu Zhao for leaving the room dirty, so she reset and thoroughly cleaned the studio before escaping again.
  • A Black Grail attacked Xu Zhao after she failed to make a wish, swallowing her in Black Mud and sending her back to the start.
  • Xu Zhao ruled out an illusion by spending 1.8 billion Credits to see the Preservation Aeon, then took the notebook, cleaned the studio, and wished that the Golden Honkai-Moe King would not return.
  • Xu Zhao returned to Duality Paradise and visited a neighbor who would do anything for the right price before going back to Lili News Agency.
  • The Golden Honkai-Moe King appeared and told Xu Zhao it had come to award her a Honkai-Moe Black Gold Card, redeemable for any one Curio in New Penacony.

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Xu Zhao lost the Golden Honkai-Moe King and its black gold card when Undying Path swallowed them into the shadows, then woke to find Chen Li in a larger Golden Honkai-Moe King costume. She mistook the scene for a dream, removed Chen Li’s mascot head and crown, and left Undying Path confused as Old Bai tried to hurry him away.

  • The Golden Honkai-Moe King offered Xu Zhao a card redeemable for any Curio, but Undying Path appeared and swallowed both into the shadows before she could take it.
  • Xu Zhao collapsed in grief, fainted, and woke on the floor of the Lili News Agency beside a person-sized Golden Honkai-Moe King holding a manuscript.
  • Xu Zhao mistook Chen Li in the mascot costume for her summoned attendant, then relaxed when she decided she was still dreaming and searched him for the black gold card.
  • Undying Path arrived demanding the 1.8 billion Credits Xu Zhao had promised, and Xu Zhao pulled Chen Li’s crown and mascot head off while believing she was dreaming.
  • Old Bai saw Chen Li’s revealed face, urgently tried to drag Undying Path away, and heard him explain that Xu Zhao had hired him to take out a yellow mascot for 1.8 billion Credits.

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Xu Zhao discovered that the Golden Honkai-Moe King was Chen Li, the Miraculous Forger, and feared the consequences of having drawn doujins of him and wanting to be his mother. Undying Path accused Chen Li of being a fake, then learned Ternan had returned as a Heroic Spirit and began questioning how he had obtained the detective agency’s address.

  • Lao Bai recognized Chen Li and explained that the detective agency had received a letter and information about him from Ternan.
  • Chen Li took back his headpiece and warned Xu Zhao that he would not kill her unless she drew doujins of him or wanted to be his mother.
  • Undying Path pointed his cane at Chen Li and declared him a con artist because he believed Ternan was dead and the letter was forged.
  • Lao Bai and Chen Li agreed that Undying Path’s reasoning showed his head had been caught in a refrigerator door.
  • Undying Path offered Chen Li the detective agency’s services and tossed his business card, which Xu Zhao caught after Chen Li pulled her in front of himself.
  • Narrator confirmed that Ternan had returned as a Heroic Spirit, and Undying Path asked Chen Li how Ternan had learned the agency’s address.

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Chen Li watched Xu Zhao flee the newspaper office, but the Blank Manuscript generated a story showing the crushing deadlines and debts she faced outside the reincarnation. Xu Zhao returned to the office and confronted Chen Li about killing Memokeepers in Amphoreus.

  • Undying Path learned that Chen Li had helped the Galaxy Rangers defeat Phantylia and prepared to leave, but Chen Li said he had a commission for him.
  • Undying Path warned Chen Li that Xu Zhao was trying to escape, and Xu Zhao awkwardly abandoned her attempt before smashing through the window and running into the alley.
  • The Blank Manuscript generated a story in which Xu Zhao faced overdue work, lost her powers after leaving the reincarnation, and returned to it under the pressure of her deadlines.
  • Xu Zhao burst back into the newspaper office and demanded to know whether Chen Li had killed a group of Memokeepers in Amphoreus.

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Chen Li freed Xu Zhao from the Blank Manuscript’s loop and made her confront what had really happened, then negotiated with Undying Path over help with the meme Virus. The chapter ended with Xu Zhao eagerly asking to meet Cyrene after reading her script.

  • Chen Li dispelled the Blank Manuscript’s influence on Xu Zhao, but learned from Pixie that Xu Zhao’s claims about hiring gossiping Memokeepers were real.
  • Xu Zhao mistook Chen Li’s threat to help her recognize reality for an attack until he nearly struck her with a sword, then she read the Blank Manuscript and saw what had happened in the loop.
  • Undying Path asked whether Chen Li could reverse the meme Virus affecting the Galaxy Rangers, and Chen Li agreed he could if he chose to.
  • Chen Li asked Undying Path to join the Holy Grail War on New Penacony and slash any Servants he encountered, and Undying Path accepted.
  • After reading the manuscript, Xu Zhao excitedly asked Chen Li to introduce her to Cyrene, but Chen Li refused because Cyrene had work.

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Chen Li struck a contract with Undying Path to disrupt the Holy Grail War in exchange for curing the Galaxy Rangers’ meme Virus, then discovered the cure was already available. When Xu Zhao summoned the Golden Honkai-Moe King, its Holy Grail merged with Duality Paradise’s ley lines, forcing Chen Li to demand compensation as a counterfeit Holy Grail War began.

  • Chen Li contracted with Undying Path to meddle in the Holy Grail War, and the Narrator explained that King's Land and a Boundary Stone could cure the Galaxy Rangers’ meme Virus.
  • Undying Path learned that the cure and King's Land access were free, but Chen Li insisted that their contract still required him to tip the Holy Grail War in his favor.
  • Chen Li offered Undying Path a wish if he won the Holy Grail War, and Undying Path agreed to go to New Penacony.
  • Xu Zhao used a Command Spell to summon the Golden Honkai-Moe King, which dropped its Holy Grail through the newspaper office and into Duality Paradise’s ley lines.
  • Undying Path received a red Stigmata and became a Master in the Counterfeit Holy Grail War as Chen Li warned that the Holy Grail had merged with Duality Paradise.
  • Chen Li demanded that Xu Zhao compensate him for the powerful Holy Grail, then raised his estimate of its value to a wish-granting relic that might create a pseudo-Aeon.

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Chen Li spared Xu Zhao from repaying the Counterfeit Holy Grail debt with her life and assigned her a role in bringing New Penacony’s Heroic Spirits into conflict. As Chen Li and Xu Zhao discussed Duality Paradise and his identity, Undying Path arrived ready to leave for New Penacony, carrying a refrigerator.

  • Chen Li refused Xu Zhao’s offer to repay the Counterfeit Holy Grail debt by becoming his servant and threatened her with the Falling Sakura Divine Axe before sparing her.
  • Little Honkai-Moe asked Xu Zhao whether she was topping up crystals, and Chen Li told Xu Zhao that he would use his Destiny Drawing Board to intensify conflicts among the Heroic Spirits in New Penacony.
  • Chen Li told Xu Zhao that he was interested in turning Duality Paradise into material for a curio, and she recognized his resemblance to Sparkle’s rumored father.
  • Chen Li admitted that he was an underage ordinary human, leaving Xu Zhao worried that she could be accused of molesting him.
  • Undying Path kicked open the agency door, asked when they would leave for New Penacony, and appeared carrying a suitcase and a full-sized refrigerator.

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Chen Li released and reshaped Undying Path’s Shadow of Voracity, briefly unleashing an overwhelming aura that shook Duality Paradise before restoring the shadow to Undying Path under his control. Undying Path learned that Chen Li was closely connected to the Devouring Star God, while Xu Zhao explained that the deity could now be viewed for a fee in the Asdana System.

  • Undying Path asked Chen Li for an artifact to restrain the Shadow of Voracity, and Chen Li suggested that no shadow would rebel against its original body.
  • Chen Li removed the nails sealing the shadow, drew it into his hand, and shaped it into a black Honkai-Moe King as Undying Path suspected he was the Devouring Star God.
  • Chen Li shattered the shadow and released a vast aura of Voracity that disrupted Duality Paradise, alarmed Pearl, and caused Command Seals to appear on her hand.
  • A rift opened behind Chen Li and reconstituted the shadow before he stopped the surge and tossed the shadow back to Undying Path, who found it fully under his control.
  • Narrator and Xu Zhao told Undying Path that Chen Li was closely connected to the Devouring Star God, and Xu Zhao explained that people could pay to view the deity from orbit in the Asdana System.

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Chen Li explained that Undying Path’s power of Devouring had been strengthened, but warned him that the New Penacony Holy Grail War included formidable opponents such as the Lord of the Hunt and possibly other dead Aeons. He also revealed that Xu Zhao’s Servant needed the Holy Grail to reach its full strength, leaving her to find a way to win it back as the war approached its end.

  • Chen Li told Undying Path that Ouroboros had strengthened his power of Devouring, allowing him to use it without the former backlash.
  • Narrator revealed that Fu Xuan’s Servant was the Lord of the Hunt in her pre-Aeon form, and Chen Li implied that other dead Aeons might also be competing in the war.
  • Chen Li explained that the [Emperor's Proof] could suppress local Aeons’ Path powers, though Undying Path still doubted he could defeat them.
  • Chen Li told Xu Zhao that her Little Golden Honkai-Moe King could rival an Aeon with the Holy Grail, but the Grail had merged into Duality Paradise and would return only to the war’s final victor.
  • Xu Zhao recalled that overlapping Boundary Stones could spawn monsters, and Chen Li reassured her that the Holy Grail War would likely end before those monsters emerged.
  • Undying Path resigned himself to facing the war’s dangers, and Chen Li stood up to set off.

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Chen Li transported Duality Paradise to New Penacony and transformed its Phantom Moon Game into a Counterfeit Holy Grail War, offering the winner Miraculous Artifacts and the permanent authority of the Aeon of Joy. Later, Sparkle began livestreaming a tour of Origami University and was stunned when a familiar pink-haired woman appeared at its gate.

  • Xu Zhao proposed defeating Undying Path to reclaim the Counterfeit Holy Grail, but Chen Li explained that all Master slots were already filled.
  • Chen Li shrank Duality Paradise into a glass-ball-like world, announced the Counterfeit Holy Grail War, and promised its winner a Miraculous Artifact of their choice.
  • Pearl considered entering the war and asking the Miraculous Forger to create a Curio called “Art.”
  • Chen Li carried Duality Paradise through a Teleportation Gate and placed it in New Penacony’s sky, where the Phantom Moon offered the winner permanent authority as the Aeon of Joy.
  • Sparkle started livestreaming a tour of Origami University, saw that Chen Li had brought Duality Paradise to New Penacony, and then froze when a familiar pink-haired woman appeared at the school gate.

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Sparkle arrived at Origami University and was forced by student council president Krydrla to organize a graduation ceremony, while learning that the school’s unusual classes and counseling room were part of its brutal routine. Krydrla then led Sparkle toward the student council to find the Heroic Spirits she sought, with the Holy Grail War set to end in twenty-four hours.

  • Cyrene welcomed Sparkle to Origami University, where Sparkle discovered that Krydrla was the formidable student council president.
  • Krydrla assigned Sparkle responsibility for the university’s graduation ceremony, explaining that its classes took place in independent spaces with different rates of time.
  • Sparkle learned that Origami University had addressed student unrest by adding a psychological counseling room, whose teacher was an incinerator worker.
  • Krydrla warned Sparkle that the principal was the Miraculous Forger, and Sparkle urgently praised the principal after realizing her livestream had captured her complaints.
  • Krydrla told Sparkle to finish preparing the ceremony before noon and led her to the student council, where the Heroic Spirits were waiting.
  • Krydrla noted that only twenty-four hours remained until the Holy Grail War ended.

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Sparkle met Firefly, Origami University's designated Master, and tried to recruit her as a new Master while Firefly asked Sparkle to become her Servant. Sparkle instead convinced Firefly to become her adoptive mother, leaving the two embracing as Firefly accepted responsibility for her.

  • Sparkle announced a livestream lottery for limited Origami University visitor tickets and ended the morning stream.
  • Krydrla introduced Firefly as Origami University's designated Master and ordered Sparkle to submit twelve planning proposals before noon.
  • Firefly explained that Krydrla's Book of Caesar's Grudge could strip away the abilities of people who mocked her, so Sparkle quickly changed her defiant act into flattery.
  • Sparkle learned that Firefly was a Master in the All-People Entertainment Match, while Firefly asked Sparkle to become her Servant and revealed she had a Noble Phantasm that could sever a contract.
  • Sparkle pretended to seek a mother and persuaded Firefly to accept her as an adoptive daughter, and Firefly agreed to take responsibility for her.
Arc 55 of 65
Arc 55 of 65