Chapter Summaries

Aqua recruited Sirin into her cult and coached her on how to get closer to Chen Li, but Sirin abandoned the plan when she visited him and confessed her fear that her happiness was only a dream. Chen Li comforted her to sleep, and the next morning Little Herta found Sirin sharing his bed and teased her about her failed night raid.

• Aqua charged Sirin a Starstone to join the Aqusis Cult and offered advice on winning Chen Li over.
• Aqua advised Sirin to wait before asking Chen Li to draw her Stigmata and to show consideration for his fatigue.
• Sirin visited Chen Li at night, admitted she feared her happy life was unreal, and Chen Li held her and sang her to sleep.
• Sirin woke in Chen Li's bed beside him, and Little Herta pointed out whose room it was.
• Little Herta teased Sirin for allegedly planning a night raid, while Sirin claimed she had only meant to ask Chen Li to draw her Stigmata.

Sirin’s early-morning attempt to get closer to Chen Li was interrupted by Little Herta, who came to study the day’s Heaven’s Lost Property. Little Herta’s research went wrong, and after Chen Li threw her out, she tried to apologize by making him breakfast.

• Little Herta teased Sirin into kissing Chen Li, and Sirin left after giving him a quick kiss on the cheek.
• Little Herta told Chen Li she had come to observe Heaven’s Lost Property, then pounced on him as it arrived.
• After morning training, Sirin saw Chen Li throw Little Herta and a quiet bird out of his room.
• Little Herta asked Sirin how to apologize to Chen Li, so Sirin helped her prepare breakfast.
• Chen Li pushed away Little Herta’s charred breakfast, while Little Herta recalled that the bird’s data had overwhelmed her puppet body until Chen Li intervened.

Little Herta’s attempt to apologize to Chen Li was derailed by a Heaven’s Lost Property bird that broadcast her private thoughts, leading to an explosion and an awkward family gathering. After Great Herta logged into Little Herta’s doll, Chen Li examined the breakfast Little Herta made and discovered a new Chaos Recipe record.

• The bird revealed Little Herta’s fears about Chen Li, so she smashed it with a hammer and destroyed the dining table; when it reappeared, her attempt to destroy it caused an explosion that overturned the dining room.
• Houraisan Kaguya complained about losing her home and sleep, accepted 30 Starstones from Chen Li, and watched as Eternity restored the living room.
• Chen Li reassured Little Herta that he had never meant to kick her out and explained that he had moved her from danger because he lacked the memory to process information about her.
• Little Herta tried to change the subject, but the bird kept exposing her thoughts; she then activated remote doll automatic praise mode and invited Great Herta to log in.
• Great Herta learned that the bird had been reading Little Herta’s mind, while Sirin confronted her over the bird’s claim that she had secretly gotten a taste of Chen Li.
• Chen Li ate the breakfast Little Herta had prepared and noticed a new entry reading “Bizarre Chaos Recipe recorded: 1/5.”

Chen Li explained the time-traveling bird’s world-ending potential, fed it a Starstone, and considered which Flame-Chaser should fuse with it. Kiana then revealed she had accidentally launched Welt from the Second God Key, leaving Chen Li worried that his newly assembled idol band might disband before Welt returned.

• Chen Li explained that the bird’s echoes could eventually carry future voices into the past and disrupt the world’s timeline, then silenced it with a Starstone.
• Chen Li and the others discussed the bird’s abilities and considered fusing it with Eden, Cosmo, or Hua, while Sirin demanded Herta explain her conduct toward Chen Li.
• Kiana called Chen Li and explained that her Herrscher Core resonance had activated the Second God Key while Welt was inside it, launching him away.
• Chen Li worried that Welt might refuse to rejoin the idol group after returning, and asked Sirin for copies of the band’s rehearsal and debut videos.

Chen Li used Wish Granting to summon Welt, then sent him and Tesla away together after mistaking another summoned figure for Welt. He explained how Friends Circle let him borrow friends’ abilities and discussed earning Starstones through the Interastral Peace Corporation, before proposing daily rewards for group members and imagining Friends Circle’s future.

• Chen Li said Welt was probably in the Honkai: Star Rail world and found that the Interastral Peace Corporation had reserved the Slap Gloves for the Amber King.
• Chen Li gave Tesla Wish Granting, and she summoned a figure who used the Star of Eden before Chen Li sent him through a gap.
• Chen Li sent Tesla through the gap too, leaving her and Welt alone together.
• Chen Li explained that Friends Circle let him borrow abilities from friends with Exclusive Professions, and Kiana lamented how many Starstones everything required.
• After Great Herta warned Chen Li not to provoke the Aeons for Starstones, he proposed daily check-in rewards and envisioned Friends Circle recording and strengthening members’ abilities.

Chen Li and the others learned why Welt had never asked Herta for help, then discovered he was desperate to avoid returning to idol rehearsals. Welt fled Destiny Headquarters with Tesla as Chen Li suggested ways to erase the performance from public memory, and the chapter ended with Sparkle challenging Chen Li to a duel on the Xianzhou.

• Chen Li discussed strengthening the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals with Heaven's Lost Property and checked the progress of their Trait extraction.
• Welt explained that he had waited for Chen Li rather than seek Herta's help, and that the Astral Express had knocked away his Friends Circle Terminal when he arrived in this world.
• Amber summoned Welt to idol rehearsal, prompting him to ask Chen Li for a way to erase the Honkai-Moe Paradise Starter Trio performance from history.
• Chen Li proposed that Pardo and Prometheus No. 17 might help people forget the performance, and Welt planned to enlist Pardo and Ling to erase its videos.
• Welt took Tesla and escaped through a window, while Einstein explained that Welt Joyce's Resurrection Card still lacked its final fragment.
• Sparkle challenged Chen Li to a duel on the Xianzhou at system time 23:00, and Chen Li messaged Silver Wolf after recognizing the time as suspicious.

Chen Li postponed his match with Silver Wolf, then arrived at Destiny Headquarters and set out to find Mei after Kevin’s instant noodles failed to satisfy his search for bizarre recipes. The chapter left Kevin transformed into a small, cute creature as Chen Li prepared to continue his plans.

• Silver Wolf told Chen Li she could not attend their third match, then sent him an apologetic photo and recording as compensation.
• Chen Li borrowed Negative Artifacts from Herta and planned to stage a show for Sparkle.
• At Destiny Headquarters, Chen Li ate a bite of the sunrise, then caught Elysia and Great Herta as they descended from above.
• Kevin served Chen Li instant noodles, but Chen Li decided to seek Mei because Kevin’s cooking was too good for his bizarre-recipe hunt.
• Chen Li had Pardo throw Kevin to the ground, photographed him, and used the Moe Ying Body to transform him into a small, cute creature.

Chen Li and the others prepared to retrieve Mei and her World Bubble by sending Kevin, Kiana, and Houraisan Kaguya through the Second God Key. Afterward, Vill-V planned to build a new God Key, while Elysia discussed gaining an Exclusive Profession and Chen Li teased her.

• Kevin recovered from his distress over his idol debut, and Chen Li told him to focus on seeing Mei.
• Chen Li sent Kevin, Kiana, and Houraisan Kaguya through the Second God Key to retrieve Mei’s World Bubble, while Vill-V recorded its data.
• Vill-V revealed her Vill-V Stigmata and Exclusive Profession, Box of Foolish Play, and planned to use what she learned to create a better God Key.
• Elysia declined Chen Li’s offer to awaken an Exclusive Profession without a fusion, wanting to join the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals as a Fusion Warrior.
• Chen Li teased Elysia about her back and praised her flavor, leaving her amused but puzzled by his unusual compliments.

Chen Li opened his Miraculous Forging Guide to new commissions, but the publishers turned out to be Kyubey, Kino Shūyoshi, and an unnamed AI. After Pardo won the group’s gender-guessing pool, Chen Li explained Kyubey’s witch-making scheme and agreed with Elysia that it should be stopped.

• Elysia offered to add a Beautiful Girl Strategy Guide to her shop, and Chen Li made his Miraculous Forging Guide public to prove he attracted male clients.
• Pardo launched a Starstone betting poll about the genders of three new commission publishers: Kyubey, Kino Shūyoshi, and a mental-state management AI.
• Chen Li identified Kyubey as a genderless alien, Kino Shūyoshi’s gender as Shūyoshi, and the third publisher as an AI without a gender; Pardo won with her custom answer, “freedom.”
• Pardo kept her original Starstone and claimed thirty percent of the remaining prize pool, while Chen Li accepted the payout and praised her luck.
• Elysia asked Chen Li about Kyubey’s commission, and Chen Li explained that Kyubey manipulated girls into becoming Magical Girls and collected energy when they turned into witches.
• Elysia called for Kyubey to be killed, while Vill-V reminded Chen Li that his own Honkai-Moe Paradise already provided generous living and working conditions.

Chen Li tried to negotiate with Kyubey for a Miraculous Item, but Kyubey demanded the secret of creating Miracles, so Chen Li ended the call. He then planned to help the group earn Starstones by enhancing Friends Circle, while Vill-V proposed combining Kyubey with the Herrscher Core of the Thousand Herrschers.

• Chen Li and Vill-V discussed high costs, equipment losses, and a shortage of workers, while Elysia urged them to deal with Kyubey first.
• Chen Li called Kyubey and berated it into addressing him as Lord Miraculous Forger.
• Kyubey requested the technology for creating Miracles and converting them into Miracle Power, so Chen Li cut off the call.
• Chen Li proposed upgrading Friends Circle with a sharing or resonance trait so group members could earn Starstones, provided his own earnings remained unaffected and most of their Starstones went toward the Starsea Trove.
• Vill-V suggested combining Kyubey with the Herrscher Core of the Thousand Herrschers, and Chen Li excitedly praised her plan.

Chen Li negotiated with Kyubey for Grief Seeds, learned that Walpurgisnacht was attacking Mitakihara, and signed a contract to enter the Magical Girl world. He arrived as Homura Akemi faced Walpurgisnacht alone, then used Pardo’s Empty Dream ability to discard his side of the contract while leaving Kyubey bound to it.

• Chen Li rejected Kyubey’s initial compensation, accepted Grief Seeds as an apology, and refused to take the pure Grief Seeds from Magical Girls.
• Chen Li asked Kyubey about powerful witches, learned Walpurgisnacht had appeared in Mitakihara, and agreed to forge Miraculous Items in exchange for further compensation.
• Chen Li signed Kyubey’s contract and entered the Magical Girl world, where he found Homura Akemi still fighting and the other Magical Girls, including Madoka Kaname, down.
• Kyubey questioned Chen Li about the contract, and Chen Li used Pardo’s Empty Dream ability to discard his own obligations while leaving Kyubey bound.

Chen Li captured the Incubator civilization with Pardo’s help, then recruited Homura Akemi as his negotiator against Kyubey. Homura extracted a huge haul of Grief Seeds from Kyubey, but she suspected more could be gained and continued trying to make it cooperate.

• Chen Li and Pardo used a Miracle Crystal and an adaptive Poké Ball to capture the Incubator civilization, leaving Kyubey’s collective consciousness trapped and giving Chen access to its traits.
• Chen Li approached Homura Akemi during her time stop and left her a business card that followed her into the next time loop.
• Chen Li made Homura his agent and had her negotiate with Kyubey, while he watched from nearby with Pardo.
• Homura forced Kyubey to gather 999 Grief Seeds from Magical Girls across the world, but the negotiation earned only an S rating and she believed Kyubey still had more value.
• Homura repeatedly killed and revived the captured Kyubey while demanding advice on exploiting the other Kyubeys, and Chen suggested its loyalty had fallen too low to cooperate.

Chen Li recruited Homura Akemi to capture Kyubey across repeated time loops, and Pardo successfully secured another Incubator for him. Homura began a new loop with the Forging Guide while Chen Li’s livestream drew a crowd, until a message revealed that Kiana needed help stabilizing a World Bubble.

• Chen Li gave Homura Akemi Starstones and sent Pardo with Soul Steel gear to capture Kyubey again, while discussing whether anyone should fuse with it.
• Aqua proposed fusing Otto with Kyubey and using Otto as a sacrifice to boost Theresa’s efficiency, prompting Chen Li to consider the idea but remain cautious.
• Chen Li received 4,000 Starstones after Pardo successfully captured another Incubator with a Soul Steel Poké Ball and one Miracle Crystal.
• Homura Akemi reset the cycle, took the Miraculous Forging Guide, and began negotiating with Kyubey again while Chen Li watched her livestream.
• Group members debated why Homura was helping Chen Li for free, and Spring Spirit called Houraisan Kaguya to help because Kiana could no longer hold a World Bubble in place.

Homura Akemi and Pardo tricked Kyubey into surrendering its home planet, while Kiana and the others returned from their mission and Dr. Mei prepared a disastrous meal. Homura restarted the loop to keep pursuing a perfect negotiation score, but Chen Li tried to stop her before Pardo was led further astray.

• Homura Akemi revealed that Kyubey had surrendered its home planet to make a Poké Ball, and Pardo set off to reclaim her 1,300 Starstones.
• Kiana returned with Houraisan Kaguya, Kevin, Mei, and Prometheus No. 17, then Kiana and Houraisan Kaguya each pretended to die to get Starstones from Chen Li.
• Spring Spirit took over Kiana's body and curled up in Chen Li's arms while Chen Li caught up with Kevin, Mei, and Prometheus No. 17.
• Chen Li gave Kyubey to Dr. Mei to cook, and she served a pitch-black braised dish that he recorded as a Bizarre Recipe.
• Homura Akemi returned with Pardo after recovering her Starstones from Kyubey, then restarted the loop to pursue an SSS rating.
• Chen Li tried to dissuade Homura Akemi from scamming Kyubey again because Pardo seemed increasingly eager to join in.

Chen Li arranged for Homura Akemi to keep exploiting Kyubey in exchange for the Miraculous Items she and Madoka needed, then recruited Yakumo Yukari to enter the SAO death game and turn it into a real world. He planned to make Kayaba Akihiko fuse with Kyubey so the man responsible for the players’ deaths could revive them.

• Chen Li and Homura Akemi disagreed over payment, then agreed that Kyubey’s gains would fund Miraculous Items for Homura Akemi and Madoka while Homura continued exploiting Kyubey the next day.
• Chen Li summoned Yakumo Yukari and offered her one thousand Starstones to rescue the SAO players and transform the virtual game into a real world.
• Yakumo Yukari and Chen Li entered the game through Yui, who let them in because she wanted the players’ mental states restored.
• Yakumo Yukari praised Kayaba Akihiko’s work on SAO, while Chen Li revealed his plan to fuse him with Kyubey and make him revive the players he had killed.

Chen Li and Yakumo Yukari entered the Sword Art Online game world to test whether its monsters and rewards could be made real. Yakumo killed Kirito and promised to revive him with the Revival Match, leaving Klein charging toward them as they considered taking his life too.

• Yakumo Yukari agreed to try using the Boundary of Fantasy and Reality to turn the game's monsters real and integrate its system with the group members' professions.
• Yakumo Yukari stole the kill on Zombie Santa Claus with an abandoned train, then took its treasure chest and gave Kirito the resurrection drop.
• Kirito learned that the Crystal could revive only someone who had died within ten seconds, confirming he could not use it to revive Sachi.
• Yakumo Yukari took Kirito's Crystal, offered to fulfill his wish in exchange for his life, and Chen Li stopped her from demanding an invalid payment.
• Yakumo Yukari killed Kirito, gave him the Revival Match card, and told him to watch the resurrection advertisement before logging back into the game.
• Klein rushed toward Yakumo Yukari after Kirito died, and she swallowed him in a spatial gap while Chen Li identified him as Kirito's friend.

Yakumo Yukari used the Boundary of Fantasy and Reality to revive SAO players and bring some of their game powers into reality, spending her life force in the process. She survived her staged deaths, negotiated raises with Chen Li, and ended up accepting a pay cut to get an embarrassing video deleted.

• Yakumo Yukari realized Kirito had not returned because the helmet that had killed him might also have been damaged, so she repaired it and sent him back into SAO.
• Yakumo Yukari and Chen Li repeatedly revived and killed players, collecting Destiny Treasure Chests while Kayaba Akihiko was beaten and restrained.
• Yakumo Yukari used the Boundary of Fantasy and Reality to restore Kirito and Asuna’s powers in reality for ninety-nine years, then extended weaker, temporary powers to other players.
• Yakumo Yukari pretended to die after demanding a raise, but Chen Li exposed the act, and she continued bargaining for more Starstones.
• Yakumo Yukari staged another death and asked for a raise, but Chen Li brought Yuyuko to officiate their wedding, startling her into another fake death.
• Yakumo Yukari agreed to a twenty-percent pay cut after Chen Li offered to delete the video of her performances.

Chen Li helped Yakumo Yukari complete Aincrad by using a Limit Break trait to strengthen her boundary power, and the hundred-floor world descended into reality. Afterward, Yakumo Yukari began dragging a dignitary into Aincrad.

• Chen Li had Ling safely send every player out of the Game World while Yakumo Yukari prepared to turn Aincrad into reality.
• Yakumo Yukari struggled to complete Aincrad, which remained 1% short despite her repeated deaths and use of boundary power.
• Great Herta appraised the problem and told Yakumo Yukari that her boundary ability lacked the quality needed to make game rules into world rules.
• Chen Li lent Yakumo Yukari his Limit Break trait, and Great Herta appraised it as sufficient for a successful breakthrough.
• Yakumo Yukari used the Boundary Between Illusion and Reality, and Aincrad crossed into the real world.
• Yakumo Yukari dragged a heavily guarded dignitary up Aincrad’s white staircase as the castle began taking him away.

Chen Li and Yakumo Yukari turned Aincrad into a real world and began capturing red-name players for judgment and punishment. After delegating Aincrad’s management to Kayaba Akihiko, Chen Li returned to forging Miraculous Items, made Kino Shūyoshi a magnetic-field bracelet, and ended the day at the Gong Zao Division.

• Chen Li and Yakumo Yukari used Aincrad to capture red-name players, and a new Underworld trait formed from the world’s view of their actions.
• Chen Li appointed Kayaba Akihiko to manage Aincrad, judge captured players, and make them earn Redemption Tickets by fighting monsters.
• Chen Li announced that people could summon Sky Castle to report criminals, while warning against false accusations.
• Chen Li read Kayaba Akihiko’s thoughts and realized that his punishment as Aincrad’s tireless administrator had become a severe burden.
• Chen Li checked his Reputation, forged a Magnetic Field Rotation bracelet for Kino Shūyoshi, and delivered it in exchange for Crystals and a Shūyoshi trait necktie.
• Pardo asked Chen Li for help at the Gong Zao Division, and he demanded half the ticket money before the employees dispersed.

Chen Li met Acheron on the Xianzhou while preparing for his duel with Sparkle, who had disguised herself as Acheron to make him miss the match. After reuniting with the real Acheron in the Invitation Space, he learned she had been searching for him and planned to visit Cocolia before joining him.

• Chen Li forged at the Gong Zao Division while Pardo collected admission fees, then headed toward his agreed duel with Sparkle.
• Chen Li and Pardo met Acheron, and Chen Li invited her for a drink while sending Pardo ahead to the training ground.
• Sparkle, disguised as Acheron, used the Aeon of Joy's power to stall Chen Li, but the real Acheron appeared in the Invitation Space and confronted her.
• Sparkle claimed the Revival Match and challenged Acheron, who attacked her with black rain.
• Acheron told Chen Li she had been looking for him but had gotten lost and wanted to visit Cocolia before leaving that world.
• Chen Li gave Acheron a Friends Circle Terminal so they could stay in contact, and Acheron pulled him close as their time together ended.