Chapter Summaries

Chen Li prepared Firefly for battle against the Aeons and turned Gofei Mu into an army of copies to fight the insect swarm and search Penacony. He then confronted the Aeons, while Aha sensed danger and fled.

• Mimi arrived too late to enter the instance and angrily protested being left behind.
• Chen Li gave Firefly powerful buffs and a rewindable layer to preserve her peak condition during the battle.
• At Gofei Mu’s request, Chen Li chopped him into fragments and used the Fictional Historian card to restore them into countless copies.
• Chen Li ordered the Gofei Mu army to resist the insect swarm, search Penacony, and retreat when finished.
• Chen Li turned to face the Aeons and announced he had come to send them on their final journey.
• Aha sensed danger and fled into the heavens.

Chen Li used [God Must Die] to hunt down the fleeing Aeons inside the golden shield, while Firefly unleashed Sam’s stacked artifacts against the Propagation Swarm. The Aeons remained trapped with Chen Li as Firefly’s bombardment continued across Penacony.

• Aha fled from Chen Li, but [God Must Die] teleported Chen Li behind him and forced him to attack Aha.
• Aha revealed that he had supplied Sparkle with the scripts and props for the previous night, enraging Chen Li, then fled toward The Erudition for help.
• The Erudition’s fear effect forced it to turn and flee, allowing Chen Li to appear behind it and attack with his chainsaws.
• Firefly activated [Scorched Earth Variation], used her stacked layers to trigger Infinite Re-action, and charged the Propagation Swarm in her Sam armor.
• Firefly’s meteor-like attacks devastated the Swarm as the golden shield trapped Chen Li and five Aeons together, allowing him to keep attacking them.

Chen Li and Firefly overwhelmed the Aeons and the Swarm while AR-214 watched and documented the battle. Chen Li killed Xipe, The Erudition, and Hoo, then approached Aha, who begged to be the last to die.

• AR-214 watched Chen Li and Firefly rout the enemies and took a photograph of Chen Li fighting the Aeons.
• Xipe embraced Chen Li to assimilate him into Harmony, but his overwhelming spiritual divinity burst her apart.
• Chen Li used [Great Wisdom Foolishness] to stall The Erudition until its Bleed stacks killed it.
• Hoo struck the Friends Circle shield for half an hour before Chen Li stabbed him with [Kingslayer]; Hoo died cursing the Gatekeeper as an amateur.
• Chen Li turned toward Aha, who asked miserably why he could not be the last Aeon to die.

Chen Li defeated the remaining Aeons in the instance and collected Fuli’s recorded memories as a Light Cone. After reuniting with Firefly and helping her leave with AR-214, he promised to find her, while Firefly interpreted his Sam-related gift as a proposal; the battered instance gatekeeper revealed it could not surrender during its first six hours.

• Chen Li saw through Aha’s fake death, mutilated his corpse until he truly vanished, and then demanded a copy of Fuli’s recorded memories.
• Fuli gave Chen Li a Memory Light Cone, then hanged herself in a fit of anger, leaving the instance’s battlefield silent.
• Chen Li met Firefly and AR-214 among Penacony’s ruins and directed them toward the exit, where he had piled up loot for Firefly to take out.
• Chen Li reclaimed Gofei Mu’s Imaginary Value, causing his countless clones to disintegrate, after explaining that dying in the instance would not prevent him from reviving outside it.
• Chen Li promised Firefly he would find her and gave her the Sam Transformation Device as a token; Firefly blushed and left the instance believing it signified marital shared property.
• Chen Li left the instance and vowed to settle the score with Aha, while the gatekeeper explained that it had been unable to surrender during the instance’s first six hours.

After returning from the instance dungeon, Chen Li discovered Firefly’s wish had accelerated Origami University’s opening and led to a mission about answering her mistaken summoning. He gave the school’s opening speech in costume, then spotted Firefly arriving late at the auditorium.

• Chen Li soothed Mimi with a memory Light Cone fragment and received a mission to descend at Firefly’s secret base near Origami University at 10 PM.
• Aha told Chen Li to prepare a speech for Origami University’s opening ceremony, and Chen Li realized Firefly’s wish had brought the opening forward.
• Chen Li delivered the opening speech in his Golden Honkai-Moe King mascot costume while the university’s unusual teachers and survival-based curriculum were introduced.
• Firefly arrived late at the auditorium in her school uniform, and Stelle noticed her entering.

Firefly arrived late to Origami University’s opening ceremony, gave her freshman speech, and learned that the school’s three-day graduation challenge involved earning Credits and surviving. After Aha introduced a mysterious school assignment, Firefly was placed in the Courage and Power Academy, joining Stelle, Silver Wolf, and AR-214.

• Firefly slipped into the auditorium beside Stelle, Silver Wolf, and AR-214, then was called onstage to give her speech as the outstanding freshman representative.
• Chen Li gave Firefly a one-thousand-word self-criticism for arriving late, while Firefly hid her Command Seals and delivered her speech.
• Aha announced Origami University’s three-day survival challenge, its Credit requirements, and a reward of one year’s use of the Miraculous Item Joyful Judgment for the top student.
• Aha began assigning students to one of four academies with the Mimi hat, and Firefly silently asked to join Courage and Power.
• The Mimi hat recognized Firefly’s courage and assigned her to Courage and Power, where Stelle, Silver Wolf, and AR-214 had already been placed.

At Origami University’s opening ceremony, Chen Li warned the teachers that students’ Credits could be used to control them, then Kayneth’s call to teach without reservation inspired Himeko and Raiden Ei to prepare coffee and food for their students. Chen Li worried about the students’ well-being and rejected Aha’s suggestion that Sparkle become the school counselor.

• Aha tricked the students into thinking they could not eat the food, then Chen Li confronted Aha about Sparkle’s props from the previous night.
• Chen Li told the teachers that students with negative Credits would be expelled and suggested using students as a resource, while Kayneth objected and was misrepresented over the auditorium sound system.
• Kayneth urged the teachers to teach students real skills, prompting Himeko to leave early to prepare special coffee for her class.
• Raiden Ei was inspired by Kayneth and teleported away to make Inazuman food for her students, alarming Chen Li.
• Chen Li worried that students would need psychological support, while Aha recommended Sparkle or SP Sparkle as a counselor.

Origami University debated who should counsel its students, and Gofei Mu recommended Dahlia, a former Flowing Light Memory Court member and Cremator. Chen Li agreed to give her a chance, while Black Swan eagerly offered to accompany him; Silver Wolf then interrupted their conversation.

• Robin urged Aha to stop disparaging Origami University, and Aha agreed.
• Black Swan volunteered to counsel the students, but Chen Li refused because he worried she would inspect their memories.
• Gofei Mu recommended Dahlia, and Black Swan objected before reluctantly accepting Chen Li's decision to invite her.
• Black Swan asked to accompany Chen Li and borrow the Slap Gloves, while Chen Li suspected she wanted to use Propagation on Dahlia.
• Silver Wolf tapped Chen Li's shoulder, then kicked him in the knee when he failed to notice her behind him.

Silver Wolf interrupted Chen Li and Black Swan’s discussion about capturing Dahlia, explaining that Firefly’s wish had turned the world into a school-life script, though Miraculous Items let some people recognize what had happened. After Silver Wolf planned a separate kids’ table, Black Swan asked her to create a MOD that could transfer Miracle Card effects between memetic creatures.

• Silver Wolf kicked Chen Li, then asked him for Mom’s Tablecloth while pretending to stay in character for Firefly’s truth-or-dare bet.
• Silver Wolf told Black Swan that Firefly had changed the world and that people with Miraculous Items could sense the script, while most of their acquaintances played along.
• Silver Wolf took the tablecloth to make ordinary food and announced a kids’ table, then barred Yakumo Yukari from joining.
• Black Swan asked Silver Wolf to privately customize a MOD that could store Miracle Card effects and transfer them to other memetic creatures through feeding.

Black Swan hired Silver Wolf to make an eighty-Starstone custom MOD for Dahlia, framing it as a way to give an old friend an unforgettable gift. At the school feast, Silver Wolf secured a separate table for the group, and Chen Li joined them in his mascot suit, where Stelle immediately demanded that he toast them.

• Black Swan insisted that Silver Wolf charge her for a custom MOD and offered eighty Starstones, then used a Covenant Gold Coin to bind the agreement.
• Silver Wolf returned to Firefly and the others, who praised her and persuaded her to ask Chen Li for a separate table.
• Silver Wolf arranged a small table labeled [Kids' Table] in the grand hall for Firefly, Stelle, March 7th, Dan Heng, AR-214, and herself.
• Chen Li arrived in a King of the Honkai Beast mascot suit and claimed the teachers had sent him to the kids' table for refusing to drink.
• Stelle crossed her arms and demanded that Chen Li toast the group, leaving Firefly horrified.

Chen Li hosted Firefly and her friends, assigned them to Himeko and Raiden Ei’s classes, and learned that Stelle had obtained Misha’s inheritance. Stelle revealed that she had hidden Mimi in her eye, and Chen Li agreed to give her a Miraculous Item.

• Chen Li toasted with Firefly and the others, then assigned them to attend Himeko and Raiden Ei’s classes or lose Credits.
• Stelle showed Chen Li the inherited top hat and explained that she had hidden Mimi, the Memory Zone Meme [What Faces Death], in her eye.
• [What Faces Death] attacked Chen Li, but Mimi stopped it and sent it back into Stelle’s eye.
• Chen Li deducted five points from Courage and Power Academy for Stelle’s stunt, then said he would restore the points later.
• Stelle hugged Chen Li’s arm and asked him for a Miraculous Item, and Chen Li agreed.

Chen Li assigned Stelle a bartender job and collected Silver Wolf’s memory-altering capsules for Black Swan. Black Swan revealed she wanted the [Propagation] Miracle Card to make Dahlia loyal to Chen Li, then warned that Dahlia was more troublesome than he expected.

• Chen Li made Stelle Origami University’s official bartender, lending her a cocktail-shaker Miraculous Item and offering Credits for positive teacher reviews.
• Silver Wolf finished ten one-use capsules that could transmit a meme lifeform’s altered state, and Chen Li agreed to give her five Credits and consider a Credit Exchange Store.
• Firefly told Silver Wolf she had an important reason for needing to become an Outstanding Graduate but refused to explain it.
• Chen Li delivered the capsules to Black Swan, who said she wanted the [Propagation] Miracle Card to make Constance forever loyal to him.
• Black Swan admitted she had glimpsed Chen Li’s memories and warned him that Dahlia was more troublesome than he imagined.

Chen Li and Black Swan chose Miracle Cards to influence Dahlia, including a dangerous card that Black Swan wanted to experience herself. Black Swan entered the card’s memory and returned apparently unaffected, leaving Chen Li relieved but wary.

• Black Swan selected eight vicious Miracle Cards for Dahlia, including [Thirteen Arbiter-Generals], while Chen Li questioned her choices.
• Black Swan requested [Mentally Ill Girls Want to Fall in Love Too] so its influence could be used on Dahlia, and proposed entering it herself as material.
• Chen Li used [Fictional Historian] to temporarily restore the Miracle Card to its state before it had been forged into a Miraculous Item.
• Black Swan touched the card and entered its recorded memory, eager to experience it as a Memokeeper.
• Black Swan emerged with her clothes disheveled but showed no yandere behavior, and Chen Li sighed with relief after she joked that he was not irresistible to everyone.

Chen Li used capsules to remove the escalating effects of two Miracle Cards on Black Swan, whose jealousy and seduction both surfaced under their influence. Black Swan then asked Chen Li to use [Fictional Historian] so she could see what he was like as a child, and Chen Li demanded to know her real reason.

• Chen Li canceled the Jingliu Miracle Card and warned Black Swan that its faint influence would likely have little effect on Dahlia.
• Black Swan tried the card’s influence, became jealous and obsessive over Chen Li, and threatened other women before he forced her to swallow a capsule.
• Black Swan recovered and agreed to try the [Propagation] Miracle Card, but afterward she dodged Chen Li’s attempt to give her another capsule and clung to him.
• Chen Li held Black Swan still and asked what wish she wanted to make; she requested that he use [Fictional Historian] to show her his childhood.
• Black Swan said she wanted to understand Chen Li’s childhood vulnerability and hold the helpless child he had once been, prompting him to demand the truth.

Chen Li helped Black Swan recover from her fantasies, prepared to take her to confront Dahlia, and promised Pardo a custom Miraculous Item if she behaved as a teacher. When Pardo reported that Acheron was missing, Chen Li set out to look for her while Black Swan took the Slap Gloves to deal with Dahlia herself.

• Black Swan confessed that she wanted to see Chen Li helpless as a child, and Chen Li used a blue capsule to put an end to her fantasy.
• Chen Li warned Pardo not to accept bribes or sell Credits as a teacher, then promised to forge her a Miraculous Item if she caused no major trouble over the next three days.
• Pardo told Chen Li that Acheron had never reached the main auditorium, and Chen Li renamed her course from Field Survey and Trajectory Planning to Life Planning and Direction Guidance.
• Pardo admitted that she and Aventurine had bet on whether Acheron had gotten lost on campus or off it, so Chen Li agreed to search for her.
• Chen Li gave Black Swan the Slap Gloves, and she declared that she could handle Dahlia with the help of her Miraculous Item, Goose Palm Brushing Clear Waves.

Chen Li found Acheron in an alley in Penacony, where Dahlia was pretending to be dead after Acheron had apparently attacked her. Acheron explained that she had mistaken Penacony for New Penacony while trying to reach Origami University, and the chapter ended with Chen Li warning her that she might be implicated in a crime involving Dahlia.

• Chen Li used projected Slap Gloves to sandwich bread around Acheron's face, then noticed a ghostfire woman lying behind her in a dark alley.
• Black Swan looked through the black hole and recognized Dahlia crawling toward the exit, but concealed what she had seen as Dahlia silently returned to pretending to be dead.
• Acheron explained that she had entered the wrong world while trying to reach Origami University, and Chen Li realized she had forgotten the ceremony and the changes to her world.
• Black Swan asked why Dahlia was in the alley, and Acheron said she had found her there and assumed she was performing avant-garde art.
• Chen Li warned Acheron that Dahlia's apparent attack could lead a judge to find her guilty, especially because Acheron had once killed Dahlia's father.

Chen Li tested Dahlia, who pretended to be dead, by feeding her an Inspiration Mushroom that made memoria feel suffocating to her. Dahlia clung to Chen Li in panic until he activated Minor Refund and recovered the mushroom.

• Chen Li exposed Dahlia's attempt to play dead by prying open her eye and declaring that she could still be saved.
• Chen Li summoned The Erudition, took its Inspiration Mushroom, and fed it to Dahlia.
• Dahlia began choking as the memoria around her felt poisonous, then grabbed Chen Li and clung to him for help.
• Acheron drew her Imperial Edict Blade when Dahlia embraced Chen Li, and Chen Li used Minor Refund to retrieve the mushroom, restoring Dahlia's comfort around memoria.

Dahlia became fascinated with Chen Li after his power unexpectedly thrilled and calmed her, but Acheron intervened when Dahlia clung to him. After Dahlia swallowed the trace of Acheron’s slash and revealed that a pink-haired girl had marked her, Acheron realized Dahlia had led her to the alley.

• Dahlia clung to Chen Li after his Inspiration Mushroom triggered pleasure and a soothing sense of security in her.
• Dahlia became intent on capturing and keeping Chen Li, while Black Swan grew furious that her planned training scenario had gone awry.
• Acheron drew a slash of nothingness between Dahlia and Chen Li, and Dahlia swallowed its lingering mark to erase a memory mark left by a pink-haired girl.
• Dahlia thanked Acheron and explained that the pink-haired girl had pursued her and marked her location, while Chen Li suspected he knew who the girl was.
• Acheron recognized that Dahlia had led her into the alley, an arrival caused by her Character Card’s ability to bring her to people she knew just before their deaths.

Dahlia tried to escape Cyrene by clinging to Acheron and offering to help win Chen Li, but Cyrene confronted her with a Covenant Gold Coin. Chen Li questioned what Cyrene had contracted with the coin, while Dahlia remained unaware of the danger.

• Dahlia asked Chen Li his name and declared she might become his lover, wife, or mother.
• Dahlia challenged Acheron, then recognized Cyrene and grabbed Acheron's leg, begging her to be her foster mother.
• Dahlia offered to help Acheron win Chen Li, but Cyrene teased Chen Li about flirting and Dahlia realized they were close.
• Cyrene demanded that Dahlia return her erased mark, then showed her a glowing Covenant Gold Coin.
• Black Swan explained the coin's significance, and Chen Li wondered which of Dahlia's statements Cyrene had made a contract over.
• Chen Li argued that Dahlia deserved a choice, while Dahlia asked what they meant by agreeing or disagreeing.

Cyrene tracked Dahlia down in Penacony and offered her a contract to help Acheron win over Chen Li, while Dahlia suspected Cyrene of plotting to claim her power and then discovered Chen Li was the Miraculous Forger. The chapter left Dahlia weighing the contract after Black Swan warned her that signing would trap her in a miserable life.

• Cyrene found Dahlia hiding behind Acheron and offered her a contract to become Acheron's adoptive daughter and help her win Chen Li's affection.
• Dahlia suspected Cyrene planned to take her power and accused her of scheming to add both Acheron and Chen Li to her harem.
• Cyrene transformed into Primordial Respected Hero, and Chen Li defended her with an extravagant string of compliments.
• Dahlia examined the contract and asked Black Swan for advice, learning that Chen Li was the Miraculous Forger.
• Black Swan urged Dahlia not to sign and warned that the contract would be an inescapable hell for someone who valued freedom.