Bai Mei

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Bai Mei (白玫) 23
Alias(es)	Child of the Stars; Seed of Humanity; “ultimate weapon”; lock core; Specimen γ-00000 23 24 25 31
Species/Race	Clone; engineered bio-quantum entity derived from Horikita Suzune’s cells and Kiyotaka’s quantum state 25
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Executor of the New Era Protocol alongside Horikita Suzune 25
Occupation/Role	Carrier of the Mother Code and Primal Seed; defender of the Star Ring and later a multiversal rebel against pruning systems 31 32
Status	Merged with an ancient existence in a mycelial form; later documented as a quantum phantom 36
First Appearance	Chapter 23: Child of the Stars

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Clone boy	23	Manipulates suspended nanites into a constellation map and detects an approaching deep-space signal beyond the Star Ring’s instruments.
Child of the Stars	23	Horikita’s memories are used as the cradle for his reformatted consciousness. He restructures nanite swarms into a giant white-rose tree, destroys the Mirror fleet, and converts hostile swarms into lilies.
Stardust-cloaked youth	24	Returns to Earth after ten years as a youth with starlight-filled eyes and a Stardust Cloak; reality rewriting has left cracks in his body and caused causal backlash across timelines.
Seed of Humanity	25	After confronting Tsukishiro at the Bronze Giant Gate, Horikita’s spirit fragments enter his body. Bai Mei and Horikita become the designated executors of the New Era Protocol.
Black Seed bearer	26	Receives the black seed, crystallized from the resentment of sacrificed universes, and uses the Stardust Cloak’s accumulated energy to fight the Crown of Thorns and Tsukishiro.
Quantum-fragment state	27	Rejects Tsukishiro’s offer to become the god of a new cycle; his quantum fragments begin re-forming as one hundred thousand fluorescent clones awaken.
Stardust Core	28	Forms a blade from his Stardust Core to strike the Eye of the Observer. He later drives the Pruning Shears into the Core to make all things “grow wild.”
Sentient desert wildflower	30	Re-emerges as a poisonous wildflower with roots, vines, petals, thorns, and fluorescent blue venom capable of dissolving an interstellar exploration team.
Mother Code carrier	31	Releases Horikita’s Mother Code to override hostile wildflowers and injects venom into a higher civilization’s dimensional core, paralyzing its observation network.
Primal Seed carrier	32	Merges the Mother Code with the Primal Seed inside the Primal Bonsai, triggering its self-destruct sequence and escaping as stardust in a newborn nebula.
Quantum twin / Twin God	33 35	Entangles with the Ancient Existence’s embryo as twin fetuses, then becomes part of the Twin Gods used to corrupt the Reapers’ ultimate weapon and collapse their Star-patterned Hall.
Mycelial phantom	36	Appears after completely merging with the ancient existence, questioning Horikita’s use of the Fungal Brain to overwrite cruel truths with fairy tales.

Background / History

Bai Mei first appears as a small clone boy living within the Star Ring. He possesses an instinctive affinity for nanite swarms, using them to draw a constellation map and identify an approaching signal that the Ring’s monitoring system cannot detect. The children around him call him “Bai Mei.” 23

His initial power strains his body severely: silver-white patterns bleed across his skin, his genetic chain approaches collapse, and nanites visibly struggle inside his veins. To save him during the Mirror Universe fleet’s attack, Horikita orders the Nirvana Protocol. His original consciousness is formatted, while her own memories become the foundation for his reconstructed mind. He emerges from the resulting white-rose tree as the Child of the Stars. 23

Bai Mei later learns that his existence was designed rather than accidental. He is described as Tsukishiro’s lock core for γ-000, a being imprisoned through the entropy of countless timelines; each alteration Bai Mei makes to universal laws weakens γ-000’s restraints. Tsukishiro also identifies Bai Mei as an engineered weapon made from Horikita’s cells and Kiyotaka’s quantum state. 24 25

Further revelations complicate this origin. Mirror Horikita states that Bai Mei’s genetic source is the fusion of the shattered souls of two mothers, while another record describes a sealed embryo combining Tsukishiro’s mechanical core with Kiyotaka’s quantum fragments. 26 30

Appearance

Bai Mei’s appearance changes repeatedly with his transformations, but white flowers, starlight, and silver-white markings remain recurring motifs.

• Initially appears as a small clone boy with silver-white patterns across his body. 23
• After the Nirvana Protocol, he emerges in a youthful body with a cloak of stardust and silver-white starlight in his pupils. 23 24
• Reality-restructuring backlash leaves visible cracks on his fingertips, later spreading across his Stardust Cloak and body. 24
• As a sentient wildflower, he develops roots, vines, petals, elongated thorns, and fluorescent blue venom. 30
• In his later quantum state, his body becomes stardust, a scythe, a cocooned twin fetus, and eventually a mycelial phantom. 32 33 36

Personality

Bai Mei consistently rejects the role others assign to him. Though created as a weapon, vessel, lock core, or potential god, he chooses to define himself through protection, freedom, and resistance to imposed order. He refuses Tsukishiro’s offer to become the god of a new cycle, declaring instead that he will become “the first sinner to break the cycle.” 25 27

He is deeply attached to Horikita Suzune, whom he calls “Mom” through inherited genetic memories. Even after learning that their relationship was engineered and that she may not be his biological mother, he continues to fight to recover her spirit and protect her across successive timelines. 23 25

His compassion extends even to enemies and damaged worlds. After defeating the Mirror fleet, he restores the Mirror Horikita’s nanites into white lilies and tells her that her world deserves to bloom. 23

Abilities & Skills

Nanite Affinity and Stellar Perception

Bai Mei can interact directly with nanite swarms and perceive signals inaccessible to ordinary monitoring systems.

• Shapes suspended nanites into constellation maps. 23
• Detects a deep-space transmission through the nanite map before the Star Ring identifies it. 23
• Causes the Mirror Horikita’s nanite swarm to react violently merely by touching her hologram. 23
• Converts hostile nanites into flowers after becoming the Child of the Stars. 23

Reality Restructuring

His reconstructed genetic chain can alter laws, materials, and large-scale systems.

• Condenses the Silver Sea’s nanites into a giant tree bearing ten thousand white roses. 23
• Restructures the laws of the universe during the Mirror fleet’s assault. 23
• Causes nanite swarms in Mirror Universes to begin constructing gardens rather than weapons. 23
• Alters the Klein Bottle Totems’ operation alongside Horikita during the Final Protocol, allowing previously pruned branches to grow wildly. 28

Stardust Manipulation

Bai Mei’s stardust forms function as both body and weapon.

• Uses the Stardust Cloak as protection and a vessel for Horikita’s spirit. 24 26
• Wields the Stardust Dagger in battles against γ-000, Tsukishiro, and the Crown of Thorns. 24 25 26
• Reorganizes his Stardust Core into a blade capable of piercing the Eye of the Observer. 28
• Exists as floating stardust after the Primal Bonsai’s destruction, with each particle described as a poem of civilization. 32

Botanical Physiology and Venom

After becoming a desert wildflower, Bai Mei gains plant-based offensive and infiltrative abilities.

• Produces fluorescent blue venom that dissolves an interstellar exploration team. 30
• Extends thorns, roots, and vines across cosmic distances. 30
• Uses roots to release the Mother Code from the Mother Flower’s core. 31
• Injects venom into a higher civilization’s dimensional core, temporarily paralyzing its observation network. 31
• Corrupts enemy scythes with venom, turning them into serpentine weapons against their wielders. 32

Mother Code and Primal Seed

Bai Mei carries codes sought by higher civilizations because of their capacity to overturn control systems.

• Releases the Mother Code to stop hostile wildflowers and remove their Star-Patterned Masks. 31
• Uses the Mother Code to free imprisoned Gardener consciousnesses. 31
• Merges with the Primal Seed, initiating the Primal Bonsai’s self-destruct sequence. 32
• His power repeatedly endangers his body: genetic collapse, causal backlash, cracking quantum forms, and self-annihilation accompany major uses of his abilities. 23 24 28 32

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Stardust Cloak — A stardust garment that later carries Horikita’s spirit and the energy of multiple universes. 24 26
• Stardust Dagger — His principal early weapon; used against γ-000, Tsukishiro, and the Crown of Thorns. 24 25 26
• Silver Ring — A keepsake left by Mirror Horikita that projects star maps, disrupts the Twin Tribunal, and is later used against the black-seed tree. 26 27
• Pruning Shears — A god-slaying weapon Bai Mei uses to annihilate his own Stardust Core and break the pruning cycle. 28

Relationships

• Horikita Suzune — Mother figure and the source of Bai Mei’s reconstructed consciousness. He calls her “Mom,” while she repeatedly sacrifices memories, body, and consciousness to protect him. 23 24 26
• Mirror Horikita Suzune — Initially an enemy commanding the Mirror fleet; Bai Mei defeats her without destroying her and urges her to return home. A later mirror version becomes the host of Tsukishiro’s Crown of Thorns. 23 26
• Tsukishiro — Creator, manipulator, and primary adversary. Tsukishiro calls Bai Mei his ultimate weapon and reveals that Bai Mei was designed as γ-000’s lock core. 24 25
• Kiyotaka — A central component of Bai Mei’s origin through Kiyotaka’s quantum state. Kiyotaka’s fragments, clones, and legacy repeatedly shape Bai Mei’s fate. 25 30 31
• Hirata Yosuke — Ally and investigator who helps uncover Bai Mei’s origins, supports the Nirvana Protocol, and repeatedly sacrifices his swarm-based existence to aid Bai Mei. 23 24 27
• Lantern Keeper — A Kiyotaka clone who initially allies with Bai Mei to save Horikita’s spirit, but later attempts to drain Bai Mei’s Mother Code while corrupted by the ancient existence. 25 32
• γ-000 — The Causal Entropy Entity for whom Bai Mei serves as a lock core. Their connection places Bai Mei at the center of the Void Tide crisis. 24
• Ancient Existence / Primal Gardener — A higher-order entity with whom Bai Mei eventually merges, becoming one half of a twin embryonic existence. 32 33 35

Story Role / Major Arcs

Child of the Stars

Bai Mei is introduced as a fragile clone boy whose nanite affinity alerts the Star Ring to an approaching Mirror Universe threat. His genetic collapse forces Horikita to activate the Nirvana Protocol, sacrificing her memories to rebuild his consciousness. Reborn as the Child of the Stars, he destroys the invading fleet and transforms weaponized nanites into gardens. 23

Ten-Year Promise and the Void Tide

After promising to return to Earth once every ten years, Bai Mei reappears as a stardust-cloaked youth. His previous interventions have destabilized causal equilibrium, creating the Void Tide. He discovers that he is γ-000’s lock core, while Horikita sacrifices herself to prevent him from committing god-slaying and to reverse the collapse. 24

Seed of Humanity

Guided by Horikita’s spirit, Bai Mei travels to the Bronze Giant Gate and confronts the Lantern Keeper and Tsukishiro. He learns that his perceived maternal bond may have been designed as a control mechanism, but chooses Horikita regardless. Their spirits unite within the Blue Rose Tree, and the New Era Protocol names them the Seed of Humanity’s executors. 25

Crown of Thorns and the New Sprouts

Bai Mei battles a mirror version of Horikita controlled by Tsukishiro’s Crown of Thorns. He accepts the black seed’s power, defeats the Crown, and inherits the responsibility of resisting the order Tsukishiro embedded in Rose energy. He is later put on trial by the Twin Tribunal and rejects the offer to become the next god of order. 26 27

Rebellion Against the Gardeners

As higher civilizations begin pruning universes, Bai Mei attacks the Eye of the Observer and helps activate the Final Protocol. He uses the Pruning Shears on himself to end the cycle in which sowers become tyrants, then reverse-compiles creation laws through his own annihilation. 28 29

Primal Seed and Twin Gods

Reborn as a wildflower, Bai Mei exposes the higher civilization’s control systems through the Mother Code and venom. He merges with the Primal Seed to destroy the Primal Bonsai, then becomes quantum-entangled with the Ancient Existence’s embryo. As part of the Twin Gods, he ultimately helps turn the Reapers’ weapon against them. 30 32 33 35

Notable Quotes

“What you fear isn't the variables... it's the ‘love’ we possess.” 23

“Mom, I dreamed I turned into a dandelion, flying past so, so many stars...” 23

“I choose... to be the first sinner to break the cycle.” 27

“This time... let all things grow wild.” 28

“You only dare to sow fear using puppets.” 32