Chapter Summaries

After Sandrone was resurrected, she used the Numerology Array to confirm that one Moon Sister had survived, then discovered Alain’s final legacy had given her a second chance. She learned that a Star’s Wedge had triggered the legacy and explained its connection to the Third Descender.

• Sandrone awoke with her core badly damaged, found Pronia unable to restart, and activated the Numerology Array using her remaining functions.
• Sandrone searched for how many Moon Sisters had survived and learned that one remained, confirming that Columbina had returned.
• Columbina hugged Sandrone, who protested that she was being too affectionate, while the others reacted to their reunion.
• Sandrone wondered what had restarted her core, found Alain’s embedded message, and recognized his legacy as the source of her second chance.
• Sandrone discovered a Star’s Wedge on the table and explained to Paimon that its manifestation had activated Alain’s legacy and that Star’s Wedges were linked to the Third Descender.

Sandrone explained how she survived, discovered Alain’s inheritance, and used a fishing license to search for their submerged former home. She left the Traveler with the hope that Alain’s remaining gifts might explain her restarted core and the Star’s Wedge.

• Qian Renxue asked Dori why Vision holders did not oppress ordinary people, and Dori attributed it to their convictions and the presence of stronger beings, including gods.
• Sandrone told the Traveler that she had rebuilt herself using Pronia’s remaining formulas and Numerology Array, but Pronia could not be repaired.
• Sandrone explained that Alain had left her an inheritance and other items at their former home, which might help her understand her core and the Star’s Wedge.
• Sandrone said the home was underwater and that Fontaine’s laws barred unauthorized excavation, so she searched for it under the guise of fishing with a license obtained as Guillotin.
• Qian Daoliu decided to improve the Spirit Hall system and purge its parasites after asking the Angel God for permission.

Citlali waited anxiously while Traveler and Paimon spoke with Sandrone, then learned that Sandrone was a Fatui Harbinger and would often go underwater with Traveler. Citlali accepted Sandrone’s honesty but grew jealous at the thought of their trips together.

• Citlali paced outside the reception room, worrying that Traveler and Sandrone had been talking for too long, while Mavuika and the Sky Screen audience heard her thoughts.
• Traveler and Paimon explained that Sandrone had agreed to let Xavier film on the ship when she was away, and Xavier promised to keep her presence secret.
• Sandrone revealed to Columbina that she had avoided her because her damaged core and unstable program needed repairs before she could meet others again.
• Sandrone told Citlali that she was a Fatui Harbinger and offered to keep Citlali’s room on the ship, explaining that she and Traveler would often go underwater together.
• Citlali accepted Sandrone’s explanation but privately grumbled that nobody cared about Grandma’s mental state, as observers recognized her jealousy over Traveler.

The Sky Screen showed Rosalyne’s complicated relationship with her disciple Odette, including Rosalyne’s hidden affection and their unresolved parting. After the scene stirred grief among the viewers, the Traveler and Sandrone set out for the Beryl Region to find Alain.

• Rosalyne welcomed young Odette as her disciple and proudly told Arlecchino that the girl’s stubbornness reminded her of herself.
• Rosalyne harshly criticized Odette’s training but secretly punished the instructor for kicking her too hard.
• Rosalyne watched Odette dance and hid the medical kit she had brought, while Odette accused her of not deserving to see her perform.
• Rosalyne prepared to attend Odette’s theater performance in Inazuma, but died before she could go, leaving Odette’s dancing interrupted by thunder.
• Dori urged Qian Renxue to cherish what she had before it was lost.
• Sandrone led the Traveler toward Alain’s secluded hideout beneath the waters of the Beryl Region.

The Traveler and Sandrone explored Fontaine’s changed terrain before Sandrone stayed behind to reflect on Alain’s legacy. Back aboard the Vigneire, the group watched Charlotte and Chevreuse film a detective scene, and the Traveler and Paimon greeted them afterward.

• Sandrone thanked the Traveler for helping investigate Fontaine’s submerged terrain, then asked to walk around alone while the Traveler and Paimon returned to the ship.
• Sandrone wondered what inheritance Alain had left for her, while Columbina watched and teased her about avoiding a movie together.
• Charlotte filmed a detective scene with Chevreuse, and director Lepine-Pauline approved the take.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing discussed movie-making with Layla and wondered whether they could try filming themselves.
• The Traveler and Paimon greeted Charlotte and Chevreuse and asked whether Charlotte’s crew had invited Chevreuse to film.

The Traveler joined Xavier’s film crew as chief lighting cameraperson for a movie starring Columbina, while Charlotte described the production to the group. The Sky Screen then introduced a new story, “God's Children All Dance,” leaving Ye Lingling and Yanzi uneasy about its eerie opening.

• Chiori explained that the film was based on Columbina and asked her to act as herself, while Xavier invited the Traveler to serve as chief lighting cameraperson.
• Xavier gave Paimon the clapperboard from The Two Musketeers, and the crew headed to the deck to prepare for filming.
• Charlotte told the Traveler that Navia and Emilie would also appear in the film and joked about competing for the Furina Award.
• Qian Renxue and Dori discussed Furina’s lasting popularity and the prestige of the Furina Award in Fontaine.
• The Sky Screen showed a gray-and-white image of a burning flame and introduced “God's Children All Dance,” prompting Ye Lingling and Yanzi to fear another tragic story about children.

The Sky Screen revealed how Enkanomiya’s nobles used the Children of the Sun to rule the White Night Kingdom and secretly burned them alive when they became difficult to control. On The Moon, Ouyang Kong summoned Raiden Ei, Yae Miko, and Sangonomiya Kokomi, while the Sky Screen began showing Orobashi’s arrival in the White Night Kingdom.

• The Sky Screen showed Aberaku being condemned by the Children of the Sun after he challenged the nobles’ rule and was imprisoned atop Dainichi Mikoshi.
• The nobles manipulated the Children of the Sun, stole the people’s tributes, and arranged Sun-return Ceremonies to burn children who began thinking for themselves.
• Layla explained to Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ning Rongrong that the nobles had fabricated the sun god and used Phaethon children to maintain power in the abandoned White Night Kingdom.
• Ouyang Kong summoned Raiden Ei, Yae Miko, and Sangonomiya Kokomi, who joined Nahida, Focalors, Zhongli, Rosalyne, and Mavuika on The Moon.
• The Sky Screen showed Orobashi entering the White Night Kingdom, and Kokomi and Raiden Ei recognized the great serpent.

The Sky Screen recounted Orobashi’s sacrifice to save the people of the White Night Kingdom, while Ouyang Kong secretly reunited the resurrected serpent with Kokomi. After the story ended, the Traveler’s group began filming Furina’s movie Homecoming.

• Orobashi led the people of the White Night Kingdom to overthrow the Children of the Sun and later agreed to die so they could return to the surface and live in Inazuma.
• Orobashi provoked a war by killing Sasayuri, and Raiden Ei killed him with a strike that split Yashiori Island.
• Raiden Makoto, Sasayuri, Torachiyo, and Kitsune Saiguu reunited with Raiden Ei, while Ouyang Kong secretly gave the shrunken Orobashi to Kokomi.
• Kokomi thanked Orobashi for his sacrifices, and Raiden Ei chose not to pursue her grudge against him.
• Xavier announced the start of filming Homecoming, and Furina organized the crew as the Traveler prepared the lighting.

Columbina filmed a scene that seemed to stir a real memory, while Ei discovered she could not remember what had happened to her Gnosis and listened as Greater Lord Rukkhadevata explained Irminsul. Days later, the Traveler, Paimon, and Sandrone collected underwater samples to locate Sandrone’s former home, then returned to admire the aquarium aboard the Vigneire as they awaited the instrument’s results.

• Furina directed Columbina’s scene, and Columbina sensed Sandrone’s presence before filming continued.
• Ei realized she did not know where her Gnosis was, and Greater Lord Rukkhadevata began explaining Irminsul to her and the others.
• Sandrone told the Traveler and Paimon she had narrowed down the possible location of her former home and needed samples to identify it precisely.
• The Traveler, Paimon, and Sandrone collected samples underwater and returned to the Vigneire through its side hatch to avoid the film crew.
• The Traveler, Paimon, and Sandrone visited the aquarium beneath the ship and recognized creatures they had caught on their first dive.

The Traveler and Paimon’s conversation about appreciating happy memories helped Qian Renxue and Dori reflect on seeing the good side of things, while Bibi Dong rejected the idea. After Sandrone was hurried into hiding during the delayed filming, the Sky Screen introduced Scaramouche’s mini-theater and left Greater Lord Rukkhadevata ready to watch.

• The Traveler told Sandrone that the memories and accomplishments gained while decorating the temporary aquarium would remain even after it disappeared.
• Qian Renxue took Dori’s advice to focus on the good side of things, while imprisoned Bibi Dong bitterly questioned whether her suffering could have any good side.
• Citlali warned the Traveler and Paimon that the film crew was returning, but Sandrone had to hide in a box when Furina’s crew arrived before she could escape.
• Furina let Lepine-Pauline’s crew film in the aquarium first, and the Traveler and Paimon offered to help finish the work sooner.
• Greater Lord Rukkhadevata discussed Scaramouche with Raiden Shogun and the others, then the Sky Screen announced his mini-theater.

A parody on the Sky Screen showed Scaramouche rescuing versions of himself from Dottore, then the three Scaramouches stumbled through a desert trap and a room that required them to make up. The video ended with Balladeer wishing away his troubles, briefly making Scaramouche and Kunikuzushi disappear before the wish was undone.

• Dottore offered Scaramouche a chance to rescue kidnapped versions of himself, and Scaramouche paid two coins to free Balladeer and Kunikuzushi.
• Scaramouche nearly strangled Balladeer after Balladeer insulted him, but let him go when he was warned that Balladeer's death would make Scaramouche disappear too.
• Kunikuzushi activated a desert mechanism and trapped the three of them, then used Scaramouche's head to dent the exit door.
• Nahida told the three they could leave once they made up, and Balladeer claimed they were best friends before wishing for all his troubles to disappear.
• Scaramouche and Kunikuzushi began to vanish, but Balladeer took back his wish, and Scaramouche grabbed him by the throat again.

The Sky Screen showed Scaramouche’s parody video ending, then began filming aboard the Vigneire, where Sandrone was trapped in a crate and revisited a conversation with Alain about whether machines could have hearts. The shoot continued with Sandrone growing increasingly irritated as Navia repeatedly struck and leaned on the crate.

• Scaramouche, the Balladeer, and Kunikuzushi imagined violent ways to punish Dottore until Nahida ended the video and gave them their reward.
• Dori joked with Qian Renxue about selling Dottore as a punching bag, while Sandrone, Columbina, and Rosalyne discussed ways to torment him.
• Lumine used Scaramouche’s Mora to buy alternate Scaramouche merchandise from Dottore, prompting Scaramouche to grab and shake her.
• Raiden Makoto urged Ei to visit Scaramouche, but Ei chose to wait until she knew what she would say.
• The Sky Screen began showing the Vigneire film shoot, where Charlotte and Navia’s lines reminded Sandrone of Alain’s thoughts about hearts and free will.
• Navia struck and leaned against Sandrone’s crate, leaving Sandrone furious at being trapped inside it.

Sandrone endured a long filming session while Columbina acted out a scene that echoed their bond. After filming ended, Sandrone joined the Traveler and Paimon in Fontaine’s underwater world to investigate Alain’s inheritance at her former home.

• Lepine-Pauline approved the long aquarium scene, and Furina began filming the next scene with Columbina.
• Columbina spoke about a fish that stood apart from the storm, while Sandrone touched her box door and silently mirrored her gesture.
• Columbina opened the wrong box when she thought she heard Sandrone, and Furina continued filming without a reshoot.
• Furina’s crew finished filming, and Sandrone stepped out of the box opposite the one Columbina had opened.
• The Traveler, Paimon, and Sandrone arrived at Sandrone’s former home in Fontaine’s underwater world to examine Alain’s inheritance.

Sandrone brought the Traveler and Paimon to her former home, where she recalled her peaceful life with Alain and Pronia. As they explored the cottage, she shared memories tied to its toys, manuscripts, photograph, and workbench while searching for Alain’s legacy.

• Sandrone activated the hideaway’s waterproof mechanisms, and the Traveler and Paimon entered the cottage and its still-blooming garden.
• Sandrone recalled taking Alain and Pronia outside and described the warmth of their former life together.
• Sandrone accepted her old notes from the Traveler and asked the group to explore while she searched for Alain’s legacy.
• The Traveler tried a mathematical gear puzzle, and Sandrone solved it while remembering playing it with Alain and Pronia.
• Sandrone explained that Alain regretted failing to stop Rene when they were friends at the Fontaine Research Institute.
• Sandrone showed the group Alain’s manuscripts and workbench, where she and Pronia had been born and where Alain taught her about machinery.

The Sky Screen showed a cautionary skit in which Dottore’s careless wish made Pantalone obsessively cling to him, and Sandrone’s wish made Columbina seem terrifyingly attached to her. It left the story beneath a strange red moon as Pantalone returned to normal and Dottore and Pantalone wondered what was happening.

• The Sky Screen showed Dottore break a Wish Willow Twig after wishing that Pantalone would spend money only on him and never leave him.
• Pantalone became obsessed with Dottore, demanded that Dottore keep his money for himself, and followed him everywhere.
• Dottore asked Sandrone to use another Wish Willow branch to undo the wish, but Sandrone wished that Columbina would fall in love with her.
• Columbina began appearing ominously around Sandrone, while Arlecchino remarked that Columbina seemed unusually clingy with her.
• The Sky Screen showed a red moon with a huge eye as Pantalone returned to normal and he and Dottore called the scene creepy.

Sandrone and Columbina revealed that Columbina had pretended to be distorted to cling to Sandrone, then Sandrone, the Traveler, and Paimon searched Alain’s old cabin for his inheritance. They found a hidden box containing a Multidimensional Solid Equation Core and personal keepsakes, including a childhood photo and Sandrone’s embarrassing old draft.

• Sandrone discovered that Columbina’s wish had changed nothing, and Columbina admitted she had only pretended to be distorted so she could cling to Sandrone.
• Columbina transformed into her bizarre form to startle Sandrone, then confessed that she, Arlecchino, and Rosalyne had found the prank amusing.
• Sandrone described how Alain’s illness had forced her to remove the mechanical piano from their cabin before leading the Traveler and Paimon to his untouched belongings.
• Sandrone opened a hidden compartment in Alain’s room and found a box containing a letter, miscellaneous keepsakes, and a Multidimensional Solid Equation Core.
• Paimon read a note in which Sandrone had named herself the Clockwork Princess of Universal Deconstruction, and Sandrone blushed and rushed to stop her.

Sandrone read Alain's letter, which explained his belief that people must consciously choose their lives and left her an equation to understand the contradictions in her heart. She decided to use it to confront the Fallacy within her core and invited the others to watch.

• Sandrone denied writing the embarrassing nickname on the page before reading Alain's letter to Pronia.
• Alain's letter told Sandrone that he regarded her as a person with a real heart and had left her an equation to help her understand her soul and face the Fallacy within her.
• Raiden Ei praised Alain's mechanical creation of The Puppet, while Kitsune Saiguu questioned Ei's pursuit of eternity.
• Sandrone said she had understood the equation and chose to use it to resolve the Fallacy within her core.
• Sandrone explained that her Fallacy came from past contradictions and emotions suppressed by logical algorithms, then invited the others to watch her confront it.

Sandrone entered a constructed inner space to confront the fallacy within her, while Raiden Ei reflected on her own five-hundred-year struggle against herself. The mirror-Sandrone showed Sandrone memories of her life with Alain and suggested that their peaceful days had ended only at the beginning of a larger tragedy.

• Yae Miko explained that Raiden Ei had fought herself for five hundred years, and Ei agreed that confronting one's inner self was dangerous.
• Sandrone used a Numerology Array to let the Traveler and Paimon experience what she saw and heard as witnesses.
• Sandrone entered a space of gears, stars, mirrors, and void, where a mirror version identified itself as the fallacy contradicting her calculations.
• The mirror showed Sandrone meeting Alain, receiving a notebook, and learning that recording memories could help shape her soul.
• Sandrone recalled sharing coffee with Alain, and the memories prompted her to smile as Columbina asked about her fondness for coffee.
• The fallacy said it had expected their peaceful days to last forever, then insisted that their ending was only the beginning.

Sandrone revisited memories of the Fatui tea parties, Columbina’s farewell, and Pronia’s destruction while confronting the Fallacy within her. The Fallacy challenged her to say what she would do with it, and Sandrone faced the question of whether she would imprison it again.

• Sandrone recalled how the Fatui gathered at her tea parties, where Tartaglia, Capitano, Rosalyne, Arlecchino, and Columbina joined her.
• Sandrone learned that Tartaglia had inherited Capitano’s legacy and become Snezhnaya’s military representative, often clashing with Pantalone.
• Sandrone remembered Columbina leaving and regretted not asking her to stay, while the Fallacy questioned her habit of suppressing her feelings.
• Sandrone reflected on Pronia’s irreparable destruction and the losses that had severed her ties to the past.
• The Fallacy asked whether Sandrone would imprison it again, and Sandrone prepared to answer.

The Sky Screen paused its account of Sandrone’s inner Fallacy and showed a comic pony skit before presenting a parody of Apep and Neuvillette sharing tea with Kakuku and Lumine. Apep denied that the tea mishap had really happened as Sonnet teased her.

• The Sky Screen reassured viewers that the story would not end sadly, then showed Pony Columbina and Pony Sandrone tricking Pony Pantalone during an argument over tomato prices.
• Sandrone laughed at the pony skit and said she wanted to trick the real Pantalone, while Arlecchino and Rosalyne worried that Dottore might also be resurrected in that world.
• Mavuika admired the pony designs, and Citlali speculated that a pony version of the Tsaritsa might appear next.
• The Sky Screen showed Apep and Neuvillette arguing over a teapot before Kakuku and Lumine joined them for tea.
• Kakuku’s droppings ruined the tea and Neuvillette’s pot, prompting Sonnet to laugh and Apep to insist the scene was only a parody.