Chapter Summaries

Su Jue defeated Raiden Mei twice, then told her that his organization had come to protect Kiana. As World Serpent prepared a Honkai Bomb to trigger the Stigmata Project in Sky City, Kiana learned of the plan and spent two hours rescuing civilians, leaving her exhausted and under attack.

• Su Jue defeated Raiden Mei in two duels, and she agreed to help after he told her his organization was protecting Kiana.
• Alvit overheard Jackal and Raven discussing World Serpent's plan to use a bomb at the signal tower, then passed the warning to Rita and Kiana.
• Kiana learned that World Serpent planned to activate the Stigmata Project and began investigating while struggling to keep the Herrscher of Void from awakening.
• Jackal started the Honkai Bomb's four-hour countdown, and explosions erupted across Sky City to distract Kiana and endanger civilians.
• Kiana saved people throughout the city with Fu Hua's help, but two hours of nonstop rescue work left her exhausted and exposed to grenades fired by a patrol mech.

Kiana and Mei reunited and raced to stop the Honkai Bomb in Sky City, while Su Jue secretly secured the bomb and World Serpent triggered a Honkai outbreak to advance its Stigma Plan. As the crisis escalated, Kiana turned back toward the hospital to find Su Jue.

• Mei deflected Raven’s sniper shot and reunited with Kiana, but Kiana refused to return to the Hyperion yet.
• Kiana and Mei worked together against World Serpent’s mecha forces, and Mei identified the signal tower as the bomb’s likely location.
• At the signal tower, Su Jue contained the Honkai Bomb’s energy after Himeko pleaded with him to help save the city.
• World Serpent unleashed a Honkai outbreak and revealed that the Stigma Plan’s countdown had only about half an hour remaining.
• Kiana caught Mei when she nearly fell from the monorail tracks, then sensed the bomb activating during the outbreak and headed back toward the hospital to find Su Jue.

Kiana chose to stop the Honkai bomb while asking Mei to rescue Su Jue and the hospital victims, and Mei accepted before heading back. As Honkai Beasts spread through Sky City, Su Jue’s allies rescued civilians and promoted Kiana as the city’s savior, while Kiana approached the signal tower as the countdown neared its end.

• Kiana told Mei that Su Jue was important to her, then asked Mei to help stop the outbreak and save him while she went to the signal tower; Mei agreed and ran toward the hospital.
• Mei received a call from Su Jue’s organization, which said its members were rescuing civilians and asked her to bring Kiana back safely; Mei dismissed the warning and continued on.
• Himeko and Su Jue’s other puppets fought Honkai Beasts across Sky City, rescued civilians, and encouraged children to support Magical Girl Kiana.
• Kiana reached the signal tower and learned that using the Herrscher of Void’s power could detonate the unstable bomb, so she prepared to approach it on foot.
• A beam from the tower drew the city’s attention as Kiana appeared in her magical-girl form, and Su Jue resolved to make everyone recognize her as their true savior.

Kiana fought through World Serpent’s mech blockade and raced to the signal tower to disable the Honkai Bomb, but it activated and she carried it into the sky to protect Sky City. Su Jue revealed that he had secretly delayed the bomb’s detonation to give Kiana time to act, and watched as she struggled to lift it high enough to spare the city.

• Otto learned that World Serpent had helped spread information about the Honkai and dismissed Rita’s speculation about Kiana.
• Kiana destroyed the mechs guarding the signal tower, while Su Jue prevented Himeko from intervening and sent her back to the Theater of Domination.
• Kiana crossed the panicked city and reached the rooftop, where she opened the Honkai Bomb’s locking mechanism as her body and mind succumbed to Honkai erosion.
• A mysterious gray-eyed figure appeared beside Kiana, and the bomb activated; Kiana summoned the Herrscher of Void’s power, absorbed its energy, and carried it into the sky.
• Su Jue revealed that he had suppressed the bomb’s activation to give Kiana time to act, while Kiana struggled to raise it above the altitude needed to protect Sky City.

Kiana pushed the Honkai Bomb high above Sky City and absorbed the blast’s energy herself, falling unconscious as Su Jue protected her mind in a Theater of Domination. As Schicksal moved to capture Kiana, Mei and Rita rushed toward her fall site while Himeko intercepted Rita and the Kiana Organization’s forces attacked the Blade of Immortality.

• Kiana reached the edge of her strength, but Himeko appeared in her conscious space, comforted her, and helped her release her guilt.
• Kiana used her final strength to send the Honkai Bomb upward, then absorbed the energy aimed at the city and fell from the sky with Su Jue.
• Durandal arrived in Sky City, while Mei hurried toward the meteor’s landing site after receiving a warning that Schicksal intended to capture Kiana.
• Su Jue revealed that he had controlled the bomb’s detonation and built a Theater of Domination to protect the sleeping Kiana while drawing on her Herrscher powers.
• Himeko confronted Rita as she headed toward Kiana, and unidentified attackers bearing the Kiana Mark struck members of the Blade of Immortality.

Su Jue revealed himself as the one holding the unconscious Kiana and fought Durandal atop the burning Tree of Creation. As the clash intensified, he declared that Kiana belonged to him and pressed his attack while protecting her.

• Alvit reported that Griseo was blocking the Blade of Immortality, and Durandal told her team to wait while she handled the mission.
• Durandal caught the unconscious Kiana with a giant tree created by the Black Abyss White Flower, then defeated Mei when she tried to stop her.
• Kiana’s followers gathered and welcomed her as their queen as flames ignited the tree and spread across Sky City.
• Durandal reached Kiana and found Su Jue holding her; he identified himself as Kiana and cut apart the flames with a greatsword.
• Su Jue fought Durandal with the power of the Herrscher of Flames, insisting that Kiana belonged to him while keeping her in his arms.

Su Jue fought Durandal while staging a controlled display of strength, but took a serious wound when she attacked Kiana. As Kiana awoke from dreams of Su Jue and a vision of a devastated world, a familiar voice told her she had witnessed the sign of a Herrscher’s awakening.

• Su Jue struck Durandal down with a blazing sword and kept the battle within limits to announce Qian Jue without drawing the world’s hostility.
• Durandal used the Self-Driving Phantom Spirit as a decoy, but Su Jue counterattacked and wounded her.
• Durandal attacked Kiana with the Black Abyss White Flower, and Su Jue took the lance through his torso to protect her.
• Kiana’s consciousness stirred as her dreams revealed memories of Su Jue and her life as the cat Tread Snow.
• Kiana awoke in the collapsing Theater of Domination, saw a vision of a despairing Su Jue amid a ruined world, and heard a familiar voice identify it as a Herrscher’s awakening.

Kiana awakened within her mindscape, learned that Su Jue’s memories showed he had become a Herrscher during the Great Honkai she caused, and used their lingering connection to heal him. Su Jue escaped Schicksal’s assault on Sky City, while Kiana was carried away and Mei joined the Kiana Organization; he ended the chapter facing the arriving Valkyries after devastating their fleet.

• Sirin taunted Kiana with the truth that Kiana had caused Su Jue’s Herrscher awakening, and Kiana imprisoned her in a dark room before recognizing Su Jue’s memories in the unraveling theater threads.
• Kiana grabbed Su Jue’s threads and used the Serenity Gem to heal him, causing him to realize her consciousness had awakened and sever their connection.
• Su Jue revealed his true strength with a colossal flaming greatsword as Schicksal forces arrived, while Tread Snow carried Kiana away and Thousand Calamities took Mei toward the Kiana Organization.
• Su Jue’s immense strike split the sky and crippled much of Schicksal’s fleet, then he distorted the remaining energy-weapon attacks and secretly stored damaged warships in the Theater of Domination.
• Su Jue launched a second strike at the remaining warships and watched Valkyries descend toward Sky City.

Su Jue fought Durandal and Schicksal’s forces while Kiana and Mei escaped, and Kiana struggled with Su Jue’s apparent connection to Himeko. After Sky City was left in ruins, Su Jue manipulated events from the Imaginary Space, while Mei received disguises and Honkai energy inhibitors for Kiana.

• Durandal returned in astral armor and clashed with Su Jue as Schicksal’s forces pursued Kiana and Tread Snow.
• Kiana broke through her mental confinement, saved Mei from an aerial attack, and saw Su Jue fighting in the sky.
• Kiana watched Su Jue appear to be struck down, while Mei restrained her from returning to the battle and Benares carried them away.
• Tread Snow returned to Su Jue, and Himeko acknowledged him as a Herrscher after seeing him continue fighting.
• Survivors woke in the ruins of Sky City as Su Jue manipulated puppets in the Imaginary Space.
• Jian Yun gave Mei disguises and Honkai energy inhibitors, and warned her to protect Kiana.

Mei joined Kiana Organization, learned the extent of its losses, and resolved to carry on the fallen members’ sacrifices without letting Kiana know. Su Jue reviewed the gains from his plan while a new scene introduced Greene, an exhausted programmer who finally left work on time for a date.

• Jian Yun gave Mei a communication phone and explained that Thousand Calamities and many attendants had died in Sky City.
• Mei used the phone to read the casualty list, found that twelve-year-old Griseo had fallen, and decided to keep the sacrifices secret from Kiana.
• Mei applied the organization’s patches to Kiana, easing her Honkai erosion, then browsed the Kiana forum and its operation report.
• Su Jue reviewed how he had recruited Mei, shaped Kiana’s public image, and planned to exploit Sky City’s destruction while developing his forces and businesses.
• Greene stayed overnight fixing bugs, thought about proposing to his girlfriend, and left work at the end of the day despite his supervisor arriving with more tasks.