Recaps

Hoshino and Ch'en hunted down Mephisto's infected followers, killing them during stopped time and removing their bodies before they could spread Originium contamination. Nightmare discovered one of the corpses and became curious about the pair, while Hoshino continued after a third target and added Mephisto to her death list.

• Hoshino threw the first infected follower's body to Ch'en and rushed toward the second target, while Ch'en planned to have her officers cremate the corpse.
• Hoshino stopped time on the roller coaster track, prayed for the infected man, and shot him in the head before Ch'en helped carry away his body.
• The roller coaster completed its ride safely, and Ch'en hid the body bag in a public restroom stall and called her officers to collect it.
• Nightmare secretly followed the pair, found the corpse in the restroom, and wondered about its peaceful expression and the strange events she had witnessed.
• Hoshino stopped time again to kill a third infected follower emerging from a sewer, then added Mephisto to her death list.

Nightmare tracked Hoshino and Ch'en after noticing their strange ability to appear and disappear, then watched Hoshino stop time to defeat another sewer monster. Hoshino and Ch'en went to investigate Lungmen’s sewers, and Nightmare joined Hoshino before she tried to force open the entrance.

• Nightmare realized the nun and Inspector Ch'en could teleport and decided to track the monsters’ targets instead.
• Nightmare spotted a monster emerging from a manhole, and Hoshino stopped time and collected the bodies.
• Hoshino threw Ch'en’s confiscated knives during the time stop, then told Ch'en the monsters had been cleared and they should investigate the sewers.
• Ch'en said Wei Yenwu had denied her application to enter the sewers, so she and Hoshino went to the sealed entrance anyway.
• Nightmare approached Hoshino and asked to join her so she could watch her fight and ask questions, and Hoshino agreed.

Hoshino opened a sewer entrance with Ch’en and Nightmare, then challenged Nightmare to consider what she wanted beyond defeating Gloria. Nightmare followed Hoshino into the sewers, unsettled by the realization that she had no plans for what came next.

• Hoshino introduced Nightmare to Ch’en as Gloria’s alternate personality, and Ch’en dismissed the condition as the same person beneath a different mask.
• Hoshino knocked out the guards and forced open the iron gate to Lungmen’s sewers, while Ch’en left to avoid leaving evidence linking her to the operation.
• While they waited ten minutes, Nightmare asked Hoshino about Yae Shrine and then asked to join it.
• Hoshino questioned Nightmare’s idea of freedom and asked what she would pursue after defeating Gloria, leaving Nightmare unable to answer.
• Hoshino entered the sewers and called Nightmare along, and Nightmare followed while wondering what she would do after the conflict with Gloria ended.

Mayer tried to sneak explosives and unusual mechanisms into the shrine gate repairs, but Kallen watched her closely. In the sewers, Gloria briefly took control from Nightmare and joined Hoshino in fighting the infected, while the two consciousnesses continued to struggle over their shared body.

• Mayer arrived at Yae Sakura's shrine to repair the gate and planned to plant bombs, but Kallen kept her under constant watch.
• Hoshino and Nightmare entered Lungmen's sewers, where Nightmare killed a wandering infected and questioned what freedom meant.
• Nightmare's inner conflict weakened her defenses, allowing Gloria to take control and thank Hoshino for helping her resist.
• Hoshino told Gloria to consider what she wanted after breaking free of her restraints, then jokingly prompted her to say, “Please, my other self!”
• Hoshino and Gloria fought the infected together, while Gloria and Nightmare alternated in control as their consciousnesses struggled.

Hoshino helped Nightmare recover after her struggle between opposing personalities, then continued onward with her allies. Meanwhile, FrostNova entered Lungmen through its sewers and found a sleeping troll, leaving her to sneak past it.

• Nightmare resisted the pull toward goodness and collapsed, and Hoshino supported her and restored her strength.
• Hoshino and Nightmare continued onward, dealing with stray monsters along the way.
• FrostNova found the sewage outlet where the herd had entered Lungmen and froze a path through the torrent.
• FrostNova entered the sewer and discovered a mountain-sized corpse-like troll sleeping inside.
• FrostNova concealed herself and carefully went around the troll instead of confronting it.

FrostNova hunted Mephisto’s flock in the sewers while Hoshino and Nightmare searched the same maze, where a huge creature began rampaging. Hoshino spotted FrostNova and called her Sister Yelena, prompting FrostNova to demand to know who had told her that name.

• FrostNova froze the flock members she encountered and reflected on the consequences Mephisto would face when he woke.
• Hoshino noticed the sewer kill count rising faster than she and Nightmare could manage and suspected FrostNova was nearby.
• An ice sculpture drifted into the slumbering mass of flesh, which bit down and cried out in pain.
• After several more painful bites, the creature grew enraged and charged upstream, crushing flock members and raising the kill count to 66.
• Hoshino ran toward the creature’s howl, saw FrostNova ahead, and called out, “Sister Yelena!”
• FrostNova asked Hoshino who had told her that name.

Hoshino brought FrostNova and Nightmare to confront a gigantic mass of flesh in the sewers, then revealed a terrifying power that removed the monster’s heart. Nightmare and Gloria were left too stunned to take control of their body.

• Hoshino introduced herself to FrostNova as Kiana Kaslana and explained that Nightmare and Gloria were struggling over control of their body.
• Hoshino used her time-stopping domain to show FrostNova and Nightmare her ability, but FrostNova doubted it could destroy the monster.
• Hoshino led FrostNova and Nightmare toward the monster and told Nightmare and Gloria to watch closely.
• Hoshino called on her other self, who opened a portal and pulled the monster’s heart out of its body.
• FrostNova was startled but relieved, while Nightmare and Gloria retreated inside the body and left it blank and expressionless.

Hoshino defeated the enormous beast with the Spatial Spear while FrostNova watched and asked whether spatial power could help her. FrostNova left with no answer to her hopes, but Hoshino realized that treating patients could give them a reason to meet again.

• Hoshino took control as Gloria and warned FrostNova before turning to the beast’s still-beating heart.
• FrostNova tried to freeze the heart, but it attacked Hoshino with a tentacle.
• Hoshino cut down the beast’s tentacles, then destroyed its heart with Void Realm Impact.
• Hoshino returned to her Saintess's Prayer form and told FrostNova she had stopped time when she regained consciousness.
• FrostNova asked whether Hoshino could kill someone from afar or remove Originium crystals from a patient, and Hoshino said the latter might be possible but could prove fatal.
• Hoshino, FrostNova, and the others cleared the remaining herd, parted ways, and returned to the shrine to bathe and change clothes.

Hoshino advised Gloria to communicate with Nightmare by writing her a letter, drawing on her own experience with a difficult second personality. Gloria followed the advice, but Nightmare tore up the letter and angrily called her a stupid cat.

• Hoshino learned from Kallen that Mayer had repaired the mountain gate and hot spring without planting any bombs.
• Gloria asked Hoshino how she got along with her other half, and Hoshino urged her to treat Nightmare as the same person and write her a letter.
• Nightmare bit Hoshino's hand when Gloria realized she had been listening, and Hoshino told Gloria to ask Pramanix for paper and a pen.
• Pramanix secretly helped cover for Nightmare's absence and left paper and a pen in the treatment room for Gloria.
• Gloria wrote Nightmare an elegant letter, but Nightmare tore it up and left an angry message in childish handwriting.

Hoshino unlocked and tested Swallowtail Phantasm, then went to the Lungmen Guard Department to tell Ch'en that Kiana had succeeded and left. She demonstrated her own unusual speed to Ch'en, who saw it as nearly catching up with time.

• Hoshino used time stop to unlock Gloria's cat ears and gain access to Swallowtail Phantasm, then tested its quantum state and second personality.
• Hoshino claimed her mission reward, receiving a pair of white-and-gold revolvers, before changing back into Yae Sakura.
• Hoshino went to the Lungmen Guard Department and told Ch'en that Kiana had already left and warned her not to challenge Wei Yenwu to a sword fight.
• Ch'en said she would strengthen Lungmen's defenses and asked Hoshino how her time-stopping ability worked.
• Hoshino invited Ch'en to slash at her, then dodged with such speed that Ch'en thought her blade had nearly caught up with time.

Shamare told Feater that her mined-out hometown in Siracusa was being turned into a haunted house, and Feater reported her fears to Rhodes Island. Hoshino received a mission from Amiya to travel to Siracusa with Shamare and Feater, leaving her to wonder why the two needed protection.

• Feater noticed Shamare distracted during a film class and learned that Shamare's former home in Siracusa was being converted into a haunted house.
• Shamare warned that Little Morte would be angry and that something terrifying would happen, so Feater went to report the situation to Rhodes Island.
• Hoshino tested Seele's quantized state and found that Yae Sakura's senses could detect her within three feet.
• Amiya called Hoshino and assigned her to travel to Siracusa with Shamare and Feater to protect them on a noncombat mission.

Hoshino traveled with Feater and Shamare toward Shamare’s hometown in Siracusa, where serious trouble awaited her and Shamare. After a week on the road, they arrived and found Lappland blocking their way, ready to confront Hoshino.

• Hoshino learned that Shamare’s curse had made Rhodes Island operators choke after every two sips of water, and Amiya sent her to help Shamare in Siracusa.
• Feater picked Hoshino up at Yae Shrine, and Hoshino became fascinated with Feater’s enormous iron fists.
• Hoshino met Shamare and Morte in the car, then teased Shamare about Seele being a ghost nearby.
• Feater drove Hoshino and Shamare to Siracusa over the course of a week without encountering a Catastrophe.
• Lappland blocked their road, saying she had caught Hoshino’s scent, and drew her twin blades.

Hoshino reunited with Lappland and recruited her to guide the group to Shamare’s island, which had been turned into a haunted house by a bloodfiend. They entered the island and received a mission to soothe Little Morte’s anger, leaving them inside the haunted house with its mysterious owner, Jiushi.

• Feater watched Hoshino and Lappland spar, and Hoshino quickly defeated Lappland before praising her improved swordsmanship.
• Hoshino told Lappland that Shamare’s island had become a haunted house and asked her to guide the group there.
• Lappland, Hoshino, Feater, and Shamare traveled by ferry to Terror Island, where the gloomy weather and staged haunting displeased Little Morte.
• Hoshino met a sleeping bloodfiend girl at the ticket booth, and Feater bought tickets for the group.
• Hoshino received a mission to soothe Little Morte’s rage and learned that the bloodfiend girl went by Jiushi.

Jiushi realized Shamare had returned to Terror Island and armed herself, while Lappland and her companions entered the haunted house. When Sirucan families arrived to attack Lappland, Jiushi charged in and opened fire on them.

• Jiushi recognized Shamare as the former owner of Terror Island and prepared to defend herself with a stolen shotgun.
• Inside the haunted house, Feater, Lappland, Shamare, and Hoshino explored the set while the ferryman reported Lappland’s location to his organization.
• Several Sirucan families arrived by boat and surrounded Terror Island.
• Assassins approached Lappland and prepared to shoot her with crossbows, while Hoshino and Lappland readied themselves to fight.
• Jiushi rushed in from behind the assassins, firing her shotgun and demanding that they leave the ordinary visitors alone.

Jiushi drunkenly defeated the assassins targeting Lappland, then rejected the idea that she needed a curse to face her enemies. Hoshino persuaded Jiushi to scare the surviving attackers away rather than kill them, while the mafia consuls debated who Jiushi was and how to respond.

• Jiushi charged through the assassins and defeated the squad, then told Shamare she felt annoyance rather than fear and refused to break the curse.
• Shamare checked Little Morte and realized the doll was excited by the fear of the defeated assassins.
• Hoshino pulled Jiushi aside and explained that Lappland, not Jiushi, was the assassins’ target.
• The mafia consuls learned that Jiushi had routed the First Column and debated her identity before deciding her interference had to be repaid in blood.
• Hoshino convinced Jiushi that killing the attackers would feed Shamare more fear, so Jiushi agreed they should be scared away with the haunted house.

Hoshino and Jiushi prepared the haunted house to repel the newcomers, relying on Seele and Jizo Mitama to intensify their fear. Seele’s appearance and a real cut sent the second, much larger group of Mafia fleeing, leaving their leader furious and frightened.

• Hoshino persuaded Jiushi to drive away the people who had intruded on her island, and Jiushi went to prepare the haunted house.
• Hoshino told Shamare to keep her distance while she helped the blood demon girl, and reflected on the curse Shamare had cast on her.
• A second wave, ten times larger than the first, entered the fog-covered island as Jizo Mitama heightened their fear.
• Seele appeared among blue butterflies, walked toward the intruders, and cut a man’s cheek with a butterfly wing.
• The wounded man fled, panic spread through the Mafia force, and one-sixth of its members ran for the nearest ship as their leader protested.

Jiushi watched the haunted house’s visitors flee as Hoshino and Seele staged increasingly frightening attractions. After Hoshino’s fiery Goushinnso Memento appearance sent even more people running, the remaining onlookers wondered about the shrine maiden’s powers and Shamare worried that Little Morte could not compete with the ghostly armor.

• Jiushi watched the crowd through binoculars, while Lappland carved tally marks for the assassins who had fled and planned to settle scores with their leaders.
• Hoshino praised Seele for frightening visitors, then told her to hide again after Seele asked to deliver her remaining line.
• The assassin team entered a realistic battlefield attraction, where Jiushi pointed out weapons from her own experience and Lappland noticed a bloodstained Tang saber.
• Hoshino changed into Goushinnso Memento and descended from the mountaintop amid a crimson glow, scorching heat, and the imposing Jizo Mitama.
• More visitors fled from Hoshino’s display, while Feater teased Jiushi, Lappland wondered about the shrine maiden’s other forms, and Shamare asked whether Little Morte could compete with the ghostly armor.

Hoshino’s haunted-house trial ended when Jiushi accidentally ignited a brief flash of alcohol vapor, frightening the last killer unconscious before Lappland could fight him. Hoshino then questioned Shamare about Little Morte and Terror Island, but Shamare warned her that she could not understand their relationship.

• Hoshino’s haunted house frightened every group except one killer, who charged onward despite his subordinates fleeing.
• Lappland prepared to draw her blade, but Jiushi’s burp ignited alcohol vapor; the harmless flash startled the killer into fainting, and Jiushi fell asleep.
• Hoshino asked Feater to watch over the sleeping Jiushi, and Feater mistakenly thought Hoshino was her fan.
• Hoshino asked Shamare whether Little Morte had cursed her and whether keeping Terror Island was Shamare’s or Little Morte’s choice.
• Shamare said Little Morte’s curses had been eaten and warned Hoshino to stop asking about their relationship.

Hoshino negotiated with the god inside Shamare’s plush toy, Little Morte, and learned that Terror Island had remained unchanged because Shamare wished it so. After Shamare reassured Little Morte, Lappland began investigating who had bought Terror Island and who had sold it.

• Hoshino asked to speak with Little Morte alone and drew her blade until Shamare agreed to let them talk.
• Little Morte revealed that she was a nameless god born from Shamare’s Originium Arts and an innocent child’s call, and that Shamare—not the god—wanted Terror Island left unchanged.
• Little Morte feared that changing Shamare’s wish would cost her her only believer and cause her to perish.
• Hoshino unlocked White Night Butler and considered how to introduce Fu Hua into the world.
• After Shamare returned to herself, Hoshino told her what Little Morte had said, and Shamare encouraged the plush toy to do its best.
• Lappland asked Lady to investigate the recent sale of Terror Island and identify its seller, explaining that she was acting on a friend’s request.

Lappland tracked down a man who had stolen money and cut off his left hand, then returned to find Qiaodisi sober and worried about the island she had bought while drunk. Qiaodisi learned the sale could be reversed and offered Lappland a cup of her awful wine.

• Lady criticized Lappland for helping others instead of seeking revenge, and Lappland took a dossier before leaving for Milan.
• Lappland followed the thief to a restaurant and cut off his left hand after confronting him about his theft.
• Hoshino waited for Jiushi to wake, and Jiushi discovered she had been drunk for eighty-three days and had bought an island with a haunted house.
• Lappland returned with the thief's severed hand, but the others barely reacted as she explained her mafia code.
• Qiaodisi asked if she could return the island, and Lappland said regulations made the prohibited mining land impossible to sell.
• Qiaodisi poured Lappland a drink, and Lappland recognized its smell as liquid fuel.

Hoshino finished the mission in Siracusa and tested the Scythe Lullaby and Fu Hua character cards at Yae Shrine. After Fu Hua’s unrestrained punch knocked an entire cherry tree bare, Hoshino went to find someone immortal to test her strength on.

• Hoshino carried the drunken Lappland away while warning Shamare that people and circumstances could not stay the same forever.
• Lappland woke two days later in Lady’s room, learned that the shrine maiden had spared her an Elizabeth collar, and prepared to eat before returning to her work in Milan.
• Hoshino tested the Scythe Lullaby card, finding that Seele’s scythe could quantumize and unleash powerful sweeping attacks.
• Hoshino transformed into Fu Hua and discovered that she seemed proficient with every weapon and combat skill.
• Hoshino’s light punch blew the blossoms from a cherry tree, so she set off for Emperor’s bar to find someone who could survive a strength test.

Hoshino visited Penguin Logistics to send a message to the fox who had planted the mountain with cherry blossoms, offering one punch as payment. After demonstrating her strength by shattering Emperor’s liquor collection, she left in high spirits and waited for Penguin Logistics to seek her out.

• Hoshino went to Penguin Logistics and asked Croissant to deliver a message that she had come down from the mountain.
• Hoshino ordered sherry and offered Croissant one punch as payment for the delivery.
• Emperor objected to Hoshino drinking from his collectible liquor, and she stopped a punch just short of his face.
• Hoshino’s punch shattered all the liquor in Emperor’s bar and cellar, prompting an unnameable penguin shriek from the cellar.
• Hoshino left with the remaining wine, pleased that she could control her strength, and waited for Penguin Logistics to come calling.

Hoshino staged her disappearance and returned to Yae Shrine disguised as Fu Hua, the drunken Immortal, after Emperor reported that the Immortal had descended and left a message for the shrine maiden. She waited for Lungmen to notice her arrival, and the first visitor came from the Lungmen Guard Department.

• Emperor confronted Hoshino about the gray-haired, blue-eyed woman who had smashed his wine collection and delivered a message for the shrine maiden.
• Croissant clarified that the woman was female, and Hoshino identified her as the Immortal and warned that she had come down to the mortal world.
• Hoshino packed her luggage, told Emperor and Croissant that the Immortal meant no harm, and fled the shrine before secretly returning after Penguin Logistics left.
• Hoshino equipped the White Night Butler character card and, as Fu Hua, questioned shrine visitors about their offerings while news of the shrine maiden's disappearance spread through Lungmen.
• Hoshino waited for someone to investigate, and the first visitor rushed over from the Lungmen Guard Department.

Hoshino met Ch'en at the shrine, dispersed a rainstorm to fulfill her request, and reflected on the meaning of preserving a city. Ch'en persuaded Hoshino to help at the Lungmen Guard Department, where Hoshino completed several minor cases and concluded that Ch'en wanted her to experience mortal life.

• Hoshino mistook Ch'en for Little Fox's disciple and asked whether she had a wish.
• Ch'en asked for an umbrella, and Hoshino cleared the rain clouds with an uppercut.
• Ch'en asked Hoshino to maintain peace in Lungmen, and Hoshino questioned the lasting meaning of protecting a city and its people.
• Ch'en persuaded Hoshino to go to the Lungmen Guard Department and gave her a collection of minor case files to keep her occupied.
• Hoshino returned a missing cat to its owner, predicted its litter, and told Ch'en she understood why she had assigned the cases.

Hoshino tried to find work in Lungmen and began offering her own form of medical treatment by punching people to activate their blood and disperse stasis. After Ch'en and Wei Yenwu experienced the treatment, Hoshino told Wei Yenwu that she had come from Mount Taixuan to find the little fox.

• Hoshino rejected ordinary work and suggested opening a clinic to save lives and heal the wounded.
• Hoshino punched Ch'en to activate her blood and disperse stasis, sending her through the office door and down the stairs.
• Swire photographed Ch'en after the incident, while Hoshino vanished and Ch'en reluctantly contacted the Governor-General's Office.
• Wei Yenwu went to Yae Shrine, where Hoshino was punching passersby into the air; he tried the treatment and found it comfortable.
• Hoshino told Wei Yenwu she came from Mount Taixuan to find the little fox, who had hidden herself away.