Chapter Summaries

Hoshino cared for the unconscious Ch’en, whose injuries healed after the lightning strike, then watched her leave the shrine burdened by an unresolved worry. With Penguin Logistics on an indefinite break, Hoshino called Exusiai and asked for her to be delivered to Yae Shrine, making her blush.

• Hoshino waited beside the unconscious Ch’en and soothed her furrowed brow until Ch’en woke after two hours of sleep.
• Ch’en found her wounds healed, and Hoshino explained that lightning had accelerated her recovery and that the Lightning Empress had knocked her out.
• Ch’en asked whether she had provoked the Lightning Empress, and Hoshino said it was because Ch’en had cursed at her.
• Ch’en warned Hoshino about caring for someone with late-stage Originium Infection, then left the shrine feeling burdened; Hoshino told her to practice her swordsmanship.
• Hoshino called Exusiai after learning Penguin Logistics was on an extended vacation and asked her to deliver herself to Yae Shrine.
• Croissant overheard the call and asked whether Exusiai was blushing.

Hoshino invited Exusiai to her shrine under the pretext of sharing rice balls and a hot spring, hoping to get hold of Exusiai’s Vector submachine gun and unlock Sky Ranger. After Hoshino took the gun, Exusiai realized it was the object of her attention and happily spent the visit talking about firearms.

• Exusiai called Hoshino back to negotiate Penguin Logistics’ delivery fee, and Hoshino invited her to the shrine to hang out.
• Exusiai arrived at the shrine and admired its luxurious hot spring before changing into a yukata.
• Exusiai handed her gun to Hoshino for safekeeping, and Hoshino’s predatory attention shifted from Exusiai to the weapon.
• Exusiai relaxed in the hot spring while Hoshino served her oversized rice balls and hot spring eggs.
• Hoshino cradled Exusiai’s gun as its progress bar advanced, and Exusiai later found her holding it blissfully.
• Exusiai enthusiastically told Hoshino stories about guns, while Hoshino waited impatiently for the lecture to end.

Exusiai left Hoshino at Yae Shrine after enjoying the hot springs, while Texas misunderstood her visit and sped away with her. Ch'en returned to Lungmen with healed hands and told Hoshiguma about the Lightning Empress, then asked for help finding an expert on the Infected who could investigate the mysterious queen.

• Exusiai admired Hoshino's quiet beauty as she left Yae Shrine and decided to visit its hot springs again whenever she had free time.
• Texas asked whether Exusiai had charged Hoshino, then drove away at high speed while Exusiai remained confused.
• Ch'en returned to the Lungmen Guard Department with her healed hands and told Hoshiguma that Hoshino had blessed her after the Lightning Empress defeated her.
• Ch'en said the shrine was sheltering a seriously ill Infected patient and identified the Lightning Empress as the mysterious hooded figure from their earlier encounter.
• Hoshiguma warned Ch'en not to let her feelings toward Hoshino affect her judgment, and Ch'en asked whether they had allies who specialized in researching the Infected.

Ch'en arranged to seek Rhine Lab’s help for her Oripathy, while Hoshino tested her new powers as Lightning Empress and contacted Ch'en through her communications earpiece. The chapter left Hoshino alarmed after she learned that Ch'en had late-stage Oripathy.

• Ch'en asked Hoshiguma to contact Rhine Lab, and Hoshiguma persuaded Swire to join a trip to Rhodes Island by saying Ch'en was sick.
• Hoshino tested her Spatial Spears, changed into Lightning Empress, and experimented with controlling lightning and electromagnetic force.
• Hoshino used her electromagnetic abilities to contact Ch'en through her communications earpiece.
• Hoshino told Ch'en that she had found a Rhine Lab doctor to ease the pain of her late-stage Oripathy, leaving Hoshino shocked by the diagnosis.

Hoshino tried to discourage Ch'en from sending doctors to examine her, then visited Penguin Logistics and used her sword on Emperor to fulfill a mission. The mission awarded her the Bow of Hel, while Emperor recovered in a frenzy of inspiration.

• Hoshino realized Ch'en believed her Arts meant she was Infected, and she made Ch'en feel guilty about sending Rhine Lab doctors to examine her.
• Hoshino learned Ch'en had already sent a superintendent to Rhodes Island and began considering how to handle the scholars who might come.
• Hoshino went to Penguin Logistics after Exusiai called and found Emperor celebrating his supposed death by lightning strike.
• Hoshino performed a beautiful sword draw that shattered the pool table and broke Emperor's gold chain, leaving him convulsing but alive.
• Hoshino received the Bow of Hel as her mission reward and left as Emperor shrieked that inspiration was pouring out.

Hoshino sparred with Officer Ch'en while Swire and Hoshiguma asked Rhodes Island for help investigating the infected Lightning Queen. Silence accepted the research project and went back to sleep, leaving the investigation to begin after she woke.

• Hoshino went down the mountain and challenged Officer Ch'en to spar, then overwhelmed her with close-range kicks and fast movements despite holding pistols.
• At Rhodes Island, Doctor Kal'tsit questioned Swire and Hoshiguma about their request for a Rhine Lab researcher and reviewed Hoshiguma's report on Ch'en's encounter with the Lightning Queen.
• Swire guessed that Ch'en had been struck unconscious by the Lightning Queen, while Hoshiguma advised her not to insult Kal'tsit on Rhodes Island's grounds.
• Kal'tsit approached Silence with the report and explained that Lungmen had found an infected person who called herself the Lightning Queen.
• Silence accepted the project after skimming the report, then fell asleep and said they could discuss leaving after she woke that night.

Silence arrived at the shrine to examine Hoshino, the Lightning Empress, after learning that her Arts could affect the weather. Hoshino greeted her with a carefully staged display of queenly menace and bashful cuteness, while Silence began the examination.

• Hoshino carried the sleeping Silence to Swire's car, where Swire and Hoshiguma briefly pretended she was dead.
• Silence reached the shrine and told Hoshiguma and Swire to stay back so they would not interfere with her work.
• Silence found Hoshino curled up in the shrine and read a note explaining that she preferred solitude and could trigger a thunderstorm if crowded.
• Hoshino woke and asked whether she had scared Silence, then acted embarrassed beneath her imposing Lightning Empress persona.
• Silence adjusted her glasses and told Hoshino to take off her clothes for the examination.

Silence’s attempts to examine Hoshino failed because her lightning protection blocked blood collection and disrupted an MRI, so Silence collected saliva and hair instead. After reporting her theories about Hoshino to Kal'tsit, Silence arranged to meet Hoshino’s guardian, while Hoshino transformed into Yae Sakura and planned to visit Silence.

• Silence failed to draw Hoshino’s blood when the needle struck her electrically charged protection, and the MRI produced no usable image.
• Silence collected Hoshino’s saliva and hair, then asked to meet her guardian; Hoshino warned her that Yae Sakura would come if she learned Silence was looking for her.
• After Silence left, Hoshino worried that researchers might send Warfarin to examine her saliva and transformed into Yae Sakura to seek Silence out.
• Hoshiguma arranged accommodations for Silence in Lungmen, with Miss Swire covering the costs.
• Silence told Doctor Kal'tsit that Hoshino might be a new species or an uninfected person whose Originium existed as a core, and said she had collected saliva for further testing.

Silence questioned Hoshino about how she had found Lightning Empress, but Hoshino told a persuasive, fabricated story and disappeared before Silence could press further. Silence crossed out both recruiting Hoshino into Rhodes Island and going to war, leaving her next move undecided.

• Silence finished preparing the saliva samples, then woke when Hoshino knocked on her window and brought her flower tea.
• Silence questioned Hoshino about meeting Lightning Empress, and Hoshino claimed she had rescued the child from an incubation chamber at a power plant attacked by Sarkaz.
• When Silence asked about Hoshino's origins, Hoshino evaded the question with a story about the shrine's code of conduct.
• Hoshino opened the window and leapt away, leaving Silence with her tea and lingering cherry-blossom fragrance.
• Silence crossed out the options to recruit Hoshino into Rhodes Island and to go to war.

Silence asked Warfarin to identify an unknown biological fluid collected in Lungmen, and Warfarin discovered that it gave her an intoxicating rush. The fluid’s source remained unknown, but Warfarin declared that she wanted to enslave and drink from its owner.

• Kal'tsit told Warfarin that Silence had collected an unfamiliar biological fluid in Lungmen and wanted her help identifying it.
• Ifrit overheard that Silence was in trouble and pressured Warfarin into taking her along to Silence’s hotel.
• Silence let Warfarin test a tube of inactivated fluid while warning Ifrit to keep her presence in Lungmen secret.
• Warfarin tasted the fluid, then drank the rest and described an intense, electric rush.
• Warfarin admitted that she could not identify the species and said she wanted to enslave its owner and drink her blood every day.

Silence brought Warfarin and Ifrit to Yae Shrine so Warfarin could examine Hoshino, but Hoshino’s lightning left Warfarin unconscious. Hoshino discovered that contact with Warfarin’s fangs had begun unlocking Theresa’s Luna Kindred character card, and she hoped Warfarin would try again.

• Warfarin eagerly insisted on seeing the unusual patient, and Silence brought her and Ifrit to Yae Shrine.
• Warfarin tried to bite Hoshino to collect a blood sample, and Hoshino struck her with heavenly lightning.
• Hoshino sensed Ifrit nearby and invited her into the Tenshukaku because Ifrit’s soul felt familiar.
• Silence and Ifrit entered and found Warfarin blackened and unconscious while Hoshino and Ifrit watched each other.
• Hoshino realized Warfarin’s brief contact had started unlocking Theresa’s Luna Kindred character card, but progress had stopped at three percent.

Hoshino met Ifrit and used their connection between lightning and fire to grow closer to her, hoping to complete a new mission. Their conversation ended awkwardly when Ifrit decided she could not hang out with an honor student like Hoshino.

• Hoshino met Ifrit, whose flames subsided after Silence calmed her.
• Hoshino and Ifrit touched fingertips, combining lightning and fire into a glowing arc that Silence recognized as a Jacob's Ladder effect.
• Hoshino received the mission "The Lonely Dragonkin," which required her to become one of Ifrit's kind and offered Mag-Typhoon: Slash as a reward.
• Hoshino asked Silence to leave so she could talk with Ifrit alone, and Silence dragged the unconscious Warfarin out of the room.
• Warfarin woke up confused about whether she had managed to drink Hoshino's blood.
• Ifrit told Hoshino she struggled with language arts and concluded that she could not hang out with an honor student like her.

Ch'en issued expulsion orders for the clowns involved in the Penguin fiasco, while Si Jiu and Mr. R planned to escape prison by stealing the shrine’s offering box. At the shrine, Hoshino heard the would-be thieves and decided to let their theft succeed, even if that meant incapacitating Warfarin.

• Ch'en followed Wei Yenwu’s instructions and ordered the recorded clowns expelled from Lungmen.
• In prison, Si Jiu and Mr. R agreed to steal the shrine’s offering box before escaping Lungmen.
• Hoshino encouraged Ifrit to explore her abilities beyond fighting, and Ifrit considered becoming a barbecue chef.
• Silence and Warfarin listened to Hoshino teach Ifrit, while Warfarin teased Silence about her teaching.
• Hoshino detected the thieves near the shrine and used an electric field that knocked Warfarin to her knees.
• Hoshino decided to let the thieves steal the offering box so the incident could advance her relationship with Ifrit.

Hoshino discovered that two thieves had robbed the shrine’s offering box and recruited Ifrit to help track them down before Yae Sakura returned. The pair followed the thieves’ trail to a clothing store, while Silence and Warfarin watched them closely.

• Si Jiu and Mr. R stole money from the shrine’s offering box and fled down the mountain with travel bags full of Lungmen Dollars.
• Hoshino revealed the theft to Silence, Warfarin, and Ifrit, then suggested they recover the money before Yae Sakura returned.
• Hoshino dressed herself and Ifrit in detective capes and led them along the thieves’ footprints.
• Hoshino assigned Ifrit to question people, and the group followed the slop-scented trail to a clothing store.
• Silence and Warfarin observed Ifrit carefully playing detective with Hoshino as the group continued their search.

Hoshino and Ifrit traced two thieves to a clothing store, but the trail went cold when they learned the men may have rented a car. Hoshino contacted Ch'en and had her use the Lungmen Guard Department's resources to find them.

• Ifrit described the thieves to a clothing-store clerk, who recalled two filthy men changing clothes and paying cash to use the staff faucet.
• The clerk could not remember where the men went, but said they had discussed renting a car, leaving Hoshino and Ifrit without a direct lead.
• Hoshino contacted Ch'en through electromagnetic waves and told her she was wandering the streets of Lungmen.
• Ch'en was alarmed to learn the Queen of Thunder was free in the city, but restrained herself from mobilizing the Guard Department to capture her.
• Hoshino gave Ch'en the thieves' identifying details and ordered her to investigate car rental companies through official channels.

Si Jiu and Mr. R fled Lungmen in a flower-decorated wedding supercar while Ch'en and the Rhodes Island operators raced to intercept them. Ch'en picked up Silence and Warfarin on her motorcycle, leaving the three cramped together as they pursued the fugitives.

• Si Jiu drove Mr. R out of Lungmen in a rented wedding supercar, and they toasted with champagne while joking about their escape plans.
• Ch'en borrowed Hoshiguma's motorcycle and contacted Hoshino, learning that the fugitives were heading toward the outskirts in a wedding car.
• Hoshino took Ifrit and sped off using electromagnetism, while Silence and Warfarin followed with a medical drone.
• Ch'en stopped beside Silence and Warfarin, told them to get on her motorcycle, and then warned them that they were sitting on her tail.

Ch'en, Silence, and Warfarin pursued Hoshino and Ifrit as the pair sped away from Lungmen, with Ifrit relishing the ride. Si Jiu and Mister R stopped to divide their stolen cash, unaware that a small-scale Catastrophe was approaching.

• Silence concealed that Hoshino and Ifrit were both ahead, and Ch'en followed Silence's drone on her motorcycle with Silence and Warfarin riding along.
• Ch'en frightened off the pursuing police officers, while Warfarin mocked the Lungmen Guard Department and Silence continued guiding them.
• Ifrit watched Silence's drone from Hoshino's speeding car and grew delighted by the reckless ride.
• Hoshino contacted Ch'en for directions and accelerated toward the thieves, leaving sparks and lightning in their wake.
• Si Jiu and Mister R stopped on a rough road to divide their stolen money by weight, unaware of the approaching Catastrophe.

Ch'en pursued the thieves through a sudden storm while Superintendent Hoshiguma warned her that a tornado was approaching Lungmen. As Hoshino and Ifrit found the storm blocking their route, Hoshino asked Ifrit for a coin, leaving their next move unresolved.

• Ch'en chased after Mr. R and Si Jiu in heavy rain as Silence and Warfarin struggled to help her track them.
• Hoshiguma warned Ch'en that a tornado mixed with torrential rain was headed toward Lungmen, but Ch'en kept driving toward the disaster.
• Mr. R and Si Jiu hurried to move their money into the car and resume weighing it, unaware that a waterspout was forming nearby.
• Hoshiguma patrolled Lungmen on an electric scooter, ordered residents to secure their homes, and worried about Ch'en's safety and unusually gentle voice.
• Hoshino stopped the car when the storm and low chassis prevented them from going farther, then asked Ifrit to lend her a coin.

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Hoshino and Ifrit worked together to destroy the waterspout with a Railgun, impressing Ch’en and the others. After the group reached them, Warfarin tried to bite the exhausted Hoshino and got shocked for it.

• Ifrit created a high-temperature barrier to keep the rain away, and Hoshino shaped purple lightning into wings before firing a coin at the waterspout.
• The Railgun blast weakened the rain and began dissipating the waterspout, while Ch’en, Warfarin, and Silence watched in awe.
• Ch’en drove Hoshiguma’s motorcycle into a ditch, then had to push it onward after it stopped working.
• Silence saw Ifrit’s delighted expression and chose not to scold her for facing the disaster rationally.
• Warfarin lunged at the exhausted Hoshino to bite her, but Hoshino shocked her and hurt her teeth.