Recaps

Elysia arrived in New Eridu, destroyed Bringer and his Ethereal army, then spent her remaining time exploring the city with Eden and Griseo. Meanwhile, Astra Yao and Evelyn grew close, and Wise, Belle, and Griseo reached Astra’s concert as Evelyn began to reveal the conflict surrounding it.

• Elysia halted the Hollow’s expansion, helped Miyabi reject the Hoshimi ancestors’ demand for sacrifices, and later destroyed Bringer and his army with an arrow that struck the Mirage Moon.
• Griseo restored the souls of people killed in the Hollow, while an entity awakened within the Lunar Hollow and gave Elysia twenty-four hours to explore New Eridu.
• Belle showed Elysia, Eden, and Griseo around New Eridu, where Eden performed for Elysia and Griseo painted their memories together.
• Sunna, Aria, and Nangong dressed Eous as Fairy Cloth, and Eous won the Astra Yao Imitation Contest as Elysia.
• Wise and Griseo encountered Astra Yao in a Hollow, where she searched for a recording of Yulan DeWitt, and Evelyn returned the recording and later chose Astra over her assignment to Fugue Group.
• Evelyn promised Astra she would never leave, and Astra confessed her feelings before Evelyn kissed her, and at Astra’s concert, Evelyn fought Fugue agents while Astra brought her onstage to perform.
• Griseo gave Cui Ji a new story to publish, while Coco criticized New Eridu’s capitalists for exploiting workers and people affected by Ether Corruption.
• Wise, Belle, and Griseo arrived at Astra’s concert, where Evelyn asked them to intervene if trouble arose and began explaining the conflict between Fugue and Diga before Astra interrupted her.

Astra Yao’s concert became a battle to save Star Ring, while the story followed Anby and Cui Ji through their pasts and brought Griseo into Meflor’s schemes. The stretch ended with Morel playing Starlight Knight for Claire and promising to make things easier for her father.

• Astra Yao accepted a series of challenges during her concert as Evelyn, Belle, and Wise fought to stop the threats to Star Ring, while Vill-V and Griseo shaped the performance from behind the scenes.
• Mrs. Tivert took control of Star Ring with her mecha and accused Astra Yao of tarnishing Yulan’s name, but Astra sang to carry Yulan’s hopes forward and Mrs. Tivert gave her Yulan’s unreleased music.
• Soldier 11 chased Anby until they fought, then explained she had only wanted to greet her, and Cui Ji joined them for hot pot.
• Wise recounted how Nicole rescued Anby from the garbage dump and raised her, while Cui Ji’s quest to revive the Silver Army led her to betray her sisters before Mobius offered to help her and the clones.
• Hugo asked Wise and Belle about the [Son of the Devil], then Meflor revealed the HDD system’s effects and recruited them to recover the Sacrificial Ghost Core at a TOPS auction.
• Griseo and Meflor discussed the Old Capital’s destruction and his plan involving the Ravenlock Family, TOPS, and the Praise Society, while Griseo agreed to see how his scheme unfolded.
• Griseo, Billy, and Meflor learned that Morel performed as Starlight Knight to support his hospitalized daughter Claire, then hired him for a show and arranged for Claire to attend.
• Morel performed as Starlight Knight for Claire, who asked him to make things easier for her tired father, and he promised to grant her wish.

Griseo uncovered the Ravenlock Family’s organ-trafficking network and helped bring it down while confronting the tragedy of Morel and Claire. The story left Belle and Wise learning that they carried a hidden [authority] connected to Griseo’s arrival in the real world.

• Meflor learned that Morel and Claire had died, and Griseo showed him memories of their lives before stopping him from viewing another vision.
• Morel discovered that Claire had been taken for her organs, entered a Hollow to rescue her, and suffered catastrophic injuries as bandits closed in.
• Griseo confronted Meflor and his fighters, then spared the city and left him considering whether a story’s ending mattered.
• Griseo and Cui Ji found a Ravenlock laboratory where Doctor Lin had harvested Claire’s organs, and Griseo’s despair shook the facility until Qianjie and the others intervened.
• Griseo recovered and assembled evidence against the Ravenlock Family, while Belle, Wise, Vivian, Qianjie, and the others prepared their separate parts of the operation.
• Wise and Vivian infiltrated the Ravenlock banquet, where Hugo revealed he was alive and Qianjie killed Hartmann before attacking the family’s manor.
• Belle and Kosma destroyed a Ravenlock Hollow base, but Wise and Vivian fell unconscious after Wise awakened Griseo’s [Discipline] Signet to save Vivian.
• Griseo showed Belle the truth behind Vivian’s past and explained that Aponia had erased Vivian’s prophetic ability, then revealed that Belle and Wise possessed [authority] that had drawn Griseo to them.

Griseo explored Hollow Zero, confronted its monsters, and investigated the Seans while Remiel Dan recovered and joined her efforts. Back in New Eridu, the Praise Society’s crimes came to light, and Griseo offered Yixuan Soulsteel to modify the dangerous Azure Nether Sword.

• Yixuan accepted Wise and Belle as disciples, while Griseo showed her Authority and Hua, prompting Yixuan to identify Hua as Yunkui Mountain’s Founding Master.
• Griseo became City Hall’s independent Flame-Chaser, then entered Hollow Zero with Hoshimi Miyabi and Ithaqua to investigate its depths and the Black Wall.
• Griseo and Sakura fought Remiel Dan, then joined forces against Gepetto and reached the Final Domain, where Kevin confronted Skana as Griseo revealed the Ark.
• Griseo treated Remiel Dan aboard the Ark, learned of the Seans’ Four Keys, and enlisted Dan to investigate them and demand that Wanzhou return her Authority.
• Griseo returned to New Eridu and sent Cui Ji to deliver a replica Frozen Hell to Hoshimi Miyabi, while A-Cheng was kidnapped and drawn into the Praise Society’s fraud operation.
• A-Cheng rose within the Praise Society, helped unleash Ethereal soldiers in a deadly experiment, and survived when the Obol Squad defeated the cult’s bait squad.
• Yixuan and Griseo learned A-Cheng had been missing for months, and Yixuan vowed that Yunkui Mountain would hold him accountable if he had harmed others.
• Griseo offered to modify the Azure Nether Sword with Soulsteel after warning Yixuan that destroying it could kill Ye Shunguang.