Recaps

Dania admitted that her friendship with Mo Hei and Siglica had been real despite the secrets they had kept, but she hesitated when Mo Hei asked what she wanted now. When Mo Bai warned that someone was coming to investigate, he broke the window and had Nue carry Dania away.

• Dania acknowledged that Principal Losera had disabled the camera to give her and Mo Hei a chance to speak freely, despite the trouble it could cause Losera at the Academy.
• Dania rejected Mo Bai and chose to speak with Mo Hei, whose words about their shared nicknames reminded her of their genuine friendship.
• Dania told Mo Hei that they had both concealed their purposes, and he asked what she wanted to do now.
• Mo Bai received Losera's warning that an investigation was imminent and the camera would soon be working again.
• Mo Bai decided they could not leave Dania behind or take her without worsening Losera's position, then shattered the window and summoned Nue to carry Dania away.

Losera dealt with the fallout after Mo Bai and Mo Hei took Dania from the Academy, while the three escaped on Nue. Mo Bai explained why he had left so conspicuously, and Mo Hei vowed to stay by his side as Dania demanded their attention.

• Losera received reports that Dania had been taken and that the New Federation was cutting the Academy's funding, then decided not to call Mo Bai so her phone records would not expose her.
• Losera hoped Rover would reach the Academy and buy time as the factions searched for Dania.
• Mo Bai told Mo Hei that their dramatic escape would draw attention away from Losera and gave other reasons he could not quietly return to Academy life.
• Mo Hei promised Mo Bai that she would go with him and prove she was no longer a girl who could only cling to him.
• Dania, riding on Nue, interrupted Mo Bai and Mo Hei and asked them to pay more attention to her.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei took Dania out of her dorm to lift her spirits, and Mo Bai asked her to trade details of her time in the Remnant Star Society for their help. Dania accepted and chose to celebrate her birthday.

• Mo Hei explained that she and Mo Bai had brought Dania out because they were worried about her state of mind and health.
• Dania reminded them that she was under observation as a Remnant Star Society spy, and Mo Hei said Dania was also her friend.
• Mo Bai admitted he hated the Society but understood that some members had been forced into it, while making clear he had not forgotten Dania's attack on him.
• Mo Bai offered to help cheer Dania up in exchange for everything she knew about her time in the Remnant Star Society.
• Mo Hei called Dania "Yaya" and asked what she wanted to do, and Dania decided to celebrate her birthday.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei secretly brought Dania back to the Academy so she could celebrate her first birthday, but Siglica mistook Dania’s return for a kidnapping and pulled her away. The chapter ended with Mo Bai and Mo Hei appearing beside the two friends, startling Siglica.

• Mo Bai and Mo Hei used a Cursed Tool to make themselves and Dania invisible as they returned to the Academy for Dania’s requested birthday celebration.
• Dania wandered the Academy grounds while Mo Bai overheard people accusing him of stealing Rover’s credit and abducting Dania.
• Siglica rushed over, pulled Dania out of the Cursed Tool’s range, and ran away with her.
• Dania questioned why Siglica believed the kidnapping rumors, then reflected on their friendship and how difficult it would be to leave.
• Mo Bai and Mo Hei appeared beside Dania and Siglica, startling Siglica, who noticed how much the two brothers resembled each other.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei continued their mission to help Dania, who admitted her birthday excuse was false and asked them to visit where she was born. As they prepared to go, the Academy’s pursuer Rover confronted them.

• Mo Bai told Siglica that he and Mo Hei were helping Dania at Principal Losera’s request, and Siglica chose to let Dania go without pressing her doubts.
• After Siglica left, Dania admitted that it was not her birthday, and Mo Bai said he and Mo Hei had both seen through her lie.
• Mo Bai explained that they had returned with Dania to continue their task and prevent the Academy from taking her, while Dania recognized that they knew what was hidden inside her.
• Dania asked Mo Bai and Mo Hei to take her to the place where she was born, and Mo Bai confidently agreed to protect them from the Academy’s pursuers.
• Rover, the Academy’s pursuer, approached with her sword drawn and challenged Mo Bai’s confidence.

Mo Bai and Rover staged a hostile confrontation to deceive the Academy and let Mo Hei and Dania leave safely. Once they were alone, Rover advised Mo Bai about helping Mo Hei become independent, then drew her Blood Pact to test Mo Bai's strength.

• Mo Bai weighed Rover's abilities as Mo Hei prepared a wilderness location for their apparent fight.
• Rover followed Mo Bai into Mo Hei's Shadow Space, and they emerged together in the wilderness.
• Mo Bai told Mo Hei to take Dania and fulfill the Principal's request, so Mo Hei left with her.
• Rover dropped her hostile act and revealed that she and Mo Bai had staged the confrontation to deceive onlookers.
• Mo Bai asked Rover about helping Mo Hei become independent, and Rover drew her Blood Pact to test him.

Mo Hei escorted Dania toward the Dark Plains at Mo Bai's request, explaining that he trusted Mo Bai to face Rover while he helped her. Dania accepted Mo Hei's sincere friendship, though she wondered how he would react when he learned the truth about her origins.

• Mo Hei rode his Capricorn Shikigami with Dania toward the birthplace she had described.
• Dania asked why Mo Hei had not gone to help Mo Bai fight Rover, and Mo Hei said he trusted Mo Bai and was following their agreement.
• Mo Hei recalled how his life had revolved around Mo Bai and said Rover had shown Mo Bai the care of an elder.
• Dania complained that Mo Hei barely cared about her and Sisi, and Mo Hei explained that he treasured them as genuine friends he had made while he had lost his memory.
• Dania felt fortunate to have Mo Hei's friendship but wondered how he would respond after learning the truth about her origins.

The Rover began assessing Mo Bai for a future place with the Black Shores, starting with a swordsmanship test that barred Resonance and Cursed Energy. Mo Bai struggled with his rusty weapon skills as the Rover criticized his movements and knocked away his Cursed Tools.

• The Rover told Mo Bai that he, Mo Hei, and Dania could not keep their places at the Academy and proposed an assessment of Mo Bai’s future prospects.
• Mo Bai accepted the Rover’s offer to test him through physical challenges and questions, hoping to earn a place with the Black Shores.
• The Rover began the first test by challenging Mo Bai to a blade contest without Resonance or Cursed Energy.
• Mo Bai fought the Rover with Cursed Tools taken from Mahoraga’s Gluttony Wheel, but the Rover pointed out that his movements lacked coordination and disarmed him repeatedly.

Rover put Mo Bai through a series of combat trials without Cursed Energy to assess whether he could adapt to Black Shores. After he passed the adaptability test, she asked him what path he wanted for his future, leaving his answer unresolved.

• Rover made Mo Bai attack and answer questions during trials in which he could not use Cursed Energy.
• Rover explained how Resonators differed from Jujutsu Sorcerers, including their greater physical strength and longer lifespans.
• Mo Bai changed tactics and imitated the weapon combat and battlefield adaptability of Heavenly Restriction Tyrants.
• Rover declared that Mo Bai had passed the adaptability test but said one question remained before he could be hired.
• Rover asked Mo Bai what path he wanted to take, since she wanted to know what he truly wished for rather than whether he would follow her.

Mo Bai reflected on how his relationships and growing strength had given him a sense of self and a purpose beyond simply following Rover. He decided he wanted to reach the end alongside his friends and witness the ending of Solaris’s greatest tragedy.

• Mo Bai recalled how meeting friends, especially Mo Hei, changed his former outlook that every extra day of life was only a bonus.
• Mo Bai explained that gaining the Limitless and Mahoraga’s Wheel gave him confidence to protect himself and his friends from the Threnodians.
• Mo Bai realized that he had acted on his own desires when he faced Aleph-1 for Aemeath and Rover, showing he was no longer merely Rover’s shadow.
• Rover teased Mo Bai about his growth and asked what he wanted to do in the future.
• Mo Bai told Rover that he wanted to reach the end with his friends and witness the ending of the world’s greatest tragedy.

Feixue cleared Void Matter and Tacet Discords from the Dark Plains, then followed Mo Hei and Dania to keep them safe. At the cave where Dania said she was born, Dania asked Mo Hei whether the disappearance of all Void Matter would be good, and Mo Hei’s answer left her visibly troubled.

• The Academy faced a funding crisis and postponed research into the underground space beneath Lahai Luo.
• Feixue froze and cut down enemies in the Dark Plains, then followed Mo Hei and Dania as they traveled overhead.
• Mo Hei and Dania arrived at a cave Dania had identified as the place where she was born.
• Dania asked whether Mo Hei would consider it good if all Void Matter in the Dark Plains and Lahai Luo disappeared.
• Mo Hei said that Void Matter had no redeeming value, and Dania forced a smile before leading her into the cave.

Little Hei followed Dania into an abandoned Remnant Star Society base where Dania had been born. An attacker who looked and sounded like Napomo lunged at them, and Little Hei summoned Aries to knock it into a wall.

• Little Hei recognized the cold, metallic interior as a former Remnant Star Society outpost and wondered how Yaya could have been born there.
• Little Hei heard something moving deeper inside the base as Dania’s fear surged.
• A figure rushed at Dania and shrieked a welcome, prompting Little Hei to pull her behind her and summon Aries.
• Aries blasted the attacker into a metal wall, but the figure spoke to Little Hei in Napomo’s familiar voice and appeared to be her old friend.

Mo Hei confronted Napomo, recognizing her as the Remnant Star Society President in disguise, and demanded to know what she had done to Yaya. Napomo denied causing Yaya’s fear and vanished after Dania asked Mo Hei to let her go, leaving Mo Hei uncertain about the history between Dania and Napomo.

• Mo Hei recognized Napomo as the Remnant Star Society President wearing a false identity and remained wary of her.
• Mo Hei asked what Napomo had done to Yaya, but Napomo claimed Yaya had trembled at the sight of her on her own.
• Napomo said she had come because Dania led other people there and warned that someone might notice if she stayed.
• Mo Hei prepared to stop Napomo, but Dania asked her to let Napomo go so they could focus on Dania’s truth and origins.
• Napomo dissolved into an illusion and disappeared, leaving Mo Hei to consider Dania’s unknown history with her.

Mo Hei guided the frightened Dania through the abandoned Remnant Star Society base and asked about her connection to Napomo. Dania was pulled back from a vision of her destructive other self when Mo Hei insisted she was speaking to her friend, leaving Dania to decide whether to accept Mo Hei’s kindness.

• Mo Hei let Dania continue guiding her through the base and kept Aries beside her as protection.
• As the base grew darker and colder, Dania’s fear intensified, so Mo Hei moved Aries closer to reassure her.
• Mo Hei asked Dania about her and Napomo, and Dania flinched before recalling how Mo Hei had once been afraid when they first met.
• Dania considered telling Mo Hei the truth but saw a Void Matter version of herself that warned her she could only bring destruction.
• Mo Hei called Dania by her full name, brought her back to reality, and said she was asking her friend, not a spy or a Resonator of the Threnodian.

Dania decided to trust Mo Hei and began telling him the truth about her past at the Remnant Star Society base. Elsewhere, the Remnant Star Society's president and Christopher created an Artificial Threnodian Resonator, and their Experiment 66 emerged from its Incubation Pod.

• Mo Hei rejected Dania’s attempts to push him away and urged her to tell him her story as a friend.
• Dania recalled her days at the Academy, chose to trust Mo Hei, and began recounting what happened at the Remnant Star Society base.
• The Remnant Star Society’s president ordered Christopher to help bring Experiment 66 to life using Void Matter and a Script Page.
• Experiment 66 endured the painful fusion process as the Cultivation Fluid churned inside the Incubation Pod.
• The Incubation Pod shattered, marking the first success in the president’s attempt to create an Artificial Threnodian Resonator.

The Remnant Star Society President, Napomo, claimed the newly created Experiment as her friend and named her Dania, teaching her about life in the Underground Base. Their friendship was upended when Dania suffered sudden chest pain and saw Napomo watching her agony with delight.

• Christopher watched the Experiment survive the combined powers of Leviathan and Aleph-1, then left when Napomo dismissed him.
• Napomo introduced herself to the newly born Experiment, named her Dania, and explained that friends supported and cared for each other.
• Napomo showed Dania around the Underground Base and taught her daily routines, and Dania grew grateful for her first friend.
• Dania collapsed with excruciating chest pain while carrying books to Napomo's room and called for her friend.
• Napomo hurried to Dania but watched her writhe in agony with delight, shocking Dania.

Dania woke in the Incubation Pod and began questioning whether she was human, but Napomo revealed that her kindness had been an act meant to make Dania into an obedient puppet. Napomo tortured her and relied on Dania’s dependence on her, while Dania’s need for void matter left her vulnerable.

• Dania regained consciousness in the Incubation Pod, remembered her unusual birth, and wondered whether she was human.
• Napomo dropped her gentle persona and mocked Dania for beginning to think about who she was.
• When Dania tried to demand an explanation, Napomo shocked her through the control panel and kept her trapped in the pod.
• Napomo revealed that she had cultivated Dania’s dependence and curiosity to create a puppet that resonated with Threnodian and obeyed her.
• Napomo reasoned that Dania could not escape easily because she needed void matter to survive and still depended on Napomo as her friend.

Dania told Mo Hei about her past as Napomo’s Experiment and her role as an undercover agent tasked with sabotaging Star Torch Academy. Mo Hei challenged her account by showing a photo of Dania with himself, Siglica, and Napomo, and reminding her that she had become friends with Sisi.

• Napomo tortured Dania and ordered her to join the Remnant Star Society and sabotage Star Torch Academy.
• Dania obeyed Napomo, went undercover at the Academy, and later stirred up trouble on its Dark Side.
• Mo Bai learned Dania’s scent from a strand of her hair, forcing her to flee and disrupting Napomo’s plans.
• Dania recounted her past to Mo Hei while blaming herself for helping Napomo survive.
• Mo Hei showed Dania a group photograph and said he believed her friendship with Sisi proved she was not simply evil or controlled.

Mo Hei helped Dania recognize that her past held good memories and friends who cared about her, and she thanked him for staying by her side. Their reunion was interrupted by a room full of Napomo-filled Incubation Pods, which Feixue destroyed before leading them to find Mo Bai and the Rover.

• Mo Hei explained that he understood Dania because they were alike, and reminded her that her past included friendship with him and Siglica.
• Dania acknowledged that Siglica would worry about her and thanked Mo Hei for helping her face her past.
• Mo Hei remembered that their problems at the Academy remained unresolved, then heard glass shattering nearby.
• Mo Hei found Incubation Pods containing copies of Napomo, but Feixue swiftly froze and destroyed them with her blade.
• Feixue told Mo Hei and Dania to come with her to find Mo Bai and the Rover.

Dania recalled Napomo’s cruel treatment and sought reassurance from Siglica that the world around them was real. After Rover and Mo Bai removed the powers and influences controlling Dania, Mo Hei asked how she wanted to live now that she was free.

• Napomo made Dania drink a foul nutrient solution and treated her as a tool despite having given her a sense of self.
• Dania asked Siglica whether the sky and Tunneler Swarm Creatures were fake, and Siglica insisted they were real because they affected people’s lives.
• Rover removed Leviathan’s Fusion power from Dania, and Mo Bai used a Cursed Tool to stabilize the Void Matter in her body.
• With Aleph-1, Leviathan’s Dark Tide, and Christopher’s Script Pages no longer controlling her, Dania was free of the Remnant Star Society’s influence.
• Mo Hei stood beside Dania and asked how she wanted to spend her life.

Gabriella returned to Lahai Luo and assessed Mo Hei as Mo Bai and the others prepared to leave for the Black Shores. Dania chose to remain near Star Torch Academy, while Gabriella announced that Rover would stay to enjoy Academy life before taking Mo Bai and Mo Hei to the Black Shores.

• Gabriella fought Mo Hei and judged her combat skills while Mo Bai, Rover, Dania, and Feixue watched.
• Feixue said Dania had mastered her power but would need to stay away from Star Torch Academy until it was safer for her.
• Dania chose to stay near the Academy because she wanted to remain with her friend Siglica, and Mo Hei reassured her.
• Gabriella caught up with Mo Bai, who still treasured the Shell Credit she had given him.
• Gabriella said Rover would stay to enjoy Academy life, then take Mo Bai and Mo Hei to the Black Shores.

Losera struggled with the workload and uncertain future of Star Torch Academy while worrying about her students. The Rover reassured her that Dania, Mo Bai, and Mo Hei were safe, though Losera still had other troubles to face.

• Losera worked through piles of documents and tried to secure more time and resources for Star Torch Academy.
• The Rover recognized that the Academy’s fading purpose after the Tunneler and Aleph-1 were gone weighed heavily on Losera.
• Losera asked whether Mo Bai and Mo Hei were safe, and the Rover told her that Dania was helping Feixue clear Void Matter in the Dark Plains.
• The Rover revealed Mo Bai and Mo Hei from her shadow, and Losera felt relieved to learn all three students were safe.
• Losera’s relief did not resolve the other troubles facing the Principal.

Rover, Mo Bai, and Mo Hei left Principal Losera to handle the Academy’s troubles and discussed how they could help Star Torch Academy. Mo Hei chose to help because Losera had protected her, and Mo Bai agreed because he supported Mo Hei and wanted to help his friends at the Academy.

• Losera worried about Mo Bai, Mo Hei, Dania, and the Academy until Rover reassured her that Mo Bai and Mo Hei’s next steps were settled.
• Mo Hei asked whether they could help Losera, who reassured her that she could handle the situation and sent the group from her office.
• Mo Bai used Light Extinction to conceal himself and Mo Hei as they followed Rover to a quiet spot beside the Academy's Garden.
• Rover asked Mo Bai and Mo Hei what they thought of Losera’s situation, and Mo Hei said she wanted to help the Academy because Losera had protected her.
• Mo Bai agreed with Mo Hei and said he wanted to help because his friends loved the Academy.

Rover called her companion at the Black Shores for advice on saving Star Torch Academy, then decided to guide the Academy from behind the scenes rather than intervene directly. She left the immediate crisis for the Academy to face and prove it deserved continued support.

• Rover worried that Mo Bai and Aemeath might sacrifice themselves as Saviors, then called her companion at the Black Shores.
• Rover explained that Mingshi was dead, the Remnant Star Society had withdrawn, and conflict within the Academy remained.
• Rover's companion advised her to intervene as a Threnodian of the Black Shores alongside Gabriella, who was in Lahai Luo.
• Rover ended the call after her companion said she would always be waiting for her, while Mo Bai and Mo Hei listened curiously.
• Rover told Mo Bai and Mo Hei they would meet her companion someday and chose to guide Star Torch Academy from behind the scenes, leaving it to prove its worth.

Mo Bai delivered Rover’s assignment for Gabriella to accompany Principal Losera on a Star Torch Academy tour as a Black Shores Special Inspector. After Gabriella left, Mo Bai decided to visit a place while avoiding his friends so they would not be linked to a wanted fugitive.

• Mo Bai met Gabriella on a rooftop and told her that Rover had assigned her to accompany Principal Losera on an Academy tour.
• Gabriella learned that Rover would attend the review as a student and accepted that she only needed to follow her lead.
• Mo Bai told Gabriella he planned to wander around Lahai Luo while waiting to report to the Black Shores.
• Gabriella teased Mo Bai about being a fugitive, then left the rooftop on her flaming wings.
• Mo Bai considered visiting his friends but worried that being seen with him could cause trouble for them, so he decided to visit another place.