Chapter Summaries

Mo Bai explored Losera’s memories and learned that guilt over a student’s death had made her consider yielding authority to the New Federation. He urged the real Losera to listen to her students and trust them before the reviewers arrived.

• In the Principal’s Office, a mirror version of Losera staged a call in which she agreed to a deal that would let the New Federation take control of the Label Department.
• Mo Bai rejected the mirror’s claim that she knew the real Losera’s choices simply because she shared her memories, then asked to learn more about Losera’s troubles.
• The mirror showed Mo Bai a memory of a student celebrating a transport plane’s successful flight before an explosion destroyed it and killed her.
• Back in the Principal’s Office, Mo Bai concluded that Losera’s guilt over the student’s death had made her consider giving up authority to the New Federation.
• Mo Bai addressed the real Losera, urging her to delay the reviewers and learn what her students wanted, because he believed she should trust them.

Mo Bai enlisted Aemeath to disrupt the New Federation's meeting and buy time during the Academy review, while Losera and the students tried to impress Gabriella. After Gabriella left, Losera apologized to Rover for how the review had gone.

• Mo Bai brought Aemeath into a Shadow Space and explained that she should hack the New Federation meeting-room screen and frame the Remnant Star Society.
• Aemeath complained that she was doing all the work, then digitized herself and left to carry out the plan.
• Losera and the students showed Gabriella around Star Torch Academy, but their presentation went poorly.
• Gabriella gave the Academy a favorable assessment despite her reserved comments, then left as the reviewer.
• Losera apologized to Rover for appearing overwhelmed, while Rover felt she should have helped but had chosen not to intervene.

Losera reflected on Mo Bai’s trust in her and realized he considered her a friend, prompting her to take action against the New Federation. Aemeath returned after stalling the New Federation group, while Mo Bai trusted Losera to protect the Academy and its students.

• Losera told Rover that Mo Bai had trusted her to lead the students through the crisis, and she wondered why he believed in her.
• Rover suggested Mo Bai regarded Losera as a friend, and Losera recalled how he had helped Dania for Mo Hei’s sake.
• Losera concluded that Mo Bai’s trust gave her a reason to act, then led Rover to a secret base at the Academy.
• Aemeath returned and told Mo Bai that she had stalled the New Federation group by overcoming its technology.
• Mo Bai reflected on the trust Losera had shown him in the past and trusted her to handle the crisis at the Academy.

Mo Bai looked back on how the crisis at Star Torch Academy had been resolved and summoned his Shikigami to mark the end of his time in Lahai Luo. Mahoraga interrupted his group photo, and Mo Bai prepared to fight him.

• Mo Bai reflected on the Academy’s recovery after Losera and the students secured funding, the Threnodian threat ended, and the warrants against Mo Bai and Mo Hei were revoked.
• Mo Bai summoned his nine Shikigami on the hillside and decided to take a group photo to record how far he had come.
• Mahoraga knocked Mo Bai’s Gourd Terminal from his hand as the camera flashed, then attacked him with a Cursed Tool.
• Mo Bai dodged Mahoraga’s strike, retrieved the weapon, and raised it to face him.

Mo Bai concealed his fight with Mahoraga behind a barrier, then realized Mahoraga had picked a fight to communicate through combat. The chapter ended with Mahoraga asking why Mo Bai had allowed the fight despite having the authority to stop it.

• Mo Bai created a barrier that hid the hillside and its sounds from outsiders.
• Mo Bai reflected on Mahoraga’s growing resentment at being summoned mainly so Mo Bai could use his Wheel.
• Mo Bai and Mahoraga fought with Cursed Tools, using combat to communicate while trying to limit the damage.
• Mo Bai stopped fighting and asked Mahoraga if they could talk.
• Mahoraga asked why Mo Bai had let the fight happen when he could have prevented it with a word.

Mo Bai tried to understand why Mahoraga had asked him why he went along with him, and explained that Mahoraga still reminded him of his lonely younger self. After Mo Bai lowered the barrier and considered including Mahoraga in a commemorative photo, someone shot out of Mahoraga’s shadow toward him.

• Mo Bai weighed whether to answer Mahoraga honestly, wary that Mahoraga might still resent being banished for a thousand years.
• Mo Bai told Mahoraga he still thought of him as his Shikigami and sometimes saw more of his old self in him than in Hei.
• Mo Bai recognized that Mahoraga reminded him of his lonely past, when he had pushed away kindness and had no friends.
• Mahoraga fell silent after Mo Bai defended his choice to understand his Shikigami rather than simply order them around.
• Mo Bai dispelled the barrier and considered taking a group photo with Mahoraga, but Mahoraga slipped into the shadows and a figure shot out toward Mo Bai.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei reunited on the hillside after Mahoraga interrupted Mo Bai’s photo with his Shikigami. Mo Bai asked Mo Hei to consider a future of his own, and Mo Hei teased him for repeating his earlier advice.

• Mo Hei rushed through the shadows and landed on Mo Bai, worried that an enemy had attacked him.
• Mo Bai explained that Mahoraga had interrupted his planned group photo with Nue and the other Shikigami.
• Mo Hei complained that Mo Bai had taken the photo without him, and Mo Bai promised to take a separate commemorative photo together.
• Mo Bai asked Mo Hei what he wanted to do in the future, including whether he truly wanted to take the Black Shores assessment.
• Mo Hei laughed and mimicked Mo Bai’s earlier advice about pursuing a future of his own, leaving Mo Bai embarrassed.

Mo Bai and Mo Hei admitted they wanted to stay together, while Mo Bai reflected on his future and his friendship with Rover. As he wondered whether Rover had forgotten her promise to tell him about her travels, the President of the Remnant Star Society appeared wearing Napomo's face.

• Mo Hei told Mo Bai he had no intention of leaving him, and Mo Bai admitted he did not want Mo Hei to go either.
• Mo Hei returned to the Academy, and Mo Bai took a photograph of himself alone.
• Mo Bai reflected on Rover and realized he did not regret meeting her or following her example.
• Mo Bai recalled Rover's promise to share the story of her past travels once his memories returned.
• Mo Bai sensed someone approaching the hillside and confronted the Remnant Star Society's President, who appeared wearing Napomo's face.

The Remnant Star Society president’s clone delivered a final invitation to Mo Bai, offering to help restore Rover to his former peak. Mo Bai refused, and the clone chose to return despite knowing the president would likely destroy her.

• Mo Bai recognized the Remnant Star Society president before him as an independent-minded clone and let her deliver her message.
• The clone invited Mo Bai to join the Remnant Star Society, promising they would restore Rover to his former peak.
• Mo Bai refused, saying the Society had started recruiting him too late.
• Mo Bai warned the clone that she would die if she returned to the president.
• The clone said she had come of her own free will and accepted dying for their shared goals, then walked away as Mo Bai let her go.

Mo Bai surveyed Star Torch Academy and realized he had forgotten to prepare a graduation gift for Rover, who was leaving the next day. Aemeath found him before he could decide what to do, and he asked why she had come.

• Mo Bai returned from Shadow Space and looked across Star Torch Academy, deciding not to try the Holographic Challenge after seeing Aemeath's altered record.
• Mo Bai watched Lynae help around campus and saw Chisa admired by engineering students for her barbecue piano cart.
• Mo Bai reflected on how the Academy and its students had settled into a peaceful routine while Rover prepared to graduate alone.
• Mo Bai realized he had not prepared a gift for Rover, whose graduation was the next day.
• Aemeath appeared behind Mo Bai, protested his nickname for her, and he asked what had brought her there.

Mo Bai and Aemeath tried to come up with Graduation Gifts for Rover, but rejected each other’s ideas as unoriginal. Rover found them mid-argument and smiled at their familiar, heartwarming bickering.

• Aemeath asked Mo Bai for help choosing a Graduation Gift for Rover, but he admitted he had not prepared one either.
• Mo Bai and Aemeath realized neither had a gift idea and decided to brainstorm together.
• Aemeath suggested a weapon, but Mo Bai noted Rover already had the Blood Pact.
• Mo Bai proposed a handwritten letter, but Aemeath rejected it because Rover had likely received similar letters before.
• Rover found Mo Bai and Aemeath arguing over whose idea it was, and she smiled at the familiar scene.

The Rover learned that Mo Bai and Aemeath had been arguing over a heartfelt Graduation Gift for her, then reassured Aemeath about her coming departure from Lahai Luo. Mo Bai asked the Rover to fulfill her promise by telling him her story, and the chapter ended with them looking down at their friends together.

• The Rover confronted Mo Bai and Aemeath about their argument and learned they were trying to prepare a surprise gift for her.
• The Rover told Aemeath that her safety and Mo Bai's return to the Black Shores were the best gifts she could ask for, and Aemeath left to help prepare the farewell party.
• Mo Bai explained that Aemeath was upset because the Rover was leaving Lahai Luo soon, and the Rover said they would meet again.
• Mo Bai asked the Rover to keep her promise and tell him her story, so they sat atop the Academy as she recounted arriving in the world with no memories and becoming its Savior.
• Mo Bai reflected on how hard the Rover's journey had been, and the Rover said the friendships she had gained made it worthwhile.
• Mo Bai told the Rover she won people over without realizing it, and they looked down at their friends working below.

Mo Bai left his old dorm and joined Mo Hei at the Star Torch Academy gates for Rover’s graduation send-off. As Rover prepared to leave for the Black Shores with Mo Bai, Mo Hei, and Gabriella, Mo Bai reflected on leaving the Academy and learned more about Gabriella’s past.

• Mo Bai cleaned his old dorm, remembered the friends and memories he had there, and slipped away through the shadows.
• Mo Hei asked whether Mo Bai had prepared a graduation gift for Rover, then panicked that Mo Bai might give himself to her.
• Mo Bai told Mo Hei not to make inappropriate remarks at Rover’s graduation.
• Gabriella, Aemeath, Lynae, Chisa, Mornye, Lu, Hess, Siglica, Dania, Feixue, and Principal Losera gathered at Star Torch Academy to see Rover off.
• Mo Bai explained to Gabriella that he was dropping out rather than graduating, and Gabriella joked that they would be stuck hunting Tacet Discords on assignments.

Mo Bai and Rover said goodbye to their friends at Star Torch Academy before leaving Lahai Luo and joining the Black Shores. After Rover sent them a letter about Jinzhou, Mo Bai and Mo Hei chose it as the first stop on their journey together.

• Losera congratulated Mo Bai on graduating, and Lynae and Aemeath gave him farewell gifts.
• Mo Bai and Aemeath traded jabs before wishing each other farewell, while Rover encouraged Aemeath to catch up with them after graduating.
• Mo Bai, Mo Hei, Gabriella, and Rover rode away from Star Torch Academy, and Feixue sent Mo Bai a bell bracelet as he passed through the Transit Spine.
• Mo Bai and Mo Hei joined the Black Shores, completed their examinations, and agreed to keep traveling together.
• A veiled woman delivered Rover's letter, and Mo Bai and Mo Hei decided to make Jinzhou their first destination.
• Mo Bai acknowledged his Shikigami and resolved to continue developing the Ten Shadows Technique as his story began anew.