Chapter Summaries

Mo Bai confronted Mo Hei about why he had attacked, then recognized that he had abandoned the lonely part of himself Mo Hei represented. After accepting Mo Hei as his shadow, Mo Bai absorbed him into his Ten Shadows Technique, recovered his Cursed Energy, and headed toward the academy plaza on the Great Serpent.

• Mo Bai told the injured Mo Hei he would not kill him until he knew whether doing so would restore his lost Cursed Energy.
• Mo Hei admitted he attacked out of bitterness and resentment because Mo Bai had found friends and left him behind.
• Mo Bai acknowledged that he had discarded his old life and, with it, the imagined friend Mo Hei had been.
• Mo Bai thanked Mo Hei and accepted him as his shadow and another part of himself, causing Mo Hei to merge into the Ten Shadows Technique.
• Mo Bai recovered all his Cursed Energy, summoned the Great Serpent, and rode it toward the academy plaza.

Mo Bai reached Moqu, who was trapped behind a barrier and bound in red ribbons connected to the Remnant Star Society. Mo Bai broke through the ribbons and scolded Moqu awake, leaving Moqu ready to share his performance with someone who understood him.

• Mo Bai traveled through the Dark Side of the Academy on the Great Serpent and received Rover's call, admitting he had indirectly harmed students at Sonoro.
• Rover warned Mo Bai about acting alone but said he trusted him after learning he had overcome his inner demons.
• Mo Bai found Moqu sealed inside a barrier, and Rover warned that the Remnant Star Society had left traces on him.
• Mo Bai tested the barrier with Toads from the Bottomless Well, then entered through the shadows and cut Moqu's ribbons with cursed glass.
• Mo Bai touched Moqu's head and saw his experiences, then scolded him and promised to bring friends to watch their play.
• Moqu realized he wanted to share what he loved with people who understood him, and the red cloth fell from his head.

Mo Bai was interrogated at Star Torch Academy over damage to a Sonoro and evidence of the Remnant Star Society, while Professor Verlaine tried to make him reveal his abilities. Principal Losera halted the questioning just as Lu Hess arrived with students who wanted to see the person who had saved them.

• Professor Verlaine accused Mo Bai of causing serious damage to the Sonoro and questioned why he had come to the Academy.
• The Rover defended Mo Bai, but Verlaine showed footage of Moqu being contaminated and demanded that Mo Bai demonstrate his Resonance Ability.
• Mo Bai realized Verlaine wanted to discover what he could do and considered leaving the Academy.
• The Rover silently urged Mo Bai to stay, and he decided to heed his friend's request.
• Principal Losera stopped Verlaine's argument and affirmed the Academy's duty to its students.
• Lu Hess arrived with students from the Infirmary who insisted on seeing Mo Bai, leaving Verlaine frustrated.

After the academy let Mo Bai go while keeping an eye on him, he spoke with Rover about the investigation and warned her to be careful around Verlaine. Moqu then asked whether Mo Bai would stay in his life after helping with his next play, and Mo Bai left the possibility open.

• The academy ended Mo Bai's questioning without blaming him, as the injured students defended him and the Remnant Star Society remained undiscovered.
• Mo Bai told Rover he had been lucky, but Rover praised how he had handled the crisis in Sonoro and uncovered traces of the Remnant Star Society.
• Mo Bai warned Rover to be careful around Verlaine, and Rover said she trusted him.
• Moqu joined Mo Bai in the garden after Doctor Lu allowed him to leave the infirmary briefly.
• Mo Bai promised to help Moqu put on his next play and said they could decide what came after once he had watched the performance from backstage.

Mo Bai helped Moqu stage a play about the Voidworm, with Rover and Lynae performing as the heroes. Though most spectators came for the famous knights, a few appreciated Moqu’s work, and Mo Bai and Moqu exchanged Feixun contacts before parting.

• Mo Bai recruited Rover and Lynae to perform in Moqu’s play, while he worked backstage providing props.
• Moqu played the Voidworm as Rover and Lynae acted as Voidworm Knights, drawing a crowd of students to the performance.
• After the play, Lynae and Rover thanked Mo Bai and discussed the performance with him before leaving.
• Moqu told Mo Bai that most spectators had focused on Rover and Lynae, but some students had enjoyed the play itself.
• Mo Bai offered to exchange Feixun contacts with Moqu so they could share future ideas, and Moqu agreed.

After Mo Bai added Moqu on Feixun, Mo Hei explained that Moqu’s determination had influenced him. Mo Bai went to the Academy’s auditorium to watch movies, where Principal Losera joined him and proposed showing him one she recommended.

• Mo Bai wondered why he had exchanged contact details with Moqu, and Mo Hei said Moqu’s determination had moved him.
• Mo Bai wandered into the Academy’s open Screening Room and watched two romance movies alone.
• After the films ended, Principal Losera appeared beside Mo Bai and critiqued both movies.
• Losera asked Mo Bai what he thought of the films, then took out her Projector and suggested they watch one she recommended.

Principal Losera watched movies with Mo Bai in the Auditorium, then asked how he felt about the Academy. Mo Bai admitted he did not feel he belonged there, and Losera hoped he would one day come to love it.

• Losera and Mo Bai watched movies until her miniature projector broke, ending their marathon.
• Losera asked Mo Bai which movies he liked, and they discussed students' preference for dramatic and romantic stories.
• Mo Bai praised Losera's knowledge of films and learned she preferred watching the Academy's students' real-life romances to romance movies.
• Losera asked whether Mo Bai liked the Academy, and he said it was all right but did not feel like home.
• Losera wished Mo Bai would someday feel at home at the Academy, then hurried back to retrieve her forgotten handbag.

Mo Bai skipped a class with Lynae, and the two rode into a Voidmatter Magnetic Storm to rescue a Star Torch Academy student. They discovered the student was a Remnant Star Society spy, and the storm vanished as an empty jar-shaped container appeared nearby.

• Mo Bai left class with Lynae and rode away from the Academy.
• Mo Bai and Lynae encountered a Voidmatter Magnetic Storm and saw someone trapped inside.
• They entered the storm, subdued the Tunneler Swarm Creatures, and found a distressed student in a red Star Torch Academy uniform.
• The student lunged at Mo Bai, but he threw them down while Lynae held them at gunpoint.
• Mo Bai and Lynae identified and tied up the student as a Remnant Star Society spy.
• The storm vanished, and Mo Bai found an empty jar-shaped container nearby.

Mo Bai fought off a Remnant Star Society attack after sending Lynae away with the recovered container for Professor Mornye. Having killed the attacking Artificers, he was confronted by an aged figure formed from their corpses.

• Mo Bai knocked out a spy who had tried to signal for help and sent Lynae to deliver the container to Professor Mornye.
• Lynae left on the motorcycle, and Mo Bai stayed behind as a group of Remnant Star Society Artificers approached.
• Mo Bai dodged a missile and blocked two attackers, then used the Great Serpent to restrain them as another missile struck.
• Mo Bai summoned Divine Dogs to pin down the remaining Artificers and killed them with his Swift Blade when Owl Mask hesitated to fire.
• An aged, masked figure carrying a lantern staff emerged after the Artificers' corpses merged together.

Mo Bai fought the President of the Remnant Star Society, who tested his summoning ability and overwhelmed him in close combat. Facing defeat, Mo Bai used Domain Expansion and trapped the President inside Chimera Shadow Garden.

• Mo Bai summoned Tengshe and attacked the elderly man, then identified him as the President of the Remnant Star Society.
• The President blocked Tengshe’s attacks and threw it aside, then analyzed Mo Bai’s summoning ability.
• Mo Bai charged the President with his Swift Blade, but the President’s strength gradually pushed him back.
• The President struck Mo Bai in the chest, and Mo Bai used Toad from the Bottomless Well to stop his slide.
• Mo Bai completed the hand signs for Domain Expansion and engulfed the President in Chimera Shadow Garden.

Mo Bai used Domain Expansion to empower his Shikigami against the president of the Remnant Star Society, revealing a Fusion Beast that could restrain and batter him. As the president attacked Mo Bai from behind, a second Fusion Beast emerged from the shadows and caught his arm.

• Mo Bai’s domain thickened the shadows, allowing Tengshe and the Divine Dogs to attack the president, though they barely harmed his durable body.
• The president smashed the Divine Dogs and charged Mo Bai, but Tengshe dissolved into shadow before his staff could hit it.
• Mo Bai summoned a Fusion Beast made from the Divine Dogs, Nue, and Great Serpent, and it struck the president with lightning-charged blows.
• The president appeared behind Mo Bai and attacked, but a second Fusion Beast reached from the shadows and seized his arm.

Mo Bai defeated the President of the Remnant Star Society inside his domain and refused the President’s offer to recruit him. After returning to reality with his Cursed Technique burned out, Mo Bai encountered the Rover, who had rushed to check on him.

• Mo Bai captured the President in his domain, learned that the New Federation also had influence at Star Torch Academy, and rejected the offer to join the Remnant Star Society.
• Mo Bai explained that he had no grand ambitions and did not want to anger a friend, then crushed the President and his two bodies with the Fusion Beasts.
• Mo Bai dispelled his domain, found the captured Remnant Star Society mole nearby, and noted that his Cursed Technique had burned out.
• The Rover arrived as Mo Bai prepared to defend himself, and Mo Bai told her that he had won.

Mo Bai handed a Remnant Star Society mole over to the Academy and went with Rover and Lynae to the Infirmary for a checkup. Rover arranged to take charge of Mo Bai’s afternoon classes so she could train him against the danger posed by the society.

• Rover warned Mo Bai about the Remnant Star Society, and he told her he had rejected its President’s offer to join.
• Mo Bai returned to the Academy with Rover and released the captured mole for a teacher to take into custody.
• Lynae joined Mo Bai and Rover at the Infirmary, where Lu Hess and N.A.N.A. checked Mo Bai and Lynae after the Voidmatter Magnetic Storm.
• Rover asked Lu Hess to arrange for her to teach Mo Bai’s afternoon classes so she could train him herself.
• Mo Bai realized Rover’s plan meant special training rather than sightseeing and worried about facing her in another fight.

Mo Bai arranged to borrow Moqu’s Blackstone Weapons for daily training with Rover, then met her at a scenic spot the next afternoon. Before their sparring, Rover asked to watch Mo Bai tame a Shikigami, and he began the summoning.

• Mo Bai asked Moqu to lend him Blackstone Weapons, and Moqu agreed in exchange for Mo Bai reviewing his upcoming film.
• Mo Bai tried the Academy’s new canned food and found its combination of flavors disgusting, but forced himself to finish it.
• The next afternoon, Mo Bai collected the weapons from Moqu and rode his Motorcycle to meet Rover.
• Rover greeted Mo Bai with Abu and explained that she wanted to watch him tame a Shikigami before they trained.
• Mo Bai formed a hand sign, and the shadow on the ground took the shape of an elephant’s head.

Mo Bai subjugated Max Elephant, Rabbit Escape, and Piercing Ox while Rover trained his close-combat skills. After defeating Piercing Ox head-on with raw Cursed Energy, he prepared to continue subjugating the remaining Shikigami.

• Mo Bai used Great Serpent to restrain Max Elephant, then defeated it with Animal-Form Fist and completed its subjugation.
• Mo Bai told Rover and Abu that he could subjugate every remaining Shikigami except the last one, and Rover assigned him to subjugate the rest before fighting her.
• Rover corrected Mo Bai’s striking technique and offered to ask an old friend to train him someday.
• Mo Bai identified and defeated the original among Rabbit Escape’s endless copies, completing its subjugation.
• Mo Bai faced Piercing Ox’s straight-line charge and, after reinforcing his body with Cursed Energy, lifted and slammed it to complete its subjugation.

After subduing the deer and tiger, Mo Bai sparred with Rover using a Binding Vow that strengthened his Fused Shikigami at the cost of limiting how many he could summon. Their training ended when Rover heard someone calling for help.

• Mo Bai reflected on the Shikigami he had subdued and credited his plentiful Cursed Energy to the Goddess.
• Rover healed Mo Bai, then challenged him to another round of training with Blood Pact.
• Mo Bai summoned Fei and Hun to attack Rover, using their speed and strength to keep her occupied.
• Mo Bai explained that his Binding Vow let him summon fewer Fused Shikigami in exchange for making them stronger.
• Rover blocked the Shikigami and destroyed the Swift Blades Mo Bai released from the shadows.
• Rover heard a distant cry for help and stopped their training to investigate.

Rover and Mo Bai responded to a truck driver being attacked by Drifters, and Rover asked Mo Bai to judge the robbers for himself. The chapter ended with Mo Bai saying they deserved to die.

• Mo Bai followed Rover toward cries for help and wondered how she would respond to ordinary people’s wrongdoing.
• Drifters stopped a cargo truck and threatened to kill its driver for refusing to hand over academy supplies.
• Mo Bai summoned his Divine Dogs, which stopped the robbers from attacking the driver.
• Rover and Mo Bai arrived, Rover treated the driver and sent him somewhere safe, then asked Mo Bai what he thought of the Drifters.
• Mo Bai said the robbers deserved to die.

Mo Bai’s willingness to kill the Drifters troubled Rover, who questioned him about his judgment and urged him not to be so quick to take lives. Mo Bai promised to work on it, and Rover said she believed in him as they continued toward the Academy.

• Mo Bai said the Drifter leader deserved to die, frightening the leader and his men into dropping their masks and promising to stop being Drifters.
• Rover drew the Blood Pact and warned the Drifters that the Deep Space Union would question them before she and Mo Bai walked toward the Academy.
• Rover showed Mo Bai the interrogation report confirming the Drifters had stolen cargo but never killed anyone, and Mo Bai admitted he might have judged them too quickly.
• Rover told Mo Bai not to be so quick to kill, and Mo Bai realized he had become unusually ready to kill after arriving in this world.
• Mo Bai promised Rover he would work on his readiness to kill, and Rover said she believed in him.

Mo Bai reflected on his past and his bond with Mo Hei, then considered how to grow stronger and learn Reverse Cursed Technique. After Mo Hei and Round Deer helped ease his gloom and fatigue, members of the Remnant Star Society approached him.

• Mo Bai walked back to the Academy alone and talked with Mo Hei about how they had changed since arriving in Solaris.
• Mo Hei created warm lights to comfort Mo Bai, and they discussed their old memories and the Goddess who had given Mo Bai his Cursed Technique.
• Mo Bai learned that Mo Hei knew only the reversed Ten Shadows Technique and had no memory of the Goddess.
• Mo Bai summoned Round Deer, whose Positive Energy healed his fatigue, and considered learning Reverse Cursed Technique from it and Mo Hei.
• Mo Hei retreated into the shadows, and Mo Bai spotted red-clad members of the Remnant Star Society approaching.

Mo Bai fought the Remnant Star Society members while the President watched unseen and tested his reactions. After discovering they were altered, emotionless puppets, he destroyed them and the President withdrew, having learned more about him.

• The President spoke through a new persona, and Mo Bai summoned Max Elephant, Great Serpent, and Nue to trap and incapacitate the Remnant Star Society members.
• The President revealed that she had come to test Mo Bai and urged him to examine the fallen members as examples of the Society’s work.
• Mo Bai found that the members showed no real emotions and seemed to follow orders mechanically after being altered.
• Mo Bai rejected the President’s claim that members joined willingly, citing Rover’s account of the Society’s atrocities.
• Mo Bai had Great Serpent swallow and destroy the fallen members, and the President withdrew after noting his reaction.