Chapter Summaries

Mo Bai talked with Mo Hei about his doubts over his identity and how to help Rover, then found comfort in sharing memories with him. Their conversation ended with Mo Bai discovering that Mo Hei remembered their parents’ deaths differently, leaving him questioning whether their memories were truly shared.

• Mo Hei told Mo Bai that Rover’s expectations and his own uncertainty were things Mo Bai had to work through for himself.
• Mo Hei tried to summon Divine Dogs but failed, then advised Mo Bai that advice alone could not give him answers.
• Mo Bai accepted that his choices mattered more than finding answers through conversation, and Mo Hei cheered him up by reminiscing about their past.
• Mo Hei admitted he valued sharing private memories with Mo Bai and chose to remain by his side rather than become independent.
• Mo Bai said their parents had died protecting him during a home invasion, but Mo Hei did not recognize that memory, making Mo Bai suspect their memories differed.

After Mo Bai woke to find Gabriella gone, he wandered around Star Torch Academy and heard students discussing a legendary Miko who supposedly watched movies in the Screening Room. Curious, he went there with Aemeath, where she encouraged him to use his ability.

• Mo Bai chose not to press Mo Hei about their parents after Mo Hei said he could not explain for Mo Bai's own good.
• Mo Bai woke late and realized Gabriella and the blue bird were no longer there to wake him.
• Mo Bai overheard students talking about a legendary Miko said to have appeared in the Screening Room.
• Aemeath appeared beside Mo Bai, and he agreed to visit the Screening Room with her.
• Mo Bai and Aemeath found the Screening Room empty, and Aemeath told him the area was clear for him to use his ability.

Mo Bai and Aemeath searched the Screening Room for the Miko, but their investigation uncovered only her interest in movies and a warning to stop looking. Afterward, Aemeath unexpectedly decided to accompany Mo Bai, leaving him stunned.

• Mo Bai summoned the Divine Dogs, which tracked traces of the Miko to the Screening Room's movie discs.
• Aemeath described the Miko's red-and-white outfit, cold presence, and appearances before students in desperate straits, but Mo Bai found no further clues.
• Aemeath reacted nervously when Mo Bai suggested asking Rover for help, then hurried out of the Screening Room.
• A Paper Crane appeared in the classroom as the temperature dropped, and Mo Bai guessed the Miko was warning him to stop searching.
• The Miko received the Paper Crane and sensed Mo Bai's Cursed Energy, but decided he meant no harm.
• Mo Bai found Aemeath nearby, and she said she was bored and would tag along with him.

Mo Bai brought Aemeath to the Game Club, where he met Kuchiba Chisa and learned that she had asked Moqu to modify her Piano Barbecue Machine. He followed Chisa out, hoping to ask her about Rover’s past and clarify his own feelings about helping Rover.

• Aemeath asked to follow Mo Bai because he was the only person at the Academy who could always see her, and he agreed to bring her along to visit a friend.
• Mo Bai found Moqu repairing Chisa’s Piano Barbecue Machine after Moqu challenged her to another game of Old Maid and lost.
• Chisa introduced herself to Mo Bai and explained that she had asked Moqu to add four-wheel-drive capability to her machine.
• Mo Bai said goodbye to Moqu and hurried after Chisa, intending to ask what she knew about Rover’s past.
• Mo Bai wondered whether learning more about Rover would change his uncertain resolve to help her.

Mo Bai asked Chisa about Rover’s past, and she agreed to share what she knew after testing whether she could trust him. She took him through her usual spots around the Academy, where Mo Bai saw her kindness, her popularity with cats, and her skill at repairing a motorcycle.

• Mo Bai caught up with Chisa and asked about Rover’s past, and Chisa agreed to tell him what she knew if he passed her test.
• Mo Bai accepted Chisa’s test, and Aemeath teased him as he followed Chisa to the Cafeteria.
• Aemeath ordered Mo Bai a bland nutritional meal, which he ate despite preferring spicy food.
• Chisa took Mo Bai to places around the Academy where deer and kittens appeared, and he realized they were part of her usual routine.
• Chisa repaired a classmate’s damaged motorcycle, revealing her mechanical skill.

Chisa took Mo Bai to the Academy’s Clothing Design Room, where her mother offered to make him new clothes. Mo Bai refused and began to question why he felt attached to his old coat, while rejecting Chisa’s suggestion that it reminded him of his family.

• Mo Bai learned that Chisa had encouraged Moqu to repair the piano barbecue machine because she knew about his past.
• Chisa took Mo Bai to the Clothing Design Room to tell him about the Rover’s past.
• Mo Bai met Chisa’s mother, the Academy’s clothing designer, who inspected his patched coat and offered to make him new clothes.
• Mo Bai refused to change out of his old clothes, and Chisa’s mother wondered whether they held special meaning for him.
• Chisa suggested the clothes might remind Mo Bai of his family, but he denied it and reflected that his memories of his parents had grown hazy.

Mo Bai accompanied Chisa into a stable Sonoro to learn about Rover’s past in Honami City, while Aemeath stayed behind and asked him to share what he learned. Chisa brought him to the Conductor Café, where he met Bozai, Honami City’s guardian deity.

• Mo Bai told Aemeath that Rover mattered to him because she was the first friend willing to open her heart to him.
• Chisa led Mo Bai to a stable spatial portal into a Sonoro, and Aemeath stayed behind after asking him to report back about Rover.
• Mo Bai entered Honami City and learned from Chisa that Rover had once saved the place.
• Chisa brought Mo Bai to the Conductor Café, which she said had been her and Rover’s former base.
• Bozai greeted Mo Bai, and Chisa introduced the flying capybara as Honami City’s guardian deity.

Mo Bai visited Chisa’s café, where she told him how Rover had freed the people trapped in Honami City’s Sonoro. Chisa accepted Mo Bai as Rover’s friend, and he left in a good mood.

• Bozai served Mo Bai and Chisa coffee at the café, where Mo Bai noticed photographs of Chisa, Rover, and their friends.
• Chisa explained that she had initially worried Mo Bai only wanted to hear about Rover, but Rover’s words had convinced her he was different.
• Chisa told Mo Bai how Rover resolved Honami City’s instability and freed most of its transparent inhabitants from their lingering attachments.
• Chisa offered to have her mother redesign Mo Bai’s worn clothes, but he declined and prepared to leave.
• Chisa let Mo Bai go without seeing him off, and he left feeling pleased that she had accepted him.

Mo Bai entered a portal from Honami City but found himself trapped in a fabricated landscape resembling his old home, where he confronted Christopher of the Remnant Star Society. He realized Christopher had intercepted him deliberately, though the reason remained unclear.

• Mo Bai saw a mother and child grieving in Honami City and thought of his own mother before entering the portal back to the academy.
• Mo Bai emerged in a rural landscape resembling his old home and used Nue to discover that Solaris buildings had been mixed into the scenery.
• Mo Bai began forming his domain, but Christopher appeared and stopped him.
• Mo Bai explained that Christopher's constructed world was insubstantial and that his domain could challenge it, while revealing Rover had warned him about Christopher's abilities.
• Christopher questioned why Mo Bai had not attacked or simply left, and Mo Bai inferred that Christopher had intercepted him for a reason.

Mo Bai entered Christopher’s scripted recreation of his childhood village, hoping to uncover the memory Mo Hei had kept from him. After meeting familiar villagers, Mo Bai continued toward his childhood home despite wondering why he was risking so much to learn about his past.

• Mo Bai decided to use Christopher’s script to uncover his hidden memories and leave once he got the information he wanted.
• Mo Bai and Christopher reached a village that Christopher had recreated from Mo Bai’s past.
• Christopher told Mo Bai that the Remnant Star Society had set his case aside after the President tested him, and that he had come to seek inspiration for his writing.
• An elderly villager recognized Mo Bai as Xiao Ying, asked about his life and parents, and spoke with him as if he were real.
• Christopher explained that the old man and other familiar villagers were supporting characters he had added to the scene.
• Mo Bai continued toward his childhood home and questioned why he was still risking himself to discover his past.

Mo Bai explored a reconstructed version of his old home with Christopher and demanded to see memories involving his parents. As footage of his family began playing, Rover learned that Mo Bai and Christopher were trapped in a teleportation malfunction, leaving Mo Bai on his own for now.

• Mo Bai entered his old home with Christopher, who said the Remnant Star Society could not recreate every memory and character.
• Mo Bai questioned Christopher about how the Society learned his memories, and Christopher said the Academy's Dark Side had exposed his subconscious.
• Mo Bai noticed that the house was unnaturally complete and demanded that Christopher show the missing memories of his parents.
• Christopher played footage of Mo Bai's family, and Mo Bai compared the scene with his own memories as it matched what he recalled.
• Rover learned from Chisa that Honami and the academy's teleportation device had malfunctioned after Mo Bai entered, and she realized he was trapped with Christopher.

Mo Bai realized Christopher had wrapped a false memory scene around his [Innate Domain] and took control of it, then demanded to be brought into Christopher’s script. He remained confident he could uncover his real memories and return to his friends unharmed.

• Mo Bai watched memories of his family with a Christopher double and a lifelike version of his father, while wondering whether his memories were false.
• Mo Bai concluded the Remnant Star Society likely valued his memories because they revealed he had crossed over from another world.
• Mo Bai challenged Christopher for dragging him into an illusion and demanded to be taken into the world of his script.
• Mo Bai used his shadow to swallow the false father and made the old house vanish, exposing that Christopher had placed a shell around his [Innate Domain].
• Christopher questioned Mo Bai’s certainty that the Society had his real memories and that he could escape the script, and Mo Bai answered that he was strong and could.

Mo Bai entered Christopher’s script after Christopher revealed that he now considered Mo Bai protagonist material because of his twisted personality. Christopher reported that Mo Bai had been contained, but as he tried to leave Mo Bai’s inner world, a woman resembling Mo Bai attacked him.

• Christopher asked Mo Bai why he was fixated on a vague memory and described his earlier view of Mo Bai as self-centered and ordinary.
• Christopher said Mo Bai’s character made him ideal protagonist material, and Mo Bai entered the Script Page.
• Christopher admitted his question about Mo Bai’s memories had been a probe and told the President that Mo Bai was contained.
• The President told Christopher to keep an eye on Mo Bai’s performance in the script.
• As Christopher tried to leave Mo Bai’s inner world, a black-haired woman in a white coat who resembled Mo Bai attacked him.

Mo Hei fought Christopher after Mo Bai entered Christopher's Script Pages, determined to prove herself despite her limited combat experience. Christopher summoned two powerful Tacet Discords to test her, leaving the battle unresolved as they charged at her.

• Before Mo Bai entered the Script Pages, he told Mo Hei he trusted her to face Christopher and asked her to trust him in return.
• Mo Hei complained that she struggled to master Cursed Technique Reversal and could not summon Shikigami, while Mo Bai explained that his Black Flash had improved his control of Cursed Energy.
• Christopher taunted Mo Hei for her poor fighting skills and summoned Cloudflash Scale and Blazing Radiance Rider from his script.
• Christopher sat aside to watch as the two Tacet Discords charged at Mo Hei, who fired Cursed Energy-infused beams of light at them.

Mo Bai returned to his family’s village and felt increasingly unsettled by his surroundings and the people there. When he went home, his mother suddenly slapped him.

• Mo Bai woke up dizzy on a hillside, remembered visiting his grandfather’s grave with his parents, and noticed that he seemed unusually short.
• Grandpa Li asked Mo Bai about playing alone on the hill, then agreed to let a gaunt stranger stay in an empty village house after seeing his money.
• Mo Bai questioned how well he really knew the village elders and hurried back to his family’s old house, which filled him with inexplicable fear.
• Mo Bai greeted his parents inside and his mother walked over with a grim expression.
• Mo Bai’s mother slapped him hard, making him stagger.

Mo Bai found that his parents and childhood memories differed from what he remembered, and his diary described a miserable upbringing. After reading it, he heard a commotion and saw the gaunt man from earlier standing in the family house doorway.

• Mo Bai's mother slapped him, and his father stopped her only because they were visiting the ancestors that day.
• Mo Bai found his diary and read entries describing his parents' neglect and abuse.
• Mo Bai went with his parents to pay respects to his grandfather and ancestors, noticing a Hei cat along the way.
• Before leaving, Mo Bai asked his parents about his birthday, and they dismissed the question.
• Mo Bai read more of his diary and realized how miserable his childhood had been.
• Mo Bai heard shouting in the living room and saw the gaunt man from earlier standing in the doorway.

Mo Bai escaped Christopher’s script and watched the events he had changed unfold on a screen. After seeing his parents sacrifice him to save themselves, he confronted them in the false scenario and attacked them.

• Mo Bai revealed that he had awakened in the script after spotting a black cat and said he trusted Hei to be safe.
• Christopher showed Mo Bai the scene in which he killed the attacker who had threatened his family.
• Mo Bai watched his parents pull him in front of them as a shield before he defeated the attacker.
• Mo Bai confronted his parents, called them undeserving of the name, and slashed at them.

Christopher showed Mo Bai the true memory of the night his family was attacked, revealing that Mo Bai had hidden in his room while the robber killed his father and left his mother dying. After his mother cursed him and died, Mo Bai went to sleep amid the bodies, burdened by memories of how his parents had mistreated him.

• Mo Bai formed hand seals for five Shikigami and insisted that Christopher show him what really happened.
• Mo Bai locked himself in his bedroom during the robber's attack and listened as his family fought outside.
• Mo Bai found the robber and his father dead and his mother gravely wounded when he finally left his room.
• Mo Bai refused to save his mother after confronting her about years of abuse, and she cursed him before dying.
• Mo Bai returned to his room without calling the police and fell asleep dreaming of his parents' insults.

Mo Bai watched a recovered version of his past and learned that he had abandoned his parents, then lied to the police about what happened. After punching Christopher and escaping his collapsing Innate Domain with Rover’s help, he reunited with Lynae and Rover, who sensed that he had changed.

• Mo Bai watched his past self lie to the police, claiming his parents had died protecting him from the robber.
• Mo Bai struck Christopher, collapsing the Script Title Page and returning to his manifested Innate Domain with Mo Hei and the summoned Tacet Discords.
• Mo Bai recalled Etu, sent Mo Hei back into his shadow, and prepared to survive as his Innate Domain collapsed.
• Rover arrived with the Academy’s help and pulled Mo Bai out of the collapsing domain.
• Mo Bai and Rover emerged through a portal, and Lynae and Rover noticed that Mo Bai seemed different.

Mo Bai confronted Mo Hei about his recovered memories and asked what kind of person he was. Mo Hei explained that Mo Bai had pushed others away because he feared being hurt, and Mo Bai realized his contradictions were the source of his Cursed Energy rather than its effect.

• Mo Bai summoned Mo Hei and apologized for digging into his memories, while Mo Hei questioned whether Mo Bai's past claims about himself were true.
• Mo Bai asked Mo Hei what he thought of someone who had let his parents die, and Mo Hei called him a Jujutsu Sorcerer full of contradictions.
• Mo Hei explained that Mo Bai had pushed away people who tried to befriend him because he feared they would hurt him like his parents had.
• Mo Bai reflected on his Cursed Energy and realized that his twisted nature had caused his vast reserves, rather than the Cursed Energy having warped him.