Chapter Summaries

The Remnant Star Society President assigned Christopher to continue his script and planned to involve Phrolova, while the Society focused on preparations in Lahai Luo. Mo Bai asked Lu Hess for a checkup before going to Roy Icefield to clear his head, leaving his friends’ messages unanswered as he tried to move beyond the past.

• The Remnant Star Society President told Christopher to continue his duties and said Mo Bai might still be useful to their plans.
• The President ended the call, decided to notify Phrolova, and said Scar would get a holiday while the Society prepared in Lahai Luo.
• Mo Bai visited Lu Hess in the Infirmary and asked for a medical examination before traveling to Roy Icefield.
• Hess worried about Mo Bai’s state of mind and asked whether he had told Rover and the others, but Mo Bai said he had not.
• Mo Bai showed Hess the candy Hess had previously given him and said he wanted to take a new step and leave the past behind.

Mo Bai traveled alone to Roy Icefield to clear his head after the recent events, while refusing to reconnect with Rover and the others for now. As he rode across the snowy landscape, a familiar voice offered to guide him to the Tunneler’s remains.

• Lu Hess finished modifying Mo Bai’s Motorcycle and respected his decision not to see Rover and the others yet.
• Mo Bai rode the train to Roy Icefield and reflected on his past and his connection to Aemeath while Mo Hei listened.
• After arriving, Mo Bai rode away from the Transit Spine and considered searching for the Tunneler’s remains.
• A familiar, cheerful voice offered to guide Mo Bai, and he slammed on the brakes in surprise.

Mo Bai let Aemeath guide him to see the Tunneler, where he encountered a group of Sun Spirits made from the Tunneler’s nerve tissue. Aemeath revealed she had noticed his troubled mood and tried to cheer him up, then led him toward another stop.

• Mo Bai asked Aemeath why she had left the Rover to follow him, and she offered to help him find the Tunneler because of her high synchronization rate.
• Mo Bai asked Aemeath to take him to the Tunneler, and she guided him there by Motorcycle.
• Aemeath showed Mo Bai the Sun Spirits, little creatures formed from nerve tissue shed by the Tunneler.
• Mo Bai realized Aemeath had guessed he was troubled after seeing him on the train and had brought him to cheer him up.
• Aemeath pointed Mo Bai toward another stop, and he worried about pushing away someone who was trying to be kind.

Mo Bai and Aemeath walked across the icefield as she tried to cheer him up and they discussed her old friends from the Academy. Mo Bai admitted that he considered Aemeath a friend, but he remained unsure how to handle their new closeness without pushing her away.

• Mo Bai left his Motorcycle with the Sun Spirits and continued toward their next destination with Aemeath.
• Mo Bai asked Aemeath about her Academy friends, and she told him that most had graduated but had remembered her by singing her favorite song.
• Aemeath defended her ability to manage emotions and urged Mo Bai to talk to people, while he noticed her sadness about the past.
• Aemeath asked whether Mo Bai finally considered her a friend, and Mo Bai said that they were friends.
• Mo Bai reflected on how his past fear of making friends might cause him to push Aemeath away.

Mo Bai and Aemeath reached the Tunneler, where Aemeath used her former Candidate frequency to hide them from the Academy. They admired the giant and talked about their pasts, while Mo Bai kept his worries to himself.

• Aemeath told Mo Bai that the Tunneler was considered a powerful weapon and that Academy records had never reported it speaking.
• Aemeath led Mo Bai to the damaged giant leaning against a cliff and used her frequency to conceal them from the Academy.
• Mo Bai wondered about Aemeath's past and her feelings for Rover, but decided not to ask her about it.
• Aemeath teased Mo Bai into laughing, and they shared stories about causing trouble and excelling at the Academy.

Mo Bai and Aemeath were attacked by Singulum, a robot that tried to capture Aemeath, while Rover sought help investigating the frequency she had lost. After Singulum fled, Aemeath sensed trouble involving Rover and rushed toward her, with Mo Bai following on Nue.

• Mo Bai summoned Mountain to shield himself and Aemeath from a distant attack by a black-and-white robot.
• Rover told Abu she intended to find the frequency she had lost and contacted Principal Losera for help reaching the Transit Spine.
• Aemeath identified the pursuing robot as Singulum, which trapped her in a pink orb and tried to take her away.
• Mo Bai damaged Singulum's weapon with a spear of purple lightning, and Aemeath freed herself and drove the robot off with a laser.
• Aemeath sensed trouble involving Rover and hurried toward her, while Mo Bai followed on Nue.

Mo Bai encountered strange black mud and pursuing Otherworldly Flowers in the Roy Icefield, then summoned Fei to fight them. As explosions shook the area, the Rover and Lu Hess set out to find Mo Bai, but a panting pink-haired figure appeared and silenced the Rover.

• Mo Bai avoided a surge of black mud and fled from surrounding Otherworldly Flowers, suspecting the mud was connected to Rinascita's Threnodian.
• Mo Bai landed, noticed the mud had fused and altered nearby plants, and reasoned that it was unlike Aleph-1's devouring power.
• Mo Bai summoned Fei, who charged the black mud and smashed several Otherworldly Flowers, provoking their owner to gather them and cause a series of explosions.
• At the research station, professors recalled students after seeing distant explosions, while the Rover and Lu Hess worried that Mo Bai was alone and decided to find him.
• A panting pink-haired figure appeared before the Rover and raised a hand to silence her.

Mo Bai fought Phrolova, a Society Overseer whose Otherworldly Flowers and Black Mud pressured him into the air. The chapter recounted Phrolova and Rover’s painful history, then ended with Rover asking Mo Bai how he judged her after hearing it.

• Mo Bai recognized Phrolova as a Remnant Star Society Society Overseer and used Fei to block her Otherworldly Flowers.
• Phrolova sent Black Mud up from beneath the snow to cut off Mo Bai’s escape through the shadows, forcing him to rely on Nue.
• Mo Bai remembered Rover’s account of Phrolova and their history together.
• Rover explained that she had once promised Phrolova she would return to hear her perform, but later erased her memories, leaving Phrolova to wait alone.
• Rover told Mo Bai that Phrolova had joined the Remnant Star Society after its President offered to restore her lost family.
• Rover asked Mo Bai what he thought of her after hearing about her past and her imperfect choices.

Mo Bai was struck by Black Mud containing Leviathan, a Threnodian, after Phrolova attacked him, and he trapped himself and Leviathan inside Chimera Shadow Garden. As Phrolova waited outside, Mo Bai began a summoning ritual within his domain.

• Phrolova’s Otherworldly Flowers exploded, splattering Mo Bai with Black Mud that slowed his perception and let Leviathan whisper to him.
• Mo Bai recognized the Black Mud as Leviathan’s creation and rejected the Threnodian’s offer to cooperate.
• Mo Bai opened Chimera Shadow Garden and enclosed himself and Leviathan in the domain.
• Phrolova summoned Hecate, who failed to break through the domain, so Phrolova waited for Mo Bai to emerge.
• Mo Bai explained that Leviathan sought to consume its host’s consciousness, then counted and performed a summoning chant before sinking into the shadows.

Mo Bai reassured Rover that the people she had saved saw her as a true Savior, while realizing how much she cared for the world. In the shadows, he lured Leviathan into a trap beside a chained white cocoon.

• Mo Bai told Rover that those she had saved would praise her, and Rover admitted she often felt like an ordinary person who simply got involved.
• As Rover stood in the Academy garden, Mo Bai recognized how deeply she cared for its people and resolved not to keep relying on her to solve everything.
• Leviathan awoke in a boundless darkness in their whale form and swam toward a faint light, desperate to escape.
• Leviathan followed the light to Mo Bai, who waited beside a giant white cocoon bound in golden chains.
• Leviathan realized the passage had closed and that Mo Bai had lured them into a trap.

Mo Bai trapped Leviathan in the shadow space beside his tenth Shikigami, whose adaptation ability neutralized her attacks, and killed her after gaining Cursed Energy through their exchange. He then turned his attention to the glowing cocoon.

• Mo Bai explained to Leviathan that he had brought them to his dormant tenth Shikigami instead of summoning it, so it would not wake.
• Leviathan struggled to attack Mo Bai, but the cocoon adapted to her mind-disturbing power and made her attacks ineffective.
• Mo Bai revealed that he had lured Leviathan into the shadow space to gain Cursed Energy by exchanging information.
• Leviathan pleaded for her life, but Mo Bai reminded her that the people she had devoured had pleaded too.
• Mo Bai killed Leviathan and turned to look at the glowing cocoon.

Mo Bai discussed his plans for the Shikigami sealed in the cocoon with Mo Hei, then emerged from his domain to face Phrolova. Phrolova sent Hecate after him, and Mo Bai met the attack with his Cursed Energy-reinforced fist.

• Mo Hei asked why Mo Bai had opened his domain to fight a Threnodian offshoot, and Mo Bai said he wanted the cocooned Shikigami to become accustomed to Threnodian power.
• Mo Bai told Mo Hei he had found a goal and planned to borrow the Shikigami’s power through a Binding Vow if necessary, rather than summon it outright.
• Mo Bai explained that he was preparing contingencies to help Rover, who had taken him in and become his friend.
• Mo Bai’s domain shattered, and he emerged with his Cursed Technique still burned out but his body reinforced by Cursed Energy.
• Phrolova summoned Hecate to attack Mo Bai, and he blocked the bladed whip with his Cursed Energy-wreathed fist.

The President of the Remnant Star Society recruited Phrolova to put the Dark Tide Leviathan’s remains into Mo Bai, a student fighting Hecate at Roy Icefield. Phrolova watched Mo Bai overpower Hecate and launch a powerful attack at her.

• Phrolova answered the President’s call and agreed to receive information about a task involving Rover and a student named Mo Bai.
• The President told Phrolova to put the Dark Tide Leviathan’s remains into Mo Bai, then celebrated the prospect of Phrolova meeting an old acquaintance.
• At Roy Icefield, Phrolova watched Mo Bai and Hecate fight as an avalanche swept over them.
• Mo Bai forced Hecate onto the defensive, broke her Whip Blade, and emerged from the snow with his condition improved.
• Mo Bai used Maximum: Piercing Blood to fire a compressed drop of water toward Phrolova.

Mo Bai and Phrolova paused their battle as Rover drew near, each curious about the other and about their connection to Rover. Phrolova began showing Mo Bai images and asked what kinds of stories he liked.

• Phrolova revealed her bandaged right eye, strengthening Hecate, while she and Mo Bai traded remarks during their fight.
• Mo Bai sent Qiongqi to fight Hecate at a distant hilltop while Phrolova summoned Tacet Discords with her baton.
• Phrolova said someone was coming and admitted she wanted to keep Mo Bai there because she was curious about him and understood why the President considered him special.
• Mo Bai and Phrolova stopped fighting as Rover approached, with Mo Bai wanting to understand how Phrolova had affected Rover.
• Phrolova arranged frequencies to display translucent images and asked Mo Bai what kinds of stories he liked.

Mo Bai discussed his hobbies with Phrolova, who used his answers and reactions to infer what the Rover meant to him. When she judged his taste and hinted at her own connection to the Rover, Mo Bai asked whether she was jealous of him.

• Mo Bai told Phrolova that he enjoyed novels, comics, and movies, especially watching films in the Auditorium.
• Phrolova noticed Mo Hei beside Mo Bai, and Mo Hei retreated into his shadow.
• Mo Bai heard distorted voices in Phrolova's exposed eye before she covered it with a bandage.
• Phrolova compared Mo Bai and the Rover, recalling their similarities and her own time beside the Rover at an opera house.
• Phrolova criticized Mo Bai's entertainment preferences and said she had figured out what the Rover meant to him.
• Mo Bai asked Phrolova whether she was jealous of him, and a brief, fervent string note rang beside his ear.

Mo Bai stalled Phrolova while they discussed her estrangement from Rover, then fought alongside Etu until Rover arrived at Roy Icefield. Phrolova withdrew, leaving Mo Bai determined that he and Rover would not end up as painfully separated as Phrolova and Rover.

• Mo Bai and Phrolova traded barbs and discussed how they might feel if they and Rover became strangers.
• Mo Bai described Phrolova and Rover as intersecting lines, while saying he and Rover would remain connected even if they parted.
• Phrolova summoned Hecate and staged a brief clash with Mo Bai and Etu to stall until Rover arrived.
• Rover confronted Phrolova over the Remnant Star Society's repeated attempts to target Mo Bai, then disarmed Hecate with a water strike.
• Phrolova retreated from Roy Icefield, admitted she was a little envious, and left Mo Bai reflecting on his bond with Rover.

After Phrolova left, Mo Bai and Rover discussed the Remnant Star Society’s attempt to make him a Threnodian Resonator. Rover agreed to trust him, but required him to stay with her during field operations so they could face the danger together.

• Rover asked Mo Bai whether Phrolova had said anything, and Mo Bai concealed their conversation while Rover chose not to press him.
• Mo Bai told Rover that the Remnant Star Society had tried to turn him into a Threnodian Resonator, prompting her to worry about the dangers of its experiments.
• Mo Bai told Rover he was happy that someone he cared about cared for him, and said he would not let her face the danger alone.
• Mo Bai showed Rover Lynae’s unread messages and said he would not back down, so Rover agreed to trust him on the condition that he stay with her in the field.
• Mo Bai accepted Rover’s condition, pleased that it would give him more time to get to know her.

Rover told Mo Bai that she had come to the Roy Icefield to recover a lost frequency before her frequency leakage worsened, then returned with him to Lu Hess and Napomo. Napomo’s device triggered a cave collapse, and the group escaped with Mo Bai’s Toad Shikigami helping rescue her; Rover then looked affectionately at Aemeath.

• Rover explained that she was searching for a lost strand of frequency and returned to the cave with Mo Bai to check on Lu Hess and another student.
• Lu Hess introduced Napomo, a timid Roy student, to Mo Bai, while Aemeath silently signaled that Mo Bai should not approach her.
• Napomo pulled a rod-like device from her hand, causing the cave to shake and collapse.
• Rover carried Napomo toward the exit, and Mo Bai used his Toad Shikigami to pull Napomo safely out while Rover and Lu Hess escaped.
• Napomo thanked Mo Bai but complained that the Toad Shikigami was sticky, and Rover looked at Aemeath with affection.

After Napomo apologized for recklessly investigating satellite debris, Rover, Lu Hess, and Mo Bai took her into the Crashed Space Station to wait for rescue. Mo Bai questioned Aemeath about Singulum and Rover’s missing frequency, but chose to trust her and resolved to protect his friends.

• Mo Bai dismissed his Toad Shikigami after finding Aemeath playing beside it, and Napomo apologized for her dangerous investigation.
• Napomo explained that she had found a rod-shaped piece of a predecessor’s satellite, and Lu Hess recognized it as valuable debris.
• Rover suggested taking Napomo into the nearby Crashed Space Station, and Lu Hess agreed that the group would be safe there.
• Mo Bai asked Aemeath what she had told Rover, and Aemeath said she was protecting Rover from Singulum, who carried a trace of Rover’s frequency.
• Mo Bai confronted Aemeath about her hidden knowledge and her connection to Rover, but decided to trust her reasons and resolved to protect his friends.

Mo Bai and the others explored the Solaris space station, where Lu Hess decoded a Tacet Disc containing footage of the Sky Sea’s arrival. The recording showed Rover falling from the Sky Sea, leaving Mo Bai wary that Napomo might reveal the discovery.

• Mo Bai and his companions toured the station with Lu Hess and learned from its holographic guides.
• Mo Bai used his Fused Shikigami to defeat Tacet Discords, and Lu Hess offered him candy.
• Mo Bai’s Divine Dogs found a Tacet Disc, which Lu Hess decoded into a video.
• The video showed the Sky Sea approaching Solaris and a person falling from it; Mo Bai recognized the figure as Rover.
• Mo Bai watched Napomo and suspected her earlier actions might have led them to the station and the recording.