Recaps

Raiden Mei learned that the Herrscher of Corruption accidentally deleted Elysia's data after mistaking her for an enemy, because fear and instinct drove her to strike before Elysia fought back. The Herrscher of Corruption explained how she hid, allied with Vill-V, and later encountered Chakravartin, then began to address Mei's judgment of her actions.

• Raiden Mei questioned why the Herrscher of Corruption had deleted Elysia's data, and the Flame-Chasers discussed the difference between corruption and deletion.
• The Herrscher of Corruption admitted that deleting Elysia had been an accident and showed Raiden Mei the night it happened.
• Raiden Mei reenacted the Herrscher of Corruption's instinctive attack and discovered that her apparent enemies had never intended to harm her.
• The Herrscher of Corruption explained that fear of Kevin led her to hide and ally with Vill-V's Extreme Evil personality.
• The Herrscher of Corruption recalled meeting Chakravartin and Raiden Mei, while Mei warned her that every action had a price.

The Herrscher of Corruption used her control over the Previous Era Elysian Realm to show Raiden Mei visions of the lives the Flame-Chasers supposedly wanted, but Mei shattered the illusion and rejected her offer. After the group discussed Chakravartin’s wish for a home, a quiz asked what activated Vill-V’s Anti-Kevin Armament Model 666.

• Vill-V explained that the Herrscher of Corruption could preserve and replicate corrupted Memory Body data, while Su and Mobius debated whether those copies could carry on the Flame-Chasers’ will.
• Elysia and Vill-V said the Herrscher of Corruption could seize and reshape the Previous Era Elysian Realm, prompting Pardofelis to imagine the riches she might create.
• The Herrscher of Corruption showed Raiden Mei a beachside vision of Chakravartin at ease, explaining that he wanted a stable life, a worthy opponent, and a home.
• Raiden Mei attacked and shattered the vision before the Herrscher of Corruption could finish speaking.
• The group discussed how difficult it was to create a stable home during the Honkai apocalypse, then received a quiz asking for the activation conditions of the Anti-Kevin Armament Model 666.

The group learned that Anti-Kevin Armament Model 666 could only be activated by Elysia’s will, while the Herrscher of Corruption planned to replace Elysia and seize control of it. A new question asked which Flame-Chaser would help Raiden Mei when she was locked in battle with the Herrscher of Corruption, leaving the group wondering whether any of the supposed dead Flame-Chasers were truly dead.

• Elysia received a Life Coin but remained chained to her desk, complaining as she struggled through a pile of overtime documents.
• In the footage, Raiden Mei exposed the Herrscher of Corruption’s attempt to imitate Elysia and explained that she wanted to gain control of Anti-Kevin Armament Model 666.
• The Herrscher of Corruption admitted she intended to corrupt the Previous Era Elysian Realm and eventually replace the weapon’s control condition.
• Raiden Mei and the others speculated about whether Elysia had left a contingency, despite the Herrscher of Corruption having deleted her data.
• The system asked who would first help Raiden Mei when she and the Herrscher of Corruption were locked in a stalemate, offering Elysia, Apponia, Mobius, and Sakura as choices.
• Kiana questioned whether any of the four candidates were actually dead, and Elysia, Mobius, and Sakura fell silent.

Raiden Mei deduced that the Herrscher of Corruption’s power had limits and that maintaining her Elysia-like form was a burden. Sakura arrived to help Mei confront her, leaving the two preparing to force the Herrscher of Corruption to remain and fight.

• Sakura guessed that she had been the one to confront the Herrscher of Corruption, and the system confirmed her answer and rewarded her with the Danzhu Sword.
• The Herrscher of Corruption restored the damage Mei had inflicted on the Elysian Realm’s space and taunted her about their difference in strength.
• Mei deduced that the Herrscher of Corruption faced limits in corrupting the Flame-Chasers and maintaining her imitation of Elysia.
• Sakura arrived beside Mei after sensing the aftershocks of their fight, and Mei explained the Herrscher of Corruption’s connection to Model 666.
• Sakura began suggesting that they force the Herrscher of Corruption to stay and fight, but the Herrscher interrupted to say she had heard them.

Sakura’s past encounter with the Herrscher of Corruption led the group to ask who had saved her from the virus, and Su was revealed as the answer. Su received a panacea as a reward, but its scarcity raised concerns before Mobius suggested she might be able to replicate it.

• Sakura explained that she had learned to avoid the Herrscher of Corruption’s touch and demonstrated her speed by placing Seven Thunders of Retribution against her neck, but the Herrscher of Corruption darkened their surroundings.
• Raiden Mei realized Sakura had gone missing after her earlier encounter with the Herrscher of Corruption and questioned how she had survived its irreversible corruption.
• The group considered Su, Apponia, Vill-V, and Mobius as possible saviors; Su’s answer was confirmed as correct, while Mobius and Vill-V described methods Sakura rejected as dangerous.
• Su received ten panacea pills that could cure any illness within two hours, though their composition was difficult to analyze and they could not be replicated.
• Su warned that the pills’ scarcity could cause trouble, and Mobius challenged his claim that they could not be replicated.

Su rescued Sakura from frozen space by transferring part of his memories into her to slow her corruption, then sent her to Raiden Mei with Chakravartin’s mask to continue solving Vill-V’s layered riddle. Mobius used the panacea and the Life Coin to return to the Previous Era, where she went looking for Klein.

• Su explained that Vill-V’s clues led him to Sakura, whose frozen space could halt the Herrscher of Corruption’s spread.
• Su transferred some of his memories into Sakura to ease her corruption, then gave her Chakravartin’s mask and teleported her to Raiden Mei.
• Mobius took the panacea from Elysia and used the Life Coin to return to the Previous Era.
• Mobius searched her laboratory for Klein, who woke with a scream when Mobius called to her.

Mobius gave Klein a Panacea and assigned her to clone it, leaving Klein with even more work. In the quiz, Sakura chose a melodramatic name for her move, then the screen showed her and Raiden Mei preparing a frontal attack against the Herrscher of Corruption.

• Mobius showed Klein the nine Panacea pills she had obtained from headquarters and assigned her the cloning experiment.
• Klein accepted the task despite already struggling to finish the Honkai Energy Serum data reports.
• Sakura chose Myriad Forms of Ignorance as the name of her move and received a Life Coin.
• Sakura and Raiden Mei discussed their dire situation as the Herrscher of Corruption remained far stronger than either of them.
• Sakura planned to freeze space and create an opening for Mei’s attacks, though Mei worried they might only get one strike.

Sakura and Raiden Mei coordinated an attack against the Herrscher of Corruption, but she anticipated their plan and infected Sakura with the corruption virus. The Flame-Chasers then discussed Vill-V’s puzzle and the hidden plans that might still turn the fight against the Herrscher of Corruption.

• Sakura and Raiden Mei used an identity-swapping illusion to land a coordinated strike on the Herrscher of Corruption.
• The Herrscher of Corruption revealed she had seen through their plan and infected Sakura through their contact.
• Sakura and the other Flame-Chasers acknowledged that the Herrscher’s power had overcome their attack, while Mobius insisted she had a contingency plan.
• Bronya identified Vill-V’s puzzle as the core of the main plan and suspected Mobius and Apponia had separate hidden schemes.
• Elysia speculated that Vill-V’s main plan might involve all the Flame-Chasers.

Su solved Vill-V’s third riddle as the visitor’s mind, allowing the plan against the Herrscher of Corruption to proceed. Mei and Su escaped in a world-bubble while Sakura stayed behind to fight, determined to test whether her tragic fate could have changed.

• Su answered that the riddle’s absolutely safe place was the visitor’s mind and received a Brocade Pouch of Stratagems as his reward.
• Sakura revealed that her swordsmanship had concealed Mei, and Su transported Mei away with the Sumeru World-Bubble.
• Mei questioned why the plan left Sakura behind, while Su explained that Mei’s mind was essential to the riddle’s answer.
• Sakura said she was willing to face the Herrscher of Corruption and confront the question of whether her past choice could have changed the tragedy.
• As corruption spread through her body, Sakura challenged the Herrscher of Corruption to prove Elysia had been right.

Sakura accepted that her past choice to protect Rin had been right, then returned to Fire Moth and approved Panacea applications for Mobius and Klein. Meanwhile, Su explained to Raiden Mei that Sakura’s battle had been a diversion, and revealed Vill-V had left a riddle containing the key to defeating the Herrscher of Corruption.

• Sakura said she would make the same choice to protect Rin and used a Life Coin to return to Fire Moth.
• Sakura found Klein’s application for a Panacea for Mobius and approved it after reading its detailed case.
• Sakura discovered Mobius had also applied for a Panacea for Klein, accounting for the two missing samples.
• Su used the Sumeru World-Bubble to bring Raiden Mei away from the battle, where Mei realized Sakura’s role had been to get her to safety.
• Su confirmed Vill-V had left him a riddle with three possible answers, one of which held the key to defeating the Herrscher of Corruption.

Su explained that Raiden Mei’s mind could provide a safe memory space for the surgery that might restore Elysia, and urged her to use her memories to guide Elysia’s return. The quiz then revealed Apponia’s role in fighting the Herrscher of Corruption: entering her inner world and trying to defeat her mentally.

• Vill-V explained that Raiden Mei’s mind could serve as a safe space beyond the Herrscher of Corruption’s reach, allowing Su to perform the SO-1129 Surgery and bring Elysia back.
• Su told Raiden Mei to remember her time with Elysia and gave her a blue crystal flower to help pave the way for their reunion.
• Raiden Mei worried that her memories could not restore Elysia, while Elysia teased her about having her in her head and Kiana objected.
• The quiz asked what Apponia had done to help defeat the Herrscher of Corruption, and Apponia dismissed the options of imprisoning her in The Deep or destroying the Previous Era Elysian Realm.
• Apponia chose to enter the Herrscher of Corruption’s inner world and reform her, and the quiz marked her answer correct.

Apponia entered the Herrscher of Corruption’s memories and chose to draw the Herrscher into a space made of data, hoping to reach her consciousness. There, Apponia found distorted versions of Chakravartin and Vill-V and wondered whether the Herrscher had corrupted the Flame-Chasers out of love.

• Apponia received a Life Coin and reflected that she could help her companions by binding her hands and restraining her Precepts.
• Apponia used Chakravartin’s sacrifice to enter the corruption virus’s memories, but she could only inspect memories and could not reach the Herrscher’s mind.
• As the virus spread and her time ran short, Apponia chose to pull herself into a space of data and called the Herrscher of Corruption into her arms.
• Apponia encountered distorted versions of Chakravartin and Vill-V, whose data contained many traits of Elysia, but she found no sign of Elysia herself.
• Apponia suspected that the Herrscher had copied Elysia’s emotions and might have corrupted the Flame-Chasers out of love, leaving her unsure whether her sacrifice could change anything.

Apponia discovered that the realm she occupied was Mobius's domain and agreed to help Mobius connect the Elysian Realm to reality. The story left Mobius preparing to use Apponia's abilities as part of her plan against the Herrscher of Corruption.

• The audience correctly identified Mobius as the Memory Body Apponia encountered, and Mobius received Purifying Powder as a reward.
• Apponia realized she was in Mobius's domain, where Mobius had been waiting for her after abandoning her body.
• Mobius explained that Apponia could link the Elysian Realm to reality and send her to Klein, and Apponia understood the plan could put her at risk.
• Apponia said she had imprisoned herself in The Deep because of her sins, while Mobius explained that Apponia could act freely because she had merged her mind with the Elysian Realm.
• Mobius became irritated in the laboratory as Danzhu and Cang Xuan speculated that she was upset about not being the star of the show.

Mobius revealed her plan to release a replica of the Herrscher of Corruption against the Herrscher of Corruption, despite the danger to everyone in the Elysian Realm. A quiz then asked whether Cosmo underwent Vill-V’s surgery for Hypermutation Overload, and the group discussed his condition and possible treatment.

• Apponia agreed to Mobius’s plan and accepted that her body would scatter as part of securing the final victory.
• Mobius admitted she intended to release a replica of the Twelfth Herrscher, prompting the others to fear the destruction that two Herrschers of Corruption could cause in the Elysian Realm.
• The quiz asked whether Cosmo underwent Vill-V’s surgery to slow his Hypermutation Overload.
• Cosmo explained that the Vishnu Factor’s immense power threatened to overwhelm his consciousness, while Su and Vill-V said the condition was not an illness that the Panacea could necessarily cure.
• Pardofelis asked why Cosmo had gone to Vill-V instead of Mobius, and Vill-V argued that she was better suited to treat his mental strain.

Cosmo refused Vill-V’s proposed mental partition because he feared burdening his companions, and he received a Life Coin for his answer. The screen then showed Vill-V agreeing to help him despite doubting she could succeed, while the scientists argued over why Cosmo had not asked Mobius first; Vill-V began explaining how his condition would make Elysian Realm backups different.

• Vill-V proposed preserving Cosmo’s current mentality in a separate partition so it could be restored if hypermutation overload made him lose control, but she could not guarantee who would return.
• Cosmo refused the proposal, and the system rewarded him with a Life Coin.
• The screen showed Vill-V telling Cosmo she could not solve the problem, then agreeing to help after learning she was only his third choice.
• Mobius protested that Cosmo should have consulted her, while Vill-V warned that Mobius’s experiments might return a different Cosmo.
• Vill-V explained that Flame-Chaser memory bodies were backed up every 4.1 seconds, then said Cosmo’s condition would make his case different.

Cosmo rejected Vill-V’s offer of Mental Partition after considering a different way to handle his Hypermutation Overload, possibly using Vishnu’s devouring ability and the memory bodies’ resurrection. After choosing the wrong answer to a quiz about his response to the Herrscher of Corruption, he received a challenge against Kevin Kaslana at his peak as punishment.

• Vill-V explained that Mental Partition could preserve a backup of Cosmo’s mind but would cost him all experiences after the partition, and Cosmo withdrew his request.
• Cosmo told Vill-V he had thought of another way to get the best of both worlds, but the footage ended before he explained it.
• Su reasoned that Cosmo’s idea likely drew on Vill-V’s theories, and Cosmo suggested devouring the part of himself responsible for Hypermutation Overload’s side effects.
• Cosmo chose that he would remain silent and attack when the Herrscher of Corruption called herself a villain, but the answer was marked incorrect.
• The system assigned Cosmo a mandatory challenge instance against Kevin Kaslana at his peak, prompting Durandal and Pardofelis to recall Kevin’s overwhelming attacks.

Cosmo was thrown into a challenge against a full-strength Kevin, then appeared in the Elysian Realm story to confront the Herrscher of Corruption and block her pursuit of Mei. He rejected her attempt to unsettle him with memories of Hen, insisting that Hen’s choice had been the best of both worlds.

• Kevin sent Cosmo into the challenge dungeon, where a fully charged An-Utu struck him before he could prepare.
• Cosmo returned unharmed but stunned, while Kevin was bewildered that the others blamed him for the challenge dungeon beating.
• The Herrscher of Corruption trapped Sakura in a peaceful illusion, erased the Elysian Realm’s defenses, and pursued Su until Cosmo trapped her in a birdcage.
• Cosmo told the Herrscher of Corruption he would stop her from going farther, while the others discussed her omniscience and its limits.
• The Herrscher of Corruption recalled how Hen sacrificed himself on the Mu Continent and warned Cosmo that repeating the choice would bring pain to others.
• Cosmo rejected her account and insisted that Hen’s choice had been the best of both worlds.

Cosmo transformed into a Honkai Beast to hold off the Herrscher of Corruption, who deleted him before a second Cosmo appeared and was destroyed. The Flame-Chasers suspected Mobius had left a resurrection contingency, but the chapter ended before they confirmed who had brought him back.

• Cosmo transformed into a Honkai Beast and fought the Herrscher of Corruption, devouring corrupted parts of himself to delay her.
• The Herrscher of Corruption deleted Cosmo, but another Cosmo appeared and attacked her from behind.
• The Herrscher of Corruption recognized the second Cosmo as different from the first and destroyed him with one arrow.
• Cosmo accepted his death as a way to buy time for his companions, while the others worried about his permanent deletion.
• Raiden Mei and Pardofelis suspected Mobius had arranged Cosmo's return, and Mobius teased Vill-V about being right.

The group realized that Griseo’s lifelike painting had allowed Cosmo to return after the Herrscher of Corruption deleted him, and Cosmo admitted that carrying out his plan had meant asking Griseo to kill him. The quiz revealed that he had asked Hua to persuade Griseo, and Cosmo gave Griseo his reward: a Concept Card that summoned him in Hypermutation Overload state.

• Elysia suggested that the second Cosmo might have been a lifelike copy, leading the group to suspect Griseo’s painting had brought him back.
• Cosmo told Griseo that her part in his plan had given him a chance, and Griseo panicked at the thought of killing him.
• A quiz asked whom Cosmo had sought to persuade Griseo, and Cosmo correctly chose Hua after Eden declined.
• Hua identified Fenghuang Down as the means she could have used to change Griseo’s mind, and she accepted Cosmo’s apology.
• Cosmo received a Concept Card that could summon him in Hypermutation Overload state for a day and handed it to Griseo.

Cosmo proposed using Griseo’s painting and the Eighth Divine Key to create a new version of himself that could delay the Herrscher of Corruption without involving Griseo in his sacrifice. The chapter left Fu Hua facing Cosmo’s request to deceive Griseo, while Mei and the Flame-Chasers considered who truly benefited from their sacrifices.

• Griseo realized Cosmo had lied to her, and the others left him to explain himself.
• Cosmo told Fu Hua that Vishnu’s ability could remove corruption from him, then refused the plan to sacrifice himself and Griseo to buy time.
• Cosmo asked Fu Hua to use the Eighth Divine Key to deceive Griseo’s perception so Griseo would paint a new Cosmo from all his data.
• Mei wondered whether she was the beneficiary of the Flame-Chasers’ sacrifices, but Su said the real beneficiaries were people in the real world who would never know about the Herrscher of Corruption.
• Cosmo explained that becoming Griseo’s painting could let him unleash his full power while preserving his heroic heart, and Fu Hua warned that Griseo would see the process as killing him.

Cosmo tried to use Griseo’s painting to evade the Herrscher of Corruption, but the plan failed when she deleted his data. He answered the group’s question about what he had asked Griseo to paint, received a Growth Potion, and traded it away before the footage began showing him and Hua visiting Griseo.

• Cosmo explained that becoming one of Griseo’s paintings could let him avoid Hypermutation Overload, and Hua went to find Griseo.
• Griseo offered to paint Cosmo, but he said it would not work in reality because she could only absorb his colors.
• Vill-V and Cosmo discussed how the Herrscher of Corruption had deleted his data, while Su noted that she gained no information from him.
• Cosmo correctly chose that he had asked Griseo for a more mature image and received a Growth Potion as a reward.
• Cosmo offered the potion to the group, and Pardofelis traded him Whopperflower Nectar for it.
• The footage showed Cosmo and Hua finding Griseo painting, and Griseo asked whether they had finished discussing grown-up things.

Cosmo asked Griseo to paint a more mature version of the boy he had once been, explaining how his wish to save everyone had led to tragedy. He revealed that the Ark Project was not truly a search for a new home but a plan for one survivor to return after the disaster and reseed civilization, then asked Hua to deceive Griseo about what came next.

• Cosmo asked Griseo to paint his younger self and described how the boy’s attempt to prevent his mentor’s sacrifice had made the tragedy worse.
• Elysia, Su, and the others reassured Cosmo that hoping for the best of both worlds was not itself wrong, while Vill-V suggested that the Ark Project troubled him more deeply.
• Cosmo explained that he had been chosen for the Ark Project, which would send him away from Earth as humanity faced destruction.
• Cosmo revealed that the project’s spacecraft could not find a new home and was meant to return after the disaster to spread the seeds of civilization.
• Cosmo asked Griseo to paint the boy as mature enough to accept reality, then quietly asked Hua to deceive her; Hua eventually nodded.

Cosmo realized he had chosen to sacrifice himself without considering what Griseo wanted, while Griseo said she only wanted him not to be alone. Kiana wrongly guessed that Griseo wanted to become a hero and was punished; the chapter ended with Griseo facing the Herrscher of Corruption because she said she could not leave.

• Cosmo admitted he had considered abandoning his responsibilities selfish, and Griseo told him he was a hero.
• Himeko Murata pointed out that Cosmo had failed to consider Griseo’s wishes when planning to take her place, prompting Cosmo to realize Griseo might have wanted to become a hero, too.
• Griseo said she did not know whether she wanted to be a hero, but she did not want Cosmo to be alone.
• Kiana chose answer C, claiming Griseo wanted to become a hero, but the system marked her answer incorrect and sentenced her to go hungry for three days.
• The Herrscher of Corruption reflected that Cosmo had already become a hero through his devotion to others, then asked Griseo why she had come to face her.
• Griseo answered that she could not leave, while the Herrscher of Corruption observed that Cosmo’s Morning Light had been passed on.

Griseo painted herself into the painting with Cosmo so he would not be alone, sacrificing herself to keep him company. After the footage ended, the Flame-Chasers questioned Griseo, who said she understood she would disappear and remain with Cosmo in the painting forever.

• The Herrscher of Corruption attacked Griseo, prompting Cosmo and the others to condemn her for targeting the child.
• Vill-V helped Cosmo realize that Griseo had stayed because she could not leave the painting, not because she wanted to be a hero.
• The Herrscher of Corruption discovered that Griseo had painted herself into the picture, leaving her with no useful data to corrupt.
• Griseo explained that she joined Cosmo in the painting because he feared being alone, and the Herrscher of Corruption destroyed the painting in anger.
• After the footage ended, Elysia reassured Griseo, who told Cosmo she knew she would disappear and stay with him in the painting forever.

The group discussed Cosmo and Griseo’s sacrifices and answered a quiz about who brought their painting before the Herrscher of Corruption. Su correctly identified Hua, and the scene showed Hua admitting she had brought the painting after witnessing the pair disappear.

• Cosmo realized that Griseo had twice become his hero, while Griseo thanked him and said she had disappointed him.
• Elysia prompted Griseo to call Cosmo her little brother, making the Chat Group laugh.
• The quiz asked who brought Griseo’s painting before the Herrscher of Corruption, and the group debated whether Cosmo or Hua had done it.
• Herrscher of Reason argued that the Flame-Chasers should not have to sacrifice themselves for the Current Era, while Apponia said their sacrifices should be remembered and honored.
• Su realized that Hua had brought the painting because Cosmo did not know Griseo had painted herself into it, and the system awarded Su a Life Coin for the correct answer.
• The screen showed Hua admitting to the Herrscher of Corruption that she had brought the painting after witnessing Cosmo and Griseo disappear.