Recaps

Kallen learned that Otto had traded his life to save her and accepted the role of Schicksal’s bishop, agreeing to reunite with Anti-Entropy. The story then shifted to the Previous Era, where Mei and Elysia investigated a newly born Herrscher whose power resembled the Herrscher of Ice but appeared to involve multiple cores.

• Einstein and Amber explained that Otto had used the Imaginary mechanism to exchange his life for Kallen’s existence, and Kallen resolved to care for Theresa and carry out Otto’s work.
• Kallen agreed to lead Schicksal’s fight against Honkai, while Amber took charge of the organization’s relief and reconstruction efforts.
• Kallen proposed Anti-Entropy’s return to Schicksal, and Welt agreed to restore it as the North American Branch under Anti-Entropy’s internal control.
• Vill-V warned that a new, unusually dangerous Herrscher had been born, and Elysia volunteered to face her.
• Mei told Elysia that the new Herrscher’s energy was still rising, resembled the Herrscher of Ice’s, and might come from more than one Herrscher Core.

Elysia confronted a powerful Herrscher gathering Honkai Energy over Dusk Street, but her attacks failed to stop the being from awakening. After Elysia returned to Death Space, Kevin revealed that Otto had predicted the Herrscher could not be killed by another Herrscher, explaining why she had been unable to defeat it.

• Elysia visited Dusk Street, sent the stray cats away with dried fish, and raised a barrier around the area as Honkai Energy gathered overhead.
• Elysia attacked the Herrscher inside the black hole, but it absorbed more Honkai Energy and retaliated with ice.
• Elysia transformed into the Herrscher of Origin and unleashed increasingly powerful attacks, yet the Herrscher remained unharmed and continued approaching awakening.
• After twenty-three hours without word from Elysia, Pardofelis worried while Eden, Mei, Bronya, and the others discussed what might have happened.
• Kevin told the Flame-Chasers that Otto had predicted the Herrscher could not be killed by a Herrscher, and Elysia returned to Death Space when her time ran out.
• Elysia complained that Kevin should have warned her sooner, and Kevin reminded her that he had offered to handle the Herrscher.

Kevin subdued the Herrscher without killing her, while Schicksal’s new Bishop Kallen struggled to manage the organization and sought Einstein’s help understanding Otto’s research. Otto watched from a higher-dimensional realm, unable to affect reality, and chose to leave the future to Kallen and the others.

• Kevin used the Life Coin, overwhelmed the Herrscher, and helped Fire Moth place her in a hibernation pod for treatment.
• Kallen struggled with leading Schicksal as its new bishop, while Einstein and others noticed memories blurring as the worldline corrected itself.
• Kiana realized Cecilia was alive and rushed to Schicksal Headquarters to reunite her mother with Siegfried.
• Kallen asked Einstein whether Otto could return to life, then offered to take her to Otto’s secret base to study his Imaginary research.
• Otto observed events from a higher-dimensional realm and decided not to interfere with the future he had prepared for Kallen and the others.