Recaps

Raven invited everyone to relax on her villa island, where Kiana’s fight with Raven was stopped before the group resumed their barbecue. Raiden Mei correctly answered a quiz about making teriyaki sauce and won a collection of swimsuits, leaving the others to enjoy the beach.

• Raven confronted Kiana after learning that Kiana, as the Herrscher of the Void, had destroyed her villa island, but Himeko made Kiana apologize and Raven put away her weapon.
• Raven announced a day of relaxation on the island, while Pardofelis searched for Canned Food and learned that the cat had sneaked into the villa kitchen.
• The quiz asked how the group made teriyaki sauce, and Raiden Mei correctly described simmering onions, ginger, soy sauce, pineapple juice, honey, and water.
• Raiden Mei received a collection of swimsuits as her reward and invited everyone to go swimming.
• Theresa learned that Mei’s childhood swimsuits were the only ones likely to fit her, while Himeko stayed in a lounge chair.

The group watched Kiana and Bronya’s beach barbecue antics, then teased Kiana over missing skewers before discovering that Canned Food had escaped the villa’s maid robots. A question about Raven’s supposed persecution at Puppet Academy left Raven baffled as the others described the bizarre school.

• Kiana and Bronya’s water-gun fight soaked Mei and Fu Hua, while the group praised Mei’s beauty and Little Senti recited poetry.
• Mei prepared teriyaki sauce for the barbecue, but the on-screen Kiana snatched the cooked skewers and ran from Fu Hua.
• Kiana denied stealing barbecue in the present, and Raven reported that Canned Food had broken through the villa’s defenses and escaped.
• The group presented Raven with a multiple-choice question about what Teacher Chi Yuan and Xiao Ran had done to her at Puppet Academy.
• Theresa, Welt, and Kiana described Puppet Academy’s strange goings-on, leaving Raven convinced that everyone else was the problem.

Raven questioned why Kevin had been stationed at St. Freya Academy, and the group discussed how many Herrschers attended the school before Kiana was sent into the Theresa's Great Escape dungeon. While Kiana struggled to evade the endless Theresas, the system showed Xiao Ran and Teacher Chi Yuan accidentally demolishing a building where Raven was working.

• Raven wondered why Kevin, the leader of World Serpent, was working as a security guard at St. Freya Academy, and Elysia revealed that many of its Valkyries were Herrschers.
• Theresa defended the academy as legitimate, while Welt claimed he was only an ordinary history teacher and Himeko Murata redirected the group to the system's question.
• Kiana incorrectly chose that Raven's island would explode and received the punishment of surviving the Theresa's Great Escape dungeon for a day.
• Kiana was teleported into the ruined Project Ring city and fled from the hordes of Theresas before hiding in a military base.
• Kiana opened the system interface and watched Xiao Ran and Teacher Chi Yuan recall their school days before construction vehicles drenched them and Xiao Ran sliced apart a building.
• Raven was left bewildered beneath falling rubble after Xiao Ran and Teacher Chi Yuan destroyed the building where she was planning its rooms.

Kiana escaped the silly Theresas in the Great Escape instance but collapsed from hunger and was rescued by the system’s return. The group then identified Rita as the person who supposedly killed Gray Serpent, though Theresa concluded he had tricked her rather than actually died.

• Kiana escaped a military base overrun by silly Theresas, then collapsed after running out of energy and was mobbed by them.
• Raven declined to send the children she had adopted to St. Freya and considered opening a school on her island.
• Mei welcomed Kiana back from the instance with food.
• The group debated who killed Gray Serpent and suspected he might have survived by using a decoy or another life-preserving trick.
• Theresa chose Rita as the answer, and the system confirmed it was correct.
• Theresa explained that Rita must have been fooled by Gray Serpent, since Durandal or Otto would have badly hurt him even if they failed to kill him.

The screen showed Rita tracking down Gray Serpent in Sky-Piercing City, defeating his guards, and taking the intelligence she wanted after killing him. A quiz then asked how Rita came to grief after infiltrating World Serpent’s base, leaving Theresa and Durandal questioning how she could have lost so quickly.

• Theresa received a Concept Card that could make a decoy appear to die while her real body escaped, but worried about where it would send her.
• Otto sent Rita to Sky-Piercing City to find the Herrscher of the Void before Theresa’s group could obtain Gray Serpent’s intelligence.
• Rita found Gray Serpent, defeated his bodyguards, and killed him when he refused to give her the information.
• Raven and Sakura explained that Gray Serpent had survived being killed many times, while Kiana dismissed him as weak.
• A quiz asked how Rita came to grief after infiltrating World Serpent’s base, and Durandal suspected she might have encountered Kevin.

Raven correctly identified that she had likely brought Rita down with the HSN-B46 serum and won a Death Immunity Medallion. The screen then showed Rita discovering the horrific human experimentation behind World Serpent’s Stigmata Project, while the others condemned Jackal’s methods.

• Durandal explained that HSN-B46 could disperse only limited amounts of Honkai energy, and Elysia and Pardofelis judged that it would be difficult to use against powerful opponents.
• Raven chose the answer that she had brought Rita down and received a Death Immunity Medallion that could negate one system penalty.
• Rita infiltrated World Serpent’s underground laboratory and found Honkai zombies marked with stigmata in Experiment Pods.
• Rita read Jackal’s records describing artificial stigmata activation and a plan to test it on an entire city’s population.
• Raven appeared on the laboratory screen as the test subjects began moving, and the Valkyries condemned the experiments while Raven blamed Jackal.

Rita was overwhelmed by Raven’s serum at the World Serpent base, and a quiz revealed that Kiana rescued her. Durandal answered incorrectly and lost one tenth of her physical combat ability.

• Rita fought off Honkai zombies, but Raven released hsn-b46 serum that drained Rita’s Honkai Energy and left her vulnerable to attacking mechs.
• Raven explained that she had tricked Rita into mistaking the serum for tear gas, while Su clarified that the Honkai Energy Serum formula he had was weaker and intended for medical use.
• The quiz asked who rescued Rita from the World Serpent base, and Durandal chose herself.
• The system revealed that Kiana had rescued Rita, and Durandal received a penalty reducing her physical combat capabilities by one tenth.

The footage showed Kiana rescuing the weakened Immortal Blades and joining Rita before Rita staged a transport-ship crash to escape. A quiz then revealed Fu Hua had been the liability in her fight with Su against Mobius, while Su received a card that would prevent his next ultimate attack from hitting an ally.

• Kiana rescued Alvitr and the weakened Immortal Blades, then learned that tear gas had drained their strength and Rita was in danger below.
• Kiana reached Rita, helped her fight through the Honkai zombies, and opened a spatial portal as their escape route failed.
• Rita activated the transport ship's autopilot to crash it at their location, apparently using the destruction to cover their escape.
• The quiz asked who had been the biggest liability when Fu Hua and Su fought Mobius, and Su identified Hua as the one who had acted rashly.
• Su received the Concept Card: Friend-Foe Distinction, which guaranteed his next ultimate attack would hit an enemy and never a teammate.
• Kiana questioned how Fu Hua could be the liability if Su's ultimate had struck her, and everyone turned to the footage for an explanation.

Su explained how Mobius transformed into a snake-like being during a Hypermutation Overload incident, and how Fu Hua accidentally disrupted his struggle to restrain her. The discussion then turned to Bronya’s plan to rescue Seele from the Sea of Quanta, and Bronya admitted to herself that she would go even if Kevin might be there.

• Su told Mei that Mobius had pursued the limits of her ability to return from death and described Hypermutation Overload as a forbidden transformation beyond humanity.
• Su recounted how he found Mobius transformed into a glowing snake, used Karmic Wheel to suppress her, and was badly wounded when Fu Hua arrived and was caught in his mental attack.
• The group questioned Fu Hua about accidentally knocking herself unconscious and asked Su why he had not used Karmic Wheel against Kevin; Su explained that it was a mental contest and unsuitable against him.
• Bronya said she had worked out how to teleport into the Sea of Quanta to rescue Seele, while Welt warned that they might encounter Kevin.
• Su reassured Bronya that Kevin was unlikely to be near Seele, but Bronya’s doubts revealed that she would rescue her sister even if Kevin’s escape were a risk.

Bronya used a Herrscher of Reason trial card and worked to build an instrument to rescue Seele from the Sea of Quanta, while the Chat Group quiz revealed that Seele would ultimately save Bronya. Seele received a reward that let her travel between reality and the Sea of Quanta, leaving Bronya to wonder whether her work had been for nothing.

• Bronya activated the Herrscher of Reason trial card and began constructing an instrument with Welt supervising her.
• Seele joined the Chat Group, and Bronya spoke with her and Veliona while repeatedly making mistakes on the instrument.
• The Chat Group quiz asked who would shatter the Sea of Quanta with seven punches, and Seele was confirmed as the correct answer.
• Bronya finished building the instrument and prepared to rescue Seele, but Seele received a Concept Card that let her travel freely between reality and the Sea of Quanta.
• Bronya accepted that her work had not been wasted and concluded that the system had mainly forced her to study instead of gaming.

Seele learned to control the World Bubble inside her and watched footage of her past self awakening her power to rescue Bronya from the Sea of Quanta. The chapter ended with the group debating how Mobius had avoided a Fire Moth meeting as a quiz began.

• Bianka taught Seele how to control her World Bubble and leave the Sea of Quanta.
• Footage showed Bronya sacrificing herself so Seele could escape, prompting Seele to awaken her Stigmata and return to save Bronya.
• Seele and her other self defeated the Quantum Shadows and rescued Bronya from the Sea of Quanta.
• The group praised Seele's strength, while Kiana teased Bronya about her motorcycle license.
• The quiz asked how Mobius avoided a Fire Moth meeting, and the group considered the choices without reaching an answer.

Theresa won the quiz by guessing that Klein impersonated Mobius and received a Bitter Melon Juice Converter. The screen showed Mobius persuading Klein to attend her meeting in her place, while Danzhu and Cang Xuan watched and feared being silenced.

• Seele and Veliona discussed Seele's growing control over her World Bubble, and Su explained that Seele's power came from her own potential.
• Theresa was chosen as the quiz contestant and correctly guessed that Klein impersonated Mobius.
• Theresa received a machine that converted drinking water into bitter melon juice, which the others deemed mostly useless.
• Mobius persuaded Klein to take her place at Fire Moth's research meeting and complained about the people there.
• Mobius pinned Klein to the floor while asking her to understand her discomfort, as Danzhu and Cang Xuan watched from across the laboratory.
• Danzhu and Cang Xuan quietly sneaked away, convinced that Mobius and Klein would silence them if they were discovered.

Gray Serpent joined the Chat Group and spoke about World Serpent’s mission while Seele escaped the Sea of Quanta and reunited with Bronya at St. Freya Academy. The chapter ended with a quiz asking why Gray Serpent had cut off Cocolia and Einstein’s communication.

• Danzhu and Cang Xuan feared Mobius would punish them for witnessing her intimate scene with Klein, but Elysia and Kiana promised to keep it secret.
• Seele told Bronya that she had learned to leave the Sea of Quanta, then Veliona took control and brought her to St. Freya Academy.
• Gray Serpent joined the Chat Group, greeted the pioneers, and urged Raven to return to World Serpent, but Raven said she was retired.
• Seele landed on Bronya, and the two sisters reunited while the others watched.
• Gray Serpent declared that World Serpent would await Kevin’s return and the Stigmata Project’s victory over Honkai.
• A quiz asked what Gray Serpent had come to do when he cut off Cocolia and Einstein’s communication, and Gray Serpent could not remember.

Cocolia proposed that Anti-Entropy help move the Gem of Desire to thwart Otto, but Gray Serpent interrupted the discussion to collect on his deal with Theresa. He used the humanoid machine to seize control of the Hyperion, leaving Theresa and the Valkyries facing an approaching mechanized force.

• Cocolia contacted Einstein and proposed opening a new battlefield by moving the Gem of Desire before Otto could obtain it.
• Einstein accepted Cocolia's proposal, but the transmission cut out before she could give the rendezvous coordinates.
• Gray Serpent hijacked the Hyperion's communications and insisted Theresa had received the intelligence he owed her through the humanoid machine.
• Gray Serpent activated the formatted humanoid machine, which infiltrated the Hyperion and disabled its systems.
• Theresa ordered Einstein and Bronya to regain control of the Hyperion while she led the Valkyries against the boarding mech forces.

Gray Serpent won a quiz reward that let him invite Kevin into the Chat Group, reuniting Kevin with the Flame-Chasers and prompting him to question how the connection worked. Kevin remained unconvinced by Gray Serpent’s explanation and asked the group to prove it.

• Gray Serpent correctly answered that he was World Serpent’s true founder and received a Special Invitation Card.
• Gray Serpent used the card to invite Kevin Kaslana into the Chat Group while Kevin remained in the Sea of Quanta.
• Kevin heard from the Flame-Chasers and fell silent in shock at their apparent return.
• Gray Serpent explained that the Chat Group connected consciousnesses across space and time, but Kevin demanded proof.
• Sakura said the Flame-Chasers in Death Space could not affect reality, and Elysia suggested revealing Kevin’s noodle-slurping team-building event.

Elysia reunited with Kevin and tried to persuade him to abandon the Stigmata Project, while the group learned that Mobius had created the Stigmata prototype and helped develop the project with Dr. Mei. Kevin remained uncertain as Elysia and the others argued that the Current Era should choose its own way to fight Honkai.

• Elysia used a Life Coin Trial Version to leave the Sea of Quanta, and Kevin immediately recognized her as the real Elysia.
• Elysia noticed Kevin had weakened during his time dormant in the Sea of Quanta and proposed fighting him, while the others discussed stopping the Stigmata Project.
• Raven and Gray Serpent explained that World Serpent's doctrine, rather than Kevin's personal will, upheld the Stigmata Project.
• Footage showed Raiden Mei questioning Mobius, who revealed that she created the Stigmata prototype and developed the Stigmata Project with Dr. Mei.
• Elysia urged Kevin to quit the Stigmata Project, and he admitted that all the other plans had failed.
• Elysia, Fu Hua, and Theresa reminded Kevin that he had once doubted the project and argued that the Current Era should choose its own path; Kevin asked whether they truly believed that.

Gray Serpent argued that the Current Era owed its survival to the Previous Era’s sacrifices, while Durandal and the Valkyries rejected that as justification for the Stigmata Project. Elysia proposed using a Life Coin to give the Previous Era another chance, then won another coin by answering a quiz about why she borrowed Fenghuang Down.

• Gray Serpent explained that Divine Keys, stigmata, and generations of sacrifice had enabled humanity to resist Honkai, but Durandal refused to accept the Stigmata Project as justified.
• Elysia asked Kevin to abandon the original Stigmata Project in favor of using a Life Coin to start over, and Kevin asked what she needed him to do.
• Elysia and the others realized Life Coins were meant for the dead, so she told Kevin to wait for good news.
• The quiz asked why Elysia had borrowed Fenghuang Down, and Elysia correctly answered that she had used it to prank Kevin.
• Elysia received a Life Coin as her reward, and footage showed her asking Fu Hua to lend Fenghuang Down again despite having borrowed it at least sixteen times.

Elysia’s failed attempt to prank Kevin with Fenghuang Down led to a discussion of his emotional distance and World Serpent’s Stigmata Project. Gray Serpent defended the project and faced a quiz about the welcome gift he gave Kevin, claiming World Serpent could offer a Divine Key or the Herrscher of Reason’s Core.

• Elysia borrowed Fu Hua’s Fenghuang Down and used it on Kevin, but Kevin had been unaffected and exposed her prank.
• Elysia said Kevin had agreed to delay the Stigmata Project until the Current Era’s humans could no longer hold out, while Gray Serpent defended the project’s ideals.
• Gray Serpent argued that humanity might need to suffer great losses before understanding the value of the Stigmata Project.
• The quiz asked what Gray Serpent personally gave Kevin as a welcome gift, and Gray Serpent named a Divine Key or the Herrscher of Reason’s Core as possibilities.
• Welt, Kiana, and Theresa challenged Gray Serpent’s claim that World Serpent could take the Herrscher Core, pointing out that Welt’s accidental opening of the Eye of the Abyss had enabled Kevin’s rescue.

Gray Serpent presented Fehu to Kevin, whose return and empowered weapon stirred World Serpent’s followers. The discussion ended with the group wondering who might have driven a wedge between Seele and Veliona.

• Gray Serpent revealed that World Serpent had guided Welt to the Eye of the Abyss and identified Fehu as the gift meant for Kevin.
• Kiana worried that Gray Serpent had captured her father, Z Siegfried, while Gray Serpent received a card that could summon Kevin at his prime for ten minutes.
• Raven and the others discussed the card’s limits and Kevin’s ability to overwhelm their opponents during its brief duration.
• Gray Serpent visited Kevin, reported that preparations for the plan were nearly complete, and presented him with Fehu.
• Kevin awakened Fehu’s full power and declared that it would fight alongside him, prompting the group to marvel at his imposing presence.
• Elysia praised Fehu’s transformation, and Pardofelis suggested that Gray Serpent could find a gift to satisfy Elysia if she took Kevin’s throne.

The group identified the Thousand-Man Herrscher as the one that invaded Seele’s consciousness and sowed distrust between her and Veliona. Sakura used her reward to visit the amusement park, while the screen showed Veliona being isolated and tormented by the Herrscher of Domination’s puppets, leaving her furious and Seele worried about her.

• Sakura correctly identified the Thousand-Man Herrscher, and the group discussed how it manipulated and assimilated people by exploiting their weaknesses.
• Sakura received a Life Coin and used it to travel to the fairy’s amusement park to wait for her sister Rin.
• On the screen, Seele was dragged into the Theater of Domination, where a puppet welcomed her and Veliona was pulled into a separate space.
• The puppets taunted Veliona by claiming Seele wanted to get rid of her and that she was no different from them.
• Veliona angrily rejected the puppets’ claims, and Seele asked whether she was all right.

The group watched Seele stand up to the Herrscher of Domination while trying to protect Veliona, and Veliona denied caring about her despite feeling pleased by Seele’s devotion. Sakura then took Rin shopping, where Rin mistakenly believed Sakura was too poor to buy winter clothes, prompting Sakura to push for salaries for the Flame-Chasers’ senior management.

• Elysia questioned Veliona about helping Seele, and Veliona insisted she had only acted to protect their shared body and avoid Seele’s tears.
• The Herrscher of Domination attacked Seele in the Theater of Domination, but Seele vowed to protect Veliona and resisted the puppets’ attempt to claim her.
• Theresa and the others praised Seele’s assertiveness, while Veliona privately took pride in Seele’s words and denied that they proved her affection.
• Sakura ignored Fire Moth’s repeated messages and calls while shopping with Rin, then tried to take her sister to buy winter clothes.
• Rin worried that Sakura could not afford clothes because she received only an allowance, so Sakura asked Pardofelis to advance Eden’s plan to pay the Flame-Chasers steady salaries.

The group discussed how the Herrscher of Domination could manipulate people, and a quiz revealed that Seele had helped shake Veliona by hitting a sore spot. Veliona denied being jealous, but the scene ended with her cutting off her connection to Seele just as the Herrscher of Domination approached again.

• Kiana suggested blocking their ears against the Herrscher of Domination, while the others explained that its attacks targeted people's minds and that Seele resisted its manipulation.
• The system asked who had best helped shake Veliona, and the correct answer was Seele.
• Veliona insisted Seele must have upset her and received a Concept Card that could make her vanish, then claimed she would not leave Seele behind because they shared one body.
• On the screen, Seele cheerfully told Veliona about her friends and plans, and Veliona snapped at her for constantly talking about other people.
• The group recognized that Seele's comments had hit Veliona's sore spots, while Seele wondered what she had done wrong.
• Veliona severed her connection with Seele, and the Herrscher of Domination approached her again.

Veliona was targeted by the Herrscher of Domination, who exploited her fear of being unwanted, while Seele later tried to reassure her other self with a heartfelt confession. Veliona secretly listened and was ready to forgive Seele, but Seele fell asleep before she could answer.

• The Herrscher of Domination taunted Veliona about being nameless and unwanted, then left her alone after claiming its strings had wrapped around her.
• Bronya and Sakura warned that the Thousand-Man Herrscher could exploit Veliona's emotional weaknesses, while Seele vowed to find a way to defeat it.
• Elysia urged Seele to communicate with Veliona and joked about writing a guide to tsundere girls.
• Seele told Veliona that they were both one another and that she wanted to protect her, then waited for a reply.
• Veliona secretly listened, felt touched, and decided she would forgive Seele, but Seele fell asleep before Veliona could speak to her.

Veliona’s private worries about Seele were exposed, and she fled the Chat Group in embarrassment. Apponia then joined Death Space, where Chakravartin confronted her before Elysia explained the gathering and Apponia revealed that she could no longer perceive fate there.

• Veliona secretly watched over sleeping Seele, admitted she feared becoming unnecessary, and went to sleep after drawing a pig’s head on Seele’s photograph.
• Elysia played a recording of Veliona’s vulnerable words, and Veliona used a Concept Card to disappear from the world for twelve hours.
• Apponia joined Death Space, prompting Chakravartin to attack her while Pardofelis hid and the others watched.
• Apponia addressed Chakravartin, and his flames subsided as he warned her that there would be no next time.
• Elysia pointed out the assembled Flame-Chasers and asked Apponia about the situation, and Apponia said she could no longer see fate in Death Space.

The quiz revealed that Apponia blessed Mei by slipping a ring onto her hand, then awarded Apponia a Life Coin whose nature she could barely describe. The screen showed Apponia using a polite “please” to make Mei approach, leaving the others alarmed by the power of Precepts.

• Apponia subdued Chakravartin with Precepts, and Fu Hua explained that Divine Tone was a weakened version of Apponia’s power.
• Apponia answered that she had slipped a ring onto Mei’s hand and received a Life Coin as her reward.
• Apponia sensed that the Life Coin was linked to fate and the laws of the imaginary, but could not explain its nature clearly.
• The screen showed Apponia asking Mei to come closer, and Mei approached after Apponia politely said “please.”
• Kiana and the others reacted with alarm to Apponia’s ability, and Apponia said she no longer imposed Precepts.