Recaps

Apponia returned to the Previous Era, where she learned that her ability to glimpse fate had become unclear and visited Elysia’s amusement park for children from the Dusk Street Sanatorium. There, a young girl chose to listen to Apponia’s stories instead of joining the other children at play.

• Apponia gave Mei a ring as a gesture of goodwill, and Mei advised her not to put rings on that finger when giving them to people.
• Apponia used the Life Coin to return from the Death Space to the Fire Moth base, where she found stacks of documents and heard about Elysia’s Fairy Amusement Park.
• Elysia invited Apponia to visit the amusement park, and Apponia politely asked a staff member how to get there.
• Apponia explained that she could still see threads of fate but could no longer discern their paths because her actions were changing the future.
• Apponia reached the amusement park, where a girl from the Dusk Street Sanatorium gave her wildflowers and said she preferred hearing Apponia’s stories to riding the roller coasters.

Apponia learned that the children at the Dusk Street sanatorium wanted a new story about a mischievous little sprite, and the others suspected Pardofelis or her cat, Canned Food, was behind it. The chapter ended with Canned Food biting Pardofelis and the group questioning whether the cat was real.

• Apponia received the Ring of Affinity after answering that the children loved hearing “The Little Sprite of Dusk Street.”
• The children asked Apponia to tell them about the little sprite after rejecting stories they had heard hundreds of times.
• The children described a tiny prankster who stole one of their cookies near a drain in the slums.
• Kiana and the others suspected Pardofelis was the sprite, but Kiana blamed Canned Food instead.
• Canned Food attacked Pardofelis, and Theresa recalled that Pardofelis had claimed the cat did not exist in reality.
• Elysia asked Pardofelis who the little sprite of Dusk Street had been.

Pardofelis dismantled the sanatorium gates to free its children, then learned they were patients who needed protection and agreed to stop interfering. After watching the footage, Raven decided to buy storybooks for the children on her island and offered to tell Apponia stories too.

• Pardofelis admitted she had dismantled the sanatorium gates and taken them as merchandise, then quickly begged Apponia for mercy.
• Pardofelis accused Apponia of keeping the children imprisoned, but Apponia explained that the sanatorium's patients were ill and needed its restrictions to stay safe.
• Pardofelis accepted Apponia's explanation, promised not to return as Dusk Street's little sprite, and fled after refusing to hear more stories.
• Apponia smiled and began repairing the gates after Pardofelis left.
• Raven reflected that the children on her island no longer needed survival lessons and decided to buy them storybooks.
• Raven offered to tell Apponia stories from Andersen's Fairy Tales in hopes of getting closer to the Flame-Chasers.

The Chat Group revealed that Apponia became angry with Chakravartin for knocking over cabbages, and Apponia received an Infinity Cabbage Basket as a reward. The screen showed Chakravartin kicking and punching the basket before arguing with Apponia about how she treated him.

• Su explained that he was mass-producing experimental Honkai Energy Serum, while Elysia praised his work and said it gave the children hope of recovery.
• The quiz asked what Chakravartin had done at Dusk Street Sanatorium to anger Apponia, and the group debated the possible answers.
• Apponia identified the incident as Chakravartin knocking over the cabbages, and the quiz confirmed her answer.
• Apponia received an Infinity Cabbage Basket, and Pardofelis tested it by patting it to make cabbages appear.
• The screen showed Chakravartin kicking and punching a cabbage basket in his way, then insulting Apponia as she tried to reason with him.
• Apponia told Chakravartin not to raise his fists against others and said the children liked him, but Chakravartin rejected her explanation.

The group watched scenes of Chakravartin antagonizing Apponia and being dragged into her counseling, while their commentary turned into a cabbage-related mess. The chapter ended with Pardofelis regretting producing so many cabbages, which everyone in the Death Space had to eat.

• Theresa and Sakura discussed Chakravartin scaring children, while Elysia suggested Apponia tell stories about him to keep them quiet.
• Chakravartin tried to anger Apponia by throwing cabbages and knocking over her crate, but Apponia stayed calm and urged him to pray with her.
• Pardofelis produced a roomful of cabbages, and Apponia persuaded everyone to finish them rather than waste food.
• Kiana and the others discussed Apponia's surprising strength before she restrained Chakravartin and made him admit he was wrong.
• Chakravartin shattered the cabbage crate, burying himself and Apponia in cabbages before Apponia sent him to the prayer room.
• Pardofelis regretted making so many cabbages and dreaded eating them at every meal in the Death Space.

The quiz punished Elysia for answering incorrectly by swapping her body with Canned Food’s for twelve hours. The on-screen conversation revealed that Mobius’s repeated returns from death came from a side effect of Hypermutation Surgery, and Kiana questioned whether it was related to Honkai Beast genes.

• Elysia and the others guessed that Raiden Mei had met four people who could return from the dead, but the correct answer was three.
• The system swapped Elysia’s body with Canned Food’s as punishment for the wrong answer.
• Elysia enjoyed acting like a cat in Canned Food’s body, while Canned Food used Elysia’s body to rough up Pardofelis over the cabbage.
• Raiden Mei told Mobius she wanted to understand the principles behind her unusual return from death, which others viewed as a miracle.
• Mobius explained that her repeated rebirths were a side effect of Hypermutation Surgery, prompting Kiana to ask whether it was connected to Honkai Beast genes.

The group discussed whether Mobius was still alive and whether she controlled the Stigmata Project, while Elysia recounted her body-swapping mischief. A new quiz asked who first offered Apponia kindness and hope, and Elysia passed the choice to Apponia.

• Elysia and Canned Food stole dye from Vill-V’s workshop and turned Pardofelis’s hair and tail rainbow-colored.
• Raiden Mei concluded that Mobius’s ability to return from death had limits, leaving the group uncertain whether Mobius was still alive.
• Welt, Bronya, and Kiana speculated that Mobius had awakened and was secretly directing World Serpent and the Stigmata Project, but Elysia said their guesses were wrong.
• The system asked who first offered Apponia kindness and hope when she was taken to the Fire Moth for trial.
• Theresa urged the group to answer, but after Raiden Mei asked her to choose, Elysia deferred the question to Apponia.

Apponia received a Special Invitation Card and let Cosmo use it to bring Griseo into the Death Space, where Griseo agreed to leave the Ark Project and return. As footage began revealing Apponia’s past as a serious offender, Griseo comforted her, and Elysia appeared in the interrogation room.

• Apponia received a Special Invitation Card that could bring outsiders into the Death Space if they accepted the invitation.
• Apponia asked for permission to use the card to bring Griseo back, and Cosmo volunteered because he regretted abandoning her to the Ark Project.
• Cosmo invited Griseo into the Death Space, and Griseo agreed to return because she was afraid of being alone.
• Footage showed Sakura escorting Apponia to an interrogation room, where Apponia asked whether the sanatorium’s residents had survived and wondered if calling out to Sakura earlier would have changed the outcome.
• Apponia admitted she had committed unforgivable sins before gaining her Precepts, while Elysia insisted she had not caused the children’s suffering.
• Griseo called Apponia Mama and offered to change her sorrowful colors as footage showed Elysia meeting Apponia in the interrogation room.

Elysia comforted Apponia as she grieved the children who had died in the Honkai disaster, reminding her that she had acted with kindness and did not cause the tragedy. Griseo painted a family portrait that revealed her loneliness, and Elysia kept it as a memento.

• Elysia approached Apponia in the interrogation room, reassured her that she saw kindness beneath her sorrow, and clasped her hands.
• Apponia recalled taking in children with Honkai Disease and blamed herself for the deaths of the seventy-three children she remembered by name.
• Elysia told Apponia the disaster was not her fault and encouraged her to remember the children while also meeting new people; Apponia managed a faint smile.
• Griseo noticed Apponia's sadness and explained through her words and painting that she saw sad colors.
• Griseo gave Elysia a family portrait that included the Flame-Chasers but left Griseo herself out, explaining that she felt lonely and had only her own colors.
• Elysia accepted Griseo's painting and decided to keep it as a memento.

Griseo correctly greeted Raiden Mei after Elysia hugged her and prompted her, earning three self-replenishing canvases as a reward. Elysia explained that Griseo absorbed others’ traits like a canvas, then the chapter ended as Raiden Mei considered what that meant.

• Elysia hugged Griseo and prompted her to greet Raiden Mei, revealing that the correct answer was, “Sister Mei, hi, did you miss me?”
• Griseo received three canvases that replenished whenever one or two were taken, but stopped working if all three were removed.
• A screen scene showed Elysia warning Raiden Mei that spending too much time with Griseo could affect her, and Griseo repeated Elysia’s flirtatious greeting.
• Elysia explained that Griseo’s absorbed traits faded as her sense of self returned, and Griseo soon resumed painting.
• Kiana wondered what Griseo would become after spending time with her, while Bronya called Kiana an idiot and the two argued.
• Theresa concluded that Griseo’s ability reflected people’s hearts, and Raiden Mei lowered her head to think about Elysia’s explanation.

The Flame-Chasers discussed how Griseo absorbed others’ traits and joked about enduring a cabbage surplus. A quiz revealed Griseo called Raven “Mama,” while Elysia admitted she had taught Griseo to call Mobius “Grandma.”

• Elysia explained to Mei that Griseo temporarily absorbed traits from people around her, while her true nature remained difficult to understand.
• Cosmo remembered that the Flame-Chasers still had a storeroom full of cabbages, but Apponia agreed to give everyone a day without them after Pardofelis appealed to Griseo.
• The quiz asked which of Griseo’s names for Raven Raven disliked, and Griseo listed several forms of address, including “Grandma Mobius.”
• Griseo revealed that Elysia had taught her to call Mobius “Grandma,” and Elysia asked Griseo what she called Raven.
• Griseo called Raven “Mama,” explaining that Raven’s colors resembled Apponia’s and that she liked them.

Griseo's Concept Card let her borrow one Flame-Chaser's power at a time, while Raiden Mei and Raven discussed how Griseo's paintings reflected the people around her and could affect viewers. A quiz then asked who backstabbed Mobius, and Danzhu received the Life Coin Trial Version reward after accusing Mobius.

• Griseo received a Concept Card that let her borrow and switch between Flame-Chaser powers for an hour, but not combine them.
• Raiden Mei visited Griseo's room and learned from Raven that Griseo's paintings gathered others' colors and could influence cognition.
• Raven explained that Griseo's painting after spending time with Chakravartin had reportedly caused an urban district to collapse into internal unrest.
• Pardofelis showed the group Griseo's painting, “Street Corner at Dusk,” which depicted a quiet street with stray cats.
• The quiz asked who backstabbed Mobius, and the group speculated about whether the real Mobius or her Memory Body was responsible.
• Danzhu accused Mobius of backstabbing herself and received the Life Coin Trial Version reward.

Mobius’s recorded projection confronted her memory body and revealed that she had long planned to accept death, despite her fear that even her power to revive had limits. The chapter left the explanation unfinished as the projection recalled another failed experiment.

• Klein showed Mobius a projection recorded by the original Dr. Mobius before her death.
• The projection anticipated Mobius’s objections and explained that the original had chosen death long before the arrival of Finality.
• The original Mobius said she feared death because resurrection did not grant limitless life.
• The projection recounted how Mobius’s fear drove her to search for a way to live forever.
• The projection began recalling an experiment that had failed in the early hours of a certain day.

Mobius's recording appeared to accept death and leave the choice of infinity to her memory body, but the memory body stabbed the projection and revealed she had manipulated the original Mobius's memories. The chapter ended with everyone reacting to the revelation that the memory body had engineered her own survival by killing the original.

• The projected Mobius reflected on her failures, Elysia's death, and her weariness with pursuing infinity, while the others discussed her acceptance of death.
• The projection asked the memory body Mobius to say goodbye, but the memory body stabbed her and laughed.
• Bronya explained that she had suspected a trick because the Flame-Chasers showed no reaction to Mobius abandoning her Infinity signet.
• The memory body told Klein that she had planted a seed in the original Mobius's memories during a synchronization after Elysia's death.
• The footage ended with the memory body declaring that she would be the one and only Mobius, and the others debated the danger she posed.

Elysia won a bet that would make Mobius wear pink if Raiden Mei escaped the Elysian Realm alive. Mei and Klein found a way out, and Elysia collected on the wager while Mobius fumed.

• Bronya questioned whether Mobius could really have lost to her memory body, and Mei realized Mobius still threatened her.
• Elysia correctly guessed that Mobius had wagered to wear pink clothes and received a Concept Card that could force someone into an imagined costume.
• Mobius's memory body threatened Mei and disappeared, while Klein told Mei their odds of escaping were zero but continued searching for a way out.
• Elysia revealed that Mobius had promised to wear pink if Mei escaped safely, and Mei appeared beside them with Klein after leaving the Elysian Realm.
• Mobius demanded to know how Mei had survived, while Elysia celebrated her victory.

Mobius arrived in Death Space after an unexplained death, where Elysia welcomed her by magically changing her clothes into a pink dress. The group then answered a quiz about the name of the world formed from Elysia’s memories, and Elysia earned a Concept Card.

• Mobius was repeatedly rejected by Death Space and the Chat Group before finally being admitted to Death Space.
• The Flame-Chasers and others discussed Mobius’s mysterious condition, and Elysia used a Concept Card to make her wear a pink dress.
• Raiden Mei recalled the mental world she had reached after defeating Apponia, and Elysia described the world formed from her memories.
• Elysia answered that the memory world was called the Elysian Realm and received a Concept Card for architectural construction.
• Mobius asked whether Death Space’s special nature explained their existence, and Su agreed that it probably did.

Mobius argued that death had not ended her pursuit of infinity, while the group watched Raiden Mei enter a beautiful memory world created by Elysia and learn that it could reveal the truth about the mysterious Thirteenth Herrscher. The footage ended as Mei followed Elysia toward a garden, leaving the group wondering what secrets the Elysian Realm held.

• Mobius told Raiden Mei and Theresa that, although she counted as dead, her consciousness and abilities let her transcend time and continue pursuing infinity.
• Raiden Mei fought off monsters in Elysia’s memory world, where Elysia explained that the realm recreated the beautiful things she had loved.
• Elysia tried to use a Concept Card to build an elaborate paradise, but the system limited the available land and directed her to Dusk Street to buy more.
• Raiden Mei questioned Elysia about the Will of Honkai and the unknown Thirteenth Herrscher, and Elysia said the Elysian Realm could provide answers.
• Elysia led Raiden Mei from the plaza toward the garden, and the footage ended before their conversation continued.
• Vill-V told Danzhu and Cang Xuan that their miniature energy reactor was ready for pickup.

Danzhu visited St. Freya Academy and began replacing Little Xuan’s drained battery with a reactor made by Vill-V. Meanwhile, Vill-V’s quiz answer was wrong, and Original Vill-V was punished with colorful turtles drawn on her face; the chapter left Raiden Mei facing Vill-V’s unknown surprise in the Elysian Realm.

• Danzhu arrived at St. Freya Academy, where Theresa offered her bitter melon juice, and Fu Hua told her Little Xuan was in her room.
• The Herrscher of Reason showed Danzhu her collection of supposed antiques, which Danzhu recognized as fakes, before Danzhu found Little Xuan and began replacing her battery.
• The quiz asked what surprise Vill-V had prepared, and Vill-V guessed that it was a grand magic show or Anti-Kevin Armament.
• The system revealed that the answer was cards and punished Vill-V by sending Original Vill-V out with colorful little turtles drawn all over her face.
• Elysia asked Pardofelis to bring Vill-V out, but Vill-V threatened to unleash the Anti-Kevin Armament if anyone entered her workshop.
• In a recorded scene, Raiden Mei found Vill-V in the Elysian Realm, where Vill-V hinted at a surprise that made Mei wary.

Vill-V gave Raiden Mei Signet-based magic cards and left to explore the central tower, while Little Xuan woke at St. Freya Academy and joined the Chat Group. Little Xuan answered a quiz about missing New Year meat buns correctly and received a tree that grew them.

• Vill-V showed Raiden Mei her Signet cards, offered her the deck, and said she would hide the cards in treasure chests before leaving for the central tower.
• Little Xuan awoke after Danzhu repaired her, mistook Fu Hua for a dead Chi Yuan, and learned about the Chat Group.
• The quiz asked what Fu Hua had done to keep the Book of Cang Xuan from having meat buns for New Year, and Little Xuan correctly answered that she had driven away the Nian Beast.
• The system rewarded the Book of Cang Xuan with a Meat Bun Tree, and Kiana offered to plant it so they could eat its fruit.

The Book of Cang Xuan lamented Mount Tai Xu’s terrible food and discovered that Fu Hua had driven the Nian Beast away before New Year’s Eve, threatening the annual calendar and her hoped-for feast. After the group discussed Fu Hua’s pickled vegetables, a quiz asked what Raiden Mei had said to Elysia in the Elysian Realm Archives, and the answer remained unknown.

• The Book of Cang Xuan and others complained about Mount Tai Xu’s dry rations and Spring No Old while Little Xuan enjoyed fried chicken.
• The Book of Cang Xuan learned that Fu Hua had defeated the Nian Beast seven days earlier and worried that the villagers’ New Year customs and her temple-fair treats would be lost.
• The Book of Cang Xuan proposed making a fake Nian Beast so Fu Hua could defeat it on New Year’s Eve, and she dragged Fu Hua toward Peach Blossom Village.
• The group joked about Fu Hua’s cooking and pickles, while the Herrscher of Reason vowed to destroy her pickle jar if she tried to make Spring No Old again.
• The system presented a quiz asking what Raiden Mei had said to Elysia, and Raiden Mei questioned whether Elysia had tampered with the Elysian Realm.

Elysia received a Concept Card that could make someone in the Chat Group say “Dear Elysia,” then the screen showed her bringing Raiden Mei to the Elysian Realm Archives to reveal the Flame-Chasers’ memories. There, Mei met the tiny Fairy Elysia administrator, who had not yet been activated.

• Elysia received the Concept Card “Dear Elysia” and explained that it could target someone in the Chat Group.
• Elysia led Raiden Mei into the Elysian Realm Archives and explained that its files gave physical form to the Flame-Chasers’ memories.
• Elysia introduced a doll modeled after herself and said that Eden and Apponia had accepted copies of it.
• Raiden Mei noticed that Fairy Elysia had not moved and asked whether the administrator was all right.

Raiden Mei activated Fairy Elysia and used the Elysian Realm archive to investigate the Thirteenth Herrscher, but the search yielded no answer. A new question revealed that a Flame-Chaser had died in the Realm, and the others realized the death might have resulted from infighting.

• Elysia made Raiden Mei activate Fairy Elysia by calling her “Dear Elysia,” and Kiana and Pardofelis asked to have one of Elysia’s dolls.
• Fairy Elysia demonstrated that the archive typewriter could retrieve stored information, but it printed a blank page when Mei asked about the Thirteenth Herrscher.
• Mei decided to explore Elysia’s past, while Elysia and Pardofelis assured her she would be safe in the Realm.
• The question session asked which Flame-Chaser’s death Mei first learned of, leaving the group stunned that a memory body could die.
• Su suggested internal damage to the closed Realm’s data could kill a Flame-Chaser, and the group considered that one of their own might be responsible.
• Mobius mocked the Flame-Chasers’ bonds, while Sakura fell silent and Chakravartin dismissed their conflict as a familiar farce.

The group identified Elysia as the first Flame-Chaser to die, shocking everyone because of her strength. As Chakravartin’s punishment forced him to shout affectionately at Apponia, a screen showed Raiden Mei waiting for Elysia and speaking with Fairy Elysia, who hinted that Elysia had prepared surprises before Mei left the Elysian Realm.

• Durandal returned to the group chat and joined the discussion about the reported death.
• Su explained that memory bodies could be killed through vulnerabilities in their data, though doing so was difficult.
• The system revealed that Elysia was the first victim, and Chakravartin received a punishment for choosing the wrong answer.
• Chakravartin shouted “Dear Apponia” under compulsion, then attacked Apponia in anger.
• Raiden Mei arrived at her meeting place and found Fairy Elysia waiting instead of Elysia.
• Fairy Elysia told Raiden Mei that Elysia had prepared surprises for her before she left the Elysian Realm.

The Flame-Chasers and Raiden Mei discover that Elysia vanished overnight, and Mobius confirms that she is dead. The group is left questioning how anyone could have killed Elysia without being seen or causing a disturbance.

• Pardofelis, Eden, Mobius, and the others discuss how Elysia could have disappeared from the archives overnight, while Mobius suggests a memory body could be killed in many ways.
• The Flame-Chasers gather to discuss Elysia's disappearance, and Mei approaches them to ask where Elysia is.
• Su tells Mei that Elysia has run into trouble and is gone, and Mobius bluntly reveals that Elysia is dead.
• The footage ends with Mei stunned by the news, while Elysia and the others question how she could have been killed unnoticed.

The group investigated Elysia’s death as the system revealed that Chakravartin had fought Mobius in the Elysian Realm. Mobius’s secretive actions made her a suspect, and the chapter ended with Theresa accusing her of murdering Elysia.

• Fu Hua said they needed to learn what happened before Elysia died to find clues.
• The system asked who fought Mobius, and the group correctly chose Chakravartin.
• Mobius received an Enlarging Pill as her reward.
• In the Elysian Realm, Mobius confronted Chakravartin, and they fought before accusing each other of scheming and refusing to be used.
• After watching Mobius’s suspicious behavior, Theresa accused her of killing Elysia out of resentment.