Chapter Summaries

Elysia prepared for her final banquet, while the Flame-Chasers recalled the burden Kevin carried when he faced her as an enemy. In the memory realm, Raiden Mei said goodbye to Fairy Elysia and stepped toward the memories that would reveal Elysia’s life and the truth behind the scenes.

• Elysia abandoned her plan to sacrifice herself in secret, prepared the banquet, and accepted that she would face the others as the Herrscher of Humanity.
• The Flame-Chasers discussed why only four attended Elysia’s banquet, and Elysia reminded them that Kevin had borne the burden of confronting her.
• Pardofelis broke down crying over Elysia and Kevin’s suffering, while Elysia and Kevin struggled to comfort her.
• Raiden Mei let the unsent invitation disappear and resolved to create a perfect banquet for Elysia from her own memories.
• Raiden Mei recognized Fairy Elysia as a fragment of Elysia’s memories, said goodbye to her, and approached the final door to revisit Elysia’s life.

Elysia revealed that Honkai was an embrace rather than a judgment or trial, describing it as an obstacle civilization had to overcome as it advanced toward the stars. The group began to reconsider Honkai as a natural phenomenon, while Kevin warned that the deeper truth about the Honkai Consciousness remained too dangerous to uncover.

• After Elysia's footage suggested that the Honkai Consciousness did not exist, the group questioned what Raiden Mei had encountered, but Elysia struggled to explain.
• Kevin and Gray Serpent warned the group that learning the truth carried a price, and Fu Hua said her memories held no answers.
• A quiz asked for Honkai's true nature, and Elysia answered that it was neither judgment nor trial, but an embrace; the system marked her answer correct and rewarded her with a Life Coin.
• Elysia explained that Honkai was a painful cost of civilization's growth and that humanity had to overcome its fears and advance toward the stars.
• Welt proposed that Honkai was a natural phenomenon rather than a conscious will, comparing it to an ice age or a planet colliding with Earth.

Elysia and MEI discussed humanity’s future, the Kindling Project, and Elysia’s role in the final battle. After Raiden Mei completed her task, the remembered voices of the Flame-Chasers brought Elysia back, and she reunited with Mei in the garden.

• Welt and the others considered Honkai as a phenomenon tied to civilization, while Elysia wondered whether the Previous Era should have pursued stigmata instead of Fusion Warriors.
• Elysia asked MEI to preserve the Kindling Project even if the Stigmata Project seemed certain to succeed, and MEI understood her request.
• Elysia awakened in darkness after her memories ended, then heard familiar voices and saw twelve lights appear around her.
• Raiden Mei told Elysia that the people she loved remembered her, and the Flame-Chasers’ memories illuminated the darkness.
• Raiden Mei called Elysia back, and Elysia appeared in the garden wearing a white gown as the thirteen Flame-Chasers welcomed her.
• Elysia praised Mei for restoring the Flame-Chasers’ memories, while Pardofelis wished she could have attended Elysia’s banquet.

Raiden Mei trained with Sakura while the Flame-Chasers considered whether Elysia could recover corrupted memories from the Herrscher of Corruption. The quiz revealed that Elysia chose to meet the Herrscher and understand her, and the chapter ended with Mei welcoming Elysia back.

• Elysia asked Vill-V to help her dress up before Mei left Death Space, while Mei sparred with Sakura and struggled to keep up with her speed.
• The quiz asked what Elysia did after returning to the Elysian Realm, and the group discussed whether the Flame-Chasers' corrupted data could be restored.
• Kiana chose to activate the Anti-Kevin Armament Model 666, but the system marked her answer wrong and named meeting the Herrscher of Corruption as the correct answer.
• Elysia said she had risked meeting the Herrscher to save her companions and understand her as a fellow Herrscher, while Kiana received a penalty reducing her physical functions by twenty percent.
• Kiana worried Mei's training would make her stronger and joked about missing her cooking, while Mei and Elysia reunited in the garden.

Raiden Mei faced Elysia’s trial, drawing on the Flame-Chasers’ Signets to fight her in a final banquet beneath the stars. Afterward, Elysia praised Mei and proposed building a true Elysian Realm with Vill-V’s help.

• Elysia invited Mei to share one last dance, revealing that the banquet would become a trial against her power as the Herrscher of Origin.
• Su and Vill-V explained that the Flame-Chasers’ Signets would support Mei, and the Signets’ voices and power rallied around her as she fought Elysia.
• Mei and Elysia exchanged blows in a star-filled world until Mei’s weapon shattered, and they ended the dance standing back-to-back.
• Elysia thanked Mei for letting her experience the banquet again, then guided Mei in sensing the vast power within her.
• Eden reflected that witnessing Elysia’s end had been all the Flame-Chasers could do, and Elysia replied that it had been her choice.
• Elysia suggested building a true Elysian Realm, and Vill-V agreed to discuss the project with her.

Raiden Mei said goodbye to the Thirteen Flame-Chasers as the Previous Era Elysian Realm’s story came to an end. Back in the Death Space, she faced leaving her friends behind, while Mobius and Vill-V discussed Pardofelis’s unlikely survival of Fusion Warrior Surgery.

• Elysia told Mei she planned to meet the Herrscher of Corruption and bring everyone back before Mei left the Previous Era Elysian Realm.
• Mei heard the Flame-Chasers’ parting messages, and Elysia led them in a final farewell before Mei departed.
• Mei sat alone in the Death Space and admitted she had to leave the Flame-Chasers behind.
• Su reminded Mei that their parting served their shared mission to defeat Honkai and forge a better future.
• Mobius described Pardofelis as an inexplicable success of Fusion Warrior Surgery, and Vill-V suggested changing her Hypervariable Factor could be possible but risky.

Elysia chose to trust the Herrscher of Corruption to give the Flame-Chasers a beautiful ending if she won, and her answer was confirmed correct. Elysia then entered the corrupted Elysian Realm and approached the Herrscher of Corruption, who had taken on her appearance.

• Elysia revealed that Kevin was her fallback, and Kevin promised the Herrscher of Corruption would not escape the Previous Era Elysian Realm.
• Elysia chose option B, believing the Herrscher of Corruption would weave her a beautiful dream and let her remain with the Flame-Chasers.
• The answer was confirmed correct, and Elysia received a Life Coin.
• Elysia entered a city formed from discarded Elysian Realm data and found the blue-haired Herrscher of Corruption waiting at its center.
• Elysia approached the Herrscher of Corruption without fear and remarked that they looked exactly alike.

Elysia chose to face the Herrscher of Corruption rather than destroy the Previous Era Elysian Realm, hoping the Flame-Chasers could share one final battle against [Finality]. The fight began with the Herrscher of Corruption controlling the city and overwhelming Elysia, who was ultimately corrupted and erased.

• Elysia explained that she wanted the Flame-Chasers to take part in a grand finale, while the Herrscher of Corruption insisted she wanted to survive and refused to reach an agreement.
• Elysia and the Herrscher of Corruption accepted that they would fight, and the Herrscher of Corruption merged with the city and took control of its data.
• The Flame-Chasers gathered to face the Herrscher of Corruption, and Elysia said she could not defeat her alone but wanted them all to fight together.
• The Herrscher of Corruption attacked Elysia through the city, injuring her and using her authority to alter data, infect her, and destroy her arm.
• The Herrscher of Corruption overwhelmed Elysia, dismantled her body at the data level, and absorbed the last of her existence.

The Flame-Chasers revived and joined Elysia in defeating the Herrscher of Corruption, bringing the Elysian Realm’s final crisis to an end. Mei and the others mourned their departure while celebrating the memory bodies’ victory and reflecting on the lives the Flame-Chasers might have lived.

• Elysia and Eden restored the Flame-Chasers, who helped Elysia overcome the Herrscher of Corruption’s attacks and seal her with the twelve signets.
• Elysia used the Flame-Chasers’ combined power to destroy the Herrscher of Corruption’s true body and end the threat to the Elysian Realm.
• The Flame-Chasers watched scenes of the ordinary lives they might have lived before becoming Fusion Warriors.
• Mei cried over the Flame-Chasers’ departure, while Elysia comforted her and Pardofelis celebrated their victory.
• Vill-V, Su, Kevin, Sakura, Elysia, and Eden discussed the memory bodies’ achievement and the possibility of a world where ordinary happiness and becoming a Flame-Chaser did not conflict.

After completing her seven-day training in the Elysian Realm, Raiden Mei returned—but the system sent her to Schicksal Headquarters instead of St. Freya, where she was surrounded by Valkyries. Mei asked her friends for advice, while Theresa admitted she could not simply order the Immortal Blades to let her go.

• Elysia embraced Mei and blessed her before Mei vanished from the Elysian Realm and returned to the present.
• Mei appeared in the Immortal Blades’ training room at Schicksal Headquarters, where Alvitr and the other Valkyries surrounded her with weapons ready.
• Mei explained to the watching group that the system had sent her to Schicksal Headquarters, and everyone reacted with alarm.
• Mei asked what she should do, while Kiana urged Theresa to intervene and Theresa said she could not order the Valkyries to stand down.

Raiden Mei fought her way through the Immortal Blades at Schicksal Headquarters using Vill-V’s Thousand Blades, then faced Rita when the S-rank Valkyrie arrived. Rita’s scythe knocked Mei into a wall, leaving their fight unresolved.

• Durandal told Raiden Mei that leaving Schicksal Headquarters would mean fighting her way out, while Elysia suggested she act like her chuuni Previous Era self.
• Raiden Mei found Vill-V’s farewell gift, the fragment-made katana Thousand Blades, in her pocket and decided to fight the Immortal Blades.
• Raiden Mei defeated the Immortal Blades members with her lightning-fast attacks and captured Alvitr after discovering she was still conscious.
• Rita arrived, asked Raiden Mei to stay at Schicksal Headquarters, and attacked after Mei refused.
• Rita’s scythe overwhelmed Mei’s defenses and knocked her into a wall, but Mei refused to surrender.

Raiden Mei fought Rita at Schicksal Headquarters while claiming that a mysterious paradise held fighters far stronger than S-rank Valkyries. Otto watched the clash and weighed how to handle Mei, whose strength and connection to Durandal left him uncertain.

• Raiden Mei overwhelmed Rita and Alvitr, then told Rita that Valkyries of her strength were not fit to visit the paradise and could only compete with Pardofelis.
• Rita donned her Valkyrie armor and fought Mei, whose Thousand Blades weapon broke apart and reassembled during their exchange; both pulled back before either could land a decisive blow.
• Rita continued fighting Mei while trying to hold her at Headquarters until Durandal returned, and Otto watched from a hidden room with Amber.
• Amber identified Mei as the Herrscher of Thunder and noted that her Honkai Energy was unusually stable, while Otto questioned whether her account of the paradise was true.
• Amber reported that Durandal was delayed by Anti-Entropy troops, and Otto agreed that Mei should be kept at Headquarters but recognized that Rita might not be able to capture her.

Raiden Mei fought Rita at Schicksal Headquarters, but Otto intervened and tried to detain her for investigation. Fu Hua and an unknown ally trapped Otto, Amber, and Rita in an illusion, took Mei away, and left the three facing a white-haired girl who looked like Fu Hua.

• Otto rejected Amber’s plan to attack Raiden Mei and went to meet her while she fought Rita.
• Raiden Mei told Otto she was passing through, refused to cooperate with Schicksal’s investigation, and prepared to force her way out.
• Otto ordered Rita to keep Raiden Mei there, but an illusion surrounded them and an unseen ally whisked Mei away.
• Otto recognized Fu Hua’s voice in the illusion, then entered a dark doorway with Amber and Rita.
• Otto, Amber, and Rita found a white-haired girl brewing tea, and Otto and Rita recognized her as Fu Hua.

Fu Hua confronted Otto after recovering much of her strength, but chose to negotiate rather than kill him and explained why she had rescued Raiden Mei. Mei returned safely to St. Freya Academy, where her friends welcomed her and Fu Hua later rejoined them.

• Otto recognized Fu Hua as the Immortal Crimson Bird and learned that she had recovered to roughly seventy percent of her former strength.
• Otto warned Fu Hua that killing him could destabilize Schicksal and lead to Amber's death, and Fu Hua admitted she had not come to kill him.
• Otto accused Fu Hua of breaking their agreement and asked why she had rescued Raiden Mei; Fu Hua said Mei was her friend, an old acquaintance had entrusted her with Mei's safety, and the Herrscher of Reason had brought her along.
• Fu Hua vanished as the illusion ended, leaving Otto to realize that the Herrscher of Reason was an old acquaintance of hers.
• Raiden Mei returned to St. Freya Academy, where Kiana and the others welcomed her and told her how they had helped arrange her rescue.
• Fu Hua returned and told the group she had simply caught up with Otto.

The Chat Group expanded to include Otto, Amber, and Rita, prompting the group to discuss Schicksal’s role in fighting Honkai and Otto’s connection to the Flame-Chasers. Otto recognized Kiana as K423, angering Theresa and Kiana, and then apologized after being challenged.

• Durandal argued that Schicksal’s Valkyries had done the most to protect humanity, while Gray Serpent agreed and Welt struggled to defend Anti-Entropy.
• Otto, Amber, and Rita joined the Chat Group, and Rita questioned why she was called an S-rank Valkyrie Gatekeeper.
• Otto connected Fu Hua and Raiden Mei’s clues to the Flame-Chasers and became excited by the possibility of a miracle spanning fifty thousand years.
• Su praised Otto’s leadership and said the fight against Honkai needed a unified voice, while Otto wondered why Theresa had become hostile toward him.
• Otto called Kiana K423, prompting Theresa and Elysia to rebuke him, and he apologized to Kiana.

Otto and the others discussed his motives, Kiana, and the truth about the real Kiana before the system began a quiz about where Otto was killed in Project Ring. Otto chose the wrong answer, suffered the system’s penalty, and emerged in another Soulium body, leaving him wary of future questions.

• Su asked Otto why he would become Kiana’s enemy, and Otto explained that he wanted the Herrscher of the Void’s power to fulfill his five-hundred-year wish.
• Theresa asked about the real Kiana, and Otto assured her that Kiana was alive and doing well without revealing where she was.
• The system asked where Otto was killed in Project Ring, and the group discussed the World Bubble and possible successors to Schicksal’s bishop.
• Otto concluded that World Serpent’s base was the likeliest answer and chose it, but the system revealed that the correct answer was Raven’s Island.
• The system destroyed Otto’s Soulium body as a penalty, and another Otto emerged beneath Schicksal Headquarters, promising to answer more carefully next time.

Kiana discovered that Otto and Kevin had both failed to pay their Valkyries and officers, with Schicksal and World Serpent resorting to selling or mortgaging an island. The chat group exposed Theresa for withholding Himeko's pay, and Otto cut St. Freya Academy's next-quarter funding by thirty percent.

• Kiana found Otto's invitation and joined a gathering at Raven's villa, where Raiden Mei explained that Raven owned the island after Otto sold it to World Serpent for funds.
• Durandal and Rita revealed that Schicksal owed them over a month's pay, while Theresa admitted she had been keeping Himeko's pay safe.
• Amber recommended cutting St. Freya Academy's funding, and Otto approved a thirty-percent reduction for the next quarter, prompting Theresa to cry out in dismay.
• Raiden Mei explained that Kevin had mortgaged the island to her and Raven in place of their unpaid wages.
• Gray Serpent defended World Serpent's pay practices, but Kevin stayed silent as the group questioned him, and Raven objected to working without pay.

Kiana struggled to investigate Otto’s apparent murder during a villa party, but food and games repeatedly distracted everyone. After the footage ended, Otto considered why the Valkyries might dislike him and tried to build ties with Vill-V, while the Flame-Chasers declared they would defeat Honkai and break Finality.

• Kiana noticed Otto’s corpse and guessed that identifying his killer was her mission, but Fu Hua moved the body aside and steered the group toward the party.
• Kiana repeatedly tried to investigate, then chose games and Mei’s cooking instead, leaving Otto’s corpse forgotten as the Valkyries celebrated.
• Theresa, Durandal, and Rita tried to suppress their laughter over Otto’s onscreen death, while Otto wondered why Durandal and Rita seemed to dislike him.
• Vill-V introduced herself as a Divine Keys forger, and Otto thanked her and offered Schicksal’s resources to strengthen their relationship.
• Vill-V rejected Otto’s offer, and Elysia and Kevin vowed that the Flame-Chasers would defeat Honkai and break Finality.

The quiz revealed that everyone in Raven's island villa had killed Otto, earning Kiana a bottle of Soulium Solvent. On the screen, the villa guests debated what to do with Otto’s body, then began plotting to divide his inheritance and sell Schicksal.

• Otto realized that time-reversing items existed and felt hopeful about changing his fate.
• The quiz asked who killed Otto at Raven’s island villa, and Amber wrongly blamed World Serpent, costing Schicksal one tenth of its next-quarter finances.
• Kiana chose “Everyone,” and the answer was correct, revealing that all the villa guests had killed Otto.
• Kiana received Soulium Solvent, while Otto wondered why the Flame-Chasers’ time-reversal item had not appeared as a reward.
• On the screen, Fu Hua suggested throwing Otto’s body into the sea, while Durandal, Theresa, and Rita proposed collecting salaries, dividing the inheritance, and selling Schicksal.

Fu Hua and the others bungled the investigation into Otto’s murder, turning the crime scene into a farce as they argued over suspects. The accusations spread to Durandal and Rita, leaving the killer still unidentified.

• Raiden Mei accidentally triggered the villa’s lockdown and revealed a stash of ticking time bombs, while Rita found a mechanism that required naming the killer to disarm them.
• The Chat Group laughed at Fu Hua’s absurd detective work, and Fu Hua defended her record as London’s detective, Fu Holmes.
• Durandal played detective music as Kiana accidentally erased Otto’s recorded message, then the Valkyries found his useless dying message and attacked his corpse.
• Fu Hua randomly accused Raven of killing Otto, prompting Raven to protest that Schicksal was acting like a gang.
• Fu Hua and Raven redirected their accusations toward Durandal, then Durandal accused Rita after Rita played the execution music; the two traded accusations without identifying the killer.