Chapter Summaries

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.

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.