Recaps

Einstein revealed that the puppets contained suspected Herrscher Cores, prompting Bronya and Seele to investigate the Clue Workshop. Seele fought through a strange void and encountered the Theatre of Domination, which made her vanish and left Veliona alone.

• Einstein reported that the damaged puppets held crystals suspected to be Herrscher Cores and warned that a new Honkai eruption might be imminent.
• Bronya and Seele entered the Clue Workshop and found themselves in a vast, lightless void.
• Seele resisted Veliona’s offer to take control, fought through enemies, and entered a warped passage to retrieve intelligence for Doctor Einstein.
• Seele encountered a puppet identical to the one found earlier, which announced the Theatre of Domination and warned her not to escape.
• The screen went dark, Seele disappeared, and Veliona was left alone as the puppet’s voice addressed her.

Seele was trapped in the Theatre of Domination, where a puppet attacked her and taunted her about Veliona, but a familiar presence helped her wake beside Bronya. As the investigation continued, Kiana was recognized by a Salt Lake Base worker as the hero who had saved Arc City.

• Veliona resisted the puppets’ accusations as rifts opened around her, while Seele fought the puppet and the Honkai Beasts in another space.
• Seele lost consciousness and awoke at the workshop entrance with Bronya, then told her about the strange battle and the presence she believed had saved her.
• Seele and Bronya found a new theater ticket reading “The Mouse and the Eagle” and sent the clue to headquarters for analysis.
• Seele continued the investigation with Kiana, and they recovered another theater ticket after following the trail of an out-of-control mech.
• At Salt Lake Base, a logistics worker recognized Kiana as the Herrscher of the Void and thanked her for saving Arc City; Seele urged him to call her Kiana and reminded her that people saw her as a hero.

Kiana and Seele shared a warm meal, but afterward Veliona lashed out at Seele and returned to the ruined theater, where the puppet exploited her fears of being unwanted and nameless. The puppet revealed that the [Threads] had already wound around Veliona, leaving her alone in her self-made void and seemingly unable to escape her anguish.

• Kiana thanked Seele for standing by her, and the two went to find food while the livestream viewers discussed Kiana and praised Boss Lin.
• After the meal, Seele tried to share her happiness about life at the base, but Veliona angrily accused her of depending on Kiana, Bronya, and Cocolia.
• Veliona secretly returned to the ruined theater and confronted the puppet, which taunted her about being unwanted, nameless, and no longer needed by Seele.
• Veliona shouted at the puppet, and Hanser noticed that Veliona's subtitle color was beginning to match the puppet's.
• The puppet told Veliona that the [Threads] had already wound around her and that the [Theatre of Domination] awaited her.
• Veliona returned to her self-made void, saw the damage she had done to her chair, and screamed for everyone to disappear.

Seele reassured Veliona that she valued and needed her, but fell asleep before Veliona could answer, leaving Veliona afraid she would eventually disappear. Veliona took over Seele’s body, defaced a photograph instead of her face, and resumed their usual morning routine by startling Seele awake with a caterpillar.

• Seele spoke to Veliona about their shared identity and asked what name she liked, then fell asleep before Veliona emerged.
• Veliona left the Abyss of Consciousness, found Seele asleep, and admitted she feared being forgotten and disappearing as Seele grew stronger.
• Veliona vowed to protect Seele, then panicked over her own sentimental words and took control of the body.
• Veliona stopped herself from writing on sleeping Seele’s face and instead drew a pig’s head over a photograph.
• The next morning, Veliona startled Seele awake with a caterpillar, and Seele laughed while Veliona teased her.

Einstein confirmed that the threat was the Tenth Herrscher, the Herrscher of Domination, and that its next target was Anti-Entropy’s Salt Lake Base. As Seele and Bronya investigated the evacuated base, they encountered animated mechs and a rift linked to the Theater, whose sudden flash swallowed them.

• Einstein revealed that the puppet’s core fragment matched the Herrscher of Domination and reported that the enemy was heading for Salt Lake Base.
• Tesla and Einstein ordered a full evacuation, while Kiana and Theresa escorted evacuees and Seele and Bronya stayed behind to guard the base.
• Seele began confessing to Bronya that she had not rescued her from the Sea of Quanta alone, but Bronya interrupted when discarded mechs activated.
• Seele and Bronya destroyed the mechs, then followed Veliona’s warning toward a presence connected to the Theater.
• Bronya fired Heavy Bunny’s cannon at a black rift, and a blinding light swallowed Seele and Bronya.

Bronya was drawn into the Theatre of Domination, where Jerry Barbara mocked her and unleashed endlessly regenerating enemies. After Bronya attacked the doll and disrupted his performance, her Herrscher powers vanished and she felt a piece of her soul being torn away.

• Bronya found herself alone in an illusory theatre, where Jerry Barbara announced that she would be its star and mocked her record of failures.
• Bronya calmly questioned Jerry Barbara and inferred that his performance had revealed clues about the theatre’s nature.
• Jerry Barbara summoned regenerating mechs and Honkai Beasts to attack Bronya as she searched for a way out and for Seele.
• Bronya reconstructed heavy cannons, fired at Jerry Barbara, and ran him over with her motorcycle.
• The laughter stopped, Bronya’s motorcycle and Herrscher armor vanished, and she felt something being torn from her soul.

Bronya and Seele fled the vanished puppet and encountered more puppets voicing workplace resentment, creative burnout, and painful family favoritism. Their stories shook the livestream audience, and Hanser and Sister Zhou urged viewers to face real hardships while seeking a way toward a better world.

• Bronya’s power drained after the puppet disappeared, so she took Seele and fled into a dark entrance that led to another corridor.
• A puppet raged about workplace mistreatment, prompting a livestream-watching boss to promise fairer work and meals and to arrange a psychological evaluation for Rock Lee.
• Bronya and Seele passed a puppet lamenting endless design revisions, and viewers recognized the character’s despair as familiar creative burnout.
• A third puppet described being overlooked in favor of an older sister before wishing that sister would disappear, stirring painful memories among viewers.
• Hanser said the story sought to acknowledge social problems while encouraging people to pursue light, and Sister Zhou urged viewers to build defenses against real-world hardships.

Bronya and Seele tried to escape the Theatre of Domination after discovering that the Dolls could steal Herrscher powers, but the exit Bronya found led to an invisible barrier. With Bronya’s body rapidly turning into a puppet, they were left trapped and running out of time.

• Hanser realized that the employees needed acceptance, goodwill, and hope rather than treatment.
• Seele and Bronya encountered Dolls who mocked them and revealed that they had stolen Bronya’s power.
• Bronya found a break in the space and told Seele to hold off the Dolls while she located the exit.
• Dolls and Honkai Beasts attacked, and Bronya began turning wooden as her link to the Herrscher Core was severed.
• Bronya and Seele reached the platform, but Seele’s strike failed to break the barrier while Bronya’s corruption spread.

Seele entrusted Veliona with full control of their body, believing Veliona could defeat the puppets and trusting her despite the risks. Veliona awakened in the real world and began tearing through the puppets, but their endless numbers drove her into a frenzy.

• Seele asked Veliona to take complete control, promising to sink into the deepest layer of consciousness and accepting that she might never wake again.
• Seele told Veliona she trusted her and that she wanted everyone to know her; Veliona chose the name Seele for herself.
• Seele gave Veliona control, and Veliona’s appearance and weapon transformed as her stigmata awakened.
• Veliona attacked the approaching puppets with her chain and claw, destroying them while taunting them.
• Veliona wondered who was controlling the seemingly endless puppets, then dismissed the thought and fell into a violent frenzy.

Veliona fought through Lili’s quantum shadows and confronted the puppet, whose taunts no longer shook her. After mocking Lili and chasing her down, Veliona destroyed the shadows Lili summoned and struck just as Lili tried to call a Honkai Beast.

• Veliona defeated the quantum shadows and puppets that attacked her on the platform.
• Lili appeared and tried to provoke Veliona with insults about being a counterfeit and Bronya rejecting her.
• Veliona said she hated Lili and threatened her, showing that Lili’s taunts no longer unsettled her.
• Veliona chased Lili as the puppet fled and summoned more quantum shadows.
• Veliona tore apart the shadows, and Lili tried to summon a Honkai Beast before Veliona struck her.

Veliona killed the puppet Lili and teamed up with Bronya to escape the collapsing Theatre of Domination. Back at Salt Lake Base, Bronya revealed she had long recognized Veliona and asked to hear her story.

• Veliona decapitated Lili and headed for the exit, but Bronya arrived and saw through her attempt to pose as Seele.
• Bronya reminded Veliona that they had met in the Sea of Quanta, and the two agreed to escape the Theatre of Domination together.
• Veliona and Bronya broke through the puppet blockade and returned to Salt Lake Base, where Veliona left the wreckage for Bronya and the others.
• Bronya recalled Veliona's old food pranks and other differences from Seele, explaining that she had noticed the two were distinct but had kept Seele's secret.
• Veliona admitted she was Seele's other side, a second personality born from a mutation in her stigmata.

Bronya spoke with Veliona about her devotion to Seele, and Veliona shared the name she wanted Bronya to use. After Seele finished reporting the day’s events, she resolved to tell her friends about Veliona and hoped they would accept her as part of their lives.

• Bronya told Veliona that she understood her harsh behavior as a way of protecting Seele, and Veliona asked Bronya to keep looking after her.
• Veliona said Bronya could call her Seele, Dark Seele, or White Seele, then returned control of the body to the sleeping Seele.
• Seele completed her report about the base incident and worried that she had described Veliona’s role inaccurately.
• Veliona told Seele that the report was truthful and urged her not to reveal Veliona to their friends.
• Seele insisted that Rozaliya, Liliya, Kiana, and the Doctor deserved to know that Veliona lived inside her, and said they were together the complete Seele.

Seele and Veliona discussed their involvement in the unfinished crisis caused by the Herrscher of the Thousand People, while the Dolls staged a tribunal and chose to continue their sabotage. Mei then questioned Kevin about the missing Gem of Haste, and PD became excited by the possibility that Himeko might return.

• Veliona reassured Seele that she had turned down the Dolls’ requests, though she still felt uneasy about something one of them had said.
• The Dolls gathered in the Theatre of Domination, held a chaotic tribunal, and voted to continue creating chaos rather than start an all-out war.
• The Dolls launched coordinated attacks that night, setting fires and worsening disorder across several locations.
• Mei told Kevin that the search for the Gem of Haste had found no trace of it, despite the core’s apparent disappearance into Imaginary Space.
• PD recognized the Gem of Haste as part of Himeko’s battlesuit and grew excited by a leak suggesting she would soon appear again.

Mei confronted Kevin, who told her that Sirin was dead and that the Imaginary Space had erased everything, then investigated the Dolls and was dragged into the Theatre of Domination. There, a Doll invited her to join them before enormous Honkai Beast puppets attacked her.

• Mei insisted that the Gem of Haste belonged to Sirin, but Kevin told her Sirin was dead and nothing remained after the Imaginary Space swallowed everything.
• Mei searched for evidence in the following days but found only despair, while PD reassured viewers that Himeko would still appear and Lin Yuhao refused to reveal his address.
• Mei and Raven infiltrated an abandoned warehouse, where touching a Doll pulled Mei into the Theatre of Domination and separated her from Raven.
• A Doll recognized Mei, invited her to explore the Theatre, and urged her to join the Dolls.
• As Mei questioned who the Doll’s friends were, enormous Honkai Beast puppets awakened and attacked, and Mei narrowly dodged their first strike.

Raiden Mei rejected the Doll’s offer to trade Herrscher Authorities and fought its creations. After Mei destroyed the puppets with gunfire, she shot the Doll, leaving it exploded.

• Raiden Mei cut down the Honkai Beast puppets with her sword and followed the Doll through the theater.
• The Doll told Mei about its origins and offered to make her and Kiana ordinary people in exchange for Mei’s Herrscher of Thunder Authority.
• Mei questioned the Doll’s plan and refused to hand over her power, insisting Kiana would not lose to it.
• The Doll summoned two powerful puppets, but Mei shot them down with electric-charged bullets.
• Mei fired at the Doll, and it exploded.

Mei investigated a Doll that had used the Herrscher of Reason’s Authority and ordered Raven to retrieve its remains so she could test a theory. At the school where the first Herrscher of Domination appeared, Theresa sent Fu Hua to investigate while discussing Fu Hua’s struggle to regain control of her core and Kiana’s confinement; Theresa was left grieving how distant and changed Kiana had become.

• Mei and Raven escaped the illusion and identified the Doll’s use of the Herrscher of Reason’s Authority.
• Mei asked Raven to recover the Doll’s remains so she could test her theory in person.
• Theresa and Fu Hua arrived at the school tied to the first Herrscher of Domination, and Theresa assigned Fu Hua to investigate a professor and the first core.
• Fu Hua explained that she could glimpse fragments through her core but could not locate or reclaim the Herrscher of Sentience while her Authority remained beyond Fu Hua’s control.
• Theresa told Fu Hua that Bronya was recovering and Kiana was under house arrest to prevent the enemy from reclaiming her Herrscher Authority.
• Theresa mourned Kiana’s lost liveliness and the distance between the girl she remembered and the quiet soldier behind the facility’s glass.

Theresa and Fu Hua entered the university disguised as sisters and searched the professor’s office for clues about the First Herrscher of the Thousand People. They found a diary describing a mysterious theater and a wooden double, linking the professor’s experience to the Dolls and the victims’ disappearances.

• Theresa and Fu Hua convinced a security guard to let them into the university by pretending Theresa was a child eager to visit.
• Theresa focused on investigating the professor while Fu Hua quietly reflected on St. Freya Academy.
• Theresa and Fu Hua searched the professor’s messy office and found bills showing that the professor was deeply in debt.
• Fu Hua showed Theresa the professor’s diary, which described recurring dreams of a theater and a voice inviting more companions.
• The diary recounted the appearance of a wooden double and the professor’s descent into fragmented, disturbing thoughts.
• Theresa recognized that the diary’s theater and Dolls matched the pattern in which hosts went mad, fell into comas, or vanished as their puppets began imitating them.

Fu Hua and Theresa captured a Doll and recovered its core, helping Anti-Entropy predict where the Dolls would appear. After the Dolls suddenly vanished, Welt proposed luring the Herrscher of Domination into a trap, and Kiana agreed to serve as bait as the plan turned toward the Arctic base.

• Fu Hua encountered a Doll in the corridor, but Theresa restrained it with the Oath of Judah and destroyed it while preserving its core module.
• Fu Hua and Theresa suspected the operation had gone too smoothly and withdrew with the core to regroup.
• Einstein reported that analyzing the core let Anti-Entropy intercept dozens of attacks, but the Dolls had vanished after their monitored number dropped from 501 to 500.
• Welt concluded that the Dolls had completed a phase of their plan and proposed using bait to force the Herrscher of Domination to act.
• Kiana volunteered as bait because she carried two cores, then revealed that she and Welt had planned the move beforehand.
• Welt clarified that he did not intend to send Kiana to her death and said the Hyperion would fly directly to the Arctic base.

Kiana agreed to risk her life to reclaim the power of the Void, while the Theatre of Domination voted to attack her. In the present, Hanser recognized the resemblance between herself and a puppet on the livestream, and the Hyperion came under attack on its voyage to the Arctic.

• Kiana asked Theresa, Bronya, Seele, and the others to trust her as she prepared to take the power of the Void.
• A wooden puppet rallied the Theatre of Domination, which unanimously declared war on the Herrscher of the Void.
• Hanser recognized that the Herrscher of Domination's design resembled her, and she threatened Lin Yuhao after he teased her during the livestream.
• Lin Yuhao reviewed the Genshin Impact project schedule and ordered Qin Xiaofeng to hire a top opera troupe to record the singing.
• Three days into the Hyperion's voyage, Tesla detected numerous fast-moving objects approaching from behind, and an eerie laugh sounded beneath Bronya's feet.

Bronya’s team fought off the Dolls on the Hyperion’s deck, but the remaining enemies infiltrated the ship and captured Kiana after disabling her barrier. Kiana was taken to the Theatre of Domination, where the Dolls debated what to do with her.

• Seele, Rozaliya, and Liliya defeated the Dolls and mech puppets attacking the Hyperion’s deck.
• Tesla detected that the remaining hostile signals had entered the ship’s cargo hold.
• Dolls emerged from the ventilation ducts in Kiana’s compartment and hijacked the ship’s power system, collapsing her barrier.
• Three Dolls seized Kiana before Theresa could stop them, and Tesla’s warning to avoid using her power was cut off.
• The Dolls brought Kiana to the Theatre of Domination and discussed taking her apart to study her.

Kiana opened a rift to bring the Hyperion into the Theater of Domination, where her allies helped her destroy the Dolls. After defeating the last Doll, she shot it when it tried to use Arc City and the Dolls’ supposed souls to unsettle her.

• Kiana drew on the Herrscher of the Void’s authority and Taixu Sword Energy to open a passage for the Hyperion into the Theater of Domination.
• Tesla fired the Hyperion’s main cannon at the Dolls, then sent Anti-Entropy mechs to crush their forces.
• Kiana confronted the Doll leader as it threatened her, and Tesla warned that five hundred Dolls were converging on her.
• Kiana fought alongside Bronya, Seele, Theresa, Fu Hua, the twins, and the mech army until only one Doll remained.
• The last Doll invoked Arc City and questioned whether the Dolls had souls, but Kiana shot it and declared the cleanup complete.

After Kiana defeated the Herrscher of Domination, she reflected on how the Dolls’ despair differed from the support that had helped her survive. The chapter ended with Kiana recognizing their helplessness while refusing to accept that failure justified giving up.

• Kiana shut down the remaining reactors, and Theresa helped her return to the Hyperion as the Theatre of Domination collapsed.
• Viewers questioned the Dolls’ fate, but Hanser and Sister Zhou argued that their convictions had led them down the wrong path and urged everyone to trust Lin Yuhao’s story.
• Tesla discovered five hundred energy cores and scrap remains on the Hyperion, then learned that she was responsible for cleaning them up.
• Half a month later, Einstein invited Kiana and Seele to Anti-Entropy’s postponed sixtieth-anniversary celebration, where Kiana found that people no longer treated her as a danger.
• Kiana and Bronya talked privately about the Dolls, and Kiana wondered how her own life might have turned out without the people who had supported her.
• Kiana empathized with the Dolls’ despair but concluded that failure was no excuse to give up.

Kiana resolved to bring Mei and Miss Himeko back as she endured Sirin’s memories of abuse and loss at Babylon Laboratory. The chapter ended as Sirin’s hatred surged while guards closed in, setting the stage for the birth of the Herrscher of the Void.

• Bronya comforted Kiana, who thanked her and vowed to bring Mei and Miss Himeko back.
• A broken Doll rose among the ruins of the Theatre of Domination and claimed that its rebirth was assured by its convictions.
• Kiana plunged into Sirin’s memories and witnessed her suffering in a dungeon at Babylon Laboratory.
• Sirin found Bella dead beside Aurora and Agata, then forced open a door and tried to escape.
• Researchers and guards cornered Sirin, who swore to kill them all as her hatred grew.

Kiana witnessed Sirin’s memories of torture at Babylon Laboratory, her transformation into the Second Herrscher, and her revenge against Schicksal. The dream then shifted to a warm family life with Siegfried and Cecilia, leaving Sirin shaken by Cecilia’s kindness and a taste that recalled her mother.

• Sirin endured torture at Babylon Laboratory and wished for absolute power to punish those who had hurt her.
• Sirin gained divine power, escaped the laboratory, and became the Second Herrscher.
• Sirin confronted Theresa and blamed Schicksal for turning her and the other children into weapons, while Doctor Tesla and Theresa fought to suppress her.
• Doctor Tesla fired Silver Chariot Ver0314 at Sirin, but her memories continued to surge and the dream shifted.
• Sirin found herself treated as Siegfried and Cecilia’s daughter; Cecilia offered her cake, awakening memories of her mother and leaving her grief-stricken.

Sirin relived a memory of Cecilia’s kindness and the betrayal and violence that followed, before Cecilia comforted her with a final declaration of love. Outside the Biopod, K423 opened her eyes, and Hanser blamed Otto and Boss Lin for what had happened.

• Sirin followed Cecilia through a shop, briefly wanting her affection before recoiling from her embrace.
• An explosion sent glass shards flying, and Cecilia shielded Sirin with her body and told her, "Ich liebe dich."
• Sirin learned Cecilia had known she was not her biological daughter, then accused her of lying and attacked her as hatred overwhelmed her.
• Schicksal's forces wounded Sirin until she fell and lost consciousness, while Cecilia's voice comforted her in the darkness with a final declaration of love.
• K423 opened her eyes outside the Biopod, and Hanser shouted that she would kick Otto and Boss Lin the next day.