Chapter Summaries

Kallen ignored the villagers begging for forgiveness and focused on Yae Rin, whose father had injured her. She promised to heal Yae Rin and prepared to leave with Yae Sakura, while the village’s expected sacrifice and rainfall remained unexplained.

• The villagers saw a young man beg Kallen for mercy and soon knelt before her themselves.
• Kallen picked up Yae Rin and promised Yae Sakura she would heal the girl’s injured legs and illness.
• Yae Sakura thanked Kallen as Yae Rin responded meekly and thanked her.
• Kallen set off to leave with Yae Sakura and Yae Rin, still puzzled that the Fox God ritual had not gone as expected.

Kallen took Yae Rin and Yae Sakura away from the altar after the villagers tried to stop them. She brought them to a quiet cherry blossom tree by a dried-up stream and prepared to treat Rin, promising the sisters that everything would get better.

• Kallen left the altar carrying Yae Rin, while Yae Sakura followed and the villagers did not dare stop them.
• Kallen asked Yae Sakura to lead them somewhere secluded so she could treat Rin's injuries.
• Yae Sakura led Kallen and Rin to a dried-up stream beside a cherry blossom tree where she often spent time alone.
• Kallen laid Yae Rin on the ground as Yae Sakura worried about her severed tendons.
• Kallen reassured both sisters that Rin would recover and that everything would get better.

Kallen treated Yae Rin’s injured feet with healing potions, and Yae Rin’s wounds healed while her congenital illness improved but remained. Yae Rin called Kallen a Divine Lord, and Yae Sakura knelt to thank her.

• Kallen applied healing potion to Yae Rin’s feet and gave her another bottle to drink.
• Yae Rin’s foot wounds healed within minutes, though her congenital illness was not fully cured.
• Yae Sakura hugged Yae Rin in relief at her improved condition.
• Yae Rin asked Kallen if she was the Divine Lord who had saved her.
• Yae Sakura knelt before Kallen to thank her.

Kallen reassured Yae Sakura and Yae Rin that she was not a Divine Lord but their guardian knight, then introduced herself as Kallen Nocturne. The three spent the day talking beneath a tree, and Kallen observed Sakura’s intense affection for Rin.

• Kallen helped Yae Sakura up and promised to protect her and Yae Rin as their guardian knight.
• Yae Sakura introduced herself and her younger sister, Yae Rin, to Kallen.
• Kallen chose the name Kallen Nocturne instead of Kallen Kaslana to avoid confusion with another Kallen.
• Kallen, Sakura, and Rin sat beneath a tree and chatted until noon without encountering anyone.
• Kallen recognized that Sakura’s feelings for Rin went beyond ordinary sisterly affection.

Kallen completed Main Mission (1), claimed 300 Crystal, and received a new mission requiring her to train three Miko disciples, including young Yae Sakura, to C-rank Valkyrie strength. She considered who else could become her disciple and told Sakura they were not going anywhere.

• Kallen claimed the 300 Crystal reward for completing Main Mission (1), bringing her total to 5,410 Crystal.
• Kallen read Main Mission (2), which required her to train three Miko disciples, including Yae Sakura, to at least C-rank Valkyrie strength.
• Kallen considered her existing disciples, Kaede and Yae Rin, and realized she still needed to find one more suitable Miko.
• Kallen noted that Mentor Medals could be exchanged for Crystal or Ai-chan Limited Coins, and decided the Crystal exchange seemed more worthwhile.
• Yae Sakura asked Kallen where they were going next, and Kallen answered that they were not going anywhere.

Kallen decided that Yae Sakura and Yae Rin would stay in Yae Village, with Sakura taking charge and Kallen promising to bring rain. After returning to the village, Sakura summoned the villagers to Yae Shrine at dusk to discuss the rain.

• Kallen told Yae Sakura that the village would be hers to decide and promised to bring rain.
• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin accepted Kallen's plan and chose to remain in their home village.
• Yae Sakura returned to the village with Kallen and Yae Rin, while the villagers watched from a distance.
• At Kallen's suggestion, Yae Sakura told the villagers to gather at the shrine at dusk to discuss the rain.
• The villagers, desperate after the failed ritual and their conflict with Kallen, saw Sakura's announcement as a possible lifeline.

Yae Sakura, Yae Rin, and Kallen returned to the Yae Shrine, where they learned that Sakura and Rin’s father had died. Sakura felt no grief or resentment toward Kallen, while Rin reassured Kallen that she did not blame her; Sakura then sent the villagers away coldly.

• Yae Sakura led Kallen and Yae Rin back to the Yae Shrine, where two elderly villagers reacted with fear and surprise.
• One of the elderly women told Yae Sakura that the Shrine Master had died.
• Kallen worried that Sakura and Rin might blame her for their father’s death, but Sakura felt no sorrow and Rin clasped Kallen’s hand to show she did not hate her.
• Yae Sakura coldly told the two elderly women to leave, and they departed without arguing.

Kallen offered to revive the dead Shrine Master, leaving Yae Sakura torn over whether to bring back the father who had harmed Yae Rin. Kallen preserved the option for later while the sisters decided what they wanted.

• After the old woman left, Kallen and the sisters entered the shrine and found the Shrine Master's corpse.
• Kallen offered to revive him if Yae Sakura and Yae Rin wanted it, astonishing both sisters.
• Yae Sakura struggled to choose because she could not forgive her father for hurting Yae Rin and feared he might harm her again.
• Yae Rin left the decision to Yae Sakura, who remained unsure whether to revive their father.
• Kallen proposed preserving the body so she could revive the Shrine Master at any time after the sisters decided.

Kallen froze the Shrine Master instead of reviving him, and Yae Sakura and Yae Rin accepted her decision. After Kallen stored him in the shrine cellar, the sisters regarded her as their benefactor rather than their father's killer.

• Kallen proposed freezing the Shrine Master, and Yae Sakura and Yae Rin agreed to let him sleep for now.
• Kallen encased the Shrine Master's body in ice and said it would stay frozen for decades.
• Yae Sakura admired Kallen's power and wished she had been strong enough to protect herself and Rin.
• Kallen carried the frozen Shrine Master to a cellar beneath the shrine.
• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin regarded Kallen as the person who had saved them.

Yae Sakura took over Yae Shrine and addressed the people of Yae Village, with Kallen encouraging her as she assumed her new role. When the villagers argued over the announcement, Yae Sakura drew her katana and ordered them to be quiet.

• Yae Sakura took responsibility for Yae Shrine after the Shrine Master left, with Kallen and Yae Rin there to help her.
• Kallen and Yae Sakura gathered more than a hundred villagers at the shrine's main hall.
• Yae Sakura announced that Kallen could pray for rain and that Yae Sakura would become an official Miko and take authority over Yae Village.
• The villagers broke into noisy discussion, and Yae Sakura lost her composure until Kallen encouraged her.
• Yae Sakura drew her katana and ordered the villagers to shut up.

Yae Sakura took over the shrine and became Yae Village’s administrator after the villagers agreed to Kallen’s terms in exchange for rain. Kallen reassured Sakura and headed up the mountain with heavy cannons to make the promised storm.

• Yae Sakura explained the plan she and Kallen had discussed, and the villagers agreed to let her inherit the shrine and administer the village.
• Kallen reassured Yae Sakura that she would help her with the burden of running the village.
• Yae Sakura asked whether Kallen could really make it rain, and Kallen told her not to worry.
• Kallen climbed to the highest point of the mountain with the heavy cannons Frost Rain and Ice Roar.

Kallen used ice and fire to create rainfall that saved Yae Village’s crops, and the villagers accepted her as a deity. More than a month later, as ordinary rain fell across Shinano, Kallen reflected on the limits of her powers.

• Kallen froze clouds overhead, then fired a powerful flame attack into the falling ice.
• Kallen put on her Crow Mask, transformed into a phantom, and converted the elements to produce rain over Yae Village.
• The rain saved the village’s crops, and the villagers began worshipping Kallen alongside the Fox God.
• More than a month later, normal rain returned to Shinano and the drought appeared to have ended.
• Kallen watched the rain from the shrine and recognized that turning ice into water remained difficult for her.

Kallen enjoyed one of Yae Sakura’s enormous rice balls while admiring how different the young Sakura was from the Valkyrie she knew. Yae Sakura wondered why Kallen was staring at her, and Kallen told her she was cute.

• Yae Sakura offered Kallen a huge rice ball and said there were two more on the table.
• Kallen ate the rice ball and asked where Liliya was.
• Yae Sakura said Liliya had already eaten and could barely finish half a rice ball.
• Kallen looked over Yae Sakura’s miko outfit and thought about how she differed from the Valkyrie Yae Sakura.
• Yae Sakura asked Kallen if something was wrong with her, and Kallen said she thought Sakura was very cute.

After the rain stopped, Kallen went to a grove to practice with Echo of Night, her specially matched pistols. She tested their ice-infused shots on a tree, leaving the chapter with the bullets flying through the grove.

• Kallen finished Yae Sakura's rice ball after confessing her feelings, and the rain stopped.
• Kallen left the shrine and went to a grove in the mountain to practice Gun Fu.
• Kallen took out Echo of Night and considered its passive abilities, which added ice damage and increased her attacks.
• Kallen infused Echo of Night with Honkai energy and fired two ice-crystal bullets toward a tree.
• Kallen's bullets flew like entwined ravens, freezing everything along their path.

Kallen practiced Echo of Night and Serenade of the Sixth Night’s Gun Fu techniques before Yae Rin came to call her for dinner. Kallen worried that Rin had come alone, but Rin said Kallen’s medicine had improved her enough to walk by herself.

• Kallen tested Echo of Night’s ice bullets, freezing trees and small animals before shattering them into icy debris.
• Kallen began practicing Serenade of the Sixth Night’s basic Gun Fu style and performed its four-hit Dusk Nocturne combo.
• Yae Rin arrived to tell Kallen that dinner was ready and watched her practice with envy.
• Kallen hurried to Rin and asked why she had come alone without Yae Sakura.
• Yae Rin said she had asked Sakura not to follow her and that Kallen’s medicine had made it easier for her to move around.
• Yae Rin took Kallen’s hand and invited her to return to the shrine for dinner.

Kallen shared Yae Sakura’s sushi with the sisters, then began teaching them about becoming stronger. She explained that she might leave one day, leaving Sakura and Rin to rely on their own strength to protect themselves and those they cared about.

• Kallen took Yae Rin back to the shrine, where Rin told her Yae Sakura had made sushi.
• Kallen tasted Sakura’s sushi and was surprised that the eleven-year-old could cook well.
• Kallen asked Sakura and Rin whether they wanted to become stronger.
• Kallen said she might leave someday and urged them to gain the strength to protect themselves.
• Sakura and Rin reacted with alarm and asked Kallen not to leave.

Kallen reassured Yae Sakura and Yae Rin that she would not leave soon, but said they needed to become strong enough to protect themselves. She promised to teach them her skills, including Yae Rin despite her frail health, and began to add a condition.

• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin reacted anxiously when Kallen spoke of possibly leaving one day.
• Kallen said she would stay for now and teach the sisters to defend themselves before she departed.
• Kallen offered to teach them swordsmanship, Gun Fu, miko exorcism techniques, and barrier techniques.
• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin gratefully accepted Kallen's offer, and Yae Rin asked if she could learn too.
• Kallen assured Yae Rin that she could learn, then began to explain that there was a condition.

Kallen gave Yae Rin and Yae Sakura a spiritual-power cultivation method as a safer way to strengthen them, since Rin was too frail for sword training and Honkai energy was dangerous. After two months, both sisters cultivated a small amount of life-based spiritual power, which strengthened their bodies but remained too weak for serious combat.

• Kallen told Yae Rin that she needed to build up her health before practicing swordsmanship, and Yae Sakura comforted her.
• Kallen decided to teach the sisters spiritual-power cultivation rather than risk exposing them to Honkai energy.
• Kallen gave Yae Sakura and Yae Rin a cultivation method and had them try it.
• After two months, both sisters sensed and absorbed a small amount of spiritual power, which was more abundant around plants.
• Kallen learned that the spiritual power could slowly strengthen the sisters, especially Yae Rin, but was too weak to compete with Honkai power in combat.

Kallen began teaching Yae Sakura and Yae Rin the Falling Sakura Style and adapted Gun Fu to suit their abilities. Sakura progressed quickly, while Rin still struggled because of her weaker body and lack of experience.

• Kallen told Yae Sakura and Yae Rin that their spiritual power training had strengthened their bodies, then introduced them to the Falling Sakura Style.
• Kallen demonstrated the swordsmanship, explaining that it relied on speed, ruthlessness, and precision.
• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin made morning sword practice a habit as Kallen focused on teaching them swordsmanship first.
• Kallen revised her Gun Fu, removing techniques that required great strength so the sisters could combine it with swordsmanship.
• Yae Sakura advanced quickly, while frail and inexperienced Yae Rin had difficulty keeping pace.

After three months of training under Kallen, Yae Sakura had mastered Falling Sakura Slash while Yae Rin struggled to keep up. Kallen stopped Rin from overtraining and brought both sisters to the mountaintop, where she inspected Sakura’s ordinary katana.

• Yae Sakura mastered Falling Sakura Slash, while Yae Rin trained much longer in an effort to catch up with her sister.
• Kallen finished modifying Gun Fu into a faster, more agile technique focused on unexpected gunfire.
• Kallen stopped Yae Rin from continuing to practice and told her she had something to discuss with both sisters.
• Kallen found Yae Sakura preparing ingredients, then led her and Rin to a grove behind the shrine.
• Kallen examined Yae Sakura’s katana and found it ordinary in both material and craftsmanship.