Chapter Summaries

Kallen gave Yae Sakura and Yae Rin beginner katanas, explaining that they were not yet strong enough to handle more powerful weapons. She left open the possibility of giving them stronger swords once they had improved.

• Kallen noted that the Spirit Blade enshrined at Yae Shrine was an ordinary weapon and explained how it could later gain power through a Herrscher’s transformation.
• Kallen told Yae Sakura and Yae Rin that their swordsmanship and strength were still too limited for powerful weapons.
• Kallen returned Loli Sakura’s katana and handed Yae Sakura and Yae Rin one-star Ise-no-kami Muramasa katanas.
• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin eagerly accepted the swords, which looked finer than Yae Sakura’s own katana.

Kallen gave Yae Sakura and Yae Rin new katanas, then handed them Prototype Pulse Pistols and demonstrated how to fire them. The sisters began learning to use their new weapons under Kallen’s guidance.

• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin accepted Ise-no-kami Muramasas from Kallen and practiced Falling Sakura Slash.
• Yae Rin praised the feel of her first real katana, while Yae Sakura said her new blade outperformed her old tachi.
• Kallen gave each sister two Prototype Pulse Pistols as transitional weapons.
• Kallen demonstrated the pistols by shooting down two birds and began explaining firearm practice.

Kallen trained Yae Sakura and Yae Rin in swordsmanship, marksmanship, and Gun Fu, and the sisters rapidly developed into unconventional fighters. After more than half a year of teaching them in Yae Village, Kallen reflected on how deeply attached they had become to her.

• Kallen gave Yae Sakura and Yae Rin pistols and taught them to combine swordsmanship with marksmanship and Gun Fu.
• Yae Sakura and Yae Rin trained eagerly and learned to use guns at range and in close combat.
• The sisters began fighting with stealth and lethal tactics, unlike ordinary Miko or samurai.
• Kallen continued teaching the sisters while they called her their sister, and they increasingly depended on her.
• More than half a year passed as Kallen stayed in Yae Village and devoted herself to training Yae Sakura and Yae Rin.
• Kallen wondered whether she had taught Yae Sakura so devotedly because she subconsciously considered her a girlfriend.

Kallen and Yae Rin got dressed in the kimonos Yae Sakura had made for their outing. The chapter ended as Kallen spotted Sakura in her pink kimono and called her over.

• Yae Rin knocked on Kallen's door and asked if she was ready.
• Kallen opened the door in a white, snowflake-patterned kimono, and she and Yae Rin complimented each other's appearance.
• Yae Rin explained that Yae Sakura was preparing ingredients because they would be out through lunchtime.
• Kallen and Yae Rin waited in the main hall until Yae Sakura arrived in a pink kimono.
• Kallen waved Yae Sakura over.

Kallen, Yae Sakura, and Yae Rin left Yae Shrine for a nearby outdoor meal, stopping beside a bamboo grove and river. Kallen caught fish with her cross, and after gathering fish and bamboo, she remarked that the food tasted as she remembered.

• Yae Sakura hurried to Kallen and Rin with the luggage, but refused Kallen’s offer to carry it.
• The three packed up, left Yae Shrine, and walked slowly along the dirt roads in their kimonos.
• They stopped beside a small river and bamboo grove to prepare lunch, planning to cook fish and bamboo rice.
• Kallen threw a cross into the river, electrocuting many crucian carp and grass carp, then stepped into the water to collect them.
• Yae Rin followed Kallen into the river and helped gather fish.
• Kallen cut down bamboo stalks, and after gathering the fish, said the food tasted as she remembered.

While sharing grilled fish and bamboo rice with Yae Sakura and Yae Rin, Kallen used ten Precision Supply Cards to search for weapons to prepare for the sisters. She drew Demonic Blade: Crimson Cherry Blossom, but decided it would not suit the young Sakura and ended by telling her she had once taken down a queen.

• Kallen and the Yae Sakura sisters ate grilled fish and bamboo rice in the wilderness.
• Kallen opened her inventory and used ten Precision Supply Cards, hoping to draw suitable weapons for Yae Sakura and Yae Rin.
• Kallen drew Demonic Blade: Crimson Cherry Blossom and considered giving it to Yae Sakura, then decided the young girl would be better suited to a physical-attribute katana.
• Yae Sakura asked why Kallen had reacted strangely, and Kallen said she had taken down a queen.

Kallen, Yae Sakura, and Yae Rin enjoyed a walk by the river before winter brought a severe blizzard to Yae Village. The villagers stayed indoors with their food stores, while Kallen remained unfazed by the cold.

• Kallen changed the subject when Yae Sakura asked about the queen, and Yae Sakura ate the grilled fish.
• Yae Rin chased a butterfly during the walk, tripped, and was helped up by Kallen and Yae Sakura.
• Winter arrived, and heavy snow buried Yae Village beneath a blizzard.
• The villagers stayed indoors, relying on the food they had stored for winter.
• Kallen wore little despite the cold because she controlled ice and feared winter least.

Kallen joined Yae Sakura and Yae Rin in the snowy shrine courtyard, where Sakura swept snow and Rin built a snowman. After taking tangerines from Rin, Kallen learned the villagers had given them many that winter.

• Kallen stepped outside in wooden clogs, sank into the snow, and left the clogs by the door before walking barefoot.
• Kallen offered to help Yae Sakura sweep the shrine courtyard, but Sakura refused because she wanted to be useful to Kallen.
• Yae Rin finished building a snowman and offered Kallen several tangerines.
• Kallen took two tangerines as Yae Rin explained that the villagers had given them many that winter.

Kallen reassured Yae Rin and Yae Sakura that they could become Valkyries before villagers arrived with news of a deadly monster attacking their village. Kallen suspected the creature was a Honkai Beast, and the story left off as the danger was reported.

• Yae Rin asked whether Kallen was cold, and Kallen explained that she controlled ice as a Valkyrie.
• Kallen told Yae Rin and Yae Sakura that they could become Valkyries someday.
• Villagers rushed to the shrine and reported that a huge monster had entered the village and killed several people.
• Kallen suspected that the monster was a Honkai Beast.

When a Honkai Beast entered Yae Village, Kallen agreed to confront it as the villagers pleaded for help. Yae Sakura and Yae Rin insisted on joining her, leaving the three to face the threat together.

• Villagers reported that a terrifying monster had entered Yae Village and begged Kallen to defeat it.
• Kallen assured the villagers she would handle the monster and sent them away.
• Kallen asked Yae Sakura and Yae Rin if they wanted to accompany her, warning that a Honkai Beast was beyond ordinary warriors.
• Yae Sakura insisted that she had to protect the village as its Miko, and Yae Rin said she would go too.

A terrifying monster attacked villagers and threatened a little girl, but a barefoot girl with strange dark-blue objects intervened. The monster turned to face its new opponent.

• A towering monster appeared in the village and hunted down villagers as others panicked and fled.
• A little girl cried for her brother when the monster approached her beside their snowman.
• The monster sent tentacles toward the girl, but a violet-blue light destroyed them.
• The monster backed away and saw a barefoot girl holding strange dark-blue objects.

Kallen and Yae Sakura encountered a Honkai Beast, and Kallen explained what it was. Yae Sakura asked to test her training against it, leaving Kallen unsure whether to let her fight under her protection.

• Kallen examined the unfamiliar Honkai Beast and explained that wild Honkai Beasts were animals changed by Honkai energy.
• Yae Sakura mistook the creature for a yokai, and Kallen corrected her and explained that yokai did not exist in this world.
• Yae Sakura asked Kallen to let her test her skills against the Honkai Beast after months of training.
• Kallen initially refused, judging Yae Sakura unready, but hesitated when Yae Sakura insisted that she trusted Kallen to protect her.

Yae Sakura began her first battle against a Honkai Beast after Kallen allowed her to fight, while Yae Rin was told to wait several more years. Sakura faced the charging beast and dodged its first attack.

• Kallen agreed to let Yae Sakura fight the Honkai Beast but warned her to be careful.
• Yae Rin asked to join the fight, but Kallen stopped her and told her to wait a few more years.
• Yae Sakura drew her katana and approached the Honkai Beast, drawing strength from her training and her family watching.
• Yae Sakura took her stance and challenged the Honkai Beast from several meters away.
• The Honkai Beast charged at Yae Sakura, and she spun aside to dodge its attack.

Yae Sakura fought a regenerating Honkai Beast while Yae Rin and Kallen watched. After escaping its tentacles, Sakura drove her katana into its heart.

• Yae Sakura dodged the Honkai Beast’s attacks and wounded it, but its injury quickly healed.
• Yae Sakura fired at the Honkai Beast’s head, cut off its tentacles, and charged toward it.
• The Honkai Beast caught Yae Sakura with newly grown tentacles, alarming Yae Rin.
• Kallen reassured Yae Rin that Yae Sakura was fine.
• Yae Sakura cut through the tentacles, broke free, and stabbed the Honkai Beast in the heart.

Kallen saved Yae Sakura from a Honkai Beast after Sakura’s katana failed to kill it. Sakura realized she had been careless and, shaken by the close call, assured Kallen that she was fine.

• Yae Sakura stabbed a Honkai Beast through the heart and believed she had killed it.
• The still-living beast lunged to bite Yae Sakura, leaving her no time to dodge.
• Kallen fired Echo of Night, destroying the beast’s head and freezing its body.
• Yae Sakura watched the beast collapse and blamed herself for underestimating it.
• Kallen hurried to check on Yae Sakura, who told her she was fine.

After a close call with a Honkai Beast, Yae Sakura blamed herself, but Kallen and Yae Rin reassured her and urged her to keep training. Kallen then retrieved a Honkai Crystal fragment from the beast, explaining that it was what had turned it into a Honkai Beast.

• Yae Rin worriedly checked on Yae Sakura after Kallen saved her from danger.
• Yae Sakura called herself useless, but Kallen praised her and reminded her that Honkai Beasts were still too strong for her.
• Yae Rin encouraged Yae Sakura, and Kallen urged her to stop putting herself down for her younger sister’s sake.
• Kallen drew a crystal fragment from the Honkai Beast’s corpse, which crumbled into ash.
• Kallen told Yae Sakura and Yae Rin that the fragment was a Honkai Crystal, a crystallization of Honkai energy that had transformed the creature.

Kallen explained to the Yae sisters that Honkai fragments caused monsters and reflected on the human cost of Honkai experiments. Several peaceful years passed in Yae Village, where Yae Sakura and Yae Rin grew older while Kallen remained unchanged.

• Kallen showed Yae Sakura a Honkai Shard and explained that its power could corrupt living things and create monsters.
• Kallen realized Heavenly Mandate had been using infected people, prisoners, and civilians in brutal Honkai experiments.
• Several years passed as Kallen stayed in Yae Village, which remained largely isolated and peaceful.
• Yae Sakura grew into a tall, martial young woman, and Yae Rin also grew older and more beautiful.
• Kallen's appearance remained unchanged despite the passing years.

Yae Sakura asked Kallen to honor her promise to grant her Stigmata if she passed a test, and Kallen agreed to assess her swordsmanship. Their duel began, but Sakura’s first two strikes failed to break through Kallen’s defense.

• Yae Sakura reminded Kallen that she had promised to give her Stigmata if Sakura passed the test.
• Kallen agreed to test Yae Sakura and asked whether she was confident she could succeed.
• Yae Sakura circled Kallen, then drew her katana and slashed at her.
• Kallen blocked Yae Sakura’s first strike with her ordinary katana.
• Yae Sakura withdrew her blade and launched a second sideways slash.

Yae Sakura fought Kallen with her sword, an acrobatic kick, and dual pistols, while Yae Rin watched and hoped her sister would earn Kallen's approval and complete the trial. Yae Sakura understood she was far weaker than Kallen but gave the spar everything she had, trusting Kallen to handle her attacks.

• Yae Sakura unleashed Falling Sakura Five Consecutive Slashes, but Kallen parried every strike.
• Yae Rin watched the spar and hoped Yae Sakura would win Kallen's approval and complete the trial.
• Yae Sakura followed her final slash with an extreme kick, which Kallen blocked effortlessly.
• Yae Sakura rolled away, drew her dual pistols, and fired at Kallen without holding back, trusting Kallen's strength.

Yae Sakura fought Kallen and lost after Kallen disarmed her. Kallen praised Sakura’s progress and then called on Yae Rin to take her turn.

• Yae Sakura charged Kallen with her katana after Kallen deflected her shots.
• Kallen knocked Yae Sakura’s blade away, grabbed her, and held a katana to her neck.
• Yae Sakura acknowledged her defeat without losing heart.
• Kallen released Yae Sakura, praised her swordsmanship, and told Yae Rin that it was her turn.