Recaps

Himeko led Weir, Taco, and Washana into the Haunted House after Taco’s smart glasses detected an unknown power there and a trace of the same power in Himeko. Himeko suspected it was Trailblaze power and hoped the Haunted House might hold clues about the missing Astral Express passengers; inside, the group encountered an immersive escape-room challenge and Himeko spotted familiar crystal fragments.

• Taco scanned the Haunted House and found a trace of power that did not belong to this world, then scanned Himeko and detected a negligible trace in her as well.
• Himeko reasoned that the unknown power was likely Trailblaze, linked its appearance to her increased Roleplay Progress, and hoped to find information about the missing Nameless.
• Himeko, Weir, Taco, and Washana entered the Haunted House after Himeko used a flame to illuminate its darkness, which swallowed the light from their phones.
• The group read the Haunted House’s rules, which tasked them with finding three key items while warning that some staff would mislead and harm players.
• Himeko followed the route into the Haunted House and spotted several brightly colored crystal fragments.

Himeko found fragments of Six-Phased Ice in the haunted house and feared that March 7th had been there and might be in danger. As the group continued through the dark hallway, a scream suddenly rang out, leaving them poised for an attack.

• Himeko picked up crystal fragments and recognized them as Six-Phased Ice, despite the smart glasses initially misidentifying them.
• Himeko told Washana that the ice likely belonged to March 7th, a missing Nameless from the Astral Express.
• WarGreymon speculated on the broadcast that Himeko was recruiting allies and searching for passengers to strengthen the Astral Express.
• Himeko worried that March 7th had been in a battle and prayed that nothing had happened to her.
• Weir felt something brush against him in the flickering hallway, and Taco turned toward the right before someone screamed in the darkness.

Himeko and the others explored the haunted house, where she recognized signs that March 7th had fought a disguised monster and drove it away herself. After the real staff member explained how dangerous creatures behaved, the group still needed to find the items required to clear the game.

• Weir reported seeing a face-like shape in the wall and feeling something touch him when the lights went out.
• Himechi Cat sensed something wrong with a staff member in the next room, and Himeko noticed evidence that March 7th had fought there.
• Himeko punched the suspicious staff member, revealing a wounded monster that fought her before escaping into the wall.
• The real staff member explained that players could identify dangerous creatures during a lesson and seek staff protection from creatures they could not handle.
• Weir suggested beating the item locations out of the staff member, but Himeko refused because the park creatures were not their enemies.

Himeko and her companions discovered that they were seeing different versions of the haunted house, and Himeko identified and attacked a hidden dangerous creature. The group suspected that each space held a clearance item, while Taco’s appeared to be a damaged, unreset area.

• Weir asked to beat the captured creature, but Himeko refused and led the group into a large courtyard beneath the haunted house.
• Taco could not see the three uniformed staff members that Himeko, Weir, and Washana saw, and he described his own view of a frozen, ruined area.
• Himeko approached the staff members and recognized one as a dangerous creature by its panda-like black eyes.
• The creature ran when Himeko spotted it, but Himeko struck it in the back of the head with her suitcase.
• Weir reasoned that the group occupied different spaces, each likely containing a clearance item, and that Taco had entered an area damaged by Six-Phased Ice.

Himeko defeated the monster by burning the enormous tree, then faced a snake-man who claimed to be haunted-house staff and demanded compensation. After he proposed taking Himechi Cat as collateral and making Himeko recruit players, she attacked him, suspecting the haunted house had no clearance items or real staff members.

• The monster swallowed a fruit, dissolved into a meat slurry, and spread blood-red patterns across the enormous tree, so Himeko set the tree on fire.
• A snake-man approached Himechi Cat, who startled and struck him with her saw before Himeko checked that she was unharmed.
• The snake-man claimed to be a staff member, demanded 11.4514 billion in compensation, and offered Himeko alternative arrangements because she had no money.
• He proposed taking Himechi Cat as collateral and sending Himeko to recruit players, who would die in the haunted house and earn her rewards.
• Himeko decided the haunted house had no clearance items or real staff members and brought her saw down on the snake-man's head.

Himeko exposed the haunted house’s rules, forced the snake man to release her separated companions, and questioned him about the park and March 7th. She learned that March had escaped toward the Amusement Park’s east gate, leaving Himeko to pursue her.

• Himeko deduced that moving forward cleared the haunted house while turning back caused failure, then beat the snake man until he released the others.
• Taco and Weir rejoined Himeko and wanted to beat up the snake man, but Himeko instead questioned him about the Amusement Park.
• The snake man claimed he could speak because he was the strongest monster in the Amusement Park and admitted he knew nothing about hidden rewards.
• The snake man said March 7th had run out of the haunted house toward the east gate after attacking staff who tried to stop her taking pictures.

Himeko spared Snake Man and led the group out of the Haunted House, then returned alone after Weir suspected the apparent clear was bait and the real threat remained. Weir used his Guardian Deity to teleport himself, Washana, and Taco to the cleared Restaurant, while Himeko went back carrying Weir’s Chariot.

• Himeko spared Snake Man, who pointed the group to the exit and ordered his accomplices not to frighten them.
• The group received Haunted House rewards as they exited, and Himeko asked the others to wait somewhere safe before returning to the Haunted House.
• Weir reasoned that the Haunted House had not truly been cleared, citing its danger level and the low exploration progress, and suspected the rewards were bait.
• Taco tried to verify Weir’s theory with String Bean, but Washana threw away the Smart Glasses before it could answer.
• Weir revealed that he had been charging his Guardian Deity and teleported himself, Washana, and Taco to the cleared Restaurant.
• Himeko returned to the Haunted House’s main entrance carrying Weir’s level-two Chariot, whose abilities included short-range warping and a castling teleport.

Himeko returned to the Haunted House and used her hastily built Beggars' Railgun to destroy the snake-man and the attraction. As the illusion faded and the Haunted House lay in ruins, Himeko had survived her fight on the enemy’s turf.

• Himeko confirmed Weir’s deductions and separated from his group so she could fight without putting them at risk.
• Himeko used Imagenesis to build a crude railgun that fired her own energy, stripping away everything but its powerful attack.
• Himeko returned to the Haunted House and attacked the snake-man with her Monomolecular Saw before it could speak.
• The snake-man summoned living tentacles and argued with Himeko over their competing ideas of art.
• Himeko fired the Beggars' Railgun, unleashing a huge blast that killed the snake-man and reduced the Haunted House to ruins.
• The Haunted House’s scenery faded away, revealing the attraction’s true remains, including a giant tree stump that could no longer bear fruit.

Himeko demolished the Haunted House with a Railgun she had made on-site, earning rewards and clearing the attraction. A mysterious map showed that March 7th had traveled far from the Amusement Park, giving Himeko her first clue about her companion’s whereabouts.

• Himeko fired her homemade Railgun and destroyed the Haunted House, stunning the spectators and alarming Taco, Washana, and Weir until Weir confirmed she was safe.
• Himeko received rewards for clearing the Haunted House, including enhanced Imagenesis, a new weapon, and progress toward unlocking the Starblazer blueprints.
• Himeko collected assorted monster rewards, including coffee supplies and a skill draw, while noting that most of the upgrade items were of little use to her.
• Himeko received a Guardian Deity draw and a mysterious route map after killing the Life Giant Tree.
• Himeko saw March 7th’s four-leaf clover marked at the end of the map’s route and realized March had traveled far from the Amusement Park.

Himeko escorted Weir and Washana to the exits before deciding to investigate the Wax Museum with Taco. Himechi Cat revealed that the Wax Figures could replace their originals and that the museum’s mastermind was hidden inside, leaving Himeko uneasy as they arrived at the entrance.

• Himeko reunited with Washana, Taco, and Weir, then learned that the Exploration Progress had reached 67%.
• Weir and Washana chose to leave, while Taco stayed with Himeko; Washana said she wanted to help people like Himeko before departing.
• Himeko and Taco chose the Wax Museum as their next destination, and Himechi Cat explained the Wax Figures’ motive and the hidden mastermind.
• Himeko, Taco, and Himechi Cat reached the Wax Museum, where Himeko sensed that something was wrong.

Himeko prepared to investigate the Wax Museum after sensing a dangerous energy source inside, while Weir learned that her speciality exceeded the system’s calculation limit. Taco demonstrated his new Harden skill and hid behind Himechi Cat as Himeko approached the threat.

• Himeko showed Taco how she could summon and put away her Banner Spear and briefcase.
• Weir received an A grade and 100 attribute points for being the first contestant to leave the Amusement Park, then invested the points in reflexes.
• Weir used Box Opening on Himeko and saw that her attributes were all A and her speciality was MAX.
• Himeko sensed low-frequency energy and a threat inside the Wax Museum, where she believed the hidden reward or final boss was located.
• Taco activated Harden and hid behind Himechi Cat, who objected to being used as cover.

Himeko and Taco returned to the Wax Museum and found other contestants being chased by powerful wax doubles. Himeko confronted wax Duncan, wax Inukai, and a wax Nine-Tailed Fox, and the chapter left their standoff erupting into a shootout.

• Himeko and Taco reentered the Wax Museum, where Taco's Smart Glasses failed to explain the damage and Himeko heard a roar from upstairs.
• Duncan and Inukai fled from wax versions of themselves, whose abilities and strength had increased dramatically inside the museum.
• Duncan and Inukai ran past Himeko without asking for help, while their wax doubles and a wax Nine-Tailed Fox pursued them.
• Wax Duncan aimed his pistol at Himeko, and she stood her ground with her spear as Taco and Himechi Cat argued over her odds of winning.
• Wax Duncan fired a Specialized Bullet as Himeko launched an energy cannon blast from her spear.

Himeko defeated the wax Duncan, Inukai, Xuan Yang, and the Nine-Tailed Fox, but her interrogation of the survivors yielded no information. She turned the wax figures into a silent bucket and went searching for Duncan and Inukai, whom she found recovering beside a small door.

• Himeko used the Banner Spear and a saw-blade drone to defeat the wax figures, then asked them what had happened in the Wax Museum.
• Himechi Cat questioned the wax figures, but they insulted her and refused to share useful information.
• Himeko decided to search for Duncan and Inukai because they had stayed in the Wax Museum despite the danger.
• Himeko melted the three wax figures into a bucket, removed their mouths, and carried them along.
• Himeko found Duncan and Inukai slumped beside a small door, recovering their strength.

Himeko caught Inukai and Duncan after they fled the Wax Museum, cleared up their misunderstanding about Himechi Cat, and asked them about a hidden quest. The men agreed to tell her about it but secretly planned to feed her false information.

• Duncan insisted that Himeko was being controlled by a dangerous Amusement Park Monster, while Inukai doubted his explanation.
• Himeko and Himechi Cat caught the two men outside the Wax Museum, and Himeko asked what had happened there.
• Inukai explained that he and Duncan had unlocked a hidden quest after meeting in the Wax Museum and that his wax figure had hunted him.
• Himeko introduced Himechi Cat and explained that the foxlike creature meant them no harm, while Duncan questioned how it could leave the Wax Museum.
• Inukai and Duncan mistook Himeko's reasonable offer not to force them for a threat and decided to give her false information.

Himeko learned the hidden quest’s requirements and refused Inukai’s request to help him complete his other quest, while the commentators defended her choices to the livestream audience. At the Wax Museum’s darkroom, Himeko accepted the hidden quest and discovered an enormous beating heart fused with Six-Phased Ice.

• Inukai and Duncan told Himeko about the hidden quest, and Inukai asked her to help with his own quest in exchange for his allegiance.
• Himeko refused to help Inukai harm other contestants, explaining that she would not actively hurt them for his benefit.
• Wang Wu and WarGreymon discussed Himeko’s decision on the livestream and reassured viewers that she could handle potential danger.
• Guided by Inukai and Duncan, Himeko entered the Wax Museum’s darkroom and accepted the hidden quest.
• Himeko found an enormous, constantly beating heart fused with Six-Phased Ice.

Himeko discovered that the Amusement Park’s heart had swallowed March 7th’s Six-Phased Ice and learned the park would close at midnight. After the group exchanged clues, Himeko attacked Duncan, triggering retaliatory abilities that slowed her and left the others fighting.

• Himeko found the park’s heart and learned it was absorbing Six-Phased Ice, potentially making the park’s monsters far more dangerous.
• Taco and Inukai shared their clues with Himeko, while Duncan gave her a false clue about the number of areas in the park.
• Himeko tried to shoot the heart, but a Six-Phased Ice-like crystal blocked her attack.
• After leaving the dark room, Himeko received a notification that her commentator had struck Duncan, and Duncan was sent flying.
• Amerika used Heavy Steps to slow Himeko, while Himechi Cat threatened Duncan and Taco pinned down Inukai and the Nine-Tailed Fox.

Himeko confronted Duncan over the clues he had hidden, then persuaded him to reveal that the Amusement Park had a dangerous second side. By connecting his information to the visitor count and evidence in the Wax Museum, Himeko deduced that the visitors’ bodies had become Wax Figures and their emotions had been divided between the park’s two sides and the Darkroom.

• Himeko stopped Himechi Cat from killing Duncan and asked him to explain the clues he had withheld.
• Duncan admitted he had hidden the Amusement Park’s second area because he wanted to eliminate Himeko, and warned that it contained something capable of killing her.
• Himeko deduced that the Amusement Park had two sides and that the visitors’ emotions had been separated and distributed between them.
• Himeko connected the clue about 132 visitors to the Wax Museum’s Wax Figures and compared her lipstick with the stain on a milk tea straw.
• Himeko concluded that the visitors’ bodies had been turned into Wax Figures, some of their emotions had been put into the heart in the Darkroom, and the rest had been taken to the Amusement Park’s other side.

Himeko warned the others to leave the Amusement Park before its monster emerged, but Inukai stayed, hoping to claim the hidden quest rewards and exploit Himeko. At midnight, the park transformed into a grotesque, living place as its other side surfaced.

• Himeko urged everyone to leave, and Duncan and Taco departed while Inukai refused to abandon the hidden quest.
• Inukai suspected Himeko wanted the rewards for herself, then decided to stay and considered betraying her during the coming fight.
• Himechi Cat suggested turning Inukai into a reward, but Himeko said she had another use for him.
• Himeko found a display showing 11:53 and waited by the Wax Museum's Darkroom for midnight.
• At 00:00, the heart vanished and a surge of energy transformed the Amusement Park into a decaying, living environment covered in red growths and impure Six-Phased Ice.

Himeko investigated the emotions haunting the Amusement Park and discovered a giant kidney fused with the Haunted House that seemed to provoke anger. As she tried to understand how to sever its connection to the heart, the influence drove Inukai toward absorbing the park’s organs into his body.

• Inukai merged with the Nine-Tailed Fox to gain power while Himeko left the Wax Museum and noticed translucent figures expressing visitors’ emotions.
• Himeko inferred that the Wax Museum could strip parts of contestants’ consciousness and influence people through emotions circulating in the air.
• Himeko found a giant kidney surrounding the Haunted House and realized its hostile presence was stirring anger in her and others.
• Himeko ignored Inukai’s angry outburst and approached the kidney to study its connection to the heart.
• An eerie voice exploited Inukai’s resentment and urged him to absorb the organs scattered through the park, and he accepted the idea.

Himeko uncovered the Amusement Park Monster’s scheme and confronted Inukai after he absorbed the park visitors’ emotions and March 7th’s power. With her ordinary attacks failing, she called for the Astral Express’s newly repaired support attack.

• Himeko failed to cut the contaminated Six-Phased Ice and drew Shut Up and three skills, none of which helped her fight the monster.
• The system repaired the Astral Express’s support attack and granted Himeko the skill Long Tone of the Distant Horizon.
• Himeko realized Inukai was adjusting the park’s emotions to gather the monster’s organs and bring it back to life.
• Inukai completed the process, fused with the visitors’ emotions, and became a hidden monster driven by malice toward the remaining contestants.
• Himeko fought Inukai, dodging his Six-Phased Ice attacks and shooting at his head, but his transformed body defended against her.
• Himeko called to Pom-Pom to start the train and launch a support attack.

Himeko defeated Inukai with a Trailblaze train attack and unlocked the amusement park as a permanent Astral Express stop. She returned to the train with Himechi Cat and Shut Up, while Pom-Pom wondered where Himechi Cat could stay.

• Himeko summoned the Astral Express as a Trailblaze attack and struck Inukai, scattering his remains and defeating him.
• Himeko received the hidden reward, which made the amusement park a permanent stop she could revisit and opened the way to further stops.
• The fleshy plants withered, the amusement park returned to normal, and its employees emerged to restore the park.
• Himeko left the amusement park with Himechi Cat and Shut Up, confident Himechi Cat could travel beyond the Wax Museum.
• Pom-Pom welcomed Himeko back, then worried that the train had no suitable room for Himechi Cat.

Himeko claimed the Realm Anchor reward, planted it at the Amusement Park, and took the Astral Express to the Mist District, where a new mission required her to recruit a passenger or find a missing Nameless. Meanwhile, Neon's commentators debated whether to resurrect Inukai and finally proposed flipping a coin.

• Himeko installed an Imagenesis body in Himechi Cat, received the Realm Anchor, and planted it at the Amusement Park entrance.
• Himeko took the Astral Express to the Mist District, where the system set an exploration target and tasked her with recruiting a passenger or finding a missing Nameless.
• Himeko tried to make Himechi Cat count as a new passenger, but the system rejected the attempt, so she set out to explore the Mist District.
• The commentators for countries with eliminated contestants received the choice to resurrect them or select replacements, while Neon's commentators argued over Inukai.
• One of Neon's commentators suggested deciding Inukai's fate with a coin flip, and the other two agreed it was a great idea.

After the Amusement Park, surviving contestants fled from pursuing monsters while Himeko explored a misty district and encountered a future where people relied on String Bean and cyberware. She discovered that the district’s shops valued her body and detected her Trailblaze Power, leaving her facing an alarming offer to rent herself to a cyberware company.

• The contestants who had cleared the Amusement Park raced onward as a giant python pursued Duncan and a horse-drawn jeep, while Weir fled a mob of cannibals.
• Taco sped along in an upgraded Go-Kart with a tiger clamped around his head, repeatedly crashing because he could not see the road.
• Himeko asked a passerby for directions, and he consulted String Bean before explaining that maps had been replaced by navigation systems and brain-computer interfaces.
• Himeko entered a self-service cyberware shop and scanned herself to learn the prices offered for her limbs, eyes, and organs.
• The shop’s scanner detected Trailblaze Power in Himeko and said she could receive up to three billion in compensation by renting herself to a cyberware company.

Himeko explored an implant shop in Night City and installed a brain-computer interface on Shut Up so it could use chips. She decided to earn money by selling items made with Imagenesis Technology, while armed watchers began tracking her as a possible match for the wanted criminal Dan Heng.

• Himeko examined the shop’s implants and learned about its brain-computer interfaces, then earned an achievement that let Shut Up accept interface chips.
• Himeko installed an interface in Shut Up, who gained control access and revealed a five-slot chip tray.
• Himeko rejected selling herself or Himechi Cat and decided to make goods with Imagenesis Technology to sell for currency.
• Himeko and Himechi Cat walked with Shut Up through the streets as Shut Up joked about becoming a Hime-Rider.
• Armed observers identified Himeko’s energy as similar to that of the person who destroyed a company building and continued surveillance instead of arresting her.
• The observers’ wanted poster named Dan Heng as a criminal of the highest danger level.

Himeko and her companions were confronted by street thugs who planned to sell her organs, but she quickly subdued them and questioned their lives in the city. She learned that AI chips and quality implants were far beyond the reach of the poor, leaving the gang’s motives and the city’s dangers clearer as she continued exploring.

• Himeko noticed that people relied on AI assistants for ordinary conversations before street thugs cornered her and tried to claim her and her companions.
• Himeko used her Monomolecular Saw to disable Mohawk, while Himechi Cat and Shut Up stopped the other thugs.
• Himeko dragged the surviving thugs into an alley and questioned Mohawk about why people did not rely on AI.
• Mohawk explained that AI chips cost over a hundred thousand, while poor workers earned only a few thousand a month and sold body parts for little money.
• Himeko found a crude chip in Mohawk’s Brain-Computer Interface and learned that better implants cost over a million and required special connections.