Recaps

Himeko explored the amusement park with Pom-Pom’s support, fought its dangers, and built a team with Taco, Washana, and Weir. After defeating the Pig Trotter Rice King and gathering supplies, she headed for the haunted house while Inukai and Duncan fled powerful wax doubles.

• Himeko summoned Pom-Pom and the Astral Express, then traveled to the amusement park and destroyed its entrance to begin exploring.
• Himeko defeated the Paradise Wraith, collected supplies, and entered the Wax Museum, where she learned its living wax figures tried to kill their originals.
• Himeko destroyed her attacking wax double, created Himechi Cat, and joined forces with Taco after he arrived seeking help.
• Himeko killed the Red-Nosed Doctor, rescued Washana from an attack, and invited her to join the group after she apologized to Taco.
• Himeko defeated Duncan’s wax double and cleared the Restaurant, then killed Ali and weakened the Pig Trotter Rice King by ruining its flavor.
• Himeko defeated the weakened Pig Trotter Rice King with Himechi Cat, then welcomed Weir into the group after he explained that he had no part in the attacks.
• Himeko’s group gathered supplies and upgrade materials, then chose the haunted house as their next destination while Inukai and Duncan fled their wax figures.

Himeko investigated the Amusement Park, uncovered how it had trapped visitors’ emotions, and defeated Inukai after he transformed into its hidden monster. She made the park a permanent stop for the Astral Express and continued to the Mist District, where she began learning how its cyberware economy worked.

• Himeko found March 7th’s Six-Phased Ice in the Haunted House, uncovered its false staff and monsters, and destroyed the attraction’s Life Giant Tree with a homemade railgun.
• Himeko and Taco entered the Wax Museum, where Duncan and Inukai led her to a hidden darkroom quest and the park’s heart, which was fused with Six-Phased Ice.
• Himeko deduced that the Wax Figures held visitors’ bodies, the heart held some of their emotions, and the park’s other side held the rest.
• At midnight, the heart vanished and the Amusement Park transformed, while Inukai merged with the Nine-Tailed Fox and absorbed the park’s organs and emotions.
• Himeko summoned the Astral Express to defeat Inukai, claimed the hidden reward that made the Amusement Park a permanent stop, and returned to the train with Himechi Cat.
• Himeko installed an Imagenesis body in Himechi Cat, planted a Realm Anchor at the park, and took the Astral Express to the Mist District.
• In the Mist District, Himeko rejected an offer to sell her body parts and explored ways to earn money, while learning that expensive brain-computer interfaces and poverty shaped daily life there.

Himeko and Dan Heng investigated the Corporation’s power struggle, uncovered the danger of Brain-Computer Interfaces, and secured help from Lin En. They returned to the Astral Express while Inukai was revived and brought under the President’s control.

• Himeko and Dan Heng reunited, learned that Intelligent Chips could exploit or take over their users, and escaped a Mobile Unit attack as Dan Heng fought off the pursuing officers.
• Himeko and Dan Heng entered Wild Dog Gang territory, rescued Weir, and uncovered the gang’s links to the dead heir and the President’s illegitimate son, Lin En.
• Himeko paid the Wild Dog Gang to release its captives and stop its criminal activity, then her group killed gang members who tried to attack her and Weir.
• Himeko’s group tracked Lin En to his club, where Duncan gambled away their money and then led them to Lin En’s apartment.
• Lin En offered supplies, Mobile Unit assistance, and access to his forces in exchange for advanced technology, and Himeko accepted his support without agreeing to his terms.
• Himeko and Dan Heng returned to the Astral Express to rest, while Captivity woke at Corporation headquarters and saw a frail old man watching him.
• Neon resurrected Inukai, who survived a missile explosion and received cybernetic replacements and a three-chip Brain-Computer Interface from the President, Yamada.

Himeko and her companions fought Yamada as he used Los Angeles's networks and cybernetic implants to pursue escape to other worlds. They allied with String Bean and destroyed Yamada's last Database before the Astral Express departed for the Book-on-Paper Kingdom.

• Yamada recruited Inukai to hunt other Contestants, while Himeko learned that her companions had been declared wanted in Los Angeles.
• Himeko's group destroyed Yamada's physical body, but Dan Heng discovered that Yamada could possess people through their Brain-Computer Interfaces.
• Himeko reunited with the other Contestants and learned that Yamada intended to use his technology to escape to other worlds.
• Himeko secured String Bean's cooperation by offering outside technological data and passage on the Astral Express in exchange for restraining Yamada.
• String Bean transferred his data to the Express, while Himeko's allies prepared to destroy fourteen data centers and investigated Amir as another possible vessel for Yamada.
• Dan Heng confronted Inukai, Himeko and Himechi Cat dismantled Amir, and the Mobile Team Captain helped Himeko burn the Data Centers.
• Yamada transformed the company building into a giant combat robot, but Himeko summoned a mechanical arm that melted it and destroyed his last Database.
• Himeko learned that Lin En had taken control of Los Angeles, then traveled with Dan Heng and Himechi Cat to the Book-on-Paper Kingdom, where she received a prompt to choose a script.