Chapter Summaries

Night Owl attacked Anna over Chen Tianwen’s death, while Mei and Sirin intervened in the battle. The chapter ended with Sirin capturing the weakened Ice Herrscher and leaving Anna for Shi Hen to deal with.

• Night Owl battered Anna with his Star Herrscher powers and demanded to know why she had let Chen Tianwen die.
• Mei stopped Night Owl’s attack on Anna and challenged him, beginning a fierce battle between the Star Herrscher and the Lightning Herrscher.
• Shi Hen asked Sirin to handle the Ice Herrscher while he stayed back because of his injuries.
• Sirin used her wind to break through Anna’s attacks, bind her, and suspend her as a captive.
• Sirin declared that Anna was Shi Hen’s reward to deal with.

Shi Hen entered Anna’s mindscape with Sirin and Kiana to reach Anna, who was trapped reliving the Manila Honkai eruption. After Shi Hen disrupted her futile attempt to save the dead, hostile copies of Anna emerged, leaving the group surrounded.

• Shi Hen used the Plague Gem and Sirin’s help to enter Anna’s mindscape, where Kiana joined them.
• Shi Hen led Kiana and Sirin toward Anna, who repeatedly tried to guide shadowy figures into a shrinking patch of light.
• Shi Hen explained that Anna was trapped in guilt over the Manila Honkai eruption and stopped her from repeating the dream.
• A shadow copy of Anna attacked, and Kiana destroyed it with her crimson blade.
• Thousands of shadow figures appeared, and Shi Hen asked Sirin for help while Kiana insisted she could handle them alone.

Shi Hen calmed Anna and ended her Herrscher rampage, while Mei fought Night Owl at sea. Just as Mei prepared to destroy Night Owl’s growing pseudo-black hole, Shi Hen arrived, captured him, and revealed that Night Owl had been part of his plan.

• Shi Hen reassured Anna that she had already become a worthy Valkyrie, and she broke down in tears as the black figures vanished.
• Mei gained the advantage over Night Owl, who summoned a pseudo-black hole and poured in his Honkai Energy despite knowing it could consume him.
• Shi Hen split the pseudo-black hole with a sword strike before Mei could attack.
• Night Owl recognized that Welt Yang had manipulated events and asked why he had been chosen; Shi Hen explained that his kindness made him a valuable pawn.
• Shi Hen knocked Night Owl unconscious and placed him inside the slowly closing Stigmata Space.

Welt Yang confronted Mei and then attacked Shi Hen, Kiana, and Anna, demanding that Anna submit to him. As the others tried to protect Anna, Shi Hen deduced that Welt’s true goal was to create a power beyond even a complete Herrscher.

• Mei chased Welt Yang after he fled toward the northeast, where Shi Hen and the others were waiting.
• Welt Yang crashed onto the group’s floating ice and pressured Kiana, then demanded that Anna obey him as Schicksal Bishop.
• Mei arrived and struck at Welt Yang, while Kiana and Shi Hen refused to let him take Anna without a fight.
• Anna offered to go with Welt Yang if he spared the others, but Shi Hen stopped her and questioned Welt’s intentions.
• Shi Hen concluded that Welt wanted power surpassing a complete Herrscher, and Welt praised him as a worthy successor to Anti-Entropy.

Shi Hen offered himself as the wager for Anna’s freedom, and Welt Yang accepted a fight against Kiana, Mei, and their allies while claiming to use only one percent of his power. As Mei and Kiana attacked, Anna chose to stop running and unleashed her Herrscher power, striking at Welt Yang as he demanded to know whether she meant to betray Schicksal.

• Welt Yang revealed that he had let Kiana and the others grow stronger while waiting for a miracle, then offered Shi Hen a chance to keep Anna if he provided an equal wager.
• Shi Hen volunteered himself instead of Kiana, and Welt Yang agreed to the wager while claiming he would use only one percent of his power.
• Kiana attacked Welt Yang but was knocked back, and Mei charged him with her sword and lightning.
• When Shi Hen tried to join the fight, his injuries left him unable to continue, so Anna supported him and resolved to fight in his place.
• Anna released a surge of Honkai Energy, formed an ice lance, and thrust it at Welt Yang, who caught it and asked whether she planned to betray Schicksal.

Kiana, Mei, Anna, and Sirin fought Shi Hen, but he overwhelmed them despite limiting his strength. After Kiana and Sirin began cooperating through a new form of coexistence, Kiana and Mei managed to pierce Shi Hen’s defense, and he applauded their progress.

• Anna refused Shi Hen’s orders and attacked him, while Sirin joined the fight as the Void Herrscher.
• Mei confronted Shi Hen with a barrage of sword strikes, but he blocked them all and then cut apart Anna’s ice spear.
• Shi Hen broke through Sirin’s fluid barrier with repeated punches and knocked her into the sea.
• Kiana emerged from the seabed with gold-and-blue eyes, able to use the Honkai Energy Sirin supplied while controlling their shared body.
• Kiana and Mei coordinated their attacks, and Mei’s lightning pierced Shi Hen’s shield before he applauded their strength.

Shi Hen helped Kiana, Mei, and Anna combine their Herrscher powers so Kiana could strike down Welt Yang’s White Masks form. The group learned they had defeated only a clone, but Shi Hen reassured Mei that they had still won once.

• Welt Yang’s White Masks form overwhelmed Kiana and Mei until the weakened youth arrived and proposed that Sirin connect Mei’s and Anna’s Herrscher Cores.
• Sirin linked their powers through Kiana, who became equivalent to a five-core Herrscher and formed a Flame Longsword.
• Kiana unleashed a powerful strike against Welt Yang, and their clash destroyed the battlefield’s surroundings.
• Mei wondered whether they had defeated Welt Yang, but his voice revealed that they had beaten only one of his clones.
• Shi Hen comforted Mei, saying they had still beaten him once, as the Soul Steel body had fallen apart after clashing with Kiana.

After Kiana and the others defeated Welt Yang’s clone, Shi Hen helped rescue the exhausted Kiana and reunited with Mei. Yae Sakura arrived to take Mei away, and the chapter ended with Sirin kissing Shi Hen before the departing group.

• Shi Hen used the Star of Eden to bring Mei and Anna across the ice toward Kiana, who had exhausted herself and was floating helplessly in the sea.
• Mei and Shi Hen pulled Kiana onto the ice, and Kiana invited Mei to join them when they returned.
• Yae Sakura appeared and told Mei that Kevin had known about Welt Yang’s plan, prompting Shi Hen to condemn World Serpent’s willingness to gamble with lives.
• Yae Sakura said World Serpent had to act for humanity’s ultimate salvation and pointed out that Shi Hen’s retrieval ships had arrived.
• Mei urged Shi Hen to stay safe and reminded Kiana to protect him, but Sirin took control of Kiana and kissed Shi Hen, declaring victory.

After the Fifth Honkai outbreak, Shi Hen's group returned safely and learned that Anti-Entropy Headquarters had been attacked by an enemy whose coma-inducing ability resembled the Previous Civilization's Eighth Herrscher. As Einstein warned the headquarters, Rita expelled Anna from Schicksal to protect her from Welt Yang.

• Yae Sakura arranged for Mei and Kiana to share a ride back, giving Mei more time with Kiana while Shi Hen watched in dismay.
• Aboard the Hyperion, Theresa heard the group's report, and Shi Hen worried that Welt Yang had taken Chen Tianwu and that Coral Island's residents still needed resettlement.
• Seele explained that Bronya had returned to Anti-Entropy Headquarters after several hundred people there fell into unexplained comas.
• Shi Hen recognized the symptoms as resembling the Eighth Herrscher's power, and Einstein warned Tesla and Bronya that the attacker might be a Herrscher.
• Rita revoked Anna's Valkyrie status and expelled her from Schicksal, prompting Anna to beg for another chance.

Anna left Schicksal and joined Anti-Entropy after Shi Hen invited her, while Rita let her choose freely. After Bronya woke, the group learned that Fu Hua had attacked Anti-Entropy and put Bronya unconscious, but the Book of Cang Xuan insisted the attacker was not the real Fu Hua.

• Kiana attacked Rita for expelling Anna, but Theresa restrained Kiana with Judah's golden chains.
• Shi Hen invited Anna to join Anti-Entropy, and Anna accepted after Rita told her she was free to choose; Wendy welcomed her first.
• Einstein reported that Bronya had encountered the attacker and fallen unconscious after one exchange, identifying the attacker as Fu Hua.
• Bronya woke and worried that her weapons might have harmed Anti-Entropy staff, but Theresa explained that surveillance showed she had fainted almost immediately.
• Shi Hen explained that the attacker likely used the Feather of Dust to make Bronya believe they had fought.
• The Book of Cang Xuan insisted that the attacker was not the real Fu Hua, leaving Theresa puzzled about why the impostor had attacked Anti-Entropy without harming anyone else.

A resurrected Fu Hua rejected advice to act cautiously and set out to defeat Welt Yang and take control of humanity’s fight against the Honkai. At Schicksal HQ, Durandal learned that Fu Hua had attacked the Second Air Harbor and rushed to respond.

• Bronya told Shi Hen and Theresa that Fu Hua had said she wanted to defeat Welt Yang, and Shi Hen asked Anti-Entropy’s intelligence department to monitor her.
• Kiana ushered an exhausted Shi Hen out of the ward while Theresa regretted the suggestive way Kiana had described their plans.
• Fu Hua defended her attack on Anti-Entropy, dismissed her inner voice’s warnings, and headed for Schicksal to confront Welt Yang and impose her own plan.
• Durandal reviewed reports on the recent Herrschers and Anna Schariac’s dismissal, then Amber reported that Fu Hua had broken through Schicksal’s defenses at the Second Air Harbor.
• Durandal left her office to meet Fu Hua and asked Amber why Fu Hua had attacked Schicksal.

Durandal confronted Fu Hua after she attacked Schicksal on the Floating Island, and the two fought through several increasingly one-sided challenges. Fu Hua denied being defeated and claimed she was a new, unrestricted version of herself, then asked where Welt Yang was as the battle continued.

• Amber told Durandal that Fu Hua wanted to defeat the current Bishop and become Schicksal's new Bishop.
• Durandal rode Krisna to the Floating Island, where Fu Hua had Valkyries fighting Schicksal mechs, and attacked her.
• Fu Hua tried to make Durandal fight without Krisna, but Durandal held her own with Black Abyss White Flower and vines.
• Fu Hua persuaded Durandal to switch to hand-to-hand combat, but Durandal knocked her down after fifteen minutes.
• Fu Hua claimed she had been holding back and refused Durandal's offer to return to Schicksal as an S-rank Valkyrie.
• Fu Hua said the old her was dead and asked why Welt Yang had not appeared, though nearly an hour had passed since she broke into Schicksal HQ.

Durandal learned that the Fu Hua she had fought was an impostor and prepared to pursue her, but Shi Hen called with orders to hire Night Owl at Schicksal and watch for the Herrscher of Knowledge. The chapter left Durandal furious with Shi Hen and uncertain about his knowledge of Hua.

• Durandal told Fu Hua that Welt Yang was away from Schicksal, so Fu Hua flew toward World Serpent to seek a fight with Kevin.
• Amber informed Durandal that Anti-Entropy had identified the Fu Hua who had just left as an impostor, and Durandal set out to bring her back.
• Shi Hen contacted Durandal and claimed credit for ending the Fifth Honkai Outbreak and saving Coral Island, then ordered her to hire Night Owl as an A-rank Valkyrie.
• Durandal questioned Shi Hen's plan to employ a Herrscher as a Valkyrie, but he said he liked forcing her to obey and renamed Night Owl the Star Herrscher.
• Shi Hen told Durandal to notify him if the Herrscher of Knowledge appeared, explaining that she was the one occupying Hua's body.

Mei questioned Kevin about Herrschers and entered the Elysian Realm to seek answers, while Shi Hen explained his plans to Kevin and gave him Fu Hua’s feather. Fu Hua found Kevin in the desert and demanded to fight Welt Yang.

• Durandal considered whether the Herrscher of Knowledge could be guided to fight for humanity after Shi Hen called the Herrschers evil.
• Mei asked Kevin why Herrschers could defy Honkai, and Kevin judged her qualified to enter the Elysian Realm.
• Shi Hen told Kevin that humanity needed a villain to unite against and handed him the crimson Feather of Dust, warning that someone claiming to be Fu Hua would seek a fight.
• Fu Hua destroyed World Serpent’s defensive mechs in an abandoned desert city and encountered Kevin.
• Fu Hua asked Kevin to call out Welt Yang so she could beat him up, and Kevin asked why.

Fu Hua fought Kevin at World Serpent HQ, accepted their battle as a draw, and left with the Feather of Dust. After restoring the damaged feather, she summoned another Fu Hua, who denied being the Feather of Dust.

• Fu Hua challenged Kevin for World Serpent’s leadership, and they fought until she called the match a draw.
• Kevin gave Fu Hua the Feather of Dust, and she left to wander on her own.
• Fu Hua examined the scorched feather, broke its ice-crystal casing, and restored it with Honkai Energy.
• The Feather of Dust produced a white-haired woman resembling Fu Hua, who resisted Fu Hua’s attempt to reclaim her power.
• The summoned Fu Hua told Fu Hua that she was not the Feather of Dust.

Fu Hua and her double argued over which of them was the real Fu Hua, while Mei entered the Elysian Realm and met Elysia. Mei began exploring the memory-made realm after Elysia explained what it was.

• Fu Hua claimed she was the real Fu Hua after fusing her soul into the Sword Deity strike, but the other Fu Hua accused her of being a feather manipulated by Welt Yang.
• Mei arrived at the Elysian Realm and met Elysia, who said she was one of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers and Kevin's second-in-command.
• Mei told Elysia that Welt Yang had lost to Kevin, and Elysia laughed while privately suspecting that Welt Yang had deliberately let others believe he lost.
• Elysia guided Mei through the central door into a silent city and explained that the Elysian Realm was formed from the memories of the Thirteen Flame-Chasers.
• Elysia vanished, leaving Mei to explore the realm on her own.

At a celebration banquet after the Fifth Honkai Outbreak, Shi Hen and his friends reflected on their years together and received their St. Freya graduation certificates. Meanwhile, Mei began exploring the Elysian Realm and found a vision of St. Freya, leaving her to decide whether to enter.

• Mei explored the empty Elysian Realm and encountered a scene of St. Freya, which should not have appeared among the Flame-Chasers' memories.
• Shi Hen hosted a victory banquet and reflected on his friends' growth, while Kiana and Theresa reminisced about their years at St. Freya.
• Shi Hen promised the Book of Cang Xuan that they would bring the Class President back, and urged her to enjoy the celebration.
• Theresa handed out the students' graduation certificates, including Mei's, and declared that they had officially graduated from St. Freya.
• Shi Hen noted that St. Freya might resume teaching now that relations between Anti-Entropy and Schicksal had eased.

After the Coral Island victory, Shi Hen reassured Theresa that St. Freya would be safe and that its ideals would be passed on. During the celebration, the unseen Herrscher of Knowledge returned and secretly used Fu Hua’s power to meddle with the meal, leaving Fu Hua embarrassed and unable to stop her.

• Shi Hen told Theresa that Durandal would protect St. Freya and spoke about passing humanity’s ideals on to future generations.
• Kiana praised Shi Hen, grew jealous of Anna’s new white-haired appearance, and blushed when Shi Hen reminded her he was the leader.
• The group toasted their victory, while the Herrscher of Knowledge secretly entered and concealed herself from everyone at the table.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge shut down the Book of Cang Xuan and stole food from Kiana and Shi Hen as Fu Hua protested.
• Shi Hen served fish to the Book of Cang Xuan, and the Herrscher of Knowledge swallowed it despite Fu Hua’s warning about bones.
• The Herrscher of Knowledge swapped her bowl for Shi Hen’s and claimed the rice he had been about to serve himself.

Fu Hua revealed the Herrscher of Knowledge’s identity to Shi Hen and asked him to help keep Senti from siding with Honkai. As Shi Hen encouraged everyone to imagine a future beyond Honkai, Senti accidentally exposed herself as Fu Hua before erasing the group’s memories.

• Fu Hua tried to tempt her other self with food, then decided to trust Shi Hen and revealed the Herrscher of Knowledge’s true identity to him.
• With Fu Hua’s help, Shi Hen saw Senti clearly and agreed to help her recognize the truth without driving her toward Honkai.
• Shi Hen deflected Kiana’s questions and asked Anna what she would want to do if Honkai vanished; Anna admitted she had never considered a life beyond fighting it.
• Kiana, Bronya, and Seele shared their hopes for the future, prompting Senti to protest that they had not even defeated Honkai yet.
• Bronya questioned whether the Class President was real, and Senti blurted out that she was Fu Hua before using her feathers to make everyone forget.
• Shi Hen told Senti that what mattered most was what she chose to do in the future.

Shi Hen encouraged Kiana and the others to give Fu Hua and the Herrscher of Knowledge a chance, but Fu Hua fled before they could talk. In Elysian Realm, Mei met Shi Hen in a different form, where he introduced himself as Naraku and invited her to learn more about the place.

• Shi Hen told Kiana, Bronya, and Schariac that people could choose who they became, and Bronya regretted trying to subdue the resurrected Fu Hua.
• Kiana and Fu Hua urged the Herrscher of Knowledge to believe she could belong with them, but Fu Hua left with the Herrscher before her hypnosis wore off.
• Theresa cried out as Schariac's effects faded and the room returned to its true state, then leaped into Wendy's arms.
• Mei explored an Elysian Realm St. Freya that resembled the real academy and followed a flower-lined path to a pavilion.
• Mei met Shi Hen, who appeared as a white-haired man and denied being a Flame-Chaser.
• Shi Hen served Mei tea and dango, called himself Naraku, and invited her to understand the realm before deciding whether to answer his questions.