Recaps

Lumine decided she would keep traveling and seeing the world even if Teyvat were about to end. After a peaceful stretch in Fontaine, Isadora told her and Paimon that people had confronted Furina at the opera house, prompting the Marechaussee Phantom to classify the incident as a riot.

• Paimon asked Lumine what they would choose to do if all of Teyvat were going to be destroyed the next day.
• Lumine said she would keep traveling because the world was still beautiful and she did not want to waste a single moment.
• Charlotte interviewed Lumine and Paimon at the Spina di Rosula base, where they also met Navia and took a photo together.
• A few peaceful days passed, and Paimon complained about having nothing to do and about the damp, sea-smelling Fortress of Meropide.
• Isadora found Lumine and Paimon and reported that people had shouted at Furina during an opera-house intermission, accusing her of ignoring the prophecy.

Isadora told Paimon and Lumine that Furina had disappeared after an angry crowd blamed her during the opera house incident. Paimon deduced that Furina had gone to Poisson, and she and Lumine hurried there to find her.

• Isadora explained that Furina had left the opera house after the crowd turned against her, and the Marechaussee Phantom had lost track of her.
• Isadora said Neuvillette had sent her to inform Paimon and Lumine, and the two offered to help search for Furina.
• After Isadora left, Paimon and Lumine realized they should head to Poisson.
• Paimon reasoned that Furina would go to Poisson because she felt guilty and sad about what had happened there, and Lumine praised her deduction.
• Paimon and Lumine set out for Poisson, saying they had little time.

Lumine and Paimon found Furina grieving alone beside a river in Poisson, but she tried to hide her pain behind her usual theatrical act. When a crowd tracked her down, Furina ran, and Lumine and Paimon chased after her.

• Lumine and Paimon found Furina by the river, where she tearfully blamed herself and admitted she could not stop holding on.
• Lumine and Paimon approached Furina, who wiped her face and pretended she had been moved by an opera.
• Lumine told Furina to stop pretending if she was truly hurting, and Furina was shaken by her words.
• A crowd arrived, claiming to have found the Hydro Archon, and Furina fled from them.
• Lumine and Paimon ran after Furina so they would not lose her.

Lumine and Paimon led Furina to a hidden room, where a staged disaster shook her composure and prompted her to reveal her centuries-long efforts to stop Fontaine’s prophecy. Furina admitted she had considered giving up but reaffirmed her duty to preserve hope for her people until the final moment.

• Furina evaded the crowd with Lumine and Paimon, then trusted Paimon’s directions to a hiding place despite not recognizing it.
• Lumine, Paimon, and Furina entered a room that shook, and Lumine and Paimon told Furina another disaster might have struck Poisson.
• Furina revealed that she had spent centuries gathering information and trying to stop Fontaine’s sea level from rising, but believed the prophecy could not be defeated.
• Lumine questioned whether Furina had truly given up, and Furina admitted she had often thought about accepting fate and being free.
• Furina decided she had no right to accept fate on behalf of her people and vowed to preserve every last hope until the final moment.

Furina nearly told Lumine her secret, but a sudden reveal in the opera house interrupted her. As Lyney began the trial, Furina refused to submit and faced Clorinde as her Champion Duelist.

• Lumine urged Furina to share what she had been carrying, and Furina considered whether the Traveler might be outside the script.
• Just as Furina began to speak, the room collapsed and revealed them in the crowded opera house.
• Lyney announced that the trial of a god was beginning, and Furina resumed her haughty performance.
• Neuvillette told Furina that refusing the trial meant she would have to defeat a Champion Duelist to defend her honor.
• Clorinde entered the stage and pointed her sword at Furina, who acknowledged that she was prepared to duel a god.

Furina surprised the Opera Epiclese by raising both hands and surrendering instead of fighting Clorinde. She admitted her responsibility for Poisson, vowed to face the trial and explain true justice, then won the audience’s support with a rousing speech.

• Furina raised both hands, and Clorinde sheathed her sword when she realized Furina was surrendering.
• Furina told the audience she would face the trial, apologized for her part in what happened in Poisson, and admitted she had often run away from problems.
• Furina promised to explain what true justice meant and privately resolved to protect everyone.
• Furina dramatically announced that the trial of the god Focalors was about to begin, prompting the audience to cheer and applaud.
• Paimon noted that Furina had turned the crowd’s reaction around with her speech.

Lumine stood as Furina’s accuser, and the trial began after Furina questioned how the group had forced her to attend. As the preparations were revealed, Furina learned Lumine had tried to question her one last time, and she resolved to see the trial through.

• Lumine stepped forward as Furina’s accuser, and Neuvillette formally began the trial.
• Furina asked how the group had ensured she could not refuse, and Navia revealed that her subordinates had provoked the crowd and anticipated Furina fleeing to Poisson.
• Lyney explained that he and Lynette had transported Furina in a large magic box from Poisson to Erinnyes Island, with support from Arlecchino.
• Paimon explained that the shaking during the journey came from moving the magic box, and Furina quietly felt relieved that it had not been an earthquake or caused more casualties.
• Furina identified the roles of Neuvillette, Clorinde, Lumine, and Paimon, but Lumine clarified that her final task had been to question Furina before the trial.
• Furina accepted that she had missed her last chance to reveal anything and declared that she would see the trial through to the end.

As Furina’s trial began, Lumine and Paimon received Charlotte’s records of their experiences in Fontaine and prepared to use them as evidence. Lumine then accused Furina of not being a god, leaving the courtroom in an uproar.

• Esmonde delivered Charlotte’s approved report to Paimon and Lumine, and they realized it could help them present their experiences as evidence.
• Paimon and Lumine reviewed Charlotte’s detailed account of events in Fontaine, including the incidents at Poisson and the claims made by The Knave.
• Furina interrupted Neuvillette’s explanation of the proceedings and asked Lumine to state the charges against her.
• Lumine said she was not accusing Furina of misconduct and declared that Furina was not a god.
• The courtroom erupted in disbelief and commotion over Lumine’s accusation.

Lumine accused Furina of impersonating the Hydro Archon, and Furina defended her divinity before the Fontaine audience. Lumine argued that Furina was a cursed human, shifting the trial in her favor as Furina struggled to respond.

• Neuvillette accepted the charge against Furina, who denied it and declared herself a true god.
• Furina appealed to the audience’s belief and the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale to pressure Lumine to withdraw the charge.
• Lumine argued that common knowledge was not evidence and suggested Furina’s long life came from a curse.
• Neuvillette recognized that Furina’s aura might be a curse rather than a trait shared by gods.
• The audience began reconsidering Furina’s identity, and the Oratrice tipped toward Lumine as Furina grew flustered.

In the trial, Furina claimed the Oratrice and Fontaine’s Indemnitium proved she was a god, but Neuvillette and the Traveler challenged her to answer under the court’s rules. When Lumine asked Furina to demonstrate her Hydro powers, Furina claimed she had converted all her divine power into Indemnitium, leaving the audience increasingly doubtful.

• Furina argued that the Oratrice and Indemnitium were miracles demonstrating her authority as a god.
• Paimon questioned Furina about Childe’s guilty verdict, and Neuvillette warned her that she had to follow the trial’s rules and answer the opposing side.
• Paimon pointed out that Furina did not understand the Oratrice, while Furina insisted the machine operated independently of her.
• Lumine asked Furina to demonstrate her ability to control Hydro, and Neuvillette offered to protect the audience.
• Furina refused at first, then claimed she had sacrificed her power by converting it into Indemnitium, but the audience began to doubt her.

Furina’s defense faltered as Lumine and Navia challenged her to prove she was not human by testing her with Primordial Sea Water. Furina approached the basin but remained silent, leaving the trial at a decisive moment.

• Furina appealed to the audience to believe she was still their Hydro Archon, but they continued to doubt her.
• Lumine proposed proving Furina was human by using Primordial Sea Water, which dissolved people from Fontaine.
• Navia offered seawater from Poisson and challenged Furina to touch it to prove she was a god.
• The audience backed Navia’s proposal, and Furina walked down from the defendant’s stand toward the basin.
• Neuvillette reminded Furina that she could refuse the experiment, while Furina lowered her head and said nothing.

Furina put her hand into the Primordial Sea Water and appeared unharmed, then claimed the test proved she was the Hydro Archon. Sigewinne examined her and concluded that Furina had been affected just like an ordinary person, leaving the trial’s result hanging on that revelation.

• Furina plunged her gloved hand into the Primordial Sea Water despite Neuvillette’s warning.
• Furina remained standing and excitedly declared that the seawater had no effect on her, proving she was the real Hydro Archon.
• Neuvillette called Sigewinne onto the stage to examine Furina’s hand.
• Sigewinne examined Furina and concluded that her skin and rapid breathing showed she had been affected like an ordinary person exposed to the seawater.

Furina learned that the basin contained diluted Primordial Sea Water and that Sigewinne’s examination showed she was an ordinary human. As the audience and the Traveler turned away from her, Furina accepted that she had reached the end of the trial and awaited the verdict.

• Navia explained that the Primordial Sea Water had been diluted and that Sigewinne had examined Furina to avoid risking her life.
• Furina realized that the test had not proved she was a god and feared that her centuries of effort to save Fontaine would be lost.
• Furina insisted that the test did not count and pleaded with the audience to believe she was a god.
• The audience, the Traveler, Paimon, and Neuvillette all avoided responding to Furina.
• Furina lowered her head and admitted that there was no point arguing further because the evidence was already laid out.

Furina was found guilty in Neuvillette’s trial and broke down after believing she had failed to save Fontaine. The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale then declared that the Hydro Archon was guilty and sentenced to death, leaving the people shocked.

• Neuvillette declared Furina guilty of impersonating a god and deceiving Fontaine’s people.
• Furina imagined the Traveler and Paimon abandoning her, then collapsed in tears as she feared Fontaine’s hope of survival had been shattered.
• Neuvillette submitted the case to the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale, which produced its judgment.
• Neuvillette read the verdict: the Hydro Archon was guilty and sentenced to death.
• The people in the discussion expressed disbelief at the death sentence, while Tartaglia worried that he might face the same punishment.

Freminet brought the recovered stone tablet to the opera house during Furina’s trial, and Lumine recognized it as showing the former Hydro Archon turning Oceanids into humans. Neuvillette believed this revealed the Hydro Archon’s sin, then asked Lumine to connect the tablet’s images with the events since her arrival in Fontaine.

• Neuvillette said the Oratrice had sentenced the Hydro Archon to death, even though Furina should not receive such a punishment, leaving the audience confused about the verdict.
• Freminet arrived with a stone tablet he had recovered from the seabed for [Father], and Lyney confirmed that the task had come from [The Knave].
• Lumine identified the tablet’s image as the former Hydro Archon using her divine power to turn Oceanids into humans.
• Neuvillette concluded that this act was the sin named by the Oratrice and asked Lumine and Paimon to recall how the four tablets related to events in Fontaine.

Lumine and Paimon connected the four stone tablets to Fontaine’s recent crises and concluded that Fontainians were Oceanids transformed by the former Hydro Archon. They suspected that the transformation was the Hydro Archon’s sin and the reason the Oratrice sentenced her to death.

• Lumine matched the tablet images to the disappearances, the trial, Navia’s experience, and the Primordial Sea crisis.
• Paimon reasoned that dissolved Fontainians returned to their original Oceanid forms rather than dying.
• Lumine concluded that Fontainians were not humans in the true sense, and Lyney and Lynette reacted to the revelation.
• Lumine and Paimon proposed that the former Hydro Archon’s sin was transforming Oceanids into Fontainians, provoking Celestia and leading to her death sentence.

Neuvillette deciphered the stone tablets and revealed that Fontaine’s people were Oceanids transformed by the former Hydro Archon using power from the Primordial Sea. He also corrected the Traveler’s reading of the prophecy, explaining that the Hydro Archon would be judged in court by the people of Fontaine.

• Lumine and Paimon discussed the stone tablets and their understanding of the prophecy.
• Neuvillette used the reunited tablets to uncover the truth about Fontaine’s origins.
• Neuvillette explained that the former Hydro Archon turned her Oceanid familiars into humans by enclosing Primordial Sea power within them, an act forbidden by the Heavenly Principles.
• The people of Fontaine reacted with shock as Neuvillette revealed that they were Oceanids who could dissolve back into their original forms if exposed to Primordial Sea Water.
• Neuvillette explained that the water on the third tablet represented justice and judgment, and that the Hydro Archon would be tried by the people of Fontaine.

Neuvillette and the others realized the prophecy was still unfolding and identified the giant whale as the source of Fontaine’s disasters. The whale attacked the opera house, but a purple figure wounded it and helped Neuvillette drive it back into the fissure.

• Neuvillette explained that the Primordial Sea crisis at the Fortress of Meropide was only an omen, while the giant whale was the true source of the disaster.
• Lumine and Paimon recognized the whale from Lumine’s dream as the cause of the impending catastrophe.
• A violent tremor shook the opera house, and the whale emerged through a hole in the collapsing floor.
• Neuvillette fought the whale, but it charged toward the fleeing crowd before he could stop it.
• A purple figure struck a deep gash into the whale, and Neuvillette hit the wound with a blue orb of light.
• The injured whale fled through the fissure and disappeared.

Neuvillette explained that the whale had consumed most of the Primordial Sea’s energy and could no longer be defeated by ordinary means. Lumine realized Furina might hold the key to changing the foretold outcome, just as the Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale suddenly activated.

• Tartaglia gave Neuvillette a thumbs-up before collapsing into the rift from exhaustion.
• Neuvillette explained that the whale came from beyond Teyvat, had fed on the Primordial Sea, and was drawn to the Primordial Sea Water inside Fontainians.
• Neuvillette warned that the whale had become one with the Primordial Sea and would survive even if Teyvat were destroyed.
• Navia, Lyney, and Clorinde refused to give up, while Paimon worried that fate could not be changed.
• Lumine recalled Witch N’s words about blind spots in a god’s gaze and realized Furina might have been about to tell her something important.
• The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale suddenly made a noise, and Navia noticed it displayed 2.

Focalors revealed that she had separated her divinity from her human self, Furina, and explained that she had devised a plan to save Fontaine from the prophecy by deceiving the Heavenly Principles. The chapter ended with Focalors telling Neuvillette that Furina was the human self she had left behind.

• Lumine ran toward Furina, but a tear from Furina fell onto her hand and caused her vision to go black.
• The Oratrice Mecanique d'Analyse Cardinale flashed, leaving Neuvillette alone with a barefoot girl who looked exactly like Furina beneath a giant sword.
• Focalors introduced herself to Neuvillette as the God of Water and explained that she had acted to deal with the Heavenly Principles and Fontaine's prophecy.
• Focalors recounted how Egeria had entrusted her with saving Fontaine and how she came up with the plan to deceive the Heavenly Principles.
• Focalors told Neuvillette that she had separated her divinity from her body and spirit, leaving behind Furina as her human self.

Focalors explained that she cursed Furina to play the Hydro Archon for centuries so she could deceive the Heavenly Principles, and regretted the loneliness Furina endured. In Furina’s inner world, Lumine witnessed the memory of Focalors asking Furina to act as a god to save Fontaine.

• Focalors told Neuvillette that Furina was created as an ideal human and cursed with an endless lifespan until Focalors disappeared.
• Neuvillette warned that centuries of loneliness would torment Furina, and Focalors acknowledged she needed to apologize to her.
• Lumine entered Furina’s inner world, switched off the spotlights, and watched from a seat that appeared on the stage.
• Furina met her reflection, who explained the prophecy and asked her to play the Hydro Archon to save Fontaine.
• Furina agreed to keep acting, and her reflection told her to focus on discerning humanity rather than divinity.

Furina recalled how she performed the role of Fontaine’s Hydro Archon, changing her manner to satisfy the people while secretly working to stop the prophecy. The screen then switched to a video showing her public duties and private exhaustion, while Nahida expressed a wish connected to the glimpse of a birthday message.

• Furina delivered her first address nervously, then adopted a forceful persona after hearing the crowd criticize her humility.
• Furina declared herself Focalors and claimed she could judge even the gods, earning applause from the people of Fontaine.
• Su Chen accidentally swiped away from Furina’s video, briefly revealing the word “birthday” before Nahida’s promotional video began.
• Furina dismissed a guard’s report and spoke with Deotila, showing that she remembered Deotila’s ill son.
• Furina heard that researchers were seeking a way to resolve the prophecy and praised their efforts while hiding the issue’s true scale.
• Furina rested at the edge of her bed, relieved that events were on track, and reminded herself that more work awaited the next day.

Furina’s exhausting centuries of pretending to be the Hydro Archon left her isolated and near a mental breakdown. In her inner world, Lumine offered her a chance to confide, and Furina struggled between seeking comfort and protecting the plan.

• Furina spent the day meeting people and reviewing reports while hiding her fatigue behind a practiced smile.
• Alone in her room, Furina sobbed about her loneliness and the centuries of pain she had endured, then urged her reflection to keep going for the plan.
• Lumine recognized a past conversation in Furina’s inner world and approached her, offering to listen even if she could not share the burden.
• Furina considered confiding in Lumine, knowing it might ease her sorrow but fearing it would ruin all her efforts.

The video revealed that Furina remained committed to her role, unaware of Focalors’s plan to deceive the Heavenly Principles. Focalors explained that the Oratrice would destroy the Hydro Archon’s divine throne and return the Hydro Dragon’s authority to Neuvillette, leaving Furina to comfort him as Focalors faced death.

• Furina refused to reveal anything to Lumine and insisted that she was a god who had no problems.
• Neuvillette learned that Furina did not know Focalors’s plan, and Focalors explained that she had deceived even herself to fool the Heavenly Principles.
• Focalors revealed that the Oratrice had accumulated enough Indemnitium to kill a god and destroy the Hydro Archon’s divine throne.
• Focalors told Neuvillette that her death would return the Hydro Archon’s authority to him as the Hydro Dragon Sovereign.
• Furina approached Neuvillette and gently told him, “Hydro Dragon, Hydro Dragon, don’t cry.”

Focalors explained that she had accepted five hundred years of sin to break Fontaine’s prophecy and let its people survive, then faced her execution with a final dance. After her death, her power returned to Neuvillette, and Furina received Focalors’s final wish that she live happily as a human.

• Focalors asked Neuvillette what verdict he would pass after regaining his dragon power, and he realized she had arranged for him to serve as Fontaine’s Chief Justice so he would come to understand humanity.
• Focalors admitted she was afraid of dying, said it was nearly time for her execution, and bid farewell to Neuvillette.
• Focalors and Furina danced in their separate worlds as the sword of judgment followed Focalors, then fell and killed her.
• Neuvillette reached out helplessly as bubbles returned the stolen power to him, while a message from Focalors told Furina to live happily as a human.