Recaps

Hela arranged for the warehouse where Fuluolan and the other children lived to be renovated and furnished. The new rooms were ready, and Aidan showed Hela a pink, anime-decorated bedroom he had chosen for her.

• Hela sent Tuote the warehouse’s location and told Aidan to buy furniture and daily necessities.
• Fuluolan and the other children hid their money in an iron box, then panicked when they realized Hela had seen them.
• Aidan returned with Tuote, Weier, renovation workers, and furniture, and the crew replaced the doors and furnished the warehouse.
• Hela entered the transformed warehouse with the others and saw Fuluolan clutching the iron box nervously.
• Aidan showed Hela the largest room, which he had decorated in a girlish style with pink furniture and anime posters.

Aidan settled Fuluolan and the other children into their new rooms, but Fuluolan remained suspicious of the adults despite their kindness. Hela outlined her plan and, with the group’s funds running low, told them they needed to find a way to earn money within two months.

• Hela praised Aidan for choosing the Stitch plushie, and he blushed as he continued showing everyone the rooms.
• Aidan offered Fuluolan and the three other children a furnished room, and they happily explored it while Fuluolan questioned the adults’ motives.
• The children received keys to their room, and Fuluolan warned them to stay alert and said he would fight if necessary.
• After Xiaojie spotted food outside their room, Aidan brought the children a KFC family bucket, which Fuluolan snatched before shutting the door.
• Hela finished explaining her plan and said she would wait until she reached Starlight to fight, leaving the rest of the planning to her subordinates.
• Tuote asked Aidan about their finances, and the group realized their remaining funds would not support them and the children for long, so they needed to earn money within two months.

Hela left the group’s warehouse to find work and quickly got hired as a server at a bar. She changed into her uniform and prepared to start her new job.

• Tuote decided that the group would rest for the day and look for work together the next day, while Hela said she would find a job after digesting energy.
• Hela rested with a Stitch doll, then spent two hours shrinking back to her previous height of 1.6 meters.
• Hela left the warehouse alone, considered her strengths, and decided that physical labor, eating a lot, and her looks would not help her find suitable work.
• Hela spotted a bar advertising a server position paying five thousand a month and went inside to apply.
• The person at the front desk hired Hela, explained the work, and gave her a uniform to change into.
• Hela changed into the uniform and prepared to start work.

Hela worked as a waitress and drew in customers with her beauty, while Aidan grew uneasy after another failed attempt to defeat Asriel Dreemurr. In a private room, a concert organizer noticed Hela and turned his attention away from Lisa, leaving her poised for an unexpected offer.

• Hela served customers at the bar and earned several thousand dollars in tips.
• Aidan failed to defeat Asriel Dreemurr for the 135th time, worried about helping Boss, and went out to find Hela.
• Lisa argued with a middle-aged concert organizer over her appearance fee and mocked the other women in the private room.
• Lisa pointed at Hela, whose smile captivated the organizer and made him ask how old she was.

Hela accepted agent Tewa’s offer of a seventy-thousand appearance fee to perform at a concert and went with him to Sound Beauty Entertainment Company. Aidan accompanied her, and they entered the company building among its many stars.

• Tewa offered Hela a concert appearance and a possible debut, and Hela accepted the seventy-thousand fee.
• Hela took three days off from her bar job and left with Tewa, while Aidan hurried over and joined them.
• Tewa invited Hela and Aidan into his car and drove them to Sound Beauty Entertainment Company.
• Hela and Aidan followed Tewa into the luxurious company building, where stars were preparing for performances.

Hela passed a singing sound check and signed up to perform, then met Diyana, a Battle Armor pilot who exchanged contact details with her. Returning to the lounge, Hela found Aidan being pushed through an exhausting workout by two pixelated fishmen.

• Tewa brought Hela to a recording studio, where she memorized the lyrics quickly and impressed the recording staff with her singing.
• Tewa told Hela she had passed and would perform the day after tomorrow, and she signed the form as Hela Yeager.
• Hela recognized Diyana as Beloved Battle Sound and exchanged email addresses with her to learn more about Godslaying Technology Company.
• Hela returned to the lounge and found Aidan doing push-ups under the coaching of two pixelated fishmen, while Sister Fish ordered him to continue.

Hela used her clone to infiltrate Godslaying Technology Company and learn its security layout, then killed and impersonated technician Li Ao to obtain his red badge. She left the restroom asking for directions to the Battle Armor storage room.

• Hela continued controlling her flesh-and-blood clone through the company’s ventilation ducts and mapped much of the building.
• Hela observed that employee badge colors indicated rank and that black badges granted access to the Battle Armor room.
• After waiting for an employee with a red badge, Hela infected and killed him in a restroom, then swallowed his body and took his appearance.
• Hela identified the employee as Li Ao, a security-systems technician, and took his red badge.
• Hela told a cleaner she had fallen, then asked him where the Battle Armor storage room was and headed there.

Hela planned to gain access to the Godslaying Technology Company's Battle Armor, but she was interrupted from her daze and taken to a rehearsal for a performance with Diyana. As Hela began to sing, the venue lights suddenly went out.

• Hela's work card was denied access to the Battle Armor room, so she decided to seek someone with purple-level clearance and take his identity.
• Aidan told Hela that the concert was the next day and led her to the rehearsal after she realized she had been dazed for more than a day.
• Hela met Yamada Kunin, who introduced her to Tewa and Diyana at the rehearsal venue.
• Diyana explained that Hela's company would perform with Godslaying Technology Company to raise its profile, then encouraged Hela before she took the stage.
• As Hela began to sing, the venue lights went out, confusing Diyana and sending Tewa to investigate.

Mettaton unexpectedly performed with Hela, impressing Diyana, who arranged for Hela and Aidan to perform and join her company. Hela planned to wait for a safer chance to target Diyana, while Diyana prepared to use a staged candid photo to promote Hela as her stepping stone.

• Mettaton appeared onstage, introduced Hela, and accompanied her song with a lively performance.
• Diyana praised Hela, agreed to have her perform with Aidan, and asked to bring Mettaton along, but the robot vanished.
• Aidan admitted that Mettaton came from his ability, and Tewa had him sign a form to become an artist under the company.
• Hela judged Diyana's protective artifact and battle armor too dangerous to challenge, then pulled Aidan into another practice session.
• Diyana told her assistant to post a photo with Hela as if a passerby had taken it, intending to make Hela her stepping stone.

Hela and MTT gave a successful concert, earning praise and a possible movie role, while Aidan worried that he was not good enough for her. Afterward, Hela invited her companions to celebrate at a bar and hotel.

• Hela comforted a nervous Aidan backstage before joining MTT for a well-received performance.
• Aidan questioned his worth while Weier, Tuote, Fulan, and Xiao Er watched the concert; Fulan spotted Lisa glaring at Hela and planned to follow her after the show.
• Tewa congratulated Hela and offered her a supporting role in a movie with Newland Film and Television Company.
• Tewa invited Hela and her friends to celebrate at a bar and hotel, and Hela asked Aidan to notify the others.

Aidan took Hela to meet Director Liu, where Hela secured a supporting role and Aidan intervened when the director tried to touch her. Yamada asked Director Liu about acting work, and he gave her his hotel room number and told her to give it some thought.

• Hela accidentally hit Yamada with a door, and Aidan agreed to let Yamada join them so she could speak with Director Liu about an audition.
• Tewa introduced Hela to Director Liu, and Hela chose a supporting role paying two thousand yuan a day.
• Director Liu reached toward Hela's thigh, but Aidan smashed a bottle and left after seeing the director withdraw his hand.
• Hela accepted the role's paperwork and moved away from Director Liu to spare Aidan discomfort.
• Yamada showed Director Liu her performing arts diploma and asked about roles, and he gave her his hotel room number.

Hela and her companions were followed by armed motorcyclists and led to a deserted alley, where their leader revealed that someone had hired them to kill Hela. The men surrounded her and reached for her, while Hela’s companions remained in the car.

• Xiao Huan reported that it had told Tuote and the others to gather intelligence on the Godslaying Technology Company, then fell asleep beside Hela.
• Hela left her room and encountered Aidan and Yamada; Yamada said she had secured a role in a film, while Aidan appeared shaken by their exchange.
• Aidan told Hela that some things did not seem as wonderful as he had imagined, as they rode in Tuote’s car with Weier.
• Tuote spotted several motorcyclists following and surrounding the car, and Hela told him to follow them.
• The motorcyclists forced Tuote’s car into an isolated alley, where Hela stepped out and learned that someone had hired the men to kill her.

Hela killed the men sent to murder her and learned that a masked blonde celebrity had hired them, while Tuote and Aidan helped identify the woman. Back at the warehouse, Aidan discovered that the children dreamed of joining the Black Death Gang, leaving him quietly pondering their words.

• Hela tortured the surviving attacker until he described the masked woman with long, wavy golden hair, and Tuote showed him Fulan's photo.
• The attacker confirmed the photo was probably the woman who had hired them, and Hela killed him and cleaned up the scene.
• Hela recognized the woman as a celebrity Tewa had once passed over at the bar and returned to the warehouse with Tuote, Weier, and Aidan.
• The children recognized the amulet Aidan had taken as a sign of membership in the Black Death Gang.
• Beibei revealed that the children's dream was to join the gang, and Aidan fell silent at the mention of dreams.

Aidan left his friends and wandered into the woods, where Sans, Papyrus, Sister Fish, and Alphys tried to cheer him up. After Papyrus encouraged him to find happiness among his friends, Sister Fish and Alphys began offering advice about romance.

• Aidan left the city and met Sans in the woods, admitting that something was bothering him.
• Sans took Aidan to meet Papyrus, who challenged him to cross an electric maze that Aidan solved.
• Papyrus told Aidan that although he had never joined the Royal Guard, his friends made him happy, and urged Aidan to be happy too.
• Sans led Aidan onward, and he encountered Sister Fish and Alphys, who said they had come to cheer him up.
• Alphys started giving Aidan romance advice, but Sister Fish slapped her and demanded that she get to the point.

Sans brought Aidan to a pixelated home where Goat Dad and Goat Mom comforted him, helping him face his distress over his dream and regain his memories. As they went outside together, they encountered Xiaohua, who mocked Aidan.

• Alphys encouraged Aidan to be brave about love, and Sister Fish took Alphys away to cook.
• Sans led Aidan through the forest to a pixelated house where Goat Dad welcomed him and Goat Mom served him butterscotch cinnamon pie.
• Aidan cried as he ate the pie, then told Goat Mom and Goat Dad that his dream had become filthy and he did not know what to do.
• Goat Mom and Goat Dad comforted Aidan, told him he would always be their best child, and helped him recover his memories.
• Aidan walked outside with Goat Mom and Goat Dad, recognized Xiaohua, and shielded them as she turned around and mocked him.

Tuote, Hela, and Fulan searched for the missing Aidan, while the four children planned to return a Black Death Gang amulet. In an alley, a crow-masked man questioned Lisa about who killed his men and drew a scalpel when she denied knowing.

• Tuote repeatedly called Aidan, while Hela and Fulan reported that their searches had found no trace of him.
• Hela insisted Aidan had not betrayed her, drove to the filming location, and told Tuote and Fulan to keep searching.
• Fuluolan persuaded the other children to take the Black Death Gang amulet to the gang, and Weier let them leave after they claimed they were going to play with friends.
• The Black Death Gang's men beat Lisa in an alley and brought her before their crow-masked leader.
• The crow-masked man asked Lisa who had killed his men; when she denied knowing, he drew a scalpel.

Fulan found Lisa being threatened by the crow man, killed her, and fought the crow man after learning Lisa had sent assassins after his boss. He discovered the crow man's ability to transfer fatal injuries to others, wounded him, and pursued him through the alleys as the crow man fled.

• The crow man threatened Lisa with a scalpel and demanded to know who had killed his men.
• Fulan arrived, ignored Lisa's pleas for help, and killed her with sword qi, explaining that she had sent people to kill his boss.
• The crow man attacked Fulan, but Fulan wounded him repeatedly and realized he could make others die in his place.
• Fulan killed the burly men who had served as the crow man's substitutes, then pierced the crow man's abdomen when he launched a surprise attack.
• The wounded crow man threw his cane at Fulan and fled through the alleys, while Fulan chased him on sword qi.

Bird-Beak Man escaped Fulan through a hidden sewer passage, where his boss recognized blood on his scalpel as belonging to Life and became obsessed with finding her. At the filming set, Hela spoke with Yamada and video-called Diyana, whose room and bare neck gave Hela an evil plan.

• Bird-Beak Man escaped Fulan by hiding in a secret passage beneath the sewer, and Fulan gave up searching and left.
• Bird-Beak Man's boss prepared to punish him, then spotted blood on his scalpel and recognized it as Life's.
• Bird-Beak Man told his boss how he had encountered Life, and the boss rejoiced at having found her after more than ten years.
• Hela arrived at the filming set, where Yamada mistook her and Aidan for a couple and offered her a boxed meal.
• Diyana video-called Hela from her company dorm, and Hela noticed a work badge and Diyana's bare neck before forming an evil plan.

Hela infiltrated the Godslaying Technology Company with Xiao Huan’s help and entered the [Battle Armor] storage room, where she touched a powerful black-and-gold suit and triggered an alarm. Diyana and Kевire responded in their [Battle Armor] as the chapter ended with the company mobilizing against the intruder.

• Hela sent Xiao Er and Xiao Huan ahead to the Godslaying Technology Company while she kept Diyana distracted on a video call.
• Xiao Huan bewitched Diyana, took her black work ID, and used it to open the [Battle Armor] storage room for Hela.
• Hela entered the storage room, identified the black-and-gold [Battle Armor] as reaching 'Ten Thousand Stars,' and triggered the alarms by touching it.
• Diyana donned [Beloved Battle Sound] and raced toward the storage room after warning Kевire that it had been breached.
• Kевire left a gathering of nobles, smashed through a glass wall, and activated his [Battle Armor] as he fell.

Hela escaped the Battle Armor storage room by absorbing and controlling its suits, then fought Beloved Battle Sound to a standstill. To keep Armored Warrior from arriving, Hela attacked the crowded city and began cutting down buildings.

• Hela devoured the armed personnel and damaged Battle Armor, then absorbed the intact suits and discovered she could control them.
• Beloved Battle Sound attacked Hela, but Hela used the Battle Armor’s shields and weapons to escape through the building.
• Hela stopped to fight Beloved Battle Sound and held her off, though she feared Armored Warrior would destroy her if he arrived.
• Hela returned her thoughts to her main body on the film set and unleashed scarlet sword qi at crowded areas, slicing through the filming shelter and nearby buildings.

Hela rampaged through the city and fought Kೇವire in his Battle Armor, overpowering him with her shifting body and tentacles. After Kевire diverted an attack to save survivors, Hela wrapped around him and began crushing his armor.

• Hela cut down buildings and hunted civilians with her sword qi and tentacles.
• Kевire arrived in his Battle Armor and attacked Hela, but she knocked him from the sky and fought through his energy blasts and shield.
• Hela chased Kевire, transformed into a massive maw, and swallowed him inside his energy shield.
• Kевire detonated an explosion inside Hela and blasted her apart, but she quickly began reassembling.
• Kевire redirected a shot to save survivors from falling debris, giving Hela time to transform into a giant centipede and coil around him.

Hela battled the Mecha Warrior until a Starlight-realm Battle Armor arrived and Kевire donned it. Just as Kевire gained the upper hand, Xiao Er intervened, and Hela launched the armored warrior into the air as Xiao Er raised a colossal blade.

• Hela survived a missile barrage and watched the damaged Mecha Warrior face a futuristic robot protecting Kевire.
• The robot healed Kевire, then disassembled itself and formed the Starlight-realm Battle Armor around him.
• Kевire, now armored, fought Hela with missiles and laser blades, but their attacks sent both of them flying backward.
• Xiao Er arrived and pinned Kевire with blades, but his spike could not pierce the Battle Armor.
• Hela expanded the spike around Kевire, then flung him into the sky as Xiao Er raised a gigantic blade.

Kевire's mecha was drained by a chained stranger, who revealed an aura like [Sky] and fought Hela and Xiao Er. The stranger evaded their attacks and rose into the air as Xiao Er and Hela pursued him.

• Xiao Er and Hela battled the [Armored Warrior] and [Mecha Warrior], then trapped the [Armored Warrior] in a crater.
• A withered stranger grabbed the [Armored Warrior] by the throat, drained his mecha's energy, and threw him into a building.
• Hela and Xiao Er recognized the stranger's aura as resembling their own kind, like [Sky], and Hela asked who he was and what he wanted.
• The stranger spoke of [Life] and attacked Xiao Er with a sickle while black insects withered their flesh weapons.
• Xiao Er blocked the sickle and closed in as Hela attacked from behind, but the stranger escaped into the air and dodged their pursuit.

Hela fought [Autumn], whom she identified as a member of [Four Seasons], while Xiao Er and Xiao San helped her resist his attacks. As [Autumn] drained the life force around him, Hela’s prepared trap erupted beneath him, turning the battlefield into a forest of tentacles.

• [Autumn] blocked Hela and Xiao Er’s attacks with black mosquitoes, drained Xiao Er’s energy, and began forcing a symbiosis with him.
• Xiao San burst out of a manhole and attacked [Autumn], interrupting the forced symbiosis and helping Xiao Er wound him.
• [Autumn] used his mosquitoes to attack Xiao San, while Hela realized he was draining life force from the area and identified him as [Autumn] of [Four Seasons].
• Hela triggered her prepared trap, sending hundreds of thousands of tentacles up through the ground as [Autumn] tried to escape and cut them away.

Hela and Aidan turned the fight against the gravely wounded [Autumn], who escaped after Hela broke through to 'Starlight.' Hela returned to her human form and recovered an amber necklace and a star-blue bracelet from a small ball of flesh.

• Hela empowered Xiao San with the feather and merged into his body, while [Autumn] and Hela hesitated to attack each other.
• [Autumn] launched his scythe at Hela and tried to retreat, but a young man in a red scarf fired pixel stars at him, giving Hela a chance to bite off his left hand.
• Hela swallowed [Autumn]'s severed hand and broke through to 'Starlight,' while Aidan arrived and promised to help her.
• Aidan shielded Hela from [Autumn]'s black insects, but [Autumn] escaped before Hela could catch him.
• Hela returned to her petite form, checked the translucent feather, and removed an amber necklace and a star-blue bracelet from a small ball of flesh.