Recaps

Xingsu arranged to reunite with Arlecchino in three days and told her he wanted to visit Sumeru. After treating Lumine and Paimon to dinner at Wanmin Restaurant, he found himself sharing a table with Zhongli, who ended the meal by asking whether they had any Mora.

• Xingsu told Arlecchino he wanted to go to Sumeru to thank Nahida and the people who had helped him, and she agreed to meet him in international waters in three days.
• Clervie teased Arlecchino about missing Xingsu, while Lumine and Paimon teased Xingsu about his affectionate call before asking for their promised Mora.
• Xingsu offered to treat Lumine and Paimon to dinner, but they arrived at Wanmin Restaurant to find Zhongli hosting them instead.
• Xingsu felt nervous sitting beside Zhongli and worried the former Geo Archon might blame him for the Fatui's actions.
• After dinner, Zhongli asked Lumine and Paimon whether they had brought any Mora.

Zhongli brought Xingsu to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and revealed that he knew Xingsu carried memories of Teyvat. He asked Xingsu to preserve the lives and events history might forget, and Xingsu accepted a contract to do so.

• Xingsu paid the meal bill, then tried to leave before Zhongli pressured him into coming to Wangsheng Funeral Parlor.
• Hu Tao met Zhongli and Xingsu at the entrance, pitched funeral services to Xingsu, and hurried off to find Qiqi.
• Zhongli asked Xingsu how history could be preserved, then revealed that he knew Xingsu possessed memories of Teyvat.
• Zhongli asked Xingsu to remember the lives and experiences that would not appear in official histories, offering him an ancient stone token as part of a contract.
• Xingsu accepted the token and contract, then wondered whether Zhongli had used the meeting to avoid paying for the meal.

Xingsu toured Liyue Harbor with Hu Tao, bought souvenirs for the children at the House of the Hearth, and later ran into Tartaglia while both were burdened with shopping. Their conversation ended with Xingsu warning Tartaglia that Zhongli could defeat him repeatedly, even at full power.

• Xingsu met Hu Tao outside the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor and heard about her repeated attempts to bury Qiqi, which Baizhu kept thwarting.
• Hu Tao showed Xingsu around Liyue Harbor, where he chose perfume paste for his beloved and bought toys and souvenirs for the children.
• At the House of the Hearth, Freminet took second place in a Luban lock contest after Lynette disassembled the lock with ease, and Xingsu used the event to prepare Freminet's birthday gift.
• After Hu Tao's shopping tour left Xingsu overloaded with bags, Teucer and Tartaglia arrived carrying a similar haul of their own.
• Tartaglia asked whether Zhongli could give him a good fight, and Xingsu said Zhongli could kill him nine times per minute—or twenty-seven times if Tartaglia used his Delusion and Foul Legacy.

Xingsu joined the Moonchase Festival festivities and attended the Liyue Master Chef Competition, where Xiangling won by one vote. Her ancient cornbread buns awakened the Stove God’s statue and revealed Guoba’s past as Marchosius, and the group ended the night sharing a meal beneath the full moon.

• Xingsu and Tartaglia competed to carry gifts, and Xingsu won before Ningguang received a report about their antics.
• Xingsu went to Yujing Terrace, judged the final cooking round, and voted for Xiangling, who won the competition by one vote.
• Xiangling prepared spicy meat cornbread buns from Keqing’s grandfather’s manuscript, causing the ancient statue to open and reveal Guoba.
• Madame Ping explained that Guoba was Marchosius, the Stove God who had sacrificed his power to protect Liyue and lost his memories.
• Xiangling invited Madame Ping and the others to Wanmin Restaurant, where Zhongli greeted Guoba as an old friend.
• Zhongli asked Xingsu what Moonchase meant, and Xingsu described it as enduring longing for old friends and loved ones.

Dottore rebuked Scott while discussing Sumeru’s scholars and the Akasha with Azar, then left Scott to keep watch. In Liyue, Xingsu met Rosalyne with a coffin full of souvenirs, and they sailed together with the Ninth Company toward Snezhnaya, where Rosalyne began asking about his relationship with Arlecchino and herself.

• Dottore and Azar argued over Sumeru’s reliance on his methods and the Akasha, while Scott flattered Dottore and was warned to do his job carefully.
• Dottore left Scott behind to keep watch over the nearly completed creation.
• Tartaglia and Rosalyne argued at Northland Bank until Xingsu arrived dragging a coffin full of Liyue goods, then clarified that the child from The Chasm had survived.
• Rosalyne ordered her subordinates to take Xingsu’s belongings aboard her ship, and Xingsu invited Nikolay and Katarina to return with him to the House of the Hearth.
• Rosalyne and Xingsu discussed Arlecchino’s past, their six-year relationship, and Rosalyne’s help in bringing Arlecchino to Snezhnaya.
• Rosalyne asked Xingsu what he thought of her.

Rosalyne spoke with Xingsu about his relationship with Arlecchino and invited him to visit Snezhnaya before reuniting with Arlecchino at sea. Arlecchino discussed Odette and her strained relationship with Rosalyne, while Xingsu joined them and agreed to attend Sandrone's tea party after the Electro Archon's Gnosis was secured.

• Rosalyne told Xingsu that the Tsaritsa wanted to meet him and asked when he and Arlecchino planned to marry.
• Xingsu explained that Arlecchino intended to marry him after finishing something, and Rosalyne urged him to trust and care for her.
• Rosalyne and Arlecchino exchanged gifts and discussed Odette's training, her friendship with Vodyanitsa, and Rosalyne's troubled relationship with her.
• Xingsu embraced Arlecchino from behind, and Rosalyne left them to their reunion.
• Arlecchino confirmed that Xingsu had received Sandrone's letter, and Xingsu proposed attending Sandrone's tea party together after they obtained the Electro Archon's Gnosis.

After Rosalyne’s death, the Harbingers gathered at Sandrone’s tea party and learned that Xingsu had confronted their leaders at the Tsaritsa’s meeting. Xingsu returned to find Sandrone and Columbina wrestling, then mistook their scuffle for a private moment and shut the door.

• Sandrone asked Arlecchino what Rosalyne had said before leaving, and Arlecchino recalled that Rosalyne planned to return for tea after collecting the Electro Gnosis.
• Arlecchino explained that Xingsu had been kept behind by the Tsaritsa, who had asked him to rein in restless people at the next morning’s meeting.
• Xingsu publicly accused Dottore, Pulcinella, and Pantalone of abusing their authority, while the Harbingers stayed silent and wondered whether the Tsaritsa had approved his actions.
• Sandrone and Columbina discussed Xingsu’s entertaining reprimand, then Sandrone shoved Columbina down and wrestled with her after Columbina fiddled with her puppet’s winding key.
• Xingsu entered, saw Sandrone straddling Columbina, and quickly shut the door, prompting Sandrone to yell after him.

Xingsu showed Sandrone, Arlecchino, and Columbina a memory stored in a Transcription Prism, then revealed that he had caught the Crimson Lotus Moth Sandrone had spared. He said he could not revive Rosalyne but had an idea that required a trip to Sumeru, where he needed to go anyway.

• Xingsu reshaped the Transcription Prism into a sheet and let Arlecchino and Columbina sense the memory sealed inside.
• Sandrone touched the prism and saw a memory of herself straddling Columbina and shaking her, then screamed as Xingsu slipped out of the room.
• Arlecchino fed Sandrone hard Five-nut Wangxiao cakes while Xingsu returned and shared a flower with Arlecchino.
• Xingsu showed Sandrone the Crimson Lotus Moth he had caught, and Sandrone denied that it reminded her of Rosalyne.
• Arlecchino said Sandrone missed Rosalyne, and Xingsu explained that he could not bring her back to life but had an idea that meant he would go to Sumeru.

Xingsu and Arlecchino secretly made and enjoyed soup dumplings together during late nights at the House of the Hearth. Their playful experiments nearly got them caught by Clervie, and one particularly excessive night left Xingsu asleep until the following afternoon.

• Xingsu kneaded the dough while Arlecchino steamed the soup dumplings, following their familiar division of labor.
• Xingsu and Arlecchino slowly tasted the dumplings and sometimes tried playful ways of feeding each other.
• Xingsu and Arlecchino once slipped into the House of the Hearth's kitchen, where Clervie nearly discovered them making a midnight snack.
• Lyney received extra training the next day because he had suggested preparing a late-night snack for the children.
• Xingsu added his secret sauce to the remaining dumplings, and after one especially excessive experiment, he slept until the following afternoon.
• Xingsu and Arlecchino thereafter restrained their experiments and rarely added so much sauce.

After Rosalyne’s death, the narrator traveled with Pepe to Snezhnaya, where she learned more about the Fatui and the Tsaritsa and resolved to keep Pepe from meeting the same fate. The Tsaritsa hired her to safeguard memories and research the Transcription Prism, and the chapter ended with her questioning whether her diary could be trusted.

• Rosalyne’s death left the narrator reflecting on mortality, and Peruere poured her grief out on the narrator for three days.
• A Ragdoll cat invited the narrator to a tea party in Snezhnaya, where she became curious about the Tsaritsa’s cause and power and vowed to protect Pepe.
• The narrator endured Snezhnaya’s bitter cold and observed its people’s unusual toughness and drinking habits.
• At the Krolvetzki Theater, the narrator watched Odette perform and shared a tender moment with Pepe during The Mountain and the Sparrow.
• The Tsaritsa hired the narrator to safeguard her memories and research the Transcription Prism, which the narrator shaped into a device for storing memories.
• The narrator used the Transcription Prism to preserve a memory and then wondered whether Teyvat could also have tampered with her diary.

Xingsu recounted how a young man’s wine left him unconscious and caused him to spend the night with Arlecchino, then acted out his drunken rambling for the others. He ended by insisting they needed to fight Dottore and handing Arlecchino his secret stash as military funding.

• Xingsu told the tea-party guests that a young man in the Ash District had tricked him into drinking wine that knocked him out.
• Xingsu explained that he had woken beside Arlecchino after unknowingly spending the night making soup dumplings with her, and had discovered that he had given away his hidden money and packed luggage.
• At Columbina’s request, Xingsu reenacted his drunken behavior, calling Arlecchino his wife and crying over her.
• Xingsu accused Dottore of conducting a god-making experiment and proposed a plan to attack him in Sumeru with Arlecchino and the forest rangers.
• Xingsu mourned Collei’s Eleazar and begged Arlecchino to help his little brother, then opened a hidden box of Mora and offered it as military funding.

Xingsu and Arlecchino visited Odette to explain Rosalyne’s final gift and discuss Odette’s complicated feelings toward her. Xingsu left Odette to decide whether to use the Fire of Two Worlds to erase her memories of the Fatui, and urged her to make her choice at Rosalyne’s grave.

• Sandrone, Xingsu, Arlecchino, and Columbina discussed the previous night before Xingsu and Arlecchino went to see Odette.
• Vodyanitsa tried to feed Odette pastries, and Xingsu first walked in on them in an awkward embrace before returning with Arlecchino.
• Arlecchino explained that Rosalyne had left Odette the Fire of Two Worlds, which could burn away her memories of the Fatui and let her dance freely.
• Xingsu asked Odette about her family, her hardships, and her resentment toward Rosalyne, then described Rosalyne as clumsy in expressing her affection.
• Xingsu told Odette that the choice was hers and that she should make it at Rosalyne’s grave; afterward, he left with Arlecchino.

Tighnari returned to Sumeru City after receiving an unusual number of letters from his teacher, Nafis, and grew concerned that something was wrong at the Akademiya. Cyno agreed to investigate the sages, while Alhaitham later revealed that Azar’s unusual silence in meetings worried him too.

• Cyno defeated Kaveh in Genius Invokation TCG, and Tighnari arrived at Puspa Café after enduring Cyno’s puns.
• Tighnari explained that Nafis had asked him to help with newly admitted desert students, who received extra academic credits and free lodging.
• Tighnari told Cyno and Kaveh that Nafis had sent him an unusual number of letters and that Sumeru City felt strange; Cyno agreed to investigate the sages.
• Tighnari suggested Kaveh ask Alhaitham about events at the Akademiya, but Alhaitham said he could not share meeting details and described Azar’s long speeches.
• Alhaitham told Kaveh that Azar had recently become unusually quiet in meetings, which he considered a serious problem.

After waking in Gandharva Ville, Lumine learned that Spirit Borneol incense had made her collapse, though she believed her vision of a great tree was real. While recovering, she spoke with Collei about Xingsu, and Paimon’s mention of his joining the Fatui triggered Collei’s illness, leaving Lumine rushing her back to the village.

• Collei and Tighnari explained that Lumine had fainted after reacting badly to Spirit Borneol incense, and Tighnari advised her to recover under observation.
• Lumine told Paimon that her vision of an enormous tree and the words “The world... forget me...” had not been a hallucination, and decided to investigate while staying for treatment.
• Collei told Lumine and Paimon about her friendship with Amber and how Xingsu had helped treat her Eleazar and research her illness.
• Collei revealed that the Akademiya had expelled Xingsu for violating its regulations, and Paimon accidentally disclosed that he had joined the Fatui.
• Collei’s illness flared up, and Lumine caught her and hurried her back to Gandharva Ville.

Tighnari explained how Xingsu had once cared for Collei and developed a theory that suppressed her Eleazar, before the Akademiya expelled him and he joined the Fatui. Collei dreamed that Xingsu had become a cold, masked experimenter, then woke to find him beside her.

• Tighnari told Lumine and Paimon that Collei’s Eleazar had flared up after Paimon revealed Xingsu had joined the Fatui.
• Tighnari explained that Collei’s mother had entrusted her to the Fatui, where The Doctor suppressed her illness through painful treatment.
• Tighnari said Xingsu had developed the Eleazar Memory Theory, cared for Collei, and was later expelled from the Akademiya for researching the Wisdom Network.
• Xingsu comforted the sleeping Collei and told her to rely on Tighnari and the forest rangers after he left.
• Collei dreamed that Xingsu was wearing a mask and preparing to experiment on her, then woke from the nightmare to his gentle voice beside her.

Xingsu visited the recovering Collei, who asked him to leave after he admitted he had joined the Fatui. He later told Lumine, Paimon, and Tighnari that Dottore and Grand Sage Azar were close to completing a plan to create a god, and offered to take them to Sumeru City; before they left, he reunited with Tighnari and served him unusual coffee.

• Collei asked Xingsu whether he had joined the Fatui, and he apologized; she then asked him to leave so she could be alone.
• The next morning, Xingsu told Lumine, Paimon, and Tighnari that Collei was recovering and explained that he had returned to ease her Eleazar symptoms.
• Xingsu revealed that Dottore had made a deal with Grand Sage Azar to create a god and said the plan was nearly complete.
• Xingsu explained that Lesser Lord Kusanali was too gentle to stop the people trying to control her, and offered to take Lumine and Paimon to Sumeru City.
• After Lumine and Paimon left to say goodbye to Collei, Tighnari welcomed Xingsu back, and Xingsu gave him coffee made with blue-staining bolete.

Xingsu introduced Lumine and Paimon to Dunyarzad and invited them to join his support club for Lesser Lord Kusanali. Dunyarzad explained that they were organizing the Sabzeruz Festival themselves, and the group prepared to visit the Grand Bazaar to check on Nilou’s preparations.

• At Lambad’s Tavern, Xingsu recognized Dunyarzad and introduced her to Lumine and Paimon, while Dehya joined them to protect Dunyarzad.
• Xingsu described Dunyarzad as president of the “Become Light to Protect the Cutest Lesser Lord Kusanali Support Club” and made Lumine and Paimon join by declaring their support for Lesser Lord Kusanali.
• Paimon learned that Dehya had joined the club to accompany Dunyarzad and that Nilou was another member organizing the Sabzeruz Festival at the Grand Bazaar.
• Dunyarzad explained that she and Xingsu were funding a Sabzeruz Festival celebration because the Akademiya had ignored the upcoming festival.
• Xingsu invited Lumine and Paimon to accompany the group to the Grand Bazaar to meet Nilou and see how the preparations were going.

Lyney, Lynette, and Freminet prepared to search for clues about Lesser Lord Kusanali at the upcoming Sabzeruz Festival, while Xingsu arranged festival roles for them. Xingsu, Lumine, and Paimon visited Nilou at the renovated Zubayr Theater, where they planned to attend the celebration and look for leads.

• Lyney and Lynette discussed how to blend in as desert students at the Akademiya, while Freminet quietly studied nearby.
• Lyney outlined their plan to search for clues about Lesser Lord Kusanali during the Sabzeruz Festival and assigned their festival disguises: Lynette as a Grand Bazaar volunteer, Freminet as a handicraft seller, and himself as Knight of Flowers Farris.
• Xingsu brought Lumine and Paimon to the Grand Bazaar, where they met Nilou and learned that the Sabzeruz Festival preparations were going smoothly.
• Nilou showed the group the renovated Zubayr Theater and explained that Xingsu and Dunyarzad had funded its repairs and the festival.
• Xingsu went to find Mr. Zubayr to settle the final festival details, while Lumine and Paimon promised Nilou they would attend and look for clues about Lesser Lord Kusanali.

Lumine, Paimon, Xingsu, and Dunyarzad explored the Sabzeruz Festival, sampling its customs, stalls, and games. Xingsu noticed something unusual but said nothing, and the group headed toward a crowd gathered farther up the street.

• Lumine and Paimon met Xingsu and Dunyarzad and set off to enjoy the festival together.
• Dunyarzad explained the Seven Sages' Table custom at a stall selling traditional vegetarian offerings.
• Paimon got her hand caught in a crocodile toy, and Xingsu explained how it worked and bought one for her.
• Xingsu silently asked the boy selling the toy whether he had noticed anything unusual, and the boy indicated that he had not.
• The group tried an alchemical fortune-telling game, where the vendor interpreted their result as a warning about illusion and lies.
• Paimon noticed a large crowd ahead, and the group went to investigate.

Xingsu, Lumine, and Paimon confronted Scott after he tried to bully a shawarma stall owner into refunding him. After Lynette secretly helped turn the tables on him, Scott collapsed with a stomach ailment and was left in humiliating despair.

• Scott demanded a refund from the shawarma stall owner and threatened to block his business when the owner refused.
• Xingsu recognized Scott as someone from the House of the Hearth, and Lumine challenged Scott for making unreasonable demands.
• A festival volunteer disguised as Lynette offered Scott coffee, and he drank it before threatening to have the Sabzeruz Festival shut down.
• Xingsu agreed to discuss compensation, but Scott's stomach began churning before he could finish making his demands.
• Lynette gave Xingsu a playful wink as Scott froze and pleaded with everyone not to touch him.
• Scott lost his strength and lay on the ground, imagining Crucabena and The Doctor as a tear rolled down his cheek.

Xingsu and the others enjoyed the Sabzeruz Festival before Akademiya officials stopped Nilou’s planned dance. Xingsu agreed to suspend the festival, leaving the celebration—and Nilou’s performance—cancelled for now.

• Lyney performed as Knight of Flowers Farris, entertaining the children with magic and handing out candy.
• Paimon and Lumine sampled Lyney’s candy, and Xingsu chose the Sunsettia flavor after asking which jar contained it.
• Xingsu asked Lyney about the information he had gathered, and Lyney said he had found nothing valuable.
• At the Grand Bazaar, Azar confronted Nilou and threatened to prosecute the Sabzeruz Festival organizers for holding an unauthorized ceremony.
• Xingsu challenged Azar, but Nilou and the others signaled him to stop, so he agreed to suspend the festival.
• After Azar left, Xingsu apologized to Dunyarzad, who said she had already been happy that day.

On the Sabzeruz Festival, Xingsu reunited with Lumine, Paimon, and Dunyarzad before leaving to handle festival matters. As Lumine explored the stalls with the others, familiar events and odd details made her suspect that something was wrong.

• Xingsu told Dunyarzad he was glad to have helped her look forward to the festival, then asked Lumine how things had been going before leaving to attend to festival matters.
• Dunyarzad explained the Seven Sages' Table custom to Lumine and Paimon, and Lumine wondered why Philanemo Mushrooms from Mondstadt were part of it.
• Paimon triggered Freminet's toy crocodile mechanism, and Freminet tearfully apologized before Paimon reassured him.
• Paimon tried an alchemical fortune-telling stall, where the vendor used her flatbread to produce supposed results and consulted a book to explain them.
• Lumine continued to feel déjà vu and wondered what was wrong as the group explored the festival.

During the Sabzeruz Festival, Xingsu intervened when Scott harassed Lumine and Paimon, then revealed that they were trapped in a repeating dream. He left them to continue showing Dunyarzad around while he investigated the dream and the Akademiya’s and Dottore’s involvement.

• Scott mocked Paimon and provoked Lumine until Xingsu arrived and used his abilities to make Scott behave like a wolf.
• Xingsu bought shawarmas and a bone, then explained that he had amplified Scott’s twisted memories and could control him in the dream.
• Lumine recognized that the shawarma tasted familiar because they had lived through the day before, and Xingsu confirmed that they were repeating the Sabzeruz Festival in a dream.
• Xingsu explained that he retained his memories across loops and could create projections, but warned that forcibly waking them might damage their brains.
• Xingsu said the Akademiya and Dottore were involved and told Lumine and Paimon to keep showing Dunyarzad around while he tested his ideas.
• Xingsu made Scott fetch a bone and left with him, while Dunyarzad quietly repeated that the Sabzeruz Festival was endless.

Lumine and Paimon searched the Sabzeruz Festival dream for a way out, then tried Lyney’s Yalda Candies and discovered one flavor was so sour it made people faint. After Dunyarzad recovered, Lumine and Paimon wondered how many times they had lived through the festival and chose to trust Xingsu.

• Lumine decided to stay with Dunyarzad and search the festival dream for flaws or a way out.
• Lyney offered Yalda Candies, and Lumine instinctively chose box four for Paimon.
• Paimon tasted the candy, fainted from its extreme sourness, and recovered after Lumine made her spit it out.
• Dunyarzad swallowed a candy and fainted, while Lumine fainted after licking one; Lyney checked that both were breathing and promised to destroy the batch.
• After Dunyarzad recovered, Lumine and Paimon regretted missing Nilou’s Dance of Sabzeruz and decided to trust Xingsu despite fearing they would forget the day.

Xingsu uncovered how the Akasha harvested people’s dreams to power the god-creation project, but he could not free the sleepers without risking permanent harm. As Dunyarzad’s health deteriorated through the loops, Xingsu prepared to confront the Akademiya before Nahida appeared.

• Xingsu discovered that Sumeru’s people’s memories and dreams were being used as computing power and energy for the god-creation project.
• Xingsu escaped the dream and found the Traveler and Dunyarzad asleep, but he returned to the loop rather than risk damaging their minds by removing their Akasha Terminals.
• Xingsu tried exposing the truth and erasing Scott within the dream, but the loops reset and neither effort changed the system.
• Xingsu saw the dream world deteriorating and learned that Dunyarzad suspected she had experienced the festival before, while her eleazar and the repeated memory drain left her increasingly frail.
• After another loop ended, Xingsu decided to go to the Akademiya and considered confronting Dottore, but Nahida appeared before he could stab himself.