Recaps

Lu Guan confronted committee agents who tried to take Dania away, then brought her to the research institute for testing. The results confirmed her unusual Resonance abilities and stable condition, while Lu Guan prepared to see how the committee would respond to the evidence.

• Lu Guan blocked the committee agents, accused their leader of being a Fractsidus spy, and drove them away after warning him.
• Lu Guan said the committee's actions had broken the rules and took Dania to the research institute to provide the requested report.
• Mornye confirmed the Black Shores equipment was ready, and Lu Hes told Lu Guan that Principal Lacerta had been having trouble sleeping.
• Lu Guan gave Lu Hes cross-shaped pendants for Lacerta and others, joking that they were meant to wake people up.
• The test report identified Dania's Resonance ability as Illusory Bubble, linked her frequency to the Tacet Discord of Nihility, and found her overclocking threshold normal and highly stable.

Lu Guan delivered Dania’s safety report to Lacerta while Aalto wandered into the academy cafeteria and ordered Shockingly Delicious. Aalto opened a fermented-auks can, collapsed from its revolting smell, and woke in the infirmary asking whether the students really ate cafeteria food.

• Mornye concluded that Dania’s Rover resonance posed no danger to Lahai-Roi and gave Lu Guan a report confirming she could neutralize Aleph-1’s Void Matter magnetic storms.
• Lu Guan and Dania left Mornye after he gave her a mind-refreshing pendant, then Lu Guan showed Dania’s report to Lacerta.
• Aalto entered the academy cafeteria, ordered Shockingly Delicious, and opened the can while the students fled in alarm.
• Aalto inhaled the fermented-auks dish’s stench, collapsed, and was taken to the infirmary, where Lu Hes revived him.
• Aalto asked Lu Hes whether academy students normally ate Shockingly Delicious, and Lu Hes explained that they mostly ate nutrient gel instead.

While Lacerta and Dania entered the auditorium for the committee meeting, Lu Guan discovered that Chisa had been contaminated by Desolation after fighting a Tacet Discord in Darkhollow. He temporarily suppressed the erosion with his blood, learned Chisa had about three days, and resolved to confront the Deep Space Union’s treatment of Dania.

• Lacerta reassured Dania that Lu Guan was watching and led her into the auditorium, where the committee would discuss her situation.
• Chisa showed Lu Guan a purple-glowing dagger she had found beneath Darkhollow, and he recognized it as a vessel for Desolation and removed its influence.
• Chisa began suffering mental erosion, so Lu Guan fed her his blood, which temporarily eased her symptoms.
• Lu Guan explained Desolation and apologized for not warning others sooner, but Chisa comforted him and told him not to blame himself.
• Chisa estimated that Lu Guan’s blood could suppress the erosion for about three days, and Lu Guan grew angry at the Deep Space Union’s treatment of Dania.

The committee voted to imprison Dania or send her to a laboratory despite Lacerta’s appeal, and Lu Guan arrived after Aalto’s warnings went ignored. He killed the committee member who proposed experimenting on Dania and declared the vote invalid, then challenged the remaining members to oppose him.

• Lacerta asked the committee to reconsider Dania’s continued studies, but several members supported imprisoning or experimenting on her, while the Huanglong representative opposed and Kaiermei’er abstained.
• Aalto warned the committee that Lu Guan could destroy a Calamity Class Tacet Discord, but the sinister-looking man dismissed him and Aalto tried to leave.
• Lu Guan entered the hall and stopped the sinister-looking man from speaking by seizing his throat with a mysterious force.
• Dania clung to Lu Guan and told him the committee had discussed sending her to prison or a laboratory, then pointed out the man who proposed it.
• Lu Guan released the man, killed him with his Resonance ability, declared the vote invalid, and asked the committee who was in favor or against.

Lu Guan seized control of the Deep Space Union after killing a committee member, and Lacerta joined him in eliminating the committee members who opposed him. He revealed that Aleph-1 had been driven away and redirected the Union’s research toward Desolation, warning that Solaris could not hold out much longer.

• Lu Guan identified Uncle Liu as Huanglong’s representative and demanded that Lacerta identify committee members who opposed his orders.
• Lu Guan declared that he would take control of the Deep Space Union, and Lacerta used Disordered Memories to kill the committee members with ulterior motives concerning Dania.
• Lacerta and Lu Guan stood together as Kaiermei'er demanded to know their plans, while Aalto declared that Black Shores supported Lu Guan.
• Lu Guan told Uncle Liu that he had driven Aleph-1 away, and Dania and Lacerta offered evidence that Aleph-1 had left Solaris.
• Lu Guan presented Lady Xu’s Dagger and explained that Desolation was spreading across Solaris and could corrupt even the Lament, then warned that humanity had little time left.

After the auditorium attack, Lu Guan and his allies covered up the deaths and Huanglong took control of Lahai-Roi, provoking outrage in the New Federation and concern in Rinascita. Lu Guan replenished Chisa’s blood supply and departed for the Black Shores with Dania, while the unseen Augusta watched their ship and wondered whether Lu Guan could see her.

• Lu Guan ordered the Deep Space Union renamed the Dania Union, and Kaiermei'er fabricated a story blaming an unknown Tacet Discord for the auditorium deaths.
• Three days later, the New Federation’s investors learned that Huanglong had taken control of Lahai-Roi and erupted in anger, while Lu Yi’s colleagues praised Lu Guan’s actions at court.
• Carlotta heard the news on the radio and hurried to her grandfather’s study, suspecting that Rinascita would also be affected.
• Lu Guan confirmed Chisa’s condition, gave her more blood, and left a month’s supply at the research institute before preparing to travel with Dania.
• As Lu Guan and Dania sailed toward the Black Shores, Augusta watched from a glacial cliff and wondered whether he could see her; Lu Guan called her an electronic ghost from an academy story.

Lu Guan arrived at the Black Shores, where Dania accepted an internship and he met the Shorekeeper to discuss the Desolation and Solaris’s planetary will. The Shorekeeper had no answers about the Tuner of the Stars’ return, leaving Lu Guan waiting for further notice.

• Aalto offered Dania a tailor-made Bloom Bearer internship, and she agreed to join the Black Shores to master her abilities and help Lu Guan.
• The Shorekeeper led Lu Guan into a musical vision, where he recognized her as the Second Instance.
• The Shorekeeper told Lu Guan that Solaris’s planetary will had contacted her and asked him for information about the Desolation.
• Lu Guan gave the Shorekeeper a remnant left after he exorcised the Desolation, and she promised to share Tethys System simulation results.
• Lu Guan asked about the planetary will and the Tuner of the Stars, but the Shorekeeper said she did not know why the will had contacted her and had been told to wait for further notice about the Tuner.

Lu Guan urged Shorekeeper to work with the Deep Space Union to find a way for others to fight the Desolation, then learned about her connection to the Black Shores' founder and her fears about Tethys. He left after encouraging her not to give up, asking her to play the rest of her unfinished piece when they met again.

• Lu Guan proposed that the Black Shores and Deep Space Union cooperate to develop a way to fight the Desolation using objects it had possessed.
• Shorekeeper recalled how the Black Shores' founder had created her and taught her to value choice, and she played the unfinished piece she had hoped to share with her.
• Lu Guan realized Shorekeeper might sacrifice herself to become Tethys's core and asked whether she had truly decided to do so.
• Lu Guan told Shorekeeper not to give up hope and asked her to play the second half of the piece for him and the founder.
• Lu Guan left the Sonoro, and Shorekeeper thanked him for listening as an Echo-energy tear fell from her eye.

At Stardust Academy’s delayed opening ceremony, Principal Lacerta delivered a mournful speech about the attack while Lu Guan admitted he had altered it as a prank. Lu Guan and Lacerta discussed Dania’s future with the Black Shores and research at the academy, while Dania’s reunion with Sigelika ended with a candy prank.

• Principal Lacerta told the students that a Fractsidus attack had killed Deep Space Union Committee members and praised Dania for stopping Scar.
• Lacerta discarded a speech passage naming unfamiliar victims and improvised a statement about Stardust Academy’s ideals, while Lu Guan secretly applauded her.
• Afterward, Lu Guan admitted he had changed Lacerta’s speech to test whether she could keep a straight face, and told her Dania had joined the Black Shores.
• Lacerta told Lu Guan that Professor Mornye had shifted her focus from the artificial sun project to research on the Desolation, and Lu Guan said the Black Shores would send researchers to help.
• In the cafeteria, Sigelika reunited with Dania and offered her Rainbow Beanie popping candy from Doctor Lu; Dania ate one and shouted Sigelika’s name in anger.

Lu Guan, Dania, and Sigelika tried Lu Hes’s experimental Rainbow Bean Popping Candy, which gave each of them strange effects, while Lacerta took a packet to test on Chisa. Later, Lu Guan learned that Sora’s power was becoming harder to suppress and discovered Sigelika’s affection had risen because of his bond with Dania, who confronted him over it.

• Dania forced Sigelika to eat Rainbow Bean Popping Candy, making Sigelika hiccup whenever she spoke.
• Lu Guan ate the last candy and began speaking backward, while he and Sigelika used tablets to communicate and teased Dania about her glowing eyes.
• Lacerta asked Lu Hes for more candy so she could record Chisa’s reaction, and Lu Hes warned that the candy was still being tested.
• Lu Guan spoke with Sora in the system space, where she said the Desolation’s return was expected and the Arbiter would arrive at the appointed time.
• Dania confronted Lu Guan about Sigelika’s closeness, and Lu Guan discovered that Sigelika’s affection had risen through his bond with Dania.
• Dania decided to keep Lu Guan from pursuing other women, and her love points increased.

Lu Guan comforted Dania after her jealousy over Sigelika revealed her fear that his family would reject her because her Void Matter body could not bear children. Dania felt reassured and enclosed them in Void Matter Bubbles, unaware that Augusta was secretly watching.

• Dania grew jealous when Sigelika offered to massage Lu Guan's back, and she told Sigelika that Lu Guan was her boyfriend.
• After Sigelika left, Dania admitted she feared Lu Guan's family would reject her because she could not have children.
• Lu Guan reassured Dania that his father cared about the family business and that she need not worry about his family.
• Dania kissed Lu Guan and formed Void Matter Bubbles around them, then suggested they show each other their love.
• Augusta secretly watched the couple through the Void Matter barrier and wondered whether Lu Guan was related to her old Feng.

Lu Yi traveled from Huanglong to Lahai-Roi, troubled by clan opposition to Lu Guan and an old marriage contract that could be used against him. After inspecting the academy and reuniting with his son, Lu Yi asked Lu Guan to talk, leaving their family conversation to come.

• Lu Yi told Yu Lan that clan elders opposed Lu Guan bringing a Threnodian resonator home and that another family wanted to revive an old engagement to gain influence over him.
• Lu Guan learned through Lacerta that Lu Yi had arrived in Lahai-Roi and told Dania to be herself when meeting his father.
• Lu Yi questioned Lu Guan's presence during his academy inspection, then let him serve as a guide after Lacerta vouched for him.
• Lu Yi examined the icefield region, commented on its resources and Tacet Discord threat, and criticized the academy cafeteria's nutritional gel while noting its potential.
• After the inspection, Lu Yi sought out Lu Guan and asked to talk, then reflexively covered his son's mouth before Lu Guan suggested they sit down.

Lu Guan introduced Dania to his parents, who welcomed her warmly despite learning that she could not have children. Their meeting also revealed that the Lu Family’s elders had revived Lu Guan’s childhood marriage arrangement, and Lu Guan decided to return to the Ming Court and confront them.

• Dania nervously greeted Lu Guan’s parents as Mom and Dad, and Yu Lan reassured her that she could think of them as family.
• Lu Guan explained Dania’s traumatic childhood with the Fractsidus, and Yu Lan grew more protective and fond of her.
• Dania told Lu Yi and Yu Lan that, as a Threnodian Resonator, she could not have children; Lu Yi said it would not prevent her from marrying Lu Guan.
• Lu Yi explained that the Lu Family had revived Lu Guan’s childhood marriage arrangement with a young lady from the Wang Family and suggested Lu Guan start a separate family register.
• Lu Guan decided to return to the Ming Court in a few days and asked his father for a list of the people involved.

Lu Guan broke into the Wang Family compound, killed its steward, and ordered hired guards to bring the family members to him. He then confronted Fractsidus operative Balanophora, who attacked him, and countered her swordsmanship with an interrupting sword technique.

• Lu Guan smashed through the Wang Family gate and entered the compound, where he killed the purple-robed steward.
• Lu Guan spared the hired guards and ordered their captain to bring every Wang Family member from the rear courtyard.
• Balanophora emerged from the shadows and attacked Lu Guan with a vine serpent and sword strikes.
• Lu Guan challenged Balanophora to a swordsmanship contest and deflected her attack with Traceless Sword Intent.
• Balanophora questioned whether Lu Guan's technique counted as swordsmanship, and he insisted it was genuine sword intent.

Lu Guan defeated the Fractsidus agent “Balanophora” and massacred the Wang Family after learning they had colluded with the Fractsidus. The Magistrate’s men gave him a Pacification Bureau Token and let him leave for Lahai-Roi before his morning class.

• “Balanophora” attacked Lu Guan with giant vine snakes, but he used Judgement Cut End to cut her and her summons apart while she escaped in a shattered shell.
• Lu Guan went to the Wang Family’s rear courtyard, killed its members as they tried to flee, and slaughtered all ninety-six people in the estate.
• Chiliarch Zhao arrived with the Pacification Bureau and agreed to let Lu Guan go after he claimed the Wang Family had colluded with the Fractsidus.
• A chiliarch delivered the Magistrate’s Pacification Bureau Token to Lu Guan and told Chiliarch Zhao to treat the massacre as Lu Guan rooting out traitors.
• Lu Guan accepted the token, promised to remember the Magistrate’s goodwill, and set off for Stardust Academy in Lahai-Roi to make his eight o’clock class.

Lu Guan accompanied Sigelika outside Stardust Academy after Dania stayed behind, while Sigelika’s growing affection and Dania’s jealousy left him trapped in a vicious cycle. He considered ways to break it but rejected each option, including involving Jiaxin.

• Sigelika apologized to Dania, and the two reaffirmed that they would remain best friends.
• Lu Guan made a dramatic landing, then joined Dania and Sigelika before class.
• After lunch, Dania declined a walk and went to find Nastassja in the library while Sigelika invited Lu Guan to collect a new rune rubbing outside the academy.
• Sigelika learned that Dania had known Lu Guan for less than a year, then invited him to the Etching Plain near the Gullet of the Hidden Maw.
• Lu Guan agreed to accompany Sigelika and considered how her rising affection, Dania’s jealousy, and their bond created a vicious cycle.
• Lu Guan rejected winning Sigelika over, driving a wedge between the girls, or involving Jiaxin as ways to escape the cycle.

Lu Guan completed Sigelika’s affection breakthrough by touching her Tacet Mark, and her affection quickly reached its cap. After she admitted she had invented a rune search as an excuse to spend time alone with him, the system’s hidden mastermind revealed that it only encouraged Lu Guan to act and that time was running out.

• Lu Guan asked to touch Sigelika’s Tacet Mark, and she agreed on the condition that he give her a reward afterward.
• Sigelika hugged Lu Guan and guided his hand to her Tacet Mark; after he touched it for over ten minutes, the system raised her affection cap and increased her affection.
• Dania woke from a nap with an itchy head, unaware that Sigelika was getting closer to Lu Guan.
• Sigelika asked Lu Guan to keep their encounter secret, pushing her affection to its cap; Lu Guan accepted her breakthrough quest, which immediately completed.
• Lu Guan asked Sigelika about the runes, and she confessed there were none and that she had wanted to be alone with him.
• The system’s hidden mastermind explained that it had only given Lu Guan a reason to pursue girls and urged him to move faster because time was running out.

Lu Guan cut Dania off from Void Matter space and turned the tables on her, leaving her too exhausted to attend the next day. He then worried that driving Aleph-1 away had broken the timeline that required Augusta to save Lahai-Roi, and examined Augusta’s Oath rewards for a solution.

• Lu Guan severed Dania’s connection to Void Matter space and gained control after she had accused him of smelling like Sigelika.
• Dania took the following day off, and Lu Guan told Sigelika she had stayed up preparing for a Black Shores entrance test.
• Lu Guan reviewed Lahai-Roi’s history, including the Tunneler’s battle with Aleph-1 and Augusta’s journey through time to seal it.
• Lu Guan realized that Aleph-1’s absence might prevent Augusta from completing the closed loop that saved Lahai-Roi.
• Lu Guan opened the system interface and saw Augusta’s Oath rewards, including two supremely useful kidneys, Tunneler’s Blessing, and Augusta’s Resonance ability.

Lu Guan encouraged Sigelika to balance training with rest as they headed to the training ground together, while Augusta saw them and misjudged his intentions. Dania woke in Lu Guan’s dorm, found his caring note and cake, and decided to take a few days off.

• Lu Guan noticed Augusta’s affection had fallen and wondered whether she had seen him with Dania, then agreed to accompany Sigelika to train after encouraging her to relax more.
• Sigelika described her admiration for birds’ courage and freedom, and Lu Guan used her interest to explain that rest was important for growth.
• Augusta watched Lu Guan and Sigelika leave together and concluded that he was flirting with his girlfriend’s best friend, causing her affection for him to drop.
• Dania woke, read Lu Guan’s note arranging time off and leaving her cake, and decided to rest for a few days.
• Dania planned to find Nastassja at the library and nap, while deciding not to seek out Sigelika and wondering whether Sigelika might take Lu Guan while she was away.

Lu Guan helped Sigelika relax during training, and she discovered she could fight far more effectively when she trusted him to support her. They went birdwatching at the library, where Sigelika tried to avoid Dania and watched Lu Guan effortlessly befriend a bird she could not photograph.

• Sigelika defeated the arena’s Tacet Discords, and Lu Guan encouraged her to focus on the fight rather than her results.
• With Lu Guan standing beside her, Sigelika fought more confidently and destroyed an Elite Class Tacet Discord with a punch.
• Sigelika told Lu Guan that his presence had eased her nerves and invited him to go birdwatching at the library.
• Dania felt unsettled and lost her appetite after remembering the previous night, then left the library with Nastassja.
• Sigelika worried Dania might see her at the library rooftop, but Lu Guan easily coaxed a Yingying Parrot onto his hand while Sigelika failed to photograph anything but its rear.

Lu Guan helped Sigelika approach a Chirpuff and photographed her with it, strengthening their closeness. Sigelika asked to take a picture with Lu Guan too, while Dania and Nastassja returned toward the academy amid Dania’s growing unease.

• Lu Guan explained that Chirpuffs reacted to a person’s state of mind, then helped Sigelika try to hold one.
• The Chirpuff flew away when Sigelika grew nervous, but Lu Guan captured a photo of her holding it before it left.
• Sigelika admired the photo and planned to put it in her birdwatching album and frame a copy for her dorm room.
• Sigelika asked Lu Guan to take a picture with her, and she kissed his cheek in thanks when he agreed and called over another Chirpuff.
• Dania sneezed while riding Nastassja’s research motorcycle and said her uneasy feeling had worsened, so she asked to head back for the day.

Lu Guan's secret kiss with Sigelika was exposed to Dania, but he stopped their confrontation by declaring that they were both his wings. In a café, Sigelika admitted her feelings and kissed Lu Guan on the lips, prompting Dania to challenge her as the rivalry continued.

• Sigelika kissed Lu Guan and ran into Dania, who confronted her after seeing an intimate photo Augusta sent to her terminal.
• Lu Guan embraced Dania and Sigelika, calming Dania's anger before they went to a café to talk.
• Sigelika confessed she had liked Lu Guan since the previous semester and said she intended to pursue him despite his relationship with Dania.
• Dania asked whether Sigelika had kissed Lu Guan, and Sigelika kissed him to answer that she had now done so.
• Dania took off her coat and announced she would show Sigelika what couples did, while Lu Guan protested that Sigelika was still there.

Sigelika joined Dania in competing for Lu Guan’s time, leaving him to navigate their agreement and his uncertain place in the family. After asking Lacerta about a possible Academy Dark Side influence, Lu Guan learned from Dania that Sigelika was simply competitive, then reassured Dania of his love before failing to negotiate fewer daily tasks.

• Sigelika agreed with Dania that Lu Guan would spend the next day with her and asked him to go birdwatching.
• After Sigelika left, Lu Guan and Dania resumed their private activities, and Dania’s affection value increased.
• Lu Guan messaged Lacerta to ask whether the Academy Dark Side had been active and whether it might have influenced Sigelika.
• Dania told Lu Guan that Sigelika was competitive and had acted normally, prompting him to admit he did not know her well yet.
• Lu Guan told Dania he loved her and promised to love her forever, then asked to reduce their daily tasks; Dania refused.

Lu Guan learned that Sigelika’s feelings were rooted in longing and received Shorekeeper’s findings about the Desolation, its connection to Fortune, and Jué’s unexplained inactivity. He headed to meet Sigelika while Augusta followed him, unaware that Shorekeeper’s blue butterfly was watching her.

• Lu Guan learned from "Sora" that Sigelika’s full affection revealed Longing, while Dania’s panel had long been replaced by a chained heart.
• "Sora" warned Lu Guan that Jué had been infected by the Desolation and seemed to be building strength rather than awakening.
• Shorekeeper told Lu Guan that an inhibitor suppressed Desolation erosion by 80% in limited trials and summarized her research linking the Desolation to Fortune.
• Shorekeeper confirmed that Jué had not awakened, though Threnodian activity was intense in Rinascita, the New Federation, and Ashihara.
• Lu Guan went to meet Sigelika, while Augusta followed him to protect her classmates and noticed Shorekeeper’s blue butterfly.

Sigelika asked Lu Guan on a date, and they spent the day together watching a tragic romance before returning to her dorm. She hinted that the nutritional-gel pearls in her milk tea held something more, leaving Lu Guan flustered.

• Sigelika asked Lu Guan to spend the day with her, and he agreed before kissing her.
• Augusta secretly watched Lu Guan and Sigelika flirt, while the Shorekeeper observed through a blue butterfly and crushed a black flower.
• Lu Guan and Sigelika watched A Hundred Years of Letters and discussed the lovers’ tragic separation.
• Sigelika invited Lu Guan to her dorm, where she served milk tea with pearls made from nutritional gel and starch.
• Sigelika whispered that the pearls contained more than nutritional gel, unlocking her special CG.