Chapter Summaries

Kexi received a system quest to obtain one of Cantarella’s personal belongings in exchange for awakening resonance abilities. After Carlotta gave him an admission notice to Star Torch Academy, he sneaked into Cantarella’s bedroom, took a stocking, and was caught by Cantarella.

• The system assigned Kexi the quest to obtain Cantarella’s personal belongings and promised to awaken his resonance abilities as a reward.
• Carlotta visited Kexi and gave him an admission notice to Star Torch Academy, explaining that Grandfather had decided he would attend.
• Kexi considered running away but decided that awakening his abilities would help him face school or escape.
• Kexi tricked Saibas and sneaked into Cantarella’s bedroom to search for a personal belonging.
• Kexi took one of Cantarella’s stockings, completed the quest, and was caught when Cantarella entered the room.

Kexi tried to explain why he was holding Cantarella’s stocking, but his excuses and a system quest led him to deliver an intense declaration of devotion instead. After Butler Saibas caught them in a compromising position, Cantarella knocked Kexi unconscious and called Carlotta to come to Porto-Vino Castle.

• Cantarella caught Kexi holding her stocking, and he tried to explain it away as performance art.
• Cantarella pinned Kexi to the bed and demanded to know whether Carlotta or Francis had put him up to it.
• A system quest prompted Kexi to reclaim his dignity, so he declared his devotion to Cantarella and described the stocking as a symbol of his adoration.
• Butler Saibas walked in, saw Kexi pinned beneath Cantarella with her stocking in his hand, and hurriedly shut the door.
• Cantarella knocked Kexi unconscious and called Carlotta, telling her to come to Porto-Vino Castle if she wanted to protect him.

At Porto-Vino Castle, Kexi awakened the resonance ability King's Plunder by forcibly kissing Cantarella for ten seconds, borrowing her resonance power. He escaped his restraints, but Carlotta and the Montelli Family witnessed the kiss, leaving Kexi stronger and facing a scandalous aftermath.

• Carlotta mistook Cantarella's call about Kexi for a kidnapping and stormed Porto-Vino Castle with Zani, Montelli guards, and a crystal cannon.
• Cantarella explained that Kexi had trespassed into her bedroom and mishandled her personal belongings, embarrassing Carlotta and the Montelli Family.
• Kexi's system revealed that King's Plunder could borrow another person's resonance ability after ten seconds of contact with their Tacet Mark, which for Cantarella was on her tongue.
• When Cantarella pressed Kexi to explain himself, he lunged forward and forcibly kissed her in front of Carlotta, Zani, and the guards.
• After ten seconds, Kexi synchronized with Cantarella's resonance, broke his water-element chains, and landed free while Cantarella threatened him.
• Kexi told Carlotta he had awakened, but she and Zani focused on the scandalous way he had done it.

After Kexi awakened by absorbing Cantarella’s Tacet Mark with a kiss, Carlotta stepped between them when Cantarella demanded his death. Cantarella agreed to spare Kexi if he promised her one thing.

• Cantarella confronted Kexi over his kiss, while Kexi claimed he had absorbed her Tacet Mark through a resonance ritual.
• Carlotta questioned Kexi, then ordered Zani to set the gravity suppression cannon to maximum as punishment.
• Zani revealed that news of Kexi’s kiss had already spread across Rinascita’s information network.
• Carlotta promised Cantarella that the Montelli would answer for Kexi’s actions and refused to let Cantarella kill him.
• Cantarella agreed to spare Kexi but required him to promise her one thing.

Kexi left Porto-Vino Castle under Carlotta’s protection after Cantarella ordered him to return every seven days. Back at the Montelli residence, he revealed his newly awakened ability, and Carlotta ordered its details kept secret because she feared Cantarella had already guessed how he had taken her power.

• Cantarella told Kexi to visit Porto-Vino Castle every seven days to return what he had taken from her, then hinted that he should behave himself next time.
• Carlotta dragged Kexi away from the castle and demanded that he explain why he had gone there.
• Kexi invented a story about using embarrassment to trigger Resonance Awakening, and Zani said the timing made his explanation sound internally consistent.
• Carlotta rejected Kexi’s story, scolded him for endangering relations between the Fisalia and Montelli families, and asked what ability he had awakened.
• Kexi explained that King's Plunder let him forcibly borrow another person’s Resonance Ability by latching onto their Tacet Mark, which he said required kissing the mark.
• Carlotta ordered Zani to classify the ability as a top-level secret and warned Kexi not to tell Cantarella, who might have noticed how he stole her ability.

Kexi practiced the Resonance ability he had stolen from Cantarella and learned that he could barely control it or sustain it for more than three minutes. Carlotta warned him that Cantarella’s seven-day summons gave the Fisalia family leverage over the Montelli, then told him to cooperate while she searched for a solution.

• Kexi tried to shape Cantarella’s Resonance into a jellyfish, but it fell apart, and the system warned that using the ability drained his stamina.
• Carlotta found Kexi in the garden, heard about his failed practice, and reminded him of his kiss at Porto-Vino Castle.
• Kexi thanked Carlotta for protecting him, and she insisted she had acted for the Montelli family rather than for him personally.
• Carlotta explained that Cantarella’s demand to see Kexi every seven days could give the Fisalia family a hold over the Montelli.
• Carlotta told Kexi to visit Cantarella in seven days, accept her conditions for now, and practice his ability while she looked for a solution.

After seven days of brutal training from Carlotta, Kexi visited Cantarella at Porto-Vino Castle and tried to conceal the truth about his awakened ability with declarations of love. Cantarella pressed him to return what he had taken, but Carlotta intervened and promised he would return the following week.

• Carlotta put Kexi through an intense daily training schedule, and after seven days his Resonance duration increased from three minutes to five.
• Kexi arrived at Porto-Vino Castle and learned from Saibas that Cantarella had been brooding and had prepared for his visit.
• Cantarella questioned Kexi about how he awakened his ability, and he claimed his love for her had caused the awakening.
• Cantarella said Kexi had to return what he took from her and moved close to collect a little interest.
• Carlotta burst into the side hall, pulled Kexi away, and told Cantarella he would return next week.
• Carlotta denied that she had come specifically to rescue Kexi and told him to bring Zani next time.

Kexi received a quest to write personalized love letters to every target and invite them to the Montelli Family grand gala, with extra resonance time as the reward for replies. He completed and sent the letters, then wondered how much of his writing had become sincere.

• The system gave Kexi seven days to send each target a signed "Montelli" love letter inviting them to the gala, promising more resonance time for replies and a hidden ability if everyone attended.
• Kexi protested that the letters could expose him, but the system reminded him he had been writing to the recipients for over twelve years.
• Kexi learned that he could not reuse a template and spent the night writing unique letters for more than a dozen recipients.
• The system dispatched all the sealed letters and said replies were expected within three days.
• Kexi reflected on the thousands of letters he had written since childhood and questioned whether his feelings had become genuine.

Jinhsi and Sanhua each received an invitation from the anonymous letter-writer to meet at Montelli Manor, unaware that the same person had written to both of them for twelve years. Jinhsi looked forward to discovering his identity, while Sanhua was shaken to learn that Jinhsi loved him too.

• Jinhsi received a letter inviting her to Montelli Manor next weekend and cleared her schedule to attend.
• Sanhua received her own invitation, which apologized for the three-month silence and called their meeting twelve years overdue.
• Sanhua entered Jinhsi's office and recognized that Jinhsi's letter was identical to hers.
• Jinhsi told Sanhua that the sender was the man she loved, and Sanhua's Resonance Power chilled the room before she regained control.
• Sanhua left with the files, while Jinhsi stored the letter with her collection and began writing a reply.

After receiving a letter from Montelli, Changli remembered how his monthly messages had sustained her through a lonely childhood and decided to visit him in Rinascita. Jinhsi recognized the letter and reacted with alarm when Changli called its sender important, leaving their conversation in a tense standoff.

• Changli received a letter from Montelli and recalled how his encouragement had reached her when she was a homeless child, continuing every month for more than twenty years.
• Changli decided to travel to Rinascita to meet Montelli and see the irises at his manor.
• Jinhsi arrived to discuss Changli's upcoming trip and became fixated on the letter in Changli's hand.
• Changli told Jinhsi that the letter came from someone very important to her, prompting Jinhsi to demand an explanation.
• Changli insisted the matter was none of Jinhsi's business, and Jinhsi shouted that it was her business, leaving Changli frozen.

Jinhsi discovered that Changli had also received a letter from the Montelli correspondent and defied her to insist on going to Rinascita. Meanwhile, Yangyang received an invitation to Montelli Manor and accepted, planning to bring her flute.

• Jinhsi told Changli she planned to travel to Rinascita, then shouted that Changli was not allowed to go and left after Changli refused.
• Jinhsi realized Changli's letter bore the same Montelli Family seal as her own and resolved to find the writer despite her jealousy and hurt.
• Yangyang received a letter from Montelli inviting her to see the irises at Montelli Manor and asking her to bring her flute.
• Yangyang sent a reply saying she would come with her flute, then played a tune of anticipation.

Yangyang learned that the Magistrate was organizing a trip to Rinascita and hurried to join so she could reach Montelli Manor. Others who had received letters inviting them to meet there also reacted to the trip, while Chisa stayed behind to contain the Void Matter Magnetic Storm.

• Yangyang heard Chixia announce that the Midnight Rangers were recruiting guards for a trip to Rinascita and rushed off to volunteer.
• Baizhi learned Huaxu Academy was recruiting accompanying physicians and ran to sign up despite her ongoing experiment.
• Lynae heard about Professor Mornye’s Rinascita study trip and hurried to find out how to join.
• Sigrika agreed to apply for the study trip after Delifa and Zahira invited her to sign up with them.
• Chisa refused to leave the Underground Dark Plains, then used her tachi to suppress the expanding Void Matter Magnetic Storm and promised to find the letter’s recipient afterward.

Danika, Camellya, Shorekeeper, and Phrolova each received a letter connected to a reception at Montelli Manor. While Danika was left grieving after Napomo destroyed her letter and ordered Christopher to kill someone there, Camellya and Phrolova decided to go, and Shorekeeper arranged for someone else to attend in her place.

• Napomo took Danika's letter, tore it up, threatened her, and told Christopher to find and kill someone at Montelli.
• Danika silently clutched the scraps of the letter as her tears blurred its ink.
• Camellya read her letter, decided to visit Rinascita, and planned to see her fated seed along the way.
• Shorekeeper declined to leave the Black Shores and asked an unnamed contact in Ragunna to attend the Montelli Manor reception and deliver her message.
• Phrolova finished reading her letter, recognized Montelli as the place where its sender was hiding, and decided to attend the reception.

Kexi tried to deliver letters while avoiding Carlotta’s training, but their argument turned into a fight. He attached himself to Carlotta’s Tacet Mark and synchronized with her resonance just as Zani walked in and photographed the compromising scene.

• Kexi hid behind a door with his letters, but Carlotta found him and threatened to make him work out.
• Kexi asked to kiss Carlotta, and she chased him around the room, beating him with her gun.
• Carlotta pinned Kexi to the floor, but he pulled her off balance and bit her exposed Tacet Mark.
• Kexi completed Resonance Synchronization with Carlotta as Zani entered and took a photograph of them in the wrecked room.

Zani walked in on Carlotta and Kexi, then mistook Carlotta’s request for a sexual demand before learning that she wanted Zani to lend Kexi her Resonance Power. The misunderstanding was cleared up, but Zani began undressing anyway, leaving Carlotta scrambling to stop her.

• Zani tried to flee after catching Carlotta and Kexi together, but Kexi grabbed her and Carlotta demanded to know what she had seen.
• Carlotta ordered Kexi to “get on” Zani, and Zani thought she was being pressured into sex.
• Zani refused to trade her body and threatened to leave the Montelli family, while Kexi made an ill-timed remark about money.
• Carlotta explained that she wanted Kexi to borrow Zani’s Resonance Power so he could prepare for his next visit to Porto-Vino Castle.
• Zani agreed to let Kexi use her Tacet Mark, then began undressing, prompting Carlotta to tell her to stop and put her clothes back on.

Kexi synchronized with Zani’s Resonance Power and gave her a letter confessing how much she mattered to him after twelve years of waiting. Zani treasured the letter, then realized that several of Kexi’s other love-letter recipients would soon gather at the estate.

• Kexi synchronized with Zani’s Resonance Power, and Carlotta granted Zani a week of paid leave after Zani pretended to feel unwell.
• Kexi awkwardly handed Zani a letter he had written long ago but never dared to give her.
• Zani read Kexi’s letter, in which he apologized for keeping her waiting and called her the first person he had learned to rely on.
• Zani treasured the letter and realized that Jinhsi, Changli, Sanhua, Yangyang, Lynae, Phrolova, and others would all be at the estate together.

Kexi admitted to Carlotta that his feelings for Zani were sincere, and Carlotta told him to treat her well and practice his ability. Zani then reported several important guests for Kexi’s birthday gathering, leaving him worried about surviving the banquet.

• Carlotta confronted Kexi about the letter he had written to Zani and asked whether he had feelings for her.
• Kexi admitted that he did, explaining that he had waited twelve years to give Zani the letter because her response mattered to him.
• Carlotta accepted his answer but warned him to treat Zani well and encouraged him to practice his ability with her help.
• Kexi unlocked the hidden achievement Sincere Courage, which increased affinity during Resonance Synchronization.
• Zani told Kexi that Jinhsi, Sanhua, Changli, and Mornye were confirmed attendees for the ceremonial gathering, prompting him to wonder if he would survive his birthday banquet.

Kexi asked Zani whether she believed the love letters he had written her were sincere, then asked her to be his wife. Zani treated his proposal as a binding contract, leaving Kexi to flee while she laughed at him.

• Kexi asked Zani where Cioccolata was, and Zani said she had been seen performing in Egla Town.
• Zani asked Kexi whether the things he had written to her were true, and he said they were before asking her to be his wife.
• Zani asked detailed questions about the rights and benefits of marriage, shocking Kexi with her contract-like approach.
• Kexi promised to prepare a PowerPoint addressing Zani's terms, and Zani said she had recorded his promises as binding under Montelli Family regulations.
• Kexi ran away when Zani claimed a bird could witness his verbal promises, and Zani laughed at him.

Kexi asked Cioccolata to critique a letter, then admitted he had written it as a love letter to her. Cioccolata kept the letter and said she might return to Montelli Manor when she tired of singing, but a girl then blocked her path.

• Kexi approached Cioccolata after her performance in Egla Town and asked her to review his letter.
• Cioccolata read the letter, which invited her to rest at Montelli Manor and attend a gathering among its blooming irises.
• Cioccolata recognized the letter as a love letter, and Kexi admitted he had written it to her.
• Cioccolata criticized the letter's writing but called it sincere and kept it close to her body.
• Cioccolata told Kexi she might return to the tallest tree at Montelli Manor when she tired of singing, then a girl blocked her path.

Yaoyue traveled from Huanglong to Rinascita to find Rosinante and deliver her late mother's thanks. Christopher, a masked storyteller, offered to guide Yaoyue, Cioccolata, and Kexi to Rosinante's last residence.

• Yaoyue told Cioccolata and Kexi that her mother had been saved by the bard Rosinante and that she had come to thank him on her mother's behalf.
• Cioccolata recognized Yaoyue's old musical-note pendant as a token bards gave out around fifty years earlier.
• Christopher introduced himself and explained that Rosinante de Gulava had been a celebrated Ragunna bard who disappeared from public view about forty years ago.
• Christopher said the pendant showed that Rosinante had met Yaoyue's mother and offered to guide the group to his last residence.
• Kexi accepted Christopher's offer, and Yaoyue thanked him.