Recaps

Sera and the others sampled Ruan Mei’s cakes and Himeko’s coffee before discovering Feiying’s enthusiasm for unconventional Aeon doujin. Himeko then served a strange multicolored coffee that left Feiying worried about what drinking it would do.

• Cyrene, Feiying, and Sera praised Ruan Mei’s plum blossom cakes, and Himeko persuaded Sera to try her coffee, which he unexpectedly liked.
• Sera found Xuzhao’s comic, “Golden Flame Draws the Bow: I Love You So Much I Want to Kill You,” and Feiying excitedly explained her Nanook ship.
• Feiying revealed that this kind of doujin was popular behind the scenes in Dual-Phase Paradise, prompting Sera to declare that Dual-Phase Paradise’s Potion Bar was doomed.
• Feiying guessed that Sera liked shipping NTR, while Cyrene privately decided to write an idea about him in the Book of My Own.
• Himeko brought out coffee for everyone, and Feiying noticed hers was multicolored and feared it would make her feel awful.

Feiying, Kiana, and Ruan Mei tried Himeko’s bizarre coffee creations, while Sera warned Cyrene away from a cup containing a dangerous imitation pineapple. Yaoguang arrived before the evening event, drank the untouched coffee, and collapsed beside Feiying as Herta came out to ask what had happened.

• Feiying drank Himeko’s coffee, praised its strength, and fell asleep after her body detected harmful substances.
• Kiana drank an extra-spicy coffee made with wish-power powder brewed herring soup and red bean paste, while Ruan Mei tried a coffee that left her feeling a faint toxin in her body.
• Himeko offered Cyrene a coffee made with six kinds of pineapple, and Sera warned her that one ingredient from the Merope Nebula was not actually a pineapple.
• Yaoguang arrived early, greeted the group, and drank the untouched coffee before Sera could stop her, then collapsed onto the sofa.
• Herta came out of her room, and Sera explained that Feiying and Yaoguang had collapsed after drinking Himeko’s coffee creations.

Herta and Black Tomb prepared a disastrous Curio-based lunch for Sera and the others after Himeko’s coffee gathering. Sera survived tasting both dishes, while Yaoguang woke up and seemed to be plotting something.

• Herta agreed to make lunch, and Sera invited everyone he knew to share it.
• Polka Kakamond and Sparkle arrived, while Busitu and Boothill declined to come.
• An explosion came from the kitchen, and Herta and Black Tomb emerged with dishes made using Curios.
• Herta fed Sera food that exploded in his mouth, but he remained unharmed and persuaded her to dispose of the dish.
• Black Tomb fed Sera a dish that brought his consciousness near IX before he recovered; she then took it away to dispose of it.
• Feiying and Yaoguang woke up, and Yaoguang sat down after Sera invited her, appearing to have a plan.

Sera tried to help Herta and Black Tomb cook, but a second kitchen explosion got him banned from the kitchen before they served a meal made with normal ingredients. The group ate together while Herta and Black Tomb waited for Sera’s reaction, and Herta thought about the birthday present she had prepared for him.

• Yaoguang asked Himeko to prepare coffee for her colleague Jing Yuan and joked about bringing him a souvenir.
• Herta’s Curio exploded in the cooking pot, and after Sera joined her and Black Tomb, another kitchen explosion led them to ban him from the kitchen.
• Cyrene seated Sera while Kiana and others assured him that he did not need to cook, and Sparkle posted a note about his kitchen ban in the fan club.
• Herta and Black Tomb served food made with normal ingredients, and Sera tried each dish before the others ate.
• Black Tomb served Sera red-braised pork she had learned to make for him, while the others shared food and conversation around the table.
• Herta reminded Ruan Mei to stop thinking about research during the meal, and Ruan Mei said Herta’s cooking had improved.

Herta designed Sera a purple-and-black outfit to match her own, and he joined the others as they admired it. The chapter ended with Kiana asking Sera to wear a surprise outfit with her the next day.

• Herta threw her witch hat at Sera, and he put it on after noticing its bellflower scent.
• Herta and Black Tomb measured Sera and designed him an outfit using Polka Kakamond's Dustless Cloth.
• Sera tried on the matching outfit, and Herta and the others praised how well it suited him.
• Yaoguang offered to arrange authentic Xianzhou-style clothes for Sera, and Himeko shyly asked to make him something too.
• Kiana persuaded Sera to wear matching clothes with her the next day but refused to reveal what they would be.

Sera met Pearl, one of the Ten Stonehearts, who brought evidence against Oswald and a gift from Screwllum. After accepting Screwllum’s custom-built starship, Sera named it Sirius and prepared to discuss business with Pearl.

• Sera accepted Pearl’s contact request and granted her permission to enter Dual-Phase Paradise.
• Pearl explored The World's Beginning Tavern, recorded her observations about its Masked Fools, and met Sera.
• Sera invited Pearl to a private room, where she introduced herself as a member of the Strategic Investment Department and one of the Ten Stonehearts.
• Pearl delivered Screwllum’s gift: a custom-built starship, which Sera accepted and named Sirius.
• Sera shifted the conversation to business and told Pearl to begin.

Sera introduced Pearl, Boothill, and Busitu to the plan to bring down Oswald, then invited Pearl to explore Two-Dimensional City with him. Pearl accepted because Screwllum had encouraged her to spend time with Sera in hopes of finding her own “heart,” while Sera also intended to help her and relax.

• Sera explained that the Strategic Investment Department and the Xianzhou would pressure Oswald, but he planned to wait until the group knew more about Oswald’s intentions and capabilities.
• Boothill agreed to wait, while Busitu and Yaoguang left to handle their own business.
• Sera invited Pearl for a walk, and Pearl took his hand before he teleported them out of the tavern.
• Pearl recalled that Screwllum had advised her to spend time with Sera to help her find a “heart,” and that Diamond had authorized her to work with Sera against Oswald.
• As Sera and Pearl walked through Two-Dimensional City, Sera noticed young couples and reflected that Himeko’s crush was obvious to everyone around her.

Sera told Pearl about Rocky’s attempt to chase time for the woman he loved, then explained how love could guide choices beyond logic and data. Pearl promised to write down her own understanding of love, and the pair continued through Two-Dimensional City after Sera accepted her handmade moon projector.

• Sera recounted how Rocky pursued time after Lesley stopped replying following a Starquake, and Pearl concluded that emotion could lead someone to defy probability.
• Pearl searched for love online, was shocked by romance novels, and asked Sera what love meant.
• Sera described love as a force and a crystal flower reflecting thirteen kinds of light, then promised to wait for Pearl to write down the love in her heart.
• Pearl gave Sera a moon projector she had made herself, and he accepted it and promised to keep it safe.
• Sera and Pearl walked into a park in Two-Dimensional City and saw a little girl talking to a puppy.

Sera helped Little Paulette adopt a stray puppy, using a pendant to let them understand each other, and the two became family as Paulette named him Rocket. Sera then discussed art, beauty, and following one’s heart with Pearl, who decided to observe him as she tried to understand her own heart.

• Sera recognized the scene from the side quest A Bouquet for the Happy and approached Little Paulette as she hesitated to adopt a puppy.
• Sera put a pendant on the puppy so Little Paulette could understand him, and the puppy said he had no family.
• Little Paulette asked the puppy to become her family, named him Rocket, and the two happily left together.
• Pearl asked why Sera had helped them, and Sera said he could not ignore a regret that he could resolve.
• Sera explained his views on art and beauty to Pearl, who connected his words to Screwllum’s advice and chose to observe Sera while seeking her own heart.

Sera learned that Yaboli had dabbled in Voracity’s power and that Oswald planned to use Voracity’s remains in Dual-Phase Paradise. He gathered his allies to confront the Shadow of Voracity that night, while Diamond arranged a meeting with the IPC’s higher-ups and Louis Fleming.

• Sera reassured Pearl that his help had come from his own thoughts, then heard Diamond report that Yaboli was behind Dual-Phase Paradise and had studied Voracity’s power.
• Diamond said Oswald’s objective was to obtain the power of Voracity’s remains, and told Sera that Louis Fleming had authorized him to convene the IPC’s higher-ups and wanted to meet him.
• Sera agreed to meet with Diamond and decided to deal with Oswald that night instead of waiting until tomorrow.
• Sera added his allies to the Holy Grail War Countermeasures Group and announced that they would confront the Shadow of Voracity, warning that Finality might join in.
• Sera led Pearl to the usual café and began offering her his real advice.

Sera’s group gathered to finalize their plan to expose Oswald Schneider, while Sera advised Pearl to add Elation to her Preservation without abandoning it. Pearl outlined a coordinated operation for that night, and the group prepared to lure out Oswald and make him wanted.

• Sera explained that he wanted Pearl to incorporate some of Elation’s color while keeping Preservation as her foundation.
• The group gathered at a coffee shop, where Wojian and Weidi reflected on being different sides of a person summoned by the Holy Grail, and Feiying and Sakura arrived alongside Yaoguang and Sparkle.
• Yaoguang revealed that she had finished her work before playing cards, leaving Qingque to struggle with the paperwork at the Yaoqing general’s residence.
• Aventurine arrived as Pearl began detailing the plan to target Market Development Department director Oswald Schneider.
• Busitu, Weidi, Wojian, and Ruan Mei took responsibility for releasing and controlling the Shadow of Voracity to draw out Berserker and Oswald.
• Pearl assigned Sparkle to manage a livestream exposing Oswald, while Diamond and Yaoguang would pressure the board members to declare him wanted and Herta would control public opinion.

Sera assembled a coalition to confront Oswald Schneider, who appeared at the harbor after Busitu’s Shadow of Voracity was released as bait. As the company and Xianzhou Alliance moved to condemn Oswald, Diamond, Pearl, and Aventurine struck him with their combined authority, but Oswald questioned their haste as the smoke cleared.

• Sera named those joining the frontal battle, including Boothill, Aventurine, Pearl, Fuli Cyrene, Ms. Black Tomb, Feiying, Sakura, Himeko, Jing Yuan, and Kiana.
• Busitu released the nail suppressing the Shadow of Voracity, and Wojian, Weidi, and Ruan Mei contained it with the Star-Shattering Bait.
• Oswald emerged at the harbor and revealed that he had absorbed the Shadow’s Spirit Origin, transforming himself into a vessel for an ancient beast of Voracity.
• Diamond proposed expelling Oswald from the IPC and placing him on its highest-level wanted list; Jing Yuan declared the Alliance’s support, and the board voted in favor.
• After Diamond’s signal, Pearl and Aventurine activated their Cornerstones with his support and brought a massive hammer of authority down on Oswald.
• Oswald asked why they were in such a hurry as smoke covered his figure.

Sera and the others fought Oswald Schneider, who had become a pseudo-Emanator of Voracity, while Ms. Black Tomb, Feiying, and Sakura tried to destroy him. Wojian summoned the Astral Express as the battle turned toward a final strike against Voracity.

• Ruan Mei confirmed that Oswald had become a vessel for Voracity while retaining his own will, and Boothill and Aventurine’s attacks were swallowed by his maws.
• Cyrene restrained Oswald as Ms. Black Tomb’s Noble Phantasm burned him to ashes, but the Abundance within him revived him.
• Oswald declared that he would devour the others, find the Aeons, and use Voracity to strengthen the Amber Lord’s wall.
• Feiying severed Oswald’s Abundance-granted immortality, and Sakura followed with a final slash.
• Wojian summoned the Astral Express and declared its next stop was Voracity, while Aventurine, Boothill, and Black Tomb gathered their power for a final blow.

Sera and the others defeated Oswald Schneider, and Boothill and Aventurine found closure with their pasts. As the group set off to celebrate, Finality used Oswald’s Command Spells to summon Weidi and Wojian away, prompting Sera to pursue them.

• Cyrene stopped time while Black Tomb and the others poured their powers into the Astral Express, and their combined strike erased Oswald Schneider.
• Boothill told Busitu that he had avenged his family, and Busitu urged him to live well; Aventurine said goodbye to Kakavasha.
• Boothill agreed to perform for the Rangers, while Sera led the others toward a victory feast.
• The chapter revealed that Oswald had traded all three Command Spells to Finality for Shuhu’s flesh and information about suppressing Voracity, learning that the answer was Elation.
• Finality used Oswald’s Command Spells to summon Caster Weidi and Rider Wojian away, leaving a note explaining how he had evaded Sera’s usual search range.
• Sera clenched the note and urged the group to pursue Weidi and Wojian.

Finality staged a battle against the group, using his three manifestations to attack them. Himeko accepted Akivili’s ticket and became a navigator before Finality was swallowed by Voracity, leaving his fate unknown.

• Finality used the Command Spells to bring Weidi and Wojian to his stage, then burned them away and summoned the Trailblaze and Elation masks.
• Finality revealed his three forms and attacked the group, but Yaoguang used her divination to counter his attempt to prevent her from acting.
• Himeko summoned the Astral Express and Starblazer, then demanded to know why Finality had pretended to be her father.
• Sera offered Himeko Akivili’s ticket and guided her through the Trailblaze Creed, officially making her a navigator.
• Finality let the Astral Express strike his Preservation form, then was swallowed by Voracity after saying a Lord Ravager would get his wish.
• Kiana pierced Voracity with a shot, and the maw fell into the abyss; the unrest was expected to remain suppressed for three days.

Sera and the geniuses concluded that Finality had likely entered Voracity to reach his final mask, “emptiness,” and prepared for his possible ascension. They built a machine to draw Elation energy from Phantasmoon and convert it into wishes, then Sera discovered someone had tampered with it.

• Sera returned to Two-Dimensional City with Kiana and the others, then told Herta, Black Tomb, and Ruan Mei that Finality might still be alive.
• Sera and Ruan Mei reasoned that Finality had let Voracity swallow him so he could sever his attachment to himself and attain the final mask, “emptiness.”
• Herta outlined two possible paths ahead: Finality’s ascension as a Lord Ravager or Elation being devoured by Voracity.
• Sera, Herta, Black Tomb, and Ruan Mei devised a plan to wrap reality in an Imagenesis forgery, using Phantasmoon’s Elation energy as the power source for wishes.
• The geniuses built and concealed the machine at the hotel, where Phantasmoon agreed to lend energy to save Dual-Phase Paradise.
• An unknown figure secretly touched the machine, activating a hidden marking, and Sera realized he had found the intruder.

Sera unmasked Xuzhao as a fragment of Aha and brought her to Herta, Ruan Mei, and Black Tomb, who identified her as Polka Kakamond. Xuzhao then began recounting how serpent venom and moonlight had affected Aha, leaving the story at the start of her tale.

• Xuzhao revealed herself to Sera as Aha, but Sera concluded she was only a reflection of the Aeon rather than Aha herself.
• Xuzhao offered to take Sera to Louis Fleming, but Sera said Fleming had already invited him to meet.
• Sera took Xuzhao to the geniuses, where Herta, Ruan Mei, and Black Tomb examined her.
• Black Tomb identified Xuzhao as Polka Kakamond, an Interastral Peace Corporation employee and manga artist using the pen name Blurry QR Code.
• Xuzhao explained that Aha had been poisoned by the serpent's venom and began describing a troupe master's challenge to the moon knight.

Xuzhao explained that the moon was Aha’s tear and that the heroes would have to confront the mad moon, then Sera brought her to the Astral Express to reunite with Pom-Pom. Their reunion was interrupted by the approach of a figure whose ticket seemed to recognize Xuzhao.

• Xuzhao told Sera and Herta that Aha’s tear became the moon and that the moon hid the sleeping, mad Aha; she said the moon would be revealed after the heroes defeated the demon king.
• Sera asked Xuzhao to come meet Pom-Pom, and she tried to escape before he brought her to Himeko’s studio in the Tavern.
• Sera sent Xuzhao to help clean the Astral Express, where Pom-Pom recognized her and struck at her with a broom.
• Xuzhao and Pom-Pom exchanged greetings, and Xuzhao said she had found a solution to her weakness as a figure approached the Express.

Himeko received her ticket and learned that Xuzhao was actually the Aeon Aha, who wanted to board the Astral Express again. Pom-Pom agreed to let her return, but set three rules for her.

• Sera and Pom-Pom welcomed Himeko as a passenger and navigator, then brought up Xuzhao's debt statement.
• Xuzhao clung to Sera to avoid settling her debt, but Himeko caught the statement and discovered that it identified Xuzhao as Aha.
• Himeko and Suzi reacted with disbelief when Pom-Pom confirmed Xuzhao was Aha and reassured them she would not cause trouble.
• Xuzhao grabbed Sera's sensitive wings and persuaded him to let her follow him and gather material for her manga.
• Sera deferred to Pom-Pom about Xuzhao returning to the train, and Pom-Pom agreed on the condition that she follow three rules.

Xuzhao signed Pom-Pom’s train rules under both Aha’s and her own name, then joined Sera aboard the train. After Sera gave her a room, he discovered Cyrene had written a story inspired by the day’s events, whose opening paired Herta and Ruan Mei.

• Pom-Pom listed the train rules, and Xuzhao signed the agreement as Aha before Sera made her sign her own name too.
• Xuzhao greeted Himeko and Suzi, while Sera suspected she was planning a comic and offered a cleaning robot to help the train’s crew.
• Himeko told Suzi she had wanted to see Sera’s bashful reaction again, and Sera later let Xuzhao choose an available room.
• Sera found Cyrene writing in her notebook and persuaded her to show him the story she had written.
• Cyrene’s story began with Ruan Mei offering Herta a plum blossom cake during an experiment.

Sera spent the night with Cyrene after she teased him with her writing and combed his wings, then joined Kiana and the others for a swimsuit outing at the beach. The group gathered at Sera’s private beach area, where he settled into a lounge chair as Pearl, Yaoguang, and Sparkle were invited to join them.

• Cyrene wrote a suggestive scene about Herta and Ruan Mei, then combed Sera’s wings until he fell asleep in her lap.
• On the third day of the Holy Grail War, Cyrene woke Sera with a kiss and reminded him that Kiana was waiting.
• Kiana gave Sera a men’s version of the Sea Breeze swimsuit and added cat ears to complete his outfit.
• Sera found Herta, Black Tomb, Himeko, Feiying, Xuzhao, Cyrene, and the others waiting in swimsuits for a beach trip.
• Sera opened a portal to the beach, messaged Pearl, Yaoguang, and Sparkle, and relaxed in a lounge chair with a coconut.

Sera and his friends played a relaxed beach volleyball match, then rested as Cyrene sang them to sleep. After waking at noon, Sera prepared a beach barbecue and coconut milk, and everyone gathered to eat and toast together.

• Feiying invited Sera to play beach volleyball, and the group split into blue and red teams with Yaoguang and Sparkle refereeing.
• The teams played a friendly match that ended in a tie, and Sera rested on a lounge chair above the sea.
• Cyrene sang a lullaby while the others fell asleep, and Kiana silently encouraged Sera to keep moving forward.
• Sera woke at noon and gathered seafood, watermelon, and coconuts for lunch, while Ruan Mei cooked salmon and offered plum blossom cakes.
• Everyone gathered around the table and raised their drinks as Sera toasted, followed by Busitu and the rangers calling out to justice.

On the seventh day of the Holy Grail War, Sera and his allies attacked Voracity, but Finality emerged with a trace of the Power of Finality and challenged Dual-Phase Paradise. Sera invoked the Command Spells to connect the remaining Masters and summon the wishes of the people, preparing to face Finality with their support.

• Kiana had delayed the seal’s disappearance until the war’s final day, while the geniuses evacuated Dual-Phase Paradise’s people and prepared to broadcast the battle.
• Ruan Mei, Herta, and Black Tomb used their research to weaken Voracity’s contamination, and Sera commanded Lancer to unleash his Noble Phantasm.
• Black Tomb struck Voracity with an attack drawing on Nous’s power, then Sera pierced it with Holy Lance -- Liberation and stopped its rampaging tentacles.
• Finality emerged from Voracity’s wound with stolen Power of Finality and declared that he would test Dual-Phase Paradise.
• Sera told his allies to support him, then joined Feiying and Busitu in using their Command Spells to summon the people’s wishes through the livestream device.
• Sera announced that the power of those wishes would arrive in three minutes.

Sera used the universe’s gathered wishes and his allies’ powers to fight Finality, who had become the martyr and taken the poison of Voracity into himself. After Sera struck him with a spear of hope, the martyr asked the god of Elation for release, and Xuzhao granted it as the wishes bloomed into flowers.

• Sera gathered wishes from across the universe and rejected Finality’s claim that he was breaking the rules.
• Finality brought Voracity and its shadow into reality, while Herta, Himeko, Feiying, and Busitu helped suppress them with painted possibilities.
• Sera summoned his companion Honkai Beast, Serapeum Kenem, and ordered Saila to attack Finality with dragonfire.
• Finality revealed that he had become a martyr, drew the poison of Voracity from the Pathstriders of Elation into himself, and accepted his fate.
• Sera struck the martyr with the Spear Shining at Finality, combining hope and wishes with purple and gold energy to resist Voracity.
• The martyr asked the god of Elation to grant him release, and Xuzhao sent a giant hand to end his suffering as the wishes became flowers in the sky.

With the Holy Grail War ending in twelve hours, Sakura said goodbye to Sera and the others before returning to where she belonged. Sera then took Kiana and the others aboard the Astral Express to visit Phantasmoon, where he offered to decorate Xuzhao’s empty world.

• Sera saw the Holy Grail’s countdown and realized the Servants would soon have to return.
• Sakura hugged Feiying, said farewell to everyone, and faded away.
• Sera invited Kiana and the others to visit Phantasmoon aboard the Astral Express.
• The train made its first Trailblazing expedition since setting off again and arrived at Phantasmoon.
• Xuzhao welcomed the group, revealed Phantasmoon had nothing but a lake because she had run out of money, and accepted Sera’s offer to decorate it.
• Sera opened a door and called Saila out from his space.