Recaps

Linnai led Dania through arcade games, where she struggled with food-catching and dancing before Zhou Yu showed her Tetris. Dania’s instinctive play set a perfect high score, and Zhou Yu called it muscle memory for erasing tragedy.

• Linnai put Dania on Catch the Food, where Dania missed a drumstick after reacting to it as if she could eat it.
• Aimis and Linnai impressed the group on the dance machine, while Dania missed every step in her turn.
• Dania walked to the Tetris machine, and Zhou Yu explained how completed rows disappeared.
• Dania played faster and faster, clearing rows until she achieved a score of 999999.
• Zhou Yu told the stunned Dania that her performance was muscle memory for erasing tragedy.

Dania, Zhou Yu, and their companions entered an S-rank escape room, but Zhou Yu quickly bypassed its challenges with practical tricks. The owner triggered a dangerous elimination protocol as the group entered the third room.

• Dania broke the arcade machine's maximum score, and the owner challenged the group to try his escape room.
• Dania agreed to enter for the promise of food, and the group began the Abandoned Defense Line game.
• Zhou Yu exposed construction flaws and opened the first room's lock by reading fingerprints on its keypad.
• Zhou Yu used a mirror to disable the laser corridor, leaving Aimis unable to show off her acrobatics.
• The owner pressed the emergency Restart button, and the third room went dark as the system announced a physical elimination protocol.

Zhou Yu destroyed the escape room’s statue of Aleph One, helping Dania face a memory of the sacrificial altar. As they left, Dania said she wanted to kick the next one herself.

• Zhou Yu led the group through the crushing-wall trap and into the room containing a replica of Aleph One.
• Seeing Dania freeze before the statue, Zhou Yu placed a demolition notice on it and kicked its base, causing it to collapse and clearing the escape room.
• Dania laughed as she watched the statue’s pieces fall, while Sigelica paid the bill for the damaged prop.
• Outside, Zhou Yu gave Dania a cola and told her that gods were nothing special.
• Dania told Zhou Yu she wanted to kick the next one herself, and he agreed to leave it for her.

Linnai announced a secret Flying Snow Velvet concert, and Dania thought the masked singer looked familiar. After the tickets sold out, Zhou Yu revealed a way for the group to attend by entering Grand Auditorium No. 1 through the staff entrance.

• Linnai excitedly told Dania and Sigelica about Flying Snow Velvet's secret concert.
• Sigelica noticed Aimis had disappeared and received a message claiming she had returned to the factory for repairs.
• Dania said Flying Snow Velvet looked familiar, while Zhou Yu recorded the concert as an evening activity in Dania's assessment form.
• Linnai discovered the tickets had sold out, and Sigelica reacted to their seven-figure black-market price.
• Zhou Yu showed his faculty card and said the group could enter through the staff entrance during a Logistics Department inspection.

Zhou Yu brought Linnai, Sigelica, Chisaki, and Dania into the academy concert by posing as a maintenance worker and taking the Supreme Council's seats. As Flying Snow Velvet's performance lifted Dania's spirits, Zhou Yu noticed an open fire exit and a skull icon flashing on his watch.

• Zhou Yu used his faculty card and a maintenance-worker cover story to lead the group backstage and into the auditorium.
• Zhou Yu sat in the Supreme Council's reserved seats, claiming its members could not attend, while Sigelica worried about the consequences.
• Linnai gave Dania and Sigelica fan headbands and glow sticks before Flying Snow Velvet began her performance.
• Dania watched the concert and waved her glow stick, and Flying Snow Velvet winked toward the front row.
• Zhou Yu recorded the concert's effect on Dania's happiness, then noticed a partly open fire exit and a skull icon flashing on his watch.

Zhou Yu and his companions watched Flying Snow Velvet’s concert, where Dania discovered the joy of an ordinary moment while eating chips and listening to music. The concert left Zhou Yu startled by Flying Snow Velvet’s signature motorcycle drift, which resembled a move he had seen from someone repairing a motorcycle in the dorm.

• Zhou Yu noticed a pixelated skull flash on his watch and kept watch on the fire exit.
• Flying Snow Velvet sang “Paper Plane,” prompting Dania to ask Zhou Yu what a plane tree was.
• During “Little Miracle,” Dania described having enough to eat as a wonderful little miracle, and Zhou Yu gave her chips.
• Dania ate the chips through tears and smiled as she listened to the song.
• Flying Snow Velvet performed a motorcycle drift, and Zhou Yu recognized that the move looked familiar.

At Flying Snow Velvet’s concert, Dania and the others were moved by “Farewell to the Star on a Long Voyage,” and Zhou Yu marked the music therapy task complete. Chisaki remained 99.8 percent certain Flying Snow Velvet was Aimis, and Zhou Yu led the group backstage to let Aimis speak for herself.

• Chisaki told Zhou Yu she had matched Flying Snow Velvet’s movements to Aimis’s physical assessment data with 99.8 percent accuracy.
• Flying Snow Velvet sang “Farewell to the Star on a Long Voyage,” and Dania, Linnai, and Sigelica cried as Zhou Yu reassured Dania that she was not alone.
• After the song ended, Dania cheered for Flying Snow Velvet, and Zhou Yu marked the concert task complete.
• Zhou Yu told the group they were going backstage under the pretext of a logistics inspection, while Chisaki reaffirmed her 99.8 percent certainty.
• Dania asked why Aimis had not told them if she was Flying Snow Velvet, and Zhou Yu said some things only counted when the person said them herself.
• Zhou Yu led the group to an ajar dressing room door, where they heard guitar strings being plucked.

Dania, Linnai, Sigelica, and Chisaki discovered that Aimis was Lady Snow Velvet and confronted her about hiding her singing identity. Zhou Yu then made Aimis pay for the reveal by assigning her breakfast for the group, due before seven the next morning.

• Dania burst into the dressing room and found Aimis in her starry gown, drinking Coke, while Chisaki recorded the scene.
• Linnai recognized Aimis as Lady Snow Velvet, and Chisaki confirmed it with matching voiceprint data.
• Dania praised Aimis’s singing, while Linnai and Sigelica argued with her about hiding her identity and the costly tickets.
• Aimis admitted she kept singing secret because she was embarrassed to perform in a dress as a mechanical engineering student.
• Zhou Yu handed Aimis a breakfast supply list and ordered her to deliver everyone’s requested food to the dormitory before seven the next morning.

Zhou Yu shared breakfast with Dania and the others before leaving to investigate a planned Fractsidus attack at the Flamebearers' Academy. His affectionate farewell left Dania blushing, while Sigelica noticed his smile seemed to signal that he was preparing to sabotage something.

• Aimis delivered crab roe buns early, and Zhou Yu carefully cooled one for Dania while the others teased them about their closeness.
• Chisaki recorded Zhou Yu and Dania's breakfast as data on feeding behavior.
• Zhou Yu received a silent warning that Fractsidus followers planned to detonate five high-frequency resonance bombs near the auditorium and cafeteria at ten.
• Zhou Yu said he was going to check the auditorium's logistics storeroom, then promised Dania they would eat pork ribs together at noon.
• After Zhou Yu left, Dania blushed over his gentle gesture, and Sigelica remarked that his smile looked like a programmer about to take apart his boss's computer.

Zhou Yu stopped an assassination plot at Flamebearers' Academy by sweeping the bombs and forcing the assassins to clean, then sold the scraps to buy Dania ribs and soda. At lunch, Dania decided the soda was worth more than the bombs, while Sigelica reacted in disbelief to Zhou Yu's casual account of the incident.

• Zhou Yu found three assassins and five resonance bombs in a storage room, then used his cleaning mechanism to make them scrub and dismantle the equipment.
• Zhou Yu collected the bomb components and sold them at the scrap station for thirty star coins.
• Zhou Yu spent the money on sweet-and-sour ribs and orange soda for Dania at Cafeteria No. 3.
• Dania reasoned that her bottle of soda was worth five bombs, and Zhou Yu agreed to let her enjoy it.
• Sigelica learned Zhou Yu had swept up the bombs and objected when Dania suggested he sell more to buy another bottle of soda.

Moning redirected three armed intruders into cleaning work and asked her class to consider meaningful futures, prompting Dania to say she hoped to share breakfast with loved ones again. After Zhou Yu’s tender teasing, Moning proposed hypnosis to investigate him, and Lupa approved the plan.

• Moning saw Zhou Yu’s report about three armed outsiders being given cleaning and ideological reeducation, then arranged for them to become cleaning interns instead.
• Moning asked her trainees about their life plans, and Dania said she wanted to have breakfast with the people important to her again tomorrow.
• Linnai teased Dania about her answer, and Dania ran from the classroom in embarrassment.
• Zhou Yu walked with Dania and teased her by brushing crab roe from the corner of her mouth before inviting her to the cafeteria.
• Moning recommended clinical hypnosis to investigate Zhou Yu’s unexplained behavior, and Lupa approved the intervention.

During a late-night dormitory sleepover, Dania realized she had romantic feelings for Zhou Yu after her friends described how he cared for her. Linnai turned the discovery into a new mission for the Slacking Squad: help Yaya win over Zhou Yu.

• Aimis, Linnai, and Sigelica discussed the kinds of boyfriends they wanted before asking Dania about romance.
• Sigelica told Dania that Zhou Yu treated her as someone to love and cherish, not as a subordinate or specimen.
• Dania recalled Zhou Yu's kindness and admitted she might like him.
• Linnai announced that the Slacking Squad would help Yaya win over Zhou Yu.

Dania’s jealousy surfaced when other girls asked Zhou Yu for help, and she insisted he was her exclusive caretaker under an S-rank schedule. Linnai secretly photographed their affectionate lunch and reported that her probing had succeeded, prompting a lively debate in the group chat about what to do next.

• Zhou Yu picked the green peppers from Dania’s bowl and bought her double-skin milk pudding as dessert.
• Several preparatory-class girls asked Zhou Yu to fix their dorm’s water dispenser and exchange contact information.
• Dania interrupted them, saying Zhou Yu had to watch her eat because she was his exclusive caretaker on an unreschedulable S-rank priority.
• Zhou Yu accepted Dania’s claim and straightened her pudding bowl, while she happily ate dessert.
• Linnai secretly photographed Dania and Zhou Yu at lunch and shared the picture in the encrypted group chat.
• Aimis, Sigelica, and Chisaki responded to Linnai’s report with complaints and suggestions about the next phase.

Linnai rallied the Slacking Squad for a discounted trip to Starlight Amusement Park and encouraged Dania to confess her feelings to Zhou Yu on the Star Wish Ferris Wheel. Zhou Yu agreed to go and began planning their route, while the others secretly prepared the next phase of their matchmaking scheme.

• Linnai announced the amusement park trip, and Aimis complained that the squad's sponsor was bankrupt.
• Linnai told Dania the Ferris Wheel legend, and Dania watched Zhou Yu reviewing reimbursement forms.
• Dania asked Zhou Yu to go to the amusement park, and he agreed while asking her to list the snacks so he could plan an efficient route.
• The group finalized the trip, with Aimis agreeing to pay for ice cream and grilled sausages in exchange for Zhou Yu queueing at a difficult attraction.
• That night, Dania smiled at the light blue dress Zhou Yu had bought her, while Sigelica realized Dania had fallen for him.
• Linnai launched phase two of Operation Catch the Salted Fish, targeting the Star Wish Ferris Wheel, as the others joined in and Sigelica worried about her wallet.

Zhou Yu and Dania went to Starlight Amusement Park together after their friends engineered some time alone for them. Dania held his hand, and Linnai secretly reported their progress as she prepared to launch the Ferris Wheel Plan.

• Linnai, Aimis, and Chisaki set off for the roller coaster and dragged Sigelica along, leaving Zhou Yu and Dania together.
• Zhou Yu pulled Dania out of the path of a child on roller skates, and Dania clasped his hand; he interlaced their fingers and kept holding her.
• Zhou Yu offered to buy Dania cotton candy, and they walked through the crowded park hand in hand.
• Linnai secretly photographed their joined hands and told the group chat that the targets had held hands on their own.
• Linnai announced that the Ferris Wheel Plan was launching ahead of schedule.

Zhou Yu helped Dania win a goldfish by using a procurement certificate to make her paper net waterproof. As they watched the sunset together, he reassured her that he would have found her even without Aleph One and the Lahai-Roi Defense Line.

• Dania repeatedly failed to catch a koi and became upset.
• Zhou Yu used his Material Procurement Inspection Certificate to strengthen Dania's paper net.
• Dania caught the prettiest koi, and Zhou Yu paid the stall owner fifty star coins.
• Zhou Yu and Dania sat together at sunset, where she asked whether they would have met without Aleph One and the Lahai-Roi Defense Line.
• Zhou Yu told Dania he would have found her as long as she was in the world.

At the Ferris wheel’s highest point, Dania confessed that she liked Zhou Yu, and he showed her a meal schedule that revealed his long-standing commitment to her. As they descended, Dania accepted his answer and named her goldfish Zhou Yu No. 2, while Linnai and the others celebrated their successful matchmaking and planned to get Zhou Yu to acknowledge their relationship publicly.

• At the top of the Ferris wheel, Dania told Zhou Yu she liked him and described how she had begun looking forward to each day with him.
• Zhou Yu gave Dania her meal schedule, which began on the day she first appeared in the cafeteria and ended with a permanent S-rank priority.
• When Dania asked about her own schedule, Zhou Yu said his plans with her were built into his meals, outings, and the goldfish he named Zhou Yu No. 2.
• As the gondola descended, Dania wiped her tears, asked Zhou Yu not to surprise her like that again, and accepted his thermos of water.
• At the amusement park entrance, Linnai photographed the pair and announced in the encrypted group chat that the Ferris Wheel Plan had succeeded.
• Sigelica, Aimis, and Chisaki celebrated with Linnai, who declared Dania part of their group and set their next goal as getting Zhou Yu to publicly acknowledge the relationship at the academy.

Zhou Yu’s admirers approached him in Cafeteria No. 3, and Dania made her claim by placing a rib in his bowl. As they left together to collect the roasted sweet potato allowance, Dania asked only for more quiet breakfasts with him.

• Three exchange students from Hyacinth Academy asked Zhou Yu to add them as a contact, and Linnai photographed them for the group chat.
• Dania placed her largest rib in Zhou Yu’s bowl, and he ate it before wiping sauce from the corner of her mouth.
• Zhou Yu took Dania’s hand, and the three girls awkwardly apologized and left.
• Linnai proposed a public announcement, but Dania said she wanted to keep having breakfast with Zhou Yu quietly.
• Zhou Yu took Dania to collect the month’s roasted sweet potato allowance from the back hill.

Zhou Yu and Dania exchanged affectionate nicknames and agreed to reserve every weekend for each other. When Moning attempted to reach Zhou Yu through clinical hypnosis, he secretly prepared a counterattack designed to overwhelm her with workplace jargon and wage-slave advice.

• Dania asked to call Zhou Yu Xiao Yu, and he agreed; she then asked him to call her Yaya, and he did.
• Zhou Yu told Dania to keep every weekend free for the two of them, and she nodded before leaning against him.
• Zhou Yu's watch warned that Moning, Dean of Discipline at Flamebearers' Academy, was using clinical hypnosis to connect to him.
• Zhou Yu secretly programmed a countermeasure that would inject his revised guide to wage-slave self-cultivation into Moning's probe.
• Dania shifted in her sleep, and Zhou Yu wrapped an arm around her shoulders as he waited for the counterattack to trigger.

Zhou Yu took Dania to a movie and an amusement area, where they shared a tender moment and he won her a mountain of stuffed toys. Dania went to bed happy, while her roommate Sigelica lay awake thinking about the unpaid expenses Zhou Yu had added to her debt.

• Zhou Yu made caramel popcorn and watched an old film with Dania, holding her hand in the dark.
• Zhou Yu used glitches in the claw machines to win Dania the teddy bear she wanted and emptied the machines of toys.
• Zhou Yu walked Dania back to her dormitory, and she thanked him for a fun day before falling asleep hugging the bear.
• Sigelica, who had heard Dania come in, checked her terminal and saw that another amusement park bill had been added to Zhou Yu's unpaid compensation debt.

Sigelica struggled with feeling replaced as Dania spent more time with Zhou Yu, leaving Sigelica lonely and resentful. After Dania stayed out all night with Zhou Yu, Sigelica took her medical insurance card and set out for the Resonance Medical Department.

• Sigelica woke to a message saying Dania and Zhou Yu had gone to watch the sunrise, and she angrily rejected the soup dumplings Dania had left for her.
• Professor Moning rejected Sigelica's self-criticism and asked her to rewrite it during theory class.
• At lunch, Sigelica snapped at Dania's offer of cheesy baked rice and left the cafeteria with Linnai and Aimis.
• Sigelica told Linnai and Aimis that she felt replaced, and Chisaki diagnosed her with separation anxiety and early-stage empty nest syndrome.
• Aimis suggested Sigelica visit counselor Lu Hesi at the Resonance Medical Department, but Sigelica refused at first.
• After Dania messaged that she was staying out with Zhou Yu to stargaze, Sigelica took her medical insurance card and left the dorm.

Sigelica went to the academy’s resonance medical center for help coping with Dania being lured away and Zhou Yu’s debts. After NANA referred her to Dr. Lu Hesi, his striking looks left her flustered, and he asked who had rooted up her friend.

• Sigelica visited the resonance medical center, unable to admit at the desk that Dania had been lured away by a salted fish.
• NANA interpreted Sigelica’s complaint about her friend being rooted up by a pig as emotional trauma and sent her to Dr. Lu Hesi.
• Sigelica entered Lu Hesi’s office intending to discuss Dania, Zhou Yu’s bill, and her trouble eating and sleeping, but she was distracted by his appearance.
• Lu Hesi offered Sigelica candy and explained that NANA had told him she was experiencing empty-nest feelings.
• Lu Hesi described her sense of loss and asked who had rooted up her friend.

Sigelica told Lu Hesi how hurt and jealous she felt as Dania grew closer to Zhou Yu, and he helped her realize Dania no longer needed her constant protection. She left the consultation room determined to enjoy her own life and make Zhou Yu repay the six-figure bill.

• Sigelica complained to Lu Hesi that Zhou Yu had disrupted her closeness with Dania and left her responsible for his expenses.
• Lu Hesi explained that Dania had become independent and that Sigelica was experiencing anxiety about no longer being needed as her guardian.
• Sigelica accepted Lu Hesi's advice to focus on her own life and pursue her studies as a Sunspeaker.
• Lu Hesi gave Sigelica a jar of candies to comfort her when she felt lonely.
• Sigelica left the consultation room resolved to enjoy being single and demand that Zhou Yu repay every cent of the bill.

After overcoming her separation anxiety, Sigelica brought popping candy from a doctor to share with her friends and Zhou Yu and Dania. The candy made them belch uncontrollably, while Aimis unexpectedly spoke the opposite of what she intended.

• Sigelica returned to the dorm with a jar of popping candy and shared it with Linnai, Aimis, and Chisaki.
• The candy made Sigelica belch, so she rushed to the Logistics Department warehouse to share it with Zhou Yu and Dania.
• Dania and Sigelica began belching back and forth while Zhou Yu watched.
• Aimis and Linnai felt air stuck in their throats after eating the candy.
• Aimis tried to say she felt terrible, but instead declared that she felt wonderful.

Linnai and Aimis discovered that their words came out with the opposite of what they meant after eating strange candy, while Chisaki’s voice turned babyish. The dorm was left laughing at Chisaki’s lisp as she tried to investigate the problem.

• Linnai accidentally insulted Aimis despite wanting to praise her, and Aimis responded with unintended affection before breaking down in tears.
• Sigelica tried to calm Linnai and Aimis, but their speech continued to come out opposite to what they meant.
• Chisaki explained that their language centers had temporarily reversed their input and output signals, while speaking in a babyish lisp.
• Aimis and Linnai laughed at Chisaki’s transformed voice, and Chisaki solemnly repeated that the problem was a rigorous scientific question.