Recaps

After a medication caused bizarre voice changes and verbal reversals, Zhou Yu and the others traced the side effects to candy prescribed by Lu Hesi. They prepared a formal medical malpractice complaint and planned to deliver it to the medical department the next morning.

• Dania's hiccups stopped when Zhou Yu spoke in a SpongeBob-like voice, and Chisaki arrived with the same babyish speech after noticing a system fluctuation.
• Chisaki tested a saliva sample and identified traces of a temporary receptor blocker, while Zhou Yu concluded that the symptoms came from a drug side effect.
• Linnai and Aimis also displayed altered speech, and Sigelica's hiccups stopped after Zhou Yu explained that the effects should wear off soon.
• Chisaki found that Lu Hesi's prescription records linked the candy to temporary vocal abnormalities, so Zhou Yu drafted a medical malpractice assessment using the test results and voice data.
• Sigelica, Linnai, Aimis, Dania, and Chisaki agreed to take the complaint to the medical department the next morning and confront Lu Hesi.

Lupa and Moning discussed Zhou Yu’s ability to bend the academy’s rules and planned a controlled emergency to observe him. Zhou Yu anticipated the overtime opportunity, while his companions debated whether the pay would go toward his debts.

• Moning showed Lupa reports linking Zhou Yu’s actions to rule overrides, including a Fractsidus beacon that had begun drawing in signal residue like a vacuum cleaner.
• Lupa and Moning decided to stage a controlled pipeline overpressure emergency in warehouse three the next day, with the Logistics Department director required to respond.
• Lupa planned to visit Zhou Yu at lunch and try his sweet-and-sour spare ribs.
• Zhou Yu noticed a monitoring anomaly, calculated the overtime pay and meal allowance for the coming emergency, and prepared to collect them.
• Sigelica asked whether she could claim a share of Zhou Yu’s overtime pay, and Chisaki calculated that it would cover only a small fraction of his debt.

Zhou Yu and the Slacking Squad confronted Lu Hesi after his mislabeled anxiety-relief candy caused their voices and speech to change, and they secured compensation and an improved formula. As they left, Zhou Yu received an urgent hazardous-chemicals alarm at Warehouse No. 3, while Sigelica learned Lu Hesi had given her a private contact channel.

• Zhou Yu presented Lu Hesi with a medical malpractice report and Chisaki demonstrated that the candy’s ingredients and the archive’s labeling did not match.
• Lu Hesi examined Chisaki, and the squad’s altered speech and Aimis’s involuntary compliments and slaps exposed the candy’s side effects.
• Chisaki showed that the filing number listed the candy as a vitamin supplement, and Lu Hesi blamed a database migration mismatch.
• Zhou Yu submitted a compensation claim, and Lu Hesi offered a check and an improved candy formula with the side effects removed.
• Moning’s encrypted channel warned Zhou Yu that Warehouse No. 3’s hazardous-chemicals pipeline had reached ninety-seven percent of its safety threshold, so Zhou Yu and Dania headed there.
• Chisaki’s message revealed that Lu Hesi had left Sigelica a private emergency contact channel, and Sigelica ran to catch up with the group.

Zhou Yu turned a staged hazardous-materials alarm into a paid overtime barbecue and made Director Moning approve the crew’s wages and his compensation claim. Moning retaliated by scheduling the preparatory class midterms for Friday, leaving Linnai panicking while Zhou Yu calmly promised Dania hot pot afterward.

• Zhou Yu stopped the warehouse alarm by posting a maintenance shutdown notice, then used the emergency response to stage a barbecue with Dania and the others.
• Chisaki and Linnai traced the false alarm to the Academic Affairs Section, and Zhou Yu insisted the overtime still deserved pay.
• Zhou Yu brought Moning an overtime form and a clinical-probe compensation claim; Moning signed the overtime approval, wrote him a check, and accepted his sweet-and-sour ribs.
• After Zhou Yu left, Moning ate the ribs and scheduled the preparatory class midterms for the following Friday.
• Linnai panicked over the exams, while Zhou Yu offered Dania hot pot afterward and joked that Linnai could charge retake fees to Sigelica’s scholarship.

With seventy-two hours left before the midterms, Zhou Yu turned Sigelica’s dorm into a study camp and devised questionable study tactics for the Slacking Squad. The girls entered the exam room, while Zhou Yu stayed outside and drafted a hot pot reimbursement request charging Sigelica.

• Zhou Yu requisitioned Sigelica’s dorm as an exam prep command center and predicted which empathy theory chapters would appear on the test.
• Zhou Yu used candy and the promise of shoulder naps to motivate Dania, while Chisaki tried a metronome and Aimis taught Linnai history through rap.
• Sigelica studied combat theory amid the chaos and worried that her scholarship would suffer.
• After seventy-two hours of cramming, the girls arrived at the exam room exhausted, though Dania was cheerful and Linnai recited off-key rhymes.
• Zhou Yu stayed outside the exam room, wished the girls luck, and drafted a hot pot budget reimbursement with Sigelica listed as payer.

After exams, Dania realized she wanted Zhou Yu to eat her up, and her friends decided to arrange a stargazing date to advance their relationship. Dania invited Zhou Yu to the back mountain, and he agreed, while their friends secretly watched and recorded the moment.

• After the exams, Zhou Yu met Dania and offered her warm water, while Linnai, Aimis, and Sigelica complained about their exam performances.
• In the Logistics Department warehouse, Dania blushed while watching Zhou Yu repair a communicator and admitted to herself that she wanted him to eat her up.
• In the dormitory, Dania told Linnai, Aimis, and Sigelica what she had felt, and Linnai organized a back-mountain stargazing date with help from Aimis and Chisaki.
• The next day, Dania asked Zhou Yu to go stargazing with her on the back mountain that weekend, and Zhou Yu accepted while asking who had taught her to invite him.
• Linnai, Aimis, Chisaki, and Sigelica secretly watched Dania and Zhou Yu from outside the Logistics Department.

Zhou Yu and Dania went on a romantic nighttime outing, but their almost-kiss was interrupted by an urgent warning about a broken-down patrol robot. Zhou Yu left to charge it after promising to return in ten minutes, while their friends watched from the bushes.

• Zhou Yu met Dania outside her dorm and took her hand as they walked toward the abandoned observatory.
• Linnai, Aimis, Chisaki, and Sigelica secretly followed them under camouflage netting and monitored their reactions.
• Zhou Yu spread out snacks at the observatory, and Dania pressed close to him and requested cuddles.
• Zhou Yu pulled Dania into his arms and leaned in to kiss her, but his watch warned that patrol robot no. 07 had run out of power.
• Zhou Yu left to charge the robot and told Dania to wait ten minutes, while Linnai fainted and Aimis blamed the robot.

Dania and Zhou Yu nearly kissed at the observatory, but Aimis, Linnai, Chisaki, and Sigelica fell out of their camouflage net and interrupted them. Zhou Yu covered the mortified Dania with his coat, then confronted the four eavesdroppers and threatened them with the Logistics Department’s winter artificial snowfall project.

• Zhou Yu returned to the observatory with a dew-covered white flower after the robot charger connector failed, and tucked the flower into Dania’s hair.
• Dania leaned against Zhou Yu, and he drew her into his embrace as they prepared to kiss.
• Aimis, Linnai, Chisaki, and Sigelica tumbled out of the bushes tangled in their camouflage net and landed in front of Zhou Yu and Dania.
• Dania screamed and hid in Zhou Yu’s embrace while the four eavesdroppers made excuses for spying.
• Zhou Yu covered Dania with his coat and warned the four girls that he could give them an early taste of the Logistics Department’s winter artificial snowfall project.
• Sigelica surrendered and offered to pay for the camouflage net.

After Sigelica and the others left, Zhou Yu comforted Dania and kissed her on the rooftop. They parted outside her dormitory, and Zhou Yu returned to the Logistics Department warehouse, planning to take her to the seaside next time.

• Zhou Yu reassured Dania that the others had gone and continued comforting her on the rooftop.
• Zhou Yu gently kissed Dania, and she told him it felt sweet.
• Zhou Yu and Dania agreed they wanted a next time and joked about having a date over sweet-and-sour ribs the next day.
• Dania kissed Zhou Yu's cheek before running into her dormitory, then messaged him that she wanted another tasty treat.
• Zhou Yu went to the warehouse to repair the patrol robot and decided to take Dania to the seaside next time.

Zhou Yu accepted Linnai, Aimis, Chisaki, and Sigelica’s apologies for spying, but fined them and ordered them to clean the warehouses. After he offered them roasted sweet potatoes, the four set to work, motivated by the promise of lunch.

• Linnai presented Zhou Yu with an apology letter, and Chisaki submitted a report documenting the group’s spying.
• Zhou Yu charged each of the four fifty star coins in labor and canceled their free breakfasts and lunch sponsorship for a week.
• Zhou Yu canceled Aimis’s concert seat, then agreed to save her a ticket if its price came out of her pay.
• Zhou Yu gave the four roasted sweet potatoes and told them they could eat after finishing their work.
• Linnai rallied the others to clear the cockroaches from warehouse three, while Sigelica complained about her debt and Chisaki calculated their expected cleaning rate.

Zhou Yu investigated a suspicious new transfer student, Yeqi, after Linnai reported that he had come from the Northern Territory and was watching Dania. He discovered Yeqi’s transfer paperwork could not be valid and went to the registrar’s office, while his watch flashed dark red again.

• Zhou Yu noticed his watch flash dark red during lunch, then told Linnai he might have trash to take care of that afternoon.
• Dania felt a brief burst of heat in her fingertips when Yeqi, a new student from the Northern Territory, entered her lecture hall.
• Yeqi told Linnai he had come to Flamebearers' Academy looking for someone and stared toward Dania.
• Linnai warned Zhou Yu that Yeqi’s gaze toward Dania seemed suspicious, and Zhou Yu’s watch flashed dark red again.
• Zhou Yu checked the academy’s transfer rules, concluded Yeqi’s paperwork was invalid because the Northern Territory had no public security committee, and headed to the registrar’s office.

Zhou Yu used academy rules to force Yeqi, a specially approved transfer student and Fractsidus sleeper agent, into a binding work-study assignment cleaning the Building Eight men's restroom. As Yeqi began the job, Principal Lupa watched and considered whether Zhou Yu could interfere with the world's fundamental laws.

• Zhou Yu found that Yeqi lacked the required transfer-out and criminal-record documents, so he suspended Yeqi's enrollment benefits.
• Chisaki and Sigelica questioned Yeqi about his background, while Chisaki confirmed Principal Lupa's approval was genuine.
• Zhou Yu issued Yeqi a binding assignment to clean the Building Eight men's restroom, and the academy rules transformed Yeqi's uniform into a cleaner's uniform.
• Dania brought Zhou Yu braised pork and sesame candy, while Sigelica, Linnai, Chisaki, and Aimis watched Yeqi start cleaning and discussed Zhou Yu's methods.
• Lupa recognized Yeqi as a Fractsidus sleeper agent and examined a file asking whether Zhou Yu could intervene in the world's fundamental laws.
• Zhou Yu repeated that anyone who ruined the two-day weekend deserved a month of toilet-cleaning duty as the assignment form took effect.

Linnai revealed that the sports meet’s winning relay team would receive prize money and an all-inclusive resort trip, prompting Dania to sign up for the 400-meter relay with Linnai and Sigelica. Zhou Yu planned to exploit the rules with modified roller skates, and Sigelica reluctantly joined the effort as the team prepared to compete for first place.

• Linnai announced the relay prize of five hundred star coins and a resort stay, and Dania woke up at the promise of an all-you-can-eat buffet.
• Dania signed herself, Linnai, and Sigelica up for the relay despite Linnai’s and Sigelica’s objections.
• Zhou Yu drafted a proposal to use auxiliary equipment, while Chisaki calculated that modified roller skates could improve their time.
• A broadcast sent Yeqi to clean the men’s restroom in building eight, where he slipped into a bucket of dirty water and blamed Zhou Yu.
• Zhou Yu revealed forty pairs of roller skates, and Sigelica gave in and took a pair as the team set its sights on first place.

Sigelica and her classmates entered the sports meet with a cheerleading formation built around a riot shield, while Zhou Yu prepared class three for the relay. After the race began, Linnai took the lead as the neighboring runner slipped, leaving Zhou Yu’s possible interference under scrutiny.

• Sigelica refused the cheerleading skirt and used a Logistics Department riot shield as her prop, while Chisaki approved its concealment potential.
• Class three entered the field with Sigelica carrying the shield, drawing startled reactions from the stands and Moning.
• Zhou Yu motivated Dania with the promise of seafood pizza and encouraged Linnai and Sigelica with cafeteria data and a scholarship deal.
• As the relay started, Zhou Yu touched a loose ground spike in lane four while the buzz-cut runner stood nearby.
• Linnai nearly fell at the start, recovered on the bend, and surged into first place as the runner in lane four slipped.
• Lupa asked whether the destabilizing element from the Logistics Department was the one leading on the bend.

Zhou Yu helped Preparatory Class Three win the relay by secretly modifying the track conditions and using faulty camera footage to defeat a cheating accusation. As he and Dania headed toward their seaside resort trip, Moning arranged a field investigation there, and Zhou Yu received an ominous invitation on his watch.

• Linnai, Aimis, and Sigelica handed the baton to Dania, who overtook the sports class's runner and won the relay after Zhou Yu altered the air resistance on lane three.
• Zhou Yu used the track maintenance form and a counseling-cost estimate to counter the sports class teacher's cheating accusation, and the head referee confirmed Preparatory Class Three's first-place finish.
• Dania celebrated the win and took Zhou Yu's hand as he promised her a free seafood buffet at the seaside resort.
• Moning told Lupa that the resort's abnormal weather system needed investigating and planned to send Zhou Yu on a field assignment.
• Zhou Yu received a seaside resort invitation on his old digital watch, recognized a familiar sign of compulsory correction, and decided the owner had come to collect the bill.

Zhou Yu joined the academy’s seaside outing, teasing Sigelica and Lu Hesi while doting on Dania. As the group settled in for seafood, he detected a supernatural storm approaching and prepared to compete with a god for the order, with Aimis and Chisaki joining the group.

• Zhou Yu and Dania set off with the academy group, where Sigelica’s awkwardness around Lu Hesi led Zhou Yu to tease them and push Sigelica into the seat beside him.
• On the bus, Zhou Yu fed Dania snacks while Lu Hesi warned everyone about a restricted area near the coast, and Sigelica carefully recorded his instructions.
• At the seaside resort, Zhou Yu left Sigelica to handle the luggage while Lu Hesi helped her carry it, then negotiated down the price of Dania’s lobster.
• Zhou Yu’s watch warned that the regional weather control system had been overwritten as a vast black storm advanced, and he ordered more food before facing the coming danger.
• Aimis and Chisaki arrived after sleeping through the ride, and Zhou Yu noted that their extra help would also mean more competition for seafood.

A booking error left Zhou Yu and Dania with the hotel’s only available room, a couple’s suite, and Zhou Yu improvised a barrier before Dania cuddled up to him. As they fell asleep, Aleph One’s signal was ignored, and a human-shaped mass of black mist appeared on the beach, watching their room.

• Zhou Yu used consumer-protection rules and a logistics contingency plan to secure the suite, while Lu Hesi arranged a staff room for Sigelica.
• Dania refused to share a room with Sigelica, so Zhou Yu took her to the suite and set up a line of bottled water as a boundary across the bed.
• Dania crossed the boundary and clung to Zhou Yu, bargaining for crab roe buns and seafood congee before they settled down to sleep.
• Aleph One’s resonance warning appeared, but Zhou Yu rejected the signal and pulled Dania closer.
• The storm stopped abruptly, and a human-shaped black mist emerged on the beach and fixed its red light on the suite’s window.

Zhou Yu and Dania spent the day at the zoo and night market, where Dania’s jealousy triggered a wave of pressure and Zhou Yu used his Logistics Department skills to protect and indulge her. As they nearly kissed back at the hotel, Zhou Yu’s watch warned that a high-energy intruder had breached the outer defenses, and a black-mist hand appeared against the window.

• Zhou Yu changed the room’s climate controls to disperse the black-mist hand’s condensation, then woke Dania and took her to breakfast.
• At the zoo, an alpaca spat on Zhou Yu, and Dania’s anger forced hundreds of alpacas to kneel until Zhou Yu cleared the pressure with his watch.
• Zhou Yu calmed Dania by getting her two buckets of feed, while Sigelica questioned Lu Hesi about the alpacas’ spitting behavior.
• Dania asked Chisaki to photograph her clinging to Zhou Yu, then showed the picture to Sigelica and Aimis.
• At the night market, Zhou Yu used inspections and purchasing standards to bargain down prices while Dania ate the food.
• Back at the hotel, Zhou Yu and Dania moved close to kissing before his watch warned of a high-energy intruder, and a black-mist hand appeared against the window.

Zhou Yu sent away the black-mist intruder and spent the night with Dania, whose attempt to take a book’s romantic expression literally nearly led to a kiss before Sigelica interrupted them. The old digital watch then warned that an unknown authority had changed the area code and raised the tsunami warning to maximum.

• Zhou Yu posted a paid-leave notice on the window, triggering rule enforcement that returned the black mist to the waiting area.
• Dania told Zhou Yu that her book said people who liked each other would eat each other, and she climbed onto his lap to ask if she tasted bad.
• Zhou Yu and Dania kissed, but Sigelica’s riot shield crashed into the neighboring wall and interrupted them.
• Zhou Yu wrapped Dania in a quilt, told her to wait until she was nineteen, and promised to take her for seafood noodles the next day.
• Zhou Yu’s old digital watch warned that an unknown authority had modified the area code and that the tsunami warning level was maximum.

After Zhou Yu and Dania devoured a seafood buffet, Zhou Yu returned to Flamebearers' Academy and learned that Fractsidus forces were gathering in the Northern Territory to demand Dania. He dismissed Principal Lupa's warning and prepared to put the visitors to work.

• Zhou Yu used his watch to reset Dania's satiety, and the pair ate so much that the buffet owner gave them vouchers to leave.
• On the bus, Lu Hesi exchanged contact information with Sigelica, while Zhou Yu cared for the sleeping Dania.
• At Flamebearers' Academy, NANA informed Zhou Yu that his paid leave had ended and Principal Lupa wanted to see him.
• Moning teased Zhou Yu about his seaside trip and warned him that data on the abnormal weather was on Lupa's desk.
• Lupa questioned Zhou Yu about the rooftop energy reading and Aleph One's severed resonance signal, then told him Fractsidus forces were gathering to demand Dania.
• Zhou Yu showed Lupa an illegal-structure demolition notice and said the Fractsidus could work as temporary dishwashers.

Zhou Yu demanded overtime compensation and greater authority from Lupa after the seaside resort mission, arguing that the academy should respect workers’ rights. Lupa appointed him special security director, and Zhou Yu left with a new contract, a tin of tea, and a promise to protect Dania from whatever the Northern Territory sent next.

• Zhou Yu presented Lupa with a reimbursement claim for overtime, crisis management, caregiving, and damage to his coat.
• Lupa challenged Zhou Yu over making Yeqi, a Northern Territory Fractsidus operative, work as a cleaner under a work-study contract.
• Zhou Yu asked for his reimbursement and a promotion giving him authority over Dania’s safety, a separate budget, and control of personnel and security forces.
• Lupa appointed Zhou Yu special security director, reporting directly to her, and approved his initial budget allocation.
• Zhou Yu took a tin of Huanglong tea as interest on his emotional distress damages and said the Logistics Department could hire more cleaners if the Northern Territory came after Dania again.
• Lupa found Zhou Yu’s request to add another day of sweet-and-sour spare ribs for Dania and chuckled over his priorities.

Zhou Yu returned to the Logistics Department with a new appointment and funding, but Sigelica made him pay most of the money toward his debts. As life settled into a routine with Dania, Zhou Yu planned to extend the department’s paid leave system to the Lahai-Roi Defense Line.

• Dania greeted Zhou Yu, and he gave her the tea he had taken from Principal Lupa’s office.
• Sigelica presented Zhou Yu with a detailed list of debts and an installment repayment plan, while Dania and the others insisted he pay.
• Zhou Yu used Lupa’s funding card to pay most of his debt, then signed an agreement to repay the remaining five-figure balance in twenty-four interest-free installments.
• Zhou Yu and Dania settled into a routine of planning meals together while he repaired a patrol robot and blocked a message containing “Aleph One.”
• Zhou Yu said he wanted to extend the Logistics Department’s paid leave system to everyone at the Lahai-Roi Defense Line.

At the girls’ dorm late-night tea party, Linnai and Aimis questioned Dania about sharing a seaside resort suite with Zhou Yu, and Dania calmly revealed how much she liked him. Sigelica flew into a rage and vowed to confront Zhou Yu the next day.

• Zhou Yu left tea and an insulated cup for Dania, while Sigelica secured the warehouse safe after paying down part of her debt.
• Linnai, Aimis, and Chisaki joined Sigelica and Dania for the Slacking Squad’s late-night pillow talk, and Chisaki gave Dania a brown bear plush from Zhou Yu.
• Linnai and Aimis asked Dania what had happened with Zhou Yu in the resort’s couples’ suite, and Dania said he had held her after she kicked away the bottles marking his boundary.
• Dania revealed that she had asked Zhou Yu about being eaten up by someone who liked her and had called herself his private property.
• Sigelica blamed Zhou Yu for putting dangerous ideas in Dania’s head and vowed to confront him at Flamebearers’ Academy the next day.

Dania recounted mistaking a strawberry-flavored contraceptive for candy, and Linnai explained its real purpose, leaving Dania mortified by what she had said to Zhou Yu. Sigelica received a thoughtful message from Lu Hesi and blushed, drawing Linnai’s attention.

• Linnai pressed Dania to describe what happened after Zhou Yu hugged her, and Dania recalled finding a pink strawberry box by the bed.
• Dania said she had mistaken the box for candy and planned to share it with Zhou Yu, but he snatched it away and claimed it had expired.
• Chisaki identified the box as a contraceptive device, and Linnai explained its purpose to Dania.
• Dania remembered offering to let Zhou Yu eat the strawberry first and hid in the bear’s arms in embarrassment.
• Sigelica received a message from Lu Hesi telling her to come back and rest, then blushed as Linnai watched her.

Sigelica admitted that she and Dr. Lu Hesi had arranged to spend Saturday together at the Central Library, where they planned to discuss research on postwar trauma. Her roommates teased her about the date, while Linnai wondered whether something was wrong with the dorm’s feng shui.

• Linnai caught Sigelica smiling at her terminal and accused her of being lovestruck over Dr. Lu Hesi.
• Chisaki threatened to make Sigelica’s terminal suffer battlefield-grade network lag unless she explained her communications with the doctor.
• Sigelica admitted that she and Dr. Lu Hesi had agreed to meet at the Central Library that weekend.
• Sigelica explained that they planned to discuss papers on postwar traumatic stress disorder and have lunch at a nearby light-meal restaurant.
• Sigelica read Lu Hesi’s message confirming their Saturday morning meeting and blushed as her roommates teased her.
• Linnai compared Sigelica’s library date with Dania’s study plans and wondered if the dorm had bad feng shui.