Recaps

Zhou Yu rescued Dania from Aleph One’s control and gave her a birthday, meals, and a place at Flamebearers' Academy. The arc left Dania building friendships and settling into school as Zhou Yu kept finding ways to protect and provide for her.

• Zhou Yu stopped Aleph One’s correction program, rescued Dania from the sacrifice ritual, and began feeding her with Sigelica’s help.
• Zhou Yu forged Dania a thirty-day sick leave, blocked Aleph One’s attempt to reclaim her, and took her to celebrate her birthday with cake and sweet potatoes.
• Zhou Yu brought Dania and Sigelica to Flamebearers' Academy, where Lupa offered Dania enrollment and protection in exchange for Zhou Yu taking a logistics and cafeteria job.
• Zhou Yu settled Dania into academy life, secured her supplies and uniform, and used notes and food promises to keep her awake in class.
• Zhou Yu enforced the cafeteria’s portion rules so Dania and Sigelica received full servings, while Chisaki and Linnai joined their circle.
• Aimis shared strawberry daifuku with Dania and took her for a motorcycle ride, while Zhou Yu arranged a regular exchange of sweets.
• When the dormitory power failed, Zhou Yu stopped a sparking relay with sweet potato skin, and the students shared the noodles he had prepared.
• Linnai brought Dania, Sigelica, and Chisaki to the game room, where Zhou Yu claimed tokens on the principal’s tab and started Dania on Lahai-Roi Blocks.

Zhou Yu helped Dania rediscover joy through arcade games, a concert, and outings, and Dania confessed that she liked him. As Dania grew closer to Zhou Yu, Sigelica sought help with feeling left behind, while a batch of popping candy caused the group to say the opposite of what they meant.

• Dania broke the Tetris machine’s maximum score, and Zhou Yu led the group through the escape room, where Dania laughed after he toppled the replica of Aleph One.
• Zhou Yu brought Dania and her friends to Flying Snow Velvet’s concert, then discovered backstage that Aimis was the singer and assigned her an early-morning breakfast delivery.
• Zhou Yu stopped three Fractsidus followers from detonating resonance bombs, sold the dismantled components, and used the money to buy Dania sweet-and-sour ribs and orange soda.
• Dania admitted she might like Zhou Yu, and the Slacking Squad arranged outings that brought the two closer, including holding hands at the amusement park.
• On the Ferris wheel, Dania told Zhou Yu she liked him, and he showed her that his plans with her were already part of his everyday life.
• Dania and Zhou Yu continued spending time together, while Sigelica sought counseling from Lu Hesi and accepted that Dania was becoming independent.
• Sigelica shared Lu Hesi’s popping candy with the group, and its effects made them belch and speak with their intended meanings reversed.

Zhou Yu handled a drug complaint, a staged warehouse emergency, exams, and a relay while growing closer to Dania and pulling Sigelica into a romance with Lu Hesi. After a storm and Fractsidus threat led Lupa to appoint him special security director, the arc ended with the girls teasing Dania and Sigelica about their relationships.

• Zhou Yu and Chisaki traced the girls’ strange speech to a mislabeled candy, confronted Lu Hesi, and obtained compensation and an improved formula.
• Zhou Yu turned a staged warehouse emergency into a barbecue, collected overtime pay, and led the girls through an exhausting exam-preparation push.
• Dania invited Zhou Yu stargazing, and after their friends’ spying interrupted them, Zhou Yu and Dania shared a kiss and planned another date.
• Zhou Yu investigated Yeqi’s invalid enrollment, assigned him restroom cleaning, and helped Dania, Linnai, and Sigelica win the academy relay with modified equipment.
• Zhou Yu took Dania to the seaside resort, where he navigated a black-mist intruder and a worsening storm warning while they grew more affectionate.
• Zhou Yu returned to Flamebearers' Academy, where Lupa revealed that Fractsidus forces were gathering to demand Dania, then appointed him special security director after he negotiated authority and funding.
• Zhou Yu paid most of his debts with Lupa’s funding, while Dania and her friends discussed his affection for her and Dania’s misunderstanding of a contraceptive device.
• Sigelica admitted that she and Dr. Lu Hesi had arranged a library meeting and lunch, while Linnai and the others teased her about the date.

Zhou Yu arranged a vacation with Dania and Chisa, but their trip was disrupted by Aleph One fluctuations and a Tacet Discord attack before they reached Jinzhou. There, Zhou Yu’s group investigated stolen resonance materials at Curiosity Hall, where the circus attraction turned into a trap.

• Zhou Yu prepared Dania for the physical test, helped her pass, and coached her and her friends through exams with unconventional lessons.
• Zhou Yu secured leave for himself and Dania, and Chisa joined them as their guard for the vacation.
• Zhou Yu erased a battlefield intrusion on the train, stopped a tsunami, and brought the group to the beach for food and rest.
• Zhou Yu’s group encountered a Tacet Discord tide on the way to Jinzhou, and Chisa, Sigelica, and the Midnight Rangers defeated the attacking monsters.
• Jiyan arranged the group’s entry into Jinzhou, where Dania and Zhou Yu shared a quiet night before Zhou Yu set boundaries and made a promise to revisit her request in a year.
• Qiu Yuan asked Zhou Yu to investigate a series of thefts involving resonance equipment, and Zhou Yu agreed after securing reimbursement and other conditions.
• Zhou Yu’s team entered Curiosity Hall and found signs that the circus concealed stolen Class A resonance materials.
• The hall’s mechanisms and puppets activated, isolation mist poured from a crate, and Zhou Yu found a note reading “Cradle retrieval.”