Chapter Summaries

Xiao Zhen trained Daigo in an abandoned icebound city, teaching him to control Ultraman Tiga’s strength and speed. Three days later, a monster connected to the missing Jupiter 3 astronauts attacked a research base, and Daigo struggled with Xiao Zhen’s warning that the astronauts might be beyond saving.

• Xiao Zhen took Daigo to an abandoned city buried in ice and snow, where Daigo transformed into Ultraman Tiga for training.
• Achilles evaded Tiga’s powerful attacks and exposed his lack of rhythm, then sent him flying after Tiga switched to Sky Type.
• Three days later, a monster attacked a space development bureau’s research base, but Daigo and Shinjoh’s missiles damaged it enough to make it flee.
• GUTS discovered that the monster was connected to Jupiter 3 and that the three missing astronauts had fused with it while retaining some consciousness.
• Daigo called Xiao Zhen to ask whether the astronauts could be saved, and Xiao Zhen warned that they might already be dead and that Daigo sometimes had to destroy monsters without hesitation.
• After the call, Xiao Zhen wondered whether the monster’s origin was connected to Ultraman Dyna and contemplated the secrets of the world.

GUTS fought the monster containing the three Jupiter 3 astronauts, and Shinjoh’s attempt to awaken them let Tiga destroy it. Xiao Zhen revived the astronauts in new bodies with help from the Spark Blade, while GUTS believed they had died; then Esaki appeared before Shinjoh.

• TPC Headquarters ordered GUTS to destroy the monster despite the three astronauts still being conscious inside it.
• Daigo transformed into Ultraman Tiga after the Guts Wing crashed, while Xiao Zhen sensed the astronauts’ sleeping souls within the monster.
• Shinjoh transmitted footage into the monster, awakening the astronauts, and Tiga destroyed it with his ultimate move.
• Xiao Zhen fused the three souls with prepared corpses, and the Spark Blade restored their heartbeats and breathing; he also altered their memories and named the weapon.
• GUTS mourned the astronauts, believing they had died, until Esaki appeared in a hospital gown and greeted Shinjoh.

Xiao Zhen and Kurumi prepared for a Halloween date, but Miku joined them, and they ran into Daigo and Rena while they were patrolling. The chapter left Rena shocked by Xiao Zhen’s openly claimed relationships with two women.

• Daigo finished training with Xiao Zhen, who kicked him into a river, before Daigo left after receiving a message from GUTS.
• Xiao Zhen and Kurumi bought massive quantities of food supplies while traveling under different identities and watched news of another monster attack.
• Kurumi invited Xiao Zhen on a Halloween date, and he agreed to dress up for her.
• On Halloween, Xiao Zhen and Kurumi set out in costume, but Miku joined them and insisted on coming along.
• Xiao Zhen recognized Daigo in a pumpkin costume, and Daigo explained that GUTS members were patrolling in costume during the holiday.
• Rena met Xiao Zhen and asked who Kurumi and Miku were; both women called themselves his girlfriend or lover, leaving Rena stunned.

Xiao Zhen and Daigo pursued Kilanbo, a suspicious candy seller who lured children into a pocket dimension. Daigo transformed into Tiga and began fighting Kilanbo outside the dimension while Xiao Zhen watched and planned to collect its remains for research.

• Xiao Zhen noticed that the witch selling candy had no reflection, and Daigo realized it might be an alien or monster.
• Kilanbo fled after noticing Daigo, and Daigo chased it while Xiao Zhen followed; Miku kept Rena from worrying about them.
• Daigo and Xiao Zhen entered a spatial passage in an abandoned building and found a small world containing children with vacant eyes.
• Kilanbo attacked the pair, but Xiao Zhen pushed Daigo out of danger, and Daigo transformed into Tiga.
• Tiga carried Kilanbo outside the pocket dimension to protect the children and beat it in hand-to-hand combat before Kilanbo vanished amid eerie laughter.

Xiao Zhen helped Tiga defeat Kilanbo, whose strange powers had trapped children in a collapsing space, and Daigo hurried to rescue them. Xiao Zhen then reunited with Kurumi and Miku, and the three set off toward a Halloween amusement-park date.

• Kilanbo attacked Tiga with multiple solid clones, while Xiao Zhen sensed which one held the most energy.
• Xiao Zhen set Kilanbo's head ablaze, causing its clones to vanish and giving Tiga the chance to immobilize and destroy it with the Zeperion Beam.
• Xiao Zhen collected Kilanbo's essence blood and told Daigo that the trapped children had returned to normal and that the collapsing space would soon disappear.
• Daigo thanked Xiao Zhen and rushed to rescue the children, while Xiao Zhen left him to take candy from Kilanbo's stall to Kurumi and Miku.
• Kurumi and Miku accepted the purified candy and argued over who would go on a Halloween amusement-park date with Xiao Zhen.

Xiao Zhen heard from Daigo about Saki summoning an alien monster and encouraged him to trust his instincts. After Nia predicted something interesting would happen at Water Mountain Amusement Park, Xiao Zhen took the girls there and entered the Haunted House with Zi Yan.

• Daigo told Xiao Zhen that Saki had summoned a hard-shelled monster from beyond the universe before disappearing, and Xiao Zhen urged Daigo to trust his instincts.
• Nia told Xiao Zhen to visit Water Mountain Amusement Park three days later and refused to reveal her prophecy.
• Xiao Zhen arrived at the amusement park with a large group of girls, and the group split up to avoid drawing attention.
• Xiao Zhen and Zi Yan wandered around the park before he suggested they try the Haunted House.
• Zi Yan declared that she was too powerful to be scared, and Xiao Zhen led her into the Haunted House.

Xiao Zhen and Zi Yan visited a haunted house, where they encountered GUTS pilot Shinjoh and his sister Mayumi. After recognizing that a horned monster was about to emerge beneath Shuishan Amusement Park, Xiao Zhen warned Daigo and set out to find the others.

• Xiao Zhen and Zi Yan walked through the haunted house without being frightened, and Zi Yan hurried them past the staff dressed as nurses.
• Xiao Zhen recognized Shinjoh after finding him terrified on the floor, and Shinjoh introduced himself while his sister Mayumi teased him.
• Shinjoh went to help a boy who was being bullied, while Xiao Zhen realized a monster would soon break through beneath the amusement park.
• Xiao Zhen called Daigo, confirmed the underground monster had horns, and urged him to hurry to the park.
• Xiao Zhen told Zi Yan they would watch for now and suggested they find the others before the monster appeared.

Xiao Zhen watched Gagi trap the amusement park and battle Tiga, then transformed into Ultraman Achilles and killed the monster. He took Gagi’s body and invited Daigo to his house for a feast.

• Gagi raised a barrier around the amusement park, and Zi Yan used her innate ability to pass through it while Daigo’s fighter was damaged by its reflected lasers.
• Gagi emerged and threatened the trapped visitors, including Mayumi, until Munakata and Rena used a weapon to destroy the barrier.
• Nia told Xiao Zhen that Gagi’s eggs could aid cultivation, and Xiao Zhen sensed six growing life signatures inside the monster.
• Daigo transformed into Tiga and fought Gagi, but Xiao Zhen became Ultraman Achilles and told him to let the monster go.
• Achilles swiftly beheaded Gagi, took its body, and invited Daigo to his house for a feast.

Daigo visited Xiao Zhen’s villa, enjoyed food made from the amusement park monster, and took some meat home. Later, Xiao Yan and Yao Chen noticed a strange crow-headed figure searching from a rooftop, leaving Xiao Yan concealed in the grass.

• Daigo arrived at Xiao Zhen’s villa, where he joined Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, and the others for a meal.
• Xiao Zhen revealed that the egg tarts and steaks were made from the amusement park monster, and Daigo eagerly ate them.
• Xiao Zhen gave Daigo ten jin of monster meat when he left.
• After Daigo dealt with two more monsters, Xiao Yan walked along a quiet road while Yao Chen teased him about being addicted to the internet.
• Yao Chen sensed danger and concealed Xiao Yan in the grass, then directed him to look at a crow-headed figure holding a weapon on a rooftop.

Xiao Yan reported alien traffickers to Xiao Zhen, who handed the problem to GUTS. After two meteors fell in Japan, Nia revealed that an alien hunting game had begun and called Xiao Zhen to take action.

• Xiao Yan told Xiao Zhen he had encountered aliens, then showed him a weapon and a corpse from the Crow People.
• Xiao Zhen dismissed the threat as TPC’s responsibility and told Xiao Yan to notify Daigo and get some sleep.
• Daigo woke to Xiao Zhen’s call and alerted Captain Megumi Iruma, sending GUTS out to search for the Crow People.
• Two flaming meteors landed in Japan, and a handcuffed woman emerged from one while a hunter alien watched from its spaceship.
• Nia consulted Rasiel, decided it was time to go out, and told Xiao Zhen that the Muzhenian hunting game had begun.

Xiao Zhen rescued Lucia from a Muzhenian hunter and fought the alien on a remote mountain after it threatened him. He killed the giant Muzhenian with his Light Chainsaw Man technique and considered turning its body into a combat puppet.

• Xiao Zhen, Nia, and Zi Yan interrupted the Muzhenian as it hunted Lucia, and Lucia fled without speaking to them.
• Xiao Zhen challenged the Muzhenian and led it to a remote barren mountain to avoid endangering people.
• The Muzhenian transformed into a giant insect-like monster, and Xiao Zhen transformed into Achilles to fight it.
• After the Muzhenian struck Achilles with a surprise headbutt, Xiao Zhen grabbed its antenna and sawed through its neck with a spinning light wheel.
• The Muzhenian died, and Xiao Zhen said he might modify its corpse into a combat puppet while Nia criticized his violent technique.

Xiao Zhen helped Lucia and Zara escape the Muzhenians, then learned that the second Gazort had appeared near an airport. He went to investigate and met Takuma, a dead man with a high-purity Light Gene who asked him to save a girl in danger.

• Xiao Zhen destroyed Lucia and Zara’s tracking handcuffs and sent them into the Mecha Beast World for safety.
• Over the following month, TPC developed technology to convert solar energy into electricity in space, disturbing creatures in the ionosphere.
• Daigo told Xiao Zhen that he had injured his arm when the Guts Wing crashed during a patrol with Shinjoh.
• Nia identified the approaching monster as the second Gazort and said Mayumi was about to lose the love of her life.
• Xiao Zhen flew invisibly to the airport, where Gazort was attacking, and met Takuma, who asked him to save a girl.
• Xiao Zhen used the System to learn that Takuma was dead but could briefly take physical form because of his high-purity Light Gene.

Xiao Zhen saved Mayumi from Gazort, then defeated the monster with his Heavenly Flame Embrace Kill. Takuma reached Mayumi in a dream to explain his death, leaving her to wake with the pocket watch she had given him.

• Xiao Zhen invisibly pushed Mayumi's stalled car away from Gazort, then transformed into Achilles to block its Lightning Ball and help her escape with Shinjoh and Daigo.
• Achilles vanished from Gazort's sight and wounded it with surprise attacks, but Gazort detected him by sensing ions in the area.
• Achilles grabbed Gazort from behind and burned it to death with his Heavenly Flame Embrace Kill, then stored its corpse.
• Takuma entered Mayumi's dream and told her what had happened, while his gratitude caused golden light to enter Xiao Zhen and purify his Light Gene.
• Mayumi woke with the pocket watch she had given Takuma and realized that her boyfriend was dead.

Xiao Zhen and Zi Yan went to Mount Sukuna after Nia divined that Sukuna Oni would appear there. They prompted GUTS to investigate, and the mountain shook as Sukuna Oni's enormous arm emerged before the team.

• Xiao Zhen and the girls discussed Gazort's meat, and Nia divined that the next monster would be Sukuna Oni, sealed inside Mount Sukuna.
• Xiao Zhen and Zi Yan traveled to Mount Sukuna and followed three suspicious men to a temple after they stole its statue and katana.
• Xiao Zhen sensed the seal weakening and called Daigo to alert GUTS about a monster beneath the mountain.
• Daigo and the GUTS team arrived, but Munakata and Horii doubted Xiao Zhen's warning until Xiao Zhen stirred the sleeping presence underground.
• Mount Sukuna shook, and Sukuna Oni's massive dark-red arm burst out of the mountain before withdrawing.

GUTS watched as the Sukuna Oni grew closer to revival, while the spirit of Ida Iryu possessed the man in sunglasses and returned to Mount Sukuna with the sword. By dawn, Ida Iryu admitted he could not defeat the revived monster, and Daigo unexpectedly encountered him in the bushes.

• Xiao Zhen and Zi Yan stayed with GUTS as the Sukuna Oni stirred beneath Mount Sukuna, and Horii learned the legend of Ida Iryu and the sword that had once sealed it.
• The Sukuna Oni’s limbs emerged from the mountain, while Ida Iryu possessed the man in sunglasses, took up his sword, and forced one of the thieves to drive him away.
• The Sukuna Oni howled through the night before its limbs retreated at dawn, and Xiao Zhen sensed it would revive completely by sunset.
• Ida Iryu returned to Mount Sukuna and warned that the Sukuna Oni’s restored heart had made it far stronger than before.
• Ida Iryu challenged someone hiding in the bushes, and Daigo emerged, explaining that he had only gone there to relieve himself.

Daigo met the spirit of the legendary Ida Iryu, who urged him to defeat the Sukuna Oni before departing the body of the shrine thief. After the Sukuna Oni emerged from Mount Sukuna, Tiga fought it and gained the upper hand until the demon drew a massive greatsword.

• Ida Iryu told Daigo that the Sukuna Oni had grown too powerful for him, but believed Daigo could defeat it, then left the thief's body and asked Daigo to look after the man.
• Daigo dragged the unconscious, handcuffed thief back to camp, where Horii and the local police officers discussed the kimchi that had upset Horii and Daigo's stomachs.
• At sunset, the ground around Mount Sukuna shook and the Sukuna Oni crawled out, prompting Munakata to order the team into battle and nonessential personnel to evacuate.
• The Sukuna Oni struck a GUTS Wing with a fireball, and Daigo transformed into Tiga to draw the demon's attention.
• Tiga transformed into Power Type and battered the Sukuna Oni in close combat, but the demon pulled a massive greatsword from the mountain, forcing Tiga to step back.

Tiga defeated Sukuna Oni, but its severed head attacked him until Ida Iryu destroyed it with a light-infused sword. After returning home, Xiao Zhen learned that Golza was nearing its evolution and that Keigo Masaki had found stone statues of a giant and a monster.

• Tiga severed Sukuna Oni’s sword and head with a light cutter, but the head suddenly bit his shoulder and drained his remaining strength.
• Munakata ordered Rena to cover Tiga, while Xiao Zhen spotted Ida Iryu watching from a distant tree.
• Ida Iryu struck Sukuna Oni’s head with his sword and destroyed it, allowing Tiga to fly away and Daigo to regroup with Horii and the others.
• After the group returned home, Xiao Zhen and Zi Yan rejoined the girls, while Kurumi rested and left unfinished matters to her clones.
• Nia told Xiao Zhen that Golza’s evolution was nearly complete and its tail had regrown, and that Keigo Masaki had discovered stone statues of a giant and a monster.

Xiao Zhen tracked Keigo Masaki to a hidden cave, where he discovered Masaki’s research into the Light Gene and his plans to claim the power of an Ultraman. The test confirmed that Masaki possessed the gene, leaving him poised to attempt merging with the statue.

• Xiao Zhen hypnotized a researcher, learned that Keigo Masaki was studying newly discovered statues at Kiyama Base, and followed the directions to a trapped cave.
• Xiao Zhen found Masaki studying Daigo’s transformations and genetic samples, and praised him for discovering the Light Gene.
• Masaki recognized Xiao Zhen and deduced that he was Ultraman Achilles, while revealing that he had concealed evidence of Daigo’s identity.
• Masaki declared that Earth needed him as a powerful leader, and his test results confirmed that he possessed the Light Gene.

Keigo Masaki confirmed that he carried the genes needed to gain the power of light and planned to steal Daigo’s Spark Lens to awaken them. Xiao Zhen tested Keigo’s ambition and fighting ability, then decided to postpone taking the stone statues and consider recruiting him as a subordinate.

• Keigo Masaki showed Xiao Zhen his test results and explained his plan to seize Daigo’s Spark Lens and awaken his dormant genes.
• Xiao Zhen let Keigo examine the Spark Blade, but refused to lend it to him when Keigo asked to borrow it.
• Keigo challenged Xiao Zhen to spar, and Xiao Zhen dodged his attacks before stopping a full-force punch with one pinky finger and sending him flying with battle qi.
• Keigo wondered why Xiao Zhen had visited and compared the strength of Achilles’s human form with Tiga’s.
• Xiao Zhen decided not to move the stone statues yet and considered recruiting Keigo after defeating him at full strength.

Xiao Zhen returned home, brought gifts, and learned that Golza had reappeared, while Miku invited him to her concert. At Miku’s performance, Maya watched from the crowd, moved by the singer’s happiness as she continued to wait for her family.

• Xiao Zhen returned home and shared local gifts from Kumamoto City with Yoshino, Nia, and the other women.
• Nia told Xiao Zhen that Ultraman Tiga had defeated a troublesome alien and that Golza might soon emerge after evolving.
• Miku invited Xiao Zhen to perform with her at a concert, but he declined and promised to attend as an audience member.
• Daigo received a report that Golza was hidden inside an active volcano and was called back to duty before he could enjoy his day off.
• Xiao Zhen praised Daigo’s future prospects, and he and the women planned a vacation after Miku’s concert.
• Miku performed for a large crowd while Maya watched from the back, envying her happiness as she waited for her family.