Recaps

Lucy confronted He-El at the Jinghua Hotel, where he explained the effects of CPH4 and questioned her unusual energy needs. She realized he had known her future and been waiting for her, and He-El confirmed it.

• Lucy went to Suite 502 at the Jinghua Hotel and entered after He-El’s assistant invited her in.
• Jack and the mercenaries left, and Lucy pointed her TT33 at He-El before he offered her food and explained that her body needed high-energy, high-protein nourishment.
• Lucy said her body conserved energy unusually well and asked whether He-El had known she would change.
• He-El questioned whether Lucy’s lack of hunger meant she had little time left, and Lucy lowered her gun and ate the food.
• Lucy asked whether He-El had known her future, and He-El admitted that he had.

He-El told Lucy that he knew her future because he had come from another universe, while admitting he had only seen the part of her life in which she unlocked her brain's potential. They set out to find the rest of Zhang's CPH4, leaving Jack stunned as He-El dismissed his mercenaries and prepared to face Zhang's armed men with Lucy.

• He-El said he knew Lucy's future and explained that he had come from another universe and had seen part of her life.
• Lucy questioned how He-El could have predicted that CPH4 would seep into her body before it happened.
• He-El told Lucy that she might understand his claims once her brain potential reached 100%, then put aside his own questions about his origins.
• He-El promised to stay beside Lucy as she pursued what she wanted and asked what she planned to do.
• Lucy said she needed to learn where Zhang was transporting the other CPH4.
• He-El told Jack to bring out the weapons, dismissed him and the mercenaries, and left Jack shocked that he and Lucy would face Zhang's armed men alone.

He-El and Lucy attacked Mr. Zhang’s armed gangsters in the hotel, using grenades and gunfire to kill or disable nearly all of them. They entered the presidential suite, where Lucy shot Mr. Zhang in the hand, and he demanded to know who they were.

• Jack offered He-El weapons, and He-El and Lucy took pistols, magazines, and grenades before heading for the gangsters’ floor.
• Lucy threw a grenade into the stairwell, and she and He-El killed two gangsters as they entered it under fire.
• Lucy led the advance, using grenades and precise shots to kill or disable more of Mr. Zhang’s men while He-El covered her.
• The remaining gangsters barricaded themselves in the presidential suite, where Lucy threw in two grenades and shot five men.
• Lucy shot Mr. Zhang through the hand as he tried to resist, and he demanded to know who she and He-El were.

Lucy questioned Mr. Zhang after defeating his gang and used her expanded brain abilities to extract the destinations of the other drug couriers. He-El killed Mr. Zhang and followed Lucy out of the suite.

• Lucy confirmed that no enemies remained and subdued Mr. Zhang, who accused He-El of attacking his gang.
• Lucy asked Mr. Zhang where the other drugs were being transported, then accessed his memories when he refused to answer.
• Lucy discovered that the other couriers were headed to Berlin, Paris, and Rome.
• He-El considered whether killing Mr. Zhang would affect Lucy’s transformation or the time loop, then shot him dead.
• He-El followed Lucy out of the presidential suite.

Lucy searched Professor Samuel Norman’s brain research while He-El drove her toward Taipei Airport, then contacted the professor to explain her rapidly expanding abilities and the danger that her cells might kill her within a day. The professor began to believe her, but Lucy still did not know what to do as she felt her humanity fading.

• He-El told Lucy she could choose her own path, and Lucy began researching brain potential on his laptop.
• Lucy read all 6,734 pages of Professor Samuel Norman’s research and asked He-El whether he could explain her brain, but he said he could not reliably advise her.
• Lucy contacted Professor Samuel Norman and demonstrated her ability to project her image and control electronic devices through electromagnetic waves.
• Lucy told Professor Samuel Norman that her brain had reached 28% development, her cells were multiplying millions of times per second, and she might die within twenty-four hours.
• Lucy described controlling her metabolism and other people’s bodies while losing pain, fear, desire, and her sense of humanity.

Lucy sought direction from Professor Samuel Norman and considered passing on her knowledge, while He-El told her she could choose her own path. At Taipei Airport, Lucy evaded recognition and used her abilities to recruit Paris police officer Pierre Del Rio to arrest three drug traffickers and retrieve their drugs.

• Professor Samuel Norman advised Lucy to pass on her knowledge and transcend time, prompting her to focus on time.
• He-El told Lucy that she could choose what to do and that he would not interfere with her future.
• He-El and Lucy arrived at Taipei Airport, where a news report identified Lucy as wanted for killing a patient at Tri-Service General Hospital.
• Lucy changed her appearance to avoid recognition and contacted Pierre Del Rio through Paris.
• Lucy gave Pierre Del Rio information about three drug traffickers carrying drugs in their intestines and asked him to arrest them and hand her the drugs.
• Pierre Del Rio saw the traffickers' information appear on his computer and began organizing his colleagues to act.

He-El and Lucy flew to Paris, where Lucy’s brain potential reached 50% after she took CPH4 and collapsed. After airport police detained He-El and questioned him about suspected drug trafficking, Lucy woke unexpectedly and walked out of the medical room as Pierre Del Rio and his colleagues aimed their guns at her.

• He-El and Lucy boarded a flight to Paris while Lucy used two laptops to absorb knowledge and raise her brain potential to 40%.
• As Lucy’s skin began to crumble, He-El advised her to take CPH4, and she rushed to the airplane restroom to do so.
• Lucy reached 50% brain potential and collapsed, while airport police detained He-El and doctors found CPH4 beside her.
• Pierre Del Rio questioned He-El about a suspected drug-trafficking operation, but He-El told him to wait until Lucy woke up.
• A nurse reported that Lucy had awakened, and she walked out of the medical room as Pierre Del Rio and his colleagues drew their guns and ordered her not to move.

Lucy subdued the Paris narcotics officers and went with He-El and Pierre Del Rio to Saint Pet Valley Hospital to take the CPH4 recovered from three drug mules. Afterward, they set off for Sorbonne University with Lucy’s own CPH4 and the recovered drugs.

• Lucy knocked the airport officers unconscious, emptied Pierre Del Rio’s gun of its bullets, and asked him where the drug mules were being held.
• Pierre Del Rio drove Lucy and He-El to Saint Pet Valley Hospital, where He-El explained Lucy’s abilities to him.
• Lucy entered the operating room and took the three recovered bags of CPH4 along with her own half-bag, while Pierre Del Rio stopped his colleagues from confronting her.
• He-El told Pierre Del Rio to follow them, and the group drove toward Sorbonne University.

Lucy explained to Professor Samuel Norman and his colleagues that cells formed an interconnected network and that time proved the existence of matter. He-El considered how Lucy’s ideas might shape her universe and asked whether she wanted to cooperate with him to nurture it.

• Professor Samuel Norman gathered leading researchers at Sorbonne University and invited Lucy to meet them.
• Lucy arrived with He-El and Pierre Del Rio, then surprised the researchers by identifying them and recounting details of their lives.
• Lucy demonstrated how cells could reorganize, transformed her hand, and made a pen float and vanish while challenging humanity’s ideas about numbers and existence.
• Lucy showed the researchers a car disappearing as it accelerated and argued that time was the only measure that could prove matter existed.
• He-El reflected that Lucy’s universe might develop a time-based fifth fundamental force, then asked Lucy if she would cooperate with him to nurture her universe.

Lucy absorbed all the CPH4 and pushed her brain development to 100%, transforming the laboratory as she accessed information and traversed time. She vanished before Professor Samuel Norman and the others, while He-El watched.

• Lucy told Professor Samuel Norman and his colleagues to inject all the CPH4 into her body so she could gain more knowledge.
• After the CPH4 was absorbed, Lucy reached 70% brain development and spread black matter through the laboratory, consuming its equipment and forming a structure like a new computer.
• At 90% development, Lucy stopped time and traveled backward through human and planetary history, eventually moving beyond Earth and the Solar System.
• As black matter crept over Lucy's body, He-El announced that her brain development had reached 99%.
• Lucy reached 100% brain development and vanished before everyone's eyes.

After Lucy vanished upon reaching 100% brain capacity, He-El tried to contact her and propose that they share knowledge between universes, but she did not respond. The chapter ended with Lucy sending Pierre Del Rio a brief message: “Save me!”

• Lucy disappeared, and the biological computer formed from her substance flickered before shattering into dust.
• He-El noticed that Lucy had neither left Samuel Norman a USB drive nor messaged Pierre Del Rio to explain that she was omnipresent.
• He-El told Pierre Del Rio, Professor Samuel Norman, and the others that Lucy had become omnipresent and urged them to continue with what they were doing.
• He-El called out to Lucy and offered to exchange knowledge and cooperate to improve their universes, but she remained silent.
• Pierre Del Rio's phone received a message from Lucy that said, “Save me!”

He-El rescued Lucy from a gang ambush and brought her to a villa, where he injected her with four bags of CPH4 to test why she had asked him to save her. After Lucy reached 20% brain development, she demanded to know why he had injected her.

• He-El watched Lucy in Taipei and concluded that her plea to be saved meant she did not want to merge into the universe.
• He-El ordered Jack’s mercenaries to track Lucy and ambush the gangsters holding her in Jinghua Hotel Suite 505.
• The mercenaries killed the gangsters and brought Lucy, who had been frightened into wetting herself, to He-El.
• He-El took Lucy and the silver briefcase to a rented villa, knocked her unconscious, and had her tied to a chair.
• He-El injected Lucy with four bags of CPH4, and she convulsed before adapting and reaching 20% brain development.
• Lucy raised her head and asked He-El why he was injecting the substance into her body.

Lucy escaped her restraints and left He-El gravely injured and blind, but she returned to the villa and injected CPH4 to survive. As her brain potential reached 100%, she vanished, and He-El was sent back to the Luxgen U6 SUV.

• Lucy woke in the villa, attacked He-El, and blinded him before he explained that she needed to keep injecting CPH4.
• Lucy refused to trust He-El and left, while He-El called Jack and told him to clean up the CPH4 and leave him behind.
• Lucy returned after researching her condition and asked He-El what would happen when her brain potential reached 100%.
• Lucy resumed the CPH4 injection, and her brain potential rose as her body transformed and black liquid spread through the villa.
• Lucy reached 100% and vanished; the black substance displayed “Error!” as He-El found himself back in the Luxgen U6 SUV.

He-El used time loops to communicate with Lucy and learned that she was losing herself as she merged with the universe’s matter, forces, and logic. When he asked what had made her awaken and resist, Lucy answered that it was him.

• He-El restarted the time loop and saw Lucy’s biological computer display “Error” after she reached 100% brain potential.
• He-El repeated the loop and learned that Lucy was being restricted, then received the message “Outside logic.”
• He-El reasoned that Lucy was gradually merging into the universe and using time loops to preserve the last trace of her consciousness.
• He-El asked Lucy about her abilities and predicament, and she answered that she could only communicate through the messages, could not use the universe’s forces, and did not know how to save herself.
• He-El asked what had made Lucy awaken and try to break free, and Lucy answered, “You.”

He-El discovered that he could use CPH4 to reach the limits of brain potential in Lucy’s universe, but doing so threatened to dissolve him into its underlying forces. After reaching 100%, he summoned Lucy and escaped with her through the Traversal Vortex.

• He-El arranged for Jack’s team to kill the gang in suite 505, then used Lucy’s trust to get her safely through the hotel confrontation.
• He-El and Lucy injected CPH4 together, and after Lucy reached 50% brain potential, she attacked him; He-El defeated her and sacrificed himself so she could absorb his blood and reach 100%.
• After the time loop restarted, He-El avoided Lucy and injected CPH4 alone, increasing his brain potential to 100%.
• He-El saw the universe’s underlying logic and realized that time loops had anchored him against dissolving into its forces.
• He-El manifested the Traversal Vortex and called for Lucy, who formed an azure body and joined him as they left her universe.

He-El brought Lucy into his universe and showed her how its underlying rules manifested time and forces. Lucy struggled to understand the broader universe and discovered that its rules could let her control individual forces, though He-El did not allow her to connect with them.

• He-El absorbed the azure figure that emerged from the Traversal Vortex and entered his own universe with Lucy.
• He-El told Lucy that his universe contained several interacting operating logics and advised her to retain some emotion, but Lucy refused.
• Lucy asked where she was, and He-El explained that she was in his universe without access to its matter, particles, or forces.
• He-El manifested his universe's Speed Force, and Lucy considered how time in her own universe might develop into a fifth fundamental force.
• He-El turned the universe's forces and properties into colorful gemstones, and Lucy touched the gravity gemstone and felt she could control gravity.

He-El showed Lucy how the He-El Universe combined the laws of several universes, and Lucy agreed to help him build and manage it. After He-El connected her to its rules, Lucy proposed merging her own universe into his as an energy source, and He-El assigned her to oversee the merger before taking her to meet his forces outside.

• He-El revealed how the Speed Force and the operational logic of the Marvel and DC universes coexisted within his universe, leaving Lucy amazed.
• Lucy asked to follow He-El and help build his universe after he offered her a place and a path beyond her former existence.
• He-El connected Lucy to the matter, forces, dimensions, and rules of his universe, and she created a physical body.
• Lucy proposed merging the Lucy universe into the He-El Universe as an energy-supplying universe, and He-El assigned her to manage the merger.
• He-El and Lucy left the He-El Universe so she could familiarize herself with his forces outside.

He-El brought Lucy into New Krypton and had Zero familiarize her with its operations while he considered how to invite other universes to cooperate with his. He learned that Trigon had escaped from Raven’s body without leaving a trace, and asked where Raven was.

• He-El decided to pause his travels and consider terms for bringing other universes into cooperation with the He-El Universe.
• He-El gave Lucy Nano Armor and left her with Zero to learn about New Krypton’s departments and purpose.
• He-El asked Zero about dangerous incidents and learned that Trigon had escaped while Raven remained under Athena’s watch.
• Zero reported that Athena’s investigations had found no trace of Trigon, and He-El asked where Raven was.

He-El investigated Trigon’s escape from Raven and considered Athena’s suspicion that a powerful being had entered the universe through him. After Athena revealed Zeus’s extraordinary increase in strength, He-El suspected that Zeus might be another sign of outside interference.

• He-El learned that Trigon had vanished after using Cosmic Absorption on the Heavenly Blood and went to the Divine Realm to investigate.
• Athena told He-El that Trigon had disappeared from Raven without triggering her seal, leading her to suspect a more powerful being had entered the universe through him.
• He-El considered whether the Monitors or another unknown force had arrived, and asked Athena about recent events that defied normal expectations.
• Athena reported that Zeus had returned with enough strength to fight ten chief gods at once, far beyond his previous abilities.
• He-El focused on Zeus’s sudden growth as a possible sign of the suspected interference.

He-El grew wary of Zeus’s sudden increase in power and ordered precautions while the Guardians of the Universe investigated the Controllers’ missing weapon. He then visited Raven in the Divine Realm and brought her into his He-El Universe to examine her.

• He-El learned from Athena that the Guardians of the Universe were searching for a universe-threatening weapon missing from the Controllers’ galaxy.
• He-El ordered Athena to secretly assist the Guardians, protect Earth, and keep Zeus away from their guarded regions while arranging to send him to a distant territory.
• He-El and Athena entered the Divine Realm and visited Raven in the underground prison beneath the Magic Academy.
• Raven blamed herself for Trigon escaping, but Athena and He-El reassured her that she was not at fault.
• He-El pressed his fingers to Raven’s brow and pulled Raven and Athena into his He-El Universe.

He-El investigated how Trigon escaped Raven’s seal and uncovered that a mysterious handsome man in a black suit had replaced him. He sent Raven and Athena back to the Magic Academy and decided to handle the matter himself while keeping Zeus unwatched.

• He-El scanned Raven with his powers and found no damage or unusual traces, then suspected an exalted being had concealed its involvement within the DC universe.
• He-El used the He-El Universe to investigate Raven and reconstruct the events surrounding Trigon’s escape.
• The reconstructed image showed Trigon transform into a handsome man in a black suit, who walked out of Raven’s body and left.
• He-El realized the man had replaced Trigon rather than simply helping him escape, and Athena said she did not recognize him.
• He-El ordered Athena to take Raven to the Magic Academy, avoid monitoring or testing Zeus, and act as if nothing had happened while he handled the matter.

He-El summoned Zeus to assess the power he had gained and discovered a dangerous presence within Zeus when he tried to draw him into his universe. He-El abandoned the attempt, leaving the identity and intentions of the presence unresolved.

• He-El summoned Zeus to the palace and questioned reports that Zeus could rival the Olympian chief gods.
• Zeus cautiously described his dramatic increase in strength and pledged his service to New Krypton.
• He-El approached Zeus and tried to pull him into his He-El Universe for analysis.
• The He-El Universe destabilized, and Yi-Yi warned He-El of danger.
• He-El stopped the attempt and concluded that a powerful existence was hidden within Zeus's divine body.

He-El detected a hidden presence inside Zeus powerful enough to threaten the He-El Universe and suspected it was seeking the fifty-third Source Universe. He tested its reaction by assigning Zeus a mission to collect Heavenly Blood at the edge of the universe, but the presence stayed hidden as Zeus accepted.

• He-El sensed that the presence within Zeus could damage the He-El Universe and wondered whether it was connected to the being replacing Trigon.
• Zeus asked whether anything was troubling He-El and offered to take on a responsibility.
• He-El proposed that Zeus lead a team to extract, preserve, and study Heavenly Blood at the edge of the universe.
• When He-El mentioned the Heavenly Blood, the presence within Zeus reacted briefly and triggered a warning from the He-El Universe.
• He-El concluded that the presence was seeking the fifty-third Source Universe, while it remained hidden inside Zeus.
• Zeus accepted the mission, and He-El agreed to entrust it to him.

He-El reviewed New Krypton's expansion and received an update on the collection of the operating logic of the The Three-Body Problem Universe and the Bleach Universe. He decided to visit the The Three-Body Problem Universe, then explore multiple new universes to strengthen the He-El Universe.

• He-El sent Zeus to the cosmic boundary and ordered Zero to watch for the man who had replaced Trigon.
• Zero reported that the The Three-Body Problem Universe had compiled its operating logic, while Kisuke Urahara, Mayuri Kurotsuchi, and Aizen continued developing tools to analyze the Bleach Universe.
• He-El considered expanding into the Lucy Universe but decided Lucy should handle it.
• He-El chose to open multiple universes for exploration and told Zero to notify the The Three-Body Problem side that he was going there.

He-El visited the Three-Body Problem universe and received its operational logic from Dodo, adding it to his He-El Universe. The Zeroers asked whether some civilizations could join New Krypton instead of participating in the planned universal restart, and He-El left the choice to them.

• He-El arrived on the Moon and entered the Three-Body Problem universe, where Dodo welcomed him on behalf of the Zeroers.
• Dodo gave He-El a simplified information universe containing the Three-Body Problem universe’s operational logic, and he integrated it into his He-El Universe.
• He-El offered Dodo operational logic from other universes, but she returned the Light Points and explained that the Zeroers wanted to discuss the universe’s restart.
• Dodo said some civilizations feared the restart and wished to join New Krypton to preserve themselves.
• He-El warned that joining New Krypton meant abandoning their civilizations and becoming members of New Krypton, then told the Zeroers to decide whether to join him or attempt the restart.