Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qi defeated Kamen Rider W and took Shotaro's Double Driver and core Memories for research. Watching from the darkness, the bandaged woman recognized Zhang Qi's [TRUTH] Memory as a forbidden project created for her son, Raito Sonozaki (Philip), and wondered who Zhang Qi was.

• Shotaro confronted Zhang Qi over the explosion, but Philip identified him as a Museum executive and stopped Shotaro from rushing in recklessly.
• Kamen Rider W attacked Zhang Qi, who blocked his strikes and copied the abilities of [LUNA] and [TRIGGER].
• W switched to [HEAT] and [METAL], but Zhang Qi matched the form's strength and caught the burning metal staff barehanded.
• W used the Maximum Drive, but Zhang Qi read the finishing move and knocked Shotaro and Philip out of their transformed state.
• Zhang Qi took the Double Driver and the two core Memories from the unconscious Shotaro.
• A bandaged woman recognized Zhang Qi's [TRUTH] Memory as the forbidden project she had developed for Raito Sonozaki (Philip), and questioned who Zhang Qi was.

Zhang Qi analyzed the W Driver and Cyclone Memory, then built a new Memory and Driver to harness Truth and the will of Earth. When he activated them, he entered the Earth Library, where Philip had already discovered that Earth's records held no information about Zhang Qi's past.

• Zhang Qi studied the W Driver and Cyclone Memory, concluding that Cyclone contained a vast, primitive will unlike the orderly knowledge in Truth.
• At the Narumi Detective Agency, Philip told Shotaro that the Earth Library contained no record of Zhang Qi’s history or origins.
• Zhang Qi spent several days creating a new Memory and Driver based on Truth, Cyclone, and research from the Animusphere Family.
• Zhang Qi inserted Truth and Cyclone into the new Driver, which transformed the laboratory around him into a torrent of data.
• Zhang Qi found himself inside the Earth Library, a boundless archive of the planet’s memories.

Zhang Qi searched the world’s records for information about Great Shocker and Kamen Rider Decade, then recruited Sudo Kirihiko by showing him children being exposed to Gaia Memories. Sudo accepted Zhang Qi’s golden Memory and Driver and walked toward the warehouse, resolved to change the Sonozaki Family’s abuses.

• Zhang Qi searched the Earth Library for Great Shocker and Kamen Rider Decade but found no records of them.
• Sudo Kirihiko sold a Gaia Memory in Fuuto and reflected on his plan to rise within the Museum and change the Sonozaki Family from within.
• Zhang Qi confronted Sudo Kirihiko and invited him to work for him.
• Zhang Qi led Sudo Kirihiko to a warehouse, where they saw teenagers using Gaia Memories on children.
• Zhang Qi showed Sudo Kirihiko a golden Gaia Memory and Driver, and Sudo accepted them before heading toward the warehouse.

Kirihiko Sudo transformed into Kamen Rider Nazca and defeated a Bird Dopant in a warehouse, then used Zhang Qi’s Memory Destruction function to free the boy without harming him. Afterward, Kirihiko pledged his life and power to Zhang Qi.

• Kirihiko entered the warehouse and confronted a group of youths and a boy transformed into a Bird Dopant, who charged at him.
• Kirihiko transformed into Kamen Rider Nazca and overwhelmed the Bird Dopant, which fled into the sky.
• Nazca pursued the Bird Dopant above Fuuto, severed its wing with the Nazca Blade, and brought it down on a rooftop.
• After Zhang Qi explained that the Driver could destroy the Memory without harming its host, Kirihiko used a Maximum Drive to shatter the Bird Memory and free the boy.
• Kirihiko returned the unconscious boy to the other children, then bowed to Zhang Qi and pledged his life and power to him.

Shotaro and Akiko received Sudo Kirihiko, who brought the Double Driver and Gaia Memories to commission Kamen Rider W on behalf of his boss. Meanwhile, Foundation X praised Zhang Qi’s new Gaia Memory technology, offered him more funding, and asked him to join the organization.

• Akiko scolded Shotaro for losing motivation while Philip remained locked in the garage designing a new Driver.
• Sudo Kirihiko arrived at the Narumi Detective Agency and revealed the Double Driver and several Gaia Memories in a silver briefcase.
• Sudo Kirihiko told Shotaro he had come to present a commission on behalf of his boss, addressing him as Kamen Rider W.
• Zhang Qi presented Foundation X with an optimization report and new Gaia Memories, including one codenamed ZEUS.
• Kato Jun praised Zhang Qi’s work, offered a twenty percent increase in Foundation X’s investment, and asked him to join the organization.

Zhang Qi rejected Foundation X’s offer and gained Sonozaki Ryuubei’s trust by claiming he had accessed the Earth’s memories, prompting Ryuubei to reveal the underground well beneath the Museum. Meanwhile, Masaki Keigo used a super-dimensional transmission device to travel to another world, where he arrived in a quantum physics laboratory and met Takayama Gamu.

• Zhang Qi declined Kato Jun’s recruitment offer, saying he was a member of the Sonozaki Family and had no plans to leave Fuuto.
• Zhang Qi’s work secured his control of the Museum’s Gaia Memory research and development department.
• Zhang Qi told Sonozaki Ryuubei that the [TRUTH] Memory had briefly connected him to the Earth’s memories.
• Sonozaki Ryuubei led Zhang Qi beneath the Museum company building and showed him the underground well filled with data from the Earth.
• Masaki Keigo activated the super-dimensional transmission device and traveled to a different world.
• Masaki Keigo materialized in the Jonan University Quantum Physics Laboratory, where Takayama Gamu introduced himself.

Masaki Keigo discovered that Takayama Gamu’s experiment had caused his transport device to bring him to Gamu’s world, and the two scientists exchanged knowledge about their research. After seeing Masaki’s advanced PDI, Gamu asked him to help improve his experiment, and Masaki agreed in exchange for shelter and a laboratory.

• Takayama Gamu told Masaki Keigo about his work with Alchemy Stars and his attempt to communicate with Earth by accelerating his brain quantum waves.
• Masaki Keigo realized that Gamu’s experiment had interfered with his own Time and Space transport device and explained his research to Gamu.
• Gamu defended the theoretical possibility of Time and Space travel to two fellow students while Masaki searched for information about Alchemy Stars.
• Masaki showed Gamu his PDI, and Gamu was astonished when its photonic quantum computer completed his test algorithm in 0.0013 seconds.
• Gamu asked Masaki to help improve his experimental machine, and Masaki agreed, requesting a temporary place to stay and a laboratory.

Masaki Keigo earned Alchemy Stars’ trust by demonstrating his knowledge and agreed to share it in exchange for resources to rebuild his Super Time and Space Transfer Device. A month later, Takayama Gamu entered the completed machine, ready for its first activation.

• Masaki Keigo impressed Takayama Gamu with a redesigned energy amplifier, and Gamu began calling him Teacher.
• Daniel McPhee and Alchemy Stars debated Masaki Keigo’s identity until he breached their server and appeared on screen.
• Masaki Keigo agreed to share his knowledge base in exchange for a high-clearance laboratory and resources to rebuild his Super Time and Space Transfer Device.
• Masaki Keigo lectured Alchemy Stars across multiple fields, winning over its skeptical members with advanced research and discoveries.
• One month later, Takayama Gamu entered the completed machine in an interface suit and told Professor Masaki he was ready.

Takayama Gamu used Masaki Keigo’s machine to connect his consciousness to Earth and saw a red giant fighting darkness. Days later, as Gamu considered repeating the experiment, an enormous rock appeared over Tokyo.

• Masaki Keigo activated the machine, and Takayama Gamu’s consciousness entered a field of light and data to synchronize with Earth’s will.
• Countless lights appeared throughout the laboratory as Gamu connected to Earth, and Masaki ended the experiment when the energy curve fell.
• Gamu awoke and said he had seen a red giant, while Masaki told the students to organize their equipment and data.
• Several days later, Gamu decided he needed repeatable evidence and prepared to enter Earth’s memories again.
• A classmate summoned Gamu outside, where he saw an enormous rock hanging over Tokyo.

The Radical Destruction Bringer attacked Tokyo, and Takayama Gamu watched Gobu overwhelm the city and XIG’s fighters. After Masaki Keigo gave Gamu two devices, Gamu used the laboratory machine again and transformed into Gaia, the Giant of Light.

• A gigantic meteorite fell on Tokyo, and the Radical Destruction Bringer emerged from it and began destroying the city.
• Takayama Gamu contacted the Alchemy Stars, while XIG’s fighters attacked Gobu and two were shot down.
• Gamu rushed to the quantum physics laboratory, where Masaki Keigo had activated the machine and gave him a glowing storage device and a Y-shaped device.
• Gamu entered the machine, and its light poured into his body as a red pillar rose above the ruined city.
• Gaia, the Giant of Light, descended and landed before the rampaging Gobu.

Takayama Gamu transformed into Gaia and defeated Gobu, while Masaki Keigo collected data on Gaia and considered the Radical Destruction Bringer’s motives. In another world, Zhang Qi explained to Chu Xuan why he wanted to investigate the Gaia theory and proposed studying how Death attacked.

• Gaia struggled against Gobu as Takayama Gamu tried to control his new body and protect the city.
• Masaki Keigo recorded Gaia’s light quantum data and wondered why the Radical Destruction Bringer seemed to test its opponents instead of using its strongest weapons.
• Takayama Gamu drew on Earth’s ancient battle memories and killed Gobu with the Photon Ice Blade.
• Takayama Gamu reverted to human form, collapsed from exhaustion, and found that the USB-drive-shaped device now showed Gaia’s image.
• Zhang Qi told Chu Xuan that the Main God’s reward for saving a reincarnation world had challenged his assumptions about those worlds.
• Zhang Qi proposed investigating the Gaia theory, and Chu Xuan asked how they would proceed; Zhang Qi said they first needed to determine how Death attacked.

Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan investigated the Grim Reaper as a possible world-scale mechanism and used a crystal globe to observe fluctuations in Earth's will. They went to Lakeview Psychiatric Sanatorium to meet Clear Rivers, the sole registered survivor of Flight 180.

• Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan concluded that the Grim Reaper likely acted as a self-correcting system rather than an evil spirit, and Chu Xuan identified it as a potential subject for Zhang Qi's Gaia hypothesis.
• Zhang Qi revealed a crystal globe based on Type-Moon magecraft that recorded fluctuations in Earth's will, and Chu Xuan agreed it could help them study the Grim Reaper.
• Zhang Qi showed Chu Xuan a report identifying Clear Rivers as Flight 180's only officially registered survivor, living at Lakeview Psychiatric Sanatorium.
• Zhang Qi explained that Clear had isolated herself in a padded room to avoid anything that could cause an accident, and he and Chu Xuan decided to investigate why Bleach had not killed her.
• Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan used forged credentials to enter the sanatorium and found Clear Rivers sitting by the window in her special ward.

Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan convinced Clear to leave her sealed hospital room by demonstrating that a jade pendant could stop bullets. The moment the three stepped into the corridor, Bleach set off a chain of lethal accidents, leaving them facing several dangers at once.

• Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan told Clear that Zhang Jie was alive and showed her their supernatural abilities.
• Clear recounted how Bleach had caused near-fatal accidents even while she hid in a padded room.
• Zhang Qi placed a protective jade pendant around Clear’s neck, and Chu Xuan fired two bullets that the pendant stopped.
• Clear agreed to leave the room and walked into the hospital corridor with Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan.
• A cleaning cart triggered a chain of hazards involving spilled water, corrosive cleaner, flying instruments, and a loosening chandelier as they entered the corridor.

Chu Xuan and Zhang Qi rescued Clear from a lethal attack at the sanatorium, but Death pursued them with a truck and a storm of steel fragments. After they survived, Zhang Qi’s globe reacted to the attack, suggesting Death’s power was connected to the world’s Gaia will.

• Chu Xuan stopped the flying surgical instruments and slowed a falling chandelier while Zhang Qi shielded Clear and led her out of the sanatorium.
• Chu Xuan dodged an out-of-control truck by shifting their sedan with his electromagnetic field.
• Zhang Qi transformed into Kryonaut and fired a particle cannon to melt the steel coils rolling toward the car.
• The melted coils exploded into a storm of fragments, which Chu Xuan deflected with a repulsive field, and Clear passed out from the shocks.
• Chu Xuan and Zhang Qi discussed whether the Main God had increased the danger, while Zhang Qi’s globe began to flicker in response to Death’s attack.

Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan built the Pseudo-Gaia Model and used Clear as bait to trace the force behind the accidents targeting her. The machine locked onto the world’s will and revealed Earth’s origins, from the birth of the planet to the rise of humanity.

• Zhang Qi used alchemy to transform the warehouse and process materials for an observation instrument while Clear watched.
• Chu Xuan set up staged hazards and recorded how Clear instinctively avoided each accident.
• Three months later, Zhang Qi completed the Pseudo-Gaia Model, and he and Chu Xuan took Clear back into the city to provoke the anomaly.
• A glass-cleaning platform’s cables snapped and sent it plunging toward their car, triggering the model to anchor onto the world’s will.
• The model displayed the universe’s memory of Earth’s formation, the evolution of life, and the emergence of the first apemen.

Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan uncovered that the world’s history had given rise to a mechanism balancing life and death, and that reincarnation worlds were sub-universes shaped by human stories. They concluded that the Main God was an artificial multiversal Gaia.

• Zhang Qi watched the world’s history and recognized that the world wars had caused opposing wills to collide, creating a mechanism that corrected errors between life and death.
• Zhang Qi explained to Chu Xuan how Gaia and Alaya shaped worlds and why power systems differed between them.
• Zhang Qi used the Pseudo-Gaia Model to show that the world ended at the solar system’s boundary, and he and Chu Xuan inferred that its size followed its story’s setting.
• Zhang Qi proposed that humanity’s collective imagination had replaced a destroyed or suppressed universal Gaia, making reality an aggregate of human stories.
• Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan concluded that the Main God was an artificial multiversal Gaia.

Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan deduced that the Main God Space might be reshaping worlds by overturning their stories, and debated whether its creator intended to repair or consume the multiverse. As Zhang Qi began researching how to connect with Gaia and escape the Main God's control, the private space summoned him again because newcomers had arrived.

• Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan reasoned that the Main God rewarded changes to a world's plot while also needing that world to remain stable.
• Chu Xuan proposed that the Main God's creator might seek either to repair the multiverse or to remake it for their own purposes.
• Zhang Qi argued that cultivation, rather than Gene Lock, was more likely to underpin the Main God, citing the high prices of cultivation-related exchanges.
• Zhang Qi began planning research into connecting to Gaia and reproducing his Spacetime Travel Stabilization Device.
• During months of research, Clear brought Zhang Qi and Chu Xuan coffee while they worked around the Pseudo-Gaia Model.
• Zhang Qi sensed that his private space was calling again, signaling the arrival of newcomers.

Infinite Zhang Qi connected to the newcomers’ shared memories, discovering a Greek scholar protected by Athena, a researcher in a world ruled by Magnetic Field Rotation fighters, and a robotics student who knew Dr. Tenma. Their new knowledge excited the newcomers, but Kayaba Akihiko warned Skynet about the dangers of his world by sending him a manga featuring Sea Tiger.

• Infinite Zhang Qi joined the memory network and witnessed the three newcomers’ lives and worlds.
• The other Zhang Qis recognized Dr. Tenma from Astro Boy and reacted with excitement.
• Andres realized the shared knowledge could help him prepare for the Persian invasion, while Skynet saw ways to strengthen his position in Heaven.
• Kayaba Akihiko sent Skynet a manga whose cover showed two brutal fighters and whose name was Sea Tiger.

Skynet learned from the Sea Tiger manga that Hell would die and White Cenan would plunge Heaven into brutal chaos, so he resolved to change the future. Hoping to study Magnetic Field Rotation and develop a countermeasure, he secured Hell’s approval to seek Ultimate Monk’s help.

• Skynet recalled that Hell would be killed and White Cenan would take over Heaven, and decided he had to prevent that future.
• Skynet realized the manga revealed that he would develop Yafei, a machine capable of confronting Magnetic Field Force experts.
• Skynet asked Hell for help with his plasma-confinement research and requested Ultimate Monk’s assistance.
• Hell approved Skynet’s request, and Skynet headed to meet Ultimate Monk.

Skynet traveled to an underwater research institute to seek Ultimate Monk’s help understanding the essence of Magnetic Field Force. Ultimate Monk agreed to combine his martial arts research with Skynet’s technology, opening the way for their collaboration.

• Skynet rode a submersible to the vast underwater research institute and learned that Ultimate Monk was waiting for him.
• Skynet met Ultimate Monk in his meditation room and explained that he wanted to understand how to control and shape Magnetic Field Force, not merely generate power.
• Ultimate Monk described his effort to create a cultivation method that would let ordinary people wield Magnetic Field Force, with support from the ruler of Hell.
• Ultimate Monk welcomed the chance to research the power alongside Skynet, and they agreed to begin immediately.