Chapter Summaries

Ace revealed that Pirate World’s factions had given him resources worth three billion Points, which he planned to use for the world’s development rather than immediate personal enhancement. Loki then claimed he had surpassed Marquis Voban, though Su Yunqing challenged him to account for his previous defeats.

• Su Yunqing wondered why Ace and Lufa had been quiet, and Bai Xuan questioned whether she had anything to do outside the Chat Group.
• Ace came online and explained that three days had passed in his world, the World Government and other factions had supplied resources, and he was using Infinite Tsukuyomi and the AI World Tree to implement his New Era Tree of Life plan.
• Ace disclosed that the resources were worth three billion Points, stunning the group and prompting Tony to note that the wealth of Pirate World exceeded expectations.
• Tony suggested Ace could use the remaining Points to surpass Madara Uchiha, but Ace said he would prioritize developing his world and digesting his recent Otsutsuki Bloodline enhancement.
• Loki argued that Marquis Voban might fall behind without Points and declared that he had already surpassed him after using Points from conquering civilizations to enhance himself.
• Su Yunqing questioned Loki’s claim, reminding him that he had lost to Marquis Voban in their previous Virtual Battle Arena matches.

Loki claimed that conquering an Elf civilization had earned him five billion Points, prompting a heated argument with Marquis Voban about his courage and methods of gaining strength. On Ares, the Supreme Council took control after King Piel’s death and Lufa’s defeat, and the chapter ended with the wounded Lufa awakening amid the struggle of conflicting memories.

• Loki said he had invested five billion Points from conquering an Elf civilization in the Enlightenment Function, and Marquis Voban mocked him as a coward.
• Loki and Marquis Voban traded insults in the Chat Group while the other members watched.
• After Lufa returned to the original timeline, the Internal Security Force arrived on Ares, secured the battlefield, and invoked emergency authority for the Supreme Council.
• The Supreme Council’s deputy ordered Lufa’s treatment, the suppression of communications, and the preservation of evidence from King Piel’s death.
• Lufa’s consciousness struggled against forcibly infused future memories until he opened his eyes in the medical chamber and whispered, “Future.”

After waking from his injuries, Lufa learned that King Piel was dead and Ares faced a fragile political transition. He declared that he would compete for the throne, and the Chief Deputy Minister pledged the support of his factions.

• The medical officer reported that Lufa’s physical injuries had mostly healed but that his mental activity had shown unexplained, extreme disturbances.
• Lufa awakened, asked about Ares, and heard that the Council had taken temporary control while factions debated choosing a new king or forming a regency.
• Lufa declared that Ares needed a new leader and that he would personally enter the royal election.
• The Chief Deputy Minister confirmed Lufa’s intention and announced that the Conservative Faction and Pragmatist Alliance would support his bid.
• Lufa expected the Chief Deputy Minister’s support and reflected that his former loyalty to King Piel had once made his power part of the king’s Royal Power.

After King Piel’s death left Ares without a ruler, Lufa accepted the deputy minister’s political support and began consolidating power. He set aside revenge against Piel, resolved to change Ares’s future, and turned his attention to the wider dangers hinted at in his future memories, including Earth.

• The deputy minister offered political support in exchange for Lufa’s military prestige, and Lufa authorized him to clear the way for his rule.
• The deputy minister addressed Lufa as King and left to gather support for the new power arrangement.
• Lufa recalled his future self’s betrayal, exile, and vengeance, then decided to prevent that future rather than let hatred rule him.
• Lufa considered the Myriad Worlds, the Asura Armor, and the struggle between light and darkness, identifying Earth as a mysterious focal point he would eventually investigate.
• Lufa focused on the power vacuum in Ares and resolved to restore his strength and bring the military, council, and civil administration under his control.

Emperor Prime observed the new timeline created by future Lufa’s interference and placed a subtle mark on an azure planet. The Emperor of Darkness became intrigued by the alien power behind the timeline and saw young Lufa as a possible way to break the Heavenly Dao’s confinement to its universe.

• Emperor Prime examined the newborn timeline branching from future Lufa’s intervention but chose not to interfere directly.
• Emperor Prime sent a mark of light to an azure planet in the new timeline.
• The Emperor of Darkness noticed the timeline’s alien power and failed to locate the source of future Lufa’s world.
• The Emperor of Darkness connected the alien power to the Myriad Worlds and considered whether it could offer a way beyond the universe’s boundaries.
• The Emperor of Darkness focused on young Lufa and considered making use of him.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Lufa receives memories from his "future" self, connecting him to an unknown timeline.
• The Emperor of Darkness and the Emperor of Light mark Lufa, each with their respective "Marks of Light" and "Darkness," influencing his future.
• Lufa returns to his present after avenging King Piel, reflecting on his past and future actions.
• Lufa decides to restore the honor of the Nether Legion and confronts King Louis of Ares.
• Lufa enters the Chat Group to plan his journey to Ares.

Character Developments

• Lufa: Completes his revenge, feels a sense of relief and "lightness," plans to restore the Nether Legion's honor.
• The Emperor of Darkness: Marks Lufa with the "Mark of Darkness," hoping to influence his path.
• The Emperor of Light: Marks Lufa with the "Mark of Light," aiming to maintain balance and order.

Significant Themes

• Causality and destiny: The memory Lufa receives from his future self connects him to an unknown timeline, influencing his present and future.
• Light vs. Dark: The opposing forces of light and dark mark Lufa, symbolizing their influence on his path.
• Redemption and atonement: Lufa seeks to restore the Nether Legion's honor, aiming to make amends for their past actions.

Character Interactions

• Lufa and the Emperor of Darkness: Lufa is unaware of the Emperor's influence, but the Emperor marks him, hoping to guide his path.
• Lufa and the Emperor of Light: Similarly, Lufa is unaware of the Emperor of Light's influence, but the Emperor marks him to maintain balance and order.
• Lufa and King Louis of Ares: Lufa plans to confront King Louis to restore the Nether Legion's honor and address the false charges against them.

Lufa revealed that he had used the enhanced Asura Armor to travel a thousand years into the past and kill King Piel. He reflected on Piel’s fall from a once-great ruler of Ares to a corrupt, frightened man, and left no doubt that his younger self had killed him without hesitation.

• Su Yunqing asked why Lufa had logged on late, and Lufa said he had traveled a thousand years into the past and killed King Piel.
• Tony was shocked that the enhanced Asura Armor could take Lufa so far back in time, while Marquis Voban praised him for killing a failed king.
• Su Yunqing noted that Piel had once been a capable ruler who worked with Lufa to lead Ares to galactic supremacy.
• Lufa recalled how Piel’s idealism and trust gradually gave way to suspicion, indulgence, and greed as Ares’s power grew.
• Lufa remembered that when he killed Piel, the king begged for his life and offered to surrender everything, leaving Lufa with no hesitation about striking him.

Lufa explained that revenge was no longer his only obsession: he intended to clear the Nether Legion of King Piel’s false treason charges, even if that meant confronting Ares. He planned to gain enough power to force Ares’s rulers to restore his brothers’ names, then leave for a new future.

• Su Yunqing asked whether Lufa’s obsession had faded after he changed the past and took revenge on King Piel.
• Lufa said he still needed to confirm whether King Piel was alive in the new timeline and restore the Nether Legion’s reputation.
• Marquis Voban warned that Ares would likely treat Lufa and his wanted soldiers as enemies, making war unavoidable.
• Lufa accepted that he might have to fight Ares and said he would use force if necessary to secure an official exoneration and correct the historical record.
• Daigo observed that Lufa sought to reclaim honor for the Nether Legion’s Warriors, not for himself.

Su Yunqing heard Setsuna Ogiso and Touma Kazusa explain that they had become friends and intended to avoid repeating their painful future with Haruki Kitahara. She also asked Yukino Yukinoshita about Hikigaya, who had joined her Service Club and was already becoming familiar to her.

• Lufa said his revenge and past obsession were behind him, and that fulfilling his final responsibility was all that remained.
• Su Yunqing asked Setsuna Ogiso and Touma Kazusa how they had adjusted to the Chat Group, and Setsuna said they were friends now.
• Setsuna and Touma joked warmly about each other, piano practice, and their reactions to Memory Copies.
• Touma said she only needed Setsuna, and Setsuna said she and Touma would leave Haruki Kitahara to find happiness without them.
• Su Yunqing asked Yukino Yukinoshita about Hikigaya, and Yukino said she had not punished him for another world's events and that he had already joined the Service Club.
• Yukino described Hikigaya as strange and aggravating, while acknowledging that she had begun to accept his presence.

Su Yunqing discussed Yukino Yukinoshita’s growing fondness for her world’s Hachiman Hikigaya, despite her wariness after learning of another Hachiman’s “Perfect World ending.” Yukino recognized their deep affinity but remained troubled by the possibility that her Hachiman might make the same irresponsible choice.

• Yukino Yukinoshita explained that Hachiman Hikigaya was a Service Club member and said she would guide his behavior as president.
• Su Yunqing pointed out that Yukino’s special attention to Hachiman showed she had become fond of him, and Yukino did not firmly deny it.
• Su Yunqing described how Hachiman had deified Yukino as an ideal of strength and genuineness, while her imperfections could eventually let them understand each other as equals.
• Yukino recalled the Memory Copy and recognized the kindness and sincere pursuit of the genuine beneath Hachiman’s twisted logic and self-destructive habits.
• Yukino remained unable to accept the other Hachiman’s choice to be with both her and Yui Yuigahama, and that decision made her fear her own Hachiman might do the same.

Yukino Yukinoshita admitted that she had grown fond of Hachiman Hikigaya despite remaining wary because of another world’s version of him. The group then concluded that Yui Yuigahama’s affection had begun too early and was too deeply rooted for Yukino to prevent it, leaving her feeling powerless as the Service Club’s relationships continued to develop.

• Yukino acknowledged that she was drawn to the Hachiman Hikigaya in her world, while distinguishing him from the version in the Chat Group.
• Su Yunqing asked whether Yui Yuigahama had avoided falling in love with Hachiman after learning the future from the Memory Copy.
• Yukino explained that Yui’s affection began when Hachiman saved Sabre and grew through the three of them spending time together in the Service Club.
• Yukino admitted that she could not prevent Yui’s feelings or find alternatives to Hachiman’s self-destructive solutions to the club’s requests.
• Ying Zinian explained that Yui’s early affection would keep deepening and that no one, including Yukino, could confess to Hachiman and be accepted before Yui fell in love.

Yukino Yukinoshita decided to manage her growing feelings for Hachiman Hikigaya without disrupting her friendship with Yui Yuigahama, while remaining prepared to choose decisively if her feelings endured. Su Yunqing reminded her that the Chat Group could open supernatural possibilities for her ordinary world, though Yukino had few ways to earn Points for now.

• Kazuma Sato and other group members teased Hachiman Hikigaya over the romantic complications caused by his actions.
• Yukino Yukinoshita said she would control her feelings, preserve her friendship with Yui, and continue the Service Club’s activities as usual.
• Yukino Yukinoshita promised to make a decisive choice if she eventually fell for Hachiman Hikigaya as her future self had.
• Su Yunqing reminded Yukino that she could use the Chat Group to gain power and change her world, but Yukino explained that Check-in was currently her only way to earn Points.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka described how she and Umaru Doma had struggled to gain Points before Red Packets and Transmigrator Missions helped them advance.

Kasumigaoka Utaha advised Yukino Yukinoshita to borrow Points and use lifespan-extension technology to build a reliable income source, then invest in personal strength. Yukino planned to involve her family, while Utaha lamented that her own Daily Life World offered no easy way to earn Points.

• Kasumigaoka Utaha explained that Yukino Yukinoshita could not readily earn Points through her ordinary world and recommended borrowing startup capital from Chat Group members.
• Utaha outlined how Angel Yan’s affordable lifespan-extension technology could be produced using Earth’s materials and sold or Recycled for Points.
• Yukino decided to consult her sister and parents about operating the business and developing large-scale production.
• Utaha urged Yukino to use her first returns to gain personal strength so she could act without fearing conventional political or military pressure.
• Su Yunqing remarked that Utaha had become a senior adviser, and Utaha complained that other members from Daily Life Worlds had useful technologies, supernatural resources, or other ways to earn Points unlike her world.

Nobita Nobi joined the Chat Group and learned that Doraemon’s gadgets could create a Universe, though he could not do so himself. Remembering that Doraemon had come from the future to improve his life and his descendants’ fortunes, Nobita resolved to change his future.

• Nobita Nobi, Master of the Rainbow Sword, and Takashi Natsume joined the Chat Group, and Su Yunqing revealed that Nobita could create a Universe with Doraemon’s gadgets.
• Nobita Nobi accepted the Chat Group invitation and was shocked when its members discussed his supposed Universe-level power.
• Nobita explained that he could only create a Universe by borrowing Doraemon’s gadgets, and Tony Stark reminded the group that Su Yunqing had talked about Doraemon before.
• Su Yunqing explained that Doraemon had returned from the future to help Nobita improve his personal future, including his finances and marriage prospects.
• Nobita remembered that his poor studying had burdened his descendants and that he might marry Gian’s younger sister, then resolved to change his future.

Nobita Nobi learned that the Chat Group could exchange Points for knowledge and gadgets, then joined the others in viewing a Memory Copy of his world’s future. The chapter ended as Hong Mao received an invitation to the Superdimensional Chat Group and reacted with alarm.

• Nobita Nobi searched the Chat Group Mall for elementary-school knowledge and hoped to trade Doraemon’s gadgets for the ten Points he needed.
• Su Yunqing told Nobita Nobi that check-ins or cheap gadgets such as Bamboo-Copters could earn enough Points.
• Tony asked to view Nobita Nobi’s Memory Copy, and Su Yunqing uploaded it and urged Nobita Nobi to watch his true future.
• The group members opened the Doraemon Memory Copy while Su Yunqing invited Hong Mao and Takashi Natsume to share their thoughts.
• Hong Mao received an invitation to join the Superdimensional Chat Group, and he and the Little Qilin cautiously searched the forest for its source.

Hong Mao discovered that he had joined a mysterious chat group connecting different worlds and went to White Cat for advice. After his father could not hear the words “Chat Group” but accepted Hong Mao’s account of its powers, Hong Mao returned to the group and asked whether its members truly came from other worlds.

• Hong Mao found information about the Cross-Dimensional Chat Group in his mind and hurried with Little Qilin to tell White Cat.
• White Cat could not understand or remember the words “Chat Group,” but he heard Hong Mao’s descriptions of other worlds and possible knowledge of the future.
• White Cat examined Hong Mao for Qi deviation or illusion, then advised him to stay cautious, protect his world’s secrets, and judge future knowledge for himself.
• Hong Mao returned to the chat group and asked whether the information in his mind was true and the other members came from different worlds.
• Su Yunqing welcomed Hong Mao and wondered whether he was at the time of Phoenix Martial Arts Hall, recalling how much she disliked that part of the story.

Su Yunqing told Hong Mao that White Cat would die fighting Black Heart Tiger, prompting Hong Mao to learn the future and prepare to protect his father and the Qilin. The chapter then introduced Takashi Natsume, who discovered the Chat Group interface and saw its members discussing people from other worlds.

• Su Yunqing explained that White Cat would die after giving Hong Mao the Rainbow Sword and staying behind to fight Black Heart Tiger.
• Daigo reminded Hong Mao that he could change the future, and Hong Mao decided to consult White Cat and make preparations.
• Su Yunqing stopped Hong Mao from rushing off and uploaded a Memory Copy of his world's story for him to watch.
• Hong Mao thanked Su Yunqing for sharing the information without asking for a price and promised to repay her kindness if he could.
• Su Yunqing reflected on Takashi Natsume's life and the story of the Book of Friends before the scene shifted to the Fujiwara Residence.
• Natsume saw the Chat Group interface again and read about its members and the Memory Copy, wondering whether people from other worlds were real.

Natsume found comfort in Su Yunqing’s reassurance, shared his happiness with Aunt Toko, Uncle Shigeru, and Nyanko-sensei, and began watching his future in the memory copy of Natsume's Book of Friends. Meanwhile, the group discussed Doraemon’s gadgets and companionship before Su Yunqing revealed Nobita Nobi as the origin and true history of every timeline.

• Su Yunqing told Natsume he was not alone, and Natsume replied that he was happy with his life and wanted to see his future.
• Su Yunqing uploaded the memory copy of Natsume's Book of Friends, and Natsume opened it.
• Tony questioned how Doraemon could bring powerful gadgets from the future to Nobita, while Utaha Kasumigaoka, Whitebeard, and Rimuru emphasized the importance of companionship.
• Su Yunqing explained that Nobita’s actions and Doraemon’s presence in the past were inevitable parts of true history, beyond the Time Variance Authority’s power to change.
• Su Yunqing introduced Nobita Nobi with a string of titles, including Interstellar Pioneer, Demon Lord Slayer, and Greatest Mastermind of Endless Space-Time.

After watching a Memory Copy reveal his extraordinary feats, Nobita began to believe he could grow stronger without relying on Doraemon’s gadgets. He told Doraemon about the Chat Group, and Doraemon realized that Nobita’s existence was tied to the true course of history.

• Su Yunqing and Kazuma Sato discussed Nobita’s remarkable movie feats and war talents, including his marksmanship, swordsmanship, and cat’s cradle skills.
• Nobita reconsidered his belief that he was weak and wondered whether he could defeat Gian through his own strength.
• Nobita asked Doraemon if he could become stronger without gadgets, and Doraemon mistook the change in him for possession before confirming he was still Nobita.
• Doraemon encouraged Nobita to keep trying, and Nobita hugged him tearfully before telling him about the Chat Group and its members.
• Doraemon heard about Nobita’s future titles and realized that Nobita’s unusual place in history explained why the Time-Space Administration Bureau had allowed him to change the past.

Nobita and Doraemon tested the Chat Group’s Recycle function, trading four Bamboo-Copters for 2,000 Points and exchanging 10 Points for elementary school knowledge. After the knowledge transfer helped Nobita solve his homework with newfound confidence, Doraemon watched happily, reflecting that its companionship might eventually end once Nobita no longer needed its help.

• Doraemon agreed to let Nobita recycle spare gadgets for Points, provided they avoided dangerous or important items and discussed how to use the Points.
• Doraemon chose four spare Bamboo-Copters, and Nobita recycled them through the Chat Group for 2,000 Points.
• Nobita exchanged 10 Points for elementary school knowledge covering grades one through six and absorbed it without discomfort.
• Nobita began solving his homework rapidly and accurately, thrilled that the knowledge felt like an ability he had gained himself.
• Doraemon praised Nobita’s progress, reminded him that he still had more to learn, and reflected on the day he might leave once Nobita could manage without its help.