Recaps

Jircniv and Fluder secretly observed Lin Xiao and his companions, but Fluder sensed Lin Xiao’s immense power and immediately pledged himself to him. Jircniv followed suit, offering the Baharuth Empire’s loyalty and leaving Lin Xiao stunned by how quickly they surrendered.

• Jircniv asked Fluder to assess Lin Xiao and the others while they watched from the garden shrubs.
• Fluder sensed Lin Xiao as an unfathomable being and rushed out to kneel before him, begging to serve him.
• Lin Xiao pulled his shoe away as Naruto and Daigo stared at Fluder’s display.
• Jircniv realized the empire could not oppose Lin Xiao and stepped out of hiding.
• Jircniv knelt before Lin Xiao and pledged his own loyalty and the Baharuth Empire’s guidance to him.

Jircniv signed a Wayne Enterprises contract that abolished the Baharuth Empire’s imperial system and made him its branch manager. Lin Xiao brought him to Nazarick, where Jircniv and Ainz bonded over their harsh workplace demands and agreed to support each other.

• Kaguya laughed at Jircniv’s surrender, and Batman presented him with a Wayne Enterprises employment contract that made him manager of the Baharuth branch under strict performance requirements.
• Jircniv signed the contract to save his life and his country, and Lin Xiao took him to Nazarick to meet its agricultural producer.
• Jircniv found Ainz and Demiurge discussing eco-friendly farm plans, then learned that Ainz was also struggling under corporate orders.
• Jircniv and Ainz commiserated over their performance evaluations, and Ainz gave him a recovery potion said to help with stomach ulcers and hair loss.
• Ainz and Jircniv promised to help each other face their bosses, while Kaguya, Naruto, Saitama, and Daigo watched in silence.

Lin Xiao and the others prepared to leave the Great Tomb of Nazarick after Ainz and Jircniv were caught plotting to fake their performance reports. Batman delivered captured Theocracy elites to Ainz for forced farm labor, while Lin Xiao took the shattered Zesshi Zetsumei to confront her father, the Elf King.

• Saitama rushed over when he heard about the hair-growth potion, then slumped in disappointment after Ainz warned it might not work on him.
• The chat group mocked Ainz and Jircniv for conspiring to fool their evaluations, and Bruce Wayne announced surprise audits and penalties for falsified reports.
• Batman opened a spatial containment box and handed the captured Theocracy elites, including Zesshi Zetsumei, to Ainz as laborers for Nazarick's farms.
• Lin Xiao told Zesshi that the Theocracy had been crippled and offered to help her settle her score with the Elf King.

Zesshi Zetsumei offered to bear Lin Xiao a hundred children if he helped her defeat her father, provoking Kaguya's jealousy and a flood of teasing messages from the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. Lin Xiao was left mortified as Saitama reminded him they still had a royal banquet to attend.

• Zesshi Zetsumei clung to Lin Xiao's leg and vowed to become his queen and bear him a hundred children if he defeated her father.
• Kaguya confronted Zesshi Zetsumei, claimed Lin Xiao as her man, and threatened to destroy Zesshi and her father's elven kingdom.
• Members of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group reacted to Zesshi Zetsumei's proposal with jokes, speculation, and teasing aimed at Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao collapsed into despair while Zesshi Zetsumei remained confused and Kaguya celebrated her apparent victory.
• Saitama asked Lin Xiao whether they were still going to the royal banquet at the palace.

Lin Xiao and his group broke into the Elven Kingdom’s palace to punish King Dickson Edelfelt for his crimes. Zesshi Zetsumei killed the beaten king, and Batman declared that his family should collect the body.

• Saitama shattered the Elven Kingdom’s barrier, and Lin Xiao’s group subdued the guards who threatened Kaguya.
• Lin Xiao and his companions entered the royal palace, where Dickson Edelfelt boasted about breeding an army to rule the world.
• Lin Xiao smashed Dickson and his throne with a massive slap, and Naruto battered the king into unconsciousness.
• Zesshi Zetsumei stabbed Dickson through the heart before Batman could take him into custody.
• Batman put away his handcuffs and said Dickson had been lawfully killed in self-defense, telling his family to collect the body.

After the Slane Theocracy surrendered to Batman’s remote ultimatum, Zesshi Zetsumei rushed to claim Lin Xiao as her master, but Kaguya used her control over eternity and the instant to stop her. Kaguya left Zesshi unable to reach Lin Xiao and warned her that she was too early to raid her home.

• The Slane Theocracy’s leaders learned that their forces, Zesshi Zetsumei, and the World Item [Downfall of Castle and Country] had been captured.
• Batman sent drones to drop Wayne Enterprises’ administrative code over the Theocracy and demand its surrender, prompting its leaders and surviving forces to kneel.
• Kaguya and the Chat Group members praised Batman’s postwar planning and resources, while Bruce assured Kaguya that he had enough funds.
• Zesshi Zetsumei told Lin Xiao that her father was dead and tried to embrace him, declaring him her only master and demanding they reproduce.
• Kaguya blocked Zesshi with her [Manipulation of Eternity and the Instant], leaving her unable to cross the distance to Lin Xiao.

Bruce Wayne imposed a continent-wide peace and reform agreement on the gathered rulers, while Lin Xiao crossed into a polluted dystopian world identified as Suzuki Satoru’s former home. The chapter left Lin Xiao surveying the dying planet in the year 2138.

• Bruce Wayne proposed unified credit, basic rights, and AI surveillance initiatives to the gathered rulers.
• Jircniv, Ramposa III, Gazef, the Dwarf King, and the Platinum Dragon Lord signed the peace agreement.
• Kaguya blocked Zesshi Zetsumei from reaching Lin Xiao with her boundary barrier.
• Lin Xiao crossed an Imaginary Number Rift to a toxic cyberpunk world and recognized it as Suzuki Satoru’s hometown.

Lin Xiao offered to take Ainz Ooal Gown back to the Earth of 2138, where he had lived as Suzuki Satoru, and described its polluted, corporate-controlled dystopia. Ainz was left stunned by the offer as members of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group began preparing to join the trip.

• Lin Xiao visited Ainz Ooal Gown while he inspected the farmland at Nazarick and offered him a can of cola.
• Lin Xiao asked Ainz whether he wanted to return to his original Earth, and Ainz dropped the cola in shock.
• Lin Xiao explained that he had visited Tokyo Metropolis in 2138 and described its toxic pollution, corporate monopolies, and exploited poor.
• Lin Xiao announced in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group that its members would make a temporary trip to Suzuki Satoru's hometown, using a passage opened through his karmic connection and Mother Earth's help.
• Kaguya questioned how the group could reach the distant world, while Bruce Wayne began organizing an antitrust and environmental response system.
• Naruto, the Victory Team Member Who Believes in Light, and the Bald-Caped Hero Who Wants to Be the Strongest volunteered to go.

Lin Xiao and his allies confronted the corporate tyranny of Tokyo’s 2138 slums, rescued children forced to work in a toxic factory, and stormed a corporate headquarters. Ainz faced the executives who had once denied Suzuki Satoru bereavement leave and promised to collect justice from them.

• Bruce Wayne hacked the global network and exposed decades of corporate crimes across public channels.
• Naruto and Daigo rescued hundreds of children from a toxic factory, while Batman deployed purification fields and medical support to treat them.
• After Daigo asked a young boy where his parents were, the boy said his parents and all his other family members had died.
• Lin Xiao, Ainz, Kaguya, and Saitama reached the executives’ penthouse, where Saitama smashed through the blast door.
• Ainz confronted the cowering directors and declared that he would collect justice for Suzuki Satoru and the workers.

Naruto and Daigo defeated the chemical plant’s executives and private soldiers while sparing their lives. Lin Xiao transformed into Gaia, purified Earth’s skies and land, and left humanity with a renewed planet and a towering World Tree.

• Naruto created thousands of Shadow Clones to overwhelm the private soldiers, while Daigo advanced through gunfire and knocked down the plant supervisor.
• Naruto and Daigo smashed the soldiers’ prosthetics and incapacitated the executives without killing them.
• Lin Xiao called on Gaia and transformed, releasing purification waves that cleared the toxic canopy and revealed the blue sky and sunlight.
• Batman warned Ainz that the planet’s groundwater and geological systems remained ruined despite the purified atmosphere.
• Gaia infused the planet’s core with life energy, purifying the poisoned water, restoring plant life, and raising a World Tree in Tokyo Metropolis.
• People removed their gas masks, breathed fresh air, and worshipped Gaia and the World Tree.

Lin Xiao restored the dead planet, and its renewed will replenished Gaia’s energy. Ainz buried his parents’ apron beneath the World Tree and prepared to return to Nazarick with renewed resolve.

• Herohero, Ulbert, and Touch Me saw the planet’s pollution clear and its people rejoice beneath the sunlight.
• Gaia’s Color Timer turned red after he restored the planet, alarming Naruto, Daigo, and the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
• The World Tree sent the planet’s returning power into Gaia, restoring his Color Timer to blue and greatly strengthening his light.
• Lin Xiao changed back from Gaia and met Ainz, who buried his parents’ apron beneath the World Tree.
• Lin Xiao encouraged Ainz to return to Nazarick and care for its residents, and Ainz agreed.

After Gaia reset Earth, Batman used his resources to rebuild food supplies and infrastructure for billions of people. Ainz and Lin Xiao then reunited Ainz with his old YGGDRASIL friends, who reacted with furious envy when they learned he had crossed over with Nazarick and its NPCs.

• Batman deployed emergency rations, robots, seeds, and drones to restore global relief systems after the conglomerates’ networks collapsed.
• Batman’s work earned praise from the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, while he continued coordinating aid across the planet.
• Ainz and Lin Xiao used Batman’s facial-recognition systems to locate Ainz’s old guild friends in Tokyo Metropolis.
• Lin Xiao opened teleportation rifts and brought Herohero, Ulbert, and Peroroncino to a suite to meet Ainz.
• Ainz explained that he had crossed over with Nazarick and its NPCs, prompting his friends to attack him in jealous disbelief.

Ainz asked Lin Xiao to bring Herohero, Ulbert, and Peroroncino to the New World, and they eagerly accepted Batman’s strict terms, including ten years of farming and constant surveillance. Ainz mourned the guildmates who had died, but Lin Xiao revealed that some might have been reborn in the other world, leaving Ainz with hope of finding them again.

• Ainz asked Lin Xiao to bring Herohero, Ulbert, and Peroroncino to the New World, and Lin Xiao agreed.
• Ainz invited his friends to see the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and Batman required them to accept AI surveillance and ten years of farm work.
• Herohero, Ulbert, and Peroroncino eagerly agreed to Batman’s terms, treating the farming as a welcome break from their lives in reality.
• Batman added that the Wayne security system would register and monitor everyone with extraordinary power in the New World.
• Ainz lamented that Bellriver and other guildmates had died, and said he planned to search for surviving companions.
• Lin Xiao told Ainz that some people who died in this world might have been reborn or reassembled in the other world.

Ainz panicked over the prospect of Blue Planet arriving in the new world and discovering that he had altered Albedo’s settings to make her love Momonga. Lin Xiao reassured him that the settings interface would eventually stop working, but Kaguya overheard the confession and threatened to record and share it.

• Ainz realized Blue Planet might eventually arrive and learn that he had changed Albedo’s settings to make her deeply in love with Momonga.
• Ainz dragged Lin Xiao aside, prostrated himself, and begged him to erase the altered setting and its history.
• Lin Xiao explained that the worlds’ merging would stabilize their laws and eventually disable the game backend used to view NPC settings.
• Ainz argued that Albedo’s behavior would still expose the change to Blue Planet, even without access to her settings.
• Kaguya secretly overheard Ainz’s confession and threatened to record it from every angle and upload it to the group files.

Kaguya persuaded Lin Xiao to spare Ainz after he promised her a grand statue and worshippers, and Lin Xiao sealed Nazarick’s character-setting and modification-log permissions while freeing its NPCs from game-code restraints. The guild members reunited with Nazarick’s guardians and embraced farm work as their new life.

• Kaguya switched from urging Lin Xiao to punish Ainz to pleading for him after Ainz promised to build her a golden statue and worship her as a goddess.
• Lin Xiao sealed the world’s systems for viewing character settings and modification logs, and diluted Ainz’s altered setting as Nazarick’s NPCs began evolving into real beings.
• Ainz thanked Lin Xiao and Kaguya and promised to build statues and offer daily incense to them.
• Herohero, Ulbert, and Peroroncino hurried to reunite with Nazarick’s guardians and work on the farms.
• Demiurge presented Ulbert with an irrigation plan and proposed delivering organic fertilizer to human villages, while Ulbert praised him and promised him a bonus.

Ainz avoided his guildmates’ suspicions about his changes to the NPCs’ settings by claiming the NPCs had become real lifeforms without status panels. Touch Me arrived in the new world, but a Wayne Enterprises drone ordered him to serve his frontier-reclamation labor and sent him to weed a field.

• Ulbert and Peroroncino tried to inspect the NPC settings, but Nature’s Will had locked the management interface and modification logs.
• Ainz told Ulbert and Peroroncino that the NPCs had become real lifeforms, and they accepted his explanation.
• Touch Me arrived at the Great Tomb, and Sebas welcomed him.
• Touch Me called on Sebas to fight injustice, but a Wayne Enterprises drone warned him that vigilantism was forbidden during his labor sentence.
• Sebas handed Touch Me a hoe, and Touch Me headed to the eastern vegetable plot.

Ainz promised Aura and Mare that their creators and the other Supreme Beings would return through reincarnation, bringing warmth to Nazarick. Elsewhere, the Slane Theocracy rewrote its faith, the True Dragon Lords prepared to hide underground, and Jircniv’s empire accepted its surrender and restructuring with startling enthusiasm.

• Ainz reassured Aura and Mare that their creators and all the Supreme Beings would return, and the twins and maids welcomed his promise.
• The Slane Theocracy’s High Priest Cardinal ordered the sacred code rewritten to promote equality and obedience, and replaced the Six Great Gods’ statues with Batman and Ultraman.
• The Platinum Dragon Lord told the True Dragon Lords that the newcomers were their creators and ordered them to hibernate deep underground instead of fighting.
• Jircniv announced the Baharuth Empire’s unconditional surrender and restructuring under Wayne Enterprises, and its upper ranks accepted without opposition.
• Fluder revealed that he and the empire’s mages had created lifelike statues of Lin Xiao and other heroes, then worshipped Lin Xiao’s statue as Jircniv watched in disbelief.

After exhausting work saving worlds, Lin Xiao returned to his apartment, where Ai Haibara showed him rare concern. He went back to Sobu High School and found that rumors about his special treatment by the principal had spread, leaving his clubmates to tease him about being the principal’s father.

• Ai Haibara brought Lin Xiao hot milk and urged him to rest before he went to bed.
• Lin Xiao arrived at Sobu High School and heard students speculating about his relationship with the principal.
• Lin Xiao joined the All-Heavens Rescue Club, where Eriri reproached him for missing school and club activities.
• Yukino Yukinoshita told Lin Xiao that students were joking he was either the principal’s son or his biological father.
• Eriri laughed at the rumor, while Miko Yotsuya said it would not be strange if Lin Xiao really were the principal’s father.

TLT identified Lin Xiao as the Ultraman behind several supernatural incidents and ordered a covert team to capture him at school. Zagi sabotaged the operation, but the Native minister’s men knocked out the agents and hauled them away before Lin Xiao had to intervene.

• TLT’s supercomputer traced the supernatural incidents to Lin Xiao, and Administrator Matsunaga ordered agents to ambush him at Sobu High School.
• Mitsuhiko Ishibori, secretly Zagi, altered the team’s navigation system to protect his plans and keep Lin Xiao from triggering a wide-area purification field.
• Batman warned Lin Xiao that three TLT agents were waiting near the school with neural suppression weapons.
• A voice announced Clock Up, and an unseen attacker knocked the three agents unconscious before they could act.
• The Native minister arrived in a garbage truck, had his attendants load the agents into its compactor, and ticketed their landscaping truck.

Lin Xiao watched as masked agents who had tried to assassinate him were captured by an impossibly fast sanitation crew and hauled to a landfill. TLT learned the agents were alive but faced an urgent rescue and a hefty parking fine, while Yukino and Miko hinted at Lin Xiao’s involvement and Eriri grew suspicious.

• Lin Xiao watched a sanitation crew capture three agents in seconds, load them into a garbage truck, and leave them with a fifty-thousand-yen parking ticket.
• Members of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group reacted to the cleanup, while Daigo and Saitama focused on its speed and the fine.
• Kiriya Yuu told Administrator Matsunaga that the agents were at a landfill with mild concussions and might be incinerated unless rescued within twenty minutes.
• Matsunaga ordered a logistics team to dig out the agents and instructed his staff to pay the ticket.
• At the All-Heavens Rescue Club, Yukino teased Lin Xiao about handling sanitation and traffic, Eriri accused them of keeping secrets, and Miko praised Lin Xiao as a god.

Ai Hayasaka disguised herself as a gyaru to infiltrate Lin Xiao’s All-Heavens Rescue Club, but Eriri and Yukino saw through her immediately. After offering to leak Kaguya Shinomiya’s secrets, Hayasaka admitted she was exhausted from her constant duties and pleaded with Lin Xiao to let her join the club for a little rest.

• Ai Hayasaka entered the club in gyaru disguise and presented Lin Xiao with an application.
• Eriri recognized Hayasaka as Kaguya Shinomiya’s maid, and Yukino questioned why she had come disguised.
• Hayasaka dropped her act and offered to share Kaguya’s schedule and secrets if Lin Xiao let her join.
• Eriri rejected Hayasaka, but Hayasaka appealed directly to Lin Xiao for the final decision.
• Lin Xiao told Hayasaka to tell Kaguya to give up on joining and sympathized with Hayasaka’s workload.
• Hayasaka described her round-the-clock duties and begged Lin Xiao to accept her as a ghost member so she could rest at the club.

Ai Hayasaka joined Lin Xiao’s clubroom as an unofficial tea consultant, despite Eriri Sawamura’s objections. Just as the room settled down, Komachi Hikigaya arrived and greeted Lin Xiao familiarly, leaving Eriri stunned and furious.

• Ai Hayasaka taunted Eriri about her insecurity over Lin Xiao, while Yukino criticized Eriri’s weak rebuttals.
• Lin Xiao offered Ai a place to rest in exchange for using her information network to monitor unusual activity around campus.
• Ai accepted the arrangement and settled into an armchair, while Yukino defended the practical benefits of keeping her nearby.
• Komachi entered the clubroom and greeted Lin Xiao warmly, prompting Eriri to snap her pencil in half.

Komachi warned Lin Xiao and the others that Kaneki and his friends were coming to the clubroom. The chapter flashed back to Kaneki leading a paranoid stakeout of Kousei and Kaori’s meeting, where the group watched what looked like an ordinary romantic encounter.

• Komachi told Lin Xiao that Kaneki and the others were about to arrive at the clubroom together.
• Kaneki warned Kousei that Kaori might be a supernatural threat and cited his past encounters with Rize Kamishiro and Tomie Kawakami.
• Hachiman, Shirogane, and Oreki admitted they had joined Kaneki because recent supernatural events had made them wary.
• Shirogane led the four boys to Central Park to watch Kousei meet Kaori Miyazono.
• The boys hid in a hedge and watched Kousei awkwardly face Kaori beneath a cherry tree.

Ken Kaneki and Miyuki Shirogane misread Kaori Miyazono’s playful behavior and signs of illness as evidence that she was a dangerous monster. Kaneki offered Kaori a bottle of suspicious liquid, and Kousei Arima snatched it away and demanded to know what it was.

• Miyuki Shirogane, Ken Kaneki, Houtarou Oreki, and Hachiman Hikigaya secretly watched Kaori Miyazono and interpreted her movements and pale appearance as signs of monstrous powers.
• Ken Kaneki decided to test Kaori with an exorcism item and emerged from the bushes wearing garlic, charms, a cross, and other supposed protections.
• Kaori Miyazono greeted the four boys while Kousei Arima regretted bringing his friends along.
• Ken Kaneki offered Kaori a bottle of pale yellow liquid as water, and she accepted it.
• Kousei Arima grabbed the bottle before Kaori could open it and demanded to know what was inside.

Ken Kaneki’s fear that Kaori Miyazono was a monster led to a disastrous first meeting, but Lin Xiao confirmed she was human. Kaori forgave the group and invited Kousei Arima to practice, until Lin Xiao revealed she had a terminal illness.

• Ken Kaneki offered Kaori Miyazono a bottle of supposed holy water that Kousei Arima identified as virgin boy’s urine, then fought with Kousei over the insult.
• Hachiman Hikigaya and Miyuki Shirogane brought Kousei and Kaori to the All-Heavens Rescue Club, where Ken demanded that Lin Xiao check whether Kaori was a monster.
• Lin Xiao confirmed Kaori was an ordinary human, and Kousei apologized for the group’s behavior.
• Kaori laughed off the incident and asked Kousei to accompany her piano practice, and he eagerly agreed.
• As Kousei prepared to leave with Kaori, Lin Xiao remarked that she had an ordinary terminal illness.