Recaps

Lin Xiao revealed that Kaori Miyazono had a terminal illness, and Kousei Arima and the club members begged him to save her. He told them he needed time to prepare, then admitted to the remaining club members that he could cure her but planned to wait until after Kaori and Kousei performed at the showcase.

• Lin Xiao identified Kaori Miyazono's illness as a fatal neurodegenerative condition, shocking Kaori, Kousei Arima, and the club members.
• Kaori told Kousei she wanted to perform at the upcoming music showcase without regrets, and he agreed to accompany her.
• Miyuki Shirogane and the other boys urged Lin Xiao to cure Kaori, but he said he needed several days to devise a solution and asked them to focus on the performance.
• After the others left, Komachi Hikigaya challenged Lin Xiao, who admitted he could cure Kaori but planned to wait until she and Kousei had performed their duet and won the championship.

Lin Xiao had expected a concert duet involving a terminally ill girl, but discovered that the music festival also featured After School Tea Time and a supernatural farewell between Hotaru Takekawa and a fading ghost. He was left stunned by the festival’s wildly tragic lineup.

• Lin Xiao started a livestream for the Myriad Worlds Chat Group as he led Yukino, Eriri, Ai, and Miyuki Shirogane backstage.
• Lin Xiao overheard Yui Hirasawa and Ritsu Tainaka rallying After School Tea Time for their final performance together before their seniors went abroad.
• Kaguya explained the K-On! setting in the chat and framed the concert as a showdown between After School Tea Time and the April duo.
• Lin Xiao found Hotaru Takekawa crying beside a masked ghost boy who said he was nearing the end of his time and proposed they play one last song.
• Lin Xiao recognized the ghostly pair as part of Into the Forest of Fireflies' Light and angrily wondered why every act in the music competition involved impending loss.

Lin Xiao and the chat group realized his presence was keeping Gin from vanishing after the curse was triggered, and Lin Xiao vowed to defy the tragic fates gathered at the concert hall. As he and the others searched backstage, they found Hitori Gotoh dissolving from extreme stage fright.

• Kaguya noticed Gin remained alive and translucent after a human touched him, and proposed that Lin Xiao's Gaia power was holding his spirit together.
• Yukino asked Lin Xiao if he could help Gin, and Lin Xiao declared that he would tear apart any fate demanding someone's death.
• Lin Xiao and the others continued exploring the backstage corridor before the competition began.
• Nijika and Kita tried to gather Hitori Gotoh, who had partly melted into a pink puddle because of her stage fright.
• Shirogane mistook Hitori for a monster, but Lin Xiao explained that she was suffering from severe social anxiety and led the group onward.

Lin Xiao and his companions attended the Kanto High School Joint Music Festival, where he got the Grand Blue members removed before they could sabotage the competition. The Light Music Club opened with an emotional performance that moved the audience and set a daunting standard for the other teams.

• Kohei Imamura and Iori Kitahara vowed to win the festival prize money by sabotaging rival teams, while Chisa Kotegawa looked on in disgust.
• Lin Xiao and his companions decided to avoid the Diving Club, and Lin secretly reported Kohei Imamura and Iori Kitahara for indecent behavior and attempted sabotage.
• Security Personnel dragged Kohei Imamura and Iori Kitahara away before the festival's opening remarks, and Yukino praised Lin Xiao for reporting them.
• The Light Music Club performed a graduation song, with Yui Hirasawa playing Giita and Ritsu Tainaka accompanying her on drums.
• The audience was moved to tears by the performance and applauded, remarking that the opening act was good enough for a national competition.

Hotaru Takekawa and Gin, followed by Kousei Arima and Kaori Miyazono, performed emotional duets that earned all three teams a three-way tie for first at the music festival. After the concert, Lin Xiao interrupted Kousei and Kaori’s rooftop farewell by revealing he had been waiting to take care of them all at once.

• Hotaru Takekawa and Gin performed a mournful flute duet, and the audience wept as Gin began to fade away.
• Kousei Arima and Kaori Miyazono performed a passionate duet that left Kaori exhausted and brought the audience to tears.
• The head judge gave the three teams full marks and declared them tied for first, while the other contestants watched in dismay.
• Kousei Arima supported the weak Kaori Miyazono to the rooftop so she could see the city and share a final moment with him.
• Lin Xiao greeted Kousei Arima and Kaori Miyazono on the rooftop, said he knew Kaori was about to die, and told them he planned to take care of them all at once.

Lin Xiao used Gaia’s power to cure Kaori’s terminal illness and restore Gin to life, letting both reunite with the people they loved. He left the rooftop to their tearful thanks, then discovered the group chat was laughing at his theatrical Ultraman performance.

• Lin Xiao brought Gin and Hotaru beside Kousei and Kaori and announced that he would handle their regrets.
• Lin Xiao summoned Gaia’s light and showed Kaori and Gin the towering giant, who promised them new life.
• Kaori awoke healthy, while Gin found that he was alive and could hold Hotaru.
• Kousei and Kaori asked what Lin Xiao had done, and the four thanked him as he left.
• Kaguya mocked Lin Xiao in the group chat for staging the red light to reuse Ultraman’s line.

After Yukino Yukinoshita teased Lin Xiao about his dramatic healing performance, he hurried away to escape further embarrassment. At the concert hall, a fellow Light Music Club member learned she no longer had to move abroad because Wayne Enterprises had acquired her father’s company, allowing After School Tea Time to stay together.

• Yukino Yukinoshita caught Lin Xiao at the stairs and teased him for using bright lights to make his performance more dramatic.
• Lin Xiao pretended nothing had happened and rushed downstairs with Eriri to leave.
• Yui Hirasawa and Azusa Nakano tearfully said goodbye to their older Light Music Club member, who was preparing to move abroad.
• The older girl received a call from her father saying Wayne Enterprises had acquired his company, so her family could remain in Japan.
• Yui Hirasawa, Azusa Nakano, Ritsu Tainaka, and the others celebrated that they could keep performing together.

Komon Kazuki explained that TLT had put his unit on paid leave because localized earthquakes had disrupted its base and Space Beast signals had vanished. As the earthquakes continued to target TLT, the Native minister delivered Lin Xiao a collection of Kamen Rider systems, and Lin Xiao chose the Kabuto device.

• Komon Kazuki told Jun Himeya that TLT's base was experiencing repeated localized earthquakes and that the disappearance of Space Beast signals had led Captain Wakura to grant the unit an extended vacation.
• Mitsuhiko Ishibori realized the earthquakes were centered beneath his chair and Administrator Matsunaga's conference room, blaming their plan to capture Ultraman's host for angering Mother Earth.
• Lin Xiao woke from a nap and answered the door to find the Native minister apologizing for his unexpected visit and presenting the first batch of combat-ready equipment.
• The Native minister displayed several Kamen Rider systems, and Lin Xiao selected the crimson Kabuto insect device.

Lin Xiao showed the chat group the Kabuto Zecter he had received from the Natives, prompting Kaguya and Batman to react before the group recruited Tendou Souji. Tendou recognized the Zecter as an imitation, leaving Lin Xiao stunned that Souji had not yet obtained his own after preparing for seven years.

• Lin Xiao admired the Kabuto Zecter delivered by the Natives, photographed it, and posted it to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
• Kaguya excitedly demanded a chance to use the Zecter, while Batman asked Lin Xiao to send it to the Batcave for examination and was refused.
• The chat group recruited a member named The Man Who Walks the Path of Heaven and Rules Over All, whom Lin Xiao recognized as Tendou Souji.
• Tendou dismissed the group members' comments, examined Lin Xiao's photo, and asked where he had gotten the high-quality imitation toy.
• Lin Xiao realized that Tendou had been waiting seven years for his Rider Belt and still had not obtained the genuine Zecter.

Lin Xiao teased Tendou Souji about receiving a counterfeit Kabuto Zecter before the real one arrived, but the genuine Zecter soon flew to Tendou. After Lin Xiao uploaded the complete series’ memories, Tendou learned the Natives’ plans and the truth about Hiyori’s origins, leaving him shaken.

• Lin Xiao and Kaguya mocked Tendou Souji because his transformation device had not arrived, while Tendou insisted that a counterfeit could not match the real thing.
• The genuine Kabuto Zecter smashed through Tendou’s living-room window and landed in his hand.
• Lin Xiao told Tendou to go save Hiyori from the worm attacking Shibuya and uploaded the complete Kamen Rider Kabuto series to him.
• Tendou learned that the Natives had infiltrated humanity’s leaders and planned to assimilate all humans.
• Tendou discovered that Hiyori’s biological parents had been murdered and mimicked by Natives, and that Hiyori herself had Native blood.

After learning that Hiyori was still his sister despite her connection to the Worms, Tendou Souji regained his resolve with support from the Myriad Worlds Chat Group. Kaguya urged Lin Xiao to steal Tendou’s debut and take Hiyori, and Lin Xiao considered visiting the scene to watch the fight.

• Tendou Souji struggled with the revelation about Hiyori as members of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group argued that she remained his sister and that he should protect her.
• Bruce Wayne and Aizen explained that the Natives’ assimilation plan relied on special identification necklaces and that Tendou could use his foreknowledge to thwart their leaders.
• Tendou thanked the group and vowed to protect Hiyori and destroy anyone who schemed against her.
• Lin Xiao revealed that Natives in his world had joined the Japan Defense Agency but now lived law-abiding lives, offering to help Tendou if needed.
• Kaguya proposed that Lin Xiao use the knockoff Kabuto belt to steal Tendou’s iconic debut and take Hiyori, provoking Tendou’s threat and Lin Xiao’s protest.
• Lin Xiao looked at the red knockoff Kabuto Zecter and decided that visiting Tendou’s fight might be more interesting than staying at school.

Lin Xiao teleported into the warehouse, saved Hiyori Kusakabe, and transformed into Kamen Rider Kabuto before Tendou Souji could use his genuine Zecter. He defeated the Spider Worm and stole Tendou’s signature lines, leaving Tendou furious and everyone else bewildered.

• Lin Xiao appeared between Hiyori Kusakabe and the attacking Spider Worm, while Kagami Arata watched in shock.
• Tendou Souji arrived at the warehouse with the genuine Kabuto Zecter, but Lin Xiao transformed first using a scarlet Zecter.
• Lin Xiao cast off his armor and destroyed the Spider Worm with a Rider Kick before Tendou could act.
• Lin Xiao struck Tendou’s signature pose and recited his lines, leaving Tendou frozen at the entrance with his Zecter unused.
• Kagami Arata and Hiyori Kusakabe stared in confusion as Tendou accused Lin Xiao of being a knockoff, while Kaguya laughed at the scene in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.

Lin Xiao rescued Hiyori Kusakabe and Kagami Arata, then faced down ZECT chief operations officer Mishima Masato when he ordered the witnesses killed. Lin Xiao crushed Mishima and the Ant Troopers with a single stomp, leaving the assembled ZECT force helpless on the shattered floor.

• Hiyori Kusakabe sensed Lin Xiao's warmth and told Tendou Souji that he felt like the real sun, provoking Tendou's protective suspicion.
• Kagami Arata thanked Lin Xiao for saving them and asked whether he worked for ZECT, but Lin Xiao dismissed ZECT's ability to create equipment like his belt.
• Mishima Masato arrived with dozens of Ant Troopers, ordered them to kill everyone present, and demanded that they recover the belts.
• Lin Xiao stomped the warehouse floor, crushing Mishima Masato and the Ant Troopers beneath immense pressure.

Lin Xiao exposed ZECT’s plans to assimilate humanity and Kagami’s father’s secret slaughter program, leaving Kagami shaken by the truth. After Mishima Masato and the surviving ant troopers fled, Kagami invited everyone to Bistro la Salle, where Tendou Souji eagerly accepted the chance to compete with Lin Xiao in the kitchen.

• Lin Xiao revealed that Negishi planned to assimilate humanity into Natives and that Kagami’s father had installed a program to make Rider Systems slaughter all insect species.
• Kagami read the classified documents and struggled to accept that ZECT and his father had betrayed the organization’s stated mission.
• Lin Xiao released the gravitational pressure, and Mishima Masato ordered the ant troopers to retreat with the wounded.
• Tendou Souji criticized Kagami for refusing to face the truth, then gave him medical gauze.
• Kagami thanked Lin Xiao for saving him and Hiyori, then invited the group to eat at Bistro la Salle.
• Tendou Souji accepted the invitation and challenged Lin Xiao to a culinary contest.

Tendou Souji cooked an elaborate meal to win Hiyori Kusakabe’s admiration, but she focused her affection on Lin Xiao instead. As Tendou seethed with jealousy, Kagami Arata struggled to hide his grief over the revelations in the ZECT files.

• Tendou Souji prepared a lavish spread at the restaurant while Lin Xiao livestreamed his cooking to the Myriad Worlds Chat Group.
• Hiyori Kusakabe praised Tendou’s food but then poured water for Lin Xiao, wiped his face, and peeled shrimp for him.
• Tendou Souji watched Hiyori’s attention to Lin Xiao and nearly ground his teeth in fury.
• Kagami Arata, burdened by what he had learned about his father, his brother, and ZECT, tried to hide his tears while eating.
• Tendou Souji noticed Kagami’s forced smile and told him not to force himself to eat.

Lin Xiao healed Kagami and sent Tendou’s leftover food to Saitama through the [Myriad Worlds Chat Group]. As Tendou and the group members reacted to Lin Xiao’s behavior, Kaguya defended him against the accusation that he was a scumbag.

• Lin Xiao secretly healed Kagami’s injuries and strengthened his body with [Gaia's Earth Protection].
• Tendou invited Kagami to breakfast, disguising his concern as an insult.
• Lin Xiao used the [Myriad Worlds Chat Group] to send Tendou’s Red Wine Beef and Miso-Grilled Mackerel to Saitama.
• Saitama praised the food and promised to defend Tendou, while Yukino and Smile Under the Wisteria Flowers teased Lin Xiao about attracting girls.
• Tendou asked whether Lin Xiao was a cheating scumbag, and Kaguya replied that he simply loved cute girls across every universe.

Mishima Masato reported to Kagami Riku that an unknown high school student with extraordinary power had exposed ZECT’s secret plans. Kagami was left shaken by the stranger’s knowledge and worried that Arata had seen the documents.

• Mishima Masato entered Kagami Riku’s office to report on the Shibuya incident.
• Mishima explained that an unknown young man had crushed the ant troopers’ armor with an immense gravitational force.
• Mishima showed Kagami the secret proposals the stranger had exposed, including ZECT’s area-wide purge program and Negishi’s identity.
• Kagami ruled out the Natives and foreign intelligence agencies as the source of the leak and wondered how the stranger had obtained the plans.
• Kagami recalled that Arata had seen everything and asked whether he had already learned the secret.

After the Worm attack, Lin Xiao accepted Tendou Souji’s invitation to stay at the Tendou residence, where Tendou’s younger sister Tsuruka immediately warmed to him. Tendou watched in alarm as Lin Xiao’s presence captivated another member of his family.

• Hiyori worried that Lin Xiao had nowhere to stay, so Tendou Souji invited him to the Tendou residence.
• Tendou escorted Hiyori home safely before taking Lin Xiao to his house.
• Tsuruka greeted Tendou and noticed Lin Xiao, whom she said felt warm like a huge sun.
• Tendou tried to pull Tsuruka away from Lin Xiao, but she brushed him off and welcomed Lin Xiao inside.
• Lin Xiao ruffled Tsuruka’s hair, and she happily went to prepare fruit while Tendou watched in frustration.

Lin Xiao relaxed at the Tendou House while Juka doted on him and Tendou Souji grew jealous, until Yaguruma Sou and Shadow operatives invaded to seize an unregistered belt. Lin Xiao stopped TheBee Zecter with a finger snap, leaving Yaguruma convinced that his ideal of perfect harmony had collapsed.

• Juka fawned over Lin Xiao while Tendou Souji warned her about welcoming strangers and glared at him.
• Shadow operatives surrounded the Tendou House, and Yaguruma Sou ordered Tendou and Lin Xiao to surrender the unregistered belt.
• Tendou Souji insulted Yaguruma Sou's ideal of perfect harmony and ordered the unit to leave his courtyard.
• Yaguruma Sou summoned TheBee Zecter, but Lin Xiao stopped it in midair with a finger snap.
• Yaguruma Sou lost faith in being chosen and declared that harmony had collapsed.

Lin Xiao disabled Yaguruma Sou’s transformation ability, causing the elite captain to collapse into despair, then taunted Kageyama Shun with a joke about Nexus. After Tendou Souji sent the Shadow Squad away, Juka cheerfully brought Lin Xiao inside, leaving Tendou determined to evict him the next morning.

• Yaguruma Sou broke down after losing access to his transformation ability, while Kageyama Shun tried to snap him out of it.
• Lin Xiao told Kageyama Shun that he would need to transform into Nexus to win, then added that even Junis Blue would not be enough.
• Juka asked whether Lin Xiao had used magic to break Yaguruma Sou’s brain, and Lin Xiao claimed the captain had discovered the meaning of life.
• Tendou Souji insulted the Shadow Squad’s resolve and ordered them to leave his yard, so Kageyama Shun and the others carried Yaguruma Sou away.
• Juka took Lin Xiao inside to have fruit, and Tendou resolved to drive Lin Xiao out of his house the next morning.

Lin Xiao urged Tendou Souji to tell Hiyori the truth about her Native origins and offered to remove the alien traits from her body. Hiyori chose to live as a human with her loved ones, and Lin Xiao used Gaia's light to cleanse her Native nature.

• Tendou Souji tried to send Lin Xiao away with a lavish breakfast and a pink-ribboned bento, but Lin Xiao stayed after sensing Earth's welcoming will.
• Lin Xiao confronted Tendou in the kitchen about hiding Hiyori's Native identity and explained that Gaia's light could remove the risk of her transforming.
• Tendou accepted Lin Xiao's help and revealed to Hiyori that their parents had died and that she carried Native blood.
• Hiyori broke down, but Kagami Arata, Juka, and Lin Xiao reassured her that she was not a monster.
• Hiyori said she wanted to be human and stay with her family and friends, and Lin Xiao cleansed her alien traits with Gaia's light.

Tendou Souji asked whether Jin Kagami, a Scorpion Worm who believed himself human and protected others, should count as human or monster. Lin Xiao shared the question with the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, where its members debated the issue before he muted the chat after a comic misunderstanding.

• Hiyori left with Tendou Juka to wash up and change, while Kagami Arata cleaned the spilled tea.
• Tendou Souji asked Lin Xiao whether Jin Kagami was human or monster, and Lin Xiao explained that ZECT would eventually give Jin the fourth Rider System.
• Emiya Shirou and the Victory Team member argued that Jin’s conscience and choices made him human, while Batman warned that his Worm instincts made him dangerous and Aizen called his self-deception a rare work of art.
• Lin Xiao compared Jin’s situation to a handsome man surnamed Yang, prompting Kaguya to mistake him for Erlang Shen, Yang Jian.
• Lin Xiao clarified that he meant Yang Jian from The Mysterious Revival, argued with Kaguya, and muted the group chat.

Lin Xiao and Tendou Souji went to the Kamishiro estate to meet Jin Kagami, where Tendou challenged the boastful young swordsman to a fight. Meanwhile, Lin Xiao discovered that the supposedly grand household was in dire financial trouble.

• Tendou reassured Hiyori and Juka before leaving with Lin Xiao and Kagami Arata.
• Lin Xiao, Tendou, and Kagami arrived at the Kamishiro Family estate and met Jin Kagami proclaiming himself the pinnacle of every field.
• Tendou insulted Jin's swordsmanship, and Jin challenged him to a duel in the garden.
• Tendou fought Jin with a frying pan while Kagami Arata worried about the damage and compensation.
• Lin Xiao and Kagami found the elderly butler crying over unpaid bills and the household's inability to afford food.

Lin Xiao offered to rescue the deeply indebted Kamishiro Family, and its desperate old butler pledged himself to him. After Jin Kagami finished sparring with Tendou Souji, he sensed Lin Xiao’s strange, powerful aura and challenged him to a match.

• Kagami Arata discovered that the Kamishiro Family owed 420 million yen.
• Lin Xiao offered financial support, producing a gold bar and an unlimited black card, and the old butler knelt and called him a savior.
• The old butler revealed that the family’s utilities had been cut off and Jin Kagami’s fencing outfit was rented.
• Jin Kagami and Tendou Souji ended their fencing match, with Tendou acknowledging Jin’s strength.
• Jin Kagami sensed a powerful, contradictory aura from Lin Xiao and challenged him to spar.

Lin Xiao knocked Jin Kagami unconscious and used the Light of Gaia to purify the Scorpion Worm within him, restoring him to a true human. Jin woke believing Lin Xiao had admired his swordsmanship and invested in his family, leaving the estate with his bloodthirsty urges gone and his new life beginning.

• Jin Kagami challenged Lin Xiao to a duel, but Lin Xiao quickly slapped him unconscious.
• Lin Xiao purified the Scorpion Worm and erased Jin's alien genes, restoring his human body and vitality.
• The Old Butler hid the overdue bills and improvised a story that Jin had demonstrated his swordsmanship and Lin Xiao had invested in the family's foundation.
• Jin accepted the story, named Lin Xiao an honored guest under his protection, and ordered the Old Butler to serve tea.
• Jin felt refreshed after drinking tea and realized his bloodthirsty urges and lingering chill had vanished.