Recaps

At the Post-Disaster Revival Autumn Sports Festival, Lin Xiao faced a tennis match and an awkward reunion with Eriri’s mother, Sayuri, who remembered meeting him as a child. He escaped her teasing by rushing off to the court as the match was called to begin.

• The sports festival opened, and Lin Xiao saw Tezuka Kunimitsu and his team preparing to face the All-Heavens Rescue Club.
• Eriri, Yukino, and Miko fussed over Lin Xiao, while Hachiman envied his attention.
• Sayuri Sawamura recognized Lin Xiao from the orphanage, where she had seen him solving calculus as a child.
• Sayuri teased Lin Xiao about his childhood vow to become the Sole Sovereign Throughout the Ages and suggested he decide Eriri’s future.
• The match announcement interrupted Lin Xiao, and he hurried to Court One, promising to report back to Sayuri afterward.

The tennis tournament began with the All-Heavens Rescue Club facing the Ordinary Life Club in the opening match. Ryoma Echizen served a blazing, seemingly homing shot at Tezuka Kunimitsu, leaving the spectators stunned as Tezuka returned it.

• The referee introduced the Tennis Club, Ordinary Life Club, All-Heavens Rescue Club, and the half-dressed Diving Club, whose members drank supposedly healthy but highly alcoholic oolong tea.
• Yukino Yukinoshita threatened to call the police about the Diving Club, while Lin Xiao joked in the Myriad Worlds Chat Group about launching them into the stratosphere.
• The draw paired the All-Heavens Rescue Club against the Ordinary Life Club, and Tezuka Kunimitsu and Ryoma Echizen stepped up as the opening singles players.
• Ryoma Echizen opened with a Twist Serve that sparked like a meteor, bounced toward Tezuka Kunimitsu's face, and drew a precise return from Tezuka.

Ryoma Echizen and Tezuka Kunimitsu’s supernatural tennis match ended in a draw after the court was badly damaged. Singles Two began with Sawamura Eriri facing Miyuki Shirogane, who promptly tripped himself before serving.

• Tezuka used Tezuka Zone and Zero-Shiki Drop Shot against Ryoma as the spectators watched in disbelief.
• The umpire stopped the match because the court was being damaged and declared Ryoma and Tezuka’s match a draw.
• Ryoma and Tezuka exchanged promises to face each other again before leaving the court.
• Lin Xiao sent Eriri onto the court to play Miyuki in Singles Two, despite her protests.
• Miyuki tossed the ball to serve, then tripped over his own feet and fell without touching it.

Yukino Yukinoshita faced Hachiman Hikigaya in a tennis match after Eriri easily defeated Miyuki Shirogane. Hachiman’s athletic ability suddenly surged when Saika cheered him on, leaving Yukino’s fate uncertain.

• Eriri defeated Miyuki Shirogane, who had fallen while serving, and Lin Xiao praised her forehand drive.
• Yukino Yukinoshita and Hachiman Hikigaya began their singles match after exchanging taunts.
• Yukino and Hachiman traded accurate returns as Hachiman struggled to keep up.
• Saika cheered for Hachiman from outside the court, and his eyes lit up as he gained a sudden burst of speed.
• The Shut-In Princess of Eientei called Yukino Yukinoshita the loser as Hachiman raced toward Yukino’s return.

Hachiman’s lucky win and the chaotic matches brought the school tournament to an absurd end, with Lin Xiao’s team defeating the Ordinary Life Club and the Diving Club disqualified. Yukino pursued Lin Xiao over Kaguya’s taunt, while the chat group watched the mayhem unfold.

• Kaguya’s “loser girl” message distracted Yukino, letting Hachiman win with a lucky net-cord shot; Yukino then chased Lin Xiao for laughing at her.
• Emiya Shirou’s reinforced serve terrified Ken Kaneki into fainting, and Houtarou Oreki forfeited his match against Miko Yotsuya.
• Lin Xiao’s devastating serve against Kousei Arima secured the All-Heavens Rescue Club’s victory over the Ordinary Life Club.
• The Diving Club members ran onto the grounds naked, prompting security to detain them and officials to disqualify their team.
• Kaguya laughed at the livestream, while Batman concluded that the cross-world contestants were even harder to understand than the Joker.

After the All-Heavens Rescue Club won the tennis final by forfeit, Emiya Shirou’s repeated high-jump attempts inspired the crowd. The principal celebrated Ryoma Echizen as Sobu High School’s athletic prodigy, only for Ryoma to announce he was transferring to Seishun Academy to rejoin his companions.

• The Tennis Club forfeited against Lin Xiao and the All-Heavens Rescue Club, who claimed the tennis final victory.
• Emiya Shirou repeatedly failed at the high jump but impressed the spectators with his determination.
• The principal praised Shirou’s sporting spirit and celebrated Ryoma Echizen as a rare tennis genius who would revive Sobu High School’s athletics program.
• Ryoma Echizen entered the principal’s office and announced that he wanted to transfer schools.
• Ryoma told the principal he was returning to Seishun Academy because his companions needed him, leaving the principal devastated.

Annie January, newly recruited into the chat group as Starlight, learned that Vought and the heroes she admired were corrupt and monstrous after viewing a memory file about The Boys. Bruce Wayne decided to take Clark Kent to Annie’s world to confront Homelander, leaving Annie’s faith in heroes shattered and a mission in motion.

• Annie January joined the chat group and introduced herself as the aspiring hero Starlight, hoping to join The Seven and become like Homelander.
• Kaguya recognized Annie’s world and warned her that Vought and The Seven were corrupt, prompting Lin Xiao to upload the memory file The Boys.
• Annie and the group watched the memory file and saw Vought’s crimes, including A-Train killing a passerby and Homelander abandoning passengers on a plane.
• Annie collapsed in despair after learning that Homelander was a psychopathic killer, and Bruce Wayne told her that superpowers were only tools.
• Bruce Wayne proposed taking Clark Kent to Annie’s world to inspect Vought and give Homelander practical combat training.

Bruce Wayne took Clark Kent to the world of The Boys to show him how powered individuals operated. After arriving in Annie’s room, Bruce uncovered Vought’s hidden crimes, leaving Clark shocked and furious at the evil committed by people with powers like his own.

• Bruce told Clark they were traveling to another universe and brought him through a cross-dimensional passage into Annie’s room.
• Bruce checked Annie’s room for surveillance devices, then began hacking Vought’s servers to copy its records about The Seven.
• Clark watched Homelander’s promotional video and excitedly said that Homelander was like him.
• Bruce showed Clark secret footage and files revealing Vought’s crimes and the heroes’ violence.
• Clark watched the evidence in disbelief, clenched his fists, and began to glow red-eyed with rage.

Batman convinced Clark that confronting Homelander directly could provoke Vought and endanger civilians, so he proposed building a rival Seven to expose and defeat the company. Lin Xiao, Naruto, Izuku, and Kaguya joined the mission, with Lin Xiao giving Kaguya the points she needed for a cross-world ticket.

• Clark urged Batman to stop Homelander immediately, but Bruce warned that Vought could portray them as terrorists and Homelander might retaliate indiscriminately.
• Bruce proposed exposing Vought and forming a new Seven, then invited chat-group members to join the team.
• Lin Xiao, Naruto, and Izuku signed up for the mission.
• Kaguya begged to join but lacked points for a ticket, so Lin Xiao sent her 1,000 points.
• Kaguya claimed the points and began an inappropriate offer to Lin Xiao, who cut her off as the others teased them.

Lin Xiao and the others gathered in Annie's bedroom and agreed to challenge Vought by replacing its Seven and winning the public's trust. Batman sent Clark to rescue passengers on a runaway train, setting the group's first mission in motion.

• Clark greeted Lin Xiao and said being near him felt like standing close to the sun, while Annie admired Kaguya's beauty.
• Batman rejected Kaguya's suggestion to use overwhelming force and proposed defeating Vought by becoming the world's true Seven and destroying its public reputation.
• Lin Xiao raised the need for superhero codenames, and Batman assigned Orange Spark to Naruto and Swordsmith to Shirou, while Lin Xiao chose Son of Earth for himself.
• Batman announced that the true Seven had assembled and told Clark that a hacked train was racing toward a collapsed bridge near Chicago.
• Clark took the black suit Batman gave him and set out to save the passengers.

Clark saved hundreds of passengers by stopping a runaway train and repairing a broken bridge, then left as they hailed him as a hero. At Vought, Homelander watched footage of the rescue, realized Clark was real and more capable than he was, and ordered The Seven to find him.

• Clark stopped the runaway train with his Bio-Force Field and welded the broken bridge back together with Heat Vision.
• Clark praised the passengers for not giving up hope, then flew away as they thanked him.
• Queen Maeve analyzed footage of the rescue and said The Seven could not have stopped the train without destroying it.
• Homelander rejected The Deep's claim that the footage was CGI and realized Clark was a genuine rival.
• Homelander ordered The Seven to use surveillance cameras and satellites to find Clark so he could kill him.

After Clark stopped a runaway train, Bruce sent the team to help ordinary people without publicity, filling the gaps left by Vought’s heroes. The group began rescuing people across New York, including Hughie and Robin, as witnesses recorded their actions on phones.

• Clark returned to the apartment after stopping a runaway train without casualties, and Lin Xiao predicted Homelander would be furious about his debut.
• Bruce explained that the team should quietly help people with everyday emergencies, and Lin Xiao agreed to send everyone out after dinner.
• Clark saved Robin from A-Train, whose collision with him left the speedster badly injured.
• A red-haired boy rescued a school bus hanging from an overpass, while a golden-glowing boy tied up armed robbers in Queens.
• Bystanders recorded the team’s rescues on their phones, though the heroes left without giving their names.

Lin Xiao watched Gaia arrive at a Manhattan bank hostage crisis and announce himself as the incarnation of Earth's Will. Homelander suppressed his anger at being upstaged and offered Gaia a place in The Seven, believing him to be a harmless projection.

• Lin Xiao left his game after seeing news of the bank hostage crisis while Kaguya took over his character and won.
• Gaia descended outside First National Bank, and the terrified robber fainted as the hostages and viewers reacted to the giant.
• The rescued father and daughter praised Gaia, and Homelander grew furious when he heard the girl say Gaia felt warmer than him.
• Vought executives failed to identify Gaia, and Homelander used X-ray vision before deciding Gaia was only a light projection.
• Homelander landed at the bank, greeted Gaia for the cameras, and invited him to join The Seven as his protégé.

Lin Xiao and Clark rejected Homelander and left after the crowd defended him, prompting Vought to hunt for the newcomers. Billy Butcher tracked them to Batman's base, where Batman confronted him after disabling his weapons and explosives.

• Lin Xiao insulted Homelander, and Clark arrived to challenge him.
• The rescued hostages and crowd defended Homelander, so Clark held back and Lin Xiao and Clark departed.
• Stan Edgar ordered Vought to suppress the footage and investigate Lin Xiao and Clark.
• Billy Butcher watched the confrontation and celebrated that Homelander had found a powerful enemy.
• Butcher broke into Batman's base with explosives and a rifle, but Batman revealed he had disabled both.

Batman revealed that Becca was alive and brought her and Homelander’s son to reunite with Butcher. The Justice League then publicly launched in New York, striking at Vought’s influence and leaving Homelander enraged as its stock plunged.

• Batman told Butcher that Becca was alive and being held with Homelander’s son, then Clark brought them both to meet him.
• Butcher reunited with Becca and struggled with his feelings about her son, while the Shut-In Princess of Eientei recounted Butcher’s future betrayal of Soldier Boy.
• Homelander berated Vought’s executives after they failed to find the men in black.
• The Justice League took over the building across from Vought Tower and broadcast its promise of free, advertisement-free rescues.
• Lin Xiao and Clark watched Vought’s stock fall as Homelander broke down and vowed to destroy the Justice League.

Starlight joined the Justice League, and Tsukuyomi’s debut video overwhelmed Vought’s publicity campaign and drew millions of fans. As Homelander demanded that Queen Maeve attack Tsukuyomi online, Madelyn stopped him and proposed bringing the Justice League under Vought’s influence.

• Starlight tore up Vought’s contract and asked Bruce Wayne and Lin Xiao to let her join the Justice League; Bruce welcomed her as Starlight.
• Vought launched a promotional campaign featuring Homelander and Queen Maeve to recover its public image and stock price.
• The Justice League posted a casual video introducing Tsukuyomi, whose beauty and gaming persona sparked a huge online following and crushed Vought’s campaign.
• Bruce watched the reaction and added points to his Kaguya countermeasure plan, while Queen Maeve secretly became a devoted Tsukuyomi fan.
• Homelander demanded that Queen Maeve use her followers to attack Tsukuyomi, but Madelyn stopped him and suggested recruiting the Justice League instead.

Vought tried to acquire the Justice League, but the League turned the meeting into a public exposure of Vought’s corruption and a final battle. Clark defeated Homelander as Kaguya rallied viewers against Vought, leaving the company under a storm of public outrage.

• Madelyn sent the Justice League an acquisition offer, and Batman decided to use the invitation to strike at Vought’s headquarters.
• Batman rejected and tore up Vought’s contract, and Naruto knocked The Deep through a conference table after he insulted Annie.
• Homelander threatened the League, while Batman revealed that their meeting was being livestreamed after Vought’s communications had been disabled.
• Clark blocked Homelander’s Heat Vision and threw him through the floor, drawing cheers from viewers.
• Kaguya played up the League’s victimization on camera, prompting viewers to call for a boycott of Vought and a campaign against its accounts and stock.

After Kaguya’s livestream turned public opinion against Vought, Batman and Lin Xiao forced Vought and the Justice League toward a midnight showdown in Nevada. Vought assembled hundreds of heroes and injected Homelander with the original Compound V, leaving him a furious, unstable weapon.

• Kaguya’s performance and the leaked surveillance footage sparked worldwide protests against Vought and raised the Justice League’s standing.
• A U.S. general ordered armored divisions to surround Vought Tower and demanded the Justice League be investigated.
• Batman hacked the Pentagon and Vought’s classified channels, warned the military away, and summoned Vought’s superpowered fighters to Nevada at midnight.
• Lin Xiao challenged the general to send troops if he wanted, then cut off the Pentagon’s communications.
• Madelyn rallied more than three hundred Vought heroes while Edgar authorized the original Compound V for Homelander.
• Homelander broke his restraints and vowed to kill the Justice League and Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao and the Justice League fought Vought’s drug-enhanced superpowered army in the Nevada desert, with Clark, Shirou, and Naruto swiftly overpowering their opponents. As the battle turned against Vought’s forces, Lin Xiao summoned Ultraman Gaia, leaving the army and the Pentagon stunned.

• Homelander’s enhanced Heat Vision failed to harm Clark, who then punched Homelander in the abdomen and broke his ribs.
• Shirou blocked Black Noir’s attack and forced the assassin back, while Naruto outpaced A-Train and sent him crashing into The Deep.
• Queen Maeve became captivated by Kaguya, and Batman knocked her unconscious with concealed anesthetic gas.
• Lin Xiao declared that the planet had found Vought’s superpowered soldiers guilty and raised the Blue Cone.
• Lin Xiao summoned Ultraman Gaia, whose arrival shook the desert and silenced the battlefield and the Pentagon.

Lin Xiao transformed into Gaia and defeated Stormfront, forcing Vought’s assembled superhumans to surrender. After Lin Xiao returned to his human form, the earth itself stopped an assassin who attacked him, leaving the battlefield awed by his power.

• Stormfront attacked Gaia with purple lightning, but her blasts failed to damage him.
• Gaia mocked Stormfront’s supremacist beliefs and slapped her into a distant sand dune.
• After seeing Stormfront defeated and Homelander pinned, Vought’s superhumans surrendered.
• Lin Xiao dispelled his transformation and returned to the sand in his high school uniform.
• An invisible, teleporting superhuman tried to stab Lin Xiao, but the ground trapped and pinned him.
• The superhumans and Butcher watched in awe as the earth appeared to respond to Lin Xiao and protect him.

Lin Xiao left the battle against Vought’s Supes in Batman’s hands and returned to the All-Heavens Rescue Club after learning his weeklong absence had alarmed his classmates and teacher. He arrived to find Miko praying to a shrine built around his cola can and Eriri throwing darts at an ugly portrait of him.

• Batman stopped Butcher from killing the defeated Supes and arranged for them to face trial and imprisonment in a superhuman-only prison.
• Lin Xiao learned from Yukino Yukinoshita in the chat group that he had been gone for nearly a week and that Hiratsuka planned to confront him if he missed another day.
• Lin Xiao and Batman departed, while Batman assigned Clark, Butcher, and Annie responsibilities for the prison, Vought’s liquidation, and the new Justice League.
• Miko endured a week of torment from spirits in the clubroom and prayed for Lin Xiao to return.
• Lin Xiao entered the clubroom, where his Earth Light erased the spirits, and found Eriri throwing darts at his portrait and Miko worshipping his empty cola can.

After returning to school, Lin Xiao used a medical certificate to escape Shizuka Hiratsuka’s anger over his absence and the strange shrine in the clubroom. That evening, he met Utaha Kasumigaoka, who presented him with a revised manuscript and demanded the honest evaluation he had promised her a year earlier.

• Eriri, Miko, and Yukino confronted Lin Xiao about missing school and the shrine before Shizuka Hiratsuka burst in and accused him of leading a cult.
• Lin Xiao showed Shizuka Hiratsuka a medical certificate, and she ordered him back to class and banned idol worship at school.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka messaged Lin Xiao and asked him to meet, and he agreed to go to her chosen izakaya.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka handed Lin Xiao her manuscript, saying she had revised it for a year and insisting he read it as compensation for his promise.

Lin Xiao rapidly read and harshly critiqued Utaha Kasumigaoka’s revised novel, prompting her to ask him to help with the next rewrite. He then revealed that he had abandoned his own writing career after meeting the leads from his novel on the street, leaving Utaha stunned by his unbelievable explanation.

• Lin Xiao finished reading Utaha Kasumigaoka’s hundred-thousand-word manuscript in under three minutes and identified a punctuation error on page forty-seven.
• Lin Xiao criticized the novel’s melodramatic male lead, inconsistent female lead, slow pacing, and awkward emotional conflict, while praising Utaha’s command of language.
• Utaha accepted his criticism and asked Lin Xiao to see her next rewrite through to the end, offering him a commission or another request.
• Lin Xiao told Utaha that he had once dreamed of becoming a great author and had written a tearjerking masterpiece.
• Lin Xiao claimed he threw away his manuscript after meeting the male and female leads from his novel on the street, and Utaha doubted his story.

Lin Xiao recalled abandoning his plan to publish CLANNAD after discovering that its characters, Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa, existed in his world. After parting ways with Utaha Kasumigaoka and helping a drunk Shizuka Hiratsuka get home, he decided to visit the story’s leads.

• Lin Xiao remembered that he had once written CLANNAD from memory, then saw Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa reenact its opening scene and realized he could be mistaken for a stalker if he published it.
• Utaha Kasumigaoka took her manuscript and told Lin Xiao to keep his phone on for her next revision.
• Lin Xiao left the izakaya and found Shizuka Hiratsuka drunk beside a park bench.
• Lin Xiao carried Shizuka Hiratsuka to her apartment, put her to bed, and left after seeing its cluttered state.
• Lin Xiao looked up at the night sky and decided to go see Tomoya Okazaki and Nagisa Furukawa.

Lin Xiao visited the Furukawa bakery and showed Nagisa Furukawa, Tomoya Okazaki, and her parents the tragic future they would have faced. He cured Nagisa’s illness and left the family with hope for a happy life, giving them the name Saga.

• Lin Xiao took a day off and visited the Furukawa Bakery, where he met Nagisa Furukawa, Tomoya Okazaki, Akio Furukawa, and Sanae Furukawa.
• Lin Xiao revealed the family’s future memories of Nagisa’s death, Tomoya’s grief, and Ushio’s death in the snow.
• Lin Xiao used the Light of Gaia to cure Nagisa’s underlying illness and assured the family that the tragedy would no longer happen.
• Akio, Sanae, and Tomoya thanked Lin Xiao as he left the bakery and congratulated Nagisa and Tomoya on their upcoming marriage.
• When Akio asked his name, Lin Xiao called himself Saga and described it as a miracle that awakens amid despair.