Recaps

Lin Xiao returned to the All-Heavens Rescue Club after helping defeat Five King, only to find that Japanese netizens blamed the Light Giants for attracting monsters and demanded that they stay away. As Yukino joked that Lin Xiao was now Chiba Prefecture’s exclusive guardian, Miko alone declared that she trusted him.

• Lin Xiao returned to the Sobu High All-Heavens Rescue Club activity room, where Yukino Yukinoshita, Eriri, and Miko Yotsuya welcomed him and showed him the online discussion.
• Lin Xiao saw netizens praise the three Light Giants, then watched commenters blame them for drawing giant monsters and flood the topic with calls for them to back off.
• Lin Xiao complained that the public had praised him when Five King threatened the city but rejected him after its defeat, while members of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group reacted to the backlash.
• Eriri laughed at Lin Xiao’s new reputation, and Yukino suggested that he was now Chiba Prefecture’s exclusive guardian and joked about raising his rent.
• Ai Haibara lamented escaping the Black Organization only to face catastrophic monsters, while Miko told Lin Xiao she would always believe in him and called him her protective charm.

Lin Xiao joked about making Batman Japan’s prime minister so he could rely on him to handle government work, then a new group member joined: Saitama, the bald hero from One-Punch Man. Saitama revealed his simple training routine, leaving Aizen stunned and skeptical.

• Lin Xiao agreed with online criticism of Japan’s prime minister and jokingly nominated Fujiwara Chika as his replacement.
• Lin Xiao invited Batman to cross worlds and become Japan’s prime minister, but Batman refused on principle.
• Kaguya exposed Lin Xiao’s real motive: he wanted Batman to work for free and secure government reimbursements for his activity funds.
• A system notification announced that the Bald Cape Hero Who Wants to Become the Strongest Hero had joined the chat, and Kaguya recognized him as the man who broke his Limiter.
• Aizen asked Saitama how he achieved his evolution, and Saitama attributed his strength to three years of daily exercises and running; Aizen doubted his sanity.

Lin Xiao confirmed that Saitama had become overwhelmingly powerful through simple training, then sent him premium wagyu that instantly won his loyalty. A video of Saitama’s Serious Punch stunned the group, leaving Aizen and the others struggling to reconcile his strength with his poverty.

• Aizen Sosuke and Batman questioned Saitama’s training claims, but Lin Xiao confirmed that Saitama had broken the common sense and causality of his world.
• Saitama complained about his boredom and lack of supermarket coupons, so Lin Xiao sent him ten pounds of A5 wagyu.
• Saitama eagerly thanked Lin Xiao and declared him his big brother, while Batman noted that premium ingredients could control the otherwise cosmic-level threat.
• Lin Xiao uploaded a video showing Saitama’s Serious Punch destroying Boros’s attack and splitting Earth’s atmosphere.
• Aizen watched the video and felt mentally exhausted as he struggled to understand how someone so powerful could be too poor to afford discounted cabbages.

Batman and Aizen gave Tokyo’s Ghouls a synthetic RC-cell nutrient solution that ended their need to eat humans, while imposing a lethal safeguard against anyone who hunted people. After leaving the production formula with Yoshimura, the two returned to their worlds, and Tokyo was left free of its human-eating threat.

• Batman revealed that the synthetic nutrient solution ended the Ghouls’ hunger for human flesh and let them eat human food.
• Aizen explained that he and Batman had captured Aogiri Tree extremists for experiments and destroyed their consciousness with Kyoka Suigetsu.
• Batman told Yoshimura that the solution’s hidden isotope would kill any Ghoul who drank it and then hunted humans.
• Yoshimura and the other Ghouls promised to follow the rules and bowed to Batman and Aizen.
• Batman and Aizen reported their work to Lin Xiao and teleported away to their respective worlds.

Lin Xiao went to Utaha Kasumigaoka’s hotel suite to review her novel draft and discovered that she had made him the model for a delusional Light Giant protagonist. Their flirtatious role-play was interrupted when editor Machida Sonoko arrived and called the police, leaving Utaha accused of exploiting a male student.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka summoned Lin Xiao to the Chiyoda Grand Hotel and threatened to post an embarrassing recording if he was late.
• Lin Xiao read Utaha’s draft and found that its male lead was based on him as a forty-thousand-ton Light Giant with chuunibyou excuses.
• Utaha pushed Lin Xiao onto the sofa and pressed him to imagine embracing an ordinary girl who loved him.
• Machida Sonoko entered the suite, found Utaha straddling Lin Xiao, and called the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to report her.

Utaha Kasumigaoka finished her manuscript after an all-night writing session supervised by Machida Sonoko and Lin Xiao. The next morning, a crying juvenile monster appeared in a Shinjuku park, where Japanese forces prepared to attack it, and Lin Xiao faced a new crisis.

• Utaha panicked when Machida Sonoko pretended to call the police, then agreed to finish the last twenty thousand words overnight.
• Machida Sonoko locked the suite and made Lin Xiao stay with her to supervise Utaha as she wrote.
• Utaha finished the manuscript the next morning while Lin Xiao helped her work through the story's logic and chatted with the group.
• A disaster siren sounded across Tokyo, and Lin Xiao sensed a lost, crying juvenile monster in a Shinjuku park.
• Japanese forces surrounded the monster and prepared to fire, while Lin Xiao recognized that it had not come to invade Earth.

Lin Xiao transformed into Ultraman Gaia and protected a frightened space monster from the Self-Defense Forces, soothing it and warning the soldiers not to attack. As Yukino Yukinoshita woke up, the group chat stirred up jealousy by telling her Lin Xiao had spent the night with Utaha Kasumigaoka.

• Utaha Kasumigaoka and Machida Sonoko watched as Lin Xiao used the Blue Cone and transformed into Ultraman Gaia.
• Gaia shielded the little monster from the Self-Defense Forces’ missiles, then gently soothed it with the Light of Nature.
• The chat group praised Lin Xiao’s restraint, while the newly awakened Yukino Yukinoshita was told that Lin Xiao had spent the night at a hotel with Utaha Kasumigaoka.
• Gaia told the Self-Defense Forces that the monster was a lost cub and warned them that another attack would provoke him.
• The field commander ordered the soldiers to cease fire and secure their weapons.

Lin Xiao used Earth's Will to reunite the lost little monster with its mother through a spatial passage, while the Black Cosmic Storm hinted at a larger threat. Back at the Chiyoda Grand Hotel, Utaha Kasumigaoka realized Lin Xiao was truly Ultraman and was mortified when he teased her about the romance novel she had written about him.

• The little monster showed Lin Xiao how its mother had sent it to Earth through a wormhole to save it from a Black Cosmic Storm.
• Lin Xiao asked Earth's Will for help, and it shared its power to heal the little monster and open a passage to its mother.
• The little monster heard its mother's call, thanked Gaia, and returned through the passage as it closed.
• Members of the Myriad Worlds Chat Group praised the rescue, while Dark Knight of Gotham warned that the Black Cosmic Storm might signal a major crisis.
• At the Chiyoda Grand Hotel, Machida Sonoko and Utaha Kasumigaoka realized Lin Xiao had transformed into Ultraman and flown out through their window.
• Lin Xiao messaged Utaha about revising her manuscript and joked about her portrayal of a forty-thousand-ton giant, leaving her screaming in embarrassment.

Lin Xiao learned that Boros’s arrival would threaten A-City and assembled a team to stop the attack and gather alien technology. He arranged leave from the All-Heavens Rescue Club before departing for the One-Punch Man universe.

• Lin Xiao asked Saitama about an emergency Hero Association meeting and learned it was called after Shibabawa’s death.
• Lin Xiao shared a memory copy showing Boros’s mothership destroying A-City, and warned Saitama that civilians would die even if Saitama defeated Boros.
• Lin Xiao decided to intervene, and Bruce, Aizen Sosuke, and Kaguya agreed to accompany him.
• Lin Xiao told the All-Heavens Rescue Club that he was heading to another universe; Miko wished him well, Shizuka Hiratsuka approved his leave, and Yukino arranged the paperwork.

Lin Xiao and his companions arrived at Saitama’s apartment, where Lin Xiao connected to the violent Earth of the One-Punch Man world and gained access to its earth veins. After Saitama and Genos left for the Hero Association meeting, Lin Xiao briefed Batman, Aizen, and Kaguya on the world and explained why he had withheld future events from Saitama.

• Lin Xiao, Batman, Aizen, and Kaguya arrived at Saitama’s apartment, where Batman set up monitoring equipment and Genos watched them warily.
• Lin Xiao connected with the One-Punch Man world’s Earth and received permission to access its earth veins.
• Genos reminded Saitama that the mandatory S-Class hero meeting was about to begin, and Saitama left for A-City with him.
• After Saitama and Genos departed, Lin Xiao sent Batman, Aizen, and Kaguya information about the world, its monster classifications, the Hero Association, and Boros’s imminent arrival.
• Batman questioned why Lin Xiao had not warned Saitama, and Lin Xiao explained that doing so would deepen Saitama’s boredom by taking away the surprise of a possible fight.

Ultraman Gaia protected A-City from the alien mothership’s bombardment while Saitama charged aboard to face Boros. As alien officers confronted the heroes on the rooftop, Aizen stepped forward and prepared to use Kyoka Suigetsu against Melzargard.

• The alien mothership bombarded A-City, but Ultraman Gaia shielded the city with a massive barrier.
• Saitama recognized Lin Xiao as the transformed Gaia, then flew into the mothership to confront the one-eyed overlord.
• Melzargard, Geryuganshoop, and Groribas descended onto the rooftop to attack the S-Class heroes.
• Aizen identified Melzargard’s regeneration core and drew his Zanpakuto, invoking Kyoka Suigetsu as Melzargard attacked.

Aizen trapped Melzargard in an illusion that made it destroy its own cores, while Lin Xiao projected Saitama's battle with Boros for the S-Class heroes. Saitama survived being kicked to the moon, returned to the ship, and defeated Boros's planet-threatening attack with a Serious Punch.

• Aizen used an illusion to make Melzargard's senses turn against it until it crushed its own cores.
• Lin Xiao created a holographic projection showing Saitama confronting Boros aboard the alien ship.
• Boros used Meteoric Burst to kick Saitama from Earth to the moon.
• Saitama jumped back from the moon and returned to Boros's ship unharmed.
• Boros unleashed his Collapsing Star Roaring Cannon, and Saitama split the attack with a Serious Punch that pierced Boros and parted the clouds across the sky.

Saitama defeated Boros, and the heroes safely stopped the falling spaceship. After the group celebrated with hot pot at Saitama’s apartment, Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu to hypnotize Hero Association recovery personnel who came to seize the alien technology, leaving the group undisturbed.

• Boros admitted defeat and died after Saitama’s punch, while Tatsumaki, Metal Knight, and the other S-Class heroes stopped the spaceship from crashing.
• Saitama joined Lin Xiao, Bruce Wayne, and Aizen, and they went to Saitama’s apartment for hot pot with Kaguya.
• Bruce Wayne stored Boros’s alien engine code and samples of antigravity metal in a radiation-proof briefcase.
• Hero Association recovery personnel arrived at Saitama’s apartment, mistaking the group for illegal salvagers because their department had not received the combat report.
• Aizen hypnotized the supervisors and guards with Kyoka Suigetsu, making them believe the group had handed over the alien fragments and agreed to leave Z City.

Batman proposed a preemptive raid on the Monster Association beneath Z City, but Kaguya refused to enter the underground until Lin Xiao persuaded her that a livestreamed first clear would make her famous. The group set off to raid the Monster Association, with Kaguya determined to be the main carry.

• Batman projected a map of Z City's underground and urged the group to wipe out the Monster Association before it could threaten civilians.
• Saitama welcomed the chance to fight monsters, and Aizen expressed interest in capturing some as specimens.
• Kaguya changed into a Gothic Lolita outfit and announced that she would register with the Hero Association as a Super Idol Hero instead of joining the raid.
• Batman warned Lin Xiao that Kaguya's fame could cause a worldwide social disaster, so they needed to keep her under watch.
• Lin Xiao persuaded Kaguya that a livestreamed first clear of the Monster Association would make her famous faster than registering as a hero.
• Kaguya eagerly told Batman to lead the way, and the group headed underground to raid the Monster Association.

Lin Xiao's group began a global livestream as Kaguya entered Z City's underground zone and introduced herself as Tsukuyomi. She erased the Monster Association's first wave of attackers in seconds, leaving Psykos to realize the intruders were far more dangerous than she had expected.

• Batman activated a global livestream across the Hero Association network and major video platforms.
• Kaguya introduced herself to viewers as Tsukuyomi, drawing tens of millions of viewers with her appearance and confident streaming.
• Psykos learned that the group had breached the Monster Association's defenses and ordered every monster above Demon level to attack them.
• Kaguya insisted on fighting alone and destroyed more than a hundred monsters, including several Demon-level monsters, with a barrage of light spheres.
• Psykos watched the attackers vanish on the surveillance monitor and realized they were calamities beyond ordinary biological limits.

Lin Xiao’s group encountered three Dragon-level Monster Association executives underground, but Saitama killed them effortlessly. The terrified Psykos called on Orochi to wake up as the group’s advance left a tunnel blasted through the underground maze.

• Gyoro Gyoro sounded the highest-level alert and summoned Black Sperm, Homeless Emperor, and Fuhrer Ugly to the Zone B passage.
• Homeless Emperor attacked Lin Xiao’s group with energy orbs, but Saitama walked through the explosions unharmed and killed him with one punch.
• Saitama slapped Fuhrer Ugly through the blast doors, killing him, then destroyed Black Sperm and his clones with consecutive normal punches.
• Saitama finished his post-meal exercise, while livestream viewers watched in shock and the survivors’ tunnel stretched toward the Earth’s core.
• Psykos saw the three executives’ defeat on the surveillance screen and frantically called for Orochi to wake up.

Saitama killed Monster King Orochi with one punch, but Psykos used power from God to merge with Orochi’s remains and the planet’s leylines. As Psykos-Orochi declared herself Earth, Kaguya mocked Lin Xiao, the true Son of Earth, for not calling her Mommy.

• Saitama woke Monster King Orochi and destroyed it with a Normal Punch that reversed its beam and tore apart its body.
• Psykos broke down after Orochi’s death, then received a surge of energy from an enigmatic God.
• Psykos fused with Orochi’s remains and absorbed power through roots reaching into Earth’s mantle, emerging as Psykos-Orochi.
• Psykos-Orochi declared that she had become Earth itself, while Batman and Aizen turned to look at Lin Xiao.
• Kaguya laughed at Psykos-Orochi’s claim and teased Lin Xiao for not flying over to call her Mommy.

Lin Xiao transformed into Ultraman Gaia: Supreme Form and overwhelmed Psykos-Orochi after Earth's energy rejected her. As Psykos fell defeated, Kaguya's vulgar jokes sparked a furious exchange in the chat and further embarrassed Lin Xiao.

• Lin Xiao silenced Kaguya with a terrifying glare, and she dropped to her knees and apologized.
• Psykos-Orochi attacked Lin Xiao and the S-Class heroes with a beam powered by energy siphoned from Earth.
• Lin Xiao summoned Ultraman Gaia: Supreme Form, and the planet's repulsive force severed Psykos's connection to its energy.
• Kaguya mocked Psykos in the chat, Yukino angrily rebuked her, and Kaguya teased Yukino until she went offline.
• Lin Xiao struck Psykos-Orochi with a photon-powered hand chop, vaporizing Orochi's shell and causing Psykos to fall in her powerless human form.

After defeating Monster King Orochi, Lin Xiao drove the enraged God away and joined Batman and Saitama to plan the cleanup of the remaining villainous forces. Psykos woke with her corruption cleansed and regretted her crimes, while Kaguya left Lin Xiao flustered with her shameless teasing.

• God fixed its gaze on Gaia, but withdrew when Lin Xiao and Saitama confronted its presence.
• Lin Xiao returned with the others to Saitama's apartment, where Batman proposed that Saitama help eliminate the House of Evolution, the ninja village remnants, and the Machine God Organization.
• Psykos woke after Lin Xiao's light severed her connection to God and cleansed her inner distortion, then wept over the harm she had caused.
• Kaguya began teasing the captive Psykos with a lewd remark, and Lin Xiao covered her mouth to stop her.
• Kaguya licked Lin Xiao's hand, leaving him shocked and deeply uncomfortable.

Batman and Lin Xiao gave Psykos a chance to redeem herself by building a covert force of rational monsters to protect civilians. Before Lin Xiao could spar with Saitama, the Earth's Will unexpectedly poured its power into Ultraman Gaia.

• Batman proposed that Psykos recruit controllable, rational monsters and form a monitored monster defense organization.
• Lin Xiao ordered Psykos to save lives and earn redemption, and Psykos accepted the mission.
• Saitama asked Lin Xiao to spar, and Lin Xiao agreed to fight him in a remote desert.
• Lin Xiao transformed into Ultraman Gaia as Batman, Aizen, Kaguya, and Genos watched from a distant mountain.
• As Lin Xiao prepared to face Saitama, the Earth's Will suddenly flooded Ultraman Gaia with power.

Earth's Will forced Lin Xiao's Gaia into a planet-powered form to kill Saitama, but Lin Xiao escaped just before Saitama's Serious Punch struck. He regrouped in Z City and complained in the chat, while the others laughed at Earth's grudge against Saitama.

• Earth's Will took control of Lin Xiao's Gaia and poured immense energy and armor into him, forcing him into a blazing red form.
• Saitama welcomed the power rising in Gaia and launched his Ultimate Serious Punch as Batman and Aizen watched in alarm.
• Lin Xiao canceled his transformation and vanished just before the punch landed, causing Saitama to strike the empty sky and split the desert and Pacific Ocean with the impact.
• Lin Xiao reappeared in an uninhabited area of Z City and accused Saitama of making Earth's Will resent him.
• Kaguya joked that Earth had tried to use Lin Xiao to kill Saitama, and the group laughed while Lin Xiao resolved to avoid that world's Earth.

Lin Xiao returned from Saitama's world to Chiba Prefecture, reassured Psykos that they would meet again, and reunited with Ai Haibara and his clubmates. The chapter ended when Shadow Mage appeared before the director of the Special Disaster Event Processing Department and began speaking about the Light Giant.

• Psykos asked Lin Xiao whether they would meet again, and he promised they would as long as she continued saving others.
• Lin Xiao returned to his Chiba Prefecture apartment and found Ai Haibara trying to recreate his fried rice.
• Lin Xiao cooked fried rice for Ai Haibara, who enjoyed it while pretending it only barely passed.
• Lin Xiao told the All-Heavens Rescue Club group chat that he had returned safely, and the members welcomed him back and warned him not to be late for school.
• Shadow Mage appeared in the director's office and remarked that the director was troubled by the Light Giant's power.

Shadow Mage tried to recruit the Native minister into a plot against Ultraman, but the minister refused and insisted he was human. After Shadow Mage left, the terrified minister ordered Natives in Japan to blend in as law-abiding citizens so Ultraman would not target them.

• Shadow Mage offered the minister influence in human society in exchange for an alliance against Ultraman.
• The minister denied being an alien and threatened to call the police, leaving Shadow Mage bewildered and furious.
• Shadow Mage warned the minister before escaping through a dimensional rift.
• The minister's assistant revealed that he was the minister's son and asked what they should do if Ultraman discovered they were Natives.
• The minister told his son to insist they were human and ordered Natives in Japan to obey the law and avoid drawing Ultraman's attention.

Lin Xiao realized the politicians’ sudden efficiency and environmental zeal came from Natives hiding among them, who were terrified after he destroyed the Worm meteorite. He laughed at how his display of power had turned the aliens into model public servants, while Yukino, Eriri, and Ai Haibara remained baffled.

• Japan’s cabinet officials appeared on the news clearing rubble and promising swift reconstruction aid and strict environmental protections.
• Yukino, Eriri, and Ai Haibara questioned why the politicians had changed so dramatically, while Lin Xiao sensed that Earth’s Will approved of their work.
• Lin Xiao connected the officials’ behavior to the Worm meteorite attack and concluded that the high-ranking politicians were Natives who had fallen to Earth thirty-five years earlier.
• Lin Xiao decided the Natives were working desperately to appear human and please him and Earth’s Will after he destroyed the meteorite.
• Lin Xiao laughed at the aliens’ transformation into efficient public servants, leaving Yukino, Eriri, and Ai Haibara wondering what he knew.

Lin Xiao shared the story of alien officials who had become diligent public servants out of fear with the Myriad Worlds Chat Group, prompting members across several worlds to joke about his approach to governance. He advised Daigo that the aliens could remain as free labor as long as they never dared resist, then someone in the clubroom called out his smug grin.

• Yukino, Ai Haibara, Miko Yotsuya, and Eriri speculated about how Lin Xiao had made the officials work, and Lin Xiao said they had changed their ways to serve Mother Earth.
• Lin Xiao told the Myriad Worlds Chat Group that the officials were alien bugs who had crashed on Earth thirty-five years earlier and earned Mother Earth's tacit approval by working hard.
• Members including Aizen Sosuke, Bruce Wayne, Lelouch, Starlight Annie, Shinobu Kocho, and Daigo reacted to the story and discussed the aliens' unlikely transformation into good citizens.
• Daigo wondered whether he should punish the aliens or honor them for their service, and Lin Xiao told him to keep them as free labor as long as they never dared resist.
• Lin Xiao closed the chat and relaxed on the sofa, but a cool voice accused him of grinning at his phone again.