Recaps

After Clark defeated General Zod, he chose to spare the Kryptonians while stripping them of their powers to protect Earth. Lin Xiao repaired the damage to Metropolis and contacted the aloof DC Earth's Will, while Bruce secretly recorded Lin Xiao's abilities for analysis.

• Clark refused to kill Zod and agreed with Bruce's proposal to imprison the Kryptonians under red sun radiation.
• Zod raged at Clark's decision before passing out, and Bruce ordered Alfred to send Wayne Enterprises' containment unit.
• Lin Xiao used the Light of Gaia to repair the craters and damaged infrastructure in Metropolis Square.
• Lin Xiao contacted the DC Earth's Will, which responded with distant indifference.
• Bruce recorded Lin Xiao's restorative power and began considering whether Imaginary Space could weaken him.

After the battle, Bruce invited Saitama, Lin Xiao, Daigo, and Kaguya to a banquet in Gotham, while Clark thanked them for saving Metropolis. As civilians celebrated their protectors, Lex Luthor secretly ordered his team to collect alien and battle-site remnants so he could search for the newcomers’ weaknesses.

• Saitama demanded the Wagyu beef Bruce had promised, and Bruce invited him and the others to dinner at Wayne Tower.
• Daigo agreed to stay and speak with Clark, who thanked the group for saving Metropolis.
• General Swanwick and civilians discovered that the plaza and its underground infrastructure had survived the battle intact, and witnesses praised the mysterious protectors.
• Lex Luthor analyzed footage of Lin Xiao and Saitama, concluded they were dangerous variables, and ordered the Shadow Salvage Squad to gather Kryptonian wreckage and traces of the newcomers.

Over dinner in Wayne Tower, Clark worried that General Zod and the other Kryptonians would remain committed to invading Earth. Lin Xiao proposed offering them an uninhabited planet to rebuild Krypton in exchange for an alliance with Earth, and Clark planned to negotiate with Zod after two days.

• Saitama enthusiastically devoured the lavish meal while Clark explained his concern that imprisoning Zod and the Kryptonians would not resolve their plans to continue their race.
• Kaguya teased Clark about having children to rebuild Krypton, embarrassing him, while Bruce said recruiting the Kryptonian warriors could strengthen Earth's defenses.
• Lin Xiao proposed keeping Zod and the others in Red Sun Prison for two days before offering them a barren planet to settle in exchange for protecting Earth and forming an alliance.
• Clark approved the plan and said he would speak with General Zod in a couple of days, and Daigo and Kaguya also agreed.

Kaguya reminded Clark that his cousin Kara had escaped Krypton, and Bruce revealed that her pod was trapped in spatial turbulence near the edge of the Solar System. Lin Xiao used Earth's Will as a spatial anchor and set off alone to rescue her.

• Kaguya told Clark that he had a cousin named Kara who had left Krypton in an escape pod.
• Bruce used decrypted Kryptonian flight logs to locate Kara's distress signal near the Phantom Zone at the edge of the Solar System.
• Clark tried to leave immediately, but Bruce warned that the spatial turbulence would overwhelm him and Earth's technology could not reach Kara for years.
• Lin Xiao agreed to rescue Kara and asked Earth's Will to provide a spatial anchor.
• Earth's Will gave Lin Xiao a magnetic-field coordinate anchor, and he blasted through Wayne Tower's ceiling toward Kara's location.
• Bruce watched Lin Xiao depart and asked Alfred to arrange repairs to the ceiling.

Lin Xiao entered the Phantom Zone and rescued Kara Zor-El from her Kryptonian escape pod, restoring her strength with the Light of Gaia. He opened a passage to Earth and took Kara with him to reunite her with Kal-El.

• Lin Xiao followed DC Earth Mother's magnetic coordinates through the Phantom Zone and found Kara's escape pod.
• Lin Xiao revived Kara with the Light of Gaia, then joked that he was Suf before introducing himself as Lin Xiao, Kal-El's big brother.
• Lin Xiao pulled Kara from the escape pod, and she felt his energy restore her strength and trusted him.
• Lin Xiao opened a passage to Wayne Tower in Gotham City and took Kara and her escape pod toward Earth.

Lin Xiao reunited Kara with Clark in Wayne Tower after rescuing her from the Phantom Zone, and the group received rewards for resolving the Krypton crisis. Lin Xiao and his companions returned to their own world, leaving Kara smitten with him and Bruce preparing new defenses against powerful beings.

• Lin Xiao brought Kara to Wayne Tower, where she mistook the grown Clark for a stranger until he showed her the House of El control key and they embraced.
• Kara nervously studied Bruce, Daigo, Saitama, and Kaguya, then clung to Lin Xiao, whom she considered the safest and most normal person there.
• Lin Xiao told Clark and Kara to discuss persuading General Zod and the others to rebuild Krypton on an uninhabited planet.
• The group system declared the Krypton crisis resolved and awarded points to Lin Xiao, Daigo, Saitama, and Kaguya.
• Lin Xiao, Daigo, Saitama, and Kaguya departed, while Kara admitted she admired Lin Xiao and Clark warned her about his power.
• Bruce ordered Alfred to fund Anti-Superman and Anti-Gaia armor research and stockpile Kryptonite.

Back in Chiba, Lin Xiao found the chat group teasing him over a photo that made Kara look infatuated with him. Kaguya’s attempts to provoke jealousy ended with Lin Xiao muting her, while Yukino privately struggled with her own jealousy.

• Lin Xiao returned to his apartment in Chiba and read the group’s discussion about Zod and the Kryptonians.
• Kaguya posted a photo of Kara clinging to Lin Xiao and teased the group about Kara’s apparent crush on him.
• Kaguya baited Yukino, Shinobu Kocho, and Homura Akemi for their reactions, but Yukino insisted the matter had nothing to do with her.
• Lin Xiao warned Kaguya to stop stirring trouble and muted her for 24 hours.
• Kaguya raged at Eientei, while Yukino privately admitted her irritation as she looked at the photo and hugged her Mr. Pan plush.

Lin Xiao returned to the All-Heavens Rescue Club and faced Yukino and Eriri’s jealousy until Miko’s arrival eased the tension. A Black-Winged Great Tengu crashed into the school field, where it threatened the students—unaware that it had landed in the lair of a far more powerful figure.

• Lin Xiao entered the clubroom and tried to explain his time with another girl, but Yukino and Eriri confronted him.
• Miko Yotsuya returned from her hometown with local snacks and broke up the quarrel.
• A violent impact shook Sobu High School as the Black-Winged Great Tengu crashed into the track field.
• The Black-Winged Great Tengu climbed from the crater and threatened to eat the fleeing students.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka directed the evacuation and privately pitied the monster for landing at the school.

A Black-Winged Great Tengu fell onto Sobu High School’s field, and Lin Xiao asked the club members to fight it. After Yukino and Eriri refused to transform, Miko volunteered and made a dramatic entrance as a magical girl wielding a huge cross, leaving the students and Shizuka Hiratsuka stunned.

• Yukino and Miko assessed the injured Great Tengu while Lin Xiao suggested using it as practical combat training for the club.
• Yukino and Eriri refused to transform in public, but Miko volunteered to fight the monster.
• Miko shouted her transformation phrase, leaped from the clubroom window, and triggered loud transformation music across the school.
• Miko landed between the Great Tengu and the evacuating students in her battle outfit, holding a massive cross.
• The students and Shizuka Hiratsuka stared in shock at Miko’s arrival as the transformation music continued.

Miko Yotsuya defeated the Black-Winged Great Tengu with a single swing of her giant cross, then fled when the students—including muscular boys eager to become magical girls—swarmed her. Lin Xiao, Yukino, and Eriri watched the chaos from the All-Heavens Rescue Club room.

• The Black-Winged Great Tengu attacked Miko, but she shattered its claw and exorcised it with her giant cross before her transformation music ended.
• The students at Sobu High School erupted into cheers and crowded around Miko, demanding to know about her magical-girl career.
• A group of muscular boys asked Miko to take them as magical-girl disciples, insisting that gender would not stop them.
• Eriri watched the crowd from the clubroom window and lamented that everyone at the school had gone insane.
• Miko activated her pendant, slipped through the crowd, and ran toward the school building while the boys pleaded for her to return.

Miko Yotsuya escaped the frightening boys at school and reunited with Lin Xiao and Yukino, only for Kyoto's Special Anomalous Demon Emergency Capture Unit to arrive after the Black-Winged Great Tengu had already been destroyed. The exorcists left stunned as Shizuka Hiratsuka said a magical girl had killed it, while the school's boys begged to become muscular magical girls themselves.

• Miko Yotsuya reached the All-Heavens Rescue Club room and Lin Xiao praised her for exorcising the demon, while Yukino expressed concern and teased Lin Xiao.
• Two helicopters and four armored vehicles arrived at Sobu High, and Kyoto's Special Anomalous Demon Emergency Capture Unit surrounded the athletic field.
• The scar-faced captain found the Great Tengu gone and learned from his deputy that its vital signs and soul fragments had been completely eliminated.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka told the captain that a magical girl had destroyed the Great Tengu, but he rejected her explanation.
• The judo club boys surrounded the captain and demanded to know how they could transform into muscular magical girls, leaving the exorcists stunned.

After the Great Tengu’s defeat, Sobu High’s principal announced a major expansion, crediting the school’s supposedly excellent feng shui for its safety. The assembly descended into chaos when Iori Kitahara and Kohei Imamura burst in fighting in their underwear, and Shizuka Hiratsuka began beating them.

• The Kyoto Exorcist Corps found no trace of demonic aura at the crater and withdrew from Sobu High.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka sent students back to class, but the school soon called everyone to the gymnasium for an announcement.
• The principal announced that Sobu High would be renovated and expanded, claiming disasters had made nearby schools seek to merge with it.
• Kohei Imamura blamed Iori Kitahara for making him miss the magical girl, and the two began wrestling in their underwear during the assembly.
• Shizuka Hiratsuka attacked Iori Kitahara and Kohei Imamura with her riot baton for causing a public disturbance.

Lin Xiao told Ai Haibara that she would start attending Sobu High School’s new middle school division, arguing that she needed a normal adolescence and his protection. Ai reluctantly accepted, and Lin Xiao took her shopping and out for sushi to celebrate the start of summer vacation.

• In his underground laboratory, Ai Haibara struggled to complete an APTX-4869 antidote simulation while Lin Xiao brought her hot milk.
• Lin Xiao announced that Ai would enroll in Sobu High School’s new middle school division, and Ai objected that she was an eighteen-year-old scientist who did not want to attend school.
• Lin Xiao insisted that Ai should enjoy an ordinary youth and said he could protect her at Sobu High School.
• Ai reluctantly agreed to attend but refused to join childish clubs or play detective games.
• Lin Xiao invited Ai to an expensive sushi restaurant and promised to buy her school clothes.

Lin Xiao and the chat group members welcomed Saint Charlos, a Celestial Dragon from the One Piece World, whose abuse of slaves and threats horrified them. Batman and Aizen warned that the group needed a way to remove dangerous members, while Charlos grew furious at being ignored and threatened to destroy their worlds.

• Lin Xiao treated Ai Haibara to an expensive sushi meal when the chat group recruited a new member, Saint Charlos.
• Saint Charlos demanded that the group members kneel and provide him with women and treasures, claiming he would summon a Marine admiral if they refused.
• The group members mocked Charlos’s arrogance, and Lin Xiao asked where he was and what he was doing.
• Charlos revealed that he was in Grove 1 of the Sabaody Archipelago, riding a slave and planning to buy mermaid slaves.
• Kaguya and Daigo condemned Charlos’s treatment of slaves, while Batman, Aizen, and the Absolute Obedience King called for a mechanism to remove dangerous members.
• Charlos became enraged at being ignored and threatened to summon a Marine admiral and destroy the group members’ countries and families.

Lin Xiao prepared to confront Saint Charlos in the One Piece World, but Aizen warned that kicking Charlos out might collapse the cross-world passage. The chat group’s system had no answer, so Aizen proposed sending Ichigo Kurosaki as a test subject.

• Lin Xiao muted Saint Charlos after the Celestial Dragon flooded the chat with insults and threats.
• The group agreed to expel Saint Charlos, and Lin Xiao decided to visit the Grand Line and teach him a lesson first.
• Kaguya cautioned Lin Xiao not to waste the chance to unite the Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece worlds by simply defeating Charlos and kicking him out.
• Aizen asked whether expelling Charlos during a cross-world visit would destroy the passage or strand its visitors, and the system admitted it had no records on the matter.
• Aizen proposed sending Ichigo Kurosaki to test the unknown rule, while Ichigo protested that he was being used as a lab rat.

Ichigo Kurosaki crossed into the One Piece world and attacked Saint Charlos for abusing slaves. After Ichigo freed the slave and explained that ordinary weapons could not touch his spiritual body, the guards were left unable to stop him.

• Ichigo traveled to Sabaody Archipelago after telling the group chat he would confront Saint Charlos.
• Saint Charlos complained that the group chat connection had vanished and threatened to enslave its members.
• Ichigo appeared before Charlos and refused to kneel, then punched him unconscious after Charlos fired at him.
• The guards attacked Ichigo with swords and bullets, but their weapons passed through his spiritual body.
• Ichigo crushed the slave's shackles and told the guards that ordinary physical weapons could not harm him.

The group unanimously expelled Descendant of the Creator, and the system successfully rebound the One Piece World passage to Ichigo Kurosaki. At Sabaody, Ichigo faced Admiral Kizaru, who attacked him with a light-speed kick.

• The Myriad Worlds Chat Group unanimously voted to expel Descendant of the Creator, erasing his memories of the group.
• The system reassigned the One Piece World coordinate anchor to Substitute Shinigami because Ichigo remained in that world.
• Ichigo livestreamed himself fending off government guards while Saint Charlos lay unconscious nearby.
• Kizaru arrived at Sabaody and demanded that Ichigo surrender and go to Impel Down.
• Ichigo refused to be arrested, and Kizaru transformed into light and swung a shining kick at his head.

Ichigo Kurosaki discovered that Kizaru's Light-Speed Kick passed through him, then withdrew from the fight after the chat group warned him about the danger to civilians. After reviewing the One Piece world's power structure, the group prepared to travel there, with Batman asking for time to plan what would follow the overthrow of its government.

• Kizaru's Light-Speed Kick passed through Ichigo, who revealed that he was a ghost.
• Ichigo stopped fighting Kizaru at the group leader's request and vanished from the streets of Sabaody.
• Lin Xiao uploaded information about the One Piece world, and the group discussed the World Government, Marines, pirates, and hidden ruler Imu.
• Lin Xiao admitted that Imu's abilities were unknown because the manga had not finished updating.
• Kaguya rallied the group, and Lin Xiao arranged their departure for the One Piece world in ten minutes.
• Batman asked for ten minutes to plan civilian resettlement and resource reorganization after the government was overthrown.

Lin Xiao’s group arrived at Sabaody Archipelago and learned that Portgas D. Ace was awaiting public execution at Marineford. Lin Xiao chose to intervene in the Paramount War, and the group prepared to challenge the World Government.

• Lin Xiao escorted Ai Haibara home, gave her Batman’s black card, and went to the rooftop to summon the chat group.
• Lin Xiao and the others appeared in six pillars of light on Sabaody, alarming Kizaru, who refused Sengoku’s order to investigate and left for Marine Headquarters.
• Ichigo Kurosaki complained about the people of Sabaody, while Kaguya urged the group to broadcast their arrival and start a battle royale.
• Bruce Wayne hacked a Den Den Mushi and found that Portgas D. Ace was imprisoned and scheduled for public execution at Marineford.
• Lin Xiao announced that the group would intervene in the Paramount War, and Naruto, Ichigo, Aizen, and Saitama reacted enthusiastically.

Lin Xiao’s group planned to use the Paramount War broadcast to expose the World Government and establish a new order that protected civilians from both corrupt officials and pirates. They intended to save Ace, demand that the Whitebeard Pirates disband or become a legal organization, and fight them alongside the Marines if they refused.

• Batman warned that defeating the World Government without building a new order would plunge the world into chaos, and prepared to control the Paramount War’s broadcasts.
• Lin Xiao declared that the group would protect civilians rather than side with the World Government or pirates, prompting Naruto and Ichigo to vow to fight anyone who harmed ordinary people.
• Ichigo questioned whether saving Ace would support the Whitebeard Pirates, and Lin Xiao explained that they were comparatively decent but still illegal under the proposed new order.
• Lin Xiao planned to rescue Ace publicly and give the Whitebeard Pirates the choice to lower their flag and disband or register as a legal guild or escort force.
• Lin Xiao said the group would defeat both the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates if they rejected the ultimatum, and Batman began preparations for the operation.

Sengoku ordered Marineford to prepare for Ace’s public execution in three days despite Kizaru’s report of a powerful unknown force that had appeared in Sabaody. News of the clash spread worldwide, Whitebeard prepared to sail for Marineford, and Luffy learned that Ace was to be executed.

• Kizaru told Sengoku and Akainu that an orange-haired youth had injured him and that six powerful strangers had appeared in Sabaody.
• Sengoku considered postponing or concealing Ace’s execution, but Akainu insisted it proceed publicly, so Sengoku ordered Marineford onto its highest alert and issued a bounty notice for the youth.
• Morgans received photographs of the Sabaody incident, and News Coos spread reports of Kizaru’s defeat and the six pillars of light around the world.
• Whitebeard read the news, vowed to crush anyone blocking his rescue of Ace, and ordered his crew to sail for Marineford.
• At Shakky’s bar, Rayleigh and the Straw Hats discussed the Navy blockade before Luffy saw the report that Ace would be publicly executed in three days and told them Ace was his brother.

Luffy agreed to join Lin Xiao’s group on their trip to Marineford to save Ace. Their arrival at Shakky’s bar also brought Luffy, Naruto, and Ichigo together, prompting Kaguya to demand a fight and Aizen to explain why it would be unfair.

• Luffy insisted on rushing to Marineford, but Rayleigh warned that he and the Straw Hats were too weak to get through the Navy’s defenses.
• Lin Xiao entered Shakky’s bar with his group, startling Rayleigh and the Straw Hats, then offered to take Luffy to Marineford.
• Luffy accepted Lin Xiao’s offer, trusting his instincts, while Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Usopp, and the others protested.
• Kaguya celebrated seeing Luffy, Naruto, and Ichigo together and urged them to fight.
• Aizen said a fight would be unfair because Luffy and Naruto were far weaker than Ichigo, who had grown so powerful that even Aizen could not be sure he could defeat him.

Kaguya provoked Sanji into attacking Lin Xiao by pretending she belonged to him, and Lin Xiao repelled Sanji without moving. The Straw Hat crew stared in shock as Sanji ended up embedded in a mangrove tree.

• Kaguya asked Lin Xiao to create a fair arena for a battle, but he refused.
• Kaguya told Sanji that she belonged to Lin Xiao and challenged him to defeat Lin Xiao if he wanted to take her away.
• Sanji mistook Lin Xiao for someone forcing Kaguya to stay and attacked him with Diable Jambe.
• Lin Xiao stopped Sanji's kick with an invisible barrier, sending him through the bar wall and into a mangrove tree.
• Lin Xiao scolded Kaguya and asked the stunned Straw Hat crew to pull Sanji out of the tree.

Before the Summit War, Lin Xiao’s group prepared to take control of the world’s broadcast, and Batman hijacked the World Government’s communications network. As the war began at Marineford, the broadcast was disrupted and a mysterious rift opened above the battlefield, accompanied by dramatic music that left Kizaru stunned.

• Luffy and Naruto shared a feast while Aizen examined a Devil Fruit and Batman reported that he had taken over the World Government’s broadcast network.
• At Marineford, Sengoku revealed that Ace was Gol D. Roger’s son, then Whitebeard and his fleet burst into the bay and Whitebeard shattered the air with his power.
• A black bat emblem appeared on screens around the world as the broadcast was hijacked.
• A huge rift tore open above Marineford, and an energetic BGM played across the battlefield as Kizaru froze in shock.

Lin Xiao and his powerful companions crashed into Marineford during the execution of Ace, startling the Marines and Whitebeard Pirates. As Luffy vowed to save Ace, Akainu attacked the newcomers, while Kizaru feared the consequences.

• Lin Xiao, Aizen, Batman, Saitama, Ichigo, Naruto, Kaguya, and the Straw Hat Pirates arrived at Marineford to dramatic music, and the crew panicked at being surrounded by Marines.
• Sengoku recognized Luffy, and Luffy shouted that he would save Ace despite Ace urging him to leave.
• Whitebeard sensed the newcomers' overwhelming strength, while Kizaru recognized Ichigo and hid from Saitama and the others.
• Lin Xiao dismissed the World Government as a rotten organization, and Akainu launched a magma fist at the group.
• Kizaru watched Akainu attack and wondered why he worked so hard for his monthly pay.