Recaps

Shen He, a lonely programmer and avid gacha gamer, celebrated an exceptionally lucky Servant pull before appearing in New York’s Manhattan, where he sat idle and watched commuters hurry by. The chapter left his arrival in the Marvel Universe unexplained and his new life just beginning.

• Shen He announced in a chat group that he had pulled an ultra-rare Servant with his final summoning ticket after spending 1,200 quartz.
• Other group members congratulated Shen He, and one pointed out that he had spent nearly half a month’s salary on the game.
• Shen He reflected that loneliness had drawn him to the game and its 2D characters.
• In Manhattan, Shen He sat on a bench and watched people hurry to work while he enjoyed having nothing to do.

Shen He found himself in the Marvel Universe and discovered that he had brought a Servant Summoning System with him. After exploring its interface and accepting that he could not change his situation, he focused on the Summoning Center.

• Shen He watched a live broadcast of Tony Stark at a Washington Senate hearing and realized he had transmigrated into the Marvel Universe.
• The Servant Summoning System activated and displayed its interface, but it did not respond when Shen He tried to communicate with it.
• Shen He checked his profile, inventory, and dungeon options, finding himself at Level 1 with ten magic power and an empty inventory.
• Shen He accepted that he could not resist whoever had brought him there, thought sadly of his family, and eagerly examined the Summoning Center.

Shen He tested the summon system and used his beginner gift to summon the five-star Servant Saiki Kusuo. Saiki refused the summon, leaving Shen He ten minutes to change his mind.

• Shen He used a low-level ten-pull and received cash, snacks, a Gekota Giant Plush, and a Gale card.
• Shen He learned that the Gale card could summon Gale briefly and could be given to another person.
• Shen He spent ten summon stones on a high-level ten-pull and successfully summoned Saiki Kusuo.
• The system announced that Saiki Kusuo had refused the summon and gave Shen He ten minutes to persuade him.

Saiki Kusuo received a summoning request from a Master in another world, but accepted only after being offered premium coffee jelly. He appeared on a modern city street, where his sudden arrival frightened the pedestrians.

• Saiki Kusuo heard a summoning request and tried teleporting into space to escape it.
• Saiki refused the request, but changed his mind when the summoner offered him four servings of premium coffee jelly.
• Saiki accepted the summoning and appeared on a modern city street.
• The pedestrians screamed and recoiled at the sight of Saiki's pink hair and antennae.

Shen He recognized Saiki Kusuo after summoning him, but Saiki discovered that his teleportation was limited and his Mind Control was not working as expected. They fled to an alley, where Shen He introduced himself as Saiki’s Master.

• Saiki heard bystanders wonder how he had appeared and call for the police, despite his Mind Control ability.
• Shen He recognized Saiki, introduced himself as his Master, and thanked him for answering the summons.
• Saiki teleported Shen He twice, appearing first on a busy road and then inside a crowded restaurant, and realized his abilities had been weakened.
• Shen He rushed Saiki into an alley and introduced himself again as his Chinese Master.

Shen He explained his summoning system and the approaching alien threat to Saiki Kusuo, who was bound to serve as his only Servant. Saiki finished his coffee pudding just as men in black suits arrived on the rooftop.

• Shen He saw that Saiki Kusuo was level one and could not be enhanced because he lacked enhancement stones.
• Shen He took Saiki to a rooftop, where he explained the summoning system and warned that an alien would kill half of all life in a few years.
• Shen He admitted he wanted an exciting life rather than a duty to save others, while Saiki listened to his thoughts.
• Saiki asked how their contract could be lifted, and Shen He said there was no way and that he needed Saiki's help.
• Saiki said he wanted to avoid attention, then noticed a group of people in black suits and sunglasses arriving behind them.

Shen He and Saiki Kusuo waited for S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Coulson after deciding that avoiding the agency would be more trouble than meeting it. Coulson arrived to find no information on the two unusual men and his snipers armed with tranquilizer guns.

• Saiki Kusuo told Shen He that S.H.I.E.L.D. was waiting for agent Coulson.
• Shen He decided they would wait for Coulson because he lacked an identity and could not easily avoid S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Coulson learned that the two men had noticed his people but had not moved, and he suspected they were confident in their strength.
• Coulson rushed to the building and learned that his team had found no information about the two men.

Shen He tried to persuade Saiki Kusuo to join him by offering to help him strengthen and control his powers. Coulson arrived on the rooftop, misread their silent exchange, and was threatened by Saiki for his intrusive thoughts.

• Shen He told Saiki Kusuo that Enhancement Stones could strengthen his powers while he trained to control them.
• Shen He explained that he wanted Saiki Kusuo's help with the Summoning System's Instance Center.
• Coulson reached the rooftop and saw Shen He and Saiki silently staring at each other beside discarded dessert boxes.
• Coulson imagined that Shen He and Saiki were a couple, and Saiki warned him telepathically to stop letting his imagination run wild.

Shen He and Saiki Kusuo met S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson, and Shen He secured Coulson’s offer to help them obtain legal IDs. Shen He declined Coulson’s invitation to visit headquarters and turned his attention to a dungeon.

• Saiki Kusuo revealed that he could read surface thoughts, alarming Coulson.
• Shen He asked Coulson for two legal IDs and began to leave when Coulson refused.
• Coulson changed his mind and offered to help with the IDs after Saiki placed a hand on Shen He’s shoulder.
• Shen He introduced himself as a Master from Chaldea and Saiki Kusuo as his Servant.
• Shen He declined Coulson’s invitation to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters and told him to monitor the bench where Shen He had first appeared.

Shen He and Saiki Kusuo entered a dungeon through the Instance Center, where they encountered monsters in a labyrinth resembling a real world. As monsters surrounded them, Shen He warned Saiki that the place might be an actual world rather than a game.

• Shen He activated the Instance Center’s Dungeon button, causing him and Saiki Kusuo to vanish in front of Coulson.
• Coulson summoned a cloaked Quinjet and agents to investigate the rooftop, then reported the disappearance to headquarters.
• Shen He endured the unpleasant teleportation and found himself in a dusty labyrinth of pale blue walls and passageways with Saiki Kusuo.
• A dog-headed monster attacked Shen He, and Saiki Kusuo kicked it into a wall, where it vanished into black ash and left behind a gemstone.
• Shen He told Saiki Kusuo that the dungeon resembled a real world and warned him that identical monsters were emerging all around them.

Shen He and Saiki Kusuo fought kobolds in the dungeon instance, with Saiki carrying most of the battle while teaching Shen He to shoot. As Shen He practiced and waited for monsters to respawn, he asked whether they could enter a higher-level instance.

• Shen He summoned a Dominator pistol and tried to shoot the kobolds, but missed all three shots.
• Saiki Kusuo stepped in front of Shen He, kicked away three kobolds, and secretly smiled at Shen He's teasing.
• Shen He thanked Saiki Kusuo for helping him and said he needed to work hard as well.
• Saiki Kusuo removed his psychic power suppressor and defeated the kobolds while guiding Shen He through shooting practice.
• Shen He complained that the monsters respawned too slowly and asked to enter a higher-level instance.

Shen He reached level two after killing enough monsters, which unlocked Dungeon Floors 1–5 and restored his mana. He and Saiki Kusuo encountered adventurers from the Minos Familia, whose members mistook them for a high-level adventurer training a newcomer.

• Shen He and Saiki Kusuo tested how experience and enhancement stones worked, discovering that Servants gained no experience and needed both stones and mana to grow stronger.
• Shen He killed the monster that gave him his final experience point, leveling up and raising his mana maximum to fifteen.
• Saiki Kusuo crushed the remaining monsters with his psychic power after the dungeon expanded to Floors 1–5.
• Several armed adventurers appeared, assumed a high-level adventurer was training a newcomer, and tried to leave.
• Shen He asked which Familia they belonged to, and the cat-eared man answered that they were from the Minos Familia.

Shen He confirmed that the instance was the world of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? and focused on growing stronger before their time ran out. After returning to Manhattan, he and Saiki Kusuo faced a sudden ambulance crash.

• Shen He confirmed to Saiki Kusuo that the instance was another world from a story.
• Shen He and Saiki Kusuo hunted for half an hour, and Shen He advanced from level two to level four as Saiki swept through the beginner area.
• Shen He learned that completing the instance at midnight granted a Summoning Stone for high-level summons.
• Shen He told Saiki that he could return to his world and be summoned again, and Saiki explained that his powers would recover there.
• An ambulance skidded toward Shen He and nearby pedestrians, but it struck Saiki's psychic barrier instead.

Saiki Kusuo discovered that a Hydra operative had caused the crash that nearly hit Shen He and captured him after reversing the poison he used to kill himself. Meanwhile, the heart patient in the ambulance suffered a fatal emergency, and Shen He searched his system inventory for a way to save him.

• Saiki Kusuo told Shen He the crash had not been an accident and tracked the shooter to a hotel rooftop.
• The Hydra operative fired at Saiki Kusuo, who stopped the bullets and lifted him with telekinesis.
• The operative bit into hidden poison and declared, "Hail Hydra," but Saiki Kusuo reversed time, removed the poison, and kept him alive.
• The ambulance did not hit anyone, but the frightened heart patient suffered a myocardial infarction and needed hospital care within three minutes.
• Shen He searched his system inventory for something that could save the patient, but found only weapons and everyday items.

Tony Stark tried to save a man suffering a heart attack, but the patient died despite his efforts. The chapter left Tony shaken by his inability to save him.

• Shen He asked the doctor if he could help the patient, and the doctor said only God could save him.
• Tony Stark arrived as Iron Man and had JARVIS scan the patient, who had suffered cardiac arrest and had little time left.
• Tony used his armor to shock the patient and inject dopamine, but the patient did not respond.
• The patient's wife grabbed Tony's arm and begged him to stop, saying he was not God.
• Tony apologized, but then urged JARVIS to continue, unable to accept that he could not save the man.

Saiki Kusuo used Time Reversal to save the man Tony Stark had been trying to revive. After Tony thanked Shen He and Saiki Kusuo, he invited them to get milk tea and talk on a rooftop.

• Tony Stark kept performing CPR while JARVIS warned that the patient had suffered severe brain damage and could be declared dead.
• Saiki Kusuo appeared and used Time Reversal, restoring the patient’s heartbeat and repairing his brain damage.
• The crowd cheered for Iron Man as Tony learned that Saiki Kusuo had likely saved the patient.
• Tony flew over to Shen He and Saiki Kusuo, who was carrying the bound Hydra assassin, and invited them to get milk tea.
• Shen He agreed and pointed out a rooftop where they could talk.

Shen He and Saiki Kusuo spoke with Tony Stark after Saiki rescued a person, and Saiki warned Tony that his palladium poisoning could kill him within months. Tony offered them jobs at Stark Industries, then left after Shen He asked him to contact Agent Coulson.

• Saiki Kusuo and Shen He disappeared with the rescued person, then met Tony Stark on a rooftop.
• Tony asked how Saiki had healed the person, and Saiki warned him that his condition was severe and he had only a few months to live.
• Tony reacted uneasily to Saiki's telepathy and offered Shen He and Saiki jobs as bodyguards for Stark Industries.
• Shen He declined for now, and Tony flew away after saying they could find him through the news.
• Shen He called after Tony and asked him to contact Agent Coulson.

After Tony left, Shen He planned to avoid the plot and relax, but snipers and a gang attack interrupted him. Saiki Kusuo discovered the attackers were also targeting the captured Hydra assassin, and Shen He realized Hydra’s earlier car crash may have been a test.

• Tony flew away, and Shen He planned to wait for S.H.I.E.L.D., rent a luxury apartment, and play games.
• Shen He explained that he had adapted quickly to being transported into this world, and Saiki Kusuo reflected on his response.
• A sniper fired at Shen He, but Saiki Kusuo stopped the bullet with his powers.
• Shen He stopped Saiki Kusuo from teleporting as more sniper shots came from different directions.
• Saiki Kusuo saw at least a dozen snipers, nearly a hundred gangsters, and heavy weapons surrounding them.
• Saiki Kusuo noticed one bullet had been aimed at the captured Hydra assassin, leading Shen He to suspect the earlier car crash had been a Hydra test.

Shen He decided to reveal the group’s strength rather than hand the captured Hydra assassin over to S.H.I.E.L.D. He summoned the Mirage mech during an attack and used its Absolute Defense Field to protect people from falling debris.

• Shen He explained to Saiki Kusuo that displaying their strength would help them find allies and deter enemies.
• A rocket struck where Shen He and Saiki Kusuo had been standing.
• Shen He summoned and piloted the Mirage mech, marveling at its controls and power.
• Falling debris threatened the people below as the mech descended toward the street.
• Shen He activated Mirage’s Absolute Defense Field and blocked the falling debris.

Shen He used the Mirage mech to shield civilians from an armed gang attacking a New York street, but missile launchers threatened to overwhelm his defenses. Iron Man returned and struck the gang before they could fire.

• Shen He used the Mirage mech’s loudspeakers to urge the frightened crowd to flee.
• Shen He blasted the gang’s trucks with Hadron Cannons as civilians were caught in the street battle.
• Shen He opened a nearby high-rise and expanded Mirage’s force field to shelter civilians.
• Shen He spotted enemy trucks carrying missiles and realized the explosions could devastate the area.
• Iron Man returned and hit the gang members preparing to launch the missiles with tracking bullets.

Shen He and Saiki helped Tony defeat the attackers, then went to Tony’s mansion, where Shen He revealed that one of their captured assailants was a Hydra agent. Fury demanded an explanation and was left confronting the possibility that Hydra had survived for decades.

• Shen He protected civilians while Tony fought the gangsters, and JARVIS identified them as members of the Skull Gang.
• Saiki returned to Shen He’s side and secretly helped with his psychic powers as Tony received Fury’s order to bring his companions to the mansion.
• Shen He and Saiki followed Tony to his mansion, where Shen He reflected on the civilians caught in the battle.
• Fury confronted Shen He about the street battle and civilian injuries, and Shen He produced a bound attacker he identified as a Hydra agent.
• Shen He told Fury that Hydra had survived Captain America’s defeat, leaving Fury shocked and asking who Shen He and Saiki were.

Shen He explained Chaldea’s role as an organization that observed humanity and revealed that a prophecy had driven it to act against a coming disaster. The chapter ended with Tony agreeing to let Chaldea use rooms in his mansion in exchange for studying Shen He’s mech.

• Fury questioned why he had never heard of Chaldea, and Shen He said the organization usually only observed humanity.
• Shen He explained that Chaldea aimed to preserve human history and described the Asgardian Gods and reclusive mages as other protectors of Earth.
• Fury pressed Shen He about why Chaldea had appeared, and Shen He said a seer had predicted a disaster beyond the protectors’ ability to stop.
• Shen He offered to let Tony study his mech in exchange for rooms in Tony’s mansion and predicted that Tony would play an important future role and attend his own wedding.
• Tony accepted the deal, hoping to examine the mech’s force field and possible antigravity technology.

Fury left with the Hydra agent to investigate whether Hydra still existed, while Shen He showed Saiki Kusuo around the mansion and prepared to make him coffee jelly. Saiki planned to return home, and Shen He challenged his belief that love had nothing to do with his life.

• Fury carried away the Hydra agent, and Coulson followed as Fury said they needed to investigate further.
• Shen He took Saiki Kusuo to choose a room in the mansion while Tony went to the laboratory with his armor.
• Saiki told Shen He he planned to return home but would come back if Shen He faced danger.
• Shen He offered to make Saiki coffee jelly and asked how far the story had progressed in Saiki's world.
• Shen He teased Saiki about Kokomi Teruhashi, then urged him to pursue ordinary happiness through love, family, and friends.
• Saiki firmly denied that he loved Shun Kaidou.

Shen He reassured Saiki Kusuo that he would eventually control his psychic powers and gave him coffee pudding before sending him home. Alone in Tony’s high-tech residence, Shen He asked JARVIS to help him search online so he could identify which Marvel Universe he was in.

• Shen He told Saiki Kusuo he would one day control his abilities and urged him to cherish ordinary feelings.
• Saiki Kusuo tasted Shen He’s coffee pudding and found it even better than an expensive version.
• Shen He explained the dungeon reset schedule and promised to notify Saiki Kusuo before summoning him unless it was an emergency.
• Saiki Kusuo took a bag of coffee pudding and requested to return home, and Shen He approved the request.
• Shen He returned to his room and asked JARVIS to help him search online to determine which Marvel Universe he was in.

Coulson uncovered signs that Hydra had infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. after raids on Brooklyn gangs revealed poisoned witnesses and a compromised police commissioner. Fury kept the discovery quiet and told Coulson to keep it to himself.

• Coulson's agents stormed Brooklyn's gangs, but the Skull Gang boss had killed himself with poison, leaving no useful information.
• Coulson learned that the gangs' weapons were linked to the police commissioner, who had also died by poison before agents could arrest him.
• Coulson reported that the killings resembled Hydra's methods, though he considered that Shen He or another group might have staged them.
• Fury revealed that a captured Hydra agent had been trained by Hydra since childhood and had served as a Level Five S.H.I.E.L.D. operative.
• Coulson offered to undergo truth serum screening, but Fury said he trusted him and ordered him to keep the matter secret.