Recaps

Yongye, disguised as Minato Namikaze, met Kikyo, a Shrine Maiden sent by Amaterasu to obtain information from him. He accepted her offer as Doomsday advanced through Sendai and the Justice League approached.

• Yongye watched Doomsday move through Sendai and welcomed the arrival of the Justice League.
• Kikyo arrived and introduced herself as a Divine Envoy sent by Amaterasu, offering to do anything in exchange for information.
• Yongye sensed Kikyo's sorrow and recognized that she had been forced into the role, but he chose to accept her offer.
• Kikyo knelt as Doomsday crushed another building and the Justice League raced toward them.

Disguised as Minato Namikaze, Yongye watched Doomsday approach Sendai City while keeping most of his attention on Kikyo. The Justice League began its assault, but Doomsday quickly injured Cyborg and threatened the other heroes as they regrouped to fight.

• Yongye watched Doomsday from a rooftop while Kikyo sat nearby in the doorway, struggling with her feelings.
• The Flash rescued two elderly people from a collapsing building, and Superman destroyed a falling slab before it could crush him or the trapped civilians.
• Doomsday struck Cyborg with Heat Vision, shattered his shield, and sent him flying through a shop.
• Wonder Woman caught Cyborg with her Lasso of Truth, pulled him to safety, and warned him not to block Doomsday's Heat Vision.
• Superman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Cyborg regrouped and prepared to attack Doomsday, with Superman urging them to survive first and seek an opening.

Superman, the Flash, Cyborg, and Wonder Woman coordinated attacks that exposed Doomsday’s bone-armor regeneration cycle. Batman then sent the Flash the last Kryptonite bomb and spear, leaving the team preparing for a single attempt to kill Doomsday.

• Cyborg dodged Doomsday’s Heat Vision and identified the warning in his pupils.
• The Flash distracted Doomsday while Cyborg reopened the crack in his left knee’s bone armor, allowing Superman to strike his crown and Wonder Woman to restrain his right arm.
• Cyborg calculated that the damaged armor regenerated about every forty seconds, and the Flash praised his analysis.
• Batman brought the Batwing over Sendai City and ordered the Flash to use the Kryptonite bomb to slow Doomsday before driving the spear through his heart.
• The Flash caught the two weapons as Superman, Cyborg, and Wonder Woman prepared to hold Doomsday off.

The Justice League’s plan weakened Doomsday with a Kryptonite bomb, but Minato Namikaze intercepted the Flash’s spear strike and broke Wonder Woman’s hold on the monster. Doomsday’s right wrist came free as the battle turned against the heroes.

• Superman blocked Doomsday’s Heat Vision while the Flash hurled the Kryptonite bomb, and Yongye, disguised as Minato Namikaze, struck Kikyo and left her furious.
• The bomb’s Kryptonite dust damaged Doomsday’s left knee, and Wonder Woman pinned his arms with the Lasso of Truth.
• Superman shielded the Flash again as the Flash charged Doomsday with the Kryptonite Spear.
• Minato Namikaze appeared, seized the Flash’s wrist, caught the spear, and stopped his attack.
• Minato struck the Lasso of Truth with the spear, breaking its hold and freeing Doomsday’s right wrist.

Minato Namikaze ordered Doomsday to keep destroying the world and let it escape, then demanded that the heroes kneel and beg him if they wanted him to stop. He vanished with the Kryptonite Spear, leaving the heroes stunned as Doomsday raced toward the mountains west of Sendai City.

• Minato Namikaze released the Kryptonite Spear and ordered Doomsday to keep destroying the world, causing it to flee toward the mountains west of Sendai City.
• Superman, Batman, the Flash, Cyborg, and Wonder Woman confronted Minato after he let Doomsday escape.
• Minato declared that he would become the villain if he could not be the savior and threatened to deny the heroes peace unless they knelt and begged him.
• Minato pulled the Kryptonite Spear from the rubble and promised to hold on to Doomsday, then vanished in a golden flash.
• Barry Allen collapsed in frustration, and Victor Stone wondered how someone like Minato had come from Fusang.

After Minato Namikaze vanished and left Doomsday advancing, Kikyo vowed to kill him and considered seeking someone’s help. Public outrage erupted worldwide, while Amaterasu appeared in the cracking Yata Mirror and condemned modern humans.

• Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman watched Minato Namikaze disappear without pursuing him, and Wonder Woman shouted his name in fury.
• Kikyo recalled Minato’s words and actions, swore to take his life, and considered finding someone who could help her.
• Twitter repeatedly crashed as people worldwide condemned Minato for freeing Doomsday and questioned when the Golden Armor God of War would act.
• Fusangese commenters panicked and pleaded for the Golden Armor God of War to save them, despite having insulted him before.
• The Yata Mirror at Ise Grand Shrine cracked as Amaterasu appeared and said modern humans had no manners.

Susanoo-no-Mikoto vowed divine vengeance against Minato Namikaze, while Yongye obtained the Myriad Dao Furnace and set his sights on Takamagahara. The chapter ended when Susanoo-no-Mikoto appeared in Yongye’s apartment.

• Susanoo-no-Mikoto formed his divine body at Izumo Grand Shrine and swore to make Minato Namikaze pay for humiliating Fusang and Takamagahara.
• Yongye received an Ultimate Blind Box after Fusang’s citizens and gods suffered a collapse in morale, and he obtained the Myriad Dao Furnace.
• Yongye resolved to begin the twilight of the gods with Takamagahara while Doomsday continued crushing everything in Fusang.
• Yongye prepared to visit Eye Society headquarters, where Sharon had said Supreme Leader Laxington was waiting to see him.
• Susanoo-no-Mikoto appeared in Yongye’s apartment, and Yongye recognized him as a god of Takamagahara.

Susanoo-no-Mikoto confronted Yongye and demanded that he find Minato Namikaze, remove Doomsday from Fusang, and swear not to scheme against the gods. After resisting Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s crushing power, Yongye transformed into a Super Saiyan and answered with three deliberately outrageous demands of his own.

• Susanoo-no-Mikoto entered Yongye’s living room and demanded that he find Minato Namikaze, take Doomsday out of Fusang, and stop plotting against Fusang.
• Yongye asked why Susanoo-no-Mikoto would not deal with Doomsday himself, and Susanoo-no-Mikoto attacked him with crushing divine pressure.
• Yongye resisted the pressure by activating his first-stage Super Saiyan power, surprising Susanoo-no-Mikoto.
• Susanoo-no-Mikoto threatened to kill Yongye and said he would have Minato killed and make Yongye clean up the Doomsday situation.
• Yongye transformed fully into a Super Saiyan and demanded that Takamagahara’s gods serve him, its male gods be castrated, and its goddesses become his slaves.

Susanoo-no-Mikoto attacked Yongye with a massive lightning bolt and destroyed his apartment, but Yongye endured the blow. When Susanoo-no-Mikoto tried to pull him into Limbo, Yongye used the Tear of Annihilation to pierce his Divine Core, leaving Susanoo-no-Mikoto screaming in agony.

• Susanoo-no-Mikoto struck Yongye with a powerful lightning bolt, demolishing the apartment and injuring Yongye slightly.
• Yongye taunted Susanoo-no-Mikoto, who realized that Yongye himself—not his armor—was strong.
• Susanoo-no-Mikoto spread lightning, Runes, and Cursed Seals to warp space and draw the battle into Limbo.
• Yongye summoned the Tear of Annihilation, which Susanoo-no-Mikoto recognized as a guide stone to the Tomb of the Gods.
• Yongye sent the Tear of Annihilation into Susanoo-no-Mikoto's chest, piercing his Divine Core and making him scream in agony.

Yongye used the Wind of Nothingness to annihilate Susanoo-no-Mikoto after rejecting his plea to become a lackey. He took the Totsuka Blade and prepared to face the approaching news drones and police.

• Susanoo-no-Mikoto was dragged toward the Tomb of the Gods by vengeful spirits and begged Yongye to spare him, offering his sister and mother and promising to become his lackey.
• Yongye told Susanoo-no-Mikoto that he did not qualify to be his lackey and that he was not a goddess.
• Yongye unleashed the Wind of Nothingness, which erased the vengeful spirits and annihilated Susanoo-no-Mikoto's body, soul, and divinity.
• Yongye collected the Totsuka Blade and put it in System Space.
• Yongye turned toward the approaching News Drones and police cars, then took the Golden Cloth out of System Space.

After surviving Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s attack, Yongye returned to Eye Society headquarters and gave Lois Lane a livestreamed interview, blaming Fusang and announcing that The Boys would police gods who interfered in human affairs. He ended by claiming he had killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto.

• Yongye donned the Golden Cloth and flew from the ruined apartment building toward Manhattan.
• Yongye arrived at the Eye Society headquarters, where Sharon Carter told him Lois Lane and the media were waiting for his response.
• Lois interviewed Yongye live, and he blamed Fusang for the attack and said he had sent Doomsday there.
• Yongye warned that gods should not interfere in mortal affairs and declared that The Boys would police the gods.
• Yongye told Lois that he had killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto.

Yongye told Lois that he had killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and the Daily Planet interview triggered a worldwide wave of fear that earned him a Supreme Blind Box containing Surtur’s Eternal Flame. As Fusang reeled from the news, Yongye declared Northern Europe his next target.

• Yongye casually told Lois that killing Susanoo-no-Mikoto had been no big deal, and she finished the Daily Planet interview after questioning him about the battle and its aftermath.
• The live interview drew more than eight billion viewers, causing public fear among the gods to earn Yongye a Supreme Blind Box.
• Yongye opened the box and received the Eternal Flame, Surtur’s essence, along with knowledge tied to Asgard’s Ragnarok.
• Yongye named Northern Europe as his next target after Takamagahara.
• People around the world reacted to Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s death, while Fusang’s online commenters fell into despair and asked who would save them.

After Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s death, Amaterasu and Takamagahara’s other gods debated whether to retaliate against Yongye. They agreed to hold off until they understood his power and the force behind him, leaving Omoikane in charge of the investigation.

• Amaterasu told the Divine Council that Yongye had annihilated Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s divine body and core, and warned that the Doctor of the Unified System might also be dangerous.
• Tsukuyomi no Mikoto volunteered to go to the Material Plane and kill Yongye, but Amaterasu warned that he might not be able to.
• Omoikane deduced that Yongye had used an unknown higher-dimensional law to erase Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s existence and advised against seeking revenge until Takamagahara learned more.
• Amaterasu decreed that Takamagahara’s gods must not act against Yongye, his relatives, subordinates, or allies, on pain of expulsion.
• Amaterasu ordered Omoikane to use Takamagahara’s covert agents to investigate Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s fall, Yongye’s method, and the power behind him.

Diana received Zeus’s command to investigate Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s unexplained death, and Hippolyta warned that Yongye might be hunting the gods as part of Ragnarok. Two days later, Diana confronted Yongye in his new apartment and demanded to know how he had killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto without a trace.

• Zeus ordered Diana to investigate the truth behind Susanoo-no-Mikoto’s fall because it might be connected to Ragnarok.
• Hippolyta told Diana that Amaterasu’s Yata Mirror had found no trace of Susanoo-no-Mikoto and suggested Yongye might be the true culprit behind Ragnarok.
• Diana agreed to investigate, while Yongye moved into a new luxury apartment in Lower Manhattan after his previous homes were destroyed.
• Diana visited Yongye and asked how he had killed Susanoo-no-Mikoto so completely that Amaterasu could find no trace of him.
• Yongye called the information classified, and Diana replied that she had a right to know as a member of The Boys.

Diana tried to coax Yongye into revealing how Susanoo-no-Mikoto died, offering to spend a night with him in exchange for the truth. Their negotiation was interrupted by Kikyo, a newly appointed Divine Envoy from the Takamagahara Divine Kingdom, whose arrival put Diana on guard.

• Yongye refused to tell Diana what he knew, and she tried to persuade him by offering affection and a night together.
• Yongye touched Diana and teased her, while she endured it to learn how Susanoo-no-Mikoto had died.
• Diana offered to spend a night with Yongye if he told her the truth, and he accepted the deal.
• The doorbell interrupted them, and Diana hurriedly put her armor back on as Yongye opened the door with chakra.
• Kikyo entered and introduced herself as the newly appointed Divine Envoy from the Takamagahara Divine Kingdom.
• Diana challenged Kikyo for arriving so soon after Susanoo-no-Mikoto's death.

Kikyo came to beg Yongye's forgiveness on Amaterasu's orders, but he offered to reveal the truth behind Susanoo-no-Mikoto's death to whichever woman showed greater sincerity. As Diana challenged Kikyo, Tamamo-no-Mae appeared from the shadows.

• Kikyo asked Yongye to forgive Takamagahara for the misunderstanding and said Amaterasu hoped the matter could end there.
• Yongye invited Diana and Kikyo to sit, then offered to tell only one of them the truth behind Susanoo-no-Mikoto's death.
• Diana realized Yongye was making them compete for the information and decided she had to obtain it for the Greek pantheon.
• Diana unleashed her demigod aura and taunted Kikyo, claiming she could defeat her in any kind of contest.
• Kikyo silently stepped aside, and Tamamo-no-Mae emerged from the shadows in her place.

Tamamo-no-Mae taunted Diana with her seductive prowess, leaving Diana flustered and unwilling to challenge her on that front. Diana then proposed a different contest to Yongye: he would fight the entire Justice League, with the winner setting the terms.

• Tamamo-no-Mae sized up Diana and teased her, claiming she knew how to serve men better than she knew how to fight.
• Tamamo-no-Mae dropped her robe and challenged Diana to compete with her, leaving Diana embarrassed and unable to respond.
• Tamamo-no-Mae sat beside Yongye and told Diana to watch and learn, then suggested Diana bring her mother to challenge her together.
• Diana recovered and challenged Yongye to fight the whole Justice League, promising to do whatever he wanted if he won.
• Diana said that if Yongye lost, he would reveal the truth about Susanoo-no-Mikoto's death and stop using twisted logic to toy with her.

Yongye refused Diana’s offer until Tamamo-no-Mae proposed that Diana involve Zeus, prompting Diana to storm out rather than involve her mother. Tamamo-no-Mae and Kikyo then stayed with Yongye, and three days later Kikyo remained furious about being forced into the encounter.

• Yongye mocked Diana and refused her offer, saying she had depreciated and that fighting him would cost extra.
• Tamamo-no-Mae suggested that Diana involve Zeus, and Yongye accepted it as his condition.
• Diana refused to involve her mother and stormed out, slamming the door behind her.
• Tamamo-no-Mae and Kikyo stayed with Yongye, and the door to his penthouse barely opened for three days.
• Yongye praised Tamamo-no-Mae afterward while Kikyo knelt beside the bed, silently vowing revenge against those who had forced her into the situation.

Yongye refused Natasha Romanoff’s request to deploy The Boys to help Thor, insisting that Asgard offer something in return. Natasha stormed out, declaring they would manage without him, while Tamamo-no-Mae teased Yongye about making her angry.

• After waking from three days in bed with Tamamo-no-Mae and Kikyo, Yongye opened the door for Natasha Romanoff.
• Natasha told Yongye that Hela had returned, Asgard had fallen, and Thor had fled to Earth, then requested a full deployment of The Boys.
• Yongye asked what Thor would offer in return and argued that The Boys was an official organization being asked to help a foreign planet.
• Natasha left in anger, insisting they could handle the crisis without Yongye and telling him to keep drinking and fooling around.
• Tamamo-no-Mae amusedly told Yongye that he had shattered Natasha’s belief that she was closer to him.

Yongye revealed that he knew Kikyo wanted revenge on the Gods of Takamagahara and Minato Namikaze and wanted to protect Fusang from Doomsday. Kikyo accepted his offer to help, and his whispered instructions left her visibly shocked and angry.

• After another round with Tamamo-no-Mae, Yongye tossed Kikyo a schoolgirl outfit and drew her into his arms.
• Yongye told Kikyo he could help her take revenge on the Gods of Takamagahara and eliminate Doomsday to protect Fusang.
• Kikyo agreed to work for Yongye and added Minato Namikaze to the targets she wanted to punish.
• Yongye whispered a lengthy plan to Kikyo, whose expression shifted between shock and anger as she listened.

After Tamamo-no-Mae and Kikyo spent another day with Yongye, Lois Lane visited him with news that the new Sorcerer Supreme, Stephen Strange, had been abducted. Yongye refused to search for Strange, and Lois began interviewing Tamamo-no-Mae, who ordered her to leave.

• Tamamo-no-Mae returned in an extravagant kimono and found Kikyo more proactive after Yongye's instructions.
• Lois Lane visited Yongye and warned him that the Fusangese and their gods wanted him dead.
• Lois told Yongye that Stephen Strange had been snatched from a New York restaurant while on a date with Christine Palmer, and asked him to rescue Strange.
• Yongye said he would leave Strange's fate to chance rather than search for him.
• Lois recognized Tamamo-no-Mae as the Nine-Tailed Fox and started asking her questions, but Tamamo-no-Mae told her to get lost.

Lois Lane witnessed Yongye’s ancient Heroic Spirits, Tamamo-no-Mae and Kikyo, and suffered a breakdown that earned Yongye an Advanced Blind Box containing a Seven-Colored Invisibility Cloak. Meanwhile, Hela devastated Asgard as the Avengers Alliance arrived to confront her.

• Tamamo-no-Mae rejected Lois’s request for an interview and belittled her, then Kikyo introduced herself as an ancient Heroic Spirit and demon-slaying shrine maiden.
• Lois exclaimed that Yongye was feasting far too well, triggering a system reward for her emotional breakdown.
• Yongye opened the Advanced Blind Box and received a Seven-Colored Invisibility Cloak that could conceal its wearer from detection.
• Yongye considered giving the cloak to Kikyo, while Tamamo-no-Mae offered to help him as well.
• Hela stood before the burning Golden Palace as Asgard and the Bifrost crumbled around her.
• Tony, Thor, Steve, Natasha, and Quicksilver arrived on the Bifrost and began fighting Hela’s forces.

The Avengers Alliance overwhelmed Hela with coordinated attacks, but she used their assault to predict Pietro’s movements and trap him. Pietro was gravely wounded by a pillar of death energy, and Natasha rushed to attack Hela.

• Pietro shattered a Death Warrior and repeatedly struck Hela while Thor, Steve, and Tony joined the attack.
• Steve coordinated the Avengers Alliance’s assault, assigning Pietro to disrupt Hela, Thor and himself to hold her attention, Tony to provide suppressing fire, and Natasha to seek an opening.
• Hela healed rapidly from their blows while subtly adjusting her movements to guide Pietro toward the Golden Palace steps.
• A pillar of death energy erupted from the bridge and pierced Pietro’s abdomen as he landed.
• Natasha cried out and hurled her lightning-wrapped Square Hammer at Hela, who deflected the attack into the Golden Palace’s pillars.

The Avengers struggled to hold off Hela, who had become one with Asgard, as they retreated toward the Quinjet. Tony stayed behind to cover them and decided to send the seemingly unkillable Hela to Yongye.

• Natasha used Thor's power to purge some of the death energy from Pietro's wounds, but he passed out after admitting he was unprepared.
• Iron Man, Thor, and Steve retreated with Natasha and Pietro as Hela overwhelmed their attacks and warned them they could not escape.
• Tony ordered Thor to get the others to the Quinjet while he stayed behind to buy them time.
• As he prepared to fire at Hela, Tony decided that Yongye should deal with her instead.

Tony taunted Hela with Yongye’s name and secretly recorded her insults to provoke a future confrontation. The Avengers escaped Asgard with Pietro, while Tony revealed he wanted to make Yongye suffer too.

• Tony warned Hela that Yongye would capture and punish her, and recorded her response.
• Natasha mocked Hela’s appearance and said Yongye would never want her, making Hela furious.
• Hela called Yongye an armor-dependent weakling, challenged him to come, and threatened to slaughter everyone on Earth.
• Tony told Hela he would pass on her words, then escaped with the others aboard the Quinjet.
• Aboard the Quinjet, Thor asked Tony why he had provoked Hela, and Tony said it was time to make Yongye suffer.