Chapter Summaries

Li Xiang awoke in a primeval forest after the green light petrified the world and used primitive tools to catch and prepare a fish. She made a fire seed, and a system voice congratulated her as she faced survival in the new world.

• Li Xiang saw the green light sweep across the globe in 2019 and turned to stone.
• Li Xiang awakened in a forest, broke out of her stone shell, and fashioned simple clothing from leaves and vines.
• Li Xiang braided bark into fishing line, dug up an earthworm, and caught a large fish.
• Li Xiang smashed rocks into a sharp shard and used it to clean and cut the fish.
• Li Xiang failed to start a fire at first, then produced smoke with a hand drill and obtained a fire seed.
• A system voice congratulated Li Xiang.

Li Xiang learned that a system wanted her to save humanity, but she refused until it offered her a wish in exchange for anime popularity. The next morning, she encountered the male lead, a stranger emerging from the woods.

• The system told Li Xiang she was an unlisted manga character and asked her to restore Earth, but she refused its request to save humanity.
• The system offered Li Xiang a wish in exchange for popularity points, and she agreed, receiving a reward of underwear.
• Li Xiang spent the night in a tree, then woke, cleaned up, and cooked some of her remaining fish.
• Li Xiang heard a noise in the woods and saw a red-eyed stranger with scallion-like hair emerge.
• The system identified the stranger as the male lead, and he greeted Li Xiang.

Senku Ishigami met Li Xiang, a newly awakened woman from Flower-Country, and the two survived a wild boar attack before returning to Senku’s camp. They cooked the boar together and ended the day sharing a meal.

• Senku Ishigami introduced himself to Li Xiang, who had awakened three months after him, and they walked back to his camp together.
• A wild boar charged them, and Li Xiang carried Senku while he threw a spear into the animal’s eye.
• Li Xiang killed the injured boar, drained its blood, and helped drag it back to camp with Senku.
• Li Xiang butchered the boar while Senku roasted the meat and seasoned it with salt.
• Senku and Li Xiang ate the cooked boar meat together.

Senku and Li Xiang founded the Science Kingdom and made clothing their first mission after Li Xiang pointed out she had nothing to wear. After seven days of handcrafting, they completed durable outfits for both of them.

• Senku declared that he would rebuild civilization, save petrified humanity, and discover who had petrified the world, while Li Xiang agreed to become his ally.
• Li Xiang told Senku that she needed clothes, so they chose making garments as the Science Kingdom’s first mission.
• Senku identified Mount Fuji to the north as their target, and he and Li Xiang gathered fire felt grass from its slopes.
• Senku explained how to turn the plants’ fibers into thread and cloth, and Li Xiang spent seven days spinning, soaking, and weaving.
• Li Xiang finished and tailored matching Fire Felt Grass Clothes for herself and Senku, creating the Science Kingdom’s first new products.

Li Xiang and Senku discussed reinforcing their flimsy hut with cement made from limestone, volcanic ash, and clay, but realized the work would take too long with only two people. Senku abruptly set the project aside and led Li Xiang away, certain she would be interested in what he wanted to show her.

• Li Xiang tested the hut’s supports and warned Senku that the shelter was too fragile.
• Senku explained how to make primitive volcanic-ash cement from limestone, water, volcanic ash, and clay.
• Li Xiang pointed out that gathering and hauling enough materials would take the two of them at least a month.
• Senku agreed that reinforcing the hut would be slow, then remembered something else he wanted to do first.
• Senku led Li Xiang away from their base without telling her where they were going.

Senku and Li Xiang found naturally formed nitric acid in a limestone cave and began making wild grape wine to improve it for future experiments. While the wine fermented and they reinforced their shelter, Li Xiang asked Senku whether he missed home, and he admitted that he did.

• Senku showed Li Xiang a cave containing dilute natural nitric acid formed from animal droppings and minerals.
• Li Xiang identified the acid’s limitations, and she and Senku planned to make wine for experiments while discussing the reaction’s dangers.
• Senku and Li Xiang gathered wild grapes, crushed them, and sealed the pulp in earthenware jars to ferment.
• While the wine fermented, Senku directed work reinforcing the house as Li Xiang handled most of the physical labor.
• Under the stars, Li Xiang asked Senku if he missed home, and he said he did.

Senku and Li Xiang perfected the revival fluid and used it to awaken Taiju, adding their first member to the Science Kingdom. The three headed back to their home together, beginning the next step toward restarting civilization.

• Senku mixed fermented wild grape wine with the settled nitric acid solution to create improved revival fluid.
• Senku and Li Xiang tested the fluid on a petrified Swallow, which revived and flew away.
• Li Xiang covered the petrified Taiju, and Senku poured revival fluid over him to awaken him.
• Taiju joyfully rushed to embrace Senku, who stopped him and introduced Li Xiang.
• Taiju shook Li Xiang's hand with enough force to hurt her, then joined Senku and Li Xiang as they walked home.

Taiju joined Senku and Li Xiang, using his extraordinary strength to help reinforce their hut and make daily survival easier. After the work was finished, Li Xiang watched the Dr. STONE story begin on her system and saw Senku awaken in the wilderness, where he noticed smoke rising from the mountains.

• Taiju enthusiastically hugged Senku until Li Xiang intervened and reminded him that they had construction work to do.
• Taiju moved and broke stones with ease, helping Senku and Li Xiang finish reinforcing their hut in seven days.
• Li Xiang cooked dinner for Senku and Taiju, then opened the live comment forum after the system announced that the Dr. STONE storyline had begun airing.
• Li Xiang watched teenage Taiju prepare to confess to Yuzuriha, but a green light petrified humanity and ended modern civilization.
• Senku remained conscious inside his stone shell for thirty-seven hundred years before awakening alone in the wilderness.
• Senku spotted a thin trail of cooking smoke rising from the distant mountains, and Li Xiang wondered if he was about to meet her.

Li Xiang watched footage of her meeting Senku, helping him kill a wild boar, and joining him in rebuilding civilization. The chapter ended with Senku staring intently at Li Xiang as they gathered grapes for wine.

• Li Xiang met Senku, and they encountered a wild boar while returning to their base.
• Li Xiang carried Senku as they fled, then helped him kill the boar with a spear and finished it off with a rock.
• Li Xiang and Senku returned with the boar, and Li Xiang told Senku she was a doctor.
• Li Xiang asked Senku to make her clothes, then joined him in planning to reinforce their home and revive Taiju.
• Li Xiang and Senku found naturally occurring nitric acid in a cave and gathered grapes to make wine.
• Senku stared intently at Li Xiang while she continued working.

Li Xiang and Senku discussed wanting to return home, while Li Xiang avoided learning too much about the story by waiting to watch more episodes. The next morning, Li Xiang caught a nonvenomous snake and decided to prepare it for lunch, leaving Taiju anxious about eating it.

• Li Xiang asked Senku whether he wanted to go home, and Senku said he wanted to establish the Science Kingdom to save the world.
• Li Xiang read a forum thread mocking Senku's poor stamina and decided to wait until five anime episodes had aired before watching again.
• Taiju woke Li Xiang and Senku by shouting about a snake in their hut.
• Li Xiang used a stick to drive the nonvenomous snake outside, then asked Senku for a large jar so they could keep it for food.
• Li Xiang and Senku captured the snake and secured it in the jar, while Taiju worried about eating it and possible toxins or viruses.
• Senku assured Taiju that thorough cleaning and cooking would make the snake safe, and Li Xiang promised to prepare it so it would look less like a snake.

Li Xiang prepared charcoal-grilled snake, and Taiju overcame his fear of eating it after tasting how good it was. Senku confirmed that Yuzuriha would be the next person revived, and the three went to her stone statue, where Taiju confessed his feelings and Li Xiang reassured him.

• Li Xiang grilled the snake meat, and Taiju reluctantly tried it after Li Xiang and Senku praised it, then eagerly ate his share.
• Li Xiang, Senku, and Taiju finished the meal, and Senku said he had already chosen Yuzuriha as the next person to revive.
• The three followed their remembered route through the woods and found Yuzuriha's stone statue tangled in vines and branches.
• Taiju apologized to Yuzuriha and promised to protect her after she woke up.
• Li Xiang asked Senku whether Taiju liked Yuzuriha, and Taiju admitted that he did before Li Xiang comforted him.

Senku revived Yuzuriha after Li Xiang prepared clothes for her, bringing the Science Kingdom to four members. As they gathered fish by a creek, a lioness appeared, and Li Xiang warned that other lions might be hiding nearby.

• Taiju stopped Senku from reviving Yuzuriha until Li Xiang provided clothes to cover her.
• Senku poured revival fluid over Yuzuriha, and she awoke and met Li Xiang.
• The four walked toward the cabin, where Taiju and Yuzuriha caught fish while Senku and Li Xiang waited on the bank.
• A lioness appeared near the creek, and Li Xiang urged everyone to retreat carefully, warning that more lions could be hiding nearby.

Li Xiang, Taiju, Senku, and Yuzuriha were trapped by a pride of lions and tried to hold them off with rocks. After the lions attacked, Li Xiang pulled Yuzuriha out of a near-fatal lunge and urged everyone to run.

• Li Xiang told the others to stay calm and keep together as several lions surrounded them.
• Li Xiang ordered everyone to pick up rocks and aim for the lions’ eyes, noses, or mouths if they attacked.
• Taiju grabbed Yuzuriha and retreated, triggering the lioness to charge and Senku to shout for everyone to run.
• Taiju turned to face the pride and struck the leading lioness in the eye with a rock, while Senku and Yuzuriha also threw stones.
• A lion lunged at Yuzuriha, and Li Xiang yanked her out of its path before urging the group to run.

Li Xiang and Taiju fought off a pride of lions long enough for Senku and Yuzuriha to escape. Li Xiang was left badly weakened beside Taiju, facing two remaining lions as they vowed to survive.

• Li Xiang blinded the pursuing lions with dirt, and Taiju knocked one lion unconscious with a single punch.
• Li Xiang told Senku and Yuzuriha to flee while she and Taiju held off the remaining lions.
• A lion charged after Senku and Yuzuriha, but Li Xiang struck it down with a powerful punch, injuring herself in the process.
• Senku and Yuzuriha escaped as Li Xiang urged them to keep running.
• Taiju saw Li Xiang was nearly exhausted, and the two of them promised they would make it out alive despite the two lions still facing them.

Senku awakened Tsukasa Shishio to rescue Li Xiang and Taiju from two lions, and Tsukasa quickly defeated the beasts. The group returned to camp with Li Xiang’s broken arm splinted, then planned to build another cabin to make room for Tsukasa.

• Senku used the last of his revival fluid to awaken Tsukasa Shishio and asked him to save Li Xiang and Taiju.
• Tsukasa arrived as Li Xiang collapsed and defeated the two attacking lions.
• Yuzuriha splinted Li Xiang’s broken arm, and the group returned to camp carrying the lion carcasses.
• The group grilled lion meat for dinner and agreed to build another cabin because the existing one was too small for five people.

Li Xiang stayed at camp to recover from her broken arm while Yuzuriha sewed and talked with her. After Yuzuriha called her dependable, Li Xiang wondered whether she had become someone others could rely on.

• Taiju and the other two men left to gather materials for the new house while Yuzuriha urged Li Xiang to rest her injured arm.
• Li Xiang watched Yuzuriha sew and asked whether she enjoyed making things by hand.
• Yuzuriha asked where Li Xiang came from and learned she was from Flower-Country, spoke Japanese distinctively, and was a twenty-four-year-old doctor.
• Yuzuriha praised Li Xiang as reliable and said she admired how Li Xiang protected everyone despite feeling fear and pain.
• Li Xiang reflected on how she had grown attached to her companions and wondered if she had become someone they could rely on.

After noticing Tsukasa Shishio growing distant, Li Xiang invited him to confide in her, and he revealed that his sister Mirai’s illness had fueled his hatred of the old world and his plan to rebuild society without its adults. Li Xiang told him she understood, leaving their disagreement with Senku’s vision unresolved.

• Two months after the camp’s cabins were built, Li Xiang removed her splint and found that her fractured arm had healed completely.
• Li Xiang noticed Tsukasa Shishio often staring into the distance and asked him what was bothering him.
• Tsukasa told Li Xiang that his younger sister Mirai had fallen into a coma six years before humanity was petrified.
• Tsukasa explained that Mirai’s suffering and the selfishness of the powerful had made him hate the old world and resolve not to revive its adults.
• Tsukasa described his plan to create a new society for kind, capable young people, then asked Li Xiang whether she understood him.
• Li Xiang told Tsukasa that she understood completely.

Li Xiang explained to Tsukasa Shishio why his plan to create a pure new world could not last, but he remained committed to his ideals. At dawn, Tsukasa told Senku he would kill him to prevent humanity's revival, leaving the camp shaken and Li Xiang exhausted.

• Li Xiang told Tsukasa that his utopia would eventually reproduce the same corruption and oppression he wanted to erase.
• Tsukasa spent the night considering Li Xiang's arguments but chose not to abandon his plan to reshape the world.
• At dawn, Tsukasa found Senku and vowed to kill him to stop him from restoring the old world.
• Tsukasa left alone, and the camp fell silent when everyone learned what had happened.
• Li Xiang lay awake in the girls' cabin that night, exhausted and troubled by the conflict ahead.

Li Xiang watched two Dr. STONE episodes as Senku and Taiju built their camp and revived Yuzuriha, with Li Xiang helping prepare clothes for her. The group caught fish together, then heard something rustling in the bushes.

• Li Xiang watched Senku and Taiju make revival fluid and awaken Taiju, who helped them build their camp.
• Senku told Taiju that they had one dose of revival fluid left and would use it to awaken Yuzuriha.
• Senku prepared to revive Yuzuriha, but Taiju stopped him because she would awaken naked, and Li Xiang dressed her statue in a clean outfit.
• Senku poured the revival fluid over Yuzuriha, and she woke up to find Taiju, Senku, and Li Xiang beside her.
• The group caught fish by the river, then heard rustling in the bushes as Li Xiang was about to start a fire.

After watching a new episode of Dr. STONE, Li Xiang browsed fanworks portraying her and Senku in romantic scenarios, then went to bed embarrassed. She woke from a vivid dream inspired by the fanfiction, calmed herself, and fell asleep again.

• Li Xiang opened the fanwork site and admired popular art depicting her as a cold, commanding fighter.
• Li Xiang was shocked by gender-swapped fan art showing her carrying Senku, then found numerous stories pairing them.
• Li Xiang read the popular story "My Thousand-year-older Big Sister Told Me" and became so embarrassed by its romantic portrayal of her and Senku that she closed the site.
• Li Xiang fell asleep and dreamed that a gentle, animal-eared Senku rested in her arms.
• Li Xiang woke in embarrassment, reminded herself the dream was only her brain combining things she had read, and went back to sleep.