Chapter Summaries

Senku and his companions reached India and revived Nanami Sai, hoping to recruit his mathematical skills for the Moon Landing plan. Sai recognized Ryusui and fled, leaving Li Xiang to go speak with him privately.

• Chelsea spotted logs blocking the Suez Canal, and Senku cleared the obstruction with a rocket so the ship could continue to India.
• After landing in India, Li Xiang made red-braised pork, and the group enjoyed a meal before locating the ruins of the university building where Nanami Sai had been petrified.
• Li Xiang revived Nanami Sai and asked him to help with a world-changing plan, but he saw Ryusui and ran away.
• Kohaku caught Nanami Sai and brought him back to the ship, while Ryusui said Sai had treated him this way since childhood.
• Li Xiang challenged the group to stop guessing about Sai's feelings and went to knock on his cabin door.

Li Xiang helped Nanami Sai realize that Ryusui had always cared for him, and Sai joined the crew for the Moon Landing Project and rebuilding civilization. As the ship sailed, Sai asked Li Xiang whether she was Ryusui’s girlfriend.

• Li Xiang asked Nanami Sai how he felt about Ryusui and convinced him that Ryusui loved and cared for him.
• Senku built a simple binary computer for Nanami Sai, then asked Yuzuriha and the Americas base to produce two hundred thousand core computer components.
• Xeno built a primitive fax machine, while Kohaku led a team to revive local people.
• Ryusui invited Nanami Sai to join the Moon Landing Project, and Sai accepted by boarding the ship before it sailed.
• Nanami Sai smiled at Li Xiang and asked whether she was Ryusui’s girlfriend.

Li Xiang tricked Nanami Sai into promising to help develop the rocket after he mistakenly thought she was Ryusui’s girlfriend and a player. Meanwhile, the first-generation computer passed its test, and Senku told Li Xiang that reaching the moon might require a one-way mission, leaving her opposed to risking his safety.

• Nanami Sai mistook Li Xiang’s affection for Ryusui and others as proof she was a player, but Li Xiang corrected him and persuaded him to help with rocket development as an apology.
• You and Ukyo brought the Petrification Device back to the Sakura Kingdom while the team in the Americas completed the calculator and assembled the first-generation basic computer.
• Gen set a difficult arithmetic problem, and Maguma’s computer produced the correct answer, confirming that the test was successful.
• Senku told Li Xiang that the astronauts might need to petrify themselves upon reaching the moon, making the mission a one-way trip.
• Li Xiang rejected the idea of sending Senku without a safe return plan, but Senku argued that humanity could not keep delaying a mission to resolve the threat from Why-man.

Li Xiang admitted she feared Senku might never return from the Moon Landing and pleaded with him not to risk his life. She returned to her homeland in Flower-Country and revived a petrified woman who recognized her as Xiang.

• Li Xiang told Senku she was afraid of losing him, then left after he did not respond.
• Chrome and Watermelon overheard that Senku's Moon Landing might be a one-way trip and asked Nanami Sai to help build a round-trip rocket.
• Li Xiang asked Ryusui to take the group to Flower-Country, where she spent the voyage withdrawn in her cabin.
• Li Xiang led the group inland to the ruins of her former home and found a petrified woman.
• Li Xiang used Revival Fluid to revive the woman, who opened her eyes and called her “Xiang.”

Li Xiang reunited with Ge Wenjing, revived Chen Wei and Chen Yan, and explained that humanity was awakening after 3,700 years of petrification. Back at the base, the group prepared to expand their workforce and build the infrastructure for Senku’s plan to reach space.

• Li Xiang embraced Ge Wenjing after reviving her and introduced her to her companions from the Science Kingdom.
• Li Xiang and her companions revived Chen Wei and Chen Yan, and Li Xiang explained how much time had passed and what the group planned to do.
• The group returned to the base, where they learned Chalk and Sagara had built a stone wall to protect the village while everyone was petrified.
• Senku planned to revive the people on Treasure Island, while Xeno began gathering natural rubber for rocket construction.
• Li Xiang assigned Ge Wenjing, Chen Wei, and Chen Yan to the handicrafts and logistics team as infrastructure construction began.

After a crude television worked, the Petrification Device activated without a command while Gen and You were preparing to store it in a vacuum. Li Xiang proposed that Why-man may have petrified humanity to preserve and heal them, leaving Senku and Xeno shocked by the possibility.

• Senku, Fossil, and the others built a television, then connected it to Taiju’s giant computer and watched a pixel game run.
• Senku announced plans to build an artificial satellite, but the group first began storing the Petrification Device in a vacuum.
• The device activated unexpectedly and petrified Gen and You, while Senku and Ryusui escaped the light and Senku revived the two.
• Senku contacted Xeno and Li Xiang, and Xeno concluded that the device’s technology could not have originated on Earth.
• Li Xiang argued that Why-man may have used petrification to preserve humanity, citing its effects on acquired injuries and illnesses and its history of testing on swallows.

Li Xiang reasoned that Why-man and the Petrification Device had been trying to protect humanity rather than exterminate it, and Senku and Xeno agreed to prepare for its unpredictable actions. She then helped Ge Wenjing find a role teaching the revived people, leaving them discussing the need to rebuild education.

• Li Xiang argued that Why-man's warning signals reflected confusion about humans choosing mortality, and that the Petrification Device activated to protect people from lethal danger.
• Senku and Xeno accepted Li Xiang's explanation and planned to keep elite combat personnel ready for unexpected actions by Why-man.
• Li Xiang visited Ge Wenjing and learned she had been writing exam questions because she missed teaching.
• Li Xiang proposed that Ge Wenjing teach Chinese and Uncle Chen teach politics through public lectures for the revived people.
• Ge Wenjing thanked Li Xiang, praised her hard work, and affectionately teased her about acting carefree.

Ge Wenjing gave a speech on unity and peace as the Science Kingdom built and launched a satellite, which revealed Why-man’s location on the moon. The chapter ended with humanity choosing to build a round-trip rocket and Senku calling for a worldwide Internet to coordinate the effort.

• Ge Wenjing explained the principles of a Human Community with a Shared Future to an audience of revived people, while Nan recorded the speech for future broadcast.
• The team chose solar panels to power the satellite, assembled the rocket at Treasure Island, and watched its first launch crash into the sea.
• After Xeno and Senku improved the design, the satellite reached orbit, and Kohaku spotted an unnatural dark region on the moon that Senku identified as Why-man’s location.
• Chrome proposed a five-stage round-trip rocket, and Li Xiang put the plan to a vote; everyone chose to build a rocket that could return from the moon.
• Senku said the project required worldwide coordination and announced that humanity would build the Internet from scratch.

Senku and the others established a global communications network and selected Senku, Ryusui, and Kohaku for the lunar mission. As preparations continued, Ryusui considered whether Stanley should pilot instead, while Li Xiang collected a custom firearm from Xeno.

• Senku and the others made undersea fiber-optic cables from eucommia rubber, laid a transoceanic line through Hawaii, and set up an Electronic Newspaper System for sharing designs.
• The team chose Senku as the scientist, Ryusui as the pilot, and Kohaku as the combat specialist for the lunar mission.
• Li Xiang’s training program helped Senku build strength as the team advanced its preparations.
• Ryusui visited Stanley’s petrified statue and considered asking the more experienced pilot to fly the spacecraft.
• Li Xiang collected a custom single-shot firearm from Xeno, who warned her that it required precise timing and manual reloading.

Ryusui gave up his place on the lunar mission to Stanley, who proved himself fit to pilot the spacecraft. Although Ryusui broke down over losing the chance he had long desired, Li Xiang comforted him, and he regained his confidence that he would reach space in the future.

• Ryusui told Senku he believed Stanley was the better lunar pilot, and Senku agreed to discuss the change with Xeno.
• Senku and Xeno agreed to revive Stanley, and Tsukasa prepared to keep Xeno safe if Stanley rebelled.
• After his revival, Stanley correctly answered Senku's shooting calculation and agreed to join the mission, finalizing the lineup as Senku, Kohaku, and Stanley Snyder.
• Ryusui practiced shooting alone and discovered that Stanley had fired the final perfect shots, leaving him frustrated that he had given up his place.
• Li Xiang comforted Ryusui and reassured him that he could still go to space later, and he recovered his spirits and declared that his desires would eventually be fulfilled.

Senku, Kohaku, and Stanley completed their final preparations and launched toward the moon aboard the Five-Stage Return Rocket. The successful liftoff left humanity cheering as the trio began their mission to confront Why-man.

• Li Xiang put Senku, Kohaku, and Stanley through a demanding space-training regimen, and Senku collapsed from exhaustion while Kohaku and Stanley finished it.
• Senku used the remaining production time to recreate household appliances and a basic phone, while Li Xiang and Ge Wenjing discussed plans for schools and public education.
• Senku and Xeno admired the completed Five-Stage Return Rocket before launch day arrived.
• Li Xiang reminded Senku, Kohaku, and Stanley to prioritize their safety, and Joel and old Fossil handed them the calibrated Petrification Device.
• With Nan broadcasting the event worldwide, Senku, Kohaku, and Stanley activated their internal petrification as the rocket launched successfully toward the moon.

Senku, Kohaku, Stanley, Ryusui, and Li Xiang overcame a communications failure and continued their journey to the moon. After three days in petrification, they safely reached lunar orbit and stood together on the moon.

• Senku, Kohaku, and Stanley awakened in space, and Senku remembered his father Byakuya as they shared ramen beneath the stars.
• After the rockets docked, the crew discovered that a petrified hair You had shed had ruined the communications circuit board.
• Stanley docked Rocket Three without visual feedback, while Ryusui used his spinning body to guide Supply Rocket Four to the main cabin with Li Xiang aboard.
• Ryusui and Li Xiang brought replacement components, and the crew repaired the equipment and adjusted the spacecraft's course toward the moon.
• The crew entered petrification for the journey, then awakened after three days as their lander reached lunar orbit.
• Senku, Kohaku, Stanley, Ryusui, and Li Xiang landed together on the moon.

Li Xiang and the others crossed the Moon to investigate Why-Man, but the Petrification Device activated unexpectedly and their rover crashed into a ravine. They discovered a white house beyond the cliff, from which a giant mech emerged.

• Li Xiang planted Flower-Country’s flag on the Moon before the group set off toward the marked coordinates in their rover.
• Kohaku felt the Petrification Device vibrate and heard it repeat a countdown, so she threw it away before it activated.
• The rover suddenly slid toward a cliff, and Senku led everyone in jumping clear before it plunged into a ravine.
• Kohaku spotted an unnatural white shape beyond the cliff, and the group approached a small white house standing on the Moon.
• Stanley pulled Senku away from a collapsing patch of ground, then a giant metal mech emerged from the house.

Senku and the others fought off a mechanized guardian outside the moon cottage, then entered a standoff with a mysterious figure who emerged from inside. The figure attacked them, leaving the group facing a new threat.

• A five-meter mech emerged from the cottage and attacked Senku, Li Xiang, Stanley, Kohaku, and Ryusui as they fled across the lunar surface.
• Stanley rescued Li Xiang when she fell, and the group lured the mech to a cliff, where a taut rope tripped it and wedged it between the rocks.
• Senku and the others approached the cottage, and Li Xiang threw a grenade into its yard, but the explosion left the cottage undamaged.
• Yuzuriha reminded the group that they had come to communicate with Why-man, while Nikki and Gen argued that they had been attacked first.
• The cottage door opened, and a masked figure in a silver-white protective suit stepped out and told the group to die.

Li Xiang and the others captured Metal Man on the Moon, only to discover that he had Senku Ishigami’s face and knew Li Xiang. After he agreed to stop attacking, the group prepared to leave him behind.

• Li Xiang coordinated the team’s attack, and Kohaku drew Metal Man’s fire while Stanley trapped his legs with a capture net.
• Metal Man activated his petrification beam, but the group dodged and Kohaku gave everyone the signal to clear Stanley’s shot.
• Stanley hit Metal Man in the head, allowing Kohaku and Ryusui to restrain him while Li Xiang covered his helmet with advertising stickers.
• Kohaku spotted a seam in Metal Man’s helmet, and Li Xiang removed its outer shell to reveal a face identical to Senku Ishigami’s, with metal covering one eye.
• The second Senku greeted Li Xiang, and after she asked whether he would attack again, he agreed to stop.

Li Xiang interrogated the captured [Senku] and forced him to talk by spinning him on a disk. He revealed that he came from a parallel world, leaving the group stunned.

• The group brought [Senku] into the White Cabin, blocked outside signals, and restrained him while Li Xiang demanded to know who he was and why he had come to the moon.
• [Senku] refused to answer unless Li Xiang agreed to go with him, and Li Xiang rejected his demand.
• Li Xiang ordered Stanley, Ryusui, and Kohaku to strap [Senku] to a rotating disk and spin him until he begged to talk.
• After Ryusui stopped the disk, [Senku] told the group that he was from a parallel world.

A parallel-world Senku confessed that he had caused the group’s earlier signals and attacks while trying to protect them after losing everyone in his world. He explained Why-man and agreed to return to Earth with the group, but they realized their signal jammer had kept Earth out of contact.

• [Senku] revealed that a malfunctioning time machine had brought him from a parallel world to the moon, where he had made an agreement with the Petrification Devices.
• [Senku] admitted he had sent the signals and described how Li Xiang and everyone else had died in his world, leaving him alone for over a decade.
• [Senku] said he wanted to stay with Li Xiang and provide technical help, and Senku and the others accepted his request to return with them after he altered his face and voice.
• [Senku] explained that Why-man was an intelligent life-form that parasitized organisms and relied on intelligent beings to repair its devices, and he admitted he had sent the group’s targeted transmissions.
• Kohaku realized the white room’s signal jammer had blocked messages to Earth, where Xeno, Gen, Nikki, Yuzuriha, and the others waited amid static.

After restoring contact with Earth, Li Xiang and the others returned from the Moon and announced that the crisis was over. Three years later, their companions had rebuilt the world in their own ways, and Li Xiang reflected on their shared achievement.

• Li Xiang realized the group had lost contact with Earth, and Stanley restarted the satellite link and told Xeno that everyone was safe.
• Stanley told Xeno that the group planned to return in two hours, and Li Xiang, Senku, Kohaku, Ryusui, and [Senku] prepared to leave the Moon.
• The spacecraft landed safely on Earth, where Li Xiang explained that the unfamiliar figure was a split lifeform sent by Why-man and declared that the crisis was resolved.
• Three years later, Senku, Ryusui, Kohaku, Stanley, and the others held important roles in the rebuilt world.
• Li Xiang and Luna established the new World Medical Academy, while Li Xiang also supported new schools, animal shelters, and the volunteer organization [Lend a Hand].
• Li Xiang looked out over the thriving city and reflected that they had saved the world.

Li Xiang traveled to Sakura Kingdom with Ge Wenjing and her family to help Yuzuriha prepare for her wedding to Taiju. The wedding day arrived, and their old friends gathered on the lawn to witness the ceremony.

• Li Xiang asked the system about her popularity and learned it would leave once her wishes were fulfilled; Yuzuriha then called to announce her wedding to Taiju.
• Li Xiang told Ge Wenjing about the wedding, and Ge Wenjing tried to match her with several friends before Chen Yan teased her about staying single.
• Li Xiang, Ge Wenjing, Chen Yan, and Chen Wei flew to Sakura Kingdom, where Taiju drove them to his and Yuzuriha's large clothing store.
• Yuzuriha, Watermelon, and Mirai welcomed Li Xiang and her companions, and everyone spent the next few days enjoying the local sights and food.
• Ge Wenjing took charge of choosing Yuzuriha's wedding dress, and the wedding day arrived with Science Kingdom members and old friends gathered on the flower-decorated lawn.

Li Xiang reunited with her friends at Yuzuriha and Taiju’s wedding, where the celebrations brought new romantic hopes and fond memories. As the party continued, the system offered her one wish, and she finally voiced the wish she had been considering.

• Gen greeted Li Xiang at the dessert table and wiped cream from her mouth, then Shrike and Ryusui joined them.
• Li Xiang embraced Senku and coaxed him into admitting that he had missed her before greeting Xeno, Stanley, Kohaku, and Ruri.
• Ukyo officiated Yuzuriha and Taiju’s wedding, and Yuzuriha kissed the nervous Taiju as their friends cheered.
• Chrome proposed to Ruri, and she shyly accepted; Yuzuriha’s bouquet landed on Li Xiang, who handed it to Stanley and urged him to be braver with Xeno.
• Nan took a group photo of the Science Kingdom friends, and the system offered Li Xiang one wish as the party continued.
• Li Xiang looked over her smiling friends and finally voiced the wish she had long considered.