Chapter Summaries

Little Watermelon and Ginro searched for the missing Li Xiang as Senku’s group launched its attack on Thorn’s forces. The fighting spread across the island, and Ginro protected Little Watermelon from a soldier’s spear while their search continued.

• Little Watermelon insisted Li Xiang would not get lost and set out to find her with Ginro and the others.
• Tsukasa decided the group would search together, while Senku’s group began its operation outside the palace.
• Nikki knocked out a guard who recognized You, but the noise alerted Harem guards and sparked a battle with the Science Kingdom fighters.
• Senku welcomed the fighting, while Thorn ordered his remaining soldiers to assemble and drive the outsiders off the island.
• Little Watermelon and Ginro searched away from the main battle, and Ginro blocked a soldier’s spear thrust aimed at Little Watermelon.

The Science Kingdom evacuated the women from the Harem and set the compound ablaze while Tsukasa fought Thorn. As Ginro reported Li Xiang missing, she escaped her restraints and climbed down from her room, leaving her next move uncertain.

• Yuzuriha, Taiju, Gen, and Homura began evacuating the women, and Lillian persuaded the others to trust them and leave.
• The Science Kingdom’s fire and smoke drove the Harem soldiers from their positions, but Thorn arrived and attacked Tsukasa.
• Ginro and Little Watermelon told Senku that Li Xiang was missing, so Senku sent Ryusui, Ginro, Watermelon, and Ukyo to search while the others reinforced Tsukasa.
• Li Xiang reached a dropped short blade, hammered the chain clasp with a stone, and prepared a rope from strips of fabric.
• Li Xiang broke the clasp, descended from the window using the cloth rope, and landed outside with her blade in hand.

Senku and the Science Kingdom fought Xudi and Harem’s soldiers, then set fire to the buildings to break the encirclement and escape. With Ryusui, Ginro, and two others still searching inside for Li Xiang, the group waited outside and prepared to intercept fleeing soldiers.

• Kohaku regrouped with Senku’s squad, and Senku said Li Xiang had likely been captured while Ryusui, Ginro, and two others searched for her.
• Xudi confronted the group, then attacked Tsukasa as Harem’s soldiers surrounded the Science Kingdom members.
• The outnumbered fighters began to tire, and Homura pulled You out of the way of a soldier’s blade.
• Senku ordered Chrome to ignite the petroleum, setting the nearby buildings ablaze and disrupting the enemy’s formation.
• Senku led the Science Kingdom members out of the combat zone, while Tsukasa proposed guarding the exits as the search party remained inside looking for Li Xiang.

Li Xiang escaped her confinement and reunited with Ryusui, but the fires and her emotional distress left her vulnerable. As Ryusui tried to get her to safety, Thorn appeared and challenged him to protect her.

• Ukyo, Ryusui, Ginro, and Watermelon split up to search for Li Xiang and agreed to retreat if they faced danger.
• Li Xiang hid beneath the trees after escaping her cage, and Ryusui found her and learned that Thorn had imprisoned her.
• Ryusui told Li Xiang about the rescue plan, and they headed away from the burning Harem.
• Li Xiang clung to Ryusui in fear, and he carried her to safety and calmed her.
• Thorn appeared and challenged Ryusui to prove he could protect Li Xiang.

Thorn overpowered Ryusui and tried to force Li Xiang to submit in exchange for Ryusui’s life. After Ryusui died protecting her, Li Xiang rose to confront Thorn, vowing to kill him.

• Li Xiang urged Ryusui to escape, but Ryusui refused to abandon her and fought Thorn despite being outmatched.
• Thorn knocked Ryusui down, then threatened Li Xiang and offered to spare them if she submitted to him.
• Li Xiang bit off half of Thorn’s ear, provoking him to attack her in a rage.
• When Thorn’s claws were about to strike Li Xiang, Ryusui took the blow and suffered a fatal wound.
• Ryusui died in Li Xiang’s arms, and Li Xiang rose and vowed to kill Thorn.

Li Xiang killed Thorn after he fatally wounded Ryusui and nearly killed her. Badly injured and grieving, she bound Thorn’s corpse to a tree and continued on alone.

• After Ryusui died, Li Xiang tried to evade Thorn’s attacks, but he struck her into a tree and crushed her injured hand.
• Thorn seized Li Xiang by the hair and taunted her, while she secretly gripped a short blade.
• Li Xiang stabbed Thorn between the ribs, then looped an iron chain around his neck and strangled him despite his digging his nails into her thigh.
• Once Thorn was dead, Li Xiang bandaged her wounds with strips torn from her skirt.
• Li Xiang bound Thorn’s corpse to a tree using the cloth she had used to bandage Ryusui, then stepped away from the body.

Li Xiang confronted the chained Thorn, describing the tortures she wanted to inflict before stabbing him repeatedly for his crimes. After Thorn died, Li Xiang collapsed from exhaustion in the blood-soaked ground.

• Thorn woke and screamed when he saw Li Xiang, who had chained him to a tree.
• Li Xiang reminded Thorn of his crimes, including imprisoning and brutalizing girls and killing Ryusui, then described ways she wanted to torture him.
• Li Xiang explained where injuries could cause pain or death before stabbing Thorn in the eye, abdomen, and chest.
• Li Xiang accused Thorn of destroying lives and watched him die from his wounds and blood loss.
• Li Xiang collapsed into the blood on the ground after Thorn's death.

After killing Thorn, Li Xiang struggled through the burning ruins with Ryusui’s corpse on her back, hoping Senku could bring him back. The petrification light swept over them, and they waited together as stone covered their bodies.

• Li Xiang came to her senses beside Thorn’s chained corpse, realized she had killed him, and collapsed from shock and her injuries.
• Li Xiang reached Ryusui, found him cold and stiff, and promised to take him back to Senku and the others.
• Li Xiang tied Ryusui to her back with strips of her torn clothes and struggled forward through the flames, hoping petrification could revive him.
• Li Xiang collapsed to her knees and pleaded for someone to save Ryusui as the green petrification light appeared.
• Li Xiang laid Ryusui on the ground and waited beside him as the petrification light turned them to stone.

Xudi used the Petrification Device to unleash a two-thousand-meter wave of petrification across the island, turning the Science Kingdom’s fighters into stone. Senku used Chrome’s Revival Fluid to avoid petrifying completely, but he was left alone among his petrified companions as Xudi claimed victory.

• Senku ordered the Science Kingdom to retreat as Xudi’s soldiers overwhelmed them, while Tsukasa and Hyoga confronted Xudi.
• Xudi hurled the Petrification Device at Kohaku, petrifying her, then threatened to petrify everyone as Senku taunted him and Hyoga crept closer.
• Maguma attacked, and Xudi activated the device’s wide-area petrification, spreading green light across the entire island.
• Senku calculated the timing and told Chrome to throw the Revival Fluid, which struck Senku as the petrification light engulfed him.
• Senku fell among the petrified members of the Science Kingdom, and Xudi laughed that his side had won.

After Senku and Chrome survived the battle, they revived their companions across the island. Ryusui and Li Xiang awakened, and the group left the battlefield with Li Xiang resting on Tsukasa’s back.

• Senku revived Chrome, and they began using Revival Fluid to awaken their companions across the battlefield.
• Ginro accidentally revived a stranger with a Moon Mark, who mistook him for his leader and embraced him.
• Senku revived Ryusui, who revealed that he had died taking a fatal blow meant for Li Xiang before the petrification.
• Tsukasa revived Li Xiang, and she asked for Ryusui before nearly collapsing with relief at seeing him alive.
• Tsukasa carried the weakened Li Xiang as the group left the area, and she drifted to sleep on his back.

After the battle on Treasure Island, Senku helped Soyuz recover his memories and accept his role as the island’s new leader. Later, Li Xiang rested with Ryusui nearby and watched accumulated anime episodes on the Viewing Screen, including scenes that drew mocking comments from viewers.

• After the last petrified survivor awakened, Senku led Soyuz to a house where Soyuz recognized his petrified birth father and remembered his family’s history.
• Senku told Soyuz that he was now Treasure Island’s leader, and Soyuz vowed to protect the island and its people.
• Lillian reunited with her close friend and thanked the Science Kingdom, while Chrome said their survival mattered most.
• Li Xiang rested in a hanging chair, thanked Ryusui for helping her, and told him Francois was looking for him.
• Li Xiang opened the Viewing Screen and watched anime scenes about Chrome’s battle, the tank’s construction, and her own scheme against the Tsukasa Faction, while the system and viewers commented.

Li Xiang watched the rest of the story unfold, from Tsukasa trusting her to revive Mirai and the Science Kingdom’s bloodless victory over Hyoga to the kingdom’s preparations for a voyage. After the anime ended, she found the forum full of new shipping tags and decided to accept the attention if it raised her popularity score.

• Tsukasa agreed to trust Li Xiang to revive Mirai, and the siblings were reunited after Mirai awakened.
• Hyoga demanded a postwar duel, but Senku’s fight was derailed by diarrhea, allowing the Science Kingdom to win without casualties.
• Senku picked up a mysterious radio message spelling “WHY,” and the kingdom searched for platinum and the Petrification Device while reviving companions, including Ryusui and Francois.
• Chrome proposed using a hot-air balloon to search for fuel, and Li Xiang was knocked out by a pig that led the group to petroleum.
• After the anime ended, Li Xiang saw new Ryusui/Xiang and Tsukasa/Xiang fanfiction tags on the forum and welcomed the attention for her popularity score.

After celebrating their victory on Treasure Island, Senku and the Science Kingdom prepared to sail back to the Sakura Kingdom. Soyuz stayed behind to lead and protect the island, while Shrike and Kirisa joined the voyagers aboard the Perseus.

• Li Xiang joined the village celebration, where Nikki explained that Senku had prepared new fireworks and Francois had cooked for everyone.
• The islanders celebrated their victory with a feast and a fireworks display that lasted until midnight.
• Soyuz thanked Senku and the others, pledged to protect Treasure Island, and watched as they prepared to leave.
• Senku invited Shrike and Kirisa to join the voyage and work off their debts with the group, and they agreed.
• Ryusui set the Perseus sailing as the villagers waved goodbye to the departing crew.

After returning to Ishigami Village, Li Xiang discovered wild wheat and began researching ways to improve its yield, considering genetic engineering despite the village’s limited technology. She then led a summer water-fight tournament against Senku’s team, with ice pops and a day off as prizes, and the match was about to begin.

• The Perseus returned to Ishigami Village, where Ruri welcomed the crew home, while Senku took Grandpa Fossil and Chrome to the laboratory to study the Petrification Device.
• Li Xiang found wild wheat near the village and brought samples to Senku, who confirmed the discovery and began planning wheat cultivation.
• Li Xiang led villagers in testing wheat cultivation, but the primitive methods produced meager yields, prompting her to consider using genetic engineering.
• Li Xiang organized Ishigami Village’s first summer water-fight tournament, with Ruri refereeing and the winning team earning ice pops and a day off.
• Senku and Li Xiang captained opposing teams and traded taunts during the warm-up before the tournament began.

The teams battled in Ishigami Village’s summer water fight tournament, where Senku’s side won after Li Xiang secretly let him claim victory. The villagers protested the result while Senku relaxed with a popsicle.

• Ruri started the tournament, and Kohaku eliminated Ginro while Tsukasa eliminated Hyoga and Li Xiang eliminated Tsukasa.
• Li Xiang’s team cornered Senku, Chrome, and Maguma, but Maguma spun Chrome around as he fired Senku’s high-pressure water gun, eliminating nearly the entire opposing team.
• Senku chased Li Xiang with his water gun but ran out of stamina and ammunition without hitting her.
• Li Xiang used Senku’s empty gun to mark herself with red dye, letting Senku win the tournament.
• Ruri announced Senku’s team as the winners, and Li Xiang’s teammates protested while Senku ate a popsicle.

Li Xiang joined Yuzuriha, Kohaku, Homura, Nikki, and Nan as they discussed romance, but she had no romantic stories to share. She explained that she had focused on studying as a teenager, and the girls reassured her that her youth had been impressive in its own way.

• Li Xiang overheard the girls talking and stopped to ask what they were discussing.
• Kohaku admitted they were talking about boys and romance, and the girls asked Li Xiang about heart-fluttering moments.
• Li Xiang described panicking during a timed English exam, leaving the girls speechless when they realized she meant exam stress rather than romance.
• Homura asked how Li Xiang felt about Shrike, and Li Xiang listed his annoying habits and useful qualities without describing romantic feelings.
• Li Xiang said she had spent her school years studying for the college entrance exam and preferred academic achievements to dating.
• The girls praised Li Xiang and reassured her that she was not boring.

Li Xiang, Ryusui, and Shrike heard a threatening message in Senku’s voice over the boat’s receiver and returned to shore. Senku confirmed the mysterious voice might be connected to the global petrification and set a new priority: developing heavy industry and growing high-yield corn for mass-producing Revival Fluid.

• Li Xiang asked Ryusui to take her fishing, and Shrike followed them onto their boat.
• The receiver played Morse code spelling “WHY?” and then a voice that sounded like Senku asked, “Do you want to die?”
• Li Xiang realized the voice was not Senku, so she, Ryusui, and Shrike hurried back to shore.
• Li Xiang told Senku what they had heard, and he confirmed he had already noticed the mysterious voice and believed it could be linked to the petrification disaster.
• Senku said the village needed to develop heavy industry and grow yellow horse-tooth corn to produce industrial alcohol for mass-manufacturing Revival Fluid.

Senku and Ryusui disagreed over whether to take a risky shortcut on the voyage to the American Continent to find corn, then settled on a safer intermediate route. The village began preparing to upgrade the Perseus and equip the expedition, with Li Xiang tasked with coordinating the work.

• Chrome confirmed that the village's next objective was to reach the American Continent, collect yellow horse-tooth corn, and produce Revival Fluid in bulk.
• Li Xiang suggested taking a shortcut, but Ryusui opposed it because unknown waters could endanger the crew; Senku used a handmade globe and scientific calculations to argue for the shorter route.
• Li Xiang worried that other revived people might seize power while the village was away and decided they needed weapons and stronger defenses.
• Senku and Ryusui compromised on an intermediate route with manageable risks.
• Senku ordered everyone to overhaul the Perseus, replace its hull with metal, and prepare navigation tools, supplies, protective gear, scientific equipment, and weapons.
• Senku told Li Xiang to coordinate the village's work, and she ruffled his hair in annoyance after he teased her about slacking off.

As the Perseus prepared for its second voyage, Li Xiang and Senku developed guns for protection before the crew set sail. The chapter then followed Li Xiang’s on-screen story as the ship faced attackers with a Petrification Device and she later joined forces with Lillian to infiltrate a harem.

• Li Xiang warned Senku that another group might have awakened and urged him to make weapons, so the team forged and tested handmade guns.
• After the ship and supplies were ready, the Perseus departed Ishigami Village, and Senku made medicine when Li Xiang became seasick.
• When speedboats attacked near land, Li Xiang sent Gen, Senku, and Watermelon to safety, then dodged a Petrification Beam and ordered Ginro and Kohaku to retreat.
• Li Xiang later met Lillian and learned that commoner women were sent to the harem each year.
• Li Xiang decided that the selection of women gave them a chance to sneak into the harem.

Li Xiang and her companions disguised themselves as women and infiltrated the Harem, where Shrike became fixated on her without recognizing her identity. After the group passed the screening, Li Xiang received a free system prize draw and won a thick elastic rope, then discovered the prize pool also contained Trump’s underwear.

• Lillian prepared disguises, and Li Xiang, Kohaku, Ginro, and Lillian entered the Harem selection while Senku, Gen, and the others waited outside.
• Shrike inspected the entrants and let Li Xiang pass, though he lingered over her and later repeatedly approached her.
• Li Xiang sighed over the long undercover mission and checked her accumulated popularity points.
• The system awarded Li Xiang a free random draw, which gave her one thick, high-elasticity, tough rope.
• Li Xiang noticed Trump’s underwear in the prize pool, complained to the system, and gave up arguing about her useless prize.