Recaps

Qin Qi learned that his system could send him into simulations without advancing time in Little Garden, then chose a JoJo world route as a Hamon warrior. The simulation left him agreeing to learn Hamon from Lisa Lisa and help her fight vampires.

• Qin Qi asked the Life Simulation System how simulations worked and learned that he could bring back his growth without losing lifespan or changing Little Garden’s time.
• Qin Qi began his first simulation and chose the Hamon warrior plan, whose goal was to eliminate the Pillar Man and whose reward was the Steel Ball Spin technique.
• As a private detective, Qin Qi investigated disappearances, encountered a vampire, and barely escaped before Lisa Lisa defeated it and healed him.
• Qin Qi asked Lisa Lisa to teach him Hamon, and he agreed to help her deal with the vampires.

Qin Qi used his Once Proven, Forever Proven trait to master Hamon breathing and training almost instantly, astonishing Lisa Lisa. After a full day of tests, he considered Hamon’s limits and how to grow strong enough for Little Garden.

• Lisa Lisa tested Qin Qi’s Hamon aptitude by stimulating his lungs, and he reproduced Hamon after learning the basic breathing method.
• Qin Qi repeatedly released Hamon and mastered proper running form after Lisa Lisa demonstrated it once.
• Qin Qi completed a five-kilometer run with steady breathing, then passed Lisa Lisa’s rock-climbing, swimming, and tightrope tests.
• Lisa Lisa praised Qin Qi’s talent and planned to teach him advanced breathing, Hamon properties, and combat applications.
• After eating and bathing, Qin Qi stayed awake studying Hamon and considered ways to improve its combat power for Little Garden.

Qin Qi discovered that Once Proven, Forever Proven let him maintain Hamon without mental effort, inspiring him to explore its resemblance to Magnetic Field Rotation. After rapidly mastering the Ripple Breathing Method, he learned Ripple Overdrive from Lisa Lisa and questioned why Hamon had to pass through an object.

• Qin Qi realized he could maintain Hamon for hours because Once Proven, Forever Proven had made it instinctive, and he considered developing it toward Magnetic Field Rotation.
• Lisa Lisa explained that ordinary Hamon users could not maintain Hamon while asleep, then taught Qin Qi a more advanced breathing method.
• Qin Qi broke the method into individual movements and mastered it, surprising Lisa Lisa with how quickly he became proficient.
• Over the next three days, Qin Qi mastered the most difficult Ripple Breathing Method and improved physically at an unusually fast rate.
• Lisa Lisa taught Qin Qi the basic Ripple Overdrive technique and described other forms, including Scarlet Ripple Overdrive, Turquoise Blue Ripple Overdrive, and Sendo Ripple Overdrive.
• Qin Qi learned Ripple Overdrive quickly and asked Lisa Lisa whether he could release Hamon directly into the air instead of sending it through an object.

Qin Qi mastered the Hell Climb Pillar and learned everything Lisa Lisa could teach him about Hamon. After Lisa Lisa revealed the Super Aja Stone and the Hamon warriors’ feud with the Pillar Men, Qin Qi accepted the responsibility and asked to study the stone.

• Qin Qi accepted Lisa Lisa’s challenge to climb the Hell Climb Pillar and trained to condense his Hamon.
• Qin Qi climbed the pillar successfully, impressing Lisa Lisa with how quickly he mastered the technique.
• Over the next month, Qin Qi mastered the Ripple Breathing Method, learned various Ripple Overdrives, and absorbed Lisa Lisa’s combat experience.
• Lisa Lisa showed Qin Qi how the Super Aja Stone focused sunlight and explained the Hamon warriors’ feud with the Pillar Men.
• Qin Qi accepted responsibility for protecting the Super Aja Stone and confronting the Pillar Men, then asked Lisa Lisa to let him study the stone.

Qin Qi advanced his Hamon by using the Super Aja Stone and learning to release Hamon without breathing, then met Caesar, who asked Lisa Lisa to train him. After Qin Qi knocked Caesar unconscious to let him rest, Lisa Lisa drank with Qin Qi and began recounting how she had met Caesar’s father.

• Qin Qi used the Super Aja Stone to concentrate his Hamon and developed a way to release it without breathing.
• Qin Qi and Lisa Lisa concluded that his cells had adapted to produce the vibrations needed for Hamon, and he continued strengthening his abilities.
• Caesar Antonio Zeppeli arrived seeking Hamon training so he could defeat the Pillar Men and avenge his father, and Lisa Lisa agreed to teach him.
• Qin Qi challenged Caesar to a fight, then used Hamon to knock him unconscious after recognizing that grief and exhaustion had left him unfit to train.
• Qin Qi carried Caesar to a room and joined a tired Lisa Lisa for drinks, and she began telling him how she had met Caesar’s father.

Qin Qi broke through his Hamon limits and awakened a Stand that let him draw on natural life energy, greatly increasing his power and enabling further growth. Three months later, Caesar prepared to seek the Pillar Men and challenged Qin Qi to a farewell duel.

• After months of training, Qin Qi reached a limit in his physical strength and Hamon and decided to pursue Stand awakening.
• Qin Qi awakened his Stand in seven days, discovering it could gather life energy from the surroundings and combine it with Hamon.
• Qin Qi used the gathered energy to unleash a vastly stronger Thunder Hamon Overdrive, shocking Lisa Lisa and Caesar.
• Qin Qi explained his Stand and Life Magnetic Field Rotation to Lisa Lisa and Caesar, then continued growing stronger.
• Three months later, Caesar completed his Hamon training and challenged Qin Qi to a farewell duel before leaving to search for the Pillar Men.
• Caesar positioned himself seven steps from Qin Qi, believing the distance would let him counter Thunder Hamon Overdrive before Qin Qi could attack.

Qin Qi and his allies killed Esidisi in an ultraviolet-light ambush and removed the poison from Joseph’s body before setting out to confront the remaining Pillar Men. At Kars’s villa, Qin Qi chose to attack directly despite Joseph’s objections.

• Qin Qi defeated Caesar in a Hamon spar, then asked him to search for the missing Pillar Men without fighting them alone.
• After Caesar left, Qin Qi continued cultivating Magnetic Field Rotation and learned to restore life energy through breathing.
• Caesar returned with Joseph and news of their encounter with the Pillar Men, while Qin Qi prepared a trap using ultraviolet floodlights and rumors about the Super Aja Stone.
• Qin Qi’s group ambushed and killed Esidisi, and Qin Qi forced the poison out of Joseph’s body.
• At Kars’s villa, Qin Qi decided to charge inside, while Joseph objected to the reckless plan.

Qin Qi’s trap drew Kars and Wamuu into a prepared battle, where he killed Kars and helped the others defeat Wamuu. After the simulation ended, Qin Qi said goodbye to Lisa Lisa and returned to his original world, leaving her and the others to reflect on how carefully he had defeated the Pillar Men.

• Qin Qi, Joseph, Caesar, and Lisa Lisa planned to lure the Pillar Men into attacking rather than risk Kars going into hiding.
• Qin Qi and the others attacked the Pillar Men’s house, wounded Wamuu, and let him escape so the enemy would come after them.
• Qin Qi fought Kars while Lisa Lisa joined Joseph and Caesar against Wamuu, and Qin Qi killed Kars with a concealed Hamon attack.
• The group defeated Wamuu, and the completed simulation rewarded Qin Qi with the Steel Ball Spin Technique, improved physical attributes, and a Stone Mask.
• Qin Qi returned the Super Aja Stone to Lisa Lisa and prepared to leave, but Lisa Lisa gave it back to him as a parting gift and kissed his forehead.
• Qin Qi returned to his original world, while Caesar and Lisa Lisa discussed the effort and strategy behind the victory.

After returning to Little Garden, Qin Qi assessed his gains from the simulation, used the Stone Mask to turn ten subordinates into vampires, and began training in the Steel Ball Spin. He then joined White Night Yaksha in arranging medicine prices amid worsening plague and fighting in the North District.

• Qin Qi returned to Little Garden with his Super Aja Stone and reviewed his new abilities, Steel Ball Spin knowledge, and Stone Mask Gift.
• Qin Qi chose ten subordinates, including Little Di, Little Lan, and Shalltear, and turned them into vampires, warning them about sunlight and telling them to investigate a community's new supplier.
• Qin Qi spent three days learning the fundamental Steel Ball Spin technique, then went with White Night Yaksha to a Thousand Eyes meeting about medicine prices.
• Qin Qi and White Night Yaksha discussed the plague and escalating North District fighting, and Qin Qi explained that medicine prices would rise five to eight times in other districts and ten times in the North.

Black Rabbit sought medicine for the plague-stricken children in the No Name Community, but she could not afford Qin Qi's price. Qin Qi offered her work at his shop in exchange for medicine on credit, and Black Rabbit accepted.

• Black Rabbit asked White Night Yaksha for help after more than a hundred children in the No Name Community caught the plague.
• White Night Yaksha brought Black Rabbit to Qin Qi, who offered medicine at the market price of fifty gold coins and then reduced it to cost for White Night Yaksha's sake.
• Black Rabbit could not afford even the reduced price without depriving the community of living expenses.
• Qin Qi offered to give Black Rabbit medicine on credit if she worked at his shop until she paid off the debt.
• Black Rabbit accepted Qin Qi's offer and thanked him and White Night Yaksha.

Qin Qi hired Black Rabbit to referee his games and brought her to the Phantom Beast Forest to discuss a business deal with its inhabitants. A unicorn approached them and asked Qin Qi what he wanted.

• Qin Qi gave Black Rabbit medicine for her community and hired her as an employee, telling her to report at eight the next morning.
• Black Rabbit arrived before dawn, and Qin Qi scolded her for waking him before explaining that she would referee the games he hosted.
• Qin Qi took Black Rabbit outside Little Garden City to the Phantom Beast Forest, where he planned to discuss business with the phantom beasts.
• A unicorn greeted Black Rabbit, and Qin Qi stared at him until the unicorn asked whether he needed something.

Qin Qi won a race Gift Game against the unicorn by using magnetic force to follow him without being shaken off. After the unicorn honored his wager and granted Qin Qi’s people permission to farm his territory, Qin Qi stopped him to propose another business deal.

• Qin Qi challenged the unicorn to a thirty-minute race, wagering that the winner would gain permission to cultivate land in the loser’s territory.
• Black Rabbit started the game, and Qin Qi kept pace with the unicorn using magnetic levitation while avoiding obstacles.
• The unicorn flew to try to shake Qin Qi off, but Qin Qi followed him into the air with magnetic force.
• Qin Qi won when the unicorn failed to lose him before time ran out, then explained how he had used the unicorn’s magnetic field to follow him.
• The unicorn accepted his defeat and granted Qin Qi’s people permission to farm his territory, but Qin Qi called him back to discuss another deal.

Qin Qi secured cooperation with the creatures of the forest and then brought Black Rabbit to the Waterfall at the End of the World to negotiate with its snake god. The snake god appeared and asked whether Qin Qi sought a challenge or a trial of strength, wisdom, or courage.

• Qin Qi offered the unicorn a mutually beneficial business deal, and the unicorn accepted and agreed to introduce him to the forest's inhabitants.
• Qin Qi invited the forest creatures to cooperate with him, and the unicorn helped him negotiate with them.
• Black Rabbit left to care for No Name's children, accepted her wages from Qin Qi, then returned with dinner and helped him finish the negotiations overnight.
• Qin Qi told Black Rabbit that his power came from martial arts rather than a Gift, then announced he would seek cooperation with the snake god at the Waterfall at the End of the World.
• Black Rabbit warned Qin Qi that the snake god was a five-digit deity and promised to help him escape if needed.
• A gigantic white snake emerged from the waterfall, and the snake god asked Qin Qi whether he had come for a challenge or a trial.

Qin Qi defeated Snow White in a stone-skipping game using technique, then secured her help bringing water to the forest in exchange for recognition and a future market. After he left, the waterways were built, and Snow White and the other creatures grew more willing to join his community.

• Qin Qi proposed a stone-skipping game to Snow White, and Black Rabbit announced the rules restricting both players to technique.
• Snow White skipped her stone more than a hundred times, but Qin Qi's stone spun across the water over a thousand times and returned to his hand.
• Snow White admitted defeat, and Qin Qi asked her to bring water into the forest while he organized waterways and a market that would spread her name.
• Qin Qi and Snow White signed a contract, and he passed along White Night Yaksha's greeting before leaving to sleep.
• Workers arrived with gifts and began excavating waterways, while Snow White directed the water and protected the channels.
• Snow White spoke with the animals and phantom beasts, who praised Qin Qi's fair treatment and said they were considering joining his community.

Qin Qi explained how his forest market could profit from water shortages and other trade, while Black Rabbit learned about his plans and Thousand Eyes' newspaper. The newspaper revealed that Leticia was being offered for sale, leaving Black Rabbit shocked to recognize her former companion.

• Snow White met the unicorn at the lake Qin Qi had built for him, and the unicorn confirmed Qin Qi had honored their bargain despite winning their contest.
• Qin Qi explained to Black Rabbit that drought could make his water supply valuable, while his crops, medicinal plants, and forest market would provide other sources of income.
• Black Rabbit worried that No Name would suffer in a drought, and Qin Qi promised to sell the community water at a one-percent discount.
• Black Rabbit received a newspaper delivered by Laplace's Little Demon and read reports of worsening plague and unrest in the North Side.
• Black Rabbit saw a newspaper listing for Leticia and recognized her as a former companion of No Name.

Black Rabbit tried to secure the money to buy Leticia back, eventually offering to join Qin Qi’s community under a binding contract. After White Night Yaksha arranged a private meeting between them, she told Qin Qi she had used his name to negotiate with Perseus, and he asked about the investigation he had assigned her.

• Black Rabbit considered borrowing money from Qin Qi to buy Leticia, but he explained why she and No Name could not qualify for a loan.
• Black Rabbit offered to join Qin Qi’s community permanently and obey his orders in exchange for his help, and Qin Qi agreed to sign a contract.
• White Night Yaksha stopped Black Rabbit from signing immediately and arranged for her to meet Leticia first.
• That evening, White Night Yaksha brought Leticia to the Thousand Eyes branch and left her alone with Black Rabbit.
• White Night Yaksha admitted she had used Qin Qi’s name to negotiate Leticia’s visit with Perseus, and Qin Qi asked how her investigation was going.

Qin Qi negotiated with Black Rabbit and Leticia over No Name's future, then agreed to Leticia's repayment proposal. He sent them out and asked White Night Yaksha to help him take action against Galdo Gasper.

• White Night Yaksha told Qin Qi that the North District's ailing ruler and unrest could threaten craft supplies, and Qin Qi decided to prepare his businesses for shortages.
• Qin Qi predicted that Black Rabbit would sacrifice herself, and Black Rabbit and Leticia argued over whether she should sign his contract.
• Qin Qi proposed merging No Name into his community, but Leticia countered with a work contract for the community to repay its debt and retain its independence.
• Qin Qi agreed to Leticia's proposal on the condition that Black Rabbit and Leticia leave while he spoke privately with White Night Yaksha.
• Qin Qi told White Night Yaksha that Galdo Gasper had abducted community members and used them to force their communities into games with their stakes on the line.

Qin Qi used temporary law enforcement authority to confront Galdo, forcing him into a game under Black Rabbit’s supervision. He attacked Galdo while the tiger was still frozen, leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• Qin Qi explained his plan to White Night Yaksha, who granted him temporary law enforcement authority after he agreed to keep the operation quiet.
• Qin Qi bought Leticia, then took Black Rabbit and his people to arrest Galdo at the Force Garo residence.
• Qin Qi presented Galdo with a choice between execution and a fight whose terms would let Qin Qi claim Galdo’s resources; Galdo chose the game.
• Galdo tried to report Qin Qi for coercion, but Black Rabbit confirmed that the Little Garden found no irregularity.
• After Galdo demanded to be freed for the fight, Qin Qi struck him with golden Hamon lightning while he remained frozen, and Black Rabbit ruled that the attack complied with the game’s rules.

After defeating Galdo, Qin Qi took over the Force Garo community and its businesses, then offered shelter and work to those harmed by Galdo while expelling people who had helped with the kidnappings. Back at his shop, he found Leticia dressed as a maid and learned that White Night Yaksha had prepared her outfit and come to eat.

• Qin Qi ordered the vampires to claim Force Garo’s assets, and the temporary law-enforcement authorization burned away after Galdo’s corpse was disposed of.
• Black Rabbit warned Qin Qi to act less brazenly, but he argued that the game, his authorization, and her role as referee made his actions lawful.
• Shalltear caught Galdo’s subordinate presenting fake accounts and threatened to make him vampire food, while Little Di and Little Lan took control of Force Garo’s shops and imposed new terms on their owners.
• Qin Qi told Galdo’s former victims that some could join his community, but those who had helped with later kidnappings would be expelled; he also gave them a list of recovered hostages and arranged shelter, work, and schooling.
• Qin Qi returned to his shop intending to rest, where Leticia appeared in a maid outfit and White Night Yaksha revealed that she had chosen the clothes and come for a meal.

Qin Qi expanded his forces by using the Stone Mask to create a vampire legion and assigned Leticia to train them. After a week, Leticia reported that the new vampires were still transforming and might eventually develop into powerful purebloods, while Qin Qi considered the mask’s potential.

• White Night Yaksha told Qin Qi he could become a Floor Master, but he declined for the time being because he needed rest.
• Qin Qi summoned a hundred people and used the Stone Mask to transform them into vampires, then tasked Leticia with developing their abilities.
• Leticia trained the vampires in martial arts, swordsmanship, combat techniques, and vampire powers as Qin Qi’s forces grew over the following week.
• During a nighttime inspection, Leticia explained that the Stone Mask’s vampires ranked below purebloods but had considerable potential, and that their golden hair showed their transformation was continuing.
• Leticia shared an account that vampires descended from future humans who fled a solar crisis, and suggested the new vampires might eventually become purebloods capable of reaching five-digit levels.

Qin Qi prepared to profit from the plague in the North Side, then began White Night Yaksha’s trial to become Floor Master of Outer Gate 2105380. He challenged a griffin to a contest of courage and honor, and the two rose into the sky to begin.

• Qin Qi assessed the vampires’ strength and ordered them to expand into the East Side’s remaining Outer Gate areas.
• Leticia delivered a newspaper to Qin Qi, who predicted that Fire Dragon’s appearance would precede his death and further unrest in the North Side.
• Qin Qi ordered Leticia to sell unicorn masks and holy water masks, trade masks to Fire Dragon’s people for handicrafts, and discreetly buy North Side handicrafts.
• Qin Qi went to White Night Yaksha’s shop and agreed to begin the trial for the Floor Master position.
• White Night Yaksha presented a griffin whose approval would grant Qin Qi authority over Outer Gate 2105380, and Qin Qi proposed a free-fall contest of courage and honor.
• The griffin accepted Qin Qi’s challenge, and carried him high into the sky to begin the contest.

Qin Qi entered the griffin’s trial and endured a perilous free fall, but surrendered at the last moment to save the griffin’s life. Though the griffin initially declared himself the winner, he recognized Qin Qi’s courage and granted him passage, leaving White Night Yaksha to issue the Outer Gate rights certificate.

• Qin Qi rode the griffin to extreme heights and withstood the cold, pressure, and turbulent winds during their fall.
• Qin Qi used Spin and his breathing technique to maneuver through the storm currents while the griffin watched in astonishment.
• Near the ground, Qin Qi surrendered and used Magnetic Field Rotation to stop his fall, allowing the griffin to regain his powers and survive.
• The griffin accused Qin Qi of deliberately giving him the victory, but Qin Qi explained that life mattered more to him than glory.
• The griffin acknowledged Qin Qi’s courage and declared that he had passed the trial, and White Night Yaksha agreed to give him an Outer Gate rights certificate.

Qin Qi received outer-gate authority, continued building his business and community, and introduced Black Rabbit to Master Li, his founding-member tabby. After receiving a Fire Dragon funeral invitation, Qin Qi traveled with White Night Yaksha to the North Side, where Mandora announced Sandora’s succession as the next Fire Dragon.

• Qin Qi received his outer-gate authority certificate from White Night Yaksha and told Black Rabbit to sell the unicorn masks at the forest market.
• Qin Qi spent seven days cultivating and running his shop as his masks sold well and his vampires took over outer gates.
• Black Rabbit met Master Li, and Qin Qi explained that the tabby was his community’s first member before leaving the shop in her care.
• Qin Qi and White Night Yaksha traveled to the North Side for the Fire Dragon’s funeral and politely greeted Sandora.
• Mandora announced that Sandora would inherit the Fire Dragon title and invited the community leaders to her succession celebration in a few months.

After returning from the North Side, Qin Qi learned that his system could bring people from the JoJo world to Little Garden through a daily three-hour portal. He invited Joseph Joestar to discuss trade and summoned Caesar with a Dayun heavy truck, leaving both men confused but unharmed in Little Garden.

• Qin Qi returned to his shop, where the tabby cat left an Eye of Water that Black Rabbit identified as a rare support Gift.
• Qin Qi learned that he could invite people he had met in the JoJo world to Little Garden, and that they could travel back through a spacetime gate.
• Qin Qi invited Joseph Joestar, who vanished from the ship bound for America and appeared in the shop, where Qin Qi began explaining and proposing a business deal.
• Qin Qi summoned Caesar with a Dayun heavy truck, which struck him and brought him to Little Garden unharmed.
• Caesar arrived beside Qin Qi and Joseph, then pinched Joseph to check whether the strange situation was real.

Qin Qi recruited Joseph and Caesar into his Community and planned a trade route through Little Garden, then visited the growing Forest Market with Black Rabbit. There, the unicorn introduced him to a water spirit seeking a home in the forest.

• Caesar agreed to join Qin Qi’s plans while continuing to care for his younger siblings and visit his dates, and Joseph revealed that Lisa Lisa was his mother.
• Qin Qi explained Gifts and Gift Games, invited Joseph and Caesar to join his Community, and they accepted and discussed business ideas.
• Qin Qi sent Joseph and Caesar sightseeing, then asked Black Rabbit to help revise the Forest Market plan into a network of free resting places and trade-route hubs.
• Qin Qi and Black Rabbit visited the flourishing Forest Market, where its animals and phantom beasts welcomed him.
• The unicorn thanked Qin Qi for the forest’s new home and introduced a water spirit and her companions, who wanted to settle in its streams and lakes.