Chapter Summaries

After Infinite Tsukuyomi trapped the shinobi world, Mu Yu defeated Six Paths Madara and absorbed the God Tree, revealing that his purpose in the Naruto World was to claim its power. The chapter ended with Mu Yu killing Black Zetsu and taking the Tailed Beasts’ Chakra, leaving Naruto uncertain whether he could still trust him.

• Madara Uchiha activated Infinite Tsukuyomi, trapping the Shinobi Alliance in the God Tree while Mu Yu and Team 7 remained free.
• Mu Yu challenged Madara Uchiha’s belief in his dream world, then entered Complete Hollowfication and defeated him in battle.
• Black Zetsu stabbed Madara Uchiha, revealed his thousand-year plan to revive Kaguya, and explained that Infinite Tsukuyomi’s victims would become White Zetsu.
• Kaguya took control of Madara Uchiha and began draining Chakra from the trapped shinobi, but Mu Yu redirected the Chakra into the God Tree beside him.
• Mu Yu absorbed the God Tree and gained its power, then killed Black Zetsu and pulled the Tailed Beasts and their Chakra from Madara Uchiha.
• Naruto Uzumaki watched Mu Yu seize the Tailed Beasts’ Chakra and wondered whether the man who had once helped him had been an ambitious schemer all along.

Mu Yu ended the Fourth Great Ninja War by containing the Tailed Beasts, saving Madara Uchiha, and reviving several Hokage before leaving the ninja world. Half a month later, the villages began rebuilding amid an unprecedented peace, while stories of Mu Yu spread everywhere.

• Mu Yu absorbed the Divine Tree shell, gained a Six Paths Body, and sensed his World Trees beginning to merge as Naruto and Sasuke reacted to his power.
• Mu Yu explained that he had taken the Tailed Beasts into custody, then saved Madara Uchiha and urged him to reconsider the world Hashirama had created.
• Mu Yu restored Minato Namikaze's arms and revived him in a Gigai, then also revived Tobirama Senju, Hashirama Senju, and Hiruzen Sarutobi.
• Mu Yu left Hanabi a swordsmanship manual and gifts, while Naruto and Sasuke undid Infinite Tsukuyomi and the Fourth Great Ninja War ended after two days.
• Half a month later, the ninja world began rebuilding and entered an unprecedented age of peace, while Mu Yu became a legend and the villages suppressed or destroyed Impure World Reincarnation.

After receiving a mission to break his Limiter in the One-Punch Man world, Mu Yu arrived in Z-City and sensed the overwhelming strength of Saitama. Convinced that Saitama might be the only one who could push him beyond his limits, Mu Yu went to find him, where he encountered Saitama swatting mosquitoes and Genos watching helplessly.

• Mu Yu gained the Byakugan and Rinne Sharingan abilities after devouring the Divine Tree, then received a one-year mission to break his Limiter in the One-Punch Man world.
• Mu Yu decided to befriend Saitama and seek a sparring match, while avoiding becoming a true monster who might be killed with one punch.
• Mu Yu entered the One-Punch Man world above Z-City and used Observation Haki to detect monsters, powerful heroes, and Saitama's vastly greater presence.
• Mu Yu felt the world's rules stirring his cells and the World Tree, which strengthened his resolve to break his Limiter.
• Mu Yu traveled through the ruined, nearly empty parts of Z-City toward Saitama's home and found Saitama swatting mosquitoes while Genos looked on helplessly.

Mu Yu challenged Saitama to a duel, overpowering Genos with Conqueror's Haki before racing with Saitama toward a valley outside the city. The two arrived ready to fight, and Mu Yu declared that he would defeat Saitama.

• Mu Yu told Genos he had come to challenge Saitama, but Genos powered up and tried to block his way.
• Mu Yu unleashed Conqueror's Haki, shutting down Genos's engine and knocking the mosquito unconscious, while Saitama barely felt the pressure.
• Saitama sensed Mu Yu's strength and agreed to fight him somewhere away from the city.
• Mu Yu and Saitama raced through Z-City's uninhabited zone as Genos followed, struggling to track their speed.
• Mu Yu and Saitama reached a valley, took fighting stances, and Mu Yu vowed to defeat Saitama.

Mu Yu launched an all-out assault on Saitama, using swordsmanship, Wood Style clones, and a massive explosion to push the fight to unprecedented danger. With Saitama finally getting serious, Mu Yu prepared his strongest techniques as both fighters attacked at once.

• Mu Yu entered Six Paths Mode, drew on God City's power, and unleashed a barrage of sword strikes that Saitama narrowly countered with a Normal Punch.
• Mu Yu used the smoke to create two Wood Clones, filling the valley with sword trees, binding roots, and pollen that made Saitama dizzy.
• Saitama destroyed the forest with Consecutive Normal Punches, but Mu Yu detonated an enormous attack that leveled the valley and left Saitama bleeding.
• Genos arrived and found three indistinguishable Mu Yus surrounding a battered Saitama, who praised Mu Yu and raised his fighting spirit.
• Mu Yu summoned True Several Thousand Hands, sent a clone into the Gate of Death, and began a Six Paths escape technique as Saitama launched Serious Punch.

Mu Yu fought Saitama with his clones and original body, pushing the battle to its limits in hopes of breaking through the Limiter. The fight ended when Mu Yu used a soul-striking glove to knock Saitama's soul from his body, leaving Saitama unconscious and his soul hovering above him.

• Mu Yu's Wood Style Clone attacked Saitama with the True Several Thousand Hands, but Saitama destroyed it with a Serious Punch.
• Mu Yu's Eight Inner Gates clone kicked Saitama into the air, and Mu Yu's original body struck him underground with the power of the God City and World Tree phantoms.
• Mu Yu used Future Sight and his swords against Saitama, but Saitama's speed, strength, and defense kept overwhelming him, and one of Mu Yu's clones was blown apart.
• Mu Yu used [Write] to survive Saitama's punch, then chose to fight without holding back in hopes of breaking through the Limiter.
• Mu Yu and Saitama launched their final attacks; Saitama punched a huge hole through Mu Yu, but Mu Yu pressed his gloved palm to Saitama's chest and knocked his soul out of his body.
• Genos rushed toward the fallen Saitama as Saitama's soul floated above him, staring curiously at his hands.

After ending his fight with Saitama without breaking his Limiter, Mu Yu searched for the reason behind the God Clan’s mission and began to suspect that his human soul and the Song of Destiny held the key. Back in Z-City, citizens’ loyalty to the heroes who had saved them made Mu Yu reconsider becoming a hero and why the question setter had sent him to this world.

• Mu Yu pulled Saitama’s soul back into his body, then ended their fight and admitted he had failed to break through his Limiter.
• Genos invited Mu Yu to join the Hero Association, but Mu Yu declined and wandered away while pondering how Saitama had broken his Limiter.
• Mu Yu reasoned that his human soul might be what made him unique and that fulfilling the God Clan’s expectations could make the Song of Destiny sound again.
• Mu Yu returned to Z-City, where the Hero Association announced the earthquake was natural and residents began dispersing.
• Mu Yu heard citizens defend the heroes who had personally saved them, prompting him to reconsider his distrust of heroes and question why he had been sent to the world of One-Punch Man.

Mu Yu took the Hero Association examination and earned perfect marks on the physical tests, but his candid interview answers left him ranked B-Class. Fubuki planned to recruit him to protect her position as the top B-Class hero, while Genos was excited by Mu Yu’s registration and wondered whether he could learn from him.

• Mu Yu decided to become a hero and arrived at the Hero Association examination in A City, where muscular examinees mocked his lean appearance.
• Mu Yu overwhelmed the examiners with record-breaking physical test results, including a shot put that flew into outer space.
• The Hero Association awarded Mu Yu a B-Class rank because his interview score lowered his perfect physical-test score.
• Fubuki learned about Mu Yu’s results from Eyelashes and decided the Blizzard Group should recruit him before he threatened her position as the number one B-Class hero.
• Genos learned Mu Yu had become a B-Class hero and wondered whether Mu Yu could teach him a way to become stronger, though he still respected Saitama as his master.

Mu Yu joined the Hero Association as the B-Class hero Hero's Heart and took on missions, defeating monsters and rescuing civilians with ease. After rising to first place in B-Class within a week, he drew Fubuki's attention, and she led the Blizzard Group to confront him while Tatsumaki flew to intervene.

• Mu Yu questioned whether he had lost touch with ordinary people, then registered with the Hero Association as B-Class Rank 41 under the name Hero's Heart.
• Mu Yu killed a Wolf-level Scavenger Monster with a breath and extinguished a house fire with Water Wave Technique, rescuing a trapped family.
• Mu Yu knocked out the Demon-level Super Bat Monsters with Conqueror's Haki and swallowed them in a swamp, despite the trapped civilians doubting his ability.
• Over the following week, Mu Yu's missions made him famous and raised him to first place in B-Class, overtaking Fubuki.
• Fubuki led the Blizzard Group toward the Royal Hotel to confront Mu Yu, while Tatsumaki learned of her sister's plan and flew after them.

Fubuki visited Mu Yu to recruit him into the Blizzard Group, but he defeated her subordinates and overpowered her after she refused to take responsibility for crippling other heroes. As Tatsumaki approached, Fubuki warned Mu Yu to run, but he offered to help her fight her sister.

• Fubuki arrived at Mu Yu’s suite with Eyelashes and Yamazaru and offered him a place in the Blizzard Group, but Mu Yu refused to give up his B-Class first rank.
• Eyelashes and Yamazaru attacked Mu Yu, but he incapacitated them and prevented Fubuki from using her telekinesis.
• Mu Yu confronted Fubuki about the heroes she had crippled, then restrained and frightened her until she warned him that Tatsumaki was coming.
• Fubuki sensed Tatsumaki approaching and urged Mu Yu to run, while Mu Yu offered to help her fight her sister.
• Fubuki stared at Mu Yu in disbelief when he identified Tatsumaki and proposed helping her defeat her.

Mu Yu brought Fubuki away from the hotel before confronting Tatsumaki, who attacked him with overwhelming telekinetic force. He survived her strongest assault unharmed and left Tatsumaki with a splitting headache, while she feared how powerful he was.

• Mu Yu used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Fubuki from the hotel to the outskirts and explained that he had many superpowers.
• Fubuki suspected Mu Yu had lured her sister out, but Mu Yu flicked her on the head and considered how complicated the sisters’ relationship was.
• Tatsumaki arrived, insulted Fubuki, and attacked Mu Yu after he teased her about her skirt.
• Tatsumaki intensified her telekinetic assault, lifting huge rocks and hurling them at Mu Yu while Fubuki watched in fear.
• Mu Yu used Reverse Gravity to counter the falling boulders, and the collision created a massive shockwave that swept Fubuki away.
• Mu Yu emerged unharmed, and when Tatsumaki attacked him again, she developed a splitting headache and asked who he was.

Mu Yu defeated Tatsumaki and, at Fubuki’s request, helped her confront the rift with her sister. Fubuki grew closer to Mu Yu while Tatsumaki became jealous and vowed to stay by her side to keep him away.

• Mu Yu used his speed and strength to defeat Tatsumaki, then spanked her while Fubuki watched in disbelief.
• Fubuki asked Mu Yu to help her speak to Tatsumaki as an equal and explain how her sister’s rescues and criticism hurt her.
• At the Royal Hotel, Mu Yu praised Fubuki, making her blush and feel valued beyond being Tatsumaki’s younger sister.
• Tatsumaki attacked Mu Yu after seeing him embrace Fubuki, but he defeated her again and carried her away.
• Fubuki kissed Mu Yu, then told Tatsumaki she had lost; Tatsumaki declared she would stay with them to keep Mu Yu from taking Fubuki away.

After Fubuki and Tatsumaki reconciled, Deep Sea Tribe monsters attacked J City, and Deep Sea King overwhelmed several heroes as rain restored his full strength. With Sonic retreating to retrieve his weapons, the Hero Association feared Deep Sea King might be stronger than a Demon-level threat.

• Fubuki thanked Mu Yu, promised to become the top A-Class hero, and advanced to A-Class three days later.
• Deep Sea Tribe monsters emerged along J City's coast, and Stinger fought them until Deep Sea King defeated him.
• The Hero Association raised the disaster level to Demon and sent heroes to J City, but Deep Sea King also defeated Flashy Flash.
• Prisoner fought Deep Sea King near a shelter, but Deep Sea King battered him through a building while Speed-o'-Sound Sonic watched.
• Sonic challenged Deep Sea King, initially outpaced him, then struggled as the rain restored Deep Sea King's Moist State; Sonic withdrew to retrieve his weapons.

Mu Yu discovered that his path as a hero meant pursuing recognition and reward while using his strength to save people, then defeated the Deep Sea King in a hard-fought battle that inspired the shelter’s civilians. His victory brought him fame across J City and drew attention to his ranking, while Sonic’s attempt to challenge him ended in a single chop.

• The Hero Association feared the Deep Sea King would attack the shelter and learned that the arriving hero, Mu Yu, was only B-Class.
• As civilians despaired over Mu Yu’s rank, he reconsidered what being a hero meant and realized he wanted both to save people and to receive recognition.
• Mu Yu fought the Deep Sea King through more than a hundred exchanges, drew encouragement from the shelter, and knocked the monster down.
• The rescued civilians praised Mu Yu and the injured heroes, while Genos noticed that Mu Yu had deliberately fought differently than expected.
• The Hero Association announced Mu Yu’s victory, prompting widespread disbelief, a ranking reassessment meeting, and Fubuki’s curiosity.
• Sonic pursued Mu Yu to reclaim the chance for fame, challenged him, and was knocked unconscious with one chop before Mu Yu returned to his hotel satisfied with his newfound path.

The Hero Association promoted Mu Yu directly from B-Class to S-Class, drawing public attention and prompting Sweet Mask to challenge his qualifications. After Mu Yu wounded Sweet Mask in a secluded alley, Sweet Mask began regenerating and faced Mu Yu’s question about whether his character deserved approval.

• The Hero Association announced Mu Yu’s unprecedented promotion to S-Class, and the other heroes reacted to the news.
• Tatsumaki grew curious about Mu Yu, while Sweet Mask decided to assess his strength and reviewed his file.
• Mu Yu signed the S-Class contract and reflected on how the Hero Association’s benefits supported heroes and ordinary citizens.
• Sweet Mask approached Mu Yu at his hotel and took him to a secluded alley to test whether he deserved his S-Class title.
• Mu Yu struck Sweet Mask in the chest before he could react, and Sweet Mask began rapidly regenerating.
• Mu Yu asked whether targeting Sweet Mask’s vital point showed the character of a worthy S-Class Hero, leaving Sweet Mask stunned.

Mu Yu rejected Sweet Mask’s offer to make him a successor, challenged his belief that he was a monster, and left him reconsidering his own identity. Afterward, Mu Yu received an emergency summons for all S-Class Heroes and headed to Hero Association headquarters, suspecting Boros was behind it.

• Sweet Mask offered Mu Yu a celebrity contract and urged him to become his successor, but Mu Yu refused to sign.
• Sweet Mask revealed that his appearance and abilities had changed unnaturally, then showed Mu Yu his ugly true form and described his fear of becoming a monster.
• Sweet Mask proposed staging his defeat so Mu Yu could become the world’s symbol of justice, but Mu Yu argued that Sweet Mask should follow his own path and questioned the plan’s impact on his fans.
• Mu Yu told Sweet Mask that other heroes also had extraordinary abilities and that justice was unrelated to beauty or ugliness, leaving Sweet Mask shaken by the idea that his self-image mattered most.
• The Hero Association issued an emergency summons for all S-Class Heroes, and Mu Yu headed to headquarters, suspecting Boros had arrived.

Mu Yu attended an emergency meeting of the S-Class Heroes, where he encountered Saitama and watched the heroes clash over his presence and the meeting. The Hero Association revealed that Grandma Ji had predicted the Earth was in trouble, warning of a possible God-level disaster within six months.

• Mu Yu arrived at Hero Association headquarters and met Genos, Saitama, Silver Fang, and Atomic Samurai, who dismissed Saitama for being B-Class.
• Tatsumaki insulted Saitama, and Mu Yu reminded her that she had lost to him; Atomic Samurai was stunned to learn Mu Yu had defeated the S-Class rank-two hero.
• The S-Class Heroes gathered in the conference room, where they sized one another up and argued while waiting for the meeting to begin.
• Executive Nishizaki told the heroes that Grandma Ji had died after predicting a coming disaster, and Child Emperor read her warning that the Earth was in trouble.
• Nishizaki said the prophecy could mean a God-level catastrophe capable of destroying Earth, expected within six months; Saitama calmly drank tea as the heroes absorbed the news.

After A City was destroyed by the Dark Matter Pirates’ attack, Mu Yu and Saitama competed at rock-paper-scissors to decide who would board the spaceship and fight Boros. Mu Yu won and entered the ship, while Saitama and the other S-Class Heroes faced Melzargard outside.

• The Hero Association headquarters shook under the attack, and Mu Yu warned the S-Class Heroes that a stronger strike was coming before the building lost power.
• Nishizaki reported that A City had been almost entirely destroyed, prompting the heroes to deploy as Mu Yu and Saitama headed for the rooftop.
• Mu Yu and Saitama played rock-paper-scissors to decide who would board the spaceship, while Geryuganshoop ordered the ship’s crew to fire on them.
• Mu Yu and Saitama deflected the cannonballs, then Saitama pierced the spaceship with a Serious Punch; Mu Yu claimed victory and entered the ship to confront Boros.
• Saitama regrouped with Genos and the other S-Class Heroes, who attacked Melzargard, but the monster regenerated after being reduced to pieces.

Mu Yu fought his way through Boros’s spaceship and confronted Boros, the opponent foretold to challenge him. Their battle began with Mu Yu wounding Boros, then escalated into a clash of immense green and purple energies that tore apart the ship.

• Mu Yu advanced through the spaceship, killing Gloribas and the combatants sent to stop him.
• Geryuganshoop reported the invasion to Boros, then died after refusing to reveal Boros’s location to Mu Yu.
• Boros deliberately released his aura to summon Mu Yu, and the two introduced themselves before preparing to fight.
• Mu Yu’s first sword strike pierced multiple walls and made Boros bleed, prompting Boros to shatter his Divine Gold Armor and unleash his full power.
• Mu Yu and Boros clashed in a contest of green and purple energy that devastated the spaceship and sent brilliant light through its ruined hull.

Mu Yu battled Boros aboard the spaceship and across Earth and outer space, hoping the pressure would break his Limiter, but it did not. After Mu Yu defeated Boros’s Planet Cracker Roar Cannon, he spared him and left, while Boros wondered whether he could become a hero.

• Mu Ye fought Boros with his sword, severing Boros’s arm before Boros regenerated it and entered Meteorite Burst.
• Mu Ye transformed into Sage of Six Paths Mode and clashed with Boros, whose increasingly powerful attacks drove their battle into outer space.
• Mu Yu returned to Earth battered and disappointed that the intense battle had not broken his Limiter or awakened the Song of Destiny.
• Boros unleashed his Planet Cracker Roar Cannon, and Mu Yu split the attack with a sword slash but stopped before killing Boros.
• Mu Yu spared Boros and suggested he could become a hero, leaving Boros to ponder the idea as the S-Class Heroes arrived.