Ch. 287No. 18: Sykes’s Explanation

Luo Yifang learned from Sykes that Monster God was believed to empower people and monsters, possibly explaining the recent surge in Dragon level threats. After leaving the Monster Association, he ordered Sword Demon to kill monsters before their growing power caused the world to collapse, while he continued searching for Misaka Sister.

  • Okita Souji left Licenseless Rider alive after killing the Spiked Giant, and he searched the ruins for Genos before riding away with the parts he found.
  • Okita Souji returned to Luo Yifang, who was preparing a large hotpot meal with 2b and waiting for Artoria and the others.
  • Luo Yifang told Okita Souji that Sykes had little information, then recounted how she linked Monster God to the sudden rise in Dragon level monsters.
  • Sykes explained that Monster God appeared through negative emotions and offered power in exchange for a deal, and suggested that someone chosen by it might reveal its nature.
  • Luo Yifang released Sykes, revealed that he knew about her hidden Monster King Orochi, and left the Monster Association with Sword Demon.
  • Luo Yifang ordered Sword Demon to kill monsters to prevent the world's collapse while he continued looking for Misaka Sister.

Ch. 288Why Do We Live in This World?

During a hotpot meal, Little Mo and Okita Souji discussed their lives as Heroic Spirits and whether they could belong in the world beyond the Holy Grail War. Okita began to answer Little Mo’s question about what they lived for.

  • Luo Yifang and the others joked about gods while eating hotpot, and Artoria reminded him that the potatoes were overcooking.
  • Little Mo sat beside Okita Souji and wondered why she, Okita, Artoria, and Nero shared the same face.
  • Okita told Little Mo that she envied her ability to laugh freely and spoke of how illness had kept her from fighting alongside her master and comrades.
  • Little Mo recalled her miserable life as a Knight of the Round Table and said she had chosen to live again.
  • Little Mo asked Okita what Heroic Spirits existed for now that they had left the Holy Grail War, and Okita began explaining her own past struggle with that question.

Ch. 289Fubuki Group, Come with Me

Okita Souji reflected on her life and agreed to go shopping for clothes with Luo Yifang and the others. Meanwhile, Saitama was interrupted at home by a suited man demanding that he come with the Fubuki Group.

  • Okita Souji told Little Mo that she had never understood what she was living for, and Luo Yifang reassured her after revealing Mordred had been teasing her.
  • Luo Yifang apologized for summoning Okita Souji into a long-term role and offered to take her shopping for modern clothes.
  • Okita Souji agreed to shop with Luo Yifang, and Artoria asked to join them, prompting him to invite all the Heroic Spirits.
  • Saitama lamented that Genos was still being repaired and that he had to cook for himself.
  • A suited man came to Saitama's door and ordered him to come with the Fubuki Group.

Ch. 290Stop Fucking Taking Apart the Door!

Luo Yifang confronted the Fubuki Group members who were trying to dismantle Saitama’s door and swiftly defeated them. Saitama stopped him from killing their leader, leaving the injured group alive after their attack.

  • A Fubuki Group member used his ability to damage Saitama’s door while the leader complained that Saitama had refused the group’s invitation.
  • Luo Yifang arrived and stopped a member from punching him, shattering the attacker’s arm.
  • Luo Yifang stopped a charging member’s katana with one finger, shattered it, and restrained the group with an invisible force.
  • The group’s thin member recognized Luo Yifang as the one who destroyed Hero Association headquarters and fainted.
  • Luo Yifang injured the Fubuki Group members and prepared to punch their leader, but Saitama stopped him and argued that the man should not be killed.

Ch. 291A Real Man Doesn't Go Shopping

Luo Yifang dealt with the Fubuki Group members who confronted him at Saitama’s home, while Fubuki learned that her team had encountered a Dragon-level monster and decided to investigate without telling Tatsumaki or the Association. Later, Luo Yifang endured a long shopping trip with Gilgamesh and Nero.

  • Luo Yifang agreed to Saitama’s request, threw the Fubuki Group members into the sky, and kicked their leader through a cement wall after Saitama pointed out that he had broken the door.
  • Luo Yifang told Saitama he had only been passing by and explained that he was searching for information about Monster God.
  • A Fubuki Group executive told Hellish Blizzard that their team had encountered a Dragon-level opponent linked to the Hero Association headquarters’ destruction.
  • Fubuki ordered her group to keep the encounter secret from Tatsumaki and the Association, then began considering how to deal with Luo Yifang.
  • Luo Yifang sat outside a mall while Gilgamesh and Nero made him help choose clothes, and he vowed never to go shopping again.

Ch. 292Who Was It, Really?

While shopping with the group, Luo Yifang and the others were caught in a monster attack that nearly injured Tohsaka Rin. After the monster was killed, Luo Yifang suspected it had been deliberately brought to the busy district, and Scathach began examining its remains.

  • Gilgamesh heard an explosion, left Luo Yifang, and found a monster attacking Tohsaka Rin near the mall.
  • Artoria protected Rin, and Gilgamesh killed the Ghost-class monster with shots from the Gate of Babylon, damaging the surrounding street.
  • Luo Yifang, Okita Souji, and Nero arrived, while Little Mo complained that Gilgamesh’s attack had nearly hit them too.
  • Tohsaka Sakura rushed in from a rift after Scathach alerted her, then checked that Rin was unharmed.
  • Luo Yifang suspected the monster’s appearance was no coincidence, and Scathach began writing runes on its remains.

Ch. 293You Think This Is My Little Pony?!

After Scathach failed to track the spiritual entity that had empowered the monster, Luo Yifang returned with her and the others to Academy City. The Hero Association investigated the attack and began searching for the mysterious woman witnesses believed had defeated the monster.

  • Scathach examined the monster and told Luo Yifang that a spiritual energy entity had granted it the fruit of greed, but she could not trace the entity.
  • Luo Yifang connected the entity's power to the homeless Emperor's dream bargain, then left the scene with Scathach, the Heroic Spirits, Tohsaka Rin, and Tohsaka Sakura.
  • The Hero Association's director learned the City A shopping center attack had caused limited injuries and building damage, and that King had been present.
  • An executive reported King's claim that a passing young woman had killed the monster, while witnesses gave conflicting descriptions of her appearance.
  • The director ordered the Association to find the unregistered hero and try to recruit her.

Ch. 294The Hunt Begins

Luo Yifang launched a monster hunt to draw out the Monster God, sending Okita Souji and other allies to search different directions. The hunt spread across several cities as Scathach pursued the god by her own methods and Saitama and Genos set out to kill monsters.

  • Luo Yifang explained to Scathach that killing the Monster God's empowered monsters might force it out of hiding, and Scathach agreed to track the god herself.
  • Luo Yifang asked Artoria for help, while Saitama agreed to hunt monsters with Genos after hearing the request.
  • Okita Souji killed seventeen monsters, including three Dragon level monsters, but her talisman detected no connection to the Monster God.
  • Luo Yifang assigned Artoria and Little Mo to the north and west and Nero to the south, leaving Okita Souji to hunt east through their team channel.
  • Nero sang in the team channel, so Luo Yifang muted her and then argued with her after unmuting her.

Ch. 295Shield Holder's Strange Encounter

Shield Holder was rescued from a tiger-headed monster by Mordred, who slaughtered the monsters fleeing through City A. After Shield Holder pointed her toward the survivors, she cornered the Dragon-level Mad Bull King and prepared to kill him over the monsters disrupting her shopping trip.

  • Shield Holder was overwhelmed by a tiger-headed monster until a giant-like monster crushed it and a terrified horde of stronger monsters fled past him.
  • Mordred appeared among the monster corpses, mistook the blood-covered Shield Holder for a monster, and snapped his shield with her sword before he convinced her he was human.
  • Mordred asked Shield Holder which way the other monsters had gone, then threatened to return if he had pointed her in the wrong direction.
  • Mordred pursued the Dragon-level Mad Bull King into a mountain dead end, where he pleaded that he had no grudge against her.
  • Mordred blamed Mad Bull King for ruining her shopping trip and said she would kill him so he could join Devil Turtle.

Ch. 296One-Sided Battle

Shield Holder was nearly killed by a Tiger-class monster before a silver-red-armored swordswoman slaughtered the monsters flooding City A. Little Mo chased Dragon-level Mad Bull King into the mountains and, after effortlessly blocking his strongest punch, left him with a fatal chest wound.

  • A tiger-headed monster overwhelmed Shield Holder, but a giant creature crushed it while monsters of every level fled down the road.
  • Little Mo cut through the fleeing monsters and nearly mistook blood-covered Shield Holder for one before he convinced her he was human and pointed her toward the others.
  • Little Mo tracked Mad Bull King to a mountain dead end and revealed she was hunting the monsters because they had interrupted her shopping trip.
  • Mad Bull King entered his berserk form and attacked Little Mo with his full strength, but she casually blocked his punch and opened a massive wound in his chest.

Ch. 297Labyrinth

Frog-kun and Rat King hid in an underground lair to escape the four women hunting monsters in City A. Okita Souji, Artoria, and Little Mo found the hidden entrance and entered the underground labyrinth, where its looping passages trapped them.

  • Frog-kun and Rat King agreed to stay underground for at least ten days, fearing the four women and the consequences of leaving City A.
  • Nero noticed a strange wall, and Okita Souji uncovered signs that the ground nearby had been excavated and repaired.
  • Artoria found an entrance to a deep pit, and Okita Souji, Artoria, and Little Mo descended into the darkness.
  • The three followed Okita Souji's glowing sword through the underground tunnel, but Artoria recognized that they had returned to the spot where she had landed.
  • Little Mo suggested blasting through the labyrinth, but Okita Souji warned that doing so could bury them, and Artoria urged them to keep searching for the monsters.

Ch. 298A Bloody Incident Caused by a Bag of Chocolate

Luo Yifang and the others searched the maze-like tunnels beneath City A for the hidden Frog-kun and Rat King. After finding the monsters by planting a bag of chocolate, Luo Yifang confronted them in the suddenly illuminated cavern.

  • Artoria scolded Mordred for contacting Luo Yifang and tugged her ear until he intervened.
  • Luo Yifang offered to investigate alone, but Okita Souji and Artoria stayed with him while Mordred returned for lunch.
  • Luo Yifang opened a straight passage through the tunnel wall and led Okita Souji and Artoria through the darkness.
  • Frog-kun worried that the women might still be nearby, while Rat King found a bag of chocolate and began eating it.
  • Frog-kun realized the chocolate was not his just as the cavern lit up, and Luo Yifang revealed himself with Okita Souji and Artoria.

Ch. 299Monster God

Luo Yifang captured Frog-kun and Rat King, then questioned them about the Monster God. Rat King revealed how the god appeared to desperate potential weirdos and collected tribute, but he did not know how to summon him.

  • Luo Yifang used magnetic-field control to find and capture Frog-kun and Rat King, surprising Frog-kun with his power.
  • Frog-kun invoked the Monster God, but nothing happened, and Okita Souji threatened him into answering only yes-or-no questions.
  • Luo Yifang offered Rat King chocolate and his freedom in exchange for information, and Rat King agreed to talk.
  • Rat King said the Monster God might appear to people with the potential to become weirdos when they were trapped and desperate, and that he appeared in their spiritual world during a full moon to collect life energy or special spiritual energy.
  • Rat King explained that the Monster God granted power to weak weirdos and that his former companion Silver Werewolf had been a powerful exception, but he claimed not to know how Luo Yifang could meet the god.
  • When Luo Yifang threatened to feed Rat King to his cat, Rat King said he had remembered something else.

Ch. 300The Big Bad

Luo Yifang exposed Rat King as the traitor who had trapped Silver Werewolf, then killed him when he transformed and attacked. Frog-kun was left stunned by Rat King's betrayal and Luo Yifang's overwhelming power.

  • Rat King asked Luo Yifang whether he would kill him after he revealed everything, and Luo Yifang pressed him to explain Silver Werewolf's death.
  • Luo Yifang questioned Frog-kun about Silver Werewolf, leading Frog-kun to realize Rat King had dug the pit that trapped him.
  • Rat King dropped his act, admitted his hostility, and declared that divine power had strengthened him before breaking his chains and attacking.
  • Luo Yifang flattened Rat King into a two-dimensional sheet with a wave of his hand.
  • Okita Souji regretted losing the chance to extract more information, but Luo Yifang explained that Rat King had mostly been lying and mocked Frog-kun for failing to see through him.

Ch. 301Visitor from Space

Luo Yifang questioned Frog-kun about the Monster God but learned little, then sent him to the Burning Legion as experimental material. After Luo Yifang and his companions left, Boros and the Cosmic Dark Matter Pirates began racing toward the solar system.

  • Frog-kun admitted that he did not know how to find or summon the Monster God, who had stopped paying attention to him.
  • Frog-kun described how the Monster God had once assigned him, the Rat King, and the Silver Werewolf to work together in City A.
  • Luo Yifang cut Frog-kun loose and threw him through a portal to the Burning Legion's base to be used as experimental material.
  • Okita Souji jabbed Frog-kun with her scabbard and sent him farther through the portal before it vanished.
  • Luo Yifang, Artoria, and Okita Souji left the underground cavern.
  • Boros and the Cosmic Dark Matter Pirates crossed the Milky Way toward the solar system.

Ch. 302A Lofty Image

Luo Yifang investigated Monster God's hiding method and found signs that the two missing Misaka Sisters were concealed in separate spaces. Meanwhile, Saitama stopped Genos from rejecting hero funding, preserving his image as a selfless teacher while secretly wanting the money.

  • Luo Yifang concluded that searching monsters one by one would be futile and focused on locating the last two Misaka Sisters.
  • Scathach brought Luo Yifang a clothing fragment she had found inside an inconspicuous spatial crevice, and suggested it was nested within another space.
  • Luo Yifang asked Salted Fish to investigate, and she produced a second scorched fragment from a Tokiwadai uniform hidden in another separate space.
  • Luo Yifang realized Monster God had moved the spaces around the Misaka Sisters to hide them, but he could not understand why.
  • Genos told Saitama about the Association's hero funding, and Saitama stopped him from rejecting payment by arguing that heroes needed money to stay in fighting condition.

Ch. 303Silver Fang

Saitama and Genos discovered that the Hero Association had rated Saitama A-Class and Genos S-Class, apparently because Genos’s damaged recordings failed to show Saitama’s battles clearly. At headquarters, Saitama encountered Tatsumaki, while Tatsumaki and Bang arrived for the hero evaluation meeting and she refused to discuss a past incident.

  • Genos read the association’s ratings and angrily protested that Saitama had received only A-Class while he was ranked S-Class.
  • Saitama and Genos realized their battle footage probably showed Genos fighting and being wrecked, while Saitama’s decisive attacks were poorly recorded.
  • Saitama and Genos reached the renovated headquarters, found the lobby empty, and learned that robots now guided visitors because staff had been relocated.
  • Saitama asked Tatsumaki for directions, irritating her, and Genos identified her as S-Class Rank 2, Tatsumaki the Terrible.
  • Tatsumaki decided to see what Saitama could do at the evaluation meeting, then met Bang and rejected his attempt to discuss a past incident.

Ch. 304Great Prophet

The Hero Association introduced Saitama and Genos to the S-Class heroes and revealed Great Prophet ShiBababa’s final predictions, including that Earth was doomed and a prophecy about a white demon. The meeting ended with the Association tracing the second prophecy to Tatsumaki’s clash with an unidentified person.

  • The Association introduced Genos as a new S-Class hero and explained that Saitama had received an A-Class rating because his submitted information was incomplete.
  • The suited man told the heroes that Great Prophet ShiBababa had died and left two final prophecies.
  • The heroes reacted to ShiBababa’s warning that Earth was doomed and her cryptic message about a white demon.
  • Tatsumaki recognized the white demon as someone connected to a private matter, took a storage device, and left the meeting.
  • The suited man revealed that Tatsumaki’s clash with an unidentified intruder had destroyed the Association headquarters more than a week earlier.

Ch. 305Deep Sea King? No, Seafood King!

Luo Yifang went to City J to find seafood and encountered Deep Sea King attacking the city. He defeated Deep Sea King and dragged him away to catch seafood, while Licenseless Rider transformed with the belt Luo Yifang had given him and arrived too late to find his opponent.

  • Luo Yifang searched the coastal seafood market, then heard an alert that a Demon-level monster was attacking City J and suspected it was Deep Sea King.
  • Luo Yifang reached the gymnasium and found Licenseless Rider, gave him a Kamen Rider belt, and told him to make good use of it.
  • Luo Yifang entered the gymnasium and blocked Deep Sea King's punch with his umbrella.
  • Luo Yifang quickly defeated Deep Sea King and dragged him out of the gymnasium to catch seafood.
  • Licenseless Rider transformed into Kamen Rider and arrived at the gymnasium, where the crowd pointed him toward the collapsed wall where Luo Yifang had taken Deep Sea King.

Ch. 306Cosmic Emperor Arrives!

Luo Yifang forced Deep Sea King to gather seafood before leaving him alive, and Deep Sea King later opened a seafood shop in City J. Meanwhile, a gigantic alien spaceship appeared over City A and attacked, leaving the evacuated crowd in chaos.

  • Luo Yifang dragged Deep Sea King out to sea and made him gather fish and shellfish for his boat.
  • Luo Yifang destroyed a kilometer-wide island with a punch and scattered a massive wave with his umbrella, frightening Deep Sea King into submission.
  • Luo Yifang stored the seafood in the Gate of Babylon and vanished through a spatial rift, while Deep Sea King hurried back to the deep sea.
  • Deep Sea King later opened a seafood shop named Seafood King on the coast of City J.
  • A gigantic purple-black spaceship appeared over City A as residents evacuated, and its attack unleashed a blinding explosion and powerful winds.
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