Chapter Summaries

Xu Yue and the others emerged on a Japanese residential street, where he discovered that the Black Ball’s usual restrictions might not apply. He tested the Reinforcement Suit and a Delay Gun, then persuaded the group to prepare for the mission rather than simply go home.

• Xu Yue took a Battle Blade, a Delay Gun, and an invisibility controller, and gave Kishimoto Megumi a Delay Gun as they teleported out.
• Suzuki Gorō caught a taxi, leading Xu Yue to suspect the Black Ball’s rules had changed; Xu Yue checked his head and found no bomb.
• Xu Yue demonstrated the Reinforcement Suit’s strength boost, while Nishi Jōichirō turned invisible and left the area.
• Xu Yue convinced the group that the Black Ball might send them back if they abandoned the mission, so they agreed to examine their equipment.
• Xu Yue fired a Delay Gun at a utility pole, and the shot blasted away its center, astonishing the group.

The newly equipped participants tracked an Onion Alien juvenile to an apartment and attacked, causing it to flee and suffer a severe injury. Kato called for medical help while Xu Yue watched to see how GANTZ would contain the public exposure.

• The group tested the GANTZ weapons, followed Xu Yue’s controller map, and reached an apartment where the Onion Alien juvenile was hiding.
• The effeminate man blasted open the door, drawing attention from nearby residents who began talking about calling the police.
• The Onion Alien juvenile offered its green onion, then jumped through a window to escape after Hatanaka Hiroshi fired at it and wounded its leg.
• Kato confronted Hatanaka Hiroshi for shooting the juvenile, but Kurono separated them and urged the group to hurry outside before the police intervened.
• Xu Yue stopped Kurono from helping Kishimoto Megumi after she fell, telling her to adapt or risk dying again.
• Kato rushed to the injured Onion Alien juvenile and shouted for a doctor and ambulance while Xu Yue let him draw attention.

Kato tried to stop the others from killing the wounded Onion Alien child, but Hatanaka Hiroshi and the rest shot it dead. Its grieving father retaliated, killing the effeminate man and Hatanaka Hiroshi before a mysterious blue blast struck him, and two armed men in black arrived to confront the group.

• Kato aimed his gun at Hatanaka Hiroshi and begged the group not to shoot the Onion Alien child, but its claws injured him.
• Hatanaka Hiroshi urged the others to fire, and Teacher Glasses, the effeminate man, and the Yakuza Duo killed the child with their Delay Guns.
• The Onion Alien uncle arrived, found the child's remains, and killed the effeminate man and Hatanaka Hiroshi with a sudden attack.
• The Onion Alien uncle lunged at Yoshioka Kiyoshi, but a blue blast hurled him through a wall.
• Xu Yue spotted two armed men in black approaching, and one of them angrily asked the group why they had attacked the aliens.

Xu Yue learned how the Men in Black and the Black Ball faction cautiously cooperated despite their conflicting approaches to aliens. After Ka introduced himself and befriended the participants, he killed the Onion Alien uncle, warning that the alien would have sought revenge for his dead young.

• Ka introduced himself and his partner Su, explained the Men in Black’s role and their uneasy relationship with the Black Ball faction, and mentioned Nishi Jōichirō.
• Yoshioka Kiyoshi thanked Ka for saving him and offered to help him in the future, while Kurono, Kato, and the others agreed to stay in touch.
• Kishimoto Megumi stayed close to Xu Yue as Ka turned his attention to the injured Onion Alien uncle.
• Ka blasted the Onion Alien uncle apart, prompting Kato to challenge him for killing the alien.
• Ka explained that the Onion Alien uncle would have taken revenge for his young and warned the participants to spare important targets the Men in Black protected.

After the mission, Xu Yue and the other survivors returned to the Black Ball room, where they received their scores and equipment. Xu Yue left with Kishimoto Megumi, who had no home or identity after being copied by the Black Ball.

• Ka sent the newcomers back to the Black Ball room, then told Su to help the logistics team erase witnesses’ memories.
• Suzuki Gorō, Yoshioka Kiyoshi, Yamada Masashi, and the other survivors returned, and Nishi Jōichirō admitted he had planned to steal the final hit for points.
• The Black Ball assigned everyone nicknames and scores; Yoshioka Kiyoshi earned one point, while Nishi Jōichirō had 87 points and Xu Yue was labeled a freak.
• Yoshioka Kiyoshi took a Reinforcement Suit and Delay Gun, while Nishi Jōichirō warned the others not to trust Ka or the MIB before turning invisible and leaving.
• Xu Yue demonstrated the controller’s invisibility function, refused to give his controller to Yoshioka Kiyoshi, and left with Kishimoto Megumi, who had no home, family, or identity.

Xu Yue and Kishimoto Megumi moved in next door to Kurono Kei and transferred to his school, bringing Xu Yue closer to the Son of Destiny. Kurono grew jealous and sleep-deprived over Kishimoto, then discovered Xu Yue had been placed beside him in class and reacted strangely after shaking his hand.

• Xu Yue and Kishimoto Megumi completed their transfers and rented the apartment next to Kurono Kei's home.
• Kurono returned home and was surprised to find Xu Yue and Kishimoto moving in as his neighbors.
• Xu Yue told Kurono that he and Kishimoto would attend his school and might fight alongside him again, while Kurono grew jealous that Kishimoto was living with Xu Yue.
• Kurono heard commotion from next door that night, then found Xu Yue alone the next morning and learned Kishimoto was staying home sick.
• Xu Yue entered Kurono's class as a transfer student and was seated beside him.
• Kurono shook Xu Yue's hand, then stared blankly at the hand that had touched him.

MIB investigated the Black Ball participants and noticed Reincarnators probing the organization through gang takeovers, prompting Ka to order an interrogation. At school, a delinquent demanded daily payments from Xu Yue, who responded with a smile that suggested trouble for the bully.

• Su gave Ka files identifying the Black Ball participants, and Ka chose Kurono and Yoshioka Kiyoshi as recruitment priorities while deciding to leave Xu Yue alone.
• Su reported that multiple groups had taken over gangs and were investigating the Black Ball faction, and Ka ordered core members captured and interrogated.
• A third-year delinquent demanded that Xu Yue pay him fifty thousand yen every day.
• Xu Yue questioned whether the delinquent was telling him what to do and smiled at him.

Xu Yue stopped Yonekura from extorting him by knocking him through a classroom doorway and into a corridor wall. Elsewhere, Williams’s team of Reincarnators realized the gang they had taken over preyed on students, and decided to deal with its members personally.

• Yonekura threatened Xu Yue and tried to strike him, but Xu Yue punched him into the corridor, leaving him badly injured and humiliated.
• Kurono asked whether Xu Yue wore a bodysuit, and Xu Yue said he had practiced traditional National Martial Arts since childhood.
• After recovering enough to leave, Yonekura went to a public phone booth and called his gang’s boss for help.
• Williams told his teammates that their newly acquired gang had nearly a thousand members but specialized in bullying students, extorting protection fees, and lending money at interest.
• Williams’s team decided to confront the gang members who preyed on students to make an example of them.

Yonekura challenged Xu Yue after school, but Xu Yue and Kurono found a group of Reincarnators waiting in the alley. Xu Yue recognized Williams and Brown, greeted them by praising their famous battle, and left them with a favorable impression of him.

• Yonekura challenged Xu Yue to meet his gang after school, and Kurono warned Xu Yue that Yonekura had called in yakuza.
• Xu Yue agreed to go and put on his Reinforcement Suit, while Kurono insisted on joining him to repay Xu Yue for his help.
• Williams and Brown waited with other Reincarnators, hoping to investigate suspicious students and establish their gang’s authority.
• Williams and Brown recognized Xu Yue as familiar, and the Reincarnators considered exchanging intelligence rather than making an enemy of him.
• Xu Yue recognized Williams and Brown, greeted them by praising their battle in Middle-earth Continent, and earned their respect.

Xu Yue used his standing and friendly manner to ease tensions with Williams and Brown, then shared intelligence about the Black Ball and how participants might be selected. The two men accepted his advice and agreed to spread it among their companions, leaving Xu Yue with potential allies in the Punishment mission.

• Yonekura and Kurono were surprised to see Xu Yue chatting amicably with Williams and Brown instead of fighting them.
• Xu Yue introduced himself as Penguin Xu Yue, and Williams and Brown became more restrained after recognizing his reputation.
• When Williams asked about unique intelligence, Xu Yue revealed that he had provisionally joined the Black Ball activity and that Kurono had joined as well.
• Xu Yue explained his theory that people should wait until they had died and been selected before acting, and that meeting the required time and location could lead to selection.
• Xu Yue urged Williams and Brown to share the intelligence freely with their companions, and they agreed to cooperate with him.

Ka ordered MIB to let Kurono Kei and Xu Yue pursue the Black Ball while arranging for Yoshioka Kiyoshi's organization to clash with a biker gang controlled by Reincarnators. During the fight, Anderson, Jackson, and three others recognized the Black Ball's disappearance effect and shot themselves to test whether they could become participants.

• Ka learned that Kurono Kei and Xu Yue had met an organization's leader and told MIB to wait and see whether the two could become Black Ball participants.
• Yoshioka Kiyoshi used his Reinforcement Suit to seize leadership of his organization and prepared to fight Anderson and Jackson's biker gang.
• Anderson and Jackson's Reincarnators overwhelmed Yoshioka Kiyoshi's forces until Yoshioka charged them and critically injured Nemoto Tetsu'o and two companions.
• The three injured men began disappearing, confirming the intelligence about the Black Ball to Anderson and Jackson.
• Anderson, Jackson, and three others drew pistols and shot themselves beneath the chin to try to enter the Black Ball.

Yoshioka Kiyoshi and the gang members vanished during a fight, and a flash made the survivors forget what they had seen. Kurono Kei, Xu Yue, and Kishimoto Megumi were teleported to the Black Ball room, where Xu Yue killed one of three biker punks who threatened Kishimoto and forced Kato to confront what he would do to protect his younger brother.

• Yoshioka Kiyoshi began vanishing, and the gang members around him disappeared as a flash caused the survivors to forget the event and resume fighting.
• Kurono Kei was teleported without his Reinforcement Suit, while Xu Yue and Kishimoto Megumi arrived wearing theirs.
• Kurono Kei saw Xu Yue and Kishimoto Megumi emerge from the entryway after they hurriedly straightened their clothes.
• Nemoto Tetsu'o, Nakajima Kosuke, and Nishikawa Shinsuke leered at Kishimoto Megumi and approached her, so Xu Yue shot Nakajima Tetsu'o in the head.
• Xu Yue asked Kato what he would do if perverts threatened his younger brother, and Kato realized he would kill them.

After Xu Yue killed Mobster B and explained the Reinforcement Suits, five Reincarnators secretly decided to exploit his trust while concealing their alliance with a Japanese Merchant Consortium. They recognized that the suits greatly increased their strength and believed they could use the mission’s reward system to their advantage.

• Anderson, Johnson, and the other Reincarnators recognized Xu Yue after Kato called his name and decided they could oppose him because they believed his strength was limited by the Punishment mission.
• Xu Yue assessed the five Reincarnators as possible enemies and arranged for them to be brainwashed before explaining the newcomers’ situation and the Reinforcement Suits.
• Nishi Jōichirō objected to Xu Yue sharing information, but Xu Yue ignored him and continued helping the newcomers.
• Anderson and the others praised Xu Yue while secretly agreeing in their Team channel to pretend to join him and take advantage of what they knew about him.
• The five Reincarnators put on their Reinforcement Suits, prompting the three mobsters to wear theirs as well.
• Anderson recognized Yoshioka Kiyoshi in a matching suit and concluded that the Black Ball’s missions and rewards could make the Reincarnators’ situation profitable.

Xu Yue led the newcomers into a mission to hunt Tanaka Aliens while MIB agents Ka and Su monitored them and tried to steer the encounter. After Thug A attacked a Tanaka Alien and trusted his Reinforcement Suit to protect him, the suit failed and the alien struck him down.

• Xu Yue explained the Tanaka Aliens’ abilities and warned the newcomers that the mission had a one-hour limit.
• Kurono panicked because he had no Reinforcement Suit, and Xu Yue assured him he would keep him alive.
• Ka and Su identified the mission as likely involving Tanaka Aliens and arranged for George to help pit the aliens against the Black Ball group.
• The group encountered a Tanaka Alien carrying chocolate, and Thug A fired at it with his Delay Gun.
• Thug A ignored the alien’s soundwave attacks and boasted that his Reinforcement Suit protected him while the others watched.
• After several hits, Thug A’s suit shattered and leaked fluid; the Tanaka Alien struck him again, sending him flying with his eyes bursting and blood pouring from his face.

Anderson killed a Tanaka Alien with the Reinforcement Suit, then agreed to handle the remaining aliens while Xu Yue revealed another target on the radar. The group discovered eight Tanaka Aliens and scattered under their sweeping attacks, leaving Anderson and the other Reincarnators to face the threat.

• The Tanaka Alien killed Punk A after the Reinforcement Suit failed, and Nishi Jōichirō explained the suit’s limit.
• Anderson used the Reinforcement Suit and a Delay Gun to kill the Tanaka Alien, impressing Nishi Jōichirō and the other participants.
• Xu Yue revealed another Tanaka Alien on the radar, and Anderson volunteered his group to handle the remaining enemies.
• The group found eight Tanaka Aliens, whose numbers had been drawn out by the hidden Tanaka Alien Cub.
• Xu Yue fled with Kishimoto Megumi while Kato carried Kurono away, and the Tanaka Aliens attacked the scattered participants.

The Tanaka Aliens overwhelmed the Reincarnators, killing Teacher Glasses and the grandmother and her grandson while driving the others into a desperate retreat. Xu Yue’s group fled toward a six-alien pursuit, and Jackson shot Kurono as the chapter ended.

• Anderson and his partner were captured by Yuzo, who ordered the Tanaka Aliens to hunt the others while keeping the two alive.
• Kishimoto Megumi and Kato found the grandmother and grandson dead, and Kato urged the group to fight before time ran out.
• Jackson and two Reincarnators burst into Xu Yue’s group’s path with six Tanaka Aliens behind them and tried to use the group as shields.
• Kato carried Kurono away while Xu Yue pulled Kishimoto Megumi aside, but Jackson fired his Delay Gun and wounded Kurono.

Xu Yue protected Kurono, punished the three Reincarnators who had shot him, and defeated the Tanaka Aliens. Jackson tried to keep Xu Yue alive by promising cooperation, while William Boeing and Tesla’s team waited confidently for their boss to carry them through the mission.

• Xu Yue stopped to bind Kurono’s severed wrist, then attacked the three Reincarnators when they tried to use his group as human shields.
• Xu Yue swept the three Reincarnators into the Tanaka Aliens’ encirclement and defeated the aliens with a rapid series of strikes and his Battle Blade.
• Xu Yue threatened the injured Reincarnators with the Delay Gun, and Jackson claimed they were partners and promised to promote cooperation after the mission.
• Jackson silently decided to keep deceiving Xu Yue and hoped to regroup with Anderson and the others.
• William Boeing, Tesla, and their team celebrated at an izakaya, expecting their boss to carry the sickly Elite Titans through the mission.

After Xu Yue and the others defeated six aliens, Yuzo captured Anderson and several other Reincarnators, and Xu Yue refused to help them without payment. Anderson and Jackson agreed to pay Xu Yue five S-Rank Plot Points for rescue and protection, leaving the deal to be put in writing.

• Xu Yue's group headed toward the remaining aliens, but Yuzo appeared carrying the captured Anderson and his subordinate in a net.
• Xu Yue refused to interfere, explaining that Yuzo was not a Tanaka Alien and telling Jackson and the others to rescue the captives themselves.
• Jackson challenged Yuzo, but Yuzo captured Jackson and two others and continued on with all five prisoners.
• Xu Yue refused Anderson's offer of five A-Rank Plot Points, then proposed five S-Ranks in exchange for rescuing and protecting them while they earned 100 points.
• Jackson and Anderson accepted Xu Yue's offer and demanded that he put the deal in writing.

Xu Yue rescued the Reincarnators from George and Yuzo, then demanded the reward they had agreed on. When Anderson and Jackson tried to use the contract’s wording to avoid paying him, Xu Yue attacked and sent Jackson crashing through a wall.

• Xu Yue deflected the hulking man’s projectiles, cut open the net holding the Reincarnators, and blocked a powerful blue pulse from a tiny armed man.
• The tiny man, George, called off the failed mission and retreated with Yuzo after Xu Yue asked them to spare his partners.
• Xu Yue offered to take the rescued Reincarnators to earn the one hundred points required by their contract, but Anderson and Jackson argued they could avoid paying by enhancing themselves or ending the deal.
• Xu Yue refused to cancel the contract and asked whether he still had a chance; Jackson dismissed him and threatened to fight.
• Xu Yue charged Jackson with overwhelming force, smashed him across the street, and broke his Reinforcement Suit.

Xu Yue overwhelmed Anderson and the Reincarnators who tried to restrain him, revealing how vast the gap between their physical enhancements really was. Anderson realized Xu Yue had lured them into debt and suspected he was targeting the Federation before he died, while Jackson arrived too late to help.

• Xu Yue struck Jackson and sent him flying, shocking Anderson and the others.
• Anderson called for temporary enhancements and attacked Xu Yue, but Xu Yue leaned into his tackle and fatally injured him through the Reinforcement Suit.
• Anderson realized Xu Yue's strength far exceeded theirs and concluded that the contract had been a trap to burden them with debt.
• Anderson stopped paying to repair his suit or heal himself, suspected Xu Yue was targeting the Federation, and died.
• Jackson repaired his suit and rushed back, only to find Anderson dead.