Chapter Summaries

Garou escaped Genos by exploiting an explosion, and Shen Mo explained that Garou’s talent, resolve, luck, and ability to seize opportunities made him a valuable rival. Genos began pursuing Garou as a form of cultivation, but their repeated battles revealed that Garou was improving far faster than he was.

• Garou tore into Genos’s energy-transmission node, triggered an explosion, and escaped despite his injuries.
• Genos returned to Saitama’s home frustrated, and Shen Mo explained what Garou’s combat talent and decisive resolve could teach him.
• Shen Mo told Genos that defeating Garou would not earn him power by itself, but fighting him could help develop the qualities needed to receive Jars.
• Genos accepted the challenge and began hunting Garou whenever Garou revealed his location by hunting A-Class heroes.
• Garou adapted to fighting cyborgs and grew stronger with each encounter, while Genos made little progress beyond upgrading his equipment.

Genos learned that his longing for power, rather than revenge, could eventually qualify him to receive Shen Mo’s Jars, though he still needed to understand Garou’s attitude toward strength. Genos met Garou again and resolved to surpass him as Garou declared that he would keep growing stronger until he surpassed everyone.

• Genos returned to Saitama’s house and asked Shen Mo why Garou kept growing stronger while he could not catch up.
• Shen Mo explained that Garou had greater potential and determination, then helped Genos recognize that he longed for power like Saitama’s more than he sought revenge.
• Shen Mo told Genos to keep fighting Garou and study his attitude toward power before he could receive the Jars, and suggested asking Bang or Mumen Rider for help.
• Saitama offered to accompany Genos to meet Garou, and Shen Mo cautioned him not to kill Garou in one hit.
• The next day, after Garou defeated another A-Class hero, Genos confronted him and resolved to surpass him.
• Garou told Genos that he would keep growing stronger until he surpassed everyone.

Genos introduced Garou to his teacher, Saitama, as the opponent who would challenge Garou’s confidence. Garou’s attacks failed to affect Saitama, who threw him into a wall after catching his groin attack.

• Genos admitted he could no longer defeat Garou and introduced Saitama as Garou’s main opponent.
• Garou sized up the apparently ordinary Saitama and attacked while Saitama was distracted.
• Garou’s full-strength strike and barrage of martial arts attacks failed to move or injure Saitama.
• Garou resorted to eye pokes, ear jabs, and a groin attack, but Saitama caught his hand and threw him into a wall.

Saitama defeated Garou with ease and left Genos to hand him over to the Hero Association. After waking in prison, Garou learned that Saitama was human and became determined to discover how he had gained such power.

• Garou questioned what Saitama was, but Saitama called himself an ordinary human and knocked him unconscious with a chop.
• Saitama left Garou for Genos and went home, while Genos reflected on Saitama's overwhelming strength.
• The Hero Association imprisoned Garou in restraints, and he awoke remembering his defeat.
• Genos told Garou that Saitama was human and described the existence of a true God with power beyond Saitama's.
• Garou insisted Saitama must have followed a process to gain his strength and vowed to obtain that power himself.

Genos struggled to understand Garou’s confidence in surpassing Saitama until Shen Mo explained that Garou’s qualification lay in his determination to keep pursuing an ambitious goal. Genos accepted that he wanted to catch up to Saitama, and Shen Mo recognized that he had earned the opportunity to pursue greater power.

• Genos returned to Saitama’s home after meeting Garou, whose confidence in surpassing Saitama puzzled him.
• Shen Mo explained that Garou’s confidence came from pursuing constant growth, not from certainty about the result.
• Shen Mo told Genos that surpassing Saitama was possible in a world where Shen Mo had appeared, and that determination was what mattered.
• Genos realized he wanted to catch up to Saitama for its own sake and asked Shen Mo for the opportunity to surpass him.
• Shen Mo agreed, saying Genos had earned the qualification he had promised to recognize.

Shen Mo found Boros in space and showed him the vast multiverse, offering him a badge and the chance to enter a wider arena of opponents. Boros accepted, eager to pursue the battles he had long sought.

• Shen Mo left Genos with a badge and searched the universe for a suitable villain.
• Shen Mo appeared before Boros's spaceship, overwhelming its crew with his power.
• Boros broke free of his armor's restraints and approached Shen Mo, hoping to fight him.
• Shen Mo explained that Boros was far too weak to challenge him and showed him countless worlds and battles across the multiverse.
• Boros accepted Shen Mo's badge and prostrated himself in gratitude, burning with fighting spirit.

Boros challenged Shen Mo with his strongest attack, but Shen Mo killed him effortlessly and then resurrected him through the Member Badge. Back on Earth, Shen Mo considered which world to take Saitama to after recruiting Garou, and found that Saitama had already returned.

• Boros asked Shen Mo for a chance to fight, and Shen Mo removed the restrictions suppressing him.
• Boros unleashed his Planet-Shattering Roar Cannon, but it failed to affect Shen Mo or even change his clothes.
• Shen Mo killed Boros with his will, and Boros realized that Shen Mo's power surpassed ordinary energy-based combat.
• Boros revived through the Member Badge and resolved to grow stronger until he could give Shen Mo a true battle.
• Shen Mo returned to Earth and weighed taking Saitama to the Dragon Ball world or another world, then discovered that Saitama had already returned.

After Saitama defeated the Deep Sea King, Shen Mo discussed Saitama’s uncontrollable growth and Genos’s new Disboard Mechanical Race class. Saitama agreed to travel with Shen Mo, who went to find Garou and discovered he was preparing to escape the Hero Association’s prison.

• Saitama complained that his strength kept growing, while Shen Mo told him the monster he defeated had been a threat to several cities.
• Shen Mo learned that Genos had obtained the Disboard Mechanical Race class and warned him that its full potential was much greater.
• Shen Mo asked Saitama whether he still wanted to leave with him, and Saitama eagerly agreed.
• Shen Mo told Saitama to say goodbye to Genos and his friends, including Mumen Rider, before they traveled.
• Shen Mo appeared at the Hero Association’s prison and saw that Garou had adapted to his restraints and was preparing to escape.

Garou tried to escape prison by shrinking his bones and drinking his own blood, but Shen Mo secretly stopped his Monsterization, allowing Sexy Prisoner to defeat him. After Garou was imprisoned again, Shen Mo appeared beside him and claimed he could see all of Garou’s thoughts.

• Garou shrank his bones, broke free of his alloy restraints, and destroyed the prison’s surveillance cameras.
• The prison dispatched armed units and called Sexy Prisoner to capture Garou, who had lost a large amount of blood.
• Garou attacked Sexy Prisoner as his Monsterization began, but Shen Mo used invisible rules to halt its growth.
• Sexy Prisoner defeated Garou, who fainted and was placed in stronger retractable restraints.
• Shen Mo appeared beside the imprisoned Garou, conjured a chair and endless fried chicken, and told him that nothing about him could be hidden.

Shen Mo restrained Garou and offered him power if he proved himself through a series of questions. He challenged Garou’s belief that heroes always defeat monsters by showing him visions of heroes falling in battle.

• Garou tried repeatedly to leave, but Shen Mo forced him back into his seat each time.
• Shen Mo claimed he could perform feats such as seeing the past and future, resurrecting the dead, and creating worlds, and said he was far stronger than Saitama.
• Shen Mo offered Garou the chance to gain power and potentially surpass Saitama if his answers satisfied him.
• Garou said he wanted power to defeat the heroes and argued that monsters should not always lose to them.
• Shen Mo showed Garou visions of heroes being defeated, including Mumen Rider, Genos, and other famous heroes.

Shen Mo challenged Garou’s belief that monsters should triumph by showing him a world where monsters had defeated the heroes and oppressed humanity. He argued that Garou truly hated oppression and still yearned for real heroes, leaving Garou shaken and unable to accept Shen Mo’s assessment.

• Shen Mo showed Garou a world ruled by monsters, where humans accepted being raised as food and punished a youth who resisted.
• Garou grew furious at the humans’ oppression, despite having wished for monsters to defeat heroes.
• Shen Mo argued that justice did not always triumph and that Garou opposed oppression rather than heroes themselves.
• Garou angrily rejected Shen Mo’s claim that he secretly wanted to become a hero, then fell quiet as Shen Mo pointed out that he had never killed the heroes he defeated.
• Shen Mo reminded Garou of the child who admired heroes and said he had another way to make Garou recognize his true self.

Shen Mo forced Garou to choose whether to become a hero to save a boy from a falling meteor. Garou shouted the words too late, but Shen Mo revealed that the boy was unharmed.

• Shen Mo proposed testing whether Garou would sacrifice something for someone he barely knew, and showed him the boy with the superhero picture book.
• Shen Mo said a meteor would kill the boy unless Garou shouted, “I want to become a hero,” and bound Garou so he could not intervene.
• Garou resisted as Shen Mo counted down, but realized the boy had been waiting for him and began to struggle with his choice.
• At the final second, Garou shouted that he wanted to become a hero, believing the boy had already been killed.
• Shen Mo said Garou had lost as soon as he began struggling, then revealed the boy was unharmed.

Shen Mo gave Garou access to the Merchant Guild after testing whether he understood his own heart, then took Saitama to the Dragon Ball world. They arrived in a powerful Multiverse where Shen Mo sensed laws that could help him grow stronger.

• Shen Mo revealed that Garou's little brother had survived the meteor, judged Garou worthy, and gave him information about the Merchant Guild and the Jars.
• Garou learned that Saitama's immense power came from within and complained that Shen Mo had left him tied to the bed.
• Shen Mo returned to Saitama's home, chose the Dragon Ball world as their destination, and engraved a storage Rune on Saitama's hand.
• Saitama said goodbye to Genos, and Shen Mo took Saitama to the Dragon Ball world.
• Shen Mo sensed the world's powerful laws, while Saitama looked around and said it seemed no different from his own world.

Shen Mo and Saitama arrived on Earth just as Vegeta and Nappa approached, and Shen Mo arranged for Saitama to test himself against the planet’s fighters. Piccolo challenged Saitama, whose strength left the others stunned, and began attacking him with a rapid barrage.

• Shen Mo spotted the approaching Saiyan spacecraft and told Saitama that a suitable battle would soon arrive.
• Piccolo, Krillin, and Gohan flew over to investigate the newcomers, and Piccolo sensed Saitama’s immense strength.
• Shen Mo asked Saitama to fight the Earth defenders gently, and Piccolo accepted his challenge.
• Piccolo blasted Saitama with an energy attack, but Saitama emerged from the crater unharmed.
• Piccolo struck Saitama in the stomach and followed with a rapid barrage of punches and kicks, while Saitama showed no sign of injury.

Saitama easily endured King Piccolo’s full-strength attacks, while Shen Mo explained that he and Saitama came from another world and meant no harm. When the Saiyans approached a city, Shen Mo intervened and caused their spherical spaceships to crash before the group.

• King Piccolo repeatedly attacked Saitama and smashed him into a crater, but Saitama stood up without a scratch and said King Piccolo could not give him a proper fight.
• Saitama and Shen Mo explained that they were travelers from another world, and Shen Mo said he had brought Saitama to find strong opponents.
• King Piccolo and Krillin spotted two approaching Saiyans heading toward a city, and Saitama volunteered to stop them but realized he could not fly.
• Shen Mo offered to help Saitama and made the two Saiyan spaceships appear before the group, where they crashed into the ground.

Shen Mo and Saitama faced Vegeta and Nappa after the Saiyans arrived and unleashed a devastating attack. Shen Mo declared that Nappa’s life belonged to him, and Nappa suddenly died, leaving Vegeta and the others stunned.

• Vegeta and Nappa arrived in their spaceship and mocked the gathered fighters, singling out Shen Mo for having a battle power of five.
• Nappa fired a massive attack that carved out a crater, but Shen Mo and Saitama remained unharmed at its center.
• Krillin told the newly arrived fighters that Shen Mo and Saitama were travelers from another world.
• Shen Mo explained that he would respond to Nappa’s attack and claimed Nappa as punishment, while Saitama complained that he had wanted to fight.
• Nappa dropped dead with his battle power reduced to zero, and Vegeta and the others tried to understand what had happened.

Shen Mo demonstrated that he could kill Nappa with a word and made Vegeta fear for his life, but he let Saitama take the fight. Vegeta struck Saitama with full force, and Saitama rose smiling after finally feeling a powerful blow.

• Vegeta demanded to know how Shen Mo had killed Nappa, and Shen Mo compared himself to the Dragon God, only much stronger.
• Shen Mo warned Vegeta that attacking him would mean certain death, making Vegeta retreat in fear.
• Piccolo and Krillin realized Vegeta was terrified, while Saitama confronted Shen Mo for taking his opponent.
• Shen Mo agreed to let Saitama fight Vegeta, and Vegeta attacked Saitama after sensing no threat of certain death.
• Vegeta's punch sent Saitama crashing through stone pillars, but Saitama got up smiling because he had finally felt a strong blow.

Saitama fought Vegeta while Piccolo and the others watched, realizing how far their strength lagged behind the Saiyans. Vegeta gathered his true power, but Shen Mo assured Kid Gohan that Saitama was still stronger.

• Saitama charged Vegeta, and the two traded blows that shook the ground and left Piccolo and the others unable to follow their movements.
• Shen Mo appeared beside the group and told them that the fight was only a warm-up and that Nappa could have defeated them all.
• Piccolo challenged Shen Mo’s judgment, but Shen Mo reminded him that the group was too weak to survive a fight with Nappa alone.
• Saitama stood up after Vegeta sent him skidding through the ground and said Vegeta was not strong enough to make him get serious.
• Vegeta, enraged that Saitama called himself human, began gathering Ki and unleashing his true power.
• Kid Gohan worried about Saitama, and Shen Mo assured him that Saitama was still stronger.

Saitama defeated Vegeta with a single headbutt after effortlessly stopping his full-powered attacks. Shen Mo told Saitama that stronger fighters existed in this world and pointed out an approaching powerful Ki.

• Vegeta charged at Saitama with all his strength, but Saitama caught his punch without moving.
• Vegeta attacked repeatedly, but Saitama remained unharmed and said Vegeta was too weak to give him an exciting battle.
• Saitama ended the fight with a headbutt that knocked Vegeta unconscious.
• Saitama told Shen Mo that Vegeta had been the strongest person he had ever fought, while the others worried about how he compared to Son Goku.
• Shen Mo explained that far stronger fighters existed and that some could match Saitama's growth, then everyone sensed a powerful Ki approaching.

Son Goku arrived after Saitama and the others had already defeated the Saiyans, then met Saitama and agreed to a friendly spar. As they prepared to fight, Shen Mo revealed that he was far stronger than everyone present, and North Kai recognized him as a possible Kai from another universe.

• Son Goku rushed to the battlefield and found the Saiyans defeated, with everyone else unharmed.
• Son Goku thanked Saitama for defeating the alien, and the two quickly struck up a friendly conversation.
• Shen Mo suggested that Saitama and Son Goku spar, and told Saitama that Son Goku had great potential.
• Saitama and Son Goku prepared to test their strength while Piccolo and the others watched.
• Shen Mo claimed he was stronger than everyone present, and North Kai asked whether he was a Kai from another universe.