Chapter Summaries

Sogo Doma forced a middle-aged robber to lead him to the men in black and asked Sakura Yamauchi to buy him a Shueisha manga magazine. Sakura recognized him as Young Master Sogo, and her reminders about their past encounter left him trying to remember what happened.

• Sogo Doma threatened the middle-aged robber with a gun and ordered him to take him to the men in black.
• Sogo Doma stopped Sakura Yamauchi from going home and asked her to buy a Shueisha manga magazine.
• Sakura Yamauchi mistook Sogo Doma's request for a secret yakuza errand and concluded that he was a yakuza who read manga.
• Sogo Doma gave Sakura Yamauchi a locker key and told her to use the name Sogo Doma.
• Sakura Yamauchi recognized him as Young Master Sogo and recalled meeting him at a hospital and pharmacy, where he had been drunk and knocked over her medicine.

Sogo Doma recognized Sakura Yamauchi from their past encounters and tried to send her home, but she insisted on staying with him. After learning Sogo had been kicked out by his family, Sakura offered him a place to stay.

• Sakura Yamauchi recognized Sogo Doma as the person who had saved her before, and Sogo admitted they had met in the past.
• Sakura called herself a witch of the night because Sogo had once described himself as a devil, while Sogo tried to dissuade her from following him.
• Sogo took the middle-aged robber with him to run an errand, but Sakura refused to go home and tagged along.
• Sogo told Sakura he had been kicked out by his family, and she offered to let him stay at her house.

Sogo Doma forced a robber to lead him to the people in black, while Sakura Yamauchi claimed Sogo could cure the robber’s sick child. At the Kondo Dojo, Toshiro Hijikata responded to an ambush by ordering the injured members to commit seppuku and telling Sagaru Yamazaki to find the attackers’ weapons and take out the X-gumi if they were responsible.

• Sogo Doma carried the middle-aged robber toward the subway and demanded directions to the people in black, with Sakura Yamauchi following him.
• Sakura Yamauchi insisted Sogo had cured her cancer, and the robber begged him to save his own child in exchange for his life.
• The robber showed Sakura Yamauchi a notebook bearing the name Toyogasaki Private Academy.
• Sagaru Yamazaki told Toshiro Hijikata that an ambush had injured nearly seventy Kondo Group members and warned that the X-gumi might be behind it.
• Toshiro Hijikata ordered Sagaru Yamazaki to find the attackers’ weapons, said to take out the X-gumi if they were responsible, and commanded the injured members to commit seppuku.

Toshiro Hijikata used Sogo Doma’s surveillance system to learn of the ambush and ordered the Kondo Group to counterattack the alleged X-Mouth Group. Meanwhile, Sogo tried to shake off Sakura Yamauchi as he carried a robber away, but she admitted she wanted to keep following him.

• Sagaru Yamazaki asked how Toshiro Hijikata knew the members had been ambushed, and Hijikata credited Sogo’s TFQS Surveillance System.
• Hijikata ordered Yamazaki to gather the injured members and use the X-Mouth Group’s claim as a pretext to investigate and counterattack.
• Sogo repeatedly told Sakura Yamauchi to go home, but she kept following him and finally admitted she did not want him to run away again.
• The middle-aged robber called himself a matchmaking tool and praised Sogo as Master Sogo, while Sogo reminded him that he had promised him medical care.

Sogo Doma stopped a robbery and reunited with Sakura Yamauchi, who pressed him for personal details and insisted on staying near him. He teased her by claiming he could read minds, then revealed his hatred of angels came from hearing unanswered cries for help.

• Sogo Doma told Sakura Yamauchi that fate had reunited them, and she questioned him about his school and demanded his address, phone number, and LINE.
• Sogo Doma warned Sakura Yamauchi that the robbery’s mastermind was dangerous and told her she could become a hostage if she stayed.
• A gun was pressed to Sakura Yamauchi’s forehead, and Sogo Doma reminded her that the robber he had subdued had also been threatened with a gun.
• Sogo Doma recalled Sakura Yamauchi as a younger girl who followed him and said he had remembered her thoughts and their parting message.
• Sogo Doma claimed he could read minds and explained that he became a devil after hearing cries for help directed at angels go unanswered.
• Sakura Yamauchi said it must be hard for Sogo Doma to hear what other people were thinking.

Sogo Doma bluffed Sakura Yamauchi about his mind-reading ability, then slipped away while she tried to make him read her gratitude. Guided by the robber Katagiri Shu, he reached a bar where Crow’s associates questioned them, and he confronted the group with an RPG.

• Sogo Doma explained how he used expressions and conversation to make people believe he could read their minds, while Sakura Yamauchi worried about his powers.
• Sogo Doma threatened to kill the robber, then decided to keep him alive to finish his task and guide him.
• Sakura Yamauchi asked Sogo Doma to read her heartfelt gratitude, but he left her alone on the street while her eyes were closed.
• Sogo Doma forced Katagiri Shu to guide him through several blocks to a dim bar connected to Crow’s side.
• A man at the bar asked Katagiri Shu whether he had completed his task and who Sogo Doma was, so Sogo Doma produced an RPG and demanded answers.

Sogo Doma used an RPG to interrogate the men causing trouble at his bar and forced them to contact their boss, Misogami. Misogami’s boss arrived with a crowd of armed men, and Sogo Doma faced them with his rocket launcher.

• Sogo Doma fired his RPG at the men he was questioning, killing two of them and forcing the others to answer.
• The men told Sogo Doma that Misogami had sent them to cause trouble and that they could contact him.
• Sogo Doma had the men call Misogami, then waited at the bar for his arrival.
• Misogami’s boss entered the bar with a crowd of men in black, and they drew their guns when Sogo Doma raised his RPG.

Sogo Doma attacked Misogami's superior and his men, dodging their gunfire by splitting the bullets with his blades. After setting the bar ablaze, he encountered Sagaru Yamazaki and Toshiro Hijikata, who confronted him about the fire and suspected evidence destruction.

• Sogo Doma taunted Misogami's superior and fired an RPG, killing seven or eight of the men in black while the superior dodged the shell.
• Misogami's superior ordered his men to shoot, but Sogo Doma deflected their bullets with two blades.
• Sogo Doma poured liquor across the bar and ignited it with his cigar.
• Sagaru Yamazaki arrived with a group and found Sogo Doma at the burning bar.
• Toshiro Hijikata confronted Sogo Doma, who denied setting the fire to destroy evidence.

Toshiro Hijikata remembered Sogo Doma’s indifference and recalled their childhood rivalry at Kondo Dojo. After realizing Sogo and Umaru might be in danger, Hijikata rushed to find them and discovered Sogo exhausted after fighting several men.

• Hijikata remembered that he and Sogo had fought to a draw at Kondo Dojo, where Sogo had threatened to butcher him next time.
• Sogo took Umaru home early by joking that Hijikata might become an ingredient, while Umaru praised her brother’s strength.
• Kondo told Hijikata that Sogo would have lost their spar from exhaustion and mentioned that yakuza had moved into the area.
• Hijikata learned that Sogo had left with Umaru, could not reach him by phone, and hurried out to search for them.
• Hijikata found Sogo at a deserted riverside beach, exhausted among several fallen men while more attackers surrounded him and Umaru slept nearby, so he charged in.

Toshiro Hijikata arrived as Sogo Doma fought a group of men, and Sogo tricked him into helping kill the witnesses by claiming Hijikata had already killed someone. Later, Hijikata recalled the incident when he saw Sogo smiling before a fire and asked what he had done this time.

• Toshiro Hijikata threw his wooden sword to save Sogo Doma from an attacker, and Sogo claimed the blow had killed the man.
• Sogo killed a fleeing witness and pressured Hijikata to silence the others, warning that the witnesses could make him a wanted criminal.
• Hijikata joined Sogo in killing the remaining witnesses, then accused him of tampering with the sword and showing indifference to their lives.
• Sogo suggested sinking the bodies in Tokyo Bay, while Hijikata admitted he had intervened to keep Sogo from staining his hands with blood.
• Hijikata lit a cigarette and warned Sogo not to let killing blind him, and Sogo pointed out that Hijikata's own bloody hands undermined the warning.
• Seeing Sogo's smiling face and calm eyes before flames, Hijikata recalled the incident, sighed, lit a cigarette, and asked what Sogo had done.

Sogo Doma explained that he had killed around a hundred gunmen at a burning bar, leaving Toshiro Hijikata furious that the evidence and possible mastermind were gone. The chapter ended with Toshiro revealing that the X-gumi and X-kai were suspected of targeting Kondo Group territory.

• Toshiro Hijikata confronted Sogo Doma at the burning bar and demanded to know where the gunmen and mastermind were.
• Sogo Doma said about a hundred gunmen were inside and that he had used their boss as a shield until the man took five bullets to the forehead.
• Sogo Doma admitted he had also brought down a knife-wielding robber, who had likely been killed in the firefight.
• Toshiro Hijikata accused Sogo Doma of destroying evidence and explained that intelligence linked the X-gumi and X-kai to the attack on Kondo Group territory.

Toshiro Hijikata confronted Sogo Doma for acting alone against the X-Guchi Group and reminded him of the Kondo Group’s rules and comradeship. After the First Combat Squad rallied around Sogo, Hijikata mentioned a knife-wielding robber, prompting Sogo to realize he might have exposed himself.

• Sogo Doma proposed taking out the X-Guchi Group’s leaders, and Toshiro Hijikata warned that doing so could make the Kondo Group a target.
• Hijikata challenged Sogo for acting alone and had Sagaru Yamazaki recite the Kondo Group rules about gathering together and facing overwhelming enemies.
• The First Combat Squad drew their swords and shouted their support for Captain Sogo, moving him to tell Hijikata not to let them get bullied.
• Hijikata mentioned that a knife-wielding robber had been unlucky to run into Sogo late at night, and Sogo froze at the remark.

Sogo Doma met Sarutobi while she was supposed to clean up after his long-range kill, but she had mistaken a live monkey for the corpse and gone to the wrong place. The encounter ended with Sarutobi eagerly imagining that Sogo Doma would tie her up and whip her for failing the mission.

• Sarutobi appeared with a sack, claiming she had brought the corpse, while Sogo Doma teased her about her glasses and repeatedly corrected which way she was facing.
• Sogo Doma discovered that the sack held a live monkey rather than a corpse, and Sarutobi realized she had mistaken it for one.
• Sarutobi admitted she had gone to the wrong scene after losing her glasses, and Sogo Doma questioned why she had been assigned cleanup duty.
• Sarutobi claimed she could track Sogo Doma by scent but became flustered when he asked her to try it nearby.
• Sarutobi imagined that Sogo Doma would punish her with a whip, then urged him to tie her up and whip her.

Sogo Doma discovered that Ayame Sarutobi’s supposed berserk state was triggered by her masochistic desires, and he tried to leave rather than indulge her. The chapter ended with Ayame bound in an elaborate rope tie, arguing that her behavior was not a surrendering ninjutsu.

• Sogo Doma sealed Sarutobi’s sense of smell and stopped her apparent berserk episode, then accused her of being in heat.
• Sarutobi begged Sogo to humiliate and tie her up, while he tried to send her back and handle the rooftop enemy himself.
• Sarutobi’s glasses fell out, and she accidentally revealed that she had brought bullets and would clean up the bullet marks.
• Sogo realized Sarutobi had likely wanted punishment all along, and his insults only excited her further.
• Sarutobi tied herself into a tortoise-shell bondage pose and begged Sogo to whip her, but he told her to use Shadow Clones or play by herself.
• Sarutobi rejected his suggestions and argued that she was practicing rope bondage, not ninjutsu.

Sogo Doma left Ayame Sarutobi tied up on a rooftop, where she escaped and subdued the monkey she had captured. He then went to a convenience store and fought Hattori Hanzo over the last copy of a manga, with neither willing to give it up.

• Sogo Doma taped Ayame Sarutobi's mouth shut and left her bound on the rooftop.
• Mr. Monkey attacked Ayame Sarutobi, who broke free and caught him by one leg.
• Ayame Sarutobi vowed to let Sogo Doma humiliate her even more next time.
• Sogo Doma stopped at a convenience store to buy manga and other supplies for Umaru, Utaha, and Mashiro.
• Sogo Doma and Hattori Hanzo each grabbed the last copy of a manga and argued over who would get it.

Sogo Doma and Hattori Hanzo argued over who should own a manga in a convenience store, each trying to manipulate the other with talk of nobles, books, and the Hattori Family. Their struggle ended with the book nearly torn apart, and Sogo distracted Hattori with an 18X magazine.

• Sogo Doma argued that Hattori Hanzo should donate the Hattori Family before buying the manga, while Hattori insisted Sogo could not understand its deeper meaning.
• Sogo and Hattori debated whether lending or discarding books honored them, then each tried to persuade the other to hand over the manga.
• Sogo and Hattori pulled at the manga until it was nearly torn, then argued over whether Hattori was too old to be fighting a minor.
• Sogo picked up an 18X magazine and teased Hattori, who got a nosebleed and denied being tempted.
• Sogo bragged that he could call beautiful women to an upscale club, leaving Hattori envious and flustered.

Hattori Hanzo recalled how his twin brother Zenzou and their father had convinced him that his own tastes were abnormal, leaving him inexperienced and single. Sogo Doma manipulated Hanzo into grabbing an 18X magazine, and Hanzo threatened to use a new ninjutsu when Doma refused to give him both magazines.

• Hattori Hanzo remembered how Zenzou had pursued women Hanzo found unattractive, while their father praised Zenzou’s taste and made Hanzo doubt his own.
• Hattori Hanzo realized through taking Zenzou to the proctology department that Zenzou, not Hanzo, had abnormal tastes, though Hanzo’s youth had already passed.
• Sogo Doma teased Hattori Hanzo with an 18X magazine and a fabricated title that supposedly made it suitable reading for ninjas.
• Hattori Hanzo snatched the magazine from Sogo Doma, then demanded both magazines when Doma refused to trade.
• Hattori Hanzo warned Sogo Doma not to force him and revealed that he had developed a new ninjutsu.

Hattori Hanzo tried to use his new complaint-based ninjutsu to snatch Sogo Doma’s 18X magazine, claiming it was for his injured twin brother Zenzou. The chapter ended with Hanzo repeatedly getting tricked into grabbing other magazines instead.

• Hattori Hanzo begged Sogo Doma to give him the magazine, using his Nonstop Complaint Technique and Wailing Complaint Technique.
• Sogo Doma challenged Hanzo’s claims about the magazine and pointed out that Hanzo planned to read it himself before lending it to Zenzou.
• Hattori Hanzo used a surprise attack to snatch a magazine, but Sogo Doma had switched it for a book.
• Hattori Hanzo tried again after claiming he spotted a UFO, but Sogo Doma tricked him into grabbing another 18X magazine.
• Sogo Doma noticed Hattori Hanzo was holding three 18X magazines and questioned whether he had really been trying to take just one.

Sogo Doma argued with Hattori Hanzo, who tried to take Doma’s Weekly Shonen Jump for the injured Zenzou. The exchange ended with Hattori realizing Doma knew Zenzou had been stabbed by a fake kunai, though Zenzou had not told him.

• Hattori Hanzo denied trying to steal the store’s adult magazines and begged Sogo Doma for his Weekly Shonen Jump while suffering a nosebleed.
• Hattori claimed Zenzou had requested the magazine before hemorrhoid surgery, and Doma said he believed him but refused to hand it over.
• Hattori grabbed Doma’s leg and asked whether he had ever had his ass blown out, then admitted he understood Zenzou’s pain.
• Doma said Zenzou had only been stabbed by a fake kunai, and Hattori questioned how he knew when Zenzou had not told him.

Sogo Doma tried to explain how he knew Zenzou had been stabbed with a fake kunai, but Hattori Hanzo kept treating the clues as evidence of suspicion rather than the occult. Their argument was interrupted by armed robbers, and Sogo promptly turned Hattori into their target before trying to charm the gunmen himself.

• Sogo Doma tried to steer Hattori Hanzo toward an occult explanation for his knowledge of Zenzou's injury, but Hattori insisted that anyone with such knowledge was a suspect.
• Sogo threatened to send Hattori to surgery with Zenzou if Hattori got in his way, and bystanders misheard their conversation as talk of sexual violence.
• Armed robbers entered the convenience store and ordered Sogo, who was holding a makeup case, to come over.
• When Hattori spoke up, Sogo pointed him out to the robbers, and the two friends bickered about Sogo's betrayal.
• As the gunmen grew angry, Sogo draped his arms over two of them and offered to talk sense into Hattori.