Chapter Summaries

After Boros refused to surrender his spaceship to Metal Knight, Bai Ye brought him to the Hero Association to oversee the distribution of its treasure to A City's refugees and other expenses. The executives accepted Bai Ye's terms and named Boros [Ruler of the Universe], leaving the remaining treasure aboard the spaceship in their custody.

• Boros told Bai Ye he wanted to keep his spaceship and offered its treasure as compensation for A City's destruction, so Metal Knight left without it.
• The Hero Association used Boros's donated treasure to fund relief for A City's refugees and other recovery expenses.
• Bai Ye presented the executives with a distribution plan and said he and Boros would keep the remaining treasure in their custody.
• Sitch supported Bai Ye's plan, and the other executives backed down rather than object in front of Boros.
• The executives agreed to name Boros [Ruler of the Universe].

The Hero Association planned to rebuild A City around its headquarters, but Metal Knight arrived with a giant construction machine and promised to finish the work in ten days. Tank-Top Master was defeated by the machine, then returned to the gym more determined to train.

• The Hero Association staff predicted that rebuilding A City would take ten years if they handled the project themselves.
• A giant mechanical beast landed at headquarters, and the staff sent Tank-Top Master and his followers to intercept it.
• Tank-Top Master charged the beast and fought its flying units, while Metal Knight revealed that he was operating it for the reconstruction project.
• Metal Knight said the work would be finished within ten days and kicked Tank-Top Master aside when he blocked the machine's path.
• The next day, Tank-Top Master resumed intense training beneath banners declaring opposition to psychic and mechanical power.

After defeating Boros, Bai Ye spared the alien crew and ordered them to repair and guard their spaceship while Boros prepared to join the Hero Association. When Bai Ye brought Boros home, he remembered that Roris was hiding nearby, and she panicked because Boros had almost spotted her.

• Bai Ye and Boros told the spaceship’s low-level combatants that Boros had lost, and Bai Ye promised to spare them if they stayed on Earth and worked.
• Boros declared that he would join the Hero Association and follow Bai Ye’s orders, while Bai Ye assigned the aliens to guard and repair the spaceship.
• Bai Ye decided to leave the spaceship parked in an uninhabited area because it could not become invisible and might attract attention.
• Bai Ye brought Boros to his home and told him to get familiar with Earth while he stepped away to answer a call from Roris.
• Bai Ye teleported to Roris’s room, where she grabbed his collar and demanded to know why he had brought her brother there.

Bai Ye told Roris that he had defeated Boros and offered to help her leave Earth, but she chose to stay for now. When Bai Ye returned home, he found Fubuki frightened and hiding behind him because Boros was in the living room.

• Bai Ye explained to Roris that his altered appearance was his combat mode and changed back to normal.
• Bai Ye told Roris that he had won his fight with Boros and offered to take her to her spaceship so she could leave Earth.
• Roris questioned Bai Ye’s victory, then accepted it and decided to remain on Earth for a while.
• Bai Ye returned home and found Fubuki sitting across from Boros in the living room.
• Fubuki rushed behind Bai Ye and clutched his sleeve, frightened by Boros.

Fubuki visited Bai Ye to check on him after seeing his battle with Boros, then learned that Boros had become his companion after losing. She acknowledged Bai Ye’s strength and his choice to remain independent, but Boros mistook their conversation for a marital spat.

• Fubuki entered Bai Ye’s home and froze when she found Boros waiting there.
• Bai Ye returned and explained that Boros was his friend after losing their battle.
• Fubuki said she had come to make sure Bai Ye was safe and was surprised he appeared unharmed.
• Fubuki recognized the gulf between Bai Ye and the Blizzard Group, thanked him for indulging her, and prepared to leave.
• Bai Ye told Fubuki she could ask him for help, and Boros asked whether they were having a marital spat.

Bai Ye helped Boros settle in Z City, where Boros accidentally broke Saitama’s door and offered him a valuable gemstone as compensation. Bai Ye then visited Psykos, who recognized his Rinnegan and hoped he would regain his memories despite his support for the Hero Association.

• Bai Ye told Boros that Fubuki was only an acquaintance, leaving Fubuki quietly disappointed before she returned home.
• Bai Ye settled Boros in Z City’s No Man’s Land, where Boros accidentally knocked Saitama’s door off and offered him a gemstone worth ten million cosmic credits.
• Saitama returned the gemstone and accepted a few meals from Boros instead as compensation.
• Bai Ye visited Psykos’s secret hideout and told her Boros planned to join the Hero Association, asking whether she still intended to go to war with it.
• Psykos recognized Bai Ye’s Rinnegan and said she hoped he would regain his memories soon.

Bai Ye and Psykos discussed the Monster Association’s impending attack and his lost memories, then went aboveground to walk through Z City. Psykos revealed that she could not clearly remember the future she saw with the Third Eye and wondered whether it was connected to Bai Ye’s missing memories, leaving him startled by the possibility.

• Psykos said the Monster Association was about to follow its original plan, and Bai Ye agreed not to interfere after she decided to proceed.
• Psykos asked Bai Ye to take her out to unwind, and he teleported with her to Z City’s urban district.
• Pedestrians recognized Bai Ye as [Kamui] and speculated that Psykos was his girlfriend.
• Psykos told Bai Ye that the future she saw after awakening the [Third Eye] had driven her to despair, but she could no longer recall whether it was real.
• Psykos wondered whether her confused memories of that future shared a cause with Bai Ye’s missing memories, and Bai Ye was shaken by her question.

Bai Ye and Psykos discussed uncovering the truth behind her future, then spent time together before returning to No Man's Land. There, Psykos met Boros and Saitama, and the four shared dinner at Bai Ye's home.

• Bai Ye and Psykos agreed that they needed to uncover the truth behind her future, and Psykos linked arms with Bai Ye while calling their relationship that of Understanding Ones or Close Friends.
• Bai Ye invited Psykos to dinner at his home, where they found Boros waiting in the living room.
• Bai Ye introduced Psykos to Boros, and Boros agreed to try Earth food.
• Saitama arrived for dinner, greeted Boros, and had to ask Psykos to remind him of her name.
• Bai Ye served dinner, and Boros praised the food while Saitama and Psykos complimented Bai Ye's cooking.

After A City was rebuilt, Boros joined the Hero Association as an S-Class Hero, and Bai Ye negotiated the distribution of the Spaceship’s treasures. Boros rejected the alias “Ruler of the Universe” and suggested that Bai Ye take it instead.

• Psykos said she and Bai Ye had been high school classmates, then Bai Ye took her back to the underground Secret Hideout.
• Metal Knight finished rebuilding A City in seven days, and Bai Ye brought Boros to the Hero Association to discuss his membership.
• Sitch explained that Boros could skip the Hero Certification Exam but would enter at S-Class Rank 20, and he described the Association’s God-level Disaster classification.
• Boros joined the Hero Association as S-Class Rank 20 without a hero alias, while Bai Ye wondered whether [Blast] might have been the opponent in Boros’s prophecy.
• Bai Ye negotiated the division of the Spaceship’s cosmic treasures, and Boros rejected the alias “Ruler of the Universe,” proposing that Bai Ye use it instead.

The Hero Association debated whether to promote Bai Ye to S-Class Rank 2 or Rank 3 and called him and Tatsumaki to headquarters to decide. Tatsumaki asked Bai Ye to call her by her personal name instead of her hero name, leaving him wondering why she seemed eager to get along with him.

• The Hero Association added Boros to the Hero Roster under the name [Ruler of the Universe].
• The executives argued over whether Bai Ye should be promoted to S-Class Rank 2 or Rank 3, while leaving Blast's Rank 1 position unquestioned.
• Sitch called Bai Ye and Tatsumaki to headquarters so they could give their opinions on the ranking decision.
• Bai Ye teleported to headquarters and met Tatsumaki at the reception desk.
• Tatsumaki told Bai Ye to call her Tatsumaki or Miss Tatsumaki instead of Tatsumaki of Terror, and Bai Ye wondered whether she was trying to get on better terms with him.

Bai Ye and Tatsumaki attended a Hero Association meeting, where the executives promoted Bai Ye to S-Class Rank 2 with Tatsumaki’s approval. Afterward, Tatsumaki challenged Bai Ye to a fight, but stormed off when he took her wrist to lead her somewhere suitable.

• Sitch explained that the executives were deciding whether to promote Bai Ye to S-Class Rank 2 or Rank 3, and Tatsumaki told them to give him second place.
• Bai Ye accepted the promotion to S-Class Rank 2 and received the rewards for advancing through the ranks.
• Sitch began a meeting about choosing hero names for Saitama and Genos, while Bai Ye and Tatsumaki left the room.
• Bai Ye asked Tatsumaki if she was comfortable losing her second-place rank, and she said he had earned it.
• Tatsumaki asked Bai Ye to fight her, and he agreed.
• Tatsumaki offered her hand to Bai Ye, but when he took her wrist, she called him an idiot and flew off.

Bai Ye and Tatsumaki sparred in a remote area, where her strongest attacks could not hurt him. He summoned a gigantic meteorite and challenged her to stop it, then revealed a second meteorite was coming as she held the first one in midair.

• Bai Ye and Tatsumaki traveled beyond A City to spar without endangering anyone.
• Tatsumaki attacked Bai Ye with tornadoes, rock walls, a tsunami, and a mass of rocks, but he remained unharmed and repelled the rocks with Shinra Tensei.
• Bai Ye formed a two-faced Susanoo and summoned a meteorite over a thousand meters across.
• Tatsumaki used her psychokinesis to slow the meteorite and finally halt it in midair.
• Bai Ye told Tatsumaki to handle the second meteorite.

Bai Ye summoned a second meteorite that knocked Tatsumaki’s first one out of her control, threatening A City. He and Tatsumaki stopped both meteorites and Bai Ye transported them away, but the exhausted Tatsumaki collapsed into his arms.

• A second meteorite appeared above the first and slammed into it, causing Tatsumaki to lose control as both hurtled toward the ground.
• Hero Association staff detected the two meteorites and feared they would devastate A City, then suspected that [Kamui] had created them.
• Tatsumaki pushed herself to her limits to slow both meteorites, but she could not stop them alone.
• Bai Ye teleported beside Tatsumaki and used Shinra Tensei to help her halt the meteorites just above the ground.
• Bai Ye used Kamui to transport both meteorites away, and Tatsumaki collapsed from exhaustion into his arms.
• Tatsumaki accused Bai Ye of touching her chest, and Bai Ye replied that he was touching her abdomen.

After their fight, Bai Ye accidentally offended Tatsumaki by commenting on her petite figure, then tried to reassure her by calling her cute. As he prepared to arrange a ride home, Tatsumaki grew alarmed when he mentioned Fubuki and realized he knew her.

• Bai Ye steadied Tatsumaki and accidentally touched her chest, then made a remark that she took as mockery of her figure.
• Tatsumaki bit Bai Ye's arm and accused him of laughing at her, but he apologized and said he thought she was cute.
• Tatsumaki said she was too exhausted to fly home, then grew furious when Bai Ye suggested calling someone to pick her up.
• Bai Ye offered to ask Fubuki to take Tatsumaki home, and Tatsumaki questioned how well he knew her sister.

Bai Ye carried the weakened Tatsumaki to her hotel in B City and exchanged contact details with her. Back home, he learned Speed-o'-Sound Sonic planned to visit the next morning, then received a call from Tatsumaki.

• Tatsumaki asked Bai Ye to take her home, and he carried her to B City using the Flying Thunder God Technique.
• Tatsumaki directed Bai Ye to her temporary hotel, then asked to exchange contact details with him.
• Bai Ye returned home, where Saitama said Genos had a message from Speed-o'-Sound Sonic requesting to meet Bai Ye.
• Genos said Sonic planned to visit the next morning, and Bai Ye told him to let Sonic in.
• Bai Ye's phone rang, and he saw that Tatsumaki was calling.

Tatsumaki called Bai Ye for a casual chat, while Speed-o'-Sound Sonic arrived the next morning seeking a fight. Bai Ye teleported Sonic to a remote mountain forest, leaving the confident ninja terrified before their battle began.

• Tatsumaki called Bai Ye at home, chatted with him, and asked him to call her by her name.
• Bai Ye told Genos that Tatsumaki's call had been personal, not official Hero Association business.
• Saitama said he would stay home when Sonic visited, but Bai Ye explained that Sonic probably already knew where he lived.
• Speed-o'-Sound Sonic came to Bai Ye's home and challenged him, claiming his speed would let him evade Bai Ye's ninjutsu.
• Bai Ye teleported himself and Sonic to a remote mountain forest, and Sonic became terrified at the display of power.

Bai Ye overwhelmed Sonic with his Phantom Body Flicker Technique and demonstrated the Final Truth-Seeking Orb, stopping just before it could destroy everything. Terrified and impressed, Sonic asked Bai Ye to take him as a disciple so he could learn the ultimate secret technique and defeat Saitama.

• Sonic used Four Shadow Burial and then Ten Shadow Burial, but Bai Ye countered with the Phantom Body Flicker Technique and surrounded him with tangible phantoms.
• Sonic attacked with Scattered Flash Slash, but Bai Ye's phantoms struck him down in a relentless barrage.
• Bai Ye transformed into the Ten-Tails and began expanding a Final Truth-Seeking Orb, terrifying the injured Sonic before retracting it as a feint.
• Bai Ye told Sonic he had only wanted to demonstrate the technique, not kill him.
• Sonic asked Bai Ye to become his master so he could learn the ultimate secret technique and defeat Saitama.

Bai Ye accepted Speed-o'-Sound Sonic as his disciple after warning him that he could not learn Bai Ye’s ultimate technique or defeat Saitama, and required him to join the Hero Association. Sonic arrived at Bai Ye’s home to begin training, where he met fellow disciple Genos and learned that Saitama’s hero name was Bald Cape-Man.

• Bai Ye told Sonic that he would teach him if he sincerely wanted to learn, but warned that mastering the techniques was up to him.
• Sonic knelt and accepted Bai Ye as his master, agreeing reluctantly to join the Hero Association.
• Bai Ye received points and a growth incentive tied to Sonic’s future Hero Association rankings, while witnesses mistook a glimpse of his technique for King testing a new ability.
• Sonic arrived at Bai Ye’s home and met Genos and Saitama, then angrily corrected Saitama when he called him Joint Panic.
• Bai Ye told Sonic and Genos not to fight, and Genos revealed that Saitama’s hero name was Bald Cape-Man.

Bai Ye accompanied Sonic through the Hero Certification Exam and lecture, where Sonic became an A-Class Hero. Afterward, Bai Ye began teaching Sonic the Rasengan, leaving him to start by learning to control his mental energy.

• Bai Ye explained that Saitama's hero alias had been chosen by the Association's senior executives, and Saitama said he would keep introducing himself by his own name.
• Bai Ye accompanied Sonic to the Hero Certification Exam, where Sonic scored 50 on the physical test and 95 on the written test.
• Sonic became an A-Class Hero, Rank 39, and Bai Ye explained that he would need further achievements to reach S-Class.
• At the Z City lecture, Sonic impatiently interrupted Sneck, but Bai Ye reprimanded him and Sonic listened through the full lecture.
• Bai Ye formed a Rasengan and explained how to make one, but Sonic could not imitate it, so Bai Ye told him to first learn to control his mental energy.

Bai Ye helped Roris avoid Boros and took her to downtown Z City so she could go shopping. The two set off together holding hands, earning Bai Ye a system reward.

• Bai Ye explained why Dr. Kuseno had rebuilt Boros's damaged armor instead of Metal Knight, though the replacement suit was less effective than the original.
• Roris secretly called Bai Ye and asked him to come upstairs, where she said she wanted to go shopping without Boros finding her.
• Roris changed into street clothes, including underwear and a sun hat, then asked Bai Ye to teleport her downtown.
• Bai Ye started to leave, but Roris stopped him and led him through the crowd by the hand.
• Bai Ye received 20 points from the system for holding Roris's hand for the first time.