Chapter Summaries

Josen rejected Dormammu’s demand that he leave the Dark Dimension and instead tried to claim the realm for himself. Their negotiations turned into a fight, and Josen severed Dormammu’s avatar’s forearm and hurled it into Dormammu’s pursuing lightning dragons.

• Josen told Dormammu that he was the sworn brother of Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme, Wong.
• Dormammu offered to let Josen go if he left the Dark Dimension, but Josen refused and said he wanted to take over the realm.
• Dormammu attacked Josen with his enormous hands, but Josen’s Biological Force Field held them apart.
• Dormammu transformed dark-element lightning into dragons and sent them after Josen, who escaped with Instant Transmission.
• Josen used a golden-powered strike to sever Dormammu’s avatar’s forearm, then hurled the severed arm into the pursuing lightning dragons.

Josen rejected Dormammu’s resistance to his proposed retirement and fought him again, overwhelming the Dark Dimension’s ruler with his powers. Josen split the Dark Dimension in two, leaving Dormammu desperately trying to seal the breach as his authority rapidly diminished.

• Josen taunted Dormammu and offered him retirement with a generous pension, but Dormammu refused and accused him of trying to take the Dark Dimension.
• Dormammu attacked Josen with dark energy and volleys of dark matter, but Josen’s force field deflected the physical strikes and portals redirected the energy blasts.
• Josen unleashed Serious Heat Vision, cutting through Dormammu’s avatar and splitting the Dark Dimension’s crystalline barrier in two.
• Dormammu lost another dark avatar and struggled to seal the breach as chaos consumed the escaping dark energy and his Darkness Authority rapidly shrank.

Josen's Shadow Clone claimed authority over the half of the Dark Dimension that Dormammu had lost, then baited Dormammu into a fight while secretly draining power from his territory. Dormammu trapped Josen in a vast confined space, but discovered the Dark Dimensions were fusing and his power was rapidly flowing to Josen.

• Josen's Shadow Clone emerged from the source of darkness in a body of dark flames and claimed, "I am darkness."
• Dormammu raged at Josen for stealing half his authority and attacked him with chains made from binding laws.
• Josen dodged the chains and punched toward Dormammu, but Dormammu trapped him within an immense confined space.
• Dormammu tried to devour Josen, then noticed his own power draining away as the two Dark Dimensions fused.
• Josen secretly used his authority at the dimensional junction to leech power from Dormammu's side.

Josen kept Dormammu occupied while his dark Shadow Clone contested the Dark Dimension’s authority, but Dormammu’s resistance threatened to reverse the takeover. Josen then escaped Dormammu’s trap and seized his true form, revealing the Space Stone and leaving Dormammu to realize Josen might possess the other Infinity Stones as well.

• Dormammu recoiled from Josen’s radiant giant form and tried to stall him, while Josen waited for his Shadow Clone to drain Dormammu’s darkness.
• Josen discovered Dormammu had abandoned his enormous shell and found his true form arguing with the dark Shadow Clone across a dimensional barrier.
• Dormammu used his knowledge of devouring to slow the darkness drain and began reclaiming authority from the newly born Shadow Clone.
• The dark Shadow Clone’s grin distracted Dormammu as Josen punched through his chest from behind and restrained him.
• Josen revealed the Space Stone, and Dormammu recognized it and suspected that Josen possessed the other Infinity Stones too.

Josen and his Dark Shadow Clone defeated Dormammu, with the clone devouring Dormammu’s divine body and taking complete control of the Dark Dimension. After restoring light and life to the dimension, the clone asked Josen to give him an impressive name.

• Josen used Infinity Power to immobilize Dormammu while his Dark Shadow Clone merged the divided Dark Dimensions and absorbed Dormammu’s dark authority.
• Dormammu lost his connection to the Dark Dimension, and the Dark Shadow Clone turned him into a cookie and devoured him completely.
• The Dark Shadow Clone used his new authority to restore light, stars, planets, and life throughout the Dark Dimension.
• Josen confirmed the dimension was free of Dormammu’s remnants and prepared to leave through a black hole portal.
• The Dark Shadow Clone stopped Josen and asked him to choose a name for his new role as dimensional lord.

Josen named his Dark Shadow Clone Darkseid and equipped the clone’s Lord of Darkness card, adding Darkness Authority to his Infinity Power. He returned to the S-Class Hero training program and found Bang teaching the trainees martial arts.

• Josen named his Dark Shadow Clone Darkseid, and the clone accepted the name.
• Josen equipped the Lord of Darkness card, absorbing its Darkness Authority into his Infinity Power.
• Josen returned to Z City and headed back to the S-Class Hero training program.
• Bang taught the Hero trainees the basic stances and techniques of Flowing Water Fist, noting their different levels of skill and aptitude.
• Bang welcomed Josen to the training ground and poured him a cup of tea.

Josen stabilized his newfound power by drinking tea with Bang, then entertained him with a dazzling display of transformations during their conversation. Bang praised the students’ aptitude and agreed to track their performance for credits and graduation rewards.

• Josen drank Bang’s tea and felt the divinity from his recent breakthrough fade, returning him to an ordinary state.
• Bang noticed Josen’s aura had changed and praised the promising students training in the martial arts class.
• Bang thanked Josen for letting him teach the class, which fulfilled his wish to focus on training disciples.
• Josen demonstrated transformations that changed his hair through several colors, turning the training hall into a dance floor until Bang told him to stop.
• Josen reminded Bang to record exceptional students and award extra credits, and Bang agreed.

Josen visited Dr. Kuseno to share advanced nano-armor and regenerative biotechnology, then offered to create Vibranium for the doctor. He left Dr. Kuseno ready to take him to the materials warehouse so he could make a batch by hand.

• Josen's new credit and graduation rewards distracted the students until Bang told them to focus on their training.
• Josen used Instant Transmission to visit Dr. Kuseno at his research institute in City W.
• Josen entered plans for modular nano armor and a Regeneration Cradle into Dr. Kuseno's database.
• Josen explained that the Regeneration Cradle could integrate artificial biological tissue with the human body without immune rejection, and suggested it could improve Genos's future body.
• When Dr. Kuseno asked about Vibranium, Josen offered to create some and asked to be taken to the materials warehouse.

Josen left Dr. Kuseno a huge supply of vibranium and stationed a powerful War God Shadow Clone in City W to protect humanity. The clone sensed danger at J City’s Golden Coast, where the ground began to shake and a mound surged up from the shore.

• Josen gave Dr. Kuseno enough vibranium to support his research and asked him to make a set of armor when it was finished.
• Josen left a War God Shadow Clone in City W to guard citizens, and the clone agreed to intervene only against Monsters ordinary Heroes could not handle.
• The War God Shadow Clone connected to the Mantra base station, detected an emergency, and sped toward it.
• At J City’s Golden Coast, an earthquake shook the beach and disrupted a blonde woman’s sandcastle.
• The shaking intensified as a mound rose rapidly at the boundary between the sea and the beach, alarming the tourists.

Josen’s war-god Shadow Clone killed the Dragon-level Hundred-Thousand-Year Steelback King Crab on the Golden Coast and rescued injured tourists. Josen then returned to Z City, where he reunited with Tatsumaki at home.

• The Hundred-Thousand-Year Steelback King Crab erupted from the beach, attacked the tourists, and declared war on land dwellers.
• Josen’s war-god Shadow Clone interrupted the crab’s speech with Consecutive Normal Punches and reduced it to debris.
• The Shadow Clone revived several injured tourists, erased the crab’s remains with a magnetic field, and vanished after a blonde beauty admired him.
• Josen sensed an aura, returned to his apartment in Z City, and greeted Tatsumaki, who was watching television and eating chips.
• Josen rubbed Tatsumaki’s head, lifted her onto his lap, and shared her chips while she protested that she was not a stuffed toy.

After stabilizing his post-breakthrough condition, Josen tried using quantum entanglement to locate his Shadow Clones across other worlds, but his searches repeatedly failed. He reversed time to keep searching, while Saitama woke in his dorm with no memory of how he had returned there.

• Tatsumaki scolded Josen for stealing the last of her chips, then fell asleep after their private encounter.
• Josen assessed his stabilized condition and opened a spatial portal beside the lake in Z City to search the spacetime currents for his Shadow Clones.
• Josen extended his will through countless directions, failed to find a connection, and reversed time to the moment he had opened the portal.
• Saitama woke in his instructor dorm, confused because he remembered defeating a monster but had suddenly returned home.

Saitama rescued two shop assistants and defeated the Jack-o'-Lantern Monster Being after it set N-City's shopping street ablaze. He left with a huge chunk of pumpkin monster flesh, thinking it could feed him and Genos for a week.

• Saitama carried two unconscious shop assistants out of the fire and confronted the Jack-o'-Lantern Monster Being.
• Saitama mocked the monster for having no hands, angering it into attacking with Pumpkin Flamethrower.
• Saitama's Normal Blow extinguished the fire and sent the monster rolling down the street.
• Saitama caught up with the monster and punched it apart, then collected a huge chunk of its flesh to take home.

Saitama noticed that his memories and the day's events kept resetting, while Josen revealed that his repeated time rewinds were causing the disruption. By the 98th rewind, Saitama was desperate to end the day and get his promised hot pot, and Genos chased after him as he leaped from the dormitory.

• Saitama discarded the pumpkin monster flesh so he would have room for the deluxe wagyu and seafood sukiyaki combo Genos had promised him.
• Saitama abruptly returned to the instructors' dormitory with no trace of his day's activities and wondered whether he had dreamed them.
• Josen explained that his time rewinds had caused Saitama to receive overlapping memories from future versions of himself.
• After more than 140 billion attempts, Josen reached the 98th rewind, while Saitama grew furious at the day repeatedly restarting.
• Saitama changed clothes and leaped from the dormitory balcony, and Genos spotted him and activated his thrusters to give chase.

After nearly a hundred time reversals, Saitama finally tracked the strange dark energy to a forest near Z City, where he found Josen beside a blue spatial gate. The search ended with Saitama asking what the gate was.

• At the training program, Glasses and Mumen Rider agreed to train together, while Iaian led the trainees to swordsmanship class.
• Genos caught up to Saitama in the sky and asked why he was rushing, but Saitama told him to return to training.
• Earlier that morning, Saitama had moved into the instructors’ dormitory with Genos, and Josen had talked Genos out of relocating their reinforced Apartment in a capsule.
• Saitama searched across the world through nearly a hundred time reversals, checking places and even passing animals for clues.
• Saitama followed dark energy into a forest near Z City and found Josen beside a blue spatial gate.
• Josen said he had performed a hundred million unscientific experiments, and Saitama asked what the gate was.

Josen apologized to Saitama for repeatedly reversing time during his experiment and treated him to hot pot with F-kid. After getting Saitama safely back to Genos, Josen returned home to check on Tatsumaki.

• Josen admitted that his experiment had caused him to reverse time repeatedly, and Saitama forgave him.
• Josen introduced F-kid to Saitama, who felt strangely familiar with the purple Stand.
• Josen served Saitama hot pot, and F-kid massaged his shoulders while they ate and drank.
• Josen brought a drunk Saitama to Genos, who promised to take care of his teacher.
• Josen left a Shadow Clone behind and returned home, where Tatsumaki had recovered from most of her soreness after a nap.

Tatsumaki recovered from losing to Josen over a candlelit dinner, while Josen confirmed that Darkseid’s arrival across universes supported his multiverse travel plan. At dawn, Saitama taught his training method and demonstrated its power by pulverizing a massive stone, leaving the students stunned.

• Tatsumaki forgot her frustration after Josen prepared a candlelit dinner, then woke in his arms, blushed, and left to fight a Monster.
• Darkseid crossed from the Marvel Multiverse into the One-Punch Man World, subdued his rebellious dark power, and proved Josen’s Shadow Clone theory could enable multiverse routes.
• Saitama explained his daily training routine to a class of students, while Genos filled his notebook with reflections.
• Josen dropped a huge bluestone slab into the training ground as a demonstration aid and cleaned the mud off Saitama’s uniform.
• Saitama destroyed the slab with a Normal Punch, shocking the students and catching Captain Mizuki’s attention.

Josen and the instructors trained the S-Class students, while Atomic Samurai gained a major boost to his swordsmanship from Josen’s Potential Unlocking Technique. At a barbecue gathering, Atomic Samurai challenged Bang to spar and looked for another opponent afterward.

• Josen ended his instruction session and organized sparring, while Genos eagerly asked Saitama to train with him.
• Over the following week, the students improved through instruction and Tatsumaki’s gravity-field training, with Josen healing them afterward.
• Josen gave the students half a day off and gathered the instructors for a rooftop barbecue, where Atomic Samurai displayed his knife skills.
• Atomic Samurai told Bang that Josen’s Potential Unlocking Technique had greatly increased his sword speed and challenged him to spar after dinner.
• After choosing Bang, Atomic Samurai scanned the other S-Class Heroes for another opponent, avoiding Josen because he remembered Josen’s overwhelming power.

Atomic Samurai chose Bang as his sparring opponent after King arrived at Josen’s barbecue. After the meal, Atomic Samurai opened the match with a powerful series of attacks, while Bang calmly deflected them and faced his Flying Air Sword.

• Atomic Samurai considered challenging Saitama, Genos, and King before King arrived with seafood for the barbecue.
• Josen soothed the drunken Tatsumaki to sleep, then returned after taking her home and changing her clothes.
• Atomic Samurai and Bang began their sparring match in front of the gathered heroes.
• Bang deflected Atomic Samurai’s opening slash with a finger and countered his Atomic Slash with flowing-water defense.
• Atomic Samurai unleashed a huge Flying Air Sword slash, astounding his disciples and the watching heroes.

Bang defeated Atomic Samurai in a fierce sparring match, shattering his flying slash and nearly ruining his sword. After Josen restored the damaged training camp, Saitama asked to learn his Psychic Powers so he could stop repairing his suit.

• Atomic Samurai unleashed a gigantic flying slash, and Bang answered with a black-aura martial art that shattered it with one punch.
• Bang and Atomic Samurai fought at close range, wrecking the training camp as Iaian and the other spectators struggled to follow their movements.
• After two minutes, Atomic Samurai conceded defeat and thanked Bang for the lesson, and Bang invited him to visit his dojo.
• Josen restored the damaged grounds and buildings with his Psychic Powers, impressing King and the spectators.
• Saitama asked Josen to teach him the restoration ability, and Josen promised to get him an indestructible suit instead.

Josen tested the Type Zero nanosuit, which let Mumen Rider smash through a thick alloy wall, while most of the S-Class heroes received potential-enhancing upgrades. Dr. Kuseno confirmed the prototype was ready for practical use, and Josen prepared the suit technology for future production.

• Atomic Samurai realized Bang had also been enhanced and, after another defeat, returned to his disciples without challenging another S-Class hero.
• Josen took King to the restroom and used the Potential Unlocking Technique to turn him into Supa Saiyan King, but the technique had no effect on Saitama.
• Mumen Rider used the Type Zero nanosuit's thrusters and enhanced strength to cave in a thick alloy wall with his Justice Punch.
• Atomic Samurai and Bang judged the suit powerful enough to help deal with an ordinary Demon-level threat, while Josen told Mumen Rider that his own strength remained decisive.
• Dr. Kuseno reported that the Type Zero prototype was ready for practical use, with customized modules and mass production still to be developed.
• Josen had Mumen Rider deactivate the suit's mimicry function, revealing its standard armor form with Josen's lightning-bolt J logo.