Chapter Summaries

Josen awarded Mumen Rider the first Type Zero nano suit and outlined plans to expand the credit-based Hero training program. Two days later, Glasses exchanged 100 credits for the Potential Unlocking Technique and erupted with a startling display of power.

• Josen announced that Mumen Rider, the only trainee with over 100 credits, had earned the first Type Zero nano suit.
• Josen told Mumen Rider that suit upgrades and added modules would cost credits, and he explained his plans for a broader Hero training system.
• The trainees became more eager to attend classes and train as they viewed them as ways to earn credits.
• Two days later, Glasses became the second trainee to reach 100 credits and chose the Potential Unlocking Technique.
• Josen used the technique on Glasses, who erupted in a powerful aura, crackling with electricity and shouting repeatedly.

Josen discovered that Glasses had awakened electric current power and helped him control it, then asked King to test a customized nanometal battle suit called Isshiki. The chapter ended with King reacting in surprise to the armor’s ability to transform and operate through his magnetic field power.

• Josen traced Glasses's electric current power to King's influence and used Mantra to calm and stabilize him.
• Glasses accidentally scorched Josen's office floor, and Josen restored the room before sending him to fetch King.
• Josen brought King through a spatial portal to Dr. Kuseno's Research Institute.
• Josen revealed Isshiki, a golden nanometal suit that could transform into weapons and autonomous machines, and asked King to test it.
• King was astonished to learn that Isshiki could be controlled by his magnetic field power.

King bonded to Dr. Kuseno’s nanosuit, named it the Emperor Armor, and tested its transformations before returning to Z City. There, Josen met Bang and Garou, whose visit quickly turned into Bang disciplining his reluctant disciple.

• King let Dr. Kuseno scan his DNA and bind the Type One armor to him.
• King used his Biomagnetic Field to equip the Emperor Armor, then demonstrated its mimicry and shapeshifting functions.
• King left the laboratory and flew off to test the armor’s independent combat capabilities.
• Bang arrived at Josen’s office with Garou, who complained about missing his patrol assignment.
• Bang punched Garou for being rude to Josen and ordered him to call Bang Master.

Josen agreed to let Bang’s disciple Garou serve as a sparring partner for the martial arts trainees, after suppressing Garou’s strength to keep the training safe. Garou reunited with Genos and was introduced to the assembled class as their new training partner.

• Bang visited Josen and asked to have Garou spar with the trainees so Garou could further temper his disposition.
• Josen agreed and placed a restriction on Garou that suppressed his strength and made his body feel much heavier.
• Bang used a beating to make Garou accept the decision, and Garou quickly adapted to fighting under the restriction.
• Genos gathered the trainees after Josen summoned him, and he and Garou exchanged hostile looks over their past rivalry.
• Josen introduced Garou as Bang’s disciple and the C-Class Water Wolf Hero, then announced that he would help train the class.

Josen introduced Garou to the Hero trainees and arranged a spar between him and Glasses, a B-Class Hero whose electrical powers had just awakened. Glasses powered up to the threshold of S-Class combat strength, and Garou recognized that the training program might be more effective than he had expected.

• Josen warned the trainees not to underestimate Garou and invited them to challenge him; Genos offered first but yielded after remembering he had already fought Garou.
• Josen selected Glasses, who introduced himself politely and said he hoped to become an A-Class Hero.
• Garou held back and waited for Glasses to attack, planning to study his opponent and counter him.
• Glasses unleashed electrical current through his body, strengthening his muscles and bones as his newly awakened power surged.
• Garou mistook Glasses's electrical display for psychic power, then dismissed his warning and remained unguarded as Glasses prepared to strike.

Glasses demonstrated his newly awakened lightning-type psychic powers by fighting Garou in the Training Ground, until Josen stopped their dangerous exchange. Josen explained Glasses’s credit-funded enhancement to the trainees, while Garou insisted he was fine after the fight.

• Glasses surprised Garou with a fast attack and kicked him across the Training Ground.
• Garou recovered and fought back, trading blows with Glasses as their battle damaged the floor.
• Josen caught Garou’s kick and stopped the fight before Glasses’s strength gave out.
• Josen told the trainees that Glasses had spent one hundred credits to awaken lightning-type psychic powers, inspiring their enthusiasm.
• Josen healed Glasses and asked Garou to rest, but Garou turned away and claimed he was fine.

Mumen Rider fought Garou in the Training Ground, using his powered suit and Justice abilities to land a devastating blow. Garou recovered from being blasted into a wall and demanded another round.

• Josen sent Mumen Rider to fight Garou and urged him to attack before Garou recovered his stamina.
• Mumen Rider and Garou traded blows, with Mumen Rider's accelerated Justice Punch striking Garou while Garou's counterattack failed to hurt Mumen Rider.
• Garou overwhelmed Mumen Rider with a rapid barrage, but Mumen Rider released the stored impact as a Justice Roar that blasted Garou into the wall.
• Garou pulled himself from the wall despite his bleeding head wound, grew excited, and challenged Mumen Rider to attack again.

“Mumen Rider” fought Garou in a sparring match, using his Vibranium Suit and Justice techniques to turn the tables on the martial artist. The match ended with both battered and tangled together in a crater, where Josen called it a draw, but Garou refused to accept his judgment.

• Garou struck “Mumen Rider,” who blocked the blow and counterattacked with Great Justice Whirlwind, sending Garou flying.
• Garou chained together precise Flowing Water Fist attacks, but “Mumen Rider” absorbed them and used Justice Roar to stun him.
• “Mumen Rider” grappled Garou and rocketed into the sky with Justice Tackle, then used Secret Justice Art: Front Lotus to drive them back into the martial arts hall.
• Josen cleared the dust and found “Mumen Rider” holding Garou in a lock, with Garou bloodied while “Mumen Rider” remained unharmed.
• Josen declared the match a draw, but Garou refused to accept the decision and demanded that “Mumen Rider” let him go.

Josen celebrated the graduation of his training class and promised the heroes they could continue earning credits after returning to hero work. Meanwhile, a colossal Dragon-level monster called Elder Centipede devastated S City, and the Hero Association urgently sought S-Class reinforcements.

• Josen’s trainees showed how much they had improved during two weeks of daily sparring with Garou and by redeeming training credits for upgrades.
• Josen gathered the graduating heroes, promised their credits and rewards would remain available for life, and invited them to celebrate at the Royal Manor Hotel.
• A giant centipede-like monster appeared in S City and destroyed nearly a quarter of the city while the Hero Association watched the remaining surveillance feeds.
• The S City branch learned that two A-Class heroes and several B-Class heroes had gone missing after confronting the monster, so the branch director requested emergency S-Class support.
• Elder Centipede emerged amid the collapsing city as a Dragon-level disaster.

A War God Shadow Clone stopped time as Elder Centipede devastated S City, while Josen and Saitama prepared to deal with the monster and Josen discovered Psykos and King Orochi underground. The Shadow Clone revived and evacuated S City's victims before time resumed, leaving Elder Centipede confused in the suddenly empty city.

• Elder Centipede rolled through S City, destroying nearly half of it, until the War God Shadow Clone froze time with The World.
• Josen explained the disaster to Saitama, stopped him from leaping to S City, and convinced him that a Monster Association might exist.
• Josen used his sight to find Psykos experimenting on King Orochi deep beneath Z City and decided to deal with her soon.
• The War God Shadow Clone revived the people killed in S City and transported them away while the city remained unsafe.
• Time resumed, and Elder Centipede found himself alone and confused about what had happened.

Josen and Saitama led the newly graduated trainees and several S-Class Heroes through a spatial gate to confront Elder Centipede in S City. They arrived to find the colossal monster rampaging through an apparently empty city, and the Heroes were stunned by its immense size.

• Elder Centipede shook off a brief sense of danger and continued destroying S City, unaware that its residents had already evacuated.
• Josen announced that a Dragon-level monster was attacking S City, and nearly all the trainees and instructors volunteered to fight it.
• Josen promised to extend the graduation celebration after the battle, rallied the group, and opened a spatial gate to S City.
• Josen led the Heroes through the gate, where they saw Elder Centipede stretching across the sky and reacted with shock and fear.
• Elder Centipede noticed that the city had fallen silent and roared, demanding to know where all the humans had gone.

Josen transformed before the Heroes and reassured them as Elder Centipede advanced on the city. King and Genos launched the first attacks, while the other Heroes prepared to join them.

• Josen activated his black-and-gold Superman suit, easing the Heroes' tension and drawing admiration from Captain Mizuki and Okamaitachi.
• King and the Heroes who had redeemed Type Zero suits transformed, while Saitama envied their uniforms and Josen promised that Dr. Kuseno was developing suits for him and Genos.
• Elder Centipede spotted the Heroes, roared that he had found them, and charged through the city, demolishing buildings.
• King attacked Elder Centipede with his Emperor Destruction Fist as Genos flew in to back him up.
• Atomic Samurai urged the Heroes to join forces and kill Elder Centipede.

King, Genos, and Atomic Samurai attacked Elder Centipede, but the monster regenerated from their powerful blows. Genos prepared an enormous cannon as the battle continued.

• Atomic Samurai ordered Iaian, Drill, and Okama to stay back while he advanced to fight Elder Centipede.
• King struck Elder Centipede with a powerful punch as Genos fired his Spiral-Accelerated Incineration Cannon into the monster’s carapace.
• Elder Centipede survived the combined attack, regenerated his shell, and declared himself an undying monster.
• Atomic Samurai used Atomic Dispersal Slash to break the monster’s shell and legs, but he realized his attacks had barely penetrated its body.
• Elder Centipede regenerated again, and Genos assembled a massive gun emplacement around himself.

Genos fired his one-shot cannon at Elder Centipede, but the monster regenerated almost instantly. Josen sent the other Heroes to fight two more centipede monsters emerging from underground, while Saitama and Josen stayed to handle Elder Centipede.

• Genos warned King before firing his Super Spiral Rail Acceleration Incineration Cannon into Elder Centipede's mouth.
• Elder Centipede recovered from the attack, leaving Genos overheated and unable to continue fighting.
• Josen told the Heroes to leave Elder Centipede to him and Saitama and search the ruins for other centipede monsters.
• Bang agreed to join the younger Heroes and thought about inviting his secluded big brother to Z City for training with Josen.
• Junior Centipede and Senior Centipede burst out of the underground sewage system, and Forte stepped forward as Captain Mizuki prepared to support from a distance.

The Heroes overwhelmed Junior Centipede and Senior Centipede while King, Genos, and Atomic Samurai struggled to defeat Elder Centipede. Josen marked a position on the JoJo Map and called for the fighters to lure Elder Centipede there so Saitama could finish him off.

• Glasses and Mumen Rider attacked the centipede Monsters as the Heroes charged, and Iaian, Okamaitachi, and Bushidrill killed Junior Centipede.
• Senior Centipede continued fighting Mumen Rider and Glasses as the other Heroes closed in on him.
• King struck Elder Centipede and knocked off one of his antennae, while Elder Centipede ignored the battle below.
• Josen asked Saitama whether he should take down Elder Centipede, and Saitama said he would do it.
• Josen used Mantra to mark a meeting point on the JoJo Map and asked the fighters to lure Elder Centipede there.
• King and Genos struck Elder Centipede's head together, blasting away half of his human face.

Saitama destroyed Elder Centipede with a Serious Punch, leaving the heroes stunned. Afterward, Genos asked Saitama what he was lacking, and Saitama answered that he needed more strength as a purple figure walked past.

• Saitama leaped at Elder Centipede and struck him with a Serious Punch, obliterating his enormous body.
• King watched Saitama's display, accepted the gap between their strength, and dispersed the dark clouds with his magnetic field power.
• The heroes and monsters reacted in shock as Senior Centipede realized Elder Centipede was dead.
• Genos thanked Saitama for his praise, then asked what he was lacking; Saitama said he needed strength as a handsome purple fellow walked behind him.

After the battle, Josen rewarded the Heroes with credits and a feast while an unseen figure triggered another Snap. The residents of S City returned to their devastated homes with rewritten memories that credited the victory to the Bald Caped Hero.

• Saitama reassured Genos, then joined Josen, Bang, King, and the other Heroes as they headed back together.
• The Heroes received an average of 60 credits each for defeating the two centipede Monsters, and Mumen Rider had enough credits to claim another reward.
• A muscular man in a black uniform snapped his fingers from a rooftop, sending an energy pulse through the city before disappearing.
• Josen opened a portal to the Royal Manor Hotel and treated the Heroes to an unlimited feast.
• The Snap returned S City's hundreds of thousands of residents to their homes, and their memories credited the battle's victory to the Bald Caped Hero.

Josen left S City’s reconstruction to the Hero Association and Dr. Genus’s cloned staff, while Association officials reviewed footage of the battle and prepared to report the victory. Blast arrived too late to help and learned that Saitama had already killed Elder Centipede with one punch.

• Josen chose not to restore S City himself and arranged for Dr. Genus’s cloned staff to help coordinate the aftermath and reconstruction.
• S City Hero Association staff watched the battle footage, and the branch chief ordered them to submit it to Headquarters and announce that the disaster had been resolved.
• Blast teleported into the ruined city after receiving the Hero Association’s request for help, only to find the battle over and the citizens unharmed.
• A citizen told Blast that Bald Caped Hero had killed the Monster and showed him a video of Saitama destroying it with one punch.

Heroes who had been out of the public eye returned to duty with stronger abilities and new equipment after joining Josen's S-Class Training Program. Their monster victories and interviews spread news of the program, while Josen allowed Lightning Max to reveal that heroes earned their gear with credits.

• After the Centipede Family battle, Mumen Rider saved his credits for higher-tier resources on Josen's advice, and the heroes returned to their duties.
• In B City, Green defeated a Tiger-level monster and told a reporter that Josen's S-Class Training Program had transformed him, though his bodybuilding pose left the interviewers baffled.
• In E City, Lightning Max defeated the Rat Monster Tribe and asked Josen whether he could reveal how he got his combat suit; Josen told him to be truthful.
• Lightning Max told reporters he had redeemed his suit with credits, while in C City Forte defeated a Wolf-level monster and credited his strength and improved mind to Josen's program.
• Captain Mizuki, Mumen Rider, Glasses, and the three swordsmen under Atomic Samurai also appeared in public with improved strength and equipment, making the training program's results widely apparent.

After the S-Class Training Program drew renewed public attention, Josen and the Heroes relaxed together before discussing a preemptive attack on the Monster Association beneath the city. The Heroes were ready to strike, but Saitama called the plan a hassle.

• The S-Class Training Program became popular again after participating Heroes praised it and showed how much stronger they had become.
• Josen fed spicy hot pot to Tatsumaki, then carried her back after chasing her through the sky until she grew sleepy.
• Genos noticed an unseen presence competing to handle chores, while Saitama remained unsurprised by it.
• Atomic Samurai proposed attacking the Monster Association before it could react, and Bang and King agreed.
• Genos wanted to join the attack, but Saitama yawned and complained that the plan sounded like a hassle.