Chapter Summaries

Homeless Emperor and Phoenix Man waited as Garou transformed into a Monster, while God trapped Garou’s mind in an illusion of childhood. Xiao Xi manipulated Garou into joining a game of Heroes and Monsters, leaving eerie patterns spreading from her hand onto his.

• Homeless Emperor berated Garou for refusing to eat humans, while Phoenix Man urged him to wait for Garou’s transformation to finish.
• The chapter revealed that Homeless Emperor had used God’s Black Box to turn Garou into a Monster, and that Garou retained his self-awareness for reasons other than God’s mercy.
• Garou awoke in an illusory school as a child, with his memories suppressed and his mind fixed on an earlier fight.
• Xiao Xi approached Garou and invited him to play Heroes and Monsters with Tacchan and the others.
• Xiao Xi’s eerie influence calmed Garou and led him by the hand toward the children as strange patterns spread from her wrist onto his hand.

Garou realized the playground and his classmates were part of a fake world meant to keep him trapped in a childhood role-playing game. After his memories returned, he challenged the hidden culprit to reveal itself, leaving the confrontation unresolved.

• Tacchan welcomed Garou and Xiao Xi, assigned Garou the role of Justice Superman, and started the classmates’ game.
• Garou reflexively kicked Gian, who was playing the Monster, hard enough to send him flying, but the children cheered and treated it as a staged finishing move.
• As the classmates’ faces became distorted shadows, Garou struck Tacchan and defeated the shadowy group while Xiao Xi watched.
• Garou examined the flawed world, endured a stabbing pain in his forehead, and recovered his sealed memories and will.
• Garou accused the hidden coward of playing a boring trick and threatened to kill it if it showed itself.

Garou resisted God's attempt to corrupt him, but God destroyed his mind and transformed his body into a monster. As Homeless Emperor and Phoenix Man watched over the cocoon, Josen and Tatsumaki arrived, forcing the monsters to prepare for battle.

• Garou saw through God's illusion and insulted its monstrous form, so God attacked him with its enormous hands.
• Garou dodged God's strikes and charged toward its head, but God crushed him before he could land a blow.
• God failed to extinguish Garou's will, but transformed every cell in his body into that of a monster, leaving him inside a cocoon.
• Phoenix Man reassured Homeless Emperor that he could control Garou with God's divine artifact once Garou hatched.
• Josen and Tatsumaki appeared in the sky, and Homeless Emperor and Phoenix Man agreed to fight them and prevent them from taking Garou.

Josen confronted Phoenix Man while Tatsumaki was drawn into another dimension by Homeless Emperor’s divine power. After Phoenix Man launched a surprise attack, Josen countered with a breath that overwhelmed the monster’s solar-wind blast and sent it back toward him.

• Josen explained that God’s power had caused the strange dimensional space and warned Tatsumaki that the flesh cocoon below was likely Bang’s corrupted disciple.
• Tatsumaki charged Homeless Emperor, who unleashed divine power and pulled her and her psychic energy out of sight.
• Phoenix Man flew up to face Josen and asked whether he was worried about Tatsumaki, but Josen dismissed his taunts.
• Phoenix Man suddenly attacked Josen with his divine-powered Sun Heat Wind.
• Josen used a Normal Blow to swallow the attack and send it surging back toward Phoenix Man.

Josen destroyed Phoenix Man twice, while Tatsumaki faced Homeless Emperor in a false world and countered his light-orb barrage with cannon fire from the Imaginary Realm. The battle between Tatsumaki and Homeless Emperor remained unresolved.

• Josen reflected Phoenix Man’s Sun Heat Wind back at him, reducing him to particles, but Phoenix Man resurrected in a stronger, armored form.
• Josen cut Reincarnated Phoenix Man in half with golden beams before he could attack, and the monster’s body erupted into a mushroom cloud.
• Tatsumaki recognized that Homeless Emperor had trapped her in an illusory world that amplified his power.
• Homeless Emperor launched an Ultra-Dense Matrix Aurora Burst of light orbs at Tatsumaki.
• Tatsumaki opened golden vortices to the Imaginary Realm and unleashed a barrage of honkai-energy cannon fire against Homeless Emperor’s attack.

Josen defeated Phoenix Man and stopped God from transforming Garou, then invited Tatsumaki on a trip between worlds. They left to return Garou to Master Bang and tell everyone about their plans.

• Phoenix Man empowered by God asked Josen to let him surrender, but Josen sent him away through a portal with his Dark Shadow Clone.
• Josen restored the ruined mountain forest, broke open Garou's cocoon, and knocked Garou unconscious before God could turn him into Cosmic Garou.
• Tatsumaki escaped Homeless Emperor's false world and reunited with Josen.
• Josen suggested taking Tatsumaki on a spur-of-the-moment trip, reassuring her that his clone would protect Fubuki.
• Heaven F-kid took the sleeping Garou through a spatial vortex, and Josen followed with Tatsumaki to return Garou to Master Bang and announce their trip.