Chapter Summaries

Josen rescued a mother and daughter from collapsing ruins, then coordinated the Heroes’ evacuation and used his psychic powers and healing technique to save injured civilians. With the rescue complete, the Heroes gathered to watch as he descended into the devastated city.

• Mechanical Psychic Powers lost control of his psychic powers, but Josen arrived and lifted the falling stone slab to rescue the trapped mother and daughter.
• Josen entrusted the family to Mechanical Psychic Powers and told him to help evacuate the area before flying off.
• Josen used Mantra to send the Heroes survivor locations and evacuation routes, and Mechanical Psychic Powers explained how to use the shared map and communications.
• Josen raised injured civilians from inaccessible ruins in force-field domes and healed them with his Mystical Palm Rejuvenation Technique.
• The Heroes completed the civilian evacuation, and Wild Siren admitted he had underestimated S-Class Heroes while Red Ribbon Army Guard praised Josen’s strength.

Josen trapped the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ironwire Vine inside towering Earth-Style Walls, then destroyed it with Super Chibaku Tensei and a Gamma-Ray Blade. He opened a vast interdimensional portal to send the resulting moon into the cosmic sea of stars.

• Mechanical Psychic Powers pointed out that the heroes could watch the live broadcast from a high vantage point, but the shaking ground soon drew their attention.
• Josen raised enormous Earth-Style Walls around the garden plaza, containing the giant plant monster and blocking the heroes’ view of the broadcast.
• Josen formed a simulated black hole with Magnet Release: Super Chibaku Tensei, which pulled the ruins and the Hundred-Thousand-Year Ironwire Vine into the sky.
• Josen severed the monster’s attacking vines with Gamma-Ray Blade before gravity tore apart and absorbed its body.
• Josen opened an interdimensional portal to the cosmic sea of stars and widened it until the newborn moon could pass through.

Josen finished dealing with K City's monster and reunited with Tatsumaki, whom he teased and petted. After using Sharingan Genjutsu to restrain her, he provoked her into unleashing a devastating psychic blast that appeared to annihilate him.

• Josen banished the fused plant monster into space and used his powers to clear rubble into the city's central pit.
• Tatsumaki arrived and questioned Josen about the monster, learning that he had already dealt with it.
• Josen teased Tatsumaki about being nervous around him, then petted her head as she prepared to attack.
• Josen used Sharingan Genjutsu to immobilize Tatsumaki and taunted her about remaining single.
• Tatsumaki broke through the illusion and blasted Josen into dust with her Earth Eye-Opening Cannon.

After escaping Tatsumaki’s attack, Josen returned to Z City and absorbed a powerful monster card for a slight increase in his Constitution. He received a call from King, though the chapter ended before he learned why King had called.

• Tatsumaki regained control of her body and psychic powers, then dismissed her doubts about Josen and returned to the Hero Association aircraft.
• Josen used Instant Transmission to escape to Z City’s Abandoned Zone and checked that he had survived Tatsumaki’s psychic blast unharmed.
• F-kid gave Josen a Hundred-Thousand-Year Ironwire Vine monster card, and Josen complained that its Dragon-level strength had earned it only an SR rating.
• Josen returned to Saitama’s home, showered, and absorbed the monster card as enhancement material, gaining Constitution.
• Josen answered his ringing phone and recognized the caller as King.

Josen explained to King that his powerful aura and thunderous heartbeat were scaring monsters to death before fights began. He urged King to embrace this as his natural fighting style rather than seek a different one.

• King told Josen that his voltage had passed fifty thousand volts and that he could shatter a small boulder with one punch.
• King described how monsters had been dying before he could fight them and admitted he still got nervous when he encountered them.
• Josen realized that King's racing heartbeat was frightening the monsters to death.
• Josen gave examples of heroes with different fighting styles, then told King that his own aura was already his greatest weapon.
• Josen urged King to use his thunderous heartbeat and intimidating presence to defeat weak monsters.

Josen talked King into treating his nervousness as the source of a new fighting technique, the King Engine, then began spending his saved Fate Draws in the random card pool. After several disappointing pulls, he continued drawing in frustration, with most of his cards still unused.

• Josen persuaded King that nervous courage could power the King Engine and help intimidate monsters.
• King thanked Josen and promised to work hard, while Josen reflected on the dangers facing the world and considered visiting Dr. Genus.
• Josen checked his resources, discovered he had accumulated 89 Fate Draws, and noted that Dimensional Walk's cooldown would soon end.
• Josen chose the random card pool and began making ten-pulls, receiving Attribute Cards and then mundane items from Dragon Ball World and Mario World.
• Josen accused F-kid of secretly lowering the drop rates, but kept drawing after spending a third of his cards.

Josen used his electromagnetic field to kill a Monster in another city, then completed his final ten-pull and reviewed the cards he had drawn. He gained Cyclops’s Optic Blast ability and its energy, defense, and trajectory-control effects.

• Josen expanded an electromagnetic field over Z City and nearby cities after deciding he would not make single pulls.
• Battery Man struggled against a six-eyed canine Monster in B City until Josen’s electrical attack killed it from afar.
• Josen returned to his apartment and used his last ten draws, but card printing failed and F-kid enhanced him with Attribute Cards.
• Josen reviewed his ninety draws, which included Hyper Railguns, Optic Blast, and Tracer among the useful cards.
• Josen activated the Optic Blast card and gained Cyclops’s ability to draw energy, deflect dimensional particles, and control his beams.

Josen tested his newly acquired Optic Blast, using his psychic powers and force field control to contain and adjust its energy. He then equipped Tracer’s character card, gaining her mobility abilities and summoning a pair of compatible hand cannons.

• Josen reinforced his eyes and controlled Optic Blast’s energy, preventing it from damaging Saitama’s apartment.
• Josen closed the extradimensional channels to his eyes and set Optic Blast to different power levels using force field control.
• Josen examined Tracer’s character card and decided to equip it without applying her skin.
• Josen’s Dimensional Walk resisted the card’s temporal energy as Tracer’s abilities took effect.
• Josen snapped his fingers to summon a pair of Hyper Railguns and made holsters for them with force field shaping.

Josen traveled to the world of The Boys after using the Stars and Stripes cape as a rag in Saitama’s bathroom. At Vought’s Seven Tower, A-Train rushed in covered in blood and went to find Vice President Stillwell.

• Josen had F-kid activate his Stand Ability to materialize the Stars and Stripes cape, then tossed it into Saitama’s bathroom to use as a rag.
• Saitama explained that he had thrown the rag out after using it to clean up a clogged toilet, but he had kept half of it after tearing it apart.
• F-kid extracted the spacetime elements from the cape, and Josen left after reminding Saitama to eat breakfast.
• A-Train arrived at Seven Tower covered in blood and asked security captain Chris whether Vice President Stillwell had arrived.
• A-Train sped up the emergency stairwell, leaving bloody footprints behind, and Chris ordered a new guard to contact the cleaning department.

Josen arrived in New York in The Boys’ world and identified Vought International and its superhero team, The Seven. After discovering that A-Train had already killed Hughie Campbell’s girlfriend, Josen watched Homelander sense his surveillance and smash through a bulletproof window.

• Josen emerged from a portal above Long Island and used Mantra to map New York and detect powerful biomagnetic fields inside Vought Tower.
• Josen recognized the superhumans in the tower as The Seven and identified Homelander as the strongest among them, though weaker than himself.
• Josen observed Homelander enjoying praise for stopping an armored-car robbery, and Homelander sensed that someone was watching him.
• Josen overheard A-Train anxiously speaking to a Vought executive and realized A-Train had already killed Hughie Campbell’s girlfriend.
• Homelander left the people around him, headed for a floor-to-ceiling window, and smashed through its bulletproof glass.

Homelander caused deadly destruction while leaving a Vought building, then searched New York for the person watching him. Josen entered Sage Mode and formed a black, Superman-inspired combat suit before Homelander confronted him in the sky.

• Homelander's departure sent glass fragments crashing into the street, killing a taxi driver and terrifying the crowd.
• Vought International executives discussed covering up the deaths after Homelander flew away.
• Josen sensed Homelander's actions through Mantra and failed to reach his mind with a psychic greeting.
• Josen activated Sage Mode, combining senjutsu chakra, psychic power, and magnetic fields to strengthen his body.
• After Homelander changed course toward him, Josen formed a black combat suit with a lightning-shaped J on its chest.
• Homelander stopped opposite Josen in the sky, their capes whipping in the pressure of his flight.

Josen confronted Homelander and dominated their aerial fight, leaving Homelander injured and baffled by his opponent’s strength. As Homelander’s Heat Vision failed to stop him, Josen prepared to reveal another power.

• Josen told Homelander he was a Hero and called him a piece of trash wearing a Hero’s skin.
• Josen struck Homelander first, drawing blood, then evaded his counterattack and punched him in the abdomen.
• Josen and Homelander traded blows as their battle carried them from above New York to the ocean.
• Josen headbutted Homelander, kicked him into the sea, and decided to fight more seriously.
• Homelander emerged from the water and attacked Josen with Heat Vision, but Josen blocked the beams with his arm.
• Josen’s eyes lit up red as he prepared to reveal his power.

Josen defeated Homelander in their beam clash, then stopped the resulting tsunami and made Homelander pose with him for the public. Josen vanished before Homelander could discover what he had taken, while Madelyn Stillwell confronted A-Train about a mess he had caused.

• Josen overwhelmed Homelander's Heat Vision with his Optic Blast and blasted him into the ocean.
• A massive tsunami surged toward New York, and Josen used his psychic power to force the wave back down.
• Josen appeared beside Homelander and made him smile and wave with him for the beach crowd.
• Josen vanished after hinting that it was not yet time, and Homelander flew off to investigate his identity.
• Madelyn Stillwell confronted A-Train in the vice president's office about an incident he had caused.

Madelyn arranged damage control for A-Train after he killed a woman, then covered up a taxi driver’s death caused by falling glass from Vought Tower. Josen watched the crowd outside Seven Tower as Homelander returned, and a confrontation between a hostile man and a Seven fan began.

• Madelyn told A-Train to give a public apology and assured him she would attend the press conference.
• Ashley reported that falling glass from the building had killed a taxi driver, and Madelyn ordered her to deny Homelander’s involvement after surveillance found no footage.
• Homelander appeared outside Madelyn’s office window, while she prepared to welcome him with a calming smile.
• Josen joined the crowd outside Seven Tower wearing the War God Baseball Cap and learned about the taxi driver’s death.
• A muscular man in a black robe blamed psychic superhumans for the death, then threatened a skinny fan who defended The Seven.

Billy Butcher turned grief over Nick Ruhl’s death into a protest against Vought International, rallying a crowd to demand answers from The Seven. As the mob charged toward Vought’s entrance, Butcher slipped away, while the ground-floor supervisor ordered security to keep the crowd out.

• Billy Butcher pushed through the crowd and joined the taxi drivers mourning Nick Ruhl.
• Butcher stirred the mourners and onlookers into demanding justice and an explanation from Vought International.
• The crowd grew and surged toward Vought’s entrance, repeating calls for answers.
• Butcher slipped away in the opposite direction, and Josen vanished using his ability.
• The ground-floor supervisor shouted for Chris to shut the doors as Chris rushed to stop the mob.

After helping stop the crowd from storming Seven Tower, Butcher met Josen, who overpowered him and forced him to share a meal. Josen revealed that he wanted Butcher to take him to a place in New York frequented by people with Psychic Powers, and Butcher understood which place he meant.

• Chris activated the emergency lockdown, and the security door closed before the angry crowd could enter Seven Tower.
• Josen confronted Butcher on a Manhattan street, caught his punch, sealed his mouth with a force field, and read his thoughts.
• Josen made Butcher lead him to a Spanish barbecue restaurant and pay for their meal.
• Josen said he had information about Vought International, then told Butcher to take him that night to a place frequented by people with Psychic Powers.
• Butcher recognized the place Josen meant.

Josen traded information about Compound V to Butcher in exchange for his help, then revealed Homelander’s abilities as Fantasy Cards. Meanwhile, Edgar learned of Josen’s fight with Homelander and ordered Vought to find him, investigate Compound V leaks, and bring back Dr. Vogelbaum.

• Josen told Butcher that Vought’s charity packages labeled as polio vaccines contained Compound V and urged him to investigate newborns in a children’s hospital intensive care unit guarded by Vought.
• Butcher rushed to leave with the information, but Josen froze him and reminded him that their deal was not finished; Butcher then agreed to find Josen a hotel and pay the bill.
• Edgar reviewed drone footage of Josen fighting Homelander and stopping a tsunami, then ordered his staff to find Josen and invite him to join The Seven.
• Edgar also ordered an investigation into Compound V leaks from the past thirty years and sent for Dr. Vogelbaum and the latest supe inhibitor.
• At the hotel, Josen received two Fantasy Cards containing Homelander’s Heat Vision and Body of Steel abilities.

Josen followed Butcher to a secret superhuman nightclub, where he found A-Train and killed Ezekiel after recognizing him as an accomplice in Compound V experiments. Butcher decided Josen might help him bring down the supes, while Josen continued toward A-Train.

• Butcher led Josen to a hidden nightclub in Manhattan after Harry let them through the warehouse door.
• Josen used his X-ray vision to spot A-Train drinking with another superhuman in a room.
• Ezekiel blocked Josen and Butcher, propositioned Josen, and Josen killed him with a heat-vision beam.
• Josen froze Ezekiel's two attendants with psychic power, and Butcher followed him, hoping to enlist his help against Homelander.
• A-Train told the clubgoers how he had accidentally swallowed a woman's molar while running through her body.

Josen and Butcher confronted A-Train in a private room, where Josen stopped the speedster and took him to an abandoned warehouse. A-Train tried to escape again, but Josen trapped him and prepared to deal with him.

• Butcher kicked open the private-room door and identified A-Train for Josen.
• A-Train charged Butcher but crashed into Josen's Force Field Barrier.
• A-Train accelerated around the room and accidentally killed the other man inside.
• Josen caught A-Train by the throat and disappeared with him, while Butcher headed for the surveillance room to destroy evidence.
• Josen brought A-Train to an abandoned warehouse, where A-Train tried to flee and struck the force field surrounding the crater.

Josen killed A-Train after reading his memories and captured his spirit in a Fantasy Card. Three hours later, Edgar learned that A-Train’s body had been found, while investigators connected the death to the unexplained killing of Rubber Man, Ezekiel.

• Josen read A-Train’s memories and learned about his past crimes, including killing a fifteen-year-old girl.
• Josen killed A-Train with his ruby-red beams, and F-kid sealed A-Train’s spirit in a Fantasy Card.
• Josen examined A-Train’s card and learned that Evil Hero cards could be consumed and that spirits did not always form.
• Josen left A-Train’s body in the warehouse, expecting Vought International to find it through his tracking chip.
• Three hours later, Edgar was told that A-Train’s body had been found and heard that Rubber Man, Ezekiel, had also died under mysterious circumstances.