Chapter Summaries

Josen protected the Hero Association headquarters while Tatsumaki overwhelmed Metal Knight’s test robot. He stopped Tatsumaki from destroying it and had F-kid turn the machine into a Fantasy Card, leaving Tatsumaki stunned by Josen’s revealed Stand.

• Josen reinforced the ground and shielded the Hero Association headquarters and nearby blocks with psychic power.
• Tatsumaki stopped Metal Knight’s shells, froze their explosions, and overwhelmed the robot while Dr. Bofoi remotely ended the test.
• Tatsumaki began crushing the disabled robot, but Josen restrained her and confirmed with Sitch that Metal Knight had relinquished it.
• Josen released F-kid in front of Tatsumaki, and F-kid transformed the robot into a Fantasy Card and added it to his deck.

Josen explained his support-type Stand to Tatsumaki, then confronted her about the destruction caused by her reckless use of Psychic Powers and the fear she used to protect Fubuki. Tatsumaki realized he understood her hidden motive and, despite her protests, accepted his head-patting as they parted on better terms.

• F-kid vanished after making a rude gesture, and Josen told Tatsumaki that the ghost was his support-type Stand.
• Tatsumaki and Josen bickered over his refusal to show her F-kid and the fact that he was still holding her hand.
• Josen pulled Tatsumaki close, leaving her flustered and confused by her reaction to him.
• Josen told Tatsumaki that her Psychic Powers caused harm to others, and she stubbornly defended her actions.
• Josen said Tatsumaki used fear to keep Fubuki safe, then demonstrated that his Mantra could interfere with her Psychic Powers.
• Tatsumaki acknowledged Josen's point, and she allowed him to pat her head while he called their meeting progress.

After settling matters with Sitch, Josen returned to M City and found Saitama and King settling into his training villa. Saitama considered returning with King someday, while his growing awareness of F-kid hinted that the Stand might soon be revealed.

• Tatsumaki asked Sitch about missions, then left after learning there were none, and Sitch reflected that she had become less temperamental.
• News reports announced the Hero Association’s S-Class recruitment, including a combat armor developed by a leading scientist and Pig God’s entry into the ranks.
• Saitama watched the recruitment reports at Josen’s villa and hurried downstairs when King asked him to bring in the delivered groceries.
• Josen returned with food, helped settle the groceries, and offered to build Saitama a house near Z City, advising him to invite King because King supplied the villa’s electricity.
• Saitama agreed that King should come along to avoid paying for electricity, then wondered whether a purple shadow had followed him from Z City; Josen realized Saitama was beginning to sense F-kid.
• King offered to let Saitama use the villa for vacations and continued training his control over the electricity he generated.

Saitama continued training as King grew stronger under his guidance, while Josen asked whether Saitama would join the Hero Association. When a Tiger-level disaster struck M City, Josen, King, and Saitama headed to the scene, with Josen going to rescue residents and the other two moving to confront the monster.

• Saitama kept training daily as King’s combat skills and strength improved.
• Josen helped King prepare dinner and learned that the Hero Association had asked King to wait before officially joining amid a major S-Class recruitment.
• Josen asked Saitama whether he wanted to become a professional hero, but Saitama worried that joining would mean taking orders from superiors.
• Josen suggested waiting until Saitama was ready before recommending him for S-Class, and Saitama suspected Josen had made a rude comment about his appearance.
• After a Tiger-level disaster struck M City West District, Josen, King, and Saitama left a restaurant and rushed toward the explosions.
• King asked Josen to rescue endangered residents with his psychic powers, and Josen vanished ahead while King and Saitama leaped toward the disaster site.

Saitama and Josen rescued civilians during the Red Eye Minotaur’s rampage, while King arrived to fight the monster. After Saitama failed to hold it back, King struck it with a stronger electric punch and brought it down.

• Saitama raced toward the West District as the Red Eye Minotaur destroyed buildings and threatened civilians.
• Josen used psychic force fields to evacuate civilians and Mystical Palm Rejuvenation Technique to treat their injuries.
• Saitama stopped the minotaur’s charge, but its growing strength pushed him backward through the road and ruined his shoes and sweatpants.
• King struck the minotaur with King Burst Fist: 150,000 Volts, briefly paralyzing it, and Saitama moved out of the way.
• King hit the minotaur with King Burst Fist: 200,000 Volts, knocked it down, and sensed that his strength could still increase.

Josen took the defeated bull-headed monster back to his manor, where he revealed that he planned to strengthen it and use it as a special training instructor for Saitama and King. He left the monster unconscious, preparing to develop its potential through a method that starts with its stomach.

• King was surprised when the bull-headed monster stirred, but Josen stopped him from attacking and said he had another use for it.
• Saitama suggested eating the monster, prompting Josen and King to argue that it was unsafe and unsuitable as food.
• Josen knocked the monster unconscious again, lifted it with Psychic Power, and led King and Saitama away before fans could find them.
• At Josen's manor, Saitama and King returned from downtown M City and asked why Josen had brought the monster back.
• Josen explained that the bull-headed monster would serve as a special training instructor after he strengthened it through a method that began with its stomach.

Josen used a Fantasy Card to revive the minotaur as the Dragon-level Asura Minotaur, then restrained him and chose him as Saitama and King's special-training opponent. Saitama volunteered to fight first, while King’s King Engine made the pinned Monster’s heart pound.

• Josen placed the Carnage Kabuto Fantasy Card into the minotaur, reviving him as the Dragon-level Asura Minotaur.
• Asura Minotaur remembered Josen killing him and tried to flee, but an azure barrier blocked him and Josen pinned him with a force field.
• Josen restrained Asura Minotaur with heavy shackles and a mask, then introduced him as the opponent for Saitama and King’s training.
• King’s King Engine roared, making Asura Minotaur’s heart pound painfully as he lay trapped.
• Saitama volunteered to fight Asura Minotaur first, feeling that he was meant to defeat him.

Saitama began sparring with the captured Asura Minotaur while Josen and King watched from the training base. Josen sensed Genos approaching M City after responding to a disaster, leaving the chapter poised for Genos to encounter them.

• Josen warned Asura Minotaur not to resist, then let Saitama take him into the wilderness for a fight.
• Saitama and Asura Minotaur collided, sending shock waves through the ground as Josen and King watched and ate fruit.
• King's excitement built as he watched the battle, and Josen decided to let Carnage Kabuto live for a few more days.
• Josen sensed a fast-moving half-human, half-machine figure and identified the newcomer as Genos.
• Genos arrived in M City, responded to a disaster alert, and reached the western district after Super Police had rescued the victims.

Genos discovered the enormous gap between his strength and Saitama’s while watching Saitama battle the Asura Minotaur. Josen stopped the fight so Saitama could rest, then began compressing the restrained monster with psychic power.

• Genos detected powerful energy outside the city and hurried to investigate, finding Saitama battling the Asura Minotaur.
• The Asura Minotaur transformed into Asura Mode, and Saitama struck him with a Serious Headbutt before the two resumed their fight.
• Genos realized their ordinary blows exceeded the power of his own self-detonation and resolved to learn new powers while taking notes.
• Josen left King and intervened, catching both fighters’ fists and immobilizing the Asura Minotaur with psychic power.
• Josen gave Saitama a psychic foothold in midair, invited him to rest with King, and began compressing the restrained Asura Minotaur.

Josen forced the Asura Minotaur out of Asura Mode and used him as a training opponent while King fought through the day, strengthening his Electric Current Propulsion. King awakened Magnetic Field Rotation, but his new magnetic-field perception also disrupted Genos’s power core, leaving him immobile.

• Josen crushed the Asura Minotaur with psychic pressure until it deactivated Asura Mode, then suppressed it to Demon-level with force-field shackles.
• Josen and Saitama watched King battle the weakened minotaur while Josen healed and replenished King during breaks.
• King pushed his Electric Current Propulsion to five hundred thousand volts, then transformed its power into a magnetic field and awakened Magnetic Field Rotation.
• King gained a magnetic-field version of Mantra and sensed the minotaur, Saitama, Josen, and Genos.
• King’s magnetic power disrupted Genos’s power core, leaving the cyborg conscious but unable to move.

King crossed into Magnetic Field Rotation and defeated the Asura Minotaur with his new power. After Josen and F-kid captured the spirits of Carnage Kabuto and the minotaur, Josen congratulated King and led him back to the training base, remembering they still had a guest to entertain.

• King used Magnetic Field Rotation to overwhelm the Asura Minotaur and destroy him with a barrage of golden lightning.
• Josen went to retrieve the sparring partner, while Carnage Kabuto appeared and seized the minotaur's spirit.
• F-kid sealed the minotaur's spirit and turned Carnage Kabuto into a Fantasy Card, also obtaining a Red Eye Minotaur card and another Fate Draw attempt.
• Josen congratulated King, then walked with him toward the training base for the celebration feast.
• Josen remembered they still had a guest to entertain.

After the monster vanished and his power core recovered, Genos met Josen and King, then joined them for dinner at their training base. He asked Josen, Saitama, and King to take him as a disciple, but King revealed that he had only been training for a little over a month, leaving Genos eager to learn his method.

• Genos recovered from the monster's vibrations, spotted Josen and King, and landed in front of them after they pulled him over with a force field.
• Josen invited Genos to dinner, and Genos accepted, believing it would be rude to ask only two members of their group to take him as a disciple.
• At the training base, Genos explained his cyborg abilities to Saitama, who realized that Genos was an unusually serious chatterbox.
• After dinner, Genos asked Josen, Saitama, and King to take him as their disciple.
• King said he had only begun training a little over a month earlier, prompting Genos to ask about his accelerated training method.

Genos insisted on finding a master, and after overwhelming Saitama with his life story, he was pulled aside by Josen for advice. Josen secretly coached Genos on how to win Saitama over while King distracted Saitama, leaving the two of them plotting together.

• King and Josen declined to take Genos as a disciple, so Genos asked Saitama to teach him instead.
• Genos began telling Saitama his story, and Saitama finally shouted for him to explain it in twenty words or less.
• Josen took Genos aside and convinced him that Saitama should be his master.
• Josen promised to teach Genos how to persuade Saitama, and the two began whispering together.
• King distracted Saitama with tea while secretly receiving Josen's thoughts through magnetic field power.

Josen helped Genos persuade Saitama to accept him as a disciple by framing Genos’s money as tuition and living expenses. The next day, Josen visited the House of Evolution to obtain a specimen and unexpectedly encountered the Armored Great Ape.

• Josen explained to Genos that Saitama was struggling financially and helped him plan to offer money as tuition and living expenses.
• Genos asked Saitama to take him as a disciple and offered a stack of cash, prompting Saitama to accept him and welcome him to stay at his home.
• Josen visited the House of Evolution and asked Dr. Genus for a monster specimen to use as an expendable.
• Dr. Genus showed Josen the cultivation chamber, where Mosquito Girl, Frog Man, Kamakyuri, Ground Dragon, and other specimens were kept.
• Josen and Dr. Genus encountered the Armored Great Ape, who recognized Josen and called him his lord.

Josen recruited Ground Dragon from the House of Evolution and continued using its monsters for training near M City. As King’s strength grew and Saitama grew bored, Genos asked to join the Dragon-level battles, and King struck the Asura Crocodile Monster to make way for him.

• Dr. Genus explained that Armored Great Ape had been assigned to cleaning duty, and Josen chose Ground Dragon from a cultivation chamber.
• Ground Dragon mistook Josen’s visit for an assassination job, then broke all ten claws against Josen’s hand and was knocked unconscious.
• Josen took Ground Dragon away and told Dr. Genus he would return to collect more monsters.
• Over the week of training near M City, Saitama and King defeated several House of Evolution monsters, while King learned to use magnetic field power and became strong enough to trade blows with Dragon-level foes.
• Genos asked to join the special training, and Saitama agreed to let him fight after King finished.
• King unleashed a full-powered golden punch at the Asura Crocodile Monster, which faltered under the King Engine before the blow struck its forehead.

Saitama and Genos fought Asura Crocodile Monster, but Genos was badly damaged by the monster’s overwhelming strength. King blocked the monster’s attack and declared the fight over, as Saitama began his special training again.

• Saitama held Asura Crocodile Monster down while Genos prepared his Incineration Cannon, then released the monster so Genos could attack.
• Asura Crocodile Monster blew Genos’s flames back at him, engulfing him while King assured Saitama that Genos was still alive.
• Genos emerged from the flames with his hair burned into an afro and attacked with Machine Gun Blows, but Asura Crocodile Monster struck him in the face and sent him flying.
• Saitama caught the damaged Genos, who insisted he could keep fighting despite losing an eye and suffering serious damage.
• King’s King Engine flared as he blocked Asura Crocodile Monster’s attack, punched the monster into the sky, and announced that the fight was over.

Genos accepted Saitama’s encouragement after failing to match his strength, while King used a powerful magnetic attack to defeat the Asura Crocodile Monster and destroy the training base. That night, King thanked Josen for the special training, and Genos began to speak up at Saitama’s apartment.

• Saitama encouraged the battered Genos, who took his words as a promise that he could catch up to his teacher in a year or two.
• King used a magnetic-field attack to blast the Asura Crocodile Monster, and the resulting force shattered the training base and shook the surrounding ground.
• Saitama jumped to safety with Genos, who promised to replace the expensive ingredients destroyed with the base.
• King apologized to Josen for destroying the estate, and Josen said the damage was worth it because King could now defeat Dragon-level monsters.
• Saitama suggested celebrating King’s success with barbecue, and Genos raised his hand to speak.

Genos moved in with Saitama and took over the household chores, but his constant surveillance left Saitama sleep-deprived. Josen brought home groceries, and Saitama recovered from his despair over missing the supermarket sale when he learned treatment for neurasthenia was expensive.

• Genos asked Saitama to let him bring up the ingredients for their meal, then rapidly unloaded the delivery truck.
• After moving in, Genos took over the housework but repeatedly watched Saitama while he slept, leaving Saitama exhausted.
• Saitama scolded Genos for entering his room at night, and Genos explained that his cyborg brain did not need sleep.
• Josen returned with supermarket ingredients, prompting Saitama to collapse when he realized he had forgotten the sale day.
• Josen told Saitama that neurasthenia treatment was expensive, and Saitama sprang up, suddenly feeling better.

Josen reviewed his accumulated cards and draws, consumed Carnage Kabuto's Monster card for a modest stat boost, and decided to push his Stand's growth and make a major Fate Draw. He ended the chapter preparing to spend his 45 draws, though F-kid reminded him that the system had no payment feature.

• Saitama took Genos out to hunt a wanted fugitive, while Josen stayed behind and encouraged Genos to impress his master.
• Josen and F-kid reviewed their resources and found that their fragment-card collection had reached around 70%.
• Josen had F-kid shatter Carnage Kabuto's SSR Monster card, converting it into stat points for Josen.
• Josen learned that the M City Hero Association had accelerated its plan to promote King to S-Class.
• Josen decided to use his 45 Fate Draws to attempt ten ten-pulls, but F-kid pointed out that they had no payment feature.

Josen realized he could grind for monster rewards and traveled with F-kid to E City, where the Frozen Fish Monster attacked the seaside seafood market. Nearby, Atomic Samurai's disciples headed toward the market after seeing an explosion, leaving them poised to encounter the monster.

• Josen watched disaster reports, decided that monsters remained plentiful, and teleported away from Saitama's apartment with F-kid.
• The Frozen Fish Monster burst out of a cold storage room at E City's seafood market and declared its intent to kill humans who ate seafood.
• The Frozen Fish Monster used Extreme Cold Salted Fish Slash to destroy shops and attack people in the market.
• Atomic Samurai ate with Iaian, Okamaitachi, and Bushidrill, then sent his disciples to buy seafood for a visit to Silver Fang.
• Iaian, Okamaitachi, and Bushidrill noticed an explosion and smoke near the shore, and Bushidrill climbed a rooftop to locate it.