Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Gin set out for Japan to find Wolverine, while the chapter recounts Logan’s wartime losses and years of peaceful seclusion in Hiroshima. Logan’s calm is shaken when he meets a woman who resembles Atsuko.

• Su Ming told Gin that Natasha was searching for Wolverine in Japan and explained the dangers posed by Hydra, the Hand, and Wolverine’s tendency to turn covert missions into fights.
• Su Ming admitted that he only had uncertain information pointing to Jasmine Falls, where Wolverine might be training under Ogun, and he and Gin departed on his flying carpet.
• The chapter revealed that Logan had survived a shipwreck, escaped a Nagasaki prisoner-of-war camp with Captain Warren, and settled in Hiroshima with Atsuko.
• Captain Warren killed Atsuko and attacked Logan before an enhanced atomic bomb struck Hiroshima, killing Warren and leaving Logan to recover alone.
• Logan moved to Miyajima, where villagers admired him as the Lord Wolf Samurai and he lived quietly among the shrines and deer.
• Logan’s solitude ended when he encountered a beautiful Japanese woman who resembled Atsuko at a shrine.

Logan fell for Aiko Yamamoto after meeting her at a shrine and went to her family home with a wild boar leg as a gift. Aiko’s brother Ichiro welcomed him, secretly preparing to arrange their wedding while Logan remained unaware of his intentions.

• Logan met Aiko Yamamoto at a shrine, learned her surname, and decided to visit her family that night.
• Logan bathed, changed into a new kimono, prepared a wild boar leg as a gift, and searched the town for the Yamamoto home.
• Ichiro Yamamoto greeted Logan and explained that Aiko had invited him inside for tea.
• Ichiro told Logan that Aiko was eighteen and unmarried, then signaled servants to prepare for a wedding.
• Logan gave his name as Logan Howlett and said he was probably Canadian, while Ichiro welcomed the match.

Logan accepted Aiko Yamamoto’s proposal to marry into her family, and the household rushed to prepare their wedding. Meanwhile, Su Ming and Gin came ashore in Nagasaki to pursue a lead, but Gin objected to the disguise Su Ming suggested.

• Logan entered the Yamamoto home and met Aiko, who apologized for their earlier encounter.
• Logan and Aiko discussed their late spouses and their families’ wartime losses before Aiko asked him to marry into the Yamamoto family.
• Logan eagerly agreed, and Ichiro and the servants hurried the couple away to prepare for a wedding ceremony.
• Su Ming and Gin landed on a beach in Nagasaki near the naval prison to follow a possible lead.
• Su Ming asked Gin to disguise herself as an unattractive local woman, and Gin angrily refused.

Su Ming and Gin disguised themselves and searched the town near Nagasaki Naval Base for Natasha. They learned that Natasha had asked about Ichiro Yashida, and Su Ming obtained directions to the Yashida Family.

• Su Ming changed Gin into an Asian beauty and disguised himself as a short, ugly Japanese man.
• Su Ming and Gin headed to the port town near the former naval prison, hoping to follow Natasha's search for clues.
• Gin questioned the survival of disabled Japanese soldiers, and Su Ming explained their ideas about bushido before they entered a tavern.
• Su Ming intimidated the tavern owner into revealing that a red-haired foreign woman had asked about Lord Ichiro Yashida.
• Su Ming asked for directions to the Yashida Family's home and bought the tavern's best sake.

Su Ming and Gin traveled to Kamakura to find Lieutenant Yashida, hoping his connection to Logan would help them locate Natasha. They reached the Yashida family residence and Su Ming used Logan’s name to request an audience.

• Su Ming explained that Yashida had treated prisoners humanely and learned foreign languages while managing a prisoner-of-war camp.
• Su Ming and Gin flew to Kamakura and searched the nearly deserted Samurai Town for the Yashida residence.
• Gin identified the brightly lit Yashida family estate, and Su Ming warned her not to reveal anything that might connect them to Hydra.
• When a servant asked for proof of Su Ming’s claim to be an old acquaintance, Su Ming told him to say that Logan Howlett had come and was a dwarf.

Su Ming used Hydra’s name to persuade Ichiro Yashida to reveal that Logan had escaped from Nagasaki and was later reported near Hiroshima. As Su Ming considered Logan’s trail, he recognized that Romulus had secretly manipulated Logan’s life for centuries.

• Su Ming asked Ichiro Yashida about Logan, and Yashida summoned his ninjas to challenge the visitors’ credibility.
• Su Ming said “Hail Hydra,” and Yashida dismissed his ninjas and treated Su Ming as a Hydra lord.
• Yashida explained that Logan escaped from Nagasaki with Captain Warren, spared Yashida, and later became the subject of reports near Hiroshima.
• Su Ming recalled that Romulus had spent centuries shaping Logan’s identity, relationships, and memories through a network of agents.

Su Ming exploited Ichiro Yashida’s ambition before leaving to investigate who Yashida had prepared his ninjas for. Meanwhile, Logan reunited with Natasha, who came to bring him to the United States, but they detected someone hiding in the courtyard.

• Su Ming heard Yashida offer Hydra control over Japan in exchange for support and told him someone would contact him.
• Su Ming and Gin left Yashida’s mansion and realized that Yashida had prepared his ninjas for an expected visitor.
• Logan left his sleeping wife Aiko and encountered Natasha in the hallway.
• Natasha told Logan that Ivan had returned her to the Red Room, but that someone later rescued her, and she had come to take Logan to the United States.
• Natasha heard movement in the courtyard grass, drew her gun, and warned Logan that someone was there.

Steve and Peggy were imprisoned in underwater bubbles by King Shark, whom Steve suspected served Namor. At the Yamamoto family courtyard, Logan and Natasha fought a swarm of armed dolls before Natasha disabled them with an electromagnetic pulse.

• Steve and Peggy woke inside transparent bubbles on the seafloor, unable to escape or communicate clearly.
• King Shark told Steve that the prisoners belonged to Wong, leaving Steve to wonder whether Namor was involved.
• Logan and Natasha investigated shaking patches of grass in the Yamamoto family courtyard, and Logan attacked a doll that fired poisoned needles at him.
• A swarm of instrument-playing dolls surrounded Logan and struck him with more poisoned needles, leaving him paralyzed.
• Natasha used her Widow's Sting to emit an electromagnetic pulse that stopped the dolls, then helped Logan remove the needles.

Natasha investigated strange wooden robots while Logan recovered from their poisoned senbon and checked on Aiko. Su Ming and Gin reviewed Spider Web’s intelligence on SSR scientists and projects, leaving Su Ming aware of the secret Project Pegasus, Project Goliath, and Project Outlier.

• Natasha found no tracks in the snow and dismantled one of the robots, discovering sophisticated technology unknown to Spider Web’s archives.
• Logan pulled senbon from his face, struggled with poison that weakened his Healing Factor, and rushed to check that Aiko was safe.
• Su Ming asked Gin about Howard, Doctor Nathaniel, and Doctor Tesla, learning about their research and their current assignments.
• Gin revealed that Henry Jonathan Pym had begun Project Goliath and that another secret SSR operation was called Project Outlier.
• Su Ming explained that Lorraine had helped Loyalty Academy graduates enter the SSR, giving Spider Web access to intelligence about its projects.

Natasha investigated the robots that had poisoned Wolverine, but Su Ming used their instruments to deduce that they came from Tokyo. After Wolverine attacked him, Su Ming knocked him unconscious and left Natasha to decide what to do next.

• Natasha searched the dolls’ components for clues, but found no useful markings because Japan’s production was spread across small workshops.
• Su Ming arrived, collected the anti-healing poison needles and Wolverine’s blood, and learned that Natasha had come to take Logan to the United States.
• Su Ming identified the dolls’ instruments and plectrums as clues pointing to Tokyo, explaining how their distinctive materials and styles narrowed down their origin.
• Wolverine charged at Su Ming, who stopped Gin from intervening and struck him into the ground with Godslayer.
• Wolverine asked who Su Ming’s cousin was before passing out, and Su Ming told Natasha not to associate with rude people.

Natasha cared for the injured Logan while Su Ming and Gin took her toward Tokyo, though Su Ming planned to sightsee and eat rather than investigate the attack immediately. A mysterious visitor left medicine at the Yamamoto Mansion, and the next morning a rumor spread that Logan had been broken by his wife.

• Natasha dragged Logan inside, cleaned him up, and left him several hundred dollars before joining Su Ming and Gin.
• Su Ming flew Natasha and Gin toward Tokyo, explaining that the Shiva Robots seemed to have been testing Logan and that he was not in immediate danger.
• Su Ming landed near Tokyo Bay, changed his and Gin's appearances, and prepared to take the women out for a late-night meal.
• A tall, unidentified figure entered Logan's bedroom, laughed, left a canister of medicine in the corridor, and leaped away.
• The next morning, a rumor spread through the Yamamoto family that Logan's wife had ridden him until his bones broke and he bled from all seven orifices.

Su Ming took Natasha and Gin on a winter-night boat outing in Tokyo Bay, intending to enjoy the city before pursuing Muramasa and other swordmasters. When Natasha noticed an approaching army of sea creatures and Atlanteans, Su Ming left the boat to stop it before it could threaten Tokyo.

• Su Ming dined with Natasha and Gin on a pleasure boat while planning a night out and a visit to Master Muramasa.
• Natasha noticed a dark cruise ship passing close by, but Su Ming warned her not to let the strange distraction interfere with her mission.
• Su Ming sensed that something on the ship was calling for attention and urged Natasha to focus on her goal of finding the Tortoiseshell Plectrum and whoever planned to target Logan.
• Natasha spotted a distant white line on the sea, and Su Ming recognized it as an approaching army of sea creatures and Atlanteans.
• Su Ming transformed into his uniform, flew toward the army, and used Godslayer to raise a wall of water as he warned the Atlanteans to halt.

Su Ming and Strangle massacred the Sea People attacking Tokyo Bay until their forces retreated and an Atlantean spokesman tried to negotiate. Su Ming demanded to know why Namor had sent them to destroy the city, and the spokesman claimed Namor was trying to save the world.

• Su Ming ordered Strangle to attack after the Sea People ignored his warning, and they charged into the advancing army.
• Su Ming split a whale with the Godslayer and used its carcass to smash and scatter the Sea People across the water.
• After suffering heavy losses, the Sea People retreated behind Su Ming’s water wall, and their spokesman called out to him.
• Su Ming interrupted the spokesman’s apology and demanded to know who had sent the army and what they planned to do to the surface.
• The spokesman said Namor had sent them to level Tokyo to save their world, and Su Ming gave him three seconds to tell the truth.

Su Ming defeated Namor and forced an Atlantean survivor to reveal that the Sea People had been tracking a living metal ship. He learned that Namor pursued it because it had taken Captain America, leaving Su Ming to confront a new connection between the ship and his missing ally.

• Su Ming caught Namor’s trident, provoked him, and kicked him into the seabed.
• Su Ming used gunfire to force an Atlantean to explain the Sea People’s mission.
• The Atlantean described a fast, shapeshifting metal ship that could dive underwater and said the Sea People had been tracking it.
• The Atlantean revealed that Namor wanted to rescue a land-dweller taken by the ship.
• The Atlantean identified the missing land-dweller as Captain America.

Su Ming prepared to rescue Steve and Peggy Carter after the Sea People returned home, while assigning Gin and Natasha to investigate who was targeting Logan. The chapter ended with Natasha recalling Charles, whose experiences at Loyalty Shrine Academy had inspired him to someday found Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.

• Su Ming sent the injured Namor and the Sea People home, then decided he had to rescue Steve and Peggy Carter from the Ghost Ship.
• Su Ming told Gin and Natasha about the rescue and arranged for Gin to go to Vanaheim while Natasha continued investigating the Tortoiseshell Plectrum and Logan's pursuers.
• Su Ming instructed Gin to accompany Natasha and outlined whom to contact if the investigation led to Hydra, The Hand, SSR, or Legion.
• Natasha recognized Charles as the boy they had once protected with his mother, and the chapter described how his time at Loyalty Shrine Academy inspired him to create a school for Mutant children.

Su Ming recruited Monark to help find Steve and Peggy, who had been kidnapped by a strange ship, and prepared to travel to Tokyo for the final clue. Hamill asked Su Ming to take his son Wong Mill along, and Su Ming set out with the young heir and Monark.

• Su Ming found Monark in Paris and asked for his divination magic to help locate Steve and Peggy.
• Monark returned with Su Ming to Kamar-Taj, where Su Ming explained that Steve and Peggy had been taken by a strange ship while traveling.
• Hamill asked Su Ming to take his son on the mission, and Su Ming agreed while leaving Hamill to oversee Kamar-Taj and watch Mordo and Kaecilius.
• Hamill introduced Wong Mill, whose striking appearance surprised Su Ming, and Wong prepared to open a Teleportation Portal.
• Su Ming, Monark, and Wong prepared to leave for Tokyo, Japan, where the final clue was located.

Su Ming, Wong, and Monark arrived in 1955 Roppongi to investigate reports of a Ghost Ship that lured people aboard. Su Ming sent Monark to question local women while he and Wong followed covertly, using him as bait in hopes of drawing the ship out.

• Su Ming and his companions appeared in Roppongi, where Monark reflected on the poverty and postwar hardships around them.
• Su Ming asked Monark to question the Panpan for witnesses who might have seen the Ghost Ship.
• Su Ming shouted that a wealthy American was looking for company, then hid with Wong as the women surrounded Monark.
• Monark agreed to take the women to Happy Street for a feast, while Su Ming and Wong followed in stealth.
• Su Ming explained that the Ghost Ship targeted warm-hearted people with special abilities and that Monark was their best bait.

Su Ming tested his theory that the Ghost Ship targeted people on the water by luring Monark to the docks. The Ghost Ship appeared, and Su Ming and Wong prepared to board it.

• Su Ming concluded that the Ghost Ship might only sense its targets on the water and asked the noodle-stall owner about ships near the shore.
• Su Ming paid local women to take Monark to the docks and get him onto a ship.
• Monark played hide-and-seek with the women beside the docks before they led him toward a ship.
• Su Ming spotted the Ghost Ship moving beneath the water and told Wong to prepare a Teleportation Portal.
• The Ghost Ship rose beside the docks, and Su Ming ordered Wong to move so they could board.

Su Ming and Monark boarded the ghost ship, where Wong vanished and the ship revealed itself to be a living creature. As monsters poured onto the deck, Su Ming began digging into the ship while Strangle and Monark held them back.

• Monark paid the women on the fishing boat and sent them to safety through a Teleportation Portal before joining Su Ming aboard the ship.
• Su Ming and Monark resisted an urge to descend into the lower hold, then discovered that Wong had vanished beside them.
• Su Ming examined the deck and found it was made of keratin rather than wood, as enemies emerged from the ship.
• Su Ming ordered Strangle to hold back the attackers while Monark prepared to use voodoo magic.
• Su Ming concluded that the attackers were the ship's white blood cells and began digging through the solid deck with Godslayer.

Su Ming dug through the Ghost Ship while Monark fought off monsters conjured from memories, and he uncovered the alien vessel’s energy core. The ship’s telekinetic attack failed to stop him, leaving Su Ming ready to pry the core loose.

• Su Ming analyzed Strangle’s findings and concluded that the Ghost Ship was a silicon-based alien lifeform with optical invisibility and a structure resembling Symbiotes.
• Monark struggled to hold off the ship’s memory-based monsters as Su Ming dug, while Monark used magic to transform the creatures and complained about Deadpool.
• Su Ming sensed the Ghost Ship’s energy core beneath the deck and dug through its steel defenses until he exposed a red, basketball-sized object.
• The Ghost Ship crushed at Su Ming’s heart with telekinesis, but Strangle repaired his organs and Su Ming remained unharmed.
• Su Ming lit a cigarette, took out a crowbar, and began prying at the core as the Ghost Ship screeched.