Recaps

Crocodile suspected Yang Cheng knew where Pluton was and decided to confront him personally, bringing Nico Robin along. At Whiskey Peak, Yang Cheng chose to wait for Crocodile while Miss Valentine and Vivi prepared to leave.

• Crocodile questioned Nico Robin about Yang Cheng, then concluded that Yang Cheng might know Pluton's whereabouts.
• Crocodile put on his fur coat and set out to deal with Yang Cheng himself, taking Nico Robin with him.
• Miss Valentine tried to persuade Yang Cheng to flee Baroque Works with her and open a chocolate shop.
• Vivi thanked Yang Cheng and prepared to return to Alabasta with Igaram to seek help from the World Government.
• Yang Cheng told Mikita to leave and decided to wait at Whiskey Peak for Crocodile.

Yang Cheng stayed in Whiskey Town to confront Crocodile, hoping to keep the fight away from Alabasta, while Miss Valentine and Vivi remained with him. When Crocodile arrived and demanded information about Pluton, Yang Cheng claimed Alabasta held a Poneglyph recording the weapon’s whereabouts, prompting Crocodile to ask where it was.

• Yang Cheng explained that Crocodile’s reliance on his Devil Fruit gave him a chance to win outside Alabasta, and Miss Valentine decided to stay with him.
• Miss Valentine imagined taking over Baroque Works after Yang Cheng defeated Crocodile, while Vivi thanked him for helping Alabasta.
• Several days later, Crocodile and Nico Robin arrived in Whiskey Town, where Yang Cheng had been waiting with Miss Valentine and Vivi.
• Crocodile demanded that Yang Cheng reveal the ancient weapon, and Yang Cheng openly asked whether he meant Pluton.
• Yang Cheng said Pluton was not in Alabasta but that a Poneglyph there recorded its location; Crocodile demanded to know where the Poneglyph was.

Yang Cheng used Rending Wound’s explosive slashes to destroy Crocodile’s sand tornado and blast him into a crater, but Crocodile survived by elementalizing and re-forming from sand. Crocodile acknowledged Yang Cheng’s strength and again offered him a chance to reveal Pluton’s location, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Crocodile attacked Yang Cheng with Sables, a sand tornado that grew as it advanced.
• Yang Cheng split the tornado with a slash from Rending Wound, whose Bomb-Bomb Fruit power caused an explosion that scattered the sand.
• Yang Cheng used Shave to close in and struck Crocodile’s Golden Hook, triggering a blast that carved a huge crater and left Crocodile missing.
• Nico Robin, Princess Vivi, Miss Valentine, and the others believed the blast had killed Crocodile, but he re-formed from sand nearby.
• Crocodile praised Yang Cheng’s strength and offered to spare and promote him if he revealed where Pluton was.

Crocodile offered Yang Cheng a place in Baroque Works, but Yang Cheng mocked his reliance on Pluton and challenged his ambitions. Crocodile lost his temper and attacked, and the chapter ended with Yang Cheng’s Azure Flame chains trapping him amid an explosive clash.

• Crocodile recognized Yang Cheng’s strength and offered to recruit him into Baroque Works.
• Yang Cheng rejected the offer and told Crocodile that relying on Pluton meant he had already lost.
• Crocodile launched Desert Grande Spada, but Yang Cheng countered the sand blades with an explosive flying slash and rushed in close.
• Yang Cheng broke Crocodile’s Crescent Moon Sand Dune with Armament Haki and followed with a sword strike that Crocodile blocked with his Golden Hook.
• Yang Cheng’s sword triggered an explosion, and Azure Flame chains wrapped around Crocodile’s ankles, stopping him from escaping through elementalization.

Yang Cheng fought Crocodile in Whiskey Town and drove the wounded Shichibukai to flee, leaving Nico Robin behind. Vivi then begged Yang Cheng to help Alabasta, while Miss Valentine believed they could now act freely.

• Crocodile used Erosion Cycle to turn the ground to sand and escape Yang Cheng's Azure Flame chains, but Yang Cheng broke through his defense and punched him through two buildings.
• Crocodile reemerged and questioned Yang Cheng's origins, while Yang Cheng claimed he had learned about Haki through his travels and sources as a bounty hunter.
• Yang Cheng and Crocodile clashed with powerful attacks, destroying Whiskey Town as they fought from day until night.
• Crocodile fled wounded and defeated, leaving Nico Robin behind because Yang Cheng could defeat him but could not safely kill him.
• Vivi begged Yang Cheng to help Alabasta, and Miss Valentine celebrated their newfound freedom to act.

Yang Cheng explained why he could not yet defeat Crocodile in Alabasta and advised Vivi on how to undermine Crocodile’s plans. As he sailed toward Jaya to improve his Observation Haki, Robin and Mikita argued over their relationship with him, while his growing fame drew unlucky pirates into Mikita’s path.

• Yang Cheng told Vivi that Crocodile would be far more dangerous in Alabasta’s desert, but predicted Crocodile would avoid an open attack for now and advised Vivi to secretly coordinate with Koza and her father while preserving the appearance of conflict.
• Yang Cheng decided to leave for Jaya and seek out Sky Island to improve his Observation Haki.
• On the voyage, Mikita confronted Robin about joining the ship, and Robin countered that she had known Yang Cheng longer and shared a secret agreement with him.
• Yang Cheng stopped Robin and Mikita from fighting by warning that their battle could sink the ship and drown them both.
• After Yang Cheng’s battle with Crocodile made him widely known, pirates who challenged him were beaten, and Mikita used the small-time troublemakers to vent her anger.

Yang Cheng’s disastrous fishing trip ended when Miss Valentine and Nico Robin caught fish effortlessly, prompting him to retreat to the Mysterious Space. There, he met a new High School Yang Cheng and learned that the newcomer was genuinely an ordinary high school student, leaving Pirate Yang Cheng envious after seeing his memories.

• Yang Cheng handed his fishing rod to Miss Valentine for a break, and she caught a huge fish and filled a bucket while he ate.
• Yang Cheng gave the rod to Nico Robin, who used her Flower-Flower Fruit to catch fish after his own efforts failed again.
• Yang Cheng threw down the rod and entered the Mysterious Space to recover from his ruined confidence as an angler.
• Pirate Yang Cheng met High School Yang Cheng and initially doubted that an ordinary high school student could exist in an anime crossover setting.
• Naruto Yang Cheng shared his memories and power with Pirate Yang Cheng, who saw that High School Yang Cheng really was ordinary and grew envious.

Yang Cheng joined the other versions of himself after gaining their shared abilities, and agreed to look for manga about their worlds in his own. At Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, he started life in Class D with extraordinary strength and a plan to earn private points through café work.

• Naruto Yang Cheng and One Piece Yang Cheng reacted to Classroom of the Elite Yang Cheng's comparatively peaceful world and discussed the possibility of other versions appearing from different anime genres.
• Naruto Yang Cheng asked whether Yang Cheng's world had manga or novels about their worlds, and Yang Cheng agreed to look for them after returning.
• Yang Cheng woke in Tokyo and discovered that the abilities he had shared with the others made him nearly inhumanly powerful, though supernatural techniques could not be used there.
• At school, Yang Cheng spoke with Kiyotaka Ayanokoji and Yosuke Hirata, and suggested Ayanokoji would be popular if he stopped hiding his abilities.
• Ayanokoji and Suzune Horikita had questioned the school's generous private-point system, then discovered Yang Cheng earning points by working part-time at the school café.

Yang Cheng explained to Suzune Horikita and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji that private points could be used to buy information, and that Class D’s poor conduct had cost them their monthly allowance. Sae Chabashira revealed that students could earn points through other channels and left impressed by Yang Cheng’s resourcefulness, seeing potential in Class D.

• Yang Cheng told Suzune Horikita and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji that he had used private points to learn from upperclassmen and gather information at the school café.
• Sae Chabashira announced that Class D had earned zero private points because its students had been late or absent ninety-eight times and used their phones during class three hundred and ninety-one times.
• Sae Chabashira scolded Class D for failing to think for themselves and explained that students could earn private points through channels beyond the regular monthly allowance.
• Sae Chabashira noticed Yang Cheng and Kiyotaka Ayanokoji’s unusual performance and considered them promising among Class D’s students.

Sae Chabashira became convinced that Yang Cheng was a brilliant student hiding his abilities and saw him as Class D’s chance to rise and make up for her past failure. After she left, the class searched for the student who knew how to earn points, while Suzune urged Yang Cheng to speak up.

• Sae Chabashira investigated Yang Cheng and Ayanokoji, finding that Ayanokoji had scored exactly fifty on every entrance exam and deciding Yang Cheng had disguised his own abilities with deliberately uneven results.
• Sae Chabashira observed Yang Cheng posing as a third-year Class A student at the café, teaching second-year students and working without showing fatigue.
• Sae Chabashira recalled how her refusal to expel her boyfriend during the Unanimous Special Exam had cost her class its chance to catch Class A, and she hoped Yang Cheng could help Class D rise.
• Sae Chabashira chose not to expose Yang Cheng’s deception, unaware that his new abilities came from knowledge shared by One-Punch Monster Yang Cheng.
• After Sae Chabashira left, Class D students searched for the classmate who knew how to earn points, and Suzune pressed Yang Cheng to share what he knew.

Horikita Suzune told Class D that students could earn personal points by working part-time, but her classmates accused her of hiding the option. Yang Cheng defended her, condemned Class D for its irresponsibility, and left after declaring that he could defeat the other classes alone.

• Horikita Suzune explained that Class D needed better midterm results to regain Class Points and personal points, and that campus part-time jobs could provide personal points.
• Yosuke Hirata helped persuade the class to listen as Horikita shared the part-time work option, while Yang Cheng silently urged her not to reveal that he had been the first to earn points that way.
• Several classmates accused Horikita of withholding the information to win their gratitude, and Yang Cheng stood up to defend her.
• Yang Cheng told his classmates they had only cared about earning points once they faced hardship, then left the classroom after saying he could beat the other classes by himself.
• Class D was stunned by Yang Cheng's outburst, and some girls speculated that he liked Horikita, who blushed and considered clarifying that she was not looking to date.

Yang Cheng met Kikyo Kushida after receiving a flood of invitations from classmates and their teacher. He exposed that he knew about her hidden nature, and when she tried to threaten him over their encounter, he revealed that he had recorded it.

• After Class D's meeting ended, Suzune Horikita invited Yang Cheng to meet on the athletic field to discuss dating and the midterms.
• Yang Cheng received invitations from Suzune Horikita, Kei Karuizawa, Kikyo Kushida, Yosuke Hirata, and Sae Chabashira, and he turned down Yosuke Hirata for the time being.
• Yang Cheng met Kikyo Kushida and told her he knew about her darker side and that Suzune Horikita had probably forgotten her.
• Kikyo Kushida grabbed Yang Cheng's hand and pressed it against her chest, then accused him of acting improperly and threatened to report him.
• Yang Cheng retrieved his phone from a nearby utility pole, showing Kikyo Kushida that he had recorded their exchange.

Yang Cheng used a video of Kikyo Kushida framing him to turn her threats back on her. Kushida tried to tempt him into crossing a line she could use against him, but he refused, leaving her to depart in frustration.

• Yang Cheng showed Kikyo Kushida clear footage of her pressing his hand against her chest and threatening him.
• Kushida tried to leave, but Yang Cheng warned that he could expose her fake public image with the video.
• Kushida suggested Yang Cheng wanted her body and tried to tempt him by revealing her cleavage.
• Yang Cheng refused to take things further, recognizing that Kushida could use his actions as leverage against him.
• Kushida left in a huff after her attempts to manipulate Yang Cheng failed.

Yang Cheng met Suzune Horikita, who was preparing to explain her feelings, but Manabu Horikita interrupted and tried to force her to leave the school. Yang Cheng intervened and fought Manabu, ending the chapter as he struck him with an Iron Mountain Lean.

• Kikyo Kushida left after Yang Cheng refused to fall for her plan, and he headed to meet Suzune Horikita.
• Suzune Horikita met Yang Cheng after exercising and nervously began to explain why she had invited him.
• Manabu Horikita interrupted Suzune and criticized her for attending the school and being placed in Class D.
• Manabu grabbed Suzune and prepared to strike her, but Yang Cheng caught his arm and defended her.
• Manabu failed to break free and kicked at Yang Cheng, who blocked the kick and drove an Iron Mountain Lean into his chest.

Yang Cheng stopped Manabu Horikita from hitting Suzune and revealed that Manabu was trying to make his sister withdraw because he feared she would struggle at school. Suzune began to understand her brother’s concern, while Yang Cheng encouraged her to overcome her shortcomings.

• Yang Cheng easily evaded Manabu Horikita’s attacks and overwhelmed him in their brief fight.
• Manabu recognized Yang Cheng’s skill and mentioned what he had learned about his café work and academic abilities.
• Yang Cheng explained that Manabu had likely confronted him because he was close to Suzune and that Manabu was trying to protect her by pushing her to leave school.
• Suzune asked Manabu whether Yang Cheng’s explanation was true, but Manabu left without answering and said Yang Cheng had caught his interest.
• Suzune thanked Yang Cheng for helping her understand her brother’s actions, and Yang Cheng told her that an older brother should support his sister as she grows.

Yang Cheng comforted Suzune Horikita about her brother, and she left without telling him she had meant to reject his romantic hopes. He then went to meet Sae Chabashira and found Ayanokoji there, learning that she had pressured Ayanokoji to lead Class D toward Class A.

• Yang Cheng told Suzune Horikita that her brother had tried to protect her without respecting her wishes, then described his mischievous sister and the value of facing one’s flaws.
• Suzune thanked Yang Cheng but avoided her planned rejection, claiming she had invited him to discuss Class D’s midterms with Ayanokoji another time.
• Yang Cheng wondered what Suzune had really intended and decided to keep his scheduled meeting with Sae Chabashira.
• Yang Cheng entered the multimedia classroom and found Ayanokoji already there with Sae Chabashira.
• Yang Cheng joked about the secret meeting, and Sae threatened to expel him for insulting her.
• Yang Cheng inferred that Sae had used Ayanokoji’s father’s pressure to make him help Class D reach Class A, but he had no intention of accepting the same burden himself.

Yang Cheng told Sae Chabashira he did not care whether he graduated from Class D or Class A, then revealed he had over three hundred thousand Private Points and could pursue a class transfer. Sae asked Ayanokoji to keep Yang Cheng in Class D, but after Ayanokoji left, she asked Yang Cheng what it would take to persuade him to help the class.

• Yang Cheng argued that personal ability mattered more than graduating from Class A and said he could use Private Points to change classes.
• Sae Chabashira explained that a transfer cost twenty million Private Points, and Yang Cheng showed her and Ayanokoji his balance of over three hundred thousand.
• Sae accused Yang Cheng of hoodwinking second-year students, but he said they had paid him for teaching and that he had never claimed to be a third-year student.
• Sae Chabashira worried that Yang Cheng might leave Class D and become its enemy, while Yang Cheng privately reacted to her thoughts about using herself as a bargaining chip.
• Sae asked Ayanokoji to help keep Yang Cheng in Class D, but Ayanokoji left to focus on the upcoming mid-term exams.
• Sae Chabashira asked Yang Cheng what he wanted, promising to try to agree if it was within her power.

Yang Cheng was caught between Kikyo Kushida’s attempt to provoke Suzune Horikita and Horikita’s unexpected decision to start a study group. The group was set to meet after school, though Yang Cheng was reluctant to join and had other plans that evening.

• Sae Chabashira parted from Yang Cheng relieved after he promised to help Class D when he could, as long as it did not go against his wishes.
• Kikyo Kushida invited Yang Cheng to a study group with Ike and Yamauchi, using the invitation to provoke Suzune Horikita and make the boys jealous.
• Yang Cheng tried to decline Kushida’s invitation, but Suzune Horikita announced that she and Yang Cheng would join and asked Kushida to invite Sudo too.
• Kushida and Horikita agreed to meet after school in the library, while Yang Cheng wondered why nobody had asked his opinion and thought of his date that evening.

Yang Cheng refused to join Suzune Horikita and Kikyo Kushida’s study group, which met without him at the school library. At the campus pastry shop, Kei Karuizawa asked Yang Cheng to pretend to date her so he could protect her, and the chapter ended with her offering to explain the arrangement to Horikita.

• Yang Cheng rejected Suzune Horikita’s request to join the study group and predicted that it would end badly.
• Kikyo Kushida was disappointed when Yang Cheng failed to appear at the library, while Ike and Yamauchi welcomed his absence.
• Kei Karuizawa asked Yang Cheng to go out with her at the campus pastry shop.
• Kei explained that she had been bullied in middle school and wanted Yang Cheng to pose as her boyfriend to protect her.
• Kei offered to explain the situation to Suzune Horikita and asked Yang Cheng to keep her past secret.

Yang Cheng agreed to pretend to be Kei Karuizawa’s boyfriend and promised to keep her bullying past secret. After clearing up rumors that he liked Suzune Horikita, he paid for their meal and gave Kei a notebook tied to a favor that would benefit her.

• Yang Cheng warned Kei Karuizawa that he could expose her past, then reassured her and agreed to act as her boyfriend.
• Kei Karuizawa said she would explain their arrangement to Suzune Horikita, prompting Yang Cheng to ask why she thought Horikita might misunderstand.
• Kei Karuizawa explained that Class D believed Yang Cheng was pursuing Suzune Horikita, and Yang Cheng realized the rumors had also influenced Kikyo Kushida.
• Kei Karuizawa invited Yang Cheng to an upscale pastry shop but could not afford the bill, so Yang Cheng paid for her.
• Yang Cheng offered to let Kei Karuizawa treat him another time and handed her a notebook while asking her for a favor that would benefit her too.

Yang Cheng gave Kei Karuizawa last year’s midterm questions, and she decided to share them with Class D. The next morning, Kei announced that she and Yang Cheng were dating, leaving Suzune Horikita unexpectedly unsettled.

• Yang Cheng gave Kei Karuizawa a notebook of last year’s midterm questions and encouraged her to use them to help Class D.
• Kei Karuizawa wondered whether Yang Cheng liked her, while Yang Cheng regarded the questions as an easy favor and a way to use her as a shield.
• Kei Karuizawa told a friend that she was dating Nanju Yang Cheng, and the news quickly spread through Class D.
• Suzune Horikita advised Yang Cheng to correct the rumor, but he confirmed that he and Kei were dating.
• Suzune Horikita realized she had no right to question Yang Cheng’s relationship and felt unexpectedly upset.

Yang Cheng and Kei Karuizawa’s public relationship drew Class D’s attention while Suzune Horikita struggled to find a way to help the class pass its exam. Ayanokoji discovered that Karuizawa was distributing exam questions on Yang Cheng’s behalf, leaving Suzune to suspect their relationship was a deal of mutual benefit.

• Suzune Horikita told Yang Cheng that her study group had gone poorly, and he said he had prepared a backup plan.
• Kikyo Kushida congratulated Yang Cheng on dating Kei Karuizawa and teased that she had liked him too.
• Over the next month, Yang Cheng and Kei Karuizawa acted as Class D’s model couple while Suzune failed to find a solution to the crisis.
• Kei Karuizawa gave Ayanokoji advance exam questions, and he realized Yang Cheng was directing her actions.
• Ayanokoji explained to Suzune that Karuizawa had given questions to struggling students but not to students like Suzune, Hirata, and Koenji, who could pass without them.
• Suzune concluded that Yang Cheng had chosen to date Karuizawa for the plan, while Ayanokoji suggested their relationship might be an exchange of benefits.

After Class D passed the midterms, Kei Karuizawa’s popularity rose, angering Kikyo Kushida, who suspected Yang Cheng was helping Kei while keeping their relationship false. Months later, the first-years began a two-week uninhabited-island survival exam, and Yang Cheng stepped into Class D’s dispute over whether to buy a portable toilet.

• Every student in Class D passed the midterms, including Sudo, and Kei Karuizawa gained praise for helping the class.
• Kikyo Kushida realized Kei had distributed exam questions with Yang Cheng’s help, but decided against reporting her because it could expose Kushida and turn the class against her.
• The first-years reached an uninhabited island and learned the rules of their special exam, including using exam points for supplies and earning points by claiming sites.
• Class D argued over whether to spend exam points on a portable toilet, as Kei Karuizawa led the girls and Ike led the boys.
• Suzune Horikita asked Yang Cheng to help settle the argument, and he asked Kei whether the girls would be satisfied with having a toilet before suggesting they could avoid spending points.

Yang Cheng persuaded Class D to buy a long blade instead of spending points on tents and a toilet, then revealed extraordinary swordsmanship by felling a massive tree and crafting a Simple Toilet from its trunk. Class D grew confident he could build Wooden Houses, while Karuizawa Kei proudly embraced him as her boyfriend.

• Yang Cheng clarified that he objected to wasting points on a Simple Toilet and proposed making a better one, while Karuizawa Kei felt reassured by his support.
• Yang Cheng persuaded Class D to buy a long blade and postpone exchanging points for tents and other supplies so he could try building shelters from island trees.
• Yang Cheng cut down a massive tree with one slash, stunning Class D and even surprising Ayanokoji.
• Yang Cheng stripped and hollowed the tree, quickly crafting a Simple Toilet, then explained that he had learned carpentry from his grandfather and knew some Kendo.
• Karuizawa Kei threw herself at Yang Cheng in excitement, and Class D became optimistic that he could build Wooden Houses without spending points.

Class D chose Yang Cheng as its leader, and he quickly claimed every remaining site on the deserted island. When Class D took in Ibuki from Class C, Yang Cheng suspected she might be a spy and gave Suzune his Key Card to use as bait.

• Karuizawa Kei proposed Yang Cheng as Class D's leader, and the class agreed.
• Yang Cheng built up Class D's base, then explored the island and claimed every remaining site with his Key Card.
• Yang Cheng returned to find that Ayanokoji and the others had brought Ibuki from Class C to their base.
• Suzune explained that Ibuki had been driven out by Ryuen Kakeru and that Yamauchi had insisted on helping her.
• Yang Cheng told Suzune to let Ibuki see the Key Card in her hands so she might mistake Suzune for Class D's leader.