Chapter Summaries

Logan arrived at Yashida Mansion and reunited with Ichiro Yashida, the man he had saved during the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Yashida offered to end Logan’s immortality and gave him a file containing the past he had long sought.

• Yukio led Logan through the heavily guarded Yashida Mansion to meet the dying Ichiro Yashida.
• Yashida dismissed his physician, Green, and explained that he had summoned Logan to repay him for saving his life.
• Logan recalled rescuing Yashida from the atomic blast in Nagasaki in 1945 and surviving the explosion through his healing ability.
• Yashida told Logan that immortality was a curse and offered to make him an ordinary man.
• Yukio handed Logan a thick file containing the memories Yashida had investigated.

Logan learned the truth about his lost past and rejected Yashida’s offer to remove his Healing Factor. Sean arrived in Tokyo, where Elektra connected the Yashida Family’s secret dealings with The Hand and Hydra to the Progenitor Virus.

• Yashida showed Logan records of his history, including his family, military service, Kayla, and the Weapon X program.
• Yashida offered to remove Logan’s Healing Factor, but Logan left without accepting and went to sort through his recovered memories.
• Sean arrived in Tokyo and reunited with Elektra, who explained that The Hand had long maintained ties with the Yashida Family.
• Elektra said Yashida Shiro had turned from The Hand to Hydra after the Dragon Bone serum ran out.
• Elektra revealed that the Yashida Family and Hydra had developed the Progenitor Virus.

Sean learned that Ichiro Yashida and Hydra were secretly researching the Progenitor Virus and seeking Umbrella’s Human Enhancement Serum. He chose to wait for a potential ally to approach him while Elektra remained at his side.

• Elektra told Sean that Ichiro Yashida had turned to Hydra after learning he had terminal cancer, and that his secret investments threatened the Yashida Family and Japan’s economy.
• Sean used Skynet to infiltrate Hydra Japan’s database and discovered that the Progenitor Virus caused widespread deaths and could turn rare survivors into flesh-craving creatures.
• Sean deduced that Ichiro Yashida wanted Logan’s Healing Factor and Umbrella’s serum to overcome the virus’s flaws and extend his life.
• Sean told Elektra he would avoid acting directly and wait for someone to approach him, expecting news of his arrival to reach Ichiro Yashida.
• Sean carried Elektra to the bedroom as the storm continued outside.

Sean Sipes met with Shingen Yashida in Tokyo to discuss Harry Osborn’s disappearance, while Ichiro Yashida’s secret alliance with Doctor Green pursued a plan to obtain Wolverine’s healing factor and Umbrella’s Human Enhancement Serum. The chapter left Ichiro intent on securing immortality and Doctor Green privately disgusted with him.

• Sean Sipes thanked Shingen Yashida for investigating Harry Osborn’s disappearance and said he would remain in Tokyo to await results.
• Shingen Yashida warned Sean to avoid going out at night and worried that his father might have caused Harry’s disappearance.
• Ichiro Yashida demanded that Doctor Green provide an immortality elixir instead of biochemical weapons.
• Doctor Green explained that she planned to suppress Wolverine’s healing, take his Healing Factor, and combine it with Umbrella’s Human Enhancement Serum.
• Doctor Green left Ichiro Yashida after calming him and wiped her hand in disgust.

At Hydra’s secret laboratory, Viper inspected Doctor Marcus’s Tyrant experiments and demanded that the escaped First Generation ghouls be captured. She ordered Hydra to use Tokyo’s cannibalism cases to track them, leaving the hunt for the ghouls underway.

• Viper arrived at Hydra’s hidden laboratory beneath an abandoned watchtower and asked about the research progress.
• Doctor Marcus showed Viper the Tyrants, explaining how the virus enhanced their strength and ability to recover from injuries.
• Viper dismissed the Tyrants’ promise as insufficient and asked whether the three escaped First Generations had been captured.
• Marcus reported that the ghouls remained at large and were difficult to identify because they looked and thought like humans.
• Viper ordered Marcus to capture the ghouls at any cost and instructed Hydra to use Tokyo’s frequent cannibalism cases to locate their hunting territories.

Sean used Skynet to track a ghoul’s hunting ground to Kabukicho and entered a hot-spring bathhouse to investigate. After choosing a girl named Koizumi, he waited as she served him, until an angry shout came from outside the door.

• Sean arrived in Kabukicho and rejected the taxi driver’s offer to introduce him to a nightclub.
• Sean set aside the Yashida Family matter and used Skynet to analyze cannibalism cases and locate the hunting grounds of three ghouls.
• Sean narrowed one ghoul’s hunting ground to Kabukicho, where four murders had recently occurred.
• Sean entered a nostalgic-style hot-spring bathhouse and chose Koizumi to attend to him.
• Koizumi bathed and dried Sean, then went to prepare tea as a furious shout sounded outside.

Sean intervened when two American soldiers tried to assault Yoshimura Eto at a hot spring in Kabukicho. Later, Eto waited in the darkness for the soldiers, her eye glowing scarlet as they entered an alley.

• Sean pushed a soldier away from Madam and warned the men that their actions could lead to a military court.
• The soldiers left after threatening Sean, and Yoshimura Eto thanked him before explaining that such abuse was common and reporting it was useless.
• Sean finished his hot spring service, left a generous tip, and went on without asking Eto to accompany him.
• After work, Yoshimura Eto hid beneath an eave and waited for the two Black soldiers to leave the district.
• The drunken soldiers entered a dim alley, where Eto stood waiting with a scarlet glow in her eye.

Miss Yoshimura Eto killed two Black Nazi Officers but stopped herself from eating them before Sean confronted her. After overpowering her, Sean offered to use her as an experimental subject in exchange for trying to turn her human again, and she thanked him.

• Miss Yoshimura Eto killed two Black Nazi Officers with the bloody wings growing from her shoulders, then recoiled from eating them.
• When Eto sensed Sean in the alley, she attacked him, but his invisible defense stopped her strike and he severed her wings before grabbing her by the throat.
• Sean questioned Eto about her refusal to eat the officers and described how ghouls were created by Hydra’s Progenitor Virus and depended on human flesh and blood.
• Sean slammed Eto into the wall and challenged her remorse, while her ghoul instincts receded and tears ran down her face.
• Sean spared Eto, offered to make her an experimental subject, and promised to try to help her become human again; Eto thanked him.

At Ichiro Yashida’s funeral at Sensō-ji, Logan was weakened by an unknown cause as armed attackers struck and abducted Mariko. Sean rescued Logan and sent Yoshimura Eto after the attackers, then prepared to confront Tokyo’s conspiracies himself.

• Logan accompanied Yukio into Sensō-ji for Ichiro Yashida’s funeral and noticed the legendary Silver Samurai armor beside Ichiro’s portrait.
• Logan recognized a tattoo on a disguised monk and tried to stop him, but the monk shot Logan as armed attackers opened fire and seized Mariko.
• As Logan’s Healing Factor and strength failed, he fought off one attacker before Sean caught and supported him.
• Sean carried Logan to the five-story pagoda and sent Yoshimura Eto to pursue the armed thugs and control the situation.
• Logan collapsed unconscious, and Sean considered Ichiro Yashida’s plot, Shingen Yashida’s coup attempt, Hydra’s interest, and the ghouls hunting in Tokyo before declaring it was his turn to act.

Sean and Yoshimura Eto watched CCG drive Kanoe Bo and Kamishiro Iori into a desperate chase across Tokyo. The two starving mutated ghouls turned on each other, and the chapter ended as they lunged into battle.

• Sean explained to Yoshimura Eto how CCG’s tightening encirclement had left the ghouls with nowhere to hide.
• Sean identified Kanoe Bo and Kamishiro Iori as mutated ghouls who had survived Hydra’s experiments.
• CCG helicopters, police officers, and hunting dogs pursued Kanoe Bo and Kamishiro Iori through Tokyo.
• Sean predicted that the two ghouls would try to feed on each other, while Yoshimura Eto chose not to ask him to intervene.
• Kamishiro Iori and Kanoe Bo met on opposite sides of a building and lunged at each other.

Kanoe Bo defeated and devoured Kamishiro Iori, then attacked the C-C-G forces pursuing him. After gaining greater strength and defense, he launched into a fresh hunt.

• Kanoe Bo and Kamishiro Iori fought fiercely between buildings, with both ghouls repeatedly wounded and regenerating.
• Kanoe Bo revealed that he had grown stronger by eating ghouls and feeding his own flesh to humans he turned into half-ghouls.
• Kanoe Bo overpowered Kamishiro Iori, tore him apart, and spent twenty minutes eating him.
• Kanoe Bo attacked a C-C-G helicopter, killed its pilot, and survived as it crashed and exploded.
• Kanoe Bo deflected the C-C-G's gunfire with a shield of tentacles and hurled a car at the approaching special police force.

Kanoe Bo’s latest evolution turned him into a tentacled monster that slaughtered special police until Hydra’s second-generation Tyrant zombie arrived to fight him. Viper watched the battle and ordered the ghoul killed so Hydra could collect specimens.

• Kanoe Bo evolved again and used his tentacles to destroy police vehicles and kill members of the special police unit.
• A helicopter dropped a second-generation Tyrant zombie onto the sealed street, and it confronted Kanoe Bo.
• Kanoe Bo attacked the Tyrant zombie, but the zombie severed his tentacles and smashed him through a shop.
• The monsters continued their battle as Kanoe Bo damaged the zombie’s chest, but the zombie remained alive and kicked him away.
• Viper watched remotely and ordered her forces to kill the ghoul and collect its flesh for specimens.
• The chapter explained that Logan’s disappearance had disrupted Ichiro Yashida’s plan, so he had turned to Hydra for a chance to prolong his life.

Kanoe Bo devoured the Tyrant zombie and gained strength, then tried to return to the laboratory for more food. A golden meteor struck Tokyo, and an unidentified figure destroyed Kanoe Bo and the surrounding street.

• Kanoe Bo restrained the Tyrant zombie with his tentacles, bit into its head, and devoured it to obtain more of the Progenitor Virus.
• Viper rejected a subordinate's suggestion to mobilize the Japanese Self-Defense Forces and ordered a Level Three alert, deployment of Hydra's special operations unit, and an intensified search for Wolverine.
• Kanoe Bo celebrated his growing power and decided to return to the laboratory to eat more people.
• A golden meteor plummeted toward Kanoe Bo, who fled through the street in terror.
• The golden meteor's shockwave cut Kanoe Bo in two, but his body began to regenerate as he crawled away.
• An indifferent figure appeared and destroyed Kanoe Bo and the entire street in a chain of explosions.

Elektra persuaded Shingen Yashida to work with The Hand, while Viper and Baron Strucker argued over Hydra’s plans and S.H.I.E.L.D.’s attention. The chapter ended as an alarm sounded in Viper’s secret laboratory.

• Elektra used Shingen Yashida’s resentment and concealed financial dealings to convince him to join The Hand and help seize control of the Yashida Family.
• Viper argued with Baron Strucker over her partnership with the Yashida Family and her research into the Progenitor Virus and Tyrant zombies.
• Viper and her scientists speculated that a space-based weapon had destroyed the ghouls in Tokyo.
• Viper ordered her staff to prepare Ichiro Yashida for enhancement surgery using the Progenitor Virus.
• An alarm sounded throughout the underground laboratory as Viper stepped out of her office.

Sean and Yoshimura Eto attacked Viper’s underground laboratory, trapping its personnel as Eto slaughtered the armed guards. Viper escaped aboard a submarine with the metal case, unaware Sean had kept it and let her flee.

• Sean’s intrusion triggered the laboratory alarm, and Yoshimura Eto killed the armed personnel guarding the elevator.
• Skynet cut off communications and locked the emergency exits, trapping the laboratory’s staff and supervisors.
• Viper gathered Progenitor Virus data, specimens, and reagents before heading toward the submarine beneath the island.
• Sean confronted Viper and revealed that he had copied the virus data and that Harry Osborn was safe.
• Viper threw the metal case at Sean, escaped into the submarine, and fled underwater while Sean remained with the case.

Sean flew away from Tokyo with the recovered Eihman Metal after Hydra’s island laboratory was destroyed, ending Ichiro Yashida’s plans and eliminating the viral samples. He reassured Yoshimura Eto that he could cure her ghoul condition, and she thanked him as the aircraft passed through the clouds.

• Sean reflected that the submarine explosion had sunk the island and buried Hydra’s scientists, Ichiro Yashida, and the laboratory’s viral materials.
• Sean noted that Elektra had persuaded Shingen Yashida, who could take control of the family with The Hand’s support.
• Sean asked Yoshimura Eto whether she would remain in Japan or return to New York with him.
• Sean admitted he had lied about being able to turn Yoshimura Eto back into a normal person, then teased her before promising he really could cure her.
• Yoshimura Eto smiled faintly and thanked Sean.

Sean left Tokyo with Mariko, Harry, Yoshimura Eto, Eihman Metal, and Hydra's Progenitor Virus research data. Meanwhile, the Tesseract activated uncontrollably at a S.H.I.E.L.D. research base, forcing Nick Fury to oversee an evacuation as Dr. Selvig struggled to contain it.

• Shingen Yashida offered Mariko to Sean as a sign of the Yashida Family's sincerity, and Sean accepted.
• Sean joked with Harry about his abduction by Hydra and considered how Hydra's research data could help Umbrella's genetic engineering.
• Yoshimura Eto tried ordinary snacks and found that she could eat them, while Sean said she would need semi-modification surgery to eat normally for good.
• The Tesseract activated on its own at a S.H.I.E.L.D. research base, and Coulson began evacuating the facility.
• Nick Fury arrived and demanded an explanation from Dr. Selvig, who said the Tesseract's energy could not be shut down.

Nick Fury ordered the Tesseract shut down and the base evacuated, but it opened a portal before anyone could stop it. Meanwhile, Tony Stark and Reed Richards completed Ultron’s initial framework, leaving it to continue developing in the darkened lab.

• Nick Fury questioned Dr. Selvig about the Tesseract’s sudden activation while Hawkeye Barton confirmed that no one had entered or left the facility.
• Barton warned Fury that the Tesseract might open a gateway both ways, prompting Fury to order an evacuation and threaten to destroy it if it remained active.
• The Tesseract surged beyond its peak, shaking the underground base and opening a spatial passage through which a kneeling figure began to emerge.
• Tony Stark reviewed the artificial intelligence framework he and Reed Richards had designed using Jarvis and the Red Queen as references.
• Tony described Ultron as a shield to protect the world, then left the program calculating in the darkened laboratory.

After the Tesseract was stolen and several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents disappeared, Tony, Natasha, and Steve were summoned into action. Steve accepted Nick Fury’s mission to recover the cube, though he warned that it should have been left in the ocean.

• Tony prepared for a date with Pepper, but Coulson informed him that the Tesseract had been stolen and the world might be in danger.
• Natasha received Fury’s encrypted order to return to headquarters after learning that Hawkeye Barton was under enemy control, and she left behind her Miss Scarlett identity.
• Nick Fury visited Steve as he trained and told him that the Tesseract had been taken four hours earlier.
• Steve accepted the mission to recover the cube and told Fury that it should have been left in the ocean.

Banner and Steve arrived at S.H.I.E.L.D.’s Sky Carrier as the Avengers began to assemble. Loki prepared to open a portal for the Chitauri, and Barton identified Umbrella as the source of the iridium they needed.

• Coulson flew Banner and Steve to the Sky Carrier, where Banner discussed tracking the Tesseract with Gamma Ray equipment.
• Loki spoke with the Chitauri Elder through the scepter and agreed to lead the invasion of Earth, under threat from Thanos’s forces if he failed.
• Loki recalled that he had controlled Barton and Selvig to help build a reactor capable of opening a gate for the Chitauri.
• Selvig said the reactor still needed iridium, and Barton said he knew where to find it: Umbrella.