Recaps

Uraraka Shige was approached by a prison group that was secretly testing him to assess his identity. After the group’s apparent leader stumbled through the scripted approach, a burly inmate revealed that he was responsible for the conversation and explained his blunt way of communicating.

• Several inmates planned to win favor with a powerful group by targeting Uraraka Shige, but the group approaching him actually intended only a minor disturbance and another round of probing.
• The group’s apparent leader asked Uraraka Shige whether he had joined a group and whether he wanted to join theirs.
• Uraraka Shige questioned whether the man was truly responsible for recruiting him, prompting a burly inmate to step forward.
• The burly inmate admitted that the earlier questions were a test and that someone else had prepared his words because he considered himself stupid.
• Uraraka Shige found the man easy to talk to and directly asked what he wanted to find out.

Uraraka Shige met again with Gu Yuji and the Beast Group’s representative, who invited him to join and warned that refusing could leave him exposed to rival groups. The representative watched Uraraka Shige closely as he considered the offer.

• At breakfast, Uraraka Shige deliberately sat at a table with Gu Yuji and the man who had previously sat alone.
• Uraraka Shige explained how he had realized the two men were there to meet him, then asked their names.
• Gu Yuji introduced himself, while the other man withheld his name and identified himself as the Beast Group’s representative in area A.
• The representative invited Uraraka Shige to join Beast, and Uraraka Shige asked about the group’s terms, duties, benefits, and drawbacks.
• The representative warned that without Beast’s protection, other groups might target Uraraka Shige, then studied his reaction.

Uraraka Shige questioned the Beast Group’s Area A representative about his hostile recruitment tactics, then learned the terms of joining and accepted. He became a prospective second-ranking member, but still had to earn recognition by surviving two breakfasts with the group’s divided senior members.

• Uraraka Shige questioned why the representative had threatened and pressured him instead of answering his concerns.
• The representative privately feared Uraraka Shige would take his position, but explained the benefits and duties of joining the Beast Group without revealing his motive.
• Uraraka Shige agreed to join and was assigned a position second only to the Area A representative, subject to proving his ability and earning recognition.
• Uraraka Shige learned that he had to attend two breakfasts with the other members of his rank, beginning in two days.
• The five other members occupied two rival tables, leaving Uraraka Shige to choose where to sit while risking hostility from the opposing camp.

Uraraka Shige avoided choosing between the two factions by sitting alone at an empty table, but Gu Yuji and several inmates soon joined him. Their moves left the two original tables empty and the exceptional thinker curious about why Gu Yuji had accepted Uraraka Shige so readily.

• Uraraka Shige decided the inmates’ test was too troublesome and sat at an empty table rather than joining either faction.
• Gu Yuji followed Uraraka Shige and sat with him because he liked him and had already accepted him.
• An inmate known for his exceptional intellect joined Uraraka Shige, surprising the others at the two tables.
• Two inmates followed the intellectual, then another joined, filling Uraraka Shige’s table with six people.
• The intellectual watched Gu Yuji and wondered why the big man had accepted Uraraka Shige so quickly.

After more than a month, Uraraka Shige’s Quirk and physical abilities had made little progress, but he had settled into his place among the Beast Group’s Area A higher-ups. The group discussed Gu Yuji’s attempted escape and a Snake Group member’s attack, leaving Gu Yuji’s situation aside for now.

• Uraraka Shige made only slight gains in his Threads and physical conditioning as he spent time with his cellmates and the Beast Group’s other Area A higher-ups.
• Uraraka Shige grew closest to the straightforward big guy, while a suspicious, shrewd higher-up carefully probed everyone around him.
• More than thirty Beast Group higher-ups met in the cafeteria after guards took Gu Yuji away the previous night and he returned looking haggard.
• The higher-ups discussed Gu Yuji’s homesickness and attempted escape, along with a Snake Group member’s attack that left a Beast Group member’s leg disabled.
• At the suggestion of the shrewd higher-up, the Beast Group set Gu Yuji’s situation aside for the time being.

At lunch, Beast Group members debated whether the Snake Group was preparing to challenge them, while Uraraka Shige left without interest in their discussion. After the midday break, he attended the prison’s study session and continued thinking about the big guy who had tried to escape because he missed home.

• A clever Beast Group member described Snake’s increasingly disrespectful behavior and warned that its attack on a Beast member could signal a broader threat.
• A subordinate questioned whether the incident was being overinterpreted, and the clever member laid out how Snake’s conduct had escalated over time.
• Uraraka Shige left the discussion after eating, more concerned about the big guy than the groups’ dispute.
• Uraraka Shige returned to his cell, wondered whether the big guy had tried to escape because he missed home, and recalled missing his own family.
• After the midday break, Uraraka Shige went to a classroom-like room for the correctional prison’s studies and training.

Beast and Snake agreed to settle their dispute in a rule-governed match, wagering their recognized status for the coming year. The officials approved the match for three days later, and Beast’s smart guy passed the group its preliminary plans.

• Beast’s management decided to leave Gu Yuji’s situation to the smart guy to investigate and applied to the officials for a match against Snake, wagering their status for the coming year.
• A Beast member explained to Uraraka Shige that matches let inmates settle disputes without breaking prison rules and provided recreation for inmates and guards.
• The smart guy told Beast’s management that Snake had expelled his spy and that Snake might have identified other planted pieces as well.
• Rumors spread through Area A that the match would be approved, while Snake gathered its members to discuss the dispute.
• The officials approved the match for the weekend three days later, and Beast’s smart guy passed its preliminary plans to the group, including Uraraka Shige.

Uraraka Shige learned which Beast members would compete in the upcoming tournament and ignored a Snake member who tried to summon him. The Snake member later approached him directly and invited him to join Snake, claiming Beast was bound to lose.

• Beast selected its spokesman, its clever strategist, Gu Yu, Uraraka Shige, and several other inmates for the individual competition.
• Uraraka Shige did not join the team stage because he lacked teamwork with Beast's other members, but he would have to participate in the regional group stage.
• During a break, an unfamiliar inmate told Uraraka Shige to follow him outside, but Uraraka Shige ignored him.
• The inmate returned after the break, apparently angry that Uraraka Shige had not followed him.
• The inmate later told Uraraka Shige that Snake had prepared thoroughly and Beast was bound to lose, then invited him to join Snake.

Uraraka Shige rejected a Snake member’s attempt to recruit him, suspecting Snake was using defections to weaken Beast before their match. On match day, several Beast members—including three higher-ups—switched sides, leaving both groups with roughly equal numbers as the individual match was announced.

• Uraraka Shige considered how Snake’s recruitment efforts might sow suspicion within Beast and rejected the Snake member’s offer.
• Snake made no further attempt to recruit Uraraka Shige, and Beast’s Area A members discussed the matter at breakfast but reached no conclusion.
• Uraraka Shige and the Beast and Snake members gathered at the prison’s central venue for their Area A match.
• A dozen or so Beast members, including three higher-ups, joined Snake before the match began, bringing the groups to roughly equal numbers.
• The commentator announced the match’s start and called for the individual contestants to draw lots.

Uraraka Shige watched the individual competition begin, as contestants raced through games and exploited loopholes in the rules. Near the end of the competition, his turn approached with a game called “Pillar Pacing.”

• The host announced the individual competition rules, including a rotating game type and bans on killing, permanent injury, excessive Quirk use, substitutes, and cheating.
• The first contestants played “River Wading,” trying to carry slippery soap through artificial rapids while interfering with one another.
• Contestants in the second and third matches used their Quirks and creative tactics to disrupt opponents and exploit ambiguities in the rules.
• More inmates found loopholes as the competition passed its halfway point, while Uraraka Shige watched and waited for his turn.
• Uraraka Shige was assigned “Pillar Pacing,” a race across foam-wrapped iron pillars.

Uraraka Shige won his pillar-pacing match and then watched the individual contests conclude before taking a quiet break during the team matches. A conversation with Gu Yu revealed that the big fellow had staged his earlier prison escape because he was homesick, leaving Uraraka Shige missing his own family as the group match approached.

• Uraraka Shige used his Quirk to unbalance his clawed opponent and won the pillar-pacing match.
• Uraraka Shige watched the remaining individual matches, which concluded without further elimination rounds.
• Uraraka Shige skipped the team matches and went to a quiet corner by himself.
• Gu Yu found Uraraka Shige and explained that he had staged his earlier escape because he was homesick.
• Uraraka Shige began missing his parents and older sister Ochaco as the team matches neared their end and the group match approached.

After the team match ended with the score tied, Uraraka Shige and the other contestants ate lunch before returning to prepare for the group match. While they waited for the remaining detainees, the smart aleck’s earlier remarks to Gu Yu about escaping prison came up again, and the group match began.

• The host announced that the smaller team had won the team match, tying the overall results one to one, and called for a lunch break.
• Uraraka Shige, Gu Yu, and the smart aleck returned to the separate area after lunch, while the smart aleck complained about having no time to rest and Gu Yu yawned quietly.
• Uraraka Shige considered how losing the group match could bring trouble from Snake and decided he would leave Beast if its defeat made his position unsafe.
• The smart aleck learned that about a hundred detainees had not yet arrived, including people who were not participating or had not finished eating.
• Uraraka Shige, Gu Yu, and the smart aleck discussed the smart aleck’s earlier remarks about instigating Gu Yu to escape prison, and the smart aleck insisted his words had been misunderstood.
• The third stage of the competition, the group match, began.

The group competition began with Snake and Beast contestants entering a three-level labyrinth in pairs to collect and carry treasure out for points. Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu entered an upper-level route and reached their first challenge, a riddle blocking a mechanical door.

• The host announced the Labyrinth Treasure Race rules, including the treasure point values and restrictions on violence, Quirk use, and altering the labyrinth.
• Uraraka Shige paired with Gu Yu, chose an entrance, and entered the labyrinth before guards sealed it.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu crossed a brightly lit upper-level passage and paused in a safe challenge area to rest their eyes.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu found a stone tablet beside a mechanical door asking what person walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening.

Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu passed the maze’s tutorial and more demanding trials, eventually reaching the central treasury. They found its central treasure already taken and discovered that the treasure system appeared designed to make participants compete.

• Uraraka Shige scrutinized the first riddle and hesitated between several possible answers before Gu Yu wrote down “my little nephew.”
• Uraraka Shige realized the first stage served as a tutorial, though he did not know the riddle could have multiple valid answers based on sound reasoning.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu proceeded through trials that tested their patience, eyesight, dexterity, memory, and other abilities.
• Uraraka Shige relied on his own skills and sometimes Gu Yu’s luck and pure-hearted thinking to pass the stages.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu reached the central treasury and took some treasure, but found that someone had already taken the central treasure.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu noticed that smaller treasures were worth more points than bulky starlight treasures, suggesting the officials were trying to provoke competition among participants.

After the Beast Group lost the three-round match, Uraraka Shige left it and decided to form a group of his own with Gu Yu. The new two-person group began drawing the Beast Group’s attention, and Uraraka Shige prepared to strike back using what he had learned about its management.

• The Beast Group lost the match after the smart aleck handed its central treasure to the Snake Group, and Uraraka Shige quit the group when members came looking for trouble.
• After facing repeated harassment, Uraraka Shige decided to start a group for people who had come out of solitary and sought out Gu Yu to join him.
• Gu Yu initially refused because he felt indebted to the Beast Group’s representative, but Uraraka Shige explained the representative’s staged favor and persuaded him to leave Beast.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu began acting together, reducing the nuisances they faced, though the Beast Group targeted Gu Yu as a traitor.
• Uraraka Shige planned to use information from the smart aleck to deal the Beast Group in Area A a heavy blow.

Ying discovered that rumors about his misconduct had helped trigger a wave of defections from Beast Group in Area A. After most of Beast’s management left for rival groups, he targeted Snake Group, unaware that a clever former Beast member was orchestrating the situation and using Uraraka Shige.

• Ying overheard former Beast members claim he had manipulated a match and forced a higher-up to leave Beast for Snake.
• Ying confronted the group and stopped the remaining Beast members from being persuaded by the rumors.
• Ying learned that many Beast members had left for other groups, including the Snake Group, over several days.
• The Beast member responsible for tracking Area A’s membership quit in front of Ying and joined Snake.
• Ying retaliated against Snake Group, unaware that a clever former Beast member was behind the defections and was using Uraraka Shige.

Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu watched the Beast Group in Area A collapse as its members left and Ying ultimately disbanded it. Ying then formed a new fifteen-member group named after himself, “Ying.”

• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu discussed Ying’s troubles, while Gu Yu insisted that he still owed Ying for helping him despite Ying’s earlier betrayal.
• After morning study, Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu dealt with Snake Group members and overheard Beast members saying the group was being targeted across multiple areas and was no longer worth staying in.
• Uraraka Shige considered what the Beast members’ remarks revealed about Beast’s situation in other areas and discussed the group’s decline with Gu Yu.
• Over the next few days, Beast Group members and its Area A management left in large numbers, leaving only around twenty members.
• Ying announced that Beast Group in Area A was disbanding and formed a new fifteen-member group called “Ying.”

Uraraka Shige talked with Gu Yu about wanting to escape and worried about the dangers facing his family while he was imprisoned. The chapter left him without a way out and still uncertain about what had happened to his loved ones.

• Uraraka Shige said he wanted to escape, and Gu Yu agreed that he wanted to get out too.
• Uraraka Shige reflected on the unfinished prototypes of his advanced Level and Strike techniques.
• Uraraka Shige asked Gu Yu whether he wanted to leave because he missed home, but Gu Yu gave only a brief reply.
• Uraraka Shige admitted he missed his family and worried that his imprisonment had exposed them to enemies, business troubles, and other threats.

Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu surveyed Area A and considered how to escape the disciplinary prison despite its sealed layout and heavy security. Gu Yu offered to draw guards away during a match, and Uraraka Shige ended by wondering whether his Quirk, “Thread,” could destroy the electrified fences.

• Uraraka Shige decided to escape and Gu Yu agreed to help him from the sidelines.
• Uraraka Shige and Gu Yu surveyed Area A and found that the prison’s only routes outside were guarded passages surrounded by electrified fences.
• Uraraka Shige considered how his improved gliding ability could help him flee, but he still needed to overcome the prison’s barriers and personnel.
• Uraraka Shige judged that a match could offer the best chance to escape, and Gu Yu offered to draw away some guards and patrols.
• Uraraka Shige considered whether he could use “Thread” to destroy the electrified fences.

During a match between Snake and the newly formed Ying Group, Gu Yu caused a disturbance to draw guards away and help Uraraka Shige escape. Uraraka Shige used the distraction to move toward the prison exit, while Gu Yu’s fate remained uncertain.

• The chapter introduced the Ying Group and Remains Beast, two factions formed from the remnants of Beast that held different goals but shared hostility toward Snake.
• With the Snake and Ying Group match drawing personnel away, Gu Yu told Uraraka Shige to wait while he created a distraction.
• Gu Yu caused a commotion at the cafeteria serving area, then knocked down two guards and ran toward the entrance.
• As guards were called away to deal with Gu Yu, Uraraka Shige returned his tray and followed the disturbance without attracting attention.

Uraraka Shige tried to escape the juvenile detention center by provoking a riot, but the detainees initially ignored him. After they surged toward the passage, the smart aleck helped him up and asked him to check on his younger sister in Tottori Prefecture.

• Uraraka Shige approached the passage and decided to start a riot rather than lose his chance to escape and check on his family and Gu Yu's family.
• Uraraka Shige grabbed a detainee and shouted that the guards were short-handed, but the other detainees watched without joining him.
• The smart aleck backed Uraraka Shige's idea and prompted a nearby detainee to charge the guards, inspiring the others to rush the passage.
• The detainees overwhelmed the guards and reached the isolation gate while the guards struggled to hold them back.
• The smart aleck helped Uraraka Shige up and asked him to go to Tottori Prefecture after escaping to check on his younger sister and report whether she was safe.

Uraraka Shige used Thread to open the isolation door and cut through the electrified fence, then escaped over the correctional prison’s perimeter wall. The alarms sounded as the guards realized someone had gotten out.

• Qu Zhi released Uraraka Shige and disappeared into the crowd of detainees.
• Uraraka Shige pushed through the crowd and used Thread to sever the isolation door’s lock.
• Uraraka Shige let the other detainees pull the door open while he stayed hidden near the wall.
• The detainees rushed toward the prison gate, distracting the guards and patrol personnel.
• Uraraka Shige cut an opening in the electrified fence with Thread, then leaped over the perimeter wall.
• The guards sounded whistles and alarms and shouted that someone had escaped.

After escaping from the disciplinary prison, Uraraka Shige reached Tottori City and began searching for Qu Zhi’s little sister to repay the help Qu Zhi had given him. He found a bookstore owner said to know the city’s residents and told him who he was looking for.

• Uraraka Shige escaped through the mountains, reached a village, and persuaded its elderly residents to give him clothes, food, and money.
• Uraraka Shige used the money to get a ride toward Tottori City and was dropped off in the suburbs.
• Uraraka Shige decided to ask around for Qu Zhi’s little sister because he felt indebted to Qu Zhi.
• A passerby directed Uraraka Shige to a well-informed bookstore owner near the city center.
• Uraraka Shige entered the bookstore, spoke to the elderly owner, and said he was looking for Qu Zhi’s little sister.

Uraraka Shige learned from a bookstore owner that the Qu Zhi he sought had been a homeless juvenile offender with no little sister, revealing that Qu Zhi had lied to lure him to Tottori Prefecture. Just as Uraraka Shige wondered why, a tall stranger carrying a little girl arrived looking for Qu Zhi, and the girl pointed out Uraraka Shige.

• Uraraka Shige described Qu Zhi to the bookstore owner, who searched his memories with a notebook but found no local who matched.
• The bookstore owner recalled a news report about a juvenile offender named Qu Zhi who had committed a serious crime and turned himself in.
• The bookstore owner told Uraraka Shige that Qu Zhi had grown up homeless and alone, with no little sister.
• Uraraka Shige realized Qu Zhi had lied about having a little sister to bring him to Tottori Prefecture.
• A tall, down-and-out man entered the bookstore carrying a little girl and called for Big Brother Qu Zhi.
• The little girl pointed at Uraraka Shige and said the nice smell was coming from him.

Uraraka Shige confirmed that Qu Zhi’s family was safe, then secretly checked on his own family and visited Granny Songju. With those matters settled, he turned his attention to Gu Yu’s family.

• A girl and her tall companion found Uraraka Shige in a bookstore and questioned him about his connection to Qu Zhi.
• Uraraka Shige explained that Qu Zhi had asked him to check whether the girl was living well, and she and her companion left after inviting him to visit.
• After enduring the bookstore owner’s anger, Uraraka Shige gathered money, bought supplies, and traveled home by private car.
• Uraraka Shige secretly watched his family for several days, confirmed that his parents and Ochaco were safe, and practiced with his Quirk in a nearby grove.
• Uraraka Shige stayed two nights at Granny Songju’s apartment, regretting that he could not see Granny Gray or Momotani Hanawa.
• Uraraka Shige decided to look into Gu Yu’s family.