Chapter Summaries

Uraraka Shige and the others survived the Nomu’s opening attacks, but sixteen more Nomu surrounded them in the forest. Sakinagi Shushin suspected the attackers were the same Nomu that had assaulted U.A. High School, while the group remained unaware that more powerful Nomu might be waiting deeper in the forest.

• Gu Yu woke and shielded Sakinagi Shushin from a Nomu, suffering severe injuries to his hands and a graze to his chest.
• Stain dodged a Nomu attack, Spinner leaped to safety through the trees, and Uraraka Shige used his Quirk to multiply the gravity on a Nomu’s fists and drag it down.
• Spinner complained about the number of Nomu and wondered whether AFO’s forces had another factory or had gathered the U.A. attackers there.
• Sakinagi Shushin explained that the Nomu were likely connected to the attack on U.A. High School and the recent requests from major factions.
• The group remained surrounded by sixteen Nomu, unaware that stronger Nomu might attack if they pressed farther into the forest.

Uraraka Shige, Stain, Spinner, Sakinagi Shushin, and Gu Yu fought the sixteen Nomu after splitting them up, but Gu Yu’s untreated hand injuries left him in danger. The group decided to flee the forest with Gu Yu rather than risk pushing deeper toward stronger Nomu.

• Uraraka Shige used his Quirk to twist a Nomu’s neck, then killed the grotesque creature it became by pinning its head with a branch.
• Stain dodged the Nomu surrounding him, licked blood from his dagger to paralyze one, and stabbed another through the head.
• Spinner led three close-combat Nomu on a chase through the forest, staying out of their reach.
• Sakinagi Shushin struggled to hold off the unusually capable Nomu that had made the air vibrate, while Gu Yu fought two others despite his injured, bleeding hands.
• Uraraka Shige and the others agreed to escape the dense forest while protecting Gu Yu, abandoning the chance to encounter the stronger Nomu deeper inside.

Uraraka Shige and the others struggled to survive the Nomu’s attacks as their injuries and exhaustion worsened. After five more minutes, Stain sacrificed his right arm to kill a Nomu and finally moved to help Gu Yu, giving the others a chance to escape.

• Uraraka Shige used his Thread to decapitate a Nomu while a sonic attack left him and the others vulnerable to ranged attacks.
• Spinner suffered a deep puncture wound, while Gu Yu, Sakinagi Shushin, and Stain were also injured and increasingly unable to support one another.
• Uraraka Shige kept fighting with his Thread and Quirk-assisted flight, but his injuries and stamina loss threatened to leave him unable to escape.
• After roughly five minutes, Gu Yu grew dazed as blood poured from his wounds, and Stain sacrificed his right arm to kill a Nomu.
• Stain moved to deal with the two Nomu attacking Gu Yu, and Uraraka Shige and the others were freed from the attacks one by one.
• The group recognized they needed to retreat.

Uraraka Shige and the others escaped the forest while Sakinagi Shushin helped keep Gu Yu alive. At the forest’s edge, they encountered a talking Nomu, and Sakinagi Shushin questioned whether it had its own thoughts and will.

• Uraraka Shige, Spinner, Stain, and Sakinagi Shushin fled through the forest with the badly injured Gu Yu.
• Sakinagi Shushin stopped Uraraka Shige from pushing his Quirk harder and advised him to use gravity to temporarily seal Gu Yu’s wounds.
• The group escaped the forest and found a female-shaped Nomu blocking their path.
• The Nomu asked whether they were the intruders the Doctor had mentioned, speaking in a gentle voice.
• Sakinagi Shushin asked the Nomu whether it possessed thoughts and a will of its own, and the Nomu paused before responding.

Uraraka Shige and the others were trapped between a self-aware Nomu and a horde of attackers, and Stain and Spinner were killed in the ensuing battle. As the Nomu moved to kill Uraraka Shige, a strange voice echoed inside his mind.

• A self-aware Nomu identified Uraraka Shige and the others as intruders, while they hesitated to attack her.
• Ordinary Nomu emerged from the forest, and the self-aware Nomu ordered them to kill everyone.
• Stain drew his daggers and fought the charging Nomu, but a barrage of ranged attacks engulfed him.
• Spinner charged the self-aware Nomu, but a dark shadow pierced his forehead and killed him.
• Sakinagi Shushin despaired as Stain's battered body emerged from the dust, and the self-aware Nomu approached Uraraka Shige to kill him.
• Uraraka Shige felt his head split with pain as a familiar yet strange voice echoed in his mind.

Uraraka Shige awakened a new level of control over his Quirk while a self-aware Nomu threatened him and Sakinagi Shushin. He destroyed the Nomu with a massive gravity drill, then realized it had still managed to escape.

• The Nomu raised its finger to kill Uraraka Shige, and Sakinagi Shushin stepped in to protect him.
• Sakinagi Shushin's Quirk barely affected the Nomu, whose incomplete thoughts could not understand its influence.
• Uraraka Shige recalled a debate with another version of himself and concluded that people needed to awaken to truly understand their Quirks.
• Uraraka Shige announced that he had awakened, then formed an enormous drill from condensed gravity and struck the Nomu.
• Uraraka Shige noticed the Nomu had escaped and apologized to Sakinagi Shushin.

Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi Shushin traveled to the Union’s ruined base to question captured AFO remnants and locate the enemy’s remaining forces. After Shushin asked a Union member where the prisoners were, the man kicked at him, and Shushin’s Quirk began to change the man’s thoughts.

• Sakinagi Shushin noticed that Uraraka Shige seemed different since their encounter with the Nomu, especially because of his dead-fish eyes.
• Uraraka Shige explained that his awakened Quirk had greatly increased its range, control, and power, though using it now drained his stamina faster.
• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi Shushin flew and walked in intervals until they reached the Union’s city at dusk and found its former base in ruins.
• Uraraka Shige restrained a Union member with gravity and asked where the captured AFO remnants were.
• Sakinagi Shushin asked the restrained man the same question, blocked his kick, and began influencing his thoughts with his Quirk.

Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi found the Union’s underground cells and learned that the AFO remnant captives had caused catastrophic losses because they could barely control their Quirks. One captive begged for rescue and offered information, so Uraraka Shige chose to question him first.

• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi reached the Union’s holding site, where a member recognized them and said Metropolitan Police Department officers had just investigated the captives.
• After the officers left, the Union member let Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi enter and led them underground to the cells.
• Uraraka Shige saw the captives shackled and blindfolded, then asked why they were restrained so heavily.
• The Union member explained that the captives’ poorly controlled Quirks had made them fight recklessly and kill about twenty percent of the Union’s people.
• One captive begged Uraraka Shige to save him and offered to tell him everything, so Uraraka Shige decided to begin with that man.

Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi learned that the attackers had been given unstable Quirks and proposed involving the Shie Hassaikai in the fight against AFO's remnants. After visiting Gu Yu's family, they went to the Shie Hassaikai headquarters, where Uraraka Shige decided to force his way in after they were refused entry.

• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi interrogated the prisoners and learned how they had been abducted, given Quirks, trained, and used as expendable attackers against the "Union."
• Uraraka Shige suggested that the prisoners might have their Quirks removed, and they revealed that they had seen a living brain during their surgeries.
• Sakinagi privately formed suspicions about who the brain might belong to and kept his ideas to himself until he could verify them.
• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi proposed that the "Union" cooperate with the Shie Hassaikai against AFO's remnants, and the officers agreed to consult Yamato.
• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi apologized to Gu Yu's family, then visited the Shie Hassaikai headquarters to discuss cooperation.
• The Shie Hassaikai members refused them entry, so Uraraka Shige decided to fight his way inside.

Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi Shushin forced their way into the Shie Hassaikai headquarters and offered Chisaki Kai a partnership with the League. After Uraraka Shige easily blocked Chisaki Kai and Katsukame Rikiya's attacks, he left the offer for Chisaki Kai to consider.

• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi Shushin passed through the Shie Hassaikai headquarters, where Uraraka Shige pinned several unfamiliar members to the wall with gravity.
• Rappa Kendo punched through a corridor wall, and Chisaki Kai confronted Uraraka Shige while holding the horned little girl’s hand.
• Uraraka Shige offered Chisaki Kai information from the League and proposed that the League and Shie Hassaikai cooperate.
• Chisaki Kai attacked with spikes formed from the wall, but Uraraka Shige’s gravity shattered them.
• Katsukame Rikiya charged Uraraka Shige, who pinned him to the floor with increased gravity, then left with Sakinagi Shushin after urging Chisaki Kai to consider the offer.

Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi met Kurogiri Giran to arrange the purchase of equipment and information, then fought off groups of axe-wielding men who ambushed them. A week later, they returned to collect the custom-made disc, and Giran explained its construction.

• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi met Kurogiri Giran in a plaza and requested information and specialized equipment.
• Giran accepted Uraraka Shige’s deposit and said the transaction would take place in seven days, warning that they were on the official list and people wanted to capture them.
• A group of axe-wielding men surrounded Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi, but Uraraka Shige used his Quirk to knock them down and leave.
• More men with short-handled axes surrounded them outside, and Uraraka Shige used gravity to topple them before departing with Sakinagi.
• A week later, Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi met Giran, who showed them a disc embedded with three thousand removable steel balls.

Sakinagi used his Quirk to warp Giran’s thoughts and interrogated him for information about AFO’s remaining forces and their contacts. After learning that Giran worked with AFO’s remnants as a broker but did not know their whereabouts, Sakinagi and Uraraka Shige killed him to prevent him from revealing what had happened.

• Giran gave Sakinagi full-body soft armor, a handgun, and two magazines as a welcome gift.
• Uraraka Shige’s gravity pulled Giran into Sakinagi, and the resulting injuries triggered Sakinagi’s Quirk, warping Giran’s thoughts.
• Sakinagi questioned the newly honest Giran and extracted information about him, AFO’s remaining forces, their factions, and recent news.
• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi learned that Giran had supported AFO’s remnants as a broker but did not know where they were hiding.
• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi killed Giran so he could not tell AFO’s remnants what had happened.

Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi escaped after confronting Giran, then discussed how the remnants of All For One’s forces were using the Nomu attacks to gain fame and recruit covert supporters. Sakinagi proposed tracking those supporters through the League, Meta Liberation, and yakuza groups, while an unseen former companion waited impatiently for them to act.

• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi left Giran behind and erased their tracks as they escaped into a crowd.
• Sakinagi noticed a man who seemed to recognize Uraraka Shige and warned that he felt something was off about him.
• Over a meal, Sakinagi explained that the remnants used the Nomu attacks to gain fame, display strength, and attract secret supporters.
• Sakinagi proposed mobilizing the League, Meta Liberation, and yakuza organizations to watch potential supporters and locate the remnants.
• Elsewhere, a former companion anxiously muttered that Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi were taking too long to react.

Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi told the Union that they had found traces of AFO’s remaining forces and asked to use its intelligence network to monitor likely supporters. Yamato agreed to their plan, and they left with information on underground agents to continue their investigation.

• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi went to the Union base and asked to meet whoever was in charge while Yamato was away.
• Sakinagi told Triangle Head that AFO’s remnants had backing from multiple forces and proposed identifying and monitoring likely supporting agents through the Union’s intelligence channels.
• Yamato returned, heard Triangle Head’s account, and reacted with brief surprise before asking for more details.
• After considering the proposal for several minutes, Yamato agreed to proceed with Sakinagi’s plan.
• Uraraka Shige and Sakinagi obtained information on underground agents from the Union and stayed at the base briefly.

After three months of surveillance produced no clear results, Sakinagi and Uraraka Shige reconsidered whether their targets or methods were wrong. They concluded that AFO's remnants might be hiding among the ordinary villains, thugs, and yakuza groups the agents encountered.

• Meta Liberation and the Shie Hassaikai reported that the watched agents had stayed in their regions and shown no suspicious activity over three months.
• Sakinagi outlined possible reasons for the lack of results, including mistaken targets, a mole, or surveillance methods being anticipated.
• Sakinagi suggested that an unknown Quirk might have affected their investigation, alarming the group.
• Uraraka Shige asked how they could have overlooked a result, and Sakinagi realized they had treated the agents' ordinary contacts as unimportant.
• Sakinagi concluded that AFO's remnants might be concealed among the villains, thugs, and yakuza groups the agents had met.

Sakinagi led the group to investigate people suspected of being AFO's remnants and proposed questioning them directly, using his Quirk to extract information. Their first target was innocent, so they moved on to the other two and found useful information.

• Sakinagi and the others spent three days investigating people connected to the agents and identified two or three uncertain suspects in each city.
• Sakinagi persuaded the group to verify the suspects' identities before taking action and suggested asking them directly.
• Sakinagi, Uraraka Shige, and the others entered their first suspect's home while the Meta Liberation member waited outside.
• After the suspect shoved him, Sakinagi activated his Quirk and made the man reveal everything he knew, winning the League and Shie Hassaikai members' trust.
• The group learned their first target had no connection to AFO's remnants, so they sought out the other two suspects and gained useful information.

Sakinagi persuaded Uraraka Shige to capture AFO's scattered remnants quietly and gather information rather than attack them all at once. The group caught several members, but they were only the backbone of an organization whose true core remained hidden and whose combat forces were mostly Nomu.

• Sakinagi warned that AFO's remnants had spent over ten years hiding among ordinary people and preparing their plans.
• Uraraka Shige proposed taking the remnants out in one sweeping attack, but Sakinagi argued for secretly capturing them and extracting information with his Quirk.
• Sakinagi countered Uraraka Shige's argument for speed with a saying about advancing steadily, and Uraraka Shige accepted his approach.
• Over the next few months, Uraraka Shige and the others traveled between major cities and captured several remnants of AFO's forces.
• The group discovered that their captives knew little about AFO's organization, while its Doctor and other core members stayed deeply concealed and its remaining combat forces were mostly Nomu.

Uraraka Shige and his companions entered a commercial building to investigate an AFO remnant’s lead, unaware that it was a trap. Sakinagi found Qu Zhi on the top floor, while Uraraka Shige and the others were trapped among a horde of Nomu.

• Uraraka Shige and his four companions followed a sudden lead to a commercial building, despite Sakinagi’s suspicions and warnings.
• Uraraka Shige and the others fought their way past the building’s security guards and entered the top-floor corridor, while Sakinagi slipped into a separate room.
• Doors along the corridor opened to reveal nearly a hundred Nomu waiting for Uraraka Shige and his companions.
• Sakinagi found Qu Zhi, a former member of the Wandering Protectors, surrounded by cloaked figures and learned that the Nomu were represented inside a crystal ball.
• Qu Zhi asked Sakinagi if he wanted to become a hero, while A Ying trapped Uraraka Shige and the others among the Nomu.

Uraraka Shige and the other trapped fighters struggled against swarms of Nomu in the confined corridor, while Sakinagi and Qu Zhi’s probing outside the crystal ball neared its end. Uraraka Shige found a way to lift some of the Nomu, but the Eight Bullets member remained trapped beneath them.

• The League member scattered into maple leaves to evade a Nomu’s blow, then re-formed nearby, visibly weakened.
• The Shie Hassaikai member redirected a charging Nomu’s impact into the floor, but Nomu piled on top of him and pinned him down.
• The Meta Liberation member sent a stream of doubles against the Nomu, buying time as they were torn apart.
• Uraraka Shige crushed a Nomu’s heart with Gravity and then knocked another Nomu’s headless upper body away.
• Uraraka Shige lifted several Nomu with reversed gravity, but could not free the buried Eight Bullets member.
• The League member moved toward the Meta Liberation member to propose working together, while Sakinagi and Qu Zhi’s probing outside the crystal ball drew to a close.

Qu Zhi tried to recruit Sakinagi to help change the world, then reconsidered his plan after realizing Sakinagi did not know he had already manipulated him. Inside the crystal ball, Uraraka Shige and the others remained trapped as Nomu closed in, and Uraraka Shige’s attack made the crystal ball shake.

• Qu Zhi asked Sakinagi to help change the world, but Sakinagi refused and accused him of trying to use him as a pawn.
• Qu Zhi realized Sakinagi had not discovered that he had already manipulated him and decided to exploit that ignorance instead of having the Shadow Transformation Nomu kill him.
• Uraraka Shige and the others found themselves trapped at the corridor’s end behind an invisible barrier while dozens of Nomu approached.
• Uraraka Shige struck the barrier with a Gravity Explosion, adding cracks to the crystal ball and making it shake.