Chapter Summaries

After Terumi Genga’s family left Uraraka Shige with a ten-year challenge to prove himself worthy of Genga’s friendship, Shige reflected on his slow progress and recognized a new way to develop his Quirk. He left the chapter determined to explore using his Quirk in close combat.

• Terumi Genga’s sister told Uraraka Shige that Genga was recovering but would be punished, and that Shige had ten years to prove he deserved to be Genga’s friend.
• The sister left, and police officers arrived and scolded Shige while his parents worried over his reckless actions.
• Alone in the monitoring room, Shige wished Genga well and resolved to grow stronger so he could repay All Might.
• Shige reconsidered his one-sided Quirk training and realized he could incorporate his Quirk into punches and kicks, building on how he had used it against the villain.

After Uraraka Shige recovered and left the hospital, his family celebrated with a meal out, where he and Ochaco learned that their parents' construction company had landed profitable projects. Ochaco accepted her father's refusal to let her work for the company, and Shige's teasing question about embezzlement restored the family's cheerful mood.

• Uraraka Shige was discharged after several days of observation, and his parents and Ochaco took him out to celebrate.
• Uraraka Shige and Ochaco asked their parents why the family could afford better meals, clothes, and toys.
• Their father explained that the construction company had won several sizable projects and could now cover Shige's hospital bills and improve their living conditions.
• Ochaco offered to work for the family company when she grew up, but her father told her to pursue her own dreams instead.
• Uraraka Shige joked that his father might have embezzled company funds, and his teasing brought the family back to a warm, cheerful mood.

Half a month after leaving the hospital, Uraraka Shige moved his Quirk training from the Terumi Family fitness center to a small park because he could no longer afford the fees. He practiced controlling gravity by slapping trees and spinning water in balloons, hoping to refine his dangerous technique and improve his precision.

• Uraraka Shige kept the scars from his burns as reminders, while his family’s meals became more plentiful after their circumstances improved slightly.
• Uraraka Shige began training in a small park after the Terumi Family fitness center started charging him to use its private training room.
• Uraraka Shige slapped trees to practice confining the gravity of his powerful finishing move, which currently affected him as well as his target.
• Uraraka Shige tried using gravity to form a ball by spinning water inside balloons, but found that the balloons spun along with the water.
• Uraraka Shige kept practicing with water balloons because it helped him refine the range and precision of his gravity control when tree training made him feel unwell.

Uraraka Shige watched his classmates bicker and bully one another through a gloomy school day, while the class representative’s empty seat troubled him. He left school with an ominous feeling after noticing the representative had been absent all day.

• Uraraka Shige watched a bully trick a classmate who had fallen from his chair, and predicted the humiliated child would seek revenge.
• Uraraka Shige complained about being stuck among children, while Ochaco continued talking with their classmates.
• The teacher arrived and struggled to control the noisy class, and Uraraka Shige noticed the class representative’s empty seat.
• After school, Uraraka Shige took the two umbrellas he had brought and looked back at the classroom with a foreboding feeling about the absent class representative.

Shige watched two classmates fall into a puddle and enjoyed their misfortune before going home with Ochaco. Meanwhile, investigators examined a third corpse in a nearby park and concluded that a killer they thought had returned was responsible.

• Shige noticed a boy secretly following the classmate who had embarrassed him earlier and anticipated a prank.
• The boy tripped the classmate into a puddle, then fell himself, and Shige laughed as the two ended up covered in mud.
• Ochaco and her friends gave Shige disapproving looks, while a teacher summoned the two boys to face punishment after the other students left.
• Shige left school with Ochaco, unaware that investigators were examining a corpse in the park where he trained.
• A burn-scarred investigator reported that the victim had died from seven knife wounds and said the case resembled two earlier murders by a killer who had returned.

Over half a year, Shige and Ochaco grew stronger while their former class representative changed into a gloomy, isolated boy whom they barely noticed. The chapter left the former representative increasingly forgotten and Shige continuing to prioritize strength despite regretting his short stature.

• Shige learned that his former class representative had been injured in a park incident and hospitalized, but the boy returned to school after only a week.
• Over the next two months, the representative’s appearance and personality changed drastically, and he grew cold toward everyone.
• By the time another half year had passed, the former representative was isolated, no longer class representative, and prone to accidentally injuring people at school.
• Shige remained indifferent to the former representative, while Ochaco focused on her own friends.
• Shige grew considerably stronger through daily Heavy Shackles training, though he regretted being shorter than Ochaco.
• Ochaco improved her Quirk and developed combat skills with Shige’s help, while Terumi Genga remained out of contact.

Uraraka Shige noticed that his family’s construction company had fallen on hard times again, while his parents tried to keep the problem from him and Ochaco. He planned to investigate after school, but he was also curious about why the former class monitor had been watching him and then disappeared.

• Uraraka Shige noticed that his parents had become busy and worried again, and that the family’s food had worsened as the construction company’s business declined.
• Uraraka Shige questioned his parents about the situation, but they reassured him and Ochaco without explaining the problem.
• Uraraka Shige decided to quietly ask around and look for a way to help, though he planned to wait until school ended and Ochaco was safe.
• Uraraka Shige noticed the former class monitor watching him during class and became suspicious of the sudden change in his behavior.
• The former class monitor disappeared during the break and had not returned by the middle of class, so Uraraka Shige postponed asking him about it.

After dinner, Shige waited while Ochaco worked on her homework, but he became lost in thought and unintentionally made her feel ignored. He explained himself and apologized, leaving the two siblings to resolve the misunderstanding.

• Shige finished his homework and offered to go for a walk with Ochaco, then decided to wait while she finished hers.
• While Ochaco worked, Shige stared vaguely in her direction and failed to respond when she asked for help with a problem.
• Ochaco looked up and saw Shige staring past her, but he snapped out of his daze and asked whether she had finished her homework.
• Ochaco accused Shige of staring at her, and his uncertain reply convinced her that he had ignored her.
• Shige realized Ochaco had misunderstood and explained that he had been spacing out, then apologized to her.

Uraraka Shige and Ochaco went to their parents’ construction company to find out why they had been so busy, but a gang of thugs outside the building made them turn back. As they tried to leave, one of the thugs called them over.

• Uraraka Shige finished helping Ochaco with her homework and asked her to go for a walk with him.
• Uraraka Shige told Ochaco he wanted to visit their parents’ construction company, and she agreed to go with him.
• After the siblings left, a small, dwarf-like figure came out of an alley, entered their home, and locked the door.
• Uraraka Shige and Ochaco arrived near the company and saw a group of teenage thugs loitering outside with clubs and cigarettes.
• Uraraka Shige decided to take Ochaco home rather than risk approaching the thugs.
• One of the thugs spotted the siblings, pointed at them, and called them over.

Shige and Ochaco faced the Gray Rat Society thugs outside Shige’s family construction company, and Shige used his Quirk to defeat them. After Chaos left the thugs incapacitated, Ochaco also began vomiting.

• A thug collapsed after Shige struck him, prompting the Gray Rat Society thugs to approach Shige and Ochaco.
• Shige told Ochaco to use her Quirk on herself and waited for the thugs to enter his Quirk’s range.
• The gray-haired leader questioned the children, then ordered his men to take them to the Gray Rat Society base without hurting them.
• Shige activated Chaos, disorienting the nearby thugs until they fell down and began dry-heaving.
• Shige stopped using Chaos and had Ochaco cancel her Quirk, after which she bent over and vomited.

A masked intruder broke into Shige and Ochaco’s home and struck Shige from behind, leaving him badly hurt and unable to move. Ochaco fought back and knocked the intruder down, while Shige remained helpless on the sofa.

• Shige and Ochaco abandoned their search for their parents and hurried home to avoid causing them more trouble.
• A masked, dwarf-like intruder ambushed Shige with a wooden stick, striking the back of his head and leaving him unable to move.
• The intruder swung at Ochaco, then redirected his stick toward Shige, but Ochaco used her Quirk to intercept it and protect her brother.
• The intruder threw a cup of warm water at Ochaco, but she caught it, made it weightless, and hurled it back at his chin.
• The cup struck the intruder and made him fall hard onto his backside.

Uraraka Shige regained control of his body and intervened when a masked intruder attacked Ochaco. He protected his sister and knocked the intruder’s face covering away, revealing that the attacker’s identity might soon be exposed.

• Ochaco fought the young-sounding intruder while he redirected attacks toward the motionless Uraraka Shige and avoided her attempts to touch him with her Quirk.
• As Ochaco cried out in pain, Uraraka Shige broke free of his paralysis and saw her shielding him from the intruder’s blows.
• Uraraka Shige used his Quirk to slow the intruder’s wooden stick, caught it, and tore it from the attacker’s grasp.
• Uraraka Shige swung the stick at the intruder, but the blow only grazed him and knocked off the object concealing his face.

After the intruder escaped, Uraraka Shige and Ochaco recovered from their injuries, then learned that the former class president had been replaced by a serial killer who murdered his parents. With the immediate threat temporarily reduced, Uraraka Shige turned to his family’s worsening financial problems and his unresolved effort to prevent All Might’s coming battle with All For One.

• Uraraka Shige let the intruder escape and took the injured Ochaco with him to the hospital after their parents returned home.
• Doctors discharged Uraraka Shige quickly, while Ochaco remained hospitalized with suspected minor fractures.
• Uraraka Shige’s classmates reported that the former class president had been exposed as a villain who killed his parents and was suspected of taking over their bodies with a Quirk.
• Police questioned Uraraka Shige and Ochaco, and the villain was believed unlikely to attack them again soon.
• Uraraka Shige investigated his family’s financial crisis but still had no way to find All For One or prevent the coming fight with All Might.

Shige and Ochaco learned that their family’s construction company had received earlier contracts through Genga’s family, but was now struggling because rivals of Genga’s family were quietly encouraging others to undermine it. They understood that the Gray Rat Society thugs outside the company office were among the trouble, and their parents warned them to stay away.

• Shige and Ochaco’s parents explained that the family’s construction company had improved after Shige left the hospital because Genga’s family had referred contracts to it.
• Shige’s father revealed that rivals of Genga’s family were indirectly harming the construction company by prompting others to act against it.
• Shige connected the trouble to the Gray Rat Society, and his father mistakenly thought the thugs had attacked Shige and Ochaco at home.
• Ochaco clarified that she and Shige had only encountered the Gray Rat Society while trying to visit their parents at the company office.
• Shige’s father warned them not to visit the company for a few days, and Shige and Ochaco understood the situation facing the business.

Shige and Ochaco learned that their family’s construction company was being pressured by minor rivals misled by a rumor, but their ideas for solving the problem were rejected. Elsewhere, a desperate man ordered his associate to kidnap the children as leverage against their parents.

• Shige compared the people troubling the Uraraka family to little devils, and his parents discussed whether the family should feel lucky or sad about its predicament.
• Shige and Ochaco tried to help find a solution, but their parents rejected Shige’s costly and unscrupulous proposals.
• A gaunt middle-aged man told a fat associate that they would resort to illegal methods if their efforts failed again.
• The gaunt man proposed kidnapping Shige and Ochaco to force their parents to submit, and the fat man objected that it would break the rules.
• The gaunt man insisted that the rules did not matter because this was his last chance.

Uraraka Shige felt uneasy during class on a sunny day, while a group of thugs received a lucrative job to capture two children. The Gray Rat Society boss insisted they take the job, leaving the silver-gray-haired thug concerned about what would happen to the children afterward.

• Uraraka Shige sat in class with a bad feeling as the weather cleared.
• A thug took charge of a KTV room and told the group that their previous employer had offered them a new job.
• The boss promised the thugs 250,000 yen to bring back two children, alarming some of them and exciting others.
• The silver-gray-haired thug questioned whether capturing children violated the Gray Rat Society's rules.
• The boss dismissed the concern and said they only had to capture the children and send the employer their location.

Yamanaka Koichi challenged the Gray Rat Society boss over a dangerous job and the boss’s motives, but the boss persuaded most of the thugs to support him. Koichi then accused him of keeping the promised opportunity for himself, and the boss responded by accusing Koichi of betrayal.

• Yamanaka Koichi questioned whether the job could expose the Gray Rat Society to kidnapping charges and put its members at risk.
• A multicolored-haired thug challenged Koichi, but Koichi warned him he could be made the fall guy if the police and Pro Heroes investigated.
• Koichi reminded the Gray Rat Society that its members were Quirkless thugs looked down on by others, and urged them not to forget their identity.
• The boss appealed to the thugs’ hopes of becoming better and promised the job could help them rise, winning most of their support.
• Koichi accused the boss of receiving the promised opportunity alone and planning to leave the other members behind.
• The boss acted hurt and accused Koichi of trying to divide the brothers and betray him.

Uraraka Shige walked home with Ochaco and tried to cheer her up by offering to buy ice cream, but she refused because of the family’s financial troubles. Their conversation shifted when Shige spotted familiar thugs approaching and warned Ochaco, as the thugs recognized them as their targets.

• Shige noticed Ochaco eyeing an ice cream shop and offered to buy her a treat.
• Ochaco refused, saying they should not trouble their parents, and Shige struggled with his loneliness and what to say next.
• Shige spotted familiar dyed-haired thugs and warned Ochaco that they were the men he had seen near the family company’s office.
• Ochaco recalled the thugs and grew wary as they approached.
• The thugs recognized Shige and Ochaco as their targets and alerted their boss.

Uraraka Shige stayed behind to hold off the thugs while Ochaco ran to find help. His Quirk initially knocked several attackers down, but the thugs used medicine to counter its effects and began surrounding him.

• Shige told Ochaco to run for the police or a hero while he stalled the thugs.
• Ochaco made herself lighter with her Quirk and ran to get help, trusting Shige to hold on.
• Shige used his Quirk, “Chaos,” to disrupt the thugs’ sense of gravity and knock several of them down.
• The thugs took milky-white capsules prepared by their boss, which dulled the effects of Shige’s Quirk.
• Some thugs chased Ochaco while the others surrounded Shige, leaving him unable to stop them and hoping she would find help soon.

Uraraka Shige used his gravity-altering Quirk and physical abilities to break through the Gray Rat Society thugs trying to capture him. He escaped their circle, leaving the thugs behind as he rushed away.

• Uraraka Shige waited for the police or Heroes while the thugs recovered, but their boss ordered them to grab him before help arrived.
• Uraraka Shige used Level and Strike to knock down nearby thugs, then used Rise to leap over them.
• He shifted his Quirk's chaotic gravity field forward, making more thugs stumble as he moved toward the boss.
• The boss grabbed Uraraka Shige's ankle as he tried to escape, but Uraraka Shige stayed on his feet and broke through the circle.