Chapter Summaries

Uraraka Shige visited the Genga Family's fitness center to find its head coach, while the receptionist mistook him for the coach’s child and imagined a tragic backstory. After Uraraka Shige explained his real reason for coming, the coach arrived and recognized him as the young master's friend.

• The receptionist asked Uraraka Shige how he was related to the head coach and imagined he was the coach’s secret son.
• Uraraka Shige considered taking advantage of the receptionist’s assumptions but chose to explain why he wanted to meet the head coach.
• The receptionist said the head coach had not arrived yet, then noticed he should be there soon and invited Uraraka Shige to wait.
• The head coach arrived, recognized Uraraka Shige as the young master's friend, and joked that he would have to pay to work out there now.

Uraraka Shige asked the Genga Family fitness center’s head coach for information about All For One, but the coach said he lacked the authority to share it. After learning what little the coach knew about All Might, Uraraka Shige asked him to contact the family butler.

• Uraraka Shige asked the head coach for help learning about All For One, whom the coach described as overwhelmingly powerful even compared with the Genga Family.
• The head coach refused to share family information about All For One without the family head’s authorization, but offered to help in other ways and contact the butler.
• Uraraka Shige asked what the coach knew about All Might and his recent travels.
• The head coach said All Might had recently dealt with a troublesome villain group in Kyoto and then traveled to Tokyo.
• Uraraka Shige thanked the head coach and asked him to contact the butler.

Terumi Genga's father considered a request from Uraraka Shige for information about All Might and the uncrowned king. He refused to recruit or fully support Shige, but ordered his people to monitor All Might and provide only nonconfidential information, while wondering whether the conflict between the two powerful figures could benefit the Terumi Family.

• The Terumi Family's butler told Genga's father that Tsukanao had relayed Uraraka Shige's request for information about All Might and the uncrowned king.
• Genga's father told the butler not to recruit Shige into the family or interfere with his friendship with Genga.
• Genga's father rejected giving Shige full support but ordered surveillance of All Might and limited, nonconfidential information for Shige.
• After the butler left, Genga's father considered whether the clash between All Might and the underworld's uncrowned king could create an opportunity for the Terumi Family.

After learning that AFO had appeared in Kyoto and that his Quirks had changed, Uraraka Shige despaired over his inability to gather useful intelligence or challenge him. Momotani Hanawa interrupted his self-pity, teased him for being unlovable, and left him demanding to know why she had come.

• Uraraka Shige thanked the Genga Family's head coach for the limited information about AFO, including his recent appearance in Kyoto and his changed Quirks.
• Uraraka Shige considered investigating AFO's current Quirks but rejected the idea because the information would be too difficult to obtain and he lacked the strength to act on it.
• Uraraka Shige lamented that he could only wait for All Might to be gravely injured and feared failing again to repay someone who had saved him.
• Momotani Hanawa appeared behind Uraraka Shige and teased him for looking weak and helpless after he complained that she had startled him.
• Uraraka Shige objected to Momotani Hanawa calling him her little brother, then asked why she had come.

Momotani Hanawa helped Uraraka Shige recover from his low spirits, and he decided to reach Kyoto to gather allies for the coming battle between All Might and AFO. After learning that traveling by train might be possible, Shige began planning how to evade the authorities and recruit heroes, villains, and armed organizations.

• Momotani Hanawa told Uraraka Shige that she had come to help him, then left after saying it repaid him for a meal.
• Uraraka Shige resolved to find enough helpers to influence the coming fight between All Might and AFO and decided he needed to get to Kyoto.
• Shige caught up with Hanawa and asked how to reach Kyoto quickly, and she advised him to take the train, even without a ticket if necessary.
• Shige bought cheap rice balls, returned to his training park, and planned to seek help from the Genga Family or evade authorities on the train.
• Shige considered recruiting outside heroes, villains who resented AFO, and Quirkless organizations, growing increasingly sinister as he planned.

After reaching Kyoto with Granny Gray and her friend, Uraraka Shige was cornered by two children who insisted he was their older brother. He failed to convince them otherwise and, desperate to escape without hurting them, wished he had Momotani Hanawa’s rope-manipulating Quirk.

• Uraraka Shige reached Kyoto after Granny Gray’s friend drove them there, then parted ways with Granny Gray.
• A girl and her younger brother confronted Uraraka Shige in an alley and insisted he was their big brother.
• Uraraka Shige said his name was Uraraka Shige, that he had only an older sister, and that he had never met the children before.
• The children accused Uraraka Shige of lying and abandoning them, leaving him unable to reason with them.
• Uraraka Shige considered using force but did not want to hurt them, and envied Momotani Hanawa’s Quirk for its ability to bind them while he escaped.

Uraraka Shige escaped from two distressed children and searched Kyoto’s alleys for local thugs who might know where AFO had appeared. He found a group of middle-school-aged boys near a hidden door and asked them for directions.

• Uraraka Shige freed himself from the children’s grasp and fled, leaving Xiaocao and Jiro crying until Taro arrived and was angrily accused of abandoning them.
• Uraraka Shige walked through Kyoto, then left the crowded streets to search alleys for thugs who might have information about AFO.
• Uraraka Shige found several boys gathered by a small, dark door at the end of a passage.
• One boy warned Uraraka Shige to leave, while another suggested charging him for directions.
• Uraraka Shige ignored their remarks and asked the boys for directions.

Uraraka Shige questioned a group of teenage thugs in a Kyoto dead end about the king’s base, but they knew nothing and kept demanding money. He called them useless robbers, provoking the whole group to stand up and confront him.

• The thugs demanded a directions fee from Uraraka Shige and tried to charge him for asking about the king’s base.
• Triangle Teeth mocked Uraraka Shige, while the bespectacled thug claimed they knew nothing and demanded more fees.
• The thugs haggled over the charges, and the horned thug demanded ten thousand yen from Uraraka Shige.
• Uraraka Shige realized the group was trying to rob him and called them useless thugs.
• The thugs, including the smallest one, stood up angrily, and the bespectacled thug warned Uraraka Shige that he had said something outrageous.

Uraraka Shige refused to be intimidated by five men in a dead end and swiftly knocked out the horned man who attacked him. The other four were left stunned as the confrontation escalated.

• The horned man and his companions demanded that Uraraka Shige apologize and pay compensation for insulting them.
• Uraraka Shige laughed at their threats, enraging the horned man.
• The horned man lunged at Uraraka Shige with his forehead horn, but Uraraka Shige stepped aside and slapped him.
• Uraraka Shige followed with two Quirk-strengthened punches that knocked the horned man unconscious.
• The other four men watched in shock as the horned man collapsed.

Uraraka Shige faced four Quirk-using companions of the horned man after knocking out their burly ally. He outmaneuvered them at first, but the sharp-nailed fighter revealed that the fat man’s Big Eater Quirk made him unexpectedly fast and muscular, and the fat man lunged to seize Uraraka Shige.

• The four companions recovered from their shock and charged at Uraraka Shige, threatening him and displaying their Quirks.
• Uraraka Shige assessed their abilities and planned to dodge the skinny man’s descent, use the others as obstacles, and isolate the fat man.
• Uraraka Shige avoided the skinny man and struck the sharp-toothed fighter in the jaw, making him bite his tongue.
• As Uraraka Shige moved to attack the sharp-nailed fighter, the fat man reached him with surprising speed and tried to wrap him in his arms.
• The sharp-nailed fighter revealed that the fat man’s Quirk was Big Eater, which filled his body with muscles and made his embrace dangerous.

Uraraka Shige used his agility and Quirk to defeat the remaining attackers, taking down all five men. As he finished the fight, a wanted villain opened the door from which the men had come.

• Uraraka Shige dodged the fat man with glasses and knocked down the sharp-nailed man with an uppercut.
• He evaded the fat man's repeated grapples and stomps while the small, skinny man joined the pursuit.
• Uraraka Shige used his Quirk to dodge their teamwork, then struck the skinny man in the nose.
• He used his superior agility to take the fat man's glasses and defeat him.
• After Uraraka Shige had knocked down all five men, a wanted villain opened the door.

Uraraka Shige faced a wanted villain with a hooked nose after defeating the man’s four underlings in a dead-end alley. Surrounded and unsure he could defeat the villain outright, Shige weighed whether to fight or escape.

• The hooked-nose villain entered the alley and found his new underlings sprawled around Uraraka Shige.
• Shige recognized the villain from a wanted notice and recalled that his Quirk let him replace damaged organs and keep himself alive.
• Four injured underlings got back to their feet while the man with a horn remained unconscious.
• The hooked-nose villain’s threatening presence kept Shige from turning to face the underlings behind him.
• Shige considered attacking the villain, striking the underlings again, or using his Quirk and the alley to escape or fight them all.

Uraraka Shige faced Hooknose and several injured men while a middle-aged man offered to deal with him. Hooknose refused, then proposed working together after learning Uraraka Shige was looking for the base of the uncrowned king whose whereabouts had recently been revealed in Kyoto.

• A middle-aged man emerged from behind the door and offered to take care of Uraraka Shige for Hooknose.
• Uraraka Shige weighed whether to escape as he feared Hooknose and the others might kill him.
• Hooknose rejected the middle-aged man's offer and asked Uraraka Shige why he had come.
• The sharp-nailed man said Uraraka Shige had mentioned looking for a king and a base.
• Hooknose asked Uraraka Shige to consider a deal involving the uncrowned king's base in Kyoto.

Uraraka Shige entered a criminal gang’s headquarters to begin a plan to help All Might and infiltrate AFO’s forces. A powerful villain confronted him on the second floor and asked him to explain why he wanted a powerful Quirk.

• Uraraka Shige went to the gang’s office-building headquarters, hoping to recruit help and find a way into AFO’s organization.
• Uraraka Shige entered the dark building and climbed to the second floor.
• A powerful villain grabbed Uraraka Shige from behind and demanded to know why he had come.
• Uraraka Shige said his friend’s older brother had told him that joining the gang might earn him a powerful Quirk.
• The villain switched on the lights, told Uraraka Shige to turn around, and asked whether he was Quirkless.

Uraraka Shige concealed the true extent of his Quirk while a gray-green-scaled man tested him. The man welcomed him into their ranks and hinted that their lord might grant him a new Quirk.

• Uraraka Shige told the gray-green-scaled man that his Quirk could make his body heavier but caused severe strain and did not strengthen his attacks.
• The gray-green-scaled man accused Uraraka Shige of lying and threatened him with killing intent, prompting Uraraka Shige to prepare to escape.
• Uraraka Shige kept his composure and asked what the man meant, then stopped himself from striking him.
• The gray-green-scaled man softened, ruffled Uraraka Shige's hair, and welcomed him into their ranks.
• Uraraka Shige accepted insincerely and asked whether he really could receive a good Quirk.

Uraraka Shige was brought to AFO’s office-like base and questioned by a suspicious man in black-framed glasses about his Quirk, background, and connection to a friend. The man accepted him provisionally and sent him to the third floor, while privately suspecting Uraraka Shige resembled a child from an organization opposing them.

• The grayish-green guy led Uraraka Shige to the fourth-floor office and explained that joining offered only a chance to obtain a good Quirk.
• The man in black-framed glasses questioned the grayish-green guy about Uraraka Shige and then pressed Uraraka Shige for details about himself and his Quirk.
• Uraraka Shige said he was a newcomer staying with a Quirkless, granny-gray-haired former delinquent friend.
• The man in black-framed glasses told the grayish-green guy to find Uraraka Shige a place on the third floor and send him home for the day.
• After Uraraka Shige left, the man in black-framed glasses wondered whether he resembled a child from an organization working against them.

After being dismissed from the office with a booklet of rules to memorize, Uraraka Shige returned to the dead end to seek Doctor Zōti. He passed through the door guarded by a powerful but simple-minded brute, leaving what awaited him inside unresolved.

• The gray-green fellow gave Uraraka Shige a booklet of rules to memorize by the next day and kicked him out of the office building.
• Uraraka Shige speculated that the office had tested him while he was left alone, and an unseen young man spotted him leaving and hurried away.
• Uraraka Shige decided he had nowhere else to go and returned to the dead end to see Doctor Zōti.
• A towering brute told Uraraka Shige that the bookstore owner had instructed him to let any child seeking Doctor Zōti through the door.
• The brute lifted the wooden stump, revealing the door, and Uraraka Shige opened it.

Uraraka Shige met with Doctor Zōti, who agreed to begin working with him and led him to a hidden underground operating room. Doctor Zōti asked him to bring back fresh samples of “merchandise” from the office building in exchange for information about it.

• Uraraka Shige showed Doctor Zōti the booklet from the office building, and Doctor Zōti advised him to memorize its rules to avoid dangerous assignments.
• Doctor Zōti said Uraraka Shige had passed a test of honesty and that they could begin working together officially.
• Doctor Zōti revealed a trapdoor hidden beneath a wall of books and led Uraraka Shige down a pitch-black tunnel.
• Doctor Zōti entered an underground operating room and retrieved a sealed glass container filled with pale green liquid.
• Doctor Zōti asked Uraraka Shige to bring back fresh samples of “merchandise” from the office building in exchange for information about it.

Uraraka Shige weighed his progress toward reaching AFO while worrying about the office building’s secret dealings and Dr. Zōti’s mysterious container. He suspected the group might be trafficking human organs, but forced himself to stop speculating and focused on finding somewhere to sleep.

• Uraraka Shige reflected on joining a group under AFO’s command and reminded himself that he still had a long way to go.
• Uraraka Shige recalled Dr. Zōti’s comments and questioned the office building’s purpose, its initiation ritual, and Dr. Zōti’s past connections to it.
• Uraraka Shige connected the container and Dr. Zōti’s reference to “fresh merchandise” with the possibility of illegal human organ trafficking, then panicked about the danger to himself and his family.
• Uraraka Shige reasoned that the container seemed too small for an organ, buried his suspicions, and redirected his thoughts toward finding a place to sleep.
• Uraraka Shige rejected returning to the office building or visiting Dr. Zōti, since he had claimed he was staying with a friend and Dr. Zōti might not know he was not local.

Uraraka Shige reviewed the employee handbook and learned that the office building had a powerful security team before officially starting an unpaid trial job. He accepted the unfair terms to join the faction and pursue his own goals.

• Uraraka Shige left the classroom where he had spent the night, reviewed the employee handbook, and went to the office building.
• The gray-green-scaled guy tested Uraraka Shige on the rules and revealed that he belonged to the building’s security team, which guarded the office and stayed there overnight.
• Uraraka Shige asked the gray-green-scaled guy questions while waiting for the man in black-rimmed glasses to arrive.
• The man in black-rimmed glasses tested Uraraka Shige on the rules and offered him an unpaid trial job because he was too young.
• Uraraka Shige agreed to the unpaid work, claiming he wanted to earn an excellent Quirk so he could join the faction.