Chapter Summaries

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.

Over nearly half a year, Uraraka Shige improved his Quirk, investigated Gu Yu’s past, and found his family in Shoji City. After delivering their news and returning to Granny Songju’s home, he hit another growth bottleneck and began considering going back to prison.

• Uraraka Shige spent nearly half a year investigating Gu Yu’s family on his own while living with Granny Songju and training with Momotani Hanawa.
• Uraraka Shige improved his control of his Threads and gravity techniques, while also learning that his family’s construction company had begun recovering some work.
• Uraraka Shige traced Gu Yu’s juvenile-crime reports to an old address, traveled to Shoji City, and found Gu Yu’s family in a slum-like area.
• Uraraka Shige told Gu Yu’s family about him and learned what message they wanted him to take back.
• Uraraka Shige returned to Granny Songju’s home, encountered a growth bottleneck, and began thinking about returning to prison to find quiet and pass along the news.

Uraraka Shige returned to the correctional prison after escaping and spending half a year outside, and the authorities placed him in a more closely guarded special solitary cell. Over several days, he trained, questioned nearby inmates, and listened for information about his situation.

• Uraraka Shige returned to the correctional prison and was assigned to a special solitary cell with only briefs to wear and a mandatory one-month observation period.
• Uraraka Shige spent his first two days exercising and focusing on his Quirk while ignoring nearby inmates who tried to speak with him.
• On the third day, Uraraka Shige asked the inmate in the nearest cell how long he had been there, and learned it had been half a month.
• Uraraka Shige ignored the inmates’ questions and taunts, including one inmate’s talk of escaping and attacking guards, which brought that inmate punishment.
• The next day, Uraraka Shige asked about the special cells’ rules, then resumed training and eavesdropped on nearby conversations for useful information.
• Over the following three days, Uraraka Shige asked the nearest inmate a few questions each day and gradually spoke more.

During five days in a special single cell, Uraraka Shige trained his Quirk and listened to other inmates’ stories. As one inmate prepared to return to Area A, Uraraka asked him to tell Gu Yu that he was back.

• Uraraka Shige spent five days training his Quirk and body while listening to conversations among the special-cell inmates.
• Uraraka Shige learned that the inmate he spoke with most was serving two months after repeatedly gravely injuring other inmates.
• Uraraka Shige learned that a new inmate was serving nine months after his Quirk caused a citywide power outage that led to hundreds of deaths.
• An inmate criticized the new arrival for pestering Uraraka, while the two inmates traded familiar jabs.
• Uraraka Shige asked a shifty-looking inmate returning to Area A to tell Gu Yu that he was back.

Uraraka Shige tried to recruit a quiet, thin detainee whose Quirk stored muscle and strength, but the man ignored him until he heard that Shige could improve his training. The chapter ended with the detainee suddenly growing imposing and asking what Shige had said.

• A newcomer was shoved into the vacant special cell as nearby detainees called out questions and speculated about him.
• Uraraka Shige exercised while observing the detainees, including a thin, small fellow who trained relentlessly despite his frail appearance.
• Uraraka Shige learned that the thin, small fellow was the strongest fighter nearby and had a Quirk that stored his muscle and strength for later release.
• After three days of failed attempts to get his attention, Uraraka Shige asked why he trained so desperately and offered to make his training twice as effective for half the effort.
• The thin, small fellow suddenly grew tall and imposing, turned toward Uraraka Shige, and demanded to know what he had said.

After half a month in special solitary confinement, Uraraka Shige built a tentative alliance with Kurasu Rikizo while keeping up his training. His observation period ended, and he returned to Area A, concluding that solitary had become easier once he adjusted to prison life.

• Uraraka Shige secured Kurasu Rikizo’s verbal promise to join his group if he transferred to Area A, offering to use his Quirk to help Kurasu grow faster.
• Uraraka Shige heard that a familiar inmate had returned to special solitary confinement after beating another prisoner, but told Kurasu Rikizo he was concerned only for the victim.
• Uraraka Shige and Kurasu Rikizo spent the following days training and talking, while Uraraka Shige occasionally joined conversations with other inmates and guards.
• Uraraka Shige’s observation period ended, and he was released from special solitary confinement back into Area A.