Chapter Summaries

During dinner and afterward, Jilan Jiyu repeatedly covered for his classmates, first hiding their awkward reactions around Yaoyorozu and later concealing Kaminari’s collection of risqué Pro Hero photos. The magazine was exposed when Yaoyorozu opened it, leaving the group’s secret on the verge of discovery.

• Yaoyorozu’s wrist suddenly hurt at dinner, and the others copied her until Jilan told them to blame the air conditioning.
• Kaminari showed Jilan a magazine filled with revealing photos of female Pro Heroes, but Jilan refused to keep it and warned him to focus on the final exam.
• When Ashido and the others noticed the magazine, Jilan claimed it contained exercise answers and burned it to protect Kaminari.
• Toru Hagakure accidentally struck Jilan while trying to keep him from burning his fingers, and Yaoyorozu opened the partly burned magazine before it fell to the floor.

After the written final, Jilan and his classmates discussed the magazine scandal and prepared for the practical exam. Bakugo challenged Jilan to a robot-destruction contest, and Jilan accepted, determined to settle their rivalry before DIO and the League of Villains became a greater threat.

• Kaminari thanked Jilan for tutoring him, while Jilan reminded him that the girls remained angry because they had helped deceive them about the magazine.
• Minoru Mineta revealed that he had lent Kaminari the now out-of-print magazine, forgave him for losing it, and invited him to seek a summer job together.
• Kaminari and Mineta discussed the job suggestively until Jilan pointed out that the class was watching them.
• Kirishima thanked Bakugo for helping him study, and Bakugo dismissed him before challenging Jilan to destroy more robots in the practical exam.
• Jilan accepted Bakugo's challenge and resolved to make him acknowledge defeat before outside threats from DIO and the League of Villains arose.

Jilan and Asui began their practical exam against Ectoplasm, who challenged them to escape his multi-clone assault through a pair of tower-like buildings. Jilan’s opening attempt to handcuff Ectoplasm failed when he revealed he had substituted a clone, leaving Jilan and Asui surrounded.

• Nezu announced that the practical exam had changed to pair battles against teachers, with students needing to handcuff their opponent or escape the venue within thirty minutes.
• Aizawa assigned Jilan and Asui to face Ectoplasm, while the other student pairs were matched with different teachers, including All Might facing Midoriya and Bakugo.
• On the bus, Asui asked Jilan whether he was glad to be partnered with her, and Jilan praised her versatile Quirk.
• Ectoplasm explained that the route required Jilan and Asui to climb one tower, cross to another, and escape, while warning that they would need to handle multiple opponents.
• Jilan and Asui attacked as the match began, but Ectoplasm vanished as a clone and several copies descended to surround them.

Jilan and Asui fought their way through Ectoplasm’s clones and reached him, only to be trapped by his giant clone. Jilan began to break free with crimson Hamon, but Ectoplasm stopped him and prepared to keep him restrained as Jilan pointed out something behind the teacher.

• Jilan and Asui teamed up to climb to the fifteenth floor, then used Hamon Cutter to destroy the clones blocking their route.
• Asui identified Ectoplasm’s real body, and Jilan realized the teachers had arranged the test so every group could break through.
• Ectoplasm created a giant clone and used Forced Confinement: Giant Devouring to trap Jilan and Asui inside it.
• Jilan’s crimson Hamon weakened the giant’s body, but Ectoplasm struck his chest and bound him again before he could escape.
• Ectoplasm said he would not let Jilan move, and Jilan suddenly asked him to look behind himself.

Jilan and Asui won their training battle against Ectoplasm by secretly using a Hamon Bubble to place handcuffs on his prosthetic leg. In the monitoring room, Jilan praised Uraraka and Iida for defeating Thirteen, then explained the danger and public suspicion that came with Thirteen’s Black Hole Quirk.

• Jilan distracted Ectoplasm while Asui used a Hamon Bubble to fasten handcuffs around his prosthetic leg, allowing them to escape his restraint and meet the victory conditions.
• Jilan told Ectoplasm that he had anticipated his wariness and deliberately made him think his precautions were working.
• Jilan gave Asui warm water and apologized for making her swallow soap bubbles after they returned to the monitoring room.
• Uraraka and Iida arrived and explained how Uraraka used Zero Gravity and her fighting skills to defeat Thirteen after Iida struggled against Black Hole’s suction.
• Jilan reassured Uraraka that Thirteen’s need to avoid killing opponents made their victory predictable, then described how his dangerous Quirk could make him a target of suspicion.

Jilan watched several teams take on U.A. teachers in their practical exam and saw Yaoyorozu and Todoroki, then Tokoyami and Ojiro, achieve victory. As the other battles neared their end, Uraraka anxiously watched Midoriya and Bakugo face All Might.

• Jilan reasoned that Thirteen's bulky combat suit might also restrict his Quirk, then watched the exam footage.
• Yaoyorozu and Todoroki used a flash, imitation capture bandages, and heat to bind Aizawa and handcuff him, meeting the victory condition.
• Tokoyami and Ojiro landed on Power Loader's mech, broke into its cover, and took control of the console, prompting him to surrender.
• Recovery Girl told Jilan that Nezu's past human experimentation had left him with a contradictory personality, though he loved humans.
• Jilan noticed Uraraka watching Midoriya and Bakugo's battle against All Might with worry.

Kirishima and Aoyama failed their exam against Cementoss, while Bakugo and Midoriya’s fight against All Might left them pinned before they could reach the exit. The chapter ends with Bakugo trapped beneath All Might as Midoriya is used to knock him down.

• Kirishima and Aoyama failed to defeat Cementoss, and Asui explained how they could have used their Quirks to ruin his building materials.
• Kaminari described how he and Ashido had been overwhelmed by the principal’s exam, and Kirishima asked Bakugo how he had fared against All Might.
• Bakugo attacked Midoriya for trying to run, then faced All Might’s overwhelming strength as All Might seized him and knocked Midoriya away.
• Midoriya rescued Bakugo, but Bakugo pushed him off and argued with him until Midoriya demanded that he think strategically and learn from Jilan.
• Bakugo ordered Midoriya to follow his plan, and Midoriya blasted All Might at close range with Bakugo’s gauntlet so they could run for the exit.
• All Might caught up, knocked Bakugo into a building, then swung Midoriya into him and pinned Bakugo beneath his foot.

Fang Ping realized he had been reborn in 2008, but his classmates’ talk of costly martial arts exams and powerful grandmasters showed that this world was not the one he remembered. He was left bewildered by a news report about Grandmaster Ma and the Penguin Group challenging Google’s Taimu.

• Fang Ping accepted that he had been reborn and began imagining ways to use his knowledge of the future.
• Yang Jian asked Fang Ping and Chen Fan whether they would register for the martial arts exam, and Chen Fan said the fee was too expensive.
• Chen Fan and Yang Jian’s deskmate discussed their hopes of pursuing martial arts or humanities studies, leaving Fang Ping confused about the registration.
• Zhang Hao announced that Grandmaster Ma had reached the Eighth Rank and that the Penguin Group had challenged Taimu, Google’s Asia-Pacific president.
• The class excitedly debated Grandmaster Ma’s prospects, while Fang Ping struggled to understand how his familiar world had changed.

After the exams, Jilan received an invitation from Shadow to attend a product launch at The Voyager, and he hoped the product might help him control his dangerous fixation on his opponent. He also remembered his promise to go shopping with Toru Hagakure and the others for supplies for forest training camp.

• Jilan deleted a spam email offering summer work in Syria and reflected on his theory that DIO's Arrow had caused Quirks to emerge around the world.
• Jilan opened an animated invitation from Shadow, whose werewolf owner announced that its new model was ready and invited him to the product launch.
• Jilan accepted the invitation because he hoped the product would help control feelings that might return and make him a danger to others.
• The werewolf said Jilan's invitation would arrive with his latest order and revealed the venue was The Voyager.
• Toru Hagakure called Jilan to remind him to join the group shopping trip the next day for forest training camp supplies.

Jilan went shopping at the Kiyashi Ward Shopping Mall with his classmates and paired up with Toru Hagakure. From an upper-floor railing, he spotted Midoriya sitting beside a hooded person who had a hand on him.

• Jilan and the U.A. students arrived at the mall, split up, and agreed to meet again at four.
• Toru Hagakure asked Jilan to shop with her, and he went along while buying a swim outfit and other necessities.
• Hagakure tried on a swimsuit and asked Jilan for his opinion, but his remarks embarrassed and angered her.
• Jilan looked down from the second-floor railing and saw Midoriya sitting beside a hooded person with a hand on him.

Tomura Shigaraki confronted Midoriya in a mall and, after discussing the Hero Killer and All Might, discovered his own conviction: to create a world without All Might and expose justice as fragile. As Shigaraki left, he encountered Jilan Jiyu, whom he recognized with hostility.

• Shigaraki wandered through the city, frustrated that people admired the Hero Killer and wondering what distinguished their motives.
• Shigaraki seized Midoriya by the neck and forced him to sit and talk, threatening to kill bystanders if Midoriya resisted.
• Midoriya explained that the Hero Killer pursued ideals rather than destruction, and Shigaraki concluded that All Might was the source of his anger toward both the Hero Killer and heroes.
• Uraraka interrupted, and Shigaraki released Midoriya and left; Midoriya urged her to call the police and asked Shigaraki about All For One's goal.
• Shigaraki declared that his conviction was to create a world without All Might and make people see how fragile justice was.
• Shigaraki encountered Jilan Jiyu in an empty street and reacted with surprise and hostility.

After Shigaraki approached Midoriya, Jilan Jiyu met him on a deserted rooftop and heard his invitation to join the League of Villains. Shigaraki attacked when Jilan refused, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Midoriya reassured his classmates that Shigaraki had not hurt him, and the students learned Jilan had left because he felt sick.
• Officer Sancha arrived, took Midoriya’s account, and began searching for Jilan after Asui warned that he might still be nearby.
• Jilan told Asui he was safe and revealed that he had already left, while privately meeting Shigaraki on a deserted rooftop.
• Shigaraki accused Jilan of hiding his involvement in the Hosu City incident and called him a born villain.
• Shigaraki invited Jilan to join the League of Villains, but Jilan refused, prompting Shigaraki to charge at him.

Jilan defeated Shigaraki, who had come to recruit him into the League of Villains, but Kurogiri intervened before Jilan could capture or kill him. Shigaraki and Kurogiri returned to the League, leaving Jilan unwilling to join and uncertain whether he could call himself a hero.

• Jilan used Hamon to overpower Shigaraki, whose Decay could not affect him.
• Jilan considered capturing Shigaraki, but Kurogiri appeared through a Warp Gate and asked him to spare Shigaraki.
• Kurogiri reprimanded Shigaraki for leaving the hideout, while Shigaraki said he would use the Hero Killer's legacy and the U.A. students to advance his plans.
• Shigaraki and Kurogiri invited Jilan to join the League of Villains and meet their Master, DIO, but Jilan declined.
• Kurogiri took Shigaraki away, and Jilan said he did not want to become a bad person.

After the League of Villains escaped with Shigaraki, Tsukauchi urged the Symbol of Peace to consider his safety and leaving U.A. Meanwhile, Minoru Mineta and Kaminari secured jobs aboard the Voyager, and Jilan received tickets to the cruise and a presentation connected to Shadow before the upcoming I-Expo.

• Tsukauchi told the blond Symbol of Peace that Shigaraki had likely escaped with Kurogiri and that the League's base might be near Shibuya, then urged him to leave U.A. and focus on his safety.
• The blond man insisted he would keep saving people and agreed with Tsukauchi that they had to catch All For One.
• Minoru Mineta showed Kaminari their accepted applications for temporary work aboard the Voyager, and the two celebrated the chance to see girls in swimsuits.
• Jilan opened a package and found two bearer tickets for the Voyager and a presentation ticket issued to Mr. JoJo.
• Jilan considered whether to attend Shadow's presentation but decided the free cruise tickets made it hard to refuse, as the I-Expo on I-Island approached.

Jilan invited Ibara to accompany him to I-Island, and she agreed after learning the expo would feature unusual plants and ancient plant fossils. He then met Camie to get an invitation, but told her he needed tickets for two people.

• Ibara declined Jilan's invitation to I-Island until he mentioned the expo's plants and fossils, then agreed to go.
• Jilan told Ibara to research the expo and buy presentable clothes before the ship sailed on July fourth.
• Ibara asked Jilan to come clothes shopping, but he said he had to take care of the invitation.
• Jilan contacted Camie, who offered to take him to I-Island on a private jet after he asked for an invitation.
• Jilan told Camie he needed tickets for two people.

Jilan secured Camie Utsushimi’s I-Island invitation after she learned he planned to travel with another girl, and Camie admitted she wanted to be with him. On I-Island, a doctor arranged to have something removed from the island and concealed his plan from his daughter, who prepared a mystery gift for him.

• Jilan asked Camie Utsushimi to sell him her I-Island invitation, but she objected when she learned he planned to take another girl.
• Jilan called Inasa Yoarashi about an invitation, prompting Camie Utsushimi to interrupt the call and offer her own invitation instead.
• Camie Utsushimi gave Jilan her invitation and confessed that she wanted to be with him, while Jilan declined her request to travel together.
• A doctor arranged with a group of men to take something off I-Island and promised to help them escape, then hid a photograph when his daughter arrived.
• The doctor’s daughter urged him to rest and revealed that she had prepared a mystery gift for him.

Jilan and Ibara Shiozaki boarded the Voyager in disguise and settled into their shared cabin for a three-day voyage to I-Island. Jilan discovered Shadow had supplied bedroom products and wondered whether the company had another purpose for sponsoring the cruise, then invited Shiozaki to dinner.

• Jilan and Ibara Shiozaki disguised themselves and boarded the Voyager without being recognized.
• An attendant escorted Jilan and Shiozaki to their balcony cabin on the ship’s twelfth deck and explained the onboard services.
• Shiozaki placed her potted plant on the balcony to get sunlight and accepted sharing the cabin’s bed with Jilan.
• Jilan found Shadow-branded bedroom products in the bedside drawer and suspected the company might have an ulterior motive for funding the voyage.
• Jilan put the toy back and invited Shiozaki to go eat.

Jilan and Ibara Shiozaki went to the cruise ship’s buffet, where Ueno, Tsukimi Machi, and Erina Nakiri were also eating. The chapter ended when Erina rushed toward Jilan, hit a table, and plunged face-first into a cake.

• Jilan chose vegetarian food and oranges for Ibara Shiozaki, who waited in a booth.
• Ueno and Erina argued over the buffet food until Tsukimi Machi persuaded them to stop fighting.
• The chapter explained how Erina, Hisako, Ueno, and Tsukimi Machi had decided to travel to I-Island by cruise ship.
• Ueno recognized the disguised Ibara Shiozaki and went over with Tsukimi Machi.
• Erina approached Jilan at the buffet, collided with a table, and fell face-first into a cream-covered cake.

Jilan encountered Erina Nakiri aboard the cruise ship to the I-Island expo, where she teased him about keeping his travel plans from Yaoyorozu. He left her to join Ibara Shiozaki and confronted Ueno and her companion, who had been talking to Shiozaki.

• Jilan pulled Erina Nakiri out of a cake and gave her a towel.
• Nakiri recognized Jilan and said she had heard from Yaoyorozu that he was taking a cruise to the I-Island expo.
• Jilan brushed off Nakiri's teasing and left with plates of food.
• Nakiri offered to pay for the cake, but the waiter told her the buffet was free and refused payment.
• Jilan joined Ibara Shiozaki, gave her a vegetarian sandwich, and recognized Ueno and her companion at the table.

Jilan clashed with Ueno aboard the ship and shared dinner with Nakiri and Ibara Shiozaki before a discovery in Nakiri’s suite sparked an awkward conversation. The chapter ended with Jilan and Nakiri exchanging room numbers as their companions returned to the restaurant.

• Ueno accused Jilan of spying and mocked him for being a commoner, but Jilan showed her his I-Island Expo invitation.
• Nakiri teased Ueno, then sat with Jilan and praised Ibara Shiozaki before suggesting that she and Jilan shared a bed.
• Ibara finished her meal and left, while Hisako Arato told Nakiri she had found a sex toy in their room.
• Jilan explained that the item was likely a standard provision, then left after telling Nakiri someone was waiting in his room.
• Nakiri gave Jilan her room number, and he replied with his own before leaving.
• Ueno returned and smugly assumed Jilan had fled from her, while Nakiri continued eating steak despite disliking its taste.