Chapter Summaries

Isana confronted Jilan aboard the ship, claiming to be the mortal enemy of the zoo director and demanding to know whether the director still ran his zoo. Jilan attacked to protect the passengers, but Isana blocked his strongest strike, leaving Jilan certain he could not defeat him alone.

• Ueno and Nakiri speculated that Isana's reference to a rabbit meant Rabbit Hero Mirko, and Ueno volunteered to protect the others.
• Jilan stopped Ueno and identified the person Isana sought as the zoo director.
• Isana introduced himself and revealed that he and the director were mortal enemies who would fight until one of them died.
• Jilan offered to reveal the director's location and become Isana's hostage, but Isana said he would not let the director rescue anyone this time.
• Jilan attacked Isana with Sunlight Yellow Hamon Overdrive while Ibara Shiozaki shielded the other passengers with Vines.
• Isana blocked Jilan's attack with a whale's tail, and Jilan realized his Killer Queen was ineffective against Isana's supernatural type.

Zoina attacked Jilan, who secretly awakened Sheer Heart Attack while the others remained protected behind Ibara Shiozaki’s Vines. Jilan got back up, and Zoina gave him ten seconds to choose between surrendering and risking everyone nearby in a fight.

• Zoina struck Jilan into a wall, leaving him dazed and seemingly unable to fight.
• Jilan secretly ordered Sheer Heart Attack to target Zoina, but told it to wait.
• Ibara Shiozaki withdrew her Vines, and Tsukimi Machi, Ueno, and Nakiri rushed to Jilan’s side.
• Ueno threatened Zoina, while Nakiri claimed the ship’s captain Barus could stop him.
• Isana noticed Jilan’s heartbeat was strong, and Jilan pulled himself from the wall and reassured Tsukimi Machi.
• Zoina offered Jilan a choice between surrendering and leaving with him or continuing to resist as he counted down from ten.

Jilan agreed to go with Zoina to keep the restaurant’s bystanders safe, and Zoina took him away. Nakiri organized the girls into search pairs to find the captain while trusting Jilan to protect himself.

• Nakiri urged Jilan to stall Zoina until the captain arrived, while the frightened bystanders pleaded for Jilan to leave them out of the conflict.
• Jilan agreed to go with Zoina after seeing the civilians’ fear, explaining that they were not his companions; Ueno and the others reaffirmed their support for him.
• Zoina seized Jilan with his fish tail and smashed him through a wall, then disappeared with him as the room filled with dust.
• Nakiri stopped Tsukimi Machi from chasing after Jilan and organized the girls into pairs to search for the captain, assigning Ueno to prepare the weapons in her room.
• Ibara Shiozaki told the bystanders to seek out the captain and anyone willing to face the enemy, then Nakiri led the girls out through the hole in the wall.

Jilan escaped Zoina’s restraints and confronted him on the ship’s storm-lashed deck, where Zoina revealed his sperm whale Quirk and Jilan identified the ambergris that linked him to the director. As their duel began, Jilan unnerved Zoina by predicting the secret purpose of his helmet.

• Zoina carried the bound Jilan through the ship while explaining that the director’s ambergris left a scent he could track.
• Jilan deduced that Zoina was a sperm whale and that the director had taken his ambergris.
• Jilan freed one arm and used Hamon to weaken Zoina’s tentacle, then recovered after Zoina struck him with his tail.
• On the empty deck, Jilan challenged Zoina to a duel while the storm raged around them.
• Jilan predicted Zoina would say he could remove his respirator, startling him because no one else knew what the helmet was.

Fang Ping woke up in 2008 and realized he had been reborn, but his classmates’ talk of martial arts exams and grandmasters made him suspect that the world was not the one he remembered. The chapter left him stunned by news that Grandmaster Ma had reached the Eighth Rank and challenged Google’s Taimu.

• Fang Ping confirmed he had been reborn as a senior at Yangcheng No. 1 High School and began imagining how to use his second chance.
• Yang Jian, Chen Fan, and another classmate discussed the costly martial sciences registration and whether to try for the exam.
• Zhang Hao told the class that Grandmaster Ma had broken through to the Eighth Rank and challenged Taimu, Google’s Asia-Pacific president.
• Fang Ping struggled to make sense of his classmates’ martial arts talk and realized the world had changed from what he remembered.

A disguised attacker infiltrated the Voyager’s bridge while Captain Barus went to meet Isana, and killed the first mate after appearing to be knocked out. He reported to Toga that surveillance was under control and signaled for the next stage of the attack.

• After Isana boarded the Voyager, a surveillance crewman reported an unarmed intruder to Captain Barus, who left the bridge to meet him.
• The first mate spotted a scarred stranger in a crew uniform and warned the crewman that he was an enemy.
• The first mate knocked the stranger down, then ordered the crewman to find Captain Barus after the bridge communications failed.
• The stranger stabbed the first mate when he crouched to inspect him, then killed him in a struggle.
• The stranger contacted Toga by walkie-talkie and said the surveillance was under control.

Himiko Toga carried out her debut League of Villains mission aboard a cruise ship, distracting the guards protecting a locked room while an ally prepared an electromagnetic pulse. After the pulse caused a disturbance, Toga seized her chance and injected the room’s boss with a syringe.

• Himiko Toga gambled at the casino while waiting for her ally to take control of the surveillance system.
• Toga and the man in the bridge discussed using a modified transmitter to disable Shadow’s communications, despite the risk of disrupting the cruise ship’s electronics.
• Toga approached the guards at the red door and tried to provoke them into letting her enter, but their boss recognized her from the previous night.
• The man in the bridge modified the transmitter, and a rumble and tremor shook the casino.
• As the boss turned away to check on the disturbance, Toga signaled her ally, jumped onto the boss’s back, and injected his upper arm with a syringe.

Himiko Toga fled a Werewolf through the ship until Captain Barus intervened to protect her. Barus fought the Werewolf and told Toga to escape, while the ship’s communications remained down.

• Toga escaped into an elevator and met Captain Barus, who had stopped it for her.
• The Werewolf forced the elevator doors open and threatened to take Toga away.
• Barus grabbed the Werewolf’s claw and refused to let him harm Toga.
• The Werewolf used the communications outage to threaten Barus and suggest he was involved.
• Barus knocked the Werewolf away and told Toga to leave, and she slipped out of sight.

Werewolf captured Toga and brought her to the room where Shadow guarded Little Red Riding Hood. The guards found the crystal coffin undisturbed, but the man in the black suit revealed that an enemy had entered with them.

• Werewolf attacked Barus rather than follow him to Shadow’s leader.
• Werewolf recaptured Toga in the casino and said he would report her to the captain.
• The man in the black suit persuaded the guards to let him check on Little Red Riding Hood.
• The guards used their Quirks to retrieve the key and opened the red door.
• The guards found Little Red Riding Hood in the crystal coffin, and the man in the black suit said an enemy had entered.

A man in a black suit carried Himiko Toga away while two guards believed Little Red Riding Hood remained safe in her coffin, unaware that she had escaped. When explosions rocked the ship, Little Red Riding Hood revealed herself as Alice and attacked the guards, but Holmes IV intervened and identified himself.

• The man in the black suit left the room carrying the bound Himiko Toga, while the two guards checked the coffin and mistakenly believed Little Red Riding Hood was still inside.
• After the guards turned their backs, Little Red Riding Hood rose from the opened coffin and approached them with a syringe.
• Explosions shook the ship, causing Little Red Riding Hood to fall and drop the syringe; she then told the guards she was Alice, not Little Red Riding Hood.
• Little Red Riding Hood threw the syringe at a fleeing guard, but an elderly gentleman blocked it with his cane.
• The gentleman introduced himself as addamsalanbrooke Adams Alan Brooke, also known as Holmes IV, and offered to help.

Jilan and Sheer Heart Attack battered Isana with repeated explosions and a Hamon-powered kick, leaving him badly wounded but alive. Isana emerged still defiant, while Jilan—unable to deliver a fatal blow—taunted him and hoped he would surrender or leave.

• Isana dismissed Sheer Heart Attack’s first explosion as useless and charged at Jilan.
• Sheer Heart Attack exploded again behind Isana, letting Jilan land a Hamon Overdrive punch that sent Isana crashing into the cabin.
• Sheer Heart Attack’s nonstop explosions shook the cruise ship until Isana struck it with his fish tail and sent it flying toward the sea.
• Jilan used Hamon Overdrive: Shooting Style to kick Sheer Heart Attack into Isana’s raised tail, breaking through his defense and injuring him.
• Jilan stopped Sheer Heart Attack from pursuing Isana and explained that he could not kill him, then taunted the battered Isana to surrender.

Jilan tried to stop Isana from abandoning his human body, suspecting that he was hiding from DIO, but Isana fell into the sea and transformed into a gigantic sperm whale. The whale attacked Jilan aboard the ship, leaving him clinging to the hull and wondering how powerful the person Isana feared must be.

• Jilan questioned Isana about the limiter in his breathing mask and learned that Isana was hiding from someone even stronger than himself.
• Jilan offered to help Isana, suspecting he had defected from DIO, but Isana warned that DIO would also come after the rabbit director and fell into the sea.
• Jilan lost his chance to question Isana as bubbles and violent waves surged beside the ship.
• Jilan recalled Sheer Heart Attack and escaped the deck as an enormous sperm whale leaped from the sea and crashed down where he had stood.
• The transformed whale spotted Jilan and thrashed violently, forcing him to cling to the ship while he wondered why Isana feared DIO.

After finding the first officer murdered and the bridge’s communications and autopilot destroyed, the second officer took temporary command and prepared the crew and passengers for an emergency. The passengers returned to their rooms to put on life jackets while Barus headed toward the deck to confront the rampaging whale.

• The second officer found the first officer dead on the bridge and suspected that a strange passenger with a stitched-up face had killed him.
• Crew members reported that the communications equipment and autopilot had been destroyed, and the second officer took temporary command of the bridge.
• The second officer ordered the crew to check the lifeboats, find the helicopter pilot, and prepare to abandon ship if necessary.
• The second officer watched Barus head toward the deck while dragging someone and hoped the captain could stop the situation from worsening.
• The second officer used the ship’s loudspeakers to explain the danger and told passengers to return to their rooms, put on life jackets, and wait.

After Little Red Riding Hood was stolen, Alain and detective Adams used the ship’s passengers to search for the thief. Adams revealed that he had caught the girl disguised as Little Red Riding Hood and asked Alain for information about a separate case linked to Shadow.

• Shadow distributed a message offering a free product to anyone who caught the thief and returned Little Red Riding Hood unharmed.
• Passengers seeking leverage with Shadow ignored the instructions to return to their cabins and began searching the ship.
• Alain heard that the passengers and invited guests were looking for the thief disguised as the wolf.
• Adams, who had caught the girl in the casino, told Alain that his help with the theft was in exchange for information about Shadow’s connection to his investigation.
• Alain admitted Shadow was connected to Adams’s case and offered to name an executive, while Adams explained that the thief’s attempt to take Little Red Riding Hood had drawn his attention.

Alain explained that the fake Little Red Riding Hood carried research traces that could expose his artificial-human technology, and Adams agreed to help find the real girl. With rescue approaching and the ship in danger, Alain warned he would destroy the technology if necessary, while Adams examined the bound impostor and noticed her unusual reactions to the film.

• Adams asked Alain why Little Red Riding Hood mattered, and Alain explained that the first unit retained traces that could help other researchers reproduce his artificial-human technology.
• Adams concluded that finding the thief would protect the technology from falling into the wrong hands and agreed to help Alain.
• Alain said he would destroy the artificial human if the thief was not found before the rescue team arrived, noting that the cruise ship's signal had been missing for nearly twenty minutes.
• Adams sat beside the bound fake Little Red Riding Hood and saw that she looked identical to the real one but reacted to the film with excitement and growing physical arousal.

Adams interrogated the girl posing as Little Red Riding Hood and deduced that she was Himiko Toga, who had impersonated Wolf as well. He revealed that Alain’s apparent traitor was actually Toga, leaving the group with the truth behind Wolf’s disappearance.

• Adams destroyed the television to make the girl stop ignoring him and answer his questions.
• The girl claimed that she was Little Red Riding Hood, but Adams recognized her ability to transform and identified her as Himiko Toga.
• Adams reasoned that Wolf had disguised the real Little Red Riding Hood as Toga and taken her toward a rendezvous point.
• Alain said he wanted to catch Wolf because he could not tolerate betrayal, and Toga smiled at his words.
• Adams told Toga that there was no traitor because she had been the big man called Wolf.

Himiko Toga revealed that she had used her transformation Quirk to impersonate Little Red Riding Hood and a Shadow operative, then offered to tell Adams and Alain everything if they would kill her. Meanwhile, a flashback showed Toga disguising herself as a waiter to get Little Red Riding Hood away from pursuing groups.

• Adams deduced that a duplication or transformation ability had let someone impersonate both Little Red Riding Hood and a member of Shadow, and questioned Toga about the switch.
• A shipboard battle and the second officer's discovery of the pursuit forced Alain and Adams to act quickly; Adams threatened Toga with death and Shadow's blacklist if she refused to cooperate.
• Toga freed herself, took Adams's cane, and declared that she would pledge her loyalty to him in exchange for one request: that he kill her.
• Outside the movie theater, Toga disguised as a waiter directed a burly man away, then retrieved the unconscious Little Red Riding Hood and resolved to escape with her.
• Toga worried that several groups were already pursuing her and regretted accepting the mission to steal Little Red Riding Hood.

Jilan Jiyu freed Toru Hagakure from the ice and gave her Hamon to restore her strength, then used their plan to lure Shoto Todoroki into the base alone. Jilan launched a powerful attack through the window, but Todoroki raised ice shields to block it.

• Jilan used Scarlet Hamon Overdrive to melt the ice covering Hagakure and warm her with Hamon.
• Jilan told Hagakure his plan depended on her, and she regained her resolve to face Todoroki.
• Hagakure and Jilan expected Todoroki to enter the base alone after sending Mezo Shoji away to locate them.
• Todoroki entered the base and approached the nuclear weapon, unaware Jilan was descending the outside wall toward the window.
• Jilan smashed through the window with Sunlight Yellow Hamon Overdrive, and Todoroki raised several layers of ice shields against him.

Uraraka, Asui, Jiro, and Mineta searched the ship and found Midoriya and Kaminari in the last room. Midoriya warned them to leave, and a man knocked at the door as the group remained inside.

• Asui helped Uraraka, Jiro, and Mineta board the ship, then moved along its exterior while the others searched inside.
• Uraraka, Jiro, and Mineta searched the empty rooms before finding Midoriya and bound Kaminari in the final room.
• Jiro unlocked Kaminari’s wrists and ankles, but his ball gag tightened when he tried to remove it.
• Midoriya trembled and cried, then told the others to leave and said he would follow later.
• A man knocked at the door and asked if he could join them.

Jilan Jiyu won the scavenger race while using Minoru Mineta as the object he needed, then withdrew to prepare for his match against Denki Kaminari. The final event began with Izuku Midoriya facing Toru Hagakure, who stripped off her clothes and disappeared after declaring she was leaving her humanity behind.

• Jilan Jiyu carried a tied-up Minoru Mineta across the field and won the scavenger race.
• Jilan noticed Shota Aizawa watching him, then left the recreational events and went to the waiting room.
• The final sixteen’s matchups were announced, placing Jilan against Denki Kaminari and Midoriya against Hagakure.
• Mic introduced the final event and explained the rules as Midoriya and Hagakure entered the arena.
• Midoriya charged at Hagakure, but she began undressing and told him she was leaving her humanity behind.
• Hagakure vanished in the sunlight, leaving Midoriya facing her unseen voice.