Chapter Summaries

At a Shadow product presentation, Werewolf revealed that Little Red Riding Hood was an artificial human without independent thought, prompting Jilan to consider the difference between machines and people. Shadow offered custom-made artificial humans for sale, but Werewolf refused to sell the prototype, leaving the bespectacled otaku disappointed.

• Little Red Riding Hood fell and split her forehead, and the bespectacled otaku rushed to check on her before accusing Shadow of mistreating her.
• Werewolf explained that Little Red Riding Hood was an artificial human made from biological materials, and the white-haired gentleman identified what she was.
• Werewolf said the prototype could not think, speak, or move independently, though her body reacted lifelike to its surroundings.
• Jilan recalled a story about intelligent artificial humans rebelling against humans and wondered what separated people from machines.
• Werewolf displayed Little Red Riding Hood in a glass cabinet and invited customers to order custom artificial humans, including replicas of famous figures.
• The bespectacled otaku asked to buy Little Red Riding Hood, but Werewolf refused because she was Shadow's first prototype.

Himiko Toga overheard Denki Kaminari and Minoru Mineta arguing about confronting troublemakers on the ship, then pretended to be a waiter carrying an unconscious girl. She persuaded the two U.A. students to take the girl to the infirmary, leaving her plan in motion.

• Himiko Toga carried Little Red Riding Hood out of the cinema and wondered how the artificial human differed from a human.
• Toga overheard Denki Kaminari urging Minoru Mineta to confront the troublemakers while Mineta argued they should protect passengers instead.
• Kaminari and Mineta explained the evacuation announcement and warned Toga, disguised as a waiter, about the monster and the attackers.
• Toga claimed the sleeping girl had fainted and asked Kaminari and Mineta to take her to the infirmary.
• Mineta agreed to help, and Toga smiled as he and Kaminari took the girl, believing the plan was going as intended.

Kaminari and Minoru Mineta tried to take an unconscious girl to the infirmary, but a group of men recognized her as Little Red Riding Hood and tried to seize her. Kaminari stood against them, and Minoru Mineta overcame his fear to join the fight.

• Minoru Mineta questioned why they had agreed to help the unconscious girl as Kaminari carried her through the ship.
• Two frightened men rushed past Kaminari and Mineta, then their leader recognized the girl as Little Red Riding Hood and reached for her hood.
• Kaminari slapped the man's hand away and refused to surrender the girl, while the leader threatened him and ordered his men to attack.
• Kaminari set the girl against a wall and prepared to fight, but Minoru Mineta initially urged him to give her up.
• Kaminari challenged Minoru Mineta to act like a U.A. High School student, and Minoru Mineta joined him by throwing sticky grapes at the attackers.

Denki Kaminari and Minoru Mineta fought off most of the kidnappers until a mournful cry from the cruise ship left them overwhelmed with sorrow and distracted. The young man took Little Red Riding Hood and hinted that Kaminari had unknowingly been helping someone else, then spared the students.

• Kaminari used Mineta’s sticky grapes to get close to the kidnappers and knock them unconscious with his electricity.
• Kaminari and Mineta gained the upper hand, but a mournful cry shook the ship and made them lose the will to fight.
• The remaining guard struck Kaminari while the young man kicked Mineta and approached the unconscious girl.
• The young man carried Little Red Riding Hood away and told Kaminari he had been doing someone else’s work without knowing it.
• The young man decided to let Kaminari and Mineta live and warned them not to play hero for strangers.

A young man took the girl away after tying Kaminari and Minoru Mineta together, but Ueno and Erina Nakiri arrived and freed them. Ueno accidentally set their clothes on fire, leaving Nakiri to extinguish the flames.

• The young man cut up a fire hose and had his guard tie Kaminari and Minoru Mineta together before leaving with the girl.
• Kaminari blamed a mysterious scream for his defeat, while Mineta regretted getting involved and called for help.
• Ueno heard Mineta and found the two boys tied up on the fourth floor.
• Erina Nakiri struck Ueno with a ladle, then asked her to free the boys using her exoskeleton device.
• Ueno cut through the hose with a flame jet and accidentally set the boys’ clothes on fire, so Nakiri sprayed Mineta with an extinguisher.

Nakiri and Ueno regrouped with Kaminari and Mineta, who explained that attackers had kidnapped an unconscious girl after using them to carry her toward the infirmary. Nakiri urged Kaminari to help find the girl, but the discussion was interrupted when an attacker seized Mineta and threatened him.

• Kaminari explained that a Hawaiian-shirted upperclassman had tricked him and Mineta into carrying an unconscious girl, then tied them up and took her away.
• Nakiri said attackers had also targeted her, mistaking her for the blonde girl, and credited Ueno’s Cooking Guard exoskeleton with protecting them.
• Nakiri told Kaminari that Shiozaki and Komachi had gone to look for Jilan and asked whether he wanted to help rescue the kidnapped girl.
• Mineta argued that they were unlicensed students and should stay somewhere safe, angering Ueno, who threatened him before Nakiri sent her to search for clues.
• A bald attacker woke up, grabbed Mineta, and threatened to harm him if Kaminari moved.
• Nakiri confronted the attacker and said he was acting out of resentment at being beaten by a frail high school girl.

Nakiri and Ueno cornered a French man who had taken Minoru Mineta hostage, and he surrendered after Ueno aimed her weapon at him. Meanwhile, Jilan Jiyu watched the captain calm Isana’s sperm whale form, which eventually fell asleep with its mouth open.

• Nakiri recognized the French man as someone who had tried to ambush her, and Ueno joined her after failing to find any other clues.
• The man took Minoru Mineta hostage and threatened the group, but Ueno aimed a large tube at his forehead and made him surrender.
• Nakiri asked the surrendered man for information, and he identified himself as French.
• The captain climbed onto Isana’s sperm whale form and used whale sounds to calm it while Jilan Jiyu hid nearby.
• Jilan Jiyu nearly jumped into the sea after seeing the whale’s open jaws, then realized it had fallen asleep and climbed onto the deck.

Jilan tried to leave after a sperm whale swallowed Isana, but Captain Barus confronted him at gunpoint and questioned him about the whale. After accepting Jilan’s account of being kidnapped by the intruder, Barus asked him to help cut open the whale and recover the suspect.

• Jilan decided to leave the sleeping sperm whale before anyone connected him to its appearance.
• Captain Barus came up behind Jilan, held him at gunpoint, and demanded to know why he was there.
• Jilan claimed an intruder had kidnapped him and been swallowed by the whale, and said the magician’s partner had died.
• Barus recognized Jilan as a U.A. High School student and the Sports Festival runner-up, then concluded the intruder was the person he had been seeking.
• Barus asked Jilan to help cut open the whale’s stomach so he could find the intruder, alive or dead.

Barus decided to cut open the sperm whale, which Jilan knew was Isana, and revealed his water-based Quirk as a possible way to dissect it. The two prepared to act without realizing the danger unfolding inside the ship.

• Barus insisted on cutting open the sperm whale despite Jilan's objections and said the Voyager could carry it.
• Jilan suggested checking the whale's head for Isana, while Barus explained that high-pressure water could cut through steel.
• Jilan realized Barus might have a Quirk that could compress water and asked him about it.
• Barus transformed into a towering water-blue creature and proudly named his Quirk Barus.
• Jilan recognized Barus's self-centeredness and decided to pretend he did not know the film that inspired the name.

Barus prepared to cut open the bound sperm whale with his water-based abilities while Jilan secretly placed Sheer Heart Attack inside it. The chapter ended as Barus formed a high-frequency water blade, and Jilan prepared for the whale’s internal destruction to distract him.

• Jilan and Barus tied the sleeping sperm whale, which Jilan named Isana, securely to the deck.
• Jilan reactivated Sheer Heart Attack and tossed it into Isana’s mouth, then instructed it to destroy its surroundings when he gave the signal.
• Barus invited Jilan to watch as he prepared to cut into Isana and search for the supposed person inside it.
• Barus used Swords Dance and Whirlpool before shaping the water into a vibrating blade with High-Pressure Water Gun.

Barus began operating on the sperm whale Zoina to locate the foreign object inside it, while Jilan offered to use Hamon to help. Jilan secretly guided Sheer Heart Attack through the whale and prepared it to attack Barus, ending as he reached the whale’s abdomen with Barus watching.

• Barus cut into Zoina with his vibrating water blade, used Water Pulse to rouse it, then soothed it back to sleep and healed the wound.
• Barus struggled to locate the object without disturbing Zoina, so Jilan offered to use Hamon to find it.
• Jilan devised a plan to guide Sheer Heart Attack to Barus’s hand and make the explosion appear accidental.
• Barus agreed to Jilan’s help, unaware of his intentions, as Jilan began tracing Hamon across Zoina’s body.
• Jilan quietly ordered Sheer Heart Attack to follow the Hamon and attack when it encountered something hot, then reached Zoina’s abdomen while Barus watched.

Jilan discovered a powerful energy source inside the sperm whale and ordered Sheer Heart Attack to attack it, triggering a fiery blast and the whale’s anguished mental assault. Barus and Jilan resisted the whale’s influence, and Jilan revealed his suspicion that the whale was Isana, whose ambergris was the source of his Quirk.

• Jilan found a basketball-sized sphere of immense energy inside the sperm whale and realized Sheer Heart Attack was near its intestines.
• Jilan ordered Sheer Heart Attack to attack the energy source, and a burst of heat engulfed him before he could pull away.
• Barus rescued Jilan with his High-Pressure Water Gun, while the collision with the flames filled the deck with steam and startled the whale awake.
• The sperm whale wailed and sent waves of grief into nearby minds, but Jilan cleared his head with hamon and Barus recovered after resisting the effect.
• Jilan told Barus that he had touched something sensitive, then suggested that the whale had a Quirk and that ambergris was the source of Isana’s power.

Jilan tried to explain that the enormous sperm whale was an abnormal creature powered by ambergris, while Captain Barus prepared to confront it. Barus left Jilan to relay emergency orders and capture an unconscious criminal as he faced the whale himself.

• Jilan told Barus that the sperm whale's size and hidden ambergris suggested it had been transformed by a foreign object, and that damaging the ambergris might weaken it.
• Barus realized Jilan might be suggesting that a Quirk had created the whale, but Jilan denied that explanation and described his ambergris theory instead.
• Barus apologized for throwing Jilan down, then ordered him to return to the bridge with emergency instructions and help apprehend the unconscious Werewolf.
• Jilan asked whether Barus needed his help, but Barus insisted on facing the whale alone and entrusted Jilan with protecting the passengers.

Jilan secretly obtained a fragment of the sperm whale’s ambergris while Barus confronted Isana over the substance keeping him alive. Jilan stored the fragment and headed toward the captain’s cabin, hoping to investigate its energy later.

• Barus noticed the sperm whale’s wound healing around a glowing stone and moved to take the ambergris, prompting Isana to roar at him.
• Jilan watched Barus and Isana face off, then summoned Sheer Heart Attack, which returned with a fragment of ambergris from the whale’s belly.
• Jilan praised Sheer Heart Attack and took the fragment, explaining that heat from its explosion had let it break the ambergris free and escape unnoticed.
• Jilan found that Hamon and a drop of blood revealed nothing about the stone, and he decided to wait for a suitable place before testing it scientifically.
• Jilan stored the ambergris in Sheer Heart Attack’s skull and headed for the captain’s cabin as an announcement ordered passengers to return to their rooms and put on life jackets.

Himiko Toga went to meet Twice in a cargo hold but was ambushed by her own clone, who had joined forces with the people holding Little Red Riding Hood. An elderly man revealed that he was working with the Shadows and intended to keep the clone alive permanently.

• Himiko Toga explained how she had tried to use Kaminari and the others to get Little Red Riding Hood to the infirmary, then set out to find her and Twice.
• A clone of Toga held her at cane-point while several men blocked the exit and brought in the bound Twice.
• The clone mocked Toga and claimed she could take her place, while Toga warned that Twice's copies would disappear after taking enough damage.
• An elderly man in a top hat entered and said he had a cooperative relationship with the Shadows, but had not forced the clone to betray Toga.
• The elderly man said they would find someone with a suitable Quirk to keep the clone alive permanently.

Toga claimed she had surrendered to Shadow, but Alain exposed her lies and learned that Little Red Riding Hood was with U.A. High School students. Shadow discovered that U.A. students were aboard the ship, and the chapter ended when a man reported that someone had captured Little Red Riding Hood.

• Toga offered to join Shadow, while Adams revealed that she had withheld most personal information from the organization.
• Alain deduced that Toga knew where Little Red Riding Hood was, and Toga said another group was holding her.
• Toga revealed that Little Red Riding Hood was in U.A. High School's hands, and Alain realized she had used the students to help her escape.
• A Shadow informant reported that two U.A. Hero Course students and four U.A. girls from other courses were aboard the ship.
• A man rushed in and reported that someone had gotten Little Red Riding Hood, then pointed behind him when Alain asked where they were.

Alain negotiated with the man calling himself Robin Hood to retrieve Little Red Riding Hood, then followed him to a smoke-filled game room. As Alain and his group rushed inside, Adams stayed at the door, recognizing the smoke as a clue to a case.

• Robin Hood arrived and made crude advances toward Toga and her clone, while Alain asked where Little Red Riding Hood was.
• Robin Hood explained that his men had kept Little Red Riding Hood hidden and insisted on caution before completing the exchange.
• Alain agreed to the transaction and requested Robin Hood’s username, which the man provided instead of his real name.
• Robin Hood led Alain’s group to a game room where thick smoke poured out, making everyone except Adams cough.
• Alain and the others rushed into the room, while Adams remained outside and said he could smell a case.

Alain and Adams investigated the room where Robin Hood’s men had been knocked unconscious and realized that Little Red Riding Hood had been taken. Adams exposed the supposed Robin Hood as an impostor, who escaped toward the deck after throwing a chess piece at Alain.

• Alain found Robin Hood’s men unconscious and discovered that Little Red Riding Hood was missing.
• Adams found a Shadow invitation and suspected that Robin Hood was lying about one of his subordinates.
• Alain checked the room key and learned that the guest in room 0715 was named Peiqi, not Tim.
• Adams accused Robin Hood of taking Little Red Riding Hood, and the impostor admitted nothing but prepared to leave.
• Alain ordered his men and Toga’s clone to seize the impostor, who threw a queen chess piece at Alain.

Robin Hood triggered a tobacco-dust explosion in the board-game room to escape, badly burning Alain, Adams, and others but leaving them alive. After Robin Hood vanished, Adams showed interest in the unusual attack while Alain surveyed the wreckage.

• Robin Hood threw an explosive marble chess piece, igniting the tobacco dust suspended in the room.
• Adams recognized the danger, tackled Alain to the floor, and warned him not to move as further explosions followed.
• The blasts scorched the people and destroyed the room, but those who stayed low survived with nonfatal injuries.
• Adams checked the unconscious people and confirmed that Alain’s two men and the others were still alive.
• Alain saw that Robin Hood had escaped, while Adams reflected on the attack and became interested in him.

After Toga’s clone vanished, Alain decided to kill Toga and ordered preparations for a final plan aboard the ship. Adams left with a clue about Compound V, while news that Twice had escaped added another unknown to the crisis.

• Toga’s clone disappeared after the explosion, and Toga mourned her before offering to continue the deal with Alain.
• Alain learned that Toga had no organization to name and ordered his subordinates to tie her up and throw her into the sea.
• Adams declined to join Alain, received the clue “five” and the name Compound V, then headed toward the deck.
• Alain ordered Kohler to prepare his final plan and said Shadow could blame the whale causing trouble above the ship.
• A messenger reported that the warehouse guards were unconscious and Twice was missing, while Toga wondered whether he had escaped alone.
• Alain ignored Toga’s questions and led his subordinates toward the deck.