Chapter Summaries

Jilan Jiyu inspected a humanoid object sold by Ibara Shiozaki and removed two of its detachable parts before declaring himself satisfied. He left the object with Ibara and promised to pay her at U.A. High School the next day.

• Jilan Jiyu unpacked the humanoid object and removed one of its hands, which he rubbed against his face before putting it in his pocket.
• Jilan Jiyu removed another part, repackaged the object, and told Ibara Shiozaki that it was in perfect condition.
• Jilan Jiyu said he could not pay Ibara immediately because he had just returned from the hospital without enough money.
• Ibara Shiozaki threatened to attack Jilan Jiyu until he identified himself as a Class A Hero Course student at U.A. High School and showed her his student ID.
• Ibara Shiozaki agreed to let Jilan Jiyu pay the next day, and he promised to bring her the money at school.

Jilan Jiyu searched for a secluded rental address and met Ibara Shiozaki, the landlord of a house surrounded by unusual plants. After bargaining over the rent, he began persuading her to remodel the property.

• Jilan Jiyu sought a cheap, secluded rental to receive deliveries without exposing his real home.
• He found the house hidden at the end of an alley and tried to back away without stepping on its flowers.
• Ibara Shiozaki stopped him with a wall formed from her vine-like hair and introduced herself as the landlord.
• Jilan Jiyu toured the room and negotiated with Ibara Shiozaki over her sixty-thousand-yen rent.
• Jilan Jiyu argued that the plants and remote location made the price excessive, then began explaining his remodeling plan to Ibara Shiozaki.

Jilan Jiyu negotiated with Ibara Shiozaki to rent her home as a discreet place to receive packages, despite her insistence on keeping the flowers outside. After signing the contract and paying her, he left with a new arrangement and an awkward misunderstanding between them.

• Ibara Shiozaki refused to remove her flowers and explained that she lived alone and hated the manager who threatened to uproot them over unpaid land-use fees.
• Jilan Jiyu suggested moving the flowers indoors, but worried that the plants outside would make the house too noticeable to use as a transit hub.
• When Jilan Jiyu tried to leave, Ibara Shiozaki grabbed his hand and used her hair to tear open the roof, creating more sunlight for the flowers and persuading him to stay.
• Jilan Jiyu and Ibara Shiozaki signed the rental contract, and she agreed to receive his packages, let him use her account for purchases, and keep his tenancy secret.
• Jilan Jiyu paid 180,000 yen, and Ibara Shiozaki asked whether he was keeping her; he jokingly answered that they were too young for that sort of thing.

At U.A. High School, Inspector Tsukauchi briefed the staff on Tomura Shigaraki and his followers while All Might worried about the enemy leader’s intentions. The teachers agreed to reward the students based on their results at the sports festival, and All Might left confident that Class A would grow from the attack.

• Inspector Tsukauchi reported that Tomura Shigaraki and Kurogiri had unregistered Quirks and that most of the 108 captured attackers belonged to the defeated Seaside Park group.
• The principal and teachers discussed the remaining followers who shared Tomura Shigaraki’s desire to overthrow the world of heroes.
• All Might said he was concerned that Tomura Shigaraki had disclosed the Nomu’s Quirk, while Tsukauchi reported that the Nomu would be kept under lifelong surveillance.
• The teachers praised Jilan Jiyu and the other Class A students, and the principal said their results would determine their reward after the sports festival.
• Vlad King reassured All Might about the students, and All Might said the attack had taught Class A about powerlessness and unity.

Jilan Jiyu avoided reporters seeking details about the USJ incident and returned to U.A. High School, where his classmates welcomed him back. The chapter ended as homeroom began and the class gave Tenya Iida cold looks for letting Jilan arrive late without reprimand.

• Satomi Ishihara recognized Jilan Jiyu outside U.A. High School and tried to interview him about the USJ incident, but he declined and headed to class.
• Satomi Ishihara gave up on interviewing U.A. students and left with her colleagues to seek another Pro Hero to interview.
• Jilan Jiyu entered Class A late and greeted his classmates, who stood up and excitedly welcomed him back.
• Tenya Iida declared that he had successfully secured Jilan's rescue, and Jilan praised the class for their efforts.
• The bell rang, Tenya Iida ordered everyone to sit for homeroom, and the class glared at him for treating Jilan's lateness differently.

Shota Aizawa returned to Class A despite his injuries, punished Jilan Jiyu for arriving late, and announced the upcoming U.A. Sports Festival. After serving his bucket-carrying punishment through Mic's English lesson, Jilan returned to class tired and resolved not to be late again.

• Shota Aizawa arrived at Class A with his injuries still bandaged and assigned Jilan Jiyu to stand outside carrying two buckets for being late.
• Aizawa explained that the students were among the best in their year, then announced the U.A. Sports Festival and its importance for aspiring heroes.
• Aizawa left the classroom muttering about being forced out of the hospital, and Jilan pretended not to hear him.
• Teacher Mic began the English lesson while Jilan listened from outside the classroom.
• Jilan poured out the buckets after class, returned to his seat with numb wrists, and resolved not to arrive late again.

Jilan Jiyu went to Class B to pay Ibara Shiozaki the money he owed her, drawing the attention of her classmates. Neito Monoma mistook the payment for an attempt to bribe Class B ahead of the Sports Festival, while Ibara kept their agreement secret and hinted that Jilan should pay her extra.

• After class, Jilan Jiyu went to Class B and told Vlad King he was looking for Ibara Shiozaki.
• Jilan told Ibara he had come to keep their promise, and she asked whether he was there to give her money.
• Jilan handed Ibara tens of thousands of yen, prompting her classmates to speculate about why he was paying her.
• Neito Monoma accused Jilan of trying to bribe Ibara before the Sports Festival, but Ibara told him to mind his own business.
• Ibara tugged Jilan's sleeve and hinted that he should pay her extra for keeping their agreement secret.

Jilan Jiyu’s visit to Class B led to a confrontation with Monoma and Tetsutetsu, which Itsuka Kendo stopped before she learned why he had come to see Ibara Shiozaki. He left without revealing their secret, then encountered a mysterious eyeball after buying a snack.

• Monoma and Tetsutetsu challenged Jilan Jiyu over the entrance exam and the upcoming Sports Festival, then began arguing with each other.
• Itsuka Kendo enlarged her fists and knocked Monoma and Tetsutetsu apart, then introduced herself to Jilan Jiyu as Class B’s representative.
• Kendo asked why Jilan Jiyu had come to see Ibara Shiozaki, but Ibara said it was a secret between them.
• Jilan Jiyu kept quiet about renting Ibara’s house and left Class B while Kendo warned Ibara not to spend too much time with him.
• Jilan Jiyu bought melon bread and oolong tea, then turned around and found himself face-to-face with an eyeball.

Jilan Jiyu chased a flying eyeball through the Management Course building and used Sheer Heart Attack’s infrared vision to find its controller. He discovered a petite second-year student in the Social Experiment Research Club and pressed her to explain why she had been following him.

• Jilan Jiyu spotted the floating eyeball again, threw an oolong tea can at it, and chased it into the Management Course building.
• Jilan Jiyu summoned Sheer Heart Attack and used its infrared vision to locate a heat source on the fourth floor.
• Jilan Jiyu followed Sheer Heart Attack to the Social Experiment Research Club and entered after receiving no answer to his knock.
• Jilan Jiyu found a petite girl hiding beneath the teacher’s desk, and she admitted by nodding that she controlled the eyeball.
• Jilan Jiyu returned Sheer Heart Attack to his watch and demanded that the second-year student explain why she had been following him.

Jilan Jiyu questioned Tsukimi Machi about why she had been spying on him and learned about her Quirk and her partner Ueno. After Ueno attacked him, Jilan restrained both girls and demanded a proper conversation.

• Jilan Jiyu asked Tsukimi Machi her name and about her Quirk, which let her make objects weighing no more than five kilograms float by bearing their weight himself.
• Tsukimi Machi explained that her glasses let her control the eyeball, but refused to reveal its power source because it involved Ueno's Quirk.
• Tsukimi Machi mistook Jilan Jiyu for someone arresting Ueno and insisted she had committed the crime alone.
• Ueno rushed into the classroom, saw Tsukimi Machi clinging to Jilan Jiyu, and attacked him with her twin tails.
• Jilan Jiyu wrapped Ueno's twin tails around his hand, lifted her off the ground, and pulled Tsukimi Machi off his arm.
• Jilan Jiyu held both girls suspended and asked them to have a proper talk with him.

Jilan Jiyu caught Ueno and Tsukimi Machi spying on him and learned that Erina Nakiri had ordered them to gather information about his private life. He realized they knew nothing about the USJ attack’s casualties and left after warning them not to film him again.

• Jilan Jiyu caught the two girls, and Ueno accused him of disrespecting her while Tsukimi Machi clarified that she had hugged him.
• Ueno admitted that she and Tsukimi Machi had been spying on Jilan Jiyu at the student council secretary’s request.
• Jilan Jiyu learned that Erina Nakiri had arranged for the Hero Course to fall under student council authority and resented him for his Hero Course standing.
• Ueno said the pair had started following Jilan Jiyu after the USJ attack and regretted not getting their surveillance eyeball working sooner.
• Jilan Jiyu realized Ueno and Tsukimi Machi did not know about the teachers injured in the attack, then warned them not to film him again.

Jilan Jiyu learned that the Student Council had summoned Hero Course class representatives to a Sports Festival preparation meeting, while Erina’s surveillance effort against him failed. Erina resolved to defeat Jilan, even after Ueno and Tsukimi Machi walked out on her.

• Aizawa asked Jilan Jiyu to attend the Student Council’s Sports Festival preparation meeting after school and said the Student Council secretary had called it.
• Erina watched the brief surveillance footage of Jilan Jiyu and criticized Ueno and Tsukimi Machi for being discovered.
• Ueno argued that Jilan’s sharp observation skills had made their failure inevitable, while Erina compared him to Yuta Togashi.
• Erina proposed using a recording to accuse Jilan of mistreating Tsukimi Machi, prompting Ueno to defend her.
• Ueno took Tsukimi Machi and left after Erina threatened to cut the club’s funding.
• Erina watched Jilan’s image and vowed that he would be defeated by her Totsuki Group.

After classes, Jilan Jiyu recruited Momo Yaoyorozu to accompany him to a Sports Festival meeting with the Student Council. He left her confident that she would handle any hostility toward the Hero Course while he avoided trouble.

• Eijiro Kirishima got a cramp after taking a cold shower, and Fumikage Tokoyami used Dark Shadow to pull him from the bathroom and wrap him in a blanket.
• Jilan Jiyu and Momo Yaoyorozu headed toward the General Studies Course building, prompting Uraraka to wonder whether they were going on a date.
• Jilan Jiyu asked Yaoyorozu to wait after school and told her he wanted her to attend the Sports Festival meeting with him.
• Jilan Jiyu warned Yaoyorozu that Student Council secretary Erina Nakiri was hostile toward the Hero Course and might target them at the meeting.
• Yaoyorozu accepted the responsibility after Jilan Jiyu praised her, while he privately planned to avoid getting drawn into a confrontation.

Jilan Jiyu and Momo Yaoyorozu challenged the other course representatives’ attempt to make the Hero Course share responsibility for organizing the Sports Festival. After Yaoyorozu invoked the recent USJ attack to justify Jilan staying, the meeting’s participants looked to Erina Nakiri to decide what to do.

• Jilan Jiyu and Momo Yaoyorozu arrived at the Student Council meeting, where a second-year girl criticized their lateness and questioned Yaoyorozu’s presence.
• Jilan introduced Yaoyorozu as Class A’s decision-maker, but a bespectacled representative demanded that he leave as an outsider.
• Jilan refused to leave, saying he had to protect Yaoyorozu, and Yaoyorozu warned that a spy could be among the students after the USJ attack.
• The other representatives realized that forcing Jilan out could make them seem suspicious and turned to Erina Nakiri, who had called the meeting.
• The representatives had planned to target the Hero Course and make its students share responsibility for Sports Festival preparations, but Jilan and Yaoyorozu disrupted their plan.

Erina Nakiri coordinated the Sports Festival preparations, assigning reasonable tasks to the first-year classes and asking Hero Course students to help other courses. Jilan Jiyu realized she was treating the students equally rather than targeting him, and regretted letting Ueno's warning make him suspicious.

• Erina Nakiri resumed the meeting and explained that Hero Course classes would help General Studies students prepare the competition venues.
• Nakiri assigned each class specific work and arranged for Hero Course students to assist the Management Course with recording equipment.
• Kendo and Yaoyorozu agreed to the requests after Nakiri explained the workload involved.
• Jilan Jiyu noticed that Nakiri's assignments were fair and concluded that she meant to make students from every course feel equally responsible.
• Jilan Jiyu reflected that he had misjudged Nakiri and had unnecessarily told Yaoyorozu to draw her attention away from him.

After the Student Council meeting, Erina Nakiri privately praised Momo Yaoyorozu and secured her agreement to help with the Sports Festival. Jilan Jiyu left them together and met Yuta Togashi, a second-year Hero Course student looking for Nakiri.

• Jilan Jiyu reflected that U.A. High School focused too much of its resources on the Hero Course as the class representatives left the meeting.
• Erina Nakiri asked Momo Yaoyorozu to stay, praised her performance, and confirmed that Yaoyorozu had no objections to the work assignments.
• Nakiri apologized for the Hero Course being spared work at previous Sports Festivals, and Yaoyorozu said her class would help voluntarily.
• Nakiri secretly recorded Yaoyorozu's agreement, then chatted with her about her figure and offered to plan her diet, leaving Yaoyorozu embarrassed.
• Jilan Jiyu left the meeting room and encountered Yuta Togashi, who was waiting to speak with Nakiri; Jilan introduced himself as a first-year in Hero Course Class A.

Jilan Jiyu met Hero Course upperclassman Yuta Togashi, who removed his wig and behaved strangely after their conversation. The next morning, Momo Yaoyorozu organized Sports Festival preparation assignments, while Jilan defended Izuku Midoriya from Bakugo's taunts; Midoriya resolved to make a spectacular debut at the festival.

• Yuta Togashi revealed his youthful face beneath a wig, spoke with Jilan Jiyu about their hobbies, and later struck a dramatic pose by the Student Council building.
• Momo Yaoyorozu told Jilan that Erina Nakiri had befriended her, advised her on class management, planned her meals, and invited her home.
• Yaoyorozu announced Sports Festival preparation duties and offered participants an exemption from one makeup test; she assigned Mezo Shoji and Kirishima to move heavy objects and Tenya Iida to test monitoring equipment.
• Izuku Midoriya repeatedly volunteered for tasks, but Jilan Jiyu told him he would not be considered because he could not safely use his Quirk and was not strong enough without it.
• Bakugo mocked Midoriya, and Jilan criticized Bakugo for refusing to volunteer and praised Midoriya's eagerness to help.
• Midoriya clenched his fists and resolved to make a spectacular debut at the Sports Festival.

Class A returned to the repaired USJ for rescue training, while Jilan Jiyu stayed behind because he felt unwell. The exercise began with Uraraka, Midoriya, and Tenya Iida assigned to play the injured climbers.

• Momo Yaoyorozu told Jilan Jiyu that he had been assigned to assist Recovery Girl, and he agreed to find her.
• Shota Aizawa warned the class not to waste their chance to study, and Thirteen later announced that Jilan Jiyu would miss rescue training because he was unwell.
• Thirteen and Aizawa led Class A through a climbing exercise at the USJ, where Sero, Bakugo, Todoroki, and Uraraka used their Quirks to ascend the rock wall.
• Thirteen described a rescue scenario involving three injured climbers trapped in a valley, and the students prepared to respond.
• Thirteen announced that Uraraka, Midoriya, and Tenya Iida had been randomly selected to play the injured people, freezing their smiles.

Class 1-A practiced rescuing injured classmates from a fissure, then moved on to a hide-and-seek exercise in a collapsed urban area. Thirteen explained the rules and began assigning the students to hiding and searching roles.

• Thirteen assigned Yaoyorozu, Todoroki, Tokoyami, and Bakugo to rescue the classmates trapped in the fissure.
• Yaoyorozu made pulleys, and Tokoyami used Dark Shadow to carry the stretcher and injured students safely up to the surface.
• Uraraka revealed she had been pretending to be unconscious and laughed at Iida's serious acting; Iida and Midoriya were also brought up safely.
• Thirteen concluded the rescue exercise, and Kirishima and Midoriya said they preferred helping others to being rescued.
• Thirteen announced a hide-and-seek exercise in the collapsed urban area and excluded Toru Hagakure because her invisibility would give her side an unfair advantage.

During the rescue exercise, Denki Kaminari used a new electrostatic technique to locate the hidden students, but accidentally short-circuited himself. Izuku Midoriya set out to use Kaminari’s information to find the first targets.

• Katsuki Bakugo rejected Midoriya’s plan, ordered the team to search in pairs, and flew off to search from the air.
• Midoriya searched the rubble carefully while Kaminari complained about the difficulty of finding people in the large zone.
• Bakugo’s explosions shook the surrounding ruins, and Kaminari decided to use his Quirk to track the hidden students.
• Kaminari released a low-voltage current and used his antenna-equipped earpiece to locate one person underground and another in a nearby house.
• Kaminari touched his statically charged hair and short-circuited, so Midoriya protected his hands with his jacket and headed toward the first location.