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Summary

Chapter 157

Round 2!

The chapter opens to an exhausted and bloodied Metal Bat looking at the slumped-over bodies of Erimin and Destro. Remarking that it'd been a tough fight, Metal Bat slowly squats, using his bat for balance. He's not given rest: a series of beeps and clicks alerts him to a change in the duo. They shed their disguises to reveal two cyborgs, one with its brain visible through a transparent covering over its cranium. Destro wastes no time in charging Metal Bat in what he called 'Destroy Mode', smashing the hero through multiple walls, then pinning him and punching him repeatedly in the face. Erimin supports him with her 'Eliminate Mode', stabbing at Metal Bat and abstracting his epinymous metal bat.

'Destro, enough!' she says, 'he's already dead' but Destro doesn't listen, continuing to pummel the young hero. She points out that the building may self-repair but the damage he's continuing to do will make trouble for them. Destro does not relent. She gives up on getting through to him and decides to go kill McCoy. Just as she turns around, there's a 'smack!' Metal Bat has caught Destro's fist, and then there's a sickening crunch as Metal Bat smashes Destro's head in with one mighty punch, killing him.

'Thank you for dropping the human act', Metal Bat says as he explains that he's never had the opportunity to just go all out against someone. With a huge flurry of blows, he does for Erimin too.

Metal Bat finally fully letting loose -- what a terrifying sight!

Elsewhere, McCoy is fleeing, well, walking briskly away from would be more accurate, Mr. Fuzzy's bodyguards. He comes to a door at the end of the corridor and it is helpfully unlocked.

Inside, he sees none other than Mr. Fuzzy, who has been gagged and bound to a chair, with an IV running into his arm. After being ungagged, Mr. Fuzzy wastes no time introducing himself and starts talking about 'a great light of destruction,' and the need to stop the inorganic consciousness that has lost its way. He tells McCoy about the antenna at the top of the building sending signals to the robots currently rampaging and it was down to the heroes to do something about it. McCoy asks if there's something useful the latter can say, like where the kill switch might be.

There's a pounding at the door. The bodyguards have arrived. McCoy starts to weep -- surely his hour has come. And then there's silence. Metal Bat opens the door, having dispatched said bodyguards. Mr Fuzzy thus has time to explain that the antenna was controlled by a remote that was in the hands of a fake Mr Fuzzy. The robots couldn't be beaten by calculation but by the wild factor that people could bring. McCoy interprets that the heroes needing to go wild and not give up and Metal Bat sees it as mere common sense.

Elsewhere, Fake Fuzzy sits in a chair observing A's dismantlement of Ryumon with approval. It has been most illuminating, he says. A remarks that people and monsters aren't that different. He plan son expanding his tormet to AIs like Mr. Fuzzy too. Speaking of torment, he was enjoying keeping Ryumon alive far beyond the point at which he should have died.

Metal Bat and McCoy approach he office, following the bloody drag tail that they presume to have come from Ryumon. Just as they reach the door, the doors are flung open and a panicked A comes haring out, screaming for help. He doesn't get far as a clawed, scaly hand grabs him by the head and starts dragging him back. Metal Bat frees him with a swing of his bat and shouts at McCoy to stay back. He's faced by what appears to be an actual dragon. A tells him that it's Ryumon, and he's now a monster and needs to be killed right away. Just then, Amai Mask and Webigaza come crashing through the office windows, with Amai asking what's going on.

Couldn't be happening to a nicer person -- A fleeing for his life.

Chapter 158

A bewildered Ryumon watches as everyone around him appears to have gone mental. Everyone is talking at once, asking whether they should kill him, commenting on his bloodlust, crediting him with saving their lives… Webigaza cuts in saying that Ruymon had been looking out for her and was so nice as to buy her lattes and she was sorry for judging him by his appearance initially. Metal Bat says that he's just confused. Amai asks if he's still of sound mind and if this was his first time monsterizing. Ryumon finally speaks: what the hell is everyone talking about?

There's silence as the people in the room digest this information.

Ryumon explains that he'd been on the verge of death and he'd felt this sensation welling up in his chest, speculating that this power had to be what they called justice and he felt almost invincible. Amai interrupts him by showing him his reflection in a piece of glass. Ryumon is shocked. Amai starts to explain that monsterfication is the hyper-development of violent physical capabilities accompanied by psychological degradation -- but it turns out that what Ryumon is shocked about is how awesome he looks, looking like the reification of his beloved tattoo. After a bit of self-admiration, Ryumon thinks to ask where A is. On being told that A has escaped, he starts to freak out, saying that A is incredibly evil and simply can't be left at large. Amai Mask stops him, assuring him that A will be found and that right now, stabilizing Ryumon's mental state had to take priority.

Fake Fuzzy, who'd been sitting quietly in the chair, finally interjects, annoyed that his test subject was being interfered with. He wanted to see more of the potential of humanity. Webi recognises him and tells the others who Mr. Fuzzy is, informing them that he's the one who put the Neo Heroes together, managed Blue, and turned her into a cyborg. Fake Fuzzy asks if she's blaming him for her current predicament, calling the tendency to blame others for one's shortcomings a characteristic of manipulable humans. Giving her inefficient modifications had been a valuable experiment.

Amai tells Webi to ignore his taunts and keep calm but she assures him that there's no need for his concern: these modifications were her choice at the end of the day, and despite their inefficiency, she was still able to protect people she cared about.

Ignoring Webi, Fake Fuzzy orders McCoy to monsterize, which he refuses to do. No way he's taking orders from a robot (not that he could monsterize in any case but that's beside the point). Ryumon notes that this robot isn't built for combat and must be for espionage, to which Amai adds that all everything they're seeing and saying must be being relayed to the mastermind. Metal Bat moves to bash the hell out of Fake Fuzzy but Amai Mask redirects him to the true goal: stopping the endless plague of robots and Neo Heroes. McCoy recalls that Real Fuzzy told him about a remote control.

'This?' Fake Fuzzy asks, taking out the remote control. Then destroys it. It wants to see the gathered group show it another of their 'errors' that so throw off its calculations. As the heroes digest what this means, Webigaza detects massive numbers of robots approaching from all sides. Amai tells Metal Bat to take the tower and destroy the transmitter at its top. The rest of them will hold off anything trying to storm the tower.

Dance, worms! Give me more data!

All around, things are looking dire. Heroes are fighting bravely, but the robots keep coming. Back in Bofoi's no-longer-so-secret hideout, he and Isamu are wondering how to stop Genos. Bofoi reckons that Saitama is probably the only one other than Kuseno who has influence on Genos but with his communications network jammed, he has no way of reaching the Caped Baldy. Isamu realises that the Neo Heroes' comms are still unjammed and wonders if he could contact one of the other leaders. Bofoi advises him to try contacting them one by one.

We see that the other leaders are mostly not in a state to respond for one reason or another. We focus on Accel, who is running for his life despite the batteries on his roller blades being totally dead. He can feel his former men practically clawing at his back but he won't give up.

Metal Bat reaches the tower's roof, to be met by a troop of Machine Gods. No words are exchanged as they enjoin a battle most brutal, man against machine. In the aftermath of the explosions, we see Metal Bat resume his trudge up the seemingly endless stairs to the very top of the tower. Finally, he reaches the antenna. It is massive but with a few brutal swings, he destroys it.

All around, things suddenly quiet down: just as Accel's former team mates are about to pounce on him, they suddenly collapse. He stops running, astonished. Then his phone starts to ring. It is Isamu, asking if he can hear him. On his replying in the affirmative, he tells Accel that he has a vital message for him to relay.

Fake Fuzzy is not dismayed by the outcome. Seeing this display of human unpredictability has been most useful information for the establishment of the new world order. Eliminating highly capable humans has to be…well, we don't get any further as Amai destroys the robot.

Finally, Accel reaches the Hero Association headquarters. He sees Saitama and calls out to him, telling him that there's a hero job that only he can take care of.

belated realization that Rudo's arms are still very very broken through this. the transformation didnt heal them, why would it. he can only bite or kick now

this motion is inertia from the turn

and this must have been very painful to do

Rudo's tolerance for pain is unreal

wasnt kidding when he told Mymo "It's just broken that's all.