Chapter 24 (Vigilantes)

Knuckleduster stays on Kuin Hachisuka as she runs. A hospital call reaches him through a signal too poor to parse, and his attempt to drop on her from above ends with him hitting asphalt. Back up, he tells the caller the line is clear, and whatever they say about his wife sends him sprinting again, promising the entire family will arrive shortly.

Atop the Marukane Department Store, Pop☆Step covers the blackout by explaining that staff are restoring power, then sorts the crowd, sending glow-stick holders to the edges and opening a lane, offering a bathroom window, and filling the gap with songs. Miu and Yu grant the save was slick, and that she is as lame as ever but somehow cute.

Below, Eraser Head sits beside Teruo Unagisawa, hears cheering, and realizes the show went ahead. Teruo mumbles Pop's name, and Eraser Head offers that he can catch her next show, then spots a bee with its syringe buried in the man, siphoning something, and swats it away.

Knuckleduster corners Kuin in an alley. Bees flood her with Trigger, which flips the swarm's priority to the host's own feelings: Tamao Oguro. Her nails sharpen into claws as she remembers years of friction with her father, and she screams at him to stop provoking her. He fits on the Taser Knuckle. A fresh dose empties into her neck mid-charge, two clawed fingers punch into his heart, and she runs an electric shock through him.

Hideyuki Furuhashi writes and Betten Court draws the twenty-one-page chapter, part of the Vs. Queen Bee arc and collected in volume 4, published February 24, 2018 with Knuckleduster on the cover. Episode 12 adapts it.

Serialization first ran it as Dear Old Dad, or Kuso Oyaji, retitled for the volume release.