Deadly Weapon

Soga Kugisaki brings Koichi Haimawari, Moyuru Tochi, and Rapt Tokage into a lived-in warehouse and passes along Knuckleduster's standing offer: take whatever is here that you need. Rapt spots shotguns and is told to leave them alone, since they are loaded. Koichi finds a map of Naruhata Station, crosses marking the buildings and highway wrecked in the Kaiju attack, untouched for three years. Circles and arrows trace the paths he himself used to bait or chase villains so his master could cut them off in a pincer, with Kazuho's own routes plotted across the highest vantage points. What strikes Koichi is that none of it was reckless; every bit of it was worked out in advance. He gets lost in the memories, which Rapt and Moyuru notice.

Kuin Hachisuka's route is charted too, though Koichi never knew about it. Her jumping never matched Kazuho's, and on the ground she was slower than him. He asks why Knuckleduster was after her, and Soga closes that subject, telling him to take the tactics as reference instead. Could he box in this version of Kazuho the same way? Koichi is unsure: she kicks off walls and clears rooftops, so the only real window is while she is airborne. That becomes the plan.

Soga breaks the next encounter into three jobs. Get there ahead of the Heroes and the Police Force. Catch her in mid-air. Bring her back to the other three. From there Soga handles first aid and they get her to a hospital. Rapt is glad to pitch in; Moyuru balks at committing crimes by wading into hero business. Soga takes the responsibility onto himself and starts the training with stamina work. Koichi's Slide and Glide acceleration startles both spectators, though he insists a long straightaway lets him build more. He demonstrates the mid-air jump, capped at two before he lacks the power to land safely against a wall, and explains that his wall cling height rides on momentum and concentration. Soga suggests his breathing timing could sharpen both. Target practice follows, Rapt throwing empty soda bottles for Koichi to pop with Shooty-Go-Blam. The aim impresses the others, but Soga wants to see the real thing.

A memory surfaces: Koichi asking Kazuho for permission to use the move at all. The attack is powerful enough to require a hero license, and she had ruled it out entirely. He bargains, promising emergencies only and careful control of the output, leaving her uncertain, then simply fires a quick test blast in the penthouse. Her expression is his gauge for what counts as acceptable, because that is the version he will remember.

Back in the present, his shot punches clean through a row of cans, and Moyuru and Rapt recoil. Koichi tells Soga that pouring his whole focus into the core of the move raises both power and range. Rapt says out loud that it could kill someone. Koichi keeps to himself that he knows the move is off-limits, and that he has nothing else left.

Soga opens Knuckleduster's warehouse to the group, and the old maps show Koichi that his master's tactics were calculated rather than wild.

The plan against Bee☆Pop is set: intercept before the heroes arrive, seize her in mid-air, regroup, and get her to a hospital.

Koichi trains his acceleration, jumps, and aim, and demonstrates that a fully focused Shooty-Go-Blam is lethal enough to be a weapon.

The Crawler, Soga Kugisaki, Moyuru Tochi, and Rapt Tokage appear on the cover. The chapter runs nineteen pages in Volume 10.

Its serialized title was Training Starts Now, 特訓開始, revised for the volume edition.