The Man Who Wants to Be a Monster

Thrilled, Garou goads the assembled criminals into fighting so he can learn who among them is strongest, the sole reason he came. When Sitch dismisses the notion and orders him out, Garou reconsiders and resolves to commit evil instead, prompting Sitch to sic his bodyguards on him. Garou recalls his boyhood, glued to a program about Justice Man while quietly cheering for the villains. Learning that justice always triumphs soured him, and he vowed to become the mightiest monster alive to overturn that outcome, all while throttling Magic Trick Man.

Heavy Tank Loincloth charges in to rescue Magic Trick Man, but Garou snaps his arm and drops him with one punch. The criminals applaud until Garou announces they will die as well. When they protest that they oppose the heroes, he answers that he sides with neither humans nor heroes but with monsters. Blue Fire embraces that view and tries to burn him, only to lose an arm for it. Sitch calls for reinforcements as the criminals swarm.

Outside, Sonic leaves the headquarters and shrugs off the uproar within, having already wasted enough time failing to find Saitama, though he swears to defeat him one day. Saitama, meanwhile, is losing a video game to King, who grumbles about his own poor play. Back inside, Garou has flattened every last criminal and declares war on the heroes, promising that in half a year he will grow strong enough to challenge King, reputed as the strongest man on earth, while Sitch cowers in a corner.

Garou recounts how his childhood sympathy for villains shaped his ambition to become the ultimate monster. He crushes Heavy Tank Loincloth and Blue Fire and defeats the entire criminal gathering. He aligns himself with monsters over both humans and heroes. Garou declares war and vows to challenge King within six months while Sonic gives up finding Saitama.

This chapter opens Volume 9 within the Garou Introduction Arc and adapts across Episodes 13 and 14, with Saitama on the cover. The Viz release titles it The Man Who Wanted to Be a Villain. It corresponds to Chapter 46 of the webcomic and was published in two parts in December 2014.