Chapter 36

* Title Card
* Cover Page

## Chapter Chronology

**Who Are You?** is the thirty-sixth chapter of the manga *Choujin X.*

## Summary

11 months have passed since the battle of the Tower of Mourning and, on an airplane flight, someone is reading a newspaper. One of the articles highlights how Tokio, assistant captain, played a central role in the attack against a powerful Choujn who dominated the urban area of ​​Iwato prefecture, helping to bring the situation back under control in the region.

Meanwhile two mysterious characters are talking and the girl declares that she has the dream of "becoming God" to build an "army of bodybuilders" at her service, as, coming from a condition of poverty, she would never have succeeded in collecting that many. Instead, the man claims that he wants to become a salaryman because if there is a God he would ask them to be replaced by someone better.

The girl gets up from her seat stating that she doesn't have to worry about God, because as mama Zora says, every Choujin is made in the image of God and therefore they only have to commit themselves to becoming good gods, just like she is doing.
When an attendant reminds her to remain seated during the flight, the girl, named Tawashi Minami, transforms her arm into that of a mantis and takes the woman, lifting her by her dress, claiming that she is the kind of girl who stands still on airplane flights and in the bathroom and that now she intends to kill her. The man, named Jing, also turns his finger into a small cannon and announces to the passengers that they are Choujin and that they will now remain silent and still if they don't want to die, before sending Tawashi to check the cockpit.

Suddenly a figure with a face covered by a hat stands up and faces the bandits. When Jing urges him to sit down he simply displays iron handcuffs and exclaims "Genesis" before launching into the attack. Revealing a Yamato Mori uniform under his coat and generating a blade from his handcuffs, he pressures Jing with lethal and fast attacks, finally being recognized as Azuma, Yamato's "rising hope".

Meanwhile, Tawashi has reached the cockpit but finds the two pilots with masks on. Before she can comprehend the situation she is attacked by Ely, hanging from the ceiling and with a fire attack already charged. The criminal recovers from the burn and manifests an insect exoskeleton that covers her body but leaves Ely unresponsive. The girl easily dodges blows, Disapparating in clouds of fume and attacking from blind spots. When the banished accuses her of being a dirty ninja, Ely replies that she is a thief before placing her palm on her opponent and stealing her Choujin powers. Yamato's Keeper then transforms her arm into that of a mantis, identical to Tawashi, and fights her at the same level, before surprising the enemy with another fire attack and finishing her off by stealing her powers entirely.

In the passenger area the fight continues and Jing increases the pressure on Azuma, opening his chest to exhibit a machine gun that forces the boy to transform the metal into a protection for himself and the civilians. With a surprise attack he manages to immobilize Azuma with cables that bind him, but when he lowers his guard and approaches he falls into the trap that the Keeper had prepared on the ground, imprisoning the man in an iron cage and reversing the situation.

The two heroes put the criminals in chains and Azuma notes how once again they are pawns of Zora, who is probably still looking for a Choujin Beast and wants to get it by crashing the plane to awaken the sleeping Choujin among the passengers. Suddenly a figure among them stands up and claims that she wants to show the novices how to do a good job. A mass of snakes bite dozens of civilians while a huge white snake pierces the plane. Nari announces that they should prepare themselves for a sudden drop in altitude and, grabbing the two Choujins under arrest, urges them to go crazy.

Observed from a distance by a mysterious figure passing by carrying one of the humans who failed to receive Zora's mark, the free-falling plane manages to land in the middle of the sea thanks to Ely's smoke, which saves civilians and sends enemies to flight. When Azuma compliments the girl she feels like she's repeating the same things and wonders if the outcome would change if Tokio was with them. Checking the passenger manifest and noticing a suspicious individual, Ely inquires about them.

In another part of Yamato, Chandra stalks the deserted streets warily, complaining that he was kicked out by Zora and that the attack on the plane he was supposed to be in blew his cover. At that moment Ely appears behind him and, after a fast and chaotic chase, pressures him for answers about the attack even as Chandra screams he knows nothing and was supposed to be on a "trip to find himself".

Suddenly Ely is attacked from behind by a Choujin named I. C. Ice, who recently escaped from prison along with Nari. The man generates slabs of ice and announces that he has been sent by Zora to kill Ely as she causes chaos in her prophecies. Ice manages to trap the girl in an ice prison but when he is about to stab her with an ice knife, he is hit by a wave of sharp black feathers. Turning to confront his new foe he is met with a scruffy looking Tokio, with a broken leg, a crutch and a Choujin-slaying blade in hand who claims to be a nobody.

## Characters

* Tokio Kurohara
* Ichiiro Sato (Mentioned)
* Haken King (Mentioned)
* Tawashi Minami (Debut)
* Jing (Debut)
* Zora (Mentioned)
* Azuma Higashi
* Ely Otta
* Nari
* Unknown Girl (Debut)
* Hoshi Sandek (Mentioned)
* Tsukiko Mado (Mentioned)
* Umejiro Kaku
* I. C. Ice (Debut)

## Trivia

* The Giraffe Plush Ely Finds on the crashed plane was part of Zora and Tokyo's dreams of the Black Calamity.
* The events of this chapter, between the attack on the plane, the reappearance of Nari and the chase between Ely and Chandra, seem to heavily recall those of the first chapters and perhaps have to do with the prophecy of Mado and Zora for which a series of events must happen before others follow.

## Navigation

 **Volume 6**
 **Volume 8**

 Tower of Mourning Arc