The Law of Ueki, Volume 3

This is Volume 3 of Tsubasa Fukuchi's The Law of Ueki, collecting chapters 19 through 28. The story continues the main arc of the "candidate god selection": ordinary middle schooler Kosuke Ueki gains the power to turn anything he considers trash into plants, becomes a fighter chosen by his teacher candidate god Kobayashi, and is drawn into a tournament to decide the next god. In this contest, participants gain a new "talent" each time they win a battle, but lose one of their own abilities if they harm an innocent person—rules that themselves interrogate "justice" and "power." This volume follows the confrontation with the strongest candidate, Robert Haydn, from the previous two volumes and further develops Ueki's relationships with his partner Ai Mori and others; it also reveals the message left by teacher Kobayashi, giving Ueki a clearer answer to "what am I fighting for." New candidates and participants appear one after another, the numerical gap between allies and enemies is laid bare, and the scale of battle escalates. The work blends wildly imaginative superpower setups, lightly comedic slice-of-life passages, and hot-blooded combat—classic Weekly Shonen Sunday pacing. Note: this entry corresponds to the traditional Chinese edition published by Ching Win, Volume 3; readers with other editions or scanned collections may find chapter numbering slightly different.