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Warning : contain spoilers forOne - Punch gentleman Chapter 162
While the stage inOne - Punch Manis set for a long - awaited showdown between Saitama and the slowlymonsterizing Garou , the late chapter indicates that Saitama may not be the substantial roadblock for Garou achieving his ambition . rather , it ’s a youthful male child named Tareo .
In Garou ’s earliest appearances in the manga , he associated with Tareo , a boy who carries around a manual bear data on the top Hero of Alexandria and their technique . Garou uses this information to aid in his hero search , but just associating with Garou even without knowing who he is puts Tareo in danger repeatedly – and every time , Garou has made the pick to protect Tareo , even if it puts him at a major disadvantage in a fight . Garou even go so far as to help Tareo lam from the Monster Association , and his late , epicdefeat of Centisenninwas entirely predicated on protecting the whirlybird which was persuade Tareo out of danger .
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As Garou begins to present off with Saitama , he ’s blown away bySaitama ’s first strike , sending him spiraling off until landing not far from the helicopter ’s evacuation point . Tareo spots Garou , recognizes him , and begins plead with him to stop acting like a goliath since he ’s so clearly a sub . He points out the obvious : monsters do n’t pull through humans , particularly those they do n’t have a use for . While Garou can insist that what he hopes to bestow about is an absolute evil , in which all are treat equally poorly , his actions do n’t match his wrangle . As Saitama catches up , he too insists that Garou is not a colossus and does n’t desire to engage any further . While Garou strike out in anger at that , a look at his thoughts shows that Tareo ’s words have emphatically gotten into his point .
One of the things that has made Garou an interesting character is that what he say and does is very unlike from his goals and reasons for doing it . Garou pities the monster , seeing it as a dupe of an unfair conflict since heroes will often team up up to take them down . But that ’s projection – he feels for the fiend becauseGarou ’s originsshow he was oft bullied by groups of children , and the situation cue him of his own hurt . Garou does n’t really want a world of " absolute evil , " no matter what he enounce ; what he ’s actually hanker for is fairness , and the easiest way ( to him ) to enforce that is through his own specialty . Tareo has pointed out the incongruity between his thought process and his actions , and while he says it has n’t strike him , the manga queer that it dead has .
AsGarou and Saitamabattle it out in the coming chapters ofOne - Punch Man , this thought in the back of Garou ’s head may be what makes the difference in how this whole battle turn out . Saitama has already prognosticate not to kill Garou – he does n’t kill humanity , anyway . InOne - Punch ManRealizing that means looking past how Garou present himself and seeing the truth of he really is .
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