Battle’s End and Aftermath does two jobs at once in the Dragon Ball Super manga: Volume 9 collects Chapters 41–44, deciding the Tournament of Power in its first half and then, almost without pausing, launching an entirely new threat — an escaped prisoner who has been locked away for ten million years. It is the most consequential turning point in the series so far.
What Volume 9 collects
Volume 9 collects Chapters 41–44. Chapters 41–42 close the Universe Survival arc with the tournament’s final battle and its surprising winner, while Chapters 43–44 open the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc with a kidnapping, a jailbreak and two new recruits in Patrol uniform. Each chapter has its own guide on the chapter index.
- Chapter 41: Ultra Instinct
- Chapter 42: Battle’s End and Aftermath
- Chapter 43: Joining the Galactic Patrol!
- Chapter 44: Escaped Prisoner Moro
The story inside
The endgame begins with an unlikely teacher: Master Roshi, facing Jiren, demonstrates that power is not the same as movement, and his sacrifice lights the way. Goku finally completes Ultra Instinct, his hair silver and his body moving entirely on its own, and for the first time Jiren is genuinely pressed. But the technique tears at Goku’s body and fails at the worst moment — and so the tournament is decided not by its strongest fighter but by its smartest survivors. Goku and Frieza, of all pairings, drag Jiren out of the arena together, leaving Android 17 as the last warrior standing. His wish on the Super Dragon Balls restores every erased universe, and the book’s title earns its second half.
The aftermath lasts barely a chapter. The Galactic Patrol comes to Earth with a strange request and stranger news: Majin Buu has been taken, because sleeping inside him is the Grand Supreme Kai, the one being who once defeated the prisoner Moro. Moro, an ancient wizard who devours the life energy of whole planets, has escaped after ten million years, and his magic makes him stronger the longer he feeds. Goku and Vegeta enlist on the spot, and the volume ends with the Patrol racing toward New Namek. The two halves mirror each other deliberately: one storyline ends with a wish that restores everything that was lost, and the next begins with a villain whom no wish has ever managed to stop for long.
Where Volume 9 sits in the series
Volume 9 follows Volume 8 and continues into Volume 10, where Moro makes his first wishes. Its chapters close the Universe Survival arc and open the Galactic Patrol Prisoner arc, the first major storyline created for the manga rather than adapted from the anime. The volumes index places it in the full run.
Editions of Volume 9
Shueisha published the Japanese edition in April 2019, and VIZ Media’s English edition followed in June 2020, in print and digital. The Japanese full-colour digital edition arrived in October 2020; see our coloured edition guide for the format. The original chapters can be read officially through VIZ’s Shonen Jump service. ISBNs and complete publication details are listed in the information panel on this page.