Hideout Raid Arc

The ninth story arc of My Hero Academia, and the last of the U.A. Beginnings Saga, covering chapters 84 to 97 and Episodes 46 through 50. It follows the Forest Training Camp arc and precedes the Provisional Hero License Exam arc.

With Katsuki Bakugo taken, U.A.'s students and staff face the consequences of their failure. The professionals prepare to breach the League of Villains' hideout, a handful of students decide to reach their classmate first, and the greatest evil of the age chooses this night to return.

Tsuyu Asui warns Eijiro Kirishima and Shoto Todoroki that acting on feeling alone would make them no better than villains, and most of the class agrees. They go regardless. Tenya Ida punches Izuku Midoriya in the face over Hosu, then joins on the condition that nobody fights, and Momo Yaoyorozu comes to enforce the same rule. Her tracker leads the five, disguised, to Kamino.

In captivity, Katsuki is offered a place at Tomura Shigaraki's side and answers with an explosion that takes the hand off his face. Someone claimed him long ago, he tells them, and what did it was how All Might carries himself in victory. Watching U.A.'s televised apology, he notes it is correct about him.

That apology is bait. Naomasa Tsukauchi built it to convince the League the heroes were too busy to strike the same day. Edgeshot knocks as a pizza courier, All Might comes through the opposite wall, Kamui Woods binds every villain at once so Kurogiri cannot open a gate, and Gran Torino drops Dabi mid-motion. Across the ward, Mt. Lady, Best Jeanist, Gang Orca and Tiger take the Nomu factory and recover a comatose Ragdoll. The students, watching from outside, realize what building they had actually found.

Then a black liquid nobody can counter takes Katsuki out of All Might's hands, and a shadowed figure at the warehouse explains that Ragdoll no longer has a Quirk because he found Search useful. He shrugs off Best Jeanist's fibers, levels the warehouse with a single blast, and the five students behind the wall are pinned by terror. Izuku understands who is standing there.

Izuku's plan is not a fight but a removal: Tenya and Eijiro ride Hardening through a wall and up Shoto's ice ramp while All Might intercepts the counterattack, and Eijiro calls out because Katsuki listens to no one else. Mt. Lady and Gran Torino break the pursuit. All For One magnetizes the League through the gate and stays behind alone, and All Might, no longer guarding a hostage, stops holding back.

The duel runs long. All For One taunts him with Nana Shimura, reveals that Tomura is her grandson, and forces him to spend his remaining power shielding a trapped civilian, which strips him back to his true form on live television. The country sees it and cheers anyway. Remembering Nana's words, All Might funnels whatever embers One For All has left into one arm and ends it with United States of Smash. All For One goes to Tartarus, satisfied that defeat will sharpen his apprentice's hatred. The Quirk is gone from All Might forever, and his final broadcast line, aimed at the camera, is heard as a warning to villains and understood by Izuku as an inheritance.

The fallout reshapes everything. Best Jeanist takes indefinite leave, Ragdoll's career ends with her Quirk, Endeavor inherits the top rank and wrecks his own training hall rather than accept it, and the police resolve to stop trailing behind heroes. Nezu converts the school to a dormitory system, and All Might calls on the Midoriya home himself, where Inko Midoriya refuses until he kneels and pledges to raise her son even if it kills him. She counters by ordering him to live instead.