The Hellish Todoroki Family

A week into the work-study, the three trainees keep losing the race. Endeavor reaches every villain first, then sends them back while he patrols on. In his office he studies the Meta Liberation War and turns Hawks' warning over, until Fuyumi calls. She has heard about Shoto's friends interning under him and wants them all at dinner before term resumes. The request sends Endeavor back through everything he has done. He has been dreaming of Shoto, Fuyumi, Natsuo, and Rei eating together and laughing, with himself nowhere in the picture. He remembers isolating Shoto from his siblings, remembers pushing his wife until she broke, remembers what came after. He also remembers Fuyumi telling him Shoto has begun visiting Rei and writing to her, and her hope that the family might one day be whole. Natsuo's contempt, Shoto's coldness, and All Might's question about what he draws his strength from all sit in the same pile.

The next morning Burnin needles the exhausted boys about their unmet goal, notices the bruises they have collected, and decides they need no encouragement from her. They patrol all day and lose again, collecting advice each time. At sunset Endeavor brings them home. Fuyumi welcomes them, Izuku apologizes for hurting Shoto at the Sports Festival, and Shoto spots Natsuo's shoes at the door. The meal is tense. Izuku over-analyzes the food, Fuyumi mentions Natsuo cooked part of it, and Natsuo remarks that their father probably refused to touch it. When Endeavor says he would like to try some, Natsuo gets up and leaves.

Washing up afterward, Izuku and Katsuki overhear Shoto and Fuyumi. Shoto cannot forgive what was done to their mother, but he sees the effort Rei is making, and a recent letter says she will be discharged soon and hopes to live with her children again. He does not know how to feel about it. Katsuki barges in to complain about heavy conversation in front of guests, and Izuku tells Shoto he thinks he is getting ready to forgive, that it is fine if he never does, but that a kind person tends to wait for the right moment. Both Natsuo and Endeavor overhear this. Later, Endeavor lights the family altar and prays, wishing Toya could have been in the dream too. Days earlier, a hooded man walked out of prison, drifted through a Christmas market, and grinned at footage of Endeavor fighting the High-End Nomu.

Endeavor continues to beat his trainees to every incident throughout their first week while coaching them on their weaknesses. Fuyumi arranges a family dinner and invites Natsuo, producing the first meal in years with most of the Todorokis at one table.

Shoto reveals that Rei is due to be discharged and hopes to move back in with her children, and admits he does not know what he wants. Izuku tells Shoto he believes forgiveness is coming eventually, a conversation Endeavor and Natsuo both overhear. Endeavor prays at the family altar and privately wishes Toya were part of the dream that haunts him.

Ending, released from custody, encounters televised footage of Endeavor's battle against the High-End Nomu and reacts with delight, marking the start of his fixation on the top hero.

Adapted from the end of one chapter and the whole of another, aired in Japan on July 24, 2021, with the dub on August 7. Merry-Go-Round and Believe continue as the themes.

The adaptation reschedules the briefcase theft, placing it the evening before the week's last day rather than during it, adds a flashback of Endeavor and Fuyumi discussing Shoto's hospital visits, and expands the dinner-table dialogue. One flashback finally shows Endeavor striking Rei, an act previously kept off screen in both versions. The scene of Rei trying to cool Shoto's burn is withheld, with only the audio and a shot of the fallen kettle.

Ending appears earlier than in the source, walking free in daylight before settling on Endeavor as his target. The trainees are shown less battered here than the original had them when Burnin wakes them.