Episode 111

With Skeptic's puppets dealt with, Twice measures Himiko so he can produce a Double to draw blood from, and barks his squabbling copies back into line. Spinner stays behind to occupy Trumpet, who amplifies Incite through his Sevens Loud rig and lifts every loyal warrior's body and spirit at once. Dismissed as a bullied shut-in whose Gecko only lets him cling to walls, Spinner answers that he has nothing he particularly wants for himself, only a belief in the future Tomura is chasing.

Giran survives the tower's collapse by landing on a cushion of Doubles. Tomura mocks Re-Destro for outsourcing his convictions, then finds both hands seized as Stress swells his opponent further. Re-Destro presses the question of what a man who only destroys can possibly contribute. Fingers break, yet Tomura touches two of his own to Re-Destro's enlarged digit and cracks it, which should have been impossible with fewer than five points of contact. An Awakening is under way, and memories crash back in while Re-Destro escalates to 80% Liberation and fires Stress Output Burden. Tomura walks out of it and admits, without hesitation, that he wants nothing except ruin.

The flashback fills the rest. Five-year-old Tenko is locked outside for playing hero, since Kotaro forbids the subject entirely, while Nao and the Magi grandparents object and his worsening rash goes unexplained. Hana sneaks him into their father's study to show a photograph of Nana, the hero grandmother nobody discussed, and cheers him on. Kotaro's fury at the discovery ends in a slap and a speech about heroes who rescue strangers and wound their families. Then the itching peaks. The family dog crumbles at Tenko's touch. Hana dies chasing away in horror. The yard, the grandparents, and Nao dissolve as she reaches for him. Kotaro raises a rod, and his son laughs as the house comes down, the itch finally gone.

Tomura enters an Awakening mid-fight, gaining explosive physical speed and the ability to trigger Decay through fewer than five fingers, both of which stun Re-Destro into treating him as an equal.

Spinner commits to Trumpet's warriors alone, naming loyalty to Tomura as the only reason he refuses to be a nobody.

Tenko Shimura's origin is laid bare: the household rule against heroes, the letter in which Nana apologized to her son for leaving to fight All For One, Hana's encouragement, and the manifestation of Decay that annihilated his entire family in a single afternoon.

Skeptic phones Re-Destro to report Gigantomachia tearing through Deika City, confirming the League held a weapon in reserve.

Adapted from Chapter 233 through Chapter 236, with parts of Chapter 233 omitted. The opening remains Merry-Go-Round and the ending Believe.

Numerous changes separate the two versions. Skeptic's approach toward Twice and Himiko is dropped, as are Spinner cutting a soldier's throat, his reaction to Curious, and Giran noticing that Tomura Decays without contact. Tomura loses three fingers on the page but only a broken hand on screen, and he obliterates Stress Output Burden in print while merely deflecting part of it here. Slidin' Go's reaction to the tremors, a nod toward Quirks and Us, and Nao's apology to a neighbor all vanish. Kotaro's first slap becomes a grab, fresh flashbacks of his own childhood with Nana are added, and the maternal grandparents die off screen, marked only by Mako's shattered glasses.

Animation slips let Tomura's decayed shoes and the red cords binding his hands reappear in later shots, corrections made for the Blu-ray release.