Episode 32

Five days into the internships, Izuku Midoriya is still at Hosu General Hospital. Tenya Ida went home to his family once the test results came back, and Shoto Todoroki, whose injuries were lighter, has returned to his father's agency. On his way out, Shoto notes with some satisfaction that he intends to embarrass Endeavor, since it was the students who brought down Stain and not the number two hero. Left alone, Izuku wonders how everyone else's week is going.

Katsuki Bakugo is walking a patrol with Best Jeanist, who asks him the point of the exercise and gets the wrong answer: beating up criminals where you find them. A cluster of fans recognizes the professional, which lets him make his point, that patrols exist to reassure the public. Then a group of boys recognizes Katsuki and starts mocking him over the Sludge Villain incident. He screams at them, gets reprimanded, tries again more gently, and screams at them anyway until they cry. Best Jeanist begins to worry the boy's pride will strangle everything he could become.

Elsewhere Gunhead drills Ochaco Uraraka on the fundamentals of fighting an opponent with a knife. Itsuka Kendo and Momo Yaoyorozu escort Uwabami through her admirers. Fourth Kind puts Eijiro Kirishima and Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu to work cleaning a park, and Death Arms walks Kyoka Jiro through an actual rescue.

Aboard the docked Oki Mariner, Tsuyu Asui is interning under Selkie, alongside his sidekick Sirius. Chores done, she and Sirius talk about how unglamorous the work really is compared to what students imagine. Sirius says her own internship under Selkie taught her what genuinely matters about the job, and when Tsuyu asks what that is, she is told to find it herself. Selkie catches them sitting and scolds them until Sirius corrects him, at which point he apologizes, and a crew member reports that orders have just come in from the coast guard.

The ship sails to investigate a trade vessel robbed by stowaways. Selkie goes into the water himself to search while Tsuyu and Sirius work the radar through the night. Nothing turns up until word arrives that a boat believed to belong to the thieves is somewhere in their area, having slipped another pursuer. Selkie confirms the position and returns, and the crew closes in, though he boards without Tsuyu, to her frustration.

It is a decoy. Selkie and two crewmates are sealed inside the fishing boat, and Sirius picks up his warning with her Quirk: the real stowaways are elsewhere. They find the second boat tucked into the shadow of a large rock, board it, and are attacked immediately by the ringleader, Innsmouth. He wraps Sirius in his tentacles and promises to crush her unless Tsuyu has the hunt called off by her superiors. Remembering what Sirius told her earlier, Tsuyu broadcasts their position instead. The furious villain attacks, she evades, and her attempt to hook Sirius with her tongue ends with Innsmouth catching it and slamming her into the rocks. He has her pinned when Selkie arrives. Blinded by the villain, Selkie simply echolocates with his own Quirk and puts him down. Afterward Tsuyu tells Sirius she has worked out what matters after all, the smugglers are taken into custody, and the coast guard thanks her for her part in it.

The nineteenth entry of the second season is the series' first anime-original installment, with no chapter of the manga behind it, though the events are built out from an incident Tsuyu mentions in passing in chapter 58. It carries no adapted-from credit and keeps Singin' to the Sky and 'Cause You're My Hero. as its themes.

The installment introduces Selkie, Sirius, and Innsmouth, and gives Tsuyu the spotlight during a stretch of the storyline where the manga follows Izuku almost exclusively. It also fills in several internship placements only glimpsed elsewhere, including Kyoka's rescue work under Death Arms and Ochaco's close-quarters training with Gunhead.