Unforeseen Hope

With Joi Irinaka handed over to the police, Aizawa concludes that Taishiro Toyomitsu was right about the drug that had inflated the man's power, since it has clearly run dry. Questioned about the rest of the League, Irinaka spits that he would love to know himself, which tells Nighteye there was never anyone here but Twice and Toga. Ken Takagi, hurt and impatient, waves the squad onward and stays behind as a guard, admitting to himself that the students have carried this raid further than any adult and that his faith now sits with Deku and Nighteye. Above them, the two League members slip away, Toga daydreaming about Chisaki in tears while Twice floats a plan he thinks Shigaraki will approve of.

Deku's arrival is immediate and violent, a punch that launches Chisaki across the chamber, and Eraser Head shuts the villain's power down while Nighteye embraces his student and takes hold of Eri. The advantage lasts seconds. Chronostasis, healed during the earlier fight, wakes and slows Aizawa with a cut, forcing the blink that frees Chisaki. Refusing to let the plan die, Chisaki tears Nemoto apart and folds him into his own body, rising again with four extra arms and demanding Eri back. In the confusion Kurono drags Aizawa underground, judging Erasure interesting enough to keep its owner breathing, and tells him plainly that no hero will stop a man willing to spend the old boss's granddaughter on his ambitions.

Nighteye buys Deku time with a thrown seal and orders him to carry Mirio and Eri clear. Trading blows with the monstrous Chisaki, he leans on the very lesson he drilled into Mirio, reading an enemy's motion without any Quirk at all, and remembers the day he walked away from All Might after seeing his death, and the conversation with Gran Torino that followed. Every future his Foresight showed him arrived exactly as promised, so he stopped looking. Rationing his power in one-second glimpses, he stays ahead of the spikes until his borrowed sight runs out and a shaft goes through him. Touching Chisaki as he falls, he searches desperately for a future worth having and finds only himself and Izuku dead.

Deku answers by pushing Full Cowl to 20 percent, swearing he will bend the future, and swings Manchester Smash at the villain's skull. It misses. Chisaki calls him predictable next to Lemillion and Nighteye and pins him with stone. Then he opens a mouth on his hand and turns Nemoto's Confession on Eri, dragging her back with the question of whether she wants more people to die for her. She goes, telling Deku she does not believe he can win alone. Bleeding and refusing all of it, Izuku wrenches a spike out of his own body and shatters it, right as Ryukyu's squad crashes through the ceiling with Rikiya Katsukame in tow.

Rock Lock stays behind with the captured Irinaka and voices his confidence in Deku and Sir Nighteye.

Chronostasis wounds Eraser Head and abducts him underground, intending to have his Erasure studied rather than killed.

Kai Chisaki sacrifices Shin Nemoto, fusing with him to gain a larger, four-armed body.

Sir Nighteye takes over the fight, is impaled, and sees a future in which both he and Izuku die at Chisaki's hands.

Deku reaches 20 percent Full Cowl and attempts Manchester Smash, which misses. Eri surrenders herself again under the influence of Confession, and Ryukyu's team breaks into the battlefield.

Chapters 153 through 155 supply the material. The episode remains inside the Shie Hassaikai arc, carrying Polaris and About a Voyage.

Rather than narrate the workings of Foresight, the adaptation stages a scene between Nighteye and Gran Torino to convey the same information. The beat in which Izuku evacuates Eri along with Mirio, present in Chapter 153, is dropped.

The destruction of Izuku's right bracer is handled differently across the two versions. On the page, Chisaki claws it directly during the exchange; on screen, the implication is that it merely brushed one of his rising spikes.