Vigilantes chapter 104 turns Koichi's flight into a fight. Number 6 admits the face he wears most fondly was copied from Koichi himself, and a single moment of mercy at point-blank range costs The Crawler everything he had gained.
Summary
Rocketing upward, Koichi Haimawari reasons that fetching All Might is the sensible play, since brawling with a villain this vicious is beyond him. Speed or not, the danger everyone below is in turns him around, and he doubles back toward Number 6. The instant he does, every Anonymous body closing on Soga Kugisaki, the police, and the pair of Rapt Tokage and Moyuru Tochi goes still.
Number 6 mocks him for showing up, then wonders aloud whether this is really the man he met before, since the charred face looks nothing alike. Realizing he never put his own face on, he panics and reshapes it with Bomber cells into the features of Rokuro Nomura. That face ranks among his favorites, he says, and because he modeled it on Koichi directly, Koichi has to go. He drifts into a fantasy of removing Koichi so he can mend things with Kazuho Haneyama and revive their Rock and Pop act, while the O'Clock voice calls her a liability worth erasing.
Koichi drops to his knees and begs for that trade, offering to vanish if she is spared. Puzzled, Number 6 clarifies that vanishing means dying and readies an explosive stomp. From the kowtow Koichi sweeps his legs with Slide and Glide, launching him airborne where Overclock cannot help him. Koichi remembers Soga's advice: no fair fight is winnable, but the man talks endlessly out of pride or hunger for respect, and that opening allows a blast to the face that ends it. Lining up the lethal shot, Koichi pictures Kazuho's expression, flinches, and fires wide. Number 6 flashes behind him, tells him to commit, and buries an explosive punch into him.
Key Events
Koichi abandons his run for All Might and returns to face Number 6 directly, freezing the Anonymous swarm in place.
Number 6 discloses that the Rokuro Nomura features were copied from Koichi, which marks the vigilante for erasure.
Koichi wins the opening exchange with a Slide and Glide leg sweep, then hesitates to fire point-blank at his enemy's face and shoots aside. Number 6 punishes the hesitation with a detonating strike.
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Notes
Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's nineteen-page chapter appeared on June 26, 2021, sits in the Naruhata Lockdown arc, and was gathered into volume 13 with Koichi Haimawari on the cover.
Magazine readers first saw it under a different name, The Bad One (Damena Yatsu), which changed to This Face for the collected release.
Bee☆Pop turns up only inside Number 6's daydream, All For One appears as a voice, and Knuckleduster is limited to a flashback.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens in My Hero Academia: Vigilantes Chapter 104?
In Vigilantes Chapter 104, titled This Face, Koichi Haimawari abandons his run for All Might and returns to face Number 6 directly, freezing the Anonymous swarm in place. Koichi wins the opening exchange with a Slide and Glide leg sweep but hesitates to fire a lethal shot at point-blank range, and Number 6 punishes the hesitation with a detonating punch.
What does Number 6 reveal about his face in Chapter 104?
Number 6 reveals in Chapter 104 that the Rokuro Nomura face he is wearing, one of his favorites, was modeled directly on Koichi Haimawari. Because of that resemblance, he decides Koichi has to be erased.
What does Koichi offer Number 6 in exchange for sparing Kazuho?
Koichi Haimawari drops to his knees and begs Number 6 to spare Kazuho Haneyama, offering to vanish himself in her place. Number 6 clarifies that vanishing would mean dying and readies an explosive stomp instead.
Why does Koichi's hesitation cost him in Chapter 104?
Koichi Haimawari lines up a lethal shot to Number 6's face at point-blank range but pictures Kazuho Haneyama's expression, flinches, and fires wide instead of finishing the fight. Number 6 flashes behind him and punishes the missed opening with a detonating punch.
What is the significance of the title 'This Face' in Vigilantes Chapter 104?
The title This Face refers to the Rokuro Nomura face Number 6 wears in the chapter, which he reveals was copied from Koichi Haimawari. The chapter's notes state the magazine originally serialized it under the title The Bad One before the volume release renamed it.
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