Chapter 128

Izuku's answer to Foresight is speed: move faster than prediction can keep up with. Watching him bounce around in Gran Torino's style, Sir Nighteye calls the approach hopeless, reads the attack and slips it. Worse than the failure is the face Izuku is wearing, strained where All Might's teaching should have left composure. Heroes at the summit betray no hesitation and no doubt, and Izuku is showing neither quality. Every additional second convinces Nighteye further that One For All went to the wrong boy. Izuku snaps back that All Might promised he could reach the top.

He grabs the desk and throws it, filling the air in front of Nighteye with loose paper and books. The idea is a test of its own: does Foresight read future conditions, or only how the target will behave? If it is behavior alone, debris scattering at random should be invisible to it. Nighteye's attention does break, and Izuku's hand closes on the space where the stamp is, but Nighteye withdraws it in time and Izuku slams into the wall. Time expires. Losing his composure the moment a plan collapses, Nighteye notes, is not impressive.

Then Izuku mentions that he kept his footing careful because he refused to tread across the 10-Year Anniversary Commemorative All Might Hero Tapestry. Nighteye scans his room and finds every piece of memorabilia intact. Even ricocheting around under real emotional strain, the boy had been reading the space and working out counters.

Mirio and Bubble Girl come back asking whether the interview is finished. Nighteye informs Mirio that the boy has the job, which stuns Izuku, given that he failed. Nothing was ever said, Nighteye points out, about withholding the stamp on a loss. He had intended to take him on regardless, and it changes nothing about his refusal to acknowledge him. What the public needs is not some faint glimmer but a blinding one, and Mirio is the one he means to turn into that light. The stamp changes hands, and Izuku, glad to be working with him, marks the employment contract.

The following day Nighteye assigns patrol and surveillance work, splitting them into two pairs, himself with Bubble Girl and Mirio with Izuku. Bubble Girl lets slip that a covert investigation is underway. Nighteye elaborates: the target is a small designated villain organization known as the Shie Hassaikai.

Its leader, Kai Chisaki, has been behaving unusually. Izuku remarks that his sort has become rare. Bubble Girl explains that Kai's whole generation of villains was driven under, and suspects he wants to stitch the old world back together. He reached out to the League of Villains recently, yet nothing gathered so far shows the Hassaikai doing anything criminal, and proof is exactly what Nighteye is after.

In an alley, a girl bolts toward the street and collides with Izuku. A small horn juts from the right side of her head, and bandages cover most of her. He apologizes to her. Before she can get a word out, a man warns her against causing the heroes any trouble. It is Overhaul, telling Eri that they are going back, and Izuku can only stare at the villain in front of him.

Izuku cannot beat Foresight and fails the challenge outright.

Nighteye hires him anyway, impressed that he steered around every piece of All Might memorabilia while enraged, though he still means to prove Izuku is the wrong holder of One For All.

On their first day of patrol, the Nighteye Agency briefs its interns on the Shie Hassaikai investigation.

A patrol puts Izuku and Mirio face to face with Overhaul, who has a bandaged girl called Eri in tow.

Kohei Horikoshi's one hundred twenty-eighth chapter ran February 27, 2017 in issue 13, covers nineteen pages, and sits in volume 14 as part of the Shie Hassaikai arc. Nighteye and Izuku share the cover, and Episode 66 adapts the material.

Eri debuts in this chapter. The bout between Izuku Midoriya and Sir Nighteye concludes here while Hero Work-Studies: Round 1 continues, with One For All, Foresight and Full Cowl featured at the Nighteye Agency.

Horikoshi's author comment celebrates the Blu-ray release of Zeiram and its picture quality.