Chapter 177

The impact draws a civilian's eye. La Brava waves it off as a shoot in progress and asks him to pass that on to his neighbors. Izuku Midoriya comes down inside the site and recovers fast, with thanks owed to Mina Ashido and Mei Hatsume for their part in that. Gentle Criminal fares worse: his jacket snags on a beam and leaves him swinging in the air. He intends to go through with the plan regardless, and when Izuku asks what he is after, he objects to being lumped in with the League of Villains, having no interest in pillage or plunder.

La Brava reaches them. Izuku spells out the trap: the moment Gentle enters the festival the alarm sounds, the event is cancelled on the spot, and there is nowhere left to run. Alarms do not trouble Gentle, because his partner in crime will render them useless, the festival will carry on, and the infiltration will stand. He would rather move before the boy makes things more troublesome. Izuku bluffs that he has already been reported and will be held until the Police Force arrives. Gentle does not buy it, and with neither able to move the other, he launches off an elastic trampoline.

Izuku pursues into a fight he cannot track. Gentle turns the surrounding beams elastic and ricochets around him too fast to read, and the attempt to predict him ends in a hit. La Brava calls for a retreat; Gentle wants the boy handled first. He strips the nuts and bolts out of a beam once the metal has gone elastic, explaining that he cannot consciously switch the Quirk off and that whatever he alters returns to form on its own schedule. Izuku watches the frame start to give and spots the civilian below it, and reads the intent.

Gentle leaps clear of the falling beam and leaves Izuku no choice but to catch it. Accused of trying to drop it on a bystander, Gentle counters that he only wanted the boy occupied and had originally meant for it to bounce back. The civilian runs. Gentle turns a crane's hook elastic, lining up a slingshot to fling the two of them clear of the frame. Holding the beam, Izuku knows an unnoticed entry into the festival ends everything and that he has seconds.

At 8:45, Class 1-A is changed and ready for the live dance performance. Shoto Todoroki notices Izuku missing and wonders what is keeping him, and Yuga Aoyama says he went out for rope. Fifteen minutes remain.

The slingshot fires and the pair sail toward U.A. Gentle expects the school to be watching, and expects the world to know him as a man who accomplished something spectacular. One arm on the beam, Izuku sends a Delaware Smash Air Force after them. Gentle twists out of its path with nothing to spare and notes the boy's tenacity. As the beam drops, La Brava sees that Izuku will not stop, and knows her Quirk is the only card left.

Izuku and Gentle carry their fight into the construction site.

The School Festival is fifteen minutes from opening.

Izuku swats the pair from the air mid flight, which forces La Brava to reach for her Quirk.

Titled At the Construction Site, the chapter runs seventeen pages and appeared on April 2, 2018, in issue 18 of that year. It belongs to volume 19 and the U.A. School Festival arc, with La Brava alone on the cover, and Episode 84 adapts it.

The fight between Izuku Midoriya and Danjuro Tobita continues here, featuring One For All, Elasticity, Delaware Smash Air Force and the Air Force Gloves.

Horikoshi's author comment notes that the anime's third season was about to premiere in Japan.