Chapter 208

Togaru has Kyoka dead to rights when Katsuki arrives and blasts him off her. Reeling under the Explosion, Togaru cannot hold his footing, and Setsuna watches her ambush come apart from overhead. Kyoka remembers what Katsuki said about saving his teammates as a second blast launches Togaru away.

Judging him too dangerous to engage head-on, Setsuna and Togaru pull back. Neito, meanwhile, has caught the significance of Katsuki choosing to shield Kyoka. Denki and Eijiro explain this is simply how he behaves when he works with people, which visibly rattles Neito, and Eijiro notes it is the first time he has watched Katsuki throw himself into harm's way. Katsuki resumes command and points the team at 4-B.

His stated goal is a flawless 4-0 with nobody hurt. As Kojiro falls back to open ground for Setsuna's backup ambush, Kyoka finds her Earphone Jack readings muddied by Setsuna's Quirk. Katsuki decides 1-B is underrating them and accelerates. That draws out Yosetsu, who pins him with a newly built ultimate technique, Construction-Done-Kwik: Weldcraft. Reading the plan, Hanta hunts for one of Setsuna's stray pieces with his Tape while Rikido frees Katsuki using Sugar Rush. Katsuki chases Yosetsu, who armors himself in steel plates, but the pursuit is a feint: he blasts upward and leaves the stun to Hanta and Kyoka, who land it together. Trusting his allies to hold, he spots Kojiro exposed, absorbs an attempted ambush from him and Setsuna, and puts Kojiro down with a heavy blast. Rikido, Kyoka and Hanta have all restrained their own opponents.

Neito and Setsuna cannot square this camaraderie with a boy known for working alone. Ochaco says his faith in his team is what carries them, while Denki and Eijiro trace it back to what the U.A. School Festival asked of him. Kyoka steers him toward the last of 1-B, and as he engages Togaru in the shadows, Hanta works out that Lizard Tail Splitter's fifty pieces come with a limit on how long Setsuna can keep regenerating spares.

Explode-A-Pult finishes Togaru. Setsuna, still recovering, notices one of Katsuki's grenades stuck to a spare part, and the blast that follows tells 1-A where she is. Believing herself clear, she is caught by a Point-Blank Stun Grenade fired straight into her. She tells him he has changed a great deal. He answers that he has not changed at all, since he still intends to become the No. 1 Hero and surpass All Might.

Class 1-A sweeps the fourth round 4-0.

Three moves debut: Explode-A-Pult from Katsuki Bakugo, Heartbeat Surround from Kyoka Jiro, and Construction-Done-Kwik: Weldcraft from Yosetsu Awase.

Class 1-B is forced to reckon with how thoroughly Katsuki now cooperates with his team.

Fifteen pages long, the chapter was published on December 3, 2018 in the first issue of 2019 and collected into Volume 22 during the Joint Training arc. Togaru Kamakiri, Katsuki Bakugo, Kyoka Jiro, Hanta Sero and Rikido Sato appear on the cover.

Episode 97 adapts the chapter.

Ground Gamma at U.A. High School is the setting throughout. Earphone Jack, Sugar Rush, Tape, Weld, Lizard Tail Splitter and Explosion all feature, with the Grenadier Bracers in play.