Chapter 209

The fourth round closes at 4-0. During the review, Shota Aizawa praises Team 4-A for cooperating well enough to keep collateral damage down and take their opponents cleanly, singling out Katsuki's willingness to back up his teammates as the decisive factor. Vlad King is less kind to his own class: Setsuna's plan was sound, but the team had none of the adaptability Juzo Honenuki brings.

While Team 4-B stews over the humiliation, Denki congratulates his classmates, talks up Katsuki and calls Kyoka a genuine heroine. All Might compliments Katsuki's showing and gets shrugged off with a remark that the old man must be coming down with something. Izuku registers the win too, and Katsuki tells him to get moving and show some progress of his own. Izuku tells him to watch the next match, with Hitoshi observing warily.

Setsuna does the math for Neito: two wins and a draw make a 1-B victory impossible now. Neito, oddly gracious, says he is impressed by how his classmates have grown, that error and reflection are what mature a person, and that everyone plays a supporting role in someone else's story while starring in their own. Reiko cuts through the sermon to ask about the actual plan, and he tells her not to worry about it. Nirengeki suggests copying Setsuna's approach by staying hidden and hitting in coordinated waves. Reiko names Izuku as the danger, given the new fighting style he has developed that could cut straight through their defenses.

Izuku becomes 1-B's priority, and Hitoshi proposes that combining everything they have is the way through. Neito, however, doubts the wisdom of copying Izuku's Quirk, aware of what activating it might cost him. The plan leans on Hitoshi instead. The teachers weigh his chances and mostly expect him to perform.

The teams move to their marks. Izuku springs ahead under Full Cowl while Ochaco, Mina and Minoru walk and talk. Minoru wants Hitoshi neutralized first before he brainwashes anyone; Ochaco argues the whole 1-B roster deserves attention since they can lie low and strike from nowhere. She and Mina glumly rate their Quirks a disadvantage here. Minoru pitches Pop Off as a restraint, and Mina tells the pervert that catching them off guard will not be simple. Izuku volunteers to bait 1-B himself, and when Mina raises the question of his Quirk's current state, he brushes it off and promises to carry the team.

As round five begins, Toshinori's phone rings. Gran Torino reports odd movement from some mysterious figure, likely tied to the League of Villains. At Tartarus, staff conclude All For One is maneuvering again and decide another interrogation is due. In his cell, the villain says he can feel his younger brother's presence stirring out of the past.

Round five opens, with Class 1-B mathematically unable to take the overall contest.

Class 1-B settles on Izuku as its top priority and builds its strategy around Hitoshi Shinso.

Gran Torino reports suspicious activity, and All For One begins to sense his younger brother's presence.

Fifteen pages long, the chapter ran on December 10, 2018 in the second issue of 2019 and was collected into Volume 22 as part of the Joint Training arc. The cover carries the eight fighters of round four: Yosetsu Awase, Setsuna Tokage, Togaru Kamakiri, Kojiro Bondo, Katsuki Bakugo, Kyoka Jiro, Rikido Sato and Hanta Sero.

The adaptation is split, with pages one through thirteen in Episode 97 and the remainder in Episode 98.

Scenes move between Ground Gamma at U.A. High School and Tartarus. Pop Off, Acid, Zero Gravity and One For All feature, and Gigantomachia appears in mention as the mysterious figure.