All It Takes Is One Bad Day

Skeptic's puppets strip Twice's mask and bury him. He shouts for them to stop, and one hurls him aside while two more pin him down. Another group seizes Himiko Toga. Held to the ground, Twice demands to know who they are.

In the tower, Tomoyasu works the puppets by remote. Giran starts to ask what is being done, and Re-Destro cuts him off, wrenching his head around and warning him into silence while explaining that Tomoyasu is handling both villains. The puppets, he says, are modeled on Jin, and Tomoyasu's command over them is total, built on hardware from Detnerat and a communications network belonging to Feel Good Inc. Tomoyasu twists the knife: the idea of using Jin's likeness came from Giran himself, who supplied the psychological weak points. The plan is to kill Toga and take Twice for their own use. Giran worries in silence, thinking this will hit Twice doubly hard.

Pinned, Twice begs for his mask. Watching the puppets try to break Himiko's neck, his mind starts to come apart, and he begins to believe the hands on her are his. He spirals into an identity crisis, unable to settle whether he is the one killing her or someone else is.

The past fills in. Jin sits in a police interrogation room, brought in for injuring a man in a traffic accident. A criminal record is coming, the officer tells him. Jin protests that every rule was followed and the pedestrian walked straight into his path. The officer offers what consolation he can, saying a life is still rebuildable after a setback like this. At work afterward, a superior sets on him: the man he struck worked for one of the company's biggest clients, and that client is finished with them. He is screamed at, fired, and told never to return.

Jin drifts the streets at night, alone, and eventually makes a copy of himself just to have someone to speak to. One became several, then more, at first for company. In time Jin and his copies turned to crime and robbed a bank together. Then the copies turned on him, took him prisoner, and killed one another, leaving him wrecked.

Later, his head hidden inside a paper bag, Jin met Giran and laid out the whole history. Questioned about it, he said the thing held him together. Damage makes a copy disappear, he explained, and snapping the arm of an adult male duplicate would do it. Giran judged the Quirk monstrous enough to topple a country and remarked on how far someone that powerful had fallen. When Jin asked what was left for him, Giran offered a cigarette and pointed him toward a newly formed group, suggesting he might find kindred company there.

In the present, Twice breaks free of the two holding him. Tomoyasu, caught off guard, sends two more. All four set on him, and on command two of them snap his arms. Screaming with both arms broken, he hears the order to break his legs as well, along with instructions to be quiet and do nothing unnecessary.

Twice keeps shouting that it hurts. Tomoyasu notices Himiko waking and regrets that killing her will now take more force. Then the screaming turns into laughter, then into triumph, because Twice has not vanished. He realizes he spent years dodging every injury out of terror at vanishing, when one self-inflicted wound would have settled which of him was real. He recognizes that through every bad decision and every fall, Himiko stayed, and he resolves to get her out.

He doubles, and his clones double. They overrun Tomoyasu's puppets, to their operator's shock. Multiplying as he goes, Twice says no friend of his is dying while he looks on, and promises the massed Meta Liberation Army a lesson in exactly how frightening his Quirk gets.

Twice's history is laid out in full. Both of Jin's parents died early, leaving him without relatives. A motorcycle collision that broke the arm of a client's employee earned him a criminal record, cost him his job and his housing, and left him with nowhere to go. Loneliness drove the first clone, made simply for company and trust, but survival pushed the group into robbery, and the copies eventually turned on the man who made them.

Giran's initial approach and the recruitment that followed are both depicted.

Confirming that he is the genuine article starts Twice on his way out of the trauma.

He multiplies himself for the first occasion since the mass suicide of his earlier copies.

Seventeen pages in Volume 24, published May 27, 2019 in issue 26 of 2019 and adapted in Episode 110. Twice and Skeptic share the cover.

Set in Deika City. Anthropomorph and Double feature. The Revival Celebration continues, as does the fight between Twice and Skeptic.

The title borrows a line spoken by the Joker in Batman: The Killing Joke.