Chapter 250

A voice out of the past remembers Endeavor burning like a solar flare. Sinking into despair, the speaker happened to watch the hero take down a thief named Takami, and hope arrived with it. Seven years ago, he admits, he faltered, and Endeavor brought him in alive.

As he sees it, the single right shared equally by everyone is the choice of how to end a life. Out of prison, he went digging through Endeavor's background until he turned up the family home. Outside it he spots Natsuo Todoroki, and puts a dose of the Quirk-boosting drug Trigger into himself.

Inside the house, Izuku and Katsuki get the story of Toya from Fuyumi and Shoto, including how tight he and Natsuo once were. Fuyumi describes the incident that followed their mother's hospitalization, which made an already bad situation worse and left the family unwilling to let Shoto see her. She says she has set the past down, and that Shoto visiting Rei again felt like progress, but Natsuo has not lowered his guard, because in his account it was Endeavor who killed Toya.

Endeavor comes in and offers to drive the three to school. The boys thank Fuyumi for feeding them, he thanks her for the suggestion and gets a smile back, and she tells Izuku she is grateful he is Shoto's friend.

Riding back to the Hero Office, he tells the three to keep pushing on weekdays and on weekends when schedules allow. Shoto notes that Ochaco and Eijiro are in much the same boat, Izuku brings up finals, and Katsuki complains the car is too small, which prompts the chauffeur to complain right back at Endeavor about hauling around what he takes for high school dropouts. Endeavor's answer is that he got put on top.

Then he sees Natsuo trapped in the lane markings of the road, held by a manipulation Quirk while a man shouts for him to show himself. Untenmaru Kurumada swerves hard to avoid running the villain down, and Endeavor is out of the vehicle before the lines wrap it. He orders the man to let his son go. The man asks if he is remembered, and Endeavor places him: an assault arrest from seven years back. He gives his name as Ending, lists off everything he wanted and never got his hands on, and threatens to kill Natsuo, begging Endeavor not to botch it this time and to be sure to kill him.

Toya Todoroki's existence is laid out for Izuku and Katsuki, and Fuyumi reveals that Natsuo lays his brother's fate at their father's feet. The chapter also lays out how far Fuyumi has come in trying to rebuild the household and how far Natsuo has not.

Ending debuts, along with the Todoroki chauffeur Untenmaru Kurumada. Ending is revealed as a man Endeavor put away years earlier, and he dopes himself with Trigger before taking Natsuo hostage, framing the whole confrontation as a demand that Endeavor finally kill him.

Thirteen pages long, the chapter belongs to the Endeavor Agency arc and is collected in volume 26. It ran on November 18, 2019, in issue 51 of Weekly Shonen Jump's 2019 run, with Ending on the cover. Chapter 249 precedes it, Chapter 251 follows, and Episode 106 adapts it.

The chapter originally created a contradiction in the Todoroki timeline. Fuyumi places Toya's death shortly after Rei was institutionalized and cites it as what worsened her condition, whereas Chapter 302 has Rei date her resentment of Endeavor to after Toya's death, driven by his treatment of Shoto and culminating in the boiling water incident. The volume release of Chapter 302 corrected the discrepancy.

Horikoshi's author comment for the issue notes that he caught a cold and recovered after taking Pabron, recommending taking it right away.