Chapter 282

Deku registers how much faster Tomura has become and tries to hold him with Ryukyu long enough for someone to reach Gran Torino. Tomura punches through the dragon's claws, and Ryukyu spots the Quirk-Destroying round pinched between his fingers in time to shout a warning.

Izuku answers with a freshly minted technique, 100% Wyoming Smash, while Katsuki destroys the second round in the villain's other hand. It is not enough. The bullet leaves Tomura's fingers and buries itself in Eraser Head's ruined right leg, and Tomura clamps his teeth into Deku's arm, convinced nothing can stop him so long as he keeps his dream and his origin intact.

Spotting the round lodged below his knee, Eraser Head is grateful to Ryukyu, whose warning let him act fast and clean. He draws his knife and takes the leg off before the drug can travel, memories of Eri passing through him as he does. Tomura, still latched onto Deku's arm, cannot help admiring the move even as it keeps ruining his plans. He blasts free of Ryukyu's grip with a shockwave, discards her, ducks Endeavor, and gets a hand on Eraser Head's face just as Blackwhip catches his legs. Crowing that this stupid game is finally about to be cleared, he digs his fingers in while Erasure stays locked on him.

Deku wrenches him back, and a pillar of ice slams into him from Shoto, whose approach behind Izuku and Katsuki he had picked up earlier with Search. Deku buries a strike in his gut and rushes to his teacher, only to find that the wounds to Aizawa's face have forced his eyes shut. Erasure dies with them, Super Regeneration returns, and Tomura tells the heroes that all their delaying has bought is a slightly later apocalypse.

Elsewhere in Jaku, Ingenium cannot raise Shoto, who left to retrieve Deku and Katsuki, and Froppy reports comms are down in a pocket of the city. Uravity wants to go there, and then the civilians around them react to Daikaku Miyagi's broadcast: an immense villain is moving north out of Kyoto through Wakayama and Gunga Prefectures, headed for Jaku, with a long list of cities in its projected path. Uravity nervously points out that the Gunga job was supposed to be handled. Gigantomachia closes on a city with his lower jaw worn as a mask.

Tomura lands a Quirk-Destroying round in Eraser Head's right leg while Katsuki destroys the other. Eraser Head amputates the leg himself before the drug can spread.

Deku debuts 100% Wyoming Smash, though Tomura still reaches Eraser Head and seizes his face. Shoto arrives, protects his teacher, and blasts Tomura away.

Eraser Head's eyes close at last, restoring Tomura's regeneration.

Gigantomachia is shown tearing through a city, indicating the heroes who engaged him at the villa have fallen.

Seventeen pages, published in Weekly Shonen Jump issue 39 of 2020 and collected in volume 29 during the Paranormal Liberation War arc. Deku and Tomura Shigaraki share the cover. The anime splits the chapter, with pages 1 to 4 in Episode 121 and pages 5 to 17 in Episode 122.

The city names read out in the news broadcast follow the series convention of nodding to the Star Wars franchise, as nearly all of its locations do.

Kohei Horikoshi's author comment is about being treated to an extremely good steak bento.