Chapter 289

Flying toward the battlefield, Nejire Chan asks Ingenium what he is doing in a group deployed specifically for fliers. He answers that whatever discipline follows his broken orders, he will take it, because three classmates are still out there and two of them once taught him something he has never shaken. That lesson is why they are dear to him.

At the site, Shoto sets down his cargo, Deku in one arm, Katsuki and his father already in hand, relieved that all three are breathing. First aid can wait a beat, because Tomura is still upright, wires spilling from fingers and spine, snapping at All For One that he takes orders from nobody. Then Nejire Chan's Wave Motion slams into him. Ingenium reports that Gigantomachia is inbound to their exact location and that the units fighting the Nomu have been told. Shoto assigns him the wounded; Ingenium, seeing the state of them, understands why nobody came back. Nejire Chan spots Ryukyu's injuries and fixes Tomura with a look, while he complains that heroes keep crawling out like maggots. Deku insists on staying close, since his Quirk is still the prize, and Shoto reads Tomura as weakened enough to finish.

Inside the house, Uravity throws Himiko off and sends her rolling into the next room, noting aloud that she is not the girl from last time. Her problem is contact: she needs to touch without being drained and without burning the clock. As she charges, Himiko explains herself. Loving someone makes her want to become them, and the pull toward their blood grows past resisting. She knows this reading of herself is not shared, that people cannot accept it, and that this is the whole reason ordinary life does not fit her. Then she describes Curious, who called her normal life sad and pitiful and tried to kill her for it, and how she wore Uravity's face and used Uravity's Quirk to drop the woman to her death. The hero is horrified.

Discovering she could borrow the Quirks of people she loves made her happy, Himiko says. Uravity's wires lash out; Himiko slips them and drives her back with needles, and Uravity shouts that she would never take joy in dropping a person to their death and demands to know the point of this conversation. Instead, Himiko notices something on the floor. The All Might keychain Deku gave Uravity at Christmas has slipped from her belt. Uravity charges after it and Himiko bolts, asking whether it matters to her, and Uravity says yes.

Twice mattered to Himiko the same way, she says, and the two of them are alike for loving Deku, a guess about the keychain's origin that lands squarely. Uravity's answer is that she chose to shut those feelings away, and she launches her new Ultimate Move, floating a mass of debris on her wires and hurling it. Himiko counters with her own history: she was told as a child to stop wanting blood, so she buried it, and burying a thing only feeds it. Uravity's terms are unchanged. Live however you please and hurt people, and the consequences come with it. Himiko's eyes fill. She says she thought so.

Knives come out, and Froppy disarms her from behind, having tracked them down. Himiko withdraws. Froppy suggests standing back to back against blind spots, but Uravity says she already ran, and picks up her keychain wondering about those tears. Himiko, running, calls the exchange a disappointment and turns back toward the League with her answer in hand. While Shoto, Ingenium, and Nejire Chan press Tomura, Gigantomachia arrives at last with the surviving Paranormal Liberation Front riding his back, and the battlefield goes cold.

Nejire Chan and Ingenium arrive at the fight against Tomura, who is still wrestling for control of his own body and refuses All For One's order to withdraw.

Uravity and Himiko finish their rematch, and Himiko gets the answer she was after. Uravity debuts Zero Satellites, a new Ultimate Move. Froppy arrives to help, but Himiko has already slipped away toward the League.

Gigantomachia reaches Tomura's position carrying the remaining Paranormal Liberation Front.

The nineteen-page chapter is titled Miss Candid and Miss Shut-Away, a pairing that names its two combatants by temperament. Issue 48 of 2020 carried it on November 2, and volume 30 collects it within the Paranormal Liberation War arc.

Ingenium and Nejire Chan appear on the cover, which also exists in a sketch version. The anime splits it, with Episode 123 taking the first page and Episode 124 the rest. Horikoshi's comment mentions putting on Syrup 16g once the weather turned cold.