Chapter 29 (Vigilantes)

An oversized, mantis-like villain tears through Naruhata's streets. The Crawler turns up ready to take him on, gets thoroughly outmatched, and settles for fleeing instead. Jube Namimaru and Ichimoku Samazu decline to lift a finger and wish him luck.

Pop Step arrives mid-chase and starts plugging an upcoming Marukane Department Store show. Captain Celebrity, whom she had phoned ahead of time, swoops down and flattens the villain. His condition for the rescue is a conversation back at the penthouse about how justice ought to work from here.

There, Celebrity's grievance is the workload: every time Koichi picks a fight above his weight, someone has to bail him out. Koichi argues that this is exactly the arrangement a Quirk society is meant to have, professionals covering the people who cannot cover themselves. Kazuho asks whether Celebrity might appear at Narufest to pull a crowd, and he begs off as too busy, which prompts Koichi to ask why a busy man is loafing in someone else's penthouse.

His answer is Makoto Tsukauchi, who packs his calendar solid and leaves the penthouse as his only refuge. Then Makoto rings Koichi asking where the Captain has gotten to, and Koichi tells her. She materializes and hauls Celebrity off to the schedule waiting for him. Left behind, Kazuho suggests aiming at softer targets. Koichi floats the idea of carrying a weapon; she tells him not to.

Kirihito Kamachi debuts as the mantis-like villain rampaging through Naruhata, and Koichi is powerless against him. Jube Namimaru and Ichimoku Samazu both refuse to intervene.

Captain Celebrity handles the villain after Pop Step summons him, then uses the save as leverage for a lecture about Koichi's habit of biting off more than he can chew.

The chapter closes on the question that gives it its title: Koichi raises the idea of arming himself, and Kazuho shuts it down.

Hideyuki Furuhashi writes and Betten Court draws My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, and this nineteen-page chapter is its twenty-ninth. It appeared May 12, 2018, sits in volume 5, and belongs to the Osaka Incident arc. Episode 13 of the Vigilantes anime adapts it.

The title changed between serialization and the collected edition: it originally ran as Weapon before being revised to Equipment Issues. Koichi Haimawari and Kazuho Haneyama share the cover, and Kirihito Kamachi is the chapter's new character.