Chapter 296

Every professional still able to move, including those released from rescue and evacuation duty, converges on the fleeing "Tomura Shigaraki". Present Mic, Thirteen, Pixie-Bob, and Wash join the pursuit, but the Near High-Ends run interference well enough that he slips clear along with Spinner, Dabi, Skeptic, and seven of the creatures. Three Nomu are destroyed covering the retreat.

The rest of the ledger reads better. Gigantomachia is brought down, and a wounded Mr. Compress is treated and detained. At the Gunga Mountain Villa, Edgeshot has beaten Re-Destro, while Geten and Cementoss fought to a draw. Both lieutenants, Trumpet, the membership assembled beneath the villa, and the front-line fighters are all taken in, 16,929 arrests in total, with 132 escaping through the gaps Gigantomachia's rampage tore open. Outlying branches are overwhelmed and backers such as Slidin' Go are seized. Interns under Ryukyu pass along word that Himiko Toga slipped away, and nobody can be spared to chase her while the injured need hands.

Amid the rubble, Froppy and Uravity free a boy and his sister, and Froppy wants the injured child moved to a shelter before Uravity catches another cry for help. A badly hurt man begs her to find his wife, and she reunites them before pressing on. Then she overhears a professional surveying the carnage and saying flatly that he cannot do this anymore and should find other work. She watches, stunned. The reports confirm something colder still. Present Mic's destruction of the revival capsule should have finished Tomura, and the jolt that ran through him at that instant was too faint for even X-Less to detect. Medicine did not bring him back. His dreams and his hatred did, and that is why Crust, Native, Midnight, Majestic, and X-Less are dead, Midnight mourned by her own students. Across the country, people argue over Dabi's broadcast, whether Endeavor's career is finished, and whether to leave Japan altogether, while he and Deku are carried in for treatment. That night, inside his Tartarus cell, All For One senses his successor's body far away, declares that nobody gets a tomorrow because his turn is not over, and sends word for the Near High-Ends to retrieve his original flesh.

The Paranormal Liberation War concludes. Tomura and the remaining League members escape behind their Near High-End screen, though three of the creatures are destroyed. Gigantomachia and Mr. Compress are captured, as are Re-Destro, Geten, Trumpet, and the assembled Front, 16,929 arrests against 132 who evade capture, with Himiko Toga at large and separated from her allies. Other bases are raided successfully, Slidin' Go among those taken. Nineteen professionals are pronounced dead, Crust, Native, Midnight, Majestic, and X-Less among them, against a single villain casualty in Twice. Deku and Endeavor are hospitalized, students and surviving heroes turn to civilian rescue, and All For One commands his Nomu to break his real body out of Tartarus.

Horikoshi's author comment celebrates Weekly Shonen Jump reaching one thousand issues, likening it to the Thousand Sunny. A coloring error leaves Dabi's hair shaded black despite the dye remover he applied in an earlier chapter. The unnamed dead include two spectators from the First Year Stage of the U.A. Sports Festival, a minor professional involved in the fight against Hood, and one of the mentors who supervised Kendo and Reiko during Hero Work-Studies. The chapter moves across Jaku City, the Gunga Mountain Villa, and Tartarus, and closes both the Jaku Hospital Raid and the Gunga Mountain Villa Raid.