Chapter 32 (Vigilantes)

Kazuho Haneyama wraps her set at the idol show, performing on the theme of the Marukane Department Store, then drifts off with Koichi Haimawari to browse the exhibits and souvenir stalls. They run into Monika Kaniyashiki perched inside a crab-shaped mech, and her manager explains that industrial lifting arms were rebuilt into walking advertisements. A staffer calls Monika toward the stage, but she begs off for a bathroom trip. Once she is gone, her manager checks his watch, then studies the two teenagers.

In Naruhata, Shota Aizawa is running down the Hotta brothers. Cornered with no exit, Jiro and Ichiro dose themselves with Trigger, warp into humanoid insects, and swing at Eraser Head. A flashback interrupts the brawl: Detective Naomasa Tsukauchi had asked Shota to lend a hand against the Villain Factory, the name the police use for the outfit abducting people and turning them into Next-Level Villains. Detective work is not his idea of a good time, and it takes Nemuri Kayama to talk him into it.

The brothers end the fight bound in his Capturing Weapon. Shota reminds them he carries no badge, and offers to forget both the scuffle and the Trigger use in exchange for information. They refuse until he produces a photograph of a man and his mantis form, which they recognize instantly as their friend Kirihito Kamachi. Back at their shop, the pair reel at what became of him and blame the Bad Trigger trade, a batch cut with uppers that sends users berserk. They had warned Kirihito off it and he ignored them.

What they peddle, they insist, is a legal Trigger variant marketed against hair loss and erectile dysfunction. Shota doubts any license covers that, but agrees to look past the excuses if they empty their heads about the Bad Trigger traffic, and he asks about the crab route as well.

Monika, meanwhile, is no employee of Kanidoge at all. She is working undercover with Naomasa and Fat Gum to break up a Trigger shipment. Chatting with Fat Gum through her earpiece, she hears Naomasa report that Kanidoge has begun unloading its farm-to-table goods at the mall's service entrance. Confirmation of drugs hidden in the food packaging triggers the raid, and until then she is alone out there, so he warns her against needless risks.

Kazuho performs at the idol show, and she and Koichi encounter Monika Kaniyashiki riding one of Kanidoge's mechs.

Shota Aizawa defeats the Hotta brothers, Ichiro and Jiro, after they turn to Trigger, then trades leniency for intelligence on the Bad Trigger trade and the crab route.

A flashback shows Naomasa Tsukauchi recruiting Shota against the Villain Factory, with Nemuri Kayama tipping the decision.

The brothers identify Kirihito Kamachi as their friend and connect his transformation to Bad Trigger.

Monika is revealed as an undercover officer working the operation with Naomasa and Fat Gum.

The chapter originally carried the title "The Job" (Shigoto) before being renamed for the volume release.

Hideyuki Furuhashi writes and Betten Court illustrates My Hero Academia: Vigilantes. This nineteen page installment was published on June 22, 2018, belongs to the Osaka Incident arc, and was collected in Volume 5, with Koichi Haimawari and Pop Step on the cover. Episode 14 of the anime adapts it.

Ichiro Hotta and Jiro Hotta both debut here.