Chapter 363: Those Who Defend, Those Who Violate

Phantom Thief cannot process what he is seeing, his mind snapping back to the bold promises he heard during the Joint Training Battle. Best Jeanist finds no pulse at all in a ruined chest, and Lemillion rages at his own failure to shield the boy. "Tomura Shigaraki" turns on Eraser Head, pinning the death on him for loading a student with responsibility while watching from the edges, then asks which Hero would like to go next.

His mass of fingers closes on Mirko, and he offers her up as another gift for Izuku. She answers that a little more speed during the Paranormal Liberation War would have ended him and spared all of this. The villain shrugs it off: plenty of Pros stood there that day, so the failure was shared, and a force that had to shove rookies onto the front line after so many desertions should expect casualties. For all their initiative, he says, they arrived short on numbers and short on planning.

Down in Kamino, Dabi stirs awake, torches Kido and Onima, and reveals that he copied Shoto's Phosphor in the instant before the ice took him. Watching this, Shoto recognizes that battle instinct and obsessive drive, not raw output alone, made his brother what he is. Skeptic, answering through a Near High-End Nomu, tells Dabi he is busy but passes along that Endeavor is at the Gunga Mountain Villa ruins fighting All For One.

The Heroes surrounding "Tomura" reel, believing Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight dead. Dabi returns to consciousness and reproduces Shoto's Phosphor with his own flames, burning Kido and Onima, then learns Endeavor's location from Skeptic.

Skeptic has recovered command of the satellites belonging to Feel Good Inc. and moves to breach U.A.'s underground bunker, while All For One's planted agents inside U.A. get ready to move. The Todoroki Family appear in the shelter alongside the Masegaki Primary School children. For the first time in the series, All For One appears unsilhouetted, his face fully visible.

Skeptic rants about the executives who pushed him out of his own company and fled abroad, insisting he will carry Tomura and deliver Re-Destro's vision of a world where Meta Abilities are used freely and the labels "Hero" and "Villain" no longer exist. Mandalay's command team aboard the U.A. Flying Fortress spots the intrusion attempt.

In the bunker, Komari Ikoma warns the schoolchildren of possible danger, and they brush it off, certain Shoto and Katsuki cannot lose. At the Gunga ruins, a battered Endeavor and Hawks watch a nearly restored All For One declare that the last battle's outcome will not repeat, since Heroes defend and Villains violate, and his side will charge straight at its dream. The chapter runs 13 pages in Volume 37 and is adapted in Episode 150.