Chapter 380

Holding a sinking U.A. High School in place has pushed Danjuro Tobita past what his Elasticity can bear, and he says as much to Manami Aiba while she races to finish repairing the campus flight system. His thoughts keep circling the figure that shot out of the structure moments earlier. He is certain it was Izuku Midoriya, and he wonders whether the boy trusted him to hold, or never registered him at all. There are no cameras here, no crowd, no applause, yet something joyful still moves through him.

That notion breaks when he glances up and finds Business Course students leaning out of the school, recording him and narrating events as they unfold. He shouts for them to get back inside, but they refuse: documenting this is their job. With the country in ruins, they argue, their course failed at the duty it was meant to carry, keeping heroes and the public connected to one another.

La Brava then seizes control of every phone the students are holding, which leaves Naomasa Tsukauchi puzzled about her intent. She announces the flight system is already fixed and throws the students' feed onto the open internet, refusing to let her partner's effort pass unseen. The school rises once more, and the load on Gentle's arms lightens.

Over on the observation deck, Twice Doubles pour across the platform hunting heroes, while "Kurogiri" mumbles in confusion about whom he is meant to guard. Then Doubles knock Shota Aizawa and Hizashi Yamada off the edge. As Denki Kaminari cries out for his teachers, "Kurogiri" materializes below the falling pair and warps all three of them elsewhere. Chargebolt is stunned by the rescue, and Shino Sosaki points out that Erasure has now left the field for good, telling everyone by Telepath that believing in Deku is the only move remaining.

Deep in the Gunga Mountains, All For One lets slip that merging with Tomura Shigaraki was never the plan; full command of the body was. The boy's appetite for ruin ran stronger than he calculated, but once Tomura absorbs his Quirk Factor, control returns and the "Demon Lord" becomes whole. Keigo Takami snaps back that the story belongs to them rather than him, and keeps slashing to block any escape.

All For One boasts that the wind favors him, then erases Hawks with a spatial distortion Quirk, horrifying Fumikage Tokoyami. The corpse glitters and dissolves instead: an illusion cast by a newly arrived Camie Utsushimi. Seiji Shishikura, who snatched the real Hawks away behind the cover of that Glamour, explains that Shiketsu High had been assigned to escort U.A.'s evacuees through the tunnels, and when nobody appeared they assumed disaster and came running. Inasa Yoarashi answers with a colossal Whirlwind that swallows the Doubles whole, declaring that the wind's direction is his call alone.

La Brava gets the campus flight system running again, arresting U.A.'s descent. She additionally hijacks the phones of the filming Business Course students and puts their feed out over the internet, a bid to repair the relationship between heroes and the public.

Twice Doubles knock Eraser Head and Present Mic off the observation deck, and "Kurogiri" warps the pair away rather than let them drop, removing Erasure from the battle entirely.

All For One admits the fusion with Tomura and the resulting personality were unintended, and that reclaiming command only requires that Tomura finish absorbing the Quirk Factor.

Hawks appears to die at All For One's hands, but the body is a Camie illusion. Shiketsu High arrives as reinforcement: Seiji pulls Hawks to safety while Inasa drags the Doubles into his Whirlwind.

The chapter runs seventeen pages and was published on February 20, 2023, in issue 12 of 2023. It is collected in Volume 38 and falls within the Final War arc, between Chapter 379 and Chapter 381. Gentle and La Brava appear on the cover.

Episode 155 of the anime adapts this material. Locations covered include the Gunga Mountain Villa ruins, Task Force HQ, and the U.A. campus. In his author comment, Horikoshi apologizes for a two week break and promises to push himself from that point on.