Chapter 392

Insisting that Uravity knows nothing about her, Himiko Toga drags Froppy out of the Twice swarm and holds a blade to her. Ochaco freezes, and Froppy, still carrying her injuries from Okuto Island, cannot answer. Himiko sneers that a girl born into a livable life, obedient to every rule, never had to want for anything, then readies the cut.

Her memory drifts. Her parents once caught her holding a dead sparrow and decided she had killed it, drained it and enjoyed it, while she wept that the bird was already lying in the yard. Quirk counselling followed, aimed at correcting her deviant behavior and making her normal. People called her frightening and told her to behave, and she watched the world hand love around without ever being handed any. When her parents learned she had drunk a friend's blood, she explained that the girl was hurt and she had only sucked at the wound, which they said was not normal. In tears she asked whether everyone smothers the urge to be themselves, and why nobody else drinks blood. Her parents collapsed into calling her rotten through, something inhuman they had produced.

Curious once told the same story from outside: feelings pressed down, a self suppressed, a mask built over the top. Uravity yanks Himiko away, the knife barely grazing Froppy. Earphone Jack lunges to catch the falling frog, but Kamui Woods has already pulled her clear, because that Froppy is beginning to Transform. He swats it aside. The Doubles have been drinking the blood soaking the field and turning into heroes.

The pair admit their team-up was never enough for this horde, and with Himiko able to wear their faces they have no counter. Hawks' words echo as Froppy calls out that she once believed rules were the whole line between hero and villain, and that Uravity is setting them aside to attempt something harder than killing or capturing, a conversation, and begs Himiko to hear it. Himiko drives her knife into Uravity's stomach, shouting that they are built differently, that the blessed lives everyone talks about are not for her, that the rules pity her and nothing more. Behind it all, she remembers Twice asking whether she wanted a Villain name.

Himiko takes Froppy hostage from the Twice swarm before Uravity pulls her off.

Flashbacks expand Himiko's past, including her Quirk counselling and her family's rejection of how she expresses love.

The Doubles begin drinking spilled blood and transforming into heroes, wrecking the heroes' coordination.

Froppy pleads with Himiko to listen just as Uravity is stabbed.

A closing flashback shows Twice offering Himiko a Villain name.

Chapter 392 of My Hero Academia, by Kohei Horikoshi, ran June 26, 2023 in issue 30 and sits in Volume 39, at thirteen magazine pages and fifteen collected. Episode 158 adapts it.

The chapter sits in the Final War arc and continues Pro Heroes and Trainees vs. Himiko Toga and Doubles.