Chapter 83

Ochaco Uraraka and Tsuyu Asui reach the spot where the Vanguard Action Squad regrouped, only to find nothing left to interrupt. Shota Aizawa is elsewhere hauling Class 1-B out of the trees. Izuku Midoriya has not stopped screaming, and Yuga Aoyama, Fumikage Tokoyami, Shoto Todoroki and Mezo Shoji can do little but stand with him.

A quarter of an hour after the attack ends, medics arrive for the wounded and crews put out the fires. The ledger comes to twenty-seven injured students, one classmate abducted, and Ragdoll unaccounted for. Custody claims Muscular, Moonfish and Mustard, which counts for very little beside the boy nobody managed to keep.

By the following day, protesters ring U.A. High School. Inside, the faculty concede that a long stretch of peace left them soft, and that the League of Villains means to dismantle hero society outright. Nezu's worry is narrower and worse: if Katsuki Bakugo turns, the school's credibility dies with him and the doors close. Since credibility is the topic, Present Mic raises the obvious problem: the campsite's location had reached nobody outside the faculty and the Wild, Wild Pussycats. Snipe wants the thought buried, arguing that a mole hunt would rot the school from within. Nezu says he trusts everyone in the room, and is starting to say more when All Might's phone cuts him off.

In the corridor, Toshinori Yagi takes the call from Naomasa Tsukauchi, who has something unexpected. An unrelated case two weeks earlier had brushed against the villains' building, and its owner confirmed that one of the tenants resembled Katsuki's kidnappers. Once the intelligence clears verification, a rescue goes ahead, and Naomasa wants Toshinori on it. The hero thanks him for the work and thinks about what he owes the people who took his student.

A day later, in a hospital not far from the camp, Izuku is still mending from Muscular. Class 1-A files in. Fumikage apologizes for the trouble he caused, and Izuku insists the debt runs the other way. Tenya Ida gives the roll: Kyoka Jiro and Toru Hagakure are still under from the gas, and Momo Yaoyorozu came around yesterday after a serious head injury. Katsuki aside, all sixteen are there. Izuku sinks, remembering how close his hand came and how Aizawa's verdict at the Quirk Apprehension Test turned out to be right when it counted.

Eijiro Kirishima says this time is different. He and Shoto overheard All Might, the police and Momo the day before: Momo had Yosetsu Awase weld a transmitter of her own making onto one of the villains, and she handed All Might a device to trace it. All Might called her worthy of the profession and told her to leave the rescue to him.

Tenya works out what Eijiro really wants, a second tracker built for the class, and demands the job stay with professionals. Eijiro, tired of standing still while calling himself a hero and a friend, argues back until Denki and Tsuyu cool them off. Fully aware the matter belongs to the pros, he urges Izuku forward anyway, since the plan puts Katsuki within reach. Izuku turns a pleading look on Tenya, who knows exactly what agreeing would cost.

The fallout from the Vanguard Action Squad's invasion is laid out. Students are treated, arrests follow for Muscular, Moonfish and Mustard, and both Katsuki and Ragdoll are missing.

U.A.'s teachers meet to face the public criticism, and Present Mic argues that someone leaked the camp's location. Naomasa tells All Might the League's hideouts have been traced and an operation is being prepared.

Class 1-A visits Izuku in the hospital, where Eijiro proposes that they go after Katsuki themselves.

The eighty-third chapter of the My Hero Academia manga by Kohei Horikoshi, titled Loss. It ran on 19 March 2016 in the sixteenth issue of that year, spans nineteen pages, and was collected in volume ten. The chapter closes the Forest Training Camp arc, following chapter 82 and preceding chapter 84, and was adapted as Episode 45.

The cover gathers Tsuyu Asui, Ochaco Uraraka, Fumikage Tokoyami, Shoto Todoroki, Izuku Midoriya, Mezo Shoji and Yuga Aoyama.

Horikoshi's margin note congratulates Matsui Sensei on bringing Assassination Classroom to a close, and credits him as a source of motivation.