My Hero Academia, Chapter 129: Confrontation

My Hero Academia, Chapter 129: Eri

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A pretty tense chapter because we don't know the ending, what Overhaul will do -- is it just building up a confrontation between Midoriya, Mirio and Overhaul, or is it actually going to lead to a huge big battle? It's pretty tense reading this, and yeah, ultimately Midoriya and Mirio lets Overhaul go (or vice versa, I suppose) but shit, man.

(By the way, Mirio's hero name is "Rumillion", which is a pun in Japanese on both 'million', 'Mirio' and apparently a band or something? Makes very little sense to me, though, so I'm not likely to remember it.)

Overhaul is a pretty good actor, too, noting that Eri is his daughter and she's just throwing a tantrum and all. Mirio also covers up pretty well, putting Deku's hood-mask on to stop Overhaul from getting suspicious at Midoriya's shocked face, and the two just converse like, well, normal people that aren't a group of superheroes investigating a mafia organization. Mirio tries to basically brush the two of them off as students doing some workplace experience and wants to quickly get himself and Midoriya out of the situation because, well, they're pretty much out of their league.

Midoriya sees that little Eri is absolutely scared shitless, and asks Overhaul about why his 'daughter' is so scared and has bandages and stuff, really feeling like someone interrogating someone about being an abusive parent, and Overhaul naturally gives all kinds of excuses. She falls down a lot and all that stuff. Of course it's not child abuse that Overhaul's hiding (not just child abuse, at any rate), both Overhaul and Mirio keeps trying to get Midoriya to stop interrogating Overhaul. Midoriya, meanwhile, refuses to let this pass, because he's a motherfucking hero and he sees an afraid child and he will help her. 

Overhaul basically asks them to follow him into an alley because he's too embarrassed to talk about it in the public, and as he's about to pull off his gloves, Overhaul talks about how understanding kids is hard and how he could "turn into a different kind of person". This warning causes Eri to let go of Midoriya and back to Overhaul's side. Eri's apparently done with her 'tantrum', and Overhaul exits. And honestly, if you don't know that Overhaul is this criminal mastermind who's easily the most dangerous person in the manga right now that All For One is jailed up, this would just seem like a conversation between a pair of concerned heroes and an evasive abusive parent. 

Very chilling, very well-told. Mirio knows what happens, noting that the flash of murderous intent has caused Eri to come back and they've poked the hornet's nest too much.

Overhaul (who's addressed as Capo by his mooks) blows up the one dude that allowed Eri to escape. We get a name for one of Overhaul's goons, the dude (lady?) with a white raincoat and a black plague-mask, who's called Chrono. And apparently is in charge of cleaning things up like drawing Overhaul's bath and, er, cleaning up blood-splattered corpses. Overhaul's kinda sorta nice to Eri, not actually physically abusing her and talking nice to her, but she's told to return to this very creepy room with all sorts of medical looking machinery.

Meanwhile, the little midget dude that was driving around a mech a couple of chapters ago shows up, noting that Shigaraki called them and he's got an answer. 

Please be yes. Villain alliances are always so cool.