Chapter 45 (Vigilantes)

Mr. Kuroiwa (黒岩さん) is the forty-fifth chapter of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's Vigilante - My Hero Academia: Illegals.

Summary
In the hospital, Soga and his friends Moyuru and Raputo take care of Tamao Oguro. Raputo play the fool with Tamao's guitar, which makes her laugh, and Moyuru asks her to play. She confesses that she just played the guitar to piss off her father. Soga grabs the guitar and tunes it. Moyuru did not know that Soga knew about music and Raputo tells him that Soga had a guitar, but he smashes it in a fight. Soga returns the instrument to Tamao, telling her that she has the privilege of being able to play music, something that many other people do not have.

At that moment, Knuckleduster enters the room. Tamao only says that his beard is gross and Soga criticizes him for being away a long time. Knuckleduster can not deny it, but he asks Soga to stay a while longer, since he has to catch up with an old pal, but promises that as soon as he finishes he will visit her again. His daughter only asks him to shave his beard. When Knuckleduster leaves, Soga asks Tamao to make some noise with the guitar, just to annoy his old man. Tamao agrees and Raputo and Moyuru make fun of Soga for being a sweetheart.

In a secluded spot, Knuckleduster meets Detective Tanema, who turns out to be aware of Knuckleduster's past as the hero O'Clock, and now he calls himself Mr. Kuroiwa. Knuckleduster secretly gives him a memory card with all the information he could get in Hong Kong about Trigger traffic, with the names of some Japanese importers.

When Knuckleduster is about to leave, Tanema tells him that the police have had an encounter with a villain who has an Acceleration Quirk, very similar to O'Clock’s. Tanema asks him if he knows who he is, but Knuckleduster says no, but he advises him that, if they come across the villain again, they'll shoot him down immediately. The detective says they can gunning people like that, because it would give a bad image to the Police Force. Knuckleduster tells him that then he will take down that evildoer. After this, they separate.

In another area of Naruhata, Koichi is running away from a train-headed villain near the Hotta brothers' shop, although on that occasion Shota Aizawa is not there to help him. Ichiro Hotta asks Koichi to leading the villain around in circles until help arrives. Knuckleduster observes proudly how Koichi gets on alone, who, in turn, believes he has seen him, although he soon attributes it to his imagination

Characters In Order of Appearance

 * Raputo Tokage
 * Tamao Oguro
 * Moyuru Tochi
 * Soga Kugizaki
 * Knuckleduster
 * O'Clock's Pupil (Flashback)
 * Tanema
 * Koichi Haimawari
 * Kazuho Haneyama
 * Jiro Hotta
 * Ichiro Hotta