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Provisional Hero License Exam Arc
During the Provisional Hero License Exam, All for One receives a visit from All Might. All For One comments on the severe strictness of the prison he is being held in, that even if he were to try and activate a Quirk, he'd be put down instantly. All Might assures All For One that he will never escape nor is he getting out anytime soon from this prison of hell.

Moving along, All For One questions again what All Might wants. The former hero wants to know the whereabouts of Tomura, which the villain answers that he doesn't know and unlike him he has already let Tomura carry on. All Might proceeds to question him about his motives, but the villain claims All Might is never going to be satisfied by his answers. All For One makes his answer simple; both he and All Might are the same. All For One wishes to be the king of evil in the same way All Might wants to be the symbol of peace.

All Might asks if All For One wanted to live forever being utterly evil, then why does he need a successor. All For One finds All Might's question funny, answering that All Might took everything away from him, leaving him in a regrettable state to the point he needs complex devices to survive. Because of this, his influence and ideals had become limited thanks to him, so he has been grooming Tomura to become his successor and carry on his legacy.

The security inform All Might that he has three minutes left, much to All For One's disappointment as he still has much more to say. Due to All Might's retirement, the villain asks about the state of the outside world, but the security inform All Might that he cannot tell him any information that is going on in the world. All For One decides to make a hypothesis then: with All Might's retirement, Endeavor has become the new number one Hero, however, it does not seem that it will be enough to contain the anxiety and concern of society, and sensing the growing insecurity in the world, the villains will rise up, believing it to be their chance to change society.

In this situation, Tomura and his allies will grow in power and influence to reach the top, although they will have to clash other organizations that also intend to do the same, clashes in which All Might will be unable to do anything. All For One mockingly asks All Might how it feels to be absolutely powerless.

His words make All Might angry, who replies to All For One not to presume everything. All Might understands that he chose Tomura as his successor because he was the grandson of his master Nana, but he will not allow All For One's twisted vision to be realized and he won't let himself be killed by Tomura. All For One wonders if All Might came here to tell him that. As he leaves, All Might tells All For One he will smash his plans as many times as it takes, and he will pass the rest of his life in prison. As the prison cell begins closing, All For One chuckles at All Might's final statement.

Pro Hero Arc
All For One claims he is willing to restore Ragdoll's Quirk back to her but that it would require activating his own Quirk to do so. The authorities determined the safest approach is to not let him do anything while investigating the number of Quirks he has stockpiled.

A few days later, Izuku experiences the vestiges of One For All where he views a flashback between All For One and Yoichi, the first user of One For All. He witnesses All For One transfer the stockpiling Quirk on his brother, out of kindness as well as to force him to submit. All For One claims that he was creating a reality just like the one in the comics the brothers used to read as kids. He also tells his brother that by acquiring a Quirk he would start seeing the reality as it is.

Joint Training Arc
In Tartarus, one of the prison guards grows anxious regarding All For One's presence, wondering when his sentence will be finalized, with the other stating that it's been delayed due to unknown factors like Gigantomachia and the League still being at large, and not wanting to make All For One into a martyr for the villains.

All For One suddenly starts to speak, shocking the guards, and apologizes for setting off the alarms due to feeling uneasy due to having started to reminisce about things from his past, claiming to hear his younger brother's voice.

Paranormal Liberation War Arc
While investigating and analyzing Kurogiri, who they had captured several months ago, Naomasa Tsukauchi and Gran Torino find out that he is a Nomu created from the corpse of Oboro Shirakumo. When they question All For One about his methods to create the Nomu, the villain simply responds with a metaphor in which he compares the creation of the Nomu as producing wine: trampling grapes (people) to extract the juice (Quirks), and letting them ferment into wine (Nomu).

Later, Naomasa and Gran Torino ask Shota Aizawa and Hizashi Yamada for help to awaken Oboro's consciousness. Although it was an emotionally painful process, they succeed and obtain vital information. This, along with other data obtained by Hawks, allows the Heroes to locate Tomura, who is at the Jaku General Hospital, undergoing a complex and extensive operation at the hands of Kyudai Garaki to obtain more power, transplanting the original All For One Quirk to him.

To avoid this, the Heroes raid the hospital a month before the operation ends, as well as other bases of the Paranormal Liberation Front, a formation between the League of Villains and the Meta Liberation Army. Not without great difficulties, the Heroes manage to reach the secret laboratory under the hospital and prevent Kyudai from awakening Tomura prematurely, destroying the machine that kept them alive, with even Kyudai believing that his master's dream has ended due to Tomura appearing to be dead.

While Tomura is in this state of apparent death, he enters a dreamworld where he sees and interacts with representations of his relatives, until a shadowy vestige of All For One appears, telling him to come to him. Tomura's family reappears to stop him, even his grandmother Nana, yet despite their pleas to not fall into his darkness, Tomura rejects them and embraces his master.

Tomura unexpectedly awakens, and immediately uses his empowered Decay to destroy the hospital, killing dozens of heroes in the process, and even destroying much of the nearby city. After this, he orders Gigantomachia to come to him, bringing the members of the League with him, but he also begins to hear a voice inside his head that orders him to go get the "One For All" Quirk.

Tomura is confused by this, but soon ignores it as he begins to be attacked by Endeavor and other heroes. Even so, the voice inside him insists again, and impelled by it, Tomura uses his Search Quirk to locate One For All, discovering it in possession of Izuku, heading towards him.

Tomura manages to reach Izuku, starting a bloody battle between him against Izuku, Katsuki, Endeavor, Shota Aizawa, Gran Torino, and several other heroes. To prevent more heroes from interfering, Tomura summons a group of Nomu to confront the reinforcements. While all this is happening, All For One is seen smiling within his cell.

While facing Izuku, Tomura ends up calling him "little brother"; a statement that leaves both of them confused. This allows Tomura to realize that the mysterious inner voice comes from the ego of his master that exists within All For One, who tries to take over his will. Tomura thanks his master from for raising him from the bottom of his heart, but refuses to controlled by him, as he wants to be greater than All For One was, and breaks free from his image in his mind.

However, the heroes begin to get the upper hand in the battle, and when Tomura is burned alive by Endeavor's Prominence Burn attack, All For One's vestige reaches out his hand and suggests Tomura hand his body over to him. He appears to do so as suddenly a completely entombed "Tomura" attacks Endeavor, stabbing him with his Rivet Stab Quirk that emerges from his back. The wounded Endeavor wonders how he can stay alive before he starts falling to the ground.

"Tomura" then turns his attention back to Izuku, calling him little brother, and attacks him with the Rivet Stab. Katsuki pushes Izuku out of the way, and gets impaled by the tendrils instead.

Tomura attempts to wrestle back control over his body, while All For One comments that of all the blood shed on the battle, Katsuki's was the most pointless. This causes Izuku to snap and attacks Tomura directly blinded by rage. Tomura himself is shocked by this, but All For One's vestige within him is delighted by this, and manages to take control of Tomura's body again.

Izuku was so enraged that he was careless, so "Tomura" is able to grab ahold of him and uses All For One to try and steal One For All. Instead, Izuku ends up within a vestige world where he sees All For One fused with Tomura, where Tomura demands All For One not to interfere, but All For One sneers that if it weren't for his intervention, Tomura would be dead.

Suddenly, Nana Shimura appears alongside Izuku, pestered to see All For One again, as the villain introduces her to Tomura, mockingly exclaiming how his dead grandmother has joined them. He begins to explain the reason for the presence of the vestiges, both from the previous users of One For All and from the original owners of the Quirks stolen by All For One.

He goes on to tell them how when he stole Quirks, he could hear voices, which caused him to feel some semblance of guilt. However, once he relinquished the Quirk, the voices would go away. It wasn't until he met Dr. Garaki that he realized it was the vestiges of the previous owners he had heard, similar to how organs and cells contain a person's DNA. All For One admits he thought he was the only person that could do this and realizes when his Quirk merged with his younger brother's, it granted him and anyone else who had One For All the ability as well.

Then, after finishing his speech, All For One suggests both Nana and Tomura to greet each other. Nana recognizes Tomura as Kotaro's son, but Tomura simply retorts that none of it matters, since he hates her too, and begins eroding the vestige world, forcing Nana to protect Izuku.

All For One gleefully states that Tomura's rage is overwhelming One For All's will, noticing that this also includes Tomura's hatred for All For One himself, which he is pleased for as it makes him worthy of being the Symbol of Chaos. Just then, Yoichi appears and helps Nana to push back Tomura's anger. He asks his brother if Tomura is just the next person he is manipulating, while All For One says he wishes he had made his brother his, but that Yoichi refuses to join him.

All For One forces Tomura to combine their powers together to take One For All, stating that Izuku is unworthy since he couldn't protect his friends or teacher. Yoichi says they deem Izuku worthy and All For One will never understand why as he and Nana counter All For One and Tomura, causing Izuku and Tomura to separate and regain consciousness.

All For One tells Tomura that they failed and they must retreat and let his body reach 100%, but Tomura refuses and decides to stay and fight against All For One's insistence. All For One takes note of Gigantomachia's arrival and states that he came just in the nick of time, before Tomura falls unconscious.

Spinner, who is tending to Tomura, remembers what his leader had said before about the hands of his deceased family bringing him a sickening rage and puts one of those hands onto Tomura's face. This allows Tomura to reawaken, though All For One is now in full control. He remarks on how his successor found himself some truly great allies, and that the hatred in Tomura's heart serves as a power that gives the vestige of All For One an even greater hold over Tomura's body.

All For One uses his Radio Waves to order the Near High-End Nomu to take Tomura's body and retreat. When Spinner reminds All For One of their allies still fighting, the villain coldly states that since Tomura lost, it is only fair that he pays for that loss and subsequently abandons the remaining members. Just before they leave, Izuku attempts to stop All For One, but the villain easily blasts him away with an Air Cannon and tells the hero that they will meet again once Tomura's body is perfected.

The vestige of All For One retreats with the remaining ten Near High-End Nomu, accompanied by Spinner and a compressed Dabi and Skeptic. The surviving heroes try to stop them, but All For One dispatches three of the Nomus to confront them. The Near High-End's distraction tactics ensured that he, his allies, and seven others escaped while those three were destroyed.

A few hours later, in Tartarus, the real All For One is able to sense the condition of Tomura's body, noting that while his expectations were slightly off, it wouldn't be much longer. In the forest, the vestige of All For One remarks that the heroes won't get a tomorrow or the chance to get a moment's rest, since it is his turn to lead, ordering the Near High-Ends to invade Tartarus to free his real body.

All For One in Tomura's body alongside the Near High-Ends start to invade Tartarus. They destroy the Bronze Gate, as the bridge is lowered halting them from entering. The Near High-Ends deal with the defending drones, while All For One flies over on a flying Nomu. Tomura starts to wake up, leading to an argument between the two over control of the body. All For One reminds him he's doing everything for his sake, because Tomura will become "the next me". As All For One struggles to break through, due to the immense amount of security in Tartarus and Tomura's increasingly-failing body, he figures the only way to success is through a coordinated attack inside and out, and that he'll need help from villains.

All For One proceeds to hit Tartarus with several Radio Waves attacks from outside in Tomura's body, shutting down the prison's security, followed immediately by another Radio Waves attack on the inside by himself in his original body, unlocking his and all the other cells on the floor, as the previously captured villains quickly disposed of the armed guards. The vestige and original All For One use Radio Waves to communicate with each other, telling each other their intention to have Tomura's procedure completed within 38 days. The freed (albeit still on life support) All For One then finally reunites with Tomura, in front of the rest of the prisoners, telling them to join him on his path of devastation, to become the greatest demon lord.

To majority of the inmates, All For One tells them to be free and cause as much chaos as they want. He then approaches Lady Nagant, telling her it was an honor to meet the "treacherous hero", while she reminisces how he was one of her targets back in the day. He requests her to hunt down a specific target: Izuku Midoriya, sure that he will leave U.A. and asks her to capture and bring him to him. He also warns her that surely some of the best heroes will be watching over him from a distance, so he recommends her to take her time until they are split up enough, with waiting for a rainy day being her best bet.

Lady Nagant interrupts him by asking why she is the only one with an assignment while the other inmates can just go wild. All For One reminds her how she killed a fellow Hero and that she wants the Hero Society to collapse as well, and as long as Izuku remains, that dream will never come to pass.

All For One notices the mentally broken Kai Chisaki muttering about his boss, and asks if he's a friend of hers. She denies this, but she brings him with her because she believes he will be useful to her in some way despite his mental state, as All For One identifies him as another victim of the 'wicked' Hero Society. Nevertheless, Lady Nagant agrees to help All For One and to seal their deal, he offers a gift, and transfers Air Walk to her. After telling her to deliver the target within two months to a mansion in Haibori Woods, he proceeds to give the same task to several other dangerous criminals as well.

After escaping from Tartarus, All For One orchestrates another large-scale attack, using both the Nomu and the freed prisoners to attack six different prisons all to distract the authorities and make it harder for them to track him. All For One is later seen sitting with "Tomura" and asks Spinner and Dabi to stand guard over him while his body recovers. Spinner asks who Tomura really was, stating All For One wasn't the person he chose to follow. All For One tells Spinner not to worry, saying he has the greatest respect for Tomura's will and that once his body recovers, both of their desires would come to fruition.