Chapter 83

Defeat is the eighty-third chapter of Kohei Horikoshi's Boku no Hero Academia Manga.

Summary
In the forest, Shouta helps guides injured Class 1-B students back to the facility as well as looking for unconscious students; Itsuka drags Tetsutetsu and the defeated gas masked villain back to the facility.

Ochako and Tsuyu head to the League of Villains’ rendezvous point. However, upon reaching the rendezvous point, they realize that they are too late as Katsuki had already been captured by the League of Villains. Izuku continues to howl in grief due to his inability to save Katsuki while Mezou, Shouto, Fumikage and Yuuga try to console him.

Fifteen minutes after the League of Villain’s attack is over, medical teams and firefighters arrive to heal the injured Class 1-A and 1-B students and extinguish the forest fires respectably. The League of Villains’ attack by their Vanguard Action Squad caused fifteen students to lose consciousness due to the gas, eleven students had injuries ranging from mild to severe while the remaining thirteen students were uninjured. However, the League of Villain’s attack also resulted in the kidnapping of Katsuki, Pixiebob suffering a severe head injury and the disappearance of Ragdoll. Soon afterwards, the Police Force arrive on the scene and immediately arrest Muscular, Moonfish and the gas masked villain. The training camp comes to an abrupt ending due to the attack by the Vanguard Action Squad and despite arresting three League of Villains’ members, the attack was considered to be an utter defeat for Yuuei.

A day later, there are protests outside of Yuuei. Inside Yuuei, the teachers are having an emergency meeting regarding the League of Villains’ attack by their Vanguard Action Squad and the affect it has done. The teachers discuss that the time of peace had made them soft and acknowledge this as a fact while also recognising that the League of Villains of Villains has begun its war against the current Hero society. All Might is ashamed of his worthlessness for doing nothing while the students were fighting for their lives. Mr Principal says that the media is heavily criticizing Yuuei and worries that if Katsuki becomes a villain, it will jeopardize Yuuei’s credibility as a Hero institution and cause Yuuei to shut down. Seeing that they are talking about credibility, Present Mic concludes that there is a traitor amongst the Yuuei faculty, saying that only The Pussycats and them knew the location of the training camp; Snipe tells Present Mic that arousing suspicion won’t help them and if they are to search for a traitor, they must do so calmly in order to avoid mistrust. Mr Principal declares that he trusts his colleagues and remind them that guaranteeing the students’ safety is their top priority. Before Mr Principal can say something that has been on his mind regarding the traitor issue, All Might receives a call and leaves the meeting.

Outside the meeting room, All Might picks up the phone and talks with Naomasa. Naomasa tells All Might that there has been an unexpected development; they have probably located the League of Villains hideout. One of his subordinate’s was doing an investigation two weeks ago regarding a supposedly vacant building being used by a patched man, they questioned the building owner who states that the building has a hideout like bar; although the incident and their current investigation have nothing to do with one another, the building owner described a person who looked like one of the people who kidnapped Katsuki. Naomasa says that the intel is top secret and once it is verified, the Police Force will bust into the building to rescue Katsuki. Naomasa asks All Might for his assistance in the rescue operation; All Might thanks Naomasa for his hard work and declares that when he finds them, he will say that he came for payback.

The next day at a hospital near the training camp, Izuku is recovering from his grievous injuries as a result of his battle with Muscular. Class 1-A arrive to see Izuku; Fumikage apologizes for causing trouble for him during the training camp, but Izuku rebuffs and says that it is his fault for causing them trouble. Izuku asks if all of Class 1-A are here; Tenya informs Izuku that Tooru and Kyouka have not regained consciousness from the gas, Momo has also being hospitalized due to a serious head injury but regained consciousness yesterday. Notwithstanding Katsuki, all sixteen of them are here. Izuku despairs over being unable to save Katsuki when he was in reach of him and just as Shouta said during the Quirk Apprehension Test, his Quirk amounted to nothing at the time, which causes Izuku to spiral into depression.

However, Eijioru states that this time they can save him, confusing the rest of Class 1-A except Shouto. Eijirou and Shouto came to visit the hospital yesterday and overheard the conversation between All Might, the Police Force and Momo. During the conversation, Momo tells All Might that Yousetsu planted a transmitter she created onto one of the villains. She gives All Might the device that tracks the signal from the transmitter. All Might applauds Momo’s judgement as well as her growth and says that she is worthy of being a Hero; he asks her to leave the rest to him.

Tenya deduces that Eijirou wants Momo to create a tracking device for themselves so that they can rescue Katsuki. Tenya demands that they should leave the rescue to the Pro Heroes, causing Tenya and Eijirou to start arguing about whether to save Katsuki themselves or leave it to the Pro Heroes. Eijirou despises not being able to help Katsuki at the training camp and wants to help him now so that he can be a Hero. Eijirou encourages Izuku to go through with his rescue plan as it will allow him to reach and save Katsuki, causing Izuku to lie up and gives Tenya a pleading look, but Tenya is hesitant.