Chapter 73

Good Evening is the seventy-third chapter of Kohei Horikoshi's Boku no Hero Academia manga.

Summary
Himiko expresses her dislike for the design of the equipment she is wearing, but one of the masked villains inform her that the equipment functioning properly and purpose matters only. The other masked villain is still restless and desires action, causing Dabi to order his fellow villains to be quiet and that they will only attack when all ten of them are together. Soon, three other villains show up with one of them apologizing for arriving late. Dabi informs his fellow villains that the success rate of their job depends on their experience which they all have. Dabi informs them about their first attack which will show the Heroes that their peaceful lives are at an end.

The next day which is the third day of the lodge trip; it is the afternoon and Class 1-A along with Class 1-B are undergoing their Quirk strengthening training. Shouta is instructing Mina, Hanta, Rikidou, Eijirou and Denki in their training. Shouta gives advice to the remedials on increasing the power of their Quirks; Rikidou and Denki must increase the capacities of their Quirks, telling them to continuously use their Quirks, Hanta must not only increase his Quirk’s capacity but increase its strength and speed, Mina must lengthen the amount of time she can use her Quirk and Eijirou must increase his muscular strength and his Quirk’s rigidity. Shouta then scolds Ochako and Yuuga to train harder since they passed their tests by the skin of their teeth. Shouta tells Class 1-A to not forget their fundamental drive as that will help them improves and progress. Izuku asks Shouta if any more teachers will come to the lodge; Shouta replies that they only came with the minimum amount of personnel needed to help with Class 1-A and Class 1-B’s training and as such no more teachers will be arriving with Ragdoll noting that they had All Might stay away due to him being a target. Pixiebob changes topic and informs the students that tonight they will be playing a game; a test of courage.

That evening, Class 1-A and 1-B are cooking themselves dinner. Shouto asks Izuku what he wanted to talk to All Might about; Izuku replies that he wanted to talk to him about Kouta. However, Izuku sees that Kouta is not around and surmises that he went back to his secret base. Izuku tells Shouto that Kouta doesn’t like the idea of a superhero society with Quirks and is unable to help him out with words. Izuku asks Shouto for advice. Shouto tells Izuku that words alone will not help Kouta since he would find reasoning from strangers to be pretentious. Shouto advises Izuku to tell him about what Heroes are doing and the help Heroes will bring to humanity. Shouto tells Izuku that he believes that action speaks louder than words. Izuku becomes encouraged from hearing Shouto’s advice and knows Shouto is correct. Class 1-A and 1-B finish dinner.

Later that night, Class 1-A and Class 1-B are preparing for the test of courage. However, Shouta drags Mina, Rikidou, Eijirou, Hanta and Denki away because they must have review lessons with him. Afterwards, Pixiebob and Ragdoll explain the test of courage; the game will take place in the forest with Class 1-B being the scaring ground and Class 1-A will split up into pairs. Class 1-A must walk into the forest and find a card with their names on it in order to prove they went into the forest while Class 1-B must frighten Class 1-A to run them out of the forest without their cards. Class 1-B must not directly touch Class 1-A but both classes are permitted to use their Quirks as well as any scaring tactics. After both Class 1-A and Class 1-B have had turns in being the scaring group, the winner will be the class that not only scared more people but the class that was the most creative. The test of courage begins.

After twelve minutes, the fifth pair from Class 1-A which is Ochako and Tsuyu enter the forest. Inside the forest, Juuzou and Itsuka praise Yui for her scaring tactic. Out of nowhere, smoke appears which causes Juuzou to faint. Itsuka realizes that the smoke is dangerous and covers her mouth; then she covers Yui with her Quirk, telling Yui to not inhale the smoke as it is poisonous. Suddenly, the poisonous smoke covers the entire forest; the Pussycats and the remainder of Class 1-A see black smoke arising from the forest. Somewhere in the forest, Dabi commands the Villain Alliance “First Strike Team” to attack. Himiko sneaks up behind Ochako and Tsuyu. Two villains appear in front of the Pussycats and the remainder of Class 1-A; they attack and knockout Pixiebob. The Pussycats prepare to take action while Izuku realizes that Kouta is alone and defenseless.

Kouta is sitting at his secret base, unaware that a villain is behind him.