Chapter 156

The Rescuee's Power is the one hundredth and fifty sixth chapter of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia Manga.

Summary
A short time ago when Sir Nighteye's group began infiltrating the Eight Precepts of Death's Headquarters, Ryukyu's group was fighting Rikiya Katsukame of the Eight Expendables whose Quirk allows to absorb a target's vitality by touching and inhaling which allows him to grow larger. They eventually managed to overpower Rikiya and knock him unconscious. Ryukyu orders the Police Force to continue restraining Rikiya while Nejire, Ochaco and Tsuyu prepare to head after Sir Nighteye's group. Suddenly, Ochaco and Tsuyu along with the Police Force become tired due to Rikiya inhaling their vitality, much to Ryukyu's surprise since she thought she knocked him out. Conscious, Rikiya reveals that the drug he took is kicking in which has enhanced his Quirk and now he can absorb a target's vitality simply by inhaling. Now larger and stronger than before, Rikiya attacks the Police Force only for Ryukyu to take them to safety. 20 minutes pass and Ryukyu's group is in a standstill against the rejuvenated Rikiya. Nejire decides to take action and attacks Rikiya with her Quirk which allows her to convert her own vitality into pure energy and emit shockwaves, although Rikiya managed to block her attack. However, Rikiya's drug wears off and demands Nejire to let him touch her, to which Nejire vehemently refuses.

Suddenly, Izuku appears and states that he called reinforcements as well as their objective is underneath a nearby crossroad. With this information, Ryukyu hatches a plan, transforms into her dragon form and charges at Rikiya. Ryukyu drags Rikiya to the crossroads and commands Ochaco to make them float and Tsuyu to help drag them towards the crossroad. With Ryukyu and Rikiya's bodies now weightless, Tsuyu drags them to the crossroad with her tongue. At the crossroad, Ryukyu orders Nejire to blast her and Rikiya onto the ground with everything she has. Ochaco releases her Quirk's effect and Nejire blasts Ryukyu and Rikiya with her Quirk. The combined weight of Ryukyu and Rikiya along with the force of Nejire's shockwave is enough to make the crossroad collapse, causing Ryukyu's group along with Rikiya to fall down into the Eight Precepts of Death's underground where they land in the middle of the battle between Izuku and Chisaki.

Izuku is surprised with Ryukyu's group suddenly appearing while Ochaco and Tsuyu are shocked that the Izuku they saw above was fake. Toga, Twice and a copied version of Mr Compress are above ground; in the underground, they let the copy out, then Twice made copies of himself to dig a hole to the surface where Toga transformed into Izuku to trick Ryukyu's group. Twice is glad that the Heroes showed up today as it allowed them to identity the "core" of Chisaki's operation which is Eri and they plan to snatch her. Rwice orders the Mr Compress copy to go and snatch Eri. The Mr Compress clone goes to snatch Eri which surprises Ryukyu's group. Izuku tells Ochako that he is leaving Sir Nighteye to her as he goes to rescue Eri. However, Chisaki prevents Izuku from reaching her with a rock pillar and he grabs her. Chisaki is annoyed with everything being ruined and seeing the hole, an opportunity of escape, prepares his escape by reconstructing a large and long rock pillar to take him to the surface. Izuku refuses to let Chisaki get away. As they head for the surface, Mirio's cape caught by debris to which Chisaki finds sickening. By instinct, Eri grabs Mirio's cape after remembering Mirio's kinds words.

Characters In Order of Appearance

 * Ochaco Uraraka
 * Tsuyu Asui
 * Nejire Hado
 * Rikiya Katsukame
 * Ryuko Tatsuma
 * Himiko Toga
 * Izuku Midoriya
 * Twice
 * Mr. Compress
 * Sir Nighteye
 * Eri
 * Overhaul
 * Mirio Togata