Chapter 77 (Vigilantes)

Strategy Meeting is the seventy-seventh chapter of Hideyuki Furuhashi and Betten Court's My Hero Academia Vigilantes.

Summary
Soga and his friends continue to train Koichi for when they have to face the possessed Kazuho and free her from the parasitic bee. For this occasion, Soga wants to check Koichi's ability to snipe with his Slide and Glide Quirk, so he makes him shoot from twenty meters away against three targets, two round and the other human-shaped. Koichi uses his new supermove, Shooty-Go-Kablam, and shoots several concentrated air bullets.

Moyuru and Rapt are confused by Koichi's aim. He did hit the round targets with no problem, achieving even bull’s-eyes. However, for some reason, he couldn't land a single shot on the human-shaped target. Koichi also does not understand the reason why he misses, but Soga concludes that he subconsciously makes himself miss people-shaped targets. This makes Soga have to rethink the strategy against Kazuho. Since Koichi is unable to use his full-power shots against people and the Shooty-Go-Blam has not enough range and speed, he must uses his mobility and martial arts to back her into a corner.

Over the next few days, Moyuru and Rapt help Koichi train, while Soga is planning the entire mission, studying maps of the area, planning what are the best options when it comes to take action, watching videos of Queen Pop's attack to analyze every aspect of her Quirk, etc. One day Moyuru returns from shopping and recon on the area of Pop's attack, informing Soga that the reconstruction is progressing slowly as another attack is feared, there are hardly any people in the streets and that most of the shops are closed, and that there are numerous heroes patrolling the area.

Soga continues watching videos, analyzing every single aesthetic of Queen’s attack to discover every detail about her physical abilities, the destructive power of bees, her control over them the swarm, etc, although he admits that it is not an easy task because the videos taken by fans and are not of very good quality. Moyuru advises him to take it easy. When he watches the videos, Moyuru thinks that Pop looks like somebody that's just playing an extreme prank, but Soga replies that, for him, Pop looks like she is suffering.

Koichi, who’s listening on, resolves to have a talk with her, sure that Kazuho will listen to reason. Rapt and Moyuru doubt that his idea will work considering how their previous confrontation ended. Koichi reminisces that on the previous occasions when Kazuho had been mad and he didn't know why, he just spent some time with her and then everything ended up somehow fixed, reason why he thinks that it could works with the current situation. Moyuru and Rapt are skeptical.

Soga orders the three of them to rest while he puts together a strategy by morning. Moyuru tells Soga that he substitutes him, as he should get some rest too. While Moyuru searches for decent videos, While Moyuru searches for decent videos, he tells Soga that, considering the situation, helping people is kinda fun. Soga just tells him to take the work more seriously.

Meanwhile, in a high-rise apartment, a possessed Kazuho is bloodied and nearly broken. She crawls from her bed to the apartment window to looking out towards the city, while her mind is filled with violent thoughts confusing strong feelings of love and hate. She cries over Koichi, saying he will never forget about her, as her left eye bleeds.

Chapter Notes

 * Number 6 (as Rokuro Nomura) is confirmed to be a Pro Hero under the name Rock.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Soga Kugizaki
 * Koichi Haimawari
 * Moyuru Tochi
 * Rapt Tokage
 * Kuin Hachisuka
 * Compass Kid
 * Number 6