Chapter 397

Trash Cleanup is the three hundred and ninety-seventh chapter of Kohei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia.

Summary
All Might laughs about how wrong it feels being over 50 years old and beating up such a "helpless lad" as he continues to pummel All For One. He thinks about how he harbours a ferocious rage that hungers for One For All, which is what he is exploiting and the only reason the fight is possible. It is the fate that binds the two of them as he gleefully shouts that any real Demon Lord would be aghast at getting beaten up by a Quirkless man, keeping him in this obsession not to tear his eyes away from him.

All For One releases from the palm of his hand a Quirk combination of Spring-ify, "Brawn Boost", Air Cannon, Rivet Stab, Dark Ball, and Impure Beam, releasing a rapid array of dangerous attacks that blast All Might back through several buildings. He manages to survive the assault using the "Utility Cape Auto-Guard: Dark Shadow", realizing he's randomly combining Quirks, meaning his taunts are working, psyching himself up to keep him riled up.

The suit informs him that the cape was destroyed and he's acquired injuries in the clavicle and left humerus, so he tells it to set movement assist to max. All For One re-appears above All Might calling him a pathetic, washed-up piece of garbage, how wearing his "trash bag" made him lose all perspective, so all he needs to do is break his gadgets because they can't go beyond their own limits.

All Might thinks back to advice he gave to Izuku about not relying on support items too much, having seen far too many Heroes who couldn't wield their power after losing their items. He jokingly replies to All For One that the two of them think alike, as he recalls his first meeting with Nana Shimura, floating over a group of defeated Villains, and asking the young Toshinori what he was going to do as he attempted to fight them with just a lead pipe. All Might flies in for another punch, with All For One angrily stating he didn't fall for his cheap ploy to stall him since he can easily spare the time to clean up the trash, blasting All Might with a powerful energy beam, who simply continues to smile calling him undignified trying to play it cool.

Chapter Notes

 * All Might continues to use the Armored All Might to fight All For One and keep him distracted.
 * All For One starts haphazardly using Quirks to attack and All Might receives some injuries despite the suits attempts to protect him.
 * A flashback to the time All Might first met Nana Shimura is shown.

Characters In Order of Appearance

 * All Might
 * All For One
 * Izuku Midoriya
 * Nana Shimura

Author's Comment
"It should be a requirement that manga artists are shown how much fun and joy the young boys and girls are having at the Jump Victory Carnival."

- Kohei Horikoshi

Trivia

 * This is the shortest main chapter in the series at only 7 pages in length.