Two Flashfires (二つの赫灼 Futatsu no Kakushaku?) is the one hundred and forty-sixth episode of the My Hero Academia anime and the eighth episode of the seventh season.
Summary[]
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All For One finds Toya's charred body.
At the police station, Officer Gori is patrolling the cells when Dr. Garaki asks him if the final battle has already begun. Gori orders him to be quiet, but the doctor points that there are there's less officers on duty than usual, so it was obvious that this was the case. Thinking about Dabi, Garaki assures that it was just for this day that he spent years looking for "seeds" that were born warped, which made them potentially vessels.
Toya Todoroki's descent into villainy began years ago at Sekoto Peak, when he accidentally set himself and the area aflame in a breakdown after his father failed to show up as promised. After panicking from his situation and his parent's absence, he falls and extinguishes himself in a nearby riverbank, although he is severely burned on every part of his body. As he shivers in severe pain on the ground, All For One is seen watching him from a distance.
Toya wakes up to find himself alive in a nursery.
Toya then suddenly wakes up on a bed in the medical room of an orphanage, now older and possessing several patches of reddish, wrinkled skin covering his lower eye sockets, ears, and his upper chest and jaw areas. He walks out of his room, surprised to be alive at all, and enters a play area containing a group of children that are glad that he's finally awake. Toya tries to ask them where he is but stops once he realizes he can't recognize his own voice anymore. The confusion further ramps up for him when one of the girls says he's been asleep for three whole years.
He tries to ask the main caretaker, Mr. Sunny, if he can go home, to which the man says he can't and that this place is his new home. Toya then falls into a pit of self-denial, saying his dad must be too busy with Hero work to come get him, and he needs to apologize to his family for the hurtful things he did and show his father how hard he's been working to become a Hero.
All For One explains his situation to Toya through a computer.
Toya is then cut off by All For One's voice, on an audio-only call playing on a nearby computer monitor. The man tells the boy that it's unlikely he'll be able to become a Hero, as his body is severely burned, and it took tons of meticulous work to patch it together and give him a second chance at life. He then says to the confused Toya that he's now unable to the use his Quirk the same way prior to his accident, as the fire he started weakened his body, and damaged both his organs and most of his senses.
Toya then breaks down crying, as All For One begins to "comfort" the boy with the prospect that he and his associates might be able to change his flames back to normal if he stays here and learns alongside them. Toya tells the man to shut up and tries to assault Mr. Sunny while asserting that he only wants to learn anything about his Quirk from Endeavor.
Toya escapes after burning down the orphanage.
After that outburst, All For One's covert attempt to indoctrinate Toya into his grand dealings failed, as he and Kyudai Garaki deemed him too injured and far gone in his own obsessions to be worth manipulating. Toya's "rescue" from Sekoto Peak, and his resulting treatment and placement in that care facility, turned out to be another instance of All For One farming several backup vessels for himself on the off chance his developing relationship with Tomura were to go south.
Toya eventually burns down the entire orphanage and runs away, with the Villains leaving him be due to his rejected status, and Doctor Garaki's projection that the boy would die around a month after waking from his coma. To their shock, Toya would survive, adopt a new name, and eventually find his way back to All For One and his cohorts, through Giran introducing him to Tomura and the others following the Hosu Incident.
Dabi meets one of his saviors.
After arranging a private meeting just before Dabi released Hood upon Fukuoka, Kyushu to attack Endeavor, Dabi asks the Doctor if it was him who kept him alive years ago. Garaki was surprised that Dabi realized it and asked how he survived after all these years. Ignoring his question at first, Dabi mentioned that upon seeing the Nomu he understood what he intended to do with him back then. Then he replied that he came back because that place is now the perfect spot to hold a funeral, as the Doctor hypothesizes that his sheer hatred, and resentment, somehow kept his body together after all this time.
Back in the present, Dabi tells Shoto that he went to their old house after running away from the orphanage but stopped a couple steps short from reuniting with his father, who was in the middle of a brutal, training match with his younger brother. After witnessing the sight of the family having "moved on from him" in these past three years, his insecurities about being a failure to his legacy of becoming a Hero bubbled up again, and the boy runs off again in abandonment of the few things he wished to do after waking up.
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Dabi prepares to face his brother until the bitter end.
Dabi's skin begins to burn hotter and darker from the fire coating his entire body and tells Shoto that he's trained his Quirk rigorously since then for the eventuality of him encountering Endeavor again, eased by the fact that his pain receptors were damaged, and he can use footage of his father in action to practice with.
Shoto, who has activated and is maintaining the new Ultimate Move he has been working on from training with his class, realizes that Dabi was dead set on killing himself in the climax of his years-long pursuit of revenge against his father. The Villain, now with a deteriorated jaw and more burns splotching his upper face, tells his little brother that he'll burn everything Endeavor holds dear, which will create the ultimate proof that he was born.
Dabi gets behind Shoto.
Shoto tells his brother that he'll put an end to this, as Dabi fires off a sloppy, yet incredibly powerful Hell Spider on the remaining Heroes. Shoto holds his position but is quickly blindsided by Dabi leaping behind him and punching the boy to the ground with a flame-coated fist.
In a psychotic rage, Dabi asks his brother how his face looked while he housed inside U.A. with all those people scared of him for being both Endeavor's son and Dabi's brother. He then hops on his younger brother and begins mercilessly beating him, calling Shoto a "product of calamity", a spoiled underachiever who relies too much on others, and a half-baked puppet with nothing to live for or up to. He ends his tirade and rampage by knocking Shoto into the air and slamming a Jet Burn into his chest, which sends the Hero flying into a nearby tower.
Dabi's Jet Burn sends Shoto flying into a building.
Shoto, from the wreckage, admits to Dabi that he agrees on the comment about being an aimless husk at first, as his opponent notices the flames on his body being neutralized somehow. The Hero, standing strong and holding his new attack, says that he's glad that his older brother took notice of someone besides their father. He yells that even though their family situation and their father's treatment was horrible, it's no excuse to harm innocent people because of his predicament.
Shoto then strengthens his new Ultimate Move, Phosphor, which was specially designed on his own accord to stop Dabi. When he first showed it off and explained it to Izuku back during their training, he told his friend that he took the essence of the Flashfire Fist technique and applied it to both sides of his body, creating an equilibrium of ice and fire using the hot and cold blood circulating through his heart so he can stand up to his brother's intense firepower using "cold flames".
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Shoto uses his new found power against Dabi
He elaborated with how he's using his ice half to strengthen his flames rather than protect himself from them like his father wanted out of his Quirk Marriage, allowing the boy to grow stronger and come to terms with the circumstances he was born under. Shoto then thanked Izuku in reference to how he helped him accept both halves of himself in the Sports Festival, as like his friend said back then, Half-Cold Half-Hot is his Quirk and not his father's.
Shoto dives down from the building towards Dabi with Phosphor at full charge and blasts the Villain's body with Coldflame's Pale Blade to put out his flames and drop his body temperature. Phosphor then times out, as Dabi jumps back and detonates a Hell Minefield toward his brother. The attack is barely blocked by Burnin, Kido, and Onima, who collapse just as Shoto starts preparing another round of Phosphor.
Shoto defeats his older brother Toya.
With the motivation of how much he's grown as a person and alongside his friends, along with the training from his father in the Work Studies, Shoto boosts the power of Phosphor exponentially and rushes through another torrent of flames expelled by Dabi.
Dabi is instantly hit in the stomach by an ice-coated fist, as his little brother begs him to stop. Shoto then uses Great Glacial Aegir, which snuffs out the flames, freezes over Dabi and the surrounding buildings, and spells the end to the Hero's long-awaited fight with his brother turned Villain.
Characters In Order of Appearance[]
- Gori
- Doctor
- Dabi
- Shoto
- Onima
- Kido
- Burnin
- Endeavor (Flashback)
- All For One (Flashback)
- Haruaki Sun-Sun (Debut, Flashback)
- Rei Todoroki (Flashback)
- Fuyumi Todoroki (Flashback)
- Natsuo Todoroki (Flashback)
- All Might (Flashback)
- Tomura Shigaraki (Flashback)
- Kurogiri (Flashback)
- Himiko Toga (Flashback)
- Giran (Flashback)
- Hood (Flashback)
- Present Mic (Narration voice)
- Ingenium
- Real Steel (Flashback)
- Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight (Flashback)
- Deku (Flashback)
- Pinky (Flashback)
- Cellophane (Flashback)
- Chargebolt (Flashback)
- Red Riot (Flashback)
- Tentacole (Flashback)
- Grape Juice (Flashback)
- Hawks (Mentioned)
- Tailman (Flashback)
- Creati (Flashback)
- Sugarman (Flashback)
- Anima (Flashback)
- Tsukuyomi (Flashback)
- Earphone Jack (Flashback)
- Uravity (Flashback)
- Invisible Girl (Fantasy)
- Recovery Girl (Flashback)
- Can't Stop Twinkling (Flashback)
- Froppy (Flashback)
- Mt. Lady (Flashback)
Quirks[]
- Blueflame
- Flashfire Fist: Hell Spider
- Flashfire Fist: Jet Burn
- Raging Assault - Hell Minefield
- Half-Cold Half-Hot
- Flashfire Fist: Phosphor
- Icebound Crash - Coldflame's Pale Blade
- Great Glacial Aegir
- Hellflame (Flashback)
- Flashfire Fist (Mentioned)
- Onima's Quirk
- Traject
- Blazing Hair
- Engine
- Steel (Flashback)
- Explosion (Flashback)
Locations[]
- Police Station
- Ground Zero
- Sekoto Peak (Flashback)
- Todoroki Abode (Flashback)
- "Sunny" Orphanage (Flashback)
- League of Villains Bar (Flashback)
- U.A. High School (Flashback)
- Makeshift Fortress: Troy (Flashback)
- Sports Festival Stadium (Flashback)
- Ground Gamma (Flashback)
- Heights Alliance (Flashback)
- Recovery Girl's Nurse's Office (Flashback)
- The Beast's Forest (Flashback)
Battles & Events[]
- Final War
- Shoto & Flaming Sidekickers vs. Dabi (Continued)
Anime & Manga Differences[]
- More of the kids in the Doctor's orphanage are shown in the anime.
- Toya is shown fighting off Haruaki Sun-Sun in the anime.
- In the anime, Toya's trek home is expanded.
- Dabi is shown watching videos online of Endeavor's Ultimate Moves in the anime, which is only alluded to in the manga.
- During their fight, Dabi punches down on Shoto more in the anime.