Endeavor tells Rei that Shoto can't be with the kids anymore and to watch over Toya, while she chastises him for not looking at him and just running away. When Shoto is 5 and stuck in his hard training, a 13 year old Toya unstably vents to Natsuo about their father never paying attention to them with Natsuo brushing him off and Toya reacting even worse. Rei tries to get him to stop, saying he should look at a world beyond his father, but he bites back saying he knows that she was "sold off" by her family and that she's responsible for his creation too.
That winter, his body starts to develop more, leading to his fire changing from red to blue. He tells Endeavor to meet him at Sekoto Peak next day off to see this, but realizing he's been training/still burning himself, and seeing how more deranged Toya's been getting, he enrages at Rei for not stopping it, leading the young Shoto to try and defend her. He goes to Sekoto Peak anyway, and while waiting for one of his parents to show (who both didn't know what else to say to him), he seemingly "dies", as himself and everything around him engulfs in flames, which present Dabi reminiscences about.
In the present, Endeavor says how after losing Toya, there was no turning back and had to pour everything else he had into Shoto at the expense of everything. Rei says how after this, he got worse and worse to the point of her seeing his face in their kids. Fuyumi says how she always wanted to say something about how their family was broken, but was too scared to, and Natsuo says that he is the root of the cause, but also admits if he had attempted to stand up to his father they might have been able to be a family. As Rei mentions they all have their responsibility, and that Endeavor needs to face it too, she brings up how Shoto, who has suffered more than all of them, has started to save them as their hero. Shoto extends his hand to his father, telling him once he's done grieving, they all have to go stop Toya. |