diff --git a/.changeset/drop-shadowing-napi-fatal-error.md b/.changeset/drop-shadowing-napi-fatal-error.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..86c1d79c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/drop-shadowing-napi-fatal-error.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"react-native-node-api": patch
+---
+
+Drop the host's shadowing `napi_fatal_error` in favor of Hermes' own implementation. Fatal Node-API errors still abort the process, but on Android their message now goes to stderr instead of logcat.
diff --git a/.claude/CLAUDE.md b/.claude/CLAUDE.md
index 31fda3c4..b97bcb1a 100644
--- a/.claude/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/.claude/CLAUDE.md
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ is exactly the case above. **Whenever you open a PR here:**
 | `Ferric 🦀`     | Ferric Apple triplets build                                                                                                                                                               | `packages/ferric`, `packages/ferric-example`, or anything napi-rs/Cargo related                                                                                                                           |
 | `weak-node-api` | weak-node-api tests                                                                                                                                                                       | `packages/weak-node-api`                                                                                                                                                                                  |
 
-A PR can need more than one label — e.g. a change to `RuntimeNodeApi.cpp`
-that alters buffer semantics warrants `Host 🏡` plus `Apple 🍎` and
+A PR can need more than one label — e.g. a change to `HermesNapiHost.cpp`
+that alters async work semantics warrants `Host 🏡` plus `Apple 🍎` and
 `Android 🤖`, since the actual behavior change can only be verified on a
 real device.
 
diff --git a/packages/host/android/CMakeLists.txt b/packages/host/android/CMakeLists.txt
index 2a45e96d..95032383 100644
--- a/packages/host/android/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/packages/host/android/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ add_library(node-api-host SHARED
   ../cpp/Logger.cpp
   ../cpp/CxxNodeApiHostModule.cpp
   ../cpp/WeakNodeApiInjector.cpp
-  ../cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.cpp
-  ../cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.hpp
   ../cpp/HermesNapiHost.cpp
   ../cpp/HermesNapiHost.hpp
 )
diff --git a/packages/host/cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.cpp b/packages/host/cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 880d904c..00000000
--- a/packages/host/cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#include "RuntimeNodeApi.hpp"
-#include "Logger.hpp"
-
-#include <cstdlib>
-
-namespace callstack::react_native_node_api {
-
-// See the comment on the declaration in RuntimeNodeApi.hpp for why this
-// deliberately shadows Hermes' own napi_fatal_error.
-void napi_fatal_error(const char *location, size_t location_len,
-                      const char *message, size_t message_len) {
-  if (location && location_len) {
-    log_error("Fatal Node-API error: %.*s %.*s", static_cast<int>(location_len),
-              location, static_cast<int>(message_len), message);
-  } else {
-    log_error("Fatal Node-API error: %.*s", static_cast<int>(message_len),
-              message);
-  }
-  abort();
-}
-
-} // namespace callstack::react_native_node_api
diff --git a/packages/host/cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.hpp b/packages/host/cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.hpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 0440027c..00000000
--- a/packages/host/cpp/RuntimeNodeApi.hpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-
-#include "node_api.h"
-
-namespace callstack::react_native_node_api {
-
-// Hermes' first-party Node-API implementation (API/napi/hermes_napi.cpp)
-// already defines napi_fatal_error, routing it through hermes_fatal() ->
-// llvh::report_fatal_error(), which writes to stderr. On Android stderr is
-// not logcat, so that message would be lost exactly when it matters most:
-// right before the process aborts.
-//
-// This declaration is deliberately kept so it shadows Hermes' symbol: the
-// generated injector (scripts/generate-injector.mts) resolves each
-// NodeApiHost field by unqualified name inside
-// `namespace callstack::react_native_node_api`, and this header is included
-// there, so unqualified lookup finds this declaration before it would reach
-// Hermes' exported symbol. That lets the host's implementation win, which
-// logs via the host logger to logcat with the "NodeApiHost" tag (see
-// Logger.cpp) before aborting.
-//
-// Every other Node-API function the host used to shim here (buffers,
-// napi_get_version, napi_get_node_version) was removed in favor of letting
-// the same lookup fall through to Hermes' own implementation - see
-// https://github.com/callstackincubator/react-native-node-api/issues/428.
-// Do not remove this one the same way without replacing the logcat routing.
-void __attribute__((noreturn)) napi_fatal_error(const char *location,
-                                                size_t location_len,
-                                                const char *message,
-                                                size_t message_len);
-
-} // namespace callstack::react_native_node_api
diff --git a/packages/host/scripts/generate-injector.mts b/packages/host/scripts/generate-injector.mts
index c58bb2f5..74a5402f 100644
--- a/packages/host/scripts/generate-injector.mts
+++ b/packages/host/scripts/generate-injector.mts
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ export function generateSource(functions: FunctionDecl[]) {
     #include <weak_node_api.hpp>
 
     #include <Logger.hpp>
-    #include <RuntimeNodeApi.hpp>
 
     #if defined(__APPLE__)
     #define WEAK_NODE_API_LIBRARY_NAME "@rpath/weak-node-api.framework/weak-node-api"