"You know, you're incredibly lucky the camera in here's on the fritz, young Midoriya." Toshinori deadpanned as stood over the warlock's unconscious body, glaring lightly at his successor. "Why exactly did you stab an unconscious man anyways, even if he was a bad guy like you say?"

"God told me to do it." The greenette said with a straight face, drumming his fingers against the table as he inspected the remaining pieces of the knife. It no longer seemed to possess any trace of magic, nor value now the magic teen was done with it.

"You realize how that sounds right, my boy?" The blonde questioned, pinching the bridge of his nose while Midoriya stood up, turning to face him with far to amused a grin.

"Which is exactly why i said it like that, only you'll believe it. In all seriousness though, if i'm not mistaken from what I've heard from the Outsider, he was somehow using this knife to extract powers for himself. At least, that's the best theory i got." He explained, tracing his fingers over his mark absent-mindedly, failing to notice his mentor visibly paling at the idea. "So obviously couldn't let him keep that, figured i'd just reverse the process."

"S-so he was here for your powers then?" The lanky pro questioned as he looked for any identification on the man. "Why didn't you come get me or another teacher? I understand magic is pretty much solely your territory, I can accept that but this man is mortal, you broke the rules and risked your life. I hope you had good reason to..."

"If god literally told you that telling anyone about the person you thought might be trying to kill someone, what would you do?"

"Get checked into a mental hospital."

"...Touche, but you get my point."

"Yeah, I do." Toshinori groaned, finding nothing like what he was looking for and pulling away. "It's just frustrating to be in a situation like this my boy. Either we apprehend him now, and you will be in serious trouble as a result with no way to defend your actions or we let him go despite what he has done."

"Wait but Nezu knows about the outsider, doesn't he?" The teen questioned and the blonde nodded.

"He does, but he isn't the issue. God told me to do it isn't a valid excuse in court you know."

"Oh right. Well i guess we let him go with a warning. Not like he's actually much of a threat anyways." Midoriya shrugged, sounding surprisingly unconcerned. "Chances are he isn't going to be able to pull this stunt again anyways."

"You are...surprisingly non-chalant about this. With what happened at the USJ i would of thought you would of had more of a...reaction to this.." The lanky hero observed and the marked boy shuddered violently.

"Don't remind me, that still...just ugh..." He shook his head and took a breath before explaining. "It's just...after everything that's happened since then, aNomu, the demon, the abbey, the League..."

He gestured to the unconscious body, who seemingly was starting to stir. "Well...he's more like a thug than anything else. Still not sure one hundred percent why the outsider was so certain he was so powerful. Either way, it makes it kind of hard to see him as a massive threat."

"I think i get what you mean." The blonde said with a slightly annoyed sigh. The warlock began to stand up and the blonde hulked up quickly. "So, you thought you could attack one of my students without consequence?"

The villain paled as he quickly tried to scurry back, colliding with the wall behind him. "S-stay back! Y-you don't know w-who you're m-messing with."

"Dude." Midoriya cut in, showing him the destroyed blade. "Just give it up."

"I...I...I SURRENDER!" He shouted, curling into a ball and trying to hide from them. "I just wanted to be powerful!"

"I see what you mean about not comparing, young Midoriya..." The blonde said, caught off-guard by the warlocks attitude. "Listen to me villain, this must be the day your lucky stars have aligned."

The blonde lifted him to his feet and his eyes started to glow. "Leave this place and never return to this path. Perhaps you may yet be safe if you do, however if you ever return to harm my students...you'll have me to answer to."

"Y-yes sir! I'm sorry, sir!" The man shouted, struggling against the man's grasp.

"Good, now..." He let go, and leaned forward ever so slightly. "...run."

Midoriya didn't think he'd ever seen a villain retreat so fast. He stretched as he stood up, yawning slightly. "Well...now that's done, i hope Recovery Girl doesn't mind me stealing one of the infirmary beds."

"Huh? Why would you need to do that?"

"Only way i can contact the outsider without him getting me first is sleeping, and I don't think i should freak anyone out by leaving my unconscious body on the floor." The boy explained as he walked off.

"And infirmary beds are also more comfortable than stone flooring i'll bet."

"Well, it is a bonus."

Fortunately the woman had been willing to let him stay for the visit, but in her own words 'only to not have him coming in with a broken back later.'

Worked for him. That was how he found himself lying down, facing slowly feeling more and more cold as his very soul found it's way into the endless cold abyss that was the void.

"So you have fully committed to the idea of being a witch."

"What can i say?" The greenette groaned as he pushed himself up into a sitting position and cupped his head. "It's a theme. Annoying the abbey is just a potential bonus. Besides, you called me it first."

"Hmph. True. Well, it's about time i answer your questions, though you already figured some of it out for yourself." The deity said as disappeared in a flurry of crystals, reappearing with the entire island of void rock housing statues. A new one now had actual features instead of vague rock shapes. "Like i said before, a warlock is a false witch. As you correctly summarised, these disgusting creatures take what was never theirs, using relics such as the knife you destroyed."

"You really don't like these guys do you? Why-Mphh!" His mouth suddenly snapped shut and the normally stoic god stood over him, a fire burning in the endless black pupils of his.

"Never ask me that again, Izuku. It is best forgotten forever." The Outsider said with a tone of absolute finality before whirling around and continuing on like it never happened. "Relics are rarer to come by in this world but certain items and jeweles, such as emeralds, are able to contain raw power from the void that leaks out."

"The void...wait it can leak out? Is that how you get out into the real world occasionally?" Midoriya questioned with a quirked brow, as he hopped over the floating platforms to get a closer look at the statues.

"Astute observation, but not quite. However that is a lesson for another time. Warlocks...they use relics both to give them a base set of powers and to absorb others powers. I can only assume this mortal found as much out from a demon of some kind, and decided to be ambitious, going for the top of the food chain straight away."

"Wait, top of?"

"You're linked to me Izuku, and consequentially that means you are linked directly to the void. To the very essence of magic. To put it in simple terms, a low level demon is a bit like a quick snack, whereas you are an entire feast of magical energy, it certainly doesn't help your more attuned than any before you."

"Actually, that's a point. For some reason i haven't bern having panic attacks today, despite fighting Todoroki and Bakugou...shouldn't they be setting it off? Is my magic doing something to help?"

"Not quite. With a warlock wandering about i couldn't afford to have you off your game so i did a little magical...tweaking. No i won't let it stay, it's not a good idea to leave permanently."

"Why not?" Izuku whined, really getting fed up with magic messing with him like this. "And why were you so sure he'd cause problems anyway, was pretty easy to stop to me."

"Because you have magic, on top of that if he thought he was screwed he would of let all that energy loose, which would have been equivalent to a bomb, taking out hundred of lives." Ok...so yeah it was better he went alone... "As for your first question...It's like a drug i suppose would be the mortal equivalent. You have it, but when it finally wears off the effects will be worse if it was left too long, so you leave it on because you can't handle it until it gets worse, so and so forth until eventually it doesn't hold anymore and your mind can, quite literally, melt."

"Wonderful..." The boy deadpanned, before he looked around and his eyes widened. "Hey...is that a house over there?"

It was. In the distance on a floating slab of rock was an almost quaint surban style house with two floors. The roof exploded out exposing an opening and it even had some physics defying garden where plants were seemingly thriving. It completely clashed against the dark nature of the rest of the void and he felt almost drawn to it.

"Ah...that. Well, i will get to that when we discuss your fight against that shinsou boy." The deity said and the greenette's eyes widened as he recalled what had occurred. Before he could say anything though the ground beneath him began to crack. 'Oh god dammit Outsider.' "For now, i've kept you too long by real world standards, so i'll share that surprise with you later."

With that, the floor caved and the boy plummeted until his soul crash landed back into his body. His eyes shot open wide and he jolted up with a shout.

"SWEET JEEZ-" Recovery girl jumped, accidentally shouting despite herself before glaring at the teen. "Finally joined the living again i see?"

"S-sorry...wait..." He blinked as he looked to his arm and realized he was plugged into a monitor. "Why are you monitoring my heart rate?"

"Your breathing was far to shallow, if i didn't know what you were doing i would of had you shipped out to a hospital. Hell, i was still tempted to but...your 'visits' leave your body in an almost dead state." The nurse explained as she looked over the machines and began to pull them out. "Your heart was practically frozen, it's a wonder you can even judt come back to functioning as easy as you do."

"Huh..." Midoriya muttered as he began to climb up. "To be honest i've never really understood how visiting the void works. How much did I miss?"

"You were out of it for ages, but...if you hurry you might catch the end of the last match." The nurse said as she took her seat, as the boy hopped out of bed as his eyes widened.

"Crap!" He exclaimed as he ran off, hurrying through into the hall and ignoring the womans shouts about not cursing in her infirmary as he ran towards the stage enterances. It took him a couple minutes but eventually he camr out and his eyes widened as he took in the scene.

Walls of ice and shattered remains covered the entire lower stadium along with scorch markd and burns as on the stage, sat atop the final barrage their stood Bakugou, holding Todoroki by uis shirt and screaming in his face.

"NO! I REFUSE TO WIN LIKE THIS DAMMIT!" The blonde shouted as more explosions went off and Midnight hurried to separate the two boys as the woman announced the blonde as the winner.

'Dammit...' Midoriya frowned at the result, sighing as he turned abd began walking away. 'And that means Iida didn't pass either...i wonder what happened...'

"Deku!" Uraraka shouted excitedly as she and Hagakure vaulted over the chairs in the spectators stand, pulling him into a tight hug together. Jirou cane uo behind him and just put a hand on his shoulders. "You were in the infirmary so long...we were starting to get worried."

"Oh uhh...well i'm fine, i just...The pressure from that explosion had a delayed effect on me. Ended up affecting me more than expected." He bluffed, cringing at how weak an excuse it was but the girls bought it..

"We really need to put a safet vest or something on you with how often you end up passing out, it's not even funny." Kaminari suggested and the boy scratched the back of his head. Then he realized a certain two boys were missing.

"Wait, where's Iida and Tokoyami?" He questioned, and felt his stomach sink as the class shared a look.

"Tokoyami's waiting to get his medal for third place..." Kirishima started, fidgeting when Uraraka took over.

"Iida is sharing third but...the teachers took him away for something, they didn't tell us what." The brunnette explained as she rubbed her arm. The greenette paled and turned on his heels without a word. "Deku?"

"I'll be right back! I just need to...check something!" He shouted as he took off, hurrying down the halls and rushing to the waiting rooms when he suddenly collided with something, falling back with a yelp. "Sorry..."

"You stupid welp! Did your mother never teach you not run inside?!" An angery, gruff voice asked and Midoriya looked up, coming face to face with endeavour. Then he growled as anger washed over him, and this time it was most definitely his own.

"No but she did teach me to never play with shit, so you'll excuse me if i don't intend to interact to you." The boy spat as he stood up, happy to see the man shake in anger. "Oh, and she also taught me to appreciate my superiors, so good thing you're not one. "

"WHY YOU LITTLE-"

Midoriya didn't hear the rest as he rounded the corner and hurried into the room. 'Come on...'

"Midoriya?" Thirteen's surprised voice asked and tge greenette let out a sigh of relief as he saw the principal and his friend. The blue haired teen turned to face him, tears in his eyes. Vaguely the marked tern registered the boy looked surprisingly good without glasses. "What are you doing here?"

"Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt. It's just i just woke up and-" He could continue as two strong armd wrapped around him tight, knocking the window out of him.

"Thank you...Thankyouthankyouthankyou." The taller teen continued to practically chant the two words while Midoriya awkwardly wrapped his arms around his friend."

"Uhh...Iida? A-air?" The greenette managed to get out and Iida loosened his grip immediately, muttering an apology. "It's fine. What was that all about?"

"I imagine it has to do with how you contributed to saving Ingenium. Thanks to your vision and quick action warning us about said development, we recovered him from an alley in Hosu city and delivered him to a local hospital." Nezu spoke up from his spot, getting both teenagers attention. "Thanks to being found when we did, we managed to prevent there being too much blood loss. They predicted that even a minute longer and his legs would of lost too much blood, paralyzing him permanently. You msy have quite literally saved Tensei Iida's entire career."

"O-oh. Well i'm just glad he's safe. I...i'm going to see that vision in my nightmares, I'm just glad it didn't come true." The marked teen said as he crossed his arms, looking down.

"Quite. Now, while i'm sure you want to get to the hospital as soon as problem mister Iida, i imagine they'll still be at work if you leave now so if you please, i'd like to at least give you your medal. When we're done we should have a carpool ready for you." Nezu said and the blue haired teen nodded as he wiped his eyes, and they all turned to leave as the teachers stood up. "Then let's go."

The award Ceremony was quite a simplr thing, compared to everything before it. Iida and Tokoyami stood together on the third place podium, sharing stoic looks. Todoroki stood on the second place podium completely uninterested and finally, Bakugou was the most emotional however hardly in a good way, literally cuffed and muzzled to prevent him attacking anyone.

All Might had flipped into the scene, and after a brief stumble showing Midnight and All Might maybe should of practiced a little more before hand, the man presented the medals to each of his students, giving them messqges of praise, encouragement, self-improvement and in Bakugou's case, a bit of fear.

The crowd cheered, Present Mic gave some fanciful speech Midoriya only half listened to and the winners, except for Bakugou who a few pro's carefully tried to tame, all walked over to the greenette atndthe principal.

"Wonderful performances, each and every one of you!" The bear-mouse-hybrid thing said as he clapped his paws together. "This has been one of the most exhilarating festivals i've had the pleasure to watch!"

"Thank you, principal." Tokoyami said with a nod, and Todoroki looked up to Midoriya, before letting out a sad sigh.

"I'm sorry...i couldn't..." The boy looked away and Midoriya walked forth, placing a hand on his shoulder.

"It's fine, you did what you were able to." The greenette said, and Iida frowned.

"It is a bit of a shame you never got to display more of your capabilities today, Midoriya. That domino power could have got quite a bit of attention from the pro's." He mentioned as they walked away, while the greenette looked back to the halls, happening to notice a flaming figure hulking away. Then an idea went through his head and he couldn't help the grin that crossed his face. 'Maybe not in the festival but...'

"Hey, Tokoyami?" The greenette started and the bird-headed boy looked up at him with a quizzical gaze. "Could you do me a favor and send Kirishima to the outside balcony please? Todoroki, come with me."

"Huh? Why?" The hetrochromatic quirked a brow in confusion, yet followed despite that. "Is there a reason for this?"

"You'll see..."

"Hey Midoriya, you needed me?" Kirishima asked as wandered out onto the bare balcony, before his eyes widened as he realized who else was there. "Oh, hey Todoroki. Didn't expect to see you, what's happening?"

"I have no idea." The dual quirk wielder said simply, and Midoriya grinned as he leaned over the edge and confirmed his target was still close enough to pull this off. His hand glowed and he watched silently as a yellow smoke trail connected between Kirishima and Endeavour in the crowd below, only visible to him.

"Right well..." The greenette walked up to the red head and whispered his plan quietly into the boys ear, only giving enough detail to get him to go along with it without giving away more than he should. "..Are you in?"

"I mean...that's a bit weird dude, Recovery girl isn't going to be happy with you." The hardening teen said, but melted under the magic boys pout.

"I'm fine with the consequences. Please?"

"Fine, but only because i'll never let it be said i backed down from a challenge to prove my manliness." The boy said and Midoriya grinned, quickly directing Todoroki's gaze to endeavor.

"Father is watching." The boy said quietly and izuku turned, only to see endeavour still stomping away. 'must of missed it.'

"Ready Kirishima?" The greenette asked, and the red head nodded as his body turned to stone.

"As i'll ever be. May the best man win..." Kirishima said and the greenette's body lit up as red lines started to appear across his body. "Go!"

"SMASSHH!" He shouted as he threw out a kick, aiming for a specfic target he hit. Kirishima flinched overall but didn't freak out too much while in the distance, the girliest scream they'd ever heard rang out.

"MY FIREBALLS!"

"Uh-he...pftt..hehehe" Slowly, the normally stoic teen started to laugh lightly and before they knew it he burst out into full, unadulterated laughter. It sounded odd, coming from someone who probably wasn't used to laughing but despite that, it was music to Midoriya's ears.

Recovery girl refused to heal that injury.