I think this might be a short chapter but I don't know, I don't have much to cover here.
Classes were boring, Izuku deduced, as he sat listening to Midnight give a lecture about the importance of having a distinct costume and such. What was the point of underground heroes, then? Were they recognizable? Not by a long shot.
A long suffering sigh escaped Izuku as he leaned his head back against the wall next to his desk, looking out the window to the courtyard of the building. There, students were milling about, going through their normal days. However, a bored Izuku wanted to interfere.
Lifting up only his middle finger in a gesture to whoever decided that art history was a necessary subject, Izuku flicked it out, making a boy down in the courtyard punch his friend. There was a clear moment of confusion on both sides before the attacked party threw a punch of his own, starting a fistfight between the two boys. Neither of them had combat related quirks, evidenced by the fact that they were in business courses, but it was still painful for both sides. It wasn't that long before the commotion was noticed by someone else in Izuku's class.
"Hey guys, there's a fight in the yard!" Kaminari announced, interrupting Midnight at some point about why black and blue wasn't a good color scheme. Several people rushed to the windows, looking to examine what had happened, while Izuku remained seated at his desk. It wasn't that interesting, he had picked bad students for that little experiment. Next time, he'd go for people who would actually fight in a way that looked bad.
"You caused it?" Shoto asked, deducing from the way Izuku was acting, standing beside his desk. Izuku nodded in return, spinning a pencil in his hand. "Why?"
"Why not?" Izuku replied, shrugging his shoulders. "It's better than listening to a pornstar talk about why coloring matters."
"Fair point," Shoto said, ignoring Midnight's choked up comment at how he referred to her, that being the only part of the conversation that she heard. "You gonna do something to stop it?"
"Why should I?" Izuku responded.
"Ms. Midoriya would get mad," Shoto told him, causing Izuku to crack a smile.
"Using my weakness against me," Izuku mock sighed, before activating his quirk and waving two fingers apart, causing the two to separate. They both bowed and apologized, upon his suggestion, and moved along with their lives, talking as if nothing happened.
"That's weird, they just stopped," Kirishima said, before shrugging. "Ah, who cares. It was manly as hell how they managed to resolve that!" he exclaimed, Tetsutetsu sharing the sentiment.
"Yeah, weird," Yaoyorozu stated, looking curiously at where Izuku and Shoto were positioned, wondering if the viridian teen had anything to do with the quick resolution.
"What're you thinking, Yaomomo?" Uraraka asked, tapping her on the shoulder with a single finger.
"Hmm?" Yaoyorozu replied, before shrugging. "Just wondering how it calmed down so quickly. It normally takes longer," she said, turning back to looking at the two she was earlier.
Uraraka followed her gaze, put the pieces together, and sat back down as Midnight called the rest of the students back to sit down. The lecture continued, and Izuku went back to spinning his pencil.
The last class of the day was foundational heroics studies, with a mystery teacher, though Izuku knew just who would teach and how bad the class would go. All Might was a great hero, an even better inspiration, and the best figurehead anyone could ask for, but he was truly a shit teacher.
"I AM," came a shout from the other side of the door, as many people finally realized who it was before jumping up in excitement. "COMING THROUGH THE DOOR LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!" All Might yelled, rushing through the door and nearly breaking it with the speed at which he threw it open, and stood at the teacher's podium instantly.
"Holy shit it's All Might!" someone exclaimed from somewhere, though Izuku couldn't care less, leaning back and letting chaos unfold as everyone tried to say something at once.
"Normal people don't say stuff like that," Izuku muttered under his breath watching intently as Shoto's eyes lit up, displaying the admiration he had for the number one hero. Izuku let a soft smile grace his face as he saw the reaction, satisfied that someone could make Shoto happy just by their presence in the room. Izuku turned his head back to All Might and locked eyes with him, silently letting him know that their relationship would be kept secret. All Might gave a discreet nod, and turned back to bring order to the class.
"ALRIGHT EVERYONE! You all have a box with your training suit in it, go grab it and get to training ground gamma," All Might said, leaving to deliver the speech once more as the Class 1-A kids went to the locker rooms to get changed.
Izuku was one of the first to appear out of the locker room, his costume being one of the most simplistic as just a quick change of clothes. A black shirt tight to his body allowed him full unimpeded movement, covered by a green hoodie to mask any secrets inside. Orange brown pants gave him extra mobility with how light they were compared to everyday pants, an invention courtesy of Mei's mechanical genius. He wore black fingerless gloves to avoid chafing his palms on anything he held, but also to allow him to use his quirk to the fullest extent, as anything blocking the connection had tendencies to impede his concentration. Next, to add to his utility and arsenal, an iron ax was strapped to his back, not overly heavy, but still a heavy hitter thanks to how the weight was balanced. It cost him some movement points and it took a while to reuse due to how Izuku hadn't done too much strength training, but it would still incapacitate damn near anything it came in contact with. Finally, to top off the sinister look, a tinted white mask secured with a band around his head and sporting a painted smile, eyes and mouth simplistic.
The mask was the most important part of his hero costume. First off, his quirk had a tell: his eyes glowed a very special green color whenever he used it. This made it nearly impossible to use it against someone who had knowledge of his quirk, as they knew what he was doing as soon as he was doing it. To compensate for his lack of vision, he used a one way mirror painted black in two spots, so that he could see but also only he could see out, with nobody seeing in. It wasn't a perfect solution, but it worked for the time being, so he went with it. But, what was on the mask was also important.
He could've just gone with a pure white mask, nothing on it, but that didn't work for two reasons. First, it would feel stupid, and Izuku despised feeling stupid. Who walks around without a face? The only thing more asinine than that would be having a green mask, because then he would just be a little green blob running around on brown legs. Second, there was no symbolism with it, and it served no double purpose. If something could not be used in multiple ways, it was basically useless. Objects with single purposes were often easily discarded, and proved unnecessary as he could always find one that performed the same purpose and more. So, it was a bad idea. Thus, he came up with the smile.
The smile served three purposes. First, it paid homage to himself. He had no clue what transpired after he couldn't see what occurred in the dream, but he still wanted to figure out how it related to himself. So, he copied the mask, as a way to figure out what led to that situation, and to figure out what happened to himself. Second, heroes were symbols of peace, regarded as being happy to see. And what brought happiness? A smile. Smiles were contagious, and when someone smiled, people tended to follow. A smile was important, so he made himself smile. Third, it was intimidating as hell, and that was the best part. What better way to send fear into the hearts of your enemies than to completely control everything they do with a smile? Izuku was sinister, yes, but he was also pragmatic. It would make it much easier to subdue and control others, as fear is and always will be the best emotion for that purpose.
As the others started to pour out of the locker rooms, Izuku realized that it wasn't only 1-A that was doing this exercise. Minoru Mineta, Neito Monoma, Itsuka Kendo, and Ibara Shiozaki walked out of locker rooms on the opposite side of the area, leading the way for class 1-B. Monoma locked eyes with Izuku, mask not yet down, and Izuku smirked, knowing the effect it had on the blond teen. Monoma shuddered, swiftly turning away, as Kendo furrowed her brow in confusion, before looking at what he saw, and frowning at Izuku, who cordially nodded at her. As the rest of the hero students filed into the room, Izuku took the time to examine each costume as they waited.
Iida caught his eye first, a sleek metallic and futuristic design reminiscent of Ingenium, which made sense considering their relationship. It was a bit weird to completely copy someone else's design, without a hint of uniqueness, but he thought nothing of it. Mina Ashido wore nothing more than a leotard and a face mask, which made zero sense from any standpoint. What was the point of the mask? It would inhibit her vision for no benefit, and she was pretty easy to identify with her skin being pink and all. Rikido Satou and Hanta Sero had both gone for black and yellow bodysuits, and the only real difference was the size and Sero's accessories: those being his helmet and elbow tape dispensers. Momo Yaoyorozu wore the worst hero costume he had ever seen, showing way too much skin for someone not even a legal adult yet.
"Alright you zygotes, listen up!" All Might shouted as people from both courses looked at him. "Today, we are doing a battle simulation!" The classes murmured in excitement, people bursting with questions, but allowing All Might to explain as he fumbled with some flashcards.
"You will be working in teams of four, with each simulation having two teams: the hero team and the villain team. The villain team has set up a bomb within the building, and it is the job of the hero team to find and capture the bomb. The heroes win if they can secure the weapon within the fifteen minute time limit. The villains win if either the bomb remains untouched at the end of the fifteen minutes, or if they have captured all hero team players. Any questions?" Immediately, everyone's hand went up as All Might started to sweat. He was not in any way prepared for being a teacher. "Young Kodai?" he asked.
"How do villains and heroes capture each other?" she asked, half of the hands going down at that question.
"With capture tape designed to represent quirk canceling handcuffs. Both teams will have access to this," All Might responded, before looking around once more. "Young Iida?"
"How will teams be created?" he asked, everyone else's hand going down with the exception of one individual.
"Teams will be a combination of two people from each class, drawn randomly by lottery," All Might responded. "Young Midoriya?"
"How do support items play into this?" he asked, looking intently at Yaoyorozu when he said it.
"You can use whatever you bring with you and whatever you find, as well as your quirks to their fullest extent in this exercise," All Might responded, as Izuku smiled at the end. Oh, this was going to be fun.
Izuku was assigned a team with Koji Koda, Minoru Mineta, and Kinoko Komori. Koda was a shy boy who could speak to, and to an extent control, animals, Mineta was a class A pervert with sticky balls on his head that he could use and throw, and Komori was a short, pun obsessed girl, that could grow mushrooms wherever she went.
The team was selected to be the villains round one, and heroes in round two. They had been selected to go in second position in the first round and third position in the second round. To start, they were against the formidable team of Tenya Iida, Ochako Uraraka, Ibara Shiozaki, and Juzo Honenuki. It may have seemed like all might be lost, but they would be fine for this round. After all, Izuku got time to plan and prepare.
The first match consisted of Shoto, Tetsutetsu, Pony Tsutnotori, and Setsuna Tokage as heroes against Mezo Shoji, Kyoka Jirou, Neito Monoma, and Reiko Yanagi as the villain team. It was pretty one sided, as Shoto just froze the entire building, including those inside it, stopping them from coming out to play. Then, Setsuna had easily detached parts of her body and quickly found the bomb, placing a hand on it to secure the victory. All in all? Victory in less than three minutes. Soon after, it was Izuku's turn to hold down the fort.
"Mineta, Komori, barricade the bomb room. Koda, surveillance," Izuku said, tossing his hood up.
"Wait, what about you?" Mineta asked, while leering at Komori's frame, something that disgusted Izuku immensely.
"I'm going to kill you and then incapacitate the hero team," Izuku said, taking out his ax and swinging it as Mineta closed his eyes and yelped, feeling a cold pressure on his chest. Opening his eyes, Mineta saw that he had been pinned to the wall by the ax, the blade digging slightly into the side of his chest while the handle prevented him from escaping.
Izuku hopped out of the window in the room opposite the one with the bomb, facing the hero students as he hopped downwards to rest just above the first floor. The four hadn't yet noticed him, engrossed in the planning they had to do. As time ran out, Izuku hoped that the others hadn't gone out to interfere in his plans. The hero students started to walk forward, but froze in place as Izuku exercised his quirk, green strands wrapping around their wrists and preventing them from moving. Izuku jumped down, revealing himself to the rest of the hero students. He casually walked forward, wrapping tape around the arms of Iida and Uraraka first, Shiozaki third and Honenuki last. The drill end sound blared, signifying the end of the round, twenty seconds after it started. Izuku let his control over the four stop and walked to the spectator's booth, leaving behind a simple message.
"Sorry, it was bad luck to be paired against me," he said, and despite how cocky he sounded, none of them could find a fault in his logic. Komori and Koda came down soon after, Mineta trailing behind them, and saw the four still frozen in place, wondering how they got stopped so fast. Eventually, they snapped out of their stupor and moved, but not before a full five minutes of contemplating their lives.
There was some small discussion about the MVP of the match, and everyone agreed Izuku took that position, and nobody could find faults in the way anyone but him acted. Apparently, leaving his teammates behind without telling them his plan, attacking a teammate, and acting so casually were all things that he wasn't supposed to do, but everything worked out fine. And everything they had listed were things that were important! The idiots might have gotten prideful and tried to help him, and attacking Mineta had both stopped any notion of helping him and incapacitating a threat to his teammate. He saw the way that Mineta looked and acted, anyone paying attention would have noticed that he was a hazard to his classmates, particularly the female ones. Finally, acting casually sent a simple subliminal message: that he wasn't going all out. It was important that the ants knew that they weren't on his level, that he was far above them in terms of power and skill.
Three more games went on, the heroes somehow winning all of them, though Izuku strongly believed that the caliber of the students on the team had something to do with it. The formidable duo of Yaoyorozu and Kodai took advantage of the size changing properties of Kodai's quirk combined with the ability to make nearly anything made it extremely difficult for someone to enter the ranged combat zone, so they easily incapacitated the rest. Bakugou and Kirishima went all in, guns blazing and explosions active, easily destroying the others with the highly destructive close combat potential of their quirks. Several points were knocked for collateral damage, though, making it a bittersweet victory. Finally, Asui threw Kaminari into the room of four people, where he got rid of all opposition as well as his brain functions in the process.
Teams were remixed for the next round, as people had been structured based on how they performed in the previous round. Izuku was put on a team with Asui, Shoto, and Kirishima this time, and they were going against Yaoyorozu, Bakugou, Tetsutetsu, and Tokoyami, definitely a formidable team. Izuku quickly set up a plan, revolving around his studies of their previous rounds.
"Shoto, repeat the same thing you did last round. It won't fully work, but it'll buy time," he instructed, taking a position of power immediately. "Asui, you're on surveillance. Identify where the bomb is as soon as possible. Tetsutetsu, you're in charge of restraining Kirishima, or keeping him occupied."
Running inside after the building was frozen, Izuku let the soft glow of One For All illuminate the way, 1% bubbling within his hand. He probably would be able to increase the output, but he didn't want to risk too much collateral damage. Suddenly stopping, Izuku held his hand up and signaled to the other two to stop in place. Shoto and Tetsutetsu did, while Asui was still on the outside, crawling around slowly largely due to how the cold made her lethargic. In front of the three, Bakugou and Yaoyorozu were arguing about the plans. Izuku quietly whispered his plan to Tetsutetsu and Shoto, before giving the signal for chaos to ensue.
Tetsutetsu ran forward, yelling out a war cry and getting the attention of everyone in the room. As Izuku expected, Bakugou let out an immediate explosion, light and fire erupting from his palms, creating more expected reactions. Yaoyorozu and Kirishima shielded their eyes, while Bakugou remained largely unaffected, and Dark Shadow screamed in pain, retracting. Shoto ran forward to capture Tokoyami, getting rid of one of the major threats to their team. The plan went smoothly, as Dark Shadow was too small to offer any resistance, and Shoto wrapped capture tape around Tokoyami with ease.
Izuku had his own part to play as well. Using the window created by the blind spot, he launched Yaoyorozu into the wall, where Tetsutetsu was heading, keeping her collision course with his, meaning he could stop her almost immediately with the capture tape. From there, Tetsutetsu engaged Kirishima, Shoto ran to find the bomb, and Izuku engaged Bakugou in single combat.
Not using his quirk because he didn't need it, Izuku rushed forward, straight into the explosion Bakugou had already set up with the intent of putting space between himself and Izuku. Grasping the handle of his ax as he ran, Izuku lifted it up and jumped upwards, using less than half a percent of One For All to complete the movement, and get into Bakugou's blind spot. With the blond unable to see him, Izuku, swept low and sideways with the ax, debilitating his opponent's mobility with a well placed strike designed to take out the leg. Luckily, he used the wood of the ax to hit Bakugou, meaning that the leg was not cut clean off. Unluckily, it hurt a hell of a lot more now, so with the blond grabbing his leg in pain, Izuku wrapped the capture tape like a noose around Bakugou's neck, choking him slightly. Explosions danced along Bakugou's palm, before he went limp due to a lack of oxygen, and Izuku left. By now, Asui and Shoto should have located the bomb, so he just walked over to where Kirishima and Tetsutetsu were locked in the same position, one fist stopping the other from punching the other in the face, and wrapped the capture tape loosely around Kirishima's waist, as the two of them deactivated their quirks at the same time and breathed out in sync.
Izuku walked upstairs, aiming to locate where Asui and Shoto were, when he saw Shoto holding a flame above Asui's body and shrugged, realizing that it was probably just low body temperature for a cold blooded being. Walking through the rest of the floor, there was no bomb, so Izuku just went one floor up and found the bomb tucked away in the corner of what felt like an endless maze. Grabbing the bomb, Izuku waited for the announcement of their victory to be made before going back down and finding Asui standing up and leaning against Shoto's left side, clinging to the heat desperately as Shoto looked at Izuku in panic as he had no clue what to do in this situation. So, Izuku took Asui from where she was clinging to Shoto, and draped her over his shoulder, mostly supported by her back. It wasn't as warm as Shoto, but the frog and girl hybrid still clung to him, seeking the heat, while Izuku looked at her in disdain as he found her unable to support herself. She was training to be a hero, for fucks sake.
The three walked(or rather two walked, one was carried) downstairs, where the rest had stood up and were talking. Bakugou was still unconscious, so Izuku picked him up, holding him by the collar as he dragged the explosive blond, following Yaoyorozu, Tokoyami, and the chatting pair of Kirishima and Tetsutetsu.
"Yaoyorozu," he called, causing her to stop and turn as she let Izuku catch up to her. Izuku could see the nervousness in her eyes, looking at him as if he was going to scold her for being weak, which he very much wanted to do, but resisted in favor of asking his question. "What happened to your traps?" he asked, watching her reaction intently as she saw that he knew there were traps despite none of them going on near him, wondering how he knew.
"They were set off by Todoroki's ice attack," she said, looking down in shame.
"And you couldn't make more?" he pressured, as she shook her head.
"There wasn't enough time," she responded, looking forward. "Was there any purpose to this discussion?"
"No, I was simply curious," he responded, before walking away, still carrying the two he had to. Asui was waking up, so he let(read: forced) her off him, as she gave him her gratitude and hopped away. Bakugou was also beginning to wake up, but they were in the spectators booth by the time that happened. Izuku tossed Bakugou onto a chair and then sat down a ways away, going over the information he learned.
Momo Yaoyorozu was definitely one of the most powerful children in this class. However, her quirk is time based, not instantaneous. This means that surprise attacks easily catch her off guard, and she would be useless in a fight or flight scenario. However, if she has time to plan, she definitely could be one of the most threatening, he analyzed, looking across the room and twitching his fingers.
"-and once again, a near flawless performance from young Midoriya's team!" All Might continued as Izuku allowed himself to hear the big buffoon, letting a small frown grace his face for the slightest amount of time before it disappeared. "Not a single person on their team was injured in combat, but it might have been better should you take young Asui's temperature weakness into consideration next time," All Might said, now talking to Izuku.
"I did," Izuku said, cutting All Might off. "And this was the best way to deal with that problem. When it comes to compatibility, Asui and Shoto have the worst out of everyone in this class. Everything Shoto does relies on either superheated or supercooled temperatures, while the fact that Asui is cold blooded means that she will suffer more than the normal person would from even the slightest application of Shoto's quirk," he stated, ignoring Asu's cries of 'call me Tsu'. "This means that I had to prioritize one of them, and I chose Shoto because he would be more valuable to me in this plan. It would seem normal to assume that he wouldn't use the same trick twice from the standpoint of the villains, which is why I had him do it once more. This also disabled most of the traps set for us by making them prematurely go off. By switching my priorities to Asui, I would sacrifice raw power and traversal ease with an additional strong CQC fighter, something we didn't need since we already had two: me and Tetsutetsu. So, she was left out," he finished, as Asui looked dejected at the statement.
"But, I couldn't just let her do nothing," Izuku continued, causing her to perk up once more. "I thought that surveillance would help us locate the bomb quicker, and while it didn't, it was still the best use of Asui's admittedly wide skill range. So, as I said, I took the fact that she was weak to temperature and found a way to minimize the damage. And my plan worked, didn't it?" he asked, and nobody could deny that it did. It was most certainly the smoothest execution on behalf of the heroes, minus that one game where Shoto just froze the building and incapacitated everyone inside.
"Very well, excellent planning, young Midoriya!" All Might said, trying to salvage the situation from where he no longer knew what to do. "And I think you all could learn well from his planning skills! Since we have some time because the building has to thaw out, why don't you explain how your planning for this round worked?"
"Okay," Izuku said, pausing for a second after being put on the spot. He quickly decided that he would divulge enough to where it was satisfactory but not the whole process so that he would keep some power. He could refuse, but that would garner negative attention from the rest, so that was out of the question. Believe it or not, popularity was important.
"First, skill sets. To start off, this exercise is unrealistic because you know exactly what your opponent can do going in. This makes it extremely easy to plan, while a real situation with minimal intel would require more than just the basic processing power of an Intel i9. So, who are my opponents: Tokoyami, Yaoyorozu, Bakugou, Kirishima. What can they do? Tokoyami has extended reach and power thanks to Dark Shadow, who increases in power the darker it is. Yaoyorozu can create anything she knows how to make, but it requires time to do that. Bakugou can make explosions from his palms, and Kirishima gets hard very easily," he said, ignoring the laughs at the explanation of Kirishima's quirk. "Next, our side: Tetsutetsu, who is basically Kirishima, Shoto, who can use massive amounts of ice and some fire attacks, Asui, who has incredible mobility and increased strength, and me, who can control people and use an ax. Starting off, we can knock Kirishima and Tetsutetsu for being the exact same, canceling out: hence why I had Tetsutetsu engage Kirishima, because I knew neither of them would win. Next, Tokoyami requires darkness to engage at good strength. What provides light? Fire and explosions, of course, so I just need Bakugou to blow something up and we can incapacitate Tokoyami. How do I do that? I present a target. This is where the first step comes in. Tetsutetsu rushes forward, drawing the attention of all four people. Bakugou immediately releases an explosion, blinding Dark Shadow. Shoto rushes forward to get him before they can recover."
"This next part is tricky. Yaoyorozu is the most dangerous opponent if you give her time to prepare, while Bakugou is easily one of the best at pure combat. So, to combat Yaoyorozu, we don't give her time to react. This is why I rushed straight for her and pushed her into where Tetsutetsu was running, holding out the capture tape, so she wouldn't be able to create anything. Now, she may have created other traps, but I had Shoto freeze the building to avoid setting any of those off if we went through it. From here, Tetsutetsu can go after Kirishima, and the two get locked in place, unable to gain an advantage. Shoto leaves to meet with Asui and find the bomb, since that is still our priority, while I deal with Bakugou. In this matchup, I just used a blindspot and a hard hit to get him over, using the blowback that causes temporary spatial blindness given how his explosions manifest to jump over him without him noticing, and take him out in one blow to avoid any collateral from us fighting for extended periods of time. From here, I wrap tape around Kirishima, who is still locked with Tetsutetsu, meaning that all four members of our team are available to seek out the bomb, while nobody on the opposing team can stop us. I unfortunately underestimated Asui's weakness to the cold, so she lasted for shorter than I believed she would, but it still ended in a victory."
"Very nice explanation," All Might said after a few seconds, everyone else shocked that Izuku could come up with a plan this extensive in such a small amount of time. "Next group, I believe that it is your turn to go."
The next two performances didn't go nearly as well, but were still decently executed despite all the mishaps along the way. The villains won one and lost the other, but they were both close games, with the win because the time limit expired. None of it really mattered to Izuku, because he had other things on his mind at the time, mostly his afterschool plans.
When class was over, Izuku didn't waste any time. Informing Shoto and his mother that he would be out, he traveled straight to the location the dealer specified for him to meet. It was supposed to be a secret, but Izuku walked in broad daylight for anyone to see him, not really caring. He could handle anyone spectating, what he did not want was unnecessary attention caused by a disguise or something idiotic like that.
Izuku entered the specified bar, waiting for the dealer to arrive. He didn't have to wait for long, as three minutes exactly after he entered, someone else arrived.
"Izuku Midoriya, I presume you are?" he said, and Izuku nodded. He had no problems divulging his identity here, so he held a sort of blase attitude about the whole thing.
"Giran?" he asked in response, receiving a nod. "Cool. What do you have for me?"
"I don't have anything physical, but there is something I can promise: power," Giran responded, sitting down across from Izuku.
"You had my curiosity, but now you have my attention. Keep going," Izuku instructed, leaning back in his seat.
"The ability to give and take quirks," Giran casually stated, as if he hadn't shattered Izuku's worldview. If such power was available, it could easily disrupt everything that had been built up over the past millennia! "So, young man, what do you have in exchange for such power?"
"I'll leave it to you to decide what two favors from someone who can control anyone and everyone can do for you," Izuku responded, and Giran grinned. The dealer took a knife out of his pocket and passed it to Izuku, who made a small incision on his hand, allowing blood to drip out of it. Giran mirrored the same thing on his, and the two shook, the blood binding and solidifying the deal. Both knew what they were walking into, and both were excited by the prospect of learning what more the other had to offer.
"So it seems we have a deal," Izuku said standing up.
"Yes it does," Giran responded. "I look forward to working with you in the future, Mr. Midoriya."
Sorry it took so long to update, March was extremely busy for me. Anyways, welcome back to Puppeteer! We got some looks at who the dealer I talked about before was, if any of you were interested, and I tried to explain the most basic plan that could possibly work. Anyway, stay safe and have a fun day.