YES, THERE SHOULDN'T BE AN UPDATE TODAY BUT I LOWKEY DON'T CARE. DO YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE WE ARE CELEBRATING. CURE TO EVIL GOT ITSELF A TV-TROPES PAGE, YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. And it's longer than I expected. And I'm really looking forward to Ties that Bind getting one as well :D
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Raw666 - I would do so as well. But considering the fact that said remains were practically charred, I don't think that there was a lot of DNA material left.
Trzyglow - You are on the right trail :P The next chapter will answer that question.
TheGreatBubbaJ - Endeavor's family is in for some character development, it's all that I'm going to say.
Detrametal - Expect the rollercoaster to continue. This and the next chapter especially :P
SmokyGhoul - Two Eri's in a trenchcoat being the UA Traitor is somehow the most hilarious thing I saw this month at least. You truly deserve not a tinfoil hat but a tinfoil crown, my friend.
GunBlade2022 - It's in big part him knowing the right people...
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"The next part of the plan was making Spinner defect as well." Izuku continues. "I saw the recording of him after the Training Camp battle, he is clearly inspired by Stain in how he fights. I figured out that he is a fanboy who has fallen into a bad crowd, I mean, it's not like PLF is making who works for it official."
"I see." Tsukauchi says. "And you…"
"I found him through Tenko, had him make an account on the Villain Network, and offered him an… internship of sorts." Izuku admits. "With the Hero Killer. If he helps the students escape once the attack starts. I also had him tell me where the sentries are located. I asked Stain, Mr. Compress, Ms. Compress and Gentle Criminal to secretly dispose of them… nonlethally!... right before the attack, so that the villains were completely surprised by the attack." Once again he scratches his head. Fidgeting grows stronger.
"And you actually organized said internship for him?" Eraserhead asks.
"Yes!" Midoriya beams. Then he realizes that he shouldn't have beamed at that and his mood promptly drops. "Well, he barely started as a villain but he is clearly talented and is yet to kill anyone. Hero Killer… well, he would be… kinda an… uhm… positive role model?"
Eraserhead stares at the king of all problem children in silence. He has a point, yes, but HE SHOULDN'T HAVE A POINT! And that's the problem. Izuku Midoriya, the hero student, son of All Might, has just casually admitted to being a mastermind behind the actions of multiple supervillains.
Sure. It saved a lot of people. But…
"Besides, he also sneaked some jamming device made by La Brava into the noumu warehouse of that base." Midoriya continues. "It shut off the connection when the attack started, making the PLF unable to issue a remote activation order to the noumus present on site. With Tenko dusting Recall, this got rid of the second part of PLF's trap, namely the noumus."
"I see." Tsukauchi says dryly, while Nedzu is busy with another cackling fit. "Is that all?"
"Uhm, no." Midoriya replies and Tsukauchi and Eraserhead shudder in unison. "There was still the problem of the PLF planning to amass almost all supervillains in the country in their base. So I found their spy on the UA, and…"
"YOU DID WHAT?!"
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Finding the street address, introducing himself as a friend from school to the (deeply worried) parents, and getting a face-to-face meeting in a room that almost certainly wasn't wiretapped by anyone was, objectively speaking, the easy part of this.
"I'm going to make an educated guess." Midoriya Izuku announces, interrupting the awkward silence. "The PLF has a spy on the UA. They don't know who their spy is, but they are almost certain that it's someone who was present during the USJ attack. And once I knew that, and once I revaluated our past… interactions, it all became obvious to me."
He pauses for a second. This really is a hard talk to have.
"I think I know why you did all of that." He steels himself to continue. "That's not hard to figure out. I'm much more interested in the reasons for you no longer helping them." He inhales deeply. "Why, Tsuyu?"
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"Midoriya…" Eraserhead tries to speak.
"No." Izuku shakes his head. "I'm not telling you who the traitor is."
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The frog girl looks like a mess. No wonder her parents were worried. Her stare is less awkward and more frantic. Her clothes are… well, she probably should change them as soon as possible.
Judging from the way her eyes looked, he came right in the middle of a prolonged crying session.
"Izuku, I…" She is trying to say something, but Izuku interrupts her.
"Tsuyu, I know how complex mutants are treated in society." Midoriya says calmly. "I know that well enough. I know that you aren't an incredibly human-like Miruko, nor a completely inhuman Gang Orca. You are in the cursed middle. Human and inhuman enough to hit the uncanny valley, to make people think that you look odd. To have to get used to seeing you to not freak out." He leans forward a bit. "Society rejects people like you. Heroes are the quintessence of society. I'm not going to blame you for rejecting them. Especially when I know how much you love your siblings, and I know… how far older siblings are ready to go to make their younger brothers and sisters's future lives a bit better. Especially when I managed to discover that your best friend, a complex mutant like you, committed suicide due to bullying half a year before you applied to the UA. I only want to know why you stopped working with the PLF."
There are a few seconds of silence. Finally, Tsuyu speaks.
"Because for the first time in my life, no one cared about how I looked. Ribbit." She says. "Sure, some people had that… first reaction, but they look ashamed of having it. And because I met Himiko, who was earnestly trying to become a hero despite being in a much worse position than I was. And because I met you."
"Tsuyu…" Even in such a situation, he still doesn't know how to deal with words like these.
"You are All Might's son. Ribbit." She says. Oh, of course she figured it out. One more thing that Izuku suspected. "I don't like him. He has never tried to help people like me. He has all the power to do it. But you? You will be a Number One Hero in a few years. And you care. You stood against the Number Three Hero to help Himiko and Hitoshi. You… gave me hope."
So she knows about Thunderbolt, huh. Tsuyu was smarter than people gave her credit for, it seems. No wonder she managed to hide her identity from the PLF.
"Tsuyu, All Might is… it's a bit more complicated.." Despite everything, there is still an All Might fanboy living inside of him. How much of that is guilt, though… "It's not something that's common knowledge, but… he had a nemesis. World's most horrible villain. Man who killed his family, his mentor, and many friends before All Might finally defeated him. That man started as a freedom fighter, fighting for the rights of the disenfranchised… only to gather absolute power. And it turned him into a power-hungry despot. Now All Might has an absolute power over the society… that he is afraid to exercise, because it might corrupt him as well. 'Hell is paved with good intentions' is one of his favorite sayings, though only in private."
Izuku has some mixed feelings about it. But he knows how much public sway the Symbol of Peace has. How much of a necessity he is for Japan to remain peaceful. If Yagi Toshinori thinks that there was a risk of him going too far, his decision to stay politically neutral was probably the best one.
There was a reason why Izuku had a bit different vision of himself as the Number One Hero. If he was going to get there. Probably not, considering what he was doing right now. But… maybe.
"Ribbit." Tsuyu looks down. "Guess I… misunderstood him. The charities…"
"Yes." Izuku replies. "His entire merchandise income goes into those. Especially those helping quirkless, complex mutants and 'villainous' quirks bearers. He frequently uses his contacts and under the table influence to help in more… particular cases. The only thing he doesn't do is tell people how they should live and society how it should be organized… as the Symbol of Peace."
Yagi Toshinori, All Might and the Symbol of Peace were three different people living in the same body, in Izuku's opinion. He loved the first one, fanboyed over the second one and had some mixed but generally positive feelings about the third one.
There is a few seconds of silence, before Tsuyu speaks.
"Are you going to… arrest me? Ribbit."
"No, I will not." He replies. He can see hope dawning on her face. Together with confusion. "I know that you didn't sell the training camp's location, because you already stopped helping the PLF at this point. They must have had one of the Mechanist's drones tail the bus. And we all managed to get out from the USJ without harm, so I'll let it slide. In fact…" He takes a deep breath. "No one is ever going to find out about it, unless you decide to tell them. I'll keep my mouth shut. All I need from you is to help me save Himiko and the others."
"What do I have to do?" Not a split second of hesitation. Good. He didn't misjudge her after all.
"I need you to contact the PLF." He says. "Act as if you are trying to make sure that your friends aren't harmed by working with them again. And then… tell them that Eraserhead let it slip that they'll be getting the kidnapped students back in four days."
"But…"
"Don't worry about it, Tsuyu." Izuku replies. "Just trust me. We'll save everyone together."
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"You told them that the heroes would attack them?!" Tsukauchi is shocked. Not just him, really. They all are.
"Not quite." Midoriya replies. "That was three days before the raid." Now they understand. "According to Dabi they planned to move in a lot more supervillains right before the attack. Through Kurogiri's warpgate" He adds. "Pretty much every single supervillain in the country was going to wait for the heroes in Kamino Ward, including several that supposedly aren't supervillains by designation, because the heroes are yet to know they exist. But they…"
"But they expected the heroes a day later." Eraserhead takes it over. "So most of their firepower, even if you exclude the noumus and the gas bomb, simply wasn't there yet. And with Stain and Mr. Compress neutralizing their sentries, while La Brava took down their computer network, they were taken completely by surprise. By the heroes appearing out of nowhere."
"Err, yes." Midoriya fidgets a bit more. "But I didn't know they had something like the Revenant, I swear! Also… well, that was my whole plan. Uhm, except for getting a recording or two publicized to counter the HPSC's smear campaign. I say plan, but it was more like an improvisation, really, because…"
Eraserhead gives him The Stare. Midoriya promptly stops talking.
"Midoriya, you do realize that I should expel you for that?" Eraserhead finally says. Something nasty flashes on Uraraka's face. Izuku looks mortified. "You have acted against my direct order…"
"I didn't!" Izuku lashes out. "You forbid me from going on a rescue mission! And I didn't. I did all of that, well almost all of that, from my house! And I didn't use my quirk! So it was, uhm, technically legal. And according to your orders."
Eraserhead opens his mouth. Then he closes it. Then he opens it. He looks worse than Tsukauchi, somehow. But finally, he speaks.
"Midoriya, from now on I'm treating you like a devil." He says and Midoriya stares at him. "And every instruction issued to you like a deal done with one. You can expect me to be VERY careful about wording. And if you pull something like that again, I'm hiring a lawyer and start writing contracts with you about the rules of engagement each time a villain is anywhere near you. Which is going to completely ruin your response time. Do you get it?"
"Yes, Aizawa-sensei!" Midoriya looks relieved. Uraraka looks like she actually won't murder anyone today.
"And just so we're clear - I SHOULD expel you." Aizawa decides to say it again. Maybe, just MAYBE it will stick this time. "I'm not doing this because we just lost All Might. Times are going to be chaotic, and we need every hero we can have. And I know well enough that if I expel you… and somehow, just somehow, Nedzu won't re-enroll you the next day…" Nedzu chuckles menacingly. "... you'll simply become a hero through another school. Where I won't be able to have an eye on you. Or you'll go vigilante, and the last thing I want is Knuckleduster having someone with All Might's quirk and Nedzu's brains next to him. Got it?"
"Yes, Aizawa-sensei!" Midoriya at least looks ashamed. Or, more like, shy. He would probably do all of it again if he had to.
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"You know, if you exclude Midoriya's beautiful gambit…" Nedzu says once Midoriya and Uraraka leave his office. "...we were an inch away from the supervillains slaughtering half of the top hero rooster with relative impunity."
"Precisely why I didn't expel him." Eraserhead comments bitterly. "If he didn't intervene, Kamino Ward would become a mass graveyard for heroes. We would lose All Might, Endeavor, Miruko, Crust, Gang Orca… sure, one or two might have managed to escape, but…" He sighs. "And we didn't even realize that they had us in checkmate the whole time."
Tsukauchi agrees with a scarce node.
"Midoriya bought us some time." Nedzu agrees. "But we need to use it well. Because I don't think that he'll manage to pull it off again. Not with the potential defectors within the PLF being all spent on this stunt. This is a war, gentlemen. And we almost lost it during the first battle."
They will have to do better. Much better.
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"I'll be honest with you." Lariat announces. "Izuku Midoriya has just become just as scary in my eyes as his sister." The dominant response of people living in the One for All can be summed up as 'scarce nods of agreement'.
"Yes." En decides to be slightly more vocal. "That plan was… a thing to behold. And the execution was practically flawless. This combination of brain and brawl will make him into a splendid, if rather intimidating, hero."
"And also my soon-to-be granddaughter-in-law is awesome!" Nana ads with a bright smile. "That slap was well-earned. Honestly, she brought him out of that little despair streak expertly. And they look so cute together!"
This time everyone is rolling their eyes. Nana couldn't be there to coo over her grandson (because he honestly was kind of a grandson to her, just like All Might was kind of a son to her), and she was looking forward to being able to at least speak to him.
She had a lot to tell him. Especially after that little darkest moment of his. The past Holders, Nana included, have mostly realized what it was about. Too much stress, too many secrets… Izuku saw his grand master plan as his goodbye to heroics.
From his point of view, he 'tapped' into his villainous part. Both due to the whole 'plan assasination' bit (even if it was a noumu, it really brought back bad memories concerning his stepfather - and of himself after the All Might's initial refusal 'broke' him) and due to him ordering supervillains around.
But he was so dedicated to helping his classmates that he was willing to have his dreams shattered by his own hands to help them. Honestly, this only proved to the Holders once again that All Might made a perfect choice. If there was a lesson to be taken from Endeavor's case, it was that you can't be a hero to the world if you can't be a hero to those close to you.
(it's just sometimes, Nana knows it from autopsy, backfires)
At least Nana knew from the start that Tenko's betrayal was a ploy. Her heart (not like she had any) wouldn't survive not knowing. She was still incredibly worried the whole time, until they heard that Gran Torino got out of the PLF's base with him intact.
"I'm more worried about some asshole cloning my brother." Yoichi adds. For a change, he looks actually focused. "Well, at least the original is gone from the world. Now we just need someone to find and punch Garaki into orbit, and we're golden."
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Endeavor has no idea who thought that it was a good idea to make his hospital bed be right beside the one where All Might was resting on. But whoever it was, they better be ready to have to rebuild their hospital after a fatal fire.
"So let me reiterate." Endeavor says slowly. All Might in his skeleton form (well, now it's his normal form) seems to somehow further deflate in his bed. "I spent almost two decades… pursuing the Number One Hero position… ruining my family life due to my stupid obsession in the process… and you just told me that your quirk is as old as quirks as a whole, and carries physical power of two digit number of past heroes."
"Errr, yes." All Might replies. Clearly uncomfortable. "Honestly, I always admired the fact that you managed to get so close, despite having only a single quirk. The dedication, the willpower, the hard work… well, that was before I learned, well, you know what."
Few long seconds of silence. Then Endeavor sighs loudly. He isn't letting this end like that.
"Oh, and there is more." He decides to say. "Your chosen son and successor now has that quirk. And he will develop at least several more, including the Smokescreen that he already has." All Might nods. "So my entire quirk marriage was pointless from the start, because there is just no physical way for Shoto to match what's essentially you, but with several more quirks."
"Well, now that you put it that way, it's indeed rather…"
"And that's not all." Endeavor continues. "You had a centuries old nemesis, the worst villain to ever live. And while I was busy beating up minor villains, you were waging a secret war as old as quirks. And you didn't invite me, the Number Two Hero, into it. So if All for One showed up in front of me, he could steal my quirk and I wouldn't realize what's going on until it was too late. Is that right?"
"Well…" All Might blinks at him a few times. "... we might not have thought about that, but…"
"And that's still not all." Endeavor interrupts him. "Because now it turns out that you have four children, just like I do. And each and every one of them has a blatantly overpowered quirk to rival your own. Despite you not engaging in quirk marriage, and marrying a woman with a Class-Two quirk. Out of love. Please, tell me, what do you think I feel right now?"
Few seconds of silence. All Might looks away.
"I hate you and everything you stand for." Endeavor says dryly. His eyes are now on the ceiling, because All Might is the last thing he wants them to rest on. "Good for you that I hate myself and everything I stand for even more. At least let me borrow Izuku for an internship at some point of his education. I don't want to be reduced to a footnote in the books of the history of hero society in Japan."
He is fine with becoming a footnote in his own family's history. He fucked it up too much to hope for anything more.
"I was actually thinking about inviting you to a family dinner." All Might announces and Endeavor is taken off-guard.
"I think…" He says slowly. "... that we've already agreed that me and the word family are two things that shouldn't be in the same sentence."
"Maybe it's time to pick up some positive experiences?" All Might points out. "I mean, you might have learned something from it. Like, how not to be an asshole. I heard that it's not that hard."
"With all due respect, All Might…" Endeavor replies after a few seconds of awkward silence. "... fuck you." It's clear that there isn't a lot of respect in there.
"With all due respect, Endeavor…" All Might replies in a similar tone. "... fuck you too."
The nurse finds it positively heartwarming when she walks into the room a few seconds later to see the Number One and Number Two heroes laughing loudly. Missing the context sometimes does that to people.
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1A Chatroom
Mindhack: WE ARE BACK!
Vampire: OCHACHAN! FROGGY-CHAN!
GravityGirl: HIMICHAN!
Froggy: Himiko!
Decay: .
BoomBoom: oh -censored- me
BoomBoom: crustyface joined the chat
Decay: censorship, really?
Decay: this is villainous
BoomBoom: -CENSORED- I KNOW
CreativeSpirit: Everyone is unharmed?
Vampire: Yes!
Vampire: It wasn't all that bad, I'm kinda used to being locked in a basement
AcidParty: ….
AcidParty: group hug tomorrow at school
GravityGirl: Yes!
Froggy: yes
Vampire :D I love you people
Vampire: soooooooo much
Vampire: also gotta go, mom's about to smother us all with hugs
Mindhack: abandon all hope, ye who enter here
BlackDarkness: I respect you.
Mindhack: thank you
CreativeSpirit: ALRIGHT
CreativeSpirit: Now that this is over (yes, we're having a continue at school), the real question is…
CreativeSpirit: GravityGirl
GravityGirl: We had a very serious talk about moping in self-imposed isolation, and he promised to not do this again.
GravityGirl: He is still a bit shaken after being interrogated by the principal about the exact details and scope of his grand master plan (Tenko doing his false betrayal was only a single part of it).
CreativeSpirit: Seriously?
Decay: uh oh, this again
GravityGirl: Yes, and apparently if he didn't go 'slightly' crazy with all that, Kamino Ward would have ended with half of Top Heroes dying, and PLF winning the day.
GravityGirl: Aizawa-sensei decided to not expel him, probably because of that.
GravityGirl: Also Nedzu would have re-enrolled him the next day, it was pretty obvious.
CreativeSpirit: He will also probably dissect the whole 'grand master plan' during our special classes.
CreativeSpirit: Monoma is going to look like a rabies victim.
CreativeSpirit: All that foam.
BoomBoom: -censored- him, ponytail
CreativeSpirit: Do it yourself.
LeadSinger: DDDDD:
ZapZap: *mic drop*
BoomBoom: HA
BoomBoom: spending time with the nerd is a positive influence on you
BoomBoom: keep -censored- going
CreativeSpirit: Soo… do we get our questions answered?
GravityGirl: ClassPresident, I summon thee
ClassPresident: You are literally standing next to me on the train and watching over my shoulders ;_;
GravityGirl: yes
ClassPresident: and you threatened to throw me out through the window if I don't speak
GravityGirl: your point being?
LeadSinger: Good
CreativeSpirit: I commend you for that, GravityGirl.
GaleForce: o-o
ClassPresident: ALRIGHT SO IT'S TIME FOR THE REVELATION
ClassPresident: yes I should do it in the real life, but, uhm
GravityGirl: But you don't want to faint when suddenly becoming an epicenter of attention
ClassPresident: yes, precisely
ClassPresident: YES, TO USE THERMOSTAT'S WORDS, I'M ALL MIGHT'S SECRET LOVE CHILD.
CreativeSpirit: Oh dear.
ClassPresident: stop acting like Nedzu pls
GaleForce: so… we are siblings now?
ZapZap: LOL
Thermostat: I knew it
ClassPresident: STOP CONFUSING SHOTO WITH YOUR JOKES DAMN IT
ClassPresident: every joke like that is me having to spend thirty minutes explaining to him that it was a joke, have some respect for my time _
ClassPresident: I didn't tell you who my father is right at the start, because… well, I wanted to be treated like a normal student, not the son of Number One Hero.
ClassPresident: it's … a lot of social pressure, and I think that it's rather obvious that I'm not doing well with social pressure
ClassPresident: So I apologize to you all for withholding the information. And if you feel like I betrayed your trust, I'm certain that CreativeSpirit or TurboMan will do well as class presidents.
BoomBoom: -censored- you and -censored- your self-deprecating streaks
CreativeSpirit: I find myself agreeing with Bakugou's statement, and it is equal parts horrifying and unexpected.
TurboMan: You are the class president. End of story.
Froggy: yes!
Mindhack: yes!
Thermostat: yes!
ZapZap: yeppers
GaleForce: yeah
Grapevine: not changing that
LeadSinger: honestly we'd probably have another vote during the second year and you would win it again soooo… let's not make it more complicated than it has to
BlackDarkness: mad banquet of darkness
Decay: what does that even mean
BlackDarkness: and also a vote of confidence from Dark Shadow
Decay: no seriously, answer me
GravityGirl: See, I told you you were being an idiot.
ClassPresident: … sorry.
Decay: ah yes ignore me
Mindhack: okay so general aura of positivity and happiness aside (ugh, it's like seeing my mom)
Vampire: said the person that cried when they saw her
Mindhack: That betrayal will not go unpunished
Mindhack: okay, so
Mindhack: Aiko is not All Might's daughter? I vaguely remember something about you and some of your siblings having different fathers due to Family Circumstances.
ClassPresident: why are you so interested
Mindhack: because she is… well, Aiko
BlackDarkness: Dark Shadow wants to know as well.
BlackDarkness: it wishes to… update the sacred scripture
ClassPresident: Do I want to ask
BlackDarkness: no
ClassPresident: mad banquet of darkness
ZapZap: IT'S INFECTIOUS
Grapevine: QUICK, GRAB WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Decay: we'll use them as shields
Mindhack: you are a man of culture
Decay: thanks
Grapevine: uhm? am I allowed to be worried?
Mindhack: you missed an ancient reference you heathen
Grapevine: phew
Decay: reference?
Mindhack: uhm
ClassPresident: Actually my family's life is pretty complicated, because after having me, my mom has (unawarely, at the time) married All Might's super secret nemesis. And this is something that cannot leave this chat, because there is a fair chance that HPSC will get a brain aneurysm and will do something dumb.
Froggy: Dumber than average?
ClassPresident: yes
Froggy: this is horrible
ClassPresident: yes
ClassPresident: I really do not want to get assassinated (or waste time washing the assassins' remnants from the carpets after my parents are done with them) so seriously, not a word out about it.
ClassPresident: They don't know that he had a child, and he is probably still frequenting their nightmares. Despite being dead for a few years.
Mindhack: I KNEW IT
ClassPresident: what?
Mindhack: She is an eldritch abomination of unknown power. Her father was powerful enough to be All Might's nemesis. But he is a state secret.
Mindhack: Revenant was powerful enough to fight All Might, no one knew where he came from, and he looked like an eldritch abomination.
Mindhack: That's her father!
Vampire: he said that her father was dead, Toshi
Mindhack: even death can die with strange aeons
GravityGirl: What that's dumb
CreativeSpirit: actually, yes
BlackDarkness: … I respect you for knowing the classics, but I do not agree with your logic.
LeadSinger: Asa looks normal, though. And he is Aiko's brother.
Mindhack: Read the Dunwich Horror
Mindhack: two brothers with human mother and eldritch abomination father
Mindhack: one was more similar to his mother and one to his father
Mindhack: it's clearly this, just with more than one gender and… well… kinda genderflipped
BlackDarkness: my respect grows, but not my agreement
AcidParty: this is crazier than Thermostat's theories
Thermostat: they are perfectly sane
BoomBoom: HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA
BoomBoom: I'm -censored- dying here.
Decay: … ha.
CreativeSpirit: ?
ClassPresident: … I hate to admit it, because it's only going to strengthen your otherwise completely wrong beliefs, but Revenant is actually her father's (and my stepfather's) clone. Created by the mad scientist behind the noumus.
Mindhack: I KNEW IT
CreativeSpirit: … you know that your family circumstances are what normal people call AN ABSOLUTE MADNESS?
ClassPresident: WHY DO YOU THINK MY MIND IS LIKE A GLASS PANE SLOWLY CRACKING
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Okay, so there'll probably be a bit of a chaos under this chapter, so all I'm going to tell you about UA Traitor is that SHE LITERALLY TOLD MIDORIYA AFTER THE SPORTS FESTIVAL THAT SHE LOOKS FORWARD TO HIM OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT WITH APPREHENSION AND YEARNING, HOW THE HELL NONE OF YOU SUSPECTED HER! Seriously, read this more attentively, sheesh.
Also while All Might's policy makes sense, as her case shows, it also has its downsides. There are no perfect decisions to be made in an imperfect world. Also, certain scene after moving into the dorms will play out a bit differently...
Nana and the Holders have also been nice enough to provide some additional context on why did Midoriya broke so much. Oh and Endeavor scene with All Might somehow always makes me chuckle.