The ambulance entered the street, and the paramedics moved out of it, walking up to Deku and the pale man that talked like Ojiro. They glanced at Deku, and for a moment he noted their look of disbelief at seeing him. Izuku wondered what the problem was, but before he could say anything they put the man on the ambulance.
"Mister… Midoriya?" One of the paramedics said, her voice shaking as she spoke, sizing him up and down. He tried to appear less intimidating, though he wondered what was causing the reaction to begin with. His Hero costume should have been enough to reassure anyone.
"Yes?"
"Uhm, sir, I understand you want us to heal this man, right?"
"Wh… Of course!" He shouted. "What kind of question is that?"
The woman covered her face, like she expected to be hit "I'm sorry sir! Please!"
"I… I won't hurt you! I am a Hero!" Izuku replied. 'Maybe she had bad experiences with other Heroes? I guess there can be a few that are tough to deal with, but this seems excessive. Maybe some incident?'
The woman's eyes went wide as she took a step back, her arms trembling "O… Of course sir, whatever you say sir."
Izuku's mind raced. He could not think of an answer to the situation. Why would this be anyone's reaction to a Hero?
Without thinking, he jumped on the vehicle. If he went to the hospital, he could find out something more. As the ambulance raced at a speed he was quite sure put them all in danger, he stared at the men that were taking care of the wounded. They kept glancing at him, at his clothes, at his face. And every time they did he could see their expression, the confusion and fear in their eyes.
They stopped next to the hospital and got down. Izuku followed them, thinking they would just tell him to wait after they entered the waiting room, but nothing happened. They didn't even try to stop him, and it was Deku himself that stopped there, watching them disappear.
He sat down and looked at the room. There was a television on one side, currently only showing commercials. The clock on the wall said it was 8 PM. Which meant it was about six hours since Izuku had tried to teleport from the alley and to I-Island.
'What is going on…' He asked himself. The first idea that came to mind was that, somehow, he had passed out when he attempted to port to Mister Shield, but a police officer wouldn't just abandon him in an alley if that happened. Moreover, Izuku clearly remembered the feeling of teleporting. He had felt the pop, and the rush of air on the other side.
Aside from him, the room was empty, except for a few chairs. He looked at his phone. For some reason, all of his apps weren't working, requiring some atrocious amounts of updates according to the pop ups. He looked at the phone calls but found none. No trace of his mother, All Might or someone else. That was confusing. He remembered well the time All Might had called him over and over just because he was out for grocery – and fighting Gentle Criminal – so he couldn't imagine that the retired Symbol of Peace would just let it go so quickly. His mother wasn't as apprehensive now that he was at UA, but of course the school would have called her after six hours of him vanishing.
He quickly typed All Might's number and called, but the voice on the other side informed him the number was no longer active. That was even weirder. He tried with his mother's number. Same message. 'Maybe a problem with the phone lines? That would explain it.'
As far as explanations went, that was not the best, but he could not think of a valid alternative. He sighed and looked at the pile of magazines and newspaper on the small table. Deciding there was nothing better to do, he grabbed the one on top of the pile, some newspaper he had never heard about, and opened it.
His eyes widened when he read the titles on the front page.
Dangerous fugitive Todoroki Shoto still on the run after his fight with Himiko Toga and Dabi. Please remember to contact the Liberation Front Headquarters on sight.
Famous Hero Suppressor Magne found dead. The infamous criminal Asui Tsuyu is suspected of her death.
The Horrors of the Age of Heroes: the new book by Detnerat is an incredible success.
The titles did not make sense. Asui a criminal? Todoroki a fugitive? His hands trembling, Deku turned page after page.
The fugitive Eijiro Kirishima, 29, was successfully killed by Hero Suppressor Moonfish. His accomplice Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, 29, is still on the run, and...
No trace of Hero Suppressor Geten for over a week. His death is not confirmed, but the Heroes are suspected of…
He stopped. This made no sense. Was this some sort of prank? Or a lie? Someone's Quirk making him see things? He could not really understand it. He put aside the newspaper and grabbed another one. Maybe this would make more sense.
Today, the leader of the Anti-Hero Liberation Front, Izuku Midoriya, better known as All for Deku, met with Prime Minister - to discuss the next moves of the government against the Heroes. He apologized for his failure at capturing Mirio Togata, the leader of the group, and has expressed his thanks to all civilians that have helped in hunting down the fugitives.
Deku dropped it, as he let his arms down.
'What is this?!'
Then the wall of the Hospital exploded, debris flying all over the room and crushing the television and several chairs.
Izuku promptly jumped away and coughed as the dust entered his mouth and nostrils, standing back up in the middle of the debris that were once the wall of the hospital. As he did, he focused on the one-eyed villain that stood on the other side of the room, walking forward with a grin on his face.
"Muscular?" He asked, taking a fighting stance. He knew the criminal whose Quirk made his body grow so much muscle fibers they would appear over his skin, because he had fought him during his Summer Camp months before. But how had he escaped Tartarus?
The man looked at him, his black tank top and long military pants moving as the muscle fibers retreated, and Deku expected him to just smile and charge. Instead, Muscular stopped, his eye focusing on Izuku. His expression seemed more confused than angry like Deku would have expected from the first man he had sent to jail singlehandedly.
"Boss?" He asked, and Izuku frowned "What are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to wait for us at HQ." His grin finally returned, and Deku felt the need to prepare again, but then the Villain continued "Did you catch the news too? I was supposed to retrieve the body, but some goody two-shoes called an ambulance. I am here to solve the problem. You should tell your girl to stop leaving them to bleed out though, it's really annoying." His eyes then went to Deku's full Hero costume "And what's with the get up?"
Izuku thought fast. Muscular was here for Ojiro, that was clear. And had called him boss. Which meant, he was the boss of a group that hunted heroes. Well, not him, that other him that wasn't him. "I need to question him." Deku blurted out, the moment he finished to process the information he had just put together.
"What? But Toga already did. Could not get him to spill anything useful on the main targets, so she stabbed him. You already took his Quirk, so he is not useful anymore. Come on, I will get it done quick. No need for you to bloody your hands later."
"I said I need to question him, Muscular." Deku repeated, doing his best to sound confident and menacing. He personally thought he was not coming off that well. "I will… deal with him when I am done." 'Please buy it, please buy it…' Muscular was a tough opponent. Even with his new powers, they were going to do a lot of collateral damage fighting, so challenging him in a hospital of all places was out of the question. He could only hope he did not sound to different from the other himself.
Then, Muscular just sighed. "Sure, of course. Whatever you say boss." He replied, surprisingly sheepishly "I will go back to patrol then. I hear they have sighted Hawks just west of here."
Deku just nodded, clenching his fist. His instinct was to tell him to not go, to stay where he was. To tell him he was not going to take down a Hero. But he had already understood something was terribly wrong, and had already decided fighting in the hospital was not an option.
Muscular left, running away with heavy steps. Izuku just watched a nurse slowly emerge from a door and look around. She appeared distraught seeing the broken-down wall. "I…" He started, but the woman just gasped.
"It's not a problem sir, I am sure… I am sure you had a reason." She said, quickly running back inside.
He tried to piece things together, but his mind gave him nothing. Somehow, his friends were in their late twenties, some dead, one at risk of dying in that same hospital, and somehow it was his fault. Or well, All for Deku's fault. And who even was All for Deku? Where had he come from?
He grabbed the newspaper again, running through the articles. He could not find any other mention of his friends, but there were other Heroes here and there. The Wild Wild Pussycats had fought Twice – a group of Twice, the newspaper said – somewhere in Kamino Ward, and lost. Mandalay had been arrested, while the others were on the run. Hero Suppressor Overhaul and his anti-Quirk squad had been deployed against Endeavor's group, currently active somewhere in Musutafu, but currently the hunt was giving no result.
"I need answers, and fast." He decided, just as the light from the operation room went off. He turned, and the same nurse he had seen before walked out, doing her absolute best to appear calm and collected but doing a terrible job at it.
"We-we did it, sir. He is stable, and our doctor used his quirk to speed up his healing. By tomorrow morning he will be able to walk. Sh-should we call the police?" She asked. She was
"No!" Deku said, a bit too strong "I mean, it won't be necessary." He continued, with a kinder tone "I will take care of it."
At this point, Deku knew a number of things. His alter ego was feared by everyone. Muscular himself had just walked away when he had told him so, and everyone else was terrified of him. So terrified no one was even commenting on an entire wall getting rammed down by a 'Hero Suppressor'. "I will wait in his room. If someone shows up, please tell them I have left the hospital." He said, in his best impression of what he thought a villain sounded like. He felt his heart pounding in his chest. If he was right, he was playing a dangerous game. If Muscular or anyone else found out that there were two of him around, they would have probably attacked him on sight.
The nurse just nodded, and made Deku follow her upstairs, where she pointed him to a room. In a bed was sleeping someone that was an aged up Ojiro. There was no doubt in Izuku's mind of that. They had shaved his beard and washed his face and arms, probably to check for more wounds. He sat down, and waited, while reading the newspaper.
-x-
After six or so hours, Deku had read through every article five times, and was approaching the end of his sixth. The problem was, he lacked context. He had figured his friends were on the run to escape from the Hero Suppressors, that were none other than Villains, mostly past and present members of the LoV, though there were a few names he had never heard before. He had understood Mirio was leading the remaining heroes in what seemed to be a losing battle, judging by the amount of casualties and prisoners in a single day. Unless this was an especially bad day. 'I don't know enough. I need to find out more.'
But what he had understood above all was that his other self, that Izuku Midoriya he had seen in the picture, was at fault. And the reason for it was All for One. Somehow, this other Deku was All for One's user, the successor to All Might's greatest enemy.
His thoughts were interrupted by a scream. He looked up to see Ojiro, his schoolmate, jump back. "Wait Ojiro, you are barely healed, don't move!" He said. Ojiro responded by gritting his teeth and hitting with a kick. Deku blocked it. Even without his tail, Ojiro was a good martial artist. He opened his hand and channeled Black Whip. The black tendrils gently grabbed Ojiro's arms and chest. "I don't want to fight Ojiro, I just want to talk."
Ojiro spit on the floor "What more do you want, you sick psycho?!" He asked, tears in his eyes "I already lost everything because of you! My Quirk, so many friends… Yui… What else can you take from me, 'All for Deku'?!" He asked, saying the last three words with all the spite a man could muster.
"I'm not All for Deku!" Izuku replied, before going pale and looking around. Thankfully, no one seemed to be in earshot.
"What?! What do you mean?!"
"I am not All for Deku! I am Izuku Midoriya, Deku is my Hero Name! I am your classmate!"
"Bullshit, I never had Izuku Midoriya in my class!"
"Wait… Who was seat number 18 in class 1-A of UA?" Izuku asked.
Ojiro seemed confused "I… Don't remember, why does it matter?"
Deku bit his lip, uncertain "I just… Listen, I have no idea what's going on! I was just testing my Teleport Quirk, and then I find an older version of my classmate bleeding out in an alleyway. I don't know what is going on, but I am not the same person you know."
"Oh yeah, and why should I believe you? What is this, some new scheme of yours? I already told your insane girlfriend I do not know where Mirio, Bakugou, Endeavor or Hawks are! Since you took my Quirk, I have been working solo!" Ojiro replied.
Deku nodded "Ok, listen, I told you I am not All for Deku. Does he dress like this? Isn't he older?"
"You have a Quirk that lets you change your age freely. You killed Sero by disguising yourself as a kid, and you have been looking like you were barely twenty for the last ten years. Try again."
'Oh no…' "Sero is dead? Who else? What about Koda, Sato, Shoji, Jirou… I couldn't find their name on the newspaper!"
"You bastard, you know what happened. You killed Shoji after stealing Bakugou's Explosion, stole Koda's quirk, and Jiro and Sato have been on the run for months, since that Moonfish bastard chopped off Sato's arm. What, are you gloating? Or are we so unimportant you need to ask?"
"Wait Bakugou is Quirkless…" He started to ask, but then he saw the small orb roll at his feet from behind the door, and recognized it. Without a moment of hesitation, he jumped away, dragging Ojiro. It was a good decision, as a moment later a large blue flame appeared, devouring instantly the chair and newspaper, and starting to burn the bed.
"Hello." Mr. Compress said, entering the room with a deep bow. "So, my dear friend Muscular tells me 'the boss', as he calls him, is currently in this hospital interrogating Mashirao Ojiro, previously Tailmen. Though I suppose now he is more Tailless, and in a Hero costume as well." He chuckled "But You see, that is rather odd, since I had just spoken to him on the phone not more than half an hour ago, and he was investigating a trail to find Mirio. So, what should I believe?"
"Compress…"
"First mistake, All for Deku never uses our codename." Mr. Compress replied, "Anything else?"
Deku gulped, and Compress laughed "No, no, no, second mistake. All for Deku would never show his fear like that. Come on kid, try harder."
"What is he talking about?" Ojiro asked, genuinely confused "If you are not All for Deku, who are you?"
"And that is the greatest question. Thank you, my unwilling assistant. Who is the man that currently stands in front of me? We keep track of every single shape changing Quirk. So, I know for a fact you are none of them, I made Spinner check. Moreover, only an idiot would try to speak to a Hero with the face of the greatest Hero Suppressor. Which means, that MUST be your face."
"Of course it is! I am Izuku Midoriya, the Hero Deku!" He shouted. He couldn't take it anymore. Ojiro's hateful glare, the fear in everyone around him. That was not what he wanted. He refused to believe he would ever stoop that low.
"A bold declaration. What makes you think you are, kid? How old are you?"
"Sixteen."
"That's thirteen years too young to be Izuku Midoriya, kid. Which means, you are either delusional, insane, or very, very stupid. And considering you called yourself a Hero in front of the leader of the Hero Suppressors of Eastern Japan, I can only assume it's the latter."
With that, Compress took out a gun, that seemed to appear in his hands, and aimed at Izuku. The ball that came out traveled for a few moments before turning in a massive boulder, that Deku was forced to dodge by quickly jumping out of the way. He launched Blackwhip, but Compress simply jumped out of the way.
"Most interesting. I take this is your quirk, Fakezuku." He said, "a far cry from the real deal, unless you have an ace up your sleeve."
Deku simply stopped and released Ojiro from Blackwhip. "Run."
"What?" The martial artists he called a friend replied.
"Run! I will keep him busy."
"You can't be serious. Why are you helping me? You are…"
"I am Izuku Midoriya, Deku. A Hero." He said, taking a fighting stance "Now run!"
Ojiro stared at him a moment longer, than laughed before taking position, the same stance Deku remembered, bar the lack of a tail.
"Never thought I'd ever fight next to you." He said, and they both jumped to the side as another boulder smashed their way. Ojiro recovered quickly and lunged forward, hitting with a punch in Mr. Compress guts… before taking a step back, his hand bleeding and a horrified look on his face. "You didn't…"
"Ah, you noticed." Compress said, removing his mask to show a large grin "Your friend Red Riot had a very nice Quirk. I must thank him, make sure to inform him of that."
"You monster!" Deku shouted, kicking forward. Compress flew back, his arm bent in an unnatural position.
"What?" He asked "That doesn't make sense! How did you kick with enough strength to break my Hardening!"
"That's not your Hardening!" Izuku replied "That's Kirishima's, and you aren't nearly as strong as he is."
"Was." Compress corrected, but Deku noticed he was a lot more careful now. "Neat trick kid. So, you have both the whips and that strength enhancer? Now that sounds more like the Izuku I know."
"No, that looks more like…" Ojiro gasped "How? We lost it years ago."
Deku felt a chill go down his spine, but chose to wait for later before asking question. "We need to get out of here." Izuku said "We can't let him endanger the patients."
"Yeah." The blonde man replied, "How do we convince him though?"
In response, Compress raised his remaining healthy arm and fired three more shots. Deku this time did not move, instead extending Blackwhip like a net. It was hard, but he managed to stop the boulders. Then he grabbed Ojiro and jumped out of the window of the tenth floor.
"Are you insane?!" Ojiro screamed "I get I almost died today, but I don't really feel like turning into a red stain on the floor if I can avoid it!"
"No, trust me!" He shouted, and teleported to an empty slot in the parking lot.
While they had made the last test the distance, Deku had already tried a number of things with Teleport. The two relevant information now were the fact that it allowed him to carry organic matter without gory results and that it transmitted kinetic energy while not allowing to change the direction his body appeared at. Meaning that if he was already falling down, Teleport could not save his life. That was, if he didn't use One for All. Making sure Ojiro's neck was protected by Blackwhip, he crashed in the parking lot, taking a deep breath as the air blast faded.
"We need to run." He said, using his Full Cowling. Ojiro nodded, quickly recovering.
"Follow me, I have a hiding place not too far from here." He explained, starting to move.
"So you trust me now?" Izuku asked with a small smile.
"If you were the real All for Deku, what happened up there would make no sense whatsoever. I know Compress enough, he wouldn't sacrifice an arm for his act. Speaking of which, you broke his arm. That's enough to gain trust points from me. Just don't expect to get introduced to other Heroes." Ojiro replied with a smile "I don't know who you really are, but I won't let you die after today... Deku." He shook his head "Yeah, sorry, I can't do it. Mind if I call you Izu?"
"No, it's fine." Izuku replied, as the two ran from the Hospital. Suddenly, Izuku stopped "The nurses and doctors, they aren't going to…"
"All for Deku only hates Heroes. They will blame all the damage on us and 'ask' the people that saw you to keep quiet. It won't take more than that. Most people have just agreed that the best choice is to stay on his good side. Now keep running."
"I don't understand, how did this happen?" Midoriya asked as he started to take speed again "When did things change?"
"I'd say it started twelve years ago, sometime after All for One fought All Might on Nabu Island, when Heroes started dropping like flies in weird accidents. Snatch died in a car crash failing to activate his quirk in time, Vlad King was bit by a viper and failed to use his power to expel the poison… But the more time went on, the more something became apparent."
"None of them used their Quirk despite the fact it would have saved their life…" Deku said, understanding what it meant "It was All for Deku, wasn't he?"
"Yes." Ojiro said, clenching his fist. "We didn't know it, just thinking it was some sort of bad luck, but he was already taking out those he could. Probably also trying to put together his own power set."
Ojiro stopped, entering an alleyway and pointing to a small window that opened on a basement. He pushed it and checked something on the top, before nodding and squeezing inside. Deku did the same, though he almost got stuck. The place was small, a basement Ojiro had somehow turned in what could be generously called a crappy apartment. An old television, a reclining chair with a blanket, and a small fridge under the tv. No trace of a shower or sink, but there was a tent on the side of the room. Ojiro disappeared behind it and rummaged until he came out with a stool he handed to Izuku.
"Here, sit down." He said, opening the fridge to take out a beer for himself and throwing a coke at Izuku "I don't have much left here, but they shouldn't know about this place. If they somehow do, with that Teleport of yours we can get outside."
Silence descended on the room as Izuku and Ojiro awkwardly started to drink the respective beverages. Ojiro almost gulped down the entire can in one go, while Izuku just took a few sips out of his. "You probably have a lot of question." Ojiro said.
"I don't even know where to start."
"Let me start then. Your power, is it really One for All?"
Izuku looked at the adult version of his friend in surprise. "How do you know about One for All?"
"Mirio told a number of people back during the final days of the Age of Heroes. Everyone else eventually learned the truth, since once he lost it there wasn't much of a point in keeping quiet about it."
Izuku almost spit his energy drink "Wait, Mirio lost One for All? How?!"
"It's a long story." Ojiro said, finishing the bottle. "To give you a summary, he was tricked into shaking hand with All for Deku. You can imagine how that went."
Izuku went silent, starting to think what he could ask "You were saying that Heroes started to die, but I can't believe no one figured out that so many accidents were absurd."
"They were not all accidents." Ojiro replied "Around that same time, the Villains started to get really dangerous. They had perfect information on the fighting pattern of various heroes, along with their patrol plans. Weakness, strengths, quirk limitations, they exploited everything. That's how we lost Mount Lady, Kamui Woods, and Edgeshot, among others. In three days, a promising team was taken down like nothing, one at a time, and we had no idea who was behind it. All for One was dead after all."
"But how does that make people doubt the Heroes? It's not their fault."
"Good question. But around that time, the Hero Revolution Party appeared online. They started small, but gained a following by publishing articles on the failings and supposedly evil acts of various heroes. Stuff like the background of Endeavor's family, accusing Midnight of indecent acts, 'exposing' Uwabami corrupting the jury of a beauty contest… They started piling up more and more stuff, claiming that the Heroes were nothing more than violent thugs that saved lives for popularity, and they clearly were not nearly as good. Nothing illegal, of course. Everything was either true, or so believable and hard to disproof people did not care if it was. Then they started making Villains appear more sympathetic. 'Failures of our society'. Himiko Toga shared her story, Twice did the same… It was disheartening. Especially because, since the Heroes kept failing, the crime rate was rising, making their claim appear more and more genuine."
"That's… But come on, someone must have realized this was not a coincidence, right? I can't imagine everyone believed them." Izuku asked, shocked. He could not believe society would turn on their greatest heroes on such basis. It was not their fault they were failing.
"Not all of them did, until Kamino. A believable tip arrived about a planned terrorist attack. The information the police received was extremely detailed and made it clear how urgent it was to intervene and how dangerous the villains in question were. Fifty heroes, including Mirio, Hawks and Endeavor, were called in to assist, and they stormed the factory that was supposed to be their base." He shook his head, his eyes almost lost in the distance "It was such an obvious trap in hindsight. The building was where the Hero Revolution Party secret base was. When the Heroes charged in, they filmed it all and showed it online, shouting the Heroes wanted to shut them down. They tried to explain the situation, but the documents that had tipped them on the terrorist threat somehow vanished like they never existed, so it all sounded like a convenient excuse to take them down."
"That was where the tides turned completely. Detnerat started backing them publicly, publishing books that supported their opinions. Various politicians were elected and started to rise the idea of reforming a society without Heroes, and stuff kept going wrong!" Now Ojiro was getting more and more emotional, the can he had in his hand crushed "By the time we graduated, society was shifting. The Heroes kept failing them. Villains were getting away with their crimes, always one-upping the heroes that intervened. Civilian casualties were mounting. People started asking 'why do we need Heroes if they can't protect us? Shouldn't we just get rid of them?'"
"I can't believe this." Izuku said, his hands clenched together "This can't be… This shouldn't be possible. You are telling me All for Deku was behind it all?"
Ojiro laughed "Oh, he was. A young man called Izuku Midoriya became the face of the HRP. As a kid he wished to be a Hero, but growing up he 'had seen what the Hero society looked like behind the shining curtains'. I still remember that. He talked about the clear limits of the Heroes, about the fact that many Villains had been abandoned rather than helped and thus had fallen into crimes despite their natural talent, even claiming 'The only difference between Twice and Endeavor is that Endeavor was lucky', and explained how in his opinion a better future was one without Heroes." Ojiro frowned "A lot of Heroes expressed their sympathy, although arguing for better regulations, but a few Heroes started talking against him openly. They called him a 'kid' that could not understand how hard their job was. They insulted him."
"It was part of the plan, right?" Izuku shuddered. All for Deku was incredibly smart to do all this. It made everything the League had done sound far less terrifying.
"I don't know. Maybe a few, but the truth is, people have their pride. Rock Lock was not faking anything, that guy just had a poisonous tongue at times. Then the final straw. A Hero called Slidin'go attacked Izuku, allegedly over a minor infraction on his part and his refusal to comply, though the HRP of course claimed it was because of his words. He 'had to defend himself' and killed the Hero. He was accused of unrightful use of his Quirk, for killing a Hero instead of complying. People loudly protested, they demanded for his release. 'Heroes are not Justice' was their cry. A few Heroes and Sidekicks were lynched by the mob, or more likely killed in fake lynchings. A few more Hero defended themselves, wounding or even killing alleged civilians. A few probably were, normal people convinced by peer pressure. But with that, the Age of Heroes was over. From his hospital bed – like he needed one, that filthy liar – Izuku suggested for the laws to change. He asked to consider what they were doing and take a stand, and then said he would like to talk to the Number One Hero, to see if they could come to an agreement. Mirio, the Number One by then, visited him in the hospital, behind closed doors."
"That's when it happened, right?"
Ojiro nodded with teary eyes "When he came back outside, he was crying and without his strength and powers, left with only his old Permeation. We found out later that Izuku had given him one final deal. He told him he wanted to collaborate, that he wanted to see a future where we were all equal. But that to do that, he needed his help. Mirio... Mirio was always a man ready to pursue peace. He was our Symbol after all. Izuku proposed to shake hands and make up, and when he did he activated some Paralysis Quirk. And then it was gone. One for All, the treasure that had allowed All Might to become the Symbol of Peace, was stolen. It's stupid right? Something so precious, something so important, lost to a handshake that was supposed to pacify the world."
There was a burst of air from the back of the room, a sudden rush of air. They both turned and froze. Deku's eyes went wide, while Ojiro shouted.
There, in a corner of the room, stood a man with green hair and freckles, a grin on his face.
"Hello, Izuku Midoriya." Izuku Midoriya said, stepping forward.