Izuku slowly opened his eyes and stared at a stone ceiling. He was in a large bed, big enough to have space for three more people of his size.

It took him a long moment to realize what was going on and where he was. When he did, he jolted up, only to suddenly feel a surge of pain at his legs.

"Woah there." A familiar voice said, as a hand touched his bare chest and helped him back down "Not so fast. I didn't carry you all the way from that room just to see you die here."

He looked up to see short green hair surrounded by clean white bandages. A face with a scar on the left cheeks and covered in freckles. "Izo?"

"In flesh and bones." He replied with a wide grin, "How are you doing Izuku? Do you feel pain anywhere?"

"My legs hurt. Are they…"

"They should be fine, and if they hurt it means the worse hasn't happened." The knight looked down at the legs, covered by the blanket. "Mind if I check them out?"

Izuku shook his head and Izo removed the blanket. Izuku noticed the difference immediately. His right leg, the one that had been shot by the projectile that had made his muscles overgrow, was fine in appearance. Except he couldn't move it without a sharp pain going up from it, like he had just put it in molten lava. Even Izuku's touch made him feel sensitive.

"Mh, you don't have any broken bones, so either the muscles or the ligaments are the problem. Tell me if this hurts." He said, and then touched the back of his leg. Izuku winced and couldn't hold back a shriek of pain.

"So the muscles probably." Izo decided "That's good. If I had to guess, whatever they did to your leg is still affecting them. I think Isaac would know what to call it, but you will have to ask a healer from another world. Ours could only let you rest and give you a healing potion once the leg deflated."

"Isaac…" The name made him snap back up, wincing as the movement made his legs hurt, "What happened to the gunman?!"

"Gone." Izo replied calmly, moving to the other leg, "We caught four people, though one is on the verge of death and we might still lose him. Three summoned, plus Lord Arkin, escaped."

The other leg had a number of scars covering it, like polka dots. Izuku remembered the numerous needles emerging from it. Not hard to guess what happened there. This one felt a lot easier to move, only causing pain as Izo made Izuku sit.

"This one is more of a surprise. We checked four times with a spell to find metals, so I'm sure you don't have any needle left inside. It's possible it's just some sort of lingering pain from the experience, it happens sometimes with low grade healing potion, though it's rarer with the ones we used. If you are still hurting tomorrow, tell Urane, she'll call a wizard that specializes in finding metals. Can you tell me where you feel pain?"

Izuku moved his leg a bit, but it seemed to be a bit everywhere. He also noticed how worried Izo looked. It was like he was on the edge of his seat. "I think it's just what you said. Don't worry about it." He smiled his best smile, and Izo slumped back on the chair next to Izuku's bed in silence.

The teen took the chance to look around the room. It was a spacious one, even bigger than the one he had used at Yaru's villa. Looking out of the window, he realized they were higher than they had been before, the city sprawling under the large windows, with the walls in the distance, and he realized where he was. 'The castle, uh?'

"I'm sorry." Izo suddenly said, making Izuku turn around and stare at the man.

"For what?"

"I forced you into a fight that didn't matter to you, and you were hurt this badly as a result." Izo's eyes met Izuku, green into green "I thought that we would be enough and underestimated the summoned. I almost died and brought everyone to the grave with me."

"Izo…" Izuku shook his head "You just asked for our help. It wasn't a good way to ask, but I can't blame you for trying everything you could. And frankly, I'm glad we were there to help. If we refused, you would have probably taken other people and someone could have..." suddenly he felt a chill down his spine. The image of Nighteye on his deathbed after a raid just like this one crossed his mind, and he turned to him, suddenly worried. "No one died, right?"

"No one died." Izo quickly confirmed, and Izuku felt a wave of relief. "Itsumi and Kikora are already up and about, though Itsumi is going to need a crutch for a day or so. She almost killed herself when she blew herself out of the room where she was fighting and fled into the city." He shook his head, "Speaking of which, you should go talk to her. I fear she heard a few of the guards make rather unkind comments on her behavior. I made sure they were assigned to guard the pig pen for that."

"She fled?" He asked, "Her opponent must have been strong. I mean, she isn't as strong as I am in raw power, since her One for All has less pieces, but she is a good fighter."

"She faced a powerful enemy. Kikora said that much. She was certain she had left Itsumi to die when she run after Arkin." He shook his head, "I've been an adventurer for a long time, and as I told her, there is no shame in running away when you are in over your head, especially from a meaningless fight. I wouldn't be alive today if I didn't run multiple times in my life."

Izuku nodded, taking note of making sure to visit the girl as soon as possible. "What about the others? Shoto, Dekirn, Ojiro…"

"Ojiro is bedridden but alive. It was a close call, but someone bandaged his wounds before we found him. I don't know who did it, but it's the only reason he didn't die. He has a nasty scar on his left eye now, but the eye itself is fine, even if it was a close call. One more hour or so and even the potions wouldn't have been able to restore it. His body is exhausted though, and the burns he got are still there."

"That's good enough I guess, at least it's nothing that will impair him. But who helped?"

"We have no idea. Certainly not his opponent, and you were also out." Izo shook his head "Although, the monster he fought was gone too, so I have a theory…"

"If someone both took away the girl he fought and gave him first aid." Izuku nodded, "I can only think of one person."

"Your opponent?"

Izuku nodded and recounted his encounter. The revelation that the gunslinger was another version of them, the battle, the bullets and their effect. His mistake. "I let him trick me into charging forward instead of thinking. I was so stupid, it was so obvious in hindisight. If only I thought it through, I could have used Blackwhip to…"

Izo stopped him with a quick gesture, "If and could are only going to hurt you. You were in pain, worried for your friends, worried he would escape, and made a mistake. A defeat doesn't have to be the end, and thankfully you weren't killed."

"Right…" Izuku stopped "Right! He was ordered to not kill us. But why?"

"Todoroki said the same." Izo said before raising his hand when Izuku opened his mouth. "Yes, he is fine. Try to keep a topic kid. He got a good number of his bones broken and if we didn't have magic he would have been in a far worse condition, but thankfully he will be fully healed in a day. And Dekirn is fine, probably in the best condition out of all of us. He has already left by the way, but he asked me to tell you that if any of you ever need help, you can ask him."

"He knows what we are, right?"

"Topic. But yes, he does. Who knows, maybe you will come back eventually. I wouldn't mind meeting you all again." Izo shrugged "I think what you are is also part of why they wanted you and Todoroki alive. We don't know how the magic they used to summon those people works but we know it used a power from the child's One for All. It's possible whatever Arkin was doing would have worked better with you two, and that he was just guessing one of you had One for All. It's not that big of a jump, thinking about it. You look like the Hero of Colfire and Todoroki like the Prince of that same Kingdom. He might have guessed you were important just by that. Hard to say since the Summoned either don't know or can't tell and Arkin himself is still at large."

"If you find out, please tell us. We are not going anywhere for a few days anyway." Izuku replied, massaging his legs, "We need to rest and recover, not to mention we need to talk with Atura and hope she knows something."

"She does, I'm sure of it." Izo replied, "But you are right that you need rest before, you need a level head to talk with her as peers. Here, in case you decide to go visit someone." He said, pulling out some crutches from behind his chair. "They were for… well, just in case."

'In case one or both of my legs didn't work anymore.' Izuku realized, suddenly feeling a lot better about the pain in his legs. It was the proof they were still working. "Thank you. Where are the others?"

"Neighboring rooms up here in the tower. You shouldn't have any trouble finding them. Though, Itsumi and Kikora are probably going to come around with the kid."

"The kid…" Izuku stopped, eyes wide "You got the kid?"

"Of course we did. Kai is safe and sound. He has taken quite a liking for his new big sis Kikora and Itsumi too. You should have seen Kikora's face yesterday when he called her that."

"Wait, yesterday? How long have I been unconscious?"

"Oh right. It's been two days since the raid." Izo's casual tone left Deku unable to respond, but the man just chuckled and patted his shoulder. "Hey, it's alright. You can take a day to rest. You guys deserve it."

"You don't?"

"I'm not saying I don't, but I definitely won't." Izo sighed, "I've lost two days because I wanted to make sure you were fine, but now I need to go. The Black Mist is here in the castle, and they need me in the west and in the north-east. I've left Itsumi all the information you need to go to Atura's house."

"Wait, you are being attacked on both sides?"

"Yes. I think something is wrong. The Demon King has not invaded from the sea in decades. If he is committing this many troops, it means we are at the apex of this generation of the war. I might finally get to slay his current avatar and push back the Demon War for another century or more. I think that is why the Dark Lord ordered Arkin to attack the King and Prince. If they both died, the chaos was going to be to his advantage, and if it failed, he would only lose Arkin and some summoned pawns. Even now, with the Prince back and safe, the castle is in an uproar. Not to mention, part of our forces are in other parts of the Kingdom, like the Outriders, who are patrolling the Greywoods in case more Gnoll warbands show up. I guess that was part of the plan too, send in attacks in other parts of the Kingdom to splinter our forces. Perhaps…" He suddenly stopped his rambling, and after a moment started to laugh, "Sorry, I start to ramble. This doesn't really matter to you. It's my world's problems, and I have already involved you enough."

"We can't help you, can we?" Izuku asked.

"Are you willing to spend years fighting a bloody war? Because that's what is ahead for me, and I doubt you are. Not this war, at least. No, go back home, and do what you have to do. Better yet, help out Ojiro and Shoto, and Itsumi too if you get a chance. And if we ever run into each other again," He added with a wink "Make sure to be old enough I can offer you a drink. Next time we meet, I want you to have defeated your mortal enemy, is that clear?"

Izuku nodded and extended his hand. Izo shook it. "Goodbye, Ser Izo of Greenvalley."

"Farewell, Izuku Midoriya… no, Deku the Hero. It was a pleasure to meet you." The Knight of Colfire and the young Hero let go, and Izo walked out of the room. Izuku saw one last glint of One for All's hilt as it was hit by the light entering from the window, and then the door closed behind the man.

Izuku wondered if they were ever going to meet again.

-x-

Izuku stayed in bed for a while after his goodbye to Izo, before he finally decided to stand up. His muscles protested a bit, but his legs didn't give out and he managed to stand with the help of a single crouch, to hold up his more shaky right said. The pain was already calming down, especially on the left leg, and Izuku was thankful for it. He could handle having more scars – he was fairly sure he was bound to collect a lot in his Hero career – but not losing a limb.

"Hopefully they get better entirely soon." He told himself, walking out of the door after having put on some clothes he had found on the desk of the room. He walked outside and looked around. The corridor had a number of other rooms, so he simply knocked to the closest. 'Izo didn't really tell me which room is which though.' He thought with a chuckle.

The one that opened the door was Kikora. "Oh, Izu. You are back on your feet?"

"More or less." He replied showing his crutch, "How are you?"

"Oh I'm good actually. I wanted to leave, but I think I will stick around the castle for a bit for Kai's sake." She looked around a moment, before inviting Izuku in the room. "Actually, I need a favor from you." She said, closing the door and pointing at the chair nearby.

Izuku realized on it was sitting Itsumi, and on her lap was a kid of perhaps ten years of age, with black hair and golden eyes. Izuku smiled seeing her, and she smiled back. Then he looked at the kid, and he felt the familiar sensation from One for All when he met someone else with it. It was like the vestiges were saluting each other, he had realized. Except for All for Deku, where it felt more like a stream of pity and horror. It took a moment, however, to realize who he was looking at, because those same eyes and hair were burned into his mind. The name of Kai ringed in his head.

"Chisaki…"

"You know him too, uh?" Kikora asked with a sigh. "When we asked Todoroki if he knew him, he was this close from actually attacking a child, and he told us categorically to not let Ojiro see him."

"I don't get it. He is just a child, Izuku." Itsumi said, looking up from the kid, "What did he do?"

Izuku took a deep breath and shook his head, stopping his first answer before it could leave his mouth. He knew that it was like Lord Kosch, the Chisaki of this world, all over again. "He didn't do anything. It's just hard to remember that when another person like him did bad things to us." Izuku breathed out again, before turning to Kikora, "Is that what you wanted to ask me?"

Kikora took him aside a moment, whispering in his ear, "Not only that. The kid has One for All, the same power you two have according to Izo. I was hoping you and Itsumi could help him. He says his dad was supposed to teach him, but he is… no longer with us. And trial and error is not a viable strategy it seems, he keeps breaking his legs and arms and Urane was categorical on the fact she can't just keep filling him with healing potions, that stuff can be addictive if consumed too often, especially for young kids."

Izuku nodded, before walking up to him again. The kid seemed confused by him. Izuku realized it made sense. After all, he had met the gunslinger, and they looked similar enough even with the age gap in mind. "It's amazing he could even handle the power, though. I had to train for months before my body was ready for One for All."

"I only got a piece of it, so it was easier, but my mother said All Might wasn't even sure he could pass all twelve parts of it to the same person. It's part of the reason why he split it." Itsumi added, "The scary thing to me is that Chisaki says he has seen eleven people in his mindscape."

"So that's more people than me or Izo." Izuku said, nodding, before putting on a reassuring look, "Kai, can I ask you something?"

The kid looked at Kikora, who nodded encouragingly, "Yes sir."

"Just call me Deku, Kai. Uhm, I wanted to know, you come from Nion, right?"

"Yes." He replied with an energetic nod.

"But the people from Nion aren't actually from this world, are they?"

"No mister Deku." The kid replied without hesitation, and Itsumi and Izuku looked at each other, before he continued "We were brought here by the greatest Hero, Nana Shimura, to save us all from the Great Greed."

"What's that?"

"I don't know. They would usually teach that in middle school, but I'm not that old. My dad told me some small things, but he always said I was supposed to be older to learn, and then he..."

Izuku stopped him, noticing his eyes grow heavy with tears. "I understand, don't force yourself. But does the name All for One mean anything to you?"

The kid stiffened, and his eyes grew wide, "That's the name! That's the name of the Great Greed before it became the Great Greed. My father told me!"

Izuku looked up at Itsumi, who just shrugged. So this Great Greed wasn't a term she knew either. "So your All for One isn't in this world, right?"

"No, no. I learned the story of the Great Exodus in school, so I remember it well. Nana took all the people she could save and used her powers to transport a building called a 'skyscraper' filled with them all in this world. Rich and poor, men and women, Heroes, citizens and Villains, she made no distinction. She saved humanity! That's why she is the greatest Hero to have ever lived!" Kai's eyes were shining, and Izuku realized it was the same expression he remembered on Kacchan's face when he talked of All Might. Or his own, for that matter. A smile grew on his face.

He put a hand on Kai's head, ruffling his hair. "You really like Nana Shimura, uh?"

"Of course I do, mister Deku! Lady All Might is the greatest Hero to have ever lived! She fought the Great Greed to save our lives, she always prioritized our lives, she was the undisputed Symbol of Peace for our country." He sniffed, "But then Colfire had her killed and stole her body. It's something we learned in school. That's not fair, is it?

Izuku and Itsumi looked at each other, already knowing the answer but not much else, then turned to Kikora. She just shrugged, "I know the story of the isolation of Nion too. I think there isn't a single adventurer that does not, since the stories about the great treasures of the island and the magicians that live there are told far and wide. Sucks to be the Hero, to be honest. You get tangled in some stupid political games here in the palace, and you don't have a choice about almost anything. Even for your wife you are supposed to marry in nobility, but only on the Crown's side, because otherwise you will offend the Crowns or encourage the Swords. That is so stupid. And you don't even get to choose where you will rest for the final time. Izo is too good of a guy when it comes to court intrigue, that's probably why he doesn't want to listen to me."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that someone helped Arkin here in the palace, and it was someone that was there in the meeting, but he doesn't want to admit it because those people are people he trusts. Either Urane, Tenro or Lord Kosch told Lord Arkin what was coming, and helped him by causing an explosion up here in the palace to distract the guards during his escape. If they didn't we would have captured him during his escape. I'm not counting Lady Yaru, because she saved the Prince, which wouldn't make sense if she was allied with Arkin, but the other three are suspects. And I know what you are going to say, that of the three you think it's Kosch," she added, interrupting Izuku's response, "But look at Kai, and then tell me you still suspect the lord over the other two."

Izuku had to admit she was right. Suspecting the Overhaul equivalent to be evil was easy, but he had seen himself being the evil person, had seen a world where a male version of Mina had All for One. As weird as it was for him, Kikora was right: Tenro and Urane, Iida and Uraraka's equivalents, were as likely to be Arkin's allies as Kosch was.

"Can we help you in any way?"

"No, actually. You are strangers to the palace. You don't know anyone here well bar me, Izo, the Duchess and the Prince. No one is going to let something slip in front of you, especially since you are friends of the Hero, and correct me if I am wrong but neither of you is a spy or something. No, I will find out on my own. Once I do, the Prince will take care of it." She smiled, "Just relax for the time being and see if you can help out Kai. You have your own worlds to go back to, you should leave this world's problems to this world and think about your own." She turned to the kid with a large smile, a caring look in her eyes that Izuku found unexpected from the way the elf usually behaved. "Big sis will be out for a bit Kai. Listen to what Izuku and Itsumi tell you and don't get into trouble."

As the kid nodded, Izuku started to think. Her words echoed very closely what Izo had said, but Deku wondered if that was right. He had promised to help Todoroki and Ojiro's world, hadn't he? He wasn't going to walk back on his word, but he couldn't help but think back to his talk with Todoroki on the riverbank, during their journey to the capital.

'Sure, we will thank you if you take down All for Deku. But if it's just the luck of you stumbling in our world that fixes things, what does that say about us? Does that mean all the sacrifices we made were for nothing?'

"This is so weird though." The comment moved him from his thoughts, and he looked to Itsumi, that was ruffling Kai's hair.

"What is?"

"This." Itsumi said "I've been thinking for the past two days. And… Well, I'm sitting in a room with two more One for All users from other universes. You fought All for One!"

"A gun called All for One."

"And the gunman was you! Shouko Todoroki is a man, and is married with Tooru Hagakure, but she is also an unmarried Prince with a pair of mustache! You are my dad, a gunslinger, a Fantasy Hero and a villain. This is… I don't know what to call it. It's weird, it's amazing, is terrifying… I want to go back home, and yet I also want to know more."

Izuku had to admit, a part of him agreed. A part he had kept quiet for a long time wanted to know how much the universe changed. Wanted to know who he was everywhere else. "What brought this up? You have always been dead set about going home."

"I… Well, the woman I fought. I thought she was my mother, but then I checked some family pictures on my phone. She looks more like my grandmother when she was young."

"Miss Mitsuki?" Izuku asked. He remembered Bakugou's mother, even if he had only met her when she invited him to Bakugou's birthdays back in middle school, oblivious of the relation he had with her son. Izuku had gone of course.

"Her. And that made me wonder, what is she like in other worlds? What are mom and dad like? What am I like – if I even exist – in other worlds?"

"I see. It's true I never thought I'd meet so many… me." Izuku had to agree. It was weird. He had locked the thought away, but Itsumi made a good point. He had met so many versions of himself already, and they were planning to look for another. He was in a room with two more One for All users, and that to him was a lot more special than it was for Itsumi.

"I wish we could take this as a vacation." Itsumi commented with a long sigh, "I wish we could… I don't know, see the wonders of other worlds without the constant reminder of what is happening back home." She looked down at Kai, who was listening while resting his head on her chest, "But we can't."

"We really can't. It's been weeks. All Might and my mom probably think I am dead by now."

"I'm worried about my family. The Noumu were attacking, who knows if Acid King is still in jail or is free… I want to go back home." Itsumi looked at him with a small smile, "It's rough, isn't it? Being the holder of One for All."

Izuku smiled back, "You should know better than me. Technically, I'm your junior. You have had One for All for years, I have had it for a few months."

"But I grew up in a period of peace. Sure, villains exist, but I grew up with All for One behind lock and key. Not to mention, I only have a piece of it. You and Kai… You two have the bigger burden. Both of you are the sole heirs of the Hero of a Nation. I'm a spare that got it out of pity from her mother."

Izuku frowned at that, "Itsumi…"

"Do you want Guide, Izuku?" She suddenly asked. "I could give you that piece of One for All."

The answer came to Izuku's lips naturally. Before the shock, before the confusion. It was the same answer Mirio had given to him, after all. "I don't want it." Izuku replied immediately.

"What?"

Izuku looked at her. He could understand part of what she was going through. He had felt the same back then. "Itsumi, you are thinking that you did something wrong, right?" He asked, walking closer.

"I… I ran away. I'm a holder of One for All, and yet when facing a villain I just… ran away."

"Did you have a choice?"

"That's not the point!" She shouted. Kai whimpered, and Itsumi covered her mouth. "I'm sorry Kai. I didn't mean to scare you."

"You are upset." The kid said, "Do you want me to move?"

"Do you want to move?"

"No, it's nice to be around you, Big Sis Itsumi. Kikora said you are the only reason I'm safe. She said you had 'guts' because you stayed alone to fight an opponent that was too strong." He looked at her questioningly, "I'm not sure what gut she meant, but the Claw was strong, even I knew that! So if you fought her alone, you must be super strong too!"

"But I ran…"

Izuku put a hand on her shoulder, and Itsumi looked up at him. For a moment, Izuku looked at the contrast on her face. The freckles and shape of the head were closer to his, but everything else was clearly, so clearly a feminine version of Bakugou. "And doing that you still accomplished more than I did. I lost completely, and my target escaped. You at least helped Kikora save Kai."

"But you were defeated. I ran away."

"And how is that any better?" Izuku asked, "Itsumi, we are both One for All users. You think I feel any better about losing? If he wanted to kill me, I'd be dead now. My One for All would be gone forever. I would never go home, no one would ever know where I went, and you three would be lost here."

"I… But… But you are stronger than me! You are a better vessel for One for All! I'm just a girl that was lucky enough to be the daughter of the user of One for All. ."

"I was born Quirkless." Izuku replied. Both One for All holders stared at him, and he felt his cheeks turn red. It was something he had never told them, but it made sense it was a surprise. Hizuku had a Quirk and Kai had never met a version of him from Nion. Assuming he had one before was obvious for them.

"You… You were…" Itsumi stuttered.

"I was born Quirkless. You say you were lucky? I am the luckiest person in the world Itsumi. I happened to run into All Might after he got a wound that was going to end his career. I happened to tell him what I was. I happened to put myself in danger in front of him to save a friend." He smiled, remembering all that came next. The training on the beach, the robots at the Entrance Exam, and all those months at UA. All that thanks to One for All. Thanks to a light of hope for a Quirkless kid with a dream but no ways to make it real. He looked back at them, and smiled. He wasn't alone. "And I am not the only one. Some One for All users got their power just for being there when their predecessor was dying. Some where picked out of thousands of students because they were in the right here and had the right attitude. We are always lucky, Itsumi."

"I'm lucky too!" Kai shouted, teary eyed as he looked at Itsumi. Izuku almost jumped back in surprise at the sudden shout, but managed to control himself. "My dad always said we were lucky! He said my grandpa just happened to be with the previous user when he died. He was passed the power by pure luck! I wouldn't have All Might's power if he wasn't lucky!" He shrugged "Even if… Even if my dad… died for it, he always said… He said I didn't have to curse One for All. He always said that even if there was a great burd… burnd… weight on us for having it, we are supposed to be the Heroes of Nion! We are supposed to be the Shield of Humanity! That One for All is a gift for the weak, not a weapon for the strong!" The kid did his best impression of a smile, and Izuku couldn't help but feel tears in his eyes. It was so… different to hear it from someone else.

Izuku looked at Itsumi, and saw her cry, hugging Kai. "I'm sorry Kai. I'm selfish and didn't even consider what happened to you. I just rambled about all this in front of you. I'm terrible."

"It's ok miss Itsumi." Kai's response was quick, and he hugged her back "You are scared like me."

Izuku put a hand on her shoulder and kneeled down a bit, until they were looking in each other's teary eyes. "We are all scared. But we are all One for All's users, Itsumi. We are always lucky. That doesn't define who we are, does it? I'm Quirkless… But I am more than that. We are the ones that decide what we'll be. And I will be a Hero."

"I will be a Hero too." Kai said, with a smile that, even if Izuku could see was still forced, was still more genuine than the one he had before. Eri had taken longer to recover, but Izuku remembered Eri had been a prisoner for years. He would keep an eye on him to make sure he was fine, but he seemed to already be better. All thanks to Kikora and Itsumi.

Itsumi looked at them both for a moment, then smiled while crying and hugged them both. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I will be a Hero."

Izuku smiled.

(xx)

Here we go, our first chapter after the raid. And boy does this give me the chance to give some more love to some characters.

The first is Izo. Izo, I've noticed in a number of comments across the sites this fic is on, is a character some people didn't really trust. While I understand why (admittedly, he did do some stuff that wasn't right, like trying to force the others to help him in the raid with Atura's meeting) he is still, ultimately, a good person. This heart to heart is a goodbye to the character, while also giving us information on the aftermath and a bit more on his own character.

And the second is Itsumi. She is a character I planned around a lot, and her history is made mostly of doubt. As we saw pretty early on with her, she tends to doubt her worth as One for All's heir. And that doubt is what matters here, because now Itsumi ran from a fight. People were wondering if others would understand why Itsumi did it, but it's Itsumi herself that is hit the most by it. Because her doubts come back and bite her.

Offering OfA to Izuku is an easy way out, but Izuku knows how she feels. It's what happened with Mirio, when he saw someone he judged to be better and felt guilty for not saving.

I hope this is an interesting chapter.