Izuku smiled nervously as he followed the corridors of the Arena for the second day. He didn't really know what to expect, only that today he was certainly going to fight.
"Don't let yourself be tricked." Shinomori said, the man having accompanied him, Huanli and Izumi after their initial meeting, "The real point of the Qualifiers is collecting the armbands, not defeating the opponents. It's not a test of strength, it's a test of skill, particularly evasion and speed."
"Or it can be a test of strength if you knock out everyone." Huanli commented, "But he is right. Yesterday a lot of people qualified not because of how strong they were, but because of how skilled they were."
"Do you think that can help in the Tournament?" Izumi asked, "After all Izuku is fast."
"Maybe. I guess it will depends on who are my opponents. Epsi…"
"I've already reviewed all the fights from the last few years!" She announced with a thumb up, "If any of the participants have been in this Tournament before, I will be able to provide accurate analysis of their abilities."
"That's great." Izuku nodded, "By the way, have you seen Izzzuku?"
"Not really." She admitted, "He said something about having errands to do and left. He has been a bit weird since we arrived in this Universe actually."
"Now that you mention it, he hasn't been around nearly as much." Izumi noticed, "Any idea why?"
"I…" Epsi frowned, "I feel like I should know, but nothing comes to mind. Maybe it's nothing. He might just be taking the chance to relax, after all."
"Let's hope it's just that." Izuku sighed, opening the door of the changing room. Shinomori saluted him for the day, promising to meet up with him again, and Izuku nodded, thankful. The past Fourth Wielder had been very kind, offering to train him and even agreeing to fight All for Deku. As he put it, All for One was a danger for everyone, and defeating as many as possible was something he couldn't turn away from.
He tried to not sound too nervous as they waited for the commercials and the first day highlights to end and the announcer to enter the field. The minutes ticked by, painfully slow, until finally the empty Arena entered in focus.
"So, the first match of today is four random and the second place from last year, right?" Huanli asked.
"Correct." Epsi nodded.
"That sounds like fun." She said with a grin, "Though, admittedly, it would still be in the Qualifiers." She tapped her chin with a finger while thinking, "Maybe I should hope to not end up in this round and instead try to get the A-lister position…"
"I'm curious, would you take on the Battlemaster immediately if you had the chance?" Izumi asked.
"Nah, where is the fun in that?" She shook her head, "It's a lot better to pick a strong fighter on the same side of the bracket of the ruling champion, so you can fight them in the second or third match. By then you have a real idea of their skills and can tell how fun it's going to be."
"Yeah, fun…" Izumi muttered, shaking her head.
"Oh come on, we are training! It's serious business, but we don't have some extremely important reason to be here." Huanli pointed at the wall, where there was an old poster showing what Izuku assumed was a previous Master of Battle, though he didn't recognize him as someone he knew. "This is a sport. We are here to become stronger, but nothing says we can't enjoy it."
Izuku couldn't help but think at the fact that it might have been true for them, but not for everyone. Fuyumi, Captain Kamino and Argali all had a reason to win. Even if the latter didn't quite need it anymore, he probably wasn't the only one. 'Is it really right to win here? I might take away the chance from someone that needs it.'
"… That's what you are thinking, right?" Huanli tapped his forehead, startling him, "I can tell the 'Do I deserve to win' face when I see it."
"I…"
"No, no, it's normal. I forget you are a newbie when it comes to Tournaments and such." She tapped his back knowingly, "Trust me, this is a Tournament. They award the strongest. If someone loses against you… well, it's bad for them, but it's not like you have to feel sad over it. If they win against you and then lose against the following opponent, does anything change?" She shook her head, "You never know how a Tournament goes. It's useless to focus so much on the opponent's wishes, because you can't know if those wishes will become real. It's a test of strength and will."
Izuku nodded, though he didn't feel that reassured. Huanli probably noticed, because she frowned and made to say more. However, before she could, the announcer, the same Izuku of the day before, started speaking.
"Hello everyone!" He shouted, his sunglasses – at night, but then again he probably had the lights of the Arena shining right to his face – glistening as he spoke, "And welcome to the second day of the Tournament. Today, we will conclude the Qualifiers! Yesterday, thirty-two fighters came out victorious, and today, thirty-two more will follow them. Are you ready?!"
The crowd roared, and Izuku felt his heart beat a bit faster, taking a shaky breath. He felt also a bit dizzy, but that was probably just his nerves acting up.
"Alright, let's start the Tournament with our first match! One of our fighters today is well known, but let's see who else will be called out."
Someone knocked at the door, and Huanli all but teleported there, rushing from one side of the room to the other while jumping on the ball of her feet. "Which one?!" She asked with a large smile when she opened the door to find a man waiting there. He looked at Izuku. "Number 137. Izuku Midoriya."
Izuku gulped, not even earing Huanli pout about him being lucky.
He wasn't feeling that lucky right now.
-x-
The road to the Arena itself was quick. It took about a minute for him to reach the entrance of the Arena through a corridor, where the man told him to wait until his name was called. Clearly, the changing rooms were built with that in mind.
"Alright, let's start with this one. A rather handsome fellow, if you ask me, but I might be biased. Our fourth Izuku of who knows how many. He is sixteen and mean… Izuku Midoriya, Deku the Hero!" He shouted, and Izuku walked on the field, with the crowd cheering for him. Clearly he wasn't a fan favorite or anything, more of a curiosity, but it was still weird to be cheered by complete strangers just for having walked into an Arena. 'It's like being back a the Sports Festival, just bigger.'
He was the first that had been called, but he didn't stay the only one for long. The first to enter was a man called Sajin Higawara, that Izuku recognized as the Sand Hero: Snatch, though here he just want as Dune King. The second one, and the first one that worried him, was Fat Gum, Taishiro Toyomitsu. The imposing man clearly sported the same Quirk he was known for back home, given his size, but who knew what tricks might be added in a world with magic and super science?
Speaking of super science, a moment later the fourth fighter was announced, and Izuku couldn't hold back a smile as he watched Mei Hatsume, covered head to toe in gadgets, walked on the field. Izuku noted quickly that she had to be a favorite of the crowd, since they all cheered for her. On her back he noticed a jet pack similar to the one Izuku was using, so it was either the same model or more likely two similar models Hatsume had built.
Izuku felt himself go dizzy again as he observed her but shook his head and the sensation went away. Glancing down at Epsi, he could see her having pulled up four documents. He knew that the betting turn would give him five minutes to read them and come up with something.
But first, there was one name, and it didn't take a genius to figure out the last person was going to be the second place from the year before, just looking at the crowd's excited looks.
"And our final fighter is of course one you all know!" Izuku – the announcer – declared, "The fighter that speeds through the field and takes down his opponent at close range and at distance. With an unbeatable defense and a powerful offense, he has achieved the impressive record of three finals, even if he has always lost to the Battlemaster."
A figure wearing a hoodie – or was that a parka? – entered the field, speeding on all fours. "From Naruhata, Tokyo, one of the three stars of Naruhata Fighters, the Crawling King! It's Koichi Haimawari!"
The man with black hair stood back up, smiling at the crowd and giving a thumb up to the other fighters. Izuku recognized him as the man he had met back in the Delinquentverse, one of the Judges.
And even he could tell he was strong.
He felt dizzy again, and this time he knew it was his nerves.
-x-
Epsi was a machine, but of course, given her high-performing Artificial Intelligence, she was as sharp as, or even sharper than, most people.
That was why she could tell something was off with Mister Izuku, even as he read through the files she had put together. She checked his vitals and frowned. His heart rate was normal, and every other parameter she could check without taking a sample – something she wasn't about to do to someone that was preparing to fight – was in line with what was expected. Still, something was off.
She prepared herself and felt her coding call for the transformation sequence. She sighed. Right, so far she had managed to avoid it, but she did have her own secrets.
"Mister Izuku?" She asked, just as the clock ticked to the last minute and Izuku closed the information Epsi had collected for him.
"Yes Epsi?"
"I'm going to enter battle mode." She bit her lip. It was a purely virtual gesture, and it wasn't like she felt any real pain, but she still knew she was biting pretty hard. "Please don't laugh."
"I won't, don't worry." Izuku nodded, though he looked unsure of what she meant, and Epsi nodded back.
Then she sighed and spread her arms. "Activate battle mode."
Bright light surrounded her, and she watched with a resigned look her clothes change into a puffy green dress, various shades of the color decorating the clothes. As the transformation finished, a large bow appearing on the back of the skirt she was now wearing, she found herself blushing. She new it technically was only a programmed reaction to her embarrassment, but she was still very embarrassed. Still, her programing was meant to be non-accessible when it came to her role as defender of humanity, and since it read a situation were her wearer was preparing for a fight as combat, she ended up transforming. She had managed to not be noticed transforming and reverting against Himiko Toga, but she knew sooner or later mister Izuku would have seen her like this.
"Uhm, so…" She waited to see if Izuku would laugh. Rationally, she knew it was dumb – all her sisters did the same thing when entering battle mode, and they were either indifferent to it or liked it – but she had always been a bit embarrassed by her transformation.
According to Mister Star Might, it was a perfectly normal thing. Given that each Zuzu developed an individual and unique personality, she wasn't supposed to feel like her sisters. Still… It was a bit odd.
"Why did you transform if you don't like it?" Izuku asked once he managed to ask.
"Uhm… It's a bit of a fault with my programming. When I believe battle is approaching, I'm programmed to transform, and now it's happening."
Izuku nodded and clearly was preparing to ask more, but just before he could, the referee and the announcer both gave the go, and the fight started.
-x-
Izuku darted forward, rushing for Fatgum while thinking about his notes. From J-711, Mirukoverse, Rei Usagiyama had inherited One for All and was using it to fight against All for One. According to Epsi's notes, Fatgum was sort of a right hand man for Miruko, and the man was trying to become stronger, hence why he showed up at the Tournament every time he could.
All that said, Fatgum was the slowest of his opponents. Given his defensive fighting style, he didn't move much. As expected, he prepared to tank a blow from Izuku's Shoot style, when Izuku planted his feet on the ground and used One for All to propel himself low, passing under what was going to otherwise be a grab, both arms of the large man closing onto air as Izuku extended Black Whip and moved it to ensnare his number, fashioned in a armband.
Only for someone else to snatch it first. He watched and gasped as Koichi Himawari, apparently jumping on air, managed to outpace Blackwhip and, at the last second, rush back away. He winked at Izuku before rushing off, headed toward Snatch.
"Mister Izuku watch out!" Izuku gasped and dodged to the said while launching an air force that hit Fatgum in the face. The man didn't so much as flinch, before Izuku used the momentum of his own dodge, combined with One for All, to launch himself toward Snatch.
He didn't just need to win, he needed to be an A-Lister. It was already a problem that Koichi had gotten the second armband, but if he got his hand on another one, it was over.
Luckily, Sajin Higawara, a Wanderer from JUS-089, the Desertverse, was far from weak. He slammed his hands to the ground and an army of sand lions emerged, charging toward both of them and toward Hatsume, who had been trying to circle the man from the start. Koichi had to pull back, using some sort of shining energy attack to try and destroy the sand lions.
Izuku didn't. Instead, he lunged forward, attacking with a kick and making the lion explode. The sand tried to reform around him to capture him, but he used Air Force to disperse it and propel himself toward Higawara. The man grunted and moved his hand, more sand rushing forward to block Izuku in a sort of shield.
Izuku heard a sound like engines and reflexively launched Blackwhip to the ground, using it to pull himself out of the way. A moment later, a barrage of projectiles of some kind hit the spot where he had been. He saw Hatsume grunt and rush back, the machine gun that had emerged from the armor around her arm retiring as more sand lions rushed toward her. 'I really hope those were bb bullets or something.' Izuku thought, before another sand lion tried to take him out. He destroyed it with an Air Force, and dove back, creating some distance and looking around, and then up.
Haimawari had used him as a distraction. The Crawling King looked down and dove, rushing in… And that was when Fatgum arrived. The large man punched and the man was forced to shift to the defensive, before a sand lion missed him slightly and enveloped Fatgum instead. He moved away, using his own energy bullet attack to stop a pursuing sand eagle.
Izuku took a breather, looking at the five opponents. Hatsume was biding her time, using her weapon to attack from a distance, rather ineffectively due to Fatgum's fat and Higawara's sand blocking them easily. Haimawari had landed and was using the breather to breath.
"How much longer Epsi?"
"You have four minutes left."
All that had just been a minute? It seemed impossible, but Izuku wasn't about to waste his chance. With a smile, he dove back into the fray.
Fatgum was the first that saw him coming, but clearly the man didn't hold any grudge against him for trying to steal his number, since he didn't try to attack him. Most likely, he knew that having to fight both Snatch and Izuku while Hatsume attacked from a distance was a dangerous proposition. Instead, he kept focusing on trying to close the distance, but Izuku could do that as well.
'The secret of using Danger Sense is understanding what you are feeling. Technically speaking, you can perceive a vast array of feeling from it. Negative emotions against you register to it as dangerous, so anger and hatred can cause false positives. For this reason, you have to…'
Izuku remembered Shinomori's words. Danger Sense had first appeared in the Fantasyverse, when Izuku had found himself in what he believed to be a life-or-death situation against Isaac the Green Scar, a gunman. As the Fifth had said to him back when Blackwhip had first manifested, his Quirks would come in when he needed them desperately. Blackwhip had appeared when he wanted, needed, to capture Shinso during training. Teleport when he desperately needed to dodge a hail of bullets during one of his missions with the Endeavor Agency. And the same had happened with Danger Sense, needing to dodge bullets that otherwise would have been lethal.
But with no idea of how to train, the power had remained there, unused aside for a few chance activations. He hadn't of course learned how to use it in one morning, but at least now he understood how the power worked. And that was a step in the right direction.
'…to trust yourself and work in conjunction with the Quirk.'
Izuku dove out of the way of a lion, not by moving back or to the side like the sand user expected but under it. The lion crashed down, but not quick enough to capture him when Izuku used Blackwhip to pull himself forward. "Epsi!" He shouted as they passed by.
Epsi extended every single sensor she had and launched them all toward the armband. In truth, the majority of them couldn't grab it, they weren't meant for that. But there was one, the one meant to collect samples that she had used before for the nanomachines. With a grin that Izuku could see on the screen, and hearing her shout something that sounded suspiciously like the name of a majokko anime super move, she pulled away the armband, as Izuku and her both zoomed forward, pulled by Blackwhip. Saijima shouted, but before he could do anything about it, he was peppered by Hatsume's bullet. As it turned out, she was using gum bullets, which Izuku knew hurt quite a lot, but weren't as lethal as normal ones at least. Snatch launched more monsters of sand her way, but that gave Izuku the opening he needed to get out of the sand creature's range… and find himself face to face with Haimawari. It was only Danger Sense sending him a signal a second earlier that allowed him to bend his back, dodging a kick to the face almost like he was doing limbo, before rolling on the ground.
He took a breath and then used Air Force to propel himself again, managing to get out of the way before Fatgum's punch impacted the concrete.
'Why is he attacking me?' He wondered, looking at Haimawari. Sure, he had two armbands, but Hatsume still had one. And in fact, she hadn't even tried to attack the Crawling King for both of theirs. 'They must be working together.' He realized, and true enough, bullets immediately shoot his way, Izuku using One for All Full Cowling to run away.
"How much longer?"
"Two minutes thirty-three seconds." Epsi answered, her sensors having retracted back and the second number now in Izuku's hand. He grimaced. Over half the time left. He looked around. Snatch and Hatsume were fighting now, while Fatgum tried to reach Haimawari, who in turn was rushing toward him. On all four, crouched down, he was fast. He could probably outrun Izuku if things continued like this.
"Dammit, I need to fight him!" He decided, turning to meet him. He answered to one of his energy bullets, thrown with a hand, the feet pushing him forward like he was floating in mid-air, and Izuku answered with Air Force, the two attacks meeting in the middle and creating a small explosion of compressed air.
But the Crawling King didn't stop. He rushed in, and Izuku answered with a kick… that the man avoided by changing direction at an almost inhuman speed, with no need to slow down before he went from moving forward to moving right. "So his Quirk is jumping, high-speed movement and energy bullets?! That's amazing!"
Zuzu's file didn't have that much on Koichi Haimawari, a native of the Arenaverse. His Quirk was known, Slide and Glide, but the exact limitations weren't. It allowed him to create some sort of force that allowed him to repel stuff. The energy bullets were that same energy shot out at range, though Izuku wondered how strong they could be. Were they powerful enough to knock him out in one shot? The Air Force before had stopped one, but Izuku didn't know if he could fire multiple strikes.
"And Snatch is knocked out! What an intense match!" The announcer shouted, and Izuku saw that Hatsume was now sliding toward them on shoes with propellers under the sole, similar to those his own version of the girl had used at the festival, albeit the one she was facing had a more compact version.
Still, with Snatch out – most likely hit in the head by one of the rubber bullets, if he had to guess at the temple – there were four people left. Fatgum was out, since this had turned into a battle of speed, but the other two were still coming.
Izuku shot a Blackwhip at Haimawari, but the man expected it clearly and changed direction, suddenly sliding left and completely avoiding the whips that fel toward him, even when Izuku made them move like a net. Hatsume shot her weapon toward him, now that he was in range, but he retreated Blackwhip and used a kick to send the bullets fly off in other directions or lose all their strength, striking him with no force left and just making him wince. Yeah, those things still packed a bit of a punch.
"How long?!"
"Fifty-four seconds!"
Izuku groaned and used Blackwhip again, this time aiming at Hatsume, but it was Haimawari this time that forced him to retreat it to stop a repulsion beam. Izuku used Air Force… and immediately saw a second one fly toward him, and a third, and a fourth. "He can shot multiple!"
Deku groaned as one hit him in the chest and a second sent him against the wall, Hatsume adding her own bullets. He winced as both attacks impacted on him, and gritted his teeth.
"Dammit…" He activated Full Cowl at the maximum power he could handle, realizing not doing his best against two opponents working together was going to make him lose, and launched himself forward, but clearly Koichi expected it, moving out of range.
Izuku grinned, and the man had a second to look at him before a fist came down. He managed to dodge with his head, but Fatgum's punch impacted him in the back, making him gasp and sending him bouncing on the ground with gritted teeth. Fatgum panted, clearly a bit spent with having to run with all his needed fat, and then rushed Koichi to finish him, while Izuku went for Hatsume. He just needed one armband. Just one…
"Twenty seconds, mister Izuku!"
Hatsume saw him coming and unleashed another hail of bullets, but Izuku, aside from wondering just how big the magazine of the arm-mounted machine gun was, managed to crouch, dodge the first wave, and then once again pull himself forward with Blackwhip. He arrived right at range, used a kick to bat aside the machine gun arm… and Danger Sense screamed as Hatsume grinned and revealed a second machine gun in the other arm.
Izuku's eyes went wide, and he could almost see everything slowed down. Hatsume closed her fist, and he knew he wasn't going to dodge, the incoming hail of rubber bullets to his chest. It was going to not just hurt, but also probably make him lose all his mobility. If only he had some protection. His racing mind wondered if he should have bough a shield like Captain Kamino.
"Request accepted. Printing registered project number 3, Captain Kamino's shield."
Izuku felt the dizziness again, pain in the palm of his hand, and then something.
Something round and metallic in his hands, and the sound of rubber bouncing on metal. Almost reflexively, he kept the object held tight and slammed it forward the moment Hatsume, with a bewildered look, tried to build distance again. She got hit in the face, launching a sharp cry, and Izuku, instinctively, grabbed his first objective.
The armband.
"And we have a winner!" The announcer shouted, "The title of A-Lister goes to Izuku Midoriya from J-082! The B-Lister, in a shocking turn of events, will be…"
Izuku's hears were ringing, as he gasped, letting go the round shield that had appeared from nowhere in his hands. He looked down. It was a perfect metallic copy, and it was made of small… particles.
Panting, he looked at his hand, were he still felt some pain.
He opened them, looking at the small holes open near the center of both. No, not holes, tubes.
And as he watched, with wide eyes and feeling himself panting faster and faster, he looked down at the shield.
The mind went back to the third Universe Izuku had visited, right after his fight with Himiko Toga and his meeting with Izmird.
'Luckily, they can't just infect anyone.'
His fight, in which he had been injured.
'They can only enter through open wounds…' The voice of the Emerald Knight resonated in his head, even over the ringing in his ears – or maybe because of it.
Izuku panted.
'and only in an area where there is a heavy saturation of them…' Like an alley covered in nanomachines he had passed through on his way to the hotel.
"Mister Izuku. Mister Izuku…" Epsi's voice arrived to his ears, muffled through the ringing as someone else's voice came to mind.
'you don't want the nanomachines to reach other worlds.' Izzzuku's voice commented in a jovial tone in his memories, 'Yeah, Isaac would bash me in the head for this. I don't think you will be allowed to help after all.'
Izuku felt someone help him outside the arena, heard the Announcer make some comment on how tired he must have been, but his mind was focused on only one thing.
'What do I do now?'
-x-
"That's a nice Quirk he has." Kiruka commented.
"Yeah. He didn't tell us about it, but I suppose he didn't know." Rikiya replied, while sending a message out with his phone, "No big deal, though. We expect One for All users to be… unpredictable. He made a good show, and he just won me a whole lot of money by pushing the Crawling King to the B-List. I think he has just attracted a lot of attention with this win."
"Speaking of which, why were Hatsume and Himawari working together?"
"Well, they are friends. The Naruhata Fighters and the JTO have a long history, since Knuckleduster first fought here twenty or so years ago. It's natural some of the JTO fighters and the Naruhata fighters share that bond."
She raised an eyebrow, "The only reason?"
"I don't see why else they would try to work together." He replied.
Kiruka took a sip of her champagne, and looked down at the glass. "What about the thing I spoke about?" Kiruka asked. Isaac had showed up in a hurry, that night, telling her about the whole disaster. He had been so in a hurry she didn't even think about telling him that Izzzuku and Deku were here, though to be fair it wasn't likely Star Might would have wanted to stop and meet them, since he Teleported away the moment their talk was finished.
"The JTO and the League have a close relation. If you want to investigate our fighters, by all means, do so. I just ask that you don't disrupt the Tournament without a valid reason."
"That's… surprisingly generous."
"Is it? From my point of view, it's more likely you find nothing among the fighters." He shrugged, "After all, we will have only sixty-four once today is finished. I hardly care if you find your culprit among the other ninety-six, and I sincerely think the odds are in my favor there."
"Gambling again?"
"It's what makes my world go round?" He replied, with a satisfied smile. She shook her head and glanced at Izzzuku, who was frowning. What was he thinking about?"
-x-
'Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.' Izzzuku repeated. 'Come on, I must be wrong… It can't be that…'
Izzzuku was a thousand and six hundred years old. It wasn't easy to make him lose his cool. And while he might have not had a real brain, he wasn't dumb either.
Which was why he knew the situation was bad and had lost his cool. He remembered the nanomachines universe. He remembered the explanation of the contagious effect they had. Frankly, he had considered the idea Izuku might have had them, but Epsi had mentioned not finding them inside him.
Of course, maybe there was some mechanic of their spread they didn't know about. It was far from unthinkable, since all they had was a short conversation with the Emerald Knight. Maybe they didn't immediately spread throughout the body. Maybe they first focused on the implant, and it wasn't something Zuzu could find with the exams she made.
Still, the problem was there.
"Izzzuku, something wrong?"
Izzzuku never lied. He strictly believed that there was no reason to, and he had never lied once in his life. So, even now, he felt the need to tell her the truth.
But what would Kiruka do?
What would the League do?
Hopefully, take Izuku back to the Nanoverse and make the Emerald Knight pull the Implant out. Which on paper sounded like an easy solution, but how long did that take? Did it have side effects for who underwent the effect?
Izuku only had so much time before All for Deku did whatever he was planning to do to his world. And still, in the mid of all that, and despite his dislike for the concept, Izuku had tried to hold his end of the deal him and Izzzuku had concluded in his mind back at the Star Tower, trying to find a way to day for the dream being.
He gritted his teeth.
No, he wouldn't shot Izuku's chances to find help. Yet.
"There is a lot wrong." He finally said. There, not a lie. A lot of things were going wrong, even if Kiruka didn't know everything. "I'll go check on Izuku. See if he is ok. Alright?"
"Sure. Think something happened?"
"I think so. He didn't look fine."
"Need help?" Kiruka asked again.
"I don't think so. I think I can handle it." He replied, "If I need extra help I know who to ask." He winked. 'Not you or Isaac, but definitely the Emerald Knight'.
Kiruka nodded, and he left the room. Not lying, as he knew well, didn't mean telling everything.
As he rushed down the corridor, he hoped his friend was doing well.
(xx)
Been a while since we had an entire chapter in one universe, and one without any crossover character (though I suppose I did mention Captain Kamino).
Well, congratulations for those that called it in advance. I'm happy to say there were actually a few people. I'm glad the build-up to this reveal was done properly.
And hey, Izuku got something out of this journey apparently.
