Asta yawned, while scratching his stomach as he came down the stairs of the house. He entered the kitchen to have to blink away the tiredness from his eyes, as he had a momentary jolt at almost greeting Noelle like he was back at the Black Bulls' house. Instead of one of his best friends, he was entering a kitchen that had Noelle's mother Acier and Mimosa and Kirsch's mother Nickole, eating breakfast together.

"Morning," said Asta. After Lumiére and Licht brought him over to the section of the town that housed people from their world, Lady Acier Silva immediately invited Asta to stay with her. She and her sister wanted all the stories about their kids and Asta didn't have the heart to say no. Acier and Nickole were happy to hear the stories about their kids.

"Morning, Asta," said Acier, cheerfully. "How did you sleep?"

"Alright," said Asta. There wasn't actually day and nights, but it was good to keep a routine of having waking hours and sleeping hours.

"Today, I'm taking you to Odd Jobs," said Acier. "It'll help you figure out what you want to do, now that you have the time." Acier and her sister became blacksmiths. Lumiére and Licht got himself a workshop to invent things. The past few days, Asta was hanging around the other Wizard Kings. And while he didn't mind playing cards with them, Asta had always been an active person. He didn't need to train anymore, though he still managed to do his exercises, and it started to bother him inside that there was nothing for him to do.

"That's cool, I don't think I can be idle much longer," said Asta. "So, Odd Jobs, huh? What's that about?"

"Oh, well, basically, everyone's shops can use the extra help. It's been a practice to send the new arrivals to Odd Jobs for a while. The guy who runs it is kind of difficult, but overall, he's a good guy," replied Nickole, who looked exactly like her Acier, even though they weren't twins. Mimosa and Kirsch's mom had also been affected by the curse of Megicula. Kirsch, Mimosa and Noelle destroyed the demon as a result (Asta helped a bit).

Asta nodded, as he sat down at the kitchen table. A bowl of oatmeal was given to him. "It'll be a good chance to meet a lot of people. I'm kind of interested in meeting what kind of other people wind up here."

"Some weirdos for one," said Acier, playfully.

Geez, maybe staying with them was a bad idea. I miss Noelle and Mimosa too much, Asta thought to himself as he ate the food prepared for him. Noelle was one of his best friends, battle tested friends, someone that Asta came to rely on in battle. He didn't think he had gone too many days without seeing her in some capacity since he was fifteen years old. And then there was Mimosa, who grew into an exceptionally amazing healer and combat support specialist. With Mimosa in the Golden Dawn, Asta hadn't worried too much about Yuno being alone since the kind-hearted Mimosa would be there for Asta's rival.

Oh, there he went thinking about Yuno again.

He felt his throat get tight at the thought of his most important person. While he had been in this place for a few days and he thought he processed the fact that he was dead, there was a kind of longing sadness that settled in Asta's heart. He slowed eating so that he could get any tears under control.

"Hey, finish up! The sooner I get you to Odd Jobs the better," said Acier.

Asta finished the oatmeal as he was not one to waste food. "Sounds good!"

He and Acier left the little house and headed down the streets. Acier said, "Odd Jobs is on the edge of town, as he generally doesn't want to be bothered."

Asta thought the man he was about to working for sounded lonely. The nameless town was impressive every time Asta walked through it, there was always something to see. It was a town of people who didn't know what to do with free time. How many people here saved their world or worlds? How many of them were people who protected? How many were alone? Asta was happy to see some familiar faces. He hate to think if he was here with no one familiar with his world.

"Good morning, Lady Acier," boomed a voice. Behind them, there was All Might with the green-haired freckled-faced Izuku and Asta was glad to see the other man. Acier and Asta stopped walking to let them catch up. He hoped Izuku had been doing alright since that day at the ramen stand where Izuku burst into tears after seeing his mentor for the first time in what was probably a long time.

"Yagi! How've you been," greeted Acier. "Going to Odd Jobs too?"

"Yep, Young Midoriya is getting restless," said Yagi. "Ah, Young Asta! Pleasure to see you again."

"All Might, sir, and Izuku, glad to see you," said Asta, grinning. "You getting bored too, Izuku?"

"Yeah, you too, I guess," said Izuku, smiling sheepishly.

Together, they finally reached the small building on the edge of town, that had a haphazardly place sign that read "Odd Jobs Gin-chan." Acier wasted no time and entered the building. The door had a bell on it, but when Asta got a look around the room, it had a couple of couches and a desk.

There was a man sleeping on one of the couches with a book covering his face.

Acier hefted a sigh and shared a look with Yagi. Acier, as nicely as possible, went over to the couch to shake the man awake. "Gintoki, it's time to get up! We want you to meet the new arrivals."

"Gin-san doesn't want to babysit. Go away," mumbled the man, tiredly.

"Well I guess you don't want the cake I brought you," said Acier, who Asta realized had been carrying a bag.

The man quickly threw the book across the room and sat up. The white curly haired man had dead fish eyes held his hands out for the cake. Acier gave it to him. "If you help these two out, I'll get Miss Makoto to make you her cherry pies."

"You don't play fair, Acier," said the man. He looked at Asta and Izuku. "Name's Sakata Gintoki."

"I'm Asta," he said.

"I'm Midoriya Izuku," Izuku said.

"So, what were guys? Protagonists, rivals or dead heroic parent," asked Gintoki, shoveling cake into his mouth.

Asta didn't understand a word he just said, "I was the Wizard King and Asta was the Number One Hero."

"Ah, so protagonists," said Gintoki, grimacing. "Acier, Yagi, I want parfaits too, k, thanks."

"Of course, Young Gintoki," said Yagi. "Let's leave them to it, Lady Acier!"

With that Acier and Yagi left Asta and Izuku in the small office of the strange curly-haired man. Asta knew he had to make the best of it, even if his temporary new boss didn't seem too enthusiastic to help him or Izuku with anything. Their new boss was too busy eating the cake like he hadn't had food in days.

"So, what do you need us to do," asked Izuku, hesitantly.

"Yeah, whatever it is, we'll do our best," said Asta, who was no stranger to odd jobs or gopher jobs.

Gintoki scoffed, "You don't have to be so happy about working, guys. But the listing of current Odd Jobs are on the desk. Do whatever you want." With that he finished the cake and laid back down to go back to sleep. This man had no interest in helping or directing them.

Asta gave Izuku a worried look. Izuku shrugged. Waiting until they heard snoring from the white-haired man before they went over to the desk where there was booklet. Asta picked it up and saw that it was the listing of the businesses in the town and what they usually needed help doing as an "Odd Job." There was also shoved in there between the pages a receipt book and it seemed Gintoki was paid in sweets.

"Well, I know how to do farm work. And I've been forced to work food stands," said Asta, keeping his voice down so not to wake the sleeping man on the couch.

"These don't seem too hard or tedious," said Izuku. "Why don't we take a few Odd Jobs each? We got to find extra receipt paper and pens."

"Divide and conquer," said Asta, nodding, appreciating that someone valued hard work as much as he did. If they did three Odd Jobs each, it would fill up a solid 8 hours of work.

"Extra receipt booklets is in the top drawer of the desk," called out Gintoki, without waking. Who knew if he was even sleeping? "One of you bring me dinner at the end of the day. And get paid in full!"

Asta snorted. "You bet, Boss."

Izuku rolled his eyes, as he searched the top drawer of the desk for what they needed. Izuku helpfully wrote down each of their jobs they were taking for the day. With a list in hand, Asta and Izuku excited the Odd Jobs' office.

"Good luck! I'll see you later," said Asta.

"You too! Give it your best," said Izuku, encouragingly.

Asta grinned as he looked at some of the jobs on the list and decided to go to the Son Farm for his first stop.

Notes:

Cameos:

Sakata Gintoki from Gintama