Running across the beach that had once been littered by garbage, Shigeo was partaking in his daily exercises alongside All Might at the Takoba Municipal Beach Park, where they continued to train after school and on their days off. The day after the sports festival had been rather quiet, though most of the esper's thoughts were focused around Iida's brother and Bakugo's changes in behavior, as well as how he couldn't detect those changes. The night sky was wondrous, and the bright moon reflected beautifully off of the clear water. Thanks to all the training he'd done these months, what used to have brought him to the brink of collapse was now only slightly exhausted, causing the esper to brim with confidence.

The number one hero, who was running alongside him in his weak form, observed this remarkable improvement. "I remember a time where these several mile-long runs would leave you sprawled out on the ground, but look at you now! You're breezing through these runs like a champion!"

Mob's face lit up with a rare light. "I wish I could've shown this improvement to the Body Improvement Club, to see whether or not I'd be able to keep up with them now."

"I'm sure you would, but I'm also sure that I couldn't, not like this. In fact, why don't we take a little break..." The two of them sat on the white sand and enjoyed the breath-taking scenery before them.

"You and young Midoriya really did your work clearing this place up," All Might remarked, "I've noticed that there've been a lot of teen couples coming here. It's become a popular dating spot thanks to your effort. I even saw a newspaper print a story about it."

"I've noticed a lot of couples come here too," Mob replied.

"But it was only possible thanks to the hard work you and Midoriya put in: every day, you'd take the time to move that trash out of the beach. Though it may not have seemed like much in the short-run, all the incremental progress that was made paid off in the end, and it's allowing people to enjoy themselves here once again."

Kageyama's brain paused for a second, the wording that All Might had used triggering another strong realization similar to the realization he'd gotten with Recovery Girl and his healing. "That's right. The change wasn't something that occurred instantly: it was something that took time and effort to accomplish." The esper felt as though an epiphany had hit him, a problem that had been nagging him ever since he'd talked with Midoriya after the sports festival. "That's the reason why I couldn't notice any changes with Bakugo! Because my view of change is too narrow! I wasn't able to pay enough attention, observe his behavior from a different angle, too focused on immediate changes instead of looking for small ones!"

The number one hero could see that Kageyama had figured something important out, though was a bit unclear about what the esper was referring to. Shigeo looked at All Might and could tell the hero was perplexed by what the psychic was talking about. "During my fight with Bakugo, after he unleashed his Howitzer Impact, I expressed my disappointment in the way he insulted Midoriya, how he didn't remember the names of his classmates, said that he hadn't changed at all, and I actually went so far as to say he might never change. That was a really mean thing to say, and it turned out to not even be true."

All Might pursed his lips in a straight line and slightly lifted his head down. Indeed, that was quite a dramatic statement the esper made to Bakugo that would leave a rather large impact on the explosive teenager. "Bakugo does have a ferocious nature, a demeanor that demands greatness, looks down on others who don't possess amazing power and has a fiery determination to surpass those who possess equal or larger power to him. And yet, his determination to excel and improve himself is unlike anything I've encountered in anyone before, even Midoriya. He didn't need anyone to teach him that there's a difference between those who aim for the top and those who will settle, and that difference matters."

"Midoriya also talked about Bakugo like that," replied Mob. Though he'd been trying to change Bakugo and make him see the error of his ways, he now understood that the methods he were using were not the right ones, and he'd been so determined to do it his way, that he'd also blinded himself to the positive qualities that Bakugo possessed.

Despite feeling the guilt of misjudging Bakugo's positive characteristics, the esper felt as though a large weight of confusion and guilt was being lifted off of his shoulders. Now that he knew where he went wrong, where he was incorrect in his assessment of Bakugo, he could find a way to make it right, to rectify the mistakes he had made and make amends for what he'd said and done to Bakugo.

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The two-day break had gone by rather quickly, and now the students were all going back to school. As the esper was taking the train into the city and U.A. High, he was being bombarded by praise from all the passengers, who had all watched his truly remarkable performance in the sports festival.

"You're Shigeo Kageyama, right?" a passenger said, "Man, I can't believe I'm seeing you in-person."

"Your powers are really something else! I'm sure you're going to be a top hero by the time you graduate from U.A. High!"

"It sucks that you couldn't win the festival, but second place is still pretty great!"

The second-place winner of the sports festival blushed at the praise being received from the people in this train car: so he'd made an impression on these people with his powers by showing the world what he could really do, just as All Might had asked of him. At least he'd succeeded in that regard, as this support was proving him.

Shigeo's stop quickly came after, and the teenager was met with some light rain. He put up his umbrella and began his walk to school, but as he was walking, he recognized the ash-blonde hair of his classmate up ahead.

"Hey Bakugo!" The psychic waved the teenager down, for he had something extremely important he needed to tell Katsuki. The explosive student paused when he heard the esper's voice coming from behind him. He groaned in annoyance and frustration: now what was the bowl-cut going to say? Was he going to give another lecture, try to tell him that he was a crappy person, give him more threats? He was getting really tired of this repeated schtick, and was expecting more of the same stuff, which was why it was all-the-more surprising when he stood up in front of him and bowed. What the hell was this? Why was he bowing?

"I wanted to say that I'm sorry for what I said to you before in the ring, and for fighting you back in the alleyway." The blonde teenager gasped and recoiled in surprise: the bowl-cut was actually apologizing to him? The esper looked back at his classmate, though he could not find it in himself to stare Katsuki straight in the eye. "I was too focused on all the negative things you'd done, that I let my judgement be clouded. Because of that, I couldn't see that you've changed in some ways, even if you won't admit it. My understanding of change was just too narrow: I couldn't see that some people can't instantly change themselves, that you couldn't just instantly change your behavior after just talking to you."

Shigeo quickly found the strength to look back at his classmate, and a flash of resolve was present in his eyes. "Well, from now on, I'm going to be more patient with you and wait for you to adjust yourself slowly. I also plan on being more observant to make sure that I don't say big things without knowing the full story. So even though I still don't agree with the way you treat others, and I still think you should be more accepting of our classmates, I'm not gonna be so harsh and judging of you any longer.

"Even though you might not feel the same, I still view you as a friend, and I look forward to the day you open yourself up to me and view me as a friend too."

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The esper gave another quick, respectful bow to his classmate before resuming his walk to the school, leaving the explosive teenager frozen in-place, his eyes widened with shock and his body frozen. Yet again, the bowl-cut had found a way to take Bakugo by surprise and to say something he hadn't expected at all. Even now, Bakugo still never knew what to expect from him...

As the esper was walking through the street and toward the school, he came across his green-haired friend, looking rather drowsy. "Oh hey, Midoriya."

"Hey Kageyama."

The esper was about to give a response, but the two classmates heard some rapidly approaching footsteps. They turned around and saw that Iida was sprinting towards them wearing a green raincoat that was covering most of his body. "Good morning, Midoriya, Kageyama!" The spectacled student raced past the two friends, and they decided to increase their pace to match Iida's.

"But there's still five minutes until the first bell!" said Midoriya.

"U.A. students should always arrive ten minutes early, don't you think!" The spectacled teenager increased his speed and left his two friends behind. Both of them exchanged looks of confusion and uncertainty: even after his brother had been injured, he was still acting like his usual self.

The three classmates all made it to the locker rooms, where they were taking off their rain gear and putting their umbrellas. As they were doing this, the bowl-haired teenager looked on at his classmate with concern, for he knew that having his brother injured at any level must've been a very traumatic experience.

"Iida, I heard that your brother was hurt by a-"

"Oh, don't worry about that." The blue-haired teenager removed the hood of his raincoat and looked at the esper with a smile and his regular expression on his face. "My brother's fine. I'm sorry if I made you concerned." Tenya walked away from the two friends, though the esper was still not very satisfied with the spectacled boy's answer. Even though Iida said he was fine, and he was acting like his regular self, the psychic was still not positive about Iida's response. Could he really be ok with what had happened? Was he able to handle this better than Kageyama could?

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"Ii-"

Kageyama attempted to speak out to his friend again, but before he could, Kirishima interrupted the esper and placed his hand on Shigeo's shoulder. "Hey Kageyama. Just the guy I was looking for. There's something I wanted to talk to you about, and we've still got a few minutes before class starts."

"Oh, sure."

"If you two've got something to talk about, I'll just head to class." The green-haired teenager decided to leave the two students to themselves and walked out of the locker room. The esper decided to take a seat on the benches, curious to know what this was all about.

"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Kageyama said.

"Well..." Kirishima sat beside his classmate and decided to express the thoughts that had been stirring around in his mind during the two-day break. "I had some time to think during the break about everything you've said, the way you want to continuously improve yourself. Your manly words have managed to bring the class together in a pretty big way, remind them that we're all in this together. Then I remembered what you said about the club in your middle school, the Body Improvement Club. Those guys also sounded like real men, committed to improving themselves and making sure to pick up the other members when they fall down. And suddenly, an idea came to my mind." The red-haired student lifted his finger into the air. "What if we started our own Body Improvement Club?"

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"Our own Body Improvement Club?"

"Yea! I think it'd be another great way to bring our class together, and it'd also make our bodies stronger. I looked into it a little on my own, and found out that the hero course can't have any official clubs, so it would just be an unofficial club comprised of our classmates and maybe some of the students of Class 1-B if they really wanted. And you would be the president! Doesn't that sound badass?" Kirishima gave a hardy pat on the back to Shigeo.

"So whaddya say?"

The esper remained silent for a moment, contemplating what Kirishima had just told him. Truth is, he'd never considered restarting the Body Improvement Club on his own. Once he'd been transported to this reality, he'd thought that part of him was gone as well, even though he still worked out relentlessly with Midoriya. But to begin the Body Improvement Club again? And as the leader no less? He'd never held a leadership position before, and the idea of leading a new Body Improvement Club definitely sounded difficult.

But at the same time, a part of him also felt excited about it. He'd truly enjoyed his time with the Body Improvement Club, created many fine memories and strong bonds with all of them. They'd all been there for him, been a positive influence and showed him what it meant to improve himself, to continue to persevere against all the odds and against all the pain to push his body harder and harder, to never give up. The Body Improvement Club had been a pivotal role in his progression as a person, and if a new body improvement club could be made with students from Class 1-A, they would not only strengthen their bodies, but their bonds and their hearts as well.

With all the positives outweighing the minor negatives, Mob looked back at his friend and gave him a smile of agreement. "Let's do it!"

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"Awesome, baby!" The red-haired teenager got up from his seat and pumped his fist in the air. "Now that's what I'm talking about! That's what I like to hear! Since you're the one who was actually part of the Body Improvement Club, I'll leave it to you to decide how the exercises are gonna work, what kinda training we're gonna do, what time we'll work out, things like that. Meanwhile, I'll focus on getting people to join the club and convince them how awesome it'll be. Sound like a plan?" Kirishima put his hand out to give his friend a good handshake, and with a brimming face, the esper returned the manly handshake.

"Good! Now, we should get going to class!" Shigeo and Eijiro got their things together and headed for their classroom, and when they got there, they found their classmates talking amongst themselves, about the way the citizens had reacted to their presence and their performances in the sports festival. The two teenagers took their seats, and very shortly after arriving, the homeroom teacher also entered the class. Many of the classmates took note of his recovered state, particularly Shigeo.

"I'm really glad to see that you're not wearing your bandages anymore," Shigeo said.

"The old lady went a bit overboard on the treatment," the teacher replied, "Anyway, we have a big class today, on hero informatics." Many of the students were fearful of this wording, feeling that whatever it was, it couldn't be good.

"You need codenames. Time to pick your hero identities." The class all bounced up with excitement, relieved to know it wasn't something difficult and requiring much brainpower, but the teacher quickly brought order back to the class by turning his quirk on, lifting his hair up as well. "This is related to the pro-hero draft picks I mentioned the last time we were in class together. Normally, students wouldn't have to worry about the draft pick until the second or third year, but your class is an exception. In fact, by extending offers to first-years like you, pros are investing in your potential."

"Now, here are the totals for those of you who got offers." Aizawa took out a remote and showed the results on the blackboard, which went as followed:

Kageyama: 6,985

Todoroki: 4,728

Bakugo: 3,082

Tokoyami: 371

Iida: 301

Kaminari: 272

Yaoyorozu: 108

Kirishima: 97

Sero: 14

Many of the students were quite shocked, some of them disappointed at the fact that they hadn't received any offers despite their performances and despite the fact that some of them had qualified for the third events, those people including Aoyama, Ashido, Uraraka, and Midoriya. From behind him, Mineta was shaking the discouraged Midoriya, rubbing some salt in the wound by telling him the reason he likely didn't have any nominations was because of the way he injured himself by using his attacks.

Bakugo, on the other hand, was surprised at the fact that he'd received more than three thousand nominations from heroes despite the fact that he'd lost to the bowl-cut in the first match of the third event.

"You got three thousand offers? That's really impressive," said Kirishima, "Guess it's because you performed so well against Kageyama and actually kept him on his toes."

"Check it out! Kageyama got almost seven thousand offers!" The electricity-wielding student expressed his amazement at the high number of offers. Midoriya also took note of this, baffled by how many offers the psychic had received, and thanks to his nerd brain when it came to everything about heroes, he knew something about this that was even more astounding.

"There're about seven thousand hero agencies in Japan, so that means Kageyama was scouted by almost every hero agency in Japan!" The fanboy's statement elicited several gasps from most of the students, and the esper's head jerked back in shock. Almost every hero agency in Japan had sent him an internship? Despite the fact that he'd failed to win against Todoroki and take first place, he was still able to impress all those heroes? This managed to take away the large weight of guilt he'd been feeling ever since his loss: even though he didn't win, he'd still done as All Might had said and showed what he could do to the entire world.

Even so, a new feeling of shock was setting in. Midoriya hadn't gotten a single offer from any heroes. So did that mean he couldn't intern with any heroes? As it turned out, he was wrong.

"Despite these results, you'll all be interning with pros," said Aizawa, "Even those who didn't receive any offers.

"You already got to experience combat against real villains during the attack at the U.S.J. facility. But it'll still be helpful to see pros at work. Up close, in-personal, in the field, which is why you'll need hero names. These hero names will likely be temporary, but take them seriously, or-"

"You'll have hell to pay later." Entering through the door was the dominatrix hero, looking as revealing as always with her hero costume, which some of the more women-savy students such as Mineta, Kaminari, and Sero, always enjoyed seeing. "What you pick today could be your codename for life. You better be careful, or you could be stuck with something utterly indecent for life."

"She's got a point," the unkempt hero said, "Midnight's gonna have approval of all your names, since it's not really my forte.

"The name you give yourself is important. It helps reinforce your image and shows what kind of hero you want to be in the future. A codename tells people exactly what you represent. Take All Might, for example."

The bowl-haired student started to think deeply about this as he was being handed a whiteboard and a marker to write down his hero name. Mr. Aizawa was correct: this wasn't something that could just be done haphazardly. He needed to think hard about what his hero name would be. It had to be something special, something that represented exactly who he was, who he wanted to be.

The first one to go up was Aoyama, whose hero name was "I Can Not Stop Twinkling." Though it seemed ridiculous to the whole class, Midnight seemed to think it was on the right track, only making a few changes to make it roll off the tongue easier. And so, one-by-one, the students all went to the front of the classroom, each of them trying to overcome their nerves of going up and trying to think of a clever name. A few of them were clever, such as Tsu's name, Froppy, and brought cheering, while others were not as creative or unique, such as Shoto's hero name, which was just simply his name. Still, this wasn't making it much easier for Shigeo to come up with his hero name. Would he just have it be something related to his psychic powers? Could it be something that simple? Still, he felt as though there had to be more heart, more meaning to his hero name. Shigeo hoped that someone would come along and give a hero name that could give him a flash of inspiration.

After enough time, the only ones that were remaining were Shigeo, Izuku, Tenya, and Katsuki, whose name was not viewed by Midnight as acceptable. So then Tenya went, and he chose his hero name as his regular name. Next came his friend: now this was someone that he'd been waiting for. Not only was he curious what he'd choose his hero name to be, but he was hoping to get some inspiration from him with his hero name.

The fanboy went up to the front of the class and showed the name he chose to everyone: Deku. The class, and even Shigeo, was surprised at the choice Midoriya made.

"Really? You sure about that?" said Kaminari.

"That could be your hero name forever," added Kirishima.

"Right. I used to hate it, but now I realize it could have a different meaning, and that had a huge impact on how I felt, so now I really like it. Deku, that's my codename." The esper's eyes widened, his dull eyes sparkling very lightly. He knew that it was Uraraka who'd helped with this, who'd helped him to see that the name given by Bakugo could mean something more than just an insult. He looked back, and sure enough, Uraraka was beaming with a large smile on her face. Deku was now a name that meant something to him. So what name held meaning for Shigeo? What was a name that was important to him? More than that, what was a name that could represent who he was and who he wanted to be? There had to be something he could think of!

After Izuku took his seat back, it was finally Shigeo's turn to go up and announce his hero name. "Kageyama, are you ready?" Midnight said.

The dominatrix hero had caught Kageyama just in the middle of the revelation for his hero name, and was vigorously writing on his whiteboard. He'd got an idea for a name that combined all the ideas and inspiration that he believed would best represent the kind of hero he wanted to be. Shigeo went up to the front of the classroom, and showed the rest of his class his hero name.

"I'm the 100 Percent Hero: Mob Psychic." The classmates all exchanged looks of confusion. What did he mean with the 100 percent part of the title?

"This name... it's a promise. A promise that I'm going to give being a hero 100%, all the time, no matter what, just like all of you. The second part, Mob, is also another name that holds importance to me, and I think it has to be part of my codename too. The last part was just a split-second addition I thought sounded cool. Though I guess to save time, you could just call me Mob."

The class's entire disposition became positive, and many of the classmates split their faces with wide smiles, with Izuku's smile being the widest. Even Iida, who was too focused on his feelings about his brother and the sadness he felt, paid attention and showed a brief smile before returning to his neutral expression. The classmates then began to chant Shigeo's hero name.

"Mob! Mob! Mob! Mob! Mob!" The esper felt another light blush grow on his cheeks while he rubbed the back of his head and took his seat. Katsuki was the last one to go, though his hero name was basically the same as before, and was therefore not accepted by Midnight. Still, with those matters out of the way and every student baring the explosive teenager having picked their hero names, next came the draft forms for the internships. The unkempt hero passed out the forms, which had the names of all the hero agencies listed. However, for Shigeo, since he had so many offers, the list of hero agencies were actually three pages long.

Many of the teenagers were speaking amongst themselves as this happened and they looked over the list of hero agencies. While this was happening, the esper was trying to sort out all the hero agencies in his head, but it was too difficult for him. More than ninety five percent of the listed agencies were heroes that he didn't even know about, so he had absolutely no way of knowing which of these agencies was the best pick. He'd have to ask All Might for some help with this after school. Actually, there was someone else who he had to meet with first, to help with something else that was very important, something else that had been on his mind for the past two days.


The school day passed by rather quickly, with most of the day being spent looking over the internship options. Once school was over, Shigeo was one of the first to leave the class with a hurried pace in his steps. Where was he going at such a fast speed? The nurse's office, to see Recovery Girl. There was still the very important matter of the healing that hadn't worked on All Might. Getting this ability mastered was something that he needed to get done as soon as possible, for the sake of All Might to ensure that his body be restored to the way it was, but to do that, he'd need some help.

"Recovery Girl?" Mob opened the door to the nurse's office and found the school nurse at her desk, doing some paperwork.

"Oh, Kageyama. How can I help you today?"

"Well..." The bowl-haired student closed the door and took a seat next to the nurse. "I tried to heal All Might's injuries, but I wasn't really able to do anything, so I was wondering if you could give me some tips or advice on how to hone this healing power, you know, since you have a healing quirk and you're a nurse."

"Hmmm..." Recovery Girl rested her chin between her hand and pondered for a moment. "You're planning to use psychic signals to the body to command it to heal itself. To do that, I believe that you'll have to know exactly what you're sending signals to."

"You're saying that I should learn about the organs and structure of the human body?"

"I think that would help you master that power. If you'd like, I can teach you about the human anatomy."

"You'd really do that? You're sure it won't take too much time?"

"Being the school nurse doesn't leave me with too much to do, besides treating that reckless boy, Midoriya. I'd be happy to teach you a thing or two about the human body."

The esper's dull eyes lit up with appreciation, and his voice began to lighten up. "Thank you, Recovery Girl."

The school nurse similarly beamed with a pleasant aura. Shigeo was a very gentle spirit who was committed to helping others and doing whatever he could for those he cared for, and the dedication was being shown yet again. Recovery Girl could tell that this child would accomplish great things, both as a hero and as a healer. "Well, let's not waste any time dilly-dallying and get started right away."


The next two hours were spent in the nurse's office, going over the material in a large medical book with multiple diagrams of the human body. Recovery Girl decided to focus the teaching on the stomach as well as the other intestines, such as the gall blader, liver, and kidneys. However, his limited intelligence made it rather difficult for him to grasp some of the concepts and how the specified organs worked. Even so, he now had a general basis of these organs, which could give him a better grasp on regenerating those body parts with his powers. And if he had Recovery Girl to teach him, that would make things go by even smoother.

Despite how difficult the lesson had been, Mob knew that the day was not over: there were still some other extremely important things that he needed to get started on, and he'd need All Might's help to do it. The first thing was to decide which hero agency he wanted to go to.

The esper entered the apartment to find All Might relaxing on the couch with his tie loosened and his body slouched. But his body quickly went into a straight position when he saw Shigeo enter the room.

"Young Kageyama! How was your day? More importantly, how many internships did you get?"

"Almost seven thousand." The number one hero comedically spat out blood when he heard this ridiculously high number of offers that had been extended to the esper.

"Well, you certainly made the impression I was hoping for with all those heroes!"

"That's actually what I was hoping you'd help me with. I don't really know which hero agency to choose."

"Sure thing!" The esper took the registration form and the list of agencies who'd sent him offers out of his backpack while All Might got a pen from nearby. The number one hero took the three pages of hero agencies in his hand and started looking down the list of heroes.

"Wow, even I don't know most of these heroes. They all must be pretty desperate to get the chance to get you on as an intern, since they obviously saw your limitless potential. Still, you're going to want a high-ranking hero, one with plenty of advanced knowledge and abilities. I don't think getting stronger is what you should focus on, but rather, getting experience, judgement, and proper analysis skills, which is what I think you need most. Even though you've already fought plenty of villains, I still think the right hero will allow you to widen your field of vision and sharpen those skills. Now let's see which one would be best..."

The hero put the hero agency lists on the desk, allowing both of them to look at all the agencies. All Might scrolled down the list with his finger, momentarily pausing for some of the higher ranking heroes, but still not viewing them as the right picks. But then, he let a short bark of triumph when he came across a very high-ranking hero agency.

"Here's a great match! Hawks!"

"Hawks?"

"He's the number three hero who's renowned for his remarkable speed and sharp senses. I've heard that he's so fast, most of his interns can't even keep up with him, though I'm sure that won't be a problem for you. He started his own hero agency when he was eighteen, and rose to the top ten in only half a year, making him the youngest person ever to accomplish this, an extremely impressive feat that demonstrates his keen intuition and sharp instincts. If you interned with him, I'm sure you'd pick up a lot of important pointers."

The bowl-haired psychic saw no reason to object to the symbol of peace's suggestion and nodded his head in agreement, taking the pen and writing down the hero's name on the registration form. Shigeo didn't put much thought into a possible alternative, for he wanted to move on to the other important thing that had been on his mind.

"All Might, I also wanted to talk to you about a new Body Improvement Club that I'm thinking of creating."

"A new Body Improvement Club?"

"Kirishima suggested the idea and that I'd be its leader. I need to come up with all the workouts and the schedule, which isn't really the hard part. The hard part..." The esper's head tilted down and his eyebrows furrowed down. "The hard part is being a good leader. I've never had to lead anyone before, and I think this club is going to need a good leader if the members are going to properly strengthen themselves. I want to be that leader. I want to be as good a leader as Captain Musashi was, but I just don't know how to do that. So what do you think it takes to be a good leader?"

All Might could see the insecurity laced in Shigeo's voice: even now, the esper did not possess a great deal of confidence in himself. "First, try to reflect on the previous captain's leadership, since he seems to have inspired you quite a bit. What qualities does he possess that makes you want to be a leader like him?"

"Well..." The esper thought hard on this question and tapped his chin repeatedly. "He's always radiated this sort of strength and confidence. His determination to improve himself and become physically stronger was also really inspiring. He felt like someone who you could rely on, no matter what."

"You've just described it perfectly," the hero said, "While there're other important factors in leadership, I believe the most important part is having confidence. You must be able exude that same kind of confident aura, to take pride in yourself, knowing that you're a prime example of someone with a strong body, developed through hard work and determination."

The esper looked at his empty hand and clenched it with determination: All Might was right. He needed to be more confident in himself. Even though he'd once been physically weak, he'd overcome his weakness and become a stronger person. If he wanted to continue improving himself, this was his next step he needed to take: to learn how to become an effective leader who inspired his club members just as his previous club members had inspired him.

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The next few days were spent working as hard as possible for Shigeo, making the proper schedule of the list of exercises for which days, how long the runs would be, and which muscles the exercises would be working. What time wasn't spent on working on the development of the Body Improvement Club was spent diligently reading about the human anatomy, as well as a few online articles about being an effective leader. Because of this hard-set determination in creating this new club and researching more about the human body, it left no time at all to pay attention to Iida and his feelings on his brother. He'd heard from whispers that the one who attacked him was someone named Stain, but he didn't pay much attention beyond that. Usually, that would be his first priority, but Iida seemed to have been managing his emotions rather well when he first saw him, and he had his family to help him through his problems. These were the excuses he was making to himself to focus on the other important things he needed to do, mainly heal the number one hero. All Might was his mentor, the one who'd been there to help him when he was at his lowest in this world, and helping him get him back to his old self was something he needed to do. For the esper, that was priority number one.

He was so consumed with his work that he also didn't watch any television, so he didn't see the news report about the extensive damage to Ingenium, which is why he didn't find anything odd about the fact that Iida chose Hosu City for his place to intern. There had also been an amateur video taken by a bystander after the fight between Ingenium and Stain: though the citizen was only able to capture a brief moment, they recorded the Hero Killer standing victorious over the hero, particularly the small speech that he made about false heroes in this society.

When making all the details of the new Body Improvement Club, he also decided to appoint a vice president for this club, with the obvious choice being Midoriya, and the fanboy obviously accepting the position. He was likewise surprised to hear about a new Body Improvement Club, and was also somewhat excited about the prospect, having heard many good things about the previous Body Improvement Club from Shigeo. At first, Mob felt partly guilty that he didn't make Kirishima the vice president, but the red-haired student was surprisingly accepting of this once Mob broke the news to him. Kageyama kept in contact with Kirishima and gave him the information for the meeting time, which was after school on the day before the internships began. Now all that was left was to see who had actually decided to join the club.

The day before the internships had come, and Shigeo was waiting out in the entrance of the gym alongside Izuku to see who had decided to join the new body Improvement Club.

"I'm feeling kinda nervous for this," Midoriya remarked, "Do you feel the same?"

"Mm-hmm," Mob replied, "I'm still worried if I'm gonna be able to lead this club the right way."

"Come on, don't beat yourself up." The fanboy gave a firm pat on the back to his friend as a move of reassurance, "You're gonna be great."

Shigeo gave his friend a shaky smile and a soft nod before stiffening his body. No, he would be a good leader! He needed to believe that he could be a good leader in order to improve himself, to show that he had the skills to lead others!

The first two to show up were Kirishima and Tetsutetsu, though the appearance of the student from Class 1-B was greatly shocking for the two leaders of the Body Improvement Club.

"Tetsutetsu? You want to be a member of the Body Improvement Club?"

"Kirishima told me about the club, and soon as I heard about it, I thought about how manly it sounded. At first, I was kinda put off that most of the members would be from Class 1-A, but then I started to realize that maybe Class 1-A isn't all that bad. The only bad apple seems to be that Bakugo guy, and if there's a manly guy like you who's leading this club, then I don't have a problem with it!"

The esper lightly gasped at first, but his face quickly brightened and a small smile appeared. He held no animosity towards anyone from Class 1-B, and if Tetsutetsu wanted to improve his body, then Shigeo would be more than happy to accept him.

"I'm glad you decided to join." Shigeo placed his hand out to give the student from Class 1-B a firm handshake. Tetsutetsu reciprocated the small smile and the handshake while Kirishima watched the manly displayed and nodded his head in approval.

"How manly," Kirishima said.

"So who else decided to join the club?" said Midoriya.

"You're about to find out." The red-haired teenager pointed to some of the faces that were coming in. The next one to appear was Tokoyami. The avian student was aware of his physical weakness, and when he heard of this Body Improvement Club that was being started by Kageyama, he viewed it as a good opportunity to overcome this weakness and strengthen his body.

The next three people to come were Uraraka, Tsu, and Yaoyorozu, and even Kendo. The fourth girl was also another shocking member that the esper was not expecting to join this club.

"Kendo, right?"

"You got it!" The ginger-haired teenager stretched her arms behind her head. "I overheard Kirishima talking to Tetsutetsu about this club and thought it sounded pretty cool, so I decided to join up!"

"And the three of us also thought this was a great way to get stronger," Uraraka added, "The Sports Festival showed me that I still have a long way to go in terms of physical strength."

Shigeo was pleased to see that there were girls who were also committed to improving their bodies, whereas his previous Body Improvement Club had only boys as members.

"Is there anyone else coming, Kirishima?" said Kageyama.

"Just one more, and I pretty surprised that he wanted to join."

The esper curved his eyebrow up in curiosity, but when he saw the last person to come, he understood what Kirishima was talking about. It was the dual quirk-wielding teenager, his usual cold glance not as pronounced. "Todoroki? You want to join the club too?"

"Well..." It turned out, the esper's words managed to have more an impact than just following his own path. Todoroki realized that he had indeed been too cold, too distant from others due to the intense hatred for his father being the only thing on his mind. Kageyama's final words to Shoto, reminding him that he was not alone at this school, that he had his classmates and friends at this school. He needed to value the interactions with his classmates more, so when he heard about this Body Improvement Club from Kirishima, he decided to use is at his opportunity to strengthen his body and the bonds with his classmates.

The red and white-haired teenager looked at the leader of the Body Improvement Club and curved his lips up, his eyes not displaying their usual coldness. "I heard about this new club from Kirishima and thought it would be a good after school activity."

The esper noted Todoroki's lighter demeanor and softer eyes. He could tell that Todoroki was beginning to open himself up more with his classmates, that he was using this opportunity presented to him as a means of connecting with his classmates, compared to the isolated, detached teenager he'd known before, and the esper's smile widened.

"So is this everyone, Kirishima?" Shigeo said.

"That's everyone that wanted to join," replied Kirishima.

"Alright." With everyone who signed up having already arrived, the new members all decided to huddle up, and all their eyes were now on the esper. With all the attention being focused on him, Shigeo momentarily tensed up and began to build up a sweat, the nervousness budding up like usual. However, Mob quickly got a hold of himself, puffing his chest up and straightening his body. He needed to present himself with confidence, just like All Might had said, and give his club members some inspiring words. He'd been preparing for this moment! He was ready to lead!

"I'm really glad to see all of you came out here today," Shigeo started, "When I first joined the Body Improvement Club in middle school, I had basically no stamina and often got anemia. I wasn't able to make it this far on my own. It was only because my fellow club members, my friends were there to support me, to pick me up whenever I fell down." Shigeo momentarily paused and exchanged a glance with Izuku before drawing his attention back to the rest of the members. "So remember, the most important part of this club is helping each other out, being there to push us all harder so we can all become stronger together."

The energy of the club members began to rise, each of them beginning to feel more pumped up and brimming with joy. Shigeo picked up on this increased jubilance, which only increased his own joy. Shigeo attempted to use this growing joy in an attempt to impassion himself and continue building up the energy.

"The club has a mantra that we would always chant: Body Improvement! Fight on! So I want us all to chant it together: Body Improvement!"

"Fight on!"

Shigeo still tried to continue building the energy, attempting to stir up whatever passion he could muster inside his heart. "Louder! Body Improvement!"

"Fight on!"

Midoriya, who was also feeling the building rush, followed his friend's lead. "One more time! Body Improvement!"

"FIGHT ON!" All the members pumped their fist in the air, many of them brimming with passion, so-much-so that even other taciturn individuals such as Tokoyami and Todoroki were being caught up in it as well and feeling a more diluted form of this passion, while the more energetic individuals such as Kirishima and Tetsutetsu were absolutely bursting with this positivity and emotion. With the energy having been brought up to the max, Shigeo decided to start them all on the five kilometer run that he had mapped out.

"Alright, everyone! We're gonna start our five kilometer run, so just follow me! Body Improvement!"

"Fight on! Fight on! Fight on! Fight on!" The new Body Improvement Club had now officially begun their first practice, running at full speed right behind Shigeo with their passion running deep within their hearts. With their determination to improve themselves and the bonds of friendship they each carried with one another, this club would accomplish great things, Kageyama knew it.

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The rest of the practice went very well: after the five kilometer run, the Body Improvement Club went to the school gym, where they began doing some weightlifting exercises focusing on the chest and shoulder muscles while also doing some squats. Some of the members were having a difficult time, but they had their other club members to help them push themselves to their limits. By the time the club was over, all the members were sweating like pigs, but they all had smiles on their faces. All of them were happy they'd been able to work hard together and push each other to become stronger. And seeing all those smiles couldn't make Kageyama happier either.


The next day was finally internships. Having packed all their belongings and their hero costumes, the students of Class 1-A all went to the train station. Almost the entire way, Shigeo was on his phone, looking about more information about the respiratory system, the anatomy of the lungs, and how oxygen was transported through the body.

At the train station, Mr. Aizawa was standing with his students, who were all eager for their internships to begin. Even then, Kageyama was in the back of the pack of the students alongside Tokoyami, still looking over the anatomy of the lungs on a medical website.

"Everyone has their costumes, right?" said Aizawa, "Remember, you don't have permission to wear them out in public yet, and don't lose them or anything."

"Gotcha!" a bubbly Ashido said.

"Speak properly: it's yes sir, Ashido."

"Yes sir," she replied with a pouty face.

"Make sure you mind your manners with the other heroes during your internships. Now get to it."

"Yes sir!" With that out of the way, all of the students went their separate ways. Kageyama, however, was so engrossed with his activity that he didn't even realize that his classmates had all left. Tokoyami had to tap him on the shoulder to snap him out of it.

"Kageyama."

"Oh, huh?"

"We must be heading out for Q chute."

"Right."

"You know, I've noticed you've been on your phone, even while Mr. Aizawa was talking. You were fortunate that he didn't spot you, or else you would've been severely reprimanded. So what exactly has been occupying your attention?" The avian student peered over to see Kageyama's phone screen, and curved his eyebrow in confusion when he saw an image of the human lungs on the screen.

"You've been looking at the human anatomy?" said Tokoyami.

The esper awkwardly rubbed the back of his head, unable to think of a proper explanation for this and merely gave a mediocre excuse, "It's just something I've been getting interested in."

Tokoyami looked at him with a bizarre look for a moment before merely shrugging his shoulders. "Well, don't be too distracted. We don't want to be late for the train at the q chute. After all, we have a long train ride."

The two teenagers began walking towards the train, though Kageyama was still engrossed in his phone despite what Tokoyami had said. He'd been so engrossed with his research that he'd completely forgotten to say farewell to his friends like Iida. Though he didn't realize it now, in the coming days, Kageyama would sincerely regret not having paid more attention to Iida's problems.


And look at that! A new Body Improvement Club, how does that sound? Even a few students from Class 1-B decided to join in on this fun club! And what do you think of Kageyama's internship choice? I noticed a lot of people suggesting Mirko as his internship, and I thought it was an interesting suggestion, but I've had Hawks in-mind for a while now, and I also really like his character. Now you'll get to see just how Shigeo is going to fare in this internship in Chapter 23!