Izuku realised that, at some point the water stopped pooling in the bottom of the coffin. The rain slowly faded away, supplanted by the ever-encroaching fog. It stopped pooling in the bottom of his own, empty coffin.

At some point the others had joined the group of four around the hollow wooden casket. Uraraka appeared as horrified as All Might and Aizawa. Modeus and Cerberus seemed mildly surprised, but not enough to stop reading off of Izuku's phone or generally hold her attention respectively. Justice appeared caught between exasperated and irritated, if the slight twitching was anything to go by. And Izuku?

Izuku was just tired.

After a good half-minute of silence, Justice's small, irritated twitches became more pronounced, the garbled sounds of anger less muted. And then they stopped. She slowly, calmly, walked over to the empty coffin, and softly closed the lid. She patted the closed casket gently.

She then reared an arm back and slammed her fist into the top, breaking the thing apart with an almighty crash.

"Ok- fine, fine- I'm cool. I'm fine."

"What-" Aizawa reeled back in shock, "what is wrong with you?!"

"You-" All Might was much the same, "have you no respect?!"

"'Respect'?" Justice spat back, "Respect to who, exactly?! The undertaker? Because in case you didn't notice, the occupant's body is gone, and his soul is here!" she gestured towards Izuku, "You feel disrespected right now?"

Izuku shrugged lamely. "I mean. Maybe? But more towards whoever…" he motioned vaguely at the collection of broken planks, boards and splinters formerly comprising his coffin. "Y'know. Stole… me."

"Even so…" All Might trailed off, leaving him and Aizawa effectively pacified.

More importantly though:

"Hey, Uraraka." the girl flinched at Izuku's monotonous statement, "Why?" he turned towards Uraraka, shifting his focus between her and Modeus. "Just… why?"

"I dunno!" she shrunk back; out of embarrassment, shame or something else entirely, Izuku didn't know. "I panicked, ok?! Justice was talking about how shit Hell was and how I was gonna end up there and then Modeus was all 'hey' and then she said it didn't have to be like that and then she pointed out we were on a time crunch-"

"So the urgent Leonine method?" Justice groaned.

"Nothing wrong with classics." Modeus shrugged.

"I feel like we're missing something important." Aizawa looked between the demons, Izuku and Uraraka cautiously.

"Grav-girl made a contract with the horny demon."

"Ok." Izuku ignored Aizawa and All Might's spluttering at Justice's short but effective explanation. He pinched the bridge of his nose and took a few breaths to try and approach all the insanity around him in a calm and rational manner. "I can understand that. And, in exchange for getting 'preferential treatment in the afterlife'" because that seemed like the best way he could phrase it, "you promised what, exactly?" Uraraka looked away, "Uraraka." she looked away further. "What did you agree to do?"

"Y'know…" she trailed off quietly, "… Stuff?"

"I'm stuff."

Izuku would've bashed his head into a table if he could- he probably would've bashed it into his own damned coffin were the casket still standing. Instead, he had to be satisfied with burying his face in his hands, trying to suppress the urge to scream and the red threatening to overtake his face from frustration and embarrassment in almost equal measure.

"And so's Zuzu."

"Wha-" he ripped his head back out of his hands at that, "I never agreed to- to anything likethat!"

"I'll sort something out with Justice." Modeus smiled 'innocently' at him.

"You will not." Justice folded her arms defensively.

"And I still didn't agree." Izuku felt the need to make that point as clear as possible.

"You wouldn't actually need to." he slowly pivoted his head to face Justice, face aghast at her words. "I mean, once our contract is complete, you belong to me. She only needs my ok. Y'know, technically speaking."

"That seems like an extremely important technicality-"

"Yeah, well here's a bigger one," she turned to gesture once again to the coffin in the graveyard, "we can't complete the contract anyway due to the minor inconvenience of 'your body's not in the fucking coffin'"

Did- did that turn out to be a good thing?! Did some grave-robbers just inadvertently stop Izuku from accidentally signing away his ability to consent for the rest of eternity? Was that seriously a thing he had to worry about now?! He just wanted to go to a Hero school!

Why is this my life now? Why?

"So," Justice turned towards the slack-jawed former teachers who were understandably having trouble keeping track of the sheer quantity of bullshit being shovelled before their eyes. "Don't suppose you've got any idea who could've made off with the corpse?"

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-"

"There-" Aizawa eventually took over from the bluescreening All Might, gesturing to the pile of dug-up dirt and some undamaged flowers; green, bushy blooms folding out of a hundred tiny petals. "These flowers were planted here when Iz- when you-" he took a moment to collect himself. "A few days after the coffin was in situ. The body was definitely in the coffin about an hour before the funeral." Izuku was still having a hard time fully connecting the fact it was his funeral. "Meaning the only times it could've been taken were a very short period before the funeral – a very risky period, considering the possibility of security cameras and the volume of people. Or." he paused, "The body was stolen sometime in the last twenty-two months without disturbing the topsoil."

"But how could-"

"Any number of ways." Aizawa cut off Uraraka, "A Quirk is the obvious answer; the LoV has a Villain with a warp Quirk and is led by a madman."

"With a particular interest in this Quirk."

"With a particular interest in this Quirk." Aizawa agreed with All Might, nodding along sensibly before realising what he'd just said. He turned back to All Might. "What do you mean All for One has a particular interest in-"

"Actually." Izuku put his hand up gingerly. "I was curious about that: You said my Quirk was called One for All. Are they… related, somehow?"

"Ah." All Might coughed into his hand, "Well- you see- about that-"

"We're getting off-topic." Justice tried to steer the conversation away from an entirely separate but (in Izuku's opinion) very important subject. "We have a potential suspect, but that evidence sounds circumstantial at best."

"True." Aizawa seemed content to drop the topic for now, putting a hand to his chin in thought. "There are a number of other Villains I can think of that could pull something like this right off the bat. Plus, there's always the possibility they tunnelled from underneath, or even dug in from the side."

"Or just had a way to put the flowers back intact." Aizawa nodded at Izuku's suggestion.

"So." Justice clapped, "In summary: We have effectively no idea where Izuku's corpse is, who has it, or any idea on how to determine the answer to either of those questions. That about right?"

Aizawa took deep sigh, looking towards All Might who merely turned away with a grimace. "Unfortunately."

And with that simple word, the group was once again met with silence. Once again they were stood here with no plan. No goal. Nothing. Just a group of demons, living mortals, and Izuku. Once more they were back on the beach, their not-so-well-made plans ripped asunder by the cruel claws known as reality. A quick glance around the dejected and disbelieving looks of all present told Izuku there wouldn't be another mystery revelation. There wouldn't be an 'oh hey you wanna go dig up your body?' last-second backup.

Izuku looked over to Justice. The demon had made it clear what her preferred option was at this point: Screw humanity, we're leaving. She wouldn't be offering up the magical solution to all of Izuku's- all of the World's problems. It was almost selfish to think that she would; she'd been pulling him out of fire after fire, fight after fight, insane supernatural shenanigan after shenanigan. He couldn't expect his mortal… companions? to come up with anything, they knew even less about the absurdity of the afterlife than he did. Cerberus seemed far more of a fighter than a thinker, and the slight, quizzical head tilt she wore suggested she wasn't even sure she grasped the problem. And Modeus?

She'd just up and made Uraraka some kind of undead sex slave. He was going to consider any ideas she came up with a firm 'last resort'.

Which meant it was up to Izuku. He needed to come up with a plan, and if Justice's previous panic was anything to go by, he needed it five minutes ago. He wasn't a font of knowledge on the supernatural, he barely knew the current state of the world, he was just him. A dead teenager who'd dreamed too big, who'd climbed too far, who'd flown too close to the sun and been sent crashing back down into the bowels of the Earth. But apparently, he was the only one who had enough of an idea of what was going on to try and find a solution.

So it was time for him to step up. To pool whatever everyone here had and come up with an alternative, to find a way- any way, that they could repair the damage. To fix this broken world.

"Then what if we take a different approach?" Izuku looked between Justice and his former teachers, waiting for any form of rebuttal or confirmation. Aizawa and All Might looked towards him with a mix of caution and curiosity, while Justice simply waved for him to continue.

"I've been trying to return this power because it- because All Might- because what All Might represented" he eventually decided on, "was a foundational pillar of our society. I believed that returning this power could make sure that pillar stayed resolute." he let out a wry smile. "But it turns out that pillar, along with the society it supported, collapsed while I was still on Hell's waiting list. But now there's a new pillar. One that supports a rotten society, that stands not as a symbol of hope, but a spectre of fear. A looming threat reminding the citizens to stay suppressed, the Heroes to stay leashed, the Villains to rampage to their heart's content."

"All for One." Aizawa was the first to pick up on what he was saying.

"But just as he made a twisted dystopia as our old society's pillar was ripped out from under us, what if we remade that old society- heck, what if we made a better one, in the chaos after the pillar supporting this broken world was torn down."

A moment's silence followed his suggestion. Cerberus spoke up with a slight tilt of her head: "What?"

"He's saying we should just off All for One already." Cerberus let out a light 'ohhh' at Justice's explanation.

"That-" Aizawa made to reply, before taking a moment to think Izuku's suggestion through. Izuku didn't interrupt; he was still a little (read: very) bitter about what his former teacher had pulled earlier, but he was equally aware the man was probably the most qualified here to judge the merits of Izuku's idea. "There are some issues."

"Which are?" Izuku realised his plan wasn't a plan so much as a vague idea, but he thought it wasn't a bad one. That with proper planning and execution, there was something that could be done to fix this- or at least to make it better. He refused to believe the world was just beyond saving now, that the evil overlord had won and the day was forever lost. He'd make this work somehow.

"Well the obvious consideration is the possibility of a power vacuum. We don't want to replace one twisted, egomaniacal dictator with another."

"True." All Might nodded, "Though I doubt any would be as bad as he. And without the threat of immediate death, wouldn't the National Diet be able to re-establish their own control?"

"The Diet's still running?" Izuku blinked away his surprise; when he thought of an evil dystopian dictatorship, he didn't really think of a house of elected representatives.

"All for One can't run the country by himself." Aizawa explained, "He left the Diet basically intact, but if he wants something done: A law made, repealed, funds allocated, etc., either they do it, or he kills everyone who voted against him and lets new representatives be elected." he shrugged, "We've been through about a dozen Diets at this point."

"The system works." Justice drawled.

"So they do have most things in place to wrest control away if All for One – and, ideally, his immediate subordinates in the LoV – are taken down. But the house is filled with Villains, Villain loyalists and Quirk supremacists. Not exactly who we want to leave in charge."

"Good point." Izuku nodded. It may not be an authoritarian dictatorship, but it still wasn't exactly a good recipe for a society. "What else?"

"We don't know where he is." Aizawa shrugged, "It's a simple issue, but no less of one. Even if your… friends?" he looked skeptically between the demons present, "can take down All for One- and I'm not entirely sure if they can-"

"Bwahahahaa!" Cerberus broke down into a fit of laughter, Modeus started giggling, and even Justice let out a small chuckle.

"I'd go ahead and assume we can." Justice assured him.

"Even so, it's not much good if we can't find a body for you to fight." he looked towards Justice for any rebuttal, probably waiting to see if she'd propose any demonic nonsense they could pull out of their ass to just kill him from anywhere instantly with barely any information. Justice's silence betrayed the fact it wouldn't be so simple.

"Anything else?" Izuku asked.

"Humanise." Uraraka's single word brought down the mood of all living mortals present. Which, considering the situation, was honestly something of an achievement. "All for One is the only thing keeping them out of Japan. If he does down, and they get in…"

"Then they bring their Ideo-Trigger with them and threaten the lives of every Quirked Japanese citizen." All Might finished.

"Ok." Izuku nodded. That would be bad. "Anything else?"

"Probably." Aizawa said with a shrug after a moment's thought, "But those are the obvious ones."

"Right." Izuku nodded again, and again. Something resembling a plan began to form. They could make this work. "Right." he walked over to pick up a shattered plank from the shattered coffin. He'd make something good from that which was considered broken.

"So." he used the wood to begin drawing a plan in the ground. He wrote the letters 'AfO' in the wet dirt, and then began creating connected lines representing the different problems. "First task: We need to find out where All for One will be. Any ideas on how we can do that?"

"I-" All Might stuttered, still clearly gathering his thoughts but obviously eager to lend some advice. "I have quite a history with that man." something which Izuku was definitely going to ask about later. "As do a number of others. And I haven't been completely idle ever since you-" he winced, "for these past two years. If you can give me some time, I should at least be able to provide some leads."

"Ok." he put a simple drawing of All Might's face next to the 'where?' part of the plan. "Next, Humanise. Or the 'Ideo-Trigger', was it?"

"That's right." Aizawa nodded, "It's a variant of a drug called 'Trigger'. We had some problems with it a few years ago in Naruhata-"

"'Some' problems?" All Might raised an eyebrow.

"Fine, it caused a shitshow." Aizawa admitted with a sigh, "And I hear it's starting to make a resurgence here, because we didn't already have enough problems to deal with apparently. The substance makes Quirks go into overdrive, and had a habit of sending the users into an unstoppable rage for good measure. But Ideo-Trigger is the stuff's doping big brother; overloads Quirks to the point of killing the host."

"And everyone in the immediate vicinity for good measure." All Might finished, before turning to Izuku. "Make no mistake, this lot claim it's for the good of the Quirkless, for humanity, but it's all grandstanding. Even ignoring their blatantly monstrous actions, countless Quirkless individuals have been caught in the crossfire."

"It's almost like the pro-genocide cultists aren't entirely rational." Aizawa rolled his eyes, before stopping to cradle his temples in a headache. "I still can't believe those nutjobs killed billions."

"But-" Izuku tried to stay on topic; it was too easy to go on tangents when they were dealing with such an immense scope. "But is there any way to stop it? It's been around for- what, a year and a half? Has anyone tried to make a cure? A vaccine?"

"Cure? No. You're infected, you're dead in seconds." Aizawa replied, "Vaccine, however? That's another matter. After it kicked off there was a lot of effort into it, but Humanise hit so hard and so fast no one made enough progress before it was too late to stop their grand plans. But obviously there are still people working on it. Pockets, fighting the intellectual fight."

"But have any won?" Justice asked.

"Not sure." Aizawa took a moment before giving a slight nod, "But I think some have at least come close. When we're done here I can look into it- along with making sure you," he pointed to Izuku, pausing on him before gesturing vaguely at the demons as well, "have somewhere to base yourselves out of."

"But we-"

"It's a war, Izuku." Aizawa didn't let him speak. "Not a battle. It'll take time to sort all this out, and you need to make sure you're ready when the time comes."

"Indeed." All Might nodded, "I imagine it'll take at least a few days for my leads to find anything solid. You'll need shelter, rest, food, water-"

"I don't actually need food and water anymore." Izuku spoke almost on reflex. He'd almost forgotten that fact. "Sleep, either-"

"Except we're not in Hell anymore." Justice interrupted, "You may not need 'sleep' but you'll need something functionally identical. And keeping up mortal habits like eating and drinking will help keep you grounded."

"O-ok." Izuku nodded in response. He didn't want to slow anything down- slow anyone down, but if he had to go days without sleep he could foresee issues. He put Aizawa's name next to the 'Humanise' problem. "But then the last point: The All for One Diet."

"Kicked puppies and orphans tears?" Uraraka's comment got a snort out of All Might.

"That's gonna be trickier." Aizawa sighed, "It's not a simple problem. If we say we need to replace them we're talking a coup of a technically-elected governing body. If we say we'll leave it be I can honestly see them throwing Quirkless into 'detainment facilities' thanks to Humanise's actions. Make sure the future is full of proper, Quirk-bearing individuals."

"Ah, humanity." Justice smiled ruefully, "Three hundred years of development yet not a day of progress."

"It's a problem." Aizawa reiterated, "But it's not one we can really do much about while All for One can just kill any representatives he doesn't like."

"Leave it with us." All Might reassured Izuku, "If you can find a way to take down All for One, stop the demon lord'sreign, we can certainly find a way to cobble together a better one."

"Right." he put both All Might and Aizawa's names next to that catastrophe, but he had a feeling more would be getting involved. "So that's our plan for solving the problems related to All for One, so Justice-"

"We can't fight him." her simple response felt like a shot to the gut. Like sandbags had been strapped around Izuku's feet and filled with lead.

"I thought you said-"

"I said we could end this guy, easy." she interrupted Aizawa, "But we can't get through the inevitable wall that'll stand in our way."

"'Wall'?" Izuku echoed. Justice stepped over and, gently, took the plank from Izuku's hand. She drew a small, simple face reminiscent of Justice, then an arrow pointing towards the 'AfO' letters he'd written, but then drew another small face to block it. Trawling through his recent memory, Izuku couldn't say he recognised the face. The fact she hadn't added horns quickly made him wonder if it was a mortal she was suggesting, but surely 'mere mortals' wouldn't be able to stop the likes of Justice and Cerberus?

Then she gave the face a small circle floating above it.

A halo.

"Heaven." Izuku concluded. Justice nodded. "If we go after a major figure like All for One, Heaven will interfere."

"Yyyyyep." Justice nodded, "Though it's more like: If we want to be sure I can take him, I might need to put some actual effort in, and Heaven will probably notice and get in our way."

"Couldn't you make a World Sphere?" Izuku was pretty sure that's what she'd called the dark blood sky that sprouted over U.A. from the ominous coin and dear lord why was his life in a place that all made sense-

"No idea how." Justice shrugged, "It's not really a skill many demons know, just one most know of. It's not one many need to know. It's stupid complex and largely useless down in Hell; I can think of maybe, like, three- no, four demons who might know how to make one 'complete' enough to keep out Heaven's eyes, and two are fallen angels."

"Neither of which would help us." Justice nodded to Izuku's words. His face fell at the next revelation, "And one of the demons is Pandemonica, isn't it?" she continued nodding.

"Only friendly who might know how to make one is Malina, and that'll be a trip back to Hell for a big 'maybe'."

"Ok." Izuku thought of another way to approach this. They (probably) couldn't keep their fight from All for One hidden, and he'd rather not risk the possibility of everything breaking down if a spell none of them knew how to use was broken or damaged somehow. So what other options were there?

"What would it take to fight through the forces of Heaven?"

"A wing, a prayer, and a holy war making All for One's Japan look tame." so that option was out.

"Could we cut Earth off from Heaven?"

"Can you separate the Earth from the sea?"

"Could we hold the battle in another religious domain?"

"And get a whole different pantheon to kick our ass? Plus, we're demons, giving Heaven authority to interfere. i.e., another holy war option."

"Neutral zone?"

"Same issue, even more pantheons."

"Maybe attack him through mortal means?" he turned to Aizawa and All Might.

"If we had that answer, we'd have taken him down already."

"Ugh!" Izuku groaned. There had to be some other angle he hadn't considered, some method that they could use. He couldn't have gone through Hell for nothing, he couldn't have seen the school of hopes in dreams in tatters for nothing, he couldn't have died and come back for nothing!

"Look, Izuku-"

"Can we distract them?" he cut off Justice's point, there had to be a solution!

"How?" at Izuku's continued stare, Justice rolled her eyes upon realising he wanted her to answer that question. "The only way you could distract Heaven from us getting into a serious fight is if there was another fight they wanted to deal with even more."

"Ok!" Izuku slammed a fist in his hand enthusiastically. "Perfect! How do we do that?"

"We-" she sighed, "We don't. I don't wanna toot my own horn, but I'm what's considered something of a 'big deal'."

"I believe you." Izuku nodded; an 'arch-demon', a 'primordial demon', one who judged souls, and one who apparently cast out a ruling demon in the past?

Yeah, if she wasn't a 'big deal' that'd honestly be beyond horrifying.

"So I honestly can't think of a demon Heaven would prioritise stopping over me, except maybe Cerberus." the dog-demon in question waved with a smile at the mention of her name, "And even then, she'd probably have to be massacring innocent mortals to be considered a more urgent priority than me."

"I'm willing to take one for the team." she said far too eagerly.

"Even if we got Lucifer or Loremaster up here," Justice thankfully ignored Cerberus' gleeful suggestion of mass slaughter, "i.e. the only demons more powerful than me, I'd still be the priority."

"Why?" Izuku asked with a frown. From what he could tell, either of those two on Earth would be a sign the world was ending. How could Justice taking down an evil despot be a greater threat?

"Because they're angels." she said in a mocking tone, "Fallen or not, embarrassments or not, they're still originally angels. Clearly better than a filthy demon like me."

"Great." Aizawa growled, "So we're not only dealing with a megalomaniacal dictator, we're dealing with holier-than-though supernatural racists. Wonderful."

"Stop being so agreeable." Justice huffed, "I'm still pissed with you." good to know Izuku wasn't the only one still upset with him. "But yeah, they're out. And there's no demon-" she paused, for the briefest of moments, before continuing to shake her head, "Yeah, there's no active demon who-"

"'Active'?" Izuku picked up. From the way Justice glared at him, he almost wished he didn't.

"It's not an option."

"I thought the whole point of this was discussing options-" Aizawa tried.

"Well, she's not one, so it's not happening."

"S-" Izuku stuttered. From the harsh tone Justice took, from the stern frown on her face, from the fact both felt so unnatural coming from her, he didn't feel like this was a safe road to go down. But at this point?

It felt like the only road he could find.

"S-'She'?"

"Ohhhh!" Cerberus gasped, "Do you mean-"

"Yes, now shut it."

"But you'd have to-"

"Exactly, so shut up."

"And getting to-"

"SHUT." Justice mimed zipping her lips at Cerberus. The demon pouted in response.

"Justice-" Izuku tried to start.

"Oh, don't you pull that 'Justice' tone with me."

"I just-"

"Ah!"

Izuku paused, waiting a moment for Justice to hopefully calm down, before starting again. "I can see you don't like whatever you're suggesting-"

"Understatement of the fucking millennium."

"So if you really think it's not an option-"

"It isn't."

"-I'll drop it." Justice's eyes widened the smallest amount at his statement. He took it as a chance to continue. "If- If you honestly, truly think that it's an option not worth exploring. That it won't work, or that it will just make everything worse with absolutely no hope of getting better, then I'll drop it. If you can promise me that it's not something even worth entertaining, if you can promise that this isn't a potential solution, we'll try and think of something else." he paused, before letting out a deep breath. "It's just-" he closed his eyes in frustration, "I'm not sure if there are any."

After finishing, Izuku dare not open his eyes. If he opened them, and Justice still wore that same unmoving scowl, if she insisted on him dropping the subject, if it really was just a passing thought that wouldn't work? That was it. Maybe there was some alternative Izuku couldn't think of, maybe if they put some more thought in, brought some more people into the planning, did some more research on the topics, they could find another solution. But they didn't have more time to think, didn't have more people there, didn't have research materials at hand. This was all he could think of with the incredibly limited information he had. And the viability of that plan rested on this final point. On this last hurdle being clear-able. He slowly opened his eyes.

"… Dammit." Justice bit out, giving a small growl. She kicked the ground in frustration, their basic sketch of the plan carved out of the earth. "Why couldn't you just be an asshole, or pushy, or a pushy asshole. Easier to shut down than this."

"S-sorry." his apology just made Justice groan more. She ran a hand through her hair, taking off her sunglasses to rub her eyes before eventually facing Izuku with her piercing silver gaze.

"There is one. One. One singular demon who is undeniably stronger than me. Who is more infamous than me. Who would draw Heaven's eye more than I. Because the moment their sinister power created so much as a blip on Heaven's radar, everyone would lose their collective fucking minds."

"… Ok." Izuku nodded slowly. "That sounds promising-"

"Because the fact this individual was once more among the living or unliving would mean that they had escaped. Would mean that their ancient power over two millennia in age would have made a return to our worlds. Would mean that the domain of Hell is once more challenged, and with that so too is the afterlife itself."

Justice approached Izuku. For the first time since they'd met, he could feel genuine anger radiating from the arch-demon looming over him. He felt afraid of the person who'd been with him every step of this god-forsaken journey.

"So the reason that I do not wish to entertain this option, Izuku Midoriya, is because I have seen the Hell they would create. I have seen what their depraved mind can inflict on demonkind, and fear what they would do after two-thousand years of near-isolation. Because putting them where they now reside, where they now live, where they are now safely contained, is the last thing I ever saw."

Wait-

"Y-you mean-"

"So I do not wish to entertain this idea, as I may well prefer humanity extinct than Beelzebub unleashed." her sharp, silver eyes stared into his with barely a hair's width between them. Izuku couldn't find the strength to respond. He couldn't find the strength to breathe.

"I promise you that."

A/N:

25 Chapters. Over 150k words. And we're finally learning what the actual plot, actually is.

I'm so good at pacing.

The funny thing is, this isn't even what I originally intended this chapter to focus on; this was supposed to come next in like Ch28/9, but this just ended up flowing more naturally. So the thing I mentioned last chapter that I'm looking forward to getting to won't be until Ch27-ish now, but this was another point I was also looking forward to reaching. Basically, we're at a point in the Izuku PoV that I've been looking forward to for a while. I'm also hyped for the arc coming up around the late-30s, and the 50s even more so. 60s is gonna be a wild ride. (Note: those are all estimates).

Next time we'll be checking in with some other mortals. I'm sure Shouto's doing fine.

With that said, I hope everyone has a lovely weekend; feel free to comment with thoughts, predictions, concrit, etc. as always, and I hope to see you in a couple of weeks!

UPDATE: Ok so because FFN sucks this didn't properly upload etc. so it's being posted now. Apologies for the issues, you can check this out on AO3/SB if you want as they're more likely to be up-to-date and I respond to comments and stuff more over there.