Origami kept herself silent, looking ahead of her with a worried look on her face as Shigaraki wiggled across the floor in the middle of the cave, letting out painful noises. Her leader had returned to the cave in this state a few minutes ago, looking like he had barely avoided death. Everyone grew concerned upon seeing him in such a state, wanting to know what happened and All For One was more than eager to finall tell them where Shigaraki had gone off to on a Nomu.

He had gone off to to fight Star and Stripe who was the number one hero of America. From what All For One told her an the rest, she had just arrived at Japan from America in order to help whatever remained of Japan's heroes stop them and Shigaraki had gone off to fight her and steal her Quirk. Her Quirk was something extremely powerful as well. It was called "New Order" and it allowed her to declare a new rule of up to two things that she touches and says the name of.

Shigaraki won his fight with her, stealing her Quirk in the process but everything went wrong from here as Star and Stripe's Quirk revolted, consuming Shigaraki's powers and leading him into the state he was in right now. The dark green haired girl remained where she stood with her concerned expression refusing to leave her face, wanting there was something she could do to ease Shigaraki's pain even if she doubted she could do anything.

She wasn't the only watching this happen. Everyone else was present for this as well with the exception of Kitagawa and Narukami who were out on the mission of spreading Spinner's further, staying in contact with them through Skeptic and Kizuki. She could tell everyone was shocked by the state of their leader and concerned for him. She could see a hint of worry on Dabi's face as well. Even if he kept his face hidden between his hands.

What caught her attention was All For One's behavior towards everything going on right now. His behavior towards Shigaraki's condition was cold right now, trying to have normal conversations with her and everyone else right as if it was something not to be worried about. If the dark green haired girl was honest with herself right now, this callous behavior towards Shigaraki's condition made her feel a bit angry on the inside. She knew she wasn't the only one who felt like this as well.

She glanced away from Shigaraki a second later, having just seen her leader getting put to sleep by All For One as Spinner and Magne went over to him to check on him. She looked down at her stomach and placed her hand on it, letting out a sigh as she found herself thinking back to the conversation she had with Slice not that long ago. Even if she wanted to push the possibility of her being pregnant away, she knew Slice raised some good points and knew she couldn't excluse the possibility of her being pregnant because of it.

The dark green haired girls sighed, leaving herself thinking about this as a way of pushing the thoughts regarding Shigaraki's state away. The thought of being pregnant was making her feel extremely scared on the inside even if it was not fully confirmed by either her or Slice because she hadn't taken a test, yet. It didn't make feel any less worried or scared, though. She will calm down when she will take the test and will see it's negative.

Y/N crossed her mind a second later. What was she supposed to tell him if she will be pregnant, after all? Was she supposed to just walk up to tell him and tell him they are going to have a kid together when they are children themselves? She just worried how it would make him feel, knowing he was already dealing with a lot and it could just add more fuel to the fire. She really wished he was here right now as well...

"...What's going on?" Everything in the room seemed to die down in an instant the moment this voice rang through everyone's ears. Everything in the room died down, because everyone knew this voice and were more than familiar with it.

Origami's eyes immediately snapped open at the sound of this voice with her attention instantly shifting from whatever was going on with Shigaraki right now to the source of the voice. She wasted no time in doing this as well with her head turning so quickly that she left herself suprised she didn't break her neck in the process. Her mind told her who it was the moment she heard this voice and just needed to confirm this.

Her suspicions and hopes got confirmed a second later as she saw the person she was hoping to see standing there in the entrance to the cave. It was Gaeth. Even though his appearance was different with his old outfit having been replaced by a cloak, she would have recogized him anywhere. It wasn't long before she noticed a bit of blood around his mouth as well, leaving her worried something must have happened to him. All the worries were set aside a second later, though as she care more about him actually being here right now.

Everyone quickly followed her example and slowly glanced towards Y/N with their expressions showing suprise of his sudden appearance and everything around them growing silent. All For one was the only exception as he looked at Y/N with an obvious interest. All of them quickly took notice of the new faces in the form of Alice, Needle Hair and Kasai by his side as well. Cyborg was visible to them as well. However, all of them ignored the presence of all three of them and focused themselves on Y/N

The stunned silence ended a second later as Origami pushed herself into run towards Y/N and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug upon reaching him. Her grip around him was right as she held him as if her life depended on it. All the worries and concern she had regarding her recent conversation with Slice were gone the moment she wrapped her ams around him, having momentiraly faded away and having been replaced with the feeling of relief and joy of finally seeing her boyfriend again.

Y/N stood there for a second, feeling Origami hugging him as if he was going to disappear and felt a wave of emotions slowly hitting him upon feeling his girlfriends arms around him again. Words couldn't describe how he felt right now. The feeling of holding his girlfriend in his arms again just filled him with so many emotions and he didn't know how to name all of them. The last time when he felt so good was before everything at the mansion went down.

Origami looked up at him a second later, keeping her arms wrapped around him with a look of pure joy and relief on her face as she leaned up and pressed her lips against his. Y/N wasted no time and kissed her in return, having missed the feeling of kissing and feeling her body on his. The two stayed like this for a good moment, paying no attention to all the people around them and their problems and just expressed their happiness of seeing each other again.

His girlfriend pulled away from him after a few seconds and looking directly into his e/c green with her diamond blue ones while looking like she was on the verge of tears and smiled at him, "Hey."

"Hey..." Y/N smiled back at her with his eyes refusing to glance away.

"Y/N..." Their attention was shifted away from each other a second later as they turned towards the source of the voice and saw Toga walking towards them. Even though the girl didn't have her usual smile on her face, both of them could tell she was happy to see Y/N again.

Origami knew what Toga wanted to do as well. She knew there was only one reason why she would approach Y/N this closely after his return. Even though she didn't want to let go off him, she pulled away from her boyfriend and allowed Toga to take her place. Toga wasted no time aftewards and hugged Y/N, showing her friend just how happy she was to see him again and Y/N hugged her back as well.

"Yeah. I'm happy to see you too, Toga-chan." The h/c haired boy said to his blonde haired friend upon hugging her back.

"Himiko-chan." Toga told him, keeping her arm wrapped around him.

Y/N raised his brow in confusion at this sudden statement, "Excuse me?"

Toga quickly gave him an explanation all the while keeping her arms around him, "Call me Himiko-chan. We've known each other for far too long for you to be calling me by my last name."

"Okay." Y/N replied in understanding, making a mental note out of this as he glanced behind him and saw Magne, Minene and Daiki walking towards him.

Toga must have sensed it as well as she pulled away from him just in time or Magne, Minene and Daiki to make their way to Y/N . Minene hugged him a second later, keeping her gripe around him as she placed her hand on the back of his head and pushed it into her breasts, leaving it deep between them. The purple haired woman, beginning to blush at the feeling of having Y/N's head between her breasts with Origami sending her a cold look as Daiki rolled his eyes a bit and pulled her away from Y/N.

"It's good to see you again, sweetheart. You have no idea how happy all of us are to see you again." Magne made herself known to Y/N a second later as she pulled him into a hug shortly after Minene was pulled away from him by Daiki. Y/N didn't have a blush on his face because of what just happened with Minene, though. He had grown used to her antics over the months and certain stuff made it harder for him to become embarassed by stuff like this.

Y/N hugged Magne in return a second later, glancing behind her to see how everyone else was doing right now and saw everyone around him still had their eyes on him. Dabi and Geten seemed pleased with his return, keeping themselves close to each other and so did Nishimura while Spinner had a smile small smile on his face, showing Y/N he was happy to see him even if he kept himself close to Shigaraki. Mummy's expression was unreadable and Slice had a smile smile on her face, just like Spinner.

The only person who didn't react to his in return in any way was Shigaraki. Shigaraki didn't even look up in his direction, leaving Y/N unsure whether he was consciousnes or not. If he were to guess, it was probably the former. He clenched his hand at the view of him, knowing he was in pain right now just from looking at him right now. Y/N wished he could do something right now, but knew he had to stop himself from doing anything right in front of All For One otherwise all his doubts towards him would be shown.

"...Y/N. Whose blood is that?" He was taken out of his thoughts a second later as Magne pulled away from him and pointed at the blood around his mouth with a worried look on her face. Y/N looked around himself and saw the others who were close to him right now showing worry towards him in some way, thinking this blood was his. Toga even didn't show any delight towards his blood. Magne voiced her worry again a second later, "Is it yours?"

"Don't worry. It's not mine." Y/N brushed their worries aside with them looking at him with either raised brows or questioning looks. He looked down, letting out a sigh as he knew he'll have to tell them about it and looked up at them again a second later, "It's Overhaul's."

"Overhaul's?" Origami asked with a mixture of suprise and concern on her face with everyone else around him showing like they wanted to know the answer to this as well. Even the ones who weren't close to him right now. Everyone aside from All For One who continue to eye Y/N in interest and Shigaraki who remained motionless on the ground.

"What happened?" Minene voiced her question next with worry evident in her tone.

"What I should have done a long time ago. I made sure that he got what he deserved. I had to bite into his throat to make this happen, but it was worth it. He won't be a nuisance to anyone ever again. " Y/N gave them an honest answer as Origami, Magne, Toga, Daiki and Minene all exchanged suprised glances with each other upon hearing this. Once the shook of this information died down in them, Y/N noticed a small pleased smile growing on Toga's face while Origami and Magne seemed pleased with this information as well. Even if he couldn't help but notice there was something bugging Origami.

"Welcome back, Y/N." All For One made formally made himself known a second later, cutting their conversation short as Y/N looked in his direction and saw All For One getting off his throne and stepping closer to him. Y/N felt Origami grasping his hand as All For One got closer to them with each step while his throne floated behind him, "It seems your return has stirred quite the commotion. Neverthless. I'm happy to see you have returne to us as I've been wanting you to come back. In fact, this is why you were asked to take videos of the Blackgate Prison as this would have required you to return to us."

"Thank you, Sensei. I'm happy to be back with you as well. I've been wanting to return to you and everyone else as well as I feel like I've been away for far too long." Y/N replied, playing his role as he didn't want All For One to suspect anything about his distrust regarding him.

All For One nodded at him and shifted his gaze to Y/N's new friends, "I see you brought some friends with you as well. Mind introducing them to me and the rest?"

Y/N nodded in confirmation and pointed at Alice, "This is Westbrook Alice. She is..."

"I'm his apprentice." Alice explained. Her words got many suprised stares from everyone around her.

"Apprentice? How did you stumble upon Y/N?" All For One asked in an interested tone.

Alice gave him her explanation a second later, "Y/N saved me from a villain and I asked him if I can tag along with him because I believe in his message and his mission. I'm a Quirkless woman myself."

"I see. Y/N saved you, a Quirkless person, and took you under his wing? What a beautiful story. Really reminds me of when I first met him." All For One nodded with his interest evident in his tone as Y/N did his best not to break his character. He continued with his attempts as All For One shifted his gaze to him, "You really grew up a lot since then, Y/N. You now have someone to train under you. Just like I trained you."

"Thank you, Sensei." Y/N nodded at him, keeping up his act.

All For One shifted his gaze from Y/N to Kasai a second later, "Who are you?"

"Kasai Kazuyoshi." Kasai introduced himself to All For One, feeling a bit intimidated by the man in front of him as he knew who this man was, "Just like Alice, I joined Y/N because I believe in your message. More specifically I believe in Spinner's message regarding right for the hetermorphs such as myself."

"I see. Another poor hetermorph who had to face discrimination for his looks. What an unfortunate fate. I'm certain Iguichi will be happy to have you by his side." All For One gave Kasai his sympathies as Spinner glanced at Kasai for a second only for his gaze to return to Shigaraki. He shifted his gaze to Needle Hair a second later, "Needle Hair. I'm pleased to see you working with Y/N again. I wasn't expecting Y/N to see him working with someone from the USJ anytime soon."

"I see." Needle Hair replied, not knowing how else to reply to this. She wasn't in the mood for any conversation right now as well as the deaths of her friends were still fresh on her mind. All For One must have noticed her not being in the mood to talk right now and shifted his gaze from her to the last member of Y/N's group who was Cyborg.

"I'm glad you had brought Cyborg back with you, Y/N. After Tomura lost one of our Nomus, we are going to need all the Nomus we need for when we will make our next move." All For One remarked as Y/N's expression twisted a bit and clenched his hand at the mention of the Nomus and Shigaraki. He quickly composed himself as All For One glanced back at him, "I believe he has served you well during your time away from us."

Y/N nodded at him, "He did. He was a great help in a lot of things."

"I'm glad to hear it." All For One nodded in return with his tone changing a bit when he asked, "Is there something you wish to share with us?"

Y/N stayed for a silent for a moment upon hearing this question, swallowing his saliva at the tone of All For One's voice as the matter of him having All For One now and using it to steal Overhaul and Kurono's Quirks flew through his mind. He remembered what he thought earlier of keeping this to himself. However, he wasn't sure if that was a good idea anymore. The tone of All For One's voice showed him that he clearly knew something and he didn't want to do anything to betray his intentions to All For One by getting caught in a lie by him.

It was why he decided to tell him the truth even if he would have preferred to keep to himself...

"Yes. There's something I want to share with you, Sensei." He gave All For One a nod, removing the glove from his gloved hand and showing it to everyone. Everyone instantly took notice of the hole in his palm. By the time everyone noticed it, Y/N felt everyone staring at him with shock written over their faces. Everyone aside from All For One, "...Sensei. Why do I have All For One?"

All For One nodded to himself in a pleased manner, "I see you unlocked it earlier than when I planned."

"Earlier than you planned?" Y/N raised his brow.

All For One nodded at him and gave him an explanation, "Yes. I was planning to unlock this in you when you will return to us if you'd manage to find a way to put yourself back together after everything. However, I see your fight with Overhaul managed to unlock All For One in you sooner. Neverthless. It's a good thing you are now aware of this power."

"Why did gave it to me?" Y/N wanted to know.

All For One quickly provided him an explanation, "Because of your growth as a villain. You have proven yourself someone who wants to keep improving to achieve his goals and someone who is worthy of it over and over again. I didn't have to worry about putting you through modifications like I did with Tomura and Nine, because you were born Quirkless and people who are born Quirkless are more resistant to having multiple Quirks in them. Look at All Might and your dear friend Midoriya Izuku for example. They were capable of wielding One For One better than the former users due to them being Quirkless before getting it. Just like you were before getting your power.""

"I see." Y/N replied in understanding, now knowing why he wasn't acting like Gigantomachia even if he had five Quirks inside of him right now. He couldn't help but chuckle bitterly at how being Quirkless turned out to be a blessing in disguise for him. He shot All For One a questioning look a second later, "Why did you hide it from me, though? Even after I was in an obvious pain after getting two Quirks from you at the same time."

"Because you were not in the right state of mind. I could see how many things were bothering you back then and I felt like putting so much on your shoulders would just make things worse. This is why I wanted for you to come back and see if you were in a better mental state before informing you about this." All For One gave him his answer.

"Alright. I understand." Y/N didn't know whether he should believe him or not. He intended to play along as if he was believing him, though, "Is this why you didn't tell me about everything you've been planning behind my back and not telling about Tomura-kun being awake?"

"Precisely. Even though you may feel like this decision was not the best, I see you understand for your own good." All For One replied in a satisfied manner, "Now, is there anything else you want to share with us?"

"Yes. There's something else. When I unlocked my hidden All For One in me, I had my hand on Overhaul's forehead. I accidentally stole his power. That's not all. I stole Kurono's Quirk as well before me and the rest finished him off." Y/N nodded in confirmation, playing more into his truthful and obiedent act when he gave All For One his answer. His answer got more shocked looks and reactions from everyone, leaving them needing to process everything because it was too much to take.

"Y/N ..." Origami uttered her boyfriends name in shock. Her boyfriend had five Quirks in him now? She just couldn't believe it...

"He has five Meta Abilities in him..." Minene said with a shocked look on his face, blushing heavily because of this information as Daiki, Magne and Toga silently stared at Y/N in shock. So did everyone else. Dabi could be seen shaking his head to himself, though and it was something Geten didn't fail to notice.

"I see. That's some wonderful news." All For One commented in a pleased manner. His tone seemed far more than pleased if Y/N was honest with himself, "Your new powers will be a great help in bringing up the hero society once and for all. For as long as you will train them and will get a better understanding of them fo when we will make our next move."

"I know. This is what I'm intending to do." Y/N nodded at him as he glanced behind All For one and set his eyes on Shigaraki. He looked up at him a second later, "What about Tomura-kun? What happened to him?"

All For One looked over his shoulder at Shigaraki only to glance back at Y/N when he intended to give him the answer, "I see. I should have known you will me about Tomura state. Shortly before your return, Tomura went to fight the US number one ranked hero Star and Stripe and managed to win over her, stealing her Quirk in the process. Unfortunely it didn't end well for him as his attempt to steal her Quirk backfired badly. Her Quirk to revolted against him and consumed his own powers, leading to the state he is in right now."

Y/N clenched his hand in worry as he looked up at All For One, "What about me? I can do something to heal him, right? I have Overhaul's Quirk now, after all."

"I'm afraid you can't do anything here, Y/N." All For One shook his and gave Y/N an explanation befoe Y/N could ask him why, "The damage Tomura got is not physical. Star and Stripe's Quirk damaged him from the inside. You can't do anything about it. Even if you could, you just got Overhaul and it is uncertain whether you'd know what to do with it or not. You need to practice your new power at first."

"I see..." Y/N clenched his hand more. Even now he couldn't do anything to help Shigaraki. He didn't know if All For One was honest with him right now as well. For all he knew, he could be playing something on him right now. He looked up at him a second later, "Can I talk with him at least?"

All For One once again shook his head, "Not now. Tomura is too damaged from his fight and needs to rest. Talking with anyone right now wouldn't have done him any good because it would possibly bring him more pain. He needs to heal now."

"I see..." Y/N voiced his answer, trying to be understanding here as he pushed himself into walk, "I'm gonna get going now. I need to bring the video ofo the Blackgate Prison to Skeptic and Curious."

"Very well." All For One replied in understanding as Origami, Toga, Magne, Minene, Daiki, Alice, Kasai and Needle Hair followed Y/N with Cyborg staying behind with All For One. Y/N glanced briefly at Shigaraki's motionless form when he passed him and Spinner, letting out a sigh as Spinner slowly got up from into standing position, directing one last glance towards Shigaraki's now sleeping form and followed Y/N with everyone else.

All For One watched everyone leave from where he stood with Dabi, Geten Slice, Mummy and Nishimura heading out to take care of their own business and placed his hand on top of Cyborg's head, headpatting him. What everyone failed to notice because of everyone leaving him alone was that he had a pleased near wicked grin on his face right now...

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Grace stood in front of the entrance to Class A's dorms, keeping her hand in front of the door as she wondered she should knock on the doors or not. She was here for only one reason. It was to finally talk with Izuku Midoriya. Knowing enough time had passed for Izuku to be in a normal state for the conversation she wanted to have with him, she braced herself went to the dorms. Now, all she had to do was actually introduce herself to him. She asked Inko not to tell him about her and her family as well, wanting to be the one to directly revealing everything to her.

She exhaled softly, bracing herself and finally knocked on the door after standing in front of it for at least last five minutes. She lowered her hand a second later, remaining where she stood as she waited to open the door for her. As she continued to wait for the door to open, she felt herself growing a bit anxious on the inside and she pushed all of this aside

Iida looked at her with a mixture of confusion and welcoming on his face, "Hello, Miss. Is there anything you need?"

"Yes. Is Midoriya Izuku at your dorms right now?" Grace replied with her own expression becoming questioning.

"He is." Iida nodded in confirmation, "Do you need anything from him?"

"Yes. I want to talk with him." Grace explained as Iida looked at her with a suspicious look on his face. She immediately took notice of t and explained herself to him, "Don't worry. I'm not a reporter or anything. I work as an engineer. There's just something I want to talk about with him."

"I see. Come on in, then, Miss. I'll show you the way to him." Iida replied with his expression growing gentler as his suspicions faded away from his face. He moved to the side with to leave enough space for Grace, motioning to the woman to come in.

"Alright. Thank you." Grace replied gratefully as she pushed herself into walk and walked into the dorms.

The foreign woman walked further into the place as Iida closed the door behind him and followed her, taking the led of their small group of two as he took her to where his classmates and more notably Izuku were located right now. Grace scanned her surroundings, trying to find Izuku among the students as she walked further into the place and felt everyone slowly taking notice of her and setting their eyes on her with a questioning curiosity evident on their faces due them not seeing her before.

"...Midoriya." She glanced ahead of herself a second later, doing her best to ignore the way Mineta had glanced at her when she looked at him and saw the person she came here looking for. She saw Izuku and he wasn't alone. He was accompanied by Todoroki, Ochaco and Asui as the four seemed to be in the middle of the conversation with each othe when Iida called out for him.

"What is it, Iida-kun?" Izuku stopped whatever conversation he was having with Todoroki, Asui and Ochaco right now and looked at him with a questioning look on his face. His expression grew more intrigued after laying his eyes on Grace.

IIda glanced at Grace and provided Izuku an explanation, "This woman was the one who was knocking on the doors to our dorms. She told me she wants to talk with me when I asked her if she needs anything so I take her to you."

"Okay." Izuku replied in understanding and shifted his gaze to Grace with his expression remaining intrigued in the foreign woman. Todoroki, Asui and Ochaco set their eyes on her as well with Ochaco's expression showing a bit suspicion towards this woman, "What do you need from me, Miss?"

"I just want to talk with you." Grace gave him an honest answer, feeling how many people had their eyes on her as she found herself in center of attention of whoever was in the dorms right now.

"What is it, then?" Izuku wanted to know.

Grace looked around all the students around her and gestured to them, "Can we talk about it in private? I'm not really comfortable with talking about it with so many eyes on me..."

"Of course." Izuku nodded with a look of understanding on his face, "We can talk about it in my dorm."

"Alright. That would be great." Grace smiled at him gratefully as Izuku looked at his classmates and friends and nodded at them. Not wasting any time, he pushed himself into walk towards his dorm and Grace quickly followed him. He looked over his shoulder at her with an intrigued look on his face, asking himself why this woman wanted to talk with him as he had never seen her before.

They made their way to the entrance to his dorm a second later and Izuku pushed the door open, letting himself and Grace in with Grace being the first on to walk into the dorm. Upon walking into the dorm, she looked around herself while Izuku closer the door and had to stop herself from grinning in amusement as Izuku's dorm could be easily described as an All Might museum. Izuku had everything Grace could count as as fan merchendise and all of it was All Might related.

Her attention was shifted away from the All Might merchendise a second later and she noticed a few pictures standing on Izuku's cupboard next to his bed. On picture in particular caught her attention. She stepped closer to it while Izuku closer the door and picked it up. It was a picture of him and Y/N where the two couldn't have been older than ten. The two of them were smilling towards the camera with their smiles seeming genuine.

"...Alright. What is it that you wanted to talk with me about, Miss?" Izuku asked upon closing the door to his dorm as he turned around to face her and saw the woman standing with her back turned to him.

Grace exhaled softly, keeping the picture in her hand as she turned around to face Izuku and pointed at the picture, "How about we start off with me introducing myself. My name is Okuda. Okuda Grace. You probably don't know me so allow me to..."

"You're Y/N's aunt?" Izuku cut her off with a suprised look on her face.

Grace smiled in a bitter manner, "I see you know me..."

"Of course. You're the woman who exposed Y/N's parents for what they truly are..." Izuku began to say.

"Were." Grace corrected him, letting out a sigh as she moved towards Izuku's bed and sat down on it.

"Right..." Izuku replied, letting out a sigh himself as he stepped closer to Grace with a sympathetic look on his face, "I'm sorry for what happened to your sister. I know she wasn't the best person and I'll never forgive her for the way she treated Y/N. However, I know finding out what happened to her must have been tough for you."

"It was. My sister wasn't perfect and I became disappointed with the person she became in the end. Just like you said, though, she was still my sister." Grace frowned sadly and looked up from the picture of Y/N and Izuku to glance at Izuku who sat down next to her, "You know. She wasn't always like this. We were actually quite close while growing up and still lived in the US. Something must have changed her or maybe she was always like this, but hid the truth self from me. I'll never know now."

Izuku nodded at her with a look of understanding on his face and asked her, "What do you need from me, Miss?"

"I want to talk with you about Y/N and how he was like when you two were younger." Grace explained as Izuku looked at the woman in front of him with a saddened look on his face, "I already talked with your mom about it and she told me some stuff. But I want to hear everything from your point of view. From what I know, you were the only good person in my nephew's life..."

"Was I, though?" Izuku cut her off with a guilty look on his face.

Grace looked at him questioningly, "What do you mean?"

Izuku lowered his head and gave her an explanation with guilt and regret evident in his voice, "I never considered how he felt like and I forced him to hang out around the same people who mistreated him. I never defended him or did anything to stop it. I even expected him to move past this the last time I talked with him, thinking everything will be fine and he'll just leave with me when I talked with him. I took him for granted and never took his feelings into consideration. I can't even recall us ever playing what he wanted to play as he must have been too scared to do it..."

He looked down at the palm of his hand a second later as he went further into his words with his tone getting more emotional, "I ruined everything with my behavior and how I viewed him. I think he hates me now even if my own told me that it's not the case here. He even tried to have me captured when I was away from U.A. I couldn't even get angry at him, because of it, because I know it's all my fault. I broke our friendship and now you know how things are like if you talked with my mom."

"Midoriya. Look at me." Grace told Izuku upon hearing him explained everything to her. There was no anger or disappointment in her voice or on her face. She instead looked at him with a worried and concerned look on her face. Izuku looked at her as Grace pointed at the picture she was holding right now, "Look at this picture. When was it taken?"

"On my tenth birthday." Izuku explained with his tone showing the same emotions, "Y/N bought me a new All Might poster, because he knew I wanted to get one for myself and added in some cookies he had baked himself. He was slowly starting off with his interest in baking back then..."

Grace nodded in understanding and pointed at the smiles both Izuku and Y/N had on their faces, "Look at your face. Look at his face. He's smilling. Does he look like he's not happy to be around you?"

"No, but..." Izuku began to say.

Grace once again nodded at him and put the picture down on the table, "Exactly. Even if you think you've made mistakes in your friendship with my nephew, it doesn't mean your friendship never meant anything to him and you haven't made his life better in the situation he was living in with my sister, her husband and his bullies. Everyone makes mistakes, including myself as I never noticed the obvious red flags including my nephew which is something I will regret until I'll die. If I was there for him, then maybe he wouldn't have become the Mask."

She wasted no time and explained everything further to Izuku, "You were there for him instead of me, though. You can see it yourself on the picture how happy he is to be in this moment with you and I'm sure your friendship had many moments like this. Even if you doubt them. There's popular saying. The axe forgets, but the tree remembers. Many people use it to talk about the bad stuff which some people did to them and want them to forget about it, but it can be applied to many good stuff as well."

She wrapped her arm around Izuku and pulled him closer to her, "Even if you think he hates you now and did what he did when you were out, I'm sure something inside of him remembers all the good times you two had together and a part of him still appreciates it. The worst thing you can do to a person in this world is making them feel like they're not loved or wanted. If it wasn't for you, then my nephew would have fallen into this category as your friendship showed him he was wanted in some way. Have you ever wondered how he would be like if he was all alone, without you there for him as his friend?"

"N-No..." Izuku shook his head with his eyes widening a bit. It was true. He never thought about how Y/N's life would be like if he wasn't around in his life, because he never considered something like this. How would Y/N's life be like without him? Would he have attempted his suicide earlier? What if All For One still got his hands on him? Would this make Y/N into a much worse villain than he was right now with all the good traits such as him saving Eri erased?

Grace nodded at him as she didn't intend to stop there and told him, "Exactly. It's easy to focus on our mistakes, to dwell on the times we fell short. But you need to see the bigger picture. You were a light in my nephew's life when everything else was dark. You didn't have to be perfect. You just had to be there and you were. You showed him what it meant to care for someone, even if you didn't always know the best way to do it. You weren't his enemy, Midoriya. You were his refuge."

"Even now, even if it feels like he's shut the door, a part of him remembers." Grace kept her comforting hand on his shoulder when she added, "I'm certain a part of him is still grateful, whether or not he can admit it to himself or to you. Don't let your guilt over what you could do control you. Just focus on what you should do now. If you do it, then I'm certain everythign can be fixed. If there's any chance to rebuild that bridge, even if it's just brick by brick, you owe it to him and to yourself to try."

She pulled her hand away from Izuku and picked up the framed picture of him and Y/N again as she finished off what she was saying to him, "And if there's one thing I know, it's this: People don't smile like that when they're faking it. Y/N smiled because he had you. Don't forget that. And don't let him forget it, either."

Izuku pulled his head away from Grace's shoulder, wiping his eyes and blinking away the tears which had formed in them, "Miss. Okuda. Thank you. I never thought about it like this. I was just focused on everything I did wrong. Your nephew was my best friend and he was always there when I needed him. Even if we drifted apart, even if I messed up, he was still my friend. And if there's even the smallest part of him that still remembers those good times, then I can't give up on anything and make him remember all the good times..."

He looked down at his hand and clenched it with a determined look slowly forming on his face as he looked up at Grace, "I don't know if he'll ever forgive me. I don't even know if he wants to see me again. But I'm going to fix everything. I promise you that I'll find a way to reach your nephew. I owe that to him and to myself."

Grace smiled at him, "You're welcome. It's the least I could do for you."

Izuku smiled back at her only for his eyes to widen a second later as someone crossed his mind. He immediately informed Grace about this, "Miss. You need to come with me."

"What do you mean?" Grace asked as Izuku got up from his bed.

"There's someone I need to introduce you to. It's someone who will always remind me there's still good inside of Y/N." Izuku explained as Grace raised her brow at him with an intrigued look on her face.

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Y/N walked further into the cave, making his way towards where he was told Skeptic and Kizuki's work station was located with Origami, Alice, Kasai, Needle Hair, Magne, Toga, Daiki, Minene and Spinner following him. He didn't worry about heading in the wrong direction, having been informed where the work station was located by Origami, Magne, Toga, Minene, Daiki and Spinner and he doubted they'd get it wrong.

He reached his destination shortly after, walking through the hole in the wall in the work station of Skeptic and Kizuki and looked around himself. If he was honest with himself, he was not suprised by the work station as it looked exactly like he suspected it to look. It was filled with a bunch of monitors and the computer related stuff. There was one TV attached to the wall as well and it was all he could say about it. It reminded him a bit of the lair Skeptic had for himself back in the mansion as well.

Skeptic turned away from the monitor upon hearing someone walk into his work station and set his eyes on Y/N, "...Look who finally decided to show up."

"You created some buzz before coming back here." Kizuki commented, not glancing at Y/N as her attention was on something else right now. Her attention was set on the TV in front of her instead, watching whatever the TV in font of her was showing right now.

Y/N looked at the TV again, allowing himself to take a better look at it to see what she was watching right now and saw it was a TV news report about what happened between him and Overhaul and were talking about him leaving the yakuza deceased, informing how he was still at large and was dangerous and all the other names in the books while Edgeshot and his team were investigating the scene. He nodded to himself, feeling gladdened he and the rest left the scene so quickly as he knew something like this would be just a matter of time.

"Did it really have to happen so close to the Blackgate Prison?" His attention was taken away from the TV shortly after by Skeptic with Origami, Needle Hair, Kasai and Alice following Y/N into the room while everyone else stayed outside. He felt Origami grab his hand a a second later, having just stopped right next to him while Magne, Spinner, Minene and Daiki remained outside. They kept themselves in the hearing range of them, though.

Y/N glanced at him and gave him his answe, "I didn't have much of a say there. They ambushed me and the rest shortly after I arrived back at our hideout there and were preparing to leave. Even if I wish I didn't create all this buzz there, we had to do it if we wanted to make it out of their ambush alive."

"Even if we did everything we could, half of our group died to make sure they got defeated." Needle Hair frowned sadly with sadness evident in her voice as well with her mind flying back to all the

Everyone glanced at her upon hearing her saying this, sensing sadness in her words as Y/N looked over his shoulder at her, letting out a guilty and saddened sigh. He glanced at Skeptic and Kizuki again a second later, promising himself to have a conversation with Needle Hair as soon as he'll get a chance to do so. The room became quiet for a moment with the silence around him being a bit grim and sad. To make everything more grim to them, it happened just in time the pictures of Tesla, Steel Bulwark, Martial Hair and Gorilla were shown on the TV with the information of their deaths.

Skeptic cut the silence in the room short a second later by changing the subject of the conversation, "Did you got the video which I asked you to make at least?"

"I did. They attacked me and the rest after I took the video. If I were to guess, they managed to find my hideout after they saw me return on Cyborg's back." Y/N gave him his answer as he shifted his gaze from him to Alice and nodded at her. Alice nodded in return, knowing what he wanted her to do as she stepped closer to Skeptic's desk and placed all the cameras in front of him.

Skeptic looked pleased when the first camera was placed in front of him. His pleased expression was quickly replaced by confusion when more cameras were placed in front of him by the young blonde haired woman. He shot Y/N a confused glance shortly after, "What are those?"

"All the videos I took while being out." Y/N gave him his answer as Skeptic and Kizuki looked at him with questioning looks on their faces. He quickly explained everything to them a second later, "While I was out there, I stumbled upon some people as you can see and all of them shared their history with them. I decided to their stories deserve to be heard by the world, just like ours were. With the help of my new friends, I managed to gather some videos which will spread our message further."

He placed his free hand on the camera containing Lady Nagant's video and confession a second later, "This isn't all about those videos. I have a bomb here if I can call it a nomal bomb. It's a nuke more to be honest. This video over here is destroy whatever credibility the hero society has left and will leave it in shambles. Even if we'll get defeated by whatever remained of the hero society in some way, then nothing will be the same with this out in the open as the trust in heroes will never be fully regained."

Alice nodded in agreement, "I can tell what he is saying here is 100% true. I was there when this video was recorded and got to know the woman who made this confession. Trust me when I say Y/N is not exaggerating when he is saying how this video will be the final nail in the coffin for the hero society."

"I see." Skeptic voiced his reply to whatever they just said to him with an interested look slowly forming on his face.

"What does this video have if you call it a nuke?" Kizuki wanted to know. Everyone else around Y/N and Alice seemed interested in the video and whatever it contained as well. Magne, Spinner, Daiki and Minene even stepped a bit into the work room as they wanted to to learn the answer to this question.

"Watch the video and see it for yourself." Y/N gave them his answer. He knew explaining it to them wouldn't do it's justice. Watching the video is what would do it.

Skeptic and Kizuki exchanged glances with each other and nodded, deciding to watch the video now as Skeptic grabbed the camera with Lady Nagant's video. He turned the camera on, leaving the video playing out for everyone close enough to the camera to hear. The video started playing a second later, leaving everyone aside from Y/N and Alice who knew what it contained staring at it with either intrigued or interested looks on their faces.

The intrigue slowly turned into shock as Lady Nagant started her story and the shock only grew from there when she explained everything regarding her past and her turn into villainy after getting turned into a HPSC assassin. She explained everything. All the gruesome and even tiniest details of her past and her work as an assassin for the HPSC. By the time the video ended, everyone was left stunned by what just watched and allowed themselves to process everything.

"...Holy shit." Skeptic commented on what he just watched with wide eyes with the screen attached to the camera turning black right after the video ended.

Y/N nodded in agreeement, "Yeah. I know. It was my reaction when she told me about it."

Kizuki shifted her gaze from the camera to Y/N, "You weren't kidding when you said this video is a nuke..."

"I really want to stab everyone at the HPSC now..." Toga muttered under her breath.

"This isn't just a nuke. It's an extinction for the hero society." Magne stated from where she stood in the back of the room with her expression showing disbelief and disgust. Disbelief because of what she just found out about from the video and the disgust of something like this actually taking place.

"You're right. This is far worse than whatever came out about Endeavor with Dabi and Hawks with him killing Twice and Tengai. The hero society is already hanging on by it's threads, because of everything we revealed about it. This will be the final nail in the coffin." Spinner nodded in agreement with Minene and Daiki who stood next to him showing their own disgust and disbelief over what they just watched.

"This poor woman will be the final nail in it's coffin." Origami added, keeping her grip on Y/N's hand tight.

"Yup. She will be." Y/N nodded in agreement as he shifted his gaze between everyone around him only for him to set his eyes on the camera again, "She was wronged by the hero society more than any of us here. She deserves to have the finishing blow on it. What we're doing right now is not just about revenge anymore. It's about exposing the truth. About making the world see the rot beneath the surface of this so-called hero society. People need to know what heroes have done, what they've allowed. We already started this with our first wave of videos and the effects of it are seen. What we're doing right now is merely finishing what we started."

Skeptic stared at him silently for a second and shifted his gaze back to his monitor, "If that's the case, then it's good you brought in more confession videos. At least this way Geten won't be the odd one out."

Y/N looked at him with a questioning look on his face, "What do you mean?"

"Geten recorded his own confession video while you were gone." Skeptic gave him an explanation, "He isn't the only one. Shigaraki recorded one as well."

Y/N looked at him with a suprised look on his face, "What?"

"You heard me right." Skeptic confirmed it him, "For the short while he was awake before leaving the cave to have his fight, he went to me and Curious to see how everything was going while he was asleep and he found out about the videos and the interviews and decided to do one himself."

"I see..." Y/N replied in understanding with his eyes going to the floor for a second, "...Do you know when you will release those videos or do you need help with planning the date of their release?"

Skeptic shook his head, "Yes. We already have planned the day of the release of the videos. You were gone for a while and it allowed us to plan everything out."

Y/N nodded in understanding and voiced his next question to them, "Alright. When this will happen?"

"On the day we will make our next move." Skeptic gave him his answer, "This way we'll leave heroes suprised by something they will be unable to control when this will happen. Just like they suprised us when they attacked the mansion and left us with something unable to control when Machia was woken up."

Kizuki nodded in agreement, "We'll give them a taste of their own medicine. Even if they will win over us and will begin to celebrate it, they will be given a cold reality check of them

"I see. Alright." Y/N voiced his understanding of it. He had to admit. The thought of them doing what they did to the heroes almost made him smile as well. He found himself thinking about Shigaraki and him making his own video as well. It left him wanting to ask Skeptic and Kizuki about something else. Letting out a sigh, he voiced his next question to them, "Did he say anything when he was awake and you know, himself?"

Skeptic kept his eyes eyes on Y/N when he gave him his answer, "He looked impressed by the damage you did to the hero society to get us closer to reaching our goal. I think I saw him smile and mutter something under his breath about being proud of you."

"I was there when he wake up as well. The first thing that he asked after waking up was asking about you. He wanted to see you." Spinner added his own part to what Skeptic just said as Y/N looked over his shoulder at him with a mixture of hurt and shock look on his face when his mind slowly processed what Skeptic and Spinner just told him.

"Tomura-kun..." Y/N muttered under his breath with him shifting his gaze away from Spinner and setting his gaze on the floor again as Origami looked at him with a worried look on her face.

"Y/N?" Origami asked him in worry as Y/N clenched his free hand with his mind flying back to everything he had learned about All For One wanting to take over Shigaraki's body from All Might and everything else All For One hid from him. All of this just made him more angry and suspicious on the inside and he knew there was only one way of confirming his suspicious. Even if he was already pretty much certain everything by now.

He looked up a second later and shifted his gaze between everyone around him, "Do you know where Dabi is?"

Origami's concerned face quickly turned into a confused one, "Dabi?"

"Yes. I need to talk with him about something." Y/N gave her a nod of confirmation as he glanced at her, "Do you know where he is? I saw him leaving with Geten right after we moved to this place."

Origami nodded at him, "Yeah. I think I know where they went. I saw them train by the lake in the forest on a daily basis shortly after we settled down in this cave."

"I watched them train there a few time as well." Toga added with his answer confirming what Origami just said to Y/N. Not that he needed confirmation from her in the first place.

"Alright. Take me to them." Y/N replied as Origami and Toga nodded at him. He shifted his gaze between everyone around him with his face and tone showing he was dead serious on whatever he was about to say to them, "The rest of you aside from Skeptic and Curious who will do their duties here needs to come with me as I want you to be present for this conversation. We should collect Slice, Mummy and Nishimura on our way there as well. I want them to be there for this as well."

Origami looked at him with a questioning look on her face, "...Okay? I'll take you to them."

"What's going on, Y/N?" Magne looked like she wanted to know the answer as much as Origami. She wasn't the only one. Everyone else seemed curious about this as well. Everyone aside from Alice and Kasai who already suspected what it was going to be. They were there when Y/N has his conversation with All Might, after all.

"I'll explain everything to you once we'll get there. Come on." Y/N replied. Not wasting any time, he pushed himself into walk and slowly starting walking out of Skeptic and Kizuki's work station. Everyone who he wanted to go along with him started to follow him. Everyone aside from Alice who remained where she stood. Something which didn't went unnoticed by him, "...Alice? What's wrong? Why are you not coming?"

"I'll stay hee for a bit as I have something to handle here." Alice explained herself to him.

Y/N stayed silent for a moment and eyed her expression. From the look on her face, Y/N could tell it was something serious and decided to let her stay here, "Alright. Just make sure to join you as quickly as you can."

"I will." Alice reassured him as Y/N turned away and left Skeptic and Kizuki's work station with Origami, Toga, Magne, Needle Hair, Kasai, Spinner, Daiki and Minene. She waited until all of them found themselves out of the hearing range and turned to Skeptic and Kizuki who shot her questioning looks, "Alright. So..."

"What do you want?" Skeptic cut her off by voicing his question to her.

Alice pulled out the last camera into his view and held it out to him, "I was getting to that. You see. I took some videos of Y/N when he wasn't looking to make everything look as natural as possible in them. Those videos show him helping the civilians and saving them from the villains attacks, just like he did with me. You should include when you will release the videos. This will show the world what the Mask really is."

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Grace walked closely behind Izuku with an intrigued look on her face as he led her to the other part of the U.A dorms. They left his dorm shortly after he told her about her needing to come with him in order to be introduced to someone and this topic couldn't leave her mind ever since it was brought up to her. Who was this person Izuku wanted to introduce her to? Izuku didn't tell her anything about this person other than her being someone who will always remind him her nephew still having some good inside of him as he wanted Grace to be directly introduced to her before explaining to her who it was.

She followed Izuku into the new dorm and was greeted by the view of Mirio. Mirio greeted Izuku, smilling a bit only for his expression to grow a bit confused and intrigued when he saw Grace iwth Izuku. Upon being asked who she was, Izuku introduced her to him by his name without telling him who she was related to and explained how they came here because he wanted to introduce her to Eri as she'd be someone Eri would want to met.

Mirio nodded in understanding, leading Izuku and Grace further into the dorms as Grace raised her brow. Who was this Eri girl? Why did Izuku want to introduce her to this girl, whoever she was so much and more importantly what had she do with her nephew. All of those questions continued to fly through her mind, knowing there was only one way to find the answers to them as she followed Izuku and Mirio further into the dorm.

"Eri. Look who came here to visit you." Mirio greeted Eri upon reaching her with Izuku a second later as Grace looked down at Eri and her eyes caught the sight of a cute little girl. She was very young. She must have around 6 or years old. She wasn't alone as well. She was accompanied by Nejire and Tamaki. Grace paid no attention to them, though as she didn't know them and paid more attention to the girl.

Eri looked up at him with a questioning look on her face, "Deku?"

"Hey, Eri." Izuku smiled at Eri as he crouched down in front her. Eri's expression was a mixture of happiness, confusion and a bit hurt. The dark green haired boy, knowing where the latter two came from and he intended to address it with her later. Right now, he wanted to focus himself on introducing Grace to her, though, "I'm here because I want to introduce someone to you."

"Who?" Eri asked as Izuku looked over his shoulder at Grace who silently stood behind him in an awkward manner. Nejire and Tamaki exchanged confused glances with each other as Eri looked at Izuku with a confused look on her face, "Who is this?"

Izuku kept looking over his shoulder at Grace when he gave Eri her answer, "This is Okuda Grace. She's Y/N's family."

"Y/N's family?" Eri's eyes widened a bit in alarm, growing a bit tense as Mirio, Nejire and Tamaki exchanged suprised glances with each other. Izuku quickly sensed the nervousness in her voice, knowing he needs to clarify something to her as he knew she knew about the way Y/N's parents were treating him.

Izuku quickly glanced back at her and explained it to her, "Don't worry. She's not like people who hurt him. She's the one who told everyone how bad his parents were. Okay?"

"Okay..." Eri nodded at him, seemingly calming down as she looked up at Grace with her eyes showing curiosity.

Grace decided it was her time to say something as she stepped closer to Eri and crouched down in front of her, "Hello, Eri. It's nice to meet you. Midoriya brought me here because you apparently are close with my nephew."

"He is. He's my hero." Eri nodded in confirmation with a smile slowly forming on her face.

"Your hero?" Grace raised her brow in an interested manner as she sat down next to Eri, making sure to keep a small distance from her because she didn't want to make the girl uncomfortable.

Eri once again nodded in confirmation with her smile growing as she explained everything to Grace, "Yes. He offered me his kind hands when Kai was hurting me and promised to keep me safe from him. He showed me that I'm not a curse. He put himself at risk for me when he fought Kai to keep me away from him. He even taught me how to write and read..."

"I see." Grace smiled at Eri. She glanced Izuku for a second, now understanding why Izuku described Eri as someone who shows him there's still good inside of Y/N and Izuku smiled and nodded at her while Mirio, Tamaki and Nejire did nothing and just watched the scene in front of them. Grace glanced back at Eri a second later. Even though she didn't know what was happening with Eri, she knew she must have been an abuse victim from the way she she described "Kai", whoever he was. Her nephew must have seen himself in her and helped her because of it.

Eri continued to smile at Grace as she stood up and went off somewhere, "Wait. If you're Y/N's kind aunt, then there's something I need to show you."

"What is it?" Grace raised her brow as Eri went through some of her stuff and found exactly what she was looking for. She came running back to Grace a second later and showed it to her. What she showed her was a drawing of her and Y/N holding hands. The two weren't alone there, though. Toga and Twice were there as well. Izuku, Mirio, Nejire and Tamaki exchanged uncomfortable glances with each other upon seeing Twice on the drawing.

Eri quickly gave her an explanation, "My drawing of him and his friends who helped him in looking after me. I wanted it show all of us together for when they will be saved and will be here with me. This way I could show them how much I had learned since the last time I saw them. I could show them my smile as well. I could show Y/N what I want to be as he asked me when he was went me and I couldn't give him an answer back then."

"I see. You're really a talented artist, Eri." Grace smiled at Eri. She had to admit. It was really sweet.

"Thanks. I really wish I had made this drawing back when I made my letter for him so that he and his friends could see us together. I really hope he managed to read my letter." Eri gratefully smiled back at Grace. She could tell this woman was Y/N's kind aunt. She was really nice. Just like him. Her smile faded away from her face a second later and she looked down sadly.

Grace immediately became concerned by this, "What's wrong?"

Eri's saddened expression remained on her face as she pointed at Twice with her eyes going down to the floor in a saddened way, "It's just I know this drawing won't happen now as Twice was killed by one of the heroes which I can't understand. How could someone as nice as him be killed? He tried to make smile so many times when I didn't know how to do it and yet, he was killed..."

"Eri..." Grace sadly began, wanting to say something as she cut herself off mid-sentence as Izuku held his hand out towards her as a way of telling her to stop and how he'll handle this. After all, he had something to say to Eri.

Izuku stepped closer to Eri and sat down next to her, "Eri."

Eri shfited her saddened expression to him, "Deku. Why did Twice had to die? You promised me that he will be saved. Just like Y/N and Toga..."

"I know and I'm sorry for failing you." Izuku looked at her with a regretful look on his face, "Twice didn't have to die and I'm sorry you had to find out about his death. Even after the promise that we made you..."

"But what about Bakugo?" Eri asked him, "Why did you keep hanging around him even if he knew how he hurt, Y/N?"

Izuku's regretful expression remained on his face when he gave her his answer, "Because I was foolish and didn't took how Y/N will feel about it into consideration. I didn't want to acknowledge what kind of pain he was in because of Bakugo and it's something I realized far too late. maybe, in some ways, I did help him grow. But in doing that, I hurt Y/N without even realizing it. I didn't stand up for him like I should have. I didn't protect him from the people who caused him pain, and for that... I'm sorry, Eri. I failed him, just like I failed you with Twice..."

"Deku..." Eri muttered under her breath.

Izuku's regretful expression slowly began to show determination as he went further into his words, "But I want to do better. Not just for Y/N, but for everyone I've let down. For you. I made a promise to you, Eri, to save Y/N and Toga and to bring them back to a place where they can be happy, just like you deserve to be. And I'm not giving up on that promise, even if I've stumbled along the way. I promise you that I will do everything in my power to make your wish a reality."

"Okay..." Eri nodded at him with all the emotions she had on face earlier such as hurt and confusion fading away from her face.

"Young Midoriya. There you are..." Their conversation got cut short as All Might's voice rang through their ears. Everyone turned towards the source of the voice and saw All Might walking into the dorm.

Izuku raised his brow, "All Might?"

"Do you need anything?" Mirio asked as Grace's eyes widened a bit. She couldn't believe she was in the same room as All Might right now...

"Yeah. There's something I need to tell you. Something other than Star and Stripe happened and you need to know about it. All of you." All Might replied, not wanting to exclude Eri as he knew she deserved to know about this as well. His hand was clenched as well, having just overheard what Izuku said to Eri. How he was going to tell him what Y/N told him during their conversation.

"What is it?" Izuku wanted to know and so did everyone else in the room.

"It's Overhaul. He's dead." All Might revealed, bracing himself for the reaction as he know how everyone would react to this. His revelation got the kind of reactions he expected to get from everyone in the room as Izuku, Eri, Mirio, Tamaki and Nejire stared at him with silent shock written over their faces. Grace was a bit stunned as well, despite not having any experience with Overhaul other than seeing the news report about him.

Tamaki's eyes widened, "W-What?"

"He's dead?" Nejire gasped in shock.

"Kai..." Eri muttered under her breath in shock. Her tormentor was dead?

All Might nodded in confirmation, "Yes. We believe we know who's responsible for his death as well. We believe he was killed by the Mask."

"What?" Grace's eyes widened upon hearing her nephew's name. All Might was not suprised to see her. He knew exactly who she was.

Izuku looked equally as shocked everyone else, "Y/N killed him?"

"Y/N..." Eri once again muttered something under her breath. Y/N killed her tormentor? Even if she knew smilling at someone's death was wrong, she smiled slightly upon hearing this information. Her tormentor was dead and he was killed by Y/N. He stopped him. Just like he promised he would, "...You fulfilled your promise to me, Y/N..."

"Are you sure he was killed by him?" Mirio wanted to know.

All Might once again nodded in confirmation, "Yes. Y/N was seen flying on a Nomu not to far from the Blackgate Prison. We couldn't determine for what reason, though. Just as the authorities were sent to search the area for him, they found what can he described as massacre. Over a dozen people were confirmed to have been killed in this fight with Overhaul and whatever remained of the Shie Hassaikai ."

"My gosh..." Mirio grew a bit uneasy at this as All Might nodded in agreement of his comment. He didn't go into full detail of the massacre as well, not wanting them or rather Eri to know how Overhaul was missing a large chunk of flesh from his neck or how broken Kurono's body was when the scene was first discovered and investigated.

"Do we know anything else?" Nejire wanted to know more, "How was Overhaul capable of fighting anyone without his hands?"

All Might sighed, "That's the part where everyone is scratching their heads. Overhaul had his hands."

Nejire's eyes widened, "What?"

"How is this possible?" Mirio asked with a suprised look on his face as Izuku and Tamaki silently nodded in agreement while looking equally as shocked by this information.

"It is unknown at this moment. Edgeshot and his team are trying to make sense out of everything." All Might gave them his answer, "That's everything that is know about this scene at this moment. I thought about informing you about it in case you didn't know about this, yet..."

"Midoriya...!" Their conversation got cut short as Hagakure rushed into the room, panting heavily, "...There you are. I've been looking everywhere for you!"

Izuku looked at her with a mixture of confusion and concern on his face, "Hagakure? What's wrong?"

"You need to come with me. Now..." Hagakure gave him her answer as Izuku's expression shifted into full concern.

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Y/N walked out of the cave, heading down the hill towards the lake with the group of Origami, Toga, Magne, Spinner, Needle Hair, Kasai, Minene, Daiki, Slice, Mummy and Nishimura following him. Alice was with them as well, having rejoined their group shortly after they managed to collect Nishimura as she managed to take care of whatever business she had with Skeptic and Kizuki. What this business was? Y/N had no idea.

Origami pulled her hand away from his a second later as she took the led of the group with Toga and Slice, all three of them taking him and the rest to the place whee Dabi and Geten were training together. Y/N had to admit. He was a bit suprised to find out about them training together. He knew he shouldn't be suprised by it, though as he was there when Geten revealed himself to be Dabi's cousin. If anything, he should be happy Dabi managed to make some normal connection with his family. He only wished he was just as fortunate...

He was a bit suprised when he found out about Slice knowing where to find them as well. His suprise died down a second after finding out about this, though as Slice explained how she often joined them in the training. Not for the training itself, though. She went there to hang out with Geten for a bit. When asked about it, she blushed a bit and quickly deflected the question. Y/N didn't press her further about it, knowing now it wasn't the time for this.

All of them reached their destination a second later as Origami, Toga and Slice took them straight to the place where Dabi and Geten were having one of their training sessions. Y/N didn't have much to say regarding what he just saw them doing during their training sessions as it wasn't anything notable. It was just Geten turning the water from the lake next to him into ice to apply it into Dabi who was having a flameball around his fist.

Their training sessions got cut short when they saw all the people heading towards them as Dabi killed the flames in arouns his flames and set his eyes on everyone who was walking towards him and his cousin, "Well, well, look who finally decided to show up. I gotta admit, kid. You know how to make an entrance as everyone gave up on what they were doing when you showed up."

"Welcome back, Y/N." Geten added, welcoming Y/N back in with them as he didn't got a chance to do it back in the cave when Y/N first showed up.

"What's up with all the people you brought with yourself?" Dabi asked as he eyed all the people in front of him in front of him, "You gathered yourself a welcoming committe or somethng? You even brought Geten's little girlfriend."

"Shut up..." Geten blushed a bit at his comment as Slice blushed at this as well. Magne, Minene, Origami and Toga raised their brows at this reaction. They focused themselves on something else a second later, knowing whatever Y/N brought all of them here for was something important.

"I'm glad to see you two again as well." Y/N returned their greetings, knowing it was their way of greeting people as he set his eyes on Geten and nodded at him. Geten nodded back at him with his blush fading away from Dabi's comment as Y/N shifted his gaze from him to Dabi. He didn't want to waste their time with some smalltalk and wanted to get to what he wanted to talk with about straight away. It was exactly what he did a second later as he addressed him, "Dabi. We need to talk and I brought everyone here as it's somethng important and I want them to be here for it."

Dabi raised his brow, "What would be so important to make you gather all of them here."

"I think you already know why." Y/N told him, "You remember what you said to me before I left?"

Dabi gave him a look of understanding, "I see. You want to talk about this?"

"Yes. You told me not to trust All For One." Y/N replied with his answer getting many raised brows out of everyone. Even from those who were suspicious or annoyed with All For One like Origami, Spinner and Toga. Geten was the only exceptions, though as he was told about this by Dabi when they had their first conversation. The h/c haired boy wasted no time and asked him further, "I know you wouldn't have said it to me if you didn't have the reason to. Can you tell me and the others what it is?"

Dabi crossed his arms, "I see something changed in you. I don't think you'd be asking me to have this conversation before you left."

Y/N quickly gave him an honest answer. "Some things happen when I was out and my trust in All For One is not the same as it was, before everything went down. I will go into detail on everything if what you will say to me will confirm my suspicions. This is why I brought everyone here as I want them to know about this. This is why I'm asking you to tell me about it. Please."

"I see." Dabi replied in understanding. He shifted his gaze between everyone around him and saw everyone their eyes on him. He was in a center of attention now. He shifted his gaze to Geten a second later and Geten nodded at him, silently telling him to explain everything to them. Dabi nodded back at his cousin and set his eyes back on everyone else around him, "Fine. I'll tell you everything you need to know. You may want to sit down for this story as well. It's a long one and it may shock some of you."

Dabi wasted no time with starting his explanation, knowing everyone wanted the answer from him and it was exactly what he was going to give to them. He started off his explanation to them by bringing up the day when he supposedly died on Sekoto Peak. He explained to them how he had broken down emotionally when Endeavor didn't come to see him lost control of his flames, which nearly burned him to death and left him as nothing but a charred corpse.

His story continued as he explained to them how didn't die because he was saved by no other than All For One, getting many shocked stares and reactions from the others and explained further by telling them how he ended up in a coma for 3 years, waking up when he was nearly an adult. The next part of his explanation included him waking up in the nursery set up by All For One with someone's skin having been put over his charred body. This part of the explanation included something else. It included Dabi not being the only person at the nursery. Many other children were present at the nursery as well.

The revelation of the many other children left everyone confused, having been left wondering why would All For One need all of those children. Y/N quickly realized why would he need them. He knew there could have been two reasons as Shigaraki was found by All For One when he was a kid. It left Y/N thinking there were two possible explanations to why All For One owned something like this. He either turned those children into Nomus or used them as a backup in case things went wrong with Shigaraki.

Y/N clenched his hand wth an angry expression forming on his face when this realization hit him like a ton of bricks. To think everything. All the kindness and support All For One showed him and Shigaraki was just to use them in a long run. He couldn't help but ask himself and grow worried bit worried as well. If All For One was planning to use Shigaraki as his new body by taking it over, then what was he planning to do with him?

He was pulled away from his thoughts as Dabi continued his story by explaining how his body got experimented on when he was in his coma with an intention of making his body more resistant to flames. He knew about this because All For One himself had told him about this. The story continued from there as Dabi told them how he had escaped the nursery with All For One and the Doctor letting him free, being unable to manipulate through his obsession with Endeavor, and believing he will only last a month until he dies. Dabi knew about this as the Doctor himself had told this to him when he and Mustard were left behind at his lab when the League was first introduced to Gigantomachia.

Dabi recalled something else All For One told him during their conversation with him, wanting to make sure everyone around him knew as much as they needed to know. He explained All For One telling him he'll be unable to utilize the power he once had, with all his organs damaged, body debilitated, and nerve senses all dulled, rendering him unable to feel pain. All For One considered him a "failure" and this words Y/N recoil a bit. All For One never called him a failure. Not even once. He now understood why. It was to keep him on his leash.

The last part of his story included Dabi coming back to his home after running away from the nursery only to discover that his family thought he was dead and finding out that his Endeavor was continuing his abuse and training toward Todoroki. Seeing his Endeavor continue with his "perfect creation" and how his broken family moved on from him, Dabi was reminded of his fate as his father's failure and embraced his 'death."

"...Yeah. So this it. This is how Todoroki Toya died and was Dabi was born." Dabi finished his story, having his hands in his pockets as he kept his eyes on everyone around him to observe their reactions throughout his story and to see how they will be like by the time he'll finish his story.

Their reactions were exactly what he had expected as everyone stared at him in a stunned silence with their brain processing everything they had just been told by him. What he just said left everyone aside from Y/N and Geten stunned. Y/N wasn't as stunned by this as everyone else was because he had already been certain of this susipicious and Geten wasn't as stunned by this as everyone else was because he was already told all of this by Dabi.

The air around them was thick with tension, each person absorbing the gravity of Dabi's story in their own way. Some were lost in their thoughts, others simmering with anger or sadness. But all of them felt the weight of his words. Dabi glanced away from everyone for a second, seeing their expressions slowly switching into expressions of pity and sympathy as Dabi's story just went from worse to a complete living nightmare in their lives.

All of them just couldn't wrap thei heads around just how big of a nightmare this story was. The story of abuse of Endeavor already made everything look bad. However, this was something much worse. Dabi was in a coma for three years after the incident and woke up wearing skin which wasn't even his, making him a walking charred corpse. To make everything worse in regards of Dabi's family, he came back home only to see nothing had changed after his death. Even his death wasn't good enough to change Endeavor who was probably too lost n his own ways by this point to give up...

Y/N looked down at the palm of his hand with the knowledge of Dabi being a walking charred corpse for all the time he had known him continue to fly though his mind. As he continued to look down at his palm, he found himself thinking about Overhaul's Quirk and all the things he could use the power which he had stolen from him. However, he knew he couldn't jump to this straight away as this power was still new to him and he had to practice with it for a bit before jumping to anything.

The h/c haired boy looked up from his palm a second later, leaving himself out of his thoughts as he knew this moment was not right for him to thin about stuff like this. He knew he had to fill everyone in on everything he had found out All For One while he was away from them. After all, this was the reason why he gathered all of them here to have them listen whatever reason's Dabi had for not trusting All For One in the first place. He wanted to prepare them before dropping the bomb on them.

"Everyone. This is why I wanted all of you to be present for this conversation. All For One has betrayed us." Y/N ended the silence between them as everyone glanced at him in an instant upon hearing those words. Everyone could instantly notice one emotion in his voice. It was hurt. Y/N genuinely hurt by the thought of someone who he had once deeply admired and wanted to make proud doing something like this, "In more than one ways. He lied to us about the Nomus. He and the Doctor kept information regarding them to us. They made us believe they've only been using heroes and villains to make them. It was far from reality, though. They were using civilians for all this time and kept this from us as they knew we wouldn't have approved of this."

"...What?" Origami asked with horror slowly horror slowly growing on her face. The thought all of them have been using civilians for the Nomus without knowing was enough to leave her filled with dread. Her reaction was followed by everyone else as everyone expressed their own reaction to this. Even if they were silent at first, unlike Origami.

Spinner clenched his fists with his eyes narrowed in both anger and disgust as Magne's expression cracked, her mouth opening as if to speak, but no words came out. Toga tilted her head, with her expression growing more serious and her grin was nowhere to be seen on her face. Everyone else was left silent by this revelation as well, showing horror and disgust and anger of such revelation in their own ways. Only Dabi's expression was unreadable.

Magne who was clearly shaken by this revelation stepped towards Y/N as she broken the stunned silence within the group, "Y/N. You're saying we've been complicit in this? All For One forced us to agree to something like this by hiding this information from us?"

"Yeah. He and the Doctor knew our organization wouldn't agree to use the Nomus if we knew about them using the civilians to make them. This is why they hid this fact from us." Y/N replied grimly. He knew it wasn't the end of the revelation for them, though. There was something else he had to bring up to them and he absolutely hated the idea of it, "That's not all. He betrayed us with his intentions regarding Tomura-kun as well."

"What do you mean?" Spinner immediately grew alarmed by this.

"There's a reason why All For One started controlling Tomura-kun recently." Y/N replied, letting out a sigh as he knew Spinner would instantly grow alarmed by this revelation. He inhaled deeply, bracing himself for whatever reaction this revelation will get out of everyone with Spinner being on his mind the most, "It's because he wants to take over his body. All For One was not looking for a successor. He was looking for a new body. Tomura-kun is nothing but a vessel to him."

"W-What?" Spinner grew more alarmed by Y/N's explanation with his expression growing horrified and concerned by the thought of someone actually wanting to snatch Shigaraki's body for themselves. His body slowly began to shake out of either rage or sadness or maybe a mixture of both. If Y/N were to guess, it must have been a mixture of both.

Magne clenched her shaking hand into a fist with anger slowly beginning to to show in her body language, "That's all he is for him? Just some body he can snatch for himself when he wants to? He's treating him like some disposable shell?! That's not right! Shigaraki deserves more than that! He is just some piece of meat someone can just steal for themselves!"

"I knew there was something off about him..." Origami glared at the ground with her fists trembling a bit, "Ever since we started staying in the cave and he refused to let me talk with you. I should have known he was planning something like this..."

Y/N nodded in agreement, letting out a sigh, "You and me both. We were his pawns. Every single one of us. He fed us lies. Talked about a better world and change while in reality it was a just cover. He doesn't want a better world for everyone. He wants to be the demon lord. He's no better than the system we've been fighting against or the villains who are doing everything for the sake of being evil. Maybe even worse than all of them combined."

"He's worse. Trust me he is." Dabi added as Y/N looked over his shoulder at him and Geten. He shook his head, letting out a dry humorless laugh, "All For One doesn't care about you or anyone else here. Never has. He only cared about himself and himself only. He sees us as tools. Means to an end. Hell, he probably laughed at how easy it was to string us along."

"You're right. I can't believe how foolish I was for all this time for admiring him while all he ever saw me as another pawn in his game." Y/N agreed with Dabi as he shifted his gaze away from him to look at all his trusted friends and comrades around him, "I'm done playing his game, though. If he thinks we'll just sit back and let him take Tomura-kun, he's dead wrong. The new world which we want to create has no place for a Demon Lord and this is why I gathered all of you here. I want to rebell against All For One. I trust every single one of you and would gladly trust you with my life."

He looked around everyone around him and bowed to them, "This is why I'm asking all of you to please help me. Help me save my brother from him. Help me save the plans of the better world from getting taken over by All For One and whatever he has planned for himself as the Demon Lord."

Everyone stared silently at Y/N as the group of villainss stood in a tense silence forming around them. Each person around Y/N processed his words in their own way and in their own pace. His requst continued to fly through their minds with emotions of gravity of betrayal, loyalty, and the call to action. Their faces showed all kinds of emotions as well, showing just how deeply Y/N's words and his speech when he asked them to help them affected them.

Origami was the first to break the silence. She stepped closer to her boyfriend with her eyes showing faith and conviction in him, "Do you really need to ask me? You know I'll follow you anywhere. Without you, I would still be the same girl who would be getting locked out of her house for the smallest things."

"Me too." Alice nodded in agreement, having her eyes set on Y/N and Y/N quickly noticed something in them. It was faith and determination, "If it wasn't for you, then I still would be the same Quirkless nobody. You don't need to ask me for help as I will always have your back. Besides, what kind of apprentice would be if I didn't back you now when you directly asked me for this?"

"They're right, sweetheart." Magne voiced her agreement as well with her face and voice showing determination, "You don't need to ask me anything. You should know that no matter what you and Shigaraki will always have me by your side and will always count on my help."

"You and Shigaraki showed me that I can be someone when I completely gave up on everything in life. You became my friends and played video games with me. I'll always stand by you side. Shigaraki is more than just a leader to me. He's more than just a friend to me. I'll fight to protect him, no matter what it takes." Spinner spoke next with his voice showing a mixture of determination and anger, his fists trembling.

"Y/N. You and Tomura-kun allowed me to be myself without being judged or called a freak. Because of this, I finally found myself surrounded by people who accept me for who I am and because of this I finally found out what true love means." Toga voiced her thoughts a second late as she pulled out her knife and showed it off to Y/N, "I'll gladly stab anyone who dares to hurt you or Tomura-kun. Even if it's All For One."

"Everyone from the original gang is up for this, huh?" Dabi asked, taking all the attention for himself as everyone turned towards him and saw him walking towards Y/N with his hands in his pockets. He kept his eyes on Y/N when he added, "Looks like I don't have much of a choice here. I'm in too."

"Are you sure?" Y/N asked upon laying his eyes on him.

Dabi stopped directly in front of Y/N when he gave him his answer with a smirk slowly growing on his face, "Kid. I was there when we attacked the summer camp. I was there when we took care of Overhaul for the first time. I was there when we were going through poverty. I was there when we fought MLA. I was there when we fought off heroes at the mansion. I was there when you took the blonde haired shithead's Quirk away with a bullet. Do you think I will miss out the fun of wiping the smug smirk off the potato head's face?"

Geten showed up on Dabi's side a second later, "If he's up for this, then you can count me on me as well. I know Re-Destro would be up for this if he was here with us right now."

"Do you really need to ask me for help? You know you can always count on me to have your side. I will follow you anywhere and told you myself I'm willing to do anything to be a good adviser to you when we had our conversation after I got assigned to you as your adviser." Minene asked as Y/N shifted his gaze to her and Daiki. Both of whom were staring at him with determined smiles on their faces. Minene's smile had something different in it, though. He did his best to ignore it for the sake of himself and Origami, though.

Daiki nodded in agreement, "She's right. What kind of advisers me or her would be if we didn't back you now?"

"If Origami is standing by you for this, then, as her adviser, you can count on my assistance as well." Nishimura added.

"You and Shigaraki gave me and my friends a place to belong after Nine died." Slice spoke next as Y/N shifted gaze to her and Mummy, "You gave us a chance to avenge him by allowing to be a part in your creation of the new world. All For One didn't do this. You and Shigaraki did. This is why I will always choose you over him."

Mummy nodded in agreement, "You can count on me to do what I can."

"Me too." Kasai agreed a second later, clenching his hand with a determined look on his face as Needle Hair silently nodded in agreement.

Y/N looked around himself and saw all the people who were all expressed their belief at him and their willingness to go against All For One with him. All the people around him still believed in him, despite him messing up so much in the past and needing to work towads fixing it like he was doing right now. Before he knew it a smile formed on his face. A genuine smile. The first smile he had in he didn't even know how long.

"Guys. Thank you. I just don't know how to describe how grateful I am to have each of you by my side." He voiced his gratitude to them a second later, wanting all of them to know what he thought of them in this moment.

"How about you'll start by telling us what we have planned?" Dabi asked him, "You're going to need more than passion to win this. All For One isn't just some villain you can punch out and call it a day. We need a plan."

Mummy nodded in agreement, "He's right. We need a plan. Something that protects Shigaraki and keeps us alive."

Y/N nodded at them, "You're right. We need a plan and I already knows bits of it."

"What do you have planned, then?" Needle Hair asked, "How are we supposed to act around All For One now?"

"Just act natural. We all act as if nothing was wrong. Just like I and Himiko-chan did back at the yakuza." Y/N gave her his answer as Toga nodded in understanding, knowing the kind of game both of them were playing with Twice back then and it allowed them to get close to Eri and recruit Rappa and Tengai into their organization, "We shouldn't make All For One suspect there's anything going on behind his back. Him finding out about it will end badly. For all of us."

"Alright." Needle Hair replied with understanding with Y/N's words getting a few nods from everyone.

"For how long do we keep this act, though?" Spinner voiced his question next, "We can't pretend it forever. The longer we pretend, the bigger the risk of him taking over Shigaraki's body becomes."

"You're right. Time is a luxury we don't have." Y/N agreed with him and voiced what he had in mind next, "We wait with it until our next move against the heroes which I believe will happen soon. All of us know he has something planned for it, wheever it will happen. We play along with it for as long we can and then turn against him by the time the right time for this comes. He intended to use us for this plans. We will use his plans for our gain and dispose of him when the right time comes."

Spinner nodded at him with a semi-pleased look on his face, "Alright. Sounds good enough for me."

"Same here." Magne nodded in agreement.

Slice crossed her arms, "But how do we even fight him? He's All For One. Only All Might beat him in the past and he did it barely."

"Because he's alone against us." Geten replied as Slice glanced at him, "All For One uses everyone as means to an end. Unlike him, we don't treat our people like this."

"You're reading my mind, Geten." Y/N admitted. He shifted his gaze between all the comrades around him when he added, "We've been played, but we're not powerless. He counts on us being to being too complicit towards whatever he wants from us. If we stand together, not just for ourselves, but for Tomura-kun, we can stop him. We can show him what real strength looks like."

"For Shigaraki, I'll fight. I'll fight until my last breath if I have to." Spinner nodded in agreement, gritting his teeth in anger and determination as Kasai looked at Spinner with a look of admiration on his face after seeing just how determined the lizard man was.

"You're damn right." Magne placed her hand on Spinner's shoulder with a look of agreement on her face, "If All For One wants to see what the League is really made of, we'll give him a front-row seat."

"Let's give him a reason to regret underestimating us." Toga added, smillng now. Everyone glanced at her when she said this. What they saw from her right now was a small. A genuine smile they haven't seen from her in what felt like forever.

"One more thing." Y/N had something else to say to his friends and intended to voice what it to them, "Don't take anything from All For One if he will offer you to give you a second Quirk. It's too dangerous and who knows what he can do with it."

"Alright." Spinner replied with a look of understanding. All For One was starting to give him talks on giving him more Quirks to help him as the face of the hetermorphs and Spinner was having second thoughts about it even if some arguments such as helping Shigaraki were slowly starting to get to know. With Y/N himself telling him not to take anything from All For One, he was now certain he was not going to take anything from him.

Dabi brushed this off, "It's not like I was planning to take anything from him."

"But what about you, Y/N?" Origami asked in worry.

Alice nodded in agreement, "Yeah. He gave you not one, not two, but three Quirks. What if he does something to you?"

Y/N paused upon hearing them voice their concern for him, momentarily taken out of the moment by the genuine concern in Origami's and Alice's voices. He looked at their faces and felt the worry and fear they felt towards him right now. They weren't the only ones. Many others showed concern towards him after it was brought up by them with the concern showing in Toga, Magne, Spinner and Minene the most. He couldn't deny the truth in their words because it was the truth. He knew there was risk of something happening to him.

The h/c haired boy let out a deep breath and gave him his answer, "You're right to worry. I'm worried as well. I knew the risks of having All For One the moment I realized I have this power in me right now. But don't worry. I'm not his pawn and I won't be it anymore."

Origami stepped closer to him with her voice filled with worry, "Y/N, that's easy to say now, but you know how he works. He won't just let it go? What if he planted something in your. Or something even worse than that..."

Y/N cut her off gently, "I know it's a possibility, Origami. However, what we should focus on right now is making our plan a reality. We need to save Tomura-kun from him. If that makes you any better, I promise that I won't let him use what he gave me against you or Tomura-kun."

"You better not, kid. If you start going all 'puppet of the Demon Lord' on us, I'll roast you myself. Consider that your failsafe." Dabi joked with his tone filled with dark humor. The group either chuckled slightly or smiled slightly at his joke, making the tension among them ease down a bit.

"Just what I expected from you, Dabi. That's why I trust you." Y/N smiled slightly at him as he looked around himself for one last time and saw the faces of everyone around him, seeing the determination on all of their faces. He looked at each of them in turn, his heart filling with gratitude and relief of having them by his side. For the first time in a long while, hope filled up his chest as he was certain they were going to do this, even though he knew it won't be easy and knew the toughest fight of his life was nearing with big steps...

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One of my stories got a page on TVTropes. Yay.

Here we go with the small penultimate arc of this story. With us having reached season 7, allow me to finally revealed what will be Y/N's theme for this season and onward. Even though I'm certain many of us expected it at this point, his third and the last theme is Start a Band from Across the Spider-Verse :)

The opening with all the additions from this story would play out like this:
When Spinner and his advisers are shown, the adviser on the left is replaced by Kasai and the monitors behind them would show Chimera.
An original shot of Y/N is added as Y/N is shown facing the camera with a cold look on his face with Curious sitting on his left with an interview written down and Minene, Daiki and Alice standing on his right. As Y/N faces the cameras, the shadow of the Scarlet Hero is shown looming above him.
When Tenko is covered by hands and looking up from them, red energy is slowly beginning to cover the hands surrounding him.
An original shot of Magne is shown following the scene of Toga looking at Twice's blood, adjusting her glasses and her magnet with a determined look on her face.
An original shot of Origami is shown and it shows her having her hand on her stomach, looking down at it with a worried look on her face while holding a katana in her right hand with Slice and Nishimura looking at their lieutenant.
When Dabi is shown with his fire litting up the left side of the screen, the fire slowly dies out and it shows Geten standing next to his cousin with ice slowly covering the screen.
An original shot of the Blackgate prison is shown and the images of Lady Nagant, Mustard, Rappa, Re-Destro, Trumpet, Ayaka, Giran, Chimera, Arasaka and Asano show up on the screen.
The final shot of the opening with Shigaraki cuts into a shot of Y/N in his Final War attire and Izuku charging towards each other, both of them looking like they are about to fight each other (think of the shot of Eren and the Armore Titan charging at each other in the opening of the second season of AOT) with the shadows of their younger children selves looming over them.

The ending for this season would play ouy like this (I won't include Toga, Spinner, Dabi and Shigaraki because they were already shown in the canon version of the ending):
A younger Y/N is shown laying on the ground, crying with a bruised cheek with his bullies with Bakugo being the most evident out of them surrounding him and smilling wickedly at him and the hero scene afterwards shows Izuku looking a pic of them as kids.
A younger Origami is shown looking at the body of her father with a confused look on her face, holding a bloodied up sword and the scene afterwards shows Kendo and Tetsutetsu reading the interviews Origami's mother made about her daughter before the truth about her abuse came out, both of them looking sad and concerned by what they are reading.
A younger Magne is shown getting disowned by her parents after coming out as a transgender woman and the scene afterwards shows Tiger looking at the pic of his younger self before his sex change, showing his family and friends supportive of him.

Finally played the Halo games because even though I know the story and the characters from the videos and reading the lore online, I never actually played them and had some fun with them (I kept seeing Foley from MW2 and Husk in Arbiter's place, lol). I can see tell why the original games were as successful as they were back in the day. I'm refusing to play the fifth game, though. Now I feel like rewatching RVB. I started reading the RVB Revolution comic as a friend of mine reccomended it to me and I'm really liking it.

Played the demo for the Project Borealis and had some fun with it, despite how short it was. The graphic in this game is beautiful Just wish the game was running better as my PC was lagging a bit while playing it. Hopefully they will fix this issue. I'm definitely looking forward for the full game once it releases. Whenever it might be.

Half Life 2 had it's 20th anniversary and honestly this is how video games anniversaries should be done. I booted up the game to check out how everything was like after the new update and had some fun with it. I watched the documentary as well. Honestly, seeing an actual footage from what episode 3 would be felt so surreal. The same goes for the actual demo footage.

Oshi no Ko came to an end and yeah. I don't think I have much to say here as everything was already said online. At least I can say this ending was better than what MHA and JJK gave us. This year is really rough for the manga endings, huh?

I forgot to mention thoughts on the new Helluva Boss episode in the last chapter. The episode was good. Was really happy we finally got a chance to learn a bit more about Millie and finally got the answer on why she defends Blitzo so much. It's because everything she has is because of him. The part where she revealed Blitzo was her best friend was really sweet. Liked the short exchange of words she had with Loona while Blitzo and Moxxie were having their mental breakdowns was really nice as well. The final scene with Moxxie got a nice laugh out of me as well.

I forgot to mention the teaser for third season of Arknights as well. Even though I'm a bit disappointed we won't be getting it this year, I'm looking forwad to it neverthless.