B N H A L I G H T N O V E L VO L . 1 C H .

1 T R A N S L AT I O N

This is the Chapter 1 translation for the first “boku no hero academia” light novel! I actually
felt a weight, like sorrow sinking from my head to my toes, when I was translating part of the
beginning and also Todoroki and his mom’s conversation. Hope those without access to the
book will enjoy this as that is why I spent time typing it up! XD the novel is truly quite fun to
read

I will be posting my thoughts on it later but for now, please click ‘Keep reading’ below
for my translation :)

At the time when spring turned to summer on a beautiful day, the students who finished the
internship were preparing for the final exams.
“Next, Midoriya Izuku.”
In the empty streets, a soft sound drifted.
Aizawa with his tired eyes, looked at the students on the third floor of the large building.
“Here!”
The student who got called, Midoriya Izuku, had an anxious expression on his face when he
answered. His hair was curly and he looked very plain, but the freckles on his face make him
give off a positive feeling.
“Deku-kun, do your best!”
Uraraka Ochako said in a cheerful tone. She was waiting behind him as she is going to go on
stage soon.
Her joyful voice made his cheeks turn red as he turned around to answer “okay!”. Izuku
entered the bag-like tunnel that connects with the ground floor.  The tunnel had a lot of twists
and turns and this was usually used during rescue missions. Using a strategy similar to sliding
on a slide, it allows people to slide from the top to the bottom with ease.
This is UA highschool! Right now, Class 1 A is learning about the basics of how to be a hero.
This highschool has a lot of amazing facilities like the training facility they are in and this
place is able to sustain many people (several ten thousands). There is also a USJ which has
areas that imitate places with natural disasters; they still have the memories of how villains
trespassed and attacked them in USJ last time. Right now before them is a deserted street that
is also part of the UA training areas.
Quirks arose long along; since then, people started using their quirks for good and they were
known as heroes. However, many also used them for evil. Thus, heroes became an important
part of society that serves the public. Until now, not everyone can become heroes, only those
who pass tests and get the license can call themselves that. It is illegal to use quirks in public
without authorization. If one were to consider becoming a hero, one must enter a hero school
like UA. Getting into UA is extremely difficult.
Izuku has no quirk, and nowadays, that is called “quirkless”. Heroes must have a quirk as it is
not feasible to be without one. Commonly speaking, age 4 is the latest in which one’s quirk
will manifest.

After age 4, Izuku could not help but to accept reality.

His dream of becoming the world’s best hero like All Might floated away further and further
until it was so far that he can’t even reach it anymore.
But he did not give up.
No matter if others laughed at him or looked down at him and say how he has no quirk and
can’t become a hero, he did not give up his goal.
Maybe it’s because God or whoever out there heard his plea and wishes and so Izuku met All
Might. All Might saw his potential and after training him, transferred “One For All” to him.
In the beginning, Izuku couldn’t do what he wanted with the quirk and had no control, always
wrecking his own body. However, both All Might and Gran Torino mentored him and
gradually he was able to control it better.
“HEEEUUUU”
After a short time, Izuku slid out the tunnel, safely landing on the ground.
“Okay the boys are all done. Now it’s the girls turn! Yaoyorozu, go.”
“Yes!” The Vice President Yaoyorozu replied and slid to the ground through the tunnel.
After Yaoyorozu landed on the ground, the small, grape-headed boy named Mineta let out a
huge breath.
“What’s wrong Mineta?” Izuku asked and Mineta let out another breath.
“Midoriya, since we are on the topic of the girls sliding down, the thing that we should be
looking forward to is seeing their skirts flip up right? Why is she wearing gym clothes….even
though I should have known! This attire is not sexy at all, not even a little bit!”
“You have no changed your bad habit one bit, Mineta.”
After Yaoyorozu slid down, it was Tsuyu who could not help but comment as well.
“Yeah, Mineta. If all the girls’ skirts flipped up then how do we continue lessons? Wearing
gym attires make more sense. Wait actually, in order to stimulate a real situation, the girls
should be wearing skirts actually!” Iida, wearing the normal uniform, came out with a serious
expression said.
“No I think you are thinking too much.” Izuku couldn’t help but laugh at Iida.
“Stop laughing stupid Deku!”
“Ah…Kacchan…”
Standing near them was Izuku’s childhood friend Bakugou Katsuki. He’s always spewing out
swear words and rude comments to others but has already toned it down…well compared to
his childhood that is.
“Stupid exercise! Die!”
“What are you saying?! As a hero, rescuing others is the first thing so this is very important!
This is a very meaningful exercise, isn’t it?!”
“Whocares! Everyone has crap they’re good at! I can be the one who takes care of the villain
while others do the rescue!!!”
“Do you truly want to become a hero?!”
Iida has a very strong sense of justice and so as he argued with Bakugou who has a self-
esteem several times higher than everyone else, the two is like water and oil, cannot be mixed.
Deku stood between the two.
“Iida-kun please calm down!”
“Yes, you’re right. Everyone has their own strong points.” The person who said this was the
student with a cold expression and a scar caused by a burn, Todoroki Shouto.
“Todoroki-kun?”
“I cannot imagine Bakugou rescuing anyone.”
“….WHAT DID YOU SAY?!?! BASTARD?!?!?!”
“Ah, I understand! I feel like he would end up injuring people instead!” Kaminari spoke up
and Bakugou was so angry he shouted at Kaminari with, “YEAH LETS SEE ABOUT THAT,
I’LL HURT YOU FIRST!!!!”
Bakugou’s palms started to have explosions within them.
The girls who just all landed on the ground did not know what was going on in front of them
and just stared with wide eyes.
The groups of boys crowded around; some tried to stop the fight, some looked annoyed and
once the fighting got to its peak, a voice came.
“….Do you guys know what time it is?”
It was Aizawa. Upon hearing his stern voice, the students quickly stood properly, poised and
quiet. Up until this point, the students recognized how scary their teacher can be.
Aizawa’s quirk activated for a second, revealing his red eyes.
Aizawa’s quirk erases other people’s quirks, but because he hates the media knowing well
how the media can interfere with his hero work, he would always keep himself hidden.
“I heard you guys saying how everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, but this excuse
during when people need rescuing is not valid. In order to become a great hero, you must do
your best for any tasks at hand!”
Aizawa turned his head to look at every one of them and continued on.
“When the rescue crew and the police arrives late, leading civilians out to the escape route is
also a hero’s job!”
“If we are to lead them out, isn’t it faster to just rescue them ourselves?” As Hagakure was
asking this question, all you can see is her gym suit wrinkling. It looked like she was waving
and raising her hand. Hagakure’s quirk makes her invisible so her gym clothes look like they
are floating in midair.
“But if there are a lot of people, then you can only lead them out.” Yaoyorozu said logically
and Aizawa nodded his head.
“Exactly. If there were only one or two people, then rescuing them is easy. But if there were a
lot then it will get problematic when using rescue equipment. Also, if you don’t know how to
use the equipment at the time of need, then it’d be over. That is the main reason why the
school prepares these lessons so you’ll have practice on each and every rescue equipment. Do
you hear this, Bakugou?”
“……..I understand.” Bakugou answered in a low voice. This is Bakugou’s way of getting
along with others, using a lower voice to talk.
Izuku stood near Bakugou and started mumbling analysis like he usually did.
“Right, when letting  lot of people out, we need to use the appropriate quirk with the
appropriate equipment……I wonder how that will be? Uraraka can make thing float, or Sero
who can use his tape, and Mineta can use his sticky balls…..mmm yes that should be useful.
There are lot of combinations…..!!”
Izuku loves to analyze and think of strategies as he wants to become a hero so much. Every
time he begins his rambling, everyone would get scared because of how fast he talks, like a
tongue twister. Everyone already accept this though and would watch him with warm eyes,
with the exception of Bakugou.
“Then, after….”
At this moment, a loud sound was heard above them, covering Aizawa’s voice. Everyone was
shocked and looked up to see a helicopter coming down. From the aircraft, someone large
came jumping down.
“From the helicopter………I AM HERE!”
“ALL MIGHT?!?!?!”
All Might looked muscular as always with his powerful demeanor. The two horn-like hair
spiked up from his head and was wavering in the wind caused by the aircraft. He showed his
bright, white teeth as he grinned.
“Everyone, I’m sorry I am late! I had to chase down a villain and so I just came!”
“Uh yeah, this lesson was supposed to be your responsibility,” Aizawa said in an irritated
tone. In contrast, All Might was beaming.
“It’s already on the internet!!! During lunch I saw that you captured the bank robbers, right?!”
“Yes, looks like the other case hasn’t been broadcasted yet.”
“….AS EXPECTED OF ALL MIGHT!”
Izuku admires All Might and so he looked super happy and excited.
All Might has the aura to suppress evil. He is the “Symbol of Peace”. He has a student and
mentor relationship with Izuku and only a few knows this secret. All Might can also only
transform to his hero form for a short period of time now, which, also, only a few knows.
“Midoriya my boy, thank you for your compliments, but we now must move onto the
helicopter.”
“Isn’t the helicopter just for bringing you here?”
“No, our next exercise will be involve the helicopter, are you ready?”
“wow, such is expected of a hero class….”
Because Izuku was so stunned by All Might, he was standing here dumbfounded. Such is Ua!
~~
After learning how to rescue people on the snowy mountain and from the water, the students
all returned to their classroom.
“Right before this, when I was diving at the sea, it was the girls who helped me do CPR…..its
like a deep kiss….can’t help but stop myself from breathing on purpose!”
“But weren’t you ACTUALLY not breathing?”
Hearing Kaminari and Mineta’s conversation nearby, Tokoyami muttered “What an annoying
duo”. Tokoyami was someone who looked like a bird and had the quirk ‘Dark Shadow’,
which is like a creature living in his body.
At that moment, Aizawa entered the classroom and everyone sat properly at their own desks.
“Good work. Even though this is sudden, in two weeks we will have a day for parents to visit
the school.”
After Aizawa said that, someone shouted, “What, even UA has parent-teacher days?!”
It was Kirishima Eijirou. He is a very manly student who has the ‘hardening’ quirk.
Aizawa handed out the notice, “Okay these need to be returned to me. Next, I need everyone
to write a ‘thank you’ letter to your parents. You must put your feeling of thanks into it. After
you’re done writing, you can hand it in to me.”
Their homeroom teacher’s announcement caused a silence over the students, though someone
quickly let out a loud laugh.
“NO WAY, WE AREN’T ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS!”
Kaminari shouted out, speaking for the rest of the students, but Aizawa cut him off.
“Do I look like I am joking?”
Aizawa was indeed scary and again the class fell to a silence.
“When you write it, make sure to fully express how grateful you are to them and for your
parents’ daily care.”
Now that the students know their teacher wasn’t joking, everyone started to talk to each other,
looking a little worried.
“What, no way!!!! This must be a joke!!!”
“Ugh so embarrassing….”
As the bustle continued, Iida stood up and did his habit of chopping his hands in the air.
“Everyone please quiet down. QUIET, QUIET, QUIET!!!”
“Wow, Iida is so loud.”
Tsuyu, who was sitting in front of Iida, was the one who said that and so Iida sat back down
and mumbled a “sorry”.
Iida, however, continued on, “Aizawa-sensei, everyone’s reaction is to be expected. The
parent visiting day should be for them to see how our usual classes are normally right?
Suddenly telling us we need to write and say out our thanks, I don’t understand the point of it.
Letting our parents observe the specialty of a hero course, that should be the main point of the
day, isn’t it?”
Iida was breathing very heavily as Aizawa answered back, “Well, because it is a hero course,
that is why we need to do this.”
“What does that mean….”
“Your goal is to become a hero. Think about it, you would usually hear those who got rescued
express their thanks to those who rescued them. It is because of that, you should see it from
another point of view and understand the importance of giving thanks.”
“Oh is that so! I understand now! This is for us to understand how to be humble as a hero!”
“Iida got convinced quite fast!” Uraraka sat behind Iida and she gave a laugh. Seeing Iida’s
immediate change in expression, everyone lightened up and the whole atmosphere of the
room changed to a positive one. Everyone now accepted their teacher’s request.
In this class where anything can happen, one cannot let small things like these bother them.
“I am planning to let you guys bring your parents over to see the facilities in the school, and
let them take a look at how a stimulated lesson looks like before we let them see the letters.”
After Aizawa explained that, Kaminari again shouted out something that everyone else in the
class was thinking, “Why don’t you say THAT was actually the main point of the parent-
teacher day?!”
~~
“Parent visiting day….and letter of thanks…what should I do?” Izuku mumbled in frustration.
“All you CAN do is to write it obediently,” Todoroki replied next to him.
Walking nearby was Iida. The President began to voice his opinion, “In the beginning, I was
not comfortable with the idea either and was questioning why we needed to do it but now I
feel that it is a very good idea. Even if we always care for our family members, it is not
common for us to say our feelings out loud. Speaking of which, is there a limit to how many
pages we can write for the letter? If the maximum number of pages allowed is very few then it
will be very difficult for me to write it. I will have to think about how to shorten it.”
The threesome were wearing their school uniforms on the way back home. From a
bystander’s point of view, they may look like normal highschool students but in fact they
were the ones who stopped Stain the hero killer.
The three were not official heroes so if they were to use their quirks to fight against the
villains, even if it were Stain the Hero Killer who killed many heroes, it would be illegal. The
reason is that using their quirks without passing the license test could potentially mean that
they could hurt civilians. The regulation people do not want to hurt those that could become
heroes in the future so this rule was made.
Iida was set on avenging his beloved hero older brother and his two friends Izuku and
Todoroki came to save him. Fighting together helped them form a strong bond.
“Iida-kun is so impressive being able to write so much. I don’t even know what to write. I
used to send a lot of messages to pro heroes on the internet but I have never written a letter in
real life.”
“Really? I would write thank you letters (Iida means thank you letters that are meant to be
returned after receiving a gift) sometimes.”
“Thank you letters?!”
“Occasionally, the people I help on the road like old grannies, would send me gifts and so I
would write them a ‘thank you’ letter for the gift. My mom and dad told me that after
receiving a gift, I must return a letter of thanks of my own.”
Hearing how Iida can say that like it is nothing special, Izuku could only reply, “As expected
of a family of hero ancestry!”. Izuku is so impressed by Iida!
“Really? I think it is very normal,”  Iida says but felt embarrassed after seeing Izuku’s
reaction. Iida turned around to try and get Todoroki to agree with him but Todoroki did not
seem to feel the same.
“No, that’s not normal. I have never written one,” was Todoroki’s deadpan reply.
That caused Iida to again feel embarrassed, “Oh..really….”
Seeing Iida’s discouraged face, Izuku instinctively started rambling again to lift Iida’s spirits,
“W-well! Writing letters is a good thing! Now every time after I meet such situations I will
write letters! It will help! Writing letters can really help me express my thoughts! Yes…yes…
like last time when…”
Izuku rambles on and hearing this Iida felt better. All of a sudden, Iida raised both of his
hands up to the sky and shouted, “OH!!”
“What is it Iida-kun?”
“I’m so stupid, I totally forgot about this!”
In his backpack, Iida took an envelope out.
“What is that?”
“Native-san gifted it to us! Tickets to the amusement park!”
“Who?”
“The pro hero that was with us when we were fighting Stain! Although, I wonder, why is he
giving us tickets for the park?”
“I think it is a thank you gift from him.”
Iida took it out and there were 4 tickets.
“Why four tickets then?”
“He’s probably thinking how most rides have seats in pairs so that is why he gave us four?”
Izuku’s answer was agreed upon by Todoroki who nodded his head and replied, “Ah, I see.”
“Since Native-san is so nice to us, we should ask one more person to join us.”
Hearing Iida’s response, Izuku became super energetic, “YEAH!”
“Sure, doesn’t matter,” was Todoroki’s response.
“But the tickets expire next week. Is next Sunday okay with you guys?”
“O…OH! Sorry, I can’t go!” Izuku said, wide eyed. He really wanted to go!
“What do you have?”
“The Cultural Centre has a ‘Meet the Hero’ event! This time, new heroes are going to be there
so I really can’t miss this event! Normally, I don’t have the chance to get data on the new
heroes so this is my chance! Not to mention, there will be a special edition photo album with
data and details of the new heroes!”
Izuku’s expression was etched with anticipation and Iida replied, “Midoriya-kun, you really
do love heroes….”
“I’m sorry!!”
“I can’t on Sunday as well, I need to visit my mother, I’m sorry.”
Iida remained calm at his friends’ replies and said, “So, It’s like that. It is quite unfortunate,
but it can’t be helped. Wasting these tickets would not be good, I guess I’ll ask the others!”
“Let’s go together us three next time! Uh..if only I could go,” Izuku’s previous excitement
dwindled away and Todoroki and Iida turned to face him.
“What’s wrong,” Iida and Todoroki asked their friend, and Midoriya’s face became red.
“I don’t know if I’m the only thinking this way of wanting to go together with you guys.”
Todoroki and Iida watched Midoriya, amused.
“Midoriya-kun, you have such a strong quirk but actually no one can tell by your usual
behaviour!” Iida exclaimed and Todoroki agreed. Midoriya laughed at how surprised Iida
looked.
“Ah…yeah so on Parent visiting day, who from your family is coming Iida-kun?”
“My mother because my dad has to go to work. How about you Midoriya-kun?
“Just my mother. How about you Todoroki-kun?”
“For me….probably no one from my family is coming,” was Todoroki’s only words and after
a second, Izuku became frozen and could only say “Oh.”
Izuku forgot about Todoroki’s family situation; knowing this why did he let his tongue slip
and ask that question?
Todoroki’s dad is the number 2 hero, Endeavor, while All Might was always the number 1
hero.
Because of Endeavor’s obsession, he had a quirk marriage with Todoroki’s mom to produce
the perfect child. From all of Todoroki’s siblings, Todoroki was the only one who was
powerful and born with the best combination of quirks. Since young, Todoroki’s dad would
train him with very extreme measures, hoping he would take over All Might as the number 1
hero. His mother tried to plea for Todoroki but his dad did not care. After all the torture that
his mother had to go through, she poured boiling water onto Todoroki and burned his face,
leaving a horrible scar. His mother was then sent to the hospital and after, Todoroki hated his
father even more.
“That….I’m sorry.”
“So your mother lives in the hospital…..sorry.”
Iida and Midoriya both felt bad and gave Todoroki their sincere apologies. Todoroki did not
care however and answered, “Its fine. I don’t mind. Frankly, it isn’t something that you two
need to apologize for.”
“But not being able to see your child’s face in class and in the school exercises, your mom
and dad must feel regret!” Iida added, continuously nodding his head.
“…………..” Todoroki had no reaction hearing Iida’s comment and stuck his hands in his
pockets. Inside was his notice from class earlier.
“It’s not that bad. If ‘that old man’ came to see, then I’d actually feel uncomfortable.”
“’That old man’? Are you talking about your dad? You can’t use ‘that old man’ as his title!
That is disrespectful, you must at least call him your father.”
“That kind of shitty father, saying ‘that old man’ is good enough for him!”
“If you don’t want to call him father then how about ‘papa’?”
“….pa…”
“Or dad?”
“…da….”
Thinking about these different ways of calling his crappy father, Todoroki’s expression
became more and more dark. Almost instantly, Izuku interrupted the two to stop their
conversation.
“Ah, of course!” Midoriya tried to salvage the situation, “Some families have different ways
of calling their mom and dads, or maybe they would use their names directly!”
“But calling them with their names would sound like a normal friend? The feeling of respect
would become shallow I think.“
“You want me to call him properly? …..that’s something I can’t do.”
Izuku stood there thinking of ways to revert the conversation topic back to normal, and ended
up saying “Everyone can have their opinions on what to call others.”
The three turned around the corner, but just as they did so, Todoroki suddenly halted.
“Todoroki?”
“I suddenly thought of something I have to do.”
Seeing how Todoroki said his words, eyes unfocused, Izuku said, “Then, why don’t we split
here. See you tomorrow!”
“K.”
~~~
After separating from those two, Todoroki arrived at his mom’s hospital which had white and
red columns.
The visiting hours for the hospital was almost over but there were still a lot of people waiting
at the lobby. Noticing that, Todoroki decided to take the elevator in a hurry to go up to the
patient rooms.
His eyes followed the lights on the elevator that graduating rose up and realized how nervous
he actually was. He was anxious even though he knew he came up here many times already.
This did not compare to the first time, however, when he was so rattled that his hands shook
when reaching for the doorknob.
As he strolled down the silent halls, he recognized the bleach smell that filled the air. From
Stain’s incident, he went to another hospital and he thought “so, all hospitals have this same
smell.”
He recalled sleeping in that hospital after the incident with the other two and waking up in the
middle of the night, cold sweat dripping down his face, and it was then that he thought about
how horrible it was that his mom had to live in such conditions.
“Shouto, that’s a surprise that you’re here today,” a voice came over the counter that he just
passed.
….a surprise huh.
“….hello,” Todoroki replied and he stopped midway. Originally, he wanted to ask the nurse
when she said that it was a surprise for him to come today but a bell on the counter just rang
and so he was interrupted.
Gloving his hands back into his pocket, he could feel the notice from class. He continued
walking, and after reliefing a light sigh, he opened the door.
“……..mom.”
“Shouto?”
Sitting at the edge of the bed was his mother. Behind her was a window. She had on such
gentle, soft rounded eyes that widened slightly.
“Why do you look surprised mother?”
“Ah…..it’s nothing. Come. Come sit.”
She stood up and pulled a chair up to her son. Todoroki answered with a ‘un’ and sat down.
His mother sat in front of him but didn’t move a muscle, eyes gawking at her son as if
examining him.
“….uh…mom?”
Todoroki started feeling uncomfortable and shy now, wondering what his mother’s gaze
meant. Quickly, his mom apologized and slowly shifted to sit at the edge.
“You don’t have to apologize. I was just wondering if there was something weird on me that’s
why you’re looking at me like that.”
“No…its just that I don’t get to see you regularly…it feels like you’ve grown.”
She started to stare at him again, making him feel awkward and he started to look downwards.
A revelation arose. He realized that the nurse used the word “surprise” earlier because on
regular school days he wouldn’t come. Today’s an exception.
“Sorry for suddenly coming here.”
“Don’t need to apologize, whenever you come, your mom will be happy.”
Todoroki was happy that she said that.
He swore before that he will save his mother from here and release her. Sitting in front of her,
he also felt as though he returned to his childhood.
“…………..”
His fingers brushed against the notice again.
Coming here so urgently albeit knowing that his mom wouldn’t be able to participate in the
parent-teacher day, Todoroki knew he couldn’t help himself, subconsciously being pushed to
come here, legs moving on their own.
Should he tell her about that school event, or should he not?
Seeing that her son wasn’t talking, Todoroki’s mom broke the silence and said, “That’s right,
do you want something to drink?”
“Oh…okay.”
Todoroki stood up, expecting to buy his own drink outside.
“I have prepared drinks, just open the fridge.”
Hearing her said that, Todoroki went over to the table nearby and opened the fridge next t it.
Inside were some green tea, soda and juice. There was also a yoghurt drink with a child-
friendly, cute cow logo.
“Shouto, when you were young, you used to love that drink, right? When I saw that in the
store last time, I couldn’t help but to buy it.”
Todoroki pursed his lips and didn’t mutter a word, brain totally blank. He had some memories
of this drink but he knew he tried to forget about such memories long ago.
Todoroki’s mom began to giggle a little seeing her son’s expression, “Ah…mother forgot that
you are already a high school student….so I bought other drinks for you to choose. I wasn’t
sure if you still like this yoghurt drink after so long……..”
Inside Todoroki’s heart, a rush of happiness and warmth came. So his mom cared about him
and thought about all this for him.
“….then I will take this one.”
He took the yoghurt drink and his mom cheerfully replied, “oh is that so.”
The yoghurt drink didn’t have much of a taste, in fact, it was quite mild, but it was full of
nostalgia.
After he finished the drink, Todoroki playfully thumbed the drink and threw it away in the
trashcan.
The time they spent together from his childhood, those feelings will not suddenly rush out.
Yet, the feeling and care they have for each other is something still kept within him after all
this time. Because she was not there as he grew up, they can still feel the awkward
atmosphere between them.
Like always, his mother’s comfortable and gentle voice can still break that solemn feeling.
“So how is school?”
“mmm…”
At that moment, Todoroki let out a sigh. He couldn’t think of anything else but the notice and
again he felt unsettled. But if he were to let her know about it, it should be now! He still can’t
say it though he kept repeating that inside.
Todoroki’s mom waited for a long time for his response but none came. Her expression
started to change to concern. Todoroki quickly said something so she won’t worry anymore.
“Today in class we learned how to use a resuscitation device and we also went up the air in a
helicopter.”
“Wow, helicopter? Using such things!”
Todoroki felt good noticing how surprised his mom was and continued, “Because heroes need
to rescue people too. It’s part of their jobs.”
“Yes that’s right.”
“After, we learned how to use a rescue slide that goes from a higher place to the ground.”
“uh huh…”
“And then we learned how to use code to contact each other, that sort of a thing.”
“Oh is that so.”
“And….”
Todoroki started to go on and on in a low voice. His mom kept watching him, a small smile
slowly gracing her lips.
“All Might also came, he helped teach the class.”
“I remember back then when you were young, you loved All Might, right? But your father
never allowed us to watch it so I secretly recorded it and we watched it together, remember
that?”
“mm.”
For some reason, Todoroki knew he wanted to be a hero like All Might since young but
without realizing it, Todoroki had kept that so deep within his heart and slowly he wiped that
feeling away completely without a speck.
While on this topic, Todoroki thought about Midoriya’s messed up hands, twisting
unnaturally with lots of blood.
“….there’s this guys named Midoriya.”
“Ok.”
When he first entered the school, he didn’t notice Midoriya, but during the villain invasion, he
saw how he and All Might released super human strength. Todoroki saw how All Might
would care about Midoriya and so during the sports festival, he wanted to fight Midoriya.
Todoroki had always wanted to fight with only the side that his mother gave him, his right
side. He saw how his father was super irritated by how Todoroki was still winning without
using the left side and so Todoroki thought he had his revenge and won against his father.
But when fighting Midoriya, who had so many injuries and still screaming at him about how
“this is your power!”…
That somehow hit him. Midoriya’s voice. Seeing how Midoriya was totally beat up but still
kept fighting and running straight towards him. It was because of how much Midoriya
respected and admired All Might, it allowed Todoroki to feel the same way deeply.
It was at that moment that Todoroki forgot about everything. Forgot about his dad whom he
hated so much.
After forgetting everything, he was able to see himself and use the left side.
“During the sports festival, I fought Midoriya and he ran towards me even though he was beat
up.”
“mm.”
“…so I used my full power.”
“…..mm.”
“That was the first time I used my full power.”
“…I see.”
“Midoriya is strong.”
Todoroki’s mom gave a smile, “I see you have made a good friend.”
Todoroki nodded slowly, “…un.”
“Mother, this is the newly washed clothes…..what? Shouto? Why are you here? How rare.”
It was Todoroki’s sister, Fuyumi. Her appearance looks just like their mother’s and had a very
joyful aura.
“The second time….”
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“Really? Okay, mom I’ll put the clothes in the closet.”
“Thanks, I bothered you again.”
“What, don’t so formal with me mother!” Fuyumi came in carrying the clothes and placed it
into the wardrobe, and while doing that, she asked Todoroki, “Was there something that
happened today?”
“No.”
Todoroki stood up, planning to throw the notice into the trash but as his body lifted, the paper
fell out of his pocket.
“What? What’s this?”
“WAIT!”
Fuyumi turned around after she placed the clothes, and picked up the paper to read it.
“A notice about parent visiting day…?”
“huh….”
“…hey don’t just go looking at my things!!”
“Oh….”
Fuyumi’s face had a smile etched onto it but the irritating feeling that Todoroki felt for half
the day suddenly came rushing back, though hearing his mother’s next words did not help.
“Shouto…I’m sorry, your mom cannot go.”
Seeing how sad his mother looked, Todoroki felt frantic.
“No. I just wanted to tell you about it….don’t apologize…”
Todoroki now regretted. If he knew earlier that his mom would feel this way he would have
not came here.
“Sorry…”
“Shouto…”
Todoroki said his apologies in a mumble and his mother scrunched her brows together in
worry.
“Ah… you two…”
Fuyumi, who accidentally caused all of this, stood between the two to try and fix it. Abruptly,
she came with a great idea and cried out, “RIGHT!”
Fuyumi’s eyes lit up with energy.
“How about I go to the parent visiting day!”
“What, don’t you have to teach?”
Fuyumi was a elementary school teacher.
“Don’t worry, if it is family things, I can tell my work early and get half a day off. So, I will
go to the parent visiting day and take a video and show mom! Isn’t this idea great?” Fuyumi
was grinning widely making Todoroki speechless.
“But this isn’t some elementary school sports day.”
“Huh? So no video? Recently, there was a elementary school parent visiting day and all the
parents were happily recording videos!”
Todoroki wanted to refute by saying, “don’t mix high school with elementary school!” but his
mother cut him off.
“So…recording the video is not okay?”
Todoroki’s mother looked very hopeful at first but now she had a shadow over her expression,
Fuyumi noticed this and tried to raise the mood.
Todoroki actually really hated videos and didn’t want to have recordings but he knew his
mother was anticipating it and eally wanted it so he said, “…I’ll ask the school and see…”
This was Todoroki’s way of negotiating.
Afterwards, dinner was served and so Todoroki and Fuyumi had to leave.
In the halls, Fuyumi began to speak.
“Your teacher is Aizawa sensei right?’
“Yes…”
“Why do you look so tired? Oh yeah, dad may be able to go….”
“You DEFINITELY cannot tell him about this!!!”
“Oh? but…’
“You can’t tell him!”
Fuyumi watched as Todoroki’s expression became serious as he repeatedly objected her and
so she said, “…okay..okay”
Waiting for the elevator, Fuyumi could see Todoroki still frowning.
“Do you hate videos that much? If you really don’t want to I won’t record anything.”
That made Todoroki lift his head.
“Yeah I don’t like to be recorded but I’m not thinking about that anymore!”
“It’s not that?”
“….I’m just thinking, if I didn’t come and tell mom about this, wouldn’t it have been better?”
“Oh, so its about that issue!”
A corner of Fuyumi’s lips tugged upwards and she reached her hand out to pat on her younger
brother’s head.
“What are you doing?!”
“Listen. No parent would be sad knowing that their kids are working hard for them. Mom
may be unable to go and feels like she owed you for it but you coming here to tell her makes
her feel happy already. This is your first time telling her about parent visiting day.”
Hearing Fuyumi’s explanation, Todoroki realized she was correct.
Whether it was towards his mom or his dad, this was still the first time he told them about
parent teacher day.
“…..you are acting like a teacher.”
“Well I am a teacher!!”
Fuyumi stroke his head again lightly after hearing him saying it while hiding his shyness. The
elevator announced its arrival with a sound and its doors opened.
“Shouto are you not coming in? The door’s going to close.”
Todoroki went in after his sister’s suggestion and had a thought in his mind.
Even if it is quite embarrassing, he will still endure the video taping because that small deed
would make his mom happy.

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