Melody of Love

Festival's End

Izuku finally arrived to where his classmates were sitting as Ochako was the first one to notice and stood up with a wide smile on her face. "Dekiru!"

Ochako immediately ran towards Izuku and hugged him tightly as Izuku widened his eyes from the pain as tears streamed down his cheeks. "D-Does no one know how to be gentle anymore?! I'll end up being back at the nurse's office at this rate..."

"Uraraka, it's probably for the best that we treat Midoriya as if he were a fragile glass." Momo suggested as she watched this exchange between the two of them.

'I wonder.... Is it possible that Uraraka's situation could be similar to Jirou's? However, Uraraka is overly friendly to everyone, so maybe it's just my talk with Jirou earlier that is giving me these types of thoughts. Either way, I probably shouldn't mention the hug to Jirou...'

Ochako released Izuku as soon as she heard that and sheepishly laughed, her face getting a little red. "M-My bad... I hope I didn't hurt you too much, Dekiru. I'm super sorry."

Izuku sighed in relief as he sweatdropped before sitting down. "You don't have to be that careful with me, but some restraint wouldn't hurt... But you don't have to feel bad, Uraraka. Kyouka did the same thing earlier."

"Oh, you saw Jirou earlier?" Ochako asked, sitting down right next to him.

Izuku nodded as he placed his notebook on the empty seat that was in between him and Momo. "Yeah, I actually came back during Kacchan's match against Kirishima, but then I ended up talking to Iida and then Kyouka arrived before they both had to leave for their respective matches."

"Ah, that explains why we didn't see Iida as well after his match. I was hoping to congratulate them both in-person from their matches in the second round." Momo said before sighing. "However, it's a shame that Iida lost his match against Todoroki. And no offense, Midoriya, but Jirou's chances aren't looking too well against Bakugo."

Izuku didn't respond to that and stayed silent as he looked down at his lap with no expression on his face.

The issue was that Momo was probably correct. Even Izuku can't think of a proper strategy that Kyouka could use against Bakugo, using her quirk. He tried to imagine what he would do if he had her quirk, but his mind kept coming to a blank.

"Yaoyorozu! You're being a downer again!" Ochako loudly whispered towards the other girl.

Momo bowed her head down right away. "I deeply apologize, Midoriya. I didn't mean it like that, I promise you."

"It's alright, Yaoyorozu. I know your words had no ill-meaning." Izuku said before turning towards Momo, smiling. "But we'll keep on cheering on Kyouka the whole time no matter what, right?"

Ochako raised her fist. "Totally!"

Momo sighed in relief that Izuku didn't react negatively to her words before smiling as well. "Yes, we will."

Izuku then turned his attention towards the arena, waiting for the match to start. 'Do your best out there, Kyouka. Show Kacchan and the entire world what you can do. I may still have this bad feeling in my gut, but I have this other feeling as well that you'll surprise me. So I think I'll listen to the latter feeling...'

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Kyouka was currently standing in the corridor that led to the arena, rubbing her arm. "Fuck... I'm going up against Bakugo any second now..."

Did she honestly think she could win against Bakugo? Definitely not. In terms of power, he's leagues above her and it's not like she has any of her support gear to help her out like she did during their combat exercise.