Dead Hero's Heart

Chapter 74

With class 1-A

"Wait, so you say that we actually know them?! That's so cool man! I can't believe we know someone as manly as him!", Kirishima proclaimed, oblivious to the newfound confusion Todoroki's words had caused to his classmates. While pumping his fist high and smiling dumbly, the absolute silence that followed his words was enough for him to understand that this wasn't probably the time for this kind of celebrations just yet. Momo sighed, as the vice representative of this class and their claimed to be mom, she felt kind of disappointed at times like these.

Under normal circumstance, chances are she would have lectured the boy about being too naive and not focusing on the matter at hand. But, at this time, she was more focused on everything she had learned the past few minutes. She felt as if she had failed to be a good friend and classmate to the five students, all this time fully ignorant to what was happening. First, by not giving enough importance into Todoroki's feelings after his father's loss, brushing his strange behavior off thinking it wasn't something to worry about. Then, by not noticing how Uraraka, Bakugou and Iida sneaked out in an attempt to protect the dual quirk user. And last but not least, she failed to notice that things weren't as fine as their teacher had reassured them they were.

What she didn't know, though, was that most of her classmates were also thinking the same way. How couldn't they? Knowing that four of your classmates and one of their newest friends apparently went through hell and back, while they were just hanging out, doing nothing more than have fun with each other while Uraraka suffered at the hands of her kidnappers.

And that brought all of them back to the same question, 'Who is him?'. A person they knew and missed, they were told, but in their time in the hero course, they had come to meet a lot of people with who they either became friends with, or enemies. It was difficult, in their minds, to just figure out who that person might be, even if they knew, they were searching for a boy.

Izuku overlooked them from beside his friends, anxiously waiting for the big revelation. His classmates weren't going anywhere by themselves, if he had to guess by the long silence that had followed. There was bound to be an uproar when one of the four boys stated his name and he was never really a big fun of noise. Another thing that all these years of bullying have caused. He tried not to think about that for now and focus on just getting ready. If his friends were able to see him, then there was a great possibility that his classmates would be able to do so too. Or at least, that made sense to him. And so, he decided that getting ready for that possibility was far more important than anything else at the moment.

Jirou started to grow tired of not being able to figure out the truth. One look around let her know that some of her classmates had also started to get irritated by this, but none appeared willing to ask the others out. She sighed, realizing that she was the one who would have to do it. "So, who is he? Obviously, we cannot just figure out his identity by only the information you gave us". There were a couple of nods that followed her statement, all of them eager to know the answer. Maybe too eager for some of them which had Shinso chuckling.

Iida and Todoroki exchanged a look with each other. A silent debate followed between the two, trying to decide who should be the one to make the big revelation. And, after a lot of rapid eye movements and pointed stares that had the majority of the students in the dorm get even more confused, Bakugou decided to intervene once again. The explosive boy had started to grow tired watching the other two childishly argue about that and had decided to put an end on their debate by letting an explosion or two out.

That earned him the attention from everyone in the room, which wasn't quite what he was hoping for exactly, but he could manage. Truth was, that Katsuki actually understood why his two friends felt so uncomfortable about revealing something like that. They were afraid of the reaction they were going to receive. And he was too, even if he wasn't going to admit it. But, since none of the two and neither Shinso were really willing to take the responsibility upon themselves, he knew what he had to do. "Oi, quit messing around you extras. Since you have so much trouble telling the truth, I will do it". Iida seemed like he wanted to say something about being called an extra, but ultimately chose against doing so. After all, Bakugou was making him a favor at that moment.