World of Hearts: Linked as One (Book 1)

1-4: Trailblazing

Kizuna was walking along with Izuku, Madoka, Ruby, and Yoh. The group had split into smaller groups to make up a formation. He looked at his hand, still remembering the feeling of Mia's hand on his own. He remembered what she said to him while he was in the Station.

'Converting my memories into strength...' Kizuna thought. 'I wonder... could it be true?'

"Kizu-kun?" He heard Madoka talk to him.

She looked at her direction. She looked curious. He looked at his hand and puts it down. He locks eyes with her.

"Sorry, I was lost in my thoughts," Kizuna said, looking at her while scratching the back of his head. "What is it?"

Madoka taps her chin with her finger.

"Do you have any family other than your mom?" Madoka asked.

"Yeah, I do," Kizuna said. "I have another mom."

"Huh?" Madoka asked. "Another mom?"

"As in..."

"You have..."

"Two moms?" Yoh finished the thought.

"Yeah," Kizuna answered. "She's my birth mother."

Izuku, Yoh, Madoka, and Ruby looked surprised to actually hear that.

"Yeah, weird, am I right?" Kizuna said. "It's been like that since my dad died."

The color on Madoka's face was drained from her. She was as white as a sheet. The same would be the same for Izuku and Ruby. Yoh, on the other hand, looked at Kizuna with a neutral face. Amidamaru appeared beside Yoh and looked at Kizuna.

"I-I'm sorry!" Madoka was quick to apologize. "I didn't—"

"It's ok," Kizuna said, stopping Madoka there. "I didn't really get to know him outside of what my birth mother told me about him."

"What kind of man was he?" Yoh asked.

"He was a man of honor," Kizuna said. "He would jump into the jaws of death, only to come out unscathed."

He sighed, looking with a bit of sadness.

"I wish I could see him just this once, but my mother said that he's in the Otherworld now," Kizuna said.

"The Otherworld?" Izuku asked.

"It's the afterlife," Yoh said. "It's where people go when they die."

Izuku looked at Yoh. Izuku looked up to the sky.

'Sir Nighteye...' Izuku thought.

Sir Nighteye or Mirai Sasaki was All Might's former sidekick. He was known for his quirk, Foresight, which gave him the ability to see a person's future with great accuracy. He used this ability to predict a person's movement after touching that person and making full eye contact. He participated in the Shie Hassaikai Raid, but he was left mortally wounded in the end. He died from a combination of blood loss following being impaled in the abdomen.

That man was Mirio's mentor and Izuku was his intern.

Izuku remembered being there with Nighteye as the latter was slowly dying. Nighteye told Izuku that he had seen a vision of the future in which the latter would have died fighting against Overhaul, only for that future to be turned over by other people's wishes for a better future. In that moment, he had found peace, knowing that even if his visions are never wrong, that the future can be changed. With his dying breath, he uttered his last words to Izuku. Words that would remain stuck in his mind for as long as he lived.