After years of conflict, Shouto established his own agency and became one of Japan’s most respected heroes. Though he’s found balance between his two halves, he still carries an emptiness he can’t name. When Midoriya asks him to mentor U.A. students for a training field trip, he accepts without hesitation.

He doesn’t expect the quiet nurse assigned to the mission — nor the way her presence begins to soften the walls he thought would never fall.