You're halfway through your curry when a shadow falls across your table.

You nod, setting down your chopsticks. Your phone screen lights up with your speech app keyboard as you rise.

He leads you through the hallways without explanation, footsteps unhurried but deliberate. The door to his office is already cracked open.

Inside, Katsuki Bakugo sits in one of the chairs facing the desk.

A thick folder rests open in front of him. You catch sight of the top page before he closes it — audiology results, charts, specialist letterheads. Progressive Hearing Loss typed cleanly near the header.

Bakugo glances up at you. No embarrassment in his expression. Mostly just annoyance that the paperwork exists at all.