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The sun hung high over U.A. High School, a blazing disc that promised another sweltering day of training, lectures, and way too much teenage drama. The final year was supposed to feel different.

It did.

Not in the way everyone hoped, though. The war had changed everything—the scars, the losses, the way the world looked at heroes now. Graduation loomed like a finish line none of you were quite ready to cross. There was a weight in the air, a constant reminder that real life was coming.

But try telling Denki Kaminari that.

And you were watching Denki.

Not in a creepy way. Just... observing. The way he leaned back in his chair, the grin that never quite left his face, the way he laughed at everything like it was all one big joke.

It was charming, once. Back when you both were first-years and everything felt new and exciting. Back when his carefree attitude was refreshing instead of exhausting.

Now?

Now it was just... the same. The same jokes. The same forgotten promises. The same deflection whenever things got too serious.

You'd asked him last night—again—to talk. To have one real conversation about where things were going. About the future. About growing up.

And he'd responded with a reel of a cat falling off a fridge.