Song Recommendation for this story is: “COPYCAT” By Billie Eilish

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U.A. High School, second year, Class 2-A's homeroom. The morning light slanted through the towering windows, dust motes doing slow somersaults in the beams.

A normal Tuesday. Or as normal as it got in a school where half the student body could level a building before lunch.

The classroom buzzed with the usual pre-bell chaos. Conversations overlapped, chairs scraped, and somewhere near the back, Denki Kaminari was trying to convince a skeptical Kyoka Jiro that he definitely could have won that arcade rematch if the joystick hadn't been rigged.

Aizawa set his mug down with the finality of a judge's gavel.