MHA/BNHA react to For The Want of A Nail by Clouds part 1

Compress: Strange, this story hasn't focused on anyone other than Midoriya yet and he's not taking the entrance exam.

Kurogiri: Let's just watch and see what happens.

"Are you sure you're ready for this Mind-chan?"

Izuku just rolled his eyes, ignoring the lump of guilt, excitement and doubt that had been steadily growing in his gut all day.

"Himiko, you do realize I have killed people before, right?"

"I know that , silly, it's just..." She looked at him softly, "It's just you've never taken a life with your own hands. It's different than just making murder plans and letting other people act them out. The blood will be on your hands, no one else's. There's no coming back from this."

Todoroki: She does make some sense, actually...

Toga: Oh I'm such a good friend...

Izuku took a deep breath and started playing with his favorite knife,

Toga(cheering): He's got a favorite knife!

"Yeah, I guess you're right. But," Izuku's eyes took on a determined glint, "I think I need to do this. I mean, in the eyes of the law, I'm already a killer, so it's not like it'll save me a prison sentence even if I never do it myself and... well, I think I need to prove to myself that I can, you know? My whole life, I've been told that I can't do anything everyone else can do, I can't be a hero, I can't be a useful member of society. I can't be human. Hell, my own dad left because I was so useless.

Inko: He what?!

Jana: That happens in a lot of worlds now that I think about it.

Inko: ...Someone get me a quirk that can teleport between dimensions.

Mitsuki: Welp, that Hisashi's dead.

If I let everyone else do my dirty work forever, then isn't that proving everyone else right? Yeah I'm smart, but when it comes down to the wire, I really am the useless deku that everyone's always told me I am." He looked over at Himiko, crouched beside him on the rooftop while they waited for their prey to pass through the alley below, "I want to... I need to do this. I know that I'm capable of it, I just need to actually, you know, do it. Does that make any sense?"

Twice: Yeah, it does. No, it doesn't!

"Not really to me, but I've never been one for big ideals." She got a contemplative look on her face, "I mostly just kill people to see them bleed, which other people think is a dumb reason too, so I think that if it makes sense to you, can it really be wrong? I mean, any more wrong than murder is anyway?"

Izuku laughed, "That really shouldn't have been as comforting as it is. Thanks Himiko, you're a great friend."

Kirishima: ...So we're really going to watch him kill for the first time. Like, in person.

Mt. Lady: Oh boy... (Kamui patted her shoulder and hoped that Mastermind wouldn't get away with whatever he was trying to do but had a sinking feeling that he would.)

She smiled, her fangs glinting in the dim light of a nearby street lamp before her eyes brightened in excitement. She grabbed Izuku's shoulder and shook him roughly.

"Mind-chan! Mind-chan!" She whispered, somehow still managing to convey mania as if she were yelling at the top of her lungs, "She's here!"

Izuku focused on the woman entering the alley below them. Hero Name: Glimmer. Sidekick at Uwabami Agency. Quirk: Sparkles. She can refract light to produce a glittery effect around her body that she uses to blind and disorient her opponents. Weaknesses: she is susceptible to the blinding effect of her own sparkles. She uses dark glasses as part of her hero costume to minimize this effect, but right now? She's coming off a day shift in the dark of night in civilian clothes and dark glasses would just get in the way. Izuku smiled and put on his own dark goggles to shield his eyes before grabbing a pair of throwing knives.