Despite the short runtime of day 1, Izuku felt drained in a way he hadn't felt since that final. Training day, though this time there was less pain involved.
Also, this time he had another presence at his side talking.
"I had never thought before that a teacher could encourage his students to excel through deception before now, but I must say that Aizawa sensei opened my eyes on the subject!"
Izuku had thought Iida was scary during the exam. Venom had thought him an annoying loser. The truth though, as Izuku now saw, was simply that Iida was just an honest, diligent, and passionate guy.
"You have a rather positive image of that guy, more than he deserves we'd say."
Iida did not flinch away from Venom just popping up into the conversation.
"Indeed. As he said, it was a logical ruse to pull out our best efforts today. Logically speaking, this is the best time to do it. We were not familiar with Aizawa-sensei yet, and thus this bluff seemed fully believable. It's kind of thing you can't really pull twice, so one should make sure that one time reaches it's maximum potential."
"... We weren't really talking about his damned training methods, more the fact that he is a-" "Hey, wait up you two!"
All three of them turned their heads to the person who spoke, which was Uraraka Ochako, running up to them.
"You two heading for the station?"
"Indeed," Iida answered. "Or, I am at least, I don't know about Midoriya."
"Yeah… I am, too."
"Splendid! Then the three of us may go. Together!" Iida exclaimed. He then turned to Uraraka and held out a hand.
"We have not been formally introduced, so far. My name is Iida Tenya."
"Uraraka Ochako!" Uraraka replied with a smile, though she didn't take his hand.
"I don't really do handshakes I'm sorry to say… I kinda turn everything I touch with my hands weightless."
"Ah." Iida retracted his hand. "The pink bumps I assume?"
Izuku blinked, then looked at her hands. Each of her fingers had a pink bump near the tip, something Izuku had completely missed amongst the many scars her hands had.
"Yeah."
Something struck Izuku and he just asked it, without considering the person he asked.
"Your gravitation quirk doesn't seem to have any relation to your strength quirk, is that right?"
Uraraka froze, her face turning pale.
Izuku, realizing he had just asked a question to a pretty girl, suddenly got flushed cheeks.
"...Yeah… It's… A fused quirk from my parents."
"Like Todoroki Shouto's quirk?" Iida asked.
"Who?"
"The son of the number 2 Hero Endeavour, he is in our class."
"EEEHHHH! HE IS?" Uraraka and Izuku both exclaimed.
Izuku kicked himself mentally. Now that he thought about it, it seemed obvious. Of course he was, with that name. He had been so damned afraid of getting expelled today, he'd completely failed to really analyze most of his classmates, completely opposite of his usual self.
He'd have to do something about that tomorrow.
"Anyway, yeah my… My parents have two different quirks, and I inherited both of them."
"WOW… That's really cool!"
Uraraka blushed and scratched the back of her head in bashfulness from the praise.
"It's… A pretty good quirk yeah."
"Indeed! Strong as Midoriya's quirk is, in terms of brute strength potential, it doesn't compare! You truly were lucky to inherit such a powerful quirk!"
Uraraka's smile and nervousness faded, as a more melancholic expression came to her face.
"Yeah… Lucky…"
"Not that this isn't fun to watch, but mayhap we should get a move on, rather than just standing around and talking. I say we should go to the local McDonald's. We have more than enough time today, given the circumstances."
Uraraka jumped back in shock, and just stared as Venom talked.
Then, she had a face of realization.
"He was the guy you were talking to back there, right? Back during the Exam?"
"Indeed, that was us."
"Wow, he looks cool. Anyway… Thanks for the offer, but I don't really have that much cash on me right now so-"
"That is not a problem! I can easily pay for all 3… 4 of us! Or do you not eat Mr…" He looked at Venom.
"Venom. And no, we feast upon the glory that is Adrenaline, not the flesh of pasture animals."
"Alright, the 3 of us then. I can pay no problem."
And just like that, it was settled. They went to McDonald's.
It wasn't before they were heading to the fast food shop that Izuku really realized what was going on.
He was hanging out with a couple of friends. Friends. Actual real friends.
Holy shit, he hadn't realized how much he had missed this feeling. How long had it been since the last time he hung out with someone who wasn't an adult with a family connection, or an alien from outer space?
A literal decade.
For a brief moment, anger at Katsuki welled up inside him, but it was quickly forgotten as Izuku embraced this feeling.
God he had missed this.
...
Venom had memories of Izuku's previous school life, generally, a boring affair of sitting and listening to older humans talk about whatever topic had been taught that day.
It had been exceedingly boring when they didn't understand anything beyond the names of students, or the teachers.
Yuei's theoretical classes were even more boring than those had been, and sitting around and listening to these lectures when they could understand them, didn't make them any less boring to suffer through.
Not helping was the fact they already had learned the actual interesting stuff of local history from the far wide web.
Earth was an interesting enough world, with a race that, whatever else it might be, was most certainly not boring.
Venom had most of what they needed to make certain they would thrive in this world.
Thankfully, that would change quickly enough.
The last class of the day was a class Izuku had been looking forward to more than any other, despite not knowing what it was about at all beyond it being a practical class.
Venom was also looking forward to this class, to break up the monotony of boring lectures about stuff that didn't matter.
They were also curious about the teacher.
Said teacher entered the classroom with a shout and with gusto, proclaiming how he was entering into the room like he was a normal person.
Tall, muscular, dressed in an impractical, long blue cape and with ridiculous yellow hair standing up from his head.
All Might. The greatest hero Japan had ever produced, and the man commonly regarded as the greatest warrior in the world. A man who always smiled no matter what, bringing hope to all.
Izuku nearly fainted having a fangasm over the man.
"It's him… It's actually him…" He had his face covered by his hands hiding his starstruck face, like he was actually looking at a beautiful specimen of his kind.
-Well isn't that interesting. Very interesting indeed.-
Izuku was knocked out of his fervor by Venom's tone, like he had just stumbled upon something incredibly amusing.
"What?"
-We'll tell you later, after school.-
Venom also found All Might's appearance a fascinating thing, though for very different reasons.
For one thing, they recognized who he was from the moment he walked into the door.
They had seen this man in the flesh before, last year, on the second day after bonding with Izuku.
All Might, as it turned out, was the man known as Toshinori Yagi. A man Venom recalled as looking incredibly sickly, frail, thin, and weak. He did not much resemble the man before them in any way, other than the yellow hair, and the sunken-in eyes.
At least not physically. However, you could not trick a Klyntar by just changing your look up a bit. Venom recognized him and how he felt up close immediately, a task made even easier by the other thing Venom immediately felt upon the man's entrance.