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[defendure]

I think you're misunderstanding me a bit here. Life doesn't fall into neat little boxes, but...what matters most to me is always just going to be helping people who need it. And I think being on another planet does kind of make things different - this isn't the society that failed you. It's full of completely unrelated people who might think differently or might think similarly, you know? Maybe some of the things you want are possible here - maybe some aren't. But, it isn't something you'll really know until you try.

[ There's a small shrug. There are things that are true in Noctium that wouldn't be elsewhere - and maybe that's just a different sort of freedom that some of them can recognize and some of them can't. ]

[wincon]

[ Is he misunderstanding? In Tomura's mind, there is no misunderstanding; he thinks there's no hope for the amicable coexistence Midoriya and some of the others dream about. The best thing they could offer to the other side is to stay out of each other's way—an impossibility because there isn't a middle ground in their philosophies. ]

A different world doesn't change me—nor you. Isn't that what you lot have been blabbering about this whole time? You still have your values, you still want to do this and that, just like in the other place. We're the same, in that respect. You live life your way, and I'll live mine.

[defendure]

Ah...I owe a lot to someone who wouldn't really want me to stand idly by, is all. So...annoying or not, I still want to try to understand you for their sake, and my own.

[ Izuku shrugs, not specifying who he means. ]

[wincon]

[ The omission doesn't particularly catch Tomura's attention—for all he knows, Midoriya could be referring to a general philosophy imparted by his mentors. More puzzling is the insistence to "try to understand." Does the kid really think he'll be able to understand? What could he understand in the first place? ]

It wouldn't change anything, even if you could.

[ Especially if Midoriya's earlier statements about this world and theirs were truthful. ]

If you learned everything about me, would you step aside? [ He doesn't think so. ]

[defendure]

I don't think it's as unimportant as that. There are...people who need to know. I'm only one of them.

[ He can't stand aside, but that isn't the part that matters. ]

[wincon]

[ As though anyone's needs has made Tomura reconsider. He scoffs. ]

No one needs to know anything else about me. What I've already told you isn't enough?

[ He hasn't even told his own allies about himself in very many words, and at least they listen to what he does have to say—about heroes who hurt their families, about the society that leaves everything to those heroes. Midoriya must at least remember those words, doesn't he? Oh well—if the brat is from "before" that time, Tomura isn't feeling generous enough to repeat himself.

The conversation is at an endpoint. He turns on his heels to follow the trail back out of the woods, stopping briefly as he remembers something. ]

Tell your dumbass friends to stay away too.

[defendure]

I'm not in charge of them though?

[ Izuku has zero control over what his classmates do. The only one he could maybe get to do something would be Katsuki, and that's...more personal than it isn't. It's not like he's Iida, who could probably whip them all into some kind of shape, or Aizawa, who could order them off. ]

[wincon]

Consider it for their sake.

[ Sure, it's so the villains can be left in peace without anyone trying to "make connections," but they are much more willing to fuck shit up over an annoyance. ]

[defendure]

Still...I'm not in charge of them. They make their own decisions, and they can handle themselves.

[ Izuku trusts that much. Besides, he's not about to try to curtail his friends' personal freedom just because it might be dangerous for them. ]

[wincon]

[ Tomura stops, shrugs. ]

What ends up happening makes no difference to me.

[ If there ends up being a fight or worse... he'll just call it practice. ]

[defendure]

[ Well, he can't argue with that...Izuku will let Shigaraki go at that point, holding his tongue. ]