We'll Be Fine {Dadzawa}

Selfishly a part of him wishes that on that fateful day that he and Midoriya had met, that it'd never happened.

It's a harsh conclusion, a jarring one even. But that doesn't make it any less true, doesn't have him repealing it.

His wish is not because he regrets meeting the kid, no, never that. It's simply because if they had never met, it'd change this whole course of trajectory. It'd mean that Midoriya wouldn't be here in front of him. That Midoriya wouldn't have gotten all hurt because of him.

And another thing flickers in his mind, Shōta thought he'd saved Midoriya the day he met the boy. That he'd rekindled a bit of that spark in Midoriya's eyes.

And he realizes now -

- that he'd never saved Midoriya at all.