It was only just recently, but it feels forever ago. He remembers hands twined, wet from summer's condensation on their cups, laughing at the color dying each other's tongues. On Rose DaSilva's advice, Midoriya taken them roller skating, a subconscious effort to make up for Kaworu's dismal, bleak childhood without love, and to teach a curious Paul more about Midoriya's world. He'd planned on kite flying next, a summer pastime from home that might be possible in good weather. A storm hit instead.

"No, I've never been. Didn't get the chance." Now he may never. "I'm from Musutafu*, Shizuoka Prefecture. A few hours from Tokyo by shinkansen." Bullet train. He would have taught Paul these words along with some of the other places he'd been: Nagano, Kanagawa, Yokohama, Hosu*.

It is miraculous that he and Daniel come from a similar time. Midoriya felt the chances of being from the same geographical location were higher.

"Are you also from California like Lawrence-sensei? I know a Pro Hero who once worked there."

*ooc: a bunch of places in MHA are just adapted from Star Wars names lmao