cw: vague child abuse mention, blood harvesting mention
He forgets that Uraraka is still fresh to this world. A lot of things have become part of normal Trench conversation. The inhabitants regularly trade bloodstones too. Midoriya has always been hesitant to contribute to blood pollution systematically. When he first learned about the trade, though it's not quite the same, it reminded him of how Eri was used. Then he ran afoul of a place where Sleepers were used in a similar way, but on a grander scale.

He jolts out of his headlong distraction like someone coming up out of the water for air. When she pokes his nose, he winces comically, as the joke calls for, but his hands clutch his Omni a little too tight.

"Stuff keeps happening to my friends..." he means to say in an offhand way and doesn't quite manage to hide the note of concern in his voice. And isn't that just how his mom felt every time he got hurt? And didn't he, thoughtlessly, ignore that until she threatened to pull him out of UA? And now this world keeps deepening the roots of that fear he now fully understands. He's seen several people at this party get hurt.

He presses his lips together and rubs the itch from his nose.