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He was five when he remembered everything.
He remembers being Ayer, a once upon a time big name in the underground, a formerly studious boy who found his calling in a battlefield. And a boy with a split personality who was his only support in the underground back then.
He also remembers being Izuku (His current self). A boy who wanted to be a hero but even though he is like everyone else in this world of superpowers, his power is yet to show.
He remembered it all when he finds himself in a similar situation where he found his first calling.
Unlike the old him, he fought back and sent one of the kids flying.
He decided to taunt the kid but eventually resorted to dodging because the kid's movements are too predictable.
He then sigh. “I'm bored.” He then turned to the kid he was meant to be protecting earlier. “Let's get you home, yeah?”
The kid only nodded and walked away with him.
He then lied down at the sofa as soon as he got home.
He was pretty sure he died old and happy.
Living up in the world of islands in the skies.
Having resolved the things about himself and with Bowman.
Repairing the relationship with him and his family.
Getting to win against the captain once.
And playfully messing around with his grandkids.
Then he also got mixed up with memories of this new life.
Of a father who divorced with his mother due to several disagreements but still having an amiable relationship.
A hero that he truly admired and wished to be.
An explosive tempered boy who is also a friend of sorts.
And living in a world where almost everyone have this kind of magic called quirks and a profession known as heroes.
If he could compare, this world felt more like those science fiction books he often found in book stores while the way his old world works can be considered something of a fantasy here.
But as he recalled of his old world, he gritted his teeth as he felt himself swimming in memories as Ayer.
But the most he treasured was the times with the Grancypher crew.
It was fun while it lasted and the crew are still together even after captain reached their goal.
He remembers them.
And he also missed them.
He asked his mother to let him learn boxing as a way to train his... quirk, after informing her about it.
Mother's kindness and love reminded him of Jessica, as overbearing and smothering as she was.
But mother isn't a smotherer.
She let him have some space and loved him as a son regardless of his choices.
He mused, seeing his new mother fussing over the bruises he got from some bullies, that while she can be a worrywart, and it felt sort of overbearing, he can at least understand why Jessica's the way she is, just a little.
His boxing class lecturers got him to join the adult only class because, apparently, to the teachers, he is pretty rowdy to the kids his class. (They're not wrong, but they're asking for it. If there's something he'd like to prove wrong, it's that even though he looks skinny, his strength isn't just all talk.)
And again, the adults in that class underestimated him and proved them wrong.
He got praised as prodigy and all that jazz.
The teacher in charge of the class called a stop then talked to him when the other adults are resting.
“Have we seen each other before?”
“Huh?”
He shook his head. “No. You just look familiar. And I remember seeing someone with a similar fighting style like yours.”
He's probably mistaking him for someone else so he was about to say that but then he got a good look at the man.
That tone he used at him is almost familiar and the man's hair too at that.
“Siegfried?”
The man's mouth opened wide as he called him by his former name. “Ayer?”
After that, Siegfried tells him that he now goes by the name Ryuuji.
His “quirk” is item sharpening, any item he touched ended up being sharper than usual. He chose not to pursue an attention prone career and went with being a martial arts coach with his hands bandaged so the quirk wouldn't activate.
Not only that, Siegfried apparently met Makira and Jeanne D'Arc. The former, he met her trying to fly at a park with her limited gadgets and almost fell, and the latter, was when he visits the bakery she lived in at this new life.
The thought of meeting people he was familiar before excite him and also put him at ease that he's not all alone.
He then wondered, what about Captain?
Siegfried shook his head. “Haven't seen Captain yet. Sorry.”
He was quite disappointed at that.
Captain is the one person that he wanted to meet the most. He owed so much to Captain for everything.
"We all got a lot to owe to Captain Ayer." Siegfried comments when he talks about it.
It's things like this that make him wish to go back to the world of the skies, going on adventures with everyone in the Grancypher crew.
Lyria writing a journal as Captain looked at the map.
Vyrn eating apples like no tomorrow.
Katalina checking up the other members with Farrah.
Rackam and Eugen looking at the engines of the ship for maintenance.
Lowain preparing lunch for the huge amount of members in the crew.
Percival and Heles having a conversation about their respective countries.
He missed them all.
He missed the crew.
(He wants to go back home. Home where everyone was.)