Kaminari the Not-Assassin (My Hero Academia)
Kaminari Denki was special.
Not special as in "I'm so powerful I can take over the world any time I wanted but I don't because of some mundane reason like 'it's because I really don't like paperwork ok'"
Not even special as in "I'm secretly a really badass government agent in my spare time when I'm not busy being a totally normal clutz of a highschool student that gets into wacky and crazy scenarios and drama on the daily."
No, Kaminari was special in the "my son is...special." and "no ma'am, his ''personality quirks'' ; as you call them are actually indicators of ADHD - that is, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder." way.
He was pretty okay with that, too. Listen, having ADHD isn't the end of the world - contrary to, somehow, popular belief.
But he tended to run into issues a lot. Oh yes, fine, 'you're perfect just the way you are' and all that - let him stop you there. Kaminari, yes, is fine the way he is, but that doesn't change the fact that having ADHD in an environment that demands you know, on some subconscious - well, usually subconscious level - not having adhd tends to cause occasional issues.
He just runs into said occasional issues much more than usual because of the fact he's in the, you know - hero course. Of the most prestigious schools in the country.
That tends to highlight the fact that Kaminari is a..bit of a different thinker than his peers, unfortunately.
Somehow, this all escalated into two of his classmates thinking he's actually a modern day assassin that retired and is running from his dark past using the hero course; trying to fix the bad he's done in the world by using his talents for good, while also hiding his past, as to not put his class into dangers way. Like Kaminari's life is some sort of- spy novel.
He'd say it's all Todoroki and Midoriya's fault - but really, Kaminari's sort of also just a little bit, maybe partly responsible for this whole mess..?
Maybe.
See - the first two months of school, Kaminari invested serious time and effort into...intentionally coming off as an assassin?
Yeah it sounds kind of weird like that - but give him a second to explain himself, alright?
So, there was a betting pool - oh yeah lovely start, he knows. "It all starts with a betting pool-" kind of sounds like the start of a spy novel actually, so maybe it's just irony coming back around.
That aside, the other courses had a betting pool on if Kaminari was either an assassin, a spy, or a government agent. This betting pool came to be because of Kaminari's low academic grades, but somewhat "obvious" intelligence in other areas. Emotionally, apparently ; Kaminari's charismatic nature is ...somehow proof to that??
He's not really sure either but, he's not the one running it; so not his issue.
His - admittedly petty - revenge plot was to just.....freak out the other courses a little, that's all.
So he did what all people on a warpath did - invest extreme and obnoxious amounts of energy and skill into coming off as an assassin.
Listen - "assassin running from his dark past onto the path of light and goodness, where he always wanted to be but could never reach because someone forced him into his career, where he thrived - but was miserable." is just a lot easier to pull off then "spy from another country here to gather intel" or "government agent infiltrating the school" okay?
Yeah okay maybe having an entire mini backstory for his fake act was a little specific, and above and beyond for no real reason, and maybe not entirely necessary - but he was committed to it.
It was actually pretty easy at first.
His first hurdle was walking silently - or well, as silent as a 14 year old on a time crunch can get. He'd say he got good at it with, well not unnatural ease but definitely more than usual. He thinks it's because walking silently is half dedication, half a weird limbo between balancing on his feet without putting the mid-section of his foot on the floor and tip toeing without getting tired from the strain. Kaminari at least definitely had dedication, and from there he just..put a lot of time into it. He had to bullshit it for a while because he couldn't quite pull it off constantly for the first few days, but the key to acting is bullshitting most of everything anyways - so he figures it was fine for a week or two to not do it all the time.
Eventually, about a week after extreme practice, more often then not he was able to keep up with the strain of walking silently. His second issue was, well, consciously walking silently. Turns out, 14 years of walking in a specific way makes you tend to fall back on that habit when your mind wanders too far. Who knew?
It was a hard habit to curb, but he managed it - for the most part - around three weeks in. It was, you know, tiring to direct a constant part of his conscious into keeping it up ; so his next goal had been managing to get it going to the point it was like, mostly a subconscious action. He had a lot more issues with that - ah well, it didn't really matter in the end all that much ; but he'll get around to it later.
The next thing was attentiveness. Assassins tend to notice small details right? Sort of like detectives maybe, except like, deadlier. The anti-detective, one might say. You'd think this was much harder ; considering, how he's just so...him. But actually, attentiveness came pretty easy to Kaminari. It was natural, even - which meant that he didn't need to do much more than be his natural self for it.
Which meant, naturally, it was a little too easy; and he needed to make it harder for himself. Because, of course, life can never be easy for Kaminari Denki. What's the point if it's not a challenge, right?
He needed to raise his attentiveness - which is strangely hard considering, you know; it's not like they make guides on that kind of stuff.
Well - no, they do. Online you can probably find at least thirty a quick search away - but it didn't occur to him at the time to just google it.
He eventually came up with a bit of a study schedule. His end goal was to be able to have an active analysis of battle patterns and plan accordingly - which is kind of hard, obviously.
He needs to be able to do it actively - which means changing plans on the fly to adjust for his analysis. Even the analysis itself it's going to be hard, he'd need to take several things into account - quirks, quirk drawbacks, personality, behavioral patterns, body language, nervous habits, and fighting patterns. All of that just for the basics alone. Which is, you know, megahard to perfect on your own - at least without a really good battle ai simulator or something. Which he, clearly, did not have access to any simulators - let alone advanced ones.
Now, the best way to upgrade his battle strategy alone? Probably either chess or shogi against an ai online, or something.
Shogi is defensive, passive - is that the kind of strategy he wants to employ in battle? Does he want to be a defensive hero? Shogi is helpful for teaching caution - don't send out the helpful pieces too fast or they may be converted to the other side, especially if you aren't paying attention to them - but Shogi is more fit for a general of an army, not a single man in the middle of a battle with a villain. Shogi promotes a certain awareness of each piece and discourages quick and aggressive thinking. Chess is the flip side of the coin - if Shogi is for a general that wants to come out on the other side with as many men alive as possible, Chess is an all-out brawl to weaken the other side, no matter what's abandoned in the process. It's more aggressive, offensive - it has more constrictions, strange rules, less resources, but despite it's apparent misgivings ; chess can be more helpful, as it's more commonly found in the hero industry's high-pressure tense battles with constricted movement because of buildings and civilians.
In the end it was up to the choice of what kind of hero Kaminari wanted to be - did he want to keep as many alive as possible, or weaken the 'enemy' as much as possible?
He stewed over this for a few days before coming to the obvious conclusion - why not both? Yeah, it'll be difficult to pick up two separate games with differing rules and values, but similar enough structure to trigger the uncanny valley effect ; but in the end it'd be more helpful. Being able to understand both styles and changing the main strategies - actively offensive and passively defensive respectively - as he sees fit would be a massive benefit for himself.
He did, briefly, consider go - but he decided his schedule was already quite full and getting to even intermediate level on three different strategy games with different rules while he was busy with other things was frankly going a little too far. Even while his main hobby at the time was the assassin thing; Kaminari knew he just didn't have the time to invest in everything to the level he wanted.
Apparently, Kaminari had a lot of natural talent for strategy games, which frankly, he could thank the heavens for. It only took a month and a half of spending his evenings on shogi and chess for an hour each after school - an hour and a half each in the mornings and evenings on weekends - to get to a fairly high-intermediate level. Honestly he felt kind of like a hack, who in the world gets to be so good at everything so quickly? He felt like a jack of all trades, master of none, or something.
Active analysis of human beings in general, but mostly enemies - was an entirely different monster. He'd rather never think about it again - it drained so much of his time. So many psychology textbooks, quirk theory articles, videos catching villains in action, making his own analysis on such videos, reading other people's analysis on said videos to see what he missed, so many sleepless nights - he resolves to never think about it again.
Honestly, he's breaking out in goosebumps just from that small snippet alone.
Other smaller unrelated skills were easier to master - mostly because he was just brushing up on his dumb, obscure, and mostly useless prexisting skills and repurposing them for his newest hobby - unfortunately titled operation retired child assassin.
Yeah, he knows, looks kind of bad on paper - he prefers the ORCA acronym more for his files and such.
That aside - lip reading? Can be used to make guesses on conversations - makes it fun to glare at people talking shit about him in the halls and during lunch and such. That weird fixation he had on plants and their various uses for two years in junior high? Guess what's used as poisons on occasion? That's right, plants. He did have to do some skim reading on other poison types - but he resolved to put on the imaginary ex-ORCA agent Kaminari was pretending to be to have a focus on plant related poisons, with just basic education on other types.
Weirdly enough, Kaminari's aunt actually kind of helped him - she ran a martial arts dojo. When he was eight she practically dragged him kicking and screaming into three years of lessons - which would have been fine, if Kaminari didn't open his stupid big mouth and tell her he wanted to be a pro hero when she asked him the previous day.
See, she told him - "The specific branch of karate I teach - it's popular yeah, but it's more of a lifestyle than a fighting style. It's honourable, and I don't want to catch you ever saying otherwise - I actually like teaching Karate, you know. Despite that, it's very predictable in a real fight if you don't commit your life to perfecting it - it wouldn't make you hold very well against any experienced fighter. I'm going to be giving you specialized classes here to fix that hurdle a little. You better be grateful, oh bratty nephew of mine, I'm gonna give you a leg up against the competition."
Most of his classes - well, he's not really sure what part of it was karate, and what part of it was just plain Aunt Raimei. The lines tended to blur when you were getting beat up, yeah. There was just one thing she clearly pointed out as Karate though - her favourite phrase, actually. "Kill in one strike."
He's not sure what it's taken for in actual karate - but his Aunt liked to take it as "if you need to fight at all, take them down as quickly as possible." Which, in theory, was a completely fine interpretation.
In reality, it equates more as "Be ruthless, take down your opponent swiftly - painless or not." More painful to learn then you're probably imagining, but incredibly useful all the same.
Thing is, Kaminari started flaking the lessons after the initial three year period. He thought he was tough shit, that nothing could get him now - and really, he was 11. He was too busy with his weird plant obsession to do silly things like fighting.
So yeah, he did dumb stuff as a kid, and he didn't have the time anymore to go back and take classes again. Eventually though, all that training did help him out.
( His fighting style, in retrospect, while not incredibly vital in selling other tracks of the school ; he did anyway - at the time Kaminari was kind of in one of his hyperfixations. During them he focuses on one thing with alarming focus ; and at that point it was "pretend to be a retired assassin" - not "pretend to be an assassin in front of only the other courses." A small, but clear distinction. At the time he rationalized it - "To trick an enemy, you must first trick your own alleys."
Which honestly should have been the point he realized he might have been taking it a tiny bit too far.)
Anyhow, his fighting style was focused on ending the fight as soon as possible as viciously as possible - which, while useful - also didn't do much against geniuses who've been training to fight their whole lives, and didn't flake on their martial arts lessons for plants in junior high. So despite his previous formal and extensive training, he was as in the middle of the pack as in the middle of the pack got in most spars. He didn't lose much more fights then he won, but he also wasn't winning much more fights than he was losing. A pretty even 50/50 win rate.
He couldn't say the same about his written grades - he was barely above the passing points. Truth is, he had been sinking far too much time into his everything else because of his new hobby - and he only studied the bare minimum to pass his classes. Art and English were a bit of an exception. For art it was a passive hobby he's had for a while now, so he'd say he was firmly in the intermediate there. For English, his Aunt comes to the rescue once again without her knowledge - she apparently had studied English for a while, and tended to slip into speaking it sometimes when she had been teaching him.
Kaminari was a curious kid, so he asked about it sometimes. She told him the occasional grammar tip and rule she found interesting - somehow, this got him into the low-intermediate of the class, despite not studying for it at all.
Things were going good for a while - well, as good as it got when he soaked all his time into his hyperfixations.
Then Todoroki and Midoriya cornered Kaminari, with the power point presentation.
Apparently, his most analytical classmates were... kind of idiots that tended to overthink.
They gave him an entire backstory on a mix of Kaminari's pretend and real life. If Kaminari was even half the assassin they thought he was, he would have felt particularly threatened by this action. Mostly because they were right.
Kaminari carefully crafted the backstory of the ORCA assassin ; kind of like what he imagines people who play D&D to do - he wouldn't know though, he's never played. That aside, the ORCA assassin had a careful list of notes of strengths and weaknesses. Strengths were close-range combat, plant based poisons, body language, attention to detail, and battle strategy. Weaknesses included far ranged combat, most weapons beyond the simple combat knife, infiltration, and flexibility - literally and figuratively. This hypothetical ORCA agent would have been a strategist that stayed in the back - the planning guy of the heist, if you will. Preferring poison over combat, but had the standardized combat training of all agents of the organization. Good quirk, but tried to avoid using it because of it's flashy, uncommon, and recognizable nature - which led to a lack of control when utilizing it effectively in combat scenarios.
Somehow, they deduced this entire vaguely LARP reminiscent sheet of Kaminari's and then some. They pulled out newspaper clippings of mysterious poisonings, news headlines of strange electrical fires, police records of suspicious newly abandoned hidden warehouses - hell, they even had a map of suspected activity over the years and how it all fit together.
So Kaminari pulled out his favourite talent - the one he hasn't really mentioned because well, it's not very useful most of the time.
Kaminari was an expressive person, moved a lot, had obvious and big body gestures - he'd say it's the ADHD but his Ma said it ran in the family. Electricity quirks tend to make you feel hyper, which is why it took so long to catch onto the ADHD in the first place. No, his special talent came from his dad's side of the family - total ice mode.
He calls it that, because it tends to give off a chilly vibe. He just has a talent of shutting down his face, making his voice go flat, straightening his posture in a menacing way - dad said it was a minor mutation in his side of the family, mom then promptly swiped him over the head with her newspaper and said no it was not, and they had the quirk record to prove it. It just ran in the family the normal way, the non-quirk one.
So he goes all ice mode, and looks them as straight in the eyes, with as level a voice as possible ; "You know I'd have to kill you now, right?"
Midoriya looks panicked for a second, and Todoroki tenses - but then Kaminari goes back to normal and starts laughing it off. "Ah ah just kidding! Oh you really should have seen your faces, man! I'm sorry really, but too good of a set-up not too! Ah maybe I should explain myself yeah? See it started with a bet-"
His classmates deflated a bit by the end, but agreed that yeah, that probably made more sense than the assassin theory. Honestly if it was anyone else then Midoriya and Todoroki he'd probably bring them in on it. Make a mini-larp whatever it is of a fake assassination program, make fleshed out world-building, have some fun ; get the entire class in on it by the end of the first year.
However, sadly, it was Midoriya and Todoroki, and that meant that plan was a no-go. Midoriya is All Might's favourite, it's pretty obvious all things considered. A sudden difference in behavior would most likely just alarm him, and that's super not fun. Todoroki just plain didn't have the makings for a secret underground assassin - pretend one or not. Plus it was far too late in the game for that - people would notice the change in behavior, Kaminari got away with it at first because it was just assumed he wasn't comfortable around his classmates yet and that's why he stumbled a lot or was quiet during exercises and simulations the first weeks.
If these two approached him like this by even the second week of school, he probably would have caved and found a way to make it work anyways - thing is, it was just too late into the school year now. Habits have been remembered by classmates, even subconsciously.
And honestly? It was tiring, Kaminari literally didn't have time for anything anymore. Unlike him, his classmates had actual hobbies and could not dedicate hours and hours of their time to a random spiteful one-off joke. His weekends were honestly depressing. He wakes up at 5:00 am, plays Shogi until 6:30 am, where he then switches to Chess until 8:00 am, he then goes on to study miscellaneous topics to brush up on previous things he's studied until 10:00 am - usually powder and gas based poisons, but occasionally he studies quirk science to refresh himself on some topics. He then trains with himself until 12:00 pm, before practicing theoretical moves he's come up with, with various levels of success until 1:30 pm.
He dedicates the window of time inbetween 1:30 pm and 5:00 pm as a sort of 'break period' - though he's still working, as he goes through the news he analyzes the fighting styles of villains and battle strategies of heroes, and when he reads the class groupchat he's analyzing his classmates and predicts what he thinks they're doing at the time of writing the text. Lightly, of course - he doesn't want to be invasive, they deserve privacy. Thing is, Kaminari does not take breaks - social events are accounted for in a calendar and thoroughly made up for afterwards. After 5:00 pm he plays Chess until 6:00 pm, plays Shogi until 7:00 pm, scrolls again through social media until 7:30, meditates until 8:00 pm, then sleeps and repeats.
Through the entire day he practices silent walking.
The only time he takes a break is for takeout breakfast, lunch, and dinner - he didn't have enough time to make meals, but he likes hot food more than cold stuff and microwavable food got repetitive too fast.
Now, taking a few steps back and critically looking his schedule - Kaminari honestly can't think anything else other then It was exhausting. He gets caught up in the moment a lot, but now he's thinking it over critically he can't imagine going back to it. So he makes an impulsive choice on the dime, and tells his classmates that the act is over - telling other people things usually cements his choices to himself. Makes him feel like a liar if he changes his mind at the last second and goes back to the depression fest that was his current life style.
He tells them "Too tiring, little reward. Honestly, my grades were slipping because I spent 12 hours each day studying to improve my weird assassin alter-ego instead of, you know, focusing on actual classes. I think this is the end of my larp career. A tragic end to an era, really."
After the confrontation he gets back into old habits pretty fast - or well, he tries.
The walking was easy to kick, he mentioned he never quite got to the subconscious level right? He feels a little off-balanced for a few days, but it mostly disappears after that. He usually goes back to it during battle training though, it gives him an edge against classmates that don't have enhanced senses, and it's pretty cool for that.
Sometimes he slips up - he'll be walking in the hall when he feels a momentary spike of panic course through him because idiot you're making noise stop it!- and then he catches himself in the middle of shifting his feet and curses himself again as he puts them back flat onto the floor. 2 months, you may be thinking, that's really not a lot of time. Two months isn't half a year, or even a quarter of one - that's one sixth of a year, at best. Really, what's the most that can happen in two months?
Two months - 61 days in his case. 61 days is 1464 hours - if one stayed awake for fourteen hours and slept for ten hours consistently while also theoretically effectively utilized their every waking moment, that'd roughly equate into 854 hours.
Kaminari definitely had utilized his every waking moment. He didn't take breaks, he trained and trained and trained and threw himself deeper and deeper - because he has tunnel vision, and got a little too focused on the entire thing. His tiny petty revenge escalated into pyschoanalyzing his classmates as he talked to them, for heavens sake.
854 hours of built habits, and breaking them is a task.
His feet tend to drag him to shogi and chess during the nights on school days still, but because it actively helps his hero career - he figured it'd be fine, as long as he only kept himself to fifteen minutes each instead of the previous one and a half hours. It's pretty calming actually. He still meditates before sleeping, but he does stretch in the morning now too. He's considering getting a plant - a safe one, non poisonous - chamomile maybe.
He's a lot more relaxed these days, like he's finally gotten a long overdue vacation. Ah, really the acting industry would have loved to have him - he threw himself so thoroughly in his own role he even lived like a depressed ex-child assassin running from a dangerous organization that raises human weapons ; and they weren't even real.
Thing is - he's reluctant to throw out his sheets of analysis and 'character' info that had been coupled with his minor cryptology side project. He's a bit sentimental like that - so instead of just burning all evidence of his little phase, as he was tempted to - he gets a box and neatly stacks his binders of notes and heaps of notebooks and thick textbooks and weirdly detailed calendars, tapes it together, then neatly places it so far back into his closet he can't see it.
It feels a little symbolic, but also not at all because, really, this was all very mortifying. Oh god what was he doing the last sixty days?
Playing assassin? Idiot Kaminari! You're at the most prestigious school in the country and you wasted your time playing assassin? Idiot, idiot Kaminari! Were you even thinking? Oh god what if your grades got so low they expelled you, all because you wanted to mess with people?! Dumb, dumb Kaminari! Idiot idiot idiot-
But yeah, the end of an era. He was over his embarrassing theater kid phase or whatever that was. That was the end of it.
At least, that should have been the end of it.
So, it started innocently enough.
Kaminari needed hobbies ; you know, real ones. Honestly he's really not sure what he had been doing with his life before he went to U.A. ; he's pretty sure he just watched cat videos on youtube for the entire day.
Sadly, rewiring your brain to constantly work all the time makes you super not content to just sit around and do nothing. Unfortunate, he knows - the cat videos were fun.
Midoriya, surprisingly enough, came to Kaminari's rescue. Apparently, he had another presentation.
Maybe that's the real source of Kaminari's problems - the presentations.
Anyhow, for some reason Midoriya carts around a presentation about current social trends, recommended starter hobbies for people who've never had any before, and an entire slide talking about the social benefits of making powerpoint presentations for any occasion.
Apparently, he just had this stuff around. Like, extremely around. Very specifically around.
Kaminari decided for his own health, he wouldn't ask.
That aside, it was actually a very helpful guide - photography looks pretty fun ; but yoga is probably better suited for his current stretch and mediate routine. He thinks getting a cactus might be fun too.
Everything was going pretty okay, but then his classmates noticed.
See, Kaminari accounted for the fact that his classmates might think it was weird if Todoroki and Midoriya suddenly acquired an assassin persona - but he didn't account for his classmates noticing the lack of Kaminari's.
It started easily enough - Ashido asked if anyone was free to hangout that weekend; Kaminari, not thinking about it all that much said sure.
(The class stares. Crickets are heard in the background.
Kaminari looks up after a moment. "...What, is there something on my face?"
Suddenly as if hitting resume on a tape, the class goes back to normal. Kaminari pretends to miss the speculative look Sero gives him.)
Then it kept going at random moments - complete pausing, acknowledgement, reanimation. The only ones that seem to not be affected are Yaoyorozu, Todoroki, Midoriya, Bakugou, and Kouda ? for some reason - and while that's fine and dandy, none of them are well, in his active friendgroup.
They're cool, don't get him wrong! They were just really perceptive, and Kaminari decided avoiding the more observant of his classmates would make his hobby easier at the start of the year.
Yeah, he was a little...tunnel vision-y. He'd say hyperfixation tends to do that - but really, it's mainly Kaminari there.
Anyways, it's all very miscellaneous. Sometimes he'll walk up behind Jirou and she'll just startle for no reason. Really, he didn't even get this bad of a reaction when he was actively silencing his steps! It's weird. Sometimes he'll be texting Kirishima and then, suddenly, he'll just get no response for twenty minutes. Honestly, he's pretty sure he heard sounds of genuine astonishment when Mineta was in last place instead of him.
Honestly, he's still not even that good. Low-intermediate grades at best, really.
He even reluctantly reached out to his aunt to get training again. She made fun of him a little bit, but eventually agreed with little fanfare. ("Kid you really should have shown up after the first villain attack, but fine; I guess I've got time for you." ) She helps him with his English homework too - he's at least average in english now.
His classmates still seem to find this minute shift in personality a little strange - but he thinks it's getting better lately. He has confidence that his classmates will adapt soon enough - it's 1-A ; weirder stuff happens then little old Kaminari paying even the slightest bit of attention in class, he's sure.
(Something was wrong with Kaminari. He's...louder, than before. More relaxed, less frightening. He was always friendly, but now it's more..natural looking. Like a muscle that's been tense for so long she didn't realize it even was until it relaxed again. What in the world happened to him, and why is it better now?
He looks better, healthier, happier. Good things, all of it; but-
Ashido can't help but keep an eye on him, she worries a bit.)
(Jirou's memorized the footsteps of all the people in her class. It's a nervous habit leftover from childhood she never could quite get rid of.
Kaminari proved to be the most troublesome classmate in that regard.
For the first few days his stepping pattern rapidly changed - sometimes it was light enough she'd have to actively attempt to hear them in order to find them, sometimes his steps were heavy and he tripped over his own feet in the hall.
Around the time she gave up trying to remember them, they evened out into the quiet steps of before.
She learned to filter her hearing ages ago, if they aren't in the footsteps she's remembered of her classmates, she ignores them.
Kaminari's sudden shift in steps is problematic for the fact that she never hears him coming - he just appears now. Even before his footsteps were just muffled, now he fits so seamlessly into the crowd she just - can't pick him out anymore.
It unsettles her more than she cares to admit.)
(Sero noticed something was..weird, with Kaminari.
For the entire time Sero has known him, Kaminari has stuck to a schedule. The only time he altered it was if the event was planned thoroughly in advance. Spontaneous hang out sessions weren't his style.
He showed up to school early - not incredibly early, but at least 15 minutes before classes actually started. He spent most of class doodling non-sense words into his notebooks. He tended to spend most of his time wandering around school grounds - he's gotten lost so many times that if Sero was any closer to him, he'd joke that they needed to give him a bell to keep track of when he's wandering off.
Kaminari was nice, but he was incredibly odd in a strangely unapproachable way.
Then something changed, and Kaminari was...well, the best way Sero could word it was normal. He wasn't on such a strict schedule anymore - he showed up earlier, but not by much. Sometimes he was four minutes early, sometimes he was there before even Bakugou.
He's not sure what changed with Kaminari, but he's not going to look the gift horse in the mouth - Kaminari seems a lot more peaceful these days.
But sometimes Sero just looks at him and - he worries.)