IT FEELS LIKE ITâS BEEN A LONG TIME since Todoroki has experienced the city at peace. Itâs weird, like that strange sense of calm as a storm is approaching on the horizon. Still, it isnât as if heâd complain about it, and itâs nice to see his teacher looking a normal level of âtiredâ instead of the myriad shades of stressed out and tense the events of the city have forced him into.
Theyâre supposed to be training â no slacking off, even here â but right now itâs break time on a park bench in the green sector.
<<Sensei, I have a question.>>
<<Do you think itâs going to get cold again soon? I still⊠donât have my Quirk back.>> Not, he realizes, that itâs all that relevant â he never used his fire half to self-regulate his temperature before â but there is that smidgeon of self-doubt in his voice, however minute.
After everything had happened, heâs almost glad to welcome back his OLD worries. There was no creatures teeming through the streets, no crunch of metal beneath his bruising knuckles, no earth-shattering roar that threatens to drive him absolutely deaf-- just the usual hustle and bustle of a city built back from cinders.
He doesnât let whoâs still here laze around. Not after everything thatâs happened. Although, he supposes a break once in a while isnât too bad.
His eyes shift to his student after he poses his inquiry, leaning back on the bench and pressing his back against the smoothed wood.
âYou donât need a quirk to survive the winter. It would be useful, but youâll just have to bundle up like the rest of us. I trust you havenât lost that coat already.â It may have warmed up since the boyâs arrival, but summer never lasts, and the chill of autumn was already settling in. Seems he was going to have to make sure they all had proper clothing, too. Honestly...sometimes kid were such a pain.