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    Shigaraki's kiss is nothing but an unplugged defibrillator.

    Keigo's kiss halts the rotting of Touya’s decomposing heart, digs out the self-loathing dirt, and croons in the fire of life to get it beating again.

    Yet, it is Shouto's simple, "you're awake," that turns the bulletproof shelter of Touya’s self-made destiny into nothing but a glass house, and his, "whatever name I call you, it won't stop me from saving you, onii-san," that knocks it off the table to shatter it completely.

    “Let me tell you a story — it’s Shiggy’s favorite.”

    Dabi makes sure the two are listening.

    “Say there was a city so close to utopia, but that city’s fortune is dependent on a child being locked away in a dungeon and tortured daily. On your eighteenth birthday, you are brought in to see the child. You are then given the option to stay in the city or leave. Which do you choose?”

    “Neither choice helps the child, the question inspects individual guilt and capacity for empathy if anything,” Aizawa says.

    “What would you choose, Young Dabi-san?” Toshinori asks.

    Dabi smirks, “I’d free the kid and help ‘em burn the whole fuckin’ city to the ground.”

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