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Izuku Midoriya knows pain.
He has known pain for all of his life and will always know pain, that’s something he learned many years ago when he was diagnosed as quirkless. He learned pain at the age of 4 because not all men are created equal. He learned pain at the age of 14 because he couldn’t be a hero. He learned pain at the age of 15 when he couldn’t save Nighteye. He learned pain at the age of 16 when he left his friends because of the target on his back.
But no pain he has experienced before will ever compare to the pain he felt as he saw his friend, his classmate, his partner, his Kacchan dead on the battlefield.
He screamed. He felt his quirk going out of control, tears rolling down his cheek as Lemillion and the vestiges tried to calm him down.
He felt anger. Pure, boiling hot rage as he fought Shigaraki. He had wanted to save him, but now he wanted nothing more than to see him dead.
But Shigaraki wasn’t his end goal. No, that was All for One.
All for One, who annihilated the previous users of One for All. All for One, who almost killed All Might, his mentor, twice. All for One, who is the reason why many heroes and many of his classmates were dead or gravely injured.
Only Izuku had the power to kill him. Only he had the power to end this suffering. It is his job, his goal, his duty, to kill All for One and end the war. Even if it meant dying in the process.