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[With all of the practice in the kitchen he's getting while in Chroma, Izuku figures his mom's going to be plenty surprised when he shows up at home a much better cook than he was when he left it several months ago. The thought makes Izuku smile as he places the pumpkin soup on the table.]

Hey, Ari-kun? [Izuku glances toward the one who'd invited him over in the first place, pausing in the middle of moving the fish.] Who else is coming tonight?

[After Minato agrees to let them experiment with the locket, getting everyone together is easy enough to do. Izuku holds the vial of mysterious liquid up and sloshes it around lightly as they all settle down around the well. It seems fitting that they would do this here, where Vriska had found the thing in the first place.]

Okay, let's see if this does anything. [Izuku looks around at the others.] Who wants to do the honors? [A pause.] We should be ready in case something happens, though.

[Though he and Percy did the sacrifice quest a little while ago, both of them take the time to really think about what they could use their reward for. It's been known that they help restore the color around town when they fulfill quests, but this is the first time that he and anyone else have actually been aware of it before it happened. And they have a choice.

The idea strikes him just a couple days before the new quests are due to appear.]

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Jackson-kun! I think I know what I want to try restoring color to.

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[As usual, Izuku scrolls through the quest post as soon as he notices the new ones have been added. 35 makes him pause suspiciously, with a mental note to think about what that might actually mean, but 34 sends a wave of amusement through him.]

Shouto. [He turns in his chair, a playful look in his eyes.] I think we could finish this one pretty quickly.

[When another set of animal tracks catches Izuku's attention, he leans down to get a better look at it. It's not the first set they've found since they started the quest, though thankfully, they haven't been out in the forest looking for too long. Yet.]

This one could be it. [He squints at the tracks with an accompanying tilt of his head.] What do you think, Dave-kun?

[If there's anything good about the way Izuku's mind tends to analyze information constantly, it's that he usually feels a bit more prepared by the time he takes certain quests on.

He's lingering around the edge of the forest, sketching a rough picture of a sphinx and jotting down a few notes, when Nico comes across him.] Hey, di Ang--I mean, Nico-kun. [Izuku smiles at him, sheepish at the way he'd fallen back on formalities again.] Going into the forest for something?

[Somehow, Izuku isn't surprised at all when he runs into Michael at the library again. With a sunny smile, he starts pushing the books he's gathered to the side to make room at his table.]

Want to join me, Mell-kun?

[Even at a glance, it's easy to tell what Izuku's up to when the books he's been going through have been opened to pages with information on sphinxes.]

[Once Shouto actually looks over the list, he'll note that it all looks... worrying. But for the moment he's just looking at quest 34.

They've done that every single day, haven't they?

Shouto lifts up the blanket and gestures for Izuku to join him.]

Cuddle up with me.

Okay. [The laptop gets turned off and abandoned at the desk readily. Once Izuku slips under the blanket, he wraps his arms around Shouto and cuddles in close, like he always does now.

Easiest quest ever, honestly. It's not like this is a hardship for either of them.]

This quest is nice. I'm a little worried about the one after it, though.

[Shouto loops his arm over Izuku's torso and kisses the top of his head. They would've been doing this even without the quest. He's fine with cuddling his boyfriend for any reason.]

What's the one after? The color draining?

[It's comfortable, sharing the heat like this. Izuku closes his eyes, nosing at Shouto's shoulder.]

Mm. Yeah, that one. I knew the town and the shadows could take color from us, but I didn't know we could do it to each other. Not sure if I like knowing that it's possible.

[Especially when they know what happens to the person getting their color drained.]

[There's nothing as cozy as sharing a blanket with Izuku. He'd be happy to do this particular quest every day.]

Do you think we could've always done it?

[Did they have to mean to do it? Is it only possible because of the quest? There's a lot of questions and very few answers.]

It's possible. [Warm and cozy as he's feeling, the topic at hand has him wide awake. They've been lucky; no one in town has really tried to cause trouble for others yet, or he'd be really worried about this new knowledge. Being able to take away someone's essence sounds...horrible.]

I don't think any of us actually thought we could do it, unless we had a similar quirk back home.

[He hums softly as he considers it. Draining away colors.... He's already had to deal with Izuku being being colorless. Not again.]

Don't let people drain your color. I've already had to deal with you colorless.

That copycat guy from 1-B can take quirks for a little while, but it's not the same thing, right?

Wasn't planning on it. [He's worried Shouto enough, and doing it for the sake of a quest sounds like a bad idea all around.]

I don't think it's the same. When our color gets taken, it takes time for it to come back. When Monoma-kun copies quirks, the person he copied it from can still use theirs, too.

Good.

[What he really means is "thank you for not worrying me even more." But for now he kisses Izuku's temple.]

Does anybody have a quirk stealing ability?

[Guess who doesn't know anything about All for One?]

[ Michael was just on his way past with a couple books of his own in his arms, and he can't help but smile back at how Izuku's already clearing space at his table. ]

Oh hey, Izuku, fancy seeing you around here. [ with a goofy chuckle, he drops into the chair by the cleared space. ] Sure, I'll bite. Whatcha got for the book club today?

[ he's already glancing curiously over at the open books on the table. sphinxes, huh? looks like somebody's thinking about questing...! ]

[Wrapped around each other as they are, the way Izuku stills is very, very hard to miss.]

There's...one. [His voice sounds a little strained, and he hasn't relaxed at all since he tensed up.] He's the only one I know of.

[He rubs his warm hand across Izuku's back, trying to get him to relax just a little bit.]

Do you want to talk about it?

[His eyes are watching the vial curiously, and while he kind of just wants to grab it he figures being polite is more effective...for now.]

Depends. How exactly are we doing this?

[Jackson-kun. Is he ever going to get used to that? Maybe not, but he's quick to reply anyway.]

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yeah? what kind of idea did you come up with?

[It's silence for a second, then two. Then, finally, Izuku sighs and lets some of the tension in his body bleed out.]

You've seen him before. All For One... the villain that All Might fought at Kamino Ward.

Nothing much! Just some research on sphinxes.

[With a wave of his hand, he gestures at the books he's spread out in front of him.]

Thought I should do some reading up before I tried to take on that quest. It makes me feel like I'm better prepared to handle whatever happens.

Did you notice that the well is colored now? If even something like the well can be restored, what if we tried something like the harbor?

It might make it safer for people to go in without freezing once it's back to normal.

yeah, I saw that and maybe that's not a bad idea it's one of the places that has the most potential and if we're supposed to be exploring this town and finding stuff out, the least we can do is make it better so yeah, I'm in. what do we do to do that?

[Catchall]

All Might & Ari | 11/3

Minato, Percy, & Shouto | 11/7

Percy | 11/1

Shouto | Quest 34

Dave | Quest 33

Nico | Quest 33

Michael | Quest 33

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