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    Izuku Midoriya is dying.
    It’s a truth spoken in a sterile exam room and sealed behind his teeth the moment he walks out. One For All is deteriorating inside him, eating away at bone, muscle, nerve, every use carving weeks off his life.

    He tells no one.
    Especially not Bakugou.

    Patrols become a test of endurance. Training becomes a battlefield he can barely cross. And Katsuki, sharp eyed and too perceptive for Izuku’s comfort, keeps watching him. Questioning him. Getting closer to the truth with every strained breath Izuku pretends is fine.

    But Izuku can’t stop.
    Heroes don’t quit.
    Not even when it’s killing them.

    As the distance between them tightens and the secret between them deepens, Bakugou becomes the one thing Izuku can’t bear to lose, and the person he is most terrified of letting down.

    Because when the truth comes out…
    it won’t just break Izuku.

    It’ll break them both.

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