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On the one hand, a boy who has the heart of a hero, but who lacks everything else. On the other hand, a boy with the skills, anger, physical strength and power necessary to become number 1, but who lacks the soul of the hero. From here, in chapter 322, the two boys can begin their story as heroes. The idea that has been instilled in Katsuki is that he manages to excel in everything. However, he knows he is lacking in one aspect. That something he feels he does not have is very strong in Izuku, his neighbor and childhood friend: heroism. In this way he develops empathy, pushing himself to throw himself against Deku and saving him from certain death: from this moment he learns what heroism is. Deku returns conscious and the pupils reappear inside his eyes, since the words spoken by Dynamight seem incredible to him as well. "Izuku, I apologize for everything I've done to you up to now." Bakugou and Midoriya are now complete heroes: the first understood what it means to be a person and what empathy is, the other managed to understand how much of his enormous power works. In this moment, both have managed to be on the same level: Midoriya cannot stand up and is about to collapse into the puddle, but Bakugou manages to collect it in time. Katsuki reassures Izuku that he has taken the right path, as well as considers his ideal of becoming like All Might correct. However, Katsuki understands how Deku must not neglect himself, and it is therefore important that he safeguards himself to reach the ideal he so admires, so Katsuki gives in to the idea of having to overcome him to support him and help him, as opposed to the rancorous Endeavor that sacrifices the his own family to reach an unattainable point. Society is against the idea of returning the source of all problems to the Yuei barrier. The moment Deku takes a last step back almost to leave, Ochaco's hand brings him back to him, and with all the simplicity of the world he tells him: "Don't worry about this." Thus, the question that Uraraka asks herself since she was a child is: "Heroes save people. But who is it that saves heroes?" And perhaps the answer implicitly becomes: "Other heroes." I appreciate how Ochaco manages to build Izuku's trust always with actions, in silence, therefore more subtly, not with expressions.