Boku no Hero Academia, Chapter 117: It's About Your Quirk
We follow up to last chapter's cliffhanger by having Midoriya and Bakugou meet up next to one of the campus's training grounds at night. As everyone expected, Bakugou has pieced all the things together -- All Might's subtle favouritism towards Midoriya, Midoriya gaining powers out of nowhere, All Might losing to All For One, the existence of quirk-transferring quirks, the brief conversation about how Midoriya's quirk was 'entrusted' to him... Bakugou notes how he had passed it off as more Midoriya nonsense, and how he thought of Midoriya as super worthless before (he's not a nice dude) but suddenly Midoriya got powers and became super good. And, yeah, it's not like Midoriya hasn't been practicing hard, and it's not like Bakugou is jealous -- there's a relatively well-written lack of envy in Bakugou's dialogue, but a lot of disgust and irritation.
Bakugou also notes that Midoriya's lack of defense against his long and well-presented theories (which took up more than half the chapter, god damn) is basically all the proof he needed. Midoriya asks Bakugou a question that basically amounts to "if that's true, so what?" Bakugou then demands that Midoriya fight him right there and then, to really show Bakugou what the child that All Might respected so much is made out of.
Bakugou doesn't really have any more malice than usual, which is pretty interesting. He's still a dick and he's still perpetually angry, but his intentions truly felt sincere. Not once in his rants did he talk shit about All Might, instead noting how All Might is the one thing the two of them have in common -- a hero they both look up to. Bakugou just wants to know just why Midoriya's aspirations and goals ended up being respected by All Might so much more than Bakugou's, when Midoriya is, to Bakugou, 'just a pebble in the side of the road'.
Bakugou then charges in and attacks Midoriya, and actually gets a decent hit in by fake-outing Midoriya -- who expected the right arm to be a feint as always, when Bakugou just swings it and notes how Midoriya looks into things way too much.
We'll see if it'll continue being good. There's so many ways this can evolve into just a boring rivalry between the hardworking-kid-who-gets-super-awesome-powers and the super-talented-kid-who's-arrogant that is a carbon copy of Naruto/Sasuke, but I have faith in My Hero Academia. So.
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