Izuku goes to see Recovery Girl, and then runs into someone surprising.

"I can't believe that despite everything, you still managed to get the better of us," Iida sighed as he approached Izuku, but held out a hand to shake regardless. "Well fought round."

Izuku smiled as he raised his arm, wincing as he remembered it was the one with the torn muscles, but still shook Iida's hand, grateful for the praise and show of sportsmanship. "You guys did good too... I never thought anyone would actually manage to steal the headband from us. I meant it when I said that was well played."

Itsuka snorted, also approaching. "And yet, you still put special dye on the ten million points so you would know which one to go for if it came to it," she told him, looking at him appraisingly. "That was clever."

"Well, as your team just proved, better safe than sorry, and it was a good thing I took that precaution," Izuku noted.

"Todoroki is brooding just a bit," Iida noted. "He really had his heart set on first place, and I think having defeat snatched from the jaws of victory is getting to him a little... But at least we're moving on."

Izuku nodded, before wincing again as Midnight explained that the next round would be a tournament, and the brackets would be selected and announced in an hour, everyone had the time to recover as needed, and those not moving on would be allowed to particpate in some smaller games to continue to impress potential future sponsors. Izuku decided to head to the office Recovery Girl was in for the event. He had torn muscles and a broken finger to address.

Meanwhile, Setsuna looked at Itsuka, then towards Momo, grinning mischievously as she walked up to the genie. "Hey, you wanna make certain things a little easier for Izuku?" she whispered to Momo, who glanced at her, intrigued.

"What do you have in mind?" she murmured back as they headed for the vending machines, Momo out to get some more lipids in her system.

...

Izuku sighed in relief, all healed up and drinking an energy drink to make up for the lost energy from the healing as he walked down the hall. He paused as he turned the corner, and saw Todoroki leaning against the wall, his arms crossed. "...Todoroki?" Izuku asked, assuming correctly that the ice user was waiting for him.

"Midoriya... we need to talk," Todoroki stated, turning his head towards Izuku.