The training field settled into a strange quiet after Renya's words.Not fear.Not awe.Something steadier.A collective inhalation before the plunge.
Hoshi stood at his right side, tense but focused.Todoroki and Midoriya waited in front, eyes sharp, notebooks ready.Behind them, Class 1-A and 1-B formed a wide semicircle, uncertain but unwilling to miss what was coming.
Renya stepped forward.
The shadows beneath his feet reacted before he spoke — drawing inward slightly, as if the ground itself were listening.
He raised one hand.
"Before you learn anything," he said, "you need to understand one truth."
The breeze died.The air thickened.
Renya's voice remained calm.
"You cannot use my method."
Murmurs rippled through the students.Some confused.Some frustrated.
Midoriya's hand shot up instantly."Sir! Why not?"
"Because it isn't a method," Renya said. "It's a consequence."
Todoroki frowned. "A consequence of what?"
Renya pointed at them.
"You."
Silence again.
He stepped closer, eyes scanning the entire group.
"You saw something during the tribunal. Not technique. Not style. Not strategy."
He tapped his chest.
"You saw stability."
Todoroki inhaled sharply.
Midoriya whispered, "Emotional neutrality… no— emotional clarity…"
Hoshi crossed her arms. "You can't teach them to copy that."
"No," Renya said. "But I can teach them something deeper."
He knelt.
Not dramatically.Not ceremonially.Simply lowering himself until his palm touched the ground.
The shadows stirred — not growing, not spreading — but synchronizing.Adjusting.
Dozens of students stiffened as the air shifted.
It was subtle, but unmistakable:their breaths synced for one moment.
A shared rhythm.A unified pattern.The Abyss listening not to Renya…but to everyone present.
He looked up.
"You created this," he said.
Yaoyorozu swallowed. "Created what?"
Renya stood again and gestured around the field.
"This."
The air.The weight.The pulse.
"You gathered. You focused. You followed the same conceptual direction. That alignment generated resonance."
Todoroki's eyes widened. "So it wasn't your quirk?"
"Partly," Renya said. "But the rest was you."
Midoriya scribbled furiously. "So the Aby— I mean, the resonance responds to collective intent?"
"Correct."
"And you amplified it?"
"Correct."
"And that means—"
"It means you can accidentally summon far more than you can control," Renya said.
Midoriya froze.
Todoroki lowered his notebook.
Hoshi looked at the students. "He's telling you the same thing he told Haruto this morning. You are stepping onto a path that isn't just 'mental training.' It's something deeper."
Renya nodded.
"Emotion," he said. "Focus. Conviction. When enough people align themselves with the same purpose, something beneath this world listens."
Kaminari raised a hand. "Like… a spiritual Wi-Fi?"
Jiro elbowed him. "Please stop."
Renya ignored them both.
He stepped to the center of the semicircle.
"I'm going to show you what resonance looks like when you stop imitating and start observing."
He pointed to Todoroki.
"You.Step forward."
Todoroki did so without hesitation.
Renya gestured at the ground."Create a small flare. Heat only."
Todoroki's left side flickered with red light.A soft wave of warmth rolled outward, touching the nearby students like a timid hand.
Renya nodded.
"Now stop."
Todoroki extinguished it.
Renya pointed to Yaoyorozu."You.Make something small. Something that requires precision."
She created a thin metal ring.It glimmered in the sunlight.
"Good," Renya said. "Hold it."
Then he pointed to Midoriya.
"You.Think."
Midoriya blinked. "About what?"
"About the moment you first wanted to save someone."
The entire field went silent.
Midoriya inhaled.Held the breath.Let it out slowly.
Something shifted around him.
Not visually.But perceptibly — like the emotional air tightened, focusing itself toward a single point.
Renya raised his voice just enough for everyone to hear.
"Three different students.Three different states.Three different vectors of intent."
He lifted his hand.
The shadows converged.
Not physically.Not aggressively.Not like tendrils.
Like attention.
The resonance, drawn by the three emotional signatures, coiled through the field — faint, but coordinated.
It touched Todoroki's lingering heat.It brushed Yaoyorozu's precision.It submerged itself in Midoriya's memory.
And for a heartbeat, the entire training field felt like a single, inhaling organism.
Several students backed away instinctively.
Renya finally moved.
He tapped the ground with his heel.
The resonance snapped.
Not violently — like a bubble breaking on water.Calm.Controlled.
But undeniably real.
Todoroki staggered.Yaoyorozu gasped softly.Midoriya swayed.
Renya spoke:
"Resonance amplifies whatever you hold inside.Strength.Fear.Doubt.Conviction."
He turned to face the entire group.
"If you seek to practice my methods, then the first lesson is not how to use resonance."
He paused.
"The first lesson is how to survive yourselves."
Silence.
Absolute.
The students stared at him with something deeper than respect.
Recognition.
Aizawa, who had been watching from the far end of the field, finally stepped forward.
"You're teaching them philosophy again," he said.
Renya replied without turning his head. "I'm teaching them not to drown."
Aizawa sighed. "Fine. But keep it within reason."
Renya didn't answer.
Because reason had nothing to do with it.
He looked back at the students.
"This is your homework," he said. "Individual. Not group."
They tensed.
Renya raised a hand and pointed at each of them in sequence.
"Find the emotion you avoid.Sit with it for five minutes.Observe it.Do nothing else."
Mina blinked. "Five minutes? That's it?"
"Five minutes is an eternity for the unprepared," Renya said.
Bakugo scoffed. "I don't avoid emotions."
Renya gave him a look that could have written an entire thesis."I'll assign you ten."
Bakugo froze.Everyone else tried not to laugh.
Renya turned away.
The shadows followed like obedient ink.
Hoshi quickly caught up to him.
"That was… something," she said.
"Yes."
"You really think they can handle resonance?"
"No."
"Then why teach them?"
"Because they already started learning it on their own."
Hoshi nodded slowly.
She understood.
This wasn't about training power.
It was about preventing a disaster.
As they left the training field, the Abyss pulsed once more.
Curious.Interested.Awake.
Renya didn't look back.
But every student behind him felt it:
This was only the beginning.