Epilogue-yay

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Midoriya grinned as he woke up. Sitting up, he swung his legs off the bed and rubbed his eyes. Then his grin turned into a frown.

Oh shoot, he didn't know what to do today.

Well, this was a problem. Midoriya quickly scoured his brain for something. 

And he came up with something alright.

Pig-Latin.

Hadn't he read something about it once before? All he had to do was say the first consonant, put it at the back of the word with -ay and boom. Done. There were other rules as well, but Midoriya knew them well enough. 

He had read a book about a Viking-in-training that had a pig that spoke Pig-Latin after all.

So, he put on his clothes, brushed his teeth, came back to his room, put on his uniform, got his school bag, and went downstairs. 

The elevator dinged as the door opened.

"Ave-hay a-yay ood-gay orning-may!" he waved cheerfully. The others looked at him, confused.

[Different people have different rules in Pig-Latin. My way is using 'yay' after a word that starts with a vowel. Yours might have 'way' or 'ay'. I've heard both before.] 

"Don't you mean good morning?" Jirou said and Midoriya faltered. "Eah-yay, ood-gay orning-may!"

"What's he saying?" Todoroki asked. Many people shrugged.

"Say good morning, Midoriya!" Kaminari whined and Midoriya said, "Ood-gay orning-may."

"It's good morning, shitty nerd."

"Ats-thay at-whay I'm-yay ying-tray o-tay ay-say! Ood-gay orning-may!"

Tokoyami then pointed out, "Maybe he's speaking another language. If we can look up a word, maybe we'll figure out how to understand him."

Class 1a nodded. Momo took out her phone ("Rich people," Uraraka grumbled) and looked up at Midoriya.

"Say a word again."

"Ood-gay orning-may."

"It sounded like oodgay orningmay," Mina put in her two cents. Bakugou rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, we know pinky."

"According to this search," Momo began, "I believe he is speaking Pig-Latin."

There was silence before everyone shouted. 

"What the hell is Pig-Latin?"

"Who names something after a pig?"

"Alright, that can't be a real language."

Momo explained, "Pig-Latin is a made-up language formed from English by transferring the initial consonant or consonant cluster of each word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable so chicken soup would be translated to ickench-ay oup-say. Pig Latin is typically spoken playfully, as if to convey secrecy."

"Then how are we going to speak it?" Uraraka asked. Iida turned to Aoyama. 

"Aoyama, you speak French and Japanese, correct?" Iida chopped his right arm.

Aoyama nodded, twirled, and struck a pose, the background teal with yellow sparkles. "Of course, mon ami! Je parle francais!"

'Where did that background come from?' they all wondered.

Midoriya then said, "Ow-nay at-whay?"

"How do we translate that?" Sato asked and Momo looked at Midoriya. 

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