Tomura hates thinking about soulmates and especially his own soulmate. It seems like a cruel joke to him. His life is pretty miserable already, he constantly feels the urge to destroy everything he sees, yet he can't even have a soulmate, because his own is already dead. Maybe, he doesn't deserve a soulmate, he's a villain. But it still sucks.

Tomura idly scratches the letters on his wrist. "Touya Todoroki." Endeavor's eldest son, who died in a forest fire when he was just 13. Tomura's only chance to be loved, died even before they could meet. That's surely a cruel joke on him.

Tomura hates thinking about it, but he can't stop. Why did Touya have to die and leave Tomura without a soulmate? Though Tomura doesn't blame the boy. He actually feels sorry for his tragic fate. He blames the boy's dad, who couldn't save him despite being a hero. Heroes always ruin everything for Tomura.

After a while, he decides to go downstairs to the League's bar to have a drink and stop pitying himself and Touya. There, he meets Dabi, his right-hand man.