That was true, even if he didn't know what he was missing, he felt the loss keenly all the same. Granted, Toge didn't have much time to process that, with everything else going on, but he's held his own. He knows now what exactly the loss was. Shoto, Izuku and Katsuki, all of them, and his other friends he made but hasn't seen again.

He agrees with a smile. "Salmon."

The ache he'd been feeling is lightened simply because Shoto is around. That counts for something.