Hiding The Pain || MonoShin [BOOK 1]

Chapter 11 - Fundraiser Festival (I)

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It was 2 months after Monoma's abduction and to say, he was doing well. Of course, he hadn't quite grown the balls to call his sister, and the paper with the phone number sat on his bedside table, gathering up dust. Class B had already recovered from the attack, and things were going smoothly.

Monoma sat in class, pen moving furiously on his paper as the teacher talked. The period eventually ended and Vlad King came into the class for their Heroics subject, an excited expression on his face.

"Alright class, what is your meaning of a hero?" he asked.

The entire class was taken aback for a second, as the question seemingly came out of nowhere.

"Well?" their teacher asked again, seemingly eager for an answer.

Tetsutetsu energetically raised his hand, and Vlad King picked him. "A hero is someone who saves someone even when faced with danger, though the exact saving and the danger don't always have to do with villains, or anything tangible."

The class nodded along with Tetsutetsu's definition, silently approving of it. Vlad King clapped his hands and his smile stayed on, not faltering for even one second.

"The way he's smiling is kind of creepy..." Honenuki whispered to Tsunotori, who sat in front of him, and a snort escaped from her nose in acknowledgement. Monoma gave a small chuckle. He was seated two seats away but still was able to pick out the words, the fact that it was said in English making it even funnier.

"That's right! Heroes don't need to save using only their fists, and to demonstrate this..." Vlad King pulled out a flyer. "U.A has announced that it will now start a new event, the Annual Fundraiser Festival!"

"I am beyond excited for this, as you will all be given many Japanese children's hospitals and other infrastructures of that same level, and make a specific amount of yen so that it can help run the agency for a few months. I always liked donating blood, and with my quirk, and I can donate a lot more than the average person before fainting or dying of blood loss. I'm glad you all get to do something similar, even if you aren't well, almost dying in the process." Vlad King gave a nervous chuckle. "Anyways, you guys have this period to choose what you want to do. Kendo, you're in charge. Shoda, make sure to help her."

"Yes, Vlad-sensei!" the light blue haired boy called, and he stepped up to the board, Kendo already holding a white chalk in her hand.

"I'll leave you to it then. Once you have a final idea of what you want to do, I'll record it and run it by the school. If they accept, you'll use it, if not, they'll give you enough time to change your idea." And with that, their sensei left.

"Okay people! Let's get those ideas rolling!" Kendo exclaimed enthusiastically.

"How about something related to simple customer service?" Kaibara suggested.

The rest of the class agreed. "How about we dress up as villains, right? And then the person who paid would get to be the hero, and we would mock fight." Tokage added.

"Those kind of things can get too out of hand easily. Let's think of a safer idea." Kendo observed.

Awase and Tsuburaba both shared a glance, before snickering and raising their hands.

"Awase, Tsuburaba, what's your idea?"

Awase and Tsuburaba kept chuckling, but Awase managed to calm himself down enough to speak.

"Okay so, I've seen a lot of pictures of Monoma on social media lately, and a lot of girls and even guys are calling him hot, right?" he started chuckling again as Monoma turned a bit red. "S-So, let's have a kind of 'Dates For Hire' thing. Each person will pay a certain amount of money to go on a speed date with him. The more the money, the more time they get to spend together."