The Main Character - MHA AU

Chapter 9 - Conflicting Matters

I marched into the faculty room. I couldn't even begin to describe what I felt right now between trying to deal with my anger, fear and confusion.

Numerous stares are sent my way, including Aizawa who lazily glared at me within the safety of his sleeping bag.

Nezu himself was making a cup of tea smiling at me.

"How come I wasn't told about Neito Monoma?" This was serious. Nezu should have known immediately about the connection between our quirks.

The staff looked around confused, Vlad King, the 1-B teacher, stepped forward, arms crossed in an intimidating attempt.

"Asui just told me about his quirk and said he called it 'side character'." Hah? Had they not made the connection? It's two dots, connect them and its so obvious they start to create a full picture.

Nezu handed me a file, why he had the exact student I'd asked about's file ready was beyond me. Good iq, I guess.

Neito Monoma, quirk: copy. What? Did Asui lie to me?

"You said Asui gave you this information?" Queried Aizawa. I nodded. There was mo mistaking it.

"Did she tell you the requirements of his quirk?" Thinking back... "Yes, she said he needed to touch someone to copy their quirk."

Nezu speaks up, "he was also a late bloomer," Alright. We're getting somewhere.

"I'm gonna go speak to him," I needed answers and I'm probably not gonna get them here "wait, would you need us?"

"Don't you have cameras?" I wasn't asking, it was a fact. They literally have like 50 cameras per hallway.

"Wait until lunch is over, Vlad will send him to my office and we can interrogate him together." That works, but interrogate? Nezu's personality keeps on getting better.

Satisfied with his suggestion, I give my apologies/thanks to the teachers I'd interrupted, turned around and headed back to class, there was only three minutes left anyway. The rest of the students start entering and Aizawa entered last.

So many unqualified teachers....

Aizawa nodded at me and pointed to Nezu's offices. I took it as my signal to leave and so I left. I knock and we repeat our greeting, I take a seat and Monoma enters a minute later.

He looks nervous. Or, y'know. That or just obnoxiously sweaty.

"Monoma, Izuku Midoriya has a few questions for you of high importance. Answer truthfully or else you'll be facing expulsion and punishment for lying about your quirk." Man, even I gulped. Poor guy must be peeing himself by now.

Not wasting any time, I began.

"Full name?" He looked at me "Neito Monoma."
"Quirk?" He hesitated. "...Side Character." Okay, at least he's being honest.
"When and how did you obtain it?" He was visibly shaking at this point, but obliged. "I thought I was quirkless and after years of torment I jumped off of my middle school roof, I woke up and discovered I was alive and had a quirk."

Yeah, I wonder if there are other side characters like us.

"What can it do?" "Copy quirks of anyone I touch. Currently I can copy 4 at once."

"Okay, thanks for being honest with me," you could literally see relief spilling out of him.

"Why'd you need to know?" My light smile grows into a grin, eyes turning serious.

"I'm the main character,"

...

"You're the main character?!" He was speechless, mouth open with words hanging onto the edge of his tongue, seemingly not making any noise.

"Yeah, do you know if there are any other side characters?"

"No, sorry. All I know is there's a main character, side characters and extras. Oh, and the antagonists." Oh okay. Wait, antagonists?

"Assuming you have a voice in your head as well, mine gave me this information."

I slam my fist onto the desk lightly and silently cry.

Why are you so damn unreliable, S!

We'll argue later. There were bigger things at hand.

"What can you do as the main character? I always wanted to meet you. I've seen your achievements, any player can." Haah?! What? Too many surprises. What if they think I'm a loser for progressing so slowly?!

I take a deep breath and bite my tongue for now. "That's a secret~" I'd probably tell him someday, just not yet. Looking at the clock third period would be coming to an end soon, and I had heroics next.

"Alright, that's all I needed to know. Thanks again, principal Nezu. Call me if you need me."

"Okay thank you, Izuku. Monoma you can also return to class," I take my leave and head to class. I was not ready for the effort I knew I'd have to put in for heroics class. I was complete and utterly dreading it, especially since All Might was teaching us so I'd have to end the day with a headache.

All Might walks in, but Aizawa stays as well.

"Today we have an announcement, you'll be going on a school trip tomorrow to one of our training facilities instead. We already have permission from your parents."

"What will we be doing?" Some kid yelled from the back near me.

"We'll be doing rescue training." And with that, something inside my body started to sense something wrong, like something bad might happen but I just don't know what or why...

Oh well. As long as the preparation lesson keeps us from doing combat again I'm happy.