SSD IV: Shinsou

95. Worst

Posting a chapter, slip my mind? Never. You must be thinking of a different author.

Friendly reminder that these aren't beta-read and I can only do so well at editing so any sentences that don't make sense or spelling/grammar mistakes, please point them all out, I will be so grateful!

'I don't know what to tell you, these guys are pretty dang awesome and I mean crazy like these guys destroyed everything about themselves online all I can find are gaps where stuff should be and I can't recover any of it it's insane'

When Silver asked Lucy to look into Shinsou's parents, she was expecting some painfully boring information on two people who couldn't afford to take care of the kid they'd had, worst case scenario was they gave him away because of his quirk but she had her fingers crossed it was the money thing. This was not painfully boring. This was curious and worrying.

'But you know me I'm a fabulously beautiful cockroach nothing will stop me so feel free to lay on the praise I so totally deserve for what I found after days surfing every inch of the internet'

It shouldn't have been that hard.

'Just don't do anything stupid, k'

Lucy shouldn't have been worried about how she was going to react.

'Alrighty pictures attached will tell all you know what to do if you need anything more'

Silver skipped out the hundred odd emojis spanning the rest of the email, instead opening up the first picture.

It seemed to be out of a newspaper, an old newspaper, dated twenty years ago. The caption described a successful test of an exceptional device, one Silver knew was still used in a huge number of support items even twenty years later. And yet, Silver didn't recognise the faces in the picture, nor the names in the caption below as being connected to their invention. It should've been a simple thing to search up the names and find what they'd built, instead, there was nothing. No information anywhere on them.

It didn't make any sense. Someone had turned these people into ghosts.

It wasn't hard to guess which of them were Hitoshi's birth parents. They were both tall, standing so close their arms could wrap around one another, their invention taking centre stage, bright smiles on their faces. Shinseki Shikou (as the caption below named him) had deep bags under his eyes, hair almost exactly the same as his son's, but he was much broader, strongly built and he was wearing dark gloves. Shinseki Aiko, standing beside her husband, was more lanky, delicate and slim, Hitoshi got that from his mother.

'Some ancient newspaper digitised all their archives that's where I found it'

Clearly, somewhere along the lines, Hitoshi's family name had been altered slightly, enough not to be recognised as the same as his parents'. It was all so strange.

There were only two reasons why all online information about a person was deleted. Either Hitoshi's parents wanted to disappear which likely meant they were in danger, or someone wanted to disappear them, which carried the same weight.

Of course, this could just be the way Silver's mind worked, there could be another perfectly reasonable explanation for it. Maybe they had all the money they wanted from their life creating the things that saved lives every day and decided to retreat to some quiet place in the country where they could live out their days in peaceful silence, she wouldn't blame them for wanting to avoid civilisation, people could be annoying. As for leaving their son behind, she couldn't think of any good reasons, but she wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt. Their son was a good person, an amazing person, she wanted them to be too.