Mystery from Another World

Part 56: UA has to adjust

Shine thought after her comments, the Bakugos would leave, didn't most people exit this situation?

However, Mitsuki seemed to take that as an invitation to keep discussing her son.

"Well, I do think it was partially the schools that made him get such a big head."

It was surprising to Shine that Bakugo did nothing to interrupt or contradict this, just stared at the ground.

"I guess he's always been at the top, then." She couldn't resist this chance to learn more about Bakugo, since he never talked about his past, though she knew he'd hate it.

"Always, ever since he got that stupid, awesome quirk," Mitsuki said, waving dramatically like she was exasperated, "Never could convince him to simmer down, no matter how much we told him he's not that big a hot shot."

"I see your method is a bit unorthodox," Shine said.

"What? Isn't it normal to raise your kid that way? Lots of discipline." Mitsuki flexed her arm proudly. "But Katsuki's always been too hard to manage even so. Unwilling to admit his own weakness."

"I see," Shine said. 

"I guess we could have done better..." Masuru tried to divert the conversation.

"Oh, I don't know. If he wasn't so d--- weak, he never would have been kidnapped by that league. I just didn't want him to be a little b---" Mitsuki said quite casually, like it was a completely normal statement.

Shine hadn't been going to provoke her further (for Katsuki's sake), but that last part made her head snap up. "What did you just say?" Her tone was straight up dangerous now, not that sly one from before.

"I didn't want him to be a--" began Mitsuki

"No, before that, about being kidnapped."

"Uh, that is was because he was so weak. Yeah, I told him that when it happened too," Mitsuki said.

"You did?" Shine's shock was not concealed in the least.

Bakugo had told her himself, but the shock was that his mother would admit such poor parenting without any shame.

"Yeah... so?" Mitsuki slowly realized this reaction was bit more explosive than the UA staff's had been.

Bakugo glanced up at Shine because he knew that tone. "Don't," he said in a low voice.

"Don't you tell me what to do, Katsuki." Shine warned.

"Is something wrong?" Masuru said.

"Yes... something is wrong with you." Shine was furious. "How could you say something like that to your son, after such a traumatic experience, too?"

"Traumatic? He's fine," Mitsuki said, "That's why I said it. He never takes anything seriously because he thinks he's invincible."

"Do you even know your own child?" Shine was too angry to be tactful. "That's the complete opposite of the truth. That incident bothered him a lot."

"He--" began Bakugo.

"You shut up," Shine said to him.

Bakugo didn't want to get it in front of his parents, so he shut up... to their amazement.

"He doesn't think he's invincible," Shine said, "but he does think he should be. I think that's because of you. What kind of mother tells her son he's weak after getting kidnapped by freaking villains? You do realize they outnumbered him, right? And they're killers. Do you want him to think he should try to attack them if they show up again? Are you crazy?"