Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 60: Dabi's first chance

The day after those two rather difficult visits, the semester was coming to a break for the holidays. The UA hero course only got 1 day actually off for it, but the other courses were going to be off.

Shine and Wally both complained about the short break-- but not much. It wasn't like the students felt they could take a whole two weeks off. As it was, Nezu was miffed at them for what had happened with the parents... Though Mrs. Iida had not named names, he could guess. But without proof, there wasn't much he could do, and Iida was too embarrassed by what happened to report it to him. Still, he was rather cold to the DJs when he passed them in the hall.

They didn't care much.

But perhaps the atmosphere around the school was too chilly for Shine after those incidents, because she told their little group that she thought an outing would be a good idea.

"For more of what we talked about." She nodded at Momo. "I want you guys to understand... and it's occurred to me, the only way for that to happen is to show you what we see around here."

Todoroki lacked context, but he was all for more information. "What do you want to do? Is it more training?"

"It won't be training like you're used to," Shine said vaguely, "Of course, getting Aizawa to agree will be the hard part."

But it surprisingly wasn't. Wally told him it was for Christmas stuff, and Aizawa didn't even ask questions about it. He had come to accept that the DJs could handle situations.

Wally wasn't going to come, though, because someone needed to stay with the other students.

"And besides, we've got to decorate the dorms, and you all don't have the time to do it unless I help," he said.

The actual celebration was the following day, but they had to start early.

"It should be fine with just us," Shine told the three, "I can get us places, and if we did run into any mild trouble, I'm sure you could handle it just fine."

"I thought you didn't like us doing that," Todoroki said.

 Shine shrugged. "It's unfair expectations that grind me, but I'm not taking you to fight villains-- that would be ridiculous. I'm just concerned about the occasional street thug."

"That's nothing," Bakugo scoffed, "They're more afraid of us."

"Probably," Shine allowed.

Momo didn't really want to fight a thug anyway, so she hoped nothing happened, but where was Shine taking them that they needed to worry about that? Then again, anywhere in the city could have criminals these days

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But none of them could have even conceived of where Shine actually had in mind. It was the same place Dabi had showed her... and she didn't even know how to get there by train, so she had to portal.

"Where is this?" Todoroki took one look at the neighborhood (if you could call it that) and thought it looked most like where he'd encountered Stain. 

"Hell," Shine said, to Bakugo's amusement/annoyance, "or to be more accurate, something a lot like it for many people... A friend of mine brought me here. I haven't been able to forget about it since... I thought you all should see it."

"See what? It looks like a dump, probably with rats." Bakugo eyed one street where he was sure he saw... human waste at the corners.

"Why did you bring all that?" Momo pointed to a large bag Shine had lugged along with them.