Mystery from Another World

Part 75: Disaster!

[OP: "Vertigo"-- Alice Merton]

There was peace for one whole day after that. The UA students were prepping for Winter Midterms, and they couldn't believe it was already almost February.

The three "secret club" students, and Camie, who was still doing her suspension this week, all worried about the war.

It was killing Momo not to be able to talk about it to the other girls, and she didn't find Camie a very easy person to confide in. They were too different personality-wise to really understand how to buoy each other up.

Perhaps that was what drove her to spend more time with Shoto. It had kind of just started happening over the semester with all the side quests they'd been doing with the DJs, but now he just acted as if it was expected.

Shoto was a simple guy, he thought they were friends and friends hung out if they felt like it. He didn't notice that he felt like it a lot more often with her than with the guys.

But part of it was probably that Momo knew everything, and they didn't. There was not as much fun having out with Iida and Midoriya when he had to hide things, even if he was doing it to protect them.

He was now more convinced Shine had been right to exclude Deku. It wasn't that he really did anything, it was that once Shoto was looking for it, he saw how eager to please he was. The idea of disappointing All Might would crush him.

Shoto was dealing with it a lot better than he thought he would, actually. He slowly had accepted that the others had a point about All Might not being the definitive standard on heroes anymore.

Camie and Bakugo kept hanging out, though Bakugo was still acting a little weird, but he was getting over it since nothing else had happened. Though... Camie didn't exactly help since she said borderline flirty things to him on a daily basis. Sometimes hourly.

 Bakugo figured it was a joke and tried to ignore it.

The day of the actual midterms, something happened that made Aizawa call them off. Shine and Wally were summoned to his office and he was the most grave they'd ever seen him.

"What's wrong?" Wally was alarmed at once.

"Shirakumo is gone," Aizawa said.

"Gone?" Shine said. "Did he die?"

She had been sure what they did was permanent.

"I don't know," Aizawa was grey. "He's disappeared from the prison."

"He... what?" Wally sat down. "How? I thought he was... okay now."

"He was, they moved him to a less secure cell because he was making no attempt to resist anymore. They kept him still restrained, but his quirk wasn't spiking." Aizawa put his hands to his temples. "They said it happened suddenly. He was acting normal, then he began to yell that his quirk was going out of control. Then he warped away. He shouldn't have been able to do it, but it looked as if that restraint shut down briefly. They think it was a lingering effect of the power surge we caused."

"But that wasn't really a power surge," Shine said. "And EMP-ing that one room shouldn't have affected a totally different section of the prison."

"I know," Aizawa said sharply, but then he sighed. "So I think it was something else. No one but me knows you two are behind his recovery."

Shine got a weird lok. "Um... no, there are other people who know."

"The students? I don't think they're behind this."

"Uh...no, there might be someone else," Wally said.

Aizawa looked up at them with anger now. "You told the LOV?"