The Shadow Monarch Izuku Midoriya

Ch 41: Red Gate Part 1

"Talk"

'Thought'

[System]

Izuku ended the call. At first, Ahn Sangmin  happily agreed to his request. Thank to that, Izuku would be able to see how Howaitotaiga trained their new recruits in a Raid.

Yoo Jin had helped him out with that even on his busy day. The young man had told him that he could only vacate wherever he came from for a brief moment and apologized. Izuku thought the young man's attitude was rather mature compared how he had acted in the past.

Anyways, Izuku was ready. He was currently in front of the residence of the trouble student that Izumi's teacher had asked him to convince.

It was about a two minute walk. Izuku probably could've hit it with a rock from his own room. He took a look around the neighborhood. It was a small neighborhood filled with worn down buildings. He was able to roughly gather that, like his own family, she probably did not grow up that well. He understand why she wanted to be a Hunting Hero. It reminded him of his past.

He himself had gotten hurt many times before. The E-rank Hero even teetered between life and death few times. If it wasn't for his mother's rare illness, he would've never started the job. For an E-rank Hero, the Dungeon was that much of a dangerous place. If he did nothing, she would surely come to regret her decision. Forget regret, she might even lose her life.

After all, dozens of Heroes died everyday across the world. Izuku did not care about any of them; it was their decision.

The person this time around was not a complete stranger. If she was, Izuku would've ignored the teachers request, even if it was Izumi's classmate. But the young girl's name was familiar to Izuku. He felt a presence approaching; looking up, it was the problem student. Seeing her face, Izuku confirmed it was indeed the same girl.

The student noticed Izuku and tilted her head, "Who are you, why are you here?"

The girl didn't recognized him, mostly because of his haircut... But Izuku recognized her, 'Sigh... it's a really a small world after all.'

Izuku scratched the side of his head.

A female highschool student who wanted to be a Hunter. She was the sole female member of Yoo Jin's raiding party; the one whose age concerned Izuku in the beginning, 'Song Yi.'

When he heard her name from Izumi's teacher, Izuku was sure it was her. Just in case, he asked for her records. The day that she stopped coming to school was the day he started raiding with Yoo Jin's team. Once he realized this, Izuku realized all this might've been partially his fault, so he decided to take responsibility. The circumstances of their raiding party were special, and he did not want to mislead the girl into thinking that what she earned with them would be the norm going forward. After all, she had earned 2.8 million won in the past week; that was an unthinkable amount for a kid still in 7th grade.

If he heard in the future that she died in a Dungeon, he knew it would be a thorn in his heart. And so, he decided to take the time today to convince her. It wouldn't be that difficult.

Song asked, "So why are you here?"

Izuku said, "You don't recognize me? I'm the other guy that hunts with the raid leader."

Song Yi stared at Izuku with wide open eyes. She looked a little hesitant, "No way, the Hero that the teacher wanted to introduce me to was you? I don't know what the teacher told you, but I'm not interested in school anymore. I don't plan on giving up the Hunter life."