Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 145: Todoroki gets relationship counseling

Aizawa was able to make the joint training thing happen the last day of the school week, because he managed to convince the Shiketsu staff that they'd all be too busy after the Convention/Party for any extra travel.

The reason seemed air tight enough.

That left a couple of days of waiting, as it was only Tuesday when he made this announcement.

Bakugo was not happy but knew that it was sooner than usual.

Shine decided to hold off on visiting Camie in person, since she'd be there, and they could observe her first, maybe get a clue as to what was going on.

Meanwhile, she and Wally did some extra research on all the top Pros, conferring with Cece, Midnight, and All Might when necessary.

Shine also talked to Miss Joke, who was going to be there too. Miss Joke suggested she come over and they get ready together on Saturday, and then they could plan more.

"While I still don't think we'll likely recruit anyone as Aizawa hopes," Shine said to the students, "it's going to look odd if we're there and don't know any of the Pro Heroes-- though Dabi thought that would be funny, but standing out is just what we don't want."

"I think you will anyway," Kaminari said, "You're both so tall for regular people."

They snorted.

"Not in America," Wally said.

Shine also conferred with Rumi about it when she checked in.

"Figures you'd be there," Rumi said, "Nowhere is safe."

Compress snorted a laugh at that notion.

"Ugh, I can't imagine hanging around so many heroes on purpose." Silk curled her lip.

"Oh, I intend to have fun with it," Shine said, "I'm sure I can manage to piss off a few of them without causing too much of a scene. Miss Joke advised me to stay away from Best Jeanist though. She said he'll latch onto me like a piranha if I mention where I work."

"Oh, I hate that guy." Rumi made a face. "But if you did talk to him, I have to say, the whole evening would be worth it for me... I hope there's actually serious discussion going on around the party. I hate parties."

"Why? Because you can't beat someone up?" Medea said snarkily.

"No, that's just a side annoyance," Rumi said, "I hate everyone pretending like they know and care about you while they're just using you to make themselves look good."

Shine nodded. "Legitimate reason... I won't have to worry about that. Being unimportant is so refreshing."

"All things considered," Shigaraki spoke for the first time, "aren't you more important than the Pros?"

Shine tilted her head. "That's very nice of you to say, but no one is really more or less important than anyone else."

"That's BS, Lisktar." Shigaraki scoffed.

"Okay, okay, so in world affairs, yes, there's a difference," Shine allowed, "but I really do so much less there than you might think."

Rumi scrutinized her oddly. "What's that thing you still haven't told me?"

"Oh...Let them explain." Shine gestured to the League. "They haven't gotten to yet. I'm not sure when Dabi even told you."

"Well, partly he said stuff, and you said stuff," Compress said, "but it's kind of obvious. You have no legal records, your powers aren't a quirk, you're weird and know weird things... It makes sense. And I happen to know a bit about Tesseracts from reading about Sci-fi."