Motivation - Old version

Fifteen

Two days later.

Damn. So Kazue wasn't the only one to give up his post as a class rep. Midoriya, shaking, had informed the class that Iida was a better choice after only a day on the job. Something about 'getting everyone's attention in a cool way' during the break-in of the press or something. The brunet was only slightly paying attention, meaning he did hear everything, but was just too lazy to recall it to mind.

Then everyone started complimenting Iida about... looking like the person on emergency exit signs?

Kazue was beyond confused, but assumed it had something to do with the alert during lunch. It'd probably resulted in a panic... ah. The teen in glasses had gotten everyone's attention and told them that it was just the press.

Made sense, he supposed, and Iida was likely to do better as the class rep than the rather timid Midoriya. He was assertive enough to lead, but held his classmates in high regard. All in all a good choice, and with Yaoyorozu as the deputy class rep since Kazue had abdicated...

The class was in good hands. Meaning that Kazue didn't have to worry about being in charge of anything related to everyone. If he had to do it, he would've, but it definitely would've been a pain in the ass.

His mind began to drift off with that as English class with Present Mic started. To the support course. He wondered what classes were like in that department. How different would it be from the hero course? They would have the basic classes and not have heroics, obviously, but what additional classes? Kazue knew they had labs with all sorts of top-of-the-line tech, but he wasn't satisfied with such a bland answer.

What kind of tech did they have access to, and were the students allowed to freely create things?

Maybe... maybe he could ask Hamasaki the next day at lunch. Well, that is, if she'd be there and he hadn't scared her off by also wanting to be alone. They'd both been reading Horimiya and she'd invited him to stay the first time and hadn't said anything the second, so maybe he wasn't quite overstepping?

Yeah, or Kazue was just overthinking things like he always did. Since when did he care about what others thought?

Ah, right. Since someone had found out what he read in his spare time. Embarrassing, even if Hamasaki didn't appear to care in the slightest. And if she was sitting on the roof, alone, she probably wasn't going to tell anyone.

Ugh. The whole situation had been so awkward, it'd set a new record for Kazue. He was normally so blunt and kept his face blank, but had cracked upon 'exposing' himself by accident. And it was all because...

Wait.

Not because he hadn't bothered to hide what he was reading better, rather because a certain someone told him he'd be alone. Kazue had let his guard down because Midnight had told him that. And he'd trusted her because she was a pro hero, and a teacher at that.

But with a reputation like hers, it wasn't far-fetched to think that she'd deliberately not told him. The roof wasn't exactly a place you could go without permission, and Hamasaki didn't seem like the rule-breaker type. Especially not with her comment on how using Quirks outside without a license was illegal.

The brunet made a sound of annoyance under his breath, putting his head down on his desk and staring at the white... plastic? Hard to tell. All he knew at that moment was that the most likely cause of why two students who'd wanted to be alone had ended up together.

What was the cause, exactly? A certain heroine with a questionable costume thought it would be a great way to set up two teens.

But that was just a theory, no matter how plausible it sounded thanks to all the romance manga Kazue had read over the years. Besides, even if it did turn out to be true, who gave a shit? Then it would just be a teacher too invested in the lives of her students and two students that just wanted eat their lunch and read, maybe exchange a few words here and there if necessary.