Episode 7: The Iron Masks

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About a week after the exam (Y/N) got a strangely lumpy letter with a UA wax seal on the back. He found it confusing how they didn't send an email. When he opened it he got even more confused. A metallic disc fell onto his desk.

A hologram of All Might jumps out of the disk. "I AM HERE AS A PROJECTION!" He coughs for a moment. "Oof... I need to give the old vocal cords a rest... Hello young Kabuto! The guys behind the camera are getting a little sick of my antics so I have to make this fast! The good news is, that you passed the written exam with flying colors! The bad news is... your villain score was not high enough."

(Y/N) gripped his knees and bit his lower lip. Dammit, he got that far and couldn't even get in the front door. If he hadn't wasted time with the Kikaiju he would've made it in now it was all for nothing.

"However. There are other factors to take into account!" (Y/N)'s head darts up. All Might presses a button and shows some recordings of the Kikaiju attack. It showed Ashido, The tail kid, and various other examinees carrying people away. "You've grown quite a bit since we last met young Kabuto. Your heroic actions spurred others to act! Whether your intentions were self-centered or not." (Y/N) gripped his knee. "You handled a creature normally on the level of a pro and an experienced one at that. But with your Machine, you kept it away from the other examinees whether it was a real Kikaiju or not. And, the exam was not graded on villain points alone!" (Y/N)'s eyes widened. "The hero course measures one's ability to put their life on the line! To do the right thing! How could we fail someone with the real heart of a hero... So we award truly heroic acts with rescue points! While your villain score wasn't high enough... You went above and beyond for the safety of your fellow heroes!" All Might presses the button again. "(Y/N) Kabuto... 70 rescue points!!"

(Y/N)'s jaw drops. "You still have a lot to learn, but you're in the right place for it!" All Might raises a fist. "Welcome young Kabuto, to your hero academia!"

About two days later (Y/N) didn't quite know how he found himself here. He was doing what he normally did early in the morning, which was designing new machines or studying. But something out of the ordinary happened and it was something he couldn't really say no to that and he needed a break.

Ashido wanted to go shopping for school supplies or at least that's what she said they were doing. They had spent about an hour looking at clothes. They went in for a school uniform but Ashido got distracted and an hour before that they had gotten distracted looking at art supplies.

He tried to get Ashido to move on but after the first half hour, he had given in. Not like he could speak out from behind the ever-growing pile of clothes.

(Y/N) sat with his knee bouncing up and down outside a changing room. "Ashido! Can we move on, please!? We still haven't gotten our uniforms and it's been four hours!"

"There's just a few more skirts try on don't be a baby!" Ashido called from behind a curtain. (Y/N) awkwardly waved at a woman passing by.

"You said that an hour ago... Why can't Kirishima do this?"

"He was busy with his part-time job!"

"Right..." (Y/N) goes around a corner, pulls out his phone and calls Kirishima. It took about three seconds for him to pick up.

"Yo."

"Hey, pal did Ashido ask you to go shopping with her?"

"Uh, yeah, I have a part-time job." Kirishima's hands start to sweat a little on his game controller.

"Ooh right, fair enough." Kirishima breathes a quiet sigh of relief. "What's the job?"

"I work the cashier."

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