Canary's In a Coalmine

6

1-A learns first hand how little the truce between the ADA and the Port Mafia actually means.
(Cut me some slack, this is all from memory of the episode 🙏
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They'd stopped in front of an alleyway, two buildings separating a small entrance that then curled into a much bigger space behind, the brick backs of the buildings on the other side of the street enclosing the area.

Tanizaki looked around, squinting up at the tops of the buildings while Atsushi looked at their surroundings, for what could've been anyone's guess. "This place gives me the creeps..." Atsushi muttered.

Midoriya pushed his way to the front of the group of students, apologizing quickly to Mina and Hagakure when he'd bumped into them. He cleared his throat, reaching out to maybe grab the white haired boys shoulder, but thought better of it at the last moment and pulled away, dropping his arm back to his side. "Excuse me-" Both ADA members turned sharply, making him pause. "Uhm... Well, what is it that you're looking for? Maybe we can help- besides, it doesn't really look like there's much around here..." He trailed off, following where Tanizaki was pointing up at the top of one of the buildings.

"Wouldn't be so sure," Tanizaki glanced back, rolling his eyes when he saw the boy squinting, "security cameras, genius. Nothing too bad, they belong to the law firm next door, but still, we've got to keep our surroundings aware." A red flush painted the boys cheeks and ears. He ducked his head in a partial bow before he backed up into the group. Atsushi watched him retreat, only turning to Tanizaki when he was sure the boy was comfortably out of sight. "He just wanted to help."

Tanizaki rolled his eyes, suddenly no longer in the mood for this whole 'tour' whilst on the job. "Well, they want to learn how we work they need to first know the basics. Which is stay the hell out of our way if they aren't fully aware of every factor in the situation." He was being rude, and he knew it, but he couldn't help himself. Who did these people think they were? Coming into their☄️ city and trying to do their jobs for them, like they knew better. It pissed him off and he knew, he knew🧚‍♀️ he shouldn't be taking it out on the kids, who just wanted to help, but he couldn't seem to remember that until after he'd already scared one off. Hell, they didn't even know who he was, he had been downstairs when they'd done their introductions preparing the rest of the staff who hadn't been debriefed on the situation before hand—he's not sure why but he was a little annoyed by it—and had gotten completely passed by when the president had taken the outsiders out of the building to see them to their housing for the month they were planned to stay.

Atsushi just gave him a worried look, pursing his lips before letting it go, turning back around with a placating half smile on his face. "Sorry, don't mind him."

The students looked wary at the slight outburst they'd just witnessed but no one said anything, the girl he'd spoken to before, Yaourozu, just gave him a smile in return and nodded appreciatively.

Atsushi glanced around, eyes zeroing in on a head of brown hair positioned to the groups right. "Miss?"

The woman looked up, her attention previously being focused on a phone clutched in her hands before she nodded the go ahead for him to continue. "Hina, Hina Yamamoto."

"Right, Miss Yamamoto, you said this was where you witnessed the smugglers run off to after stealing a case of investments from your company?" Atsushi asked, running over the bullet points in his head. It was an odd place to be if you were to think like a smuggler. The alley was closed off, only one way in and out, and the walls were high enough and far enough apart it'd be difficult to scale without some form of ability, and the significant lack of foot holders and things to use to haul yourself up along the walls, even distended bricks, was mildly concerning.