Summary: Izumi's internship is interrupted by the machinations of the League of Villains. Also, she' fairly certain Ryukyu is Extremely Evil.
Chapter 29: Chaos
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Izumi was very uncertain how she felt about patrolling. To be fair, it was only her second patrol ever, so that was probably at least a little bit understandable. Also, Ryukyu was extremely evil, despite supposedly being a heroine. Izumi knew this, because the Dragon Hero had made Izumi patrol both times with Nejire-chan. Izumi liked Nejire, despite the cyan-haired twenty-year-old being an extrovert's extrovert, capable of putting Momo's most extroverted bouncy-mode to shame. Patrolling with her senpai, however, was akin to a foretaste of hell.
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Okay. That was probably an exaggeration. But not much of one! Nejire-chan was popular and recognizable. She was also the exact sort of person who not only could but would stop to take to a lamppost, only for said lamppost to spontaneously gain sentience, and a Quirk that let it speak, just so it could talk back. All just so that Nejire didn't feel bad about not getting an answer. That the lamppost would have an existential crisis that Nejire would help it through afterward, was also highly likely. Which probably made it a good thing that Nejire-chan hadn't talked to any of them...yet. The lack of sentient lampposts didn't change the fact that the two of them couldn't go more than a single city block, sometimes not even that far, without talking to someone. A street vendor, a curious child, a fan, a perverted old man that seemed to actually feel bad about staring at Nejire's amazing boobs but clearly couldn't help himself.
It totally should have been fine. Fantastic even. Izumi was quite skilled at using gorgeous extroverts as public shields.
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EXCEPT THAT RYUKYU IS EXTREMELY EVIL!
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Izumi tried not to grimace, retreating to her mental happy place of thinking about Momo's momos, as she finally managed to disengage with another well-wisher that had recognized her from the public broadcast of the Heroics Tournament. Ryukyu, in what was sure to be some sort of act of extreme villainy, had decided that the best way to help Izumi with the public-interaction parts of heroics was to throw her into Nejire's lovely-but-possibly-unholy arms. Nejire-chan had actual orders to bring people's attention to Izumi and make sure Izumi interacted with everyone that stopped them! It was exhausting, despite all the tips Ryukyu had given her!
All of which meant that Izumi didn't exactly know how to feel about patrolling. Being able to go out in her Hero Outfit, which was admittedly just a little embarrassing on its own, felt great. Being recognized even felt good too! But all the interaction was killing her, at least on the inside, and there wasn't even anyone to take it out on! After all, the area around any Top 10 hero's agency wasn't exactly a great place to commit crime! Honestly, the fact that 2B was actually being supportive, rather than cackling at Izumi's misery, said a lot. While her partner often tried to get her to be more sociable, even 2B understood that this was a creative form of torture for an introvert. So much so that she'd actually helped Izumi split off an entirely different mental thread of thought and was calmly talking Quirk and invention ideas with Izumi via that parallel thought thread, in an effort to help keep her from having some sort of meltdown. Seriously, 2B was the best. Also, Ryukyu was evil. That really needed to be a better known fact. Even if Izumi reluctantly admitted she was also awesome. Apparently, it was possible to both extremely evil and awesome. Who knew?
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