My Hero Automata

Chapter 58: Alibis and Unintended Consequences

Summary: So...who remembers chapter one, still? Also, of course certain people are suspicious...

Chapter 58: Alibis and Unintended Consequences

Izumi and Momo were utterly unsurprised to find themselves in Nedzu's office a bare three hours later. The scene at the Party, in the aftermath of the very public execution of the League of Villain's sponsor had, of course, been chaos. Confused chaos, as nobody knew what to make of it all. Every other member of the League had escaped, the rest of the students hadn't even known about the terrifying Super Villain possibly leading them, and even the staff had nothing more than suspicions about how he'd met his end. Or, for that matter, what it meant that they hadn't captured any of the other members in the raid. Many Nomu had been taken out, yes. But the way they had been used previously and the sheer number of them seen during this fight made absolutely everyone count them as disposable assets. As horrifying as that was, considering how powerful they were. Worse, they had no idea where the influx of Nomu at the bar had come from. It certainly hadn't been from the warehouse. Meaning that there was at least one more potential location out there with an unknown numbers of Nomu is use or storage.

The bare few people in the room that had known anything hadn't given away much, and the staff had broken the party up half an hour after the live news coverage of the raid. Momo and Izumi had been firmly told to stick around campus, to which they had shrugged and calmly set about going over business ledgers for Aegis, arranging for both Aegis Inc and the Yaoyorozu Group to send immediate aid to the relief camp already being built among the wrecked buildings of the Kamio Ward. Several buildings had been damaged badly enough in the fight, and even more in the fires that spread from those buildings. The result was thousands of displaced persons and damaged infrastructure, though a surprisingly low actual body count.

Then, of course, the instant that All Might had been able to return to UA, Izumi and Momo had been gathered up and taken to the dean's office. All Might, Gran Torino, Sir Nighteye and Nedzu were all there...as was detective Naomasa. That last was a tiny bit problematic, but not overly so. Momo, 2B and Izumi had known full well what they were doing, after all. Dean Nedzu was, unsurprisingly, the first to speak. His voice was jovial, though he didn't offer tea. Which was a bit telling in and of itself.

"Well! I'm sure the two of you will be glad to know that All for One has been confirmed dead this time, even if the rest of the League escaped. Curious how it happened though. Even the highest speed cameras that were watching from the news helicopter couldn't track what we assume must have been a pair of bullets. And those bullets, while they did quite a bit of impact damage to the ground behind All for One, seem to have vanished entirely! Why, it's almost like a pair of railgun rounds that could just vanish after being fired were what killed him!"

Gran Torino was the next to speak. His own voice gruffly satisfied.

"And good riddance to bad garbage. I don't give a damn who killed him. Whoever it was," shockingly he managed not to glance at the two teenagers in the room, "did us all a favor. This meeting is pointless."

Nedzu hummed, nodded...and proceeded to offer Izumi and Momo tea. They took the offer, as well as the offer of seats, internally relaxing just a little. Nedzu was annoyed, but not angry.

"Still, the police will wish to know. After all, it could have been a vigilante action. Even if it wasn't, the Hero in question will need to answer the usual questions regarding justified use of lethal force. Tell me, Miss Yaoyorozu, have any of your railguns gone missing?"

Momo shook her head, expression and voice level as she answered.

"No, dean. I can understand why you would ask. But all of them are carefully accounted for. Indeed, I make a habit of reabsorbing them when possible, and place the occasional ones that can't be so reabsorbed in a highly secured vault. I will also point out that railguns are hardly new. Anyone with a sufficiently powerful electricity or magnetism Quirk could make one work. And the plans for how to build one can be found readily on the internet. It's only ever been the power requirements that have limited the casual construction, not difficulty or sophistication of build."