The Emperor's Dragon II

Gambit

Shunin rolled his eyes as he listened to the other lawyer. He'd gotten his client off, and now the other kid's lawyer somehow expected him to do something too! Geez. The man knew how things worked. He hadn't been paid to deal with the other kid, just the spider-quirked teen.

"Look," he said sharply, cutting through the drivel he wasn't listening to. "Your client, what's his name?" Shunin asked.

"Nobasu Yubikoto," came the reply.

"Yeah him. Just play on the fact he was bullied by that Bakugou-kid and settle for a restraining order and some community service. It's not like he did any permanent damage, did he?" Shunin advised.

"He wants to get off entirely," the other lawyer complained.

"That's not going to happen," Shunin huffed. "I got that Gatarui kid off 'cos he didn't do anything. Nobasu did. Just tell him that's the best he can hope for and if he's too dumb to accept that, then walk away," he said.

Shunin shook his head. He was beginning to regret taking that case, but, while the Alliance didn't exactly have terms, when their biggest client asked for something to be done, they did it. Other law firms couldn't buy out the Alliance but- He sighed softly. He shouldn't be this annoyed. That particular client always paid well and got him cases against the HPSC... so he shouldn't be picky.

"Not all of us can walk away from a client," the other lawyer told him.

"Of course we can," Shunin objected. "It's all in how you phrase it," he advised. "Anyway, I'm not saying more on your case. You know what to do," he added before he hung up. If this had been a regular case, then it was open and shut. It wasn't and that was probably what his compatriot was struggling with.

But, it wasn't his case and it wasn't like he cared about them. He'd done his job and he hadn't heard if his client was happy but he assumed they were. They'd paid, which really, along with cases against the HPSC was all he cared about.

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Kenshin Naruhado, Principal of Shiketsu High School looked at the invitation. It was on paper and hand written. The archaic style was...

Sometimes Nezu was just too obvious with his warnings. "What do you think of it?" Kenshin asked Koi. The teacher wasn't the Vice-Principal but was someone Kenshin relied on. Koi Sasume had seen a lot in her history. She wasn't a hero and had never been one. Instead she'd been a manager and over the course of her active management career, she'd seen humanity and heroes at their best, and worst. She'd managed heroes through Lethal Force Authorisations and she'd managed them when those went wrong resulting in the deaths of civilians or, less frequently but often enough to be known of, the death of the hero.

She'd seen a lot and knew how to read the situation.

"They are taking Izuku Midoriya seriously," she said softly.

He gave her a look. That wasn't what he was looking for.

"There's a lot of messages there," she told him, slightly defensively.

He sighed and gestured for her to continue.

"They are taking Izuku Midoriya seriously. Nezu is concerned about the Commission. UA is concerned about their reputation and the public perception of heroes, especially after All Might's battle with that villain. Pick one?" She instructed.

Kenshin chuckled. "Is this a good idea?" He asked.

"Depends what we want out of it," Koi countered.

That was the question. Shiketsu, as a school, had a vested interest in ensuring that their students were prepared for the future, and that was their focus. They were not, or not meant to be, directly involved in actually fighting villains, so the request was interesting in that way. He had no objections to preparing his students to fight the next generation of villains but there seemed to be a good chance that his students would now be exposed to fighting villains and he wasn't sure what he thought of that.