My Hero Automata

Chapter 59: Work Studies

Summary: Work studies are announced...and super move training!

Chapter 59: Work Studies

The click of Midnight's heels, when she was in full strut, was quite a distinctive sound. Most couldn't have picked it up out of the background chatter of the classroom, but there were three members of Group A who both could and did. Izumi, Jirou, and Shoji all stirred as the sound, glanced at each other, then nodded as Jirou let used her jacks to project a tiny series of pops into the air. That got the attention of the rest of the class and she gestured a warning at the door, causing everyone to scramble for their seats. The last of them, Kaminari this time, got situated not a moment too soon, as Midnight burst through the door wearing an excited grin and swaying in a way that made even the straight women in the room follow her with half-hypnotized eyes.

"Good morning, Minions~! We've got a special treat today!"

Everyone blinked as it finally registered that Midnight had someone with her...an older student who looked half dead in her grip. Izumi instantly recognized him as the shy member of the Big 3, though only Jirou and Momo among the others did the same, as they'd all met him during the Water Terrain Training Camp. Midnight was holding him by the scruff of the neck and, thankfully for poor Amajiki, a cheerful Nejire and widely grinning Togata trailed in after the pair. Mirio caught his best friend when Midnight dropped him to stand in her favorite hip-cocked pose, addressing the class.

"We have a special session today! While the rest of your theoreticals this week will start catching you up on things we skipped over to prep you for your provisional licenses...today is for revealing what you can do now that you have those licenses!"

Needless to say, she had everyone's attention at the mention of their provisional licenses, even if most of the Group was clearly still bewildered by the presence of the Big 3. Unlike most of them, Izumi, with her encyclopedic knowledge of everything UA, instantly saw where this was going.

"Work studies!"

Midnight's grin broadened as her riding crop snapped up to point at Izumi.

"Correct! As most of you should know since it's a major part of every Hero Academy, once you achieve your Provisional Heroics License, you are theoretically eligible to spend a portion of your time at a Hero Agency, directly learning the ropes as an apprentice of sorts."

Her riding crop had come back down and she stilled with a mischievous smile, just waiting for someone to ask the obvious follow up. This time, Asui managed to get a one-word question out before Kaminari could put his usual foot in it.

"Theoretically?"

Might nodded, grinned, and produce the projector remote. It powered up, displaying a simple breakdown of the usual class schedule on the wall. Three days a week of Heroics, both theoretical and Practical. With two days a week of more regular classes. The weekends were shaded as extensions of the regular classes, as some people did choose to cram more in by taking advantage of the highly-flexible UA education model to attend some classes over the weekends.

"Under ordinary conditions, First Years rarely have Work Studies. That, unfortunately for the less academically inclined among you, isn't purely due to them not being ready for the license exams. The First Year is, after all, also the most intense for your other Heroics classes, such as Heroics Law or Heroics Ethics. Many of your theoretical classes are knocked out in Year 1, specifically in order to free up time for Work Studies in your later years. After all, while Work Studies is considered able to take the place of a certain number of hours for your Theoretical Heroics and Practical Heroics classes, the same isn't true for any other class. As seventy five percent of you also take classes in other departments, whose material you'll need to cover regardless of Work Studies...things get complicated."