Beast In The Woods

Sir Cateye

"Hey, Gang!" Izuku greeted happily. He quickly walked to his mentor and the centipede man behind the front desk. "Hello! I'm Izuku." He introduced himself to the stranger. He tilted his head to the side to get a good look at the person before him and asked. "Are you one really big centipede in clothes or a person with a centipede quirk?"

Gang bopped him on the head with a slight reproach frown. "That's rude, Izuku."

The man chuckled with a slight hissing undertone and waved Gang Orca's concerns away. "My name is Centipeder and it's the latter of the two. It's very nice to meet you, young man."

Izuku rubbed where he was bopped and looked at Gang in outrage. "How was that rude!? I was just asking! It would have been rude if I asked him... I don't know, what would be rude to ask you?" He turned to the centipede man.

Centipeder stroked his chin in thought and proposed. "If I came out of an egg, possibly?" He shrugged.

Izuku paused and looked at him. "Did you?" He dodged the large bopping hand of Gang and hid behind Centipeder in a flash. He peeked out behind the man and pointed at Gang. "Mina said hitting kids is child abuse and that's illegal!"

Gang scoffed and laughed at the same time. "You're hardly a kid, pup. If that's illegal, then what happens when a kid hits another kid?" He asked knowing it would stump Izuku's lack of knowledge in that area.

True to what Gang Orca thought, the question made Izuku scrunch his nose in thought. "It's fine? Because it's like pups fighting and it's to practice hunting, right?" He looked between the two people who should know this knowledge.

Gang chuffed a laugh. "Close enough but if you do see kids fighting, make sure to break it up. We'll talk about it later. For now, we have a meeting to get to. It's nice to meet you Centipeder." He waved Izuku to follow.

"It was pleasant to make both your acquaintance as well." He bowed slightly.

Izuku scurried after Gang and waved at Centipeder. "Who are we meeting with?" Gang knocked on a door and he opened it to see a blue-skinned woman tied to a standing table in way too revealing clothes laughing uncontrollably as a well-dressed man in glasses watched on stoically. Izuku didn't know what to do other than watch on in slight discomfort at the scene before him. He tugged on his mentor's sleeve. "Hey, Gang? Is this one of those sex scandal things? Should we... do something?"

Gang looked between Izuku and the scene before them, unsure what to do himself. "I..uh... I'm kinda thirsty, why don't you ask Centipeder if he has some water for me, please?" He gently nudged the young susceptible man away from the lunacy.

Izuku nodded and trotted away as the door shut. He rounded the corner and found Centipeder sitting behind the front desk going through some paperwork. "Centipeder? Do you have some water? Gang said he was thirsty."

Centipeder looked up from the desk and tilted his head between the boy shuffling on his feet and the door where he came from. "Of course, one moment." He opened a small refrigerator and grabbed a water bottle before handing it to the young man.

"Thanks, Centi." He quickly made his way back to the door and paused. He pressed his ear to the door and heard nothing before he hesitantly opened it.

He found Gang talking to the well-dressed man while the woman recovered on a chair to the side, no longer tied to the table. Izuku took a wide birth between the man and the table to get next to Gang and give him the water. He suspiciously eyed the tall lanky man. "Thank you, Izuku. This is Sir Nighteye. Nighteye, this Izuku Kayama also known as Hunter." Gang took the water bottle and introduced the two men staring intently at each other.