Stuck Between Realities-Remastered

Part 15~Inspiration

Izuku grumbled as he glared at his arm, which was tied to his body and wrapped in white cloth.

"Stop looking at it like you're about to chew it off," Hitoshi ordered, looking ready to slap Izuku.

Izuku huffed. "You don't understand, it's itchy."

Shinso chuckled. "No, I do understand; I listened to you complain for two days." Hitoshi laughed as Izuku stuck out his tongue.

"Everyone! Morning homeroom's about to begin. To your seats," Iida screamed, waving his arm around.

"We're already sat down. You're the only one standing," Izuku scoffed with a grin.

"Morning," Aizawa interrupted as the class went quiet.

"You're back already, Aizawa-sensei?" The class stared at Aizawa in shock. Izuku laughed, and Hitoshi lowered his head embarrassedly.

"He was meant to be in bed," Hitoshi grumbled, glaring at his dad.

"Glad to see you doing well, Sensei," Iida shouted as Uraraka looked at the thousand bandages keeping Aizawa in one piece.

"If you can call that 'doing well'."

"My welfare isn't important because your fight is far from over." Aizawa looked across the class as they held their breath. "The UA sports festival is fast approaching."

Izuku laughed as the class stared in shock.

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"The one called Shigaraki, his Quirk allows him to disintegrate anything he touches. We've been through the list of men in their twenties and thirties in the Quirk registry with no luck. Nothing turned up for the warp gate user, Kurogiri, either. Neither is registered, and both are using aliases; their Quirks aren't on record, making them members of the underground world," Tsukauchi finished his report while the other teachers looked deep in thought.

"So you're saying we know next to nothing. I reckon we oughta learn fast, or the leader of those vermines, Shigaraki, his wound will heal, and he'll be back again," Snipe grumbled as the room stayed quiet.

"Well, we don't know nothing," a voice interrupted, coming from the laptop next to Nezu. "We know he destroyed a house they tried to blame on me. Never mind, I wasn't even born yet!"

"Charlie," a new voice from the computer, Kakashi, snapped. This one was male and was more mature. "Focusing on the more important part of that, Shigaraki's Quirk appears to be the same one that destroyed the house, but we have no idea what the relation is between the two events."

"From the pictures you sent us, the guy doesn't look that much like the photos they recovered, and no one in the house had the Quirk we're disguising, so there isn't much useful info from that either."

All Might frowned as Nezu tilted his head. "What is it, All Might?"

"It's just that nothing about this feels normal. It was an especially daring attack, and not just in the meticulous planning. He started going on about some ridiculous ideology. And although he didn't say anything about his own Quirk, he was shooting his mouth off, bragging about that guy Nomu's Quirk. And when things didn't go his way? He started throwing a tantrum."

Charlie scoffed. "Sounds like a baby."

She was ignored. "Well, I guess the business about Quirks was meant to provoke me. Even so, it seems especially foolish in a battle against heroes to reveal one's Quirks and waste the element of surprise. Shouting a pleasurable yet diluted ideology. Bragging about the toy he brought alone. And simple-minded, thinking everything would go his way. If we think about how the attack was carried out, it seems that this Shigaraki character couldn't quite hide his childish nature. That sense that he does whatever he wants."