•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 147: Elementary, my dear Blasty (World Heroes' Mission AU)

'I guess sleeping together was a good idea after all...'

I rested my head against my hand, leaning over my desk. 

My head was a fuzz all of this morning, thinking back to last night where Katsuki's nightmares had begun acting up again.

'For someone who doesn't like to show it, he really cares about his friends...'

"Shoto!" Clair called as she ran to the boy's cubicle. "I got the report back from a detective friend of mine."

Hearing that, I kicked against the floor and glided over on my office rolling chair.

"How is it?" Icyhot asked, getting up from his seat.

"The car you saw which was attacked by a quirk was carrying a member of Humarise." Clair read from the report.

Me and Shoto shared the same shocked expression.

"Humarise? Where is he now?" he asked.

Clair grimaced, "he's in a coma in the hospital's ICU, guarded by the police."

"So we can't touch him, huh," I sigh.

"There's also one more thing," Clair said while tapping away at her phone before holding it up for us to see.

"It looks like the stolen jewelry was all over the scene," sure enough, on her phone were pictures of the gems scattered haphazardly on the ground, like someone had thrown the briefcase.

"It can't be..." Shoto muttered.

"Then," I stood up, "What was the guy that Midoriya chased holding?"

Then, Shoto's phone chimed.

"It's a message from Midoriya," he said, opening the notification.

Clair and I peek over his shoulder at it's contents.

"Keep eating lunch with strawberries and make sure you eat the dinner in the fridge too," Shoto read out.

"He's telling us to eat strawberries?" Shoto sounded confused.

"It's probably a coded message," I surmise and Clair nods.

"Is that so...?" Shoto mumbles before pulling the phone closer.

Keep eating

lunch with strawberries

and make sure 

you eat the

dinner in the fridge too.

'By reading the first letter of each line-!'

"Kl-ayd?" Shoto reads out.

"Klayd," Clair repeats, "He means the neighboring country of Klayd right?"

"Midoriya's headed there," Icyhot deduces.

"If he's in Klayd, it means he's out of Otheon jurisdiction right?" I look over at Shoto.

"I'm going to Klayd," Shoto declares and I shoot up to join him.

"Got it, I'll inform Endeavor," Clair says as we leave the room.

Suddenly, the office doors slide open, in walking Katsuki.

Without missing a beat, Shoto grabs him by the arm.