Mystery from Another World

Part 7: 👔PTA Meeting🏢

"All day? You spent all day just having fun, no training?" Yaoyurozu was shocked.

"That's so inconceivable?" Shine replied, brushing her hair so it parted on the side, her preferred look.

"No, I suppose not." Yaoyurozu shrugged. "Only, we train at least a couple hours every day."

"Perhaps I was training." Shine pinned her waves back and put on chap stick.

"This parents' day thing has me shook," Jiro complained. "I get why and all, but it could get really awkward."

"I'm sure mine will want to see everything," Yaoyurozu mused.

"I know mine will love everything about it," Uraraka said. 

Shine smiled dubiously.

She and Wally were wondering how UA intended to slide its many dangerous training practices by the parents. Was it really possible none of them knew about it? Or did they sign off on it?

Shine wasn't an idiot--she'd done a bit of research since they'd landed here, after having to put the Moogle search on English, which had been hard to do. She'd deduced that parents were happy to get their kids into this school, which was on full scholarship, because most of the graduates were very successful.

And the Sports Festival was basically advertising in advance. Of course, they had muzzled Bakugo...

She'd told all this to Wally, who thought it was weird.

"In the Justice League, you don't advertise--you let the news coverage of you saving people do it for you," he said. "I mean, don't they worry that all the bad guys will know these kids' real identities?"

"Everyone does though, babe," Shine said. "No hero has a secret identity."

"I don't get it. Why don't their villains find them at home then?"

"It seems there are so many heroes versus villains that most wouldn't even try it, but you'd think a smart ones would," Shine mused. "Also, not a lot of heroes have a personal array of villains like your friends do. There are hundreds and hundreds of heroes. I found a list of the top ones. Did you know Shoto Todoroki's father is on it? He's the current No. 1."

"Really? I've never heard him mention that," Wally said.

"And none of the other kids mention it either?" 

"Nope."

"Yeah, they didn't tell me. I think it's strange. And Eraser really didn't like us hanging out with Miss Joke. UA doesn't seem to like us knowing about any other heroes."

"Hey, we could be reading into it. Maybe it's just because they don't trust us, not that they don't want other heroes to know about us."

"That's probably it." Shine leaned forward. "Because, otherwise, why would they not want other Heroes to talk to us? Why would they isolate us, unless they just didn't trust us...though it seems strange they would let us hang around vulnerable high schoolers if they still think we're up to something."

"Okay, okay, it doesn't take sense," Wally sighed. "But you still want to go to the PTA meeting, right?"

"I can't help but think they only agreed to let us go to avoid some liability issue. I mean, what if the students mention us? They don't want to look like they're hiding us." Shine frowned. "But yes, we should still go. This is making me uneasy. In Remnant, at least we didn't have to watch our every move just around the people we were working with."

"I know, right? This is so mega stressful." Wally didn't like being treated with suspicion, but the last mission it had only been because people thought they were lying. Their team had been wary of them at first there, but not to the point where they'd stalked them, spied on them, or set other people on them to test them.