Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 7 - What was lost in me

Nezu was still trying to figure Midoriya out.

"He reminds me of Void, in a way." Nezu admitted, when Aizawa entered the staff room after he had entered the school with Shinsou. "I'm not sure why."

Aizawa shrugged, "Maybe they're cousins or something."

Nezu shook his head, "Nope. I looked into it. Midoriya Inko and Midoriya Hisashi don't have siblings, and neither did their parents or grandparents. "

"Why don't you ask him?" Kayama asked, "You're meeting him today, right? Void seems knowledgeable about our society."

Nezu just paw-palmed, and rubbed his eyes, "I can't. Midoriya looked so surprised that someone was willing to do something for him... this is something sensitive. On the off chance that they are connected in a way, asking about that would destroy the trust that Void gave me. I can't afford to do that. Not when Void has made it very clear that he prefers interacting with animals instead of humans."

"Also, just a note, since you mentioned animals, Midoriya volunteers at that pet rescue center a few blocks away. I saw him there yesterday, bringing in a black stray, and he just glared at anyone who told him that it was just a stray and shouldn't be there."

Aizawa swore he heard Nezu mumble something along the lines of, "Where do you think the damn stray came from in the first place?"

Kan poked his head into the staffroom, "Alright, my students did mess up the boat at the USJ up a bit, as well as destroyed the Conflagration Zone the other day, but Thirteen says that the USJ is ready for 1-A to use tomorrow."

"Alright." Aizawa noted. "I should go help Mic deal with the damn press."

Suddenly, a loud clang of metal resonated throughout the school, and Nezu clicked on a blinking button on his laptop, "The press activated the barrier. It should be fine."

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It wasn't fine.

Somehow, the press had created a hole in the wall, and had gotten in.

Aizawa and Yamada growled as they tried to keep the press out of UA, but they kept on pestering them with more and more questions, and Aizawa was sure that his patience was going to run out soon.

Then, all of a sudden, the entire area grew silent. The reporters and cameramen were all frozen in place, stunned into silence. Aizawa was pretty sure the only reason why he could feel the presence but still had full mobility was that he wasn't the target of the strange aura, and that he had felt it before.

However, the boy that he had thought to be associated with the aura was nowhere to be seen.

But still, it gave him a moment of clarity to sort his thoughts out, and he hissed, "Look, this is a place for students to learn. You triggered the intruder alarms, and this is probably the result of a panicking student's quirk. We already called the police for vandalism and trespassing, and now, you're scaring the students as well."

Aizawa sighed as the police finally came along, and as suddenly as the pressuring aura appeared, it dissipated.

He still needed to figure out who was the person behind this. Midoriya was still a possibility, but he wasn't anywhere near the area. Or it really could just be some student's quirk that activated by accident.

Midoriya was quirkless. Even if he were to have some sort of quirk that he didn't know about, Aizawa would assume that it was an analysis quirk. Snipe taught the general education course skills that would be useful, regardless if they managed to transfer into the hero course or now. After all, most general education students did end up working for heroes as their secretaries, accountants, or becoming police officers and detectives.