Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 59 - Make believing

"Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule." Tsukauchi stated, sitting down on the couch in Nezu's office, "How's Midoriya? Recovering well?"

"Well... he's been doing fine. Recovery Girl just let him go back to training yesterday... but he overexerted himself. She's letting him continue training, but she wants to keep an eye on him while he does so." Nezu replied, "So... what's the bad news?"

"Due to the Kamino incident and all the coverage it's gotten, not to mention the loss of the Symbol of Peace, Endeavor as the new Number One hero, and the Nomus... the Hero Commission has pushed the date of the Provisional License Exam back by a month." Tsukauchi started, "And now that people are starting to talk about Midoriya as being quirkless... things have gotten complicated."

"How so?" Nezu frowned.

"As you know... Midoriya being quirkless, yet still winning the Sports Festival, and becoming the target of a villain whose quirk is taking quirks from other people; all of this makes him an anomaly in the eyes of the hero commission. An anomaly, that they cannot be controlled by any... normal conventions." Tsukauchi continued, "Midoriya's quirklessness has also sparked heated discussions all over about how strong the heroes currently are. The public is under the assumption that the heroes have somehow become weaker, by the fact that Midoriya had easily beaten students like Bakugou and Todoroki, and this fear was only amplified by the fall of All Might. The Hero Commission understands your decision to allow Midoriya to enter the Hero Course; the defeat of the League had painted a target on his back, but back then, his quirkless status was unknown."

"I know this already. Get to the point." Nezu growled. He knew he was being unfair to Tsukauchi; it wasn't the poor man's fault that he was being the messenger in this scenario. But this was going in a direction that Nezu was despising.

"The Hero Commission wants to pull Midoriya out of the Hero Course." Tsukauchi dryly stated.

The room was so silent that one could hear a pin drop.

"Excuse me, what?" Nezu hissed, "They can't just do that!"

Tsukauchi nodded solemnly, "In normal cases, yes. But Midoriya's case is no normal case. The fact is that Midoriya, being quirkless, is making heroes, as a whole, look weak. The Hero Commission is aware of that. I'm sure you know that this year, after the preliminary round of the Provisional License Exam, those who fail the second found can still go through another round of remedial, and they'll have another chance to get their licenses in the same year. Midoriya... unfortunately... won't get another chance."

"What do you mean?" Nezu snarled. He definitely wasn't liking where this was going.

"Midoriya's got only once chance to prove that he can be a hero." Tsukauchi finished, "He has to pass both rounds, or the Hero Commission will be removing him from the Heroics Course permanently. He can't take anymore lessons, he can't go for the exams. That's it. They wanted to pull him out immediately, but I've managed to convince them to give him a chance based on his actions during the Kamino Incident... not to mention that Gang Orca, Ryukyu and Jeanist weren't too happy when they heard about it."

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Midoriya watched.

And analyzed.

He kept his eyes glued onto the fight, watching as Todoroki froze Sero, watching as Uraraka tried to evade Shoji's attempts to grab onto her, watching as Shinsou tangled Iida up in his capture weapon.

Analyze everything. That's the only reason why they want you here, why those heroes wanted to save you in the first place; information.

Scenarios and quirk usages and quirk laws flashed through Midoriya's mind, the boy trying his best to compartmentalize everything to the best of his ability as he scrawled messily in a spare notebook.