Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 64 - Left inside a half-life

A/N Made a new track! 

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Yagi scratched his head as he made his way back to the staff room, holding onto a bag and staring at a piece of paper, trying to make heads or tails out of whatever was written on it. He pushed open the door, and peered around.

"Uh... is Nezu here?" Yagi asked, and Kayama looked up from her grading, "He was here a minute ago; he left for another impromptu meeting. You just missed him. Did you need him for something?"

"No, no..." Yagi shook his head, "I just... Basilisk gave me a few more things to give to Midoriya before he left, and I figured it would be better if Nezu did it instead of me."

He reached into the bag he was carrying, and pulled out something that looked like a metal arm bracer. "Basilisk said it was a prototype of... something? Midoriya's father apparently designed it for him while he was working there, and some of the workers had just decided to finish it up, I think that's what he told me."

Yagi placed the bracer back in the bag, and pulled out another piece of paper, "The blueprints to the bracers, I think, though I don't really understand all the scribbles on it. I guess I should give it to Power Loader?"

"Hmm." Kayama frowned, "We'll let Nezu take a look at it first."

Yagi fished another small booklet out of his pocket, "Also, Basilisk said that this was the... guide, or instruction sheet, for that gift that he gave to Midoriya... looks like a puzzle, or something? Has a lot of steps though. Like... at least forty."

"Forty?" Kayama raised her eyebrows, taking the booklet from Yagi, "Wow... that's... really complicated. I heard from Shouta that it was supposed to be for his seventh birthday... but honestly, I can't even imagine myself solving this puzzle box. Even with the instructions."

She placed the booklet in the bag, before taking the bag from the former Number One hero, "I'll put this in Nezu's office. Once he gets back, he'll know what to do with it. I'm sure that Midoriya would like the bracers, and it fits with his fighting style, but it still has to go through checks before he can use them as support items."

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Midoriya just glanced around the table, as Shoji helped Sato bring all the food out onto the table; he had already fixed up his puzzle box and put it in his room. Some students were sitting on the couches, and Kendo and Monoma had brought a couple of chairs over from their dorms so that there were enough places for everyone. Iida had switched on the news, and was watching it along with Shishida, Kaibara, and Kamakiri.

There was a huge variety of dishes, and while Midoriya wasn't very hungry, he figured that he should eat something, at the very least; he wasn't even sure when was the last time he had eaten anything. But he wasn't too sure what he was allowed to eat, and what he wasn't allowed to even touch. All he had currently was a few spoonfuls of rice; he didn't want to take too much and end up wasting food. When he was younger, his former foster mother never made any verbal complaints whenever he grabbed vegetables or meat, but he did remember meeting her disapproving gaze, and had slowly learned through trial and error about what kinds of food to avoid touching. He eventually just settled with instant noodles because it was just easier for everyone, and less stressful.

Midoriya tightened his grip on the small dragon pendant nervously. He hadn't eaten with his peers in the dorms before; he'd usually just grab some hot water for the instant noodles stocked up in his room, and that was all he ate. He wasn't too sure how his classmates would react if he grabbed anything he wasn't supposed to. He didn't want anyone getting mad at him.