Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 76 - Wherever you are

Kirishima sunk into his seat, sighing, as Kaminari shoved his phone into the redhead's face, "Your name! Your hero name is in the news online! Wow! "Newcomer Sidekick Red Riot Burst onto the Scene! From his first day, he takes responsibility for the citizens and fights a villain by himself!" That's what it says!"

"Tsu and Uraraka. you're amazing! Your names are here! Let's see, "New Sidekicks at Ryukyu Agency! Two there for a work study!"

"Wow, that makes me happy! There it is!" Uraraka beamed, as Asui mused, "I wonder where they took the picture from..."

"That's amazing! Maybe you already have some fans like Mt Lady!" Ashido screeched, as Hagakure spoke up, "I'm so jealous!"

"It's true..." Jiro muttered, scrolling down, "The article says "And they're cute! A great achievement, taking control of a big incident in an instant; their abilities are real"."

"Even if they only have provisional licenses, once they start working in town, they're heroes just the same. Remarkable service." Iida complimented, "However, a student's duty is to study! You can't doze off in class!"

"Right. Iida! We're prepared!" Kirishima grinned, "Right!?"

"Yeah!" Uraraka replied, before turning to Midoriya, "You also had your first day of work experience yesterday, didn't you, Izuku? How was it?"

She got no reply from the green haired boy, who was sitting in his seat, clenching his fists tightly as he stared at the notebook on his table.

"Uh... Izuku? Are you alright?" Kaminari asked, and Midoriya turned slightly to face the electric boy. His hair cast a shadow over his eyes that were as cold and hard as emeralds, making his gaze all the more terrifying, and if looks could kill, Kaminari would have dropped dead there and then. Luckily, Midoriya didn't have a quirk that was capable of that, but his gaze still managed to get Kaminari to flinch and back off.

"Jeez... are you okay?" Kaminari stuttered out, as Midoriya gave him a growl to back off, before staring back at his notebook. Reiko also seemed rather frustrated, sitting in a corner of the classroom with Ryuto, scratching at the walls.

Kirishima remembered that he was going to ask Midoriya a couple of questions, but seeing how off Midoriya was at the moment, maybe he should wait for another time to ask him about it. Midoriya was clearly pissed off about something, and even though he fended off a villain on drugs just the previous day, he did not want to risk setting off a pissed off Midoriya.

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Midoriya had another patrol with Togata in the afternoon, in the same area as the day that they had encountered Eri, but on the opposite side of the city. Sasaki said that since they met Chisaki, they should do something to pretend that they weren't bothered about him. By giving off the facade that they were satisfied with that district, and had moved on to a new place to patrol, that should be enough for Chisaki to leave them alone.

They had decided to patrol through a shopping mall, where he had encountered a few of his old classmates. With Togata by his side, and in such an open area, they really couldn't do anything, and just kept throwing insults at him.

That was until there was a robbery at a nearby jewelry store, and the villains had decided to hold Midoriya's former bullies hostage. Togata managed to distract the villains, and Midoriya being Midoriya, he had gone to take the villains down.

Midoriya had to fend off four villains at the same time while Togata chased after some of the others, but despite being outnumbered, it wasn't too difficult; his opponents had rather decent quirks, but they were absolutely shit in using them. Midoriya dispatched them without too much trouble, and lucky for him, Togata was familiar enough with that area, and knew his way around the mall, so they managed to get out without being harassed by too many people.