Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 92 - Lay your burdens

Kayama clapped her hands, "Are we all good? Remember, once that alarm rings, even if it's a false alarm, the festival is over, so in the event that a villain does manage to get past all the defences, call us, and we'll clear it up before the alarms are triggered."

All the students from the hero course nodded. Before the festival started, they were all required to assemble in the gym for a briefing regarding the School Festival. While they had increased security by getting Inui to patrol the perimeter of the school, and by getting other heroes like Death Arms, who were native to Musutafu, to help them patrol the city, they were certain that UA was rather secure. However, they also wanted the students to know what to do in the case of a villain attack.

Togata and Aizawa were the only ones not at the briefing, but they had gone to pick Eri up, and Aizawa was briefing Togata on the way to the hospital.

If the alarm rang, the hero course students should help to evacuate the rest of the students, but if a villain just seemed to appear out of nowhere, such as having a teleportation quirk, the students should immediately contact any of their teachers, and they were allowed to try and take the villains down while evacuating the other students.

"Hey, Midoriya, is your arm better?" Kirishima asked, as Midoriya massaged his shoulder, "It's... not so painful... I guess..."

Jiro was just staring into space as the hero course students left the gymnasium, giving the 1-A students time to set up their performance.

"Jiro... you're thinking about something... aren't you?" Yaoyorozu asked, and Jiro laughed, "Yeah... my parents both have music based jobs... and from young, I've been learning how to play instruments to follow in their footsteps of becoming a musician. But I realised that... it wasn't what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a hero, I wanted to fight for other people, but I also didn't want to waste the music that they taught me... and I love music... I didn't want to tell them, but I had to, when I applied for UA. My parents were... they're great. They accepted my choice, said I could do what I wanted, and... think about what I could do for others with my music. I just... never really thought that being a musician and a hero were that similar."

"Like I said, your hobby is awesome!" Kaminari grinned, and Jiro nodded, tearing up slightly, "Yeah... I'm just... really grateful for this opportunity."

"Just kill everyone with music. That way no one can complain." Bakugou snapped, "Stop crying. Damn it."

"That's just Bakugou speech for "That's why we're going to make this performance awesome!", right, Bakubro?" Kirishima yelled, "Plus Ultra, right!"

"Shut up, Shitty Hair! Fuck off!" Bakugou snapped.

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"There are more people than I thought..." Uraraka muttered from behind the curtain, and Kaminari laughed, "Everyone seems to be in a good mood this morning."

"They've been looking forward to it, stupid." Jiro hissed, as the lights went out and the curtains opened, eliciting cheering from the crowd.

"There it is!"

"First years, do your best!"

"Show us what you've got, first years!"

"Yaoyorozu! Yaoyorozu! Yaoyorozu!"

"Oh, that's right, Yaoyorozu was in that commercial with Kendo, right? She also has some fans." Togata spoke up, carrying Eri so that she could see the stage, "Eri, can you see?"

"Yeah..." Eri replied, staring at the stage, completely dumbfounded by the sheer number of the people in the gymnasium. Midoriya was right beside them, wearing a black hoodie, with the remote control right in his pocket.