Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 106 - Never sees the sun

"Welcome! How may I help you?" The man that was by the counter dryly asked, as Todoroki inspected the pet rescue center curiously, looking around.

"Uh, we're good." Shinsou replied, immediately making a beeline for the section of the store with cat food. He stared at the different flavours of cat food, before muttering, "Is it just me... or does something feel... off... to you guys?"

Iida was still outside, trying to figure out what was wrong with his engines; they had started sputtering, for absolutely no reason, when he tried to enter the pet rescue center.

"Maybe." Todoroki muttered, shifting his arms, "I feel weird."

Koda shrugged, and gently set Yuwai down, before he walked over to where all the animals were kept.

"You're right..." Uraraka stared at the pink pads on the tip of her fingers, "My fingers feel... I don't know... tingly..."

"Ah... hello, Koda!" The cashier waved his hands, "You used to volunteer here... I guess things are pretty hectic in the hero course, right."

Koda nodded, shooting the cashier a thumbs up, as Midoriya placed Reiko and Ryuto on the ground, letting them explore the rescue center, before standing up. Reiko just shuddered, seeming to be more alert than before, as Ryuto fluffed himself up, before waddling over to Todoroki due to all the heat the dual hair coloured boy was emitting.

"And... Midoriya..." The cashier narrowed his eyes slightly, though he chose not to comment further on it.

Midoriya just glanced at him, nodding in acknowledgement, moving over to where Koda was, as the larger male opened up the cage doors, giving the cats and dogs some freedom. Usually, the pet rescue center wouldn't allow so many animals to be roaming around at the same time, but the animals always listened to Koda, given his quirk, and they seemed calm enough around Midoriya, so there was an unspoken rule that if either of the two were present, they could let several animals out.

Most of the animals spilled out of their cages the second Koda opened the doors, and Koda moved to open the last cage, but the cashier stopped him, "Uh... don't touch that one. It's off-limits."

Uraraka noticed that there was something sitting right at the back of one of the cages. She knelt down, peering inside, only to find a little ball of fluff huddled in the corner of the cage, shaking, two beady black eyes staring back at her. She couldn't really see what colour the animal was, though, in the darkness.

"Awn... are you scared? It's okay." Uraraka cooed, before turning around, "There's an animal in there. Let them out."

"You don't know what you're dealing with. That's a chinchilla. Came in around two days ago." The cashier spoke up, flipping through a file with details of every animal, "Her previous owners stated that she's bad luck for everyone around her; everything goes out of control."

Koda frowned in confusion, as Todoroki asked, "What do you mean, out of control?"

Iida, having finally managed to deal with his engines, walked into the pet rescue center, "Hello! I have no idea why my quirk was acting up, but it seems fine right now! Perhaps I ate something wrong. Did I miss anything?"

The cashier gestured towards Iida, "Well... stuff like that. Bad luck. Mostly quirks going out of control and stuff like that."

Iida blinked in confusion, not knowing what was going on, as Shinsou raised his eyebrow, "You sure it's not because her former owners were incompetent with their quirks?"

The cashier shrugged, "I don't know, really. I mean, according to them, they had the chinchilla for a while, and for some reason, out of the blue, things started acting up. They left her with some friends when they went on a business trip, and everything was normal, except their friends suddenly had everything going wrong, so they just concluded that the problem was with the chinchilla and just left her here."