Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 133 - I've been looking for a way

A/N Sorry for the late update. I had to deal with university and packing stuff...

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Midoriya sighed and placed his phone down on the ground after checking the news, curling up in his bean bag, before looking up at the news that was playing on the television. It wasn't too early in the morning, but he assumed that most of the students were sleeping in due to the cold weather, with only Monoma, Iida, Kendo, Yaoyorozu and Shinsou up and about in the common room. Ashido was sleeping on the couch for some reason, and Kaminari was sprawled out in one of the other bean bags.

For once in his life, Midoriya had felt really refreshed when he woke up; he wasn't sure if it was the huge bean bag in his room that allowed him to just flop around and feel protected from all the various sides and corners when he sunk into it. Maybe that was why Reiko and Ryuto like to just curl up on his pillow whenever he wasn't using it, or on one of the cushions on the couch, or just one of the bean bags in the common room.

Or maybe it was because he had also overslept and had woken up almost an hour later than usual.

Bondo walked into the 1-A dorms, yawning, and Midoriya didn't really care too much until he heard a distinct cracking sound that woke Ashido and Kaminari up. Midoriya looked away from the television just as Bondo paused, and looked down, taking a step back, before he quickly apologized, "Oh my god, I'm so sorry, Midoriya... I didn't see it there..."

Midoriya slumped down slightly, a small, quiet rumble from the back of his throat, and Ashido and Kaminari stumbled over to examine the remains of Midoriya's mobile device. Midoriya reached out, picking up his destroyed phone, and ripped the cracked back cover right off, the plastic just crumbling to bits as he did so. Luckily, he always had a habit of backing up his phone data every other day, so he didn't really lose too much if he had to change his phone again.

"Hey... Midoriya... did you get a new phone?" Ashido asked, "I mean, it's all cracked and stuff... but the one you have now is black... I thought you had a blue one."

"No, he had a dark purple one." Kaminari countered, as Bondo squatted down, "I can glue it back together if you like?"

Midoriya shook his head, further examining the internal components of his phone. Whenever he broke his phone, he would always check to see if any of the components could be salvaged and reused. While Midoriya did know how to fix up phones that had been thrown away or washed up on Dagobah Municipal Beach Park; sure, they were waterlogged and had all sorts of problems like shorted-out circuitry or rust, but most of them could be solved by just swapping out a few parts. People always took things they had for granted, and threw away devices when one small component stopped working.

Sadly, in the case of Bondo stepping on his phone, everything had been crushed. The screen, the main body, the inner circuitry, everything.

"I thought Midoriya had a red flip phone?" Kendo piped up, grabbing some coffee, "Granted... I've never taken a good look at it... but I thought his phone was bigger than this..."

Shinsou peered over at the wreckage, "Maybe we can go out and get a new one? Or ask the Support Course... if they can make support items, I'm sure that a phone wouldn't be too hard for them to make."

"It's fine... I should have a spare." Midoriya signed, sweeping up the bits of the broken phone as best as he could, before completely crushing the read-only memory chip, breaking it into bits completely. It was already broken, sure, but he needed to be sure; he had sensitive information on his phone, and he needed to make sure that no one would be able to read any of the data from the memory chips.