Maybe Change is Good

Chapter 10

It wasn't his plan to stay the night at the dorms. His plan consisted of him meeting up with All Might having a word with him, and then heading right back home to his family. Yet Shota found himself having to dump those plans in the span of an hour.

After entering the building he made a b-line to Yagi's office, planning to dig up as much information from the man as he could. But, he wasn't there. The room was darkened and the door was locked, and a moment of despair washed over him at the thought of the retired hero having gone home. Lucky for him, his determination to get information on the attack led him straight to the man.

Knowing that the principal was obviously notified about the events of the attack, he headed to the main office where they usually resided. Hoping to get there in time before any of them left and just his luck too as when he rounded the corner to the office door, he could see a couple of the teachers packing up their things. Those included All Might.

He walked in with purpose, the dead tired look seeming even tried once he pushed opened the door and the moment he and Yagi made eye contact he prepared himself mentally for a hell of a headache.

"Eraserhead, glad to see you're doing fine. Thought you'd be going home now since the trip is done. Do you need anything?" Nezu spoke politely, taking his eyes off of whatever papers he held in hand.

"Not exactly." Shota responded curtly, "I just wanted to know the outcome of the arrest made for the attack. I wasn't exactly given any information when I came to."

A couple of the heroes stopped to give the man a glance, while others finished packing and said their goodbyes.

"Ah, yes." The principal spoke almost cautiously, "Yagi was telling me that you were curious about the arrests. I had asked him not to say anything about it when he called into us. It was just a small precaution."

"Precaution for what? Don't I have a right to know about the arrest of a group that clearly targeted the students that I have to look after? Shouldn't I get to know what happened and what to look out for?"

"Shota there isn't anything to look out for. They were simply arrested and are now incarcerated. Nothing more and nothing less."

"Then why can't I know about the arrest? Their names? Any leading information about who they are and why they decided to do this?"

"Some information we aren't able to unleash."

"Unleas- With all due respect, that is basic information. Since I've started being a hero and working for U.A, that's the basic information I've always been disclosed to. Why is it now a problem? Especially if you disclose it to others as well. It can't be too top secret if you're sharing it to a whole party of people."

"What I'm trying to say, Shota is that some people are more qualified for certain information." Upon seeing the questioning look, Nezu quickly followed up with, "We don't want you to be paranoid with the information we give you. Especially when summer break is upon us."

"I'm not following. I don't see how any of that can make a bit of sense when my job as a teacher and hero is to be watchful for any danger a villain may put upon us. It's not called being paranoid, it's simply me doing my job to protect our students from another severe, reputation ruining, attack." Eyes narrowed, he continued, "If I have no information on them, I don't know what to look out for or warn parents about."

"You won't need to. There's nothing to warn them about in the first place."

"Is that so? Did they say that?"

"They did." The principal looked almost impatient, the professional look on his face wavered. Good. That meant he was getting somewhere.

"So they were questioned? With the lie detection quirk?"