Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 164 - A decoy soul

Midoriya quickly ducked into a stall, tugging his hero costume on, and he waited by the door for the others to finish. They had a lesson between lunch and their joint training session, and it was obvious that the teacher didn't like him too much.

They had been given a math test to do, and instead of just gently handing the paper to the students, like she did with all the other students, the mathematics teacher had rudely slammed the paper onto his table, glaring at him as if he had murdered her newborn child.

Regardless of the treatment towards him, Midoriya still did his best in the mathematics test. It didn't have anything that Ectoplasm had taught that year, but maybe the first years at Ketsubutsu were learning about different topics. The questions weren't too easy, but it wasn't anything that Midoriya couldn't handle.

It didn't take too long for everyone else to finish changing into their hero costumes, despite all the yelling and arguing going on, they managed to make it to the gym in time for their joint training session, with a large, rocky field in the center of the building.

What they were expecting to see was the rest of the Ketsubutsu second years, since they were also a part of the class that UA and Shiketsu was friendly with.

What they weren't expecting was for some of the non-hero course first years to be standing in the gym, talking to Fukukado, while some other students watched the commotion from the upper floors. Shinsou recognized Hareda and Nagai, but there were also a lot of other students arguing with the pro hero.

"You're not even in the Hero Course!" Fukukado tried to reason, "I don't care if you don't like UA or Midoriya or anything, I cannot allow you guys to pick a fight with them! Don't think I didn't hear about what happened in the cafeteria! You're lucky I'm not giving you punishments for aggravating and making fun of students from other schools simply based on their quirk, or lack of a quirk! Ketsubutsu does not allow discrimination!"

"That's besides the point!" Hareda countered, but Fukukado stood her ground, "No. I'm the teacher in charge, and I will not let you participate in this training exercise. You either go upstairs and watch the training exercise, or you leave this building. And if I hear one more derogatory comment about quirks or any of the sort, I am going directly to the principal about this."

Aizawa glanced at Midoriya, before watching as the first years slunk away with their tails between their legs. They had heard about everything that had happened in the cafeteria, since Shindo and Nakagame had reported it to Fukukado, and while Aizawa did think that there might have been a better way of handling the matter instead of instantly whipping out the kitchen utensils, there was no way he or Kan was going to punish Midoriya for sticking up for his friends, especially since he literally didn't do anything to start the commotion.

And if anyone told him otherwise, Aizawa was going to fight them.

The Erasure Hero and Blood Hero had already been warned about Midoriya's old classmates, but honestly, Aizawa hadn't expected them to just bitch about Midoriya's existence and his lack of a quirk. It wasn't even his fault to begin with, and even then, they had no right to be saying such nasty things about the poor boy anyways; Midoriya already had it hard enough.

Aizawa also hadn't expected that Shinsou's old classmates might be attending Ketsubutsu Academy, but she only seemed to chime into the conversation near the end, and had already been let off by a stern warning. Shinsou wanted absolutely nothing to do with her.

"Not to be rude... but... I was expecting more... you know... Ketsubutsu students... seeing as it's their home ground..." Kirishima sweatdropped, and Nakagame let out a small laugh, "Well... you know... we're the only ones that have our licences at this point in time. The others managed to make it to the second phase of the exam, but failed, so they're currently having a special Hero License course so that they can get their licences later."