Worthless Necessity [HitoZuku]

Chapter 169 - This is the world you've created

Aizawa leaned back into his chair, and let out a long sigh.

He had just received the report from the interrogation of Time Stop, and they had called in Tsukauchi just to make sure that she was telling the truth. However, the villain was very cooperative, and explained everything about her job.

Apparently, various villain groups seemed to notice how much trouble Midoriya was causing for them, despite just being a quirkless first year, and had made it some sort of competition to take him out through various means, thinking that doing so would be able to shake their society. She wasn't too sure about other villains, but she had decided to try and take him out first.

She also explained the powder that they had found her carrying around, and whatever she had said matched up with what she told the kids in the audio file that Kaminari had recorded during the fight. Looking through the past records in their databases, the police weren't able to find anything about kids dying due to the drug, but after contacting several doctors and heroes, they did find several medical records about children supposedly getting admitted into the hospital, and subsequently dying due to severe food poisoning.

Aizawa had also used his underground contacts to see if they could find anything about this supposed drug, but they couldn't find anything in such a small period of time.

However, they did manage to find several medical studies from almost a century ago, depicting the various differences in genes and DNA sequences between quirked and quirkless people, and there was also an analysis that stated that as generations went by, the genetic differences between quirked and quirkless people would decrease due to various mutations, as well as quirkless children still inheriting a small portion of the DNA from a quirked parent.

In short, the DNA sequences between people in the present are much smaller than in the past, when quirks had just started manifesting, regardless of whether a person had a quirk or not.

"Hey." Fukukado peeked into the office that Aizawa was in, "Vlad King is bringing the kids back to the temporary dorms."

She closed the door behind her, and settled down into a chair on the opposite side of the table, just as Aizawa let out another long sigh.

"How are the kids?" Aizawa asked, and Fukukado leaned back into her chair.

"Well... for the most part... they're actually fine. Midoriya's just slightly sick, but we can attribute that to whatever Time Stop did to the food. Nothing much we can do about it, since this drug is not widely known, there's no cure for it. The school nurse said that he just needs to eat and drink proper, non-contaminated food to just flush everything out of his system, but she did send a blood sample over to Recovery Girl, just in case she missed anything." Fukukado replied, and Aizawa let out a loud groan.

For once, he was thankful for Midoriya's small appetite. If he had eaten more food and digested more of that poison, his poor immune system might not be able to deal with it.

"However, we did run tests on all the food in storage, and most of them were already contaminated, so we're going to have to throw them all out, and find a new, more reliable cook." Fukukado finished.

"I'll see if Lunch Rush can help you out." Aizawa stated, reaching out for his phone, "I'm not sure if he knows any cooks, but I do know there's this place that he prefers to get all his ingredients from. They're slightly more expensive than regular stuff you find in a supermarket, but it's much fresher, and Lunch Rush makes good food; who am I to complain?"

"Yeah. Thanks." Fukukado grinned wearily, before her smile fell, "Don't you... think this is a huge problem?"

"What do you mean?" Aizawa asked, and Fukukado rested her chin on the table, "I mean... villains. They're not just attacking any random hero student they see on the streets now. They're strategically targeting specific students, and are even infiltrating schools... I think we can trust the older staff, at least, those that we've had since before the start of this school year, but what about in the future? Teachers and staff are bound to take leave, or even retire, and it's not like we can just... not hire new staff, or even substitutes."