"It's too hot." That was Sora's impression about Japan's summer, word for word.

It's been a month since she is enrolled to Nabu Middle School and Summer approached real fast in June.

She is thankful that Nabu Middle School lets the students wear their summer uniforms pretty soon, she'd actually get caught in heat stroke from the summer heat other wise.

"You just got to deal with it." Shinsou drawls.

She grumbled.

She prays that Dokuro-san makes a portable A.C pretty soon just so that she can survive this heat.

And she is tempted to stay indoors because the weather is too unbearable for her.

Spring is bearable. Summer, in her current point of view, is not.

On the other hand, it's been two weeks since she and Shinsou finally formed a friendship.

The class looked at her weirdly when she conversed with Shinsou without fear but seeing as no harm had been done to her, the class slowly took their chance to communicate with Shinsou.

Years of prejudice aren't easily erased in the span of a quick talk, and even if their classmates are willing to talk to him now, there's still that aprehension between them and Shinsou.

She thinks that the closest the class could be with Shinsou is as acquaintes.

The same can be said about herself.

She's too quiet for her classmates that it's almost eerie. At least that's what she heard from morning gossip in class that she prefers not to get involved with. Though she had fared better than Shinsou.

Anyway, she and Shinsou mostly talked about homework, hero news, and a bit about cats.

At school at least.

But as of late, she got talking a lot about training in Oz's agency.

"So you weren't lying about some training?" Shinsou looked surprised when she talked about it the first time.

"Why would I lie?"

Shinsou didn't exactly stop her from talking about her training but at one point, he did ask.

"Why do you want to be a hero?"

"My best friend slash brother wants to be a hero and someone has to watch over him." Technically, it's true. She plans on being the partner that watched Izuku's back and support him all the way. And asides it being a possible key to restoring her lost memories.

She doesn't have a long term plan for that one, but she's hoping that she maybe able to meet someone who may know her before and provide an insight to those missing memories by becoming a hero.

"Why are you training so hard to get to U.A?"

At that, she rebuked. "Don't you want to prove others that you can be something? Prove them wrong that you're not what they believe you to be?"

"Well I do but-"

"Then stop listening to what people say and work for it. Work on proving them wrong. Don't just mope at the impossible. If you don't will yourself to make that change, then nothing will change at all."

Shinsou didn't say anything after that, prompting her to change the subject.

The next day, however, Shinsou asked. "Mind if you take me to the agency after school?"


So here they are, standing in front of Oz's agency.

Some rides with the Shinkansen had to be taken to go to Saitama and she had to spend a bit more money for the first two weeks or so of trying to befriend Shinsou. Her first day going to Nabu middle school is a 2 hour trip from Shizuoka through a Shinkansen and she had to wake up very early for the chance of actually talking to Shinsou without the rest of the class trying to dissuade her from interacting with the insomniac. (They back off when she finally got through to Shinsou and become his friend, but still.)

Additionally, Shinkansen trips aren't cheap.

All Might may have provided her the finances for a month to spend for the purpose of transport, that doesn't mean that she didn't feel bad about it.

She's the type of person who believed in earning for what you want than to get someone to earn that something for you.

It's big time why she was hesitant about Inko-san buying so much clothes for her to wear even if the older woman is well off financially thanks to her husband and her day job. (She didn't have a clear idea of what Inko-san's job is, but she had a feeling that it had to do with sewing and knitting, Inko-san is good at it.)

All Might insist that he pays her money for transport every month, giving out a hearty laugh. "I insist Young Sora! I had quiet enough money you know! This is nothing but a scratch at my account!"

So she reluctantly accepts the money.

She also paid for Shinsou's travel fare thanks to the money she saved up from her part time jobs in the agency.

There's also Inko-san's pocket money which was given to her solely for the fact that she eats a lot and would not be satisfied with just one meal. (A harsh, but true statement)

She ends up eating the cheap foods so she can save up some of that pocket money and put them into her bank account.

Well, agency account actually.

Yuuji-san, the accountant of Oz's agency told her that each apprentice had a bank account of their own under the company's name and she took the chance of saving up her hard-earned money and some of that pocket money to her agency bank account.

Plus she saved up quiet a lot over the past two months of her apprenticeship.

"Do you have to take the shinkansen daily?" Shinsou asked her with an incredulous look when they arrived.

"Except for the weekends." She answers. Adding. "Before you ask, no, my family isn't that rich. A family friend provided me the finances for transport."

Metaphorically, All Might, as Yagi Toshinori to Inko-san, is indeed a family friend.

She paid for a one day ticket fare for Shinsou, not sure if the agency's apprentice program is to Shinsou's liking.

"Let's go." She beckons Shinsou to follow her inside.


When he asked Asahina to take him to the agency, he didn't expect it to be all the way out at Shizuoka, and through a Shinkansen, no less.

Now that he thought about it, he doesn't really know about Asahina's family situation by much either.

All he knew is that she was adopted and used to be homeschooled before.

The fact that she's adopted isn't something that is known throughout the class. And he knows better than to breach someone's privacy.

Maybe she was recently orphaned?

That would explain why she was adopted. It's not that the subject of adoption is a taboo but it's not something that many people would take up.

Years since the emergence of quirks had caused the people of Japan to slowly start opening up at the idea of adoption and follow a west like approach with the emergence of heroes, but there will always be traditionalist around.

Honestly though, all he had about what he thinks to be Asahina's backstory are just speculations until either Asahina spoke up about her history or if he asked her himself. The latter situation of which, he thinks, is unlikely to happen.

For someone that spoke so fondly of her friends in Oz's agency and her adoptive family. Asahina talked little about herself.

She talks of her hobbies and things she likes, but never about herself.

Maybe she doesn't feel like it, maybe it's personal, he never knew. He doesn't feel like asking either.

He doesn't want to ruin the friendship he had for the first time in years by being nosy.

Back to the matter at hand.

He's now staring at Asahina who looked much more animated with life than she was back at school, as she was having a conversation with one of the apprentices, a big guy with a loud as heck voice.

Not to say that Asahina was lifeless but... even at school, Asahina is quiet. A bit too quiet.

She doesn't talk as much as his classmates and only answers when prompted.

Really, this was the first time he ever saw Asahina looking a bit more alive than back at school.

He felt a tap at the shoulder and came face to face with a green haired guy, his cheeks littered with small freckles. "Hey there!"

"...Hi." He greeted back.

"You're Shinsou, right?"

"Yeah-"

"If you're about to wonder why, Sora talks about you a lot. You're her first friend in her new school, you know."

Sora? Oh, Asahina.

"Oh! Uh, I'm Midoriya Izuku! Thanks for taking care of Sora for the month she's in school."

Midoriya, he recognize that surname. It was the name of the family that adopted Asahina. Then that means... he's the adoptive brother and best friend that Asahina keeps talking about.

He was surprised though, Midoriya doesn't look any older than him.

Then again, Asahina never specified how old her adoptive brother was. He just assumed that he's likely older than him by a year or two.

"Nice to meet you." He returned the greeting before he asked. "Mind if I ask you something?"

Midoriya nods. "Sure, what is it?"

"Is Asahina... usually this talkative back home?" He points over to where Asahina was.

Midoriya look over to where he pointed and understood. "Oh, that? To be frank, Sora isn't a big talker, even back home. The fact that she makes more gestures and talk more than staying quiet is a sign that she's opening up to you."

"Uh... how?"

Midoriya explains. "Sora may talk more when she's around with people she's comfortable with, for an analogy, it's sort of like ice cream? They're cold at first, but sweet once you taste them."

Ice cream? It's a weird analogy if he has to say so himself.

"Oh! Try talking about food, stuff about travel and photography is a good way to get her to warm up, she likes to talk about those."

Food, he gets, he caught sight of how unusually big her lunch box was on the occasions he had lunch with her and the fact that she bought a bunch of Melon and Yakisoba breads (If the latter isn't sold out) in addition to that, but he doesn't understand why Asahina has interest with travel or photography. (He also got wondering to how the heck is Asahina not even getting fat from all that food but he supposed that the training she got from Oz's agency help offset all the food she ate)

Then Midoriya seem to be looking at him with gleaming eyes. "By the way, Sora didn't tell me what your quirk was, what is it?"

Oh god, it's like he's looking at a puppy as his eyes are gleaming and he can imagine that sparkling sound effects in several cartoon shows.

He now knows why Asahina described him as a Cinnamon Roll.

"It's... brainwashing."

All of the sudden, Midoriya started rambling. "That's awesome! Yeah it's probably a villain's quirk in first glance but you can just taunt at villains and control them if they respond to you, you can capture many villains at once! You can also use it to get civilians out for evacuation when they panic! Oh! And-"

…Uh.

He's... different from what he initially imagined Asahina's brother to be.

Asides thinking that he's older, he imagined that, from Asahina's description, he's that guy in video games and/or shows who are too good to others for their own good.

Not this... super exciteable guy who is actually his age.

And what is with his mumbling?

He kept staring at Midoriya who is mumbling on until Asahina finally showed up next to him."Hey Shinsou- oh, you already met Izuku." She looked at the mumbling mess of her adoptive brother.

Shinsou wondered, looking wary at how much Midoriya is mumbling. "Shouldn't you snap him out of it?"

"It's fine, this is normal. Izuku gets mumbling if there is something that excites or interest him."

...Well then.

"Oz-sensei should be in his office. If you'd like to talk to him, we can go now."

"What about Midoriya?" He points back to said boy who is still mumbling. She take a look at him and went over to her adoptive brother-

Holy fuck did she just lift him up by the waist like she's carrying a heavy sack-

Then she brought him down.

"You're heavier than you look."

...Did she just pout. Is this Asahina Sora, the quiet and usually cool-headed girl with an unnaturally big appetite for food?

"And you're stronger than you look." He quipped at her. Midoriya turned to Asahina with a sigh. "Do you have to do that?"

"It's either this, everyone jumping on you, or getting Seijuurou to blast your eardrums." Midoriya winced at the notion and he can empathize with him.

Getting yelled at is a big no. Especially when he is sleeping.

"Let's see Oz-sensei." Midoriya nods at her and they now walk with him.

They now talk about the agency's facilities as they walk to what he assumed to be Oz's office. He only nods as Midoriya and Asahina do the talking to him. It was when Midoriya started talking about the agency's own support department that he saw the possibly rare moment of Asahina fangirling, of all things. Not at heroes, but at support items.

It's normal for Midoriya but not him, someone who had only been classmates with Asahina for a month.

And now Midoriya comparing Asahina to an ice cream makes sense.

After a while of talking and hearing the two adoptive siblings respectively fanboying and fangirling, they arrived at Oz's office.

Midoriya knocked on the door as Asahina warned him. "Don't be surprised if Oz-sensei jumped over to you as soon as we open the door."

"What?"

Midoriya opened the door and-

"Heya!"

PINK-


As Oz-sensei briefed to Shinsou about the apprenticeship program, she turned. "So do we wait? Or do we not wait for Shinsou?"

"I think we should wait for a bit, there's still some places in the agency that we haven't shown to him yet."

"Ah, right. We haven't showed him the support item section yet."

Izuku chuckled. "You sure love talking about support items..."

"Hey, I'm only amazed at Dokuro-san's inventions."

Both Izuku and Sora officially met Dokuro Murasaki two weeks ago. The man had a pale complexion and dark blue hair and while he isn't the most sociable person ever, he does acknowledge her and Izuku as new apprentices.

Speaking of apprentices, both of them are officially close enough with the older apprentices to be on a first name basis and they had been helpful and friendly.

Izuku especially welcomes the friendly atmosphere with them and she noticed that he is getting better. He is slowly becoming confident whenever they are with the apprentices.

Of course it comes back to square one whenever Bakugou is in the picture but Izuku is getting better and regain that lost confidence.

It also helps that Izuku is now with people who would berate the behavior in people like Bakugou, and accept that he can speak out his thoughts and what Bakugou did is not right.

But years of long bullying doesn't magically disappear just like that.

Izuku still needs more work to do to get that broken self-esteem back, but he's making progress, at least.

On the other hand, the additional training with Oz's Agency does, in fact, help build Izuku's body and All Might notes that he may be able to gain One For All earlier thanks to this and have some more time to get used to using One For All.

Izuku did help clean up Dagobah beach in his spare time after he is done with training in Oz's agency after all.

"Izu Nii-san!"

They heard the call of two younger voices getting closer and they turned to the owner.

"Keita! Mitsuki!" Izuku greeted the two young boys as she smiled at them.

Keita and Mitsuki are two young boys in elementary who were taking the part time job program in the agency.

Their mother is sick from overworking while their father passed years before so they took the part time job program to help their mother.

Sora felt that it's a sad thought that children who should be enjoying childhood had to work hard for a living but Keita and Mitsuki had each other to go through the hard days and seeing how they are both cheerful, she is glad that they can still enjoy their childhood just a little.

"How are you doing?" She greets them.

"We're doing good!" The two brothers smiled.

"The two chameleon mister's gave us a new support item to use for free!" Keita recounted and showed them the new support item they got.

Mitsuki spoke next. "They also gave us food to share for me, Keita Nii-Chan and mom!"

Sora smiled. "That's great." She placed her hands on the top of the brothers' heads and patted them.

At that moment, the familiar feeling of her quirk activating shoot through her mind.

But there was no images or anything, just the pants of a child followed by the child's words.

"-elp... Keita Nii-Chan! Mom! Help!"

That voice... Mitsuki?

It's now followed by another vision, this time, she had a clear view of where Mitsuki was. Mitsuki used his quirk of creating water balloons through his own personal water consumption and used them as distraction from his pursuer, a man with a cow-like appearance.

As the pursuer kept chasing, Mitsuki keeps running. "...Help... Keita Nii-Chan! Mom! Help!"

And just like that, the vision ends.

"Sora Nee-chan?" The brothers called for her in concern.

She must have unconsciously kept her hold on the brothers' hair tighter in response to the visions.

She let go and shook her head. "Sorry, I end up letting myself worry about something." She looked at them in the eye. "Be careful on your way home, alright? Always stick together and don't talk to strangers too much."

The brothers nodded, smiling at her. "Okay!"

Smiles still on their lips, the brothers left, talking about the food the Kageto brothers gave them.

She stood and Izuku asked, worry laced in his tone. "Did you see something that will involve the two brothers being in danger?"

She nodded reluctantly. "Mostly Mitsuki. And what I saw is something that will most likely happen in the future."

"...Should we ask Oz-sensei to add more adult supervision on them?"

She shook her head. "No, we don't know when it will happen. I just pray that it won't happen to them so soon."

She adds. "But I did see the one that chased after Mitsuki though... it's an older man who looks like a cow."

"A cow villain?"

She nods.

"There hadn't really been any villains like that unless that villain had been hiding from public eye for so long..."

Izuku then suggested. "We'll check on them tomorrow. We still need to show Shinsou around."

Sora nodded.

But she can't let go of her worry.


Shinsou decided to give the apprenticeship a trial go before he applied for it full since he still needs to think about it but he did decide to come with Sora the next day to see how training is like in the agency.

Izuku and Sora are now with Shinsou talking about their training.

"Mostly, it's physical training since we are going to fight against villains, sometimes, quirks can only help so much. And Oz-sensei told us that the U.A entrance exam has the physical part as the most taxing part of the exam and where the fate of your placement in U.A's hero course lies on. That said, there is nothing in their rules saying that support items are banned from use in the exam..."

"Huh, that's given me some food for thought. That is one loophole found in U.A's physical entrance exam..." Shinsou comments on her explanation.

"Oz-sensei also prepared us physically since one of the teachers in the hero course is apparently Eraserhead? He had really high standards and does physical testings to students coming to his class..."

"...Eraserhead, you say?" She can see Shinsou perking up at the mention of Eraserhead as Izuku continued to explain for her.

She picked up enough of Shinsou's habits after a month to figure out that Shinsou is a huge fan of the underground hero in a contrast to Izuku's idolization of All Might.

Shinsou may not admit it too loud but she knows enough that Shinsou really liked that hero.

When she caught sight of the bulletin board nearby, she explains.

"Oh, so here's the bulletin board for part-time jobs. It's mostly the simple errand stuffs but heroes these days would rather do villain busting over simple helping. Oz-sensei thought that it'll be good for us since you get to help people and the people you help will be one of your supporters in your career as a hero one day for this, so it's a win-win situation. You need to show the apprentice ID if you're not an official hero yet though."

"Neat." Shinsou simply commented.

"Hey you three!" The three now turn to the direction of their caller, it's Takeshi.

"Takeshi-Senpai." She greeted.

"You're on time! They just updated the villain hunting board for the apprentices and staff to see!" Takeshi told them.

Right near to the part-time jobs board, is the villain hunting board for the heroes of the agency.

The board covers villains that are often considered minor by the public at large. There are big name villains as well, but they're rare.

At least according to Takeshi-Senpai.

Apprentices aren't allowed to take on them yet until they advanced further into the apprenticeship because suicidal overconfidence is not good for a young apprentice. But they are free game for heroes.

This is also how smaller-time heroes who are not affiliated into the agency are able to sustain themselves.

"Let's give it a look Asahina, I'm curious to what the agency's villain hunting board covers, and it seems like Midoriya went ahead anyway."

She turned and saw that Izuku is indeed, heading his way to the villain hunting board already.

Izuku often check on the villain hunting board and take notes on the villains.

Since he is encouraged to let his analysis be shared here in the agency, he also give tips to how to defeat and be prepared to fight against the villain. He's gotten a lot of praise from the agency's own heroes for his skills and they are all looking forward to see him share his analysis more.

Of course, the fact that Izuku is quirkless (currently), isn't too well known for the heroes of Oz's agency because they didn't stick too long to see the apprentices. Oz-sensei purposefully didn't say it until Izuku is ready because it's his choice to reveal it, not Oz-sensei.

When she got there with Shinsou and Takeshi-Senpai, she noticed that Izuku is staring fixatedly at one part of the board, his body is trembling as he did so.

"Izuku?"

"Sora... look at that poster." He pointed, fingers shaky. She followed his finger and then saw-

"Kudano Ran

Quirk: Kudan

Explanation: His ability lets him see the future and mimics that of the mythical Kudan, but at the cost of each future fulfilled, he'll lose some years of his life span.

Threat level: B

Weakness: Despite his stature and bovine-like appearance, he is actually physically frail and only loses the bovine aspects of his appearance after his quirk activates. He only used his default bovine appearance to catch people off guard and prevent them from discovering his weakness.

Crimes:

Fraud: Falsifying his predictions of the future to ruin others so he can survive. He mostly send his victims off to be slaves of the underworld."

It's the man that was chasing after Mitsuki in her vision!


"Sora!" There goes Midoriya Izuku, chasing after Asahina Sora.

"Asahina! Midoriya! Wait!" There goes Shinsou Hitoshi, chasing after the two.

And there stood Tanaka Takeshi, confused at the events that transpired.

A bird flew away from the scene.


Torikawa Chou, who is currently with Oz and a visiting hero, saw the approach of one of the many birds he stationed in the agency.

As the bird chirps, he spoke to Oz.

"...Something about the updated villain board seem to upset Asahina and Midoriya, causing them to leave the building. Shinsou Hitoshi seems to be following them in worry."

"Asahina and Midoriya? The two new shining stars of your agency's apprentice program?" The visiting hero in question wonders.

"...Momoi Takuma, did you spill the beans about our apprentices to Hawks again? It's bad enough that some of our shining apprentices now work in his agency instead."

"You're just being a stick in the mud." Said hero retorted.


She had to find them. She can't let that future happen.

With the thoughts running in her mind, she ran, to find where Keita and Mitsuki were.

She had to hurry, she can't let anything bad happen to them.

Not if she can do something about it...!

As soon as she spotted the blue haired boy a good distance away from Oz's agency, she called. "Keita!"

Keita turned to her and from the looks of his panicked and fraidful eyes, it seems that she's too late.

"Sora Nee-chan..."

She took in a breath, calming herself down before she walked towards the younger boy, kneeling down to his eye leven and questioned. "What happened? Where's Mitsuki?"

"We were walking to the agency from school, Mitsuki followed behind me earlier on the way... but I looked back after I realize I hadn't heard him and saw him following a big, scary cow man!"

...No...

"Can you tell me where Mitsuki went?"

"Wait!"

They turned and saw Izuku catching up to where they were, followed by Shinsou lagging behind him.

"Finally... caught up..." Shinsou heaved, feeling heavily taxed from chasing after her and possibly Izuku.

"Sora, are you planning to deal with that villain on your own?"

"...I'm prepared. I didn't buy all those support items for nothing."

"But-"

"I'm not leaving Mitsuki be! Not if I can do something about it!"


"Sora..."

This... this is the first time that Izuku saw Sora being so determined and resolute of something.

Sora rarely spoke of things she wanted, only believing in actually earning for them than getting it from someone else.

She's getting better with the simple stuff like asking for more helpings with food lately so she now had a healthier weight. But that's it.

Now? Sora's eyes look determined for one thing. Determined to save Mitsuki from the future she saw.

In good conscience, he would have done the same but...

No.

He's not going to leave Sora alone on this.

"If you're going, then I'm going too."

Shinsou sounded incredulous as he implored, he must have thought that he had grown a head by saying that to Sora. "Midoriya, are you serious?"

He turned to the purple haired boy. Answering. "I can't leave Sora alone on this Shinsou."

Sora's his friend and sister in all but blood, he isn't going to leave her alone.

He now turned back to Keita. "Keita, can you tell me and Sora where you saw them?"

"O- oh! They went over that way!"

Keita pointed at the direction where he previously saw his brother and the cow villain.

He eyed Sora and gave her a nod. Sora nodded back in response.

"Keita, call the police or any hero available back in the agency, we're going."

"Huh? But-"

"Let's go Sora!"

He beckoned and Sora gave him a nod of agreement as they stood and ran.

They didn't hear Shinsou trying to call for them.

Hopefully, they won't be too late.


"Right... this looks like a place suspicious enough." Sora commented as they stood in front of an alleyway.

Izuku and Sora asked locals if they saw a cow man or Mitsuki after Keita showed them the direction to where he last saw Mitsuki.

From their testimony, they could guess that it hasn't been long since Mitsuki followed the villain.

"But we're going to need a plan just in case we have to fight that villain." Izuku suggested.

She gave him the cue to continue and he elaborated.

"We're fighting possibly a villain that can see the future... from what I briefly saw of his quirk, he turns human when he saw a future but it seems that just like the mythical Kudan, he can only see the future of others instead of his own future. He's likely going to see our futures and make attempts to prevent that... from the notes I saw of his victims, it seems that his quirk only works with eye contact. There's also the chance that it also only works for one person."

Izuku asked. "Did you bring all the support items you bought from Dokuro-san?"

"Pretty much." She showed him her belt bag, a gift she recently received from Inko-san during a shopping spree.

"...You really brought it with you everywhere."

That was the most deadpan tone that she ever heard of Izuku. She would have laughed if they are not in a time crunch right now. She's just happy that Izuku is getting better.

She started putting the support items on her bags mainly for self defense. You never know when you need them.

That, and fingerless gloves on both her hands. Another gift from Inko-san.

In the past month, she and Izuku also experimented on her quirk to test her limits and found that the visions she see's can be limited if her hands are covered, but even a contact with her finger is still enough to trigger a vision through her quirk, albeit, they are weaker than it had been had her hands were uncovered.

So Inko-san got her fingerless gloves.

"I'd like to call myself being sufficiently prepared." She answered.

"...Right. What do you have?"

"A taser, bubble blower that is actually a flamethrower in disguise, a spray can filled with powdered pepper, another spray can consisting of sleep inducing powder, caltrops-"

"O- Okay good enough!"

He didn't let her finish. Meanie.

She haven't introduced him the hydro pump like water gun that is shaped like a toy gun and the other stuff she managed to get with her savings.

But they're on a time crunch now. They can't afford to get delayed.

"Alright, I'll give you some of the support items, I bought some of them double just in case."

Right after she gave some of the support items, she took off the fingerless gloves on one hand and touched the wall, activating her quirk.

She and Izuku got a kid to find.


Mitsuki was approached by a scary cow man when his brother walked ahead, too immersed in talking to notice him.

The scary cow man claims to be a fortune teller and promised to tell him of a way that would help mommy and he agreed.

He forgot to tell his brother that he is following the scary cow man who promised to help mommy so when he followed the man all the way to a dark place.

It was when he noticed the surroundings the cow man brought him that he realized how far he is from where his brother was.

"Keita Nii-chan?"

He turned, calling for his brother.

Seeing the dark place he is in, he then turned back to the cow man who is smiling in a way that seemed eerie.

"Sorry boy, your big brother isn't here right now."

No...

"I wasn't lying about giving you a way to help your mommy though." At that, the man showed him a box. He doesn't want to know what's inside the box, he's too scared to ask.

"These are stuff that are not for kids but what a good friend of mine wanted. I can't get to see my friend because we got on a bad foot the last time we met so I want you to deliver them to the guy for me in name of an apology, nothing could go wrong with having a kid to do the job, yeah? I'll pay you a good amount of money for it."

No!

He wants his brother and mommy!

Mitsuki used his quirk and shoot a water filled balloon at the cow man's face.

He started running as soon as the water balloon made contact to the face, throwing off some more water balloons to distract him as he made his way out of the dark maze.

He can hear the sound of more steps echo-ing throughout the walls of the dark alleyway other than his own.

The cow man is following him now.

In his panic and fear, he can only run and make as much water balloons as he could to distract him.

"...Help... Keita Nii-Chan! Mom! Help!"

"Mitsuki! Jump!"

He heard someone called for him but in his fear, he can only oblige to the command as he did so.

Just as he did jump a good distance away from where he was, he turned back to see the cowman tripping onto a rope and got electrified for his trouble.


Izuku saw a metallic looking rope among the support items that Sora bought from the support item section as Sora used his notebook to make a map for the directions they need to go to find Mitsuki.

He picked the extra flame-thrower, spray can, taser from the many items on the ground. Sora put them on the ground for him to browse for what he wants to bring when he noticed the electric wire.

"Dokuro-san said that it's meant to match with the taser as a makeshift trap for thieves ransacking the house, apparently. You set up the ropes and stick it in between the spaces of two walls, and turn the taser on it. The rope was designed to react and conduct electricity. When the rope reached a certain threshold of volts, the rope will act as an anklet that keeps shocking the target until it reached zero volts."

Sora explained as he stared at the rope.

That... that actually sounds cool. He can at least see why Sora was really interested and in awe of Dokuro-san's inventions.

In fact, he actually had a plan in mind with all the support items. There is also an extra pair of electricity insulating gloves. Sora must have bought them in case she got a part-time job to do with electricity involving it.

He can use this.

He looked up and implored. "Have you finished mapping the directions?"

Sora gave him a nod.

He spoke. "I got a plan, so here's what we do..."


Sora guided Izuku the way to where Mitsuki had gone and stopped a good distance away from Mitsuki's actual location.

Izuku got the idea after seeing the electric rope and the two electricity insulating gloves among the many miniature sized but decent amount of support items she put inside the belt bag.

The space they are at currently currently had a four way intersection. Straight ahead is a dead end, at their left is the direction where Mitsuki had gone too, their right is another dead end that leads to an open space in this alleyway (Izuku checked for her as soon as they arrived on the spot), and behind them is the direction they came from.

She switched out her usual gloves for the electricity insulating gloves and Izuku had worn his pair of gloves.

Bringing out the rope, they held on one side of the rope's endings and knelt on the ground.

They stayed in that position for a good few minutes until they heard Mitsuki's call for help.

And Sora called. "Mitsuki! Jump!"

Mitsuki obeyed and jump on the rope as she took out the taser from her belt bag, turning it on and place it near the rope. Electrifying the cow man as he tripped.


As Sora kept the electricity on the rope running, Izuku turned his head to Mitsuki.

"Mitsuki! Are you okay?"

"Izu Nii-san...?"

He gave a small nod to the fearful boy.

"Yes, it's me. On your left is the way back to the district, keep running and don't look back. Keita is waiting for you!"

"Wha- but how about you-"

"We'll be okay! We're going to hold this man back! Go!"

Mitsuki oblige and ran ahead.

When he did so, he turned to Sora, who let go of the rope and turned the taser off.

Her hand touched the ground and her eyes turned glassy and blank, just like the many times her quirk activated. In two seconds, Sora shouted. "We're running to your left, he's getting up!"

He stood and make a run for it together with her.


"Izuku, do you have a plan just in case we had to fight him?"

Sora questioned him as they made their way through the alleyway.

He only thought of the possibility. He hadn't thought that far in this plan. He was praying for luck that the villain will be out with the electric shock but Sora has a point there. It might be good to have back-up plans.

Sora seems to have an idea. "I got a few suggestions for that possibility and we did have some other support items to help us fight..."


When the villain is on their line of sight when they stopped at the open space, surrounded by big trash cans. The cow man growled. "You sure had a lot of nerve trying to play hero, brats."

They said nothing as they shook their spray cans filled with grounded pepper onto his direction. If they let him speak, he's going to use his quirk on them for sure.

Step one: Use the pepper sprays. We don't want him to fully see us and use his quirk. He might have been more vulnerable as a human, but we don't want to take advantage of that. It'll risk having our future be seen by the villain.

The purpose of the pepper sprays are to blind him and stopped him from making any plans.

They're going to keep spraying it until they ran out of ammunition in the spray can.

The stream of spice entering the villain's eyes has him scream in pain, they're going to continue to keep it up that way.

Step two: If there is enough stream of spice to form a cloud, one of us will use the flamethrower and make the clouds of powdered spice combust, if not, switch for the spray can with sleeping powder once either one of us are out of pepper spray ammunition to keep him from opening his eyes any longer than he should. I think we should go for the second scenario, an explosion can cause property damage and we might get caught in the blast.

They both switched out for the second spray can when they felt that the pepper filled spray can is empty.

This continued for a few good minutes, the villain ducked to ground as the torrent of sprays kept going, aimed towards him.

Until Sora felt herself being yanked off her footing and saw the cow villain grabbing her by the ankle and is about to pull her down.

Step three: Should he make a grab of any of us, most likely by our feet, switch out the spray can for the flamethrower. The heat will be enough to get him off guard.

As soon as Sora fell, Izuku placed his spray can on the pocket of his pants and took out the flamethrower disguised as a bubble blower and aimed for the villain's hands.

The sudden sensation of heat was enough to have him release his grip on Sora's ankle and urge her to kick off the hand, she stepped on it once for good measure before she stepped back, taking out her own spray can of sleeping powder.

Step four: If he tried to stand up after the onslaught of attacks on him, prepare to use the sleep powder spray can again. If that doesn't work or if you ran out of ammunition, have the flamethrower on hand.

"Sora, are you okay?" Izuku asked her.

Sora murmured a "Yes" as they watched the downed villain struggling to get up.

"You... are annoying..."

"So I've heard."

Said a new voice coming from behind the villain.

"Who-"

"Go to sleep."

Just like that, the villain's knee's buckled and he fell flat to the ground. Sora and Izuku looked up to the owner of the voice.

"...Shinsou?"


Despite his exhaustion for catching up to Asahina earlier, Shinsou decided that he is going to follow Asahina.

It's mostly out of concern that she'd do something crazy and hurt herself.

Asahina showed way more emotion than usual at the idea of the little brother of the two kids being in danger and he finds himself worried about what she would have done.

Then Midoriya decided to go with his adoptive sister.

He may have known Midoriya for a day, but he had a feeling that Midoriya would do something reckless.

There's also something odd in the way Asahina reacted to the situation. He thought through to why and how Asahina reacted the way she did and eventually came to a conclusion as soon as he resolved to follow after Asahina and Midoriya.

So Shinsou told the kid, Keita. "Get back to the agency, I'm going after them."

"But-"

"Please. The faster we get back-up, the better. Alright?"

He's not good with kids if he had to be honest, but he can at least manage this much.

Keita nods as he ran over to Oz's agency.

Once Keita is a good distance away from him, Shinsou strided to the direction Keita pointed at, still exhausted from the run earlier, and then asked the people around for Midoriya and Asahina.

It was easier to ask about them than to ask about a kid he has yet to meet.

He followed the directions the locals gave him, all are locals that Midoriya and Asahina happen to ask if they see a missing kid and a yet to be known to locals villain.

Then he found his way to a very suspicious looking alleyway and caught a glimpse of Midoriya and Asahina heading further in.

He followed after them discreetly a good distance behind but got lost in the maze of intersections after a good few minutes.

He was about to retrace his steps after he got lost for the third time until he felt something bumping into him and turned to see a kid, a kid that looked like Keita. He must be the missing kid that Asahina and Midoriya are worried about.

Before he could panic, he asked the boy first. "Calm down kid, your brother's safe, back in Oz's agency."

"You- You know Keita Nii-chan!?"

"...Yes. Sorry but where is Midoriya and Asahina?"

The boy pointed over to where he came from. He gave a nod and headed that way, ignoring the kid who called for him.

Vaguely, he heard screams of pain from a voice he couldn't recognize echo-ing further in the area... is it the villains?

He followed the voice and made turns, arriving just in time to see Midoriya pulling out a bubble blower that shot out fire over at the villain that ducked on ground and one hand is grabbing onto Asahina's ankle.

What the heck.

Asahina told him that the local support item inventor in the agency made crazy but fun innovations, but not this crazy.

A bubble blower that is a flamethrower in disguise is just a bit way out there for him.

If it weren't for the situation, he would have find the thought hilarious.

Asahina took the moment to yank her feet away from the grip and stood up, stepping onto said hand as well before she moved away and place herself in a stance.

Said villain struggled to stand up after Asahina and Midoriya stood back a bit from the villain. The villain choked out. "You... are annoying..."

He replied at that same moment. "So I've heard."

Said villain responded. "Who-"

"Go to sleep."


Sora couldn't help wonder why Shinsou is here. At her confusion (And possibly Izuku's confusion as well), Shinsou answered. "I got worried for you both and decided to look for you. It seems like you guys almost had the situation under control though."

Almost.

Yeah, the villain was about to stand up and they were about to go for step four of their plan on the villain once more.

The villain almost took a good look at them and is likely going to use his quirk on them.

Shinsou arriving just as he did really saved them.

"Alright but what the hell is up with you Asahina? You and Midoriya both seem to recognize the villain when you saw the villain hunting board earlier."

...Uh.

"Nothing, I just got real worried." She fibbed.

"...There's something else with your psychometry quirk, isn't there?"

She paused as Shinsou implored her. At her silence, Shinsou elaborated. Izuku didn't seem to be replying either. She had a feeling that it's due to the question catching him off guard.

"You seem real worried about the Keita kid's little brother and went looking for the two kids right after you saw the cow villain on the board. What strike me as odd is that you and Midoriya both seem to know that the kids, the little brother especially, seems to be the villain's next target."

He paused for a moment before concluding. "So before I decided to follow after you both, I got thinking about this and come to the conclusion that there's more to your quirk than just plain psychometry and it actually works on living beings as well. And you may have the power to see both past and the future. While it is very rare to have the ability to see both the past and the future, I'm convinced that it's the case due to the points I talked about earlier. Am I making sense so far?"

...He nailed it.

"...Yeah. You got most of it right." She quietly affirmed his suspicion.

Shinsou let out a sigh in response, taking in a breath before exhaling. "Honestly, part of me is pissed that you lied about how your quirk actually works." Shinsou then added. "But considering what I had gathered about what your quirk does, I can at least understand why you decided to keep the full nature of your quirk a secret."

"Shinsou..."

He then turned to Izuku. "You knew about it too right? And kept it a secret as well."

Izuku feebly nodded.

"Huh, good thing I arrived then."

All three of them now looked at the new speaker. She can hear Izuku starting to go into fanboy mode.

"Number three hero, Hawks!?"

Said hero grinned. "Yo! I happened to visit my good friend, Oz today and check the kids in his apprentice program. I volunteered to check on you three in their stead when you three head out of the agency so here I am."

"You're friends with Oz-sensei!?"

Hawks laughed. "Haha! Yep. He and I had similar ideas about heroics and we hit it off since our first meeting!"

Hawks expression then morphed to a serious one as he started. "Anyway," he turned to her. "Asahina Sora, right?"

She nodded.

"I get the idea of wanting to keep your powers from being exploited but you might want to talk to Oz and Torikawa about it. Torikawa noticed that something is odd when he was informed of you three leaving."

...Oh.

"Yeah, Oh." Hawks then explained. "Torikawa's quirk lets him talk to birds, and since most people won't bat an eye on birds, they are perfect for information gathering. That's how Torikawa got information for villains on the villain hunting board and request for the part time job bulletin board to start with. So if any of the birds he stationed notice something odd on their watch, they'd all inform Torikawa immediately."

...Oh.

"I think you should be fine though. Every single person working under Oz are all good, genuine people. They can keep a secret or two." Hawks reassured her and then smiled. "Well! I'll need your help to carry this guy out of this alley before I turn him in to the police."

"...Huh?" All three of them simultaneously voiced out.

"It wasn't easy heading in here with my wings squished you know?"

"...No, I mean, you're taking the credit? Hawks?" Izuku implored.

Hawks shrugged. "Yeah, I don't mind if any of you want it but I'm pretty sure you'd rather prioritize Asahina's safety to keep her from being exploited by selfish jerks because of her quirk, right?"

Well... he has a point in that.

"So yeah, I'm good at coming up with covers and playing with loopholes so I don't mind taking the credit for your capture."

Hawks grinned. "Now let's get out of here. Shall we?"


The villain was taken by nearby policemen and the case was handled as quietly as it would to keep the involvement of Izuku, Shinsou and Sora herself hidden and untold to the media should they catch the news.

Hawks told them that he got Mitsuki to call for the police in his behest and Hawks would later request the police officer that answered to keep quiet about their involvement. The police officer that answered Mitsuki's call, a man she vaguely heard to be named Tsukauchi, agreed to Hawks' request.

Hawks then left after he gave Izuku his autograph with a grin and they stood, watching the police car leave, Hawks flying away soon after. Mitsuki had been quiet a little after the police asked him some questions and now he is standing beside Izuku.

The silence that followed was broken by a call. "Mitsuki!"

The boy turned, his eyes brim with tears. "Keita Nii-chan!"

The brothers embraced each other as they cry.

Sora found herself smiling as Keita and Mitsuki are reunited.

Izuku nudged on her arm and beckoned her. "Let's go Sora. We may have some explaining to do for Oz-sensei and Torikawa-san."

Ah, right.

She wasn't sure if she's ready but she recalls Hawks telling her that everyone in Oz's agency are good people.

She nods in response as she, Izuku, Shinsou, and the brothers made their way back to Oz's agency.


"...Someone found out the truth about Young Sora's quirk?" Yagi Toshinori answered in the quiet office, surprise was evident.

"Yes. We got lucky though. Hero Hawks agreed to keep it a secret from the media and the student with Midoriya-kun and Asahina-san also agreed to keep the truth about her quirk a secret. The villain involved knew nothing about her quirk nor the fact that Midoriya-kun is quirkless. Hawks is one of the good heroes and so is Oz so I'm sure that they can keep it underwraps... but Toshinori, I'm not sure if we'd be as lucky in the future. We'll have to reveal the true nature of Asahina-san's quirk someday if things get really out of hand."

"...I see. I understand. Thank you good friend."

He ended the call. He lets out a sigh as he recall the conversation.

He knows that the possibility of someone finding out about the cover would be inevitable, but he didn't think that it'd happen so soon.

Young Sora's psychometric ability of seeing the past and future of living beings and objects is a sure game-breaker in a world of quirks.

Even if she can't completely control what she see's with her quirk, it had the potential to save others as well as endanger them.

It's a gift and a bane of existence all the same.

He couldn't help but worry, but it was because he's worried that he tries to communicate more with Young Sora and Young Midoriya as much as he could.

To guide them with their powers and strength.

On the other hand, he was also glad to know that Young Sora had a good heart as she used her powers to save someone's future.

He doesn't want to think about what fate the poor young boy would fall into if Young Sora and Young Midoriya failed to save him.


"...A quirk that can see both the past and the future, triggered through touching both living beings and objects?"

Sora and Izuku nodded at Torikawa's question.

"...I see. So you must have seen that Mizuno Mitsuki is the next target of the villain, Kudano Ran, and out of worry, you dash out of the agency to stop him?"

They nodded again.

Torikawa kept quiet. Oz hasn't said a word as they talked about why Sora reacted the way she did earlier in the day.

Right with the other apprentices around them hearing them out.

Keita and Mitsuki had gone home after they said their gratitude to her, Izuku, and Shinsou with one of the agency's heroes accompanying them back home.

Oz then broke the silence. "Okay!"

...Wha?

"Admittedly, that was reckless of you to run like that, but from what you told us, I say that you two make a great team! You were able to hold off a B-Rank villain pretty well!"

Oz's smile morphed to a smaller one, but it gave an understanding air. "And I can understand why Asahina-chan would make a cover for her quirk. There's a lot of potential in her quirk that would be dangerous if it's placed in the wrong hands."

Then Oz turned to Shinsou. "And you did amazing, Shinsou-kun. You use your quirk to save Asahina-chan and Midoriya-kun from more trouble, and I say that's the makings of a hero in my book!"

Shinsou looked flabbergasted as Oz said so. "Wha- me?"

"Yep!"

Oz then shifted his attention back to Sora. "By the way, Asahina-chan. Mind describing how it looked like for you when your quirk activated?"

She fumbled for a good moment, she didn't expect Oz to ask that. "Huh? Uh- well... whenever I touch someone or something... it will be followed by a high-pitched noise that sounds similar to a scream before the vision of the past or future is registered to my mind..."

Oz gave a wide smile. "Then I'm going to call your quirk "Dimensional Scream"!"

...Huh?

"We all have names for our quirks and it won't be right to call your quirk as psychometry. It works as a cover but we're going to need a different name since your quirk works differently from normal psychometry."

Oz continues to explain. "And I named your quirk as that! "Scream" came from how you hear a noise first and "Dimensional" came from the visions you see and that it requires a touch contact to activate it. The visions represent time and the things and people you touch represent space. So I call it "Dimensional Scream"!"

That... that does make sense.

The silence among the apprentices who had yet to speak a word was broken by Suzune clapping her hand and spoke.

"As expected of Oz-sensei! You gave Sora-san's quirk a meaningful name!"

...Did she just imagine it or did Suzune sound awe-struck as she praised Oz-sensei?

"It does ring a bell better than calling it psychometry..." Kaname-senpai muttered.

"And it sounds cool!" Seijuurou inputted, grinning as he did so.

Then Himawari took that moment to pull her into a bear hug. "Don't worry Sora-chan! We're going to keep your secret safe!"

She turned around and saw Izuku smiling. "It went well."

She couldn't help but smile back.

The rest of training that day was dropped in favor of a video game marathon, Shinsou joining along with them (Read: Seijuurou prevented him from leaving and he doesn't want Shinsou to get left out of the fun).

She and Izuku have to inform Inko-san that they're staying in the agency for the night but for the record, she was happy to know that the rest of the apprentices couldn't care less about the little lie and accept her as part of the family.


"Ooh, game night? I wish I can actually get on one of your game nights with the apprentices again these days but eh, you know, paperwork?"

Oz, otherwise known as Momoi Takuma, laughs as he talked with Hawks on phone. Otherwise known as Shimamura Takato.

"No rest for the number three hero, eh?"

"Wouldn't you know it?"

There was another laugh on both sides of the line and Oz asked. "By the way, is there any reason why you decided to take credit? We got measures in our agency in case one of our apprentices engage in a moment of vigilantism."

"Yeah, I know that... but Asahina's quirk is something that even the authorities would want to keep for themselves and would force her into a place that she would be so against of to start with."

"...Ah, you don't want Asahina-chan to end up like you did, huh."

Momoi Takuma knew how much Hawks was pressured to be a great hero ever since he did a heroic deed as a child and didn't have a choice to be anything else. And that is what connects him to Takuma himself.

While he didn't have it as bad as Hawks did, Takuma became a hero of his own choice and they share similar ideals in what makes a hero. They want heroes to be able to take it easy as well.

They may deviate a little differently but they are both a flock, so to speak.

"Well, even if she did become a hero, I'm sure Asahina-chan's doing it because she wants to. And by the time the truth about her quirk gets out, I'm sure we don't need to worry about the authorities getting their hands on her."

He can hear a sigh on the other line. "That's the best case scenario for sure."

He then smiled and mentioned. "Oh yeah! So there's this new bubble tea shop that just opened up near Osaka and I got a job to do in Osaka in a month..."

Birds of a flock stick together, after all.

If one of them is down, the other will help them pick themselves right back up.


It's been a week since the encounter with the cow villain and Sora herself is humming along the way to Oz's agency.

She had saved up enough money to buy herself her own camera before she went on her way to the agency. Camera on tow.

She had a journal as a daily reminder of things that happened to her two days after she found out about her quirk, but she doesn't think that words are enough and got interested in photography because they make moments to be reminded for eternity in a way that words can't.

And it's a good way to remember the good memories that will happen in the future as well.

When she made her way inside, she came across the rest of the apprentices chattering happily with Shinsou, Oz-sensei and Torikawa-san are there as well.

Shinsou left the agency with a smile but he didn't say anything to Sora about whether or not he decided to take up the apprentice program.

She didn't try to ask him again, no one likes to be goaded too much.

Izuku is running a little late for the day because it's a Saturday and he usually cleans up the trash in Dagobah beach first before he head over to the agency.

"Shinsou?" She called him out, wondering why he is here.

"Yo." He lazily saluted to her. He started explaining. "I got talking to my folks about the apprentice program and after a whole week of talking things out, I decided that I want to join this program."

Oz took that moment to grin and got Shinsou into a headlock. "Yep! From today on, Shinsou-kun is an apprentice of Oz's agency!"

Shinsou grins. "So do take care of me, Asahina."

Sora took that moment to turn on her new camera and take his picture.


Izuku arrived at Oz's agency to see Shinsou chasing after Sora in circles with the other apprentices watching them in amusement.

What did he miss?

He then saw Sora holding something that is like-

A camera!?

He knew Sora had interest in photography but he didn't think that she'd actually buy one without mom's knowledge!

Mom would have been happy to use the massive amount of funds that dad gave them to buy Sora her own camera, or in mom's words, "There's so much I saved up that I felt it will be a waste to not use them.". But it seemed like Sora had other ideas and went on to buy it on her own.

He doesn't know how mom will react at Sora's recent action.

"Cheese!"

"Wha-"

There was the click of a camera that followed and Sora soon ran away as far as she could as Shinsou chased after her.

"Get back here!"

(In the end, they were stopped by Oz before the chase deescalated to continue with training and mom put Sora on food helpings embargo for the week because mom told her many times that it's fine to tell her if she wants something so many times and the embargo is to get her to make her learn that it's really, really fine to ask. While Sora pouted at the reduction of food helpings, Izuku swears that he heard Sora mumbling "Worth it." and sounded proud at it. He can only hope that Sora would let him retake that photo she took of him. Let him have some preparation, okay!?)


1: Ice cream and Cinnamon Roll are a delightfully sweet combo when combined.

2: The Drowzee inspired villain here is based less on the Baku mythology that the Drowzee line is inspired and based on but more on the mythical Japanese Kudan whose myth involves future sight, a move common in Psychic types.

3: Shinsou is already stated as being as smart as Izuku and in a world with a society and government like BNHA... yeah, Sora doesn't have the liberty to keep Dimensional Scream a secret as much as the Player of the PMD Explorer games did. Someone is bound to find out about the cover in one way or another.

4: The kanji I used for Hawks' hypothetical real name is島村 鷹十, read Shimamura Takato.

5: Is Oz having the most pink first impression now a thing? Yes.

That's most of the things for this chapter. See you next time!

- torinokomachi