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A couple that will go down in legend

Chapter twenty-five: Take your child to work day

Ganma Asui walked through the front door of Yaoyorozu Offices, the business that he had worked for since before his first child Tsuyu was born. The frog-like man held one of the glass doors that made up the double doors leading into the business open so that a ten-year-old boy who was with him could enter; said boy had a cast on his right shin, and he had a crutch under each arm to help him get around.

"Well Samidare, my boy," Ganma remarked with a hint of amusement, "What do you think of your old man's place of work?"

The boy, apparently Ganma's son Samidare, looked around with an unreadable expression of boredom on his face. After a few moment, he turned to look up at his father. "…This isn't school."

Ganma chuckled a bit in amusement. "Well today is take your child to work day here, so I figured that I'd bring you along so you could see me in action."

Samidare just continued to look up at his father. The frog boy tugged the straps of his backpack, a light gray number that had a light blue hexagon-shaped patch on the main pouch of the bag with a white silhouette of a flop-eared bunny in the middle. A plushy resembling the dragon form of the pro hero Ryukyu stuck out of the big pouch of the backpack. Samidare also wore a somewhat baggy t-shirt that had an image of Ryukyu on it, and there was a thirty-two ounce metal water bottle in the one water bottle holster on the side of the backpack, and said bottle had an image of the Dragoon Hero on it.

Samidare, apparently a fan of Ryukyu's, simply looked up at his father once more. "There's no math or science to do here," Samidare said simply.

Once more, Ganma could not help but chuckle in amusement; the frog man was thankful that his son was so studious. The ten-year-old Asui boy was actually quite the wiz in his academic subjects at school, so much so that he was actually rather ahead of his class, learning material that put him on par with well-learned students at some high schools. Some of the girls in Tsuyu's class at U.A. have on occasion sought Samidare out as a tutor because of this, as the boy was, in the words of that Mina Ashido girl, 'totally unlike me and the girls' one classmate who was born with a silver spoon shoved firmly up her ass'.

Ganma realized that things might be a tad boring for his son today, as there was no academic assignments for him to work with. Samidare was a bit restless in getting back to school, even more so since he had just recovered enough to go back after some bullies at school shoved him down some stairs, which resulted in Samidare breaking his right shin, hence the cast on his leg and the crutches he's using to get around.

Right after the Asui men got over the main threshold and into Yaoyorozu Offices, they stopped short when Ganma heard someone call out to him in a familiar voice. "Oh! Aren't you Tsuyu's dad?" Ganma, along with a mildly alarmed Samidare who was caught off guard by the sudden call, turned to see three boys from U.A. walk in, accompanied by the pro hero Endeavor. Right when he saw the current number one hero, Samidare let out a clearly frightened yelp as he went to hide behind his father as quick as his injury would allow.

Ganma, after apologizing for his son being skittish, recognized two of the boys as that Izuku boy (who was the one that called out to him) and that Todoroki boy; their friend with the ashy-blonde hair remained unknown to the frog man. "Oh, you boys are some of my daughter's schoolmates over at U.A.," Ganma remarked. He turned his attention to Endeavor, who stood there next to the boys. "I take it that you and other pros are employing the kids for another round of internships?"

"After all that has happened," Endeavor explained as he gestured to the Asui patriarch, "What with the monster attack and the recent attack by a mysterious group of men on U.A. itself, there has been more of a need than ever to get the next generation of heroes ready for whatever may come their way." The Flame Hero heard the frightened, panicked mewing of the boy he saw run to hide behind the frog man. Endeavor's expression dropped a bit, feeling that he may be the reason for the boy's fright. "I…take it your child isn't exactly my biggest fan in the world."

Ganma let out a sigh, nodded once in confirmation. "…My apologizes, Endeavor. It's just that Samidare here frightens easily."

"What a surprise," Todoroki remarked dryly in an unreadable tone as he crossed his arms over his chest, "My father frightens small children merely by being around." The half-and-half boy turned to regard his pro hero father. "…Seriously. You need to work on your image if small kids run in terror whenever you come around. Parents won't like it if pros frighten their kids."

Endeavor, surprisingly enough, sulked a bit in a defeated manner, sighing in a likewise tone. "I know, Shoto. It's especially important since image is part of what heroes need to consider when they come to help the innocent."

"Oh, that reminds me," Ganma remarked, getting the hero and intern heroes to face him. "Is there a reason why you all are here?"

The ashy-blonde boy Ganma didn't recognize scoffed. "Half-n-half's dad says that we need to meet with the boss here because of something he has to investigate. Half-n-half, Deku and I came along to watch a pro hero in action on a case."

"The Bakugo lad is right," Endeavor said, "We'll need to speak with whoever is running this business here so that we can move on to the next step of our case."

"A secretary can take you to meet with Mr. Hojo," Ganma replied, "He's the business manager here. Mr. Hojo has been running this company since before I was hired on over fifteen years ago." With a bit of an amused smirk on his face, Ganma said, "I heard rumor that Mr. Hojo was personally hired to the position by Ryoga Yaoyorozu himself."

Bakugo's expression lit up a bit out of piqued interest before he turned to face Izuku and Todoroki. "…Oi, ain't that the name of rich girl's daddy?"

Todoroki and Izuku both nodded in confirmation, and the latter was the first to speak up. "Yes, Kacchan, that's the name of Yaoyorozu's father."

"I have actually met Ryoga Yaoyorozu once before," Endeavor said, "Shortly after I had been officially named as the number one pro hero. He had a proposition for me that I turned down as it went against a lot of what I was coming to realize as I was getting used to being the pillar that the people look to for support." Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo looked curious that Endeavor had actually turned down Japan's richest man for something, but Ganma was particularly shocked.

"You…you turned down an offer that Ryoga Yaoyorozu made you." The shock in the frog man's tone could not be hidden, or mistaken for anything else.

"It conflicted with what I was coming to realize, like I said," Endeavor remarked, "Besides, such an offer, if I did accept it, would have made multiple people rather upset with me." Without even looking, Endeavor jerked a thumb at his youngest child. "Shoto here would have been the most upset with me if I had accepted that offer." The half-and-half boy went a bit wide-eyed when he heard that he was a reason why his father turned down an offer made by Yaoyorozu's father, and he began to wonder just what said offer was.

Ganma nodded a few times as he considered the Flame Hero's words. "Well, I ought to find a secretary to take you up to Mr. Hojo now," Ganma said with a bow of his head. After Ganma walked away, leading a skittish Samidare, Izuku, Todoroki, Bakugo and Endeavor waited for a bit until the Asui men came back, leading a slender, mid-twenties female secretary; she was dressed as one would count on of a woman in the position, and her jet black hime-cut long hair was interrupted only by a pair of snow white horns coming up from her head, similar to the horns Mina had. An obvious sign of a mutation quirk.

After introducing the secretary to the heroes, Ganma said that she could lead them up to the top floor, where Mr. Hojo would be waiting. Endeavor thanked the company employees on behalf of the whole group before he and his interns turned to go up to the top floor with the secretary. After Endeavor and his interns were out of sight, Ganma could hear his son behind him let out a relieved sigh. The frog man turned his head, saw his still-frightened looking son trembling a bit.

Ganma wasn't going to hold Samidare being scared of Endeavor against the boy.


"You turned down an offer that Mr. Yaoyorozu made you," the secretary remarked as she led Endeavor up to meet with Mr. Hojo. Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo followed along behind the current number one pro hero as he and the secretary talked. "I'm surprised that anyone would turn down an offer that Mr. Yaoyorozu made. In fact, if you don't mind sharing, what was the offer that you turned down?"

"Ryoga wanted to arrange a marriage between his daughter Momo and my son Shoto."

Izuku and his friends all stopped and let out surprised cries when they heard what Endeavor had just said; Todoroki was the most surprised of all of the boys. The secretary was similarly as shocked, and she asked the Flame Hero for more. "It was just after I was officially recognized as the number one pro hero. Ryoga figured that it would look good for his family or whatever if the Yaoyorozu name was attached to the number one hero in some notable way. Thus, he met with me and offered his daughter's hand in marriage to my son Shoto."

"And…" Shoto spoke up, surprised to have heard all of this just now, "…You turned him down."

Enji turned around to regard his son, shot him a sympathetic look. "…I did not want to put you into a situation where you'd be at risk to do what I did, Shoto. Besides, I figured that both you and that Momo girl in your class ought to make certain choices yourselves, rather than have old idiots like me and Ryoga force the two of you into a union that neither of you agreed to."

The half-and-half boy literally could not believe his ears; his father, who had forced an arranged marriage between himself and Shoto's mother Rei, refused to agree to setting up an arranged marriage between Shoto and his classmate Yaoyorozu. Was the Flame Hero truly trying to become a better person? Seeing the look of surprise on his son's face, Endeavor smirked a bit in amusement before he spoke once more.

"…Besides. I think that I'd prefer to have that Yanagi girl as my daughter-in-law."

All confusion and surprise fled Todoroki as it was replaced with embarrassment. Izuku was also embarrassed for Todoroki's sake, but Bakugo just pointed and laughed at Todoroki. "Holy crap, Half-n-half! Your dad just used your crush on ghost girl in 1-B to tease you!"

"Not now, Bakugo," Todoroki managed to growl at the ashy-haired boy, who nonetheless went on laughing at his classmate, with said laughing doubled when the smirk that Enji had on his face had pretty much confirmed that Bakugo had correctly guessed the truth.

The secretary smiled at the relaxed air that Endeavor and his interns gave off. "I'm glad that you all aren't being uber stiff and formal," the secretary remarked, "We've had pros here before on various cases, but they were always up tight. I guess that comes with the territory when working on a case in one of the many businesses under Ryoga Yaoyorozu's ownership."

Endeavor nodded in agreement with the secretary, but he stopped short when he saw something out of the corner of his eye. Looking over, the Flame Hero saw two children, one a girl and the other a boy with blue skin and a pair of white stubby horns growing out of his forehead, talking to one another. Endeavor pointed this out to the secretary and made a comment. "There are a good number of children here, it seems."

"Oh, today is take your child to work day here," the secretary explained, "So a number of employees here brought their kids along. You saw Ganma's son Samidare earlier down on the ground floor, correct?"

"Yes, I saw the boy earlier." Endeavor nodded once, a look of mild regret on his face. "I still cannot believe that I'm so unapproachable for children. Some hero I am."

The secretary gently shook her head. "No need to worry about Samidare, Endeavor," the secretary said, "He just frightens easily is all."

"Oh, I noticed that Samidare had a plushy of Ryukyu's dragon from sticking out of his backpack," Izuku remarked, "I also saw that he wore a Ryukyu shirt, and that he had a metal water bottle with Ryukyu on it."

Turning to regard the green-eyed boy, the secretary nodded a few times in confirmation. "Yes, Ganma has mentioned to me once when I asked about it that the Dragoon Hero is his son's favorite pro hero."

"Boys tend to fan boy over the pro hero men, like Edgeshot or Fat Gum. Hell, I've even heard that Gang Orca is starting to get something of a following in the children," Bakugo remarked, crossing his arms over his chest. The explosive teen gave a gentle shake of his head as he considered what he had just heard. "It's not every day you hear of a boy that kid's age favoring a female pro hero over one who is male."

"We've had enough time to chat," Endeavor declared, "Right not, we need to meet with this Hojo fellow so we can get a grasp on the situation that we're here to investigate." Izuku and the others all nodded in agreement with the current number one pro hero, and proceeded to follow the secretary over to Mr. Hojo's office, to see exactly what it was that they needed to do on their current assignment.


Samidare was rather bored to be honest. There was no math or science work for him to do, so the ten-year-old boy was getting a bit restless. The only thing that broke up the monotony for him was when he had to get up and go use the restroom. Luckily for him, he remembered passing by one with his father on the way to his father's cubicle so watch him in action at work. With a little bit of difficulty due to his injury, Samidare was able to get up and go to the restroom.

After he did what he had to do and washed his hands afterwards, Samidare left the men's restroom, his backpack with the Ryukyu plushy sticking out of it worn over his back like always. As he hobbled along on his crutches, the sole Asui brother passed by a workroom that the door to which was open. Samidare paused when he heard two men inside say various words and talk about various matters that could only mean one thing.

People were working on math inside.

His interest piqued, Samidare turned to enter the workroom right when the two men that were inside got up and left for a lunch break, with neither men ever seeing Samidare enter. The ten-year-old boy hobbled over on his crutches as he spotted where the work papers laid. He saw the writings of the two men that had left for a lunch break, saw the arithmetic that would make even a high schooler's head spin. But it came as natural as breathing to Samidare. So much so that with only a brief glance, the sole Asui brother said the first thing that was on his mind.

"They did their math wrong."

Without prompting, Samidare proceeded to sit down at the table, gathered up some of the papers, and after taking out a mechanical pencil from his backpack, proceeded to get to work.


Mr. Renji Hojo was a balding, middle-aged quirkless man who had been in charge of running Yaoyorozu Offices since he was hired personally to the position by Ryoga Yaoyorozu a bit over seventeen years ago. He was dressed as one would expect of a man in his position, too; gray business suit with matching suit pants, a white dress shirt worn under the suit jacket, a black tie around his neck, and black shiny dress shoes. Renji could only remember two times in his entire life when he had paled a bit out of nervousness; one was when he met Ryoga the day that he was hired to run Yaoyorozu Offices, and the other was happening right now as the number one pro hero Endeavor stood in his office.

"…So things have been going that badly, huh?" Enji remarked after he and his interns were given the full story by Hojo.

The manager of Yaoyorozu offices let out a resigned, troubled sigh. "Indeed it is, I'm afraid. This company's been slowly hemorrhaging money for over the last twelve years, even though our earnings should have made that an impossibility. What's more is that we've recently been receiving threats from some villains identifying themselves as members of something called the Paranormal Liberation Front."

"That name sounds familiar to me…" Todoroki remarked as he wore a look of consideration on his face; likewise, Bakugo also looked like he heard the name Paranormal Liberation Front from somewhere before. Izuku was somewhat lost on the subject, but he still gave the notion some thought. It was while the three boys were all thinking that Endeavor turned to regard Hojo to ask him for more details.

"You say that villains have been threatening this company, and that also this company has been losing money for over twelve years running. Does Ryoga know about all of this that is being made against one of his businesses?"

"Oh heavens no," Hojo replied with a furious shake of his head. Calming down, the manager of the company looked to the Flame Hero, to his interns. "If Mr. Yaoyorozu were to learn of how this company is hemorrhaging money and is being threatened by villains, he might be liable to shut it down entirely, putting loads of people out of a job. That is why I sent for a pro hero to look into the matter, to stop the threats we've been receiving from villains, and to-"

Mr. Hojo was cut off when the same secretary from before came dashing into his office, a look of surprise on her face. "Mr. Hojo!" the secretary cried out as she ran in, calming down only so she could catch her breath for a bit. "Sir…" the secretary said after a few gulps of air, "…We may have figured out the reason why there's been so much money hemorrhaging over the past twelve years of this company."

Hojo, as well as Endeavor and the hero interns, all turned to face the secretary. Endeavor had a look of amusement on his face. "Well alright! It looks like we're one step closer to saving this company from being shut down!" Gesturing to the secretary, the Flame Hero remarked, "Who is it that discovered the money hemorrhaging?" The look of disbelief on the secretary's face couldn't be mistaken for anything else.

"…None of you will believe me when I say this, but it was actually Ganma Asui's son who had made the discovery."


As it turned out, the two men that had been working in the room that Samidare stumbled upon were the men responsible for managing all of the company's accounting, budgeting and all other arithmetic related to the company's money. And as it also turned out, the two men had been fudging numbers ever since they were hired on over twelve years ago. There was no way to tell for sure where the money that wasn't accounted for was going, but Endeavor had reason to believe that the two accountants were in some way connected to the villains that were currently threatening Yaoyorozu Offices.

What still surprised a lot of the people working at Yaoyorozu Offices was who it was that had discovered that the accountants had been fudging the numbers and funneling the unaccounted for money to some technically as of yet unknown cause. A few of the office workers, when they had a break, swung by the meeting room where some other accountants that were personally trusted by Mr. Hojo were working with Samidare Asui, the ten-year-old math genius whose arithmetic was vouched for by Mr. Hojo's trusted accountants.

Since the Flame Hero knew he couldn't go in without sending the sole Asui brother into a panic, Endeavor sent his interns in to ask Samidare for him how it was that he found the errors in the previous accountants' math. To the surprise of Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo, Samidare's answer was both uncomplicated and hard for them to wrap their heads around all at once.

"The numbers told me."

Endeavor stood near a group of cubicles on that floor as he talked with his interns outside of the room where the trusted accountants and Samidare were working on going through all of the accounting records that had been made ever since the questionable accountants had started working at Yaoyorozu Offices over twelve years ago. The Flame Hero was unsure of what to make of Samidare's answer, which Izuku repeated to Endeavor word for word.

"That is literally what Tsuyu's little brother said to me, Todoroki and Kacchan, sir." The green-eyed teen nodded once in confirmation as he, Todoroki and Bakugo reported back to the current number one pro hero. The look of seriousness in Izuku's eyes assured Endeavor that All Might's protégé was telling him the truth.

Bakugo, with an amused-sounding huff, put his left hand on his hip as he gestured to Shoto's father with his right hand. "I had no idea that Frog Face has such a badass younger sibling," the explosive teen remarked with an amused smirk, "Unless you're in the picture, nothing can shake that little dude. It's like he's got balls of steel or something."

Although he was still disheartened to hear that he was still an intimidating presence to young kids, Endeavor was overall more surprised by the fact that some random elementary school-aged child might very well end up being the sole reason that Yaoyorozu Offices will be able to avoid going under financially speaking. The Flame Hero has heard of one or two cases where there was some manner of child genius, but this was by far one of the more ridiculous examples. All of the surprise that Endeavor felt was further strengthened by a combination of Izuku telling him of the boy's answer to how he knew the questionable accountants did their math wrong, and the honest, sincere praise that Bakugo was giving to Samidare.

Bakugo. Giving honest, sincere praise to someone.

If what Shoto had been telling him of the explosive teen was true, then Endeavor had reason to believe that this was nothing short of a one-in-a-million miracle.

"There's still a rather pertinent matter in this case that we have to tackle," Endeavor remarked as he faced his three interns and Mr. Hojo. Turning to face the manager of Yaoyorozu Offices, Enji said, "What happened to those two accountants that been fudging the numbers? We need to track them down and take them in for questioning." The current number one crossed his arms over his chest, letting out an unamused snort through his nose. "I would be hearing of where it is exactly that they had been funneling all of the money that wasn't accounted for, although I do have one or two theories on that."

Mr. Hojo, for the first time since Endeavor or any of the Flame Hero's interns could remember, had a look of resigned disappointment on his face. "…I would also like to be hearing their reason for why they had betrayed this company's trust, and had been doing so ever since they had begun working here over twelve years ago. I'd likewise also like to know just where it was exactly that they had been funneling all of the unaccounted for money to. Such blatant cooperate espionage, as well as such blatant theft, just cannot be forgiven."

As the company manager talked to the hero and the heroes-in-training, the same secretary from before came dashing over, leading Ganma behind her. "Sir, I brought Ganma Asui like you asked," the secretary said to Mr. Hojo, gesturing for the frog man to step forward.

The look on Mr. Hojo's face lit up a bit, a sign that his mood was lifting just a little. "Ah, about time you got here, Ganma." Mr. Hojo let out a bit of an amused chuckle as he reached forward and gave Ganma a solid pat on his right shoulder. "I'm not sure what it is that you and your wife do to raise your children, but whatever it is, you better keep it up."

Ganma's confused expression was a sign that he was still lost on what exactly was going on. "I was told that my son just did something really big to help the company?" It was less a statement and more of a confused inquiry that was sounding like it wanted confirmation.

Mr. Hojo gave a single nod of confirmation. "Indeed he did, Ganma," the manager replied, "Look, I'm going to be honest with you here. This company was at a fair chance of going under since we were hemorrhaging money, and we were unable to figure out why. This would have put everyone that's working here, both you and me included, at risk of being out of a job if it had gone on for much longer." The look of mild shock that crossed the frog man's face told Mr. Hojo that he had his employee's attention. Gesturing to the room where the trusted accountants and Samidare were working on going through all the records, the manager gave a reassuring chuckle.

"But that risk is all gone now." The look of amusement on Mr. Hojo's face couldn't be hidden, nor could it be mistaken for anything else. "And we have your boy to thank."

"Are you saying that Samidare saved the company?" Ganma asked, unable to hide his surprise.

The company manager nodded twice in the affirmative, right before Izuku spoke up. "From what Todoroki, Kacchan and I were able to gather, your son is some sort of high end math whiz. He spotted some discrepancies in the work of the questionable accountants, and just spotting the errors in the work compelled him to act to correct all of it." The green-haired cinnamon roll then shook his head, a sign that he was still having a bit of trouble believing everything. "Long story short, yes. Samidare is the reason why this company will be able to avoid going under." With a look of amusement on his face, Izuku added, "I guess this means that you owe him big time, since he is the reason why you won't potentially lose your job here."

The frog man let out an amused chuckle; it carried a hint of sounding both surprised by Samidare and not being surprised by his only son all at once. "Heh, yeah, I guess I do owe him big time. I bet that Beru, Tsuyu and Satsuki will surprised as well when I tell them how Samidare had saved me from potentially losing my job."

"Make sure you encourage your son to continue his studies," Endeavor instructed Ganma, "A talent like that doesn't pop up every day." The frog man nodded once in understanding agreement before Endeavor turned to face Mr. Hojo. "Now, back to the subject of those two accountant that had been fudging the numbers for the past twelve years or so."

"I assume you want their names, and maybe pictures of them?" The current number one pro hero nodded once in the affirmative to the company manager's question. Mr. Hojo nodded once in understanding as he turned to head back to his office. "If you'll come with me, I can get you their names, as well as pull up images of what they look like so you and your interns here know who to look for." Thankful for this boon in the efforts to resolve the case, Endeavor gestured for his interns to follow him and Mr. Hojo over to the latter's office.


"Damn it, why did the two of you leave that room you were working in unguarded and open to whoever may wander on by?" The two questionable accountants, now wearing outfits at home on shady members of society, were being given a bit of a mild chewing out by Mr. Compress, one of the leading members of the Paranormal Liberation Front. The dapperly dressed villain pointed at the two questionable accountants with the index finger of his prosthetic arm, with his real hand holding his cane.

"You two, who had worked for the League of Villains as spies since before we absorbed the Meta Liberation Army and became the Paranormal Liberation Front, have never slipped up before now," Mr. Compress scolded, "But because of your first-ever slip up today, we are now out of one of our primary sources of income. Us quirked villains from the League's Vanguard Action Squad are now going to have to do more jobs from the mutual benefactor that funnels funds to both our cause and the group that's working to send that upstart construction company owned by the Urarakas a certain kind of message on his behalf." Mr. Compress crossed his arms, one of them prosthetic and the other real, over his chest. "Shigaraki will not be amused."

"Well how were we supposed to know that one of the kids that was brought in because today was take your child to work day at Yaoyorozu Offices would wander in and ruin twelve years' worth of our work?" the first of the questionable accountants, who turned out to have been working for the villains since before the advent of the Front, replied in complaint, "Not to mention how said kid that ruined out work knew the math well enough to tell we were fudging the numbers so that whatever money we didn't report could be funneled to the Front?"

The second villain spy nodded in agreement with the first. "All the kids that were brought in today were late elementary school at the oldest, so we couldn't have been expected to predict that any of them would know the material well enough to foil all of our efforts."

Mr. Compress held the tips of his real hand to his forehead, a sort of face palm gesture, as he let out a resigned sigh. "It doesn't matter in the end, I suppose." Looking to the two villain spies, the dapperly dressed villain said, "Either way, we're going to have to make our escape from here lest we all get caught by-"

"Halt, villain!" Mr. Compress was cut off by the sudden shout, a shout that made him and the two villain spies jump a bit in their skin. Turning to face the direction that the shout had come from, Mr. Compress and the villain spies saw the pro hero Endeavor, accompanied by a trio of heroes-in-training, come charging right at them.

To Mr. Compress's piqued interest and mild amusement, one of Endeavor's interns was the Bakugo boy that Shigaraki had expressed interest in once, having arranged such a huge plan to kidnap the explosive teen and try to sway him to the side of villainy. Similarly, Bakugo also saw Mr. Compress and instantly grew pissed. "You're that dumb-looking bastard magician jerk that turned me into a marble so you and your butt-fuck buddies can try to make me join you!" snarled the explosive teen, sounding a bit like he wanted revenge.

Not wanting to tango with the heroes, Mr. Compress leapt up backwards with notable skill, landing on the edge of the roof of the building behind him. He then jumped to his right by about a meter to avoid a stream of fire from Endeavor, all of this while the three interns were relegated to the duty of wrangling the villain spies, both of whom had generic enhancing quirks; the first one had strength and the other had speed.

Mr. Compress, with the index finger and thumb of his prosthetic hand, pinched the brim of his top hat to lift it up in a gesture of salute. "I would so love to stay and chat, but I'm afraid that I need to get going." Placing his hat back down on his head, the dapperly dressed villain called out to the villain spies, "Do try to meet up with me later at the usual place, provided that either of you manages to get yourselves out of this sticky situation!" Turning around, Mr. Compress leapt away, avoiding potential capture altogether.

Endeavor, when he saw the notable villain get away, scoffed in annoyance. Endeavor then heard his interns cry out in surprise; turning around, the Flame Hero saw that the villain spies had picked up a few garbage cans and threw them around, distracting Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo enough to give them some cover to try and make a break for it. The two villain spies both ended up getting away, mostly because Endeavor couldn't risk attacking them without causing a lot of collateral damage in the alleyway.


Back at Endeavor's agency later that afternoon, Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo stood in front of Endeavor's desk in his office, as which the Flame Hero himself sat at. Enji, despite how he had some disappointment that none of the three villains from today were captured, wasn't quite going to hold it against his interns. "…Everything aside, we did technically complete the case, as all we were asked to do was investigate both the money hemorrhaging and the villain threats that were made to Yaoyorozu offices," Endeavor told his interns, "As such, we will be getting paid for it."

"We still could have tried to capture at least one of those villain bastards," Bakugo huffed, clearly annoyed that all three of the villains from today's incident had all successfully escaped capture by him and the others.

Endeavor held up a hand to cut off all further argument from Bakugo, as well as Izuku and Todoroki. "None of us could have stopped them from escaping without causing some collateral damage to the alleyway. Additionally, Mr. Hojo and a few of his employees did follow us to see what was going on." Giving his interns a knowing look, the Flame Hero went on, "I don't need to tell you what that means if we did act to capture even one of the villains by whatever means we had at our disposal, consequences be damned."

"We would have harmed innocent civilians in the process." Endeavor nodded once in confirmation and approval to Izuku's statement, glad that All Might's protégé had caught on quicker than the Bakugo boy.

"Like I was saying," Endeavor said as he wrapped things up with his interns, "We did complete all the tasks our case technically had today, so all things considered I believe you boys ought to take it as a victory." Endeavor then made the 'shoo' gesture with his right hand towards the boys, a signal that they were dismissed. "We'll tackle another case tomorrow if one crops up. Until then, be at ease."

"Wow Todoroki," Izuku said as he, Todoroki and Bakugo walked through the halls of the Endeavor Hero Agency, "Your father was a lot more relaxed than what we saw the last time we interned under him."

The dual natured-quirk boy nodded in agreement with his green-eyed friend. "I will admit that not even I was expecting my father to soften up as much as we had observed today." A bit of embarrassed blushing appeared on Todoroki's face as he gave a very mild scowl. "…Like how my father used my crush on Reiko to tease me."

Bakugo let out a chuckle upon hearing Todoroki's remark. "Heh, yeah, your dad's starting to get a sense of humor, Half-n-half." The three heroes-in-training turned a corner to enter a main lobby on the floor that they were on. When they did, Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo were surprised to see that, standing at a reception counter talking to the receptionist there, were the pro heroes Fat Gum and Ryukyu.

Additionally, Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo saw Kirishima and Kinoko, both in their respective current hero outfits, standing off to the side as they kept an eye on the villain spy from earlier that had the generic strength quirk. Likewise, Uraraka, Tsuyu and Eunice (Uraraka and Tsuyu wore their hero costumes but Eunice wore her casual outfit) were standing off to the side as they kept an eye on the villain spy that had the generic speed quirk. Both of the villain spies had cuffs and bindings on them that suppressed their quirks.

"Oi, Stupid Hair!" Bakugo called out as he, Izuku and Todoroki walked over to where Kirishima was standing with Kinoko, catching the red haired hardening quirk boy's attention. Seeing the boys walk over to Kirishima and Kinoko, Uraraka and her group walked over as well, leading the prisoner that they were keeping an eye on. Gesturing to the two villain spies that his fellow heroes-in-training had bound and captured, Bakugo let out an amused smirk. "Deku, Half-n-half and I were tangoing with these jokers earlier while Half-n-half's dad fought that magician jerk who kidnapped me that one time."

"Yeah, Fat Gum, Kinoko and I ran into this one here while we were on a regular patrol." Kirishima gave the generic strength quirk villain spy a pat on the back. "We caught him, and when Fat Gum learned that this one here was connected to the case that you guys were doing with Todoroki's dad, he figured to bring him here in case there was anything that Endeavor could gleam from him to help learn more on the case."

"That's rather similar to how Uraraka, Eunice and I assisted Ryukyu when we ran into this speed quirk fellow here," Tsuyu said as she pointed to the villain that she and the girls were keeping an eye on, "Ryukyu learned soon after this one's capture that he's connected to the case you guys were all investigating over at the office building where my dad works, so she figured to bring him here so that Todoroki's dad could get some information out of him that's relevant to the case that you guys did kero."

Izuku, Todoroki and Bakugo all nodded in understanding as some of the sidekicks employed by the Endeavor Hero Agency came in to collect the captured villain spies. Some police officers soon entered the agency itself, and expressed thanks and relief that quirked criminals of so high a level of importance to the ongoing struggle to take down the Front once and for all had been taken in by the heroes.

The eight heroes-in-training watched as the two villain spies were loaded into an armored police vehicle. The interns were ordered by the heroes to which they were assigned to remain at the Endeavor Hero Agency, as Endeavor, Fat Gum and Ryukyu were needed by the police to help with handling the villain spies, and also assist in interrogation if need be. "Oh, Tsuyu, before I forget," Izuku spoke up, getting the other heroes-in-training to turn to face him.

The frog girl's focus was firmly on Izuku, as was everyone else's. "What's up, Midoriya?"

"There was some sort of take your child to work day thing at the company where your dad works, and he had your little brother with him," Izuku explained, drawing a mildly surprised look out of Tsuyu.

Todoroki and Bakugo both nodded in confirmation, with the latter even smirking a bit in amusement. "Yeah, Frog Face, that little brother of yours is surprisingly awesome. He's the one that discovered why the company was hemorrhaging money for so long, not to mention how he helped some accountants that were trusted to go over a lot of past records to try and figure out all of the discrepancies." Bakugo gently shook his head as he let out a chuckle. "That kid's badass, that little brother of yours."

Even her usual unreadable face couldn't hide Tsuyu's surprise. Similarly, Uraraka and all of the other heroes-in-training were surprised to hear that an elementary school-aged boy was the reason why the money hemorrhaging of Yaoyorozu Offices was discovered, and that led to the discovery of the villain spies that were responsible. "Really?" Tsuyu replied as she did her finger tic thing, her tone showing surprise, "Samidare did all of that?"

"He's got a way with working math and numbers," Todoroki remarked, drawing everyone's attention to himself. "I saw some of that accounting work, and I doubt that any of us in 1-A and 1-B aside from the absolute smartest among us could begin to wrap our heads around it. And yet such math seemed to come to your younger brother as natural as breathing." Looking at his frog-like classmate, Todoroki said, "Your younger brother is one of those child geniuses I hear about occasionally, isn't he?"

Tsuyu, with a look of consideration on her face, simply replied, "Math just so happens to be Samidare's field of specialty."

"I also saw that he had a Ryukyu t-shirt on," Izuku remarked, "And that he had a Ryukyu water bottle in the one bottle holster on his backpack, and he had a plushy of Ryukyu in her dragon form sticking out of his backpack." With a bit of a curious look on his face, the green-eyed boy said, "I take it Samidare is a fan of Ryukyu's?"

Tsuyu nodded once in confirmation. "Yes, Samidare is a fan of Ryukyu kero." Turning to face everyone in the group as a whole, Tsuyu remarked, "Remember when we did a tour of all of our rooms at Heights Alliance, and we saw all of the All Might-themed décor that Midoriya had in his dorm room?" As everyone aside from Kinoko and Eunice nodded in the affirmative, Izuku winced a bit in embarrassment. "Well, Samidare is pretty much the same, but whereas Midoriya has All Might merch, Samidare has Ryukyu merch."

"Aww, well ain't that sweet of the kid," Kirishima remarked, amused by a young child showing such support for the Dragoon Hero.

Tsuyu nodded once in agreement. "I guess it does make sense that Samidare likes Ryukyu so much, now that I think about it." Tsuyu then gently shook her head. "But that's getting off the point." Turning to face Izuku and the others, Tsuyu asked, "Midoriya, how did things go for you, Todoroki and Bakugo while you guys were interning under Endeavor kero?"

"Heh," Izuku laughed a bit, "Hoo boy, don't Todoroki, Kacchan and I have some stories for all of you guys."

END, CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Author's notes;

I'll be making more use of Tsuyu's family members in the chapters to come. Samidare in particular, given the role that he will be playing later on down the line. But that's far off in the future. Anyway, this is the last chapter of the 'Monster War arc', for those who wanted to know; the next chapter of this story will be the first chapter of what I'm calling the 'Extra arc'; this arc won't have an overarching storyline shared between its chapters unlike what the first three arcs had, as they well basically be a collection of one-off adventures. However, said adventures will still be playing a notable role in the story as a whole nonetheless.

Especially with what all I have planned in the next chapter.