p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"Author's note: So so sorry about last week's chapter!/span/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""So, you're going to get Yaomomo to make a tracker, and then follow it to go save Bakugou yourselves?" asked Mina./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Todoroki answered, "Even though the villains called us 'kill targets', they snatched Bakugou away without killing him. They may let him live, but I honestly can't be sure they won't kill him. Kirishima and I will go -"/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Iida interrupted him. "Stop messing around! You all are getting carried away!"/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Hold on. Calm down," said Shoji, holding his bandaged arm up to stop Iida. "Kirishima's frustration of not being able to do anything. Todoroki's frustration of BAkugou getting snatched before his eyes. I know how it feels. But this is not a decision one should make based on how they feel," he finished, the last words coming from the mouth on his tentacle./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Let's leave it to All Might," said a shaking Aoyama. "They rescinded our combat authorization too."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I agree with Aoyama," said Tokoyami. "I know I'm not in a position to say anything, since I'm part of the reason we failed."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I know we're all still in shock from Bakugou's kidnapping," said TSu. "However, let's be level-headed about this. No matter how just your feelings may be, if you engage in battle…if you break the rules like that, then your actions are no different than those of the villains."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"There was nothing anyone could say to those words. We all stood there in silence for quite a long time./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"It was the doctor whospan class="Apple-converted-space" /spanbroke it./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but it's time for MIdoriya's check-up."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""L-Let's go," said Sero. "I want to see Jirou and Hagakure too."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"We all filed out, but then /spanIida gestured and led us all into another room, then closed the doors. All of a sudden we were grouped around Kirishima and Todoroki, and the atmosphere was getting scary. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Todoroki, Kirishima," said Iida. "I will not allow this to happen."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""You gonna stop us?" snapped Todoroki./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Guys, this - this isn't about fighting!" I stepped in. "But think about it. I really think - Bakugou would probably feel disgraced to get rescued that way."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"That seemed to stop them for a moment. Tsu nodded. "Ochako's right too."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "So, we should just stand here and do nothing?" snapped Todoroki. And everyone was off again - Iida telling them off for being irresponsible, Tsu trying to reason with them, and nobody really paying attention. Finally I got so fed up I just couldn't take it anymore and walked away, to go look in on Jirou and Tooru. They were both still out, so I just sat in the hospital room and stared out the window. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" emDeku can be so impulsive, and Todoroki and Kirishima aren't helping. He's really hurt right now, and they're trying to talk him into going and doing something really dangerous. And it's not really gonna help Bakugou anyway, it's not like he's gonna be happy to get saved or nothing. There's gotta be tons of pro heroes getting ready to go save him right now. What good would those three getting themselves hurt do?/em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em /emMy head was whirling and hurting with crazy possibilities. I finally felt that I had to go home, to get away from all this anger and noise and try to forget, just for a little while, the bad situation we were in. I needed to go home./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Really home, not just my dorm-apartment place. Home to my parents. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Mom and Dad hugged me like crazy. It felt so warm and safe again, back in their arms, even back in our scary neighborhood with the cheaper rent and the creaky boards. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" We had dinner and we didn't talk about what was going on. Instead we talked and had fun talking about almost anything else. Even the weather. It was nice to get away from all that drama. I'd seen my friends texting me, but I'd decided to just ignore it. For a little while, anyway. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" But we couldn't avoid the subject forever. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "We're so glad to see you, honey."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "All this danger...Ochako, are you sure you want to stay at UA? All these villain attacks coming in...it's starting to feel unsafe," said Mom./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" I stayed quiet. I gave noncommital answers. But I finally said, once I couldn't avoid it anymore:/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "I can't leave."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" I didn't know how to explain it. Yeah, it would be safer to leave UA, but now...I couldn't. No way I could...not after what I'd shared with my classmates there for the last few months. Not after the way Iida had told me "bravo" for wanting to help my parents out. Or the way Tsuyu-chan had saved my life in those woods. Or All Might-sensei, how he'd saved me at USJ. Or how Deku had inspired me, always trying his best and saving my life. Or after Bakugou had called me by my name, and inspired me to go out and learn how to kick some butt from Mr. Gunhead, and to be strong.../p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" ...emand you're just sitting around and letting him get kidnapped, while they're trying to do something about it.../em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" em.../emNo, I couldn't leave UA now, not after all that had happened. They - all of them - weren't just classmates to me anymore. Not after all those experiences together. They'd changed me, and I wasn't about to just up and quit on them. /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" I stood up and opened my phone. About a billion texts, from Tsuyu and Iida and Mina. Nothing from Deku. But those three were telling me they were pretty sure they'd talked them out of it, and I saw and felt bad to see them start to ask me if I was OK, and start to worry I'd gotten hurt too./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" I texted back that I was fine. I lay in my bedroom staring at the ceiling for about ten minutes before Tsuyu returned with,/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" "Turn on the TV, channel 7."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" Horrified like crazy what I was about to see, I switched it on. It was a press conference. Principal Nezu, Vlad King, and a guy in a suit were there being interviewed./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""And now, a scene from the events that have just transpired. Here's a clip of the public apology issued by the official at UA academy."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""On this occasion," said the guy in the suit - and I did a double take when I heard his voice - "our incompetence resulted in the injuries of 27 of our first year student heroes. Despite being an institution for the development of heroes, we were negligent in our defense against evil interests and have caused great anxiety within society. With the utmost sincerity, we respectfully and humbly apologize for our shortcomings."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" The guy in the suit, clean shaven, with slick hair and straight posture, I had taken to be a stranger- on a closer look, I saw it was Mr. Aizawa./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"A reporter stood up. "Reporting with NHA. This is the fourth time this ear your academy where students have come into contact with villains. This time, students were injured. How exactly did you explain this to their families? Please tell us specifically what measures have been taken to address this matter."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" emWorried like mine are.../em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Principal Nezu said, "We have strengthened the security around the school, and we have re-examined the campus' crime prevention system. We are taking strong measures to guarantee the safety of our students. That was the explanation we gave."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" emThat's not gonna satisfy most people, Sensei. My parents wouldn't...wouldn't go for it...and now people are just gonna get more and more upset. It's gonna sound like you don't know what you're doing./em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em People are gonna start turning against heroes./em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""So, you're going to get Yaomomo to make a tracker, and then follow it to go save Bakugou yourselves?" asked Mina./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Todoroki answered, "Even though the villains called us 'kill targets', they snatched Bakugou away without killing him. They may let him live, but I honestly can't be sure they won't kill him. Kirishima and I will go -"/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Iida interrupted him. "Stop messing around! You all are getting carried away!"/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Hold on. Calm down," said Shoji, holding his bandaged arm up to stop Iida. "Kirishima's frustration of not being able to do anything. Todoroki's frustration of BAkugou getting snatched before his eyes. I know how it feels. But this is not a decision one should make based on how they feel," he finished, the last words coming from the mouth on his tentacle./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Let's leave it to All Might," said a shaking Aoyama. "They rescinded our combat authorization too."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I agree with Aoyama," said Tokoyami. "I know I'm not in a position to say anything, since I'm part of the reason we failed."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I know we're all still in shock from Bakugou's kidnapping," said TSu. "However, let's be level-headed about this. No matter how just your feelings may be, if you engage in battle…if you break the rules like that, then your actions are no different than those of the villains."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"There was nothing anyone could say to those words. We all stood there in silence for quite a long time./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"It was the doctor whospan class="Apple-converted-space" /spanbroke it./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation, but it's time for MIdoriya's check-up."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""L-Let's go," said Sero. "I want to see Jirou and Hagakure too."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"We all filed out, but then /spanIida gestured and led us all into another room, then closed the doors. All of a sudden we were grouped around Kirishima and Todoroki, and the atmosphere was getting scary. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Todoroki, Kirishima," said Iida. "I will not allow this to happen."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""You gonna stop us?" snapped Todoroki./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""Guys, this - this isn't about fighting!" I stepped in. "But think about it. I really think - Bakugou would probably feel disgraced to get rescued that way."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"That seemed to stop them for a moment. Tsu nodded. "Ochako's right too."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "So, we should just stand here and do nothing?" snapped Todoroki. And everyone was off again - Iida telling them off for being irresponsible, Tsu trying to reason with them, and nobody really paying attention. Finally I got so fed up I just couldn't take it anymore and walked away, to go look in on Jirou and Tooru. They were both still out, so I just sat in the hospital room and stared out the window. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" emDeku can be so impulsive, and Todoroki and Kirishima aren't helping. He's really hurt right now, and they're trying to talk him into going and doing something really dangerous. And it's not really gonna help Bakugou anyway, it's not like he's gonna be happy to get saved or nothing. There's gotta be tons of pro heroes getting ready to go save him right now. What good would those three getting themselves hurt do?/em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em /emMy head was whirling and hurting with crazy possibilities. I finally felt that I had to go home, to get away from all this anger and noise and try to forget, just for a little while, the bad situation we were in. I needed to go home./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Really home, not just my dorm-apartment place. Home to my parents. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" Mom and Dad hugged me like crazy. It felt so warm and safe again, back in their arms, even back in our scary neighborhood with the cheaper rent and the creaky boards. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" We had dinner and we didn't talk about what was going on. Instead we talked and had fun talking about almost anything else. Even the weather. It was nice to get away from all that drama. I'd seen my friends texting me, but I'd decided to just ignore it. For a little while, anyway. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" But we couldn't avoid the subject forever. /p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "We're so glad to see you, honey."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "All this danger...Ochako, are you sure you want to stay at UA? All these villain attacks coming in...it's starting to feel unsafe," said Mom./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" I stayed quiet. I gave noncommital answers. But I finally said, once I couldn't avoid it anymore:/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" "I can't leave."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" I didn't know how to explain it. Yeah, it would be safer to leave UA, but now...I couldn't. No way I could...not after what I'd shared with my classmates there for the last few months. Not after the way Iida had told me "bravo" for wanting to help my parents out. Or the way Tsuyu-chan had saved my life in those woods. Or All Might-sensei, how he'd saved me at USJ. Or how Deku had inspired me, always trying his best and saving my life. Or after Bakugou had called me by my name, and inspired me to go out and learn how to kick some butt from Mr. Gunhead, and to be strong.../p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" ...emand you're just sitting around and letting him get kidnapped, while they're trying to do something about it.../em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" em.../emNo, I couldn't leave UA now, not after all that had happened. They - all of them - weren't just classmates to me anymore. Not after all those experiences together. They'd changed me, and I wasn't about to just up and quit on them. /p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" I stood up and opened my phone. About a billion texts, from Tsuyu and Iida and Mina. Nothing from Deku. But those three were telling me they were pretty sure they'd talked them out of it, and I saw and felt bad to see them start to ask me if I was OK, and start to worry I'd gotten hurt too./p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" I texted back that I was fine. I lay in my bedroom staring at the ceiling for about ten minutes before Tsuyu returned with,/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" "Turn on the TV, channel 7."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" Horrified like crazy what I was about to see, I switched it on. It was a press conference. Principal Nezu, Vlad King, and a guy in a suit were there being interviewed./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""And now, a scene from the events that have just transpired. Here's a clip of the public apology issued by the official at UA academy."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;""On this occasion," said the guy in the suit - and I did a double take when I heard his voice - "our incompetence resulted in the injuries of 27 of our first year student heroes. Despite being an institution for the development of heroes, we were negligent in our defense against evil interests and have caused great anxiety within society. With the utmost sincerity, we respectfully and humbly apologize for our shortcomings."/p
p class="p1" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 22px;" The guy in the suit, clean shaven, with slick hair and straight posture, I had taken to be a stranger- on a closer look, I saw it was Mr. Aizawa./p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"A reporter stood up. "Reporting with NHA. This is the fourth time this ear your academy where students have come into contact with villains. This time, students were injured. How exactly did you explain this to their families? Please tell us specifically what measures have been taken to address this matter."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" emWorried like mine are.../em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"Principal Nezu said, "We have strengthened the security around the school, and we have re-examined the campus' crime prevention system. We are taking strong measures to guarantee the safety of our students. That was the explanation we gave."/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" emThat's not gonna satisfy most people, Sensei. My parents wouldn't...wouldn't go for it...and now people are just gonna get more and more upset. It's gonna sound like you don't know what you're doing./em/p
p class="p2" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"em People are gonna start turning against heroes./em/p