The woman couldn't believe she was walking past the gate the other way. As the man dressed head to toe in a black uniform escorted her out, telling her to make sure she never showed her face again, Kaina Tsutsumi, once known as the Hero Lady Nagant, had only one thought in mind.

'Holy shit, I'm actually seeing the sun.' She thought, stepping away from the gate of Tartarus and toward a black car with mirror windows, whose right back door was open.

"You look great, miss Tsutsumi." Nedzu said, welcoming the past Hero/government Assassin aboard the car.

"I'm sure that's not true, but thank you." Kaina said, pointedly looking away from Nedzu and toward Tartarus. Specifically, toward the guards that protected the gate. She slowly raised a fist until it was clearly visible from the window, pointed upward, and with the back toward them. Then put the other hand next to her wrist, clenched in a fist as well, and started moving it in a rotating motion, like she was cranking an engine.

And then her middle finger started to rise, aimed at the guards, who both looked incensed at the idea she would insult them.

"Ah! Eat shit assholes!" She shouted, lowering the window as the car drove away.

"That wasn't very mature of you, Miss Tsutsumi." Nedzu pointed out. She shrugged.

"Eh, I've dealt with too much shit while I was in jail, I sure as hell am not taking any more. Those guys work for the government and the government can suck my…" She paused, looking at the expression painted on Nedzu's face. From the rearview mirror, she could see the driver, a large man with a canine Quirk, looking equally unimpressed. "Ahem, I mean, I have legitimate reasons to be excited today, don't I?" She leaned out of the car window, "Woohoo, Kaina Tsutsumi is back from hell world!"

"Miss Tsutsumi, please remember that depending on your behavior we can send you away from UA." Nedzu replied, and Kaina coughed in her fist, awkwardly sitting back down and closing the window.

"Ahem. Of course. Pardon. I'm just so excited to be out of… well, Tartarus." Nedzu hummed, and Kaina's brain raced. 'Oh no, oh no, bad first impression on the rat…' "Soooo, I'm told I will have to work at UA now. Is that true?"

"Yes, that is correct!" Nedzu's attitude immediately changed, returning to the cheery expression from before, which made Kaina sigh of relief internally, even while esternally she kept a calm, composed expression, "I understand this will be a weird thing, to go from a cell to looking over the campus, but I hope you will prove yourself up to the task."

"Question." Nedzu nodded, "Will you make me shoot random people because you don't agree with the way they are behaving?"

"I won't."

"Then I'm on board." She nodded, "You know I have done… a lot of things. Many of them were wrong. If this is a chance to do something useful and not harmful for a chance, I'm all for it."

"Excellent!" Nedzu nodded, "And just so we are clear, I completely understand your excitement to being freed, I just hope you will use it in a constructive manner."

"It's normal for someone that was wronged by an authoritative figure to lash out against any form of authority they meet." The driver supplied from the front, "So it's already a good sign that you are listening to Nedz- You son of a bitch I had the grrrreen ligrrrhtrrrr rargh!" He suddenly half-shouted, half-barked when another car unceremoniously crossed their path, descending into a slew of snarls and growls. Kaina's kinetic sight was good enough she could see the driver of the other vehicle was masked for some reason.

Weird, but maybe it was some trend she had missed while in jail.

"Absolutely!" She said, changing the subject, "Look, I will be honest: I never imagined I would get out of Tartarus again. I assumed I would rot in there for the rest of my life. For all I care you could have hired me as a janitor and I would have jumped at the chance."

"I'm happy to hear we won't have any problem of that kind then. It would be rather embarrassing if after all the effort we put into freeing you from Tartarus, you were to do something bad like running away."

She shook her head, "I would never. But, just to understand, how will this work exactly?"

"Ah, let us just reach the school and you will find out." Nedzu replied with a grin, "I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise."

She nodded. His lawyer – and wasn't it a novelty that she got one? – had explained that she was placed under the authority of UA High School and its principal. If he deemed her unstable, she would be removed from her position and then – she assumed – killed in secret, though she was sure officially they would place her on another job.

So really, she was at Nedzu's mercy and she wasn't going to waste that.

Looking outside, she wondered how the world had changed in the last five years. Her time in Tartarus had been extremely boring. Aside from the guards throwing insults at her, she had no human interactions. Most prisoners in the Villain jail had basically no permission to even leave their cell. It was, after all, a jail constructed to hold the worst of the worst. She got to take walks as a reward for good behavior, and she had all the time in the world to exercise in her cell, but that was it. No news, no entertainment, no contact with the outside world since there was no one that wanted to contact her… She had just spent five years behind metal walls.

And she would never go back to that.

Looking outside to see the sky and the streets, feeling the sun on her pale skin through the car's window, watching people walk around without Tartarus' uniform on… It was spectacular. 'Yep. Good behavior. Perfect behavior.'

The car suddenly took a turn, entered a small road and stopped in front of a large, anonymous wall. "I'm afraid some journalists might have caught wind of your arrival and might be swarming the main entrance. For that reason, we are just entering from the backdoor." Nedzu replied, and she looked ahead.

That was a wall.

"The wall?"

Said wall suddenly moved, opening up like it wasn't made of cement but of water, and Kaina saw Cementoss – 'That's his name, right? God, it's been so long since I thought about other Heroes…' – molding and reshaping it in the form of an entrance the car used to pass through, before he returned it back to the stone wall.

"Ah. Yeah, I guess that explains it." She smiled, looking up at the UA campus. They were still far from the main building, and she wondered if her life would have been different if the day those bastards had shown up at her house, she had said no and gone to a normal Hero School. 'All of the rewards, none of the trauma, now that's a bargain.' She thought bitterly. All those kids were training to become a cog in the machine that was the Hero System, and while it was supposed to be inspiring, to her it all sounded disgusting.

She sighed. No, positive thought. She was out of Tartarus, had a job, and Nedzu wasn't an asshole, it seemed. Overall, so far this was the best day of her life.

The car moved past various… "Are those model cities?"

"That's right! Those are the training grounds for UA students. With Cementoss, it's remarkably easy to rebuild them, so our students are free to go wild.

"Cool. Is that where I will be bunking?" She asked.

"I had considered that, because the buildings are kept with all services active to truly simulate a city, but that would mean either closing off one of the training grounds or asking you to move every time our students train. No, Cementoss and our bots have set up for you an apartment closer to the main building."

Nagant wanted to ask more about the bots, but for today she would do with just accepting the fact that apparently this high school had robots. Sure, not the weirdest thing to find out. They moved past the training cities and traveled for five whole minutes, before parking. As promised, the building was close to UA, on the left side of the main structure.

Nedzu had called it an apartment, but it was a two stories house with a porch on the left side, a balcony on the right side, and a flat roof. She blinked. "Uh… Is that really my house?"

"Sure. You don't like it?"

"What?! Yes! But I was expecting, like, a one-floor apartment! You know, maybe a two-room building plus bathroom. Not a full house!"

Nedzu smirked, "My my, why would I do that? You are going to live here, and I don't want you to feel cramped."

Oh, cramped.

Like in a cell.

'It's not big to show off, it's big so I'm not constantly reminded of my cell.' She sighed in relief. This sounded genuine enough to be true, she decided. "Well. Thank you."

"So, shall we go in and go through your obligations and role?"

Kaina nodded, following the two men inside the building. The rooms were fully furnished. The main door opened on a large living room with two couches, a large white carpet over the wooden linen on the floor, and a TV Cabinet with a television. It was also decorated with books and a bowl of candies and chocolates and oh god it had been five years since she had last eaten chocolate, read a book or watched TV- 'No, bad Kaina, focus, first we finish talking here, then we plunge on that couch, grab the bowl of candies, turn the tv on and spend the rest of the day watching the trashiest movies I can think of.'

Nedzu walked to the left, toward the kitchen. There, she found the burly form of All Might sitting down at a table with four chairs, with a bottle of white wine decorated with a bow sitting in front of him. 'Oh hell yeah, booze too, best day ever- Wait, All Might?!' "Wait, All Might?!"

"Good day to you, miss Tsutsumi. It's good to meet you." He said, moving his right hand to shake hers. Kaina reflexively pulled back hers, grimacing.

"Ah, uhm, it's so good to meet you." She said, noticing his look and hesitantly going for a handshake with the other arm, "So, what are you doing here?"

"All Might is one of the reasons you are here." Nedzu said, sitting on another chair, "He is just visiting to leave you the picture of his personal assistant, Toshinori Yagi. He is on campus often, so we can't have you think he is an intruder."

All Might nodded, and put on the table the picture of a meth addict with blonde hair. 'Uh, guess I'm not the first criminal that gets a second chance.' Kaina thought. She knew technically this was profiling but the guy had either been under drugs for a long time, or his Quirk was something like 'extreme starvation'. "Got it." She said out loud, nodding.

"Excellent!" All Might stood back up, and then walked toward the door, "By the way, I'm sure later today a student of mine will come to visit. He has been curious about you all week, and well, he is another one of the reasons you are here."

"He is?"

"Yes. He asked me a question about an HPSC Assassin, and I decided to ask Nedzu to look into it. And here we are."

"Ah." Kaina nodded. Wow, her freedom really had been determined entirely by random chance. Bless this kid, she would definitely like him.

-x-

Izuku shuddered. She was sure someone was going to be very disappointed very soon.

-x-

All Might gave her a final wave and walked out, leaving Kaina to sit down in her kitchen, facing Nedzu and with Hound Dog to her left. She put away Toshinori Yagi's picture and looked at Nedzu. "So, my job is security, right?"

"No, your job is Security." Nedzu replied.

"… Capitalized?" She guessed. Nedzu nodded. "Alright. So, run me through it."

"Of course. Your job will be to patrol the campus. You will be given shifts of course, but your main job will be to swipe the training areas, the USJ, and at night the main building. We need any intruder captured" He emphasized the captured, and she understood why, but come on, she wasn't about to go for the kill on a job where she could avoid it.

"So I stay up all night and work all day? That's a lot to ask for."

"We especially care about the night. You will have to work primarily from 9 PM to 7 AM. You see, reviewing the detail of the USJ Attack…"

"Wait, you were attacked?"

"… Ah, of course, Tartarus' asinine 'no news' rule is still in place. What do they even think you will do with the news? Get angry because the wrong party has won the elections?" He sighed, "Well, yes, we were attacked. One key point of this attack was that our security feeds were cut off by an Electricity Quirk user that essentially prevented us from being alerted. Reviewing everything, we found out he snuck in the day before, using his Quirk to turn off all the cameras, and hid at the USJ for the whole night."

"Ah, I get it, you want me to make sure it doesn't happen again." Kaina nodded. "So basically I will be doing the night shift, and then leave to you running security during the day."

"With some exceptions, but yes, that is correct. You will probably spend the first half of the day sleeping-"

"But I still will have the second, understood." She nodded. In a way it was probably better. She would have to decide if she wanted to sleep during the morning or during the afternoon and adapt her sleep to that, but it didn't seem like much of a problem. People with night shifts did it all the time.

"You will also have Sunday night free. We will leave Security those days to the bots."

"Great."

"Now, for your free time. For a while, you will have to either stay on campus or leave accompanied by a teacher. Is that alright?"

"I wouldn't expect you to just let me go without checking where I am, so sure. I doubt I will go outside for a while. I haven't had company for five years, going straight to the city might be a bit much. Can the school do groceries for me?"

"Of course." Nedzu nodded, "You are free to go anywhere on campus. Feel free to visit the main building, the training areas or just walk around. All we ask is that you don't get in the way of the students' training."

Of course, they couldn't have her ruin the poor future stars with her knowledge of how ugly Hero work was- 'No, bad Nagant- Kaina, stop it.' She nodded, "Sure. I won't really hang out with them."

"You will also have sessions with me three times a week." Hound Dog added, speaking for the first time, though she noticed he had been taking notes the entire time, "Would Monday, Wednesday and Friday work?"

"Sure, sounds good." She said with a wave of her hand. Really, she had just gotten out of jail, her schedule had been 'waste in a cell' for the last five years and now it was just 'nothing'. "Morning?"

"Very well." He nodded, adding that to his notes. Uh, he was surprisingly educated when he was calm. Or maybe that before was just road rage.

"You will start with both your job and your sessions on Monday. Take today and the weekend to rest and recover."

Kaina nodded. Yeah, she definitely would. Rest and recovery really meant getting shitfaced, watching stupid movies, and maybe looking up some news. "Thank you again. For everything."

"It's no issue. You were the victim here." Nedzu nodded, "Have a good day, miss Tsutsumi."

With that, he stood up, followed by Hound Dog, and they left through the front door.

For the first time in a long while, Kaina realized she was really, truly alone. No cameras, from what she could see, and no guards outside. They had really left her to her own devices.

She sighed, grabbed the wine, and then opened it, looking for a glass until she finally found one. She had a lot to do, and she also had to decide what to do with her knowledge about the Clan. She could sell them off now, keep it for later, or try to stay on their side, even if the bastards had never helped her in all those years.

Yeah, last one was unlikely.

She sighed. 'Best thing would be telling Nedzu about it. That might get me brownie points with him.' She shook her head. That could come later.

She poured herself some wine, drank the whole glass in a single gulp, and then just moved the glass aside and drank directly from the bottle, a grin spreading on her face as the taste of alcohol touched her lips for the first time in years.

Yup, time to party hard.

-x-

She is back. Izuku had found out the moment Aizawa had entered the room, informing them that they might see Kaina Tsutsumi on campus. They were to treat her like any other normal person. He was sure most of the class would comply. Official HPSC statement was that a review in the case was that proof had emerged of Lady Nagant being elsewhere during the timeframe of the murders she was accused of, clearing her and turning this in a case of the authorities making a mistake. They had released a statement of apology and declared Kaina Tsutsumi would receive financial compensation, along with being put under the care of UA for the time being.

Which had meant more journalists outside the gate, much to Professor Aizawa's chagrin.

He knew from his dad and family that was bullshit, but then again he really didn't want to side with a government that would go out of its way to kill Heroes just because they weren't behaving 'appropriately'.

The rest of the class took the news with either curiosity or a hint of apprehension, but he noticed the worried glance Jiro and Pony threw his way.

Yeah, he had to go speak with Nagant now, before she had the chance to reveal everything.

If she hadn't already. 'Oh god, what if she did already?! Is All Might gonna burst through that door to arrest me?!'

"I am here!" All Might shouted, walking in the room.

"I can explain!" Izuku shouted. Everyone in the class turned to stare at him. He looked awkwardly around, turning bright red, then looked down. "Ah… Sorry, go on All Might."

"… Alright, young Midoriya." All Might took back control and started to explain the exercises for the day, some training in preparation to the Sports Festival. Izuku sighed. He really needed to keep his head in the game.

-x-

"Poor kid." Nana commented.

"Yeah, he was pretty unlucky." Shinomori nodded, "Hopefully he can solve the situation."

The First tapped his fingers on the armrest of his chair, "Ugh, I can't decide."

"It's been five days, are you really still holding up on that decision?"

"I'm not holding a grudge! I'm just cautious. Yes, he saved someone, but he had to fall deeper into the Yakuza. I'm worried." Yoichi's response, for one, was calm and on point, and Nana raised an eyebrow at that, since so far the man had always been fast at either dismissing or doubting Izuku.

"Why?"

"Because I know what the criminal underworld is like, and Izuku is falling into it." He looked at the black orb that would one day become Izuku's Vestige, "I don't know what to expect of him now."

"I expect him to become a criminal, but that's just me." The Second replied with a shrug.

"What?! Come on, he clearly isn't a criminal."

"Yet. I don't buy the idea he will just turn out fine. Yoichi was a one in a million chance. I sincerely don't see the kid pulling out another miracle like that." He yawned, "Either way, you guys can keep holding on to that hope if you want. Don't complain to me when Izuku becomes the Yakuza top dog in Japan or something like that."

No one knew what to argue there.

-x-

Izuku took a deep breath. Right after school ended with his usual training session, he had gone and asked All Might if he could go and meet Nagant. All Might had told him he absolutely could, since Kaina Tsutsumi, in his opinion, wasn't dangerous, and either way, according to Hound Dog she needed to interact with new people in small doses to acclimatize. Izuku was fairly sure that 'not dangerous' to All Might meant 'She couldn't hurt me in top shape', which was absolutely unfair because the only time Izuku had ever seen the Symbol of Peace on the ropes was at the USJ. Heck, just a few years before at the Sky Egg Incident, he had been hailed as a living Deus Ex Machina for saving everyone from a falling skyscraper.

Pony and Jiro had offered to accompany him, which he would have preferred, but since he didn't know anything about Lady Nagant's current state of mind, he didn't want to put them in danger. So, alone, he had left UA and marched to a building he was sure wasn't there the day before. 'Must be the work of Cementoss and Power Loader.' He thought, ringing the bell.

No answer.

Izuku waited for a full minute, then rang again.

He had been waiting for fifty-one seconds more when the door finally opened. "Sorry, I kinda forgot what a doorbell is." A woman in her late thirties said, opening the door. She had bicolored hair, dark blue and pink, kept short at shoulder length, and was wearing a simple black shirt and short black pants.

She was also clearly drunk. If the almost empty bottle of wine in her hand wasn't a good guess, the fact she wasn't looking at Izuku but at a point somewhere to his left was enough of a hint. "Who the fuck are you?" She asked.

"Ah, I am…"

"Wait, wait, don't tell me. Come in, come on, I have a bowl of sweets and chocolates and I'm sure there is something that isn't alcohol in my fridge."

"… That sounds really suspicious."

"Calm down kid, I just want to sit down. Geez, man up."

Izuku gulped but nodded, walking in. The room was fully furnished, he noticed. Taking off his shoes in favor of a pair of slippers, he followed Miss Tsutsumi, sitting on the couch to the left of the one the woman slumped over. Izuku looked around. There was indeed a bowl on the small table in front of the couches, though the content had been clearly mostly eaten, with the floor littered with tens of chocolate and candy wraps. On the television, some American sitcom was playing, a laugh track playing as Izuku looked at the screen.

Miss Tsutsumi grabbed five or so sweets with her free hand, quickly removed the wrappers using only the five fingers of her hand, and promptly slammed the handful of chocolate and candies in her mouth. "Oh man, that's the stuff. You know how they say you get bored of chocolate after eating too much? Heck no, I want more." She took a drink off the bottle, chugging down the remaining liquid inside, before shrugging. "Ugh, how is this already over? Did All Might buy me one of those small half-a-liter bottles?"

"M-Miss Na… Miss Tsutsumi, that was a liter and a half."

"Call me Kaina kid. Miss Tsutsumi was my mo- actually no she kept her maiden name, guess I really am Miss Tsutsumi. Either way, call me Kaina." She tossed the bottle away, "So, let me guess, you are here to see Lady Nagant uh?"

"I-"

"No, no, I get, you probably got coerced by your friends into trying to get something out of the ex-convict. What, you get a thousand yen if I kiss you?" She scoffed, "Nah, don't tell me. Either way, I'm not into thirteen years old, thankfully, so I will say no."

"W-What?! No, I'm fifteen- I mean I'm not here for that!"

Kaina frowned, "What, you don't think I'm not attractive?! Is that it?!" She slammed a fist on the table, the bottle waving a bit.

"I-I'm not doubting that!" 'What is this conversation?! Help!'

'Sorry kid, this is too funny, keep going.' Seven voices in unison said. Uh, that was becoming dangerously common. Was he going insane?

"Good. Good. I'm still the finest piece of artillery this side of the Pacific. Either way, kid, you are a minor. And a student here. And I'm sure there is at least one other reason for me to say no, but I'm not going to think about it too hard, just assume I gave you one." She grabbed another candy, "That said, I'm not insensitive. Someone is bullying you to coerce you into this?"

"No! No, everything is fine."

"You sure? I'm not going to tell anyone. Nah that's a lie, I'd tell Hound Dog. He will probably maul him."

Izuku paled, "There is no bullying." He said again. Quickly. Last thing he needed was to throw someone under the bus. 'I mean maybe Kacchan could use therapy- no, bad Izuku, don't try to put your friend in trouble.'

"Really? So you are here on your own? I'm moved."

"I'm not here to confess to you!"

Kaina paused, then frowned, "What, am I not hot enough?"

Izuku blinked, then turned bright red again, "I feel like I need an adult."

"I am an adult. Also, you didn't answer."

"Miss Kaina, you are really beautiful, but I'm not here for your body." He said, "Also, uhm, this is getting kind of embarrassing, to be honest."

She sighed, "Right. Right. Sorry, I just got out of Tartarus. Down there the only way to talk to an inmate was shouting at the top of your lungs to talk to the next person over. Most people just wanted to do that to talk about women. Or men. Or that one guy that really wanted to-"

"Miss Kaina!"

"Right, right, fifteen years old. Still at that age where they watch porn but pretend they don't."

"I don't!"

"See? Come on then, mister. Favorite Female Pros?"

'Whyyyyyy' He looked away, going bright red. "Uhm… Miruko." He answered, honestly. No one could find something wrong with Miruko, so he doubted she could either.

Nagant snorted, "Bunny Girl, classic. Next?"

"M-Mandalay?"

"Catgirl, basic."

Izuku was starting to feel kind of insulted about his personal tastes in women while also being so glad that Pony and Jiro weren't there, "Ryukyu?"

"Kid, are you a furry?" Kaina asked. Izuku's mouth fell open.

"Wh-What?!"

"I'm just saying, bunny girl, catgirl, dragon girl that somehow has tits even as a dragon… There's a theme there." The woman shrugged, "Again, just saying."

"No! No, no no, it's not that!" He said, and Kaina hummed, "Actually, I have a girlfriend! And no, she doesn't have animal parts!"

At that, the woman looked at him with a grin spreading over her face, "Really? What's her name?"

"Hi-Himiko."

"Cute name. So, what's she like?"

"Well Himiko is…" Izuku looked out of the window for a moment, "Himiko is really sweet. She is funny, and kind, and she actually laughs at my jokes. She likes to eat raw dishes, likes small birds…"

"You are head over heels for her, aren't you?!" She laughed as he stammered and went bright red, "Alright kid, drop it on me. Give all the juicy details. After all this time I'm so thirsty for friendly drama that I will take helping you with your romance issues."

"Uhm, actually… I am here for something else." Izuku said. As much as he wanted to push the issue further away, he needed to get to it, or he would just spend hours talking about nothing.

"Oh come on, don't try to change the subject-"

"My name is Izuku Midoriya." He blurted out.

Kaina's switch was instantaneous. As in, her facial expression changed instantaneously, and she moved to do some elegant movement to take cover. Unfortunately, her body was still drunk. She stumbled back, fell off the couch from the armrest with a curse, rolled on the floor to get back up, and then her arm turned into a sniper rifle holy shit so cool-

Oh right it was aimed at him.

"Wait wait wait wait!"

"Are you with the Clan?!"

"No! I mean yes, but it's complicated don't shoot!" He waved his hands in front of his face, "Please let me explain! I'm on your side!"

He watched Kaina's eyes narrow.

Her right arm-sniper rifle pointed to him.

She took a deep breath.

And then she turned around and puked all over the floor, though thankfully not on the carpet. Izuku shouted as the liquid started to pool.

-x-

Half an hour later, a tired Kaina Tsutsumi was sitting on the sofa once more, taking a deep breath as she sipped the tea Izuku had made for her slowly, clutching her head. Turns out, puking in front of a teenager you had been trying to embarrass to death so he and assumedly his friends would leave you alone is an excellent way to get at least partially over a drunken haze.

She was now going to remember this experience forever though, which was unfair. What was the point of getting drunk if she couldn't just forget everything.

Even better for drunkenness is getting hit in the face with the story of your distant cousin Izuku Midoriya, Hero Student, Heir of the Green Valley Clan, and the only reason your cousins aren't coming in to put a bullet in your skull. "Those sons of bitches. No, wait, my aunts were good people. Sorta. Still Yakuza, but I liked them for what little I knew of them."

"Your mother told me you left the family."

"Yes, because dad had an affair and she divorced, then decided to not even try to fight for her daughter's custody." Kaina groaned, already feeling the need for more alcohol. She was sure there were beers in the fridge, so maybe… Well, questions for later. "Bitch. She has all the money in the world but noooo, let the guy that remarried two months later take my daughter, I'm sure he will be the better parent…"

"I'm sorry for that."

"Not your fault kid. I feel like someone should tell you that, since apparently you decided random sniper woman was more important than your future." She sighed, "Anyway, guess this throws the idea of telling about the Clan out of the window."

"Really?!" She noticed him stare at her in surprise and chuckled.

"Maybe you haven't heard, but I just spent years in jail for murder, and you know I was an HPSC assassin. I'm not exactly a beacon of virtue. While I would enjoy shooting Isana and Maguma in the face for trying to off me, I owe you one for saving me by putting yourself on the line, so if all you want back is for me to help you out in turn, I'm not going to be a bitch about it. That said…" She looked at him, "Why do you want to be a Hero?"

"To save people."

"But why a Hero? A police officer and a doctor also save people, so why not picking that?"

She noticed the kid freeze for a moment, and frowned. Weird reaction. Before she could ask if something was wrong, however, he spoke up. "Well… Because I think a Hero is the best job to help and inspire people. Because when people look up at the Heroes, they see their protectors, the shield against all evil, and that alone helps them, more than they realize. Crime went down incredibly when All Might appeared, and that was because he was really the Symbol of Peace-"

"And because I offed most Heroes that were doing shady shit. Face it, kid, it's not just All Might that is defending the world. We are just brainwashing society into believing that, removing any person that moves out of the script." She sighed, "I got tired of that and got put in jail, but that doesn't discount that the system sucks. Are you going to just serve it?" She watched the kid squirm on his seat, and groaned. 'There, I went and told an aspiring Hero that his life goal is pointless on day one. Heck, technically it's not even day one, it's Day -3 of my new job. Good fucking work Kaina.'

"I will change that." Izuku said, making Kaina turn toward her.

"What?"

"You are right. If you were necessary, it means the way things were done, or are done, is wrong. So I will change that."

"How?"

"I guess…" He smiled, though he was trembling a bit, "I guess I will have to become the Number One Hero and work from there."

Kaina blinked, then started to laugh. "Alright." She said.

"Alright?"

"Alright. I like you, kid. No, scratch that, you said I'm alive because they think I now work for you, right?" She asked.

"Y-Yes, but…"

"No buts." She nodded, "I haven't changed my mind on the Hero System, or anything like that, but I like you. You have guts, boss."

Izuku's eyes went wide, and Kaina couldn't help but chuckle. Well, first day out of jail and she was already working for the Yakuza.

What a fun day.

(xx)

The Kaina Tsutsumi introduction chapter. Lady Nagant is here to stay, get drunk, and teach the children that their dream is built on lies and murder.
The perfect UA employee.

I decided to focus this chapter on Kaina heavily so that anime-only readers could get a feel of her. She is an interesting character to write when she is taken out of jail early, because I feel like that allows for the original spunk to tell All for One 'Why the heck should I do that?" to the face.

Of course, as pointed out, Kaina was hamming up her drunkenness and trying to put Izuku's embarrassment into overdrive. Still, she is an ex-inmate, she is definitely going to have an... interesting vocabulary.

All hail boss Izuku. Let us hope he can become Number One and do those reforms.

Not much more to say. The Sports Festival marches forward, and next week we go back to it. Just with a sniper friend/fake underling walking around the campus.

Average Izuku Midoriya day then.