Chapter 20

The sun was setting, and Killua had just finished eating dinner. It was 8:10 PM, so there was still nearly an hour left till the meeting with other Pros like Kamui Woods, Mt. Lady, Death Arms, and the others would begin. Edgeshot said he could rest after the "hard work" he put in throughout the day.

The effort Killua put into stopping a few petty criminals today was laughable to the teen. They had run into a couple of street thieves in the morning and afternoon that took no effort to stop. Later in the afternoon, right before returning to Edgeshot's little agency, the two busted a drug deal between amateur villains who could barely hold a knife properly. Killua felt sorry for the guys, so while Edgeshot was preoccupied, he taught them how to properly hold a knife before knocking them out right after.

He went up to his room on the second floor and kept his sliding door open. His primary phone vibrated in his pocket, and he read the name of the person calling. "Yo, Gon," Killua greeted after accepting the call.

"Killua!" Gon's voice burst on the other side, happy to talk to his best friend after a few days of minimal interaction. They had only talked once over text when Killua wanted Gon to send him a text as "proof" the first night he left when he went to see Giran and the League. Beyond that, they had not talked yet. "How is your internship with Edgeshot?"

"It's fine," Killua shrugged, not sure how to describe it. "How's it going with you? I heard Endeavor was in Hosu City the night Stain and the Nomu attacked. Were you there too?"

"Aaaaahahaha…" Gon laughed out nervously, and the silver haired teen prepared himself to hear his friend's story of getting in trouble or doing something stupid. "Yeah, I was there. Todoroki is interning with Endeavor too. Endeavor's his dad, by the way," Gon reminded, but Killua knew because of how excited the hero got when Todoroki used his fire at the Sports Festival versus Killua himself.

"Why the nervous laugh?" Killua pressed forward, knowing Gon would eventually spill the beans unless he was currently in a situation where he should not say everything.

"Well, I kinda got in a bit of trouble," he admitted. "I saved a hero from a Nomu that would've killed her. That was fine, but people just got suspicious of how I moved so quickly, and how strong I had to be to push the Nomu away."

"Then something else must've gone wrong," Killua deciphered. Gon had not said the main part of the story yet, and Killua could tell. There was more to it.

"Yeah, I found Stain- or, actually, Endeavor told me to find Todoroki, who had run off to find Stain. And Midoriya and Iida were there too. We all fought Stain and took him down. But at the end, he freed himself and released some scary bloodlust. He went after Endeavor, but I stopped him because I was the only one who could move. And then people questioned how I could move, and Endeavor asked back at the agency as well…"

Killua had a sinking feeling, but he was not sure if the conversation was going in the direction he did not want it to. "You told him you'd seen villains before, probably? And been in the presence of their bloodlust?"

Gon nodded hesitantly from his room in Endeavor's Agency. "I did, but then Endeavor asked who they were. And I couldn't think of a lie, so he kept asking questions until I eventually said I'm from a different world…"

Killua huffed and rolled his eyes. "Idiot! You could've just said you didn't know who the villains were! Now we have more people who-"

"Wait!" Gon even put his hand up which he knew his friend could not see. Killua quieted down and listened. "Okay, you're right, I could've said that. But I didn't think about it. And also, I didn't exactly say that I'm from a different world, and I didn't mention anything about you."

"Then what did you say if it wasn't exactly that?" Killua grumbled but raised his eyebrows in curiosity.

"He asked where I'm from, and I said Whale Island, which might not be on this world," Gon said. "It's not direct. He has to think a bit, but I'm pretty sure he knows."

The silver haired teen rolled his eyes again. "Obviously. That's pretty close to direct. But you're right, he does still have to think about it."

"Yeah, well…sorry about that," the green haired teen said in a small voice. Killua let out a disappointed sigh. "I couldn't think of anything to say to get out of it. He doesn't seem like the type to tell other people, though."

"Alright Gon, whatever you say," Killua sighed out. He did not know what to tell his friend over the phone.

There was a brief pause where Killua felt he could say bye and end the call, but Gon did not let that happen. "Have you done anything interesting yet?"

"Not yet, but we're planning some stuff that I can't tell you about till after it's done," the silver haired teen replied, although he knew the attack Edgeshot was planning would not work out. Still, he had to say that in case Edgeshot was somehow listening to his current phone call. "Confidential information."

"Oh okay, well, don't worry!" Gon said in an enthusiastic voice. "We'll talk about it later, then. Later, Killua!"

"Yeah later Gon," Killua responded and brought his phone away from his ear. He was just about to end the call, but his friend ended it first, so he did not need to. He headed back down to the main floor and passed the time by pacing around and thinking about several topics in rapid succession.

Edgeshot hasn't made any sign of being suspicious of me and what I was doing last night. He's keeping it in. He might tell Nezu about it because this is pretty much the first time he's seen me with villains. And about the attack we're planning, that's not going to happen. Unless for some reason, Stain's Followers go back to their old hideout the moment we attack. I can't let that happen. They need to know to not go back. I should tell Kurogiri to explain that.

Will Edgeshot think I had a part in letting them know there's an attack, and so they left for that reason? Seeing me with Kurogiri and Giran doesn't lead to a concrete connection of me having a part of ruining the upcoming raid. But Edgeshot could guess that and ask me about it later. It's a real stretch, but he might go for it.

And Gon, how could you tell Endeavor? Man, all you had to do was say that you didn't know who the villains were. I have no clue what Endeavor would even do with this information, though. He's the second ranked hero here, but I can't imagine he'll really care…hopefully.

He continued pacing in a different room than where Edgeshot was. He grimaced as he remembered something important. Alluka, I will come get you. Nobody here will stop me. That's a promise. Gon said he'll help me, so we'll definitely come back and get you out. Nothing matters here. I'll do whatever I have to.

A bit later, the first hero arrived. It was Snipe, who also happened to be a teacher at U.A. The hero recognized Killua from the Sports Festival, but they had never interacted because he was not the teen's teacher for any class.

The next hero to arrive was Air Jet, followed by Gang Orca and Best Jeanist. With the Number 4 Hero came a surprise…

"Bakugo! What happened to your hair?!" Killua asked and stifled a laugh. He was surprised to see the teen at all. Killua did not talk to him much, so he did not know where Bakugo went for his internship. As it turns out, the explosive ash blond teen went to Best Jeanist.

The ash blond widened his eyes in rage. "Shut up, or I'll kill you!" he said in a very low and slow voice, with noticeable pauses between each word. It was almost as if he was intentionally watching his words and language.

Best Jeanist shook his head. "That's no way to talk to your fellow classmate," he chided, and Bakugo held back a growl because he did not want the tall hero to hear him. The hero turned to Killua and sized him up. "I saw your performance at the Sports Festival. You impressed me with your skills at such a young age, although your messy hair does leave a bit to be desired…" He trailed off as he studied Killua's hair. The jeanist styles he knew ran through his head as he pictured what would look best on the silver haired teen.

Killua was baffled and turned to Bakugo. He silently nodded, understanding why his explosive classmate was acting the way he was. Best Jeanist was a little weird, but not necessarily in a bad way. He was just different from what both Killua and Bakugo were used to.

The last heroes to arrive all came together with their interns. "Sorry we're late, Mt. Lady had a bit of a…well, it's not important," Kamui Woods said hesitantly but decided not to explain the female hero's shenanigans. The sole female hero shot him a grateful look.

Edgeshot was curious what the newer hero meant by that, but he did not press, and neither did anyone else. He led everyone to his conference room on the first floor where bigger meetings were held. The table they used last time would not fit everyone.

As they entered the larger room, Bakugo heard some snickering behind him. He spun around and saw Jirou and Mineta. "Oh, it's you two extras…" he muttered quietly so Best Jeanist would not hear him. He turned his head forward briefly to check if his hero was looking at him, but it seemed he did not hear Bakugo's remark.

Killua scoffed from next to Bakugo, "Chill, Bakugo. You tied for third in the Sports Festival, you're not all that. You lost to Gon."

"So did you, Pale Freak," Bakugo spun his head to his side to face the silver haired teen and snarled back. He darted his eyes over at Best Jeanist who still paid him no mind. His eyes focused back on Killus next to him. His lips curled up into a smile as he said, "That makes us roughly even. More favoured to me actually, because I put on a way better show than you did in your pathetic fight with him!"

Killua shrugged with disinterest and thought, If only you knew how far from the truth that is. Maybe one day you will know.

They took their seats in the conference room with the students next to their Pros. Killua had not yet been in this room, although he knew of its existence.

"I thank you all for coming here and agreeing to be a part of this attack," Edgeshot began from Killua's right at the head of the table. Directly across from Killua was Best Jeanist, and next to the Number 4 Hero was Bakugo. On Killua's left was Kamui Woods followed by Mt. Lady and Mineta.

"All of you have been briefed with the objective of this mission and have received files containing known information about it," Edgeshot continued. "Our target is the villain group, Stain's Followers. Each of their members have been known for various crimes including murder, unarmed and armed robbery, and property destruction, among others. We have received permission from the government to launch this attack when we see fit. I propose we do it as early as possible. My recommendation is not tomorrow, but the next day. Seeing as it is already nighttime today, we would need some time to prepare. I believe a day of preparation should suffice."

"I think we should flesh out the details of the attack a bit before deciding when we should do it," Best Jeanist suggested. "That way, we know how much preparation time is required." Snipe nodded in agreement on the other side of Bakugo, and Death Arms nodded next to him.

"Very well then," Edgeshot nodded as well. He had a laptop in front of him and typed some keys for a few moments when the only thing that was heard were the keys themselves. A projector screen began coming down the wall behind Edgeshot. His laptop screen was displayed on the projector.

"This is what their hideout looks like from the outside," Edgeshot said and showed them photos that were taken during his investigation and when the other original three heroes did their own investigations as well. "I believe it is an abandoned building, as in nobody besides our targets use it. Kamui Woods, Mt. Lady, Death Arms, and myself have done extensive surveillance on the building. We can conclude that the main floor we see here is not in use, which leads us to believe they would be on an underground floor."

"This is a birds eye view of the building," Edgeshot continued and put up another picture. The building looked very standard from above with just a flat, grey roof with a few pipes sticking out. "And these are the members of their group, for your reference, along with their Quirks from what we know."

"So the only Quirk you're unsure of is that of Himiko Toga," Snipe clarified to which Edgeshot nodded.

"We believe that Himiko Toga may have a Quirk that allows her to disguise as other people, but we don't have concrete proof of that," Kamui Woods explained. "We also don't know how she activates her Quirk."

Disguising as others, huh? Wonder if that has anything to do with her apparent obsession over making people bleed, Killua thought hard. Maybe blood is how she activates her Quirk? It's all guesswork.

"I've been following the news on them for some time now," Gang Orca spoke up over on Jirou's right on the other side of the table from Killua, and everyone turned to face him. "I think that's a reasonable assumption to make. I believe the same thing."

"If both of you believe that, then I will too," Air Jet said from Mineta's left, right across from where Gang Orca sat. "Going back to our raid plan, being stuck underground with villains as dangerous as Stain's Followers doesn't sound too good."

"What are you concerned about?" Gang Orca asked in his deep voice, wondering what the other hero was trying to say.

"If they have a way out that we don't know, being trapped with a fire Quirk user like Dabi is very dangerous," Air Jet responded in a way that had everyone thinking deeply.

Mt. Lady nodded from two seats over. "In a previous meeting, we agreed that Dabi is one of the more dangerous members. Same with Toga. I think they are the two most dangerous."

Is that true now that I know a bit more about them? Killua wondered to himself. Dabi, yeah, probably. Toga is also really dangerous for this kind of mission if disguising is her Quirk. Muscular is a muscleman, but I think he would be handled by Edgeshot most likely. I'm not sure about the rest, but Twice could be annoying too.

"Moonfish sounds dangerous in a small area as well," Death Arms noted after he reminded himself of the villain's Quirk description again and a previous incident Moonfish had caused. "Turning his teeth into blades…he's been suspected for some pretty brutal murders, and murders we all know about." His tone turned dark, and people around the table looked uneasy, but Killua did not notice. "It sounds very dangerous to be with him in close proximity."

"If I may, I would like to suggest that I could handle the most problematic villains," Edgeshot spoke up and offered. "I can thin my body very quickly and knock them out through their pressure points."

Best Jeanist narrowed his eyes. "That sounds like a reasonable idea, but this all assumes they don't know we're coming," he countered.

"Best Jeanist is right, we need contingencies as well," Snipe said and looked around at each of the members sitting.

"You both are right, but we need to figure out our main plan before making any contingencies," Edgeshot reasoned. "I agree that contingencies are very important against villains like the ones we are up against. There is no telling what could happen."

"Edgeshot can knock out the most troublesome ones," Gang Orca's voice boomed and brought the conversation back to the main plan. "I assume that includes Dabi, Toga, and Moonfish?" The Number 5 Hero nodded. "That leaves six of them for the rest of us." The hero with the appearance of a killer whale darted his big eyes around the table. "We have plenty of capable heroes here."

But none of it matters, because your targets shouldn't be there when you decide to attack, Killua said in his head.

"My biggest strength is restraining people using my Quirk," Kamui Woods said. "Best Jeanist, I imagine you are similar to that?"

"Yes, I believe we should be able to restrain multiple people together using our Quirks," the other hero affirmed.

Death Arms glanced at the faces of the heroes sitting around the long table. "Should we split into groups? There is a backside entrance, and I think a group should go through there as well."

"Certainly," Edgeshot agreed. "I think Best Jeanist and Kamui Woods should enter from opposite sides." He paused with reason as he began searching for some new pictures on the laptop to put up to the big screen. He clicked a few times, and two pictures showed up side-by-side. The two pictures looked very similar, but it was clear they were on different sides of the building due to the extra details that were captured by the camera.

In one picture, there was an old, rusted door with familiar moss and cracked windows that Killua recognized as the side he entered from last night. In the other picture, the edge of a brown building was captured in the shot. There was a rusted door to enter the building in the second picture as well, and the windows looked similar too.

Best Jeanist and Kamui Woods looked at each other. They both turned to Edgeshot and nodded at the same time, agreeing that they would enter through the two separate sides.

"I think it would be good if I stayed outside as backup," Mt. Lady stated and got the attention on her. "My Quirk isn't useful underground if it's a standard ceiling height."

Edgeshot acknowledged what she said and continued with his own suggestions, "I will go with Kamui Woods through the entrance of that first picture. Best Jeanist can go through the second entrance, which is on the opposite side of the building. Gang Orca, would you mind going with Best Jeanist?" he asked and turned to the hero with the Quirk: Orcinus that gave him features of a killer whale. Gang Orca nodded, and Edgeshot continued. "Death Arms, would you mind coming with my group? Your physical strength may be necessary." The tall and muscular hero agreed.

"Like Mt. Lady, I think I would be better for backup," Air Jet cut in. "My equipment and Quirk are meant for the outdoors, not so much indoors."

Edgeshot narrowed his eyes at the same time as Best Jeanist. They were both thinking of the same thing, but neither of them knew the other was too. Best Jeanist beat Edgeshot to it, though. "Would we be at a disadvantage if we have too few people inside the building? I know we are a capable group, but we're going up against the strongest villain group in Japan."

"If Mt. Lady and Air Jet stay outside, we would have six heroes on the inside," Gang Orca said after counting the heads of people who were willing to go inside. "Six experienced heroes, might I add."

"I could come along inside, but my strength is in controlling the air," Air Jet explained his decision. "Still, I have equipment that can be useful in a fight. If you need me to, I am willing to come inside the building and help out."

"If I'm with Edgeshot's group, then Snipe can be in Best Jeanist and Gang Orca's group," Death Arms said. "Having Air Jet would make the groups uneven, but that doesn't matter if our goal is to target the same villains. We're just entering through different places." Air Jet nodded along because what the other hero was saying made sense.

"Alright, Snipe, would you be fine with going with Best Jeanist and Gang Orca?" Edgeshot asked and looked down to his right where the hero wielding a gun sat.

"That's not a problem," Snipe said simply.

Edgeshot turned back at the farthest person on the left side of the table. "Air Jet, you can come with my group if you would like. I would imagine that having more heroes is better against a group such as Stain's Followers."

"For sure, Edgeshot. I'll come with your group," Air Jet confirmed.

"Now that we've settled our groups, should we decide what role each person is going to have?" Kamui Woods addressed the next part of the planning process. "And then plan out our contingencies?"

"Edgeshot will be knocking out Dabi, Toga, and Moonfish as quickly as he can, and you and Best Jeanist are to restrain as many others as possible," Gang Orca summarized what they had already decided. The whale-like hero paused for a moment just as he was about to say something. "Do we have any layouts of the building?" he asked and looked around at Edgeshot, Kamui Woods, Death Arms, and Mt. Lady.

"I don't think so…" Mt. Lady frowned and turned her head to Edgeshot. "Unless you happened to get something?"

"Indeed I did, although I do not know how accurate they are," Edgeshot replied. He pulled up the building's layout on the laptop and showed it on the screen behind him. "I found out the company that constructed this building and asked for floorplans. They gave it, but they said it is the original layout of what they built. They did not do any renovations for the building, so if it changed since it was built several decades ago, they do not know as they were not informed."

"It's only two floors if you count the underground as a floor," Best Jeanist noted. "And there are five rooms on the bottom floor."

Mt. Lady shot an impressed look at Edgeshot. "Do you happen to know which of these rooms they would be in?" she asked with a small smile on her face.

Edgeshot shook his head. "I do not have that information. As you can see, there are two larger rooms that are the same size and three smaller rooms that are all the same size. I would imagine one of the larger rooms is some sort of common area for them where they…sit and talk together, I suppose," he finished with a look that questioned his own wording. It was almost as if he did not believe the villains could relax and talk to one another.

"It seems we will have to re-decide our roles," Snipe suggested, and he had several nods of agreement from the heroes around the table. He turned to Edgeshot and said, "I'm surprised you didn't show this to us earlier. This changes a lot if we don't know which room they're in."

Edgeshot bowed his head to the table. "My apologies. It completely slipped my mind. Thank you, Gang Orca, for bringing it to my attention." Gang Orca grunted in acknowledgement.

"We'll need to search the rooms as quickly as possible, while also alerting the others if we do run into them," Kamui Woods said in a low voice. "I think we should check the smaller rooms first, in pairs, however. Sending one person to a room our targets could potentially be in is dangerous."

"Air Jet and I can check one," Edgeshot declared, and the other hero he just referred to nodded along. "Death Arms and Kamui Woods can check another. The other whole group can check the last one?" Edgeshot's tone phrased it as a question as he looked around the table at Best Jeanist, Gang Orca, and Snipe individually.

"Sure, we can do that, and then the remaining two large rooms can be checked by both groups individually," Best Jeanist said. There were nods around the whole table.

"Since we've figured out our entry, I want to say that I can take on Muscular," Death Arms switched the topic back to each of their roles. "We both have strength-enhancing Quirks, so I think it should be fine."

"That would make sense," Kamui Woods remarked. "Best Jeanist, I suppose you and I should restrain everyone else? Assuming Death Arms handles Muscular and Edgeshot knocks out Dabi, Toga, and Moonfish, that leaves us with five people to restrain."

"Yes, so…" Best Jeanist looked towards the screen, and Edgeshot was already thinking the same thing. He brought up the document with all nine members of Stain's Followers to display. "That means Twice, Magne, Spinner, Mr. Compress, and Mustard are left. I will restrain the two that are the farthest from us when we enter. Would you be fine with the other three?"

Kamui Woods nodded, so Edgeshot interrupted. "I think after this point, assuming all goes well, it will be based on adaptation. We arrest the villains or they resist, so we take them by force. Now I think it is worth going over backup plans." He turned to Killua and asked, "Do you have any input on things that may go wrong?" He then turned and faced the table, looking at each intern individually. "Or any of you, you may speak up. What do you see that could go wrong in our plan?"

Best Jeanist smiled behind the denim covering his face. Mt. Lady also smiled because she recognized this was the reason for the interns being at the meeting. It was so that they can understand how the planning process works for operations such as this.

None of the students spoke up for a bit. Killua lowered his eyes to the table, but then he got an idea and looked directly at Edgeshot next to him. The hero turned to him as well. "Yes?" he prompted.

"Twice's Quirk lets him make clones of people, so what would you do if they know you're there and he makes clones of the villains?" Killua asked. He added, "He could make a lot of clones, but we don't know. Also don't know who he'd make them of."

"That's a valid point," Kamui Woods pointed out from next to him. "As you said, we don't know who the clones would be of. It will take adaptation on our end from what I see."

"Is there a noticeable difference between the clones and the real person?" Snipe asked the four who clearly had more knowledge on the villains than the heroes they invited for the operation.

"I don't think there's a noticeable difference, not from what we know," Mt. Lady admitted with a slight frown.

"Then it seems we will simply have to adapt," Snipe responded in return.

"It seems that we will," Death Arms concluded. "Does any other student have an idea? This is the reason why you four are in the meeting." He looked over at Jirou specifically to see if she had anything to add.

Jirou coughed and then cleared her throat. "Dabi's fire could be bad for Kamui Woods' Quirk. What would you do if Edgeshot couldn't knock Dabi out?" Death Arms nodded in an impressed way and looked over at Edgeshot and Best Jeanist to see if they had anything to say.

"I think that's rather simple," Best Jeanist answered. "In the chance that Edgeshot does not take care of Dabi, I can restrain him before he gets to use his fire."

"Alternatively, I could paralyze him," Gang Orca included himself in the conversation. "Or I could paralyze him after Best Jeanist holds him back, and then we can be sure he won't be a problem."

"What about Moonfish?" Bakugo interrupted calmly with narrowed eyes. "If Edgeshot doesn't get him…" he trailed off and thought back to the incident from a few months back. Killua kept his face expressionless, but he was wondering what Bakugo was referring to because he did not know of it. Killua could see in his peripheral vision that everyone grimaced or got darker looks on their faces.

Did something happen before Gon and I came here? Something with Moonfish? he wondered.

"That day was a tragedy," Edgeshot admitted in a low voice. "Moonfish went on a rampage and killed 14 people and severely injured 11 more."

"And out of those 11, two more died later in the hospital…" Air Jet added in a sad tone.

Edgeshot straightened up and looked around the table with a serious and intense look in his eyes. "I promise that nothing like that tragedy will happen again. Moonfish will be my first target, before Dabi and Toga. Once Moonfish is out of the picture, he will never be in it again. He will go to jail, and he will not come out for a long time, if ever."

There was a moment of silence as everyone took Edgeshot's words to heart. Kamui Woods spoke up after some time. "I think we have planned for what we can. We realize there's a lot left to thinking on the spot, but that's what heroes are for. Should we decide when we want to go ahead with this plan?"

Edgeshot checked the time on his laptop. It read 10 PM. "I believe we could go ahead with it tomorrow morning at about 10 AM if that is fine with everyone. It does not seem like much preparation is needed in terms of equipment or getting many people with us. We are a small group."

Everyone agreed, and the meeting was called off. They were to meet at 10 AM the next morning at the abandoned building for which Edgeshot gave them the address.


Killua, Bakugo, Jirou, and Mineta were standing next to a nearby abandoned building from the one Stain's Followers were supposedly in. They were told they could watch anything that happened if the fight came outside at all, but they were not allowed to fight.

Killua knew the villains were not going to be there. He made sure he texted Kurogiri last night to tell the nine new League members to not go back. Kurogiri did tell them that and when asked how he knew, he said he had a connection in the hero world who knew there was about to be an attack filled with capable heroes on their former base.

It had already passed 10 AM, and Mt. Lady was standing as a tall guard using her Quirk right outside the building. The other seven heroes had all entered.

"It's impossible to see or hear anything," Mineta whispered, feeling his heart beat a little faster than it usually would due to the intensity of the situation.

Bakugo rolled his eyes. His hands were twitching, and the other three students could tell he wanted to fight the villains. "What do you think? It's underground," he scoffed.

Several more minutes passed by before the seven heroes who entered the building came out looking unscathed. They also did not bring any new people with them.

Mt. Lady raised her huge eyebrow and shrunk back to her normal height when Kamui Woods told her to come back down. They began talking in their group of eight heroes while Bakugo, Jirou, and Mineta were wondering what happened. Killua feigned curiosity on his face too to blend in with his classmates.

Death Arms and Mt. Lady used their hands to beckon the four to come over. "What happened?" Jirou asked the tall and muscular hero she was interning with.

"It seems our targets are not in this building at this time," Edgeshot answered for him. "I do not know where they could be. There have been no sightings of them in any nearby cities this morning."

"We think it's best to postpone our operation for now," Death Arms broke it to the students. "We have no leads on where they are. They may have a second base they never showed to us, or perhaps it somehow got leaked to them that we were coming for them," he finished in a lower tone. When Death Arms said that final idea, Killua felt Edgeshot's eyes fall on him.

Just like that, the mission was called off. Killua and Edgeshot headed back to the Edgeshot mini-agency. As soon as the door closed behind Edgeshot, he pounced on Killua with questions.

"Did you have a hand in this?" Edgeshot asked with a stern look in his eyes. He did not give off any sort of dangerous aura to Killua, but he knew Edgeshot was…on edge.

"What do you mean by that?" Killua asked innocently but narrowed his eyes to make it seem like Edgeshot was throwing false accusations.

"Did you play any part in letting Stain's Followers know we were coming?" he rephrased his question to be more clear.

Killua closed his eyes and turned his head to the side. He opened them again and glared at Edgeshot from the corner of his vision. "I can't believe you would try to suspect me for this."

"I followed you out the night you went for a run," Edgeshot said in a stern voice. "You were with Giran, a wanted villain, and that League member, Kurogiri, who is also a wanted villain now. What were you doing with them?"

"Nothing to do with Stain's Followers," Killua grumbled in an annoyed voice. He was not in a mood for this questioning. He wanted to go home, but he knew that was not possible yet. All For One had another task waiting for him.

"This cannot be a coincidence," Edgeshot said in a softer tone. "Nezu was right that you are working with villains. Why do you do this? You have the potential to be a splendid hero."

"It's a reason I can't and don't want to explain," the silver haired teen answered with a yawn. Edgeshot opened his mouth again, but Killua cut him off. "Sorry, I'm not explaining. I have my reasons. It doesn't matter what the consequences are, because there won't be any consequences," he finished by glaring straight up and into the hero's eyes.


I wanted this out a little faster, but I got sick for a few days and didn't write during those days. It was also kind of boring to write, but I think the next chapters will be more interesting.

Just so you know, I'm thinking of skipping the final exam arc for both Gon and Killua. I might summarize the arc as a quick "think-back" (not a flashback, but I don't know what it's called) where they reflect on what happened. In canon, Class B got robots, and it doesn't sound very entertaining to read Gon destroying a bunch of robots. For Killua, I honestly have no clue what teacher he could be matched with. Maybe Aizawa to force Zetsu because that's what Erasure does in this story? But still, it doesn't seem like there'll be anything cool for me to add.

I definitely do want to flesh out each of their relationships with their classmates more, though, especially Gon. I haven't given Gon or Class B much time, and in general, I think I've slacked on a lot of their interactions with classmates. It's something I want to add more of going forward.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed!