"Destroy's Quirks?!"

"Huh?" said Togata. "You gonna be okay, Tamaki!?"

"Yeah...I'm back to normal after a good night's rest. Here, look at this fabulous cow hoof," said Amajiki, holding up his hand, which was now a cow hoof.

"You ate beef for breakfast?!"

"So he recovered? That's a relief. This stuff must not be fatal."

"No...on that point, I turn to Eraserhead," said Sir Nighteye.

"It seems a bit different than my 'erasure'," said Sensei. "Because I'm not actually attacking a person's quirk itself. What we call quirks are special additions to an ordinary body, or the plus alpha elements. Everything included within the plsu alpha are what we call teh quirk factors. What I do is temporarily stop those quirk factors from activating. I can't actually cause any damage."

Fatgum continued, "We got Tamaki checked out at the hospital right after the attack. They said his quirk factors were damaged. Luckily his body's natural healing was enough to fix the problem."

"Did they analyze what he got shot with?" said Sir Nighteye.

"It didn't do anything else to Tamaki's body!" said Fatgum. "It only attacked his quirk! The gangster in question clammed up, and the gun was destroyed! It looked like all we had was that one empty round! However," he added, "since one bounced right off of Kirishima's body, we got our hands on a vial of the stuff that's still intact!"

"ME?! Seriously!? Didn't expect that!" said Kirishima.

"Way to go, Krishima!" I cried.

"Very cool, man!" said Tsu.

"Hardening, right? I know about him! Perfect guy for the job!" said Hado.

"Analysis of the substance inside revealed something pretty disgusting," said Fatgum, and the atmosphere in the room changed. "They found human cells and blood."

"Huh!?" I gasped.

"Sounds kind of unreal," murmured Tsu.

"So the effect it has comes from a person's quirk? A quirk destroying quirk..." said Ryukyu.

"Hmm...I was already kinda lost, but how does any of this connect to Hasahikai?" said one of the other pros.

"Although Kirishima caught the guy who had the illegal substance," said Fatgum, "Figuring out the network for drugs like that is pretty tricky. It's all shrunk down since the old days, but these drugs pass through multiple levels of groups and organization down the supply chain, until they finally arrive at the lowest level. There's no proof that Hasaikai is the supplier in question, but Hasaikai definitely did business with one of those middlemen."

"That's all you've got?"

"The other day, Ryukyu and her people stopped a feud between two villain groups," said Nighteye." The boss of one of those groups is the middleman dealer just mentioned."

"One of those giant villains," said Ryukyu, "Shot himself up with a booster to extend his short activation time."

"Linking all this recent organized crime activity to Hasaikai...maybe you're just seeing what you want to see," said another pro. "I'm still not convinced. Seems like you want Hassaikai to be the root of all evil, so you're painting just the right picture. I'm gonna need something more concrete to go on."

"Their young leader is Chisaki, and his quirk is Overhaul," said Nighteye. "The ability to both dismantle and restore. Dismantle, a quirk that can destroy and then heal. Then we have bullets that destroy quirks."

The expression on Deku's face in that moment was horrifying - I had never, ever seen him look that way.

"Chisaki has a daughter," said Nighteye. "One with no birth record, so the exact details are unclear. When these two," he nodded at Izuku and Mirio, "encountered her, she was covered in an excessive number of bandages."

"No," murmured Ryukyu, "It's too repulsive to imagine."

"That's super-powered society for ya," said the older pro. "Anything you can imagine, there's someone out there who can make it happen."

"What?" asked Kirishima. "What're we imagining!?"

"Todja we didn't need kids here," said the pro in the mask, "just use your damn head. You're saying he's turning his own daughter's body into bullets and selling them on the black market?"

I felt my heart thud into the ground in horror. That poor kid.

"It's uncertain whether or not he's selling just yet. Given that the drug's current effects are somewhat underwhelming. But if we imagine that it's simply in the testing phase. If he's simply distributing samples in order to attract followers. We're still lacking proof, but he's bringing in people from across the country. And amassing funds. What if hte final version of these bullets is capable of destroying a person's quirk permanently? One could execute any number of fiendish plans with such a thing."

"Makes my stomach turn just to imagine it!" said Fatgum. "Let's go bust down their doors!"

"So if your kids had just rescued the girl, our problems would've been solved?!" huffed he pro in the eye mask.

"I take full responsibility, so please don't blame them," said Sir. "They don't know the extent of the circumstances, but these two actually did take measures to save her. I'm sure that the ones hurting most out of all of us are these two."

Deku and Togata stood up suddenly and pushed their chairs back.

"The next time, for sure! We'll save her!" said Deku.

"That is indeed our goal," said Sir.

Side B

"I wanted this to go peacefully, League of Villains," hissed Chisaki. "NO way we're coming to any amicable decisions now. And, well...losing people on both sides isn't exactly productive. One dead for each of us...better end it there. Let's talk again once everyone's cooled off. We owe you an arm."

"I'LL FREAKING KILL YOU!" yelled Jin.

"Can I stab him Tomura?" I asked. "Can I?"

"No."

"Someone's gotta pay for this!" Jin screamed.

"Wise choice, face-palm guy," said one of those goons. "I'm not saying to rush the decision, but better make it sooner rather than later. Think about it carefully, about your organization and everything else."

"When you've calmed down, gimma a call."