After staying in bed for about another hour cuddling, Tsu got up and walked onto his balcony, before climbing back up towards her room. He watched her climb, a small smirk forming as he had a great view.
While teachers like Aizawa never mentioned relationships between students were forbidden, he had implied they weren't the best thing to have while attending UA, or being a hero in general. He spoke about hostage situations where you would potentially have to choose between a civilian or the person you're in a relationship with, and talked about situations where heroes became depressed and committed suicide after losing their lover to villains.
Deku understood these fears and felt sorry for anyone who had gone through such a thing. But he had something those heroes didn't.
He was the leader of the largest villain group in all of japan. He had connections and allies all across the country, and everyone listened and followed his every command. So when he had Kurogiri send out a message to everyone saying they weren't allowed to harm any UA staff or its students, especially 1A, everyone gave their word. They knew of the consequences of disobeying Deku, so they didn't want to make their leader mad.
"You seem to be enjoying this new life style. And a girlfriend? You're growing up so fast." A voice stated from behind, causing Deku to roll his eyes and shut his curtains.
"I thought I told you to not come here. That I would contact and visit you when I could." Deku scolded, turning around and crossing his arms while glaring at Kurogiri.
"My apologizes master, but you haven't contacted or visited the base in weeks. We were growing worried." The butler apologized and bowed. "That, and I have some news you must hear."
News? Well, this must've been important if Kurogiri had risked getting them both caught. He hoped it wasn't pointless news, like new recruits, fighting between his main crew, or that Eri was asking to adopt a puppy. Because as much as he wanted to get her a puppy, now was not the time with, ya know, him being a villain and all.
With a grunt, Deku raised his right arm as his hand glowed black. Touching the wall, the glow began spreading, until it covered every inch of the room.
"We have a barrier now. Speak that way you can leave and not blow my cover."
"I apologize master, I'll try to make it as quick as possible." He bowed again. "First off, Giran has brought us an additional 150 recruits. Our numbers have now risen to well over 1000."
Ok, that was good, but not important enough to come and talk to him about! This was probably Kurogiri's way of softening him up before telling him the bad news.
"Second, the serum is nearly complete. Our scientists predict it will take another two weeks before finally completing it."
…He had to admit, that fairly was big and important news. With Overhaul's serum, his plan to better hero society would take half the amount of time as it would without it. But still, he could've waited.
"You're buttering me up Kurogiri. What's the real news you have to tell me?"
He could see it in the butlers glowing yellow eyes, the hesitation was as clear as day. Something bad had happened, something really bad.
With a sigh, Kurogiri opened a portal and reached inside, before pulling out a tiny stack of photos. He handed them to Deku, who started shifting through them. His own eyes slowly began to widen with each photo.
"This…isn't good." Deku muttered.
The photos in question each consisted of a mangled and mutilated corpse, and all had the same thing in common: the green wristbands and bandanas they wore.
One corpse was a male, who had the top half of his skull cut off and his brain removed. Said brain was a pile of mush, via it being stepped on, on the ground in front of the corpse.
Another showed a different male with black hair, who had both arms cut off and shoved into his mouth.
The third was of a woman who was chained from a wall and ceiling. Her stomach was cut open, allowing the organs to spill out and onto the floor below.
The 4th was a corpse, which was turned inside out. The bandana and wristbands were work where they were supposed to be, meaning whoever had done this must've taken them off, turned the body inside out, and placed them back on.
"Kurogiri, what the fuck am I looking out."
"In the time you've been gone, we've had multiple recruits go missing, and turn up dead in these gruesome scenarios. No one has spoken up and claimed credit for these murders."
"Someone's targeting my people, they're targeting my league." He growled, before handing the butler back the photos. He began to think and chew on the nail of his right hands thumb. "People believe I've been imprisoned, and don't know the truth. These attacks are coming from someone who thinks everything is now free real-estate since they believe me to be no longer a threat. This is a message to those who follow me, to join them, abandon me, or die."
"Whoever is attacking your people believes the League no longer has a leader. What are we going to do master?"
Deku started to think of what to do, and the ways to do them. Making an appearance was a big no-no, giving leadership to someone else was a bigger no-no, and telling the heroes of what was happening was the biggest no-no since, ya know, he was supposed to have no memory of what has happened.
"It's obvious my people have been getting kidnapped. Do you know where each of them taken? Where they each lived?"
"They all lived and were kidnapped in the southern most part of the city, master."
Perfect.
"Have Twice make some clones of other recruits who live there and have them walk around. Get someone who has an invisibility quirk or someone who is smart enough to make surveillance drones. Have one of the two follow the clone and see if it gets kidnapped, and see where it gets taken. We can make a move and assault the place where they're being taken and killed. Then we can find out who's behind it and why."
"And what about the leadership problem?" Kurogiri asked, causing Deku to smile.
"Leave that to me."