(AN: Hello everyone graduated a couple weeks ago and finally getting ready for the real world ...yeah. Bonus chapter 2 or rather 1 editor got this one done first so I made some changes and decided to post this first. One more bonus chapter then i'll post first chapter of book 2 which is already finished)
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[Greetings to whoever is reading or watching this log. The name's Gerald I didn't label these logs so I'm not sure if you'll receive this or the first one..first but if you're receiving this log first then I'll keep it brief. I'm a member of the GA that has access to Mineta's …and 90% of Japan's digital information and I'll be dropping logs from digital diaries and audio logs from people other than our friendly grape. If you are wondering why I can post these logs but not help Mineta more directly …that will be explained in the log that was created before this one. These logs were added to the data file that Mineta released in Blackorchird without his knowledge. This takes place around a week from Mineta's last log but the next log from him will leave off where he left off. ]
Date: 9/22/2301
Title: Loudmouth Speaks Up
"I feel like I should tell you that you brought this on yourself" I whispered to Satsuki, the room filled with the dozens of machines hooked into her. I wasn't in here when they brought her in but from what the doctors had told me it had looked much worse. At the moment it was hard to tell what was wrong with all the wrapping covering her whole body. "What did they do to you?"
"When they brought her in she had a large fracture in her head with a decent part of her brain coming out" I jumped in surprise as Satsuki's sister walked into the room kneeling and grabbing her sister's hand. Tsuyu had always been a slightly uncanny figure, her frog figure just being slight enough to dance on the edges of the uncanny valley. But the look in her eyes, the intensity in those eyes pushed on some deep corner in my mind that reminded me that she could kill me with a punch. "He snuck into her house" she muttered, grasping her sister's hand hard enough form that I could hear the bone creek "snuck in and tried to crack her head open, tried to kill my sister" Whatever she said next was too quiet that I couldn't hear it.
Your sister tried to give him to a feminist extremist group to be killed, I think to myself. yeah, that had been a surprise to find out. But if it wasn't a case of poking a bear with a stick I don't know what is. She literally dragged Mineta to her home. Even though I knew that even though my mind had accepted that point it still twisted my heart to see her broken like this to see someone that I've known for years be so broken.
"They don't know when she will wake up" Tsuyu states, eyes still locked on her sister. "she has massive Brain trauma it was only because of her quirk that she even alv-" she trails off
"Eri can fix this she'll be fine" I nod my head leaning against the hero who wrapped an arm around me. "And hey after this you get to drag her to stealth defense training for the rest of her life she's always been being lazy with that"
Tsuyu didn't laugh but she did smile as she hugged me tighter" I don't know how long we sat there hugging while watching Satuki here but we were interrupted by a knock at the door.
"Go away" Tsuyu said and for a moment I thought she was talking to me only to relax when she groaned when the door opened
"Sorry miss but I bring news about the situation downtown"
"Unless you're telling me what prison they're holding Mineta in I don't want t-"
"Mineta Minoru isn't in custody" the man in the suit replies only to take a shaky step back as the hero was suddenly in front of him. moving fast enough to send me spinning from the force and falling into a chair.
"What?" Tsuyu asked not even noticing my look all her attention was on the messenger
The messenger leans back as Tsuyu moves closer "he was able to escape the team that was sent a-" The man's eyes widened and I could only imagine the look on Tsuyu's face.
"Where was he last seen?"
"Um he was last seen diving into a hole under the restaurant he had taken hostages in"
"Hostages?"
"Oh, you haven't been told?"
The what I was assuming to be HPSC agent began to tell us of Mineta's escape Tsuyu's face going from angry to downright furious throughout the tale. I on the other hand was getting much closer to believing that idea of some sort of super spy story he told me ..I can't think of many reasons normal heroes would know how to make bombs. By the time the story was over something that seemed like the mix of a croak and a growl had been coming from Tsuyu for a while, slowly lowering in pitch as the story went on. I don't even think that she was aware she was doing it but at this point, I was pretty sure it was causing my bones to vibrate."
"He. Took. My. Brother?!"
"Um, yes, but we are already in persu-"
The poor man didn't even get to finish his statement before Tsuyu brushed past him leaping down the hall.
really hope someone else brings him in something tells me if Tsuyu is the one to catch him that won't be much of Mineta to arrest hell even the idea that he was able to escape a hero team was impressive to me he didn't really look all that intimidating when you get a first look at him being a foot smaller than the shortest girl I've ever met. another thing pointing to that super spy story not being all crap.
"Ms Sora Hizashi is it?" I blink in surprise as another HPSC agent walks into the room.
"Yes?" I raise an eyebrow "And you are?"
"Agent Umemoto, I was actually called to speak to you. Do you have a moment?"
I should have known Kekkai would have talked. Alright to be fair I wasn't 100% sure it was her but Satuki had been out since Mineta caught her and I've been with her since Tsuyu called me here. My theory was confirmed when the first agent brought said girl in to check on Satsuki while a second one escorted me to an empty room. If this was the agent that had questioned poor Kekkai then no wonder the girl folded so quickly. He was massive at an impressive 6'7 with his head being a slightly glowing crystal orb for a head. I wondered if the rest of his body was crystal but couldn't tell because of the back gloves covering his hands. Me and Crystal Head, jeez I'm even starting to nickname like Mineta, stared at each other for a solid 10 minutes. He was obviously waiting for me to crack but this wasn't my first interrogation. After some more time of this one-sided staring match Crystal Head placed a hand to his head. This caused me to raise an eyebrow because he didn't have any earpiece or even an ear to put on said earpiece so I wasn't sure how he was answering anyone. Five minutes later I sighed as I realized that he had called in the big guns.
"What were you thinking?" my uncle yelled at me as he pushed the door open. He had accidentally tapped into his quirk slightly causing everyone but us to cover their ears.
"Present Mic please." Crystal Head started but he wasn't done.
"Kidnapping!? You kidnapped someone, and not just anyone, a villain! what were you thinking?"
I wave a hand around my ears, not blocking his voice out fully but at least protecting myself if a shouting match started.
"I didn't kidnap him, Satsuki did, I just watched him to make sure no one got hurt."
"And that obviously worked out w-" he stopped himself but we both knew what he was gonna say.
"That wasn't my fault" I whispered "She was the one that went against the deal"
"Deal!?" my uncle waves his hands around "You can't make a deal with villains!"
"I was trying to keep Her out of jail! What was I supposed to do?"
"Call the cops! call the heroes or you know CALL ME!" I flinch and deepen the damped effect.
"what would have happened if I called you?" I waved my hands around "Would you cover for her? Would you have broken the law? lied and said you found him under your bed?"
The retired pro hero gritted his teeth after being friends with Eraserhead so long it wasn't 100% impossible that he would have lied if I handed Mineta over to him but it was a chance I was willing to take especially once Mineta managed to stick this stupid spy issue in my head.
"If you called me I could've spoken on all of your behalf!" My uncle's eyes drifted to Crystal Head who was watching the conversation. I couldn't tell his expression but it was safe to say he was taking notes of everything we were saying.
"Plus I don't know why they pulled me in here, I did nothing wrong." Kekkai didn't even know that I had to place a gun in Mineta's face so they couldn't snitch that. "All I did was get told by a close friend to check something out and then suddenly found out that she had a villain in her basement. It's not like I helped feed or catch him!"
"And letting him go?" It was Crystal Head that raised the question.
"She called me for protection though she apparently spiked my tea so that was a lie as well." That had been an argument. she had been so satisfied that she had 'killed the villain' that it was almost that she couldn't understand why I was pissed at her. The argument had been for an hour until I had gone home to cool off funny how those issues get pushed away when your friend gets part of her brains bashed out by a psychopath super spy. Yeah I know she started it, but aren't spies supposed to leave civilians out of it or something? Yeah, I know it was unfair from Mineta's stance but it's easier to be mad at him than coma girl. "Look, Kekkai was there just as much as I was, anything she knows I know so you already know." My uncle gave me a look that said he didn't believe that but decided to chew me out instead of pushing the issues most likely because of our guess in the background. My uncle might have been a little bit of an oddball when he's pumped up but he was well aware that forcing me to spill any beans I had currently would lead to a steeper punishment than he could see his niece take, I'm sure I'll be questioned later but far away from Crystal Ball here. The interrogation bogged down once it was clear I had nothing else to say. They only had what Kekkai had already said.
Once the meeting was done I felt like I could finally relax even as my uncle heaped grounding after grounding on top of me. Good ol' nepotism won once again with me getting a stern talking-to instead of what I would assume to be heavy fines or light jail time. Though the very fact that this was a top ten hero and a relative of a UA teacher in the middle of this means that they were always gonna keep this quiet if they could. This didn't help with Tsuyu's reaction when she learned that there was no sign of either Mineta or her brother. She decided to stay at her sister's house to see if she could find any clues. I decided to stay with her to help around while Kekkai decided to check in from time to time. In hindsight, this was a stupid idea cause all I did was give my uncle time to tell Tsuyu that I was hiding something and made it so she could wait for the right moment to question me. It wasn't 3 days later that Tsuyu decided to question me...in the middle of doing my hair.
"So you gonna tell me or not?" She spoke so casually that it took me a moment to realize she had asked something. I blink at her words pausing the game on my phone
"What should I be telling you?" I ask only too hiss as that reply earns me a short hair tug from Tsuyu's hands.
"You're smarter than that, what happened when Mineta was here? What did you not tell Present Mic?"
"I don't tell my uncle a lot of things, what makes you think there's anything else t-!?" I gasped as Tsuyu's legs moved, causing me to fall back against her thighs, which slowly closed around my head. They squeezed for a moment but that was all that was needed to remind me that she had broken concrete with them before.
"Look, I can't tell you everything, I wasn't there for all of it-" squeeze "But I'll tell you all! can!" Tsuyu's hand reaches my chin and tilts my head up and back to look up at her.
"I'm all ears." She says, her legs pushing lightly on my Adam's apple."
At that point, it was my turn to sing. Leaving out most of the conversation with Mineta and the fact that I aimed a gun at him I shared the cliff notes and offered to show her the flash drive I recorded off of it. Yeah, was it the smartest idea to download and copy the digital diary of a criminal/super spy? Probably not. But it did help get Tsuyu's attention. 20 minutes later she was looking at me as I was confusingly looking through my computer files, which most were compromised.
"I don't get it, they were all fine when I checked them before," I say as I show her the ones that did work, which was his first video, and some logs. "Still got something though."
[Hey Gerald here again. This friendly reminder that if you're gonna keep digital information of this level keep it in two sources and make sure that at least one source is disconnected from the internet or else you might have to worry about dashing genius like myself whipping them out]
Tsuyu was silent as she watched the video. Even after knowing her for years, that frog-like face she has made it next to impossible to read her expression.
"Okay then." She says, finally pulling out her phone and texting someone.
"Okay?" I say in surprise "That's it?"
"Nope, you're coming to be to HPSC building"
"Wait, what? Why?" I say as she grabs my coat and throws it to me.
"I want to see what the others think of this." When I was not moving fast enough for her, Tsuyu's tongue wrapped around my waist, lifting me up slightly as she started to walk towards the door.
"But I haven't even had breakfast yet!" I complain, barely managing to snatch my phone from the countertop.
"I'll buy you something." She says, casually carrying me out the door.
It was 30 minutes later that I was standing in front of the main hero station of Yokohama. It was tall enough but for a building that hosted heroes and HPSC agents, it looked lacking. The first thing that came to my mind while staring at the square building was the word dull. That wasn't to say that I believed for a moment that if a villain went after it they wouldn't be jumped by someone with the honestly nonsense amount of power they have protecting UA or Tartarus. Once we got in we had to walk through a couple dozen scanners and such and even get frisked. If Tsuyu had any problems with the HPSC agent who literally walked through her she didn't make a face, I on the other hand had to catch my breath when it was my turn at the feeling that I can only compare to having my entire being dunked in arctic water.
"Shapeshifter and mind control defense/detection." She explained to my expression. I wanted to say something to that but I remember Tsuyu and Ochaco talking about school days and how much of a problem Toga was.
"Why did you choose this floor?" I panted as we went up the third staircase only to keep going "If we were going so far up why not the elevator?" Tsuyu rolled her eyes and I flashed her a glare. Not all of us have frog legs. After 7 more staircases we finally made it to the room. It was a pretty simple room that you would find in any office building. The only interesting thing was the large tables with a series of monitors in front of each chair and the person that was waiting in it.
"Hey guys!" A familiar redhead shouted.
"Kirishima!" I grinned, moving forward and giving him a few short jabs in the chest in the form of greeting. "Didn't expect you to be here before us!"
"I was in the area since Spinner was in town, they wanted more heroes around if he tried to contact the Children Of Stain for something." He laughs and pats me on the back with enough force to make me stumble "What brings you here?"
"She has some information about Mineta" Tsuyu stated, causing Kirishima's face to lose its smile.
"I see, well let's hear it."
"Let's wait for everyone else."
It took around 7 minutes for everyone else to show up. Most of class A showed in on monitors tho more showed up in person than I expected. It was no surprise that Mina, Momo and Shoto would be in person since they were in town but we also got Toru, Sato, and Sero who were apparently called up as backup. And what was really surprising was the other class members joining us. In-person were Shiozaki and Tetsutetsu while Rin was on one of the monitors.
"Um, weren't you guys in class 1B?" I asked tilting my head "I thought this was a class 1A meeting?"
"I decided to have them join in." Midoriya said he and Uraraka were sharing a monitor. The background was blurry but a part of me was thinking they were viewing this top-secret meeting while snuggling together on their couch. It sometimes still boggled her mind that I was casually talking to the number 1 hero, even though this wasn't the first time doing it, I guess it was just the vibe he was giving off. He's not the same man spazzing over other hero's quirks or the next generation, he's the number 1 hero, and even with his wife on his shoulder, he was as serious as ever and still gave off weight even when he wasn't in the room. It didn't always hit me since I saw him every couple of months but it kind of hit me that I was talking to a man that could end a city in like 10 minutes. "They were part of the force that arrested Mineta in the first place so I thought they might have something to say."
"I feel like I should show this first," Tsuyu says, holding up her phone and placing it by the monitor connected to her chair. Moments later everyone was watching Mineta's first video. It was a short video so it didn't take very long for everyone to watch it.
"Well this confirms where he was hiding after his escape but we already had the report from the officer whose house he was in." Iida stated.
"This also connects with what he told us during the hostage situation," Momo replied, rubbing her chin.
"Do we have any idea how true his first statement is?" Iida asked. "Mineta said he was being executed, not killed, that means he thinks it was an official thing and not a result of his escape."
"He mentioned that the prison had been trying to execute him, or rather he had been in the middle of one when the Nomu attacked."
"Any truth to this statement?" Iida asked looking at Jiro
"I didn't hear anything on it," she replied, playing with an ear jack "but that doesn't mean much since they have been keeping most information on Mineta hidden from us."
"If they tried to hang him wouldn't his vocal cord be crushed or something?" Rin asked.
If it was a long drop then maybe." Toru replied. "Then it would've broken his neck, if he's telling the truth he was probably being suffocated."
"If he's telling the truth." Mina points out. "We have no idea what was going on in the Pit, what's worse, we can't even find the records of it since most of the building is being fished out of a giant hole."
"Actually about that." A voice that came from past the door. The door was suddenly pushed open by a butt, which belonged to Mei Hatsume who came into the room, dragging in a giant suitcase as big as her.
"Hatsume?" Mina blinked, "why were you invited?"
"I wasn't, I overheard my hubby on the phone talking about it!"
Iida blinked then balked "But you weren't even in the house at the time!"
"I overheard your phone with my phone!"
Iida stood up, the monitor only able to show his chest and one hand which he was furiously chopping the air with at his wife. I assumed he was about to go through a long line of reasons why someone should not bug their spouse's phone but Momo apparently wanted to skip that.
"Hatsume," Momo said slowly, a slight smile on her face. "What are you doing here?"
"Well when my hubby was on the phone I realized you were talking about the short one and I wanted to join in because I managed to recover some of the Pit records over the weekend!"
That got a lot of looks, one from Iida who was hearing this for the first time as well.
"Is ..is that allowed?" Rin asked.
"They never told me not to do it!" Hatsume offered.
Iida groaned into his hand but Midoria had a smile on his face.
"Why do you have Mineta's suitcase?" Jiro asked with a raised eyebrow. "Did you manage to crack it?"
Mei glared at the suitcase for a moment. "No I haven't managed to crack it but I did manage to figure out who made it!"
"Why does the suitcase matter?" Sato asked.
"When Mineta was captured all his stuff was taken to be looked over." Mei explained, patting the suitcase lovingly. "I was called over when they couldn't get this baby open, I didn't care at first but when it EMP'd the lab I was in I gave it my full attention!"
"That thing has an EMP and you brought it here?" Iida snapped at his wife, hands waving wildly.
"Calm down, I have it blocked. It can't send anything out but that's not important, I managed to find its calling card!"
"Cool but you mentioned something about finding information about the Pit?" Momo offered.
Mei looked like she would rather talk about the super suitcase but at a look from Iida she kept going, "Yeah yeah whatever, sending it to your monitors."
A couple minutes of reading and Mina was the first one to talk.
"The new warden might have understated Mineta's relationship with Spinner." she mutters looking over the paper. "19 fights involving them vs the other prisoners within 3 months of, they also seemed to eat together."
"Were they never separated?" Iida asked, earning a shrug from Mei.
"No idea, only got little snips of information." She replies. "From what I can figure out they became close allies once Spinner was relocated and became prison buddies fending off any attackers."
"I get Mineta being attacked, bullying the weak and all that," Mina stated "but why Spinner, you think he would have a good rep in prison?"
"Could be for a lot of reasons, he's a mutation type, a follower of Stain, maybe they wanted to beat up the strongest prisoner there. Plenty of reasons for prisoners to attack each other."
"There shouldn't be any attacks," Midoria replied, a light frown on his face. "How were these many prison fights allowed in the first place?"
"Unlike Tartarus prisoners are allowed an amount of interaction and join places in the Pit" Mina explained "It seems most of these fights happen in the showers and the cafeteria"
"Even so they just let prisoners attack each other?!"
"We have no idea if they just watched," Shoto points out"We also don't know how bad they were none of these reports tell the damage"
"Besides the last one" Mei said, sliding over another report "After this Mineta and Spinner spent most time in solitary confinement" I leaned over to see the closest monitor only for Sato to turn it away. I shot a glower at him but whatever it was must of been bad since it caused Sero to let out a long whistle "7 casualties 14 heavy injuries Spinner must have gone wild"
"Don't underestimate Mineta" Momo warned "We just saw what he's capable of"
"He took hostages and left bombs" Kirishima commented "That's not possible in the prison unless you think someone smuggled something in"
Momo looked like she wanted to say more but dropped it.
"Well I guess this could be the reason for the death penalty" Rin commented on "If he was killing fellow criminals and guards that would be a reason"
"It's also would be the reason for transfer to another prison Mineta's not exactly a high-power prisoner hell they could have just thrown him into permanent solitary containment they had options to other choices besides the death penalty...if they did plan to kill him after all"
"Can we just for now assume that Mineta was telling the truth?" I decide to speak not believing that I was standing up for the dipshit "just for the conversation to stop arguing the point"
"I think we should assume the villain is lying if we blindly assuming" Mina stated with a raised eyebrow
" I think it's something to worry about in the long run even if an execution order was given for Mineta the warden of the Pit had more than enough reason to give the order even if we personally don't agree" Shota pointed out
The heroes look at each other for a moment before all seeming to agree with the statement.
"Even so to not tell any of us is weird" Uraraka stated " Mineta was with the IHA hero you think one of us would be made aware and yet to tell no one makes it seem sketchy"
"And if we ask the higher-ups that should know it doesn't really help does it? now that Mineta has dropped these seeds of doubt" Rin rubs his chin "If they say yes it gives some credence to Miineta's words if only minorly if they say no then there will be a slight doubt that they are covering something up"
"So what you're saying is that they could have saved us all the trouble by telling us if they were gonna kill him or not" Mina complained
"Mina" Momo started but Mina cut her off
"No really ignoring the fact that we were all in the same class you think they tell us that they're killing the one that was their number one suspect in the murder of a classmate"
I winched at those words and looked at Jiro who took the statement with only a long sigh which earned a winch from Mina"
"sorry Jiro I di-"
"Are we sure that no one was made aware?" Jiro carried on "Was the family even made aware?"
"Family?" Mina ask
"Mineta has a sister," Jiro explained, at Mina's raised eyebrow she shrugs. "Denki told me once, apparently Mineta went to visit her once or twice." It was odd to hear Jiro say the fallen hero's name so easily the first couple months after his death she couldn't say his name without crying.
"How has this never been mentioned before?" Kirishima asked
"For all the sin tainting his soul Mineta was always good at hiding his demons," Shiozaki said, placing her hands in the classic praying stance.
"Is there any other family that he might contact?"
"Mineta stated that she was the last living of his direct family and that both sides cut ties with his parents long ago."
"When did you and Mineta have these conversations?"
"Back in UA."
This got everyone standing up higher in their seats. Even the old class B heroes were looking at the vine girl in surprise.
"During the reunion?" Shota guessed
"No back when we all went to UA, I found him when he was wrecking your homeroom after one of your classes…arguments during that week" I've never heard this story in particular but I did remember Satsuki talking about the week before Mineta leaving UA being violent. Never asked more on the subject but concerning recent events I would be sure to ask Tsuyu about it later.
"Were you looking for him or something?"
"No, just heard breaking wood and opening the door to him rampaging. Once he saw me he started to bear his soul out to me and despite my dislike of him it felt odd to cut him off so I listened."
"Great now I gotta read his file" Mina grumbled "Maybe he made reconnections over the years"
I didn't say anything but I felt like reading the villain file your hunting would be one of the first things you should do. But maybe it was Mina just being Mina.
"He hasn't stepped foot in Japan before now" Rin pointed out
"Speaking of his family, has anyone been in contact with her?" Mina asks only getting headshakes in response "All alright so that's something to check out anyone else that Mineta might have been connected to?"
"There's Rin." Toru Pointed out.
all the heroes look at Hiryu Rin who tilts his head at the invisible hero.
"Oh sorry I mean Rin Sako"
"Who's that?" Mina asked when she didn't continue
"Atsuhiro Sako's younger sister."
That got moments of silence before the light of recognition flashed in some of the hero's eyes.
"Mr Compress" Bakugo didn't so much as growl the word then loudly grumble
"Indeed Mineta served with his brother Kotei Sako in the IHA"
"How do you know that?" Krishma asked
Toru goes still for a moment before apparently rubbing her head. "because... because"
"Toru?" Mina asked as the invisible hero seemed to be silent for a moment
"Because… we worked together" she finally finished, almost sounding confused herself.
that got a moment of silence followed by a series of what's from everyone in the room
"It was an accidental interaction WHA was supposed to get information on the large crime organization but apparently the IHA had already been on the job and had a person undercover as a high-level supplier of some quirk drug Mineta was acting as the person's muscle." Toru sits on her chair with a chuckle "I remember thinking we could get information from him and trying to capture him in the bathroom" The sleeve of her arm travels across her stomach "he stabbed a bike key into my belly button"
"Why did you never mention this?" Mina shouted
"I never thought of it. The drug bust took like 3 months and we only worked together for 4 days after that our missions disentangled and I didn't talk to him much" Toru arms flail wildly as Mina starts to shake her
"What did you guys talk about?" Uraraka asked
Toru managed to slap Mina's hands away from her head "Like I said not much he made some smart remarks about me being far from home I responded with a comment about him still being a hero he got mad" Her arm returned to her head to what rub her head I assume. " in fact he got really mad I remember getting into a fighting stance because It looks like he was gonna pull a gun on me"
"And this was just another forgettable 9 to 5?" Mina griped "Oh a fellow hero consider renovating my skull, that's just another Tuesday?"
"It was only for a moment," Tou stammers thought from her voice it was clear she was aware it was a weak argument "Besides after that he stayed with his team and when he personally had to interact with my team they always sent someone with him as a peacekeeper, actually now that I think about it, it was always the same one of two members at that team I thought it was just members he was closest to but considering what their quirks were its possible that they actively were using theirs to keep him calm"
"And Kotei was part of this team?" Midoriya asked
Toru nods "Actually once they figured out me and Mineta have history they sent Kotei when possible to discuss but his quirk was also important enough that he didn't interact with us alot his quirk was kind of like Mr. Compress but he made the bubble first and then had to shrink it"
"Was anyone named Eero on that team?" Mei suddenly asked pushing Mina aside to get up in Toru's face
"Uh" Toru rubbed her chin, "I think so wait yeah I remember one of his teammates talking in an earpiece telling Eero to shut everything down..5 seconds after that the entire building the cartel was in blacked out as if EMP"
"Sounds about right," Mei says, pulling out her phone and sending out an image on all of our monitors. I raised an eyebrow staring at what seemed to be a robot shark that was made of different-sized triangles.
"And this is?" Rin questioned
"Ooh looks like the classic robot shark from every classic spy movie," Kirishima said looking at the image
"It's the symbol for Steel Sea Industries, one of the biggest robotics and programming software companies in the world" Momo stated looking at the symbol.
"who's owners name is Eero Havsjärn," Mei said a dreamy look on her face "Oh Mineta's managed to find friends in such high places"
"We don't know if this is the same guy-never mind" Mina sighs as Mei tilts the suitcase showing the same symbol at the bottom. "Alright, so let me get this straight, the CEO of this big company just spends his time working for the IHA?"
"Not CEO."Momo corrects "owner."
"So he's just racking up the money" Kirishima states "So is he a rich kid that bought his way onto the t-" his questions are cut off as Mei grabs and starts to shake him.
"Don't you dare finish that statement! I've been following this man nah genius work for years he practically leading the field in exo suit armor and robot hero support items I've seen him man a mecha suit the size of a small building"
"Okay I get it he walks the walk," Kirishma says stopping the girl shaking "So he and Mineta work together in the IHA and he made the suitcase so?"
"So if anyone can open this thing he can," Mei says almost drooling "Hopefully you guys can get him to come over and show me how he made it I've had a year of trying to crack it and it hasn't budged"
"Pretty sure I could melt it open" Mina states
"Don't even think about it! besides after it EMP the building it warned me that any more break-in attempts would make it destroy itself"
"You brought a bomb into this building?" Iida groaned into his hand
"Nope it would use a type of close range acid explosive. It was very clear that it would only destroy itself"
"It told you this?" Rin questioned
"Yeah, it had an AI in it like how our phones do, not a smart one mind you but still leagues above anything I could do" Mei looked at the suitcase like she wanted to take it away on a romantic getaway. Even Ida looks a little nervous looking at the suitcase like it would grow arms and sweep his wife off her feet...with how much Mei is hyping it up might be actually possible.
"Alright so we know who made the suitcase which is holding all of Mineta's hero gear and who knows what else," Kirishima said "Do we send him an email or-"
"I say we send Midoriya" Mei cut in
"Me?" said hero , squawking in surprise. "Why me?"
"You're the number one hero of Japan," she said as if it was obvious "your gonna have the most sway ...thought I want to come as well"
"Do we even know where this Eero is?"
"Try Jackson." It took me a moment to realize I had spoken. By that time I realized the whole room was looking at me.
"Who?" Momo asked
"Satsuki mentioned it was a name Mineta said" Now I had Tsuyu's attention "Jackson, Bastion and something about Mexico" I rattle off the names I heard Mineta talk about in his sleep
Mei instantly goes onto her phone as Toru speaks up "I remember a man named Bastion on Mineta team his hero name was Steel Knight or something I don't know why but the name is slipping me as for Jackson I don't know him"
"Found it" Mei lets out happily "You were close Toru his name is Bastion Ferrer and his hero name is Bullet Knight He has been a hero for about a decade and was trained by the IHA-founded Gray Academy.
"Never heard of them," Mina stated.
"It's America's UA I bet" Bakugo gripped "The IHA was basically founded by them after what happened to the original Star and Stripe"
"Can't confirm or deny that but they at least aren't physically based in America" Mei scrolled a couple times "they also go longer then UA their more university than highschool, They're apparently private but they are one of the oldest hero academies in the world run by...Jackson, hhmm no last name."
"Is that normal for Americans?" Rin asked.
"No," Midoriya said "Jiro, did Mineta ever mention this academy?"
"No, but I did see him on calls with people all the time. I remember hearing him talk to someone named Bastion about someone named anas- anaso something with Ana at the start.
"That was one of the ones that kept him calm," Toru says clapping her hands, "I think her name was Anasova or something, she was very pretty"
"So Mineta needed a girl to keep him in line? that sounds familiar" Mina snorts
"All alright so we know where they are and I have this academy location we can just drop in"
"Drop in?" Midoriya repeats "I can't leave Japan right now and we can't just drop in on them"
"Of course you can," Mei cooed, practically rubbing her face against his monitor. If he was here in person I was pretty sure she'd been in Midoria's lap. "The higher-ups are already being shifty with Mineta's case"
"He's accused of treason" Rin pointed out
"Exactly! And they didn't let us know when they were gonna off him" Mina added.
Midoirya flinched at that statement even as Mei waved her off
"She has a point if you call the higher ups and ask they might say you can't go"
"And they might have a good reason for not letting me go" He defended "japan kind of in the middle of something right now"
"So what Deku? You think I can't handle everything while you're gone?" Bakugo challenges the monitor bouncing with the force of his voice "I beat OFA anything else is child play"
I could practically feel the group roll their eyes at that statement while true Bakugo has been riding that high for years now and made sure to rub it in everyone's faces. You think I need back up? I beat AFO. You think I should go to the hospital? This is nothing I fought AFO, you need help with the pickle jar? I am the one that beat AFO.
"Alright fine" Mei cheers as Midorya caves "me, Mei and Toru can go look into this academy and maybe get some information from these Eero and Jackson characters actually while we there might as well get information from all of Mineta's old team maybe get an idea on how he thinks"
"Speaking of which I think we should assign a hunting team for Mineta"
"Isn't that you guys?" Kirishima asked
"No" Momo stated "We are hunting Spinner, Mineta just happen to be in the same town"
"If they have gotten so close as the records show it's probably safe to say they're gonna try to make contact can't you just catch them at that time?" Rin ask
Momo was silent for a moment only for Mina to speak up, "She thinks fighting the both of them could be difficult"
"Really?" Kirishima slowly said his thoughts on that clear.
"You sound skeptical we have seen Mineta get out of a couple of hero attacks so far"
"With a gun and a lot of luck honestly it sounds like the only reason he wasn't caught already was because Satsuki"
Tsuyus hands tightened on the table enough for small cracks to appear
"I'm just saying is another hero team needed for him If it can't be you guys"
"I have to agree with Momo" Toru stated "I saw him fight on our mission and that was what 5 years ago? he was good very good since he was fighting me who was invisible and other people without his quirk to keep his disguises up"
"Drug dealers are hardly trained heroes Toru and you're not the pinnacle of CQC"
I couldn't see her expression but the way her clothing moved I assumed Toru bristled at that statement.
"As much as I hate to give the gremlin credit" Mina started looking at Momo's neck "...he beat Momo in the Pit before I stepped in he escaped the heroes like 3 times so far and as Toru just said he had some combat training with the IHA and this academy"
"Not to mention his quirk .. evolution or maybe it was awakening" Toru points out
"His what now?"
"You're talking about that husk of hair he expelled when Mt lady hit him right?" Tsuyu asked
"No well yes but also he has this armor thing that he does"
" His what? He has armor? since when can he do that?" Kirishima exclaimed
"Have you even watched any of his recent fights?"
"No! because I didn't expect him to still be free at this point I'm still amazed that he got away from you guys twice"
Momo looked away and Mina shot Krishima a look that made it clear that the hero was quickly earning himself a spot in the dog house.
"Alright, maybe I'm not giving him enough credit," Kirishima says, rubbing his head and wilting under his wife's gaze "In that case who wants to hunt him?"
"m-"
"Not you Tsuyu," Midoriya said cutting off the semi-humorous vibe. His green eyes meeting the glare she was aiming at him "Didn't want to say this here with your sister in the middle of this but you have to know that sending you after Mineta would be" The hero looked for the right word.
"Exposive?" Kirishima offered "A grape theme explosion as she stomps him into oblivion?
The number one hero sighed then ignored the comment "Your not gonna be on the hunting team" he says firmly "your actions will be watched closely and it's only been a couple of days and your sister still in the hospital I would ask you to go on leave for a bit to get thought these troubling time an-"
"Not happening" she Interrupted
"I thought as much and while I can't make you go on break I won't let you be on the team for hunting him down"
Kirishima raises a hand "Let's just use the original team then" He points to Tetsutetsu and Shiozaki "You guys up for it?"
"Sure I've been wanting a rematch with the squirt" Tensutetus turns to steel and slams his fist into an open fist
"Rematch?" Kirishima asked
"It was I who caught him" Shiozaki explained "I'm afraid his devious mind proved too clever for Tenetetsu's blunt nature"
"Don't say it like that" he snarled at the girl
"Wait, did he beat you?" Krisihma asked, eyes wide, the idea that his brother in hardness could lose to Mineta was apparently shaking his foundation.
"Beat not the right word but I will admit that he did have the upper hand at the moment before Shiozaki caught him"
"Honestly it was a lucky grab he ...was surprisingly fast for someone we sneaked attacked if we are doing this I want to see if we can get Tokage and ... perhaps Kodai"
"You think you'll need four people for Mineta?" Krisihma looked like he was going into shock
"Not specifically but can never be too careful besides if you're right and he is hanging with Spinner the backup would be useful"
"Was that all we had to speak on?" Midoriya asked going silent as everyone started to nod
"Question," I say, raising a hand. they hadn't gotten mad when I asked a question before so it seemed safe enough "Can I ask a question?"
"Shoot" Kirishima responded.
"Do you think ... Mineta did it?"
"That's for the courts to figure out" Shoto stated "Our job is to bring him in so that everyone else can do their jobs and find out"
"I know but Denki was his friend do you really think he would"
"Kill his best friend?" it was Jiro who said it rubbing one of her ears ``That's what I've been trying to figure out"
"I thought those crimes were dropped?" Rin asked
"Yeah and then that when the case of treason got raised not to mention the push for the girls to talk about their past with Mineta"
"Pushed?" I asked
"Bit of a strong term they wanted to interview some female heroes" Uraraka stated seeming embarrassed "After the arrest we were all so upset it wasn't that hard for them to cox out old tales from back in UA" she shrugged
"So then someone wanted to put him in the limelight," I said eyes trailing to the different heroes
"Which can be for a thousand different reasons" Mina pointed out "if they know he killed Denki but can't prove it then treason is enough to keep the IHA from bumping their nose in. Or maybe Denki took a bullet meant for Mineta we literally have no idea what happened that night besides Mineta's words"
"I'm not sure if this is important," I say slowly as the heroes look at me "but for being an IHA hero for a while I wasn't able to find out much about Mineta like... he's barley mentioned in any IHA articles or missions"
"Makes sense Mineta has always been the first to talk about running" Kirishima muttered
"yeah but"
Toru jerks up suddenly as if electrocuted "oh"
"What happened?" Ida ask
"I ..i think I noticed that as well"
"What?"
"Well for the drug bust mission, none of Mineta's group really stuck around once we caught the prisoners. Actually, once the cops came they were all in the background pushing us forward. I thought they just wanted to share the credit but when I heard the news podcast about that mission they were barely mentioned besides the second hero team."
"Odd for the IHA to give up credit to the WHA" Bakugo pointed out
"So they don't like the camera" Kirishma snorted
"I remember seeing online he was also helping stop some sort of crime ring in China" I pointed out to which Toru snapped her fingers.
"That's right! I remember seeing a picture on that when it came out"
"And you didn't tell anyone because?" Mina asked raising an eyebrow "I know we don't like the dude but dropping a link on the group chat would have been nice"
"This was years ago and let's not act like any of us were interested in hearing updates on Mineta Minoru of all people; he's not exactly a pen pal. Be honest, if none of this happened, would anyone have cared to learn that he was doing hero work halfway across the world?"
"Maybe" Sato grunted "Most of us didn't even know he was an international hero until we bumped into him when he came back"
"Did anyone even know he had left Japan?" Rin asked
"He apparently sent Denki a message when he originally left" Jiro nodded "Denki didn't see it for around a year when he accidentally unblocked Mineta's old number"
"I could of sworn I saw him somewhere else as well" Toru was rubbing her chin
"For the love of Toru did you just delete him from your mind once he was expelled or something?" Mina complained.
I sort of wanted to point out he left UA himself but decided I had stuck up for the little grape enough tonight
"Oh yeah no I remember" Toru paused for a moment and I would have paid real money to be able to read her expression "he..".
"The what?" Mina prompts
" It's gone" Toru shrugs, rubbing her head "I have no idea why I'm having such a hard time remembering this" She giggles while rubbing her head.
Midoirya and Momo share a look with each other.
"Alright then" Midoriya says slowly "Momo use guys go back to hunting spinner down, Tetsutetsu you make a team to grab Mineta Toru get in contact with your WHA teams and see if they remember anything else, Tsuyu you take the week off and stay with your siste-"
The look she gave the number one hero had him faulting for a moment before he steadied himself and stared back.
"I agree with Midoriya," Ida stated taking off his glasses and giving Tsuyu a look. " Tsuyu, I've been in the same position as you and have already made the mistake that you're approaching. If you go down this path. My obsession with getting revenge on Stain almost cost me my life and nearly got Midoriya and Shoto killed"
"A bit to compare Mineta to the hero killer" the frog girl scoffs.
"is it? he already slip out of direct hero combat twice I think it's time we take him a bit more seriously"
Tsuyu looked like she wanted to say more. She really did but she sighs and nods her head.
"Mei, Toru you two get ready to move within the week hopefully we can visit this academy and be back before anyone notices were gone"
"I'll hold down Japan while you go off on vacation" Bakugo cackles before logging off.
"And we're gonna figure out how to find the little grape stain and catch him" Tetsutetsu said
"oh right before you go" Mei raises a finger "I also read some of the reports of his escape from the restaurant"
Ida slams a hand on his face
"Hey I asked for that one" his wife complained "so yeah they think Mineta might being going through mental deterioration apparently he was ranting going through personality changes and talking to himself while holding hostages "
"What?" Momo yiped
"Anyway we go to go" Mei says, turning off Midoriya's monitor and pushing the suitcase towards the door.
"Hold up you can't just drop a bomb like that and bounce" Mina complained, Turning the monitor back on Midoriya waved to everyone as if he hadn't just been forcefully hung up on.
"I mean crazy should be easier to catch right?" Kirishima shrugs.
Before anyone could reply Bakugo's Monitor turned back on.
"CHECK SOCIAL MEDIA NERDS!"
"Kacchan what are you-'' Before Midoriya finished his question Mei's phone rang , silently pulling it out and tapping the screen a couple of times then blinked. She didn't say anything but the way her eyes zoomed in on the screen told me she was interested in whatever she was looking at.
At that point I pulled out my phone to see what I could find...it wasn't that hard
"What was that about you saying about crazy means easy?" Mina said to Kirishima
"I like to think it means I'm right, now we just need to find him."
Mina's response was cut off with the sounds of Tsuyu's phone being crushed to a pulp in her hands.
She let out a crock of anger but I leaned over so she could look over my shoulder grunting as her hand clamps onto me.
I hadn't clicked the video yet but the thumbnail was bad enough. It was an image of Mineta sitting on a speaker grinning down at a hog tide Samidare with an apple in his mouth and heat steam coming from his body which was over a fire. The title also wasn't good.
"Cooking time with Mineta Frog Friday special" Sato read outloud
"Get someone to track that signal" Rin said to Mei who rushed out of the room.
Tsuyu lets go of my shoulder and turns only to get stopped at the door by Krishima. For a moment it looked like the frog girl would simply walk through the redhead hero but Momo hugged her from behind and started to whisper into her ear.
Someone had the good or bad idea to press play on the video and to put it on the monitors. It was only then that I realized it was live and that Mineta had taken contingencies.
Unlike in every crime movie where the bad guy is live streaming from his phone that can be tracked, Mineta apparently had found a projector that you would see in a classroom. It was projecting onto a wall which was being recorded by another camera or phone.
"Why the extra flare?" Sato asked
"Gonna take longer to find him" Mina explained "Even if we find the phone we're gonna need to figure out where the project is getting it single from"
"Shut up extra we need to hear" Bakugo whisper shouted
I turned back to the screen only to blink at what I was seeing. Samidare was suspended a couple feet over the air spread out in an X, his limbs bound by lines of purple orbs connected to trees. His hero outfit had been stripped off leaving him in only his underwear and bandage wrapped around his stomach. He seemed awake though there was a purple orb in his mouth, he seemed to be struggling but was not making any headway. In the background some sort of pump you up music could be heard playing.
"Where are they?" Tsuyu asked eyes drifting across the screen
"The woods" Mei said walking back in with a HPSC agent glaring at her as she dragged him into a room. When the frog girl turns to glare at her she shrugs "you asked"
"Whats the song if its on radio we might be able to do something" Mina offered idly moving between the two
"It's apparently from an old anime attack on Titan the name is Shinzou wo sasageyo? Midoriya said, eyes on his phone.
"how do yo-"
"apparently he's been live for 8 minutes more than enough time for people to look it up"
"he's been live streaming for almost ten minutes!? how has he not been shut down?"
"he said he kill the hero if the broadcast is cut" the agent stated "Were tracking down the first single already"
Tsuyu looked like she would be going to the door but the music cut off suddenly stopped her.
"i'm assuming you are watching heros" a familiar voice says from off camera
Suddenly a purple blur meteor fell into frame. I barely had a moment to recognize Mineta before he smashed feet first into Samidae's chest earning a heavy groan from the frog hero.
Another angry croak came from Tsuyu.
What do you think frog boy?" Mineta draps himself on top of Sadmire practically cuddling with the bound hero and he smirks at the camera. "You think your sister is watching at Home right now seeing another man ride you?" He snickers and rolls off the hero landing on all fours or…all threes. It was then that I noticed that he was wearing his outfit from the hostage situation, a hero cape paired with a kitchen apron.
"if you wondering why I'm not wearing much clothing I didn't want the hero here to be left out" Mineta ruffled Samire's hair "Also it helps to mess with the time table after all this video might be live but I could be live streaming a recording...how does it feel not knowing if this man is alive or dead? an ally? a friend? a family member? So Tsuyu, I bet you're dying in your seat to see how this plays out. Want to get some popcorn? go on, I'll wait."
"Imma kill him," I shuddered at the venom in Tsuyu's voice.
Mineta glared at the screen for about 30 seconds "Alright ten minutes are up it time to start" He walked out of frame.
"Any luck on tracking?" Mina asked the HPSC agent
"Still working on it" he replied, eyes on his own phone.
Mineta comes back into the screen holding a couple of sticks in his lone hand. On each stick was a cooked frog leg. He grins at the camera and sits down on Samidare chest, a sharpen stick in his hand.
"Alright so...fuck why did I make this video?" he rubs a hand on his head as if he was actually asking a question "Um ..shit I actually lost my train of thought" he bounces slightly on the hero as he appears to think before looking up.
"Has...has he actually gone crazy?" Mina saw fit to ask.
"Nah he's playing with us" Tsuyu growled.
"Oh there it is!" Mineta laughs lightly tapping his head "Sorry about that alright well I cut to the chase...I don't know what to do"
"What?" Sato question.
"Yeah I know it's a surprise to me as well," Mineta says as if he heard the tape hero's question "But I'm being serious...I honestly don't know what to do'' He shrugs and takes a bite out of one of the frog legs "Best bet is to leave Japan its the smart choice the right choice but it still grinds my gears to even think about it ,it doesn't really avenge Denki now does it? I still don't know who killed him, who spread these rumors to sully his name I ...I don't know anything about why a close friend of mine died and it kind of hurts so I think I'm done I'm gonna leave it to the officials on that stance" he was silently for a moment simple chewing before swallowing and slowly rearing up and glaring at the camera "but I can't do that either the HPSC has always hidden stuff from the people of japan it part of their jobs hell their hiding so much from you right now.
The agent's eyes narrow before Mineta holds his hand out.
"But that's neither here nor there. I have no interest in freeing Japan from its government chains and secrets. It's not my job and I'm not a Japanese hero " He pauses to eat his last two frog legs.
"Where is he going with this?" Mei asks only to get sshhed by Mina.
"I don't know what to do, i've lost an arm for this, I lost a friend and in a way i've lost a home...I guess the only thing I can do is all that I can" Mineta sighs angling the stick over Tsuyu brother face the tip angled towards his eye.
"Oh no" someone mutters as Mineta starts to slowly push on the stick smirking as Samidare closes his eyelids as if that would protect them.
I cringe but can't seem to look away as Mineta lightly pushes and then seems to steady himself, drawing the stick back and thrusting forward.
Tsuyu sharply inhale leaning forward as if she would attempt to leap through the screen before gasping in relief when the stick stops before making contact
"Scared you all didn't I?" Mineta grins at the camera throwing the stick away "Killing a hero doesn't match the deal i'm about to make with you guys...also by guys I mean whoever killed Denki and accused me"
"Still think he's lying?" I asked Mina before she could reply. Mineta kept going.
"Whoever you are, you are most likely high in the government high enough to get me arrested and frame me for crimes. As much as I want to rip your eyes out and finger-bang your brain, I have a life outside of Japan, a life outside so I'm leaving. I'll leave the task of finding Denki's killer to Jiro and Midoriya, you hear that guys!? I'm leaving it to you guys to figure out I quit." He waves his hand up in the air "Imma head out" he walks out of the frame coming back with another stick this one on fire.
"Whoever ever pulling my strings I'm willing to play truce, pull back the heroes for the night and I'll be out of Japan by daybreak. You already made it so the IHA can't step in so you have little to worry about me coming back. And it's not like I have any evidence so I have nothing to leak" Mineta moves and sits back down on the frog hero. "I've lost, I'm at my last rope you wounded me turn my homeland against me I think any hero would give up by now"
He was silent for a moment idly trailing the start end of the stick across Samidare face and neck. He smirks for a moment before sharply jerking it to the side leaving a cut on the frog hero's face. Samidare grunts which seem to hit Mineta funny bone because he started to chuckle. I lightly shutter as the laughter starts to pick up as Mineta stares at the sharp stick in his hand. For a moment he angles it and it looks as if he's gonna stab it into his own neck before laughing harder.
"FUCK Everyone and run," he says the phrase slowly as if teaching a class. "FEAR it's a code that my class A chumps know that I know very well. Fear has been a part of my path as a hero and as a criminal ive ran from it, fought with it, danced with it but it's a part of me that will never go away and currently… I am scared, I'm scared and tired and so many other things that it's not even funny. I don't even know if the people of Japan will see this message. Maybe not. I honestly don't care. This for you Mina for you Tsuyu for all my classmates. I'm scared not of death or anything like that I'm scared that either you or this mystery person is gonna push me into doing something really bad cause ...I'm tired of pulling my punches, i'm tired of being called a monster, i've been tired since you put me in a hole because you thought I killed my best friend...Im tired" Mineta sighs. "I'm honestly gonna try and leave japan and if it works ...well you'll probably never see me again like seriously even if you find whoever killed Denki i'm not coming back to Japan. But if it doesn't work then I'm honestly scared about what I am gonna do because this is your last chance. The rat bites when it is cornered and if you guys force me to finish this doom mission."
Mineta stares at the camera for a moment. before opening his mouth. I could feel the hero's flinching back because the next words to come from his mouth were not japanese. "Ad veram meam familiam, iis qui me erudiverunt, iis qui me fabricati sunt, gratias ago et spero me iterum vos visurum, sed dubito. Unum aliquando iterum vos adsequi conabor, sed metuo me continuandum esse. Jackson hic manebit. Scitote catenas quae nos alligant ex brachiis meis esse solutas et si necesse est, eas in gladium forjabo ut imperium solis orientis secem."
"The fuck he say?" Krishima asked.
The agent was going over his phone while Mei typed on her own.
"I think it was Latin" Sato said "At least some of those words sounded like you see them in a museum"
"You'll find a frog boy at Niiharu Shimin." Mineta said, throwing the stick aside and reaching into his pocket pulling out a lighter and holding it against one of the middle of the hair orb rope holding the hero's leg. Samidire makes a panicked sound when it catches fire. "You have about 15 minutes to get here before the fire gets to him. Consider it my last act of kindness to the country of Japan." Tsuyu was already out the door once she got the name, The agent on her phone barking orders. Mineta bows to the camera before standing up and giving it a middle finger. "People of Japan take this with all offense that I never want to see you again and will dance if I never step foot on the land I was born on ever again I wash my hands no my hand of you all."
And with that, Mineta walked out of frame. A moment later the screen was covered with a piece of bark with odd markings carved into it. Audio was still on so we could hear the fire cracking and Samidire grunting.
"You think they're gonna catch him?" Kirishima asked.
"If he did all this he probably had a way to escape but we're still gonna try. Sato, can you take Sora back home?" Mina asked, pointing to me, "We're gonna try to go to Niiharu Shimin Woods and see if we can head him off."
I rose to my feet only to freeze as I realized something ..Niiharu Shimin woods was where Satsuki had taken Mineta to 'let him go'. I open my mouth to say something then close it, what am I gonna say? I don't even know what happened in those woods besides the fact that Mineta didn't die in them. It's quite possible the DOS members aren't even in those woods anymore. It's also possible that this was Mineta's plan all along. Mineta made it quite clear that he knows his words mean less than mud to most of the heroes chasing him. If he tried to say what Satsuki did to him no one would believe him, But if he leads the heroes to the crime scene itself...well there's no telling what would happen. Considering no one has talked about arresting Satsuki when she wakes up it's quite possible that the HPSC wants to keep it cover up Class A as well. If there is evidence of the number 5th hero sister working with DOS then even if no one covers it up the backlash it's gonna be bad. I had no idea what the backlash would be though since I just realized I actually have no idea how many of Satsuki crimes have been exposed. Class A knows and A HPSC agent knows but I don't know how much information had been spread within either groups it be safe to assume that anyone that would cry nepotism doesn't know or else the public would know.
This might be his plan to keep Tsuyu off his back or maybe he believes that the heroes can track the DOS and link it back to Satsuki; he has no way to know Kekkai cracked after all. Actually, something about this whole meeting seems like it might have been only a way to cause more strife in that category.
I walked with Sato as the other heroes had already started clearing out of the room.
"He must know that the heroes won't let him leave Japan, what's the point of the call?" I ask Sato.
"If he truly believes he's being framed then he might be trying to bait them out or something if not ..I'm not sure." the sugar hero shrugs.
A part of my mind wanted this to be the mind of a panicking man flailing but I couldn't see it. Can't say that I know him all that well but I've seen Mineta panic and that was when I held a gun to his face. I saw a familiar panic in those eyes that I saw back then but I also saw something deeper in there, something that flickered through when he told me about what I am quickly growing to believe is his real life. In fact I think this video was him giving multiple messages and not just to Japan's heroes. He spoke another language and I bet whatever he dropped in front of the camera to be a code. In 14 minutes 10 of which were just waiting for everyone to get on the live Mineta had given japan an ultimatum. Possible leaked information to cause some strife between heroes and the HPSC as well as make sure Tsuyu can't officially be on his hunting team and possibly send out two messages out. I might be giving him too much credit but whatever he was doing, Mineta's actions as of today had convinced me that the spy story he gave me wasn't so far fetched after all.
[Hey Gerald here again so as you can probably guess Mineta wasn't really allowed to walk on out of japan. In fact while the japanese government didn't officially respond to his video they made their response quite clear every sea port and air port out of the country has 2 pro heroes and a cop patrolling it. Hero drones and scouts patrolling the borders. For one night Japan had closed her borders. And in the morning Mineta responded with a short 3 second video of him staring at the video before replying with "very well" ]
AN: alright just in case someone didn't catch the hints. Sora Hizashi is one of the two that help Satsuki hold Mineta in chapter 6 Atychiphobia. Kekkai was Shorty. Decided to use her because I wanted a more neutral Perception for the video talk because at this point even if any of the heroes think Mineta didn't kill Denki they all aligned against him and it's too early for more nuanced emotions like pity or remorse to really pop up yet. As always Looking for editors. Also feel free to drop down your ideas for other bonus chapters if I like the idea ill run with it.
