Dulga steadied her breath as Mina went for the blood choke. While Dulga wasn't familiar with those techniques, she understood the concept of what Mina was attempting. It made Dulga lightheaded for a little while but she was able to maintain her strength despite the situation thanks to her well practiced breathing techniques, allowing her to remain calm despite the situation. The moment Mina stopped her attempt at choking Dulga to free herself, Dulga slammed her arm down onto the ground to help propel herself back to her feet. Once standing Mina was like a doll to Dulga. However Dulga didn't want to keep Mina close too long less she try and take Dulga down again, so the giant girl simple tossed Mina away. Or rather, she threw her towards the ground, practically slamming Mina down.

Dulga took a few steps back and got into a defensive stance. Quietly she chastised herself; if this was against a real villain, Dulga would've been dead by now. She'd either have her throat ripped out or her head smashed in. Dulga knew she was suppose to hold back against Mina, but at the same time Dulga couldn't just let herself fall to simple martial arts. It would be embarrassing if she met her end at the hands of a mildly competent but otherwise underpowered thug over a super powered villain. Not only that, but for a moment Dulga's mind drifted to the swordsman she was after. Surely his martial arts were far greater than Mina's. If Dulga couldn't even beat her, she'd have no chance against him.

@Silver Carrot

The slam to the ground sent a shockwave of pain through Mina's body, and she lay there for an unnaturraly long time, breathing in controlled yet deep gasps. Very suddenly, she flipped back to her feet, though the moment she was upright again, staggered, and massaged her neck. She gritted her teeth, and her eyes were tearing up. Even without using her quirk, she should able to beat most of her classmates in combat. It was her injuries. They'd more or less recovered but they still ached and pulled and her back and shoulders were stiff. Every morning was complete agony until she'd done some stretches to loosen herself up. It was because she felt so weak right now that she was so desperate to prove her strength, and the reason she chose Dulga was that Dulga was not the type to pity her. They could fight fair, and Dulga wouldn't hold back. Of course, Mina didn't know that Dulga was holding back, and Mina was in denial that she herself was holding back as to not injure herself again. Even so, she knew that something had to change. But if Dulga was using her quirk's advantage, maybe Mina should use hers too.

"Hey, Dulga. You don't mind if I use my quirk a little, do you?"

@Norschtalen

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Hitomi made a gesture for Tomoe to be patient and pipe down, while she listened to what Asahi was saying. What caught Hitomi by surprise is that people from her old class missed her. A few of her old friends had acted rather cold towards her ever since she'd received the letter. "Of course I'll come along! I'll try and get some friends to come too! See you later, Goroshi-san!"

As he walked away, Hitomi turned to Tomoe. "Now we can go and get coffee. By the way, would you like to meet up with the Support class tonight too?"

@liferusher@Lucius Cypher

Persia smiled when Ruybsaid she was a transfer, the girl must be pretty tough. She took a seat next to the girl and looked up into the sky.

"A general studies transfer huh? You must be pretty talented to get into the hero course as well right Mamoru-chan." Persia swang her legs on the bench as she sat happily next to the kitty. Mamoru-chan must've have been a humble person to be out here taking the time to think things over.

"Did you come here to take in the thought of finally making it into the hero course? Mind if I give you some advice? Admittance into the hero course comes with a target on your back, especially with transfers so stand your ground. This also means that you are my new friend and rival." She stood up smiling, Ruby looked like a really cool person who wouldn't be annoying. Having her as a friend would be pretty awesome. "come with and I want to show you something cool" Persia grabbed the girls hand tugging lightly.



Sarge had been making his afterschool patrol of the building. Sometimes kids would be in classes they were not supposed to afterschool causing trouble. As he was on his patrol had caught a glimpse of some students dressed out of uniform heading towards the front gate. One of them being intercepted, Sarge intercepted the group and placed a hand out.

"Where do ya think you're heading Yashiro?" The man specifically picked out takeshi out of the group. He glanced down and saw the weapon poking out of his belt too. "Armed as well? Up to no good I assume." Sarge knew the whole deal with Takeshi and truthfully he didn't know why the principal let him stay here. "You better have a good explanation Yashiro." Sarge stood in front,and he didn't plan on letting the kid go.

@Heartfillia@melpaws@Aerandir@Riegal

” Once again you’ve managed to screw this beautiful masterpiece up young lady. Do you not understand that since your mother married my daughter I would allow you to ruin our family’s reputation!? Did you think I would allow you to get away with this half ass performance Vae!?” The elderly woman once again screamed at her. It wasn’t like the young woman wanted this sort of life in the beginning. Yes, it was nice to see her mother much happier these last few years. Even if this happiness came with a few complications. “Did you fucking hear me!? Are you just that stupid to understand simple words!?”

” I can ehtamwa you Mrs. Winter. Granted you can make anyone nâkwêwa in a hurry. I wonder is your nôhika husband is death because of you.” She mumbled under her breath. The older woman’s upper lips twitched as each Sauk word fluttered into the air. A obvious tell sign that another scolding would fill the already crowded air, which would lead to another great day in the making. Another day of paradise in this ever lingering hell.

‘ What did you say? Are my ears picking up that foul language again? How many times do I need to tell you Vae!? How many times are you going to fill my house with that disgusting animalistic language!? When will you learn to be more than a dirty animal that’s only acting on instincts!?”

’ I’m sincerely sorry for my disgusting language language Mrs. Winter. For now on I’ll refrain from such inconveniences. I hate to once again trouble you with this request but can you find me another tutor. My small mind is still trying to absorb all the information the last one taught me. If you’ll excuse me I also need to meet with my husband before school.” The young woman said as she bowed before the family head.

“ Why? Staphan has allowed you to redo all the wedding details. I’m still trying to rewrite every single suggestion you created. Unless you have learned something. Have you realized your mistake in asking for such unethical things.” The woman snared making the teenager instantly regret ever asking for help. The young man was the only one in this snobbish society that understood. The only one, who was placing her wants and needs first, above his own. The definition of a perfect neniwa.

” Yes Mrs. Winter. I was thinking about what you said to me yesterday. From what I can tell Staphen is being a gentleman. Granted that this sort of kindness is something I’m not deserving of. If I remember correctly it's rude to call him out on this generous move. I’m unsure how to convince my husband to keep the corrections my honorable family has made.”

“ I see. Perhaps we can speak about this later. Your violin lesson is over.” She said with her eyes glaring towards the child.

The young woman shifted in her seat for the tenth time, causing the book she was reading to once again fall on the bus floor, with a soft plop. Once again the memories of that woman filled the girl’s dreams making her lose another goodnight sleep. Granted the nightmares could have been a lot worst. Her figure leaned downwards in order to pick up the book, only to notice something didn't feel right. There was a male shifting too much in the seat behind the girl. Perhaps the person was a fan? No, if that was true than they would be bothering for an autograph. Something else was going on.

The young woman leaned forward more, as if to see what was going to happen, only to note her stop was coming up. Talk about a being a pain in the ass day. She picked up the object quickly while still keeping an eye on the person behind her. Vae’s complexion slowly paled when the person looked upwards. A smirk forming on his pink lips add to the horror. It wasn’t uncommon when fans become too involved with a famous person’s life. Another when the person was a crazed stalker. Thee only thing that snapped her out of the trace was when a stranger patted her shoulder.

“ Something wrong Miss?” He asked with a small trace of annoyance.

” No. I thought my brother missed the time I got off. Apologies.” She said while quickly grabbing her things. The stranger grumbled something under his breath as he waited. Once the bags were gather the young woman departed the bus and walked Northward making sure to allow as much distance from the bus stop as possible.

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Takeshi stopped when Sarge got in their way, being very antagonistic to him for just being here. He was strongly against Takeshi even being at the school since he first learned of him and his past. Even with all his explaining he still didn’t give him the benefit of the doubt.

“Last time I checked I wasn’t living in a prison.” Takeshi said coldly, back to the bigger man. As many would have gotten nervous around a hulking ‘security guard’, Takeshi was undaunted. He gave a sigh when he mentioned him armed as well, and needing to give him a good explanation. “Need to pick up some supplies. I’m armed because I have a licence to carry them as you already know, and you know well enough that there are many Villians out there." He said raising an eyebrow as if trying to rely a secret message through it.

“I'm certainly not letting my sister to go out there ALONE. With how active the villains are.” He said with a slight irritation in his voice. “So if you like to point out something I actually did wrong, go ahead. If not, go flex your muscles somewhere else to a student who actually deserves it.”

"Of course not. I'm using my quirk right now too."

Dulga had to stop making up excuses for why she was losing. Stuff like not wanting to hurt Mina, or claiming this is just practice, only diminishes the truth; Dulga was unexperienced with hand-to-hand. In a straight fight Dulga was at a disadvantage even with her superior strength simply because she didn't know how to fight like everyone else. And she shouldn't have to; being a hero isn't about being like everyone else, but using your talents to your best abilities. So if all Dulga had was her superior strength and her cunning, then she had better make use of it.

This time Dulga was going to be on the offensive. She slammed her fists into the ground, cracking it considerably. She damaged the ground enough that she was easily about to lift a chunk of the floor out and flipped it towards Mina; she surely wasn't expecting this. It was a tactic she used on Acion before and it worked pretty well. But that wasn't all; throwing the floor at Mina was just a distraction. Shortly after the chunk of the floor was thrown at Mina, Dulga rushed in and punched her hand right through the floor intending to smash her fist into Mina's face; just like her attempted sneak attack on Mako during her first villain studies class. Also remembering her lesson, Dulga needed to try and get into Mina's mind. It was a dirty tactic, but again in a straight fight Mina had an advantage. She needed to make Mina make a mistake and try to match Dulga blow-for-blow, where Dulga excels, instead of utilizing her techniques and agility, which Dulga lacks.

"I was going easy on you before since I don't think you could handle my full power. So you're going to need every advantage you can get just to match me at my worse."

@Silver Carrot

Dragged along by Michiko with Kaida, the trio made it outside to see Takeshi, along with Roy. Reina greeted them in her own way, eyes glancing to the side and giving a reserved nod. The fact that she'd be spending time with this group for a while, with no real way to... 'escape' began to settle in. She tried to shake the anxiety away. She already knew she liked them all, and she'd spent extended periods of time already with Michiko and Takeshi during the boy's training. So this was kind of similar. Except instead of training she had to... talk about... clothes? Food? Herself? With a slight frown, the girl tightened her grip on her school bag.

Roy provided a distraction from her thoughts when he asked the three girls if he could come along. Not minding, and not having the personality to say she didn't want him to come even if that was the case, Reina gave a shrug and nod. Kaida refusing him was a bit surprising, prompting Reina to look up and at the two in some confusion. Had something happened between the two? Keeping quiet as this exchange went on, she noticed they were both acting kind of bashful, maybe? Reina glanced away, reaching up to play with her ear for a moment.

It was quickly decided that Roy would come along, and he joined the group after going to change. Before they could leave, Sarge stopped them, evidently not happy with the fact that Takeshi had a sword. Reina had thought that had been a bit strange, but it had hardly seemed out of place on the boy's person since he seemed to always be with some sort of weapon.

When Takeshi explained to Sarge that he had a license, though, Reina was fully on his side. She didn't have any reason to believe he was lying about that, considering how skilled he was with the blade. And if he could bring it with him, why not be on the safe side of things. There seemed to be a hidden conversation in the exchange between Takeshi and Sarge, but Reina couldn't be sure.

Either way, the girl wasn't too sure she was happy with how Sarge had spoken to the boy. He was helping her with training at the cost of his own time, so she was partial to him, and it was making her want to say something.

Maybe... maybe being related to the principal would allow her to help, in a small way? She swallowed, quickly building up some courage.

"Is Ta... Is Yashiro-san really doing anything bad, Sarge-sensei?" she asked. "If he can't be trusted with a sword, he wouldn't be at Komei, right?" The girl frowned as she continued, glancing at one of her orbs. "I mean... most of our quirks are more dangerous than any weapon, anyway..." Reina's voice quickly trailed off, and she seemed to almost shrink, a hand again reaching up to timidly play with her ear. Bad memories that she knew she shouldn't dwell on came to the front of her thoughts, and she had already felt like she said too much. This business was between Sarge and Takeshi.

"Hyup, hyup, hiya!"

Mamoru let her wallet fall down her face and bounce off her chest, where she gave it a swift kick into the air. This caused some loose change to fall out which Mamoru caught with her face, and as her wallet was falling down she caught that with her mouth. She had roughly 130 yen in coins on her forehead, which she carefully scooped up with her bandaged hands as she pinched her wallet and put that back into her pocket. With the money in hand she brought herself her yogurt drink after stabbing the straw through the top with her teeth once more. "Geez that took a lot more effort then it needed."

Sipping the taste of victory Mamoru turned to head back to her dorm to change out. But along the way she spotted Ruby talking to a stranger. A new friend perhaps. However it looked like the girl was going to take Ruby somewhere. A sly smile appeared on Mamoru's face. She'll leave her alone for now, but follow her from a distance. If there's no trouble than Mamoru would be happy; Ruby is making new friends! But if there's trouble, Mamoru will come in and save Ruby like a real hero. Turning on her heel Mamoru went away from the two, but as soon as she was out of sight she'd look for a way around to watch them.

---

Soon Donny stepped off the train, looking at his cellphone to direct him to the right location of the shop he was looking for. Though Akihabara is known for it's otaku culture, it also had regular old home appliance shops too, which was where Donny was going to. Of course along the way was plenty of cafes that catered to dorks and nerds of all colors; classic maid cafes, super hero themed soda bars, even a few adult pubs that was specifically made for certain types of clients. Looking through his online coupons Donny actually had a few vouchers for some of these places, but they'll never let him in since he was just a minor. "Well, that's fine. I'll just grab some street food or something."

It was slow going due to the crowd; many were leaving work or school, thus the streets were crowded with young people who were either going home or going out. Even the part of town Donny was going to had plenty of families carting away with newly purchased electronics or computers. Donny thoughts about making a PC for himself, except he had no idea what he'll need specifically. It was more of a fantasy really since he did okay with just a laptop, but a top-of-the-line performance computer would be great for gaming. Though he really needed to focus more on his heroism while he's at Komei.

And that's when something happened. As Donny was approaching the shop he was looking for, he received an e-mail alert from his bank account. Apparently he just made a 30000 yen purchase. "Bwah!?" Donny checked and noticed that he had for some reason brought multiple gaming systems, video games, and figurines at a nearby shop, despite the fact he wasn't physically there "I-I-I-Identity theft?" Checking his pockets Donny realized he didn't have his wallet. He thought maybe he might've dropped it, but if he did someone had taken it. Taken it and was spending his money. His face paled. Donny had his student ID in his wallet, along with his credit card, license, and other essentials. "Shit."

Fortunately for Donny the location of the shop wasn't too far, about five blocks away. He also knew what was brought; a lot of big electronic stuff, particularly a 1/84 master grade Heavy Arm Custom. Donny was familiar with the type: it was the one with the big guns. Opening up a map online Donny made his way over towards the shop, going through alleyways and even climbing up the walls to get there faster. His true form seeped out from his mouth and carried his meat bag behind like a fleshy cape. "Just g-g-got get my wallet b-b-b-b-back!"

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The place that Asahi was to meet with the other Support Class kids were was manga cafe called "Stray Cats", which had a strong cat theme going on. That being said, most of the employees were homely thirty-something adults and not attractive young high schoolers, giving a more relaxed air. Like you were eating at your grandmother's place. Also, a lot of cats. A few strays, but most were actually the shop's cats who were simply lounging around and pestering customers for scraps and snacks. Asahi himself had came early just so he could play with the kittens and the other students who would arrive mostly did the same. A few tried to act cool and just order coffee and watch, but Asahi wasn't afraid to show off his sensitive side as he was trying his best to playfully stack a pile of kittens on top of each other. he was failing of course, but he was trying. One of the cats crawled onto his back and onto his head, mewing cutely as it pawed his face. Asahi just snorted. "Cat hat."

A bit confused at first, Ruby's golden eyes moved over to stare right at Persia who sat down next to the feline. It was just for a few moments, and Ruby's face continued to face forward but her eyes eventually returned to face the same way her head was facing. Someone approaching her like that and sitting down next to her in such a friendly manner was both unusual and new for Ruby which is why she seemed so confused. However, since she didn't want to seem rude and frankly, didn't mind company, she just held still and did not comply to Persia sitting down. "Mamoru....Chan?" Ruby thought to herself since that was the first time anyone has ever called her that that quickly.
"I was just lucky I guess, I wouldn't consider myself talented or anything."

That was a pure lie. Ruby was very proud of her strength and quirk and thought of herself as rather talented and strong, hence why such compliments do flatter her. However, as common manners teached her, bragging about one's abilities is not very nice hence why she refrained from doing so.
Nodding in response to what Persia said, Ruby was impressed by the friendly nature of the stranger. Despite not being in the same class as the catgirl Persia gave advice to Ruby! There was some kind of friendly aura coming off of her which is why Ruby was still okay with talking to her. Eventually though she said something that threw her off. Ruby tilted her head to face Persia fully for the first time since they started sitting next to each other and gave her a look of confusion.
"Thank you for the advice but... rivals?"

Ruby asked to reassure that she heard the right thing. However, before much of a reply was given, Persia already stood up and pulled Ruby with her.
It was no strong pull but only a light tugging, however it was enough to signal Ruby that Persia really wanted her to come. The neko hesitated but then thought to herself "I can still work out later..." before standing up and following Persia where she would go. It was weird to hold someone's hand, the hand of another cute person nontheless. After all, Ruby was very open-minded.
"What do you want to show me?"
@pkken

Tomoe was happy Hitomi was finally free to get some delicious hot drink with her. She was a little weirded out by thr support class student but paid no heed to him at all after he had gone off to do his own thing. Hitomi did invite her to come with her that evening though which Tomoe didn't particulairly mind.

This taunt just made her grin. "Any other time, that would have pissed me off, but today, you're probably right. My body still isn't good enough condition to match you at your strongest without using my quirk, but if I use my quirk, you don't stand a chance. You see, ever since the exercise, I hated how weak I felt. I hated how much I had to rely on close range combat with an enemy who was better kept at a distance. So, I've been training my quirk every day since, to the point of self-exhaustion, for hours at a time after all my lessons. My quirk, my simple little innate ability to make my body glow, might now be one of the strongest quirks in this school. Tell me, what do you get when you concentrate light energy into a single point?"

The moment Dulga answered that question, Mina pointed to her leading foot, and a laser shot from her fingertip. It wasn't strong enough to do any real damage, or make her bleed, but there was now a small dot of burnt flesh on her foot, and a smoking hole in her boot. And it hurt.

Mina had been practicing her lasers. She no longer had to spend a long time tuning and focusing the light. She could fire lasers at will almost instantly. The danger this quirk now possessed was immediately apparent, but to use such a quirk in a simple spar...how far was Mina willing to go to win?

@Norschtalen

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As Hitomi and Tomoe fixed themselves some coffee in the rec room, The sheep girl turned back to her friend. "Hey, if you don't wat to come, don't come. I just think it would be nice. My old friends are quite sweet. Plus, we're meeting in a cat cafe." Hitomi grinned. That ought to get her friends attention. She took a sip of the coffee and her face immediately showed that it was too hot, but she didn't want to spit out out and make a mess, so she sloshed it around her mouth until it had colled, and swallowed it, before opening her mouth and holding her burnt tounge.

"Hot! The coffee's hot!"

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Hitomi arrived at Stray Cats early. The only other student there was Asahi, and she saw him playing with the cats. He'd struck her as a bit of a distant, cold kind of person, but this display of softness was much welcomed. She found she liked him a bit better than before. As she approached him, the cats caught sight of her wooly hare and climbed up her legs, adorned with thin stockings, and then nothing, and then her skirt, which was actually thick enough to stop a cat's claw's from hrting but too high up to make much of a difference. She was already in pain by then. Several cats reached her shoulders and started to toy with her hair, batting it, chewing it, and getting tangled up in it. Hitomi bteated in distress and tried to get them all off her. With the assistance of two staff members, she finally managed, and approached Asahi teary-eyed and haunted.

"They look adorable but these cats are demons!"

@liferusher@Lucius Cypher

Sarge squinted his eyes as he stared directly back directly int Takeshis eyes. The man did not budge an inch and he did not play on doing so neither simply from the guys tone. Sarge was about to shut the whole operation down until Reina had stepped in and spoke up. The burly man let out a sigh before stepping aside. Ms.Mori was as innocent as they come, not only that but Takeshi was accomponied by some other students with good morals.

"You don't want to know what'll happen if I you make trouble"

Once the kids were on their ways, the security guard pulled out his phone sending a text message to one of his acquaintances regarding Takeshi going off campus.



Roy raised an eyebrow to this whole altercation, the school year had just started yet there were already student vs staff member problems. Takeshi had to explain himself as well as the swords that he possessed which the blonde didnt even notice when he was talking to him. He was probably trying to keep it hidden so that he didn't draw attention to himself possibly? He shifted his leg forward as he prepared to make a comment yet Reina had beat him too it which was quite the surprise. She had to be the most reserved and timid person in class personality wise but she always seemed to step up when it counts.

Quite admirable

Reina speaking out seemed to do the trick as she was able to make the big behemoth infront of the group move aside. The best choice of action was leaving the campus before Sarge changes his mind."Come on guys lets go before it is too late" With his words the group continued forward past the security guard and towards the front gate. Though something hadn't been quite right, looking down to his left he noticed how quiet Kaida has been since they left the dormitory house. The blonde slowed his pace to match her speed, he slightly bent down a bit to keep his voice unheard.

"Is something bothering you, you've haven't said a word this whole time."




In an abandoned warehouse.

If one were walking too close to an old factory warehouse in the industry district, they could have heard the sound of fighting. Though that sound didn’t last too long as the final noise of a gurgling yell quickly ended it. Inside were two dark figures with white masks both having different designs on them. Both stood over two bodies, their blades crimson with the blood of their latest victims.

The shadow clan are an infamous group of mercenaries known in the underground crime world, if you wanted to take someone off the face of the earth and proposed the right amount of money. They were the cream of the crop when it comes to this line of work simply because they leave little to no traces of their targets.

One of them, with the flat mask with a simple design and slitted eyes, sighed irritably and reached down and grabbed the cape of one of the slain men, ripped off a good chunk of it and used it as a rag to wipe off the remaining blood from his sword. Then he used it to wipe of some blood that managed to get onto his clothes. “I honestly don’t know why these men had a bounty on their head...they were hardly worth being called ‘heros’. I tell you...Villians are getting lazier by the day…” A Deep distorted voice came from behind his mask, aimed at the other masked figure.

Once done he tossed the bloodied rag over the top of his latest victim and sheathed his sword. Pulling a basic flip phone from his pocket he moved over and used his foot to shove the corpses onto their back as if they were garbage and snapped two quick pictures of their faces.

“We have the symbol of peace to thank for that, because of him these lazy bastards don't have to work as hard to protect the citizens. Just speaking that guys name makes criminals shake in their boots.” the other figure said swinging his sword swiftly sending the blood on his blade splattering against the floor. The other mercenary had a fox like mask which was much more flashier compared to his counterparts.

“I am even more disappointed than you, my target was dead before I even got to him!” He groaned sheathing his blade. “I wished we could get higher risk bounties, at least to slay a hero that is actually ranked. I'd want to go toe to toe with Endeavor.” The man said snapping his fingers, from the ground a black mist quickly engulfed the the corpses, all that could be heard were the sound of human flesh being stripped from the bone until nothing was left.

Shortly there would be no trace of the dead heroes whatsoever once the black mist cleared.

“We can close the curtains on this one.” The masked man said as he began walking out.

The first man grunted as he glanced at the second. “Agreed… You would think someone would pay us to get rid of Actual threat instead of trying to rid the world of the ants.“ He flipped his phone shut and as he went to follow the other man out his phone vibrated. Glancing at the text, he let out a pleased hum. “Looks like the Rat and the mouse are out of their cage. This would make Sensai Very happy…”

“You mean little Kesh and Ko?! We should pay them a visit.” The man began chuckling to himself, “How naive of them to believe they can live a normal life after breaking the code and going AWOL.” The fox masked figure began stretching his body as he tried to warm his body up, killing those other guys barely sufficed. "Its a shame that we are required to bring them back alive" The mercenaries exited the old factory and made his way down a nearby alley.

“Let's move squid, I don't want to miss this opportunity to teach those brats a lesson”

@Riegal@Aerandir@Heartfillia

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Amidst the peaceful patrol was a call. To the Sky Defender.

"HQ? Yeah? Yeah."

She was replying as she halted in her tracks. And so did Acion.

"It's a possible lead, but do you really think a guy with a weird looking mask is suspicious enough for investigation?" She said mockingly through the comm links. A period of silence ensured. "Oh, you are saying it to Corsair when he is in his youth. And you are saying it to probably 200 heroes out there who have fancy trademark masks . Even a kid attending a children's party can wear a mask." She sighed a bit before cutting off with an encouragement. "Still, you at least tried. Good work. Scan the area again."

"Is it about the clan?" Acion asked.

"Yeah. We're finding leads, but hell, it doesn't make sense." Aurelia replied. "Well, they are newbies after all. Ground staffs who dealt with machineries and technical things."

"You even have that? I thought this is an aerial themed group."

"True, but this was just recent months. Just a few months ago I have signed a contract allowing us to use some of the military equipment. We were confident about handling them by ourselves at first, but our numbers stretched really thin, that we could not cover all the works." Aurelia said. "So we decided to recruit some from the support fields to cover that. However, people with good quality prefers to work for other hero groups or on their own instead of us. What was left were those from hero schools from the middle of nowhere."

"That's a..."

"Shame you say? Oh they'll be regretting not going for us. The big shots may look easy and profitable to work with, but the big one doesn't mean the best. Only utter discipline, high cooperation and sense of brotherhood would be able to come out on top. Believe me or not, this generation of heroes are way worse than last ones. They can't protect this city properly. That's why..." Aurelia said as she moved closer and put a hand on Acion's shoulder. "I'll count on your generation to make a new era. Of peace and unity."

Acion chuckled, seemingly endorsing the statement with his whole heart.

"Yeah, we will."

---

The two siblings continued to patrol the city for a while more before making a stop at a café downtown. As they sat and enjoyed their respective drinks, discussions began to spring up between the two Nakamijis. Sometimes it was family stuff, about how their mother and father were doing at home, and how they miss the two of them, since Aurelia had moved out and lived on her own, while Acion was boarding at Komei's dorm. But mostly it was about the heroic stuff, naturally coming down to that. The six-winged fighter was naturally curious about things like this, since he was going to be the one who will be dealing with it after all, while Aurelia was not the one to shy away from a conversation with her family member, especially her brother, whom she was very likely going to recruit for a position in the Sky Knight squadron, or even the Sky Knight Council as a squadron leader if he proved to be competent enough. And that she knew both of them wanted to talk a lot more to each other, after several embarrassing things that kept them apart.

"The clan that you are chasing after, how is it possible that they are on the top of your list while you had so little clues about their origins?" Acion asked skeptically.

"The clue comes from several of our past villain group raids." Aurelia replied as she sipped on her drinks. Then, she leaned closely to Acion and whispered to him. "What we find was surprising. That some of these villain groups are using mercenaries as new methods for their misdeeds."

"That's worrisome..."

"I bet you do. That can create a new terror. A new trend in evil." She didn't stop leaning for the whisper. "Anyway, in our cases, we have found that a few members had been using a hero hunting mercenary group called the Shadow Clan as their tools to thin out the hero population, so that they can perform their work better. We've managed to uncover a few details about these groups, like they accept a bounty for the lives of a living person."

"And?" Acion asked, solemn but genuinely curious. But what he got were two palms from Aurelia.

"That's where the story says 'To be continued'. We are still mining for more information, but that's all we have now. Also there are occasional cases of heroes going missing without a single trace. It's not confirmed, but very likely that this clan is the perpetrator."

"That's dangerous...But how come the police don't know about this?"

Aurelia just shrugged. "Some do. Some don't. But the general public aren't aware."

It was at that moment when another phone call was sent to the Sky Knight's leader.

"Mustang here..." Aurelia answered, in her codename. "Are you sure about this?" Her expression then changed drastically.

"What's up?"

"They've found a suspicious person on camera. They are now trying to confirm it." She said, as she was waiting patiently for the result. But then, she realized the tension in the air around them, and on his brother's face. He was definitely thinking on the same wavelength as her. "You want to hear out on this?"

"Uhh, sure. But is it alright?" He asked, but without an answer, his older sister tossed him an earpiece. It looked somewhat like a hand-me-down kind of thing. "What's this?"

"A com link to HQ. It used to belong to a deceased member. I know, I haven't really gotten over it completely. But still, it should still work." She said, as Acion tried out his new thing. "Just keep quiet." As she turned to the Sky Knight ground staff. "Are you sure it's not another generic masked guy?"

"No ma'am" Over the com, a young, seemingly in their early to mid-twenties, woman's voice returned the question. "This one, no mask but he has weapons. Two swords on him."

"Where is he?"

"Eto... The voice paused for a moment, presumably to check the location. "Downtown Shino. This was confirmed by Corsair just a minute ago."

The answer was transferred to both earpieces, as the recipients were dead on serious. As the one person began to pack things up, the other person quickly called the waitress.

"Could we have the bill please?!"

"Yes rivals!"

the brunette replied back to the neko with her cheeks puffed out, she also squeezed Ruby's hand a bit tighter but not so much to cause pain. Persia was a bit hurt that she questioned her declaration of rivalry. She tried her best to appear angry with Ruby but it was hard to do with someone so innocent. They only met just moments ago so all she could do was pout since Ruby did have a right to question her. Persia whipped her hair back around facing the tree that she was in prior to as that was their destination.

"The hero field is full of competition, it is only natural to have rivals."

She turned her head slightly to the right to look at Ruby, immediately noticing that she a bit taller than her. Persia was only 5'2 while ruby was 5'6.

Once they reached to tree she let go of Ruby's hand and turned around with a smile on her face. She didn't know exactly why she was about to showRuby this, the girl was a complete stranger and the only thing known about here was her name and that she was in the hero course.

She couldn't show her quirk just yet, it would be too weird and she doubt Ruby go to that empty space just yet.

Persia began fiddling her thumbs as she got a little nervous. She wanted to show Ruby her quirk but a sudden change of plans left her empty handed. Her face turned slightly red out of embarassment. A cool breeze picked up in the momentary silence betweeen the two which gave her an idea.

"T-there is a nice breeze blowing at the top of this tree, and an even nicer view. Would you like to go up and see?" She swayed back and forth as she awaited Ruby's reply, Her heart was beating Fast like a bongo hoping she didn't screw things up.

@melpaws

They had gotten their coffee short after and peacefully sat down for some chatter. Tomoe had gotten a few sugar sticks with her to their seat and started to dump them in one by one for a while before trying to drink it with the heat. Hitomi had started speaking almost instantly about how she didn't have to come with her. Tomoe almost spit her coffee out. Not having to come? Tomoe took Hitomi as a kind girl that worried about every singel thing but this was too much. Off course she was gonna come! Cats... Hitomi suddenly mentioned cats with a pleased face. She seemed to think that would be a big plus for Tomoe. Tomoe turned her eyes away in uneased manner. Hitomi seemed so excited so suddenly. Off course she wanted Tomoe to join her and that is why she spoke like this.



Hitomi went on about how she thought her old classmates were sweethearts and the likes but Tomoe only thought about that single thing. This was gonna be bad but how could she ignore this cute excited Hitomi.



Tomoe gave Hitomi a confident not displeased look as to reasure her she was happy to come. Hitomi her coffee apparently was hot... Tomoe took a jug of her coffee as well before holding both hands in front of her pain as tears welled up in her eyes.



She out her tongue out in silly matter as it was red softly sobbing.

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Tomoe arrived shortly after Hitomi. Hitomi was already full of scratches and seemed not to be enjoying herself all too much with the cats bring all over her. Tomoe stepped in prepped and ready, she seemed conspicuous of the cats on her arrival already. She wore a white facemask in front of her mouth to protect herself from the allergies she had for cats. Furthermore she wore a cutesy blue dress with frills that had a big ribbon on the back. She had her legs bare with dmall socks on so cats wouldn't destroy any of her socks. She stepped up towards Hitomi trying not to look at any of the cats. She was definitly uneasy and tense when she had to walk through part of the cafe yet she tried not make it seem like she had these uncomfortable feeling right now. Tomoe stood by the table as she bowed and greeted them with a very straight and dull reply. Very unlike her. She sat down next to Hitomi as she immediatly grabbed the drinks card and put her face into it.

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Kaida was actually taken back at how forceful Sarge was in aiming his apparent dislike for Takeshi. She looked at the tall dark haired boy in a curious light. From what she had seen in class and the exercise, and what she saw when he was around his sister, he was a gentleman and focused upstanding student. Mysterious for sure, but careful and worried about his sister.

So why did Sarge look like he was about to wrestle with Takeshi, and why did Takeshi get irritated at the accusations? She was surprised Riena said something as well. But she hit the points she would have said directly on the head. Especially Kadia’s own quirk. She believed it was far more dangerous than anyone at school at the moment. They even knew her father was a villian yet she was allowed to attend...so what did that say about Takeshi?

As they began to walk again she pulled her head back in surprise as she didn’t notice Roy slowing down to walk next to her and spoke to her. She reddened with embarrassment at being slightly scared at the fact of Roy simply asking a question.

”Um… sorry… I was just taken back at Sarges reaction to Takeshi… Made me think of things… “ She glanced at him in the eye for a moment before picking up her pace a little. She looked to Reina whom was a quiet girl, and she really didnt know that much about her... so she looked over at her and walked with her head forward to gain her attention politely. “So…...what is Ramen?” She asked trying to change the subject...but clearly in the tone of her voice and how she pronounced it in her heavy accent, she didn’t know what this food was.

Dulga felt a intense pain in her foot right as she grabbed Mina by the throat. She really wasn't expecting Mina to shoot lasers at her, but all the more reason that Dulga can't go easy now: Mina had how a range advantage that normally Dulga only had, but without her guns she needed to put down Mina fast. Fortunately Mina didn't seem to bother trying to avoid the rock or Dulga's fist and instead tried to shoot her foot, which did make Dulga wobbly. But now the bigger girl had Mina by the neck. Tightening her grip Dulga pulled her fist back through the floor, dragging Mina through it as well. Another hand went to grab Mina by the forehead, covering her eyes with her palm as well. Dulga wasn't sure how Mina's powers worked, but if she couldn't see Dulga, it should be harder for Mina to hit Dulga. Hopefully. A third hand reached around the first to grab Mina from the back of her neck, both to help Dulga keep a grip onto the girl as well as make sure Dulga didn't accidentally break her neck, since Dulga intends to slam Mina back into the ground. But not without another taunt.

"Kaida did better."

@Silver Carrot

That taunt, unlike the other one, obviously struck a nerve, as the next thing Dulga would see was Mina raising her hand, and then a very bright light, that persisted for several seconds, during which time, Mina felt down Dulga's arm to her shoulders, then up to her face, and then proceeded to deliver a series or very stiff and ugly punches to her combatant's face, each one was punctuated by her screeching a single word. The third or fourth one would split Dulga's bottom lip.

"Don't! You! Ever! Compare! Me! To! That! Bitch!"

@Norschtalen

Dulga’s taunt worked a bit too well. By the time she could recover and get into a guard, Mina had already knocked Dulga back to the ground and gave her a beating. Dulga could take a punch but Mina was going with greater ferocity and anger then Dulga suspected. But that was sort of accordingly to plan. Once Dulga was able to ward off some of the punches as see Mina, Dulga grabbed Mina by her hair. Then Dulga smashes her forehead into Mina’s face.

"You’re right... More like your mother."

Kicking Mina off, Dulga grabbed a handful of the training room floor, dusting it in her hands. Two can play at blinding each other. She was still seeing spots but knew that Mina was getting careless now. Dulga three a huge handful of powdered dust at Mina to blind her, then Dulga followed up with a flurry or punches. Unlike Mina, Dulga’s voice was calm and calculated. Even as Dulga was throwing wild, powerful strikes at Mina, Dulga was on the defensive and ready for Mina to try her tricks, either her flashes or lasers.

”You mom is a great woman, you must be what’s left. Jett likes her more, you should give it a rest!”

@Silver Carrot

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Adraine and Jais were watching Mina and Dulga while they were sparing. The principle had asked Adriane to come back and speak with Dulga about her actions in the exercise. Jais was also asked to talk to Mina, as she had been exhibiting some negative behavior ever since her run in with Amane.

The spar suddenly escalated quickly into a fight and Adriane sighed in annoyance. She suddenly vanished in a puff of black smoke as Jais slowly made his way towards the two. Dulga and Mina would both see another puff of black smoke between them and before they would realize what was happening, they were both warped and repositioned to where Dulga was on the ground, Mina laying on top of her sideways, and Adriane sitting on top of both of them, her legs crossed and arms folded. ”Alright, Fun is over Ladies.”

She reached down and poked both of them square in the middle of their foreheads. ”Time for both of you to have a little ‘chat’ with us.” Because it was their first time teleporting, they were sure to feel suddenly sick from the disorientation. But not to the point of actually throwing up.

Jais was standing just above them as well. He tilted his head so he was in line with theirs. Sorry about that. But we can't have you guys actually hurting each other...it seems your class likes to take it a bit far too often. He looked directly at Mina. Especially you young lady, you should be resting after what happened a few days ago.

@Norschtalen@Silver Carrot