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Komei Academy

I'm still here, wasn't posting to give others a chance to respond but I think everyone's accounted for now, so I'll post tomorrow.

Komei Academy

Shoko Iseki

Daichi followed Shoko's order almost more perfectly than she was expecting -- no hesitation as he blew through the roof door and leaped off the building, leaving the girl slightly dumbfounded as she awkwardly caught the stumbling clone Daichi pushed towards her before his jump.

Well, Sazama hadn't managed to escape Daichi's grip, so Shoko didn't have to enact her plan B; which was a relief, as the girl didn't think tossing one of the clones over the edge of the building to distract a hero was a particularly fun thing to do. Sure, she had checked to make sure there was a balcony only several feet from the roof, but still.

Getting her wits back, she grabbed the two clones and sprinted all the way down the stairs of the building, pushing through the front door out into the street. She looked to her left, gasping for air, to see Daichi unharmed and Sazama unmoving on the pavement.

A jolt of fear shot through her -- that was the one part of her plan she hadn't been sure about, but in the moment she didn't think too much on it. She knew the fall would be nothing to Daichi, but she wasn't sure how it'd effect her female classmate. Sazama was definitely more durable than she was, but by how much exactly, Shoko wasn't sure.

The girl let go of her hostages and ran over, pulling one of her gloves off as she dropped onto and scrapped her knees next to Sazama, immediately touching the other girl's neck, her quirk activating automatically...

And only bringing on a small wave of dull pain. Shoko's eyes widened as she studied Sazama face, realizing that she was simply sleeping, as she so often did. Dots connected in the her mind, piecing together that Sazama's sleeping habits had to do with her quirk, and clearly made her extremely durable.

Shoko breathed a deep sigh of relief, glad that she hadn't hurt her classmate. She glanced over to Daichi, climbing to her feet and pressing her hand against his sizable wrist, relieving him of the minimal pain caused by the fall as well.

"I, uh... sorry about asking you to do that," she said, smiling sheepishly. It didn't really matter how resilient the large boy was -- asking anyone to leap off a three-story building as forcibly as she did was probably not okay.

A moment after her apology, Yoshida-sensei's voice sounded over her communicator -- her team had won.

Another sigh of relief came out of the girl. She hadn't dragged her team down, despite not having made any use of her quirk until the end -- more than that, she even felt like she helped, if only in a small way. Daichi probably could've figured out a way to beat Sazama, but he did end up following Shoko's suggestion, which had to count for something.

Unsure what else to do, the girl fell hard on her rear, feeling herself relax for the first time that day. Soon enough, she saw the rest of the participants heading back to the starting zone together. Ken and Aki both looked very beat up, and she could guess how that'd happened. Before she could get up and join up with them, though, she spotted Ako joining her, Daichi, and the snoozing Sazama.

Shoko smiled and gave the boy a small wave, nodding as she saw him pick Sazama up. Taking her place on one side of the girl, she gave a small laugh at Ako's words.

"Since the heroes had a time limit, hiding would've worked too, I guess. That would've been fun, like a quirk-filled game of hide-and-seek."

---

"Too bad you weren't the one injured, but since your here I think now is the time to get that blood sample."

Shoko paused, her absentminded gazing around to take in the nurse's room interrupted. She glanced to the nurse, her expression darkening slightly. That was harsh, but the words seemed to fit the nurse's character, from what Shoko had seen so far. She spoke up, being careful not to overstep her bounds.

"It wasn't his fault." No need to name names beyond that bit of truth. "Besides, you... you were being unnecessarily creepy."

Maybe that last bit wasn't something she didn't have to say, but she felt she needed to preemptively excuse any blame that might get shifted to Daichi. Throwing something at anyone being that unsettling during their first day of school was pretty justified in her eyes. Well.. throwing another person was less justified, but panic did strange things to people.

The girl stayed quiet as she watched the nurse work, her quirk as strange as the woman using it. It was much like watching a car crash -- Shoko couldn't bring herself to look away as much as she may have wanted to. It wasn't that she was particularly afraid of bug or anything, but the thought of having so many crawling on her wasn't pleasant.

"Time for blood work everybody," the nurse said after she was done with Aki and Ken, her syringe in hand and her unsettling grin on her lips.

Shoko tightened up, glancing around for a second at her peers before immediately giving up on the hope of someone else volunteering -- not because she didn't think none of them would, but because the thought of delaying her turn for several minutes as everyone else went didn't seem like an attractive prospect either.

With a light sigh, she stepped forward, pulling up her left sleeve and taking a seat on one of the beds, glancing to the nurse expectantly.

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Oop forgot to add mentions to my post. I don't think mentions that are edited in work, so I'll just get them here.

@pkken @cloudystar @Duoya @KimmiNinja

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Shoko Iseki

"I-I have t-trouble here, requesting backup i-i-immediately... I-if that's not t-too much to a-ask..."

"I'm coming, Dai--"

A loud explosion started Shoko, causing her to throw her gaze over her shoulder, in the direction of the noise. Who was involved over there? She wasn't sure, but she had to guess Ken.

Approaching the building she believed Daichi to be in, she spoke over the comm. "Ken! Ako! What's happening?" she asked hurriedly.

Inside the building now, and before any answer came, she heard another crash -- this time smaller and directly above her on another floor. Daichi.

Brow furrowing, Shoko ran up the stairs, following the sounds of the struggle. As she steeled herself and entered the room, spotting Daichi and Sazama, Ken spoke over the communicator.

"I have won the battle but lost the war."

The girl paused, clicking her tongue as her eyes widened. There was a lot to take in in that moment. 'Lost the war?' What did that mean? Was he hurt? And more importantly, why was Sazama all but naked and clinging to Daichi?

Shoko quickly got over her shock, realizing it had to do with her quirk -- and she really didn't seem keen on letting go.

"We haven't lost anything yet," she said as strongly as she could into her communicator. "Get over here."

Think as many steps ahead as you can, she told herself, analyzing the information she had as quickly as possible.

"Daichi!" she yelled, making sure to get his attention. "To the roof!" She would have startled herself with how forceful she sounded, if it weren't for the adrenaline pumping through her -- this was easily the most vocal she had been in many years.

She immediately left the room, mind still racing. They had been forced to engage with heroes before they had had a chance to meet up -- but that didn't mean they should stop trying to regroup.

She had two choices right now -- bring her and her hostage to the roof ahead of Daichi, or get back to the ground, just outside the building. The riskier play was undoubtedly the roof, but she decided that risks would have to be taken to come out on top here. She just hopped Isshin-sensei wouldn't hate her too much after today.

"Daichi," she said into her comm. "Make sure you have your hostage. If you can't get Sazama off, jump off the roof back first. If the threat of that doesn't get her to let go, the impact will." She paused for a moment before adding "Don't worry about any injuries to either of you."

She was breathing hard as she made it through the door to the roof, having been in a full out sprint for the last few minutes.

"Ako," she managed. "Is everything alright on your end?" He had been completely silent thus far, and though she knew that was likely just him being himself, she wanted to make sure he hadn't been engaged yet.

Without pause, she dragged the hostage to one corner of the roof, leaning over the edge to see both how high they were and what the side of the building looked like.

She smiled through her labored breaths at her findings.

As long as Daichi came up, she had an easy way off the roof, with at least one of their two hostages in tow. The other... well, the other was the reason why Shoko was worried about what Isshin-sensei would think of her.

Heart pounding in her ears and eyes locked on the door to the roof, the girl waited a few tense long seconds.

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Working on a post now, should be done within a half hour.

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Shoko Iseki

Shoko's classmates were a group of varied personalities, a few of them strong, to say the least. The girl payed close attention to everyone's introductions, putting names to faces quite easily -- never something she had trouble with. There was a small confrontation between the boy called Ken and a girl named Sayuri, though nothing much came of it for the moment, to Shoko's relief. Her turn came around prompting her to stand and introduce herself, sticking to just her name and foregoing any demonstration or explanation on her quirk like a few of the others had done -- she didn't think hers was interesting enough to warrant that.

The first week of school went by quick enough, not much different from any other school she had been to, as the classes were either normal everyday ones or meant to prepare them for the true heroic learning. Shoko spent her time with any of her classmates that would stand her quietness, ending up with Ako -- the boy who had stayed back with her when she healed the nurse -- most of the time.

Soon enough it was the Friday of their first week, and the class was lined up to do their first practical hero-related test -- a hero team versus villain team simulation, taking place in an impressive replica of a part of a city.

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Having been running for the past few minutes, Shoko's breathing was heavier than normal. She scanned her surroundings incessantly, mind racing as fast as her heart was beating -- more from nerves than anything. While she had always dealt extremely well with nervousness, even finding that it helped her perform her best, in whatever she may be doing, it didn't change the fact that it wasn't the most fun feeling.

This is the part she had been terribly worried about since she first applied to Komei. Over the course of the week, she had started to learn more and more of her peers Quirks, and the other seven that were involved in this exercise with her... well, they could do a lot more damage with their abilities than she could with hers. No; she definitely wouldn't be helping much in open conflict, beyond healing off one of her teammates injuries to give them a second wind -- if she wanted to be a hero any where near her parents or brother, she had to think.

The girl listened to her teammates talking over the communicator, biting her lip as she located one of her teacher's clones. Ken and Daichi seemed okay with being split up, only gathering if one of them needed help, but the more she thought, the less she agreed.

She grabbed the clone by the wrist, dragging him with her rather forcefully out of sight and into an alleyway. Taking a breath to calm her nerves, she spoke over the communicator. The thought of being a villain had, of course, never crossed her mind -- but it was time to play the part as best she could. She wouldn't let herself hold any of her classmates back; her team deserved a competent peer, and the hero team deserved the best challenge she could give them so they could learn.

"We should all get together now, with the four hostages -- keep them all in one place, defend them together," she said, as strong as her voice had been all week. "If the heroes do the same and group up, we'll have a chance in battle instead of being picked off one by one. And if they're splitting up, we wait for them to stumble upon us and beat them with numbers."

Shoko paused for only a second to wait for her team's input, but reconsidered and quickly began speaking again, not wanting to waste any time.

"We should pick a building to meet in -- limit the amount of directions the heroes can come at us from, and play to our strengths. Your guys' Quirks seem like they'd be most effective in close quarters, so we should force those engagements." Another short pause to think through her words. "Remember -- according to what Yoshida-sensei said, they need to save all four clones to succeed. Don't be afraid to let one go if it means you getting out to regroup with the rest of us."

Finally, she finished. "So, Daichi; think that building you're in will work?"

Even as she asked, the girl was off running towards the starting area, clone in tow as she kept out of sight as best she could behind the buildings.

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Sorry for holding everyone up, I'm starting my post now. I can't give it my full attention at the moment but it's getting done.

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Just poking in to say I'm around. Been a bit too busy to post, but I've been keeping track of everything. I'll have a post up sometime tonight.

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@cloudystar

Naaah, I would never. The unnecessarily long posts will only come when the characters don't have somewhere to urgently be :^)

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Shoko Iseki

Shoko paused and blinked at the boy's offer to help her -- though she was already finding her feet thanks to getting used to the sudden onset of pain, she couldn't help but smile sheepishly and nod.

"Th-thanks," she said quietly, carefully putting part of her weight on him. The girl felt instant relief at no longer having to focus so hard on keeping herself steady.

She felt a twinge of guilt at the fact that she was already slowing another down at Komei. It seemed rude to not accept his offer, however -- so she just had to make sure she moved fast enough to not make the boy late.

The pink-haired girl joined them, immediately latching on to the boy's free hand, making Shoko's heart skip a beat as she came to a realization.

"Sorry! I just had to! You're sooooooo adorable! 'Sides, think how cool you'll look with two girls on each arm ahaha!"

That... that was what it looked like, didn't it?

Shoko felt her cheeks heat up a bit as she avoided saying anything and fought the urge to suddenly refuse the boy's help. After another moment of shy silence from her, she found herself letting out a small laugh.

"It won't matter how cool he looks if we're all expelled," she said lightly, smiling to the two.

As the trio made there way to their classroom, Shoko glanced towards the others, noticing the cut on the boy's cheek for the first time. She paused, wondering how he had gotten it with his shielding Quirk. She thought to bring it up, and use her Quirk to relieve him of the wound as way of thanks for helping her, but decided against it for the moment -- she'd have no time to explain her Quirk to him before they made it to their destination, and touching him out of the blue could come off as weird.

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