Chapter 8 - Summer
Life went on, as it was bound to do.
The effects of Dominant Gaze faded, his co-workers eventually managed to wheedle out of him what exactly had shaken him so much, and Nedzu took advantage of all the free time he was supposed to be having and instead made him his personal assistant in all but name.
He didn’t really mind, as he would have used the time for more hero work anyways and being Nedzu’s personal assistant consisted mostly of investigative hero work, which was much safer than pretty much anything he would have been doing, and being the Principal’s personal perch.
The perch thing annoyed him more than anything else. Scarf or no scarf, his shoulder could not possibly be that warm or comfortable. (It was probably Nedzu’s way of paying him back for making them deal with the Commission.)
The end of the year approached, six out of the twenty students expelled at the beginning of the year were set to be re-enrolled into the hero course at the beginning of next year. Normally, they’d be officially members of 2-A, but go through separate rigorous training to get them caught up with their classmates, considering they were the only students in 2-A, the entire year could instead be dedicated to rigorous training so that they were prepared to take the provisional exam by the beginning of their third year.
And then Yagi, who they had learned was awkward and a bit bumbling sometimes but also surprisingly shrewd and hilariously sarcastic when he wanted to be, revealed that he was actually All Might.
And that he would be teaching at U.A. next year as All Might.
Nao, the traitor, had apparently known the whole time, because of course he did, and had laughed so hard he’d cried at their shell shocked faces.
Then summer came, and along with it a rise in drug related crimes that cost Nao and even Zashi just as many late or sleepless nights as he himself suffered, and of course there wasn’t nearly enough evidence to do much of anything about the source of it all anytime soon.
And then it was time for the entrance exams.
(In the shadows, hidden away beneath the earth and entombed in concrete, he watched, listened, gathered.
The shadows stirred, All for One grinned.
The world continued on, as it was bound to do.)