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Chapter 104 - They Should Not Have Met

"According to your birth certificate, Ms Toga, you are in fact eligible for the deal that Usagi negotiated," Nezu says, closing the file laying on his desk. Himi rolls her eyes and scoffs in reply.

"Well duh. Did you really think I would have bothered showing up if I couldn't be with Izu?" She nuzzles deeper into my neck and wiggles happily, which prompts a reaction given she didn't even give the second chair in the room a glance before plopping herself down in my lap.

Nezu ignores the blatant disrespect my girlfriend is showing him (though it's even odds on whether it's intentional on her end or not) to turn towards the fourth occupant of the room currently residing in what was meant to be Himi's chair. "As for you, Ms Hado: would you care to explain the series of events that led to you allowing a member of the League of Villains to impersonate you and infiltrate UA?"

"Huh?" The cyan spiral haired girl makes a noise of confusion before looking at Nezu and pointing at Himi. "She's a member of the League of Villains? But aren't they those guys who want to kill All Might for whatever reason? And, you know, villains? This girl just asked me if she could borrow my blood so she could pull a prank and visit her boyfriend."

"And I thank you once more for your donation towards seeing my Izu again~!" Himi gives the upper year UA student a one handed salute before going back to nibbling on my collarbone, not breaking the skin since we have an audience. Well, more so because Nezu is here. Since Hado apparently gave Himi blood just because she asked, she'd be happy to let the girl watch or join if she wants.

Her giving my little vampire blood also means that she isn't a quirkist jerk who thinks blood quirks are 'villainous' or whatever nonsense the media is peddling at the moment. Really, with how often they lie to people you'd think they were performers more than anything. Anyways, since Hado is clearly a good person, maybe I'll help her with her quirk if she wants. At the very least I'll tell the LoV that she's on our no-kill list. Not that we won't if the situation calls for it, but we'll at least put in some effort to try not to.

"We made available the files we have on the currently identified members of the League of Villains available to students with their provisional hero licenses. This includes both descriptions and what photos we have. Did you neglect to look the documents over?" The rat's voice is as even as it's been since we entered his office, but it's clear that there's some sort of warning or threat hanging over the girl's head if she doesn't answer correctly. Luckily for her, nearly three years of being under the principal's observations has trained her well.

"Of course I did!" Is the positive reply. "There's this green haired cutie," she reaches over and pinches the cheek that Himi isn't currently pushing her own against, "the purple mist guy, the guy with lighter hair than me who looks like he definitely needs a better skin care routine-"

"We've tried, and it has gotten better, but stress makes it dry out faster. Pretty sure it's a side effect of his quirk."

She perks up at that. "Ooh! Really? What other kinds of effects does it have? The file says it's a dangerous five point contact quirk that decays anything he touches, but nothing about what sort of effects it has on him. Does better skin make it stronger? Does worse skin make it stronger? What about his feet? Could he use his feet to use his quirk instead of his hands if he trains it enough since technically they would also be applicable to the five point contact activation requirements for his quirk? Is he immune to his own quirk? I have a friend who can shoot stars from her hands, and even though they hurt other people they don't hurt her. Is it like that? Or does he have to always be careful to never touch himself? Oh! How hard is it for him to touch himself? Can he touch himself? I guess he wouldn't have to use all five fingers to get a grip on himself, but Mirio says-"

"I believe that's enough questions, Ms Hado." Nezu interrupts, looking faintly exasperated. Hado puffs out her cheeks and pouts at him, crossing her arms under her sizable chest to highlight just how annoyed she is. I can't help but laugh before pointing at her.

"You, you I like." I smirk at her. "Though you'll have to work harder than that if you want me to blurt out sensitive information on members of the LoV." I tilt my nose up into the air and puff out my chest, ignoring the way Himi runs her hand down it and sending a shiver up my spine. "I'll have you know that my mutter sprees are legendary, so your own rapid fire questions are easily understandable to me!"

She shifted her pout to me after I started speaking, evidently disappointed that I figured out what she was trying to do so quickly, but lets out a dramatic gasp at the mention of my mutter sprees. "They are? And wait, could you understand all of my questions? Mirio and Tamaki always pull me back and ask me to slow down so people can answer first, but they're just so slow!

I let out a loud groan. "Ugh, tell me about it! It's like; there are so many things to learn about, but everyone acts like they don't care! It's especially irritating when it's questions about their own quirk! It's basic stuff that you should be able to rattle off from the top of your head! Why do you have to think about whether you create the water you shoot or draw it from the environment!? That's an incredibly important distinction! Are you going to train your quirk by chugging water, or by trying to use your quirk in a dry area where there's a lack of moisture in the air?"

Hado beams at me. "I know, right!? And are you sure that your quirk works how you think it does? What if the quirk counselor you went to as a kid misunderstood it? I had to get my quirk identified three times because of that! When it first appeared, my quirk counselor told me that the reason I'm so peppy all the time is because my quirk drew its power from my 'positive emotions'." She scoffs, though I am obviously obligated to ask.

"What does your quirk do? Because there are a few quirks I've heard of that have different power levels depending on the mood of the individual. I think the one I'm most familiar with is a quirk that grows in power the more stressed the person is, and he can use it on someone to make them more confident at the cost of whatever emotion they usually feel the most. So an incredibly nice or empathetic person would be confident and ruthless, as just one example."

"Ooh, that's so cool!" She taps her chin with a finger and tilts her head to the side. "I wonder if that would be good with therapy work? Because if you're in therapy, the emotion you feel the most would probably be something negative, which means it would be taken away to feed their confidence. It could be the sort of kick they need to get into a more positive mindset."

"Or they could become addicted to the artificially created feeling," I counter, "which would lead to them becoming even more despondent than they otherwise would have been if they hadn't been introduced to the quirk in the first place."

Hado nods. "That's true. If it was applied in therapy, they would have to carefully weigh the pros and cons of using it on their current patient. Not to mention the fact that patients talk; rumors could spread about why some people are having the quirk used on them and others aren't, which would induce a sense of paranoia and make whatever condition they're in worse before they even meet the therapist!"

I nod rapidly, smiling at her. "Exactly! That's why getting a quirk use license for any kind of medical license is so stringent! They have to make sure that every angle about the consequences of it being used have been examined, walk through the pros versus the cons, and then they have to delve into the ethical aspects!"

"So true!" Hado exclaims. "Oh, that reminds me! Have you heard about-"

"Ahem." Her words are brought to a stop by the loud sound of someone clearing their throat. Or rather, something. Nezu looks at us with an appraising look, and I blink before glancing down at Himi, whose face shows fond exasperation.

"Whoops," I chuckle awkwardly. "I got lost in a quirk discussion again, didn't I?"

"Yep," Himi drawls, popping the 'p' before leaning up to give me a quick peck on the lips. "But I forgive you because it's adorable~."

I smile at her, enjoying the moment. Too bad a lonely little rat who'll never have a love life of his own is a petty bastard and decides to ruin it. "We do have more things to discuss before the end of the school day, so if we could get back on track…"

I let out a long-suffering groan before finally deigning to grant the principal the attention he so desperately needs to validate his own existence. "Fiiiineeee. Himi will be in my class, of course, and I'll need a bigger room along with a bigger bed so we can sleep comfortably."

Nezu doesn't even blink. "Students are not permitted to share dorm rooms, and they are housed in different sections of the building."

I shrug and wave the unimportant detail to the side. "So? It's not like we'll be sleeping apart from each other anyways. We could go through the whole song and dance of us sneaking into each other's rooms and pranking the other students on the way, but I have a feeling Aizawa would throw another fit before the week is up. Not that seeing his incompetence as a teacher isn't funny, but it needs to be stretched out over a period of time."

Nezu just hums before moving on to another point of 'contention', by which of course I mean it's not contentious at all and he's just putting up a front because it's expected of him. Or maybe he actually does want to watch Himi and I mess with everyone in our efforts to spend time together. It could really go either way when talking about rat satan. "Why should I place Ms Toga in 1-A? It already has one villain in the rehabilitation program."

"Well, we're already missing a classmate, courtesy of the attempted murderer whose family lacked the political clout to keep him enrolled and sweep it under the rug. The students are also used to me, unlike the majority of 1-B, and as such are more prepared for Himi's addition. There's also the fact that - again - we would just sneak into each other's classes regardless of what you decide. So, really, the question is whether or not you want to save yourself the headache of dealing with the teachers complaining about us to you."

I give the rat a smile. "So, principal, what's it going to be?"

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