Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 85: The LOV on the case

Everyone waiting in the hall was tense.

"Why didn't I know about this?" Aizawa asked Miss Joke tightly.

"It's hard to explain." She twiddled her fingers.

"Try," he said flatly.

Miss Joke didn't know what to say.

"Shine convinced the LOV to leave us alone before, when they attacked us," Momo tried to help, "in exchange for not turning them in. They saw how powerful she was, and they agreed to it." This was the truth, just not the whole truth.

"Why not just take her out, then?" Aizawa said, "If they figured out how to block her powers. I know what happened before...and apparently, all of you know something I don't. Even the Rabbit back there seems to know."

"That's just rude," Mirko said, as they came down the hall.

"Looks like you're in trouble," Dabi said to Shine, like a younger sibling would after tattling on their sister.

Shine rolled her eyes at him. "It's the least of my concerns."

"It's not the least of mine," Aizawa said, "I'm not a fool, Likstar... All this time, you've been sneaking out... How much of it was involved in this?"

"What happens if I say all of it was?" Shine said weakly.

Aizawa's eyes turned red. "You don't want to know."

"It doesn't matter anyway." Shine walked past him. "After what happened to Wally, I don't care what you do to me anymore... I just want to get Eri back."

"You know," Dabi said, as they were all about to follow her out, "the League may be backstabbers, but at the end of the day, we get what she's about, and you stupid heroes don't. There's no justice in life, that's for sure."

Shoto glared at him. "You really think you understand her? Why did you try to kill her, then?"

Dabi recoiled. Momo nudged Shoto. Why was he provoking someone they came to for help?

"Because we understand her," Dabi finally retorted darkly, "Sounds sick, huh? But that's the way it is."

"Well, we get it just fine." Bakugo was pissed at Dabi still. "And your dumba-- is still not fully on one side or the other, is it? So why don't you piss off? Don't talk about freaking justice if you can't even be honest with yourself, moron!"

"Bakugo!" Momo was shocked.

"Don't provoke the villain," Aizawa reprimanded him. 

Bakugo just laughed. "Please... Guy's a total wuss."

He walked away without another glance at Dabi, who was glaring at him but shuffled off back the other way.

"Hmm." Mirko seemed to find that amusing. "Kid has spunk."

"He's like a mini-version of you," Miss Joke said to her.

Shoto gave them the strangest look right then.

* * *

In addition to the agreement, the LOV had also told Shine to give them at least a day or so, and unfortunately, that was still faster than the Police could ever hope to be. Overhaul's gang, such as it was, was cloaked in many levels of complicated secrecy. Taking him down the first time had been hard enough.

Eri's existence was such a closely guarded secret in the higher ups, that few people knew who she was or the amount of power she possessed. Why she was really staying at UA was a secret.