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"Ah told you you didn't need to go with your old man." You point out, slowly shifting your smile into a grimace. "Fire quirks ain't exactly rare, sugar."

>"You know his mastery of <Hellfire> is unmatched by anyone in the country, arguably the work." He argues, matter of factly. "If I am to learn to control and use my fire, there is no better teacher."

"Yeah, but he's also the kind of guy to call his quirk <Hellfire>." You counter argue, making a conscious effort to not scowl. "Ah don't know… It's worryin'. Everythin' Ah know tells me that you spendin' more time with him ain't a good idea, you know?"

>"I do." He answers, patting his suitcase. "And I do not plan on listening to anything he says that is not related to handling a fire quirk or the business side of heroics."

At a loss for words, you look around some more and seeing less and less of your classmates, you start worrying that your chat might have kept you in the station longer than you were supposed to be there.

You glance over the crowd and look worriedly at your dishevelled teacher, a dozen feet or so away from you and your friend.

He doesn't look mad, or anymore bothered than normal, nodding at one of the large digital timepieces on the station pillars instead, likely telling you to wrap it up.

"...Sorry 'bout the piss poor pep-talk. Ah think Ah soured mah own mood too." You apologize, scrapping your boots on the tiled floor and pointing away, in your platform's general direction, taking a step away. "Ah better get goin'-"

>"Don't be sorry." He quickly replies, grabbing your shoulder and stopping you on your tracks. "Cheer up. Talking… Always helps."

You turn around at that, glaring at him a bit and thinking of how you basically need to drag him around if you want him to socialize. Then you smile. Baby steps and all that.

"Well then." You say, starting to walk backwards and holding your free hand to your ear, mimicking a phone before turning around and running off. "Call me if you need to talk! See ya!"

It's not that you don't want to hang out, but his route is a short trip up to Tokyo proper while yours is likely to be over an hour on the bullet train.

That, and you could feel Mr. Aizawa's glare in the back of your head, and it felt like his patience was running out.

The train ride wasn't anything but boring, something you think you have to thank your uniform for. While some lecherous glances and leers follow you everywhere you go, you have noticed that people try to hide it when you are in your school uniform, giving you some space and not trying anything.

Whether it is because they recognize you or because any U.A. student is likely to be able to defend themselves, you know not.

All you know is that you might not have as many problems differentiating japanese cities as you thought, as when you finally arrive at the city of Yokkaichi and leave the station, you can immediately smell a slightly burning, acidic smell in the air, hurting your sensitive nose.

Looking out on the horizon, it takes you less than five seconds to spot seven different smokestacks spewing a constant cloud of smoke each.

Unlike the small, calm Musutafu or the shiny Shibuya, Yokkaichi immediately feels grittier.

As you make your way to Edgeshot's office, you quickly think about what you know of the city, starting with the good.

Highly industrialized with well paying jobs for everyone, is one of Japan's oldest cities, has small American and British communities thank to the international ports and is the original birthplace of two main ninja clans, and their tomb, after Nobunaga proved that guns are the best way to fight wars.

Good guy, that Oda.

The bad? America bombarded it to kingdom come during WWII, the air here is known for causing ten to twenty times more respiratory issues than the rest of Japan and it has its own special kind of Asthma.

Eventually, you reach the direction Mr. Aizawa had given to you,

A black skyscraper with polarized windows.

"...Huh." You let out, looking at the glass doors, the only part of the building allowing you to look inside.

There's a woman behind a counter, taking notes with a headset on while a couple other men and women walk from one side of the area you can see to the other. Nothing really special.

Behind her however, on the wall… Knives, swords and everything in between, covering the entire wall. In the end, it's the sai and the ninja stars that confirm it to be the right place to you.

>What do you do?


>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]
>[Everyone in this place lives for ninja stuff, right? You should try to sneak in! That'd impress Edgeshot!]
>[You earned your internship here! Kick down the door and strut in! "Howdy y'all! Ah'm Walker Ushi and Ah reckon you might have heard of me. Where's Edgeshot?"]
>[Write in.]
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>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]
But Also
>>[Look up as you walk in to spot ninjas]]

>>3553179
>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

Wait, did we miss our drivers exam?

>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

Ushi has manners

>>3553438
>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

I like this one

>>3553179
>>3553479
Oops sorry

>>3553179
>Step one->[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>Step Two- Engage Micro-Ninja more! As soon as no one is looking, mini-Ushi engages to find Edgeshot! If we’re told to follow someone, assume we’ll be ambushed to assess our abilities. If told to wait, we go on the hunt!

>>3553179
>>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]

>>3553179
>[You are just a student coming in for a work experience week. You can, and should, just walk up to the office's reception desk. "Howdy. Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"]
If they've got an indication that ninja work here, then it's not actually the place that ninja work. Therefore, sneaking in would be pointless. Still, might as well be polite.

>>3554140
Unless of course that's what the ninja who work here WANT you to think!

Dumb ideas flash in your mind for a second, ranging from kicking the doors down to trying to sneak inside the building.

Instead of doing anything like that however, you just adjust your backpack straps and walk in, opening the doors like a normal person.

After entering, you can see that the first floor seems mostly empty, with a small reception area to the right and another to the left, with the wall behind the receptionist being a large angular pilar instead of an actual wall.

Other than some people working on laptops on the small coffee tables and the wall of knives hanging an inch from the actual wall behind the receptionist, the place looks... empty.

"Howdy." You start, trying to make a good first impression with the receptionist. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm here for the internships?"

>"Welcome! We were waiting for you, now if you could please wait a minute..." The woman says, tapping the side of her headset and opening a drawer.

You don't even know what half of the things inside are. Plastic and metal shapes and rods, things that may be either puzzleboxes, caltrops, four sided dice, shrapnel or clutter. But the receptionist barely glances inside before pulling a thin but twisted metallic rod and a normal lanyard with an ID already in it.

>"You don't need to wear it, but the security system will check that it's on your person." She tells you, handing you both items. "The boss is waiting for you on the top floor."

"Thanks!" You say, pocketing both the lanyard and the trinket in your jacket before walking to the right of the desk, looking at the barren wall all the way around the pillar before ending up in front of the desk once more. "...Mind tellin' me where the elevator is?"

>"The other side of the pillar. It should recognize your ID." She replies, not looking up from her monitor this time.

"Thanks!" You say again, with no less enthusiasm, this time skipping straight to the other side of the room and pulling your new ID out- Odd.

You don't think you had your picture taken here. In fact, what you can see of your neck and shoulders shows one of your vests, not your school uniform.

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You stare at it for a few seconds, then extend your arm towards the pillar, waving your ID in front of it and slowly approaching it.

Wary of bouncing against it in front of at least half a dozen people, you take very small steps towards the pilar, which doesn't seem to react until your ID is less than a foot away from it, opening with a speed and force that makes you worried about it closing on you and snipping a limb off like an angry giant crab… or a guillotine.

You are somewhat glad when you pull your arm away, as the door closes rather slowly, seamlessly disappearing into the pillar again. For safety's sake, you try it again, with the same results.

The third time it's just for fun and you make sure no one is watching before running into the pillar, the doors sliding out of the way with clearance to spare.

Inside the elevator, you practice some common sense and push the highest floor on the elevator's touchscreen, the 30th.

But the moment the elevator opens, you notice that something isn't quite right.

Looking outside through the polarized windows, you can tell that there must be several stories above you. No way you can be at the top of the building and be at the same height than the smaller hotel at the other side of the street.

A quick look around reveals that you must be either in some sort of break room, or a software start-up, if the ping-pong table is anything to go by. At least the air is cool and fresh and the few people you can see seem focused on their devices.

After a second of wondering what were they doing, you return to the elevator, looking at the digital panel again. You try inserting your ID card into a slot beneath it, but despite it fitting perfectly, it doesn't seem to do anything.

>What do you do?


>[Stay out and wait for someone to come pick you up.]
>[Get out and ask someone who works there for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]
>[Shrink and hide. Your ID doesn't work here, but if the elevator has a reader, it means someone else can use it! And that means you can catch a ride up!]
>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]
>[Write in.]

>>3555198
>>[Get out and ask someone who works there for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]

>>3555198
>>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]

>>3555198
>>[Stay out and wait for someone to come pick you up.]
Yeah let's not go snooping

>>3555198
>>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]

>>3555198
>>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]

>>3555198
I'm going to try and play it polite. If the keycard could only get us to 30, and they want us to go to the top floor, then any reasonable person would try the following:
>[Take the elevator back down and talk to the receptionist again. That is what they are there for right?]
If she reveals no information:
>[Get out and ask someone who works on the 30th floor for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]
And finally, if no info is revealed, THEN LOOK FOR SECRET PASSAGES

>>3555198
>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]

I mean this is a ninja place maybe the ID will identify a passage or something for us to walk into or crawl into.

>>3555223
I mean if we work with some common sense taking that this place has a elevator inside a pillar. It wouldn't be far fetched to conaidere that there would be other secret elevators, or stairs or maybe even portals.

>>3555198
>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]

>>3555230
Yeah, but why would we not bother asking about it? Unless people think this is a test of some kind cause he's a ninja and all. "YOu failed cause you decided to ask people where something would be" Is a pretty stupid, and I don't think he'd do that. If he wanted us to find something on our own, I'm sure that could come AFTER asking.

>>3555243
>[Shrink and hide. Your ID doesn't work here, but if the elevator has a reader, it means someone else can use it! And that means you can catch a ride up!]

Definitely seems like a test. Gotta find the way to the top floor.

>>3555198
>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]

>>3555198
>[Shrink and hide. Your ID doesn't work here, but if the elevator has a reader, it means someone else can use it! And that means you can catch a ride up!]

>>3555198
>[Get out and ask someone who works there for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]

We weren’t instructed that there would be any secret tests.

>>3555198
>>[Take a gander and look for any vents or secret passages to continue up on your own!]

>>3555198
>>[Get out and ask someone who works there for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]

Bullshit tests don't seem like their deal. Also, using our quirk in public for kicks is illegal

>>[Get out and ask someone who works there for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]

>>3555198
>[Take the elevator back down and talk to the receptionist again. That is what they are there for right?]
If she reveals no information:
>[Get out and ask someone who works on the 30th floor for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]
And finally, if no info is revealed, THEN LOOK FOR SECRET PASSAGES

>>3555198
>>[Get out and ask someone who works there for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]

>>3555198
>[Take the elevator back down and talk to the receptionist again. That is what they are there for right?]
If she reveals no information:
>[Get out and ask someone who works on the 30th floor for directions. "Excuse me, do you know how to get to the next floor? A staircase or sumthin'?"]
And finally, if no info is revealed, THEN LOOK FOR SECRET PASSAGES

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Puzzled, you don't know what to do.

Hidden elevators aren't normal, and if weren't for the wall of blades you wouldn't have known you were in the right place. Nothing you've seen so far even looks like a hero's office!

Hell, you just assumed it was the right place and never got any confirmation!...

You then pull out your lanyard again and stare at it. Yep.

"That's me alright." You point out to yourself, looking at your picture on the ID before pocketing it again.

But to be fair, there aren't any layout requirements for a hero office and you haven't seen the whole place yet.

...Which brings you back to your current problem.

While playing tactical espionage action and making your way up with balloons or through the vents, you also have to consider that you don't really know if you should be doing that.

And that's without taking into account the fact that while in private property, you need authorization to use your quirk if you don't want to get a quirk crime in your record.

Thus, instead of doing anything adventurous, potentially life ruining and needlessly risky, you just tap the digital panel and wait, getting back to the first floor and walking around the pillar again, returning to the receptionist's desk, who seems to be busy.

>"Make sure two physical copies of each of last week's reports are delivered to the station while we are on office hours." She tells one of the men walking that previously was walking around the area, handling him a binder. "One for the main office's records and one for each case's detective."

>"I'll see to it!" The man says, taking the binder and bowing before walking out of the building.

"Howdy!" You greet her again to get her attention before she starts working on something else.

>"Oh, you are back." She says, somewhat surprised. "What can I help you with?"

"The elevator, maybe." You say, trying to remain as polite as possible. "Ah tried pressing the highest floor possible on the panel, but Ah know this building gotta have at least ten more stories… So Ah dunno what am Ah supposed to do."

She just stares blankly at you for a few seconds, then looks carefully to both sides before answering.

>"Make. Your. Way. To. The. Top." She says, using her hands over her desk to both simulate a walking figure and some sort of barrier, making the figure take a step with each word then walk ninety degrees up her other hand, as if walking up a wall. "Or wait until someone comes pick you up, after all, it takes everyone a while to get to know this place."

"Thanks, Ah guess." You reply, a bit offended. "So… Is there anything else Ah might need to know?"

>"Rule of thumb, if no one could know after the fact, you can do it." She says, sounding somewhat spiteful, but not specifically at you. "So don't mess with anyone's stuff, okay?"

>What do you do?

>[Go back to the "last" floor and snoop around. It only makes sense, right? [Notice, Brains. 3d10]]
>[Go back up and interrogate someone! There were a bunch of guys there, someone ought to know something, right? You have a binder in your backpack… "Howdy there pardner! Detective Watanabe needs some paperwork signed by the boss himself before lunch! Man didn't even let me go change before entering for my part-time job as a clerk!" [Connive, Face. 3d10]]
>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]
>[Take a seat and wait for someone to come pick you up. You didn't sign up for an inverse escape room.]
>[Write in.]

>>3557306
>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]
If they didn't want their walls torn down, they shouldn't have engaged in ninja trickery with a Texan.

>>3557306
>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]
this is really smart, as long as we give it back immediatly

>>3557306
>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306
>[Go back to the "last" floor and snoop around. It only makes sense, right? [Notice, Brains. 3d10]]

i think this is the one that has less chance of backfiring. I guess i should have expected with someone who calls himself EDGEshot to be a little..quirky.

>>3557306
>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306
>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]
Nice waste of update.

>>3557309
>>3557313
>>3557314
>>3557315
>>3557322
>>3557326
All this criminal scum. It's almost like you think breaking the law is okay if no one is watching you.

>>3557306
>[Go back to the "last" floor and snoop around. It only makes sense, right? [Notice, Brains. 3d10]]

>>3557345

>"...if no one could know after the fact, you can do it."

>>3557352
Yeah, I don't think I'm just going to stop being a law abiding citizen because some lady behind a desk is cool with breaking quirk laws.

>>3553173
Not a player of this quest or watcher of the show, but this series is generating a lot of great futa on male doujins if anyone’s interested

>>3557354
>while in private property, you need authorization to use your quirk
>"...if no one could know after the fact, you can do it."

This is authorization I think, we’re ok as long as we don’t damage anything.

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>>3557360
I'm interested.

>>3557362
Or get caught doing it.Which for a ninja hero building makes sense.

>>3557306
>[Go back to the "last" floor and snoop around. It only makes sense, right? [Notice, Brains. 3d10]]

>>3557306
>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557362
I don't think Ushi is officially an intern with authorization until her supervising hero gives her authorization. I don't think the receptionist is Edgeshot in disguise either.

>>3557306
>[Go back to the "last" floor and snoop around. It only makes sense, right? [Notice, Brains. 3d10]]

>>3557306
>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557376
You can never be sure with ninjas involved.

when we find Edgeshot, tell him to not underestimate us and that we're going to become Hokage

>>3557416
Also from now on we should end our sentences/talks saying "nin-nin" and a ninja pose.

>>3557306
>Use stairs. The layout may be weird, but it still has to follow building codes and include clearly accessabke fire escape routes.

>>3557362
I don’t think we should gamble on something being implicit authorization to use our quirk under certain circumstances. Circumstances dependent on us noticing every hidden security camera and prying eye in a building run by ninjas.

>>3557376
Maybe our lanyard is Edgeshot in disguise.

>>3557519
That would be pretty cool, Edgeshot has a strange quirk but I like it.

>>3557519
>I don’t think we should gamble on something being implicit authorization to use our quirk under certain circumstances. Circumstances dependent on us noticing every hidden security camera and prying eye in a building run by ninjas.
On the other hand, Ushi's only planning on altering the mass of the walls by a few grams. How are they going to prove that she's using her power and not just tapping the walls to see if they're hollow? Any machine sensitive enough to detect that would be so sensitive that every random vibration in the office would trigger it.

>>3557594
In that case... why not just knock? Or try to use our Ushi-senses?

>>3557450
Anon use logic! It's surprisingly effective

>>3557306
>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

I don't expect anything worse than a reprimand if we get caught. Edgeshot will probably scold us more for getting caught than for quirk use.

>>3557306
>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306
>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306

Changing my vote from >>3557803 or >>3557879
(it's one of them, I can't remember which)

to >>3557450

>>3557306
>Use stairs. The layout may be weird, but it still has to follow building codes and include clearly accessabke fire escape routes.

>>3557306
>Use stairs. The layout may be weird, but it still has to follow building codes and include clearly accessabke fire escape routes.

>>3557306
Switch >>3557322
to
>Use stairs. The layout may be weird, but it still has to follow building codes and include clearly accessabke fire escape routes.

>>3557306
>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306
>Use stairs. The layout may be weird, but it still has to follow building codes and include clearly accessible fire escape routes.

>>3557306
This >>3558731

>>3557306
>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306
>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306
Fuck the stairs and live a little you wieners.

>>[A building is a building. Mass and density given form… Too much for you to use your quirk on as a direct way to do recon, but were you to add or take a few grams off a few random walls, you could easily figure out where any hollow parts are... [Outhink, Brains. 4d10]]

>>3557306
>>3557450
I'll support the stairs write-in instead of my
>>3557349

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"Oh, Ah know how that goes." You tell the receptionist, nodding. "<Shoot, shovel and shut up> Let no one know!"

The receptionist doesn't say anything, opting to stare at you with a raised eyebrow instead, adjusting her headset in a not so subtle hint for you to scram.

>"...Anything else I can help you with?" She asks after a few more seconds.

"Nope!" You answers, staring back. "Thank you very much!"

>"..." She hums, glancing at a clock on the desk.

Yeah, the morning is starting to slip awa-

"Oh." You say, getting the hint. "Ah'll… <Skedaddle>."

You start pacing around, thinking about how to get atop the building. After all, all you have is what you carry in your backpack and yourself, and you aren't exactly subtle.

Looking at your hands, you tap your fingertips together, thinking about how to get up.

Your hands.

You are proud of everything that's Everything is Bigger in Texas, even the name you chose for it, despite multiple government attempts back at home to get you to change it to a shorter one. It allows you to shrink and enlarge anything you can get all five fingertips of one hand on, at different speeds and even partially with some elbow grease.

Something you don't really talk about your quirk all that often, however, is how it feels to use it. For a brief moment, it feels like you are connected to the object, holding its weight in your hand. No matter the scale, it almost feels the the middle point between shaking a present on Christmas Eve and spinning a glass of water.

It's not a super reliable radar built into your quirk, at least not yet, but it's good enough for some pretty accurate guessing… And undetectable to most.

Thus, you approach the issue like a labyrinth, placing your left hand on the wall and starting to circle the floor, rhythmically activating your quirk for a few grams at a time...


---
It seems that parsing purple prose using your quirk to feel up the building won!

Roll me Outhink, Brains! 4d10 you Guys!

Rolled 7, 1, 10, 8 = 26 (4d10)

>>3561717

Rolled 1, 1, 1, 6 = 9 (4d10)

>>3561717
YEEAAA- sorry, I mean...shhhhhh.

Rolled 8, 1, 3, 10 = 22 (4d10)

>>3561717
YEEEEEEEEEEET

>>3561719
.... WELL

>>3561719
So we don't get a ton of information, but we get it very quickly.

Rolled 4, 2, 3, 8 = 17 (4d10)

>>3561717

Rolled 2, 10, 1, 4 = 17 (4d10)

>>3561717

Rolling to see what I get

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You close your eyes and stick out your tongue, trying to make sense of what you feel as you feel the walls, trying to draw a mental map of the area.

A map drawn with crayon on a napkin though.

Maybe it's because you haven't ever tried to use your quirk for this specific reason, maybe it's because you aren't familiar with the materials making up the layers of the walls or maybe it's because you took a jackhammer approach to it, but while your quickly shrinking and enlarging of tiny parts of the walls cause nothing but a creepy flickering of the lights as far as giving your plan away, it doesn't do much for you either.

All you notice is that one of the walls is slightly angled, and the panel atop is loose, and that the electric socket by the hidden elevator is fake, being instead a cover for an arm sized opening to the elevator shaft.

Those are all you could detect with your quirk, but normal searching didn't really find anything better.

The fire alarm connected to the emergency exit looks very much real, with it's slowly blinking red light threatening to make sure everyone notices if someone opens it.

>What do you do?

>[If no one is looking your way and you time it right, you could kick off the wall and get inside the ceiling! [P.E., Feet. 4d10 ]]
>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]
>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]
>[Write in.]

>>3561802
>>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]

>>3561802
>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

>>3561802
>>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]

>>3561802
>>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]

>>3561802
>[If no one is looking your way and you time it right, you could kick off the wall and get inside the ceiling! [P.E., Feet. 4d10 ]]

>>3561802
>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]
Exactly the kind of approach we intended to learn here with Edgeshot, we may as well get a head start.

>>3561802
>>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]
This is the intended way y'all.

>>3561802
>>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

>>3561802
>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]

cheating does sound very ninja.

>>3561802
>>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

>>3561802
>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]

Once we do meet edgeshot, please tell me she had the foresight to make some bread to share with her new mentor.

>>3561802
>>3561856
Changin my vote:

>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

>>3561802
>>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

>[If no one is looking your way and you time it right, you could kick off the wall and get inside the ceiling! [P.E., Feet. 4d10 ]]

The Outcome seems safer than possibly climbing an elevator shaft.

>>3561802
>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

>>3561802
>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]

>>3561712
>You are proud of everything that's Everything is Bigger in Texas, even the name you chose for it, despite multiple government attempts back at home to get you to change it to a shorter one
Those poor bureaucrats lol
>>3561802
>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]

>>3561802
I’ll switch from
>>3561820
To
>[If you shrink yourself to go under the emergency door, you could just cheat around the whole thing… [Quirk, Hands. 7d10]]

>>3561802
>>[With some quick handywork you could take the fake outlet out and put it back before anyone notices you sneaking into the elevator shaft! [Shop, Hands. 5d10]]

While shrinking and going under the emergency door would be the easiest thing for you to do, it also feels like it'd be cheating in the… Test?

Either that, or a most innocent breaking and entering misunderstanding.

That leaves trying to pull an American Ninja Warrior to sneak up to whatever is within the ceiling, using your wits and training to climb the rest of the building to reach the top!

...Or just taking the obvious secret passage.

You aren't sure why it is disguised as an outlet, but having the ability to shrink makes it a non issue. All you need to do is hide from everyone and shrink, take off the outlet cover and jump in, putting the cover on back on behind you before anyone notices the tiny american fairy.

A minute of thought along with a minute of surveillance by leaning on the elevator pillar makes the last option the best one in your opinions.

"Sneaky now" You mutter the moment everyone looked away at the same, popping your collar to hide your face and peeking at the fake outlet..
---

Roll me Shop, Hands! That's 5d10!

Rolled 5, 9, 4, 9, 2 = 29 (5d10)

>>3563257

Rolled 5, 4, 7, 10, 2 = 28 (5d10)

>>3563257
YEEEEAAAAHHHH!!!!

Rolled 9, 2, 1, 10, 5 = 27 (5d10)

>>3563257

Rolled 3, 7, 3, 9, 1 = 23 (5d10)

>>3563257

Rolling

>>3563259
2x9, quite nice.

Leaning on the pillar, you smile, patting your thigh as if you were just wasting time.
You have a plan.
No one is looking at you, your collar is popped and your fingers are warm and ready.

In the blink of an eye, you take a deep breath and banish in a puff of mist, which itself disappears in less than a second, leaving you tiny and unseen by the fake outlet, ready to work your way up the skyscraper.

The outlet is oddly worn, as if actual prongs or something had been regularly using it… Which strikes you as something weird, as you know the thing is not connected to the power grid in any way.

Still, you quickly check the sides of the outlet for the screwdriver slots used to remove them, jamming your hands into them and tearing it off the wall with a SNAP! twirling it in the air and grabbing it from behind, allowing you to hop into the hole behind it and snap it back int place in two movements.

A less coordinated gal wouldn't have been able to do it, but you managed to do so without even disturbing the dust on the outlet.

Only then you allow yourself to exhale, proud of a task well done.

Looking around, you notice that the oddities didn't stop once you got inside the small tunnel.

It's… Clean. Too clean, cleaned.

You look at the cold metal walls around you with suspicion, pulling back down one of your shirt sleeves and swiping the wall with it, looking then at your still white sleeve noticing that there's barely any dust at all in sight.

What kind of armsized maintenance tunnel is used that often?

Leaving that doubt to stew in the back of your mind, you stretch and skulk forwards, keeping your eyes peeled for anything else. Weird things are usually accompanied by more weird things.

One of which doesn't take long to show up, as you find a hitherto unknown pipe? Grooved hollow cylinder? Snake ladder? Between the outlet and the elevator shaft. Being as wide as your normal sized wrist, you don't have a clue of what it's for.

Had you blown the cover dust inside the tunnel, you wouldn't have noticed… But you manage to find some dust. Between the elevator shaft and the screwy thing. Whatever use this place has, it doesn't seem to be as related to the shaft as you thought.

>What do you do?

>[You know shafts! They go up! Just get in there and ride your way up!.. Then climb as needed.]
>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]
>[Do a bit more of recon before committing to ending chopped by a fan or crushed by the elevator.]
>[Write in.]

>>3563962
>>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]
TUBE

>>3563962
>[Do a bit more of recon before committing to ending chopped by a fan or crushed by the elevator.]
Always good to get your bearings.

>>3563962
>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

>This is probably just how Edgeshot gets around the building, now that you think of it. He’ll be so impressed you found his secret tunnel!

>>3563962
>>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

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>>3563969

>>3563962
>>[Do a bit more of recon before committing to ending chopped by a fan or crushed by the elevator.]

>>3563962
>[Do a bit more of recon before committing to ending chopped by a fan or crushed by the elevator.]

>>3563962 #
>>[Do a bit more of recon before committing to ending chopped by a fan or crushed by the elevator.]

>>3563962
>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

>>3563962
>>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

>>3563962
>[Do a bit more of recon before committing to ending chopped by a fan or crushed by the elevator.]

>>3563962
>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

>>3563962
>>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

>>3563962
>>[Mystery tube? Mystery tube! You can easily use the grooves in the tube as a ladder! No idea where it goes, but you won't risk being hit by an elevator.]

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It's a hard decision to make.

The elevator shaft, by design, should get you to the top.
But the tube is cleaner, so it's used.
You know how elevators work, so it'd be a mostly safe way to go.
But the tube is groovy and mysterious...

"Tube..." You mutter, peeking inside the tube, feeling the slight updraft on your bangs.

Once more, the cleanliness of the small tube surprises you, as the grooved themselves are clean too, despite the fact that you can't see any possible angle that would allow anyone to screw anything in-

"This is probably how Edgeshot gets 'round! He can turn into a rope!" You say as everything falls into place.

Emboldened by your discovery, you stretch a bit and fully crawl into the tunnel, grabbing onto the grooves and starting your climb.

Thus, you climb. Then climb some more.

"...You know, this really has to be far easier-." You mutter, climbing some more. "...with Edgeshot's quirk."

It's not that you like to whine, but someone able to unravel into string and slithering on the grooves would certainly have an easier time than you, trying to climb over thirty floors work of ladder, while being two inches tall.

...Maybe it's more like three hundred, now that you think about it.

"Fun…" You continue your whining, drawing strength from the building frustration for your climb.

After what feels like twenty minutes of climbing, you make a mental note to hug your Pa when you see him again. So, like 31 hugs in a row.

An often overlooked (even by you) advantage of shrinking, is that your muscles are far more efficient the tinier you are and the less you weight. With your wooden skeleton, this means that the main threat to your success is boredom.

Maybe that's what prison feels like, you think. Boring.

After another twenty minutes, you start hopping up, jumping, grabbing a groove and repeating.

Counting the intersections with similar tunnels than the one you got in through, is the only way you feel like you are making any progress on your… urban alpinism.

As expected, you see many floors before reaching the thirtieth floor, but none of them make sense to you. Even the call center looking one.

You don't know if it's a coincidence or the tunnel was built for those acoustics, but you could hear the people there, talking of their reports, making no sense for the Ninja Hero's office.

Still you soldier on, until you not only reach the thirtieth, but the thirty-first floor.

Suddenly, it all changes.

Looking out of a side tunnel, through a small ventilation grill, you can see a room full of pillars standing in the middle of a pit, finally something you'd expect on Edgeshot's workplace!

The floor at both sides of the pit looks like a traditional wooden one, and the walls look paper-y!..

But it's not the final floor.

>What do you do?

>[Hop off the tunnel and sneak-explore the rest of the way! It's real ninja hours now!]
>[Make no mistake, you are still pretty lost. Just get to the wooden floor, return to normal and call out. "Howdy!? Is anyone here!? Ah'm starting to believe Ah'm not welcome here.""]
>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]
>[Write in.]

>>3566309
>>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

>>3566309
>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]
TUBE

>>3566309
>>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

>>3566309
>>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

[Hop off the tunnel and sneak-explore the rest of the way! It's real ninja hours now!]

>>3566309
>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

TUBES

>>3566309
>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

>"Make. Your. Way. To. The. Top." She says, using her hands over her desk to both simulate a walking figure

We arn't at the top, so we must continue to climb.

>>3566309
>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

The instructions were pretty clear. We need to get to the top floor so you fucking bet we will do it!

>>3566309
>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

>[Make no mistake, you are still pretty lost. Just get to the wooden floor, return to normal and call out. "Howdy!? Is anyone here!? Ah'm starting to believe Ah'm not welcome here.""]

>Just get to the wooden floor, return to normal and call out.
>call out.
>Texan giving up
>Laughing eagles eating apple pie

>>3566309
>>[Hop off the tunnel and sneak-explore the rest of the way! It's real ninja hours now!]
REAL NINJA HOURS! BELIVE IT!

>>3566309
>[Hop off the tunnel and sneak-explore the rest of the way! It's real ninja hours now!]

>>3566309
>>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]
All the way to the top!

>>3566309
>>[Hop off the tunnel and sneak-explore the re

>>3566306
>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

>>3566309
>>[Hop off the tunnel and sneak-explore the rest of the way! It's real ninja hours now!]

>>3566309
>>[Keep climbing up! No distractions!]

It's an interesting sight, almost tempting you to go exploring and find out what kind of wonders would this new area hold!..

But that would mean leaving the tube.

The receptionist had been very clear on what your mission was, and no red blooded texan is gonna give up!

So you crack (and bend a tad) your knuckles and shake your hands, grit your teeth and get to climb!

The smell of polished wood and strange old papers reach your nose as you ascend, but you pay it no mind, for there's more tube to climb.

One floor, two floor, five floor, seven floor, ten floor, fifteen floo-…

By the time the tube starts bending, you are fairly sure your fingerprints have gone smooth, flattened by the hour of climbing what amounts to a metallic ladder, so you can't help but smile at the joy of walking horizontally once more.

At the end of it all, after an hour of solitary climbing, you come out at yet another vent, letting the stingy city smell hit your nose again.

Unlike the midday sunlight, you hadn't missed that.

With no way to continue your skyward journey, you try to get through the grate.

"...Ah'm kinda surprised this hadn't happened before." You point out to yourself as you notice being stuck midchest.

Then you shrink yourself another half inch and wiggle out, seeing the blue yet smokey sky above.

"Does the roof count as a floor?" You wonder, speaking to yourself some more. "...Ah'm Ah speakin' alone too much?"

After a second of reflection on your own sanity and it's possible fraying, you just shrug and give the tube a farewell hug before looking around the roof.

A few things then make themselves apparent to you.

First, you can now see why Edgeshot chose this place for his office, as you are pretty sure it's smackdab in the middle of the city centre, allowing you to see the the city sprawl below you.

It almost looks like the rings of a tree, with many large business-like buildings in the middle near you, but getting less and less cramped as it went farther away, finishing on a half ring of factory smokestacks on one side and the coast on the other, all sprinkled with some parks here and there.

Traffic notwithstanding, you could make a very good time getting anywhere in the inner city from here.

The second thing would certainly help with getting anywhere further though.

Because that's what helicopters do.

A shiny black helicopter stands in the middle of the roof, with its skids secured to it.

It doesn't seem to be branded, and it may be someone else's helicopter that's just staying here for now…

But the prospect of getting a ride is exciting!

The third is a door, just an entrance with a few locks on. A card reader, a keyhole and…

A holey-hole? It's definitely a hole, but far too large for a normal key.

…

Having played more than enough RPGs to know when to apply inventory-item to prompt, you quickly produce the rod you got at the reception and gently slide it in, careful to not break anything if it's not the right thing to do.

The mechanism clicks and the rod locks up as the card reader lights up too, prompting you to swipe your ID.

Then the door opens into a poorly illuminated flight of stairs you carefully walk down, once more smelling the incense and old waxed wood around you, plus the new scent of tea.

>"It seems... She's finally here." You hear someone say, sounding far too young to be Edgeshot, but clearly imitating the mysterious... intonation… Edgeshot used. "I mean no disrespect, but are you sure she isn't… slow?"

Sure he didn't. I'm not racist but...

>"No, I'm not." Edgeshot answers, making your heart sink a tad. "But I do believe in her accomplishments, and that she can speak for herself."

Fairly frustrated, you follow the voices around a corner and into lamp lit room, slamming open the sliding door and looking at the occupants of the room.

Edgeshot, whom you expected to see, sitting by a kotatsu and holding a japanese teacup and calmly blowing on it.

And… A random guy you know nothing about, wearing a gakuran and some sort of headband on his neck, sitting at the opposite side of the kotatsu, holding an oversized cup. Doesn't look like an adult, but his stern face doesn't help, making him look somewhere between sixteen and twenty years old.

"Howdy-" You say, your eyes darting between both of them before the sliding door bounces back and hits you in the shoulder.

You try to ignore it and keep a straight face, despite the urge to rub your shoulder.

>"I see you found your way in, welcome." The hero says, taking a sip from his cup with one arm, as his other arm stretches and thins out of the room, before returning like a grappling hook, holding a cup of red tea. "Would you mind introducing yourself? And why not, why do you think you are here?"

You take the cup and breathe in the smell of the brew, glancing at the hero and glaring at the other guy.

>What do you do?

>[No need to be on your guard. "Howdy again! Ah'm Walker Ushi! Ah shrink and enlarge mahself and other stuff. Ah won this year's first year Sports Festival and survived the USJ's attack, Ah'm sure you saw it on the news. How 'bout you?"]
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]
>[You can't say much about Edgeshot yet, but this other guy can just fuck off. "Walker Ushi, the American that won the U.A.'s first year Sports Festival. Ah fought for life and limb with villains and lost mah horn to one. The cops had to call me back to unfuck that guy's life. Now who's this joker?"]
>[Write in.]

>>3569716
>>[No need to be on your guard. "Howdy again! Ah'm Walker Ushi! Ah shrink and enlarge mahself and other stuff. Ah won this year's first year Sports Festival and survived the USJ's attack, Ah'm sure you saw it on the news. How 'bout you?"]

>>3569716
>>[No need to be on your guard. "Howdy again! Ah'm Walker Ushi! Ah shrink and enlarge mahself and other stuff. Ah won this year's first year Sports Festival and survived the USJ's attack, Ah'm sure you saw it on the news. How 'bout you?"]

>>3569716
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]
He certainly knows what we can do, but no need to brag. Yet.

>>3569716
>>[No need to be on your guard. "Howdy again! Ah'm Walker Ushi! Ah shrink and enlarge mahself and other stuff. Ah won this year's first year Sports Festival and survived the USJ's attack, Ah'm sure you saw it on the news. How 'bout you?"]
>Ah couldn't help but overhear you just now, what did ya mean, slow? Was there another way to reach this here place?

>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

>>3569716
>>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

>>3569716
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

i'm here to either kickass and chew some flowers and i'm all out of flowers!!

>>3569716
>[Ah’m Walker Ushi! Ah know Ah can bring as about as much force to bear as Ah care to, but Ah think you can teach me how to be more judicious, subtle, and precise.]

>[And if you know a faster way to climb 300 effective stories straight up, Ah’ll happily learn it, Mr...?]

>>3569716
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]
Calm, measured, impressive without being overly forthright about it. Sounds good to me.

>>3569716
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

>>3569813

Since we already saw potentially faster routes, this isn’t the best response. The elevator shaft, the pillar room and maybe the fire exit. If they say anything about how long we took, tell them this was the safest and stealthiest path up.

>>3569716
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

>>3569716
>>[No need to be on your guard. "Howdy again! Ah'm Walker Ushi! Ah shrink and enlarge mahself and other stuff. Ah won this year's first year Sports Festival and survived the USJ's attack, Ah'm sure you saw it on the news. How 'bout you?"]

>>3569917
Honestly Edgeshot should thank us. If we were a villan with a shrinking quirk we could use the pipes to sneak in.

>>3569981
Well, shrinking powers have an easy time sneaking into places regardless. But the pipes do make it easier to get around his office, yeah.

>>3569716
>>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

>>3569754

Probably too late to do this, but I’m making an addition to my vote. In can’t write accents well, so it doesn’t look very Ushi like.

>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]
>[As for why you were or are slow as your friend puts it, it’s better to succeed slowly that fail quickly. You went through the tube as it was the safest and stealthiest route from what you could see. The fire exit would have taken you by windows, the elevator shaft would be unsafe and the room with the pillars may have had security or some other trap.]

>>3570135
That sounds like a good explanation for Ushi to give if they question why she took the path she did, yeah. I'm not sure leading with it is good, though, comes across as too defensive for the understated response we seem to be all be agreeing on.

>>3569716
>>[No need to be on your guard. "Howdy again! Ah'm Walker Ushi! Ah shrink and enlarge mahself and other stuff. Ah won this year's first year Sports Festival and survived the USJ's attack, Ah'm sure you saw it on the news. How 'bout you?"]

>>3569716
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

>>3569716
>[The facts should be impressive enough on their own. "Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." -sip-]

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You don't really have a clue who this other guy is, so you don't have a real reason to be rude, but you don't have to be giddy either.

Thus, you take a seat and do as the hero asked you to.

"Ah'm Walker Ushi, from U.A. Ah'm 16 years old and winner of my school's first year's Sports Festival. Ah fought for my life and my friends during the USJ attack and would do so again." You introduce yourself. Then you take a very polite sip of tea.

While your factual reassessment of the last month seems to innervate the stranger, you can't see anything on Edgeshot's face.

>"Thank you, Walker. I'd say those are remarkable achievements, especially for someone so young and with so little time to learn and hone her skills." The hero says, putting his cup down before looking at the stranger. "What about you, Johai?"

>"I placed first in the entrance exams at Seijin High, sir!" The boy quickly answers, with a voice so tense that even you can feel it.

>"That was last year." Edgeshot points out, taking a sip of his tea and then putting the cup down. "But let me help you. You have done nothing of note ever since."

You hold your cup close to your face and breath in the steam as you watch the conversation unfold.

>"I've kept good grades so far and not gotten any write-ups nor…" The guy, Johai says.

>"Before you continue, you should introduce yourself to Walker." The hero interrupts him, calmly raising a hand and pointing his palm at Johai. "You may have heard of her, but she certainly hasn't heard of you."

Ouch. That stung to hear, and it wasn't even aimed at you.

>"I'm… Sakikyu Johai." He says, sounding both frustrated, nervous and trying to hide it all. "I'm a second year student at Seijin High's Hero Course."

"Howdy." You reply, almost by instinct.

Edgeshot, for his part, just looks at both of you in turns before nodding and letting him continue.

>"I may not hold any… impressive achievements, but I'm perfectly on schedule for the course in coursework and quirk development and I'm excelling in technique." He says, finishing with a sigh. "With all due respect, I would like to know what was I summoned for. I would rather not stay to be raked over the coals for performing as expected in front of your true intern."

>"You can leave if you want to." Edgeshot says, pointing at the door you entered through. "But you know this is meant to be an educative experience for both of you, and much like a building can't be expected to last on a bad foundation, you can't expect to truly learn while working off misconceptions. It may be rough, but bad foundations need to be torn down."

"...Wait, he's here for the internships too?" You ask, honestly confused. "Your school has those too? On second year?... Ain't that weird..."

What are the odds of two schools doing the same kind of work experience program at the same time? You literally have no clue.

>"It is strange, rare even. As a graduate of Seijin myself, I normally only take Seijin students as interns, and on the second trimester, as is the Seijin way. They usually are skilled enough and fit my brand." The hero answers, nodding. "But I'd be foolish not to take in a student of this year U.A.'s Class 1-A."

Oh.

"...So, any of mah class would do?" You ask, a bit disheartened.

>"No. Only a few of your classmates would do, and none would be better than you." Edgeshot answers without hesitation.

You try to ignore Johai's grunt.

>"I watched your performance, studied it." The hero continues, staring at you. "You are powerful, fast and resilient… And most importantly, resourceful."

It's hard not to beam with pride at that, but you manage. You can smell a but coming from a mile away.

>"But you still wield your quirk like a sledgehammer, often opting to overwhelming, potentially deadly force." Edgeshot explains. "Power and speed are little more than liabilities without control… And that is something I know I can help you with. Just a little more precision will bring you a long way towards an illustrious career, and mastery will guarantee you a place on the top 10."

He then turns back to Johai.

>"You, on the other hand, have a tight control of you quirk and technique. I'd go as far as calling it a chokehold." The hero says, causing the boy to look down into his enormous cup. "You are older and more educated… But you only seem able to do a fraction of what this freshman girl did while thinking on her feet on her first month of class."

This time is the hero who sighs.

>"As things stand, I can only see you on route to becoming a suburban hero, someone in the five digits of the charts." Edgeshot tells him. "Someone completely average, despite having such a similar quirk to Walker's."

Wait what!?

>"Your quirk… no, you have potential, and as I told you before, I'd hate to see it squandered." He continues, sighing once more. "As your internship is fully voluntary and not part of the curriculum, I'll give you until lunch to decide if you want to stay."

The large mug starts making sense all of the sudden...

>"Now, Walker. I know I have man, but do you have any pressing questions?" The hero asks you.

>What do you do?

>[How? "Ah know you can teach me, but Ah wonder how? Our quirks ain't really similar, nor our fighting styles..."]
>[What? "Wait, wait, wait. What's that about his quirk!?"]
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]
>[When? "...When are we goin' on a helicopter ride?"]
>[Write in.]

>>3572185
>[When? "...When are we goin' on a helicopter ride?"]
Important business first

>>3572185
>>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]

>>3572185
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]

>>3572185
>>[How? "Ah know you can teach me, but Ah wonder how? Our quirks ain't really similar, nor our fighting styles..."]

>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]

>>3572185
>>3572192
Oh, also to add on,
>[you want some bread?]

Please tell me we brought some bread to share with our new teacher

>>3572185

>[What? "Wait, wait, wait. What's that about his quirk!?"]
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]

>[What? "Wait, wait, wait. What's that about his quirk!?"]

>>3572185
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]
>["Would yah like some bread? Made it mahself."]
Here's to hoping we brought some

>>3572185
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]

>>3572185
>[How? "Ah know you can teach me, but Ah wonder how? Our quirks ain't really similar, nor our fighting styles..."]

>>3572185
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]

>>3572185
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]
So begins our Karate Kid arch.

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>>3572238
>>3572196
Or maybe we brought some donuts.

>>3572185
>[What? "Wait, wait, wait. What's that about his quirk!?"]

Let's see what the difference Is and why he's failing where we succeed. Personalities aside.

>>3572185
>[Why? "Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"]

Johai is going to be a perfect partner for us. It’ll be like Rush Hour. He can be our Jackie Chan.

>>3572185
>[When? "...When are we goin' on a helicopter ride?"]

>>3572185
>>[When? "...When are we goin' on a helicopter ride?"]

Questions? Of course you have!

"...Yeah, Ah reckon Ah have a few." You answer, holding your chin as you think."Ah don't mean no disrespect, but may Ah know why did Ah have to climb what felt like 400 stories up here?"

You cross your arms the moment you finish speaking, putting on a tough facade in front of the ninjas.

>"You may." The hero says, nodding and taking a sip from his teacup.

Hearing such a response from someone that's not your Pa, you just glare and pout, waiting for a proper answer.

>"It was a test of sorts. Think of it as a diagnostic evaluation." His face not giving away whether he planned on elaborating before your emoting. "There was no real fail state, as I would have gone to meet you if you didn't arrive, but it allowed me get a fair amount of information on your thought process… And about an hour of footage to review, it seems."

That made sense… and was just a bit creepy.

>"Wait. Did you climb the building from ground level?" Johai asks, almost giving himself whiplash to look at you once he finishes parsing what you said. "Where did you even get the other 356?"

"Ah took the tubes!" You claim with a sharp nod, proud of your choice. "Took a bit of an effort to find and some time to <giddy-up>, but Ah reckon it wasn't as risky sneakin' out the fire exit, nor dangerous as takin' the elevator shaft."

>"...You managed to find a pipe, climb your way from the ground floor to the roof, and then went down?" Johai asks still, looking dumbstruck.

>"Not any pipe, the tunnels. Not every building has a set of those, but anyone can see why this one has a discrete way to move around." Edgeshot notes. "While I knew you could use them, I didn't expect you to find them."

That reminds you of something you thought of as you climbed. You had a looot of time to think.

"Yeah, 'bout that, can't a villain sneak in the same way?" You speak your mind. "Ah mean, it would take some specific quirks, but it kinda sounds like a weakness."

>"Only because you were expected, and carry an authorized ID." The hero tells you, pointing at you. "Most of the time the system keeps them secured."

"That makes sense…" You say, taking off your backpack and opening it up, taking out a tiny wooden box and enlarging it in front of them. "Next question!"

You try to not be too excited as you place the breadbox on the kotatsu, now occupying a third of the small table by itself.

"...Do y'all like bread? Ah wasn't sure, so Ah made a little of every kind Ah could!" You say, opening it and pointing at the variety of loaves and rolls within. "Bread, sourdough, cornbread, flatbread, a loaf of gluten free bread just in case, and Momma helped me to make some Anpan!"

Despite your energetic display of baked goods, both your new mentor and your maybe-fellow-intern stare at your backpack instead.

>"Is that it?" Johai suddenly asks, eyes darting between the breadbox, the backpack and you.

"Well… Ah wanted to make some beerbread too, but the store didn't want to sell me the namesake ingredient after asking mah age." You point out, recalling that strange moment. "Ah dunno why'd they ask so many times, Ah won't stop being 16 then and there!"

>"...Is that how you use your quirk?" He elaborates in a tone that sounds both condescending and surprised. "For any mundane task, without respect for a hero's tool of trade?"

That actually takes you aback.
Not knowing how to react, you glance over to Edgeshot, who seems interested on the question aswel- When did he take that?

>"Tool of trade? Yes, I guess that's an apt comparison, as the shinai is a kendoka's tool, our quirks are our tools." Edgeshot muses, holding an apan that you didn't see disappear from the breadbox. "I see what you mean."

Confused still, you just look on as Johai nods.

>"But no kendoka's shinai is part of their bodies or being." The hero continues after a bite of his red-jelly-filled bread. "A shinai, as most tools, can do a single thing, like a quirk right?"

He then takes another bite of the bread, smiling briefly before his expression returns to that cool neutrality, looking in control of everything around him once more.

What do you do?

>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]
>[Not your issue! Just grab a piece of bread to chew on and watch.]
>[You can see where this is going, and you can be nicer about it. "Ah reckon it's more like a baker's hands than a swordsman's blade, you know? The dexterity, strength and knowledge of oneself help..." [Charm(Face), 2d10]]
>[Write in.]

>>3575337
>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>>3575337
>>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>>3575337
>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>>3575337
>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>[Certainly, mah quirk does at least two things.]

>>3575337
>>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>>3575337
>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]
Why do I feel like, we're going to flub this one hard?

>>3575381
we have a RD we can maybe use.

>>3575406
But there is no one we know here...we can't just use RD for anything

>>3575381
bacause it's a 50% chance we fail

>>3575337
>>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>[Not your issue! Just grab a piece of bread to chew on and watch.]
I actually just want to hear more about this, this guy's got a weirdly detached view of his Quirk. Like, rather than it being something he IS, he thinks of it as something he HAS? Strange.

>>3575337
>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>Besides it’s my quirk, my tools, how am I to know the extent of my abilities if I don’t use them everyday? For instance with my quirk, I know I can paint a wall faster than most people, or with more detail than most people would ever notice, but not both at the same time.

>>3575422
It kinda reminds me of how Shoto used to see his fire quirk. Shoto fire quirk wasn't his it was something he got from his father.

>>3575337
>>[Not your issue! Just grab a piece of bread to chew on and watch.]

>>3575337
>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

>>3575337
This >>3575458

>>3575337
>>[Not your issue! Just grab a piece of bread to chew on and watch.]
grains are important. 5-11 servings and you did climb 400 floors up

>>[Time to show you got something between your ears and explain. "Nope! Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation..." [(Brains), 3d10]]

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Time to roll Brains! That's 3d10!
Let's see how it goes!

Rolled 3, 7, 1 = 11 (3d10)

>>3577193
Silence liberals

Rolled 6, 8, 1 = 15 (3d10)

>>3577193
YEAH!

Rolled 9, 1, 6 = 16 (3d10)

>>3577193
yeehaw

Rolled 1, 5, 7 = 13 (3d10)

>>3577193

Rolled 6, 10, 4 = 20 (3d10)

>>3577193

>>3577196
>>3577198
>>3577200
>>3577201
>>3577212
not one pair, seriously WTF /qst/?

>>3577285 #
3 sets of 3d10 only have approximately 50% chance of getting a pair, this is not surprising

3 sets of 4d10 is 80% or something

>>3577301
>>3577303
doesn't mean i can't blame qst's pseudo random dice rolls for our shit luck
they are based on server time, so it will always be scewed

You grab a piece of cornbread from the breadbox and nibble on it.
Usually you'd take a far larger one and make short work of it, but right now, you need to talk.

"Nope!" You answer the hero's question. "Quirks always seem to do a limited number of things, but with practice and experimentation you can always wiggle some more outta them."

>"A markedly western but valid attitude." Edgeshot says, nodding once more. "If seen as a tool, your quirk is one that's always with you, always reliable. Learning how to use this tool in all it's possible applications is one of the pillars of Heroics Courses, after all."

"Yeah! Ah mean, it's mah quirk, mah tools." You elaborate, waving your bread around as you speak, making a mental note to sweep everything after you all are done. "How am Ah to know the extent of mah abilities if Ah don’t use 'em everyday? For instance with mah quirk, Ah know Ah can paint a wall faster than most people, or with more detail than most people would ever notice, but not both at the same time."

>"I see." Johai comments, looking at Edgeshot while dismissively pointing at you with an open hand. "These are the views and attitude that drive someone to throw a classmate to into a wall during a demonstration match and hope she doesn't paint the wall red."

Oof... Was that really necessary?


>"As expected, you are right Master Kamihara." The boy says, pushing his oversized cup into the middle of the kotatsu. "We must learn, but pushing the envelope without oversight is..."

Johai seems to struggle to find further words, then just sighs, furrows his brow and opens his hand, vaguely pointing at the kotatsu.

As he does so, his cup instantly shrinks back to a normal size with a CRACK! Sending a jet of nigh-boiling leafwater into the air.

Just as fast, Edgeshot's arm shoots out and wraps around your midsection like a rope, swinging you away from the splash zone, incidentally making you spill your own cup.

Just as the tea stops going up and starts falling however, Johai closes his hand and the liquid in the air ceases to be, replaced by a slightly warm, nice smelling mist that starts drizzling down all over the room.

Just as he janked you away, Edgeshot's arm wastes no time doing like a yo-yo and swinging you back into your seat. You notice that his own tea barely ripples on his cup.

Your conscious mind is impressed at his reaction speed. Your gut on the other hand makes you glad you haven't eaten much yet, as it feels like each compartment in your stomach forgot in which direction things were meant to go.

>"...Dangerous." The hero says, finishing the boy's statement.

>"Yes. If you say I must… diversify in my quirk training, I will comply. I trust in your judgement, after all." Johai confirms, then waves at you again. "But I'm certain that the haphazard approach I saw at the Sports Festival will soon end with her collapsing something under its own weight or sloughing someone's flesh off their bones in a spur of the moment improvised move. It may not be as flashy or impressive, but I prefer my practiced and honed skills. I know everything will work out as intended."

>"A... Reasonable concern. But none of your business, after all." Edgeshot says while raising a finger, as if to maintain priority. "You are here to watch and learn some things I plan to teach you, then you'll return to your schools for further education. You need not to worry about her reaching your standards of base competency. I do plan to see you both trying many kicks before the week is over. Hopefully, you will be able to work off that later."

>What do you do?

>[Everyone knew each other! Trying new things on the fly was how you won! "Yeah, right! Try doing the same moveset over and over again in a tournament with smart people! It won't take more than three matches before someone sees the pattern, and then you'll be out in a New York minute!"]
>[Forget it. What was the kicks thing? "Kicks? What'chu mean? What's the plan for us… Master?"]
>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]
>[Write in.]

>>3580981
>>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]
Be a good girl

>>3580981
>>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>>3580981
>>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>[Everyone knew each other! Trying new things on the fly was how you won! "Yeah, right! Try doing the same moveset over and over again in a tournament with smart people! It won't take more than three matches before someone sees the pattern, and then you'll be out in a New York minute!"]

Still admit that was the worst mistake we made on the field that day.

>>3580981
>>[Everyone knew each other! Trying new things on the fly was how you won! "Yeah, right! Try doing the same moveset over and over again in a tournament with smart people! It won't take more than three matches before someone sees the pattern, and then you'll be out in a New York minute!"]

>>3580981
>>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>>3580981
>>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>>3581002
agreed, the other mistakes were less risky or the risk was to ourselfs
still glad that momo forgave us that easily

>>3580981
>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>>3580981
>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

He is not wrong, but it's funny/sad that he is so afraid of his quirk that he isn't even trying to be creative with it.

It's not like Ushi doesn't know about that since she tried to push her quirk when she was small and ended up falling from a stupid height

>>3580981
>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>>3580981
>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>[Ignore the guy that sprinkled the bread with tea, address Edgeshot. "Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir."]

>>3580981
>[Forget it. What was the kicks thing? "Kicks? What'chu mean? What's the plan for us… Master?"]

You have a lifetime of experience ignoring your emotions, so it doesn't take you much effort to shrug all that just happened off, just a sigh.

"Ah came here to learn from you, one of the country's best. Ah'll do what Ah must, sir." You tell the hero in the room.

You know, the person whose opinions and thoughts actually carry weight.

>"I assumed so. It would have been rather perplexing if you filled in the paperwork and then decided not to go through with it." Edgeshot points out, looking at you. The anpan is nowhere to be seen. "If everything is settled, I'd like for both of you to finish quickly."

>"Noon lies behind us and there's but a few more hours before the sun sets. That leaves little time to do what must be done." The hero continues, standing up up in a single, swift movement and proceeding to look down at you. "You are to patrol with me tonight, as well as every night for the week, so it would be in your own interest to follow me to your rooms for your stay. I can show you some of the rooms you'll train in during the morn on the way as well."

"We're goin' on patrol! Aweso- Wait a cotton pickin' minute!" You start saying, then exclaim in alarm, slamming your breadbox closed and hugging it for a second before proceeding to stuff it into your backpack. Luckily, you remember to shrink it before bashing the rest of your stuff with it. "At night? Then trainin' in the mornin'?"

>"As I said, your best interests." Edgeshot calmly answers, walking towards the door. "Don't be so alarmed though, I won't force all-nighters on you. Crimes peak at around 2 AM and then slowly goes back down, so patrolling for any longer wouldn't be of much use."

Taking a bag you hadn't noticed before, Johai doesn't waste a second before following Edgeshot, seemingly having no questions about your soon to be warped sleep schedule.

You take an instant to put your backpack on, grab your suitcase and follow them, looking around the carefully crafted aesthetics of the building as you walk.

Unlike the Todoroki Abode, which you could easily believe to be 500 years old, this building was obviously not built that long ago, yet it seems to look just as old with the slightly translucent, papery walls and the squeaky floor that sounds like there are birds sleeping under the wood.

The only thing breaking the aesthetic is the elevator running through the middle of the floor, making it clear you are in the right millenium.

>"I had this area built to house a team." The hero explains as he walks through the singing halls. "While it never came to be, the top four floors of this building are still a private, perfectly livable area, while 31 to 40 are where most of the office's meetings and businesses are conducted. Everything from floor 40 and upwards is almost as safe as they can be, protected from evil intent and prying eyes alike."

"Almost?" You ask, looking through an open door at a large living room, with three full sized sofas and a fully equipped, if compact, kitchen. Doesn't look dirty, but you can tell nothing there had been used in recent memory.

>"If I had it my way, knowing where the office is would be a sworn secret." He explains, sounding irritated for the first time. "But that's not how the law works, and everyone knows where to go if they wanted to attack or infiltrate us."

After a minute of walking through the halls, experimenting to try and get the floor to play The Yellow Rose of Texas as you walk. Edgeshot waves at another open and the room inside.

...It looks like a solid wall with two holes in it, a stopwatch and a coat rack.

>"That's the Ninpo Maze." He says.

You are about to ask what does that mean when he decides to show you, starting the stopwatch before unraveling into living string in front of you, shooting into one of the holes.

2.94 seconds later, he emerges from the other one, the string stopping the stopwatch before twisting itself back into a spiral and then a man.

>"A refined version of a course I designed in my youth to help me control my quirk. It's not a real maze, as you can't get lost, but a twisting path full of sharp turns and sudden raises and pits, forcing you to twist your body to advance." He explains, pointing at it. "Walker, you may find it of use, as your quirk should help you get through any and all narrow passways. Make sure to time yourself, though."

You nod repeatedly and make sure to remember that.

>"Could I use it?" Yohai asks, raising his hand, as if in a classroom.

>"Yes. Just keep in mind that you would benefit more from doing yoga." Edgeshot says, not missing a beat. "Since your quirk doesn't affect your own body, it would only be competitive stretching for you."

>"..." Johai just nods, looking away.

A only a few more seconds of walking after that, you find yourself looking at three doors. One at the end of the hall, and one at each side. Before you can ask what they are though, Edgeshot stretches his arm and opens all three, revealing the middle door to be a spacious japanese bathroom and the other two as empty rooms with a pair of sliding doors inside.

>"This one will be yours, Johai." The hero says, pointing at one of the rooms, seemingly at random.

>"Thank you, master." The boy says, entering said room and going straight at the sliding doors, opening them to reveal a closet with a bedroll and towels, a TV and presumably empty drawers.

"Ah guess that means this one's mine?" You ask, pointing over your shoulder at the opposite room.

>"No." Edgeshot firmly says, making a sharp cutting motion with his hand.

"No? Why not?" You ask, looking at the perfectly serviceable room.

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>"Because you are a girl and he is not." The hero says, with a faint tone to his voice that makes you think he feels like he has to explain 2+2 to you. "Yours is at the other end of the floor. Each having a private bathroom makes everything easier."

"True!" You say, deciding on that last sentence that you'd prefer your own bathroom.

>"I'll need you in the first floor at 9PM, Johai. In costume." Edgeshot tells the boy in the room. "As long as you show up in time, do what you want for what's left of the afternoon."

After saying that, he starts walking back without waiting for an answer, and thus you follow.

>"That goes to you too." He then says, leading you to your room. "Be there at 9PM in costume, other than that you are free, within the limits of the law of course."

After walking all the way back to where you started and some more, along with further floor melodic experimentation (with results pointing out that either you or the floor need tuning), you lay your eyes on another strange room.

It seems… Flipped by about 45° degrees after the first, normal yard, with both walls being covered in sliding panels. Once more, there is a coat rack and a stopwatch at the entrance.

>"A simple agility and reflexes test." Edgeshot explains, not paying much attention, nor stopping. "Of course, these are the not all the courses, just what I thought would useful to wake up in full quickly. The floor below us is the one dedicated to training."

Finally, you arrive at the other end of the hall, with almost the same set-up.

Only this time, the walls aren't translucent and the doors are of the normal, hinged kind with locks.

Opening one of the doors shows you that it's identical to Johai's room, just slightly darker thanks to the solid walls.

>"This one is yours." The hero says, turning around to leave.

>What do you do?

>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]
>[There's time and a new city outside! Go down and explore!]
>[Ask Edgeshot something before he leaves! (What?)]
>[Write in.]
No relevant pics, have a cupholding Ushi.

>>3584935
>>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>>3584935
>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>>3584935
>>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>>3584935
>>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>>3584935
>>[There's time and a new city outside! Go down and explore!]

>>3584935
>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>>3584935
>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>[Ask Edgeshot something before he leaves! (It was my first time making Anpan, was it good or do i need to improve in something?)]

>>3584935
>>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

It must be nice when you come with a preinstalled cupholder.

>>3584935
>>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>>3584935
>>3585045
This.

>>3584935
>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]

>>3584935
>>[Just eat some bread, set an alarm and try to sleep a bit before patrol time.]