Chapter 86: Back to School
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After coming down from a bowl-shaped UFO, 4 green-skinned alien females tried to capture the young silver-haired boy. Somehow, after calming them down by cuddling with them, the young human managed to drive the aliens away.
That's the story Neji told Kimi.
She didn't believe of course, but her belief never mattered in the first place.
After staying up for 26 hours, Neji needed a good night's sleep. He went back home and did so. Nejire looked particularly proud and happy seeing him tired, assuming her 'tricks' were working.
Neji ignored her and slept the whole night like a baby.
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"Bye, Neji! I will be back at lunch break!!"
Nejire waved her hand at Neji who waved back and left swiftly. If he didn't, the waving would have continued for another 5 minutes.
He unfortunately didn't come across Midnight today, which was a bummer. So he simply went inside the classroom and was surprised to see multiple girls surrounding Momo.
"Hey, so what's up with the Club you created?" Mina asked, slipping a hand under Momo's arm. "Moreover, only you and your boyfriend are part of it. Suspicious~ Will you two do 'that' inside school, is that why you made a club?"
The girls beside her poked Mina, asking her to stop with their faces red. Momo simply avoided eye contact.
Seeing this, Mina pushed further. "Mhm, I want to join all of a sudden~ The club I mean. Do you think you can make space for me-"
Interrupting her, Neji slipped past and took his seat.
When the girls finally noticed he was sitting behind them, they quickly broke out in a fluster.
"A-ah, hey! Good morning, Neji."
Mina stuttered and Neji gave her a smile.
"Hi, were you talking about me just now?"
"A-ah?" Mina looked the other way, looking at the other girls behind her, Jiro, Setsuna and Kendo. They immediately scattered away, leaving Mina behind. The pink alien's face darkened, and she gave Neji a nervous smile. "Err, it's not that. You misheard."
"No, no. I have good ears." Neji protested. "I rarely mishear, the most recent one was 3 nights ago when Momo for some reason mistook me for her daddy."
"..."
Mina's cheeks were pink, but they grew pinker.
She still tried to maintain her calm. She cleared her throat. "Oh? Aha, I would like to hear it sometimes."
Neji jerked his head left and right. "Why just hear? I can let you watch if you want. And from how eager you seemed to join the club, you do want to watch, right?"
Mina's eyes shook and her lips quivered in fluster. She immediately shook her head and stood up. "I-I just remembered, I forgot something in my bag… S-sensei will be here soon too, s-so I will get going!!"
Mina ran to her seat, leaving Neji chuckling.
As she left, Momo turned back and gave him a deadpan look. "Why are you scaring them away?"
"Because I want alone time with my girl," Neji said jokingly before tilting his head. "By the way, you don't mind me teasing other girls?"
Momo stared at his face for exactly 7 seconds, before turning forward. "I do. Just that, you are fine with me wearing revealing clothes, it's only fair I am respectful of your choices too. Just don't start touching other girls in front of me."
As a gesture of appreciation, Neji tickled her with telekinesis, and she barely held back from laughing. When he stopped, he felt a finger tapping on his back, from the back seat where Ochako sat.
Turning back, his face paled as Ochako Uraraka stared at him with clenched jaws and red wet eyes.
"So, you treat all girls like that?"
"..."
'Oh fuck.'
It took him a second to realise; he had messed up another time.
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Neji almost panicked before stopping. Ochako wasn't a "Target", so it's not of immediate emergence to make things calm with her. He will pick a later time, for now, he has a Tower and a Sports Festival to worry about.
Right now though, Neji stared at the door of the classroom from his seat, at the crowd outside the door.
"Look, these kids fought actual villains…"
The kids outside the door muttered to themselves, pointing at the students inside the Classroom.
Izuku Midoriya and Katsuki Bakugo stood in front of them.
A few hours ago, Neji had lunch with Momo and Nejire, and now, after the bell rang, Class 1-A was leaving for home. But just then, the students from other classes stepped up to block the door.
Neji was actually wondering why this scene didn't happen yesterday, but he could only blame the Butterfly effect. Either way, that didn't matter now.
"Move away, you cannon fodders!"
Bakugo growled at the students, who gasped in surprise.
Momo sighed from beside Neji.
"Fuuuh, what do I do with that guy..."
Neji bit on her ears. They were at the back of the class, everyone was focused on the front so nobody watched them.
He said, "Want me to take care of him, then?"
"..."
Laughing at Momo's horrified expression, he walked forward, slipping amongst the 1-A students. Just as he did so, an indigo haired kid with dark bags under his eyes walked out from in between the other students.
He rubbed his neck, staring at Bakugo.
"It's true we were blocking your door without noticing, but you sure are modest." He gave Bakugo a chilling stare. "Are all the Hero Course students like this?"
As Bakugo was about to answer, Izuku Midoriya stepped up, clicking his tongue.
"Yes, they are. Now shut your mouth and clear the path. "
Bakugo gave Izuku a shocked look before that look turned almost prideful. Like a girlfriend surprised to see her boyfriend standing up for her.
"Oh my, a troublesome bunch." The Indigo haired body, Hitoshi Shinso, stared at Midoriya. "Now, turn around and slap your friend."
"Who are you ordering-"
Izuku's body stopped midway.
Before Bakugo could realise what happened, Izuku turned around, and his palm landed on Bakugo's cheeks.
Bakugo's eyes went wide, all that pride vanishing in thin air. Without a moment of hesitation, he raised his hand instinctively to blast Izuku's face into flesh and blood.
Before he could do so, his arm was grabbed by Neji's hand.
"Dude," Neji said. "Chill. He already looks so fragile, at this rate you will get yourself in jail for murder."
Bakugo's lips twitched while the other classmates held back a laugh.
"Anyway," Neji turned to the crowd. "He is right though, clear the path, please. Y'know, Hero Course students don't have as much free time as you guys. So the faster we reach home, the faster we can take rest and train. That way, the more compelling hero we will be in the future. If not, in the future, maybe just because of this single day, we will be your everyday average weakling Heroes. Who knows, maybe because of a string of fate, one of you will die because one of us Heroes wasn't strong enough to protect you? Give it a thought."
"..."
The crowd shut their mouths as Neji's words sunk in them. It was a horrifying possibility, but it clearly was exaggerated. A single day of being late won't lead to that future, right?
Shinso sighed. "You talk a lot."
"That I do-" Neji's lips stopped moving.
After a second of silence, his smile returned. "Mind Control? Nice quirk. Incredibly useful too."
Shinso froze in his spot, silent. He had clearly used his quirk on the kid. They how…?
"Unfortunately, it can't affect me." Neji then snapped his finger. Immediately, with the force of Telekinesis, the students slid on the ground, creating a way for royalty to pass. "I am out of your league, kid."
Neji then motioned Momo and walked away with hands in his pockets, taking out his phone and starting to type a message.
"Oi, wait!"
As Momo ran behind him, the others stayed silent and stared at his back.
Especially Shinso. Who visibly paled with a frown on his face.
"That guy…"
He's dangerous.
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