Today is the fourteenth birthday of Yaoyorozu Momo, the daughter of the prestigious Yaoyorozu family.
As the birthday of Yaoyorozu Momo, the daughter of a prestigious family, the Yaoyorozu family naturally invited people from all walks of life to participate on such an important day. As the NO.2 hero and also from a prestigious family, Endeavor is naturally among the people who must be invited. Heroes from prestigious families in the superhuman society find it hard to easily refuse such invitations. After all, different prestigious families have more or less common interests, and these gatekeepers pay special attention to face, even if some are hostile, they will invite.
However, Endeavor is a workaholic. In his heart, being a hero's daily activities is much more important than such a meaningless banquet.
Generally speaking, as long as there are children to attend the event on behalf of them, it is enough. After all, people of Endeavor's generation have basically become famous heroes who can stand alone or social elites in various important positions.
Embarrassingly, none of Endeavor's many children were willing to attend this banquet on his behalf.
However, Endeavor had announced a while ago that he would become Accelerator's guardian. In the eyes of society and the circle of prestigious families, Accelerator is a mysterious person who has hit the jackpot and become the adopted son of Endeavor of the prestigious Todoroki family. Although this is not the case, most people must think so. On this point, Accelerator even suspects that this was planned by Endeavor a long time ago.
So no matter what, under such circumstances, Accelerator has enough qualifications to represent Endeavor to attend such a social banquet. He himself must find it very troublesome.
According to Endeavor himself, this is the first time this has happened, but Accelerator has already understood the truth of his words from the selection information and apartment situation.
As the saying goes, you have to be soft when you eat someone, and short when you take someone's hand.
Here at Endeavor's, he is eating someone else's food (the savings from another world can't be used here), using their training dojo, and learning Endeavor's combat techniques without any intention of holding back. Although he would like to refuse him righteously, Accelerator obviously hasn't been shameless enough yet.
Accelerator still chooses to go on behalf of Endeavor. After all, it's just attending a social banquet where he doesn't know anyone. According to his estimate, as long as the banquet goes through the fixed process, it's probably not difficult to leave early, and it won't delay too much of his daily training time. It's not a big deal to be bored for a little while.
The only thing that makes him feel awkward is probably the suit. He really doesn't like this kind of restrained dress, which will remind him of the constraints of the Special Research Institute.
Naturally, there are people in the banquet who want to talk to Accelerator for various reasons, but this extra service is not within his options. He only agreed to Endeavor's request to attend the banquet (laughs), and everyone present is smart. Seeing him showing no desire to talk at all, no one will be uninteresting.
Fortunately, the food provided at the banquet, whether it's the raw materials or the cooking skills, is quite satisfactory to him. After satisfying his appetite a little bit, he even asked the waiter to get a cup of coffee, and leisurely sat in the corner of the window waiting for the right time to leave.
At this time, he saw a very familiar figure, with four obvious characteristics of blonde, flat-chested, short, and starry-eyed. The starry-eyed beautiful girl with a delicate face and a noble social professional expression that no one can pick out.
She is in the crowd, at first glance it seems that she is surrounded by people like a tempting flower surrounded by green leaves, but in fact, people more or less unconsciously leave a subtle safe distance.
It seems that no matter which world.
Boring and boring people always make up the majority, even so-called elites can't avoid it.
Even if she has the hero candidate status certified by the authoritative institution of the Hero Association that everyone envies in advance, plus her own family power and her own talents, even among her peers from the same prestigious family, she is separated from others by a thick wall.
After all, in reality, if you clearly know that this person can easily control your mind, arbitrarily modify your memory, and even make your personality disappear, even if this person is a hero, he will definitely abide by the rules of the Hero Association. Her prestigious family also guarantees that she absolutely can't mess around, but when faced with the actual feeling, it must be like sitting on pins and needles and more is worse.
Shokuhou Misaki must understand this, so she would show such an expression, but that must not be her true feelings. And it is this understanding that makes Accelerator very unhappy from the bottom of his heart.
He has seen the girl's silly and unpretentious venting, and also seen the girl's determined expression of still insisting on fighting with trembling legs, and even more seen the girl's helpless face when she is desperate. But for him, about Shokuhou Misaki, the most impressive thing about Accelerator is the way she looked at him after he defeated the enemy.
That pure caring and trusting look.
He was not satisfied, so he took action, walked into the crowd alone, and walked towards her.
As for what consequences the next action will have, how people will view him afterwards.
He never considers such trivial matters, just as humans will never care about the opinions of ants.
What he didn't know was that from the moment he entered the banquet, his every move had never left the eyes of Shokuhou Misaki. Women, no matter how old they are, sometimes can always watch certain things keenly, this is probably a natural skill of women.
However, Shokuhou Misaki did not expect this person to be so direct. Although the surrounding voices were rather noisy, she didn't know why Accelerator's not-so-loud footsteps sounded particularly clear in her ears.
"I have something to tell you, come with me."
"....!!!???"
Her little heart almost popped out of her mouth.
Because, Accelerator directly reached out and held her hand, and went straight to his seat.
The girl was a little trembling, she felt the coldness of Accelerator's palm, took a light breath and temporarily suppressed the restless emotions in her heart, and let him lead her to the seat.
"So what important thing do you have to say to me? Accelerator-kun?"
Her delicate cheeks were tinged with a faint peach blush, and she looked at him with burning eyes.
"Shokuhou Misaki, can you let go of my hand?"
"Clearly it was you who reached out to invite me, and now that you've achieved your goal, you actually want the girl to let go of her own hand. You're such a cruel and heartless man."
"Hey, don't make me sound like the male lead in a family drama who abandons his family."
"Wow, there are plenty of people who want to be the male lead in my emotional drama."
"Sorry, I'm not one of those idiots, I have no interest in the silly, flat-chested, infatuated female lead."
"You say you don't want it, but in fact, Accelerator, who is alone, is fascinated by my cute dress."
"Besides, back then, I clearly wanted to erase your memory! What's with the infatuated woman! Please don't casually give people such a tasteless nickname with malice!"
"I'm not that bored."
"Speaking of which, I'm very curious about you, Accelerator, like the color of your hair."
"What?"
"Your hair."
Shokuhou Misaki pointed at Accelerator's hair.
"Ordinary people's hair wouldn't be pure white, and you have such beautiful red pupils, which is not normal from my perspective, you're obviously not mutated."
Although he could completely ignore her question, if he let it go, his intuition told him that she was very likely to start nagging again, so Accelerator decided to simply answer her question. After all, it was because of his displeasure that he brought her over. Now he feels even more pitiful. As long as he thinks about the painful banquet time has been compensated, this little trouble can be tolerated to some extent.
"First of all, this is not natural, it's a side effect of my ability."
"Secondly, people generally don't think red eyes are good-looking, this is not a normal color."
"I don't think so? Good-looking is good-looking? We girls pay a lot of attention to these things."
Shokuhou Misaki showed a beautiful smile and replied.
"It's none of my business."
"You, whether it's your words or your attitude, are too sharp."
"With your communication skills, can you really fit into the class well?"
"Don't bother, I was a special class student in the past, I didn't have classmates, I don't need to worry about such problems."
In Academy City, since Accelerator's [ability] awakened, he was enrolled in a special class at the age of seven. There was only him in the class, there were no other classmates, and there was no possibility of conflict. He didn't have to participate in school's daily activities, nor did he need to participate in sports festivals and cultural festivals.
Although, the one who is known as the top student of the top ability users in Academy City has a total of more than two thousand people, but in the spacious classroom where Accelerator is located, there will always be only one desk.
Accelerator doesn't think these are anything.
"That must be lonely, no matter who, I think even if you are as strong as you, the strong will still feel lonely."
"After all, I have experienced that kind of feeling, I am not qualified to say that I understand you now, I understand that feeling."
"Although it's not quite the same as you in form, and I don't have as powerful a Quirk as you, people, no matter what their purpose, are alienating or fearing my existence, even if I'm protecting them."
"Now, besides you, my family and my family, and a few friends, I don't really care about other places in the world."
Saying such words, Shokuhou Misaki's eyes looking at him were full of touching tenderness.
"It's such a strange comfort, if I agree, do I have to participate in your friendship games? Boring."
"No."
"No matter what, you are my hero, then and now."
"This point, please don't forget, remember it in your heart, Accelerator."
".......Whatever."
Accelerator moved his gaze from Shokuhou Misaki's body in front of him to the glass window on the side.