After that incident with the snow macaques, Nobu had a small scar on his forehead from a stone.
Nobu begged Nezu very much and he finally dared to go to the suburbs of the huge metropolis of Musutafu. In the village of Shitara, an old road was used to get to the main road through the forest, there is only one bus, which brought Nezu to the highway, where he hitchhiked to the suburbs of Musutafu. He was given a ride by an ordinary family who were going to the city of heroes to see the sights, buy hero merch, see the statue of Almighty, and visit catering establishments with a hero profile. This was a fairly common way to increase the attendance of an establishment by buying advertising for a popular hero. Not only could you see Almighty advertising energy drinks +Ultra Energy, school backpacks, books with "his" autographs, etc.
The entire city was literally the center of commerce and advertising related to heroes. Japan's consumer and service center - Musutafu!. There was everything in the world that could be sold using the image of various heroes. In general, heroism is now nothing more than a business. Nezu immediately realized this when he saw a bunch of billboards at the entrance to the suburbs. - "They use the image of a hero too often to advertise their products." - Nezu thought. He wanted to fix this.
Nezu was shocked by the size of the city. A huge population in itself is an indicator of the development of heroic activity. Of course, he had not seen anything bigger than this city before. "What should we expect here? I think it will be interesting here." Nezu saw many people walking along the streets, full of cars, reinforced concrete buildings in which commerce was developed. He chuckled "It will be difficult, but it will take over the world, Nobu" Nezu passes a police patrol, next to which a couple of heroes in suits are standing.
He spoke to them.
- Ahem... I apologize, gentlemen. I'm looking for a library or a bookstore. I think so.... - It was difficult for him to communicate with people. After all, he lived for many years as an animal, even though he had an extremely high intellect.
- You go there - the patrolman pointed to a store that stood at the end of the street.
The beast wandered there without thanking, as people usually do.
- Don't pay attention, maybe it was just a bad day. - Said one of the recently licensed heroes - Ingenium.
While Nezu was in the city for a short time, he was lucky enough to observe the work of professional heroes O'Clock, Gang Orca, Backdraft, Crust, Endeavor and the gaining momentum, new professional hero - Best Jeanist and Ingenium. The media is furiously hunting for footage of their professional activities and showing them everywhere. Nezu was delayed because of a conversation with a professor in the local library.
They started talking about various topics, but mostly about the various mechanics of interaction between quirks and synergy between hero teams. Nezu himself did not understand how he switched to this topic. The professor was amazed by the literacy of his interlocutor and invited him to conduct one of the lectures on the interaction of auxiliary quirks with him.
The result was better than anyone could have imagined. Nezu arrived at the lecture and greeted everyone with the words "Guess who I am? A raccoon? A dog? A bear?", along with his delightful rhetoric and teaching of the material, he was magnificent, surpassing the professor himself, and his ears and cute appearance were liked by the female students. After this moment, Nezu was invited to teach a couple more hero courses, among which there will be quite a lot of new generation heroes.
As a result, he stayed there for a long time, thinking "Let Nobu wait, his books will not go anywhere."
So Teruko and Nobu were left to live alone in that forgotten village, and Nezu would soon become the director of one of the most popular and prestigious academies of heroes - UA. Nobu waited and waited, but never waited for Nezu. Feeling the taste of betrayal, Nobu began to become disappointed in him.
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Onishi's invasion:
- Grandma, I'll take a look at what's going on there. - Nobu said after taking a few steps out of the house.
- Be careful, there haven't been any fires here for a long time. - said the old lady, leaning against the door threshold.
"It's strange that there was a fire, usually everyone follows safety rules, of course children could play with fire, usually parents watch it more closely," the old lady thought.
After two minutes of running down the forested clearing, Nobu met a shocked Ryuji, a little further on, behind a couple of trees and bushes, he saw his father and a crowd of people putting out someone's burning house.
- This is our house... - answered the still shocked Ryuji, a black-haired boy.
"I can easily absorb a fire in a second, but you shouldn't show your quirk to anyone"
- Don't worry, Ryuji, you can stay with us, and then we'll see. - Nobu said this with a bit of irony. He liked to joke with people and watch their reactions, but not with grandma or Nezu.
- Do you think I need your handouts? - he said, sitting under a tree.
- Ryuji, come here and help! - shouted his father. He suddenly caught himself and was about to leave, but Nobu grabbed him by the shoulder and wasn't going to let go.
- What? What's wrong?
- Wait a bit. - Nobu continued to hold him by the shoulder.
- The commander has been found! Maybe I should sing you another counting rhyme, my name is called!
As soon as Ryuji freed himself from Nobu's grip, suddenly all the people began to fall straight to the ground and not move.
- What's going on? - Ryuji wondered.
- Something's wrong. - Nobu knew that people don't just fall.
They both headed back to Teruko.
Meanwhile, a group of mercenaries who came out of the darkness, some were humming something, some were smoking, some were silent.
- It was easy.
- You...wait a little longer, we need to check the other houses.
- It's all thanks to the plan and your quirk, Kemuri. Remind me, how much time do we have before the gas wears off?
- Ten minutes. - He looked at the bodies of the people.
- Then we need to hurry. Komo, Kobo and Ningen, comb the remaining houses.
- Good. - two men with identical hairstyles and masks answered in unison.
- I don't care, I'll go to the other houses. - Ningen hissed.
- In the meantime, we'll tie up the sleepy kingdom and catch up with you. The customer said to leave them, he'll come himself. It's strange, but it has to be done.
Ningen became wary.
- Don't poke your nose in, tie it tighter. - the leader of the group, Takeda, reminded.