章節 28: Internships with Dead Bandage

[One week later] [Monday - 4:00 p.m.]

After learning the basics in the first 12 days with Dead Bandage, he decided to let his students have an experience abroad as he called it.

Currently we can see Oboro in his hero suit walking with Aizawa, who had small radios that would warn them of any problem.

"We have been walking for 4 hours and nothing has happened!!" Oboro said rubbing his head in frustration and boredom.

"What? Do you want something bad to happen?" Aizawa asked in a bored tone making Oboro about to answer him.

Oboro thought about it better, and realized it was a trap, so he didn't say anything and nodded proudly at having avoided it, causing Aizawa to look at him like he was an idiot.

"Hey Aizawa, did you find your purpose to be a hero by the way?" Oboro asked curiously as he had his hands on the back of his neck and changing the subject.

"Not really, I already have an idea but I'm still not sure" Aizawa said with his typical tired tone remembering Doryoku's words.

He understood Doryoku's words, but something was still missing, he still didn't feel sure about it.

"Well, I'd say-" Oboro said thoughtfully until the radio rang indicating an emergency.

"Hey brats, there is an emergency to the northeast, a common robbery and without intention to use hostages apparently, it is all yours" the voice of Dead Bandage was heard on the radio indicating a fairly common robbery watching the situation from a safe place.

"Haha, time for action!" Oboro said excited enough to then form a cloud at his feet and grab Aizawa with a hand made of clouds to quickly go towards the direction.

From above, Oboro could see a small supermarket to the northeast, so he went there quickly and noticed two suspicious people when he was closer.

Oboro arrived at the scene and left Aizawa on the ground while he waited for the plan.

"Don't do that again" Aizawa said with blank eyes and blowing a little cloud out of his nose.

After this Aizawa looked at the situation from afar a bit and could see two men with nothing strange, and no getaway car, so he quickly concluded that one of them had a quirk to transport himself in the worst and most probable case.

"Got it" Aizawa said after a few seconds and starting to explain the plan to Oboro.

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"Put all the money in the bag!" said one of the thieves, a man in his 30s dressed as a teenager from the nineties plus a very colorful cap.

"Could you shut up, that just annoys me" said the other thief with a serious tone, a man with an unmarked black mask and a trench coat of the same color as he pointed his finger at the box worker for some reason.

The worker saved the money with visible fear and quickly and then handed it to the man of the mask.

And just as both thieves were about to escape, Aizawa and Oboro burst through the front door causing the man in the mask to react instantly.

"Dobo use your quirk!" said the man in the mask causing the other nineties looking thief now known as Dobo to place his hand on his shoulder quickly.

Aizawa erased Dobo's quirk quickly and Oboro lunged at him instantly, taking him in his clouds and carrying him out to the parking lot through the back door as they had planned.

"Tch, not bad boy, you knew exactly what was going to happen, I'll have to take care of you with my own hands" said the man in the mask with a serious and intimidating tone, although it felt quite generic for some reason.

The man pointed his finger at Aizawa and just said...

"Bang" said the man in the mask making a bullet come out of his finger and pass next to Aizawa causing him to tense up enough and causing the supermarket worker to hide under the counter.

"I will only give a warning young hero" said the man in the mask with a mocking tone making Aizawa take the fight seriously.

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Upon exiting to the parking lot, Oboro tried to cover Dobo to immobilize him but upon realizing, he was no longer in his cloud hand.

"Watcha how I escape" Dobo said loudly catching Oboro's attention as he ran to the supermarket again.

"Hey, stop there!" Oboro said taking his staff from his back and throwing it to hit Dobo.

Contrary to what he expected, the staff really hit Dobo on the head and left him sprawled on the ground like a sack of potatoes.

"It was easier than I thought" Oboro said in shock when seeing that Dobo fell so easily and approaching him carefully.

"Haha! You fell into the genius Dobo's trap!" Dobo said, standing up suddenly and attacking with the staff backwards.

"I'm here" Oboro said to the right side of him, making Dobo sweat nervously from his miscalculation backwards.

"You can run away now brat, I am an evil being and the world must bow before me because I suffered a lot as a child!" Dobo said with a big smile of superiority as he justified himself, or at least tried.

"Why are you robbing a supermarket then?" Oboro asked, losing his excitement a bit and with curiosity.

Dobo raised his index finger and was about to explain himself, but he had nothing.

"I'm bad and that's it okay?! That says my horoscope and the script!" Dobo said with an annoyed tone and then put himself in a combat pose like Oboro.

Right at that moment, many shots were heard inside the supermarket, drawing the attention of both of them.

Oboro took advantage of Dobo's distraction and pulled him with a cloud rope from his legs and struck him on the back of the neck to knock him out of action.

"It can't be, the power of the friendship of this young man overcame me, I accept my destiny young man maybe we could be friends in another life" said Dobo falling very dramatically and being unconscious in a very picturesque way.

'These villains are very weird' thought Oboro with a blank face and then ran to the supermarket.

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[A few minutes before with Aizawa]

Aizawa was ready for combat, and he already had all kinds of plans in his mind to take down the thief in the mask.

But what he did not count on was that the man in the mask would use the strongest weapon of a villain, that's right, a flashback of his past, a difficult childhood and an excessive amount of text.

"You see young man, my life was very sad, when I was born, it took me 5 seconds more and my father was very disappointed by this, so he left me with my mother" said the man in the mask as he seemed to have a very dramatic and deep flashback.

'Where does piano music come from?' Aizawa thought looking around in confusion upon hearing a sad piano.

The story stopped being credible very quickly, but it all went to shit when he said that his girlfriend was killed by a sudden meteorite.

Aizawa tried, but failed to grasp anything and simply went on the attack as he erased the masked man's quirk.

"You are very simple little hero" said the masked man with a mocking tone taking a bag of flour and opening it abruptly causing Aizawa to not see him.

Aizawa clicked his tongue in annoyance and moved to the right quickly as he circled the thief.

"Bang Bang" came the voice of the masked man through the cloud of flour.

Suddenly, many bullets shot out of the cloud of flour firing ahead and following Aizawa as he nimbly dodged running in circles.

At one point, a bullet grazed Aizawa's shoulder causing him to grab his shoulder in pain and keep trying to dodge the attack.

"You can't beat me young hero, I have an IQ of 345.625" said the masked man with a sneering and superior tone, as the cloud of flour finally dispersed.

And he would have been at least a little intimidating, but the flour now made the masked man look like a musician in his prime.

There was still flour in the air and it irritated Aizawa's eyes, causing him to be unable to use his quirk for long and putting him at a disadvantage.

"Goodbye young hero" said the masked man forming a claw with his hand and pointing Aizawa to then say.

"Boom" said the masked man with a serious tone and making a missile come out of his palm.

Right at that moment, a dense cloud formed in front of the masked man and caused the missile to explode very close to him, leaving him defeated.

"I've been waiting for you to intervene for 30 seconds" Aizawa said with annoyance as he saw Oboro through the back door.

"Yeah but I really wanted to look great at the last minute" said Oboro with a slightly pained smile as he scratched the back of his neck and Aizawa had a vein on his forehead.

After this, the police arrived being communicated by Dead Bandage and the thieves began to be taken.

"The great Dobo has fallen but he will be back!Probably to be a powerful ally" Dobo said a little sadly but quite confidently as he was handcuffed with anti-quirk handcuffs and taken to the patrol.

"Hey Dobo, I was like you before" Oboro said with a serious expression as his hair blew in the wind and his expression seemed compassionate.

"Seriously?" Dobo said quite impressed as he smiled widely.

"No not really" said Oboro sticking his tongue out of him with an idiotic expression as the cop tried not to laugh and be professional.

"Damn brat, next time you will fall to the team of, the types stereo!!" Dobo said with blank eyes and quite furious as he entered the patrol car and announced the name of his criminal group.

Aizawa arrived at that moment after being treated for his wound on his shoulder, while he looked up a little scared in search of, exactly, a sudden meteorite.

Right at that moment, the masked man was also brought into the same patrol as Dobo.

"Hey, I have no idea if your story is real, but if it is, I hope you have better luck getting out of jail" Aizawa said calmly giving some words of encouragement to the masked man.

The masked man looked quite shaken and said.

"I had a difficult life, but this young man that I hardly know made me forget all my past problems with just one line of text, I hope to see you again" said the masked man very grateful to later be taken to the patrol and later to jail.

"Hey young cop, do you want me to tell you my story?" the masked man asked the young policeman than was driving expectantly while the last just shrugged.

'What kind of robbery was this?' Dead Bandage thought in shock after having seen everything with binoculars from afar.

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After probably the best anecdote they both would have of their work as heroes, Oboro and Aizawa were walking back to the Dead Bandage agency according to their orders since it was getting late.

"If someone asks you did everything alone, I don't want to be part of this ridiculousness beyond an anecdote" said Aizawa still trying to analyze everything that happened.

"It was honestly the strangest experience of my life, but it was great!" Oboro said with a nervous smile not understanding either, but at least he was amused.

Both of them continued walking in silence towards the Dead Bandage agency due to exhaustion, until they saw across the street a mother and her daughter of about 4 years crying.

"Okā-chan, I wanted a fluffy rabbit!" said the girl making a little fuss while she cried a lot.

"Yana-chan, you only want it because it's adorable, those animals are so hard to keep, don't you want ice cream instead?" the mother said calmly and trying to dissuade her daughter from that.

The girl didn't seem to stop crying, and her mother seemed increasingly nervous about this.

Aizawa was quite annoyed by the girl's behavior, until suddenly...

A cloud came out of Oboro's palm and it took the shape of a rabbit, which jumped through the air until reach the girl.

'His control has improved a lot, now he can make more complex figures' Aizawa thought a little surprised as he saw the rabbit approaching the girl.

Upon arrival, the rabbit ran around the girl and she stopped crying to start laughing at the cute cloud rabbit.

The mother realized that it was the blue-haired young man in the other corner who was responsible and she smiled gratefully as Oboro returned the smile as well.

"I forgot to tell you Aizawa, my purpose is to make all possible people happy" Oboro said with a wide smile as he looked at Aizawa.

"People are not happy forever, but for that little moment in which you make them smile, that second in which they are the happiest in the world, for me it is always worth doing it and sharing a part of my happiness" said Oboro with explanatory tone while still smiling with great pride.

Aizawa seemed a bit surprised by Oboro's sentimental yet realistic words, and upon seeing the girl giggling at the rabbit, he could only smile slightly.

"Why does everything have to be so irrational?" Aizawa said with a slight smile as he continued walking towards Dead Bandage's agency and perfectly understanding Oboro's vision.

At this Oboro smiled victoriously and followed him back to the agency to continue training.