Things Have Been Really Unsafe Lately / USJ

"Security Defense 3 has been breached. All students, evacuate outdoors immediately."

"What? What even is Security Defense?" Tenya Iida asked the person beside him in disbelief.

"Hasn't the academy's defense never been breached in three years? How could something suddenly go wrong?" Some upperclassmen looked at one another.

The entire cafeteria immediately descended into chaos. Many students who were only halfway through eating were startled by the alarm and prepared to flee at once.

"Su Lin-chan, we should leave too. It's too dangerous here." Torhu Hagakure jumped up in panic. "I never thought U.A.'s defenses could be breached too. Was it the enemy?"

Su Lin calmly shook his head and took another bite of curry rice. "Haven't you heard of stampedes? Statistically speaking, rushing out like this is far more dangerous than staying put."

"Eh? But..."

"He's right. It's not a big problem." Shoto Todoroki, who had remained silent until now, raised his head and calmly said a single sentence before continuing to eat on his own.

"He really is calm." Su Lin genuinely admired the guy. If he hadn't known what was going on, he might have fallen into chaos like the other students.

With the police arriving, the matter was quickly resolved. The cause turned out to be a group of media reporters who had broken into the campus.

Ever since All Might came to teach at U.A., those people had been lurking outside the academy gates every day, trying to pry scraps of information from the teachers and students.

"Those reporters are creatures even harder to deal with than villains. If your attitude is even a little bad, negative news might flood the headlines. Even the teachers can only put up with them."

"But reporters alone shouldn't have been able to breach the academy's defenses, right? I have a bad feeling about this."

Hearing Mina Ashido and Tsuyu Asui discussing it nearby, Su Lin rubbed his head.

U.A.'s big villain boss seemed to be called Tomura Shigaraki.

His master possessed a Quirk called All For One. Not only was its name the opposite of All Might's ONE.FOR.ALL, but the two also shared a certain connection. Its effect allowed its user to steal other people's Quirks for himself, growing increasingly powerful.

Well, that wasn't the important part. For now, Su Lin had no chance of dealing with an existence on that level. Besides, if they really fought, his X-Hair avatar might not necessarily lose to him.

He endured like that until school ended.

Walking down the street, Su Lin lazily yawned.

"A mask and black robe. This really was a wise choice. As long as I go out dressed like this, I can use female avatars without worry, and it can also reduce the chances of crime to some extent."

It wasn't as though Su Lin had never encountered villains. He had even run into them several times. Every time, he had been walking around as Yukino when villains targeted him.

He had no idea whether girls who looked like that were especially easy to bully, but in any case, she had been kidnapped as a hostage in plenty of serious incidents.

"Dressed this heavily, I won't get kidnapped now, right?"

To train his Quirk, he maintained Yukino's avatar and walked down the street in a mask.

Other than the slender legs in stockings beneath the black robe, every part of her was tightly wrapped up. And it was impossible to judge whether someone was attractive from their legs alone. Not to mention that a mask-and-robe outfit gave off an overwhelming villainous vibe. Criminals basically wouldn't target her.

However...

"Found you!"

Whoosh—

After a gust of wind, a massive arm grabbed her body and began sprinting in a certain direction.

"What the hell is going on?"

Suddenly being carried into the air made Yukino's head spin. It felt as though some enormous thing had grabbed her... with only one arm.

"Stop running! Stand right there, you disgusting criminal!"

A woman's voice called out from behind.

The thing holding Yukino was clearly furious, letting out a low growl. "So what if I'm ugly? So what if I don't look good? Thirty years, thirty years! This damned Quirk has kept me from even finding a girlfriend. How could you damned heroes understand my pain? Fame, honor... all you think about is yourselves. You don't care whether people like me live or die."

The wind grew even fiercer, and Yukino's body was starting to struggle under the violent jolting.

Wait, wait, wait. Ugly?

What does you being ugly have to do with me?

Snapping out of her daze, Yukino began thinking about that question. She hurriedly raised her head, squinting through the wind, and finally saw what he looked like.

"Fine, he really is ugly."

Recently, It Hasn't Been Safe

He was practically a stitched-together monstrosity made of lumps of flesh, covered in pustules. This was beyond ordinary disgusting. Even in a society filled with Quirks, people with appearances like his were extremely rare.

The female hero behind them shouted from afar, "Who cares what you look like? All I know is that your actions will bring pain to others, and that's what we heroes must stop."

"Stop?"

The stitched monstrosity sneered. His huge body suddenly halted, and he lifted Yukino high into the air. Unfortunately, his movement was too rough, knocking her mask halfway off and sending a faint pain through her arm.

"She's mine now. There are women everywhere on the streets. Everyone has a girlfriend, everyone gets to live happily. Why can't I? Why am I the only one constantly mocked for being ugly? I don't care anymore. I'm taking her home and making her completely mine."

The moment those words came out, Su Lin's expression froze.

"What the hell... a lifelong single loser?"

He hadn't expected to run into such rotten luck.

An eye emerged from one of the stitched monstrosity's lumps of flesh. After rolling around a few times, it began examining Yukino in his hand. The moment he looked, he visibly froze. Beneath the mask was an incomparably fair and pretty face, while beneath the black robe were two slender, alluring legs.

He apparently hadn't expected that the girl he had snatched would be such a pure and beautiful young woman. His entire body trembled with excitement.

"Disgusting."

Feeling that undisguised gaze, Yukino gritted her teeth and fiercely kicked out.

Bang—

The strength of a leg capable of exerting over two hundred kilograms erupted. The kick struck his forehead, producing at least half a ton of instantaneous force and knocking the monster back several steps.

"Didn't you know hostages can fight back too?"

Her second kick followed immediately, forcing him to release her arm. In the next instant, Mysterious Heroine X appeared behind him and punched him into the air.

Then...

Hum!

A blade of light slashed out, severing his arm from more than ten meters away.

Splurt—

"Argh!" The stitched monstrosity cried out in agony and collapsed to the ground.

"It hurts, it hurts!"

Because society prohibited ordinary people from using their Quirks, Su Lin only carried out the greatest degree of self-defense available to a victim instead of killing him outright.

"You..."

Mt. Lady had never expected the situation to reverse so suddenly. Looking at the girl who had flashed by just now, she even wondered whether she had imagined it.

"I'm fine now. Thank you, Mt. Lady."

Yukino smiled at her but said nothing more, turning and running away.

She didn't want to bring trouble upon herself.

"Whew, my clothes actually got torn."

After running several hundred meters, she looked at the small patch of snow-white skin exposed at her shoulder and her torn clothes. Her lips twitched as she rejoiced that she hadn't encountered any great danger.

That stitched lump of flesh was so huge. It was hard to imagine... that guy had actually wanted Yukino to be his girlfriend.

Who could stand something like that?

"No, no. Pah, pah. Why am I even thinking about that?"

Worried that she might encounter more bad guys, she quickly entered an alley and, seeing no one around, returned to her original body.

"A girl really is too dangerous when she's alone outside. My original body is safer. I definitely won't run into bad guys again looking like this." He shook his head with a bitter smile.

"Hand over your money. This is a robbery."

Suddenly, a cold knife was pressed against his neck.

"..."

Threatened, Su Lin slowly raised both hands.

"Take me to your home."

Su Lin did not resist, but he was thinking about how to dispose of the corpse in a way that would avoid trouble as much as possible.

"Maybe asking a hero for help would be better."

A world where he couldn't use his Quirk freely yet crime was everywhere was truly troublesome.

After arriving at the bare, impoverished house, the rough-looking robber stared blankly at the empty living room and bedroom before unable to stop himself from complaining, "This is your home? How are you even poorer than me?"

"Yeah, everything I own is right here." Su Lin answered bitterly.

"..."

After a moment of silence, the other man suddenly lowered his knife. "Forget it. This is no fun. I actually robbed a poor bastard."

He turned and stepped through the front door, preparing to leave, when he suddenly stopped again.

Su Lin frowned, ready to make a move.

To his surprise, the man reached into his pocket, pulled out one thousand yen, and heavily slapped it onto the table.

"Damn it, I can't stand watching this. Take this money and find yourself a decent job. Don't ever become like me."

Only after saying that did he leave with peace of mind.

Su Lin picked up the thousand yen with a strange expression. After inspecting it repeatedly and confirming there was nothing wrong with it,

he could basically be certain that the money could be spent.

"U.A.'s world really is dangerous. Since I came to this world, how many crimes have I encountered?" Su Lin had already lost count.

Leaning back on his bed, he began reflecting on what had happened lately when a screen suddenly popped up before him.

Main Quest: Completely kill the holder of All For One.

Quest Reward: 1. Gain permission to unlock a new avatar. 2. Leave this world.

"What?"

Nothing had changed since he transmigrated, yet the system had unexpectedly appeared now.

"Kill All For One?"

That was a super boss capable of injuring All Might. Before transmigrating, Su Lin had just finished watching the third season. At that time, All Might had once again defeated that bald All For One and imprisoned him in some completely sealed prison.

But a scene like that felt more like some kind of flag. Maybe later, that guy would break out of prison or find some other way to cause trouble again.

"This quest looks like something I have to do. After all, once I complete it, I can leave this world."

He felt as though he had found a goal to work toward.

But before that, he needed to transform into X-Hair more often to extend its usable duration.

After all, five minutes of combat power might not be enough to completely deal with that tenacious opponent.

USJ

At 12:50 the next afternoon, Shota Aizawa appeared before the podium looking utterly drained.

Perhaps because there had been too much trouble lately—first dealing with reporters, then the academy being invaded—his mental state was not very good. He gave off an increasingly haggard impression.

"Today's Hero Basic Training will be supervised jointly by me, All Might, and one other teacher."