The story continued to unfold
Uraraka Shige again led by the gray-green-clad man to a room on the third floor that resembled a reception room, and then left to stay in that room alone for quite some time.
Finally, it was the gray-green guy who informed Uraraka Shige that he had just joined today and there was nothing for him to do yet. He then handed him a small booklet, about 8 centimeters and 14 centimeters tall, with only eight pages, and instructed him to memorize the rules in the booklet by tomorrow.
They then kicked him out of the office building.
Uraraka Shige held the booklet in her hand and glanced back at the office building behind her, which remained quiet and shrouded in darkness.
He pondered for a long time, but still couldn't figure out what the other guys in the office building were doing while he was alone in that room. He also couldn't figure out the purpose of the gray-green guy and the guy with black-rimmed glasses leaving him alone in that room.
He only roughly understood a few points.
There must be a reason why he was left alone in the room, and while he was in that room, someone else must have done something that he didn't know about.
Those guys didn't assign him anything or let him familiarize himself with the environment, which meant they didn't trust him at all, and there must be something in this office building that they didn't want him to know.
The creature covered in gray-green scales had seemed to trust him somewhat before, but after he spent some time in that room, the gray-green creature's attitude towards him became very casual. There must be a reason for this change in attitude, but he didn't know it yet.
When the gray-green guy saw him again after he had been alone for a while, he simply tossed him the booklet he was holding. After he caught the booklet, the gray-green guy even kicked him out of the office building, which shows that at this moment, to the gray-green guy, he was even less important than the booklet in some ways.
And finally, this booklet, and the requirement to memorize the rules within it... this could very well still be a test, or rather, a trial. If he fails to memorize the so-called rules in this booklet, perhaps he won't be able to join here... or perhaps his joining will encounter other setbacks...
Thinking of this, Uraraka Shige couldn't help but lower her head to look at the booklet she was holding in her hand.
However, precisely because of this, he did not notice that in a nearby alley, a rather young-looking face, upon seeing him emerge from the office building, displayed an extremely shocked expression and hurriedly ran deeper into the alley.
He was also unaware that the young man was actually a member of the organization his real brother belonged to—the brother and sister who had mistaken him for their brother.
Furthermore, that organization was one of the forces that was in a state of absolute hostility with the criminal gang entrenched in this office building. In fact, two months later, the first person to participate in the battle between All Might and 'AFO' because of him was also a member of this organization.
Uraraka Shige was now staring intently at the booklet in her hand, hesitating in her heart about whether or not to return to the end of that dead end, the doorway where she had encountered the hook-nosed 'enemy'.
However, in reality, he had nowhere else to go but back there. Therefore, he ultimately decided to go back and see what would happen next. He planned to make more detailed decisions and judgments based on what happened next.
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When Uraraka Shige returned to the end of this dead end, the five men he had defeated had all disappeared. Only a burly, muscular man with a bare chest was sitting on a solid wooden stake that had been moved from somewhere. Behind him was the door through which the hook-nosed man had recently emerged.
Without hesitation, Uraraka Shige went straight to the burly man.
"Hello, I'm here to see Doctor. Zōti."
The burly man looked down at Uraraka Shige, who was standing in front of him. Only then did Uraraka Shige realize that, despite his height, he was actually half a head shorter than when the man was sitting.
"Find Zōti Doctor... find Zōti Doctor..."
The burly man kept repeating this sentence, giving the impression that he was somewhat slow-witted.
"Zōti Doctor... kid... a kid is looking for Zōti Doctor... a kid who's looking for Zōti Doctor..."
The burly man kept repeating himself over and over until finally, he seemed to have thought of something.
"The bookstore owner said... if you see a kid looking for Doctor Zōti... just let him go through this door behind him..."
As he muttered this, the big man suddenly stood up. Although his shadow was projected onto the wall behind him, Uraraka Shige felt as if he were being covered by the man's shadow, as if he were standing in front of a towering mountain, and he felt a suffocating feeling that made it hard to breathe.
Clearly, this burly man was an absolute powerhouse... Despite his seemingly mentally unstable appearance, he was far stronger than that hook-nosed 'enemy' called Zōti Ti, and could easily take Uraraka Shige's life with a single move.
Fortunately, after the burly man stood up, he didn't attack Uraraka Shige. Instead, he reached out and easily lifted the thick, solid wooden stake he had been sitting on. He did so without batting an eye, exposing the door behind him completely to Uraraka Shige's view.
"Kid, if you're looking for a 'Zōti Doctor,' then go through this door."
The burly man said this to Uraraka Shige.
Although his voice was very loud and imposing, and his height and build gave him a powerful presence, for some reason, despite the immense pressure and difficulty breathing Uraraka Shige felt when the man stood up earlier, Uraraka Shige now only thought the man was somewhat simple-minded and even felt a little sorry for him.
"If only he weren't an idiot, then I might have already found someone capable of participating in the battle between All Might and 'AFO'..."
Uraraka Shige a few more steps forward, and before opening the door again, she couldn't help but think to herself.