Was Qu Zhi Going to "Break Out of Prison"?

The growth of all things takes time, the transmission of information takes time, and naturally, the formation, implementation, and final result of a plan also take time.

So, after 'AFO' had found a suitable piece to approach Uraraka Shige, and after Qu Zhi had made thorough preparations to begin his attack on Uraraka Shige, another half month had already passed.

Uraraka Shige, who knew nothing about the future or any of this, continued to live her daily life in the Discipline Prison in the same regular way as she had for the past two weeks.

In the days that followed until two days ago, several detainees tried to build a good relationship with Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo.

But...

Although Gu Yu appears somewhat 'simple-minded,' he actually possesses incredibly strong 'intuition'... Isn't there a saying that goes like this? Simple-minded, single-minded people are like beasts (possessing animalistic instincts)... While Gu Yu is actually closer to having very keen observation skills and insight into human nature, he's just slow-witted and lacks the ability to think critically...

However, precisely because of this, unlike most people who struggle to see themselves clearly, Gu Yu is very self-aware. Therefore, he adopts a more direct approach in his actions and speech, which suits him better. He also dislikes roundabout ways of communicating, and he can't stand even slightly subtle expressions. As a result, these guys only exchanged a few words with Gu Yu they were completely unable to continue communicating with him.

Of course, there were some among them who thought Gu Yu 'simple-minded and foolish' and therefore easy to fool. So they pretended to try to 'maintain a good relationship' with Gu Yu under these circumstances, but the result of doing so was undoubtedly that they were rejected by Gu Yu.

As for Kurasu Rikizo... well, even Uraraka Shige's successful conversation with him was only about how to make Kurasu Rikizo's training more efficient and achieve greater results... It's fair to say that he's a guy who has absolutely nothing to do except train and get stronger.

Therefore, it's understandable that those who approached him didn't even utter a single response, and that no words, not even a short sentence, were heard from Kurasu Rikizo.

Therefore, these students who had not gotten the results they wanted from Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo simply stopped trying to influence Uraraka Shige through indirect means and went directly to Uraraka Shige, trying to establish a good relationship with him in one step and then influence Uraraka Shige little by little as a 'friend' to successfully complete the tasks assigned to them by the 'big shots' behind them.

However, to their regret and disappointment, Uraraka Shige was a selfish person who did not like to communicate with others. Therefore, like Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo, they were unable to build a good relationship with Uraraka Shige and thus could not complete the tasks assigned to them by the 'big shots' behind them.

However, even though Uraraka Shige enjoys communicating with others and is willing to become 'friends' with them, they still cannot achieve their goal.

Because...

Do you need my help?

Uraraka Shige stared in surprise at Qu Zhi, who was squatting not far in front of her, continuing to do push-ups with his hands on the ground... It seemed that ever since Kurasu Rikizo joined the 'group' two months ago, he and Gu Yu had gradually been influenced to become such exercise fanatics, and they especially seemed to love this kind of exercise that seemed to have some daring ideas about Mother Earth...

Qu Zhi remained completely unmoved by Uraraka Shige's surprise, even though he felt a bit amused and disgusted. However, he did not show it on his face at all.

To be honest, he didn't want things to turn out this way, and he didn't want to personally start his own plan on Uraraka Shige... But Uraraka Shige had been doing such a terrible thing for the past two months. Apart from the things he had to do every day, he was almost oblivious to everything else, focusing solely on exercising with his two 'small group' members, Gu Yu and Kurasu Rikizo.

Therefore, his attempts to lure Uraraka Shige into his scheme through other means were either completely ignored or fraught with instability. It's fair to say that his actions, which exposed too many flaws (zhan, as a joke, is pronounced ding ding/funny), were truly born of desperation...

"That's right. You said before that my sister is doing very well now. I've done the math, and they're still living according to my original plan."

Qu Zhi stared at Uraraka Shige with a serious expression, watching as Li Rizhong placed his hands on the ground in an unseemly manner while moving his body up and down, beginning to put on his acting skills.

Fortunately, in this life, Uraraka Shige had been training his body with the help of his 'Quirk' since childhood. Therefore, when doing these basic exercises, there were no problems with his movements or behavior, such as his back collapsing. At least he didn't look so sleazy, turning push-ups into a fucking style.

Fortunately, Qu Zhi himself doesn't have obsessive-compulsive disorder, although that doesn't mean he's without problems...

After all, someone who goes to great lengths to prevent their brain from "rusting" due to prolonged inactivity, even resorting to scheming and plotting (such as helping others commit crimes or trying to cut off the power to an entire city), simply to keep their mind "working," is bound to have problems...

But at least, without obsessive-compulsive disorder, Qu Zhi on correcting Uraraka Shige when he sees her endlessly repeating basic exercises like push-ups, squats, frog jumps, sit-ups, and handstands, and instead guide her to use more effective and noticeable exercises.

This is also the fundamental premise for Qu Zhi to be able to fully display his acting skills in front of Uraraka Shige...

"But I recently realized that there were some flaws in our original plan, and I need to inform them promptly about how to correct them. Therefore, I want to go out, and I need your help with that."

Uraraka Shige looked at Qu Zhi's sincere (not really) face and felt that something was not quite right, but with his intelligence and understanding of Qu Zhi, he couldn't figure out what was wrong.

After all, he had just escaped not long ago, so it seemed quite normal for Qu Zhi to want his help in this matter...

Then...

"Well, you helped me before, so I can help you this time. So, how do you need my help?"

Uraraka Shige agreed to Qu Zhi's request and successfully became the fish that took the bait, falling into Qu Zhi's trap.

Then, Qu Zhi explained his plan (or excuse) to Uraraka Shige...