Gray Rat Society... Was That a Dog Barking?

Some passersby on the street were drawn to the screams, while others continued on their way, busy with their own affairs. Still others, with plenty of free time, gathered around and watched from a distance as Uraraka Shige and his group cruelly and inhumanely harassed them.

The group of thugs squatting downstairs saw the thug who came up to Uraraka Shige and his companion suddenly fall to the ground, clutching his groin and screaming in pain. They then started chatting and laughing amongst themselves, seemingly believing that the thug who had been attacked in his groin was just faking it as a joke.

However, after a while, when the thug who had fallen to the ground was still rolling around and groaning, and his voice was getting softer and softer until he gradually stopped moving, the group of thugs squatting downstairs realized that the thug who had fallen to the ground was not pretending to be beaten down to tease the two kids, but had really suffered a painful beating from the two kids.

So, the group of thugs who had been squatting downstairs at the office of Uraraka Shige's construction company suddenly stood up and walked in a scattered formation towards where Uraraka Shige and Ochaco were.

Meanwhile, Uraraka Shige looked at the thug lying on the ground, who had been rolling around and was now falling into a coma. He clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction. Then, looking at the group of thugs who were rushing menacingly towards him and Ochaco, he understood that this time, he and Ochaco probably couldn't go straight home. They would have to deal with these thugs first.

"Ochaco, when those thugs arrive, use your 'Quirk' on yourself."

Uraraka Shige gave Ochaco these instructions, then stood still and waited quietly for the group of thugs to come within the range of his Quirk. He planned to use the Quirk skill he had been practicing for so long but had not yet mastered—Chaos—to try and take down the group of thugs in one fell swoop.

Ochaco, standing next to Uraraka Shige, stared blankly at Uraraka Shige for a while. She had never imagined that standing next to her younger brother would feel so safe. After a moment of involuntary daze, she gave a somewhat silly "hmm" to indicate that she had heard and understood Uraraka Shige's instructions.

At this moment, he seems somewhat adorably slow to react.

The group of thugs weren't far from where Uraraka Shige was, so they quickly arrived in front of him, surrounding him and Uraraka Shige. Two thugs helped up the one who had fallen unconscious on the ground, and then a thug with Granny Gray hair, presumably the Ochaco, stepped forward and began to make polite remarks to Uraraka Shige Ochaco while testing them.

"Who are you, brat? Not bad! Although that guy was pretty much a piece of trash, you actually dared to hurt someone from our Gray Rat Society?"

Uraraka Shige, staring blankly at the thug with a lifeless, almost dead- Granny Gray -like gaze. His still-childish face was expressionless. At the same time, the thugs around him suddenly felt a strange heaviness in them the moment Uraraka Shige raised her head, as if an invisible and intangible aura was pressing them down, making them appear several feet shorter.

That's right, this is Li Rizhong using 'Wei' again.

After all, the reason he developed this technique was to make himself appear imposing and authoritative, even if it was just an illusion created by using 'Quirk' and some extremely crude and superficial psychological suggestion techniques to make others feel it and generate it.

"The Gray Rat Society? What are you doing here?"

Using her 'Quirk' ability, Uraraka Shige deliberately lowered her voice slightly, while maintaining an expressionless face, though not stern, and calmly and unhurriedly asked the Granny Gray thug what she had asked him.

His performance caused the surrounding thugs to involuntarily begin to fill in the blanks based on the biographies they had read or the things they had experienced. At the same time, the inexplicable aura and pressure they felt suddenly became more real, making the group of thugs even more cautious.

Granny Gray hair squinting, kept scanning Uraraka Shige and Ochaco.

Unlike Uraraka Shige, Ochaco's muscles were clearly stiff, and she was extremely tense. Her slender neck was slightly hunched, yet she remained standing still, even showing signs of wanting to Uraraka Shige behind her. This made the Granny Gray even more cautious in his mind.

Neither Uraraka Shige nor Granny Gray answered the other's question, and the atmosphere became tense for a moment.

Finally, it was the thug with the Granny Gray hair who spoke first, greeting the thug next to him.

"Let's get this piece of trash to the hospital first. He got beaten up so badly by a brat; he's a disgrace to the Gray Rat Society!"

Then, after a pause, he glanced at Uraraka Shige and Ochaco a few more times, feeling a sense of unease, but still gave the order.

"However, we, the Gray Rat Society, are not to be provoked by just any little brat. The identities of these two brats are unclear, so let's invite them back to the base for a while and take good care of them, making sure they don't get hurt. We'll make further plans after we find out their identities."

As he said this, the Granny Gray hair took a step back and disappeared into the group of thugs around him. However, one more instruction came from the group of thugs.

"Remember, make sure you return safely and unharmed. Don't get hurt!"

So the group of thugs began to tighten their encirclement, each with their arms outstretched, intending to capture Uraraka Shige and Ochaco directly in their arms, depriving them of their ability to resist while also protecting the two brats.

However, Uraraka Shige acted even faster than them. Just as the Granny Gray began ordering that he and Ochaco be taken back, Uraraka secretly tugged at Ochaco's hand, causing her to cast her Ochaco on Quirk. Then, the instant that almost all the thugs around her entered the range of her Quirk's influence, she suddenly activated her Quirk.

"Chaos!"

Suddenly, about half of the surrounding Gravity became chaotic, tearing apart Uraraka Shige himself and the group of thugs within the influence range of his 'Quirk,' leaving them disheveled.

At the same time, due to the disorder of Gravity in about half of the space, everyone within a meter and a half of Uraraka Shige's body, except for Ochaco, suddenly became dizzy and lightheaded.

It was as if they had all suffered from vertigo at that moment, or as if they had suddenly entered a weightless environment. They felt a dizzying sensation, and after only a few seconds, the group of thugs all collapsed to the ground and began to vomit, as if they had lost their ability to fight.

Only then did Uraraka Shige stop activating his Quirk, restoring the surrounding Gravity to normal. This also caused Ochaco to cancel her Quirk and begin vomiting beside him, bent over.