Girls' Gathering

After the Sports Festival, the school gave the students in the Hero Course two days off. During these two days, the school tallied the invitations from agencies it had received, preparing the students for their future Work-Study Program.

"Shoto, are you going to see Mom?" Shoto Todoroki's older sister stood in the entryway, looking at him with some concern. "Actually, Mom didn't mean it..."

"Ah, it's time to make a trip."

Shoto Todoroki changed into casual clothes and walked to the hospital. He covered the burned spot on his face and couldn't help but recall the past.

When Shoto Todoroki was a child, his mother was forced into a marriage with his father Endeavor, due to their Quirk. His mother always harbored a fear of Endeavor. After Shoto Todoroki Quirk, his mother became increasingly cold towards him, even looking at him with fear, because she felt that Shoto Todoroki and Endeavor looked more and more alike.

One day, Hong accidentally overheard his mother's phone call to her family and learned that his mother harbored fear of him. While he was wavering, his mother, who had become somewhat neurotic, discovered this and poured boiling water on the left side of his face.

Afterwards, Endeavor arrived in time to stop Todoroki's mother and took her to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. Since then, Todoroki has never seen his mother again and hates Endeavor for his brutality towards her, believing that he is the one who caused his mother's condition.

Todoroki's strong resistance to his fire-based Quirk stemmed from this, but during this Sports Festival, he was forced to use his Quirk by Midoriya and Jilan, which caused him to waver and unsure of how to continue. Therefore, he decided to seek answers from his mother, whom he hadn't seen for years.

During the Sports Festival, Iida received a call from his mother and rushed to Hosu City, the area where his brother worked as Pro Hero. Upon arriving at the hospital, he received some reassuring news from the doctor: his brother was not in mortal danger, but he would never be able to fight as Pro Hero again.

Human joys and sorrows are not the same for everyone. While Iida and Todoroki were receiving some heavy news, the others were enjoying a joyful holiday.

A glass filled with juice floated in the air, and a person wearing a white dress, though nowhere to be seen, cheerfully shouted, "Let's celebrate the official opening of the first term of the Hero Course A Girls' Club! Cheers!"

Six glasses filled with bright yellow juice clinked together at the same time, and everyone laughed and shouted, "Cheers!"

This is a scene in a Japanese restaurant, where all the girls in Class A are gathered together, celebrating the successful conclusion of the Sports Festival.

Among the topics discussed, the performance during the Sports Festival was the most frequently mentioned.

"By the way, Tsuyu-chan, how did your team with Mineta get eliminated?" Mina Ashido asked curiously after taking a big gulp of orange juice.

She had seen it during the Sports Festival; Mezo Shoji -like protective barrier completely concealed Asui and Mineta inside. With Mineta's strong control and Asui's freely retractable tongue, they should have been strong contenders for victory in the mounted battle.

"I don't know either," Asui, sounding somewhat puzzled, in her distinctive voice, "Without me noticing, Mineta- kun's headscarf just disappeared."

Upon hearing this, Toru Hagakure suddenly coughed violently, and a few drops of juice seemed to hit an Invisibility wall in the air, sliding down along a curve.

Asui asked with concern, "Hagakure- chan, are you alright?"

"Hehe, it's nothing," Toru Hagakure, pulling out a tissue to wipe herself, her voice slightly guilty. Could she really say that she had been so confident and in control back then, directing her teammate Shiozaki to slip her hair through the gap behind the Mezo Shoji and secretly pull off her headscarf in that dim environment?

Furthermore, because Ibara Shiozaki's attack was swift and precise, the cameras missed it, and no one else on the field noticed. If anyone could expose her deception, it would be her teammates Kyoka Jiro and Jilan Jiyu, but this was a women's competition, and only one person on the field could expose her.

Toru Hagakure glanced at Kyoka Jiro, who was casually simmering lamb in hot pot while browsing her phone, seemingly uninterested in their conversation.

Seeing that Jiro didn't seem to care about the topic, Hagakure secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then became interested in what Jiro was looking at.

"Jiro- chan, what are you looking at? Is it interesting?"

"It's just a band's performance information, you probably won't like it." Jiro raised his head and said calmly, "Besides, Tsuyu-chan, we were the ones who took your group's headbands, you know?"

Wow, I didn't expect Jiro to have overheard that conversation! Toru Hagakure noticed Asui and Ashido looking at her strangely, so she quickly waved her hands, making sure no one could see, and immediately protested, "Although I'm the rider, everything was done by Jilan, and I wasn't the one who did it, it was that girl from Class B!"

"That's true." Kyoka Jiro acknowledged the truth of her words.

Asui wasn't really concerned about who defeated her, since the match was over. She asked the two people who had teamed up with Jilan with some curiosity, "By the way, do you know why Jilan teamed up with that girl from Class B?"

Jiro shook his head frankly, while Hagakure hesitated before saying, "I do know a little bit."

"Keep talking, Jilan won't care!" Mina Ashido urged.

Yaoyorozu, who was originally dressed like a dignified young lady, straightened up and listened attentively upon hearing this.

"That was at noon on the first day after the J incident, you guys remember? Jilan ran out as soon as class ended that day."

Uraraka nodded. "I remember that. After that, it seems like you went out after that, Hagakure- chan?"

"Actually, I went to follow them!" Toru Hagakure suddenly uttered a word that caught everyone off guard.

Having spent a long time with Midoriya, Uraraka has also learned to analyze things. She stroked her chin and said, "Tracking... Under normal circumstances, Hagakure is actually quite conspicuous. After all, anyone would take a second look if they suddenly saw a piece of clothing floating around. If you want to track someone, it's like a battle. Hagakure has to take off his clothes."

"Ahem," Toru Hagakure hurriedly waved his hand, "That's not important. What's important is, do you know what happened next? Jilan actually came to the door of Class B and gave that green-haired beauty a sum of money!"

Money, that is, transactions!?

The girls' breathing became heavy; they couldn't accept Toru Hagakure's shocking words. Even though they were only teenagers, in a society like Japan where pornographic books could be freely displayed in convenience stores, it was impossible for them not to understand this.

Mina Ashido coughed and said mysteriously, "Could it be... reinforcements?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yaoyorozu interrupted her, blushing as she continued to utter the word, and sternly reprimanded her, "Ashido, it's not good to gossip about classmates behind their backs. This kind of bad habit cannot be allowed to flourish in our class."

"Yaoyorozu-chan, were you on Jilan's back when you were going through the second obstacle course?" Asui calmly pointed out.

"Wow, that's right, I just remembered that!" Ashido exclaimed. "While we were struggling to climb up the ropes, you and Jilan used a pulley system to get through there together! That's so unfair!"

"Hey, there's a reason for that," Yaoyorozu panicked and hurriedly explained.

"Enough talk, take this!" Mina Ashido accurately scooped a round dumpling from the pot, stuffed it into Yaoyorozu's mouth with her chopsticks, and huffed, "Don't you need fat to use your Quirk? Now eat some more!"

"Hagakure, and you too! Don't you feel ashamed to be naked at school? You should change your name to Eve Ayumikawa!" Mina Ashido wanted to stuff a dumpling into Toru Hagakure's mouth, but she couldn't see her face and didn't know where to start.

"You're the Ayumikawa!" Toru Hagakure, seizing the opportunity to slap a nearly melted ice cream onto Ashido's lips, the milky white liquid dripping down her chin. "Don't you know how erotic your combat suit is!?"

"Damn it... I challenge you to a duel!"

"I want one too!"

Seeing the situation gradually spiraling out of control, Uraraka gave a wry smile, looked at the quietly sitting Kyoka Jiro, and said with a smile, "Jiro, you're going to Soul's concert tomorrow night, right? Can I go with you?"

Ever since Uraraka saw Jiro browsing concert posters, she had been looking for relevant information and discovered that the concert was the next night. She mustered up her courage and extended an invitation.

"With me?" Jiro had originally planned to go alone, paused for a moment. "I don't have any problem with that."

"Actually, I want everyone to go," Uraraka said with a wry smile, "But how can I send out invitations in this situation?"

Asui her head and said, "I would be so happy if Ochaco- chan invited me!"

"Then it's decided, the three of us will go together."

"Leaving aside those two, what about me? Are they going to abandon me?" Yaoyorozu pounded his chest, swallowed a dumpling, and asked pitifully.

"I thought someone like you, a young lady from a wealthy family, would never go," Uraraka smiled apologetically. "Then let's go together."