Unusual Outfits
"Kyoka, when do you think Momo and Tsuyu-chan will arrive?" Standing beneath the All Might statue at the subway station entrance, Uraraka, watching the time tick by, couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that they can't find our location?"
Jiro glanced at the crowd hurrying past him, seemingly unconcerned. "Uraraka, don't worry. The All Might statue in front of the subway station is a landmark comparable to Faithful Dog Hachiko. They won't get lost; something must have delayed them."
"Perhaps," Uraraka gave a wry smile, then suddenly asked Kyoka Jiro with some curiosity, "Kyoka, when did you start liking this kind of band?"
"This is due to family reasons, isn't it?" Jiro didn't hide anything. "My father is a composer, and my mother used to be the lead singer of a band. He was so enamored with my mother's musical talent that he even had a big fight with his family, gave up his surname, and married into my mother's family."
Uraraka said softly, "Then your father must love your mother very much."
"Hmm." Jiro nodded. "Ever since she became pregnant with me, my mother stopped being the lead singer and started studying the songs that had been burned with my father. In their words, it's 'musical archaeology.' I've grown up surrounded by this style of music and have come to love it."
"By the way, Kyoka, shouldn't your mother and the others really like this kind of song? Why didn't they come?"
Jiro glanced at Uraraka. "They're away on a business trip right now, so if it weren't for your invitation, I might have come alone."
Uraraka laughed too, then suddenly raised her hand high, a look of surprise on her face, and called out loudly, "Tsuyu-chan, over here, over here!"
Like a lost frog, Asui stood bewildered in the middle of the road, dressed in a plain dress. Upon hearing Uraraka's voice, she immediately ran over.
"Uraraka-chan, how long have you been here?" Asui, blushing slightly. "My younger siblings kept asking to go out and play, and it took me ages to coax them away."
The Asui family has several children, and she is the eldest, so she needs to shoulder more responsibility.
"Tsuyu-chan has had a tough time too," Uraraka asked with a wry smile. "By the way, have you seen Bai Lai?"
"Yaoyorozu-chan?" Asui took a step to the side, letting Jiro and Uraraka see the scene behind her. "She's been here for a while."
Yaoyorozu was dressed in a gorgeous kimono with intricate patterns, and her hair was styled in an updo like that of a noblewoman. She held her hands together in front of her, carrying a small handbag. Although she had already seen Uraraka and the others, her wooden clogs made it difficult for her to walk.
After a long while, Yaoyorozu finally managed to squeeze through the crowd and stand before them, offering an apologetic smile to the group who were already in a daze. "Sorry I'm late."
"We're not late, we met an hour before the concert started," Uraraka was the first to snap out of her daze, shaking her head sharply, then looking at Momo Yaoyorozu again as if she couldn't believe her eyes, "I just didn't expect you to be dressed so formally, Momo."
Momo Yaoyorozu glanced at herself, feeling a little strange. "Is this too formal? Mom said this is my first time going out with classmates, I should dress more simply."
Is this really so simple? I guess I just don't understand the aesthetics of rich people! Several people silently complained to themselves.
With a forced smile, Uraraka said, "Now that we've all gathered, let's head to the performance venue."
Judging from the concert tickets, the concert will be held at the Seaside Park at 8 PM. The park used to be a filthy place, but after U.A. High School came to teach at All Might, miraculously, all the garbage there was cleaned up without anyone noticing. Now it has even become a popular dating spot for couples, and many open-air concerts have been held there.
As the initiator of this gathering, Uraraka had naturally made plans in advance.
"We just need to get off at the next stop and take a bus to the Seaside Park; it will only take half an hour in total."
Although they attracted a lot of attention on the subway, most people were just looking at Momo Yaoyorozu with curiosity. A few passersby recognized them as students from U.A. High School and even came up to talk to them.
"I didn't expect that we would also become celebrities," Wabuki said with a sigh after exiting the subway station.
Uraraka, standing at the front of the group, suddenly turned around and said with a somewhat frightened and awkward smile, "We've only received a little attention, but if we were in the same car as these people in front of us, I don't think we'd receive any attention at all."
When Asui and Yaoyorozu looked up, they were instantly stunned.
Before the group of several people, dozens of people were scattered around the subway station. There were well-dressed gentlemen, black men with braids, punks with colorful mohawks and ripped jeans, and a group of middle-aged women in black stunt uniforms carrying wooden swords.
In short, it's a chaotic scene, like a massive gathering of people from all walks of life.
Upon seeing the four people emerge from the subway station, everyone turned their gaze in their direction.
"Hey, Jiro, they won't attack us, will they?" Uraraka asked worriedly. Those wolf-like eyes were terrifying!
Jiro glanced at them and calmly said, "Don't worry, this is normal. They're just observing which group we belong to."
The young lady in a kimono, Asui and Uraraka in ordinary clothes, and Kyoka Jiro in her usual jacket.
Jiro walked to the front of the group, took the four tickets from Uraraka, and held them between his middle finger to show those who were looking at them, indicating that they had come alone and were not part of any organization.
Jiro's attire allowed him to easily blend into the atmosphere, and those people lost interest after just one glance, returning to their heated discussion.
The bus stopped under the street sign, but only a few individuals reacted and walked towards the bus. The others merely glanced at it indifferently, seemingly having no intention of getting on.
"Aren't the others getting on the bus? Waiting for the next one might make them late, right?"
"Let's go first," Jiro said. "These guys are waiting for the rest of their members. Since most of them communicated online beforehand, they probably haven't met many times before, so they need distinctive features to identify them." Jiro paused, then continued, "Besides, underground bands like these often don't perform on time, so Uraraka, you don't need to worry about them being late."
Once here, it felt like Jiro was on his home turf, and he knew all about these things like the back of his hand.
Seeing the gleam in Jiro, Uraraka suddenly laughed, "If Kyoka hadn't Kyoka here this time, we would have been completely lost, wouldn't we?"
Jiro's earlobes suddenly turned red, and he quickly turned around, pretending to be calm, and said, "This was the one I wanted to come in the first place, it's no big deal, let's get in the car quickly."
The bus driver watched as all sorts of strangely dressed people boarded the bus, seemingly indifferent to life and death, as if it were nothing unusual. After Uraraka and her companions found their seats and settled down, she suddenly overheard a conversation between several middle-aged women behind her.
"Boss, your son won first place in the Sports Festival this time! Congratulations!"
"What's there to congratulate? That brat called me an old woman today. He just got into U.A. High School. I think he's forgotten how I usually discipline him!"
The Sports Festival champion—could it really be such a coincidence that U.A. High School?