Double Shura Field
Seeing the worried, surprised, and anxious gazes fixed on her, Jilan felt a headache coming on. She wasn't good at telling stories, and besides, she hadn't rehearsed her story with anyone else. It would be awkward if her version didn't match up with theirs...
Just as Jilan was feeling troubled, a girl he didn't know came to his rescue. "Um, let's find a coffee shop. It's a bit hot, let's sit down and talk slowly."
"That's true..." Uraraka nodded in agreement, "Our presence at the exhibition hall entrance will cause trouble for the greeters."
"By the way, Jilan, you came here to visit the exhibition hall, right?" Kyoka Jiro pointed to the entrance of the exhibition hall, "I wouldn't mind accompanying you on another tour..."
"No, the things here are probably too valuable for me to ever use in my life, so it's better not to look." Jilan casually made up an excuse and turned her gaze to the girl who had come to her rescue. "Hello, I'm Jilan Jiyu, their classmate. May I ask who you are?"
"Eh, me?" The girl paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "My name is Melissa. My dad and Izuku's companion are good friends. I'm showing Izuku IIsland right now."
"Izuku- kun, you call me so intimately..." Uraraka muttered to herself, her eyes half-closed for some reason.
Ignoring Uraraka's mutterings, Midoriya excitedly introduced the facility to Jilan: "Yes, that's right. Melissa's father is a very capable researcher. Most of the scientific equipment in this facility was invented by him!"
Izuku Midoriya's companion... needless to say, it must be that person. Possessing formidable scientific abilities and being good friends with that person... A thought struck Jilan, recalling what Heavenly Eye had mentioned during the luggage inspection—it was precisely because a highly respected scientist tirelessly promoted All Might that the people on this island knew so much about All Might's deeds...
Jilan nodded thoughtfully. "Your father is David. David Hilde, right? I respect him very much."
David Heard, a leading figure in the field of Quirk research who won the Nobel Quirk Prize, was All Might's partner during his time in the United States. All of All Might's battle suits were made by this doctor with an outstanding scientific mind, which is inextricably linked to All Might's title of "Symbol of Peace".
However, it seems that apart from Midoriya, Momo Yaoyorozu All Might, and Yaoyorozu, a know-it-all, the other people don't seem to have much of an affinity for this name.
"David. David Hilde, so he's the inventor of those devices! That's amazing!"
Melissa seemed to have no intention of hiding anything, smiling generously as she said, "I also think my father is very capable. However, my father is just one part of this island. These achievements are inseparable from the contributions of other unsung scientists."
"She's the daughter of a famous scientist, yet she's so humble. Doesn't that make my chances of winning even smaller...?" Uraraka muttered to herself, seemingly lost in thought.
As Melissa described the surrounding facilities, the group walked around and soon arrived at the entrance of a coffee shop, where they sat down at a table under a parasol.
"I come to this 'Totsuki Café' often; every kind of coffee here is delicious," Melissa said with a smile.
Totsuki Café... isn't this the meeting place the card said we should meet?
Just as Jilan was thinking this, a sleazy-sounding voice rang out behind him. "Madam, I think that guy you're talking about is really ungrateful. A beautiful lady like you asking him out is already giving him enough face, and that guy actually dared to refuse?! If I encountered such a scumbag, I would definitely use my Sticky Grape to stick that guy to the carpet, so that every passerby could step on him!"
Jilan silently turned her head and saw Minoru Mineta, who was speaking passionately and boastfully. He was dressed as a waiter and was fawning over a young woman wearing a sun hat. For some reason, Jilan subconsciously touched her face.
The woman chuckled, "Heh, if that guy were as sensible as you, I wouldn't be sitting here all alone..."
"Is this an indication that I have a chance?!" Minoru Mineta exclaimed excitedly. "Miss, if you don't have a partner, I could..."
"Mineta -kun, what a coincidence!" Ochaco Uraraka noticed Minoru Mineta and greeted him before he could finish speaking. Upon hearing this, Minoru Mineta turned his head and looked in their direction.
Who is it?! Who's so inconsiderate as to bother me?! Minoru Mineta turned his head in annoyance and exclaimed, "Uraraka, Midoriya, Yaoyorozu, Jiro, and Jilan, you guys are all together?!"
Minoru Mineta's surprised shout made the woman next to him turn her head, allowing Jilan to see her face. She was also an acquaintance of Jilan's; her name was Camie Utsushimi.
Utsushimi Jilan, her expression changed from surprise to shyness, and then from shyness to excitement. She pulled out a chair and rushed towards Jilan with outstretched arms. "Darling, I've been waiting for you for so long! I knew you would change your mind and be with me again!"
"Stay away from me." Jilan said with a dark face, reaching out to cover Camie Utsushimi's face with her palm, making her a meter away from her so her palm couldn't reach her.
No wonder I felt something was off; those words she just said were directed at me... To have myself glued to the carpet and ridden by a thousand men, Minoru Mineta, you really came up with a brilliant idea.
Seeing the female customer he had just been courting suddenly pounce on Jilan, Minoru Mineta's face turned ashen. "Could it be that what I said about executing someone was actually about you Jilan, the squad leader...? Actually, I was just bluffing, do you believe me?"
"What do you think?" Jilan gave Minoru Mineta a "friendly" smile, then looked at Camie Utsushimi with disdain. "Let's get this straight, I just borrowed an invitation from you. What kind of excuse is that, and using a word like 'darling'..."
"Jilan, that's not good to treat girls like that, is it?" Momo Yaoyorozu smiled through her tense expression. "You know, ladies care a lot about their image and would never do something like yelling and lunging at a man..."
The subtext of Yaoyorozu's words was that Camie Utsushimi wasn't a lady. Camie Utsushimi, understood. She rubbed her face against Jilan's hand a few times before pulling away, crossed her arms, and looked at Momo Yaoyorozu with haughty eyes. "We two are a perfect match, a match made in heaven. How dare you, some nobody, object?"
"Jilan, is that so? Are you two in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship?" Yaoyorozu asked Jilan with Yaoyorozu smile.
Although she was smiling, Jilan sensed that Yaoyorozu was gathering power, as if she could create an atomic bomb from her chest to destroy the world if she said the wrong thing.
"I'm not familiar with her." Jilan silently distanced herself from Camie Utsushimi.
Utsushimi, unconvinced, she retorted, "How could we not be familiar? You clearly called her 'Little Sweetie' yesterday..."
"Stop, you said that before..." Jilan couldn't help but stop her, "To avoid further misunderstanding, let's clarify things now."