Sussy Baka in MHA-Chapter 69: Not a Good Start

|Many days later|

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Class 1-B stood in the middle of the train station, gathered around Vlad King as he gave them a final talk before they left for their respective internships.

"Alright, everyone remembered to bring their costumes, right?"

"Yes!" The class replied enthusiastically as they lifted their briefcases, showing where their costumes were packed.

Vlad King nodded, satisfied as he inspected everyone and made sure they had everything.

"Good. Now, remember that from now on you'll be going into a formal workplace, so be sure to mind your manners. This won't be school anymore." His eyes landed on a certain student who certainly lacked manners and, even now, was minding his own business rather than paying attention. "I'm talking to you, Suzuki."

Suzaku rolled his eyes. "Come on, teach, I'm the most mannered person you can find!"

"Bad-mannered, not well-mannered."

"There's a yang for a yin, a yin for a yang."

"That doesn't make sense, Suzuki."

"I tried, at least."

Sighing, Vlad King shook his head. "Well, at least the one you're interning under doesn't care much about such things..."

With that, Vlad King turned back to the class and clapped his hands.

"Well, since we're all set, I won't keep you here any longer. You're all dismissed!"

"Yes, sensei!" The class spoke in unison, and soon, everyone started splitting up, heading toward different platforms.

Suzaku, Itsuka, and Tetsutetsu stuck together for a while, at least until their trains arrived, since each of them was headed to a different location—some closer, others further away.

Suzaku, in particular, seemed to be traveling the farthest.

As they waited, sitting on some nearby seats, Tetsutetsu nudged Suzaku. "Hey, I heard you picked a solo hero! What's up with that?"

Suzaku shrugged. "Dunno, just thought it fit me best and wanted to experience it. So I picked the highest-ranked solo hero who sent me an offer and called it a day."

Itsuka tilted her head. "Which one?"

"No clue."

The two deadpanned. Somehow, they weren't even surprised.

Thankfully, Suzaku at least had some vague memory.

"I think her name was Quirko or something? Already forgot, honestly."

"Oh, Mirko?" Itsuka's eyes lit up.

Tetsutetsu's reaction was much stronger. His eyes went wide. "WHAT?! Mirko?! DUDE, SHE'S MANLY!"

Suzaku looked at him weirdly. "...What?"

Tetsutetsu pumped his fists. "I've seen her fight villains, man. She's brutal! In a way, she's like an underdog—her Quirk is supposed to give her bunny powers, but even then she fights like an absolute beast! And to top it off, she made it to the Top 10 all on her own! If that isn't manly, I don't know what is."

"Huh..." Suzaku blinked, a bit surprised by the description of this Mirko woman. "I figured she was a rescue hero or something. I mean... what do bunny powers even do? Super jumps?"

"Super kicks, dude. Her kicks are scary!"

Suzaku scratched the back of his head. "...Oh."

In hindsight, bunny powers giving enhanced leg strength did make sense. He didn't know why he had just narrowed it to jumps.

For a martial artist, that kind of Quirk would be amazing.

Of course, planet-busting superhuman strength would be even better, but that was a bit like hitting the lottery, so bunny powers looked pretty great too.

'Kinda makes me wish for some too. Stupid glasses, didn't even come with X-rays or something.'

As Suzaku cursed his Quirk, Tetsutetsu pulled out his phone. "Here, I'll show you a video—"

Suzaku held up a hand. "I'm not that curious. I'll just see it when I meet her."

"Huh? Well, if that's what you want..." Tetsutetsu shrugged, but as he glanced back at his phone, his eyes widened. "Oh crap, my train's already here! See you guys after all this internship stuff!"

With that, he waved and rushed toward his train, leaving Suzaku and Itsuka alone to wait for theirs.

As they continued waiting, Suzaku glanced at her. "So, where are you interning?"

Itsuka sighed, smiling wryly. "Turns out Uwabami actually sent me an offer. So I'm going there."

Suzaku stared blankly. "Who?"

She pulled out her phone and showed him some videos and photos. A blonde chick with three snakes on top of her head.

It wasn't even a Medusa-type thing—she just had three snakes sitting up there, like some sort of crown. What did they even do?

What's more, Itsuka was only showing him commercials or interviews of her, nothing about how her Quirk worked.

"Don't you, uh... have a video of her doing hero work?" he asked, a bit confused.

Itsuka let out another sigh. "There are, but they're kinda hard to find. She is a rescue-type hero, but most of her appearances are collaborations with brands."

Suzaku hummed. "So she's more of a celebrity than a hero." Though, internally, he was rubbing his chin in thought. '...Maybe I should've interned under her... Not that I know if she even sent me an offer.'

Itsuka groaned. "I just hope she actually brings me around to learn hero work and not just photoshoots or something. The more I looked into her, the worse I felt about this."

Suzaku nudged her with his elbow. "C'mon, it can't be that bad..."

A deep silence followed his words, making Suzaku's smile twitch.

"...But if it is, I'll just teach you whatever I learn when we get back."

Itsuka smiled softly. "I'll hold you to that."

Right then, her phone buzzed.

Her train had arrived.

She stood up, eyeing the train with dread as she turned to Suzaku. "Well, good luck with your internship. Hopefully, you chose right."

Suzaku nodded at her. "You too."

With that, she waved at Suzaku before walking off, leaving him as the last one waiting.

After a minute or so, his phone buzzed.

For a moment, Suzaku thought his train had arrived too, but when he checked, he saw a message instead.

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: Hey dude, I heard you're on your way to your internship.}

{You: Waiting for the train right now. Apparently, I'm going pretty far away.}

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: Which hero did you decide to intern for? I don't remember any who were that far from Tokyo. Most of the top ones stay close.}

{You: She was called Mirko or smth.}

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: HOLY SHIT}

Suzaku winced as Arata immediately started typing out a whole paragraph about why Mirko was so great—breaking down her fighting style, work habits, and coming up with an explanation about why she was so far away.

Most of it went over Suzaku's head, but what did stick was that Mirko moved around a lot between cities. So the reason he had to travel so far was simply because she happened to be far away right now.

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: I heard she might even climb into the Top 5 soon! How the heck did you land an internship with her?!}

{You: wdym? I beat everyone at the festival. What else could I have done?}

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: Yeah, but she's a solo hero, and one pretty focused on fighting alone too, so she's never taken any interns before. You're literally an unprecedented case.}

{You: I've been unprecedented since I was born.}

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: Sure, sure.}

A second later, Arata sent a sticker of a cartoonish All Might rolling his eyes.

Suzaku sneered at Arata's dismissal. Even though he said it to brag, he was indeed kind of an unprecedented case... Or at least he hadn't heard of any desmemorizedn't reincarnated individuals given power by a mysterious divine entity in the form of an amorph game character.

At least until now, who knew what would happen in the future?...

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: By the way, I heard you guys got your hero names a few days ago.}

{You: ye.}

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: Now that I think about it, you never told me if you had one in mind. So, what did you come up with?}

{You: Sussy Baka.}

{Nerdy kid of the weird hair: Sussy what?}

{You: Baka.}

Suzaku chuckled like an idiot as he stared at his phone.

Arata continued spamming texts, demanding an explanation Suzaku wasn't going to bother to give.

However, just as he was considering coming up with another made-up origin for that name, a notification popped up on his screen—his train had arrived.

"Well, let's see what this Mirko woman is all about."

With that, he slung the briefcase carrying his hero costume over his shoulder, and got on his way. Moments later, he boarded the train, leaning comfortably on his seat, and looking through the window as it began to move. Curious as to what would await him in this internship.

"Hopefully, nothing too troublesome."

And with those words leaving his mouth as he watched the train moving, leaving Tokyo behind, he departed to his new adventure—which was most certainly going to be troublesome.

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|Many hours later...|

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"Damn, I hate long trips," Suzaku muttered as he stepped off the train with his hero costume slung over his shoulder, and the rest of his things on his backpack, stretching his stiff body after spending quite a few hours seated.

While at it, he began eyeing the new place where he'd be doing his internship.

'It looks... Train-stationish.'

He was still in the station so there wasn't much to see.

However, after actually leaving the station and hitting the streets, he began taking in the city that would be his base of operations for the next week.

"It looks... city-ish."

After that clever observation, Suzaku sighed and pulled out his phone. "Well, let's see where this Mirko's agency is at. Sightseeing can come later, for now, I just want to unpack this stuff."

-Swoosh-

However, just as he was about to tap on Quirkgle Maps, a shadow blurred past, and the next second, his phone was gone.

Suzaku blinked, a bit confused, before turning to look in the direction the shadow had gone, spotting a thief running away with his phone in hand.

The guy had reptilian legs, like those of a Velociraptor—if the movies he'd seen were accurate—and with them, he was swiftly disappearing into the distance.

He stayed like that for a few seconds, processing what had just happened.

Then, he let out a sigh.

"This certainly isn't a good start."

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|Minutes later...|

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-Weee wooo weee wooo-

A team of paramedics loaded a badly injured and bruised man into an ambulance. His reptilian legs were broken, his teeth were missing, and both eyes were puffy and purple.

As the ambulance drove off, Suzaku stood nearby, surrounded by two police officers.

"Tell us exactly what happened, kid." One of the officers asked, notebook in hand.

"Well, I got here after a long trip and pulled out my phone to check where someone I'm supposed to meet was."

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"Then this guy swoops in and yoinks my phone. So, like a proper and distinguished citizen, I couldn't just let that slide. I caught up to him pretty easily and began imparting some good manners on him."

"You beat him up."

"It's a tough manner of learning."

The officer writing sighed, scratching his head with a troubled expression.

"Listen, kid, I hate to be this guy, but using your Quirk in public like that is against the law. Even if the guy was a thief, you should have waited for a hero and—"

"But I didn't," Suzaku said plainly, crossing his arms.

"Eh?"

"I imparted my lesson with my good ol' fists. No Quirks involved."

"Kid."

"Yes, respected officer?"

"How old are you?"

"Fifteen winters, dear officer."

"You want me to believe that a fifteen-year-old beat a fully grown man so badly he's probably gonna be in a coma for a few days—and without using a Quirk?"

"Indeed."

"..."

"..."

"... Well, I don't—"

"... Hold up, Tsubasa." The other policeman grabbed his shoulder.

"What now, Tanaka?"

He pointed at Suzaku, some excitement and nervousness sipping into his stoic police act. "I recognize him! He's the U.A. Sports Festival winner!"

"This kid?" The officer called Tsubasa turned to Suzaku in shock.

The redhead shrugged in response.

"Yeah! You said you couldn't see it at that time, right? Well, this kid was the winner!"

Officer Tsubasa frowned and turned back to his partner. "And what's his Quirk?"

"That... I don't know." Officer Tanaka scratched the back of his head before turning to Suzaku with a questioning look.

Only to see Suzaku's glasses shifting like waves, and changing colors like they were RGB.

""Oh.""

After that, Suzaku was made to board the patrol car so they could drive him to Mirko's agency—and discuss with her what he'd done while at it. She was, after all, the adult responsible for him during this internship period.

As he drove, officer Tsubasa shot Suzaku a look through the mirror.

"Listen, kid, even if you didn't use a Quirk to beat up that thief, you should've waited for a hero to take care of it."

"And risk losing my phone forever?"

The officer sweatdropped. "Well, what if that thief had a dangerous Quirk? You could've gotten seriously injured."

"Some random-ass thief? If he had a Quirk like that, he'd be doing something else instead of stealing my phone. Besides, haven't you heard? I won the Sports Festival. I'm simply a cut above the rest. Some lame thief isn't my opponent, dangerous Quirk or not."

Tsubasa deadpanned and turned to his partner. "Quite the attitude the winner has."

Tanaka laughed nervously. "He kinda acted the same in the festival..."

Tsubasa sighed before looking back at Suzaku through the mirror.

"What I'm trying to say, kid, is that you're still a kid. You shouldn't be handling things like this on your own. You can rely on us adults. Hah, maybe we can even find a peaceful solution without anyone getting hurt!"

His partner suddenly patted his shoulder. "Hey, captain, Mirko-san's current residency should be here."

Suzaku perked up and turned to look out the window, ready to see what the so-called Bunny Hero Mirko's base of operations looked like.

"Huh?"

Though, the only thing he saw outside was a bunch of thug-looking guys lying on the pavement while a slightly dark-skinned woman kicked them relentlessly.

"Come on, that was barely a fight! Get up!"

"Please stop! We surrender!"

"Tsk, bunch of weaklings."

After making sure none of them would be fighting back, Mirko finally relaxed and began paying attention to her surroundings—only to spot the patrol car approaching.

For a moment she raised an eyebrow, not expecting the police to have gotten there so quickly.

But when Suzaku and the officers stepped out, she got a gist of the situation, turning to look at Suzaku with a curious expression.

Due to that, a small silence settled between both sides. Like they were waiting for the other to speak first.

Until Suzaku did.

"Find a peaceful solution, huh?"

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-To be Continued...-

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(A/N: Sussy Baka meets Mirko, what could go wrong with this pair working together? Surely this will only be a normal and instructive week for Sussy Baka to learn the ropes of being a solo-working hero and improve further.)

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