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>"I suppose so. It certainly weakened his control enough to let us strike him once." He continues, wiping his brow at the memory. "That broke his focus completely. We weren’t going to risk expulsion, and so decided against using our quirks. Bakugo used his bare hands instead. I took the camera from where he had dropped it, and called the police to retrieve the villain after Bakugo was done. We left him zip-tied to be picked up."
"You just left?" You feel like a shoddy spy on a radio call, repeating what people just said back to them as a question.
>"It seemed like a good idea at the time, not risking any chance of being accused of vigilantism." He says, looking… angry? No doubt about that as it’s the only emotion that Shoto really allows to come out relatively freely, but you usually get the reason for it. "However, after seeing what this contains, it would be simply wrong not to turn it in. Even if a prison sentence was a certainty from a police extracted confession, his victims deserve justice."
"Ah'm not checkin', but Ah'm fairly sure the evidence of serially commitin’ that kind of evil, especially with a quirk could be enough to get a life-long sentence." You guess. "Good."
>“I’ll be on my way now too. I meant it that I didn’t wish to intrude more than I already have and now I know you are also in the middle of hosting. I will see you both tomorrow for school and the end of term ceremony.” Shoto bookends your talk by moving back toward the street while giving a light bow.
Days like yesterday do a fine job of making you almost forget you still have a school routine to return to. Then again, there are some days off from that right on the horizon.
"See you then sugah!" You give your goodbyes, waving at him alongside Pony. As he turns to leave the neighborhood, you make your way back to your front entrance, reflecting on what you learned this morning combined with what went down yesterday afternoon.
It feels like you missed out on making some sort of 'twinsies' joke about it: Deku and you held by the creepy Shigaraki, Shoto and Bakugo in the clutches of a creep of their own… Then again, each of you had your personal space heavily violated so it’s probably better that you hadn’t.
From what you’ve gathered, it doesn’t seem like it was a coordinated attack, but it does make you ponder if Bakugo interrogated his criminal for any leads as he pulverized him. You doubt he would have left that question completely unanswered, for his own pride more than anything else.
Not that you have the chance to ask him now that he’s run off to… somewhere you know? Wherever that is, you’d have to find him there or catch him at school to ask if the perp mentioned Shigaraki or the League of Villains at all in between blows…or that other name that Mr. Clammy-hands mentioned as he escaped. What was it again? Maybe Midoriya can hel-
