Chapter 34: Internship, Part 1

(Reason for chapters coming out slower: Long story short, I do not like myself, and the rest is stuff that I don't feel important enough to say.)

(Chikyu Trivia: Chikyu is a bit of a local legend around the city near the lodge where he and the Pussycats live, which I am from now on going to refer to as Shintun. His power has been known for years, and they take pride in someone that powerful being part of such a small area)

As Chikyu approached Tidal Force, he took note of the way the agency was built.

For starters, it was near the ocean, which made nothing but sense, seeing as Ryujin often operated in or near open waters.

Another thing to note was that there were several elemental themed workers around. He saw ones themed around fire, some themed around water, and he even saw a few based on air and lightning. But he didn't see any earth themed ones.

Keeping his thoughts to himself for now, he entered. There, he saw a receptionist.

The receptionist was an attractive blonde man with short hair and blue eyes.

(Image)

Chikyu approached the receptionist and told him that he was the student who was there for the internship.

"Oh, you're Chikyu then! I'll call Ryujin down now, please wait in the meanwhile.". the receptionist said.

Chikyu did as he asked and waited. A few minutes later, a beautiful man with gorgeous long blue hair wearing a plain white shirt. black jeans and sandals arrived.

"Sup! You must be the student who took my offer for an internship!", he said.

He held a hand out to Chikyu for him to shake, which he took.

"Name's Muryo Shio! I'm gonna be teaching you everything I know and then some, so get ready and we'll officially start!", he continued.

Chikyu could already tell that he was a rather chill person, which he liked. He often clashed with people who were nothing but strict.

Chikyu went to a dressing room and got changed into his hero outfit, joining Ryujin near the entrance of the agency shortly after. Ryujin was still wearing the same outfit, but now he had a golden watch on his right hand. Ryujin noticed Chikyu's gaze on it.

"Oh, you'll get to see what that is as soon as we come across some villains. It's pretty sick, and you'll think so too once you see. Anyways, come on, let's patrol the area while we talk"

And so, they set out on patrol for the first time, looking for villains. In the meanwhile, Shio began a conversation.

"So, you're the student who won this year's first-year sports festival! You were pretty impressive, ya know. Not once did it seem like you struggled."

"Truth be told, I didn't. I could tell that none of the people I faced had anything over me that they could use, which was disappointing. I want to make sure that by the time the next festival happens, they all have far more battle experience and combat skill. But I do have some hopes for a few specific students."

"Oh, really? Who?"

"For starters, the first one I faced: Mezo Shoji. He's got the potential to be a physical powerhouse who can lay out villains in single strikes, he just needs more experience as well as some martial arts training."

"Oh yeah, he was the dude who kept making extra organs. Pretty interesting quirk, wonder how far it could be taken."

"Another one who has a lot of potential is Tokoyami, the one who had the shadow beast under his control. With some hand to hand combat to fall back on in the case of a villain getting too close and better use of his shadow ally, he could become an unstoppable ranged combatant."

"Ah, the edgy bird dude. Yeah, Quirks like that are rare, and are more often than not pretty powerful when used correctly."

Before the two could make any more conversation, Shio held his hand up and pointed ahead of him, Chikyu following his sights to where he was pointing.

It was the classic scene: Armed villains with ski masks, some with quirks and some without.

"Now I get to show ya what this watch does."

Shiro pressed on the clock of the watch, and a golden armor started to appear on him over his normal clothing bit by bit.

(Basically that scene from Infinity War where Tony presses his chest and his suit appears on him)

(What he looks like. I only showed it now because I didn't have a pic for what he would look like in casual wear)

In a blaze, Shio summoned water tendrils around him and wrapped them around the legs of all the villains, dangling them from high up. They surrendered very quickly when he threatened to drop them.

And just like that, it had been resolved. Chikyu knew that if this had been him before completing his trials, that would have been almost unseeable with how quickly he summoned the tendrils and used them. But since he had, he was able to see everything and understand exactly what happened.

It was at that moment that Chikyu knew he had made the right choice.