Chapter 4: Careers

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Volume 1 - Chapter 1: Careers

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"Yes, sensei."

"Ne, Tsukada-sensei." said Momo as she attracted her teacher attention on her as well as the other student who were curious. Tsukada simply raised his eyebrow in silence as he waited for Momo to continue her question. Momo saw Tsukada's silent confirmation as she naturally asked her question.

"Sensei, why did you come to teach at U. A? I thought you'll be more busy with the Gates and the coffee shop." asked Momo, as she was very curious about how Tsukada would have time to teach and manage the store at the same time.

The other students were also curious about it. After all, Nascita is a very popular coffee shop at Musutafu, with many people lining up very early every day. So they could understand Momo's surprise seeing Tsukada, a popular coffee shop owner and a hero having time at U. A

"Ah, don't think too much about it. The coffee shop is nothing more but a hobby of mine and Principal Nezu asked me to be here as a favor." said Tsukada easily before closing his mouth to think about the Gates part of her question.

"As for the Gates..., it's difficult for sensei to enter one without a guild backing him up, so most of the time I'm dealing with outbreaks or villain." said Tsukada as he shrug in helplessness. No way, if he could, he would also want to enter those Gates to farm his points and draw more prize in the gacha.

He was very helpless about it, as he didn't join or have a guild. Generally, after a space cracks stabilize by itself after a period, it will become a Gate that will become the link with the Earth and the dimension behind it. After a group enters the Gate, it would be locked from the Earth side and will be unlocked after a party wipe or defeating the BOSS monster.

While those gates are dangerous, they are also filled with many treasures that are useful for humans. So that's why many people will take this risk to enter and change their destiny.

That's also why those [Guild] are willing to spend millions on pre-ordering those gates and especially high ranked one. So that's why independent hero is helpless with gate hunting. While it is possible to party with random through the government app, most of those gates are low ranked, ranged from E~G. (Gates Ranks: S, A, B, C, D, E, F, G with G being the lowest)

These gates/awakeners/quirks are now being dealt with by the [World Heroes Association] that was founded after the war. The W.H. A is a union of all countries on Earth. Many regulations were changed, added, removed in every single country. Of course, some country could change to an extant some rules for their own country in their own consideration but have to be approved by the W.H. A own channel.

So the old Tsukada without a party with him couldn't challenge those gates, but he got invited by some friends he made in his long life as a hero.

"Ehhh, I didn't know it would be so hard to enter a gate." pouted Mina as she listened to Tsukada education on [Gates] regulation.

"Yeah, that's disappointing, not manly at all." said Eijiro 'Oi, oi, what do you mean by not manly at all, you muscle brain,' thought Tsukada with a headache. The students were very interested in the current subjects to keep asking him more questions. While it might be a hassle for Tsukada, he didn't mind gaining more affections with the main characters of this world.

"I honestly didn't think a Guild would matter that much sensei." said Midoriya with a pensive face. 'Me neither, me neither, young Midoriya,' thought Tsukada with a sigh.

"That's why it's important for you guys to choose your specialisation in the future." said Tsukada with a sigh that got approved by Aizawa's own sigh.

"....?"

"What do you mean by that sensei?" asked Hagukure as she raised her hand as Midoriya suddenly exclaimed that attracted everyone's attention on him. Midoriya became shy from the sudden attention of everyone, making Tsukada speechless.

"Looks like classmate Midoriya knows something about it. Do you want me to explain or?" asked Tsukada tentatively as he didn't want to waste Midoriya's chance to showoff his knowledge in front of his classmate.

"N-N-no it's okay sensei you can explain it." stuttered Midoriya as he covered his red face with his hands. Tsukada shook off his head as Midoriya really missed his time to pretend to be forceful.

"I hope you can become less shy in the future, Midoriya. Sensei is saying for your own good."

"..."

"Haii, sensei..."

"Anyway, as I was saying in your second year at UA, you need to make a decision that would affect your career as a hero. You will have two paths to choose from, Hunters and the traditional Heroes."

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"Hunters?" said everyone in puzzlement as they waited for Tsukada to explain it further. Tsukada naturally saw their doubt, so he didn't waste time as he continued to explain it.

"That's right [Hunter]! They are basically hero that are specialised in clearing [Gates] appearing all over the world! While the traditional hero route is the same career before the [Gates] became mainstream."

"But, sensei, why don't we call them Hunter instead?" asked Mina curiously as the other student nodded along.

"Well, mostly because the world is already used to call people with special ability as [Hero] and didn't want to complicate it for just a new group of power users. Personally, I think it's better for the PR to call someone [Hero] than [Hunter] as it can associate it with hunting animals or something." explained Tsukada for his curious students.

""Ohhh""" exclaimed the students as some of them were very interested in clearing [Gates]

"But be careful while they might be a [Hunter] it doesn't mean they can't take part in doing their hero stuff vis-versa." added Tsukada as he didn't want to confuse them as they didn't join UA for long.

"But! sensei, how can we decide that? I don't know what to choose." asked Momo with doubt as she knew about [Hunter] as the Yaoyozuru Family funded a lot of guilds in Japan and their own.

"That's a good question, Yaoyozuru-san. Don't worry about it. The school will organize a lot of training experience in both fields during your first and second year. So you can have an idea what to choose at your 3rd and last year at UA." said Aizawa as he woke up from his nap and explained it instead of Tsukada, who just joined UA staff.

"We will also collaborate with many Guild in Japan during the gates experiences." announced Aizawa after he thought about it. They were going to know about it eventually, so might as well announce it directly since they were on the right subject.

"OOOH"

"THAT'S AWESOME!"

"I CAN'T WAIT TO MEET MY IDOLS."

"I can't wait to meet the Sevens Fairies Guild hehe." said a pervert grapes as he drooled while ignoring the contempt from his classmate.

It did not surprise Tsukada by their reactions. Nowadays, you can find livestream/episode on the internet or TV from guilds all over the world. The technology in MHA naturally boomed after the wars. Many countries funded their scientific researches after the fiascos during the wars.

They couldn't afford to ignore it after they saw that Quirk users were not enough to protect their own country. So many inventions emerged one after another as it contributed to society. Naturally, being able to stream a guild clearing a gate became possible after some times.

Their cheerful mood calmed down after a few minutes of crying and exclamation. After they calmed down, Tsukada saw a raised hand from Tsuyu Asui, the frog girl. Tsukada simply nodded at her as she asked her question. "Sensei, I wanted to know what career did you choose?"

"Ah?... I honestly didn't have a choice back then, you know. As one of the future generation after the war, most combative awakener/quirk were drafted to become [Hunter]. Fortunately, it got stabilize after a few years with you guys being able to choose your own career." said Tsukada with melancholy.

He naturally knew where this feeling came from his own body and additional sets of memory from the old Tsukada. It was also the main reason the old Tsukada became someone who couldn't express his emotion.

While they fended off the invasion, many gates were still there. So after the suicide group came back with a stone that could awaken ability from quirkless person. Many teenagers/kids were trained to replace the old generation and Tsukada was one of this generation of awakeners.

He lost many comrades and friends during this part of his life. It was a tremendous blow for the old Tsukada. Aizawa closed his eyes as he heard his friend's sadness. Unfortunately, he couldn't help his friend during his gate clearing, as his quirk was only useful for another quirk.

The students naturally felt the heavy mood as they became silent. Tsuyu panicked as she apologized in panic.

"Don't worry, Asui-san, just some bad memories, but all I can say is it's being a [Hunter] is difficult."

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