Chapter 42: Shattered Reputation ( Season 2 )

Pray. Pray for safety. 

This was the slogan spreading throughout Japan. But before we can talk about this slogan we must first explain the cause of it. To do this, we must go back. To the night, Ricolo met his vicious demise...

In the middle of the night, the sound of hurried footprints, rang out, as Eraserhead sprinted through a street, his scarf bobbling up and down, as the pouring hail engulfing him softened, slowly fading away. Until it eventually stopped as soon as Eraserhead stood above a flickering light pole, which had been snapped in half. 

The light pole was covered in faint traces of blood, which was almost completely washed away by hail. But...Eraserhead wasn't focused on this, instead. His eyes were tightly fixated on a twisted body, of a young woman, buried under a pile of rubble. Her hand was sticking out, her fingers bloody, and her palm covered in deep lacerations.

" What the hell happened? " 

Eraserhead said, dashing towards the deceased woman, kneeling next to her before grabbing onto her hand, slowly pulling her out of the pile. Revealing a woman unknown to Eraserhead but familiar to us. It was Chiyo. Lifeless, her pupils were glazed over. With a large hole in her chest. 

The woman's body was still warm, telling Eraserhead that she had been dead for only a few minutes at most. Sensing the unstable predicament he was in. Eraserhead quickly pulled out his phone, tapping on it, calling a number. 

" Hey. It's Eraserhead. The location you sent me. Has bodies. I don't know exactly what happened but send other pro heroes. I'm going to go investigate it. "

Before the voice could respond Eraserhead ended the call, turning on the flashlight in his phone and walking past Chiyo's corpse. He took several steps, before he walked past a destroyed wall, reaching the edge of a massive area of rubble. Entire buildings were destroyed. Metal beams stuck out alongside a handle. Noticing this handle, Eraserhead reached down grabbing onto it, pulling the object out. 

" A sickle? The damn thing is covered in blood. " 

Mumbled Eraserhead, as he continued to walk, his eyes glancing at the countless barely standing buildings. " Looks like a damn warzone. What the actual hell happened? " 

Right when Eraserhead said this. At the very end of his flashlight, he saw something, the silhouette of a dead body embedded into a far-away wall. He swiftly headed towards it, seeing Akane's head dangling down, staring at the floor.

Reaching out his hand, Eraserhead gradually grabbed onto Akane's wrist feeling that she had no pulse but just like Chiyo, her body was warm.

" I was late by mere minutes. If I had arrived sooner. Maybe I could have stopped this. " 

Eraserhead could only sigh, as he turned around and walked away from the corpse, he walked through the rubble for countless minutes, before he reached another body, seeing Lekio's body. He could only glare down at it, before walking over it.

Eraserhead was following the trail of dead bodies. Hoping to find a survivor. But unsurprisingly, he didn't. He only found a body, far away from the others. But unlike the ones before it. This one made a shocking revelation sprint through Eraserhead's mind. Staring down at Kiro's body. His eyes glanced over towards a massive sniper rifle, lying on the ground. 

" Sniper? This man was a sniper? Just like the one that shot Ricolo during the cavalry battle. Did Ricolo fight these people? Or is it all just coincidence...No, it can be. " As Eraserhead's mind raced, he heard the sound of footsteps approaching him, making him turn around. Revealing midnight who walked towards him. 

" What is going on? " She asked. 

" Some type of massive battle. Guessing from the amount of area destroyed. The combatants were all skilled. And if my theory is right. Ricolo is one of them. " 

" Ricolo?... Before Midnight finished her sentence her eyes locked onto the massive sniper on the ground, making her heart drop instantly. Just like Eraserhead, the same thought process ran through her mind. Before she spoke. 

" There's no point in talking. We need to get an autopsy on the corpses. "...

The autopsy that Midnight requested. Would reveal several things. One, just like what Eraserhead figured out. The bodies died mere minutes before Eraserhead arrived. Two, the muscles of the victims were strained, indicating that they had been fighting using all of their might for a considerable amount of time. Three, the majority of gashes/bruises on the victims' bodies were hit exactly at the same spot, over and over again. Four, a total of 4 bodies were found at the crime scene. And finally, five, throughout all of the corpses, a different blood than the victims was found covering their cloaks, unfortunately for the forensic pathologist who did the autopsies, the blood was not on record. 

With some new knowledge of the situation, Eraserhead's theory of Ricolo being a part of this grand battle grew to be more truthful. Mainly due, to the injuries on the body. Only one quirk that Eraserhead knew of, would allow someone to hit the same spot over and over again. That being Ricolo's. Factored with, unknown blood. Eraserhead almost fully believed that Ricolo was a part of it. 

Eraserhead told Nezu his opinion on the situation a day after the incident. Which would result in the U.A. announcing that their student Ricolo was part of a dangerous battle during the powerful thunderstorm last night. And had gone missing. Unsurprisingly, due to the already rough public opinion on the U.A. because of the USJ attack, telling the public that one of their students had gone missing, entirely shattered their reputation, and possibly could convince some students' parents to unenroll them from the school.

Fearing this. All Might and other teachers promised to meet the student's parents to fully explain the situation to them. After this, a slogan or a sentiment. Was created by the parents " Pray. Pray for safety. " In turn slightly mocking the U.A. for their history of inexcusable safety failures such as being attacked by villains. And to pray for Ricolo's safe return. 

However, we both know this isn't possible. And, the U.A. could only pray to themselves, that this would be the final attack on their school or one of their students... 

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