27 Chapter 27

With 50,000 yen I had significantly more options. However, I earmark a significant portion of that money for rent. There was a dorm/hostel near the outskirts of the city that was super cheap, but I had written off any places I would have to pay too much for. It's popular with students who move here for school specifically UA. Kids will move here months before the UA test then leave. Either because they didn't make it and no longer need to be here. Or because they did make it in and therefore can afford a better apartment. This means outside of summer it sees very little business. It's right next to the train station if I get a train pass or I can continue to run everywhere. But I should be able to get a room there for 30,000 a month. In the morning I have some free time before meeting back at Kawaguchi's office. I think I'll go rent a room there at least for this month.

My night is incredibly unproductive as I don't know what I can productively do. I head the dump/beach looking around for anything cool, but it is just a dump and without some serious digging I couldn't find anything. I spend most of the night just relaxing by the ocean. Thinking about what I've done so far. What I will be doing.

There's nothing forcing me to be a hero, but I'm not going to be a villain especially with the power structure that the league of villains has. Also, they're basically just anarchists with no real goal besides overthrowing hero society. Not that I think it's perfect or even good. Just thinking about Endeavor makes me furious, but the solution isn't to replace a bad system with no system or an even worse system. With Villain eliminated as an option that leaves Hero, Civilian, and Vigilante. Vigilante is out because it's like being a hero, but with none of the legal, financial, or training support just worse than being a hero in every way. I guess you're hypothetically more free with methods, but heroes are already pretty free to do whatever they want. As long as someone poses a clear and imminent danger a hero can kill or maim them with no real legal repercussions. They don't for a moral reason and because it makes them look bad for the public. But the fact that heroes can do that means there are very few of any benefits of being a Vigilante. Then the final alternative is being a civilian. Which poses 2 problems first I'm only marginally safer. I'm still pretty likely to run into villains during their attacks, however, now they'll be taking me by surprise. I won't have any information and my most legal recourse is to run away. I'll only be switching chasing danger as a hero for danger finding me as a civilian. That's not to mention hiding away as a civilian might cause me more forced drawbacks for my next jump. The 10 years of being significantly disadvantaged are enough for me. I know with all of my physical and mental abilities I have abilities equal to or greater than most quirks, but I have nothing truly exceptional at the moment. I'll have to handle people with moderately strong quirks intelligently working around their specific weaknesses. Then there are people with truly strong quirks like All for One or One for All. I need to figure out some way to compete with powers at that scale or at the very least find a way to reliably run away from them.

As the sun starts to rise I go on a bit of a shopping spree. I go to a pharmacy/corner store and buy essentials like toothpaste, toothbrush, deodorant, etc. Then I go to a cell phone carrier and try to purchase a plan for a flip phone with texts and calls only. That kind of plan was cheap back in the early 2000s but now that plan doesn't even exist. Cellular data is so ubiquitous I can't even find a plan without it. For 3,000 yen a month, about what I was expecting to pay for the flip phone with only texts and calls, I got an older model smartphone with 20gb of data a month. Happy with my phone plan I set out towards the out of prefecture student housing. Its run by a surprisingly nice old couple renting the building after their kids moved out. This time of year is usually their slowest time and this year is especially bad. As in no renters at all bad. The new school year just started, so the kids who were accepted to nearby schools moved into nicer and closer buildings. The kids who weren't accepted just moved out and back home. I look around and the only thing really wrong with it is the location. The room I'd be renting is kind of small. Just enough room for a bed, desk, closet, and dresser. However, even though it's small it is an individual room. Plus it has communal amenities. Large shared living room, bathroom, laundry room, and kitchen. I need a place to stay and this place isn't bad so I pay for a 30,000 for the month. My room technically isn't safe from being rented to someone else next month or even to me but at an increased price, but I've got a couple of months before that starts becoming an actual concern. And when my money situation becomes a bit more stable I'll sign an actual lease.

After filling out some paperwork I drop off my stuff in my room get a quick shower before heading back to the offices for day two.