46 Friendships and Invitation

As I was about to leave the canteen Snipe stopped me.

"You do realize that when you're back to work you're going to owe each of us a favour right?" I just rolled my eyes. These guys obviously had nothing better to do. It was summer break and most villains in the area were too scared to act.

If they didn't help me they would just be lazing around, like Aizawa would if he didn't have to be present for Eri's training.

But, as much as I joked around, I was honestly grateful for all of their help. Ever since I came here they had all been trying to make life a bit easier for me. Every one of them took my situation very seriously.

After getting to know me a bit better, they realised that my age wasn't very important. Unlike most teenagers, I wasn't bothered by anything happening around me.

That was mostly because I'm not actually a teenager, but they don't know that. To them, I'm a child that matured early due to his circumstances. They decided to treat me as an equal.

Therefore, even before this. I would've helped them without owing them a favour. Now I genuinely considered them friends.

Even Midnight. Behind all of her weirdness, I know she always means well.

"Sure, but keep in mind that I'll be a student this year." The only reason I'd be attending the general course is to get a high school diploma. I would try to graduate early, but then I'd have to work more.

Snipe nodded, just looked at me 'scornfully'. Majima just shook his head and left.

As a student, I can always use the studying excuse when I don't feel like doing something at UA. Heh, that favour will remain untouched for a long time.

After that quick exchange, I waved goodbye to my unpaid workers (friends) and continued to one of UA's facilities.

Eri was practising her quirk on fish, just like in the story. Aizawa was in his sleeping bag in a corner just looking in her direction.

He couldn't really do much besides giving her pointers and making sure her quirk didn't go haywire.

"Eri! Are you ready to head home?" I completely ignored Aizawa. He also ignored me.

Eri looked excited seeing me awake. Running and latched on to my shins, that was as far as she could reach. But I grabbed her and brought her up to my chest.

She hugged me a bit and said. "I'm glad you're awake Big Brother! Big sis was really worried about you..." Well, at least Eri is more honest than Rumi.

Eri wasn't calling us papa and mama. As cute as that would sound it would be a bit weird for Rumi to see Eri call me papa, at least for now.

Rumi was also reluctant to be called a mother, she was still young after all. Sure, many people already had children at her age, but she simply wasn't that kind of person.

The only reason she accepted Eri was that she was a bit moved by the little girl's cheerful attitude, especially after hearing her story. That and her liking me enough to not eject me out of her house after suggesting it.

"Sorry, I worried you two a bit," I said with a calming smile.

"I wasn't worried! I know big bro is strong!" Her eyes were shining a lot when saying that. I could tell she was being honest. She really trusted me a lot, I could tell she was being honest.

"People were talking bad about you on the television. Big sis got really angry." I just patted her head a bit. I hope she didn't hear anything weird from the news.

"Well, let's start going home." As I started to turn and leave Eri suddenly perked up.

"Thank you mister Aizawa!!" He just nodded and responded with a smile. Eri was a lot more polite than me. It was the first time in a while that I had seen the guy happy.

Last time he was happy was when Present Mic got chastised by Nezu for being too loud in a meeting. Oh well, I started walking, with Eri in one hand and the other on my chin.

How should I approach this situation? She will likely accept any type of invitation at this point. But I didn't want this to be underwhelming.

I also hope she won't try to kill me when she finds out the date will be held at a canteen. I mean, it doesn't sound sweet. But everyone worked hard at the end of the day.

I started flying towards our home. WAIT! Am I a squatter!? I just realized I never paid Rumi any rent for basically living in her house...

I'll worry about that later. Forming a protection screen out of light around Eri. I started flying at a manageable speed for her to enjoy the journey.

I couldn't really use light speed when I was carrying someone. Usually, when moving at that speed my body turns into light automatically.

If an actual human body were to be accelerated at that speed they would die instantly. Anything with mass would be destroyed actually.

Reaching the front door still only took a few minutes. Eri thanked me for the ride and excitedly skipped in the house.

I just followed her inside, hesitantly.

As soon as I entered the atmosphere became strange, the smile on Rumi's lips became a bit strained.

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Eri, took this as a cue to go to her room and play a bit with her toys. She was still happily skipping to her room.

As soon as she closed the door, she could hear some screaming and some stuff breaking.

She wasn't scared by this in any way. She just thought 'Big Brother and Big Sister really get along well' the smile never leaving her face.

This wasn't the first time Allan took a beating for doing something wrong. While Rumi couldn't beat him in an actual spar, he couldn't really fight back when he was in the wrong.

Running away would just make it worse in this case. He basically lived with her.

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