Chapter 17:- Truth

"Truth is the only constant in an ever-changing world." - Heraclitus

[Police Headquarters]

[Next Morning]

A man could be seen running towards the police headquarters in a hurry.

And again the same thing repeated that Masato did.

Mr Miyamoto the man who was running towards the police headquarters just barged into Detective Naomasa's cabin

"Sir, I want your help, please find a kid, he's missing since yesterday," said Mr Miyamoto in a hurry.

Detective Naomasa felt like he was having a deja vu, he also had a headache as he hadn't slept at all.

He had a feeling that this man was also going to ask him to look for Izuku Yagi as that's the name echoing in his head since last night, yet he could be wrong as well.

So he asked the man, "Calm down and tell me what's happened."

Mr Miyamoto nodded as he said, "There is a kid named Izuku Yagi, he is quirkless an—

"And he is getting bullied right?" said Detective Naomasa as he cut Mr Miyamoto's sentence in between.

"Yes, how do you know about it?" asked Mr Miyamoto in shock.

"You are the third person who asked to look for Izuku Yagi since last night," said Detective Naomasa sighing as he massaged his temples.

"Who else asked for him?" Asked Mr Miyamoto as he felt weird that someone would be worried about him, especially when his parents had forsaken him, so there was no way they would be looking for him.

"Masato the store manager of the local pharmacy of this area and No.2 Hero Endeavour and they seemed equally worried as you are," said Detective Naomasa.

"Strange" Mr. Miyamoto felt weird that someone was really worried about him but he shook his head removing those thoughts as they weren't that important right now

"But the matter is serious sir, his bullying has increased quite severely in the past few days especially after I left," said Mr Miyamoto recovering from the initial shock.

"What do you mean after you left?" asked Detective Naomasa as it was a lead.

"I am a teacher at the school where Izuku goes to, or rather I was a teacher at the school where Izuku goes to, and apparently it was in the school where he was bullied," said Mr Miyamoto sighing.

"What do you mean by was? Why did you leave?" asked Detective Naomasa.

"As I said, Izuku was bullied in the school the most, however, I didn't allow anyone to bully him during my period, so they used to bully him twice when my periods weren't there, I tried telling the principal but he just shut me up, unable to bear it I recently complained about the increseaing bullying of Izuku to local authorities but the bullies were somehow related to big shots or had versatile quirks and thus the authorities did nothing and it also looked like they had taken bribes from those big shots to close the case, and because I was alone who was concerned about Izuku in the whole school, the principal fired me from the school and put fake charges that I was found doing illegal dealings, that's why taking advantage of me being thrown out of school they bullied him the whole day, using their quirks unhinged and at full capacity using him as a punching bag and thats a everyday thing for the past 2 years, and yesterday was the extremest as during the whole day no teacher came in and Izuku was constantly beaten by kids using their quirks however they wanted, as if doing training on a test dummy, and if that wasn't enough, they threw him out of the window of his classroom which is on the second floor," said Mr. Miyamoto stopped to take catch his breath as he continued.

"And the kind of injuries he had is the worst, he was bleeding profusely, he even lost consciousness with blood flowing from almost every part of his body, his body burnt, filled with cuts and bruises, it was getting hard for me to find a spot which wasn't injured or bruised, I did his patchwork and to say my hands were trembling would be an understatement, seeing such a small child having injuries that majority of the trained militants don't have in their entire life, it's a miracle that I didn't loose consciousness, had I not been there yesterday to get my stuff then Izuku would have definitely been in a coma if he hadn't died, and the kids even had the balls to tell him to commit sucide so that he gets a quirk in the next life, thats why I came here, cause letting him stay like this without doing anything he won't be able to even survive a week." finished Mr Miyamoto as he had tears welling up in his eyes just remembering all those things.

Detective Naomasa knew that Mr Miyamoto was telling the truth as he was using his quirk the whole time and whatever Mr Miyamoto said was 100% true.

And because of this Detective Naomasa's face darkened listening to Mr Miyamoto, he knew bullying was severe given the description by Endeavour and Masato about Izuku always being wrapped in bandages, but it was this severe he didn't know that, now the case really became a top priority case, and knowing that police helped cover things up he felt ashamed, as well as was fuming in rage as how could school neglect this, and most importantly how could they promote bullying, and that so many people were involved, especially the kids who want to become heroes yet bullied their classmate just for being quirkless, he could never let these people become heroes as they would just promote corruption.

Detective Naomasa immediately called Endeavour and told him to come to the headquarters.

And soon Endeavour came, however, he wasn't alone, as he was accompanied by his daughter, Fuyumi Todoroki and all of a sudden the temperature of the room rose.

"What's the matter Naomasa?" asked Endeavour seeing such a heavy atmosphere, he understood, the matter was serious.

"This guy here is the school teacher where Izuku goes, and he knows a lot about the bullying that has happened to Izuku, you might want to hear this."

Endeavour nodded as he looked towards Mr Miyamoto and said, "Tell me everything."

Seeing Endeavour so near to him, he gulped but still told everything in detail about what happened to Izuku in school every day.

Listening to which Endeavour had a grim look but Fuyumi couldn't control herself listening to the kind of bullying Izuku goes through every day and his condition yesterday she couldn't control her emotions anymore as she burst out crying as she just covered her face and fell on the couch behind her as she continued crying and cursing herself for calling herself a fake friend as she called herself his friend yet she didn't know what Izuku was going through, and how she should have done something about it, and how she doesn't deserve to be his friend.

She kept cursing herself as her heart was crushed, she felt a huge hole in her heart as her worry for Izuku skyrocketed after knowing what happened to him, and her breathing started getting heavier as she lost consciousness.