CHAPTER 043(Working The Press)

CHAPTER 043(Working The Press)

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Walking along the sidewalk in his full uniform Horizon glances down to his wrist, reading the time on his white a blue Rolex, seeing its barely half-seven.

"Right on time," he mutters. The early morning sun beaming down on him, to his right is a massive twenty-meter-tall black wall.

UA's new barrier, reinforced while school was closed for the past five days. Two feet of solid black steel wrapped all around the school's perimeter.

ROOM!

He opens a room for two hundred meters around him, sensing a mob of reporters and other members of the press hounding every student as they enter UA, the first day back since the USJ incident.

These people were the reason he was walking to school instead of warping from his building directly onto campus, his name and face, or at least Horizon and the picture of his visor had been trending for the past few days.

In the midst of more and more attacks on Hero Courses, Pros dying as well as students, by the dozens each time, he was credited with stopping the most powerful of all the Nomus, the USJ Nomu, one that has yet to make a second appearance.

His 'Yay!' profile has been on fire ever since, everyone bombarding him with questions and requests for interviews, but he's ignored them all, until now.

Entering the final stretch he sees the press mob ahead, nearly blocking off the school gates. Delving a bit deeper with his SCAN he senses turrets and other drones in hidden compartments of the school's lawn.

'How do they even build things that fast...' he can't help but wonder, always amazed by the efficiency of Nezu, Cementoss, and Power Loader.

"It's Horizon!" he hears one of the reports yell, a petite dark-haired lady in a blue suit, mic in hand and a cameraman beside her. She excitedly points and breaks into a full sprint.

The entire crowd follows, moving the dozen meters between them so fast that he could feel someone getting trampled at the back.

The entire crowd clears the gateway for the other grateful students to pass and completely blockade Horizon.

"Good morning," he greets politely, his slightly mechanical voice surprising them somewhat.

A chorus of greetings responds to him, and he even hears some murmurs of people wondering about why he wears his visor, everyone who saw the report only saw his class in full costume so they expected it to be part of his costume.

"Horizon, can we please ask you some questions?! The public is in dire need of more information regarding the events of this past week," the same lady takes charge. All cameras raise and turn to him, recorders and notepads rise up and everyone gets quiet.

"Sure," he says, surprising everyone. They've been at UA since last week Monday when All Might was announced as a teacher, and not even students would give a proper statement, they never expected to get information about this war against heroes so easily.

All eyes flicker over to the woman, a single bead of sweat runs down her face as she realizes everyone was suddenly counting on her to ask the right questions and not ruin this golden opportunity.

"I'm sure Principal Nezu will spare no expense or manpower to ensure the security of everyone, between all the Pros that teach at UA, including All Might, not to mention that Endeavor will likely be there because his son is in my class, we'll be fine," Horizon says casually.

"And speaking of your classmates, did this attack have an adverse effect on them in any way? And what can you tell us about the youngest Todoroki?"

"UA provided counseling and medical treatment, and from what I can tell they've only gotten stronger from this experience," he recalls what he saw while skimming the group chat yesterday. "And Todoroki is quiet and keeps to himself, I haven't really spoken to him much," he shrugs.

"I see, that's very good to hear at least," she gives a sincere smile. "And lastly are you excited about the UA Sports Festival, the entire world will be watching your class especially, and after those short clips of what the USJ Nomu was capable of, people have already been speculating about the overall winner, between you and Todoroki, although we don't know what either of your Quirks are..."

Horizon chuckles at that, "well, winning isn't all that matters at the festival, at least not for me. What matters is that I show the public that they can trust and have confidence in me to protect them in the future, I'd like to show them and the world that everything will be ok, because I am here..."

The entire crowd gets chills at that, his already heroic presence constantly building and building, and now it felt as if they were standing in front of a future top Pro.

No, they knew they were standing in front of a future top Pro.

The reporter wipes another tear, and he rolls his eyes once again, thankful that his visor was one way.

"Such an incredible outlook on this situation! I'm sure you'll do great things to help everyone in the future!" the press mob gives him a round of praise before settling back down. "And how do you plan to show us that this is your time, your era?!" the woman asks.

Horizon shrugs, "there really isn't anything I can do to prove that, that's for all of you to decide for yourselves, right? So, just keep your eyes on me, and I'll show you what I'm capable of...Just watch me..."

They all look at him with stars in their eyes before he checks his watch.

"I'm sorry to cut this short, but it would set a bad example if the Class Rep was late for homeroom," he says apologetically.

"Oh," the woman bows respectfully, and most of the mob copies her, "thank you for speaking to us! We've been here for days without one comment, this truly was a blessing."

Horizon laughs at that, "Heroes are public servants, I don't mind talking to the press, at least to let you know that everything will be alright..."

After some polite and thankful farewells, he quickly walks into UA, for the very first time using the main entrance.

Walking through the halls he sees more than a fair share of people giving him amazed and worried looks.

Some were amazed by those clips of USJ Nomu and knowing that he stopped it, and some worried that a 1st year was that powerful. That'd he'd show them up in the future.

He turned to a group of girls who were in the upper years, quietly murmuring and stealing glances at him as he walks through the halls. He gives a polite wave and half of them start blushing wildly.

'Ok, this is gonna be really damn fun... but I guess I'll have to keep playing up the hero bullshit for the press, whatever, its just for a few more years...'

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