Phenomenon

Chapter 42: Role Delegations

After Kacchan, Kyoka and I agreed to play at the culture festival, the class was finally dismissed. Everyone leapt from their chairs and bounded out of the room, excited chatter mixing in the air as we all left. Some people spoke excitedly about being background dancers whilst others enthused about hopefully being helpful when it came to special effects. When I passed Mina, Sero and Kaminari, they were conversing excitedly about Mina's affinity for dance and how she would be the perfect teacher, I had to agree with them on that matter.

In all reality, I was extremely glad that our band got to play. We hadn't played for the public in a long time, so it would be fun to get back up on the stage. Plus, I knew that I wouldn't be good at dancing and wouldn't be much help when it came to the effects. Being up on the stage with my guitar, belting my heart out to the audience was where I truly belonged.

"So, Izu, what songs shall we play?" Kyoka asked as she swung her arm around my shoulder, " We've got to come up with a variety of songs. Some of them need to be danceable songs, though I don't think we should stray too far from our genre.". Being the music geek she was, Kyoka proceeded to ramble about music, oblivious to Kacchan and I as we silently smiled at her. It was 

"I don't know. What do you want to play? It's best not to ask Kacchan, he'll pick things which are too loud and heavy." I commented with a small smirk. 

"Tch, shut your trap, nerd. I could pick good songs if I wanted to, you're just being a little asshole." Kacchan scowled without any malice. Kyoka and I simply chuckled merrily at our friend as we all made our way back to the dorms.

That evening, talk of the culture festival continued. Iida and Momo sat at the table in the kitchen with the rest of us sat before them like pupils in a classroom. The purpose of this set up was to assign roles to each person in the class. Kyoka, Kacchan and I, of course, already had our roles, but I was interested to see what everybody else would be doing. As soon as we had all settled, Mina was jumping up and proclaiming loudly that she would be dancing and teaching the others as well. She proclaimed that they could rip the role out of her cold, dead fingers because she wasn't going accept anything else. Obviously, her argument was unnecessary, it was a given that she would be the lead dancer, we'd all seen her excellent moves and how she employed them in her fighting style. 

"We wouldn't assign you any other role, Ashido," Iida asserted. Everyone laughed lightly at the complete seriousness that Iida spoke with. He took his role very seriously.

After Mina's declaration, the roles of the rest of my classmates just started flooding in. The majority of them were going to be dancing, but people such as Shoto, Kiri, Sero, Koda and Hitoshi would all be working on special effects and as stagehands. Everyone else was to be taught how to dance by Mina so that they could put on the show of a lifetime for our fellow students and change their opinion on us. Although, Tokoyami ended up joining us in The Juveniles (our band). Whilst it was perfectly fine that there were only three of us in the band, we decided to have Tokoyami become part of the band since he had previous experience, plus it gave him something to do. He had two left feet and wouldn't be much help when it came to being a stagehand. Nobody objected to their role in the show, so we moved on to the finer details.

"Ok, now that everyone had a role, we must move on to some other details." Momo began, "Aoyama suggested earlier that he could be used as... a disco ball of sorts. With his naval laser, he is rather flashy. Does anybody object to this idea?" 

Kacchan didn't bother raising his hand, but he did speak up. "Is he just gonna be suspended there for the entire show? We're going to be doing more than one song, he can't stay there all that time, plus he'll end up shitting on everyone if he keeps using his quirk." Kacchan grunted. Whilst it wasn't phrased in the best way, Kacchan was correct. Aoyama still got an upset tummy if he used his quirk too much and he couldn't just stay there the entire time.