"What do you mean you don't know! There are eyes guarding the hospital from every angle, there are security cameras and firm checking of the visitors. And you are telling me you don't know who did this?!" Midnight was losing her mind. They were very cautious and took every measurement they could, but a villain was still able to sneak in, and open up their patient to steal his organs?!!
The hospital's security guards were getting scolded mercilessly, but they made sure to defend themselves and swore over and over again that they were sure no villains infiltrated the hospital.
Which earned them an even harsher scolding.
Mic sat in the hallway, utterly quiet. Even disturbingly so. Beside him sat Eraser with a grim expression, as he found himself doing almost everyday since the rescue. His leg bouncing up and down in distress, the shouting of Midnight in the background not helping ease his anxiety.
The security cameras were all disabled at the same time when it occurred. All guards reported not seeing anyone enter or exit the hospital building neither from the main entrance nor the back exits at the time. Not with a bag big enough to fit organs at least.
So this was either the doing of a quirk they were not aware of, or that the culprit never left hospital grounds.
It could be that the guards let their guard down or were lounging, he dare even say they could whatsoever be working with the villains.
But since he was a paranoid person, he made sure to have trustworthy peers watching the hospital from a distance, and they too confirmed the guards' statements.
Mirio was back from the bathroom, as he sat on the opposite bench of Aizawa's, having little Eri seated on his lap.
She was still a bit shaken from the encounter earlier, her quirk being a sensitive topic she unexpectedly had to discuss so unprepared.
Mirio would rather not have Eri here right now, seeing how Midnight-sensei was unstable and Aizawa-sensei being enraged. But they were unsure of the safety of the hospital right now, so they had to stick together.
Eri didn't say anything, as she clutched Mirio's shirt firmly and listened to Midnight's outcries. The image of the empty chest refused to leave her mind.
Who-..... w-why did this happen to n-nii-chan? Were the bad guys back?! This- this was not the f-first time...was it? That...that vague dream, that... that undefinable phantom she once thought she experienced, that day when the kind hero saved them, when she saw something she didn't remember seeing, that was a memory of something similar to this incident, wasn't it?
The .... the things on the floor...what were they again? She swears her memory is weaker than a goldfish's! Wait it was... yeah, a chunk of meat on the floor, was that....
"Doctor Matsuda! Where's doctor Matsuda?!" A doctor in a white coat came flying towards them, the panick in his voice reaching levels they've never knew were possible.
The man stood panting right outside the door of the boy's room, right where they were sitting. He turned around right and left, looking for the mentioned doctor.
And suddenly, he started to madly bang on the door for the ICU, startling everyone in process and making the heros jump immediately to restrain his unexpected outbreak.
"Stop! Who are you?! What do you think you're doing??" Hizashi exclaimed while holding the madman back by the shoulders.
"Doctor Tanaka?" Togata recognized. He sat Eri to the side on the bench and stood up, trying to figure out why the usually collected man was acting so frantic.
"M-mirio-kun?" His wriggling came to a halt abruptly when he saw the hero-in-training and the little girl behind. He gritted his teeth and casted his gaze to the floor, seemingly avoiding eye contact with these particular two.
But before anyone could say anything, the door flew open, revealing a very annoyed Matsuda-sensei, who got rudely interrupted while examinating the patient whose case has been the most difficult one he'd ever worked on.
His face softened slightly when he saw who it was, but still not by much.
"Matsuda! You have to help me!" Panic came into Tanaka-sensei anew, as he broke free from Mic's grip to hold Matsuda's shoulders firmly. All honorfics seemingly dropped at that point.
"My son! Please help him!" He pleaded desperately.
Dr. Matsuda's eyes widened in realization.
"Your son?" Mirio wondered out loud. He didn't mention a son in any of the frequent conversations they've had. Wouldn't it be natural to talk about that topic while being in the children's ward this whole time? Parents did tend to chatter alot about their kids too.
But that was not the important part. It was that his son needed help. Even though Tanaka-sensei is a doctor himself. Why would he ask for help from another doctor?
"Did something happen to Kiyoshi-kun?!" Matsuda-sensei asked in equal concern.
"K-kiyoshi?" Little Eri's voice came from behind, alerting everyone to her presence.
They did not like the direction this conversation was headed.
Aizawa made a gesture for Mirio to take Eri away. Mirio understood that quickly and rushed to pick her up.
But Eri held her hands out, refusing, for the first time, to obey.
Her big wide eyes looked up desperately at the doctor's. What happened to her friend?! Her first and only friend!
"T-the transplantation seemed like a success a-at first, but something went wrong and I- I couldn't finish the procedure by myself! You are the most talented surgeon in this hospital! P-please! You have to help me!"
Matsuda narrowed his eyes, yanking the other doctor's palms aside, breaking free from the older man's grip on his shoulders and stepping back a couple of steps.
"Wait, I didn't hear about any surgical plans for little Kiyoshi. And, wasn't he pretty low on the donation list considering his condition? How-? W-when did he get the.... necessary......." Doctor Matsuda trailed off as his train of thought led him towards a conclusion he didn't want to believe.
No, this couldn't be. Tanaka sensei sure did love his son more than anything in the world, and it's true that he has been so very desperate to save him.
But he wouldn't go to such lengths, would he?
No, this is impossible.
Tanaka-sensei's eyes watered. He looked down in shame as his lips trembled.
"I'm- I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I didn't want to do it, I swear! I had no choice!"
No one understood the meaning behind his words. Except for one particularly experienced hero.
In a blink of an eye, Shouta was at the man's throat, holding him by the collar and slamming him mercilessly into the wall. Everyone else shot up in surprise as they didn't expect that reaction from the dignified and collected Aizawa.
"IT WAS YOU?!" He shouted, venom dripping from his voice, every fibre in the doctor's body trembled in trepidation.
"I'm sorry!" He squeezed his eyes tightly, holding the hero's wrists in an attempt to not get choked to death.
"Shouta! What's gotten into you?! What did he do?" Hizashi ran towards them to try to pull the enraged Aizawa off the poor doctor. But he was seemingly stronger than anticipated.
"Mic! Let me go or I swear I'll-" Aizawa threatened as he was not in his right mind.
He knew in the back of his mind that Eri was there, that she should not hear what he was about to say. But his upheaval took the best of him and he lost all his reasoning. He just found himself yelling at the top of his lungs;
"HE KILLED HIM! IT WAS HIM! THE ONE WHO STOLE THE KID'S ORGANS!!"
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