Total Command

Chapter 58: That your body and soul are mine

"Aizawa, Kan. My office please."

Aizawa huffed. Of course; the mad children are gone so the rat's gonna bother me now.

Kayama shot her a look as she didn't move from her spot in the teacher's lounge. "You know she's gonna keep announcing that until you go, right?"

"...Yeah, yeah," she groaned, getting up and shedding her sleeping bag, cracking her joints. 26 is too early to retire, right?

That wouldn't be logical.

She huffed, walking towards Nozomi's office on the top floor.

Why does she even have her office there, it's just a hassle for everyone involved...

By the time she had gotten to the office, Kan was already there, arguing about something.

"I'm telling you, you can't just transfer her over! We are mid-way through the semester!"

"Kan," Nozomi muttered giving her that blank, animal-like stare that pierced through to her core. "What do you think is best for her?"

"I-" The bulkier woman sighed, her shoulders drooping. "You're right, I just don't want to tear her away from her friends."

"She'll be in the next dorms over, Kan, we aren't sending her to the next province over." Nozomi shrugged. "Besides, it'll make the two classes interact more; as they should."

"I suppose..."

"Is this transfer why you called me?" Aizawa huffed, leaning against one of the walls and squinting at the sunlight filtering through the large floor-to-ceiling windows behind Nozomi.

It was always weird that Nozomi spent time looking at the main courtyard of UA, which also happened to overlook most of the city.

"Yes exactly." Nozomi clapped, the weird patting her hands made echoing in the room. "1-B and 1-A are going to be exchanging one student."

"...Why? I thought you already made the classes perfectly balanced?" Aizawa huffed. "What's your logic?"

"I wasn't sure if you were going to expel students like you so love to do," Nozomi muttered spinning to stare out of the window. "And this student would've failed your hypocritical tests."

"Hypocritical?"

"The physical tests, Shiko." Kan sighed.

"You're against the practical exam but you keep using that as your own personal test," Nozomi clarified. "You choose to focus on the combat effectiveness of their quirks, just like the entrance exam that you detest so much."

"I-" Aizawa blinked. "Huh."

"...My shattering of your worldview aside," Nozomi muttered, sighing, "Intelli Saiko wouldn't have excelled in your practical examination, so I held off on adding her to your class until you saw what she could do."

She spun back. "I'm fairly certain you can and will teach her how you fight. Without any physical quirks."

Kan coughed. "And who will be joining my class in her stead?"

"You'll get Makaira Oijiro. I'm sure she'll adapt well, being as level-headed as she is. We'll have the transfer after the internships." Nozomi spun back around with a hardly held back cackle. "That's all. Good day."

Aizawa nodded blankly and turned around, leaving the room.

"...You know, I thought her crazy class was gonna break her, but I think you broke her first," Kan commented with a nervous chuckle.