With Mikan gone, Shinsou admits that he's maybe a little bored. But due to Mikan's absence, he could finally think about the pure absurdity of his situation. He was fighting a villain, and then suddenly got teleported? Also, where the hell is Aizawa? Is he okay?

Not only that, he had finally gotten into the hero course too. But now he's back into his twelve-year-old body, in this creepy school in pre-quirk times. Shinsou sighed, how do I even leave?

"You can't," Someone said.

Mindreader, His mind supplied. "Why?" Shinsou asked.

"Because you can't, Hyuuga literally just tried to escape," The boy said.

Shinsou glanced at the said raven, "Yeah, he did." But the only reason why he didn't succeed is because he made a big commotion.

"What's your name again?" The boy that he was talking to asked.

"Shinsou Hitoshi," Shinsou replied.

"Cool, I'm Kokoroyomi. But you can call me Koko," Koko said.

"So your Alice is mindreading?" Shinsou inquired.

Koko nodded, "Yeah, and yours is brainwashing like you said earlier."

They lapsed into a comfortable silence until Natsume's voice broke everyone out of their daze.

"Where's Ruka?" Natsume's voice was stern and somewhat urgent.

Shinsou's eyes scanned the room, he didn't know who Ruka was but inferring from Natsume's attachment, he decided that it was the blonde male from earlier.

"Ruka-pyon left a while ago," The girl, Syoda reported.

"Where?" Natsume asked.

Everyone shrugged, they didn't know where Ruka was.

Shinsou heard the door slide open and shut. Hyuuga left.

~~~

Soon, Ruka, Iinchou, Hotaru, and Mikan returned. Where's Hyuuga? Shinsou wondered. From the corner of his eye, he saw Koko shrug. Probably answering his question. Narumi came back and re-introduced Mikan to the class, saying that she had a nullification Alice.

That's a rather useful Alice. Shinsou noticed how the class calmed down a lot since her Alice situation was cleared up.

Narumi quickly left again. Shinsou rested his head on his palm. Just pure coincidence that there's a mind reader sitting  next to me right now, isn't it? Shinsou prevented his mind from wandering to Aizawa, or anything about Yuuei. For what he's concerned, he's traveled through time, and some of that time affected his body, making him twelve again. Or that's the explanation he came up with.

Mikan went to Shinsou, "Hey, Shinsou."

"Hi, Mikan. You know, you can call me Hitoshi since you're using your first name anyway," Shinsou replied.

"Hitoshi, you wanna hear what happened?"

"Sure."

"So basically, Hotaru, Iinchou and I all went into the Northern Woods. We tried finding Bear but we ran into this big chick first. I think it was called Piyo. So then after that—" Mikan continued the weird retelling of events.

Then, the door slid open. Natsume walked in with the same black cat mask Shinsou saw when he first arrived here on his face. The air in the classroom suddenly became thick as tension rose. Natsume quickly sat down, and seemingly ignored everyone except Ruka.

The thick tension diffused as soon as Mikan said something, which suddenly had everyone making fun of her. Mikan frowned, "Can you all stop? I'm not that dumb."

"But you're still dumb," Syoda said.

Shinsou ignored the scene as he drifted off to sleep. He didn't last long asleep, due to the class's noise, and now Mikan's sudden sulking.

"I'm a no-star?!" Mikan exclaimed, "That's not fair!"

Syoda laughed, "It's what you deserve."

Shinsou looked around, clearly confused. "What did I miss?"

"Mikan just got her star rank," Iinchou informed him.

"Star rank? What's that?"

Syoda then launched an entire explanation. "There are five ranks, no star, one star, two stars, three-star, and special star. Usually, no stars are the young ones that misbehave because of their age. I never knew there could be someone our age that has no star." Syoda laughed.

I wonder what my star rank is... Shinsou then asked, "How do you find your star rank?"

"Oh, you visit the teachers," Iinchou replied this time, "Do you not have a star rank?"

"Not currently," Shinsou said.

"Then we should ask Narumi-sensei," Mikan somewhat recovered.

"Yeah, let's go ask Narumi-sensei."

~~~

"Narumi-sensei, what's Hitoshi's star rank?" Mikan asked.

Narumi smiled nervously, "Mikan, those things are decided by the principal."

"So we visit the principal?" Shinsou asked.

"Yes," A man intruded on the conversation. "I can lead you there."

Shinsou's eyes narrowed suspiciously, "Okay."

"Mikan, we should go back to class," Iinchou said, slowly inching away from the man that intruded the conversation.

Mikan agreed. She and Iinchou left.

Shinsou felt unnerved with this man. His aura was surprisingly similar to the auras of the villain that warped him here, so he had a good reason to be cautious. "So we're going to the principal's office?"

"Yes." The man started walking away.

Shinsou hesitantly followed. The trip to the principal's office was a quiet affair, though once they got there, it suddenly wasn't so quiet.

Shinsou entered the office. He scanned his surroundings before looking at the principal. "Sir, I'm Shinsou Hitoshi and here for my star rank."

The ESP hummed, "Oh yes, your star rank. What is your Alice again?"

"Brainwashing," Shinsou answered.

"You'd make a good double star."

I thought these ranks depended on Alice control? How do they know I have such good control if they haven't seen it yet? Shinsou was getting increasingly suspicious, Sure, I've brainwashed a bit since coming here, but all of that does not equal fine control...

"Your ability class is Special Ability," The ESP said.

"Special?" Shinsou asked, "Ability class?"

"Alice Ability Classes are classes we have to help students control their alices. We have a few different ability classes. Special, Latent, Somatic, and Technology." He explained, "You're in the Special class."

"Okay..."

Shinsou left.

~~~

The day passed by quickly, and now having his Star Rank, Shinsou got his own room. 

Now in his own room, he was finally left with his own thoughts.

Shinsou sighed as he flopped onto his bed. I don't want to be here. I want to be back in the dorms with Class 1-A. I want to be in hero training. I want to do so many things...

His eyes scanned the room, but I'm stuck here. I most likely won't be able to use my quirk much. Using it that much was a mistake in the first place. He sighed. How can I leave? I already saw that Hyuuga kid try and fail, although, maybe if he didn't make such a commotion, he could've succeeded.

Nonetheless, I should stay for a couple of days and see if I can plan something. I don't know how good the security is here, or the teachers' "Alices". I have a sneaking suspicion that Narumi's is a lot like Midnight's, but I have yet to see any actual perfume leave him.

I know my classmates' alices too, they might be able to help in the escape. Shinsou thought more about that and frowned. But why would they help me? I doubt heroes exist in this world. They would probably find the idea of a full-quirk or Alice world completely laughable. Meaning, I can't use them.

My quirk seems somewhat the same but I can't rely on it too much since it might have reverted to twelve-year-old's me version of it.

Shinsou sighed again, looking at the ceiling. Also meaning that I'm going to have to train my body to get back to its semi-good condition, along with training my quirk further.

That will take quite a long time. The minimum time I might be able to leave in might be a few months, give or take. I'll probably plan further once I get more information.

His eyes narrowed ever-so-slightly, The Principal gave me a really off-vibe, and so did that dude that led me to the office. I should probably stay as far as I can away from them. I should also be wary of Kokoroyomi. His quirk or Alice can prove troubling when planning. Although I'm pretty sure he's a single-star and those dorms are quite far away from these.

But I can't be sure since I don't know what his range is. Nor what my range is right now either. Shinsou sighed for what seemed like the 100th time that day. It seems I got myself into quite a crappy situation. I just need to focus on one thing though.

How do I leave?

Author's Corner:
Q: Am I doing okay so far?
N: Happy New Years' Eve, everyone!  I hope you like the chapter! Thanks for reading!