"There's a festival?" Mikan was delighted, as always.

Shinsou was wrapped up in his thoughts. He said Aizawa may not be the only one getting hurt... But who else is there? Mikan? Hotaru, Iinchou? Probably not Hotaru and Iinchou, they behave. Or is it... Hitoshi's eyes flickered to the door of the classroom, Possible that someone else could've come with Aizawa?

But who could the someone else be? If Aizawa's here... What about Eri? Is she with Present Mic? Shinsou then tuned into the festival conversation.

"The festival's going to be amazing, right, Natsume?" Mikan said to him.

Natsume glared at Mikan.

Shinsou merely stared at the scene, She's doing what Andō-senpai suggested and is trying to befriend him. But...

Natsume grabbed Mikan's hair as a fire heated up his palm.

That's not going to work.

"Natsume-! You jerk! Let go of my hair!" Mikan yelled, slapping Natsume's hand as an attempt to make him let go.

"Imai-san, please stop selling the pictures," Ruka said to Hotaru.

Shinsou glanced at the other situation going on. Hotaru had a bunch of pictures as Ruka dressed as a girl. Oh, it's from yesterday.

Hotaru looked Ruka dead in the eyes, "No." And then she ran.

And Ruka ran after her.

"We won't be seeing those two for a while..." Shinsou muttered.

Iinchou, who was sitting next to him, sweatdropped. A nervous smile made its way onto his face as he agreed, "Yeah. I just hope they're back before class."

"I'm so excited for the festival!" Mikan seemed to already have bounced back from the hair-burning-part-3 incident. "The Special Class is going to be amazing!"

"They're least popular," Syoda haughtily said, "Even if they did do something, why would anyone pay attention to their stupid alices?" She ended that with a laugh.

Mikan glared at her, "Watch, we're going to best your class, Permy!"

"My name is Syōda Sumire!"

"What class is Natsume in?" Mikan asked Iinchou.

"He's in the Dangerous Class," Kokoroyomi answered, "They're not allowed to participate in the festival."

This has Shinsou wondering if his Ability Class changed, he can only hope it hasn't.

Ruka and Hotaru returned, it seemed Hotaru won since Ruka seemed somewhat under the weather. Natsume had gotten a bit pissed off that Kokoroyomi exposed his Alice class and left.

Then someone opened the door to the classroom. Shinsou only had a brief look at him, but it reminded Hitoshi of Hotaru. The door was closed swiftly, and it seemed Hotaru didn't notice. "Hotaru, do you have any siblings?"

Hotaru glanced at him quizzically, "No."

"Okay."

Then Narumi comes in. "It's the week of the Alice Festival!" And for once, the classroom doesn't kick him out at the first sentence, which truly surprises Hitoshi. His guess is that everyone's excited for the Alice Festival, although, he doesn't quite get why. "You'll be able to hang out with your Ability Class for the whole week! Enjoy!" It was brief and curt. Narumi left the classroom again.

Shinsou looked at Mikan, "We should go to our Ability Class."

"Yeah!" Mikan exclaimed, "We're going to plan something amazing for the festival!"

They walked near the door.

"The Special Ability Class is useless-"

"Shut up Permy!" Mikan let Shinsou walk through the doorway and slammed the door shut.

While going to the Special Ability Classroom, they came across a flaming Natsume. "Why are you so excited about the festival? It's useless."

Shinsou half-heartedly agreed. What's the point of the festival? It's not like the Sports Festival since there are no heroes here looking to scout. Plus, you show your Alice on a daily basis here. Having a festival for showing alices was just irrational.

"It's not useless!" Mikan exclaimed, "You're just saying that because your class sucks so much they can't participate."

"At least my class doesn't have useless alices as well."

"Take that back, you jerk!"

Shinsou sighed, making a mental note to teach Mikan more creative insults.

"I refuse to, Polka-Dots."

"You-!"

"We need to get going," Shinsou interrupted, "And Hyuuga, you have a point, but the festival's just fun either way."

Natsume 'tch'ed and walked away.

"What a jerk!" Mikan crossed her arms and huffed.

She really needs more insults and badly. "Let's get going."

"Yeah!"

~~~

The atmosphere in the room was so gloomy that Shinsou regrets stepping foot in here.

"The Festival's coming up!" Mikan chirped, a resounding groan from the rest of the class replied. "We should do something!"

"But what are we going to do?" One of the members said, "Our alices aren't popular enough to draw attention!"

Shinsou realized that, that was somewhat true. His Alice - or rather Quirk- doesn't draw attention at all, it's one for remaining in the shadows. Although the shadows part can be taken seriously for Andō-senpai. They don't have a flashy Alice in this class that isn't Mikan. And Mikan's was only flashy once.

Mikan frowned, clearly thinking. She thought until steam was coming out of her ears, and suddenly, her eyes gained a spark. "An RPG game!"

"A what?" Shinsou asked.

"An RPG game! We can be the monsters they need to get through to get a special prize!" Mikan said, "The prize can be genies that grant wishes! Three wishes only! And the contestants can have objects that can help them get through certain challenges!"

"That's such a good idea!" Andō-senpai exclaimed, "That could increase our popularity a lot!"

"We need to worry about advertising then," Shinsou said, "If we don't then no one will come."

"We should make posters," One member said, "And post them everywhere."

"And during our break," Mikan said, "I'll gather support for it!"

"We also need costumes," Andō-senpai said.

"Who's going to be the three genies at the end?" Hitoshi asked.

"The Festival's going to be conquered by the Special Ability Class this year!" Mikan yelled. She punched the air, "Yeah!"

The rest of the class did it too, "Yeah!"

Plus Ultra. Shinsou found himself thinking.

~~~

Shinsou bit back a snarky reply for Persona as he looked at the paper handed to him.

"This is the person you'll be saving, along with that, you'll have to take extra information about our academy away from these people."

Static filled Shinsou's head as he looked at the person he'll be saving (kidnapping).

"I recommend doing the information gathering first," Persona said, "Doing it with another person is tricky."

Shinsou didn't reply. He couldn't believe he had to save her.

He thought she was safe.

"This is your first mission, fail it and you get punished as much as necessary. Your Alice suppressants will be turned off once you're out of the Academy range. If you try to escape during the mission, I'll know, and you'll regret it. Is that clear?"

"Crystal."

"Goodbye." Persona left Shinsou's room.

Shinsou stared hard at the paper given to him. The picture standing out. "I'll save you this time, Eri."

Author's Corner:
Q: How do you think Eri got here?
N: I hope you like this second update! I didn't like how short I left the other chapter, although, this isn't much longer, I hope you enjoyed it! :D