The Marauders are in their night patrol around a city where Nekta is guiding them to practice stealth.

"Hey, Shoto. You idiot! Stay focus on the task. On one simple task!" She glared when Todoroki was falling behind. He widened his eyes and turned to her before starting to follow them.

"Nekta-senpai? When will we go kill an actual person?" Midoriya asked, showing his knife which punctured a rat. The rodent's blood flowing down the blade and handle. Nekta cringed and used her quirk to throw the bloody knife and animal away, "Hey! That was my knife."

"That is disgusting, Deku!" She growled and turned to Bakugo who stared back at her.

"What, b*tch?"

"I was waiting if you're also going to try something that'll tick me off," she said and Bakugo clicked his tongue and looked away. Day by day, she just can't keep her usual stoic and composed demeanor with the three of them and showing off her personality that only Shigaraki and Kurogiri see. The more casual her.

"Nekta Nekta~ where are we going?" Todoroki asked with a wide smile and a sing-song voice. The tone is like it cane out from a children's cartoon and Midoriya clapped three times, grinning.

"I don't know!" The green head sang with him and so the pair repeated this, irritating both Nekta and Bakugo.

"Shut up!" The two scolded, making the noisy pair shut their mouth and stiffen like a stone.

"We're on patrol and we—I mean, YOU need to practice your stealth. Heroic or Villainous, stealth is freaking important, you dimwits!" Nekta flicked their foreheads so hard to the point where they crouches down to clutch it.

"Ouch ouch ouch ouch!" The two whined and Nekta rolled her eyes. Bakugo growled and put up his hoodie before turning his heels. He was about to move a few meters away from the brain-busting trio when he heard something in the alley they are in.

There were small tapping noises nearby like small feet running along the ground in a frantic pace. Unfortunately, it wasn't just him that noticed that, Midoriya seem to forget the pain on his forehead when he heard the running steps and stood up.

Nekta was scolding them when the noise becomes louder and Midoriya went to the direction where it was coming from. Later on, Todoroki and Nekta also becomes curious of the sound, turning their heads to the direction Midoriya is facing. Soon, it wasn't just running sound their hear. But also panting a silhouette of a small figure coming their way.

"Eh?" Todoroki created flames his hand and held it high to illuminate the dark alley until they saw that it wasn't a silhouette anymore.

A girl with long white hair with a small horn on the side if her forehead, tripped herself and Midoriya instinctively crouched down and caught the girl. She is wearing an old-looking ragged white dress and several bandages covers her arms and she is also barefooted.

Nekta's eyebrows knitted, swearing there are no lost child around these area from what she remembered. She was just hear a few days ago and the area is clean from unwanted brats.

Bakugo just snarled at the girl—he snarls at everyone—while Todoroki just looks indifferent. Midoriya, on the other hand, instinctively rubbed the girl's hair and she looked up. Not to be pedo, but Midoriya thinks she's rather cute.

"Hey hey hey, lil' girl. What 'cha doin' here?" Midoriya asked with a smile. If she were someone at the age of thirteen maybe, he'll probably have the urge to stab his blades into her with no second thought, but come on. No one's that insane to hurt a cute little toddler, is there?

Instead of talking, the girl suddenly hugged Midoriya tightly, surprising the latter.

"Hey, what's a brat doing here?" Todoroki asked and Nekta facepalmed. She was about to comment that he has a mind of a toddler at the moment.

Midoriya noticed the girl trembling. Seeing a peasant-looking girl with bandages around her arms just means she might've been through a lot. For a moment there, he felt a bit spark of sanity and symphaty for the girl. Hey, insane or not, he have soft spot for children. Again, no to being pedophile.

"Nekta-senpai~! This girl is shaking like an earthquake!" Midoriya stated, his voice sounding like a child in kindergarden.

"And what you propose we do, nerd?" Bakugo asked, gritting his teeth and Todoroki snickers about trying to change Bakugo's name to Nekta which of course the blonde lash about at.

"Hey, cupcake," Nekta said, squatting down to the girl who shyly looks at her, "What's wrong?"

She said that in a very gentle way which surprises the Marauders. She never spoke to them like that before! Why do kids always get to have the nice-y nice-nice treatment?

But truth be told, they didn't even expect Nekta to act nice to anyone who are not his brother or Kurogiri.

The girl didn't answered and just sobbed into Midoriya's chest. Midoriya rubbed her back and turned to Nekta. She put her hands over the girl, hovering a few inches right above her head as bright red light emits from them.

"Calm down, little girl," she said in a very soothing voice which did made the girl's sobbing lessen. Although it has different affects on the Marauders. They felt their cheeks slightly heat up. Wow. Even the ruthless Syren can be gentle and soft sometimes, huh?

Soon the girl calmed down and looked up to Midoriya who smiled at her.

"Heya! I'm Deku! Nice to meet you!" Hearing him say that makes the girl really comfortable. No one ever been so nice to her in her own opinion and Nekta noticed that in her little actions.

"Where are you from, cupcake?" She asked, but the girl didn't speak. That only makes her more mysterious. Yeah, like a bunch of moody teenagers hanging around a dark alleyway isn't mysterious at all.

"I'm sorry about my daughter," they all fixed their eyes on the person who just spoke and saw a guy with black hair and a peculiar beak-shaped mask over his nose and mouth. He wears dark clothing and his black eyes just look at then rather blankly.

Something about this guy says trouble. Again, like they're not troublesome teenagers themselves. But this guy feels a lot different.

"This little munchkin your daughter?" Midoriya asked, faking a smile. Yeah. Mood swings or not, he can still be plastic to whoever he wants. However, Nekta didn't seem want to play nice with Mr Hornbill here.

"Well, may I inquire what happened to her? You're pretty dressed yourself and here is your daughter dressed in what seems to be like a makeshift dress and no shoes," yeah. She night be a good actress at times, but she sure have a sharp tongue hanging inside her mouth.

"I'm sorry. She was playing dress-up with her friends earlier and she ran away when I scold her," the man said and Bakugo glared at the guy. He was never really the trusting kind, but this guy he knows he could never ever trust. Something in his words are really fishy and the scent is also pick up by Nekta and the other two.

"Awww. Wittle gowl got scolded by daddy. What did wittle gowl do?" Todoroki asked, in a trying hard way of baby talk. Midoriya pulled the girl's head towards him and smiled at the man again.

"Really? Aww, what did she do to upset you?" They really don't know why they are bothering about this, but they have a feeling this is some kind of a fated encounter.

"You wouldn't wanna know," he paused and Bakugo reacted when he felt that the man is not enjoying the conversation, "Come on, Eri. It's time to go home."

"It's time to go home~ it's time to go home~ it's time to go home~ it's time so say goodbye!" Todoroki sang, clapping his hands at the little girl's face.

"Come on, Eri. Your mom is waiting for us," the man said, handing out his hands, but the girl just moved closer to Midoriya and Todoroki. Nekta may be a Channeler, but she can't read minds so knowing what is really going on is an impossible task.

"Maybe we should let her calm down for---"

"Hey, Hornbill! Don't you see that she f*cking doesn't want to come?" Bakugo snapped, getting tired of this fiasco. The man turned to him and handed out his hand to him.

"That doesn't matter. She have to co--"

"F*ck like I care, jerk!" He snapped again and this gave the man a little change in attitude. Nekta and Midoriya felt his intense aura and instinctively jumped away, with Midoriya still holding the girl, Eri.

"I just want to get her back home," Nekta should've noticed it before. This guy is dangerous. Really dangerous. How stupid of her to think to just stay alert but do nothing. Even his mask says something.

"Eri-chan, that's your name, right?" Nekta asked, bending down to the girl who nodded at her, "How about we play together someday? But today, you can go with your daddy first, okay?"

Nekta put her hand on the girl's hand and Midoriya noticed a short feint glow from it. He just realized that Nekta injected a small dose of emphatic parasite into her. Unsure, but Midoriya played along with Nekta.

"Yeah! We can meet up here again! You want that?" Midoriya grinned and the girl made a small nod. Small but noticeable.

"She can, right?" Nekta asked with a stern expression, her usual demeanor showing out again. The man was hesitant but agreed. Although, they were not convinced that much.

"Okay, but I will have to chaperone her," he said and he moved his hand, making Eri's eyes widened and jumped down from Midoriya's arms and run towards the man, "My name's Chisaki Kai and this is my daughter, Eri."

"I'm Syren and these are my acquaintances. Deku, Shoto and Katsuki," Nekta said and looked back at Eri, "We can meet in the day after tomorrow, Eri-chan."

The girl looked away and followed the man.

"See you then."

That's when the two left and when they are finally out of sight, Bakugo clicked his tongue.

"I didn't know that Villains are bunch of soft-hearted losers," he spat and Nekta pulled his invisible leash again and Midoriya turned to her.

"Senpai..."

"That man is fishy and that girl is something. That girl needs some gaurdian slaying. Looks like you guys can have your desire answered."

"Yey!" Todoroki and Midoriya cheered as Bakugo screamed about letting him go and other curses.