T/N: Here’s the rest of Chapter 4, the ghost story chapter.

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Chapter 1: “Cheers!” // Chapter 2: “Dramatic Makeover” // Chapter 3: “Crisis” (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) // Chapter 4: “ UA Hyakumonogatari” (Part One, ***Part Two) // Chapter 5 by aitaikimochi) // Chapter 6 by royaljellybeans// Fantasy AU by aitaikimochi

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Class 1-A students

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Chapter 4: “UA Hyakumonogatari” (Part Two, Final)

(Part One recap: Some of the 1-A students decide to barge into Tokoyami’s room to tell ghost stories. They make Tokoyami join in, and he tells a really scary story about a blond-haired ghost woman. Everyone is super creeped out and they decide to stop.)

That night, Mineta tosses and turns in bed. Every time he’s about to drift off, he remembers Tokoyami’s story and becomes wide awake again. Not only had Mineta been unable to get his desired contact with girls earlier… now he can’t even sleep! He really shouldn’t have gone at all.

As Mineta is wallowing in regret, he hears a small beeping noise.

Mineta freezes. He nervously tells himself it must be the building structure creaking from changes in air temperature, but that sound is clearly different. And the sound isn’t coming from Midoriya’s room next door, but from the hallway.

“An illusion, just an illusion!” Though Mineta repeats this to himself, he can still clearly hear the noise. It seems to be getting louder.

“Damnit.” Mineta approaches his door, equally terrified and reluctant. It’s probably just someone from the 2nd floor playing mobile games in the hallway. He opens the door.

No one is in the hallway. Mineta stares for a moment, then quickly slams the door shut and dives under his blankets. Though he chants to himself that it’s just an illusion, the sound doesn’t go away. It just gets louder and louder.

“Oh god, it’s getting closer! It… it’s probably the dorm ventilation ducts? Right?!” But the air ducts never made a sound like that before.

What can he do? He covers his head. The source of the sound has almost reached his door. Just about… now –––

Something raps against his door. And then, “… … Mineta… is…” A female voice calls from outside the door.

The next day in class, the group discusses the strange beeping sound they heard last night. It wasn’t just Mineta – Tsuyu, Sero, Ashido, Kaminari, Tokoyami, and Shoji all heard the same sound.

“Hold on, why did the voice only call my name? Tell me it’s a lie?!” Mineta panics when he learns that he’s the only one who heard his own name. “Midoriya, you really didn’t hear anything…?”

“Sorry, the training was so tiring yesterday that I slept soundly through the night!”

“Only we heard the voices… then isn’t it the curse of Tokoyami’s story?” Sero tries to joke, but his smile is forced.

“Eh? What kind of story?” Kirishima wedges himself into the conversation. As Kaminari opens his mouth to speak, the seated Bakugou and Todoroki suddenly move.

Bakugou stands up with a clatter. “So fucking loud! Stop staying strange things around other people!” He kicks the door open and storms out.

Izuku re-analyzes Bakugou’s actions in his head and wonders, “Could it be… he’s afraid?”

Jirou, who’d been silent the entire time, admits a little timidly, “Um, actually I heard it too. A weird beeping sound that went on until dawn.” Even Class 1-A’s top expert on sounds could testify! The other students fall into a panic.

Iida forcefully cuts into the chatter; this matter should be set aside for now. Since there are several witnesses, there must be some sort of problem. As class president he’ll take responsibility for figuring out the true face of the mystery voice.

(Later at night, in the hallway outside Iida’s room)

Iida sits in the hallway, wrapped up in a fluffy towel and fighting off sleep**. The girls had given him some coffee earlier. But Iida keeps a very strict daily routine and is usually in deep slumber at this time of night. Even coffee can’t ward off his drowsiness.

**与睡魔作斗争, literally to fight off the Sandman

Just as Iida is nodding off, a small beeping noise startles him awake. He immediately looks around but nothing seems to be out of the ordinary. A few moments later, the other boys on the 3rd floor (Kaminari, Ojiro, Kouda) come out of their rooms.

“You guys are still awake?”

“After hearing the story in class earlier there’s no way I can sleep!”

“What on earth is that noise?”

Kaminari and Kouda peer around nervously, but they don’t see anything strange. The four boys look at each other uneasily.

Just then, they hear a small, shrill voice. “Aa-aa-ah!” That’s definitely Mineta. Iida and the others rush down to the 2nd floor, where they find Mineta shaking like a leaf and clinging onto Izuku. Aoyama and Tokoyami come out into the hallway as well, looking pale.

“What happened?!” Iida asks them.

“T-the voice is calling my name again!”

“I heard it too,” Izuku confirms. “Someone knocked on Mineta’s door.” Aoyama and Tokoyami nod their assent.

At everyone’s grave expressions, Iida mutters, “Just what is actually happening here…”

That night, all the 1-A members hear the mysterious beeping noise.

In the morning the sky is dull and overcast.

Aizawa-sensei stares at his class, a little surprised. The atmosphere inside the classroom seems to be just as gloomy as it is outside.

Apparently there will be a thunderstorm tonight. As the day goes on, the wind gets stronger and stronger. Outside, tree branches sway and shake.

The sleep-deprived students can’t concentrate on Aizawa-sensei’s lecture. And it’s not just one or two students – strangely enough, the entire class is in low spirits.

“What happened?” Upon hearing the story, Aizawa-sensei hums a little. “Hmm, a noise… But do you guys really believe in something as unrealistic as that supposed curse?” Of course no one in the class wanted to believe it at first, but how else could they explain last night’s events?

Class president Iida hopes they can get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible. Then everyone can properly focus on their studies again.

“N-no! Every night the voice calls my name and I can’t sleep! If I hide under the covers I can’t sense anything… but what if she comes into my room. I’ll be cursed and killed! Wait, what if she’s not wearing anything? … Ah, but…!!” Mumbling to himself, Mineta holds his head in his hands.

“A curse, huh…” Aizawa-sensei deliberates for a moment. “Now that I think about it, UA has one too. One of the Seven Mysteries of UA went something like this…”

** Seven Mysteries is a common trope for Japanese school settings

“There’s a bitter soul of a UA graduate that couldn’t become a pro-hero. It often wanders around the forest surrounding the school. And if you see it, you’ll be cursed… Ah. Now that I think of it, that forest is near the new dorms.”

For a moment the entire class is silent. Then it erupts into chaos.

“If the ghost came into the dorms…!”

“Oh god, no!!”

Fuck, Aizawa thinks.

This sort of story should obviously be taken as a joke, but the 1-A students are already on edge. Aizawa hadn’t meant to scare them, but ended up inadvertently adding fuel to the fire.

All the students are panicking. Usually they quiet down with a single word, but it’s ineffective now.

“… You guys. Behave yourselves.” Aizawa’s low, dangerous voice finally reaches his students’ ears, penetrating to their very bones. The students immediately suppress the fear in their hearts, shivering in front of an even greater terror. The room falls silent.

Seeing his students like this, Aizawa lets out a sigh. “If you guys care so much about this noise, I’ll stop by for inspection tonight. There’ll be a storm anyways, so might as well. I’ll be taking roll call so you better all be in your rooms.”

“Sen-sensei…!” At their teacher’s evident concern, the students tear up a little.

The afternoon rain turns into an evening storm. The wind blows endlessly, and the dorm windows rattle and shake.

Aizawa-sensei arrives at the Class 1-A dorms for inspections. Outside the 1st floor windows, the trees bow and sway. Every crack of thunder is accompanied by a blinding streak of lightning.

There might be a power outage in this sort of weather. Aizawa-sensei considers the best course of action in that scenario. There’s an emergency power generator, but he should confirm the location of the power switch and acquire a flashlight.

“But what I’m most concerned about is the kids, after all.” Aizawa-sensei furrows his eyebrows. Earlier in class, the students had honestly acted like they’d regressed into preschoolers. If there’s a blackout… it’s a headache to even think about.

But Aizawa is also concerned about the mysterious sounds. The entire class heard something, so it clearly wasn’t just a figment of someone’s imagination. “Just what could the sound be?” he wonders.

Aizawa looks around, alert – he suddenly has a feeling that something is off. Amidst the sounds of the storm, there seems to be some kind of mechanical noise. Aizawa holds his breath and scans his surroundings. The sound isn’t coming from a fixed point. Whatever it is keeps moving.

“Something living…? It shouldn’t be…” Tracking down the sound, Aizawa arrives at the dining hall.

“Seriously…?” Seeing the source of the sound, Aizawa’s eyes widen.

As the storm rages on outside, Iida shows up to Mineta’s room. He’s accompanied by Todoroki and Satou. The scheduled time for roll call had passed, but Aizawa-sensei hadn’t appeared. They’re checking to see if anyone had seen him.

“He hasn’t been here. Maybe he started from the top floor?” Mineta fidgets nervously. Is the mysterious voice going to call his name again today?

But Satou lives on the 5th floor and hadn’t seen Aizawa-sensei either.

“That’s really strange,” Izuku mumbles. “For someone like Aizawa-sensei to not show up at the appointed time… did something happen to him?”

“Don’t say scary things, Midoriya!” Mineta responds nervously. “Maybe some other pressing matter came up, so he couldn’t come here?”

“Let’s look around for him,” Iida decides.

When Iida and the rest of the group check the ground floor, they find Aizawa-sensei collapsed next to the dining table. He’s unconscious and won’t wake up.

Kaminari examines Aizawa’s prone form. “Hey, isn’t that a strand of hair around Aizawa-sensei’s neck? … Blond hair…?! Ah, it’s my own…”

“Now’s really not the time to say that sort of shit, dumbass!” Bakugou snaps like usual, but even his voice sounds strained.

The class speculates on how Aizawa-sensei got knocked out. Either it was the ghost-story curse, or it was a villain attack. Both options are terrifying. Ever calm, Tsuyu suggests that they find another teacher for help. Iida immediately backs her up–

A huge bolt of lightning strikes. The entire building is suddenly shrouded in darkness.

“What?!”

“For a blackout to happen now, what timing…”

“Calm down, Dark Shadow!”

Sero yelps. “Wait, Tokoyami! Don’t let Dark Shadow out!”

“Uwaa– Who’s going to protect me from getting cursed now?!” As always, Mineta simpers and worries only about himself.

Sightless, no one can tell who or what is around them. Humans have been afraid of the dark since ancient times. Because of the power outage, this primal fear bursts out and overwhelms the already nervous students. Iida attempts to calm everyone down while Yaoyorozu tries to make a flashlight with her quirk. But when she’s nearly done…

“Kya-a-a!?”

“That scream, is it Yaoyorozu? W-what’s wrong?” Jirou tracks down her location by sound. Something soft had brushed past below her, Yaoyorozu explains with a shudder.

A moment later, Ochaco shrieks. She’d just felt something brush past her foot as well.

“So what the hell is it?!” Kaminari is half-sobbing at this point.

“Someone make some light already!” Iida commands. At this, Kaminari finally recovers enough to start up his quirk. Bakugou sets off explosions in his palms as well. There’s finally a bit of visibility.

For a moment, the light illuminates a small, ghostly white figure. It quickly retreats, disappearing back into the cover of darkness. Silence.

“——！？”

“Th-th-th-there’s something there…!”

“A ghost, it’s a ghost! Isn’t that what a ghost looks like…? I don’t actually have a clue, this is the first time I’m seeing one!”

Hagakure and Kaminari have entered a full-fledged state of panic. Near them, Todoroki is beginning to lose his composure as well. He turns to where Midoriya seems to be standing next to him. “Mi-Midoriya… ice or fire, which one is more effective against ghosts?”

“Eh? No, I don’t know. I’d never thought about it before. But the ghost seemed to give off a cold, icy aura. So fire would probably be more effective to counter it? … Ah, but wouldn’t a physical attack be useless? Ghosts don’t have corporeal bodies, right?” Midoriya’s voice shakes, but he remains cool-headed and logical in the face of terror.

Todoroki despairs at his own apparent uselessness. “Shit! Is there anything we can do against it?”

“It’s too late!” Mineta wails. “Everyone will be cursed and killed. Damn it! There’s no way out; at least I’ll be killed by a beautiful lady–”

The front entrance creaks open. Everyone freezes.

Illuminated for just a moment by lightning… is long, golden-blond hair. Water droplets trickle down its length and drip onto the ground. The figure approaches them, stepping closer and closer.

“Hey… you guys––” As if just noticing the students, the figure slowly raises its ghostly visage.

“It’s the blond-haired ghost!!!!”

The entire class shrieks as they launch a full-scale attack. If the enemy had been a villain they would’ve had some combat knowledge to bring to the table, but they have neither knowledge nor experience in fighting ghosts. Battle-crazed, the students simply give their all.

The blond figure is knocked down, its body hitting the ground with a solid thump. At the sound, everyone seems to come back to themselves.

A moment later, the lights finally flicker back on. The students sigh in relief but they’re still on guard.

The combination of Bakugou’s explosions, Todoroki’s fire and ice, and Ashido’s acid had produced a lot of smoke. When it eventually dissipates, everyone takes a closer look at the fallen blond wraith.

“Cl-clearly it’s a ghost, so why didn’t it disappear?” Mineta asks.

His sticky quirk balls had rendered the ghost motionless, stuck the way it’d fallen. The students carefully edge closer to it, trembling. On the blond figure’s visage there appears to be… a small blond mustache? Its body is slim but well-built.

“Eh? Not a woman…” Ashido trails off. “He seems strangely familiar, actually.”

Behind her, Jirou stares intently at the figure. Her face pales. “This blond hair… it’s Mic-sensei!”

“Eh?…… Ahh!!!” Everyone is shocked. Since they’d always seen Mic-sensei with his hair swept up towards the heavens, they hadn’t recognized him with his hair down. He looks like a completely different person!

Jirou uses her earphone jack to check Mic-sensei’s pulse. Fortunately he’s only passed out.

“Did Mic-sensei come here to check on us because of the power outage? Ah, but we did such an unforgivable thing to him…” As the class president, Iida feels responsible for this.

From behind the students, a familiar voice says, “Oi, you guys…”

Everyone turns towards the sound to where Aizawa-sensei stands behind them. He’d woken up earlier when the students loudly attacked Mic-sensei.

“Sensei~!” Fear forgotten, the students cluster around Aizawa-sensei.

“We thought the blond ghost had come to attack us!”

“Sensei, what did you find earlier? Was it a villain, or a real ghost…?”

“A white ghost came into the dorms!!”

The excited students clamor around Aizawa. “Calm down,” he commands. They immediately quiet down – a conditioned reflex.

Aizawa-sensei first moves Mic’s prone form away from the entrance and out of the rain. Then he begins to slowly walk while peering up at the ceiling, clearly looking for something. Confused, the students follow after him. Jirou alerts the group that she can hear the beeping noise from the nights before. Aizawa nods. He points up at a tiny black speck on the ceiling, enlisting Asui’s help to bring it down.

“This is why I got knocked out earlier, and is also the source of the strange sounds you guys were hearing.”

“Eh?”

“I saw it in the dining hall earlier and tried to stand on the table to reach it, but I stepped on a hidden wash-rag and slipped.”

“Ah, that’s mine!” Hagakure immediately confesses. “I had to hurry back to my room to make it for roll call and accidentally left it behind!”

Aizawa raises a questioning eyebrow. “… Well, I’ll let you off this time.” He holds the tiny black object out so that the students can get a good look. Yaoyorozu produces a magnifying glass, and only then can they tell it’s a miniature mechanical device.

“Speaking of machines I hadn’t seen before… it probably belongs with this.” Aizawa heads towards the dorm baths. At the entrance to the girls’ baths, he places the tiny black gadget next to the anti-peeping device there. The black gadget immediately burrows into the larger device like a worm returning to its nest. “Charging… charging…” it says.

They should confirm with the creator just to make sure. Aizawa calls up Power Loader, who forwards the call to Hatsume.

“Ah yes! That’s a super cute device that continuously monitors and inspects the area at night! Since the 1-A dorms seem to have a particularly perverted classmate… who was it again? Eh… well, I forgot his name, but the device only targets him to verify he’s in his own room. Cool, right?”

“Don’t do unnecessary things!” Mineta is furious. But at least he wasn’t cursed; he’s secretly relieved.

Kaminari is still uneasy. “But what was the white thing? Everyone saw that, right?”

“Sorry, it looks like I forgot to close my door.” Kouda bows his head apologetically, his white pet rabbit cradled in his arms. The rabbit seems excited by all the commotion and wiggles around.

“Hah, what the hell? I really thought it was a ghost.” Kaminari lets out a relieved laugh.

** Earlier Yaoyorozu and Ochaco felt something warm and soft running past their feet, and all the students saw a white figure running off.

Everyone else relaxes. All the mysterious happenings had been explained. They chatter and laugh amongst themselves. Thank god, everything’s fine now!

“Everything’s fine now…?” Aizawa-sensei’s voice is a low growl, nearly outside the range of human hearing.

At this, the students finally stop to notice their surroundings. The front entrance looks like it’s been bombed. Doors and windows have been blown away, and the outside storm sends rain and leaves all over the dorm’s ground floor.

“You guys just moved in a few days ago and it’s already like this? Is it because of the kaidan? You were this terrified by some ghost stories?”

Dark hair whipped about by the wind, red eyes piercing and cold… at this moment, Aizawa is scarier than any demon.

“Every one of you will turn in a reflection by tomorrow. From now on, curfew is at 8 o’clock until I decide otherwise. Telling ghost stories is hereby banned in the dorms! Am I clear?”

“Yessir…”

Curses are terrifying. Ghosts are terrifying, too. But the students are currently witnessing the most terrifying of them all –– genuinely angry Aizawa-sensei.

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–– End of Chapter 4, Part Two (Final) ––

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