Text Izuku hadn't even thought about his encounter with the Villain Shigaraki throughout the entirety of Mina's stay, and Mina could only classify that a a one hundred percent positive result. Her goal had always been to prevent him from thinking about them, from him having to relive the horrific encounter that he'd had the previous day. After dealing with so much crap every single day of his damn life that he deserved a break from it.
She'd suffer the consequences for it. She didn't care anymore. It was hard to care about some stupid rule or punishment that could be doled out toward her by the school when she and her boyfriend had literally been staring death in the face less than twenty four hours ago. She'd probably end up with detention, scolding's, and it was probably going to mean that out of everyone who went on the school trip, she was going to be the one who suffered the most... But still.
Aizawa-sensei could bite her for all she cared. Izuku was more important.
She shook her head, remembering that she couldn't be thinking about the results of skipping a day, and sabotaging it so Izuku would also miss one too. She'd take the blame for that too, but she'd deal with it when it came.
Right now, she was supposed to be admiring the thousands of fish and aquatic creature's right in front of her. Somehow, they had wound up in an aquarium after wandering around the city for a while, looking for something fun to do at Mina's insistence, practically dragging Izuku along the ground in order to get him to follow. The green haired boy said he would have rather just stayed home and studied to make up for lost time, and the hell she was gonna let that happen. If they had, or technically stole, some time off, then Izuku needed it to unwind for once in his life. To forget about becoming a Hero for just a few hours. To just kick back and enjoy himself for a bit. Otherwise, he was going to end up working himself into the ground.
When they'd found themselves on the same street as a fairly large housing of aquatic creatures, which boasted having a huge variety of them, it was pretty much agreed between the two before any words had even been spoken.
It had been years since Mina had actually gone to one of these places, or anything even remotely like them. She always loved them when she was younger, freaking out over the hundreds of creatures on display. It wasn't so much that she had a particular fondness for animals beyond thinking that some were cute, awesome, and weird or anything else. It was always such an exciting thing for her to go and do. In her younger days though, when she was still getting used to her Quirk, sometimes she lost control due to that same exhilaration, and caused some property damage that her parents had to pay for, that they were never pleased about.
She maintained that it wasn't as bad as the time Micha melted the family car down into sludge, though.
"Hey Mina, you need to check this one out!"
Again, this wasn't a day trip with her family. It was a date with her boyfriend while they really should be doing multiplication by fractions in class right now. If they had kept to the established timetable of Yuuei High, math should be occurring right now, and complex arithmetic would await them for the next hour and a half.
She couldn't not regret her decision more right now.
As it turned out, Izuku did also seem to enjoy watching creatures from the ocean swim about in the water, going about their regular routines as their instincts informed them to do so. Something about the ocean and its creatures captured the imagination of people on the surface, air breathing world. Something about them just caught the joy and wonder from the two young teenagers.
Their mystery, their perfectly evolved adaptations...
...Their shark... Which had fire in place of teeth... Mina had to blink a few times when she saw that. Submerged completely in water, there was a shark, according to the sign, specifically a Lemon shark, that in place of having rows of teeth, had fiery fangs that still burned brightly, even while totally covered in water.
A rare case of an animal that had developed a Quirk.
"Oh wow." Mina simply said, not sure what else she could say to describe this truly rare sight indeed. It almost felt alien to see a creature that possessed a Quirk like this. Whatever Nedzu was, he certainly wasn't a Human being, but his Quirk made him act more refined and intelligent than anyone, so Mina had grown used to treating him like he were just a regular person. Not all animals that had Quirks gained intelligence though, so aside from its flaming teeth, it was just a regular Lemon Shark.
"Says here that its Quirk is called Flaming Fangs." Izuku read from the sign next to the tank, that gave all the information it could about the species, and this specimen in particular. He seemed utterly fixated on this particular creature especially. His obsession with Quirks and Heroes was well documented, and seeing an animal that didn't have an Intelligence Enhancement type Quirk was an experience he had never been privileged enough to see before. In their world it was the equivalent to seeing people with Quirks from the first generation of users. It was an amazingly rare opportunity.
"Wow, someone must've spent a while coming up with that one." The pink girl responded with light hearted sarcasm with and a grin on her face, wilfully ignorant to the fact her own Quirk must have taken even less time to name. After taking a few more seconds to register what it was in front of her, she took a few steps towards the glass, pressing her hands against it while she peered into the water, like the reaction that she should have had had come delayed. "This is awesome! Look at it, this is so cool!"
And it was enrapturing a sight to see. Animals with Quirks were so rare, far rarer than it was to be Quirkless in this day and age. Seeing a creature that had one, that wasn't Nedzu, was an exciting and amazing thing. Sometimes Mina wondered what the world would be like if all the animals had Quirks, like Humans did. Heroes would probably have to be on the clock at all points. It would just be non-stop chaos permanently, at all points. After all, not all animals had the ability to be rational, feel emotion or act on them. A lizard wouldn't really be driven by anything, just instinct. What would happen if a creature like that got a Gigantification Type Quirk?
While it was just an idea that sounded like something that would be in one of the comic books Izuku read, the same could be said about a Superhuman society, and look at the world now. Perhaps that was the society they had to look forward to. Quirks started out as just a very small, very limited number of cases in humans that eventually grew and grew. Maybe the same would happen to animals. Not in their lifetime, most likely though.
Either way, Mina looked over to her boyfriend who was already taking notes with a pad of paper and a pencil that she swore he kept strapped to his body at this point. Even when he was supposed to be relaxing, he found a way to make notes on the Quirks that surrounded him to help him plan for becoming a Hero. His every hobby seemed to loop back round to his desire to use his newfound powers to help people, though Mina couldn't for the life of her think of a situation in which Izuku would have to square off against a literal shark. He was just doing it out of habit. A true one track mind.
But that was okay. He wasn't wasting the time they'd taken off studying when he needed to unwind, and he wasn't stressed. He was enjoying himself, and he wasn't thinking about the League of Villains. That was all she wanted in the first place.
So she waited until he had finally stopped taking various notes and drawing out the sketch that he had of the shark in front of him, and slid his notebook and pencil back into his pocket. When he was finished, Mina reached out and wrapped her hand around his, and inter-winded their fingers in one swift motion. Given what they had done just a few hours ago, this action caused Mina to blush a bit as well, but only a tiny bit. Izuku also went red, but it was far tamer than it normally was. Like he'd finally adapted to Mina and her various ticks. He quickly increased his hold onto Mina's hand in turn.
As always, she was warm.
"It wouldn't have been entirely rational for you to be attending classes at all if you weren't going to be able to pay any attention anyway." Aizawa noted, glancing between the young couple of students that had just decided not to show up yesterday without as much as a warning, or even an excuse between them.
Mina had taken full responsibility for everything, being straightforward and completely honest that she was the one who had decided to sabotage Izuku's getting to the school, and that she had convinced him not to bother going in for what remained.
It certainly hadn't been the opening gambit that Mina had been expecting to hear from their homeroom teacher. She'd been convinced that he'd erase their Quirks and tie them from the walls that surrounded Yuuei to show what happened to students who couldn't handle time-management. Instead, he'd actually seemed sort of relaxed about it, almost like he'd figured out that Izuku was going to be taking the previous day off to recharge and re-mentally adjust himself.
At least, he seemed relaxed with Izuku.
"Though next time something like this happens, make certain you call the absence line." Sighed the Erasure Quirk holder, before handing a small number of papers towards Izuku. "These cover everything that we went over while you were away. Go over them in detail, it's information that you're going to need."
"Y-Yes sir." Izuku nodded in understanding. Considering what he and Mina had done, this was basically a slap on the wrist.
"As for you Ashido... There's no point to punishing you while we're still at the school, so I hope you're prepared to work twice as hard as everyone else in remedial is." There it was. Mina had been expecting that. "Midoriya had a reason for not coming into classes, even without your little stunt. You don't have the same excuse he does. I'm aware you meant well, but this isn't the sort of thing we can overlook. If you expect to become a Hero, you can't just take days off whenever you feel like it."
Mina already had been prepared to have some sort of bombshell like that thrown her way, that she'd have to do extra lessons for extra lessons for her total admission of guilt. But again, Mina didn't care. There hadn't been any way to hide that she'd wind up being responsible - Two people who were dating both taking the day off after a major incident, one of them a straight A's student and the other one a more carefree social creature? It wasn't difficult to link - So lying would have achieved absolutely nothing. Taking the brunt of the blame, of course it meant that she'd be the one receiving the brunt punishment too. Izuku hadn't been aware of Mina's plan to do this until it had actually happened. And by that point, it had been way too late. He'd tried protesting it, but it was pretty clear that Aizawa knew that Mina was the one telling the truth.
"Return to your seat, Ashido." Aizawa waved her off lazily, before he stood up, hands shoved into his pockets and his back hunched as always, either out of sheer laziness or because he didn't care. He blinked a couple of times, before his eyes fell back onto Izuku. "Midoriya, I want to have a word with you regarding something. Follow me."