haltquirk:
“Well jeez, no need to act like I’m about to whip out some handcuffs. I don’t have the legal authority to arrest people.” He decides not to point out that he is allowed to detain people until the police arrive. That won’t help. For whatever reason he’s scaring the shit out of this vaguely familiar kid.
Shouta squints, internally cursing the deterioration of his eyesight after recent events. Without a good ability to make out the details of this guy’s face, it’ll be kind of hard to place him. He sighs, absentmindedly pulling at a lock of his own hair.
Instead, he tries to look nonchalant. “I’ll take your word for that. I don’t know too many people, though, so I don’t know who I’d be mixing you up with.” Knowing the guy’s name wouldn’t help, of course, though he doesn’t know that at all. He tilts his head slightly, mind running through the various options, trying to imagine this friendly-faced young man in some dark clothes, ducked into a shady alleyway, hood pulled up…
Hood pulled up. That’s it.
“You were involved in all that business with Trigger, weren’t you? You and that nutjob Quirkless old guy.”
Very smooth. So surreptitious. Truly, a master of investigation.
Well shit-
-B-5, you sunk my battleship-
-but it wasn’t a complete accusation just yet. There was still room for some inconclusiveness- still some room for some super secret-identity cover-up. What kind of a vigilante would he be if he couldn’t protect the Crawler’s identity, after all!
( well, actually, he wasn’t doing such a great job at that, but he hadn’t really been caught yet )
................................................. ( YET )
“Wh-what, you mean those Naruhata vigilantes?” A laugh that was perhaps a little bit too forced all but burst past his lips, loud and unnatural sounding in the otherwise empty convenience store. It was such a weirdly quiet shift, and Koichi honestly wasn’t sure whether he appreciated the privacy or not. “You think I’m the Crawler? Man, I wish! That guy’s awesome! Going around and doing cool-guy things like cleaning up litter and giving people directions- he’s the kinda guy we all aspire to be like!”












