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“Maybe its faulty, but it doesn’t matter now”[break][break]

Shit, he was fast.[break][break]

This whole mess had long since gotten out of hand. In Gen’s defense, any preparations he’d made had flown out the window the second he saw that fire. He’d done well to improvise so far, but against someone with more than a single brain cell, the cracks were starting to show. He had to find a way to circle back into his script, and lucky for him, his roommate had given him just the out he needed.[break][break]

“Any second now, a teacher’s gonna’ walk in here and see what’s inside.” His eyes wandered to the end of the hall, beyond the sea of stupid students dashing down the stairs. “The way I see it, your future depends on what that teacher sees and hears once they get inside.” With two soft knocks on the closed door, the young man turned towards the new arrival. “Quite an unfortunate set of circumstances, if I do say so myself.”[break][break]

“Now I can make this look real bad for you, worse than it already does.” He gave him a second to picture all the ways his roommate could libel, slander, and defame him in front of the faculty, and especially to process what he meant by using the plural form for metahuman abilities. “Think about it, who are they gonna believe?” Him, the transfer student from across the pond, or Gen, the guy who’s been here for at least a year. It didn’t take a genius level intellect to figure that answer out.[break][break]

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“I can make all of this go away, like this.” His fingers snapped for added emphasis. “Really, no one will know you set the room on fire, and you can forget about your airport speedrun.” Finally, Gen would push himself off the wall, taking a single step in the boy’s direction. “It’ll be like nothing ever happened.”[break][break]

”I do have one condition, but it's no biggie....” If anything, Elijah might’ve already been thinking about it. [break][break]

“All I ask is that as soon as this is over, that you demand to be moved to another room. You can say you fear for your life around, that I’m a terrible roommate who never does any chores, or that I’m a racist pig. I don’t care how you spin it. Just make sure to have your shit out of my room by the end of the week and this’ll all blow over.”[break][break]

With a sick smile on his face, Gen would extend a hand, capping his devilish deal off with a single question.[break][break]

“So, what’s it gonna’ be, newbie? A brand new room without me in it or a 20 hour flight back to Quebec?”[break][break]

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[Elijah]

Elijah's attention was pulled away from the sprinklers to the older student. The furrowed brow remained as the other spoke, because honestly-

What the hell was this guy talking about?

He'd been going on about a staff person coming in to give Elijah due punishment for what he'd done for a while now, but now he was threatening to make it look worse for him? With the alternative being him erasing his crime altogether? And why was he still not concerned about the second fire? Unless...

Ah. The condition. He understood now. Well, understood Gen's true intentions with the whole thing that is. Why the sophomore had to go through such drastic measures was still up in the air.

Maybe that was why the other students were so afraid of him. Because they couldn't figure that part out either.

Elijah glanced down at the offered hand and blinked one. Twice.

Then he looked up at the other student's face and spoke.

"You could've just asked. I would've been fine with moving."

He let the thought sink in before he continued. "But instead you turned your room into a landfill, set your own clothes on fire after I put out the first one, and would risk your credibility with a renowned university for a mistake I would own up to, even though my expulsion would give you what you want regardless. Which I assume is a room to yourself, as I doubt you knew who I was to make this a first-time affair." All was said in monotone, as if he were reading off a grocery list instead of a list of things Gen would do to secure his solitude.

Elijah took a deep breath, eyes shut as a headache formed. Exhaustion from the exam followed shortly by this fiasco was taking a toll on him. He opened them again when he heard steps coming closer instead of away. "Your confidence in your seniority makes it so my choice doesn't matter in the end, so feel free to do what you want."

The freshman turned away from the hand, facing whatever faculty would greet them as he silently accepted his fate. "Good luck getting rid of your next roommate."

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There were things Gen expected whenever he pulled a proverbial gun on someone. Some first try to deny it, unable to believe a so-called Hero would resort to blackmail; a grand majority throw hands at the first opportunity, proving how right the little goblin was in picking on them; the more pathetic of the bunch would give up, especially when accounting for the stresses of intercontinental flights. Elijah, on the other hand, simply accepted it. [break][break]

He took the facts in as presented and, opting not to play his roommate’s dog-and-pony show, simply pointed out the pointlessness of it all. Cool, calm, collected, he accurately surmised that the only way to win here was to not to play. The way a normal person would act in the face of these childish games, which was interesting, because…[break][break]

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“Why is it when something happens around here, you’re somehow involved, Kurokami?” The man spoke in a gruff voice, Gen didn’t remember who he was and the other guy probably wasn’t here long enough to learn his name. It didn’t matter. The only relevant part about him was his authority, one he wasted no time in applying. “What happened here?” Already with the human garbage bag, he turned to Elijah, with some concern hiding behind his words. “Did he do something to you?”[break][break]

Taking the initiative, Gen would snap his fingers, bringing the attention back to him before Elijah could screw his story up. “I wouldn’t be so quick to point fingers around like that. I was involved, but it was just an accident, and besides no one got hurt.”[break][break]

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“There I was, reading the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump, chilling in my room, not bothering anyone, and then this guy showed up and started speaking some foreign language at me.”[break][break]

“He’s Quebecois, you see. So naturally, I was on edge.“[break][break]

“This could’ve been any number of students trying to get revenge by attacking me in my room, away from any security cameras.”[break][break]

“So I fired a warning shot, made sure to aim away from him. Seems a few of my clothes caught fire in the process.”[break][break]

“But…” The suspect pointed towards Elijah with all the gusto you’d expect from him. “This guy was so concerned about my well-being that he dragged me out of the room and hit the fire alarm.” Performatively putting both hands around his cheeks, he added, mockingly. “Very Plus Ultra of him.”[break][break]

“Of course, once he pulled the fire alarm, I made sure to extinguish the fire and repair the damages with a few Quirks.”
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“Apparently, he was my roommate or something, but I wasn’t aware of that. I thought you guys would give up after what happened to the last guy.”[break][break]

“But you see, officer, I feared for my life, I was rightfully defending myself, and no lasting damage has been left on campus property. So in other words, no harm, no foul, right?”
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Sighing, the man opened the door, revealing the room hidden under that mountain of garbage. The tumbleweeds of candy wrappers were gone, the tinfoil leaves were no more, and the towers of unwashed dishes had been relocated elsewhere. It wasn’t pristine, by any means, this was still a college dorm, after all. All the garbage that used to be on Elijah’s bed was still there, as was everything he’d put into that black bag. However, a good 80% of that mess was gone, especially the grimier parts of it. More importantly, though, that charred stain on the ground, along with the clothes? They had all vanished without a trace.[break][break]

Every piece of evidence tying Elijah to that fire was gone, as was any trace of its existence. Erased from existence. There was nothing to off of, other than what these two had to say. As if he had seen this a million times before, the teacher turned towards the other student, his last hope in getting to the bottom of this bullshit.[break][break]

“What actually happened here? Is what he’s saying true?”[break][break]

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[Elijah]

Elijah let out a sigh as they were spotted by who he presumed was staff. Yep. Here it comes. He didn't take Gen's deal so the sophomore was free to slander his name and get him expelled before he even started his first day.

The new student was already planning the next steps in his head. Word would likely spread of whatever lies Gen decided to utter, so enrolment in somewhere else like Shiketsu was unlikely unless they were desperate. Maybe another move was in order if he was to continue on his path to heroism. Which he would. He wasn't letting expulsion prevent him from atoning for his crimes.

Elijah looked up as the older man raised his concerns over his safety. At least he seemed genuinely interested in what happened- though the instant assumption that Gen was the cause further revealed the student's reputation. And while he wasn't proactive in action, the sophomore made sure to get his own story in first. Another sigh escaped him.

Goodbye UAU he supposed.

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Well that was a surprise. Not only did Gen embellish the story in a way that pulled the responsibility of the blaze away from the freshman, he pinned the blame on himself. Gen had become the fire starter. It was an accident, he said. While Elijah could see what he was trying to go for, it was difficult to excuse throwing fire around as self-defence when all the freshman did was speak if they only had his testimony to work with. But what did he know? He wasn't the mastermind here.

That's without mentioning the state of the room. Elijah squinted in confusion at the reduced mess. All those wrappers, soda cans, food scraps- they disappeared. And the pile of ashes he expected was gone as well. Was this what Gen meant when he said he could remove the problem? Was this his Quirk at play?

Not Quirk. Quirks. Several. He had several powers at his disposal.

As monumental as that news was, Elijah kept his focus on the situation at hand. With all evidence of his involvement gone without a trace, the truth would sound fake if he decided to tell it. The room looked like a hoarder's home, I set some of the mess on fire to reduce it, Gen restarted the fire after I extinguished the first and he wouldn't put it out? The staff wouldn't believe it.

In truth though, credibility wasn't his problem. He wasn't lying when he said he had no qualms owning up to his error whether they believed it or not. The problem was that the deal was essentially sealed. No handshake necessary. Gen decided to lie his way through so neither of them were punished. And unlike the most righteous of the student body, Elijah frankly didn't care to out him if this was the path he decided to take.

So sure. A deal was a deal.

When the instructor addressed him once more, Elijah nodded tiredly. "It's true. He assumed that I was a threat when I had no idea who he was beyond a document stating that he was to be my roommate. I had no means to extinguish the fire myself, and with no prior knowledge to his abilities, my first reaction was to get us both out and pull the fire alarm."

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The teacher’s eyes squinted in response. This was a seasoned Law Enforcement Official, and it was clear this wasn’t his first time dealing with Gen’s bullshit. The only thing he knew for sure was that this wasn’t true. “Are you sure that’s what happened?” He repeated, getting just that little bit closer. [break][break]

“Oi, oi, sensei.” Noticing where this was going, Gen tried to bring some of the heat back onto himself. “You’ve got my confession and an eyewitness account confirming it.” Sliding into frame, Gen would step to Elijah’s side. “Can we get to the part where you give me a slap on the wr-I mean, where I receive my fair and just punishment for my actions?”[break][break]

"Kurokami, I'll deal with you in a second." Without a thought, the man moved Gen out of frame once more, putting the heat back on Elijah. “Is he putting you up to this?” An immeasurable pressure shot out from his eyes, one that must’ve only mounted with the continental flights, the overly ellaborate prank, and the blackmail someone had endured in the last couple of hours. “Is he threatening you? If he is, you better start speaking up now.”[break][break]

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[Elijah]

Huh. The man didn't take the story for what it was even though both students agreed to the events that occurred. Either he was diligent or Gen was that much of a pest. Strange then, that the guy didn't seem reprimanded nearly enough to still be acting this way. Though perhaps not so strange if that slap comment was anything to go by.

In any case, it looked like only Elijah's side of the story mattered in this moment. The instructor was really gunning for it too, even doing so much as keeping Gen away from him so he wouldn't influence his answer. Not that that would make much of a difference anyway. He could still interject whenever he pleased.

Elijah squeezes the bridge of his nose between his fingers. The headache was coming on again.

The freshman eventually replied. "With slander, yes. If I didn't comply to his wishes, he believed his words would be enough to result in my expulsion."

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Well, so much for keeping things under wraps. “That doesn’t sound like me.” The worst part was that it definitely sounded like something the omnipotent owner of All for One would do. He sure did love his extortion. A little bit of blackmail here, some strong-arming there, and cap it off with an under-the-table deal. A tale that got as old as time around here. Swear to God, man, some people just can’t help themselves. Still, as much as that made his life hell right now, Gen really wanted to know where this dude was going with this, and he wasn’t the only one.[break][break]

“Be quiet, Kurokami.” The teacher knew this was the moment. A seasoned enforcer of the law, he knew that this was the thread he needed to pull on. This little shit’s story was starting to show some cracks, and if he wanted to rid the school of him, this was as good a time as any. “So you were being extorted?” He crossed his arms, his eyes wandering for a moment between the obvious culprit and the supposed victim. “Tell me, what actually happened here?”[break][break]

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[Elijah]

Elijah gave Gen a half-lidded stare at his comment. He just met him today yet the sophomore made his conduct very apparent.

He looked back at the instructor and nodded. "Correct." Then he fell quiet for a moment. How much was he willing to tell, he wondered. He already walked back on the deal he never agreed to, so the truth was fair game. But how much of it? Gen already erased the excessive garbage that would've justified - in his mind - the need for the fire. It would look as if he started it for no reason.

But then he remembered his credibility didn't matter.

So he simply told the man everything.

"There were two fires," Elijah began. "The room was initially filled with garbage, excessively so. Kurokami was already in the room when I arrived and made no move to clean the mess, so I assumed it was intentional in order to deter me for some reason. Rather than report it, I aimed to get rid of the trash in the most efficient way I knew how. By burning it."

He paused to give the instructor time to let it sink in. He was claiming responsibility after all; that would surely be surprising. "The fire was controlled. I had an extinguisher with me and I was able to put it out once it ate through the largest pile of trash. Kurokami restarted it however." Elijah squinted at the sophomore with tired eyes before returning his gaze to the teacher. "I wasn't able to put it out, and at the time I didn't know the second fire was his doing. Assuming it to be unnatural, I dragged Kurokami out of the room before pulling the fire alarm.

"While we waited for someone more suitable for the task to come and extinguish the blaze, Kurokami attempted to strike a deal with me. If I switched dorm rooms, he would erase my involvement in the incident, as is evident in the story he relayed to you. Should I refuse however, he would use his longer tenure in UAU over me to convince the faculty that what I've done was worse than it was and that I should be expelled. I questioned why he would risk his standing in the university just to secure a room for himself."

Elijah sighed. This was a lot of talking for him. "I lied because he went ahead with his deal even though I never accepted it, and he hid most of the mess to reduce my credibility should I tell the truth."

He nodded his head. "That's my side. I will take whatever punishment is befitting for my hand in the fire." Hopefully whatever it was would be short in phrasing. He's just about ready to pass out.

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There it was. The truth. The very confusing, and almost deranged truth. “Wait, you set the room on fire?” Now that he was hearing it in full, even Gen surprised at how quickly he managed to get someone to resort to such extreme measures. It usually took him a few minutes to get people this riled up. It wasn’t a personal best, but sometimes you can’t help but be taken aback by your own success. “Why?” Maybe Elijah was just trying to establish how he was not to be messed with, maybe this little self-harming confession was part of that, too. "You could've just reported it, at worst, we could've you a... less problematic roommate."[break][break]

Apart from the obvious, the teacher seemed to buy it. The idea that Gen was annoying enough to make someone resort to arson seemed all too believable. The state of his room just one year ago could best be described as a “biohazard in the making”, so his description of this place tracked. In fact, everything he said just felt right. It fit. The mysterious second fire, the blackmail attempt, the under the table deals, he’d heard it all before, and it always traced back to Kurokami Gen. Sadly, that’s where the good news ended. [break][break]

“Its a pretty story, Eli-chan, but I’m afraid it just isn’t true.” The jig was up, but that by no means meant that this scamster was on the backfoot, if anything, Elijah had handed him this one on a silver platter. “I’ll admit, I may have fudged my earlier testimony to try to save my dear roomie.” No need to take any blame anymore if this dude was willing to shoulder it. “It just wouldn’t be fair if he had to fly all the way back to Canada for such a silly little mistake, but it seems my kindness is wasted here.” [break][break]

The teacher knew that everything Elijah said was true, but no matter how badly everyone wanted to believe it, reality just didn’t support those claims. This little shit had covered it up like he always did. He was going to get away with this, too, and he was going to be so smug about it.[break][break]

“Yes, he started the fire, I don’t know why, but this crazy guy showed up to this impeccable room and committed arson, against me, of all people! Can you believe that?” Of course, this performance wouldn’t be complete with a little bit of drama. “Worse yet, to slander me like that is just completely out of line!” It's always good to make a scandal out of these things. Doesn’t matter if you’re a humble waiter or a great Hero, everyone’s the same. Add some hysterics and watch as even the most stone-cold of authorities become flustered. “I’m sure you’re dying to pin this on me, sensei, but look around! His story just doesn’t add up. The room is spotless, there’s no sign of this supposed second fire, and no evidence of this scandalous bit of blackmail he mentioned.”[break][break]

Elijah had been surprisingly clever. He’d gotten ahead of Gen’s play by bringing up his cover-up attempt. Not like it would help him. Even if he was right, you can’t prove what never happened. “And all of that stuff about me hiding the mess to hurt his credibility? The room could’ve been like this all along. Better yet, how can you be sure I cleaned this up? How do you know this also isn't his doing? He just showed up here, we don't know what kinda Quirk he has.” Each question fired out in a row, attempting to overwhelm the other side of this discussion.[break][break]

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[Elijah]

Elijah's half-lidded stare was directed at the professor this time. As if it should be obvious why he hadn't reported the mess. "I imagine the faculty have received many such reports, if Kurokami's mention of you giving up on assigning him a roommate was anything to go by. Yet he is still here. Acting as he had always been, judging by your reaction to his presence. I doubt another account would do anything." This instructor may be more concerned about him than the sophomore, but it didn't change the fact the sophomore had been enrolled for a year so far despite his conduct. "So I wanted to make it clear that whatever methods he employs won't work on me."

Speaking of methods, seemed like Gen had no plans to acquiesce. Unsurprising with the way he carried himself so far. He had full control of the scene; shaped it in a way where his word could be seen as nothing but fact while Elijah's were all lies. The ones that pointed to Gen as a culprit at least. He readily agreed that Elijah started the fire.

The freshman didn't feel the same sense of pressure from the sophomore that he had with the instructor. While the hardened hero dug deep for the truth to understand the situation, Gen wanted to overwhelm him into standing down. He said as such earlier. Who were they going to believe?

Elijah let the silence sit after Gen's questions. He wasn't one to rush with his responses. His side was just as important, so they could wait.

After a few seconds have passed, he spoke. "Hawthorne." Obviously meant to rile him up, but he will choose to assume Gen needed to be corrected again. He eyed the mess on the bed and the black bag that still existed. "I wouldn't call it spotless. Note the state of the bed. It was like that when I got here. The garbage bag is full of empty cans that were scattered around the room as well before I picked them up."

His focus shifted back to the hero, because at the end of the day the state of the room wasn't important. "In any case, it would've been impossible for me to clean up the whole thing between my pulling the fire alarm and your arrival. I was with Kurokami the whole time. Had he seen me do so he would've stated as such instead of make conjectures."

He glanced at the sophomore then. "Especially since he assumed I had a Quirk when I'm Quirkless."

Turning to fully face Gen, Elijah sniffed. "It's as you said, Kurokami. You 'made sure to extinguish the fire and repair the damages with a few Quirks' after I pulled the fire alarm." He tilted his head. "Unless you wish to detract that statement and point fingers at an imaginary third party."

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[Elijah]

The instructor had just about enough of their arguing.

With Elijah fessing up to starting the fire himself, expulsion was on the horizon. For no matter how small the fire was, nor how much he claimed that what he burned was trash, arson was still a crime that called for an appropriate punishment. Especially when there was no claim of it being an accident what with him being 'Quirkless'.

Yet, for some reason, Gen tried to convince the instructor to let him stay.

It was strange to say the least- just moments ago the sophomore had a whole plot to drive Elijah away from the room. Threats of expulsion, even deportation came from him. And Elijah squandered his attempt at taking the blame. Surely Gen would take this opportunity to kick him out.

Yet instead, the freshman was listening to him talk about how it was all 'just a misunderstanding' and 'this guy's still getting used to the place' and 'there's people who've done worse and they weren't expelled, what message will you send by removing Eli-chan?' The only proof Elijah had that this was still the conniving mastermind he'd been talking to was the tacked on nickname at the end.

He snapped back to attention when the hero laid down the verdict. Not expelled, but instead Elijah had to do several months of community service, instantly clocking the student as the anti-social individual he was. Should he fail at that, then he'd be kicked out of UAU as he couldn't manage what heroes set out to do, which was aid the populace.

Gen meanwhile was given the same punishment, for lying about his involvement in the situation and for trying to be a smartass. Instructor's words. Elijah nearly let out a noise but kept it in, knowing he'd be punished further if he reacted to the karma.

To this day he still didn't know why Gen covered for him, and any attempt at pulling a reason from him resulted in the sophomore wheedling his way out of the confrontation. He was good at it. Elijah could see that.

He could only hope that wouldn't bite him in the back later.

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