Mirko visited UA unexpectedly the day after she got back to Japan.

Aizawa assumed it was to ask about the mission...and she did ask him if he knew anything. He said no.

"Is that why you came?" he said, "If you do learn anything, let me know... I want to make sure Eri never has to worry about this again."

"Oh...how is the kid?" Mirko asked.

"Doing all right. Likstar and West have counseled her. Even the annoying counselor here has talked to her. She says Eri's doing better than she expected... They think she'll grow out of her fears eventually," Aizawa said, "But I have to make sure she has no reason to be afraid."

"Oh...well, I heard Joke was okay," Mirko said.

"Yeah." Aizawa had heard too by now. He was obviously relieved.

"So we got off pretty easy, really," Mirko said.

Aizawa just gave her a look.

Mirko laughed. "It's a joke, Eraserhead... Anyway...I just need to ask Likstar something."

"Your friendship with her is one of my many concerns..." Aizawa sighed.

"We're not friends," Mirko grumbled.

Especially not after what Shine said.

Shine was surprised to see her. "Wow...I thought I'd have to call you... Listen, about the other day--"

"Forget about it." Mirko waved her hand.

"Oh, well.... If you want to apologize then," Shine said.

"Me?" Mirko said.

Shine gave her a look. A lot of that was going around today.

"Next time just say that you're not feeling well," Mirko said.

"Uh, I did," Shine said.

"Well, I thought you were exaggerating," Mirko said.

"Are you aware of your complete lack of social skills off the field?" Shine retorted, "Now this is no good. I was going to try to patch things up, but you're just making me mad again."

"I don't care. I just came to ask you if you're using your portals yet," Mirko said.

"I...haven't tried," Shine said, "But they should be working."

"Great..." Mirko tried to think of an excuse for her next question. "So the blocking only affects you, right? Not the villains?"

"It could have affected them. I haven't asked," Shine frowned, "You know, maybe I should. That could help me understand maybe... Maybe it's not just me."

Oh, that went better than Mirko thought it would.

"You're going to go see those freaks again," she feigned disgust.

"Just to ask a quick question. I'm sure they'll understand," Shine said.

Mirko huffed. "Well, you're not going alone. You should take someone with you."

"Wally has to watch Eri right now," Shine said, "but I could ask... Oh...hmm..."

"I'm right here," Mirko said.

"Why should you want to come? You hate them," Shine said.

"That's why. I won't go easy on them if they pull something." Mirko crossed her arms. "So that's settled."

"Aw, you do care," Shine said mockingly.

"Shut up. You want a black eye first?" Mirko said.

Shine frowned. "I am not a punching bag you can threaten like that, Rumi. Apologize to me, now. Or forget it."

Mirko didn't want to push her luck. "Fine, sorry, whatever. It was a joke."

"It's not a nice joke. You sound serious when you say that stuff. I hope you realize that." Shine was still mad.

She closed her eyes. "Let's see. Can I...?"

A portal opened. 

"Huh, easier than I thought..." Shine had really expected to be too tired to do that.

"Great, what are we waiting for?" Mirko bounded in before Shine could stop her.

* * *

The LOV were just hanging around their lair trying to decide what the least risky course of action was--well, the older ones were. Lethe and Medea were playing cards with Compress and Silk.

Compress cheated, but so did all of them-- except Medea was not good at it. It had just become a game of who could not get caught the most.

The door flashed into view.

"Ah, why is she here?" Spinner looked up.

But then Mirko bounded through.

Shigaraki almost choked. This was not expected at all.

Dabi saw the door and backed up into a dark corner.

Shine came through a second later.

"I didn't say to go yet--Ahhh!" She screamed suddenly, scaring all of the Leauge, especially Medea, who put her hands over her head.

Mirko was going to say something snarky, but then she actually looked concerned. "Likstar? What's wrong?"

Shine fell to her knees, hands over her head. "Get out! Get out!" she yelled at nothing anyone else could see.

Mirko shook her arm. "Hey, there's nothing there."

Shine looked up. Her eyes blazed gold for a second.

Mirko was shocked. "What the...?"

"I saw it..." Shine's voice went back to a normal pitch. "The...I don't even know what it was... It was inside my portal...I've been infected... This is not good. Oh, man, we could have both died right there-- or gone into a coma..."

"What?" Mirko said.

"We're so lucky..." Shine covered her mouth suddenly. "Not so lucky... Is there a bathroom here?"

"There." Spinner pointed.

Shine ran out of the room.

The LOV and Mirko stared at each other.

"Any of you frickers have any idea what that was?" she asked.

They shook their heads.

"Why are you here?" Spinner asked.

"Oh, just here to make sure Likstar doesn't die." Mirko gave Shigaraki a meaningful look that said "you're dead later."

Shigaraki glared at her. "Why do you think Likstar is in any danger here? She's the only one who has a free pass to talk to us."

"Is that so?" Mirko ran a hand through her hair like she didn't care. "Well, that's funny. Last I heard you all ran her off for that. She could use some insurance."

"Why didn't she just bring her partner, then?" Spinner said.

"He was busy," Mirko said.

"So she brings you, the person who hates her," Compress said.

"I hate you all more," Mirko shrugged.

"Isn't that the number 5 hero?" Medea hissed to Lethe, "Why is she here?"

"And why is she so mean?" Lethe said. Medea was the only one he talked to at all normally. "She's more like a villain."

Mirko glared at them. "Who are they?"

"None of your business." Compress flicked a card into his palm. "Maybe you should just keep quiet till Likstar tells us her business... We wouldn't want a repeat of last time, now would we?"

Mirko made a fist. "What?"

"Don't provoke her, Compress," Shigaraki warned, "We can't afford to destroy this place yet. Just turn her into a marble."

Mirko backed away from Compress. "I'd like to see him try..."

Shine reappeared, looking pale. "Well, that was fun... I think I'm okay now... Uh, anyway...I'm not sure my question matters now, but since we're here anyway...Shigaraki, I have to ask you something about that warping thing you can do."

"And why would I tell--?"

"Let me finish. It's important-- for medical reasons, I guess."

Shigaraki didn't want to flip with that. "Fine. What?"

"Did you use it at all since...you know? With any side effects?" Shine asked.

Shigaraki thought. "Yeah, I did... It's not any different."

"Nothing?" Shine said.

"Nope." 

"Okay...so it is just me..." Shine sat down shakily on a crate.

"What's wrong?" Compress asked her with, surprisingly, not a lot of snark.

Shine rubbed her head. "What happened...? I know I'm forgetting something so important... Some of my memory is a little blurred together since I fainted... Something is staring me right in the face... When did I even portal?"

"You couldn't portal at all," Dabi said, from the corner, "up until the very end. Did you forget that?"

Shine suddenly blinked and sat up. "The end... Yeah, I remember now. Bakugo jumped into it and...oh!" She covered her mouth. "Chisaki..."

"Oh, that guy." Mirko remembered too. "Yeah, what an idiot..."

"Didn't he get a little weird?" Shigaraki remembered, "The writhing and stuff. Then he got crushed."

"Didn't even try to get away," Dabi said.

"And the tower came down," Shigakari added.

"What the h--- did we miss?" Spinner wondered aloud.

"A lot, apparently," Compress said.

"That's it," Shine said, "That's what it all meant... Oh no, this is not good at all... I knew something was off about him..."

She got up. "Excuse me. I'm going to call Wally and ask him to come get us. I can't portal again."

"Ever?" Mirko said.

"Until we fix this," Shine said, "You want to come? Or you okay in here? Not sure anyone should see you leave this building."

"Oh, I'll be fine. Go on and call your stupid boyfriend." Mirko crossed her arms.

Shine walked out.

"She couldn't do that in front of us? We all know they're a couple," Spinner said.

"Idiot, she wanted to talk to him privately about what just happened," Compress said, "That's how lovers are. Not that you would know."

"And you're so knowledgeable," Spinner snapped.

"Well, unlike you, at least I can say I've dated," Compress said.

"And I don't care about that kind of thing, so what's the point?" Spinner shot back.

"Both of you, shut up," Dabi covered his ears.

Mirko tapped her foot impatiently.

"Hadn't you just better get on it with it?" Compress said to Shigaraki.

Shigaraki didn't like being rushed. "Shut up, Compress..."

Lethe eyed Mirko. "Are you really a bunny?"

"No," Mirko said.

"But you look like one."

"Looks can be deceiving," she said. 

"I'm pretty sure you're a bunny," Lethe insisted.

"Lethe, stop heckling the Pro," Medea said, "She's already having a bad day. I mean, she's hanging out with villains instead of beating them up. Can you imagine?"

She and Lethe both started snickering.

Mirko didn't like them already.

"I wouldn't provoke her," Silk said to them flatly, "She's got a devil of a temper from what I saw."

"All that crap about Likstar, and yet you're still her personal body guard," Dabi said snidely, "Guess you just can't help it, huh?"

Mirko flipped him off. "It was just a convenient way to find you."

Huh...a more clever answer than he thought.

"And you don't think she'll be suspicious?" Compress said.

"She's not feeling good. She's not going to have the energy to wonder," Mirko shrugged.

"That's...terrible," Spinner said, "You're awful."

Mirko's eyes snapped. "Watch it, lizard man."

"You know, calling me lizard man, when you're a rabbit, just feels stupid," Spinner said, "What are you trying to prove by it anyway? That I'm less human than you? Not all of us get only a few body parts of our animal you know."

"Spinner, save your sob story for people who care," Compress said.

"Compress, I'll seriously mess you up if you don't knock it off," Spinner threatened.

"All of you, shut up," Shigaraki said.

They shrugged.

"I win!" Silk said.

"You cheated," Medea said. 

"We all cheated. So?"

"But you just recolored the cards to have a winning hand. That's going too far."

"Oh, boo hoo. Next time be faster."

"Or I could set your cards on fire." Medea's eyes flamed purple.

"Yeah, then you wouldn't have any," Lethe said. 

"And throwing a tantrum equates to a victory, darling?" Silk was smug.

Shigaraki got up and walked out of the room like he was tired of listening to this.

"Boy, he is moodier than usual lately," Spinner said.

"Well, can you blame him?" Compress said.

Mirko slowly walked out the same way. She was tired of waiting.

Shigaraki was in an outer room glaring out the window.

"Well?" she said.

Shigkari rolled his eyes.

"The good news for you is that these guys aren't as hard to find as expected... Also they have a few other names. The Originals, the Primals, the Typics. Depends on where they're from."

"Wow, cute." Mirko was sarcastic. "The Originals, huh? That's not very creative... Well, beats metas..."

"Shut up. Anyway, there's a few locations near here." Shigaraki held up a piece of paper very begrudgingly. "Is that sufficient?"

Mirko took it with more force than she really needed to. "This better be real, or I'll come back and kick your a--."

"If they've moved, it's not our fault," Shigaraki whined, "Anyway someone could lie to us too."

"Yeah, but you see, that's not my fault, is it?" Mirko said.

"You're impossible!"

"Oh, stop whining. I was kidding anyway. " Mirko eyed the paper. "Wait...there's nothing out there. I've been some of these areas before... It's just farmland."

"Not my problem." Shigaraki edged away. "And leave Listkar out of this. The last thing I need is her asking more annoying questions."

"She's not in the shape to ask anyone anything." Mirko looked out the window. Shine was out there still on the phone. "Geez, what an idiot... Why does the League care so much if she's involved anyway?"

Shigaraki paused. "Not that you would understand, but some of us think our allies are worth keeping alive. 'Course you'd have to have allies to know that."

Mirko's ears went up in anger. But she had no retort to that.

She stormed out of the room instead to join Shine.

* * *

"You think she'll find Kurogiri?" Compress wondered.

"No," Dabi said, "I think she'll get caught. But that's what we want, right?"

"Yes." Shigaraki sat back down, scowling. "The sooner the better."

* * *

Wally came and got Shine and Mirko also, since Shine insisted she shouldn't be seen if she could help it.

Mirko did a search on the locations she had. Nothing at all about them seemed suspicious. But she had no other lead, so she was just going to have to check it out.

She tapped her foot. The League could be setting her up. That's exactly what they would do...

But then, still...

Maybe it would be best to call in back up...but there was no one to call except Likstar and West. Any Pro would want an explanation. And she wasn't calling them.

She set out at night time. It was harder to be spotted then. 

With her quirk, she was able to reach the first spot on the list with ease. She'd been right-- it was just farmland. The address itself was just a dairy farm.

Cursing the LOV for being such scumbags, she crept closer. She didn't come all this way not to at least look inside.

But upon getting closer, she found maybe the LOV's sources were a little better than expected. For what appeared to be an abandoned dairy, it had moving security cameras outside of it... She could hear the gears whizzing in them.

She wasn't in their line of sight yet.

She tapped her chin. Well, where there's smoke there's fire...

She picked up a rock and threw it, knocking out one camera. Then she waited.

It was about 10 minutes till a small side door opened, and a couple guys in uniforms for the farm came out...but they had guns.

Mirko narrowed her eyes. Maybe they were just security...at an abandoned farm, at the dead of night...in the middle of nowhere... Yeah, that wasn't normal.

She put her ear to the ground... Distant sounds of machinery moving...

Yep, this place was still operational...

She picked up another rock and threw it, this time to the side.

The two security guys looked toward the noise and went that way.

"I know something hit that camera," one said.

"It could've been a bat," said the other.

"Don't be stupid. There are no bats around here."

"You never know... Who else would come here?"

"Someone could've found it... I don't see anything over there though. Maybe they're invisible."

"Maybe we should just shoot, then."

"Sure, if there's anyone nearby on the road they won't find that suspicious at all." Sarcastically.

Mirko got ready, and when they were closest to her, she jumped out of the grass and slammed both of them into the ground with a kick and a shove.

Dazed, they dropped their weapon, which she crushed with ease. And then knocked them out.

They didn't have the breath to even scream first.

"That was easy," she muttered. Too easy... Not a quirk in sight...

Checking their pockets, she found some ID. That wasn't normal...

They looked ordinary enough on the cards.

Feeling her way around the wall, so she'd be under the security cameras, she found the door. Sure enough, it had a key for the cards. She inserted one and the door clicked open. She slipped inside.

It was pretty dark in there. Small, like a regular barn, too. Dusty, like sawdust. Old smell of milk, perhaps from the dairy...

She stole along the wall...and it led to a staircase that went...down?

Following it, she heard footsteps and ducked around a corner. Someone walked by, but they said nothing. They might just be a patrol.

She didn't expect to feel so nervous, but her pulse was pounding. She was fearless in a direct fight, but sneaking around was not her style. It gave her the heebie jeebies.

But an all out fight when she didn't know her opponent would just be stupid. Even she knew that.

Once the person was gone, she kept going... The floor opened out then, and there was a huge space, like there is in warehouses. The walkway she was on became a catwalk that went around most of the walls.

The ceiling overhead must be the floor of the actual dairy. Who'd hollow out the space under a dairy?

Then she remembered the camp having that whole bunker already.

Were there quirk blockers in here too? It shouldn't affect her though.

Imagine Hawks finding this, she thought, He'd probably chicken out again...

Anything was better than thinking about how dangerous this was.

But once she got a little farther out, she forgot her nerves. The sight below her was far worse.

In this underground place there was...rows and rows of lab equipment that was holding...vials?

What the he--?

Farther down, as she kept walking, she saw another partitioned off section that had weapons...and they didn't look like support items. She'd seen plenty of those.

They looked like regular weapons-- for humans...maybe ones without quirks.

She had to get down there and look closer.

Then she heard the rattle of other feet not that far way. Dang it!

She pulled out her phone and quickly snapped a few pictures of what she could see. 

"Two guys outside were out cold," a voice said, over a walkie talkie, probably, "Someone's here. I don't see anyone, but it's dark. You know there's no camera  inside.

None...just like at the Camp. No one wanted evidence of what was going on inside to be able to be leaked.

Well, she had to hand it to Shigaraki. His stupid League did know how to find people. This had to be the Originals.

And she had to get out of here, if that was the case. If those villains were what she thought...

"Hey," someone was speaking to her, "What are you doing in here?" 

A gun was cocked.

Mirko lost no time at all in jumping off the catwalk to the area below.

Gun shots rang through the air but then stopped, like they didn't want to hit the equipment.

"I need back up. There's someone inside!" a voice said over the walkie talkie, "No, don't know how they found us. Just send people--eh? Oh."

Mirko raced for the case of vials and grabbed one.

A gear cranked overhead, and something like gas was released from the ground.

What was this?

She looked up. The man on the catwalk had a mask on.

Well, no way was she sticking around here.

Never one to let walls stop her, Mirko jumped up and just kicked a hole in the ceiling itself. As she suspected, it wasn't that thick. She was out in the actual dairy in a  second.

Metal gates closed over the doors.

This place was so easy to break into. It seemed like they were more interested in keeping you from getting out...

Oh...because if you had quirk, and they were interesting in removing quirks...why not just let you come in and then de-power you?

Frightened at how easy it was to figure that out, Mirko jumped up and kicked through the ceiling too.

They hadn't thought of that-- typical quirkless people. Never ones to realize that Pros don't need doors.

She jumped off the roof as far from the building as she could and bounded a few more times. She was almost back to the road now.

Then she started feeling dizzy... Had she inhaled that gas after all?

Stumbling as far as she could, she collapsed not far from the highway...

* * *

"Boss, you know how we're using a Pro for that mission?" Spinner interrupted Shigaraki's brooding time to ask.

"Why are you bothering me with pointless details I already know?" Shigaraki said.

Spinner held up his phone. "Well, she's in the news."

"What? Wait, so?" Shigaraki said, "That's pretty normal for a Pro."

"I know that, boss, but she's in the news for being in the hospital," Spinner said, "It was, what, 10 hours ago that we tipped her off? That's impressive."

"Give me that that." Shigaraki grabbed the phone and started reading. 

The top hero Mirko had been found unconscious by the side of highway by a trucker, who'd just been delivering a load... The decent fellow (the writer's words, not his) had just taken her to the nearest hospital.

She'd been, according to the doctors, knocked out by some kind of chloroform-like drug and had regained consciousness not too long later and demanded to be released.

 No one really expected the hero without an agency to tell anyone what she was doing, so the news just seemed to think it was telling of the conditions of heroes in general that she'd been incapacitated at all.

"Really, what are Pros coming to now?" the anchor said.

Shigaraki didn't care about their bellyaching. He looked up at Spinner. "That fool got  caught already!"

"Told you it was a mistake to think that Pro could pull anything off," Spinner said, "Everyone in that group will know she's after them now...but it looks like she did find them. Call her off the case. I think we should take it from here."

"Don't tell me what to do, Spinner. We have to think carefully about this," Shigaraki said, "If we get too reckless now, we could draw suspicion to ourselves."

"Well, but still," Spinner said.

"I'm sure she'll give up on this whole thing without us having to do anything," Shigaraki said complacently, "Pros are never ones to go in when they know they're going to be outmatched. They're arrogant like that."

* * *

Finding Mirko turned out to be rather easy. She just went home.

She was just going to eat when she heard something hit her back window.

"If that kid is in my yard again, I swear I'm calling the cops this time..." she muttered.

She went to the window. "Look, if that's you next door, I've told you just because I'm not home does not mean you can just come into my yard..."

She didn't see the brat. Hmm, he was probably hiding in the bushes.

She was all set to jump down there and hunt him out when a far less pleasant surprise occurred.

"I'm right here, moron." Shigaraki was in the tree.

"What the---?" Mirko jumped back. "Why are you outside my house!"

"Figured you won't be smart enough to find us, so I came to ask what the h--- you found out there," Shigaraki explained.

"And you didn't send a lackey because...?" Mirko said.

"Duh, I can warp. Do you have a problem with that?"

"With you being in my tree...yeah, I do." Mirko crossed her arms. "This has got to be violating some unwritten rule of a working deal."

"Technically, you came to our house uninvited, so what's the difference?"

"Well...first of all, you don't have a house, and second, if someone sees you, I'm dead," Mirko said, "The media will never let me live that one down. Get in here now."

"Come inside?"

"Yeah. What? You think I have a security trap in here? Hurry up. My neighbors are always watching this yard. That's a social media storm waiting to happen." She gestured.

Shigaraki very clumsily climbed in the window, not happy at all, but the thought of the neighbors scared him into compliance.

"There really should be a better way to get in touch with people you're blackmailing," he muttered.

"I blackmailed you. Anyway, what? Swapping numbers?" Mirko was sarcastic. "Now what is this about? And be quick about it."

"You managed to land yourself in the hospital after 12 hours, so I think I should be asking you why a Pro can't pull off a hustle for one day," Shigaraki grumbled.

"Oh, that... Hey, how was I supposed to know?" Mirko shrugged, "They had too many traps in that place... It was insane. At least I got away...and it was not 12 hours... More like...10 at most."

"That's not better."

"But actually, you showing up here may work out in the long run," Mirko mused. She went out of the room. "Wait there. Touch anything and you're dead."

Shigaraki looked at the space... Not much to touch, really... Kind of bland for a Pro... Not that he'd ever seen a Pros' house before.

He was going to kill Compress for suggesting this was the best plan. What were they thinking?

And that Lethe kid for saying no one would ever know he was there.

Mirko returned, holding something. 

"What does this look like to you?" She held up a vial.

Shigaraki stared at it. "This is no time for 20 questions... It's a vial."

"Ugh." She rolled her yes. "Dumba--. This looks like the drug... I haven't tested it yet. Don't tempt me. And don't touch, because I don't trust you. But there was whole crates of this stuff in there, just out in the open, like they didn't care who saw it. And weapons...regular weapons...not support items. I took pictures." She held up her phone and began to scroll.

Shigaraki wasn't going to act like he cared, but the sight of all that scared even him... This was enough for a small army...

"Now I figured," Mirko pulled out a carrot and started munching on it, "That if the drug they used on Joke wasn't perfected, this stuff can't be the real deal either, now that they don't have the kid-- What?"

Shigaraki was making a face. "So that stupid Smile Hero is still working? Ugh. How annoying."

"Oh, frick off," Mirko went on, "So, there's no way it's powerful enough to really de-quirk people. But then I thought, you know, it's always surprisingly easy to find these places, isn't it? And I know when I'm being conned."

"I doubt that."

"Shut up. So then I thought...maybe that's just it. Maybe they don't care if people find them, as long as they can de-power them and then capture them and turn them into their little drones. Like they were going to do to Joke, but she's too much of a bada-- to let that happen, quirk or no quirk."

Shigaraki was going to insult her again, but then he remembered something Silk had said. "Hmm, our new hire told us they remove quirks by operations. Maybe not all those fools were quirkless to begin with."

"They what..." Mirko looked sick. She dropped her carrot.

"It's not unheard of," Shigaraki said, just as if he'd even heard of it himself before Silk has said so, "Society doesn't forgive people with monstrous quirks, does it?" He should know.

Mirko made a face. "Ew... Well, that's going on the list of reasons I'm going to kill these guys when I find them...but you know, I could have handled them no problem. It was the whole place-- it was one big trap. Anyone who couldn't fly or break ceilings like me would have been a goner. I'd argue that most Pros wouldn't have made it out alive...most villains too."

That last part was not lost on him.

"And I should care because?" he grumbled.

"Well, isn't it obvious? They're ready," Mirko said, picking up her carrot again (which was gross, but she ate it anyway), "So they're just waiting to be found. I bet it won't even be hard."

Wait, this sounded like...

"You can't seriously still be going to look for them!" Shigaraki couldn't believe how stupid this Pro was.

"Why not?" Mirko said, "Who else is going to? And I'm finally onto something here. I can feel it. If I can just find out where their real HQ is, it'd be worth it."

"Worth it!?" Shigaraki didn't like this at all. "And has it occurred to you that if you're caught, it's all our necks on the line?"

"What? You think I'd admit to working with you? Please, I'm suppressing that memory even as we speak." Mirko was maddeningly calm. "Don't worry your creepy head over it. I'm not a canary. If I get caught, I'll just say I found them myself. But I won't get caught."

"No one would believe you had the intelligence to find them, let alone the means."

"You know, I got all this info in, like, 30 minutes." Mirko was a little annoyed now. "I think I should get some credit for that. Now, all I need you to do is find out about these weapons. That's not too much to ask, I'm sure...and these."

She held up two ID cards. "Luckily no one searched me, so I still have them... These guys were guards. I don't think they had quirks either."

This was surprisingly useful...

"And why can't you look them up?"

"Let's not pretend to be stupider than we are, huh?" Mirko said, "though I'm sure you don't really have to pretend, but think about it if you can. These guys probably are everywhere. If I run a check on them myself, someone will wonder about it. Plus, I can't just walk into a police station and do that. Price of always being on the go: I'd have to fill out all this boring paperwork and give a reason, and I can't do that. I'm sure it's not too hard for your psychotic League. You dig up dirt on Pros all the time."

She really overestimated how much they actually put into research, but he wasn't going to admit that.

"And why would I help someone who gets caught immediately?"

"If you want to back out now," Mirko said, "that's fine... I'll just go myself, but I won't be sharing anything I find--or anyone."

The threat was obvious.

"You know, I really, really hate you," Shigaraki said from the depths of his soul.

"I know," Mirko said, "Ditto, but that's not really important, is it? I just need more answers. Now, get the frick out of my house!"

The doorbell rang.

"Ah, sh-- timing," she rolled her eyes, "I knew they'd be back. Don't touch anything." She walked away.

Shigaraki wasn't staying around here long enough to do that. He warped away.

Mirko dismissed the people asking her to do an ad for the 1000th time and came back... He was gone.

"I should put locks on my windows..." she muttered. Then she noticed something on the table. She picked it up. A note that read:  "Next time come to XXXXXXXX"

"This is such a bad idea," she said to herself, glancing out the window, "but if I don't find out who's behind this...no one is going to be safe. I only hope this farce can keep going long enough to get me a real lead..."

That the LOV would eventually stab her in the  back she had no doubt, but she just needed it to be after she got what she wanted... She doubted they'd cooperate more than couple more times, so she was going to have to work fast.

[Hmm...tea... Who's betting they stab her in the back before the end of the next chapter?]