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Izuku was dead tired. He wasn’t able to get much sleep during the day with his neighbor yelling at their computer. But he had to get to work for his shift. Though, sometimes wishes he hadn’t come to work ‘cause now he has to deal with this crap.
“HAND OVER YOUR MONEY!”
Izuku just stared at the villain, grabbed his phone, looked at the time and sighed in exasperation. He looked back to the villain, who looked confused- as if they weren’t robbing a tiny convenience store with a pair of sliding doors that barely worked, expired chips sitting in the corner of a shelf somewhere, with a fridge containing a few bottles of either empty of full of.. liquid, and a singular visibly exhausted worker.
“ Look. It is what? Two in the morning? I am tired and I need sleep but no. I’m stuck here working. And you.” Izuku points to the person in front of him. “You are the third person who has tried to rob this place so far today and I am tired. So for the sake of my sanity. Just- go. get whatever you need and get the fuck out of here.”
The villain just stood there, bewildered. Izuku raised his eyebrow. The villain then looked disappointed. They walked to one of the sh elves and just took a few instant noodles off the shelf. They took one last look at Izuku and booked it out of the store. Izuku sighed for what might’ve been the hundredth time that day and it was only two am. He put on one of his earbuds and closed his eyes for a few seconds before hearing somebody put a bottle of water onto the counter.
He slowly opened his eyes to see some burnt up, blue eyed looking man with another guy in a gray hoodie looking away. Izuku got the feeling that the hoodie guy really did not want to be here right now. He was also pretty sure that they were villains.
“Hey kid. That was pretty cool what you did there.”
Izuku squinted.
“That’s rich coming from a burnt up looking dude with an emo guy in a hoodie.”
“Bold coming from you, someone who looks like they’re a second away from passing out.” the burnt dude smirked, then turned towards the guy in the hoodie and said “Hey Shiggy? Did ya hear that? He called you emo!”
The hoodie guy turned towards Izuku, red eyes glaring at him. Then, in a raspy voice, he asked only one question- only one, but it was enough to make Izuku shiver.
“Do you know who we are?”
Izuku gave the two a look. He unplugged his earbuds and raised the volume of his phone. It was playing a fan-made podcast of the LoV, A.K.A. the League of Villains. The current episode was when Shigaraki attacked the USJ doing a monologue. It then switched to the next episode, this time it was back at the League's hideout having their conversations and arguments.
The hoodie guy (or more commonly known as Shigaraki) eyes widened just a bit while the burnt one (Dabi) took a moment to register what was playing.
“ It’s on loop.” Izuku said when the two people in front of him were looking at him in perhaps a very judgmental way. There was then a very obvious and loud Ding! Coming from Izuku’s phone. Izuku looked at the notification. It was for the podcast he was listening to.
New Update from Anonymous: Podcast; LoV shenanigans??? Episode 639: Shigaraki and Dabi talk to a very tired convenience store worker!
Izuku, being the loyal fan he was, played the new episode with his phone still at max volume and right in front of the two villains. Izuku just smiled smugly, looking directly at Shigaraki while scanning the singular bottle of water, then handing it over to Dabi who was still staring at him with a very judgmentally shocked expression, and he winked.
“Here, take it. And oh- don’t worry, it’s on the house.”