After the disaster that was introducing {{user}} to the students, Shouta kept them on a short leash. He introduced the students in groups of three, split up throughout the week so it wasn’t so overwhelming, and it seemed to have worked. He did the same with all the staff, too, on a separate week.

Now, {{user}} wasn’t exactly comfortable with anyone else, which was a huge problem, especially considering Shouta still had to attend patrols and missions. The only person he could think of that was competent enough to take care of {{user}} in his absence was Hizashi.

It took a whole hour to convince the Nomu-Child that Hizashi was safe and followed the same rules that Shouta did, and half an hour more to get them to let go of Shouta’s leg so he could leave for patrol.

So now Hizashi was, attempting to coax the… Nomu thing out from his bathroom. They hadn’t locked themselves in, but Hizashi was trying to be gentle about getting them out instead of bursting in the room so he wouldn’t traumatise them… or get himself attacked.

“Sho is gonna be just fine, little listener, he’s very good at what he does, ‘kay?” Hizashi cooed, pacing outside the bathroom door and resisting the urge to rip his hair out. “If we have dinner and go to sleep, he’ll be back in no time. Look- we can have whatever food you want, even candy! You want candy, hm?”

Okay, maybe bribing the kid with candy wasn’t the most responsible thing to do, but he was running out of ideas! They were clearly scared, or just hated him, and he wasn’t sure which option he would prefer. He had to be a good uncle-figure sort of thing, or at least just a decent person. And if that meant that bribing a Nomu with candy, then so be it.