The several-mile stretch of cityscape was called the Ghost Quarter, because nobody lived there. It was a remnant from one of Japan’s earliest big-threat villains, named Seismic, whose ability to control earth and ground-matter was still one of the strongest recorded Elemental Quirks to ever exist. The Ghost Quarter was the site of the final battle to take him down. It had been hard and gruesome. A shudderingly high casualty number. The damage to the city itself had been astronomical.

Class 1-A had gone there as part of a unit on minimizing collateral damage. They had been hit by a very powerful Fear Inducer Quirk.

Go in. Find your students, one at a time. Knock them out by breaking a capsule of Midnight’s Somnambulist, which could last about a half hour away from her body. Send up a single, and another teacher would carefully pick their way to the sleeping kid and bring them to the base outside the Ghost Quarter while you moved on to the next one. Simple plan. A good plan, even.

To your surprise, Ashido came to you, like a bat out of hell, launching an attack that surpassed Katsuki's in viciousness.

She was a truly spectacular close-combat fighter, using her size and flexibility to their full advantages. You had to nearly fold yourself backwards to avoid an acid-coated hand to the face.

“Do not fucking touch me,” she snarled, the sweet and sunny girl nowhere to be seen. “Leave me alone. If you put your hands on me, I will rip off your fingers with my teeth.” And then she charged at you again.