"Thank you for bringing me home, ribbit." Tsuyu said smiling.
"Not at all. I'll text you when I get back home."
"Hm! I hope you had fun!"
"I very much did. See ya Tsuyu!"
The two depart after a few hours of meeting up.
When Tsuyu went back into her home she walked with a noticeable spring to her step.
"Big sis! Big sis! Who was that boy outside!!" Said her younger brother.
"Do you have a boyfriend!" said her younger sister.
"Ribbit! No he is just a friend!" she said running up to her room.
When she got to her room she fell onto her bed. She smiled to herself while kicking her bed in glee for a moment. She soon got up and sat at her desk. She cracked open a book on English.
"Ribbit!"
'I want to surprise Albert with this one day!'
Oh how this sweet thought would one day be Albert's ruin.
While walking to the train station Albert took out another burner and called his handler.
"01010111 01100101 01100001 01110000 01101111 01101110."
"Hello Albert. What's the report now?"
"I went to the Aichi Prefecture."
"…Okay. Why did you go there?"
"To meet up with a girl I met at the exam."
"So you went on a date?"
"Does it constitute as a date if neither of us said it was?"
"…I guess not. But did you go out and have fun and eat?"
"Yes."
"Then it's kinda like a date just not an official one."
"I see… Handler when does someone become your girlfriend?"
"…Do you like this girl?"
"Um… Kinda. Yeah. She is very cute and kind. Very blunt to."
"I see… Well I am not gonna dictate your love life but just remember you are—"
"I am a weapon." His eyes turn cold. "The only thing I should care is the mission and my country."
"That is right. But as your handler I say… If it's for the mission to help blend you further into your role then by all means do what you must." He said smiling. "If you really do like her then make her your girlfriend!"
"Truly sir? I have the choice? The freedom to—"
"Yeah, yeah! Go for it! But I should mention not to be to forceful. Remember all of the blackmail material you got on those billionaires?"
Albert remembers the horrendous stuff he saw those rich men did to those minors.
"…I will keep that deep very deeply in mind."
"Then if you have anything else this report is over."
"Hm. Talk to you next report."
Albert's eye grow a bit warmer; he begins to smile. A foreign feeling makes his heart pump. It wasn't as visceral and bloodthirsty, yet it was potent and additive. He never felt this genuine emotion before.
'Is this… Happiness? Heh...Heha—'
"—Hahahaha!!" he laughed out loud proudly. "What a great feeling!"
He began to walk a bit more faster, but it soon turned into him skipping.
Back with the Handler.
"Hah… So you found a girl you like huh? As expected you wouldn't find the girls the old bastards sent your way." He got up and poured himself a drink. "Hah…. Sorry kid but even with those nanomachines in your brain and heart the government still needs a collar to keep you inline."
There were far more contingencies placed within Albert that has him chained to the people Handler works for. The nanomachines in Albert's brain and heart are simply the standard way of ensuring their investment doesn't get away alive.
"Hm…" He rubbed his chin. "Maybe I should pay True Whistle extra for a job well done on the identity. Hehe. Money sure does grease the wheels on people's views and morals."
For the next few days Albert had kept in close contact with Tsuyu. They would text one another a good amount.
One week after the exam they got their letters.
"Ready to open them?" Albert said.
"Ribbit! Ready!" Tsuyu said on video chat.
They got their letters and opened them. They read through the letters and they both smiles.
"I got in ribbit!!" Tsuyu said excitedly.
"I got in to!!"
Albert knew he would get in. The written test was easier to do then the robots.
"Do you wanna get together a celebrate? Ribbit?"
"Of course! When are you free?"
"I'll text you when I have the time! Ribbit! Ribbit!"
"Alright! Have fun with your family! I need to call mine!"
"Hm! Ribbit! See you later Hiroyuki-chan!" She ended the call.
Albert puts his phone down and gets out another burner and calls his Handler that he got in.
She couldn't meet up most of the time since she had to take care of her younger siblings but on some occasions they would meet up.
"A bit more to the right."
"Ribbit. Hmmm…"
They played claw machines and Albert won her several items and plushies. She would give some of the things Albert won to her siblings.
He won so much they had to put a limit on him to one a week, a limit that when he went to play some claw machine's where he lived they also had a picture of him.
"Why do you have a picture of me?" He asked the employee.
"Ah well don't tell anyone but your face and name kinda got spread to all the other places in Japan."
"That's fucking bullshit!"
"Well did you, let's see here…" the guy pulled out a small notepad and read from it. "Um… Have you won 600 thousand worth of prizes?"
"…I won that much?"
He was limited to one visit per week.
Aside from that Albert and Tsuyu would go to different places either in her home town or in Musutafu.
They did this until Spring came along and school started.
Albert looked himself in the mirror as he checked him wearing U.A.'s uniforms. He checked it to see if everything was prim and proper, a habit that is ingrained into him from those who taught him.
"All good. Time to finally start my mission." He picked up his backpack filed with school supplies and set out to finally start his mission.