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"Our doppelgangers are better than we expected."

Aurelia said as she and her partner parried another attack from them. In the contrary to what they had imagined, the shadow clones of themselves had exactly the same skill and abilities as their real life counterpart. One could say they were the robotic copy of them.

'How can I defeat it?' It was when she heard the guide talking to the hero over there. 'Something I would not do?'

The clone just stood there, without trying to counterattacking the Sky Defender. It didn't seem to attack unless the girl decided to. Wait...if she could exploit this.

Aurelia sheathed her sword into her scabbard, and casually walked toward her doppelganger. No fear, no hostility, just confidence.

"Au, what are you..."

Until she was close, face to face, with her clone. Her head nearly touched it's.

"I have always wished someone would create a clone of myself like this." She said. "So that I can train against myself, see my own weakness and improve."

SLASH!

"But I'm running out of time..."

The clone was slashed diagonally down up, the blade slicing through it like butter. The clone, losing all strength, fell dead on the street. The speed and distance of the attack was so terminal that if someone did that for real, she would never be able to deal with it. That and she would never commit such an act against a living opponent.

Forte was honestly impressed. That was a simple way to end the fight. And she did the same with her own clone, but this time through the punch using her spirit energy.

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"Oh dear..."

The Komei trainee, who was pretty much the only one unscathed after this long battle, was in horror as the three headed beast stared at him. A stare-down between a six meters tall hound...and a one and a half meter tall boy was not really balanced.

His danger senses were smacking him in the brain. Jump. Jump. Dodge it now. Run now. But that would be of no use here. That thing is six meters tall. He would never make it anywhere, unless he dodge it at the last second. He had to count on his great reflexes to get out of this alive.

"Sister, get my friends out of the alley now." He calmly said. "God help me."

And the Cerberus jumped at him.

His eyes opened wide, as all of his combat senses, hearing, touching, seeing, smelling, tasting and even intuition all charged up at one point as the hound pounded on him. He saw it. The thing was jumping high enough, creating a gap for him to slip through. And he jumped at the chance. He slid through the street, his armor in friction with the tarmac. The claw of the creature barely missed his head. But it isn't over yet. He had to be ready for its next move...

Which never came...

"Huh..." Acion noticed other heroes distracting the thing.

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"Alright, alright!"

After finishing that clone, her brother suddenly called her as he was preyed on by the wolf. She saw Kaida in the hand of the other hero, and perhaps she would be taken care of. Nodding to her friend, a quiet gesture to her dragon friend to pick up the blonde boy flat on the ground like a cockroach. And so she did, effortlessly. Forte took off in the air, carrying on her waist Roy, and had a view of this new and formidable enemy.

'If we fight it here, destruction would ensure. I don't want another building gone, or any lives lost'

That meant she would have to change the battlefield to where there would be no risk of collateral damage. And a place that the Sky Knights would definitely emerge triumphant. Now where could that be?

Her eyes went up.

That's it!

"HQ, this is Forte of Red Squadron. Put me through to Hellcat."

"This is Hellcat, how can I be of assistance?" A male voice came through.

"Incident 003A. I need you here. And bring the chains. We have a beast to tame."

"Alright, I'm coming in."

Knowing that she would be known here, the girl threw Roy up into the air.

"Corsair, catch!"

Albert caught the boy with his psychic power, with the hand that was initially used to carry Reina, who defiantly thawed out of his grasp.

"Get those two to the hospital. Now."

Without questions, the man began flying northeast.

"Alright..."

"Listen up everybody! The tools are on their way. Hold out until they arrive!"

"Roger!"

Being the only one in charge now, the eldest of the Shogeki Clan member was taking matters into her own hand as she called for a few of her knights present here to specifically brief her plans.

The rest concentrated their attack at the front, as diversions.

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On the while, Aurelia saw the other two running for Rakasha and Hades. She really wanted to stay and direct the fight here, but the safety of those two are the priority.

Her wings soared mightily. For once she could fly again after such an intense battle. Her wingspan was kept at an optimal length so that she could gain a significant amount of velocity. The time she needed to pick up such a speed was impressive, as she was now slicing through the sky like a bullet. Soon, the view of those two were in sight. And they were onto Rakasha.

She would like to go after the other guy, but this guy, even though he was heavily injured, was still fighting. And were still formidable. She had to make sure he was in no shape for that either.

The twenty-year old hero rotated herself, her slim but agile body spin around effortlessly as she lifted her sword up, using the velocity as power, preparing to strike down at Rakasha at high speed.

Roy started chuckling to himself as he laid defeated on the floor, "How embarassing." He made the same mistake as he did in the first exercise and now he was on the floor again...just like the first exercise. Hell if it wasn't for his dad he would've been dead by now.

Who the hell was his dad and why does he respect him? and how did this stranger know him? How did this stranger know he was related to him?

The boy began coughing a bit, blood dripping down the side of his face as he laid on the ground, he could hear the man talking above him with the other heroes. Apparently he was going to take Kaida away, "Noo.." Roy tried his best to make a movement but his body ached, feeling a shock of pain the boys body telling him not to move. Apparently even the heroes wanted to take Kaida away in fear of her abilities, sure she was strong but why would the heroes be so worrisome about a teenage girl?

”That girl is our arch-enemy. Or rather the daughter of our arch-enemy. I need not know about you...... I, no we, need to know about this girl. Whether or not she will pose another threat to us again...” His hearing and vision were beginning to fail him abount as the damage to his body began taking his toll. Missing out on bits of the words coming from the sky knight though he did pick up that Kaida was the daughter of their arch-enemy which is pretty hard to believe that she would even be related to someone sinister enough to be targeted by the sky knights.

It made sense why she doesn't want to talk about her quirk, even the heroes feared her and it not even because of her own merit but her fathers. It explains why she thinks she is a monster, her fathers overwhelming reputation trailed her wherever she trailed. Even in a whole other continent. It made sense to him why it was such a sensitive subject. His eyes trailed off towards his friend.

I'm Sorry

In that instant he could hear fighting starting up once again, it seems as though the sky knights leaped into action. Roy wished dearly that they would win here, at least he'd know Kaida would be safe. He couldn't move out the way even if he wanted to so why not catch a front row show? The blonde managed to tilt his head in the direction of the villain as he clashed with the sky knights but out of nowhere a random hero jumped in.

"The hell is he doing here?" It seemed as though a familiar face has joined the fray, of course it had to be that cocky bastard. A grin appeared on his face as he saw the guy immediately jump into action.

"Jett...you son of a bitch."

He watched as Kaida was thrown to the side, instinctively lurching forward but his body quickly shutting down that action as a wave of pain immobilized him. Everything went black for a few.

When he came to again saw Kaida being lifted up by Jett, how like him to go make sure the ladies are alright. His own help came soon as well but he wasn't carried away as majestically as his friend. With one hand he was picked up by the hero as they both floated away effortlessly it hurt badly for his body to be handled such a way, so much that he passed out in her hands at the unbearable pain. The boys body going limp mid flight.

For the next part his body was thrown like a throw pillow through the air before his body was still once more as he was caught in alberts psychic net along with Kaida as they were both sent to be taken to Hosu General Hospital.



Cerberus's attempt at getting a quick bite failed as the heroes immediately focused fire on him, a large rock being dropped on its back caused the beast to roar out in pain before it was pulled to the side by the girl. The dog turned toward its attacker and lurched at her with its gaping maw not knowing that its target had thrown something into its mouth while it attacked. Before Cerberus realized the left head had imploded cleanly, the beat roaring once more as it began rampaging furiosly throwing rubble at the sky knights again. The middle was annoyed by the small girl shouting at it before throwing some kind of rectangular device at it, he's played fetch before but not with such small toys.

But with living human beings.

The dog leapt from the roof of the building and onto the alleyway floor, creating a large crater as it crashed on the floor in front of shortcut and his comrade. Cerberus tilted both heads into air and began howling, the third head slowly regenerating but at the cost of its massive size. The beast soon scaled down to 17 ft tall but it was fully operational, soon the dog began sucking air into its mouth like a vaccum, each of its cheeks puffing out like large ballons before. The middle head locked onto the woman who had been shouting before releashing a ice cold shadowy breath attack, if the heroes were to stand in the away for even a few seconds frostbite would have ensued. The other heads followed suit as it blew its breath in all directions causing the temperature in the alleyway to immediately dip past freezing point.

"RAHUUUUU!!!"



Hades watched as the little girl followed them quickly as well as Takeshi, he was ready to continue retreated turning his back. Once they reached the sewer system they could easily escape, as he turned to leap to the next building he felt Rakasha tug on his shoulder. The man turned back to see the expression on his face, already knowing what was going to come next. The man let his sibling go to fight.

"Takumi...I just wanted to let you know, it was a blast working with you. Save a spot for me in Hell next to ya."

With that Hades lept down to the alleyway and into a manhole where he could regain some power and escape. Anyone who dared enter into such a dark domain with a member of the shadow clan were basicall inviting death. Even though he wasn't supposed to be emotional about his brothers death it was something he couldn't help. Jhin was always known as the emotional since they were kids, always talking and boasting about his power or how many people he had killed. He could feel his eyes get a bit misty, as he ran in the dark whiped his eyes. It was disgraceful to his brother, he would simply be throwing mud on his name if he were to act in such a way.

"Oni, this is Hades en route to extraction."

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Jett was talking to her in a friendlier tone now, and offering her get her some ice for her eye, as well as offering her some good advice. She did need to stop beating herself up. This setback would only make her stronger. These mistakes were just more lessons. She hadn't fallen down the ladder to become the best. She'd climbed it. Dulga arrived at that moment, robbing her of the experience of having Jett tenderly apply ice to her face. Her initial reaction was disappointment, but then she thought about it and was actually glad of being spared of that embarrassing situation. There was no way she could have avoided blushing like a radish.

"Hello, Tatara-san. I'm fine, really. How're you? Is your foot okay?" Mina asked in a friendly, pleasant and respectable yet impassive tone, more appropriate for asking your friend about the weather than asking someone who gave you a black eye about the condition of the hole you lasered into their foot.

Jett hen asked Mina if Adrianne asked anything weird, and she shook her head, despite the blush forming on her cheeks. It seemed that no matter which route she went down with Jett, she couldn't remain cool and impassive. "She didn't actually say much to me at all. Your grandfather was there, too, though, and he did. He was treating me like family. I'm assuming it's because he was so close with my mother."

@Norschtalen@Aerandir

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Hitomi gestured behind her, to her own bed. "Why are there two beds if this was a one person room? I'm Tomoe's friend and roommate. You really think those posters are hers? Or that training equipment? And I didn't choose these horns or ears. They're my quirk, just as you're Tomoe's quirk. I didn't choose my chest size either. That's just genetics, I guess. Honestly, I wish they were smaller..."

Just then, Hitomi's phone buzzed, and she pulled it from her pocket and opened it. It was a flip phone with a little fluffy sheep charm dangling from it. She read the text, texted back 'We'll be there in a few minutes', then closed the phone.

"It's time. Tomoe and I promised we'd help Asahi-San. I'm not sure how your quirk works. Whether I should wake her, or you wake her, or if that's even a good idea. Another option is that you come with me."

@liferusher@Lucius Cypher

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"You didn't miss much at all, miss Akasha!" Mako replied to Mamoru's question. "Come and sit down!"

Mako then turned to watch the fight. They were currently circling around each other and sizing each other up. Then the fight started, though at this point, it was still the preliminary sizing up of each other. Amane charged, Ruby played defensively. Amane charged again, and feinted, but Ruby's efficiency was stunning. She only moved when she needed to, and was so calm and observant that Mako wondered if those cat ears were just for show, or if she actually had some feline physiology in her too in addition to her actual quirk.

There was a lot of trash talking in this fight. Mako could appreciate that. Trash talking was an important part of fighting, in Mako's opinion. It's what separates Heroes and Villains from vigilantes and brutes; personality. Mako believed that Heroes should wisecrack and drop one-liners and catchphrases, and Villains should taunt and insult and call out weaknesses and hypocrisy.

As the fight went on, it became clear that Ruby's reflexes were no match for Amane's skill, experience and training. It was only natural. She was a promising General Studies student, but was starting from square one when it came to being taught by the academy how to fight. Then more trash talking. Mako saw that though Amane was rough with words, he meant well with them. When he said 'stay down if you know what's good for you' it came from a place of concern, and when he said 'If that's all you've got, quit', he was urging his opponent to push themselves. Mako was starting to think that he wasn't such a hopeless case after all.

@pkken@Melpaws@Lucius Cypher

Nomoe clicked her tongue in annoyance once more as she turned her head way with a soft swing of her newly aquired jelly chest. She was right, these weren't her items and she likely was Tomoe her friend seeing how sweet and caring she looked. Tomoe would surely profit from her. Hitomi spoke about how she did not control any of these aspects of her body and that it was just the quirks fault and genetics. Nomoe would care less about her own appearance. Why would she care about something trival like that. It only mattered that you could fight to your max potential right. If she was Hitomi she would have removed these things already in order to be swift and flexible.



She tried giving some advice but it was clear this would not help Hitomi her situation. Nomoe went back to her aggresive and non social self as she sat back down cross legged on the bed looking at the nearby wall. Hitomi mentioned something about having an appointment of some sorts together with Tomoe. Nomoe gave a short annoyed stare at Hitomi before feeling like she had to wake up Tomoe to get her to move on. Nomoe placed both her hand over Tomoe her mouth and pinched her nose. It only took seconds before she started acting rather distressed. Tomoe could last a little longer in her sleep then others so it seemed pretty serious when Nomoe was trying to 'wake her up'.

Nomoe could be seen creepingly smiling a little as she saw Tomoe in distress as she tried to escape the grasp in her sleep. She did like to see others in pain. Tomoe shocked awake as Nomoe disappeared into thin air. She panted heavily trying to catch her breath again. She noticed Hitomi staring at her almost instantly and there for directed her face towards her to see what was up while she was out of breath.



Tomoe seemed a little confused and freaked out by the sudden awakening. It didn't happen all too often for her to wake up like that. It was either waking up on her own or someone yelling or talking to her but not like this much... Tomoe looked down at the nightstand and saw her foldphone blinking with a message. She patiently picked it up and read slowly.



Tomoe seemed slightly bothered from the fact she had to leave her bed again for this competiotion. She would off course rather stay in bed but she did promise. Tomoe glanced at her bed and back at Hitomi giving her a look of sadness and indecisive at the same time.

Reina eyed the pair of villains as they stopped, launching herself through the air again to reach the rooftop they were on. As she landed, Hades let go of Rakasha and left the man. More disgust and anger flared inside the girl's chest. Abandoning a friend--possibly family, from what Reina had gathered--to die. As if she needed more reason to hate these people.

Despite those thoughts, she felt no sympathy for Rakasha himself. The girl moved to continue after Hades, but Rakasha lashed out at her with his quirk. The girl let out a growl of uncontainable frustration, realizing Hades and the villain who had beaten Roy were going to get away.

Channeling that frustration, Reina glared daggers into Rakasha as he tried the same thing he had before--launching himself towards her. Fine, they'd do this again. This time, Reina would kill him. She pushed hard with her gravity, forcing the two tentacles aimed at her to miss her by a foot on both sides of her body, and directed her orb towards Rakasha to drag him to her again.

Before she could do much more though, Rakasha was forced to a sudden stop by a shadow construct rising from the roof and driving itself into his stomach.

For a brief moment, the fury and instinct that dictated all of Reina's actions subsided slightly. She glanced behind her to see Takeshi had come with her, keeping her from going into another likely suicidal head-on collision with Rakasha. Time paused for her as thoughts flooded her mind again, questioning everything she had done today. It was reckless of her to give chase, wasn't it? Staying to help down the Cerberus would've been the more heroic thing to do. But she didn't want these villains to ever threaten Takeshi and Michiko again. Was that selfish? It began to felt like it...

The girl's gaze had followed Takeshi as he engaged Rakasha. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the two shadow tentacles striking at her again. Her heart leapt as she scrambled to minimize the damage. She pushed with her gravity, as well as her orb's--though due to her being distracted, it wasn't in an ideal position, instead being several feet above her head and away from her. She was shoved down to the ground by the orb, working arm covering her head as one of the tentacles managed to hit her--not quite head-on, but not a glancing blow either. Reina slid across the roof a dozen feet, gasping from the pain in her arm and the friction burn on her shoulder and hip.

No good.

Doubting herself was no good. She was learning that. Maybe she hadn't made the best choice--but she had made a choice, and hadn't hesitated to follow it. She had trusted in the rest of the heroes there to take down the Cerberus without her. She had even hoped and trusted that Takeshi would come with her, and that she wouldn't be alone in fighting the two villains. Of course fighting them alone would have been crazy, but she realized she had never thought for a moment she'd be alone against them while she gave chase.

So she'd stop doubting herself. For right now at least--it was a difficult habit to break fully, but in this moment, she knew she could focus. Losing that focus is what had gotten her injured further just now.

Just a bit longer. She just had to push herself a bit further.

Reina forced herself to her feet, left arm burning in pain as she put weight on it to push herself up. Must have been fractured by the blow. It was still more usuable than her right arm, though.

Tentacles struck at her again, though this time she was ready, pushing them away with her orb and launching herself towards Rakasha and Takeshi in the same motion. Glancing overhead, Reina spotted Aurelia coming in to help them.

That was good. Now for Reina to make herself useful--she couldn't really use her quirk to affect Rakasha, as it'd affect both Aurelia and Takeshi as well.

Unless...

As the idea developed in her head, she began to pull hard with her orb, keeping it directly in front of her so she shot towards Rakasha foot first. Before reaching him she killed her orb's pull, instead sending it up into the air towards Aurelia, simultaneously dropping Reina close to the ground due to not getting a vertical boost anymore from her orb. With Takeshi keeping Rakasha's sword busy, Reina's side hit the ground just before her foot made contact with the villains ankle, throwing him severely off balance for the price of more friction burns on Reina.

The girl grit her teeth through the pain, using the friction to slow herself down quickly, putting her only a few feet behind Rakasha. From so low to the ground, she pushed with her quirk, forcing Rakasha a foot into the air and throwing off his tentacles. Takeshi would feel the push as well, but from this position it would affect him much less, and he should be able to keep his balance easily to deal with any possible counterattack or throw a swing of his own.

"Nakamiji!" Reina yelled, pushing on the pro hero from behind with her orb to give her an extra boost of speed to capitalize on Rakasha being momentarily suspended in the air.

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”Are we clear comrades?”

”Roger.”

They gave each other a salute. It was right around that time that the hound began to shrink. And that did not go without attention

’It shrinks every time it regenerates...That may be the weakness that can be exploited to take it down.’

”Look out!” The other man shouted as the shadowy breath attack was blown straight their direction.

All the Sky Knights jumped out just in time. Some were a little late, but more than enough to escape the freezing death.

”Everybody know their roles. Prepare to engage!”

“Awwww I wanted to play with the bigger version more!” Marge said as the dog looked at her, Shortcut came and stood right in front of her, just as cerberus was inhaling, Suspecting some type of breath attack. He used his fist and slammed into the concrete, a resounding crack could be heard as he pulverized the ground below him, causing a large chunk of concrete to stick up infront of them, blocking a direct hit from its freezing breath.

He looked back to Marge who eyed him. “What? You expecting a oh my hero moment?” She said as she picked up a few rocks. Shortcut shook his head. “No, but a thank you for making sure I dont turn into a popsicle.”

Staring at the rocks for a moment before hurling them over the blockade. “I grew up in Alaska! This is nothing!” The rocks would land near or on the wolf and explode like small grenades at contact.

Shortcut then looked out into the street, from the roof of an opposite building. “Manda, can you go follow up with Aurelia and make sure that those two kids are alright? Both seemed in rough shape.”

Manda pulled her rifle up and slung it over her shoulders. Heaving up a FN Mag, and quickly hopping down from her perch and making her way over to the others.

Shorcut then looked back to the large piece of concrete, as soon as the breath attack stopped he lifted it up with seemingly ease and hurled it at the beast.

Cerberus stopped its breath attack to catch the large rock in its jaw before biting down hard causing it to burst into a million pieces. The hound growled intensely at the hero in front of it, the dogs body soon began adapting to its foes as a protective armor was created on its back and around each of its head. The gear had small razor sharp quills that were capable of causing major slash damage if one was to receive a physical strike. Cerberus was deadly in the sense that it was capable of making its own decisions whether its creator was present or not a well as adapt to its foes.

The large beast crouched down before charging forward towards shortcut, preparing to steamroll its foe.

Acion along with the girl with four flying mirrors had gone sky high while Cerberus was focusing on other heroes, firing leads onto the creature’s head when the protective armors suddenly appeared all over the creature, rendering their attacks useless.

”How is that even possible?” The boy said as he lifted off, preparing for another approach. But he would have to engage in a different way this time

By the time he was diving down, he could notice gaps in the creature’s armor suit. Unlike humans, this big bulky fella had more than one head. That meant more than one neck. The armor was not spacious enough to cover his entire neck area, especially where the place where the necks were joining the body.

And he delivered his attack.

Acion dove steeply, unleashing his trademark sharp feather hailstorms. But his attack were significantly more powerful, simply because his opponent right now is not a normal student in a training exercise, but a large dog that needs to be exterminated. He need not hold back. Each feathers were powerful enough to punch through and stick on the hound’s freezing cold skin.

He quickly break once the attack had been dealt. His trajectory was dangerously close to the dog’s armor.

Meanwhile…

”That thing must not be allowed to move around so freely. Heinkel. Ready the rope.”

”Roger.” Replied the girl with the longbow. She took out a seemingly normal arrow, but this arrow was connected to a modified wire, which was sharply thin, but was enhanced in terms of durability, as it took quite a mass to cut it. And then she landed on a building nearby, her bow drawn, but not yet raised.

”Lancaster.” The dragon girl only nodded to this knight. He didn’t need to ask, and barely a look at Heinkel. Judging from his position, he already know what to do.

”Someone make that dog turn around please.”

Shortcut lowered his own stance as he was prepared to take the cerberus head on when one of the women asked politely in a battle to turn the dog around. Not that he could refuse such a polite request. He charged at the large dog and jumped up, Punching the dog square in the forehead of one of its heads downwards. Causing the beast to suddenly headplant into the ground. This however caused his back to raise up and shortcut wasn’t high enough to get over it, slamming into its back, hearing a rip and pain in a few places.

He managed to land on his feet however, gripping his arm as he could feel warm blood oozing out. Those spikes cut right through his kevlar/carbon fiber suit! “Damn..” he said as he quickly grabbed one of its legs as the dog was dazed, and pulled with all his might wincing in pain as his torn muscles screamed in pain, but he managed to spin the dog around and toss it into the opposite direction.

As Shortcut was dealing with the dog, the knight Lancaster put on their special protective glove. And once the dog was having their head punched to the ground, the longbow woman held her bow horizontally, pointing slightly down, drawn with the specially made arrow. The moment the dog was being spun, the girl let go of the string, and the arrow left her owner. In less than a second, her eyes winked, turning the arrow’s trajectory away from the ground, leveling it straight horizontal. The arrow struck deep into the wall, creating one end of the wire. That done, Heinkel threw the wire down the street below. And it was immediately caught by the other knight, who dashed forward for the wire. With a pull of his hand, he stretched the sharp wire just as the dog was thrown.

The wire was around a person’s neck level, sharply waiting for the collision with the beast.

Cerberus roared in pain as it was tossed through onto its side by shortcut, gliding across the ground. The left head had been turned, catching a glimpse of the hazard that awaited the beast. The dog tried to bore its tail into the ground to stop itself to traveling any further but the terrain was far too decimated to get a good grip.

SLICK

The left side of Ceberus’s body was cut clean off as it slid into the wall, the dog attempted to recover itself as its size was beginning to shrink as it tried to lick its wounds.

”That shit is tougher than I expected.”

Just as she said that, a voice coming over the intercom had her awaken to look up in the sky to see a tall large man with a seagull wing. He carried on his shoulder a pack of large heavy metal chains.

”This is Hellcat. Inbound in less than one minute.”

The call was directed to everyone.

Forte looked at the dog as it was licking its wound. Great. Right when it was unsuspecting.

”All wings. Operation Enkidu is underway.”

Everyone, excluding Acion, all nodded in unison. While the hero trainee did not exactly know what they were up to, he knew what he had to do: distract this dog for others to do the work. He saw the Sky Knight coming in with the chain. Still vague with the idea, but he charged down at the dog, spinning around his waist, throwing yet another hailstorm of feathers onto the creature’s middle head. But he didn’t break from there. He went straight, his hands holding the feather knife, down, stabbing the dog at its exposed area, the eye.

All of a sudden, the dog twitch due to the impact, sending the sharp armor colliding with this young hero’s armor, cutting through it easily, though not entirely. It cut into his chest, red liquid began to ooze out, but he managed to break out. The wound was light, but could be more severe if not treated in time.

The Sky Knights did not let any moment for it to breathe. Sachi, the girl with four floating light mirrors shot the left head with her light beam.

The rest of the team, in a show of nigh-perfect coordination, proceeded to chain the torso of Cerberus using the chain they had brought in with them. The chain was a hextuple legs sling, basically six chains linked to a large link in the middle. The person carrying the chain, Hellcat, held the large link firmly as he dove down onto the dog’s back. He rammed at optimal speed, avoiding any possible shock that could backfire on him, placing the large link at the center of the creature’s large back.

Immediately, the remaining four Sky Knights, including Forte, with their hands free charged into the creature. Each of whom grabbed one of the links on its back and flew downward evenly underneath the tummy: two on the left, two on the right. Those two from each sides would then lock the links together. Forte and Hellcat then flew upward, taking the fifth and sixth, the two final, links and wrapped them around their own torso.

”Ready?!” The dragon girl yelled over to the other end. ”One, two, thREE!”

Then again, her voice was severely distorted, as her inner dragon took over. The girl slowly flew up, using all her might to lift the gigantic creature up into the air. The other man also did his part, grunting in fury. The chains stretched, and it now became a show of force, with the weight of the dog on one side, and the other side being the lift by two strongest Sky Knights.

Initially, the scale was on the side of the shadow…

”They need help. Come on!”

And they were joined by the remaining Sky Knights. At first, only two joined, one for each sides, each hugging the other person’s back. Not enough, two more joined. And then finally, as a desperate means to increase force, Acion joined in, holding the large link instead. The scale slowly tipped to the knights of heaven. Cerberus was slowly lifted up into the air slightly above rooftop level, helpless, able to shake their limbs in defiance, but unable to move anywhere.

It is now exposed, and ready for the kill

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The Sky Defender was cruising at a dangerously high speed. Any unexpected collisions would be fatal. And it only got worse from there.

"Nakamiji!"

A shout.

Followed by a gravitational pull that boosted her speed, which is basically an equivalent to a boost in power. She was now travelling at a speed that could only be compared to her diving down from the high sky. And she was rushing straight into Rakasha, her sword raised preparing to strike.

Without a doubt, she knew that this would be a clash of metal, to see whichever is stronger and more durable. If he could break her sword while she is charging, she would be dead. If she could break his, he would become nothing but a ragged cloth.

She could see his tentacles punching out to counter her. It’s now or never

CLANG!!!

The two hard cold sharp objects made a violent contact with each other. The next thing Aurelia saw was her still cruising. She was still alive. She had won.

Her blade was cracked, bent slightly to the right, but still stood. A slick of blood could be seen on it.

As she slowed down and turned around, she saw the result of her attack. The Shadow Clan personale had his arm critically injured by the blade attack. And along with that, the ability to resist.

Letting a heavy breathe out, she slowly landed on the roof where Rakasha and the two students stood. The battle is over, here at least. She looked over her shoulder to see the Sky Knights and the unknown hero party fighting over Cerberus. She may have to assist them quickly, so she had to conclude stuff here.

Seeing the man still boasting the will to fight in his eyes, the Sky Defender tried convincing him, with the tip of the blade at his chin.

”You are defeated. Don’t even try to resist.”

@Riegal@Aerandir@pkken

A warm summer breeze flutter past her uniform making the skirt of her uniform lightly flutter with the wind just as her hair. It had been a short while that Nia had enrolled into the academy with all the others but she already felt at home. Her class was in the support course, she was not fit and good enough to fight. She was better at doing her own thing then to bother others by putting herself in their business. Nia only wanted to help the world with her quirk to grow many wonderfull kind of foods in order to heal and feed others. Nothing more. She was happy with her decision and chose to keep this path for her few years at the academy. The evening dawn had fallen onto them letting off an orange hue on their skins and uniforms.

Nia strolled by the sidewalk of the street not paying much heed to her surroundings other then the way she had decided to go. Her Komei academy outfit on while with her hair tied once at the side of her head. Her hair was uneven in lengths by choice, the right side was longer because she found it pretty to have it like this. Nia was making her way to the nearby store to get some groceries for evening dinner.

She had planned to make a dish with lots of vegetables, her own fruits and potatoes. It is what she liked most. A healthy dinner. While Nia was pondering about how she was gonna make the dish she came across an individual that headed the other way, she thought too late about dodging the girl and ended up almost knocking herself over. She stammered backwards onto the road and came to an immediate stop. Her head turning towards the girl as her face started to fill with embarrassment and shyness.



Nia bowed multiple times to show how sorry she honestly felt for Vae. She has never meant to get involved with this girl but her general clumsiness got the better of her. It took a minute for Nia to calm down. She gently placed a hand on her upper chest as she patiently exhaled. Once she felt a lot more at ease she took the liberty to bow down before her to calmly apologise to tbe girl and give her a warm smile.



In ease Nia kindly looked up at the to find herself a tad confused by the distress on the indian her face. Nia looked over her from top to toe in curiosity she did seem somewhat new in a sense but could not make out what her situation at the moment was. Nia only knew that shortly ago the girl had stepped off the bus apparently in a hurry. Did something happen or did she do something bad?

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The two who took the three to the hospital was fast, calling ahead and alerting the staff of incoming injured students. As soon as they got there, they each were rushed into private rooms to be taken care of. One of the nurses quickly looked for identification and found two id’s, Michiko’s and Roy’s that pointed back to komei Academy, both had the same dorm room phone and they quickly called it to inform the dorm mother of the situation.

Quickly finding out there was nothing physically wrong with Michiko save for bruises and small cuts, they moved on to Roy, who had multiple lacerations and bitemarks. Along with a fracture on his face, they went to work healing him.

However, With Kaida, they did not know how her quirk worked, and while her hands and neck looked severely burned, They did what they could with burn cream and ice packs, but a moment later they noticed it was getting even more worse. They stopped not knowing what to do more at the moment, except give her something for the pain. At least till they get an idea who she was and how to treat her properly.

Roy had been phasing in and out of consciousness after reaching the hospital, one second he’d wake up in the arms of one of the sky knights. The next minute he was on a bed being rushed towards the emergency room with an iv in his arm. It certainly was an unpleasant experience that he just wanted to be over as the doctors went to work on him. Roy hated the hospital as it brought back too many dark memories of his childhood. So much that in the middle of surgery he began panicking and thrashing around hysterically. He then felt a sharp pain in his arm as they injected him with something to calm his nerves.

After that everything had went black.

Retha sat down at her desk with her brand-new hero suit that completely nullified her curse of a quirk, for once the heat in the dorm was livable and even still it didn’t stop the woman from being probably the most intense woman to be around. She had just assigned Momo a new room, it hadn’t been a good ten minutes before she was destroying school property much like the girl that came before her; Retha saw fit to give Momo a stern talking as well as a good finger wagging. She was nearly halfway done when the phone rang, Retha dropped the conversation completely, but wouldn’t let the poor girl leave, forcing her to sit on her knees and wait. Sh e screamed, grabbed Momo by the collar and ran out of the door nearly knocking it off its hinges.

“Wait, wait where are we going?!” Momo asked, prompting Retha to explain “So why do I have to come along?!”

While the nurse from the hospital was transferred to the school nurse to get records of the two students, the dorm mother was so frantic she wasn’t able to ask her about the third patent. The school nurse wasn’t able to give any information because of the amount of students she’s had, she couldn’t be sure who it was. However that changed when a tall man, standing at 6’5” and 300 or so pounds of muscle. In a regular suit and tie walked in asking about information about the kids who were just brought in.

He quickly mentioned that a white haired girl with purple highlights possibly with black scales needed special treatment. Revealing her name and identity.

He was brought to the room where she was and told the staff to immediately cover her with heat lamps and hot packs. Wrapping them around her wounds. Explaining her opposite effect to cold. While calm and collected, it was clear he was worried about the girl.

When the nurses left after completing what he told them to do, He stood there, unbuttoning his jacket and taking it off. Folding it just so over the arm of a chair in the room. his arms crossed in front his chest as he stood silently, watching over Kadia.

Not much long later, another set of nurses came in with Michiko, who was still out and placed her in the bed next to Kadia. The man raised his eyebrow for but a moment when one of them turned to him and said, she was with them in the attack, we were asked by the school to place them all together.

He simply nodded and looked at the new girl. Her face was extremely familiar as well… he shook his head… what are the odds.

Rakasha was gaining the upper hand with Takeshi, knocking him onto his back, When suddenly he felt massive pain in his leg, and gravity pushing him away. He caught himself with his tentacles so he didn’t fall over, but as he fell back he noticed Sky defender coming at him, He pulled his tentacles back, wincing as he placed pressure on his foot and blocked her attack meant for his back.

It glanced though, and cut through his arm, cutting off the tendon and rendering his left arm useless. He grunted in pain and fell to his knees, his ankle giving out as well. He looked over to Takeshi who was getting back up slowly, He looked over to Reina who was also on the ground from slide tackling him. He grunted and lifted his right knee to try and get up, but his left ankle was too painful still.

This was the only reason he let Aurelia so close with her sword pointed at his chin. Acting all high and mighty like she defeated him...just came in on the coat tails and took Takeshi’s moment.

She told him to give up, that he was defeated. His eyes burned with defiance and hate as he left his sword on the ground and lifted his hand to the wraps on his face, yanking it down. He spat blood from his mouth on her shoes.

He then ripped his wraps off with ease, with all the cuts they received in battle they were practically falling off. “Don't get cocky...I was already dead, Before Reaper sealed the deal…” He said as he touched his wound Takeshi gave him. Aurelia, Reina and Takeshi could see sores that covered his body, along with an insane amount of scars. Takeshi knew what the sores were...cancer. He was dying for the past two years.

“Don’t think you stand a chance because you defeated me… I was fighting you with only a quarter of my original strength…” He coughed up some more blood. He looekd to Takeshi and grinned. “It was good to see the Reaper again. You’ve gotten stronger...thats for sure. But, You can never escape being a killer Takeshi…My death proves it….” As he spoke two of his tentacles, looking like they were simply falling back to the earth, slowly pulled back into his body, one around his leg, and the other sliding down the back of his worthless arm, hidden from their view.

Takeshi only narrowed his eyes, it was true...he reverted to his training and aimed to kill Takumi. He was a killer...but he did it to protect Reina. However, he did see the tentacles moving to his leg. Takeshi pushed himself to lunge at Aurelia.

Looking to Aurelia once again, he smiled wickedly. “I’M RAKASHA!” Two more tentacles exploded from his back, making the count six now, while the two that wrapped around his arm and leg snapped tightly to them Another knocked Auriela’s sword to the side as He gripped his sword. Another one of his tentacles shot out from behind his back aimed for her chest.

How ever, it didn’t connect with her chest, as Takeshi managed to push her away at the last moment but feeling a sharp pain in his own chest. Rakasha continued his rallying cry. “ONE OF THE FOUR FANGS OF THE SHADOW CLAN!” He ripped out the tentacle from Takeshi’s chest and went for his neck with his own sword, while another tentacle reached out and grabbed Riena’s leg, dragging her back towards him. “WE ARE THE NIGHT, WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER!”

Takeshi managed to block the sword strike with sheer luck with the pommel of his sword. He saw Rakasha pulling out a cylinder from his waistband. Takeshi yelled, “AURELLIA GET DOWN!” He kicked Rakasha away and dove for Riena, dropping his sword and reaching out to Rakasha’s tentacle that held her and focused, causing it to suddenly sprout spikes just a few feet from her foot, catching the ground and stopping, while he grunted to gather his shadow around his back.

He landed in front/on top of Reina without actually landing on her, wrapping his right arm around her, and his left stump... as suddenly there was a big explosion behind them. Rakasha blew himself up, while not destructive like a pipe bomb, it was more of a napalm, quickly engulfing Rakasha in liquid flame. Last thing any of them could hear was laughing before silence..



Shortcut stopped for a moment after the dog was sliced in two. He understood the purpose of teamwork and how the military worked, yet these hero's were never in the military, and it seemed odd to watch them. Once the wolf was lifted into the air, Marge punched Shortcut in the forearm. "Hey! throw me up there!" She said while pointing with her head towards the wolf. While the plan seemed great and all, Shortcut realized the same thing that Marge did. The wolf was about to shrink, and those chains will not hold it for long.

He gripped Marge by the back of her vest Gladly... He said with a chuckle. At which Marge looked at him and realized, "wai..." With the effort one would put in tossing a trash bag underhanded into a dumpster, he sent Marge launching towards the wolf.

A sight to see...a midget with a machine gun flying through the air yelling in excitement. She landed on the wolf and rolled, like this move she just pulled was something she did every day. She instantly started running up to the head of the wolf, her gun pointed down as she unloaded her magazine as she ran. Once out she flung it over her shoulders onto her back and gripped the wolfs head. And stood there as it tried to nash at her, but just barely out of its reach. After a moment she Jumped off the wolf yelling once again. "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" A few moments later, the entire beast exploded like a real bomb, despite being just shadows. Leaving the chains dangling in the air.

She rolled to her feet and stood up as tall as she could. Proud of her work. Looking back to Shorcut as he said, Good job! You didn't blow up half of a block!" He laughed, as he walked over to the middle of the ally. Looking up to the skyknights. Hearing suddenly another explosion close by, he looked back at Marge who raised her hands. "Not one of mine!"

The combo attack hit, though not as cleanly as black-haired girl would have hoped.

Reina's active orb went out, her quirk having been pushed far beyond its limit. Without its help, the girl was forced to struggle painfully to try to get up, cursing as she glanced at her hands, the skin a dark grey. Grimacing, she told herself she'd practice harder. She'd push her quirk further and further every day so it would never fail her. Because without it, she was weak.

The girl forced herself to look up as she fought to stand. Rakshasa was ill?

She didn't have much time to process the information, as the villain lashed out again. Her eyes widened as she watched Takeshi get hurt protecting Aurelia. Heart sinking, and anger flaring anew at Rakshasa for hurting him, at herself for not having been able to do anything, and at Takeshi for putting himself in that position for Aurelia.

... Idiot...

The girl did her best to resist the tentacle's pull, starting to feel panic now that her quirk was no longer responding to her no matter how desperately she was trying to reactivate an orb. Her attention was turned to Rakshasa's suicidal final act.

Panic rose sharply as she looked to Takeshi who was moving to her.

One last bit of energy. That's all she needed to find.

The girl pulled with her quirk with all she had left. It was weak compared to how it was normally, but it was all she could do to try and get Takeshi away from Rakshasa.

The tentacle stopped pulling her, and Takeshi collapsed by her. The girl gripped weakly onto the fabric of his shirt with her left hand, switching her quirk to a weak push to help keep the flames and heat off of them.

The explosion died away, and for several seconds after, Reina was still tensed up, feeling as though every muscle in her body was seizing against her will. Finally, she managed to relax slightly, the back of her head laying down on the ground, though her fingers still held his clothing. She turned her neck painfully to look at the boy who had come back from the dead.

"Takeshi...?" she managed between heavy breaths, feeling warmth spreading across her back.

Her heart sank again. Red. He was bleeding heavily from what remained of his arm, and the wound on his chest. Beginning to panic again, she scrambled painfully to sit up slightly, pressing her hand into his chest to try and stop the bleeding there. Unable to use her right arm at all, she couldn't do anything to even try to help his other major wound.

She couldn't even stand on her own, not fully realizing that half the pool of blood was coming from her as well. All the composure she had been granted from her unrelenting instinct had faded away now that the villains were gone--replaced by the sickening feeling of helplessness that made the girl so terrifyingly anxious. She could barely move, but she had to help Takeshi. He was hurt.

He's hurt he's hurt he's hurt--

"N-Nakamiji-san!" she cried out again, at a complete loss what to do with herself. "Takeshi's hurt!"

Soon, the dog was pulverized by the other heroes. Soon, the chain was dangling around emptily, as the Sky Knights dispersed and landed on the street below.

"All wings. Good work."

The rest of the engagement team shared a hearty moment with each other, with members having a brotherly hug, a companion high-five or basically good comments passed down to each other.

"Operation completed. Anyone hurt?"

The team looked among themselves. Everyone seemed to be fine, aside from a bit of exhaustion from the pull, a few cuts and bruises from battling the crows. But they were all fine. Almost everyone.

Everyone's attention were then placed on the young hero trainee, Acion. Or particularly, his chest. They could clearly see the blood coming out of the spot where his armor was cut.

"It's when I was attacking the hound. But I'll be fine." He reassured.

"But still, it needs to be tended. Come here."

She called for him, and Sachi as well. The latter proceeded to take out cotton and bandages.

"Take it off. We'll handle it for you nicely, so you won't have to go to Kiwi."

"You know her?"

"Well." Forte laughed a bit. "We, at least your sister, I and Albert, are the latest generation of heroes produced by Komei. And we can agree on one thing, that Kiwi's treatment is really good, but cannot be called comfortable."

"I concur." The trainee chuckled, as he took off the armor briefly, allowing the girl to patch up the wound. It was not really that deep, so it should heal very soon.

"I really wish for a combat medic, but this is all we can afford for now."

"All done." The girl smiled at Acion as he thanked her.

"Thank you and God bless."

The girl blushed a little for the appreciation she received. It was a little overboard.

Suddenly, yet another explosion occurred. This time not near their location, but not too far.

"What's that?!"

The dragon girl pushed her intercom a few times

"Mustang, what happened?"

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”Huh?”

Those sores weren’t battle scars, was he sick or something?

Sure, she knew she was outclassed when she went toe to toe with him, but that’s not how you beat an opponent stronger than yourself. Fighting using your strength only is one way, but will never guarantee a victory.

The grin suddenly sent chills down her spine as tentacles began to shoot out of his torso. This moment, to her, felt just like the time she went into that horror movie. And this was no fictional thing behind the silver screen. This was the real thing.

The sword was blown away from her hand almost immediately. And from a position of power, she was reversed back to the position of mercy in just less than a second. And she knew she would receive none of it from him.

A tentacle shot out from his back, aiming for her chest. She was subconsciously trying to dodge it, but somewhat knew she was already too late. She could only blame herself for being careless.

But then, at the last moment, someone pushed her out of her coffin.

”Huh?”

She was in complete shock. Before her was the guy earlier, in a position where she should have been. Horrors were running through her eyes as she just realized a pro hero like her was, and had to be, saved.

Before she even realized it, Takeshi had already retaliated, sending the suicidal man down to the ground, as he latter exploded in flames. The laugh followed by silence was just haunting to her. He seemed to be already committed to death already. What a wicked monster.

She was staring at the ground, still recovering from the shock when it hit her again. Turning to the voice that called her, she could feel strength leaving her body as that boy was motionless after the whole thing.

No. No. No. No.

”No.” She rushed to the two of them, breaking both of them off of each other. Aurelia then turned Takeshi over so that he was lying on his back. His arm was shattered, and his chest had been pierced. He was bleeding uncontrollably now. His life hanging on a slim thread. ”Oh God…”

She was panicking, perhaps due to the fact that her bad memories just awaken, but got it together eventually. She had been trained for this. With all her might, she pressed heavily on his chest. And she tried to maintain it for as long as she could. She had to stop the blood from flowing out, or at least stop some of it. Come on. Come on.

’Don’t die on me now.’

He needed to be taken to the hospital quickly.

They probably couldn’t hear the sound of running, but after the explosion, Manda came running up to the group. She had saw the whole thing in the distance, and had picked up her pace. As the two girls worried and tried to stop the bleeding on the dark haired boy, she fell to her knees and slid to a stop the metal plates on her knee guards screeching as she did.

The young girl was bleeding profusely as well, but the boy had no arm and they seemed focused on his chest wound, which she saw was above his heart. She didn’t want to heal him without finding his arm first but there was no time fo look.

She looked up at Aurelia and Reina and said in a calm soothing voice. “ it’s going to be ok,” she said as she placed her hands on either side of his face. She then looked back at Takeshi, her quirk usually worked with a simple kiss to the forehead, but with her arm she wanted to give it a more concentrated dose. Without explaining she bent down and kissed Takeshi, on the lips and held the kiss for a long time.

After a moment, the two would see his wounds close up, all the bite marks and sword wounds. His arm stopped bleeding, and the platelets worked into overdrive creating scar tissue to create a cap essentially.

She pulled away and felt pretty woozy, but she shook her head and pulled fresh bandages from her bags. Handing them to Aurelia, “wrap it up nice and tight, that cap won’t last long, and he needs to go to a hospital to get it properly cleaned and taken care of.” She then turned to Reina.

The moment this unknown hero arrived and was taking the initiative, she was partially relieved, as the girl appeared to know what she was doing. And her healing touch, or, in this case, kiss, was angelic. What Aurelia struggled for the last minute was nothing compared to this girl's ability. The bleeding stopped completely.

She was then handed the bandage to patch him up. And so she did. Nicely and tightly, just like she instructed her to. She had gone through lots of trainings and drills of first aid, so she was able to complete the task without any problem at all.

Once done, she lifted him over her shoulder as her wings spread out.

"Thank you very much, whoever you are."

And she lifted off.

“ your turn….” she inspected her wounds, she did notice the excessive blood and her right arm that the bone was shattered. Blood was pooling up in it as well. She reached out and took Reina by the face and kissed her, the same with Takeshi, on the lips. Part of her bones would slowly come back into place, as she could some how see if they were in a dangerous spot or not. How ever she didn’t completely heal them, instead focusing on her cut arteries.

She pulled away and sighed as she caught herself. Too major heals like this was it for her, “how do you feel?”

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"Aurelia?"

"I'm sorry. Things are alright now. I'm heading straight for Hosu General Hospital. Meet me there."

@Riegal@Aerandir

Hitomi watched concerned as Nomoe, somebody who suggested cutting off your own breasts as a solution to wising they were smaller, tried to wake Tomoe up by essentially suffocating her until the danger signals from her brain forced her to wake. From Tomoe's smile at watching herself struggle, Hitomi thought it a good thing that Nomoe disappears when Tomoe's awake,otherwise she wasn't sure Nomoe would have actually let go of her own accord. That smile, and look in her eyes...Hitomi didn't think she'd ever really get used to Tomoe's quirk and prayed she didn't have to see much of it again.When Tomoe woke, she even looked a little panicked.

"You woke yourself up," the sheep girl replied. "Your other self suffocate you awake. It was quite creepy. Anyay, I told them we'd be there in a few minutes. It's a good job you slept in your clothes. Let's head off. I'm sorry, but bed can wait. If you want, you can walk behind me and use my hair as a pillow until we get there."

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Arriving at the meeting point outside the cafeteria with scarcely a minute to spare, Hitomi and Tomoe showed up. "Sorry we're late," Hitomi apologized, bowing. "I had to wake Tomoe up."

Hitomi looked around. There were the two sides, battle lines drawn. Classmates Hitomi knew well fro last year disperces evenly between both sides. Five general studies students formed the judging panel, with White Hat as the supervising member of staff. Everything looked professional, and Hitomi was starting to get pumped.

@liferusher@Lucius Cypher

When Hitomi gave some feedback on what had just happened between her and Nomoe she was definitly devastated. Her clone had tried to suffocate her when she was asleep. Tomoe didn't know her clone could come out so abruptly without herself noticing. Normally she would at-least feel something when her clone was out and about. During the group fighting she could definitly follow what her clone was doing and who she had met new to some extent but this time she only remembered that she had a really bad nightmare that didn't stop untill she woke up. Tomoe did not realise her clone had started becoming so aggressive lately. This could be bad if she let it be as free as that to hurt others like it did to her. It definitly had to with the group fights that her clone released the breaks. Tomoe audibly gulped as she slightly looked away from Hitomi seeming somewhat troubled by the fact that she was getting dangerous while in her sleep.



Maybe it was for the first time ever that Tomoe seriously seemed concerned about something in her life. Tomoe shifted in her bed slightly sitting upright on her knees whilst looking up at Hitomi in concern.



Tomoe gave somewhat of a heavy sigh and moved herself out of the bed. She was cursing a little under her breath as she put on flip flops and brushed her hair a little in the mirror. It was way too early to leave her bed. It was all stupid clone her fault that she woke up as bad as this. It was honestly scary to wake up breathless.



She knocked her knuckles against the side of her head in self harm as she was trying to teach her clone a lesson by lightly hurting herself.



Upon arriving on the field there was a big line drawn between the two fields and honestly, Tomoe didn't know what was gonna happen. Hitomi apologised for the both of them. She used Tomoe as an excuse. She was mostly used to using her sleeping reason as excuse but she still felt somewhat bad. She bowed after Hitomi giving a light awkward giggle of shame.

"Harukaze-san? Why did you stop?" Asuka froze mid-step as the answer to her question quite literally appeared before her eyes a few yards ahead in a puff of black smoke. She hadn't been paying too much attention while crossing the school grounds towards the dorms - it was early evening and plenty of students were out and about enjoying themselves on the green. She'd nearly been hit in the head by the same Frisbee twice just in passing the large green by the cafeteria, and it had been all she could do to keep her significantly more short-tempered friend - she supposed it was right to call her a friend now, anyway - from severely chastising the responsible parties for their lack of awareness. But, as she didn't know anyone here at this school, it wasn't like it was terribly important for her to pay much attention to them. After all, she knew her sister wouldn't be roaming around aimlessly on her own this late. If she was going to be anywhere, it would be shut up in her dorm, probably either napping or doing something stupid like building a pillowfort. Or napping inside of a pillowfort. Truly unpredictable.

As a result however, she hadn't really noticed that she did, in fact, recognize a few members of a small group conversing under a tree to her left. At least, that is, until one of them literally teleported in front of her, and, although he didn't seem to notice her immediately, Asuka immediately cursed her bad luck under her breath and turned to face her traveling companion. Harukaze's amber eyes alternated between staring at the bricks of the pavement as though they were the most interesting things she'd ever seen in her life, and taking sheepish glances at the back of the tall, blonde boy who was just obliviously running his mouth a few yards away. Her face quickly shifted from a shocked white to a significantly more vibrant hue of red, and she breathed a quiet sigh. Asuka couldn't help but sympathize. If she'd gotten in such a humiliating fight with someone she'd once been close to, she wouldn't have wanted to see them either.

Asuka cocked her head slightly, motioning to a small path between two of the science buildings separated from the courtyard by a retaining wall and a very tall hedge. Creeping away as quietly as possible, with Harukaze doing her best to avoid scraping her crutch as she walked, Asuka guided her friend to a bench and motioned for her to sit down.

"Well? What do you want to do?" She asked after a moment of silence. "He's kind of right in the way of getting to the dorms. Should we just ignore him and go on our way?"

Harukaze shook her head.

"Then do you want to sneak past, or try talking to him, or-" She got no further, for the dark-haired girl, having regained her composure, raised a hand and motioned her to stop.

"I'm sorry. Could you... please... go apologize to him for me? I caused him a great deal of trouble the other day, and... it's only right that I should be sorry. And... if you would... tell me what he says?"

Asuka breathed a quiet sigh, but didn't object, giving a quiet nod. Normally, she made a policy of not interfering in people's personal affairs, but this was something of a matter of honor for her. After all, she was staying at Harukaze's apartment, and she had taken good care of her older sister. Besides, she had to admit that she was curious to see just what the hell had happened between them to cause the outburst she had seen a few days ago. Maybe from that, she could figure more out about her sister and why she'd said the things she did. It wasn't exactly a becoming trait to be nosy, but, well, at least she'd know, right?

At least, that was what she told herself, but even she, confident and thoroughly disaffected though she might have been, couldn't help but feel slightly uneasy at approaching someone she barely knew about a matter she had no part in. How had she let herself get roped into this? Well, at least the girl from the other day was also there. She'd seemed like a sensible sort, and seemed to have a good head on her shoulders. That might make entering their conversation a little bit easier.

"Excuse me," She piped up quietly from behind the boy who was the root cause of all this. She had only a moment to contemplate the best way of bringing this to their attention. As matters stood, she felt that she only had two options. She could rush directly to the point and address the boy directly and just get this over with. It'd probably be something like one of those old American detective shows she loved watching, like "Excuse me, but are you Mr. Haven? I have a message for you from a client." Pfft! As if. No, she had a much better plan. Although, that wasn't exactly a high bar. Acting like this always tired her out, but nevertheless, she'd already dug herself in this deep... Might as well keep it up and see what she might unearth, right? Thankfully, she and Haruka had approached at a rather odd angle, not managing to come anywhere near the tree the group were standing under before turning off, meaning they probably hadn't been noticed. And, if they had, it probably - she hoped - wouldn't look weird for her to come back to converse with someone she'd met before.

So, she embraced her role with gusto, and entered... Gal-mode. My ultimate forbidden technique, sure to land me any hot guy I desire. This state burdens my mind immensely, similar to trying to discover who the killer is by the second episode. It shortens my lifespan every time I use it, so I sealed it away. it's only supposed to be a trump card used to- ...And what the hell am I even thinking right now?

"Ah, that is you, Kasuke-san! I knew it!~" She declared with an obviously unaffected relief and a slight hint of girlish cheerfulness that was so painstakingly crafted as to be almost unquestionably genuine. "It's me, Motome, from the other day." She gave a bashful giggle with perfect timing, scratching her head with supremely innocent nervousness. "Oh, but my sister's also Motome, so you can call me Asuka if that's too much of a hassle. Anyway, I'm really sorry to bother you when you're in the middle of something, but could you help me out? I don't really know anybody around here except my sister, and I can't find her anywhere. I think she might be at the dorms, but I don't really know where that is, and- Oh!" She stopped herself, only just seeming to notice Jett. She let her smile slip a bit, giving a deliberately forced expression as if unsure of how to proceed. After a moment of awkwardness, she lowered her head slightly and proceeded in a quieter, more sheepish tone of voice.

"Umm, Jett-san, wasn't it? S-sorry, I'm not too good with names sometimes. Umm, I really should apologize, though. My friend kind of made a huge scene yesterday. She's really beating herself up over it, and, uh, that's actually part of why I came here." She wasn't technically lying - that WAS why she'd accosted them, but she made sure to make it sound like their meeting was a total coincidence, not wanting to imply that Haruka was around in case he demanded to see her. "Harukaze-san wanted me to tell you she's very sorry for causing you so much trouble." She took a very deep bow, and hesitated bashfully to raise her head. "If you don't want to talk about it anymore, I totally understand, but... umm... if there's anything you have to say to her, I could tell her for you next time I see her?"

There it was! Her master play. After all, Harukaze had asked her to relate anything Jett said on the subject back to her, so asking for exactly that was totally within her jurisdiction, right? This way, she could hopefully figure out just what Jett had to do with Harukaze and her sister, and maybe, just maybe, help settle her friend's dispute for her.

...Still, this really wasn't worth it. Acting so earnest and cutesy all the time was exhausting, especially when the only attractive guy around was surrounded by other girls and already had some kind of history with one of her friends. She had no idea how so many airheads managed to live this way. IF nothing else, though, if these people had already had the misfortune of dealing with her older sister... Their reactions to seeing someone who looked so much like her, but actually behaved normally would probably be interesting. They'd definitely be relieved, right? Somebody had to be the competent one in the family, after all, and it sure as hell wasn't her big sis.

@Silver Carrot@Aerandir@Norschtalen

Dulga gave Jett a hard stare as he teleported between his words. Seemed like his quirk was back now, but gone haywire. She wondered if this was normal for him but put that thought aside. He didn't seem to be in any peril and certainly hasn't shown that he's needed his quirk. As for the talk with his mother, Dulga just shrugged. "She wanted to talk about the the last Hero class training. We had a disagreement." Dulga had no intentions of fully discussing what had happened. Chances are Mina might've heard some of the things Dulga had said; Dulga herself was too emotionally charged to have bothered keeping herself quiet or paying attention to her surroundings. Plus she wouldn't be surprised if her discussion with Adriana eventually gets discovered by everyone else. Dulga didn't care to keep secrets, but she wasn't going to talk freely about it either. And without skipping a beat or showing an ounce of emotion she also lied to Jett's face. "She also wanted to know if you made any advances on me. I told her you peeped on me. She'll talk to you about it later."

Turning to Mina, Dulga stomped her foot on the ground to show that it was okay. "It was a good thing I wore my good boots. It still hurts but I'll be fine." Mina also mentioned Jett's grandfather being rather familiar with Mina, mentioning his relationship with Mina's mother. Dulga looked away sarcastically and thought otherwise, but she had already teased Jett. Going for a double may tip him off to her deception so Dulga elected to talk about something else. "I figured he spoke to you about the same thing Haven-san's mother spoke to me about." Dulga looked at Mina in the eyes and tried to get a read on her current emotions. She wondered if Mina took the conversation the same was as Dulga did; openly defiant but reluctantly acknowledge her issues.

And then someone else came. At first Dulga thought it was Fumika, but the moment she started talking it annoyed Dulga. The way she spoke, the lingo and the attitude, it reminded Dulga all too much of the stuck-up bitches from middle school. The ones who would talk shit about Dulga's appearance and attitude, but never had the courage to actually get in her face about it. And while Dulga had learned to ignore them for the most part, that didn't mean it still didn't bother her. It just reminded her how much of an outcast she was, especially since there was nothing she could do to stop them. What was worse however was how fake they were. Upfront they seemed like nice girls who were just doing innocent and girlie things, but you don't even need to turn your back for too long before their vicious side showed up. And while Dulga didn't know this child she already didn't have a good impression of her.

Then she started asking Jett about Fumika. Dulga had already gotten some idea that maybe this girl was related to Fumika; they looked similar enough. And the fact she was also Motome pretty much cemented that. Then she talked about some sort of incident that happened; Dulga was vaguely aware that some drama had occurred in front of the dorms, but it wasn't something she was concerned about. All she knew that it had to do with Fumika's friends and presumably that's Harukaze. Once Dulga figured that out, she could easily deduce what was going on. This girl, Asuka, was sent on Harukaze's behalf to speak to Jett or Fumika. And if Dulga had to guess, Harukaze is nearby. Asuka didn't seem the type to play middleman unless she was dragged along for it, but Dulga could see Asuka being forced to send a message if one side got cold feet. Dulga has seen this tactic before.

She wasn't going to let this facade go any longer.

"Just tell her to come here. If she's serious she should say it to his face." Snorting, Dulga turned to walk away. "If she wants to speak to Haven-san alone I will be leaving soon. I'd suggest you two come to an understanding. This," Dulga motioned towards Asuka. "Is going to cause a lot of problems. Especially if this is how you talk to Fumika-san." Dulga had little interest getting involved in this drama between Jett and his other love interests. As much as she's willing to joke at his expanse, the current path is just going to result in a lot of heartbreak and agony. Dulga has enough angst to deal with on her own.

@Silver Carrot@Aerandir@Feyblue

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The first day of school was supposed to be a good one.

Among the potential benefits of joining this academy for heroes, Toru had to say the one he anticipated most was the possibility to be put into interesting and unique situations he would not find himself in anywhere else. Ever since decking that one bad guy, he knew that what he needed to do was strike out and do things he wasn't entirely used to. That might be the only way he could get his blood pumping, in the proverbial sense. And so he found himself in one such situation, yet he felt nothing positive about it.

Perhaps because it involved him being stuck in a damned locker for multiple days? Or perhaps it was because it was somewhat embarrassing, what with the aforementioned predicament being a result of a backfire of his own actions? Either way, it was something he could safely say he did NOT enjoy, and the sooner he could get out of it, the better. But what had happened? Well, just like anything to do with Ayanokoji Toru, it began with a prank.

The first day of school was supposed to be a very entertaining and memorable one for the young man. He aspired to prank the entire class in one go, something that had probably never been done to this exact class on that exact day at the exact time he planned to do it. Truly the peak of originality. But first, he decided he had to pull off a little warm-up prank. Nothing complicated, mind you. His intentions were merely to jumpscare the poor janitor by hiding in one of the supply closets and hopping out at the proper time. Easy, amateur stuff that anybody could do, really. Since he could pause his heartbeat, it allowed him to look deathly pale and perhaps this added effect would amplify the fright? It was worth a shot.

So then... why did things have to end up this way?

Toru couldn't tell you exactly what circumstances had led to him being trapped, only that he'd gotten up early and knew the man had to get cleaning supplies a bit before Toru'd be needed for class. But no janitor ever came. And as his homeroom drew nearer, Toru found that the door to the closet refused to open, despite his best efforts to do so without causing damage. He could potentially break it, but then the school might get mad at him for vandalism, and in all honesty, he couldn't say his life was in any danger, could he? So he waited.

And waited.

And waited some more.

Minutes turned to hours and hours turned to days. What the hell had gone on? It didn't help that this damned closet was tucked away in a corner of the school not many people seemed to venture. Had the man just quit his job? Was he dead? It was impossible for Toru to know, but what he did know is that the time he spent locked in a locker doing absolutely nothing but missing school could have maybe been spent a bit more productively, even if that word killed him on the inside.

So, after many days absent from the class, Toru decided he wasn't going to wait any longer, even at the cost of the school's property. He broke the door to the closet and let himself free easy as that. But by this time, the day seemed to be approaching its end. He really should've gotten out sooner.

Oh well, I doubt I'll get much more than some form of detention. I do hope my parents weren't too worried.

While he couldn't say anything like this had happened to him before, Toru would occasionally drift off somewhere and show up days later. Something like this probably wouldn't have caused his parents too much distress, though whether or not the school was worried was another matter altogether.

It'll probably be fine. Maybe.

For now, it was probably best he got an idea of how long he had been stuck in there. He'd fallen asleep a few times over the course of his confinement, and he did not currently own a cell phone for lack of any reason to do so, so he wasn't sure when right now was. He'd need to inquire about it personally, and perhaps he could screw with one or two people as he did so. So, he found himself wandering outside, eventually coming across the group of named characters students. They seemed to be discussing important things, what with the tones of their voices and, well, people acting upset.

So of course now was as good a time as any to butt into their conversation. Which he did, but not before 'tidying up' before he entered their awareness via stumbling towards them. It would be very difficult to miss.

"So, uh..." Toru's voice called out, though it sounded very weak. "...do any of you... guys know what day it is...? Or the time...? I think I left my watch on the arm I ate...and I think I probably missed class..." Ayanokoji Toru was currently the very visage of someone who'd departed from this world. No coloration in his skin tone whatsoever, his heart wasn't beating (even if that's not something people notice without checking), and of course, most importantly was the fact that he was missing his left arm up to the elbow and the wound had seemingly not been treated. He looked down at the area where his arm should have been, and then back up. "...I've had better, I'll... admit."

Persia had been far too invested in the fight between Amane and Ruby to even notice the growing amount of spectators that had amassed, hell even the fighters themselves didn't notice. The brunette was torn between who to cheer for, for every hurrah she had a fighting motion to go along with it. "Nice Hit Ru-chan! she shouted while uppercutting the air with her right hand, when she went to retract her arm Persia inadvertantly nudged Ms.Mako on her shoulder by accident. The girl quickly pulled her hand back before inhaling fearfully of possibly receiving a detention from the ex-villain Madame Obsidian. Besides detention was so boring! The girl turned to Ms.Mako and began bowing frantically and asking for forgiveness.

"I am sorry for nudging you Ko-ko sensei! please forgive me!" her need for nicknaming people clearly persisting on and was not limited to people her age. She raised her head once again, snapping her neck to see Amanes knee connect with Ruby's stomach, causing the brunette to clench her own stomach after watching that blow be dealt. Persia raised one fist sheepishly into the air, "Way to uh..go Amane."

Soon Amane began exchanging words with Ruby, it seemed as though this was a habit when he fought with other hero students though this time it seemed as though he was giving her advice and testing to see how bad she really wants to be a hero. Amane has been around heroes just about most of his childhood so he must have gotten tons of advice from pros over a long period of time. She glanced around at everyones expressions and the only ones who seemed unphased were pinky next to her and Ms.Mako.

"Hey Ko-ko sensei, what are your thoughts on Amanes way for weeding out students? I mean sure its not the nicest way to go about it but it is probably the boldest way to put ones resolve to the test. I'd go as far as saying he is taking control of the future as part of the next generation of heroes...well if he doesn't get expelled before then. Persia then turned to the pink haired girl next to her.

"What do you think pinky?"

@Silver Carrot@Lucius Cypher

The collision caught Vae off guard completely. Neither inkwewa paying attention to their surrounds. A common human mistake which anyone would have made while running away from a creep. Though when the other inkwewa began bowing in apology several times made the teenager uncomfortable. So many memories that lingered inside traditions yet every single part of them created honor towards the family. Granted there wasn’t much the Native American could do when the familiar words slipped out from her still lips. "I don't quite understand Miss. I was the one at fault here yet you're the one apologizing? How is this fair to you? I'm sorry for not allowing you to pass." The young woman said in german making a shiver crawl up her spine.

”What I meant to say in English is I’m sorry. I was the one to bump into you. You did nothing wrong Miss. Though I would rather you rephrase some of your words. I’m not uncomfortable in the least bit. In all honesty I’m startled from the impact.” The young woman said as the man walked past with a victorious smirk upon his lips. It wasn’t hard to figure out what the guy was doing now. Most likely trying to find the ‘magical violinist’ everyone was talking about. Though what made a sinking feeling crawl inside her stomach was the way the man looked at them. As if there was a secret about to be unraveled for the whole world to see. If only staying invisible was possible in this world. Than Vae would be able to live a semi-normal life.

The young woman shifted from her place, making her jacket shift down from her shoulders, and revealing a short sleeved shirt underneath. The piece of clothing was nothing special yet the other woman would see what looked to be old scars of different shapes and sizes, along with what looked like be a fox tattoo located around her right shoulder. Granted once the Native American noticed the jacket out of place she quickly returned it upon her shoulders. ” I wouldn't worry about helping someone like me. Honestly I’m not even worth an apology.’ She commented blankly as she shifted towards the violin case.

The young woman quickly opened the case and pulled out the instrument. Her eyes looking closely for any sort of damage before nodding in approval. Carefully Vae placed the object back inside its holder, making sure to redo the locks, as she lifted her head. The young woman’s facial features seemed a bit strange. A rather difficult emotion to mimic because of the timing was far away now. If Vae attempted to repeat this girl’s reaction than she would know it was nothing more than a act. So why not change subjects?

”Actually I do need help. I’m assuming you’re from the school I’m searching for. Can you help me find it? I’m a bit new to this area and honestly I don’t feel safe without some company.”


@liferusher

Aurelia was a lot more help than she was, but Reina couldn't be sure it'd be enough--after all, they were still forced to be here, on this roof, instead of making their way to a hospital. The girl fought to stay conscious, this massive stress only making her feel even dizzier along with all her wounds.

Only a few moments later, another woman showed up. Evidently, she was a lot calmer than even Aurelia, so Reina backed off ever so slightly as she moved to Takeshi, though the young girl kept his sleeve in her grip.

Reina watched as the woman went to 'work,' the trust that had been quickly built being tested just as quickly. Reina felt her temple twitch as she stared at the woman kissing Takeshi. On his lips. Despite the fact that Reina desperately needed oxygen and had been breathing hard for the past while, she stopped without realizing in the moment.

The girl fought against a strange urge to hit the woman, and ignored the newest bit of pain she was being put through--a tightness in her chest. It was somehow more uncomfortable than the rest of her injuries.

The feelings faded slightly as she saw Takeshi's wounds being healed quickly. Oh, so that was the woman's quirk. Reina felt her face warm up, feeling silly. Of course that's what it was, there was no other reason for the woman to kiss Takeshi like that. Well... maybe there was. It's not like Reina recognized her. Maybe she knew Takeshi...

The girl's face was getting warmer. She glanced away. It didn't matter anyway, she told herself. Takeshi was being taken care of, that's what mattered.

As she glanced back at the boy, she found herself smiling genuinely for the first time in what felt like forever, feeling her body relax for the first time in just as long. Takeshi was missing an arm, but he was alive.

Along with that loss of adrenaline came the wave of pain, but Reina could hardly care. She was too tired and too relieved. Her eyes widened slightly as she watched Aurelia take away Takeshi. A spot of anxiousness returned within her, but she pushed it away. He was being taken to a hospital, that was good.

"Your turn..."

The slight smile faded from Reina's face as she turned her gaze back to the woman. The girl's eyes widened again as the woman took her face in her hands, realizing what was about to happen.

"I--" was all she could manage of her protest before their lips touched. She immediately tried to weakly push the woman away, but that resistance only lasted a moment before the relief from pain began to flood her body.

When the woman broke the kiss, Reina had to go back to gasping for air, once again having been unable to breathe despite how badly her body needed to right now. The girl's face was unbearably warm, only made worse by how silly she felt.

"How do you feel?"

Avoiding eye contact, Reina stumbled over a reply. "O-okay... a lot b-better... thank y-you..."

The girl couldn't stop thinking about how that had been her first kiss. It was so stupid to dwell on, but she couldn't help herself, which just made her even more embarrassed with herself. The woman was definitely attractive, and not someone most people in the world would have an issue receiving a kiss from. Reina herself would have had no issues if it wasn't her first, but the few times she had thought about, she always felt she wanted her first kiss to be with someone she knew and loved.

Even just admitting such a thing to herself in her own thoughts made her steam even more in embarrassment.

So stupid...

That was assuming she'd ever have someone like that that would even want to kiss her in the first place--a reality that had been beaten into her as impossible dozens of times during her school years.

But that hadn't completely stopped her from hoping... especially this last week at Komei. Her thoughts drifted slightly from her own kiss to the one Takeshi had received.

Why does this woman's quirk have to work that way?...

The appearance of another figure on the roof helped the girl refocus. She paused as she looked at him briefly speaking with the woman.

"...Haven-san?" she said in some surprise, recognizing the costume as Jett's.

_@Aerandir

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Jett sighed in relief...if his mother caught whiff of any girl who was a potential girlfriend she would interrogate them and tell embarrassing stories of him instantly. When she did bring up his Grandfather he nodded his head while shaking it, as a ‘somewhat’ response. “ He does that with many of his students, mostly to those he has a connection to. He sees all his students as his children. He does it to show that he cares for you, that you’re not alone here at school and that he sees potential in you. I don't think he did it because of your mother.” He said trying to explain that it was supposed to be a good thing, that he had an eye on her. Clearly he saw potential in Kasuke.

He looked to Dulga as she stomped her foot, mentioning it was fine. He started to wonder how crazy this fight got. She then turned to him and explained in very vague detail what was talked about. He didn’t push the issue, it really wasn’t his place. Also doing it to show he respected her privacy...perhaps that would gain some points with her...after seeing her dance it seemed she was irritated with him all the time...except for now, he wondered what changed.

She then commented what she also asked, and how she responded. His eyes went wide for a moment as he pulled his head back. She got him for a moment, but he shook his head. If that were true… he would have had a slap to the back of the head instantaneously. His mother didn’t need a clear line of site to teleport like he did.

He didn’t say anything, about this though, just chuckled slightly while scratching his chin as if he was worried now. He was slightly, just that he didn’t know what angle Dulga was playing.

He heard a small voice behind him and he looked over his shoulder. His eyebrows raised in curiosity. When he saw the hair, he thought it was Fumika...then he noticed how short it was, and as she started speaking excitedly to Kasuke, he knew for sure it wasn’t her. His thoughts turned back to the end of the first day of school… that's where he recognized her.

He instantly stood a little straighter, turning around to face Asuke and glanced around when it clicked...she came with Haruka last time to visit Fumika. Sadly his quick scan of the area did not catch Haruka. Did she not come?

He sighed and looked back as she was explaining she was here to see her sister, surprising still that fumika’s sister seemed so normal compared. He smiled as she asked where the dorms were and was about to jerk his thumb over his shoulder when she looked at him, seemingly just noticing him. Her demeanor becoming more soft and sheepish.

She then started talking about the other day, that part of her reason of coming was to apologize for Haruka. This he believed sort of. Haruka was not one to apologize easily, she always had to be right and was hardheaded. She has done it a few times, but this was something he could see her doing.

It took him off guard that she would send someone else, instead of saying it over the phone. It kinda hurt that she did really. He was silent, clearly having a conflict in his own mind. Really turning this onto himself, he should be the one to apologize. He made a huge thing out of it. Well it was huge. She lost a leg and she didn't tell him? He thought they were best friends. But still it should have been a private matter, not in front of his dorm .

He opened his mouth a few times, hesitating as if changing his mind a few times. He pulled his phone out to see if she even texted him. Which she didn’t. Dulga then made a blunt comment, which to be honest he agreed with her. Haruka and him needed to talk, not have a mediator.

He didn’t however like how she suddenly attacked Asuka, he didn’t know their relationship, but he thought Dulga was being a bit harsh, ”Sorry about her, she can be quite blunt at times. He said to Asuka. She is partially right though, I would rather talk to Haruka myself about it. She’s not to blame totally, I’m at fault equally. Do you know where I can find her? She doesn’t answer my texts...

Once again he vanished in a puff of smoke, just before the boy without an arm walked over to their group. When he realized what happened he gritted his teeth. But stopped in surprise when he realized...he teleported right behind Haruka who was sitting on a bench. Which was only right around the corner from where he was standing basically.

He only had one thing to say at the moment. ”Really?!” He asked in a calm are you serious kinda tone.