Chapter 4: Training
Endo sat upright in bed gasping and clutching at his stomach. He pulled away his hands expecting to see blood or a gaping puncture wound, but there was nothing.
"Oh please, try not to lose control of your bladder already." It really worked, the Kaiju personality could now talk to him while he was awake.
"What was that about? Trying to stab me in my own mind?!"
"Just having a bit of fun, it's oh so rare that I get the chance to interact with someone."
Endo was still puzzled by one thing though, "why do you seem so calm now, but when I transform you just want to kill everything?"
"Remember genius, I'm inside your head, your thoughts and current physical and emotional states have a slight effect on me. So when your asleep or not in Kaiju form, I can be a bit more civilized."
"Ok you know what you need a name, I'm tired of thinking as you as just Kaiju personality. Did you have any preference?"
Endo could practically feel the alter ego thinking inside his head, it was an odd feeling.
Finally he decided, "how about, Karkinos?"
"Eh, not bad." Endo got out of bed, "so, you gonna teach me how to do some new stuff?"
"Well, I'm all for chaos, but I think that doing it in your house could be destructive."
Endo stopped in his track mentally facepalming. He left his bedroom, which was the tech center of the whole house. Endo was ok with mechanical engineering, but he excelled when it came to computer coding.
After finishing his morning routine he went downstairs for some breakfast. He walked into the kitchen only to see his parents sitting at the table waiting for him.
Karkinos laughed, "oho, this looks like it will be good."
"Shut up."
Endo looked quizzically at his parents and instinctively pulled up a chair, "yeah?"
"I know that you granted 'Karkinos' permission to be at the forefront of your mind. I can sense him up there now." His father finger quoted when he mentioned the Kaiju's new name.
"Well he's going to teach me how to use my powers better."
"I just wanted to say that we want you to be careful with him, he seems very devious and not something to be take lightly."
Karkinos seemed mildly amused by this, "your fathers a smart man."
His mother finally said something, "we realize that he could actually be extremely useful to you, but remember what he has been."
Endo nodded, "I will." He proceeded to eat and say goodbye to his parents.
He was halfway through walking to school when Karkinos resurfaced in his consciousness, "this seems boring, let's just begin our lessons now. Get out that box that Mei made for you and put it on so you aren't naked when you arrive at school."
Endo did just that, "ok now what."
"Transform into the human sized Kaiju form."
His clothes and backpack flew off his body and into the cube as his skin became hard and rough and his back began to grow spikes. With his transformation complete the next step was in order.
"Why did that seem so much easier than the last time I transformed?" Endo had felt less strain as he became the human sized Kaiju.
"It's because I'm helping you, you don't always need to condense a full Kaiju into your body, which you did the times you transformed. Now close your eyes and imagine wings sprouting from the gaps in your armor and spikes."
Endo snapped open his eyes, "wait I can grow WINGS?!"
"If you shut up and focus then yes."
He followed his new teacher's instructions and cleared his mind except for the visualization of wings on his back. He felt an almost electrical impulse flow through his back and he could feel his armor plates separate and huge black draconic wings grew from the gaps in those scales. Endo opened his eyes and took a huge gulp of air. He tried to turn and look at his new wings, but he started to look like a dog chasing its tail.
"It's like your tail, a new limb that just randomly sprouts from your body. For the moment they are folded against you back, so just try flexing your back muscles."
Endo tensed his back and could feel the new tendons and nerves and began to sense how to use them. He slowly unfurled them and curled them in front of his face, "wow these are incredible."
"I know, now fly!"
Endo, without evening thinking, pushed them downwards and felt a tremendous rush of wind. He beat them again and he became weightless, pumping them up and down faster and faster he felt himself accelerate. He roared with pure adrenaline and several people on the ground looked up at the creature flying through the sky. He got to about skyscraper height by the time he reached school. Flying now seemed instinctual to Endo.
"Isn't that that Bakugo kid?" Karkinos sounded almost joyful now.
He was right, Bakugo was walking through the school archway, Endo smiled, "watch this!" He dive bombed straight down to the area in front of Bakugo. As he did this he increased his muscle mass and bone density, which Karkinos helped him mitigate. Just before he reached the ground he unfurled his wings which were tucked against his back. The wind caught beneath them slowing his descent to almost nothing and he dropped the last twenty feet to the ground without his wings landing on one knee and his fist against the pavement.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? TRYING TO SHOW OFF? I'LL KILL YOU!"
"Well it seems Bakugo is his usual self."
Endo held back a laugh, "yep just another day." He rose up and morphed back to human as his clothes and backpack curved around and fitted back onto his body. Endo turned and walked away from Bakugo without a word to him.
"DON'T YOU IGNORE ME, YOU CAN'T IGNORE ME, I'M BETTER THAN YOU!"
Endo chuckled, "I'm not so sure about that."
"OH YEAH!" Bakugo was now following behind Endo trying to get him to stop.
He finally turned around and smirked at Bakugo, "yeah."
A crowd was beginning to form around the two students.
Karkinos took notice of the situation, "are you planning on fighting this child of pure rage and ignorance?"
"Eh maybe. We'll see how it plays out."
Before the upper class men got to see a fight however, Vlad, the class 1-B teacher walked outside. "What's happening out here?"
Endo shrugged, "I've not the slightest idea sir." He continued to walk away from Bakugo and towards class.
Vlad let him pass and looked back at the other students in the courtyard, "well? Get to class all of you!"
In class, Aizawa described the regimen for the day, "alright class today we will be doing some hand to hand combat training and some more quirk training." He was wearing a cast for his arm and still had some bruising around his neck. Everyone remembered that it was from the bus crash, but Endo and Momo knew otherwise.
"Finally, some more combat training!" Kirishima exclaimed slamming his hardened fists together.
"Just so you know I won't be allowing quirks during hand to hand training."
Kirishima's face immediately fell, "I kinda expected that, but come on, not even for a special match?"
Aizawa sighed, "we'll see. Alright meet me down at the P.E. field." He began to walk out of the classroom, "oh, don't forget your costumes." This perked up Kirishima quite a bit.
Out on the dirt field they were partnered up based on who Aizawa thought were on an equal skill level. Endo was going to be put up against Kirishima, but at the last second Bakugo requested to be put with him.
"I wanna see just how good he is." Bakugo had a gleam in his eyes, a determination to win against the somewhat show-offish Endo. Aizawa shrugged his shoulders and approved it. "Imma kick your ass, you nerd."
Aizawa finished pairing everyone and explained how it would go, "I'll have you go based on most experienced first. We are doing this one at a time so I can critique you. Endo, Bakugo you're first. Endo, take off your armor and Bakugo remove your gauntlets."
The two did as they were told and took stances opposite each other. Endo with a more defensive stance, his arms raised in front of him. He was bouncing on the balls of his feet, he needed to be quick with Bakugo.
The rage filled student had a very open stance, which slightly disturbed Endo, Bakugo was confident and was planning on a full frontal attack.
"Remember, when Midoriya and him were fighting he led with a right hook. It's a wide attack you can use that." It was kinda nice to have Karkinos advise him.
"Heh I guess two heads are better than one. Let's see I have about two inches on him, but the question is who has more muscle." Endo replied bracing himself.
Aizawa counted down, "FIGHT!"
As predicted Bakugo rushed forwards with his fist clenched for a right hook. Endo lowered his arms and sidestepped to the right getting under his arm, it was a close call. He wrapped his left arm under and around Bakugo's head and his right went around his neck. With this hold Endo threw Bakugo to the ground and pinned down the student's chest with one knee while the other foot was kept planted. Endo tried to hold down Bakugo's arms as well, but he was just too strong and he began to push Endo's hands off him.
Endo leaped back sensing he was about to be free and didn't want an encounter that close with a stronger opponent.
At that moment Vald ran out onto the field and whispered something into Aizawa's ear. The teacher's eyes widened and he nodded, "stay here and continue sparring, but no quirks." The pair ran off to deal with whatever was happening.
Once again Endo and Bakugo squared up and began a more traditional fight, almost a boxing match. With Endo dodging and delivering small punches, while Bakugo just tightened his abs and took the hits. He was once again trying huge attacks, they were slow, but if one connected with Endo it would almost certainly be over.
Their classmates began to discuss the odds of who would win as the fight went on. Kirishima went for the obvious, "Bakugo's got this in the bag! You got this bro!"
"SHUT UP YOU IDIOT!" Was the appealing response.
Midoriya was inspecting the two's fighting styles, "Bakugo isn't tiring very much, but then again he's taking more punches, whilist Endo is tiring faster, but he's actually landing punches and not taking any. However, I notice he is beginning to slow during certain attacks, almost like he's unsure how to take them, he's thinking too much and it's eventually going to catch up with him."
The two fighters were just out of earshot of the others so Endo didn't realize that he was actually slowing down. Endo did have a strategy however, he wasn't just hoping to outlast Bakugo, that was a dream. He saw his opening as Bakugo overextended a punch and darted behind his fellow classmate. He kicked at the back of Bakugo's knee, while most of his weight was on that leg. It dropped Bakugo to one knee and Endo got him in a tight headlock, restricting his breathing.
Bakugo grabbed Endo's arm with his hands and tried in vain to pull it off, this was a much better hold than the previous pin. Bakugo grew more and more frustrated until he lost it and began setting off small sparks on his hands that were against Endo's arms. Endo winced in pain and in response transformed his body to the scaly armored Kaiju.
Endo roared in his ears, "you want to use quirks, well let's go."
Each escalated each other's quirks until Bakugo straight up held a hand to Endo's face and detonated a huge explosion. The Kaiju form came flying out of the smoke and rose up with pure rage on his face.
Iida began chopping at the air and yelled at the two, "what are you two doing, Mr. Aizawa specifically told us not to use quirks!" But the two weren't hearing it and continued to power up.
Small explosions emanated from Bakugo's hands and Endo without even thinking grew two more blunt tails and his wings beneath his armor. His armor also grew harder and heavier to defend against anymore explosions.
Midoriya was the first to notice that Endo stayed human sized, "wait since when has he been able to remain that size?"
The other's eyes widened as they to realized that he hadn't grown to his enormous size.
Mina frowned, "I thought he could only transform if he grew as well."
Iida continued to try and stop the fighters, but they were so incensed by their quirks they didn't even slow as he yelled at them.
Endo waited until Bakugo got close and unfurled his enormous wings, beating them rapidly at his opponent unbalancing him before rushing him. Endo pulled in his wings and jumped slamming his three tails down around the area where Bakugo was standing.
"He just disappeared!" Endo looked around frantically trying to gauge his whereabouts.
"LOOKING FOR ME?!" Bakugo was above Endo and racing at him fast with one palm outstretched.
Endo knew he couldn't dodge so he focused on toughening his armor even more.
An explosion rocked the field and the students watching.
"I've got twenty on Bakugo!" Kirishima yelled, trying to entice others to betting.
Jiro shook her head, "you're seriously betting on this?"
Kaminari laughed, "of course! They were nearly at each other's throats on day one! This is a fight to bet on and I'm with Kirishima on this one."
Mina joined in, "I still think he looks like a villain, but I'm betting on Endo." Asui and Momo agreed.
Kirishima turned towards Izuku, "what about you Midoriya? Who's your bet?"
"I-I have no idea." Midoriya was totally drawn in by the two's fighting, it was like a brutal dance.
That's when Endo rose out of the explosion with his wings flapping vigorously.
"He looks less armored now, I bet he has to drop off the armor to be able to fly." Izuku looked intently at the smoke to try and spot his childhood bully.
Endo was coughing and his whole body was spasming, it was the smoke inhalation, in this form he consumed more air to compensate and it was really bad for him to remain in Bakugo's explosions.
He dropped back to the ground and tried to decide how he wanted to handle this, "I should just try to knock him out with one punch. One good hit should do it." Endo removed almost all his armored scales and focused on the muscles in his legs. He switched back to just one tail and used his wings for the last time beating them and pushing away the dirt and smoke. He then retracted them and absorbed them.
Karkinos yelled inside his mind, "KILL HIM!" It was the first violent outburst from Karkinos since his dreams.
The winds revealed a maniacal Bakugo smiling with glee, "now the roles are reversed I can hit you, but you can't hit me!" He noticed Endo tense up his leg muscles and held a hand towards the ground preparing to launch over the Kaiju and hit him from behind with another explosion. But what Bakugo didn't expect was to have Endo reach him within less than a second and drive his fist into Bakugo's jaw sending him flying. Landing on the unforgiving dirt Bakugo passed into unconsciousness.
Endo was breathing heavily and collapsed onto his back, morphing to human once more, his clothes racing to cover his body.
Iida ran up to the exhausted shapeshifter, "what were you thinking, you're going to be expelled for doing that!"
Endo took huge gulps of air, "he… started... it."
"I didn't know you could move that fast." Endo sat up seeing that it was Aizawa who had said that. "I was watching the fight, originally I was going to step in, but I was curious about how you could harness your new power. I was going to stop it before you could go too far, but I kinda got caught up in it." He looked at the rest of the class. "Ok, who's next?"
This time all students were restricted from using quirks without exceptions, which truly upset Kirishima, furthermore all the fights proceeding Endo's seemed extremely tame by comparison.
When Endo heard that Momo was paired with Ochaco he was confused at first, he knew Momo had training in Bukijutsu, but that's when he remembered that was based on weapons. Normally this would be no problem, but she was unable to use her quirk, so it was pretty much just them trying to punch each other to somewhat unintentional comedic effect.
During the second to last fight Bakugo began to stir and Endo made sure to move as far away from him as possible. Aizawa had insisted they not send him to the nurse, since Bakugo would probably just come back to the field either way.
"Wuh-what happened, did I wi-" The fight came flooding back to Bakugo including the split second memory of Endo rushing him. "YOU BASTARD! THAT WAS A CHEAP MOVE, TRYING TO GET ME WITH ONE HIT! I'LL KILL YOU!" It took both Aizawa and Kirishima to hold him back and calm him down to the point where he didn't want to destroy anything in sight.
As the last two fights finished Aizawa announced the next exercise, "an agility course, to see who can reach the center first. We will meet at battleground: Gamma in fifteen to begin."
"Karkinos are you ok, you kinda lost it during my fight?"
Karkinos remained silent, however Endo knew he heard and just refused to respond.
Lost in thought Endo didn't notice Momo sneak up behind him, "hey."
He jumped, startled by the sudden proximity and noise, "oh hey you scared me there."
When Endo turned around to face her, he noticed she was trying to hold in laughter, "sorry, sorry, I just was curious about how you had all those new, well for lack of a better word, attachments or upgrades."
Endo quickly examined his surroundings making sure no one was in earshot, he tapped a finger on his temple, "it's him. He's been rather cooperative lately."
Momo's face seemed to twitch almost imperceptibly.
Endo noticed it and knew the reason for it, "it's ok I've got him under control, I'm not going to let him hurt you, or anyone else." Endo seemed to leave the last part as an afterthought.
"Look I think we should talk, you can come over to my house, my parents won't be home."
Endo raised an eyebrow at the last bit. This caused Momo to blush furiously and put her head in her hands, "no, no that's not what I was even slightly implying!"
Endo laughed and pulled her hands gently away from her face, "I was just joking, we can head there after school, ok?"
Momo nodded in response.
At battleground: gamma everyone had gathered on top of what looked like an oil tank. They were overlooking a city of pipes and machinery, definitely the ideal place to test agility.
"This is so unfair, Iida and Bakugo are obviously gonna win, and what about Endo he has wings now?!" Mina was complaining to her fellow classmates who were waiting for Aizawa.
"I need a name for my human sized kaiju form. Hmm what about Close Combat? What do you think Karkinos?" The Kaiju remained silent and refused to answer Endo, "ok Close Combat it is."
Endo noticed Mina was still composing about the unfairness, "well, hey you've got the slime skating thing and Ojiros got his tail."
Bakugo scoffed at this, "do think that a tail can beat me?!"
Endo laughed and shifted into Close Combat form, "hey don't diss the tail." He and Ojiro performed what was essentially a high five with their tails. "Besides the wings are more for support than speed, I can't fly super fast yet. Even in a land race I'm sure Iida would beat me with his Recipro Burst."
As predicted the top tier competitors were Endo, Bakugo, Iida, and Ojiro.
They were put on four separate corners and were trying to reach the center of the maze of pipes. As Endo prepared to run forwards, his body grew lighter, his armor almost completely disappeared and his muscles were focused in his arms and legs. He also had his wings tucked against his back in case he needed more maneuverability.
A gunshot signaled the start of the race, and the four contenders began their sprint. Endo ran around several pipes until he had an idea. He increased his armor into what looked like ceramic plates on his front body and began to just crash straight through the obstacles. The race continued for about three more minutes before Endo saw the end at the top of an oil tank. He spread his wings and leapt to the top of it, revealing a heavily breathing Iida.
Endo walked forwards similarly winded and shook his hand, "nice job man, how long ago did you get here?"
"Just thirty seconds."
Endo nodded his approval and heard explosions echo through the arena, "well there's Bakugo."
As he said that Bakugo crested over the hill of metal and began to scream seeing not just one, but two had beaten him there. Iida tensed up at the sound of Bakugo's loud abrasive voice and Endo just chuckled.
The rest of the races went on without conflict. Momo scored second in her race by using her power to create poles for her to push herself off the ground. Izuku has some trouble since he couldn't use his out of control quirk without absolutely destroying his body and he ended up third.
Endo walked out the school doors into the courtyard alongside Momo after showering and changing into fresh clothes. As they walked to the huge security door that kept out anyone without a school I.D, Endo saw that there was the man from the hospital in his tux and was holding the car door open for Momo. They were still about fifty feet from the car when Endo decided to make things interesting, "hey you know what, do you wanna take the scenic route?" He grinned at her deviously and stuck his compressed cube on his back. This time instead of going into Close Combat, he switched into a aerodynamic and light form with a huge wingspan and a tail that instead of having spikes at the end had stabilizing wings.
As he unfolded his wings he asked a question, "would you care to go flying?"
Momo looked shocked, but then nodded with a smile of pure excitement on her face.
He scooped her up in his arms and she wrapped her arms around his elongated neck laughing, "you look more like a dragon than a Kaiju now."
Endo tilted his head, "is that a bad thing?"
"No dragons are awesome, now let's get going!"
Her butler finally noticed that she was now in the arms of the winged beast that was Endo. "Miss! Wait!"
Endo began to beat his wings, the winds created by it pushed back the students that were watching in awe.
Momo shrieked with joy as she was unexpectedly pulled off the ground and clutched Endo's neck tighter.
Endo roared pleased with his new form and the feeling of exhilaration that came with flying. "So which way to your house?" His gravelly voice was loud to be heard over the winds and the beat of his wings.
Momo shakily pulled one arm off his neck and pointed in a direction. Endo began to lean forwards and pushed in that direction, once again causing Momo to scream and clutch his neck. "Relax I won't let you fall, you're safe." He smiled at her and continued to fly onwards, "just enjoy the view!"
While Momo tried to unclench her muscles, Endo was having a conversation.
"Is it not just a little bit dangerous to be taking someone flying when it's really on your third or fourth time using your wings?" Karkinos had finally spoken up once more.
"Well, well, look who finally showed up. What were you doing?"
"I was… calming down."
This shocked Endo quite a bit, "I'm surprised someone with tendencies such as yours would take the time to calm down."
"I've had time to think it over and I believe it is due to you letting me free to roam in your mind. See when I was trapped in your subconscious, well you saw it, a dark abyss of nothing, and I couldn't feel, hear, or see in a traditional sense. But when you let me in this morning, I felt things I hadn't felt in ten long years, not just physical, since I experience what you do, but emotions. Not hate or loathing, but joy, humor, and yes love. I can't simply forget the rage that boils within me however, I will no longer be the monster you think of me, I will join you in your conquest to become a hero."
Endo was so overwhelmed with emotion he nearly began to cry, "thank you Karkinos I-"
He was interrupted by Momo pounding on his chest with her fist, "Endo we're right over my house!"
Endo looked down to see a wide array of buildings all connected by some passageways or another sort of hallway. "Which one?"
"All of it!"
Endo's eyes widened, it was enormous, he glided down to the ground and gently set down Momo who stood on shaky legs and collapsed to her knees. "Are you ok?!"
"Yeah that was amazing!" She smiled at him with so much joy that Endo couldn't help, but smile back.
"Jeez Momo, I knew you were rich, but all this land, seriously?!" He gently pulled her to her feet.
She blushed, "yeah." Momo always seemed to be embarrassed by her wealth. She led him in through the gate.
"So this is probably a question I should've asked before I flew you here, but what did you want to talk about? I'm guessing it's about this guy up here." Endo tapped his temple.
"Kinda, let's just get inside first."
They reached huge double doors, that were irregularly ornate and Momo pushed a button that caused them to automatically open. "You guys expecting a giant to walk through those doors?"
Momo laughed, "I was always wondered about why they were so big."
Before they could continue through the doors a car pulled up behind them and the butler in the tux stepped out. "Miss are you alright? Oh my goodness, you shouldn't do such reckless things! Who knows what that delinquent could have been planning, you could have been hurt, or worse." Endo stepped out from behind the huge door and the man finally noticed him. "Oh, and who would you be, young sir?"
Endo laughed, "I'm the delinquent who carried her here."
The butler's face paled, "you have my apologies sir, I meant no disrespect."
He shook his head, "it's not a bad thing to worry about someone, sorry if we caused you any distress."
"He was probably just worried about his job, not Momo."
"No need to be so pessimistic Karkinos."
The Kaiju laughed in his head, "it's called reality."
"Think what you will."
The man bowed slightly and indicated that they go inside, "I will prepare some tea for the two of you."
As he disappeared into the enormous hallways Momo turned back towards Endo, "follow me, there's something I want to show you. When I was a little girl, I was obsessed with history and more specifically, the myths and stories that came with them." She pushed open another set of doors to their left and Endo walked into the biggest library he had ever seen. Words couldn't even do it justice, it was just that enormous. It had one large table in the middle of the room that held dozens of books. Momo walked to it and began to sort through the endless stacks of paper, until she found a thick history book that was labeled as Myths of Greece.
"Ya know, when you said you wanted to show me something, I figured it would be this amazing room, not a dusty old history book."
Momo remained focused on the pages flipping through at a record pace, "it's not about the book." She found the page she was looking for and pointed to a picture on it, "it's about your quirk."
Endo's eyes widened, the image depicted an ancient city burning in the background, with people fleeing in every direction, and at the very center of the picture was a monster, a Kaiju, Endo's Kaiju. "This is… impossible, it captures my every likeness, this can't be real!"
"It is, two days ago when I remembered this picture I had a professional come in to examine it and said it was a real painting from that time period. The original isn't in this book, but he told me it exists. That's why I wanted to talk to you, because this is not a coincidence, unless you've seen this photo and that's where you got the form from."
Endo was so enamored with the photo that he barely heard her, "I've never seen this in my life."
The library door was pushed in once more as the butler came in with tea. Endo however, couldn't care less and transformed into his Close Combat form to compare himself to the picture. The man's face became pale once more and edged around Endo and set the tray down lightly on the table. He bowed to Momo and once more skirted around the Kaiju to leave the room.
"Momo, the spike patterns, the claws, the eyes, everything, it's all almost exactly the same as me."
"Karkinos, do you have any idea what this could be."
The Kaiju was silent for a minute, "I haven't the slightest clue."
Momo pulled out several other huge books and set them in front of Endo, "I searched for hours after I found that photo, but I couldn't find anything else on the myth."
"What is the myth?"
Momo grabbed the book from him and summarized it, "long ago there was a monster that terrorized many towns and cities. It traveled by the sea and nothing could stop it, until the gods brought forth their children, demigods with special powers, to stop the creature and push it back into the sea."
Endo turned back to human and looked at her, "special powers… like quirks, do you think that it's possible that quirks existed long before that first quirk in Qingqing?"
"Makes sense, I have heard that theory, but then how do you explain yourself having the same quirk as a guy who lived and died over two-thousand years ago?"
"I would say it was somehow passed on, but I've never heard of anyone ever having a Kaiju quirk like me. So, is it possible it was pure chance?" Endo paced around the table trying to think, but came up with nothing. He sighed, "well, I don't think we are going to discover anything else just standing here and theorizing."
Momo sipped her tea, "then what do you suggest we do?"
Endo stopped pacing and smiled at her, "I suggest, that you give me the full tour."
By the time Momo had finished the tour it had nearly grown dark, "aren't your parents going to be worried about you!"
Endo shook his head, "nah I texted them their good with me being here. Unless you want me to go." He smirked.
"No! I mean, no, it's good to have company for once."
Endo frowned, "I assume it gets lonely here."
Momo shrugged, "well not lonely, I've got all the cooks and gardeners and butlers. But my parents are almost never around, and I rarely invite people over."
"Why not? You could have the entire class over and throw and amazing party." She tilted her head slightly. "Ok maybe not all the class, just everyone but Mineta or Bakugo."
This made her laugh, "I just don't want everyone to think I'm super conceited, trying to invite everyone over to my mansion. It just feels like trying to buy friends."
"Oh come on, you know everyone in class absolutely adores you. They wouldn't give a second thought to it." They arrived at the last room just as it grew dark and the stars emerged in the sky. He opened the door for her and walked in behind her, it was another enormous space, this time an observatory. "Besides, you invited me over."
She blushed at this, "well, yeah that was just to show you the book."
"And the stars, I hope ." He pointed the the huge telescope.
In response she pushed a button on a control panel next to the door. The ceiling shuttered open and revealed the glittering night sky. They were far out from the city and the stars were clear as could be with the lack of smog and smoke. Endo took a deep breath, "man aren't we lucky, to be able to see the stars? Just a truly incredible sight." He worked up his courage and finally said what he had been thinking all night, especially now standing right next to her. "And so are you."
She blushed furiously once more and stammered trying to respond to the compliment.
Endo noticed she was struggling, so he simply bowed to her, "thank you Momo, for showing me the book, and your incredible house, but please remember, we will always be friends, not because of your wealth, but because of you. Have a wonderful night." He transformed into his aerodynamic form and spread his wings. His clothes and backpack compressed into the cube Mei made him. And with one final bow and a wave he took off into the night sky leaving Momo standing there, suddenly feeling alone. Despite this, she felt a sort of peace wash over her in that moment. This was gonna be a good year.
Thank you as always for reading, hopefully this chapter was enjoyable. Constructive criticism is appreciated, I'm always looking to improve. Next is the USJ so we are gonna go from a good night to some really bad stuff, hope your ready!