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Chapter 84:
"And, you're all done."
This is stupid. Zach sat on the edge of his bed, staring at a knife in his right hand and turning the blade over and over again on his palm. He shook his head and his eyes darkened. Zach lifted the knife and flicked it around in a spin around his hand while standing up, and then he shoved it down into the empty of the four sheaths on the right side of his waist. It's not stupid. He grabbed his white helmet off of the desk next to him and put it over his head, I should get a new helmet that covers the top of my skull. Leaving it open was a bad design idea. Too late now. What am I doing?
Zach stopped near his door, then he glared at it and he brought his hand to the knob and opened it up. He was wearing his white costume covering his whole body, including a white glove over his left hand but not over his right. The white glove he used for combat training in school was the one part of his costume left behind in his room.
Zach walked down the hallway on the fifth floor of the dorm that he had just returned to. He had gone straight to his room and put his costume on without delay, and he had a dark look in his eyes as he headed back downstairs.
"Send in the next student on your way out."
Zach walked back across campus towards the main school building. "Just going for some training," Zach replied to Kuroiro who was walking back to Class B's dorm with Sen Kaibara. His dark friend just asked where he was going in his costume, but Zach continued going instead of stopping for a chat. He actually picked up his speed as if getting in a warm-up jog on his way back towards the main school building.
I'm being paranoid. Stupid. But, what would be more stupid, is to ignore this feeling. If I'm wrong I'm wrong. No big deal.
Zach jogged into the school and slowed to a casual pace as he walked through the building. He paused as he saw someone walking towards him, or more he did not see the person coming his way. "Oh hey Zach," Hagakure said as she spotted her classmate. She got a slightly confused look on her face since she had seen him come back to the dorm while she was still waiting down in the common room. "You're doing more training today? Even after the-"
"Yeah," Zach started, and he lifted his left hand and scratched his left cheek just inside of his white helmet. "Figure after yesterday's loss to Class B, we've gotta catch up to the others."
"Ah! Good point," Hagakure said, leaning back as if she just realized now that they were apparently the worst off in Class A. Considering how few internship offers she had gotten compared to him too, and how she did not even get to an internship, Zach realized that probably was not the best thing to tell her. "Where are you going? I'll come with-"
"Actually, going to get some private training in," Zach said, giving her a half-apologetic look but also one that showed he was in a rush. He kept walking and knew it might be harsh to Hagakure, and he probably would have accepted training with her on any other day. He walked towards her and past, and he said, "Next time."
Hagakure turned her head and watched Zach go by, "Oh, okay."
Good. If Hagakure just got out, then Bakugo's in there now. It takes around ten minutes. Zach walked around the school's hallways and saw most of them were empty. School had already ended for the day, but there were a few people lingering about who he looked at hesitantly. This is bad. Zach spotted a pair of girls who looked younger than him just walking down the hall in the opposite direction when he turned an intersection. He kept moving and he ducked into a gap of a doorway, poked his head up close to the door's window, and then he slipped into the room.
Zach took a few deep breaths, and he narrowed his eyes on the wall across from him. He stared at it and through the windows lining it. It was a nice day outside, hot but not too humid. It had been a good day. Until forty or so minutes ago, Zach had been enjoying the day. Zach put his back up against the door and he took deep breaths. His heart rate slowed down and he pulled a knife out of a sheath on his right side. Zach lifted his left arm in front of him and stared down at the white fabric of his costume that was strong, somewhat elastic, and laced with bone to keep his actual bones from showing through it. Zach rose his right hand close to his left arm and pressed the blade to his costume's sleeve.
I've never cut myself before. Softy asked me it once. Hope she never does again, because I'd have to lie- "Ah!" Zach let out the yelp that he tried to hold back as he yanked the knife down hard and slashed across his arm. Had to be deep. Not enough that I can't use it, but deep enough. Zach wiped his knife on his white sleeve below the wound where it would be getting red in a minute anyway, considering the amount of blood that started coming out of his arm. Zach slid his knife down into its sheath and he opened the door behind him with his right hand fast. Don't drip. Don't drip. Zach tried lifting his arm a bit to get the blood to drip the other way and not be too saturated that it spilled off, but some blood drops started falling in the hallway. Hope it wasn't, too deep.
Zach's slashed a four inch gash in his forearm below his elbow but closer to it than to his wrist. Blood came out of it fast, and Zach started running while putting a panicked look on his face while turning the next hallway. He jogged down the hall, and he saw a boy up ahead in casual clothes: a green t-shirt, a white and black pair of shorts, sneakers. The boy sitting on a chair outside of the nurse's office stood up fast as he saw Zach running over, blood dripping off of his left arm that he was grabbing with his right. "Hey Midoriya," Zach said, before Midoriya could call out to him.
Zach steadied his expression as if the panicked look was him overreacting. He did not want Midoriya to freak out and shout his name, and he slowed down his run while grabbing his left arm less like it was in a lot of pain. "What happened?" Midoriya started as Zach got close.
"Deku! You're up!" a voice shouted behind Midoriya.
"Ah, it's really," Zach started, but he just rushed past Midoriya without explaining and opened the door up with his bloody right hand that he had been holding over his wound. Zach burst into the nurse's office and Bakugo gave him a funny look for a second before looking to Zach's left arm in surprise. "Hey, sorry," Zach said as he ran in and stopped just inside the nurse's office. The short woman back over on a chair near her desk looked around and her eyes opened wide at the sight of the boy standing there grabbing at his bloody left arm.
"What happened to you?" Bakugo snapped in an annoyed tone, though he did not sound very concerned. Midoriya came into the room behind Zach as it was his turn for the school physical anyway, while Zach got a nervous look on his face at the questions and the look from the old woman frowning at him with some worry on her face. Recovery Girl hopped off of her chair and looked expectantly at Zach who had not responded to Bakugo's question yet.
"I went to do some training after my physical, and I accidentally cut myself-"
"You hurt yourself again," Recovery Girl began in a scolding tone, shaking her head at the boy who stared back towards her in a hesitant way.
"Are you okay Zach?" Midoriya started.
Bakugo shook his head at Zach's answer and then turned for the door and continued towards it. "Oh hey Bakugo, want to train with me in a minute actually? Soon as I get out of here I was thinking," Zach trailed off while looking over his shoulder, because Bakugo stopped and turned back towards him with narrowed eyes that had confusion in them. Midoriya turned to Bakugo looking more confused than the blond-haired boy next to him, Do they train together often?
"Sazaki," Recovery Girl began, and Zach turned to the old woman giving him a disapproving look. "Coming in here like this and saying that you're going to get right back to it. You are not taking the consequences of your injuries seriously."
"But since we're training at U.A., I mean," Zach began. He looked towards the old woman and lifted up an eyebrow, "Can't we train at such extreme lengths because of you? We need to get stronger-"
"But you can't rely solely on me," Recovery Girl said, shaking her head at him. "If you train recklessly, you will fight recklessly out there." Midoriya looked down towards his right arm thinking of the injuries in it, and he frowned since he trained without getting reckless but could not keep that up out in the field during his last internship. Bakugo did not look down at his similarly injured arms though that he had been struggling with letting heal. Bakugo just turned to Zach for a second to see what he thought of this, and his eyes started to widen while Recovery Girl continued, "You need to learn to be more careful-"
"So you're saying," Zach cut Recovery Girl off. "You won't heal me." It was not a question. He did not sound confused as he said it, and the hesitant and nervous look on his face faded away. His right hand lowered from his left arm and the cut that continued to bleed. Midoriya heard the tone and he froze while staring down at his right hand, and then he slowly lifted up his gaze to Zach who rose his eyebrows while looking towards the short older woman.
Bakugo stared at Zach's face, and then he turned towards Recovery Girl himself with a hesitant expression. What is he…
Recovery Girl looked back at Zach with a confused look on her own face. "Sazaki?" She asked, the short, sweet old woman tilting her head a bit and giving Zach a strange expression. Zach doubted for a moment at her look, but he made sure to keep his outwards expression from showing that lack of confidence.
Zach's eyes narrowed though and his right hand opened up at his side, grabbing a knife there and sliding it out of his sheath. "Or is it you can't heal me?" Zach asked. Midoriya stared with huge eyes at Zach for pulling the knife on their teacher and he was about to shout at him, only for Midoriya to freeze and the top half of his face to turn blue. Bakugo's fists clenched, and Zach clenched his fist on the hilt of his blade while finishing, "Toga?"
"Toga? As in, Himiko Toga?" Recovery Girl questioned. The short old woman had on her white doctor coat, along with the pink helmet and purple visor of her hero costume. She frowned at Sazaki who held his knife at his side without directly raising it at her. She looked a bit nervous, but she did not back down while saying, "I know you may be paranoid, but you need to calm down Sazaki." Bakugo loosened his fists a bit and he darted his eyes to Zach, then back at Deku to see what he thought of this.
Was that- did I- Is she really… Midoriya gulped while looking back at Zach, and then towards Recovery Girl again. "Zach, you should put down-"
"If she heals me, we'd know for sure, wouldn't we?" Zach asked. He did not take his eyes off the short older woman who glanced back and forth at the other two students who were looking confusedly back and forth at the two of them. "You really think I'd do this off a half-baked theory? Come on guys."
"Sazaki, if it means that much to you," Recovery Girl began. Bakugo closed his mouth that he opened to call out at the nurse, his eyes opening wide and yet at the same time he felt relief that he had not called it out yet. Midoriya also felt relief, but Zach's eyes did not widen or his expression shift at all. He just nodded and narrowed his eyes more at the old woman who had yet to finish her offer. "Then," Recovery Girl continued, and she turned her back and walked back to the chair at her desk. "I'll take a look. Come over here."
"No," Zach said. He narrowed his eyes more, while the two at his sides started to give him more hesitant or angry looks.
"Just go so we can be sure," Bakugo snapped in annoyance.
"Zach, maybe you're wrong," Midoriya said. I didn't really notice anything. Toga, acted so much like herself as Camie. How could she know so much about Recovery Girl? No, this isn't- "Just let her check you out and-"
"Recovery Girl," Zach began. "Always injects needles in my right arm." The other two looking at him froze and their eyes shifted back towards the woman sitting on her chair facing her desk, her face impossible to see at this angle for them to check how she reacted to that. "Even though my right is more dangerous, she doesn't put her hands close to my scars which on my left arm, are everywhere." Bakugo and Midoriya both clenched their fists this time, and Zach stared forward with an assured look on his face.
"Oh I do, do I?" Recovery Girl asked. Her voice was still soft and old and sweet, but it sent chills down the spines of the boys looking towards her. Recovery Girl turned her head a bit to the side and looked back at the boys behind her, all of whom stared towards her with huge eyes at the smirk spread across Recovery Girl's entire face.
Zach threw his right hand forward and released his knife. Recovery Girl's chair spun around and a knife flew off of her right hand and slammed into Zach's in midair. The knives clanked and no one moved as Toga already had another knife in her other hand, risen and grabbed by the blade with her eyes wide behind Recovery Girl's visor. She froze before throwing the other knife, and the three boys who were all about to dodge one direction depending on where she threw it or who at all stared at the crazy woman. "You caught me again, Zach," Toga said with a big smile on her face. "I really thought I got it past you this time."
"I lied about the arm thing," Zach said. The huge smile on the old woman's face twitched, while the boys on Zach's sides opened their eyes even wider though without taking their attentions off of the crazy person pretending to be their nurse. "I just felt a strange vibe coming from you. Thought maybe I was being paranoid, but I guess cutting my arm open was worth it." Zach's eyes got as dangerous as Toga's while he stared back into hers after what he just said to throw her off, "Where's Recovery Girl?"
The question shook Midoriya and Bakugo back into it, as they suddenly realized the most important question they needed to ask. "How long?" Bakugo snarled, his fists opening and small explosions blowing off of his palms.
"Where is she?!" Midoriya shouted.
This is bad! The woman in front of them smiled from ear to ear, and her skin started melting. Recovery Girl started melting in front of them, and Himiko Toga's face showed through the melting goop coming down off of her face. As the transformation started happening, Toga threw her next knife forward and Zach whipped his left arm up from his side and slashed against it while whipping another knife up from his right side too. Toga threw the knife though to distract from her other hand that reached down quickly and then lifted up in front of her.
"Stop!" Midoriya bent his knees, and Bakugo blasted explosions behind him. Zach threw the knife in his right hand while jumping backwards towards the door, and Toga opened the fist she was swinging down in front of the chair her body looked to be melting on. Three small gray pellets flew off of her palm and hit the floor, erupting into huge blasts of smoke that spread to cover the entire room instantly. The smoke bombs engulfed Midoriya and Bakugo, and both of them swung in the middle of where they had been charging as they expected the girl who had blinded them to try and go between. An explosion blasted towards Midoriya and a huge force of wind into Bakugo that sent them flying into opposite sides of the room but also would have stopped anyone between them for sure.
Smoke also got sent spinning away in clouds and pushing aside, giving Zach a clear view of the girl who had leapt up to the ceiling and jammed knives through it to hold on. The creepy girl on the ceiling was looking the direction Midoriya just flew off to, but she was not wasting any time. Her head snapped towards the exit of the nurse's office, and she dove towards the boy facing her with another knife drawing in his right hand while he pulled his left arm back holding one already. Zach tossed the knife he had just pulled out up in the air between him and Toga, in a lob that would make it hang there and stop her from diving towards him. Toga dove anyway, and she twisted her body in midair to catch the knife with one hand that was already holding one. She slashed in front of her and slammed it against the second knife that Zach threw in the hand that had already pulled it back, while his right hand that had lobbed the knife up reached across his waist and grabbed hold of his white grappling gun.
Toga reached her left arm forward with two knifes in it between her fingers. Then she flipped around right before reaching Zach and pressed her feet out towards his face, right as Zach fired up his grappling gun. The hook passed under Toga's arching back, and then past her head that tilted just a bit farther down in the next second. She looked towards him and into his eyes and in that moment her look said everything he needed to know. Zach's right hand holding his grappling gun was shaking as he held it near his chest, but Toga's smirk warned him from transforming. We need Toga to tell us where Recovery Girl is. If she doesn't return to where she's keeping her, other League members might kill her. That is, if she's still alive. I have to assume she is though! I can't knock her out for days! The thoughts raced through Zach's head, and he pressed the button on his grappling gun instead of dropping it so he could retract the hook.
His split second of deliberation over what to do was too much though, and Toga flicked the knife in the hand she flaunted at him less and slashed his second knife with a moment ago. As Zach pulled away and reached for his side to grab another knife with his left hand, Toga was landing and spinning around in a pouncing position. While Zach started setting up to defend from the pounce, she was already in midair. He dropped a step behind her and was too late to do anything but push her arm with two knives in it to the side so she could not stab him while tackling him to the floor. He started pointing his right hand in with the reloaded grappling gun, but Toga's other hand she was about to grab a knife with slammed over onto his right arm's wrist and pressed it into the floor.
It had all happened in a second. Toga was on the ceiling while the other two were blasting away from each other in their attempt to stop her, and Toga was on top of Zach a second later with his arms pinned to the ground and her face up close to his. The room was still filled with smoke so Zach did not see where the other two were, not that he was looking with his eyes pointed straight up into Toga's where her face hovered just above his. "That smell," Toga whispered fast while looking down into Zach's eyes. Her smiled stretched from ear to ear and her cat-like canines opened away from each other as Toga breathed a hot and heavy breath on Zach's face. "You're in love aren't you, Reaper?" Toga asked. Zach's eyes started getting wider, his heart pounding, his ears filling with the noise of his heart and nothing else. Toga had such a knowing look on his face that it terrified him, but then his heart skipped a beat as she whispered, "Does Momo-chan love you back?"
Zach's fingers snapped out of his glove on his right hand. Toga's eyes widened and she pushed down on Zach's arms to flip herself over him and to the door. "Toga!" Midoriya shouted, flipping himself over behind a turned-over nurse's office bed, and he jumped out of the smoke and into the middle of the room where he snapped his head around looking for her. He spun to the exit of the room where the door was slamming shut, but a blonde girl on the other side was looking back in at him and smirking wide. Midoriya flipped himself around and spun his legs behind him to kick off the air, but Zach scrambled up on his feet between him and the door he was about to send himself flying at. "Move Zach!" Midoriya called out. He started to drop and lowered his legs to instead just bend them and shoot off of the floor.
All the smoke around Bakugo blew away too, and he glared towards the door with a pissed-off look on his face. He had a cut on his left cheek where some sharp medical tool slashed him when half the room got smashed by Midoriya's kick. Zach stood in front of that door and glared at it in fury exceeding Bakugo's though, yet he did not move to let Midoriya smash through the door. Zach reached down into his pocket with his right hand and pulled out his phone as fast as he could.
"Move!" Bakugo shouted at the door he started running at.
"One second!" Zach yelled back, spinning and glaring as hatefully as he just was behind him at the two who froze at that look. Midoriya landed and did not immediately bounce at him, and Bakugo stopped running as fast with a confused look in his eyes. Zach lifted his right hand and sent a pre-typed message to the principal, and then he immediately flipped over to the Class A group-chat. Zach spoke while texting, "What was she grabbing at the desk? She has all of our blood."
As rationally as Zach was speaking aloud, his mind was screaming. Momo! She knew! She KNEW! I fucking- I knew it! "We have to stop her. Right now!" Zach lowered his phone and shouted at the other two.
"Why didn't you tell the teachers or something?" Bakugo snapped. "If you knew-"
"It had to be in between the two of your physicals," Zach replied while glaring at the door.
"Why?" Midoriya asked as Zach tried to rush past it.
Zach grit his teeth, then he spun and said over his shoulder, "How did Toga know that our physicals were today? A day when we were getting blood-work done? She couldn't have been Recovery Girl for long considering how often she has to use her Quirk here." Bakugo's eyes shot open wide as his 'how long' question was being answered yet only made him feel dread knowing that Recovery Girl had been replaced recently. "So if Recovery Girl really was Toga, which I thought she might have been but just maybe, then there were very few people I could trust to tell I knew. Because anyone else could have warned her, and she could have escaped with all of the blood of everyone in our class. I figured between two of the strongest guys in our class and me, we could stop her. And we still can! Now let's get her!"
It could have been because of our date, but it wasn't. The amount of people in that restaurant, and the chances that one of them was a League spy. I already knew there was someone here. I decided to forget about it, but she knew! She wasn't just saying it based on who I'm close with. She knew. She knew! Not just that we're close, but that we're together! I know she knew, because that look in her eyes told me she knew how paranoid it would make me. She knew that I would understand why she was bringing it up, and she knew that I would start doubting everyone! Zach clenched his teeth harder and then hissed at the two behind him who opened their eyes even wider. Zach spoke as fast as he could and did not wait for a response from his shocked classmates before turning and running out the door, Bakugo and Midoriya sprinting out after him.
What is Zach talking about? Who would warn Toga?! Wait, how, how did Toga know? Midoriya's face covered in sweat and he looked at his black-haired friend's back nervously at what Zach was suggesting. They ran through the hallway outside the nurse's office and Bakugo snapped at Zach instead of reaching for his buzzing phone, "What was the message you sent?"
"We can't trust anyone who looks like someone from our class. I told everyone that Recovery Girl was Toga and they need to get in their rooms and not trust anyone."
In the Class A dorms, Tenya Iida stared down at his phone and dropped his jaw. He snapped out of his desk chair and away from his homework and sped for the door of his room. He reached out for the doorknob and then froze, his eyes wide and his hand shaking. Who would believe that I am me?! I, I must get everyone else in their rooms though! As the class rep… Iida threw his door open and turned on his Engines at the same time. Zach! I believe that this is the right call! "Everyone! Stay or return to your rooms immediately!"
The front door of Class A's dorm building threw open while a group of four were getting off of the common room couches. They spun towards the door and a few of them relaxed at the sight of two classmates running in. Sato and Kirishima ran inside, but only Aoyama and Sero relaxed. Tsuyu narrowed her eyes for a second and then glanced at Tokoyami next to her. Her long tongue fell out of her mouth and she let it hang halfway down her body, but then she pulled it back and got an even deeper frown on her face. How does Toga's power work? We don't know for sure. Tsuyu looked towards Kirishima and Sato hesitantly, and she asked, "Were you two together, while you were out?"
"What do you mean?" Sato called over as he was panting and running a hand up through his hair. "We just ran into each other outside after getting…" Sato trailed off and he looked at Kirishima again who turned back to him with as wide of eyes. Their wide eyes then narrowed, only for both of them to get more hurt and hesitant looks as they did not want to doubt each other or see that doubt directed towards them.
"S-S-So you two were each alone?" Mineta asked, and the group in the common area turned to the boy who had gone to the bathroom not that long ago.
Or was it a long time? Sero thought while giving Mineta a nervous look, and the purple-ball-haired boy holding up his phone with a scared look on his face leaned back at the look all his classmates just gave him. "I haven't even gone yet!" Mineta exclaimed.
"Everyone," Tsuyu started. "Let's go to our rooms, and lock the doors."
"I want to go find Toga though!" Kirishima shouted while spinning to Tsuyu. "If we're all together then we can make sure that none of us are-"
"How can we be sure that none of us already aren't her?" Tokoyami questioned, and he started jogging for the stairs. "I do not want to suspect any of you, but we must be careful."
Tsuyu nodded in agreement and called out at the others to get back to their rooms so they could assume anyone not in their rooms is Toga. It's up to whoever has yet to give-
"Mineta!" a voice shouted from the stairwell where Tokoyami just pulled away. Momo Yaoyorozu just reached the bottom of the stairs, and she called towards the shortest boy in the class who was only one spot before her alphabetically. It was not yet her time to go to the nurse's office, and she still had enough time that she knew Mineta would have been there already had he given his blood. "Let us go!" Yaoyorozu called over, and she ran for the door while the others looked towards her in surprise.
"I," Mineta began. He gulped, then he nodded at the look Yaoyorozu glanced back towards him. She smiled at his nod and he ran faster as for some reason she wanted him to come with her. "Be careful you two," Tsuyu said as Mineta ran by, though she glanced towards Yaoyorozu after saying it. "Zach-chan already came back from his turn before. He seemed in a rush when he left again, in his costume."
Yaoyorozu's eyes opened wide, and Mineta spun towards the frog-girl who started for the staircase with the others. Sero was arguing with Kirishima who started grinding his sharp teeth but agreed with the others in the class. Only Tokoyami and Sero had also seen Zach wearing his costume when he headed out as they had just returned from their physicals not long before and went to sit in the common room for a bit together. At what Tsuyu said, the two of them spun back towards her only to see a scared look on the short girl's face. "If you two go to help them, stick together. Do not trust anyone. I want to help you-"
But we don't know if that's true, or if you're Toga just trying to get us to ask you to come along, Yaoyorozu thought while giving Tsuyu a small nod. Mineta opened his mouth to say something, but Yaoyorozu turned and said quickly to him, "We must go now. Stay together at all times," she repeated what Tsuyu said as she knew if the two of them split up for even a moment, the doubt would always be there that the other was no longer who they said they were.
"Damn it! Go get her!" Kirishima shouted at them.
"Everyone! Get to your rooms!" Iida shouted, sprinting down the stairs with his Engines on.
"Hey wait, if we're using our Quirks," Kirishima began.
"She could recreate them too, maybe, or maybe not," Sero said, grabbing Kirishima by the arm and tugging towards the stairs. I remember that class earlier last term going over all the most wanted villains, over their Quirks and stuff. What did we know about Toga besides being able to use blood to transform into people? Sero rubbed the side of his head but then just shook it around and ran up the stairs faster. I've gotta get to my room. Anyone around me… His eyes widened and he started running faster than Kirishima who glanced at him confusedly for a second before going wider-eyed himself and slowing down as Sero darted a look back. Sero wished he did not just look at Kirishima like that, but he still thought afterwards, Time to bar the door!
Todoroki frowned where he stood on the street between U.A.'s main school building and the dorms. He glanced behind him and saw a girl with no visible body showing and only her clothes running towards him. He looked at her cautiously, and the invisible girl skid to a stop and stared at him with huge eyes or so he imagined she might be. Hagakure stared at a classmate all on his own standing there in the road, and Todoroki looked at the girl running the direction of the dorm where the rest of Class A were. He opened his mouth to say something to her, only to see Hagakure's right shoe slide back on the floor. He froze with his mouth open, and then he just turned around and started jogging for the dorm himself. This is a precarious situation. I gave Recovery- I gave Himiko Toga my blood without thinking anything of it. That was foolish.
"W-Wait!" Hagakure called out and started running after Todoroki. Todoroki frowned and did not know what to do about this. Whether or not Toga could copy Hagakure's Invisibility was unknown to him. He glanced back towards her, only for his eyes to widen as he heard, "If you're Toga, don't go near our dorm!" How does she think I would react if I was Toga? Or is this Toga trying to put me off guard? Does Toga know that Zach sent that message out to everyone?
Yaoyorozu and Mineta were running down the road from Class A's dorm in Alliance Heights, but they stopped talking about what they were going to do when they reached the school and just stared ahead at the two they saw jogging their direction with a large gap between them. Mineta and Yaoyorozu moved together to the right side of the road, and they kept running while turning their heads slightly and watching the others run by on their lefts. The doubt and fear covering Mineta's face, the hesitation to doubt yet caution despite it on Yaoyorozu's, Todoroki's understanding look at the two who had yet to get their blood taken, and Hagakure's confused shout at them. "Just get to your room," Yaoyorozu told the invisible girl who hummed in agreement and kept running, deciding not to argue about it.
Inside of the main U.A. school building, Bakugo, Midoriya, and Zach all ran down a hallway together on the first floor. Bakugo was a few feet to the right of the other two, an annoyed look on his face as he snapped back at Zach, "She never took my blood, so you don't need to worry about that. I'm splitting up-"
"And what if she takes your blood while you're gone, and you come back to us saying you've found her just to lead us into a trap?" Zach yelled in frustration.
"She won't get me," Bakugo snapped. He blasted miniature explosions from his hands, then he snapped his head to the end of the hall where he saw someone going past the intersection. The kid was wearing a blue gym uniform, he looked younger than them, and when he looked down the hallway in their direction and saw them charging his way he turned and ran the other direction. "OI!" Bakugo shouted, blasting explosions behind him and flying to the end of the hall. He shot after the kid who looked back in terror at Bakugo's furious expression, and then the kid let out a yell of panic as Bakugo tackled him to the ground. "Who are you?" Bakugo snapped while holding the kid down.
"Someone help me!" The boy yelled, something Bakugo figured Toga probably wouldn't. He jumped off of the kid's back and spun his head around looking for the real villain.
Midoriya and Zach spun around the corner to see the kid Bakugo tackled scrambling away from him and then sprinting as fast as he could for safety. "How do you know that's not her?" Zach asked, his bloody right hand wrapped around a knife hilt and his left dripping blood to the hallway floor next to him.
"It's not," Bakugo growled. "But she is getting away."
"We can't let her get off U.A. campus with all our blood," Midoriya said. His face had sweat all over it as he imagined the kind of damage Toga could do with all of it. "After all the news has covered about us recently. If U.A. Class 2-A were to start going around being villains-"
"It's not about that," Zach snapped. Midoriya turned to him and saw Zach's hands shaking at his sides, though he could not tell if his left was in anger or because the blood loss was starting to get to him. He wanted to mention something about it, but instead he just stared at Zach with wider eyes as the shorter black-haired boy snarled, "We have to catch Toga. She's insane. A murderous psychopathic bitch. She kills people and excuses her actions by saying it's because she wants to be free, and we need to stop her right here. She's dangerous, but you're right. We can't let her get away." Zach ground his teeth and darted his eyes back and forth at the other two. He spun and called out, "Split up! We'll use our class rep and vice rep's name as a signal for if it's really each other when we see each other again." Zach started sprinting back the way he came, ignoring what he had said about sticking together only half a minute ago.
Toga, Zach thought, his eyes narrowing and his teeth clenching so hard behind his pursed lips. The principal should stop anyone from getting off campus. Where the fuck are you?
Zach, it's like, you've planned for her to come all along, Midoriya thought, while glancing once more at Bakugo. He turned and started running off, and he used Full Cowling to send himself flying down the hallway much faster.
Bakugo growled to himself and glanced over his own shoulder the direction the random kid had run off. Was I too quick to- Damn it! How the fuck do we know?! Bakugo blasted explosions behind him and sent himself flying down the hall, then he pointed his left hand out to turn himself at the next intersection.
"Hey! No using your Quirk in the halls like-" a third-year hero course student started calling after Bakugo. Bakugo turned and glared back towards the older boy who lowered his hand with a confused expression at Bakugo's glare. He was the other direction in the intersection Bakugo just turned down without hesitating, and Bakugo frowned that the person would call him out which made him think it probably was not Toga. He froze though and his eyes opened wide as he looked past that guy, all the way down the hall where he spotted someone walking.
Bakugo spun around and blasted explosions behind him to fly the other way. He landed down and started sprinting down the hall. His eyes narrowed and glared forward towards someone he had seen still inside the main campus building when he arrived for his physical a half an hour ago. The boy he glared at started turning towards him, a teen with half white hair and half red who had a burn scar covering half of his face. "Bakugo," Todoroki said, his voice calm and his eyebrows just lifting up a bit as his expression stayed the same.
Bakugo glared harder at the teen he was sprinting towards, while the upperclassman turning to watch Bakugo run by got an angrier look in his eyes and shook his head once. The older teen lifted up his arms that started to transform into waving black appendages that extended after Bakugo. "You are clearly distressed," the upperclassman called to a very famously angry student who was using his Quirk in unsettling ways.
Bakugo blasted explosions behind him to shoot up in the air, making Todoroki open his eyes wide and spin fully to Bakugo. "What are you-"
"Defend yourself!" Bakugo shouted at his classmate whose eyes opened much wider as Bakugo brought his clenched right hand back behind him. He was moving faster than the black extending limbs coming after him, and the upperclassman started chasing after Bakugo who had a huge smirk on his face but also sweat dripping down it.
Then the boy with a burn scar on his face leaned back. He pulled back confusedly and started to lift his right hand as if to create ice to block Bakugo. Bakugo's eyes widened and his fist loosened. Then the foot that Todoroki was stepping back kicked off the floor it touched. He shot towards Bakugo, pressing his right palm into Bakugo's face that was filling with shock as he really started to believe that it was Todoroki in front of him until he saw those acrobatic movements. Todoroki smirked wildly as he pulled Bakugo's body down with one hand, swiping in towards Bakugo's throat with his other hand that was holding a knife. The long black appendages coming after Bakugo froze in midair as the older teen saw a knife in Todoroki's hand slashing at Bakugo's throat, but then Bakugo's opening fist blew up in an explosion on the same side Todoroki was moving past him, blowing Bakugo one way and the boy trying to slash him the other.
Toga released the knife in her hand and it slashed across Bakugo's neck anyway with the extra few inches she flicked into it that Bakugo almost pulled away from. Bakugo rose a hand up to his neck fast as he felt the slash, but it was as shallow as he thought and he used his other hand and both legs to land before pointing his bloody hand forward to blast Toga. His eyes shot open huge though as he darted them around, because Toga was not in front of him. He spun towards the older boy whose long black arms were extended down the hall, and he caught a glimpse of movement darting by the guy. The older hero student himself turned his head in and his eyes opened huge, but then his torso pulled to the side turning black and elastic to dodge the knife slash a melting Todoroki tried getting him with.
"Get back here!" Bakugo shouted, snarling and getting up to sprint after her.
A few hallways away, Zach leaned back out of the cafeteria as he heard Bakugo shout louder than any of his explosions had been. The explosions could have just been Bakugo moving faster around the halls but that shout was a clear sign. Zach started running back down the hallway, only to see two taller people run around a corner and spin his way. The two teachers gawked at Zach who wore his white hero costume with blood on his hands and all over his left arm. Zach grimaced at the sight of the two of them, then as Present Mic and Midnight opened their mouths to call over to him, Zach did first, "Toga's in the school. She replaced Recovery Girl and has all our blood."
Zach turned down the next corner and he started running down it, ignoring the calls from the teachers he just saw who started calling out different things as he ran away from them. Who else's blood does she have? It could be literally anyone. Only a few people I can trust.
Midnight grabbed Mic by the arm as he tried to run after Sazaki. "Hold on," Midnight said, realizing why it was the boy was so quick to run instead of get their help. I've been with Mic since school ended, while Recovery Girl was doing the physicals. "We stick together. I'm calling the Principal." Midnight pulled out her phone and called up Principal Nezu, and she put the phone on speaker as she held it up for her and Mic. The two of them opened their eyes wide as the pre-informed principal started talking, and they looked at each other with serious looks of dread before telling the principal they understood.
Midoriya pulled out his phone and glanced down at the screen for a second as he received more texts. He thought they would all be from his classmates in Class A, but he stared at a message from the principal sent out specifically to Class A that made him frown and purse his lips in frustration. I can't go back to my room. I didn't see this message. Midoriya put his phone away and then continued down the hall, thinking on what Zach told him and Bakugo right before they left the nurse's office. I hope this works.
Zach ran down a hallway after seeing Bakugo for a second and splitting up again, and he sprinted down it to a staircase that he ran into to get up to the next floor. Principal Nezu will handle logistics. We can't let Toga escape. He'll keep her inside. He'll also be careful not to let this be public though. Hopefully he's already sent out the message… Zach exited the stairwell and stared forward with his eyes opening wide as he saw Midoriya running towards him. "Still haven't found her yet? Iida." He added the class rep's name in a lower voice after his question.
"No. Yaoyorozu," Midoriya added in a quieter voice. "She could be anyone," Midoriya said, an intense look on his face despite a bead of sweat dripping down it. Zach stopped outside the stairwell and looked left and right to his sides instead of straight ahead where Midoriya was coming from. Midoriya saw Zach's indecisive look and started as he neared him, "You go left, I'll go to the right-"
Zach flicked his knife at the boy running towards him who was so close that even with her amazing reflexes, Toga did not pull away fast enough to avoid the slash across her right side through the green t-shirt she had on. "How do you keep doing that?" Toga snapped, a pout on Midoriya's face that showed who she really was.
"Don't answer each other if we split up. I ask Midoriya, Midoriya asks Bakugo, Bakugo asks me." The plan Zach came up with a second before running out of the nurse's office was hastily made, and he ran out immediately after hissing it since they were pressed for time and had no room for argument. Neither of the others said anything about it as they ran down the hall though, and they had talked loudly about what their "plan" would be once they were out in the open because it would raise suspicion if they just split up without one and Toga happened to be listening.
Zach did not reply to Toga as she asked him how he knew though, did not taunt her in a smug way about his plan as it would still be in action if she escaped and now he knew she did not know about it. Zach just glanced quickly down at the wound on her side, then he ran at her without a word. Knives appeared in Midoriya's hands from seemingly out of nowhere. Zach wondered if maybe they had been taped behind his arms where he could not see the whole time or even hidden under the fake skin Toga had covering her. Either way, Toga ran at him and threw a knife while tossing the other up in the air. Zach had to pull to the side to dodge the throwing knife, and his attention was brought to the other he thought she might jump up and grab or throw down at him, or even throw another knife into to bounce it his direction.
"The hardest part is clearing your mind, and the trick is not to think of training as training, right Toga?" Zach called out, then he cleared his mind and vanished. He did it because the girl in front of him just did the same thing when he took his eyes off for a second. Toga erased her presence and got behind Zach, but he spun around towards her and ducked down with his body and mind completely focused on her. Calling out her own words against her did not make her release her focus like it seemed like Zach hoped it would. He did not expect it to though, and only made it seem like that was what he was going for to make Toga more confident about going for his unprotected back. His eyes locked on her yellow ones with their thin black irises staring back in his from a foot away.
Zach reached his right hand to his body and pressed his palm into his chest with his fingers sliding out of the glove. Toga's eyes opened huge as a black veil flashed over Zach's body, halting her momentum as she had thought he was not going to try and use Nightmare on him. As she was pulling back though against her own momentum, Zach's black aura faded just as fast as it had started to appear over him as he had tapped again on his body right before pulling his hand off. He had done it so fast and inside of the black veil covering both his hand and his chest that Toga did not see the second tap in rapid succession, but Zach knew exactly how long it would take for the veil to fade after he tapped the second time.
Zach slashed towards Toga but she got too far from him before he could cut her. The two of them faced each other, and Zach opened his mouth to ask the most important question he had at her. He knew what he had to ask, what mattered the most in the moment. His lips shook when he opened his mouth though. They trembled as he tried to get the question out, then he snapped in a choked-off voice, "Who was it?" Toga got a confused look on her face for a second, and then her eyes widened as Zach hissed, "Who gave you her blood? Which of them was it?"
Toga frowned at Zach for a second. He saw a split second of just a frown on her face, a dark look in her eyes that looked more sad than anything. Then her smirk was back and she said, "You already know. You really think he would have done that to you?" Zach's whole body shook at that answer and his left arm moved fast to his side while Toga rose up a knife.
He fired his grappling hook at her and threw the gun forward at the same time. She slashed down into the wire of the hook, then the gun slammed into her chest and distracted her for a brief moment. Zach tossed a knife up towards her head but just a little over the green curls, and Midoriya's body started to melt at the same time. Don't let her get away and turn into someone else. Zach threw a knife faster at Toga's face, though at the side of it to make her dodge beneath where he had thrown the first knife a little off target from her, preventing her from leaping up in the air and backwards as that would be in the path of the first knife. She did not lean away when he threw at the side of her face though, but instead brought up a hand fast and caught the weapon by the hilt when the blade was centimeters from hitting her face. Zach moved towards her while reaching up and catching a knife she had tossed, while his grappling gun that had hit her body dropped to the floor in front of her right foot. Toga flicked a knife at Zach while spinning the one she just caught around, and she slashed it into the knife he threw back at her while at the same time kicking his white grappling gun up towards his head.
Zach pulled his head to the side and then snapped it backwards to dodge a blade flying at his face. The blade passed an inch over his nose and flew by his eyes, then Zach snapped his head up as fast as he could and then spun it to the right at the girl trying to disappear and get behind him. He drew a knife and slashed at her while she pounced like a cat at him, the rest of Midoriya's body falling off of her so she looked like Himiko Toga once more. She pushed her face close to Zach's as they clashed blades, and a huge crazed smirk spread over hers while she drew a second knife and stabbed up for Zach's gut. Zach slammed his forehead forward over where they were already parrying blades before her second knife would reach him though, and he headbutted strong enough to make her stumble back and miss the slash of her knife. The very tip scraped across the front of his white costume but did not pierce through the material.
Toga reached up and grabbed her nose that just splashed blood out, then she lowered her hand and gave Zach a crazed look while blood trails came out of her nostril and down over her mouth. "Isn't this fun?" Toga asked, tilting her head to the side and staring into Zach's eyes with a crazy look he knew very well. "Reaper?" Toga added, and she widened her eyes more at his expression she had seen earlier too for a moment. Toga leaned her head back with a growing smile, "Hehe, you don't like hearing that name anymore? You didn't seem to mind it during all the fun times we had together in Bangkok."
"I didn't even know where we were," Zach growled. He pulled out two knives and twisted them around in his grasp, while Toga lifted up one and held it sideways in front of her, then turned it the other way while making a small circle around him. Zach turned with her in that circle, though his eyes darted to the stairwell for a brief second as he saw Toga had done the same a couple of seconds back.
"Didn't you enjoy torturing those people?" Toga asked.
"I never did," Zach snarled back quickly, then he sprinted at the girl who was talking too much. She jumped backwards away from him, flipped in midair and pressed her feet on the ceiling. She sprang down towards Zach and got so close that a charging Bakugo with a thin slash on the right side of his neck had to stop because he could not use an explosion that close to Zach. He pushed himself to the side instead, while Zach slashed both blades up at Toga and she pushed into them with only her one but with a lot of momentum from pushing off the ceiling. Toga swung her legs up over Zach's head, but he let go of one knife and reached up, grabbing her by her hair and then slamming down behind himself while her blade slid past the only knife he was using to hold her back, cutting through his left glove and into his palm. It was something he knew would happen but a sacrifice he was willing to take.
Blood splashed from Zach's palm, but he slammed Toga into the floor by her head and pressed her face into the floor. Toga let out a yelp of pain, and Zach dropped down a knee on her spine while reaching his left arm down and grabbing by the left arm she used to try and push herself up. Zach pulled that arm out from under her to make her face slam into the ground yet again, and he yanked it behind her body. Then he grabbed her right arm with his right hand while pushing his entire weight down on her back and trapping her legs between his behind him. Blood from Zach's arm dripped down onto Toga's left that he had in an arm-bar pressed into her back, while Zach just gripped her right arm tightly. "I wouldn't struggle to get your right arm out," Zach said. He leaned his head down next to her face and continued while tugging her left arm harder in a way that made her yelp in more pain, "You know what might happen."
Toga did not try to pull her right arm away, as any struggle with it could accidentally slide Zach's fingers out of his glove. They both knew it, though Zach warned her in case she forgot. He tugged harder on her left arm though, and she was not in a position at all to escape it. The more he pulled too, the more pain she was in and it was already extremely painful. "Where is Recovery Girl?" Zach asked.
"Hehehe," Toga laughed madly. "Now isn't this exactly like Bangkok, Reaper- AH!"
"I'm not playing games," Zach snarled, baring his teeth and pushing more weight down on Toga's back, pulling her left arm even harder and even adding pressure on his right hand like his fingers would be coming out of his glove soon.
"Oi Zach," Bakugo started.
"If Toga doesn't return, they might kill her," Zach said. He never looked away and continued while tilting his head to look in at Toga's face a bit, while she glanced left to look at his. "But my guess is, their plan was to take our blood without anyone finding out they did it. In which case they probably have a way to make Recovery Girl forget or just remember the past day like she was really here. Toga having our blood without anyone knowing would be a hundred times more useful than if everyone knew she had it." Zach leaned his head closer to Toga, and he ground his teeth for a second as he hated that he figured that out so quickly as much as he knew it might help. He hated what he was about to do a lot more though, but he curled up the corners of his lips as he said, "Toga, I bet you don't know what happened to Stain after he left."
The girl smirking back at Zach with lips covered in blood from her heavily bleeding nose lost her smile. She stared at him with widening eyes, and Zach continued in a smug and knowing voice, "Breakneck told me all about it. Did you know he found Stain again after he left you guys? He knew exactly, what happened to him."
"What do you mean?! What happened to- EEE!" Zach yanked her left arm harder and made her scream in pain, and Bakugo darted his eyes around as he spotted others running towards the area. Midnight and Present Mic were both reaching the top of the stairs, and there were others coming up behind them to the second floor.
"Tell me where Recovery Girl is first," Zach said. "I promise I'll tell you exactly what happened to him."
Toga's eyes shook as she looked into Zach's. He lowered his smirk at the desperate look in her eyes, his face actually softening though he kept his hold on her just as strong. It took all of Zach's restraint not to bare his teeth or anything, and he just nodded at her in a serious way to tell her he would follow through with that promise. Toga pursed her shaking lips then spurted out, "The old bag's on the second floor of an apartment on Kato St. and 7th! What happened to Stain-san?!"
"Are there other villains with her?" Zach snapped, not responding to her question and just growling another one at her.
"Just the Memory Maker! Now where-"
"I'm getting out my phone, I have Breakneck's recording on it," Zach reached his right hand up, letting go of Toga's right arm. The girl below him started moving her right arm but hesitated, because she wanted to know what it was he knew about Stain that she did not. Then she saw darkness on her left side, as Zach touched his body with his right hand and covered himself in darkness. Zach was already pressing down on Toga's body with his own, so even though she tried to struggle hard after she saw the darkness, her right arm barely lifted off the ground before dropping back to her side. The darkness faded from Zach's body a second after he had activated it, doing almost as quick a double-tap as he had during their fight.
Zach panted while kneeling on top of an unconscious Himiko Toga. He stared down at her back, and he thought about how they used the same moves while they fought. "…But people will try and counter it with this…" You showed me blocks for the counters, but at the same time you needed to know those blocks because those counters work sometimes. You were telling me what the best moves to beat you were when I was asking how to make sure the moves worked. Flipping over me, it was a good counter, but I already knew I was going to grab your hair if you tried it, because I've been planning our fight since I met you.
Zach kept panting but lifted his head up a bit and looked past Bakugo at the two teachers at the top of the steps. And Zach saw a couple of students there too. The sight of the two of them made him feel a pit of dread in his chest, and he locked eyes with the tall girl looking towards him where he sat spread over Toga's body. Zach started getting up to his feet, and he tore his eyes off of his girlfriend to look at Midnight who was the closer of the two teacher's to him. "Did you hear-"
"Yeah," Midnight replied, and she shook her head before quickly pulling her phone out. She lifted it and called up the principal fast, and the others around started walking towards Zach and Toga. Bakugo was already standing only a couple of feet away, staring frustratedly down at the girl who had gotten away from him downstairs. After glaring at her for a few more seconds though, Bakugo's dark eyes started lifting and focused on Zach with an angry look in them.
Present Mic turned to Midnight who motioned for him to come towards her where she stood talking to the principal, while Mineta and Yaoyorozu jogged out of the staircase and towards Zach and Bakugo. Zach stood in front of his spiky-haired classmate who took a step towards him and with a dark glare in his eyes said, "What the fuck was she talking about, Reaper?"
Another boy who had just come towards the sound of the commotion froze in the intersection a few feet from Mineta and Yaoyorozu. Midoriya noticed Yaoyorozu's eyes open wide too, then he looked down to the unconscious girl next to Zach who had a small blood puddle beneath her face that had been slammed into the ground a few times there. Zach turned his gaze towards the other three who just heard Bakugo say that, then he looked back at Bakugo with a look turning nervous for a second but then freezing. He took in a quick but deep breath, then he lowered his eyes to Toga and thought about what she had talked about.
For a second Zach thought about the look in her eyes after a question he asked before, but he ground his teeth and snarled as he heard the name of the girl not far from him echo in his head in Toga's voice. Then he thought about what Toga had responded with after she had made the face that made his chest hurt, and he felt it churn around even more violently. You, you and D- and all of you. Bangkok. Was that where we… I thought we were in Japan that night when- then maybe she was talking about another night, the one it was just me and her. Either way.
Zach rose his eyes to Bakugo's again, then he muttered, "You really want to know?" I can't just let Bakugo think… No, that's not even it. Zach's chest pounded even harder, and he glanced towards Yaoyorozu again and then Midoriya who was looking at him cautiously and glancing at Toga and then Bakugo wondering what she could have said. Bakugo glared harder at Zach as a response, and Zach nodded once in acceptance. Bakugo's not a close friend, neither is Mineta if he's going to stay here, but, Zach glanced around and then muttered in a low voice, "I'll tell you now, and if you want to tell the cops when they come to investigate this, go right ahead." Zach did not know what was going to happen from then on. His heart was racing, but his chest was full of swirling emotions that were making him feel like he was collapsing.
How did Toga know? Why did she look at me like that? She, she made it clear it was Kurogiri who… And, and I lied so easily about Stain to her. I tortured- that was just interrogation, because if she doesn't return soon the others' orders might be to kill Recovery Girl. That makes it alright! I was right too about what I thought was going to happen, considering the name of that villain she mentioned. I think so much like them. I knew what the plan was, I, I had considered it was going to happen even before today, which is why I didn't tell anyone when I suspected Recovery Girl was… because I thought I was being stupid. I really, really thought I was just trying to confirm my own suspicions, but I saw it coming. I really saw this coming. I knew because I wasn't just bringing people back. I was Reaper. I, I saw how the League got information out of people long before I was ever… and because I didn't stop those things, I deserved them done back to me. Didn't I? I did. Because I enjoyed it. Toga was right. I, I tried forgetting all it. I wanted to just let those memories be repressed, even though they never really was. I was just ignoring them. Ignoring the way I felt before VTS.
And, and if I have to face that now- no! NO! Things were going so great! Things are going great! If I explain, if I just explain it to them. They'll forgive me, right? If, if I tell them what I did? What I really did, when I was with the villains? Zach stared around at his classmates with him, and then he said in a soft voice, "Let's go in a room."
A/N Thanks for reading.
Shade11224 chapter 83 . Sep 28
The beginning was a bit confusing, but the ending was really nice. Please don't kill momozaki, it's legitimately the only ship I've ever been emotionally invested in.
Hope the start of this one didn't confuse you too (it was "Recovery Girl" talking in those individual quote lines foreshadowing where Zach was going). Also in case you didn't figure it out, it was a nightmare Zach was happening that last chapter. Glad you're invested in this ship... let's hope it don't sink. XD Thanks for the review!
TheCarlosInferno chapter 83 . Sep 28
So, the promised hour is near?
Promised hour? Good sir I have no clue what you mean. But... predictions welcome! XD Thanks for reviewing!
Ma boi chapter 83 . Sep 28
Congrats you now have 500 reviews
Yo ma Boi! Thanks! Glad to hit that milestone, don't think I ever reached it before in a story so it's pretty exciting!
Momozaki chapter 83 . Sep 28
I like how you incorporated the manga tag team battles in this story! Damn you just know how to make things interesting
You scared me at the start...troll
*Puts hands together*
Please be fluff next chapter
No death
No pain
Not yet pleeaaase
Thanks! A lot of good ol' school stuff mixed with fluff! It was a nice couple of chapters... XP glad the nightmare scared u! Hope you enjoyed!
Guest chapter 83 . Sep 28
Oh my God this was perfect, honestly 10 out of 10 and the thing is it was not that much at action packed but still I don't know why but somehow this is one of my favorite chapters, it was just nice seeing them acting like teenagers joking around teasing each other Zack panicking over the date and Momo understanding letting him explain when the time is right perfectly Man I don't know how but this is one of my favorite chapters now. I just remembered about the dream part and thenI remembered does he still go to therapy with softy? Oh and let's not forget stalker girl I don't know why Ifeel bad for and at the same time kind of creeped out let's see where this road goes to hope you keep this great content up. Sorry if this review is too long just wanted to write it all out.
Thank you! Really glad you guys enjoyed the last chapter. I was worried I was just putting too much in as filler but yeah I think it worked out well too. Yeah he's still meeting with Softy, or at least we haven't seen him say anything otherwise. I just haven't been putting in his therapy sessions much, though he still thinks about her pretty often. Like earlier this chapter he thought before cutting himself about how Softy had asked him once- but I digress. Glad you're interested in stalker chick, we'll def see some more of her! And thanks for the long review, glad you've been into the story, and hope you enjoyed the new chapter!
gods-own chapter 83 . 12h ago
good stuff
Thanks
Frostbrett chapter 83 . 8h ago
OMFG AMAZING I'M FINALLY CAUGHT UP FROM THE EDGY DARKNESS THAT WAS THE APOCALYPSE MINI ARCH THE CUTENESS ITS SO CUTE I'M GONNA DO IT OwO OwO OWO OWO OWO OWO OWO OWO OWO I'VE DONE IT I OWO'D ya
A nice tense arc of villain fights and darkness... followed by a good 3 fluffy chapters in a row. Breakin' the chain now though... I hope y'all enjoyed the chapter. Thanks for reviewing!