After the debate on who is more cute (I am the cutest! – Theresa), all of them settle down in their seats then Theresa explains with a serious look.
"The world isn't what it seems like. Since a long time ago, we have been waging a secret war against the Honkai, alien lifeforms that are hell bent on eradicating us. A virus that turns people into zombie, monsters that conventional firearms have minimal to outright negation… And Herrscher, humans that were turned into puppets of mass destruction due to the despair they felt, almost what happened to that girl, are few ways that they are doing and succeeding." She points to Mei, who looks down with her hands gripping her new outfit, a red and black dress with a brown top, red sleeves, black gloves, yellow, black and red thigh highs and black and red shoes.
He widens his eyes then glances at Mei, "Mei… Were you –"
Theresa chimes in, "Almost but she managed to turn back… Which brings us to the important question." She stares right into his eyes.
"What are you?"
Hachiman blinks before leaning closer to her from his couch in front of Theresa while he can see Mei and Kiana doing the same opposite of him, "What do you mean by that…?"
"Just as I said. That girl was about to choke you to death but a blinding light suddenly came and when it went she was back to normal with no signs of Herrscher energy."
"Aunty I don't –" Kiana tries to dissuade Theresa, with Mei who had opened her mouth to help, but the latter glances at her with a glare.
"Kiana not now. We need to know how to turn more Herrscher to our side before it is too late."
This silences both of them, leaving them to only helplessly look at Hachiman, who had been silent with his eyes closed. He slowly opens his eyes before gazing at Theresa.
"I don't know."
Theresa blinks before narrowing her eyes even further, "Hachiman. There will be consequences if you keep lying."
"I already said I don't know. I only found out about all this crap, same with Kiana and Mei, when the school exploded then seeing Mei choke me. Those are the only things I can remember." He glares at her.
They continue their stand off until she closes her eyes then leans into her seat, "Just great. I was hoping that you had any clue."
"…Sorry?"
"No, you did nothing wrong. Hell I am the one that should be sorry for interrogating the hero who managed to revert a Herrscher back."
He points to himself, "Me? A hero?" He says with disbelief dripping from his words.
Theresa nods, "Yep. You managed to save us the trouble of fighting another Herrscher… Actually, you should meet the other person who helped Kiana here during the fight. Come in!"
"…More like the cause of it," Kiana silently mutters, though her word reach Hachiman, prompting him to look at her with a confused look. He soon turns his attention to the door as he hears it open.
"Excuse this Bronya." Bronya, wearing an indigo and red suit with an indigo dress on top, comes in and then bows, "I have received your message, Principal."
"Good. Now let me introduce you to Bronya Zaychik, the Valkyrie who was sent to kidnap Mei after she became a Herrscher, though that can't happen now since the Herrscher energy is nowhere to be found in Mei."
Theresa sighs with a tired look, "And now a Valkyrie student here because she has something to find."
Kiana jumps to her feet, "Objection! This midget was the one who almost killed us!" She turns to glare at Bronya, "You haven't explained how did Mei lose control like that."
Mei slowly stands up as she places her hand on Kiana's shoulder, feeling the slickness of her white bodysuit that has splashes of orange and black scattered along it, "Kiana… You should know that I lost control myself when our… Classmates surrounded me… My former friends betraying me… I remembered feeling so much hatred and despair that I wanted to… Lash out at everybody."
Kiana puts her hand on Mei's and gives it a light squeeze, "I know…! But, something must have been influencing you! I know that you are strong enough to handle all of that, so… So something must have influenced you!"
Hachiman nods in agreement, though he glances at Bronya's leg, "I agree with Kiana, Mei. I will repay your trust by saying that the Mei I know wouldn't drown in the hate of other people."
Mei blinks then laughs while tears leak out, "Haha-Hachiman, you're, you're the only one who, who would repay a friend's trust like this, even when you shouldn't."
He shrugs, "I have absolutely no clue on how to treat my… Friends. So, I'll be repaying you for everything you have done." He smirks at her, though Kiana slightly cringes.
"No. Just no, Hachiman. You look like those villains who died but got the final laugh in the end, so they smirk in satisfaction. Your fisheyes just amplify it even more."
"Oi. My eyes are just rich in vitamin D, you gorilla."
"Again! Hachiman! Language!"
Bronya blinks while watching the trio devolve into bantering, though they are smiling. She quietly walks over to Theresa, who is watching the spectacle while secretly filming them with her phone.
"Principal. Are you sure that this Bronya can bring Seele back if I finish my study here…?" She quietly asks without looking at her.
Theresa lightly shrugs, "That depends on your performance. I hope that you will work together with them with ease." She lightly gestures to them with her head.
"…This Bronya worries for her future."
"You and me both."
"I know!" Kiana grasps Hachiman's hand then gazes at him with a starry look, "Let's go play HOMU! Aunt Teri, can we go please? I want to show Hachiman the game that Schicksal has been keeping us from!" She looks at Theresa with a puppy dog face.
Theresa sighs before slightly smiling, "Fine you brats and take this as a semi-sorry from me for hiding you from your heritage all these years."
Kiana raises her and his hand up, "Yes! Come on you two!" She drags him out of the room, ignoring the complaints from him, while Mei awkwardly smiles and sweatdrops at the scene.
Mei turns to Theresa and bows, "Excuse us, Principal." Then leaves the room to catch up to them.
"Tada! This is the house me and Mei are staying in!" Kiana puts her hands to the side and proudly says. The trio are standing in front of a gray double-storey house that gives a humble yet expensive look, "And hopefully you also!"
Hachiman blinks before slowly turning to look at Kiana, "Which person's house did you rob?" He emotionessly says, prompting her to almost collapse to the pavement while Mei tries to hold in her giggle.
"Oi! How could you accuse me of robbing a house?! And no! I did not steal this house!"
"…Could have fooled me."
Kiana zooms over to him then lifts him up, "What was that? You want to go to space? No problem, I can send you there!"
"Please no. I can't breathe in space."
Mei openly laughs now as she looks at his blank face while she shakes him, "Oh god! Please-please, you two are killing me!" She wheezes out while sucking in air.
Kiana stops shaking him while he stops his poker face. They look at each other then the former lifts a fist to him, making him also raise a fist then fist-pump. All the while he is hovering in the air.
"Kiana let me down please."
"Nope. I'm going to hold you like this and show you around here while you were asleep! We even have a huge ass high-tech fridge with lots of food in it, a swimming pool at the back and a basement we can privately train!"
His eyes widen in alarm then he struggles to get out of her hold, "Oi, just let me go!" Seeing that his attempt fails, he turns to look at Mei, who is calming down, "Mei! Please help me!"
Mei smiles at him, making his heart speed up, "Enjoy yourself up there, Hachiman."
"You traitor!" He screams then disappears into the house, prompting Mei to laugh even more.
She slowly stops and looks up to the sky with her hands clasped and eyes closed.
"Please let this kind of happiness last." With that said, she slowly opens her eyes then follows them into the house.
*A...N*
Nothing to say. Now on to the comments!
Alt Zero - *thumbs up*
bluecookie420 - yeah, no. 2 main reasons for that. 1 - that would take time... Time that I really don't have, not to mention I would need to wait for the beta reader to get back to me then discussing on it. 2 - I really hope that you mean everything except for dialogue since those are intentional, so for my sake, I'll just assume so. Let me just say that, even though I am born in Malaysia and grew up here, I am a native-English-speaking guy. Grew up watching lots of English cartoons, played online games (counterstrike source then l4d) with English people, made few of my public school teachers tell me to go back to my country since they thought I came from overseas (those idiots), had some of my overseas friends (US and London) in discord telling me that I speak and write better than most people they know near them, and finished my IGCSE with English as a First Language and got an A for that subject. So, I can assure you that I am more than qualified to fix those mistakes but I really don't want to treat my fics as an essay, thank you.
I mean I can but that would be boring as hell to me. Making all of my sentences bloody perfect with flowery words that make me want to vomit like the essays I did before. My opinion on fics is that, you should make the dialogues not be perfect while the description is something that should make the readers understand while trying to use simple words. Also, why do I need to compete with others? I am already going a separate way from them, so I don't care enough to compare my writing styles with them.
FromBelow - If you're talking about the commas and points I use for dialogues, then I can assure you those are intentional. Also, yep, the potential is there but that would make me writing all of my fics boring as hell and tedious to write. Here's a Bronya you asked for
