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"Hello, I'm Sagimaru Sukuinote, you might of heard of me before. I'm the director of the company Helping Hands. Here at Helping Hands, we help young children get the life they deserve. A lot of children nowadays are without a home, and here at Helping Hands, we're not only helping with advancements of medicine and technology, but we're also looking out for the children who will inherit the future. Remember, we're here to lend a helping hand."
A delicate looking woman with silvery hair watched the ad play on TV before she shot a look at the window of the shabby apartment she had occupied. The advertisement was a standard Helping Hands ad with that catchy slogan of the 'lending a helping hand' variants.
She had just watched the old man walk through one of the children shelters, prompting people to give these children a chance, and seeing how much the company helped with its claims of medicine and technology advancements, it definitely had a voice in the world.
To a degree that is.
It wasn't some magical company that could interfere with everything. It was just a very well known company.
The woman stood, holding onto a mug as she glanced out of the window just as a police car went barrelling down the road, sirens blaring. Despite there being heroes, crime was still running rampant and police was still needed from time to time.
She continued her day as she took a sip from the mug. She had a few days to waste.
"Just a few days..."
The Guard Dog of Styx had charged immediately at the two prisoners as soon as Chikuha had tossed the spoon.
"Take that you dog looking bitch!" grinned Chikuha as the spoon exploded as soon as Shi had gotten closer towards the two, though the explosion wasn't that powerful enough to stop the jackal that was Styx's Cerberus.
This was Chikuha Ueno's quirk!
Timebomb: With a single touch, Chikuha can turn any object into a timed bomb and will explode after a set amount of time of her choosing, though longer timers require more energy but the bigger the object is will have much shorter timers as well as costing more energy.
"Ah fuck me..." Chikuha sweated as the jackal kept on her attack. She wasn't going to let up, so Chikuha began to run for the hills! "Just fuck off already!"
The only response she got in return was the snarls of an angry dog.
Demelza, who sat there like some sort of third wheel, panicked as the dog approached fast, quicker than she had imagined. The poor girl had to brace herself from the impact...but nothing came from it.
She had looked up to see the guard dog go after the bigger threat that was Chikuha. Shi jumped over a table as the bomber had backpedalled out of there, avoiding the grasp of Cerberus.
Chikuha looked down to her side and gripped onto the small piece of debris from the previous explosion. "I hope you can count to three!"
The jackal did nothing as the cornered prisoner threw the small piece of rubble at her and after three seconds, just as Chikuha said, a small explosion went off! She immediately got a move on once she noticed that the guard dog was busy with her vision...though it didn't stop her from using her nose...
"Gotta get a move on." she had glanced up to a wall before putting her hands against it. It was going to take a bit out of her, but she'd rather not be here. "Let's get out of here with a bang!"
After a few seconds with Shi right behind her, palm outstretched ready to grab the criminal, a large explosion engulfed the wall.
"Aaaah!" screamed the almost forgotten Demelza as she braced herself from the flying rubble.
Chikuha walked through the wall, covered in the dust from the explosion and nothing else. She was perfectly fine. "Fuck you, you dumb ass bitch." she grinned before she heard the rubble crumble and shift from the hole in the wall she made. "God fucking damn it!"
The guard nicknamed Cerberus dusted off her shoulder as she stepped forward, snarling at the prisoner while Demelza rubbed her eyes from the dust of the explosion as she coughed a little as she did.
"You just don't know when to give up, do you?" the bomber than pointed towards Demelza, who sat behind the guard. "There's another prisoner there you know."
Shi didn't even blink, her attention was solely on the prisoner in front of her. Chikuha had sent a glance over the guard dog, Styx's Cerberus wasn't immune to her explosions, but she was a tough one.
"Guess I have to make my next bomb even stronger!"
It was then Shi's endurance had shined through, as her hand clutched around the wrist of the timebomb quirk user and for the first time since her return to the prison, she spoke.
"Know your place." she snarled out, showing off those sharp canines.
So Chikuha opened her palm of the gripped wrist, revealing more pieces of debris as yet another explosion went off in the halls. The explosion went off causing a cloud of dust to appear and roll right on through, making it hard to see, though the sound of snarls and vulgar swears could be heard within said cloud of dust.
Meanwhile Demelza watched, frozen at what she saw. She had no idea what to think about this or what to feel for that manner, though her eyes were brighter than before.
Out of the cloud of dust caused from Chikuha's explosion, the jackal that was Shi walked out with Chikuha over her shoulder, though she come out unscathed like Chikuha was. Demelza was speechless.
"What...just happened?" She had just witnessed a guard tank an explosion as the bomber seemed more worn out than hurt.
Shi's eyes then locked onto Demelza, who shrunk under her gaze. She offered no resistance and she could of sworn time halted for a moment.
Demelza had wondered if the size of the objects lowered the effectiveness of Chikuha's bombs or if this Cerberus woman had developed some thick skin during her time as a guard of the prison, which was plausible, unless it was quirk related. Regardless, a bomb was a bomb, if she got hit with one, she would have it a lot worse than the guard dog, and those injuries were an indicator that she wasn't invisible.
Suddenly, guards ran onto the scene and before Demelza knew it, things started to move.
Chikuha groaned weakly from Shi's shoulder. "Fuck me...if I had more stronger explosions I would have won..." she cursed herself for entering close quarters combat with the jackal-headed woman. "I would have won if I kept exploding! DAMN IT!"
Shi glanced to the woman on her shoulder, she was glad she stopped her in time. Before Shi could think more about that, a guard ran up to her.
"Shi, you need to get medical attention, I'm surprised you're still standing after all those explosions!" said a guard as she tried to direct Shi to the infirmary with prisoner in hand. The guard dog didn't think it was that bad, just some minor wounds, though she might go just to clean up a little and be a bit more presentable. To Shi, the guard fretting over her was exaggerating. She had handled worse explosions than this, and that's probably what the other guard was thinking. So she shrugged as she shifted the prisoner on her shoulder.
Might as well take her too.
Remko looked up at the cell in front of him. "This is your cell or rather, your new home." said one of the guards. "You got yourself landed in the anti-quirk cells, congrats."
Remko rolled his eyes at the sarcasm before the guard had brought him outside. "Now go and mingle with the other prisoners or something."
The silver armed prisoner looked back towards the guard that had left him. "Oh, one last thing." the guard stopped, his tone had changed completely. "Don't expect to leave from Styx so easily."
That left Remko to his own devices...such as thinking about the tour of the prison he arrived at. Styx was a high security prison and the 'tour' he had been on to show him around just served to prove that escape was near impossible. Well, the guards said it was impossible, but Remko didn't like that thought at all and preferred to keep it in his mind as near impossible.
"I wasn't informed of any more new arrivals." came the sudden voice of Fumma Yoshitsune, who approached from behind, keeping some distance as he did.
"And just who are you?" Remko bitterly asked as he watched the older man stop a short distance away from him.
"The name's Fumma." he gave a little introduction to this new surprise convict as he now scratched his chin. "Hmm, you're alone?"
Remko frowned, ready to get into a defensive stance. "What of it?"
Fumma raised one of his gloved hands into the air, signalling for the new blood to calm down in a sense. "I didn't mean anything ill willed if that's what you were thinking. Just that this prison is home to some rather nasty criminals."
"And what? You're just going to offer me protection or some shit?"
Fumma sported a handsome smile. "My, you read my mine! In fact, I was going to offer you to join under me." Before Remko could even get a word out, Fumma spoke up once more. "Of course, I'm going to give you some time to think things over."
"...Right…"
After saying what needed to be said, Fumma turned around and began to leave while Remko kept his eyes on him.
"Tch." He still needed to have a look around the ward a bit more, but one thing was for sure. "The way he talked about it...it must be a decent sized group...and I doubt they'll just let me go free...whatever."
With that he was gone while a new pair of eyes had just observed the ending of the conversation, though what was said was lost on them.
"A new one?" thought Reiji Maeda as he had happened to stumble upon the scene. It was pure luck that he had stumbled across a meeting he knew far too well about. "I had no idea there was another new prisoner in the ward." He then shot a look behind him as he decided to continue walking.
To an onlooker it would have looked like he was spying on them, and he didn't really want to give that impression.
So he left.
"Demelza! Are you alright?!"
The masked girl had turned to see both Koneko and Nozomi running towards her. "A-Are you alright?" the cat girl looked over the newest addition to their small group.
"I'm fine..." silver eyed girl reassured as her eyes seemed a bit more colourful now. "Just, was surprised, that's all it was..."
Nozomi crossed her arms as she glanced to the ruined cafeteria wall. "Explosions?" when she saw Demelza nodded, she got a good understanding now as Koneko begun to help Demelza up. "Ah, Chikuha."
"Is this a common occurrence?" asked the so called fresh meat of the prison.
Koneko who had been helping Demelza, sent a look towards the hole in the wall. "I-I don't think it is."
"Sort of, depends on her mood at the time."
"That's reassuring..." she started to think she had bad luck when coming to this prison.
Nozomi then went over towards the pair. "Come on, it's not really the best to stay here." she sent a glanced towards one of the guards directing what seemed to be small little robots over to the rubble. "This isn't exactly the safest place."
Demelza had to agree as the trio went ahead and left the ruined cafeteria, only sending a look back to the debris, hoping that things calmed down for her.
"If this is regular…" she shook her head of the thoughts, best not to think about that.
Ashita leaned against the wall, waiting. "She'll be here any second..."
"Yo! Ashita! What the actual fuck!" cried out Chikuha as she stomped her way towards the woman after the scuffle that had happened with the guard dog. She was thankful that she didn't lose her privileges...this time, but the loss stung a little.
"Yes, Chikuha?" she responded calmly to the quite angry looking woman. "Is something the matter?"
"Is something the matter? Is something the fucking matter?! Of course there is!" Chikuha gripped onto a small rock she had picked up. "You said nothing about the dog returning!"
Ashita glanced down to the closed fist of the explosive woman. "If you plan on using your quirk, you'll lose valuable information." she looked back up, with a slight smile on her face. "Besides, you only asked about the new prisoners, nothing about guards or the return of the guard dog."
"HNN!" Chikuha chucked the rock somewhere to the side, just as it exploded. Fuck, she was right. Damn it! "You could've at least warn me!"
"Once again, you never asked so I never told you. Also, do you really believe you'd stop if I did tell you?"
The significantly less angry prisoner's eyes lingered on Ashita. "...No..."
"I think that solves everything then."
"It doesn't! It really doesn't!"
Ashita didn't have much time to spend at the moment now. "Now if you excuse me, I have someone else who wants some info to attend to."
"We aren't done here!" the explosive girl had gotten in front of the dyed haired girl. "Sure, I didn't ask but you could've given me a heads up or something?"
"You still didn't ask."
"AAAAAH!"
Falling to her knees in a dramatic way, Chikuha had screamed to the heavens.
"But if it makes you feel better, I got something new to add." added the info broker, causing Chikuha to stop immediately. "I see I got your attention. Seems there's a fourth one."
"Oh?" her eyes widened a little at the new information. "Tell me more."
Jin sat outside with David after he had personally met with Fumma. There was the whole strength in numbers that the group offered, though not all prisoners took that deal.
"So what's the catch?"
There had to be a catch to the situation. Fumma's group basically provided protection in the simplest form, his crew was essential for newbies like him to join, but after joining...then what? Become a lackey for the rest of your days in the prison? What about an out? Was it a permanent thing?
Jin had no idea, but there was also the fact that Fumma did nothing to warrant that he was to be trusted, sure he gave him some time to think about the offer, but what was that really? What was the catch?
"You okay, Jin?"
Jin looked up to see David shooting me a concerned look. "Ah, yeah I'm fine. Just thinking over some stuff."
"About Fumma's offer?" When Jin didn't even say a word at that, it became clear to David. "Ah, I see. Any thoughts about it?"
Jin glanced down a bit. "Unsure, really. It's a nice offer, but why?"
David crossed his arms, closing his eyes as he listened to Jin beginning to ramble out the offer. "Well, if you do consider taking it up, I would say to keep an eye out. Fumma seems to be more powerful than he lets on."
"Because of his crew?" Jin brought up, to which David shrugged.
"Hard to say, but that's probably it." mentioned the American. He had seen quite a few newbies that had joined Fumma's crew because of an unspoken rule to increase your chances of survival within the prison...then there were the prisoners who didn't care about that survival, as in the ones that killed those said newbies who thought they were truly protected cause they acted like they were the top dogs or invincible.
"Jin, if you do join, don't let the whole survival benefit get to your head." David said out of the blue. "I doubt it will protect you from everything if you do join it."
Jin nodded. He appreciated David's concern and advice, if he was to be honest, Jin wasn't expecting someone like David to help him out. He expected to be alone in Styx, so David's help was appreciated. "Don't worry David, I understand."
Akita watched as one of her girls had stopped her broadcast thanks to her quirk.
"It seems it was just Chikuha being Chikuha." came the voice of the woman sitting right next to her. "...and it seems the guard dog is back."
Upon saying that, most of the nearby women glanced cautiously at Akita. "Chikuha is always interesting in that regard," the smile on her face suddenly morphed into a slight frown. "Though she better be careful not to seriously harm my girls." It carried an odd motherly tone to it, and despite frowning at what Chikuha could of done, it held no real ill intent either.
No one said a word for a moment until Akita mumbled something under her breathe.
"That bitch..." it was just a low mumble that came from Akita, though this time it was directed towards the jackal as she held a rather annoyed look in her eyes. "She's like a brick wall."
Another woman coughed into her hand. "What should we do now?" she asked and only got a wave from the top bitch.
"Carry on as usual."
Then they scattered off, one by one, leaving Akita alone with her thoughts.
The sun shone down onto the courtyard as Sora swiped her brow. Currently the light bluish grey haired woman was wasting time with some of the outdoor gym equipment.
There wasn't much else to do.
"Ah, so it turns out I'm not the only one here." the voice that belonged only to Fushiko came from behind.
She immediately shot back, "no, really?"
"Man, the sarcasm was so thick I could use it to shield me from rain."
Sora rolled her eyes as she turned to see her fellow inmate. "You came here to kill time too?"
Fushiko shrugged with a smile as she went and sat down next to the tomboyish inmate. "Well, you can't kill time, it ends up killing you instead." She sported a grin that she shot towards the tomboy prisoner who rolled her eyes.
Sora then went to put down a small dumbbell next to the machine she was at. "Didn't really expect to see you come out here."
"Haha, I guess that's true, but it gets boring inside from time to time."
The boyish looking girl could agree with that, sometimes the prison was pretty quiet, at other times it was pretty hectic. Today seemed to be a much slower and quieter day.
"You going to join in?" she asked the taller woman with the flared bob haircut after a while as she gestured to the equipment around them.
Fushiko tilted her head in thought. "Nah, I'll just continue to talk with you for a little bit."
Sora sat down at another machine. "Suit yourself."
"Ah! Dahlia! It's been a while, hasn't it?" the elderly man that was Sagimaru Sukuinote smiled at the guard.
Dahlia was currently on duty as she turned to see the old man. "It has been a while."
"Haha, I see your hard at work."
The freckled guard kept her eyes on the old man. "You on your way out?" Sukuinote nodded at that. His business has come and gone, it was now time for him to return to his business and manage things there. "Took your sweet time."
"These old bones aren't like they used to be." He laughed joyfully as he made a beeline towards the doors.
"Sir, we're going to be late at this rate." came the voice of Sente, the assistant who opened said doors he was walking too.
The aged man just waved his hand. "I know, I know." He turned back towards Dahlia and gave her a smile. "It's good to see you fitting in with the place, Dahlia. Until next time."
Dahlia turned her attention back to her job, crossing her arms as she did, her dirty nails scratching at her sleeves before she heard ruckus coming from below, probably another minor brawl or argument, most likely the latter...and off she went.
Muika stood to the side of the room, a little nervous as she looked back to her current patient lying on the chair huddled up with his arms behind him, locked in place by handcuffs.
Thankfully their meeting was in the day, but a guard still stood by in the corner just in case her patient might act up. That's how it usually went with the inmates. Whenever one came in to see her, a guard was always standing by to act immediately to detain any signs of violence shown from the prisoners.
She considered herself lucky not to have any of her prisoners go crazy or just start swinging… "I hope I just didn't jinx myself..."
After taking a few seconds to calm her nerves, she went and sat down on the chair opposite of the inmate, sending glances to some files about their previous meetings. "How are we feeling today, Rin?"
The bound Rin sat quietly on the chair, not really saying a word. More so, he was huddled up a little on the chair, refusing to lay down properly.
Muika glanced down to the folder she had opened, though did nothing else. "Come on Muika, you can do it. He needs your help!" she gave herself a pep talk mentally before looking back up at the handcuffed prisoner with a smile on her face. "How's your progress?"
"..."
"Did you drink again...?"
She got a very slight nod in return. The silence was awkward, but Muika was also thankful for that, for a few reasons. "Don't give up though, Rin, you're doing very well so far. We all have a slip up now and then." she went to give him another smile, though he was too far occupied looking down at the ground.
It was then Muika realised that today was going to be a silent day for him, they usually were, but the previous ones he actually talked to her. She sighed to herself as she picked up a pen. "Might as well mark down today's session."
As she went to take a file out of the folder to jot down some notes, the folder and pieces of paper, including the one she went to grab, fell to the ground suddenly.
"Ow..." muttered the counsellor as she glanced to her right hand, a little bit of blood was drawn from it. It was a shallow cut, enough for a little bit of blood to ooze out.
She had managed to give her a slight little cut.
"Good one Muika." she silently scolded herself as she went to get a tissue to stop the little bit of blood before applying a bandage...only for Rin to sit up.
The blood freak began sniffing like a pet dog during mealtime, his gaze locked onto Muika, particularly her hand as the crimson fluid had appeared from her smooth and supple hand. His tongue poking out, licking his lips, hungry for the red liquid.
The black haired blood-licker leaned forward, focused solely on the blood that had popped out of Muika's hand while Muika was busy backing away slowly. It wasn't until a few seconds that Rin made his move, though unsuccessful in his attempts.
When Rin stood, the guard had immediately latched onto him with their arms, holding the handcuffed wearing prisoner back from trying to get to the droplet of blood. Once Muika had scurried back and managed to bandaged up her tiny cut, Rin had long forgotten about her wound and instead was focusing on the small blood puddle created from a single droplet on the floor.
"C-Calm down, Rin!" she waved her hands in a calming manner. "You don't need to drink any of that, okay?" she continued to calm him down as she cleaned up the small puddle.
Rin's eyes shone brightly, that bright red colour in his eyes glimmered as he tracked the blood. Oh how he wanted to drink it so badly.
"Maybe he should get a straitjacket?" the guard huffed, holding the prisoner back. It actually took awhile to get him to calm back down and by a while was the rest of of their session before it got too dark.
"I shall take him to his cell if your done."
Muika nodded in confirmation before the guard took the blood drinker and left her office.
Once he left, Muika crumbled down onto her chair. "I messed up..." she just hoped that her clumsiness in accidentally drawing blood wouldn't mess up the work with the blood addict.
She felt bad for Rin, she really did, and her drawing blood was like bring alcohol to an A.A meeting or something of that equivalent. She spent a couple of minutes in her chair before she went and gathered up the dropped documents before having to add updates to the file with a sigh.
The trip to the infirmary was pretty much how she expected it to go. Shi sat on a seat after being treated for light injuries as she was free of the prisoner she had caught.
Due to Chikuha's immunity to her own quirk, she was given a quick check up on any other injuries before pretty much having her wrist lightly slapped and given a warning about her co-ed ward privileges.
So now the Cerberus of Styx was getting one last look over, though these never took long.
"Alright, you're free to leave, Shi." a doctor with short, dark brown hair with a pair of seemingly coal black eyes that while not seeming tired in any way, seemed kinda bored. He raised his hand to shoo the guard, showing that while he had a fair complexion, his fingers and thumbs were entirely black (on both hands) and didn't look to be fingers as they not only lacked fingernails but were smooth at the touch and definitely not soft like the rest of his skin.
This was one of the two head doctors of Styx: Lambert Rask.
Shi nodded and offered her thanks with a low grumble.
The doctor ran his hand through his hair as the other head doctor of Styx had walked over. "Lambert, we need you to restrain a patient in case they wake up, there's a high probability of them going into shock upon regaining consciousness."
This other doctor had long bright red hair that reach down past her shoulder blades with orange tips at the end with a pair of yellow matching eyes. Her skin was similar to Lambert's but slightly more tanned. This was the other head doctor: Carna Angitia.
The doctor lazily waved his hand, "Alright, Carna."
Shi glanced over to the patient, an inmate before sending a look to the doctors who were dressed in common doctor garbs and coats you would see in a hospital.
"Ah, the prisoners? Yeah, there have been more fights between inmates, though we've started to get a few rare ones with some more serious injuries."
"Injuries?" Shi had fought a lot of inmates during her time in Styx, she was the Guard Dog after all. It wasn't uncommon for prisoners to get injured like this, especially by other prisoners.
Lambert gave out a sigh as he looked over to the inmate. "It's just more of a workload for us, really."
Shi's vision went from doctor to inmate as she scratched the side of her neck in thought while Carna just shook her head. "It's fine though, we don't get these types often."
"What about the other prisoners that were involved in the fighting that put them here?" the jackal spoke up, keeping her eyes on the patient.
"You mean by motives?" Lambert looked back to her before shrugging halfheartedly. "Asides from not really caring, there's a lot of different reasons and people. It's hard to pinpoint if we try to get the answer from every inmate."
Carna dug her hands into the pockets of her coat. "I just hope that these don't become too common place..."
"What about the prisoners that would do this sort of thing?" the guard dog gave both doctors a look, surely there had to be something.
Lambert rubbed the back of his head. "That's another thing, when I said hard to pinpoint, that included the usual suspects. For example, one of them was found with a broken arm when one of the usual perpetrators, Gousen, was still locked up in his cell."
"When we checked in with those suspects, a quick investigation showed that they didn't do it, and there are way too many inmates to go through." Carna continued, gesturing to some bounded inmates. "We aren't like Tartarus who have much smaller numbers than ours in terms of prisoners, besides, most of these prisoners here though are just in for minor injuries from some brawls and scuffles, as usual, like Chikuha's stunt earlier..."
Shi sat silently for a while. Now she knew why they were considered rare if they usual perpetrators didn't cause it. "Do the wardens know about this?"
The duo shot a look at each other, before Carna had nudged her fellow doctor. "Geez, fine." the dark brown haired doctor mumbled. "Long answer: no."
This had immediately caused Cerberus to narrow her eyes at the two, but Lambert raised his hand, he had more to say.
"There's a reason we didn't report this in, and that's simply because we have nothing to say that this wasn't just a normal attack. We've gone through many of these attacks before and not to mention the whole pinpointing deal. Hell, it's mostly likely some prisoners getting more violent in the moment, like how a person gets more angry at a person they hate. To sum it up: there's nothing to report. It's just the same as before."
The collar wearing jackal said nothing but nodded. "Thanks, now we have to treat these inmates." Carna politely bowed before the two doctors quickly got into their work, leaving Shi to do what she pleased.
Shi closed her eyes and stood, she said no word as she left. She had a job to do after all, it would be a waste of time if she stayed around any longer.
Instead of heading back towards her cell, Sae ended up having to take a detour. On her way back to her cell, she was pretty much blocked off from returning so soon, they wouldn't let her back in after grabbing a meal, then again, she spent a lot of time inside her cell...
This left her with little to do and she didn't want to spend anymore time around the other criminals and villains of the prison, so she decided to go to the one place not that many people go to.
The prison library.
Of course, there were three distinct libraries, one for each ward with the co-ed ward having a much wider collection to choose from. The co-ed ward also had a lot less people in it as well, making it the ideal place for her to spend some time in peace.
When she finally got to the library, it was pretty big. Plenty of tables, chairs and even lounges were spread around the room with many tall bookshelves crammed full of books all aligned neatly. It was pretty organised. The convict didn't really have a particular book that she was looking for as he emerald green eyes absorbed the titles on the many books, just waiting for one to pop out to her. It didn't take long before she picked out a book at random as she went to the nearest lounge.
Though as Sae sat down, she had noticed another figure in the library reading a book as she quickly recognised the oleander flowers scattered throughout the reader's light green hair while her facial expression didn't change much.
Yua only glanced away from her book once, and that when she sent a glance towards Sae. It was mostly to check who it was, but upon seeing Sae, she went back to her book as they sat a fair distance apart from each other.
The library was a quiet place and both preferred it that way.
The two just sat in silence as they read their own books. Sae appreciated the silence as did Yua, for a time. "You don't seem to be reading your book." the flower girl spoke up with that calm tone of hers, pausing her reading as she did.
"Does it matter?" Sae's tone wasn't that friendly, but wasn't alright hostile. "It's serving its purpose as a waste of time."
Yua turned a smidgen to face her a bit more, glancing down to the book the other prisoner was reading. "If you read a book you are interested in or already like, time will go much faster for you."
Sae had stopped reading her book, it was true. This book wasn't something she was all that interested in, it was more suited for a college student than anything. "Wouldn't that also work in reverse? If I just read the ones I like, it would grow boring over time."
Yua tapped her chin for a moment. "Perhaps, but it's better than reading a book you have no interest in."
Sae watched as Yua picked up where she left off at with her book as she looked down at hers, the book she didn't care for. She supposed it might be better to at least find a better read, there was a large collection here after all. Hopefully she could find one.
Nothing much usually happened out in the open of the male ward, it was something Rhys through about every so often, it was a bit boring at times, though that wasn't including minor brawls by the less memorable prisoners. It was something he was also glad for as he just stared at the back of the giant that was Kuroishi.
He then sent a look to the prisoner beside him a few seats down, who was doing their own thing before a slight smile appeared on his face before looking back at the others such as Kuroishi. "There's so many strong people here..."
However, as Rhys was glancing at other people that were in the room, he failed to notice the shadow that began to peer over him. Fortunately for him, he noticed the motion of the shadow afterwards and dodged out of the way as a fist was brought down onto the table.
"What the hell—" the bruised prisoner then looked up to see the one responsible. "Ah fuck."
There stood Gousen, and while his face was devoid of any emotion, his eyes shone with a clear, deep hatred that burned like the pits of hell.
Rhys' eyes quickly went from Gousen to the figure behind the prisoner. Another inmate who was faced down on the cold floor with their arm twisted the other way before he quickly set his eyes on Gousen.
Sadly, this wasn't a rare occurrence, it was quite expected from Gousen who threw another punch in which Rhys had to roll away from as his mind was racing. "Shit! Why me of all people here?"
"Tch." Gousen glared right at Rhys as he watched him roll out of the way.
Rhys was definitely in a pickle. Gousen attacked any prisoner, he attacked indiscriminately...at least most of the time. He had to admit that Gousen was strong, but he cursed the situation he had found himself in.
Meanwhile, Kuroishi looked over towards the attack from Gousen, but wasn't that surprised by it. The long haired individual just watched as Rhys evaded another one of Gousen's attacks, but it was clear who the victor of that match would be.
Rhys might've been dodging left and right at the couple of swings, but Gousen had just started his attacks and from some previous prisoners, he could get a lot more brutal. Kuroishi knew of the outcome somewhat well, Gousen was a wall of muscle after all.
Was there a chance for Rhys to emerge victorious? Of course, there is always that possibility, but right now? No.
The giant didn't have any real reason to step in. Rhys wasn't someone he would jump in and save, while the only time he had trouble with Gousen was when he tried to attack him. Kuroishi did think about alerting one of the guards, but they were probably already on their way.
"Already out of your cell and you're going to get yourself locked right back up..." the giant mumbled before he put the fight behind him. He'd let the guards or another prisoner deal with that.
Rhys spotted Kuroishi leaving as the hatred in Gousen's eyes got a little bit more intense compared to before. Rhys thankfully spotted another prisoner and made a beeline for them. "I don't need this attention! Come on, Gousen!"
Mentally panicking aside, he felt a fist crash into his back, sending him flying, thankfully in the direction of the prisoner he was running towards.
Rhys had managed to crash onto the table that Gin was sitting at, the inmate in the black, plastic-like, full body outfit didn't even flinch when Rhys had just crashed on the table in front of him.
"Jesus! That hurt!" Rhys rolled off the table before Gousen had stomped over before his eyes locked with Gin's own. It was oddly silent between the two before Gin stood, as he stood, he didn't even look at Rhys who was already planning on getting out of there. Thankfully for Rhys, the pain wasn't nearly as bad as that previous inmate with the twisted arm.
Not in the slightest.
Rhys wondered when the guards would come and was ready to flee as soon as Gousen engaged with the greyish skinned inmate.
"What are you looking at?" Gin growled as Gousen's expression didn't change at all.
"I didn't get a chance the chance to break your bones when I was let out." the wall of muscle that was Gousen spoke up after all this time. "I'll remedy that now."
The grey eyed inmate in the full-body suit didn't take too kindly for that. "Whatever makes you think you can?"
It was now that Rhys backed off and snuck away from the two. When he looked back, he was certain that a fight was going to break out, so he positioned himself ready to leave should a guard arrive or if Gousen shifted his attention back onto him.
He wondered who would strike first.
Whoa! A chapter so soon?! Haha, surprise. Back in the groove baby, but yeah, chapter time.
Anyways, here we gooooo. A quick little talk about quirks, since I'm going to introduce each person's quirks as they're introduced, not all information on those quirks will be shown out right if there's something more to them. Just some basic explanations of the quirks.
See you all next time :D