CHAPTER-7

EPOCH

The ravenette grunts as she gets thrown to the wall, the quirk absorbing collor tightens against her neck. Shigaraki closes the distance between them, every step being heavy with the feeling of betrayal and anger in them.

"You knew it. Didn't you?" His cranky voice called, his hand escalating up to grab her face.

The girl looked into his eyes through his fingers with a hint of guilt.

"Shig-" he shuts her up, his thumb dangerously close to her skin as he grabs her face. He only grabbed it with his four fingers, threatening her to speak.

"Why didnt you tell me?" He hisses, his grip tightening further.

Her guilty look slips into a glare as he questions her like she's beneath him, "let go." The ravenette grunts from below his hand.

"Why?" His voice . "You should-" he was about to rest his last finger on her face, the ravenette's breath hitches.

someone knocked on the door to the room they were in

"Shigaraki, all for one is asking for you." Kurogiri's deep voice came from outside the door.

The tension was palpable. His finger stopped in the air as his eyes remain focused on hers. She narrowed her eyes at him, breathing slightly lower.

After a few seconds of that intense eye contact, shigaraki lets go of her face but slips his hand into the quirk absorbing collor on her neck, bringing her ear against his lips as he whispers.

"I'll kill you if you betray me."

The collor disintegrates into ashes.

The ravenette sighs deeply as shigaraki leaves the room.

She was almost done for there.

After a few hours of sitting on the roof of the hideout, the ravenette was tired of her mind.

She wasn't sure of what to do. She wasn't a hero. Nor a villain. She can't be a vigilante. She was neither moral, nor has a drive to kill.

She wasn't like toga who had an idol, stain.

She wasn't like dabi who had a motive.

She wasn't like shigaraki who was driven by hatred.

She wasn't like the heroes.

She just, existed.

A loud sound rang her out her dilema.

She snapped up, looking around for the source of the sound, it was from her phone which was kept at a distance.

-COMPRESS(LEAGUE)-

it said.

"...right, the meeting"

It was already the time of the meeting.

The ravenette walked into the dark abandoned building, her mind immediately picking up the auras of the league nearby. As soon as she turns her head towards the crowd sitting on the dusty boxes, her eyes fall on dabi. His blue eyes glow in the dark as she realises his gaze was set like a predator on her. He looked like he wanted answers.

She ignored his air cutting gaze and slowly walks to an empty spot at the corner, putting down her sword before she rests her back against the wall, feeling the cold against the thin fabric of her almost torn shirt.

After a while, shigaraki walks in. He was accompanied by kurogiri. I try to avoid shigaraki's eyes, looking down at my sword as i scratch it's grip.

After a few minutes, Twice jumped out of the door, happily trotting to us, he was accompanied by... A man with a bird like mask walks in, his glare was intense. his aura was huge. and dark. it was familiar, too.

'i swear I have seen him somewhere...'

"What!?" Magne scoffed. "This guy's popular?"

Shigaraki nodded slightly. "My master showed me his picture once, He's yakuza, the young head of shie hassakai."

"Right..." The ravenette whispered to herself.

A long time ago her troupe and shie hassakai had formed an alliance and tried to end one for all as a whole. Our troupe escaped but shie hassakai was destroyed to its core...

Just because of all might.

A loud gush and a string of blood to her face was so sudden it didn't give the ravenette time to unravel what was happening.

Everyone was in fighting stance and someone half body was lying-

"Magne?..." She whisper before another loud yell from compress grabbed her attention.

Compress was on his way to attack the man before his arm was blown off.

Her eyes widened slightly in shock. her hands mobed towards her sword, instinctively. but she knew better than to fight right now.

Her gaze dropped to shigaraki, he was shaking in anger and before she could blink, he took off, holding out his hand.

"Sheild!" The yakuza's voice rang as a gang of nomu like creatures appear, creating a wave of smoke.

All of the conversation was a blur. Only thing noticable enough was that the guy didn't give up, he threw a visiting card on the floor before he walked away.

...

ILLUMI

I let out a deep sigh, picking up my sword as I walked away. The meeting was over in red.

I felt bad. Magne wasnt someone I knew personally but he had a motive. He didn't deserved to die.

If only, I had attacked first.

A buzz comes from my stomach as I sigh.

I haven't eaten from the day after we went to the festival. So much had happened. I didn't have the time to process it.

Ayame is dead. Haru is dead.

Dabi is-... Wait...

My eyes blink at the familiar face staring down at me, almost glazed with disgust.

Dabi just sighed and looked up at the sky.

"What?" I ask, clearing my throat as I get up.

"Where have you been for the past weeks? I almost got caught by the neighbour while getting into your apartment." He scoffed, turning away from me.

"I have a life other than the league."

"And I don't? To think I even went to that festival with you. Who knew the heroes will raid it and id almost get caught because of that fucker, haru?" He hissed.

"Sorry about that. Didn't know that would happen after we left."

He just sighed in response, rolling his eyes, he turned around to pull something out of his pocket before turning towards me again.

He held out his hand, a shiny metal ring with a red centre and a cross glistened against the moonlight as it rests on his worn out hands.

My eyes widen, I look at my hand. The ring was missing..

"I didn't realise-"

"Doesn't matter. Just take it." He grabs my hand and places it on the palm, closing it. He stalled for a few seconds before letting go.

I look at the ring for a few seconds before noticing it's unusual shine.

"Did you get it polishe-"

"Why did shigaraki call you earlier?" He redirects the conversation.

I blink for a few seconds in confusion before scoffing. "Doesn't matter. Why did you follow me?"

He takes a deep breath.

"I have to let you know that-"

"Illumi-san?" A deep voice calls out.

I turn around to see kurogiri standing in the shadows.

"Shigaraki told me to call you."

My eyes widen. Did he figure out...?

Shigaraki didn't meet her that day, nor did he the other.

It was already a few days since he told kurogiri to find her.

The ravenette was in the room of the hideout.

It was almost sad that the bar was gone, she wanted to drink. It looked too relieving when compress did it.

Someone knocks on the door making the card stack she was building fall over.

She sighed.

"Yes?"

"Open the door." The cranky man's voice called out.

She gulped before getting of the chair to unlock it... Her fingers stalling a bit before she pulled onto it.

Shigaraki was standing outside, the hand on his face blocking the view of his expression as she steps back to let him in.

"What do you think?" His voice rang through her head. He plopped on the sofa at the corner.

"That guy is a fucking madman. Isn't he? He even killed magne." He hisses, his fingers twitching in anger.

she nods in silent agreement before taking a seat on the chair opposite to him.

He suddenly gets up, making her flinch as she straightened her back.

He walks up to the ravenette, standing a few steps away as he leans down, looking into her crimson eyes.

"I'm thinking of meeting him. He too powerful to not utilise." Shigaraki smirks, grabbing the card from his pocket as he puts it on her lap.

"Accompany me there."

Authors note: hey! its been a while since i posted, hasnt it? i fuvking love this story and my character build up, ill start to make it more interesting and post another chapter if i get some glod reviews.

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