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匚卄卂卩ㄒ乇尺 15

"This is... awkward..." Neko said. Midoriya hummed in agreement, eyes flitting everywhere but to Neko's face. Eventually, his gaze landed on his pin, still sitting by the potions, completely untouched. "You really like that pin, huh..." Neko hummed. "'S mine...." Midoriya responded, and Neko nodded. He approached the counter, elicting a growl from Midoriya, but he didn't respond to it, instead picking up his pin. Neko then walked back over, and gently opened up Midoriya's hand, placing the pin in his palm. "Here, just... don't tell the others that I gave you it, you aren't actually supposed to... y'know, have it."

Midoriya barely nodded in response, staring at the pin in his hands with pure delight. He closed his hand around it tightly, pulling it up too his chest. He had his pin back. It was his again, and he wasn't going to let anyone take it again. He couldn't loose it again. Eventually, he lifted his hands to the top of his head, fumbling to put the pin back in it's place. Neko stood there quietly, possibly watching as he did so. He wasn't sure, though, the mask hid his eyes from view.

"Why....?" Midoriya asked, voice barely over a whisper. Neko tilted his head in confusion, "Why what?" "Why...... Why did you give it back...?" Midoriya tried, elicting a thoughtful hum from Neko. "Well... I guess I just didn't like how upset you seemed about not having it." "But.... but you're a villain, aren't you? So.. So why would you want to give it back...?" Midoriya pressed. His eyes widened ever so slightly as he saw Neko flinch at the word 'villain'. Was Neko like him? Did the League force him to join them? But, it didn't seem like he had been forced into it when he entered the bar that very first time. Maybe that had been acting, though? "I'm not-" Neko started, only to cut himself off with a groan.

"Okay, listen. I'm not actually a villain. I'm a vigilante pretending to be a villain." Neko said, and Midoriya's eyes widened further, before narrowing in sucpision, "How do I know that you're telling the truth...?" Neko shrugged in response, "I suppose you don't. Whether you believe me or not is you're choice, I guess..?"

They spent the rest of the time in a somewhat awkward silence, Midoriya contemplating whether or not he should believe Neko. Once Neko realized the other two villains would be back soon, he took away Midoriya's pin again, not wanting for either of them to get in trouble. Midoriya tried his best not too cry.

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Uraraka wandered the unfamiliar streets, clutching her bag of magic suplies tightly. She and the rest of O;MSR had spilt up to search Kamino Ward, in hopes they'd find the League's base. She hadn't found anything yet, but they had only been there for around 20 minutes so it made sense. She felt rather tense, though. Maybe it was just the new, unfamiliar environment, but something felt not-quite-right, as if something bad was hiding in the shadows, waiting to strike at the worst time possible.

The longer she looked, the more tense she felt, the phone in her pocket never buzzing even once to tell her that one of her friends had found something. It didn't help that worry and guilt nagged at the back of her mind, reminding her of how Iida had seemed upset about something that day, yet she didn't do anything to help him. Maybe she should check in on him? Yeah, that was a good idea.

She reached into her pocket for her phone, pulling it out to send him a quick message.

Hey Iida-kun! I noticed that you seemed upset while we were in class, and I was wondering if you wanted to talk about it? :Uraraka

Iida: Thank you for your concern, but I can assure you that I am fine! :)

Well, if you say so, but if you ever want to talk about anything, I'm here for you!! :Uraraka

Well, that was definitely a fast response.. It did help now that she had asked him about it, though. She still felt extremely tense, but at least she knew that nothing was wrong!! Unless he was lying to her, but they were friends, surely he'd trust her enought to tell her if something was wrong! ....Right? She shook her head, pushing any leftover worries to the back of her mind. Of course Iida would trust her, there was no need to worry!! Plus, she really needed to focus on finding clues to where the League's base was..