A random NPC | BNHA

Chapter 38

I was grumpily walking towards the UA entrance to meet up with Monoma in order to bring him to the training site when I pondered about the things that happened yesterday. Yesterday was the day I finally told Wolf and Rider about my accidental identity reveal to Monoma, it definitely wasn't a fun experience. I can still remember Wolf's scoldings, for example 'Why didn't you tell me right after it happened?!', while Rider just snickered at my misery.

I sighed, and now I am unable to have some time to myself because of how I had to train Monoma. It's kind of my fault in the first place for not being strong enough to face that mysterious swordsman and risking too much, but I only wanted to have the whole day to myself after continuously meeting strange people, namely mysterious swordsman and purple scar man, this week.

After trekking through the slope, I finally arrived at the UA entrance. Seeing a lone figure leaning against the entrance wall, I rehearsed multiple ways of greeting him in my head as I checked my watch to make sure I wasn't late.

"Greetings (L/N)." Greeted Monoma.

That was weirdly formal but sure why not.

"Yo Monoma, let's go." I replied, jutting my head towards the direction I came from.

He sent me a small smirk before getting off the wall and falling into step behind me.

"Lead the way."

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"Is this the right place?" Muttered Monoma as he looked up at the exterior of Meg's shop.

"Pretty sure it is. I've been here before." I shrugged and entered the shop.

Monoma scrunched his nose at the tangy smell of metal.

"Eh~ so this is the guy you accidentally revealed your identity to? Looks like a brat to me." Mused Meg as she fixed some kind of device in her hands.

"You——" Monoma added in, crossing his arms over his chest, wanting to express his anger over the insult.

"Yea, yea. You, you, me, me. Go up." Cut in Meg as she ignored Monoma on purpose.

Monoma took a deep breath, looking like he was about to complain about Meg.

"Look, this is kind of the only place I know that can keep our training a secret, so please try to ignore your annoyance over her, alright?" I begged, hoping that he wouldn't spiral into a big rant about his hatred for her like when he usually complains about class 1A.

His chest deflated into its normal position as he reluctantly stopped himself from ranting.

Good. I didn't need to resolve another argument.

~

"You guys fight like stormtroopers shooting, basically bad if you don't understand." Commented Meg from her chair on the sidelines as she shared her bowl of popcorn with Leo and Carla who were seated beside her nodding in agreement.

Monoma and I were duking it out on the middle of the second floor when Meg said that. It was painfully obvious that the fighters were both bad at close combat, but I dominated the fight due to my experience of fighting in close combat as Robin Hood for the past few months.

If there was one thing that I noticed besides us being bad brawlers, it was that Monoma is a very touchy fighter, he kept attempting to touch me with one of his hands during the fight. Curious to see what would happen after dodging for the millionth time, I let him touch my shoulder on purpose.

"What?!" Gasped Monoma in disbelief as his eyes widened.

"...What?" I replied confused while tripping him by kicking his knee pits, he lost but why is he so surprised?