Mystery from Another World

Part 73: Ouboro (unfinished)

[OP: "Tip Toe"--half alive.]

The DJs still had to wait a few days more before Aizawa could arrange a meeting. The story he had to give the prison and hero board that oversaw it was complicated.

Ultimately, he told them he'd found two people closer to Ouboro who might be able to jog his memory but they were afraid or the villains targeting them and only were able to meet secretly.

Had Aizawa not been the only one who could get him to talk he wouldn't have gotten away with this request, but the hero board was desperate to get more info about the Villains' plans enough to bend the rules.

Shine and Wlaly were granted guest passes for a short visit.

They went very late at night, when no other visitors would be around, and this prison allowed very few visitors to begin with.

But Shine had wanted Aizawa that they couldn't possibly do what they did with cameras watching.

"People would wonder how we did it," she said. "We can't let that out."

Aizawa had a plan, it was not a great plan, but...

He'd asked Momo to make a device that would fry the power in that room. The prison would get it back on within 20 minutes probably, and they'd be afraid Kurogiri would escape.

"It won't take long once we begin, probably," Shine was hoping. "Wait till we give you the signal to turn that thing on."

"What signal?" Aizawa asked.

"Just listen for when we say 'hope'," Shine instructed.

"Like 'I hope this works'," Wally said. "Or 'I hope he doesn't kill us'."

"Is that really funny?" Shine asked him.

"I thought so," he said.

"You hoped so," Shine gave him a mischievous smirk.

"Oh got me," Wally laughed.

"Can you two take this seriously for once?" Aizawa growled.

Shine turned to look at him sternly. "This is us taking it seriously. If we were not nervous, we wouldn't be joking about tt. Try being a little more grateful."

Aizawa wasn't used to people hitting back when he said that. He went so quiet Shine almost felt bad.

"It'll be fine," she patted his shoulder.

Entering the prison was creepy in of itself, it looked like the alien level prisons in Wally's world.

But the walk felt almost too short, though it took them underground.

Shine didn't remember much of how they got to the cell itself, she was too busy mentally preparing, praying.

"I'll be right here," Aizawa sat in a chair.

Kurogiri was sedated with a drug that made muscle movement difficult, but they hoped would leave him awake enough to answer questions.

"Don't interrupt us at any time," Shine told Aizawa, now in her business voice. "Unless we ask you. If you startle him, he'll most likely snap back. And whatever we say, we think it's going to help."

Aizawa nodded.

"Hello Ouboro," Shine then leaned in to speak into the part of the wall that allowed it. 

Kurogiri 's smoke face just start at her blankly.

"Hey," Wally waved, but he was nervous. This wasn't his strong point. He could talk to normal people, but talking to weirdos was Shine's area of expertise.