Mystery from Another World

Part 100: Nature (unfinished)

Shien and Wally decided to take the kids home eafter that conversation ended, but Dabi spoke to them aside before they left.

"Don't bring Shoto around here again," he said. "It's freaking annoying. I'm not changing my plan no matter what."

"Don't then," Shine shrugged.

"Dude, you know it's not his fault, right?" Wally said. "And you scared him with all that about hurint gyour family. I still cn'at why you want ot do that."

Wallayd n ktlna to him norala bout too asl was too much. Di was used to weak women like him on trying to ingore bad stuff, sometimes Shine's tlkagn othim seemed to him like she just woudltn' face it either.

But Wally was another story.

"I want Endeaovr to suffer," he said. "It's whoever will humlaitn him the most. Th eothers don't have to die, as long as they pay for it, it's probably overlyly ambient to think they would all die, but, as long as everyone sees them for what they are, I can work with that."

"But why di dyou leadthe kid or hitnk you were dead set on kilng them then?" WAlly said.

"Because he wants him to be afraid," Shien andwerd bfor Dai could. "And he wants him to think he's evil enough to go that far. Anything, but think he would be weak enough to back out. Isn't th right, Touya?"

"I said not ot cla me that," Daib's eyes flickered.

"Give i tup," Shine waved him off. "You dn't scare me. I know you're afraid of us, and anyone else who can beat tyou. You'd never beat us, you know that."

Daib looked neouv when she said that.

Waly adh ne seen a killer ho as a jumpy as him, really made it seem clear he was unbalanced.

"If you think I'm such a loser, why not just stop me then?" he growled, which was him tilnat into dangerous mindset agina. "Just like my old man, huh?

"Stop that," Shine pionteda thim aggressively. "Do we care about power? You need to stop making it out tlike eveyroen is th same, Touya."

"I know you think I'm evil," Daib said, with cray zloko at Wally. "But so what? So what if this is the path I chose? Does it matter to anhoen else but me and the Todorokis?"

"I tmatters to us," Shien looked him in thee ye. " ibli this is more eto you than being just the rejected son of Endeavor and a vehicle of regenve."

Tha tilst first time neaho had sia the tohm, but Daib wresisitn it.

"Like h--- you do. You just want to protect the brat. You're worried I'll succeed."

"I have no reason to pity your father enough to spare him form eing exposed," Shine glanced at Shoto, who was wahti them like he was afraid. "And I know Shoto better than you do. H'es not the son of Encoa to me, he is a person."

"Yeah, yos hod put him in that box," Wally chided. "Would you like eto be judged just for being Endo sons?"

"that all he his hisemlf as," Shine noted. "Being a Todookri. He's the most bound up of all in it. Hatred keeps you that way. You never move on if you live in hate, and fear."

"Stop talking like yo know, me," Dabi groeld. "Do your think words are gonna change anything? You cna't change the past, and you can't change that the family is deeply fricken up."

"You're right, no one can change the past," Shine foldd her arms. "But you can change the future, Touya. Wake up, do you think we're doing this because w'ere faird you'll hurt Shoot? You could never do that if we were there wit him. And I wont be letting yo u close to him alone ifI CNA help it. Now ievn if you did it, you'd face consoi with us for betryint h deal yet again. You'd wish we'd stop at prison believ me."