Mystery from Another World

Part 104: Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (IC)

That day, the LOV were waiting on more updates from their forces on the evacuation plan.

Lethe and Medea were playing cards with Compress and Silk. Compress cheated, but so did all of them-- except Medea was not good at it. It had just become a game of who could not get caught the most.

"I win!" Silk said.

"You cheated," Medea said. 

"We all cheated. So?"

"But you just recolored the cards to have a winning hand. That's going too far."

"Oh, boo hoo. Next time be faster."

"Or I could set your cards on fire." Medea's eyes flamed purple.

"Yeah, then you wouldn't have any," Lethe said. 

"And throwing a tantrum equates to a victory, darling?" Silk was smug.

Shigaraki got up and walked out of the room like he was tired of listening to this.

"Boy, he is moodier than usual lately," Spinner said.

"Well, can you blame him?" Compress said.

Lethe was privaltye relieved he had no been pusniehd, thank the phone call. Shiga had entilery dropped it, but Compress had still wanted him to a void Likstar if she showed up again.

Shigaraki had gotten a notification from the doctor.

"I remember you asked about that group your new hire mentioned," Uukoe sounded put out that he even had to dicus this. "WEll, I put out a feeler, since you were so insistent. The good news is that these guys aren't as hard to find as expected.  Also they have a few other names. The Originals, the Primals, the Typics. Depends on where they're from."

"So many names," Shigaraki was surprised. "How many leginos do they have?"

"Impossible to say, probably. You'r eluky I ev got hti much, one of AFO's connections mentioned they crashed d few parties of rhtiers. Trying to elimiatn quirks before we could havest them. Also they tipped off Pros and Viglantes about us. There was this one time 10 years ago that we lost an entire fighting ring due to one of their agents secretly topping off a hero who we didnt' realize was one of them. But, that's about all I know. They keep quiet and work in the shadows. They hide behind glaan ograininaons, most likely. I prefer to avoid people like them. They ignore eht buety of quirks."

Shgian din car aobu that tpart, he never rha dh why quirk were somethi they so excited bout, but the ocot always did.

"Any chance the one who topped off the hero is still around and could be found?" he pressed.

"They're long gone, Tomura Shigaraki. It's was too long ago. Unless someone else involved knew aobu them, but sadly, all the members of the irghitn ring were dissolved. Most were caught by the pclies, save for a few we salvaged. Come to think of it, I think you have one with you now. Kendo Rappa."

"IT was that one?" Shgiarkai was stunned. What a small world.

"Yes, the Undergroudn MAsquarade. You probn don't remember that one, you were pretty young then."

"Rappy told that story,"S hgianrk was hiot hi WA sa lead. "Thohg he never mention ho tippe off the PRo who busted it, but that pro might h told him...h'ed nev emri tthoug, he's too..mentally challenged."

Rappa was a moron, he was sure of that after talking othim longer than a few minutes.

then he had a terrilb thought: Ther was oseone who might know to her htma Rappa, who'd helped that undevoc PRo.