Mystery from Another World

Part 105: True Colors(IC)

Camie had been teased and criticized before, but Moto's whole attitude was so much more intense and dark than anything she'd experienced. Her words cut deep because of their cruelty, and that Moto didn't seem to care that they were cruel--even did it on purpose.

Camie was light-hearted enough to shake off most things, but Moto's style shook her up to the core-- was so antithetical to Camie's own way that it was like smothering a candle. Like a negative charge to her positive one. Moto had not been especially subtle or clever...and that was calculated to hurt Camie more because blatantness could not be lost on her so easily as subtle disdain.

Camie was almost more shaken that someone would hurt her like that on purpose, for no obvious reason, than by the other accusations...but by and by, they played inside her head on repeat. Was it true? Was she a liability to her class? To anyone around her?... Certainly it was possible, wasn't it? The police had been suspicious enough, hadn't they? And what of Kali's threat? What did it even mean? Connections? And it almost sounded like she knew the details of the abduction personally, with the forgetting part, too...or was it another cruel jab? Either way, it was freaky. Camie was so rattled, she figured Moto could make good on her threats. That girl was just...evil...

She looked like she could've killed her without a second thought, and Camie had been powerless to defend herself. Maybe she was just that useless in a real dangerous situation. Maybe she wasn't cut out to be a pro.

[Moto vs Camie Art by Julianna Gardner]

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Aizawa got his much needed nap and when he tugged himself out of his sleeping back and back to check on Eri, he fodn Wally was peer IGN aion he rand mis joke also.

Miss Joke and her wer sins picut of faces and then trign to make the faces, Eri kept giggling at mIs jokes expressions.

"She's rlealyt good with kids," ally said to Aizawa. "no wonder her class likes her so much. I was gonnat ake over, but she told me it was fine."

"How was lunch?" Aizawa sipped hsi coffee.

"IT wasf u, TAshirio is already funny guy," Wally smiled. "And hoesnt, he's a wlco break from all the really stressed out Pro heroes--uh, no offense."

"none taken.." Ainz lna agree with that.

hE smile valgue as Miss Joke and Eri. "I Gues it's good if Eri gsitn with more people tousdie this school. Someday, she'l hoepahv  world out there without Ovheraul in it so she can explore."

"IT'll hpen, we'll get him, or someone on else will, sooner o later,r" Wally assured him. "I know I did a crappy job preotine her Boer, but I Wont make ht mistake again. Tah't kid deserve the best."

"Yi want your fault before, you still tried to prior ih with your life." Aizawa suprsn let him of father hook. "An dLiskt gave it her all, even uniting people who would envnorn work together. Much as it pains me to admi to you two are ar leat as ocmpetn as any other PRo hero...maybe more than soemof them.