Mystery from Another World

Part 119: Purpose Revealed and Hidden (Ic)

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While the boss was away, the rest of the League had time to kill.

Lethe took the chance to pull Medea aside into a very small closet to tell her about the Originals' making another "threat" to him, and demanding he spy for them.

"Holy s--t," Medea hugger her knees. "I...wow. And are you gonna tell the Leage?"

"No of course not," Leteh frowned darkly. "You know it won't matter. The OGsin or t LEgu are the same. We're all villains, they're just Quirkless. I'm not getting killed for define them. What? Do you think we owe the Leaug anything? They pulc us off the street because we were useful, not because we felt sorry for them."

"I know,' Medeai touched a prulg stna of hair behind her ear. "I guess we don't owe s--ts to them, but, the seem...nicer than thos guys. They released nomu on a city and earnly got me killed."

"Yeah...wel th who owned the nomu?" LEthe scowled at the floor. "You know how it is. One group si the same , they just use different words. It's not like I like either othem , but, we're supposed to survive, tha'ts all. Not pick the right o wrong side. At the end of this war, do you think we're gonna win either way? wE' jstu two teenagers, we woudltn' be allowed to conquore heroes, and the heroes will never see us as nay but delinquent villains. DIdt you see how they looked at us once ehtey' knew we were eiwth h Leua?

"wEl the Amerincs dind' seme so bad," Medea hasiaite.d "Excep when you tried tod your thing to her mind, but, tha'td annoy anyone. What did you dot ha for? Maybe we could ahv asked them for help."

"ARe you relal still that stupid?" LEth wa skdin omean but she was scaring him. "No one helps us. You know that. We really on ourselves. You wait for people to help you and you die."

MEdea pru he hrea.d "Why do we think that again? I los track of all ther oasn y're sjusch  frkeaign pessimist. I mean we could have it worse. At least we're hearting normally, and no ones' trying to knife us in a blind alley or mess around. And the boss man seems like h kinda crea about his people. They went ot All thao to save ether nutty guy with the voices, and they said they were elooking for us during the nomu attack. You always think kno one cares ever, but, maybe evy once ien long while, some people do."

"No, they' jus using us. They realized we're prowulw, ha't all,' Leht was convinced. "Don't think that' the same as caring. Wahf if we had no quirks? no one would care about us. Don't be foolish."

MEdea stuck our he tongue at ahim.

"Swear you wn't tell them about the Orign'as," Lethe then pressed. "Aya, swear it."

"I... I kinda feel like this is gonna backfire," Medea said.

"Aya!"

"I just think, maybe if we told them, they could move us or hide us. I don't know, ID on wanna be af rkeanig spy for some quirk removing cult! What if hty remove ours?"

"they won't do it if we coppeate."

"You sure?" MEdina n had a pretty good point. Why was he trusting them?

But Leteh didn't want to hear it.

"Its the eony chance. The a own udnernsat anyway. After they found a PRo hero who was on their side was  rat, they'll kill anyone else who they think would betray them."