Mystery from Another World--MHA

Part 147: Family Values

Shine had no trouble finding Moto, as the minx appeared in the hallway when she went after Camie.

Moto was going to look for Camie, actually, but seeing the supervisor, she stopped and tried to look concerned.

"Is Bakugo okay?" she asked.

"It's your quirk. You ought to know better than I," Shine said, raising an eyebrow at her. Now that she was close...she felt all the wrong vibes from this.

Getting closer, she actually could almost feel an aura of disgust.

Shine was something of an empath-- it was how she could read people so well even without knowledge-- and she didn't sense any kind of real guilt coming from this wench.

Moto gestured like she was worried. "I never saw it act that way before."

"Oh, no?" Shine said, "Because I heard from my students that one of your classmates mentioned you put someone in the hospital before with it."

Moto just briefly curled her lip. That snitch, she thought.

"Right, well, it's rare though," she said.

"You can drop the act." Shine was mad. "I can tell you're faking it. You might fool your teacher and your dumb class, but they also think Shishikura's victim blaming is not bullying, so, yeah, that says a lot about them." 

She got a little closer, eyes stormy. "But in my class, we don't treat people that way. And I won't tolerate anyone threatening my students. Do I make myself clear?"

Moto pulled out a nail file and very boredly began using it. "Are you supposed to talk to me like this?" she said slowly, slyly, "My own teacher will handle it. I could probably report this as you harassing me. And how can you say I wasn't sincerely sorry? Like I'd want to hurt Bakugo on purpose."

"I saw the look you gave the other students before you did it." Shine was cold.

Moto paused for a split second... Huh, she'd slipped up. She didn't think Shine was looking then.

"What look?" she said innocently.

"Acting won't get you anywhere with me," Shine said dismissively, "Go ahead and cry crocodile tears. No one else is around. Your act only works on an audience. It will only make me despise you more if you pull that crap with me."

Moto had never been told someone despised her before. [How?!]  She suddenly stopped filing. "What did you just say to me?" Her eyes darkened.

"That I won't buy this."

"No, that other part... You despise me?" She laughed kind of cruelly. "For real? Like I give a d---about what you think. What are you, some illegal squatting at this school? I don't even thinking you're a hero."

Shine paused. But she was hard to read. Even for people who knew her, she could be hard to read, and Moto couldn't gauge if she was threatened or not.

Then Shine laughed dryly. "Cute, yeah, trying to threaten me. You think you'll put me on the defensive, kid? I'm just going to forget who did the bad thing here? I wonder what would happen if I reported this to your teacher. I have the support of other teachers here. What do you have?"

"I wonder why you're so concerned anyway. It's been dealt with," Moto said nonchalantly, "At this point, it's like you just can't let it go on behalf of your student. Seems kind of unstable to me-- Likstar, is it? Who are you again? The class supervisor? What do you even do?"

Shine knew better than to answer that. "You know, I have to hand it to you. Most students don't threaten me in return," she said, not sounding impressed, "Most aren't stupid enough to."