Only Red

Chapter Twenty Four

Sorry I'm updating two days later than usual! *bows* Take an extra chapter as a truce. I JUST GOT SO CAUGHT UP ON THE AMAZING ENDING TO THE ANIME THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS!!! But I cried so much when Escanor died... T-T It was like Mugen Train all over again... Anyways I hope all you lovelies are doing well and getting enough sleep!

I try to calm Mina who is still vigorously shaking my shoulders as the worried chatter from our classmates intensifies. Katsuki continues to stare at me expectantly, seeming as I appear to be the only person calm enough in the room to answer him.

However I still wasn't very fond of my situation myself so instead of answering him and making more people worry I simply tried to calm my classmates.

Luckily it seems as if the gods heard my pleas for help and decided to throw me a freebie after today, because just after I decided I was definitely not going to deal with this, Shinso stepped in.

"Can you all just calm down?" Everyone turned to him, most indignant, some trying to justify their panic while others just continued to talk to their friends in worried voices.

However just as soon as it came they all went quiet, and I realized he must've used his quirk. I didn't hang out with the purple haired boy much, but I knew enough about him from Ojiro's dejected muttering about his brainwashing quirk after the Sports Festival.

I shot him a grateful smile and he gave a bit of a grimace in return at the amount of people he was currently holding with his quirk, but it was a smile nevertheless.

I turned to face Katsuki, noticing that he wasn't under Shinso's quirk. He seemed unperturbed by our classmates getting brainwashed at the drop of a hat, but then again he was probably in class when the sleep deprived boy was transferred in, and most likely heard his quirk get introduced along with his other information.

"Oy, Kirishima, what the hell is wrong with all these shitty extras?" I paled a bit and smiled nervously at him. Shinso signaled me with his hands to go outside, because though our classmates were no longer talking, they could still hear and see whatever hell was about to happen.

I walked over to Katsuki and pulled him by the arm outside the dorms, wincing at the newly chilly fall air. Once the doors were shut and we had walked a good distance away from the dorms he turned to me impatiently.

"I promise it's not as bad as it looks-" I begin, watching him raise his brows at the way this conversation was starting. I take a breath and try again.

"You know how Aizawa-Sensei had to pull me early today from Hero training to go to the prison?" He nods hesitantly. "Well apparently I didn't get hit with a gender change quirk..."

He raises his brows further at this. "So what, is it a shitty illusion quirk or something?" I shake my head, sweat dropping at his faith in our classmates.

He thinks they would go haywire like that over an illusion quirk?

I take a deep breath, my gaze focused on the floor as I try to calm myself for what I'm going to have to try to explain.

"Not exactly."