Heart of The Wraith

Ch. 2 - Hiru

Instead of heading back to the residential hallways where your room was located, you strolled back to the interrogation room to check up on the man you had tortured just moments prior.

You carefully opened the door to find the man sitting in the metallic chair, completely locked and chained. He looked up to see who had entered, only to immediately stiffen and begin to shake around in the chair as if that'd help him escape.

"No, no!" You put your hands out in a calming motion. "Don't worry, I'm not here to torture you!"

The man stopped writhing as you walked closer, body still stiff with your presence he deemed threatening. He looked up at you as you stood in front of him. You gave a sympathetic expression as you still held your new plague mask in one hand at your side.

"We need to know where to find Hiru Sakejo" you explained, "I need to get rid of this quirk." The tone of your voice was nearly begging.

"W-what do you mean?" The advisor trembled as he stared up at you with watery eyes. Your own gaze was piercing, trained on his face.

"If we can find him, we can extract some of his quirk to create an antidote, a vaccine." Your tone had shifted to one of hope. "There's a chance that I'll get to live without hurting people." You felt a knot well up in your throat as you immediately remembered your loved ones, your parents. "And that goes for others with dangerous quirks."

"Y-you'll kill him!" The man spat angrily and you took a few steps back to avoid a few drops of his spit. 

"I don't think that's what Overhaul has planned for him," you answered hesitantly and honestly. "I believe he just wants his quirk." You then quickly fell to your knees in front of him, hands perched upon his knees as he nervously looked down at you. "I'm begging you. He has the chance to change the world."

You crept to your room to drop off your mask after your visit with the "guest." From there you headed back toward Chisaki's office where his meeting with Kurono had hopefully ended. 

As you stood in front of the door, you could faintly hear their voices. You rolled your eyes to the ceiling and took a deep breath to calm any sort of nerves you had before knocking on the steel door.
The voices immediately ceased as soon as they heard your knocking. Kurono was the one to open the door, the steel whining as it was slowly opened. His mask and hood were off, revealing his arrow-pointed hair and steady pout behind purple eyes.

"What do you want?" Kurono asked as you stood in the doorway. "Overhaul hasn't sent for you yet."

"I have the information he wants," you said flatly, not thinking anything of Kurono's hostile tone seeing as he was almost always pissy.

"You have it?" Chisaki piped up from further in the room, quickly walking toward the two of you. You nodded to confirm. "How?" 

"I have my ways," you smiled, the picture of you begging like a child in the back of your mind. Little did the "guest" know, you had given him a pleasant hallucination that changed your image to that of a small, innocent child with irresistible doe eyes. He couldn't resist the idea of delivering a child from pain, wondering how a child had gotten so far underground in a building contaminated with Yakuza.

You shared the young man's information that was given to you. Chisaki quickly dismissed Kurono to gather the others and head out to find him. 

"Will you hurt him?" You asked once you were alone with him, avoiding eye contact by instead staring at his chest - the knot of his silver tie.

"That depends," he answered, stepping closer to you until you were forced to look past him rather than down at his chest. This increased proximity was completely unlike him, usually choosing to keep a distance with any and everybody. You could feel the heat of his body and it caused your heartrate to easily increase.