Golden Ashes

Chapter 25

"How was it?" Shigaraki looks at me from across the room.

I groan, smushing my face into his pillow. "That hero, he's so annoying!"

He laughs a little, sitting next to me. "I bet it wasn't that bad. Plus, I'm not entirely sure Dabi can get him on our side. That's why you had to go."

I mover over, looking up at the ceiling. "I know. Ugh. We need a new place." I look at him smiling. "Can we go looting?"

A few hours later, Shigaraki, Twice, Toga, Spinner, Compress and I walk into some run down mini-mansion. I make a beeline for the fancy dressers while the boy's deal with the people here. They wear some odd skull masks and giant robes. I think Shigaraki called them the Church of Racial Cleanliness, or CRC. Oh well, it doesn't matter.

I squat down, looking through the drawers.

"What are you doing?" A skull guy yells at me.

I give him a deadly glare and then break into a smile "Can't you tell? I need more jewelry!"

Compress gives him a better answer. "We're looking for things we can sell." He holds up something shiny. "Is this expensive? We're a little strapped for cash right now, you see. Stealing just ain't stylish. If possible I'd like to avoid it too."

One of the masked guys lifts a candelabra. "This is a sacred place!! You filthy sinners need to get out!!"

I smile. "Looks like a fight's about to start." I rush over to Shigaraki's side, scratching my nails along one of the masked people.

He grabs one of their heads. "We'll get the hell out once we're done... If you don't want us to stay too long, shut up and stay away."

And then everything breaks out into chaos. Toga slits two necks, Twice chokes one, Compress and Spinner kill too. After it's all over we continue our search. Compress goes upstairs. I stay next to Shigaraki, staring at the bodies.

"It was necessary, right? To kill them?" I look at him just as Compress yells to us.

"There's nothing of value here!"

Twice calls out too. "Is religion not a profitable industry?"

Toga squeals. "It broke!!" She holds out her sucky-thing.

"My prosthetic has been awfully squeaky lately too. Let's have Giran replace them for us." Compress leans on the banister.

I cross my arms, kicking at a limp arm. I could puke, there's so much blood. "Where do you expect to get the money for that? We're broke..."

Shigaraki pulls his hand off his face, looking at me.

We leave soon after, heading back to our little run down building. I stay outside while everyone else goes in. It's nice out today, but everywhere I look I see rocks and some trees. Not so nice...

A couple minutes later I see Dabi walking towards me. I almost forgot he didn't go with us...

"What are you doin out here?" He gives me a suspicious look.

I shrug and walk in with him. Dabi immediately is annoyed. "What the hell, everyone's here. Am I the only one earnestly tryin' to recruit new members?"

Twice starts yelling at him. "Aren't you just goin' around burning everyone to a crisp? Have you ever brought back a single member?"

Dabi looks at him. "The streets are filled with trash, just living their lives without any kind of goals or ambitions."

Toga looks at us. "Maybe your taste in people just sucks?"

"Or he's just really picky." I sit on the arm of the chair Shigaraki's in.

Dabi glares at Toga. "You of all people can shut up."

Shigaraki talks, though he's shoving food in his mouth. "So it's been a month since Kurogiri was captured. Huh." He offers me some.

I take it and pop it in my mouth as Shigaraki wraps an arm around my waist. He continues talking. "But he ended up failing. And thanks to that, finding 'Doctor' guy has been rough sailing."

"Tomura-kun seems lonely without Kurogiri around. Hey, what kind of person is that doctor?" Twice is fastening a necklace around Toga's neck.

"He was Sensei's physician. A real cautious guy. I've only ever talked with him through the computer at our hideout. He's the one who created and managed all those Nomu." He slumps back, resting his hands on his stomach.

I wander off, still hungry. By the time I come back, Spinner is having a meltdown.

"What? So you weren't just some hollow cosplayer?" Dabi asks.

Spinner starts screaming suddenly. I flinch and look at Shigaraki. His eyes flick to mine and then he looks back at Spinner. Suddenly he grabs Shigaraki by the shirt. "Answer me Shigaraki!! Where the hell are we heading!?"

I resist the urge to slap Spinner. How dare he touch him like that!

"Like I said..." Shigaraki makes an annoyed face. It's actually really cute.

And then something rumbles, huge and deep. It makes me fall of the side of the couch.