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This wasn't supposed to be happening. Bakugou wasn't supposed to be back here, in the middle of this crowded city, his head throbbing and the people around him blissfully unaware of where he was.

Why? Why is this happening? Dread clawed at him as the memories rushed back. He and Kirishima won the game. Only one of them could be revived, and Kirishima was chosen. He'd told Kirishima to take it. Begged him to.

And then he was told that he had to replay the game, thrust into week two, seven more days of torture. And his entry fee...

Bakugou's heart sunk as the conversation flooded back to him, and he remembered what his new entry fee had been selected to be.

Kirishima Eijirou.

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"Hey!" Bakugou had been running from the strange colored, larger than normal frogs he later learned were called noise when Kirishima first called out to him. Then, he hadn't known the boy. "Forge a pact with me!"

"Huh?" Bakugou demanded as he saw the blond haired boy run towards him. A strange black streak ran through his hair. Bakugou's eyes widened as he realized the boy was talking to him. "You can see me?"

"What? Of course I can, you're a player, aren't you?"

"Player?" Bakugou started to ask when one of the frogs attacked him. The strange boy's hand glowed with energy. He electrocuted the frog creature, sparks flying from his hand, turning the creature into static.

"We don't have time for this! Forge a pact with me, please!" A pact? What the hell?

"Fine." Bakugou huffed if only because the frogs had surrounded them, and there wasn't much other choice. He didn't know what the boy was talking about, but at the moment, his priority was defeating these frog creatures.

"This pin, use it." The strange boy tossed him a pin with explosions on it. Bakugou clutched it in his hand and looked down at the strange object with a frown.

"The hell is this?" The frogs attacked, and the boy rushed at them, disintegrating them with his electrical attacks.

One of them leapt at Bakugou. He held up his hands to shield himself, and explosions burst out from his palms and set the frog aflame, causing it to disappear in static. He tried it out on another one of the creatures, and it leapt back as the burst nearly hit it. He tried again, and this time it exploded in a burst of fire and light, turning into static.

"What was that?" Bakugou demanded once the frogs had all been destroyed.

"It's called a psych. Each of us has one, and it allows you to fight the monsters they call noise. Mine's electric. Yours seem to be explosions. Glad I chose a strong partner." The boy laughed, and Bakugou frowned.

Partners? Psychs? What was he talking about? What was all of this?

"I'm Kirishima Eijirou, by the way! What's your name? I figure we might as well get to know each other since we'll be spending this week together in the Reaper's Game." The boy, Kirishima apparently, smiled. He held out his hand, and Bakugou stared at it, uncertain. This was too weird, all of it. Now that the frogs or Noise or whatever was gone, there was no need for him to stick around.

"Hey man, you ok?" Kirishima frowned. His brows creased, and he put a hand on Bakugou's shoulder. Bakugou shoved his hand away and started to run, wanting to get away from him and this whole damn place. He shoved people aside, but none of them seemed to even mind or notice him there. His heart pounded, and his head throbbed.

Why is this happening? What's going on? What the hell was this stupid game, and this weird kid with electrical powers?

Another one of those stupid frogs appeared and attacked him, a whole group of them with it. He swatted at them as they leapt at him and hurt him with their attacks. How was it possible for a dumb frog to do that much damage?

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