But What If I Was Better? | Mob Joins UA

27 | Brother Dearest

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][ Previously: Elyse hacks computer, finds Ryo was once a registered slave in fighting ring, snags a lot of info from computer, and is chased out by chainsaw Nomu. She saves the people trapped, grabs Zeya, and runs into Makima, who is an evil villain lady who makes people fight each other. Elyse forced to fight Zeya. Elyse gets F-ing sawed lmao. ][

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     The room danced; it swayed around her. Elyse's glossed over eyes couldn't focus on anything. The sharp pain dulled out, replaced with a mild burning where the gash marked diagonally across her chest.

     She could still breathe. Her heart was still beating. She wasn't dead yet.

     But, she couldn't hear anything quite right. Even Zeya's screams right beside her were drowned out, as though her head was under a foot of water.

     "EELLLYYYSSEEEE!!!" Zeya's arms wrapped around her own chest, dropping to her knees at the sight of her newly found aunt laying half dead on the floor. Her body shook terribly, unable to look away from all the blood.

     She had seen many horrors in her life, the poor girl, but the first memory that came to mind in this moment was the image of her mother bloody and lifeless in the driver's seat with fire all around, the image unchanging no matter what she did.

     The Nomu stood over Elyse's body, right chainsaw dripping with blood. It stood there silently, ready to strike again if the woman dared move.

     "Denji." The villain's voice flatly called to it, stretching her arms out, open in welcome. "Leave her."

     The Nomu's weapon of a head shifted up immediately. It strode over the bleeding hero, kneeling before the lady and dipping its head. She gently traced her hand down his metallic face.

     "Please don't tell me you're dating a Nomu." Though she loved the woman for whatever reason, Zeya's face contorted in disgust.

     "He's my brother." Makima clarified, turning toward the youngest. Zeya was quick to purse her lips, dip her head, and shut up on the spot.

     Elyse wasn't sure if she heard that right. That thing..? Her brother?! Images of her own brother came to mind. Imagining him turned into a Nomu?? Sickening.

     "Ughh!" Elyse groaned, rolling onto her side. Blood leaked out of her like it was nothing, spilling more red over the floor.

     "Elyse, no-!" Zeya reached out for the elder, but was too afraid to touch her.

     Leaning on her elbow, the hero lifted her heavy head, glaring the ginger down. "Youuh.. You-kh! ..Why the...h### would you..disgrace your brother like that? Guh!.. Turning his body into a Nomu. What kind of a monster are you to do that to your own brother?!" She could feel the adrenaline kicking in.

     She was really doing this, aye?

     First came an expression of appallment, then a sharp glare. "Of course you heroes would find this as nothing but repulsing. You all fail to care in the slightest about the real needs of others. It was because of your kind that he ended up like this in the first place! I had no other choice!!

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     I had the worst paranoia regarding love. I was so scared that everyone was faking it. Didn't help that my quirk had a bad habit of activating at random, suddenly making everyone around me treat me so differently than before.