Quirks of Being Dead (IzukuxHarem)

10: Cobbler's Magic

"Hmmm..." Mt. Lady hummed, standing on her tip toes to peer onto the top shelf of the pantry. The woman checked over each shoulder to ensure nobody was spying or catching onto her, looking back into the pantry to eye a small red parcel of chocolate cream cookies towards the rear. "Interesting..."

The woman leaned as much as she could on the tips of her toes, her right arm reaching but just could not get to the parcel. She dropped back on her feet and huffed, leaning once more onto her toes and reaching as far back as she could. Her middle finger could feel the very edge of the covering but she just, couldn't quite, get there.

"M-Mrmmm, come ooon. Almost, the-eeeere!"

"So whatcha doing?"
"AHH!" Mt. Lady shrieked and whipped around, finding Tokage to be standing behind her with arms cross and a smug look on her face. "T-Tokage! O-Ohhhh I was just you knooooow, cleaning out the pantry heh! Gotta make sure the rats don't get to anything."

"Uh-huh." Tokage replied. "And do these rats by any chance look like a short woman with blonde hair and a big butt trying to get to the cookies we purposely hid in the back so she doesn't get to them?"

"Hey I'll have you know that I take great pride in my butt even IF the world is being chewed apart by a bunch of zombies! And, y-you guys need to stop, HIDING the cookies in the back it's rude not to share things!"

"Oh yeah? Is that the kind of mindset you had when you destroyed that container of white chocolate brownies you managed to find in the bakery?"

"STOP BRINGING THAT UP THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO!"

Tokage laughed while heading over to the pantry for herself. "You know, I'd think one of the lowest priorities would be having to worry about you sneaking off with the stuff we come away with, but look how that turned out."

Mt. Lady sighed. "I know, I'm terrible. Ever since this whole world turned to poop I've been wanting nothing more than to drown my sadness in sugar and cake batter. I miss sugar cookies."

"You and me both."

*SLAM*

The two women snapped to the sudden noise of a door slamming open, finding Midoriya suddenly charging out from the stairs and sprinting his way towards the dorm entrance. The women watched as he said not one word to them and instead raced past them to the exit. "Whoa Midoriya, in a rush to get lunch or something what's the deal?"

*SLAM*

And out the front he went, with not a word to be said. For several moments Tokage and Mt. Lady stared at the open door of the dorm before turning to each other with confused faces and even more confused minds, the former turning back to the pantry door while the latter resumed attempting to reach for the cookies. "Wonder what that was about."

*CSHHH*

"Guard Tower Six this is Central, you're clear to take your shift break somebody will be over there to cover your post shortly."

"Copy that." Nagant replied to the radio in her hand. "I'll be back shortly."

Pulling away from the scope of her rifle Nagant shook her hair and placed the sniper rifle aside, interlacing her fingers and stretching towards the sky. A deep breath filled her lungs as she pushed it out from the stomach, rolling her neck around and rotating her right arm. Turning to her bean bag she grabbed a small white drawstring bag in the center and stepped to the zip-line, grabbing hold of the device and descending to the ground.

*ZIIIIIIIiiip*

Her boots touched onto grass and she looped the small drawstring bag onto her shoulders, Nagant trudging towards the main campus like a lazy giant. A great yawn stretched her jaws open as a hand reached behind to lazily scratch the back of her hair. She continued trudging along until she caught sight of something in from the right side of her vision, eyebrows furrowing with steps slowing in question.