This time I will protect them I won't be a coward

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After having an unexpected encounter with Daichi and getting hurt and seeing his two classmates now keeping an eagle hawk eye on his every moment left Denki feeling drained out and soon it will be time to take his oh so happy feel good meds.

Denki cringes at the very thought of swallowing those nasty tasting pills down his throat.

Denki decides to call it a day and go home and lie down on his comfortable bed and stare at the glow in the dark stars stuck on the ceiling of his room and keep on staring at them until sleep comes to him.

He had this odd sensation of feeling of his chest tightening for some unknown reason.

It was difficult to put it into words, this sickening feeling did not disappear since last night, it only seemed to increase more much to Denki's dismay.

Denki quietly kept playing with the loose threads of his cardigan. He kept twisting the black threads to and fro between his slender pale fingers and then he looked towards his friends sitting across from him, furiously scribbling into their notes or making quizzlets on their phone app with burning determination in their eyes, to rank first in the exam.

After some time, Denki tells his friends that he is going 'home'. As soon as the word home is mentioned both the boys whip up their heads to look at Denki's tired face.

Both Bakugou Katsuki and Torodoki Shoto for a moment had forgotten about Denki who was quietly sitting with them while they both were competing against each other silently to complete their syllabus.

'Don't tell me. He is in some kind of pain. He was being mysteriously quiet after meeting and getting hurt by that bastard general course student' were the thoughts of both Torodoki Shoto and Bakugou Katsuki.

Denki could feel his irritation increase when takes notice that both of them were going to ask him the same question for the nth time.

Denki does not let them speak and he says he has a curfew he can't be late getting home.

Denki receives mixed reactions from his friends. One stares at him with a stoic look and the other one just frowns at him silently.

For some reason his two friends expressions reminded him of a cat meme which he had stumbled across on Instagram the day before yesterday.

Denki shakes his head at the thought and smiles to himself; perfect, they believed his lie well it was not technically a lie. It was actually a white lie, he really needed to go home to take his meds as he had no idea how long his study group session would go on and he did not expect it to prolong till the evening. And truth to be told, Denki never had a curfew to begin with. His aunt Kiko was a very chill person and she always had faith in Denki that he would not abuse the privileges which were given to him.

Denki gives his friends a soft smile and bids both the boys while they just stare at him with unknown emotions as he leaves the cafe.

Denki starts walking down the street and takes a sharp right turn and stops against the wall and listens for any sound of footsteps following him and takes a sigh of relief, he thought his friends would follow behind him but luckily they did not.

Denki resumes his walk and sees the sun setting in the distant sky, and a nice pleasant breeze blows by.

Slowly each street lights start turning on by the roadside. The streetlight casts a glow of orange hue, making the passerby's shadows look elongated and creepy, like ghosts moving.

Denki feels chills just imagining it

Denki decides to head to the convenience store to buy some ready to eat meals and go home.

The 24 hour convenience store which he decides to go to was located in a secluded area of a quiet neighborhood around the little corner of the street.

It looked very cozy and from the outside.

He enters the 24/7 convenience store. The door of the bell chimes as the door is pushed open and he steps into the toasty atmosphere of the store.

Even, though it was rush hour there were very few people in the store having their food at either the table or on the glass side counter barstool.

Denki passes through various aisles of food debating on what he should have and spots someone playing 'Animal Crossing' on their nintendo .

Denki sighs and says to himself, "It's been so long since I played animal crossing".

The person who was playing the game suddenly went rigid and stopped playing it on his nintendo.

Luckily the said person was sitting with their back turned towards Denki.

Denki takes the view of the person only to realise that this person's hands were reptilian green skin and they were trembling slightly and they also had a black hoodie over their head.

Denki's mind goes, 'Shit shit shit get away from there MAYDAY mayday mayday it might be a villain'.

Denki's heart starts beating wildly in his ribcage.

He begins to move on autopilot mode towards the ramen aisle and begins to take down various ramen cups from the selves while he could feel the intense stare of the hooded figure on his back.

Denki tries to keep himself calm as possible.

Denki's thoughts at the moment were, 'Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. Exhale. Oh look- they have an iced Americano in stock here' .

He grabs it with his shaky hands and holds onto it dearly while his arms were already overflowing with various snacks.

Soon, Denki hears the door bell chiming while the cashier chirps in a happy tone, "please visit us again".

Denki quietly peeks from the aisle and sees the black hooded figure to be nowhere in sight and puts all his snacks into a random basket near him.

Denki was about to let out a sigh of relief only to feel someone placing a firm hand on his shoulder.

Then, Denki let out the manliest shriek ever heard in mankind.