•Manipulation• [BNHA × Male!OC]

Chapter 163: That's not my name, quarterbackkkkkkk

It was him.

There was no doubt.

His hair was shorter now, to his nape.

And he'd lost weight.

God his face had become so gaunt.

But it was him.

It was Ryo.

"Ryo you- what-?" Katsuki's words fall out like loose baggage.

He didn't know what to say.

How could he?

He'd been chasing the idea of Ryo for so long, and now here he was.

Right in front of him.

They'd fought.

Ryo had heeded the orders of Shigaraki.

For all they knew, he was a villain through and through.

So why was it that the first feeling that filled Katsuki's chest was not anger or hate...

but relief?

"Ryo what are you-?" "Have you mistaken me for someone?"

Cold.

The boy's voice, the look in his eye, the way his mouth was pressed into a firm line.

He was so cold.

It was unrecognizable from the boy they'd known before.

Ryo was expressive, he felt things and expressed his emotions with every fibre of his being.

His face would twist, his voice would rise and fall, his body would be prompted into motion.

He was a walking art piece that painted the world with the colors of his emotions.

So who was this man, with eyes so empty and body so rigid?

He was unrecognizable.

And yet, his face, his voice, down to that mole on the inner corner of his right eye, he was still so undoubtably Ryo.

"That's... not funny Ryo..." Katsuki can't stop his body from shaking.

It was a sunny afternoon in Jaku city, but his body was freezing.

"My name is Nora," he stated simply.

"Stop... fucking around..." Katsuki gripped tighter onto the boy's arms, as if the pressure would force the Ryo he knew back to him.

Suddenly, a loud noise in the distance.

Katsuki looks up for a second.

And in that second the mist around Ryo blazes back to life.

The blonde curses and flinches back, and Ryo gets to his feet.

A few hundred meters away, Midoriya has a hold of Shigaraki. He'd wrapped him up with Black Whip and the two were now... floating?

'Midoriya did it...!'

He'd mastered the seventh user, Nana Shimura's quirk.

"I don't have time for this," Ryo spits.

Before the boys can react, the earth melts beneath their feet and they fall into it like quicksand.

Ryo barely spares them a look before disappearing, likely to help Shigaraki.

The earth simply keeps consuming the two boys.

With a large explosion, Katsuki manages to propel himself out of the trap.