This' Where My Demons Hide (Villain AU)

Chapter 34 - By the Night Sky

Nekta went out for a jog, using a disguise of a green-haired megane with earphones in her ears. For once, the headquarters isn't somewhere secluded or crowded. Just the right kind for someone normal. To be short, completely not for government wanted criminals who do all sorts of crime.

She took a turn and her eyes widened when she saw a woman with sandy blond hair and eyes similar to someone she knew. She tried masking her surprise with a PokerFace and just jog pass her, acting like nothing happened.

After a few meters, she stopped and looked back to see the woman took a turn in the other side and the tan-skinned girl suddenly had the urge to follow her. But she refrained from doing so and continued on her routine.

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"Eri-chan! You should eat vegetables," Nekta scolded when the little girl refused to take in a carrot. She grip a spoon containing the veggie in question as Eri stare at it with a hesitant look, "Eri-chan."

"I'm glad I'm not babysitting that kid," Dabi said, taking in one last scoop of his food and Todoroki poured a spoonful more into his plate.

"Hehehehe! Dabi, eat some more!"

"Eew! Get your yaoi out of the table! It's disgusting!" Shigaraki complained, almost disintegrating his spoon when Nekta pulled it away before he ever do some damage.

"Yeah, and I'm babysitting the rest of you," Nekta growled and looked at Uraraka who silently eats her food beside Midoriya who is playing with his food, "Why don't you help me with this, Ochako?"

The brunette looked at her with wide eyes. Nekta finally made Eri eat her food and her face slightly lit up at the taste.

"What?"

"Let's talk later," Nekta said, dabbing Eri's mouth with a napkin and continued feeding her.

Uraraka looked around the table and saw different activities by the villains. Todoroki is bothering Dabi by putting more food in his plate in which the older male shove into his face. Toga is using all sorts of knife to eat. Midoriya, on the other hand, plays with his food as to where Spinner and Mr Compress eat normally, ignoring all the commotion in the table.

To tell the truth, they just look like one normal gang of round up teenagers who have nothing else to do. Not something she expects from an organization of pure evil.

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Nekta fixes the table after dinner as Todoroki and Midoriya play with Eri in the living room as the little girl nibble on an apple. Yep, that girl loves apples.

Eri had development in the past weeks and she started acting like a normal child. Her shaky and always afraid demeanor is now replaced with a little cheerful child and everyone seem to enjoy it. Even Shigaraki. Well, he did grew up with a nine-year-old Nekta so maybe he reminisce with those old days.

"Eri-chan, be careful. Deku! Stop making her climb the table!" Nekta scolded, using her quirk to get her down the center table and Midoriya whining about ruining the fun. She merely huffed and continued on fixing the table. Oh, how she wished Toga can be more helpful outside the villain business and help out in household work.

"You act like you actually care about Eri-chan," a voice said behind her and Nekta turned to look at Uraraka, looking quite indifferent as she watch the rest play in the next room, "You're a really good actress, you know that?"

"Tch, like you know my life," Nekta sassed and started letting the water gush out of the faucet, "You wannabe heroes don't understand why we do all these sorts of thing."

"Of course not! You kill people!" Nekta slammed and hands by the sink and turned to Uraraka with an intense glare in her green eyes.

"That, I can explain. Human society says things that drives itself to its limits. Hypocritical comments towards us, villains, where they forgot that they are doing it, themselves," she said and heard the water overflow in the small tub in the sink, but Nekta ignored it.