◆Diamond Flower◆Dabi◆Boku no Hero Academia◆

◆29◆ A warm light lit this world I'd forsaken

Ichinose was looking at Dabi with a suspicious look on his face. It was unnerving because he only looked at Dabi that way but not Michiyo. 

Dabi started to regret taking Michiyo on a trip to see this old man now; what kind of person would look at their guest with such a look like Ichinose? 

Why the trip to Ichinose's? Because Shigaraki had asked each member of the League to go around and recruit people to join them. After the kidnapping of Bakugou Katsuki and losing the Symbol of Peace, people who had strayed onto the path of villains would be interested in the invite. However, Dabi wasn't so kind to just go around and hand out invisible invites for random villains to join the league. Dabi believed that the league needed not in numbers but in villains who wanted to change the world for real. What was the point of letting someone who does petty crimes or for their own gains to join the league? People who truly opposed the hero society were his ideal people to let join the league. And for those who weren't ideal, he'd just make them into kindling and watch his own fire burn them.  

Michiyo looked at the two back and forth. It was supposed to be a nice and comfortable dinner...she wondered why Ichinose was glaring at Dabi each time he chewed his food. "Father, is everything okay?" 

"I'm just wonder if he is a clone or not." 

"Wait, so you suspect I am a clone but Michiyo is the real deal, what gives?" 

"You have malice written all over you." 

"And girls don't?" 

"Oh no, Dabi. Years of experience tells me that young women who are with rich old men are all thots. Michiyo-chan is a very special case, she is this one pure angel descending onto this godforsaken world...and she ends up with a devil like you!" 

Dabi then looked at Michiyo, "If I ever become senile like that, will you end my life for me?"

"Urk! I just remembered I didn't lock the church's door. I'm going to lock it before you make me hurl." Even though he said that, he was truly happy to know the original Dabi and Michiyo came to visit him. He did not tell them about the clones; he wanted their visit to be a happy one. There was a calm and happy smile on the old man's face because he was happy to see young love bloom away from the light of this society that failed to save them. He wished for them to go as long as they could.

"I don't agree with your decision, but I will support you." She was about to pick up a piece of meat from another dish, but she paused halfway because she was pondering on what Dabi just said to her as a joke. "But what if I die before you?" 

He chuckled, "That's hard to happen." He put his chopsticks down and he patted her on the head, prompting her to look up at him. "I'll just kill the person who tries to kill you." 

"Dabi..." 

"I'm not joking. As long as you're alive, I don't care who gets cremated along the way." 

She should be freaked out, but she found herself nodding to his words. 

"Good girl." 

Because she was the same. As long as he was alive, she will do bad things. Ah, Dabi promised her he will be angry if she did bad things, right? She smiled and she let out an amused laugh. 

"What's so funny?" 

"You have rice stuck on your face." She picked the single grain from his face and she ate it. It wasn't a lie that he had rice on his face, but she did laugh at the fact Dabi will probably be angry at her for not too long before he will embrace her and tell her the three beloved words to her. When did she reach the point where she could always tell what Dabi was thinking? Was this what will happen to people when they're in love? She's so happy.