Layers Of Suffering (Tokoyami BNHA)

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~Recovery Girl~

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The machine hummed with effort.

The sound loudens and softens as if moving about... searching for something.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

A discrepancy was detected, the more serious the discrepancy, the more elongated the sound would be.

Through the screen, revealed something revolting...

"Oh dear..."

Recovery girl said with pity.

"Poor boy, what have they done to you?"

The screen displays a monotone blue image, similar to an x-ray.

It outlines complicated shapes of the body, but a prominent feature stands out. Several red articles contrasted with the blue outlines of a heart, revealing itself as foreign to the body.

This month, she mostly received such victims, tortured to death. It was a jarring sight to see the pain written all over the corpse face.

What a dreadful quirk.

Just one, the size of a pea, managed to cause such a reaction.

Yet, exactly like a disease, no one knows who is the killer...

Or who will be the victim.

Heroes? Utterly helpless.

Everyone awaits an excruciating death. For that one harmless-looking crystal to glitter dangerously in their hearts.

Yet this boy has seven.

Recovery girl stared at the screen, slowly absorbing the severity of the situation.

She was definitely relieved to see the missing child return, but no news was out of the bird teen's return.

"How could no one know of this?"

Judging from his friends' reaction, they didn't seem to know the state that he was in.

Realising that, she took a step towards the exit of her door. The whole class waiting outside.

She stopped.

It'll be better for him to tell them himself, there must be a reason why he didn't do so in the first place.

Her mind wanders if Tokoyami even knew about his condition at all.

It doesn't matter. This stubborn boy is definitely the type who sacrifices himself for others.

She recalled the time when she was healing Shoji, Tokoyami got so shaken up when Shoji got injured that he literally couldn't control his emotions.

She'd seen him around, usually keeping his distance from others.

It all made sense now. He was afraid of hurting others. Physically... and now, mentally.

But now... She wasn't even sure if he would wake up...

at all.

This was her first live victim with the villain's quirk after all.

She took another look at the screen, staring at the red articles.

Removing it?

Dangerous.

Since the villain's quirk was still unknown, doing so was way too risky. It might be a trap.