Embering Lives

Chapter 18: Unfold

Chapter 18: Unfold

Asuga shook awake as she sat up in her bed in the little room that she had fallen asleep in, she sighed as she placed a hand over her chest slowly gripping it into a fist as she got out of her bed.

She walked over to the little mirror in the corner and inspected herself. There were bandages all over her body, she sighed before beginning to unwrap herself from the gauze.

Her skin used to be flawless, an almost porcelain color, now it had scars that were a dark pink in color. Asuga looked at the mirror for a few minutes before turning away grabbing a shirt and her jacket throwing them on as she walked out of the little room.

Asuga walked in stride as she opened another door to a room with a few people gathered, "Shigaraki." she says as she walks forward into the room.

The late teen looked at her as she walked in with a look of slight disgust on his face, "Serpent." he says as Asuga rolls her eyes, "I've got a plan." Asuga says as she takes a seat across from him.

"I think we've had enough of your plans, you've painted a large enough target on our back as is." Shigaraki says as Asuga scoffs.

"I don't care, in fact, this works in our favor." Asuga says as Shigaraki slams his hand on the table.

"Our favor? Tell me why are you even doing any of this?" Shigaraki says as Asuga looked at him silently, "Do you want power? A higher position? Revenge? There's something off about you and I can't seem to put my finger on it. It pisses me off." Shigaraki says as Asuga continues to stare him down.

"Are you finished?" Asuga says as Shigaraki narrowed his eyes.

"Enough, please the both of you need to get along if only this once." All for One says as Shigaraki and Asuga look toward the taller man as his very presence shook the room giving it a dark feeling.

"But teacher-" Shigaraki starts but is cut off as the taller man places a hand on his shoulder gently with a bit of roughness.

"Tomura, this girl here has brought nothing but results for us. Endeavor, other pros, and even Toshinori himself. All due to the intellect and ruthlessness of this girl. The least you can do is show her respect that she's earned." One for All says as Tomura shoots a glare at Asuga who just smiles at him.

"As I was saying, The heroes caught on to me. Sadly I got a bit too cocky and wasn't watching all of my openings to carefully. However, this works out for the next step." Asuga says as the two others look at her with interest as she leans forward placing her chin on top of her hands.

"The heroes will be out on the hunt for us trying to face off with us directly, little do they know we have an army at our disposal thanks to the efforts of Tomura here. They will all gather up for us in a neat little all out group allowing us to take them all out with ease seeing our numbers." Asuga says as Tomura scoffs.

"We've had numbers before and were dispatched by kids." Tomura says as Asuga squinted at him.

"This time, they'll be coming to us. With a plausible strategy instead of practically running at them." Asuga says as Tomura glares at her again.

"They have just lost two important symbols in their society. That means the committee of peace will gather to instate a new number one as well a debrief the people." Asuga says as Tomura interrupts, "What does that have to do with practically fighting a war?" Tomura asks as Asuga glares at him.

"That's the point, it's more smoke and mirrors. The war is going to be what the heroes are going to be focused on." Asuga says as Tomura and One for All look at her.