Thaumaturgic (Bakugou Katsuki x Reader - Miraculous Ladybug AU)

Escape Scenarios and Worst Cases

Ch.24 - Escape Scenarios and Worst Cases

He wasn't sure how far his patience would go thanks to this crush. More so, he didn't know how much longer he could go without giving in to the desire to strangle the person closest to him. If there was one reason he'd lose his mind, it would be locked in a room with some of his annoying classmates. And today... he had willingly let it happen.

Apparently the pink dyed hair girl thought it would be fun to spend this Saturday at some escape room, and a few other classmates had tagged along. There was his usual band of idiots: Kirishima, Kaminari, Mina and Sero. But there was also the group Kirishima had invited along for the sake of being friendly to their classmates. These other beings: Deku, the half-and-half, round face, frog lover, and four eyes. Then, of course, the girl in question he was putting up with this torture for.

Escape rooms had a limit of eleven people... and he was lucky (though maybe it was more unlucky) that he got the final slot. And now, he was among his classmates who were looking over the next set of clues and seeing what the first step would be to escape.

The theme was a hotel room. And you needed to get out of the bedroom part of it and into the main room. From the main room you could work on escaping the room and exit into the lobby. But this was an escape room, so numerous clues that were way too over the top lined the room. And everyone aside from him seemed super gung-ho on solving it.

The line 'let's try to win for us' repeated several times. He couldn't help but roll his eyes. If they were not trying to beat the shitty record, then he had no interest in helping. So he'd sit and watch from afar... only interacting if he felt like he needed to, or if his heart thought he needed to attempt to impress a certain person of his affections.

Currently, you were working with the three other girls on some puzzles. The four of you were giggling every so often as you talked. At least the half-and-half wasn't up close and personal with you today... seeing as he was trying to help shitty Deku and four eyes with a clue of their own.

"You wanna help us, Bakugou?" Kirishima asked, motioning towards Sero and Kaminari who, by some miracle or curse... had found a clue that needed to be solved with knowledge of the periodic table... so it wasn't going well, thus why Kirishima was asking their smart ash-blonde friend for help.

Bakugou let a low growl escape his lips as he sulked over from where he had been sitting on a chair. Kaminari and Sero practically threw the science-based question sheet at him. Bakugou scanned it over, solving it immediately.

"Boron, Oxygen, Potassuim, and Nitrogen's symbols are N, K, O, and B." Bakugou pointed to the door. "Go check the knob and see if anything is around it."

Kaminari and Seri scurried off to do as such. Bakugou grumbling on how the idiots couldn't figure out something so simple. Kirishima sat on the ground beside him, punching Bakugou's shoulder playfully.

"Nice one man! We're a step closer to getting out of here now!"

Kirishima watched as Bakugou scoffed and looked off towards the wall. The redhead frowning. The ash-blonde had been acting weird lately. Kirishima couldn't place exactly why... but he knew Bakugou. And thus he knew Bakugou hated tagging along to things like this, but for some reason was.

As Bakugou's self-proclaimed 'best bud', Kirishima was determined to find out what was bothering him and help him out in any way possible. After all, in the redhead's mind, that's what friends did and while everyone else was investigating how to escape this room, Kirishima would be investigating how to help Bakugou out of whatever had captivated him as of late and get him the success he desired.