To Be A Hero Issue 3.5 PT2: Shelter

Episode 2: Drift Away

Episode Summary:

Reina is reunited with an old familiar face soon after regaining consciousness.

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"I'll come back to get you."

That's the last thing my mum told me, before she left me behind.

We lost everything the day the Villain attacked...

I lost my dad, my grandma and pa...

She lost the man she loved and the people that brought her into the world...

I lost my leg...

She lost her job...

We lost our home...

She said she would come back for me when she found a new life for us... She made that promise to me...

It was only supposed to be for a year...

But she never came back...

In the end... She broke her promise...

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(Opening Theme: Dororo Opening 1-Blaze Performed By Jooubachi)

"If this is a fight... Than we'll find a way to win. We're Heroes afterall... We'll find a way..."

"Get your head out of the clouds! Don't think about anything else, and focus on what's happening right now! You CAN do this! Stop letting your fear get the better of you!"

"... Whatever happens now... We'll be together..."

"I promise... It'll be okay... As long as I'm here..."

"N--No... Not again...! Not again...!--NNNNNOOOOO!!!"

Reina let out a gasp as she heard a ringing sound in her head again. She sat up suddenly as she felt herself hyperventilated as she felt panic rise in her chest as familiar images appeared in her head. In her arms she saw that she was holding a familiar young boy, on the verge of bleeding out.

Reina started to claw at her head and hit at the side as an effort to get it all to stop.

"Stop it! Stop it! Stop torturing me damn it!"

The voices in her head soon dimmed and it was then she finally noticed her surroundings. Instead of finding herself outside, on the road bleeding out, she find herself laying on a white bed with a white blanket covering her lower half. Not only that she saw that a hoodie large enough to fit a man, served as a second layer as she noticed how cold the room had been when she shivered slightly.

She picked up the hoodie a little.

"Doesn't this belong to that--Eh?!"

She noticed she had been in a different appearance as she couldn't help but jump. Instead of her UA uniform, she was in a set of black shorts, and nearly topless as her black bra was in plain view as she could see bandage patches along her chest and a set had been wrapped around her shoulder where she had been shot. Not to mention, her hair had been completely undone as most of it rested on her shoulders and collarbone.

She saw her entire left arm had been bandaged as even her hand had been covered in the set of bandages; her right arm had been bandaged up to her elbow as she could still see her right hand. Her right knee was bandaged as well as her ankle, and she noticed her left foot had been wrapped in a set of bandages; at least she could see her toes.