✿•Hold Me Close To You•✿ 【Fem!Todoroki x Male!Reader】 ╔BNHA╝

Chapter 28 - Sworn Nemesis and Inevitable Extremity

*Shouko PoV*

There was a rushing flow of emotions inside my head. Pressing the buttons of my fight or flight response, every inch of my body aware of the situation before me. With the ashes of the burned heroes still floating in the area we're in, I can only assume the impending danger the guy before will bring.

Dabi: "Well look at this. Ain't this confrontation fine and dandy? But I'll just cut to the chase, I'm here to take that guy on Shigaraki's orders, as much of a pain it already is."

Dabi, who is this villain?

Putting up my guard and putting Y/N's unconscious body behind me, I prepare a battle stance as the two girls whom I met before do the same.

Hikari: "We're not going to let you do what you intend."

Tairitsu: "And besides, you don't know who you're up against."

Standing in front of me defensively, they summon a bunch of glass shards around us. The guy in front of us merely blinks his eyes before handling a smirk.

Dabi: "You two, as much as I would like to break your arms and burn to you a crisp, I would have to say that I will go as far as to leave you on the brink of death. Since the guy who Shigaraki is under specifically said that I won't hurt his creations." He casually stated. "But I will ask you this, why are you protecting those two? Don't the both of you twins work for the league?"

Tairitsu: "The league? Ha, don't misunderstand our purpose. We were created to follow and serve Y/N-sama as long as we live."

Created?

Dabi: "And who gives the both of you the freedom and volition to do that? Both of you are the league's property." He edges them on.

But, they only smiled.

Hikari/Tairitsu: "We are Y/N-sama's property!" They yelled in unison.

...do they not realize that what they said sounds so wrong?

The guy named Dabi merely sighs in annoyance.

Dabi: "This is a pain, you..." He points to me. "Care to hand over your unconscious boyfriend to me?"

Shouko: "Like hell I will." I spat back at him.

Hikari: "You know, for a villain..." She smirked. "You're awfully pathetic at keeping your guard up."

Dabi: "Wha-"

He was then encased in a glass box in a split second before he could realize his dire situation.

Dabi: "Woah, this was unexpected." He casually remarks. "I didn't know that you two could make something like this."

Tairitsu: "Don't bother using your flames. It's ineffective against our glass and you will only burn yourself if you even try to use your quirk." She taunts.

As much as I was relieved a bit to see him bound inside a glass cage, I was unsettled that he was not reacting much. Rather, his expression from before remained unchanged.

Shouko: "Something's not right." I muttered to myself.

Possibly hearing what I said, he then smiles from inside the clear box much to our awareness.

Dabi: "Hey, I was only dropping my guard on purpose you know." He explained.

Hikari: "What do you mean?"

Dabi: "I was only a distraction."

*boom* *ignite*

The sounds of explosions then roared throughout the entire forest catching the three of us off guard. A gust of wind rustled the forest's leaves while we brace ourselves, and as it stopped, we looked on from the incline of the hill we were in as we see bundles of blue flames and a mist of green spreading through the forest.