Chapter 36: Part 33
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Having satisfied my hunger at the competition, I decided to go for a walk, and why not? There are so many heroes here, I might meet someone interesting.
I was walking down the corridor when Katsumi jumps out at me and pushes me against the wall. Putting his hand over his mouth.
- Hmm? - I squeezed out of myself, and the girl put her index finger to her lips, and then to the side, and I fell silent, listening to the silence, or rather to the voices that I didn't immediately notice.
Hoshi and Shizuka were having a dialogue, or rather Hoshi was talking about her past. She had wanted to be a hero since childhood, and her father encouraged her to become one by training her daughter. However, this affected her relationship with her mother, and she had a twinge and wanted to throw boiling water in her face, but her father was there in time to cover her. After this incident, Hoshi gave up her left side and her mother went to a home for the mentally ill. The latter I knew, by the way, this information was dug up by Arizu, but what happened, I didn't know.
Hoshi challenged Shizuka, because the All-Powerful One had taken notice of her, and she wanted to justify her father's efforts and become number one.
Shizuka supported her classmate and responded in kind, then the girls left for the exit.
- М? - Katsumi signalled that it was time to let me go, the girl stepped back, removing her hand. - I didn't expect you to be so assertive, you could have waited until the wedding and then clamped me in dark corners, but it's okay, I'm not a modest guy, I don't have any principles about it, so it's okay. - and nodded with a kind smile.
- Tz! You always spoil everything with your jokes, - said the girl and turned round and headed for the exit.
- I don't know, - I threw her in her wake, - don't you think that jokes are a good way to relieve the heat of the situation? We're not the most peaceful profession. We'll be the first line of defence against the stench of the world... In five years, half of our class could be dead! If you're too serious, you'll break one day, don't you think? - and the girl stopped and looked at me over her shoulder, but there wasn't the expected sizzling anger, and there was no hatred either, rather she just understood what I meant and maybe agreed a little, - and in my opinion the joke defused a little bit of the information we heard, don't you think? - The girl turned away without saying anything and continued on her way out of my sight.
- Okay, I'm gonna miss the whole break! - I was about to go on my way when someone jumped on me again and pinned me against the wall, only this time I was held by the neck! - Agh! What for?
- It was you little bastard! Tell me now, you're the one who ruined my costume! - I was pinned against the wall by Yuu Takeyama. Tell me now!
- Yeah... Ahem, it was me,' I tried to free myself and wheezed in response.
- Now, you'll just stick your flippers together, and I'll tell everyone how I tried to save you and failed. - and her grip grew stronger.
- That's not how our acquaintance began, - I created flames in a radius of two metres around me, filling the corridor, - stop and let's talk like normal people!
- Talk? - shouted the girl, - you ruined my hero costume!
- Well then you better stop, or you'll have to change it again! - The girl felt the burning sensation and instantly jumped away from me into the area where my flames were not.
- What have you done you little scumbag,' the girl roared, 'do you even know what my suit is made of!
- Xha, Xha, I'm sorry,' I wheezed, trying to catch my breath and clear my throat. I probably know what her costume is made of. It's altered just like she is, and developing such a fabric the government would definitely not pay for for the sake of one person, which means the answer is pretty simple - hair, her own hair. - I, ahem, sincerely apologise to you! At that moment, I don't know what came over me, but your arse just clouded my judgement.....
- Another pervert! - rolled her eyes.
- Oh, you have no idea how much! But that's not the point, let me make it up to you, what do you say? I can heal with my quirk, and let's say for the next year I'll heal any of your wounds at your first command, what do you say? - And put out my right palm and covered it with fire.
- I may look like a good-natured fool in public, but I'm not that stupid! You just burned my suit sleeve!
- Look,' he attracted the girl's attention by waving his left hand and held it over the flames, intensifying the damage, 'a couple of seconds and voila - the tower is ready! - He held out his hand, where the skin was boiled and bleeding.
- You're really sick! - shouted the heroine, and I put my hand to the flame again, healing the damage and waved to the lady. - Um, how did you do that?
- I can do more than just maim,' I smiled at the thirty-two, 'and yes, even if you shave yourself bald and then I fly you, there will be no problem with hair growth. I feel very strongly about making amends for my transgression, at the time I didn't think what a problem it would be for you.
- Five years and I won't hold it against you!
- Pfft! A year and not a day more!
We haggled for a long time, but in the end I just stated either a year or nothing, yep, now I'll be her lap dog. Even though I apologised, I didn't regret what I had done and if I had the chance I would do it again! Eventually she agreed to what I was proposing.
- Well, that's settled, now let's get to the main thing, be my girlfriend and then my wife, what do you say?
- Are you out of your mind, what the hell are you talking about? Not even considering that we just met and I tried to strangle you and you've done so many things to me, do you think there's any chance that I, with someone like you... if this is a joke, it's not funny! - Hey, what's wrong with me? Why did she say that, I'm very handsome, it's a shame...
- I'm not joking, I'm not joking, I'm not joking, I'm not mocking, I'm totally serious! Be my girlfriend and then my wife.
- Only in your dreams.
- Well, and we will sleep too, but now not about it, - on what the heroine only hummed, - here is my trump card. - I held out my phone to her and opened the contract we had made with Arizu. Yes, Yuu was the one I was going to drag into the harem by the fact that I was the Noon, and what happened to Jiro was pure chance. Unlike my classmate, Lady Gora is very hungry for fame, and how much publicity will she get when she claims to be dating a world-class writer? Sneaky? Yes! Do I care? No! I'm gonna put my trunk in her mink!
- This...' the girl whispered, 'this could be a scam!
- Come to our house and Arizu herself will confirm to you that the mysterious 'Noon' is me, I can show you the drafts of the second part of the Lord of the Rings! Well, I'll take my leave now, I think the final stage is about to begin. I hope you'll consider my offer, I really like you. - he cheekily walked over, kissed the hovering girl on the cheek, took the phone and left.
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The girl stood still for a long time, pondering what had happened. Who would have thought that a petty passthrough would turn out to be a world star! If she had known it from the beginning, the conversation would have gone in a different direction. She would've given him the suit herself if she'd known in advance!
- You can't just take my word for it! I have to see for myself! - and the heroine went to the exit, pondering her next steps.
When the Mountain Lady was out of sight, another person came out of the shadows, to whom, the behaviour of her colleague seemed very suspicious, and she decided to follow.
- What an interesting and unexpected turn! - licked her lips, - so that's who is hiding under the mask of this half-day? He should definitely be punished!