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[h3][color=548b54]Dulga Tarata[/color][/h3][/center]

Dulga could only sigh as Adriane lectured her and the stranger about what a real "spar" is. Dulga wasn't going to argue, but she didn't agree to it either. Like it or not Dulga intends to fight like this whenever the opportunity to spar comes up. Maybe she'll ease back depending on whatever the lesson might be, but in a free-form brawl she's putting everything she's got into it. And if accidents happen, they'll happen. Live and let learn. As Dulga was walking away she was pulled off to the side by Adriane. She didn't even need to say anything as Dulga knew what she wanted to talk to her about. Sure enough, it was about Dulga's attempted headshot on Amane. Almost immediately Dulga wanted to say that she would've done that to anyone if they were in her sights, but elected to keep it to herself. Dulga was certain that Adriane already knew. If she didn't figure that out from the last fight Dulga got into, then Mako might've told her. Dulga wouldn't be surprised if the entire faculty was keeping an eye on the gun girl.

Normally Dulga would just nod her head, agree with the older woman, and leave as soon as possible. She didn't intend to change her mind unless these people intended to get in her way. But then Adriane talked about Dulga's mother. This made Dulga visibly change. Before she was just aloof, but now her brows furrowed and her pupils narrowed. First Dulga freed her from Adriane's grasp and walked a few feet away from her, turning her back on Jett's mom. Then Dulga spoke, loudly and clearly, partly out of suppressed anger and partly because Dulga wasn't going to keep this a secret. [color=548b54]"I appreciate the concern. But you do not know my mother, and you do not know me. Everyone in this school is doing their best. If you think what we do now is too much you haven't seen anything yet. That boy from 1B was going to bring down the entire building with everyone inside of it with his powers if no one was able to stop him. Imagine what he could've done if he bothered to take things seriously."[/color] After that fight Dulga did take the time to read through the after battle report. It seemed like the entire building was ready to collapse around the same time Amane came in, though that was mostly thanks to the actions of the other students weakening the structure. If they had just kept it to hand-to-hand things might've been fine, but with the direction the battle was going Amane was going to destroy the auditorium whether he intended to or not.

[color=548b54]"You saw how he brutalized Kasuke-san and your son. You also saw that no matter who or what anyone else did, it wasn't enough to stop him. Not even my headshot stopped him. Not one person was able to stop him, and neither was all of us working together. In the end the only person who was able to take him out wasn't any of us, but his own quirk backfiring. So stop treating everyone like fragile children. Komei isn't some daycare for children to learn how to use their quirks and abilities to play fight. We need to be able to fight real villains who are far stronger than you, who fully intend to kill us. Maybe one day we'll be strong enough that we can afford to hold back. But not now."[/color] Then Dulga took a step forward and glared right into Adriane's eyes, the spite and fury inside of her visible in her eyes, even if her voice was soft and steady. [color=548b54]"My mother held back. She made that choice. Now she's dead. There's no moral lesson to learn there. Whatever mercy, heroism, or whatever attribute she had in life, she took to her death. She wasn't strong enough. None of us were."[/color]

Dulga stepped back from Andriane again and looked scornfully between her and Mina. She was certain that Mina knew what Dulga was thinking of right now. Bit by bit, Dulga could understand the girl a bit better. Then she sighed and just looked exhausted. [color=548b54]"Weakness is a choice. We make the decision to hold back. Sometimes that's a good call, sometimes it isn't. Whatever happens we have to live with the result."[/color] Dulga clutched her mother's cloak. She could still smell the ashes from that day. She could feel her mother's warmth, and the fire that burned her. She felt the weight of her actions on his shoulders every time she put this cloak on. [color=548b54]"If you know anything about my mother then you'd know that when she has to make a choice, she'll follow through with it all the way. Just as I made the choice to go all out against Kasuke-san, shooting that boy in the head, or sacrificing my own teammate to try and stop him. I made that decision consciously, intentionally, and fully aware of the risk and consequences. I'll live with it."[/color]

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