[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/qzvR0Ec.png[/img]

[h3][color=ffff99]Kasuke Mina[/color][/h3][/center]


Mina was taken off guard by Jett's curt reply. He wasn't supposed to be the icy one, she was. Mina was about to reply just as curt and icy, but as Jett carried on, she sensed his hurt, and stopped. And listened to him. The more he said, the more her unease became pain, and the pain almost grew crippling. Mina couldn't decide what was worse. The numerous past sins of the last week being brought up all at once, or Jett being this disappointed in her. She was close to tears, and about to spill it all. She was genuinely ready to openly cry, and grovel, and apologize, and beg forgiveness. Anything that she thought would ease the guilt, sooth the main, and make Jett hare her less.

And then he mentioned that he knew what she'd did to Kaida. Kaida had told Jett about what Mina had done.

Kaida.

This was all Kaida's fault.

All the pain turned to rage. All the guilt turned to malice. Mina no longer had any desire to grovel, or to apologize. It had all been suffocated by the black cloud of hatred. How dare Kaida turn Jett against her like this! The cloud burst. Mina's face turned red, and her tears started to flow freely now. Maybe Mina could still have apologized now, or thanked Jett, but she would never know. She couldn't even speak. Every attempt just became a sobbing gasp for breath.

Mina turned away. She was making an utter fool of herself, and didn't want to be seen like this. She was supposed to be a Lady. She was supposed to be a future Hero. But right now, she just felt like a silly little child. Every attempt to get herself under control just made her crying worse. She buried her head in her hands, and for the first time in her life, wished she could just disappear.


[@Aerandir]


[hr]


[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/uqjbGm9.png[/img]

[h3][color=ffdd99]Maeda Hitomi[/color][/h3][/center]


Hitomi nodded, and took her roommate back to the academy, and back to their shared room, where she let Tomoe collapse into her bed. Hitomi then went over to her own side of the room, put her earphones in, selected a playlist called 'METAL WORKOUT' and pressed play, before reaching under her bed to bring out a pink plastic box, adorned with cartoon sheep stickers, containing pushup handles, dumbbells and kettle bells of assorted weights and sizes, and proceeded to work out to the sound of screeching power metal. Ever since she'd joined the Hero course, Hitomi knew that she would be pushed physically, and she had no great combat-useful quirk. Her quirk was to sense predators, have horns, and faint like a goat when scared. She needed to turn her body into the tool she would use to go toe to toe with her classmates. That and her brain, but there was only so far tactics alone could take you against somebody like Acion. She thought of him during her workout, and blushed, remembering the mortifying shame of being naked in front of him.


[@liferusher]