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[color=ba2259]“Well. This is annoying.”[/color] Houki said this between breaths, coughing lightly from all the heat and smoke. What suffered the most were her eyes, left near-red and watery from all the debris they had plundered through just to get back to the bus. Most detrimental of all were their end results, having snagged down five dummies in total. And with Hikari choosing to join their team, they each had enough for two and a half dummies each. [color=ba2259]“If we split this between us, you can have one,”[/color] Houki said to the boy, having removed her glasses and rubbing her eyes along her jacket sleeve. [color=ba2259]“Since you just joined us, Minami and I will take two for ourselves. If that’s fair for you.”[/color]

Before the boy could give answer, Minami had chimed in with their next plan of action. Houki had nothing to add, merely nodding in approval. There were still dummies to save back in Zone 5 after all. Even so, she was surprised to see the cat girl take it upon herself to divide up the dummies; though where Minami had gotten that pen from was perhaps the biggest mystery of all. Houki stood silent for a few moments before taking said pen and marking down her assigned dummies; one of the adults and the child.

[color=ba2259]“Did you not want to take more for yourself?”[/color] was all she had to ask as Minami signed her name on only one. Then she shrugged, swiftly double-checking her name was marked on hers before leaving them at the bus. If Minami wanted to be charitable so be it; the cat girl was confident they would get more on the return trip all. Though Houki felt that this time there would be much more in terms of obstacles in their way.

That was why she chimed in with, [color=ba2259]“This is still an exam. Meaning we need to be on our guard this time. I don’t think we avoided villains by accident.”[/color] Her eyes dry from all her rubbing, she glanced over back towards Zone 5’s fiery entrance. [color=ba2259]“We should be careful of what lays ahead.”[/color] That said, she motioned for the other two to follow along, leading the way back where they had come from.

Along the way they passed by several other groups of students, each of them no doubt carrying dummies of their own; Houki didn’t much care since they had all split into different sectors anyway. However, she did pass a glance at Mari, wincing at the injury she had sustained and trying to give her a look of encouragement. Hopefully the girl had understood her gesture…

What was concerning, however, was the sound of apparent battle coming from right where they were going. Lo and behold, entering Zone 5 brought with it a sight to see; the boy from earlier, Kaito, as well as an old hag of a woman.

A muttered sigh escaped Houki’s breath and she glanced from the burning buildings back to Kaito. [color=ba2259]“I am going to regret this. But if the hag is a villain and not some deluded teacher from the school, we may need to help him out. Minami, you continue to find any civilians,”[/color] she said, looking at the cat girl. Assuming Hikari was still with them, she would turn to him and ask, [color=ba2259]“What is your Quirk? If it’s offensive, be ready. We may need to step in at any moment to help our teammate.”[/color]

[center][b][Moved to Zone 5 with Minami and possibly Hikari, on standby for Kaito and the Hag.][/b][/center]
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