Strings 糸

#003 - Loop

"Even if I wanted to warn someone, I fucking can't!!!" Bakugou told him, obviously frustrated.

"Can't or won't?"

"Can't."

"Is there someone keeping you silent?"

"Yes."

"Are you being threatened?"

"It seems like it..."

"Who is it?"

"I don't know."

Tsukauchi sighed, he knew that Bakugou lied at the last part. "Bakugou, is there a reason why you can't tell us their identity?"

"Because I can't." Bakugou growled. "Even if I did, it's not like you can catch it anyways. It's impossible."

Tsukauchi noticed how the boy talked about them as if they weren't a person. "Are you trying to imply that they are not human?"

When Bakugou was about to say yes, the burning in his throat returned again. He winced in pain, touching his throat out of reflex.

It wasn't hard for the detective to miss this. From that alone, he understood that something was stopping the boy from talking. "I get it now...Although you lied about encountering a villain with a silencing quirk, it seems you were telling the truth about not being able to say anything." he deducted. Upon figuring this out, he stood up from his seat and looked at Bakugou once more. "Stay here, I'll just go inform the others." he said. When he noticed how scared the boy seemed right now, he began to assure him. "Don't worry, we will figure this out. We will find a way to break you out from this quirk or whatever it is."

Bakugou looked down on the table, he clenched both of his fists. Although he tried to hide it, he really did feel guilty.

'Why? Why did this happen? Upon what I read back then, everyone survived. So why did someone die?' he thought to himself.

Asui Tsuyu. Cause of death: Decay.

Bakugou pursed his lips. 'It wasn't supposed to happen!!! She wasn't supposed to die!"

"...I couldn't do a damn thing..." he didn't realize that he voiced the last statement out loud.

Tsukauchi just looked at him with sympathy. "It's not your fault...." he said, placing a hand on the boy's shoulder. "According to what I've heard from your classmates..., you tried to stop them from going despite having such disadvantage. You did your best..., and that was still heroic of you, Bakugou."

After saying those words, he left.

Bakugou watched the door slam shut, he was left all alone in the cold dark room.

Not only Asui died, but Aizawa-sensei got his arm chopped off—that wasn't supposed to happen. This wasn't the same as he saw in the manga. Unlike the original, this current change of event is much worse.

He crouched down and placed both hands on his head. The guilt was still there.

'Is this because I didn't follow the script...?' he thought.

If that's the case, then it really was his fault.

He began to feel remorseful.

Before he could even succumb more to despair, everything around him suddenly disappeared.

The strings surrounded him, attaching themselves to his body.

Bakugou felt the feeling of getting pulled back somewhere.

Everything in his vision suddenly turned black.

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