Diverting your plot

27 - Third Time's the Charm

PLEASE READ: There's multiple mentions of depression, and even one of suicide. Although it's not explicit and a metaphor is used to cover it up, If you're uncomfortable with the theme, I highly suggest you skip that part (It starts off with metaphors about the sea, so that you can tell what part to skip).

Now, we gotta chase after our lizard boy!

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Sometimes, life plays bad jokes on you. Jokes that, whatever deity is up there watching you run around, they must find hilarious.

You dribble around families with kids and old ladies complaining about you, running as if you're a thief. You're pretty sure you even caught the attention of some cops at some point, but they didn't chase you. Even if they did, you'd lose them in the crowds with ease and go back to your critical mission.

Find Spinner once again.

You pass by multiple shops, all of which you and Denki commented on or entered inside out of curiosity. You don't care whatsoever about your surroundings anymore, your eyes fixed on the direction you're going. Occasionally, you glance around in hopes to catch a glimpse of green scales hiding under a black hoodie.

Only to be disappointed, of course.

You can feel yourself panicking as you get progressively closer to the video games shop. What if he's gone already? What if he mistook your words and now hates you? What if he's already a villain and you just don't know? The Stain arc won't take long, after all. Maybe he was a fan even before his public talk about heroism.

Plus, if a word gets out, you'd be forced to admit at some point of knowing a villain. To be fair, Twice counts as a villain as well, so you'd be friends with two villains! You wouldn't be able to help them anymore, your friends wouldn't trust you, your Sensei would be disappointed and you'd be expelled from UA, most likely.

You're risking your own future for his future.

The upsetting question still remains: Is it worth it? Gambling your chances to change the future of others to save one of them? You're not so sure, but at this point, there's no going back. You never cared much about yourself anyways, obsessing over and over on all the characters. Spinner's no different, he's one of them, and he deserves his chance to redeem himself before it's too late to look back.

After almost making a kid fall, you finally see the silhouette of a huge sign, the letters spelling the name of the video games shop. Here it is, the answer to all your questions. He must be inside, otherwise you might just start a fire and burn down the place.

Then, the god watching from up there hears your cries of desperation, and makes up for all the hell they've put you through up until today.

Here he is.

A hooded figure that just came out of the shop holding a brand new video game, should be about cars from the cover. His hand has unmistakable green scales and that same bracelet tied to the wrist. The depressed walk only enhances your belief that yes, finally, things are going your way.

You struggle to stop running, the momentum almost making you fall forward. You feel the soles of your shoes be gnawed by the smooth surface of the tiles under you, the friction making an irksome high pitched sound comparable to chalk scratching a blackboard. To avoid falling, you lean backwards with your arms, recreating a goofy cartoon scene. For some reason, physics isn't working properly enough, and you keep moving forward.