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there i am. here i am!

it’s a landfill. i love it here. it’s like the biggest dumpster in the world, a paradise for a trash eatin’ kinda guy such as myself. but it’s about that time of week where i’ve already looked through all the goods i can and there’s no scraps to be had. i’ve got other places to go, usually. you get used to this kind of thing out here on this rotten streets of japan. you find grub where you can grab it. but today wasn’t a day for grabbin grub and givin your guts a good gmeal. it was time to work!

sometimes i’m fighting a lot of people right? and a lot of people have quirks. but i’m only able to shut down one a time for a little bit and it doesn’t really help when there’s a lot of good quirks. i’ve been tough enough so far but i’ve seen more of what these eyes can do because of yams. he did so many cool things… like turn off quirks in an area. no one could get close to him when his eyes were open or their quirks would shut off automatically.

in the the small, personal alleyways where we lived it turned powerful bullied into wimps. i don’t want to make anyone feel bad about themselves — having a quirk or not having one isn’t really too important, being nice is — but if it’s me or them then i gotta choose me. so… i guess i just have to think about how it works.

if he’s not lookin’ at the quirk factor but the field only activates when he’s keepin his eyes open then… man, this hurts my brain so much. wish i had someone smart to talk to.

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Bakiri Retsu

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Her reputation combined with the fact that the majority of information brokers were wusses meant that more and more of them had been relying on dead drops instead of meeting her in person. This latest one, a broker going by The Spider, was no different. Perhaps a more cautious person would be wary of it being a trap but Retsu needed info far more than she needed safety. Besides, it wouldn’t be the first time nor would it be the last. She’d fought her way out of ambushes before, she could do so again.

Still, unless he's the bait this probably isn't one of those cases. She recognized this guy from that meeting a bit back. The one that claimed he could turn quirks off. Given that her known fighting style didn't exactly involve quirk usage that'd be a really, really odd choice. Who knew though, maybe that's how they planned to get her to lower her guard. Retsu knew better than to underestimate someone just because they didn't have one of those fancy offensive quirks.

"Yo," she greeted him casually, tempted to use fouler language but holding her tongue for now, the sole sign of her paranoia being the slight squint of her eye. "What brings you 'round 'ere?"

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“oh hey there.” hmmmm. they seemed familiar but couldn’t quite put my finger on it. the eyepatch was familiar but i had run into so many people with eye patches lately it was insane! there was this nice nurse who turned her eyeballs into an angel. there was this sniper, too, who had fancy techno-wizard powers and used them to commit various heists across japan. very lowkey. but this one… oh! the villain birthday surprise party! she was there, right right.

“ummm. normally the food.” i looked around and rightfully couldn’t share any of my grub with her. there wasnt any. kinda why i was here in the first place. “but me i’m looking to work to improve my quirk. y’see yams used to do this cool thing where he could turn off multiple people’s quirks off at the same time if they got too close… but i only just got his eyes, so.”

i grab some plastic debris and use it as a stick to draw a circle around us.

“it used to be this big, i think.” man, i don’t get to talk about yams enough. “whattabout you?”

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"The food?" Retsu asked with a raised eyebrow. "Ya know what, ferget it. Ah dun' care." 

Retsu had never paid attention to stories of some kind of boogeyman who could turn off quirks, hearing Rem talk about it being more developed caught her attention however. Could it break quirks permanently? Her gaze briefly went to his eyes even as she felt her own twitch. She'd assumed he was talking about inheriting his quirk through familial relations but had he literally taken the man's eyes and gotten his quirk that way? It sounded hard to believe but...

...she'd heard more outrageous things recently. Experienced them personally even. If this dude had any connection to that chances were he wasn't here on accident after all. Taking her eyepatch off she relished in the sharp pain it sent through her. She'd need that anger if this turned into a fight. Let's see him try to take hers. She'd show him. Just like she'd show them all in due time. It wouldn't be much longer now. The moment she found the pricks their end would be nigh.

"Ain't nun a' y'r business," Retsu responded with a scoff while scanning several of the trash piles closely. If he looked into it he'd probably find out that she'd scavenged junkyards for before. That'd likely be enough to get him off The Spider's trail unless he cared more than she expected. If he did then, ah well, none of her business. They could sort that shit out themselves. "That yams y'r speakin' of, he turn 'em off permanently?" 

Someone who'd lived on the streets as long as Retsu or Rem had would be able to tell. Posture, body language and that subtle feeling only years of intuition could sharpen. Retsu was moments away from blowing up. All it would take was one wrong answer to turn this into a fight. 

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she’s almost mean. not the bad type of mean, sort of. there’s a lot of cruel people out there who are doing it for all the wrong reasons. there isn’t ever really a time to treat people poorly, but some reasons are better than others. like this chick was definitely on edge. her soul rough and a lot of its shaking i think had to do with the fact she’s scared. i’d prolly be scared too if i had a quirk and ran into someone who could turn them off. but i’m not even afraid of losing this one… i’m more afraid of losing the eyes cos they’re all i have left of yams.

“mmm no. he had to blink eventually. and even if he didn’t his brain would hurt if he held it too long. if he wanted to switch to someone else, too, then the first person affected would regain it.” i know it’s weird to be this open about your weaknesses, but he had a rep. this kind of quirk always did.

lookin at the circle i try to pretend that it is the eye. and all that i see is being stared at. it’s still tough to imagine though… by the time i look up her eyepatch is gone.

“wait...” but her eye is still there. was she a pirate or somethin? "if you have your eye why do you wear that?"

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"That so?" Retsu replied skeptically. That was a lot of information he was volunteering. Usually when someone prattled on this much they were trying to sell a lie yet for some reason she felt that wasn't quite the case here. It was almost like he was sharing so much to mitigate the anxiety of others, to rely on their pity instead of their fear to be left alone. She didn't trust it one bit. He carried himself far too confidently to be anywhere near as harmless as he seemingly wanted to appear.

"Cause ah kent fookin' bear ta look at idiots," Retsu lied, the true reason not being one she was sure of anymore much less one she wanted to disclose. Her jaw clenched. Pain. The pain her light sensitive eye faced whenever exposed to light was the reason of course, the kind of pain that would blossom into a pounding headache and before long a migraine if she didn't shut it away.

For the longest time she hadn't thought more deeply about it nor questioned why she hadn't. Now, as she tried to remember the last time her eye functioned in full, she knew exactly why she hadn't. Even attempting to recall the memory sent a sharp spike of pain through her not unlike the feeling of an ice pick being jammed into one's head. A hiss escaped her even as she bent forward to pull on a scrap of paper sticking out from between two trash bags. It was a sealed envelope, a method of communication so archaic it was almost funny. Retsu didn't have it in her to see any humor in the situation. Not when the throbbing pain in her eye nearly blotted out her thoughts.

Turning on her heel she shoved the envelope into one of her pouches, the one right next to her modified pistol. Well, if it could still be called that. The barrel had been widened and put on a hinge to accommodate for a type of munition that was more grenade than bullet. Retsu was itching to test it on the next person to piss her off.

"Any luck with y'r shit?" She didn't know why she was asking. Starting a conversation with some random guy she barely knew about a subject she didn't care about wasn't like her at all. Yet here they were.

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“so only one eye looks at idiots?” she was tough to follow. didn’t like answering things straight on, but for whatever reason she was curious about my process. that’s nice of her actually! “nothin’ yet. but i haven’t been thinking too much about it. maybe i have to verbalize something…”

i close my eyes. because i don’t need to see with them, i need to see with… the circle. there’s two of us in here right now. no, there’s three. it’s a trick called manifestation yams taught me. if you imagine good food, you can taste it. same with the heat and the cold. you can taste those, too.

something clicks. my eyes dart open.

“oh. somethin’ worked but not my quirk… uhh...” i’m pointing behind retsu. there’s masked figure with a knife raised, ready to cut her down. “since i summoned you… can you not try to stab her? i try not to start with violence.”

…

“You can see me?”

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Burn it all down

"Yeah," Retsu added with a grin matched by the manic look in her eyes. "Cause ah've got half a mind ta make 'em pay fer their stupidity."

That was what the envelope was for. She'd gotten as far as she could without further intel. Raided labs, slain heroes and copious amounts of property damage were left in her wake yet still what she was looking for was out of reach. Hells, she'd even rolled up half the gangs that so much as looked at her funny and made the survivors scatter to the four winds. Even with all that Retsu had done little more than tear a nail from the behemoth that was her enemy. They said Rome wasn't built in a day but it sure was demolished in one. 

She needed to hit her foe where it hurt instead. Everything they tried to build up she'd break down before salting the earth. This Elementalist fucker was first on the list. Retsu hadn't the slightest idea whether he was connected to Koi but she knew he was researching quirks. That was enough for her. He'd burn and all his research would be put on the pyre with him. Every bit of progress they'd made would be wiped away until she drew her targets out, no matter the cost.

Her suspicion rose again when Rem pulled the standard 'look behind you!' maneuver. She'd seen people with split personalities before, even the type that somehow managed to do it purposefully to feign weakness. Retsu wasn't stupid enough to fall for such a du-

With a muttered curse she span around and took a step back when the voice resounded behind her. Her 'pistol' came up and the trigger was pulled.

'Click.'

With another bout of muttered swearing and a second step back she slammed the thing into her leg before raising it once more. This time the cylindrical grenade launched with a 'Whump.' right at the attacker's torso.

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wow. that was a pretty big delay. if my summon didn’t pause their attack, surprised i can see them (how silly cos i made them ofc i can see them!), then retsu woulda been a rolling head.

blink. blink.

what the heck did she just pull out? before i can even make heads or tails of it, and guns don’t have either of those things, it explodes! like whoa… she’s carrying some serious heat with her! wonder what she needed it for.

“wellllll, sorry ‘bout that.” there isn’t a corpse left to question. guess i’ll have to make a different guy at some other point and see what the heck his deal was. “i was tryna make a quirk disappear but i guess i can just summon people now? how strange.”

with a sigh… i refocus. how should i even go bout this kinda thing. if only yams were here to help me out and drop some wisdom already. somethin’ like ‘you already know how. the eyes remember’ would sure be helpful or somethin’.

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Burn it all down

"Sure," Retsu snorted. "That's what that was." She was too stunned and furious to explain her own theory. The pain in her eye had vanished at the same time as the invisible man had lost what made him special, something she'd only noticed when it slammed back into her with renewed intensity. That confirmation left a bitter taste in her mouth. Her teeth grit together so hard it made her gums bleed while she slid her eyepatch back into place. 

The pain stopped worsening but the pounding headache would take hours to fade. It didn't matter. She'd gotten what she came for here and then some. Turning on her heel she made her way back out. Retsu was in no mood to continue any sort of conversation. 

"Fer what it's worth ah rekken y'r move worked."

She didn't bother to turn his way while speaking. Having pulled a small screwdriver out of one of her pouches she fiddled with the faulty equipment she'd tried to use. Having it jam like that at the wrong time was bound to get her killed. She'd have to tinker with this one some more to get it ready. Maybe switch out the barrel and if she was doing that anyway she might as well take another look at the entire design. 

"Good luck with y'r shit."

Giving encouragement like that was entirely uncharacteristic for Retsu. She barely even noticed she did it nor did she have the capacity for introspection required to figure out why she did it even if she realized. 

No, Retsu simply moved on as she always did. One foot in front of the other.

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"hm.. y'think.......?" mainly too myself. she was leavin' after all but i was taken aback but her sudden kindness. maybe she wasn't as mean as i thought she was? "good luck to you too!"

that was nice. hope to see her soon.

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✨MISSION SUCCESS!✨

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✓ Wowie!! Great job you two! [break][break]
Rem - 15.000 // 20.000[break]
Retsu - (capped for this month)

+ 5.000 EXP!

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