Freja let out a yelp as her door was kicked down. She lived with three other girls, Rin, Emilia and Yunagi, but none of them were home at the moment, wouldn't be for a while. ''Y-You startled me!'' She shouted back, her face already red from embarrassment at the yelp she had made. She was indeed in her jammies, but she hadn't tied back her hair yet. ''I was just getting everything ready.'' She finished dragging the vacuum cleaner into its usual closet space, having just vacuumed the entire dorm flat. On their last patrol, they had both agreed to an unofficial challenge. Zenkai thought he could make Freja look cute, and she claimed she could make them look cuter. She had totally studied all the hair and makeup videos the week prior too, so there was no way she was going to lose!

''Look at you being proactive. I haven't even left the house today.'' She stuck her hands behind her head as she tied her hair up in a simple ponytail. ''You like K-dramas and Shojo?'' She chuckled at the comment about his estrogen levels being high. ''That's cute, is it a polar bear?'' She referred to the kigu, wondering if she should have worn one too. ''Crushes?'' She was getting some glasses out for them to drink said wine from, when Zenkai leaned down, her eyes looking directly into his when he said what he did. ''D-Don't look at me when you say stuff like that!'' She immediately turned away to cover her blushing face, Zenkai was too damn good at teasing her and making her feel all kinds of embarrassed. Usually this type of teasing didn't get to her. Years ago she would have reacted as if she was still a guy because well, she was, wasn't she? It wasn't like she actually liked being a woman, this was just her curse putting her in this situation.

Or did she? Maybe she did kind of like being a woman. It had been almost five years since the incident that made her this way and with each passing day she could feel more and more of her old identities slipping away. An internal death of self, but from the ashes of that death, someone else was beginning to rise. Neither Elias, nor the Freja of old.

''A-Anyway!'' She cleared her throat, face still red as a tomato as she turned back towards Zen and tried to recover. ''Show me those hands! I'm gonna paint your nails first, then kick your ass in Smash Bros later.'' She grinned confidently. She was in fact, not good at Smash Bros.

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She was terrified.

It was just a glimpse, and once she called out to them it was gone like a stain of breath upon a mirror, but she saw something scary in Zenkai, perhaps for the first time. She wasn't sure what it was, had he lost control, or just gone more quiet than usual? Either way it had been enough to shake her, relief washing over her as they 'returned to normal'. She smiled after what he said next, suppressing and wiping away a fear tears, completely unbothered by the blood that was getting in her hair. ''You dork!'' She chuckled, feeling reassured again. ''You really scared me.''

Freja was quick to give their side of the story when the police arrived. It was the least she could do after Zenkai took a katana slash for her. Once the police took the criminal away and it was just her and her friend again, she couldn't help but still feel a little shocked. She couldn't let go of what she had witnessed, that image of Zen in her mind like that, bloodied, losing control. She couldn't tell him, couldn't let them know how much it stuck with her. ''F-Food now? What about your arm!'' She fussed, how could he already be thinking about food when he still had a cut in his arm? Maybe that was the sign that the old, calm Zenkai really was back. ''Let's at least get some bandages on the way, last time I checked your quirk wasn't super healing.''

Zenkai Hatake

''I see. So it really considers us the prey right now?'' She was used to being underestimated, whether it was a quirked up wild animal or some crazy villain. No one ever took the quirkless woman seriously, not until it was too late anyway. She kept to his side, just like Harukor instructed. She was surprised at herself and how well she was keeping her composure. In reality, she was shaking like crazy. Would she have felt this confident if she had been stuck here on her own? She had probably turned and made a run for it ages ago, but could anyone blame her??? She was from DENMARK, the country where the scariest wild animal you could come across was maybe a swan, and even then it's not like they sought out humans like this beast was. Of course she wouldn't know how to behave around big wild animals!

When he repeated her plan back to her, her stomach turned. It suddenly sounded much worse than when it had just manifested as a thought in her mind. Hadn't she just met this guy? Was she about to trust him with her life?? She didn't really want to, but at the same time she was feeling worse and worse in this tension-filled back and forth. Neither of them unable to get a good shot in on the beast while it stalked them from the shadows. If they acted, adapted to how it was hunting them, then maybe that could be their ticket to victory. ''I-I can do it!'' She reaffirmed, holding her bat ready as she looked at him, waiting for Harukor to be ready before she took off. Her awareness was far from superhuman, but she was going to try her best to guard against the beast's fangs and claws if it showed itself. Thank goodness for her metal bat, she would be in a much worse situation without it. ''You've got this, Harukor!''

harukor

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Huh? She was exactly as perplexed as a city dweller like her would be in this situation. ''Bird song?'' She looked at the treetops, as if she was hoping to see birds, but there was nothing. ''I hadn't thought about that, it's eerily quiet, isn't it?'' It kind of gave her horror movie vibes, like when the tension is building before the monster shows itself. A shiver traveled up her spine. She had to stop thinking about things like that or she was going to freak herself out. One thing was for sure, this Harukor guy was sharp, it felt like she had bumped into a real survivalist expert. ''Aren't we talking about a wild animal, why would it be watching us?'' Unless it had hyper intelligence, surely it would just charge at them, right?

Konru? She had no clue what that meant, but thankfully he was quick to elaborate. His description freaked her out more and more the more he talked. Some kind of big beast, definitely quirked up?? Most likely intelligent since it was watching them? She almost let out a yelp when he abruptly stopped and she followed step, but she stopped herself at the last second by covering her mouth with her hand. She's sweating and the fighting hasn't even begun.

As he draws his bow, she raises her bat, ready to strike at anything that might pounce at them. She wasn't about to become cat food and she wasn't going to allow it to get to Harukor either. This was part of becoming a hero. A real one. Protect people no matter what. She gasped when he released his arrow.

Then all hell broke loose.

''It's fast.'' She was relieved he managed to escape its claws. Pointing her bat directly up, as if she was aiming the tip like a gun, Freja did the best to control her breathing and focus. With her aim at the ready, Freja would fire the grappling hook directly at the beast once it reemerged, trying to intercept its attack midflight. It wouldn't be an easy feat, heck, she wasn't even that skilled of a shot, but they clearly had a range advantage from what little information they knew. ''If you need me to, I can be bait.''

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