''Eh? Food? There's a menu?'' She looked over as instructed and sure enough. ''Usually I just eat whatever they serve me flying on the cheaper tickets.'' She could hardly hide her disbelief and excitement. ''Is this a plane or a restaurant? There's so many options!'' She had always known there was a difference between how her and Sumi had been raised just purely based on their parents' income, but she didn't think about it that often. Sure, Sumi's place in Tokyo was fancy and she had that yacht party, but she didn't usually think about money with Sumi, or rather, maybe she was so approachable and amiable despite having all that money? She would expect some people to maybe be a little out of touch with reality if they were born rich, but Sumi disproved had disproved that many times over.

''France, huh? I heard it's really nice in the summer.'' She was already eyeing what drinks to get, but didn't want to seem rude either and made sure to look Sumi's way as well. Her eyes lit up when Sumi handed her the pillow and she happily accepted it. ''So soft! ~'' She exclaimed, testing the pillow with her hands. ''You're so thoughtful, you always think of stuff like this.'' She smiled over at Sumi, blurting out the next sentence in her excitement. ''I like that about you...'' Only realizing her mistake in coming on a little strong after the fact, though she tried her best to hide the regret she felt inside.

''..Best friends?'' Now it was really impossible to hide her red face, but thankfully she could hide some of it behind the pillow under the guise of feeling the softness. ''Yeah.'' She smiled, feeling her heart beat a little faster. She had memories of Elias and Freja making friends and calling them best friends, but she wasn't sure if she had ever made one herself until today. ''Once we get to Denmark I'll be your best friend tour guide.'' She did a mock salute with her hand before giggling.

She looked down at Sumi's hand as she put it over her own. Her presence here really did make all the difference. She used to think she was something of a loner, and was better for it. No need to make friends when she enjoyed her own company, no need to open herself up and be vulnerable to the world when she wasn't even the owner of her own body. She was a loner when she first arrived in UAU, but... Hadn't she become a bit reliant on Sumi? She thought it was something she would feel guilty over, but it felt nice didn't it? ''R-Right..'' All they did was chat and then she fell asleep, right. ''..Hey that's what best friends are for, right?'' In a way, Sumi had saved her life too, so she tried to brush it off with a brave smile. ''I'll be okay.'' Her shoulders slouched a bit. ''But if it gets really scary I might bother you.'' She conceded.

''Yeah?'' She grinned, ''Sure, I could go for something too. Something small in case we get a lot of turbulence.'' She still wasn't a frequent flyer and she would rather not take her chances getting sick when she was sitting next to her crush. She looked back down at the menu, only looking up when Sumi brought up accommodations. If physics permitted it, Freja's eyes would have popped out of her head then and there.

''Hotel d'Angleterre?! That's like the fanciest place in Copenhagen!'' It shouldn't surprise her since it was Sumi, but she still couldn't believe it. ''You'd be hard pressed to find a Dane that doesn't know about that place. It's super famous.''

When it came time to order breakfast she would get herself some snacks, a nice warm tea and some water on the side. The flight was going to be a long one after all and she didn't like running out of water. Speaking of which, despite her newly acquired fear of the ocean she didn't shy away from looking outside the window to savor the view from speeding through the skies. At least until the plane tilted just a little bit to the side, making their window point more sharply down towards the ocean. Maybe it was just shock, but she immediately felt a fear response, her legs and arms shaking as she turned to Sumi and leaned on her shoulder with her eyes closed.

Sumi Okita

Unfortunately for her, she was already looking away from the creeping light, and perhaps too preoccupied with her own feelings to really process anything else. ''Y-Yeah!'' She agreed with Sumi, her face beet red and her shaking hands in her lap as she started to muster up the courage to confess.

Finally after saying her piece she looked up at Sumi and...

''Sumi?'' She felt a pit in her stomach seeing Sumi pass out. ''S-Sumi, are you okay?!'' She hastily stood up to go check on her, but suddenly felt a sharp pain in her chest that made her collapse onto the floor, screaming as if something was forcibly growing inside of her. A fire raged and the pain brought tears to her eyes. Then, a memory.

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She couldn't be much older than 8 years old, but she was playing in the yard while Elias was reading a book under a tree. No wait, was she seeing things from old Freja's perspective? She thrust her fist out and fire emerged from it, flames licking a stone in front of her for a moment, before fizzling out. ''That's it!'' She held her fist above her head triumphantly and shouted to the skies. ''Sacred Flame! I'll name my quirk Sacred Flame!''

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A pain, hacking cough brought her back to reality. She fully expected to cough up blood with how terrible she was feeling, but was surprised to find that smoke particles were escaping her lips, building in intensity with each cough. What's more, there was embers mixed into the smoke. Was she burning up from the inside? She pushed through the tears and the pain and dragged her way over to Sumi. ''Sumi!'' She called out, still no answer. There was no doubt in her mind that this was a quirk attack, but how could it happen here? Wasn't the festival being guarded by pro heroes? ''Sumi!'' She put a hand on her shoulder and tried to shake her awake. Was she burning up too? ''W-We need to get out of here..'' She moved over to sit next to her and was in the process of picking her up when the mysterious light above finally caught her attention.

One look up was all it took to be whisked away by the dream.

Sumi Okita

''Really? I never thought that much about colors...'' What she had wanted to say in that moment was insist that Sumi would look beautiful wearing flowers, but she was too flustered processing the compliment she had just received to think ahead. ''Eh?'' She looked down at Sumi's hand as she took hers and began leading her. At first she was startled, but was soon giggling at the situation. Maybe her friend was just a lot more hungry than she had realized.

By the time that the evening was beginning to draw in she was exhausted. Tired in the best way possible from easily the best day of her life, but tired nonetheless. She was going to sleep so well when she got back home! Then come back out here again tomorrow. ''Right? We saw so much today!'' She grinned. ''My favorite thing?'' She was about to take a bite, but set her chopsticks down and looked out at the slow setting sun. There it was again, her heartbeat telling her how she really felt. It was a shame she couldn't show Sumi, or tell her but...

Or maybe...

Their day together had been amazing, at least it seemed like Sumi had the time of her life too. So why not just come clean? If she didn't confess after a day like this, then when would she ever get around to it? She wasn't being true to herself, but it also wasn't fair to Sumi, who had this friend walking around with all these thoughts in her head. Wait, she had to respond to Sumi's question first. ''If I had to choose... I'd say getting to spend my day here with you.'' It just came out of her and it took her a couple of seconds to realize. ''Um... I mean, like, if I came here alone or-or with someone else it wouldn't be the same! Right?'' She was blushing, eyes darting this way and that as she tried to gather her thoughts. ''You're a great friend. No... Sumi, I...'' She started quietly, then took a deep breath. ''I-I like you.'' She could feel her face turn bright red. ''L-Like more than a friend, I really, really like you! I never thought I could like a person, or be allowed to living like this, b-but I have to get it out! I have to tell you!'' She just blurted it out. ''Maybe we could...'' She finally turned to look at Sumi.

Was she mad? Surprised? Happy? Sad? She couldn't predict what she was going to see next.

Sumi Okita

''Control cement? That'd do it. With quirks like that do you even need regular workers?'' She mused, thinking about her career would look like if she had a quirk of her own. Then again, her own case wasn't exactly normal either. Her and Sumi were different, but Freja had been transported into someone's body and was now inhabiting it. If that merger had never happened, would she, Freja as she knew herself, even be alive right now? She shuddered at the thought, but thankfully it was easy to put negative feelings aside when she was in such good company.

''A cold?'' Was her face that red?? The gears turned in her head, then internal panic set in. She didn't want Sumi to worry just because she was getting flustered. ''N-No I'm fine, all fine. I'm just not used to the climate here that's all!'' She smiled, trying to save face with an obvious lie. She froze up when Sumi touched her forehead. Somehow it felt different, ever since she got a crush on her it was like something in her heart started up every time they got a little close to each other. Her hand was soft and comforting, even if it was just for a brief moment. She breathed out an internal sigh of relief when Sumi let it go and they continued on their way. She couldn't lie about having a cold. No chance was she ever going to lie to Sumi.

As they passed a under an archway of trees she suddenly realized something. Wasn't she lying already? Wasn't she hiding her feelings and lying to Sumi?

Ouch.

''I've got a good eye for flowers!'' She smiled proudly as she crowned Sumi. ''A kikyo?!'' Stars were practically sparkling out of her eyes. ''How do I look?'' She asked, giddy to see how the flower looked in her braid. ''You too! Maybe we should wear flowers more often?'' She was starting to feel a little hungry herself, at least for something small. ''Sure, wanna grab a bite of something? I saw there was a bunch of food stands over that way.'' She pointed ahead through the passage they hadn't come into the flower garden from.

Sumi Okita

She was pleasantly surprised when Sumi mentioned that she could show her tomorrow. She was happy that she was getting another day like this with Sumi, that meant she was having fun, right? ''Yeah tomorrow, the park's so big don't you think?'' She exhaled softly, trying to mask her blushing with a big smile. ''I can see why they made it a multi-day event.''

She giggled when Sumi did her little twirl. ''On sale? What a steal, you have a great eye for that sort of thing.'' She put her hands on her hips and nodded back at the queue to the ride, motioning for Sumi to follow her. ''Let's get on before the line gets longer.'' Even though it was her idea she could feel herself actively regretting getting on once they had reached the top and were about to fall into water. In that moment she didn't shout in excitement as they plunged. She watched with wide eyes, slightly trembling as she awaited the rush of adrenaline that would take her to the bottom. When they moved forward she braced, closing her eyes as she waited for the cold shower of water to drench them both. Then she felt something warm, Sumi pulling her into a hug. She wasn't sure if it was just instinctive, but in that moment she held onto Sumi too, feeling safe from her perceived fear of the ride even as she got splashed by water too. Although in hindsight she was lucky that more water hadn't gone on her. Especially since she hadn't been as forward thinking as Sumi and hadn't brought an extra set of clothes.

''Y-Yeah! What a rush!'' She smiled back, wringing the ends of her wet hair with her hands. ''Flower garden sounds perfect right about now. I heard the view there is amazing.'' Not that she wanted to go there for the view. The most beautiful view around was already accompanying her through Dream World. ''Sumi, I-...'' She paused, freezing up again. How many times had she practiced in front of the mirror, fearing that her roommates might have overheard her? ''I want to tell you something.. After lunch.''

The flower garden was every bit as pretty as one could imagine. There was even an offer to make customized flower crowns for a fee and she was all about it. ''Look!'' She beamed, holding up a multi-colored flower crown. ''I made you a crown.'' She almost cracked up as she continued with a terrible posh accent. ''Your highness.''

Sumi Okita

The gladiator was so confident in his lie that he didn't protect himself against Farrin as he took his hand in a forearm shake. After all, why would he? Farrin might be a strong and capable student but at the end of the day he was just that. A hero student. Any hero student who got caught in a situation where certain death was sure to pursue them until they fell would eagerly take an offer like his. Even if he was lying all along. However, when Farrin lifted him off the ground his confident smirk swiftly disappeared.

Managing to close the gap between herself and the other villain, Freja wasted no time aiming a bat swing for her face. Just because she was a hero student didn't mean she had to play fair in a street fight. Unexpectedly, the villain absorbed the blow by defending with one of her arms and stepping towards Freja, rather than away from her. Freja assumed she was trying to grapple her, so she took a couple of quick steps back, only being touched briefly rather than grappled. Breathing out she raised her bat again, pointing it at her opponent. Her arm wasn't exactly broken, but the villain had clearly suffered more damage than Freja had in their little exchange.

''I wouldn't do that if I were you.'' She smiled, looking as calm and collected as ever despite how their fight was turning out. ''Do what? If we don't fight you're going to kill both of us.'' Was Farrin in trouble? She didn't dare take her eyes off the villain. ''Oh honey, it's too late for that.'' She took out a pocket knife and started inspecting it as if Freja wasn't there. Freja watched her for a moment and then her blood ran ice cold as she realized what was happening.

Growing on her body, phasing through her clothes, it was all Freja's face, guns emerging from the mouths and pointed towards Farrin. ''Fa-rrin.'' They murmured. ''Farrin, that's not me! Run!'' She turned quickly, but not fast enough to throw all the bullets off course. Another hail of gunfire was coming for him, interrupting his duel with the gladiator. This made the gladiator's comeback all too easy. ''Then die!'' He roared as he charged forward. All he had to do was keep attacking Farrin from one side while the bullets raced towards him. Blade or bullets, which did the time student prefer?

Farrin

While her plan to launch herself was successful, she hadn't at all accounted for her own safety. First she slammed into the villain, then the floor alongside him, landing on one of her arms. Broken? Probably. She expected as much, not that she had any time to worry about that considering she was still nauseous and she felt like the smallest tremor would be enough to make her hurl. In the chaos it didn't escape her that the berries hadn't burned her once again. Was Sumi secretly looking out for her? Maybe she-

LOUD, LOUD, CHEERS AND WHISTLES.

''What is going on?!'' She exclaimed, unable to hear her own voice as she covered her ears and immediately ate a sucker punch from the villain that only made her more dazed. It took her a moment to realize she had been trapped in the barrier with him, but once she did she kicked weakly against his shins, too exhausted to put up much more of a fight, but she would still try to shout over the claptraps. ''IF I HAD MY BAT, IF I HAD A BAT YOU WOULD'VE BEEN F--KED!!'' No longer able to hold back her anger and frustrations, she was content to make this guy's last couple minutes in this barrier a living hell as her teammates handled the dancing spider bot. ''What's with the colored tiles you sadist we could've died!'' She wasn't going to stop kicking or slapping at him until someone announced the test was over. ''Is this fun to you? Here!'' She took off her Rollback watch and waved it at him angrily. ''Put this on and see how fun it is!!''

Arataki Noa
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