Chapter 78. Questions

I must have fallen asleep, because when I opened my eyes back up they were already healed, and my ears were no longer ringing, but my neck was sore. I didn't know what happened to the pillow Momo made, but it was gone now. I sat up to see both Momo and Kyoka fighting each other without weapons. ‘I guess Kyoka wanted to train in martial arts like I said. I don’t really know martial arts, but both of their techniques seem to be good.’ They were both going back and forth, with Momo’s seemingly better and more fluid movements. However Kyoka was keeping up with her earphone jack attacks that were able to work like she had 2 extra arms to make attacks.

I just watched while trying to get rid of the kink in my neck. Momo was telling Kyoka about her stance, figure, and whatnot. I didn’t really understand it, but Kyoka seemed to have a better grasp than I think I ever would. They kept on fighting until I got up to stretch. “Hey, can you see again?” Kyoka was the first to ask me about my condition. “Yea I’m fine apart from my neck. What happened to the pillow I was resting on before I drifted off? That was the most comfortable thing ever.”

Both of the girls' faces went red as they looked at each other. I guessed they didn’t really want to talk about it so I changed the conversation. “Well anyway what time is it?” Both of them jumped an the chance to stop from thinking about my last question. “5:30pm” ‘Ok I was out for about an hour.’ “Ok since you two have been practicing for about an hour I think you two deserve a break.” They got red again while looking away from me. They were quiet until Momo finally spoke up. “We were not practicing for about half of the time you were asleep.”

I was confused. “Then what were you doing for half an hour?” That question made their faces turn more of a scarlet. Then Kyoka decided to add something herself. “Well, we had to make sure you were actually resting, you idiot. You always try to get out of things by withholding the truth, so we had to make sure your stupid ways weren’t resurfacing.” I wanted to say something back in my defense, but I couldn’t. ‘They are right, I have done that to them, and I still am.’ “I’m sorry… But I am trying to change that…” Realizing she might have touched a sore spot, Kyoka tried to backtrack, but I stopped her by putting my hand on her head again.

“It’s ok, you are right. So to show that I am trying…” I took a deep breath as I was steadying myself for what I was about to say. As I was doing that, both of the girls leaned in to hear better. “I’ll answer one question the best I can for each of you.” The room was silent as both of the girls were in shock of what I just said. But I meant what I said. ‘They both care so much about me. I have to show that I reciprocate that. Because I do care about them. I need to show that to them, because I've already broken a promise to them. I need to back up what I’ll say.’

I waited while the girls were discussing what they wanted to ask me with each other. I was anxious of what they might want to know. 'I want to let them know more about me, but there are things I can't reveal to anyone.' After they were done with their hushed tones, and whispers they walked back over to me. Momo was the first to speak. “Are you sure about this? I know how high you deem secrecy.” I gave both girls an affirmative nod with a smile. “I want to give you both something to let you know that I’m telling you the truth. That I really do care about both of you, and this is the best way I can think for me to try and show that. If there is something else you two want me to do more, than I would happily do that.” Hearing my answer Momo got a small smile while looking away, while Kyoka had a scowl while looking away while also twirling her earphone jacks.

Momo spoke up first. “No, I think both of us would like this..." She then steadied herself for what she wanted to know about me. "Tell me all you know about your quirk.” Hearing this I smiled. “Are you sure? The answer is not as amazing as you think it is. Plus that wasn’t really a question.” I chuckled a bit until I saw Momo shake her head with a serious expression while grabbing my left hand. She then started to unwrap my bandages and traced her hand across my Lichtenberg marks. “This is what I want to know. What I need to know. Please tell me about your quirk to know that you are not in any danger.” My heart swelled at the end. ‘The biggest reason why she wants to know is not for herself, but to just make sure I’m ok. These two girls really are too good for me. Why do they even...?’

I smiled and sighed before slowly talking about all I knew about my quirk, and how I trained it. Starting at ‘2nd Gear’ then my experiment on my own eye. That story had Kyoka hit me with her jacks a few times before I could continue. I then talked about ‘nerve control', 'Overdrive’ then where this electricity comes from, how I store it, and its generation. After that was my ‘Bullet time’. Both girls were really mad about that idea, since a little more and it was very possible that I could do the same thing I did to my eye, or arm. Then I finally got to my arm, while also talking about my arms' increased abilities.

After all of that both girls were tired to say the least. I had been talking for almost an hour. “What part of that was not amazing you idiot! You nearly kill yourself with almost half of your abilities! This quirk is like electrical manipulation, but you have been pushing yourself as far as your body can take it! You really are such an idiot! I would threaten to tie you up, and put you in a locked room, but then you would just do the same thing to the rest of your body when I’m not looking!” She started to cry as she was screaming at me. This caused Momo to also start sniffling as well.

I had a sense of Deja vu at this scene, but I ignored it. I just hugged both of the girls while Kyoka was hitting me from time to time, and Momo was just rubbing her head against my chest trying to burrow deeper. “I’m sorry. The reason why I don’t like talking about these things is not to worry you, but that is not what you want, or what you deserve. So I’ll start telling you more even if you start to hate me for it.”

Kyoka gave me one last stab in my stomach causing me to flinch. “You idiot, we want to know because we care about your well-being. The reason I’m mad isn’t because I hate you, it's because I care about you, but you don’t seem to care about yourself. I want to know what you plan to do before you do it, to tell you that it is idiotic. And I think Yaoyorozu agrees with me on this too, right?” Hearing this Momo just nodded without her head leaving my chest. I smiled at this scene. “You two are just…” I smiled defeatedly at the both of them.

After Momo and Kyoka were calmed down a little from what just happened, I went to the other half of our conversation. “So… Kyoka, what do you want to ask me?” Kyoka nodded her head while she was trying to calm down enough to even ask me her question. After a little bit of time, and Momo helping her calm down and that everything would be alright she was finally ready. She began to speak with her head down so I couldn’t really see her face, but I could see her earphone jacks twirling in unease, as well as her clutching her clothes to help ease herself while talking. ‘Cute’ is all I could think.

“What do you think of us?”