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Get… now….!
The moon illuminated the dark corners of the office where the only other source of light came from the soft glow of a computer screen and the vacant eyes of the boy gripping the monitor.
Ken… out…! Hurry…!
He needed thirty more seconds. Kenzo Gakuji knew he could grab the files if he could rifle through the hidden folders and barrel through the passwords that stood no chance against his rapid fire processing his quirk was capable of. No amount of encoded safeguards stood a chance against his consciousness hopping through code and slipping into doors that opened by merely existing in a network.
The line in his ear turned to static.
Fuck.
The zeroes and ones that zipped across his eyes flew even faster before he blinked, ushering them away. His pupils reshaped into narrow yellow slits. He slammed his hand on the desk.
Fuck!
What the hell had happened to Mitsuba?
They said they'd handle the lookout position, but clearly someone has been compromised.
He needed to get out of here.
Ripping the USB stick from the hardware, Kenzo swiveled in the plush leather chair to make for the nearest window.
That's when he saw it.
The smoke.
His feet were drowning in a blue fog that was curling its way through the door jam, leaking into the room slowly, covertly.
Kenzo closed his mouth and ran. The window wouldn't budge! His lungs strained, asking for an ounce of oxygen, but the smoke was growing in size and he didn't have time to worry about the pain in his throat or the water in his eyes as he searched for something heavy to break the glass.
He fruitlessly threw three books and a stapler at the window before his lungs gave out and the blue mist crawled up his chest, into his mouth, strangling his nervous system.
He fell to the ground, every limb stiff, but his mind still very much his own.
He heard the lock snap and the door crack.
He saw long blue hair near a blue clothed arm surrounded by blue mist, draped onto the ground near his head, peering at him through wide blue eyes.
He watched her mouth move around his name quietly as she recognized him.
He said nothing, couldn't, as he recalled that smoke that had stopped a girl from dying in the broken down building they'd called home years ago.
He felt the disappointment when her brow furrowed as she left his vision.
Saw the book fly across the floor as she cursed into the night before stalking across the room, leaving him be.
Heard the sirens as the smoke began to clear.
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