Chapter 28 (Part 2) - A Certain Introduction To Self Worth
Firm young Korean woman parked her Honda Fit at her usual spot in School District 10.
The thought of developing an "usual spot" agitated her to a point that she felt a new wrinkle would develop for every visit.
"How the hell did I get myself into this mess?" The Korean woman slightly tilted her silky straight black hair from her baggy blue eyes.
Venting and peering at the Reformatory; a juvenile hall located in Academy City, designed specifically to handle esper offenders.
Su-Jin Kyung Mi is a professional in many categories. One of those titles she was known for being, "The Bell Out Woman For Two Certain Delinquent Child Errors."
Kyung Mi could only facepalm at witnessing the wavy brown hair delinquent and black hair with bleached blonde-edges girl, stylishly showboating mugshots.
Her right eye would begin to twitch at the following interrogations. Standing behind the two certain delinquents; Tedashii Hamasaki and Kuroyoru Umidori.
"Let's set one thing straight. Our force; Anti-Skill is a security force that's mainly assigned on dangerous tasks. We take on tasks that's too much for even Judgement, hostage situations, and stabilizing dangerous areas and that's just a fraction of responsibilities we account for. In a scenario like this let's get one thing straight... Neither of you are the superheroes here. You kids are the definition of a bunch of damn delinquents!" The Anti-Skill officer hammers the desk with his clenched fist, to assert dominance.
But to the left all Kuroyoru Umidori could recognize was the Anti-Skill officer's jelly roll hairstyle.
To the right Tedashii Hamasaki shouted, "Level 0 technique! TURTLE MODE SHUTDOWN!! Let me explain, you foolish imbecile! Fufufu!! I distort a phenomenon upon myself with my AIM diffusion field placing my thoughts in another perception. Placing and boxing IMPORTING information. Who knows what you'll get outta me old man... So you shouldn't bother trying because at this level that's all I'm capable of, but when I become the next rank level 5, just imagine what I'll be capable of!"
"Don't bother looking at me old man, I'm no snitch and it ain't me!" Kuroyoru protests and crosses her arms while Tedashii continues his monologue.
"Oh really I thought it was a clever plan. There were some new ("good people,") planning to adopt and set straight a future, for a prodigious mastermind... So who's gonna fest up first? So I can get rid of at least one of you." Kyung Mi leaned in between Kuroyoru and Tedashii's heads.
"Ha! What absurd preparation news, foreigner landlady! We're not going to spill out our oxygen tattletaling for some visitors..."
"It was all me!" Tedashii stretched out his hand as high as he possibly physically could. His head air up big like a balloon and hands flex wide like he was about to explain his evil diabolical plan.
But before Tedashii could monologue any further than he had Kyung Mi bashed Tedashii's head.
"Baka!" Kuroyoru shouts and clicks her tongue, watching Tedashii's head bobby like a snowglobe.
"What good is all that intelligence when stuck behind a useless brat with no common sense?" A shallow Kyung Mi ruthlessly said out loud, disturbing the Anti-Skill officer. "Damn it all! I'm never going to get rid of you useless brats."
"You're horrible!!" Kuroyoru shouts, finger-pointing at Kyung Mi. Kyung Mi lashes out by childishly trying to bite and chomp at Kuroyoru's finger. Kuroyoru's finger swiftly evades the grown landlord's bites.
"That's enough Su-Jin-San!!" The Anti-Skill officer stood up. "Yes these kids' behavior cannot be excluded but as their current guardian. Showing a sign of affection is still beneficial for their growth. Sure they are child errors and are waiting for a family, but you are a central important figure for these kids and will hold some form of impact in their lives. I would wish for you to take that seriously." The Anti-Skill officer quotes, standing with a firm mature nod. Almost as if he was practicing this confession speech for some time now.
His black jelly rolled hair sparkled as the Anti-Skill officer couldn't help putting his sunshades on.
"Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~ Shiga! ~" Kuroyoru and Tedashii chants perfectly synchronizing, wiggling their waist and arms.
The Anti-Skill officer felt an ominous phenomenon as a nail drilled to the top of his jelly roll hair.
That however alone felt like an empty illusion with no scientific results. And proven to be, but it annoyed the Anti-skill officer to hammer his desk like a judge in a courtroom stand.
"What the hell are you no good for nothing delinquents on about?!" Anti-Skill official shouts to a point his sunshades slid off.
"There's an urban legend that rumor that if you fulfill the shag ritual, while someone with a ridiculous hairstyle is around, their hair would decline and fall off to restore the common logic of Academy City." Tedashii explained while continuing the ritual on his target.
"I think it's been proven false Hamasaki-Kun!" Said Kuroyoru who continued dancing.
"Of course it's false! Urban legends aren't real. I'm just doing this silly ritual because a deal's a deal."
"Can't you see Isamu Akihiro." Kyung Mi frantically shook her head. Her head leaned tilted with a shallow look in her baggy blue eyes.
"I've tried playing the unforgettable lovable supporting character whose affection brings a bright setting in the youngsters origin story. But it cost too much! These brats always want something from the store, they always break something, and no matter how you treat them there's always something. That's when I realized how much money I can save by being a tyrant. That will make these little shits try harder to get themselves adopted."
"And how is that going?" Isamu's sarcastic remark, seriously had Kyung Mi poundering and counting with her fingers.
"I've saved about 5,498.42 Japanese Yen this month!" Kyung Mi confirms headlocking a crying Kuroyoru Umidori.
"Damn it! You weren't supposed to answer that!! Su-Jin-San!!"
♦
Kyung Mi leads Tedashii and Kuroyoru across the street to her usual parking space.
"You damn rotten brats. I'll be the one who loses all my hair wasting 4,127.22 Japanese Yen driving back and forth here every damn day." Kyung Mi complains, marching forward ahead.
"Sounds like it's an adult problem." Tedashii bewildered comments.
"That's because it is!"
"Sounds like ("a you problem.")" Kuroyoru's opening playfully mocks led to a sudden abusive kick from Kyung Mi. Kuroyoru's frail little body flew into Tedashii's arms.
Kuroyoru, still having an anti-esper AIM Jammer attachment on her wrist, wailed out, "Hey that's not fair! I can't defend myself right now!"
"And whose fault is that! Talking stupid with that thing tied to you. You should know your place brat!"
"Eh... Uh.... whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!" Shove and backed into a corner unable to lash back at the ruthless landlord, Kuroyoru began to cry.
"TYRANT!!" Tedashii screams at the abusive landlord, hugging red beet face and tearful Kuroyoru tightly.
"Oh look at the next upcoming HeRO BoY! Little people know, I'm the actual real superhero that saves the supervillains at the end of the show!"
"Yeah right! You're just a stupid pitiful drunken adult!" Tedashii's bark only led to Tedashii taking his fair share of getting stomped on in broad daylight.
Kuroyoru, who had already stopped crying, poke the angry vessel Kyung Mi.
Kyung Mi glanced from Kuroyoru, to the bystanders who already had phones out and gossiping at the scene.
The wicked landlord cartoonishly flipped from an aggressive tyrant to a landlord patching the two delinquents together with cheap off brand band-aids. Patting both children like an energetic mother figure who wields her worn fake warm smile.
"You know this would have never happened if you'd just promised to buy me the UVA HERO III droid," Tedashii complains, stretching his neck and shoulder.
"You damn brat?! I brought you that piece of junk already?! Why do you want it again?!" Kyung Mi's eye twitched, returning to marching.
"Yeah you brought me the first model! It's outdated now!"
"Just give it a damn update then!"
"I told him to do that already! But he said it's meaningless because of the new camera!" Kuroyoru protest.
"That's because it is! The III has a new camera!" Tedashii explained peering at Kuroyoru.
Tedashii finger-pointed back at the dreadful landlord, "And besides this is your damn fault for not buying me the II when it came out last year."
"How about I buy you another fucking ass whooping to near death you damn brat! ... What am I kidding, it'll cost something to fix you up to be presentable for adoption." Kyung Mi approached her Honda Fit but stopped midway.
She was oddly staring ahead, puzzling Tedashii and Kuroyoru. She no longer paid any mind to other residents of Academy City from her inappropriate attitude.
The Korean woman flips her hair, scratches her neck and peers back at Tedashii. "Damn it all, you Damn brats! Seriously, how did I get myself in this mess? That's it! It's time for you two to grow up! I won't always be around and it doesn't seem like anyone would want you useless no good for nothing delinquents. So we realistically have to vary your futures a bit more."
"What do you mean by that?" Tedashii said, tilting his head and studying Kyung Mi.
"It means, you're gonna have to step it up! Stop being such a pitiful role model and use that big nifty head of yours. Use that power for someone else for a change instead of yourself." Kyung Mi finished her odd lecture, opening the door for herself.
"What are you talking about you old wicked hag? Remember I'm the level (0)! Here!" Tedashii gestures his thumb to himself.
"Kuroyoru! You know this idiot tries too hard to vertically progress to the next level. Horizontal damage control! Make sure he has his head aiming straight for the prize."
"..." Kuroyoru stood there puzzled but gave up shortly to understand the subject.
Kyung Mi entered the driver's seat and started the engine, but Tedashii and Kuroyoru realized the other doors were still locked.
"Hey, the door is still locked! Hag?!" Tedashii shouts knocking and trying to pull the door knob with all his little strength.
"This is part of your first damn lesson! For punishment for dragging me all the way out here! You'll walk your damn selves back to District 13 Agency Education Department!" Kyung Mi flips her hair once more, placing her hand on the wheel while peering out the window.
"Tch! It's almost like you enjoy wasting yen! What makes you think we'll return, on your time?" Kuroyoru clicks her tongue and protests, crossing her arms.
"Oh shame I forgot to mention... how irresponsible of me." Kyung Mi sarcastically breaks with a façade of pale anxiety. "We have a new mouth to feed, and Ringo-Chan's mouth is the black hole atomic yen eater we all hate during lunch hour. Whelps maybe you should sit this one out."
Tedashii and Kuroyoru face driven pale and a devilish grimm Kyung Mi's Honda Fit burns off at the perfect timing green light.
♦
Tedashii, leading the front ahead of Kuroyoru, continues to pout. Kuroyoru studies Tedashii's lost in thought daydreaming. The two passed by a red beverage dispensing machine.
"Hamasaki-Kun get me a drink! It's the least you can do! At this rate we won't have anything left to eat when we return." Kuroyoru prances past Tedashii stealing his attention and pointing at the beverage dispensing machine.
"Tch!" Tedashii clicks his tongue but does Kuroyoru's bidding. He tapped the machine with his flip flop phone. Within 7 minutes and 53 seconds, one soda can each spring out flying into Tedashii's and Kuroyoru's hands.
"Now that I think of it... 7 minutes really is too long." Kuroyoru judges, annoying the wavy hair boy's eye twitch.
"Oh yeah! What good is having super psychic nitrogen ray guns if it doesn't have firepower to save one's life." Tedashii judges, annoying the black hair girl with bleached blonde-edges.
"It's better than your stupid bike!"
"That bike I was supposed to be driving right about now! It wasn't for small people like you!"
"SMALL!!"
"Yeah SMALL!!"
Tedashii and Kuroyoru stop mid-sentence from their quarrel. Kuroyoru held out her wrist that still had the anti-esper AIM Jammer.
"Wanna test that?! You slow idiot!" Kuroyoru threatened. But her threat held no weight for Tedashii as he tapped her wrist with his flip-flop phone.
"In 7 minutes and 53 seconds bring it on!" A hacked cylindrical droid dash to Tedashii's side as he poses with a brag.
Tedashii casually lifted up the white hood to his white coat that he wore on his shoulders like a cape. He and Kuroyoru continue to bicker and point blames at one another about why the plan failed.
This was how it always has been for these two for how long they knew each other. Though it never held any sufficiency to each other's feelings, rather it held to their own interest in improving themselves.
Small wasp-like droids flew by Tedashii's aid holding black nail polish and bleach blonde hair dye. Dropping the bleach blonde hair dye to Tedashii's hand he casually tosses it to Kuroyoru who responds by causally catching it.
"I think I figured it out. That bunny headphones girl was a Kirigaoka Girls' Academy student. They say it's an all-girls academy located in School District 18 in Academy City. It's a prestigious academic school that focuses on improving students with rare abilities unlike Tokiwadai Middle School that aims to help girls with common abilities to a high level. That bunny headphones girl ability was rare and it was difficult to understand. But I figured it out! She has the ability to give something that doesn't have a mass, mass! And manipulate the given mass with what it's now made of. Like light for example, light doesn't have a mass but once she gives the light a mass it takes the shape of what she wants. Once it takes shape and mass, she can wield a weapon made of complete light. But what we witnessed is she did it with sound instead!
"Though sound can carry mass once it begins to travel she can give it mass instead!" Tedashii enthusiastically explained writing a document wiki note page on his flip flop phone.
Red beet faced Kuroyoru grew annoyed watching the obvious wavy hair boy making an exclusive page for the headphones bunny girl. Kuroyoru's canned drink smacked the back of Tedashii's head.
"Who cares about that fat chested girl! My new power was way cooler!"
"Umm... You're a level 2 esper... That Kirigaoka Girls' Academy prestigious girl was level 4. So stop throwing stuff at me!" Tedashii humbly complained, stroking the back of his hair that was struck.
Kuroyoru Umidori
Science Side
Age: 9
Level 2
Esper Ability: Bomber Lance (窒素爆槍ボンバーランス Chisso Bakusō (Bombā Ransu), lit. "Nitrogen Bomb Lance"
"That's better than being some level 0 idiot! You'll never catch up thinking about others, other than yourself!" Kuroyoru clicks her tongue finger-pointing at Tedashii.
Tedashii Hamasaki
Science Side
Age: 11
Level 0
(No Powers) "Currently Make Up Claims About His Ability."
"Seriously, what's with you? You tell me to update your profile but then tell me to focus on myself? Then what should I do esper?" Tedashii sarcastically remarks. But Kuroyoru's red blushing face ignores Tedashii's mocker, snatching his white coat off of him and shoves the hoodie on her own head.
"Oh look at me! I'm Hamasaki-Kun! I'm an idiot that wears a white coat twice my size!"
"Triple yours!! So give it back!" Tedashii shouts but Kuroyoru answers with a running head start. Tedashii chases her down all the way to district 13.
Character Feature
Profile; Su-Jin Kyung Mi
• One of if not the first guardian figure to Tedashii Hamasaki & Kuroyoru Umidori.
• Extra Notes, she has a sugar tooth. And alongside Yuzuriha Ringo somehow doesn't gain weight often.
• Her Zodiac Sign is Libra
• She desires a vacation at Miyajima
• She's a cheapskate
• And lastly her catchphrase is "How I Get Myself Into This Mess?"
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