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That night on the same day....

    Ako was getting ready to get out of the Yaoyorozu household. Just in case that Momo is around, she decided to disguise herself with a black hair tied in a ponytail, although her bright blue eyes were still the same, and her little fangs were noticeable, she changed her persona into that of an ordinary maid.

"Yosh, this is perfect, desu wa!" She smiled infront of the mirror before posing like a model, "I look perfect..!"

Koharu who was observing her in the back chuckled, "Just what are you trying to do, Ako-chan?"

  "Tsk tsk tsk, Koharu you really are naive! At a time like these, it's best to gather for information. Plus, I need to get a job. We can't just rely on the others, right?" She wriggled her index finger infront of Koharu's nose, before slightly tapped it at the point of her nose.

"You are right...although, why do you need to escape though? Shouldn't we just tell them that you're going to find a job?" Koharu's innocent question made Ako flinch. She did not expect that blow!

'I'm sorry Koharu! Part of what i said earlier were true, I actually just wanted to stroll on night times!'

  Ako scratched her cheeks while smiling nervously, "Eh...you know that they are very strict about me, right? I don't want them to know that I am working, so please keep this a secret Koharu. Do you understand, desu no?"

Koharu pondered while looking straight at Ako's shaking eyes, before smiling widely. "Okay!"

  Although Koharu agreed, Ako is still looking suspiciously at Koharu.

'Why do i feel like something is going to happen?'

   Ako shook her head in disbelief,

'Trust your friend, Ako!'

   And without hesitation, she continued on her secret journey, out of the household of the Yaoyorozu family. She dodged many maids lurking around the halls, and sometimes she pretended to be one of them, and she is now walking along with a maid.

"Ma'ttaku, I can't believe my husband's going to take away my child after he got a mistress, such a bastard right?" Said by one of the maids walking with her, she stayed quiet but continued acting surprised.

"Really?! You should get him to jail! He has no right to take away your child when he had broken the law!" A maid with a short black hair over-reacted, Ako watched as the two maid conversed with anger and disbelief, sharing their pain with one another.

"I'm going to cut his d*ck off." The older maid said with a sinister smile.

"Right! And you should also shove it right into his mouth! Let him taste your wrath! Let him know that his shaggy ding-dong is not worth your beauty!" 

'Dude, whoever you are. Run.' Ako thought in her mind.

   When they reached the gate, Ako putted the bag of trash that was on her hands in the trash, before she cleaned her hands with a clean towel.

"Hey new girl! You comin' with us??" Ako almost jumped when she suddenly heard a voice called her, she quickly turned around and smiled sheepishly.

"Ehmm, i actually need to buy something. You guys can go in first."
The maids seemed convinced so they immediately smiled and waved her goodbye. "Alright then! See yah later!"

"Yeah....see ya..." Her words drifted off as the two figures gradually faded out of her view. When she confirmed that the two were gone, she immediately lightened up. Saluting herself first by doing a good job.

"Hmph! They're so stupid! They didn't even noticed that I am Ako? Ohoho~ I'm so amazing, desu wa!" With her final boasting to the air, praising herself. She proceeded walking away from the household, skipping in her every steps.

On her way to the city, she really tried looking for a job suitable for her. But a maid, waitress, cashier, bodyguard? Heck no she is going to work for that kind of job! She isn't made for those easy going jobs! She wanted excitement and thrilling jobs that could spice up her life, and also a job that can help her gather more information about this world of them.

   "Haaa... This is getting really tiring, desu wa. How can jobs here be such a flimsy thing such as being a maid, waitress and whatever?" She complained and sighed, many who heared her said that looked at her with scrutinising glare.

  But, so what? She just smiled at them. She would never satisfy a person's satisfaction to see a person shrink in their gaze. Ako is not like that.

  "Well, the world here is not like mine anyways. The jobs in my world are far more superior, such as killing and spying, witchcrafting and hunting monsters. Basically a world of survival of the fittest. Although, princesses like us work for political affairs and balancing the core...." She whispered to herself, completely lost in her own thoughts.

Not until she saw a shop. At the top of the shop, there's a banner that says Paladama.

'Probably the name of the shop...'

She observe the shop even more and thought that this shop looked rundown and is finally running out of business, but is still clean looking. The interior and exterior design were rather a simple brick on the outside, while the inside has full on white walls.

It's like they washed the whole shop with a paint of white..

Ako walked in, expecting to see a bunch of workers that will greet her. But the people inside the shop only looked at her and smiled. What kind of customer service is this? Well, she's not really a customer.

Ako scanned the whole place with her data gathering eyes. She find it strange that a rundown place like this is still open. But it seems like there's a few customers.

The shop is full of jewels, it must be a jewelry shop. Smiling to herself, she thought that being with this many jewels and beautiful otherworldly accessories that is so different from them, she decided to work in here.

Of course, she wanted to gather information about these different types of accessories, and what they used to create these things. It might come pretty handy when she got back to her home.

   Ako walked to the group of people that she thinks is one of the admins in this shop. "Excuse me? Are you hiring for workers? I would like to apply, desu no."

  Ako politely smiled to them, but she noticed two people from the back exhanging whispers before looking back at her with a friendly expression.

"Sure, we would like to test you first then..." As they were guiding Ako to a certain place, there suddenly an explosion at her back. Thankfully, she immediately invaded the explosion.

  "Don't move, and give me all of your things!!" The villain grinned. swinging his large axe behind his muscular back. His tanned skin were glistening under the bright light of the bulbs, he has a wide grin and cheeky eye smile, but he has a whide slashed scar on his left cheeks. Staring from his eyebrown, down to his jaw.

His enormous body seemed too big inside the shop, and it made the other people cower in fear naturally.

  Ako's cyan eyes turned slit and had a faint glow, her time seemed to have stop in that moment as she calculated everything in less than a second.

  'Confirmed'

  Her time suddenly returned to its normal state and her cyan eyes glowed blue, the smoke was not even clear and Ako is still on air when the time flawed again. Ako span to face the ground and when her feet touched her pointed toe, a flash of blue cleared the smoke, making the others see the action. And before they know it, Ako had kicked the villain's side waist. It was so powerful that it made the villain burst out his blood on both of his mouth and nose.

  His body slammed on the glass of the shop, but the force was so great that the glass broke and the villain flew in a couple miles away, all the way destroying countless of houses.

The others who watched the whole scene were deeply shocked and in disbelief. How can such a frail looking girl like her blew all that muscles away in such a short span of seconds?! It's only a mere three seconds during the villain attack and this girl already blew him away without even breaking a sweat! She's a monster! She's like the little girl version of All Might!!

  "Hmph! You're too early to test someone like me, desu wa!!" Ako crossed her arms grinning triumphantly.

  One of the admins started going close to her, but is slightly shaking from shock. "H-Hey, are you fine? Are you hurt anywhere miss?"

Ako glared at them, "Don't pretend that you are so innocent, I knew everything the moment this accident suddenly happened."

"W-Well.."

  They were choked in their own saliva and air started leaving their body, they almost forgot how to breath. They were already found out by this little girl? How is it even possible that such a little girl like Ako can see through them like reading a magazine?

"You think you can fool me with such flimsy acting? You have a long way to go!"

  Well, what do you expect from a girl with an AI intelligence? She's basically a computer system, if not for her human body.

"I'm very amazed by your quick thinking, and also that amazing attack! I can tell you are incredibly smart..." A voice came from nowhere, making the other admins bow their head in respect to their Boss.

Ako's eyes squinted to clearly see the face of the newcomer. She has to admit though, his voice can melt multiple females. It's husky and deep, but sweet like chocolates. Ako automatically blushed when she saw his insanely handsome features.

  His beauty is enough to destroy a whole country. What a beauty!

   "Would you like to join our organisation, miss?" His brilliantly blue eyes were in a crescent moon shape as he smile, he has fair skin and his body build is really good.

  Ako immediately snapped back into her mind, realizing that she has been staring at him for such a long time. She felt her face burn up in embarrassment.

  "U-Uh, yeah. Sure."

    So on and so forth, after some of the staffs cleaned up the mess with the help of the admins, Ako was brought into an office, probably the office of the boss because it looks really elegant and formal.

"Sit down. We have a lot to discuss." He commanded once they were alone. His friendly face is gone but his voice is still soothing and relaxing. Ako obeyed without saying much.

"What kind of business is this? What kind of work do i have to do?" Ako immediately asked as she sat down.

  The guy chuckled lightly, "You seemed to be in a hurry, miss."

"I'm just asking.."

"Well, this is a private organisation. In short, our business is illegal and dangerous. We're not recognized by the government."

"Hey, is your business some kind of a lair of assassins and spies?"

  The guy got quiet for a second, before he burst out laughing. Resulting on Ako looking at him like he's gone mad, what's so funny? Is her face funny?

"Uh???"

"Sorry sorry, i just didn't expect you to figure it all out on your own. Because believe it or not, this place looks like an ordinary run down jewelry shop, am I right?"

"Yeah, i did thought that this was an ordinary shop of accessories."

  "Well then, now that you know about our business, i shall explain to you our contract."

   He explained about the contract that Ako should work for him in a year, her missions would be top tier and dangerous, all according to her skills. Ofcourse, Ako is delighted but is secretly nervous. This is the first time that she'd work as an assassin and spy.

And in return of her top tier missions, she would receive two million yen every month as her salary. A pretty good exchange.

And as for Ako, she told the boss that she needs to add up some of the rules in the contract. She must not tell her name, and so she didn't tell them her name but instead came up with a codename, the second is that she wants to have full access to laboratories, computer science and technology room, and some private datas and information. She wanted all of it. And in the end, they both agreed to sign the contract. It's a very fair give and take discussion.

  After she got out of the shop and started walking back to home, her mind flew to Yaoyorozu's.

"Oh yeah, we need to seperate from them as soon as possible since I have joined a dangerous job today."

She didn't want to bring trouble to the family that treated her like her a real daughter, saved her from being lost in this unfamiliar world, for introducing her about this world. She's truly grateful.

"I need to tell Koharu that we should create a plan together once we leave the residence..."

The cold wind blew right unto her fair skin, and since she wore thin clothes, she shivered from coldness.

"Augh, i regret not taking my coat. But then again, they might recognise me if i did brought it with me here."
She whispered to herself before taking out her black colored hair in a crowd place, her hair swaying together with the wind.

  "I wish i had my knight with me here, desu wa." She sighed.

But a sudden unexpected voice suddenly entered her ear, it made her turn around immediately.

  "Saotome?"

  "T-Todoroki-san?" She did not expect to encounter Todoroku at this time of the day. She straightened herself and her princess aura came back to her like magic, "Ehem. What are you doing here, desu no?"

"I'm out for air." He casually said before walking again beside Ako. He stayed silence while Ako is observing him from the side. It is kind of uncomfortable, but her presense sometimes is securing. It's so funny that he felt safe beside this little frail girl named Ako.

"You're out for air? Then I am too! I am out for air!" Ako just had an idea for her excuses to Momo, she chuckled inside her head.

  Todoroki glanced sideways to see Ako's expression, she's happily smiling while her fingers were resting on her lips.

"What?" Ako noticed his stare.

  Todoroki shook his head, "Nothing."

  'Wait, my friends said that it is better to know your enemy more, right? Should i befriend this guy?' Ako thought as she continued staring at his scarred but handsome face. Oh right, now that she noticed it - he actually has beautiful blue eyes. It's almost the same color as her eyes.

  She wanted to start talking, but she didn't know where to start. She's not always the one who initiates conversation back in her home anyways. How is she going to start a conversation?

   '.....should i start by talking about myself?'

But she shouldn't spat out too much information about herself though.

'Yosh! Let's do this, desu wa!'

Determined, she finally opened her mouth. "Do you have any friends, desu no?"

  Todoroki stopped and looked at the girl beside him. "I don't need friends."

Ako suddenly realized his and her similarities, but it is in the past. Thankfully. "Well, the truth is - I also used to think that I don't need friends in the past." Ako's arrogant smile faded and is replaced by her gentle and sincere smile.

  "The past me were really closed off, " She looked at Todoroki, "Pretty similar to you actually."

"...." He remained silent but continued listening anyways.

"I still remember when i was pressured by ny grandmother that i must surpass the other pri - ehem, the other students' abilities, I must not be on equal with them because I am a special kind of child. So, i thought highly of myself back then, I am special! Why should I befriend them?" Ako chuckled.

"Oh well, I'm such an egocentric woman. But i am really closed off, i don't talk to other people, it's like I surrounded myself with a bunch of walls. It all changed though, when my friends came."

"At first they were really annoying, and I considered one of them as my greatest enemy, i wanted to beat her so bad, maybe it's because to satisfy my cravings to win and be the best, but they made me realize, that enemies can also push you high up. They supported me in the back, continued staying by my side even though I am pushing them away. Very persistent, right?"

  She smiled happily, remembering her friends smile and their cheerful eyes when they saw her smile for the first time. She truly treasure their moments together.

"I still have some trust issues, and I tend to hide all of my burdens and I also tend to burden all of their mistakes, i don't want to trouble them and I want to atleast help them for being my friends. But i didn't realized that - that was my biggest mistake in my life."

  Todoroki felt her sad emotions embracing his heart, is it empathy? No, he did not know what he is feeling.

  The sad atmosphere sudden dispersed, and Ako stuck her tongue out. "I'm not gonna tell you what happened next though" She chuckled.

  They were brought by their aimless walk into the view of the city infront of them, there's also a crowd forming in this very area.

"What's happening?" Ako asked herself, but instead Todoroki answered her. Ako really didn't expect him to answer her question.

"I think it's because of those lights."
He pointed at the blue, white and pink floating lights at the sky.

Ako looked up and saw those beautiful colors dancing together in the dark night, it was glowing brightly like fairies.

"Wow!" Ako suddenly brightened. Her cyan eyes that looked blue were suddenly filled with the colors of the those dancing light, it's like their sinking into her pupils.

Todoroki's lips slightly raised as he watched this once in a lifetime experience. But his smile froze when he saw Ako's beautiful face.

  She's so beautiful. Her bright eyes were fascinated, her long eyes lashes flattered and her cheeks were flushed in a bright pink color, her cute pink lips were slightly parted. Todoroki felt his breath slowly fading away from his lungs. Her beauty is breathtaking.

  Ako felt his gaze and looked at him.

"....Todoroki-san?"

   As this beautiful moment were carved in their hearts, all sinful intentions were hidden away.

  As Ako enjoyed her moment in this different universe, there was an evil presense lurking in the background that couldn't control his sinister smile from forming around his face.

  "Enjoy your time, as long as you can.."

To be continued...

  Hey guys!! It's been a long time since i updated. But here is it! I made it especially longer so you won't feel unsatisfied! I hope you guys enjoy! And from today on, i will update frequently again. I am back on my ride! I finally escaped my mental block. Soooo, if you guys encounter errors and wrong grammars, please tell me!

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