18 What do you think about girls?

- Location: Japan, outside a certain movie theatre

[POV. Third-Person]

"Now... come at me, ugly!" Liam's confidence irritated the villain as he jumped with his fist aimed at him. Liam just grabbed a cigar from his suit's pocket and pointed the tip towards the villain.

BLAST!

Suddenly, the villain's thick-layered hand disappeared as some sort of greenish-purple laser blasted it away. "ARGHH!! W-WHAT?!" The villain fell on his knees, holding his charred wound.

Smoke flowed from the tip of the cigar as Liam started smoking. Another blast came from his eyes, and the villain's left leg disappeared, leaving only a cauterized wound.

"F*CK!!! WHO ARE YOU?!" The villain said as he slowly grabbed a nearby big piece of debris from the ground he cracked as he landed. Liam just turned his back and walked away.

"DON'T IGNORE ME!!" The villain yelled as he threw some debris that failed to hit its mark and headed for Jihye and Henri.

BLAST!

Liam's eyes shot out lasers, curving as they followed the fast debris, destroying it. "But.. how..." The villain said with a defeated voice as he witnessed the impossible.

Some time passed, and the heroes and police showed up, catching the villain.

"You two okay?" Liam asked as he threw the cigar on the floor and stomped on it. "What.. was that?" Jihye asked with a surprised expression.

"My quirk.. it lets me shoot out beams that I can control the trajectory of," Liam said as he looked at the theatre clerk, who was sweating badly.

"Will you still let them buy tickets?" Liam asked with a sincere smile.

"O-of course, sir!" the clerk said as he gave them all tickets. "On the house! Thank you for helping stop that villain!" He said as he bowed.

"Should we go get popcorn?" Henri asked as they went inside.

....

[POV. Jihye]

Another year passed, and we are now currently in our second year of junior high. This year wasn't that eventful after what happened at the theatre.

Henri and I have been training our quirks as we prepared for UA. As usual, she is very excited about going there. I don't know where she gets the energy.

We are currently at our usual cafe, and I'm eating the blueberry shortcake that Henri paid for as per our duel's terms.

"Do you think Mary would look good in pigtails?" Henri asked as she took a sip from her strawberry cheesecake milk tea.

"You could just ask her about it later, you know?" I said with my voice, as there were only a few customers at the cafe today.

"I guess I will later... Hey Jihye, what do you think about girls?" Henri asked with a flushed expression. I raised an eyebrow at her question.

"What do you mean by that?" I said, as I truly did not know what she meant by that question. "Hahh.. Forget it," Henri sighed as she let her head rest on the table.

"You can be so annoying sometimes, you know!" Henri said as she stood up, stomping her feet while walking towards the bathroom.

"I'm gonna go powder my nose!" She said to me as she went inside the bathroom.

Henri has been acting weird lately. She is becoming more irritable than she usually is. It's not that I mind it, but it does get weird sometimes, like what happened just now.

I wish she would just tell me what's going on so that I could help her.

....

[POV. Third-Person]

Jihye and Henri were walking when they heard a commotion. People had gathered at the center of a certain district, and smoke rose up to the sky, making it more gloomy with the dark clouds.

"What do you think is happening over there?" Henri asked, curiosity in her voice. 'I don't know... Do you wanna check it out?' Jihye said as they started approaching the crowd.

'Give me a piggyback and use your shoes,' Jihye said, raising her arms. Seeing her say that, Henri suddenly blushed and covered her face. "What's wrong? Why is your face so red? Are you sick?" Jihye asked with concern.

"N-no! I'm fine. It's just the smoke that's making my face red," she said, turning her back, telling Jihye to hop on.

Jihye then got on her back, hugging her to feel secure. Henri's entire face turned beet red, and she started breathing nervously. "Am I too heavy?" Jihye asked after seeing Henri sweat.

"I-it's nothing! J-jet Boots Model: Hermes," she said as they flew above the crowd, watching the scene happening in front of them.

At the center of the district, a sludge villain was holding a student hostage as the heroes were stopped in their tracks.

Suddenly, a kid who seemed to be about their age, with messy dark green hair and freckles, started sprinting towards the villain. He threw his bag, hitting the villain's eye, and started pulling away the sludge.

"That boy is really brave," Jihye said with her voice, they were high enough so that nobody else could hear her.

"Hmph! He looks like an idiot to me! Running towards the villain recklessly like that!" Henri suddenly seemed irritated as Jihye spoke those words.

"Well, whatever he or that villain does, the fight is over," Jihye said as a hulking muscular man with blonde hair suddenly appeared.

"DETROIT SMASH!!" AllMight's voice thundered as his punch was so strong that the hostage was separated from the sludge. The air pressure from his attack cleared the dark clouds from the sky.

"Woah..." Jihye was shocked to see All Might's power. "Show's over... Let's get down before the cops see us using our quirks." she said as she tapped on Henri's shoulder.

But even after saying those words, Henri didn't go down. "Hey! Are you okay?" Jihye asked with deep concern as she looked at Henri's red face and dizzy eyes. "O-oh... I'm supposed to go down now, right?" Henri suddenly snapped out of her stupor as she started descending.

"Is there something wrong? You can talk to me about anything, you know," Jihye said, patting her head.

"WHY DO YOU ALWAYS MAKE ME ACT LIKE THIS! GO AWAY!" She yelled out of nowhere as she stomped on the floor.

She suddenly started running away as Jihye tried to go after her.