Mavis' pov

"These two new recruits from The League of Villains. I don't trust them completely. These half brains can't do anything without dancing out of the plan. Don't talk with them over stuff that they could use against us." Kai walked me towards my new room. We were not underground, it kinda surprised me that I will be staying here, sleeping in the 3. floor, the room across from Kai.

And it surprised me more that he walks with me. Normally I would only see him sitting and he would command a dog of his to accompany me to any new room because I get lost in here quiet often.

They gave me a map but I don't understand it, it's like a labyrinth down there. "I told Eri that I will be going with her to the cinema the next time I am here."

"No." He shortly said, and I rolled my eyes. "Why not? Let the girl have some good memories." He opened the door to my new room and waited for me to go inside.

"You said it yourself. The heroes follow you around. I won't be there to watch over her. Now go inside." He lazily made a hand gesture inside and I stepped in. First inspecting the room, then turning back to see that Kai still stood there, watching me.

"Just this one thing. You can send your most trusted members with us. How about..." I was thinking about people who look normal enough to go in a cinema. "Oh! Yu could come with us. He looks sane enough for the people outside. And maybe Hekiji? But with a normal mask. The raven one would only attract attention." He thought for a second, his eyes lingered on my eyes before he turned around and left my room.

I placed my bag down and followed him downstairs. "Okay, you can go. They will both be by your side. Don't mess up or she will never go outside again." A smile crept up my lips and I needed to maintain myself to give him a hug, he would kill me if I did.

"I will go down and get Eri. Thank you Kai." I skipped down the rest of the stairs and opened the wall-door.

"Oh, Mimic! Have you seen Hejiki or Yu? They will be accompanying me to the cinema with Eri." I looked down to the small thing. He is actually a grown ass man with blonde hair, but I can't picture it myself. Mimic is so cute and actually really polite.

"No, but I will find them for you." I smiled at him.

"That would be great, thanks Mimic." And off I go. Eri's room is the only way I could have kept in my head. I don't know how often I went down here, it feels like a long time ago wheb I got here. The members are good to talk to, I mean the most of them. The others don't talk much or are just awkward. I even have a buddy to drink with.

"Eri, honey. Are you ready for the movie?" My head peaked inside Eri's room. She turned around from her bed and looked at me with her normal sad eyes. She nodded and stood up.

"Let's change your clothes. Did you like any particular thing that I bought you?" I stepped inside completely and shut the door behind me, walking to her tiny closet.

She shook her head and watched me pick up an outfit for her.

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I looked at the two members that came with us "Could you let us alone for a second?" They looked at each other and then back to me "Boss said we should be by your side the whole time."

"It will only be for a second, you can wait for us over there." I motioned to a tree not far from us and they hesitantly obeyed. I waited for them to be out of the hearing range before looking down at the child, that was holding my left hand.

"Eri, I want you to listen to me closely" I crouched down to her level, we were on a sidewalk, couple of feet away from the location where Deku was with one of the big three just a couple of days ago.

She looked at me and waited for what my next words were. "In this world, you come alone and you go alone. No one is trustworthy, ever. This world is full of cruelty and people that don't know what the word 'loyal' is. They will talk behind your back, laugh when you are on your lowest, and won't help you when you need them the most. It could even be your closest friend." I paused for a second before I continued.

"I'm not saying that all of them are, gods no. I only want you to be careful around people. They would smile in your face but dream about what they would do to you if you show them that you are vulnerable. You can't trust anyone fully in this world. Not even me. Only you decide wether I earned your trust or not.

"I told you that no harm will be made to you in my presence and you can trust me on that, I always keep my promises."

"But why did you promise it? You didn't know me the first day." She was confused with my words and I chuckled lightly.

"I won't expect you to understand it now, you remind me of myself, you know. I was like you; alone. No one came to aid me, I hadn't had even a friend that was by my side at my lowest. I want to be that friend to you. I want to be something to you that I wished for the most. Someone you can turn to, someone that will protect you and someone that will love you." A tear slipped down my right cheek and Eri wiped it away.

"Big sis, your quirk is slipping again." She informed me and I laughed lightly. One time, I cried in front of her, and told her that my quirk would sometimes do this, slip away I mean. It wasn't that bad, only a few tears slipping down my cheeks. I didn't quite know why I cried, could be my miserable life, that I archived nothing, that I can't even protect my own friends or that my parents were taken from me. It could be all of them, I bottled all my problems up and only spoke with Kyoko about it, but not about everything.

'Bottling your feelings up will only lead to self destruction' they said. And that's exactly what happens to me. I am slipping away from this world. Creating my own misery with the decisions I made and will make in the future.

Taking her hand in my hands, I gave it a kiss on the knuckles and stood up.

"Let's go to the cinema, shall we?" I did notice the familiar bodies, following me around, but I could care less.

I should have.

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