Capítulo 18: Chapter 2 - Malfunction at The Junction: 2
Dakima and Karera stared at each other down 2 meters apart from one another, their eyes carrying a sharp, deadly glare. Their stands floated behind them, ready and waiting to be used. "I'll give you one more chance. Let my friends go, and we can both walk away from this," Karera bargained, shifting her stance ever-so-slightly. "I don't want to have to fight you. Besides, your body language is telling me the same thing, so why don't you just leave, give me back my friends, and we can end this right here, and right now," Karera said, narrowing her eyes as the man did not move.
There was a brief moment of silence between the two. And then, the man shook his head. "Sorry kid. Nothing personal," Dakima said, letting out a sigh, and then, he shouted, "I WANT MY HUMANITY BACK!" Steam Powered Giraffe sent out a yellow cable, and in response, somehow, Dakima's hair made a shield in front of Karera, blocking the attack.
"H-Huh?!" Dakima sputtered, raising an eyebrow as he looked up at his hair, which had a golden hue around it. "Ah, so that's your Stand's ability, hair manipulation. I'm lucky my own ability doesn't work on me, otherwise, that would've been extremely anti-climatic," Dakima said, a chuckle behind his tone as the wire went around the hair to wrap up Karera.
However, when it didn't touch something, Dakima raised an eyebrow. That was when he felt a fist smash against his face, and Dakima, along with his Stand, was sent flying into the wall. Karera stood there, her chest rising up and down due to heavy breathing. That was close…. If I hadn't jumped when I did… I would've lost…." Karera thought, looking at the wall where the man was launched into. The wall cracked under his immense weight, and that had been every passerby's cue to run. Karera ran as well, ducking into the store behind him before Dakima could refocus.
"Damn, you hit hard, girl," Dakima snarled, getting out of the hole in the wall. "But my cybernetic body can take more hits than just that!" The blond said, his hair retracting back to where it once was before Steam Powered Giraffe's red wires began to shoot out of its body, and connect to his arm, transforming it into a canon.
"Not only can I lock people into my phone, using Steam Powered Giraffe, but I can also augment any electronic in 100 meters of myself! INCLUDING MY OWN BODY!" Dakima shouted, a red visor coming out of his metallic forehead. The visor gave him the ability to see through walls, but he couldn't find anyone that matched Karera's appearance. "Hmph, she ran. Talk about all that editing for nothing… hmm, but she won't stay hidden. Not for long, that is," Dakima growled, the red wires detaching from his arm, turning it back to normal and attaching to every security camera in the 100-meter radius around him.
Karera sat in the corner of The Source. Not exactly the smartest move on her part, seeing as the guy she was fighting could manipulate technology, or at least, that was what she heard him say. However, she had an idea. She had to get extremely close to him, which meant risking pretty much everything on one attack, but if she could pull it off….
"Vlad-Sensei was the one who helped me figure this one out, that, and it's a really good attack anyways, so…." Karera thought, clenching her hand into a fist. However, as soon as Karera did that, a red dot appeared on her chest, and when she looked up, she saw that a security camera was pointed at her, and it had an ethereal red wire attached to it.
"AH-HA! I FOUND YOU!" Dakima's voice came from the security camera, which then seamlessly turned its camera lens into a gun barrel. Karera created another shield, this time out of her own hair, as a volley of bullets rained down on her. A majority of the bullets bounced off, but some of the bullets bypassed her hair shield and got her in the shoulders and areas around her waist. She clenched her teeth, ignoring the pain as best as possible before standing up while tripling her shield's size and density. There was a reason why she had her hair bunched up in a bandana, and it was so she could use it to protect herself with her Stand.
Love Love Deluxe's ability allowed Karera to grow and modify anyone's hair in any way, shape, and form, while still keeping the innate qualities of hair down to the genetic code that made it what it was. Love Love Deluxe can change the density, volume, and amount of hair a person has, so long as it stems from an area that can grow it—I.E. everywhere on the human body. However, she can only target one part of the body, and one person at a time. Although she can still multi-task, so long as the hair stemmed from one person.
Even if the ability could be frustrating at times, and caused her to choke up in a fight once or twice before, the Stand itself was still pretty good at what it did, and it was what allowed Karera to be as good at fighting as she was—hell, she survived being a Stand User all of her life, so that pretty much spoke for itself. It was also why she never really needed to hide the fact that her ability was a Stand because it acted so much like a Quirk in the first place.
Parts of her hair shot out at the camera gun, wrapped around it, and crushed it into little bits of mechanical shrapnel. Karera smirked, high on adrenaline. "Take that, bozo! Destroyed your little weapon, and now you can't do a thing!" Karera said, bringing her hair back to normal.
"Oh, really now?" A sudden voice behind her caused the girl to quickly turn around and jump out of the way of a yellow cable. It zipped straight for her, however, before it could make contact, more of Dakima's hair quickly created a barrier completely around her, annoying the blond Stand user. "Shit, you're quick, aren't you?" Dakima said, scowling. "I knew I shoulda shaved my head…. I always hated my hair being this long, but now it comes to bite me in the ass…. Fuck me, am I right?" The man said, talking to himself as he frowned.
"Damnit, I'm out of range!" Karera thought, panic racing through her body as the blood from the bullet wounds dripped down her arms and waist. She was beginning to feel a bit woozy from the blood loss, so, she decided to change that.
Pieces of Dakima's hair came out in thick strands, mimicked the sharpness of a scalpel and removed the bullets, only causing herself more pain at first, but it was the first step to recovery and healing herself. The sound of punches rocketing off of the hair barrier made her jump, as Steam Powered Giraffe was blitzing the hair barrier, albeit with weak punches.
"GET OUT OF THERE, YOU COWARD! FIGHT ME LIKE A REAL FIGHTER WOULD!" Dakima shouted as the punches bounced off of the shield. Karera took in a calm, deep breath as she stitched her wounds together, making sure she was steady. After she finished stitching the wounds, she kept their density the same as stitches, but more durable to allow for faster movements. The hair retracted back to Dakima, causing the man's eyes to widen, and then, Love Love Deluxe used his shock to her advantage and punched Steam Punk Giraffe in the gut.
[RABU!]
The punch hit hard, knocking both the Stand and the user back. A wave of yellow cables came towards Karera, but Love Love Deluxe fended them off with a speed blitz.
[RABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABU!]
As Love Love Deluxe continued to punch away at the cables, more yellow cables kept coming to replace them. However, Love Love Deluxe kept keeping them away from Karera as she walked forward, causing Dakima to sweat. "H-How the hell can you keep Steam Punk Giraffe's ability at bay? My Stand is the fastest Stand known to man!" Dakima cried out as Karera scoffed.
"Then I guess we're equally matched in speed," Karera spat back as she counted the distance between the two. "10 meters…." Karera thought, closing the distance slowly but surely, all the while Dakima kept becoming more and more desperate, sending out more wires, all of which Love Love Deluxe could keep at bay. "8 Meters… I need to be at least 2 meters away from him to make this attack count, otherwise, it'll be a lost cause," Karera thought as she continued her advance.
Steam Powered Giraffe shot out blue cables from its body, retracting the yellow cables so it could use the blue ones, and connected them to every electronical appliance in the store. The clerk ducked underneath the counter as all of the electronics launched themselves at Karera, who ducked under a display table, stopping her advance.
They swarmed her like hawks, but Love Love Deluxe was able to punch away at them, destroying the Ipads, laptops, and pretty much anything that came close to her. She noticed something, though, and that was the fact that he wasn't using the red wires to rebuild the tech. "So, he can only use one wire colour at a time. But depending on what colour he's using, it changes what he can do. Yellow means to put something into an electronical object, red means to modify and see and or act through it, and blue means to remotely control it. If he could do all three, this Stand would be absolutely terrifying. But as it is now, he's pretty mediocre," Karera thought, leaving the table as all of the electronical appliances rushed toward her.
Using her hair, Love Love Deluxe turned her hair into sharp spears that pierced all of the devices, destroying them, and rendering them useless. Dakima returned to the tried and true strategy of overwhelming the opponent, launching more yellow cables at Karera, only for Love Love Deluxe to continue what it was it had been doing when he first started that kind of attack, while at the same time returning Karera's hair to normal, although by now, Karera's bandana had been turned into swiss cheese and fell onto the floor, allowing her long, black, flowing hair to reach down to her lower back.
She continued to advance, even though it was slow. "6 Meters…."
Dakima took a step back out of fright, adding on more cables, though it really didn't matter, seeing as Karera just kept coming, and Love Love Deluxe just kept punching and destroying. "4 Meters."
As she got closer, Dakima kept hurling more wires and cables at Karera, only to be met with even more pushback. "3 Meters."
Dakima became more frantic. "2.5 Meters." And then he snapped.
"STAY BACK!" The wires stopped, and the man dragged out his phone and raised it to the air. Karera stopped, her Stand moving back towards her as the man's breathing became erratic. "If you don't stop, I'll smash this phone and kill them both right here, right now!" Dakima spat, Steam Powered Giraffe hovering behind him as Karera's eyes narrowed.
"You really think I'll believe that!" Karera argued as the man's expression became flat, his eyes filling with killing intent, which caused Karera to flinch.
"Oh, but you should." The deadly seriousness in Dakima's voice caused Karera to feel a chill go down her spine. "Your friends are trapped within this phone as proton cells, which are used to power the battery in the phone. Now, regardless of how much I use it, no matter how much I adjust the brightness, turn off the power saver, or even remove the battery, the phone will never die because its souls are powering it. But, if the phone were to break into tiny little pieces, along with the battery, then suddenly the protons have nowhere to go and fizzle out. The protons, in this case, are your friends' bodies and souls. And if the protons fizzle out, those people or that singular person dies. It's quite simple actually," Dakima stated as Karera felt a singular bead of sweat drip down her forehead.
"N-Now you're being a coward!" Karera spat, inching forward as Dakima scoffed, shrugging.
"We Stroheims do whatever it takes to win. Hell, my great-great-grandfather was in World War 2! Sure, he was on the wrong side, and sure he died still fighting on the wrong side, but that man helped defeat a Pillar Man—not just any Pillar Man, but the ruler of all Pillar Men, the one that became the Ultimate Lifeform! He did everything in his power to win, and so will I! I don't care if it's cowardice, I don't care if it's scummy, I won't lose to a 15-year-old brat!" Dakima spat, his teeth bare, a visible vein on his forehead, and the phone in his hand began to crack. "So, this is how this is going to go! You're gonna stand still, and I'm going to zap you into this phone. Got it!" Dakima hollered as Karera stood still, looking down at the floor. "Good, now, this won't hurt a bit!"
But little had the man known, that during his blind rant, Karera had reached 2 meters. As the yellow cables started protruding out of Steam Powered Giraffe, in the blink of an eye, a hair barrier encircled Dakima and Steam Powered Giraffe, all except the arm that had the phone in it. The hair became so sharp that it severed the arm from the elbow down, oil leaking from the wound as a screeching sound could be heard from within the hair cocoon. The hand released the phone, and Karera caught it as soon as it came close to the floor.
Inside the barrier, Dakima roared with rage, however, also in pain after realizing his arm had been severed. "YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Dakima roared as the hair retracted back, but before Dakima could do anything to retaliate, he was met with a pissed-off Karera. His angered demeanour immediately fell, and then, he cursed himself. "Oh, Scheiße."
Love Love Deluxe grabbed him by the collar of his hoodie and raised him higher than Karera's eye level. The man began to struggle, kicking his legs up in the air as Steam Power Giraffe still floated behind him. "Y-You think y-you won! I-I- I can still attack you! I can still trap you in the phone!" Dakima threatened, though his tone of voice was more frightened than intimidating.
"I know when to call a bluff when I see one. And that, my friend, was a bluff. Now, I'll spare you a beatdown if you let my friends out, how about that?" Karera stated as Dakima squealed.
"I-I—!" Dakima began, only to be met with a fist to the face, blood and oil flying from his face as Karera sneered.
"On second thought… yeah, no, how about I just beat you up, that way I know my friends will be evicted from the phone!" Karera stated, smirking as Love Love Deluxe began to speed blitz Dakima and Steam Powered Giraffe.
[RABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABURABU!]
Blood and oil hit the floor, coating the area below the man as he crashed into the ceiling, before falling face-first into the puddle, unconscious as Steam Powered Giraffe faded away. Once it was finished its job, Love Love Deluxe disappeared back into Karera as the teen let out a sigh. "Now… stay down," Karera stated, grunting as she rolled her neck from side to side.
The battle was over, and she came out the victor.
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Stand Name: Steam Powered Giraffe
Stand User: Dakima Stroheim.
Status: Defeated [Unconscious/out of commission]
Abilities:
Electronic Control: Steam Powered Giraffe allows Dakime to control any sort of technology that its blue wires are connected to.
Mislabeled: Simple is as simple does; Steam Powered Giraffe allows Dakime to rebuild tech with near-instant success, and they can do it with almost anything, so long as it has some sort of electronical capabilities and is connected to the red wires that Steam Powered Giraffe has within it. It will also create the parts needed to build whatever Dakime wants, though each part costs him a part of his flesh to create, which is replaced with steampunk-Esque parts immediately. The more he uses this ability, the more robotic he becomes.
Device Entrapment: Using Steam Power Giraffe, Dakime can trap anyone within his phone as soon as the Stand wraps its yellow wires around the person. The person is alive within the phone until it is destroyed. The only way to rescue the people within is to knock Dakima out.
Stats:
Destructive Power: D
Range: A
Speed: A
Persistence: B
Precision: C
Potential: E
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Stand name: Love Love Deluxe
Stand User: Karera Sakunami
Status: Ally
Ability:
Complete Hair control: Love Love Deluxe allows the user to control anyone's hair within 80 meters of itself. However, this only applies to protecting Karera or messing with other people's hair in a harmless fashion. If Karera wants to do something combative using someone else's hair, that hair must be 2 meters away from Karera, nothing more, nothing less. But after that, the same range applies. once the hair leaves that 80-meter range, the effect disappears, and the hair returns to normal. Love Love Deluxe can also change the sharpness, density, and durability of someone's hair, but it cannot change its genetic material to switch it to a different material, and once it is severed, the hair stays the way it was changed as until it is removed from where it is placed and hits the ground. It MUST stay as hair, otherwise, Karera loses the ability to control it.
Stats:
Destructive Power: B
Range: A (for self-protection and self-hair manipulation, harmless fun and helping. E for doing it to other people for combative purposes)
Speed: A
Persistence: C
Precision: B
Potential: D
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As soon as Steam Power Giraffe vanished, the phone began to shake and spark as both Mina and Kira were let out of the phone, both in the same state they were in when they entered it. They still had their bags in their hands—Karera lost hers during the fight, but it didn't matter to her—and they were both extremely confused and bewildered, though Kira was able to sober up rather quickly. Mina, on the other hand, was a completely different story.
"H-Huh?! W-What just happened!" Mina said, looking around frantically. She saw the broken electronics, the cowering store clerk, and the unconscious body in the pool of blood and oil. "H-Huh!?" She looked over to Karera, who was breathing heavily. "Kunami-chan…?! W-What's happening, er, what happened, I mean!"
"We were attacked… that's what happened," Kira replied, narrowing her eyes as she looked at the cyborg with disgust, summoning Killer Queen. "Is he dead?" Yoshihara asked as Karera shook her head.
"No. He's not," Karera said as Killer Queen floated over to the downed man, rearing its fist back to deliver a deadly blow, only for Love Love Deluxe to grab its wrist and prevent it from punching a hole through his head. Kira narrowed a glare at Karera, who shook her head. "That doesn't give you the go-ahead to do it yourself. We need answers from him. From the sounds of things, he was forced to do this, from what I was told from him at least, so he's just as much of a victim in this as you two were. Now, help me get him out of here and outside."
"W-What are you two talking about!? K-Killing someone?! I—"
"Mina, calm down," Karera interrupted, glancing over at Kira, then back to Mina. "Once we're done dealing with this guy, I'll explain everything. But when we do, you HAVE to keep this a secret. You can't tell Kirishima, you can't tell your parents, hell, you can't tell a crow or a rock. It's important we keep this as secretive as possible," Karera stated as the pink-skinned girl slowly nodded. "Good, now, please, do as I asked you. We need to get this guy out of here. Okay?" Karera stated, looking at both Mina and Kira.
With reluctance, both Mina and Kira did as they were told, handing their bags over to Karera so she could carry them, picked up the man, and after a slow walk to the outside of the Mall, they propped up the man against the wall of an alleyway behind the mall.
Using her hair, Karera stitched whatever wounds that she had inflicted on the man—at least the ones that could be repaired by stitches, then finished by changing their density to be as tough as steel before backing up. Karera lightly tapped the guy's face, causing him to wake up, and for him to jolt back. "G-Gah! I—"
"Calm down, I'm not gonna kill you, we just want answers," Karera said, interrupting the man mid-scream, looking over her shoulder as Yoshihara crossed her arms, and Mina was stand-offish, giving the man a questioning gaze, though with her eyes filled with fear. She nodded to herself, then continued. "Now, please, can you tell us who it was who sent you after us?"
The man seemed to space out, looking at the floor in silence. Then, after a couple of seconds passed, with a deep breath and a bit of a stammer, he spoke. "I-I… I don't know his name. Hell, I didn't even see his face. Ah-! But he was wearing an orange pinstripe suit! Outside of that, I know practically nothing. He just… approached me on the street, pulled me into an alleyway, and we talked. He didn't give out his name or the name of the group he worked with, he didn't give out what his abilities were, all he gave me was a target, two pictures of two kids from Class 1 – A, and said that if I killed them, and anyone adjacently around them, that he'll fix my body and change it back to how it was before The Accident."
Kira frowned, her glare increasing as she spoke up. "What do you mean? What was The Accident?" The blond female asked as the man eeped, covering up his face before realizing just how unnecessary it was, putting his arms down before answering.
"T-The attack on Down Town Musutafu. Those Yakuza freaks who had those bullets. One of them hit me, and my Quirk… it… it evolved into Steam Powered Giraffe." The man started, summoning his Stand behind him, though Mina only looked at him with a look of confusion and a raised eyebrow. "At first, I thought it was a blessing, but I quickly realized just how much of a curse it was. Other people who survived the attack came after each other out of some sort of paranoia, and I… I had to defend myself. But the more I used my Stand, and the more I used its ability to alter and fix things, the more my own body would be sacrificed to do so," Dakima started, looking down at the floor with slumped shoulders. His eyes glazed over as he began to re-live what it was that happened to him.
"It started off with just my fingers. It freaked me out, but I reckoned that I could just use my ability without a care in the world. I started to create a business to repair broken electronics. Prior to acquiring Steam Powered Giraffe, my Quirk allowed me to analyze tech, but that was about it. But now that I could repair the stuff without even having prior knowledge! I could've made a fortune! But each time I repaired a phone, a laptop, or a computer screen, a piece of my skin would swap out with steel. I didn't think too much of it until I had lost my entire right arm and half of my waist." Dakima took in a deep, shuttered breath before continuing. "I shut down my business after realizing what I was doing to my own body. I learned I could never get it back. I fell into a deep depression. My mother barely even recognized me. My father refused to look at me. My son saw me as a freak. My wife left me and took my son. All because I was more machine than man. But then…!" Dakima paused, looking up at the group of three with big, excited eyes.
"But then he showed up! He promised me that if I killed you brats, I'd get my life back! Looking back at it now, I realize just how fucked up that prospect was. But I was desperate! And can you blame me?! My life was turned upside down because of a power I didn't want! I saw a way out, and I took it!" Dakima proclaimed, frowning before shaking his head. "I… I'm sorry. I… I was desperate. I—"
"I understand," Karera interrupted, earning a shocked expression from Dakima, Kira, and Mina.
"But…! He almost killed us!" Mina exclaimed as Karera narrowed her eyes at the pink-skinned girl.
"And you mean to tell me that you wouldn't do the same if you were in his situation?" Karera asked as Mina furrowed her eyebrows and was about to speak before Karera continued. "If someone told you they could turn you back to normal, wouldn't you jump at the chance to get your body back? He was desperate, and that man played him like a fiddle," Karera stated, looking over to Dakima. "That doesn't mean I forgive you, but I understand where it is you're coming from," Karera said, earning a nod from the man.
"Fair enough, I did try to kill your friends, and I am truly sorry. But… But… that was all I know. That's all I know about that man, and what he wanted from me. After I accepted his offer, he just… disappeared, walked through a portal and then he was gone. Although, he did mention a name. Not a Stand Name, mind you, but someone's actual name. I think it was… Kurogiri or whatever."
Karera frowned, looking out of the hallway. The police had been called, and around six squad cars and the Pro Hero Death Arms showed up. She had a choice, hand him over to the police, has him get sent to Tartarus, and make it so she had another enemy to deal with, or…. "I'll call a few contacts once I leave this alleyway and get home. When someone wearing a hat that says Speedwagon on it appears before you, go with them, he'll take you to someplace that can help you, or at least try. It's better than a prison cell, at the very least," Karera stated as the man nodded.
"Thank you… ma'am," Dakima said as Karera looked back at Mina and Kira, then nodded. The group of three left the alleyway. They made it to the convertible and Karera passed the two teens their bags as they got into the car. Starting up the car engine, Karera waited for everyone to buckle themselves in, and once that was done, she pulled out of the parking lot and hit the highway.
A few minutes into the drive, once they were far enough away from the mall, Mina spoke up. "Alright, now, spill the beans. What just happened?!" Mina demanded as Yoshihara was the one to speak up, catching the pink-skinned girl off guard.
"I'm only going to say this once, so pay attention. I'm doing this because Karera is driving, and she needs to pay attention to the road. I will tell you everything it is Josefumi and Karera have told me in my time as a part of this group of misfits. And just so you know, if you tell anyone else about this information, be it your friends, family, or on an online forum, you won't have to deal with me and Karera, but an entire organization. Do I make myself clear?" Kira stated as Mina paled.
"Y-Yes ma'am!" The pink-skinned teen stated, nervousness in her tone as Kira sighed, nodding in response.
"All right. Then allow me to begin. The first thing that you have to know is that me and Karera over here, technically speaking, are Quirkless," Kira started, causing Mina to recoil. The blond didn't let her speak and simply continued as if nothing important was said. "Now, the reason I mention this is that you must understand that the powers that Karera and I have are far deadlier than anything a Quirk can muster. However, because Quirks have become so commonplace, you'd be hardpressed to find a difference between a Quirk and a Stand, outside of their physical appearance that Quirk Users and Quirkless people cannot see. Stands, which is the name of this power, come in a variety of forms, and they come in a variety of types—much like Quirks," Yoshihara said, watching as the information filtered into Mina's head. The pink-skin girl nodded, and then, Kira continued.
"There is the most common type of Stand a person can have: A Humanoid Stand, one that has the appearance of a human, and or stands upright, like a primate or a human. Basically, if it has two legs, stands upright, and has a pair of human or bug-like eyes, it is a humanoid. Karera and I, for example, have Humanoid Stands. There are non-humanoid Stands, which, as the label describes, are not humanoid, but they still have a fairly basic shape that a human, so long as they are a Stand User, can see, such as a bug, a crocodile, a fish, a weird tongue creature, or a pimple with a face on your forehead. Then, there are the Swarm Type Stands. These Stands are a group of small, usually 2 feet tall or smaller, Stands that come in high numbers and are a pain in the ass to deal with. They do say strength is in numbers, after all. There's the Bound Stand type, which are Stands that have no physical form, but rather binds itself to everyday objects like cars, ships, planes, toasters, necklaces, watches—you name it, it can be a Bound Stand. Bound Stands are special in that since they are bound to a physical object, they can be seen by those with or without Stands. There are the ACT-type Stands that evolve over time and grow along with the user—usually, they are Humanoid Stands or at least end off as a Humanoid Stand. The final, and rarest type of Stand a person can have is a Wearable Stand. They can usually be a bodysuit, a watch, or some sort of wearable object. The difference between Wearable Stands and Bound Stands is that Bound Stands are simply bound to an object, whereas Wearable Stands are objects, and can be summoned to the individual who uses them. Just like Bound Stands, they can be visible to the human eye, Stand user or not," Kira continued as Mina furrowed her eyebrows, listening intently.
"Now, within those groups of Stands, there is a sub-group that varies depending on the range of the Stand. These range groups are as follows: Close Range, Long Range, and Automatic. Close Range Stands are the strongest Stands in terms of combat, and they are usually humanoid, bound, or wearable, like my own. However, just because they are the strongest, does not mean they are necessarily the best. Close range Stands come with a very distinct and obvious weakness, that being, they have a crappy range. While some Close Range Stands can develop abilities that can counter this weakness, their effective punching range and range they can be deployed at for viable combat use usually stays at 2 to 5 meters. Of course, they can go outside of that range to, let's say, steal an object, but even then the user has to either be in the area or at least 45 meters away from the area that The Stand will go. Long Range Stands are pretty self-explanatory. Unlike Close Range Stands, they can be used further, but to compensate, they have weaker overall strengths. The smallest range that a Long Range Stand can be effective in is 25 meters, and the largest area is easily over 1.6 kilometres. However, the further their maximum range is, the weaker their overall ability may become. Nine times out of ten, these Stands are usually Swarm types or non-humanoid. On rare occasions, they are humanoid. If they so choose, the user can speak or even see through them if need be. Then, there is the Automatic Type Stand. These things have no maximum amount in their Range. They can go anywhere, do anything, and are visible to the regular person, though usually only as a shadow or in a reflection. They can understand simple commands and will do them to completion. For example, if you tell it to kill someone, it will do so. It will go to the ends of the earth and do everything it can to end the life of that person you deem to be a nuisance. Nothing will stop it, and if it has to travel the world to get its objective done, then so be it. However, to make up for this incredibly overpowered reach, the abilities a Stand like this usually has is near useless and or so pathetic that it might as well be only useful for across-the-world ventures. On rare occasions, a Stand like this can have a busted ability but rarely is this ever the case," Yoshihara stated, crossing her arms.
"Is that all?" Mina asked, a small sweat bead falling from her forehead and down her cheek, rubbing the back of her neck as Kira shook her head.
"No. Although, this piece of information isn't important to you, but rather, important in your decision in continuing to be close to Karera and me. Stand Users attract other Stand Users, like a magnet to a piece of metal. It is by destiny that Stand Users will drift towards each other over time, whether they know this or not. Usually, when two Stand Users meet, a fight to the death breaks out. And on the rare occasion that they instantly become allies with one another, a fight will still occur, just to test out if their partnership will be beneficial to each other, or if it would be easier to just kill them so that they won't have to deal with another threat in the near future. That means that regardless of if you're a Stand User or not, you will constantly be in danger if you are around us. So—"
"Don't even finish that sentence," Mina cut off, frowning. "I don't care how much danger I'm in if I'm around you. Though I am a bit upset that Kunami-chan didn't tell me when we first met in person, that doesn't change the fact that I still want to be your guys' friend. Besides, I'm a heroine in training, danger is going to be a part of my life regardless of what I want. Why not start a little early?" Mina asked, a small smile on her face as Kira felt her heart warm.
And, for the first time ever since she met Izuku, or anyone outside of her group for that matter, a small, but genuine smile stretched across her lips. "Very well then, Ashido-san. Of course, I don't need to have to tell you again that you must not tell anyone about what you heard, correct?" Kira stated as Mina nodded.
"Of course! Although, perhaps you should tell the rest of Class 1 – A about this in the future. Maybe not right away, but sometime in the near future, you know?" Mina stated as Yoshihara looked over to Karera, who shrugged.
"I'll bring it up with Fumi-kun. But until then, do try to keep this as secretive as possible," Karera said as they pulled up to a house. The house in question was two storeys tall with a slanted roof, five windows on the front-facing side of the house, three on the top floor and two on the lower floor, a small garden just by the stairs, and a moderate-sized front lawn with a white fence and gate blocking off entry.
"Well, this is my stop," Mina said, getting out of the car as the sun began to set. She looked down at her watch, which said that the time was 5:30 PM. "And just before dinner, too. Thanks, Kunami-chan, and Kira-chan, I'll see you all at school on Monday!" Mina said, the two waving the pink-skinned girl off as Kira moved herself to the front seat, buckling herself in as they drove off, the next stop being the Love Hotel, ironically enough also named Love Love Deluxe.
The drive was silent, and by the time they got there, it was already 6:30 PM. The sun was almost gone, leaving a faint orange stripe in the sky, and the stars were starting to peek out from their cover in the daylight sky. "Thank you, Sakunami-san," Yoshihara said, taking her bags and exiting the car. "While the Mall trip didn't go as intended, I still had fun. Even if I did nearly die, I'd like to do it again one of these days," Kira said, smirking. "You know, minus the 'nearly dying' part, of course," the girl said, attempting a joke as Karera snorted from her nose and suppressed a giggle.
"Of course, Kira-chan, anytime," Karera said as Kira turned around, her hair moving out of the way so that anyone could get a clear look a the nape of her neck due to the wind pushing it out of the way, and what Karera saw shocked her.
Yoshihara had the same Star-Shaped Birthmark as Josefumi, in the exact same place as he did, and with the exact same placement. "I'll see you at school, Sa—" Kira stopped herself, then continued. "I'll see you at school, Karera-chan," and with that, she entered the building. Karera nodded, a small smile on her face.
"Finally, jeez. Well, at least she trusts me now," Karera thought, turning to face the road, turning on the car engine, and adopting a stern expression. "But now, Josefumi is going to want to know this. There is a possibility that—no—there is a 100% chance that he and Kira are related." And with that sentiment, she drove to the apartment she and Josefumi shared with a ton of questions and a need for answers that he may or may not have for her.
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