studiobondurri CHAPTER 269 SEARCH AND RESCUE
CHAPTER 269 SEARCH AND RESCUE
CHAPTER 269
“What’s up Khota?” Mandalay asked. She was Khota’s guardian after his parents were killed. “Oh hi, Weston, right?”
“That’s right. I was hoping to talk to Ragdoll,” I said.
“Ragdoll!” She yelled down the brightly colored children’s doctor’s office painted hallway.
The green haired girl came running down the hall. In her cat gear she wore metal ears, a waist attachment for a tail and her dress.
“What’s up?” She asked excitedly. One of her eyes had a red ring around it, making her appear a little mad. I hadn’t had much interaction with her at camp but I had met her. I had originally thought of meeting her as the Villain Slayer but I was worried she could tell who she was talking to with her quirk.
“Hey, I’m Weston. I was at the summer camp a few weeks ago. I was hoping to talk to you about your quirk.”
“What about it?” She asked, almost playful as if we were going to the park afterward.
“My quirk deals with energy. I’ve recently been able to feel certain energies and figured out they were people that I knew. I heard your quirk can identify people. I was hoping to ask how yours worked, to see if it was similar.”
“Oh sure,” she said, grabbing my hand. Pulling me to a large pillow that resembled a cat bed she laid down on one side while directing me to lay on the other. I did so reluctantly.
“So my quirk is called Search,” she said without any prompting. “I can keep track of up to 100 people at any given time.”
“What do you have to do to be able to find them?”
“Usually just meeting them is good enough. Sometimes hearing them say their name, others after a handshake. When I close my eyes,” she said, closing her eyes. “I can feel them. Back in the day I had to think about them to get it to activate. Now I keep it active at all times. I can feel where people are. Know they’re safe and most anything.”
“So you can sense health of your targets?”
“Oh no, I wish. But if they die I can’t sense them anymore. It’s a sad day when I can’t feel someone any longer.”
“What’s the range?”
“No idea. It grows. But the further away the more blurry it is. Like Aizawa. I know he’s in that general direction. And I’d guess somewhere between 40 to 100 miles away.”
“So you can judge distance?”
“Kind of,” she said, but didn’t elaborate.
“Can you sense anything else? Like emotions?”
“I can sense weaknesses,” she said happily. “Like one time we were training and I knew that Mandalay was dehydrated. So I got her some water and she was super thankful.”
“Weaknesses?” I asked. “So if they’re needing something?”
“Kind of. That was a rare instance where I knew what someone needed. I can really feel…their wants and needs, maybe?” She asked.
“So like I’ve been dehydrated before. I knew what it felt like. I was able to identify that. But then one time we were fighting this villain that was setting forest fires. I found him first and he did this long spiel about why he was a villain. Then he introduced himself and I could use my quirk on him. Somehow I instinctively knew that he was favoring his left side. I couldn’t see it. That wasn’t something I’d be able to notice. But from the quirk I could tell that he had hurt his right side. Turned out a big branch fell on him before I got there. He was pretty banged up.”
“Sorry, I’m not explaining it so good,” she said, losing some of her energy.
“No, I think I understand,” I said. “If someone is going through something. If you know the feeling and what you felt like when you went through it. You can kind of relate? See a similarity between your own feelings at that time and their current feelings?”
“Maybe?” She asked. “Sorry, I don’t use that part of my quirk all that often.”
“It’s fine. Anything else you can tell with your power?”
“I don’t think so. It’s really great to know where my friends are. But I’m usually at the back,” she admitted.
“Oh one more thing,” I said. I used Zetsu to hide my Nen. This was the technique Hisoka had used to hide from my Haki. Keeping your lifeforce hidden inside of you. “Can you sense me with your quirk right now?”
She looked at me then frowned. “No, I can’t,” she said. “That’s weird. That’s never happened before. How’d you do that?”
“Just keeping energy in my body. Part of my quirk,” I assured. I was soon out the door and back off to the city to train. Back during the camping trip I’d been hitting on Pixiebob, but honestly after the drama with Madix I was hesitant to pursue anyone else. So I left that out in the open.
Since my clone was traveling with Midnight to Bangkok. Another clone was off with the League of Villains. Another dressed as the Villain Slayer out and about in the city. And another researching more villains that had gotten away with murder. I had plenty of time to go and train. A big fight was coming up and I wanted to prepare.