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Chapter 4 by Gatsha Gatsha

Can you be of any help to the injured Froppy?

You get a lot of thanks for not a lot of help.

You see the young woman's eyes begin to flutter open. Her prehensile tongue is still extended from her mouth, probably as it had been mid-combat before she was thrown into your door. She pulls it in slowly, clutching her head with one of her over-sized gloves and glancing around her in a daze.

You have just a second to wonder if this was a good idea. Wasn't it just last night that you had come up with a plan to keep yourself out of trouble in your new university life? Even though you were, ostensibly, trying to help, you just dragged a heroine into your apartment without her consent, and who knew if your sloppy bandage job had made things worse or better?

Ah... It can't have done much good, because as she's fumbling around her head, trying to figure out what feels so strange, the whole wrap comes off, stained with some of her blood. She stares at it in her hands, then at you, as though her mind is still trying to catch up to what's happening.

You stare at her dumbly for a moment longer, trying to think up either a good excuse or, at least, a good first impression. However, before you can speak-

"Thank you, ribbit!" The girl gives you a proper bow at a sharp angle, flinging a bit more of her blood onto her floor. Now that her head is tilted down, you can clearly see the spot where the blood was coming from... Your bandage around the forehead wasn't doing any good, even when it was tied.

First impressions aside, you couldn't help but ask her what she was thanking you for.

"Hm?" Froppy tilts her head to the side, and for just a moment, she looks as confused as you are. Quickly, however, she recovers and answers in her strange, croaky voice. "This bandage... You tied this, right? And you dragged me here to safety. So I owe you thanks, ribbit. Actually, what's your name?"

Ren, you tell her. Although there's no reason a pro hero like Froppy would need to know it-

"Thank you, Ren. And call me Tsu," she adds, putting one finger to her lower lip and smiling. "My name's Tsuyu Asui, but all of my friends call me Tsu."

You were frozen, as though stricken by lightning. The pro heroine Froppy... Tsu, that was... she isn't just thanking you, she's calling you a friend! Is this a dream? Are you actually still asleep?! No, wait: it's finally occurring to you. Earlier, you held Tsuyu's head and... What's the right word? Prayed? Wished? Commanded? Anyway, you must have inadvertently altered her mind with Dominant Will to make her grateful to you.

What a mess... You'd just decided to try and avoid using your quirk recklessly, and now you'd altered the mind of a pro hero, just like that. And now she was so grateful to you that she wanted to call you a friend.

You realize you've been spacing out, and she's looking at you with some concern. "Ren, are you all right, ribbit? This is your apartment, right? Are you injured, ribbit?"

You tell her you're just fine... you'd been surprised, but you weren't hurt.

"That's good news, ribbit. Thanks again, but I've got to get back and help the others, so-"

Wait! You shout, realizing how **** you sound when she whirls around with some shock. Ah, that's... You ask Tsu exactly how thankful she is. Your mind's going to an unhealthy place...

"I'm really thankful, ribbit! My family'll definitely send you a fruit basket. Do you like fruit, ribbit?"

Yeah... That answered your question. Well, this was an amazing accident, but you suppose you'll just have to be happy you got to meet a pro hero. Rather than walking for the door, she's fallen to her hands and feet in a stance like a frog, now turned to face it. It's probably just one shot of her tongue at the door and a long hop before she's out of your apartment and out of your life.

Unless...

Is there some other way to use Dominant Will here?

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