The Cursed Gamer, Book 1

165: Damnation

Chapter 165: Damnation

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Ochako Uraraka was one of the lucky students who managed to escape from the Red Dragon a few hours ago.

Her apartment was far from Musutafu city, and it took half an hour even with the bullet train. So she couldn't possibly go there now that the bullet trains were dead on their tracks and villains were everywhere.

But still, with her quirk, she managed to flee from Musatafu by lightening her body and hopping off from building to building.

Now she was in a new city, but... she wasn't safe here. In contrast, right now she was in severe danger.

"Hiss~ W-where are you hiding?" A hissing voice asked, chuckling to himself as Ochako held her breath, hiding inside an oversized dustbin that smelt like shit.

Ochako closed her mouth with her hands, while her tears slid down her cheeks, her body shaking as her previous urge to vomit vanished. T-this was real danger... she could die now.

She could hear the footsteps of the man walking around the alleyway where the dustbin was located, which made her fear all the more strong.

She knew this man, no-14 in the Hero Billboard, Pro Hero: Anaconda.

He's famous for his aggressive tendencies, but he was still a really inspirational hero. But today it was different. For some reason, Anaconda was waiting for her in this city, as if he somehow knew she was here, and secondly, his usual green eyes were shining red.

The moment Anaconda met Ochako, he attacked her, making her go pale as she tried her best to escape. She didn't know why he was doing this, and neither did she know how she should escape. At this point, all of this felt like a dream... a nightmare. Nothing made sense, after all.

-Step!

Her heartbeat started to pound faster as the footstep walked inside the alleyway, the owner chuckling with a hiss.

"A-are you here, hehe?" the hero's voice said, closing distance. "Y-you know, I have a really good sense of smell. I could smell a very faint scent of you around here, but that smell stopped leaving any traces since I came here."

The footsteps stopped, right in front of Ochako's dustbin as her body started to shake in fear.

The voice then continued, "Meaning you had either escaped via some sort of teleportation. Oooor~" Abruptly, the lid of the dustbin was yanked out, revealing Ochako's frightened expression as the Hero grinned. "You're hiding somewhere here."

"Kyaaa!" Ochako covered her ears, closed her eyes, and yelled. She had no way of winning, she already knew that.

Anaconda's quirk made his face look like that of a snake, and he could even transform into an Anaconda if he wished. Together with his experience and mastery of the quirk, he was an opponent far too strong for her.

This was a dead end.

Even as she screamed, the man grabbed her by her neck and pinned her on the wall, making her choke as she coughed and tried to resist.

"C-calm down now. I am just going to hand you over to my lord. He will take care of you, don't worry." The hero said while his eyes shone. Then, he slipped his hand into a pocket in Ochako's uniform, making her wince before he took out a small piece of meat, covered in green scales. "G-good work, by the way. I am sure our lord is impressed with you."

Ochako's eyes widened as the small pinky sized flesh stirred in a nodding motion. How did she not notice this in her pocket...? More so, wasn't that Setsuna's quirk at work? W-was she working with that Dragon?!