Chapter 36———Can She Surpass Me?
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//Jordyn//
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What a great night I'm having tonight.
Surrounded by idiots?
Check.
My facial routine ruined?
Check.
That Willoby...Even possibly being stronger than me?
Not a check as I will make sure that...pink haired.....No. I'm not in a mood to think about her. I'm in the mood for some bashing. Bashing on the people who call themselves my "Friends".
I don't need friends.
What I need, is strong people at my side. Like that cyborg or the Flash, but who can fly super fast.
Not these Fantastic Four rejects they
"WHAT KIND OF NINJA ARE YOU?!?!"
I was yelling at Masaru while feeling how of my facial cream was melting away.
Hrishti, Masaru, Armando and I were in my room since my room was the closest to
How kind of me.
Hrishti simply kept her mouth shut while Helen and Armando were sharing a large bag of delicious popcorn; eating it while Masaru was receiving my rage. "Your family, the Nagata Clan, is known to be the best when it comes to recon!!! You, on the other hand, are the opposite. How can you have an owl spot you while you're literally in the shadows!?!?" I was badgering , her flawless eyebrows frowned; but Masaru had a backbone to him. About damn time.
"Listen, bit—"" I wondered what Masaru was going to say next and I was looking for him to eat his words. Well, I was not quick for that.
Hrishti always knew how to make him think twice about his words. Then again: She's the second smartest girl in this room right now.
Hrishti was this goth Nepali whose parents came to the N.U.S.N for a better future. Yeah right. Choker, black fingernails and little too much on the eyeliner
Seems to be the development kit for Goths.
Being Nepali and being goth at the same time doesn't exactly coexist completely...And everything looks so....plastic of how she looked.
She would be a beauty queen if she knew how to respect herself.
"I get it: we're all stressed by her since she became Wonder Woman and we don't know how…..It's scary."
No shit. She was always sayed the obvious things, I don't need a Captain Obvious in my corner: I need a goddamn Rocky Balboa.
Armando, whom I disliked the most, wasn't exactly a pretty sight with his frizzy hair and small facial features.
He was a ginger yet had a soul: Armando's too sensitive for this job. Bawling his eyes after seeing Kuromiya's body, sensitive and dumb.
Like he never seen a dead person before.
His feet weren't exactly dirty since his powers made him a rubber human hybrid, only wearing compression socks instead of shoes. "Wonder Woman? More like Tomorrow Woman!!!" He remarked with a great laugh before realizing that none of us laughed with him.
Serves him right. I spoke to my Heart, or the parasite that stood beside me for my entire life.
"Who the hell is Tomorrow Woman?" Katoko asked before I hit her with another question.
Does it look like I have time to read nonsense?
"No….Comic Books are for incels…..We are more than that."
As for Helene...I have nothing bad except she gotten her ass kicked by Pinky.
Actually—-That isn't so bad because of the sudden power creep Stutterer got of all sudden. Honestly——It sort of...baffles me.
Most of them are jokes.....
"NOT the good kind of jokes, Jordyn." Katoko kissing my ass as usual, must be in their blood to be completely submissive. Corheimrs are weird overall.
"Even shadows make a noise from time to time...But guess your daddy dearest was too busy on his missions to teach you that you aren't Miss perfect?""
About time Nagata gained some balls, having a "want more?" type of look on his face.
Flames started to manifest on my hands and body, I could feel myself losing to my temper.
No one talks shit about my family.
They will be respected; They have been in many combat missions and sacrificed everything for these ungrateful people.
I felt someone's hand on my shoulders and my flames were calm now.
"Come on now, Jordyn!" Helene tried her best to comfort me. "I know you're mad about that Willoby girl
I couldn't talk anything bad about Helene. I have nothing really against her, she was more of a adorable French bulldog....
"Stop pretending that your dad is a saint."
"I didn't say my dad's a saint. He's more of a pope than your dad. I mean, who was the one doing the reverse exorcism?" I countered back, even getting him more angrier than ever.
Yeah, his dad was FAR from a saint.
Before a fight happened between us, I was prepared to fight against him. He always liked fighting dirty and with no honor.
All of before I got ready to rumble, Armando intervened between us as needless fighting is what give him some PTSD.
His arms touched both of the our collarbone areas, he wasn't a pervert. I didn't blow up at him for a mistake like that.; I'll just blow up on him when it comes down to it, like how his hands feel so cold and rubbery.
"We don't need to fight, you guys! Don't you see that? Willoby is turning all of us against each other! She's
I doubt that. Akina isn't manipulative like me: She's just a little princess in a cliched Disney movie.
"You're scared of a girl who break her limbs? You're the Heart-Bond, after all!!" Nagata scoffed, I hated that Helene didn't come to my "rescue" and Armando didn't make things better.
Everything feels off for me.
Normally my "friends" always followed my commands no matter how badly I treated them; no questions asked. I used to be the only Heart-Bond in town, and man was it great.
No one dared to challenger the mighty Himasaki for territory or food; it was suicide to do so. I was brusque, or what my dad described me; I wasn't scared to speak my mind because of where I came from.
I'm not stupid either. Scoring those tests was easy as well as counting numbers.
Ever since Ryoji Kazama has arrived here in Surwick, all of the attention went to him: He's cute, mysterious,
That cultural appropriating bastard is hurting my pride, chewing it away from me as Akina. Even Akina; the person that I hated for years has been getting attention from everyone! Right now, this instant, just thinking about her makes me rage!!
The volcano in me overheated my body and my emotions, even making me lose control.
"GET OUT." I warned all of them while my voice changed.
All of them left in a hurry as Armando left his stress ball behind to face my wrath, it was orange like his hair.
With a simple spell without saying it out loud, this spell from the Thracians, grants me the power to hear or see through walls.
Color me paranoid: The color purple.
"She's just confused right now. Let her be." That was Helene as usual, defending my name with no hesitation.
"Really?! After that shit talking? About my dad? After everything my dad did——I….I still love him. Is it weird?" That was Nagata complaining, having his troubles with his dad.
"No, dude! It's normal: He's been with you the whole time in your life…..You love him and you don't hold grudges unlike someone else…" And that was Armando.
"Let her be." This was Hrishti, her tone's usually harsher than mine. "Helene's right: Jordyn is a little sad that she's not number one anymore, and it's best to leave a Heart-Bond alone when she's like this."
Am I…confused? I asked myself, Armando's ball was actually shiny that I could see my reflection in there, I opened my mouth to see my braces. My teeth were so crooked that I have to wear these for another year and a half, but perfect Akina was born with straight teeth.
Am I…really that bad of a person?
"Girl, let me tell you something: Those insecurities shouldn't be your shackles!" My Heart, Katoko, she was always trying to cheer me up.
She reminded me of a succubus.
Her silky, straight, black- hair was worn in a style that reminded me of Japanese royalty. She was short and had a wide-hipped build. Her skin was purple like a grape. She always wore a red kimono around me that was large enough.
Jesus, she's hotter than me.
She came towards me floating in the wind as even to this day, I was mesmerized by her.
I could still smell the kizeru from her breath yet it never bother me, despite it being tobacco.
"My, my, my. My dear Jordyn….Seems like you lost your temper with them….Why?"
"I'm…..confused about a lot of things….Akina's really scaring me. I feel like she's better than me…."
"Nonsense." Katoko shook her head after I confessed to her. "You're better than her and you know it."
Since we're connected, I could hearher thoughts clearly now since my mind was no more foggy.
What are those two words I love the most from your mouth?
"....Ara ara." I hated those damn words.
"That's right! Time to go to sleep!"
———Later———
It was about 11'o clock and I still had stuff to do early tomorrow.
Maybe....She can't surpass me...
"She will never defeat you. It's time to sleep now." She assured me as she ticked me in her special way. I felt really warm when she did that.
She's right.
Who am I kidding? She's a nobody and she will never get far without the hand holding.....
She'll never surpass me….
———Track 36 Ended———
CHARACTER PROFILE:
SURWICK STUDENT: HRISHTI KHATUN (13)
GOTH WITH A SONIC SCREAM
BIRTHDAY: 4-14
HEIGHT: 5'5
LIKES: Hard rock bands
DISLIKES: K-Pop (threw up from just listening to it.
THE INSIDE STORY:
Make no mistake, despite her looks, she's really friendly and fiercely protective of her friends.
Doesn't sing because of her vocal cords being susceptible to injury.
CHARACTER PROFILE:
SURWICK STUDENT: ARMANDO AYALA (17)
RUBBERY TO THE MAX
BIRTHDAY: 5-25
HEIGHT: 5'3
LIKES: Telenovelas, Compression socks
DISLIKES: Jordyn, Stress
THE INSIDE STORY:
Only hangs out with Jordyn because of Helene, since he has a huge crush on her.
CHARACTER PROFILE:
SURWICK STUDENT: MASARU NAGATA (17)
SHADOWS AMONG US
BIRTHDAY: 5-25
HEIGHT: 5'0
LIKES: Basketball
DISLIKES: Jordyn's frequent insults.
THE INSIDE STORY:
Masaru got many things going down now since he has been acting patriarch of the Nagata family.
Despite his affinity for shadows, he is by no means an edgy character.
CHARACTER PROFILE:
HEART: KATOKO (???)
THE HEART OF JORDYN HIMASAKI
BIRTHDAY: Has no Birthdate
HEIGHT: 2'11
LIKES: Kizami (doesn't smoke while Jordyn is around), Jordyn, the symbolism of Fire
DISLIKES: Weak people, when her kiseru is outdated.
THE INSIDE STORY:
The second Heart in this story.
Unlike Igneus, Katoko follows Jordyn's orders and genuinely cares for her Bonder despite being seemingly manipulative.