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Instead, you lean back in the corner you find yourself in, lightly tapping your head against the wall behind you in quiet frustration while the final minutes before Homeroom tick down. You go over the conversation in your mind repeatedly, all the while ignoring the sights, sounds and smells of your classmates continuing to socialize in front of you.
You try your best to work out what you should have said. You know what you shouldn’t have, at least in the way you said it, that was obvious now. What you <span class="mu-i">wanted</span> to say, but just couldn’t, and why exactly that was, was harder to come by.
>"Hey, Walker." Your shortest classmate asks, walking up to stand in front of you. "You okay?"
In an instant you go from contemplative to groaning internally. Outwardly, you try your best to hide your disgust and close your eyes, as if not seeing the perverted nuisance in front of you could buy you some time.
You had successfully avoided thinking about this up until now. But now that the moment is here, you find yourself struggling to see the task you had set for yourself this morning through, for <span class="mu-i">all</span> your classmates.
You actively remind yourself that Mineta is also here to learn how to be a hero, and being openly hostile won't help him become a better person. You try your best to focus on his capacity to help people, like he did for you during your practical entrance exam… And if you put some effort into looking past his constant transgressions, you can admit that he's a clever little guy with a very versatile and useful quirk!
You can even look past his recent open admission to his true intentions for his heroics.
<span class="mu-i">I just wanted to get chicks… To touch them…</span>
…Yep. You can make it through this. You can be the better person, treat Mineta with kindness and respect, and give him the same welcome as you had tried to give everyone else today.
Having put away your frustrations in that short moment, you reopen your eyes and put on a rehearsed smile.
"...Well enough. Only emotional damage, Ah reckon." You answer, trying to keep up the cheery mask, stretching your neck a little before continuing looking down at him. You try not to mind the fact that he inched closer while you weren't looking. You take a step back, bumping against the wall behind you to not have to look at him through your cleavage. "Talked mah way out of a dustin' back there. Somehow."
>"I was talking about your expression just now, but that's good too." Mineta says, looking almost straight up at your eyes… for a brief moment, then scanning your body from top to bottom. "It'd be a shame to lose all that."
