Reunion

“It seems only yesterday that you were weeping and wailing about whether this meant betraying the Heroes… and yet you appear to have settled into Beyond Villain rather well.”

“…”

Belia’s face, the first I’d seen of it in about two months, hadn’t changed at all. In my earliest days at the company I couldn’t find my footing, and there were times I resented her for it. But somewhere along the way I had gone from new hire to Senior Staff, to Assistant Manager, to Deputy Manager. Without the chance she gave me, the man I am now wouldn’t exist...