[ It's there. Shallow and racing, but his heartbeat is there. If anything, he looks and feels feverish.
There's a faint wince followed by a pained grimace when Todoroki presses his fingers to his neck, not that it hurts but it causes him to stir enough to realize how much everything hurts. Being shot is awful. Being machine gunned down is worse, even if he managed to jerk back enough it didn't hit his face, and even if those aren't real bullets to blast through flesh so much as an explosive vehicle for injecting its blood virus. It still feels like getting ripped apart. ]
I can... hear you... [ It's croaked slightly, his throat rough. Ah, he sounds worried... Damn.
But the dark stars covering his skin begin to smoke too, almost seeming to burn up at the edges. There's a faint pulse of a gentle presence and light throughout his body, similar to when he'd purged his own corruption in the catacombs, and they begin to fade. Aaa, he feels a bit better now and... warm?
He blinks his eyes open finally, trying to focus unsteadily on Shouto's face; his expression. And his eyes widen slightly, his own expression gone completely clear in surprise.
But then he also tries to stagger up into a sitting position, remembering their situation and immediately on high alert again, looking about frantically. ]
The level four...? [ Just one thing--
His left eye is still active. Still black and red, and now with a dark corruptive energy wafting off it like smoke too. ]
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There's a faint wince followed by a pained grimace when Todoroki presses his fingers to his neck, not that it hurts but it causes him to stir enough to realize how much everything hurts. Being shot is awful. Being machine gunned down is worse, even if he managed to jerk back enough it didn't hit his face, and even if those aren't real bullets to blast through flesh so much as an explosive vehicle for injecting its blood virus. It still feels like getting ripped apart. ]
I can... hear you... [ It's croaked slightly, his throat rough. Ah, he sounds worried... Damn.
But the dark stars covering his skin begin to smoke too, almost seeming to burn up at the edges. There's a faint pulse of a gentle presence and light throughout his body, similar to when he'd purged his own corruption in the catacombs, and they begin to fade. Aaa, he feels a bit better now and... warm?
He blinks his eyes open finally, trying to focus unsteadily on Shouto's face; his expression. And his eyes widen slightly, his own expression gone completely clear in surprise.
But then he also tries to stagger up into a sitting position, remembering their situation and immediately on high alert again, looking about frantically. ]
The level four...? [ Just one thing--
His left eye is still active. Still black and red, and now with a dark corruptive energy wafting off it like smoke too. ]