“I can’t take off my gloves. I can’t. I really can’t take them off. They’re uh… attached! Yeah! They’re attached to my hands and impossible to take off!”
That was a pitiful excuse, but it was the first thing that came to mind. Just the thought of taking off his gloves had him shaking a little. “B-Besides, I might accidentally mess something up. I don’t have as much control on my powers without them. I’ve never really practiced without my cuffs to limit how strong I am.”
She looked at him with a raised eyebrow at that, vaguely wondering what the hell they were doing to children in the future.
“That’s actually kinda disturbing.”
“Just to clarify, the cuffs are attached to the gloves too? Y’can’t just cut the gloves off the cuffs, right?”
The former champion wondered if she could get a bowl of bleach and wash the gloves that way.
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