A Goddess Candidate and an Underling

Summary: Linda was no one special, an orphan who was born in the slums, grew up to be a thug. Linda was an underling, she would do anything so long as it paid well. If saving a Goddess Candidate would get her rich for life, why not?

"You were an accident. That's all you need to know."

-Old thug.

Linda was a thug, there wasn't anything else she could become. She was a bastard, her own mother abandoned her in the ghetto when she was ten. Begging for food, searching through the bags of trash for leftovers, she had been there. But there was no way she was going to do that for life.

In the ghetto, you were either a beggar or a thug.

Her pride doesn't give her any other choice.

She had been a frail girl, her malnourished legs don't give her the speed to escape and her weak arms couldn't possibly protect herself. Four out of five times she would get beaten black and blue for failing a theft. Every beating reminded her of her weakness, it made her hated herself.

It made her wished she could become someone else.

That wish took form of an individual-innate skill, it became the gamebreaker that changed her life.

With her innate disguise skill, she could steal and get away by slipping into the crowd, wearing another person's dress and face. With food, she could eat and become physically stronger. With money, she could pay other older thugs to teach her skills to climb the power ladder in the Underworld. With power, she could finally win.

Someone who leached onto the powerful to steal their skills, gradually the slums got to know her as 'Linda Underling'.

And with that fame, she would get a mission from a brunette girl that would make her rich and get her out of the slums for good.

"An S rank quest with no question asked. I need you to infiltrate a place, save and return with the people that have been trapped there. We will pay you a million credits if you succeed."

Without knowing the danger involved, Linda accepted the quest. There has always been the possibility of death in the slums. But she was the top of the slums and master of disguise. If one S rank quest was all it took for her to earn the money to get out of the slums, she would do it.

A/N: A surprise LindaGear (or UnderGear?) short story series. Will try to update often. Is anyone even interested in this pairing?