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“…Damages are reported to be in the hundreds of millions of yen, nearing the billions…”

“…-a total of 15 blocks found themselves affected by the repercussions caused by gas leaks, destruction of the pipelines and the complete devastation of the railway station…”

“…The number of victims is yet to be fully known, but so far the casualty total seems to be in the dozens, while injured count is said to be eight times the amount of lost…”

“…-No answer nor address has been obtained of the situation, even now… it is entirely unknown what caused this…”

“Let us pray, for the poor families who have lost someone in such an act, and let us pray, for those injured yet to recover.”

As the green-haired boy woke up, his eyes were stunned by the blaring light of the sun coming in from the window, making him clean his eyes while trying to make sense of his surroundings. He was confused, honestly, he didn’t know what more to do as he cleared his eyes and tried to stand up.

Murmuring voices were all around him, fading echoes of his last recollection of memories didn’t let go of him, the more he looked around, the more familiar the place was, he didn’t understand how his body could be moving, no, he did know the how and yet his own being was struggling to understand it all. The more he looked, the more he recognized the place, Musutafu’s General Hospital.

“…Mount Lady brought me here…” He muttered, remembering her face as she did her best to get him here.

His ears came to their senses, his eyes looking towards the murmuring source to see it was coming from outside the door, while he couldn’t fully recognize them at the moment, the pitches and tone shifts were certainly ones he was familiar with. His hands tried to reach outwards to pull himself, but as he did so, he felt something laying on his palm. Looking down towards it, he spotted a paper note, leaving him quite confused.

Grabbing onto it, he opened it quickly, seeing what was inside.

Miss Ozawa and the Doctors said it was very likely you’d be waking up today. I’d like to be there, but I promised Present Mic I’d be on for an interview at his Radio Show, call me as soon as you can. I’ll answer even if its in the middle of the show. Hope you’re all good.

-From your favorite piece of cotton, Mawata.

“…” The greenette smiled briefly, looking at the note before his mind reminded him of everything that happened God knows when, but if the how hard his body was struggling to move, then Izuku could guess it had been over 24 hours without moving an inch. “…dammit…”

His mind began asking himself a million questions, curiosities of all sorts with endless turmoil within him as part of him began to panic. His eyes look around, soon enough spotting a clock right next to the door announcing to him that it was about twelve in the afternoon, the date was still unknown to him, but now at least he knew the timeframe at which he was waking up to. He needed to think straight, he had to stand up and move even if just a little, as the reverberating words of Tevat echoed within his head. He didn’t give him some set time or date, but Izuku wasn’t planning on standing around. Kureya, that city is almost at the other side of the country, but if he was quick enough, he would manage to arrive in four to five hours with no problem, but first he needed to get himself up from the bed and out of this hospital.

Obviously his body was okay, the regeneration was given enough time and complete focus on getting him back in one piece, but that didn’t take away from the fact his body felt like a piece of machinery lacking oil.

Grabbing onto the side of the bed, he lifted himself up, placing his feet on the ground as he tried his best to stand up, but his body struggled, he could only stumble briefly before slamming onto the wall on his left, making him groan in annoyance as he tried his best to have his legs kick back into action. Hitting them twice, he felt sense beginning to encumber him again, but taking steps still felt a little disorienting. It doesn’t matter; he has to move now.

Slide…!

His eyes looked towards the door, letting him take notice of the purple-haired girl standing there with shocked eyes at seeing the condition he’s in, before he could even utter a word, her arms wrapped around him tightly, pulling him in for a tight hug, he could feel her body shaking as she held onto him, the greenette simply couldn’t say anything else as he let this happen, before spotting who else was outside the room. From his detective friend to his older sister, all of them were looking into the room surprised but also very worried after noticing that he had finally woken up. Izuku didn’t say anything, preferring to stare at them as he closed his eyes, it was good to see them here, but he clearly had problems to assort right now, he didn’t even want to think about it twice.

“W-When I heard you were injured… I… I didn’t know why my mind went to the worst…” Kyoka muttered into his ear, yet to let go off him. “I-I didn’t get to see you when you still had your injuries properly but… but just by hearing your condition I was very worried…”

“…I’m sorry…”

“Don’t go apologizing!” letting go off him, Kyoka stared at her friend with a concerned look, one shared by everyone else outside of the room. “You were caught in the line of fire! You could do nothing about it from something like this…!”

“…” Keeping his lips shut, the greenette did his best to hide the how hard he was clenching his jaw after hearing those words. ‘I could have… I should have.’

“A-are you fine, still? I… I was told they got you the best of help for healing but, I don’t know if you have any other injury left or anything.” Kyoka said, her concern ever present on her words.

“I’m… fine.” His voice gave it all away, he was frustrated, annoyed, and over all mad about his own failure.

“…I see…” Her eyes then looked back to the door, seeing both Asami and Inko beginning to walk into the room. “I-I’ll let you talk to them, I… I’ll get going.”

Walking out of the room, his mother and sister walked up to him, he could tell the worry in their faces, he didn’t even get to say a word as he felt himself wrapped around their arms, holding him the tightest they could as his mother began crying a river while his sister could only shake in fear to all that went down. Izuku could only bite onto his lip, feeling the embrace of his family that spoke words of someone afraid of loss, someone who doesn’t want things to end in a sour note no different than how they have in the past for them. All he could do was feel his emotions brewing within him, a very distinct sense of rage overwhelming him, making him speak up.

“…I let them go…” he tried his best to keep his composure, feeling as if his throat was itching under every motion he took. “…I could have saved them, but I failed completely…!”

“Izuku, don’t blame yourself for others dying-…” Asami couldn’t even finish her sentence as Izuku exploded.

“No! I mean Toru and Eri…! T-They were terrified of him, they wanted to escape him the best they could but no matter how hard they tried, that damn bastard never stopped chasing after them! I saw it in their eyes, I saw it right in front of me and I couldn’t do anything! I wanted to! But…! But then it happened…!” The anger within him seemed to grow, his eyes staring at the ground.

“…Izuku…” Tsukauchi spoke up, making of the greenette to look at his friend as alongside him was the Erasure Hero and Hikawa, all of them holding worried faces. “…What happened before you ended up how you did?”

“…” His eyes looked at the ground. “Mom, sis… can I talk to them about it? It’s… it’s not the best of things to hear and-…”

“No…!” Amongst her cries, Inko spoke, pulling her son towards her even tighter. “I-I don’t care how bad it is, I need to understand what happened, I don’t… I don’t want to leave you right now.”

“…mom…” Asami spoke up, looking at her. “…Let them talk, I… I believe it’s for the better..”

“But…!”

“Mom.” Asami’s voice sounded sympathetic, yet very clearly worried for her brother. “Let them talk about this… okay?”

The matriarch was against it, very much against every word being told to her, but just by looking once more at her son, she could tell it was something serious he needs to talk with the detective and hero. He obviously didn’t want to hold secrets from her, but if he was being honest about his words of how terrible things were, than she understood it was probably more for her safety than anything else, but even then, she wanted to argue the topic. But at the end, she had no choice.

“…F-Fine… But please, Izuku, don’t hesitate to tell me if something is wrong.”

“…I won’t mom…”

He waited for his mother and Asami to back out, his eyes looking at Kyoka who still stood outside the door as she motioned to keep silent. She was going to hear this talk want it or not, but at this point Izuku knew that her want to keep could be trusted, as such, he just waited for everyone else to be more comfortable as he deciding to sit down on the side of the hospital bed while staring at the ground. By looking at him, Tsukauchi already knew a lot of things were wrong already, his fists were clenched, his eyes were avoiding eye contact with everyone, and he could tell the greenette could explode at any second.

“…before anything, what is it today?” the jade eye boy asked, still evading eye contact.

“December 23.” Aizawa answered him, looking out the window as he remembered how hectic the day became the moment the UA Faculty Members were asked to help as First Responders.

“…three days then…” he muttered, his pulling onto the medical gown.

“Izuku, we need you to tell us everything, what happened?”

“…”

He took a deep breath, trying his best to calm down as he spoke up.

“I came across Chisaki.”

Already off to a bad start in Tsukauchi’s opinion, his mouth agasp while he stared at his friend, the detective was having a hard time speaking up, and as such the words that came out of Hikawa sufficed.

“What?!”

“I’ll make this as brief as possible.” Once more he took a deep breath, his body still shaking in the emotions he was trying so hard to hold back. “I was helping a girl by the name of Toru Hagakure on looking for her daughter, I tried to get information about it since something didn’t make sense to me, soon enough we came across the little girl… her name being Eri.”

“How does this…? Never mind, continue Midoriya.” Aizawa decided not to doubt his words, a good move.

“I noticed a few things the moment we found her, for starters the desperate look in Hagakure was shared by the little girl, who did know her… but their reactions, the way they spoke and their behavior… Those two were abuse victims of the worst case.”

“…How bad?”

“The little girl was covered in bandages and… as far as I could tell, all she had as clothing were those bandages and a dirty ragged shirt.” Hearing that made them cringe, that was truly enough to let them know. “But here’s the problem… Hagakure looked no older than me.

“…Are you implying…??” Tsukauchi almost stammered on his words at the turn on things. He already had Chisaki on his “kill on sight if possible” list, but this was putting him very high up on it if he was right.

“No, I thought the same, but I confirmed it very quickly once Chisaki appeared… Hagakure is being used as a stand-in as a mother for Eri, the fate of her actual mother I don’t know, but I understood that much. Chisaki very likely forged papers that not only hid her name, but her age. He referred to her as his “missus”, meaning that at some point he established a marital relationship with her as to allow Eri to be her foster child in some shape or form.”

“That makes sense, Chisaki had recently added some papers to his count relating to apparent marital papers of sorts… but…” Hikawa began thinking  about the name Hagakure, not remembering seeing it once in anything, even less does she remember seeing any face. “…Wouldn’t we know if he was with a teenager?”

“There’s a reason this has worked so well for him.” The metal in the bed began to churn and crack under the greenette’s grip, once more the image of those tears falling down appearing in front of him. “She’s invisible.”

“Huh?” Hikawa found that weird for a moment as both she, her fellow detective and the erasure hero realized what he meant. That was her quirk.

“It seems to be heteromorph in nature going by her words and reaction to me seeing her, as such any and all documentation of hers does not show a face, iris scanning or even fingerprints.” Izuku explained. “She was born a ghost only existing in society because she was given a name.”

“…The perfect victim or criminal…” Aizawa muttered, covering his mouth. This had gotten way too unhinged to be a normal human crime opposed to the sadistic stuff he’s been accustomed to recently.

“But if her quirk is a Heteromorph and she’s always invisible, then how is it that you saw her?” Hikawa asked, as Tsukauchi thought about it briefly, his mind suddenly thinking back to the day of Gaia Tower.

Your light only creates lies… mine exposes the truth!

“…The eyes of an Agito can see the truth even of that which is hidden to the naked human eye…” The detective said, and the message was very clear, all the greenette did was nod in agreement.

“As far as I know, that’s why I could, it may also have to do something with the light refraction itself and what not but… the worst part of this is simple.” His eyes finally looked at them, showing the bubbling anger within him. “Not only are those two clearly Chisaki’s victim for different yet clear reasons, but he’s working with an Unknown looking for something that not only was it willing to speak to me but gave his name as if it was nothing.”

“…What was it?” Tsukauchi asked, trying to keep himself calm.

“Tevat. It said to be a Higher Rank, like the Deer Unknown… but… it mocked them, saying its destiny was to become like someone beyond them, someone who...” Between anger, there was certain fear as the flashing smile of the monster manifested in front of the greenette. “…who stood untouched for 20,000 years.”

10 months and 9 days. That’s how long ago Aizawa and Tsukauchi had become aware of the Unknown Lifeforms, in that span of time they’ve witnessed the horrific acts they are willing to commit for the sake of eliminating people who get on their way or were born Agitos, yet in the span of time, they’ve always been Unknown variables to deal with, mysterious entities with no more than willing to kill, capable of expressing themselves in a fashion no different than humans, yet in all that time, none of them ever gave out much more than complains and mockery of the current humanity. So hearing one was willing to give out his name implied the worst was yet to come.

“…All along we’ve been fighting the fodder and yet…” Hikawa muttered as she stared at the ground, the cracking of her knuckles echoing across the room. “…All of these bastards have been making their way through hundreds of thousands of innocents like it’s nothing, billions probably if we go for how long they’ve been around…!”

The greenette turned towards her, seeing the anger overtaking Hikawa.

“I’m tired of standing here and forcing everything onto Midoriya… but what can we even do anymore?? We can barely handle one Unknown apparently in the lower ranks, and they only get stronger and stronger from here on?! We cannot play an Arms Race against them and God knows where the Unknown may be right now!! What even is it that it would want?? TRIGGER?! That would be useless to someone without a quirk, even less likely to an Unknown! So maybe it’s just sacrifices that it wants! But we cannot let this continue like this!! This battle won’t end any time soon, but it may as well do if we let down on any way!”

“…” Izuku’s eyes widen. “Evolution.”

Hikawa came to a stop, turning towards the greenette whose mouth began to open wide as he realized it.

“Tevat wants to force his body to evolve so he can achieve his destiny and judge humanity himself.” Izuku finally made sense of it, yet he could feel pieces were missing, he at least had gotten a grasp of this weird sudden variable.

“…How would that be possible?” Aizawa was confused, thinking deeply of any and all TRIGGER case he’s ever been involved with and even some of the basic biology they had come to understand from the Unknowns, but just like Izuku, he felt like he was missing a key piece to all of this.

“…”

Izuku’s mind is a field with many things. From distressful memories to endless theories to fill hundreds of books.

…A way for the mind to understand paranoia…

But there is one thing Izuku has always hated about it, and that is how vivid it can be when it comes to making sense of things.

…and understand what our natural predator is and in what we could trust…

He hates the grotesque images his brain imagines, he despises it more than he hates the Unknowns he battles against for their crimes against his people and humanity as a whole.

…an interesting process in growing up no one likes to talk about…

But right now, such imagines didn’t just make his mind despise things, but they allowed his heart to find something else.

…because they fear what they once saw.

Something to hate even more than those sadistic messengers.

Snap

“…eri…” he whispered, without realizing, his pupils had gone white.

Whatever knot held his thoughts back from becoming explosive shattered as the vivid images of those bandages worn by the horned girl and the bruising across Hagakure’s body. Everything was arriving at his head once more and trying to surface, but the quite literal blank stare in his face showcased nothing. He heard nothing, the white noise intensified by the second as he remembered Hagakure’s cries and apologies once more.

“…At what time am I getting discharged?” Noise came in, making him realize he spoke in the middle of a discussion between the detectives and erasure hero.

“…-unless their main base is raided.”

“I know, Aizawa, but there’s a million warehouses that Chisaki could escape to, and what says someone won’t tip him off the information of a possible raid? Hell, what says he won’t be at the other side of the country right now.”

“We have to do something; it’s no longer just TRIGGER and the safety of those affect in the line but the possibility of an Unknown becoming a far greater threat than any other we’ve faced so far.”

“Okay, let’s we can do it under the fact they can be considered accomplices of terrorism, how much time do you think we’ll have until then?”

“…I don’t know…” Tsukauchi was struggling to be optimistic at a time like this one, it really was a lot all of a sudden for him to think straight. That is when his eyes turned to Izuku. “Did it tell you anything? The slightest of slip-ups of where to go or anything?”

“…” Izuku thought about it, the name came back to him in near instants as he kept on staring outside, he stayed silent as he could see beyond the place, he could see the remains of Tatooin Station, it’s torn state as heroes kept on working on the place the best they could, it had only gotten worse since three days ago, with the gas leaks getting worse and even further of the sewer system collapsing, half of the district was simply unusable, and it was all because of one thing. “…No. Not that I know of.”

Tsukauchi’s mouth opened, he tried to speak in the slightest while staring at the greenette as he noticed his eyes, the lack of dark pupils was something he’s never seen on the boy, and even less was it something he’s said to have in the past. Yet the more he looked at him, the more he saw into those dots made of pure light, he understood.

“…I see…” It was all he said, reaching into his pockets and throwing the greenette the Firestorm’s Ignition Key. “We found it a few blocks away from the station, the key you had in your pockets was destroyed, so Ozawa made a new tougher one.”

“…Is it parked near?”

“At the Hospital’s Parking Lot, we’ll take our leave, we have to start looking into this.” Tsukauchi said, beginning to walk away along his two companions who couldn’t help but feel like something was off. “You’ll be discharged in one to two hours; they really need rooms cleared up at the moment.”

“…I see…” The greenette held onto the Ignition Key in his hands before looking back at the note from Mawata.

“…Izuku.”

Looking up from the note, his eyes met with Tsukauchi, who just stared at him before sighing.

“Remember what you are before you act.”

“…”

“And if you are doubting your fight is meaningless, recall your own words and never forget…” a thumbs up appeared to the greenette’s sighting, who just stared at it with surprise. “…to believe yourself.”

“…”

Perhaps the rage within him is understandable, what he’s doing and saying is clear, he has a goal, he has something he cannot stray from no matter how hard it is for him to not do so. Izuku, at this point, understands very well the task at hand and just how messed up it may become, but he also understand what is at stake, he doesn’t have to cross the line of his own morals, but that doesn’t mean he won’t walk a thin line to defeat his opponent. Maybe this has a name in a better world, perhaps it would mean something to have this thinking, but it didn’t matter. None of this mattered, all of these endless reverberating thoughts in his head were gibberish spewed through denial at the end of the day.

All that matters is saving Eri and Toru.

AMERICAN HERO PUBLIC SAFETY COMISSION HEADQUARTERS. NEW YORK. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – 00:00 A.M. GMT-4

Rumi Usagiyama has been one in for the thrill of heroics since she was very young, she has always been one to look for fights, someone who would try to fight back against her or simply any excuse to suffice her crave for fights. That, however, doesn’t mean she hates everything else about the topic, Mirko has always made sense of many things about heroics, starting for the fact that when you’re in the Top Spots, your purpose is a very political one, as a Combat Driven Hero, the people you begin to meet or even save stop being your average joe, increasingly become more and more high renown names who are being targeted by the biggest most ridiculous villains across the nation.

You witness a lot, but that doesn’t mean public safety stops being a matter to take care of, on the contrary, as someone in the Top Ranks, you have to balance your life, the political sharp edge and your heroic duty for the common folk, it’s hard to do this, even more when you’re on the other side of the planet trying to bear with what will be an otherwise boring event, and even more as chaos continues in Musutafu.

“Ryuko…” She whispered, getting a little close to the blonde woman.

“Yeah?” going through her list on contacts, just giving a side-eye to the bunny woman.

“Yer more used to working with these guys than me cuz you’ve been in the top for longer.”

“…uh huh?”

 “Have ya ever seen all of these guys work this well any other time?”

In front of them stood the other members of the Top were standing by the balcony, looking at Maps of Tatooin Station, mapping of its pipelines and so much more while discussing through phones and contacts of what to do and attend in the treatment, reconstruction and disbursement of the situation. The sudden destruction of Tatooin Station had their attention of the world for multiple reasons, the starting factor being that the Japanese Government and National Police Force declared it a Terrorist Attack without warning and done with the simple intentions of bringing the worst out of people.

No culprit is known, and no one is yet to declare responsibility of any sort, only its victims have been found, and it has been quite the problem for everyone alike. To most of the Top 10, they were just arriving at the JFK Airport when the news were put aloud for the world to hear, and as such, they began mobilizing the fastest they could, starting with Endeavor who instantly started moving entire agencies along with his Main Agency to assist with the seemingly never-ending flames issue and evacuation from the surrounding areas.

They hadn’t seen All Might until hours later, when he appeared in front of him looking pale, even with that iconic smile of his, they could all tell he was mad at himself, even more he was sad. As they learned from him due to concerning the rest of the Top 10, a friend of his was caught in the line of fire, leaving him in critical condition that while he doesn’t seem to doubt he’ll survive, it doesn’t take away a natural concern anyone would feel over learning one of their friends is heavily injured to the point he was described as “near brain dead”. Even Mirko was taken aback by that, it almost sounded too cruel.

Sadly, he wasn’t the only one caught on this, obviously, which only made of them even more mad that they were stuck at the other side of the world while their home country was apparently under threats of terrorism from an unknown attacker. Because of this, all of the Japanese Representatives that came to the Hero Meeting have basically been trapped on one side of the American HPSC’s Headquarters organizing rescues and trying to keep everything in order.

CLICK

Entering into the room once more was All Might, now a little more relaxed as he spoke up.

“The General Hospital seem to be in a more stable condition now, and my friend seems to have woken up.” His tone was relieving to most, it didn’t sound somber like he did at first, and that was already a good sign for everyone. “But they did discover something through X-Ray, it seems the why Gas Leaks keep happening is because somehow the entire pipeline and sewage system across Musutafu was damaged.”

“What?? Isn’t that why its divided in districts?!” Mirko couldn’t help but yell that, staring at the man.

“It is, but it appears like the opponent thought on how to keep the Heroes distracted through basically making the entirety of Musutafu a bomb that can only be stopped if the entire Prefecture has its Gas cut off.”

“To have thought this far ahead…” Ryukyu was having it hard to believe it, but she didn’t doubt it, not at all. “…whoever did this is sickening.”

“It seems a little desperate tho…” The voice came from Hawks, who was sitting perched on top of the counter while looking at his phone. “Even if a terrorist act, why would you do something like that unless you want to win time?”

“But win time for what?”

“That… I cannot answer you, Mirko. I lack the doubt that this may be the first of many.”

“Could certainly be worse, as in it was committed by some asshole who just wanted chaos.” This time it was Gang Orca, who just had gotten off his call after securing some construction companies the business for a rebuild.

“I want to imagine there is reason to it, just some positivity, ya know?” Hawks answered, putting his phone down. “But still… Nothing says that can’t be the case.”

“To think someone would have such a cruel mind is hurtful… yet a truth in our modern age we cannot ignore.” Crust had a tear running down his face as he said this.

“The most we can do now is continue to assist them from here, it is better than standing around and doing nothing.” Edgeshot commented, putting down his phone and taking a deep breath.

“We are all equally torn as old denim under pressure, but we can sow things back together while we can keep an eye out for our people, no matter the distance.” Best Jeanist, in his very interesting fashion, described the situation, looking out towards the distant stars.

“Indeed.” All Might announced, walking up to them. “We have a long trek ahead, but I don’t doubt on the strength of those heroes back home. I, like all of you, wish I could be there to assist them, but we are strong, and I know Japan will manage against this.”

“Huh… I see you’ve been practicing your speeches, All Might.” Hawks joked, bringing a sweatdrop to the man.

“I-I guess…” He really wasn’t going to argue the point. “But I believe we should rest… we’re a few hours away from the Hero Meeting beginning, so please, if I’m not begging to much, rest up.”

‘Such a delicate way with words… No wonder the kids love him.’ Mirko thought, a smirk in her face. “I can manage with a few hours of sleep, it’s not much to just keep an eye out.”

“Miss Mirko, while understandable, if you’re tired, you won’t be able to get a good fight with any hero.”

She stopped on her tracks, the smirk on her face still frozen on her as she looked at him.

“You’re right! A key element in fights is energy!” She began walking off towards her room. “Let it be known I could go the whole night!! I just need enough to fight!”

“…N-not a bad method, All Might.” Ryukyu said, making the No. 1 Hero let out a chuckle.

“Best I could figure out.”

“I’ll pass.” Endeavor said, his eyes still looking towards the distant city. “My sidekicks can manage on their own, but they still need me to keep them from exploding against one another.”

“Please, Endeavor, while I understand your concern, I am certain-…”

“The day counts with 24 hours, but nothing says I can’t use what time to rest.” His voice was stern as ever, far from unusual coming from the No. 2 Hero. “There are more pressing matters than that.”

“…” All he did was sigh. “Very well then. If that’s how you want to do this.”

UNDISCLOSED BUILDING. KUREYA. TOTTORI PREFECTURE. – 1:50 P.M

“So you didn’t kill him?? Why the hell are you telling me this until now?!”

No matter how threatening he tried to act against him, Chisaki understood very well that Tevat was basically impossible to kill through regular means. While a human could perhaps fight him, the survival chances proved to be null, the fact he killed Rappa before he could even finish a blink said it all to the man, it was very hard to put into words how exactly he operated, but the one thing he knew very well is that Tevat was something the least he could do about was scream aimlessly towards.

“I left it to the whims of fate if he would die or not, only a real warrior would survive something like that.”

“That will be our undoing.”

“Perhaps, but again, only a real warrior would manage to do so.”

“Why are you so obsessed with that?!” Chisaki was annoyed by his speech pattern, it really was growing frustrated by the ways of the Unknown Lifeform in front of him.

“Because… I expect that Agito to be something of legends.”

Walking towards the massive glass panel in front of him, the Unknown stared outside to the massive city, speaking up on the topic.

“It has barely been 191 years since his death… yet to our people, losing such an individual left us stray, confused and has made the passage of time slow down to all of us.” Lifting up a finger for Chisaki to see, Tevat kept on speaking. “One Agito.”

A puzzled look took shape on Chisaki.

“It took a single Agito for him to fall, not just once, but twice at his own hands. That Agito was soon to evolve into the ultimate being, one capable of battling against our Lord on his own and hurting that warrior while at his strongest, with his own hands, that Agito tarnished and destroyed the soul of one of our kind until he became one with his element.” Turning towards the masked man, he spoke. “I want to see it, before I kill every single one of them, I want to witness what exactly makes an Agito achieve such strengths, I need to know it, I need my answer! I need to know how a mere bastard of the heavens could kill one of our STRONGEST PEOPLE before they too perished!! I MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT CURSE THEY CARRY, AND CLEANSE THIS WORLD OFF IT!!”

As the bottom of the pitchfork slammed onto the ground, it was hard for Chisaki to not notice the clashing waves, their intensity only growing after such a slam. He had no reason to doubt it he was guilty of it, which only made him keep silent as the Dolphin Unknown began approaching him.

“Our goals are alike, that I’m sure of, but there is simply some stuff you humans cannot make sense of as you’ve forgotten it in your look for accursed knowledge of these sins within your soul. It is that exact thing which makes many of you unlike that humanity my people and I could respect no matter how horrible they were, and it is something that I plan on allowing it to be born anew thought this reset.”

“…Then I hope you’re ready for it…”

“Oh, I am Kai Chisaki…” He begins to walk away, his eyes spotting Hagakure and Eri, with the little girl with a torn up yellow blanket sleeping on the lap of the invisible girl, who his eyes could witness a woman on the breaking point. “…What will it be of her once the ritual is done?”

“It doesn’t have to be by the time of the ritual.” Chisaki said, beginning to walk towards her.

Hagakure flinched at this; her body frozen as the loud steps of Chisaki approaching her made her close her eyes prepared for the worse when she suddenly felt him grab onto her shirt.

“For the past few months you were useful enough to let me bear with Eri just a little longer, but after tonight, both of you will be equally useless.” Lifting her up made Eri flip over the couch, almost falling as he used his foot to stop her while staring at the void, he wasn’t even bothering to try and look at Hagakure in the slightest. “I’m tired of this game, so let’s give you a new one in the bar below.”

Hagakure’s eyes widened, realizing what he meant.

“N-No… please…!”

“You’ll make a good enough show to people, especially if Tevat does me the favor of giving me some of his water.”

“Oh, I see where this is going.” Tevat didn’t sound interested, yet deep within, he couldn’t help but feel a little giddy to such a sadistic choice. “Well, consider it a little extra from our deal, let your fellow sinners have a very intriguing show.”

“Yeah… I will.”

“PL-please…!! J-Just kill me at this point…!!” She was drowning in emotions, in whatever were left, but crying didn’t feel like an option, not with how exhausted and tired her body was. “Don’t do this to me…!”

“You know, in the Era before quirks, people with a disease like you would’ve gotten a particular treatment I’m surprised never happened…” beginning to pull her away from Eri, Chisaki just continued mocking her. “…You made things interesting for long enough, let’s see how interesting anyone else finds you.”

“NO, JUST PLEASE…!”

“Shut up you circus freak, you have a performance to be a part of.”

MUSUTAFU GENERAL HOSPITAL. SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE. – 2:05 P.M.

Putting on a fresh set of clothes handed over by his mother and sister after a quick shower, the greenette stepped out of it looking towards the mirror while dressing up. On the countertop in front of him were his gifts, the ring from Kyoka and Mawata, the clock from Aizawa, the infinity and Ame-no-Uzume collars given to him and his glasses, he stared at all of them briefly, going to grab them before stopping on his tracks. Looking at all of it once more, he decided against putting everything on, only grabbing the Ame-no-Uzume collar and putting it on around his neck that he secured under his winter outfit which was a simple trench coat of a dark green color, a plain black hoodie, black jeans with a shirt underneath it and his red shoes.

It was cold outside, and he knew it would be even colder during the drive, his eyes looked up at the mirror once more, noticing the determination within himself brewing as he walked out of the room, his eyes spotting both his mother and sister who held onto his helmet staring at him as he took in a deep breath. He knew what to expect right now, and he knew this would be the hardest part in all of this.

“…Mom… I… I have to do something.”

“…”

“I understand that, right now out for all times, you are feeling stressed under all I’ve gone through, but I can’t stand here knowing someone needs my help.” Izuku was very straightforward about it, staring at her. “I have to go to that place, no matter the price or how hard it is to get there, but I don’t plan in letting someone suffer, not when I know I can do something at a time like this one. It’s not a sense of duty or pride or anything, I simply won’t let someone suffer when their life is at risk, so I…”

A knot formed on his throat, preparing his own words as his mother suddenly spoke up.

“I know what you’re feeling, what you’re thinking at a time like this, because I can see it in your eyes.” Inko said, staring at her son. “I raised you, I’ve seen what you’d do for others no matter what, and I know what kind of person you are.”

The greenette just stared at his mother, who kept on speaking as a smile formed on her.

“It’s hard to forget that day when you realized you wanted to be a hero. It’s… very hard to forget something like that. At first I’d like to say I was afraid of what would happen to you even if you had or didn’t have a quirk, I was worried and deep within asked myself if it was right for a mother to support such an endeavor dropped on top of her child. I… I didn’t want to imagine my son being hurt, being beaten by villains or even losing his life because I… I couldn’t see a hero before my own flesh and blood. I struggled to do so for so long, and it wasn’t until recently that I finally understood it, my son is more than just that, he’s already a hero fighting what others can’t.”

His eyes went wide, how did she…?

“I… I know it’s not a quirk, but this strength of yours, these abilities you’ve been gifted, they’re not a curse, it doesn’t matter what others think or imagine you can do with them, what matters is how you use them. You could have a quirk capable of ending the world in one fell swoop, but if you use it the right way, you can create the perfect world for everyone to see. What you are isn’t defined by what you were born as, but that’s something you already know, don’t you?” Inko couldn’t help but chuckle.

“You better than anyone knows what a curse looks like, as much as you know what a blessing looks like, your eyes, poor or not, were gifted the talent to see even the most innate fear in the world, as something heartwarming. People would write it off as being naivety, yet you’re able to see the fine line that many ignore, because for you that little sliver is… is entirely worth fighting for.”

“…”

“Just don’t forget, Izuku.” Smiling, his mother gave him the what they consider a sacred symbol amongst them, a thumbs up. “Give it your very best. Plus Ultra.”

“…” His lips quivered, he bit onto them before smiling, answering back with his own thumbs up. “I’ll give it my best! Mom!”

“Then go.”

His eyes turned to his sister, who seemed more frustrated than anything, her eyes looked at her brother briefly before she sighed. She knew her brother well, and if there was anything she knew he was, is that he was the most stubborn man in her life. As such, she stood up from the chair and walked up to him, handing him over his helmet which inside of it had a pair of gloves.

“It’s for the best you wear gloves in this weather, I don’t think you want to freeze your knuckles.”

“Yeah…” Grabbing the gloves and then the helmet, he stared at his sister briefly. “Sis I…”

“I’m not mad.”

“Huh?”

“That’s what you’re thinking, right? That I’m mad.” Izuku just stared at her, making a chuckle to come out of her. “Well you’re wrong, I’m just… worried and honestly, annoyed that I can’t help my brother in his business like I so much have wanted to, I don’t doubt you’ll manage, but I really would like it to be another way.”

“…Sometimes it tends to be like that, but that’s fine, if you ask me…” the smile on him said it all. “That alone is enough help!”

“…God, you’re so optimistic it hurts me sometimes!”

“Sorry, but I really have to see the light in the chaos I’m trapped in.” The greenette commented, scratching his head halfway through. “But… I should get going, It’s a long trip but… I promise to be back by tomorrow morning.”

“We expect you to.” Asami said, pulling his brother into a hug. “Do your best.”

Soon enough, Inko joined in the hug, holding onto her two children tightly while smiling, without any of them realizing, a tear was falling down the older woman as she held onto them, her mind flashing back to her husband’s attitude and trying to cheer up their little boy after he was diagnosed quirkless.

‘You’d be so proud of our boy if you were here, wouldn’t you, Sashi?’

Breaking the hug, the two let the greenette set his mission ablaze for good. Walking off towards the exit, the greenette managed to catch a glimpse from the third floor, where he was, of the amount of heroes outside of the building along with reporters asking a million questions. Obviously the cameras were set on the hospital, where many of the surviving victims of the incident rested at a time like this one as they were treated, Izuku understood very well he was part of massive news that are still making the rounds, even right now. He knew the cameras would want to see the condition of the survivors in the hopes of showing heroes did their best, but he really didn’t want to be near it. Perhaps there is no stealth factor knowing that Unknown Lifeforms can actively sense Agitos and vice versa, but that didn’t mean he wanted the cameras to see him.

The trip was going to be a long one, taking air with the Tornador was out of the option seeing Japan is in a state of emergency under the pretense of terrorism, and transforming too wasn’t ideal at least right now, he just had to get out of here, and travel all the way to Kureya, were he’ll let his senses tell him where Tevat is, and in hand, he should find Hagakure and Eri not too far from him.

Arriving at the bottom floor, he secures his gloves before grabbing his helmet, putting it on tightly before pulling down the visor to hide his eyes. Taking a deep breath, the greenette walked towards the exit, stepping out into the storming noise of screams, cameras and bright colors guarding the entrance, some people took notice of him as the heroes opened way. Amongst them was Mount Lady, who stared at him briefly with certain curiosity as Kamui Woods approached her a little confused by her reaction, even with the helmet on, the greenette’s eyes met with hers, and all he did was grant her a simple nod.

She was surprised at first, but she saw something in his person that she could recognize from a hundred miles away, that Ame-no-Uzume collar he was wearing. It was him, and as much as she wanted to approach him, it takes no genius to know he’s all geared up already since he wants nothing to do with the media, not that she blames him, for as much as she likes it, they do get very predatory of victims which ticks a certain part of her wrong, this is mainly why they are here in the hospital. Sure, the safety of these people matters the most, but that includes their safety of the media trying to get whatever.

As such, she just pushed everyone back, letting Izuku walk by with no problem through everyone as he took notice of his bike not too far into the parking lot. Taking the Ignition Key out of his pockets, he stared at it briefly… The moment he hopped on that bike, this battle was to start, and he’d be on his own.

No.

He knew he wouldn’t be on his own, neither Hikawa, nor Tsukauchi and Aizawa are stupid enough to leave him unsupervised after what he told them, of course he won’t be on his own in this whole ordeal, but he knew the battle that awaited him would be a task only he could take head on, and he planned on doing so.

VRRM!!

His bike roared awake; it got the attention of a few as the greenette’s eyes stared at the ground before looking up front.

“Let’s do this.”

It took no time before the greenette was out of the parking lot, beginning to drive forward and stopping on the red light, looking down to the display, he quickly shifted to the map and tried to see which was the most optimal road for him to take all the way towards Tottori, but no matter what he saw, every path took him from six to seven hours of travel to get there, so maybe he’ll have to break a few laws to get there in at least four to five, he simply couldn’t waste time.

Once the red light switched, the race was on, burning wheel, the exhaust spilling out flames as the screeching got the attention of those around the street. Their eyes witnessed as the greenette took off at incredible speeds, taking not much before making it into the National Route 1 where he only sped up further, the roads were empty, the lack of vehicles made of his roaring engine to echo all across Musutafu as he flew forward to his destination, no more thinking other than to reach there before it’s too late.

I hear the engine

The winds swept around him, his body embracing the cold air as he kept a steady breathing.

I can even smell it

His eyes didn’t let go of the streets ahead, taking the sharp turns with ease as the world around him seemed to cease.

The wind whipping through my body

He entered the tunnel, a soothing darkness embracing him in the midst of the coldness brought by a lack of sunlight.

No different than a hurricane

He kept on speeding up, his eyes unaware of the mirages forming around the Firestorm as they slowly as it began to reshape itself.

Please… grant me such strength

Coming out of the tunnel, emerged Izuku, still looking no different than normal, as the bike he sat on was no longer the firestorm, but his trusted ally.

“And let me to take you higher… Tornador!!”

VRRRMMMMMMM!!!!!!

It was like a bullet tearing the wind, the whistle of the bullet rupturing through the skies as its overworking flames made a path through a darkened hail born from misery, his eyes were that of a blaring jade accompanied by an endless bright light capable of overthrowing the stars, nothing stopped its path as it only grew quicker, making its way towards its destination with one goal set in mind.

Kureya City.

Amongst the few cities within the prefecture of Tottori and considered its capital. In the past, the city’s name was shared with the Prefecture, but after being devastated in the earliest years of the Kokushibo Period in an all-out war mainly triggered due to back-up sent by the Korean Government with, in hindsight, quite questionable purposes. The city was torn to pieces, nothing of it was left, which compared to many others it cannot be said, but it is a running rumor since 2059 that the main reason the city was reduced to cinders was due to a battle between a Vigilante Resistance and a man said to wield multiple quirks, even with history pointing  to the actions between Korean Troops and Japanese Troops, but some know better with how their country is about hiding history.

As of the present time, Kureya stands tall, considered one of Japan’s upcoming Megacities, filled with sprawling Skyscrapers in every corner, many job opportunities, residences that are manageable enough for anyone visiting, expansive automotive industry, and as such holds within it one of the biggest Enclosed Racetracks in the nation that also doubles as a massive venue, the Toshitsugu Intercontinental Speedway, in the heart of the city capable of holding over 200,000 People at a time.

The city is, by all means, what you would see in something like a Cyberpunk story, with its endless buildings filled with Neon Lights, the messy streets beneath where people make a living, yet keep the place as sanitized as possible even with the mess brought by the intense urbanization of the city, as such, with such light, the darkness that leaks within the city is so blindly in front of everyone, that it tends to be the one holding the light everyone is looking after, but even then, there are people here living an honest life, who all they want is to enjoy the where they live.

“That’ll be 300 yen, miss.” Rikido Sato said, gaining nod from the girl in front of him as she handed him the money. “Thank you, have a good day.”

Grabbing the box, the black-haired girl began walking towards her family as they looked inside of it, a brief smile came to them.

“Told you it be worth it for tomorrow.”

“I know mom. But It’s really tempting.”

“What food isn’t?”

Sato couldn’t help but smile at this briefly, all before opening the counter and storing the money given to him. Closing it up, he looked back towards the kitchen.

“That’s the last customer.” He said.

“Good! Then do me the favor of closing up, Sato.” His mother told him, smiling at her son as she put away some stuff. “It’s good to see it went well today.”

“Yeah!”

As he went outside to flip the sign, the tall muscular boy was met with a biker arriving in front of him, stopping and lifting his visor briefly. The green eyes of his looked around, curious before turning to him.

“Uh, sorry but we’re in the process of closing.”

“Oh! Oh I understand…” He said, clearing his throat. “Uh, if its not much asking, do you know where the entrance to the Millennium Tower is?”

“Oh you’re looking for it?”

“Y-Yeah, well I know is in this area, but I couldn’t find the entrance were the map told me.” The jade eyed boy explained.

“Well to enter is in the next street over, you’ll take the underground passage right over by the streetlight, then you go straight through it.”

“Underground passage? I didn’t know this city had levels…” The boy said, surprised by the reveal.

“Yeah, thing is that it’s not on the whole city, the tower is just in one of those, which means you won’t find the entrance in Outsider Maps unless you get one in the city, that’s why it gets tricky to use them. But anyways, once down there, just go straight and there is the entrance to it, it’s very easy to spot it.” Sato explained.

“Thanks!” Pulling down the visor, the greenette looked back to the store. “…Would it be open tomorrow? Or will it be closed for the season?”

“Oh, yeah sorry sir, but we’re closed until the 26^th.”

“I see… Man, I bet mom would’ve loved one, I’ll figure something out.” Clearing his throat, the greenette waved at him. “Have a good night, sir!”

“Have a good night.”

Izuku kept on driving, reaching the streetlight and looking at the hidden underground passage. Ever since entering the city, the greenette was struck with that Danger Sense of his, telling him that the Unknown was not too far from him before he finally pinpointed it to the where it was, that being the Millennium Tower, he’s heard a lot of things about this place, mainly from Tsukauchi, such as how this place is a den of thieves filled with the worst of the worst, but because it’s a private land with genuine purpose due to being an Industry Conglomerate, with each floor said to be owned by different proprietaries, the problem is, the ownership isn’t limited to businessmen and civil engineers.

Due to its conglomerate nature and shared ownership, search warrants along with any attempts to raid the place have been, to put it lightly, hard to achieve. It doesn’t help that any criminal within the building are affiliated and protected by Worker’s Laws, seeing as not only are the floors they own documented under private land, but… if we’re honest, we could be here for hours simply discussing the amount of loopholes used by the criminals living in the building, and its these loopholes that have kept the top floors of the building untouched by any form of Police Force or even Hero.

It is simply an unbreakable barrier of law, yet everyone knows that those floors are fragile, capable of being torn apart in the matter of seconds by a proper raid team, but in this case… it may only need a single man.

“Get out of here, Tornador. I’ll see you outside the city.”

Getting off the bike, the greenette turned towards the entrance as his bike began driving away on its own. It had never been far-fetched to the greenette that the Machine Tornador was alive and actively trusted him, there’s a reason it didn’t go back to normal the day of the festival, and that’s because it wanted to keep spreading its wings after so long.

Izuku still wore his helmet and gloves, he looked around to see just a few people going about before looking at the entrance. One deep breath, and then a foot down, the greenette walked into the building, walking up to the receptionist who kept on looking at her computer while another two guys stood guard around her. Their eyes spotted the greenette, still wearing a helmet and they gained a confused yet worried look.

“Hey pal, what ya doing here like that?”

“Stop the New York accent, it’s annoying.”

“Just shut up and let me- What brings you here?”

“I’m here for the Ice Storm.” The greenette said, stopping in front of both guards as the woman looking at her computer stopped. “Would you mind giving me a pass for it?”

“…I’m sorry sir, but I believe it isn’t possible…” The woman said, her eyes still staring at her computer.

“Why, may I ask?”

“…Maxed out…”

“…I see, mind telling me where the elevator is?”

The guard suddenly put his palm on Izuku’s chest, spikes beginning to form on it while staring down at the greenette.

“What do you think you’re doing?”

“I just want to see if a friend of mine is here, they get cold feet easily.”

“You can’t trick us kid… now come on, give it up unless you w-…”

THWACK!

“UOGUH!!” His throat was closed shut in a slam, only feeling how his arm was yanked hard enough to be dislocated as the spikes in his palm stabbed onto his partner’s chest, making him let out a guttural scream.

Slamming his foot onto his face, the greenette knocked the spiked guard for good much to the shock of the woman who just stared at her monitor. He crouched down, checking their pockets and finding a gun in one of them, grabbing it and checking it before breaking it.

“Still too much…” His head then turned to the woman, whose eyes didn’t let go off the screen. “Don’t press it.”

“…” Her hand stopped, the finger right above the panic button.

“Do yourself the favor and say you were overwhelmed by a headache.” Izuku told her, the woman nodding as Izuku began walking to the elevators. “Then go.”

“…W-What are you doing here exactly…?”

“Saving someone.”

He called the elevator up, seeing the door open, Izuku stepped in before pressing the highest button there it. He took notice of it then and there, the highest floor wasn’t at the very top, he will be just a floor beneath the main entrance to where he’s going, meaning he’ll be met with security. The greenette felt something within him sting, at first he couldn’t really tell what it was due to the how sudden it came over him, soon enough, a concerned smile formed on him.

DING!

“God… Do the guys downstairs got fuck all to do??” One of the guards said, looking at the cards in his hand. “This is the fourth time they call the elevator to annoy us.”

“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WELCOME…! TO OUR PENULTIMATE EVENT OF THE YEAR!!”

The five guards looked up, staring at the roof as one of them sighed.

“Great, the rental auction is already beginning…” He commented, annoyed as he put down his card. “…I wanted to be a part of it this time, but of course Sanada didn’t come to work today!”

“He’s gonna get killed for missing the job so much.” Another one of the guards commented. “But it’s not like he’s actually missing much.”

“Yeah… Honestly? I’m more curious about that invisible girl Overhaul brought with him, one of the gals in the backstage told me she’s hiding a lot of meat and buns for someone you can’t see for shit.”

“Really? Man, I can’t believe god would be cruel enough to hide such a hottie.”

“Ain’t she like a minor or something? Why was she even with Bird Mouth?”

“I’d say it be a problem, if I already didn’t do illegal shit AND that we are in Tottori.”

“Have you ever questioned why there’s still people clinging onto the whole “Age of Consent is of 13” around this place? I’ve always found it weird how it’s just a few Prefectures while most others have changed it to 17, 18 or 19.”

“Couldn’t tell ya dude, sometimes the lawmakers are more fucked up than we are.”

“Still…. FUUUUCK that invisible girl sounds so approachable…!”

“The thing I hate the most about this job is how little of a shit all of you give about committing serious crimes like pedophilia...”

“Hey Komaeda, what if you stop bitching about my fantasies and go check what bullshit Yuichi and Karlo sent in the elevator this time??”

“Yeah sure, better than listen at you thirst over a minor.” He says, beginning to walk off.

“No but he’s right dude, you need to get some screws fixed.”

“Eh…”

“Who gives a shit!”

“Not you joining him…”

“What I’m just saying dude! If Chisaki could force her into marrying him then what says anything like that is wrong!”

“You just said it yourself.”

“Doesn’t matter, we all know what he planned to do with her, we’ll just get our chance another day.”

“Seriously can’t believe I’ll say this, but Komaeda is right, you fucks are the worst part of job…”

“Speaking of, hasn’t he taken too long?”

Turning towards the elevator, all of them fell to silence.

There stood a dark figure, a helmet covering its face while staring towards them as the lights in the hallway began fading off as now the elevator was the only light source, leaving the dark clad figure as the only thing for them to witness, suddenly they noticed something inside the elevator, their other guard, Komaeda, with a broken arm and bleeding due to missing teeth.

DING!

The elevator door closed, then darkness followed, and before any four of the guards could even do anything, the table in front of them was sent flying and their bodies were crushed to pieces, powerful fists broke their entire sternum, others ruptured organs as one of them felt his radius be snapped in half, peaking out of his forearm before feeling his own bone stab onto him, another one tried to do anything, but his jaw was kicked clean off before the last had his head incrusted onto the wall.

The lights turned back on, and the bloody hallway was revealed, the greenette stared at this, the blood already on his gloves, he clenched his hands into a fist as he cringed.

“…No… It’s still too strong.”

By All Might’s own words during their training, the greenette’s fist were no different than a semi-truck falling on top of a person and crushing their bodies, his raw strength is enough to shatter a human skull and even easier tear them to pieces. He was always aware of how strong he had been becoming, but… Izuku is too used to fighting without holding back, in fact, he’s used to pulling even greater strengths from within him than before, as such, he struggles to make sense of certain limits of his, ones that could easily kill any normal person he fights.

He can’t stop and think of this, not right now, he doesn’t know how much time he has before anyone else realizes the contacts with the guards is no more, so he’s better off moving quick. As he was to do so, however, he noticed something next to the guards, a shotgun. As much as he knows he can take on everyone, even he knows he can’t take everyone here in hand to hand, he needs range of sorts, and perhaps he’s got no experience with weapons in the slightest, but what better moment to learn something than in the heat of battle, and for as much as video games make of shotguns seem pathetic, he knows best how monstrous they truly are upwards of 100 yards.

Between that, the greenette noticed a small handgun, a revolver reminiscent of Tsukauchi’s. Deciding to take it too, he began walking down the hallway, checking the shotgun and gun appropriately as two guards suddenly stepped out.

“Sup.” He said, counting the amount of rounds he had.

“Hey.” The two said, walking pass him.

The two suddenly froze, turning back towards him before being met with a mule kick from the greenette. Both were sent flying, slamming onto the distant elevator door were they could be seen barely breathing, with one of them having their neck snapped from the kick. Izuku once more cringed, he’s never truly controlled himself in any shape or form in the past, so actually fighting people truly feels wrong to him.

 Everything about this was wrong, but he couldn’t back up anymore, the most he could do was simply leave them crippled, like that dark knight from comics used to do. Only that they’d be closer to death’s doors than he’d ever leave them, and while that is concerning, that adrenaline running through his body already proved him he wanted a taste of such battles, he just hopes he doesn’t let the thrill and anger win over everything, but… just by looking back at how he left those guards…

“…” *sigh* “Let’s do this.”

“So the Tornador retreated once he arrived at the Millennium Tower…”

“Yes, but it has no pilot right now.”

“Izuku had thought it was alive, so then that means it dropped him off at the tower.”

“I think is for the best we begin to evacuate the area, if Izuku is not only going to dismantle the Hassaikai tonight, but fight an Unknown, the best move we can do is begin evacuation before the battle gets too out of control.” Ozawa exclaimed, her Ghost Hands beginning to reach contacts in Kureya.

“And we should speed this up, we can’t let him just fight this no matter what.” Tsukauchi told her, looking at the screen in front of them. “I just hope it all goes well.”

In front of them were the greenette’s vitals, by personal choice of him, he allowed SAUL to monitor his vitals only if they knew he was in battle, how they would know is obviously cameras, but in this case they knew due to the tracking device placed on the Firestorm, i.e. Machine Tornador, in case anyone attempted to rob his bike.

This meant they knew where he was, but they were barely making their still in Shizuoka, none of them could move out of the city seeing that the populace had barely started calming down, and while there were no Unknown Lifeforms in the area, the general panic seen across the townsfolk has been increasing little by little, with some small riots starting across the place, everything is seemingly destined to fall into chaos, but they just needed to hold on for a little longer.

“You did do the drill sergeant method, right?” Tsukauchi asked the erasure hero.

“The what?” That was his response, making him gain a stare from the detective.

“…I think we should call the Kureya Hospital to see If they can treat every person he leaves critically wounded.”

“…I’d say is for the better…”

“He’ll end up hating what he did, and it’ll all be your fault.”

“…Eh… I doubt it.”

“You’ll be his therapist if he ends with some issues. Remember, he’s still a kid.”

“And kids are cruel when something pisses them off.”

1^st Floor of the place was calm, nothing much to it other than a rave, no guard took notice of the greenette still with his helmet and weapons concealed under his coat, the greenette let the music of the moment consume him as he made his way towards the stairway to the second floor. On the way there he had a few people trying to get his attention, but it didn’t matter to him.

The moment he entered the second floor, he was met with trouble, a guard instantly tried to restrict him, but with a quick chop to the throat, he was out cold. Izuku continued walking along the place, the music from downstairs still playing as around him was a female strip club, if the collars in some of the waiters told him anything, is that none of these guys were doing it willingly. As he tried going to the third floor, another guard went to stop him, Izuku played deaf and made him walk into the stairs with him, where he got a hold of the man and broke his kneecap.

While his scream wasn’t heard in the second floor due to the music, guards from the third floor suddenly began running down the stairs, where Izuku, with some quick reaction time, pumped the shotgun before firing one round. Much to his surprise, the round was a slug, slamming straight into the first guard and sending him flying onto his partner. Taking this as an advantage, the greenette climbed up the stairs the fastest he could towards them, grabbing them and throwing them back down to the second floor.

Two more guards, the which Izuku disposed of in seconds after ripping the handlebars from the stairs and striking them with it. The pipe was bent, and both guys, who seemed to have some sort of hardening quirk, had their skulls fractured as they laid in the ground out cold. He grabbed them as well, dropping them onto the pile below just to make sure they were all knocked out for good.

Releasing the empty shotgun shell and allowing a new one to be chambered, the greenette began walking up and entering the third floor, where he saw a quiet bar with soft music playing, he decided to continue walking with no problem whatsoever and without much of a bother, he did take notice of a guy trying to molest a waitress, making him grab a nearby alcohol bottle before smashing it onto his head, placing the bottle on another guy’s hand.

That was entirely unnecessary, is what he thought to himself, but deep within, Izuku just couldn’t help but be bothered by the calm place as a battle broke out between two gangs, making of whatever security was still in the room to focus on trying to stop them. As such, he managed to climb his way towards the fifth floor, where the intercom could be heard from within the stairs.

“AND SOLD TO THAT YOUNG CHAP IN THE CORNER FOR 10,000 YEN THE WEEK!! HAVE AT IT CHAMPION! YOUR OWN LOVELY LADY FOR YOURSELF!”

Izuku now understood what those guards were saying when he arrived at the entrance, their words suddenly were beginning to fit perfectly onto one another as he kept on walking. All of that of not killing or trying to keep this as civilized as possible was seconds away from being thrown out the window.

The fifth and final floor of this house of the wicked was a massive one, as it was actually three floors turned into a single one through reconstruction of the place, first two were the complete scenario, where a DJ, lighting, endless seats for the hundreds of people in it along with a bar and near endless guards posted everywhere. This particular floor of the facility had been given a name for obvious reasons, Sabbat, where the worst of the worst come together into what can only be defined as the blend of the lowest scum in the world.

Across the place could be seen caged women used for spectacle in a hundred different ways, their faces of discomfort and the tear marks in some of their faces only increased the pleasure within the sadistic men and women witnessing the place, the heart pumping music deafening any of their cries as some of them were forced to use their quirks for the sake of amusement, the bar wasn’t limited to just drinks, it was selling ecstasy, drugs, name a narcotic and you could probably find it behind the bar. From the second floor, behind some reinforced windows found within a room hanging from the rooftop, with the only way in being a ladder, could be seen Chisaki, standing alongside his Eight Bullets, or at least the ones that remained after Tevat “accidentally” killed a few of them.

“How is his ritual going?”

“He may be done in a few more minutes… but even that’s too much for me to see…”

“I imagine.” Chisaki said, taking off his mask and taking a sip of his cold drink. “But, it’ll be worth it.”

“…Overhaul, sir…” The man turned to the source, that being Shin Nemoto. “…I understand the end goal of this, but is Tevat truly to be trusted?”

“…No… but if we don’t follow his word, our fate would be no different than all other sinners and even those Agitos he seems to despise so much.” Chisaki explained. “While he keeps his side of the deal, everything will be fine for us.”

“…It… does make me doubtful, but I understand the decision, sir.” Shin said, staring at the ground. “I just… would it like to be some other way.”

“Me too, Nemoto.” Chisaki answers, taking another sip. “But when something as omnipotent as him gets in your way, sometimes your only choice is to fall to their whim, plus, I plan to not risk anyone anymore, after this… things will change for the better.”

“Oh, seems like is her turn to be auctioned.” Toya Setsuno said, his eyes looking down as he saw a trapdoor at the stage right beneath them open.

Chisaki really didn’t care, since his eyes noticed something in the entrance to the Sabbat. One of the guards stepped into it to check something, but the door was suddenly shut closed, leaving him confused, his thoughts, however, were scrambled the moment the voice of the intercom spoke up once more.

“NOW!! TONIGHT! WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL MEMBER!!”

From the trapdoor rose a cage, many were curious, and even more shocked as they noticed the contents of it being nothing. Their eyes looked at this confused as the man holding the microphone chuckled to himself.

“A GIFT FROM OUR CORROBORATORS IN THE HASSAIKAI, BUT DO NOT LET YOUR EYES DECIEVE YOU MY PEOPLE!! BECAUSE INSIDE THIS PLACE…!!”

Pressing a button, water suddenly came out of the top of the cage, falling all over something and leaving some to have their eyes widen in further shock and interest. It revealed the lime green haired girl, eyes of a similar color to them she did her best to over her body, yet it was very easy for both men and women to look at the girl whose body quivered under the cold shower of Tevat’s Holy Water as her eyes looked at the people in front of them, the fearful eyes in her winning everyone over as people exploded.

“…IS THE NOW EX-WIFE OF THE MAN HIMSELF!! NOW FOR ANYONE TO TAKE, NOT JUST FOR A DAY, OR A WEEK, BUT FOR LIFE!!”

That made them explode further, and the betting instantly began from everyone across the floor as Kurono and the remaining Eight Bullets scoffed at this.

“These guys are all sick.” Kurono took notice of Chisaki’s eyes being somewhere else, he was confused as he figured he was looking at the entrance to the Sabbat. “…Something wrong?”

“…Have you heard anything from the guards in the last few minutes?” He asked, gaining a confused look from Kurono.

“…No, why…?”

“…I think something’s going on…”

It took a single Agito for him to fall, not just once, but twice at his own hands

“…Don’t tell me!”

SLAM!!

RATATATATATATATATATA!!!!

Everyone stopped, and by everyone, it truly was every single person in the Sabbat. The music died down in its entirety as their eyes turned to the source, seeing a security guard stumble across before dropping to the ground, a side of his head was dented inwards, blood gushed out of his mouth, and his fist had pieces of crystal on them. Stepping into the room, their eyes were met with a green-haired boy, taking off his helmet and dropping it to the ground showcasing it had been split open with surprising ease, on his hands was an SMG the which he unloaded to get everyone’s attention while looking around, every single soul had left the place, all eyes could only stare at him as he kept on checking the place.

His eyes then spotted, not only Hagakure, whose eyes slowly shifted from dead to shock at witnessing the greenette she thought as dead standing in front of her with a monotone look, yet once she noticed her, he gave her a calm smile filled of relief, he wasn’t here as late as he thought, he just hoped he could’ve been quicker and not find her like this.

The noise of gun safety being taken off, the rattling of bullets as the weapons stared being pointed towards the greenette and even a few quirks were released while aiming towards him, the greenette looked around before seeing Chisaki on top of him, staring down at him with a mix of disbelief and curiosity.

“DJ… don’t stop right now, play what was next.” Izuku said, keeping himself calm.

“Who are you to give him orders little guy?” The announcer said, approaching him while laughing. “You expect us to put an end to the show? We were just getting started with our little fan favorite!!”

“…”

“Come on, you don’t think this little thing from you will do you much, right?? What are you even planning to do on your own lil guy??” Stopping in front of him, the man grinned in a mocking fashion. “But you know what? What if you tell me what brought you here? What’s it that brought you with this pair of balls all the way up here?”

“...”

Turning the gun around, the greenette grabbed it by the muzzle before using it as a blunt weapon, nearly opening the announcer’s head in two as the weapon shattered, the metal fragments of it left impregnated onto his skin before he used the remains of the weapon and shoved them onto the man’s mouth, throwing a straight kick onto the man, everyone saw him be sent flying, slamming right next to the lights next to the DJ who just saw an electric discharge knock out the man for good.

Most stared at this, terrified for a whole second before looking back at him, and then he gave his answer.

“I am here to save Toru and Eri, and if any of you plan to get in my way…” his knuckles cracked under the simple motion of tightening his fists hard enough. “…I’ll take you down.”

Alright partner, keep on rollin’ baby!

It took no time before so many dropped their weapons or deactivated their quirks, beginning to run off towards the exit as the greenette felt relieved so many decided to give it up, but this still left a lot of issues on his way, his eyes looked around to see the remaining guards, all of them shaking as the greenette closed his eyes.

“Hagakure… I recommend you closing your eyes.” Taking out the hand, the greenette took off its safety. “This is going to be messy.”

Gunfire began as Izuku began firing back at them with the handgun he got, it took not much time before a guard tried sneaking him, to what he responded to with an elbow strike onto his chest, followed by a kick that slammed the man through some tables. The greenette kept on shooting to the guards in the rafters while keeping his distance from those at his level, mainly by keeping his head low, but soon after he was met with having the disgraceful luck of his gun jamming.

At this, the greenette looked towards Chisaki, using all strength in his upper body to throw the gun straight onto the tempered glass, making the Eight Bullets and Chisaki jump back as they saw the handgun be stuck in the glass. Overhaul’s eyes looked at the greenette, of course he had to get a monster against him.

With Fred Durst on his side and a quick trigger finger, the greenette’s hands got a hold of the shotgun he still held onto before the firing lit up the entire floor, the bullet impacting onto one of the many guards at his level as his suit was set ablaze. The eyes of the remaining guards widened, even Chisaki’s as he realized what was loaded inside that shotgun, magnesium rounds, better named by people as a more fitting title, Dragon’s Breath Rounds.

“…Fuck.” It was all Chisaki said.

RTRTRTRTRT!!!!

The entire place was suddenly lit by gunfire from the rafters, the floor being pelted by bullets as concrete shards flew everywhere, the greenette only kept on running across the area, he rolled under a table before pulling himself onto the seat, seeing as the table was torn apart before sliding out of his hiding hole, he loaded yet another round before firing it and seeing the Dragon’s Breath illuminate the room once more, setting another guard aflame, who dropped himself onto the nearby water tank in the hopes of surviving, once more he pumped the shotgun as the round flew out before aiming towards his blind spot, pulling the trigger and unleashing the flames upon the bartender who had the disgrace of making his Molotov cocktail fall on top of him, along with the rest of the bar.

Rolling away from there, the greenette picked himself up before beginning to run towards the stairs at the rafters, doing everything in his power to distract the guards at his level as he used the simplest logic of gunfights in his complete favor. You don’t have to be faster than them, you simply have to be faster than they can aim.

Grabbing onto the nearby pylons, the greenette’s strength was enough for him to lift himself up and fling his whole body up the rafters, where he ripped off the piping and tossed one straight onto one of the guards, stabbing him and leaving him hanging from the wall. His eyes then shifted to where Chisaki and his men were, letting him unleash multiple Dragon’s Breath Rounds towards the glass, their eyes stared at this confused at first before Chisaki yelled out.

“BACK OUT NOW!!”

None of them had time, as Nemoto’s coat was suddenly lit aflame. Dragon’s Breath Round, when unleashed into firepower, counts with the heat that reached upwards of 2000 degrees Celsius, in Fahrenheit being around 3600, way above glass’s melting point, which was what Izuku was doing. He knew he had remaining rounds, enough to torch this whole floor down, but he wanted to get rid of Chisaki quick, as such, abusing the insane temperatures, he manage to melt right through the tempered glass, not only unleashing molten glass upon the Eight Bullets and Chisaki, but opening him a path to shoot them.

Soon enough, Chisaki placed his hands on the glass, however, breaking it apart before reforming it back into a large spike that flew towards the greenette, who simply ducked under it as he kept on running through the rafters and towards the remaining guards up top. Soon enough, he took out a second handgun, aiming it towards the not-too-distant guards and firing four shots to each of them, hitting their shoulders and making them fall off the rafters and onto the ground.

Before he could do much, he was met with yet another piece of glass trying to pierce him, but Izuku’s reaction was quick enough to allow him to dodge it, it still left a scratch on his cheek that began healing up. God bless regeneration. His eyes noticed something, the guards dropped their guns, leaving them for him to pick up as he aimed towards the guards beneath him, unleashing hellfire upon the with one hand while using the other one to try and melt the glass or weaken it just enough for him to do his final plan.

Using the shotgun once more, the greenette fired towards the nearby cables holding the rafters, making them snap as he began falling along with it, seeing as it hit some of the guards and sent them flying all over the place. Quickly aiming to the rest, the greenette fired, hearing the remaining cables snap as he got a hold of the rafters before falling onto the ground. The rafter should’ve fallen to the floor, keyword, should’ve, since Izuku’s upper body strength may not be superior to his legs, it is still ridiculous enough for him to hold the entire rafter and toss it straight into the room where the Eight Bullets and Chisaki were.

CRNK!! BROOOMM!!

The place exploded in the impact, all of the Hassaikai members began falling and before they could do much, most were met with Dragon’s Breath midair. Overhaul crashed onto the ground, and instantly slammed his hand onto the floor, causing a series of spikes to fly towards Izuku, who responded by kicking the spike off one and balancing himself on top of it. As he went to reload the shotgun, it vanished from his hands, his eyes looked towards Setsuno, who now had a hold of it as he aimed it at the greenette.

Izuku panicked briefly before jumping out of the way as the Dragon’s Breath illuminated where he once stood. His eyes looked towards the cage, where he spotted a concerned Hagakure closing her eyes while punching the trapdoor beneath her to make it fall. Thing that didn’t go unnoticed by Chisaki, who instantly fired spikes towards her, without much thinking, the greenette jumped forward and did an axe kick, shattering the mechanism beneath Hagakure and letting her drop through the trapdoor.

Suddenly, the greenette felt his pockets were emptied. Looking at it, he saw his bullets fly towards Setsuno as Yu and Soramitsu, the two of the Eight Bullets he works best with, rushed towards the greenette. Dodging Soramitsu’s attempt to bite him, the greenette traded punches with Yu’s crystalized arm, he felt his knuckles bleed, but he saw the crystals shatter much to the man’s annoyance. The greenette didn’t think about it twice when he suddenly swiped his opponent’s leg and went in for a kick, just to find himself trapped behind a barrier, his eyes looked back, spotting Tengai who kept his eyes closed even at such an intense moment.

The greenette went to strike him, just for a second smaller barrier to appear around the man, but Tengai was confused when he felt a palm instead of a fist strike his barrier, that is when Izuku twisted his body in such a fashion that he sent himself flying into a corkscrew kick before turning it into a spinning dropkick, shattering through the bigger barrier as his feet slammed straight onto Yu, whose eyes widened as blood spilled out of his mouth.

Fweet! BOOOM!

Those outside of the city saw as a side of the Millennium Tower exploded, its debris flying everywhere as Yu hung in there by the hands of Nemoto, who was thankful his coat took the entire hit. Still, the Eight Bullets and Chisaki alike were shocked to put it lightly, such strength display was monstrous to see, and as far as the Yakuza Boss knew, this was sheer raw strength unrelated- or perhaps it was- to his Agito Powers.

This made him more desperate, as he set off a pair of walls in the hopes of squashing the greenette like a grape, he almost succeeded, had a sudden invisible force not pulled down the greenette. Quickly, Izuku went to stand up, but his body felt it very well, a tug on his arm from a hand only he could see, that being Hagakure’s.

“…” He grabbed it, holding onto it softly as the walls clashed on top of them, creating a dense curtain of smoke. The warmth of his soul began spreading to her as she didn’t let go. “…I’m sorry it has to be like this, Hagakure… if it was for me, I wouldn’t-…”

“No… don’t apologize… I… I did all of this… I caused you to end here… a-and I know you may manage but… I-I would’ve liked to meeting such a guy like you better…!”

“…then let’s do that once we’re done here… alright?” He smiled briefly, around him could be seen Chisaki run towards him along with the remaining Eight Bullets and Kurono. The greenette stared at them while taking off his trench coat and letting the girl grab a hold of it.  “Now, let’s stop beating around the bush and do this for real.”

Izuku understood the menace that was Overhaul, his quirk, it was something that needed a single touch to completely disperse your atoms into the winds, as far as he could tell, every one of the Eight Bullets and him could make for a perfect team that could incapacitate them in seconds. He knew that fighting anyone else any other way was assured he’d kill many, but right now, he just had to put a stop to this before it was too late.

His arms were suddenly crossed at the height of his left hip, he left his left arm holding his hip before his right arm extended forward and retracted back, positioning itself above his chest as his heart beat. The Bullets, Chisaki and Hagakure stared at this, all before witnessing as the Esoteric Belt seen in the Golden Dragon Warrior appeared on his waist.

“HENSHIN!!”

CLICK!

VRRRMMMM!!!

It took seconds, it felt like a blip of time in Chisaki’s eyes before he was on the ground, both arms broken and staring at the roof above him as not too far from him were his incapacitated bullets, barely alive if Izuku was being honest, but simply knocked out on the ground along with all other guards he left critically injured in the last few minutes.

Chisaki’s eyes looked up to him, the blaring red eyes of the Agito falling upon the man who couldn’t move an inch. Was it truly just his arms that he broke. He was unaware of it, all he knew is that it was impossible for him to move.

“Y-you… could’ve done this the whole time.”

“No, because my mind was far from clear… I would’ve killed so many had I done it that way, and that wasn’t my intention, even if you’ve all ended in the condition you’re in, I never wanted things to end in death of other humans.” There was a clear sadness in his voice, Izuku hated what he did from the very first second, and even after seeing the horrible stuff being done here, he regrets having to know he probably killed a few of these men. Did they deserve it? perhaps, but Izuku is not humanity’s judge nor its executioner, and he will never be that.

“You’re… full of shit… you killed… t-took human lives… S-so what the hell did you do?”

“…I walked a line only people like me do… the real grey line between good and evil.”

“…and what does that make you…?”

“I don’t know… but while I know people can live without fear of those posting themselves as their superiors and butcherers, then I won’t stop.”

“…What horrible way… to excuse yourself.”

“Before I let you pass out…” suddenly picking him up, the greenette looks straight into the fading consciousness of Chisaki. “Where is Eri?”

“…being a part… of his ritual…”

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

The screams of the girl were heard, the greenette looked up towards the source along with Hagakure who began to panic. He didn’t even think about it twice, grabbing the girl and jumping up towards the stairs above them, the greenette managed to get both him and the lime green-haired girl up to the final floor of the building, where the screaming was just as intense.

“…The roof!” Hagakure said, pointing towards the stairs.

Izuku didn’t think about it twice, beginning to run towards the stairs while holding onto Hagakure, who only secured the dark green trench coat around her further, the greenette took leap up the stairs before breaking down the door and putting down Hagakure, their eyes looking out to witness the horrific sighting in front of them.

Eri’s was in the dead center of the rooftop surrounded by bloody corpses that began dissipating into water, needles of Ideo TRIGGER were being ejected out of her body as it kept on healing over and over, letting them fall to the ground to showcase the lack of liquid. Their eyes counted easily a dozen, her horn was almost twice the side of her head, rising towards the Full Moon above them, Izuku’s eyes struggled to digest what he was looking at as on top of Eri, could be seen the Dolphin Unknown known as Tevat, levitating under the earth’s natural satellite.

“…Th-the ritual…” Hagakure was horrified, it was already too late.

What both remained unaware of, is that the bloody corpses turned into water weren’t there for decoration, the purpose of their blood was to scribble along a circle of alchemical symbols and equations with endless mathematic attachments that, if translated, showcased to be the gravitational constant, time dilation and acceleration, composition of the Quirk Gene, the eternal movement of the atom and the ever changing resonance of every individual atom in the body, all of them shaped into two pentagons, one inside the other on which Eri laid at the very center.

Tevat, even in the heavens, began walking down towards Eri much to the growing concern of the greenette, who jumped towards him, just to be met with the sudden stopping power of Tevat’s Pitchfork slamming onto him, making him crash onto the ground. It hurted, but it could’ve been worse and he knew it.

“Await for me a little longer, Izuku Midoriya.” The Unknown said, getting right up to Eri. “To give you that worthy dead I told you, I will require of your patience for just…”

The two could only see, as he allowed Eri’s horn begin to tear through his flesh.

“one.”

It began piercing through his organs, the light of the injury blinding both of them briefly.

“More.”

Izuku pressed to the side of the Altering, transforming into Flame Form and instantly taking out the Flame Saber. He took a deep breath as his body wanted to refuse, but there truly may not be any other way.

“Minute.”

Continuing to dig through him, Hagakure closed her eyes, she knew what Izuku was going to do, and she barely had the resolve to see it. As such, the greenette ran in, the Flame Saber blaring in all its might as he cut all across the alchemical equation before seeing he had no other choice.

‘I’m sorry, Eri! You’re allowed to hate me until my death!!’

The blade went to its highest heat, and before his body could hesitate, the greenette slashed Eri’s horn into three pieces, the one stabbing through Tevat, a bigger piece in the middle and the smaller stub that remained at her forehead, leaving the stretched skin due to the Ideo TRIGGER enhancement. Even if Izuku feel horrible for what he has done just now, the truth is that had he not cut the horn, not only would Eri have been crushed by its weight, but her body would’ve been in a perpetual pain brought forth by the drug.

Grabbing the remaining piece of it, the greenette saw it suddenly fade to cinders under the grip of the Flame Arm, all before he grabbed Eri and pulled her away. It didn’t take much before he and Hagakure, even if still stunned, started to check on the white-haired girl who was crying in pain, her tongue slowly turning a dark color as she struggled to breath. The greenette went back to Ground Form, trying his best to calm her down before something happened.

It was almost a blink of an eye, yet he could see it in that time. The sky shifted from its clear look into a massive Superstorm hiding the entirety of Tottori under it, bringing ascending panic to the entire Prefecture. He stared above, with all that could be seen above them being that pale moonlight and the still levitating Tevat with a new weapon, one more reminiscent of a Dolphin Tail. The Unknown’s body shifted, his skin turned into a greyer tone, it’s muscularity doubled- almost tripled even, there was a lack of lips, allowing them see his teeth that had grown sharper after such an action, it’s eyes were pure black void, the moon reflecting on them while three distinct moonstone crystals made presence on its forehead while the armor on its body had become a pure white.

“…My god…”

“hahaha…” It’s eyes looked towards the Agito, the little girl and the lime green-haired girl, and even in that endless darkness, Izuku saw madness. “HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! AMAZING!! WONDERFUL!! GLORIOUS STRENGTH OF MINE I HAVE DREAMT TO HAVE FOR CENTURIES!! I STRUGGLED FOR CENTURIES TO GET JUST A PIECE OF THIS!! TO FEEL MY GOALS COME TO FRUITION!!! A BLESSING UNLIKE ANY OTHER BORN FROM A SINNER!! TO HAVE WAITED SO LONG FOR MY TRUE SELF TO AWAKEN WAS PAINFUL…!! BUT NOW I LIVE BETTER THAN EVER!!”

“I THANK YOU, SINNERS OF THIS WORLD, FOR CREATING SUCH A CREATURE CAPABLE OF ERODING ME INTO THE BEING I WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO BE!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! YOU HAVE ALLOWED ME TO BECOME WHOLE!!!”

It’s body suddenly fell from the skies, crashing onto the circle in front of them, dragging its new Dolphin-like spear along the helipad before looking at the Agito.

“Perhaps I should curse you for stopping me from reaching my true self! But it doesn’t matter!! My strength is comparable to what the El of the Water’s was before his first death to that despicable Agito! With just a single move, I could drown this planet on its sins, suffocate it under the cold cruel waters of the ocean! I can bring forth the restart they did all those years ago! But…!”

Even without a discernible mouth, with nothing but teeth, Izuku felt the horror he’s felt every other time he’s seen Tevat smile, it was clear it’s joy was endless. Boundless even, only limited by its desire to put a solid end to things.

“…I promised you a warrior’s death, didn’t I, Agito?” It’s eyes stared at him, the reflection of his Red eyes being all Izuku could see on Tevat. “Then, allow me to take the worlds of those barbarians from times long gone…”

It raised its Dolphin Spear, Hagakure’s eyes went wide as the crying Eri stared at this with further fear, all as the Agito could feel the power behind it, his eyes widening in horror as he realized just what the plan of the Unknown was exactly. It was in these fleeting seconds, formed by his lingering of the world and everything that has happened in the last few months, formed as the flashing shapes of every single one of his fights, that Izuku realized…

 “AND ALLOW OUR GEGERU TO COMMENCE!!!”

The Emergency had barely begun.