Last time, i went over how my last life went. Now let's talk about my current life.
After i went *SPLAT!* with pieces of me here and there on the pavement. I wait and see what my next great adventure was gonna be like. Will it be like a dreamless sleep or am i gonna get sent straight to purgatory?
I'm not delusional. No matter how much good karma i got going for me, there's no way the peeps up top was not going to wipe me clean especially with all the dirty thoughts i have.
But nope. That did not happen. I was still me. Alone. In a dark place…. Motherfucker! Just where the fuck am i!?
Oh well. Might as well meditate and reflect on my life. It's not like i got something better to do.
I did just that for 3 months straight and i notice somethings. Somehow, i am getting smarter. My already high 500 IQ is getting an upgrade.
How? Well there was this energy that i keep producing that keeps boosting my brain. There was another type of energy that i produce that kept boosting my body, enough that i could move and realize i'm in some mucus environment in a small enclosed space. Then there was that heartbeat that i keep hearing that was not my own and then-
ALL FOR FUCKS SAKE I'M A FUCKING FETUS!
Damn! So reincarnation was a thing. But how the fuck did i retain my memory. On another note, how am i thinking so coherently when my brain is not developed yet. I'm high-spec but not that high-spec.
Conclusion: my soul. I must be thinking with my soul right now and the brain is only there as a booster, like an extra hard drive. This just put so many things into perspective. I mean the possibilities-
Focus! I'll think about the metaphysical implications this situation implies later.
Now. I have reincarnated. I'm in some lady's womb….gross. I don't even remember this in my first life and now i have to know the whole ordeal, in Every. Gory. Detail.(eidetic memory dammit!).
Maybe this is some sort of purgatory. Since i'm gay, i don't want to be anywhere near a vagina and now i'm inside of one. Literally. I'll think about this cosmic joke of a life later…
Anyhow, i'm pretty sure i'm not on vanilla Earth anymore if the energy thing is any indication. Unless this is way into the future and mutants are a thing, like X-Men. I'll shelve that idea for now.
The energy thing, though. The one that boost my brain seems so bright and pure, like light or something. It made me hyper aware of my own body, enough to know that i'm still a boy in this world(THANK GOD!). The strangest thing is that i feel TRUTH whenever i examine the energy, like i can trust it to reveal the truth...or even disintegrate anything in my way.
Yeah, that last one was weird, but it was what i felt, and it seems that the energy is congregating on my still developing right-eye. Maybe it's trying to upgrade that eye along with what's it's doing to my brain. I'll call it my LIGHT for now.
The other energy i produce is just the opposite. Dark, gloomy, beguiling. As if anyone besides me will be completely fooled by it. If anything it's like the Mist Dying Flames from KHR, but with black and red and a whole sleuth of negativity. Not to mention it's definitely trying to do something to my left eye.
Something alarming is that i'm not just producing this DARKNESS, i'm also absorbing it from all around me. As if dark spaces connect to a dark dimension i can draw strength from. Anyway, i'm somehow absorbing this by the butt-load automatically and it seems to be changing my body a lot more than i thought it would.
Example? I got a tail. And i'm pretty sure there are 2 stumps on my forehead that are gonna get a lot sharper in the future. Yeah….i'm a real demon now i think.
Nope. Not gonna think about it. That's a problem for future me. I'm just gonna play with these two energy until i'm out of here.
Then at 5 months, a miracle happen. I CAN SEE!
More specifically, my right eye can see right through my shut eyelids and into the world outside. Clairvoyance for the win baby! My LIGHT is becoming my favourite energy of the two right now.
Anyway, since i've been hearing japanese from inside the womb, i know that i'm in japan, or some japanese anime that is actually a world of its own.
I slowly try to see the outside world, hoping to the gods that it's not Naruto that i'm in, cuz child soldiers man! But the fact that i got 2 different doujutsu, the future looked bleak until i saw high rise buildings outside.
I look around, and notice that i got omni vision. Sweet! And no weak spot like what the Byakugan has. I notice that mom and i are on the streets in a pretty normal city. The technology look quite advance, too.
Then i start noticing the people walking on the street. There were a multitude of weird looking people. Some look even alien or nonhuman.
Already, this is pinpointing to what world i've reincarnate. I looked for more clues until….
BAM! An All Might poster in one of the shops my mom past by….Yep! I'm in My Hero Academia.
I always regretted not finishing that series, but well, at least now i get to live it. Thank god of all the superhero series, i got this one. No offense, but Marvel would have been a bitch to live in, even with all the big, hot and hunky superheroes that are possibly available playing for my team. Colossus man, Colossus.
Missed opportunities...anyhow, i got to plan ahead!
I got 2 quirks with multiple abilities for each of them. Definitely will have to lay low for a while unless i want All For One on my ass. My quirks developed in the womb too and my appearance… now i kinda look like Hellboy but with red scales, which would be hard to hide if not for my DARKNESS' ability to make perfect illusion.
As in so perfect that only someone with an instinct based quirk would even be able to tell that something is wrong, though they still can't see through it though.
How do i know this already when i'm only 5 months along? My LIGHT's ability to see the truth is the real deal, it seems. I'm able to analyze almost anything and my upgraded IQ only helps even more.
So far, what i gleaned from my quirks were:
LIGHT: being able to analyze anything and see the truth or even make people say the truth, superior healing capabilities but very specific and must have medical knowledge to use, which i do have, using light itself to disintegrate anything(Lasers baby!) or simply make visual effects, solidifying light into weapons(Lightsaber! The Force is with me!), and finally covering and partially become light for increased speed and perception. Not to mention the mind of a quantum computer on steroids as well as mental defences up to DEFCON 1.
DARKNESS: perfect illusion, manipulation of all senses on self(vegetables can taste like orange chicken now!) and others, shadow travel, partial spatial manipulation when DARKNESS enclose a space(it was trippy making the womb as big as a bedroom…), shadow storage(Hammerspace on demand), null existence(Perfect Plan from HunterXHunter), corrosion surprisingly enough, and finally nightmare/fear/negativity inducement.
…..Yeah i'm OP as hell. Guess my specialness(*cough*Abnormality*cough*) followed me into this life and translated into this.
I ain't complaining. This gives my survivability a significant boost. Now all i have to do is practice and wait until i can go into the light at the end of the tunnel(pun intended….and ew).
I could actually speed up my growth with LIGHT and get it over with, but that would take too much resource from mom and well… she's not well off.
With visual confirmation combined with shaky audio(damn undeveloped ears and the wall of flesh that snuffed most sounds), i was able to determined that i was in a single mother, who used to be a prostitute but now hoping to do better now that she is pregnant. The father, or rather my sperm donor, is not around however, so my mom had to get a job in a cafe while still pregnant with me.
Apparently she can make a mean cup of coffee from what i could hear. Even so, she can only make little money, not enough to do a food binging marathon if i went ahead and accelerate my growth.
So yeah…. Waiting … this is gonna be so boring….
…
*Skipped 4 months*
I take it back! Let it be boring!
Currently the cafe is in a hostage situation… and my mother is going into labor… like right NOW!
I blame the horns. And the tail. They were totally what made the water broke along with this stressful situation. Like seriously, what is with my shit luck? Or is it my mom's? Ah whatever, no time for that, my mom might die and i won't we able to do anything.
Light manipulation? Lasers in the womb is a no go.
Illusion? Only on myself for now, AOE illusion currently unachievable while still in the womb.
Healing? Yes! But instant death injuries equals game over.
Come on heroes! Now is the time to strut your stuff! What the hell are you waiting for!?
Shit! One of the villains got a pressure changing ability within a radius. My body is actually very durable for a baby so i would survive under high pressure but mom would burst like a watermelon.
I was worrying about what to do when suddenly, All Might appeared along with his cheesy "I AM HERE!" liner.
Basically put, he beat the villain to a pulp in seconds, but while ensuring the hostages were alright, the villain gave a parting shot at my mother.
Immediately realizing what was coming, i raised her healing up to Wolverine level, but it wasn't enough. Unlike Wolverine, she did not have an adamantium skull and her head exploded into unsalvageable pieces.
….THAT'S IT! LASER IN THE WOMB IS A GO!
But before i could do that, All Might beat me to the punch. Literally. I stored my rage for now.
What happened next was a whirlwind of events. All Might discover i'm still alive in the womb still. Having an emergency C-section for my birth right there and then. Getting shipped to the hospital for checking and then to the orphanage, round 2.
Things basically went the same as my old life, but with quirk training and everybody thinking that i look like a normal human. Man, my illusion is like scary good, even the doctors don't have a clue.
Bullies were rampant again in my life but i dealt with them differently this time. Like this one time this dickhead tried to pull my hair and mock me just because he's dumber compared to me but before he could do that, i put him in an illusion that the ground he was standing on was actually tentacles that would hold him in place as it slithers up his-
"STOP! PLEASE, YOUNG MAN. WHEN I SAID I WOULD HEAR YOU OUT I DID NOT THINK I WOULD BE HEARING SOMETHING LIKE THAT!" said All Might, thoroughly embarrassed.
"You're the one who wanted to know about that part of my life. Make up your mind already… Wait, which part are you talking about? The one where i owe you a solid for coming to the rescue or the tentacles part?" i asked, seriously.
"BOTH? AND… YOU DON'T 'OWE ME A SOLID' AS YOU SAY. I FAILED TO SAVED YOUR MOTHER, AND YOU END GROWING UP ALONE. AGAIN EVEN." said a dejected All Might. He was reminiscing that incident in detail. It was one of the incidents on All Might's very short list of failures, but it reminded him not to get cocky while on the job as accidents do happen.
"It's alright. I never got to know her so her lost did not hurt all that much, though it would have been nice to know what growing up with someone who looks after me would be like. Don't worry though, the orphanage is nice enough and i'm used to being alone. It was an accident anyway." i paused, then smiled mysteriously.
"... then again, like an old tortoise once said, there are no accidents. Maybe it was just meant to be. My beginnings may be destined to be rough in every life, but i'm willing to put in the work to make my future shine like nothing before. What's that saying of yours? Ah, yes. PLUS ULTRA! Nothing will stand in my way to getting true love, hardships or otherwise."
All Might stood still as he processed what he had just heard. Such willpower and determination is almost unheard of. All Might only has one thing to say right now.
"YOUNG MAN, YOU ARE SO COOL RIGHT. YOU WILL DEFINITELY MAKE YOUR DREAM COME TRUE AND I HAVE NO DOUBTS THAT YOU WOULD MAKE A GREAT HERO"
"Heh. Thanks. Anyway will you hear me out now?"
"OF COURSE, YOUNG MAN. THOUGH, I HAVE TO ASK…. WERE YOU SERIOUS ABOUT THE TENTACLEs?" Asked All Might in trepidation.
"What? No! Of course not. Like hell I would give sexual content to a 5 year old."
"OH THANK GOD, I THOUGHT THAT—"
"I made him have a vivid dream where he got eaten alive by human mouth openings from the ground….he never looked at mouths the same way ever again. Heheheheheh." Oh that was a good day. Inspiration just struck out of nowhere.
As All Might watches me smirking and giggling about my exploit. He thought that he might have to rethink about his hero comment.
….….
As there was no need for the cloak and dagger, we took our conversation back to All Might, or rather Toshinori Yagi's apartment in Tokyo.
So that there was no questioning, I hanged onto Mr. Yagi's back and stayed invisible and silent on the way there.
All Might had gotten out of his muscle and assumed the identity of Toshinori Yagi and unlike in the anime, where he would look like a skeleton with skin, he now looks like a less-muscular shaggy-haired Thor.
Once inside, I spy-proof his whole apartment and then took off a layer of my illusion, watching as Mr. Yagi comes to a startling realization.
"Why have I not asked for your name yet, young man?" Asked Toshinori, confused by his actions. Usually he would ask a person's name at first meeting, but even after talking for so long with this boy, his name never even came up. How?
"Teheh. You don't have to overthink it too much. I simply took off my Passerby Perception Illusion. You wouldn't ask for passing people's name would you? It's the same thing. It was just a precaution though, in case you didn't want to help. Me and our conversation would have faded into your subconscious and you would have forget that this ever happened." i said, smirking at my implication. It's never bad to be cautious.
"Scary…." the ability to control people like that….Toshinori was glad that at least the boy was on the good side, albeit slightly unstable.
"Oi, you're overthinking things again. I can tell. It's not complete mind control. That illusion only suggest to people that i'm a nobody, an extra, or a passerby. You would not believe how people can completely forget something or someone once they deem them unimportant." i said, marveling at the simplicity of the normal human mind.
"Right." said Toshinori, straightening himself. "Well then let's have a formal introduction, shall we? My name is Toshinori Yagi, Hero name: All Might. What is your name, young man?"
"My name is….Torao Akakuma. Pleasure to be formally introduced." i said, grinning menacingly. "I hope our cooperation will be long and harmonious."
"The same." said Toshinori, gesturing the sofa for a seat. "So, Akakuma-shounen, what is it that you have in plan."
"Well, i'm going to continue training myself and lay low until i can go to UA the same time as Canon in 9 years. I already discreetly got myself tested for elementary and secondary schooling so i have plenty of time to train…" i paused, thinking of all the tortur- i mean training i will have to put myself through, before continuing.
"You on the other hand, will have to get your ass in gear and ready yourself for All For One. Friendly advice, just kill the guy. He's too much of a liability to let go alive.(plus he could get in the way of my happy ending)"
Toshinori was sure there was an extra reason Akakuma was omitting, but still. "No can do Akakuma-shounen. A hero don't kill, no matter what."
"A Hero sacrifices, Yagi-san. For the good of the people, they must be willing to lay down their morals and do the right thing, even if they have to stain themselves." I said in a cold voice. "Villains by circumstances do have a chance at reform and therefore your 'no killing' policy do hold merit. However, do you honestly think that All For One would reform? Hell Naw. Better off killing him than waste tax money keeping him on life support."
Toshinori was silenced. On hindsight, what Akakuma-shounen said makes sense in a way, but…. "I…. will think about it."
Sigh. Still too heroic i see. "Oh well, at least i tried. Besides that, you need to do something else that's equally important… you must get your hands on one Izuku Midoriya and train him to be your successor. You must do your best and turn him into a six-pack twink- I mean the next Symbol of Peace!"
Toshinori sweatdropped at the slip up. He wonders if Akakuma-shounen got his priorities straighten out. "... I'll take your word for it. I'll still need to check this boy out for myself to see if he is worthy."
"Oh yeah. Go right ahead. He should still be in Musutafu with his mom, i think. He looks like a muttering mess of a broccoli so you can't miss him. It should have a year now that he got the 'i'm quirkless' news and have his dreams shatter like cheap glass by his supposed 'best friend' and his mother, accidentally."
"Very well then. But should he be worthy, what should i teach him?" Toshinori have been doubting his teaching skills for a while after talking to Akakuma-shounen.
"Sorry to say, but besides bodybuilding, you suck at teaching. Just build the kid's body up to snuff and hand him over to Gran Torino and you'll be golden. If you really want to personally teach him then well….you'll need a lot of teaching advice. At the very least, could you get him out of that nervous wreck of a shell? I wouldn't like talking to a bumbling mess when we go to UA together."
"Yes, when you go to UA with…" Toshinori paused and notice something about Akakuma-shounen. "I'm sorry, but why did i call you 5 years old? You obviously look about 10 at least. You can't possibly wait 9 years just to go to high school."
"Oh no, i really am 5. I'm just really big for my age, so much that i had to put an illusion on myself to make people get the feeling that i am 5 instead of going off of what i look like." i wave my hand, chucking off that notion. I've noticed that my growth seems to be exaggerated somehow, but in this world where 7 feet is actually a normal height, it's not really surprising that i'm going to be bigger than before.
No, i did not use LIGHT to accelerate my growth. This is all natural and if i calculated correctly, i should be at least 7 feet tall when i'm done growing.
"I see. Then, Akakuma-shounen, may i ask to see your real appearance?"
"Oh my~. To ask and see what i look like underneath when we had just met. So forward~. So bold~." I couldn't help myself, it was right there.
Toshinori stood up, all flustered. "Th-that's not what i was asking! I was just-"
"Heheh. I'm only teasing, Yagi-san. I'll let you see."
And just like that, Akakuma-shounen's appearance fade away in black reddish mist. Before, he look like a very bulky young man of 5 ft, with a wild black swept-back mane for hair, intimidating golden eyes, and strong facial features with hard edges.
Now though, he still looked the same except, there were dragon-like horns jutting out of the sides of his forehead and curving to the back.
His skin was replaced with pale red scales that were so small that you would not be able to tell they were scales if not for the ripple effect they have under light.
Then there was the reptilian tail about as thick as a baseball bat swaying back and forth behind him and finally, his eyes were still golden, but the schela had faded into black, just like Toshinori's eyes.
Overall, Akakuma-shounen looks a lot more intimidating now. It wouldn't be wrong to say he looks like a short Demon King, especially with all the regal yet intimidating air that he seems to oozes, though the short part won't be true for long.
Suddenly, an idea came over Toshinori.
"Akakuma-shounen, i have a proposition for you."
"What? You're not even gonna comment on what i look like? You're no fun…" i teased, usually people would make some rude comments and then i would fight back with something snarky.
His proposition, though. It was definitely a curveball for me.
"I would like to adopt you, Akakuma-shounen."
"...Number 1 Hero say WHAT!?"
