"You really brought a big squad with you?" I looked astonished to see the big group of Pro Heroes. There were many. It felt like that one fight with One For All when all the Heroes had to help each other out to save the kids and fight off villains.

"What reinforcement do we have? It'd just be you and me that'll be fighting off Immortal King. I won't play this card alone. I'll need some backup to fight off the loyal villains. Come on, let's go." Endeavor roughly dragged me out of the jailhouse before I entered the big car, where it held many Pro Heroes.

"Will I be bailed out from jail or get less terms off from my original one?" I asked, and he looked a bit annoyed that I was talking to him.

"Maybe. We'll see how the mission turns out."

"Alright." I shrugged, looking at the window for comfort.

I know in my heart that I don't have my quirk and I don't know how I will fight off my father, but I'm pretty sure I'll die instantly. Yet I came up with another idea which I'll talk it out with him.

I looked down at my hand before clenching it up.

My heavy heart carried a lot through the long run. Killing him with kindness will do some justice and get through him. I've always lashed at him whenever I saw him. Maybe he wished that I would've appreciated him, but what have he appreciated me for? The attack at the festival where I still don't fully remember anything? There's gotta be something more than that. But I do fear how this will turn out…

We arrived at the place and I told them to back off first so I can enter without no suspicions.

The family guards saw me and opened the gates for me. I bet they thought that I escaped my prison. "Where's my father?" I asked the servants who I came across with.

They shuttered from the sight of me staring down at them. "He's in his throne room." They pointed and I jogged to the throne room.

"Father," I opened up the door instead of slamming it. I strained most of the hatred in me as possible when I said his name. I walked my way to him. "I need a word—" I stopped in the middle of my track to see Airi dead on the ground. It was like her soul was sucked out of her body. "F-father… what happened to Airi…?" I asked, resuming my walk as I kept my eyes on her body.

"She didn't listen to me. She got what she always wanted; death." His words ran chill down my spine, but I had to keep my mask on and composed. "But I see that you escaped your prison." He observed me as I inched closer to him.

"Father, tell me that you did not kidnapped Todoroki Shouto." I made eye contact with him. Our red eyes met and he chuckled like it was not a big deal.

"Tell me, are you in love with that boy? Does my dear daughter love someone who is not like her?"

"..." I didn't know how to answer that question. Though it may be simple, but it's powerful to say yes or no. His reaction may determine my fate right at this moment.

"Answer me." His voice lowered, narrowing his eyes at me.

"I'm not sure. My feelings are confused." I spoke from my heart. All the interaction that we had was nothing. Everything that happened was because of my mother's quirk that I secretly inherited. Everyone was beguiled and fooled by me. "It was false feelings that I planted into him and everyone else. It's not real."

My father shifted himself in his seat and sneered. "That's my daughter. Because I do have him. Your dumb stepmother captured him, though I told her not to." He looked a bit pissed by remembering what happened.

"Why did she kidnapped him?"

"To use him as bait of course. I never planned to get Endeavor's son involved with this. This was only between me and Endeavor, but Airi had to interfere by bringing Todoroki Shouto into this."

"Are you going to let him go?" Each question was like a ticking time bomb because if I didn't ask the right question, he would tick off immediately and ruin everything.

"Then I knew Endeavor would bring you here because I had his son."

I gulped and wanted to step back, from hearing what he has to say. "So…. You know." I didn't need him to confirm it because the tension he gave into the air was already answering it for me.

"Go and take his son. I don't need him, and I don't need you in here to interfere. I will do fine on my own." When my father got up from his chair, I saw his arm twitched ever so slightly. Something's wrong with him just by that small twitching.

"Father, don't tell me that you killed Airi so you could gain her power! Don't tell me that you're actually dying!" I grabbed a hold of his black cape that swayed in the air.

"Go get him." His voice was firm and gentle for the first time in forever.

"Father!" I screamed out his name when he moved out of my way. "Are you trying to kill yourself? Is it because Mother?! Ishida Yuna!"

He stopped and turned around with a mortified face. "H-how do you know that?" His voice was in shocked. He couldn't believe what I just said. "He couldn't have told you about her." He whispered to himself in disbelief. "Is that bruised neck from him?" His voice grew loud in his anger.

"Yes." I nodded my head. I wasn't sure what was going on because he was acting so different from what I saw from me. "One For All tried to kill me after telling me the story."

"I never thought he'd try to kill you. We've been friends over 20 years, and now he tried to kill you? What a foolish man I was to believe him now. I've finally realized-"

Before my father could finish, the door was slammed opened and there appeared Endeavor and his backup crew behind him.

"GO GET HIM!" My father shouted, looking straight at me, pushing me into a blood pool that leaded me down to the dungeon.

The dungeon was dimmed and was hard to see. "T-Todoroki!" I called out for him, and my voice echoed through the long hall. "Todoroki, can you hear me?" I asked, moving my legs to walk forward. "Todorokiiiiiiiiii!" I shouted out his name, running through the dungeon.

FUUUUSHHHHH

I stopped running as I heard the rush of flames. "Todoroki!" I kept running to the direction where the flames were being produced over and over again. "I'm…! Coming!" I used my energy to run to him.

"Mizuki…" His voice was hoarse and weak.

I turned my head to see him all bruised and bloody. "Oh my!" I ran over to him and touched his face. Todoroki's face had some warmth. "What did they do to you?" I asked. My heart was pounding from the sight of him. Dried blood was stained on his clothes, nose, eyebrows, and mouth, while bruises formed everywhere that was visible to my eyes.

"Your stepmother…. she did this to me." He breathed out tiredly. Todoroki looked so worn out that he couldn't even talk. How badly did she beat him?

My heart ached from the pain he went through. I don't want to imagine how it went like. "I'm sorry." I gently touched his cheek. "This is my fault." I rubbed my thumb against his soft skin. "If I never appeared at the USJ, you wouldn't be in this position. I'm a terrible person." I ripped my hand away from his face.

His lips opened apart to say, "Mizuki—"

RUMBLEEEEE RUMBLEEEEE

The ceiling was shaking and chipping off some rocks that were starting to fall.

"We need to go!" I kept looking at the ceiling when I was helping him get out of the dungeon. I let him support all his weight onto me as we moved our way out of the dungeon.

"You know, you father talked a lot about you when he visited me in the dungeon." My heart skipped a beat to hear him say that. My father would talk about me… to him? That's a surprise.

"W-what did he say about me?" I curiously asked, eager to know if my father said bad things about me.

"Your Father was drunk that night when he visited. He told me about when you were younger, you used to do this and that as a kid. But when he got to the deep sentimental parts, he broke down because he knew he couldn't be a perfect father. He forced you into hard training, he never gave you the love that you wanted or deserved. He also apologized about killing the love of his life that he hurt you in the process, losing someone else he loved."

My feet actually stopped running through the stairs that led up to the outdoors. My chest felt heavy from all the hatred I built up for him. All this time, he wanted me to love him, but I was blinded by his killing that I couldn't. I only saw the bad in him. I hate myself for doing that to him. He must've been suffering through his pain of loneliness in his heart for so long, and I never thought about him.

"After this is over," I started to run now, forcing him to keep up with me. "you can pretend that you never met me. All I caused was pain for you. And you can't be friends with people who will only hurt you and drag you down. That is why you're going without me."

"Going where?"

"To the safety zone." I pushed him off to the safety zone where half of the Pro Heroes were staying behind. Someone took Todoroki out of my care and I waved at him goodbye. I didn't dare to look back at his face. I know it was filled with many emotions that I could not take in my heart. It was already heavy enough to have two emotions that were weighing my chest down.

I ran back to the throne room because I had some unfinished business with my father that I couldn't bare to postpone it. Postponing was not an option for me since he might even die before I get my answers after the battle is over.

There was a loud explosion coming from the room as I got closer to it. It was like a firecracker in the room, exploding everywhere. "I'm not going down. I am not willing to die today!" I heard my father screamed at the top of his lungs.

"I know you won't. I need you alive anyways!"

There was more powers that were being unleashed that it started to worried me. "I can't let you die either, Father!" I murmured out of breath.

"Mizuki, you're not going alone!" I turned my head around to see Todoroki catching up to me. I thought I left him in good hands. I thought he would be a good boy and listen to the Pro Heroes but I guess not. "Go back! You're injured. You shouldn't be here to die!"

"You're going to need help if you think that you're going to stop the old man from killing your father." My eyes widened by the fact he knew what I was going to do. "Immortal King loves you a lot, Mizuki. More than you can ever imagine. Isn't that why he said he was not going to die today?"

"Todoroki, just help me. I know what you're trying to say. I need my father alive so I can tell him how much I care and love him."

We entered to the battleground where everything was in flames. My eyes searched for my father in the smoky air. "F-Father!" I called out his name, running around the burning place.

"Mizuki, are you crazy!" Todoroki quickly pulled me back. "You're going to burn if you're not careful." His hand was firmly gripped onto my wrist.

"Okay! I'll be careful, but let's just go!" I pulled him along, dodging many falling fire pieces that were quickly from the high walls.

The blazing heat was baking our skins as we staying in the oven. "Watch out!" I was suddenly pulled back by Todoroki and twirled into his arms. His breathless face was looking down at me as we made eye contact with each other. "This place isn't going to last long."

"I know. It's going to fall down any minute now that we need to hurry." He pushed me back up and we started running to our fathers.

"Father!" I yelled running to him and Todoroki did the same to his. We were going to separate our fathers from each other. If they both wanted to make it out alive, then they better come to their senses.

"Mizuki?! I thought I told you to stay out?"

"Shouto… It's not safe here. Get out!"

CRASHHHH

The place was already falling. "Father, I'm not leaving without you! I have so much to say and you have to be alive!" I ran up to the throne chair with Todoroki behind me.

"Mizuki, stop! You need to leave. It's not safe."

More of the house started to fall down even more.

"Please, Father! Just listen to me! Just—" Then the room started to collapse. One side of the wall was breaking down due to the fire eating off the woods. We didn't have time to do this that I looked at Todoroki and I gave him the nod, then he used his ice quirk to push them out of here. Todoroki didn't have much of a strength since the beating took most of it out of him. Todoroki was sweating just by forming a small ice particles. "You can do this." I put a hand on his forearm to give him strength and support. I gently smiled at him as he knitted his brows to produce more ice coming out from his right side. Though Todoroki's ice powers were weak right now, he somehow managed to make a barrier around them, and pushing them out of the throne room.

Then with no words coming from Todoroki when his powers stopped, I knew something was wrong. A heavy weight went flying down at my side. "Todoroki!?" I touched his face to feel it burning up. I wasn't sure if it was because there was fire surrounding us, or if he was actually burning up from exhaustion. I stretched out my hand to feel his cold, icy hand but I got nothing but quick warmth that was overcoming the coldness. I know there wasn't time to panic, but I was right now. Todoroki was heavy that I couldn't carry him without someone's help. My heart speed picked up and I was scared. I hooked my arms underneath his arms and I tried to lift him up with all my strength. If only I had my quirk I would have transported us out of here.

CRASHHHH

Another part of the throne room fell down and blocked the only exit. "Shit…" I didn't know what to do next. There was no way out of here. "I'm sorry. If you haven't met me this wouldn't have happened to you."

I turned my head to see a broken window. Cough cough cough. I choked on the smoke that was seeping inside my lungs. I dragged Todoroki body as fast as I could to the window but this boy weighs a lot. "God damn…!" I could also feel the tension building up in my lower back due to bending forward.

I looked on the ground to find a wooden stick and smashed the window clean. Then I took off my jacket I had on me and threw it over the ledge to cover the small shards of glass that could make us bleed. I looked over to see what lied down there, and it was a bunch of bushes so we'd land safely. I used all my might to throw Todoroki into the window, and I climbed myself out the building. As I jumped out, I exactly landed on top of Todoroki. I hope I didn't injured him. But I missed our interactions. I really did. I inhaled his scent to smell burnt wood on him. I can't blame him for smelling like that. We did just came out from the burning house as well.

"I miss you…" laying my head on his chest, I closed my eyes. "But this will be the last time I'll see you…" I extended my arm out to intertwine my fingers with his. "Be happy." My heart sunk in the sea.