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{Outside of U.A Academy}~
The towering figure took a step forward on a roof of a tall building and got to one knee, staring at the giant dome that had fireworks exploding up into the sky.
"Hm..." His ghostly hum echoed in the air, some ends of bandages flowed with the breeze.
He stood up straight and turned back to one of the men from the alleyway. He had blood splatters on his clothes and arms, visibly shaking in terror with his hands over his head.
"So... That's where he is?"
The man visibly flinched in fear but managed to slightly turn his head to the massive monster.
"Y-Y-Yes... H-He should b-be there..."
"How do you know?" The figure didn't hesitate.
"I-I r-remember seeing a g-guy that m-matched what you said... R-Red eyes, l-long black hair... R-Really cold face..."
"..." He turned back to the festival, fireworks still exploding in the distance. "Is something going on right now? What is that place anyway?"
"W-Well… Th-There's a festival going on… wh-where those kids show... you know… their qu-quirks and stuff…" The man stammered.
The figure's head glanced back at him.
"Quirks?"
The man nodded, not sure why the figure sounded confused at that.
It fully turned its body and walked over to the man with heavy steps, stopping a foot away.
"Well... It looks like I'm gonna need a history lesson."
He crouched down and his right hand grotesquely chained into a bone-like mace with jagged spikes.
"W-WAIT!" The man desperately tried to back up on the ground, not even getting to his feet.
The figure pointed its mace at him.
"Now, here's the deal. Unless you wanna get smashed in the face, I suggest you start telling me everything you know about these 'quirks' and what that 'school' over there is all about. No questions, I don't have time for that."
The man was pale beyond belief but frantically nodded his head in agreeance.
"Good, now that we got that out of the way..." The figure's hand turned back to normal and he sat down in a cross-legged manner. "Better get talking then, before I get bored."
He maliciously entwined his boney fingers together, cracks occurring as he did so.
He let out a ghostly breath of red, his eyes brightly blazing red.
"Start with... Just where am I?"
Izuku and Toshinori both blinked upon hearing that name.
"Lynch?" Both repeated in unison.
Izuku gulped nervously and instinctively wrapped a hand around the front of his neck, shivering by what that name implied.
Enso rubbed his palms together and stared down to the ground.
"Lynch is a villain who's only joy in life is to inflict fear and suffering to others... He enjoys manipulating people into situations where they're forced to follow whatever he says, he enjoys tormenting the minds of others due to their 'own' actions. He focuses his attention on the strongest-willed individuals he can find, which means..."
Enso sighed and rubbed his eyes.
"...he's particularly obsessed with me. He's mentioned to me that he's making it his lifelong goal just to corrupt me. Or break my mind, one of the two..."
He removed his hand from his face.
"I don't know what he has against me, I don't know what's going on through that head of his, but what I do know that he'll do whatever he takes to get his way."
"How terrifying..." Toshinori muttered with widened eyes.
Enso continued, "Experimenting with human nature, forcing people to participate in life-threatening activities, forcing them to fight amongst themselves... It's just whatever he wants to see out of people at the given moment."
Izuku shook nervously at the thought of such a villain.
"Wha?... Wh-Where- He-?!"
"I think what Midoriya is meaning to ask... Is what are this 'Lynch's' origins." Toshinori deduced.
Enso rubbed the back of his head.
"I don't know... I know nothing about him before waking up. I don't know how he was created, who he was, or why he has a grudge against me. He just acts how he wishes, sometimes serious, sometimes like a child, and... sometimes as a surprisingly intelligent creature. I don't understand how... I don't know what he is."
He glared at Izuku.
"But what I do know is what I've seen... Breaking the wills of people, forcing them to go through torturous pain if they wish to live, forcing them to make choices involving their own life and others, forcing them to fight one another to see who would be the last one alive..."
Izuku began to shake in fear and disbelief.
"Wh-Wh-What kind of… P-Person does that… for fun?!"
"I don't think it's for fun... A part of it may be for the amusement, but..."
He narrowed his eyes to the ground.
"...A part of me knows that there is more to it than that... At every moment I've encountered him, he was always honest. From every person I asked who survived an encounter with him, they point out that's he's always kept his word. He lets people know exactly what they'll be dealing with when he forces them to make choices and will always fulfill whatever promise he makes, whether good or bad. He could be considered the definition of unpredictable."
"What kind of being-?" Toshinori looked genuinely confused.
"H-Have you ever f-fought him before?" Izuku asked.
Enso grabbed his gym shirt by the bottom and pulled it up, revealing several noticeable and horrid scars on his chest.
"Does this answer your question?"
Izuku and Toshinori stared at his scares, feeling sympathy as they checked their own scars.
Izuku glanced down as his right hand with a sad expression.
Toshinori instinctively used his right arm to feel the large hole of a scar on his chest.
"I'm... sorry..." Toshinori faintly said.
Enso let go of his shirt and let his scars get covered.
"H-Have you ever b-beaten him before?" Izuku asked curiously.
Enso turned to him and his red eyes glowed.
"You don't beat him, you survive."
That gave both males chills.
"J-Just, how powerful is he?" Toshinori stammered.
Enso rested his arms in his chair.
"He has some basic body characteristics that are enhanced due to how his body was mutated in the past. He has a considerable amount of strength, but I honestly doubt that it would be enough to overpower you, Toshinori. He has a large figure, his limbs are rather durable, but nothing too special. I've even sliced them apart a few times, but... he makes up for that lack of basic defense with a large number of additional abilities, including being able to regenerate limbs nearly instantly. His intelligence is high for someone that acts so absurd, yet I'm not sure if it's actually natural or not."
"B-But, what is h-his main quirk? Or power... What do you call it?" Izuku asked eagerly despite being so nervous.
"..." Enso turned to Izuku, then turned Toshinori, who couldn't help but have a bad feeling in his stomach when he did.
"His 'quirk,' if you can even call it that... Is the ability to learn how to use other powers."
"What!?" Toshinori and Izuku shouted
"I-Is it like... A-All For One?" Toshinori looked devastated.
Enso shook his head side to side.
"No... It's not like that. How he's able to use powers isn't an ability in itself... It's... He just uses science..."
"What... do you mean?" Izuku asked him.
Enso formed his dagger in his hand, then pressing the blade to his finger and gently cutting it.
"This is what I mean." He said, raising his finger to show the small drop of red liquid.
"Blood?" Toshinori and Izuku questioned in sync.
"Yes... What Lynch can copy isn't as easy as using a power to let him do that. He actually learns how others use their powers and steals the DNA of those people in order to adjust his own body. By changing his body to be able to use another's ability and by understanding how the power itself works, he's able to use it. He just uses basic science to learn and adapt, but it does take time for him to study. But so far it's given him many horrid abilities..."
Enso clenched his hand into a fist, the small blood on it trickling down.
"He just uses science. He finds a power he likes, researches the person's DNA, whether dead or alive, and learns what he has to modify about himself for his body to use that power... It's all just research to him. Whether he just combines his cells with another to use an ability, combines powers he already has to mimic another's power, or... sometimes he's able to just straight out take a person's power."
Hearing that, Izuku instinctively wrapped his movable arm around himself as if protecting it.
Enso's eyes directed to Toshinori.
"His biggest strength isn't his power... It's his intellect and his ability to get what he desires."
He waved his hand as if presenting the room.
"And here we are right now... A world full of superpowers, a world of endless possibilities. If he arrives here... then we have to stop him, otherwise, we're all done."
Toshinori and Izuku had looks of horror on their faces, the world around them turned to static like their thoughts at the hundreds, thousands, and past billions of possibilities.
Enso raised his left hand up.
"We have one villain, one who can take and give power to people as he pleases, wishing to force his own meaning of an organized society to the world..."
He raised his right hand up.
"And then we have the other, someone who only cares about chaos and testing the morals and will of humanity. If both meet..."
Enso clapped his hands together, the blood that was trailing down his palm splattering between his hands.
He separated them to show the small blood splatter.
"Annihilation... That's what I fear will happen."
Toshinori and Izuku turned blue.
A cane whacked Enso on the back of his head.
"Look what you're doing! You're scaring the boys!" Recovery Girl fumed.
"Why do you think I hesitated to tell them anything before?" Enso refuted as he rubbed the comedic red bump on his head. "I know this is a lot to take in. The entire fate of this world, as well as the other worlds, will depend on us..."
"That's not helping sonny." Recovery girl glared as she patted Izuku on the back to calm him down.
Izuku took a deep breath and gazed at Enso with a worried expression.
"I-I'll... I'll get stronger... I-I'll learn how to use I-Ikari a-and One For A-All... I'll protect this world. I-I'll..."
Izuku held his free hand by his chest and looked as determined as he could.
"I'll be here!"
Enso, Recovery Girl, and Toshinori all stared at the boy.
"Well said Midoriya!" They heard someone chuckle.
The four of them turned their heads in shock to see Nezu sitting on a spinning chair.
He took a loud sip of tea.
"How is that you always seem to sip tea in such a menacing manner?" Enso asked him.
"THAT'S WHAT YOU ASK FIRST!?" Toshinori and Izuku cried out.
Nezu laughed, "Still humorous as ever Enso-kun."
Enso flinched and his eye started twitching.
"Why are you-?"
"Lunch Rush." Nezu cut him off.
"Of course it was him..." The teen facepalmed with a sigh.
"P-Principal!? When did you get in!?" Izuku frantically wondered.
Nezu chuckled, "Of course there wouldn't be a place I won't be able to go in my own school."
"The principal is terrifying!" Izuku shivered.
"Now then..." The principal put down his teacup and formed a serious expression, surprising those in the room.
"If you're wondering, I've heard more than enough... This is far more than just a concerning manner."
He got off his chair and walked over to Midoriya, glancing up at the boy.
"You must learn to control that other quirk of yours, Midoriya. Not just for yourself, but for the sake of others."
Izuku stiffened. "Y-Yes sir!"
Nezu turned to Enso, "Do you have any idea as to how to have Midoirya possess better control of his other quirk?"
Enso put a hand on his chin in thought, "He has to learn to control the anger of the previous generations... Therefore, he needs to practice bringing that anger out and continuously use it to do so. I have an idea for that and I'm sure I found the right person for it."
"Th right person?" Toshinori repeated in confusion.
"I'll explain when I have all the details worked out. For now..."
"Sorry if that took a while folks, but we've finally fixed the arena! Kids sure do like blowing up stuff these days, don't they?! Will out next contestants get ready!" The group heard Present Mic shout.
"It seems our time is up... Right now Bakugo should be about to fight against Tokoyami. We should get going." Enso suggested to them.
"Hold on now." A more demeaning voice came Nezu, getting everyone's attention at his professionally serious face.
"On the topic of Bakugo... Could anyone give me a good reason as to why I shouldn't stop his next battle and just throw him out of this school?"
It was as if something had shattered in the room, the principal's dangerous tone in his words was a fright for Izuku and Toshinori. It was clearly a threat, even if not directed at them.
Enso on the other hand, just sighed.
"I'm assuming that you've also listened in heard about Izuku and Bakugo's previous... interactions?" Enso asked him.
Nezu nodded. "I can't just ignore the fact that one of my students has previously harassed and even encouraged another student to commit suicide."
"But you ignored him nearly killing another student during an exercise?" Enso glared.
"..." Nezu glanced up at Toshinori with a smile, yet you could see the menacing purple aura and Oni mask behind him.
"Toshi, what does he mean?"
Enso raised an eyebrow, "He didn't know?"
Toshinori turned blue and started shivering.
"SHIT! I NEVER TOLD HIM ABOUT THAT!"
Toshinori glanced down and nervously fiddled his fingers.
"W-W-Well... Y-You see..."
"Bakugo nearly murdered Midoriya during a hero exercise." Enso bluntly answered.
Nezu's purple aura flared up more and an Oni Mask above him slowly glared down at Toshinori.
"Why wasn't I informed of this?" The principal asked with his smile.
"W-Well... I-I simply concluded it was an accident... Wh-Which we all agreed it was!"
"He didn't mean to directly hit Izuku. He still fired that blast despite in such dangerous circumstances." Enso argued.
"Young Enso, are you trying to get Young Bakugo expelled?" Toshinori was shocked.
"W-Wait, wait! D-Don't e-expel Kacchan! Please!" Izuku frantically flailed the one arm he was able to move since the other was still in a cast.
They turned to him, with Nezu's aura calming down.
"You wish for me to ignore the acts of bullying and near murder? I thought you, of all people, should think that he should leave based on what he's done to you."
"Wh-What he did b-before was just us growing up! W-We were still maturing!" Izuku tried to explain.
"Izuku... You were in junior high. Exactly a year ago when he encouraged suicide." Enso had to break it to him.
There was a brief moment of silence.
"B-But h-he's doing better! Isn't he!?" Izuku changed his defense. "He didn't touch me in this school once!"
Enso's eye twitched.
"We literally just went over how he nearly killed you."
"..."
"W-We know that was an accident! K-Kacchan wouldn't actually kill anyone, especially in U.A!"
Toshinori remembered during the hero lesson indoors battle.
"If I don't hit him, then he won't die!"
"He still seemed to keep an important part of his sanity..." Toshinori added.
Nezu glanced up at Enso, his smile fading away.
"We both know that you out of all people shouldn't say anything about murder."
"..." Enso turned his head away with narrowed eyes.
Nezu focused back on Izuku.
"Midoriya, has Bakugo committed the same sort of actions to others as he's done to you?" Nezu asked him.
Izuku nervously looked down, "K-Kacchan... Um..."
"Young Midoriya... Just answer, please." Toshinori asked of him.
Izuku gulped.
"H-He did wh-when his quirk first manifested at four years old... H-He used it to show that he was better than everyone else... But then, suddenly all of his focus went onto me. He didn't pick on other people as much as he did before, I think he stopped focusing on them entirely. H-He just k-kept choosing me..."
"Do you know the reason?" Nezu asked him.
"I-I think it was because I was quirkless... S-So he may have viewed me as just the easiest and most vulnerable target..."
Enso narrowed his eyes in an intense glare.
"No... The look I've seen in Bakugo's eyes before... Those were looks of anger, of pure hatred to Izuku specifically. There has to be a bigger reason. If I remember, they may have said something during their indoor hero lesson, but..."
"Izuku." Enso stepped forward to him.
"E-Eh?" Izuku looked up nervously at the glare his mentor had.
"Do you still view Bakugo as a friend?"
There was a moment of silence within the room. Izuku was surprised to hear a question like that.
"I-W-Well-"
"Do. You?" Enso repeated.
Izuku's gazed fell to the bed.
"I-I do... E-Even if Kacchan and I have had our d-differences... W-We both grew up together with the same goals, we both got along decently well. E-Even if I was just a lackey of his group... I still felt like I knew him the best, and I know that he knew me the best too. F-For him to suddenly change from gaining his quirk and learning that I was qu-quirkless... It's sad... I really wanted us to be the best of friends..."
"Yet you have no idea why he changed? Why he despises you so much?"
"Eh?" Izuku glanced back up at Enso. "I-I said before, I-I think it's because I was quir-"
"It can't be just that. There has to be more to it."
"What?" Izuku was surprised at the claim.
Enso turned around.
"And I'm going to find out."
Izuku swore that he could detect venom in the boy's voice, making him nervously shake.
"Wh-Where are you going!?" Izuku stammered.
"To get ready for my next match." Enso responded, getting out and shutting the door behind him.
"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Toshinori shook.
Nezu pat Izuku's leg to get his attention.
"Midoriya. Do you really wish for Bakugo to remain here with you?"
Izuku nervously nodded that he did.
Nezu's serious demeanor changed into a big smile.
"I guess I should've expected Toshinori's successor to have the heart to give anyone a chance! Normally I would throw the students in a moment's notice, but I'll make a special case for you! Bakugo can stay, but I won't overlook any next form of bullying that he does towards you or other classmates. But if you really feel uncomfortable around him, then you could just snap and I'll be here to erase him from existence!" The principal laughed menacingly.
"I-I d-don't think that'll be necessary..." Izuku shivered.
"Well, I'll see you another day then." Nezu walked over to Toshinori and reached his hands up. "Carry me."
"U-Um..." Toshinori nervously reached down and picked up the small principal, then turning into his buff form. "Where to?"
"Back to our seats, please. Izuku, you'll be fine by yourself correct?" Nezu directed to the boy as he hopped onto All Might's shoulder.
"Y-Yeah." Izuku scooted off the bed and stood up, taking a few steps to show that he was alright.
"Alright, then we'll be off!" All Might slid the door open and blasted down the hall in an explosion of speed, laughing heroically all the way with Nezu laughing on his shoulder too.
Izuku sweatdropped.
"I suggest you get ready to explain to your fellow peers what happened to you. I'm sure they'll have dozens of questions, so be sure to explain what your other quirk does. But just don't tell them that it's another quirk." Recovery Girl warned him.
"Y-Yes. Thank you Recovery Girl." Izuku bowed to her.
Izuku was about to step out the door.
"Wait!"
All Might suddenly appeared right in front of him in the doorway.
"KYAAAH!" Izuku screamed, not expecting him to be there.
"Oh look, you scared him." Nezu chuckled.
"My apologies young Midoriya, but I had to say one more itty bitty thing!"
Izuku panted and tried to control his furiously beating heart.
"Y-Yes All Might?"
All Might planted both of his hands on the boy's shoulders.
"Young Midoriya, even though you lost that fight against Enso, I'm still proud of you at how far you've gone. You've kept exceeding my every expectation and I'm blessed to have a successor like you to save the world. You have indeed told the world that you're here, and I know that you'll be a greater hero than even me."
Izuku stared at his idol in awe for a few seconds, then comedic tears formed in the corner of his eyes.
"*sniff* Th-Thank you… All Might… *sniffle* I-I'm really glad… t-to have met you…"
All Might was surprised to see the boy suddenly crying, but he laughed and used his hand to rustle the boy's hair.
"You're still such a big crybaby though! We still have to work on that!"
"S-Sorry... *sniff*" Izuku chuckled as he rubbed his eyes.
"Now then, I'm-" All Might blasted down the hall. "-OFF!"
Izuku watched as his idol and the principal disappeared nearly the moment they took off, leaving him alone in the doorway.
Izuku happily smiled.
"Thank you... All Might..."
"Heya Izuku!"
"GYAAAAAAAAHHHH!"
Izuku comedically shot up a second time from the sudden voice behind him, turning his head and panting heavily by the scare.
He saw a familiar pair of pink dreadlocks.
"M-M-Mei!?"
The inventor girl giggled at his reaction.
"Wow, I haven't seen anyone jump that high ever since we flew into the air!"
Izuku slowly regained his composure.
"H-How long have you been there?!"
"Since the big guy ran away!" She exclaimed.
"Good, then she didn't hear much..."
"Wh-What are you doing here?" He nervously asked her.
"To see you of course!" The girl said with a large grin.
"Eh? R-Really?" Izuku couldn't help but blush slightly.
But that light color turned into a full-blown red when he suddenly felt the girl feeling all over his body, including his chest.
"Yeah! I wanted to feel the girth of these!" She said, feeling upon his muscles with her hands.
"Wha-Wha-Wha-!?" Izuku was frozen as Hatsume's glove covered hands touched him.
"Hm, very, very, thick indeed. I guess those really were your muscles that I saw!"
Izuku had a blank face.
"Why did she think they were fake too?"
He felt a spike of pain.
"Ow!" Izuku backed up and felt the arm on his cast where Mei had just felt upon.
"Whoops! My bad." The girl said despite just maintaining a smile. "You really do have nice pecks!"
"She's too straight forward!"
Izuku moved several feet away from Mei, shivering nervously at the lack of personal space.
But she seemed to completely ignore this and pushed forward, getting inches from his face again.
"You'll do just fine!" She giggled.
"Too close, too close! Wait, 'just fine?'"
"J-Just fine for what?" Izuku asked, picking up a faint scent oil off her.
Mei backed up and put on her goggles with a smirk, a star even sparking from her smile.
"We'll get back to that later. I'm still making plans with Uremi after all!"
"U-Um, who?" Izuku uttered.
"What do you mean? I'm talking about your friend that helped you blow up the arena."
Izuku sweatdropped. "I think you mean 'Ureshi'..."
There was a small pause.
"U it is then!" Mei said with a gleaming smile.
"She just went with the first letter!?"
He sighed and gave up. "A-Anyway, wh-what 'plans' are you making with Enso?"
"Something really special for you! I give you a 100% Hatsume-guarantee that it'll be worth what happens later! I'm glad to see that your body's okay, try to keep it that way for me!"
"What the hell are Enso and Mei planning to do to me!?"
"You'll see me again soon enough, so until next time Mr. Muscle man!" Mei grinned before some weird rockets of the sort appeared around her shoes and blasted her across the hall, then sharply turning the corner.
There was a loud screech and then a crash.
Izuku watched with a blank face as a few screws rolled into view.
"I'm okay!" He heard her positive voice.
He sweatdropped.
The large figure was laying on his side with his elbow propped his head resting in his hand.
"So... Everyone in this world has a 'quirk', and now there's a hero school where all those 'kids' with strong quirks can go in order to become so-called 'heroes'?"
The man in front of him shook.
"Y-Yeah... A-And what they're doing right now is a f-festival where these kids can sh-show off th-their quirks..."
"And what are they doing right now?"
"F-From what I h-heard in a moment, they were fighting o-one another."
The figure immediately shot up to its feet with a loud stomp, one that cracked some of the roof he was standing on. The man shrieked back at the sudden shaking.
"You didn't tell me this sooner!?"
He turned around and saw on a town big screen of the town, there were images of three people and heard the voice of an obnoxiously loud hero.
"Now we're finally off to the second battle of the semi-finals!"
"It's nearing the end!? Damn it, damn it!" He got on all fours and all of a sudden, his body started to grotesquely mutate. "Nngh! Damn that stings!"
His body shrunk and shrunk until it came into one shape, while the man behind him watched with traumatic eyes.
The shape of a bat.
Yet this bat wasn't like a normal one. It was larger and had green eyes along with an oozing green in some parts of it. It let out a screech before leaping off the building and expanding its wings.
The man on the building just stared in horror.
Before then finally passing out.
The figure flapped his wings and started flying towards the stadium, going passed several buildings before stopping and flapping in place.
"No... I can't risk them suddenly detecting me. It would be a real hassle for me to go around cracking skulls... I need to know more about the scaling of power in this world before I go around slashing people."
He flapped his wings and started looking around the city, looking for someplace to get all this information.
"I should watch them from somewhere safer, but where...?"
He kept flying around, turning its head to all directions and even 180 degrees to gaze around.
He then caught sight of a sign that indicated some sort of a Net Cafe.
"Bingo."
He flew onto the sign and hid behind it, latching onto the back.
His body then grotesquely started to crack and deform into something else.
His body folded and shrunk even more, shrinking into the size of a baseball, where eight legs and a big behind then burst out, giving him the shape of a dangerous arachnid.
"Hate doing that..." He shivered. His new eight-legged form then started crawling to the wall and went through an upper open window of the shop. once inside, he noticed that the place had a lack of any normal windows, making it rather hard to see from outside. He quickly crawled around, not caring that he left drops of radioactive green behind, and traveled by the ceiling until he was on top of a large and empty booth.
He let himself fall off the roof and into the booth, landed on his back before disturbingly cracking it leg's and getting back up.
"This should do it."
He jumped onto the ground of the booth before his body then started cracking and morphing. He started growing back to normal size, spider legs violently retracted back into his body as his actual arms and legs burst out with some blooded dripping.
But rather return to his normal disturbing form, he took the form of a plain-looking man, his rotting skin suddenly looking healthy and wearing business clothes, yet he had no form of hair on his head or face.
He didn't hesitate to sit on the chair of the booth and start typing away on the computer, opening several tabs and bringing up several search results at once.
The very first tab was the live feed of the sports festival, and the other tabs searched up topics such as the strongest heroes, the previous sports festival battles, and the most notable villains the public have seen.
He scanned pages upon pages of information, searching up several kinds of quirks and the concept of heroes and villains.
He grinned when he came upon the top hero.
"All... Might?..."
He saw pictures of him one-shotting villains, of him saving dozens of people at once, and showing shocking demonstrations of pure power from just punches alone.
He couldn't help but feel annoyed.
"Who. the hell is this guy?"
He examined the other heroes, noticing the differences of power among each of them.
He saw the number two hero in a burst of flames, saw a rabbit hero sending a person spiraling down the street with just one kick, saw a man with wings fly at incredible speed, and so much more.
"So many new powers, so many new possibilities!" He started breathing heavily as he scanned through more and more heroes.
"This world..."
He let a deep breath of bliss out.
"This is paradise..."
He checked the tabs of the festival, watching videos of all the teenagers give it their full effort.
"Amazing... Amazing!"
He madly clicked on several different videos of students that used their quirks, his excitement growing with each one.
"I need them... I need them all!"
He then stopped when he saw a familiar pair of red eyes.
He saw his long-black hair, his cold, emotionless look, and his pale skin.
"Reapy..." His eyes and open mouth brightened in red.
"Reapy...!" He repeated louder.
He pressed his boney finger on the screen, letting out a chilling chortle.
"I. Found. You."
Enso marched down the hall with a rather intimidating aura despite not even having any of his styles currently active.
"Bakugo..."
He had to learn the reason why. He needed to know why was it that Bakugo hated Izuku with what seemed to be with every fiber of his being. Clearly, Bakugo's anger to Izuku still haunted him to this day, and it must've been even worse in the case that the boy didn't even seem to know an exact reason why. Izuku was smart, so he must know deep down that there was a sincere reason as to why Bakugo despises him, not just for being quirkless.
He was going to find this reason and bring it to light for his student, because it'll be the only way to get him an actual answer and to see that he has to forget about Bakugo.
"It must've been a specific moment during their childhood. Izuku himself claimed that this bullying towards him started when he was four, so what moment could have caused this hatred and why? Why hate someone like Izuku of all people?"
He turned the corner and passed by a few students that shivered as he passed, wary of him ever since the display of power he showed in his recent battle.
"Izuku wouldn't have any idea where this could have originated. And I can't simply ask Bakugo, there's no way he'd easily admit what was the reason for him to abuse Izuku. The best method for me to get an answer out of him would be by using Memory Breach in order to gaze into his memories. But I need him to think of the exact memory where his hatred sparked so that I could see it..."
He saw the light of the outside ahead.
"When could be the time for me to be able to accomplish this? Where could I bring this up to him?"
Enso marched into the sunlight, noticing the crouch cheering madly for the next battle to start.
"Where could I lower the guard of his mind so that I could look into his head? Where?..."
"On one side, we got Mr. explosive disorder himself, Katsuki Bakugo! And on the other side, we have Ravenclaw- Er, I mean Fumikage Tokoyami! The winner of this battle will go to the final round and fight against Enso Ureshi!"
Hearing his loud voice pointing out the arena battle, Enso glanced down and saw the enormous sight of the now completely fixed arena, where Bakugo and Tokoyami were cross from each other ready to fight.
He gazed down at Bakugo's serious face, then he looked at the battle arena.
He paused, repeating the information in his head that the winner would be the one to face him.
His eyes shined as he thought of an answer to his previous question.
"Perfect."
