I want to thank everyone who's reviewed, read, and/or been along for the ride here. It's been great writing this.
A small glimpse at what happens two years after Chiron leaves UA
Dear Chiron,
It's a shame you decided to leave so quickly, but it does make sense. As a former Servant of that War, I'm sure you wanted to make sure that Young Sieg was alright with Astolfo. How is he doing? Are both boys in good health? The students are doing well here and my own health is evening out. The doctors suspect I'll still have problems for as long as I have left, but I'll probably live long enough to see the students carve their places in history! Young Gray spends a lot of time nagging me about taking my medication, I think Young Bakugou and the others have pulled her from her shell. Ah, Mirai sends his regards as well.
Your Friend,
Toshinori Yagi
Hooves,
You plannin' on returnin' anytime soon? Stars n' Stripes is good company, but I can't test new recipes on him. Well, wherever you are, come back before I kick the bucket.
Hanekoma
Dear Chiron-Sensei,
We all miss you so hurry and come back for our graduation, okay? The rest of class 3-A is working hard and almost everyone has solidified what they want to do for hero business. I got first in the Sports Festival this year, though you knew that already didn't you? I'm sorry I missed your call. Anyways! Sir's been a bit rigorous when it comes to his class, but I should've expected no less. Gran Torino hasn't changed either, though he complains about his joints. Ah, there's so much more I want to write, but Tenya and Shoto are calling for me, we're meeting Asui and Ochako for a project with Shinsou— Mineta was an... alright friend, but I'm glad Shinsou's here in place of him. I know the girls are all relaxed a lot more too.
Missing you,
Midoriya Izuku
Chiron-Sensei,
Thank you for the pictures you sent earlier this year. Those, combined with Tokoyami's way with poetry, I've got a new song in the works. Of course, Bakugou, Kaminari, and Yaomomo are helping with it, too. Everything's pretty nice now without that guy around, and Shinsou is pretty cool I guess. If you see anything else that's cool, take a picture, please?
Keep Rocking, Sensei, and come back soon,
Jirou Kyouka
( And the Band )
Archer of Black,
Get your ass back to U.A.
Eraserhead
p.s. Eri insists that I send this friendship bracelet to you. It's taped to the back of the letter.
Sensei!
It's Kirishima, here! Guess what! I'm gonna be workin' under Fat after I graduate! It's gonna be so manly and cool workin' with them until I start up my own agency. Oh, Ojiro and I haven't been slackin' on our pankration either, and Souji's become the real threat when it comes to sparring. We miss ya a lot, Sensei, and it just ain't the same without ya.
Stay manly!
Kirishima Ejirou
Chiron,
Rumor has it that you've left Japan. The Midoriya kid told me so, and I noticed a startling lack of you and the Pink-kid at the School and even in the Hero Network. Shame, but things tend to happen. I only hope that no one here has become too reliant on your presence, eh? Well, whatever.
Keep In Touch,
Sorahiko
Archer of Black,
Your words happened to work quite well. I do not plan on creating a 'friendly' personality, but as the Number One Hero now, it appears that being more approachable is important as well. I am unsure how much you've heard, but Best Jeanist is back on the ground, with that redheaded sidekick of his. I have little doubts that Japan will be as reliant on myself as they were on All Might, meaning that instead of working as a single Hero with backup, the Pros are now working as a Unit.
Shame that you left, though. I'm sure some of the newer brats would learn best from you.
Attempting to be cordial is a pain in the ass, but I know that I should not be as volatile.
Endeavor
Archer of Black,
Greetings, though I am sure that you do not wish to speak to me.
Nonetheless, Circe insisted that I tell you about my choice. Now that a year is up, there is talk about returning to Japan, but I do not plan to do so. I plan to stay with the Queen Witch on her Island. The best way to turn my back on Cleansing the Scum, so to speak, is to never touch that world again. At the moment, I have been assisting in keeping the Island's orchards. My Quirk is weak, but Circe has loosened the collar, slightly, so to speak. After all, someone has to help with exploring and destroying the Labyrinth with Asterios.
Chisaki Kai.
Chiron,
Chisaki certainly has written to you already about this and that. Since we've been in contact before, I'll keep this message short. The Minotaur and the Labyrinth resurfaced— about time, I say, it has been over a hundred years since those children brought it down. You and I both know how the Monster Cycle works with the true Tartarus. Nonetheless, it has returned and I retrieved the Minotaur from it. His name is now Asterios and he's much more gentle than before— that is that. I'm keeping the now captured League on the Island as well— though separate from Chisaki. Chisaki has been spending time with Asterios, they plan to take the Labyrinth down— though how they'll do that without destroying the land above it is beyond me. Still, aside from Shigaraki, all the rest of the League has calmed down. Mystic code cuffs suppressed the Quirks and all that— you already know. I think I wrote about it last time.
Well, whatever. You already knew about that Kumogiri thing.
Oh, yeah, those kids are asking about you. You should hurry back to the School before they drive me crazy with their letters. My Falcons are not messenger pigeons.
Circe, Queen Witch.
(x)
It was about two years later when Chiron got a letter from Circe. He had been hiking through India when the Falcon appeared out of nowhere.
Chisaki Kai had been fully 'reformed', but had insisted that he didn't want to return to Japan. He, now Quirkless, was working with Circe on her island. Quiet and content and finally over his germaphobe stage. Circe told him that he looked much prettier without his mask, though he had no idea what she meant by that. She also wrote that she was now in charge of the League of Villains, and a notorious Monster who had reformed from Tartarus— her nephew, actually. Asterios the minotaur.
She said that aside from Shigaraki, most of the league villains were docile. Mystic code cuffs had suppressed their Quirks and the Bounded Field around her island helped.
Dabi's scars had been healed a bit more, and he was no longer held together by staples, though Circe had grumbled a lot about the fact that the young man had let his body go to such a state in some of her other letters. On the other hand, Twice and Toga had been very happy to help Circe when all things were done, and Circe even helped the League set a grave up for Magane.
Compress was excited about the arm that Circe was making for him with Asterios' help and Spinner was more than happy to just be out in nature apparently.
Kurogiri was the hard part to deal with, considering how Circe had realized that he wasn't human at all, but a corpse reanimated. Specifically the corpse of Aizawa and Yamada's old friend— Oboro Shirokumo. In a previous letter, Circe had only written that there had been a lot of shouting and arguing with the Japanese government before Aizawa and Yamada were allowed access to her Island. They were slowly teaching Kurogiri what it was to be human.
Shigaraki was still full of rage, she wrote, and she had him taking it out on crushing herbs and chopping vegetables, taking waste out to the pigs, helping fix fences, water, and weed the gardens. Busy work, she said. Asterios had managed to write 'hard labor' in big, messy letters. She assured him tough that he was warming up slowly, and that he had fun feeding scraps of meat to Charybdis and Scylla when Circe took them with her to visit the two beasts.
She kept the league from Chisaki, who was more than content to simply stay in his hut on the far side of the Orchard, occasionally exploring the new labyrinth with Asterios that had suddenly appeared under the island.
Asterios had hated it at first, Chisaki wrote in the letter attached, but they ended up having fun fighting and running from monsters. The former Yakuza leader had written a long apology and finished it with him telling Chiron that he knew that Eri and the Heroes would never forgive him, but he wanted to believe he had changed. He had also written that not wanting to test Circe in her element also helped.
"Too many times transformed into random animals," the man had written, "And it wasn't fun for anyone but her. No offense, but i'd rather not be a horse again."
Chiron had smiled a bit at that. Never in his life would he had believed that Chisaki could change.
With the letter from Circe came a box, containing other letters. When he and Astolfo left to meet Jeanne and Sieg, Gray had staid. Her loyalty was with her Master, after all.
She, the other students, and various staff and heroes had written to him, then sent them to Circe. It seemed that her falcons were the only ones who could find him if he didn't want to be found.
Nighteye's retirement was going well, Mirio had written, and after graduation, he had ended up starting a small Agency with him, Amajiki, and Nejire. Gray worked with them occasionally, but she had been working under a number of different heroes for all her internships and workshops. Gang Orca was the last one, the blonde had written, a bit bummed that she hadn't dropped in for old times sake— Midoriya did, he had written, and he wanted the old Nighteye "Siblings" back kicking ass together.
Edgeshot had written a few times, telling him that after the Shie Hasaikai incident, Musashi had vanished, most likely back to dimension-hopping again. He said he wasn't worried, since Best Jeanist had returned. Much to Red Beryl's ire. Gray wrote how she had literally torn into her boss for randomly going off the map, again, and leaving her with more work than she had been doing at the time of the Hassaikai incident.
Midoriya and the others had written about their school lives. Midoriya had gotten first in the sports festival, making Bakugou rage, but it seemed as if whatever tension between them had dissolved and the explosive blonde was just being a teenager with a rival now. Jiro wrote to him about new music she was working on with Tokoyami, Kaminari, Bakugou, and Yaoyorozu's help. She wanted ideas and asked for him to take pictures so she could have some more inspiration. He didn't mind.
Kirishima was happy to announce that Fatgum had extended an offer for him to be a sidekick when he graduated, and he had accepted. He hadn't been slacking on his Pankration and was thinking about starting a small school with Ojiro and Satou. Shouji had stated he would help when he wasn't busy with his own work.
Ashido had written about how much she missed him, and wanted to know if he had seen any cute animals on his travels (Kouda had asked something similar in his). Hagakure had vaguely written the same thing, along with updates about the area. Supposedly a new ice cream parlor had opened up. Asui and Uraraka had shared a letter, telling him how much they missed him and also announcing the happy news that they were both going to be working under Ryukyu again. He was glad for them.
Mineta had finally been removed from the school after one too many harassment cases, the boy had been replaced by Hitoshi Shinsou from the General Education department— why the boy hadn't been in the Hero Course originally was beyond Chiron, but nonetheless, he was in it now.
Eri was doing very well, Aizawa had written. The girl had attached herself to Gray as soon as he had left and insisted on using the Greek word for sister that Circe taught her to address the Assassin.
Aizawa and Yamada were both off and on Circe's island regularly at this point, so he said he was glad that there was someone at the school he could trust with her. She had gotten more in control of her Quirk as well and now that Mirio's Quirk was back up to top-notch, she was having fun learning to control and use it more. She kept reversing the state of apples, too, the Hero wrote, and she would always ask Satou and Gray to help make candied apples for her too. Of course they complied, and Aizawa was sounding more and more like a father each day.
Speaking of which, Gray had finally slipped up an accidentally called Nighteye father apparently when he had been nagging her about something— the retired Hero having moved from the hero scene entirely after an attempt on his life from a small remaining group of the Shie Hassaikai and was now at UA teaching Tactics and Evasion. Toshinori spat blood when he heard about it and had silently sulked.
Apparently Circe's remark on how Gray and the rest of class 1-A was creating a family of just Fathers was true.
She suspected that a number of students had already called Aizawa 'dad' too.
The other staff had written as well. Many keeping it short but casual, asking about his whereabouts and if he was planning on coming back any time soon.
Nezu seemed to know, though, instead telling him that his old ID would still be valid to access into the school gates.
He always knew, Chiron mused as he walked down the streets. He had been reading through the letters on his way down the mountains and at the airport. While he had been on the plane he had read the others and then finished them on the train ride from the airport to the city.
A few people turned their heads at the centaur as he headed towards his destination. A centaur was rare to see, even with Quirks changing the form of so many others' appearances.
It hardly mattered to him though, he was used to odd looks.
Chiron stretched as he walked, easily passing through the gates and up to school, gazing around at the familiarity it brought with him.
The sound of explosions and yelling in the distance also helped as he made his way up the hill towards one of the training pitches.
Standing at the top, he smiled as he gazed down at the students, sparring, and having a genuinely good time.
It wasn't any of them who noticed his presence, the small, eight-year-old watching next to the tired homeroom teacher did. She let go of his hand, making the man look down, before up at the hill as she took off.
"Pateras!"
And that's the end. Whenever Chiron left is up to your decision but yes. Circe shaped Chisaki Kai into a decent human being and now he and Asterios go around in the labyrinth (with a thread, ofc! Asterios isn't gonna get lost again. also props to anyone who gets the large Percy Jackson reference to monsters) and fight monsters. Circe's island is now a Villain Reformation Center? Sure, something like that. Sorry, I couldn't just leave the league babies. I included a few letters, but I didn't have the energy to write everything I wanted to out.
Anyways, I want to thank everyone who has read Sagittarius and Grave Keeper, along with the Paladin's one-shots and also the movie special of Two Heroes Three Servants. This was so much fun to write and I do hope that those who have read it have enjoyed it as well. I realize that this is a slightly abrupt ending, but I hope it's alright!
Once again, if you're a fan of Demon Slayer, I have a crossover with fate that I'm also writing and is being updated every 10 days. I have a Fate and Harry Potter fic in the works— though it's lowkey Crack taken seriously. Paladin will be updated every so often when the creativity strikes.
I have no idea if I'm going to publish the other BNHA and Fate story since I'm not exactly happy about how It's going in my drafting.
Thank you again for reading, see you next time, folks.
