(In Vegito's voice)
ALRIGHT!
Like promised I'm back for another chapter.
This one was definitely interesting to get through and I have listened to the criticisms from the last chapter and tried to dial back on Ben's enthusiasm. I'm still not fully confident in how I write Ben though so please make sure to tell me in the reviews.
Anyway, let me not make you wait any longer. Here is Chapter 3.
Chapter 3
First Impressions
"Yaaaaaaaaawnnnnnnn!" Ben exclaimed as the plane finally landed on Japanese soil. Honestly, he did want to go back to Bellwood for holidays and whatnot but he really wasn't looking forward to doing that 14 hour flight one more time.
"So… Where do we need to go again?.." Ben was exhausted to his limit and could barely remember the procedure his mother told him about after arriving.
"Uh… We need to… Wait, I think I had noted this down somewhere."
From the looks of it, the person in question wasn't fairing much better. His parents' jobs mostly had them stuck in Bellwood and travelling abroad wasn't a go to option for them to spend their downtime . He couldn't even remember the last time they went out of the country for a vacation.
Through sheer willpower and Ben's mother's notes, they managed to get out of the airport with their bags at hand. However, this was only the beginning of their problems.
"How is there not an english translation available in a train station?" Ben's mother says as she tries to understand the map.
While she's busy with that, Ben puts his hand on the writing and moves his finger along as he reads it. "We're going to Mustafu, right? Then we need to take… this train." as he points to a certain track.
Or at least it would have been the beginning of their problems if it weren't for some late night studying sessions.
Ben's mother is impressed. Seems like Gwen really worked her magic on his boy during those 8 months.
They arrive at the hotel room they booked and before they can even unpack, they collapse onto their respective beds.
"Ugh..." Ben groans as he lifts his head from the bed and tries to open his eyes as the sunlight overwhelms him. Was the sun always this bright?
He reaches out to his phone to check the time. 12 o'clock right on the dot, ah. So the hotel's lunch had to become his breakfast. Not that he minded too much anyway.
He gets up from the bed and after washing his face and having a change of clothes, Ben immediately makes his way to the hotel's restaurant. Apparently his mother was already here, currently struggling with the menu.
"Hey!" his mother signals him by waving her hand and Ben does notice her. He then takes a seat right across her.
"You sure took your sweet time."
"Yeah, but how did you wake up so early?"
Ben's mother shrugs. "Eh, work hours. Not all of us had the vacation you had kiddo."
"I wouldn't call it a vacation…" Ben adds sensibly.
"You didn't go to school now, did you?" Ben's mother remarks as Ben opens up his menu.
He lifts up his hand and calls for a waiter. As he arrives, Ben points to the dish and orders in Japanese. The waiter does ask for a repeat once or twice, but in the end, Ben seemingly gets his message across. And as the waiter walks away, Ben turns to his mother and says: "I don't think a vacation can do that."
"Ha! Maybe so." Ben's mother says with a smile. It was always nice for her to see Ben applying what he learned. However she didn't have the same luxury as Ben as she continued to struggle with the menu. There were English translations this time but she had barely any idea what the foods were, they were all Japanese cuisine.
"Maybe you should have studied with us. After all, aren't you going to go and see some houses today?" Ben asks concernedly. "How will you communicate with the seller?"
Ben's mother tries to think up an argument but she can't. She admits defeat and says: "Yeah, I might need your help with that but look on the bright side, we'll get to see the city before your school actually begins."
As soon as he hears of it, Ben's upbeat attitude slightly drops. It was just still so surreal to be in Japan, and to think that the school would begin… putting the Omnitrix to use once again for the public.
His gaze then falls on the said device. He then replies to his mother: "Yeah, it's going to start in a week, right?". At least he would see some other students, also aspiring to be heroes like him…
"Yep. Oh!" Ben's mother springs up like she had an idea. "What if we went to see your school this afternoon? We could sort of… get used to it beforehand, right?"
Ben's heart sinks but he does his best to not give it away. "I guess we could…" he says. "It would... beat staying in the hotel room all day."
And just then, Ben's salmon sashimi arrives at his table. As he's about to demonstrate the chopstick skills he acquired from Gwen, his mother interrupts him.
With an embarrassed manner, she asks "Umm… Can you order my food as well?"
With his enthusiasm picking back up, he says "Sure, what are you looking for?" as he grabs the menu from his mother's hands, setting it down on the table. Swiping the pages with one hand and eating the rice with the other Ben thinks: "I wonder if I can find an American restaurant here like I find an Japanese restaurant back home."
Inside the rental car they got, they go from house to house and as they drive by the streets, Ben thinks that maybe he would have been better off wishing for something else…
"KFC… Dominos… Oh look, McDonalds..." Ben says as he gazes outside the window.
Ben's mother briefly throws a gaze at him. "Don't even think about it Ben. I'm not letting you eat all that junk food while you have Hero courses. Remember, a healthy body is a..."
"...healthy mind." Ben says as he pouts. He was expecting more, you know… something else.
"Wait a minute, is that?.." Ben gasps.
"What is —?Oh no…"Ben's mother says as she also stops the car.
With big bold yellow Japanese letters on a blue backdrop in their view, Ben and his mother draw their attention to the English translation just below it and it spells out: "Burger Shack"
"Alright!" Ben thinks as he is about to celebrate the existence of his favourite chilli fries in the same city as him. However, he then notices the disheartened expression of his mom. If there was one fast food that his mother had a hard time limiting him on, it was chilli fries.
"You don't need to worry mom, I won't go there much." Ben says and then adds: "After all, no type of fries can beat your home cooking."
This line makes her smile. "Aw shucks…"
She then starts the car back up and gets on the road again. She then takes a quick glance at Ben though. Almost half the day was gone and unless they were on the road to the next house, Ben had to stick close and be the translator between his mom and the estate agent…
She was sure that he was tired. "I guess one pitstop couldn't hurt…" she thinks and starts entering another destination to the GPS.
"Destination: U.A. High."
Ben's ears perk up. "Wait...Where are we going?".
"To your school." Ben's mother says. "I'm sure you are sick of playing translator for me so we might as well do something you're interested in. There is only like… 1 or 2 houses remaining on the list so..."
"Yeah but…" Ben struggles to finish his sentence. "Let's just finish them first…" Ben finishes. "It's not like the school is going anywhere."
"Oh, are you sure?" she asks concernedly. Something was definitely up.
"Pretty sure." He swiftly replies, leaving little room for argument.
"Okay then, next stop is…" she says as she checks the navigation. "Somewhat close to the hotel. It is also in Mustafu."
"Great.". Ben says, trying his best to fake some enthusiasm.
"Can you ask the size of the living room, sweetie?" his mother asks.
"Sure mom…"
They had arrived at the final apartment and Ben was slowly getting burnt-out by all this travelling around. The sun was about to set and the sleep that he had gotten from the night before wasn't exactly doing him any favors.
He was yawning and stretching, just waiting to get back to his hotel room. The worst part was that he could see his mother not being satisfied at the end of each trip.
"Hey, sweetie..." His mother says as he taps his shoulder. "I just asked if they knew English and they said they did."
"When did she ask that?" He wonders. No matter…
"If you want, you can go and grab yourself some coffee." As she hands over some money to him.
"Huh…" he says internally. This was what he wanted, to get away from asking different people the same questions over and over again. But now…
"Oh! No no, I can continue." Ben says as he straightens up. "You don't need to worry."
"Sweetie. You are literally on the brink of sleeping."
Worst part was that she was right.
His mother ruffles Ben's hair and says: "You worked enough, now rest up and leave the REST to me." She says as she can't hold herself back from snickering.
Even the estate agent had his head in his hand. At least he now knew that he really understood English.
He fake laughs and…
"Alright, I'll go, stop…" Ben says as he tries to stop her and fixes his hair.
He then takes the money and goes out the door.
"Now, where were we?" Ben's mother asks the estate agent.
Thank Ishiyama, he was out of there. He didn't know if his mind could take another pun like that.
"Now let's see…" Ben mutters as he looks around for a store or…
"What are the chances that I can also find a Mr. Smoothy's around here?"
Turns out, not very high since everyone he asked around did not know what a Mr. Smoothy was. "So uncivilized…" he thinks as he shakes his head.
Well, coffee had to do then. He walks over to a grocery store, buys a bottle of ice-cold coffee and starts wandering in the streets. "Might as well explore the city of UA."
He takes a big sip from the bottle. "Yeesh!.." Maybe I should have gotten a diet cola after all.
As he walked around, he took in the experience of a Japanese city. It was honestly less crowded than the videos would lead him to believe. He thought that with this being the school of All Might, the area around it would be more populated. Guess not…
Everything seemed pretty familiar to him, except for a couple of things. Like the comparatively smaller buildings, the more frequent billboards, the sports car that was speeding right towards him… Wait what?!
"Hey!" He says as he dodges right. "Student drivers!"
However, as the car continues along by crashing left and right, Ben quickly realizes what's going on.
"That's no joy ride…" He says as he tosses the coffee to a nearby trash can and dashes to an alleyway. He pushes on the rims again but first, he takes a second.
This was not the USA, the regulations for heroes and quirks were far more up to date, detailed and consequential...
The sky had gotten darker and the sparkling moon was slowly but steadily rising to the big black sky. "It IS risky…" he thinks. Ben then looks back at the street he came from. "But it is riskier not to."
He then makes his selection and slams the dial.
Starting from his hand with the Omnitrix, a grey fur envelops his whole body and his fingers and toes turn into razor-sharp claws. Some parts of his elbows and shoulders get spiked up and his usual brown hair along with the area around his head turns into a dark-grey mane. A large bushy tail grows out from his rear end and finally with his mouth becoming akin to a dog's and with his irises becoming completely glowing green, his transformation is complete.
"Benwo — I mean… Blitzwolfer!"
He quickly jumps between walls, and as soon as he gets on top, he smells the air and perks up his ears. "Burning engine, crashing sounds… It's coming from… Right ahead!"
He gets on all fours and starts running on rooftops, jumping from building to building all in an effort to get to that car."If it's still going along the streets, then there's sure to be some bystanders and I can't risk being seen…"
He sighs in frustration: "Maybe I should have picked my flier after all. Anyway…"
He gets a visual lock on the car and his jaw then opens up in four directions, and just like his eyes, starts to emit a green glow. "I'm going to have to time this right if I don't want to hurt the passengers…"
"SLOW DOWN!" The man in the passenger seat cries out.
"I told you I can't! THE BREAKS DON'T WORK! AHHHHHHH!" as the driver makes a break left, dodging a car in front of him.
"Stop screaming!" The passenger shouts, however the driver does not cooperate.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
As the passenger gets ready to shout to his friend once again, he looks out of the windshield and realizes where they were about to crash … into a gas station!.
"HEEEEEEEEEEELP!"
"SOMEONE HELP US!"
Blitzwolfer's keen senses pick up on the screams. "Don't worry! I'm on my—"
Just when he was about to leap into action, two heroes from across the street act first.
"Backdraft, put out the engine!" One of them shouts as he gets ready to slow the car down.
"You got it!" replies a firefighter with hoses as his hands as he sprays the front of the car with water.
The other then grabs and stops the vehicle completely, preventing it from hitting the station.
The driver immediately gets out and grabs one of his hands. "Thank you so much Death Arms!"
And the passenger immediately follows suit. "Yeah, you saved our lives!"
"It is all in a day's work." Death Arms replies. "Plus I wasn't alone…" as he gestures to Backdraft.
With one hose behind his neck, Backdraft says: "Don't look at me, I just sprayed some water over your engine."
"Fair enough." Death Arms replies and… "Now if you'll excuse us, we have to go back on our patrol."
"Of course, thank you very much once again." The passengers then leave the car behind and start moving to the streets.
The two heroes then wave back and go back to their patrol as well. All the while, a certain lone wolf watches this unfold…
"Oh…" He thinks as he closes back his mouth. "They are okay…"
Blitzwolfer then takes a look around from the high vantage point. "Guess I'll…go back."
He starts hopping between buildings again and all the while, he feels… dissatisfied.
"I'm glad that they are safe…" he thinks. "And, on top of that, I didn't have to expose myself…"
He looks at his hands, or more accurately, his claws.
"But then why can't I shake this feeling?"
He had an itch in his claws. He should have jumped, stopped the car with his howl and gotten away without being caught at anyone's cameras.
He had taken a risk and it shouldn't have turned out so…so... meaningless.
Blitzwolfer sighs… Perhaps there was someone else that could use the help. Someone else... that could use the help of alien heroes once more...
The more he thought about it the more he got into it.. Maybe it was the feral DNA or the nostalgia getting to him but… alongside it all, he was feeling kinda excited. You know, the good old days, where… the world wasn't at stake and… he still had…
He shakes his head. "Focus, you're on a time limit here."
"The hunt…" he says as his eyes glow green in the pitch black darkness at night. "is on!"
He stops dead in his tracks and looks down to the streets. A store robbery, a car chase, hell even the good old stealing of a purse would do to justify his transformation.
However, the streets seemed safe, everyone was just going on with their lives. So, he turned his eyes elsewhere and saw… the beach.
"Huff… puff…"pants a greenette as he grabs and tries to lift-up an old TV while burrowing into the sand. "C'mon Midoriya…Just a bit more…"
He had messy green hair, freckles and… just a plain-looking appearance complemented with a blue jumpsuit and red boots.
"There is only a week left… I must do more…" he thinks as he goes up the stairs and tosses it onto the pile outside. "
He swiftly runs back down the stairs, grabs a pair of old tires and puts them around his arms. He then starts walking back to the pile, but he shortly turns around. Biting his lip, he additionally grabs a thrown-away weight. "If I am to get into U.A… If I am to become a he—"
"You want some help with that?" someone asks with a feral and ferocious tone.
"AHHHHHHH!" Midoriya screams.
"Wait, stop! I'm sorry!" says the same voice, begging him to calm down.
Midoriya then turns around and sees the giant werewolf standing right before him.
"I saw you struggling with cleaning the beach." He says as he gestures to the beach with his hand. "Just thought maybe I could help out."
"O-oh, sorry, umm…" Midoriya says as he struggles to put a sentence together. From the appearance, this person must be a pro-hero.
"No sir, I'm fine like this Mr.…" Midoriya can say before realizing one important detail about this hero: He didn't know him at all! Not even his name!
"Uh…B-Blitzwolfer." the lone wolf replies while having a struggle of his own.
When it came to his old hero work, he never had to talk like this before. Some one-liners and gestures were usually enough for the people whom he was helping. He never held a conversation this… awkward.
In the meantime though, Midoriya was having his own episode about the situation. For the first time in a long time, he had no idea who this person was. Unless…
"Are you a new pro hero in the area, Blitzwolfer?" Midoriya asks curiously.
"Well…" And this question was even harder to answer, considering the circumstance. But thankfully, he wouldn't have to.
The Omnitrix dial on his chest starts to blink and a flash of green suddenly engulfs the area.
Midoriya shields his eyes and when it subsides, he gets to see another teenage boy that had roughly the same height as him.
"Not exactly a pro-hero…" Ben finishes his sentence from before.
Midoriya's expression goes blank for a second before everything clicks into place.
"That's… so awesome!" Midoriya says, with a spark in his eyes. "Was that your quirk?!"
"Yeah, it was…" Ben says as he looks at his human body again. With one hand behind his neck, he says: "Guess that 'helping you' plan is out of the window now, isn't it?"
Before Midoriya can answer though…
"Speaking on that, why DIDN'T you want my help?" He gestures to the trash and… "It all seems too much for one person to do."
"Yeah, it probably is…" Midoriya says as he looks at the edges. The stranger was probably right. After all, he had cleared more than All Might wanted him to. "But, it's important for me… I must become stronger."
"Oh?" Ben grunts, as he notices the conviction in the greenette's voice. "And why is that?"
"I-I, umm…" He doesn't know how to quite say this. People HAVE made fun of him for it before…
But that doesn't mean he can just hide it forever.
"I'm... going to take the entrance exam for U.A. in a week!" He answers, trying to channel all the bravery he had.
He then looks up at Ben, to gauge his reaction.
"Same here." Ben says with an optimistic smile. He lends his hand forward and…
"Tennyson Ben. What's your name?"
Midoriya is surprised. Honestly, he wasn't expecting another examinee to drop down from the sky tonight…
He then shakes his hand and introduces himself: "M-Midoriya Izuku. Nice to meet you, Tennyson." In his head, he considers the name once again, 'Tennyson?'
"By any chance, are you a foreigner Tennyson-san?"
Ben was expecting this, after all his name and accent weren't exactly the most subtle when it came to the Japanese norm. "Yeah, I arrived yesterday from America."
"Oh really, from which part?" Midoriya asks with his curiosity piqued.
"Just a small town called Bellwood. You probably haven't heard of it."
Ben was right, the greenette hadn't heard of it but for the sake of continuing the conversation... "Why did you come to Japan then, Tennyson-san? I thought that America also had really prestigious hero schools."
"Well, U.A. is the best school when it comes to heroics and I don't remember America having any high schools that All Might went to. I kinda…" he starts as he holds his arm with the Omnitrix. "…admire him."
Midoriya knows the feeling. He adopts a hopeful smile and says: "Y-Yeah, me too."
As Midoriya then crouches on the ground to pick up the tires from before, Ben has a weird feeling. Almost like he had to meet up with someone…
"Oh shi—" Ben says as he hits his head. "Midoriya-san, it was real nice to meet you, but I have to go help my mom with one last house. I guess I'll see you at the exams."
Midoriya raises his eyebrow. "One last house?"
"Well, since we arrived from America, we have to look for a place to stay."
"Oh." Midoriya says. "O-Our apartment has a place for sale..."
"Really?".
"Y-Yeah…" Midoriya says. "Watanabe-san moved out last year and it has been empty ever since... It's close to here if you want to check it out."
"We'll think about it. Thanks for the suggestion!" Ben says as he runs for the stairs and makes his way back to his mother.
After running like hell for what felt like forever, he managed to get back to the car. And just in front of it, stood his mother with a particularly irritated gaze. One that could easily burn a hole on his forehead if he continued to stay still for any longer.
He walks to the car and his mom immediately says: "This might be a new record Benjamin…"
Yep, he was sure in trouble if his mother was calling him by his full name.
"I'm really sorry mom…" he says as he opens the door of the car but…
"Where were you this whole time? I was sure that you would be back in 5 minutes, especially while not having a Mr. Smoothy around!"
"Ah, so there really was no Mr. Smoothy here in Japan…" Ben thinks as he gets inside.
After his mother gets inside too and as they close the doors…"I was coming back but I met someone who was also attending the exam next week."
He had gotten his mother's attention. "A friend?"
She then asks with a smirk: "Oh, were they a girl?"
"No, mom!" Ben yells in an embarrassed manner which is met by laughter on his mother's side.
"Okay okay, what was his name?" his mom asks.
"Izuku Midoriya."
"Well, what is he like?" She asks impatiently.
"Let's see, he was a fan of All Might, he seemed hardworking, nice and umm…"
He twiddles his thumbs but nothing else comes to his mind. "That's about it. We didn't talk too much anyway. I guess he was also stuttering a lot."
"That's nice." She says. "Sounds like a good friend…"
"Guess so…" Ben says as he starts looking out the car's window, specifically... at the rooftops.
"Am I really going to ignore that?" he asks himself. "SHOULD I really ignore that?"
He had the most powerful device in the universe, strapped to his wrist, but he was sidelined by two common heroes?
And on top of that, he spent the rest of his time basically doing nothing… Was this really how it was going to be for the next 3 years? Him just taking the crash course again while others deal with the REAL problems?
That's just…no… He can't stand by and—
"So this friend of yours… I forgot to ask but what did you talk about?"
"Huh…" Ben replies, snapping out of his thoughts. "Oh, you mean with Midoriya and yeah…" he rambles briefly.
Guess that makes sense, without him talking, his mother must have been feeling pretty alone in that silence.
"Nothing much." Ben replies. "I told him I came from America and we talked about U.A. a bit…Oh, and also he mentioned something about an empty apartment space in his building."
"What did you say?" His mom swiftly asks.
Ben could feel that she had something brewing inside her mind, but didn't think much of it.
"I said maybe we could check it out."
"Did you get the address?"
"No, but he said it was close by to the beach. We could come and look, it shouldn't take too long."
Little did he know, his relaxed attitude would have its consequences...
...consequences that would favor him.
Tomorrow, with his son in tow, Ben's mother would search and actually find the apartment Midoriya told them about. It was a nice 45 m2 apartment with a kitchen, two bedrooms and one bathroom, originally designed for 3 people.
The cost was a bit less than ideal since it was fully furnished but they could make do with it. Especially since Ben's time here wasn't permanent.
As they looked around and Ben played translator for his mother and the real estate agent, the young hero quickly realized that his mother had her guard down way too much compared to her usual attitude.
"What's going on, mom? You seem… uncharacteristically carefree."
"It's just… I think we found the one."
"Huh?.." Ben replies. This was his mother talking… The one that tended to drag him through all the clothing stores in a mall just to buy him a pair of jeans…How could she decide on their home for the next 3 years so easily?
"Uh… alright. I should have said: 'extremely carefree'." Ben quips to himself. He then asks out loud: "But why this one?"
His mother just sends him a glare and Ben's eyes widen as he realizes the mistake he just made. He had just broken the golden rule of shopping with your mom: 'If you want something to get bought, you don't question anything.'
"I-I mean I'm not complaining or anything but I want to know how you decided so quickly." Ben rambles.
"Oh come on sweetie. It's close to your school, it is… a bit more spacious than the other houses we went to and the best part is that you'll have a friend as a neighbour."
"Ah, so that's what this is all about..." Ben thinks.
"Back home, I know you didn't really have the best of luck with friends. Especially with what happened between you and J.T..."
"Yeah, I get what you mean. We didn't talk a lot but I can tell. Midoriya is nothing like J.T."
"Exactly and I just… don't want you to have a repeat, okay? Besides sounds like he could use some friends too."
"Yeah." Ben replies. It was always nice to see his mother care about and help others like that even without having a quirk. With a smile on his face, he says: "Thanks mom."
With a similar smile: "As long as you make the money that's going to go for this place and your school worth it..."
He chuckles and replies. "I'll give it my best."
"Great." she says and tells Ben to talk to the real estate agent. Yeah, they were going to buy.
At the end, he didn't want to quite show it, but he was nothing short of overjoyed that the house hunting finally came to an end. With the estate agent leaving to follow the standard procedure, Ben takes this time to open up the window and look at the view.
Granted it was just the usual street view, his gaze was stuck on something else. Something that was much further off into the distance...
His right hand slowly makes its way to the Omnitrix, not to transform but to hold it one more time. "We really are finally here, aren't we..."
He takes a deep breath and tries to calm his nerves. This was what he had trained for, for 8 months and he had gotten a lot better with the omnitrix but…
...that didn't mean the weight decreased in the slightest bit from his wrist.
"Only 1 week to go..." he thinks. One week that would blitz on by...
"Before the start of... my hero academia. "
Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet…
A light brown humanoid figure with black hands and feet runs across a hallway towards a metallic door, with a metallic grey and blue disk in his hands. His brain was seemingly exposed, and only a small mouth hole and a green eye covered his face.
Inside he gets greeted by a giant machine with a mirror-like screen and dark-colored support beams that were structured akin to a web.
He kneels before it and soon a taller and more imposing figure shows up on the screen before him. Unlike the figure from before, this humanoid creature was mostly white in color with black hands and feet, purple face and red eyes.
"You may speak to me, half-breed vermin..." the figure on the screen says with a deep and commanding tone.
"Gratitude master." The first figure lifts his head. "F-For months now, our sensors have been picking up a new and unique energy signature from this planet."
"I have information of interest. Two of our agents from the area called Japan, have conducted an experiment by simulating the crash o…"
"I HAVE no interest in your full report..." the opposing figure says, uninterested by his explanation.
"Absolutely master. My apologies." He says as he bows before the screen. "We have finally found the source of it." He takes out the disk and pushes on the button on the side.
A hologram appears with Ben slamming down the Omnitrix and turning into Blitzwolfer in that alleyway.
"Our suspicions were true master, the legendary Ben Tennyson has wielded the Omnitrix once more… And is currently on active duty."
"Hmm..." The imposing figure says, clearly irritated by this recent development.
"Then let this be the final time he troubles us…"
The master points to him and says: "Proceed with informing the other pests…"
He puts his hands together and hardens his glare. "…and carry on with the plan as scheduled. "
Author's notes: Yep, Blitzwolfer is the second alien I chose for the Omnitrix and is one of the three classic aliens that I promised. Personally, I was always a huge fan of him and thought he never got the screen time he deserved. Especially that howl... that howl is beautiful.
But enough about me simping for a werewolf, moving on...
Like I said before, I'm still experimenting on how to write Ben. I am going for something in between AF and Omniverse where he is a fun person to hang around with and quippy when the situation isn't too serious. But he doesn't have that big ego, overconfidence, immaturity, etc and is more humble, supportive and grounded like his AF counterpart.
So I hope this chapter did justice to that idea.
Also, should I keep the honorifics? I started to write with them but if it seems distracting, tell me in the reviews and I can stop doing them in the future.
Also also, I don't know if I could imply it well enough but, the next chapter will be the entrance exams so I hope that's exciting.
Finally, I hope you have a good day and see you in the next chapter!