The Okami Hero: Amaterasu

Arc 5: Eight Serpents

Chapter 7: Slipping the Collar

[Tuesday19thApril 2281]

[Shie Hassaikai Compound, Corusantu]

After taking a few moments to compose herself, reassure Eri, and promise Ishiko that their plan was still to go ahead, Izumi left the bathroom and returned to the bedroom, Eri happily trotting along beside her. The little girl's stomach grumbled a bit, as they hadn't gotten to eat their lunch due to everything that happened, but the sweet child didn't complain.

Izumi wished she could do something to help the girl (she was a bit hungry too, after having thrown up whatever was left in her stomach), but she didn't dare risk asking for food from the Yakuza at the moment. Overhaul was likely seething that he hadn't been allowed to punish the girls for the incident…

At that moment, almost as if reading Izumi's mind, Hekiji Tengai knocked on their door and then let himself in, carrying two steaming hot plates on a tray.

"I apologise for the interruption, Divine One, but I feared you and Young Eri would grow hungry due to missing your midday meal. I took the liberty of reheating the Karaage you made." he said, handing Izumi the tray with two piping hot plates of Karaage on it.

Eri's eyes lit up and she ALMOST smiled in front of the Yakuza, while Izumi gave the man a curious look. Tengai's eyes were full of shame, and he wouldn't meet her gaze. Izumi guessed that he was upset with himself for not helping during the situation with Roku-Ju. Izumi didn't feel too charitable towards the man (she was sure he could have used his Barrier quirk to protect them if he'd wanted to), but he was bringing them food, so she bowed her head and thanked him politely.

Tengai nodded stiffly and went to leave. He paused in the doorway and looked back at Izumi, before muttering a quiet "I'm sorry." and leaving, locking the door behind him. Izumi waited for a moment after he was gone, wondering what was going through his mind, before deciding not to worry about it for now. She placed the tray down on the bed and Eri eagerly sat down beside her to eat the meal.

The two girls mostly ate in silence (though Eri did squeal and proclaim the Karaage to be super tasty). Since Izumi's stomach had settled a bit after the earlier ordeal, she was actually quite hungry and struggled not to wolf down her food, so as to be a good example to Eri.

After eating, the two spent the afternoon in much the same way they had in the last few days; mostly playing with a few lessons mixed in. Since they'd ended up eating Lunch late, they weren't quite as hungry as normal when Tengai reappeared to take them to get Dinner, but Izumi still had plans for what to make, viewing it as a celebratory meal for her escape with Eri.

"I just need to use the bathroom real quick." Izumi said after Tengai arrived, quickly walking to the bathroom before the man could question her. As soon as she walked into the bathroom, she turned on the tap to drown out the sign of her quietly tapping on the vent. Ishiko poked her head out, and upon seeing the silent signal from Izumi, she ran out and crawled into Izumi's thick green hair, hiding herself completely.

With Ishiko ready, Izumi quickly washed her hands and left the room to meet Tengai, who was having an awkward conversation with Eri. The Former Monk was still nervous after what happened earlier, and was trying to be nice, asking Eri questions about the games she'd been playing with Izumi and how she enjoyed the Karaage, but the little girl was too intimidated by the Yakuza to answer properly. When Eri saw Izumi emerge from the bathroom, she ran to her and hid behind her legs.

Izumi frowned; "Shall we go?" she asked, trying not to show her irritation with Tengai for bothering Eri.

Tengai nodded meekly and gestured for Izumi and Eri to follow him. The walk through the halls was terribly awkward, with none of them saying anything until Izumi looked to the Former Buddhist; "I've got to admit to being surprised. After earlier, I figured Chisaki wouldn't let me cook again."

"He hadn't planned to." Tengai admitted, "After I brought your lunch earlier, he wanted to forbid you both from having Dinner at all, but Chronostasis pointed out that you'd need your strength for the lab session today, so starving you would have been counterproductive. You'd have gotten a store bought meal, but when we went to cook one, we discovered that nobody had bought more since you were cooking and no one else really eats those ready meals. So we either had to cook something for you, send somebody out to buy something, starve you, or make you cook for yourself. Master Chisaki decided to just have you cook for yourself, but don't expect to be able to in future."

Tengai sounded guilty about that last part, but Izumi kept a neutral expression. She and Eri wouldn't be cooking together here again, but it wouldn't be for the reasons Overhaul thought.

They reached the kitchens a moment later, and Izumi had to suppress a shudder as she looked around the room. The signs of what Izumi had done were clearly visible all over the place; the door was still in the state Overhaul had turned it into (which meant it couldn't close), the cracks in the walls and the melted sections of the floor had been filled in with plaster, and the camera was missing entirely. Izumi had expected Overhaul to fix everything with his quirk, but he must have been too angry or thought it beneath him.

Shaking off the faint feelings of dread, Izumi got to work on making her favourite meal; Katsudon. It seemed like an appropriate pre-escape meal, and the more morbid part of her mind thought; "Well if all goes wrong, it'll be a nice Last Meal!"

The Brush Gods hadn't thought it was funny.

Izumi made the food with some help from Eri, and then they sat down to eat it together. Eri loved it (as she'd loved everything Izumi had cooked) and the two were just polishing off their bowls when Overhaul appeared in the kitchens.

"It's time to get to work." he said, Chronostasis and Katsukame flanking him as always. Straight to the point today it seemed.

"Sure. I'd offer you some Katsudon, but it turns out Eri likes it almost as much as I do, so we're out." Izumi smiled falsely.

"I prefer chicken to pork. Now come on; I want to get to work." Overhaul said shortly. He wasn't in the mood for banter today it seemed, still likely pissed off from earlier.

Izumi shrugged and put on a brave face as she followed Overhaul to her personal torture chamber. Eri was strapped down first as the hostage, then Izumi was strapped down and the Cursed Restraint was removed. That was when Izumi and Ishiko began part one of their "Steal a Scalpel" Plan.

Izumi leaned forward a little, so her back wasn't fully pressed against the backrest of her chair, allowing Ishiko to carefully crawl down her hair and into the back of plain white dress. She then clung to the dress and hung there, ensuring she wasn't touching Izumi. Izumi then leaned back ever so slightly, so that she was the one initiating the contact with Ishiko. As soon as contact was made, Izumi activated her quirk and Ishiko allowed her own quirk; "Storage" to be taken. Izumi nestled the borrowed quirk into her Heart Container and prepared to use it. Now temporarily quirkless, Ishiko slid down and waited at the bottom of Izumi's dress for her moment to escape. She needed to get away from Izumi before Overhaul "reset" her for the first time, otherwise the Poncle would be reset too, and if Overhaul's quirk worked the way Izumi suspected it did, he'd either end up inadvertently fusing the Poncle to Izumi when reconstructing her, or he'd simply leave her disassembled, effectively killing her.

Ishiko needed to get away before that could happen!

Trusting Ishiko to do what she needed to, Izumi focused on what she had to do; namely nab the Scalpel Overhaul was using without tipping him off that anything nefarious was going on. Thankfully, Izumi had worked out exactly how to get it. Overhaul picked up a scalpel and prepared for the first incision, which would be the moment Izumi enacted part two of her plan.

When Overhaul cut her in the past, she'd always react the same way; wincing at the first slice, and then slowly going from wincing to whimpering to yelping to outright screaming. It was a gradual process born from Izumi attempting to stay strong for as long as possible before giving in to the pain. However, this time Overhaul made his first cut and Izumi immediately screamed bloody murder and thrashed viciously in her restraints. Eri screamed in surprise and the Yakuza all startled back a step, not having expected the sudden response. Overhaul was so startled that his cut became a stab and he let go of his scalpel as he backed up a step, leaving the instrument in Izumi's arm. This was exactly what Izumi wanted, and she immediately activated Storage and Rejuvenation simultaneously, making the scalpel vanish into her storage space while the wound was healed.

Part two of the plan had worked perfectly! Now Izumi just had to hope Part Three: appeasing Overhaul, would go just as well. Unfortunately, when Izumi had first made this plan, she hadn't expected it to be on a day when she'd already royally pissed Overhaul off.

"What the hell was that!?" Overhaul roared, grabbing Izumi by the hair and pulled her head back so she was looking him in the eye.

"S-Sorry!" Izumi whimpered, "I'm really sensitive today. I didn't think it would be that bad!"

Overhaul growled softly; "Why are you so damn sensitive?"

Izumi blushed deeply; "I started my period..." she whispered embarrassedly.

Chronostasis face-palmed and Katsukame shuddered and looked away. Overhaul just sighed angrily; "I suppose there isn't anything that can be done about that." he looked at her arm; "Where did my scalpel go? It was in your arm and vanished when you healed."

"I'm sorry, Mr Chisaki… I should have told you. Rejuvenation destroys all foreign objects inside my body when it activates. I usually wait for you to finish before I activate it so you don't lose your equipment and get angry, but I was caught off guard by the pain and I activated it on instinct." she lied. "Please forgive me." she added, doing her best to appear contrite.

Overhaul's eye twitched, but thankfully he decided not to punish her or Eri for the mistake. He may be a disgusting villainous piece of scum (in Izumi's mind anyway) but he didn't seem willing to punish Izumi for a biological function she couldn't control. Of course, the questions that followed were a kind of punishment of their own as Overhaul demanded to know all the details of Izumi's cycle, so he could adjust his expectations and not be caught off guard again. Izumi was beet red by the time she was done, while Eri was completely confused, Katsukame was squirming uncomfortably and Chronostasis was taking a very keen interest in a nearby monitor. Only Overhaul was unconcerned.

When he was finished with his questions (which Izumi thought might have been part of some sort of psychological punishment) he looked to Chronostasis; "Gag her. I'll tighten her restraints." he said.

Izumi whimpered, not liking this idea, but she had no choice but to accept it as Overhaul tightened the straps holding her down to the point that she couldn't move her limbs even a little. Then Chrono came up behind her and stuffed a cloth in her mouth, tying the ends of it around the back of her head so she couldn't spit it out. Overhaul then picked another scalpel and continued his work.

Being unable to move an inch or scream out loud made the rest of the session a lot harder to take; it made Izumi feel weak and vulnerable, but she toughed it out as best she could to put Eri at ease. Eri was taking it better than yesterday, but she was still sobbing as she watched Overhaul go to work on Izumi's body.

After Overhaul "reset" Izumi for the first time that day, Ishiko (who had been hiding beneath the chair since Izumi distracted the Yakuza with her scream earlier) crawled out to where Izumi's feet were strapped down just an inch above the floor. She slapped the bottom of Izumi's feet just hard enough to get her attention. Izumi, currently in the throes of agony from the continuous torture, released the stolen Scalpel from Storage via the bottom of her foot, where Ishiko easily caught it. Ishiko then touched Izumi's foot again to initiate contact and allow Izumi to return her quirk. Izumi did so and Ishiko immediately used Storage to hide the scalpel again.

This was necessary, as items stored with Storage were released if the quirk changed owners, and Izumi needed to return the quirk before she was cuffed by the Cursed Restraint again. Now that Ishiko had the Scalpel, Izumi could get it back when they returned to her room. Ishiko returned to hiding behind the chair, waiting for the experiments to end for the day so she could go back to hiding within Izumi's hair.

After two agonising hours, Izumi finally couldn't take it any more and could barely keep herself coherent enough to cast Rejuvenation, which ended up flickering off before it could fully heal her, leaving Rewind to finish the job. Usually, this meant the experiments would end… but Overhaul cut her again.

When Izumi screamed into her gag, she looked up at Overhaul with tearful, horrified eyes. The man's cold yellow eyes stared back as he leaned in close; "You have a whole extra life to use up… I do not allow brats like you to get away with defying me! Stay nice and compliant, or I'll hurt Eri." he said coldly.

Izumi's blood felt like it turned to ice as Overhaul kept cutting and taking her flesh. Rejuvenation wouldn't work now, and even Rewind was beginning to lose power, signified by Izumi's horn shrinking. Finally, without the power to heal herself, Izumi succumbed to death. Eri and Ishiko both watched in horror as the dregs of Rewind spluttered out and Izumi went limp in her restraints, her eyes open but glassy.

"Kai?" Chronostasis said, looking at his boss questioningly.

"She's dead."

Eri screamed; "NO! IZUMI!"

Overhaul looked at the girl with a raised eyebrow; "Be silent Eri. Your precious protector will come back to life in a moment… though I suppose it would be best to ensure she was completely fresh..." he said, turning and slapping Izumi's corpse across the face, destroying it with his quirk. Eri's sobs began anew, sounding even more desperate and heart wrenching than usual.

Then, a few seconds later, the bloody remains of Izumi's body turned snow white and began to fuse back together, as if building an Izumi shaped snowman. Once her form was complete, the whiteness faded and revealed Izumi's completely intact, but naked, form. As if struck by lightning, Izumi suddenly gasped and sprang to life, panting wildly as she filled her new lungs with air. It was a horrifying new experience for Izumi; she'd died twice before (hitting her head on the sandbox thanks to Oshigaki, and being impaled by a possessed Torikago) but in both those cases, Izumi's body had been mostly in tact and only had to heal a single wound before her soul returned to the body… this time she had to reconstruct it completely, an experience that felt like having to solve a puzzle the size of her body with each piece being the size of a speck of dust… with their being an unpleasant (though not painful) shock with every correctly placed piece. It all happened so fast that those little shocks were happening a billion times a second, resulting in an awful stinging sensation. Izumi was definitely not planning on experiencing it ever again, especially as it left her naked and sobbing in her chair.

Eri cried out to the girl, but Overhaul simply reconstructed Izumi's destroyed clothing and strapped her down again. Izumi didn't even have a chance to recover or get a grip on what happened to her before the experiments started again from the very beginning.

Ishiko felt sick with hatred as she was forced to listen to two more hours of Izumi being tortured without a moment to breathe. Poor Eri cried so much that her tears had stained her cheeks and her throat felt like she'd swallowed needles. As for Izumi… the girl was in the state one would expect from her ordeal… almost incoherent with pain, and with her freshly restored Stamina already reduced to barely anything. Her arms and legs were littered with even more scars now, to the point she had almost as many as Eri, despite having only endured the experiments for four days as opposed to the months Eri endured.

Overhaul looked at all the samples he'd collected that day and grinned beneath his mask. "All these samples… Their combined mass must be almost the same as Eri's entire body. To think I could get so much in a single day! We will definitely be using this new method from now on." the man said, turning gleefully cruel eyes on Izumi; "You'll endure it, won't you? All to keep Eri safe of course."

Izumi froze at the clear threat to Eri. She gulped and nodded, still gagged. Overhaul chuckled coldly and removed Izumi's gag, listening eagerly as Izumi immediately began promising to endure it all so long as he didn't hurt Eri. The Yakuza Boss felt smug; "Serves her right for defying me and causing Orochi to make me look weak in front of my men!" he thought. He'd had to kill three of the five grunts he'd taken into the kitchen earlier as punishment for fleeing, and Overhaul intended to properly punish Izumi for making him kill three useful pawns.

"Good girl." he said mockingly, patting Izumi's head in a condescending way. "We're done here. Chrono, deal with her." Overhaul said, turning to clean his scalpels.

As Chronostasis approached, Ishiko quickly took the chance to sneak back into Izumi's dress and climb up to hide in her hair, whispering a quiet assurance to Izumi when she got there. Chrono placed the Cursed Restraint back around Izumi's ankle and then untied her straps, completely ignorant to the Poncle in Izumi's hair.

Izumi shakily got to her feet and took a few stiff steps. Katsukame approached her, intent on picking her up, but Izumi shook her head; "I-I'll walk… these are technically new legs, so I need to get the blood flowing. Those straps were way too tight..." she complained, though not too loudly.

Katsukame just shrugged while Chrono released Eri. The little girl ran over and hugged Izumi tightly, but when Izumi tried to pick her up, Eri refused. "You're really tired. I can walk." she said, putting on her brave face.

Izumi smiled and the two returned to their room with Katsukame grumpily following them as an escort. Izumi was walking very carefully, on account of the residual pain of the experiments. The whole way back to their shared room, Izumi comforted Eri and assured her everything was fine, and that she was sorry for not explaining her Astral Resurrection properly. Eri nodded in understanding, though she was still more than a little traumatised by what had happened. Still, Eri was used to trauma at this point (a thought that made Izumi's blood boil) and the little girl seemed to return to normal fairly quickly.

Once the two were locked back in their room and Katsukame had left, Eri looked up at Izumi with hopeful eyes.

"Did you get it?" she whispered.

Izumi smiled and nodded weakly, hobbling to the bathroom. Inside and free from the camera's gaze, Ishiko emerged from Izumi's hair and released the scalpel from Storage, making it drop into Izumi's waiting palm and causing Eri's eyes to widen. "You're going to use that to beat the bad guys?"

"Not exactly. Now listen very carefully Eri; I want you to go sit on the bed and cover your ears with a pillow. Under no circumstances, no matter what you hear, are you to come back into the bathroom until I call you, okay?" Izumi said sternly.

Eri nodded seriously; thinking that Izumi had never spoken in anything but a kind and gentle tone with her before, so if she was being strict now, it must be really important! The little girl scurried out of the bathroom, leaving Izumi to stare down at the scalpel in her hand.

"So how are you going to escape with this thing? I figured you'd planned on picking the lock on the restraint, but the lock's electronic." Ishiko asked.

"It's for the restraint, but not for picking the lock..." Izumi said, breathing deeply. Within her, the Brush Gods were transferring their power to her in order to regenerate her strength as quickly as possible for the break out.

"Sharp as that thing is, it won't cut through that band, how are you going to-" Ishiko's eyes widened as she saw Izumi's grim expression, "No… Izumi, you're not going to do what I think you are, right? Please tell me you aren't going to…!"

Izumi nodded reluctantly; "This was always the plan… we can't get the key, so this is our only plan."

"I don't like this plan!" Ishiko shrieked.

"Me neither… Yomigami is currently yelling in my ear about how bad an idea this is, but I don't have a choice. We can't escape without taking the band off, and we can't get the key. The band is too tough to cut and too tight to slip off no matter how hard I try. The only option is to…" Izumi gulped, "...to amputate."

Ishiko grimaced. No matter how much she hated this plan, she had no choice but to go along with it. She couldn't think of an alternative. "Izumi… you're already hurt and low on energy. Even if the Brush Gods give you a lot, you'll use most of it up regrowing your leg. Plus, you don't have your Astral Resurrection to fall back on. There can be no mistakes here, and even if we call for help, we still need to beat Orochi."

"I know. I don't plan on fighting anyone but Orochi, which is why I'll call for help first. When the Police arrive, they'll hopefully bring along some Heroes that can help me fight the Demons. So long as I can get the last blow on Orochi, we'll all be fine. And it's not like the other major Demon fights I've had; I don't need to hold back against Orochi." Izumi reasoned.

Ishiko sighed, but accepted it. "Alright; I'm with you to the end, like always."

Izumi smiled bravely as Ishiko rubbed herself against Izumi's cheek in a comforting gesture. Then, with a deep breath, Izumi tightened her grip on the scalpel and focused on her leg, aiming her first cut for directly above the Cursed Restraint.

In the future, Izumi wouldn't remember much of the next ten minutes. Overhaul's experiments had increased her pain tolerance by a huge amount and the Brush Gods used meditation techniques to numb the pain as much as possible, but there was quite a difference between cutting away a person's flesh bit by bit and cutting off a leg. Izumi had to gag herself with a towel to stop her screams from echoing through the compound. She cut the flesh as quickly as she could, but the scalpel couldn't do more than scratch the bone, so when that was all that connected her now bloody right ankle to the rest of her, Izumi had gathered all her courage and struck the bone with her fist. It took five or six punches, but the bone finally broke and the ankle was detached from Izumi, taking the Cursed Restraint with it.

Immediately, Izumi's powers returned and Rewind kicked in, trying to reverse the damage to her leg. Before that could happen, Izumi used most of the energy given to her by the Brush Gods to cast a powerful Rejuvenation to restore her leg. When it was over, Izumi was sitting beside a puddle of blood in her Demi-God Form, panting as she stared down at her three feet; the original one, the severed one, and the restored one.

Still panting, Izumi pulled away the towel she'd gagged herself with and turned to Ishiko, who was crying softly in sympathy as she whispered comforting words to her. "L-Let's not do that again… Hey Ishiko, do you think Sakuya and the others would be mad if I cursed?"

Ishiko laughed; "I think they'd understand in this case."

Izumi looked back at her amputated leg; "Fuck that hurt…"

The understatement of that comment was lessened by the sheer depth of emotion Izumi had expressed as she uttered them. "This week has sucked… tortured, temporarily falling to Demonhood and now being forced to chop off my own leg. I want a vacation!"

"And you're taking one! I don't care what anyone says, after today you can take a whole year off as far as I'm concerned!" Ishiko emphatically agreed.

After taking a few minutes to gather her wits and calm herself down, Izumi took the Cursed Restraint from her amputated leg and tied it to a strip of towel that she'd torn to create a pseudo belt, planning to use it later. Since Ishiko couldn't really fight, she decided to lend her quirk to Izumi again, just in case Storage was useful in their escape attempt. Izumi immediately put it to use by storing her discarded leg, not wanting Eri to see it. Izumi and Ishiko then quickly cleaned up the blood, so that Eri could come back in without being freaked out.

"Eri, you can come in now!" Izumi shouted. She couldn't leave the bathroom in her current state, or the camera would see her.

Eri quickly came running and gasped as she saw Izumi in her Demi-God Form. "You're all white and red! It's like in the bad place!" she exclaimed, looking at the older girl's wolf features and facial markings.

"This is my Demi-God Form; it's what I need to use my powers, Eri. I can fight and defend us now, but I'm going to call for help from outside too. Take this." Izumi handed the little girl the cleaned scalpel; "I won't let anyone near you, but if the worst happens, use that to defend yourself."

Eri gulped but nodded, holding the sharp object carefully in both hands. Izumi smiled softly, then gestured for Eri to place her hands on Izumi's chest. With a flash of light and a brief ache in both girl's foreheads, Izumi returned Rewind to Eri, causing the quirk's signature horn to vanish from Izumi and reappear on Eri.

"Huh?" Eri murmured, reaching up to feel the horn; "You gave it back…?"

Izumi nodded; "It's yours. It belongs with you."

Eri frowned; "B-But it's bad… it's evil. The bad man said I killed my Daddy with it; made him disappear. He said Mommy abandoned me 'cause I'm an evil cursed girl."

"Nonsense." Izumi said, "Overhaul is a liar and a monster. You said you didn't remember anything from before you came here, so I bet Overhaul was just being cruel, trying to make you think you deserved what he did to you!"

"B-But he hurt me because of this power. He hurt YOU because of it." Eri argued, "C-Can't you get rid of it?"

"Overhaul hurt us because he's an evil monster. And even if I could get rid of Rewind, I wouldn't. Trust me Eri, as long as you are the good girl I know you are, that quirk won't hurt anyone! It's a good power."

Eri's eyes shone; "R-Really?"

"Really. I had it inside me for a while, remember? I can tell a good quirk after I've used it." Izumi nodded, "You could become an amazing Doctor with that power, healing the damage done by accidents and Villain attacks. Better yet, you could become a Hero! You could save tons of people with Rewind!"

Eri beamed, smiling so widely that her cheeks began to turn a rosy pink colour. No one had ever said such kind things to her before! No one had believed Eri was good for anything but hurting. Overhaul said she was born to destroy people, that her every action led to death all because she was a cursed existence… But Izumi said she was a good girl with a wonderful power, who could actually save others! Those words ignited a new desire within the child; Eri wanted to prove Overhaul wrong and Izumi right! She wanted to help people!

"I can do it… I'll grow up and be a Hero, like you 'Zumi!" Eri declared, pumping her little fists with determination.

Izumi smiled broadly; "That's what I want to hear! Show the world and all the bad people in it that Eri is the name of a Hero! Now, let's get us some reinforcements." she said, grabbing her phone from where she'd stashed it and turned it on.

Unbeknownst to Eri, Izumi had a darker reason for returning Rewind to her; if everything went wrong today, Overhaul would exact bloody revenge against the girls. If Izumi kept the quirk, Overhaul might have murdered Eri to punish her or at least tortured her viciously… at least if Eri had the quirk, Overhaul wouldn't risk killing her or doing too much damage for fear of disrupting his research. Eri would live, and there'd be another chance for her to be saved later down the line. Izumi wouldn't have that luxury now… Her Astral Resurrection for the day had been used up; if things went wrong now, Overhaul would kill her.

Switching on the GPS Tracker in her phone, Izumi called the police.

"Hello, Police? This is Izumi Midoriya, I've been kidnapped by a Yakuza Group called the Shie Hassaikai, along with a small child! They're torturing us; please send help!"

Next Chapter: Calling in the Cavalry

To be Released: July 4th 2021

Finally! Izumi is free, has her powers back, and has called for help! The Captive half of the arc is officially done! Now we can get to the rescue/escape half!

Izumi was really giving it her all in this chapter, and is nearly out of power. As it turns out, Overhaul was still pretty mad… don't worry though, he'll be getting what's coming to him. Look forward to it!

This chapter also marked the end of the worst parts of the gore/torture so don't worry about more stuff like that, excluding flash backs.

I hope you enjoyed! Please Comment and Review; it really encourages me!