That time I was reborn as a warrior princess
Chapter 15- Are you him?

Lucina was taken to the hospital because of her broken ribs from the fall she suffered when Stain saved her from that winged noumu. Even if her wounds were not serious, the doctors decided that she needed to stay in the hospital for a few days just to make sure she was ok. Oh yeah, she got angry calls from her friends, mostly from Gerome and Laurent for not calling them when she had to deal with a feral dragon by herself.

"Great, when they finally figured out how to use their cellphones, they are already using them to scold me." Though Lucina sarcastically before turning the phone off.

She heard a knock. When she turned her head, she saw Todoroki in the doorway. She was pleased by the unexpected surprise. Todoroki mentioned he was nearby when the events occurred. He was with his father's team when they received the red code signal from Igenium's team.

"Ingenium and Iida will visit you later. They told me they have to go to the hero commission office to give them the reports about the dragon's attack last night. And I think the police will want to talk to you too."

"Great…." she moaned in frustration while massaging her temples. The last thing she wanted was to get the police involved.

"What are you going to do?" Todoroki asks

"Honestly, I will have to tell them half truths to not get myself in trouble. I can't really tell them I am from another world and the one who caused the attack was an ancient dark dragon, can I?"

"No." Todoroki says "If you do this, I bet the hero commission and the police would lock you up to a mental hospital."

"So true, so true."

They kept chatting for a little while. Todoroki thanked her for giving the courage to use his fire and giving courage to see his mother after so many years. Todoroki also mentioned his mother wanted to see her. Lucina smiled and told him it would be his pleasure. Todoroki looked at his cellphone and told her that he needed to leave but they would see her back at UA.

When he left. Lucina laid down on the bed and decided to sleep a bit before she had to deal with the crap of the police, of the hero commission and the crap of the UA's staff. She really would need rest for that.

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Katsuki was also hospitalized after the events involving the dragon's attack. Because of the slash wounds caused by the whip, Katsuki had to have several stitches on his skin. The young boy was unconscious for several hours before waking up alone in the hospital room. He noticed he was using a medical eyepatch on the right side of his face. The doctor visited him and he was explaining he needed him to stay in the hospital for several days to make sure he would not get any infections from his wounds. However his mind was somewhere else: he kept seeing Inko in her dragon form, dissolving into ashes after Blue Hair stabbed her head with her sword.

"Bakugou-san?"

He returned to the reality

"Sorry Doc, my mind was somewhere else. What did you say?"

The doctor sighs " I said the principal and your teacher are here to see you."

As soon as the doctor said that, Aizawa and Nedzu entered the room. The doctor warned them to not stress the boy too much because he was still recovering. Aizawa understood and thanked the doctor before he left the room. When he left, Aizawa looked at Bakugou with concerned eyes.

"How are you doing, Bakugou?" Aizawa asks

The boy did not respond. He glared at his hands before closing them into fists.

"Split out already! I know you're planning to expel me from UA! Blue Hair, Glasses and his brother must have already told you about what happened and my shitty past actions!" Katsuki yells, growling " What reason would you two come here?"

Nedzu mentioned that they always worry about all their students, even him. The white mammal also told Katsuki that Ingenium, Iida and Lucina, indeed, have told them everything. About the degeneration, their meeting with Grima and also how they were forced to kill Midoriya Inko after she became a feral dragon. They also told them about his past actions while he was an Aldear student.

"And yes, Ingenium told us the reason why Midoriya Inko had kidnapped you and her reason for killing those kids from Aldera school. We found out the principal was trying to destroy the evidences about the school's corruption after he noticed the former students and the teacher were missing. The police have already put him in their custody and he will be charged not only for corruption and discrimination, but also for violence encouraging." Says Nedzu with a bit of anger in his voice.

Katsuki was not surprised with the violence encouraging thing. None of the school staff have ever stopped him from using his quirk on Izuku and the other extras when he studied there.

"In normal circumstances, we would have expelled you right away, Bakugou." Aizawa says in a cold voice " What you did to that kid, Midoriya Izuku, was not bullying, but simply and pure cruelty. Though he was not your only victim, he was the one who suffered most from your actions, which had leaded him to commit suicide. If we knew about your actions before, we would have stopped you from even taking our entrance exam. You're only in UA because of Aldera School for putting that illegal gag order on Midoriya Inko."

Katsuki cringers. He knows all this shit but listening to his teacher telling all of them still hurt him a lot. He can feel Byleth's presence trying to comfort him.

"However Ingenium, Iida-kun and Lucina-san have told us how much you regret and how much you're hurt from this. Aiba Manami, the woman who was a hostage with you, has told us that you did not fight back when Midoriya Inko was hurting you. She even told us about your suicide attempt, going to the same rooftop Midoriya Izuku jumped from." Says Aizawa. " After a lot of discussion between me and the Principal Nedzu, we decided we will still keep you in our Hero Course, Bakugou."

Katsuki looks at them in shock,are they really serious about keeping him in the hero course? He should have been kicked out!

"Do not get us wrong, Bakugou-kun. We are not like Aldera that fawns over you because of your quirk. You're still in a very delicate situation." Nedzu says in a very cold voice. Katsuki shivers in fear; it was the first time he ever heard the principal talking to him in that way. "If you really regret your past actions, you will do our conditions if you want to graduate from our school."

"Your father told us that your mother had kicked you out from home but he allowed you to live in his other apartment as long as you pay for your rent and go to therapy. Isn't that correct?" Aizawa asks.

Katsuki explains he is working as a part timer in a pastry shop not too far away from where the apartment is and once in a while he works as a particular tutor to small kids to pay for his rent and grocery shopping. He tells them he is seeing a counselor but he admits he feels the profissional is not helping him very much but can not afford to see another counselor because of his limited money.

"I see, so our conditions are you will go to Hound Dog's conseloring seasons at least three times for weeks and you will report us if he's helping you or not. And you will do some community service until the graduation day." Nedzu says while explaining their conditions to Katsuki.

Katsuki through a bit; these conditions were not bad ones. He wants to be a better person for Izuku and he will allow UA to help him. Byleth also agrees with the terms. Katsuki takes a deep breath and accepts their conditions.

"This is just a suggestion but we finally finished the dorms system in our campus. Our foreigns students will live there to be closer to us. That way they can communicate with us if Grima comes out again. Living in our dorms you will not have to pay for the rent anymore, but we will allow you to keep working in your part time jobs for you to pay your other necessities like groceries and school material. This if you want to move to our dorms, of course. " Says Nedzu, giving to Katsuki a paper about the dorm system.

Before they leave him, Aizawa mentions they know about Byleth's existence from Lucina. Nedzu mentions that they would like to talk to her when he is well enough for this. Katsuki promises they will talk with Byleth after he moves to the dorms.

Then, they left the room, leaving Katsuki by himself. Only Byleth is there to keep him company. He asks to Byleth if she is ok with this. She answers that the UA academy would find out about her soon or later. It was better for them to find out about her in this way instead of the teachers thinking Katsuki was becoming crazy for speaking alone or forming a second personality.

"You know Byleth, while I was out I had a weird dream."

Byleth looked at him confused. " A dream?"

"Yeah, I was in some garden with this weird guy. I do not remember his name, I'll just call him Tomato Head." Byleth sweatdrops; she still needs to work on helping Katsuki to remember people's names and stopping his habit of giving them weird or insulting names. "Tomato Head told me he knew how I was feeling towards Auntie Inko's death. He mentioned he was in my shoes once too, when he was forced to kill his older brother after becoming a dark beast."

Byleth's eyes widened in astonishment; Katsuki could not be talking about Sylvain, could he? But it was impossible! Sylvain did not die in this world, he died in the Fódlan. How come he was talking to Katsuki in a dream?

"He showed me when you and a bunch of people in black and gold uniforms were facing this guy with a weird glowing lance and then he became a demoniac monster. Tomato Head told me he was horrified for what happened to his brother and how he was forced to kill him. Though his older brother hated him, Tomato Head told me he still loved him. He said to thank you for finding a good resting place for his brother since his family refused to bury his older brother in the family graveyard and the church did not allow you guys to bury him in their cemeratry." Says Katsuki. "He said he and the rest of the Blue Lions miss you."

Katsuki cringes when he sees Byleth crying. He quickly apologizes for making her cry. However Byleth smiles and thanks Katsuki for telling her about her meeting with Sylvain while hugging him.

"You know Katsuki, I never told you about the Blue Lions, did I ?" she asks him, smiling.

For the whole day, Byleth told Katsuki about her meeting with Dimitri and the Blue Lions and her life as a professor at the Officers Academy in Garreg Mach Monastery and how her life had changed when she met Rhea, the Archbishop of the Church of Seiros.

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Lucina was awakened in her room a bit bored. The doctor had visited her a while ago and he said she can be discharged tomorrow noon. She was happy she could be discharged this soon but she still was bored. She decided to turn on her phone to surf a bit on the internet. When she accessed her twitter account, she sweatdropped; looked like the pegasus gained some fame after kicking the Hero Killer and helping the heroes for taking the wild dragon's down. She even read some people calling Iida as the modern Bellerophon.

"Who the heck is this Bellerophon?" Lucina thought to herself, frowning.

Then, she hears a knock. She turns her head and she sees Tensei is the doorway of her room. He was wearing his civilian clothes.

"Hey Lucina! How are you doing?" he says while sitting down beside her bed.

"Oh, Sir Ingenium! It is good to see you. I hope everything went well in your favor with the hero commission."

He gave a very nervous and awkward smile " About that…"

Tensei explained how the things went to the hero commission. It looked like they reproved Tensei's actions for taking Lucina, a minor and a hero apprentice, to a very dangerous zone. But he was forgiven after the dragon was taken down, saving Bakugou and for finally catching the hero killer. But those factors did not stop them from suspending his hero licence for six months. Lucina sweatdropped when Teisei whined and cried on her blanket when he told her he was going to be forced to do all the paperwork at his agency until his license was renewed. He also whined about Gaia becoming a devil with a whip to make sure he was doing his work right.

"Err… Sorry about that." she awkwardly says while patting on Tensei's back. " And technically who took the hero killer down was that pegasus. By the way, what happened to it?" Lucina asks.

That made Tensei return to his professional posture.

"We took the pegasus to the Yaoyorozu family's property. My family has a good relationship with the Yaoyorozu family and I know they have stables for their horses in their mansion. Mrs. Yaoyorozu is part of a group that fights for the welfare of animals. You can say we made her day when we asked her if Tenma, the pegasus, can stay in her stables until we find a better solution. She gladly accepted the pegasus and promised to take good care of her."

"And she just accepted the pegasus just like that?" Lucina was surprised " She didn't even freak out to see a horse with wings?"

"Well Mom freaked out and Mrs. Yaoyorozu reacted like Christmas had arrived early. Both of them think Tenma is just a horse with a wing quirk, so neither of them suspect Tenma is a real pegasus. I think It's better this way."

"Yeah, I agree." Lucina says, sighing. " I still can't believe Iida was able to ride on the pegasus. I thought only women can ride on pegasi. Never in my realm's history we had any male pegasu rider before. The kingdom of Hoshido was trying to breed pegasi that accept male riders but they haven't succeeded yet. And Iida was not creative in naming that poor pegasus, I mean, Tenma means pegasu, right? It is like naming a dog Perro, since perro means dog in spanish."

Tensei could not help but smirk while crossing his arms. "And how did you know Tenma means pegasus? And how do you know there is a spanish language? I thought you came from another world and those languages do not exist there, do they?"

Lucina cringes while sweatdropping. She looks at Tensei very nervous. Tensei's smirk gets bigger.

"Holy Naga! He's looking like Cheshire Cat!" Lucina could swear she is seeing a cat's tail and ears forming in tensei while smirking like Cheshire Cat.

"Oh and do you remember when I told you that I love rpg games and fantasy novels?" He asks. Lucina nods to him while raising her eyebrow. Why is he mentioning this to her?

Then, Tensei continued.

"Well, one of my favorite fantasy themes is Isekai. My favorite one from this genre is Ascendance of a Bookworm. It is about a young woman from our world being reborn as a little girl in a fantasy world and she uses her knowledge for her benefits and to find ways to create more books. And do you know what the novel's protagonist, Myne, and you have in commun? You both remember of your past lives,"

Now Lucina was scared; he couldn't have figured out, could he?

"W-What makes you think I remember my past life, Sir Ingenium?" Lucina smiles very nervously.

"Please, call me Tensei." Tensei says " Don't try to fool me, Lucina. Ever since we found out about Midoriya Inko, you knew more about her before we could even check out her background. You knew where she lived, you knew where to find the extra key in that vase and I even saw how much you cared for her and how much you were in grief when you told us that we have to slay her because of the degeneration. And more important, your outburst; you yelled things none knew about her son. It was like Midoriya Izuku himself was yelling at Midoriya Inko for the things she was unable to do while he was alive and not you. That made me think, how do you know so much about Midoriya Inko and Midoriya Izuku? Since you're told me you're from another world, time and space must flow differently from here and there, so reincarnation is very possible. So, tell me Lucina, were you Midoriya Izuku in your past life?"

She sighs and she gives him a very soft smile " You really figured the things out sir, Tensei."

Lucina confirms in need, she is Midoriya Izuku's reincarnation and she remembers everything from her past life. Tensei asks if anyone knew about this and Lucina responds none of her friends know about her past life, only an old sage from Hoshido kingdom knew about this when she was visiting the kingdom with her family for a peace treaty and forming alliance after the war between Hoshido Kingdom and Nohr Kingdom was over. Tensei asks if Lucina plans to ever tell this to Bakugou. Then, she looked at him with an emotionless expression in her face.

"No," she says " I do not plan to tell him or anyone about this. Bakugou was one of the biggest reasons why I had committed suicide. I know he regrets and I would be blind to not see he is trying to change, however some scars never heal, even in an afterlife. Can you believe it only took my suicide and being reborn into another world to make me to see how much toxic our relationship was, Sir Tensei? When I was reborn as Lucina, I was upset for not having a quirk but I gained something much bigger and better. I got a real supportive mother, a caring and present father and I got real friends who were always there for me, for my better and worse moments. Besides, if I tell Bakugou about this, he would be more bonded to the past than he already is."

"Bonded to the past?" Tensei asks in wonder.

Lucina tells him she was bonded to her past life for a while. She wanted to return to this world and to return to Inko and to Bakugou. But she releases if she returns, all the hurting circle would start over again since she, the princess of Ylisse, she was technically quirkless. It was the lack of a quirk that started Izuku's suffering in the first place.

The former princess mentioned it was thanks to the Rainbow Sage, an sage she met in Hoshido kingdom , made her see being bonded to the past was not good. The sage had told her to focus on what she already had in the present and not focusing in the past. With his help, Lucina finally accepted her new name and family and let it go of everything that involved her past life. That included Bakugou Katsuki and Midoriya Inko themselves.

"Bakugou needs to learn to do the same. He regrets his actions but he is too bound to the past. He needs to learn to let it go and move on if he wants a better future for him, just like how I did."

Tensei agrees with her. To move on, people need to let it go to the past. He also mentions he is not going to anyone about this since that was not his secret to tell. Lucina thanked Tensei while smiling at him.

"By the way, will we have more dragons' attacks in the future?" he asks a bit worried

Lucina sights tirely. She mentions as long Grima is on loose, it is a possibility he is going after people with strong manakete blood and forcing them to turn into feral dragons. Lucina tells Tensei that her friends and her have a theory that the quirk of this world may come from the dragons of their world. How those dragons ended up here is a mystery, but she knows Grima will use those people with strong dragon blood to create chaos and misery.

Unbeknownst to them, an unknown figure had heard all their conversation.

End of the chapter.

And that's chapter 15!

Tensei figured out who Lucina really is and he promised her to help her as much as he could.

And an unknown figure also found out Lucina's secret. Can anyone guess who it was? Make you bets! ;D

And I hope you liked the scene involving Katsuki. In the canon, it always makes me angry to see none is caring about Katsuki's anger issues or doing anything about them. Aizawa and Nedzu have every right to expel him but thanks to Iida, Tensei and Lucina's report, they decided to give him a second chance as long as he does their conditions. And they warned him he's in a delicate situation, one mistake and he is out.

For those who do not play fire emblem series, pegasus rider is an only female class but in Fates, Hoshido kingdom have two male characters that are pegasus rider, so I decided to add Lucina mentioning Hoshido is breeding pegasi that allow men to be their riders. And Tenya is a rare and bizarre case of a pegasus choosing him as her rider.

For those who have no idea who Bellerophon is. Bellerophon is a greek hero that tamed and rode on Pegasus. With Pegasus' aid, he was able to slay the Chimera; one of the biggested and feared monsters of the greek mythology. The legend of Bellerophon had inspired me to make Iida the pegasus rider of the story.

And I will add more creatures from the fire emblem series into the story.

Please do not forget to leave your comments and kudos. They make me really happy and write more and more. Your suggestions are also welcome.

See you all in the next chapter!