Chapter 10: Going Home

The first thing Izumi woke up to was the familiar ceiling and the feeling of being completely sore.

"Oh look he's awake." said a feminine voice. Turning his head to look around, he saw his teammates standing beside his bed not wearing any masks. Kazuma had a new green tracksuit, Kuroneko had changed into another black dress, Erza was wearing her usual Heart Kreuz armour and Korosensei was still wearing his teacher's uniform.

"Yo, pretty boy! How was your beauty sleep?" Izumi turned his head towards the voice.

"Kazuma?" Izumi asked in a rasped voice.

"Yeah?"

"Water," Izumi asked.

"Sure. Here," the boy gave Izumi a glass which the latter greedily drank. He exhaled contently.

"How are you guys?" he asked.

"We should be asking that to you student Izumi," Korosensei said with amusement.

"Well, I'm just peachy," he replied cheekily. Korosensei simply chuckled.

"And you guys?" Izumi asked as he turned towards the girls.

"I'm fine Izumi," Erza said. She opened her arms and grabbed Izumi into a hug. The scene would have been sweet if only she didn't have armour on.

"Clang!"

Izumi's head collided with her armoured chest, but it seems that everyone ignored it. After, leaving her arms with an aching headache, Izumi turned towards the youngest of the group Kuroneko.

"And you?" he asked.

Kuroneko was silent for a while before answering.

"I thought you died," she said with a sombre tone. Izumi's smile softened.

"When I saw you collapse, I thought you died. I don't have many friends. The first group of friends I ever had was you guys." she said as tears started to roll down her cheeks.

"Even if we only met, a few days a week ago, I was very happy to meet you guys. So when I saw you collapse like that I didn't know what to do. I couldn't even heal you." The others were silent at her monologue. She wiped her tears and looked up defiantly.

"That's why I will train harder and harder until I won't burden you," she said.

Izumi looked at her before hugging her.

"Now that's our Queen of Darkness," he said with a smile.

Releasing her, he went to stand. Feeling sore, but otherwise fine, he asked

"How long was I out and what happen during that time?"

It was Erza who answered,

"You were only out for 2 hours. The Ancient One brought you here to heal you because whatever you did damage your magic circuits located in your soul. It's going to take time to heal on their own. She said that it would take at least 1 month before you can use magic. Therefore no magic for 1 month." she said.

Korosensei continued.

"About what happened, well not much happened. The city is still recovering, the civilians are being given treatments."

"Were there some casualties?" Everyone grimaced at his question. Izumi sighed.

"I see. It is unfortunate, but we did our best. We couldn't predict everything."

Everyone nodded.

"Well then, let us go see the Ancient One because I would like to thank her. By the way, where are the Avengers?"

"They are just outside of the Sanctum resting," replied Kazuma. Izumi nodded and walked toward where the sorceress was. Arriving at her room, he knocked.

"You may come in." replied a voice.

Izumi entered the room and there she was. The Ancient One was seated on her knees behind a low tea table just like the first day the Multiverse Chat Group members met her.

"I see that you are awake. For someone with a soul like yours, it should've taken a long time to wake up." Izumi only chuckled,

"Maybe I'm just special."

She put her teacup down and asked,

"What can I do for you, Mr. Miyamura?"

Izumi bowed to her,

"I wanted to thank you for hosting us and healing me. If there is anything I can do, you can ask me." The sorceress shook her head.

"There is no need Mr. Miyamura. Saving the city was already payment enough."

Izumi nodded,

"I see. Well then, I believe it won't be the last time we will see each other therefore it is not a goodbye, but a see you later." He said.

"See you later than Mr. Miyamura." As Izumi left the room, the Ancient One was in deep thought. While trying to heal Izumi, she noticed something odd in his soul. As she peered deeper into his soul. She came across something interesting. It seems like His soul was connected to something. This connection went beyond even the universe even maybe the Multiverse. This connection isn't a binding type of connection, more like Izumi is part of the other thing connected and that thing is part of Izumi. She didn't say anything as it is better for him to discover it himself.

"How interesting." she mused as she drank her tea.

Izumi rejoined his group and they went to meet up with the Avengers. As they walked, Izumi asked his group,

"Quick question. Did they see us without our masks?"

"No, they didn't" replied Erza. They put on their mask and walked to the entrance. As they came out of the entrance, they were spotted by the Avengers.

"Well look who's awake!" exclaimed Tony. Izumi's group could see that they went to get shawarma since they see the eating it.

"How are you feeling Enigma," Steve asked.

"I'm fine now, I am not allowed to practice as much magic as I used to for a month."

"Glad to hear that and you guys?" he then asked the others. They just replied that they were fine.

Izumi looked around and asked,

"Where's Loki?"

"He's with Thor over there," replied Natasha. Izumi looked and saw Loki with a blindfold and a gag with Asgardian cuffs.

"Ah! The young mage is awake. Your display of magic was glorious." Thor complimented.

"Thank you, Thor. Your fight was also glorious"

"Many thanks, mage Enigma. but I would like to ask, how do you know Norse runes? As far as I'm concerned, only my father knows it." he asked.

"You know Thor, a magician never reveals his secret," replied Izumi. Thor just stared at him and let out a huge bark of laughter.

"Very true my friend. Well, I should be going. I shall bring this troublemaker back to Asgard to answer for his crimes." he said

What Izumi didn't tell is that he couldn't remember what magic he used. When he used the chant, it was a spell to call upon a form of magic that he never learned from somewhere to help with the present situation. Izumi still didn't know where it came from, but the price of calling unknown magic was the overuse of his mana circuit and the loss of memory of said magic.

'I must research these arias, Now that I think about them, they remind me more and more about the world a certain self-sacrificing hero protagonist has: A reality marble."

Izumi became giddy. Who wouldn't? He was going to have his reality marble. He just needed to wait. In the meantime, he had to find out about his distortion and how it affected him because reality marbles are only manifested by those who have the alien common sense of daemons and he was pretty sure that he was a human. an extraordinary human, but a human nonetheless.

Everyone gathered around the two Asgardians as they went to watch their departure.

"It was an honour fighting beside all you brave warriors, but alas I must go. Farewell, everyone!" Thor said. he then called out,

"Heimdall! We're coming home!"

A rainbow colour beam came down from the sky and crashed unto them. Soon, the beam disappeared leaving only a large sigil on the ground.

Izumi turned towards the Avengers.

"I guess it is now our time to leave." Izumi and the group shook hands with everyone. As he went to shake hands with Steve, he pulled him closer and whispered

"Tell Fury that the nine head still lives inside of the shield."

Steve looked like his entire world shattered when he heard the message and shakily nodded. Izumi turned toward all the Avengers,

"Goodbye everyone, the next time you will see us is for another world-ending event."

"You know the end of the world isn't like the Olympics which comes often," sarcastically said Tony.

Izumi only grinned behind his mask knowingly.

"Well then Enigma, Octopus, Titania, Green and Queen, on behalf of everyone in New York, I thank you for your help in saving the Earth," said Captain America. The group members waved goodbye.

As soon as the screen appeared in front of the team,

[Would you like to return to your world?]

[Yes/No]

Izumi pressed the Yes button and was soon covered in a flash of light along with his group and they disappeared from the face of this world.

"Well, that's one way to exit," Tony said as the group split up. Steve was thinking about Izumi's message.

"Hydra's still alive? And they infiltrated SHIELD? He wants me to tell Fury which means he trusts him." he thought as he went to meet up with Fury.

In a bedroom, a flash of light appeared and a boy appeared laying on his bed. he opened his eyes and recognized the room that he had used for almost 16 years. Izumi sighed,

"What an adventure!"

He was still sore, but he started to feel better. He tried to open his magic circuits but soon stopped as the pain returned.

"Guess I won't use magic, but I can at least sense magic so that's fine." he mused. He then received a notification from the system.

[Congratulations on completing your first mission.

Mission 1: Save New York

Status: Complete

Mission 2: Defeat the anomaly

Status: Complete

Mission 1 rewards: Store, 1000 points, new ability

Mission 2 rewards: Mystery chest]

"Right. I forgot about the rewards," he opened the chat and saw the members chatting.

[Kuroneko]: The rewards just came in, did anyone check theirs?

[Kazuma]: Not yet

[Erza]: Not yet

[Korosensei]: I didn't check it yet

[Erza]: I thought we were going to wait for Izumi.

[Kazuma]: Oi Izumi, come out!

[Izumi]: I'm here. I'm here. Let's start opening the rewards. Who wants to go first?

[Kuroneko]: I'll start.

[Congratulations, you have obtained 1000 points and Healing magic!

Congratulations, you have obtained 5000 points!]

[Korosensei]: Oh! Healing magic!

[Erza]: That's a good reward

[Kazuma]: +1

[Izumi]: Good for you Kuroneko.

[Kuroneko]: Thanks, now I don't need to learn how to heal.

[Kazuma]: Alright my turn.

[Congratulations, you have obtained 1000 points and Killer Queen!

Congratulations, you have obtained 10 points!]

[Killer Queen is a close-range stand whose ability revolves around setting up explosives with a single touch]

[Kazuma]: The hell? Why is my mystery box so shitty? At least I got Killer Queen. As a wise man once said, art is an Explosion!

[Kuroneko]: That's a really good ability.

[Korosensei]: I second that.

[Erza]: What is a stand?

[Izumi]: A stand is the visual manifestation of the soul. It is an entity created psychically and it has special abilities like Killer Queen which creates bombs.

[Erza]: Ah ok. That is really good power.

[Izumi]: So who's next?

[Korosensei]: I'll go.

[Congratulations, you have obtained1000 points and Metamorph!

Congratulations, you have obtained a hoverboard]

[Metamorph: The ability to psionically alter the formation of their own cells]

The chat went silent. Seeing the rewards, everyone knew what he was thinking. Since his body was in a constant state of deterioration and he also had only 1 year to live. But with this ability, he could alter his cells and live longer.

[Kazuma]: Damn, that's one hell of an ability. He also got a hoverboard which is kind of useless for him since he can run really fast.

[Kuroneko]: Wait isn't that Mystique's ability?

[Erza]: Mystique?

[Kazuma]: It's a Marvel character who has the ability to control her cell. She could shapeshift, heal and also live longer.

[Erza]: Wow! Congratulations Korosensei.

Korosensei was not replying and Izumi grew worried.

[Izumi]: Are you okay Korosensei?

After a long pause, he answered.

[Korosensei]: I don't know what to say. I only had one year to leave. I was going to spend it teaching kids how to kill me. I don't know what to feel.

[Izumi]: You can take this as your second chance at life. You can go back to your human form or create a new human form and make a new identity. But let's not dwell on it now, because you still have one year left. Teach everything you can to your students and have fun. When the 1 year time is up, we will think about something.

[Korosensei]: Your right. So who's next? Is it Erza or Izumi?

[Erza]: My turn!

[Congratulations, you have obtained 1000 points and the Quirk: Search!

Congratulations, you have obtained Kanshou and Bakuya (Original)!]

[Search: Search is a Quirk that allows the user to monitor and observe up to a hundred people at a time. This includes knowing their locations and weak points. Search also permanently stores the information gained after its usage.]

[Kanshou and Bakuya (Original): They are married swords that were crafted after the wife of the blacksmith sacrificed herself for her husband to craft swords reaching the realm of Gods. They have a strong affinity for monsters and they raise one's magic resistance. The special ability of these two swords is that they are attracted to one another therefore always going back together.]

[Kazuma]: What's with this luck? Those rewards are awesome.

[Kuroneko]: I know right?

[Korosenei]: Those rewards look good, but what is a Quirk?

[Erza]: I'm assuming that a Quirk is a superpower of some sort. But you are right, the rewards are good. Especially the swords.

[Izumi]: Yes, Quirks are superpowers. Good for you Erza.

[Erza]: Thank you. Now I believe it's your turn now.

[Kuroneko]: Right! What will the leader of the group get?

[Izumi]: All right. My turn.

[Congratulations, you have obtained 1000 points and Dark Matter!

Congratulations, you have obtained Murasame!]

[Dark Matter: Dark Matter is an esper ability to create an unknown matter. It is not to be confused with true dark matter which is a component of the Universe. Here, "unknown" does not mean that it has not been discovered, but that it does not exist until created. Therefore, this matter is a matter outside of the laws of physics. To improve this ability, one must improve his brain calculation ability and his knowledge.]

[Murasame: It is a Teigu that has been known as a cursed sword and kills anyone under a few seconds after being cut due to the poison curse left by the sword.]

[Kazuma]: What hell is with this broken ability and weapon? Is the system favouring you? Is it because you're the admin? I DEMAND A REFUND!

[Kuroneko]: Isn't the power of the number 2 esper in Toaru Majutsu no Index? Also, that sword is from Akame ga kill, right?

[Korosensei]: Outside of the laws of physic eh? You could do a lot of things with it student Izumi.

[Erza]: What an impressive ability!

[Izumi]: I don't know guys. It was also said that magicians and espers cannot mix.

[Kazuma]: But isn't danger only for the people of Toaru? Maybe the chat will help you since you are not in Toaru.

[Izumi]: you are right. I guess I will just leave it to Fate.

As they chatted, they received a notification.

[The system will update itself in 5 hours. Please retrieve your rewards. The Multiverse Chat Group will be available to you again in 2 days.]

[Izumi]: All right guys, I will go and accept the rewards. See you and 2 days.

[Kazuma]: All right. Can't wait for my explosions.

[Erza]: Me too. I will test my rewards.

[Korosensei]: All right, bye students.

[Kuroneko]: Bye guys!

Izumi left the chat and went to his rewards to retrieve them.

[Which reward would you like to retrieve first?]

[Murasame/Dark Matter]

Izumi first chose Murasame. In a flash of light, it appeared in his hands. It was a simple sheathed katana with a red handle and tsuka. He withdrew the sword from its sheath, a murderous aura escaped from it and he quickly put it back so that the sword does not alert or affect anyone in the vicinity.

"Damn, what a strong aura. I could almost feel the curse. I should use it as a last resort. It's still a beautiful blade" Izumi said as sweat rolled down his forehead as he examined the sword. It was the first time he felt this sort of aura and it affected him a little. Izumi calmed down and tried to find a place to hide it when another notification arrived.

[Would you like to bind the weapon to your soul?]

[Yes/No]

"Of course," Izumi said. He saw the sword disappear and he felt his sword in his very being ready to be called out. Izumi nodded and went to get his second reward.

[Warning!

The assimilation of this ability will cause immense pain due to the opposite nature of the ability and magic. After the assimilation, you will be able to use both powers.

The assimilation process will last 1 hour.

Would you still like to proceed?]

[Yes/No]

Izumi checked the time. It was 6:30 pm and his mother would arrive at 8h. Izumi nodded. He took a deep breath and smashed the Yes button.

Not a second later, gut-wrenching pain erupted into his very body. He felt his mind slipping as he felt his body burning. He tried really hard not to scream so much to not alert anyone in the apartment complex that he resorted to screaming into his pillow. He could've sworn that his bones were breaking and his blood vessels were exploding. After 30 minutes of agony, the pain stopped and he received a message from the system.

[Congratulations, you have assimilated Dark Matter!]

Huffing and trying to catch his breath, Izumi sat up from his bed and examined his body.

"Why the hell does everything I get have to be painful? At least I can increase my pain tolerance."

As he checked his body, he started to feel different. He brought his hand out and thought about his esper ability. He felt as if something was there, in the back of his mind and he brought it out. Strange white particles appeared out of thin air and floated above his hand.

"Wow, this is insane," Izumi whispered mesmerized.

"I can feel the different energies produced by the matter."

Giving another command inside his Personal Reality, he produced a ball of Dark Matter. It simply floated above his open palm. The possibility of this ability is endless if he went with what he saw and read in Toaru.

"But, I feel super tired. So I will go take a bath and sleep the entire time," he said to himself. Getting out of bed, he went to take a bath and eat the food his mother had prepared after coming home and went to sleep with a smile after thinking about everything that had happened. If someone asked if he would do the mission again, he wouldn't hesitate and reply with a Yes.