Death

by tmb1112

Death is a Quirk that can only kill. A perfect Quirk for a villain, but what if the boy who manifested that power just wanted to be a hero? Enrolling in U.A. might not be enough when all your Quirk can do is kill people. Follow Zach Sazaki from his first day in Class A on a story that spans years, as he learns to be a hero, finds out more about his Quirk, and too much to summarize!

151. Chapter 151

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 151:

On Zach's first day at Shiketsu High, he placed first in the school's best class, the hero course Class 1. Ranking Day happened on the first of the term for the third years, second day for second years, and the Friday of the first week of school that started on Wednesday for the freshmen. Before the first day was even over though, Zach was already known throughout the school for his strength, from rumors spread across the school like wildfire.

Dendo Takashi got mad at the rest of his class for the way those rumors had spread so quickly, that by halfway through lunch he had a first year asking him about Lifebringer and how powerful he was. His classmates told him they had not been going around saying that though, and the class came to understand where the rumors were spreading from of Lifebringer's amazing strength. Apparently a few of the second years and first years had seen Zach during their hero licensing exam, and rumors were spreading about how he had fought Best Jeanist all on his own during the exam. The rumors were different depending on who heard them; some people said that Lifebringer had taken on Best Jeanist singlehandedly, while others said that he held Best Jeanist off so the others in the exam could continue their rescue efforts, while others still gave Zach credit for defeating Best Jeanist and a dozen of his sidekicks all on his own while at the same time leading the other applicants to victory.

The first day of school had not even ended yet before the rumors started about what happened to Zach on his way to school. Kotsumura asked him about it when he finally heard what had happened, as Kerushi mentioned it to him in a whisper only for him to go and ask Zach since he no longer had the apprehension towards him that he felt at the start of the day. Zach admitted that he was attacked earlier, but he did not seem bothered nor surprised by it. Hazano asked him about it too, and Zach told his teacher that he was fine and just apologized again for being late because of it, to which Hazano mentioned he should give the excuse next time since he would have understood.

By the time Zach was leaving his first day of school, he was even more of a celebrity to his classmates than he was before arriving. He had become more than just the name, the celebrity that the news talked about. They had new information about him that they didn't know just from the news. Primary and secondary sources that told them that the Lifebringer really was, amazing. Zach took long routes home on his first couple of days at school, making sure he kept an eye on everyone watching him until he was out of sight of all the classmates and reporters who tried following him off school grounds. He avoided most reporters, even jogging away despite being on camera. He had given his reason for it that morning during the post-interview post-attack, so whenever he felt there was a camera on him he just made sure to keep running while keeping his eyes peeled on buildings near him for assassins. It was what he normally did only more pronounced so that other people watching the clip later would be able to easily see what he was doing unlike when he normally acted like he wasn't doing it.

On the second day of school, Zach wound up having to sign a few things at lunch that some people brought up to him. They had heard things about how down-to-earth he was, seen how un-intimidating he was on the news the afternoon before, and the smile he had while talking casually to his new classmates set the other students around the school at ease. He made sure to smile and cheerfully sign the 'LIFEBRINGER' shirts and paraphernalia they brought to him too, and he always listened closely if someone came up to him and told him how they were inspired by the things he did before he disappeared. He didn't say anything when the people would also mention how they were amazed by the way he came back and turned himself in, but if they didn't mention it he had to add on to what they were saying that what he did was wrong no matter what the positive consequences were, even when they tried to argue about how the League had practically disappeared after what he did.

Kotsumura Keiji heard it from his little sister on their way home on the first and second day of school, and at home during dinner with his mom and dad, and all the time he was with his sister now. Anima was more excited about him being in Zach's class than he had been beforehand, though he suspected his classmates' reactions to Zach joining them might have made him cool down more than he would have normally. On his way to school on the Friday of the first week, so the third day of school, Anima continued to tell him how jealous she was that he had been born two years older than her and thus got to be in Lifebringer's class. She continued on in a happier tone though about how since their was a crazy big celebrity at their school, and they got to see him more than everyone else (which was already amazing and awesome in itself), people were going to give them more attention now too wanting to know more things about him. So she continued to ask him about Lifebringer and everything about him, to which Keiji just gave her the same things he knew from what Lifebringer had told them.

Zach kept what he talked about pretty vague and only specific in certain aspects that his classmates wouldn't be able to understand anyway. He would mention something that sounded completely nonsensical, yet his tone was serious enough that to them it seemed more like they just didn't understand enough about the subject. Like when Keiji asked his new classmate about his missing arm, Zach had told him about how the dark elves and forest elves were about to start a civil war, and how he had lost it trying to stop that war. The amount of confusion he felt during that conversation was unlike anything he had ever felt before, but for some reason the look of pride on Zach's face when he said at the end how he had succeeded seemed more real than most of the time he had spent with Lifebringer thus far. It did not make any sense to him, and he was 85% sure that Lifebringer was lying to him, but Zach did lose his arm and he did have other scars that he then showed while saying that story, such as the huge horizontal gash across his stomach that jagged near the left side and was thicker than most other scars around it.

Kotsumura Keiji was the only one to have seen any more of Zach's scars so far other than his lower legs that a few classmates had seen. It was only during that conversation that Zach lifted up his shirt a bit to show the scar, and though Kotsumura focused on the scar in question, his eyes could not help but wander over the rest of his new friend's scars covering the bottom of his torso around where Zach lifted the hem of his shirt. In only a couple of seconds, Kotsumura had seen more scars than he was able to count, and he only had more questions after seeing them.

Kotsumura said goodbye to his little sister as they got to school on Friday, and he went to his classroom where Zach was already, sitting in an old classmate's seat who he had told Zach about the day before. Zach asked him about it, and though he was confused at how Zach knew, he told his new friend about their old classmate who had died in the middle of their second year during an internship. It was against the Stain Cult, and Kotsumura mentioned how Zach's old classmate Deku was responsible for putting the man who did it back behind bars. Kotsumura stood at the side of Zach's desk, leaning on the one next to it before class started as his was far away and he wouldn't be able to talk to his new friend for a while otherwise.

Zach had gotten to school early. He actually left his apartment when it was still dark, and he flew to school that day. He had already seen most of the city and memorized everywhere within a few miles of Shiketsu High School. Zach studied the layout of the city and of his new high school he had gotten a tour of several days ago, and so now he just needed to get there and get home without people following him and finding his apartment. He chilled out in an alleyway for a couple of hours, then he got into school when it would be too early for most everyone else but not too early that he wouldn't be allowed in. He had even beat any reporters who would have been waiting out front of the school over the next few hours to catch him coming in.

Other students filled into the classroom, and a couple of others came over to where Kotsumura and Zach were talking. After the tournament where Zach had gotten first on Ranking Day, (no one had challenged him in the afternoon after seeing his fight against Inasa), Zach hadn't bragged about his new ranking to his new classmates. He had actually been pretty humble about it afterwards, and he instead just mentioned how his fights were hard fought and how close they were, at least most of them. His mention of "most of them" had made his classmates around him silent for a few seconds, as Dendo was within earshot and it sounded like he was saying it directly at him. A couple of his classmates even gave Zach dirty looks for it, which he understood since Dendo had been their classmate and friend for years, and he was an outsider. Still, a few of the others had seen the way Dendo treated him, outside of a couple of stray insults. Inasa, as well as some others who heard, be-it from another row of the locker room, what Dendo said to Zach in there did not blame Zach for being overly hard on their classmate who was still giving him constantly dirty glares through their first week of school.

The day started, and Zach was confused at the start of it as his teacher never came in. Instead, a woman who looked a little younger than Hazano sensei came in two minutes late and immediately set her eyes on him as she got set up in the room. "Hachiman's got work on Fridays this term," the woman with long brown hair tied into a ponytail began. The other students seemed to recognize her from what Zach could see, but they all seemed surprised upon hearing that. Muoko and Tomoki had settled down the class around the time it should have started, and they had all just been waiting for Hazano sensei to come in. Their brunette teacher paused after her first announcement, and she kept looking at Zach while continuing, "I can't tell you what his assignment is, but don't worry about it. He told me though! That you, Lifebringer, haven't yet been properly introduced."

Zach gave his teacher a somewhat confused look. She smiled at his expression, her fully red eyes with green pupils narrowing towards him. "I'm Enorma, but you will call me 'Enorma-sensei.'"

Enorma. She can make things bigger or smaller. As a killer she'd be unstoppable. Make a heart bigger and blow it to pieces. As a hero, it's more difficult to use without destroying an enemy. As I know, she can use it on things she sees. I don't know if that includes internal organs or not, but in a fight against a villain- I'd have to see her actual fighting style to know. Her costume doesn't give much away, but- She's so weird. Does she want me to do an introduction? Zach felt Himazuri start reading his mind, and immediately his thoughts changed track to a less suspicious one. He kept his thoughts away from being annoyed by what she was doing too, and away from the hope that she did not notice his own exasperation at how early she was starting to read his mind today. Instead, he had an embarrassing thought about one time he was in his own room, and a girl with long brown hair walked in wearing only a bathrobe that she dropped.

Himazuri stopped reading Zach's mind with her face going bright red. She lowered her eyes down to her desk, thinking about the girl's naked body, and then on that girl's long brown hair which made her look back up towards her teacher with her eyes wide. Oh no-

Ah shit, Zach thought as he stared at his teacher, immediately realizing what Himazuri was thinking in the right corner of his vision. She totally thinks I'm into Enorma.

"So! Since I don't know you AT ALL yet, and I'll be taking care of this class on all Fridays for now on, why don't you come up here and give a self-introduction?!" Enorma stepped aside towards the teacher's desk and motioned with a hand in front of her for Zach to move to the middle of the room.

Zach got up from his seat, pushing his hands down on the desk and standing up without much hesitation. Most of his classmates watched closely, all of them interested as Zach had barely said anything about himself so far. Zach stepped up to the front of the room and glanced towards his teacher who leaned back on the desk. The woman in her late twenties nodded at him to go on, and Zach looked forward at the twenty-nine students in front of him waiting for him to speak.

"Well," Zach began. He looked around the class at the students he had been talking to over the last two days. I'd say about a third are willing to be my friends right now. Only Flugeru and Dendo are still really against me, and Flugeru might only be because of how pissed Dendo is. I even got Kerushi to laugh yesterday, and he was being a dick that first day too. Kameko opened up like I thought he would, especially since Imino seemed to want to be my friend after that fight. He got ranked much higher too; I think his afternoon fights went a lot better because of the confidence he got with ours, and he only lost because of… "My name's Zach Sazaki, but you can all call me Zach, as I've said. Um," he paused and looked to be thinking hard about how else to describe himself.

I mean, we all know like everything about him already.

What is there to tell us that we wouldn't already know? Other than the stuff he's keeping secret on purpose.

Is this it?

Come onnnn…

"Well," Enorma began after Zach was hesitating for too long. She thought more along the lines that they all knew so much about Lifebringer already that he was having trouble coming up with something to tell them. "How about you tell us three things you're good at, and three things you're bad at? Then you can sit down."

Three things I'm good at. Three things I'm bad at. Well, these would be easy to check. Don't need to lie either. Zach nodded while looking at his teacher, then he turned back to his classmates and hummed like he was thinking of what to say. "I'm… good at close quarters combat. I'm a good shot too. And, I'm a good pilot. As for what I'm bad at-"

"A pilot?" Enorma asked, raising her eyebrows at her student.

He looked to her and nodded, and Satoshi asked from the second row back, "What do you mean? Like, flying your costume? Or have you flown like planes before?"

"Planes and stuff," Zach said, explaining what he was referring to. "A Super-Jet, the-"

"You flew a Super-Jet?" Enorma asked, her smile lowering down. Those are top grade. Is he- "You can't- you're not allowed to fly one of those. The only way to get one-"

"I found some villains who had stolen them," Zach replied, cutting off his teacher before she could accuse him of anything. "They tried to escape in them, I chased them in one of the other ones." Enorma stared at him with her eyes wide at what he was saying. Zach looked back at his class though and continued, "As for the things I'm bad at, I'd say definitely French, oh and Korean." He paused and lifted his eyes up towards the ceiling. Guess I'll count that as one. Reading Korean is harder but differentiating French from Italian and Spanish always got me. "And I'm not good with computers. I don't mean like, I don't get how to use them. Just like, I tried to learn how to hack, and code, but that stuff was always just beyond me. And third," Zach paused for a second, then he smirked and said with a laugh, "Landing."

"Hold on," Enorma began, shaking her head and standing up straight off the desk. She had been stuck on what Lifebringer had said there for a minute, trying to figure out if he had just told her something super illegal or not. It was her first time meeting him, and she had no idea why he was being so frank with the stuff he was saying like he had not been on the run for thirteen months but out on his own missions. She gave him a somewhat darker look, though still hesitant as she wondered if everyone was hearing stuff like this from him since he came back. "Even if you stole that plane back from villains who had stolen it themselves, you would need to bring it back or-"

"As I just mentioned," Zach interrupted his teacher again, still smiling partially and raising up a hand in his own defense as he started. "One of the things I'm bad at, is landing." Enorma's eyes opened wide, her heart rate speeding up as instead of being put at ease by his statement she only got nervous that he had suspected what she was about to ask him before she even started elaborating on it. Zach continued despite his new teacher's uneasy expression, "I might have been a good pilot when I actually flew the thing, but landing was one thing I never got a hang of." Zach lifted his right hand and rubbed his left shoulder for a second which made half his classmates grin too and almost laugh as he made the joke, while others got more cautious looks on their faces wondering if he was serious, and their teacher just stared closely at his arm with wide eyes at what she had heard from Hazano.

"You know French and Korean?" Porrolo asked from the seat behind Satoshi's, at the seat on Zach's right side which was an empty seat at the moment. "And you're 'bad' at them?"

"Yeah," Zach replied. "I'm much better at English, and Italian," Zach added. Places people saw me very clearly. I could mention Germany too, but the rumors there were darker and would be better left for them to ask about and be left vague. I can mask my accent the best in English though. Both my parents had some American blood in them, though I'd say it was just from using English the most for a whole year. I needed people to think it was my native language too, and I had the most knowledge in it before leaving other than Japanese.

The class already knew he was good at close quarters combat, and the point of being a good shot most of them just applied to his grappling hook skills which he had shown off on Ranking Day too. "Even if you crashed that plane," Enorma started again, still frowning at her new student which showed Zach that the excited and carefree attitude she had when she came in was not the way she always acted. "You should have informed the authorities about its location."

Zach gave his teacher a hesitant and somewhat confused look. "Well, I couldn't really do that. Since, I was hiding from the authorities after what happened in the Enudora Forest." Zach avoided calling it the 'Lifebringer Incident,' but his teacher still got a darker look on her face at the way Zach just mentioned it without getting embarrassed to bring it up.

More importantly, he did not get regretful either as he said it, and Enorma gave him a darker expression as she said, "The forest where you killed several people." Zach looked at his teacher in surprise for a moment before his own eyes narrowed too. The whole room was silent after the teacher called Zach out, and Enorma added, "Are you just-"

"Do you doubt our justice system?" Zach questioned. Enorma froze with her mouth open, a confused look covering her face as she felt like she was the one on the side of the justice system right now for criticizing the way Zach had done things in the past. His face was serious though, and he continued, "Because I was pardoned. We have a provision in our laws to allow for a pardon, and I was given one. Do you think that was wrong?" Zach asked it and then he continued as his teacher opened her mouth, "Because it doesn't matter if you do." She froze with her mouth wide open, her eyes widening as her student continued at her before she had a chance to answer. "Heroes are the tools of the government to uphold the law. The law released me from jail. Your opinion that I should be thrown back in Tartaros isn't important to me, because you don't make the rules-"

"Whoa whoa, I didn't say that," Enorma pulled back and lifted her hands defensively as the kid in front of her was getting way too defensive, and before she came in she had not been decided on how she thought about him yet. She had felt he was being too unapologetic there for a minute, but she retracted as apparently she had made herself out to want him to get thrown back in prison. Zach lost his frustrated and accusatory look too, retracting his own confrontational expression as he accepted her own retraction and acted apologetically like he had just misread the situation. "Um," Enorma began again as she was standing right in front of this man who had just relaxed his expression as if saying what she did was alright and he was not mad at her. "Good, introduction. You can take your seat."

Does he seriously believe he should have been released early? Dendo glared towards Zach as he headed back towards his desk. He's a killer, and he doesn't deserve this kind of treatment.

What he just said… makes sense. Muoko watched as a new student of her class headed back towards her seat. She hummed and looked down for a moment. I may be wrong to be looking out for the class to protect them from Lifebringer, in case they start to believe in him too much. It is the judicial system of this country that heroes follow. Justice, is not decided by each of us. It is a construct the government creates… as decided by the people. The provision for a pardon is put in, because justice is dependent on how people consider justice. If they voted in Prime Minister Nikko so that he could release Sazaki, then Sazaki does "deserve" to be out of prison. That is not up for us to contest.

Geez, Enorma sensei was being damn harsh with Zach. Guess it takes talking to him for a little to get used to the kind of guy he is, Reika leaned back in her seat in a relaxed way. Dude's crazy powerful, but he's more chill than anyone would think. Not as super-excitable as Inasa, and not a complete overconfident ass like Dendo is, or was, Reika glanced back towards her green-haired classmate who had been quieter the last couple of days than usual. Zach shut him right up. Not that I don't blame him. That first fight wasn't even a fight. Fucking craziest shit I've seen, maybe ever. Out of everything you did that day, Reika looked back forwards as Enorma started talking, but her eyes rose up to the ceiling as she thought back instead on the fight between Zach and Dendo. There's nothing crazier than that. Robot arm, smashing Kameko's shell, Imino getting hits on him, beating Inasa, it's all a mess. But what he did to Dendo was just… brutal.

Reika got confused herself at what she just thought. Brutal? I guess. The way Dendo's been acting, it's like his whole fucking world's been- but damn that fight was crazy. He didn't even touch him. I heard that's what Dendo said before the fight: that Zach wouldn't even touch him. Reika shook her head and then refocused on what her new Friday homeroom teacher was telling her. Her mind still strayed back over to her mysterious new classmate who had not told them what happened to his arm, other than vague responses and the joke he just made a minute ago which just added to the mystery he knew they all wanted to know about. Savage. The way he beat Dendo was savage in itself, but if he was really going for beating Dendo, the same way he "beat" Manzo and Kameko, he might've done it. Reika Tiona's face got a bit more serious, her eyes focusing and her eyes shifting to the side where Lifebringer had taken his seat again.

Manzo Elia stared towards her classmate whose responses made her stare with so much interest after what he had just talked about. The girl with dark red hair falling just to her shoulders where it curled back up watched her classmate with a far-off look and a soft smile. "Why would it matter to me if you were a girl?" Manzo smiled brighter and she shifted her gaze towards the windows. On her right side, Bibi Reina gave her a seriously confused and even nervous look at how relaxed and happy Manzo was, when usually she would be keeping her emotions in check and hidden.

Bibi had not noticed what Reika already had, as had only a few others in the class while most of them were just suspicious of it or thought it happened by accident due to the fights. So the gray-haired girl was just confused as she watched her classmate who was always so composed and serious give off such a relaxed feeling as well as looking almost dreamily towards Zach there for a minute. What is going on? Bibi thought, shifting her gaze back over to Lifebringer herself who she felt was the cause of all these strange changes happening in their class. In only a few days, Dendo was always angry, Manzo had relaxed and was acting differently, the class seemed to be at odds and it was mainly due to how some of them were treating Lifebringer- and their homeroom teacher for Fridays had changed!

Teachers at hero schools tend to take their jobs seriously, Zach thought as he watched his teacher speak to the class. I get that All Might was sometimes late those first few weeks of school, because he could be everywhere. It's why I couldn't ever be a teacher. Being a teacher would be nice. All Might got in late because he was out fighting villains when we were supposed to be having class, or because he had run out of his time limit back when no one else knew about it- fuck! Zach narrowed his eyes forward but relaxed his expression, losing the annoyed look on it before Enorma could see it.

Himazuri froze where she was sitting. She turned her attention towards the front of the room, gulping and holding her breath as she heard that curse immediately followed by absolutely nothing. Her heart was racing, and she shifted her eyes to the corners to stare back over at Zach as Enorma talked to their class. She barely heard a thing Enorma was saying, even without thoughts covering up the audible volume. Everyone was focused towards the front of the room again, as Enorma talked about what their Hero-Practical class was going to be after their Biology lesson that morning.

Listen, Himazuri.

Himazuri held her breath, her eyes huge as she stared forward. No one had noticed yet. She sat there with her mind racing and her heart racing even faster as she heard thoughts directed straight towards her. It was only half a second after she started listening in to Zach's thoughts when he suddenly cut off his thought stream. She did not know what he had been thinking about, but apparently he did not want her knowing. Yet she was frozen where she sat because no one had ever done this to her before.

Himazuri had spent her entire life able to tell the fakers from the people she really wanted to be friends with. There were guys in her class who she never wanted to read their minds again, just because of some of the gross thoughts she had heard from them. She never read their minds again since their first years, and many of them she was actually friends with, telling herself not to judge them based off a few thoughts. There were also people whose minds she read often, and she knew she could never get caught cheating on a test and had done so since she was a child. Any question she did not know, she used her Quirk on half the room since elementary school and judged how she should answer based off a general consensus.

There had never been a time when anyone actually spoke to her like this in their own mind. No one had ever cut off their thoughts, like they knew she was listening. Sometimes people had called her out on reading her mind while she was doing it, and other times people accused her when she really wasn't which always hurt. But he did not call her out. He just thought it at her. It was something she had heard before too though. A lifetime of reading people's minds had prepared her for times when people might think something like he just did, in order to freak her out and get her to react because of it. Himazuri tried to keep her expression straight, but the way he cut himself off so suddenly when she started reading his mind made her think that this was one time when the person really wasn't just thinking it to test her reaction.

Himazuri's eyes shifted towards Zach and locked on the side of his head, but he kept looking at Enorma and even had a book out to write some things down like he was fully focused on her. I'll give you one warning. Stay out of my head. Himazuri lowered her eyes down to her desk in panic, taking her mind reading ability off of Zach and holding in any noise she might make in her sudden anxiety. She listened back in though, realizing he might still be trying to talk to her. Right as she started trying to listen again, he continued thinking, I mean it. One warning. GET OUT OF MY HEAD!

Himazuri leaned back in her seat, stopping Enorma from talking while most people in the class looked over at the sound of the scraping chair. Himazuri leaned down and quickly pulled a pencil out of her desk, pretending like it was nothing and keeping her expression hidden from most of her classmates who just turned back to Enorma sensei who continued on with what she was saying. Oh my God. He did know! How did he know? Himazuri was no longer listening to his thoughts, but she shifted her eyes up while leaning down to reach into her desk's hollow slot. He's so experienced! He must have faced a hundred people with Quirks like mine and just knows how to get around them! Is that something I'll run into more in the future? Why haven't any of the teachers said that I might run into this? None of them have ever seemed to realize it either. No one ever notices- he didn't even notice, all those other times… unless, he did?

The short girl with brown hair held her breath again with her eyes focused down on her desk. He's just been, he's been… keeping quiet about it. Himazuri let out a breath and her eyes opened even wider. He could have thought something at me the first time. And sure, he's probably been cautious about his thoughts the whole time, lying to me whenever he felt me- but he didn't say anything! For three days he- every time I listened in, he knew, and he just kept thinking without saying anything about how I was breaching his privacy. About how I was listening in to him while pretending not to! People joke about me always listening, but they aren't all wrong! I listen way more than anyone thinks, and if they knew no one would- but he just- he… The shortest girl in the class gulped thinking about that final loud yell he made at her, raising his voice in his own thoughts. He's so strong. Maybe he doesn't want me to listen because he has a secret reason for being here though. Maybe, it wasn't him being nice not saying anything all this time, but just trying to trick me too?

Alright, that might not have been the best way to handle that. She probably won't listen up for a while though. If she does, I have to go through with it. My word means something. I mean what I say, and what I think. Zach wrote into his notebook, and he had a dark look covering his face for a second as he thought about the last mind reader he had faced. Amaterasu's face appeared in his mind, her head bowed with blood below her lips, her neck red, and her hands fingerless. She got me. On stupid shit, she got me distracted. Because I hadn't thought hard about anything for so long, she used it and fucked me! I could have prepared better by knowing all my own thoughts, but Amaterasu's gone now. She won't get me again. The Void girl's being taken care of. Himazuri isn't a villain. She's not an enemy. But, she is using her Quirk when she isn't supposed to be. Me telling her to stop reading my mind is more me catching her than her catching me.

Whatever his reason was for not saying anything sooner, I can't listen in anymore. What was he "warning" me about? What would he do if I tried it again? Should I find out, just to check? Can he hurt me? No way, I've seen what his Quirk is. But what if when I read minds, I'm actually going inside their heads? Could he cover himself in Death- or even just inside his own head. I'd die, and no one would… Zach's not like that though! Don't get paranoid just because he caught you. Himazuri relaxed a bit and she took in a deep breath. I could ask him how he knew. The way he was doing things, he would want me to know to be better prepared against villains who might know how to do that just like him…

Friday morning went by quickly for Zach, with no more intrusions in his mental space. He saw Himazuri keep shooting nervous looks his way through their classes, but he acted normally and didn't address the situation in the least. To him, the issue was currently resolved. The class went to lunch and Zach filled up his tray before heading over to the same table he had sat at for the past two days. He saw someone glaring towards him and shifted his eyes over in Dendo's direction for a moment, his lips flattening back out too as they met each others' gazes. He smiled again though while turning to his other classmates and took his seat at the table on Kotsumura's left side.

At another table in the cafeteria, Jaime Crowley sighed while looking over to the table that Lifebringer just sat down on. The American exchange student looked back across the table at Bibi who was holding a pair of chopsticks but was not focused enough on her bento to eat it. "My mom called me late last night," Jaime mentioned, getting Bibi to look at her as did Himazuri from down the bench on Jaime's left. The other two girls already sitting with their lighter-skinned friend looked at her wondering what she was getting at. "Apparently the news back home heard about Zach getting attacked again, and she bugged out hearing it was so close to the school. I told her not to worry about it, but she's really hounding me."

"She's just worried," Bibi began.

"I know that," Jaime retorted with a wave of her hand. She lifted her own plastic fork she had grabbed from the lunch line with her food, and she got to eating while mentioning, "But it's not going to be a smooth ride to the finish anymore. One more term? Pssh," Jaime lifted an arm and wiped her lips with her sleeve as the noise she made by blowing her lips got them wet and messy with some food particles. "This term's going to take for-ever."

The last few days have felt very long, Bibi thought, poking around at her food with her chopsticks and shifting her eyes over towards Lifebringer again. Then again, it's already the third day of class! It feels like it's still right after he came in- but there's still so much left too!

Over at a different lunch table, Kerushi sat down on the opposite side of the table as Dendo and Flugeru who was on Dendo's right side and in the middle of eating. Kerushi frowned at Dendo's look and glanced back towards Lifebringer for a moment before sighing and getting to his own food. "What?" Dendo asked, and Kerushi lifted his head up before he could start eating.

"Nothing," Kerushi replied, shaking his head like it really was. Kerushi Garudo tried to avoid Dendo's look and just got to his lunch.

Dendo opened his mouth, then he closed it and he bit down in so much frustration as he did not know what he was going to say. Why are we the only ones still mad?! That bastard's chipping away and, Dendo heard laughter from the other table where a lot of his other classmates were, some who would normally sit with him at lunch but who were talking with Lifebringer and smiling like usual.

Muoko and Tomoki were coming back from the lunch line themselves, and they looked over to the left as they heard the laughter and saw the table with the most of their classmates gathered at it but still a couple empty seats. Muoko then looked to her right and saw Dendo glaring towards Lifebringer, then shifting his attention towards her. Muoko moved towards Dendo's table along with her boyfriend and co-rep of the class, and she took a seat down the bench with Tomoki sitting next to her closer to Kerushi.

Tomoki looked over towards his classmate with green hair and the most frustrated look on his face that would not go away no matter how long since that fight it had been. He looked like he did right after the fight almost constantly, like any single thing could set him off on a tirade. I wish he'd get over it already, but to lose like that. Tomoki looked back at Muoko and avoided Dendo's look as the more muscular teen turned his way for a moment.

They're all- In front of everyone I got beaten and, fuck, Dendo ground his teeth, his thoughts not even finishing full sentences as his own frustration was making it hard to think straight. The way Tomoki looked away from him right there, made Dendo lower his eyes back to his tray while biting even harder. All respect I had, it's all gone. He humiliated me. I've never been so… FUCK! He knew what he was doing too! He knew what it would do, he knew I'd be humiliated in front of everyone and- he's a fucking villain and he's tricking them all right in front of me, and I can't do anything!

Dendo heard another loud laugh come from the table where Lifebringer was sitting, and his eyes widened and then narrowed angrily at the blue-skinned teen who covered his mouth after letting out that loud laugh. Imino lowered his hand afterwards though and did not look all that embarrassed for making such a loud noise, instead just leaning back forward and mentioning something and pointing down at his side which had Lifebringer scratch the side of his head and chuckle himself. Everyone else, Dendo thought, seeing not just Imino, but Kameko, Manzo, and Inasa all sitting at that table with the guy who beat their asses. He hit them all so hard. His fights were brutal and his hits left big bruises for all of them- while I just fell to the fucking floor! I fucking- tripped?! He didn't even need to touch me?!

At a table with a few girls at it, Reika came over and plopped down right next to Bibi on her right side. She put her tray down with her food half-finished as she had been sitting at the more crowded table until a minute ago. Then she leaned in towards Bibi and put an arm around her short friend's side and pulled her close making Bibi start to complain and ask what she was doing. "Are you still freaking out?" Reika asked, stopping her friend in mid-complaint.

Bibi's eyes opened wide and she looked next to her at her strong blonde friend with her eyes wide behind her long gray bangs. Himazuri looked over the table to the two of them, and Jaime stared across from the other side of the table too with her head tilted to the side as she was more confused than the mind reader who had checked to see what Bibi was acting so nervous about recently. Himazuri glanced over towards Lifebringer for a moment, while Reika continued in a more scolding tone at her friend, "Stop being scared of Zach. Just stop."

"Wh-what are… How can I just do that?" Bibi's voice got much quieter and she whispered at her friend who just called her out on it without even asking to see if that was really why she was acting some way. The fact that Reika knew made Bibi think that Lifebringer must have noticed too, and she kept her eyes focused straight on Reika's head so she wouldn't have to see around it over at the table with more people at it. Jaime looked at the short girl across the table in surprise that it was true, and she glanced back over towards Lifebringer past Himazuri who was more subtly doing the same.

Reika pulled in her shorter friend closer with the arm around her, "Geez, just try talking to him." Bibi's eyes widened more in fear that Reika was about to drag her over to do just that, but Reika let go and just continued to her classmates, "Outside of fights, he's the least intimidating dude. Super friendly. And hot." She said the last part with more of a smirk as she darted a look back over herself towards Zach.

"Least intimidating?" Even you don't believe that, Himazuri thought at Reika as she glanced back at her. Though you do believe he's hot, I mean who wouldn't-

"Not that you'd be able to tell," Reika added with an elbow into Bibi's side which made her flinch and spin back at Reika with a pout at the tease. "Seriously though," Reika began again, leaning in towards Bibi like she was going to say something inspiring and serious. "A mysterious guy like that, even a rug-muncher might flip sides- sup Roger?" Reika lifted her head and greeted the boy walking to the other side of their table, which stopped Bibi with her mouth open from whisper-yelling at Reika to stop.

Bibi coughed back the words bubbling in her mouth and looked away when she saw Roger giving them a strange look at the way they had been leaned in talking about something clearly not for him. Jaime moved to the side though and Roger sat down with his tray. "I talked to Zach earlier," Roger began to Jaime after taking his seat, though he was speaking loud enough that the others at the table could all hear him. "His English is like, fluent. I thought so from the other day but we had a whole conversation about the new Quirkball league they set up back home. Apparently he's a fan of the Morudor City Redbacks."

Jaime was interested for a moment, but she rolled her eyes when Roger started mentioning Quirkball. "He just happened to bring up Quirkball? I bet you brought it up-"

"I was going to! He asked where I was from though and muttered crap about the Manticores!"

"No way," Jaime shook her head with a disbelieving look. She dropped her bottom lip at his serious expression and spun to look towards Lifebringer, and she shook her head with an exasperated look growing a second later as she looked back at Roger. "Well look at you. Finally got someone to talk about it with-"

"Quirkball's such a dangerous," Bibi started, but she quieted down when Roger turned to her with a look of exasperated frustration. "It's true though," she said after stopping herself for only a second.

"Maybe you guys just haven't given it a chance yet," Roger argued back. "Japan's this super traditional kind of place, in certain aspects. And it's super conservative here too. When we go back home," he turned back to Jaime with a grin. "In a couple months, things are going to be way different from when we left. Quirkball got their recreational license certification over a year back, so I figure how many jobs you think can also use Quirks now? It's going to be crazy."

"And with all that excess Quirk usage," Reika began. She shook her head and continued at her American friends, "A lot more people are going to get hurt when people with trained Quirks use them for crime."

"And that's why they'll still need great heroes like us to come back and keep the peace," Roger countered right back with a grin. "Besides," he continued before Reika could continue her argument. "Even if there are a few more people who can use stronger Quirks for crimes, there are going to be a lot of other stronger people there who know how to use their Quirks too because of those changes. After all, there are always going to be more people who want to do right, that it'll more than even out."

The others at the table stared at Roger in surprise for a few seconds, though Jaime just smiled softly at what she just heard her childhood friend say. The two of them had come to Japan together for the exchange program years ago, after living next to each other since they were kids back in the United States. Jaime opened her mouth to mention something about how Roger had thought that for a while now, since about two years ago. Before she could hint at what he was referencing though, she turned her head more as she saw movement behind her and someone heading towards the table with the most of their classmates at it.

Reika lifted her eyes from Roger's head and got a bead of sweat on the side of her face. "Uh oh," she said, her tone joking but also foreboding as all of them watched Dendo walking by.

"…And you just got in the jet and tried flying it?!"

"I didn't just try," Zach countered back at Kotsumura on his right side. "I told you, I was a good pilot. Really," he added, looking around at the skeptical others who wouldn't think he was good on his first flight.

"Landing counts as a part of being a good pilot," Imino retorted across the table. "And being good at crash-landing doesn't-"

"Hey, I didn't always crash." Zach paused for a second, then he scratched down on the bottom left side of his face over some scar tissue. It looked like he was just scratching thoughtfully with a small smile as he tried to come up with a time he hadn't crashed, but it also could have been him pretending like the scar there wasn't from crashing, or pointing out that it was. "Sometimes I jumped out before I crashed," Zach mentioned, smiling more and just chuckling once as he saw a plane smashing into a mountain after he had been dragged out of it. Valkyrie…

"Where was all this?" Porrolo asked from Kotsumura's other side, leaning forward and asking Sazaki with a curious and somewhat interrogative look.

"I think, one of the times was in Germany," Zach answered, but his voice trailed off and he was not that focused on the answer. He stayed vague as usual, but it did not sound like he was trying to avoid the topic. Instead, it just seemed like he had become focused on something else which had Porrolo turning too and forgetting why he had asked in the first place.

"Germany, huh?" Dendo asked, standing next to the end of the table and looking down at Zach, ignoring everyone else there who looked towards him with varying expressions.

They're all still much closer to Dendo than to me. That won't change. I'm not trying to make that change. He's nervous about it though. But none of them are going to tell him to back off. Not after what I did to him. The way he's been looking lately he's real serious about this too. Inasa looks ready to step in, almost like he actually thinks Dendo's going to attack me here. He's pretending not to be, but his look is warning Dendo not to and yet Dendo won't even look his way, so Inasa knows he hasn't even received the warning yet.

"And what were you doing there? Other than stealing planes and crashing them?" Dendo questioned Zach harshly, putting his hands down on the side of the table and glaring into Zach's eyes.

Kotsumura opened his mouth, ready to say Dendo's name and try and get him to cool off. His classmate darted his glare to the side for a second though telling him to stay out of it, and Kotsumura frowned as he closed his mouth and got a less understanding look on his face. The way Dendo looked at Kotsumura for just trying to speak up got a few of the others losing their understanding looks too, which just had Dendo getting angrier as he stood there glaring at Zach in his steady hazel eyes. "I didn't hear much about you over there. Or anywhere really, yet you've got all these 'crazy' stories, don't you?"

A couple of the others looked back towards Zach as Dendo accused him of lying to his face. "But if it is true, and you were fighting villains over there," Dendo rose the pitch of his voice suggesting it might be possible, then his green eyebrows narrowed down and he said in a darker voice, "Then what happened to those villains?" Dendo paused and when Zach did not respond immediately, he continued darkly, "Since there was no confirmed report of you being there. No villains ever caught by Zach Sazaki in Germany. Yet you say you beat them, didn't you? What'd you do with them?"

"I turned them over to heroes," Zach said. He stared back at Dendo who was accusing him of murdering all those villains with no one telling him to stop. A few of the others at the table had been nervously awaiting Zach's answer too, some of them getting more intense looks as they remembered they should be as cautious and accusatory as Dendo was being. "They didn't report it as me helping them," Zach continued when Dendo opened his mouth to counter. "Because then vigilante justice would be used in the villains' defenses, and they would've been let off." Zach tilted his head to the side and leaned it back while staring up into Dendo's dark green eyes. "And most heroes were willing to accept my help, despite my being a fugitive."

The others stared at Zach in surprise, though Dendo was still glaring harshly at him as every word out of Zach's mouth just made him angrier. He could see his own classmates believing it and even getting surprised or ready to ask their own questions, though he was not going to let Zach continue the lie further. "Bullshit," Dendo growled. "You're not just saying the heroes lied to go around the law, but the villains didn't say shit about you capturing them either? Even though you just admitted it would get them off-"

"Half the world thought I was Death," Zach interrupted while Dendo was in the middle of ranting and convincing the others how that didn't make sense. Zach's eyes got a bit darker as he cut in again, but Dendo's eyes opened wide this time like the others at Zach's explanation. He leaned forward and looked deep into Dendo's eyes, "You think any of those villains who I caught were eager to be released? Especially when the heroes weren't coming after me very hard?" Zach smirked and finished while looking back at his tray, "They thought they were getting off super easy and got shown a rare mercy or something." Zach stuck his chopsticks down into his noodles and picked some up, and he just said while bouncing the utensils a couple times to get off any loose noodles, "I'm not saying I wasn't out there being a vigilante, and I'm definitely not saying that the way I was doing it was right, because it wasn't."

Zach stuck his noodles in his mouth and chewed, looking like he was barely focused on the conversation and that it was not all that important what he was saying. "It was wrong. I should have turned myself in sooner. But while I was out there fighting villains," Zach turned his head and glared back at a gawking Dendo. "I was staying under the radar on purpose. I knew how to do that without killing villains. I did it before I left too. I was used to it."

"Hey hey," Satoshi leaned forward and started in an interested voice with his eyes still huge. "I heard rumors about that! The War Boys thing, right? Nobody had any idea-" Zach started nodding his head, while turning back to a classmate who was not looking at him the way Dendo was. "Did you really have an internal review for it? Like judges and all that-"

"People know about that?" Zach asked, actually getting surprised as he heard Satoshi say it. "I was pretty sure it was meant to be kept secret."

"So how did you really go and save those people?" Kotsumura asked.

"Those people?" Dendo questioned, snapping it at Kotsumura who turned back to him in surprise that Dendo sounded so angry over that. Zach's expression got darker before Dendo even continued, his eyes shifting down to his tray and his focus narrowing completely on his food. "It wasn't the hostages he went to save. It was your friend, Raijin," Dendo leaned off the table and walked around Zach's side of it. The others at the table were all looking towards Zach and behind him at their classmate walking up close. "Wasn't it?" Dendo asked, his voice harsh and his eyes cold as he looked down at the back of Zach's head.

Zach stared at his food for another two seconds, then he turned to the right and the blond boy sitting there. Zach responded to Kotsumura, "I had to sneak out of U.A., since they already had me under close watch after a different time I left to go vigilante around. Then I had to search out some old contact I knew from my time with the League-"

"Hey!" Dendo shouted down at the dark-haired teen sitting in front of him who ignored everything he said. "What the fuck do you think you're saying right now? This is a school for heroes," Dendo's hands clenched into fists at his sides, his other classmates getting more tense around the table and looking from him to Zach who once again had his lips flat and was just staring forward to his right side without saying a word. "It's no place, for a crazy, murderous, villain like you."

"Hey," Manzo put her hands over the table and glared hard at Dendo who rose his gaze to hers. "Zach got a pardon," she said it staring straight into Dendo's eyes, repeating the same thing she heard that morning which resonated in her mind. Dendo's eyes widened, but no one else at the table reacted in that way to what Manzo said. His eyes darted around at them all to find someone, anyone to back him up there. "It's not your place to decide if he's a villain."

"Manzo's right," Kameko said calmly, shaking his head at Dendo.

"Come on Takashi," Kotsumura said, looking over his shoulder and trying to cool things down with his tone as he could see Dendo just losing it more with his classmates turning on him. Zach stared at Kotsumura in more surprise as he heard that though, and he turned back himself which made Dendo stop opening his mouth to respond to Keiji.

"Takashi?" Zach asked.

"What of it? That's my name," Dendo glared at Zach, as the way he repeated his name made it seem like something was wrong about it.

"So would you be, Takashi Huga?" Zach heard a receptionist ask that question before, and a small smile came to his face as the person he was thinking of was directly related to the last story he was talking about, even if he was going to leave Webb out of it. "…It's not my real name."

"Nothing," Zach said, shaking his head and looking back forward with that nostalgic smile that showed he was thinking about some other Takashi. He got back to his food, ignoring the furious teen right behind him as if there was no reason to be alarmed or even concerned with Dendo at all. Dendo hated that calm, collected reaction from this villain right in front of him who he couldn't do a thing to, but worse he hated the looks from all his friends telling him to back off and leave them alone. Their looks that told him to stop bothering their new friend, that said they didn't want him there and would rather have Zach stay instead. Dendo's heart was racing and his fists balled so much harder at his sides, and he turned away and stormed off with a loud grunt and snort that sounded like he almost had steam coming out of his nostrils.

As Dendo stormed away, Himazuri had her head turned at the end of her table and she started, "Dendo." He walked right past her, and she got up from her seat and made to follow him out of the cafeteria. The other girls and Roger just watched Himazuri go, and Reika looked past her for a second at Dendo's back before just grunting herself and looking away. The pity she might've felt towards him after seeing his look as he exited the lunchroom was being overshadowed by what she heard Dendo call Zach in a cafeteria that had gotten completely silent during the exchange. Be a dick. Get treated like a dick, you dick.

As Himazuri was about to leave the cafeteria on her way after Dendo, she looked back towards the table he stormed away from with an upset look on her own face. She wanted to look towards the others who did not back up Dendo and at Zach specifically who she was angriest at, but her heart just raced harder as she looked back and straight into Zach's eyes, as his head had turned and his eyes were focused straight at the cafeteria exit. Himazuri spun away after meeting his eyes, running after Dendo before he could get too far. "Dendo wait!" She called out, the brunette jogging down the hall but slowing into a speed-walk so no teacher would get mad at her.

Dendo kept marching away, his fists clearly balled in fury at his sides. He ignored her whisper-yells a couple more times, spinning around the corner of the hall and then stopping as he heard another call of his name for him to stop. Himazuri sped around the corner and then jolted to a stop. She was worried he was going to cut somewhere else and she would lose him, but instead he was right in front of where she turned moving pretty fast. She was relieved, for a second. "Did you find anything?"

Dendo turned to the girl behind him who was frozen where she stood after he asked that question. His eyes were dark and his expression beyond just pissed. She started to think there was more to him storming out of the cafeteria than she first thought, like maybe putting some distance between him and Zach before he snapped. "No," she began softly. Dendo's expression got angrier, and Himazuri continued quickly, "I can't. He caught-" she froze, and she pursed her lips again when he gave her a surprised and then annoyed and angry look.

"Are you serious? He was just testing you," Dendo muttered, shaking his head at the girl before him. "He tricked you into thinking he knew with his thoughts, just like he's tricking everyone else-"

"It's not like that," Himazuri said, her expression getting more serious as she shook her head back at him. "I know my own Quirk. I know how some people try doing that, like you did our first year," she narrowed her eyes at Dendo and then shook her head once more. "This wasn't like that. He knew when I was listening in. He has known since the first day."

"How?"

"I don't know how," Himazuri snapped back. "But, I'm done trying to figure out what happened-"

"You have to keep trying," Dendo said, shaking his head at the shorter girl who pursed her lips again which only made Dendo grind his teeth in frustration. "I know what he's hiding. He's killed people and, he's here because he has some plan that's putting everyone in danger. I know it. I know Lifebringer's bad-"

"I don't think so," Himazuri cut in. Dendo froze, his eyes lowering to the ground and his heart aching as he heard her say that. His teeth clenched twice as hard, his eyes shadowing over with his light green flip of hair as Himazuri was another person to tell him this now. "Dendo," Himazuri whispered as she watched her classmate's expression. She stared up into his eyes which was easy considering their height difference, and she whispered up at him, "You have it all wrong. Zach doesn't h-"

"Don't read my mind," Dendo growled. He snapped it at the girl, lifting his head and glaring down at her in a furious way at what she was just doing. He turned and started away, without saying another word to the girl he left behind in the hallway.

Himazuri rose up a hand towards her friend's back. "Dendo," she started, but she did not follow after him as he kept going. Her hand lowered and her eyes shifted to the floor too. You don't understand. He doesn't…

Back in the cafeteria, the students of Class 1 were finishing up their lunches. Another class had come in for their lunch time, and a first year in the hero course named Mizahi came over to talk to Zach. The muscular boy impressed a couple of the third years by coming right up to Lifebringer to talk to them in the middle of their conversation, but apparently this was one of the two first years who had been in the licensing test with him. Mizahi motioned back behind him towards Ivo during the conversation when Zach asked about his friend, and Ivo was already looking over and gave a hesitant wave when he saw Lifebringer look towards him.

The first year left to go back over to his own table, but Zach's classmates all jumped in asking how that kid managed to get his license since Mizahi mentioned facing off against Zach in the first round. Zach quickly shifted the conversation away, mentioning about how he didn't have his awesome costume during the licensing exam. It did not convince most of his classmates who wondered what must have happened, and decided that they would have to go ask that kid later on for clarification, but before any of them could ask Zach more about it he got asked the question he tried to divert the conversation towards. "…the company is American based, but it has holdings on most other continents too. Most of the stuff I've got on my costume is just out of the prototype stages but not yet on the market."

"How'd you manage to get stuff like that? You said they sent it to you?"

"Saved some upper management from villains," Zach replied. He scratched the back of his head and continued, "I know heroes aren't supposed to accept rewards for helping people, but since I technically wasn't at the time, I didn't see any reason to deny the opportunity to test out their new gear."

"So, they sold you, an unlicensed person, hero tools?" Porrolo asked, raising an eyebrow as he wondered if Zach Sazaki really did just slip up there or if there was something else he was missing still.

"Well they didn't sell it," Zach kept his voice slow and he lifted his eyes up as he spoke like he was trying to find the right words. "Technically, I guess I stole the first set." Everyone was staring at him expecting to hear more, and Zach scratched the left side of his chin hesitantly. "They wanted to repay me, but they couldn't sell it to an unlicensed hero, and I knew I could use the help fighting villains without proper gear out on my own."

"So you just took it?" Manzo asked, her voice steady but her expression starting to look a little betrayed. This isn't-

"But you said they just sent you this new costume?" Kotsumura asked. Zach turned to the blond sitting on his right and nodded, and Kotsumura smiled and laughed as he put it together in his own head. "Guess they want to keep an exclusive contract. I bet all the costume companies in the world are going to be trying to get you to wear one of theirs."

Zach chuckled and tilted his head to the side in a half nod. "You've got that right." The others looked at him in interest, a few trying to shift their attentions away from the shady dealing Zach was discussing without trying to hide it, which made them think there was still something they were missing or just misunderstanding. "When I went to get this costume licensed to me after I received it, the Super Costumes for Super Heroes wanted to study my tech for longer and get me to start wearing their costumes. I doubt they were able to reverse engineer any of it in the days I left it with them though."

"Do you think all that kind of gear you have will be out by the time we graduate?" Imino asked. Zach looked across the table at the boy who seemed interested in the prospect of being able to fly, and Zach looked away with a hesitant look as he did not want to make any promises. "Didn't think so," Imino said, leaning back and sighing. "It all looked so futuristic."

"I asked Hazano sensei about some of it, trying to figure out how it might've been made," Porrolo began down on Zach's right. Zach looked over at his classmate who had a serious look on his face and said, "But even he didn't get how it worked, and Hazano sensei's our resident support technician too. He's the best at helping us with our costumes, but he couldn't figure any of it out just by watching."

"It's not all that high-tech," Zach started to counter. "The cameras I placed around were simple surveillance technology. Sure, they had speakers in them too so I could make that distraction," he added while looking towards Manzo who remembered that. "And motion sensors too," he added with a small grin, "if you got close enough." He turned to his right again and continued to Porrolo, "And my helmet isn't much, other than the tech that expands the visor up over my head as a helmet. I know that's still pretty far ahead like my gloves." Zach lifted his hands over the table and showed off the watch and bracelet he was still wearing at all times, which the others understood the reason for after watching the attack on him on the news after their first day of school.

"But the visor is connected to the cameras which can allow me to see into my own blind spots during a fight," Zach continued. "It has a targeting system which can lock on to my enemies, and it's connected to the rest of my costume too so I can see power levels and control certain aspects with specific movements of my hands and fingers."

"Sounds complex," Kotsumura said, a bead of sweat rolling down the side of his face.

"I'm used to the set-up," Zach replied, implying that the company who made the new costume for him had the specifications of the old one in mind. The old one that he "stole," though some were wondering at this point if he changed his mind about that just to protect the company who sent him this super high-tech gear. "The helmet does a lot on its own too. There's some voice activation, but it predicts how to assist me to make using certain functions expedited." Zach thought about the different functions of his visor again and listed, "I can make calls through it, and access the internet too. The images on the visor are transparent so I can still see through it even when I have other things up. If it's dark, there's a night vision setting. And the targeting works through walls even, with thermal-" Zach paused with his mouth open, looking like he realized something bad right there as his expression shifted.

Zach sweatdropped as he turned towards Imino who was staring at him with big eyes. "I, didn't use it in our fight." He glanced towards Manzo too for a second as she realized it after Zach mentioned that to Imino.

Manzo frowned at him, but Imino got a much more frustrated look on his face. "Why?" He asked, getting everyone at the table looking towards their classmate and wondering what suddenly had him so upset. Another way? He had so many- it was another way Zach could have easily beaten me. He even made it out like the smoke would have done him in if I had made more!

"Because if I'm ambushed out on the streets again, I likely won't have my visor on me." Imino opened his eyes wider in surprise, his train of thought derailing a bit. Zach shook his head and glanced at Manzo too, then around the rest of the table again before admitting, "I really was just training, and using equipment that would make the fight so much easier wouldn't have helped me out at all." Zach looked back at Imino and the girl on Imino's right, "This doesn't diminish how hard I was fighting in those two fights-"

"It's fine," Imino said, sighing and accepting it reluctantly. Most villains won't have Zach's advanced tech either, so it was better training for me too… Though, if I do fight villains in helmets I should be careful of it in the future.

Did he really not use it against me? I considered it, when he smashed through the branch. He could have known that I was there for sure. I didn't want to accuse him of it, sounding like a sore loser. I still don't want to accuse him. Even if it was with some extra tech, he still beat me so easily while I was focused on- on something stupid.

Zach smiled internally at the reactions on the faces of the two across the table from him. Kotsumura leaned in towards Zach's side as there was a pause in the conversation, and he was able to bring up something that he had wanted to for a while. "So, I finally figured out why you turned down Reika the other day."

Everyone at the table looked over at Kotsumura. A few of them got interested looks, others just went to finishing their meals and getting ready to go bring their trays up. Manzo pretended to be one of the ones not paying attention, while keeping her eyes in the corner of her vision staring over at the blond boy with a nerve-racking smirk on his face.

"Yeah?" Zach asked. "You figured it out?" He smiled as he asked the question, since he was telling the truth that day and it wasn't something he was hiding.

"You're dating Pinky!"

Zach lowered his smile and got a nervous look on his face. "That's what I heard," Imino agreed immediately, getting Zach back with this since Zach didn't use his thermal vision on him.

"I saw that too," Satoshi began, a huge smirk covering his face as he leaned over the table down on Zach's left. "And I'm so jealous!"

"Same-" Kameko started. He was saying the one word to what Imino said, but he froze and his eyes opened wide as he had waited too long and it came out after Satoshi's comment instead. The others all looked at Kameko who rose his hands and waved them quickly in front of him to correct what he actually meant.

Zach waved a hand in front of himself too as Kameko was still trying to correct what he said. "You guys have it wrong," Zach said defensively. "Ashido's just a close friend. The tabloids just want to blow it out of proportion because we hung out the other day." Zach saw some disappointed looks that the juicy story wasn't true, and one from Kotsumura looking like he didn't want to believe it either. Manzo hid her relief and just got up to go put her tray up, and Zach took one final bite of his food before mentioning to the others, "You all saw how hard she was trying to get me out of prison, right? Doesn't mean we're going out, but she is one of my closest friends."

Zach got up and he went to go put his tray away before heading back to the classroom. I looked more into it after Sero and the others visited my place. Watched those rallies and protests, how strongly you backed Nikko to get me out. They didn't tell me, just how much you really did. You didn't say anything about it either. You didn't act like it was thanks to you I was out, but I think it is. Zach smiled softly and lowered his gaze down for a second. I owe Mina everything I have right now. The others who helped too, but the most outspoken, and the one who tried hardest… I won't let you down.

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Zach's first week of Shiketsu (technically only three days) ended on a relaxing note. His afternoon classes were boring. His teachers kept the class busy so he did not have to spend any time answering questions and coming up with excuses or responses, lies and half-truths that could one day be double-checked by his more curious/suspicious classmates. Every day was like walking through a minefield, as the closer he was getting with his new classmates the more time he was going to have to spend talking to them, though the closer he was getting the less he was being closely watched by his classmates.

There were only a few left in the class who Zach suspected were watching him closely and keeping a tab on every little thing he said that they might be able to piece some crimes together with. He figured Muoko might be on her computer through the weekend looking up crime reports in the countries she had heard Zach say he was in, checked against what her classmates had spread around that he had done after he talked to them. Zach stayed behind after school, as Enorma wanted to talk to him about his introduction earlier and get a clearer answer out of him about the jet he had talked about stealing back from villains and crashing. Zach was more vague with his response to Enorma than he was when talking to his own classmates earlier, telling his teacher that he simply could not remember it too well but that he escaped when he thought heroes were coming so he knows they got the wreckage of the plane anyway.

Zach had not worried about telling the truth during their conversation, as Enorma did not even call in Norasaki to listen in and check if he was lying. So the only one he needed to convince was his teacher, which he believed he succeeded at fairly easily. Zach left for the front of the school building, and he went to his locker that he opened slowly and carefully. He pulled out his heavy jacket and put it on, while patting down it all over and feeling for slits or microphones hidden inside the fabric. His mind was on full alert, his eyes flaring red as he stared into his locker and felt a pair of eyes on him. Clubs already started. Most people have gone home. Assassins wouldn't be on school grounds. If they were they would have done something to my jacket. Did they? I missed it. No. This isn't that bad.

Zach sighed and he finished getting his things together. He slid warmer gloves over his hands; it was freezing out that Friday and he put on a beanie over his head too. He kept his black facemask off and in his bag, as he did not want to be seeming like he was trying to hide when he ran into the press he was sure he would see on his way home as he always did. Dealing with them had gotten easier since Wednesday, as he used the incident just as he knew he would to avoid the press and just jog on when they tried to stop him. Whether they shouted that he was avoiding them or that he was hiding from a press conference, he would always just call back 'not today' or 'some other time' or 'not when there might be villains around.' He would smile as he said it, looking at the camera with a grin like he knew he was getting away with not having to be bothered because he had that excuse, and he saw some late night host laughing about it on Thursday night when he showed a clip of earlier that day.

Before Zach was going to have to deal with the press today though, he had to deal with the person behind him who was glaring holes into his back. Zach turned around and made for the exit, ignoring the look of the boy standing inside it glaring at him and waiting for Zach to turn his way and speak. Zach just walked like he was going to completely ignore him again though, which had Dendo step forward and directly into his path. "Stop," Dendo said. He ordered it and Zach stopped, mainly because Dendo was now in his way.

"What?" Zach asked. He stared at Dendo waiting for his classmate to say something, and he rose his eyebrows up to the rim of his blue beanie as Dendo was pausing for too long. "You have something to tell me?" Zach asked. His voice was flat and he continued to stare at Dendo through half-closed eyes and a disdainful look that did not have much care in it. It looked like Zach just wanted to go around him, which had Dendo ball his fists at his sides and lose the cool he had collected before stepping up behind Lifebringer.

"Listen to me," Dendo began. His voice was low, and his eyes cold as he stared back into Zach's. "I don't know why, you're here," Dendo said. His voice was steadier than Zach thought it would be, and his tone calmer than the angry voice he had when he demanded that Zach stop. The last three days of their interactions raced through Dendo's head, and he took in a breath through his nose while keeping his expression flat towards his enemy. "But, I don't think I'm going to get you to quit, and, whatever you are here for, just keep my friends out of it."

Dendo continued to glare into Zach's eyes, narrowing his own more as he said that to see what Zach's reaction would be. He ground his teeth at what little reaction Zach had, and he growled in a more pissed voice, "Yeah, stay all stoic and that bullshit. You don't fool me," Dendo shook his own head, and he turned with a, "Ch." He looked to the side, and he stepped out of the way to give Zach a path to the door. Zach started forward, and Dendo shook his head once before muttering in a low voice, "Whatever it is you want, I'll figure it out. Even if it's after we graduate. But if you try doing your shit here, I'm going to stop you. Until then, if you just…" Dendo ground his teeth as Zach stopped in front of him and turned his way at what Dendo was starting to say.

Dendo turned his head to the left and glared away out the windows for a moment. "Then we'll just leave things be. I'll go on hating you, and you can go on hating me, but we can-"

"I don't hate you," Zach said.

Dendo looked back at Zach while he was saying it, and he stared at the teen in front of him almost as tall as he was. He stared at Zach's face in a skeptical and annoyed way that Zach would interrupt him when he was making his peace, somewhat. Then Dendo got a more confused look on his face, which made Zach scrunch up his too and ask, "Do you really think I hate you?" Zach looked at Dendo examining his face like he was checking to see if Dendo really thought that was true.

Dendo hated that look Zach started giving him, making him feel like he must have misunderstood something when he knew he hadn't. "What you did during training," Dendo growled. "You humiliated me in front of everyone." His voice was cold, and angry, and his eyes narrowed harder into Zach's as he did not see an apologetic look even as he told Zach how it made him feel. "And you knew exactly what you were doing. You went harder against me than the others, and you embarrassed me with-"

"I did fight you harder than some of the others," Zach admitted. He leaned his head a little closer to Dendo's and then added, "But not that much harder. More, I fought you differently." Zach paused while Dendo scrunched his face up in more confusion at what Zach was telling him, and more specifically because he did not know why Zach was saying it when he could have just walked out the door. "But I didn't fight you like that because I hate you."

Zach shook his head at Dendo and his own eyes got darker as he leaned back from his classmate. "I've seen, the worst, the absolute worst villains in the entire world." Zach stared at Dendo with his eyes squinted near shut, his face pained for a second and his expression darkening more as he looked away. Dendo stared at Zach's face with his own covered in confused shock, while Zach continued in a lower voice, "People who I can think of, and the thought of them makes my blood boil. They make me question how humanity can do such horrible things." Zach turned his head back and looked into Dendo's eyes with that dark look and also a confused small shake of his head. "Do you really think a couple of mean words and insults would make me think less of someone trying to be a hero?"

Dendo opened his mouth, and he paused and just got an even more befuddled look on his face. "But- what about-"

"No," Zach said firmly. Dendo was still trying to argue against it, but that one 'no' shook his own assurance even more. "You're here, because you want to be a hero. You want to save people, help people, protect them. And you're going to be a great hero one day, putting your life on the line and saving people for whatever your reasons are, and I respect that." Zach shook his head again and even smiled for a second before it curled down on its own. "I think highly of you," Zach said, "so I'm not really bothered by what you said. I get that it's because of what I've done that you act that way towards me. That you just wanted to see if I would snap, and to protect your classmates by being the one to make it happen so it was against you and not someone weaker-"

"This is all bull," Dendo snapped. His teeth clenched as Zach brought up things he had not really thought too hard about, things Zach was giving him credit for that he did not believe were true, though he was wondering to himself if maybe those actually were his real reasons in the first place. The fact that he had to question that though, made him grind his teeth in anger and he shouted, "Stop this- you're just, pretending. You're pretending to be this good, fun, fuck! But I know. You were pissed at me during that fight. You hated me, that was why-"

"I didn't humiliate you in that fight because I disliked you," Zach argued back. He's too thick-headed. A subtle route isn't going to work for him. "I did it because you went into that fight too overconfident." Dendo froze and stared at Zach in utter disbelief, his face showing he was not processing what Zach just told him. "Whatever reason you had for 'needing' to beat me, it shouldn't have stopped you from thinking a little harder about what you were about to do. I've been around the world. I fought against the League of Villains for years. I've never really shown off my Quirk, and you had no idea what I had spent 13 months doing after I fled Japan. And yet you came at me half-cocked like you were going to teach me a lesson?"

Zach rose his voice at the end and gave Dendo a look of disbelief this time, while his classmate had his jaw dropped and was gawking in a stunned state. "You're strong," Zach said slowly. "But only compared to certain people. You were the second strongest, in one hero class, at one hero school, in one country, in a very, very big world. You're not as strong as you think, and if I had just beaten you in a close fight then you might have thought that maybe you had made a mistake, or that I had gotten lucky." Zach shook his head at his classmate who finally closed his mouth but was still staring at him with huge eyes. "I wanted to show you just how far the gap between us was-"

"It's not as big as you-"

Zach's eyes got darker which interrupted Dendo before he could finish that interrupting sentence. He froze with his mouth open and Zach cut in while Dendo hesitated like that. "The gap is that wide," Zach repeated. Dendo had been spoken over without Zach needing to raise his voice, as the interruption came over no sound. Dendo pulled his head back, but Zach stayed where he was standing and just said in a calm voice, "There will always be someone stronger than you. And if you go into a fight against an unknown enemy, that overconfident, it's going to get you killed. And it'd get the people you're protecting that day killed. And let down all the others you could've saved in the future."

Dendo was frozen completely in place as Zach listed off reason after reason at him. All those reasons, about how Zach beat him in order to save lives, and that Zach did it so Dendo would learn something from it in order for those lives and his own to be saved. All he had been thinking about since the fight though, was how embarrassed he had been to have been beaten in such a way, and the excuses he was trying to come up with about how he had not lost because he was just that much weaker than Lifebringer but for some other reason. As he stared at this person in front of him now though, the scar-faced teen whose voice had conviction in it as he claimed to be trying to teach Dendo something, he did not see someone who hated him looking back in his eyes. I, saw what he did with Manzo. She has been acting, less… Imino's been more confident the last few days, did he…

Two dark green eyes started to widen as Dendo's breath hitched in. He said he did go harder against me, which means there were those he didn't go as hard against. Imino, he, he could have destroyed him just like he beat me but, but Imino had the opposite problem that… that I had? He went in nervous, and no one blamed him because of course he would lose after Sazaki beat me! And yet, he fought anyway and fought hard, and against Lifebringer he got in blows unlike any of us- the way Manzo looked after that fight like- and even Kameko?! He smashed through that shell that no one's ever broken through, and it still hasn't healed up fully, but that was to teach him something? Was he- that whole time was he just… to protect us by, by making us better heroes?! To protect the people we might one day try protecting? What the- that's not-

No one else realized it. That Sazaki, did that on purpose, do they? Dendo stared at his classmate, a new light surrounding him as Zach stared back into his eyes. He did it without seeming like he was doing it! He didn't shove it in our faces, but- except for mine, but that's because I'm the only one who still just… wouldn't learn a goddamn thing from any of it! I'm an idiot- even if Sazaki's still dangerous and… I shouldn't have let that- I didn't just make a mistake, going in that confident! I am that- I was… I shouldn't be though. I shouldn't be that confident, if there really are people who can beat me without even… Dendo stared softer into Zach's eyes and his own lowered down to the floor at that look staring back at him. "You really don't, hate me," Dendo said.

It started off like he was asking it as a question, but the tone in which he ended it showed he already knew. Zach shook his head at his classmate who bit down hard, as all the anger and hatred he thought was two-sided the last few days, was all just his own imagination that got him worked up over nothing. The anger and suspicion he still had towards Lifebringer, without the multiplying force of his humiliating defeat on the first day, was not enough to keep him angry here in this confrontation. Not after just putting together what Sazaki did to try and help them. "Oh," Dendo muttered, feeling like more of an idiot while also having different feelings and conflicting emotions rushing through him. He still had not fully processed this conversation that was overwriting so much of his prior beliefs, beliefs he held strongly enough that they were fighting back against what he was hearing and telling him that it was all just lies.

"I hope next week, we can start things over on a better note," Zach said, turning away from Dendo for the door. "I don't have anything, against you," Zach stepped away but his step was slow and his voice got slower near the end of what he just said. His face scrunched up and his lips curled farther down again, like they did last time he tried to smile at Dendo. Zach glared through the windows in front of him, his bag on his back and his heavy winter clothes on to keep him warm through his long roundabout walk home.

Zach turned his head though before he left. He turned and looked back at Dendo, and then he turned back forward, before biting down hard and getting the attention of his classmate who was just staring at the floor in deep thought. "Oh yeah, and Dendo?" Dendo lifted his head and stared at the back of Zach's. Zach turned towards him, his head first as he continued, "Now that you know who I am, and we're somewhat acquainted and not strangers anymore, I need to tell you something."

Zach turned his body more to Dendo whose full attention was now locked on him and who looked confused as it felt like their conversation was over. What does he have to tell me? Not strangers… Dendo got unnerved by the way Zach's expression darkened suddenly, his eyes going cold and his expression making Dendo feel chills over his whole body.

"Say shit about my dead parents again, I'll break your teeth with my steel fist." Zach paused while Dendo stared back at him with huge eyes, and Zach leaned his head forward and said in a lower voice, "Then you won't be able to say anything at all." Zach turned away from Dendo and started off with his fists balled hard at his sides. He intended on looking at Dendo longer there, making sure he understood and waiting for a nod, but the thought of what he might do if Dendo decided to test that threat made him storm off. I'd do it. Don't you fucking say a word. Zach closed his eyes as he walked away, hoping Dendo wouldn't speak behind him as he could feel his fists clenching harder.

"Changing your hairstyle doesn't make you anything like Titanium. Except, maybe the part where he lost his license." "You, who killed your mother." Dendo heard those words echo in his mind from his own lips. Despite the unnerved and scared feelings he just had, he thought of those lines in regret with guilt covering his face, because he saw the side of Zach's face as he stormed away. He only caught a glimpse of it before Zach was out of the room, but he saw the fury on it and the restraint he'd been showing since Dendo had said those things. For days, he's been bottling that up without acting on it. I didn't realize, how hard they actually hit him… Dendo's face shadowed over for a moment, his own teeth baring as his guilt almost overshadowed with suspicion.

That threat was, intense. But, Dendo's dark look eased up again and he just cursed at himself while turning away, as the guilt overtook his other emotions again. "Shit," Dendo muttered under his breath. I fucking deserved it for what I said to him. Damn it. What kind of hero says that stuff, even trying to protect others? There's a line! A line you're not supposed to cross. One, I'm mad that Lifebringer crossed. But what right do I have to treat him like shit for what he did, if I'm going to be a hero who tells someone he's responsible for killing his mom?! Someone trying to make a hero into a villain… I fucked up. I, I don't deserve to get off that easy- just like Lifebringer didn't. We're supposed to be held to higher standards. When we make mistakes, we… we shouldn't be allowed to just, be forgiven.

I shouldn't have done… But even if I didn't, Sazaki still would have embarrassed me like that. Because it wasn't about getting back at me. Just like it wasn't revenge that made him do what he did? He really, always is just, thinking about other people? Is that true? Is that really someone I hate? Dendo shook his head, as even thinking that did not feel right to him anymore. I shouldn't hate anyone. Not for, for stupid… Sazaki has people he hates. People who have committed crimes that I probably haven't even heard of. Fucked up shit. If I'm going to hate someone, it should be for stuff like that. Yet even if I do hate them, they might still be stronger than me. I, I can't go into a fight like that again. Not against an unknown enemy. If I died because of that, it would be a disrespect to my name, and to the one I admire. I'll never make that mistake, as the Cutting-Edge Hero: All Slice!

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A/N Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the chapter and the end of Zach's first week at Shiketsu. Sorry again for the slower upload speeds. End of my final semester at college and a lot's going on. Anyway, Zach calls out Himazuri on reading his mind this chapter and tells her to GET OUT, Zach's shown getting closer with a lot of his new classmates, and then his end conversation with Dendo... Leave me a review telling me what you think of the chapter, comments, questions, or etc! I'll try posting another chapter soon.

Guest chapter 150 . Apr 12

Tfw you press next chapter on reflex but there's nothing there.
;d

;( The day always comes when you can't binge anymore. We've become too used to the Netflix kind of life. I'll pound out the content fast as I can though (as long as I can keep up the quality). Thanks for reviewing!

QuestingforBitches chapter 150 . Apr 13

Wait when did he lose the arm? I figured someone at the prison would have mentioned it or something...

I had Zach get a new arm afterwards, to try and explain a little why it wasn't mentioned during the prison chapters. Zach knew he wouldn't be able to keep a weapon in prison with him, so he replaced the weaponized super arm with a less powerful prosthetic, and his friends sent him the better arm when he got back out. I didn't really explain it as I wanted the last chapter to reveal it, but I knew there would be plot holes if I had the reveal and it was never mentioned before, and I didn't want to have to show it through flashbacks. I tried to keep vague with it though like Zach being against wanting to tell people, initially just had the scene of him and Momo in the hospital and how she called out his scars on being in the same place with no further explanation until his fight against Inasa. Anyway! 6 months of prison time passed within a few chapters, so there were probably conversations about the arm with the guards that I just left out.

someguy1011 chapter 150 . Apr 13

Awesome work as always. A rocket arm...HOLY SHIT like fuck he can just crush ppl at this point, also im getting real DMC5 vibes from it. BTW i was thinking can zach replicate his death rain manually? like fly up in the sky and just shoot tiny amounts of death out over a large area?. Anyway this guy can just body whoever the hell thinks they can try him I LOVE IT, looking back to the first few chapters it's so satisfying seeing zach grow so much in every way. Im getting the feeling deku vs zach will happen later on, death vs one for all is gonna be a real trip. Good luck with your work btw i know what having a mountain of paperwork is like, I look forward for the next chapter.

Thanks! Zach wrecks his class, and we're seeing how strong he really is compared to most people after his life as Death. We'll see if Zach shows off any crazy death rain like that in the future... present Zach would body most everyone, but definitely past Zach. Glad you like to see that improvement, it feels cool having him come so far too for me, in under a year! (for me at least when I created the character). We'll see about those future fights too, but no spoilers! XD Thanks for the review!

Naruffoku chapter 150 . Apr 13

I remember you saying that Zach didn't lose his arm. You were right, he didn't. HE LOST HIS HAND THOUGH! How did I not see that!?

Sorry if there's some confusion, but nah he lost the arm. It shot off from his left shoulder, and he reattached into it with... I don't remember saying Zach didn't lose it, but if I did somewhere then- probs just trying to avoid spoilers? Anyway, yup he's got a rocket arm, which I guess includes his hand! Lol I didn't leave in many hints about it so not surprised some people missed it. Anyway, thanks for reviewing!

ILikeFoxes828 chapter 150 . Apr 13

Great chapter as always and I guess im kinda lucky getting a chapter on my birthday huh? But anyway a great chapter hopen to see more awesome chapter like this!

Well thank you and I'm glad I got you a present! Happy Birthday!

Logargon chapter 150 . Apr 13

Ah yes Checkoves robot rocket arm a classic is literary writing. Also I be like "man I gotta sleep before work tomarrow" (chap comes out) "well I've got coffee"

Who needs sleep when there's coffee?! XD Great review, gotta have that rocket arm in there somewhere!

Todorokiii chapter 150 . Apr 14

Bloody hell, what a beautiful chapter. I love the fights, Imino, Kameko, Manzo and Inasa.. They're all awesome. I like how Zach approached to his opponents. And not only Zach turned this cool but he became sassy! I love it. What's this I can smell friendship? Inasa and Zach are meant for each other. Maybe everyone he fought... Please. Reika? Begone thot! I love how Zach rejected her. Haha. I do love how Zach caught Manzo. Beautiful. Zach breaking Kameko's shell. Once again beautiful. That kick. Amazing. And that arm bruh, fabulous. Also, I love how Zach fought with his quirk on Inasa. He is a worthy competitor but he's not the one Zach's looking for. Thankss btw for this chapter. Im satisfied.

Thanks! Glad you really liked it! Had a bunch of characters to develop and figured I could get out their strengths and weaknesses, and personalities, out during this tournament. Hope that worked out well and we've got some cool new characters in here. Anyway, just happy to see you were really into those fights and liked how they went. Thanks for the great review!

Shinn of Destiny chapter 150 . Apr 14

Koompa? i break that.
Invisible girl? I see that.
Wind User? I blew that.
Ask me on a date? I deny that.
Not gonna use my quirk till the end? I said that.
I'm not a rapper, I'm a Hero.
God Bless Zach and God bless u for this amazing story!

Great rap. Just think you mixed a Goomba with a Koopa though (Goombas are the mushrooms, Koopas the turtles). Still dope though XD Thanks for reviewing!

GuestP chapter 150 . Apr 13

This chapter had me on edge the whole time, holy shit.
I kinda feel bad for Dendo, but then i remember that he's a bit of an asshole so oh well
The fight scenes and quirks are awesome, and also, Zach freaking out a mind reader is probably the funniest thing i've read.
I LOVE IT!
Can't wait for the next chapter!~

Awesome! Glad it was intense, and yeah Dendo's been having a tough time of it the last couple chapters. Delved a bit more into him this time, and seems he might cool down on Zach too by the end. Zach freaks Himazuri out again (though not before she gets the idea that Zach's into Ms. Enorma ;) ). Hope you enjoyed the new chapter, and thanks for reviewing!

Guest chapter 150 . Apr 19

You know, I just realised. How does this fix not have a TVTropes page yet? I mean it's basically its own story now, itd need a wiki of its own.

I have no idea. Lol I've never had one of those before, but I guess this is the longest story I've made. A whole lot of characters to put in there too through 2 mil (almost) words. I'm def not making my own wiki, but hey wouldn't be against it. Or new fan-art by the way if anyone wants to make a new cover picture for the story. Zach's face is looking a bit out-dated from the last pic sent in... Anyway, thanks for the review! I'll get you another fix when I've got the chance.