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!

202. Chapter 202

Disclaimer: I don't own Boku no Hero Academia

Chapter 202:

I didn't sleep last night. Shouldn't I sleep tonight? Zach stood on the edge of a skyscraper in Osaka. He was on the west side of a giant hotel in a city of twenty million people, perched on the ledge with his hands down between his feet and his body shrouded in Death. His black wings were still formed but pulled in on his back, and he glared through the rain out at the skyline of the city in front of him so active despite the time. The streets down below were packed, and he knew they would be in a district known for clubbing and fancy bars in hotels that stayed open late with live music and DJs coming through nightly. Under his dark veil of Death he had his backpack on, all of his belongings inside other than his hero costume he left at Shiketsu High with a pair of indoor shoes and his school uniform he figured he could just put on after arriving at school for now on in a bathroom stall. It gave him more room in his backpack that he kept all his possessions in, not that the bag was not still packed to capacity.

He stood where he had been standing for a good while now. There was a security camera on the roof, but only one that pointed from the top of a roof access door outwards so as to catch anyone going up. He figured it was most likely just for employees who sneak up there for a smoking break or something, and less for actual intruders or people flying around since the angle did not cover all of the roof where it could catch view of him. Zach stood on the ledge of the building and stared out into a city that was full of so many people that he knew, Someone just died here. Somewhere in this city. If I see the sirens, should I go revive them? It's not about "should." I'm using my Quirk. I need to bring a few back today. A few more- no, it's past midnight. They'd be the first ones today.

Sirens. Zach looked past a few tall buildings ahead of him and down to the street level where he saw blinking red and blue lights coming from around a corner. Crime? Accident? Emergency, or just a traffic violation? The dark figure came out of its crouch and stood ten feet tall on the building's ledge. His red eyes glowed through the pitch blackness over his face, and the darkness on the bottom of his head curled down into a deep frown over the veil. I can't go check it out as this. I'd chaos a panic. His size started to decrease, the Death around him simmering a bit. It's been enough for today. I haven't had an incident since Broom Man. I know I have to push out Death. Keeping my insides as Death worked for a time, but that hurt me more than not expelling it enough did. Reviving people has always made me weaker. It doesn't do as much anymore, but my lack of revivals since that big day is catching up with me. I'm getting too strong. Fully recharged. Bubbling inside me wanting to be used. And yet despite the dark times we're in now, I need to show people more than ever the version of me I showed when I returned.

Like I could manage that. Zach pushed off all the Death from around him and let it wisp away instead of sucking it back into his body. He stood on the edge straight up, and he took in a long breath of air while rain drenched his black hair he had out of his hood that bunched up behind his neck. He rose his hands and rubbed around in his hair, then tilted his face up to the rain and washed his face off too. I need to get out of the rain. My bag's waterproof, but they don't mean it can get continuously drenched when they say that. I don't have space for an umbrella though. Zach lowered his head back down and frowned as he saw two cop cars with sirens over them pulling onto a road that actually was in his sight now. They turned the other way as him on that street, I should follow them.

His phone buzzed, and he rose up his left hand while putting his right into his pocket. Out of his left hand formed a thin pole of darkness straight up above him that expanded out into an umbrella curving down above his head and in a circle to keep rain from falling in front of his body. Rain dripped down the solid Death he condensed above him in that shape, and Zach stared down with rain dripping off his chin at the phone he held in front of him that actually was waterproof unlike the backpack that was just branded as it by the company that made them. He wiped some water off the screen as his fingers in his wet glove on his right hand were having trouble registering on the touch screen.

Huh? Zach read the news story he opened up on his phone. A day after Kaminari's plan kicks off? I don't think it's a "malfunction" that caused the plane to drop. He read the article on the breaking news story, seeing that a plane flying from China to United Korea had malfunctioned mid-flight when the side door of the plane ripped open. I'm sure some heroes are suspicious about what happened there too. Puleun Nalgae and Won- Wondeo… Blue Wings and Wonder Man caught it, a couple southern UK heroes responding to the distress call. Most of the passengers were saved, but several people who weren't buckled in along with the flight attendants were all ripped out of the plane. The few who fell like that and died, were all murdered.

Zach leaned forward and his feet slipped off the ledge of the building. His body spiraled as he erupted in Death again, and he flapped down and soared up into the dark clouds above still pouring freezing rain on him as he entered them. It's no accident. Kaminari's inciting violence. Inciting distractions to keep us busy. He knows he doesn't have to do the work to distract us at all. He leaves it to those who think they're making their own plays. Who think they were just waiting for the right moment, and who don't realize that they're all just going to be used. What kind of villain opens the door on the side of a plane though? It's odd that that would be the story if the plane landed with mostly survivors. They'd see if there was an actual hole blown in the side of the plane, marks on it or something. The story claims malfunction, but it's breaking news. That's what the pilots called down as they dropped out of the sky. They had no contact with the back of the plane during that time, since their flight attendants were ripped from that metal tube and fell to their deaths in terror.

He flapped his wings harder behind him and left the country as he was allowed to do again. Zach dropped out of the sky and soared over the Sea of Japan only a few feet over the water, flaps of his wings hitting the sea each time he flapped them, and he rose and lowered with the rough waves of the storm. They felt real hope too, which made the terror all the more real. Never a moment of acceptance, because they all hoped a hero would come. Even if the bodies fell over land… Zach grit his teeth behind the dark veil over his face. This is going to fucking hurt.

Zach pulled up and flew up high before reaching the brightly illuminated Korean coastline as he had been on-track to hit one of its largest coastal cities. He soared back up into the clouds that were not raining down on him anymore and looked to be thinning out the farther north he went. He crossed the nation quickly, thinking to himself as he sped up a bit with a blast of Death behind him, It's been a while. No telling how far the bodies are spread apart too, so if I have to look around for them- I should have more than enough time. It's still important I get there fast. Anything could happen that forces me to get back in seconds. So I'll act fast. And do, whatever I can.

The jetliner that had been plummeting from the sky had been the priority for Korean heroes who had been driving back to UK through Manchuria when the call came through. They had flown out of the convoy of Korean and Chinese heroes who had grouped together to take care of a villain group in Mongolia that Mongolian's top heroes had called in emergency assistance for yesterday. Blue Wings and Wonder Man were the only two who could fly, and though Blue Wings did not have the strength the third ranked Korean hero had to really assist him in lifting the nose of the plane back up, he had been able to fly into the open door of the plane and then back below to relay instructions and information between the pilots and Wonder Man during the descent.

The landing was still hard, as when the plane finally came to touch down on its landing gear, Wonder Man and the pilots were unable to put it down gently enough. The landing gear broke. The wheels snapped off, and Wonder Man was left below the plane skidding on the heels of his boots that wore through quickly as his legs dug into the highway they landed on near the northern border of United Korea, just south of it inside the nation the plane was meant for. The plane finally did slow to a stop though, the bottom of the plane dropping down and the people inside jolting hard but then cheering as they realized they had stopped moving. Those cheers did not last, however. Blue Wings was yelling under the plane for Wonder Man to pick it back up and move it off himself, while trying to lift up the jetliner himself to no avail.

When Zach arrived on the scene, he saw the passengers and pilots had all unloaded. Cop cars and ambulances were still pulling up on the scene, fire trucks too though they seemed unnecessary as no fires had started anywhere. Zach flew up above the landing site and turned his head left, looking back down the road the plane had landed on and skid down. He turned his head to the right and looked towards a bridge over the highway that connected an intersecting one that went over this international highway. The trenches digging up the middle of the right half of the highway got deeper closer to where the plane finally stopped, like the man underneath it had seen they were rapidly approaching that bridge and dug his feet down harder to slow them down. Panels on the wings had been lifted, and he could see the pilots did everything they could to slow the plane as well.

After he arrived and hid his backpack in the closest tree, he saw that some of the passengers who had exited the plane were speaking enthusiastically with emergency authorities and the pilots. He heard people crying down there, some screaming, others yelling out orders to each other. All those with strength Quirks. They're completely ignoring Quirk laws in the country. The police don't seem to care though. They're just agreeing with those passengers and Blue Wings who's most into it. Should I go for the others first? Zach looked up into the sky and where he thought the plane's path was, though he did not see much smoke. It wasn't engine failure. The cabin just lost pressure when the door ripped off. What the hell happened up there? I want to investigate. I've got to revive those passengers who fell first, his gaze lowered down into the distance northwest, and he grimaced to himself while wondering, If I even can. It looks like the path was over land, so I should have a chance. Looks like I'll have a chance with Wonder Man first. It's surprising he's only third ranked in Korea with power like that. Rivals Star-Spangled Man's… though I think he would have caught the plane and survived.

It's kind of cooler that he caught it and died though. As much as that sucks for both of us. He's someone I can trust tonight, at the least. Damn, some strong Quirks down there. Zach rolled his shoulders, and then he flew down out of the sky as soon as the powerful passengers, cops, a fireman, and an EMT all lifted the plane and rested it down off of Wonder Man's body. Zach landed down as everyone was putting down the plane, so those people turned back around to look at Wonder Man, and the people who had been behind them waiting to rush forward all stared forward too with dropped jaws. Two hundred passengers and crew of the plane, and a few dozen cops and emergency personnel, stared in disbelief at who just showed up within three seconds of them getting the plane off of Wonder Man.

Most of them just hoped that Wonder Man's body was strong enough that despite the plane falling on him he would still be alive. Zach also held onto that hope a little bit, though his hope was as crushed as Wonder Man was as he looked down at the guy's body from up close. Didn't want any of you to see this, Zach thought as he looked at the body of the hero who had just saved all those people. Should check anyway, he reached out of his darkness and put his right hand in its glove on the side of Wonder Man's neck that was still intact. Yeah, no pulse. Obviously. Would be dumb not to check though and accidentally kill the guy I'm trying to save.

Darkness flooded from the veil around Zach's body down his right arm that had just lost its Death when he checked for the hero's pulse. All of the darkness on Zach moved to his right hand and then covered Wonder Man for a couple of seconds. "Grrrr, FUU- AHH- Haa, ahh, haaa," Zach panted a few times, rolling his neck and shrugging his shoulders. He shook out his arms and legs that all felt like they broke right there, Wonder how much of that pain Wonder Man felt himself before kicking it? Wonder if he even felt the pain, or if he just knew he had to keep the plane from hitting down and cartwheeling into that bridge. "You alright?" Zach asked, speaking Korean and reaching his right hand down for Wonder Man to take.

The hero who felt exhausted and ready to pass out had snapped his eyes back open wide when he saw who was standing over him. Once Zach saw that he was fully awake, he clasped the hand of the man who was not about to pass out on him. "Nice job," Zach said, as he helped the hero back onto his feet in front of him and looked up at the Korean man a couple inches taller than him and a little broader at the shoulders.

Blue Wings pulled his elbows down to his sides, shaking so hard with the biggest grin crossing over his face. Then he did a jump into the air and pumped his right hand up, yelling out, "YEAH!"

People rushed forward all at once, and Zach moved aside to let them run towards Wonder Man who he figured most of them were heading towards. A few ran straight towards him though, and a man yelled out at him while grabbing him by the arm, "Thank you! Thank you Lifebringer!"

"Hey," Zach said in Korean, getting the older Korean man to stop thanking him. He looked around at the others who quieted down with everyone staring at Lifebringer who seemed so serious right there still. "How far back did the door open? I heard others fell out of the plane."

The others who were on the plane all stared at him in shock, and then a hundred voices started shouting at once.

"My husband was ripped-"

"Do you mean it?!"

"Can you get the flight attendants?" The co-pilot started, walking forward away from the captain who was still standing with the police he had tried to explain to about the curious situation that befell their plane.

"Just tell me where they dropped. I'll go see if I can," Zach told everyone. His words assured them that he would at least try, though he gave no certainties which they all heard in his voice which made them settle down a bit and lose some of the hope he had filled them with. He saw those looks losing hope, but instead of countering them he just added in his best Korean, "I have no idea how destroyed the bodies are. But I promise, I'll try to save them."

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An hour after the initial problem caused Flight KA20459 to plummet out of the sky, Zach brought back two of those who had flown out of the plane in those seconds of sheer chaos in the sky. He felt like shit on his way back towards UK, as he carried two people over the border with China inside his dark veil and flapped wings he made huge on his sides to be able to hold the three of their weight. I should have let the kid pass out at least. Showing him those splattered bodies, ones so completely fucked up I couldn't do a thing, it's gonna scar him as much as dying himself. Zach held his right arm a little tighter into his chest, then he did the same with his left arm a second later that was made of Death at the moment so as not to be as hard as a steel arm would be.

While he was reviving the two he located in a cluster of cabbage farms, and explaining to some panicked Manchurian farmers what had happened, things had started to get organized back near the crash site where Zach returned to with the revived pair. One of the two he brought back was the ten year old boy who was crying into his chest at first but Zach felt like he might have fallen asleep since. The other was a flight attendant who was still whimpering in fear after what had happened, unable to make out anything coherent to him since he brought her back, though he told her she did not need to say anything.

Zach flew towards some large white tents that had been set up on the side of the closed highway. The other half of the highway than the side the plane had landed on was split in half to allow traffic to go both ways on it, with police detours up and down the highway to redirect drivers onto the other side of the road. Under the tents on the far side of the highway as the other half traffic continued moving on, all the passengers who experienced minor injuries were being treated by the EMTs and doctors who had arrived afterwards as there was no way to transport everyone to the nearby hospital but yet those people still needed to be checked out. Police were trying to question people too along with the heroes who had arrived, but the doctors were being pushy with the authorities and keeping them from upsetting their patients who had just been through a very traumatic incident.

Those doctors shifted focus onto the two who Zach handed off to them after landing just outside the tent and nearly scaring half the doctors to death. He quickly pulled all his Death back into his body to show a less threatening version of himself, though he also looked apologetic as he handed off the unconscious boy and let two doctors grab the female flight attendant under the shoulders to lead her to a bed. Zach turned to Wonder Man who came up to him ready with a thanks as he had failed to say anything to the teen earlier. "I tried, with the others." A couple other heroes, two cops, and a few hopeful passengers and the plane's captain had all come towards him too around Wonder Man. Zach shook his head though and the hope they had that maybe he just couldn't carry all the people he had brought back was squashed by the look on his face. "Their bodies were too… I'm sorry," Zach said with a look at a woman he remembered crying out at him about her husband.

She broke down in grief, finally falling to her knees and sobbing which got a doctor to come over to her. Zach walked away from the tents and motioned for the heroes and officers to do the same. He thought maybe the captain was just there to ask about the other flight attendants, but the main pilot followed him off too looking ready to take part in this discussion. Zach glanced back after he and the other authorities had made some distance from the tent and the traumatized people who could have overheard them. "Every body up there was super fucking mangled," Zach started darkly in English to the group around him as he noticed the pilot of the plane had a Chinese flag on his right sleeve while there were mainly Korean authorities around him. "The flight attendant fell in a swampier area, cushioned her fall a bit I think. The kid's, was less mangled than the rest but…"

"Maybe because of his smaller body?" Blue Wings wondered softly, glancing back towards the tent and the bed the doctors had put the boy down on. His parents had run over and were sobbing loudly while hugging the boy who woke up because of their yells. Blue Wings looked back at the teen responsible for that reunion, and he said, "Not a lot of weight meant he didn't have as much force upon hitting the ground?"

"I don't think so," Zach replied with a shake of his head. "It felt like the kid was either knocked unconscious or killed when he flew out of the plane. His head slammed into something, probably the edge of the door, that made his whole body loosen up unlike the others who all tensed up before hitting the ground." The description Zach gave suggested to the others around him that he was confident of his theory here. It also told them something about his Quirk, and those who had seen him bring back Wonder Man thought about the way he had groaned and yelled out during the revival with their eyes widening at the idea of it.

"Are you, alright?" The captain questioned the teenager in front of him.

"Yeah, fine," Zach replied. He motioned towards the plane on the highway, "Nice job on the landing, by the way. If I had gotten here any sooner," Zach continued while looking to Wonder Man in a slightly apologetic way.

Wonder Man shook his head at the teen saying that though. "I'm just glad you came at all, Lifebringer."

"I was close enough," Zach gave his reasoning, and he did a quick glance around at the others near him to see if that was alright with them. No one wanted to argue about it, and Zach nodded in appreciation about that. "So," Zach started again, still using English which he was glad it looked like most of the people around him were fluent enough in. He nodded his head to the side back at the road, "What crashed the plane?"

He looked to the pilot who faced him too and leaned his head back at the direct eye contact Lifebringer was making with him. It was something he had already tried explaining before, but the others he had been explaining it to were just looking at the Chinese pilot too waiting to hear the official story. The problem was, "I, really don't know." The captain answered and shook his head in a frustrated and also apologetic way as he knew he should be the one with this information. "We lost cabin pressure at 24,000 feet. Neither of us in the cockpit had any contact with the cabin until Blue Wings arrived, but I knew the front-most emergency exit was gone. I tried to keep everyone calm we heard screaming behind us, but, nothing I said over the speakers did a thing…"

"What next?" Zach asked, not waiting for the man who lowered his head to get depressed and think too hard about it.

"We did our best to stabilize, speaking to flight control and looking for a place to bring her down," the captain looked to Wonder Man and Blue Wings standing on the same side of him. "But it was the heroes who-"

"You kept the bird in the air long enough for us to reach," Wonder Man said, shaking his head and giving the captain a smile. "You did everything you could."

What a cool hero, Zach thought with a glance back to Wonder Man again. A couple of others looked his way too with similar looks, and the captain even took a few seconds of just staring blankly at him before that registered and he quickly replied about Wonder Man's more impressive feat. Zach frowned as this went on and he looked back towards the tents that had more being set up with more emergency personnel and even press starting to arrive too. "We have to figure out what caused the door to rip off mid-flight," Zach started.

"Could it have not just been," one of the Korean heroes started, a woman who arrived just after the first police. AboveWater stepped up on Zach's right side and continued in Korean to the teen, "A technological malfunction? That was what it was initially reported as."

"It was reported as a malfunction by pilots who didn't see what happened," Zach replied, also in Korean without lowering his voice though he noticed the pilot on his back right did pick up on most of it. He spoke good English too. Good thing there're a lot of multilingual people around here. Doubt many of them speak Japanese though. I haven't had to converse with anyone like this in a while, though I had those short refreshers when Dover and Blackstar were around. Plus, this is the point of the constant training. Can't stay fluent without practice. "But how often does a passenger plane experience mechanical failure on this level? There are checks done to make sure proper maintenance is done on a routine basis. And this kind of failure? It's weird."

"That's right," Zach and AboveWater looked to the left where a different hero who had arrived more recently stood. Zach looked closely at the man he recognized, a guy in a black suit in his thirties who looked to be wearing a pair of sunglasses even this late at night. That's part of G-Man's gear though, Zach thought as he inspected the older Korean hero with straight black hair two-inches short over his head. That hero turned his head slowly on approach with his eyes scanning over the passengers and authorities scattered out in front of them. G-Man looked to his right without turning his head, looking into Zach's eyes from behind his sunglasses and checking out the teen who stared right back at him. "I examined the inside of the emergency exit once the plane had emptied out. No sign of structural damage. It looked to me more like the door had been opened-"

"You cannot open a door of the pressurized cabin," the captain started in broken Korean, stepping forward and countering the hero angrily at what he just caught being said. "It is impossible-"

"For men with normal strength, yes," G-Man countered. "But if it's not the plane's structural integrity, and it was sabotage of some kind, then this is a terrorist attack. If it was someone on the plane going insane though, ripping the door open to try and get out and using their Quirk to do it," G-Man had a dark look on his face but what he was suggesting sounded plausible to the others around him.

If that was all it was though, Zach thought with his lips curling farther down. Then shouldn't someone have said something by now? The passengers would have noticed someone freaking out and opening the door, and they would have been yelling about it this whole time. Instead they just seem confused and angry. Sad, too, Zach thought as he listened to loud sobs of a woman who started wailing, maybe from the trauma, maybe from loss. Zach heard similar screams a little over a week ago, when his apartment exploded. Norita-san had people like- there's no time. Something's going on here, and you know it.

"We should split up," Zach suggested with a look at G-Man who seemed calm and ready to investigate what happened better than the others more focused on the current melancholy moment of loss of life. Zach looked behind G-Man to the other heroes, specifically Wonder Man, "And find out what we can from passengers able to speak. Does this airline designate seats for its passengers?" Zach wondered at the pilot who looked at him in surprise again at the question before slowly shaking his head to the disappointment of Zach and G-Man who looked his way hoping for a better answer.

"It's going to be harder to find out who sat closest to the door," G-Man said with a look back at Lifebringer.

"Then let's get started with it," Zach replied right back.

G-Man explained to the other heroes around him what questions they should ask the passengers as they go around looking for ideas on what had happened. Zach backed up for a moment though and he slipped away the first instant he had where no one was watching him anymore. The teen stood on top of a firetruck separated from the main area a bit as there was no need for it to take up space over there. The firefighters had all gone over to help out other emergency personnel in any way they could, leaving no one around the truck he stood on to examine the scene from afar. Would be no point in gathering everyone here. This isn't an interesting place or a trap. The other side of the highway's mostly empty, but there are the occasional cars and trucks driving past that would make this too crowded a scene.

Pamdon's not far. Biggest town up here. Zach took in a deep breath and his eyes darted every direction of him. United Korea. Some interesting political climate with the recent changes to Quirk laws specifically regarding vigilantism and acts by civilians to stop villains. Not much else happening though. No big villain groups here anymore. Very low crime. Increasing birth rates, though still one of the lowest-populated "first world" countries in the world. Most of this country is abandoned…

The history of United Korea was unique compared to most of the world's during the rising age of Quirks. Although similar to most of the world, in how the emergence of Quirks created mass chaos and caused the emergence of heroes in that society, the biggest issue for South and North Korea came in their declining populations. South Korea had had steeply declining fertility rates for years, shrinking marriage rates, and anti-immigration policies that rivaled its northern neighbor's. North Korea's food shortage had finally caught up in a period of excessive draught, causing a famine that killed off millions of its population in a two year span. Then the War of Unification killed a large chunk of the young male population in both countries already with shrinking numbers in the 20-40 year old male demographics. In that time of the emergence of Quirks, in a strange time for the world as most people still did not have Quirks but many did, the "War" of Unification did not last very long, as the world came to understand that many old methods of warfare had become obsolete in a world of Quirks.

Unfortunately, with the chaos going on all around the world at the time, not much from that time was recorded in the present. The short-lived war was ended based on necessity rather than on either side coming out victorious. Even after unification however, the population plummeted further as the older generations with the greatest numbers died off without enough children to take their places or fill the workforce. Cities became towns full of abandoned skyscrapers, towns and villages were completely abandoned altogether, as people flocked to a few surviving mega-cities like Pyongyang, Seoul, and the biggest city of Lundang which was surrounded by smaller port cities like Sueguon, and which Zach had flown over part of on his way up to the crash site. Those cities increased in size while the rest of the country's population dropped, and now the majority of the Korean countryside was covered in farms to support those cities. Over 80% of the land was used for farming, with farmers using modern technology to grow crops right on the slopes of many mountains covering Korea that were once considered infertile, and yet 95% of the country's still-low population existed inside the major mega-cities, with only a few towns like Pamdon being exceptions to this divide.

Is there an airport in Pamdon? Zach wondered, checking online for himself as he watched the heroes move about between the passengers, getting scolded by doctors on occasion though the passengers were trying to just cooperate with the heroes. More heroes showing up. That's good. We need to be able to start working on this while still leaving these people to other heroes. I just need G-Man it looks like. His agency's up here, right in the middle of nowhere. Angers a lot of his people for not being in the cities, but that's where most of their heroes are stationed. Admittedly he'd probably do more in one, but maybe he just prefers the countryside. Either way I'm glad he's here.

That kid is definitely Death, G-Man thought while glancing out towards a fire truck he saw Lifebringer watching them from.

He's acting like he belongs here. I'm not going to be the one to tell him to leave, Blue Wings thought, though he started glancing around with a confused look as he wondered where Sazaki had gone off to.

Whether he's Death or not, AboveWater thought. The secret member of the ADTF who had been busy during the recent raid and thus was never revealed as a member kept her mouth shut about it though and her focus solely on this crash. I'm just glad he came.

Zach dropped back to the ground and walked towards the area after he noticed G-Man had spotted him. There are only two who I know for sure might have information. It'll be tough to talk to them though even as the one who brought them back. I'll go make sure to look frustrated while questioning people near them. That should work.

He walked back into the crowded tents, and people made way for the teenager who none of them had seen in the flesh before. I don't think a single person here is wondering who I am. Now that's a level of fame not many people could say they have. Some look really surprised that I'm here though. Wonder if they know Nikko un-suspended my foreign travels. For "emergency" purposes only his office tells me. "Excuse me," Zach started, walking to his left where some passengers were standing in a group. It looked like an entire extended family to him, several kids and teens along with their parents and some older Asian folk he supposed were grandparents.

"Eee, it's Lifebringer," one of the fifteen year old twins nearly squealed it with a hand cupped to her mouth as she tried just saying it to her twin but failed at being quiet.

"I can see that," the other hissed back with her hand also cupped to her mouth.

"Uh, how could, I save you?" One of the middle-aged men in the group wondered, stepping forward trailed by his teenage son who Zach saw was trying to act similar to his dad, or uncle, or something.

"Did any of you see what caused the door to open in the middle of the flight?" Zach wondered in Mandarin to the Chinese man who struggled to speak Japanese there. "Anything strange at all happen during the flight?" Zach added with a look past the man and at his whole family, as he could use tips from anyone there.

"I thought the guy in the seat next to me was acting weird," the teenage son started, stepping up quickly next to his dad and saying it to Lifebringer.

"Wha- I'm sorry," Zach turned around as someone had been listening in to this conversation, and Zach tried to keep a straight expression even as this flustered passenger stumbled forward and started defending himself. "That is absurd. What about my actions were 'weird?' Lifebringer, I assure you I'm not-"

"Yeah, this guy spoke to me in Mandarin when I sat down, but the subtitles of the movie he was watching were in Korean," the teen started quickly again to Lifebringer as that older guy was defending himself. The boy's dad put a strong hand on his shoulder and pulled him back, giving the kid a glare for him to shut up.

Zach nodded in clear understanding and looked back at the flustered man again, "Ah, I do that too sometimes. Helps to study the written language as well." He looked back at the boy who was about to be scolded, and he continued, "But thanks. Anything else?" He wondered, not wanting to discourage the other passengers by making that first example sound like something too small or insignificant. "Anything at all?"

"I'm sorry, Lifebringer. Wasn't this just a technical failure?" A woman asked, stepping forward past her teenage boy who slunk backwards to get out of the way as he felt like he had been.

"That's what we're trying to make sure of," Zach assured her with a small smile, like this was only precautionary. "Well then, if you'll excuse me," he finished with a nod at the group who were whispering to each other but could not come up with anything at the moment. "And tell one of the heroes around if you remember anything strange," he added back to them, saying it a little louder as he had already started off, which also told the other people who were staring his way what it was he was doing and looking for.

"What is Lifebringer doing here?"

"Why are his clothes all wet?"

Zach ignored the young women on his right he was passing who were whispering to each other loud enough for him to hear.

"He's not wearing a hero costume."

"Does Lifebringer even have…"

I do, Zach thought as he continued through the crowded area looking for someone who might look like they were wanting to talk about something bothering them. I'd have worn it, but taking it out of school just to have to lug it around everywhere would be a nuisance. Plus it's hard to get away with 'rushing here in an emergency' if I bothered to put on my costume first.

After walking around and asking a couple more questions, Zach stopped as the other passengers had all been questioned or were being questioned currently by the other heroes around. He glanced towards G-Man past a woman who they needed to talk to, and he sighed but then started towards her as he knew it had to be him. "Hey," Zach started as he got close to the young Korean woman he had brought back who was wrapped in a blanket. She did not have any clothes when he got back with her, only wearing his damp sweatshirt that looked extra-large on her underneath that blanket. "How are you doing?" Zach wondered, directly at the flight attendant instead of at her friends around her who had been trying to comfort her.

The other flight attendant who survived, a thin man who had been yanked into a heavyset woman's seat and held there in her lap until they landed, stepped towards Lifebringer between him and the flight attendant who was sitting on the edge of a bed being checked out by two doctors at once. The man with straight blond hair flipped up in the front was traumatized himself, and he spoke in a flamboyantly high-pitched tone, "Ayumi just lost three of her friends." His tone was high but his voice hushed as he got up in Lifebringer's face to say it.

"And I'm sorry I couldn't bring them back," Zach said to the man whose anger he saw the source of. He gave the man a soft nod showing he knew Ayumi was not the only one who just lost three of her friends and coworkers as Zach assumed the man was talking about the rest of the flight crew who had been sucked out of the cabin. He did not know if this flight attendant had strapped himself down in time first or someone with a strength-multiplier Quirk grabbed him during the emergency, but he kept the man under close watch without looking like he was in case it was the first option and the man somehow knew the crash was coming. "But I do need to ask you, Ayumi," Zach started again as he looked around her friend and to the woman whose body was shaking but who lifted her head a bit as he started towards her. "Did you see what caused the door to open?"

"It was mechanical failure," the male attendant snapped at Zach's side.

"You should let her rest," the co-pilot agreed from where he stood at the foot of the bed, looking at Lifebringer and then back to the trembling woman in front of him.

Was it really just mechanical failure? No one's showing any sign that it was anything else. Maybe I just want this to be a case. Something to distract me- "Hey, hey Lifebrigner," Zach turned his head and looked back, and he saw some people who had been gathering behind him watching him act getting shoved aside so someone else could get through. "Hey! Let me through," a young woman who Zach could not tell if she was in her teens or twenties shoved past and ran up in front of him. She had bright yellow skin and a mouth of sharp teeth that were shown off by her lack of lips. Kind of like Honenuki, Zach thought as he saw her.

Other heroes saw this woman's actions and made their ways over, with G-Man getting there a second before Wonder Man who landed on Zach's left. "She's saying-"

"What do you mean when you say the handle turned?" Zach questioned back in fluent Chinese at the girl.

Kid speaks Mandarin as well as he does Korean and English. Wonder Man just focused on the girl in front of her when she started speaking again though, and his expression narrowed as he heard what she had to say.

Could be an invisible person, Zach started to himself at what the passenger had seen out the corner of her eyes right before the plane jolted and started to fall. She said she had forgotten about it or thought it was a trick of the eyes until she heard everyone talking about how it might not have been an accident. Zach nodded his head along with her long explanation, the only useful part of which was just that she had seen the handle turn, but that alone gave him a good read as he could see she was serious and truthful about this. That would just be suicide though for an invisible man. And even if he/she was invisible, the flight was at full capacity so they would have had to be standing during liftoff if they snuck on. Someone would have noticed them bumping around during the flight… Invisible's a stretch. Telekinetic could have moved the handle, but they'd have to be immensely powerful to have done it while in a pressurized cabin, and they would know that they would be the first person suspected if anyone who survived saw. Also what's the point of crashing your own plane? The handle turned, and yet there was no one turning it. It can only be opened from the inside…

"Alright, we'll have to ask you to give an official statement to Captain Yong there…"

Zach watched as the woman was led towards one of the officers, then he turned to G-Man and frowned in a thoughtful way. "Are all the passengers accounted for, including the dead ones?" Zach wondered. He said it as if his question would help him figure out what was going on, and AboveWater spun and called over to officers trying to get a manifest. She also mentioned something about calling the recovery teams that had gone out to locate the bodies, or what was left of them, in the locations Lifebringer had searched and found them earlier.

As one of the Korean heroes got to figuring that out, G-Man stepped right up on Lifebringer's right side where he stood a couple inches shorter than the teenager. "What if it's not someone on the plane? If every passenger is accounted for, that doesn't mean they're innocent, but it would be easy to narrow down who could have done it…"

"And if none of them did, we'd be nowhere," Zach muttered in agreement with the hero at his side.

"Su Yung- Su Yung!"

Zach and G-Man glanced backwards at that woman's voice Zach remembered clearly from her cries before. He looked straight at the ten year old boy who was running his way in front of the woman who was trying to keep up with him. "Lifebringer!" The kid called out as he got close to the hero who brought him back to life.

"Hey there, Su Yung," Zach said to the boy. The look on the kid's face interested him and he bent down to his right knee in front of the boy he put himself on eye-level with. "Do you remember something important?"

"Yeah!" The kid exclaimed emphatically, as no one seemed to be listening to him or wanting to hear what he had to say until now.

"Su Yung- I'm sorry, Lifebringer. G-Man, he's just-"

"No, it's okay," G-Man started, stepping forward and holding his right hand up a bit to tell the mother to hold on.

"So I was walking back from the bathroom," the boy started to Lifebringer who nodded along with him looking very interested in what he was saying. Others looked over and quieted down on all sides of them to listen to the kid who continued, "And I turned when I saw the door opening up…"

The woman with yellow skin who was speaking to officers had looked back over as there seemed to be a commotion. Her jaw dropped as she saw the child she had watched get sucked through that door in an instant after it opened up. Even though she knew Lifebringer had brought back a kid, she stared at his smiling face in shock, Thought it'd at least traumatize him, like forever!

"I was scared when I saw it opening," the kid continued, lowering his smile a bit. He shook his head though and then continued to Lifebringer, "But I thought it was funny too that the guy who opened the door was holding another door!"

"You saw someone opening the door?" Zach wondered.

"Well, not when he was opening…" the kid looked somewhat confused himself. His mother stepped forward and was going to tell him to stop saying nonsense, though she was feeling unsettled too as this was a strange thing for her son to just be making up on the spot. "It was like he popped up while the door was opening, like when the handle pushed outwards his hand appeared, then his arm, but it was really fast! The guy flew out of nowhere holding a door though!"

So in the moment this kid was sucked towards the door he saw a man holding a "door" appear in midair. "I saw him right before I can't remember anything else," the kid said after looking back at his mom who questioned if he had really seen it. It was the last thing he saw too. I wish we had more people, any theory I've got right now isn't based on enough to really narrow down. The kid's head hit something on his way out of the plane which helps in that he's less in shock than most of the others who endured a long fall, but although he's calm he also didn't see anything after he was pulled out. If I had been able to bring back more people they could have told me if this theory is-

"I-"

The group gathered around the Su Yung turned and they watched as a woman wrapped in a blanket stepped forward again, being helped by the co-pilot who had his arm around her back under her left arm to help her walk. She looked nervous and scared, but she gulped again and rose her head to the teenager who had saved her life. She had finally found her voice, and the first thing she had told the people around her was to get her over to Lifebringer. "I remember, when- while we were falling…"

Tears spilled out of her eyes, and Zach stepped forward past the kid's side, darting a look at the mom next to him who opened her eyes wide and then grabbed her son to lead him away. The boy complained as he wanted to know what had happened, but Zach just nodded at the flight attendant in front of him instead of focusing on what he had just caused with those subtle movements. After he nodded at her to continue, she sucked in a sharp breath and then started as strongly as she could, "The others who were falling around me, they saw it too. They saw…" she brought up the others seeing it because she did not want to sound crazy, as she remembered the others plummeting out of the sky seeing this crazy sight that made her feel insane right now to even bring up. "It didn't make sense," she whispered.

Ayumi turned her head and looked after the small boy who pulled his head around his mother's legs and looked right back at her. She gulped, but then she continued as she knew the boy had seen something that confirmed her own insane thoughts. He saw, this impossible thing too. "The man with the hook-shaped scar," she whispered, her heart pounding in her chest while everyone stared at the young terrified woman. Her left hand gripped into the co-pilot's shoulder, and he whispered at her that she could stop right now, as much as he was fully focused on what she was saying too. "On his, left cheek," she added, glancing around to see if anyone else had seen this person.

She only saw shakes of heads in response, but Wonder Man told her softly, "Just tell us what you remember."

"After- after we were flung from the plane… the door got ripped off too. We were confused, but I heard Xilung-" she winced and her face scrunched up but she continued after mentioning her closest flight attendant friend. "She yelled at me to look, and a few of us looked towards the door down below that, there was a man falling with it, holding another door. Like, a regular wooden door to a room," she clenched her eyes shut as she thought of that insanity while she fell thousands of feet out of the sky. "And that… man, he opened the door he was falling with by turning the doorknob, and he pulled himself through it and then closed it behind him while the door was spinning and flipping in the air. He was gone."

Ayumi gasped the final sentence out, then she shook her head in disbelief and horror. "I tried getting to it, but Xilung… she turned the doorknob and pulled herself through only for nothing to happen- and then- and then!" Her body trembled, as she thought about how desperate they all were to reach that door, how they lost hope when they saw it didn't work for them, and how they looked down to see the ground was right below them- Ayumi brought her right hand up in front of her mouth and let out a yell into it.

Zach backed up and let a doctor and the woman's friends calm her down. He turned and walked away from the area that was crowded with passengers who were getting riled up and angry as they started hearing the rumors spreading that this was the action of a villain. "What do you think-" G-Man started in an intense tone, rushing with a speed-walk right up to Zach's right side before walking side-by-side with him.

Zach interrupted quickly though and spoke his thoughts aloud, "The person with this Quirk can open portals to other places, but likely only through doors that already exist. And probably, doors that they have touched before themself."

Blue Wings tried rushing after the other two, but he froze in surprise for a second behind them as he heard Lifebringer there. He rushed up after pausing, questioning at Lifebringer's back, "Why would you say that?"

"There are millions of doors someone could open and kill super important people, or rob someone and get rich, but this was an indiscriminate killing." He paused, then he muttered as his feet stopped too, "Unless it wasn't. Unless the guy wanted to kill one of the flight attendants on the plane who wouldn't be buckled in, or if he knew that the person he was after never wore a seatbelt on flights." Leading to the possibility of one of the passengers' acquaintances. "The guy could have just been testing out how to kill using his Quirk, but we should figure out if any of the victims or the surviving flight attendants had any enemies. We should check the handle of the plane's emergency door that got ripped off for fingerprints, and on the doorknob of the door that must have shattered when it hit the ground." Was that what I saw near those bodies? I was too focused on failing to revive most of those people at the time, that I didn't think of why they might have all been clustered in one area like that. They felt hope almost the whole way down. Don't know if that's better or worse. Sounds like Ayumi didn't have much time to despair before hitting the ground.

"Do you think faster when your eyes are red?" G-Man wondered to the boy next to him whose eyes had been glowing for a couple seconds now.

"Yes," Zach replied.

I've never heard of that before, Blue Wings thought to himself, darting his gaze to G-Man and then back to the teen who he leaned in front of to catch a glimpse of his eyes. "If there are so many reasons this could have been targeted though, why do you think it's only through doors he's touched before himself?" Blue Wings questioned when Zach glanced his way to see what he was doing.

"Blue Wings, have the recovery team contact forensics and get them to search for fingerprints," G-Man said to the hero who asked that question which would only waste time for Lifebringer to sit there explaining. He's in a rush for some reason, G-Man thought, and though he wanted to question what that rush was, that question would be another thing to slow down the hurry he was in. Blue Wings frowned at the order from another hero when he felt somewhat in charge here as an initial hero on the scene, who had been there for the crash and everything. When Lifebringer nodded at him though showing that would help out, Blue Wings nodded as Lifebringer's expression alone told him not to call them but to fly out there quickly himself, make sure the recovery team did not mess up the scene before forensics could get there.

"We'll see if we can get a match on this hook-shaped scar guy. Doorway Boy," Zach dubbed him as an insulting name easier to say than all that.

"If it really is just a random act though," G-Man started. "Or a test of his powers, there could be no way to find him. It's likely not a grudge between any of the survivors and the man, since a scar like that would have been recognized by the flight attendants. That woman did not mention any of the others falling with her as having recognized the villain."

"True," Zach nodded in agreement. "I think it's still possible to find out who he is though. Even with nothing but a vague description." Zach hummed and turned to the man on his side where they stood down the highway a bit from the main gathering area and closer to where G-Man's black car was. "Even if it was a random act of violence, his limitations… The villain touched the door handle on his way off the plane once in order to activate it. But then… he would have had to do it recently." G-Man opened his mouth to say these were too many assumptions about his power, but Zach continued, "The man would have wanted to track the plane he had been on because he would need to know that it was in the sky when he opened it, and most likely if it was a random act it wasn't planned super far in advance. He could have done it at any time and did not need much planning for it, so there would have been no point in waiting a long time unless he suspected that someone could catch him, and someone with his Quirk?"

Zach posed the question skeptically that he would feel they could find him so easily. "There's no way he even suspects an investigation at this moment into who he is." G-Man started nodding slowly, and he turned and called out to one of his sidekicks who had been trailing far behind him during this whole incident. Zach had noticed the younger man also in a suit but without the sunglasses, and he let G-Man tell the twenty-one year old to get fetch the pilots for them. Zach then went back on what he had just said after getting a few seconds there to think, countering himself, "Actually he probably is worried. All murderers, no matter how good, always think they left some piece of evidence. They're worried at least. And especially if this is this guy's first time doing something like this."

He paused and G-Man added, "Maybe it's not though. It could just be the first time he did something this big," G-Man said.

If that's true, then he's experimenting, Zach thought at the suggestion. Doing more, getting riskier, more dangerous, testing himself to see how far he can go. I need to stop this guy before he can do something worse. Zach turned his head and saw a higher-up among the police walking towards him and G-Man seeming like he wanted to be let in on what was going on. "We should talk to all the flight crews who have been on this exact plane in the past week," Zach said while looking to the officer who gave him a look wondering 'who me?' Zach continued to the officer he was suggesting this to, "Ask all of them if they remember anyone with a strange scar on their face. Maybe mention a 'hook'-shape, though it's possible our witness didn't see it exactly so just ask about all passengers with facial scars."

"You heard him," G-Man said back to the officer, telling him to get to making that happen. "Sujin," G-Man said, nodding towards his sidekick who rushed back over with both pilots behind him.

"Do the plane's numbers, identification codes," Zach started without missing a beat. He stepped towards the pilots who stared at the teen questioning them and nodded to show they were listening. "Do they change? Is there a system in place to make it so planes can be distinguished from one another-"

"There is a, numbering system. Outside of each individual flight number," the co-pilot began slowly. He nodded when the heroes were looking at him to continue on this, and he went on, "It's based off when the plane's first flights of the month are, and the planes are only renumbered again when they go through inspections at the end of the months-"

"End of month-long periods," the pilot started, giving the co-pilot a look showing he had been misleading.

Damn, Zach thought, as it was early enough in March that it would have been nice for it to just have been from the 1st of the month. The captain continued to Lifebringer and G-Man, "Last inspections were on February 15th. The sixteenth would be when this particular plane's identification number would have last been changed."

"Thank you," Zach said to the pilot, then he nodded at them back towards the tents in a way telling them that was all. G-Man had other questions, but the way Lifebringer nodded so quickly there made him just look back at the teen who seemed to want to say something to him without them hearing rather than just being rude to him as a fellow hero. He turned when the pilots were walking away, and he started to just the four around him, (as AboveWater had just ran over and Wonder Man dropped down next to them too). "It makes even more sense that this guy had to have ridden on this plane recently then, unless he was part of the inspection crews and did all this from the inside. That's a minuscule chance though, as he'd be the first one suspected by all his colleagues working on planes if people heard that the door on one he had worked on opened up suddenly."

G-Man nodded quickly in agreement with Sazaki, even though the other three were struggling to keep up here. "So from the 15th of last month, we need the passenger manifests of every flight this plane has gone up with," G-Man said.

"The villain is going to be on one of those lists?" AboveWater asked in surprise.

"Yes," Zach said. Don't use 'most likely,' or 'probably.' Just be confident about this. It makes sense. It's not a certainty, but the amount of manpower I'll need to check my theory isn't something I can get without question anymore. And I don't have Rebel and Raylei, Rampart and Access- I don't have the best hackers to assist me here. Just regular heroes and support. I'll need a lot of them.

"That's going to be a lot to go through," Sujin mentioned. "And we'll have to send in requests to the airlines. Hopefully they all comply without us needing to get warrants first, though considering what's happened I don't think it should be a problem."

"What may be a problem," G-Man started, turning his head a bit and glaring over at some people rushing their way.

"Lifebringer!"

"Zach Sazaki! What are you doing here?!"

"Are you going to revive the other passengers who died?!"

The press interrupted the conversation Zach was having with the Korean heroes, and G-Man nodded for Zach to head over to his car as he started walking towards himself. "Give us an exit, Wonder Man," G-Man said under his breath as he turned and started away.

"Alright people! Please give us some room-"

"Lifebringer!"

"Wonder Man! We heard that you caught the plane yourself?! Is that true?!"

Zach ignored the press and was grateful that at least one of the reporters was more focused on Wonder Man so they did have reason to stop and question him instead of trying to chase Lifebringer to G-Man's car. Sujin rushed to the driver's side door and jumped in, and the other two heroes got in with Zach in the back seat and G-Man up front though the older hero turned to face him right after getting in. The car had tinted windows and as they drove away the two of them spoke in low voices completely ignoring what was outside. "…Eyes on the road, Sujin," G-Man ordered his sidekick who was trying to focus too much on the fast-paced theorizing of the heroes with him.

"Pamdon's airport. Private or-"

"It's an international one, just smaller than the ones in the big cities." G-Man paused and added while keeping his phone on mute for another few seconds, "I've got a team setting us up a workspace inside already. We'll be let in immediately upon arrival."

"Good," Zach said. He left it at the one word response so G-Man could un-mute his phone and continue coordinating efforts with the people he had on the line. I need to consider every theory. Zach's eyes glowed red in the backseat and his thoughts raced as he allowed himself to just think and wait for arrival at the airport instead of flying ahead of G-Man. He initially used the excuse that he could not show up first and just barge in, but even after G-Man told him they would be let right in he chose to stick with the intelligent experienced hero who was a good man to bounce his ideas off of. …Ayumi's recollection when she dropped is the best clue we could have gotten. I doubt our villain expected me to show up considering my lack of enthusiasm for revivals lately. Unless he planned on killing everyone on the flight, though that's unlikely too as he'd expect most of the bodies to be too destroyed in that case for me to save. Without a personal relationship to anyone on the flight it's going to be difficult locating him. If my predictions on his Quirk are wrong then we'll have nothing to track him with. If it is personal, it will still take a while for each of the passengers to be shown a sketch to see if any recognize him. Too long, with the possibility that he's only just started…

The three of them arrived at Pamdon's airport that Zach was surprised to see looked bigger than G-Man made it out as. He knew the others were much bigger so G-Man was not lying, but it was still a very large airport and one that was getting more and more crowded as so many flights had been grounded due to the crash. Would be a good time to have my hero costume on me. This is going to look sketchy. Unless I act right. Zach steadied his expression and rolled his shoulders in the sleeves of the long-sleeved shirt he was wearing. It was too cold not to have a sweatshirt or jacket, but he had given his away which meant he was going to stick out from the second he stepped out of the vehicle.

Luckily, his appearance shocked too many people for too long. Those people stunned by his appearance with G-Man and Sujin took too long to register it, and Zach made it through security who had been awaiting their arrivals already. They entered the terminals past security with those guards ordering people to stop when they tried rushing after while calling out Lifebringer's name. Others in the terminal who were waiting around for their delayed flights felt their luck had changed, all of them looking towards Lifebringer in surprise even though they had seen some other heroes and authorities rushing around already. Zach nodded at some people but kept his expression serious showing them to stay back and not approach, even as a few started recording. Is this an okay time to smile? I just saw a bunch of dead bodies, and I failed at reviving them. A hero's always supposed to be smiling, but it's hard at a time like this.

"G-Man. Lifebringer," a police officer stepped out of a door that had other cops guarding it on the far end of the terminal. "We're set up in here," Captain Leong started as he motioned for the heroes inside. "We just received full cooperation from the CEO of Korean Aero as well. They've agreed to work with us, giving us everything we need without us needing a warrant."

"They want this cleared up as not a technical issue with their plane but as a murder case, or act of terrorism," Sea Fong started, "And they want us to get justice for their employees too." The blue-skinned woman stepped away from a table set up with several computers that had the support staff of her own agency that was located in Pamdon seated behind them. "Lifebringer," the costumed hero said as she approached the teen. "Glad you're here," she finished intensely, as she had heard what had happened at the site of the crash with Wonder Man's revival, and two others.'

"What do we have?" G-Man wondered, not taking the time for pleasantries and just saying that loudly for everyone in the room to hear him.

Captain Leong snapped twice in the air and called over a few of his sergeants to report in.

"We found fingerprints on the handle of the plane door and a partial on a piece of brass around the bodies at the clean-up site," a female cop who had the face of a black and white kitten reported, trying to keep her eyes on her superior and not on Lifebringer. "Recovery's heading back to the closest station to run them through the database now."

The captain looked to the next one down who looked back himself towards others at the station he had been working at. One of his comrades stood up and nodded over with a thumbs up, and the sergeant looked back and said with confirmation, "Two flight attendants recognized seeing a man matching the witnesses' descriptions earlier this month, period, based on the identification system. We just got second confirmation from a flight attendant who works with the first one to reply positively."

"They each say it was over a week ago," that sergeant's subordinate called over. "But neither can remember the date, though they were working together on that day."

"Figure out all the flights those two were on together," Zach started right back towards that officer who stared at Lifebringer in surprise at the sudden orders he was giving.

"The manifests for every flight in this period," the third sergeant started, holding up a stack of papers that G-Man took. "There are over sixty for V7K9A4, the I.D. number for that aircraft since February 15th."

"We can put aside everything from five days ago to now," Zach said next to him at G-Man. "And everything before three weeks ago too."

"The attendants would have said more than just a week," G-Man agreed back with a nod. "Margin of error wouldn't be that big."

"That's still way too many manifests to go over," Sea Fong started. The blue woman with short black hair shook her head and added, "With hundreds of passengers on each one, and it's not like the passenger lists have pictures next to the names. We'll have to go through each."

"Those two flight attendants flew on V7 together only between February 26th and the 28th. 6 flights in all, starting from the second flight the plane took on 2/26, to the last one on the 28th." One of Sea Fong's support staff called that over to her, and the woman hummed with a grateful nod back at the useful information her subordinate got her. The support team member continued after getting something whispered at her from behind and one of her juniors at the agency, "They were put on a different plane heading back somewhere else while the plane in question was still refueling and standing by the morning of the first."

"Six flights to look at-" Zach started, but stopped as there was no need. G-Man handed off all the rest of the pile showing he had the six manifests they needed isolated already. No time wasted. A huge amount of resources at our disposal, Zach thought. I forgot because I had to deal with what I had, but heroes have far more resources than I ever did. Far more people. I considered their resources mine so often because my guys could hack into their systems and use them, but it's so much quicker this way, with cooperation from everyone and no need to hide what we're doing. It's fucking easy.

"If we ask the two which of the flights in that period the man was on-"

"They were still working for Korean Aero, they wouldn't have noticed the difference between the planes to be able to narrow it down anymore."

"Well there have to be over a thousand people we still have as suspects then-"

"That's too many."

"We have six flights to look at," Zach said. He saw G-Man looking at him from the side, and he stopped hesitating when he watched that hero in a suit give him a single nod that told him to go ahead. He spoke to the whole room who stopped for a second to look at him, "And the manifests for each flight which give us the names of each passenger that had to match up with their boarding passes, which also needed to match their photo I.D.'s to get through security with. Passports and driver's licenses that are scanned for validity. So the names on those manifests are all real names… Except for maybe, our guy. Process of elimination. We look up everyone on those six flights on Quirkbook, Quirked-In, Quirker."

"Each of the flight numbers will be taken by a different team," G-Man called out.

"Going through them all will take forever-"

"Not if every one of us is searching," Zach snapped at the cop whose eyes opened wide and whose mouth shut quickly at that counter. "We have a lot of manpower. Split up a thousand into the thirty of us in here, each of us has to look up 33 people. Every second we spend discussing this is a second wasted. The man who took down this plane and is seeing his partial success could be getting ready for his next attack." Zach said this in Korean and stared harshly but in a determined way around the room full of people who stared at this teenager, not knowing what authority he had, but not going to argue when he put that kind of pressure on their success here.

G-Man shouted out the flight numbers and designated teams of people around the room to deal with each one. The leaders of those teams took charge, head support members of agencies like Sea Fong's who had reported in and sidekicks like Sujin who ordered around G-Man's support team, along with the sergeants who yelled at the pressured lower officers to focus and start typing quickly into search engines. "Don't ignore the female-sounding names," Zach called out as everyone started getting to work, their leaders ordering them which sections of the manifests they had to search through the names of. "It's unreliable to just guess their gender based on the name. The security may have found it strange too but ignored it out of politeness, and the flight attendants wouldn't have known the name of the man they recognized. It could even be a woman disguising as a man. We do not know, so look up everyone."

Zach called all this out while G-Man walked back with the final manifest himself that he showed Zach and Sea Fong who stepped up next to the other two and looked at this final list. Zach had his phone up and he typed fast into his search bar, and Sea Fong did the same next to him but asked at the same time, "What if every name on these lists pans out?"

"It won't. Not everyone has online profiles, and a lot of those names are probably children who we won't be able to find on there. Korean Aero doesn't have assigned seats either so we can't look at two people with the same last names and see one sat next to the other, to assume family. They could just be passengers with the same last names. Along with people who have names too common to cross off… Have we called in for the security footage-"

"At the airports both for the departures and arrivals of each of those six flights," G-Man replied while continuing to type into his own phone as he stood on Lifebringer's left. He told them he was already on top of this with that one sentence, but he continued while listening to a voice speaking into an earpiece from back at his own agency where he had some more people working off site. "We're still in the process of getting them sent to us," he went on. "But every airport contacted is cooperating and moving as fast as they can to accommodate us."

"Let's hope they're fast enough," Zach muttered under his breath.

Sea Fong darted her eyes to her left, then back at her phone intensely as she saw G-Man just continued looking things up himself without giving Lifebringer the look she gave him. "You really think there's going to be another attack?" She asked in a hushed voice. "And soon?"

"Hundreds of flights are still in the air. Not everyone knows this was deliberate yet, though the press at the crash site I'm sure have started reporting on it." Zach paused for a second and then added in a lower voice, "I don't know if Doorway Boy plans on doing anything more tonight, or if he'll wait a month before carrying out another attack. But because I don't know," his eyes darted to Sea Fong for a moment and he finished strongly, "I'll assume he plans another for an hour from now. Because if he does and we wasted time assuming we had it to spare, then that's on us," Zach shook his head as he looked at a photo of a young woman who looked nothing like the description they had of their villain. He lifted his right hand and slid it over the piece of paper G-Man held out in front of him while the suited man typed with only one hand much faster than either of the others could manage.

G-Man did shift his gaze this time as he watched Sazaki do that, and he and Sea Fong stayed quiet instead of wasting time by mentioning how he had just cut a slit in the page over the name he had looked up. "Where did you two start?" Zach asked in a low voice.

"Bottom up," Sea Fong replied.

"Four below the name you picked. I'll move down," G-Man added, and Zach nodded then started working his way up the list he had picked from randomly as he doubted he would pick the same first name as either of the others if he did so.

The team worked fast for a few minutes, ticking off passengers one by one, and ten by ten. "If we get more people in here, we can make this go faster," Captain Leong started, stepping back from one of the stations where two of his officers had just spent two minutes looking for two passengers and not finding anything on either of them.

"Then bring more in here," Zach said. "We'll need people to watch the security footage at each airport for the boardings and when they disembark. If a guy with a scar like that was on one of those six flights he'll be on camera, and if we know which flight we can narrow it down even quicker."

"Where are we on security footage?" G-Man asked in a normal voice. He turned to his right after a second and passed on what he heard in his ear to Lifebringer, "We've got footage from Istanbul, Cairo, Pyongyang, and Beijing so far. I'll have my support start looking through it at the time V7 arrived and when it left each of the airports."

A couple more minutes passed, with twenty or so names getting marked off each minute. Even some of the more common names with multiple hits, the team were able to figure out which of the people on the online profiles were the ones they were looking for based on pictures taken of vacations or out plane windows. There were several private profiles too, but the police had contacted an executive of Quirkbook who gave them a special privilege account that allowed them to check Quirkbook pages that are private for friends only. Several people whose profiles they saw but could not confirm if the person was the same as the one who bought the plane ticket were sent a message by official police accounts or hero agency accounts questioning if they had flown on these flights. It was not a perfect system, but by the next time a big clue came in they had been able to cross off over a hundred names with some confidence.

"We've got a hit a hit on the fingerprints." An officer called it out, and Zach moved quickly over towards his computer. I didn't think he'd slip up again like this. I'm glad though, he's made so many mistakes. He didn't think I'd come because of my recent inactivity. So he didn't suspect anyone who flew out of the plane and saw him would be able to talk, so no one would check for his fingerprints as it would be considered mechanical failure of the locking mechanism, or something jolting loose during the flight…

The officer who turned back to Zach explained what Lifebringer came over and looked at, "A match from the FBI criminal database. One Jason Lee."

Zach turned his head and frowned when he saw G-Man's face. Everyone else in the room had been getting excited by the new information, but Sea Fong's smile faltered at the look on Lifebringer's face which made her turn back to G-Man who had a similar expression. "What is it?" Sea Fong asked in confusion, and some annoyance as she darted her eyes back and forth from G-Man to Lifebringer as both seemed to know something she did not. "Let's search for this Jason Lee-"

"He's not on any of the manifests," G-Man said to his fellow hero. "Which means the name he used is fake."

"But with his real name," Sea Fong started again. "We can still do more."

Zach started nodding his head, agreeing with Sea Fong despite his initial disappointment as the villain did still have countermeasures in place showing he was not the sloppiest villain ever. "Our villain's using an alias," Zach called around at the station that seemed to be slowing down after hearing the new information. "Which means someone on these lists was using a fake I.D., which means that name wasn't real in the first place! We still need to know what name he used-"

"Sir!"

"Lifebringer," G-Man called over to the teen who was yelling that around at the authorities around him who all got back to their tasks. Zach moved over towards G-Man's support area as did Sea Fong and G-Man himself. G-Man started, "My team caught him in Cairo on the 27th. Footage is being sent here." G-Man motioned away and his sidekick who called 'sir' over to him got up from his chair to let the pro sit down at it. G-Man typed in quickly and then fast-forwarded through the clip while listening to a member of his support team over his earpiece. "Everyone focus on flight KA73003," G-Man called out in the meantime. "Split the remaining names on that manifest across the room, and figure out which of them is fake!"

"KA73003, was the flight from Seoul to Cairo," Zach said and got a nod out of G-Man sitting in front of him. "So he got off in Cairo. Do we know when he left?"

"Check the following days after his arrival for another appearance in the same airport," G-Man ordered his team he spoke to over his comms. "Let's get a look at our terrorist," G-Man added in a different tone showing he was talking to the others gathered at his computer while everyone else narrowed down the names on a manifest already with thirty six names crossed off as legitimate.

If he went through the trouble of getting fake I.D.'s worthy of getting him on flights, Sea Fong thought as she had been wondering why G-Man and Lifebringer were still insistent on finding out his fake name even when they had so much on him already. She understood it though and nodded to herself, He'd likely use the same I.D.'s for renting vehicles, or purchasing a hotel room. It's unlikely he'd have multiple aliases, as that could get him in more trouble easier especially if he was caught with multiple fake passports. He might be going by more… Let's just hope it's one fake name. One for everything. Jason Lee. You aren't getting away with this so easily.

Zach narrowed his eyes in on the recording of the gate where the Korean Aero flight arrived in Cairo. G-Man paused the video, and the white square on his screen boxed in around Lee's face and identified him. They saw him right as he was getting out of the tunnel from the plane, and G-Man started the video again while at the same time sending it around the room to pop up in a corner of everyone's screens. As the man started walking, Zach's thoughts split again with a dart of his eyes around at everyone in the room who could not multi-task like him and were distracted by the videos G-Man just sent them. I'm glad I practiced my Korean. I haven't had any trouble understanding anyone or giving out orders, so we're moving fast as we can here. I just hope it's fast enough and this guy isn't on a high feeling like he can do anything.

His eyes darkened as the Caucasian man who also looked part Asian, which most of them just described in their heads as 'American,' walked into the gate area looking confident. He just walked out holding a navy-blue bag by the straps, though he slung it up over his shoulder once he had more room in the airport's terminal. As he did that though, Zach caught the man looking back at the plane too through one of the large windows aligning the walls. The man slowed down, staring at the plane through the glass. Not like he regrets it, Zach thought as he stared at the zoomed-in image of the man's face. Just nervous. Jittery. That he's finally going through with- and he wiped it away. Calmed his nerves. Because no one can catch him, or so he thinks.

Just like Raijin- Lee is making his moves now! Don't let that shit catch up. Norita, everyone finding out about me being Death, Darling being gone forever… being so alone right now. The fuck are you doing?! "His Quirk is as I thought," Zach said in a low voice.

"He looks different than his mugshot," Sea Fong mentioned while looking at another computer rather than the one with the recording covering all of it. "No scar back then. He looks younger, and he got arrested," Sea Fong motioned with her hand at her sidekick who scrolled down and enlarged the writing on the tab up with the FBI information. "Twelve years ago. Accused of theft by a relative who knew about his Quirk. Spent five years in a Texas state penitentiary…"

Maybe he got wrongfully accused because of his Quirk, Zach thought as he read the file himself with his red eyes darting back and forth faster than anyone. He pled innocence, but because he would have had to touch a door in her place, as it says there! And he had opportunities- it doesn't matter. Whether he was guilty or innocent. It doesn't matter now. Whatever happened in the past, he just killed people. Killed a little kid. He's a villain. He needs to die- Zach clenched his eyes shut. HE NEEDS TO FACE JUSTICE!

The correction Zach yelled in his head made him take in a deep breath, and Sea Fong stared at the teenager next to her she just saw squeeze his eyes shut like that and take in a hard breath. "You alright there?" She asked, keeping her voice low so as not to make a big deal out of it.

"Yeah," Zach replied to the hero next to him. "Just tired," he said in a low voice but one showing he was determined to keep going.

Sea Fong just nodded at him, deciding not to say anything else about it. Of course he's tired. Kid's acting superhuman being here right now, after all that's happened to him recently. Saw his place exploded just over a week ago. He's got Eziano Mozcaccio hunting him, and that taunt he made it was like he was exhausted of it all. Others thought he was just being cocky or angry, but damn how many times now has he been attacked since he got out of jail?! It's-

"Wonder Man!"

"And Blue Wings too, what are you two-"

"We came to help however we could-"

"Where are we on the manifest?" Zach called out, snapping the attentions of everyone else in the room back to their work.

"Only a few names left," Captain Leong reported confidently, and he nodded when Lifebringer turned to see if that was right. "We've got everyone on it, and we're searching the security footage from Cairo and Seoul to see if we can't cross off some of the names we couldn't find online. And to check to make sure the profiles we found online show the same people we saw boarding and disembarking that flight."

"We'll be done in a second, Lifebringer!"

"Lifebringer," G-Man started, motioning back at his screen that Zach looked to and saw the villain they saw enter the bathroom heading back out again.

Wonder Man and Blue Wings glanced in at each other in surprise, then they looked back towards G-Man and Lifebringer who whispered quickly to each other in hushed voices while Sea Fong turned her head back trying to listen in on their fast-paced back-and-forth. The other two heroes who just arrived to help out with the manhunt walked farther into the room and towards their fellow heroes, and they headed over to listen in as Lifebringer was going on quietly to the other heroes, "…Which doors can he go through? Can he only enter some and leave others? He likely can't connect one door to multiple places, or he wouldn't have needed to carry an extra door with him when he opened the plane's emergency hatch. Even if he could have gone back through that hatch too by acting like he was opening it again, he probably would have been sent back to the place he left. Or he can't use the same door multiple times in a row with his Quirk… There, see?" Zach looked back at G-Man after watching the video for a few seconds while he was theorizing, but this time G-Man just got a more confused look on his face as he did not see what Sazaki was referring to when the villain was just continuing towards customs in a casual way.

"Sirs. Ma'am." The five heroes looked over at one of Leong's sergeant's with the kitten-like face who came over with a narrowed-down list of the passengers on the manifest who could possibly be their target.

"Here," G-Man took the list, looked down and scanned with his sunglasses. The narrowed list that had been written with pen was uploaded onto the computers around the room. He handed the list off next to him to Lifebringer too, and Zach held it out in front of his body far enough that the others trying to lean in could see without crowding him any more.

First narrow down to names of males only, Zach thought once he had the narrowed list. Don't cross off the others but leave them for now. He most likely wouldn't have picked a feminine name that would draw unwanted attention to his fake I.D., or anything that would make him more memorable to security officers or others in the airports who could remember him later on. Next, only regular names. That works just as much as feminine ones. This one is too out of the ordinary. Still not a good alias name. This looks like a name an American would pick after looking up "common Korean names" on the internet. These two both work for that too… "Alright," Zach started, and he stepped over to his right where some of the police officers were talking about doing something that he thought was a great idea. "Try these three names first." 4-5 others on that list are highly probable. Just depends on how good he is. We'll start here.

"We can contact the airline to-"

"Yes?" A thin man in a nice suit walked up from the back of the room near the door where he had been standing for a couple minutes now. "I am a representative for Korean Aero. If there is anything I could do-"

"Phone numbers for these three customers," Zach said, grabbing the sheet of paper from the officer who was still turning and looking at the man to see what he looked like. He handed it off to the agent and said, "When they paid for the tickets they put a number in, right?"

"Y-Yes. Right away."

"Footage from two days later at the same airport in Cairo," G-Man said towards Zach's back, making him turn and walk back over to look at the screen where G-Man's men put up another video already set to the point where Lee was entering the airport.

Just the one bag. He's not going to pick up anything at baggage claim then… Most likely. Keep watching the other one. "Start fast-forwarding them both," Zach said, his voice stern and his eyes locked on the two screens side-by-side with footage of Jason Lee on both.

"…Understood."

Zach's eyes glowed red and they darted back and forth between the screens he watched at the same time even as both were moving even faster now. No bags. No doors. No trouble through security. Confidence rise. Calm on the way back. Like his plans have worked out well. Calmer than when he left the airport. Two days in Cairo. Or in Egypt, he could have left the city. Need that alias.

"We have the phone numbers," the airline rep started, having received the information he requested quickly from his IT department.

"Video call on that computer," Zach said, pointing at the officers who had been talking about what they were going to do before he handed them the initial written list. "Each of the three. We'll see who they are and question them."

"No time to wait-" Blue Wings started, taken aback by how quickly Lifebringer was moving from one thing to the next in front of him.

"There might not be," G-Man said firmly back to the hero who shut his mouth at that stern look from his colleague.

What does that mean? Is there another attack coming? Blue Wings opened his mouth, but Wonder Man put a hand on his comrade's shoulder and kept him from interrupting again as everyone around the room seemed to be in a much different mood than the two of them. They were moving quickly, without wasting any seconds in their movements that each seemed to be in purpose of getting something done.

"Everyone else work on finding anything and everything you can about the passengers who we haven't identified."

"You four," Lifebringer started, isolating a group of officers who he thought might listen to Captian Leong and get on that. "Contact Jason Lee's relatives. Former places of employment. Friends, coworkers, former cellmates when he was in jail, and credit card companies he had a card with. Figure out if any of them know anything. And try to get his most recent credit card records." Though I'm sure he paid for everything he's needed for these crimes with whatever cards his alias owns. It's still possible though. A hint. A condo somewhere as a backup retreat for him. Relatives' locations too. Everywhere he could run, and he could run anywhere.

"Kim Park's phone is ringing," the officer sitting in front of her computer glanced back at the heroes. A few of them moved over and stood behind the officer and the other next to her moved to the side out of the camera angle by the time Park answered.

"Hello?" The Korean man who answered the phone started in confusion. The computer was acting as their phone and his voice came out of the speakers for the group in front of him to hear.

"Mr. Park. Does your phone have video capabilities?" The officer started to him. "Please activate them now." The man did so without argument and he stared forward in shock through the screen. He was chubby and had short black hair, and G-Man frowned that he did not instantly recognize the man, though they had been following Lee on the security cameras so there were others farther back in the plane who had gotten off after him that he knew he would not have recognized. Kim Park stared at Wonder Man in the most surprise, and he continued after a second of dropping his jaw at the sight of these people calling him from the short number he was supposed to call in emergencies, "I-Is something wrong. Do I-"

"Mr. Park," Officer Choe started. She paused, and she glanced back behind her and at the heroes who similarly did not know what they should say to this confused and flustered citizen.

"You flew on Korean Aero on February 27th from Seoul to Cairo, is that correct?"

"Is this about the plane crash? I heard- I mean, yes. I did-" he corrected himself as he saw G-Man's look get harsher when he did not answer after the hero asked him that question. "Is- Are you suspecting me?! I heard on the news that it might have been foul play- I swear I'm not a villain! I run a convenience store in…"

His Korean's fluent. Suppose Lee's would be too, Zach thought as he walked around the heroes and to a different part of the room where he checked on some of the other officers' progress. It's not him. He doesn't look it at all. Zach looked over the computers and at the heroes now on the other side of the table as him, looking above the head of the officer sitting in a chair in front of him and the woman on the other side who started telling Kim Park that the plane he had flown on was the one to crash. Zach shook his head at the other heroes who agreed, and Sea Fong tapped on the officer's back which got her to quickly tell their citizen they were sorry to disturb him for no reason then promptly hung up.

"Why'd you ask if he had video capabilities first?" Blue Wings wondered at the woman sitting in front of him.

"Suppose if he said he didn't," G-Man started. He nodded at Officer Choe when she looked back to explain, and he gave her a small smile too showing he thought it was a good idea on her part. "We would know he's lying. Since all cellphones have the option for video calls."

"He could just say no if he doesn't want to show his face," Blue Wings started to counter.

"We would then press the issue," G-Man countered back. "And state that they would be considered as a suspect should they fail to comply. Which they would be," he added, showing that was not an idle threat they would be making here.

"Making the second call…"

Zach turned his head and looked around the room full of people. He saw the airline representative arguing with Captain Leong about something near the door he thought he should go listen in to for a second. He moved that way while also focusing on what the other officers around him were doing. He listened as the computer rang with the noise for another phone call that would start off just over voice, then move to video which he agreed was a good idea as it was more likely Lee would pick up if they could not see his face. Then when they requested he allow video call too he would have to make the decision of whether to lie, pretend he had a bad phone or broken camera, or to show his face to the officers calling him. Everyone here is competent. They spend their lives tracking and fighting villains. It's not bad. Having a team like this. For missions. It's always been, so much easier this way. So much better.

Jason Lee is sloppy. He's never carried out anything as big as this. This was his first attempt, which means any attempts after this would be better. He would be more experienced and better prepared. Unless he never gets another chance. One mistake is all it takes. He'll never leave as many mistakes again as he did today. In Cairo he only had the one bag. Zach caught part of the conversation he had wanted to hear and figured out the context from just that bit. Then he walked over around the other heroes and glanced to the screen where a blond Korean man was speaking with the heroes who questioned him a bit better and more prepared than what they had ready for Kim Park.

Zach continued just walking past the other heroes, He left two days later on a flight back to Houston. Not far from where his last known address was after he got out of prison. His stop in Seoul was just a layover where he switched planes, but he had come from Houston as well before he went there. Didn't touch all the doors. One bag, but two days. Only two days, but a full two days. Powerful Quirks have massive drawbacks. Even if he spent years training it after getting out of prison, I know his weaknesses. I've seen his expressions. Know who he is. We know who he is. I can find him. I'm the most experienced one here. I have to find him.

"Plane crash?! I wasn't even on the plane- this is ridiculous."

"Sir we- he hung up," Officer Choe muttered as the screen went black.

"Recognition failed to pick him up?" Sea Fong wondered, glancing to her left where one of her sidekicks sat at another computer and was trying to make match during that short video call.

He looked a bit familiar, G-Man thought. I have to watch the full clip of everyone getting off that flight in Cairo again. He could have been any number-

"The third name is-"

"Don't bother," Zach walked back over to the heroes who he had moved past during the last call but did not stop his train of thought to even acknowledge what he had seen. "That was our guy. Gim Jeong," Zach said it with a nod and focused look as he moved on to the next step in his head.

"What? How do you know?" Wonder Man asked in surprise, looking at the teen somewhat doubtfully at his confidence but also with a willingness to believe considering what this boy had done for him.

"He didn't have the scar," Sea Fong argued.

"He just sounded tired, and annoyed," Blue Wings agreed. "And he didn't look much like our villain."

"He didn't hang up because of that. He thought you might be tracking the call," Zach said. "He's a good actor. He wasn't frustrated about the call 'waking him up' and having to talk to police for no reason. Everyone find whatever you can on Gim Jeong in Cairo between February 27th and March 1st. Let's track the card he used for the plane tickets too, see if he used it for anything else he purchased while using that fake name."

"Are you sure?" G-Man asked the teen, seeing a confidence that made him want to just accept it here, even though he knew acting on wrong information could lead them down a dead end that would waste too much time.

Zach nodded though without a doubt, and G-Man nodded back with the decision not to argue about it.

"We've located Jason Lee's mother and one of his cousin's addresses in the Texas area. Should we contact American heroes and have them-"

"He's going to be in Cairo," Zach countered. He said it firmly, like he already knew it without needing to track down all these leads anymore that they had ready around the room. "He only stopped in Seoul while he spent two days in Cairo. Korean Aero was the airline and it crashed between Korea and China, while if anyone back home knew his trip they knew he went to Cairo from Houston and returned back to Houston. When he opened that door and disappeared as he fell, he was not going to appear inside Korea as the only place he visited here was the airport-"

"How can you be so sure of this?" Sea Fong asked the boy coming up with too much on the spot.

"He's afraid of his phone being tracked," Zach said. "Confirming the limits of his Quirk and that he does not want to have to use it again. He does not want us to know where he is or who he is, because he knows it is possible for us to capture him better than anyone else. He knows all of his own weaknesses, and he's taken dozens of precautions to avoid being caught." Zach continued with a look around the room at people he had seen doubting him more with each assurance he gave them without an explanation for what he was saying. "If he thinks we already knew where around he was, heroes could already be there and ready to move in once he was pinpointed. It's why I didn't say anything even though I figured out it was him, because I don't want to spook him into running. Based on that call he likely thinks we still have no idea who or where he is. He is going to be more anxious though, ready to escape in an instant so we can't let him catch on to anything from here on out."

"He put on makeup to cover his scar," Zach continued explaining to the people just in front of him who saw what just happened. "His hair color was different, he was wearing contacts to change his eye color, or he was wearing them on when he appeared on the flight. We were recording that call though, correct?" Zach asked with a look at the officer next to Choe who nodded his head showing that was right.

"Yeah-"

"We should show the picture to the flight attendant, Ayumi. And to that child, Su Yung. See if they recognize him. All we had was the hook-shaped scar, but he could have left that revealed intentionally to draw attention to it then covered it up immediately after with makeup so his most defining feature would be his disguise. Even if that man looked a lot different from our most recent pictures of Jason Lee, he'll look a lot more similar to the person Ayumi saw as she fell from the plane. He's had two weeks to disguise himself from what he looked like in Cairo too, so he could have undergone a big transformation in that time alone."

"Alright, alright maybe," Sea Fong started, but she stepped towards Lifebringer and shook her head in frustration. This villain was sounding so prepared to her, and so she asked angrily, "But how are we supposed to find him? You say Cairo, but with the Quirk we think he has, he could be anywhere in the world."

"There are several weaknesses his Quirk has," Zach countered right back to her in an intense way that had Sea Fong pull her head back. Lifebringer stared into her eyes and spoke quickly and loudly for everyone in the room staring his way, "First of all, he had to touch the door to be able to control it in his connected pathway of doors. That's confirmed by the fact that he really did fly on this flight before, giving himself the opportunity where he most likely touched the handle of the door he was going to turn later on. Two," Zach continued right away with the next flaw, "he does not have a limitless amount of doors that he can activate with his Quirk."

G-Man's eyes opened wide as he suddenly realized what Sazaki had been getting at before when the teen told him to look at the footage. Zach continued to everyone else what he saw he no longer had to explain to G-Man, "If he had infinite control, then if he really wanted he could have gone and touched all the doors in the world, and then start some master plan opening all plane doors and submarine hatches, space shuttles and car doors to make drivers freak out and crash with huge accidents." Others around the room started staring at Lifebringer with much wider eyes, especially as he was talking in a calm and even positive tone as he described this horrible possibility. "And maybe the guy is just starting small time, which is a real option here and means this is something we need to stop right away before those disasters happen. Yet, it's also true that he can't do it on as wide a scale as I'm suggesting."

"He's shown he is seemingly intelligent through his actions so far. And yet on his way through Cairo airport he went into a bathroom, he went through security-"

"I get it," Sea Fong started with her eyes widening for a second and then a big smile spreading over her face. "If he just went into the bathroom and disappeared into a stall, then it'd be more likely he has limitless, because he wouldn't have wasted one of his precious few doors on one that he couldn't practically use since he'd have to go through security check with his I.D. and passport each time or the plane wouldn't let him on a plane in the terminal anyway."

Not necessarily true, Zach thought even as he nodded at Sea Fong in agreement. A terrorist could go into a terminal bathroom after the security checkpoint and use that Quirk to grab a weapon from home then bring it back there and get it on the flight, but in this instance that wouldn't make any sense after getting off the plane he targeted. "That's right," Zach said. "And more than that, he walked past several doors on his way towards security that he did not touch. He didn't even look at them like he was considering activating his Quirk on them. Plus, he went back to Cairo airport and left on another plane instead of just teleporting somewhere else in the world. Now maybe he wanted to activate his Quirk on that plane too, and we should ground every plane that 'Gim Jeong' and Jason Lee has flown on. The two days he spent in Cairo also suggests that's where he is now-"

"Can we wait a second?" Captain Leong started, stepping farther into the room and frowning deeply at this teenager who was going on for too long here. "This is all just conjecture. The villain could have wanted to spent time in Cairo, or maybe it was so he could give an excuse for traveling to people who know him back in the States. Taking pictures and the like. And disappearing from the airport would have drawn suspicion that he did not want, so he wouldn't have just disappeared from there without leaving security, same with heading back to the U.S. as people would notice that he had never traveled back!"

Leong came up with more and more good reasons to counter all of these theories the longer he went on, and by the end he was raising his voice as it all sounded like even more conjecture than proof to him. "He only had his carry-on bag with him," Zach started again. He looked to Leong for a moment but then turned to Wonder Man and G-Man who were standing next to each other on his other side. "He could've disappeared from the terminal with all his things and been just fine. No one would notice, at all."

"Why Egypt though?" G-Man asked seriously, not questioning everything like Leong but still wondering as this was the most confusing part to him.

"How many doors can he control?" Zach wondered. "We saw him walk right past doors without considering using them. He acted rather quickly between when he flew and when he carried out this attack, so does his Quirk wear off at some point? There may even be a time limit to how often he can open doors to go through, or how many in a row." Zach paused and he said in a deep but stern voice over the whole room, "This may have sounded like an unbeatable, super powerful Quirk when we first heard about it, but all Quirks have drawbacks. They aren't as amazing as one would think!" He looked towards Sea Fong who he had seen look so grim earlier when they were discussing his Quirk, like the aspect of catching this man would be some huge ordeal and likely not able to be completed by them alone here. "Maybe going through the doors hurts him, or maybe it's not about a time limit but just the number he can go through in a single day?"

He questioned that and looked around at some of the officers, then towards Captain Leong who was hesitating at the boy's firm voice and how many questions he was posing that it sounded like he had already thought out thoroughly. "We know he went through two already today, opening the door connected to the plane door, and then opening the door he brought through connected to one somewhere else in the world." Zach paused and then added loudly, "Now hopefully, where he was before he opened the door is where he returned to. A home or base of some kind, but there's a strong possibility that he planned out disappearing from one spot and emerging in another too in case anyone was tracking him afterwards and found out where he had been. Which was likely near where he initially lived-"

"Lifebringer!" one of the officers called out, looking at credit card records in front of him and jumping out of his seat as he got something. "With the fake name he used on the flight, Lee had a credit card that he also used to rent a room at a motel for two nights just south of Cairo."

"That motel is under construction for new renovations," another who had been sitting next to him called out while he was finishing that report. They had looked up the motel to contact them, but the woman's eyes opened wider as she switched over from the home page discussing renovations to a satellite image of the map on the search engine that showed where in Cairo this place was. "His credit card record shows he had drank one of the Lipto Waters in his room they charged him 90 Pounds for. It marks his room number as 403, and the third and fourth floors of the motel are under construction this week."

"Which means no one would be using the rooms," Zach said, and others around him turned their heads back to the teen with their eyes growing huge at the intensity in his voice. He did not look surprised, but like he was waiting to hear where their villain was because he knew the exact location was coming soon.

"Construction," the woman who was just calling all that out started. She gulped, then she turned around to look at Lifebringer with her eyes wide too, and she finished, "Is off today, for an Egyptian national holiday."

Zach nodded his head calmly and started thinking while speaking to the people around him all giving him amazed looks or ones of just plain disbelief. "He used his trip to Cairo for two purposes. Both were for deciding the doors he was going to touch connecting his pathway. The first was to touch the plane door to carry out his plan. He shouldn't have been able to figure out what crew would be on his flight, what flight number or identification number the flight was in advance, but he could have tracked it afterwards. It was not a targeted attack on anyone on board most likely then. The second door was likely of his own motel room where he would be able to leave things secretly in well-hidden places so that after he reappeared in that country, far far from anyone who would think to look for Jason Lee, he would be set until things died down a little or until he carried out his next attack while everyone was still in panic or trying to figure out what happened the first time."

He paused and narrowed his eyes while furling his lip for a moment. No. It's too risky. Any sirens, and even if it's a smart hero, he could pick up police scanners as heroes tell officers to get ready to evacuate the area in case of a big fight. A specific hero with the right explanation could get it. Zach continued without a second pause to the others as he was thinking about something else, just explaining the stuff he had already come up with but only confirmed with the new information about this motel. "People he knew might think it was him if information about the doors being used did come out as foul play, but he's not even using his real name anymore, not where anyone would be searching for him, and he looks completely different too. It's very likely 'Gim Jeong' held onto his cellphone in order to see how close we were to finding him, and now he knows that we know more than he expected. It could also just be the phone he's been using since changing personas, and he didn't expect to be called by police asking about him and checking what he looked like. He did think something of it though, as he must have had the tools nearby to cover up his scar well enough that we could not notice it through the phone camera. Yet it was definitely him in that second call, based on his facial movements and body language, on what he said, and because he failed to even react to seeing me in the background while everyone in the world knows my face."

Others stared at Zach with eyes growing even wider as he had apparently done something like that intentionally during the calls. "Jeong saw me but pretended not to look my way. He played it off so inconspicuously while still just sounding annoyed that it was clearly scripted for him. He was clearly the villain we were looking for." Zach paused and then added as he theorized some more on the spot, "He likely went home to the U.S. first after his initial flight, finalized other parts of his plan, then carried it out earlier. Then even if his alias was discovered, and Gim Jeong was tracked back to the United States where he never left again, we'd be left with a dead end as he's not where he would have some base or home, but he's in Cairo. He would assume that we'd suspect Cairo was just a random stop during his goal to activate his Quirk on the airplane. He's hiding out in a country he barely knows?"

Zach pondered it like that was somewhat unbelievable, but no one was doubting him anymore and just listened closer as he went on with narrowing eyes, "The country with still one of the highest rates of villain attacks in the world, even if that rate is lower right now than it's been in years. A country where heroes have struggled, where many have been killed, where it'd be less likely they could spare a lot of manpower at any given time to go after him." He stopped and then continued darker, "Cairo is where he has moved to rest and get ready for the next part of his plan. If he suspects we know who he is now, his only options are to go into hiding or to continue his plan. This was the first part and meant to test things out, see how well-prepared the heroes are for him, and even if that call alone does scare him into stopping with just this," Zach's eyes darkened and he said firmly, "I'm not letting him get away with this."

"He might just open the doorway and escape and just never be seen again. He could use his Quirk to vanish back and forth bouncing all over the world, but right now we know he's used his Quirk twice recently and in rapid succession." Zach thought faster, and he spoke aloud to a group of people realizing less and less like he was explaining anything to them, "Too much time hasn't passed afterwards, and even if this guy can only do it so many times in a day, twice like that is bad. If he could touch every door and go through at any time, he would touch every door and be a master of jumping around teleporting through every door there is, but his Quirk's seeming more and more flawed each second. If his Quirk has a great number of limitations, then he needs to recharge and won't want to use it again so quickly unless he absolutely has to. Plus, he'll be cautious against using a third one in case he suspects that we know all his possible locations, so he'll want to wait until he's sure we're after him in Cairo before using his Quirk to escape somewhere else again, if he even can right now." There are a ton of possibilities. The construction is the assurance though. The fact that he did not touch every door in that airport, showed that he was either stupid for not being prepared to run and be able to pop out anywhere, or that he couldn't do it, or that he could and it would take away his ability to go through another doorway somewhere else. Maybe the possibility to use it as many times as he wants but only through a certain amount of doors so once he uses it on a fifth or sixth door, the first one he touched is no longer applicable.

"What's the address of that hotel?" Zach asked.

"Ah, it's uh, the Sherilnon 7, on 312 Farzhad Place in the Maadi district south-"

Zach looked from the man responding to him to the one who had called out about Jeong's credit card info. "Locate any other lodgings or locations that credit card was used on. As backups in case Lee slips away." Zach turned and he started for the door.

The Korean heroes and cops stared at him for a few seconds, then the heroes' eyes opened wide and they all rushed to the door and out into the terminal after Lifebringer whose actions they understood a few seconds after he started moving. "Wait, Lifebringer," G-Man started, running up to Lifebringer's side as he marched away behind a barrier that police had put up. The barrier created a hall on the side of the terminal keeping the movements of heroes and personnel in and out of that room from the prying eyes of people pointing cellphone cameras over at it. "Where are you going?"

"We'll call Egyptian heroes," Wonder Man started as he dropped down in front of the boy and on his right side, and he moved more to the side as Lifebringer just kept walking with his expression intense and a short shake of his head denying that. Wonder Man shook his own head and rushed forward still in front of Lifebringer so he was partially backpedaling. "You've done great figuring out as much as you have, but you should let the pros handle it."

"You may not think much of Egyptian heroes," Sea Fong began.

"If he sees the Egyptian heroes coming, he'll disappear," Zach stated. "If he's suspecting they might be contacted and come to his motel, he may be watching out for them too." He knew I was here already. He knew I brought back some of his victims, so he must have suspected information about him would get out. Then again, he knew that was a possibility from the start especially if he planned on killing a lot more people with the crash. So he did not panic. He kept calm even though he saw me, which gave away that he knew I was there already and that he's prepared for it anyway. If these were his precautions for me being a part of this though, then he's just feeling even more confident now that he went to all the trouble to make these plans. Like he planned for this. "Lee's shown he's willing to kill innocents, and the way he looked after getting off that plane two weeks ago, he was excited to start out his crime spree. Excited, and yet patient. Smart. Dangerous, but inexperienced, as of now."

Zach's voice got darker, and his feet sped up as he moved faster through the airport towards a door he saw up ahead that he was not supposed to enter himself as it led outside. "Based on how I interact with the villain when I see him, if I can't take Lee out immediately, I'll also be able to influence his decision when going through the door about where to pop out next." Zach turned to G-Man who had traded cell information with him in the car on the way to the hospital, and he gave the man a dark but serious nod telling him to contact him in a moment. G-Man's eyes opened much wider behind his sunglasses at the single look that told him there was no stopping Lifebringer, and he sped up even more with his mouth opening to try and argue. Zach continued first though, "I will fly immediately to his next location, all his most probable other locations that I'll need the addresses for as backups."

"And how will you, influence where he goes?" Sea Fong asked, breaking partway through as she was even nervous to ask, but then speeding up more to keep up with the kid talking crazy that did not sound as crazy when it came from him.

"Tell him I know about his other hotels and locations where I suspect his backup doors are, while leaving out the most obvious backup that he would probably go to anyway but would feel even safer about having when it seems like Lifebringer doesn't know about it." Zach stopped and grit his teeth, And after using another door like that so soon, he shouldn't be able to flee from that backup. I hope his power isn't any stronger… "Not that it will matter," he muttered and cut off his own doubtful thoughts. "I won't let it come to that anyway." Zach put his right hand on the lock of the door at the end of the fake hall the police had created in the terminal, and he unlocked it and opened it up to a small staircase down and one up both leading outside. "He'll never see me coming," Zach growled while pushing the door open, stepping outside where it was colder and much darker as the area was not illuminated and covered in walls of windows.

"Lifebringer-"

"He'll be none the wiser as to what happened when he wakes up in a cell somewhere," Zach growled under his breath, jogging up the stairs but slowing down near the top. "How? Because I'm a ghost," he muttered to himself even quieter and then turned his head and glared down at the heroes who followed him. "Calm down flight control in ten seconds. Don't tell the press where I'm going as we know Lee is watching. Hold a press conference though and announce that we're still just trying to work it out, with a few suspects. Talk about who he really is, stuff that won't spook him too much and that he probably thinks we already know. And start the conference when I give the word," Zach gave one more look at G-Man, then he pushed open a door at the top of the metal staircase that did not have any path off of it.

His body erupted in darkness and he flew up in the sky in an instant. A massive set of black wings ripped off his back and he flapped them under him, soaring a thousand feet higher in a second, then a few thousand feet higher than that. He spiraled up through the clouds and then shot himself into the west. It worked in Camino Ward. The heroes did a press conference that eased the villains into a false sense of security. He'll see the very same heroes he knows are investigating him, and my absence won't raise any flags as I'm not even supposed to be there. And that doesn't even matter, because All Might wasn't at that press conference either and it still eased the villains then just to hear them being talked about without any sign they were being hunted at that moment.

Zach's phone rang, and he brought it up to the side of his head with darkness hardening in front of his face to act as a windshield and make it possible to hear G-Man and for him to be heard back. "You know, this is far beyond your jurisdiction now," G-Man began in a dark voice to the teenager who picked up the phone. Zach did not respond, and G-Man paused for a few seconds then started, "Everyone's working on a list with all the possible addresses we think Lee might flee to. I'll adjust it to figure out which is most likely his first backup, for when you go in."

"Thank you," Zach replied.

"Wonder Man is calling a press conference now, and luckily there are a lot of press stuck outside the airport already. How long-"

"Twenty minutes," Zach replied. There was a brief silence on the other side of the line, and Zach added, "I'm very fast. Call me in eighteen." Zach hung up and he pocketed his phone again, and he wrapped himself in more darkness as it was freezing up there without anything more than a long-sleeved shirt on. He was wet again too after flying through clouds and getting poured on earlier that night, and behind the darkness over his face he sniffled once.

Cairo. Seven hours back from Korea. Should still be some light. Zach flew out of clouds into a clearer pitch black sky, and he rose up in elevation higher and higher.

There it is. Zach spotted the growing sunset. He was traveling so fast to the west that the sun looked to be rising to him. He dropped back down in elevation, but the dark sky got brighter again as the sun rose up above the horizon. How fast am I moving? Did I release more? Zach slowed down, and he pulled his phone out carefully with a wind guard of Death protecting it again. GPS location… Not too far. A good estimate, maybe underestimated my speed to G-Man. I should recognize Cairo anyway. I'll check again for the exact location.

The sun stayed low on the horizon for Zach. Even though he had traveled closer to the equator and thousands of miles to the west, the sun was still setting. It was past midnight. Well past. It's March though, and farther south, 7 hours back. Sunset's close. It's hotter here. Zach saw a city he had been to before, and he thought upon a closer inspection of it, Looks a lot better than the last time I was here. Cairo was out of control, and it was the least chaotic part of Egypt. Last February was absolute chaos across this country, like it was in most of Africa after the CHAF. Before the CHAF too. It's why they united like that in the first place. Chaos. Zach saw smoke rising from all over the city in front of him that shifted a bit in appearance, but he shook the memory out of his head. He pushed the thought away angrily actually, glaring down at the city and then to the south in the direction of where he knew his enemy was. Millions of lives could be on the line if I fail here. If this villain learns from his mistakes today and becomes stronger and more capable of mass destruction!

Zach picked up his phone and he called G-Man as he flew through the sky over Egypt's capital. The phone picked up after half of one ring. "Start the press conference. What do you have?"

"Near his childhood home outside of Houston, his mother claims he had come home not too long ago and visited a childhood fort he made with friends as a kid out in the woods near their home. There's got to be a door out there. Other places include his former work…"

Zach listened as G-Man listed off places secondary to that fort, while he hoped someone else was notifying Wonder Man to get started on a press conference. Jason Lee's in this building. Zach stared at a motel from high up above it with his body cleared of most of the Death so he would stand out less if anyone happened to look up there. Construction all over the exterior of the building. New balconies being built, windows boarded up, Zach noted the exterior renovations with a satisfied look. Doorway Boy knew about what was being renovated. Probably asked about it beforehand to make sure inner doors were safe. One two three, two "third" rooms from the edges that could be 403. That one. Hole in a board over the window.

Zach's red eyes narrowed down on the window that had wooden planks over it during the construction. It doesn't make sense for the construction guys to carve that hole in it, but for someone using the room who might want to look outside for approaching heroes, it makes sense. Stay out of the direct sun. Don't cast an early shadow. He slid his phone down in his pocket and then shot up high in the air. Someone shouted down below, and he arced and dropped into a dive. It's possible he hears the scream over the sound of his tv. He'll turn from the tv towards the window he'll want to check through the hole of again…

Zach smashed through the wall of the motel room instead of through the boarded up window itself, as the man might be looking towards it already and see him approaching if he chose to go through there. He smashed down the wall of a building in Cairo, and his red eyes glared through the debris blasting inwards at a villain leaning nervously on the wall next to the door while facing the tv in his room. The room was dimly lit and almost dark but illuminated fast as the hole was blown in the wall. The villain was leaning on the wall with his arms crossed like he was telling himself that there was no need to be nervous. His head started to turn with his arms coming uncrossed, but Zach flew across the shaking room through flying debris and his hand shot out of his black aura before the man even finished uncrossing his arms.

The dark form grabbed the blond villain who had rubbed the makeup off so his scar was showing again. His right hand in its glove tightened into Jason Lee's chest, furiously yanking him off the ground and knocking the wind out of him at the speed Zach smashed into him. A wall of darkness blew out around Zach's sides and prevented the debris following him from slamming into his target. The man in front of him's mouth was wide open but no noise could come out after he lost all his breath. He stared with massive trembling eyes at the figure of darkness holding him up, and then Zach pulled towards himself so the villain's face was right in front of his. "RRRAAAAAAAAAOOOOAOAA!"

The horrifying voice echoed out from the room and around the building for dozens to hear. Black smoke pushed out of Zach's mouth as he screamed it too in a scratchy dark and deep voice. It poured out of Zach's mouth and into the face of the man before him who finally got knocked-out as Zach had gripped him at first with his glove that had no Death on it whatsoever. Zach's fingers slipped out of the man's shirt and dropped him to the floor, and he stared down with his red eyes turning back to hazel and going wide. The villain shit himself, and Zach thought with his expression shaking, Did I kill… No, it wasn't a death shit. It was just from the fear.

Sirens started outside the building getting louder as they approached. He looked down at the man on the floor with a scar in a curved shape on his left cheek. Does look a bit like a hook from this close. Zach took in steady breaths and let them out just as calmly, and he frowned deeper each second as he glared down at the villain who he captured so quickly. Unlike Jason Lee, who made all those precautions for good reason as his opponents were better than had prepared for, Zach felt a feeling of disappointment he pushed down hard in disgust at the sensation of.

Zach pulled out his phone and looked down at the time. "Ch," he pocketed it and looked away in annoyance towards the tv where Wonder Man, Sea Fong, and Blue Wings were answering questions from the press without the knowledge that he had already succeeded. It's still the middle of the night. Still long before class even if I fly back to Yutapu slowly. And what will I do in Yutapu for the next few hours? I'll have to pick up my backpack from Korea at some point. My homeless pals said I could squat with them whenever and they weren't afraid of any villains. They'd even protect me while I sleep! Zach lifted a small grin and almost chuckled at the idea of it. I appreciate them for that, but that's why I shouldn't take them up on it again. Show appreciation once, and it was nice even if Lemillion found me. And if he could, Eziano could have.

I'll just deal with the press here and explain to the coming heroes in Arabic why I just smashed a hole in one of their buildings. Zach looked out the hole in the wall towards an approaching hero jumping on rooftops in his direction. He was too dangerous not to take on with every precaution. As fast as possible. No holds barred. Damn, I wonder how many people I just saved. I'll never know… That's fine though. That's, what it's supposed to… I never knew.

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A/N Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Leave a review below telling me what you think, questions, comments, or predictions for the story! Gotta admit, my predictions for how many chapters I have left keep getting blown away. And as I've told you guys "No spoilers" many, many times... I start to wonder if the few things I have revealed have been lies too... Unintentionally, of course ;) Anyway, review response time:

DarkJokes chapter 201 . Nov 18

Surprised that Zach didn't realise the prime minister could have been corrupt like at least the idea should've floated through his mind. Also a very important question I think I would like to know is if Eri's quirk Rewind works on Zach? Since his quirk is death and well death doesn't age or die would that mean She can't really wipe Zach from existence? Rewind is basically a time quirk and Zach has basically a type of immortality quirk so I'm just wondering would that make him immune to her rewind?

Zach does wonder, at the least, whether or not Nikko did it just because of the terms the two of them are on which to him likely counts as corruption. He also considers a dozen other reasons though and mainly just blames himself for not having that channel where he could have actually talked to Nikko. Plus, the incident went on quickly (even if that chapter was pretty long), so having to deal with bureaucracy and not immediately getting results wouldn't really make him assume evil, though maybe he is considering it too in a deeper way. We haven't seen it yet, doesn't mean it's not on his mind somewhere, but just a few reasons for why it's not his immediate assumption. As for Eri's Rewind, I'd say it'd def work on Zach. His Quirk is Death, but he's not really Death- I mean, he is Death, but not Death Death, even if some villains thought he was Death... Get it? XD lol she sends people back, and Zach's still just a human being. If he was sent back 19 years, then as an 18 year old, it would most likely make him disappear. Hope that makes sense-ish. And hope you enjoyed this chapter. Thanks for reviewing!

TheGreatBaljeet chapter 201 . Nov 18

This may be kinda late, but congrats on 200 chapters!
That's like 100 chapters but twice that much (I'm joking, don't worry)
I've been reading since chapter 63? 64?
It's been so long I don't even remember, but I'm loving every chapter.
Keep this up, and you might even have the longest fanfiction on here. ;)

Thanks a lot! XD (nice joke). All y'all who've been reading for so long and keeping up with the story, I'm glad I've kept you interested all this time! Doubt I'll get the longest on here, but I would bet that in the past year and a half I have written more words than anyone else has ever written in the same amount of time. (Nearly 3 million XD XD). Anyway, thanks to everyone for keeping up with it!

UWU chapter 201 . Nov 20

I swear to darling if the ending is open ended I will find you and do something. I don't know what but I will.

I had no idea Darling was God... Though it does make sense. ;) Thanks for the review, and don't worry I'm pretty sure everyone'll really like the ending... or maybe not. I think it's going to be awesome though! XD Thanks for reading mina-san! 'Til next time!