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Wiping the last plate with a soft towel, Rossweisse smiled a bit at her finished work. It was so strange… the same tasks that she couldn't hate more were now relaxing and satisfying to do. Something as simple as washing the dishes after the meal she shared with her host gave her more satisfaction than months of slaving over the documents in Odin's office.
Humming an old song that her grandmother used to sing when she was younger, the silver haired girl took off her apron and set a kettle of water on the stove. She took out a box of tea from one of the cupboards, needing only a few tries to find the correct one.
"Izuku-san, would you like some tea?" She asked, raising her voice a bit so the teen in question would hear her from the dining room.
"Yes please, there should be a box with mint tea if you could? Thank you, Ro-san." He replied, still working on the assignments from the school that the girls from earlier brought him.
The silver haired Valkyrie didn't know what to think about the two, especially the red headed one that practically radiated devil magical energy. The three biblical factions were in a ceasefire, not to mention that Asgard had a good political relationship with the devil faction.
The soft whistling from the kettle got her attention, the young woman swiftly switching off the stove and pouring the water into two cups. Cleaning everything up, she took the brewed tea and walked to the dining table where Izuku was just finishing his work too.
"You work fast…" She commented looking at the clock on the wall. It clearly showed that it wasn't even full 20 minutes from the time that she went to the kitchen and the green haired teen already took care of his assignments.
"I like studying. Learning new things is often exciting." He replied, neatly stacking his papers to the side. He took the offered cup and drank a bit of the still hot tea, to the surprise of his guest.
"Isn't it too hot to drink? The water just boiled." She asked with concern.
Letting out a content sigh he smiled at her. "It's alright, I always preferred hot drinks like this." He explained, raising the cup a bit.
"Well… if you say so…" She said, slightly unsure. "Your mother seems to be a nice person, I honestly expected to be ordered to leave your house…"
"My Mom wouldn't do anything like that, especially if she knows that you don't have anywhere to go." The greenette replied but it was clear that he was lost in thought for some reason.
"And I'm really grateful for that. I'll do anything to repay your kindness. I can even help you with studying if you need it." Rossweisse smiled at him, sipping her own tea a little. It was still hot, making her a bit worried for her new friend who just drank it as if nothing was wrong.
"Well…" He started, rather unsure. His green eyes locked for the second time with hers, the strange feeling on the back of her neck returning. Now in the dimmer room she saw that his green eyes shined a bit, as if they reflected some moving light that slowly traveled in circles.
"Those two girls that visited me from school… I think that they did something to my mother…" He started after gazing back into his cup.
"I… I don't want you to think that I was lying to you… with me being quirkless and all." He continued after a short while, causing her to make a puzzled expression. "After the incident that left me like this…" He said, gesturing to his wheelchair. "I'm able to see… things." The greenette paused, a bit unsure by himself.
"So in the end you do have a quirk? What does it do?" She asked with curiosity, sending him a small smile after seeing how nervous he was.
"It's rather hard to describe… When I woke up in the hospital I could see… data? For the lack of a better word… Suddenly I could determine the exact dimensions of any object I looked at. Their relative speed to me, ground and all other things surrounding it. Their weight, density and other information immediately enter my mind whenever I set my eyes on anything, including other people…" He paused for a second, taking a small sip of his tea. "It doesn't end there… I always had a rather good memory but lately I started to notice that I'm remembering everything. I can even tell you the exact number of leaves for each tree we passed today, as bizarre as it sounds…"
"That's… that's amazing…" The silver haired girl said with wide eyes.
"It's irritating and annoying more than anything… I awaken my quirk after so long just to be stuck in bed or a wheelchair, not to mention the headache…" The greenette sighed, downing the rest of his tea in one large gulp.
"But even outside heroics, such ability would be invaluable!" She argued, thinking about all the possibilities. Any magician with such ability would be a force to be reckoned with, the only limit for them would be the amount of magical power they could provide. Her enthusiasm fell a bit at that thought, feeling the lower than normal amount of magical power emanating from her host. He was barely registering for her, and she was one of the best magicians of her generation.
"I know…" He huffed out, tilting his head backwards and staring at the ceiling. "It's just really frustrating to gain the power you yearned for, just after getting your dream crushed…" He mumbled out. "Anyway… this quirk of mine shows me a lot of information, most of which I can't even comprehend. There is this set of numbers and symbols that is identical to all people but after moving to this town I saw quite a few people that were different… including you, Ro-san." The green haired teen continued, setting his eyes on his guest.
"Me?" She asked surprised, a bit nervous too. Was her new friend capable of detecting supernatural entities with only a glance?
"Well… yes." He confirmed, scratching the back of his head in a nervous gesture. "As I mentioned before it's rather hard to describe but your data is different from anything I've ever seen. Even Kiba-san and Gremory-san were similar to each other, to a few people I saw in school too. And today my Mom had a part of her information changed, something that didn't happen the whole time I was able to perceive it. She didn't even question two strangers that showed up on her doorstep but was rather upset with you even though I introduced you personally. She also didn't start to search for me immediately after arriving, something that she would do normally." Izuku explained, playing with the empty cup in one of his hands.
Rosweisse didn't say anything for a short while, contemplating what to do. She could introduce him to magic, it wasn't that big of a deal. The problem was that once someone entered the supernatural world there wasn't any way back.
"I think that Gremory-san used some sort of quirk on my Mom… Her data was so wildly different from anything I've ever seen… It's as if she was totally different from the rest of the people around…" The green haired teen mumbled to himself.
"Maybe it's just her meta ability or something? The world is a wide place, maybe there is a difference in people from around the globe? I believe that this Gremory-san is a foreigner like me." The silver haired girl replied.
"Yeah… maybe." He said back, once again scratching the back of his head. "Aren't you mad at me, Ro-san?"
"Mad? Why?" She asked back, confused.
"That I hid the fact that I'm no longer quirkless… Even when you don't have a quirk of your own… I feel like a hypocrite with all my ranting from before…"
"Izuku-san, there is nothing wrong with what you told me about. Unless you lied to me, your life was a hard one and nothing can take away from the wrong things that people did to you." She replied immediately, reaching over the table and taking one of his hands into her own.
"Thank you…" He mumbled out, blushing slightly. It felt like it was a lifetime ago that someone beside his mother showed so much care for him.
"We… we should probably go to bed. I'm going to have a rather long conversation with Mom about all… this." Izuku said with a small yawn, stretching his arms overhead with a slight pop.
"Thank you once more, for allowing me to stay here, I mean." She smiled once more at him, picking up his cup to take it back to the kitchen. He smiled back thanking her and rolling his wheelchair to the stairs. The silver haired girl followed after him, supporting the teen on the way up.
Telling their goodnight's for the day, she went back down, cleaned the table and sat on the couch that she woke up on in the morning. So much happened in only a few hours.
Relaxing into the cushions, she hugged herself in the soft and warm hoodie that she still wore. It was certainly too big for the green haired teen, making her wonder why he would have such a thing in the first place.
With her face burrowed into the fabric the slight smell of sweat entered her nose, making her cringe. Taking a few bath supplies from the shopping bags, she went to the bathroom which turned out to be rather spacious. A traditional Japanese bath was at one end, big enough for a few people to fit inside at the same time. Deciding that it wouldn't be a good idea to abuse the hospitality she was offered, Rosweisse took only a hot shower. She barely stopped herself from moaning from the blissful feeling as her muscles relaxed under the warmth.
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"Thank you, Midoriya-san." A red headed girl said, exiting from a grey minivan that stopped just before the Kuoh Academy gate.
"Don't mention it, and call me Inko. I should thank you for being such good friends with my son, please take care of him." Inko replied, still behind the steering wheel. She smiled once more to the two and drove off, waving a small goodby to Yumi who stood just beside Rias.
The two of them observed the car until it disappeared beyond a corner, starting to slowly walk back to the dormitories just after it did.
"Sooooo… What do you think about Izuku-kun?" The blonde girl asked after they walked for a few minutes in silence.
"I want him…" The red headed girl replied, biting the nail on her right thumb.
"Eee… why? Is his sacred gear so powerful?" Yumi asked further, actually paying enough attention to see the slight blush on her master's cheeks.
"Sacred gear? No, I couldn't feel anything like that from him. His magical presence was extremely small, even smaller than a normal human should have. If anything, he had an extremely faint draconic aura but it was barely noticeable even for me. If it wasn't for the fact that I spent so much time with uncle Tannin as a child then even I wouldn't feel that…" Rias replied, a small smile appearing on her face.
"Then why do you want him to join us? I thought that gathering powerful allies to oppose that flaming chicken was a priority now…" The blonde girl said, a bit confused from her master's strange reaction.
"Well… didn't you see how adorable he is? He's so smoll!" The Gremory heiress exclaimed with a goofy smile. "He looks so fragile and cute and his hair is so green and fluffy looking! He was like a small frightened animal that you would hug and cuddle and be all 'Ara Ara' like an older sister and did you see his glasses and those big green eyes and…" The red headed girl started to gush about the green haired boy as if he was the one and only love of her life.
"Ufufu… our dear master seems to be in a good mood." A black haired girl said, standing near the entrance to the dorms as if waiting for them both.
"He's mine!" Rias shouted, nearly starting to hiss at her best friend like a cat.
"If you say so~." Akeno replied in a singsong voice, laughing a bit from her master's reaction.
"Don't you dare Akeno! Don't you freaking dare!" Rias exclaimed, pointing a finger at the ravenette just for her to take it into her mouth and suck on it. "Ugh… cut it out! I'm serious right now! I saw him first!" Wiping her now wet finger onto her blouse, the red headed devil pouted.
"Umm… Buchou? What about that silver haired girl that was with him? They acted rather familiar and she seemed a bit…" Yumi butted in, gesturing with her arm that she didn't know how to put it in the words.
"Yeah… I felt that too. She introduced herself as Rosweisse… I think I heard that name somewhere before." The redheaded girl said while biting onto her nails.
"Okay, okay. You didn't even talk with the guy and you already started acting like a jealous wife…" Akeno laughed. "Koneko-chan returned before you two, her contact was fulfilled properly." She added at the end, changing the subject a bit.
"That's good, it's hard to get new contacts lately." Said Rias, passing her friend and going into the building with an angry grumble.
"Well… I guess that there aren't many people willing to create a contract with a teenage devil girl… quite a few of my own clients thought I just had some mutant type quirk and was a call girl…" Akeno added, walking after the redhead with Yumi.
"Well… Gasper is easily making up the quota though… yay for the internet I guess…" The blonde girl said, yawning a bit.
"You are saying that but you don't want to know how disgusting some of his contracts are… He has to deal with much worse degenerates than we ever will have to…" Rias huffed, turning into the common room and taking a seat on the couch. "Akeno, could you make me some tea, please?"
"Of course, I just acquired some Rose tea and it should be ideal before sleep." The ravenette replied with a smile, walking off to the kitchen area leaving her two friends in a comfortable silence.
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Floating in an endless void, it took quite a few minutes for Izuku to come to his senses. It wasn't his fault really, it was difficult to recognize that something was happening when literally nothing was going on around him.
A black abyss in all directions, not even a speck of light around him. It was rather strange, because he could clearly see his own hands. And torso. And legs. And… Why the hell was he naked?
Suddenly, a slight noise behind him caught the boy's attention. It was barely there, but with the overwhelming nothingness around him it could have been an explosion with how clear it was.
Somehow managing to turn around he came face to face with a rough wall, all red in color. His analytical brain immediately went to work, recognizing that the material looked organic and didn't have any seams. The coloring was a bit of here and there but overall it was blood red all over.
Briefly, it reminded him of the strange girl that visited his house earlier today with his classmate. Her hair was also blood red, but the color was so much more vibrant and alive that it nearly took his attention from her blue eyes that didn't leave his own until she entered his mother's car.
A harsh movement in front of him got the green haired boy out of his thoughts, the large wall moving upwards faster and faster. In half a second he was looking into a giant pupil of an eye that was staring back at him with great intensity.
It was massive, easily the size of a house if not bigger. It was so hard to grasp the actual scale without anything to compare it to.
"Weakling… Pathetic whelp… You are not worthy!" A sudden roar caused the boy to cover in fear. His vision blurred, as he disappeared from the strange void leaving the enormous beast alone.
It's head turned around, the creature angered by it's host being so weak and fragile. He had to be exposed to the supernatural world if this meeting was forced like that. That was good, the faster that pathetic worm dies the faster it would be able to find a new, hopefully worthy host.
Something caught it's attention though, something that felt so unnatural that even its instincts were reacting.
A white, humanoid entity floated in the same space that the boy's representation did just seconds ago. It didn't have any features at all, just a pure white blob in the shape of a human. It was looking around, as if curious of where did it end up. Even without any visible eyes, the red beast could feel it's curious stare.
"Query. What are you?" It asked in a garbled voice.
" Begone!" It roared, angered that something had the gall to enter its domain. With a powerful swing of its tail the entity made of light shattered into innumerable shards, just to coalesce back into its vaguely humanoid shape.
"Query. What are you? Query. Why are you hostile?" It asked again, not fazed at all.
The red beast roared once more, furious that something so small and insignificant was mocking it. A torrent of white hot flames came from its maw, engulfing the insignificant ant that somewhat managed to enter his lair.
"Warning. Master's body is experiencing energy fluctuations." The entity said, stepping out of the flames without even a scratch.
"You dare to mock me?! One of the legendary heavenly dragons?! I am the Red Dragon Emperor and you will perish for your transgressions!" The beast exclaimed in fury, forcefully activating the power of the sacred gear that it was trapped in.
"Warning. Power fluctuations in the Master's body are reaching critical levels." The entity said once more with it's flat and emotionless voice.
"That whelp is worthless as a host, I should have done this a long time ago. Maybe my next host will at least be able to use my power, even crush that white menace." The Red Dragon Emperor snarled.
"Conclusion. The 'Red Dragon Emperor' is dangerous to the Master's body. It must be quarantined and assimilated." The strange entity said, making the dragon feel a long forgotten sensation down its spine.
Before it could even react, the arms of the white entity shot forward, wrapping around the frame of the dragon and trapping him in place.
"What is this foolery?! Release me at once!" The dragon roared, flexing its powerful muscles but to no avail.
"Error. The power source, 'Red Dragon Emperor', is too powerful for the Master to safely utilize."
"You wretch!! I'll rip apart you and that master of yours!! I'll burn your souls for eternity!!" Still trying to shake off his bindings, the red dragon started roaring and spewing flames everywhere.
"Conclusion. A medium for the power source is needed. Adjusting energy wavelength."
"Raaarrgghhh!!" A pain filled roar resounded in the otherwise empty space as the giant dragon felt his soul being forcefully changed. Writhing in pain and trying to escape, the Red Dragon Emperor felt fear for the first time in his long life. His very existence being reduced into nothing more than a well of power for whatever that entity was.
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Waking up with a jolt, Izuku fell out of his bed and onto the floor. He stayed there for a short while, gasping for air and staring at the wooden ceiling of his room. His whole body was slick with sweat, as if he went under the shower in his clothes.
After calming down a bit he tried to recall what happened but a small detail caught his attention.
The all too familiar, ever present headache was gone. Together with it the everyday overwhelming amount of information his mind has to process seemed so miniscule that he felt unease and anxiety creeping up his spine.
A fast series of footsteps resounded from the hall, with someone running up the stairs. "Izuku-san, are you alright? I heard a loud noise from your room." The voice of his new friend carried from behind the doors, clearly worried.
"I… I'm alright." He replied after a few seconds, slowly getting up from the floor. To his further surprise that action wasn't even half as painful as he expected it to be. His leg were still a bit stiff and he wouldn't be able to walk very far without his cane but the pain from yesterday was completely gone. Only a dull throbbing sensation could be felt, which was a first time in two years when he truly could take a few steps without any aid.
"What's going on…?" He asked in a whisper, looking back to his bed in confusion.
#System SG-00 achieved full functionality after gathering enough power for startup.#
A monotonous voice replied to him out of nowhere, making him jump and frantically look around.
"W-who's there?" He asked with a stutter, trying to find the source.
#System SG-00.#
The voice repeated once more, not elaborating any further.
"Where are you? How are you speaking to me?" The greenette started to ask questions, backing up to his desk where his cane was.
#System SG-00 is linked and fused to the soul of the master. System-00 incorporates a telepathic link with the master that allows communication.#
"Izuku-san! Are you alright? Do you need any help?" Rosweisse called once more from beyond the doors, clearly worried.
Walking slowly to his doors with the help of his trusty cane, Izuku opened the doors to show his new friend he was alright.
"I'm alright Ro-san. I just fell… out… of…" With his face turning progressively redder, the green haired teen lagged for a few seconds just to spin around and cover his eyes. "R-R-R-Ro-san! What are you wearing?!" He blurted out, nearly steaming from his head.
"My pajamas?" The silver haired woman replied with confusion, looking down. She was wearing a button up sleeping shirt and a set of fluffy pants, all in a pleasant creamy color. What she didn't realize when she came running up the stairs street feeling a surge of power and hearing the loud noise was that the blouse got nearly fully undone and the pants slipped significantly down her hips. The end effect of all of this was that her shapely breasts were nearly exposed, together with her toned stomach and a bit of the cleanly trimmed hair below her waist.
"I… I… I'm sorry! I was worried about you after that loud noise and just came running." She explained equally embarrassed, cursing her bright idea of buying discounted clothes that were too big for her. Fixing up her clothes she apologized once more, saying that she would make some breakfast and left the room.
After calming down a bit, Izuku picked up his glasses from the nightstand and looked at them with contemplation. Trying to use his quirk once more he prepared himself for the familiar pain but it never came.
What greeted him instead was a tightly packed wealth of information in the form of a nearly transparent window with all the data available. There was no headache, no incomprehensible strings of text rampaging through his head. Just cleanly presented information that he didn't even need to read, all of it just entering his mind.
Putting the glasses on the green haired teen smiled. Maybe this ability wouldn't be that bad after all.
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In a beautiful building made from white marble and with abundant gold decorations, a blonde haired man sat behind a desk. Piles of paperwork that would earn him pity from any office worker surrounded him from all sides, making the golden halo above his head the only thing that could be seen.
Diligently reading and signing every single document, the young looking man sighed. For the last two hundred years everything was a one big mess.
The children of his father were developing strange abilities that they shouldn't have, even if there were people that used supernatural abilities before. For thousands of years there were occasional wizards, mages, heroes and what not. The fact that the holy father gave those brave souls the sacred gear system was probably what saved them from extinction many times already.
But this was different. Every single one of the mortals could develop something they called a 'meta ability' or a 'quirk'. They ranged from absolutely devastating ones like being able to produce the heat of the sun to something as mundane as changing your nail color at will. They didn't make any sense, didn't follow any real law of evolution. Those abilities just popped into existence and created one big mess of the Holy System, making it work over time to accommodate the new variables.
"Brother! It showed up again!" A beautiful and well endowed girl barged into the office, with her golden locks fluttering all around.
"Gabriel, please don't cause a commotion. What appeared again?" The man replied calmly, signing another document.
"That prototype sacred gear that father didn't want to put into the cycle! The Holly System just detected a large energy spike and then one of the Longinus class sacred gears was replaced by it!" She exclaimed, visibly nervous.
"What?! That's impossible! That thing was too unstable to sustain itself. All the users we tried to link it to died in agony because their minds couldn't handle the pressure." He said with surprise, putting down the document he started to read. "Which Longinus was replaced?"
"The system shows that the Boosted Gear doesn't exist in it any more. We can't even find a trace of it, as if something as powerful as the soul of the Red Dragon Emperor just… vanished." Gabriel replied, her eyes starting to water. "Michael… things like that shouldn't be possible… We should have left Father's unfinished projects alone… Now Ddraig is gone because of us…"
"Do we know where the user of that thing is now?" The blonde man asked, getting up and embracing his sister to give her comfort.
"No, we only know that the power spike that was detected when the Boosted Gear vanished was located at the southern coast of Japan. There is a small devil controlled territory there, under the younger sister of the reigning Lucifer." Composing herself a bit, Gabriel replied after a few seconds.
"That's not good… Father's notes were ambiguous about this sacred gear in particular… We don't know what it is capable of, or what the wielder of this thing is like. We can only hope that he is a peaceful person…" The leader of heaven contemplated out loud, ashamed of his reckless decision about trying to finish the things left behind by God.
"I'll… I'll try to find him… Or her." Gabriel said in a resolute voice. "Maybe that sacred gear activated out of nowhere, maybe that person is scared and it's hurting. We can't leave a poor soul like that without help."
"I don't think that's necessary, we could send a few of our subordinates to…" Michel started but was surprised when his sister cut him off.
"No, brother. We can't leave our mistakes to somebody else. I'm going to speak with Sirzecs and try to find that poor soul by myself." The blonde angel stated resolutely.
"Of course. I'm sorry that I nearly allowed myself to act shamefully once more. I'll schedule a meeting with Lucifer, he is a much more level headed leader than his predecessors. I'm sure that we will reach an agreement about this." The leader of heaven replied, hugging his sister once more before getting back to work.
"I'll prepare my Deck for departure. Thank you, brother." Smiling, Gabrielle walked out of the office, disappearing in the long white and golden halls of the heavenly palace.
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Author's Note: Hello! Please don't murder me like I murdered the big red lizard! I was really struggling with this one, I couldn't make my mind about Izuku's power so I just went for it. It may be strange, convoluted and out of nowhere but it will make sense in the future. Probably. I'm like thirteen percent positive that it will.
I decided to make this fanfic something of a power trip, so I'm going to make Izuku a Saitama in half a chapter (bald head included)(( that's a joke btw.)) If any of you have any ideas I would welcome them with open arms.
Have a good day! :D