"And that's the match!" Izuku the Announcer declared, his voice reverberating through the changing room of Izuku's group. "With this, give an applause for Yu Ke-Yama, the Sun Giant Queen, as our last A-Lister, and Apocryphes as our B-Lister!"

The giant woman, about ten meters tall, with burning red skin and yellow hair that shined like strands of sun, roared in triumph, rising a burning sword that was probably some five meters long and larger than Izuku with her right hand. Meanwhile, far below, a mage dressed in surprising simple black shirt and blue pants walked out of the ring. Izuku stared at the screen. "We don't want to fight her, right?"

"No." Izumi replied.

"Yes." Huanli replied, and Izumi and Izuku both stared at her, "Oh, come on, that looks awesome to fight! Also, it wouldn't be my first time fighting a giant. They are easy."

"This one is on fire." Izumi pointed out.

"Eh. Focus the Qi in your body to protect those areas and it will just be unpleasant to punch."

Izuku sighed, "Well, anyway, that was the last round. The invites say the dinner where we pick our opponents is tomorrow night at 9 PM, so… I guess we can go." He looked up at a clock striking 11 PM. Everyone else did the same, and before long they left the room.

The road back was filled with excited talk about the day. Huanli, despite her fight being hard, had only gotten herself healed quickly, and despite that still acted as energetically as ever. Izumi, on the other hand, was the one that looked more tired. "I thought a delinquent would be used to stay up late." Izuku pointed out as they reached Heights Alliance Hotel.

"I am, doesn't mean I like it." She sighed, "I live next door to Katsuki, and you better believe he would always give me an earful whenever he caught me up late. Pretty hypocritical too, since to catch me he had to stay up late too." She yawned as they crossed the door, "I guess eventually I got used to it."

"Izuku!" A voice called from their right. They looked toward the restaurant, to find Fuyumi and Argali sitting at a table, "Come on, join us for a bit."

"Sorry Argali, but…"

"We found someone that might be interested to join." He added, and pointed to the seat next to him, where the same rabbit girl Izuku had met twice, with white fur and a tuft of green hair on her head, was sitting, waiting.

Izuku looked at Izumi and Huanli. The latter moved forward, while Izumi shook her head, "I pass, but go and have some fun. See you tomorrow." She said, disappearing up the stairs. Izuku nodded, and walked to the table.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Izuku." He said toward the new meeting, shaking her hand. "Sorry if I sound a bit tired, I had a difficult day."

"I get it, don 't worry old m- Izuku." She said, changing her way to address him at the last moment. "I'm Usagi."

"The Sailor Warrior?" Huanli asked, and Fuyumi snorted, while Usagi frowned.

"No, I am not a Sailor Warrior. But you are the second person that says that." She said, glancing at Argali.

"In my defense, I didn't have many options when it comes to react to that." He pointed out, "It was either Sailor Moon or asking why you are called 'rabbit'."

She grumbled, but then turned toward Izuku. "Alright, I'll level it with you. Do you know a guy called The Green Scar?" She asked, looking straight into his eyes.

"… The outlaw or the Hero?" He asked, and Usagi blinked.

"What do you mean Outlaw?"

"Ah, uhm, I met a person called Isaac Green, the Green Scar, and we had a fight. He was a cowboy with a large scar on his brow, but I guess that's not who you… meant…" He watched her double over in laughter.

"Oh my god! A cowboy?! Oh man, Star will die of laughter when she finds that out." She stopped laughing after a bit, and shook her head, "But no, I'm looking for a Hero. He might look either forty or about your age."

"That's really vague…" Izuku started, but Zuzu chimed in.

"No, he met him. It's Izuku Midoriya, also known as Green Scar or Deku, from Universe J-901, Mewnieverse, a Magiquirk multidimensional universe. Which means you are Princess Usagi of the Rabbit Kingdom, is that correct?" She asked, with a slight bow.

"P-Princess?" Izuku asked, but Usagi just nodded.

"Yeah, I am. Also the great-great-granddaughter or something like that of legendary Monster Hero the Green Scar, who you have met." She waved her hand, acting like it was no big deal but moving like she actually thought it was extremely important. Which, to be fair, it was.

"That's cool." Huanli finally said.

"Cool?" Izuku asked, "It's… so surprising! The Green Scar did mention he had a wife a long time ago, but I never thought…"

"Yes, yes, I can imagine this is all very confusing, but here is the thing, I need to know if you can take me to him and then take us both back home."

"I can definitely bring you to him." Izuku nodded, "and then you should be able to go back home with the JTO's help, I suppose."

Usagi hummed, "Good, that's good." The teenage rabbit girl looked toward Argali, and then back to Izuku, "Ugh, the old man causing trouble to me again. Very well. If you help me get to him, I will also help with this All for Deku guy. Returning a favor and all that."

Izuku smiled, and grabbed her hand covered in white fur with both of his. "Thank you so much…" He said, sniffing. She stared at him, then pulled out a phone and took a picture of his face.

"I'm so going to show this to Star…" She said.

Huanli snorted and Fuyumi laughed, but Izuku could only smile as he looked toward Argali, who gave him a thumb up.

Maybe, it had really been the best choice to stop here.

-x-

My name is Izuku Midoriya, known as Revenant. When I was a kid, I discovered I was Quirkless. But my dream had always been to be a Hero, so I refused to give up. I was ridiculed, pitied, despised…

One day, I was captured by a mad scientist who could turn people into data. With his Quirk, I was forced through nine brutal simulations, each one based on a survival horror video game from the 21st century.

The people in the real world were able to watch my progress, and several even gave me tactics and information to increase my chances of survival, but ultimately I had to learn skills for myself in order to survive.

I eventually escaped, but although my body rose to peak performance, my mind was shattered. I'm slowly getting better, but I'll never become the child I was before.

I am the Stream Survivor, Revenant.

And there is no escape from the hell known as my mind.

Revenant moved silently through the darkness that surrounded the Arena. He had waited a few hours, until the place went completely silent, hidden in his room in the Yuuei Grand Palace, one of the Hotels around the arena that hosted fighters, before leaving by leaping off the window and then taking a large circle around the woods. The silence had not been disturbed by his slow and steady pace, and had given him time to think, without dropping his guard for any sign of Haw- of Keigo.

The information he wanted had to be somewhere. No one would commit a secret like that to memory, not if they knew it was an important prize. Getting an address wrong when going by memory alone was far too easy, and he was going to assume they wanted him to actually find Sugoh. If they gave him wrong information they would lose the only convincing argument the JTO had to make him participate in future tournaments: the promise of more information on whatever other enemy Revenant had made.

A part of him thought he should have just gone regularly through the Tournament, but he didn't have the time. Two weeks sounded short maybe for other people, like that Captain Kamino who had even asked him to take more time off to fight some Multiversal menace for yet another version of him called Deku, but for Revenant two weeks meant that Sugoh might slip right out of his grasp.

His preliminary investigation in the days before and during the Tournament had given him a lot of information, and none of it was good. First of all, a Sugoh didn't seem to exist outside of his world. Asking over forty participants if the name meant anything and getting a 'who' back made it pretty convincing his was the only universe in the Tournament where the doctor had managed to become someone, even if that someone was a Villain that kidnapped a child and tortured him through a simulation.

He felt his blood boil for a moment, the memories of what he had gone through resurfacing unwanted for an instant. The woods suddenly felt less quiet as a few animals rustled away from the killing intent he let escape for that second, before he calmed himself down. He needed to control himself better. Even earlier, while talking with Deku and Izumi, some of his killing intent had slipped through. Not directed at them, but more brought up by the general waste of time he was being forced to go through just to get an address.

Part of him wondered if he should have tried to force the answer out of Keigo, but he wasn't a Villain. He wasn't going to torture someone that, annoying as it may have been, was just doing his job and offering him the answer Revenant had been looking for all along. Shigaraki Tomura was a menace that, after Hosu, definitely needed to be taken down, and Sugoh and his monstrosities even more so. Revenant was more than willing to put in any effort to stop them, he just wasn't willing to waste time in a pointless tournament to do so, unless he had to.

With that in mind, the Simulation Survivor had made his way around the Arena, reaching for the emergency exit he had located on his first visit to the building, two days before the Tournament. In the dark of night, the door itself, with a large sign marking it as an emergency exit, was clearly visible.

First, Revenant looked for the camera. He knew there was one – no building of that kind would have left an entrance without. Sure enough, a dome camera was hidden behind the neon sign, in a position where it would film anyone approaching the door but would be unnoticeable to people that lacked his senses.

The only feasible approach was to break it. Letting it be and trying to mask himself was too risky. If they kicked him out of the Tournament, he would have just wasted four days for nothing.

Of course, he had tested what happened if he broke a camera beforehand, by crashing one inside the Arena on the previous afternoon and then one on the road toward the building at night. A double-edged sword – it might have put people on alert, if someone took it seriously – but he had counted on the JTO being too focused on the event they were hosting to care about two separate random acts of vandalism. Still, the test had shown that both cameras were fixed quickly, the one inside within twenty minutes and the one outside within thirty. It was tempting to assume this meant the one at the door would take twenty-five, but he would assume the worst-case scenario of fifteen. Fourteen minutes to slip in, complete the rest of the plan, and get out. Not the best deadline, but he had worked with worse.

A well thrown rock crashed the camera to pieces, and he pulled up the hoodie he had 'borrowed' from a random spectator with a large physique. That and a scarf covered his features completely as he slipped through the door, using a knife to open it with a quick twist. It would live a sign, but nothing like trying to pick a locked door. As he entered, he looked around. The door had no alarm, he had made sure of that the day before, so he managed to calmly slip through the corridor, keeping himself on the path he had found to avoid the cameras until he reached the room he was looking for.

The thing was, in five minutes he had no time to try and break into the server room and try to calmly search through them, but there was still hope. All he needed was a computer and a connection to the main server. The computer was a laptop he had stolen from one of his neighbors at the hotel and hacked into. As for the connection, all he needed was find a room with one and connect the laptop.

That had been where he had to guess a bit, because it was hard to find out which computers were connected to the server with the important data and which where connected to the unimportant ones, that the JTO surely had to keep a normal employee to sniff into their secret. With that in mind, he marched up the stairs at the fastest pace he could allow, and in two minutes and thirty-seven seconds he was in front of one of the JTO's offices. Asking around, he had found out that the JTO ran most of its recruitment within the Arena, so many of the Recruiters had offices in it, in areas away from the public. And if he had to guess, they would be connected with the main servers.

He walked into the room, finding it quite spartan. The owner was a certain Shin Nemoto. On a wall, there was a board with the pictures of five fighters, three of which where crossed out. He recognized one of the two remaining as Argali and snorted. So the man had his way of keeping track of his fighters that were still in the Tournament. He wondered if Keigo's room looked the same, before getting to work. If he had managed to find Keigo's office, he might have tried to search through the documents, but this one was the only Recruiter office he had managed to track. Clearly, they cared a lot about keeping people from snooping like Revenant was doing.

Too bad for them.

He started working with the cables of the PC, quickly connecting his own computer to the ethernet cable that hopefully would lead him into the server before starting the laptop and getting to work.

Hacking into a server was hard, especially when you only had two day to learn a coding language, but definitely not 'Prey' level of hard. That was when he got the nasty surprise though, when after seven minutes and eleven seconds of typing and trying his best to not curse out loud against the coding language of this world he finally cracked into the server.

It was only Nemoto's server. He found the files on the people he had recruited each year, including the current ones, but there was no trace of what he had been hoping for, entrance to a wider server. Two options there: either each recruiter had a dedicated server, which seemed unlikely, or there was some sort of protection he had no way to hack through that prevented access to said wider server. He would have called the latter bullshit, but this world had a permanently giant Mount Lady on fire, so he was going to go off a limb and say they had magic, which meant for all he knew they had made a spell to stop people from accessing other Recruiters' data. With a sigh, he put it off for the night, logging out, closing the laptop and putting everything back in order. He had confirmed there was a way in, now it was a matter of exploiting it. He needed to figure out what was blocking his access and…

"… I don't think Midoriya is a threat." A voice said, and he paused immediately, looking around. The sound was coming from one of the doors nearby. It was closed, but the door clearly wasn't doing its job at keeping someone's conversation at bay. For a moment, Revenant pondered if he should have left, but those people had just made his name. Even with one chance out of five, I had to make sure they weren't talking about him. He had a few minutes yet, so he could take them.

He leaned closely, not close enough he was touching the door, in case it wasn't properly locked and ended up swinging open, but enough he could hear the conversation.

"-what you think. What I care about is result. Any trace of an All for One?" A second voice said. Woman, adult but still young. She was the closest to the door. He could guess she was pacing up and down the room because the voice was moving with her.

"Not yet, or I wouldn't be so calm." The other voice replied, the one that had caught his attention. A male, but the muffling of the door made it hard to recognize. Still, clearly an adult. He was sitting.

"Keep looking. There has never been a year without an All for One showing up. Once they reveal themselves, you know what to do. As for Midoriya…"

"I won't kill innocents."

"Midoriyas are never innocent." She huffed, like he had just told her he would not clean the bathroom and she would have to do it. Revenant's hand slipped on the hilt of one of his knives. "But I am willing to let you decide what to do with them. So long as they understand what we do, it's feasible, even if the boss will throw a fit. We also will need to debrief Jack fast."

A larger group, at least four people strong. A boss of unspecified gender, a woman, two men, one named Jack. Revenant's mind raced with options, but the truth was, he had not much to work with aside from their interest in something called All for One and in Midoriya. They also had a disagreement over killing Midoriyas, which included him. He gripped the knife. The question was, could he remove the threat? He had no idea who they were, and this wasn't a world where he could rely on his knowledge of either Quirks or tech to make a guess on their power. Magic systems weren't standardized, which alone threw planning off-mark. For all he knew, they had a passive magic spell to block knives from the back, and then he would have to find a way around it. Sure, he had to deal with clever fighters before, but he had won that by being cleverer than they were, which didn't mean jumping into a fight without knowing what to expect. He had good chances of winning, but there were also too many things that could go wrong.

"I will cover my end of the deal. I just won't kill innocents. They have also mentioned an issue with another All for One. We could work with them." The man said.

"Maybe. They are part of the League, though. They work with her."

Something to do with the League for All, the group Captain Kamino had mentioned. So this other group was not an ally of the League, which meant both the Captain and Deku were targets for sure. Ah, and Argali. Most likely Izumi too. The chair scraped on the ground.

"Take me back to my room. We are done here."

"Very well." The woman replied, "Don't fuck this up." She added, and then there was silence, complete silence. They hadn't stopped talking, they had vanished. Their breath and heartbeat had also disappeared, as had the steps of the woman.

"Fuck…" Revenant opened the door slowly, ready to react to an attack, but found it completely empty. 'Teleportation. Of fucking course they had teleportation.' He groaned, and considered trying to search the room, but the clock was ticking. With a heavy sigh did a fast swipe and then rushed back to the exit, slipping past the cameras and out into the night.

Once he was safely back through the forest, he begun to reorganize his thoughts in two tracks. First of all, the hacking side. The information was most likely somewhere in there, but there was a block that wasn't of a technical nature in his way. Which meant studying how magic was integrated into technology in this world was now something he needed to find out. 'With some luck this world's magic isn't tied to bloodlines or something idiotic like that.' Meanwhile he would also pursue further the other angle, trying to figure out where Keigo's office was. It would probably take a few days of searching, but that much was acceptable.

On the other hand, the second issue was this supposed group that was meeting in the arena to apparently discuss killing him and the others. They had also mentioned One for All and All for One, which meant he needed to do some digging into those terms. Although, he was fairly sure the former had been brought up once or twice in regard to some Quirks and powers. "Which shouldn't involve me, because being Quirkless has one advantage and that is no-one wants to be you, but of course they are also after Midoriya." He grumbled.

Revenant could understand why a group with teleportation would choose to meet in the Arena of all places: the hotel, and even outside at night, were far more frequented than a random staff room in an Arena that had closed hours before, past the cleaning crews and with only general security left. It was sheer bad luck on their parts that a Midoriya with excellent hearing happened to be around, and even if someone else walked in he didn't doubt they would silence the unlucky bastard. Not the best plan, but then again not the worst either.

The matter at hand now was how to answer this. Denouncing it publicly was out of the question, because it meant putting his participation to the tournament at risk for no gain. Either the JTO would kick him out for sneaking into the Arena, or they would tighten security, getting in his way. He had nothing to give them either except 'one was a male and one was a female'. With that out of the way, what was left was telling other Midoriyas or trying to figure this out on his own.

'Jiro, Koda and Yayorozu would be useful right now…' Revenant thought. As much as he disliked involving other people into his problems, having allies he could trust helped. For all he knew, the one with the masculine voice was Deku and the female one was Izumi – no that didn't add up, but the male could have been Argali. Even if they weren't, they might have tried to involve others, even against his advice.

'As it is, my only option is dealing with this myself. So nothing unusual, just another pile of shit on the life of Izuku Midoriya.'

Revenant sighed. He really needed a smoke after all this.

-x-

Izuku dodged the incoming shield and then jumped forward, his feet planted into the ground as he rocketed toward Captain Kamino, before Danger Sense rung, making him duck right before the shield passed where the back of his head had been a moment before. He drove forward a right kick that impacted the shield Captain had just managed to snatch out of the air and put in the way in one flowing motion, the sound of metal-on-metal resonating on the training field. Captain Kamino smiled and batted away the limb, before bringing forward a punch from Izuku's right, a blind spot due to his hair. Danger Sense kicked in however, allowing Deku to feel it coming. Unable to just dodge it, he raised his arm while pushing himself back with both feet, lowering the impact.

"You are really strong." He said as he stumbled back.

"Thank you, but you are clearly stronger." Captain Kamino replied.

In raw strength, yes, Izuku was, but he was fairly sure Captain Kamino had him beat when it came to technique. Whoever had thought him had done an excellent job. Moreover, Captain's control over his shield was incredible. He glanced back to see he had made it bounce off one of the light poles that surrounded the training field to make it come back, and remembered how in the arena he had always managed to be in perfect position to recover the weapon. "Should we continue?"

"I'm afraid your time is up." Shinomori, who had offered himself as the referee for the training, said, stepping between them, "Next up should be five minutes for Izumi and Argali. Captain, you are helping Huanli with her warm-up, and Izuku, Kiruka is ready for the other training.

Izuku nodded and walked off the field. That morning, given they had no fights for three days, they had decided to meet up and set up a routine for their training. At first it was supposed to be just Huanli, Izumi, Izuku and Shinomori, but one after another a few other people had joined in. The first, of course, had been Captain Kamino, Argali, Fuyumi and Usagi. Since the former two and the latter were all guests in the building, and Fuyumi had apparently bonded with Captain Kamino enough to decide to train with him, it wasn't weird when they offered, and neither Izuku nor the other saw any reasons to refuse. Later that morning, Kiruka had showed up too, offering her own assistance. She had seemed worried, and the looks she sent the group had quickly confirmed to Izuku that yes, something was troubling her, but he had decided to not press her for why. It might have just been the matter that had made Izzzuku leave the group, after all, and getting extra help for training was only beneficial, especially when he remembered that even in his world Slice had been strong, without One for All.

The other additions had been less expected, however. When they had arrived at the training field, they had found Chojuro Kon training with Zombie again, and when the two had noticed their intention to do the same had offered to train with them when it came to combat. Right now, Fuyumi was fighting Zombie and Usagi facing the final person that had joined their training, all under the watchful eye of Chojuro, who was currently acting as the referee.

That final person was none other than Revenant, who had apparently decided to consider his offer accepted. Izuku looked at his hands. According to Izzzuku, he had to keep the specifics of the nanomachines hidden from Kiruka, so he had opted to tell her that he had installed the Implant willingly to get a chance. Zuzu had frowned at the lie but surprisingly had decided to not out him, and for that he was grateful.

He stepped on the field, where Kiruka was waiting, hovering in midair. "Are you ready?" She asked, "We aren't going to stop until you can use Float."

"How will we do that?"

"Simple. I'm going to float out of your reach and rain my attacks on you. If you want to fight me, you will have to reach me." And with that she hovered off. Izuku gulped as a rain of stinger-like hair started to fly toward him and begun to jump to both dodge and try to reach the woman.

-x-

"So, what can you do?" Izumi asked, unsure on how to continue. She had brought with her another practice sword, since she wanted to keep her own for the actual matches, and had her air gun in the holster at her side, but was unsure on how to proceed past that.

"I should ask you the same thing. I notice Izuku is missing a conspicuous pair of cat ears, and when I asked Huanli she said you were the cause." Argali replied, "But to answer your question, I can turn into a sheep."

Izumi waited for some other clarification, but all she got from the horned Izuku was a smile that said 'yes, everyone reacts the same.'

"… That's it?" She finally asked.

"That's it. Is it hard to believe?" Argali asked, with an eyebrow raised.

"I- But they invited you to this tournament, right?! I mean, no offense, you can't tell me that they thought someone that can just turn into a sheep can compete with, I don't know, the Battlemaster, or 'Captain America but he is Izuku' or that probable murder machine over there." She gestured toward Revenant, who was easily dodging every attack Usagi could throw at her and answering by simply batting aside each blow of the rabbit girl. They both saw him take a second to wink in their direction, proving he could very much hear her talking.

In response, Argali just kept smiling, while bowing. "Then, by all means, try and beat this old ram. I'm sure a demonstration will pay off."

Izumi nodded, and Shinomori at their nod gave the start. The girl rushed forward, without pulling out either the sword or the gun quite yet. She instead aimed a punch at his head while activating Bent but Unbroken, to prepare her hands for the impact with what she assumed would be a sheep's skull. Instead, the man slipped out of her reach and delivered a kick to her ankle, dragging her down. Of course, Izumi wasn't dumb. The moment she hit the ground she rolled out of the way using both her hands to propel herself and stood back up, staring at him. Alright, she had made a mistake. She had just assumed his combat style was just turning into a sheep and ramming people with the head, but clearly he was also a good fighter in human form. That had been her mistake. She had gotten cocky without even using One of Them, her Deal to get cocky or make her opponent get cocky.

Why did someone need that?

She filed away the question no one had an answer to and moved forward again, this time adding Beginner's Hard Luck to the mix. "Do you have to mutter the explanation to any power you use?" Argali asked.

"Yes." She replied, throwing another punch aimed at the stomach, even if it was a feint for her kick to his leg.

"Mh. Pity, it means I can tell I should do this." He replied, moving his hand to block the kick.

Izumi grinned. Beginner's Hard Luck meant that any blow would reach the opponent. Yes, that meant that technically blocking counted. But it also meant that feints that normally were designed to be dodged would still hit.

Case in point, the fist that had begun the faint slid back to hit Argali's side, making full use of Bent but Unbroken to bend the arm in the most unnatural of ways. The resulting blow was shallow, lacking a lot of the impact a full fist could have achieved, but Argali would still feel it… but that was when he turned into a sheep, and Izumi found out another thing about his Quirk.

The way she thought his power worked was that turning into a sheep he would be facing her in a standing position, so she would have an opening while he regained his footing. That had been her plan at aiming at his face. Except that instead Argali turned into a sheep in a puff of green smoke and already righted on four feet. This meant that her punch hit the wooly pelt, doing close to no damage, and that his head was right in front of her exposed abdomen. She didn't even have time to react by using Bad Bye or Crush Pain before Argali rammed her straight in the stomach, sending her rolling back and sputtering on the ground.

"So, what do you think?" Argali asked.

"I think…" She gasped, "I underestimated the sheep…"

"Yep, you surely did." He smiled, "Don't get sad, the first lesson I give my class is that it doesn't matter if your Quirk is producing acid, launching your horns or turning into a sheep, anyone can be a Hero because anyone can fight." With a gentle pat he pulled her back up. "You ok to continue?"

Izumi took a deep breath, feeling the pain in the stomach subside and realizing that he had probably held back, since from what she had seen in his Qualifier fight, people hit by him seriously usually stayed on the ground in pain. She smiled. "Alright. Let's go."

-x-

Huanli watched Revenant's gaze fixed on her, and she could tell he was dangerous. She wasn't there when Izumi and Deku had first met the Izuku Midoriya that was now standing in front of her, a training sword in one hand and a sulking Usagi sitting right off the ring. She wondered how far she had gone to try and beat him, and realized that a reaction like that meant she had gone serious enough.

Huanli had watched all the matches, and her impression of Revenant was still one of the least detailed. He wielded a sword, but had never used it, only launching a flashbang. He was fast, but never overreached. And he either didn't enjoy the fighting, or only enjoyed combat with high stakes. His methodical takedown of two opponents was done without a hint of interest in them and their skills: he only aimed to win this quickly.

"So, you are a barehanded fighter." He said, pointing the sword toward her, "But I saw you do more than just punch and kick. Magic, I take it?"

"Qi, actually."

"Fancy word for Magic then." He replied, and she gritted her teeth. Despite everything, she still disliked hearing Qi getting compared to a wizard's trick. "So, let's start. Come at me."

"How do I know you aren't doing this just to study my fighting style?" She asked.

"I am absolutely doing that, we are still opponents at the end of the day." Revenant casually replied, "You are free to put in as much or as little effort as you want. My deal is that I get repairs and new weapons from Izuku, so I don't care much about it. Still, I doubt you want to waste the chance to train."

Huanli nodded, and Captain Kamino, now free, gave the two the start. Huanli rushed forward, red eyes burning as she instantly moved for the Renlei Quan, the Human Fist, and unleashed a rain of fists toward Revenant.

He blocked them all. Huanli's movement were currently as fast as possible, superhumanly fast, but so was his reaction time. Granted, he did show some effort, but he still managed to use the hilt of the training sword and the free hand to stop each and every attack. 'He is strong.' Huanli realized, 'As strong as I am with the Renlei Quan, at least, maybe even above it.' She had to admit it was extraordinary. Granted, the Renlei Quan wasn't the most offensively focused fighting style, but on the other hand a normal human might as well have given up the instant a Qi user tried to punch them.

She switched to Shou Quan and slashed with the White Tiger Claws. The solidified Qi was invisible to Revenant, who misjudged slightly her reach, but only slashed through his sleeve, without reaching the arm. And then the hilt came up and slammed her in the jaw, making Huanli recoil back. "It's an interesting ability." Revenant said, "So I can't see the attack in any way until you have used it." He pointed the sword forward, "Well, by all means, come at me."

Huanli rushed forward again, hands in the pose of the White Tiger Claws. She decided to only use Shou Quan and Renlei Quan for the training. Using the others meant revealing too many of her cards. With that in mind, she fainted a slash with the right arm and brought up her leg for the Ma Ti, the Horse Kick, but Revenant managed to read the movement and put the hilt in the way. The strength of a horse kick didn't make him budge, dispersed by the weapon and his clearly superhuman musculature, but Huanli didn't give up, instead rotating to use the Monkey Tail. The invisible extra limb went to impact Revenant's side, but he blocked.

"Sorry." He said, as he blocked the tail with the flat of the sword, "But that's exactly the same move Ojiro uses." And with that his free arm hit her in the cheek with an elbow, sending them rolling back.

"Ugh…" She coughed, standing back up, "You knew Master Ojiro? He was my Master's first Master."

"Eh, that's a funny coincidence." And with that, he took a step back, on guard, "Finished already?"

Huanli jumped back up. "No, I'm just getting started."

And with that she rushed forward.

-x-

'Good. Good.' He studied the group. All the Midoriyas at the Tournament were here together, so he had an excellent chance to study them. 'I don't want to believe their propaganda without first putting my own thoughts in it. If Midoriyas are really as dangerous as All for One, I will get rid of them, but that's not a bridge I will cross without proof.'

He looked at them all. Revenant, Zombie, Captain Kamino, Deku, Argali, Izumi, and technically Usagi was a Midoriya too. Each of them was different, and each of them was a possible danger, but they could also be allies. Jack had established the precedent, even their leader had begrudgingly admitted that. He could easily…

"You ok?" Captain Kamino asked. "I saw you space out."

"Sorry, sorry, I was just thinking." The man said, taking a sip of water. "Tell me, does the name All for One ring a bell, Captain?"

The Captain paused for a moment, before shaking his head, "Not that I can think of." He admitted with a shrug, before stopping, "Well, it does sound… familiar, but sort as if I heard it once as a joke, you know?"

"Mh." He hummed, unsure of how to take that. Hard to think All for One was just a joke for the man, "Well, I suppose that's all for my pause."

"Same here." The Captain replied, "Good luck."

"To you too." And with that, they marched back on the field. He had a lot to think about.

(xx)

Revenant is from Locked in Digital by Rogue Druid. I also want to thank mariic who, aside from bringing my attention to that fic when I started writing DitM, also wrote ages ago on this thread the Revenant blurb you find, slightly edited, at the beginning of his PoV scene.
Usagi and the mentioned Green Scar are from The Green Scar worldbuilding thread by Quantum01 and The Green Scar by Pro-man
Captain Kamino is from Kamino's Ward by Tunafishprincess
Argali is from Sheep go to heaven by Dramatic_Spoon

I know, I know, y'all expected the night out of Shoto and company, but what can I say, you will get a different kind of night out. Shoto's side is next chapter, by the way, along with a lot of other stuff.

Revenant is an interesting character to write. I think one of the best parts is that while I did A LOT of research on the games he went through in the Simulation, he isn't one of those characters that references directly (as in, dropping names and specific events) his experience all the time, so I can focus more on him. He is also challenging to write but I hope I can at least catch the feeling he gives off. If you want to see him in all his glory, of course, I absolutely suggest reading LiD.

Izuku is forming his training group, but alas, there is a traitor among them (insert abused meme here). Whomst is the traitor? Only time will tell. Or Revenant, let's be honest, he can probably figure it out.
Someone actually guessed that Revenant would train Huanli, though of course it's not going to be always the case. Still, I had quite the chuckle.

There is actually something inexplicably funny in having all those Izuku around, it's a truly enjoyable writing experience, and I hope it's also a good read.