"Hosu city?
"Yes, my aunt has fallen ill, it seems like it's just a cold, but she lives alone and I'm worried about her, and my mom and dad can't come and see her, so I'm going instead."
I had to miss one day of school since it was so far away. Ritsuka added.
"Hmm. But there were still the hero killers roaming around now. Fujimaru is just a civilian, so I'm sure you'll be fine, but... be careful."
"Are you worried about me shinso-kun?
How kind!"
"Don't eat anything strange."
"You're still dragging it out! I told you to forget it!"
With Ritsuka screaming inside, Shinso thought, "So tomorrow will be a quiet day." He thought to himself.
Ritsuka was talking about her past lives and heroes.
After that
"I thought I could explain it, but when I thought about it, it was a little too much! I'm sorry please forget it." She said to shinso with a big smile on her face, Ritsuka told him off and went on with her life as if nothing had happened.
I wanted to told her that I was worried about her in my own way, but I knew that would be pointless, so I tried not to mention it.
Those who take this kind of thing seriously is usually the loser afterall.
On the same day
(It's getting pretty late... It might be late at night before I get home. ...)
After visiting her aunt, Ritsuka was walking fast to the station.
Even if you are not the hero killer's target, it is not safe for a high school student to be alone at night. In this day and age, an enemy villain could appear at any moment.
Just as Ritsuka was thinking this, there was a loud explosion behind her.
"Whoa! ...An explosion?"
A scream spread along with the smell of burning.
Ritsuka couldn't understand what had happened.
"Enemy (villain)! Please follow the instructions of the police to evacuate the premise!"
"I repeat. It's dangerous over here! Please follow the instructions of the police to evacuate the premise!."
The heroes and police moved quickly.
However, Ritsuka was swallowed up by the flow of people who began to flee at once, probably because of the panic they were causing.
"Wait...! Don't push...!"
As Ritsuka was being pushed out of the crowd, she found herself in front of a group of people.
"AAAaaa!"
"Ha~a... weak ... as expected of a fake..."
"───Shut up, Shut up...!"
At this point she was really tempted to turn back into the crowd.
(E.., huh, wait a minute, what happened here?)
My mind is confused and slow to comprehend the situation in front of me.
In front of Ritsuka, away from the crowds, there was an alleyway.
There were two heroes in the alleyway, the student of the hero department who fought in the sports festival, and the hero killer who is currently causing a stir.
And one of the heroes is still lying on the ground, and the other one is fighting with the hero killer. And it looks like he's about to get hit.
(I have to call someone...!).
Even though I thought so, the people around me had long since fled, and there was no hero in sight.
I don't know what to do.
I hid in the shadows and desperately tried to think.
"That's the rumored hero killer...? Use your quirk? But there's no way I can escape with two of them...! my phone... did I drop my phone ... in the crowd?
aaaAAA this is the worst!
But I can't just abandon them... what should I do, what should I do?"
Then, with a thud, the hero killer kicked Ida in the shoulder with his spiked shoe.
He then stabbed him in the right shoulder with a spiked Japanese sword and slammed him to the ground.
"─── no... Stop it!"
Without thinking I...
Possessed by her quirk, she quickly threw her dagger at the hero killer.
"...! One after the other."
The hero killer quickly dodged backwards. He then licked the blade with Ida's blood. The Hero Killer's quirk causes Ida's body to stop moving.
"Um... Ida-kun? Was it? Are you okay? Can you move!"
"───⁉︎You're ...! Fujimaru-kun, why are you here?"
"Don't worry about it... Can you move? Are you hurt?"
"It's his quirk! I can't move my body at all...!"
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"'Is playing hero all the rage these days, ...? All this forgeries are making me want to throw up..."
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The hero killer who had been watching the exchange between Ida and Ritsuka slowly exhaled. At that moment, Ritsuka felt the air tremble.
"Fujimaru-kun! It's dangerous! Get out of here!
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You can do it!
Ritsuka shouted in her mind.
"Why are you doing this ... you're the hero killer, right? These guys are still student...
I'm not an aspiring hero or anything, I'm just a regular girl, so I'm kinda hoping you'll let me off the hook for that... ~ or something like that"
With Iida at her back, she tries to turn the hero killer's attention to her. But the hero killer did not answer Ritsuka's question.
"You don't want to be a hero...? So why did you come out here? Is it because of your unnecessary sense of justice? ..."
───For a moment, Ritsuka couldn't understand what the hero killer was saying.
"... eh? No, since I see him in danger... I can't just abandon him or something like that."
Even though I don't think I can win..., Ritsuka added. Ritsuka's answer made the both of them blank for a moment.
""ha?""
They shouted.
"───Wha... Are you stupid? Did you usually go about without thinking!?, Moreover you're just a student from the regular course! And this is also my problem to begin with, this has nothing to do with you!"
"It doesn't matter...! I see you getting stabbed! And I'm also not in a position where I could call for help, otherwise I would've already done so."
Ida and Ritsuka were arguing with each other.
When Suddenly, the hero killer opened his mouth.
"Hah ... good one... you're trying to rescue others without caring about yourself. Haha... that's more like it... you're better than most heroes around..."
My whole body was horrified. I couldn't stop sweating.
Ida and the others still couldn't seem to move.
Ritsuka was the only one who could move.
"Good ... Let me tell you why I do this...
The world today is full of forgeries.
A hero is not supposed to ask for anything in return. A hero should be a title earned through self-sacrifice.
Then why? These days, there are so many fakes pretending to be heroes everywhere...
That's why I'm going to purge the fakes with my own hands... Remember that...! My name is Stain, and I'm the one who's going to cleanse this world of forgeries..."
Stain slowly approached Ritsuka and the others.
Ritsuka, on the other hand, was choking on her words.
Not at Stain's thoughts. She was surprised at herself for being able to hear and understand it.
Ritsuka was certainly thinking the same thing.
She felt uncomfortable with the profession of hero.
She just didn't want to do anything about it.
That was all. That was the only difference.
She can't think that there is a big difference between them, Ritsuka's feeling uncomfortable with the current hero and not trying to do anything about it, While Stain is trying to do something about it.
『Master! !』
In my head, I heard the voice of "Hasan of serenity," the heroic spirit that Ritsuka had summoned with her quirk.
She immediately pushed Iida and fell to the right.
Then a japanese sword was struck to the place where Ida and Ritsuka had been standing.
"I won't kill you... but if you get in my way, I'll hurt you...
"If you try to kill these people, I will do everything in my power to stop you.
"Oh, yeah... This is getting better and better... Well then, let's get rid of you first..."
Before Stain could finish, Ritsuka threw the dagger at him again. And in that moment after he deflects, she close the gap instantly.
"Ugh..!"
Still the speed of Stain's reaction was unmatched.
But Ritsuka's fighting ability, which was not apparent from her appearance, caught Stain off guard.
"What kind of quirk is that...? It doesn't seem like physical enchanchement..."
There was no time to reply to Stain's question.
Ritsuka had no intention of fighting head on.
(If we take even a little time here, the pro heroes should come sooner or later.
Until then, we'll stall for time...)
"Are you trying to buy some time?"
Ritsuka's right leg was pierced by a Japanese sword swung by Stain.
"─────u, uaaaa, aaah!"
The pain was so great that Ritsuka could not speak, and she lost her balance and fell to the ground.
It's a bad habit of mine, to pay too little attention to my surroundings when I'm thinking. I thought I was being careful.
Ritsuka, who had only been giving orders from the back, was not used to fighting, no matter how good she was at handling her own quirk.
This is why, even during the sports festival, she avoided fighting a long drawn out matches, except for Todoroki. In fact, even when it came to Todoroki, she was just relying on her unspecified quirk and letting the momentum carry her. If it weren't for Todoroki's poor health, the match would have been 50-50.
In spite of this situation, I remembered this in my foggy head.
"Fujimaru-kun!"
Stain pulled out his sword and licked Ritsuka's blood off the blade. Ritsuka's body collapsed as if it had been hit by a truck, and she was unable to move. Stain walked past Ritsuka to finish Ida off.
Ritsuka was whispering something to him. Stain wonders what it is.
"What is it...?"
"...Hotter and hotter. Enough to melt. Your body and heart will be incinerated."
『Zabaniya (Delusional Poison Body)』
"Gah ...!"
Stain's knees hit the ground.
"What the hell is this ...? Is it poison?
It's not gas... is this from your blood ...?"
Ritsuka's mouth moved as she fell onto her back.
"'My body is now filled to the toes with poison. Even if you lick a little blood, You shouldn't be able to move."
"Huh.., Is this your plan from the start to sacrifice yourself knowing that you can't win the battle... I know it you really are worth keeping alive."
"... ever since earlier, you have no right to decide whether I live or not!"
I'm at my limit.
Ritsuka exclaimed irritably at Stain's words.
"Stain's notion of heroism may have a point. Because I can understand it, too.
But that doesn't mean it's right to do it this way. Hurting someone for the sake of your own ideals is no better than being a villain!"
"But if we don't do this, the world will stay the same forever."
Stain got up on his knees and slowly stood up. Ritsuka's eyes widened. It can't be. The serenity poison was definitely working.
"─────Haa..."
"Too bad for you... I've built up a resistance to all kinds of poison."
Ritsuka was in raptures.
The voice of Hasan of serenity echoed in her head.
『That's why I said...
Since Master is not used to dealing with poison, you should have killed him in one shot without half-heartedly showing mercy. And even then, the master is not able to use half of the power of (us) heroic spirits...』
"No... I don't want to kill."
『My Lord is too kind...』
"No I'm not. ... Oh no, I can't move at all."
Stain is stomping on Ida's head as he talks about something.
"So long, offering for the righteous society."
"Shut up..., ... shut up!"
My body still won't listen to me.
"You're not whatever it is you said!."
(Move, move, move... move...! !)
"You're just a criminal who hurt my brother!"
After all this time, nothing has changed.
Even back then too, I'm still...
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"I'm here to help you, Ida-kun!"
Midoriya's vigorous fist punched Stain in the cheek.
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A─────ah, I'll never be able to do anything on my own, will I?