I'm back! Phew, a ton happened over the past couple of weeks, so I wasn't able to write that much.

Just so you have some sort of idea of what I was doing, well, first there was mid-terms, and second, guess what! I'm an older sister again! (yeah, it's been really hectic)

Anyways, here's the chapter, and sorry it's late!

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Naomasa stared in horror at Toshinori's bloody corpse. The sniper's bullet was shaped like dome, designed specifically to create an extremely large wound that narrows the deeper it goes, causing even the wounds that weren't that deep to cause a tremendous amount of bleeding that is nearly impossible to stop, and making the bullet's removal incredibly difficult. In other words, these bullets were designed to kill.

And these bullets had an equally powerful gun, because All Might's wound was four-inches wide and was shaped like a funnel. Like the pieces of shattered glass that protrude from a crack after throwing a ball through a window, All Might's broken skull was clearly visible on the left side of his face, fragments of it crushed into his already destroyed brain. The bullet had done its job effectively, dark red splatters of blood were everywhere, and a large puddle forming around Toshinori's thin and pale body, already cold.

Toshinori Yagi. The Symbol of Peace. All Might. No matter what you called him, he was dead.

"What the fuck is going on?!" An officer cried as they laid a white sheet over the corpse.

Naomasa continued staring at Toshinori as the other policemen wrapped a yellow tape around the crime scene, still in shock. No one had seen the crime take place, but several people heard the gunshot and security cameras were being checked right now. In addition, another investigator that arrived before Naomasa was already having the police sweep any vantage points a sniper could hypothetically use.

All Might had already been proclaimed dead, and the media was desperately attempting to enter the school grounds.

Naomasa couldn't exactly say he wasn't prepared for this. Sir Nighteye had foretold Toshinori's death, and so he prepared himself for it. The Kamino incident implied his death was inevitable and would be soon, and so Naomasa braced himself again. At the end of the day, he wasn't surprised that he died, rather, he was shocked by how he died.

Rather than a heroic death, fighting evil and dying with a smile on his face, content that he was able to save everyone one last time, he was hit by a random assassin. A sniper that could have been hiding up to a mile away, shot the hero as he casually made his way about the school grounds. It was ridicules.

"What do you think, Naomasa?" inquired the police Chief Kenji Tsuragamae just as he arrived on the scene.

"I-I don't know what to think... I can't believe it..."

Naomasa held a massive hurricane if emotions swirling within himself. Should he cry? Should he scream? He just didn't know how he should react

*Sigh "I agree, this is a greatly troubling incident, and I will understand if you need some time off to come to terms with I-"

"That won't be necessary, Chief"

Though Naomasa felt great emotional turmoil and didn't know how to emotionally react to his friend's murder, a hero must always know what to do and respond appropriately to bring justice, regardless of emotions. And the detective was a raging hero, and he was going to retaliate.

And serve justice where it is due.

"I will actually like to lead this investigation, sir"

*Sigh "I know what you're thinking Naomasa, and although I agree with your sentiment, this case is far more serious than you think"

The police chief pointed toward his car, where the detective saw the chief's secretary sitting in the vehicle, phones in hand. I say phones because there were several different phones in her hands. Almost every fifteen-seconds one of the four phones in the vehicle would begin ringing, and the secretary would answer it, ask them to hold and continue dealing with the first phone.

"Do you know what each of those calls are about?" the chief asked rhetorically before answering his own question.

"Each of them are murders. All Might isn't the only victim."

"What?!"

"The last time I checked, there were nine other victims here in Japan, all of which held politically influential positions. But that isn't even the end of it"

Kenji pulled out his phone, showing the detective a news article describing the incredibly recent murders of the US's Vice President, and several members of the UK's Parliament and royal family, all killed by sniper assassins.

"We believe all these murders are done by the same group, and there is evidence supporting this theory."

Just as the chief spoke these words, a young police officer with the look as if he was having the worst day of his life approached and handed the Chief a small box.

In the box there were, firstly, a bullet round, no doubt key evidence in the investigation. Or, it would be important if it wasn't tampered with. At the bottom of most bullet rounds, there is usually two addresses, one being the company that created the bullets name or logo, and the other the bullets serial number. With these two pieces of vital information, occasionally a bullet can be traced back to the individual who purchased it, and eventually the killer.

But in this case, that would be impossible.

That is because there was no company logo, nor was there a serial number on these bullet rounds, implying that they were either tampered with intentionally to hide the user, or they were privately and illegally created.

This however brings up a second question.

"Why would the shooter go at such lengths to hide the round's address when it could simply be picked up? He only used one bullet after all" asked Naomasa.

But the answer to this question was found in the box's second item; a small piece of paper. On one side of the paper there was a short note that read "For Freedom -Eldia".

The busy secretary waved for the chief to come over, and the chief raised his hand (or paw) in a polite gesture that meant "please wait" and finished his conversation.

"All the other assassinations had similar notes to this one, and they all were addressed from "Eldia". Naturally, the bullet round needed to be left behind at the scene as evidence that this was the sniper's nest, all so that we could receive this note. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, however, I do- Naomasa? What's up?"

"O-oh, well, actually I recently heard something about an organization called Eldia, but I didn't think much about it."

"You know something? Please do tell, and don't leave out a single bit of information"

"I'll write it in a formal report later so you won't have to worry about logistical issues, and outside of that, I believe you are keeping someone waiting"

The investigator gestured to the woman in the car, who was beginning to get impatient, and the police chief sighed.

"I believe I have something to attend to, so if you'll excuse me..."

The chief trailed off at the end as he turned toward his vehicle. However, after taking only about three steps forward, he turned around again.

"Please, watch your back Naomasa. We have no idea where they are hiding or what their plotting, so I, no, we need you to stay safe"

The detective nodded in reply, and the officer climbed into his vehicle.

After the chief left, Naomasa found another piece of shocking information. The location where the bullet round and note were found was at an apartment complex over two miles away. Apparently, the sniper had threatened the woman who resided in the apartment and forced her to pull a fire alarm minutes before the murder.

The detective concluded that this was done so that there would be a crowd (the people evacuating the apartment building) to see the event take place. It appeared that the assassins were desperate for attention. The woman was taken into custody and was being interrogated at the station.

But there were still some things that didn't add up.

"The snipers perch was over two miles away from UA, and a one-mile shot is already nearly impossible, even with years of training. A head shot this accurate should be impossible."

But that wasn't the only thing weird.

"In addition to that, several witnesses here at UA say they heard the shot clearly. Naturally, a gunshot even of this caliber shouldn't be loud enough to hear clearly two miles away"

With these thoughts on his mind, Naomasa continued the mysterious investigation.

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Don't worry, I'll be continuing this chapter (preferably today, but at least sometime before the next chapter's release date).

I just thought that since I haven't released anything in a while, I'd just send this part in before the rest of the chapter just to say, "don't worry, I'm still here!".

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