Kuoh, just near the capital Kyoto

Kami no Taiyō no Teikoku, Home Islands of Japan

Anata no kyodaina-ryoku de chikyū o bunkatsu suru, Kyūbi no Kitsune! (Rend the Earth with your vast power, Nine Tailed Fox!)

"Koko nikite, {Come here} Yoshinon!"

The sounds of war and battle could still be heard in the abandoned city, even as the two combatants prepared to unleash what seemed to be their strongest techniques yet. The wind currents generated by the battle whirled and whooped through the air like birds in flight, and the bone chilling sound of what he assumed to be military and law enforcement personnel getting annihilated by the most dangerous of the...entities echoed across the area. He should have been halfway home by now, running in stark terror, yet he stayed, his school uniform rustling in the wind.

Anyone who knew him personally or even a fellow student of the institution he attended, would be either in cationic shock or numb disbelief to what they were seeing. The shy, reserved son of Hiashi Midoriya and his wife Inko, who preferred books and science to human contact, stopping to witness a 'spacequake' after dropping off his latest book to the publisher? On his own, with no fear of being attacked by bandits or other criminals that prowled the mostly unprotected routes of transportation to and from Japan? Unbelievable.

To the students of Kuoh Gakuen, he was a lecherous menace who preyed on woman and girl alike along with his two friends, Matsuda and Motohama. The three were so perverted and obsessed with the female form that they got the nickname 'Perverted Trio'. Unfortunately, M&M lived up to the reputation and since he often used their sensual ideas to write his books {he still had no idea what a Harem King was or even the significance of such a extraordinary title, it just helped him to get them off his backs} the resulting blow back meant that he wasn't going to get a girlfriend for the foreseeable future. Though he had no idea why the girls blushed and looked away whenever he tried to talk to them.

Though he supposed that had to do with his looks and lack of social interaction more than anything else. His chaotically ordered hair and amber eyes were quite unusual, after all.

"Was that Eri-chan just now? I mean, the horns and hair are a dead giveaway but...there's no way a kid starting middle school could look like that. No way. And that overgrown rabbit...it looks just like the one she keeps in her room!" He rubbed his eyes, blinking as he narrowed them to better observe the situation. "Holy shit! This is absolutely amazing! M&M will definitely want to hear of this...if they don't start drooling over the women's bodies first!"

That's right. Contrary to popular belief the wing-man for the Perverted Trio was not a pervert despite his proclamations of wanting to become a 'Harem King'. He joked about it some times and made a lot of suggestive jokes to his lecherous friends {which often ended up paying his bills due to their responses} but he was as far from that life as he possibly could be. So, when he saw a beautiful young lady who bore too close a resemblance to his secluded younger sister, his concern was immediately raised.

You know that you're not much better than them yourself, right? Gaki, stop lying to yourself. We both know that your love of breasts is not some weird fetish that came on when you were in middle school. If you keep denying it and keeping it a secret, not that it's much of a secret anyways, then you're definitely going to suffer the consequences later on. Plus, as my wielder there'll be some extra... benefits for this endeavor.

Seriously man? Out of all the times you choose to come, you choose now? Plus Yoshi-chan's my sister for crying out loud! My little fucking sister! She might look all mature and experienced out there fighting fox face and onee-chan...but she's just a kid! She hasn't even graduated from middle school yet and you want to come talking to me about a relationship! Dude, how depraved are you?

I'm a soul-cutting sword created from the fusion of a soul eating ghost and a artificial lifeform in the form of a Nine Tailed Fox. I don't really have or care about morals. And you're not one to talk either. Don't think I've forgotten about the time you lusted after Tabane and Saeko at the same time.

DAMN IT! Now is not the time for such things! There are cops and soldiers out there, putting their lives on the line to keep the people safe and you're asking me to focus on revealing my hedonistic side! Screw that! I'm not even a pervert anyways, I just keep all that content for decoration!

The young man was so lost in his internal conversation, that he didn't realize that he had been discovered by some soldiers guarding the battle zone. The entity inside him gave a report but it was silenced by the dart to the chest he received while fuming about it. He passed out unceremoniously.

"Hey, what the hell you did that for? This is the badlands, every round counts!"

An infantryman clad in protective camouflage and holding a select fire rifle was yelled at by a superior officer.

"Sir, you won't like this but it has to be said. We've got a straggler and three...what was the name those guys in the old cities used again...ah yes 'Villians' to look out for if we survive. The mut...sorry APDSAT seem to be holding their own pretty well, but they'll need heavier support. The NS-130s and flying disks coming in yet? We gonna need 'em to deal with these baddies,"

(Some Time Later)

(Interrogation Room, Imperial Black Site)

(Unknown Location)

"Are you really sure about this old man? The Public Security Agency already has a hard time with keeping the existence of Blazers and their connection to Infernals secret, and managing the flow of information in the areas of the Home Islands we liberated from those gaijin imitators and the wanna be Bolsheviks who were attempting to overthrow them. Even though they're not as troublesome as the Reds operating through our sphere of influence and the Chinese gurellias whom the rest of the world loves to portray as innocent civilians for some odd reason, a lot of the former supposed 'heroes' and other displaced Party upper echelons weren't too happy with having to share power with 'a bunch of powerless peasants' and things got worse when we replaced military rule with the district system and then full integration.

I still can remember being on the front line during that particular conflict, working with local law enforcement to eliminate any loose ends and make the transition to civilian jurisdiction as seamless as possible. The former HQ for the superheroes helping the Reds on the side before we interviened, a sprawling colossus of a community with everything required for the development of a post revolutionary soceity if their little scheme had been successful was being used as a command center for the IDC and other divisions of the armed forces that had participated in the invasion and occupation. The Commies fought tooth and nail in order to regain their hold, even killed the leader of the settlements after forcing him to flee, but our troops were prepared for war and had been dealing with domestic and international conflict since the throne passed to Raffles.

Even then, with the best that the pre-catalysm world had to offer in terms of military might and innovative skill, combined with the fact that we'd been fighting to restore order to the ruins of what was once East Asia in keeping with the stated goals of Article 9 of the pre-war constitution and the mandates of the Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, we took casualties comparable to the reincorporation of the peninsula with the help of the American military during the Great War. Even the troops coming in from Shanghai weren't enough. In the end, another part of Great Japan was brought into the fold...but at great cost to our security and integrity.

That kid's hiding something, old man. And I want to know what it is before we have another Great Fire on our hands,"

The tall man clad in firefighting gear clasped his fingers together as he stared at the suspect currently occupying the room. He was a big man, able to draw attention due to his size alone. The sides of his hair were shaved, and he had a tendency to cut his nails often. Despite this he was very quiet and observant, able to detect and exploit weaknesses in a opponent during a battle.

The old general sighed as he stared at the man beside him. Obi Akitara, a Lieutenant in the Empire's Armed Forces who had then been transfered to the Teishin Shudan {Special Forces} for his skills in unconventional warfare. He had then fought in Shanghai, the various kingdoms, fiefdoms and other dynastic states that made up Eastern Europe during the Khanate-Caliphate wars before putting down a rather prominent terrorist leader who believed that members of his ethnic group were superior to all others and that non-believers would serve as slaves. Unfortunately, the man's little cult was filled with Intelligence and Research operatives as well as agents for Japan's Teutonic allies and a lot of intelligence was lost.

As a result the promising young man's carrer was cut short and he was demoted to a reserve unit in the reincarnation of the Self Defence Forces. This did not deter Akitara though, in fact it made him more determined. In fact he was one of the main reasons why the IDC and its counterpart in law enforcement, the National Police were able to operate more efficently in comparision to even pre Second Great War levels. Then the patrols from what was now known as the Meta Liberation Army attacked and everything changed.

Obi was drawn into the frontlines of the Great Unification War, using the skills and experience gained in his career as in Spec Ops to maximise combat efficency. The revolutionaries in what was now known as 'the Hub' were used to fighting worn out and often undersupplied law enforcement officers who had no idea how to run a war and as a result, took huge losses despite having the upper hand in technological prowess and terrain. It was also noted that the invading forces were often mistaken as and supporting the local police force in their battle against the Communist eugenicists, who despite their pretence of supposed equality and utopia, utterly despised the 'quirkless' and wished to either exploit them as a serf class or eliminate them from existence.

This along with infighting and other issues of conflict between the Hero Association and its supporters in the Meta Liberation Army, meant that the entity known to what remained of the international community as 'the State of Japan' was absorbed into the somewhat revived Greater Japanese Empire without much fan fare. There was some tension as the new order of things was being established, and some uproars in the Diet and Tokyo Central due to certain... factors in the assimilation [the Empire of the Sun was many things but it were a liberal democracy before anything else. Despite its militaristic nature it was surprisingly open minded and tolerant of other cultures and political beliefs due to the circumstances of its birth. In fact the frame of law for the Reorganized Guomindang (People's Front) controlled Republic of China was based on a copy of the US constitution in the last Emperor's possesion.] but overall, things went better than expected.

The discrimination and hatred against 'Generations', those gifted with various forms of mostly pyrokinetic powers due to the Great Catalysm, disappeared or went underground. With the help of various defectors, POWs and other persons of intrest in the old regime (a common insult for the regained territories) the Empire was able to get a better understanding of the superhuman soceity that had formed in the wake of the Endwar as well as gain further understanding of how the paranormal operated. Advances in computing, cybernetics and robotics proved to be a great boon to the highly efficent but still scrapyard military of the Empire, which still used NATO and abandoned Soviet equipment as the mainstay in warfare.

'Great Japan', wasn't the only benificary of this somewhat strange reunification. The people of the conquered settlements benefited as well. Although the supposed 'criminal mastermind' All for One was now dead, the occupying forces of the Empire continued and even expanded on his policy of tolerance and equal oppurtunity for all whether Quirked or Quirkless. That and the dissolution of the Hero Association for its {covert} support of the intolerant Meta Liberation Army, and continued acts of discrimination against Quirkless was a huge boon as well. People were getting sick and tired of the Pro Heroes and their lust for fame and power. The fact that they were willing to collude with deranged and obviously dangerous terrorists in order to maintain their rule just hammered the nail in the wood.

It didn't help that the headquaters for the now defunct Heroes, a massive settlement with various facilities for the enhancement of Quirks, was transformed into a semi private educational facility with the purpose of helping troubled Quirk users to utilize their powers in a benefical manner and allowing Quirkless who wished to do so to become enforcers of law and order despite not having a Quirk. The Busou Tantei Kyouhei (Armed Detectives' Association) became so popular that similar schools were secretly set up across the various territories and vassal states of the Empire, to help deal with a massive upsurge in Generations across the population.

Thus, the idea of a special task force similar to RIKEN in the Second Great War or Skunk Works in the USA, was generated in the minds of the intelligence community and the military brass, who suspected a link between the supposed 'Quirks' in the restored territories and the powers of the Infernals and later generations. Although the terrorists they had fought in the war were a incoherent and mostly racial supremacist lot, they were just one part of a massive political and criminal conspiracy disguised as a social movement. The powers they weilded had proven a terror to Imperial troops and the Armed Forces wanted to make sure they weren't caught off guard again.

So, the part covert operations and part special forces unit of the Ground Section of the self-defence forces, 'the Division of Paranormal Investigation' was created as a innocus series of units within the fire service. Its most senior members were usually Army veterans, intelligence personell or veteran law enforcement agents. The Eastern Catholic Church, a mixture of papal transfer and what was left of the indegenous Shinto religion, also played a major role as well. A huge amount of Generations and Quirk users also joined, giving it the name 'the Brigade of Flames'.

The Division was independent of all other military and law enforcement branches and only answered to the Emperor, the military and the Public Security Agency. It had eliminated a huge amount of 'Spirits' and malignant Quirk users that wished to bring harm to the people of Japan or its vassal states. In short it was like a combination of the Tokko and the NSA, but dedicated to dealing with supernatural threats.

So it was understandable why the former special forces operative saw the youth in their custody as a threat. But it had better things to do than scold a wayward child. Hagure was on the verge of responding when the sound of slow footsteps got his attention.

"My, my. So little Shidou has found himself in quite the situation. How intresting. I'll take it from here boys, no need to worry,"

Obi whirled around and drew for the sidearm he always kept at his side, the soliders accompanying them raising their battle rifles. "Who the hell are you? Identify yourself or we will use drastic measures!"

He almost regretted it. The soliders passed out from blood loss and the aged general merely shook his head. It was to be expected, they might have been well trained and discipined soliders but they were still men after all. After all, it wasn't every day that a beautiful woman just appeared in your secret interrogation spot asking for the suspect.

She was a living definition of the term yamato nadeshiko, with delicate facial features and milky white skin complimenting her raven black hair. Obi could see why his fellow soliders had lost it, the front of her Victorian style crimson and black dress was tantilizing to break even a married man. But what really struck out to the experienced solider was the fact that her left eye was literally a yellow clock face. To him, the temptress in front of him was a unknown with either a powerful Quirk or a malevolent Generation. [Kurumi Tokisaki on Date a Fragment, Date a Bullet 3 cover]

The intruder chuckled, as if the threat was a mere nuisance and not a case of life or death. "My, my. Is that any way to treat a lady?"

Obi gritted his teeth and looked to the general for advise, only to see that the old man was wiping his nose as he tried to keep a straight face.