Grim Reaper

Vigilante: One who voluntarily works to preserve public order without cooperation with the law. Often seen along with the "Origin of Heroes."

However, since society established the hero license system, personally acting alone and such is a crime. Nowadays it could even be considered a villainous act.

If everyone is allowed to do as they please with powers, the world will quickly descend into chaos. Nowadays, using your quirk freely in public place is even considered as bad things. Not to mention about guarding public order with quirk, that was against the law.

The only ones who can use their quirk freely to help the people and the world, are the Heroes.

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Flash News, TVT Channel

Attack at primary school, foiled.

Newscaster: Another news today. Suiran Primary School at Tokyo city today was attacked by a group of villains, known as The Red Lion Gang. The villains planned to take hostage of the schoolchildren and demand ransom money, repeating their act last week in Osaka. Fortunately, their plan was stopped by the pro heroes, the teachers, and some of the students from Middle School and High School.

The students and teachers and all other school staffs are safe. There are several injured teachers, but there isn't any danger to their life.

The same cannot be said to the villains. From the fourteen villains that the police had in custody, only four was captured alive. The other ten was found dead. Questions abound, how did this happen?

Screen switch, showing the front entrance of Suiran Primary School, now packed with police cars, heroes agency vehicle, news vehicle, ambulance, etc.

Tagline: Massacre in primary school by vigilante?

Narration: Another attack aimed at the elite schools by villain takes place today, and the response by the police and the heroes are late because the villains disable communication in the area. But in this desperate situation, one vigilante saves the school, thwarting their intention. But who is he? And why did he take such extreme approach?

Screen switch, showing Tokyo Police Criminal Investigation Branch Chief, Kenji Tsuragamae

"We have captured four villains alive. Two villains are captured by pro heroes who arrived on scene. Another two villains are defeated and captured by some students from middle school and high school. We also found ten villains scattered around the school, already dead. Woof"

Reporter: "What is your comment about their killer? Is it true there is a vigilante involved?"

"Those who harm others without authorization from the police or the law, even against villains, they have broken the law and must be punished. As for the vigilante in question, we are still in the process of investigating, so no comment for now. Woof."

Screen switch, showing a female student in middle school uniform.

"He was wearing all black, he wears white skull mask, and his height is around mine. He use throwing daggers, and I guess the daggers are some kind of techno-tools? They can swerve in the air and disappear after use. Umm, I think his quirk is earth manipulation."

Screen switch, showing Pro Hero Miruko the rabbit hero.

"I was there after we got a distress call, but there are three villains blocking our way, and they're like, super tough. I will win the fight, of course, but that will take too much time and the children is in danger. And suddenly boom, a glowing sword thing came down from the sky and kill one of the villain. That was kinda cool….. ehm, I mean! Of course I cannot condone the act of vigilantism! That is against the law! You hear me! Leave that things to us pro heroes!"

Screen switch, returning to news anchor at studio

"We will keep updating you with information and other news from the site, so stay tuned. We are Daikaku Miyagi and Yuko Ogura, from TVT channel.

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I was Totsuki Culinary Academy dropout, now a villain.

Wraith faked a smile to her co-workers. She pretended to be relieved when the pro heroes arrived. She feigned disgust when her co-workers talked about the villains.

After all, she was currently just another kitchen staff at Suiran primary school.

"Shoko, they said that we can leave early after the police do a quick interview." One of her co-workers said to her, using her fake name.

"Yeees.." She responded with cheerful demeanour.

She should leave soon and disappear after leaving the premise. More careful investigation would reveal the trace of poison left in the guards' food and drink. The poison was a slow acting one, making them lethargic and dizzy when doing physical exercise.

Wraith was a villain specialized in infiltration and disguise. Her quirk was Shapeshift, she was able to change the shape of her body parts. She couldn't maintain her transformation too long if she changed too much parts, but it wasn't really necessary. Just a small change in the nose and eyes and the jaw outline was enough to create a new face.

Suiran background check was quite strict though, so she must borrow the identity of a woman who had similar face with her.

Successfully entering Suiran and working hard in the kitchen to perfect her masquerade, she gathered information about guards patrol, about cameras, and so on. Usually she left after gathering information and not present when the action happened, just like in Osaka, but Suiran was exception. The security was too tight, so she needed to be there to poison the guards before the attack happened.

She had been monitoring her villain comrade's conversation through the mini communicator in her ear, unseen from outside. While listening, she maintained radio silence, keeping her disguise safe.

Because of that, she heard everything.

At first, she chalked it off as unimportant noises.

But suddenly her co-workers were able to use their mobile phone to contact outside for help. That meant something happened to Radio Devil. The hamster-shaped villain didn't respond when someone asked him.

After the report of Purifier's death, she identified it as someone killing her comrades. More and more of her comrades went silent, and more noises coming through the communicator. She kept her calm despite her growing unease. No use of getting agitated.

Finally, she heard the killer's voice. The deep, genderless voice, declaring that he looted communicator from dead body.

When the pro heroes finally defeated her comrades at front gate, she discreetly discarded the mini communicator.

She needed to get out and deliver this information. This vigilante was too dangerous to be left alone.

After exiting the premise, she should change her clothes and face, and disappear in the crowd before anyone realized she was a fake.

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Police Meeting

Kenji Tsuragamae opened the meeting. "Give me progress report. Do we have a lead about the Grim Reaper identity? Woof"

Grim Reaper was the nickname that the media used to name the mysterious vigilante that appeared in Suiran Incident. It fitted him well, what with the skull mask motif and black costume. The police, who had not assigned any codename for him, used it for their convenience.

An officer replied, "Yes, we finally got the teacher named Midori to talk. She admitted knowing a clue about Grim Reaper identity."

Officer Kenji dug his memory. If his memory served him right, that should be the hysterical female teacher who kept crying and wailing even after pro heroes and the police arrived. She refused to talk to the police, so the police suspected that she knew something.

"What did she say? Woof."

The officer replied, "She said that it is possible that Grim Reaper knew her, as her former student or current student. He called her by her name and sensei suffix."

Kenji grunted. That clue didn't help much. Instead, it complicated things.

What was Suiran Academy? It was an escalator school. Students advanced from primary school to middle school and all the way to high school. If the female teacher had been teaching for four years, the suspect would be narrowed down all the way to first year high school.

He dreaded asking about Midori's teaching history.

And even if they narrowed it down to Suiran students, and then what?

Suiran was the school for the elite. Children from high ranking politicians, wealthy businessman, or noble families attended the school. To accuse a child from such family would result in political backlash.

Just when his career was in good track. Some of his contacts whispered to him that he would soon be promoted and transferred to become Chief of Hosu City Police. He couldn't create a scandal here.

Unfortunately, his subordinates didn't catch his inner conflict. One of his subordinates, an officer with tigress quirk thought that he didn't like the overwhelming number of suspects. She said, "I had a person of interest here." She operated the projector and the screen showed an elementary school girl. She was shown in half body portrait, and her biodata was shown.

Name: Miyu Sakatsuki

Age: 10

Class: 5-B

Quirk : Not applicable

Address: xxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxx , Tokyo

"Sakatsuki? That Sakatsuki Family woof?" Kenji said in surprise. That was the whale among the ocean of fishes. Darn this tigress! Why would she do that to him?

"Uh, yes." The subordinate replied, not knowing why her boss glared at her. She was doing a good job, right? "She was caught on camera exiting her classroom and going out of the building just after the villain attacked. After that, her whereabout was not known."

"Hmmph." Kenji grunted. "Why didn't her homeroom teacher or someone else prevent her from going woof?"

The officer with tigress quirk now looked uncertain. "Well, here is the weird thing. All her classmates, and also the teacher in charge, testified that she didn't get out of the classroom at all. In fact, the classroom internal camera showed her appear just before pro heroes arrived."

"In other words, there was no alibi? She was missing from the classroom during the villain attack woof?"

"No, the evidence is weak, because the classroom internal camera had a blindspot. She appeared from that blindspot, as if she was always in the classroom." The officer said. "Because, the camera in the corridor didn't catch her going back into the classroom. She also claimed that she never step out of classroom. Combined with her classmates testimony, we had nothing on her."

"Hmm woof." Kenji was thinking, staring at the profile at the screen. He noticed something, and asked with surprised voice, "Wait, she is quirkless?"

"Yes." The officer replied. "I also check the medical record. She is positively 100% quirkless, her body exhibit all the sign of normal human with no quirk."

Another reason why the police couldn't accuse her.

Maybe if someone had a brainwashing quirk. Or a teleportation quirk. Then he would be able to accomplish that feat. But this girl was quirkless.

Or maybe she had accomplice? But that meant accusing more students who coincidentally had the suspicious quirk.

"Let's postpone the issue about this girl, woof. Let's discuss the Grim Reaper, what did he do, what can he do, woof." Kenji said.

Another person, a quirkless, reported what he found. "The camera managed to catch Grim Reaper in action, though it is mostly just a blur." He operated the projector and an image showed on screen. It was the Grim Reaper, jumping in the air.

"He first showed up in the rooftop area, passing the camera, to the place where Radio Devil was hiding."

The screen changed into a corridor. "Next he was seen going inside a classroom in high school building, that's the classroom where we found a corpse of a man, identified as Fukubei Hattori. As Hattori had no reason at all to be in Suiran high school, we assumed he cooperated with the villains or part of the villain group. Hattori's quirk is teleportation, so that explain why Red Lion can always escape."

"And then, he was seen near the path where the middle school and high school connected to primary school. We didn't have visual here, but we have eyewitness testimony. The Grim Reaper used earth manipulation to trap two villains and kill one villain with daggers."

"And then the camera continuously caught him without gap when he entered the primary school building. We caught him using another power, spatial displacement. He touched the target chest and took out the target's heart." The screen now showed Grim Reaper holding Bladewolf heart in his right hand.

"Wait! Woof!" Kenji interrupted when he saw the image. "Is that really his arm woof? That must be his quirk right?" Because the arm was too long.

"Unable to form conclusion. He has shown too much power. Counting the body movement and the ridiculous trajectory of his throwing daggers, we might speculate that he hold four quirks. Or a quirk that holds multiple power, but nothing came to mind."

A quirk with frog theme may hold multiple power related to frog. Jumping, breath underwater, long tongue, camouflage, sticking to the wall, and so on. But taking out heart without wounding the target?

Maybe he really had a quirk with grim reaper theme.

"And then he went to home ec classroom, where Sticky Thread has entered. The camera in the classroom was blocked by Sticky Thread, so we had no idea what happened. But they never came out, and our search resulted in nothing. We even examined the bunker below the classroom."

The officer changed the screen again, now it was showing several locations with chalk outline of dead villain. "These villains died from long range attack, the nature of attack is still unknown. Possibly energy or plasma bullet. At the time of the killing, Grim Reaper was in no position to aim for them.

After that was long distance attack by steel wire shaped like a sword to Magnet King, and gravity pressure towards the villains at the front gate. We think that Grim Reaper may be a group of people, cooperating and switching position, while wearing the same costume. That will give the illusion of one individual acting alone. That conclude my report."

"Good work, woof." Kenji said.

"Try asking The Sakatsuki about the vigilante. Woof, he might be their hired shadow bodyguard or something. You know how the rich do things." He instructed his subordinates. "And remember, do it discreetly. Discreet. Woof."

Kenji hoped that nothing came out from that line of investigation. He didn't want to risk his career to uphold justice for some child-killing villains.

"If there is nothing else, you are dismissed. Report back tomorrow, same time. Woof."

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Next day, police meeting.

Kenji opened up the meeting again and reviewed the progress of investigation.

Nothing significant was added. The villains they captured confessed nothing useful. They also didn't know where their boss, Bladewolf, hid their money. Among the members, only Sticky Thread and Wraith knew about their hidden safe.

They knew that Bladewolf had a golden key that can open an anonymous safe deposit box in foreign country, but only Sticky Thread and Wraith knew the details.

The police had raided the numerous gang's hideout that they got from the confession. While they found some incriminating evidence, it was clear that somebody had ransacked the place before the police arrived.

It was clear now that Grim Reaper captured Sticky Thread because he knew where the villain gang hid its money.

Wraith was found out to be masquerading as kitchen staff Ijima Shoko. The real Shoko was found bound and gagged in her apartment. Wraith had evaded police capture and disappeared without trace.

Kenji asked, "So, what about The Sakatsuki? Woof"

His subordinates were confused, looking at each other. "Sakatsuki Family? That Sakatsuki? What about them?"

"Ehh?" Now it was Kenji who was confused. "You are the one saying that the daughter of Sakatsuki is the person of interest in uncovering Grim Reaper identity. Woof."

The tigress quirk police officer chuckled. "Chief, you are joking right? There is no way a fifth grader can be the Grim Reaper. We just talk to her to get witness testimony, and she is one witness selected randomly by computer."

Kenji was a little confused, but the dog quirked police quickly took the hint.

The Sakatsuki Family must have applied political pressure! That's why his subordinates now feigned ignorance about the subject. The right thing to do as their superiors was to follow their lead.

"Right! Right of course woof! Forgive me I am just a little lightheaded before. Now on to the next topic woof..."

It was certainly not because he valued his promotion over justice!

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Daughter, did you save all your pocket money for five years under your bed?

The next day after the villain attack incident, the school officially let the students to rest at home, 'to recover from trauma'. Even though the villains didn't even come close to the students (except me).

But that was normal for a school for rich children. We had a lot of sheltered, delicate young lady, who felt dizzy just by remembering the incident. Even though they just watched from the window.

And wimpy boys too. They boasted about defeating the villains, but when it was clear that the villains would succeed, they almost pee their pants. Cowards, lots of them.

So, I was thinking of taking it easy today. I had a lot of exercise yesterday, even doing things late at night.

However, it seemed that I can't relax.

Today, a female officer in the form of female tiger came to our house. She requested to see me and my parents.

Oh no! Was I discovered as the Grim Reaper? (Bad name. Damn media!)

Or maybe they found out that I was a reincarnator who can do magic?

Or did they find out that I tortured Silky Thread for three hours last night and dump his body in Tokyo bay?

I sat quietly between my father and mother, and pretended to be innocent child. Just an ignorant primary school child who got scared with the villain attack at her school.

See? The officer had doubts painted on her face already. My acting was perfect.

Unfortunately, she brought evidence. She directly confronted me with photo of me running out of classroom. Shoot! I forgot about the cameras!

The female police officer kept her attack, insinuating that I ran outside the building to contact someone because the communication jamming. She accused that Sakatsuki Family employed hidden bodyguards, and they were hiding in the school. They were contacted by me and then killed the villains.

What a wonderful deduction! If only it was not so wrong.

Of course, my parents were outraged and vehemently denied the allegations.

"You know, I am never caught in the camera." I said to the police officer. "And you never suspected me. There is no link between Sakatsuki Miyu and vigilante Grim Reaper."

I used a little bit more prana for the hypnosis. "The reason you come here today is just for regular check-up for witness testimony. You will not look at the video recording where I was seen again."

And so, I painstakingly mind-wiped the police officer. And I also hypnotized my parents. It couldn't be helped, they had heard about the video.

After sending the police officer away, I returned to my room.

Crap. Now I need to think on how to erase all the evidence in the police hand and also erase the memory of several police officers.

And then I needed to find a way to go to Swiss in a very very quick time, and also went back home in the same speed. Maybe Gilgamesh had something?

Why Swiss? Well it turned out that some things never change even when you cross to another world. Swiss was still a country where bank once offered service to anonymous customer.

Anonymous or numbered account was a thing of the past. Nowadays bank must surrender their customer identity to the state. But there were ways to circumvent this.

One method was the anonymous safe deposit box. Only by using a key and password, one could access the safe box. The Red Lion Gang had converted the majority of their earning into gold bars and stored it in safe deposit box in Swiss.

The fund for daily operation and money from recent earning that had not been converted yet was managed by two persons, Sticky Thread and Wraith. Each didn't know the location of the other hidden cache, as an insurance against betrayal.

I had raided the hidden safe that Sticky Thread managed, and I even got more. It turned out that Sticky Thread also did a side job as money launderer for other villain groups. So I also got some of that money he had not laundered, and I would get more later from the laundered money when the laundering process was completed.

I need to find a place to hide those money. It would be bad if the maid clean the floor under my bed and find them.

Anyway, now I had money, I could use it as capital, to create things that I had designed in my boredom. The world would soon praise my name!

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1. next chapter will be timeskip to 13 years old

2. Please also read my other stories if you like this one.